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| US10179533B2 |
Lighting apparatus and automobile including the same
A lighting apparatus includes a low beam lens, a low beam light-emitting device disposed behind the low beam lens, a plurality of high beam lenses disposed along a periphery of the low beam lens, and a plurality of high beam light-emitting devices disposed behind the plurality of high beam lenses in one-to-one correspondence. At least one of the plurality of high beam lenses includes, on a circumferential edge, a textured surface having light diffusing characteristics. |
| US10179531B2 |
Adjustable cup holder assembly for a motor vehicle door
An adjustable cup holder assembly is provided. That adjustable cup holder assembly includes a support having a guide track and a drag bar. The adjustable cup holder also includes a cup holder having (a) a body including a well, (b) an actuator and (c) a drag. The cup holder may be displaced along the guide track and secured in various positions on the support by engaging the drag bar. A motor vehicle door including a cup holder with an adjustment mechanism for displacing the cup holder along the body of the door between multiple positions is also disclosed. |
| US10179527B2 |
Support device for vehicle seat
A support device for a vehicle seat includes a bag body. The bag body includes a bag body assembly including at least a first bag body unit and a second bag body unit that are combined with each other. The first bag body unit is disposed to form at least a support surface facing the seated occupant when the first bag body unit is expanded, and the second bag body unit is disposed to press the support surface toward the seated occupant when the second bag body unit is expanded. The first and second bag body units are simultaneously supplied with air and expanded, and a surface of the second bag body unit that faces the seated occupant in an expanded state is smaller than the support surface of the first bag body unit that faces the seated occupant in an expanded state. |
| US10179526B2 |
Enhanced climate seat with asymmetric thermal management system and method
A method of conditioning a seat includes operating a first thermal conditioning assembly in a seat back configured to support an occupant torso. The first thermal conditioning assembly provides a first heat transfer rate. A second thermal conditioning assembly is operated in a seat cushion configured to support occupant lower region. The second thermal conditioning assembly provides a second heat transfer rate simultaneously with and different than the first heat transfer rate. |
| US10179525B2 |
Vehicular seat
A vehicular seat having a seat cushion and a seat back, which are configured to be provided with air flow layers capable of being formed by a relatively simple step, is configured to be provided with: the seat cushion on which a vehicle occupant is seated; the seat back against which the vehicle occupant seated on the seat cushion rests his or her back; a fan disposed below the seat cushion; an air delivery duct for delivering to the seat cushion and the seat back, air delivered from the fan; and a seat cover for discharging the air delivered from the air delivery duct, from the surface of the seat cushion and the seat back to the side on which the vehicle occupant is seated. A plurality of groove spaces through which air delivered from the air delivery duct is caused to flow are formed inside the seat cover. |
| US10179524B1 |
Latch to attach seatback to rear wall of vehicle
A latch to latch a seatback to a frame of a vehicle comprises: a first seatback attachment portion; a first extended portion connected to the first seatback attachment portion that extends generally rearward from the first seatback attachment portion; a first interface portion connected to the first extended portion at a first bend that extends at an angle downward and forward from the first bend; and a retainer portion connected to the first interface portion at a bend forming a first retaining lip. The latch can further comprise a second seatback attachment portion and a second extended portion connected to the second seatback attachment portion that extends generally rearward from the second seatback attachment portion. The latch can further comprise a second interface portion connected to the second extended portion at a second bend that extends at an angle upward and forward from the second bend. |
| US10179522B2 |
Net build process for seating subassembly
A vehicle seat subassembly includes a first bracket and a second bracket rotatably coupled with the first bracket. First and second pins are welded to the first bracket, and an alignment plate is welded to the second bracket. First and second datum points along the alignment plate are positioned at first and second reference dimensions from the first pin and the second pin, respectively, when the second bracket is in a reference position with respect to the first bracket. |
| US10179521B2 |
System and method for controlling front seat of automobile in connection with headrest
A system for controlling a front seat of an automobile in connection with a headrest may include a sensor inputter, electric seat inputter, and a seat controller, in which the seat controller may automatically lower a height of the headrest when the front seat of the automobile slides forward in an interior of the automobile, and the seat controller may automatically raise the height of the headrest when the front seat slides rearward in the interior of the automobile. |
| US10179516B2 |
Vehicle power control system and power control method
A control device that controls a charging apparatus and a power supplying apparatus stops charging to a secondary battery when a connecting terminal is connected to each of both of a charging terminal and a discharging terminal. Also, the control device continues to stop the charging when the charging-stopped state is detected by the cut-off detecting portion. |
| US10179514B2 |
Battery charging system and battery charging method for electrically driven vehicle
In a case where an external charging start time is set in an external charging timer when a charging plug is connected to a charging connector, a charging controller is configured to perform standby setting of external charging before the external charging start time and transits to a pause state. The charging controller is intermittently activated during a timer charging setting period from a pause period start time when transition is made to the pause state to the external charging start time, and when a battery temperature at the time of activation of the charging controller is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature, execute a temperature increase mode in which a heater is operated to increase the temperature of a main battery. |
| US10179509B2 |
Cooling device and cooling module
A cooling device for an automobile that includes a front opening opened in a front engine room, a first air blower arranged in the front engine room on a front side of a drive engine, and an introduction passage for guiding, toward the first air blower, air to flow from the front side of the front opening through the front opening is configured to cool the drive engine with the air flow passing from the introduction passage to the drive engine via the first air blower. The cooling device includes a duct having a first opening opened in the introduction passage and a second opening opened to rear of the drive engine in the front engine room, to form an air passage for air to flow between the first opening and the second opening. |
| US10179507B2 |
Right and left motor output control for vehicle
Provided is a vehicle in which overdischarge of a battery is protected and turning drivability of the vehicle is improved when there is even a little remaining capacity. An ECU controls the left motive force and the right motive force of the left electric motor and the right electric motor so as not to exceed a differential torque upper limit value, which is the maximum value of the difference between the left motive force and the right motive force established on the basis of the temperature or discharge limit power of the battery. When the battery is at a low temperature or the like and the discharge power is limited, the difference between the left motive force and the right motive force is controlled on the basis of the discharge limit power, whereby the turnability of the vehicle is improved while preventing the risk of damage to the battery. |
| US10179505B2 |
Power transmission device
A power transmission device PT includes a clutch input part 120, a clutch output part 130, a start clutch 110 which can connect the clutch input part 120 and the clutch output part 130 to each other, and an electric motor MG having a rotor MGa. The clutch input part 120, the clutch output part 130, and the start clutch 110 are arranged in the rotor MGa. The power transmission device PT includes a switching mechanism 140 which is switchable between an output side correction state in which the rotor MGa and the clutch output part 130 are connected to each other and an input side connection state in which the rotor MGa and the clutch input part 120 are connected to each other. |
| US10179502B2 |
Rain shield system
A rain shield system for inhibiting rain from entering a vehicle includes a vehicle that has a doorway and a door. A shield is coupled to the vehicle. The shield is selectively positioned in a deployed position having the shield extending between the doorway and the door when the door is opened. In this way the shield inhibits rain from entering an interior of the vehicle. |
| US10179500B2 |
Ejector-type refrigeration cycle
An ejector-type refrigeration cycle includes an ejector module integrated with a gas-liquid separation device. A length of an inlet pipe that connects a liquid-phase refrigerant outflow port of an ejector module to a refrigerant inflow port of an evaporator is shorter than a length of a suction pipe that connects a gas-phase refrigerant outflow port of the ejector module to a suction port of the compressor. |
| US10179499B2 |
Directional climate control system with infrared targeting
A heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system has a steerable outlet for directing a stream of treated air into a passenger compartment of a vehicle. A thermographic imager is configured to capture thermographic images covering a fixed region within the passenger compartment in which an occupant is potentially located. The HVAC control circuit is configured to a) compress a thermographic image to a temperature map representing pixels of the thermographic image falling within a predetermined temperature range corresponding to the occupant, b) filter the temperature map according to a sliding window to coalesce continuous regions of pixels on average falling within the predetermined temperature range, c) quantify an area for each continuous region, d) locate a centroid of a continuous region having a largest area, and e) aim the steerable outlet toward the centroid. |
| US10179498B2 |
Storage evaporator having phase change material for use in vehicle air conditioning system
A storage evaporator for an air conditioning system in a vehicle is includes phase change material-containing tubes arranged side-by-side in contact with refrigerant-containing tubes. The storage evaporator includes an upper coolant tank, a lower coolant tank, refrigerant-containing tubes fluidly the connecting tanks, and phase change material-containing tubes provided in contact with the refrigerant tubes. The refrigerant tubes have flat sides and the phase change material-containing tubes have flat sides. The flat sides of the refrigerant tubes are attached to the flat sides of the phase change material-containing tubes. The phase change material may be any of several materials and may an eutectic, a salt hydrate, and an organic material. In operation, cold energy is stored in the phase change material when the air conditioning compressor is in its “on” position. This cold energy is released from the phase change material when the compressor is in its “off” position. |
| US10179497B2 |
Ventilation bed for vehicle and method for controlling the same
A ventilation bed for a vehicle may include an air conditioning system configured to supply air at a required temperature, a pad divided into a plurality of regions, and an airflow control apparatus configured to deliver the air supplied from the air conditioning system into the pad by controlling an amount and direction of the air, in which the air may be selectively supplied into at least a region of the pad depending on operation of the airflow control apparatus. |
| US10179493B2 |
System and method for operating a vehicle having an active roll control system
A system and method for operating a motor vehicle having an active roll control system and an air suspension system including operating the air suspension system in a normal mode, according to a normal air spring setting. Upon determining a fault or malfunction of the active roll control system operating the air suspension in a fallback mode, according to a fallback air spring setting, wherein the fallback mode is different from the normal mode. |
| US10179490B2 |
A-arm suspension systems
An A-arm suspension system may include a frame that defines respective left and right rear body mounting locations at about a rear end of the frame and respective left and right front body mounting locations at about a front end of the frame. Left and right side control arms are pivotally mounted to left and right sides of said frame so that at least portions of the left and right side control arms are generally aligned with the respective left and right front body mounting locations on the frame. Left and right side A-arms are pivotally mounted to the left and right sides of the frame assembly in generally spaced-apart relation to the respective left and right side control arms so that the control arms and the A-arms define respective left and right side ball joint axes. Left and right side wheel spindle assemblies are mounted to the respective left and right side control and A-arms. |
| US10179489B2 |
Tow-hook assembly
A tow-hook assembly may include a vehicle frame and a bumper arranged thereon, and a tow-hook assembly configured to attach to the vehicle bumper and provide a tow-hook. The assembly may include a bracket defining an opening configured to receive the tow-hook, and a brace attached to a backside of the bracket and including a projection extending through the opening to the opposite side of the bracket. |
| US10179488B2 |
Drawbar assembly with pin ejector mechanism
A drawbar assembly for coupling a drawbar to a tongue of a towed implement includes a drawbar pin and a drawbar clevis having a bore configured to receive the drawbar pin. A locking plate is coupled to the drawbar clevis and movable between a pin-locked position in which the locking plate is configured to obstruct at least a portion of the bore, and a pin-unlock condition. An ejector mechanism is configured to dislodge the drawbar pin from the bore. |
| US10179487B1 |
Method for generating images of predicted tire tread wear
A procedure for evaluating tire tread depth measurement data points acquired from a tread region on the surface of a tire in order to generate a representation of the tire tread region having an appearance of having been worn over time, so as to convey to a recipient a visual indication of potential tire tread wear at a point in time subsequent to the acquisition of the tire tread depth measurements. |
| US10179486B2 |
Traction aid
A traction aid for a motor vehicle, comprising an elongated main body having a top and a bottom surfaces, the elongated main body having thereon a series of teeth and a sliding mechanism, a first securing member located at an end of the main body and projecting downwardly and a second securing member located at the bottom surface of the main body and attached to the sliding mechanism. The sliding mechanism allows movement of the second securing member towards or away from the first securing member along the bottom surface of the main body. The traction aid further comprises a securing mechanism configured to move the sliding mechanism and the second securing member towards the first securing member in order to squeeze a tire of the motor vehicle between the first and second securing members. |
| US10179484B2 |
Steer axle high-temperature warning system
A high temperature warning system for a vehicle steer axle an air pressure supply, a normally-closed valve in fluid communication with pressure supply, a heat sensitive control capable of opening the normally-closed valve upon a predetermined temperature, the heat sensitive control mounted adjacent to the wheel end assembly in a heat exchange relationship therewith, and a warning system connected to the air pressure supply for actuation upon opening of the normally-closed valve. |
| US10179481B2 |
Pneumatic tire
A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion, carcass, inclined belt, and circumferential belt. The inclined belt is formed by inclined belt layer(s) including cords inclined relative to the tire circumferential direction. A circumferential main groove is provided in the tread portion. The inclined belt includes a high-angle inclined belt layer in which the cords are at an inclination angle of 35° to 90° relative to the tire circumferential direction. In at least one tread half portion, an edge of the high-angle inclined belt layer in the tire width direction is positioned further outward in the tire width direction than the circumferential main groove disposed furthest outward in the tire width direction. The interval in the tire width direction from the edge to the center of the circumferential main groove is 0.2W1 to 0.35W1, where W1 is the width of the high-angle inclined belt layer in the tire width direction. |
| US10179478B2 |
Axle assembly for drive device of a motor vehicle
An axle assembly for a drive device for the road wheels of a vehicle includes: a stationary housing having a housing interior at least partially filled with a lubricating liquid; axle housings connected to the stationary housing and configured to permit axles of the vehicle to pass towards the road wheels; a venting bore in one of the axle housings configured to allow pressurized air to escape from the stationary housing; and at least one rib sized and positioned in the housing interior of the stationary housing so as to prevent migration of the lubricating liquid out of the venting bore. |
| US10179475B2 |
Repeat pattern surface marking system and kit
A surface marking system, kit, and method enables a user to mark a pattern upon a surface. The components may include a rectangular marking material transfer body, a particularly marked alignment tape, and a series of spacer elements. The marking material transfer body includes a fixed dimension and at least one marking material transfer portion. The outer perimeter includes opposed mark-alignment edges. The alignment tape has a fixed width, a select length, and a marked anterior surface. The marked anterior surface includes a series of width-wise marks and a length-wise mark. The length-wise mark is centered relative to the fixed tape width. A select body dimension is firstly and successively positioned at a select number of sequentially spaced width-wise marks and mark-alignment edges are firstly and successively alignable with parallel length-wise marks. The spacer elements ensure parallel arrangement of the length-wise marks and provide overlap sections adjacent the mark-alignment edges. |
| US10179467B2 |
Printing apparatus
An interval switching member that relatively displaces a carriage with respect to a printing medium in a direction orthogonal to a printing surface of the printing medium is provided between the carriage and a first guide member, and between the carriage and a second guide member. Subsequently, an inclination control member that changes a distance between the carriage and the first guide member is provided between the carriage and the first guide member. By changing the distance between the carriage and the first guide member with the inclination control member, the carriage rotates about a second guide rail serving as a central axis, such that an angle of the printing head against the printing medium is changed. |
| US10179458B2 |
Inkjet printing system
A formulation unit for an inkjet printing machine, wherein the inkjet printing machine comprises a printing unit with a printing device and with an ink supply device for supplying ink to the printing device. The formulation unit comprises at least one preparation device for the preparation of ink and at least one storage tank for storing prepared ink. |
| US10179447B2 |
Digital printing system
A printing system for printing on a substrate, comprises a movable intermediate transfer member in the form of a flexible, substantially inextensible, belt guided to follow a closed path, an image forming station for depositing droplets of a liquid ink onto an outer surface of the belt to form an ink image, a drying station for drying the ink image on the belt to leave an ink residue film on the outer surface of the belt, first and second impression stations spaced from one another in the direction of movement of the belt, each impression station comprising an impression cylinder for supporting and transporting the substrate and a pressure cylinder carrying a compressible blanket for urging the belt against the substrate supported on the impression cylinder, and a transport system for transporting the substrate from the first impression station to the second impression station. The pressure cylinder of at least the first impression station is movable between a first position in which the belt is urged towards the impression cylinder to cause the residue film on the outer surface of the belt to be transferred onto the front side of the substrate supported on the impression cylinder, and a second position in which the belt is spaced from the impression cylinder to allow the ink image on the belt to pass through the first impression station and arrive intact at the second impression station for transfer onto the reverse side of the substrate supported on the second impression cylinder. |
| US10179445B2 |
Method for producing optical member and use of ultraviolet ray cured resin composition for same
Method for producing an optical member, in which at least two optical substrates, of which at least either has a light shielding portion, are bonded to each other using an ultraviolet ray cured resin composition containing (A) a (meth)acrylate and (B) a photopolymerization initiator, an optical member obtained by the producing method, the use of an ultraviolet ray cured resin composition containing (A) a (meth)acrylate and (B) a photopolymerization initiator, and the ultraviolet ray cured resin composition. A bonded optical member causing little damage to an optical substrate, and exhibiting favorable productivity and excellent cure extent and adherence, for example, a touch panel or a display body unit having an optical substrate having a light shielding portion can be produced by the producing method of the present invention, and an optical member exhibiting high cure extent of resin at a light shielding portion and high reliability can be obtained. |
| US10179441B2 |
Resin panel and molding method
A resin panel of which contact surfaces of a rear wall to be in contact with another member are made unlikely to deform while reducing the weight of the resin panel. The panel includes a rear wall having a plurality of contact surfaces to be in contact with another member, and a front wall opposing the rear wall with an interval therebetween, the resin panel including a plurality of ribs obtained by indenting parts of the rear wall toward the front wall and welding the parts to an inner surface of the front wall, wherein a wall thickness of the front wall is generally equal to or smaller than a wall thickness of the rear wall. |
| US10179440B2 |
Method and apparatus for feeding a plurality of tread bands in a process for building tyres for vehicle wheels
A method and apparatus for feeding a plurality of tread bands in a process for building tires for vehicle wheels. Each tread band initially includes, on a side thereof, a service fabric. The tread bands are initially arranged at different heights. The method includes positioning a first auxiliary conveyor belt of an auxiliary collection device including a plurality of juxtaposed auxiliary conveyor belts at a first height corresponding to the height of a first tread band, then, proceeding with the removal of the service fabric from the first tread band while the first tread band is transferred onto the first auxiliary conveyor belt. The method also includes positioning at least one second auxiliary conveyor belt of the auxiliary collection device at at least one second height corresponding to that of at least one second tread band. |
| US10179436B2 |
Method for using optical sensor focus to identify feature heights on objects being produced in a three-dimensional object printer
A three-dimensional object printer generates image data of an object being formed in the printer with an optical sensor and identifies the heights of object features above a substrate on which the object is being formed. A controller operates one or more actuators to move the optical sensor at a plurality of distances above the object to generate image data of the object at a plurality of heights above the object. The controller identifies the distances of the features of the object with reference to the image data generated by the optical sensor and the focal length of the optical sensor. |
| US10179435B2 |
Roof ditch molding assembly and process with heated air assist
A method and assembly for reshaping an elongated plasticized article including a pair of first and second spaced apart fixtures adapted to supporting extending ends of an elongated article. The fixtures each exhibit a contoured upper surface upon which the elongated article is adapted to being supported in adhering fashion. A heated airflow is delivered in communication with at least one surface of the article and, upon cooling, the article exhibits an extending profile matching the contoured upper surface. A pre-heat station pre-softens at least an extending subset portion of the article prior to transfer to the fixture. Pluralities of gripping fingers communicate with an underside of the contoured upper surface and are adapted to engage at least underside accessible cross sectional profile locations of the article. |
| US10179433B2 |
Method of forming a headrest assembly
A method of forming a headrest assembly includes providing a first mold that encloses a first cavity in a closed condition. A support is positioned in the first cavity. A first material is blow molded into the first cavity and around a portion of the support to form a core part. The core part and support are removed from the first mold. A second mold encloses a second cavity in a closed condition. The core part and the support are placed into the second mold in an open condition. A fluid is injected into the core part through the support. The second mold is converted to the closed condition. A second material is injection molded into the second cavity and around the core part to form an outer shell around the core part. A fluid is withdrawn from the core part through the support. |
| US10179432B2 |
Convey device, molded article manufacturing apparatus, and method of manufacturing molded article
A convey device, which conveys an insert member into a die, includes a holding device configured to hold the insert member in an attitude in which a major surface of the insert member is in a substantially gravitational direction; a convey mechanism configured to convey the insert member to the die, while the insert member is being held in the attitude by the holding device; and a heating device configured to heat the insert member. The insert member can be heated by the heating device before the insert member is disposed in the die. |
| US10179429B2 |
Device for polymerising lactams in moulds
A device for polymerizing lactams in molds includes a hopper for storing solid lactam and a lactam feeding component that includes a plasticizing screw so as the lactam to be melted and simultaneously taken in a dosed manner to a mixing chamber. The device further includes a first dosing component to feed a liquid initiator, and a second dosing component to feed a liquid activator. The mixing chamber is configured to receive in a dosed manner the lactam, the initiator, and the activator from the feeding and dosing components. The mixing chamber has three separate inlets to receive, separately, the lactam, the initiator, and the activator, to allow them to flow into the mixing chamber coming into contact with one another for the first time, at the moment immediately prior to entering into a mold located adjacent the chamber and arranged for the polymerization reaction to take place inside the mold. |
| US10179427B2 |
Multi-stage roll type sheet molding apparatus
A multi-stage roll type sheet molding apparatus includes four or more molding rolls including a touch molding roll, a main molding roll and finish molding rolls disposed in the horizontal direction in parallel to each other, in which a molten sheet is supplied downward from above to a first nip part interposed between the touch molding roll and main molding roll, the sheet is compressed by the molding rolls, and the compressed sheet is windingly fed sequentially from the main molding roll to the finish molding rolls, thereby molding a sheet having a specific thickness. The apparatus further includes a rear-stage side rail for guiding the finish molding rolls in a horizontally movable manner and second to fourth hydraulic cylinders for horizontally moving the finish molding rolls to in such a manner that they can pressurize the sheet. |
| US10179426B2 |
Large format melt-blown depth filter cartridge
A tubular depth filter element has three or more concentric zones. Each zone is made of an essentially continuous melt blown filament. The filament of an outer zone preferably has a larger diameter than the filaments of other zones. The outer zone overlaps with at least 85%, and preferably all, of another zone. Optionally, one or more additional filaments may traverse through all of zones. The depth filter element is made by spraying filaments onto a rotating mandrel to form a filament mass in contact with a conical press roller. The filaments are sprayed from three or more nozzles which are spaced apart along the length of the mandrel. One of the filaments is formed in a spray pattern that is angled towards an adjacent spray pattern so as to overlap with at least 50 or 85%, and preferably all, of the adjacent spray pattern. |
| US10179424B2 |
Diagnostic system for measuring acceleration of a demolition hammer
A diagnostic system for measuring acceleration of a piston of a reciprocating hammer is disclosed. The diagnostic system may include a magnet configured to induce, via electromagnetic induction and based on a movement of the piston, an electric current in a conductor. The diagnostic system may include a capacitor electrically coupled to the conductor and configured to store electric power based on the electric current induced by the magnet. The diagnostic system may include an accelerometer configured to measure an acceleration of the piston. The diagnostic system may include a communication device powered by the capacitor and configured to output a signal that identifies the acceleration measured by the accelerometer. |
| US10179422B2 |
Apparatus for processing a flexible material
An apparatus for processing a flexible material (14) comprises: a first roller (5) extending along a main axis (A1); a second roller (6) extending along a longitudinal axis (A2), the first roller (5) and the second roller (6) being mutually co-operating to carry out an operation on the flexible material (14), an interspace (37) being defined between the first roller (5) and the second roller (6) though which the flexible material (14) can pass; a pressing device for pushing the first roller (5) and the second roller (6) one towards another; a position adjustment device for adjusting the relative position of the first roller (5) and the second roller (6), the position adjustment device being distinct from the pressing device. |
| US10179419B2 |
Method and food slicing device with cutting force determination
The disclosure relates to a method for operating a food slicing device in which a food cutting blade is controlled by a sensor, and a device for cutting food. The sensor is used to control the cutting operation of the device. When the sensor senses that the cutting blade is worn, a signal is sent to the apparatus motor to increase cutting force. When the senor detects the consistency and content of the material to be cut, a suitable cutting blade, rotation speed and force can be selected. The sensor can also determine the cutting quality of a cutting blade across its circumference by determining the localized bluntness of the blade edge. |
| US10179412B2 |
Workpiece conveying system
A workpiece conveying system is provided, which includes a workpiece including a workpiece main body, a cylindrical gripping part protruding from the workpiece main body, and an engaging plate attached to a tip-end surface of the gripping part, a chuck device including three jaws configured to grip the gripping part in radial directions of the gripping part, and a robot to which the chuck device is attached. The engaging plate includes an overhang part protruding from the gripping part along the tip-end surface of the gripping part, and an engaging slot, into which one of the three jaws fits, is formed in the overhang part. |
| US10179406B2 |
Humanoid robot with collision avoidance and trajectory recovery capabilities
A humanoid robot which can move on its lower limb to execute a trajectory and is capable of detecting intrusion of obstacles in a safety zone defined around its body as a function of its speed is provided. Preferably when the robot executes a predefined trajectory, for instance a part of a choreography, the robot which avoids collision with an obstacle will rejoin its original trajectory after avoidance of the obstacle. Rejoining trajectory and speed of the robot are adapted so that it is resynchronized with the initial trajectory. Advantageously, the speed of the joints of the upper members of the robot is adapted in case the distance with an obstacle decreases below a preset minimum. Also, the joints are stopped in case a collision of the upper members with the obstacle is predicted. |
| US10179403B1 |
Tile cut marking device
A tile cut marking device includes a wheeled cart that rides against a wall and floor junction, a step or curb. A rail extends from the cart. A marker holder is attached towards the end of the rail opposite the cart. A handle is attached to the rail between the marker holder and cart. The marker (positioned one full tile length from the boundary including space for grout lines) draws a line on laid tiles to be cut and then re-laid as the last row adjacent the boundary (e.g., wall). |
| US10179396B2 |
Torque-correctable torque wrench and torque correction method thereof
A torque wrench includes a mechanical structure and an electronic structure. The mechanical structure includes a tubular body, a flexible rod, an abutment member, an elastic member, a trip mechanism, an adjustment mechanism and a mechanical scale indication mounted in the tubular body for indicating the set torque of the wrench. The electronic structure includes at least one torque sensor and a display unit. When correcting the torque value of the mechanical structure, a force is applied to the wrench and the torque sensor detects the trip torque value of the wrench. The torque value of the mechanical structure is adjusted to match the torque value detected by the torque sensor so as to eliminate the error of the torque value of the mechanical structure. |
| US10179395B2 |
Collapsible torque wrench
A collapsible torque wrench includes: a shank having a drive head at a front end and two pivoted ends at a rear end; a connection rod, a front end of which being pivotally connected with the first pivoted end; a housing having a tubular body and a casing fixedly disposed on one side of the tubular body, the connection rod being relatively slidably fitted in the tubular body; a torque adjustment mechanism being mounted in the tubular body and including a fixing block, the fixing block being mounted in the tubular body by a plurality of pins; and a stop member received in the casing. A front end of the stop member is pivotally connected with the second pivoted end. The fixing block is easily demounted from the tubular body for replacement. |
| US10179378B2 |
Odor reduction in laser processed material with curl reduction
The present invention includes methods for treating laser-processed materials having an odor generated during the laser processing. The present method includes treating the laser-processed materials with heat to dissipate the odor from the material. The laser processed material may be secured to avoid curling during the heating process. The method can also include a cooling step after heating of the laser-processed material. Multiple cycles of heating and cooling may also be performed to substantially reduce or eliminate the odor from the laser-processed material. The invention also includes articles made according to the method and apparatus for producing laser processed materials having substantially reduced odor. |
| US10179377B2 |
Process for manufacturing a gamma titanium aluminide turbine component
A process for manufacturing a turbine engine component includes the steps of: providing a powder containing gamma titanium aluminide; and forming a turbine engine component from said powder using a direct metal laser sintering technique. |
| US10179376B2 |
Machines for the separative machining of plate-shaped materials
The invention relates to machines for the separative machining of plate-shaped workpieces using a machining tool. The machines include two workpiece support surfaces for supporting the workpiece, between which a gap is formed, and at least one carriage that is movable in or along the gap, and is connected to at least one covering element. The covering element at least partially covers the gap and includes a chain with a plurality of chain links. The chain links can have a brush support on an upper side and are designed to pivot with respect to one another, wherein at least two mutually adjacent chain links have a pivot-limiting angle (α) with respect to the longitudinal axis of each of the chain links such that, with a rectilinear orientation to one another and without exposure to force, the chain links assume a non-planar profile. |
| US10179372B2 |
Welding controller and method for controlling a welding operation
A welding controller for controlling a welding operation includes a controller configured to initiate cleaning of a welding tool in a manner adapted to a change of parameters which change in a production operation in a production line in which the welding tool is included. |
| US10179369B2 |
Welding system for AC welding with reduced spatter
A welding system comprises a welding power source that provides an alternating current in a selected wave form having a set of positive and negative portions, the negative portion consisting of a peak, tailout, and background phase, and the positive portion consisting of a peak, tailout, and background; wherein the power source provides an upward ramping current during the pinch and detachment phase, switches to an electrode negative current during the negative peak, tailout, and background phases, and switches to a subsequent electrode positive portion; wherein, the positive portion may repeat prior to the next shorting event. |
| US10179367B1 |
Damping arbor
The present invention relates to a damping arbor, including a rod body and a damping mechanism. A diameter of the rod body is larger than or equal to 60 mm. The rod body includes an end surface for being connected with a cutter head assembly and further defining an axis. The damping mechanism includes at least three shock absorbing assemblies. The at least three shock absorbing assemblies are inserted into the end surface and surrounding the axis with equal intervals. |
| US10179366B2 |
Cutting tool
The invention suppresses chipping of a cutting edge of a cutting tool while maintaining sharpness of the cutting edge.[Solution] A coating (20) of a replaceable knife (10) of the cutting tool is formed so that either one of a rake-face coating portion (22) that coats a rake face (14) or a clearance-face coating portion (24) that coats a clearance face (16) becomes thicker than the other. The film thickness of the thicker coating portion (22, 24) is set in a range of 0.5 μm to 15.0 μm, and a ratio of the film thickness of the thinner coating portion (24, 22) to the film thickness of the thicker coating portion (22, 24) is set in a range of 0.01 to 0.15. |
| US10179364B2 |
Thermal isolation for casting articles
Some embodiments provide methods and systems for casting articles. One example of a method includes providing and positioning a thermal blanket within a mold cavity and then introducing a molten material into the mold cavity and into contact with the thermal blanket. The method allows the molten material to remain in a molten state during a dwell time that extends from the introduction of the molten material at least until the mold cavity is filled. In another example, a method of using a thermal blanket includes keeping a molten material in a molten state during a dwell time extending from first introduction of the molten material until pressurization. Systems including a variety of mold types, one or more thermal blankets, and in some cases preforms and/or inserts are also provided. Also described is a novel thermal blanket and method of manufacturing the same. |
| US10179363B2 |
Method for producing a cast strip of molten metal and cast strip
A method for producing a cast strip of molten metal, in which the molten metal passes through a casting gap defined by two oppositely rotating casting rollers and is shaped into the cast strip, as well as the cast strip that is produced. By providing the cast strip in the casting gap with a different thickness in a first length section extending in the longitudinal direction of the cast strip than in a second length section bordering thereon, a metal strip is produced that has length sections with different thicknesses. |
| US10179361B2 |
End effector
One illustrative embodiment of an end effector generally comprises a tip, a housing, and a main insert. The housing may include a housing neck, one or more housing sections, and an end section. A main insert may be positioned within the housing. One or more intermediate inserts may also be positioned in the housing, as may an end insert. During use, it is contemplated that the end effector will provide a user a more ergonomic and comfortable experience, requiring less effort from the user resulting in a less fatigue during use. Additionally, the illustrative embodiments of the end effector may be adjusted for optimal use in an infinite number of applications. Additionally, the locator ensures that the user properly locates the distal end of a rivet to create a uniform nugget as the distal end of the rivet is spread. |
| US10179359B2 |
Joining method of composite parts having a thermoset matrix, and wind turbine blade manufactured using this said method
A method of fabricating a composite joint from a first cured composite component (13) and a second cured composite component (14), the first and second cured composite components (13, 14) comprising fiber elements embedded in a thermoset resin matrix; the method comprising the steps of providing an adhesive (15) on at least one of the first and/or second composite components (13, 14); forming a joint region between the first and second composite component by bringing the first and second composite component into contact with each other with the adhesive (15) therebetween; applying a force to the joint region (16, 17); and heating the first composite component in the joint region to a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the thermoset resin matrix of the first composite component. |
| US10179358B2 |
Rotary pipe sizing tool
A rotary pipe sizing tool for expanding or shrinking a pipe includes a main member having a driving portion, a clamping device provided at an end of the driving portion of the main member; and a rotating mechanism provided between the main member and the clamping device. The clamping device is free to rotate relative to the main member through the rotating mechanism to make the rotary pipe sizing tool operate in a narrow or a space that is hard to reach. |
| US10179357B2 |
Bending apparatus and bending method for a plate-shaped metal workpiece
Provided is a bending apparatus for a plate-shaped metal workpiece, including: a suction device (suction pad) configured to suck a surface of a plate-shaped metal workpiece in a removable manner; a plurality of expansion and contraction devices (servo screw jacks) each including the suction device mounted on a distal end thereof and being capable of expanding and contracting a length ranging from a proximal end thereof to the suction device; and an apparatus base (bed) on which the proximal end of each of the expansion and contraction devices is mounted. The bending apparatus is configured to form the plate-shaped metal workpiece under bending deformation by expanding and contracting the expansion and contraction devices under a state in which the suction device sucks the surface of the plate-shaped metal workpiece. |
| US10179354B2 |
Optical endpoint detection system
Methods and apparatus for determining an endpoint of a process chamber cleaning process are provided. In some embodiments, a method of monitoring a process being performed in a process chamber includes: performing a cleaning process in a process chamber to remove material deposited on one or more internal surfaces of the process chamber resultant from processes performed within the process chamber; shining a light on a first internal surface being cleaned; detecting the light reflected off of the first internal surface; and terminating the cleaning process based upon the detected light. |
| US10179348B2 |
Mobile modular screen plant with horizontal and variable operating angles
A mobile variable angle vibrating screen with the ability to process aggregate material in a horizontal orientation and at incrementally higher angles of inclination where changes in angles of inclination can be affected without the need to dismantle the vibrating screen and without the use of hand tools. The variable angle screen being configured: to blend output at all of the various operating angles of inclination, be transportable with a detachable bolt on feeder module; have an overhead feed conveyor which operates at a substantially horizontal configuration and at various operating angles of inclination. |
| US10179341B2 |
Roll member, coating device, separator production device, and secondary batter production device
A roll member having an outer circumferential surface in which a plurality of grooves are formed, wherein the plurality of grooves are arranged at an angle relative to a direction parallel to a central axis of the roll member. A coating device for coating a film member with a coating liquid, the coating device comprising the roll member. A separator production device for producing a separator in which a heat-resistant layer is laminated over a substrate. The separator production device comprising the coating device. A secondary battery production device for producing a secondary battery comprising a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a pair of separators that sandwich the positive electrode plate or the negative electrode plate therebetween. The secondary battery production device comprising the separator production device. |
| US10179338B2 |
Electrostatic atomizer, and method for electrostatically atomizing by use of the same
An object of the present invention is to provide an electrostatic atomizer variable in arrangement and configuration while being low in cost and uncomplicated. An electrostatic atomizer includes a spray site, a spray electrode (1) electrically connectable to the spray site, a reference electrode (2), and a power supply (4) for applying a voltage between the spray electrode (1) and the reference electrode (2). The reference electrode (2) is arranged such that when a voltage is applied between the spray electrode (1) and the reference electrode (2), matter to be electrostatically atomized is atomized from the spray site. The power supply (4) monitors an electrical property of the spray site, and adjusts the voltage to be applied between the spray electrode (1) and the reference electrode (2) according to a monitored electrical property of the spray site and a predetermined characteristic. The spray electrode (1) and the reference electrode (2) are arranged such that an electrical charge of the matter to be atomized from the spray site is counterbalanced by production of at least equal amount of opposite electrical charge at the reference electrode (2). |
| US10179335B2 |
Crusher wear resistant liner
A crusher wear resistant liner for positioning at a crusher bottom shell includes a plurality of modular wear resistant plates mountable at an inside surface of the bottom shell and positioned side-by-side to surround and protect the bottom shell interior. To prevent independent dislodgement of each plate and liner, respective inter-engaging formations are provided at each plate to contact at least one adjacent plate of the assembly to arrest any unintentional downward movement in the event that the primary fixings become ineffective. |
| US10179334B2 |
Universal pipette stand
The present invention includes a pipette stand having a base, a trunk extending from the base, and a holding assembly coupled to the trunk. The holding assembly forms one or more apertures configured to receive at least a portion of a pipette therein, and the one or more apertures define a first width. The pipette stand also includes an insert removably couplable to the holding assembly and configured to modify the first width. |
| US10179329B2 |
Combining SCR with PNA for low temperature emission control
A catalyst article comprises an SCR catalyst and a NOx adsorber catalyst, where each of these catalysts comprise a metal molecular sieve, each with a different metal. The catalyst article can be close coupled with other components to give a NOX performance advantage from cold start to a combined DOC and SCRF system. Higher NOX conversion is also shown in under-floor location due to NOx storage before SCR light off and selective NH3 slip control, allowing higher NH3 fill levels. Systems comprising the catalyst article and methods of using the catalyst article to give improved hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide control, as well as ammonia slip control, are described. The systems can include flow-through or wall-flow monoliths. |
| US10179328B2 |
Low temperature SCR catalyst for denitrating diesel vehicle exhaust, and preparation method thereof
Provided are a low-temperature SCR catalyst for denitrating diesel vehicle exhaust, and preparation method thereof. The catalyst uses a molecular sieve as a carrier, and uses metallic elements such as copper and iron as active components. The catalyst preparation method comprises: preprocessing the molecular sieve; conducting multiple equal-volume impreparations; after impreparation, drying to dehydrate, and calcining; and finally pulping and coating to prepare the catalyst. The catalyst employs base metals such as copper and iron instead of precious metals as active components, thus reducing costs, being harmless to humans, and being environmentally friendly. The preparation method of the catalyst is simple and feasible with low requirements for raw materials, employs a repeated but small-quantity method of equal volume impregnation; and enables active ions to be dispersed more uniformly as compared with the existing conventional preparation methods, thus improving utilization and improving low-temperature catalytic activity and durability. |
| US10179327B2 |
Mesoporous ternary composite material and corresponding method of preparation
Mesoporous ternary composite materials and a corresponding preparation method are described herein. The method includes the following steps: (1) adding hydrochloric acid and acetic acid into an ethanol solution to prepare a dissolving system; (2) adding a surfactant into the dissolving system and fully stirring for dissolution; (3) adding copper nitrate, manganese nitrate solution and tetrabutyl titanate into the mixed liquid obtained from step (2) and evenly stirring; (4) transferring the mixture obtained from step (3) into petri dishes and obtaining transparent films after drying; and (5) calcinating the transparent films to obtain mesoporous ternary composite materials. The materials prepared are ordered mesoporous materials with high specific surface areas and high dispersion degree of every component. |
| US10179325B2 |
Exhaust system for a compression ignition engine having a capture region for volatilised platinum
An oxidation catalyst for treating an exhaust gas produced by a compression ignition engine comprising: a substrate; a catalytic material disposed on the substrate, wherein the catalytic material comprises platinum (Pt); and a region comprising a capture material, wherein the region is arranged to contact the exhaust gas after the exhaust gas has contacted and/or passed through the catalytic material. |
| US10179320B2 |
Process for making carbon-based nano-rods from switchable ionic liquids and devices and processes incorporating same
A method of making carbon-based nano-rods from switchable ionic liquids (SWIL) that incorporates the SWIL is disclosed. Resulting nano-rods provide adsorption and spontaneous desorption of water at selected relative humidity values that find use in selected applications and devices. |
| US10179315B2 |
Exhaust treatment device
An exhaust treatment arrangement includes a mixing assembly disposed between first and second substrates; and an injection mounting location disposed at the mixing assembly. The mixing assembly includes a mixing arrangement configured to direct exhaust flow exiting the first substrate in a swirling configuration, a restricting member defining a restricted passage, and optionally a dispersing member configured to even out the exhaust flow. |
| US10179314B2 |
Method for the high-throughput preparation of carbon nanotube hollow fiber membranes
The invention, belonging to the field of membrane technology, presents a method for the high-throughput preparation of carbon nanotube hollow fiber membranes. This method contains three major steps. Firstly, the pristine carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are added into a mixture of concentrated nitric acid and sulfuric acid, which is then heated at 40˜80° C. for 0.5˜6 hours. Secondly, the surface-functionalized CNTs and polyvinyl butyral (PVB) are dispersed and dissolved, respectively, in organic solvents at a mass ratio of 1:0.2˜1:4˜8 to form homogeneous spinning solution, which is squeezed into water as shell liquid with water as core liquid at a flow rate ratios of 0.5˜5:1 through a spinneret to form CNT/PVB hollow fibers. Finally, the dry fibers are calcinated at 600˜1000 ° C. for 1˜4 hours in absence of oxygen to produce free-standing CNT hollow fiber membranes. The method involved in this invention is simple and highly efficient without needing any templates, expensive apparatuses and chemicals. Additionally, the obtained electrically conductive CNT hollow fiber membranes feature a high porosity, high water flux and strong acid/alkali resistance. |
| US10179313B2 |
Super-surface selective nanomembranes providing simultaneous high permeation flux and high selectivity
Superhydrophobic membrane structures having a beneficial combination of throughput and a selectivity. The membrane structure can include a porous support substrate; and a membrane layer adherently disposed on and in contact with the porous support substrate. The membrane layer can include a nanoporous material having a superhydrophobic surface. The superhydrophobic surface can include a textured surface, and a modifying material disposed on the textured surface. Methods of making and using the membrane structures. |
| US10179308B2 |
On-board inert gas generating system prognostic health monitoring
A system for calculating maintenance predictions and making improvements to performance deficiencies to one or more components in an on-board inert gas generating system (OBIGGS) is described. The OBIGGS components include an ozone converter, heat exchanger, inlet filter, and Air Separation Module (ASM). The system comprises a prognostic health monitoring (PHM) sensor network comprising at least one respective sensor coupled to each of the components of the OBIGGS. Each at least one respective sensor is configured to output a respective data signal corresponding to a performance condition of a respective component. A control unit is operatively coupled to each component and signally coupled to each respective sensor of the PHM sensor network. The control unit includes at least one test condition algorithm configured to analyze the respective data signal to calculate the maintenance prediction for the respective component. |
| US10179307B2 |
Air compressor
An air compressor system is disclosed that includes a housing sized to enclose an air compressor pump as well as a dryer structured to remove moisture from air that is compressed by the compressor pump. The air compressor pump may be intermittently placed into operation, but the dryer itself is structured in one form to continuously maintain a heat exchanger in a desired temperature range in anticipation of operation of the air compressor pump. The heat exchanger of the dryer can include sufficient thermal mass such that a refrigerant pump of the dryer need not be operated continuously in anticipation of operation of the air compressor pump. While a cooling air flow can be created by operation of the air compressor pump, when the air compressor pump is not operated a cooling fan can be used provide cooling to the heat generating components of the dryer. |
| US10179305B2 |
Air intake separator systems and methods
An air intake separator system includes a plurality of vanes adapted to remove fluid or precipitation from an air stream, wherein the vanes are operably coupled to tubular rods with an interference fit. Applying an elevated temperature heat transfer fluid to the plurality of vanes removes fluid or precipitation from an air stream in order to prevent ice formation. Likewise, applying a lower temperature heat transfer fluid can cool the vanes. |
| US10179302B2 |
Filter system comprising coupling device
A filter system has a filter element in a filter housing having a coupling device configured to detachably couple and mount the filter system onto a receiving member external to the filter system. The coupling device has one or more inwardly projecting coupling elements which lockably engage with coupling contours of the receiving member by a sliding-rotating movement. |
| US10179300B2 |
Separator assembly and method
A separator assembly has a tank and a lid removably attached to a top side of the tank so as to create a gas tight seal with the top side of the tank. The tank has an influent chamber, a separator chamber, an oil chamber, and an effluent chamber in fluid communication with one another. A pipe extends from the separator channel to the effluent chamber allowing the passage of water from the separator chamber to effluent chamber. A plurality of vertical plates are positioned in the separator chamber to define a serpentine path from the influent chamber to the oil chamber. |
| US10179298B2 |
Pressurized vapor cycle liquid distillation
Embodiments of the invention are directed toward a novel pressurized vapor cycle for distilling liquids. In some embodiments of the invention, a liquid purification system is revealed, including the elements of an input for receiving untreated liquid, a vaporizer coupled to the input for transforming the liquid to vapor, a head chamber for collecting the vapor, a vapor pump with an internal drive shaft and an eccentric rotor with a rotatable housing for compressing vapor, and a condenser in communication with the vapor pump for transforming the compressed vapor into a distilled product. Other embodiments of the invention are directed toward heat management, and other process enhancements for making the system especially efficient. |
| US10179295B2 |
Kit for electrifying an assembly of bricks in a brick building system
One variation of a conductive construction tape for electrifying a stack of bricks in a studded-brick building system includes: a tape substrate defining a first linear array of perforations that each define a circular cross-section configured to receive a stud extending from a brick in the studded-brick building system and offset from an adjacent perforation in the linear array by a standard stud offset distance between studs extending from the brick; and a conductive tape layer applied over the tape substrate; an electrically-conductive material extending along the first linear array of perforations and cooperating with the tape substrate to define a total nominal thickness less than a thickness of the studded building brick; wherein the perforated conductive tape is configured to transiently install horizontally between bricks in the stack of bricks to communicate electrical current laterally across the stack of bricks. |
| US10179290B2 |
Method and system for accessing previously stored game play via video recording as executed on a game cloud system
A method for gaming, including receiving from a client device of a user selection of a video recording of game play of a player for a gaming application, and streaming the video recording to the client device. The video recording is associated with a snapshot captured at a first point in the recorded game play. Selection of a jump point in the recorded game play is received from the client device. An instance of the gaming application is initiated based on the snapshot to initiate a jump game play. Input commands used to direct the game play and associated with the snapshot are accessed. Image frames are generated based on the input commands for rendering at the client device, the image frames replaying the game play to the jump point. Input commands from the client device are handled beginning from the jump point for the jump game play. |
| US10179283B2 |
Wireless entertainment device, system, and method
A wireless input device for playing an interactive motion-sensitive game using a wireless-compatible game console in which a virtual play environment is represented through one or more computer-animated visual, aural or tactile effects is provided wherein game play is conducted by moving, shaking, twisting, waving or pointing the input device in a particular manner. The input device can include motion-sensitive circuitry and/or command circuitry for generating control signals and/or an effects generator and associated control circuitry to enable the input device to selectively generate at least one visual, aural or tactile effect comprising sound, lighting or vibration. The input device can include a wireless transceiver for providing two-way wireless communication with the wireless-compatible game console. An optional display screen displays short text messages received through wireless communications with the wireless-compatible game console. |
| US10179280B2 |
Peripheral device, information processing system, and method for connecting the peripheral device
An example of peripheral device adds a predetermined function to a mobile device having an infrared communication function. The peripheral device includes an additional function unit, an infrared communication unit, and a support unit. The additional function unit has the predetermined function. The infrared communication unit is capable of performing infrared communication with the mobile device. The support unit detachably supports the mobile device so that a light emitting/receiving unit for infrared light of the mobile device is positioned so as to be capable of transmitting or receiving infrared light to or from the infrared communication unit. |
| US10179269B2 |
Armed combat interactive system based on high frequency wireless scoring
An armed combat interactive system based on high frequency wireless scoring, comprising a moving device, a combat device, a protecting device, a wireless identification control device and a scoring disposing device. When a first conductive part of one combat device touches a second conductive part of the protecting device corresponding to the other combat device, the wireless identification control device corresponding to one combat device sends a high frequency impulse signal with an ID identification code, and the wireless identification control device corresponding to the other combat device receives the high frequency impulse signal with the ID identification code and sends a scoring signal to the scoring disposing device. The scoring disposing device records the score. |
| US10179267B1 |
Game system
A game system is disclosed that can be played using gross motor skills. The game system is mountable on the player's torso and comprises a tethered ball that can be kicked by the player into a goal mounted on the neck of the base of the game system. The game system can include a fastener for detachably connecting different balls to the game system. |
| US10179262B2 |
Delayed goal celebration
A biometric monitoring device with a display is provided. The biometric monitoring device may track the completion progress towards one or more biometric performance goals and provide a goal celebration indicator upon completion of a biometric performance goal and subsequent receipt of an input signal. In some implementations, the completion of a biometric performance goal may be signaled prior to receipt of the input signal using a secondary indicator. |
| US10179259B1 |
Exercise weight and set of exercise weights
A pair of handle members are attached to opposite sides of a weight member that is convexly rounded over most of its surface. Each of the handle members has at least three handholds with different spatial relationships. The handle members each have an outer section with a core of solid material spaced from the weight member. The handle members have a plurality of connecting sections with at least four of them connected to the weight member. Opposite ends of the outer section are separately supported by a corresponding pair of the connecting sections. The weight member has clearance to allow passage of an exerciser's body part through a common transverse plane that engages the handles, if the passage is outside a region between the pair of handles. These weights can be assembled in different sizes. The weights of this set each have one or more flat sections arranged to allow vertical stacking. |
| US10179254B2 |
Capacitor structure with acoustic noise self-canceling characteristics
This application relates to capacitors that resist deformation because of the configuration of their conductive and dielectric layers. The capacitors are multilayer capacitors that include multiple dielectric and conductive layers. The dielectric layers can be arranged in a way that creates a rigid barrier or dead zone, which can resist mechanical deformation when the multilayer capacitor is charged. In some embodiments, two or more multilayer capacitors are stacked together in an arrangement that causes each of the multilayer capacitors to cancel any deformations of the other when the multilayer capacitors are charged. In this way, noise exhibited by the multilayer capacitors can be reduced. |
| US10179251B2 |
Therapeutic device and a method of driving the therapeutic device
A therapeutic device is provided, including a cylindrical gantry; a pedestal, a particle beam irradiation device, a first rail, and a second rail all disposed in the gantry; the first rail including an arc-shaped portion and a straight portion, the second rail having a same shape as the first rail, a rail motor on the second rail to rotate the second rail in a opposite direction than that of the gantry, first and second moving floors on the rails and respectively including first floor panels rotatably connected to each other and second floor panels rotatably connected to each other, a first end panel of the first floor and a fourth end panel of the second floor being detachably connected to the irradiation device, and a second end panel of the first floor being detachably connected to a third end panel of the second floor. |
| US10179241B2 |
Systems and methods for producing asynchronous neural responses to treat pain and/or other patient conditions
Systems and methods for producing asynchronous neural responses to treat pain and/or other patient conditions are disclosed. A method in accordance with a particular embodiment includes selecting a target stimulation frequency that is above a threshold frequency, with the threshold frequency corresponding to a refractory period for neurons of a target sensory neural population. The method can further include producing a patient sensation of paresthesia by directing an electrical signal to multiple sensory neurons of the target sensory neural population at the stimulation frequency, with individual neurons of the sensory neural population completing corresponding individual refractory periods at different times, resulting in an asynchronous sensory neuron response to the electrical signal. |
| US10179239B2 |
Personalized pain management treatments
Systems and methods disclosed herein provide efficacious pain management therapies based on delivery of physical medicine(s) via computer-implemented systems. Patient information comprising patient pain symptoms, patient physiological measurements, patient demographics, and other information is received at a pain therapy device. The patient information is compared with pain analytics data compiled on a plurality of individuals to determine a personalized pain management therapy. The personalized pain management therapy is applied via a combination of thermoceuticals, electroceuticals, ultrasound, and several other forms of physical medicine. Sensors coupled to the pain therapy device measure changes in physiological data resulting from the pain management therapy. The personalized pain management therapy can be adjusted based on the changes in the physiological data and/or patient feedback. The patient information, information about the applied therapy, and therapy outcome information is added to the analytics database. |
| US10179234B2 |
Distally reinforced lead and methods of making and using
An electrical stimulation lead includes a lead body that defines a central lumen extending along the longitudinal length of the lead body. The stimulation lead includes electrodes disposed along the distal end of the lead body, terminals disposed along the proximal end of the lead body, and conductors. Each conductor electrically couples at least one of the electrodes to at least one of the terminals. The stimulation lead also includes a tubular reinforcing member disposed in the central lumen of the lead body within a portion of the distal end of the lead body or at least one reinforcing member disposed upon the distal end of the lead body proximal of the plurality of electrodes. The reinforcing member stiffens a portion of the distal end of the lead body. |
| US10179233B2 |
Implantable lead protector
An implantable lead protector, comprising, an upper surface; a lower surface; a spool disposed between the upper surface and the lower surface; and, a protective channel disposed at least partially therethrough the spool, the protective channel further comprising a curved outer wall and a curved inner wall; whereby a least a portion of a lead can be slidably received into the protective channel and at least a portion of the lead may be wound around the spool. |
| US10179231B2 |
Medical connector
A medical connector for use in a fluid pathway includes a housing configured to permit fluid flow between a first medical device and a second device or location. The medical connector includes a valve member configured to be positioned at least partially within the housing. The valve member is configured to receive the first medical device. The valve member can be moved into a second state. The connector can be adapted for use with a catheter assembly. |
| US10179230B2 |
Systems and methods for radiographically identifying an access port
An access port for subcutaneous implantation is disclosed. Such an access port may comprise a body for capturing a septum for repeatedly inserting a needle therethrough into a cavity defined within the body. Further, the access port may include at least one feature structured and configured for identification of the access port subsequent to subcutaneous implantation. Methods of identifying a subcutaneously implanted access port are also disclosed. For example, a subcutaneously implanted access port may be provided and at least one feature of the subcutaneously implanted access port may be perceived. Further, the subcutaneously implanted access port may be identified in response to perceiving the at least one feature. In one embodiment, an identification feature is included on an insert that is incorporated into the access port so as to be visible after implantation via x-ray imaging technology. |
| US10179228B2 |
Swallowable drug delivery device and methods of drug delivery
Embodiments of the invention provide swallowable devices, preparations and methods for delivering drugs and other therapeutic agents within the GI tract. Some embodiments provide a swallowable device such as a capsule for delivering drugs into the intestinal wall or other GI lumen. The device comprises a capsule sized to be swallowed and pass through the intestinal tract. The capsule can include at least one guide tube, one or more tissue penetrating members positioned in the guide tube, a delivery member, an actuating mechanism and a release element. The release element degrades upon exposure to various conditions in the intestine so as to release and actuate the actuating mechanism. Embodiments of the invention are particularly useful for the delivery of drugs which are poorly absorbed, tolerated and/or degraded within the GI tract. |
| US10179223B2 |
Apparatus and methods for inducing sleep
Apparatus for inducing sleep comprising: a. a display for providing a subject with a light stimulus; b. a base unit on which said display is mounted such that the display is selectively positionable, in use, into a field of view of a subject; c. input means for recording an active input provided by the subject in response to the stimulus; d. processing means for processing said active input to determine a characteristic of said active input; and e. a base unit housing one or more of said means, wherein the apparatus is capable of sequentially providing the subject with a plurality of stimuli, each next stimulus being based on a characteristic determined from the active input made in response to a previous stimulus, and wherein a position and/or brightness and/or a color and/or a shape of the next stimulus on the display and/or a time interval between stimuli is based on the characteristic of the active input provided in response to a previous stimulus. |
| US10179219B2 |
Intubation device with variable backflow pressure
Intubation devices, systems, and methods in which the risk of leakage of nasopharyngeal secretions, esophageal reflux, and blood is reduced, or eliminated, by means of a backflow pressure gradient that is independent of PEEP. Contemplated configurations include (a) a flexible tube for the controlled delivery of air and other gases to the lungs, (b) distal and proximal inflatable seals that can close the annular space surrounding the tube, (c) means to inflate the seals, and (d) means to deliver gas under pressure to the annular chamber in between the two seals. Further configurations further comprise a processor and sensors, and methods are provided for automated backflow of contaminated fluids. |
| US10179214B2 |
Injector with deshielder
The invention relates to a device for injection of a product into an injection site. The device including a needle shield for protection of a needle prior to use of the device; a housing; and a deshielder for removing the needle shield from the device. The deshielder is coupled to the needle shield and mounted on the housing in a separable manner. The deshielder may include tamper evidence features that are activated by the removal of at least one part of said deshielder. At least one part of the deshielder may be configured to be removed from the housing by exerting a force equal or less to 30 N. |
| US10179213B2 |
Apparatus and methods for intravenous gas elimination
A gas elimination apparatus and a method for use in an intravenous delivery system are provided. The apparatus includes a fluid inlet coupling a fluid flow into a liquid chamber, a fluid outlet protruding into the liquid chamber, and a flow diversion member proximal to the fluid outlet. The flow diversion member configured to block a direct flow between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet. The apparatus includes a membrane separating a portion of the liquid chamber from an outer chamber and a gas venting valve fluidically coupling the outer chamber with the atmosphere. The flow diversion member may be mechanically supported by at least one strut or elongate member extending along a flow direction into the liquid chamber. |
| US10179210B2 |
Medical needle safety device
A medical needle safety device includes a needle mount for supporting the needle and a needle shielding sleeve surrounding a supported needle coaxially with the mount, for sliding from a needle shielding position towards a non-shielding position. The mount (30) provides a sliding surface and a resiliently flexible finger is provided on the sleeve, the finger being resiliently deformed outwardly as the sleeve moves towards a non-shielding position, to urge the sleeve back to a shielding position. A control member is disposed within the sleeve and the inner surface of the finger has a camming surface with a transition profile between the inner surface and canning surface. On initial rearward movement of the sleeve, the control member interacts with the camming surface of the finger to flex the finger outwardly and store energy therein. Further rearward movement of the sleeve transfers the inner surface of the finger on to the sliding surface of the mount whereby the stored energy in the finger urges the sleeve forwardly to the shielding position. |
| US10179208B2 |
Dispensing mechanism for a medical device
A dispensing mechanism for administering a dosage of a medicament includes dosage setting means (7) for setting the dosage of a medicament to be administered; expelling means (15) for expelling a medicament from a medicament container; and coupling means (21) operatively coupled with the dosage setting means (7) and the expelling means (15), wherein the coupling means (21) is arranged to convert displacement of the dosage setting means (7) into a displacement of the expelling means (15) in a first direction, wherein the expelling means (15) includes a ratchet means (18a, 18b), and wherein the mechanism includes a first and a second independently moveable resisting pawl (14a, 14b) means facing a common side of the ratchet means (18), the first and the second resisting pawl means (14a, 14b) being configured to engage with the ratchet means (18a, 18b) and resist displacement of the expelling means (15) in a second direction opposite to said first direction. |
| US10179205B2 |
Passive safety huber needle
A safety needle system includes a safety mechanism for a needle assembly, such as a Huber needle. A main body has a channel having a proximal end to encompass tubing and a distal end for positioning proximate a needle. The main body further has a first hinge mechanism and a first latching mechanism. A movable cover has needle receptacle, a second hinge mechanism connected with the first hinge mechanism of the main body, and a biasing member for pivoting movable cover about the first and second hinge mechanisms relative to the main body. The movable cover has a second latching mechanism to latch with the first latching mechanism in a closed position, in which the safety mechanism can be undocked from the needle and slid away from the needle along the tubing. The movable cover has a release mechanism to allow pivoting of the movable cover about the hinge mechanisms such that the needle receptacle of the movable cover at least partially receives the needle of the needle assembly in an open, locked position. |
| US10179203B1 |
Intravenous (IV) site and medical tubing protection utilizing retractable spool system and associated use thereof
An intravenous (IV) site and medical tubing protection device which diminishes the inadvertent, non-purposeful dislodging of an IV catheter, as fluids are being delivered to a patient via a medicine dispensing unit. It employs a self-contained retractable spring spool unit consisting of medicinal tubing 13, a spring-loaded, retractable spool 8, an IV Luer 5, a lubricating ring port 9, a swiveling fluid junction 10, bolus valve 11, and a plastic shell container 7. Medicinal tubing 13 enters the plastic shell container 7 through a lubricating ring port 9 and winds around the retractable spool 8. The tubing attaches to a swiveling fluid junction 10, which permits a constant flow of fluid through the patient line, despite any extending or retracting of the tubing. A subsequent patient line attaches to the swiveling fluid junction 10 at its other end and then to an IV luer 5 that extends beyond the plastic shell 7. An IV catheter can then be attached to the luer 5. |
| US10179201B2 |
Sensor clip assembly for an optical monitoring system
Systems and sensor clip assemblies for optically monitoring blood flowing through a blood chamber are provided. A sensor clip assembly includes emitters and photodetectors positioned on opposing arms, a signal conditioning circuit for conditioning raw analog signals generated by the photodetectors while the sensor clip assembly is fastened to a blood chamber, and an analog-to-digital converter for converting the conditioned analog signals to raw digital data. The sensor clip assembly may output the raw digital data to an external device and receive synchronized control signals from the external device, or the sensor clip assembly may include a microcontroller for performing calculations on the raw digital data and providing synchronized control signals internally. Parameters of blood flowing through the blood chamber such as hematocrit, oxygen saturation, and change in blood volume may be calculated from the raw digital data derived from the raw analog signals generated by the photodetectors. |
| US10179199B2 |
Medical apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment and method for determining a blood parameter value in a medical apparatus thereof
A medical apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment and a method for determining blood parameter value have been provided. The medical apparatus has a control unit (9) configured for taking from a storage memory (10) a plurality of blood parameter value measures each made through the sensors (8) provided on the bloodline set of each of a machines plurality at different patient treatment sessions; all the blood parameter values relate to the same patient; receiving at least a corresponding laboratory measured valise of the same blood parameter relating to the same patient and a laboratory measurement time; determining a correction factor function of a difference between a measured value made though the sensor and a laboratory measured value; obtaining an actual value of said blood parameter by varying at least the last measure made through the sensor by means of the correcting factor. |
| US10179198B2 |
Electrolyte and pH monitoring for fluid removal processes
Methods include monitoring indicators of blood pH or blood electrolyte levels during a blood fluid removal session and adjusting concentrations of pH buffers or electrolytes in dialysate or replacement fluid used during the session based on the monitored indicators. Blood fluid removal systems may employ sensors that monitor blood pH or electrolyte levels to adjust the fluid parameters during a blood fluid removal session. |
| US10179193B2 |
Methods of transplanting chondrocytes
Provided are tri-component matrices having collagen, hyaluronan, and chondroitin sulfate. Also provided are processes for producing a tri-component matrix. Additionally, provided are processes for providing cells capable of producing cartilage to a bone or cartilage defects. |
| US10179183B2 |
Mobile apparatus and method for sterilizing one or more surgical trays with integrable transfer and storage system
An improved mobile apparatus for sterilizing surgical trays serves as a self-contained autoclave, allowing sterilization of the interior of the apparatus and its contents. A method of sterilization using the apparatus is presented as well. By means of a dedicated transfer and storage system, the apparatus, integrable with respect to a transfer cart and a lift device, may be moved easily between a location of sterilization, a storage area, and an operating room, and more than one such apparatus may be stacked vertically for storage to enhance storage efficiency. |
| US10179180B2 |
Local thermal actuation of material surfaces via micro- and nanowire heating for the prevention of cellular attachment and biological fouling
The invention relates in various embodiments to a composite useful as e.g. a medical implant device, and a method of treating fouling, including biofouling as may occur on an implant. The composite comprises a matrix phase and a patterned phase that comprises an energetically activatable wire intermixed with the matrix phase, the wire when energetically activated, which includes thermal activation, causes modification of at least a portion of the matrix phase to treat fouling that might otherwise occur. The method of treating biofouling may be practiced on a patent while the medical implant of the invention is in situ. |
| US10179176B2 |
Recombinant adeno-associated virus capsids resistant to pre-existing human neutralizing antibodies
The present invention relates to variant AAV capsid polypeptides, wherein the variant capsid polypeptides exhibit an enhanced neutralization profile, increased transduction and/or tropism in human liver tissue or hepatocyte cells (i.e., human hepatocyte cells), or both, as compared non-variant parent capsid polypeptides. |
| US10179174B2 |
Method for inducing an immune response and formulations thereof
The invention is related to peptide constructs, i.e., polypeptides obtained by linking together two or more peptides based on or derived from different molecules, which are useful in the treatment or prevention of influenza virus and other infectious diseases. Compositions containing the same, methods for producing the same, and methods for using the same are also disclosed, wherein the peptide constructs have the formula P1-x-P2, where P2 is a peptide associated with an infectious agent and P1 is a peptide that will bind to a class of immune cells, such as dendritic cells. The peptide construct can cause the maturation of immature dendritic cells to a more mature state. The peptide construct or the more mature dendritic cell can be administered to a subject to modulate or initiate an immune response against an infectious agent. Dyes, radioisotopes, or therapeutic agents conjugated with the dendritic cells can be used for localization of the immune target and/or prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of the disease. |
| US10179172B2 |
Liquid pharmaceutical formulations for injection comprising yellow 5 or orange G and uses thereof
Concentrated, low-viscosity, low-volume liquid pharmaceutical formulations of proteins have been developed. Such formulations can be rapidly and conveniently administered by subcutaneous or intramuscular injection, rather than by lengthy intravenous infusion. These formulations include low-molecular-weight and/or high-molecular-weight proteins, such as mAbs, and viscosity-lowering water soluble organic dyes. |
| US10179170B2 |
Anti-glucosaminidase passive immunization for Staphylococcus aureus infections
The present invention is directed to a monoclonal antibody that binds specifically to a Staphylococcus aureus glucosaminidase and inhibits in vivo growth of S. aureus. Also disclosed are monoclonal antibody binding portions, recombinant or hybridoma cell lines, pharmaceutical compositions containing the monoclonal antibody or binding portions thereof, and methods of treating S. aureus infection and osteomyelitis, and methods for introducing an orthopedic implant into a patient using the monoclonal antibody, binding portion, or pharmaceutical composition of the present invention. |
| US10179169B2 |
Adjuvant composition, vaccine composition containing the same, and method for producing both of them
An adjuvant composition includes a pH-sensitive carrier and a substance with stimulus to activate innate immune system. The adjuvant composition serves as a carrier which is highly safe and capable of efficient induction of CTL. |
| US10179168B2 |
HPV particles and uses thereof
The invention relates to modified HPV particles that can be used therapeutically. Modified HPV particles may be used to deliver therapeutic agents, including siRNA molecules. Modified HPV particles may be used for the treatment of diseases or conditions of mucosal tissue, including HPV (human papilloma virus) infection and HPV-related tumors. |
| US10179167B2 |
Developments in meningococcal outer membrane vesicles
A first aspect of the invention provides meningococcal outer membrane vesicles in which NHBA is over-expressed. A second aspect of the invention provides meningococcal outer membrane vesicles in which NadA is over-expressed. A third aspect of the invention provides a panel of bacterial strains, each member of which is isogenic except for a single gene which in each strain encodes a different variant antigen of interest. |
| US10179166B2 |
Ehrlichial invasin for immunization, diagnosis, and cell delivery
Disclosed are vaccines containing one or more immunogenic polypeptides derived from an EtpE protein from an Ehrlichia sp. or nucleic acid encoding these polypeptides. Also disclosed is a method for vaccinating a subject against Ehrlichia sp. that involves administering to the subject a composition comprising any of the disclosed vaccines. Also disclosed is a method for diagnosing and/or monitoring the treatment of Ehrlichiosis in a subject that comprising assaying a biological sample (e.g., blood, serum, or plasma sample) from the subject for the presence of an antibody that specifically binds an EtpE polypeptide. Also disclosed are methods for delivering a therapeutic or diagnostic agent to a cell in a subject that involves conjugating the agent, or a delivery vehicle comprising the agent, to polypeptide containing the C-terminal domain of an EtpE protein. |
| US10179158B2 |
Composition and method for control of post-prandial glucose
A drink for moderating blood glucose levels produced by a meal in a human subject suffering diabetes or IGT the drink comprising: at least one water soluble or water dispersible material selected from the group consisting of amino acids, peptides and proteins in a total amount of at least 8 g on a dry weight basis per serving of drink; aqueous liquid in an amount of from 70 ml to 400 ml per serving, and fenugreek fibre in an amount in the range of from 1 g to 15 g. |
| US10179156B2 |
Medicament containing taraxacum plant root extract for treatment or prevention of cancer, and method for preparing same
The present invention relates to an improved method for preparing a medicament comprising a Taraxacum plant root extract for the treatment or prevention of a cancer. In one aspect, the method comprises freezing Taraxacum plant root to obtain a frozen root stock, said freezing step being selected to effect at least partial disruption of one or more root cells; dry grinding the frozen root stock to obtain a ground root powder, wherein during said dry grinding step the frozen root stock is maintained at a grinding temperature below about 40° C.; steeping the ground root powder with a solvent to obtain a suspension having a liquid extract portion and a solid particle portion; and separating the liquid extract portion from the solid particle portion to provide a separated liquid extract for use in the medicament. |
| US10179155B2 |
Phosphodiesterase-4 inhibiting phytochemical compositions
Phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4) inhibiting compositions comprising a Sceletium and an activity enhancer are disclosed and described. Methods and systems for inhibiting PDE4, as well as, dosage forms comprising a Sceletium extract and an activity enhancer are also disclosed. Additionally disclosed are methods for enhancing the potency or PDE4 inhibitory activity of a Sceletium extract by addition of an activity enhancer. |
| US10179153B2 |
Probiotic and prebiotic compositions
The invention relates to products and compositions that may be beneficial in animal husbandry. Said products and compositions comprise microorganisms, such as bacteria, and probiotic bacteria in particular. Thus, provided herein are microbial strains, as well as selection criteria which will enable the skilled reader to find further strains useful in the present invention. The strains, as well as compositions comprising the same, may be administered to animals, farmed animals such as swine in particular. The administration may occur in the first days of life. By administration of the products or compositions of the inventions animal growth can. be promoted and animal weight can be increased. Infections may also be prevented or treated by said compounds or compositions. |
| US10179151B2 |
Methods of transdifferentiation and methods of use thereof
Disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing a population of human insulin producing cells from non-pancreatic β-cells, wherein the resulting insulin producing cells have increased insulin content, or increased glucose regulated secretion of insulin, or a combination of both. |
| US10179149B2 |
Methods and systems for processing exosomes
Methods and systems of processing exosomes from a biologic sample, including providing a biological sample having a mixed population of exosomes, wherein the mixed population of exosomes includes two or more distinct subpopulations of exosomes; processing the biological sample to selectively remove one or more exosome subpopulations from the mixed population of exosomes thereby obtaining a sample enriched with a desired subpopulation of exosomes; and adding the enriched sample of exosomes to a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| US10179148B2 |
Keratolytic composition with anti-allergic anti-inflammatory properties
A product with an enhanced medicinal and cosmetic composition with a specific utility of “Psoriasis, Eczema and like skin disorders application” is characterized by the fact that it comprises active agents and ingredients as vanilla extract, ammonium chloride, potassium chloride and quaternary ammonium compound having formulated at a specific pH value with other specially selected adjuvants and fillers. |
| US10179147B2 |
Applications of partially and fully sulfated hyaluronan
Described herein is the use of partially and fully sulfated hyaluronan or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof for therapeutic and cosmetic applications as well as the treatment of a number of systemic, dermatological, periodontal, ophthalmic, and urological inflammatory diseases. |
| US10179145B2 |
Advanced functional biocompatible polymeric matrix used as a hemostatic agent and system for damaged tissues and cells
A hemostatic tissue sealant sponge and a spray for acute wounds are disclosed. The sponge comprises hydrophobically modified polymers that anchor themselves within the membrane of cells in the vicinity of the wound. The seal is strong enough to substantially prevent the loss of blood inside the boundaries of the sponge, yet weak enough to substantially prevent damage to newly formed tissue upon recovery and subsequent removal of the sponge. In examples, the polymers inherently prevent microbial infections and are suitable for oxygen transfer required during normal wound metabolism. The spray comprises hydrophobically modified polymers that form solid gel networks with blood cells to create a physical clotting mechanism to prevent loss of blood. In an example, the spray further comprises at least one reagent that increases the mechanical integrity of the clot. In another example, the reagent prevents microbial infection of the wound. |
| US10179143B2 |
Anti-viral azide containing compounds
Methods of using azide-modified biomolecules, such as fatty acids, carbohydrates and lipids, to treat a plant, an insect or an animal infected with a virus or to inhibit infectivity of a virus, such as the human immunodeficiency virus, are provided. Also provided are methods of labeling a virus, such as human immunodeficiency virus, with an azide-modified biomolecule, such as a fatty acid, a carbohydrate, or an isoprenoid lipid. Also, provided are methods of tracking a virus in vivo, with an azide-modified biomolecule, such as a fatty acid, a carbohydrate, or an isoprenoid lipid. The azide-modified biomolecules may be combined with a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient to produce a pharmaceutical composition, optionally containing another anti-viral agent and/or a delivery agent, such as a liposome. |
| US10179142B2 |
Treatment and/or prevention of bone metastasis
T-lymphocyte invasion and metastases (Tiam-1) has been identified as a marker and anti-cancer drug target for therapy of metastatic bone cancer in individuals afflicted with prostate cancer. The present disclosure provides methods and compounds for inhibiting metastases by disrupting Tiam-1 expression and activity. One particularly preferred compound comprises a disulfomanide of the formula. |
| US10179140B2 |
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising active drugs, contraceptive kits comprising active drugs, and methods of administering the same
A pharmaceutical composition comprising an active contraceptive drug and one or more pharmaceutically-acceptable excipients. The pharmaceutical composition, when subjected to an in vitro dissolution test according to the USP XXIII Paddle Method, results in no more than 50% of said active drug initially present being dissolved within 30 minutes, and at least 50% of the active drug being dissolved in a time range from about 3 hours to about 4 hours. The pharmaceutical composition is administered daily to a patient having a BMI of about 25 kg/m2 or more for at least a portion of a treatment cycle. The pharmaceutical composition does not cause a number of days of bleeding events in the patient exceeding an average of 15% per treatment cycle in consecutive treatment cycles of administration after an initial treatment cycle of administration. |
| US10179137B2 |
Topical formulations comprising a steroid
The application provides formulations for the topical administration of an active agent comprising at least one steroid, in the form of topical sprays that are propellant-free, and/or substantially non-foaming, and/or alcohol-free. The present application also provides processes for preparing such compositions and methods of using them in management of skin diseases or disorders such as psoriasis, dermatoses, and other associated skin diseases or disorders. |
| US10179136B2 |
Pharmaceutical compositions and methods for anesthesiological applications
Pharmaceutical compositions and methods for inducing conscious sedation using such compositions are described, the compositions including a benzodiazepine-based compound, a NMDA antagonist, and optionally a β-blocker, antiemetic, an NSAID, and/or an antihistamine medication. Methods for fabricating the compositions and using them for anesthesiological applications are also described. |
| US10179135B2 |
Apilimod compositions and methods for using same
The present invention relates to methods for treating cancer with apilimod and related compositions and methods. |
| US10179134B2 |
Polymeric nanoparticles in a thermosensitive gel for coital-independent vaginal prophylaxis of HIV
An antiretroviral composition that gels upon heating and can be administered prophylactically prior to exposure to a retrovirus following sexual intercourse, and methods of using the same. |
| US10179126B2 |
2,4-thiazolidinedione derivatives in the treatment of central nervous system disorders
The present invention provides 5-(4-(2-(5-(1-hydroxyethyl)pyridine-2-yl)ethoxy)benzyl)thiazolidine-2,4-dione and novel stereoisomers of said compound for use in the treatment of central nervous system (NS) disorders. |
| US10179125B2 |
Substituted pyridines as bromodomain inhibitors
The disclosure relates to substituted pyridines, which are useful for inhibition of BET protein function by binding to bromodomains, and their use in therapy. |
| US10179111B2 |
Treating soft tissue via controlled drug release
Methods for inhibiting tissue ossification or calcification in a subject, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of BMP I inhibitor-loaded microparticles to a subject in need thereof, wherein the administration provides local and sustained release of the BMP I inhibitor thereby inhibiting tissue ossification or calcification. |
| US10179108B2 |
Compositions for treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Therapeutic compositions and methods for treatment of attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other CNS stimulant responsive conditions include dosage forms that deliver a therapeutic amount of active drug in a delayed and controlled release formulation. The dosage form can be administered at night and drug release is delayed for from 5 to 8 hours or longer, followed by an extended release. |
| US10179107B2 |
Tablet containing dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)
The present invention relates to a tablet having a weight of 30-200 mg and consisting of: 60-100 wt. % of granules consisting of: 50-90% by weight of the granules of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA); 6-35% by weight of the granules of microcrystalline cellulose; 0-20% by weight of the granules of one or more other pharmaceutically acceptable granule ingredients; and 0-40 wt. % of one or more other pharmaceutically acceptable tablet components. These tablets can suitably be used to orally administer DHEA in dosages of around 50 mg and are sufficiently small to be incorporated in, for instance, ordinary oral contraceptive blister packs. |
| US10179098B2 |
Oral care compositions
An oral care composition comprising zinc phosphate, stannous fluoride, arginine or lysine and an organic acid buffer system, as well as methods of using the same. |
| US10179092B2 |
Stand for supporting a baby bottle and a method thereof
A bottle stand includes a bottle holder and at least one posably flexible leg having a proximal end attached to the bottle holder and a distal end resting on a surface, the leg comprising a first member and a second member telescopically coupled to the first member. |
| US10179089B2 |
Patient electrical treatment system
A kit for discharging electrons from a mammal such as human comprise at least two electrically conductive acupuncture needles. The needles are adapted for creating an electrical connection with subcutaneous tissue of the mammal. There is an electrically conductive pad with electrically conductive pad wires, one for each needle for connection to the respective needle to the pad. Electrically conductive grounding wire is provided for electrically grounding the pad. Helical wires for placement around the acupuncture needles can be used to enhance electrically conductivity. The kit is designed, when assembled and used to treat a mammal, for withdrawing excess electrons from the mammals for improved health. |
| US10179088B2 |
Rotating control panel
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for implementing a rotating control panel. Systems include an enclosed space of a sauna comprising a plurality of walls, an opening in at least one of the plurality of walls, and a control panel configured to be coupled with at least one heating element. The control panel includes an axis of rotation and a plurality of controls. Systems also include a rotating mount coupled with the control panel at the axis of rotation to enable the control panel to rotate at least 180 degrees within the opening of the a wall of the enclosed space of the sauna without disconnecting the at least one electrical connector. Systems include an insulating seal coupled with the control panel and configured to contact the opening when the control panel is coplanar with the wall while allowing the control panel to rotate freely within the opening. |
| US10179087B2 |
Support structure for administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation
The present invention relates generally to a support structure for fixating a patient to a treatment unit, and especially to a support structure for fixating the patient to a cardiopulmonary resuscitation unit. An embodiment of the support structure includes a back plate for positioning behind the patient's back posterior to the patient's heart and a front part for positioning around the patient's chest anterior to the patient's heart. Further, the front part can include two legs, each leg having a first end pivotably connected to at least one hinge and a second end removably attachable to the back plate. The front part can further be devised for including a compression/decompression unit arranged to automatically compress or decompress the patient's chest when the front part is attached to the back plate. |
| US10179082B2 |
Compressive therapeutic device
A device for compressing an extremity of a user includes a wearable support member operable to be worn on the extremity of the user. The device also includes a plurality of chamber members that are arranged across and coupled to the support member. The chamber members each have a respective chamber therein. The chamber is at least partially defined by a base wall that is disposed adjacent the support member, a side wall that is attached to and that extends away from the base wall, and a top wall that is attached to the side wall and that is spaced away from the base wall. Furthermore, a foot pump member is operable to be disposed underneath a foot of the user. The foot pump member is operable to change a pressure inside the chambers as a result of being stepped upon by the user. |
| US10179081B2 |
Vision measurement and training system and method of operation thereof
One aspect of the disclosure provides a binocular viewing system. In one embodiment, the binocular viewing system includes a binocular viewer and a computer. The binocular viewer has left and right display screens and a variable focal depth optical subsystem located in an optical path between and separate from the display screens and a user when the user uses the binocular viewer. The computer is configured to provide control signals to the binocular viewer. The control signals are operable to place images on the left and right display screens and vary a focal depth of the variable focal depth optical subsystem. The images include a plurality of objects controlled by the variable focal depth optical subsystem to make at least one of the plurality of objects appear closer to the user and at least one of another of said plurality of objects appear farther away from the user. |
| US10179078B2 |
Therapeutic method and device for rehabilitation
The invention relates to embodiments of methods for extending a subject-controllable range of joint motion, and for increasing subject control of joint movement within a range of motion. Embodiments include fastening a powered device around a joint so as to be able to control the joint, allowing the subject to move the joint within a range of volitional motion, and then engaging the powered device to support movement of the joint into an expanded, rehabilitative range. In some embodiments, the device supports joint movement by substantially providing the force to move the joint beyond the volitional boundary. In other embodiments, supporting movement includes the subject substantially providing the force, and the device allowing movement only in a desired direction. The invention further relates to a system for increasing the functional capability of a joint by implementing embodiments of the method. By such methods and system, rehabilitation is accomplished both by building strength, and training neural pathways. |
| US10179073B2 |
Wound treatment apparatuses
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed relating to the creation and use of bespoke wound fillers and other wound treatment apparatuses. Some embodiments provide for the creation of bespoke wound fillers based on characteristics of a wound. Certain embodiments also include the use of bespoke wound fillers in combination with negative pressure to treat a wound. |
| US10179069B2 |
Device and method for producing control data for the surgical correction of defective eye vision
A device for producing control data for a laser device for the surgical correction of defective vision. The device produces the control data such that the laser emits the laser radiation such that a volume in the cornea is isolated. The device calculates a radius of curvature RCV* to determine the control data, the cornea reduced by the volume having the radius of curvature RCV* and the radius of curvature being site-specific and satisfying the following equation: RCV*(r,φ)=1/((1/RCV(r,φ))+BCOR(r,φ)/(nc−1))+F, wherein RCV(r,φ) is the local radius of curvature of the cornea before the volume is removed, nc is the refractive index of the material of the cornea, F is a coefficient, and BCOR(r,φ) is the local change in refractive force required for the desired correction of defective vision in a plane lying in the vertex of the cornea, and at least two radii r1 and r2 satisfy the equation BCOR(r=r1,φ)≠BCOR(r=r2,φ). |
| US10179068B2 |
Surgical hand piece with rotatable dual lumen work tip
A surgical hand piece has a connecting body having first and second passages detachably connected to first and second lumens which are used in the eye for phacoemulsification procedures and/or cleanup of the eye capsule after the procedure. The lumens receive or discharge fluid from first and second fluid sources. A work tip supporting the first and second tubes can be rotated so as to change the function of the first and second tubes from aspiration to irrigation and vice versa. As an alternative, a sleeve holding the fluid sources can be rotated so as to change the function of the first and second tubes from aspiration to irrigation and vice versa. |
| US10179067B2 |
Adjustable loop fiber optic illumination device for surgery
The present disclosure provides an adjustable endoscopic surgical device for illuminating a tissue surface with diffuse and oblique light. In some embodiments, light emanates from the sides of an optical fiber, which is optionally formed at least in part into a loop shape. |
| US10179065B2 |
Implantable devices for thermal therapy and related methods
Methods and devices are disclosed herein that generally involve applying thermal therapy to tissue (e.g., localized cooling or heating of tissue), and in particular applying thermal therapy to the spinal canal, tissue disposed within the spinal canal, and/or nerve roots extending from the spinal canal. In some embodiments, tissue can be cooled or heated by implanting a malleable or deformable thermal device in proximity to the targeted tissue. The thermal device can be left in place following surgery to facilitate application of post-surgical thermal therapy. In some embodiments, the thermal device can be removed post-surgery in a minimally- or non-invasive manner. The thermal device can be connectionless or can include penetrable regions, pre-attached tubing, or detachable connectors to facilitate application of cooling or heating means to the device. Methods are disclosed for utilizing thermal devices and for carrying out various treatment regimens that involve cooling or heating tissue using such devices. |
| US10179062B2 |
Medical devices and methods for protecting a limb of a patient during a medical procedure
Medical devices and methods are presented for protecting a limb, e.g., an arm, of a patient during a medical procedure. The medical devices and methods utilize a plurality of longitudinal sealed fluid pockets to thermally insulate and cushion an extremity of a limb. The plurality of longitudinal sealed fluid pockets is incorporated in a protective body that is shaped to wrap around the extremity when the medical device is deployed. The protective body has at least one access opening to provide access through the protective body to one or more corresponding portions of the extremity. Access panels may be formed into the protective body to allow portions of the extremity to be covered or uncovered and used with left or right limbs. Other devices and methods are presented. |
| US10179056B2 |
Transfemoral prosthetic socket with a textile-based cover and intra-frame force applicators
An intra-frame positioning sling may be disposed internally within a prosthetic socket frame. The sling may include one or more proximal suspension portions adapted to suspend from a proximal aspect of the frame and a tensioning system. The sling may include a first longitudinal side with one or more proximal suspension portions and an opposite longitudinal side that includes the residual limb interfacing or force application portion of the sling. When the tensioning system is tensioned, the sling is pulled toward the first longitudinal side of the prosthetic socket frame. A set of two positioning slings may be rigged in a transfemoral prosthetic socket frame; one sling applies force on a medial side of a hosted residual limb, and the other sling applies force on the lateral side. |
| US10179049B2 |
Trans-catheter ventricular reconstruction structures, methods, and systems for treatment of congestive heart failure and other conditions
Embodiments described herein include devices, systems, and methods for reducing the distance between two locations in tissue. In one embodiment, an anchor may reside within the right ventricle in engagement with the septum. A tension member may extend from that anchor through the septum and an exterior wall of the left ventricle to a second anchor disposed along a surface of the heart. Perforating the exterior wall and the septum from an epicardial approach can provide control over the reshaping of the ventricular chamber. Guiding deployment of the implant from along the epicardial access path and another access path into and through the right ventricle provides control over the movement of the anchor within the ventricle. The joined epicardial pathway and right atrial pathway allows the tension member to be advanced into the heart through the right atrium and pulled into engagement along the epicardial access path. |
| US10179042B2 |
Heart valve repair and replacement
A prosthetic heart valve having an inflow end and an outflow end includes a collapsible and expandable stent having a plurality of commissure features, a plurality of first struts and a plurality of second struts. The plurality of first struts define a substantially cylindrical portion and the plurality of second struts have first ends attached to the cylindrical portion and free ends projecting radially outward from the cylindrical portion and configured to couple to adjacent heart tissue to anchor the stent. A collapsible and expandable valve assembly disposed within the stent has a plurality of leaflets coupled to the commissure features. |
| US10179037B2 |
Reciprocally rotatable brush head
A brush head for performing reciprocating rotation comprises a driving wheel and a housing on which a top hole and/or a central through hole are/is distributed in a centering manner. The center line(s) of the holes and a rotation axis (L1) of a driving shaft are located at a same line, and the driving shaft penetrates through the central through hole. The fitted region of the driving shaft and the driving wheel enters the through holes distributed on the driving wheel to link the driving shaft and the driving wheel fixedly. A driven part matching a driving part is distributed on a protrusion of the brush disc on which a hollow region is formed. The driving shaft penetrates through or enters the hollow region and limits the brush disc to move. The brush disc is incapable of performing reciprocating rotation when the driving shaft is not installed or is damaged. |
| US10179030B2 |
Method and system for patient-specific modeling of blood flow
Embodiments include a system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system configured to receive patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's heart, and create a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of the patient's heart based on the patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may be further configured to create a physics-based model relating to a blood flow characteristic of the patient's heart and determine a fractional flow reserve within the patient's heart based on the three-dimensional model and the physics-based model. |
| US10179028B2 |
Methods for treating patients via renal neuromodulation
A method and apparatus for treatment of heart failure, hypertension and renal failure by stimulating the renal nerve. The goal of therapy is to reduce sympathetic activity of the renal nerve. Therapy is accomplished by at least partially blocking the nerve with drug infusion or electrostimulation. Apparatus can be permanently implanted or catheter based. |
| US10179025B2 |
Electrode assembly
An electrode assembly (17) is provided for use in a resectoscope, the electrode assembly (17) comprising an elongate shaft (33), at least one arm (33), first connection means (4) for connecting the arm to a source (1) of electrosurgical energy, and a tissue treatment element (26) at the end of the arm. The arm includes a suction lumen (34) extending from a proximal end to a distal end, the distal end of the suction lumen (34) terminating in the general region of the tissue treatment element (26), and the proximal end of the suction lumen including second connection means for connecting the suction lumen to a source of suction. |
| US10179024B2 |
Robotic devices and systems for performing single incision procedures and natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgical procedures, and methods of configuring robotic devices and systems
Example embodiments relate to surgical systems comprising an end-effector assembly and arm assembly. The end-effector assembly may include a first instrument assembly having a first instrument and first instrument driven portion configurable to be driven to move the first instrument relative to a first axis. The arm assembly may include first and second arm assembly bodies, first arm assembly joint portion for joining the first and second arm assembly bodies, first instrument drive assembly, and first arm assembly drive assembly. The first instrument drive assembly may include a first integrated motor and first instrument drive portion controllable by the first integrated motor to drive the first instrument driven portion. The first arm assembly drive assembly may include a second integrated motor and first arm assembly drive portion controllable by the second integrated motor to drive the first arm assembly body to move relative to the second arm assembly body. |
| US10179023B2 |
Shaped electrode bipolar resection apparatus, system and methods of use
An electrosurgical instrument is provided and includes a housing configured to connect to a source of bipolar electrosurgical energy and an electrode body coupled to the elongated housing. The electrode body includes an electrode face, first and second bipolar electrodes and a blade. The electrode face is formed on the distal end of the electrode body and includes a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis therethrough. The first and second electrodes have a leading edge and a trailing edge, are formed on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis and connect to opposed electrical potentials. The blade is positioned between the electrodes with at least a portion of the blade extending beyond the electrode face. |
| US10179020B2 |
Devices, systems and methods for evaluation and feedback of neuromodulation treatment
The present disclosure relates to devices, systems and methods for evaluating the success of a treatment applied to tissue in a patient, such as a radio frequency ablative treatment used to neuromodulate nerves associated with the renal artery. A system monitors parameters or values generated during the course of a treatment. Feedback provided to an operator is based on the monitored values and relates to an assessment of the likelihood that a completed treatment was technically successful. In other embodiments, parameters or values generated during the course of an incomplete treatment (such as due to high temperature or high impedance conditions) may be evaluated to provide additional instructions or feedback to an operator. |
| US10179019B2 |
Integrity testing method and apparatus for delivering vapor to the uterus
A method and system of providing therapy to a patient's uterus is provided, which can include any number of features. The method can include the steps of inserting a uterine device into the uterus and performing a uterine integrity test to determine that the uterus is intact and not perforated. If it is determined that the uterus is not perforated, a patency test can be performed to determine that the uterine device is not clogged or embedded in tissue. If the uterus is intact and the device is not clogged or embedded in tissue, the uterus can be treated with the uterine device, e.g., uterine ablation. Systems for performing these methods are also disclosed. |
| US10179018B2 |
Force feedback device and method for catheters
The present invention is directed to a method of ablation. The method includes the steps of inserting a probe having an ablation electrode into a body of a living subject and urging the ablation electrode into a contacting relationship with a target tissue. A measurement of at least one electroanatomic parameter is made between the ablation electrode and the target tissue, and the measurement is haptically communicated to an operator. Responsively to the communicated measurement, ablating the target tissue using the ablation electrode. |
| US10179014B1 |
Systems and methods for promoting sacroiliac joint fusion
Embodiments are directed to fusion implants, insertion instruments, and methods of using the same for implanting one or more fusion implants across a sacroiliac joint and into an ilium and sacrum for fusing the sacroiliac joint. In some cases, fusion-promoting material may be inserted in the fusion implant for further promoting fusion across the sacroiliac joint. In some cases, neurophysiologic monitoring may be performed as the fusion implants are placed across the sacroiliac joint. |
| US10179011B2 |
Sternal osteotomy guide and sternal fixation system
Systems and methods are described for a sternal osteotomy guide and sternal fixation system. |
| US10179010B2 |
Pivotal bone anchor with bottom-loaded shank and tool-deployable interference fit rod-engaging insert
A polyaxial bone screw assembly includes a threaded shank body having an integral upper portion receivable in an integral receiver, the receiver having an upper channel for receiving a longitudinal connecting member and a lower cavity cooperating with a lower opening. The receiver can have crimp tabs, but is devoid of spring tabs and collet-like flexible structures. A down-loadable compression insert (some with lock and release feature), a down-loadable friction fit split retaining ring and an up-loadable shank upper portion cooperate to provide for pop- or snap-on assembly of the shank with the receiver either prior to or after implantation of the shank into a vertebra. The shank and receiver once assembled cannot be disassembled. The receiver and insert include aligned tool receiving apertures for lock and release of the polyaxial mechanism. |
| US10179005B2 |
Medical knife
A medical knife that can be assembled with different blade spacings, provided with only one handle includes a pair of side walls on respective sides of the handle, at least in the forward portions of the handle the side walls being formed individually on different handle-constituting parts and a pair of blades separately mounted on the insides of these side walls; and the handle before being assembled to constitute a medical knife is configured such that the two handle-constituting parts forward of a connecting part can be spread apart and closed together, centered on the connecting part, and such that the spacing distance between the two side walls is adjustable. |
| US10179004B2 |
Method of amputating and morcellating a uterus
A method of amputating and morcellating a uterus (10) includes introducing a first tissue bag (1) into the abdomen of the patient, and placing the first tissue bag over the uterus. A laparoscopic surgical instrument (11) is introduced into the first tissue bag, and the uterus (10) is amputated using the laparoscopic surgical instrument. The first tissue bag (1) is closed around the amputated uterus, and the first tissue bag containing the amputated uterus is placed into a second tissue bag (20). A morcellating instrument is introduced into the second tissue bag (20) and the uterus is morcellated within the second tissue bag. Once the uterus (10) has been morcellated, the second tissue bag (20) containing the morcellated uterus is removed from the abdomen of the patient. |
| US10179001B2 |
Bone reduction forceps and plate holding forceps
A pair of forceps includes a first arm extending from a proximal end to a distal end and a second arm extending from a proximal end to a distal end, the second arm connected to the first arm at a pivot point in combination with a first leaf spring coupled to an inner surface of the first arm at a first attachment point and curved toward the second arm and a switch coupled to an inner surface of the second arm and having a switch opening extending therethrough receiving the first leaf spring to form a ratchet mechanism maintaining a desired position of as the first and second arms relative to one another as they are radially compressed to a grasping configuration. |
| US10178999B2 |
Energy treatment unit, energy treatment instrument and energy treatment system
A liquid feed conduit and a suction conduit extends in a hollow portion from a probe proximal portion direction to a probe distal portion direction in an inside of a probe, and an ejection port of the liquid feed conduit and a suction port of the suction conduit are located in the hollow portion. A collision surface is provided in the probe to be opposed to at least a part of the ejection port, and the collision surface is located on the probe distal portion direction side with respect to the suction port and the ejection port. At least part of a liquid ejected from the ejection port collides with the collision surface in the hollow portion. |
| US10178994B2 |
Surgical stapling apparatus with reusable components
A surgical stapling apparatus includes a handle, an elongated body, a firing assembly, and a stapling assembly. The body extends from the handle and includes an engagement member rotatably supported on to a distal portion of the body. The engagement member defines an engagement slot and is axially movable about the body from a retracted position to an advanced position. The firing assembly includes a trigger, firing link, and pusher link. The pusher link is movably supported for distal translation through the body in response to actuation of the trigger. The stapling assembly houses a plurality of surgical staples and includes an outer shell having an engagement tab. The engagement member is rotatable relative to the body and the stapling assembly to releasably position the engagement tab within the engagement slot, thereby securing the stapling assembly at the distal end of the body. |
| US10178992B2 |
Push/pull articulation drive systems for articulatable surgical instruments
A surgical stapling instrument comprising an elongate shaft assembly that that defines a shaft axis and includes a surgical end effector that is operably coupled thereto by an articulation joint. The surgical instrument further includes a rotary articulation member that is supported for rotation travel about a rotary axis that is transverse to the shaft axis. A first distal articulation driver assembly and a second distal articulation driver assembly operably interface with the surgical end effector and the rotary articulation member such that rotation of the rotary articulation member causes the first and second distal articulation drivers to articulate the surgical end effector relative to the shaft axis. |
| US10178989B2 |
Surgical suture system, tissue restraints, and tissue anchors
A surgical suture system, tissue restraint/suture capture and tissue anchor for tissue repair and reattachment of torn tissue to a tissue substrate, medical, veterinary or dental prosthesis or medical implant. The system includes a plurality of tissue restraints/suture captures which each include a central locking aperture sized and configured to receive a beaded suture member passed therethrough which minimizes longitudinal tensioning and/or restraining movement, the “GO” force, of a beaded suture member in the forwardly direction through the locking apertures for suture tightening and which maximizes “NO-GO” force to pull the suture in the reverse direction. Uniquely configured tissue anchors and other medically implantable devices securely receive one of the tissue restraints/suture captures for tensioning of a suture member between tissue and the tissue anchor. |
| US10178987B2 |
Retractor
A retractor assembly includes a base; a first side arm assembly coupled to a first side of the base and configured to translate relative to the base along a first direction; a second side arm assembly coupled to a second side of the base and configured to translate relative to the base along the first direction independent from the first side arm assembly; and a central arm assembly coupled to a center portion of the base and configured to translate relative to the base along a second direction different from the first direction. |
| US10178986B2 |
Ultrasonic matrix array probe with thermally dissipating cable and backing block heat exchange
A matrix array probe including a transducer array and integrated circuitry coupled to the transducer elements dissipates heat generated by the array and integrated circuitry through the cover of the transducer probe. A pump in the probe connector pumps fluid through a closed loop system including inbound an outbound fluid conduits in the cable. The fluid conduits in the cable are separated by the cable electrical conductors for the probe. The heat transfer in the probe is done by a heat exchanger in the transducer backing block. Additional cooling may be provided by metal to metal contact with a chiller in the ultrasound system. |
| US10178984B2 |
Needle guidance systems for use with ultrasound devices
Ultrasound devices and guidance systems for ultrasound devices for subdermal devices (e.g., needles) used in conjunction with the ultrasound devices are described. The guidance systems can includes features for easy release of a device from the system following targeting to a subdermal site. A guidance system can be ambidextrous such that a needle can be released by use of either the left or right hand and by use of either a thumb or a finger of an operator. Embodiments that include guidance tracks and slidable guidance cartridges that grasp the hub of a subdermal device are also described. |
| US10178983B2 |
Transmitting signals in a medical imaging system
Apparatuses and a method are provided for transmitting signals in a medical imaging system. The method includes transmitting signals wirelessly between at least one receive facility and a facility of the imaging system via a radio network. |
| US10178981B2 |
Anatomical imaging system with centipede scanning drive, bottom notch to accommodate base of patient support, and motorized drive for transporting the system between scanning locations
An imaging system including a scanner for scanning an object and creating an image of the same; and a transport mechanism mounted to the scanner for moving the scanner, wherein the transport mechanism includes a gross movement mechanism for transporting the scanner between scanning locations; and a fine movement mechanism for moving the scanner precisely, relative to the object being scanned, during scanning of the object; wherein the gross movement mechanism comprises at least one motorized wheel. |
| US10178978B2 |
Mobile fluoroscopic imaging system
Disclosed herein is a mobile fluoroscopic imaging system, and methods of use. A table top imaging system can include a support, an x-ray source carried by the support, an x-ray detector carried by the support and positionable at a distance from the source; a primary x-ray propagation axis extending between the source and the detector. The distance between the source and the detector can be adjustable along the axis, and the axis can be angularly adjustable throughout an angular range. |
| US10178977B2 |
X-ray diagnostic apparatus and image processing apparatus
According to an embodiment, a grid is provided between an X-ray generator and a flat panel detector. Processing circuitry configured to convert original image based on X-rays having passed through the grid and detected into a plurality of pieces of frequency band data, remove interference fringes contained in at least one piece of frequency band data among the pieces of frequency band data, reduce noise contained in the pieces of frequency band data, correct a scattered radiation of the original image based on a scattered radiation contained in the X-rays having passed through the grid and a scattered radiation contained in X-rays having passed through a grid that removes scattered radiation to a larger extent than the grid, and synthesize a plurality of pieces of frequency band data to generate image. |
| US10178976B2 |
Method and apparatus for temperature control in a PET detector
The present disclosure relates to a PET detector module suitable for using in a PET/MR hybrid system. The PET detector module comprises a scintillator, a set of frontend electronics and a positioning means configured to securing relative position between the scintillator and the frontend electronics. The PET detector module may further comprise a temperature control system, such as an air-cooling system or a heat exchange plate. The present disclosure also relates to a heat exchange plate, which comprises a fluidic passage for containing a flow of a heat exchange media. The heat exchange plate is suitable for use in the magnetic field environment of a MRI system. |
| US10178974B2 |
Method and system for monitoring continuous biomedical signal
A method and system for monitoring a biomedical signal employ a sensor module configured to output a continuous electrical signal by sensing the biomedical signal, a memory configured to store reference data, a transmitter configured to transmit output data via a wireless channel, and a data processing unit configured to determine whether to transmit input data via the transmitter as the output data, based on the input data, which is generated from the continuous electrical signal, and the reference data. |
| US10178973B2 |
Wearable heart rate monitor
A biometric monitoring device is used to determine a user's heart rate by using a heartbeat waveform sensor and a motion detecting sensor. In some embodiments, the device collects output data from the heartbeat waveform sensor and output data from the motion detecting sensor, determines an expected heart rate range from the output data from the motion detecting sensor, and determines the user's heart rate within the expected heart rate range using the output data from the heartbeat waveform sensor. |
| US10178971B2 |
Acquiring cervical images
The invention provides a system (100) for acquiring cervical images which comprises an image acquisition subsystem (120) for acquiring cervical images (122) of a cervical region of a patient during a colposcopy procedure, and a display subsystem (160) for displaying the cervical images on a display (060) by providing image data (162) of the cervical images to the display. According to the invention, the image acquisition subsystem (120) is arranged for, when operating in an interval mode, acquiring the cervical images (122) at predetermined time intervals to obtain a time-series of cervical images showing changes in the cervical region over time, and reporting a progress of said acquiring to the display subsystem. Moreover, the display subsystem (160) is arranged for establishing a progress indicator (400-416) on the display by generating indicator data (164) and providing the indicator data to the display (060), the progress indicator providing visual feedback on the progress of said acquiring to a user. Accordingly, the user is provided with visual feedback on a status of the acquiring of the cervical images. In particular, the progress indicator avoids that the user experiences a loss of control or confusion. |
| US10178969B2 |
Stress detection method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and configurations for an apparatus for stress event detection. In some embodiments, the apparatus may be a wearable device and may include at least one first sensor disposed on the wearable apparatus to generate a first sensor signal indicative of a brain activity of a user, at least one second sensor disposed on the wearable apparatus to generate a second sensor signal indicative of a heart rate of the user, and at least one third sensor disposed on the wearable apparatus to generate a third sensor signal indicative of a respiration rate of the user. The apparatus may further include a controller coupled with the at least first, second, and third sensors, to detect a stress event for the user, based at least in part on the first, second, and third sensor signals. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US10178968B2 |
Tissue retractor oximeter
A retractor has an oximeter sensor at its tip, which allows measuring of oxygen saturation of a tissue being retracted by the retractor. The tip includes one or more openings for at least one source and detector. A specific implementation is a spinal nerve root retractor with an oximeter sensor. |
| US10178967B2 |
Dynamic optical tomographic imaging devices methods and systems
The disclosed subject matter includes optical tomographic systems for acquiring and displaying dynamic data representing changes in a target tissue sample to external provocation. For example, the disclosed devices, methods and systems may be used for quantifying dynamic vascular changes caused by imposed blood pressure changes for diagnosing peripheral artery disease. |
| US10178964B2 |
Heart monitoring system
A device that includes a sensor of angular motion configured to obtain an angular ballistograph signal indicative of rotational movement of a chest of a subject. Signal processing means are configured to generate from this angular ballistocardiograph signal measured values of an output parameter, which is indicative of cardiac operation of the subject. |
| US10178962B2 |
Method and apparatus for producing a waveform
There is provided herein a method for producing a representative CO2 waveform, the method comprising obtaining two or more CO2 waveforms, for each of the two or more CO2 waveforms determining one or more scale factors and one or more shape factors, computing, based on the one or more shape and scale factors of each of the two or more CO2 waveforms, a representative set of shape factors and scale factors representing the two or more CO2 waveforms and constructing a representative waveform based on the representative set of shape and scale factors. |
| US10178960B2 |
Printed electrode catheter
An elongate medical device may comprise an elongate tubular body, an electrode, and a trace. The elongate tubular body may comprise a distal end portion and a proximal end portion, the body defining a longitudinal axis. The electrode may comprise electrically-conductive ink extending circumferentially about a portion of the distal end portion. The trace may comprise electrically-conductive ink, electrically coupled with the electrode, extending proximally from the electrode. |
| US10178954B2 |
Analyte monitoring system and methods
Methods and systems for providing data communication in medical systems are disclosed. |
| US10178953B2 |
Set-top box for monitoring telehealth sensors
An architecture relating to a set-top box for monitoring telehealth and biometric sensors. A subject patient is associated with telehealth and biometric sensors which measure the subject patient's vital signs and other health related attributes. In one aspect, the system includes a set-top box for continuously gathering biometric and telehealth sensor data. The set-top box includes a sensor interface for interfacing with the sensors and supports wireless and wired connections to the sensors. The system additionally may include a system management station for providing feedback to the subject patient. |
| US10178952B2 |
Bi-hemispheric brain wave system and method of performing bi-hemispherical brain wave measurements
A system (100) for bi-hemispheric brain wave measurements including a first device (102) and a second device (103), wherein at least said first device (102) is adapted to be worn in or at a first ear of a person subject to the measurements and wherein the first (102) and second (103) device exchange data using a wireless link (104). The invention also provides a method for measuring a bi-hemispherical brain wave signal. |
| US10178951B2 |
Laser scanning system and method
A laser scanning system adapted to produce a scanned image including a number of lines of an object. A method includes the steps of providing a reference object arranged such that the scanned image produced by the laser scanning system includes a reference image of the reference object, processing the reference image to calculate an error arising from non-repeatable displacement of the lines of the reference image, and adjusting at least one operating parameter of the laser scanning system in response to the calculated error. |
| US10178948B2 |
Self operatable ophthalmic device
The invention provides a system for a patient to obtain quality eye tests results without other people's assistance. The system includes a wearable, head-mounted, ophthalmic device. With a head mounted structure, the patient's head position remains still relative to the ophthalmic device. One or more “iris” cameras and a display screen are used to help align the patient's eye on ocular lenses for optimal eye test results. The system includes a patient interface module that allows the patient to operate the device. Accessory features such as a microphone and earphones are used to communicate with a close by stander during and after the eye exam. Another key feature is a cloud service connection used to store test results for remote access by the patient or other authorized persons. |
| US10178942B2 |
Fluid management systems and methods
Systems, devices, and methods for fluid management in an endoscopic procedure are disclosed. In one embodiment, a fluid management device may comprise a pair of electrodes and a controller connected to the pair of electrodes. In at least some embodiments, the controller may be configured to receive signals from the pair of electrodes and determine whether a fluid in a fluid reservoir is an ionic fluid or a non-ionic fluid based on signals received from the pair of electrodes. In at least some additional embodiments, the controller may be further configured to automatically set a fluid deficit alarm threshold based on the determination of whether the fluid in the fluid reservoir is an ionic fluid or a non-ionic fluid. |
| US10178941B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording device
An image processing apparatus includes an abnormal candidate region detection unit configured to detect an abnormal candidate region, as a candidate for an abnormal portion, from an intraluminal image obtained by capturing an image of an inside of a lumen of a subject, a tubular region detection unit configured to detect a tubular region from the intraluminal image, a connectivity determination unit configured to determine whether the abnormal candidate region and the tubular region are connected in a region of a color similar to that of the tubular region, and an abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether the abnormal candidate region is the abnormal portion, based on results of determination by the connectivity determination unit. |
| US10178939B2 |
Filter with artificial boundary for a dishwashing machine
A liquid filtering system for a dishwasher, having a housing defining a filter chamber and configured to be fluidly coupled to a recirculation flow path of the dishwasher, a filter located within the filter chamber and having a first end axially spaced from a second end and defining a filter there between that has a first surface and a second surface, the filter being positioned within the recirculation flow path to filter soils from liquid flowing through the recirculation flow path as the liquid passes through the filter and a flow diverter to aid in cleaning the filter. |
| US10178934B2 |
Extraction with temporary suction interrupt
A method of cleaning a surface with an extractor having a fluid supply system and a fluid recovery system includes applying a cleaning fluid to a surface, applying suction to the surface to remove the applied cleaning fluid from surface, and selectively interrupting the suction to the surface for a selected time to increase dwell time of the cleaning fluid on the surface. |
| US10178933B2 |
Vacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner includes a cleaner main body and a brush-less direct current (BLDC) motor that generates a suction force. A suction unit is in communication with the cleaner main body and sucks air and dust, and a battery provides power for the motor. An inverter supplies power of the battery to the motor, and a controller controls an operation of the motor. The controller determines a status of a floor and controls an operation of the motor based on the determined status of the floor. |
| US10178932B2 |
Vacuum cleaner filter bag
The invention relates to a vacuum cleaner filter bag, including a first bag wall containing a filter material and a second bag wall containing a filter material. The first and the second bag walls are joined together along the periphery thereof such that the vacuum cleaner filter bag is completely closed. The filter material of the first and the second bag walls is made of a non-woven fabric. The vacuum cleaner filter bag includes an inlet through which the air which is to be filtered can flow into the vacuum cleaner filter bag, also including a retaining plate. The vacuum cleaner filter bag is characterized in that the first and/or the second bag wall includes at least five folds. |
| US10178930B2 |
Maneuverable cordless stick vacuum
A portable lightweight cordless vacuum cleaner that easily maneuverable includes a dirt bin that may be easily emptied and a pivoting handle apparatus. |
| US10178926B2 |
Device to produce milk-based drinks with safety mechanisms and coffee maker containing such a device
Provided is a milk-based drink production device with a connection system designed to work with a steam output nozzle tip of a coffee maker, where said connection system has a connected position, in which a watertight connection is formed between the steam output nozzle tip and the device, and a disconnected position, in which the device may be separated from the steam output nozzle tip, and the device contains a frothing system which shifts between an installed position on the device and a position removed from the device. The device contains extraction safety mechanisms which prevent the frothing system from moving from the installed position to the removed position when the connection system is in the connected position and/or connection safety mechanisms which prevent the connection system from moving from the disconnected position to the connected position when the frothing system is not in the installed position. |
| US10178920B2 |
Pillowcase changing device
A pillowcase changing device for facilitating the changing of pillowcases includes a pair of grabbers. Each grabber comprises a frame. A field is coupled to and extends between an inner perimeter of the frame. A plurality of tines and a handle are coupled to and extend from an outer perimeter of the frame. The handle is positioned on the frame such that the handle is configured to be grasped in a hand of a user. The pair of grabbers is configured to position singly adjacent to a top face and a bottom face of a pillow. The handles are positioned on the frames such that the handles are positioned to motivate the frames into a substantially closed configuration. The pillow is compressed between the pair of grabbers such that respective tines are interlockingly positioned. The pillow is insertable into and extractable from a pillowcase. |
| US10178915B1 |
Travel pillow with anchoring features
Travel pillows with anchor mechanisms are disclosed. The travel pillows can including anchor mechanisms with anchor mechanism bodies such as straps. The anchor mechanism bodies can be attached to the travel pillow body, such as to the rear of the travel pillow body, or alternatively can be detachable from the travel pillow body. The anchor mechanisms can also include loops through which the anchor mechanism bodies can pass before reattaching to themselves or attaching to another element such as a cover of the travel pillow body. The anchor mechanism bodies can be placed around a portion of a headrest, such as headrest wings, to prevent or make less likely a user's head and/or body falling forward inadvertently. |
| US10178914B2 |
Sleep assist device for seated persons
A sleep assist device for seated persons that when placed either on top of a seated person's lap, over a desk, on an airliner seat tray table or any equivalent base contiguous to said seated person provides him/her with an adequate raised support for his/hers head and also allows the seated person to embrace (to hug) a two-open-ends box-like structure 10 by positioning his/her arms and hands inside an open-throughout volumetric-space 12 preferably over-and-around a pair of inner panels 17-17 in a cozy and comfortable resting posture that, indeed, is conducive to relaxation and sleep. Meanwhile, a vertical panel 16 that is connected to the pair of inner panels 17-17 may contact said seated person's chest. The sleep assist device for seated persons when folded up for storage or to be carried is relatively small and lightweight, allowing a user to conveniently place it into: carry-on luggage, a ladies' handbag, a business briefcase or a suitcase. This sleep assist device for seated persons is likely to be readily accepted by a relatively large percentage of passengers traveling by airplane, buses, trains and in an automobile's rear seat, as well as persons wishing to nap at their workplace, at home, while waiting at a hospital or office, or during camping or at a beach outing and, furthermore, by ailing persons confined to nursing homes that need to be seated in wheelchairs or sofas during extended periods of time. In addition, said two-open-ends box-like structure 10 provides a novel, useful and unobvious medium to display advertisements, logos or the subject matter required on airlines passenger safety cards because its surfaces can be printed on utilizing any of the available methods employed by the packaging industry or, otherwise, may have labels affixed to them. |
| US10178913B2 |
Chassis of swivel chair
A gravity self-adapted chassis of chair has the first plug pin, second plug pin, third plug pin, forth plug pin, tilting plate, first connecting rod, and the second connecting rod of the chassis form into a four-point connecting rod mechanism so as to form the conduction of the force, the backrest is fixedly connected with the tilting plate to offer the driving force of the four-point connecting rod mechanism, the gravity applied onto the seat by the users forms into the reset force applied onto the four-point connecting rod mechanism through the third plug pin hinged with the bracket, and the driving force and the reset force of the four-point connecting rod mechanism form into the confrontation relationship. |
| US10178912B2 |
Seat arrangement
A seat includes a base frame, seat frame, and footrest, the seat frame retained on a sliding member and pivotable about a first axis. The sliding member is displaceably guided between first and second positions in a guiding profile. The footrest is articulated to the seat frame by a rod mechanism to be adjusted between a folded-in and folded-out position. A drive for displacing the sliding member and adjusting the footrest is provided between the base frame and rod mechanism. A dual-arm lever arm having a first end, second end, and central region is rotatably supported on the sliding member in the central region and is connected with the first end to the rod mechanism and the second end to the seat frame. Movement of the footrest between the folded-in and folded-out position causes a pivot movement of the seat frame about the first axis between basic and inclined positions. |
| US10178911B2 |
Safety apparatus for electrical equipment rack
A safety apparatus for an electrical equipment rack includes a retractable safety device for preventing, when in an operational position, the extending of an extendable rail and an electrical equipment unit mounted thereon from a position internal to the rack to a position external to the rack, and for allowing the same when in a non-operational position. The position of the retractable safety device is linked to the position of a retractable rack support such that when the retractable rack support is lowered in its operative position the retractable safety device is in a non-operational position, and when it is raised in a raised inoperative position the retractable safety device is in an operational position preventing the extending of the extendable rail and an electrical equipment unit mounted thereon to a position external to the rack. |
| US10178910B2 |
Drawer apparatus
A drawer apparatus capable of locking and unlocking a drawer without position control and motor stop control is provided. A lock frame is released from the hook to be brought into an operable state by unidirectional rotation of a DC motor in an engaged state. A drawer is released from an anchor to be advanced out of the retracted position when the lock frame operates. A planetary gear unit is pushed by the lock frame. A small-diameter planetary gear is thereby shifted from the engaged state to a default state. The anchor is engaged with the drawer when the advanced drawer is pushed back to the retracted position. The hook is engaged with a lock when the advanced drawer is pushed back to the retracted position. |
| US10178908B1 |
Storage rack
A hexagon storage rack includes a top wall, a bottom wall, two upper side walls, and two lower side walls. Each upper side wall is inclined and has a main wall portion and at least one protruding portion. Each lower side wall is inclined and has a main wall section and at least one engaging hole formed in the main wall section. The protruding portion has a head segment and a connecting segment having a cross-section which is smaller than that of the head segment. The engaging hole has an extension hole section having a minimum width which is larger than a maximum width of the cross-section of the head segment, and a positioning hole section having a minimum width which is smaller than the maximum width of the cross-section of the head segment. |
| US10178905B2 |
Packaging and application device
Applicator (3) for applying a cosmetic, makeup or care product (P) to the skin, the lips or the eyelashes and/or eyebrows, comprising: a stem (8), and an applicator member (10) located at one end of the stem (8) and comprising: a solid core (11) extending along a longitudinal axis (X), formed with one or more protuberances (13) and comprising one or more cavities (16), in particular through-cavities, and an envelope (14) located on the core (11), carrying applicator elements (12) and/or defining an application surface (15). |
| US10178903B2 |
Protective case for use with electronic device
A protective case includes an inner liner, a first aperture, a second aperture, and an outer shell. The inner liner is configured for receiving the electronic device and the first aperture is configured to permit access to the touchscreen interface of the electronic device. The second aperture is configured to permit optical access to the camera of the installed electronic device. The outer shell includes an attachment mechanism for attaching an accessory to the protective case. One of the attachment mechanism of the outer shell and the accessory includes a receiver configured to slidably receive a rail member of the other of the attachment mechanism of the outer shell and the accessory. The attachment mechanism of the outer shell may include a snap feature having an interference fit with a corresponding snap feature of the accessory to keep the accessory removably secured to the protective case. |
| US10178902B2 |
Protective enclosure for encasing an electronic device
A protective enclosure for an electronic device includes a top member adapted to be removably coupled to a bottom member to enclose the electronic device. A first back engagement feature is disposed on an inside surface of a perimeter wall portion of the bottom member, and the first back engagement feature is adapted to engage a first front engagement feature disposed on an inner perimeter wall of the top member to removably secure the top member to the bottom member. A second back engagement feature is disposed on an outside surface of the perimeter wall portion of the bottom member, and the second back engagement feature is adapted to engage a second front engagement feature disposed on an outer perimeter wall of the top member to further removably secure the top member to the bottom member. |
| US10178900B2 |
Jewelry clasp
A jewelry clasp is provided that operably locks in both an open and closed state to facilitate donning of an article of jewelry and for securing the jewelry to the wearer after being donned. The clasp comprises a clasp body having a first end with a hook portion and a clearance slot. Within the clasp body is a slidable clasp member that slides within the clasp body and operably blocks and opens the clearance slot of the hook portion. Within the clasp body is a first detent and a second detent that are aligned with the slide direction of the slidable member. The slidable member includes a protrusion that operably engages the first detent and second detent. The first detent locks the clasp in an open position. The second detent locks the clasp in a closed position. Embodiments of the detents and the protrusion are provided herein. |
| US10178899B2 |
Slider for slide fastener
There is provided a slider for a slide fastener. The slider includes a body, a pull tab, a shaft member, and a coil spring. The pull tab has a base portion, a gripper and a claw portion protruding from the base portion. The shaft member is configured to rotatably support the pull tab relative to the body. The coil spring is attached around the shaft member to urge the gripper to be laid down toward the body. A claw guide portion allows a tip end of the claw portion to protrude into the guide groove. A restricting portion of the body restricts rotation of the pull tab when the pull tab is raised by a predetermined angle from the body. A restricted portion of the pull tab comes in contact with the restricting portion when the pull tab is raised by the predetermined angle from the body. |
| US10178896B1 |
Press control key ring
A press control key ring includes a split ring defining an opening between two opposite ends thereof, and a locking module including an inner casing for the insertion of the two opposite ends of the annular wire rod and having a mounting hole on the middle of the top wall thereof, an elastic member mounted in the inner casing with one end thereof secured to an inner bottom wall of the inner casing, a press block mounted in the mounting hole and supported on the opposite end of the elastic member, and an outer casing sleeved onto the inner casing and having an insertion hole on the middle of the top wall thereof for the insertion of the press block. |
| US10178894B2 |
Tangless buckle
A tangless buckle system for straps for watches, fitness monitors, and other limb-worn devices. In such tangless buckle systems, a buckle with a tooth is provided. In contrast to a traditional buckle, the tooth and the buckle are fixed with respect to one another, i.e., the tooth does not rotate relative to the buckle. As this new buckle design does not include the rotating tang that extends all the way across the buckle loop in a traditional buckle design, the new design may be referred to as a “tangless” buckle. Such buckles may provide a simpler, yet highly secure, mechanism for securing such devices. |
| US10178891B2 |
Sole and article of footwear having a pod assembly
A sole for an article of footwear includes: an upper sole portion; and a pod assembly having a plurality of pods fluidly connected in series disposed below the upper sole portion, wherein the pod assembly extends from a lateral heel portion of the sole to a medial forefoot portion of the sole such that the plurality of pods compress substantially in sequence through a gait cycle of a wearer. |
| US10178889B2 |
Customizable head protection
A device, system, and elements for providing customizable and regionalized head protection are disclosed. One or more protective elements and/or cushioning elements can be permanently or removably attached to a wearable shell, to provide an increased level of protection for a wearer. The size, shape, and composition of the one or more protective elements and/or cushioning elements can be varied to alter the level and location of protection provided by the head protection device. One or more accessories also can be included in the head protection device, such as light sources and reflectors to enhance the visibility of the head protection device and to provide illumination. |
| US10178888B2 |
Head restraint system having a rate sensitive device
A head restraint system having a rate sensitive device to connect a head restraint to a body of a user. The head restraint system includes a first connector to connect to the head of a user, a second connector connected to the first connector and to a body of the user, wherein one of the first connector and the second connector includes a rate sensitive (RS) device, wherein the first connector and the second connector are configured to restrain the user's head to the user's body at high speed motion of the user's head relative to the user's body and otherwise not restrain the user's head. |
| US10178887B1 |
Lighted artificial tree with distributed lighting power and control
A lighted artificial tree that includes a first tree section including a trunk, wiring assembly and trunk electrical connector; a second tree section including a trunk, wiring assembly and trunk electrical connector; a distributed light power and control system, including: a primary controller and a plurality of sub-controllers, each of the plurality of sub-controllers in electrical communication with the primary controller; and a plurality of lighting elements, each of the plurality of lighting elements in direct electrical communication with one of the plurality of sub-controllers. The trunk electrical connector of the first tree section couples to the second trunk electrical connector such that power is conducted from the first tree section to the second tree section, and the primary controller controls each of the plurality of sub-controllers, and each of the plurality of sub-controllers selectively powers each of the plurality of lighting elements to create a lighting effect. |
| US10178886B2 |
Apparatus for positioning ribbons, name tags, and insignias
An apparatus for properly displaying ribbons, name tags, insignias, and badges on a garment; wherein predetermined arrangements of awards can be quickly and reliably established using a plurality of labeled holes, slots and measurements in a template. Military, police, firefighters, and other civil uniformed organizations use name tags, ribbons, awards, and insignias on their shirt, blouse, jackets, and head cover to display name, rank, and awards. This invention introduces an easy to use way to properly apply name tags, ribbons, awards, badges, pins, and insignias at predetermined positions in the template for military and civil uniformed services. This template will make it easier and quicker to accurately apply the said items to uniform garments with the use of predetermined holes, slots, and etched markings. |
| US10178884B2 |
Knitted glove and method for producing knitted fabric contained in knitted glove
A knitted glove includes a knitted fabric including, multiple stages of a first course each of which has a plurality of first loops and a first cross element to connect the first loops to each other and in which the plurality of first loops are aligned in the course direction; and multiple stages of a second course each of which has a plurality of second loops and in which the plurality of second loops are aligned in the course direction, the first knitting yarn constituting the first course has an elongation rate of 12.5% or more, a second knitting yarn includes a yarn containing a cut resistant fiber, between at least one set of two adjacent first loops in one stage of the first course, a loop in another stage of the courses is arranged, and the first cross element is knitted so as to cross over the loop. |
| US10178880B2 |
Aerosol generating device with a capillary interface
There is provided an aerosol generating device comprising a storage portion (113, 501) for storing aerosol-forming substrate (115, 505). The device comprises: a vaporizer (119, 509) for heating the aerosol-forming substrate (115, 505), a capillary material (117, 507) for conveying the liquid aerosol-forming substrate (115, 505) from the storage portion (113, 501) towards the vaporizer (119, 509) by capillary action, and a porous material (201, 301, 405, 511) between the capillary material (117, 507) and the vaporizer (119, 509). |
| US10178874B2 |
Sterilisation of package articles
An apparatus for sterilising a packaged product (16) such as food or drink comprises a pair of gas filled electrodes (1, 2) connected to a power supply (18) for generating a high voltage pulses between the electrodes (1, 2) sufficient to ionise the gas therein and to create a high electromagnetic field therebetween. A reflector (7) is provided for directing the generated field towards the package (16), such that the electromagnetic field penetrates through the wall of the package (16) and forms cold plasma from the trapped air inside the package (16). This cold plasma comprises ozone and other reactive oxygen based species which have a high oxidizing potential and kill all microorganisms in contact with the ozone and reactive species resulting in the disinfection of the product as well as the interior of the sealed package. |
| US10178873B2 |
Apparatus and method for microwave vacuum-drying of organic materials
An apparatus and method for microwave vacuum-drying of organic materials, such as food products. The apparatus has a microwave vacuum chamber 20, a loading module 36 to load containers 38 of the organic material into the vacuum chamber, a rotatable cylindrical cage 64 in the vacuum chamber for rotating the containers, a piston 114 for moving the rotating containers through the vacuum chamber, and means for unloading the containers of dehydrated material from the vacuum chamber. The apparatus may include an equilibration chamber 150 for cooling the dehydrated material under reduced pressure, and a transfer module 42 to transfer the containers from the vacuum chamber to the equilibration chamber. The apparatus has a microwave transparent window 54 for transmission of radiation into the vacuum chamber, and a gas jet 58, 60, 62 for blowing a stream of gas, such as air or nitrogen, into the vacuum chamber adjacent to the window. |
| US10178869B2 |
Treatment of Elaeis fruit products with antioxidants
Methods are disclosed to create healthier palm oil and new food additives derived from products of the processing of Elaeis fruit that were hitherto fore discarded as waste. The pressing product of Elaeis fruit and the effluent created is treated with acidified antioxidants from olive vegetation containing hydroxytyrosol and a mixture of other polyphenols. The treated POME, palm oil and palm juice are stabilized against oxidation and their inherently nutritive components may now be harvested instead of being thrown away. |
| US10178867B2 |
Treating microbe contamination in water with THP salts and polymeric biopenetrants
A synergistic composition comprising a THP salt and a biopenetrant, in which the biopenetrant comprises a polymer of an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a copolymer of an unsaturated carboxylic acid with a sulphonic acid, said polymer or copolymer being terminated by a mono- or diphosphonated unsaturated carboxylic acid group or having such monomers incorporated into the polymer backbone. This composition acts synergistically to enhance the biocidal efficacy of the THP salt against both planktonic (free-swimming) and sessile (attached) bacteria, and also acts synergistically to enhance the efficacy of the THP salt in the dissolution of iron sulphide scale. |
| US10178862B1 |
Insect catcher
An insect catcher for trapping insects. The insect catcher includes a handle assembly to receive and manipulate a trap for trapping insects. The insect catcher includes a trap to capture and dispose of an insect without an operator of the handle assembly contacting the insect, the trap removably attached to the handle assembly The insect catcher includes an inflatable material as part of the trap which expands and is adapted to have direct contact with the insect to be trapped. |
| US10178860B2 |
Mosquito trap
A mosquito trap includes a container having an open end and a composition positioned in the container. The composition comprises at least one active agent. The mosquito trap also includes an enclosure protruding above the open end of the container. The enclosure includes an opening to access an interior of the enclosure and the open end of the container, and at least one active agent. |
| US10178857B2 |
Insect singulator system
In one aspect, a singulation chamber apparatus defines a volume having a receiving end and an opposing end. The receiving end may be couplable to an insect chamber for a plurality of ambulatory insects and define an opening to receive the plurality of ambulatory insects from the insect chamber. A surface of the chamber is ramped to provide a pathway between the receiving end and the opposing end such that the opposing end is elevated with respect to the first end via the ramped surface. The pathway has a width sized to accommodate a single-file line of the plurality of ambulatory insects traversing the ramped surface. |
| US10178856B2 |
Systems and methods for classifying flying insects
Systems, apparatuses, and methods of classifying flying insects. The methods utilize recording the wingbeat frequency and amplitude spectrum of flying insects and comparing them to known or created insect models to properly classify the flying insect. The error rate of the classification is reduced by utilizing multiple inputs to the classification system, which may include a precise circadian rhythm for the time of year, current environmental conditions, and flight velocity or direction. |
| US10178854B1 |
Method of sound desensitization dog training
The present invention is a method of sound desensitization dog training. The method may be conducted in-person or unattended by a user by means of a smart device through use of a software application operated on the smart device. The method comprises steps of a user selecting a training sound, testing a training sound, setting a duration and a frequency of play cycle for the training sound, playing the training sound repeatedly during a training session, and ending the training session. Optionally, the method may comprise an additional step of dispensing a treat from a treat dispenser after playing the training sound. |
| US10178853B2 |
Water supply for animals
A water supply for an animal feeder includes a valve member on a nipple controlled by the animal connected to a water supply duct for supplying water to the valve member. A regulator is provided for controlling a flow rate and the nipple controls the flow rate by defining a housing through which the water passes with a resilient cylindrical body mounted in the housing. The resilient body defines a convoluted or serpentine water flow path therethrough or thereon for flow of water along the flow path through the housing with the flow path defining a rate of flow of the water. The housing has an adjustment member for adjusting application of pressure to the resilient body to change an amount of compression of the resilient body so as to distort the water flow path and change the rate of flow. The serpentine path is also of increased length to restrict the flow. |
| US10178848B2 |
Lettuce variety 81-71 RZ
The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 81-71 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including resistance against downy mildew (Bremia lactucae Regel) races B1:1 to B1:31 and Ca-I to Ca-VIII, currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribignisi) biotype Nr:0, corky root (Sphingomonas suberifaciens) race CA1, Fusarium (Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae) race Fol:2 and Lettuce Mosaic Virus (LMV), as well as red colored mature leaves. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 81-71 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 81-71 RZ. |
| US10178847B1 |
Maize hybrid X15M009
A novel maize variety designated X15M009 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X15M009 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X15M009 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X15M009, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X15M009 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X15M009 and methods of using maize variety X15M009 are disclosed. |
| US10178837B1 |
Soybean variety 5PHQP31
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 5PHQP31. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 5PHQP31. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 5PHQP31 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 5PHQP31 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US10178835B2 |
Systems and methods for converting and conveying garden events
A platform may receive raw data from a remote system and may then applies various forms of analysis to convert the raw data into parameters of interest in a garden. These parameters include but are not limited to soil moisture, soil salinity, air temperature, soil temperature, and pH. The platform enables inexpensive and simple sensors to be deployed in the garden. The platform may also use other data, such as the data from a weather service, to predict actions that should be taken in the garden to provide optimal growing conditions. |
| US10178834B2 |
Tree or plant protection mat
One embodiment provides a modular green roof tray, house plant growth media and horticulture growth media, and a tree protection mat for weed and moisture control made from recycled disposable diapers. The growth medium and tree protection mat contain superabsorbent materials from diaper that can absorb waters and greatly reduce irrigation so to provide a drought resistant feature. One embodiment also provides a manufacturing process to perform 100% recycling of disposed diapers. |
| US10178829B2 |
Combine and grain evaluation control apparatus for combine
A combine for reaping culms in a field while traveling, and accumulating, in a grain tank 2, grains obtained by threshing reaped culms, includes: a yield calculator for calculating a yield per unit of travel, which is a yield per unit of travel distance; a work travel determiner 53 for determining non-harvest work travel that does not involve grain harvesting, and harvest work travel that involves grain harvesting; a harvest map data generator 66 for generating harvest map data in which the yield per unit of travel, a travel route on which the combine has traveled in a field, and a result of determination performed by the work travel determiner are associated with one another; and a harvest information recorder for recording the harvest map data. |
| US10178828B2 |
Per plant crop sensing resolution
At least one sensor carried by a mobile machine senses a sensed forage crop attribute value independent of plant population for an individual forage plant. A processing unit derives a derived forage crop attribute value based on the sensed forage crop attribute value. |
| US10178825B2 |
Anhydrous ammonia fertilizer distribution line monitor
The monitor system for an anhydrous ammonia fertilizer injection system includes a manifold with a plurality of discharge lines connected to soil engaging knives. A temperature sensor is mounted in each discharge line. The temperature of fertilizer in each discharge line is measures and transmitted to a microprocessor in a console. The temperature in a discharge line is compared with the average temperature in the other discharge lines. This comparison is made for each discharge line connected to a manifold to determine the temperature variations. The variations are compared to a temperature variation number provided by the operator. If an excessive variation occurs a warning is provided. A console screen graph shows which discharge line needs inspection. |
| US10182520B2 |
Mounting management device, mounting process device, mounting system, mounting management method, and mounting process method
In an electronic component mounting system, a mounting management server acquires measurement information relating to a result obtained by measurement of a component which is stored in a reel, registers the acquired measured information in the device information in association with a reel ID, and outputs the measurement information corresponding to the reel to a mounting machine during a mounting process. The mounting process device receives the device information in which the measurement information that relates to the result obtained by measuring the component stored in the reel and that is associated with the reel ID is registered, when the measurement information is present in the device information of the component to be mounted, the mounting process device executes the mounting process of the component. |
| US10182518B2 |
Shield cap and method for manufacturing the same
A shield cap for protecting an electronic component includes a cap member having a ceiling portion, a side wall portion and a partition wall portion, and a conductive film formed on the cap member such that the conductive film is formed to shield electromagnetic waves. The cap member is formed such that the ceiling portion has an inner region and an outer region surrounding the inner region, the side wall portion is supporting the outer region, and the partition wall portion is supporting the inner region, the ceiling portion has a first surface facing the side wall portion and the partition portion and a second surface on the opposite side and includes a reinforcing material positioned between the first and second surfaces, and the cap member is formed such that the side wall, ceiling and partition wall portions are forming multiple accommodation spaces to accommodate multiple electronic components. |
| US10182511B1 |
Extendable cable management frame
An extendable cable management frame includes a connecting frame, a pivot seat and two cable management frames. Both ends of the connecting frame are connected to and moved with middle rails on both sides, and the pivot seat is movably installed to the center of the connecting frame, and the connecting frame has at least one arc limit hole, and the pivot seat has a limit portion for limiting the range of rotating the pivot seat, and outer ends of the two cable management frames are connected to an end of one of the outer rails and the inner rail, and inner ends of the two cable management frames are connected to the pivot seat, and cables of a computer host are passed and accommodated in the two cable management frames. |
| US10182502B2 |
Message cabinet
A message cabinet that is designed to reduce installation cost, improve energy savings, lower maintenance cost, be easier to service, and have a stronger construction for high winds. The message cabinet includes a main body, a pole-receiving hole, a first recess, a second recess, a first plurality of displays, and a second plurality of displays. The main body houses the electronic components of the present invention. The first plurality of displays and the second plurality of display allows the present invention to display electronic messages to drivers. The pole-receiving hole allows the present invention to be receive a mounting pole. The first recess and the second recess allow the present invention to dissipate heat accumulated by the electronic components within the main body. |
| US10182501B2 |
Method for preparing adhesive-free polyimide flexible printed circuit board
A method for preparing an adhesive-free polyimide flexible printed circuit board is provided. The method includes the following steps: 1) placing a polyimide thin film into a low vacuum environment, and treating the polyimide thin film using plasma produced by capacitively coupled discharge of an organic amine; 2) placing the polyimide thin film obtained in step 1) into a low vacuum environment, and pretreating the polyimide thin film using plasma formed by capacitively coupled discharge of a nitrogen gas bubbled through a metal salt solution; 3) pre-plating the polyimide thin film obtained in step 2) using vacuum sputtering or chemical plating so as to obtain a dense copper film with a thickness of less than 100 nm; and 4) thickening the copper film to a required thickness by means of an electroplating method. |
| US10182500B2 |
Curable composition for photoimprint, cured product, and method of producing film having pattern, optical component, circuit board, or electronic component using the composition
In an imprint process in a gaseous atmosphere containing a condensable gas, the curable composition for photoimprint is difficult to cure, the pattern is not fully formed to cause defects. The present invention relates to a curable composition for photoimprint in a gaseous atmosphere containing a condensable gas. The curable composition for photoimprint at least comprises the following component (A) and component (B): (A) polymerizable compound, and (B) photopolymerization initiator. Component (B) has a saturated solubility of less than 1% by weight in the condensable gas in a liquid state at 5° C. and 1 atm or has a Hansen distance (Ra) of larger than 7.6 to the condensable gas. |
| US10182499B2 |
Multilayer additive printed circuit
A multilayer printed circuit as well as printed passive and active electronic components using additive printing technology is provided. The fabrication process includes a substrate and a first conductive layer that is printed with conductive ink on the substrate. An insulation layer that has uniform thickness is printed on the first conductive layer and the substrate, less via cavities, test point cavities, and a surface mount component contact point and mounting cavities. The insulation layer is replaceable with resistive layer or semi-conductive layer to fabricate electronic components. The vias are printed with conductive ink inside of the via cavities. Additionally, a second conductive layer is printed on the vias and over the insulation layer. The insulation, resistive, or semi-conducting layer, the vias, and the conductive layers are repeatedly printed in sequence to thus form the multilayer printed circuit. |
| US10182497B1 |
Transparent and antistatic conformal coating for internal ESD mitigation in space environment
An electronic device on a spacecraft that is enclosed by a conformal coating that is transparent and sufficiently conductive to conduct accumulated charge on the electronic device. The coating includes an intrinsic conducting polymer, such as PEDOT:PSS, dissolved, for example, in an organic solvent, and mixed with a polyurethane, such as Arathane™ 5750 or 5753. |
| US10182496B2 |
Spanning tree protocol optimization
Systems and approaches are provided for optimizing the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) in a switched network. STP port type for a network infrastructure device can be controlled based on the dynamically discovered neighbor device type of the directly connected peer of the device using the Link Level Discovery Protocol (LLDP). LLDP can provide system capabilities of a link level peer to identify whether the link level peer is a host or a network infrastructure device. In various embodiments, the exchange of system capabilities can the trigger the configuration of an STP port as a network port for ports connected to network infrastructure devices or edge ports for ports directly connected to host devices. |
| US10182494B1 |
Landless via concept
A heat sink is mounted to a PCB for thermal heat removal. The PCB is configured with plated through hole vias within a footprint of the heat sink. The plated through hole vias can include thermal via types and signal carrying via types. The signal carrying via types are landless vias on the PCB back side configured to eliminate physical and electrical contact between the plated through hole via and the heat sink. The landless via is configured by removing a conductive annular ring on the back side of the PCB, and then covering this area with an insulating material such as soldermask. The insulating material forms an insulation cap between the via side wall plating and the attached heat sink. |
| US10182493B2 |
Alloy bonded graphene sheets for enhanced thermal spreaders
A heat spreader for printed wiring boards and a method of manufacture are disclosed. The heat spreader is made from a plurality of graphene sheets that are thermo-mechanically bonded using an alloy bonding process that forms a metal alloy layer using a low temperature and pressure that does not damage the graphene sheets. The resulting heat spreader has a higher thermal conductivity than graphene sheets alone. |
| US10182490B2 |
X-ray tube integral heatsink
Improved heat transfer from an x-ray tube can be accomplished with a heatsink surrounding at least part of an x-ray tube. The heatsink can be electrically connected to an anode of the x-ray tube and can be an electrical current path. The heatsink can include a plurality of protrusions extending radially outward from the x-ray tube and can be a single, integral substance extending from an inner-surface of the heatsink to a distal-end of the protrusions. |
| US10182488B2 |
Radio frequency (RF) controlled lamp with dimmer compatibility
An RF controlled lighting unit is provided, suitable for connection to at least one of a dimmer for adjusting a phase cut angle of input mains voltage in accordance with an adjustable dimming level or an electronic switch for selecting between on-and off-states. The lighting unit includes a solid state light source; a radio circuit for receiving a wireless control signal; a rectifier circuit for rectifying the input mains voltage received from the electronic switch or the dimmer; a first power converter for driving the solid state light source in response to the rectified input mains voltage and delivering power to the radio circuit; and a second power convertor for delivering power to the radio circuit when the rectified input mains voltage becomes inadequate for the first power converter due to the phase-cut angle of the rectified input mains voltage or the off-state of the electronic switch. |
| US10182484B1 |
Surge suppression monitoring for lighting fixtures and other electronics
A technique for determining when to replace protection circuitry in electronic devices, such as lighting fixtures, is provided. Protection circuitry is provided between AC supply rails and in front of circuitry to be protected. A protection circuit sensor is located and configured to measure a characteristic of the protection circuitry and provide a corresponding sensor output. Control circuitry will monitor the sensor output of the protection circuit sensor on a continuous, periodic, or aperiodic basis. Next, the control circuitry will determine at least one metric indicative of an extent of damage inflicted on the protection circuitry 30 based on the sensor output. Based on the at least one metric, the control circuitry will determine when the at least one metric exceeds a threshold indicative of a need to replace the protection circuitry while the protection circuitry remains operational. |
| US10182481B2 |
Bi-level low voltage dimming controller for lighting drivers
An illustrative bi-level dimming controller for coupling to a dimming control input of a lighting driver includes a dimming preset selector for setting a preset dim level, and a dimming control circuit having variable impedance and providing a constant dimming voltage output for a preset dim level, even if the current supplied to or impedance coupled to the dimming controller changes. The dimming control circuit is responsive to the preset dim level to drive a dimming voltage output proportional to the preset dim level. The dimming controller may also include a dim enable circuit responsive to a detection signal to selectively couple and uncouple the dimming signal output with the dimming control input of the lighting driver, thereby providing switching between a preset dim level and a full light level. The detection signal may be electrically isolated from the dimming voltage output. |
| US10182480B2 |
Light and light sensor
An LED-based light includes one or more LEDs, a sensor arranged to detect a brightness level in an area resulting from the combination of light emitted by the LEDs with light from at least one ambient light source other than the LEDs, and operable to output a signal corresponding to the detected brightness level, a controller operable to regulate an amount of power provided to the LEDs in response to the signal, a light transmitting housing for the LEDs, the sensor and the controller and a connector shaped for connection with a light socket disposed at an end of the housing. |
| US10182475B2 |
Light emitting diode driver circuit and method for light emitting diode driving
A light emitting diode driving circuit including a first LED array; a second LED array; an LED driving circuit configured to provide a constant current to the first LED array and/or the second LED array; a linear circuit configured to selectively provide a second current that is smaller than the constant current to the second LED array; and a driving controller configured to control the LED driving circuit and the linear circuit such that the constant current is selectively provided to the first LED array or the second LED array based on an operating mode, and such that the second current is provided to the second LED array only when the constant current is being provided to the first LED array. |
| US10182471B2 |
Electric heater crushable cores and compacted unitary heater device and method of making such devices
A crushable ceramic heater core for an electric heater device which has a cylinder-like body of crushable ceramic material and grooves along the periphery of the body, the grooves being key shaped and adapted to receive a conductive pin in a groove. The invention also includes an electric heater device where such a core has been wound with heater wire and the conductive pin has been inserted in a core groove in contact with the wire, and the wire wound core has been installed in a sheath which has been filed with electrical insulting material. The sheath and its contents are swaged to create a compacted unitary heater assembly. The invention also includes the process for making the wire wound\grooved core having a conductive pin therein in contact with the wire winding, and a method for making a heating device having such a core and which has been compacted to a theoretical density. The heater assembly and the method may also include installation of temperature sensing devices. |
| US10182462B2 |
Configuring physical channel resources for sounding or discovery in a half duplex communication environment
A configuration mechanism for physical channel resources for sounding or discovery in a half-duplex communication environment for apparatuses belonging to a service group is disclosed, the configuration mechanism taking into account a required capacity for sounding or discovery and a maximum tolerated latency for the service group. |
| US10182458B2 |
Method for predetermining resource in random access, user equipment, and base station
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the communications field, and provide a method for predetermining a resource in random access, user equipment, and a base station, so that a process of random access can be simplified, and reliability of information transmission in the process of random access can be improved. The method is: an implicit manner is used to indicate some or all of identifiers of a random access preamble index; so that a message in a procedure of random access is simplified, and at the same time resources used for transmitting an RAR reply message, transmitting a contention resolution message, retransmitting an RAR reply message, and retransmitting a contention resolution message are configured by using signaling or preset by a system. The embodiments of the present disclosure are used for a process of random access. |
| US10182454B2 |
Signaling of random access preamble parameters in wireless networks
User equipment (UE)-initiated accesses within a cellular network are optimized to account for cell size and to reduce signaling overhead. A fixed set of preamble parameter configurations for use across a complete range of cell sizes within the cellular network is established and stored within each UE. A UE located in a given cell receives a configuration number transmitted from a nodeB serving the cell, the configuration number being indicative of a size of the cell. The UE selects a preamble parameter configuration from the fixed set of preamble parameter configurations in response to the received configuration number and then transmits a preamble from the UE to the nodeB using the preamble parameter configuration indicated by the configuration number. |
| US10182453B2 |
Method and apparatus for saving power of user equipment in wireless communication system
An apparatus and method for improved power saving in a User Equipment (UE) supporting enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination/Time-domain ICIC (eICIC/Time-domain ICIC) are provided. The power saving method includes receiving control information including a reference pattern for a power saving mode from a base station, determining whether the terminal is configured to operate in the power saving mode, and determining, when the terminal is configured to operate in the power saving mode, whether to decode a downlink control channel according to the reference pattern. |
| US10182449B2 |
Scheduling node, transmitting node, receiving node and methods therein, for communication of data
A scheduling node (600), a transmitting node (602), a receiving node (604), and methods therein, for communication of data on a shared radio resource. The scheduling node (600) divides wireless devices into multiple groups, and assigns group-specific rotation angles to the groups so that the transmitting node (602) should apply a group-specific rotation angle when transmitting data to or from a wireless device in the corresponding group. In addition, a repetition factor is assigned to each wireless device such that the data is repeated consecutively according to the repetition factor, before transmission. The repetition factor may correspond to the number of groups. |
| US10182448B2 |
Inter-network interference coordination method
Disclosed is a network interference coordination method in a co-primary spectrum sharing scenario. The method comprises the following steps: a first network and a second network negotiate an inter-network shared band, the shared band being in a shared spectrum pool; the first network evaluates inter-network interference; the first network determines whether to perform internal coordination, if internal coordination is performed, the first network performs internal coordination; if internal coordination is not performed, request the second network to perform inter-network interference coordination; the second network determines whether to perform internal coordination, if internal coordination is performed, the second network performs internal coordination; and if internal coordination is not performed, go back to the step of negotiating, by a first network and a second network, an inter-network shared band. The present invention can fairly and properly implement inter-network interference coordination in the co-primary spectrum sharing scenario. |
| US10182446B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of selecting a wireless communication channel
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of selecting a wireless communication channel to communicate in a wireless communication network. For example, an apparatus may include a channel selector to select at a network controller of a first wireless communication network a first wireless communication channel to communicate between the network controller and one or more wireless communication devices, to detect on the first wireless communication channel a frame from a second wireless communication network, and based on a medium access control (MAC) address of the frame, to select between remaining on the first wireless communication channel and selecting a second wireless communication channel to communicate between the network controller and the one or more wireless communication devices. |
| US10182445B2 |
Methods and devices for controlling resource usage
A method 10 is presented for controlling resource usage performed in a first network node 2. The first network node 2 has a first uplink connection UL1 and a first downlink connection DL1 with a wireless device 5. The method 10 comprises transmitting 11, to a wireless device 5, configuration instructions instructing the wireless device 5 to enter a dual connectivity mode with a second network node 3 on a second uplink connection UL2 and a second downlink connection DL2 between the wireless device 5 and the second network node 3; and when one or more of the uplink and/or downlink connections UL1, DL1, UL2, DL2 to the first and/or second network nodes 2, 3 is determined to be able to operate on a reduced set of resources, transmitting 12 to the wireless device 5 configuration instructions instructing the wireless device 5 to operate on a reduced set of resources for the one or more uplink and downlink connections UL1, DL1, UL2, DL2. |
| US10182432B2 |
Communication method, base station and user equipment using a set of legacy or aggressive CQI table and legacy or aggressive MCS table
The present disclosure provides a communication method, base station and user equipment for configuring a parameter table in a wireless communication system including a base station and a user equipment, the communication method comprising: defining at both the base station and the user equipment a parameter table which includes whole entries of a legacy parameter table and extended entries; and transmitting from the base station to the user equipment a bitmap indication which indicates a sub-table selected from the parameter table, wherein the number of the entries in the sub-table is the same as in the legacy parameter table. |
| US10182431B2 |
Method and apparatus for triggering aperiodic feedback in coordinated multipoint transmission
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for triggering aperiodic feedback in coordinated multipoint transmission. The method includes: transmitting, by an eNB to UE, dynamic control information (DCI) and preconfigured feedback sets corresponding to the DCI, so that the UE aperiodically feeds back corresponding channel state information (CSI) according to the DCI and the feedback sets corresponding to the DCI; wherein the preconfigured feedback sets corresponding to the DCI are classified according to a triggered transmitting point or a CSI-RS of non-zero power, or are classified according to configured CSI, or are classified according to an interference type. With the method and apparatus of the embodiments of the present invention, a relatively good tradeoff between flexibility of aperiodic CSI feedback and signaling load in a CoMP transmission process or a joint transmission process of CoMP and CA may be achieved. |
| US10182427B2 |
Transmitting and receiving downlink grant and downlink data
There is provided mechanisms for transmitting a downlink (DL) grant and DL data to a wireless device. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises obtaining an indication for providing the DL data to the wireless device. The method comprises transmitting, in a transmission time interval (sTTI) frequency band, the DL grant for the wireless device and the DL data for the wireless device. A position of the DL grant in the sTTI frequency band identifies a position of the DL data in the sTTI frequency band. There is also provided a network node configured to perform such a method. There is further provided mechanisms for receiving a DL grant and DL data from a network node, as performed by a wireless device. |
| US10182426B2 |
Scheduling of downlink transmissions based on exchanges of pre-scheduling and scheduling messages
Techniques are described for wireless communication. An exemplary method includes receiving, at a first device, a pre-scheduling message for a downlink transmission from a second device; transmitting a scheduling message to the second device in response to receiving the pre-scheduling message; and receiving the downlink transmission in accordance with the at least one downlink transmission parameter of the scheduling message. The scheduling message may include at least one downlink transmission parameter. Another exemplary method includes transmitting, to a first device, a pre-scheduling message for a downlink transmission; receiving, from the first device, a scheduling message comprising at least one downlink transmission parameter; and transmitting the downlink transmission to the first device in accordance with the at least one downlink transmission parameter of the scheduling message. |
| US10182425B2 |
Wireless communications system and method
A wireless communications system includes a base station, a plurality of intermediate devices, and a terminal device. Downlink communications may be provided directly from the base station to the terminal device, including control signals which instruct the terminal device where to send uplink data. This enables the base station to directly control scheduling of uplink communications, and in particular to define an uplink route from the terminal device to the base station via one or more intermediate devices. Power is conserved at the terminal device on the uplink because a lower power transmission can be used which although insufficient to reach the base station can reach the intermediate device. The terminal device is not required to determine the uplink path itself and therefore does not require complex, expensive, and power consuming control logic. |
| US10182420B2 |
Enhanced physical uplink control channel format resource allocation for time division duplex mode
In one aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments provide a method that includes, when in a time division duplex mode of operation with a user equipment, allocating physical uplink control channel resources by reserving physical uplink control channel resources with a granularity of one acknowledge/negative acknowledge (ACK/NACK) bundle; and sending an indication of the allocated physical uplink control channel resources from a network access node to the user equipment. |
| US10182418B2 |
Wireless communication system to assign wireless resources based on bandwidth as terminal performance
A wireless communication system having a base station communicating with a plurality of terminals using a plurality of frequency bands, the wireless communication system includes a controller configured to perform a transmission assignment for each of the plurality of terminals based on a bandwidth in which each terminal is able to communicate; and a communication device configured to enable the base station to communicate with a terminal according to a result of the transmission assignment. |
| US10182415B2 |
Method for processing message, network element of bearer network, M2M node, system and storage mediums
Disclosed are a method for processing a device trigger message, a network element of a bearer network, an M2M node and a system, which relate to the field of communications. The method comprises: receiving a device trigger authorization request which is sent by a CSE and comprises an identifier of the CSE; according to the device trigger authorization request, sending a device trigger authorization permission to the CSE; receiving a device operation request instruction which is set and sent by the CSE and comprises a device operation attribute value pair; according to the device operation request instruction, conducting an authorization check on the CSE, so as to acquire an internal identifier of a trigger device and routing information thereabout; and according to the internal identifier and the routing information, sending a trigger request message to the trigger device. Also disclosed at the same time are three computer storage mediums. |
| US10182410B2 |
Method for transmitting D2D synchronization signal and terminal therefor
Disclosed is a method for transmitting a synchronization signal of device-to-device (D2D) communication. The method for transmitting a D2D synchronization signal of the present application may indicate the state of a terminal, the purpose of transmission of a primary D2D synchronization signal (PD2DSS), or whether to transmit a physical D2D shared channel (PD2DSCH), on the basis of an order in which root indexes of PD2DSSs are transmitted or the value of a root index used by a PD2DSS. |
| US10182409B2 |
Uplink path integrity detection in distributed antenna systems
Aspects and features are directed to an uplink integrity detection sub-system. In one aspect, a distributed antenna system is provided that includes at least one master unit; a plurality of remote antenna units each in communication with the at least one master unit; and a system controller configured to: determine a noise figure for an uplink path from at least one of the plurality of remote antenna units; and modify a gain of the uplink path when the noise figure exceeds a desired threshold, wherein the noise figure is determined as a function of a measured signal power of an undesirable signal component in the uplink path from the remote antenna unit. |
| US10182408B2 |
Transmit power control command generating method, device, and system
The present invention provides a TPC command generating method, device, and system, and relates to the field of communications. The TPC command generating device includes: a first determining unit, configured to determine a target cell in at least one non-serving high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) cell included in an active set of user equipment; and a first generating unit, configured to generate a TPC command of the target cell according to a measurement result of a downlink channel of the target cell. The present invention can solve a problem that no valid TPC command can be generated for any non-serving HS-DSCH cell, thereby achieving an effect of at least generating a TPC command corresponding to a target cell. The TPC command generating method, device, and system that are provided in the present invention TPC command are used for generating a TPC command. |
| US10182398B2 |
Downstream device service latency reporting for power management
An apparatus is provided that includes a processor, a memory controller coupled to the processor to provide access to a system memory, and an interface controller to communicate with an endpoint device. The interface controller is coupled to the processor and configured to access a register of the endpoint device, the register to be mapped into a memory space of the system, the register to store a service latency tolerance value of the endpoint device. The endpoint device has a service latency tolerance value for a first state and a service latency tolerance value for a second state. The service latency tolerance value for the first state is greater than the service latency tolerance value for the second state. |
| US10182396B2 |
Apparatus and method for reducing power consumption in multi antenna system
An apparatus and method for reducing the power consumption of a Base Station (BS) in a multi antenna system are provided. The method for reducing the power consumption of the BS includes identifying an amount of resources being in use for communication, determining whether to convert at least one Radio Frequency (RF) unit into a power saving mode considering the amount of resources, if converting at least one RF unit into the power saving mode, turning OFF a power supply of a power amplifier of at least one of at least two antenna paths constituting the at least one RF unit converted into the power saving mode, and increasing a gain of at least one antenna path turning ON a power supply such that a transmission Power Spectral Density (PSD) is not changed according to the power saving mode conversion. |
| US10182394B2 |
Communication apparatus, communication method, and program
[Object] To provide a communication apparatus, a communication method, and a program, each of which is capable of flexibly controlling operation of the communication apparatus in accordance with a change in communication environment while reducing power consumption.[Solution] A communication apparatus includes: a control module configured to control operation of the communication apparatus; and a communication module configured to determine whether or not information obtained by reception from another communication apparatus has been changed and control state transition of the control module in a case where it is determined that the information obtained by the reception has been changed. |
| US10182391B2 |
Systems and methods for managing a UE-to-network relay
Method and systems for managing a communication link. One or more indicators of an expected service interruption associated with a communication link is determined. The communication link may be a link between a relay and a communication target and/or a link between the relay and a user equipment (UE). In response, the UE initiates one or more actions to reduce or avoid the expected service interruption. |
| US10182390B2 |
Communicating an indicator extending an area scope of system information
A user equipment (UE) receives an indicator that extends an area scope of system information received by the UE, the system information transmitted by a wireless access network node. |
| US10182389B2 |
Method and apparatus for restricting usage region of mobile terminal, and mobile terminal
A method and an apparatus for restricting a usage region of a mobile terminal, and a mobile terminal are provided. Cell identification information of a cell network that covers a current location of a mobile terminal may be obtained. When the obtained cell identification information includes cell identification information matching locked identification information, the mobile terminal accesses a cell network corresponding to the locked identification information, otherwise, the mobile terminal skips accessing a wireless communications network. Hence, the cell identification information of the cell network at the current location is compared with the locked identification information to control cell network access of the mobile terminal. |
| US10182386B2 |
Communication method of determining suitable communication paths between devices
A method of determining suitable communication paths between a first device and a second device, the first device being connected to a plurality of third devices to which the second device is also connected. The method comprises, at the first device: for each of the third devices, obtaining first information indicating a characteristic of communications between the first device and the second device via the third device, obtaining second information associated with first data to be transmitted from the first device to the second device, and determining, based upon the first and second information, whether any of the third devices should receive the first data for communication of the first data to the second device. |
| US10182383B2 |
Method of handling cell reselection
A method of handling cell reselection includes: receiving a first cell reselection information message from a cell of the communication system, wherein the first cell reselection information message includes at least one cell reselection threshold; generating a rule ranking list, including: selecting a best cell according to a given criteria for each frequency, and storing the best cell into the rule ranking list if the best cell is corresponding with at least one cell reselection threshold; and selecting one of the best cells for cell reselection according to the rule ranking list, including: calculating a plurality of intervals each corresponding to one of the best cells within the rule ranking list according to the cell reselection threshold, generating a cell reselection value, and determining which of the plurality of intervals the cell reselection value is bounded in in order to determine which one of the best cells for cell reselection. |
| US10182380B2 |
Radio terminal, communication system, and radio base station
A radio terminal 10 comprises a controller 13 configured to notify, when a condition to perform a switching process of switching a connection target from a mobile communication network to a wireless LAN is satisfied, a source radio base station provided in the mobile communication network of information indicating that the condition to perform the switching process is satisfied. |
| US10182379B2 |
Offloadability of PDN connection for LTE-WLAN interworking control and management
Methods for LTE-WLAN interworking control and management are proposed. In one novel aspect, a terminal equipment (TE) can use an AT command to query the WLAN offloadability of a packet data network (PDN) connection. A mobile termination (MT) can store the WLAN offloadability indication in its memory and return the value to TE upon receiving the AT command. In one example, a new field |
| US10182378B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling handover in wireless communication system
A method and an apparatus for controlling a handover in a wireless communication system are provided. The method of operating an eNodeB (eNB) for controlling the handover of terminal in the wireless communication system includes receiving, by the eNB, a message indicating a link connection failure between a neighboring eNB and a Mobile Management Entity (MME), and restricting an execution of a handover based on a link connection between the neighboring eNB and the MME. |
| US10182375B2 |
System and method for global location register (GLR) for LTE/4G mobile network
A method of managing voice calls in LTE/4G telephony for a mobile handset roaming outside of its home network in a network where voice calls use 3G technology, using a Global Location Register (GLR) which is designed to manage registrations without informing the home network. The method involves registering the mobile handset in 4G at the roaming network, obtaining and prestoring 3G information for the mobile handset from the home network while the mobile handset is registered in 4G, obtaining a voice call request for the mobile handset; and reregistering the mobile handset in 3G at the roaming network to use circuit switch fallback for the voice call, the reregistering comprising using the prestored 3G information so that the home network does not have to be contacted. |
| US10182373B2 |
Method for controlling a phone call initiated by a terminal connected to a communications network
A method for controlling a phone call initiated by a first communication terminal connected to a communications network via a server of an operator network is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to set up a phone call between the first terminal and a second terminal, the request comprising an identifier of the first terminal, an identifier of the second terminal and at least one parameter describing said phone call. The method also includes determining whether a degraded communication mode should be activated by querying a database of identifiers according to the identifier of the first terminal and the identifier of the second terminal. If the degraded communication mode is activated, the method also includes modifying the initial descriptive parameter, and transmitting the modified descriptive parameter to a management server of the operator network, the modified descriptive parameter representing degraded call quality relative to the initial descriptive parameter. |
| US10182372B2 |
Method for transmitting D2D signal in wireless communication system and device therefor
The present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting a device to device (D2D) signal by a first terminal in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the method comprises the steps of: setting a first resource pattern configured by at least one first resource unit and at least one second resource unit; transmitting a D2D signal in a first sub-frame corresponding to the first resource unit on a first resource area; and determining whether the first resource area of the first terminal collide with a second resource area of a second terminal by monitoring a D2D signal of the second terminal in a second sub-frame corresponding to the second resource unit on the first resource area, wherein the first resource pattern is different from a second resource pattern set by the second terminal in order to transmit the D2D signal. |
| US10182370B2 |
System and method for buffer status reporting for multi-stream aggregation
Embodiments are provided herein for enabling buffer status reporting for Multi-stream aggregation (MSA) in wireless networks. In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) receives from a network, a configuration regarding one of enabling and disabling cross-node buffer status reporting. The UE further receives a first uplink grant from a first network node, and obtains a buffer status intended for a second network node. Upon enabling cross-node buffer status reporting according to the configuration, the UE transmits, in the first uplink grant to the first network node, the buffer status intended for the second network node. The first network node receives, from the UE, the buffer status intended for the second network node, and determines whether to forward the buffer status to the second network node according to the configuration regarding buffer status forwarding previously received at the first network node. |
| US10182369B2 |
Flow control with acknowledgment feedback
Computer readable media, methods, and apparatuses for flow control with acknowledgment feedback. An apparatus of a wireless device comprising: memory; and processing circuitry coupled to the memory is disclosed. The processing circuity may be configured to determine based on buffer capacity parameters of a station and a receive buffer state of the station at least one of a size, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), a bandwidth of a subchannel, or a number of spatial streams (NSS) for a frame. The processing circuitry may be further configured to encode the frame based on the size, the MCS, the bandwidth of the subchannel, and the NSS. The processing circuitry may be further configured to configure the wireless device to transmit the frame in accordance with the size, the MCS, the bandwidth of the subchannel, the NSS, and one or both of orthogonal frequency division multiple-access (OFDMA) or multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO). |
| US10182365B2 |
Methods, apparatus and computer programs for capturing measurement results of mobile devices
Methods, apparatuses and computer programs for acquiring and providing measurement results from mobile devices. Disclosed is a method for providing information about a measurement result of a mobile device which includes obtaining a data message containing information about a measurement job. The information about the measurement job includes information about a geographical area in which the measurement job is to be carried out. The method further includes determining whether the mobile device is within the geographical area, determining the measurement result based on the information about the measurement job if the mobile device is within the geographical area, and providing the information about the measurement result based on the determined measurement result. |
| US10182362B2 |
Mechanisms of virtual clear channel assessment for Wi-Fi devices
Described are methods and devices for increasing the efficiency of Wi-Fi networks by increased spatial reuse, which refers to sharing the same wireless spectral resources over different spatial regions. A described technique for doing this is for a Wi-Fi device to increase the threshold of the clear channel assessment (CCA) so as to ignore and regard as interference the transmissions from other devices. The sensing range of the Wi-Fi device then decreases, and the spatial resource can be reused by different Wi-Fi devices in different spatial locations. |
| US10182361B1 |
Receiver behavior for uplink multi-user transmission in wireless LAN systems
A wireless communication device that is receiving a frame may determine whether the frame is an Up-Link Multi-User (UL MU) frame, receive the frame by performing a first procedure when the frame is determined to be the UL MU frame, and receive the frame by performing a second procedure when the frame is not determined to be the UL MU frame. Performing the first procedure may include performing a comparison of contents of a Legacy Signal (L-SIG) field of the frame to expected contents of the L-SIG field, performing a comparison of contents of a Signal A (SIG-A) field of the frame to expected contents of the SIG-A field, or both. The SIG-A field may be a High Efficiency SIG-A (HE-SIG-A) field. |
| US10182360B2 |
FTM protocol with angle of arrival and angle of departure
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for performing ranging operations between an initiator device and a responder device. The initiator device may transmit, to the responder device, a fine timing measurement (FTM) request frame including a request to estimate angle information for a number of frames exchanged between the initiator device and the responder device and indicating a level of accuracy for the estimated angle information. The initiator device may receive a first FTM frame from the responder device, and may transmit an acknowledgement (ACK) frame to the responder device. The initiator device may receive, from the responder device, a second FTM frame including angle information of the first FTM frame and timing information of one or more of the exchanged frames. |
| US10182354B2 |
Methods and systems for providing standalone LTE based communication networks
Standalone LTE based communication networks. Embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for providing LTE based communication to at least one User Equipment (UE) over a small region using a rapidly deployable standalone network wherein at least one LTE UE would be able to connect to an Application Server (AS). |
| US10182352B2 |
Small cell resource allocation
This disclosure provides a method of allocating a resource in a network of small cells, and a device for implementing the method, the method comprising: a first small cell detecting that its resource demand exceeds its resource allocation; the first small cell selecting a new resource that is being used by a second small cell; and the first small cell allocating the new resource to either the first or second small cell, wherein the probability the new resource is allocated to the first small cell is based on the first small cell's resource demand. |
| US10182350B2 |
Key assignment for a brand
Systems and methods for providing secured network access are provided. A user device located within range of a branded hotspot initiates a request for the secured network access. The request concerns secured network access at the hotspot by the user device and includes a unique pre-shared key. A query regarding the unique pre-shared key is sent to a database, which retrieves information regarding a corresponding pre-shared key. That information is sent to the hotspot controller, which allows the user device secured network access as governed by one or more parameters associated with the pre-shared key. |
| US10182347B2 |
Wireless communications device and control method for wireless communications device
A wireless communications device, that is constituted from a control station and a slave station that perform encryption communication using an encryption key, includes a controller that monitors communication quality of a state of a call to the slave station and, in a case where the communication quality degrades to below the same level as a state that is determined in advance, operates in such a manner that a procedure for changing the encryption key, which is determined in advance, is not activated. |
| US10182344B2 |
Determining the operational characteristics and configuration for wireless devices operating in the U-NII band
Embodiments are directed towards collecting information regarding the implementation of dynamic frequency selection and automatic channel selection by one or more wireless communication devices using the U-NII radio band. And to use the collected information to determine if other communication devices are coupled to communicate with each other via a wireless connection or a wired connection, or to modify the automatic channel selection mechanism used by one or more wireless communication devices. |
| US10182340B2 |
Profile switching method and terminal
A profile switching method and a terminal, where the method includes sending, by a terminal, an enable instruction to an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC), where the eUICC includes at least a first profile and a second profile, the terminal has accessed a network using the first profile, data of the first profile is stored in a cache of the terminal, and the enable instruction instructs the eUICC to disable the first profile and enable the second profile, and send a first instruction to the terminal, where the first instruction instructs the terminal not to restart the eUICC, and after receiving the first instruction, retaining, by the terminal, the data of the first profile in the cache, storing data of the second profile in the cache, and accessing a network using the second profile. |
| US10182339B2 |
Cellular device SIM multiplexor and control interface
The present invention relates to a SIM multiplexing device that provides a mechanism for multiplexing multiple SIM cards into a single SIM device. The SIM Mux device interfaces to the host device via the host device's standard SIM slot. The SIM Mux application resides on the SIM Mux logic device and communicates with the device over the SIM slot's SIM I/O line using standard ISO-7816 messages. The SIM Mux application allows a user to select the active SIM slot via a SIM application interface and directs the logic device which SIM socket to activate on the shared SIM I/O line, thus enabling the user to utilize any one of the populated SIM cards at one time. |
| US10182338B2 |
Techniques for provisioning bootstrap electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) to mobile devices
Representative embodiments described herein set forth techniques for provisioning bootstrap electronic Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs) to mobile devices. According to some embodiments, a mobile device can be configured to issue, to an eSIM selection server, a bootstrap eSIM request that includes (i) metadata associated with the mobile device, and (ii) metadata associated with an electronic Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) included in the mobile device. In turn, the eSIM selection server selects and binds a particular bootstrap eSIM to the mobile device, and provides information to the mobile device that enables the mobile device to obtain the particular bootstrap eSIM from one or more eSIM servers. When the mobile device obtains the particular bootstrap eSIM, the mobile device can interface with a mobile network operator (MNO) and obtain a complete eSIM that enables the mobile device to access services provided by the MNO. |
| US10182337B2 |
Intermittent out of service recovery on accessory device
This disclosure relates to out of service recovery techniques for an accessory device. According to some embodiments, the accessory device may receive cellular communication system selection information from a paired device. The accessory device may store the communication system selection information. At some point, it may be determined that the accessory device has lost cellular communication service. The accessory device may perform a cellular communication service scan utilizing the system selection information received from the paired device along with its own historical information and location based frequency lists. |
| US10182336B1 |
Low power advertisement schedule for implantable medical device and method
Methods and devices are provided for managing establishment of a communications link between an external instrument (EI) and an implantable medical device (IMD). The method stores, in the IMD, an advertisement schedule that includes first and second power schemes to be utilized with advertisement notices. The first and second power schemes define at least one of i) first and second power levels for transmitting the advertisement notices or ii) first and second receive sensitivities to scan for a connection request. The method manages at least one of a transmit or receive operation of the IMD, utilizing the first and second power schemes in connection with first and second advertisement notices, respectively. The method establishes a communication session between the IMD and the EI. |
| US10182325B2 |
Movement control system
An movement control system and method of use is disclosed wherein, the present invention is a movement control system for converting movement by an object into a change of state for an article, the movement electrical control system including sensing circuitry that is operative upon activation to wirelessly pickup a near field movement by the object and subsequently generate a sensor signal. Further included in the movement control system is control circuitry that is operative to monitor the sensor signal and to produce an event marker signal upon receipt of the sensor signal, the event market signal is in electrical communication with an article that effectuates a change of state based upon said event marker signal. |
| US10182322B2 |
Method for changing inter-PLMN roaming data service online, and device
A method for charging an inter-Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) roaming data service online, and a device are presented. The method includes, after determining that an access subscriber is a roaming subscriber, establishing, by a visited-place packet data network gateway, an online charging session for the access subscriber; determining a first charging information parameter list; sending, to a home online charging system, a first quota request message that carries a rating group; receiving a roaming data service quota of the rating group sent by the home online charging system; and sending first charging information to the home online charging system according to the first charging information parameter list. The disclosed embodiments can simplify a network connection between a visited-place PGW and an OCS of another operator that has a roaming agreement with the visited-place operator, reduce network connection complexity, and improve network connection efficiency. |
| US10182318B2 |
Integration of enterprise voicemail in mobile systems
An integrated voicemail system is described that provides “visual voicemail” that overcomes the shortcomings associated with a user having to dial into a voicemail system and navigate through a menu of options using conventional voice and/or standard DTMF signaling-based browsing capabilities. The visual voicemail instead provides, via a client device of the user's choice, a visual presentation of a user's voicemails along with state information of the voicemails. The visual presentation of the voicemails includes a user interface that allows a user to control or manipulate voicemails from the client device, where the manipulation includes playing, pausing, rewinding, fast-forwarding, deleting, and changing a state of each voicemail. The visual voicemail also eliminates the need for a user to periodically call-in to the enterprise voicemail system in order to check for voicemail messages as the messages can be automatically delivered to the user's client device. |
| US10182316B1 |
Determining location of parked vehicle
Methods and devices for detecting a change in a motion state of a user of a mobile device are provided. The method includes determining, based on one or more sensors of the mobile device, that the motion state of the user is a driving state, the driving state indicating that the user is inside a vehicle that is moving, monitoring, with the mobile device, the one or more sensors, determining that a new motion state is a non-driving state. The method further includes identifying a location where the user exited the vehicle using one or more of the measurements from the one or more sensors before the determining that the new motion state is the non-driving state, and identifying the location where the user exited the vehicle as corresponding to a parked location of the vehicle. |
| US10182314B2 |
Procedures for passive access control
A method for passive access control including a mobile device serving as key and an interaction unit, the mobile device and the interaction unit having in each case at least one data communication facility for exchanging authorization information. Operations are provided for carrying out an electronic distance measurement between the mobile device and the interaction unit and for permitting an access and/or an interaction only if the distance of the mobile device from the interaction unit is within a permitted distance. |
| US10182313B2 |
System and method for providing a digital meeting tool
Systems and methods include data storage that stores user information for a plurality of user devices, a beacon that is configured to be associated with a first unique identifier, a meeting server that receives, from the data storage, data that includes user information one of the user devices, assigns the first unique identifier to one of the user devices based in part on similarities between the user information and an entity associated with the beacon, and creates a digital asset that includes the first unique identifier and first information, and a communication interface associated with the meeting server that transmits, via a network, the digital asset to the one of the user devices. The beacon broadcasts the first unique identifier via a short-range transmission at a first location and the one of the user devices detects the first unique identifier at the first location, compares it to the identifier associated with the digital asset, and displays a notification that includes the first information if there is a match. |
| US10182312B1 |
Method and system for providing information based on location of user-device
A method and a system for providing information based on a location of a user-device, the user-device being communicably coupled to a server arrangement. The method includes (i) detecting a first location of the user-device; (ii) creating a first geofence around the first location; (iii) receiving the first location from within the first geofence, wherein the user-device transmits the first location once from within the first geofence; (iv) providing first set of information to the user-device based upon the first location thereof; (v) determining change in location of the user-device from the first location to a second location, the second location lying outside the first geofence, wherein a second geofence is created around the second location, further wherein the user-device transmits the second location once from within the second geofence; and (vi) providing second set of information to the user-device based upon the second location thereof. |
| US10182310B2 |
Systems and methods for optimizing message notification timing based on geographic location
Systems and methods are provided for timing message notifications to be provided to mobile device users based on theft respective geographic locations with respect to a targeted content area. The timing of message notifications may be controlled in order to optimize the chances of delivering targeted content to a mobile device user based on the current geographic location of the user's device relative to a targeted content area. As the particular client application may not be actively executing at a time when the user's device happen to be located within a targeted content area, a general message notification sent to the user's device, which may be displayed at any time, may increase the likelihood that the user will launch the client application when it is not already executing at the device and thereby, allow targeted content to be delivered to the user's mobile device at the appropriate time and location. |
| US10182308B2 |
Content matching system for a networked media player
Embodiments of a content selection system are disclosed, wherein the system is configured to obtain location information from a plurality of computing devices. The content selection system identifies a selection of computing devices that are within a set distance (e.g., within viewing and/or listening distance) from a networked, media playback device. The content selection system determines media content preferences of users associated with the selection of computing devices. The content selection system select a first media content for playback on the networked media player based at least partly on the media content preferences of the users. |
| US10182306B2 |
Device and method for determining disposition of a plurality of radio apparatuses
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a radio-apparatus-disposition estimation device includes a processor configured to execute a program to provide at least: a first acquirer, a second acquirer, and a calculator. The first acquirer acquires first information concerning communication among a respective plurality of radio apparatuses or radio waves transmitted and received among the respective plurality of radio apparatuses. The second acquirer acquires setting position candidates of the plurality of radio apparatuses. The calculator calculates, on the basis of the first information and the setting position candidates, one or a plurality of estimated patterns in which setting positions of the radio apparatuses are identified as different ones of the setting position candidates. |
| US10182302B2 |
Binaural decoder to output spatial stereo sound and a decoding method thereof
A binaural decoder for an MPEG surround stream, which decodes an MPEG surround stream into a stereo 3D signal, and a decoding method thereof. The method includes dividing a compressed audio stream and head related transfer function (HRTF) data into subbands, selecting predetermined subbands of the HRTF data divided into subbands and filtering the HRTF data to obtain the selected subbands, decoding the audio stream divided into subbands into a stream of multi-channel audio data with respect to subbands according to spatial additional information, and binaural-synthesizing the HRTF data of the selected subbands with the multi-channel audio data of corresponding subbands. |
| US10182296B2 |
Secure audio sensor
Providing security features in an audio sensor is presented herein. A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) microphone can include an acoustic membrane that converts an acoustic signal into an electrical signal; an electronic amplifier that increases an amplitude of the electrical signal to generate an amplified signal; and switch(es) configured to prevent propagation of a direct current (DC) voltage source to the MEMS microphone; prevent propagation of the DC voltage source to the electronic amplifier; prevent propagation of the electrical signal to the electronic amplifier; and/or prevent propagation of the amplified signal to an external device. |
| US10182294B2 |
Electroacoustic transducer
An electroacoustic transducer is provided and includes: a diaphragm having a pair of longitudinal split tubular surfaces arranged next to each other, a valley being formed between respective side portions of the pair of longitudinal split tubular surfaces; a converter including a magnet mechanism and a voice coil configured to perform conversion between vibration of the diaphragm along a depth direction of the valley and an electric signal corresponding to the vibration; and a supporter that supports the diaphragm such that the diaphragm is vibratable along the depth direction of the valley. A tubular portion is provided at an intermediate portion of the valley to couple the diaphragm and the voice coil to each other, and the tubular portion extends in the depth direction of the valley. |
| US10182293B2 |
Audio routing system for routing audio data to and from a mobile device
A method includes receiving sound by a first audio unit installed in an electrical outlet, routing audio data corresponding to the received sound from the first audio unit to a second audio unit installed in a second electrical outlet, and sending the audio data to a mobile device using a wireless link between the mobile device and the second audio unit. Routing the audio data may include receiving the audio data from the first audio unit by a third audio unit and routing the audio data to the second audio unit by the third audio unit serving as a router. The data may be routed using table driven routing, on-demand routing or some other appropriate routing protocol. The method may also include performing voice recognition on the audio data and detecting a command word and routing command word data to the second audio unit. |
| US10182285B2 |
Detection circuit
Circuitry detects properties of an accessory removably connected thereto via a multi-pole connector. The circuitry has first, second and third circuit terminals for coupling to respective first, second, and third poles of said connector, and has an output for providing evaluation values from which properties of the accessory may be derived. In the circuitry, first current sourcing circuitry is coupled to said first circuit terminal for providing a first current. A switch network comprises first, second, third and fourth switch network terminals, said first switch network terminal coupled to a reference potential, said second switch network terminal coupled to said second circuit terminal, and said third switch network terminal coupled to said third circuit terminal. Comparator circuitry provides a comparison signal, its first input terminal being coupled to said first circuit terminal. Second current sourcing circuitry having a monitor node coupled to said second comparator input terminal and an output node coupled to said fourth switch network terminal provides a second current to said switch network. At least one of said first current sourcing circuitry and said second current-sourcing circuitry is responsive to a digital control word for varying said first or said second current. Control logic is provided for operatively controlling the state of the interconnections of said switch network, for adjusting said digital control word in response to said comparison signal until a voltage at said first circuit terminal is equal to a voltage at said monitor node, and for supplying said adjusted digital control word associated with the state of the interconnections to said output as an evaluation value. |
| US10182283B2 |
Noise cancellation device and noise cancellation method
A noise cancellation device includes an anti-noise filter circuit, an output circuit, and a detection circuit. The anti-noise filter circuit provides a corresponding one of transfer functions to process a digital signal, in order to generate a noise cancellation signal, in which the transfer functions are different from each other. The output circuit mixes the noise cancellation signal, a reference signal, and an input signal to generate a mixed signal, and generates a sound output signal based on the mixed signal, in which the digital signal is associated with the sound output signal. The detection circuit controls the anti-noise filter circuit to provide the corresponding one of the transfer functions according to a comparison result of a first ratio and a first threshold value, in which the first ratio is a ratio of a first power of the mixed signal to a second power of the digital signal. |
| US10182280B2 |
Sound processing apparatus, sound processing system and sound processing method
A sound processing apparatus includes a processor to obtain sound data and image data, wherein the sound data is collected from a sound source in a given area by a sound collection unit including a plurality of microphones and the image data is captured by an imaging unit which captures an image at least partially in the given area, to designate a direction defined relative to the sound collection unit, wherein the designated direction corresponds to a designation part on an image displayed based on the image data, to designate an arbitrary range in the given area, wherein the designated arbitrary range corresponds to a designation part on the image displayed based on the image data, and to emphasize a sound component in the sound data in the direction designated by the first designation unit within the arbitrary range designated by the second designation unit. |
| US10182276B2 |
Method and management node for deciding ports suitable to be communicatively connected to each other in a communications network
A method and management node for deciding ports suitable to be communicatively connected to each other in a communications network. The communications network comprises an available port communicatively connected to the communications network, and a discovered port that is discovered as being communicatively connected to the communications network. The management node obtains Information associating at least the available port and the discovered port with respective one or more attributes and with a respective attribute identifier identifying the respective one or more attributes. The management node receives, from a port discovering network node, a message comprising the attribute identifier associated with the discovered port. The management node decides that the available port is suitable to be communicatively connected with the discovered port based on that the respective one or more attributes are considered matching. |
| US10182275B1 |
Passive optical subassembly with a signal pitch router
Disclosed herein is wavelength-division multiplexer with an internal optical signal tuned by a mounted signal pitch router. In particular, disclosed is a wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) optical assembly including an optical signal router, a WDM filter, and a signal pitch router. The WDM filter has a wavelength selective surface positioned proximate the second side of the optical signal router. The signal pitch router has a transmissive surface positioned proximate to a side of the optical signal router, and a second reflective surface opposite the transmissive surface. A depth of the signal pitch router establishes and tunes a pitch of a routing optical path within the optical signal router. This provides for easier, faster, more reliable, and more cost effective manufacturing and assembly of the WDM optical assembly. |
| US10182273B2 |
Configurable secure mobile tool for AMI and AMR metering systems
Disclosed herein are apparatuses, methods and systems for a configurable and secure mobile tool for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) metering systems, wherein the tool comprises a suite of mobile apps that run on a mobile device (e.g., tablet, smartphone) and have functionality to support the installation, maintenance, service, diagnostics and configuration of meters in AMI and AMR systems. The mobile app may remotely synchronize through a secure communication channel with a server in communication with a database that contains configuration settings and related data created by an administrator utilizing an administrator station. During synchronization, the mobile app functionality is configured and customized based on user group authorization profiles defined by an administrator, and data collected and generated by the mobile app that is stored on the mobile device is transferred to the database where it may be accessed by an administrator station. |
| US10182272B2 |
System and method for reinforcing brand awareness with minimal intrusion on the viewer experience
Disclosed is a system and method for distributing media content, the system including a media content server, a media content receiver configured to output a signal to an associated display device. The media content server is configured to provide a media content signal to the media content receiver. |
| US10182270B2 |
Methods and apparatus for content interaction
A method comprises receiving content from at least one source, processing the content to identify an object in the content, assigning an identifier to the object based on the processing, permitting viewer selection of the object identifier, and providing additional information for presentation to a viewer of the content responsive to viewer selection of the object identifier. The content in some embodiments comprises live video from at least one live video source. For example, the content may comprise at least a portion of a panoramic video comprising a combination of multiple live videos from respective ones of a plurality of video sources. The panoramic video may be digitally cropped and scaled before a resulting version of the content is provided for presentation to the viewer. A plurality of different digitally cropped and scaled versions of the content from the panoramic video can be generated and made available to the viewer. |
| US10182264B2 |
Methods and systems for selecting media content based on a location of a user relative to a viewing area
Methods and systems are discussed herein for a media guidance application that aggregates content of multiple types and from multiple sources. Furthermore, the media guidance application may create a personalized presentation of this content. In such cases, the media guidance application may create a playlist in which the media assets selected for the playlist, in addition to being selected from multiple sources and/or types, are selected based on the current whereabouts of the user. |
| US10182263B2 |
Enabling interactive control of live television broadcast streams
The disclosure provides a method for interactive control of live television broadcast streams. The method includes receiving a streaming live media feed from a television broadcaster and displaying an overlay on media content of the streaming live media feed. The overlay includes a play control option unassociated with an intermediary feed source of the live media feed between the television broadcaster and the media device. The method further includes receiving a first selection input of the play control option and determining that the selection input corresponds to a play mode at a first location within the media content of the streaming live media feed by determining that a first fingerprint fails to match a second fingerprint. Furthermore, the method includes overlaying targeted overlay content on the streaming live media feed. |
| US10182262B2 |
Method and system for displaying a menu which has an icon and additional information corresponding to stored video data, wherein the icon can selectively display a still image and a video image of the video data with the additional information
A menu displaying system and method having an icon for editing image data in an AV (Audio and Video) device, the AV device having a recording medium capable of storing image data and audio data, and which is capable of reproducing image data and audio data. The method comprises steps for displaying icons and additional information corresponding to the image data stored at the recording medium, selecting one of the icons displayed, and reproducing image data corresponding to the selected icon. A corresponding program stored at the AV device having a recording media such as a hard disc drive, is then reproduced upon a menu screen such that image data stored at the AV device can be easily observed. |
| US10182259B2 |
Method and system for obtaining viewing data and providing content recommendations at a set top box
A user device includes a viewer tracking module that tracks viewer events to form a viewer tracking log and a recommendation module that generates a timeslot viewing profile based on the viewer tracking log. The timeslot viewing profile includes television programs watched previously and a prioritized timeslot series profile determined by summing and prioritizing the count of a plurality of watched programs in a series. The recommendation module compares the timeslot viewing profile of available television programs during the timeslot, generates a first content recommendation list of available television programs, receives related content identifiers for related content that identify content that is available and is related to the television programs of the first content recommendation, and, based on the related content identifiers, generates a second content recommendation list including content that is available during the timeslot different from the first content recommendation list. |
| US10182257B2 |
Client-side video transcoding and processing
A client-side video transcoding and processing method for transcoding and processing of video or audio files on end-user client devices, such as desktop computers, laptops, tablet computers, smartphones, wearable devices, or any other end user computing device that can access a network such as the Internet and is equipped with a standard user agent software, such as a World Wide Web browser. The client-side video transcoding and processing generally includes an end user computing device 10, such as a workstation, personal computer, laptop, desktop computer, tablet computer, smartphone, wearable computing device or another suitable computing device, a server computer 20 that is connected to the end user computing device 10 through a network, such as the Internet, a user agent 30, which is a standard software platform such as a World Wide Web browser that is installed on the end user computing device 10, a user interface software component 40, which is part of the video transcoding or processing application and runs within the user agent 30 and a video conversion software component 50, which is part of the video transcoding or processing application and runs within the user agent 30. |
| US10182256B1 |
Automated identification of product or brand-related metadata candidates for a commercial using consistency between audio and image elements of products of brands detected in commercials
A method and system are provided for assigning metadata candidates to a commercial by performing image analysis on a plurality of the video frames to identify video frames that include one or more of identifiable product-related logos, brand-related logos, product-related text, or brand-related text which appear in the video frames, performing audio analysis on the commercial to identify audio associated with one or more identifiable products or brands in the commercial, comparing the products and brands identified by the image analysis with the products and brands identified by the audio analysis, and identifying similar products and brands; and assigning to the commercial a product or brand as a primary metadata candidate when a similar product or brand is identified by the image analysis and the audio analysis. |
| US10182254B2 |
Controlled environment media and communication system
The Controlled Environment Media And Communication System delivers communications services to residents of controlled facilities using a common network architecture. Some of the communications capabilities of the Controlled Environment Media And Communication System include media distribution, video visitation, intra-facility messaging, and other such communications services. |
| US10182245B2 |
Content adaptive quality restoration filtering for next generation video coding
Techniques related to quality restoration filtering for video coding are described. |
| US10182244B2 |
Fast encoding loss metric
Provided is a process including: obtaining source and destination video data, the destination video data being a transformed version of the source video data; for a plurality of blocks in the given source frame, determining a respective source aggregate value that is based on a measure of central tendency of pixel values; for a plurality of blocks in the given destination frame, determining a respective destination aggregate value that is based on a measure of central tendency of pixel values; determining a plurality of differences between source and destination aggregate values; determining a frame aggregate value that is based on a measure of central tendency of the determined differences; and determining a measure of distortion of the destination video data based on the frame aggregate value. |
| US10182242B2 |
Method and apparatus for palette coding with cross block prediction
A method and apparatus for color index coding of a block of video data using index prediction based on reconstructed neighboring pixels are disclosed. In one embodiment, color index encoding or decoding is applied to the current pixel indices by deriving index prediction from neighboring pixel indices of the reconstructed neighboring pixels. The reconstructed neighboring pixel values are first transformed into the neighboring pixel indices according to a quantization table to map between major color indices and major color values of the current block. The quantization table can be based on a major color table for the current block or can also be derived at a decoder side. The decoding process may reconstruct the current pixels by converting decoded current pixel indices to reconstructed current pixel values according to the quantization table or by directly copying the reconstructed neighboring pixel values indicated by decoded current pixel indices. |
| US10182240B2 |
Method of bi-prediction video coding based on motion vectors from uni-prediction and merge candidate
A method of bi-predictive Inter prediction mode using a uni-predictive motion vector and a second motion vector associated with a Merge candidate is disclosed. In the encoder side, the coded motion information for a uni-prediction motion vector for the current block is generated using a motion vector predictor selected from a motion vector prediction (MVP) candidate list. Furthermore, a Merge candidate with a second motion vector pointing to the other prediction direction is identified according to a Merge index. The uni-prediction motion vector and the second motion vector from the Merge candidate are used for bi-prediction encoding of the current block. In the decoder side, the corresponding decoding process is disclosed. |
| US10182233B2 |
Quality metric for compressed video
Methods and systems are disclosed for calculating and applying a VQ metric which operates during the decoding of compressed video. As such, this metric is appropriate for all formats of compressed video codecs (e.g., MPEG-2, AVC and HEVC). The VQ metric relies on the decoded quantization parameter (Qp) together with analysis of both the compressed and decoded video. As such, the VQ metric does not require a reference video, and is less cumbersome to use for multiple channels, e.g., statistically multiplexed channels. |
| US10182231B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method
Provided is an image processing apparatus which includes a setting unit assigning a control block, which is a control unit of a filter process that is locally performed with respect to an image, to an initial position of the image determined based on a predetermined reference point; a movement unit moving the control block, which has been assigned to the initial position of the image by the setting unit, up to a position in which the result of the filter process is improved; and a filter processing unit performing the filter process for the respective control blocks which has been moved by the movement unit. |
| US10182230B2 |
Wireless transmission of real-time media
A method, for wireless transmission of real-time media from a source to a sink over a wireless transmission channel is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises encoding media as a plurality of sets of frames, wherein each set of frames includes a key-frame, wherein the media is encoded for the wireless transmission such that a time-required for transmission of the key-frame of each set of frames is less than or equal to a time-allocation for the wireless transmission; and wirelessly transmitting the media from the source device to the sink device. |
| US10182228B2 |
Video output diagnostics for automotive application
A vehicle vision system includes a diagnostic circuit for a video output cable that senses the current flowing into a video output driver. The diagnostic circuit is operable to process the current flow to determine an open-circuit condition of the video cable, a short to ground condition of the video cable and/or a short to battery condition of the video cable. The circuit may process the current flow passing through an electrical resistor connected in series between the video output driver and the video driver power supply. |
| US10182225B1 |
Processing images to remove precipitation
Images captured by a camera system can be processed to detect precipitation in one or more of the images, and to generate a reconstructed image(s) without the precipitation, or with a reduced amount of the precipitation. Detection of precipitation can be based on a difference between a first feature in a first image and a second feature in a second image that corresponds to the first feature, where the first and second images were captured by different cameras at different times. A determination as to whether precipitation is present in the first image and the second image can be based at least in part on a disparity between the first feature and the second feature. |
| US10182222B2 |
Graphical object overlays for 360 degree cameras
An omnidirectional camera is disclosed that records spherical video associated with a particular focal direction while in motion. The omnidirectional camera may implement one or more sensors and location-determining components to facilitate the recorded spherical video being subsequently correlated to an orientation and location of the omnidirectional camera during recording in a time-wise fashion to provide several enhancements during playback. These enhancements include reorienting the spherical video to a new focal direction. Data derived from the one or more sensors and location-determining components may be further utilized to overlay graphical objects onto the spherical video during playback to provide additional feedback. |
| US10182220B2 |
Modeled object distribution management system, modeled object distribution management apparatus and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
A modeled object distribution management system includes a creator storage unit, a first display controller and a second display controller. The creator storage unit stores modeled object-related information including information indicating stereoscopic images of created modeled objects. The first display controller displays the stereoscopic images to allow a client to browse the stereoscopic images, by using the information indicating the stereoscopic images which is stored in the creator storage unit. The second display controller displays a modeling plan to allow the client to browse the modeling plan. The modeling plan includes a modeling method and a material which are used to model a modeled object corresponding to a stereoscopic image selected by the client from the stereoscopic images displayed in the first display controller. |
| US10182219B2 |
Space efficiency and management of content
A transcoder resource retrieves content stored in a repository. The stored content can be encoded in accordance with a first encoding format. The transcoder resource transcodes the retrieved content into a second encoding format. To increase available capacity, the transcoder resource stores the content in the second encoding format as a replacement to the content encoded according to the first encoding format. The second encoding format can support a higher compression ratio than the first encoding format. Additionally, the transcoding can be performed as one of multiple tasks executed in parallel. In such an instance, during parallel processing, a content management resource interleaves execution of the main processing task and the background task of transcoding the content into the second encoding format. The transcoding task can be assigned a lower execution priority than one or more other tasks executed in parallel. |
| US10182216B2 |
Extended color processing on pelican array cameras
Systems and methods for extended color processing on Pelican array cameras in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of generating a high resolution image includes obtaining input images, where a first set of images includes information in a first band of visible wavelengths and a second set of images includes information in a second band of visible wavelengths and non-visible wavelengths, determining an initial estimate by combining the first set of images into a first fused image, combining the second set of images into a second fused image, spatially registering the fused images, denoising the fused images using bilateral filters, normalizing the second fused image in the photometric reference space of the first fused image, combining the fused images, determining a high resolution image that when mapped through a forward imaging transformation matches the input images within at least one predetermined criterion. |
| US10182211B2 |
Methods and systems to fast fill media players
Methods and systems are provided to fast fill media players and buffers associated with media players. A bandwidth associated with initial startup of a media player is overloaded to rapidly fill the buffer and initiate the media player. Alternatively, multiple simultaneous data communication sessions are established with a media data source device, and the media data are concurrently received from the simultaneous sessions into the buffer or transferred of out the buffer at startup, thereby decreasing the latency associated with initiating the media player. |
| US10182204B1 |
Generating images of video chat sessions
Users of multiple clients participate in a video chat session by exchanging video streams. A user initiates generation of a high-quality composite image of the video chat session. The clients each capture high-quality local images and send the images to a chat server via a communications channel that is out-of-band from the video streams. The chat server stores the images in a repository. The initiating user views the images and selects images and a layout to use for the composite image. The chat server assembles the composite image based on the selections and saves the composite image to the repository. The initiating user can retrieve the composite image and view it, post it to social media, and/or use it for other purposes. |
| US10182202B2 |
Display apparatus with panel supporting portion and television receiver
A display apparatus with a panel supporting portion includes a supporting body that has a plate shape and supports an end edge portion of an optical sheet. The supporting body includes a panel supporting portion in an outside end edge portion. The panel supporting portion supports an end edge portion of the display panel, and has a rib on an inside end edge portion and a fitting portion that fits one position regulating portion of an optical sheet. The rib has a cut-out portion in which a portion of the rib that corresponds to an end of the fitting portion is cut out so that a height is gradually lowered toward the fitting portion. Load application to the display panel on both end portions of the fitting portion is suppressed by the cut-out portion. |
| US10182201B2 |
Image processing device, display device, and image processing method
A projector is configured so as to be able to perform a plurality of types of image processing on processing target data in the case in which one of still image data and data of a frame constituting video data is input as the processing target data. A video processing section includes a selector for controlling an execution sequence of the types of image processing to be executed, and a panel correction section for outputting the processing target data having been processed in the execution sequence controlled by the control section. |
| US10182199B2 |
Imaging device and reproducing device
According to the present invention, an imaging device and a reproducing device that allow for high quality reproduction of images generated by using two image signals having different lengths of accumulation periods output form a single imaging element are provided. A solid state imaging device of the invention includes a pixel array including a pixel having first and second photoelectric conversion units; a scanning unit that drives the pixel such that an accumulation period of an intermediate time of the first photoelectric conversion unit matches an intermediate time of an accumulation period of the second photoelectric conversion unit; a readout unit that reads out a first image signal from the first photoelectric conversion unit and reads out a second image signal from the second photoelectric conversion unit; and a generating unit that generates images by using the first and second image signals whose accumulation periods have the matched intermediate time. |
| US10182196B2 |
Method of processing image of electronic device and electronic device thereof
According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an electronic device includes: a camera module that obtains an image; and a processor which implements the method, including setting a quadrangular area in the obtained image including a reference pixel and a corresponding pixel disposed respectively at corners of the quadrangular area, calculating an accumulated-pixel value for each pixel of the obtained image corresponding to the quadrangular area, such that a particular pixel value for a particular pixel is a sum of the pixel values beginning from the reference pixel, continuing though an arrangement of pixels in the quadrangular area and terminating at the particular pixel, and generating an image quality processing-dedicated frame of accumulated-pixel values based on calculated accumulated-pixel values of each pixel of the frame. |
| US10182192B2 |
Image pickup system, image pickup apparatus, and method of controlling the same
In a method of setting an OSD function according to a related technique, it is not allowed to select various superimposing techniques. In a case where a monitoring camera supports a plurality of superimposing techniques, a user is supposed to select one of the superimposing techniques via a troublesome operation. In view of the above, an image pickup apparatus is provided which includes a reception unit configured to receive an acquisition request for information associated with an image superimposing method of the image pickup apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to, in a case where the acquisition request for the information associated with the image superimposing method of the image pickup apparatus is received by the reception unit, transmit information associated with the image superimposing method of the image pickup apparatus. |
| US10182191B2 |
Camera rig for simultaneous recording
A camera rig for simultaneous recording holds a first smartphone with a first interactive touch screen, a second smartphone with a second camera, and a third smartphone with a third camera. The camera rig includes a handle, a first mount configured for holding the first smartphone orienting the first interactive touch screen oriented toward a user, a second mount adjacent the first mount is configured for holding the second smartphone with the second camera facing the user, and a third mount overlays the first mount. The third mount is configured for holding the third smartphone with the third camera oriented away from the user. Three simultaneous footage streams of the same event are then edited into a single clip. |
| US10182190B2 |
Light detecting apparatus, image capturing apparatus and image sensor
Provided is a light detecting apparatus including: a first photoelectric converting element which outputs a first electrical signal in accordance with an incident light including a modulated light component and a background light component; a filter which outputs a second electrical signal resulting from the modulated light component being reduced in the incident light; and a signal processor which subtracts the second electrical signal from the first electrical signal to reduce a component corresponding to the background light component in the first electrical signal. |
| US10182186B2 |
Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof
An image capturing apparatus reads out a signal from pixels of the image sensor, sets a region in which a plurality of signals having different viewpoints are read out from each pixel of an image sensor, acquires first depth information for detecting an object using a signal that has been read out from a first region, acquires second depth information for detecting a focus state of the object using a signal that has been read out from a second region, and variably controls a ratio of screens in which the first region is set and a ratio of screens in which the second region is set. |
| US10182185B2 |
Image generation device, image generation method, recording medium, and method for generating an in-focus image based on feature points
An image generation device generates an image of an object placed on a surface of an image sensor by using a plurality of images each of which is captured by the image sensor when the object is irradiated with a corresponding one of a plurality of illuminators. The object includes first object and one or more second objects included in the first object. The image generation device determines a section of the first object including a largest number of feature points of second objects, generates an in-focus image using the section as a virtual focal plane, and causes the in-focus image to be displayed on a display screen. |
| US10182184B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
There is provided an image processing apparatus including a presentation controller configured to control presentation of degrees of focus in a target image corresponding to an image to be processed on the basis of a first determination result corresponding to a determination result of a degree of focus in a pixel unit in the target image and a second determination result corresponding to a determination result of a degree of focus in a region unit in the target image. |
| US10182180B2 |
Multiple camera control system
An image capture system controlled by a trigger source includes one or more imaging devices, each including a lens with an optical filter attachable thereto in axial alignment with an optical axis of the lens, a sensor, a link board interface, and a controller in communication with the sensor and connected to the link board interface. One or more imaging array link boards each includes a plurality of imaging device interfaces and a first link board interconnect. The link board interface is connected to the imaging device interface. The first link board interconnect is connectible to a link board interconnect of another imaging array link board. A shutter activation command from the trigger source is transmitted to the imaging devices to initiate an image capture procedure thereby. |
| US10182179B2 |
Image forming method for private output using mobile terminal
An image forming method includes: sending a print job and a print job ticket including user ID data from a terminal to an image forming apparatus and sending the print job ticket to a mobile terminal; receiving the print job ticket by the image forming apparatus; waiting for an access from a mobile terminal having the user ID data using a wireless communication in a specified range from the image forming apparatus; authenticating for accessing the print job ticket in the image forming apparatus using the user ID data; acquiring a facial image of a user in front of the image forming apparatus in response to the authentication; recognizing a face of an owner of the print job ticket in the acquired facial image to cause the image forming apparatus to print the image data; and printing the image data while the facial image is being recognized. |
| US10182172B2 |
Image processing apparatus configured to transmit notification data to mobile terminal
An image processing apparatus performs: acquiring instruction data including notification data and location information indicative of a location of next instruction data; controlling at least one of a display and an image processor to perform an operation instructed by the instruction data acquired most recently; when controlling the at least one of the display and the image processor, connecting a first communication interface with a mobile terminal within a particular distance range from the image processing apparatus, in accordance with a near-field wireless communication protocol; when controlling, transmitting the notification data extracted from the instruction data acquired most recently, to the mobile terminal through the first communication interface, the notification data being data for specifying an operation to be performed by the mobile terminal; and acquiring the next instruction data based on the location information extracted from the instruction data acquired most recently. |
| US10182171B2 |
Image forming device, computer-readable recording medium, and image forming method
An image forming device includes: a reader configured to generate an image of a document; a setting receiving circuit configured to receive a plurality of set values on a print setting when test printing is executed for confirming a test result; an area dividing circuit configured to divide an area of an image on the read document based on number of the set values; an image processing circuit configured to perform image processing corresponding to each of the set values, on each of the divided areas; a combined image generating circuit configured to generate a combined image acquired by combining the areas of the image on the document to which the image processing corresponding to each of the set values is performed; and a printer configure to print the combined image generated by the combined image generating circuit. |
| US10182163B2 |
Method and apparatus for content presentation in association with a telephone call
A method and apparatus are provided for presenting multimedia content to a caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call, and/or post-call. Content presented to a party may be related to or selected by another party participating in the call, or may be related to or selected by a third party (e.g., an advertiser that paid for the ability to have its content presented). Presented content may be actuable, and allow a caller to change the destination of a call, take advantage of an offer presented to him, redeem a coupon, schedule or queue a subsequent call, etc. To find a desired destination party, a caller may initiate a manual or automatic search of his local contacts (on his telephone) and/or a central or global directory or contact list. |
| US10182161B2 |
Modifying a quality of a connection between a terminal and an application server
A method for modifying a quality of a connection between a terminal and an application server of a network is described. The application server provides a service to the terminal via the connection. The method includes sending, by the terminal, a quality modification request for a desired modification of a quality of the provided service, and determining, by the network, a condition of the connection to be modified based on the quality modification request. The determined condition to be modified is associated with the quality of the provided service. The method includes determining, by the network, a charging price for the determined condition of the connection to be modified, modifying, by the network, a condition of the connection, and charging, by the network, for modifying the condition of the connection. |
| US10182157B2 |
Systems and methods for communicating
A communication system (1) comprising: determining means operable to determine an attribute of a communication device; identifying means operable to identify an avatar by using the attribute, wherein the avatar is such that it conveys to a viewer thereof information about a person; and communicating means operable to communicate the avatar to the communication device. |
| US10182156B2 |
Insight based routing for help desk service
Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe insight-based routing that is used to improve processing of a service request through a help desk service. A request for support (e.g. technical support) can be received through a modality of a help desk service. The request is evaluated, where an evaluation of the request comprises analyzing an issue associated with the request as well as user-specific signal data associated with a customer and generating insights. A support agent is matched to the customer based on an evaluation of the request. The support agent is selected from a pool of support agents based on application of a model that analyzes support agent data in correlation with the generated insights. An interaction between the matched support agent and the customer may be initiated through a modality of the help desk service. |
| US10182154B2 |
Method and apparatus for using a search engine advantageously within a contact center system
Apparatus for operating a multimedia contact center, comprising a multimedia contact center system for handling communications sessions between an organization and its customers and obtaining media-specific information relating to the communications session, and a search engine for performing a search in relation to the obtained media-specific information, wherein the multimedia contact center system is configured to use the results from the search in handling the communications session, wherein the results may include heterogeneous material not primarily intended for session handling purposes. |
| US10182151B2 |
System and method for an interaction page
A system and method that includes receiving a call from a customer; determining, in response to receiving the call, interactions with the customer and relevant business objects relating to the interactions; and presenting, simultaneously in a user interface display pane, representations of the interactions and the relevant business objects relating to the interactions. |
| US10182148B2 |
Method and system for filtering undesirable incoming telephone calls
Method of filtering undesirable incoming telephone calls, in which a decision to block a call or to transmit it is based both on the caller's number and on analysis of the caller's voice. |
| US10182140B2 |
Executing applications in conjunction with other devices
A method and electronic device for executing application concurrently with other devices are provided. An address of an external electronic device and a location of an application is obtained. A connection is established with a device using a short-range communication protocol. The application is obtained and executed in conjunction with the device. |
| US10182128B1 |
Optimization of production systems
The techniques described herein provide software testing of a candidate version of software. In some examples, an interceptor may perform an asynchronous and non-blocking intercept of at least one request to a production system and may provide the intercepted at least one request to a shadow proxy service as at least one shadow request. The shadow proxy service may process the shadow request by causing the at least one shadow request to be classified based at least one criteria. The processed shadow requests are logged. A selection may be made from among the logged shadow request to be replayed by the production system based on one or more criteria used to classify the shadow requests. The shadow proxy service may replay the selected at least one logged shadow request to the production system. |
| US10182126B2 |
Multilevel redirection in a virtual desktop infrastructure environment
Multilevel redirection can be performed in a VDI environment. When a user establishes a second remote session within a first remote session, various redirection techniques can be configured to span both remote sessions so that redirection will be available within the second remote session in the same manner that redirection was available in the first remote session. Therefore, from the user perspective, redirection will occur regardless of whether the user has established a single tier remote session or multitier remote session. |
| US10182124B2 |
Scalable, real-time messaging system
A publish-subscribe messaging systems and methods are described. A method may include retrieving, by one or more computer processors, messages for a particular one of a plurality of channels from one or more respective buffers allocated to the particular channel that have not expired and according to an order, wherein each buffer comprises a respective time-to-live. The method also includes sending, by the one or more computer processors, the messages retrieved for the particular channel to one or more subscriber clients that have subscribed to the particular channel. |
| US10182122B2 |
Action flow fragment management
Action flow fragment management includes executing a parent action flow including multiple steps. At least two steps are distinct pages of a web application. During execution of the parent action flow, an action flow fragment expression is obtained and executed using data gathered from a data source to obtain an action flow fragment identifier. An action flow fragment corresponding to the action flow fragment identifier is selected and executed. When execution of the action flow fragment completes, execution of the parent action flow continues. |
| US10182121B2 |
Cookie based session timeout detection and management
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for detecting a session status based on a cookie associated with the session is provided. The present invention may include receiving an access request to a specified location associated with a server computer. The present invention may also include determining that the received access request has the cookie corresponding with the specified location. The present invention may also include receiving a last refresh time from the cookie. The present invention may then include determining the session status based on the retrieved last refresh time, a current request time, a refresh interval, and an overdue value. |
| US10182117B2 |
Method and system for transmitting data from telemetry devices to eNodeB over wireless communication network
Embodiments herein relate to a method, telemetry aggregator and system for transmitting data from a plurality of telemetry devices to an evolved nodeB (eNodeB) over wireless communication network. A telemetry aggregator (TA) is placed in between the telemetry device and the eNodeB. The TA is placed close to the power source. This ensures that even the low power telemetry devices can transmit the data over the mobile network. The TD transmits plurality of data frames to the TA. The TA aggregates and assembles the plurality of data frames into an aggregated data frame. TA then transmits the aggregated data frame to the eNodeB at a preferred time and frequency. Since the plurality of data frames are aggregated, there is no need for the eNodeB to be connected with the Internet of Things (IoT) devices or TD for the processing of the control messages and the data. |
| US10182116B2 |
Contactless communication for battery information
One example includes a system is comprised of an elongated transmission line and as module. The elongated transmission line includes an arrangement of transmission line couplers distributed along its length at spaced apart locations. The module has an outer surface and is comprised of a transmitter, and a transmitter coupler. The transmitter transmits a radio frequency signal. The transmitter coupler is on the outer surface of the module, electrically connects with the transmitter, and aligns to couple with a respective one of the transmission line couplers to provide a contactless communication link between the transmitter and the elongated transmission line. |
| US10182114B2 |
Media content sharing method and server
A media content sharing method is provided which includes receiving a query message including query information associated with a media content from a client device, determining whether a storage unit contains a target description file including at least a segment information including characteristics corresponding to the query information, whereby the storage unit stores a plurality of description files uploaded from a plurality of content providing devices, and transmitting a request message to a first content providing device which uploads the target description file, for requesting the first content providing device to provide a target media segment. |
| US10182111B2 |
Dynamic adjustment of entity assignment in a multi-data center environment
Techniques for handling the dynamic reassignment of entities among multiple data centers are provided. In one technique, for each task of a plurality of tasks that are associated with a first data center of a plurality of data centers, an entity identifier that is associated with the task is identified. A call to an entity routing service is initiated, where the call includes the entity A response to the call is received from the entity routing service, where the response indicates a particular data center. An entity processor that is different than the entity routing service processes the task only if the particular data center is the first data center. If the particular data center is different than the first data center, then a data structure that stores the task is updated to indicate the particular data center and the task is eventually processed in the particular data center. |
| US10182110B2 |
Transfer format for storage system, and transfer method
If resources allocated to a host computer exist in different physical storage nodes within a virtual storage system after performing migration to a storage system, mapping of resources among the physical storage nodes becomes necessary, and if the amount of communication between physical storage nodes that occurs during access to resources exceeds a bandwidth of the connection path, the host I/O performance may be deteriorated compared to the performance before migration. Therefore, when migration is performed from a first physical storage node to a virtual storage system composed of a plurality of second physical storage nodes, a management computer allocates resources of the second physical storage nodes within a range of bandwidth of the transfer path between the second physical storage nodes based on configuration information of the plurality of second physical storage nodes, performance information, and load information of the volume provided by the first physical storage node. |
| US10182109B2 |
Notification system and method for sending alerts to communication participants
A system and method for automatically alerting participants to or listeners of a communication when a predefined section of the communication is reached are disclosed. In accordance with an exemplary method, prior to a communication, a document corresponding to the communication is marked at predefined locations. During a communication, the document is reviewed for marks, and when a mark is detected, an alert or notification is sent to one or more participants. The participants may then join the communication a point corresponding to the pre-defined section(s). |
| US10182107B2 |
Multi-tenant application using hierarchical bean factory container
Various embodiments provide on premise and cloud deployment support for components that may not be multi-tenant enabled. A single application in a highly non-intrusive way without effecting application functional logic. On premise deployments can run with fixed default tenant and no tenant information needs to be captured anywhere anytime. The application code accesses the hierarchical bean factory to get any tenant specific or shared resources seamlessly without knowledge of multi-tenancy in functional code anywhere. |
| US10182105B2 |
Policy based framework for application management in a network device having multiple packet-processing nodes
A first system manager operating on a first node of a distributed routing system, receives data indicating a current state of the distributed routing system. The first system manager may determine, based at least in part on the current state of the distributed routing system and a set of rules for an application, an updated state of the distributed routing system. Furthermore, the first node may send the updated state of the distributed routing system to a second node of the distributed routing system. Responsive to receiving the updated state of the distributed routing system, a second system manager on the second node may modify a state of the second node. Modifying the state of the second node may comprise at least one of: starting the application on the second node, stopping the application on the second node, or modifying a state of the application on the second node. |
| US10182104B1 |
Automatic propagation of resource attributes in a provider network according to propagation criteria
A provider network that implements different resources for a client may provide automatic propagation of resource attributes to the different resources according to propagation criteria. Propagation criteria may be received that indicates a logical structure for multiple resources of a provider network. These resources may or may not be currently deployed. In response to a request to initiate propagation of resource attributes to the multiple resources, the multiple resources may be identified according to a logical structure identified as part of the propagation criteria and the resource attributes applied to the identified resources. Upon completion of propagation, a notification of completion may be provided. |
| US10182097B2 |
Predicting a viewer's quality of experience
A method, system and computer program product for predicting a viewer's quality of experience while watching mobile videos potentially afflicted with network induced impairments. The length of a stall on a video at time t is received as a first input to a model. The number of stalls up to the time t is received as a second input to the model. Furthermore, the time since a preceding rebuffering event is received as a third input to the model. Additionally, a reciprocal stall density at time t is received as a fourth input to the model. The hysteresis effect is captured using a machine-learning-based model with an input that is an aggregate of the outputs of the first, second, third and fourth inputs to nonlinear input blocks of the model, where the hysteresis effect represents an effect that a viewer's recent level of satisfaction/dissatisfaction has on their overall viewing experience. |
| US10182095B2 |
Method and system for video call using two-way communication of visual or auditory effect
A video call method and system may use a two-way transmission of a visual effect or an auditory effect. A server may manage and store content that includes visual information or auditory information as an effect to apply to a video call in association with an effect identifier. A server may receive, during the video call, an effect identifier and may transmit the visual information or audio information associated with the effect identifier to a reception-side electronic device together with a data packet for the video call. |
| US10182092B2 |
Media data transmission method and device
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a media data transmission method and a device. The method is mainly used to, when there is media data suitable for transmission by using a first frequency band, control a media source device and a media presentation device to establish a connection in the first frequency band and transmit the media data based on the established connection. Thereby, transmission performance of the media data may be ensured, and power consumption may be reduced. |
| US10182091B2 |
Decentralized, hierarchical, and overlay-driven mobility support architecture for information-centric networks
An anchor server in an information-centric network (ICN) receives registration and deregistration requests from one or more producers in the ICN. In response to a producer initially registering, the anchor server stores records associating the producer with content available from the producer via a first point of attachment. In response to the producer deregistering, the records are marked as deactivated. While the records are deactivated, requests for the content from consumers may be queued. In response to the producer reregistering as being connected to the ICN via a second point of attachment, the queued requests are forwarded to the producer via the second point of attachment. |
| US10182083B2 |
System and method for electronic data reconciliation and clearing
Electronic source information is reconciled by normalizing at least some electronic source information, transport information and destination information by applying a plurality of rules to extract the information into at least one schema. At least some of the normalized information is identified to contain at least one discrepancy or missing data record, and reconciliation information is provided in a graphical user interface. Electronic information is received that reconciles the discrepancy or the missing record, and the reconciled and normalized electronic source, transport and destination information is processed to provide data analytics. A report is generated that represents the data analytics and that is output to at least one user. This can occur in one or more implementations of the present application. |
| US10182081B2 |
Control system, communication system, control method, and recording medium
A control system is provided. The control system includes a state management unit configured to control state information indicating a state of a communication terminal and a control unit configured to, when a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal communicate, determine whether content data should be transmitted from the first communication terminal to the second communication terminal and whether content data should be transmitted from the second communication terminal to the first communication terminal based on a set of the state information indicating the state of the first communication terminal and the state information indicating the state of the second communication terminal controlled by the state management unit. |
| US10182073B2 |
Information infrastructure management tools with variable and configurable filters and segmental data stores
Method of creating an information infrastructure for processing data throughput or a method for processing data throughput in a distributed computing system works on sensitive content (e.g., trade secrets) or select content (e.g., critical content) and generates or reduces sensitive/select data with configurable filters (expanding, contracting, hierarchical/orthogonal classifier filters) to separate and store sensitive/select data in designated, distributed data stores. Sensitive/select data stores may have security clearance requirements. |
| US10182072B2 |
RF communication device with access control for host interface
There is described an RF communication device, the device comprising (a) a data memory for storing data, (b) an RF interface (112) for RF communication with an external RF device (130), (c) a host interface (111) for communication with a host device (120), (d) a host access memory unit (214, 215) comprising host interface access control data, the host interface access control data defining host access rules for accessing data in the data memory through the host interface (111), and (e) a host access control unit for, based on the host interface access control data, controlling access to data in the data memory through the host interface (111). There is also described a system and a method. |
| US10182058B2 |
Method, device and server for managing user login sessions
The present disclosure provides a method, device and server for managing user login sessions. A session cache list is queried, using a user ID and after a user has successfully logged in with the user ID via the login medium, whether a login session queue corresponding to the user ID exists in the session cache list. If the login session queue exists in the session cache list, a user login status is managed through the login session queue. If the login session queue corresponding to the user ID is absent from the session cache list, a session ID corresponding to the user's login is stored in a login session queue corresponding to the user ID in the session cache list. A legitimate user is able to effectively manage each login created with the user's user ID through the login session queue, and to prevent any login sessions created when the user ID is used to log in from being beyond the legitimate user's control. |
| US10182055B2 |
Security policy efficacy visualization
A management entity communicates over a network with devices on which security rules are configured to control network access. Data that indicates a hit count for each security rule across the devices is repeatedly collected from the devices. The indicated hit counts for each security rule are aggregated over different repeating time intervals to produce repeatedly aggregated hit counts for respective ones of the different repeating time intervals. The security rules are generated for display on a user interface screen as selectable options. Responsive to a selection of one of the security rules, a selected security rule and most recently aggregated hit counts for the different repeating time intervals for the selected security rule are generated for concurrent display on the user interface screen. The display of the most recently aggregated hit counts for the selected security rule is updated as time progresses. |
| US10182054B2 |
Systems, methods and computer program products for information integration across disparate information systems
An information integration system may include a set of integration services embodied on one or more server machines in a computing environment. The set of integration services may include connectors communicatively connected to disparate information systems. The connectors may be configured for integrating data stored in the disparate information systems utilizing a common model employed by the set of integration services. The common model may overlay, augment, integrate, or otherwise utilize a content management interoperability services data model and may include common property definitions and a common security model. The common security model may include permissions particularly defined for use by the set of integration services. These common property definitions and permissions may be uniquely defined and utilized by the information integration system. |
| US10182050B2 |
Data processing based on two-dimensional code
The present disclosure provides example methods and apparatuses of data processing based on a two-dimensional code. The two-dimensional code is generated upon receiving a data processing request from a user of a first communication device. Information relating to the data processing request obtained through scanning the two-dimensional code by a second communication device is received. A user interface for data processing is generated at the second communication device based on the information relating to the data processing request. The present techniques for data processing based on the two-dimensional code use the two-dimensional code to complete logging-in and avoid the tedious logging-in process, thereby conveniently, efficiently, and securely implements data output processing. |
| US10182049B2 |
System and method of generating and using bilaterally generated variable instant passwords
Implementations of a system and method of generating and using bilaterally generated variable instant passwords are disclosed. In some implementations, a computer implemented method of Authenticated Dialogue Initiation between a USER and another party is provided. In some implementations, the USER may attempt to establish a connection with another party at their IP address; the other party may be known or unknown by the USER. In this implementation, a publically available authentication device, comprised of a variable character set, is used to generate a CALL for a password. The password is used to authenticate the other party; authentication is to completed once the correct password is received from the IP address of the party contacted by the USER. In some implementations, Authenticated Dialogue Initiation may be used to control (e.g., grant, deny, and/or limit) another party's access to the USER's computer system. |
| US10182048B1 |
Systems and methods for automatically populating one-time-password input fields
The disclosed computer-implemented method for automatically populating one-time-password input fields may include (1) detecting, at a first computing device of a user, an input field that requires a one-time password that is included in a message that is sent by a one-time-password provider to a second computing device of the user, (2) identifying, at the second computing device, the message that includes the one-time password, (3) transmitting the one-time password from the second computing device to the first computing device, (4) receiving, at the first computing device, the one-time password, and (5) automatically populating, at the first computing device, the input field with the one-time password. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US10182047B1 |
Pictograph password security system
Systems and methods for determining a pictograph password sequence and association phrase are provided. In some example embodiments, an assigned pictograph sequence request is received from a client device, with the request causing the system to generate a template pictograph sequence, generate an association phrase based on the template pictograph sequence, store the template pictograph sequence and associated phrase on a memory, and transmit instructions to cause a display of the template pictograph sequence and the association phrase. In some example embodiments, the system requires an input of a pictograph sequence that matches the template pictograph sequence in order for a user to view content. In some example embodiments, the template pictograph sequence may be replaced by a user pictograph sequence. |
| US10182046B1 |
Detecting a network crawler
Techniques for detecting a network crawler may be described. In particular, a request for information may be received from a computing system. Based on this request, a network-based document may be provided to the computing system. The network-based document may include a portion of the information, code, and an identifier of another network-based document. The code may be configured to, upon execution, determine whether the other network-based document was accessed prior to providing the network-based document to the computing system. An indication whether the other network-based document was accessed may be received from the computing system. The indication may be received based on an execution of the code at the computing system. Based on the indication, the request for the information may be determined as being associated with a network crawler hosted on the computing system. |
| US10182045B2 |
Method, system, and program storage device for managing tenants in an industrial internet of things
In an example embodiment, a method, system, and program storage device for binding an industrial application to a plurality of services in an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is provided. For each of a plurality of tenants, a service template corresponding to a group in which the corresponding tenant belongs is retrieved and an instance of the industrial application is instantiated for the corresponding tenant. Then, at runtime of an instance of the industrial application, a number of actions are taken. A request by the instance of the industrial application for a service identified by a first service name is detected. Then a credential for the service name is retrieved, with the credential identifying a location where an instance of the service identified by the first service name resides. The service identified by the first service name is then dynamically called using the location. |
| US10182044B1 |
Personalizing global session identifiers
Techniques for personalizing short-term session credentials are described herein. A global session key is provided to a plurality of regions of a computing resource service provider and an account key is also provided to one or more of the plurality of regions based at least in part on those regions being trusted by a customer of the computing resource service provider. When a request for short-term session credentials is received at the trusted region by that customer, a session token is generated and encrypted with a combination of the global session key and the account key, thereby creating a session token that can be uniquely associated with the customer and that may only be used in regions that that customer has designated as trusted regions. |
| US10182042B2 |
Generating bridge match identifiers for linking identifiers from server logs
Bridging encrypted datasets is provided. A system transmits, to a server, a first identifier vector encrypted with a first encryption that is commutative. The system receives an encrypted first identifier vector encrypted based on the first encryption and encrypted by a second encryption associated with the server. The system receives a second identifier vector encrypted based on the second encryption. The system encrypts the second identifier vector with the first encryption to generate an encrypted second identifier vector that is encrypted based on the second encryption and further encrypted based on the first encryption. The system determines a correlation count between the encrypted first identifier vector and the encrypted second identifier vector. The system generates one identifier key for both the first identifier and the second identifier. The system can provide the one identifier key for input into an application to process interactions. |
| US10182041B2 |
Method and apparatus for secure data transmissions
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for secure data transmissions. A method includes receiving a request for data that is encrypted according to a first encryption scheme, and determining a first public IP address associated with the request. The first public IP address identifies a remote client that created the request and is located in a field of a data packet that includes the request. The method includes determining a second public IP address associated with the request that identifies a sender of the request and is determined dynamically when the request is received. The method includes verifying an authenticity of the request in response to the first public IP address of the remote client matching the second public IP address of the sender. The method includes encrypting the requested data according to a second encryption scheme, and transferring the data to the remote client. |
| US10182039B2 |
Encrypted and authenticated data frame
At a source network device, data is compiled into a plurality of data blocks for transmission in a data frame over a network to a destination network device. The plurality of data blocks are arranged into a plurality of data block groups such that each data block group comprises a predetermined number of data blocks. Encryption information is generated for each of the plurality of data blocks groups. The encryption information identifies an encryption key for each of the plurality of data block groups. Overhead data configured to allow the destination network device to align and decode the data frame is generated. The data frame is transmitted from the source network device to the destination network device such that the encryption information for each of the plurality of data block groups is transmitted consecutively with a respective data block group, and a portion of the overhead data is transmitted prior to each consecutive transmission of encryption information with a data block group. |
| US10182034B1 |
Calling party number selection for outbound telephone calls to mitigate robocall processing impacts
A contact center maintains a pool of calling party telephone numbers (“CPTN”) that can be selected for call origination. A new CPTN can be selected based on various criteria in order to avoid, or respond to, a determination that the current CPTN is “tagged” as being a robocall. The triggering of a new CPTN can be initiated based on various factors, including a number of calls made, a time period, a change in call outcomes, direct input, or by querying a database maintaining status information. Upon triggering the selection of a new number, the old calling party number may be placed in a “dead” pool if tagged, or placed in an “aging” pool for where it is not used for a given time. Once aged, the number is placed in an “available for use” pool. Thus, impacts of service provider robocall processing can be mitigated. |
| US10182033B1 |
Integration of service scaling and service discovery systems
Systems and methods are described to enable integrating operation of a service record system with operation of an automatically scaled service hosting system. The service hosting system can maintain a set of servers to provide a network-accessible service, and the service record system can maintain records identifying the set of servers as endpoints for the service. The service hosting system can further modify the number of servers within the set based, for example, on demand. When the service hosting system intends to remove a server from the set, it may notify the service record system. The service record system, in turn, can determine whether any valid records are predicted to exist that identify the to-be-removed server as an endpoint for the service. If such records are predicted to exist, removal of the server can be delayed until those records expire, to prevent errors resulting from client reliance on those records. |
| US10182030B2 |
Computerized system and method for automatically creating and communicating media streams of digital content
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods automatically identify and communicate media content to users as the media content is uploaded to the internet. The disclosed systems and methods leverage an internet hosted data firehose in order to build and communicate streams of content that are relevant to users' determined interests. Real-time analysis of the continuous stream of content results in curated media streams being created and communicated to users thereby stimulating social interactivity between users and automating the discovery of other users on a network. |
| US10182029B2 |
Estimation of information diffusion route on computer mediated communication network
A method for estimation of information diffusion route on computer mediated communication network. The method includes: generating, by a computing device, a user collection that includes an original user posting original information and one or more users forwarding the original information through the communication network; obtaining a network of users registered by a first user of the one or more users forwarding the original information; selecting one or more candidates potentially referred by the first user from the network of the users registered by the first user based on the user collection; and rating the one or more candidates based on historical information of the one or more candidates and the first user. The present invention also provides a computer system and computer program product. |
| US10182023B2 |
Instant messaging
A method implemented by a client application when executed on a user device during an instant messaging communication between said user device and at least one further device, the method comprising: transmitting a first message comprising media data over a communication network from said user device to said at least one further device; receiving a second message comprising further media data transmitted over said communication network from said at least one further device; determining that the media data and the further media data are of the same data type; and generating a composite media object based on the media data and the further media data in response to said determination and displaying the composite media object on a display of said user device. |
| US10182021B2 |
Crossbar switch and recursive scheduling
A crossbar switch has N input ports, M output ports, and a switching matrix with N×M crosspoints. Each crosspoint contains an internal queue (XQ), which can store one or more packets to be routed. Traffic rates between Input/Output (IO) pairs of the switch are specified in an N×M traffic rate matrix, where each element equals a number of requested cell transmission opportunities between each IO pair within a scheduling frame of F time-slots. An algorithm for scheduling N traffic flows with traffic rates is based upon recursive and fair decomposition of a traffic rate vector with N elements. To reduce memory requirements a shared row queue (SRQ) may be embedded in each row of the switching matrix, allowing the size of XQs to be reduced. A shared column queue may be used in place of the XQs. |
| US10182020B2 |
System and method for improving an aggregated throughput of simultaneous connections
A client and content provider are connected by a plurality of simultaneous transport connections. The number of the transport connections that are used to transfer data is selected based on the size of the data to be transferred and may change after transfer of data has commenced based on the amount of data left and the attributes of the transport connections. In another aspect, data to be transmitted over the transport connections is organized into frames such that each frame includes data from only one data stream. The frames are sized to be less than or equal to a control window of the transport connection over which they are transmitted. Each frame may be assigned to a transport connection in a round robin fashion or based on the size of the frame and the sizes of the control windows of the transport connections. |
| US10182019B2 |
Interconnected hardware infrastructure resource control
A physical network node controls allocation and/or deallocation of resources of an interconnected hardware infrastructure. The physical network node determines a number of requests currently queued at a first service node of a plurality of serially-connected service nodes at a current time. The plurality of serially-connected service nodes supports a packet flow using resources of the interconnected hardware infrastructure. The physical network node also determines a packet flow rate of the packet flow into the first service node. The physical network node also determines a future time to control allocation or deallocation of a resource of the interconnected hardware infrastructure to a second service node of the plurality of serially-connected service nodes based on the determined number of requests and the determined packet flow rate. The physical network node controls allocation or deallocation of the resource to the second service node at the future time. |
| US10182017B2 |
Estimating multiple distinct-flow counts in parallel
A network switch includes circuitry, multiple ports and multiple hardware-implemented distinct-flow counters. The multiple ports are configured to receive packets from a communication network. Each of the multiple hardware-implemented distinct-flow counters is configured to receive (i) a respective count definition specifying one or more packet-header fields and (ii) a respective subset of the received packets, and to estimate a respective number of distinct flows that are present in the subset, by evaluating, over the packets in the subset, a number of distinct values in the packet-header fields belonging to the count definition. The circuitry is configured to provide each of the distinct-flow counters with the respective subset of the received packets, including providing a given packet to a plurality of the distinct-flow counters, and to identify an event-of-interest based on numbers of distinct flows estimated by the distinct-flow counters. |
| US10182012B2 |
Route control device, system and route control method
A route control device controls a transfer destination in a plurality of transfer devices that are included in a network and that transfer packets flowing between a first information processing device and a second information processing device. The route control device comprises a processor. The processor detects that a session is to be newly established, on the basis of a packet of a protocol that controls establishment of a session between the first information processing device and the second information processing device, selects a route with a light load from among a plurality of routes connecting the first information processing device and the second information processing device, and makes a transfer device on a selected route establish a selected route. |
| US10182007B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method for facilitating controller-based multicast signaling
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) receiving, at an upstream router of a multicast distribution tree, a packet that is destined for a receiver within an MPLS network, (2) identifying within the packet (A) a context label that specifies a controller and (B) a tree label that is assigned by the controller, (3) identifying a forwarding table that corresponds to the context label identified within the packet, (4) searching the forwarding table that corresponds to the context label for the tree label that specifies the multicast distribution tree, (5) identifying, based at least in part on the search, a downstream router of the multicast distribution tree that is to receive the packet on the way to the receiver, and then (6) forwarding the packet to the downstream router of the multicast distribution tree on the way to the receiver. Various other methods, systems, and apparatuses are also disclosed. |
| US10182004B2 |
Mobile telecommunications routing
A telecommunications mobility management system is arranged to allocate a mobile unit to different switching routes for different classes of service, for example to allow services capable of operation over packet-switched and circuit-switched to be managed separately. Separate location updates are transmitted to a register, and flagged for selective retrieval by a routing function when an incoming connection request is made, the appropriate switch ID being selected according to the class of service to which the connection request relates. |
| US10182001B2 |
Method for cross-trafficking between two slaves of an annular data network
In order to be able to maintain cross-traffic between slaves in a ring topology of an Ethernet-based data network even in the event of an error in the ring topology, which leads to the interruption of the ring topology, it is provided that in the event of the occurrence (rectification) of an error (F) in the annular data network (1), the ringmaster is configured to forward data packets or to block at least multicast data packets, and that the master prompts the slaves (S1, S2), communicating with one another via cross-traffic, to transmit configuration data packets (DPMC1, DPMC2) as multicast data packets to each of the other slaves (S1, . . . , Sn) of the annular data network in order to adjust address tables (AT1, AT2) in the slaves (S1, S2), communicating with one another via cross-traffic. |
| US10181998B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for path selection in a packet network
Embodiments including methods, systems, and apparatuses for distributing, processing, and reacting to path information distributed via a service-agnostic packet fabric for the purpose of enabling path selection are disclosed. By configuring two ingress line cards to send path quality words to each other via the switch fabric, compare the path quality words, and determine whether to transmit traffic to an egress line card via the switch fabric based on the comparison of the path quality words, the embodiments enable a central switch fabric to be unaware of the paths that it carries, and enable both ingress and egress bandwidth of the switch fabric to be sized according to the facilities for which it is terminating. The switch fabric does not need to support working and protection paths simultaneously in some embodiments, allowing it to be scaled appropriately to termination facilities. |
| US10181997B2 |
Methods, systems and computer readable media for providing receive port resiliency in a network equipment test device
A system for providing test receive port resiliency includes a network equipment test device including a port module for transmitting test packets to and receiving packets from a device under test (DUT). The system further includes a port central processing unit (CPU) associated with the port module for processing packets that the CPU receives from the DUT. The system further includes a configurable pre-filter associated with the port module for pre-filtering the packets to prevent at least some of the packets from being forwarded to the port CPU. The system further includes a pre-filter rules generator for analyzing the packets forwarded to the port CPU and for automatically generating a pre-filtering rule to be used by the pre-filter for filtering subsequent packets received from the DUT. |
| US10181994B2 |
Probing a network
A method is presented of probing a network using probing with a probe packet pair, the pair comprising a first probe packet (L1) and a second probe packet (L2), and wherein L1>L2. The L1 probe packet is transmitted before L2 and the probe packets are arranged to be back-to-back on the last link. Use of the method provides the capacity of the last link in the probed path. The method may be run from a gateway in a network to probe aspects of the network and is suitable for probing a domestic network behind a home gateway. A use for the method is also described. |
| US10181988B1 |
Systems and methods for monitoring a network device
A method for monitoring a network device is described. The method includes analyzing a traffic log that records network activity between the network device and a cloud server. The method also includes determining that the network device is offline based on the traffic log analysis. The method further includes sending an alert to a user device indicating that the network device is offline. |
| US10181987B2 |
High availability of collectors of traffic reported by network sensors
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for collector high availability. In some embodiments, a system receives, from a first collector device, a first data report generated by a capturing agent deployed on a host system in a network. The system can also receive, from a second collector device, a second data report generated by the capturing agent deployed on the host system. The first and second data reports can include traffic data captured at the host system by the capturing agent during a period of time. The system can determine that the first data report and the second data report are both associated with the capturing agent, and identify duplicate data contained in the first data report and the second data report. The system can then deduplicate the first and second data reports to yield a deduplicated data report. |
| US10181986B2 |
Action records in virtual space
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for monitoring action records in virtual space. The systems and methods for monitoring action records in virtual space display recorded activity on an avatar within the virtual space by communicating in a virtual space with a user account. The recorded activity is analyzed and processed in order to compile information on the avatar and display an avatar (which is a reflection of the compiled information). |
| US10181985B1 |
Cloud-based device discovery
Describe herein are techniques for providing cloud-based discovery. For example, a device may be configured to provide device registration and de-registration notifications to a cloud-based discovery service. The cloud-based discovery service may be configured to respond to discovery request by identifying registered devices that meet the criteria of the discovery request. The cloud-based discovery service may also be configured to provide endpoint information associated with registered devices in response to the discovery request, such that a device is able to utilize the endpoint information to connect with one or more of the registered devices. |
| US10181984B1 |
Post incident review
A post incident analysis system and method includes a system management module coupled to a communications link and digital data storage containing a database of multiple survey questions, each question associated with an application criteria statement and auto populate instructions. The module conducts post incident analysis responsive to a network incident. After the incident receives a given status, the module generates a post incident survey. Survey questions are identified by applying the application criteria statement associated with each question. The module pre-completes selected ones of the identified survey questions by executing the auto populate instructions associated with the selected survey question to identify and retrieve answers to the question from predefined data sources specified in the auto populate instructions. The post incident survey includes, at minimum, survey questions for which the pre-completion was not successful. The survey is transmitted to the participants via the link. |
| US10181982B2 |
Distributed multi-data source performance management
A performance management engine may be implemented to continuously detecting entity performance issues. The performance management engine may calculate one or more key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure performance of an entity. The performance management engine may further receive one or more additional sources of data regarding the entity via a data management platform that interfaces with multiple data sources. The performance management engine may aggregate the KPIs and the one or more additional sources of data into datasets according to one or more grouping parameters. The data in one or more datasets may be analyzed by the performance management engine to generate one or more comprehensive performance indicators. The comprehensive performance indicators are then provided for display on a user device. Each KPI or comprehensive performance indicator measures performance of a device, a component, a node, or a service of the entity. |
| US10181980B2 |
Controlling a hybrid node to operate as one of a first group of nodes or as one of a second group of nodes of a wireless network
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for controlling a hybrid node are disclosed. A network includes a plurality of first nodes, wherein sectors of the plurality of first nodes are configured to simultaneously transmit wireless signals or receive wireless signals, a plurality of second nodes, wherein sectors of the plurality of second nodes are configured to simultaneously transmit wireless signals when all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of first nodes are receiving wireless signals, or receive wireless signals when all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of first nodes are transmitting wireless signals, and a plurality of hybrid nodes, wherein at least a subset of sectors of the plurality of hybrid nodes are controllably selected to operate as one of the plurality of first nodes or to operate as one of the plurality of second nodes. |
| US10181973B2 |
Trellis shaping on LDPC-coded modulation DMT systems
A transmitter in a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) system includes a rate encoder configured to generate a first set of encoded bits using a set of least significant bits, a trellis shaper configured to generate a second set of encoded bits using a most significant bit and the first set of encoded bits, a first constellation mapper configured to generate a first point described by integer coordinates in a complex plane based on the first set of encoded bits obtained from the rate encoder, a second constellation mapper configured to generate a second point described by integer coordinates in the complex plane after interleaving two bits from the second set of encoded bits obtained from the trellis shaper, and a merger module configured to merge the first point with the second point to generate a symbol. The symbol represents a third point described by integer coordinates in the complex plane. |
| US10181972B1 |
Code division multiple access (CDMA) Manet
Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for communicating between nodes in a mobile ad hoc network. In one scenario, a node in a mobile ad hoc network communicates with another node in the network using both code division multiple access (CDMA) and frequency division duplexing. The communication is coded prior to transmission to the other node, and includes applying direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) modulation to a transmission signal at a specified bit rate over a specified spectrum. The DSSS coding is applied in accordance with a processing gain which spreads the spectrum relative to the bit rate of the transmission. The coded communication is then transmitted over a specified frequency band allocated to the node over which the node transmits data and over which the other node receives the data. |
| US10181967B2 |
Method and apparatus for soft detection of high order QAM symbols in MIMO channels
Methods and apparatus for soft MIMO detection of high order QAM with initial candidate reduction are described. A method includes receiving a plurality of signals including Q-order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbols; determining, based on linear minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation using detection of I and Q signs around a target layer, a reduced candidate set including C potential candidates, where C is less than Q; calculating Euclidean distances (EDs) based on the reduced candidate set; and generating log-likelihood ratio (LLR) information based on the calculated EDs. |
| US10181964B2 |
Method and apparatus for channel estimation
A method for reporting a channel state of a terminal performed by the terminal is disclosed. The method includes receiving a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration for verifying validity of channel estimation using only a part of two-dimensional (2D) array antenna ports configured for the terminal, verifying the validity of the channel estimation using CSI-RS configuration and obtaining a channel estimation validity indicator, and transmitting the channel estimation validity indicator and channel state information based on the channel estimation validity indicator. |
| US10181963B2 |
Data transfer method and system
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for transferring data between multiple clients and a destination node. The method includes: receiving request data sent by the plurality of clients, adding a unique label to the request data sent by each client, and sending the labeled request data to the second node; removing the labels from the request data, and sending the request data with the labels removed to the destination node for processing; receiving processing result data returned by the destination node, adding unique labels to the processing result data, and returning the processing result data with the labels to the first node; removing the labels from the processing result data and returning the processing result data with the labels removed to the clients corresponding to the labels. |
| US10181962B2 |
Predictive and nomadic roaming of wireless clients across different network subnets
Wireless access points detect neighboring wireless access points in different subnets. Upon connecting with a wireless client, a wireless access point determines predictive roaming information for the wireless client. Predictive roaming information identifies the wireless client; its home network subnet; and includes connection information associated with the wireless client. The wireless access point forwards the predictive roaming information associated with a wireless client to neighboring wireless access points while the wireless client is still connected with the wireless access point. Neighboring wireless access points store received predictive roaming information. Upon connecting with a wireless client, a neighboring wireless access point determines if the wireless client matches the stored predictive roaming information. If so, the neighboring wireless access point uses the predictive roaming information to quickly connect with the wireless client and to establish a tunnel to redirect network traffic associated with the wireless client through to its home subnet. |
| US10181959B2 |
Methods and systems for mindful home automation
A set of assumptions about scheduled settings in a home automation system which control devices in a home is provided. An input from a sensor coupled to the home automation system is received. The input indicates that activity has occurred in the home. Suggestions in the user interface are presented for changing a first assumption of the set of assumptions based on the input. The first assumption is for controlling a device separate from the sensor which produced the input. |
| US10181957B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting and/or handling targeted attacks in the email channel
Techniques for detecting and/or handling target attacks in an enterprise's email channel are provided. The techniques include receiving aspects of an incoming email message addressed to a first email account holder, selecting a recipient interaction profile and/or a sender profile from a plurality of predetermined profiles stored in a memory based upon the received properties, determining a message trust rating associated with the incoming email message based upon the incoming email message and the selected recipient interaction profile and/or the sender profile; and generating an alert identifying the incoming email message as including a security risk based upon the determined message trust rating. The recipient interaction profile includes information associating the first email account holder and a plurality of email senders from whom email messages have previously been received for the first email account holder, and the sender profile includes information associating a sender of the incoming email message with characteristics determined from a plurality of email messages previously received from the sender. |
| US10181956B2 |
Key revocation
Example implementations relate to key revocation. For example, a system for key revocation may comprise a processor, an embedded controller, a non-volatile memory storing a system instruction signing key authorization data element, wherein the data element includes a system instruction signing key, a signing key number and a signature. The embedded controller may include a plurality of keys to verify the data element, and a one-time programmable (OTP) memory and a key among the plurality of keys that is revocable using the OTP memory, wherein revocation of the key permanently prevents the embedded controller from utilizing the key. |
| US10181955B2 |
Method for conversation of an original paper document into an authenticated original electronic information object
Method for converting an original paper document into an original information object, and for subsequent electronic transmission, storage, and retrieval of verifiable copies of the stored original information object without the Trusted Repository relinquishing control of the original information object. The user first converts the blue-ink-signed paper document into an electronic information object. On deposit of this information object into the Trusted Repository, the user is required to destroy or permanently designate the blue-ink-signed paper document and locally-retained files as copies. The Trusted Repository then requires the user to establish the authenticity of the electronic information object by verifying that it is now the only authoritative and original copy. The Trusted Repository then creates the original authenticated information object by appending a date-time stamp and its digital signature and certificate (signature block). This Trusted Repository action demonstrates the Trusted Repository's assumption of control of the original authenticated information object. |
| US10181950B2 |
Refresh of shared cryptographic keys
One of n≥2 servers, connectable via a network, implements a cryptographic protocol using a secret key K which is shared between the n servers, and includes first and second server compartments. The first is connectable to the network, adapted to implement the cryptographic protocol, and stores a current key share of the secret key K. The second is inaccessible from the network in the operation of the server, stores a set of master keys, and is adapted, for each of successive time periods, to unilaterally generate a new key share of the secret key K and to supply it to the first as the current key share for that time period. The new key share includes a random share of a predetermined value p which is shared between the n servers, and the random share includes a function of the set of master keys. |
| US10181949B2 |
Data distributing over network to user devices
A data device controls distribution of data to user devices through an edge router via an encryption scheme. The data device encrypts data using a first key and a public key, and sends the data to the edge router. The edge router encrypts the encrypted data with a second key and sends the re-encrypted data to a user device. The data device then authenticates the user device and issues a decryption key derived from a private key corresponding to the public key, the first key, and the second key to the user device. The user device uses the decryption key to decrypt and access the data. |
| US10181947B2 |
Information processing apparatus, program, and recording medium
An information processing apparatus is provided that performs information processing for encrypting data using AES, which includes performing a process of generating round key data on a one-byte-by-one-byte basis, performing a row shift transformation that is a process of performing row shifting for the data by use of a row shift table, performing a byte substitution transformation that is a process of performing byte substitution for the data having undergone the row shift transformation by use of a byte substitution table that is a one-dimensional array, performing a column mix transformation that is a process of performing column mixing for the data having undergone the byte substitution transformation based on equivalent expressions, performing a key add transformation that is a process of performing an exclusive-OR operation based on the round key data and the data having undergone the column mix transformation, wherein the row shift transformation, the byte substitution transformation, the column mix transformation, and the key add transformation are performed on a four-byte-by-four-byte basis. |
| US10181945B2 |
Flexible architecture and instruction for advanced encryption standard (AES)
A flexible aes instruction set for a general purpose processor is provided. The instruction set includes instructions to perform a “one round” pass for aes encryption or decryption and also includes instructions to perform key generation. An immediate may be used to indicate round number and key size for key generation for 128/192/256 bit keys. The flexible aes instruction set enables full use of pipelining capabilities because it does not require tracking of implicit registers. |
| US10181940B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for reducing switching jitter
Described are apparatuses and methods for reducing channel physical layer (C-PHY) switching jitter. An apparatus may include a pattern dependent delay circuit to detect a switching pattern of at least three data signals on respective wires and adaptively change delays of the at least three data signals based on the switching pattern. The apparatus may further include a transmitter, coupled to the pattern dependent delay circuit, to transmit the at least three data signals. |
| US10181939B2 |
Systems and methods for the design and implementation of an input and output ports for circuit design
Systems and methods for providing input and output ports to connect to channels are provided. Input and output ports are the basic building blocks to create more complex data routing IP blocks. By aggregating these modular ports in different ways, different implementations of crossbar or Network on Chip (NoC) can be implemented, allowing flexible routing structure while maintaining all the benefits of channels such as robustness against delay variation, data compression and simplified timing assumptions. |
| US10181936B2 |
Method for transmitting uplink control information, user equipment, method for receiving uplink control information, and base station
In the present invention, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource, which is used for transmitting acknowledgement/negative ACK (ACK/NACK) information related to downlink control information, is determined on the basis of n(1)PUCCH=f(nCCE,N(1)PUCCH,X), when the format of the downlink control information that is transmitted/received through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is in accordance with a transmission mode of a user equipment, wherein n(1)PUCCH is a PUCCH resource index, N(1)PUCCH is a value which is received from the base station, nCCE is a first control channel element (CCE) index in the PDCCH, X is a parameter which is not the nCCE and the N(1)PUCCH, and wherein f is a function having the nCCE, N(1)PUCCH, and the X as a factor. |
| US10181929B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals
The object of the present invention can be achieved by providing a method of transmitting broadcast signals including encoding Data Pipe, DP, data, wherein the encoding further includes Forward Error Correction, FEC, encoding the DP data, Bit interleaving the FEC encoded DP data and mapping the bit interleaved DP data onto constellations; building at least one signal frame by mapping the encoded DP data; and modulating data in the at least one built signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, method and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein each of the at least one signal frame includes at least one preamble having repeated at least one signaling information. |
| US10181928B2 |
Rate adaptation method using bit error rate for multimedia service and apparatus therefor
Rate adaptation is carried out using bit error rate (BER) to enable effective multimedia transmission. The BER can be estimated using signal strength in a MAC layer and modulation information (FIGS. 7-9), and can be compatibly used in different wireless networks by means of message standardization. |
| US10181924B2 |
Selective channel control in multi-channel passive optical networks (PONs)
An OLT comprises: a memory; a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: determine each of a plurality of channels associated with an ONU, select a first channel from among the channels, and generate a first message comprising at least one field instructing enablement or disablement of the first channel; and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the first message to the ONU. A method implemented in an OLT, the method comprises: determining each of a plurality of channels associated with an ONU; selecting a first channel from among the channels; generating a first message comprising at least one field instructing enablement or disablement of the first channel; and transmitting the first message to the ONU. |
| US10181919B2 |
Synchronization method, controller, synchronization node, synchronous network, and storage medium
The present document discloses a synchronization method, herein the method includes a controller determining synchronization link topology information according to physical link topology information of the synchronous network and synchronization information of a synchronous node in the synchronous network; the controller generating a synchronization rule of the synchronous node according to the synchronization link topology information; and the controller transmitting the synchronization rule and/or a request message to the synchronous node in the synchronous network according to the synchronization link topology information. The present document further discloses a controller, a synchronous node, a synchronous network, and a storage medium. |
| US10181918B2 |
Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method
The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method that realize a process related to emergency warning information in DVB-T2 standard more promptly at a low power consumption. There is provided a transmission device including an emergency warning information acquisition unit configured to acquire emergency warning information, a content acquisition unit configured to acquire content, a transmission frame generation unit configured to generate a T2 frame including emergency warning notification information indicating that emergency warning information is being transmitted in P1 signaling or L1-pre signaling as a T2 frame, according to DVB-T2 standard, composed of a P1 symbol including P1 signaling, a P2 symbol including L1-pre signaling, and a symbol of data, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the T2 frame as a digital broadcast signal. The present technology can be applied to a transmitter that is capable of transmitting the digital broadcast signal according to the DVB-T2 standard for example. |
| US10181917B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining threshold for interference coordination
The present invention generally relates to wireless communication, more particularly, but not exclusively to, threshold determination for inter-network interference coordination and for inter-access node (AN) interference coordination. According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a method for determining a threshold for inter-network interference coordination, on the basis of which it is determined whether radio resource shall be coordinated between a first wireless network and a second wireless network, the method comprising the steps of: receiving interference levels for a plurality of wireless links associated with one or more wireless communication devices within the first wireless network, said interference levels being attributed to the second wireless network; and obtaining the threshold based on the interference levels. |
| US10181914B2 |
Digital pre-distortion calibration coefficient control method and apparatus
A digital pre distortion (DPD) calibration coefficient control method and apparatus are applied to a microwave communications device that includes an analog device and a digital device, and can ensure a DPD calibration effect, where the method includes determining, by interpolation and according to DPD calibration coefficients corresponding to at least 2N typical working states of the analog device obtained in advance, a specified DPD calibration coefficient corresponding to a specified working state of the analog device, where N is a quantity of parameters representing a working state of the analog device, and controlling a DPD calibration coefficient according to the determined specified DPD calibration coefficient corresponding to the specified working state of the analog device. |
| US10181907B2 |
Method and apparatus for estimating polarization dependent loss and receiving device
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a method and apparatus for estimating polarization dependent loss (PDL) and a receiving device. The method includes: performing equalization processing on pre-processed dual-polarization state signals; performing correlation operations on the equalized dual-polarization state signals and unequalized dual-polarization state signals; constructing an estimation matrix based on a result of the correlation operations; and calculating a polarization dependent loss of the dual-polarization state signals by using one or more feature values of the estimation matrix. Hence, not only PDL in an optical fiber link may be accurately estimated, but also off-line digital signal processing may be performed at a receiver, without needing to incur extra hardware overhead. |
| US10181904B2 |
Data-aided chromatic dispersion estimation
The present invention relates to performing chromatic dispersion estimation in a receiver of an optical communication system. Here, the signal received by the receiver includes frames, each comprising a training portion and a data portion. The training portion comprises a plurality of identical pattern sequences. Different settings are applied to an equalizer to generate a plurality of equalized signals from at least one of the received frames. Then, at least one correlation value is calculated between a first pattern sequence and a second pattern sequence of the equalized signals and a final correlation value is derived from the respective correlation values. The setting of the equalizer corresponding to the equalized signal providing the highest final correlation value is selected to provide the chromatic dispersion estimation. |
| US10181900B2 |
Wavelength identification and analysis sensor
According to examples, a wavelength identification and analysis sensor may include a wavelength transmitter, operably connectable to an input or output of a wavelength selective device of a wavelength division multiplex (WDM) network, to transmit test signals on a plurality of wavelengths into the input or output of the wavelength selective device of the WDM network. A wavelength analyzer is to detect returned signals from the input or output of the wavelength selective device of the WDM network, with each returned signal being associated with one of the transmitted test signals. Further, the wavelength analyzer is to analyze the returned signals and identify, based on the analysis of the returned signals, a wavelength associated with the input or output of the wavelength selective device of the WDM network. |
| US10181894B2 |
Process and apparatus for communicating with user antenna phased arrays
The use of phased array antennas in ground based or low altitude user equipment linked to high altitude aerial platforms also utilizing sparse phased-array antennas (uniform and non-uniform), which enables the delivery of information services, including telecommunications, earth observation, astronomical and positioning services with higher data rates, lower weight, power consumption and sidelobe levels than for other antenna arrangements. |
| US10181893B2 |
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) beam forming and pointing toward ground coverage area cells for broadband access
Systems and methods configured to form and point beams from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) toward target cells in a coverage area on the ground. One embodiment determines and forms the required number of UAV fixed beams needed to cover the target area when UAV is at its highest altitude and highest roll/pitch/yaw angles so that the target coverage area is covered under all UAV altitude and orientation conditions. In another embodiment, UAV determines the beam pointing angles toward different cells on the ground using information on position coordinates and orientation angles of the UAV, and the position coordinates of the cells in the coverage area relative to the center of coverage area. In another embodiment, a reference terminal placed at the center of coverage is used by the UAV to optimally point a beam toward center of the coverage area. |
| US10181891B2 |
System and method for beam switching and reporting
A UE may receive a beam modification command that indicates a set of transmit beam indexes corresponding to a set of transmit beams of a base station, and each transmit beam index of the set of transmit beam indexes may indicate at least a transmit direction for transmitting a transmit beam by the base station. The UE may determine a set of receive beam indexes corresponding to receive beams of the UE based on the set of transmit beam indexes, and each receive beam index of the set of receive beam indexes may indicate at least a receive direction for receiving a receive beam by the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, a signal through at least one receive beam corresponding to at least one receive beam index included in the set of receive beam indexes. |
| US10181887B2 |
Method and apparatus for reporting channel state information of multi-channel in wireless local area network system
A method, and a device, for reporting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless local area network system are discussed. The method according to one embodiment includes receiving, by a responding station, a sounding Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) from a requesting station; and transmitting, by the responding station, a CSI report to the requesting station, the CSI report including CSI report information in a form of angles representing a beamforming feedback matrix that is estimated by the responding station based on the sounding PPDU. If the sounding PPDU is received via a plurality of contiguous channels, the beamforming feedback matrix is estimated based on all of the plurality of contiguous channels. If the sounding PPDU is received via at least one of a plurality of non-contiguous channels, the beamforming feedback matrix is estimated based on only one of the plurality of non-contiguous channels. |
| US10181885B2 |
Signal transmission method and apparatus using codebook in wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting, by a base station, a downlink signal using a plurality of transmission antennas comprises the steps of: applying a precoding matrix indicated by the PMI, received from a terminal, in a codebook to a plurality of layers, and transmitting the precoded signal to the terminal through a plurality of transmission antennas. Among precoding matrices included in the codebook, a precoding matrix for even number transmission layers can be a 2×2 matrix containing four matrices (W1s), the matrix (W1) having rows of a number of transmission antennas and columns of half the number of transmission layers, the first and second columns of the first row in the 2×2 matrix being multiplied by 1, the first column of the second row being multiplied by coefficient “a” of a phase, and the first column of the second row being multiplied by “−a”. |
| US10181878B2 |
Driver circuit for an inductor coil
Driver circuit in which a capacitor (4), in a manner controlled by a switch control device (9) which is connected downstream of a current measuring device (8), is charged to a reference voltage (Ur) by means of a charging current (Ic2), and the charged capacitor is discharged in an oscillating manner via an inductor coil (1), wherein the discharging operation is terminated when the current (Ia) through the inductor coil has passed through an entire oscillation period or several oscillation periods, wherein a first controllable switch (5) is connected in series between a first non-reactive resistor (6) and the first capacitor (4) in one of two input paths. Furthermore, a second controllable switch (7) and a fourth controllable switch (14) are connected into two output paths, and a second non-reactive resistor (13) is connected between a second connection (X2) of the inductor coil (1) and a connection for a reference potential (Um). The current measuring device (8) is connected between the fourth controllable switch (14) and the first capacitor (4). |
| US10181873B2 |
Enhanced powerline communication methods and devices
A powerline communication system includes a plurality of rail segments. Each of the rail segments is electrically isolated from other rail segments, and each receives power from a rail segment power supply. At least one cart operates on the rail segments. The cart has a powerline communications controller. Each rail segment has a current state defined by how many and which carts are operating on the rail segment. A central coordinator is coupled to each rail segment and configured to execute a channel estimation using a sounding protocol on its rail segment. The central coordinators store tone maps associated with the possible states of its rail segment, and possibly its adjacent rail segment. A main controller communicates with each central coordinator to direct the state and future state of its segment so that tone maps and network keys can be managed by the CCo in advance of an imminent state change. The main controller or CCo may also execute channel estimation using a sounding protocol and cause updated tone map information to be sent to each central coordinator in advance of an imminent state change. |
| US10181872B1 |
Impulse response filtering of code division multiplexed signals in a capacitive sensing device
An example method of capacitive sensing includes: receiving at least one code division multiplexed (CDM) signal transmitted from different transmitters using different codes over a plurality of signal bursts, wherein a length of each of the different codes is equal to or greater than a number of the different transmitters; filtering the at least one CDM signal using an impulse response filter, wherein the filtering comprises: accumulating the at least one CDM signal over the plurality of signal bursts to obtain measurements of the at least one CDM signal; and for the measurements of the at least one CDM signal, applying different filter weights to the resulting signals over a number of the plurality of signal bursts that is greater than the length of the different codes. |
| US10181869B2 |
Method and system for a configurable low-noise amplifier with programmable band-selection filters
Methods and systems for a configurable low-noise amplifier with programmable band-selection filters may comprise a receiver with a low-noise amplifier (LNA) with first and second input terminals and differential output terminals; a low pass filter operably coupled to the LNA; a high pass filter operably coupled to the second input terminal of the LNA; and a signal source input coupled to the low pass filter and the high pass filter. The LNA may be operable to receive signals in a pass band of the high pass filter and a pass band of the low pass filter. The receiver may be operable to amplify input signals in the pass band of a first filter but not signals in the pass band of the second filter by operably coupling the second to ground. |
| US10181865B2 |
Mobile wireless device for a motor vehicle, and method for operating the mobile wireless device
A mobile radio apparatus for a motor vehicle has a first mobile radio module and a second mobile radio module. Furthermore, a first antenna and a second antenna are provided for transmitting mobile radio signals. To provide robust voice telephony for the motor vehicle that can be implemented with little circuit complexity, a switching device is connected to the antennas and to a respective signal connection of the mobile radio modules and that is designed to take a switching signal as a basis for changing over between a first switching state, in which the first signal connection is coupled to the first antenna and the second signal connection is coupled to the second antenna, and a second switching state, in which the first signal connection is coupled to the second antenna and the second signal connection is coupled to the first antenna. |
| US10181864B2 |
Methods and apparatus for performing reed-solomon encoding
The present embodiments relate to Reed-Solomon encoding, and to circuitry for performing such encoding, particularly in an integrated circuit. A Reed-Solomon encoder circuit may receive a message with data symbols and compute a partial syndrome vector by multiplying the data symbols with a first matrix. The Reed-Solomon encoder circuit may further compute parity check symbols by solving a system of linear equations that includes the partial syndrome vector and a second matrix. As an example, the second matrix may be decomposed into a lower triangular matrix and an upper triangular matrix, and the parity check symbols may be computed by performing a forward substitution and a backward substitution using the lower and upper triangular matrices. The Reed-Solomon encoder circuit may generate a Reed-Solomon code word by combining the data symbols and the parity check symbols, and provide the Reed-Solomon code word at an output port. |
| US10181862B1 |
Parameterizable bandpass delta-sigma modulator
A delta-sigma modulator (DSM) includes: a first summation circuit coupled to an input signal for subtracting an error feedback signal from the input signal; a tunable signal transfer function coupled to the first summation circuit for setting a desired pole in a frequency response of the DSM; a second summation circuit coupled to the tunable signal transfer function for adding a noise transfer function to an output of the tunable signal transfer function; and a quantizer coupled to the second summation circuit for quantizing an output of the second summation circuit to generate an output of the DSM. The output of the DSM is used as feedback to the first summation circuit as the error feedback signal, and the tunable signal transfer function is dynamically tuned to allow selecting and tuning a center frequency and a bandwidth of the DSM. |
| US10181860B1 |
Reducing residue signals in analog-to-digital converters
A residue generation apparatus for use in continuous-time and hybrid ADCs is proposed. The apparatus includes a quantizer for digitizing an analog input to generate a digital output, and means for applying a first transfer function to the digital output from the quantizer to generate a digital input to a feedforward DAC, based on which the DAC can generate a feedforward path analog output. The apparatus further includes means for applying a second, continuous-time, transfer function to the analog input provided to the quantizer to generate a forward path analog output, and a subtractor for generating a residue signal based on a difference between the forward path analog output and the feedforward path analog output. Proposed apparatus allows selecting a combination of the first and second transfer functions so that, when each is applied in its respective path, the residue signal passed to further stages of an ADC is reduced. |
| US10181859B2 |
Device and method for requesting an analog-to-digital conversion
An Analog-to-Digital-Conversion control system includes a first sample and hold circuit configured to provide a first sampled output to be converted by an Analog-to-Digital-Converter, which comprises a first sampling control circuit configured to receive a first trigger information to trigger sampling of a first analog input and to receive a first collision detection information from the Analog-to-Digital-Converter to detect a collision, a first sample and hold stage coupled to the first sampling control circuit and configured to sample the first analog input, only if no collision has been detected by the first sampling control circuit, wherein the first sampling control circuit is further configured to check predefined first sampling criteria and to output a first conversion request to the Analog-to-Digital-Converter, only if the predefined first sampling criteria are fulfilled. |
| US10181849B1 |
Transistor control terminal control circuit
A control circuit provides a signal to a control terminal of the transistor to control the conductivity of the transistor. The control circuit includes a voltage-to-current converter that provides an indication of the control terminal-to-current terminal voltage of a transistor. The control circuit includes control circuitry that uses the indication from the voltage-to-current converter in controlling the current applied to the control terminal. |
| US10181845B1 |
Calibration of a dual-path pulse width modulation system
A system may include a digital pulse width modulator subsystem, a first path coupled to an output of the digital pulse width modulator subsystem and configured to drive an open-loop driver stage, a second path coupled to the output of the digital pulse width modulator subsystem and configured to drive a closed-loop analog pulse width modulator, a controller to select between the first path and the second path for processing a signal based on one or more characteristics of the signal, and a calibration subsystem configured to calibrate at least one of a first gain of the first path and a second gain of the second path in order that the first gain and the second gain are at least approximately equal at the time of switching selection between the first path and the second path or vice versa, in order to minimize artifacts due to the switching. |
| US10181841B1 |
Voltage level conversion circuit and display panel
A voltage level conversion circuit includes a first voltage level input terminal, a second voltage level input terminal, a first thin film transistor, a second thin film transistor, and a delay control chip configured to output the first voltage level before outputting the second voltage level in a delayed manner. The present disclosure also provides a display panel. |
| US10181839B2 |
Switch module
A switch module includes a first terminal, first and second filters, and first and second switches. Impedance of the first filter for a signal in a stop band is capacitive. When the first switch is turned OFF, impedance of the first switch is capacitive, and impedance of the first filter seen from an end portion of the first switch connected to the first filter is not in a short state and impedance of the first filter seen from the first terminal is in an open state. |
| US10181836B2 |
Resonator element, resonator, oscillator, electronic device, and moving object
A quartz crystal resonator element includes: a base portion and a pair of vibrating arms which extend from a first end portion of the base portion along a Y-axis direction. The base portion includes a second end portion provided on the opposite side to a first end portion in the Y-axis direction. The base portion is provided with a protrusion in at least one of a third end portion and a fourth end portion which respectively connect both ends of the first end portion and both ends of the second end portion. |
| US10181834B2 |
Baluns for RF signal conversion and impedance matching
In described examples of a magnetically coupled structure on a substrate with an integrated circuit device, the structure includes a first coil in a differential configuration, a second coil located above the first coil in a generally stacked configuration, and a center tap connection to a winding of the second coil. The first coil includes a first differential terminal, a second differential terminal, and metal windings of the first coil. The first coil's metal windings form a continuous spiral electrical path between the first and second differential terminals. The first coil's metal windings include turns and crossing connections between the turns. The turns are fabricated in an integrated circuit metal wiring level, and the crossing connections are fabricated in at least one metal level other than the metal wiring level containing the turns. The center tap is positioned to create a balanced structure. |
| US10181832B1 |
Multimode transmit power control loop, electronic device, and method of adjusting a detected operating level of amplified power output
The present application provides a multimode transmit power control loop, an electronic device, and a method of adjusting a detected operating level of amplified power output from a power amplifier. The multimode transmit power control loop including a feedback path wherein a feedback path signal is coupled to a feedback detection input of the power amplifier via the feedback path. The feedback path includes a mode selection switch having a control input for selectively applying a different impedance circuit to the feedback path for switching in different attenuation levels, based upon the control input of the mode selection switch identifying one or more of multiple potential operating modes. Operation of the multimode transmit power control loop increases or decreases an operating level of amplified power output from the power amplifier, which is proportional to a present level of attenuation resulting from the particular impedance circuit being applied to the feedback path via the mode selection switch. |
| US10181831B2 |
Loudspeaker driving apparatus and loudspeaker driving method
A speaker driving apparatus can include: a sound pressure feedback unit configured to generate an electrical signal indicative of a sound pressure of a loudspeaker; a compensation unit configured to compensate an input audio signal according to the electrical signal indicative of the sound pressure of the loudspeaker to generate a compensated audio signal, where the sound pressure of the loudspeaker is linearly related to the input audio signal; and an amplification unit configured to amplify the compensated audio signal in order to drive the loudspeaker. |
| US10181829B2 |
Amplification circuit
An amplification circuit includes a first switching circuit that includes input terminals and first and second output terminals and that puts the second output terminal into an open state with respect to the input terminals while selectively putting the first output terminal into a state of being connected to any of the input terminals or selectively puts the second output terminal into a state of being connected to any of input terminals while putting the first output terminal into a state of being open with respect to the input terminals; a matching network that is connected to the first output terminal; an amplifier that is connected to an output side of the matching network; a second switching circuit that is connected to an output side of the amplifier; and a bypass path that electrically connects the second output terminal and an output terminal of the second switching circuit. The amplifier is a variable-gain amplifier. |
| US10181814B2 |
Solar battery system for low temperature operation
A power delivery device is disclosed, comprising at least one solar panel, a battery pack comprising at least one battery, and a heater, wherein the device is configured to measure the temperature of the battery pack and power the heater to heat the battery pack if it is too cold for optimal charging. |
| US10181809B2 |
Rotating electric machine drive system
A rotating electric machine drive system includes a rotating electric machine and a drive apparatus. The rotating electric machine includes a Y-connected three-phase stator coil. The drive apparatus supplies electric current to the stator coil and thereby drives the rotating electric machine. In a predetermined low-torque region, the drive apparatus supplies the stator coil with the electric current which has a waveform obtained by superimposing a specific harmonic waveform on a first-order harmonic waveform. The specific harmonic waveform is one of third-order and (3+6n)th-order harmonic waveforms, or a harmonic waveform which is obtained by synthesizing at least two of the third-order and (3+6n)th-order harmonic waveforms, where n is a natural number not less than 1. The specific harmonic waveform takes a positive integral value for a positive half cycle of the first-order harmonic waveform and a negative integral value for a negative half cycle of the first-order harmonic waveform. |
| US10181804B1 |
Soft-start circuit for switched resonant power converters
A switched resonant power converter includes multiple switching transistors, a resonant circuit comprising a capacitor and an inductor, and an auxiliary soft-start bypass circuit that bypasses a default switching path that includes a first switching transistor of the switching transistors, and provides an alternative path through an impedance element. A corresponding control circuit is configured to switch between an operational mode in which the default switching path is periodically activated while the alternative path is deactivated to provide a first frequency-responsive power through the resonant circuit, and a soft-start mode in which the alternative path is periodically activated while the default switching path is deactivated to provide a second frequency-responsive power through the resonant circuit. |
| US10181803B2 |
Home appliance and operating method thereof
An appliance includes a driver to drive a load, the load requiring AC power or DC power. A power supply receives one of external AC power, back-up AC power and back-up DC power and outputs at least one of AC power or DC power to the load. An operation mode of the home appliance is one of normal operation when receiving external AC power, normal operation when receiving one of back-up AC power and back-up DC power during a power interruption, and a power save mode when receiving one of back-up AC power and back-up DC power during the power interruption. The power supplies a first power level when there is no power interruption, a second power level when there is power interruption and a third power level when there is power interruption and the power save mode is selected, where the second power level is between the first power level and the third power level. The power save mode is automatically selected when the second power level falls below a reference power level. |
| US10181801B2 |
Power converters with adaptive output voltages
A switching power converter is provided that transitions between output voltage modes over a delay period using at least one of an adaptive resistor and an adaptive reference voltage circuit. |
| US10181800B1 |
Power conversion systems for energy storage devices
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for electrically coupling energy storage devices to an external load or power source. Examples of such coupling include connecting energy storage devices to an electric power grid using a power conversion system with suitable characteristics including, for example, active/real power and reactive power control capabilities, response time, current, voltage, phase, frequency, fault protection and/or information exchange protocols. The power conversion system can include an inverter. |
| US10181799B2 |
Hybrid back-to-back direct current transmission system and power flow reversal control method
Disclosed in the present invention is a hybrid back-to-back direct current transmission system. The system includes an LCC converter and a VSC converter in a back-to-back connection, and a first changeover switch, a second changeover switch, a third changeover switch and a fourth changeover switch. The first changeover switch is connected to a first alternating current system and the LCC converter; the second changeover switch is connected to the first alternating current system and the VSC converter; the third changeover switch is connected to a second alternating current system and the VSC converter; and the fourth changeover switch is connected to the second alternating current system and the LCC converter. In forward power delivery, the first changeover switch and the third changeover switch are closed; and in reverse power delivery, the second changeover switch and the fourth changeover switch are closed. Thereby, it is ensured that the VSC converter always performs inversion operation in any power direction, so as to avoid the problem of potential commutation failure for the LCC converter when being in inversion operation. Also provided is a fast power flow reversal control method of the hybrid back-to-back direct current transmission system. |
| US10181798B2 |
Step-up DC-DC power converter
A step-up DC-DC power converter comprises a primary side circuit and a secondary side circuit coupled through a galvanic isolation barrier. The primary side circuit comprises a positive and a negative input terminal for receipt of an input voltage and an input capacitor coupled between the positive and negative input terminals and the secondary side circuit comprises an output capacitor chargeable to a converter output voltage between a first positive electrode and a second negative electrode. The galvanic isolation barrier comprises a first capacitor coupled in series with the positive input terminal of the primary side circuit and the first positive electrode of the output capacitor; and a second capacitor coupled in series with the negative input terminal of the primary side circuit and the second negative electrode of the output capacitor. |
| US10181795B2 |
Systems and methods for power converters with self-regulated power supplies
Controller and method for a power converter. For example, the controller includes a first controller terminal coupled to a gate terminal of a transistor. The transistor further includes a drain terminal and a source terminal, and the first controller terminal is at a first voltage as a first function of time. Additionally, the controller includes a second controller terminal coupled to the source terminal. The second controller terminal is at a second voltage as a second function of time. Moreover, the controller includes a third controller terminal coupled to a first resistor terminal of a resistor. The resistor further includes a second resistor terminal, and the third controller terminal is at a third voltage as a third function of time. Also, the controller includes a fourth controller terminal coupled to a first capacitor terminal of a capacitor. |
| US10181794B1 |
Two-stage multi-phase switch-mode power converter with inter-stage phase shedding control
A two-stage multi-phase switching power converter operates its first stage during nominal operation responsive to a nominal clocking frequency and operates its second stage during the nominal operation responsive to a second-stage clocking frequency that is greater than the nominal clocking frequency. In response to an application of a load, the first stage temporarily increases its clocking frequency from the nominal clocking frequency and implements a fixed duty cycle. |
| US10181790B2 |
Direct current voltage conversion circuit and liquid crystal display device
A direct-current voltage conversion circuit and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The direct-current voltage conversion circuit includes a control chip, a conversion circuit and a protection circuit, wherein, the control chip is electrically connected to the conversion circuit, the control chip generates a control signal and an original voltage signal; the conversion circuit receives the control signal and the original voltage signal, and under a controlling of the control signal, obtaining a direct-current voltage signal according to the original voltage signal; the protection circuit detects if the conversion circuit generates an abnormality according to the direct-current voltage signal, and turning off the conversion circuit when the conversion circuit generates the abnormality. |