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| US10186025B2 |
Inspection system and method for defect analysis of wire connections
The invention relates to an inspection system (10) for defect analysis of a wire connection (11) between a substrate (13) and a semiconductor component (15, 16) of a product (12), the inspection system comprising a first projection device (24), a line scan camera (28) and a processing device, the first projection device having at least one slit projection means (25), the slit projection means being capable of projecting a light slit (33) onto a wire (21, 22) of the wire connection, light of the light slit reflected by the wire in a detection plane (39) of the line scan camera extending perpendicularly, preferably orthogonally to a substrate surface (14) being detectable by means of the line scan camera, analysis image information of the product being derivable from a plurality of line scan image information of the line scan camera by means of the processing device, wherein the slit projection means is arranged in relation to the line scan camera in such a manner that the light slit can be projected onto the product so as to extend within the detection plane, the inspection system comprising a second projection device, the second projection device having at least one illuminating means (27), the illuminating means being capable of projecting diffuse light onto the product, light of the diffuse light reflected by the product in the detection plane being detectable by means of the line scan camera. |
| US10186024B2 |
Method and system for real time structure from motion in a computer vision system
Methods and systems providing for real time structure from motion (SfM) processing in a computer vision system receiving images from a monocular camera are disclosed. The real time SfM processing described exploits constraints of the three dimensional (3D) environment that can be assumed for automotive applications and other applications with similar constraints. |
| US10186023B2 |
Unified multi-image fusion approach
Systems and methods are provided for merging multiple images to produce a single fused image having desirable image characteristics derived from the multiple images. For example, the system may determine image characteristics for first and second images. The image characteristics may be related to contrast, exposure, color saturation, and the like. Based on the image characteristics, the system may generate a combined luma weight map. The system may decompose the first and second images and the combined luma weight map. In an example, the first image, the second image, and the combined luma weight map may be represented as scale-space representations having multiple scales or levels. The system may merge the decomposed representations of the first and second images and the combined luma weight map to form a decomposed representation of the fused image. The system may generate the actual fused image from the decomposed representation of the fused image. |
| US10186022B2 |
System and method for adaptive pixel filtering
Various embodiments provide an optimized image filter. The optimized image and video obtains an input image and selects a target pixel for modification. Difference values are then determined between the selected target pixel and each reference pixel of a search area. Subsequently, a weighting function is used to determine weight values for each of the reference pixels of the search area based on their respective difference value. The selected target pixel is then modified by the optimized image filter using the determined weight values. A new target pixel in an apply patch is then selected for modification. The new target pixel is modified using the previously determined weight values reassigned to a new set of reference pixels. The previously determined weight values are reassigned to the new set of reference pixels based on each of the new set of reference pixels' position relative to the new target pixel. |
| US10186020B2 |
Local contrast adjustment for digital images
Contrast adjustment of a digital image can include using at least two signal processing paths to adjust a display-formatted pixel value to enhance the appearance of edges in displayed image data. A digital image can be filtered by producing an edge enhancement factor, α, per pixel from at least one look up table (LUT). Digital image data can also be adjusted using at least two signal processing paths, where the image data is adjusted if a pixel value and its neighboring pixel values are all within a smoothing range or where the pixel delta value is outside of a bad pixel range and its neighboring pixel delta values are all within the bad pixel range. In such cases, the image data can be adjusted by replacing the pixel value with an average or median value of the neighboring pixels. |
| US10186019B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer program that enables canceling of screen rotation
An information processing device is disclosed. The information processing device includes an inclination detection unit configured to generate a first signal regarding inclination of the device. The information processing device also includes a display processing unit configured to, based on the first signal, generate a second signal to initiate a change in orientation of a display of content, and generate a third signal to cancel the change in orientation in response to receipt of a CANCEL command after initiation of the change. |
| US10186017B2 |
Construction machinery
A construction machine includes image processing means coupled in communication with a monitor. The image processing means is configured to receive images from a plurality of cameras; synthesize the images into a synthetic bird's eye view image; divide the synthetic bird's eye view image into four sections that are defined by a first section line and a second section line, the four sections including a first section, a second section, a third section, and a fourth section; generate a conversion image from the synthetic bird's eye view image by increasing a size of the first section and decreasing a size of each of the second section and the third section; and selectively display the conversion image on the monitor. |
| US10186014B2 |
Information display method and electronic device for supporting the same
An electronic device and information display method are provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store at least one object, a display configured to output a screen associated with the at least one object, and a processor configured to functionally connect with the memory and the display. The processor controls to display a first object, associated with collected sensing information related to a human body, among objects stored in the memory, at a size on the display and to display a second object on the first object based on the sensing information. The processor modifies a size and region of the second object and a displayed motion of the second object according to accumulated sensing information and controls to output the modified second object on the first object. |
| US10186010B2 |
Electronic device and graphics processing unit card
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an electronic device and a graphics processing unit card, which can improve data input and output capabilities. The electronic device includes a graphics processing unit card and a mainboard. The graphics processing unit card includes a main chip and M first PCIe interfaces electrically connected to the main chip, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 2. The mainboard includes a processing unit and M second PCIe interfaces connected to the processing unit, and the M second PCIe interfaces are respectively connected to the M first PCIe interfaces. |
| US10186007B2 |
Adaptive scheduling for task assignment among heterogeneous processor cores
An example system for adaptive scheduling of task assignment among heterogeneous processor cores may include any number of CPUs, a graphics processing unit (GPU) and memory configured to store a pool of work items to be shared by the CPUs and GPU. The system may also include a GPU proxy profiling module associated with one of the CPU s to profile execution of a first portion of the work items on the GPU. The system may further include profiling modules, each associated with one of the CPUs, to profile execution of a second portion of the work items on each of the CPUs. The measured profiling information from the CPU profiling modules and the GPU proxy profiling module is used to calculate a distribution ratio for execution of a remaining portion of the work items between the CPUs and the GPU. |
| US10186005B2 |
Facility utilization measurement apparatus, facility utilization measurement system, and facility utilization measurement method
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a facility utilization measurement apparatus. The facility utilization measurement apparatus sets a plurality of determination areas for determining whether a user stays, on an image which is obtained by capturing the inside of the facility. The facility utilization measurement apparatus generates stay information regarding whether the user stays for each determination area based on a change status of the image in the determination area. The facility utilization measurement apparatus generates use information regarding utilization for each determination area based on the stay information, generates display information for displaying the use information, and outputs the generated display information. |
| US10186002B2 |
Apparatus and method for matching users to groups for online communities and computer simulations
A method includes detecting a first user seeking to join a group, detecting one or more groups recruiting members, retrieving user parameters corresponding to the first user, and retrieving group parameters corresponding to each of the one or more groups. The group parameters may comprise group characteristic data and group requirements. For each group of the one or more groups, the group parameters corresponding to the group are compared against the user parameters corresponding to the first user. A score is determined for each of the one or more groups based on the comparing. One or more selected groups of the one or more groups is recommended to the first user at least in part based on the score. One or more computer programs may be adapted to execute the above steps, and a processor may be configured to perform the above steps. |
| US10185998B1 |
Accident fault determination for autonomous vehicles
Methods and systems for determining fault for an accident involving a vehicle having one or more autonomous (and/or semi-autonomous) operation features are provided. According to certain aspects, operating data from sensors within or near the vehicle may be used to determine fault for a vehicle accident, such as a collision. The operating data may include information regarding use of the features at the time of the accident and may further be used to determine an allocation of fault for the accident between a vehicle operator, the autonomous operation features, or a third party. The allocation of fault may be used to determine and/or adjust coverage levels for an insurance policy associated with the vehicle. The allocation of fault may further be used to adjust risk levels or profiles associated with the vehicle operator or with the autonomous operation features. |
| US10185996B2 |
Stock fluctuation prediction method and server
Provided are a method and a system for predicting stock fluctuation prediction. A system for predicting stock fluctuation according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a data collector and a preprocessor collecting news and KOSPI data and extracting words from the collected news through stopword removal and morphologic analysis, a sentiment dictionary constructor selecting sentiment words and calculating sentiment values of the sentiment words to construct a sentiment dictionary of a stock domain required for stock prediction, and a stock fluctuation prediction model constructor predicting fluctuation of a closing price of a next day to a closing price of a current day by combining a prediction model using the constructed sentiment dictionary and an ARIMA prediction model using the KOSPI data. |
| US10185995B2 |
System and method for managing display of market data in an electronic trading system
A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store a first order associated with a particular trading product, wherein the first order is associated with a first price comprising a first root value. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to receive a second order associated with the particular trading product. The second order is associated with a second price; and the second price comprises a second root value and a particular fractional pip value. The processor is further operable to disclose the first root value and the second root value while suppressing the particular fractional pip value. |
| US10185994B2 |
Trading tools for electronic trading
Tools for trading and monitoring a commodity on an electronic exchange using a graphical user interface and a user input device. The tools will aid the trader in determining the status, trends in the market, and the trader's position in the market. |
| US10185993B2 |
Dynamic peg orders in an electronic trading system
In order to protect a trading party from predatory trading strategies employed by some market participants, especially during certain periods when quotes for a particular security are experiencing rapid changes or transitions, embodiments of the present invention facilitate and support a new type of trading orders whose booking and execution behaviors are dynamically varied in response to environmental market conditions. Pursuant to predefined rules for the new type of trading orders, the orders may be allowed to trade at more aggressive price levels if the market is relatively stable, and the orders can only trade at less aggressive price levels when the market is unstable. |
| US10185989B2 |
Display/user interface for trading system
This application discloses a display and/or user interface for viewing information relating to tradable items such as financial interests and/or for use in a trading system for such items. Offer and bid prices for the tradable item are displayed according to an alignment, e.g., vertically. The prices move along the alignment in accordance with received price updates. Persistence of at least a part of an earlier display is provided in a later display for indicating a market change or changes. A shift in the positions of one or more of the prices in the alignment and some visual persistence relative to one or more earlier prices provide an easily perceived visual indication to the viewer of changes in prices and direction of a market change or change relating to a reference value or benchmark from a first time to a second time. The displayed prices may include a last price, best offer and bid prices and depth of market prices. A cell is provided for each price and a color indicator for a price to be persisted is implemented, e.g., as a background coloring of the cells. Best offer and bid prices may be indicated by a first color, e.g., white, depth of market offer prices indicated by a second color or colors in one color family, e.g., green, and depth of market bid prices indicated by color or colors in another color family, e.g., red, with the particular color becoming more intense (e.g., darker) as the price worsens. |
| US10185986B2 |
Systems and methods for location-based notifications for shopping assistance
Methods, systems, and devices are described for location-based notifications for shopping assistance. One disclosed method includes the steps of receiving a list of items for a shopping list; obtaining a location of at least one of the items in the list; responsive to a determination that a proximity of a user device to the location is within a threshold proximity of the location: generating a notification signal based on the proximity of the user device to the location; and outputting the notification signal to cause the user device to output a notification. |
| US10185982B1 |
Service for notifying users of item review status changes
The present disclosure provides computer-implemented systems and processes for determining and analyzing a user review status for a first item purchased or otherwise selected by a user; automatically and periodically monitoring review statutes for various alternative items, which may include competing, substitute, or replacement items relative to the first item; and generating an item recommendation based at least in part on a determination of which alternative items may be more positively rated than the first item. When a determination is made that an alternative item may be earning more positive feedback than the first item of interest, the system notifies the user that a possibly better item is available. Candidate alternative items may be identified based on the user's browsing history, groups of related items, or other sources. Candidate items may be weighted based on various attributes of the reviews, including average rating, number of ratings, number of reviews, and type. |
| US10185980B1 |
Efficiently computing a feature based on a plurality of variables
Techniques for computing a feature based on variables may be provided. For example, historical realizations associated with a first variable may be accessed. The first variable may be associated with an item. Realizations of the first variable may be based on one or more factors associated with the item. Historical realization of a second variable associated with the item may also be accessed. The historical realizations of the first and second variables may be analyzed to generate an expected realization of the first variable as a function of the second variable. The feature may be computed based on the generated function. |
| US10185978B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for charging of electric vehicles
A method for controlling a charge transfer of an electric vehicle using an electric vehicle charging station, a mobile device, and a cloud server is disclosed. The method includes: transmitting, from the electric vehicle charging station, a message regarding an electric vehicle to the mobile device; relaying, from the mobile device, the message regarding the electric vehicle to the cloud server, wherein the message relayed from the mobile device includes identification information and credit account information; authorizing a charging control signal using the identification information and credit account information received from the mobile device; receiving the charging control signal from the cloud server via the mobile device over a single networked link at the electric vehicle charging station, wherein the charging control signal is configured to adjust a parameter used to draw electric power from the electric vehicle charging station; and adjusting the charge transfer based on the adjusted parameter. |
| US10185972B2 |
Predicting purchase session behavior using the shopping funnel model stages
A user activity detection engine monitors user activity during user sessions on a publication system, and detects a change in the level of the activity of the user that predicts that the user is about to execute a transaction. The change may be an increase in the level of activity. When the user activity detection engine detects such a change, the system may make an intervention to provide personalized marketing content for display to the user in an effort to improve the probability that the user will execute a transaction, and/or also to motive the user to execute the transaction on the system site instead of moving to a competitor site in search of a different transaction. |
| US10185967B2 |
Ultrasonic near-field communication
Systems and methods for near-field communications with a mobile device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for near-field communication may comprise: detecting, by a source device located at a point-of-sale, the proximity of a receiving device; encoding purchase data on an audio signal with one or more ultrasonic frequencies; and transmitting the encoded purchase data to the receiving device, wherein the encoded purchase data is transmitted using a speaker of the source device. |
| US10185966B2 |
Claiming incentives on networked televisions
Systems and methods described herein may enable a user to add an incentive displayed along with content on a networked television to a digital wallet associated with the user. The user may be capable of selecting the displayed incentive using a remote control in communication with the networked television, or using their mobile device which may be in direct communication with the networked television, or in communication with the networked television over a network. When the user selects the displayed incentive for storage in a digital wallet, the user may be prompted to authenticate to a provider associated with the digital wallet, wherein the authentication may be performed through the networked television using the remote control. The incentive may then be added to the user's digital wallet and may be used or applied when the user performs a transaction using the digital wallet. |
| US10185965B2 |
Stay duration measurement method and system for measuring moving objects in a surveillance area
A stay duration measurement device for measuring a stay duration in a measurement area for each moving object, includes: a movement line obtaining unit that obtains a movement line of each moving object detected from images including the measurement area; a movement line assessment unit that determines whether the movement line obtained by the movement line obtaining unit includes a missing part in the measurement area; and a stay duration obtaining unit that, in a case where it is determined by the movement line assessment unit that the movement line of a moving object of interest includes a missing part in the measurement area, obtains a stay duration compensated for the missing part based on a time period(s) required for movement(s) of one or more other moving objects in the measurement area. |
| US10185961B2 |
Geotagged image for checking validity of purchase transaction
A service provider receives, from a merchant device, a geotagged image of a payment instrument, such as a credit card, provided to the merchant by a buyer for payment. It first determines the validity of the payment instrument using the captured image and then assesses the validity of the claimed purchase transaction by comparing the GPS data in the geotagged image, representing the geotagging location, with a separately transmitted GPS data, representing the location of transmitting the geotagged image. For further assessment, it may further compare the time of geotagging the image with the time of transmitting the image. The service provider then determines on the overall validity of the claimed purchase transaction based on the determination on the validity of the payment instrument and the assessment results, and if it determines the purchase transaction is valid, processes requested payment to the merchant's account. |
| US10185960B2 |
Hands-free transactions verified by location
Conducting hands-free transactions comprises a server at a payment processing system, a user computing device, and a merchant computing device. The payment processing system registers a merchant system as a hands-free payment participant and provides a beacon identifier. The payment processing system receives a communication from a hands-free payment application on a user computing device, the communication comprising a transaction token, an identification of a user account, and the beacon identifier received by the user computing device via a wireless communication from a device associated with the merchant system and transmits the transaction token to the merchant system computing device. The payment processing system receives from the merchant system computing device, a transaction request, the transaction request comprising the token and transaction data associated with the transaction request and conducts the transaction between the user account and the merchant system based on the received token and transaction request. |
| US10185958B2 |
Cardless payment transactions
A method of processing a transaction between a customer and a merchant includes receiving from a mobile device of the customer or from another device of the customer an indication of consent to perform a cardless payment transaction with the merchant, receiving from the mobile device an indication that the customer is within a predetermined distance of the merchant, after receiving both the indication of consent and the indication that the customer is within the predetermined distance, sending to a computer system of the merchant an indication of the presence of the customer and personal identifying information for the customer, receiving data indicating a transaction between the customer and the merchant, and submitting the transaction to a financial service for authorization. |
| US10185955B1 |
Electronic wallet device for business transactions
An example device may include a plurality of card slots configured to hold at least two transaction cards, each card slot, of the plurality of card slots, including a card reader, one or more memories; and one or more processors, communicatively coupled to the one or more memories, to receive transaction information associated with a transaction at a transaction terminal; identify business information associated with the transaction; select a transaction card from the at least two transaction cards based on the transaction information and the business information; and provide a transaction token, associated with the selected transaction card, to be used in connection with the transaction terminal to process the transaction. |
| US10185954B2 |
Selecting a preferred payment instrument based on a merchant category
The invention provides a computer-implemented method to select a preferred card for a purchase based on a merchant category. In the exemplary method, the computer associates a plurality of financial accounts with an account of a user; associates a merchant category with a financial account associated with the user account; and receives data from a transaction. The computer can maintain a database of merchant categories; determine the category of the merchant based on the data associated with the transaction; and extract data to identify the merchant, such as merchant name, address, or telephone number. The computer can determine the geo-location of the user device and determine the merchant identify from the location. The computer can determine a merchant category of the merchant from the merchant identity; select the financial account associated with the merchant category of the merchant; and communicate the financial account selected to conduct the transaction. |
| US10185950B2 |
NFC transaction server
A near field transaction system includes a first transaction device having near field communication circuitry, and a portable device having near field communication circuitry. The system also includes at least one transaction server having a memory area with at least one application program, and a mechanism for establishing a data link between the server and the near field communication circuitry of the portable device. The application program is configured to perform a transaction with the first transaction device, using the near field communication circuitry of the portable device as a proximity relay to communicate with the first transaction terminal. |
| US10185949B2 |
System and method for authentication of a mobile device configured with payment capabilities
In various embodiments, a system, method, and computer readable medium (collectively, the “System”) for authenticating a mobile device configured to initiate payments is provided. The System may be configured to perform operations and/or steps comprising receiving, by the processor and in a secure environment, a secret element. The secret element may be transmitted to the processor (e.g., the issuer system) via a payment terminal. The System may further comprise comparing, by the processor and in the secured environment, the secret element to an issuer element. The issuer element may be linked with a flag that is associated with the transaction account. Moreover, the issuer element may be a data module that corresponds to be is not equal to the secret element. The System may also comprise authorizing, by the processor, a transaction initiated by the mobile device in response to the comparing being a satisfactory comparison. |
| US10185947B2 |
Computer system implementing a network transaction service
A network service operates to initialize and link a card instrument to a merchant or merchant location, so that the merchant can receive funds the service. One or more requests are detected to use the card instrument for one or more transactions, where each transaction involves a corresponding customer who has registered a customer funding account with the network service. For each of the transactions, a merchant account is funded using a funding account of the card instrument. |
| US10185940B2 |
Image capture transaction payment
Various systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for facilitating payment for a transaction. One example method may comprise capturing an image comprising a transaction bill and a form of payment for providing payment for the transaction. The example method may further comprise posting payment for the transaction to a point-of-sale terminal based at least in part on the captured image. Similar and related methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products are also provided. |
| US10185937B1 |
Workflow support for an annotations-based generic load generator
A generic transaction generator framework for testing a network-based production service may work in conjunction with a product-specific transaction creator module that executes transactions on the service. The transaction creator module may include runtime-discoverable information, such as source code annotations, to communicate product specific details to the framework. Runtime-discoverable information may identify transaction types, transaction methods, as well as dependencies between different transaction types and transaction methods. The framework may generate and execute various test transactions and may call a substituted transaction method for a transaction type on which a generated transaction depends prior to calling the generated transaction. The output from the substituted transaction may be used as input to the generated transaction when executed subsequently. Various data structures may be used to maintain information regarding which transactions have been substituted and to store data for use as input to subsequent transactions. |
| US10185934B2 |
Real-time context aware recommendation engine based on a user internet of things environment
The disclosure relates to a recommendation engine that may monitor, aggregate, filter, and otherwise process relevant information associated with a user Internet of Things (IoT) environment to provide personal and context-aware recommendations based on relevant real-time knowledge about various IoT devices and other items in the IoT environment. For example, the recommendations may be generated based on ranked associations between the user and the various items in the IoT environment, which may be determined from profiles, states, usage patterns, proximities, and other contextually relevant information about the IoT environment. Furthermore, the recommendations may be uploaded to a recommendation data server, shared with friends, or otherwise used to provide similar recommendations to other users, and in a similar respect, the recommendations may be based on information stored on the recommendation data server and/or recommendations provided to friends or other users having similar profiles to the user. |
| US10185933B2 |
Visualization and analysis of scheduling data
Methods and structure for presenting and analyzing schedule data. One exemplary embodiment is a system that includes an interface and a controller. The controller is able to identify a schedule comprising multiple events occurring over a length of time, to select a cyclic period within the length of time, and to generate a representation of the length of time as a view of a three dimensional (3D) helix wherein each revolution of the 3D helix corresponds with an iteration of the cyclic period. The controller is also able to determine an event location for each of the events along a path defined by the 3D helix, and to direct the interface to transmit instructions for presenting the 3D helix and the event locations via a display. |
| US10185932B2 |
Setting permissions for links forwarded in electronic messages
A permission manager detects when the message including the link is forwarded and sends a notification to the author indicating that the message was forwarded to another recipient. A notification may also be sent to the recipient who received the forwarded message indicating that the author has been notified that the recipient is not authorized to access the linked content within the forwarded message. The author may set the permissions for accessing the linked content from permission options that are displayed with the notification message sent by the permission manager. Once the permissions are set, the permission manager may send a notification to the recipient of the forwarded message with information relating to the set permissions. |
| US10185931B2 |
Thumbnail image previews
An instant message is received from an instant message sender and a determination is made that the instant message includes a link to a web page that was selected by the instant message sender. In response to determining that the instant message includes the link to the web page, an image corresponding to the web page is fetched and stored, and a thumbnail image preview of the fetched image is generated. In addition, the thumbnail image preview of the fetched portion of the web page is displayed while at least a portion of the instant message is displayed. |
| US10185928B2 |
Automated retail machine
An automated retail machine controlled by a server which operates by receiving an order for at least one item from a processor, and generating a unique identifier corresponding to the order. The unique identifier serves to both identify and retrieve the order, and also process payment method. The server then transmits the unique identifier back to the processor, which is then sent back to the server from a terminal once the unique identifier is processed and activated therein. The order is then sent to the terminal for vending, in which case, the at least one item is automatically vended. The unique identifier is then cancelled. |
| US10185927B1 |
Techniques for optimizing an inventory selection
Techniques are provided herein for utilizing an inventory engine to optimize the selection of a set of items to be stored as inventory at a storage location. A candidate set of items may be identified based at least in part on a selection model. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the selection model may be based at least in part on a capacity of the storage location and a threshold time duration by which purchased items of the set of items are to be transported from the storage location to a purchaser. A plurality of probability values corresponding to the candidate set of items may be determined. An optimal set of items may be determined based at least in part on the candidate set of items and the plurality of probability values. |
| US10185924B1 |
Security risk response impact analysis
Techniques are described for generating response recommendation information that describes one or more response profiles, each including one or more actions that may be performed to respond to a security risk present in a deployed software module. The response recommendation information may quantify, for each response profile, a cost and a benefit due to the performance of the action(s) included in the response profile. The cost may include lost revenues or other value lost due to the action(s). The benefit may include a mitigation of the security risk. |
| US10185921B1 |
Facility and resource access system
A system that allows an end-user to locate and gain access to a private facility, such as a restroom or other resource, without requiring that the end-user interact with any facility personnel. A mobile application allows a user to identify and proceed to a location where a private facility is available. When a user arrives at the location, the mobile application communicates with access control devices at the location to notify facility personnel of the user's presence and unlock doors or otherwise remove safeguards preventing general public access to the private facility. |
| US10185913B2 |
Antenna device and electronic apparatus
The purpose is to provide an antenna device ensuring good communication performance using a magnetic shielding effect, even when an antenna is arranged at back surface cover side of an electronic apparatus, and an electronic apparatus incorporating this antenna device. An antenna device incorporated in an electronic apparatus and communicating with an external apparatus via an electromagnetic field signal, including: an antenna coil inductively coupled to the external apparatus and arranged by winding around a conducting wire such that conducting wires opposing in width direction via an opening will be close to each other; a thermal diffusion sheet opposing to the external apparatus and arranged inside of a housing of the electronic apparatus; and a conductive sheet overlapped with a part of the antenna coil and the thermal diffusion sheet. |
| US10185910B2 |
Control system for controlling the power consumption of a wirelessly powered electronic device
A control system (100) for controlling a power consumption of an electronic device (300) is provided. The electronic device is adapted to communicate with a reader device via a wireless communication interface. The control system comprises a measuring unit (102) being adapted for measuring an actual field strength of an electromagnetic field provided by the reader device to the control system, a power delivery unit (101) being adapted for delivering power received via the electromagnetic field to the electronic device, and a control unit (103) being coupled to the measuring unit and being adapted for providing a control signal to the electronic device for controlling the consumption of the power being delivered to the electronic device, wherein the control signal is based on the actual field strength of the electromagnetic field. |
| US10185898B1 |
Image processing including streaming image output
An image recognition approach employs both computer generated and manual image reviews to generate image tags characterizing an image. The computer generated and manual image reviews can be performed sequentially or in parallel. The generated image tags may be provided to a requester in real-time, be used to select an advertisement, and/or be used as the basis of an internet search. In some embodiments generated image tags are used as a basis for an upgraded image review. A confidence of a computer generated image review may be used to determine whether or not to perform a manual image review. Images and their associated image tags are optionally added to an image sequence. |
| US10185896B2 |
Induction system for mold remediation
A mold remediation system includes a processor and an electromagnetic radiation source in communication with the processor. The electromagnetic radiation source is configured to emit radiation to heat a ferromagnetic material in or adjacent to a wall board upon which mold is located. The system also includes a temperature sensor in communication with the processor. The temperature sensor is configured to detect a temperature of the wall board. The processor is configured to compare the temperature of the wall board to a desired temperature to perform mold remediation. |
| US10185895B1 |
Systems and methods for classifying activities captured within images
An image including a visual capture of a scene may be accessed. The image may be processed through a convolutional neural network. The convolutional neural network may generate a set of two-dimensional feature maps based on the image. The set of two-dimensional feature maps may be processed through a contextual long short-term memory unit. The contextual long short-term memory unit may generate a set of two-dimensional outputs based on the set of two-dimensional feature maps. A set of attention-masks for the image may be generated based on the set of two-dimensional outputs and the set of two-dimensional feature maps. The set of attention-masks may define dimensional portions of the image. The scene may be classified based on the two-dimensional outputs. |
| US10185894B2 |
Picture management method and device, picture synchronization method and device
A picture management method and device, a picture synchronization method and device are disclosed. The picture management method can be applied to a client device, and comprises: receiving picture tags generated by a server device performing an image analysis based on original picture features received by the server device, the original picture feature being an original picture itself or original picture parameter(s); and classifying and archiving the original pictures represented by the original picture features according to the picture tags. The picture management method can be applied to a server device, and comprises: receiving original picture features and encrypted original pictures, the original picture feature being an original picture itself or original picture parameter(s); generating pictures tag by performing an image analysis on the received original picture features, and discarding the original picture features after generating the picture tags; and classifying and archiving the encrypted original pictures represented by the original picture features according to the picture tags. An intelligent classification and archiving of pictures based on the content of the pictures can be implemented by using said methods, and backup and sharing of picture data can be implemented through the server device while ensuring security of the picture data. |
| US10185893B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating time series data sets for predictive analysis
A computer-implemented method of generating, from time-series data, a time-series of data sets for predictive analysis, comprises dividing the time-series data into evenly-sized overlapping segments of data, generating an image representing data for each segment, using the time-series data to determine a trend associated with each image, and storing each of the generated images and its associated trend as a data set. In some embodiments of the method the image from each stored data set is transformed into numerical vectors through a feature extraction process using a pre-trained convolutional neural network. The numerical vectors are stored in association with the data set, and the data sets and associated numerical vectors are used to predict the trend for a new time-series image which has been generated from any time-series data. |
| US10185890B2 |
Method, computer and imaging apparatus for evaluating medical image data of an examination subject
In a method and computer for evaluating medical image data of an examination subject, a clinical marker of the examination subject is acquired that characterizes a status of the examination subject in relation to a physiological parameter, and a normal value range for the physiological parameter is ascertained that is matched to the status of the examination subject as a function of the clinical marker. Medical image data of the examination subject are acquired, and a value of the physiological parameter of the examination subject is determined using the medical image data. This value is compared with the normal value range matched to the status of the examination subject, and the result of the comparison is provided as an output. |
| US10185888B2 |
Systems and methods for processing images of objects using lighting keyframes
An image processing system and method for determining an intrinsic color component of one or more objects present in a sequence of frames, for use in rendering the object(s), is described. At least some of the frames of the sequence are to be used as lighting keyframes. A lighting estimate for a lighting keyframe A of the sequence of frames is obtained. An initial lighting estimate for a lighting keyframe B of the sequence of frames is determined. A refined lighting estimate for the lighting keyframe B is determined based on: (i) the initial lighting estimate for the lighting keyframe B, and (ii) the lighting estimate for the lighting keyframe A. The refined lighting estimate for the lighting keyframe B is used to separate image values representing the object(s) in the lighting keyframe B into an intrinsic color component and a shading component, for use in rendering the object(s). |
| US10185887B2 |
Textual representation of an image
At least a computer-implemented method and an apparatus for processing an image are described. In examples, numeric values for at least one property of the image are determined. These values are then converted into at least one corresponding text character, said conversion being independent of any text content within the image. This enables a text representation of the image to be generated that contains said plurality of text characters. This text representation may be used to index and search for the image. |
| US10185885B2 |
Tex line detection
A system and method for text line detection are described Examples include detection of symbols in an image received from an image-capturing device. In examples, for each of at least some of the symbols, neighboring symbols within a local region a given distance from the symbol are analyzed in order to determine a direction for a line in the local region. In examples, based on the determined directions for the lines, text lines in the image are identified. |
| US10185881B2 |
Traffic-light detection and classification using computer vision and deep learning
A method is disclosed for detecting and classifying one or more traffic lights. The method may include converting an RGB frame to an HSV frame. The HSV frame may be filtered by at least one threshold value to obtain at least one saturation frame. At least one contour may be extracted from the at least one saturation frame. Accordingly, a first portion of the RGB may be cropped in order to encompass an area including the at least one contour. The first portion may then be classified by an artificial neural network to determined whether the first portion corresponds to a not-a-traffic-light class, a red-traffic-light class, a green-traffic-light class, a yellow-traffic-light class, or the like. |
| US10185880B2 |
Method and apparatus for augmenting a training data set
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for augmenting a training data set. In a method, a first type of road sign is identified within an image, the orientation and scale of the first type of road sign within the image are estimated and stylistic content associated with the first type of road sign within the image is identified. The method transforms an image of a second, less common type of road sign based upon the orientation, scale and stylistic content of the first type of road sign. The method also creates a synthetic image in which the first type of road sign is replaced by a transformed representation of the second type of road sign and pixels are filled in the synthetic image about the second type of road sign that were previously occluded by the first type of road sign. |
| US10185879B2 |
Image processing device
Provided is an image processing device in which a region targeted for edge extraction of a taken image is divided into a plurality of partial regions 11(1) to 11(7) for which threshold values for edge extraction different from each other are set, respectively. An edge extraction unit 5, which extracts edges from the region targeted for edge extraction, performs processing of extracting the edges in the partial regions 11(1) to 11(7) by using the threshold values set so as to correspond to the each of the partial regions 11(1) to 11(7). |
| US10185878B2 |
System and method for person counting in image data
Systems and methods for person counting are disclosed. A method may include retrieving an image frame from a plurality of image frames captured by a camera. The image frame may be split into a grid of a plurality of cells of a pre-determined cell dimensions. The pre-determined cell dimensions may be based on dimensions of the retrieved image frame and reference dimensions of training images of a person detection classifier. At least a portion of the plurality of cells may be rearranged to generate a new image. The new image may be padded with at least one padding strip to adjust dimensions of the new image to the reference dimensions of the training images. Person detection may be performed using the new image and the person detection classifier to obtain a number of persons detected within the new image. |
| US10185868B2 |
Fingerprint authentication system and method of authentication using the same
Provided is a fingerprint authentication system and a method of authentication. The fingerprint authentication system may have a configuration to analyze a reflection wave signal reflected at a surface of an object under examination or an internal of the object under examination by applying a wave signal from at least one of signal communication unit of a fingerprint sensor to the object under examination. In the method of authentication, the controller in the fingerprint authentication system may be configured to selectively perform a first step authentication to authenticate a shape of a fingerprint, and a second step authentication to detect internal biometric information of the object under examination. |
| US10185865B2 |
Fingerprint recognition device, manufacturing method thereof, liquid crystal display
The present disclosure provides a fingerprint recognition device, a manufacturing method thereof, and a liquid crystal display comprising a fingerprint recognition device. The fingerprint recognition device comprises: a recognition element; a light-reflecting element arranged above the recognition element; and a temperature-sensitive liquid crystal layer arranged between the recognition element and the light-reflecting element. The recognition element comprises a plurality of recognition units, each of which includes a light-emitting sub-unit and a photosensitive sub-unit. |
| US10185864B1 |
Fingerprint sensing device and method operating the same
A fingerprint sensing device and a method operating the fingerprint sensing device are provided. The fingerprint sensing device includes at least one sensing core, a system unit, at least one switching unit and a charge holding unit. The switching unit is connected between the sensing core and the system unit to provide four different operation states: a normal state; an isolation state; a drive-up state; and a drive-down state. A voltage shift between the finger and the sensing core is generated by controlling the switching unit to perform different operation states in various orders. |
| US10185863B2 |
Ultrasonic transducer, method for manufacturing ultrasonic transducer, ultrasonic finger recognition sensor and electronic device
The present disclosure discloses an ultrasonic transducer. The ultrasonic transducer includes a piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer includes an array of piezoelectric posts, a plurality of emitting electrodes, and a plurality of receiving electrodes. The piezoelectric posts are configured for emitting and receiving ultrasonic wave. The material of each of the piezoelectric posts includes lead zirconate titanate piezoelectric ceramics. The emitting electrodes are formed on a lower surface of the piezoelectric layer by a sputtering process. The receiving electrodes are formed on an upper surface of the piezoelectric layer by the sputtering process. Each of the emitting electrodes and each of the receiving electrodes include lead, zirconium, titanium, and/or alloys thereof. The present disclosure also discloses a method for manufacturing the ultrasonic transducer, an ultrasonic fingerprint recognition sensor having the ultrasonic transducer, and an electronic device having the ultrasonic fingerprint recognition sensor. |
| US10185853B2 |
Interrogator and interrogation system employing the same
A control and processing system for use with an interrogator and an interrogation system employing the same. In one embodiment, the control and processing system includes a correlation subsystem having a correlator that correlates a reference code with a reply code from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag and provides a correlation signal therefrom. The control and processing system also includes a decision subsystem that verifies a presence of the RFID tag as a function of the correlation signal. |
| US10185850B2 |
Method for storing temporary data in a memory of an RFID tag associated with a consumable of a laboratory instrument and system comprising a laboratory instrument, consumable and RFID tag
A method for storing temporary data in a memory of a RFID tag associated with a consumable of a laboratory instrument for processing a reagent or biological sample is disclosed. The method comprises providing the RFID tag associated with the consumable. The RFID tag comprises a memory. The memory comprises a user memory configured to store user data and a system memory configured to store system data. The laboratory instrument writes the temporary data into the system memory. The temporary data are associated with a process to be carried out by the laboratory instrument. Further, a system comprising a laboratory instrument for processing a reagent or biological sample, a consumable and a RFID tag associated with the consumable is disclosed. The laboratory instrument is configured to carry out the method. |
| US10185849B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling antennas
Systems and methods for a distributed antenna network are provided. One system includes a plurality of antenna modules coupled via a communication line, with each antenna module configured to be switched between a through state and a connected state using radio-frequency identification (RFID) control signals. The system further includes a plurality of antennas, with each antenna connected to a corresponding antenna module. A controller is coupled to the communication line and configured to transmit RFID control signals to the plurality of antenna modules to selectively activate one of the antenna modules by switching the antenna module to the connected state to thereby activate an antenna connected to the antenna module in the connected state. |
| US10185847B2 |
Secure smartcard reader
A secure smartcard reader including a smartcard connector and a flexible printed circuit board wrapped around and at least partially surrounding the smartcard connector and at least partially defining a security volume enclosing the smartcard connector, the wrapped flexible printed circuit board defining on an outer-facing surface thereof a plurality of keypad contacts, the wrapped flexible printed circuit board defining electrical conductors connecting the plurality of keypad contacts to connector pads and the wrapped flexible printed circuit board defining a protective anti-tamper mesh protecting the electrical conductors. |
| US10185836B2 |
Format preserving encryption
Encrypting data without losing their format is important in computing systems, because many parties using confidential data rely on systems that require specific formatting for data. Information security depends on the systems and methods used to store and transmit data as well as the keys used to encrypt and decrypt those data. A policy broker is disclosed that maintains keys for clients in confidence, while providing cryptographically secure ciphertext as tokens that the clients may use in their systems as though they were the unencrypted data. Tokens are uniquely constructed for each client by the policy broker based on policies set by a receiving client detailing the formatting needs of their systems. Each client may communicate with other clients via the policy broker with the tokens and will send tokens unique to their system that the policy broker will translate into the tokens of the other party. |
| US10185835B2 |
Methods of dynamically securing electronic devices and other communications through environmental and system measurements leveraging tailored trustworthy spaces and continuous authentication
This invention is for a system capable of securing one or more fixed or mobile computing device and connected system. Each device is configured to change its operating posture by allowing, limiting, or disallowing access to applications, application features, devices features, data, and other information based on the current Tailored Trustworthy Space (TTS) definitions and rules which provided for various situationally dependent scenarios. Multiple TTS may be defined for a given deployment, each of which specifies one or more sensors and algorithms for combining sensor data from the device, other connected devices, and/or other data sources from which the current TTS is identified. The device further achieves security by loading digital credentials through a unidirectional multidimensional physical representation process which allows for the device to obtain said credentials without the risk of compromising the credential issuing system through the data transfer process. This secure system methodology may be used to create a Mobile Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility (M-SCIF), among other applications. |
| US10185834B2 |
Device and method for generating and displaying graphic codes specific for medical devices and medical treatment
The present invention relates to the field of information display and information playback on medical fluid management machines, in particular dialysis machines in which there should be a simple and reliable transmission of patient features and machine features to a mobile computer. The present invention is based on the problem of making available to the operating personnel information pertaining to the medical fluid management machine or a treatment to be performed therewith and doing so in a simple and convenient manner such that certain information should be readable only by certain groups of people. In this regard methods and devices have been proposed with which specific graphic codes are generated, encrypted and displayed or applied, these graphic codes being inputable and decodable by a mobile computer. |
| US10185832B2 |
Methods and systems for defending cyber attack in real-time
Provided are processes of monitoring or modifying a network of electronically connected assets that dynamically builds relationships and dependencies among detected vulnerabilities in one or more of the assets and sensor measurements so that risk assessment can be achieved more accurately and in real-time. A process includes: identifying a plurality of vulnerabilities on a network of electronically interconnected devices representing one or more critical assets; determining dependencies between each vulnerability in the plurality of vulnerabilities; creating a hidden Markov model representing an attack state of each vulnerability of the plurality of vulnerabilities; determining the exploit likelihood of each of the attack states at a first time; determining the most probable sequences or paths of the attack states; and identifying dynamically the risk of one or more of the critical assets based on the sequences or paths of attack states. |
| US10185830B1 |
Big data analytics in a converged infrastructure system
A method, a computer program product, a system for analyzing data in a converged infrastructure system, comprising capturing metadata associated with a network path via a port on a network switch enabled to collect metadata; capturing content data associated with the metadata via the port on the network switch enabled to collect metadata; and performing data analytics on the metadata and the content data. |
| US10185829B2 |
Bootstrapping without transferring private key
A machine implemented method of communication between server and remote device, the method comprising: determining an availability and address of the remote device on a network for communication with the server; obtaining a public key attributed to the remote device; signing the public key attributed to the remote device with a private key of the server and so generating a digitally signed certificate to verify the ownership of the public key as the remote device; and transmitting the digitally signed certificate to the remote device. |
| US10185825B2 |
System and method for generating rules for detecting modified or corrupted external devices
Disclosed are systems and methods for generating rules for detecting modified or corrupted external devices connected to a computer system. An exemplary method includes analyzing data associated with the external device connected to the computer system based on stored data associated with one or more other devices; identifying at least one anomaly associated with the analyzed data that indicates the detected external device is modified or corrupted; generating at least one rule in response to the identified anomaly, wherein the at least one rule is based on the external device; and storing the at least one rule in a database accessible to the computer system. |
| US10185820B2 |
PUF hardware arrangement for increased throughput
The present invention provides a method for authenticating distributed peripherals on a computer network using an array of physically unclonable functions (PUF). As each PUF is unique, each PUF is able to generate a plurality of challenge response pairs that are unique to that PUF. The integrated circuits of the PUF comprise a plurality of cells, where a parameter (such as a voltage) of each cell may be measured (possibly averaged over many readings). The plurality of cells in the PUF may be arranged in a one, two or more dimensional matrix. A protocol based on an addressable PUF generator (APG) allows the protection of a network having distributed peripherals such as Internet of things (IoT), smart phones, lap top and desk top computers, or ID cards. This protection does not require the storage of a database of passwords, or secret keys, and thereby is immune to traditional database hacking attacks. |
| US10185818B2 |
Methods for generating random data using phase change materials and related devices and systems
Devices and systems operable to generate random numbers are disclosed and described. Such include an array of phase change material cells electrically coupled to circuitry configured to initially set all cells in the array to a high state, send a programming pulse through the array having a current sufficient to randomly set each cell to either the high state or a low state to generate a random distribution of cell states across the array, and to read the random distribution of cell states out of the array. |
| US10185816B2 |
Controlling user access to electronic resources without password
Described herein are devices and techniques for remotely controlling user access to a restricted computer resource. The process includes obtaining an image from equipment of a user, wherein the image includes an indication of an individual and an indication of a local environment. The individual is identified within the image to obtain an identification of the individual, and the local environment is determined as a predetermined local environment based on the identification of the local environment. Access to a restricted computing resource is facilitated based on the determining that the individual is the user and that the local environment is the predetermined local environment. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10185805B2 |
Medical image processing apparatus and method
A medical image processing apparatus and method are provided. The medical image processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire an icon based on information in a medical image file of an object, the icon having a shape of the object and comprising one or more sub-icons, and a display configured to display the icon. Each of the one or more sub-icons corresponds to an anatomical region of the object is configured to accept input to perform one or more image processing functions associated with the corresponding anatomical region. |
| US10185800B2 |
Apparatus and method for the measurement of pattern placement and size of pattern and computer program therefor
An apparatus and a method are disclosed for the measurement of pattern placement and/or edge placement and/or size of a pattern on a surface of a substrate for the semiconductor industry. At least one source for detection and at least one assigned detector are used to measure the positions of a pattern on a substrate. With a movable stage the substrate is moved while detection takes place. A displacement measurement system determines the position of the movable stage during the movement. A computer is used for correlating detected signals of the at least one detector along the derived trace line with the actual positions of the stage during the movement of the stage. |
| US10185799B2 |
Verification of photonic integrated circuits
Techniques and mechanisms for the use of layout-versus-schematic (LVS) design tools to validate photonic integrated circuit designs. Various implementations employ alternate analysis techniques with LVS analysis tools to perform one or more LVS analysis processes on photonic integrated circuits. These analysis processes may include curvilinear design validation and the associated flow implementations. |
| US10185798B2 |
Layout design system, semiconductor device using the layout design system, and fabricating method thereof
A layout design system, semiconductor device using the layout design system, and fabricating method thereof are provided. The fabricating method of a semiconductor device includes loading a first layout, wherein the first layout comprises a first active region and a first dummy region, and the first active region comprises a fin-type pattern design having a first width, generating a second layout by substituting the fin-type pattern design with a nanowire structure design and forming a nanowire structure by using the second layout, wherein the second layout comprises a second active region in the same size as the first active region, and a second dummy region in the same size as the first dummy region, the nanowire structure design has a second width greater than the first width, and the nanowire structure comprises a first nanowire extending in a first direction, a second nanowire extending in the first direction and being formed on the first nanowire at a spacing apart from the first nanowire, a gate electrode surrounding a periphery of the first nanowire and extending in a second direction of intersecting with the first direction, a gate spacer being formed on a sidewall of the gate electrode and comprising an inner sidewall and an outer sidewall facing each other, the inner sidewall of the gate spacer facing a side surface of the gate electrode, and a source/drain epitaxial layer on at least one side of the gate electrode and being connected to the first nanowire. |
| US10185797B2 |
Methods and devices for extraction of MEMS structures from a MEMS layout
Electronic design automation systems and methods for extracting Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) objects from a manufacturing MEMS layout are described for MEMS layouts directed to MEMS devices including mass and spring objects. Pattern recognition is used on a MEMS layer of the MEMS layout to identify beams and supports. The identified beams and supports are then used to derive a set of intermediate MEMS objects. The intermediate MEMS objects are used to derive a set of output objects, where the set of output objects includes at least two mass objects and at least one active spring object. The set of output objects may then be used to generate a Lagrangian model of the MEMS device described by the MEMS layout. |
| US10185796B2 |
Computer implemented system and method for generating a layout of a cell defining a circuit component
The present invention provides a system and computer implemented method for generating a layout of a cell defining a circuit component, the layout providing a layout pattern for a target process technology. In accordance with the method, a process technology independent layout representation associated with the circuit component is input, the process technology independent layout representation being defined within a grid array providing a plurality of grid locations. A mapping database is provided having a priority ordered list of mapping entries, each mapping entry storing a process technology independent layout section and an associated layout pattern section for the target process technology. For selected grid locations within the grid array, a lookup operation is performed in the mapping database to determine a matching mapping entry, the matching mapping entry being a highest priority mapping entry within the priority ordered list whose process technology independent layout section matches a portion of the process technology independent layout representation at that selected grid location. The layout of the cell is then generated by incorporating, at each of the selected grid locations, the layout pattern section for the target process technology stored in the matching mapping entry. This provides an automated mechanism for generating cells whose layouts conform to a target process technology. |
| US10185793B2 |
Conditional-based duration logic
A model of a state machine may be created in a modeling environment, and the model may be executed over a simulation time. A duration operator may be defined within the model. The duration operator may include as an input argument, a conditional expression that may evaluate to True or False. During execution, the modeling environment may define a plurality of time steps over the course of the model's simulation time. The conditional expression of the duration operator may be evaluated at the time steps. When the conditional expression evaluates to True, the modeling environment may begin tracking elapsed simulation time, and may continue to track elapsed simulation time while the conditional expression remains True. The value of elapsed simulation time may be made available to other portions of the model. |
| US10185791B2 |
Initial stress and eigenstrain computation system and method
A system and method are provided for estimating initial stresses in and eigenstrains of a material. The system may receive measured geometric data including measurements of a material before and after the application of a manufacturing process thereto. The measurements may indicate a residual stress in a coupon after application of the manufacturing process. Estimated linear elastic strains may be calculated in respective opposing sides of the coupon based on the measured geometric data. A linear elastic reaction of the material to the manufacturing process may be calculated based at least in part on the estimated linear elastic strains. The system may then calculate an estimated initial stress in the material as a sum of the residual stress in the coupon and the linear elastic reaction of the material, and calculate an estimated eigenstrain of the material based at least in part on the estimated initial stress in the material. |
| US10185788B2 |
Rule based completion of maps with partial data
A rule set is used to generate an indoor map of a building from partial map data. In one embodiment, the partial map data is based at least in part on crowd sourced trajectory data. In one embodiment, a probabilistic rule set describes relationships in space usage of the indoor building. Hypothesis testing is performed. A most likely complete layout is determined, based on the partial coverage data and the rule set, which preserves the partial map data. |
| US10185786B2 |
Method and analysis for holistic casing design for planning and real-time
The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining a suitable casing design for a well. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes a system that includes at least one processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor and storing instructions that when executed by the at least one processor performs operations for receiving historical data associated with previously drilled wells; in response to a determination that the historical data associated with previously drilled well is relevant to the well, generating a first set of casing designs using a probabilistic approach and generating a second set of casing designs using a combination approach that combines the probabilistic approach with a deterministic approach; and selecting a suitable casing design from a resulting set of casing designs. |
| US10185785B2 |
System and method for tracking components of complex three dimensional structures
A build-out tracking method and application tracks historical changes within a complex and/or repeatedly modified structure and provides for queries about the build-out of the structure over time. The method returns precise installation data from any spatial point the user chooses to query within the structure by creating a ray that pierces the structure and collects data along its path. This returned data is an immediate record of current in situ and legacy configurations of any and all shape geometries, solving the technical problem created when a surface cannot be rendered into the traditional zero-Gaussian developed surface (upon which the prior art relied). Legacy parts, designs and materials can be evaluated for life-cycle service enabling optimization of the design in support of continuous improvement. |
| US10185779B2 |
Mechanisms for content aggregation, syndication, sharing, and updating
“Smart bookmarks” are described which facilitate aggregation, sharing, and dynamic access to the content in which a particular user has an interest. |
| US10185775B2 |
Scalable 3D mapping system
Disclosed are a system, apparatus, and method for multiple client simultaneous localization and mapping. Tracking and mapping may be performed locally and independently by each of a plurality of clients. At configurable points in time map data may be sent to a server for stitching and fusion. In response to successful stitching and fusion to one or more maps known to the server, updated position and orientation information relative to the server's maps may be sent back to the clients. Clients may update their local map data with the received server location data. Clients may receive additional map data from the server, which can be used for extending their maps. Clients may send queries to the server for 3D maps, and the queries may include metadata. |
| US10185773B2 |
Systems and methods of precision sharing of big data
An ecosystem that allows fine-grained multi-party control over access to information stored in one or more data sources of a data provider. A requesting party can submit a query job to the data provider. Resellers in the chain can introduce their own query modifiers to the query job, adding additional data access, data transformation and segmentation functions to the query job. The data provider can append its own query modifier to the query job and execute the query job with all of the query modifiers. Access control for each link in the chain is checked before the query modifier for the link is executed. After execution of all query modifiers and the query job, the results can be provided to the requesting party. |
| US10185772B2 |
Query selection method and system
A system and method for query selection are provided. The method may include acquiring a natural language sentence, pre-processing to obtain a standard node sequence, constructing a node tree based on the relationship between an index node and other nodes, generating a data query command based on the node tree, querying data using the data query command, and filtering the results. The standard node sequence may include at least an index node and a condition node. The node tree may be used to characterize the index-condition combination. The system may include an acquisition unit, a pre-processing unit, a node tree construction unit, a translation unit, and a querying and filtering unit. |
| US10185766B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring objects and their states by using acoustic signals
A computer system is communicably coupled to one or more sensor devices. The computer system obtains a database of stored acoustic signatures characterizing predefined acoustic signals generated by passive tags in response to physical motion of respective monitored objects associated with the passive tags. A first acoustic signal characterized by a respective acoustic signature and generated by a first passive tag is detected. In response, and based on the respective acoustic signature and information in the database, a first monitored object associated with the respective acoustic signature is identified, and a first state of the first monitored object is determined. The determined first state is stored in the database, and an indication of the first state is provided to an associated monitoring service. |
| US10185762B2 |
Predictive algorithm for search box auto-complete
In various exemplary embodiments, systems and associated methods to predict search results in an electronic environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method to provide responses to a search request includes receiving, from an end-user, one or more characters that form a portion of the search request. Prior to receiving a completed version of the search request from the end-user, a plurality of keywords is predicted based on the one or more characters. The prediction is based on the most probable keywords selected from a plurality of prior requests stored in a database. A plurality of responses is prepared based on the most probable keywords. The responses are fit within a single communications packet and returned as a reply to the search request. Other systems and methods are disclosed. |
| US10185761B2 |
Domain classification based on domain name system (DNS) traffic
Techniques are provided herein for classifying domains based on DNS traffic so that domains that are malicious or associated with malicious activity can be identified. Traffic between one or more domain name system (DNS) resolvers and one or more authoritative name servers hosted on the Internet is analyzed analyzing at a server having network connectivity. A mismatch between a hostname and Internet Protocol (IP) information for the hostname is detected in the traffic and domains included in the traffic are classified based on the detecting. |
| US10185760B2 |
Method and device for forming group using communication history information
When a communication occurs in an electronic device, groups are automatically generated according to the user's situation by: storing a communication history in a database; generating a first group from the database on the basis of the time and location information stored in the database at a predetermined time; retrieving a transmission list from the database and generating a second group from the database on the basis of an identifier of an opposing party included in the transmission list; retrieving a reception list from the database and generating a third group from the database on the basis of an identifier of an opposing party included in the reception list and the identifier of the opposing party included in the transmission list; and generating a fourth group on the basis of the information commonly included in at least two groups of the first group, the second group and the third group. |
| US10185750B2 |
Synthesizing directories, domains, and subdomains
SEO for an entire website can change the presence of the website on the internet, and change which webpages of the website rank higher for different internet searches. The SEO optimized website can provide a particular webpage in response to a particular search engine query rather than a generic landing page. SEO can determine a unified website configuration having individual webpages with higher search engine rankings for specific search engine parameters. This can allow for enhanced search engine optimization that directs search engine results to rank selected pages within a website higher than others to provide a more directed search result within the website. |
| US10185748B1 |
Combining natural language and keyword search queries for personal content collections
Providing incremental search suggestions as a user enters terms in a search query includes determining if a recently entered term is in a context-free dictionary of natural language phrases, generating natural language query search completion candidates corresponding to terms provided by the user in the search query if the recently entered term is in the context free dictionary, determining if the recently entered term contains a keyword hint if the recently entered term is not in the context free dictionary, generating keyword search completion candidates if the recently entered term is at least part of a keyword hint, scoring the candidates from a current iteration and any previous iterations from previously entered terms to provide a set of possible candidates, and ordering the possible candidates based on at least the scoring. Providing incremental search suggestions may also include building compound search queries that include natural language phrases and keywords. |
| US10185747B2 |
Presenting publisher data sets in context
Approaches to sharing information about third-party data sets in the context of an application. A computing device may be used to determine the context of an application that is executing on the computing device and searching an index that includes entries representing publisher data sets. The computing device may search the index for entries that are associated with the context of the application. In response to finding such an entry, the computing device displays information about the publisher data set that is associated with the entry. |
| US10185744B2 |
Caching views on historical data
In a general aspect, a computer-implemented method for executing a query on a table of a database, where the table has multiple partitions, can include receiving a query requesting a view on the table. The view on the table can be based on data included in a partition of the multiple partitions of the table. The method can also include determining a cached result to the query is not available in the database and generating a result to the query from, at least, the data of the partition of the multiple partitions. After the generating, the method can include building a cache including the result to the query, associating a transaction identifier for the query with the result to the query result in the cache; and returning the result to the query. |
| US10185730B2 |
Methods and systems for key-value-tuple-encoded storage
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for Key-Value-Tuple-encoded (KVT-encoded) object storage. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, chunks of objects, storing payload data or metadata, are persistently stored by servers using KVT-encoded storage. Furthermore, the KVT encoding may be applied to advantageously re-structure content within a distributed object storage cluster, especially for object storage systems that allow payload references to be cached extensively. For such systems, it is of considerable value to honor (use as valid) existing chunk references after the underlying content has been re-structured. Further, the KVT encoding taught herein is completely compatible with a fully-distributed object storage cluster. One embodiment relates to a storage server that includes a persistent storage module that provides a key-value application programming interface that encodes multiple key-value-tuple (KVT) entries for one chunk. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed. |
| US10185729B2 |
Index creation method and system
A data searching system is provided for real-time database searching. The data searching system includes a plurality of databases having respective maximum data capacity, and a searching module configured to provide a searching service interface. The data searching system also includes an index module configured to write received data into one of the plurality of databases, to treat the received data as the most up-to-date data to be stored over data having a longer existence time period in the plurality of database when the plurality of databases are filled; and to create indices of the plurality of databases. Further, the data searching system includes a transmission module configured to send the created indices of the plurality of databases to the searching module to provide searching results of the data searching system. |
| US10185724B2 |
Method for sorting media content and electronic device implementing same
A method of sorting a media content is provided. The method includes receiving at least one search word, extracting at least one media content based on the received search word, identifying a user's selection for the extracted media content, generating a group, and including the at least one media content in the group based on the identified user's selection. |
| US10185720B2 |
Rule generation in a data governance framework
The invention relates to computer-implemented method for supplementing a data governance framework with one or more new data governance technical rules. The method comprises providing a plurality of expressions and a first mapping. The expressions assign natural language patterns to technical language patterns. The first mapping maps first terms to data sources. A rule generator receives a new natural language (NL) rule comprising one or more natural-language patterns and one or more first terms. The rule generator resolves the new NL rule into one or more new technical rules interpretable by a respective rule engine and stores the one or more technical rules in a rule repository. |
| US10185715B1 |
Reputation report with recommendation
The generation of an online reputation report for an individual is disclosed. First, an online reputation assessment is performed for an individual. Then, a report is generated. The report includes an individualized recommendation based on the online reputation assessment. The recommendation can be directed to the individual and can also be directed to an entity other than the individual. |
| US10185712B2 |
Standard exact clause detection
Embodiments relate to a system and a method for identifying, from contractual documents, (i) standard exact clauses matching clause examples and (ii) non-standard clauses semantically related to but not matching the clause examples. A standard feature data set comprising standard exact clauses matching clause examples is obtained. In addition, a mirror feature data set comprising semantically related clauses of the clause examples is obtained using semantic language analysis, where the mirror feature data set encompasses the standard feature data set. Non-standard clauses are obtained by extracting a difference between the mirror feature data set and the standard exact feature data set. |
| US10185708B2 |
Data summary view
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer-readable media, and systems directed at providing a data summary view. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving a request to display a data summary view of search results of a search query. The request may be received while the search results are displayed in a table format. The method may further include causing display of the data summary view. The data summary view can include a summary report for a selected event attribute of a plurality of event attributes that are represented in the table format. The summary report can include summary entries that present a summary of data items of the selected event attribute and a summary graph of the data items. The summary graph may depict a distribution of at least a subset of the data items of the selected event attribute over a period of time. |
| US10185701B2 |
Unsupported character code detection mechanism
An electronic device is described which comprises a memory storing a font comprising a mapping from character codes to glyphs. The memory also stores character information comprising at least information about one or more unsupported character codes. A processor of the device processes text content comprising character codes using the font to create text output by converting the character codes into glyphs for display at a display associated with the electronic device. The processor is configured to capture the text output and detect whether the text output comprises at least one unsupported character code; and, in the case that at least one unsupported character code is detected, to output to a user of the device information about the unsupported character code obtained from the character information. |
| US10185698B2 |
Electronic device, computational processing method and storage medium
An electronic device includes a display, a memory and a processor being configured to: register a plurality of pieces of first computational data in input order; register at least one or more pieces of second computational data each time the second computational data is input, the at least one or more pieces of second computational data corresponding to the plurality of pieces of first computational data, and each piece of the second computational data including numerical value data and calculation data; when second computational data is registered, determine whether the registered second computational data is consistent with the first computational data in input order corresponding to the registered second computational data; when the registered second computational data is determined to be inconsistent with the first computational data, correct the first computational data; and resume the registration of the second computational data after the first computational data is corrected. |
| US10185696B2 |
Method for interface initialization using bus turn-around
An example method for initializing an interface includes driving a low voltage signal on data lanes and clock lanes. The method further includes performing a reset sequence and an initialization of a link configuration register. The method also includes driving a high voltage signal to the clock lanes and the data lanes. The method further includes driving a bus turn-around (BTA) sequence on the data lanes. The method also includes detecting that the BTA is acknowledged by a host controller. |
| US10185694B2 |
Manufacturing methods for printed circuit boards
We describe a method of manufacturing a plurality of electronic devices. The method comprises manufacturing a multi-device motherboard bearing programmable device circuit boards, each of these with an electronic device comprising a processor and programmable memory and being detachable from the motherboard except for one of more frangible links, at least one of these links comprising a programming connection. A device programming region bears a motherboard processor and program memory for programming the device circuit boards. Code for at least one application program for said electronic device is stored in said motherboard program memory. A user interface for the multi-device motherboard allows a user to configure each of the electronic devices to perform a defined function. |
| US10185693B2 |
High speed data serialization through hermetic seals
A method for transmitting data between the inside and outside of a hermetically sealed chamber, including: serializing first data into a first serial data for transmission; transmitting the first serial data at a first frequency using a first transmission line that connects the inside and outside of the hermetically sealed chamber; wherein the first transmission line is coupled to a first ground. |
| US10185690B1 |
Computer interconnect isolation
Methods and systems are provided routing access requests produced by a function to a physical sharing machine on a computer interconnect fabric. Access requests are routed through a switch that includes an NTB, the NTB using an address-lookup table to ensure that access requests made by multiple physical sharing machines are appropriately isolated from one another. |
| US10185688B2 |
Quality of service for internal I/Os using internal flow mechanism
A method for Quality of Service (QoS) for internal input/output (I/O) using an internal flow mechanism in a storage system is provided. The method includes establishing internal I/O flows corresponding to external I/O flows for one or more computing machines or virtual machines implemented with physical computing resources requesting I/Os. The method includes inheriting service-level agreement (SLA) values from the external I/O flows to the internal I/O flows and determining demands for the external I/O flows and the internal I/O flows. The method includes distributing credits to the internal I/O flows and the external I/O flows according to minimum I/O operations per unit time values, based on the service-level agreement values, and distributing remaining credits to the external I/O flows and the internal I/O flows according to priority and demand of each of the external I/O flows and the internal I/O flows. |
| US10185686B2 |
Connecting a peripheral device
The present disclosure describes a peripheral device. The peripheral device includes a device communication port to communicatively couple with a computer communication port on a computer. The peripheral device includes an automatic latch to mechanically secure the peripheral device to the computer by applying pressure in a direction that connects the device communication port and the computer communication port. The peripheral device includes a ground retention clip, to establish surface contact with an exterior surface of the computer to electrically ground the peripheral device. |
| US10185684B2 |
System interconnect and operating method of system interconnect
A system interconnect is provided which includes a first channel configured to transmit a plurality of control signals based on a first clock, and a second channel configured to transmit a plurality of data signals which correspond to the control signals based on a second clock. The first channel and the second channel allows a predetermined range of out-of-orderness, and the predetermined range of the out-of-orderness indicates that an order of the control signals is different from an order of the data signals which correspond to the control signals. |
| US10185683B2 |
Bus interface system
A bus interface system is disclosed that includes a master bus controller and a slave bus controller that are coupled by a bus line. The slave bus controller includes a decoder that allows for data to be transmitted along just the bus line. The decoder includes an oscillator, a first counter, and a comparison circuit. The oscillator is configured to be enabled by data pulses defined by the input data signal and generate oscillation pulses while enabled. The first counts the oscillation pulses and indicates a number of the oscillation pulses generated during a time slot. The comparison circuit is configured to this number with a reference number and generate a data output that represents a first logical value in response to the number being greater than the reference parameter and represents a second logical value in response to the number being less than the reference parameter. |
| US10185677B2 |
Non-interfering transactions
Embodiments relate to non-interfering transactions. An aspect includes receiving, by a first transaction, a conflicting remote access request from a requester, the remote access request being directed to a memory area that is owned as part of at least one of a transactional read set and transactional write set by the first transaction. Another aspect includes determining whether the requester is a second transaction that is indicated as a non-interfering transaction with respect to the first transaction. Another aspect includes, based on determining that the requester is indicated as a non-interfering transaction with the first transaction, handling the remote access request. Yet another aspect includes continuing execution of the first transaction and the second transaction after handling the remote access request. |
| US10185675B1 |
Device with multiple interrupt reporting modes
Peripheral devices may implement multiple reporting modes for signal interrupts to a host system. Different reporting modes may be determined for interrupts generated at a host system. Reporting modes may be programmatically configured for various operations at the peripheral device. Reporting modes may indicate a reporting technique for transmitting an indication of the interrupt and may indicate a priority assigned to reporting the interrupt. An interrupt controller for the peripheral device may report generated interrupts according to the reporting mode determined for the interrupts. |
| US10185672B2 |
Multiprocessor system with improved secondary interconnection network
Embodiments of a multiprocessor system are disclosed that may include a plurality of processors interspersed with a plurality of data memory routers, a plurality of bus interface units, a bus control circuit, and a processor interface circuit. The data memory routers may be coupled together to form a primary interconnection network. The bus interface units and the bus control circuit may be coupled together in a daisy-chain fashion to form a secondary interconnection network. Each of the bus interface units may be configured to read or write data or instructions to a respective one of the plurality of data memory routers and a respective processor. The bus control circuit coupled with the processor interface circuit may be configured to function as a bidirectional bridge between the primary and secondary networks. The bus control circuit may also couple to other interface circuits and arbitrate their access to the secondary network. |
| US10185668B2 |
Cost-aware cache replacement
Systems and methods relate to cost-aware cache management policies. In a cost-aware least recently used (LRU) replacement policy, temporal locality as well as miss cost is taken into account in selecting a cache line for replacement, wherein the miss cost is based on an associated operation type including instruction cache read, data cache read, data cache write, prefetch, and write back. In a cost-aware dynamic re-reference interval prediction (DRRIP) based cache management policy, miss costs associated with operation types pertaining to a cache line are considered for assigning re-reference interval prediction values (RRPV) for inserting the cache line, pursuant to a cache miss and for updating the RRPV upon a hit for the cache line. The operation types comprise instruction cache access, data cache access, prefetch, and write back. These policies improve victim selection, while minimizing cache thrashing and scans. |
| US10185663B2 |
Cache bypass
A data processing apparatus is provided including a memory hierarchy having a plurality of cache levels including a forwarding cache level, at least one bypassed cache level, and a receiver cache level. The forwarding cache level forwards a data access request relating to a given data value to the receiver cache level, inhibiting the at least one bypassed cache level from responding to the data access request. The receiver cache level includes presence determination circuitry for performing a determination as to whether the given data value is present in the at least one bypassed cache level. In response to the determination indicating that the data value is present in the at least one bypassed cache level, one of the at least one bypassed cache level is made to respond to the data access request. |
| US10185660B2 |
System and method for automated data organization in a storage system
A system and method for managing data in a storage system are provided. A system and method may include receiving a data block and a logical address and identifying, in a set of address sequence range (ASR) objects, an ASR object having an address sequence range that is close to the logical address. A system and method may include storing the data block in the storage system, and updating the ASR object to include the logical address. |
| US10185657B2 |
Method and system for optimizing deterministic garbage collection in NAND flash storage systems
A method for partial garbage collection in a NAND flash storage system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a real time data request task in a NAND flash storage system; executing the real time data request task in the NAND flash storage system; determining a condition whether a number of free pages in the NAND flash storage system is below a pre-determined threshold; for the condition that the number of free pages in the NAND flash storage system is below a pre-determined threshold, determining whether a partial garbage collection list is empty; for the condition that the partial garbage collection list is empty, selecting a victim block from a plurality of blocks in the NAND flash storage system; creating partial garbage collection tasks in the NAND flash storage system; and putting the partial garbage collection tasks in the partial garbage collection list. |
| US10185655B2 |
Systems and methods for rapid processing and storage of data
Systems and methods of building massively parallel computing systems using low power computing complexes in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. A massively parallel computing system in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes at least one Solid State Blade configured to communicate via a high performance network fabric. In addition, each Solid State Blade includes a processor configured to communicate with a plurality of low power computing complexes interconnected by a router, and each low power computing complex includes at least one general processing core, an accelerator, an I/O interface, and cache memory and is configured to communicate with non-volatile solid state memory. |
| US10185654B2 |
Memory mapping management method for nonvolatile main memory system
A memory mapping management method for a system using nonvolatile memory (NVM) as main memory, including receiving a request to cancel a memory mapping, determining whether the memory mapping is a mapping of a file based on meta data relating to the memory mapping, separately storing the meta data when the memory mapping is the mapping of the file, and cancelling the memory mapping when the memory mapping is not the mapping of the file may be provided. Further, the memory mapping management method may include receiving a memory mapping request, searching for a memory mapping for a file in a memory mapping storage space when a requested memory mapping is a mapping of the file, and reusing a searched memory mapping found during the search when a region of the searched memory mapping includes a region required by the requested memory mapping in a virtual address space. |
| US10185651B2 |
Relocating a virtual address in a persistent memory
Some examples described herein relate to relocating a virtual address in a persistent memory. An example includes determining whether a base address of a virtual address segment in a persistent memory has changed. In response to the determination that the base address of the virtual address segment has changed, an offset value between the base address of the virtual address segment and a new base address of the virtual address segment is determined. The offset value is used to relocate a virtual address of a primary data structure in the virtual address segment from a present location to a new location in the persistent memory. Then, a present location of a virtual address of an associated data structure of the primary data structure in the virtual address segment is determined. The offset value is used to relocate the virtual address of the associated data structure of the primary data structure from a current location to another location in the persistent memory. |
| US10185650B1 |
Testing service with control testing
The techniques described herein provide software testing of a candidate software system. In some examples, a testing service compares at least one candidate response to at least a first control response to obtain one or more candidate test differences. The testing service may compare at least a second control response of the plurality of control responses to at least one of the first control response of the plurality of control responses or a third control response of the plurality of control responses to obtain one or more control test differences. The testing service may then analyze the one or more candidate test differences based on the one or more control test differences to generate an evaluation of whether one or more of the candidate test differences are due to differences between the candidate software system and the control software system that generated the first control response. |
| US10185649B2 |
System and method for efficient creation and reconciliation of macro and micro level test plans
A method includes creating a macro plan for a test project, creating a micro plan for the test project, wherein the micro plan and the macro plan are based on at least one common parameter, and reconciling the macro plan and the micro plan by identifying deviations between the macro plan and the micro plan based on the at least one common parameter. |
| US10185648B2 |
Preservation of modifications after overlay removal from a container
An example method of preserving a modification to an internal state of a computer system includes applying an overlay on a target container. The overlay includes a set of events corresponding to a first set of modifications to a computer system. The method also includes after applying the overlay, receiving a set of user requests corresponding to a second set of modifications to the computer system. The method further includes changing, based on the set of user requests, the third set of internal states of the computer system to the fourth set of internal states. The method also includes removing the overlay from the target container, while preserving the second set of modifications to the computer system. |
| US10185642B1 |
System and method for statistical application-agnostic fault detection
A system, method, and computer readable medium for statistical application-agnostic fault detection of multi-process applications. The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. A multi-process application runs on a host. Interceptors collect statistical events and sends said events to a statistical fault detector. The statistical fault detector creates one or more distributions and compares recent statistical event data to historical statistical event data and uses deviation from historical norm for fault detection. The present invention detects faults both within the application and within the environment wherein the application executes, if conditions within the environment cause impaired application performance. The invention also teaches consensus fault detection and elimination of cascading fault notifications based on a hierarchy of events and event groups. Interception and fault detection is transparent to the application, operating system, networking stack and libraries. |
| US10185635B2 |
Targeted recovery process
An apparatus comprises at least three processing circuits to perform redundant processing of common program instructions. Error detection circuitry coupled to a plurality of signal nodes of each of said at least three processing circuits comprises comparison circuitry to detect a mismatch between signals on corresponding signal nodes in said at least three processing circuits, the plurality of signal nodes forming a first group of signal nodes and a second group of signal nodes. In response to the mismatch being detected in relation to corresponding signal nodes within the first group, the error detection circuitry is configured to generate a first trigger for a full recovery process for resolving an error detected for an erroneous processing circuit using state information derived from at least two other processing circuits. In response to the mismatch being detected in relation to corresponding signal nodes within the second group the error detection circuitry is configured to generate a second trigger for a targeted recovery process for a subset of components of the erroneous processing circuit. By implementing a targeted recovery process for a subset of components of an erroneous processing circuit a cheaper recovery process may be provided. |
| US10185632B2 |
Data synchronization with minimal table lock duration in asynchronous table replication
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for minimizing table lock duration during lost change resynchronization between a source table and a replica table. An embodiment operates by detecting a restart at a source node or a replica node. A source table at the source node is then locked based on the detection. A database transaction is then created for a lost change resynchronization operation and the source table is unlocked. The database transaction is then compared to another database transaction based on its timestamp. Based on the comparison, either the database transaction for the lost change resynchronization operation or the other database transaction is executed. |
| US10185629B2 |
Optimized remote cloning
Optimized remoting cloning is disclosed, including: receiving data from a source storage system associated with an ongoing replication process of a snapshot; and prior to the completion of the replication process of the snapshot, generating a set of metadata associated with a clone of the snapshot, wherein at least a portion of data comprising the snapshot that has been received at the destination storage system can be read using the clone while the replication process of the snapshot is ongoing. |
| US10185628B1 |
System and method for prioritization of data file backups
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for prioritizing backups of data on cameras. In some examples, a camera records media content items captured by the camera and detects features within respective media content items captured by the camera. The camera tags the media content items with data identifying the features detected within the respective media content items and, based on the data identifying the features detected within the respective media content items, ranks the media content items to yield respective media content item rankings. Based on the respective media content item rankings, the camera selects one or more of the media content items for a prioritized remote backup and, in response to detecting a threat to the camera, sends, according to one or more rules defined for the prioritized remote backup, data associated with the one or more of the media content items to a network destination. |
| US10185623B2 |
Reading and writing to NAND flash memories using charge constrained codes
A charge constrained bit sequence is processed to obtain a lower bound on a number of bit errors associated with the charge constrained bit sequence. The lower bound is compared against an error correction capability threshold associated with an error correction decoder. In the event the lower bound is greater than or equal to the error correction decoder threshold, an error correction decoding failure is predicted. |
| US10185622B2 |
Memory device having address and command selectable capabilities
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to memory management, and more particularly to partitioning a memory based on memory attributes. |
| US10185621B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing a display stream embedded with non-display data
A video device having data lanes and a method of operating the video device includes obtaining a stream of debug data in response to a test operation, framing the stream of debug data independent of establishing a video blanking period, and transmitting the framed stream of debug data across one or more data lanes of the video link for operation between a video source device and a video sink device. The method also includes generating a stream of video data related to the test operation, framing the stream of video data to establish a video blanking period, and transmitting the framed stream of debug data concurrently with the framed stream of video data across the one or more data lanes of the video link. |
| US10185619B2 |
Handling of error prone cache line slots of memory side cache of multi-level system memory
An apparatus is described that includes memory controller logic circuitry to interface with a memory side cache of a multi-level system memory. The memory controller logic circuitry includes error tracking circuitry to track errors of cache line slots in the memory side cache. The memory controller logic circuitry also comprises faulty list circuitry to store identifiers of faulty cache line slots that are deemed to be excessively error prone. The memory controller logic circuitry is to declare a miss in the memory side cache for requests that map to cache line slots identified in the faulty list. |
| US10185618B2 |
Method and apparatus for selecting one of a plurality of bus interface configurations to use
Provided are a method and apparatus for selecting one of a plurality of bus interface configurations to use. Selection is made of a first bus interface configuration having a first bus width to send data over the bus in response to an interface parameter indicating a first interface parameter. Selection is made of a second bus interface configuration having a second bus width to send data over the bus in response to the interface parameter indicating a second interface parameter, wherein the first bus width has fewer bits than the second bus width. |
| US10185616B1 |
Computer system vulnerability analysis apparatus and method
Apparatus and methods to evaluate computing systems' vulnerability implement a series of steps wherein a system may be selected, and a specific component identified. Obtaining component information may include methods for accessing its configuration address space. Creation of a list of control or configuration addresses is followed by filtering to identify documented, reserved addresses, documented reserved test addresses, and undocumented addresses. A filtered subset is tested by accessing each address contained in the subset, and verifying continuity of operation of the tested component, then accesses by reading, writing, or both to subset addresses to classify as benign to component and system. Failure may constitute data damage, component damage, system damage, component failure, or system failure. |
| US10185615B2 |
Analysis stack for an event flow
An analysis module is configured to receive data associated with an event flow. The data is received from a first analysis module (e.g., in a stack of analysis modules) or from the event flow. The analysis module is configured to execute an analysis operation on the data to generate a result. The analysis module can output the result to a second analysis module (e.g., in the stack of analysis modules) or to a user interface. |
| US10185610B2 |
Method and system for adjusting the maximum duration of time-critical functions
An improved method and system for achieving target function failure rates for time-critical functions. Communication systems often utilize distributed functions occurring in two or more nodes. Various embodiments of the invention enable such system to achieve target function failure rates by adjusting the maximum allowable duration for time-critical functions. Adjustments to either a function starting time or a maximum allowable function duration may be used to achieve target failure rates. Various embodiments measure a real-time function failure rate. Other embodiments simply lengthen or compress the maximum allowable function duration based on failure or success of the function. The function duration or the function duration statistics do not need to be known. |
| US10185607B1 |
Data statement monitoring and control
Techniques are presented for performing enhanced real-time data statement monitoring and control without requiring modifications to data analysis client applications or data storage environments. A data statement processing layer is implemented between the data analysis client applications and the data storage environments. A data statement management agent interacts with an event bus in the data statement processing layer. The data statement management agent accesses event objects on the event bus that are generated during the processing of data statements. Rules are applied to select particular event objects. The selected event objects are transformed into event messages that are delivered to the client applications to monitor the processing of the data statements. Control commands received from the client application are transformed into event objects that are issued to the event bus to control the processing of the data statement. |
| US10185606B2 |
Scalable autonomic message-transport with synchronization
Methods and apparatus for inter-process communication are provided. A circuit may have a plurality of clusters, and at least one cluster may have a computation element (CE), a memory operatively coupled with the CE, and an autonomic transport system (ATS) block operatively coupled with the CE and the memory. The ATS block may be configured to perform inter-process communication (IPC) for the at least one cluster. In one embodiment, the ATS block may transfer a message to a different cluster based on a request from the CE. In another embodiment, the ATS block may receive a message by allocating a buffer in the memory and write the message into the buffer. The ATS block may also be configured to manage synchronization and schedule tasks for the CE. |
| US10185605B2 |
In-order message processing with message-dependency handling
The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for modeling and deploying decision services. One computer-implemented method includes operations for identifying a sequence number of a first message, the sequence number indicating a position of the first message within a first sequence of messages. If a second message positioned prior to the first message in the first sequence is in a final processing state and the second message in the first sequence is a parent message, a plurality of child messages associated with the second message are identified. Each child message is associated with a sequence number indicating a position of the child message within a second sequence associated with the plurality of child messages. The computer-implemented method determines whether a child message positioned at the end of the second sequence is in a final processing state. |
| US10185604B2 |
Methods and apparatus for software chaining of co-processor commands before submission to a command queue
Methods and apparatus of interleaving two or more workloads are presented herein. The methods and apparatus may comprise a schedule controller and a coprocessor. The schedule controller is operative to utilize the first storage unit to manage context stored therein that allows for the coprocessor to interleave the two or more workloads that can be directly supported by the first storage unit. The coprocessor includes a dedicated first storage unit and an engine. |
| US10185603B2 |
System having in-memory buffer service, temporary events file storage system and backup events file uploader service
Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided. The system includes a data store that is configured to store events in an event table, a temporary events file storage system (TEFSS), and a cluster of application servers. The cluster includes a first application server that generates events, and a second application server that includes an events file uploader service. When the first application server is unable to directly write events to the data store, an indirect events writer generates events file(s), and writes the events file(s) to the TEFSS. Each events file includes a plurality of events flushed from an in-memory buffer service at the first application server. When the events file uploader service determines that the first application server is inactive, it reads the events file(s) from the TEFSS, and writes the events from each of the events files to the data store. |
| US10185601B2 |
Software defined SaaS platform
A system that transforms non-SaaS applications into tenant-aware SaaS applications is disclosed, which analyzes the non SaaS applications to determine which intercepts to external libraries need to be translated into SaaS intercepts that utilize SaaS tenancy services, SaaS operations services, and/or SaaS business services. The system transforms the non-SaaS applications into SaaS applications by providing intercept handlers that call SaaS services on demand when the transformed SaaS application throws a transformed SaaS interrupt. |
| US10185600B2 |
Multiple interface support
Aspects describe multiple interface support that provides dynamic switching between new and old interface revisions. A first interface application is selected from a set of alternative interface applications for an industrial automation system. Support for each interface application included in the set of alternative interface applications is provided. A second interface application is downloaded and associated with the first interface application. The second interface application is enabled during runtime. If needed, the second interface application can be selectively disabled and an operation resumed with the first interface application. |
| US10185599B2 |
Kernel mode accelerator
A system and method for disposing, in kernel space, a data plane having instructions operable to encrypt and transfer data over a network. The data plane is coupled to a control plane which resides in user space. The control plane has instructions operable to control the transfer of the encrypted data in kernel space. Certain embodiments include an application programming interface (API), which operates to expose a programming interface for encrypted communications which results in a more efficient data transfer because most of the data processing is done in kernel space. |
| US10185598B2 |
Method and system for offloading industrial tasks in a human-machine interface panel to other devices
In an industrial automation environment, a three-tier architecture is used to offload human-machine-interaction (HMI) automation tasks to local mobile devices and then the cloud, to take advantage of distributed computing and processing resources and to add new features to the HMI panel system. A scheduling algorithm based on the characteristics of the HMI tasks distributes these tasks intelligently among the local HMI panel, mobile devices and the cloud, to best utilize the merits of each tier. |
| US10185593B2 |
Balancing categorized task queues in a plurality of processing entities of a computational device
A plurality of processing entities are maintained. An indication is made of a primary processing entities group for a task control block (TCB). An indication is made of a secondary processing entities group for the TCB. In response to determining that the secondary processing entities group has processing cycles available for processing additional TCBs, the TCB is moved from the primary processing entities group to the secondary processing entities group for processing. |
| US10185585B2 |
Calculating a performance metric of a cluster in a virtualization infrastructure
In a computer-implemented method for calculating a performance metric of a cluster of hosts in a virtualization infrastructure a performance metric of each of a plurality of virtual machines in said virtualization infrastructure is accessing by a centralized management application of a virtualization infrastructure. The virtualization infrastructure comprises a plurality of hosts supporting the plurality of virtual machines. A performance metric of a cluster of the plurality of hosts is calculated by the centralized management application based on the performance metric of each of the plurality of virtual machines hosted by the cluster. The calculated performance metric of the cluster is transmitted to a database such that a history of performance metrics of the cluster are stored in the database. |
| US10185584B2 |
System and method for self-protecting data
Disclosed is a system comprising a physical memory, a processor and a software component. The software component includes a policy/domain handler for receiving data and a policy associated with the data; a hypervisor; and a file management module. The file management module receives a request from a third-party application to interact with a data file containing the data; sends an authorization and tag request to the policy/domain handler to check if the user and application are permitted to access the data, and if permitted, to generate hardware tags for the data file; and sends a secure data request to the hypervisor to create a secure data compartment for the data file and the hardware tags. Based on the authorization and tag request, and the security policy associated with the data, the policy/domain handler generates the hardware tags for the data file. Based on the secure data request, the hypervisor creates in the physical memory a secure data compartment containing the data file and the hardware tags, the hypervisor associating the hardware tags with the data in the secure data compartment. As the data is operated upon and moved to other memory areas, the hardware tags are propagated with the data according to tag propagation rules, and checked before performing operations that may lead to security breaches. |
| US10185583B1 |
Leveraging snapshots
A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for continuous replication in a virtual environment comprising recovering, replication of, a volume on a first site after the crash of the first site, receiving, using an API, the differences between a previous point in time of the first volume and the current point in time of the first volume wherein the volume is being replicated to a second site, and using the determined differences to restore replication of the first volume of the replication site at the second site. |
| US10185577B2 |
Run-time adaption of external properties controlling operation of applications
An aspect of the present disclosure provides run-time adaption of external properties controlling operation of applications. In one embodiment, a setup data is maintained indicating conditions and properties that control the operation of applications. Each property is associated with a corresponding condition in the setup data to indicate that the property is to be configured upon satisfaction of the corresponding condition. In response to determining that a specific condition indicated in the setup data has been satisfied, a set of properties that is associated with the determined condition is identified. The applications are then automatically configured to thereafter operate with the identified set of properties. |
| US10185576B2 |
Method and system for customizing a software application
The technique introduced here includes a uniform customization system, which can support the customization of multiple software applications simultaneously. Customization data of a software application can be developed separately from the development of the application. The customization data is then stored, via the uniform customization system, into a customization storage. When the software application is executed, the software application retrieves, from the storage, the values of the customization data via the uniform customization system. The uniform customization system outputs the retrieved customization data indicating the current working context of a user, which may be used by the user to locate customization options in a customization user interface of the software application, for customizing functions performed in the current working context. |
| US10185575B2 |
Computing device for operating a machine session with persistent read cache and non-persistent write cache and related methods
A computing device may include at least one memory and a processor cooperating therewith to receive a streaming base disk image from a base disk on a provisioning server over a network upon booting up the computing device, and operate a machine session on the computing device from the streaming base disk image. Furthermore, while the machine session operates on the computing device from the streaming base disk image, the processor may further cooperate with the at least one memory to download and store the base disk image over the network from the provisioning server to a persistent read cache in the at least one memory that persists on the client device after rebooting, and store modifications to the streaming base disk image in a non-persistent write cache in the at least one memory that does not persist on the client device after rebooting. |
| US10185574B2 |
Live imaging of a device
Live imaging of a device can be performed. A client device can include at least two drives that are alternately employed to store the active OS partition. An imaging solution that executes on the active OS partition on a first drive can perform a live imaging process in which a second drive is fully imaged while the user continues to use the client device. Then, once the imaging of the second drive has been completed, the client device can be rebooted to cause the client device to boot from the second drive. In this way, the only downtime that a user may experience due to the imaging process is during the reboot. In a similar manner, when a client device includes only a single available drive, the drive can be divided into two or more sets of one or more partitions that are alternately employed as the active OS partition(s). |
| US10185571B2 |
Intelligent UEFI run-time services address space management
A method of re-mapping memory regions for firmware run-time services to a virtual address space of a kernel executed on a processor, includes the steps of selecting a re-mapping policy for re-mapping the memory regions for the firmware run-time services, creating a new mapping according to the selected re-mapping policy, and making a call to an application programming interface exposed by the firmware to apply the new map and re-map the memory regions for the firmware to the virtual address space of the kernel. |
| US10185570B2 |
Dynamic thread sharing in branch prediction structures
Embodiments relate to multithreaded branch prediction. An aspect includes a system for dynamically evaluating how to share entries of a multithreaded branch prediction structure. The system includes a first-level branch target buffer coupled to a processor circuit. The processor circuit is configured to perform a method. The method includes receiving a search request to locate branch prediction information associated with the search request, and searching for an entry corresponding to the search request in the first-level branch prediction structure. The entry is not allowed based on a thread state of the entry indicating that the entry has caused a problem on a thread associated with the thread state. |
| US10185565B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling register of reconfigurable processor, and method and apparatus for creating command for controlling register of reconfigurable processor
Provided are a method and an apparatus for controlling a register of a reconfigurable processor. The power of a register may be efficiently used by obtaining a command for each of a plurality of read ports of the register from a memory, obtaining activation information for each of the plurality of read ports from the obtained command, and determining an address value of each of the plurality of read ports on the basis of the obtained activation information. |
| US10185564B2 |
Method for managing software threads dependent on condition variables
An apparatus includes a buffer, a sequencing circuit, and an execution unit. The buffer may be configured to store a plurality of instructions. Each of the plurality of instructions may be in a first thread. In response to determining that the first instruction depends on the value of a condition variable and to determining that a count value is below a predetermined threshold, the sequencing circuit may be configured to add a wait instruction before the first instruction. The execution unit may be configured to delay execution of the first instruction for an amount of time after executing the wait instruction. The sequencing circuit may be further configured to maintain the plurality of instructions in the first buffer after executing the wait instruction, and to decrement the count value in response to determining that the value of the condition variable is updated within the amount of time. |
| US10185563B2 |
Control module for multiple mixed-signal resources management
The present solution targets independent or inter-dependent resource management scenarios such as multi-sensor and other scenarios of possible process/component sharing, intended for individual or group synchronized core task management as part of a flexible long-term solution for monitoring, self-calibration, built-in self-testing, measurements and/or group synchronization dependant strategies. An extension to I2C/I3C compatible instruments is described. Disclosed is a module comprising an interpreter sub-module, for receiving and responding to I2C/I3C sequences and a register bank module comprising a plurality of registers for storing values. The disclosed module and method of operation can be used for initialization, measurement, and resource management through mixed-signal analog bus scheduling, synchronization and group addressing for built-in calibration strategies for example. |
| US10185555B2 |
Method for automatically determining application recommendation result based on auxiliary information and associated computer readable medium and user interface
An application recommendation method includes following steps: checking at least one predetermined rule to generate at least one analysis result for at least one of a plurality of candidate applications; and automatically determining an application recommendation result of recommended applications, wherein the at least one of the candidate applications is selectively used as one recommended application in the application recommendation result according to the at least one analysis result. In addition, a computer readable medium stores a program code. When executed by a processor, the program code instructs the processor to perform steps of the application recommendation method. Moreover, a display screen shows an application hot zone according to the application recommendation result of recommended applications. |
| US10185552B2 |
Enforcing content constraints on delivery and end user changes
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing a set of key-range-ranges associated with an application, the set of key-range-ranges defining a plurality of key ranges, each key-range-range being assigned to a respective role, determining that a key range is to be defined for the application by a user having a role, determining whether the key range conforms with the set of key-range-ranges and respective roles, accepting the key range at least partially in response to determining that the key range conforms with the set of key-range-ranges and respective roles, and initiating deployment of the application including the key range to a production system. |
| US10185549B2 |
Updating live system with static changes
Technologies are described for updating a live system with static changes. According to some examples, changes such as installing and/or removing features may be applied to a cloud based service in live environment without disrupting the service. New software may be patched and installed on an upgraded machine (i.e., server). New features, diagnostics, and language packs may be added. Existing features and certificates may be removed. To accomplish these, new software to be installed and existing software to be removed may be detected. Removal and additions may be performed without preparation and activation of replacement farms. |
| US10185548B2 |
Configuring dependent services associated with a software package on a host system
A software package to be installed on a host system may be identified. A service of the host system that is unavailable during an installation of the software package on the host system may be identified where the installation changes a configuration of the service. A determine may be made as to whether the service that is unavailable during the installation of the software package on the host system is being used by a virtual machine (VM) that is associated with the host system. A notification may be provided in view of the determination of the service associated with the software package being used by the VM that is associated with the host system. |
| US10185544B1 |
Naming devices via voice commands
Techniques for naming devices via voice commands are described herein. For instance, a user may issue a voice command to a voice-controlled device stating, “you are the kitchen device”. Thereafter, the device may respond to voice commands directed, by name, to this device. For instance, the user may issue a voice command requesting to “play music on my kitchen device”. Given that the user has configured the device to respond to this name, the device may respond to the command by outputting the requested music. |
| US10185542B2 |
Device, method, and graphical user interface for enabling conversation persistence across two or more instances of a digital assistant
An electronic device with one or more processors and memory includes a procedure for enabling conversation persistence across two or more instances of a digital assistant. In some embodiments, the device displays a first dialogue in a first instance of a digital assistant user interface. In response to a request to display a user interface different from the digital assistant user interface, the device displays the user interface different from the digital assistant user interface. In response to a request to invoke the digital assistant, the device displays a second instance of the digital assistant user interface, including displaying a second dialogue in the second instance of the digital assistant user interface, where the first dialogue remains available for display in the second instance of the digital assistant user interface. |
| US10185536B2 |
Communication method and terminal
A method includes: when a first terminal determines to start to execute a voice service, sending a first message to a third terminal, where the first message is used to trigger the third terminal to determine that a location relationship between a second terminal and the first terminal meets a preset condition, and when the second terminal is playing audio by using a loudspeaker, sending a second message to the second terminal, where the second message is used to control the second terminal to adjust a playing mode; and when the first terminal determines to stop executing the voice service, sending a third message to the third terminal, where the third message is used to trigger the third terminal to send a fourth message to the second terminal, and the fourth message is used to control the second terminal to restore the playing mode before the adjustment. |
| US10185535B2 |
Intermediary device for establishing wireless services
Various embodiments are disclosed for facilitating reception of a digital audio stream over a wireless personal area network (PAN). At a wireless network mobile computing device, a wireless network audio broadcast device is discovered. The wireless network audio broadcast device is operable to provide a digital audio stream over a wireless PAN. The wireless network mobile computing device facilitates the reception of the digital audio stream over the wireless PAN by a wireless network audio listening device. |
| US10185530B2 |
Contents sharing method and electronic device supporting the same
An electronic device for contents sharing is provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store at least one instruction, a sharable content and/or an application related to the sharable content, a processor configured to process at least one instruction stored in the memory and a display operatively connected to the processor. The processor is further configured to control for outputting, to the display, a sharing object set to transmit selected content to at least one of a plurality of external electronic devices individually or integrally, when an event corresponding to execution of the application or selection of the sharable content occurs. |
| US10185529B2 |
Indicating a connection to a printer
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and program products are disclosed for indicating a connection to a printer. A signal reception module receives a signal at a printer of a plurality of printers from an information handling device. The signal requests an indication that the information handling device is connected to the printer. An indication type module determines a type of indication to provide based on the received signal. An indicator provider module provides an indication of the determined type from the printer that indicates the information handling device is connected to the printer. |
| US10185528B2 |
E-mail communication apparatus, E-mail communication method and program
To provide an e-mail communication apparatus, an e-mail communication method and a program capable of, in the case of receiving e-mail which is split e-mails including request-to-send (RTS) information for transmitting the e-mail to a predetermined destination, suitably performing transmittal confirmation without transmitting to a source the e-mail of the transmittal confirmation as to each of multiple pieces of the split e-mails. First, an MFP 100 having received the e-mail determines whether or not the e-mail is one of multiple divided data pieces generated by dividing image data by a data amount so as to store it. In the case where the received data is the divided data, the MFP 100 determines whether or not all the divided data pieces of the image data are stored, and transmits transmittal confirmation mail based on an MDN request if all are stored. |
| US10185523B2 |
Information processing system, information processing apparatus and control method therefor, and program for preventing inconsistency of a setting
A PC changes a setting and the changed setting is stored as a new setting in an information processing apparatus. In the information processing apparatus, a call-up unit that calls up a web browser on a screen reflects the changed new setting in a current setting of an application for web connection, after an instruction to activate the application for web connection and before calling up the web browser on the screen. |
| US10185522B2 |
Linking secure and non-secure digital imaging using digital imagers for production of lottery tickets or other documents
A method and system include digitally imaging a secure portion and a non-secure portion of scratch-off coating protected gaming documents of at least one game, the gaming documents including variable indicia, the gaming documents and the at least one game being associated with at least one overall print run, each print run including (i) a plurality of non-winning gaming documents and (ii) a plurality of winning gaming documents determined by revealing secure variable indicia according to predetermined game programming, and wherein at least the secure portion of digital imaging is hidden under the scratch-off coating. The secure portion can be encrypted into ciphertext with the non-secure portion remaining plaintext or cleartext. This enables digital imaging on demand across a local or distributed network of both secure and non-secure areas of instant lottery tickets or other documents having scratch-off coatings. |
| US10185516B2 |
Memory system for re-ordering plural commands and operating method thereof
A memory system includes a memory device comprising a plurality of memory cells in which data is stored; and a controller suitable for checking types and/or priorities of a plurality of commands received from a host based on index or identification of the commands, re-order the commands depending on the types and/or the priorities, and perform command operations corresponding to the re-ordered commands. |
| US10185514B2 |
Virtual machine trigger
A computing system includes a parent partition, child partitions, a hypervisor, shared memories each associated with one of the child partitions, and trigger pages each associated with one of the child partitions. The hypervisor receives a system event signal from one of the child partitions and, in response to receiving the system event signal, accesses the trigger page associated with that child partition. The hypervisor determines whether the trigger page indicates whether data is available to be read from the shared memory associated with the child partition. The hypervisor can send an indication to either the parent partition or the child partitions that data is available to be read from the shared memory associated with the child partition if the hypervisor determines that the trigger page indicates that data is available to be read from the shared memory associated with the child partition. |
| US10185508B1 |
Remote storage device destruction
Technologies are provided for remotely destroying a storage device. One or more commands can be transmitted to a storage device to render the storage device inoperable. The storage device can be placed in a retired operation mode, in which the storage device cannot process data access commands. Data stored in the storage device can be sanitized to prevent it from being retrieved. Code modules that are responsible for processing data access commands can be erased from a firmware of the storage device. The storage device can perform operations to render a storage medium of the storage device inoperable. While in the retired mode, the storage device can process an inquiry command to retrieve information about the storage device from the firmware of the storage device. The retrieved information can be used to generate a digital destruction certificate that can be provided to a supplier of the storage device. |
| US10185506B2 |
Scheduling policy for queues in a non-volatile solid-state storage
A method of applying scheduling policies is provided. The method includes distributing user data throughout a plurality of storage nodes through erasure coding, wherein the plurality of storage nodes are housed within a single chassis coupling the storage nodes as a cluster. The method includes receiving operations relating to a non-volatile memory of one of the plurality of storage nodes into a plurality of operation queues. The method includes evaluating each of the operations in the plurality of operation queues as to benefit to the non-volatile solid-state storage according to a plurality of policies. For each channel of a plurality of channels coupling the operation queues to the non-volatile memory, the method includes iterating a selection and an execution of a next operation from the plurality of operation queues, with each next operation having a greater benefit than at least a subset of operations remaining in the operation queues. |
| US10185501B2 |
Method and apparatus for pinning memory pages in a multi-level system memory
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a memory controller to interface with a multi-level system memory. The memory controller includes a pinning engine to pin a memory page into a first level of the system memory that is at a higher level than a second level of the system memory. |
| US10185500B1 |
Dynamic parallelism
Techniques to optimize use of the available capacity of a backup target storage device are disclosed. In various embodiments, a current capacity of a target system to which backup data is to be streamed to handle additional streams is determined dynamically, at or near a time at which a backup operation is to be performed. One or more backup parameters of the backup operation is/are set dynamically, based at least in part on the dynamically determined current capacity of the target system. |
| US10185495B2 |
Block storage device having hierarchical disks with different access frequencies
A first block storage device sharing an object storage device with a second block storage device has: plural kinds of physical devices having different access response performances; and a hierarchical logical disk created by using the storage areas of the physical devices and the storage area of the object storage device. When the access frequency of a logical block stored in a hierarchy one level above a lowest hierarchy falls below a threshold, the first block storage device searches the object storage device for a logical block having the hash of the logical block as a content address. When the search fails, the first block storage device transmits the logical block to the object storage device to change a hierarchy to store the logical block to the lowest hierarchy, whereas when the search succeeds, omits the transmission and changes a hierarchy to store the logical block to the lowest hierarchy. |
| US10185486B2 |
Method for one-click subscribing to multiple channels of information on a single topic
A subscription to multiple channels of information on a single topic is performed. A topic of interest is received via a user interface. In response to receiving the topic of interest, a plurality of channels associated with the topic of interest is determined. A user interface is provided to present an indication of the plurality of channels and a user interface element is provided to facilitate a user subscription to the plurality of channels associated with the topic of interest without having to subscribe separately to each channel. A user selection of the plurality of channels associated with the topic of interest is received and the user is subscribed to the plurality of channels in response to the received user selection. |
| US10185485B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing a graphical user interface in a vehicle
A method and an apparatus for providing a graphical user interface in a vehicle. The method involves graphical objects displayed completely visibly on a display panel in a first mode of operation of a display apparatus, the graphical objects are divided into a first set of graphical objects and a second set of graphical objects. In a second mode of operation, the display panel is reduced and the display panel is divided into a visible portion and a nonvisible portion so that, following a change from the first mode of operation to the second mode of operation, the graphical objects in the first set are displayed completely on the visible portion of the display panel and the graphical objects in the second set are at least to some extent not displayed on the visible portion of the display panel. |
| US10185473B2 |
Adding new slides on a canvas in a zooming user interface
A method is provided to place new slides on zooming user interface canvas is provided that includes: receiving user request to add a new slide; determining whether a zoom level of a current viewing window has changed to meet a prescribed threshold zoom level since addition of a previously added slide; in response to a determination that the zoom level has changed, using a current viewing window zoom level as a reference zoom level; in response to a determination that the zoom level has not changed, using a previous viewing window zoom level as the reference zoom level; and determining a placement of the new slide with reference to the reference zoom level. |
| US10185472B2 |
Method for providing a user interface, computer system and computer program product
A method provides a user interface for a computer system including providing a formal definition of a structured system configuration including at least one configuration unit having a plurality of configuration parameters; creating at least one configuration module assigned to the configuration unit; linking the configuration module to a configuration entity to retrieve configuration values assigned to the configuration parameters; retrieving configuration values from the configuration entity, and generating a user interface specific to the at least one configuration unit on the basis of at least one generic template for presenting the plurality of configuration parameters associated with the configuration unit and the associated configuration values retrieved for at least one predetermined client. |
| US10185469B1 |
Method and system for advancing through a sequence of items using a touch-sensitive component
A method includes outputting, at a display of an electronic device, a first content item in a sequence of content items, wherein the sequence comprises the first content item and a second content item that sequentially follows the first content item in the sequence, detecting a touch input received at a touch-sensitive component of the electronic device, and identifying a starting location on the touch-sensitive component, wherein the starting location includes a coordinate that corresponds to a location of the touch input. The method further includes responsive to detecting that an input stroke continuously applied at the touch-sensitive component has continuously moved from the starting point to a first threshold in a first direction, outputting, at the display, the second content item in the sequence, the first threshold location corresponding to a coordinate on the touch-sensitive component that is located a first threshold distance away, in a first direction, from the starting location, and responsive to detecting that the input stroke continuously applied at the touch sensitive component has moved across the first threshold location, reversing an order of display for the sequence of content items. |
| US10185468B2 |
Animation editor
A user device comprising a user interface generator configured to generate a user interface for designing an animated meme comprising a sequence of images and at least one text layer overlaid on at least some of the sequence of images, the user interface comprising an edit frame comprising: an image sequence overlay configured to display an arrangement of selected images from the sequence of images and at least one slider associated with a text layer configured to define when the text layer is to be displayed over the sequence of images. |
| US10185465B1 |
Techniques for presenting information on a graphical user interface
Techniques for presenting information on a graphical user interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for presenting information on a graphical user interface including displaying an endpoint interface via the graphical user interface on a display unit, determining whether an event mode for the endpoint interface has been selected, displaying the endpoint interface in the event mode when the event mode has been selected, determining whether an event has been detected, and displaying the detected event on the endpoint interface in the event mode when the event has been detected. |
| US10185464B2 |
Pausing transient user interface elements based on hover information
Embodiments are directed to using hover information to pause transient user interface features. In one scenario, a computer system detects the presence of an object at or near the display surface of the computer system. The computer system identifies the location of the object relative to the display surface and determines, based on the identified location of the object, where the object will contact the display surface. The computer system also identifies transient user interface elements that are being displayed where the object is determined to contact the display surface and pauses the identified transient user interface elements. |
| US10185462B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method
A control unit, method and computer program product cooperate to provide a controllable depth of display of at least a part of a graphical user interface. Moreover, the control unit includes a control circuit that controls a depth display of an icon, which may be a user-selectable icon, as part of the graphical user interface. The control circuit changes the depth of display of the icon when an object is detected as approaching the display. In this way, a user is provided with visual feedback when the user is interacting with the graphical user interface. |
| US10185459B2 |
Display processing method, display processing apparatus and electronic device
A display processing method, a display processing apparatus and an electronic device are described. The display processing method includes obtaining information from a second application when an interface of a first application is displayed in a predetermined region of a display screen of a display device; displaying prompt information on the information, on the interface of the first application; receiving a first operation on the prompt information; dividing the predetermined region into a first region and a second region, in response to the first operation; and displaying at least a part of the interface of the first application in the first region, and displaying an interface of the second application in the second region, wherein the information is displayed in the interface of the second application. |
| US10185458B2 |
Sharing location information during a communication session
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving user input on a graphical user interface of a first computing device to provide location information associated with the first computing device to a second computing device. The current location of the first computing device is accessed, and the current location is sent to one or more second computing devices, the current location being displayed in a graphical user interface of the second computing devices. |
| US10185454B2 |
System and method of communication between a capacitive touch screen and an active stylus
An active stylus is capacitively coupled to a capacitive touch panel for communication. The active stylus operates in a wait mode to receive initial communications from the panel. In response to such receipt, the active stylus synchronizes to a repeating communications frame implementing time division multiplexing. Communications from the active stylus to the panel include: information communications; synchronization communications and communications specific for columns and/or rows of the panel. Communications from the panel to the active stylus may be addressed uniquely to the stylus or commonly to a group of styluses. |
| US10185451B2 |
Capacitance sensor device and detecting method for a conductive matter thereon
A detecting method for a conductive matter on a capacitive sensor device includes obtaining a positive signal, computing a signal summation of a plurality of sensing points in at least an electrode line where the positive signal is occurred, comparing the signal summation to a predetermined value, determining a touch object inducing the positive signal is not an irregular conductive matter if the signal summation is larger than the predetermined value, and determining the touch object inducing the positive signal is the irregular conductive matter if the signal summation is not larger than the predetermined value. |
| US10185447B2 |
Touch sensing device with noise effect reduction
A touch sensing device includes a base panel, a plurality of receiving channels, at least one noise listening channel and at least one processing unit. The receiving channels are disposed on the base board in parallel. The at least one noise listening channel and the receiving channels are disposed on the base board in parallel. The processing unit is configured to generate touching sensing data according to a sensing signal outputted by a corresponding receiving channel of the plurality of receiving channels and a noise listening signal outputted by the at least one noise listening channel. |
| US10185446B2 |
Touch sensor arrays with integrated inter-layer contacts
Touch pad structures are provided that gather touch sensor data. The data may be used to control a computer or other electronic device. The touch pad structures may be integrated into a computer or other computing equipment or may be provided as a stand-alone accessory. The touch pad structures may include a touch sensor array. The touch sensor array may include rows and columns of touch sensor electrodes, interconnect lines, and other conductive structures. The conductive structures on the touch sensor array may be formed from patterned layers of ink. Interconnect line segments in different layer of ink may be connected in rectangular contact regions. The touch sensor array may have a tail. A layer of insulator may be removed from the substrate across a tip portion of the tail to allow the line segments to be connected. |
| US10185443B2 |
Touch sensing error compensation
Error compensation of a touch sensing signal is provided. A touch screen can include a drive region that can be driven by a drive signal, and a sense region that can output a sense signal that includes information of a first amount of touch on or near the touch screen and information of a first amount of error. The first amount of touch can be based on the drive signal. The touch screen can include a compensation sensor that can output a compensation signal that includes information of a second amount of error, and an error compensator that can compensate for the first amount of error in the sense signal based on the second amount of error. |
| US10185439B2 |
Time domain differential techniques to characterize various stimuli
A method for determining a stimulus is provided. The method includes determining a touch condition based on the rate of change of electrode capacitance, measuring a characteristic of the electrode capacitance in response to the touch condition being met, and evaluating the measured characteristic to determine the touch stimulus. The method can improve the ability to determine a touch stimulus over existing methods, including the ability to determine fingerprint and handprint biometrics, for example. |
| US10185436B2 |
Touch apparatus, drive circuit, drive method, and electronic device
The application provides a touch apparatus, a drive circuit, a drive method and an electronic device. The drive method includes: in a pressure detection stage, providing a first pressure sensing signal to a part of detection electrode, and providing a second pressure sensing signal to the remaining detection electrodes. The first pressure sensing signal is not equal to the second pressure sensing signal. Through detecting a capacitance change between first pressure electrodes and second pressure electrodes, distance changes between a detection conductor and the first pressure electrodes and between the detection conductor and the second pressure electrodes are detected, to realize pressure sensing. |
| US10185434B2 |
Display device
A display device is provided. The display device including a display panel including a display area, a frame area; a plurality of pixel electrodes in the display area; a plurality of share electrodes in the display area; a display function layer controlled by the pixel electrodes and the share electrodes; a plurality of touch detect electrodes forming capacitors with the plurality of the share electrodes; a circuit for generating signals to apply to the share electrodes; and a plurality of wirings coupled to the circuit and the share electrodes in the frame area, wherein the longer a path including each of the share electrodes and each of the wirings is, the shorter pulses of each of the signals become. |
| US10185433B2 |
Method and apparatus for touch responding of wearable device as well as wearable device
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for touch responding of a wearable device, and the wearable device. The method for touch responding of the wearable device comprises: acquiring position information of a target fingertip collected by binocular recognition means in a set touch action occurrence area; determining a mapping point mapped on a screen of the wearable device for the target fingertip based on the position information of the target fingertip; and displaying a cursor at the mapping point on the screen of the wearable device. The wearable device according to the present disclosure feeds back effect of touch operations to the user in real time, and thus improves touch accuracy of the wearable device. |
| US10185431B2 |
Touch sensor integrated display device and method for driving the same
A touch sensor integrated display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The touch sensor integrated display device includes a display panel, each pixel of a pixel array including an OLED and a driving TFT applying a source-drain current to the OLED, the pixel array being divided into touch blocks, each touch block including pixels and a sensing target pixel line coupled to a subset of the pixels, and a panel drive circuit configured to, in a touch sensing period, supply a scan control signal and a sensing control signal to the sensing target pixel line corresponding to a touch block, set a gate-source voltage of the driving TFT coupled to the sensing target pixel line to turn on the driving TFT, and output a sensing value by sensing a change in the source-drain current of the driving TFT caused by a touch input. |
| US10185429B2 |
Mobile device, wearable device and method of controlling each device
A wearable device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a memory, a display module, a touch recognition module, a communication module configured to perform a communication link with a mobile device and a controller configured to control the memory, the display module, the touch recognition module and the communication module. In this case, the controller is configured to receive a data indicating a call mode of the mobile device from the mobile device, configured to firstly sense a predetermined gesture, configured to secondly sense a location change of at least one of the wearable device and the mobile device, configured to switch a mode of the wearable device into a call mode and transmit a command for making the mobile device enter a different specific mode instead of the call mode to the mobile device. |
| US10185419B2 |
Image display system and related method for detecting touch input
An image display system may include a host device, a touch-sensing device connected to the host device, and a display device connected to the host device. A method of operating the image display system may include the following steps: determining, using the host device, a required-touch quantity; selecting, using at least one of the host device and the touch-sensing device, a designated area based on the required-touch quantity, wherein the designated area corresponds to a plurality of designated driving electrodes that is a subset of driving electrodes of the touch-sensing device; detecting, using the designated driving electrodes without using other driving electrodes of the touch-sensing device, touch input provided in the designated area; and responding to the touch input using at least one of the host device and the display device. |
| US10185418B2 |
Touch panel
A touch panel used for a touch control electronic device is disclosed. The touch panel comprises a first board. The first board has a first surface, wherein the first surface undergoes an atomizing process to have at least one semitransparent area. The at least one semitransparent area has a first semitransparent figure which is interlaced by an atomized area and a non-atomized area for changing a light shielding rate of the first semitransparent figure by adjusting the atomized area. |
| US10185417B2 |
Touch-screen panel with multiple controllers
This document discloses, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture, related to position sensors and uses of such sensors. Multiple panels can be arranged in close proximity to one another and one or more sense or drives lines associated with each respective panel can be associated with a control circuit of the other adjacent panel. |
| US10185416B2 |
User gesture input to wearable electronic device involving movement of device
In one embodiment, a wearable computing device includes one or more sensors, one or more processors, and a memory coupled to the processors that includes instructions executable by the processors. When executing the instructions, the processors detect, by one or more of the sensors of the wearable computing device when worn on a limb of a user, a gesture-recognition-activation event associated with the wearable computing device; detect, by one or more sensors of the wearable computing device when worn on the limb of the user, a movement of the limb; determine a gesture made by the user based at least in part on the movement; and process the gesture as input to the computing wearable computing device. |
| US10185414B2 |
Smart watch and method of operating
Disclosed is a smart watch which may comprise: a display unit including a display panel displaying an image and a panel frame supporting the display panel; a rotating member including a rotating plate provided with recesses on an outer peripheral surface of the rotating plate, a rotating shaft having one end connected to a center of the rotating plate to rotate the rotating plate, and a driving motor coupled with the other end of the rotating shaft; a control unit to control the display unit and the rotating member; and a support frame to support the display unit and accommodate the rotating member and the control unit. |
| US10185409B2 |
Stylus with an adjustable dimension
A stylus includes a cylindrical shaped housing and a shell. The shell is rotatably connected to the housing. A cross-sectional area of the housing has a first dimension along a first axis and a second dimension along a second axis, the first axis perpendicular to the second axis. The first dimension is smaller than the second dimension. A cross-sectional area including both the shell and the housing has a third dimension along the first axis that is substantially the same as the first dimension while the shell is in a first position and substantially the same as the second dimension while the shell is in a second position. |
| US10185407B2 |
Display control apparatus, display control method and recording medium
A display control apparatus displays a cursor based on an operation performed by an operator on a screen of a display device. The display controlling unit corrects the in-screen position of the instruction image based on a relationship between a first position indicated by the hand having a first shape and a second position indicated by the hand having a second shape in a case where a second operation is detected after a first operation is detected and displays the instruction image at the in-screen position corresponding to the second position. |
| US10185406B2 |
Information technology device input systems and associated methods
A method for generating a control signal to control an information technology device includes the following steps: (1) capturing, using an image sensor, a current control image of a light source of a remote controller positioned within a field of view of the image sensor; (2) identifying, within the current control image, a current location of light emitted from the light source; (3) determining movement between (a) the current location of the light emitted from the light source and (b) a previous location of the light emitted from the light source determined from a previously captured image; (4) generating a movement control signal based upon the movement; and (5) sending the movement control signal to the information technology device. The method is executed, for example, by a movement control module of an information technology device input system. |
| US10185401B2 |
Determination of cursor position on remote display screen based on bluetooth angle of arrival
Systems, apparatuses and methods may determine the exact position of a cursor on the screen of a display device when the user is located at a predetermined distance from the screen of the display device are provided. The user of a wrist-wearable device may obtain a touch-screen experience when the user is positioned remotely from the display device by using a next generation Bluetooth-enabled display device and a next generation Bluetooth-enabled wrist-wearable device. The next generation Bluetooth version may be Bluetooth version 5.0. |
| US10185396B2 |
Haptic trigger modification system
A system is provided that modifies a haptic effect experienced at a user input element. The system sends a haptic instruction and a haptic effect definition to a peripheral device. The system further receives user input data including a position of the user input element, or a force applied to the user input element. The system further modifies the haptic effect definition based on the received user input data. The system further sends a new haptic instruction and the modified haptic effect definition to the peripheral device. The system further causes a haptic output device to modify a haptic effect based on the modified haptic effect definition at the user input element of the peripheral device in response to the new haptic instruction. |
| US10185392B2 |
Method for transmitting information to a driver of a motor vehicle, and adaptive driver assistance system
A method for transmitting information to a driver of a motor vehicle, with at least two information channels being provided to transmit information, includes presenting the information via at least a first information channel for the driver, determining a perception quantity representing perception by the driver with regard to the information presented, and defining a transmission of the information via a further information channel on the basis of the perception quantity determined. |
| US10185390B2 |
Head mounted display with separate wire connected controller
A system includes a head mounted display (HMD) having at least one of a display unit and a sensing unit and configured to be connected to a mobile terminal in a wired manner, and a mobile terminal configured to control the HMD, wherein the mobile terminal includes a terminal body, an interface unit provided in the terminal body and configured to be connected to the HMD in a wired manner, a sensing unit configured to sense a movement of the terminal body, and a controller configured to output a preset first region of a virtual space on the display unit of the HMD and control the display unit of the HMD to display a second region of the virtual space different from the first region of the virtual space on the basis of a movement of the HMD sensed through the sensing unit of the HMD. |
| US10185385B2 |
Method and apparatus to reduce idle link power in a platform
A method and apparatus to reduce the idle link power in a platform. In one embodiment of the invention, the host and its coupled endpoint(s) in the platform each has a low power idle link state that allows disabling of the high speed link circuitry in both the host and its coupled endpoint(s). This allows the platform to reduce its idle power as both the host and its coupled endpoint(s) are able to turn off their high speed link circuitry in one embodiment of the invention. |
| US10185381B2 |
System for synchronous rectifier voltage regulator shoot-through detection
A method, circuit, and information handling system detect an assertion of a low side gate driver signal of a low side gate driver coupled to a low side gate of a low side selectively conductive device, to obtain a reference voltage value, to detect a local high side positive supply voltage at a high side positive supply voltage terminal of a high side selectively conductive device, to compare the local high side positive supply voltage to the reference voltage value to provide an indication of a cross-conduction detection, and to provide a warning of the cross-conduction detection before occurrence of a failure of a selectively conductive device selected from a group consisting of the low side selectively conductive device and the high side selectively conductive device. |
| US10185377B2 |
Heat dissipation method and electronic device using the same
A heat dissipation method applied to an electronic device including an electronic component is provided. The heat dissipation method includes: sensing a temperature of an electronic component by the temperature sensor; determining whether the temperature of the electronic component is larger than a threshold temperature; determining a rotation speed rank corresponding to a basic rotation speed and intermittently accelerating the basic rotation speed in the rotation speed rank while the sensed temperature of the electronic device is larger than a threshold temperature. |
| US10185376B2 |
Heat sink having protection for electric shock and electronic device including the same
An electronic device includes a display module that outputs a screen by using supplied power, and a heat sink with an electric shock prevention function prevents an electric shock accident by using a stable insulation structure. An inner housing is disposed under the display module, and the heat sink is disposed between the display module and the inner housing. A surface of the heat sink faces the inner housing is insulated, and an outer housing is disposed under the inner housing. |
| US10185372B1 |
Protective enclosure for data storage
A data storage enclosure for storing data on digital storage media has a lid that secures to a base. The enclosure has an upper insulating block that is located adjacent the lid and a lower insulating block that is located in the base. Each insulating block has a corresponding cover that overlays and protects its respective block. A storage unit has outer thermal management layers and a center layer located therebetween. The thermal management layers each contain a corresponding heat absorber that absorbs energy and changes from solid to liquid as the temperature of the storage unit begins to rise to excessive temperatures. The center layer contains a digital storage drive that is connected to a flexible cable that is connected to a sacrificial connector. When assembled, the insulating blocks and covers constrain and hold the storage unit and flexible cable. |
| US10185370B2 |
Vibration reduction device, electronic device and mobile equipment containing same
The present disclosure relates to a vibration reduction device, an electronic device and mobile equipment containing same. The vibration reduction device comprises: a first fixing component (10) which is a frame structure (11); a second fixing component (100) arranged in the center or near the center position of the first fixing component (10); and a vibration reduction connecting component (50) positioned between the first fixing component (10) and the second fixing component (100) and used for connecting both together. The vibration reduction connecting component (50) comprises a vibration reduction connecting frame (53) connected to the frame structure (11), and an inverted U-shaped structure (51) positioned in the vibration reduction connecting frame (53), connected to the lower part of the vibration reduction connecting frame (53) through supporting legs and connected with the second fixing component (100). The vibration reduction device of the present disclosure can provide excellent vibration reduction and impact-prevention protection for electronic products and precision electronic equipment. It is especially able to protect electronic products and precision electronic equipment installed on mobile equipment, such as a vehicle, against physical damage while under severe travelling conditions, as well as ensure their normal operation. The vibration reduction device according to the present disclosure not only has a simple structure and occupies little space, but also has simple installation and long service life, and can be suitable for varying load conditions. |
| US10185365B2 |
Electronic device having flexible screen
An electronic device has a front surface, a rear surface opposite to the front surface, and a first lateral surface connecting the front surface and the rear surface. The electronic device includes a first spindle, the flexible screen, and a functional element. The first spindle is rotatably provided at the first lateral surface, and can be rotated between a first position and a second position. The flexible screen is bent around the first spindle and can move as the first spindle is rotated. The functional element is provided at the first spindle. At the first position, the functional element faces the first lateral surface; at the second position, the functional element faces the front surface. |
| US10185361B2 |
Display cover panel with insert molding
A display in a portable information handling system may have a narrow or no border. A display panel cover included with the display may be formed with an insert molding that is co-molded with an outer panel for high bonding strength and high stiffness, as well as providing a desired high quality external appearance to information handling system. Additionally, an exterior insert molding may be formed to include an exterior surface of the information handling system. |
| US10185358B1 |
Electronic tablet protective carrying case and display stand
Disclosed is apparatus for protecting, carrying, and displaying an electronic tablet device. The apparatus comprises a housing with handles and a cavity that receives and surrounds the device. The cavity has a front surface opening configured to expose operative portions of a front surface of the device when disposed in the cavity, one or more rear surface openings that expose operative components of a rear surface of the device when disposed in the housing, and a locking device that secures the device within the housing. The housing may also include wireless speakers. A protective stand has an opening extending therethrough that slidably receives the housing, prevents the stand from loosing contact with the housing when carried, and covers the front and rear openings of the housing when carried. The stand has angled and orthogonal slots formed on an outer surface that support the housing for display. |
| US10185355B2 |
Portable information device
A portable information device is capable of securing the appearance quality or the durability of products while having a foldable configuration. The portable information device has a backbone member provided throughout and between the inner surface of one edge portion of a first chassis member and the inner surface of one edge portion of a second chassis member so as to cover a gap between the one edge portion of the first chassis member and the one edge portion of the second chassis member connected by a hinge mechanisms. The backbone member is held between the inner surfaces of the first chassis member and the second chassis member and the rear surfaces of the hinge mechanisms disposed on the inner surfaces, and is slidably provided between the inner surface of at least one of the first chassis member and the second chassis member and the rear surface of the hinge mechanism disposed on the one inner surface of the at least one of the first chassis member and the second chassis member. |
| US10185352B2 |
Modular system for controlling a liquid crystal display
A modular electrical system for controlling a liquid crystal display (LCD) contained within a chassis. The system may include a backplane in communication with a power module and video module through connectors on the back plane and respective connectors on the modules. The system may also include a timing and control board (TCON) that is in communication with the backplane via conduction lines that are provided to carry power, video signals, etc., to the TCON. Guides may be provided to ensure proper alignment of the power module and video module with the backplane. In some embodiments, the power module and video module may include input and output connectors that facilitate connection of multiple displays in a daisy chain fashion. |
| US10185349B2 |
Apparatus and method for extending frequency range of a circuit and for over-clocking or under-clocking
Described is an apparatus for over-clocking or under-clocking, the apparatus comprises: a locked loop (e.g., phase locked loop or frequency locked loop) having a feedback divider, the locked loop to receive a reference clock and to compare it with a feedback clock which is output from the feedback divider, and to generate an output clock; a post locked loop divider, coupled to the locked loop, to receive the output clock and to generate a base clock for other logic units; and a control logic to adjust first and second divider ratios for the feedback divider and the post locked loop divider respectively for over-clocking or under-clocking the base clock such that the locked loop remains locked while being over-clocked or under-clocked. |
| US10185347B2 |
Stacked power supply for reduced current consumption
A circuit arrangement comprising a first capacitor and a second capacitor which are arranged in series between a high potential and a low potential is described. The circuit arrangement comprises first power consuming circuitry which is arranged in parallel to the first capacitor. The first power consuming circuitry (113) consumes electrical power at a first voltage. The circuit arrangement comprises second power consuming circuitry which is arranged in parallel to the second capacitor. The second power consuming circuitry consumes electrical power at a second voltage, wherein a magnitude of the sum of the first voltage and the second voltage is smaller than an absolute difference between the high potential and the low potential. The circuit arrangement sets a voltage at the first capacitor in accordance to the first voltage and to set a voltage at the second capacitor in accordance to the second voltage. |
| US10185346B2 |
Power transfer management for local power sources of a grid-tied load
A power transfer system provides power factor conditioning of the generated power. Power is received from a local power source, converted to usable AC power, and the power factor is conditioned to a desired value. The desired value may be a power factor at or near unity, or the desired power factor may be in response to conditions of the power grid, a tariff established, and/or determinations made remotely to the local power source. Many sources and power transfer systems can be put together and controlled as a power source farm to deliver power to the grid having a specific power factor characteristic. The farm may be a grouping of multiple local customer premises. AC power can also be conditioned prior to use by an AC to DC power supply for more efficient DC power conversion. |
| US10185344B1 |
Compensation of input current of LDO output stage
According to an aspect, a low-dropout (LDO) regulator includes a pre-charge buffer, an output stage, and a noise filter connected between the pre-charge buffer and the output stage of the LDO regulator. The noise filter includes a first resistor. The LDO regulator includes a transistor configured as an input to the output stage, and a compensation circuit connected to an input of the pre-charge buffer. The compensation circuit includes a second resistor. The compensation circuit is configured to provide a compensation current that produces a first voltage drop across the second resistor, where the first voltage drop offsets a second voltage drop produced by an input current of the transistor across the first resistor. |
| US10185338B1 |
Digital low drop-out (LDO) voltage regulator with analog-assisted dynamic reference correction
A digital low drop-out regulator circuit includes transistor switches that are selectively actuated in response to a comparison of an output voltage at an output node to corresponding tap reference voltages. A dynamic reference voltage correction circuit operates to shift voltage levels of the tap reference voltages in response to a difference between the output voltage at the output node and an input reference voltage. |
| US10185335B2 |
System and method for ovenized device temperature control
The present invention generally relates to a system and method for high accuracy temperature control of an oven used to operate an electronic device, sensor or resonator (“device”) at a fixed temperature. The fixed temperature operation may result in high stability and operation accuracy of the devices across varying environment temperature conditions. Specifically, the present invention relates to systems and methods that enable realizing, sensing, and controlling the temperature of an ovenized device with high temperature control, accuracy, relaxed temperature sense, and control electronics requirements. |
| US10185331B2 |
Modular computer and thermal management
An enclosure design facilitates heat dissipation from a space-limited computer core device. An external computer platform is provided to connect the computer core device, the external computer platform including a fan that provides an air flow to the connected computer core device. The computer core device and the computing platform may be tightly connected by connectors located on their respective enclosure walls. Both the computer core device and the external computing platform are provided air inlets and outlets on their respective enclosures. When connected, an air inlet of the computer core device faces an air outlet of the external computing platform such that a single cooling air flow flows through the external computing platform and the computer core device. The external computing platform may include a built-in fan to blow air into or draw air from the matching air inlets and outlets. |
| US10185329B2 |
Methods and systems for vehicle-to-vehicle communication
A method for vehicle-to-vehicle communication is disclosed. The method includes establishing a communication connection between the first vehicle and the second vehicle, receiving one or more communications from the second vehicle, determining, by the first vehicle, vehicle parameter targets based on the one or more communications, communicating the vehicle parameter targets and one or more vehicle device commands to the second vehicle, and determining at least one vehicle control signal for the second vehicle based on the vehicle parameter targets and the one or more vehicle device commands. |
| US10185327B1 |
Autonomous vehicle path coordination
Methods and systems for communicating between autonomous vehicles are described herein. Such communication may be performed for signaling, collision avoidance, path coordination, and/or autonomous control. Several communications from autonomous vehicles may be received at a computing device, where the autonomous vehicles are travelling within a threshold distance of each other. Each communication may include an indication of the next waypoint on a route for the respective vehicle. The computing device may analyze the communications to determine maneuvers for the autonomous vehicles so that each autonomous vehicle may navigate to the corresponding waypoint in the least amount of time or distance. The computing device also may cause each of the autonomous vehicles to move in accordance with the maneuvers for the respective vehicle. |
| US10185324B1 |
Building elevation maps from laser data
Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to generating elevation maps. More specifically, data points may be collected by a laser moving along a roadway and used to generate an elevation map of the roadway. The collected data points may be projected onto a two dimensional or “2D” grid. The grid may include a plurality of cells, each cell of the grid representing a geolocated second of the roadway. The data points of each cell may be evaluated to identify an elevation for the particular cell. For example, the data points in a particular cell may be filtered in various ways including occlusion, interpolation from neighboring cells, etc. The minimum value of the remaining data points within each cell may then be used as the elevation for the particular cell, and the elevation of a plurality of cells may be used to generate an elevation map of the roadway. |
| US10185322B1 |
Vehicle landmark identification
A first landmark of a target vehicle is identified. A host vehicle is moved laterally adjacent to the target vehicle such that a second landmark of the host vehicle is a specified longitudinal distance from the first landmark. |
| US10185312B2 |
Insitu tool health and recipe quality monitoring on a CDSEM
Systems, methods, and computer program products for monitoring the tool health of on a critical dimension scanning electron microscope (CDSEM) and recipe quality on a CDSEM. Run-time data from a critical dimension scanning electron microscope is received at a computer. The computer converts the run-time data to time-sequenced data, and analyzes the time-sequenced data to detect an operational abnormality associated with the CDSEM. |
| US10185309B2 |
Systems and methods for recommending components for an industrial system
In one embodiment, a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium includes computer instructions stored thereon. The computer instructions, when executed by a processor, may cause the processor to receive historical data associated with placing a machine in an industrial environment offline, to determine one or more recommendations for the machine, one or more parts of the machine, or both based on the historical data, to determine an authority level of one or more users requesting to place the machine offline, and to display the one or more recommendations based on the authority level of the one or more users. |
| US10185307B2 |
Method of and system for controlling manufacturing processes in discrete production lines
A method and a system control a discrete production line in a manufacturing plant employing a computer-managed MES system. The MES system contains a set of MES components interacting with one another in order to control different production phases, and the MES components use, for the control, data of MES entities stored in a database according to a first data model. The method includes: transforming data of MES entities shared among the MES components from the first data model into a second data model; providing a central cache for storing the shared data transformed into the second data model; providing a hub arranged to communicate with all MES components, the cache and the database; and during run time, making the MES components interact with one another and with the cache through the hub to control the production line. |
| US10185306B2 |
Utilizing look-up tables representing all models in an automation control architecture to independently handle uncertainties in sensed data in oil and gas well construction
A method, system and computer program product for utilizing look-up tables representing all models in an automation control architecture to independently handle uncertainties in sensed data. Data is stored in a form of conditional probability tables (CPTs) or conditional probability distributions (CPDs), where the data comes from an operator, a service provider, a drilling contractor and an equipment manufacturer. Models of the drilling process domains, such as wellbore hydraulics, drill bit/rock interactions, torque and drag modeling, vibration modeling and drilling machinery operation, are received. Data is extracted from these models into the CPTs or CPDs. The CPTs or CPDs are converted to look-up tables. Data in the look-up tables are then visually displayed in graphical form. As a result, real-time troubleshooting of drilling operations occurs in an efficient manner. |
| US10185300B2 |
Numerical controller reestablishing machine coordinate value by using absolute position detector
A numerical controller for controlling a machine receives an instruction to reestablish a machine coordinate value of a movable part of the machine and stops a servo motor driving the movable part. When the servo motor is stopped, the numerical controller acquires position information of a position detector provided to the servo motor. Then, the numerical controller updates the machine coordinate value of the movable part based on the position information, and further updates the absolute coordinate value of the movable part based on the updated machine coordinate value. |
| US10185298B2 |
Smart tool monitoring system
A method for operating a smart tool monitoring system is described. The method includes monitoring, by a controller within a smart tool monitoring system, a first parameter associated with a first component internal to the smart tool monitoring system. The method also includes determining, by the controller, whether the first parameter satisfies a first criterion. The method also includes performing a first action in response to a determination that the first parameter satisfies the first criterion. The method also includes receiving a measurement value from a sensor of an article of manufacturing equipment that includes a second component external to the smart tool monitoring system. The method also includes determining, by the controller, whether the measurement value satisfies a second criterion. The method also includes performing a second action in response to a determination that the measurement value satisfies the second criterion. |
| US10185295B2 |
Dynamic control of switching frequency in a switch mode power converter
A controller dynamically identifies a switching frequency based power converter output load condition, input voltage, and/or temperature. The controller updates the operating switching frequency to the identified target switching frequency when the identified switching frequency is sufficiently different than a current operating switching frequency of the power converter. In this respect, switching frequency may be dynamically controlled to strike a balance between avoiding saturation of inductive elements and efficient operation of a power converter. A controller may also dynamically control switching frequency by having a thermo resistor incorporated into circuitry that determines switching frequency such that an increase in temperature beyond the threshold temperature directly causes a decrease in switching frequency. |
| US10185294B2 |
Voltage control device and method for controlling the same
A voltage control device is disclosed. The voltage control device may have a voltage converting unit. The voltage converting unit may convert a voltage of a power supply on the basis of a target voltage. The voltage converting unit may also supply a converted voltage to a device to be supplied with voltage. The voltage control device may also have a control unit. The control unit may control the target voltage depending on an operation state of the device to be supplied with voltage. |
| US10185293B2 |
Device and method for controlling a motor-driven mobile screen having adjustable slats
The invention relates to a method for controlling a motor-driven mobile screen having adjustable slats by means of an electromechanical actuator in a building, the control being implemented from a control interface including at least one control button for extending the screen and an element for assisting in the movement for adjusting the slats. The invention also relates to a control interface for implementing the method. |
| US10185292B2 |
Manufacturing management apparatus which reduces operational load of manufacturing machines
A cell control apparatus is provided with a load calculation part which calculates an operational load including at least one of average power consumption, maximum power consumption, and a variable indicating a component lifetime of a manufacturing cell in a predetermined period. The cell control apparatus includes an operation adjustment part which performs first control for reducing at least one of a speed and an acceleration at which the manufacturing machine drives and second control for adjusting a ratio of time of successive operations in such a manner as to reduce the operational load in such an extent that the number of products manufactured in the predetermined period is not changed. |
| US10185288B2 |
Apparatus and method for measuring quality of holographic image
A method and apparatus for measuring a quality of a holographic image are provided. An image quality measuring method may include acquiring a first image including a holographic image in a background, and a second image that does not include a holographic image, the first image and the second image being on the same background, extracting a gray level value and a dark-noise counted level value from the first image in a selected range of the first image, extracting a gray level value and a dark-noise counted level value from the second image in the same range as the selected range of the first image, and determining a holographic contrast ratio (HCR) of the holographic image based on the extracted gray level values and the extracted dark-noise counted level values. |
| US10185284B2 |
Disassemblable imaging apparatus
A disassemblable imaging apparatus includes a photo sensing assembly and a toner cartridge. The photo sensing assembly has an accommodating space, a photosensitive side and a fastening side. The photosensitive side and the fastening side are respectively located at two sides of the accommodating space, which are opposite to each other. The toner cartridge includes a main body and a handle. The handle is swingably connected to a side of the main body in order to move an end of the handle, which is away from the main body, close to or away from the main body. The toner cartridge is detachably installed in the accommodating space, and the handle is detachably fastened to the fastening side of the photo sensing assembly. |
| US10185270B2 |
Image forming apparatus which determines a toner supplying amount based on predicted toner consumption and predicted density of stored toner, toner supply method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with toner supply program
An image forming apparatus includes an image former which forms an image on an image carrying member with toner stored in a storage, a toner supplier which supplies toner to the storage by driving a conveyance member, a density measurer which causes the image former to form an image having a predetermined density at a predetermined timing and measures density of the formed image, a corrector which corrects a driving amount of the conveyance member based on the density measured by the density measurer, and a changer which changes a timing when the density measurer measures the density in response to an event that a predetermined condition is satisfied. |
| US10185268B2 |
Image forming apparatus and inspection method for cleaning blade
An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member to which a toner is supplied; a cleaning blade that removes the toner supplied onto the image bearing member; a hardware processor that performs control such that a tonner pattern for cleaning blade inspection is formed on the image bearing member; and a detector for detecting a toner that has slipped through the cleaning blade after the toner pattern has been allowed to reach the cleaning blade. The hardware processor performs control such that a contact portion of the cleaning blade with the image bearing member becomes a state in which slipping of a toner readily occurs, and identifies a defective site in the contact portion on the basis of a detected result by the detector. |
| US10185263B2 |
Image forming apparatus having a fixing portion and at least one opening for fluid communication between an inside and an outside of the fixing portion
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, an image forming portion for forming an image on the drum and for transferring the image to a sheet, and a fixing portion for fixing the image on the sheet, while heating the sheet in a fixing nip. The fixing portion is provided above the drum, and includes a first roller, a second roller cooperative with the first roller to form the fixing nip, first and second covers for protecting the first and second rollers, respectively, and at least one opening for fluid communication between an inside and an outside of the fixing portion, the opening being provided in the first cover at a position that is lower than a line connecting a rotation axis of the first roller and a rotation axis of the second roller, as seen along a rotational axis of the second roller. |
| US10185262B2 |
Fixing device having pressing member and gear arrangement
A fixing device includes a fixing roller, a pressure member, a heating device, a first pressing member, a second pressing member, and a pair of bearings. The pressure member is configured to nip a recording medium in cooperation with the fixing roller. The heating device is disposed opposite to the pressure member relative to the fixing roller. The first pressing member is configured to press the pressure member toward the fixing roller with a first pressing force. The second pressing member is configured to press the heating device toward the fixing roller with a second pressing force. The fixing roller includes a driven gear to be driven by a drive gear that is configured to apply a third pressing force to the driven gear. The third pressing force includes a component opposite in direction to a resultant force of the first pressing force and the second pressing force. |
| US10185259B2 |
Endless belt, fixing device, image forming apparatus, and method of manufacturing endless belt
An endless belt includes a base layer and a resin layer. The base layer includes a metal film. The resin layer is laminated on an outer side of the base layer. The resin layer includes edge portions in an axial direction with at least one edge portion of the edge portions made narrower than the base layer in the axial direction such that the outer side of the base layer is exposed. |
| US10185258B2 |
Image heating apparatus and image forming apparatus for controlling a temperature of a first heating element and a second heating element
An image heating apparatus includes a first heat generating element; a second heat generating element which is arranged adjacent to the first heat generating element in a longitudinal direction; and a control portion which controls power supplied to the first and second heat generating elements. When an image exists in a second region on the recording material heated by the second heat generating element but an image does not exist in a first region on the recording material heated by the first heat generating element, the control portion sets a control temperature of the second heat generating element when heating the second region, in accordance with a distance between an end section of the image in the second region and a boundary of the first region and the second region. |
| US10185254B2 |
Image forming apparatus that obtains lifetime of secondary transfer member
An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to obtain information with regard to the life of a secondary transfer member based on the variation in an electric resistance value of a secondary transfer portion, wherein the detection unit performs a process of reducing the effect of variation in the electric resistance value of an intermediate transfer member contained in the variation in the electric resistance value of the secondary transfer portion, based on a detection result of information with regard to the electric resistance value of the secondary transfer portion by a second detection unit, and on a detection result of information with regard to an electric resistance value of a primary transfer portion by a first detection unit, and obtains the information with regard to the life of the secondary transfer member. |
| US10185250B2 |
Developing device having first conveyance chamber and second conveyance chamber disposed above first conveyance chamber, and image forming apparatus including same
A developing device includes a developing container including a first conveyance chamber and a second conveyance chamber disposed above the first conveyance chamber, a first stirring-conveyance member which conveys developer in the first conveyance chamber in a first direction, a second stirring-conveyance member which conveys the developer in the second conveyance chamber in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a developer carrier. A second communication portion is formed which allows the first and second conveyance chambers to communicate with each other at their end portions on a downstream side in the second direction. In the first conveyance chamber, a guide member is disposed which guides, to the downstream side in the first direction, the developer passing through the second communication portion to fall into the first conveyance chamber. |
| US10185249B2 |
Developing device with toner containing a toner particle and a zinc stearate particle, and process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming method
A developing device includes a developer container that accommodates an electrostatic image developer including toner containing a toner particle and a zinc stearate particle, a ratio (DT/DS) of a volume-average particle size (DT) of the toner particle to a volume-average particle size (DS) of the zinc stearate particle being about 1.9 or more; a developer carrier that supplies the toner to an image carrier; a supply conveyor that supplies the electrostatic image developer while conveying the electrostatic image developer; a mixing conveyor that conveys the electrostatic image developer while mixing the electrostatic image developer; and a partition disposed between the supply conveyor and the mixing conveyor. The electrostatic image developer is moved from the supply conveyor to the mixing conveyor through a first passage and is moved from the mixing conveyor to the supply conveyor through a second passage. |
| US10185248B2 |
Developing device and image forming apparatus having a developer-level adjusting magnetic pole
A developing device includes a housing including a container that holds a developer containing toner and a magnetic carrier, a feed port member that allows toner or a magnetic carrier to pass therethrough to be fed into the container, a rotary member spaced apart by a gap from a surrounding portion of the housing including the feed port member, the rotary member transporting the developer while holding the developer on an outer circumferential surface of the rotary member to cover the gap when a developer level of the developer inside the container exceeds a reference level, and a developer-level adjusting magnetic pole that holds the developer and that is located at the same level as an end of the gap located downstream from the feed port member in a rotation direction of the rotary member or located downstream from the end of the gap in the rotation direction. |
| US10185244B2 |
Developing device and image forming apparatus including the same
A developing device includes a magnet roller, a developing sleeve that revolves in a predetermined direction of revolution around the magnet roller, a developer tank having an opening that forms a development region by opening a part of a surface of the developing sleeve in a circumferential direction, a regulating member that regulates a layer thickness of a developer on the surface of the developing sleeve, and a toner residue reduction member that reduces a residue of a toner adhering directly to the surface of the developing sleeve. |
| US10185243B2 |
Fixing device adjusting output current value of electric current flowed by electric discharge of electric charge supplying device and image forming apparatus including the same
A fixing device includes a rotatable fixing member, a rotatable pressuring member and an electric charge supplying device. The fixing member contacts a recording medium having a toner image and heats the recording medium. The pressuring member pressures the recording medium between the fixing member and the pressuring member. The electric charge supplying device electrically discharges electric charges with same polarity as toner and supplies the electric charges to the fixing member. An output current value electrically discharged by the electric charge supplying device is adjusted on the basis of a toner charged amount of the toner image. When the toner charged amount is equal to or more than a threshold value, the output current value is set to a normal current value. When the toner charged amount is less than the threshold value, the output current value is set to a current value higher than the normal current value. |
| US10185242B2 |
Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus
There is a demand for an inexpensive optical scanning apparatus. An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source configured to emit a laser light flux, a deflection unit configured to deflect the laser light flux emitted from the light source, and a light reception member configured in such a manner that the laser light flux reflected by the deflection unit is incident thereon. The light source emits the laser light flux tilted by a predetermined angle with respect to a horizontal direction toward the deflection unit. The light reception member is disposed above or below the light source, and the laser light flux reflected by the deflection unit and tilted by the predetermined angle with respect to the horizontal direction is incident on the light reception member. |
| US10185237B2 |
Electrophotographic photoreceptor, electrophotographic photoreceptor cartridge, image forming apparatus, and polyarylate resin
An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprises a conductive support and, at least a photosensitive layer on the conductive support, wherein the photosensitive layer includes a polyarylate resin and the polyarylate resin has a repeating structure represented by formula (1), and the amount of bisphenol residues represented by formula (3) after the polyarylate resin is hydrolyzed, is 0.2% to 1%, in terms of intensity ratio, based on the total amount of bisphenol residues represented by formula (2) and formula (3) after the polyarylate resin is hydrolyzed, the bisphenol residues being detected with a gas chromatograph employing a hydrogen flame ionization detector (FID). |
| US10185236B2 |
Image forming apparatus and process cartridge
An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a photosensitive layer that includes at least one of a hindered phenol antioxidant and a benzophenone ultraviolet absorber, a charging device, an electrostatic latent image forming device, a developing device, and a transfer device that includes an intermediate transfer belt whose electric field dependence of a volume resistivity is 0.003 or less (log Ω·cm)/V in a voltage range of from 500 V to 1,000 V, and transfers a toner image formed on a surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor onto a recording medium through the intermediate transfer belt and erases charges from the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor by applying current to the electrophotographic photoreceptor after the toner image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor has been transferred onto the intermediate transfer belt. |
| US10185233B2 |
Cover member, conveying apparatus, lithography apparatus, and method of manufacturing article
A cover member that covers a first surface on an opposite side with respect to a holding surface of a holding portion that holds a substrate, the cover member including a first removing member that removes a foreign substance attached to the first surface, in which the cover member is capable of being fixed to the holding portion while the first surface and the first removing member are in contact with each other covering the first surface. |
| US10185230B2 |
Measurement apparatus and method
A measurement apparatus for measuring at least one property of an electron bunch or other group of charged particles travelling through a cavity (310), comprises a plurality of electrodes (302-308) arranged around the cavity, a plurality of optical sensors (322-328), wherein the plurality of electrodes are configured to provide signals to the optical sensors thereby to modulate at least one optical property of the optical sensors. The apparatus further comprises at least one laser source (330) for providing a laser beam comprising a series of laser pulses to the plurality of optical sensors to obtain measurements representative of said at least one optical property of the optical sensors, and a processing resource (320) configured to process at least a first measurement signal from a first one of the optical sensors and a second measurement signal from a second one of the optical sensors, thereby to determine at least one property of the electron bunch or other group of charged particles, wherein the at least one property comprises charge and/or lateral position. |
| US10185224B2 |
Method and apparatus for inspection and metrology
A method involving providing incident radiation of a first polarization state by an optical component into an interface of an object with an external environment, wherein a surface is provided adjacent the interface and separated by a gap from the interface, detecting, from incident radiation reflected from the interface and from the surface, radiation of a second different polarization state arising from the reflection of incident radiation of the first polarization at the interface as distinct from the radiation of the first polarization state in the reflected radiation, and producing a position signal representative of a relative position between the focus of the optical component and the object. |
| US10185223B2 |
Lithographic apparatus and surface cleaning method
An apparatus and method for cleaning a contaminated surface of a lithographic apparatus are provided. A liquid confinement structure comprises at least two openings used to supply and extract liquid to a gap below the structure. The direction of flow between the openings can be switched. Liquid may be supplied to the gap radially outward of an opening adapted for dual flow. Supply and extraction lines to respectively supply liquid to and extract liquid from the liquid confinement structure have an inner surface that is resistant to corrosion by an organic liquid. A corrosive cleaning fluid can be used to clean photo resist contamination. |
| US10185220B2 |
Substrate processing method, substrate processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable medium
A substrate processing method includes steps of: supplying a developer onto a substrate surface from a discharge port while the substrate is rotated at a first rotation speed and a liquid contact surface faces the surface, and moving the nozzle while the liquid contact surface contacts with the developer so that a liquid film of the developer is formed on the surface; rotating the substrate at a second rotation speed slower than the first rotation speed, after the liquid film is formed, in a state where supply of the developer is stopped; rotating the substrate at a third rotation speed faster than the first rotation speed, after the substrate is rotated at the second rotation speed; and reducing rotation speed of the substrate to the second rotation speed or less, after the substrate is rotated at the third rotation speed, so that the liquid film is held on the surface. |
| US10185219B2 |
Developing method
In a developing method, a developing nozzle starts discharge of developer to a position set in advance on a substrate, spinning about the center thereof, away from the center. This causes a flow of the developer at the center having a small centrifugal force immediately after the discharge is started. Accordingly, a dissolution product of a resist can be ejected outside the substrate more efficiently than the case when the discharge of the developer to the center is started. Moreover, this achieves distributed arrival positions of the developer directly discharged from the developing nozzle immediately after the discharge is started. Consequently, thin resist patterns especially at the center of the substrate are eliminated to obtain suppression in treatment variation. |
| US10185218B2 |
Method of transferring reverse pattern by using imprint process
A method of transferring a reverse pattern using an imprint process includes: preparing a master mold, where a first pattern is defined on a surface of the master mold; coating an imprint resin on the master mold to cover the first pattern; pressing the imprint resin toward the master mold using a stamp member; curing the imprint resin to form a second pattern between the master mold and the stamp member, where the second pattern has a reverse shape to a shape of the first pattern; detaching the stamp member from the master mold to separate the second pattern from the master mold; and transferring the second pattern onto a transfer substrate. |
| US10185215B2 |
Reflection type screen
A reflection type screen including: a base portion which is tabular; and a plurality of prism portions which are provided on one surface of the base portion, extending in one direction and lined up in a direction intersecting the one direction, wherein the plurality of prism portions each have: a pair of surfaces, at least one of the pair of surfaces being inclined with respect to the normal direction of the one surface of the base portion and intersecting the other of the pair of surfaces; and a reflecting layer, being formed on the one of the pair of surfaces and reflecting light, and wherein the reflecting layer includes a low friction portion dispersed over within a reflecting portion to reflect light, having lower friction coefficient than that of the reflecting portion. |
| US10185214B2 |
Projector and image display method including a light separation optical system
The present invention provides a projector with high brightness, the projector including: a first light source that outputs a first light containing a first fluorescence generated in a first fluorescence region; a second light source that outputs a second light containing a second fluorescence generated in a second fluorescence region; first to third image display elements; a light separation optical system that generates an illumination light illuminating the first to third image display elements with colors different from each other from the input first light and second light and radiates the illumination light to the first to third image display elements; and a controller that causes the first to third image display elements to display an image according to an input video signal and colors of the illumination light radiated to the first to third image display elements. |
| US10185212B1 |
Projection display apparatus including eye tracker
A projection display apparatus that tracks a user's eye with an eye tracker and displays a high-resolution image at a position of the user's eye. The projection display apparatus includes an eye tracker configured to track an eye of a user; a projector configured to project an image; and a controller configured to control the projector, based on a position of the eye of the user obtained from the eye tracker, to perform a first operation to project a first portion of the image at a first resolution onto a first region with respect to the position of the eye of the user, and to perform one of a second operation to project a second portion of the image at a second resolution lower than the first resolution onto a second region excluding the first region, and a third operation to refrain from projecting the image in the second region. |
| US10185210B2 |
Luminous light emitting device, light source unit and image projection system
A luminous light emitting device according to an aspect of the invention includes a motor, a luminescent wheel which is rotated by the motor, and a wheel cover which covers part of the luminescent wheel, and the wheel cover has a plurality of internal heat dissipating plates which are disposed so as to extend from a central portion towards an outer circumference of the luminescent wheel in an inside thereof. |
| US10185207B2 |
Panoramic head
A panoramic head includes a base and a rotating main body for bearing a shooting device; a rotating component is arranged at the lower part of the rotating main body, and a fixing part for fixing the shooting device is arranged at the upper part; the base is provided with a matching component for matching the rotating component, the rotating component and the matching component are coaxially arranged, and the rotating component can rotate for 360 degrees relative to the matching component; and the rotating main body is provided with fixing parts conforming to the size of the shooting device, the shooting device is fixed by means of the fixing parts, when the rotating main body rotates along with the rotating component thereof, panoramic shooting can be completed, and a lens node of the shooting device is located on a rotation axis of the rotating component. |
| US10185206B2 |
Lens barrel, lens driving device, and image pickup apparatus
A lens barrel that is capable of miniaturizing and thinning an image pickup apparatus by enabling to switch manual lens drive and electric lens drive with a simple mechanism. A lens barrel is mounted on an image pickup apparatus that supports an operation member rotatably. A drive barrel engages with a lens holding member to drive it in an optical axis direction. A motor transfers rotation to the drive barrel through a transfer mechanism. A switching mechanism switches between electric lens drive that drives the lens holding member by transferring rotation of the motor to the drive barrel and manual lens drive that drives the lens holding member by transferring rotation of the operation member to the drive barrel via an elastic member that rotates together with the operation member according to a user's operation. The drive barrel engages with the elastic member while shifting to a photographing area. |
| US10185203B1 |
Optoelectronic device
An optoelectronic device and method of making the same. The device comprising: a substrate; a regrown cladding layer, on top of the substrate; and an optically active region, above the regrown cladding layer; wherein the regrown cladding layer has a refractive index which is less than a refractive index of the optically active region, such that an optical mode of the optoelectronic device is confined to the optically active region, and wherein the optically active region is formed of: SiGeSn, GeSn, InGaNAs, or InGaNAsSb. |
| US10185199B2 |
System and method for controlling an optical filter assembly
A control system for a variable transmittance optical filter assembly includes a controller in communicatively coupled to a pair of load terminals, and a memory communicatively coupled to the controller and having encoded thereon statements and instructions executable by the controller to transition the optical filter assembly between operating states when coupled to the pair of load terminals. The controller is operable to perform any one or more of: allowing the optical filter assembly to transition to a dark state by shorting the load terminals together, maintaining the optical filter assembly in a hold mode by applying a pulse width modulated voltage signal across the load terminals, and transitioning the optical filter assembly between operative states by applying a voltage signal having voltage pulses of opposite polarities to the load terminals. |
| US10185197B2 |
Electrochromic devices
Conventional electrochromic devices frequently suffer from poor reliability and poor performance. Improvements are made using entirely solid and inorganic materials. Electrochromic devices are fabricated by forming an ion conducting electronically-insulating interfacial region that serves as an IC layer. In some methods, the interfacial region is formed after formation of an electrochromic and a counter electrode layer. The interfacial region contains an ion conducting electronically-insulating material along with components of the electrochromic and/or the counter electrode layer. Materials and microstructure of the electrochromic devices provide improvements in performance and reliability over conventional devices. |
| US10185196B2 |
Liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display device
Gate connection lines connected to gate wires in a display region are formed so as to have a region overlapped with source wires. According to such a structure, both of frame-width reduction and display performance of a liquid crystal display panel may be realized. |
| US10185195B2 |
Horizontal stripe liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device for improving picture quality includes a common electrode formed on a first substrate, gate lines and data lines formed on a second substrate bonded to the first substrate by a sealing member with liquid crystals disposed therebetween, thin film transistors connected to the gate lines and to the data lines, pixel electrodes formed in subpixel regions, each pixel electrode having a long side in a direction of the gate lines and having a short side in a direction of the data lines fanout lines for supplying a driving signals from the driving chips to the data lines, first conductive spacers formed between the fanout lines connected to different driving chips, for supplying a common voltage to the common electrode, and second conductive spacers formed between the fanout lines connected to the same driving chip, for supplying the common voltage to the common electrode. |
| US10185192B2 |
Thin film transistor array substrate, method for manufacturing the same and method for maintaining the same, and display panel
The present disclosure discloses a Thin Film Transistor array substrate, a method for manufacturing the same and a method for maintaining the same, and a display panel. The TFT array substrate includes: a substrate; gate lines, common electrode lines and data lines arranged on the substrate; and pixel electrodes arranged at pixel unit regions defined by the gate lines and the data lines. The TFT array substrate further includes weld metal electrically connected to the pixel electrodes. Projections of the weld metal onto the substrate and projections of target wires onto the substrate are overlapped at overlapping regions, and the target wires are the gate lines or the common electrode lines. |
| US10185187B2 |
Display device and manufacturing method thereof
A display device and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The display device includes a first substrate (S1) and a second substrate (S2) arranged opposite to each other; a common electrode (6) is disposed in a display area (A1) of the first substrate (S1); a plurality of first protrusions (1) are formed in a frame area (A2); the first protrusions (1) include first protrusion bodies (11) and first contact electrodes (12) disposed on top of the first protrusion bodies (11); the first contact electrodes (12) are electrically connected with the common electrodes (6); first common electrode signal lines (5) are disposed in a frame area (A2) of the second substrate (S2); and the first contact electrodes (12) are electrically connected with the first common electrode signal lines (5). The display device can simplify the overall manufacturing process of the display device. |
| US10185185B2 |
Display panel
A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a light shielding layer located between the first substrate and the second substrate. The light shielding layer includes first connecting portions extending along a first direction, second connecting portions extending along a second direction, extending portions and sub-extending portions connected by the first and second connecting portions. The first connecting portions and the second connecting portions define sub-pixels. The sub-pixels include a first sub-pixel. A projection of the extending portions on the first substrate overlaps the first sub-pixel to form a first overlapping area. A projection of the sub-extending portions on the first substrate overlaps the first sub-pixel to form a second overlapping area. The first overlapping area is greater than the second overlapping area. A largest width of the extending portions is greater than a largest width of the sub-extending portions in the first direction. |
| US10185184B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device includes: a TFT substrate having gate lines and data lines arranged thereon, the gate lines extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction, the data lines extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction; a counter substrate having a black matrix and a color filter; and liquid crystals put between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate. Columnar spacers are fainted on the counter substrate. Pedestals are formed on portions of the TFT substrate, the portions corresponding to the columnar spacers. A convex portion and a concave portion are present at the top end of the columnar spacer. The pedestal is formed corresponding to the concave portion. The concave portion is opened at the ends thereof and connected to the lateral side of the columnar spacer. |
| US10185174B2 |
Thin film transistor substrate, display device including the same, and method of manufacturing thin film transistor substrate
A thin film transistor substrate, a display device including the same, and a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor substrate. The thin film transistor substrate includes: a base plate including a first area and a second area; a nano uneven pattern formed on one side of the base plate in the first area; a wire grid pattern formed on the ne side of the base plate in the second area; a gate electrode disposed on and overlapping the wire grid pattern; and one of a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on the gate electrode and overlapping the wire grid pattern. |
| US10185169B2 |
Electrode layer, touch panel, and display apparatus
A touch-control panel of a display apparatus includes one or more electrode layers. The electrode layer includes: a plurality of first electrode strips; and a plurality of second electrode strips interlacing with the plurality of first electrode strips and extending along a column direction; wherein the plurality of first electrode strips and the plurality of second electrode strips have widths varying along the column direction to thereby realize complementary shapes. |
| US10185168B2 |
Display device
The present disclosure relates to a display device including a display module, cover bottom, a PCB, and a cover shield. The PCB includes a guide hole formed therethrough in a thickness direction and coupled to the cover bottom to be disposed on a rear surface of the cover bottom. The cover shield includes a guide protrusion configured to protrude from one surface at a position corresponding to the guide hole to be inserted into the guide hole and configured to be coupled to the cover bottom to cover the PCB. Accordingly, the cover shield is configured in such a way that the guide protrusion of the cover shield is inserted into the guide hole of the PCB interposed between the cover bottom and the cover shield while the cover shield is coupled to the cover bottom, thereby more easily and accurately guiding an assembly position of the cover shield. |
| US10185167B2 |
Backlight assembly and liquid crystal display assembly
The present invention provides a backlight assembly which includes a plastic frame, the plastic frame, a light guide plate, a light bar and an optical diaphragm group, a side surface of the plastic frame deviating from the reflective sheet is provided with a double-sided adhesive, at least one side frame of the plastic frame is provided with a groove which is disposed at a side surface of the plastic frame opposite to the double-sided adhesive; the double-sided adhesive includes a conductive heat dissipation layer and a double-sided adhesive layer, and a first metal sheet is disposed on a double-sided adhesive layer, located on the groove and contacts the optical diaphragm group and the conductive heat dissipation layer, respectively. The present invention further provides a liquid crystal display assembly. |
| US10185163B2 |
Wearable camera systems and apparatus and method for attaching camera systems or other electronic devices to wearable articles
Wearable electronic devices, for example wearable camera systems, and methods for attaching electronic devices such as camera systems to eyewear or other wearable articles are described. |
| US10185162B2 |
Single lens glare-reducing eyewear without causing LCD screen blackout
Glasses (e.g., goggles) for tactical use comprise a single lens. The single lens has a substrate, a quarter-wave retarder, and a linear polarizer. The substrate provides impact protection. The quarter-wave retarder and the linear polarizer provide glare reduction without causing blackout of screens having linear polarization. |
| US10185160B2 |
Spectacle lenses
A pair of spectacle lenses includes: a first refractive portion; a second refractive portion whose refractive power is stronger than the first's; and a progressive power portion in which a refractive power changes progressively from the first to the second refractive portion, first refractive powers of a left and right of the lenses being different, progressive power portions lengths of the left and right of the lenses are different and changing rates of additions of the left and right of the lenses are different in accordance with a shift between left and right visual lines so that a difference between addition effects acting on the wearer's eyes is reduced when the left and right visual lines shift with respect to each other depending on the first refractive powers of the left and the right of the lenses being different where the wearer views an object through the lenses. |
| US10185158B2 |
Temple assemblies for eyewear
An aspect includes a temple assembly that is configured to retain one or more lenses relative to a head of a user. The temple assembly may include a temple substrate and an insert. The temple substrate may be comprised of one or more polymers. The insert may be located at least partially within the temple substrate. The insert is configured to impose a spring force against the head of the user and is configured to allow at least a portion of the temple substrate to rotate axially about at least a portion of the insert such that the portion of the temple substrate deforms relative to the insert and at least partially independently of the insert. |
| US10185154B2 |
Laser despeckler based on angular diversity
A device for reducing laser speckle using a micro scanner and a holographic diffuser. The micro scanner includes a first transparent optical substrate with an input surface and an output surface and a second transparent optical substrate with an input surface and an output surface and a variable refractive index medium sandwiched between the output surface of the first substrate and the input surface of the second substrate. Transparent electrodes are applied to the output surface of the first substrate and the input surface of the second substrate. The electrodes are coupled to a voltage generator. The input surface of the first substrate is optically coupled to a laser source. The input surface of the second substrate is configured as an array of prismatic elements. At least one of the input surface of the first substrate or the output surfaces of the second substrate is planar. |
| US10185149B2 |
Spectacle lens for a display device which can be placed on the head of a user and which generates an image, and display device comprising such a spectacle lens
A spectacle lens for a display device can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image. The spectacle lens includes a coupling-in section, a coupling-out section, and a light guiding channel. The spectacle lens includes a first partial spectacle lens connected to a second partial spectacle lens. The light guiding channel runs in the first partial spectacle lens and the two partial spectacle lenses are connected to each other via contact surfaces which extend on the one hand from the front side to the rear side and on the other hand from the edge of the spectacle lens along a predetermined length in a second direction, which runs transversely with respect to the first direction. |
| US10185144B2 |
Optical assembly and optical module
An optical assembly is provided. The optical assembly includes a light transmitting terminal, a light receiving terminal, an optical component located between the light transmitting terminal and the light receiving terminal, a collimating unit located between the optical component and the light transmitting terminal, and a focusing unit located between the optical component and the light receiving terminal. The collimating unit includes a first lens located between the optical component and the light transmitting terminal, and a field lens located between the first lens and the optical component and configured to absorb an alignment error between the light transmitting terminal and the first lens. The focusing unit includes a second lens located between the optical component and the light receiving terminal. |
| US10185142B1 |
Systems and methods for improving a fluid contact layer in an electrowetting element
An electrowetting element comprising a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid. A support plate comprises a first layer comprising a migration pathway, the first layer comprising a first surface in contact with at least one of the first fluid or the second fluid. A substance is disposed within at least a portion of the migration pathway in the first layer. The substance is distinct from both the first fluid and the second fluid and is configured to reduce migration of at least a component of the first fluid or a component of the second fluid into the migration pathway in the first layer. |
| US10185141B2 |
Cascaded electrical device bus structure systems and methods
The present disclosure presents techniques to facilitate improving operation of an electrical system, which includes a bus structure that cascades multiple electrical devices. The bus structure includes a first outer conductive layer implemented as a positive layer; a second outer conductive layer implemented as a negative layer; a first intermediate conductive layer neighboring the first outer conductive layer; a second intermediate conductive layer neighboring the second outer conductive layer; and a third intermediate conductive layer neighboring the second intermediate conductive layer, in which the third intermediate conductive layer is implemented as an inter-device layer that facilitates electrically coupling at least two of the electrical devices in series. The first intermediate conductive layer is implemented as a negative layer and the second intermediate conductive layer is implemented as a positive layer to facilitate reducing stray inductance and/or increasing stray capacitance introduced in the electrical system during operation. |
| US10185138B2 |
Imaging apparatus
According to an illustrative embodiment an imaging system is provided. The system includes a lens tube; a first polarizing filter; and a second polarizing filter; wherein the first polarizing filter and the second polarizing filter are adjacent each other, and wherein a polarizing imparted by the first polarizing filter is different from a polarizing imparted by the second polarizing filter. |
| US10185137B2 |
Wavelength multiplexed fourier ptychographic microscopy system and method
The present disclosure relates to Fourier ptychographic microscopy systems and methods. The system includes: a three-color LED array; a microscope, configured to obtain image information with multi-wavelength, and magnify to generate magnified image information; an RGB camera configured to acquire a first color image with a first resolution based on the magnified image information; and a controller, configured to synchronously control the three-color LED array and the RGB camera, in which the three-color LED array is further configured to display a plurality of illumination patterns, the RGB camera is further configured to acquire synchronously a plurality of first color images, and the controller is further configured to restore a single second image with a second resolution according to the plurality of first color images, and the first resolution is less than the second resolution. The present disclosure improves sampling speed. |
| US10185136B2 |
Eucentric digital microscope having a pivotally mounted pivot unit
The invention relates to a eucentric digital microscope (10) that encompasses a stationary stand body (12) and a pivot unit (14) mounted pivotably on the stand body (12), the pivot unit (14) being mounted rotatably around a rotation axis (26) extending in a Y direction. The pivot unit (14) encompasses at least an optical system having an optical axis (15) extending orthogonally to the rotation axis (26), and a focal plane (92), the pivot unit (14) being arranged nondisplaceably at least in an X direction and in a Z direction relative to the rotation axis (26). |
| US10185130B2 |
Variable magnification optical system, optical device, and method for manufacturing variable magnification optical system
A variable magnification optical system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and a third lens group having positive refractive power; upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group and a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group being varied. The variable magnification optical system further includes a V lens group GV having negative refractive power and being moved to have a component in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and an F lens group GF having positive refractive power and being moved along the optical axis upon focusing from an infinitely distant object to a close object, the V lens group GV being disposed on the more object side than the F lens group GF. Thereby, it is possible to provide the compact variable magnification optical system with a high zoom ratio and high performance, an optical apparatus therewith and a method for manufacturing the variable magnification optical system. |
| US10185127B2 |
Optical imaging system
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens having a positive refractive power. The first lens to seventh lens are sequentially disposed in a direction from an object side toward an imaging plane. |
| US10185126B2 |
Optical imaging system
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens, disposed in order from an object side to an imaging plane. One or any combination of the first lens to the seventh lens are formed of glass. One or both surfaces of one or more of the first lens to the seventh lens are aspherical. A pair of lenses, among the first lens to the seventh lens, allows paraxial areas opposing each other to be bonded to each other. |
| US10185125B2 |
Photographing optical lens system, image capturing unit and electronic device
A photographing optical lens system includes five lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface thereof has at least one convex critical point in an off-axial region thereof, the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof are aspheric. |
| US10185123B2 |
Lens system
Compact narrow angle lens systems that may be used in small form factor cameras. The lens system may include six lens elements with refractive power, and may provide lower F-numbers while maintaining or improving imaging quality and package size when compared to other compact lens systems. Total track length of the lens system may be 6.5 millimeters or less, for example 5.9 or 6 millimeters. Focal length of the lens system may be 7.0 millimeters or less, for example 6.6 millimeters. The lens system may include an aperture stop located behind the front vertex of the lens system, for example between the first and second lens elements, that effectively moves the ideal principal point of the camera to in front of the front vertex. The lens system may provide a focal ratio of 2.8 or less, for example 2.6 or 2.4. |
| US10185119B2 |
Optical scanning apparatus with reflection mirror mounted by leaf springs and image forming apparatus therof
An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source, a deflecting unit, a reflection mirror, a casing, and first and second leaf springs. The casing includes first and second mirror supporting portions and a facing portion. The following relationship is satisfied: D2 |
| US10185106B2 |
Fiber optic cable external shield connector
A fiber optic cable external shield connector grounds a fiber optic cable having both a corrugated conductive shield and a strength member without removal of the outer protective layer of the fiber optic cable. The connector has a grounding cover and a cooperative grounding base each with an electrically conductive grounding assembly having an array of prongs. Bosses of the cover and bosses of the base are fastened together to force the prongs of the conductive assembly to pierce the outer non-conductive sheath of the fiber optic cable. The prongs cooperatively pinch the strength member to ultimately connect the corrugated shield and strength member to an outside ground. |
| US10185105B2 |
Flexible optical-fiber ribbon
The flexible optical-fiber ribbon can be reversibly adapted to both planar and non-planar shapes (e.g., packed via folding or rolling) without damaging the optical-fiber ribbon or its constituent optical fibers. |
| US10185104B2 |
Optical receiver and method of assembling the same and providing rotational alignment
A method of assembling an optical module that recovers data by interfering signal light with local light is disclosed. The optical module provides a housing with a side to which a signal port and a local port are fixed, and an optical components having a light incident surface whose normal makes an angle θ except for 0° and 90° against the axis of the signal port. The method first adjusts a rotation of the assembling apparatus by (1) setting a tool on the apparatus, where the tool has a pair of sides parallel to each other and a reference side making the angle θ against one of the paired sides, and (2) facing the reference side toward the preset direction. Next, setting the housing on the apparatus in an attitude same with the tool and facing the optical component toward the preset direction above the housing, the process installs the optical component within the housing. |
| US10185102B2 |
Optical fiber connector with integrated installation tools
An optical connector having at least one removable integrated assembly tool for terminating an optical fiber cable is described. The connector comprises a housing configured to mate with a receptacle, a collar body disposed in the housing, a backbone that retains the collar body in the housing, a removable funnel-shaped and a fiber boot. The collar body secures a ferrule secured at a first end thereof, and includes mechanical element disposed in an intermediate portion and a buffer clamping portion near a second end of the collar body. The backbone has a mounting structure surrounding a central bore at one end. The funnel-shaped fiber guide attaches to the mounting structure to facilitate insertion of an optical fiber into the connector, and wherein the fiber boot is attachable to the mounting structure after the fiber guide has been removed. |
| US10185101B2 |
Plug with rotatable release mechanism
A plug assembly comprising at least one elongate ferrule terminating an one optic fiber and arranged in parallel to an actuating axis, a plug housing the ferrule and such that an end of the ferrule is exposed at a forward end thereof, the forward end configured for insertion into a receptacle, an elongate release lever for releasably securing the plug housing to the receptacle, the lever comprising a first end fixed to the plug housing towards the forward end and a flexible free end, and an actuating assembly cooperating with the flexible free end and rotatable about the actuating axis between a position where the flexible free end is positioned spaced from the housing and a position where the flexible free end is positioned immediately adjacent the housing. |
| US10185098B2 |
Optical fiber connector device
An optical fiber connector device includes an optical fiber connector and an insert unit. The insert unit hash a housing and a connecting mechanism. The housing surrounds an axis, and has an outer wall, a surrounding wall, and a cover member. The outer wall defines a first insert opening on the axis, and has a main opening spaced apart from the axis. The outer wall and the surrounding wall are molded as one piece. The cover member covers removably the main opening. The connecting mechanism has a first connecting member surrounded by the outer wall and connected to the optical fiber connector, and a second connecting member surrounded by the surrounding wall, coupled to the first connecting member, and adapted to be connected to another optical fiber connector. |
| US10185096B2 |
Ferrule-core concentricity measurement systems and methods
Systems and methods of measuring ferrule-core concentricity for an optical fiber held by a ferrule are disclosed. The method includes: generating ferrule distance data by measuring distances to a ferrule outside surface as a function of rotation angle using a distance sensor and rotating either the ferrule or the distance sensor about an axis of rotation that is off-center from the true ferrule axis; aligning the axis of rotation with the fiber core; using the ferrule distance data to determine a position of the true ferrule center relative to the optical fiber core; and measuring the concentricity as the distance between the true center of the ferrule and the optical fiber core. |
| US10185095B2 |
Device for an optical-fiber connection
Device for the coaxial connection of fiber-optic cables, comprising a single-piece coupling housing (10) and a single-piece sleeve mount (20), the sleeve mount (20) being designed with at least one latching nose (21) and the coupling housing (10) being designed with at least one latching mount which complements the at least one latching nose (21), wherein the latching mount is designed with at least one latching hook (14) and at least one stop (15). |
| US10185094B2 |
Optical plug having a removable and replaceable nosepiece and a complimentary receptacle
Disclosed are optical plugs and optical connectors for making optical connections. The optical plugs and optical connectors disclosed have a nosepiece that is easily removed and replaced for allowing access to the optical interface for cleaning and the nosepiece may also protect the optical interface when installed. The nosepiece may be a single component or an assembly as desired. The devices disclosed may be hybrid devices providing both optical and electrical connectivity or they may solely have optical connectivity if desired. |
| US10185093B2 |
Apparatus and methods for furcating fiber optic cables
Methods and apparatus for furcating fiber optic cables are provided. In some embodiments, a molded furcation tube array is generated by compressing rearward end portions of a plurality of furcation tubes together, and heating at least a portion of the rearward end portions to form a molded portion of the furcation tube array. Reinforcing filaments can be bonded into and/or throughout the molded portion. The molded portion can have internal chambers in communication with separate furcation tubes of the furcation tube array, in which optic fibers can be slidably retained, and the molded portion can be fixedly coupled to a housing, which in turn, can be coupled to a cable trunkline. Optic fibers can piston or slide longitudinally within the trunkline housing and molded portion. |
| US10185091B2 |
Multiplexer, image projection apparatus using the multiplexer and image projection system
To provide a multiplexer that makes it possible to achieve a reduction in size and that minimizes the influence of the expansion of laser light on a multiplexing unit. A multiplexer is provided with a plurality of waveguides, multiplexing units that are provided at an intermediate location within the waveguides, and laser light sources, wherein: the first multiplexing unit is arranged at a position that is closest to the laser light sources; and the laser light sources that have an optical axis at a position that is separated from the transmission axis of the visible light that is introduced into the first multiplexing unit are arranged so that the optical axis is inclined with respect to the transmission axis and the outer periphery of laser light that expands at a predetermined expansion angle passes in front of the first multiplexing unit. |
| US10185080B2 |
Lighting device and display apparatus
A lighting device, comprising a light guide plate being housed in a casing with an opening and having one surface facing the opening, and a light source placed to face a side surface of the light guide plate, and emitting, from the one surface of the light guide plate, light emitted from the light source and entering the light guide plate through the side surface, comprising a frame body covering an edge of the one surface of the light guide plate from a side of the one surface, wherein the frame body has a rib facing at least a part of a side surface of the light guide plate, except for a side surface at a side proximal to the light source, and extending toward a bottom surface of the casing, and the rib is configured to be capable of being bent by pressing force from the light guide plate. |
| US10185075B2 |
Reflective display apparatus and front light structure thereof
A reflective display device includes a bi-stable display, a front light module and a plurality of light converging films. The front light module is configured to provide a light to the bi-stable display, and the bi-stable display reflects the light. The light converging films are configured to converge the light reflected by the bi-stable display. The refractive index of the light converging film that is closest to the bi-stable display is lower than the refractive index of the light converging film that is farthest from the bi-stable display. |
| US10185072B2 |
Light guide plate and light source module
A light guide plate and a light source module are described. The light guide plate includes a main body, first stripe microstructures and second stripe microstructures. The main body includes a light incidence surface and an optic surface. The light incidence surface is connected to the optic surface. The optic surface includes a first microstructure region and a second microstructure region arranged sequentially, and the first microstructure region is near the light incidence surface. The first stripe microstructures are disposed in the first microstructure region and extending along a direction from one side near the light-incident surface to the other side away from the light-incident surface. The second stripe microstructures are disposed in the second microstructure region along the direction. A gradient of each second stripe microstructure is gradually varied along the direction. |
| US10185071B2 |
Light guide plate, backlight module and display device
A light guide plate, a backlight module and a display device are provided. The light guide plate includes a main body, first stripe microstructures, second stripe microstructures and third stripe microstructures. The main body includes a light incidence surface and an optic surface having a first area and a second area. The first area is disposed nearer the light incidence surface. The first stripe microstructures and the second stripe microstructures are respectively disposed on the first area and the second area. Each of the first stripe microstructures and the second stripe microstructures extends along the direction vertical to the light incidence surface. A width of one end of each second stripe microstructure near the light incidence surface is smaller than a width of the other end away from the light incidence surface. The third stripe microstructures are distributed on a partial or the whole region of the optic surface. |
| US10185068B2 |
Multilayer reflective polarizer
Multilayer reflective polarizers are described. More particularly, multilayer reflective polarizers having a higher block light transmission at longer wavelengths than shorter wavelengths while having a high pass light transmission are described. The described multilayer reflective polarizers may be combined with absorbing polarizers or used in display devices. |
| US10185066B2 |
Color filter and display apparatus including the same
A color filter includes a substrate, a first color conversion layer, a second color conversion layer, a barrier wall, and a light blocking layer. The substrate includes a first pixel region spaced from a second pixel region. The first color conversion layer is on the first pixel region and converts incident light to light of a first color. The second color conversion layer is on the second pixel region and converts the incident light to light of a second color. The barrier wall is between the first and second color conversion layers over the substrate. The light blocking layer extends continuously on a bottom surface and a side surface of the barrier wall, and the bottom surface faces the substrate. |
| US10185060B2 |
Free-form surface lens, method of designing free-form surface lens, free-form surface mirror, method of designing free-form surface mirror, and projection type video display apparatus
A free-form surface lens is made of a transparent resin forming an oblique projection optical system including a free-form surface mirror in a projection type video display apparatus, this lens includes a lens effective region having a surface on which a predetermined free-form surface is formed, and an edge surface formed to surround the lens effective region, the lens effective region and the edge surface in a part of a circumference surrounding the lens effective region where the edge surface is not formed are joined to each other by at least either one of a curved surface and a flat surface set so as not to change a direction of a tilt of the lens effective region in vicinity of the lens effective region, and an end surface including at least either one of the curved surface and the flat surface is set as a tapered surface. |
| US10185059B2 |
Optical element and optical system including the optical element
An optical element, which is composed of at least three optical members including a resin layer sandwiched between two optical members, has a high environmental resistance and optical performance, and has an excellent chromatic aberration correction effect. In the optical element, the resin layer is formed on one of light incident/exit surfaces of a first optical member, and a second optical member is cemented to the resin layer by a bonding material. A condition of φg<φr is satisfied, where φr indicates an outer diameter of the resin layer and φg indicates a diameter of cemented surface of the resin layer and the second optical member. |
| US10185058B2 |
Protection film suitable for illuminated display devices
The present invention relates to protection films comprising an optical film suitably sized for an illuminated display device, the optical film having perimeter surface portions defining a central region. The protection film further comprises a pressure sensitive adhesive layer at the perimeter surface portions of the optical film. The optical film and/or pressure sensitive adhesive layer has been adapted such that the at least the central region of the optical film contacts the illuminated display device or the central region of the optical film is bonded to the illuminated display device by means of a self-wetting layer. The protection film may be preassembled or may be provided as a kit, the kit comprising an optical film and a double-faced pressure sensitive tape. |
| US10185055B2 |
Method and wind energy installation for lightning warning
A method for lightning warning with a large number of wind energy installations, in particular with a part of a wind farm, wherein the wind energy installations are each located at one location, and each of the large number of wind energy installations comprises a sensor arrangement for registering an environmental parameter, comprising at least an anemometer, a temperature sensor and/or a humidity sensor, wherein the sensor arrangement comprises a further sensor, in particular an electric field meter for registering electric fields, and the method comprises the following steps, namely a registration of at least one value for the environmental parameter, comprising at least an electric field, with the aid of the sensors of the sensor arrangement with the large number of wind energy installations; and an evaluation of the at least one value for the environmental parameter for the prediction of the lightning warning for the locations of the large number of wind energy installations. A wind energy installation and/or a wind farm with a large number of wind energy installations and/or a network of wind energy installations and/or a network of wind farms for lightning warning, and the use of this to form a system for weather prediction, in particular for thunderstorm and/or lightning warning. |
| US10185052B2 |
Constrained backscatter gamma ray casing and cement inspection tool
Methods, systems, devices, and products for estimating at least one parameter of interest of a volume of interest of an earth formation using nuclear radiation based measurements. Logging tools include a limited aperture collimated radiation beam source, detectors, and at least one processor configured to take measurements. The source is configured to emit a beam of radiation radially from the logging tool into an elongated volume of interest outside the wellbore such that the beam penetrates a plurality of zones of the volume of interest. Each zone represents a range of radial depths corresponding to a respective infrastructure component associated with the wellbore, such as nested tubulars. Each detector has a unique angle of detection and is configured to generate measurement information in response to spatially coherent backscattered gamma rays. Each detector is associated with scattering events at one of the plurality of zones. |
| US10185040B2 |
Detector apparatus with detachable evaluation unit
A detector apparatus includes a scattered radiation grid; a scintillator unit for converting X-rays into a light quantity; an evaluation unit for converting the light quantity into electric signals; and a module-receiving appliance. The scintillator unit and the scattered radiation grid are mechanically connected to the module-receiving appliance via a first connection and the evaluation unit is mechanically connected to the module-receiving appliance via a second connection, independent of the first connection. The evaluation unit, the scintillator unit and the scattered radiation grid are aligned with respect to one another such that light quantity, when emitted from sub-regions of the scintillator unit, is registered by sub-regions of the evaluation unit. |
| US10185038B2 |
Integer ambiguity-fixed precise point positioning method and system
A method for providing and applying Precise Point Positioning-Integer Ambiguity Resolution (PPP-IAR) corrections for a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). In a GNS signal correction system, PPP-IAR corrections (ambiguities plus receiver and satellite hardware delays) are calculated based on observation data (Pi,a, Φi,a) of n satellites for individual reference stations using a functional model, and these individual PPP-IAR corrections are merged into one single and larger set of PPP-IAR corrections. In a broadcast system, the (merged) PPP-IAR corrections are encoded at a System Control Centre (SCC) and transmitted to mobiles. In a mobile system a similar functional model is used to calculate a correction Δx to an a priori position. |
| US10185036B2 |
Receiver performance using GNSS signals having different frequencies
Data bandwidth reduction in positioning system signals. Specifically, a first, relatively easily acquired signal may be analyzed to determine if and/or to what extent to decimate a second signal. The second signal may comprise a higher encoded data rate (e.g., a chip rate). In turn, decimation of the second signal based on characteristics of the first signal may allow for more efficient processing of the second signal. |
| US10185035B2 |
Satellite-based positioning method and associated apparatus
A satellite-based positioning method includes: obtaining predicted satellite data for at least one satellite vehicles (SVs) in a global navigation satellite system (GNSS); obtaining reference satellite data for the at least one SV; calculating satellite prediction error data for each of the at least one SV according to the predicted satellite data and the reference satellite data; and utilizing a processing unit to calculate a parameter for each of the at least one SV based on the satellite prediction error data. An associated satellite-based positioning apparatus is also provided. |
| US10185033B2 |
Active continuous awareness surveillance system (ACASS): a multi-mode 3D LIDAR for diverse applications
The ACASS 3D LIDAR system operates in a fundamentally new manner combining features of flash LIDARS and scanning LIDARS simultaneously which enables mission and performance trades to be conducted by varying the sizes of illumination patches within the scenes being observed. Further the combination of these modes of operation into a single LIDAR system enables multiple modes of operation and multiple missions to be accomplished with single lasers obviating the need for multiple lasers and enabling significant simplification of beam control modes. Systems which result from the new, expanded size, weight, power, cost trade space enabled by the ACASS concept can provide new levels of performance at significantly reduced risks and costs The achievement of wide area, three dimensional imaging using a LIDAR sensor system is accomplished with one laser which operates using an eye safe fiber laser with very high puke 13 rates but very low energy per pulse. |
| US10185027B2 |
Lidar with smart safety-conscious laser intensity
In one embodiment a laser range finder generates high-intensity laser pulses with intensities above a threshold intensity (e.g. above an eye-safe intensity) in an adaptive-intensity region of the field of view. The laser range finder further generates lower intensity (e.g. eye-safe) laser pulses in a protective guard region (e.g. a guard ring) that surrounds the high-intensity laser pulses. The guard region is located in the FOV such that ingress paths to the adaptive-intensity region must first traverse the lower-intensity guard region. The laser range finder analyzes laser reflections from the guard region to improve timely prediction of object intrusion into the adaptive-intensity region, thereby providing time to determine object trajectory or object classification. Upon determination that an object is likely to intersect the high-intensity laser pulses the laser range finder can discontinue the high-intensity laser pulses and instead generate laser pulses below the threshold intensity (e.g. eye-safe intensity laser pulses). |
| US10185024B2 |
Method for geolocating a fleet of communicating objects without a GPS-type system
A method for locating communicating objects that make up a fleet. An absolute frame of reference is defined in which the coordinates of the positions of the communicating objects are defined. At least three positions by the coordinates thereof in the absolute frame of reference are defined. The previously defined positions are associated with three communicating objects, referred to as reference objects. A reference object detects the other two reference objects and measures the distance to the two other reference objects. The distance from two reference objects to a fourth communicating object is measured. The geometric location of the distant points from a reference object to the object to be located is the orbit of the reference object. The fourth communicating object is located from at least two orbits previously established and at least one distance among the distances that separate the three reference objects. |
| US10185023B2 |
Method, system, and processing server for determining track information of target person
Embodiments of the present application disclose a method, a system and a processing server for determining track information of a target person. The method comprises: obtaining a plurality of designated videos; determining a plurality of first image acquisition devices shot the designated videos; according to a preset intersection mode and for the first image acquisition devices: obtaining sets of unique identification information detected by WiFi detectors of the first image acquisition devices during a detection time interval respectively, and performing an intersection processing on the obtained sets of unique identification information to obtain an intersection set of unique identification information; determining the unique identification information of the WiFi terminal in the intersection set of unique identification information as unique identification information of the target person; obtaining image acquisition devices in which all WiFi detectors detected the unique identification information of the target person are located; determining track information of the target person based on locations of the image acquisition devices in which all the WiFi detectors are detected. In the embodiments of the present application, it does not need to analyze a large number of videos. |
| US10185020B1 |
Method of compensating loss and dispersion of transmission line for time domain reflectometry
A system and method compensates distortions in transmission line measurement by obtaining a frequency response of a transmission line responsive to a test signal; approximating the frequency response as a function of a complex valued variable; and applying an analytic continuation to extend the function of the complex valued variable to a modified frequency response corresponding to a lossless frequency response, to compensate for loss in the transmission line. The modified frequency response may be further sampled at linearly spaced points in a wave number domain to compensate for dispersion of the transmission line. |
| US10185019B2 |
System for magnetic field distortion compensation and method of making same
A system and method for magnetic field distortion compensation includes a cryostat for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The cryostat includes a vacuum casing having a vacuum therein. A cryogen vessel is disposed within the casing, the vessel having a coolant therein. A thermal shield is disposed between the vacuum casing and the cryogen vessel. An eddy current compensation assembly is disposed within the casing. The eddy current compensation assembly includes a plurality of electrically conductive loops formed on one of the vacuum casing, the cryogen vessel, and the thermal shield and constructed to mitigate vibration-induced eddy currents in the MRI system. |
| US10185018B2 |
Method for motion correction in magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus
A method for automatically updating planning of measurement volumes as a function of object motion during MRI examination of an object in which the planning images a specific subject/object anatomy by MRI, includes defining an object reference pose and a reference coordinate system for the reference pose at a time during MRI examination, with the reference coordinate system being used for planning the measurement volumes. During examination, information is obtained about an object pose change between a current object pose at the time and the reference pose. For each subsequent scan or single acquisition of imaging data during examination, pose change information is used for calculating a new coordinate system for the current pose and updating the planning of measurement volumes as a function of the new coordinate system so the imaged object anatomy remains the same throughout the scans or acquisitions of imaging data irrespective of object motion. |
| US10185017B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus applying an MPG (motion probing gradient) during diffusion weighted imaging
The present invention provides a technique for obtaining a high-quality image at high speed in DKI analysis. In the DKI analysis, upon estimating a parameter relating to diffusion in an application direction of an MPG pulse, a least square fitting is separated from a constraint processing, and only a value of the pixel that does not meet the constraint condition in the least square fitting is targeted for the correction. Then, with regard to this pixel, a diffusion-related parameter is re-estimated using the pixel value after the correction, and a parameter image is generated by using the diffusion-related parameter thus obtained. |
| US10185015B2 |
Handheld oscillation applicator for use in a magnetic resonance rheology imaging system
A handheld oscillation applicator (40) for use in a magnetic resonance rheology imaging system (10), for applying mechanical oscillations to at least a portion of a subject of interest (20), the handheld oscillation applicator (40) comprising a housing (54), at least one transducer unit (48) configured to output mechanical energy, a piston (68) that is mechanically linked to the at least one transducer unit (48), the piston (68) including a first end (70), a second end (72), and an opening (74) that extends between the first end (70) and the second end (72), wherein the housing (54) comprises at least one opening (60), and the at least one opening (60) of the housing (54) and the opening (74) of the piston (68) at least partially overlap with regard to a housing opening direction (66) defined by an opening center (62) of the opening (60) of the housing (54) at a first surface (56) and an opening center (64) of the opening (60) of the housing (54) at a second surface (58); and an oscillation applicator system (38), including: a handheld oscillation applicator (40), a transducer driving unit (42) for energizing the at least one transducer unit (48), a sensing unit (50) configured to determine a physical quantity that is representative of an amplitude of mechanical oscillations being applied to at least the portion of the subject of interest (20), and to provide an output signal representing the determined physical quantity, at least one closed-loop control circuit for maintaining a mechanical displacement amplitude of the transducer unit (48) at a selected level, wherein the closed-loop control circuit is configured to provide an output signal for controlling the transducer driving unit (42), based on the output signal received from the sensing unit (50). |
| US10185014B2 |
Method and apparatus for EPI magnetic resonance with slew rate controlled and kspace entry optimized
In a method and apparatus for magnetic resonance imaging, a particularly quiet magnetic resonance sequence, uses echo-planar imaging with at least one gradient switching in a readout direction, wherein the at least one gradient switching in the readout direction has a slew rate that is less than a maximum slew rate defined by system specification parameters of the magnetic resonance apparatus. |
| US10185013B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus and method of generating MR image
Provided is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus for generating an MR image based on a steady state free procession (SSFP) sequence. The MRI apparatus includes: a radio frequency (RF) controller configured to apply to an object a first RF pulse corresponding to a first slice and a second RF pulse corresponding to a second slice; a gradient magnetic field controller configured to control respective gradient magnetic fields in a first direction corresponding to the first and second RF pulses, from among spatial encoding gradients, to have opposite polarities with respect to each other; a data acquisition unit configured to acquire first and second MR signals corresponding to the first and second slices; and an image processor configured to generate first and second MR images corresponding to the first and second slices, respectively, based on the acquired first and second MR signals. |
| US10185007B2 |
Noise reduction during selective MR excitation
In a method and magnetic resonance apparatus for creating an optimizing pulse sequence for selective RF excitation in the magnetic resonance apparatus, the pulse sequence has an excitation event block, which has an RF pulse and a selection gradient. Nuclear spins are excited in a predefined volume section in a predetermined manner by this excitation event block, which is designed to so that the spins inside the volume section have the same phase position after the excitation event block of the pulse sequence. The selection gradient does not have a polarity reversal. |
| US10185005B2 |
System and method for magnetic resonance coil arrangement
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. The system includes a main field magnet generating a main magnetic field B0. Moreover, the system further includes an integrated magnet device. The integrated magnet device has field-shift coils including primary field-shift coils and field-shift shield coils, the primary field shift coils being placed closer to an object to be imaged within the imaging volume than the field-shift shield coils. The gradient coils are placed between the primary field-shift coils and field-shift shield coils. At least one substrate layer is included to provide mechanical support for the field-shift coils and the gradient coils. |
| US10185004B2 |
Thermal radiation shield for superconducting magnet, superconducting magnet and magnetic resonance imaging device
A thermal radiation shield for a superconducting magnet has an inner tube, an outer tube arranged around the periphery of the inner tube, and an annular end cap disposed therebetween, and connected in a fixed manner to an edge of the inner tube by an inner edge of the annular end cap. A first toothed part is formed at an outer edge of the annular end cap, the first toothed part being connected by meshing with a second toothed part formed by an edge of the outer tube. The annular end cap with a toothed structure allows only a simple cutting process on raw material to be performed in order to obtain the annular end cap and the first toothed part formed at the outer edge thereof, thereby avoiding complex punching, spinning and similar processes, and saving production costs. |
| US10184999B2 |
RF coil and magnetic resonance imaging device including the RF coil
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device, including a transport table configured to slide; and a radio frequency (RF) coil configured to receive an RF signal, wherein the RF coil may include a main body; at least one fixer installed on the main body, the fixer being configured to contact the transport table; and a decompressor configured to reduce pressure between the at least one fixer and the transport table to detachably fix the main body onto the transport table. |
| US10184998B2 |
Method for positioning at least one local coil for recording magnetic resonance data with a magnetic resonance device and magnetic resonance system
A method for positioning at least one local coil for recording magnetic resonance data with a magnetic resonance device, wherein at least one surface data record, which describes the surface of the patient to be recorded who is already positioned for recording on a patient couch of the magnetic resonance device, is measured, the surface characteristic of the patient is extracted from the surface data record and at least one position and/or shape of at least one of the at least one local coil is chosen as a function of the surface characteristic in such a way that there is a pre-determined distance between the surface of the patient and the surface of the local coil is provided. |
| US10184993B2 |
Magnetometric sensor and current sensor
A magnetometric sensor comprises a magnetoresistance effect element having a sensitivity axis in a specific direction; including a fixed magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic material layer, and a free magnetic layer stacked in this order on a substrate; and including a first antiferromagnetic layer on the free magnetic layer on the opposite side to the side facing the nonmagnetic material layer to cause an exchange coupling bias between the first antiferromagnetic layer and the free magnetic layer and align the magnetization direction of the free magnetic layer in a prescribed direction in a state of permitting variation in magnetization. The free magnetic layer includes a first free magnetic sub-layer, a misfit-reducing sub-layer for decreasing the lattice mismatch of the free magnetic layer with the first antiferromagnetic layer, and a second free magnetic sub-layer ferromagnetically coupled to the first free magnetic sub-layer in this order from the first antiferromagnetic layer side. |
| US10184991B2 |
Dual-axis fluxgate device
A fluxgate device that includes a first magnetic core and a second magnetic core. The first magnetic core has a first magnetized direction that deviates from a first sense direction by more than 0 degree and less than 90 degrees. The second magnetic core is arranged orthogonally to the first magnetic core. The second magnetic core has a second magnetized direction that deviates from a second sense direction by more than 0 degree and less than 90 degrees. |
| US10184988B2 |
Remote sensing of remaining battery capacity using on-battery circuitry
A method of remote sensing a charge includes charging or discharging a first capacitor of a first RC circuit and a second capacitor of a second RC circuit to a predetermined threshold voltage using a power source. When each of the capacitors reach the predetermined threshold voltage, a response signal is provided from a communications module to a handheld computing device comprising a reader system. An amount of time between the response signals is determined. The amount of time is indicative of charge information. |
| US10184987B2 |
Methods and apparatus for reporting a relative state of charge of a battery
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise methods and apparatus to determine an RSOC value of a battery. The methods and apparatus may comprise utilizing various parameters, such as voltage, current, and/or temperature to calculate the RSOC of the battery. In various embodiments, the methods and apparatus may display one of an actual RSOC and a reported RSOC. In various embodiments, the methods and apparatus may further detect changes in the relevant parameter(s), adjust the reported RSOC of the battery accordingly, and report the adjusted RSOC. |
| US10184986B2 |
System for condition monitoring of electric machine, mobile phone and method thereof
It is proposed a system for condition monitoring electric machine and the method thereof. The system includes a portable unit, being adapted for free movement around said electric machine; a magnetic field sensor, being adapted for measuring magnetic field intensity at at least one of a plurality points of a path of said free movement; a processing unit, being adapted for receiving at least one corresponding magnetic field intensity signal from said magnetic field sensor, comparing at least one magnetic field intensity value to at least one corresponding expected value, and determining, based on the comparison, if a fault is present in the electric machine; wherein: said magnetic field sensor and said processing unit are integrated into said portable unit. And the method includes steps of moving said portable unit to at least one point of a plurality points of a path of said free movement around said electric machine; measuring at least one magnetic field intensity at said at least one of a plurality points of a path of said free movement; and comparing at least one magnetic field intensity value to at least one corresponding expected value, and determining, based on the comparison, if a fault is present in the electric machine. |
| US10184984B2 |
Integrated circuit and electronic apparatus including integrated circuit
An integrated circuit and an electronic apparatus including the same. The electronic apparatus includes a scan input processing circuit, a selection circuit and a scanning circuit. The scan input processing unit is configured to output one of a scan input and a first logical value in response to a scan enable signal. The selection unit is configured to select one of an output of the scan input processing unit or a data input in response to the scan enable signal. The scan element comprises a flip-flop configured to store an output of the selection unit. |
| US10184975B2 |
Printed board with wiring pattern for detecting deterioration, and manufacturing method of the same
A printed board with a wiring pattern for detecting deterioration includes an insulating substrate, a wiring pattern group that is formed on the insulating substrate and includes a wiring pattern for detecting deterioration; and a solder resist covering the wiring pattern group, in which the board has a thin film section, and a thick film section in which a thickness of the solder resist is larger than the thin film section, and the wiring pattern for detecting deterioration is formed in the thin film section whose entire surrounding area or partial surrounding area is surrounded by the thick film section. |
| US10184969B2 |
Monitoring system for a capacitor bank
A first electrical response of a capacitor bank is accessed, the capacitor bank including a plurality of capacitor units arranged in a fixed spatial relationship with each other, each capacitor unit having a nominal impedance; a test electrical signal is provided to the capacitor bank; a second electrical response of the capacitor bank is measured after providing the test electrical signal to the capacitor bank; the first electrical response of the capacitor bank and the second response of the capacitor bank are compared; and whether an impedance of one or more capacitor units in the capacitor bank has changed relative to the nominal impedance is determined based on the comparison. |
| US10184966B2 |
Signal inspection apparatus, signal inspection system, signal inspection method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with signal inspection program
A signal inspection apparatus, a signal inspection system, a signal inspection method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with a signal inspection program are provided, all of which can appropriately detect discrepancy between multiplexed signals. A signal inspection apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires values of at least two signals among multiplexed signals in a predetermined cycle; a count unit that counts respective changes in the at least two signals in a predetermined time frame; a calculation unit that calculates a difference between the counts of changes; and an output unit that performs an output indicating discrepancy between the signals, if the difference between the counts of changes exceeds an allowable value. |
| US10184962B2 |
Removable transient voltage detector
An apparatus and method for detecting transient voltage at an electrical component of a circuit board is provided. The apparatus including a circuit including a comparator and a latch, wherein a first input of the comparator is electrically coupled to the electrical component, and the comparator receives a threshold voltage at a second input, where the comparator outputs either a high signal or a low signal in response to both the first input and the second input, and an output of the comparator is electrically coupled to an input of the latch such that the latch outputs a high signal in response to receiving a high signal from the comparator, and an indicator electrically coupled to an output of the latch, and where the apparatus is mounted non-permanently to the circuit board to provide a non-permanent electrical coupling between the comparator and the electrical component. |
| US10184960B2 |
Current sensor
A current sensor is configured to measure current flowing in two bus bars aligned in an X direction and extending parallel in a Y direction. A sensing element is arranged such that its magnetism sensing direction is oriented in the X direction on a line passing through the bus bar in a Z direction. A pair of shield plates sandwiches the bus bar and the sensing element therebetween in the Z direction. The bus bar is located between the sensing element and the lower shield plate. The sensing element is located closer to the upper shield plate than to the lower shield plate. At least one of a thickness and a magnetic permeability of the magnetism shield plates is greater in the upper shield plate than in the lower shield plate. |
| US10184956B2 |
Probe card
A probe card including a circuit board, a transformer, a probe head, and a reinforcement structure is provided. The transformer including a body, a plurality of solder balls, and a plurality of first contact points are disposed on the substrate. The body has a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface is located between the circuit board and the second surface. The solder balls are disposed on the first surface, and the first contact points are disposed on the second surface. The probe head is disposed on the second surface. The probe head is electrically connected to the circuit board by the first solder balls. The reinforcement structure is disposed between the probe head and the circuit board. |
| US10184954B2 |
Probe card case and probe card transfer method
Disclosed is a probe card case for accommodating a probe card. The probe card case includes: a first case member configured to mount the probe card at a predetermined position therein; a second case member configured to be fitted to a top side of the first case member, and including a card fixing mechanism for fixing the probe card; and a case fixing mechanism configured to fix the first case member and the second case member. The probe card is capable of being transferred in a state where the probe card is accommodated in the probe card case and the first case member and the second case member are fixed, and the probe card is capable of being transferred only with the second case member in a state where the probe card is fixed to the second case member. |
| US10184953B2 |
Pitot-static anemometric test adapter
An adapter for isolating the at least one pressure port of a pitot-static tube from ambient conditions. The adapter can be used to perform aircraft anemometric testing and provides a replaceable, leak-proof seal for communicating pressures from the aircraft pitot-static system to testing equipment. |
| US10184951B2 |
Three-axis monolithic MEMS accelerometers and methods for fabricating same
Three-axis monolithic microelectromechanical system (MEMS) accelerometers and methods for fabricating integrated capacitive and piezo accelerometers are provided. In an embodiment, a three-axis MEMS accelerometer includes a first sensing structure for sensing acceleration in a first direction. Further, the three-axis MEMS accelerometer includes a second sensing structure for sensing acceleration in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Also, the three-axis MEMS accelerometer includes a third sensing structure for sensing acceleration in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and perpendicular to the second direction. At least one sensing structure is a capacitive structure and at least one sensing structure is a piezo structure. |
| US10184945B2 |
Method for detecting nucleosomes containing histone variants
The invention relates to a method for detecting and measuring the presence of mono-nucleosomes and oligo-nucleosomes and nucleosomes that contain particular histone variants and the use of such measurements for the detection and diagnosis of disease. The invention also relates to a method of identifying histone variant biomarkers for the detection and diagnosis of disease and to biomarkers identified by said method. |
| US10184943B2 |
Multiple biomarker set for breast cancer diagnosis, method of detecting the same, and diagnosis kit for breast cancer using antibody against the same
The present invention relates to a biomarker set for diagnosing breast cancer comprising two or more protein markers of: apolipoprotein C1, apolipoprotein (a), neural cell adhesion molecule L1-like protein, carbonic anhydrase 1, and fibronectin; a method for detecting the biomarker set in a blood sample through a multiple reaction monitoring; a kit for diagnosing breast cancer comprising antibodies specific to each of the proteins of the biomarker set; and a method for detecting proteins of the marker set in a blood sample through an antigen-antibody binding reaction. The method for detecting the protein marker set in a blood sample by the MRM method or antigen-antibody binding reaction and the diagnostic kit can provide very high accuracy and sensitivity in comparison with the diagnosis method using a single marker and can very conveniently diagnose breast cancer using blood from patients, thereby being effectively used for early diagnosis of breast cancer. |
| US10184942B2 |
Natriuretic peptide receptor as a biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of cancer
The invention pertains to biomarkers for clinical detection of malignancies, especially for early detection of cancers. More specifically, this invention pertains to the role of Natriuretic Peptide Receptor A (NPRA) in cancer (e.g., tumor) progression. Thus, the invention includes materials and methods for the detection and prognosis of malignancies. The invention also pertains to methods for treating malignancies. |
| US10184941B2 |
Use of ACY-1 as a marker of ischaemia/reperfusion, delayed graft function and graft viability as well as method thereof
The invention relates to use of ACY-1 as a biomarker for ischaemia-reperfusion injury. |
| US10184939B2 |
Detection of neoantigens using peptide arrays
The present disclosure provides a method of identifying a peptide antigen, including contacting an antibody-comprising composition to a peptide microarray having an array surface and a plurality of feature pairs disposed thereon. Each of the feature pairs includes a first feature of wild-type peptides having a defined sequence and a second feature of mutant peptides having the defined sequence with a single amino acid mutation. Each of the wild-type peptides and the mutant peptides has an array-coupled terminus coupled to the array surface and an opposing free terminus, and the position of the amino acid mutation in the mutant peptides is located closer to the array-coupled terminus of the mutant peptides than the free terminus. The method further includes detecting binding of an antibody in the antibody-comprising composition to at least one of the feature pairs on the peptide microarray, and identifying feature pairs exhibiting differential binding. |
| US10184938B2 |
Testing device, a transfer member, a method of the testing device, and a testing kit
A liquid sample that is supplied to a detection device can be stored at the entry portion provided in a housing of the detection device having the housing; however, there is a problem that the detection device becomes bulky due to a volume of the entry. The testing device includes a flow path member for forming a flow path of a liquid test sample, a storage member for storing the liquid test sample to be supplied to the flow path, which contacts a portion of the flow path member, and a testing material for testing the liquid test sample supplied to the flow path. The storage member expands by contacting with the liquid test sample. |
| US10184934B2 |
Multisignal reagents for labeling analytes
Provided is a composition comprising an analyte bound covalently or through a first binding pair to a polymer. In this composition, the analyte is less than about 2000 MW; the polymer further comprises more than one signal or first member of a second binding pair; and the analyte is not a member of the first binding pair or the second binding pair. Also provided is an assay for an analyte. The assay comprises: combining a sample suspected of containing the analyte with the above-described composition and a binding agent that binds to the analyte; and detecting the signal or the first member of the second binding pair that is bound to the binding agent. Additionally provided is a multisignal labeling reagent comprising a first polymer covalently bound to (a) a reactive group or a first member of a first binding pair, and (b) more than one digoxigenin molecule. |
| US10184932B2 |
Use of ceramides and LPLs in diagnosing CVD
The present invention inter alia provides a method, and use thereof, of predicting CV events such as AMI, ACS, stroke, and CV death by determining the concentration of at least one ceramide of Formula I or one lysophospholipid of Formula II and/or III and at least one lysophospholipid of Formula IV, V, VI, VII and/or VIII in a biological sample and comparing those concentrations to a control. Finding an increased concentration of the at least one Formula I ceramide or Formula II and/or III lysophospholipid and a decreased concentration of the at least one Formula IV, V, VI, VII and/or VIII lysophospholipid indicates that the subject has an increased risk of developing one or more CV events. The present disclosure also provides a method, and use thereof, of diagnosing subjects suffering acute ischemia. Also provided are kits and compositions comprising the same for use in predicting and/or diagnosing CV events. |
| US10184930B2 |
Innovative nanopore sequencing technology
Methods and apparatus for long read, label-free, optical nanopore long chain molecule sequencing. In general, the present disclosure describes a novel sequencing technology based on the integration of nanochannels to deliver single long-chain molecules with widely spaced (>wavelength), ˜1-nm aperture “tortuous” nanopores that slow translocation sufficiently to provide massively parallel, single base resolution using optical techniques. A novel, directed self-assembly nanofabrication scheme using simple colloidal nanoparticles is used to form the nanopore arrays atop nanochannels that unfold the long chain molecules. At the surface of the nanoparticle array, strongly localized electromagnetic fields in engineered plasmonic/polaritonic structures allow for single base resolution using optical techniques. |
| US10184929B2 |
System to distinguish between X sperm and Y sperm
Approximations to distinguish between X sperm and Y sperm are obtained by detecting light scattered into a pre-set angular range. The scattered light is scattered in turn by nuclei of sperm moving single-file in a sample container. The sperm are not modified prior to the light scattering and are not modified by the light scattering. Approximations are improved by at least a second detection of scattered light. |
| US10184926B2 |
Hydrogen sensor and method for manufacturing the same
A hydrogen sensor and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The hydrogen sensor includes a metal oxide layer formed over a substrate, and a catalytic pattern that is formed over the metal oxide layer. Further, a protective layer is formed over the catalytic pattern. |
| US10184920B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining a chromatogram
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for determining a chromatogram. The method includes a first step where a sample is inserted in two separation columns (2.1, 2.2, 2.3), wherein for each separation column (2.1, 2.2, 2.3), a corresponding part of the sample is inserted in the respective separation column (2.1, 2.2, 2.3) with a corresponding insertion device (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) which is controlled by a corresponding modulation function for generating a corresponding modulated part of the sample in the respective separation column (2.1, 2.2, 2.3), wherein the modulation functions with which the parts of the sample are modulated in the separation columns (2.1, 2.2, 2.3) differ from each other. Furthermore, the method includes a second step where each modulated part of the sample is guided through the respective separation column (2.1, 2.2, 2.3), a third step where a signal of each modulated part of the sample is measured with a same detector (4) after having passed the respective separation column (2.1, 2.2, 2.3), and a fourth step where for each separation column (2.1, 2.2, 2.3), a correlation of the signal and the modulation function with which the corresponding part of the sample is modulated in the respective separation column (2.1, 2.2, 2.3) is calculated in order to determine the chromatogram of the respective separation column (2.1, 2.2, 2.3). |
| US10184913B2 |
Abnormality diagnosis system of a gas sensor
In a limited-current type gas sensor which detects oxygen-containing gas contained in an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, the decomposition current value of water (H2O) may be detected, and existence of an abnormality of output characteristics of the sensor may be diagnosed based on its deviation from a reference decomposition current value of water corresponding to the concentration of water contained in the exhaust gas. A NOx sensor and a SOx sensor can also diagnose remarkable and minute abnormalities of output characteristics. In addition, the reference decomposition current value of water may be acquired based on the concentration of water detected by a separate humidity sensor or the decomposition current value of oxygen detected by the limited-current type gas sensor. The reference decomposition current value of water may be corrected based on a decomposition current value of oxygen detected during a fuel cut. |
| US10184912B2 |
Backside sensing BioFET with enhanced performance
The present disclosure provides a bio-field effect transistor (BioFET) and a method of fabricating a BioFET device. The method includes forming a BioFET using one or more process steps compatible with or typical to a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process. The BioFET device includes a substrate, a transistor structure having a treated layer adjacent to the channel region, an isolation layer, and a dielectric layer in an opening of the isolation layer on the treated layer. The dielectric layer and the treated layer are disposed on opposite side of the transistor from a gate structure. The treated layer may be a lightly doped channel layer or a depleted layer. |
| US10184911B2 |
Method for manufacturing humidity sensor
The present invention relates to a humidity sensor comprising a silicon base plate on which at least a plurality of dielectric layers, each provided with a metallic zone, and a metallic layer are arranged, said metallic layer being etched in order to form two electrodes, each comprising one armature provided with a multitude of arms, these armatures being mounted so that the arms of each armature are interlaced in order to have arms placed opposite each other and separated by gaps. |
| US10184907B2 |
Magnetic nanosensor compositions and bioanalytical assays therefor
Disclosed are magnetic nanosensors or transducers that permit measurement of a physical parameter in an analyte via magnetic reasonance measurements, in particular of non-agglomerative assays. More particularly, in certain embodiments, the invention relates to designs of nanoparticle reagents and responsive polymer coated magnetic nanoparticles. Additionally provided are methods of use of nanoparticle reagents and responsive polymer coated magnetic nanoparticles for the detection of a stimulus or an analyte with NMR detectors. |
| US10184905B2 |
Radiation detection apparatus and radiation detector
Three or more tubular radiation detectors are arranged around an irradiation axis of radiation directed to a sample from an irradiation unit such that the end face thereof is opposed to the position irradiated with radiation. The radiation emitted from the sample enters the radiation detector through an end face and is detected. In the radiation detector, the length in the direction parallel to the straight line which is on the plane orthogonal to the irradiation axis and is perpendicular to the central axis continuously decreases from a position along the central axis to the end face. The size of each radiation detector around the irradiation axis is reduced as it approaches the end face, preventing the radiation detectors from interfering with one another and allowing the radiation detector to be closer to the sample compared to the conventional case. This makes it possible for the radiation detection apparatus to detect radiation from the sample with high efficiency. |
| US10184897B2 |
System and method for determining an impact of manufacturing processes on the caliper of a sheet material
A method for processing a plurality of sheet material includes receiving a plurality of sheets of material, transporting, via a transport mechanism, the plurality of sheets, one sheet at a time, past a first image capture device, obtaining, via a first image capture device, a first image of a first set of one or more of the plurality of sheets while being transported past the first image capture device, and determining, via at least one processor, a first caliper measurement of the first set of one or more of the plurality of sheets based on the first image of each of the first set. |
| US10184895B2 |
Surface-enhanced raman scattering unit, and method for using same
A SERS unit comprises a substrate; an optical function part formed on the substrate, for generating surface-enhanced Raman scattering; and a package containing the optical function part in an inert space and configured to irreversibly expose the space. |
| US10184887B2 |
Fluid monitoring system based on near-infrared spectroscopy
A system for monitoring at least one parameter of a fluid contained in a container includes a measuring device based on near-infrared spectroscopy designed to be submerged in the cited fluid to be monitored and to take measurements of the fluid. The measuring device includes a measuring area. The monitoring system includes a flotation system joined to the measuring device. The flotation system is arranged, during the use of the monitoring system, floating on the fluid to be monitored such that the measuring area of the measuring device is submerged in the fluid at a constant depth with respect to the level of fluid in the container, such that all the measurements taken by the measuring device are taken at the same depth with respect to the level of the fluid. |
| US10184886B2 |
Atomic absorption photometer and atomic absorption measurement method
There are provided an atomic absorption photometer and an atomic absorption measurement method which can easily perform background correction in a short time period by using a plurality of types of methods while suppressing the amount of samples consumed. Background correction is performing by using each of the D2 lamp method, the Zeeman method, and a self-reversal method, according to measurement data in each of measurement periods T41 to T46 obtained in one data acquisition cycle. Background correction is performed on the common measurement data (atomic absorption data) obtained in the atomic absorption measurement period T41, by using the measurement data (background data) obtained in each of the first to third background measurement periods T44, T46, and T42. |
| US10184885B2 |
Information processing device to process spectral information, and information processing method
An information processing device configured to process spectral information includes: a data obtaining unit configured to obtain three-dimensional distribution data of spectral information; a generating unit configured to generate two-dimensional image, data from the three-dimensional distribution data of spectral information; a display unit; a display control unit configured to display the two-dimensional image on the display unit; an information obtaining unit configured to obtain position information of a two-dimensional region which a user has selected from the two-dimensional image; and an extracting unit configured to extract, from a three-dimensional region corresponding to the two-dimensional region, in the three-dimensional distribution of spectral information, feature region information satisfying predetermined feature conditions. |
| US10184880B2 |
Airborne particle measuring device
An airborne particle-measuring device quantifies and qualifies contaminants of an air environment in clean-rooms, open spaces, and enclosed spaces such as homes, offices, industrial environments, airplanes in flight, cars and others. The device may include a sensor system, an electronics system, communications and information storage. The sensor system may include a high-power low-wavelength single-frequency continuous laser, an open-cavity high-efficiency mirror having an optical surface tuned to the laser frequency and a flow system that includes a vacuum pump to sample the air. The electronics system may be mounted on a single multilayer PC board with a microprocessor, firmware, electronics and a touch-screen LCD display. Innovations in light source, flow control, analog and digital signal processing, components integration and software allow provision of equipment in a wide range of high-complexity settings that require precise particle measurements. |
| US10184877B2 |
Sample feeding apparatus, flow cytometer, and sample feeding method
A sample feeding apparatus includes a first cylinder, a second cylinder, and a sealing section. The first cylinder is configured to be mounted with a sample tube. The second cylinder is configured to move the first cylinder between a first position and a second position, the first position being for mounting of the sample tube, the second position being for feeding of a sample in the sample tube. The sealing section is configured to cover the sample tube, the sample tube being mounted to the first cylinder being at the second position, the first cylinder applying pressure to an inner space of the sealing section at the second position. |
| US10184874B2 |
Apparatus for dissolution testing
An apparatus (1) for dissolution testing comprises a tank (2) having a circular cylindrical outer body portion (21) with a transparent side wall and a circular cylindrical inner body portion (22) with a transparent side wall, wherein the inner body portion (22) is coaxially arranged with respect to the outer body portion (21) such that an outer interior (23) having a ring-shaped cross section is defined between the outer body portion (21) and the inner body portion (22) and an inner interior (24) having a circular cross section is defined inside the inner body portion. The apparatus (1) further comprises a plurality of dissolution vessels (4) arranged in the outer interior (23) of the tank and a heater assembly being arranged to heat a test media in the vessels (4) to a predefined temperature. The apparatus (1) according to the invention allows for a comparably precise monitoring of vessels (4) inside the tank (2) and/or an appropriate manipulation of the vessels (4) inside the tank (2). |
| US10184873B2 |
Vibrating wire viscometer and cartridge for the same
A vibrating wire viscometer and cartridge for the same are provided. The cartridge includes a body member with a flowline for passing fluid, an electrically conductive wire disposed in the flowline, first and second electrically conductive posts, and a connector having first and second electrically conductive terminals. The first and second posts are mechanically coupled to the body member to hold the wire in tension within the flowline. The first and second terminals are connected to the first and second posts for applying an alternating electric current to the wire, respectively. |
| US10184872B2 |
Viscosity/elasticity measurement device and measurement method
A viscosity/elasticity measurement device includes a container for containing a measurement target material for detection of viscosity/elasticity is contained, a floating rotor made of material including a conductor, formed in a plate and circular shape when seen in plan view, and configured to be floated on a surface of the measurement target material, a magnet applying a magnetic field to the floating rotor in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the measurement target material, a rotational magnetic field control unit driving the magnet to apply a rotational magnetic field to the floating rotor, inducing an induction current in the conductor, and applying rotational torque to the floating rotor to rotate by Lorentz interaction between the induction current and the magnetic field applied to the floating rotor, and a viscosity detection unit detecting the viscosity/elasticity of the measurement target material based on a rotation state of the floating rotor. |
| US10184871B2 |
Shear thinning calibration fluids for rheometers and related methods
Shear thinning fluids may be useful as calibration fluids for calibrating rheometers with bob/rotor eccentricity and at lower shear rates, which may be particularly useful for calibrating rheometers at well sites that are used for measuring the rheological properties of complex fluids (e.g., wellbore fluids like drilling fluids, cementing fluids, fracturing fluids, completion fluids, and workover fluids). Additionally, high shear rate calibrations may also be performed with shear thinning calibration fluids. Newtonian fluids may be used for high shear rate calibrations in alternate of or in addition to the shear thinning calibration fluid. |
| US10184867B2 |
Systems and methods for helmet liner evaluation
A helmet testing apparatus including a movable member, a sensor coupled to the movable member and configured to acquire compliance data regarding a liner disposed within a shell of a helmet through engagement of the sensor with the liner, and a processing circuit configured to determine a rating for the helmet based on the compliance data and predetermined compliance parameters for the helmet. |
| US10184866B2 |
Device and method for testing the mechanical integrity of cartridges for liquid medicaments
A testing device for testing the mechanical integrity of a hollow breakable item includes a squeezable element to radially abut with a sidewall portion of the breakable item. The testing device further includes a sleeve extending in an axial direction to receive the sidewall portion of the breakable item and having a first contact surface to axially engage with the squeezable element. The testing device also includes a plunger displaceable in axial direction relative to the sleeve and having a second contact surface to axially engage with the squeezable element. The squeezable element is axially squeezable by a relative displacement of plunger and sleeve to increase the squeezable element's radial expansion and to apply radially directed pressure to the breakable item's sidewall portion. |
| US10184864B2 |
Intelligent automated load control system and method
A system for automating load conditions on a test specimen includes a test equipment assembly that includes one or more test components configured to apply load to the test specimen. The system includes a control system to actuate the load, and includes a controller that receives and transmits data to sensors and actuators operatively connected to the test equipment assembly. The system includes a data analyzer connected to the control system to transmit a loading sequence to the controller for actuating the test equipment assembly. The data analyzer receives and processes the data from the controller to determine whether the test specimen is within an acceptable stress range as the test equipment assembly performs the loading sequence, and transmits data to the controller to reduce the load on the test specimen if the acceptable stress range is exceeded. |
| US10184859B2 |
Arrangement with wirelessly interrogatable saw system attached to rotating shaft of bearing assembly
An arrangement includes a shaft arranged within a housing and sized to project through a housing opening, and a shaft sealing ring arranged between the housing and the shaft in a region of the housing opening. A wirelessly interrogatable SAW system has an interrogation unit, at least one stationary first antenna electrically connected to the interrogation unit, at least one rotating second antenna attached in fixed rotative engagement to the shaft, and at least one wirelessly interrogatable SAW sensor attached in fixed rotative engagement to the shaft and electrically connected to the at least one second antenna. The first and second antennas are arranged to overlap each other in a radial direction. Closing the housing is an annular housing cover to which the first antenna is attached at a distance from the second antenna in an axial direction. |
| US10184854B2 |
Mobile device and control method for position correlation utilizing time-based atmospheric pressure measurements
A mobile device comprises an atmospheric pressure sensor configured to acquire a value of atmospheric pressure acting on the mobile device, an acceleration sensor configured to acquire a value of acceleration acting on the mobile device, and at least one controller configured to determine a moving state of the mobile device based on the value of atmospheric pressure and the value of acceleration, wherein the at least one controller is configured to determine the moving state of the mobile device based on the value of atmospheric pressure when the value of atmospheric pressure changed per an unit interval is equal to or greater than a threshold value, under the determination result which has been acquired based on the value of acceleration and indicates that the mobile device is not in movement. |
| US10184848B2 |
Sensor arrangement for indirect detection of a torque of a rotatably mounted shaft
A sensor arrangement for indirect detection of a torque of a rotatably mounted shaft includes a sensor with at least one sensor element arranged in the surroundings of a bearing of the shaft. The bearing is linked to a supporting structure. The sensor element is configured to detect a proportion of a bearing force acting in a predetermined direction. The torque of the shaft is configured to be calculated from the acting proportion of the bearing force. The sensor has at least one sensor body with an outer contour that supports a corresponding sensor element and is pressed into a receiving hole. The sensor element has a predetermined distance and a predetermined angle to the bearing. |
| US10184844B2 |
Compact home thermometer
A thermometer device for temporal artery area measurement, configured to be used in a skin-touching stationary position, comprising an elongated body and a front portion having an end border arranged on a sensing plane (P), an array of N infrared sensors, with N greater than 8, a sensing region (SR) extending in the sensing plane over an area denoted SRA, at a distance denoted LF from a plane P2 containing the infrared sensors, the sensing region being encompassed within the border of the front end, an optical lens, interposed between the infrared sensors and the sensing region, to deviate light rays, wherein LF2 |
| US10184843B2 |
Thermal protection systems material degradation monitoring system
A method of identifying changes in a host material having a thermocouple embedded therein which includes using a Loop Current Step Response (LCSR) test method on a first thermocouple to obtain thermocouple LCSR data for the first thermocouple, recording the obtained thermocouple LCSR data within a storage medium, placing a second thermocouple identical to the first thermocouple at different location within a host material, monitoring sensor response data for second the thermocouple, comparing the sensor response data for the second thermocouple with the thermocouple LCSR data of the first thermocouple stored within the storage medium and identifying changes in the host material based on differences in sensor response data for the second thermocouple based on the stored thermocouple LCSR data of the first thermocouple. |
| US10184841B1 |
Interferometric technique for measuring upper atmospheric Doppler winds utilizing projections of a satellite's velocity
An apparatus on a satellite includes a standard fixed-path Michelson interferometer. The Michelson interferometer includes an input, at least one first output detector, and at least one second output detector. The Michelson interferometer includes a plurality of respective fields of view and a corresponding plurality of scanning azimuthal angles relative to a satellite velocity vector. The plurality of respective fields of view corresponds to a plurality of tangent points with constant tangent point height arranged around an Earth horizon circle. The apparatus includes an attitude determination and control system on the satellite, or an actuator on the satellite. The apparatus includes an input mirror and/or input optics in optical communication with the input of the Michelson interferometer. The attitude determination and control system rotates the satellite or the actuator rotates the input mirror and/or the input optics, so as to sweep through the plurality of respective fields of view around the Earth horizon circle. |
| US10184840B2 |
Portable device for quantifying thermochromatic coating signatures
A portable device for quantification of thermochromatic coating signatures is provided. The portable device includes a directing component configured to direct light to a target having a thermochromatic coating. Additionally, the portable device includes a conditioning component configured to condition reflected light from the target, the reflected light including thermochromatic coating signatures. The portable device also includes an image detector configured to generate images from the conditioned reflected light, and a processor configured to receive and analyze images from the image detector and identify at least one portion of the target that has exceeded a predefined temperature or predefined temperature variance based on the analyzed images. |
| US10184839B1 |
Nanostructured vanadium oxide uncooled bolometers and method of fabrication
The present invention relates to uncooled microbolometers which can be integrated in future thermal instruments engaged in land imaging on future observatories. The present invention includes: (1) developing and characterizing a microstructured VOx thin film, and, (2) fabricating an uncooled microbolometer array over the 8-14 micron spectral band. |
| US10184837B2 |
Chart for evaluating skin color and its application to efficacy evaluation of anti-aging and skin lightening products
The present invention relates to charts, stacks and methods for evaluating skin color of a mammalian subject. The chart may include a substrate and an indicia visible from a first side of the substrate that includes a plurality of images of mammalian skin tones having varying degrees of yellowness, wherein each indicia is correlated with an index value. Also, the present invention relates to packaged topical cosmetic products that include a skin chart as well as to methods for evaluating anti-aging and skin lightening products. |
| US10184835B2 |
High dynamic range infrared imaging spectroscopy
An imaging scanner and a method for using the same are disclosed. The scanner includes a variable attenuator adapted to receive a light beam generated by a MIR laser and that generates an attenuated light beam therefrom characterized by an attenuation level. The scanner includes an optical assembly that focuses the attenuated light beam to a point on a specimen. A light detector measures an intensity of light leaving the point on the specimen, the light detector being characterized by a detector dynamic range. A controller forms a plurality of MIR images from the intensity as a function of position on the specimen, each of the plurality of MIR images being formed with a different level of attenuation of the light beam. The controller combines the plurality of MIR images to generate a combined MIR image having a dynamic range greater than the detector dynamic range. |
| US10184833B2 |
Imaging spectrometer with reflective grating
An imaging spectrometer receives a beam of light from a slit and outputs the beam of light to a focal plane. The output beam of light at the focal plane is dispersed in accordance with a spectral composition of the beam of light received from the slit. The imaging spectrometer comprises first to fourth curved reflective portions. The first to fourth curved reflective portions are arranged so that the beam of light, in its passage from the slit to the focal plane, sequentially strikes the first to fourth curved reflective portions and is reflected by the first to fourth curved reflective portions. Further, the first to fourth curved reflective portions are alternatingly concave or convex, respectively, along the passage of the beam of light. At least one of the first to fourth curved reflective portions has a reflective grating structure. Further disclosed is a method of manufacturing such imaging spectrometer. |
| US10184831B2 |
Systems and methods for testing two-color detectors
A method for calibrating a test light to simulate a fire includes measuring a baseline resistance induced in a sensor cell of a two-color detector in response to a controlled fire. The method includes monitoring a test resistance induced in the sensor cell in response to exposure to emissions from a test light and adjusting the emissions of the test light until the test resistance of the sensor cell equals the baseline resistance of the sensor cell to achieve a calibration setting for the test light. A test light for a detector includes a housing and a first LED within the housing having a first emission wavelength. A second LED is within the housing. The second LED has a second emission wavelength. The second emission wavelength is different than the first emission wavelength. |
| US10184828B2 |
Apparatus and method for determining properties of a laser beam
An apparatus for the determination of geometric parameters of a laser beam, such as, for example, the beam diameter or the focus diameter. The apparatus includes a device for the emission of a laser beam into an active region, a detector arrangement, which can be positioned in the active region, a device for the provision of a relative movement between the laser beam and the detector arrangement, and a device for the registration and evaluation of a temporally varying signal of the detector arrangement. The detector arrangement includes at least one light guide, at least two flight-diffusing structures, and at least one light-sensitive sensor. The light guide has a light-emitting surface and a light-conducting region, with an elongated shape. The at least two light-diffusing structures are essentially extended along two different directions. |
| US10184826B2 |
Imaging system for generating vibration region caused by ultrasound wave thereby to obtain optically-sectioned images
An imaging system is configured for generating vibration region caused by ultrasound wave thereby to obtain a plurality of optically-sectioned images. In the imaging system, a stage is operable to be moved along a plurality of scanning imaging positions, and applied to deposit an object with at least one scattering material. When the object receives an ultrasound wave, a shear wave is generated to displace the scattering material thereby to form a vibration region. A laser generating device is configured to transmit a laser beam, which penetrates the vibration region to form a speckle pattern and focused at a focusing position. An optical imaging device is set at the focusing position to receive the laser beam to generate a plurality of scanning optically-sectioned images with respect to the scanning imaging positions. |
| US10184824B1 |
Weight activated animal marking scale
A mechanical scale has a weighing basket with a platform having entrance and exit ends. A hanging assembly for supporting the weighing basket includes a break-over beam. A counterweight assembly is connected to the break-over beam and is adjustable to select a threshold scale weight required to trigger a scale-operated feature, such as a spray marking mechanism. The counterweight assembly has a weight selection device bracket pivotally mounted to the frame assembly about a pivot point, and a freely moveable counterweight mass supported by the bracket. The freely moveable counterweight mass is moveable from a first position to a second position when the threshold scale weight is exceeded in the weighing basket, thereby causing an abrupt triggering of the scale-operated feature when the threshold scale weight is exceeded in the weighing basket. The freely moveable counterweight mass is a rolling spherical member enclosed within a hollow chamber inside the bracket. |
| US10184822B2 |
Method and a system for test and calibration of wireless consumption meters
A wireless consumption meter, such as an ultrasonic flow meter, and a test and calibration system; the wireless consumption meter including a test mode which changes the wireless communication parameters to transmit less data, with less power, faster and more often, than in a normal operating mode. The test and calibration system includes test boxes arranged to receive measurement data from the consumption meters under the test mode circumstances and a common control unit arranged to control the start and stop of the testing and to establish a test or calibration result based on the received measurements from the consumption meters and by comparing with a reference value from a reference device. Further, methods performed by the consumption meter and the test and calibration system are disclosed. |
| US10184821B2 |
System and method for determining the level of a substance in a container based on measurement of resonance from an acoustic circuit that includes unfilled space within the container that changes size as substance is added or removed from the container
Level of substance in a container can be determined by exciting vapor in unfilled space within the container. Variable frequency oscillator and emitting transducer can provide signals to excite resonance of vapor. Sensors can measure the peak resonant signal of vapor excited in unfilled space within the container as the amount of substance in the container changes. A signal-processing unit coupled to the sensor and variable frequency oscillator can process signals sensed by the sensing transducer and can extract them from background noise affecting the acoustic signal of the system using correlation functions by referencing the signal generated by the variable frequency oscillator. A computer can obtain the sign processed by the signal-processing unit and calculate the unfilled space within the container and derive therefrom an amount of filled space representing the amount of the substance contained therein. A gauge can indicate the amount of substance in the container. |
| US10184820B2 |
Guided wave radar level gauge system for interface measurement
A radar level gauge system comprising: a transceiver; a tank feed-through; a power divider to divide a transmit signal into a first transmit signal and a second transmit signal; a first probe member configured to guide the first transmit signal and to return a first reflection signal, said first probe member providing a first relatively large average attenuation; a second probe member configured to guide said second transmit signal and to return a second reflection signal, said second probe member providing a second relatively small average attenuation; measurement signal forming circuitry for forming a measurement signal comprising a first set of echo indicators indicating reflection of said first transmit signal, and a second set of echo indicators indicating reflection of said second transmit signal; and level determining circuitry for determining a first level based on said first set of echo indicators, and a second, deeper, level based on said second set of echo indicators. |
| US10184818B2 |
Device and method for dispensing paste-like or sticky nutritional substance
An elongate device for dispensing a measured quantity of a paste-like resinous nutritional substance for consumption, injection, or topical use has an integral, outwardly directed hook at a first end. In one case, the elongate device is curved along its length from the hook to a second end and has a concave front face and a convex rear face, with a metered end portion on the front face or on both faces extending from the second end and having one or more scale markings for indicating an amount of paste-like substance adhered to the end portion between a scale marking and the second end. The dispensing device may alternatively be used for dissolving a measured quantity of the material in a liquid by engaging the hook over the rim of a container to suspend the device into the container with the metered end portion submerged in liquid in the container. |
| US10184815B1 |
System and method for determining fluid velocity
A system for determining fluid velocity of a fluid flow to which the system is exposed, the system comprising: an acoustic structure including a radiating element and an acoustic volume acoustically coupled to the radiating element, a microphone located inside the acoustic volume, and a wire coupled to the radiating element such that, when the wire is subject to the fluid flow, vibrations of the wire are transmitted to the radiating element, and resulting vibrations of the radiating element radiate corresponding vibrations into the acoustic volume, wherein the microphone is sensitive to said vibrations radiated into the acoustic volume, and the output of the microphone in response to said vibrations is related to the fluid velocity of the fluid flow to which the wire is subject. |
| US10184809B2 |
System for determining positions with a sensor using a 2D-code pattern for determination of a discrepancy from an ideal situation
System for determining positions along a direction of advance, having a first sensor, particularly a line sensor, having a scanning length (L) for scanning a first 2D pattern and producing a scan signal. The first 2D pattern has pattern elements that each form a first code word on at least one portion of the scanning length (L), which first code word codes a position along the direction of advance absolutely. In addition, the first code word can be taken as a basis for determining a deviation from an ideal position for the first sensor in relation to the first 2D pattern. |
| US10184806B2 |
Rotation angle detection device
A rotation angle detection device includes resolvers 2a and 2b for detecting the rotation angle of a rotating body, and a signal processing circuit 10 for processing the output signals of the resolvers. The signal processing circuit 10 includes a detection signal processing section 30 for obtaining, from the output signals of the resolvers, electrical angle signals A1 and A2 corresponding to the electrical angles of the resolvers, and an abnormality detection section 50 capable of detecting an abnormality of the input signal from at least one of the resolvers. The abnormality detection section 50 performs comparison determination processing for comparing the electrical angle signal A1 and the electrical angle signal A2 obtained from the resolvers at the same time, and comparison determination processing for comparing the electrical angle signals A1 and the electrical angle signals A2 in a continuous time series at time points. |
| US10184805B2 |
Method for detecting abnormality of resolver, angle detection device, motor, and transportation device
There are provided a method for detecting an abnormality of a resolver, an angle detection device, a motor, and a transportation device, by which the abnormality can be detected promptly without the necessity of any complicated operations. There is provided a circuit configured to switch between a sine wave and a direct current voltage to be supplied, as an excitation signal of a resolver (2). Then, immediately after the power is turned on, the direct current voltage is applied to the resolver (2), and the output voltages of the phases of the resolver (2) are measured when the direct current voltage is applied. In this situation, the output voltages of the phases are compared with each other. When none of them matches each other, it is determined that an abnormality (short-circuit abnormality, short-circuiting) occurs at the resolver (2). |
| US10184801B2 |
Route searching apparatus and route searching method
A guide route matching with the characteristic of vehicle control is searched to reduce the frequency at which re-search of a guide route is executed. A navigation device includes an information input unit for acquiring a control condition for controlling the traveling of the vehicle as control characteristic information from an autonomous driving control device, and a route searching unit for searching a guide route for the vehicle satisfying the control condition based on the control characteristic information acquired by the information input unit. Accordingly, the guide route matching with the control characteristic of the vehicle can be searched. |
| US10184800B2 |
Sharing safety driving metrics for navigable segments
A method is disclosed, comprising holding available, by at least a first apparatus, data associated with each road segment of at least one road segment, said data comprising (i) a representative of a first metric associated with spatial properties associated with the respective road segment; (ii) at least one representative of a second metric associated with at least one dynamic event associated with the respective road segment; and (iii) at least one representative of a third metric associated with a speed associated with the respective road segment, and wherein the method comprises, for at least one road segment of the at least one road segment, providing, by said at least one first apparatus, a safety data of the respective road segment at least partially based on the representative of the first metric, the at least one representative of the second metric and the at least one representative of the third metric associated with the respective road segment. |
| US10184798B2 |
Multi-stage dead reckoning for crowd sourcing
A device identifies signals it receives at a particular point in time, such as Wi-Fi signals and cell tower signals. The device records data indicating these identified signals, as well as data used to determine the position of the device at that particular point in time. The position of the device is determined using dead reckoning, which is separated into two stages. In the first stage, a distance and direction of movement is determined at the device based on data from various inertial sensors of the device. In the second stage, various filters, maps, and/or other techniques are used at another device (e.g., a crowd sourcing data service) thus alleviating the device of the burden of performing the second stage. |
| US10184797B2 |
Apparatus and methods for ultrasonic sensor navigation
An apparatus and methods are disclosed for determining a navigational constraint for a portable device using an ultrasonic sensor. The navigational constraint may be used to supplement other navigational solutions or may be used independently. The ultrasonic sensor may provide a plurality of samples to be processed to determine the constraint. Processing the ultrasonic samples may include performing a flow analysis regarding detected external objects. Determining the constraint may include any or all of determining a context for usage, distinguishing usage modes, estimating relative heading changes, and estimating misalignment angle between device and platform needed to determine direction of motion of the platform and determining a speed of the portable device from the samples. |
| US10184793B2 |
Measuring device and method for triangulation measurement
A measuring device for triangulation measurement comprises a light transmitter for emitting illuminating light; a transmitting optical system for directing the illuminating light in a light pattern in the direction of an object; a light receiver for recording an image; a control and evaluation unit, which determines, in a measurement mode, form or position information of the object based on a measurement image of the light receiver. According to the invention the control and evaluation unit can change over between the measurement mode and a data reading mode, wherein the control and evaluation unit, in the data reading mode, evaluates the image with respect to encoded parameter data, and, in a subsequent measurement mode, uses the parameter data read in this way. In addition, a corresponding method for triangulation measurement is described. |
| US10184786B2 |
Wear amount measuring apparatus and method, temperature measuring apparatus and method and substrate processing system
A wear amount measuring apparatus includes a light source, a light transmission unit, a first and a second irradiation unit, a spectroscope and an analysis unit. The light transmission unit splits a low-coherence light from the light source into a first and a second low-coherence light. The first and the second irradiation units irradiate the first and the second low-coherence light to the component to receive reflected lights from the component. The light transmission unit transmits the reflected lights received by the first irradiation unit and the second irradiation unit to the spectroscope. The spectroscope configured to detect intensity distribution of the reflected lights from the first and the second irradiation unit. The analysis unit calculates a thickness difference between a thickness of the component at the first measuring point and that at the second measuring point by performing Fourier transform on the intensity distribution. |
| US10184781B2 |
Displacement detecting device
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a displacement detecting device capable of decreasing a measurement error, even when a diffraction grating is inclined or displaced to a direction other than a measuring direction. The displacement detecting device 1 comprising: a light source 2 for emitting light; a polarized beam splitter 7; a diffraction grating 11; a prism unit 16A (16 to 19) for shifting light path; lenses 14 and 20 for correcting light path; and an interfered light receiving unit 22A (22 to 30). The prism unit 16A for shifting light path shifts first diffracted light to a direction vertical to the measuring direction. The lenses 14 and 20 for correcting light path is arranged on a symmetrical axis of light paths and corrects light path when the diffraction grating 11 is inclined or moved to a normal direction of a grating surface. |
| US10184780B2 |
Position sensor and actuator with position sensor
A position sensor for an actuator having a measuring shaft capable of pivoting less than, for example, 360° around a pivot axis. The position sensor can include an angle sensor to detect an actual angular position of the measuring shaft relative to a stationary reference point. The measuring shaft can include a first section extending coaxially to the pivot axis for introducing a pivotal movement to the measuring shaft corresponding to a control movement of an actuator rod, and a second section extending coaxially to the pivot axis to which a measuring shaft-based angle sub-sensor can be attached. |
| US10184776B1 |
Method and apparatus for aligning a wind turbine generator
A method and apparatus for aligning an input shaft of a wind turbine generator with an output shaft of a wind turbine are disclosed. Preferably, the method includes placing a push plate of a wind turbine alignment tool into pressing contact with a selected support flange of a wind turbine generator identified by a misalignment measurement device. With the push plate positioned, an indexing means of the wind turbine alignment tool is advanced along an adjustment link member of the wind turbine alignment tool to impart an alignment force onto the selected support flange to align the input shaft of the wind turbine generator with the output shaft of the wind turbine. The method preferably concludes by rechecking the alignment of the input shaft of the wind turbine generator with the output shaft of the wind turbine. |
| US10184773B2 |
Sensor signal offset compensation system for a CMM touch probe
A touch probe circuit comprises a displacement sensor having a sensor signal responsive to touch probe stylus displacement, an offset compensation controller, and a difference amplifier. The offset compensation controller provides a varying offset compensation signal to compensate drift in a rest-state signal component of the sensor signal. The difference amplifier inputs the offset compensation signal and the sensor signal and amplifies the difference therebetween to provide an offset compensated displacement signal, which is output to a touch trigger signal generating circuit that provides a touch signal when the stylus touches a workpiece, and is also output to the offset compensation controller. The offset compensation controller portion provides a feedback loop that inputs the offset compensated displacement signal and outputs a responsive low pass filtered offset compensation signal to the difference amplifier, in order to provide the offset compensated displacement signal. |
| US10184766B2 |
Method and device for connecting and separating two elements, with combined connecting and separating means
A method and device enable the linear separation of two elements attached to each other through two connecting plates of the first element and the second element respectively. An arrangement connecting and separating the two connecting plates are mixed and comprise a layer. The connecting arrangement comprises soldering, glue, or resin, whereas the separating arrangement comprises thermite. These elements can also be layered rather than mixed. An electrical triggering of this assembly causes its quick and local warming-up and thus enables both of these elements to be separated. |
| US10184762B2 |
Base drag reduction fairing using shape memory materials
A device is provided. The device includes at least one SMM component fabricated from an SMM. The SMM component is configured to change shape in response to receiving a stimulus. The SMM component is also configured to deploy from a device body of the device allowing the device to change shape in an advantageous way. A method implemented by a device is also provided. The method includes changing a shape of an SMM component of the device in response to receiving a stimulus. The SMM component is fabricated from an SMM. The method also includes deploying the SMM component from a device body of the device allowing the device to change shape in an advantageous way. |
| US10184760B2 |
Tactical deterrent devices
An apparatus has a lens. A frame has a gasket for receiving the lens and a shock-resistant housing is secured about the frame. A visual output element is disposed proximate the lens and an audio output element is disposed within the housing. A control component with a power source is provided for controlling at least one of the visual output element and the audio output element. |
| US10184759B2 |
Lightweight ballistic resistant anti-intrusion systems and related methods thereof
A method for manufacturing a ballistic resistance package which includes providing a molecularly oriented tape material having a front face and back face with a minimum of two sets of parallel side faces; wrapping molecularly oriented fabric material around the front and back faces and a set of the parallel side faces of the molecularly oriented tape material, yielding a wrapped core structure; and finalizing the wrapped core structure to yield the ballistic resistance package. A multifunction ballistic resistance system for resisting projectiles and/or mitigating blast effects of explosions. The multifunction ballistic resistance system may include: at least one cellular frame defining cells therein, and a plurality of molecularly oriented tape material core structures wrapped in molecularly oriented fabric material and finalized, and attached to at least one cellular frame. |
| US10184758B2 |
Weapon targeting system
A point of aim shows where a weapon is aimed on a target. An electronic device determines an impact location on the target of a projectile fired from the weapon, determines a distance from the point of aim to the impact location, and moves the point of aim in order to sight the weapon to the target. |
| US10184754B2 |
Utility carrier device
A utility carrier device has a first shell, a backing and a first wing. The first shell is shaped to cover a part of a first item to be secured. The backing is secured to the first shell, thereby forming a first pocket between the first shell and the backing. The first pocket is configured to secure the first item to the utility carrier device. The first wing is attached to and extends from a first end of the first shell. A first spacer is positioned between the first wing and the first end of the first shell, the first spacer having a flexible or compressible material that allows the first wing to flex relative to the first shell. |
| US10184752B2 |
Firearm accessory mounting interface, mirage shield and ergonomic method for configuring rifle components and accessories
An improved firearm accessory mounting interface 200 with a durable integral mirage shield 200 that adds minimal or no weight to a weapon system, is unlikely to snag and is comfortable to hold includes a tubular handguard's cylindrical sidewall which is preferably defined with four radially spaced quadrants each having, preferably, first and second spaced arrays of parallel, elongated grooves 232, 234 separated by an external surface with at least two spaced apart transverse notches 250 which are configured to define a firearm accessory mount rail segment 260 and ergonomically comfortable grasping surface that directs hot air away from the handguard's interior and provides a plurality of mounts compatible with accessory clamps configured to engage and hold a Picatinny rail. |
| US10184750B2 |
Limb cup with axle
In some embodiments, a limb cup comprises a body and a limb support member. The body defines a cavity suitable to receive a limb. The limb support member is attached to the body and rotatable with respect to the body. |
| US10184747B1 |
Multi-directional locking gun mount devices and methods of use for a variety of applications
A multi-directional locking gun mount for receiving and mounting a gun in a secure, rigid, and fixed position. A mounting based for mounts to a fixed surface of sufficient strength to rigidly support the weight of the gun. An attachment mount portion associated includes a locking rod slot and a mounting tab structure. A locking rod slidably engages the locking rod slot and permits movement along an axis parallel to the central axis of said locking rod slot between a locked position and an unlocked position. The locking rod includes at least one mounting tab accepting portion for receiving the gun when the locking rod is in an unlocked position. A mounting tab engages the gun at a predetermined location on the gun suitable for bearing the gun weight for mounting the gun in a fixed position. The mounting tab locks between said attachment mount and a mounting rail by positioning said locking rod to said locked position, thereby locking the gun to the multi-directional locking mount to the fixed surface. |
| US10184746B1 |
Bipod dual-mount attachment structure
A bipod dual-mount attachment structure consisting of a leg attachment base, an axle housing, an attachment base, a pivot shaft, a saddle base, a lift control screw, an adjustment knob, a male swivel stud clamp and a female swivel stud clamp. When rotating the adjustment knob clockwise or counter-clockwise, the lift control screw is moved upward or downward to extend out the male and female swivel stud clamps for securing a gun that is equipped with a swivel stud, or to receive the male and female swivel stud clamps for securing a gun that is equipped with a rail, achieving dual use. |
| US10184737B2 |
Hybrid polymer lower receivers for firearms and metal threaded inserts, kits and methods therefor
Threaded metal inserts for polymer lower receivers and hybrid polymer lower receivers comprising one or more of such inserts, as well as kits and methods therefor are disclosed. A threaded metal insert has a substantially circular aperture configured with screw threads to releasably yet connectively interface with a separate traditionally threaded firearm component such as a buffer tube or a pistol grip screw. Inserts can be any overall shape so long as it can be integrally embedded within a traditionally threaded portion of a polymer lower receiver in a way that does not interfere with normal operation of an assembled firearm and leaves exposed the internal threading of the insert. Inserts can also comprise textural features on the exterior surface configured to permanently interface with and embed the an insert into molded polymer. A hybrid polymer and metal lower receiver is a stripped polymer lower receiver for an AR type firearm, such as the AR-15 or AR-10, having one or more such threaded metal inserts at least partially embedded in a portion thereof. |
| US10184736B2 |
Frame slide guide system
The present disclosure presents a firearm. The firearm includes a frame having a handle and a slide rail guide, the slide rail guide comprising two parallel grooves extending through a long axis of the frame, and a slide having a long axis, the slide comprising two parallel slide rails extending through the long axis of the slide, the two parallel slide rails operable for slidably engaging the two parallel grooves. The firearm also includes a first spacer, the first spacer fixedly attached to one of the frame and the slide, the first spacer operable to slidably engage the slide rails and the slide rail guide providing a first gap between one of the slide rails and the one of the grooves and a second spacer. |
| US10184735B2 |
Heat Exchanger Assemblies with integrated valve
The invention relates to various ways in which to integrate control valves into the structure of a heat exchanger. The present disclosure relates to a heat exchanger assembly that includes a heat exchanger and a valve integration unit. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of alternating first and second fluid passages in heat exchange relation, and at least one inlet manifold and one outlet manifold interconnected by one of the plurality of first or second fluid passages. The valve integration unit is fixedly attached to heat exchanger and includes a fluid passage in fluid communication with at least one of the inlet and outlet manifolds. A valve mechanism is mounted within the valve integration unit in fluid communication with the fluid passage, the valve mechanism controlling the flow of a heat exchange fluid through said fluid passage. |
| US10184730B2 |
Phase change cell
A phase change cell includes a housing enclosing a phase change chamber that holds a phase change material and a gas pocket. The housing includes a side wall extending between first and second end walls. A capillary is disposed in an interior surface of the side wall. In response to heating of the phase change cell, the capillary is configured to draw the phase change material in a liquid phase towards the periphery of the phase change chamber. A temperature sensor is coupled to the housing in a vicinity of the capillary to measure the phase change temperature. According to another aspect, the housing includes a moveable surface that bounds a portion of the phase change chamber. The phase change temperature of the phase change material changes based on the position of the moveable wall. |
| US10184728B2 |
Additively manufactured heat exchanger including flow turbulators defining internal fluid passageways
An additively manufactured heat exchanger and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of walls spaced apart to define a plurality of fluid passageways and a plurality of flow turbulators extending between two adjacent walls through the fluid passageways. The walls and flow turbulators define one or more internal fluid passageways in thermal communication with the plurality of fluid passageways which receive a flow of auxiliary heat exchange fluid for enhancing the heat transfer efficiency of the heat exchanger. |
| US10184727B2 |
Nested loop heat exchanger
A heat exchanger to exchange heat from a first fluid to a second fluid includes a center manifold to receive the first fluid, a first inner loop having an inner loop inlet and an inner loop outlet, and a first outer loop disposed around the first inner loop, the first outer loop having an outer loop inlet and an outer loop outlet, wherein the inner loop inlet and the outer loop inlet are adjacent, and the inner loop outlet and the outer loop outlet are adjacent. |
| US10184721B2 |
Thermoplastic kettle auxiliary heat exchanger system
An auxiliary heat exchanger that is used in conjunction with thermoplastic melter kettles. The auxiliary heat exchanger receives molten thermoplastic material from the bottom of a melter kettle, transports the molten thermoplastic material though the auxiliary heat exchanger and feeds the molten thermoplastic material into the top of the melter kettle thereby mixing hotter molten thermoplastic material from the bottom of the melter kettle into cooler thermoplastic material near the top of the melter kettle. The auxiliary heat exchanger includes an oil bath chamber and parallel heat transfer tubes that are arranged in a serpentine configuration and include motor drive augers to transport molten thermoplastic material through the auxiliary heat exchanger. |
| US10184717B2 |
Apparatus for drying electrode plate
An apparatus for drying an electrode plate includes a drying furnace configure to dry an electrode plate having a slurry coated thereon, an over-heated steam supplier configured to supply the drying furnace with over-heated steam as a drying heat source, a circulation fan configured to inhale at least some of the over-heated steam discharged from the drying furnace and to introduce the inhaled over-heated steam back into the drying furnace, an exhaust fan configured to inhale at least some of the gas exhausted from the drying furnace, and a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat of the exhaust gas supplied from the exhaust fan. |
| US10184716B1 |
Door ajar detection system
A door ajar detection system is provided. The door ajar detection system may be incorporated in a refrigerator to provide a warning when a door is left in an open position, or to prevent a false door-closed detection. The system utilizes like magnetic poles of magnets positioned opposite to each other to push one or more doors in a refrigerator into a full open position such that a door ajar detection assembly may provide an accurate reading. A latch assembly may be provided to hold the one or more doors in a closed position against the force of the like magnetic poles. |
| US10184715B2 |
Refrigerator with camera and control method for the same
A refrigerator includes a storage compartment formed in a cabinet of the refrigerator by a fixed insulation wall, the storage compartment being provided with an access opening. The refrigerator also includes a door rotatably provided to the cabinet to open and close the access opening, a drawer provided in the storage compartment, a camera fixed to a ceiling of the storage compartment to photograph both a first region for storing of food arranged in an external space of the drawer and a second region for storing of food arranged in an internal space of the drawer, and a controller configured to separate, through a capturing time of a picture containing both the first region and the second region, a first region picture and a second region picture from the picture to individually divide and store the first region picture and the second region picture. |
| US10184703B2 |
Multipass microchannel heat exchanger
A heat exchanger is provided including a first manifold, a second manifold, and a plurality of heat exchange tubes arranged in spaced parallel relationship and fluidly coupled to the first manifold and the second manifold. At least one divider plate is arranged within the first manifold such that the first manifold has a fluidly distinct first chamber and second chamber and the heat exchanger has a multi-pass flow configuration. The first chamber is configured to receive at least a partially liquid refrigerant and has a length between about 20% and about 60% a length of the first manifold. |
| US10184701B2 |
Motor cooling and sub-cooling circuits for compressor
The disclosed refrigerant system includes a compressor having a motor that is cooled by motor cooling fluid provided to the motor from the main refrigerant loop by a motor cooling circuit. The system also includes a sub-cooling circuit to cool the motor cooling fluid. |
| US10184696B2 |
Cold regenerative air conditioning apparatus
An air conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant tank, a cryogenic liquid pump, a condensing evaporator, a compressor, a user system, a throttle valve, a first reversing valve, and a second reversing valve. It operates in two modes. In the first mode, the refrigerant in the refrigerant tank flows sequentially from the refrigerant tank, the cryogenic liquid pump, the condensing evaporator, the first reversing valve, the compressor, the second reversing valve, the user system, the first reversing valve, the second reversing valve, the condensing evaporator, the throttle valve, and back to the refrigerant tank. In the second mode, refrigerant in the refrigerant tank flows sequentially from the refrigerant tank, the cryogenic liquid pump, the condensing evaporator, the first reversing valve, the second reversing valve, the user system, the first reversing valve, the compressor, the second reversing valve, the condensing evaporator, the throttle valve, and back to the refrigerant tank. |
| US10184695B2 |
Heat pump system having controllable flow rate adjustment valves
A heat source unit has a capacity-variable heat source-side compressor and a heat source-side heat exchanger which functions as a radiator of refrigerant. Usage units are connected to the heat source unit and have usage-side heat exchangers, respectively, which function as evaporators of refrigerant and cool an aqueous medium. An operating capacity controller controls the capacity of the heat source-side compressor so that evaporation temperature of refrigerant of each of the usage-side heat exchangers reaches a first target evaporation temperature. A decision unit calculates second target evaporation temperatures at which outlet temperatures of the aqueous medium in the usage-side heat exchangers of the respective operating usage units reach predetermined set temperatures, and decides a minimum value of the second target evaporation temperatures as the first target evaporation temperature. |
| US10184694B2 |
Cryogenic refrigerator
In a cryogenic refrigerator, a valve switches between a flow passage of a low-pressure refrigerant gas and a flow passage of a high-pressure refrigerant gas. A motor drives the valve. The motor includes a rotor and a stator, the rotor located radially inward of the stator. A casing hermetically houses the rotor and the stator. The stator includes a back yoke and a magnetic member that acts as a magnetic path of an external magnetic field generated outside of the casing, the magnetic member located radially outward of and spaced apart from the back yoke. The magnetic member is hermetically housed in the casing. |
| US10184689B2 |
Fault detecting circuits for electric heaters, pipe heaters and pipe heating systems including fault detecting circuits and methods of indicating that an electrical energy supply to an electric resistance heater has been interrupted
A fault indicating circuit for an electric heater has a first branch to conduct a supply of electrical ,energy to the electrical heater and includes a temperature sensitive device to interrupt the supply of electrical energy to the electric heater when exposed to a temperature exceeding a set temperature. The fault detecting circuit has a second branch that includes at least an element of a fault indicating device. The first branch has a first resistance R1, the second branch has a second resistance R2 and the two branches are, electrically in parallel. The first and second resistances R1, R2 are such that when, in use, the temperature sensitive device operates to allow : electrical energy to flow through the first branch and the fault indicating device is inactive and when the temperature sensitive device operates to interrupt that supply of electrical energy the fault indicating device activates to indicate that the temperature sensitive device has operated to interrupt the supply of electrical energy to the electric heater. |
| US10184688B2 |
Air conditioning apparatus for efficient supply air temperature control
A system and method of controlling a multiple condenser air conditioning system that provides for efficient regulation of air temperature. The refrigeration system includes one or more valves whose operation is preferably controlled by programmable control logic to regulate flow through the refrigerant condenser(s) and sequentially control compressor discharge pressure and temperature in response to demands for heating or reheating of a supply air flow. |
| US10184686B2 |
System for maintaining a pollutant controlled workspace
A system for maintaining a pollutant controlled workspace includes an airtight enclosure with a front access window. A set of impermeable exterior panels and a set of permeable interior panels are slidably mounted within the access window in a spaced apart relationship. Regulated either through a manual control panel or programmable controller, a fan filter unit treats a supply of source air and delivers the filtered air down into a narrow vertical airflow channel located between the exterior and interior panels. Once a suitable amount of pressure accumulates, the treated air penetrates into the workspace as a horizontal laminar flow. Any particulates present in the workspace are drawn rearward by the laminar flow and are trapped behind a multi-apertured back board. The contaminant air is then drawn from a low pressure return located behind the back board and into the fan filter unit for recirculation within the enclosure. |
| US10184685B1 |
Air ventilating unit
An air ventilating unit that assists in exhausting air from a building. The unit has a housing providing an opening to the exterior of the building, the housing having moveable louvers pivotally mounted in the housing with seals between the louvers and between the louvers and the housing to minimize outside air leakage when the louvers are closed. The louvers are designed to prevent them from flipping over and becoming jammed when in an open position. Once the louvers are fully open, all the louvers will stay open with minimal fan power. |
| US10184684B2 |
Heat recovery and demand ventilation system
A ventilation system for an air conditioning system includes dampers, a heat exchange unit, and a control unit. One damper controls the flow of ambient air into the system. The other damper controls the flow of relief/exhaust air that is utilized to scavenge energy from return air from a room or space being cooled (or heated) by the air conditioning system. The ventilation system utilizes a control algorithm in the control unit to calculate, at stepped spaced apart increasing room ventilation rates, increasing CO2 concentrations in the air in the room that are below a maximum desired CO2 concentration in a room. The control algorithm permits a control unit in the ventilation system to open and close the dampers to maintain a CO2 concentration in the room that is below the desired CO2 concentration level. |
| US10184679B2 |
Detection of damper motor mechanically disconnected from damper assembly
In an embodiment, a method of testing a HVAC unit for a disconnected damper motor is provided. An outside air section of a damper assembly is closed and air is circulated through the unit. If a discharge air temperature is not substantially equal to a return air temperature, the damper motor is determined to be disconnected. Otherwise, an economizing function having a free cooling target temperature is started. An outside air temperature is compared to the free cooling target temperature. If the outside air temperature is less than the free cooling target temperature, the damper motor is determined to be disconnected if the damper motor has been commanded to fully open the outside air section. If the outside air temperature is not less than the free cooling target temperature, the damper motor is determined to be disconnected if a discharge air temperature is not substantially equal to an outside air temperature. |
| US10184675B2 |
Dehumidification system and method
The present invention relates to a dehumidification system and method and, in particular, to a system and method for controlling the humidity of air in a process or location using a desiccant-coated fluid-air heat exchanger. The desiccant material adsorbs water at or above ambient temperatures during an adsorption cycle, and the resultant air stream is of a reduced humidity compared with the humidity of the supply air. The desiccant material may then be dried during a regeneration cycle through addition of heating fluid through the heat exchanger, driving water back into the vapor state with addition of latent energy of vaporization. The desiccant material may be cooled, during the adsorption cycle, through addition of cooling fluid through the heat exchanger to maintain the temperature within a range sufficient for water vapor to be removed from the stream of air. |
| US10184668B2 |
Stove top cover and serving tray
A combination stove top cover and serving tray is provided. The device comprises a cover body having a planar surface that is adapted to cover the upper surface of a stove top, thereby providing a flat, clean surface upon which to place other items, or to otherwise shroud the burners of the stove top. Around the perimeter of the planar surface is a raised wall extending substantially perpendicularly upward therefrom. The raised wall has an upper edge terminating in a common plane that is offset from the planar surface. The upper edge includes a gasket affixed therearound, which comprises a non-marring material such as rubber, plastic, or similar elastomeric material. Handles are provided along opposing raised walls of the device, while the underside of the planar surface provides a recessed, flat surface. When not covering a stove top, the device may be inverted and function as a serving tray. |
| US10184667B2 |
Steam oven cleaning method
A method for cleaning a cavity of an oven having a steam generation device, comprising the following steps: (i) a step of mild detergent cleaning, comprising (i.1) a step of applying mild detergent to the oven cavity at a predetermined cavity starting temperature (T0), and subsequently (i.2) a step of incubating the oven cavity for a predetermined incubation period of time (Δtinc1) at a temperature Tact, (i.3) a step of applying steam generated by the steam generation device to the oven cavity for a steam period of time (Δtsteam1) until the oven cavity reaches a temperature T1, and subsequently incubating the oven cavity for an incubation period of time (Δtinc2) until the oven cavity reaches a temperature T2, and (i.4) a step of removing water and dirt from the oven cavity; and (ii) a step of steam cleaning, comprising (ii.1) a step of applying steam generated by the steam generation device to the oven cavity for a steam period of time (Δtsteam2) until the oven cavity reaches a temperature T3, and subsequently incubating the oven cavity for an incubation period of time (Δtinc3) until the oven cavity reaches a temperature T4, and (ii.2) a step of removing water and dirt from the oven cavity. |
| US10184663B2 |
Air cooled fuel injector for a turbine engine
An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. The assembly includes a cooling tube through which a flow path extends. The assembly also includes a fuel injector, which includes a stem connected to a tip. The stem is arranged within the cooling tube. The tip extends from the cooling tube to a nozzle. The cooling tube is adapted to direct cooling air through the flow path. |
| US10184662B2 |
Gas turbine combustion liner with triangular heat transfer element
A gas turbine combustor achieves improved product reliability and a reduced increase in pressure loss through improvements made on a cooling characteristic and structural intensity. The structure of the gas turbine combustor includes a plurality of circularity recesses formed on a side of an annular passage on a partial area of a combustion liner that requires cooling. Each of the circularity recesses has a rectangular surface forming a convex at a right angle with respect to a flowing direction of combustion air. The circularity recesses form a rectangular triangle having an oblique surface facing upstream of the flowing direction of the combustion air. |
| US10184661B2 |
Combustor heat shield sealing
A method and an apparatus for reducing airflow leakage between a combustor liner and a rail of a heat shield mounted to an inner surface of the combustor liner. The method comprises locally deforming the combustor liner in sealing engagement with the rail by applying a pressure on the outer surface of the combustor liner over the rail of the heat shield. A tool, such as a sealing clip, may be mounted in pressing engagement with the outer surface of the combustor liner to apply forces locally on the liner over the rail of the heat shield. |
| US10184660B2 |
Gas distribution system and cooking appliance incorporating the gas distribution system
According to one embodiment a gas distribution assembly is provided that includes a gas distribution duct and at least one gas regulating valve mounted on the gas distribution duct. The valve is secured to the duct by use of a support supported on the duct and attachment means for attaching the valve to the support. According to one embodiment the attachment means comprises a screw threaded into a threaded sleeve and also into a threaded hole in the body of the valve. The support includes a through hole through which the sleeve passes and the sleeve includes a flange at one end that rests on the support in an area that surrounds the through hole. An end of the sleeve opposite the flange resides adjacent the threaded hole in the body of the valve. |
| US10184653B2 |
Retrofit light bulb
A retrofit light bulb (1) is disclosed. The retrofit light bulb (1) comprises a substantially flat heat spreader (2) having an opening (5); first and second cover members (7, 8) sandwiching the heat spreader (2), each cover member (7, 8) having a protruding portion (9, 10) directed away from the heat spreader (2) and aligned with the opening (5), the two protruding portion (9, 10) together forming a compartment (11); and one or more solid state lighting devices (18) mounted on a carrier (19) arranged in said compartment (11), in thermal contact with the heat spreader (2), wherein said one or more solid state lighting devices (18) are arranged so that each protruding portion (9, 10) receives light directly from each solid state lighting device (18). The compartment thus forms a single light mixing chamber in which light emitted by all of the SSL devices is mixed. |
| US10184651B2 |
Lighting device with an optical element having a fluid passage
A lighting device (1) comprises at least one light source (3) and at least one optical element (5). The optical element (5) may be arranged to transmit light emitted by the light source (3). The optical element (5) comprises a light transmissive material (7) and at least one passage (9) extending through the light transmissive material (7) for allowing a flow of fluid through said optical element (5). The passage (9) is arranged such that a major portion of the light (16) emitted by said light source (3) entering the passage (9) further propagates through the light transmissive material (7). The optical element (5) comprises a plurality of layers (18) of the light transmissive material (7) spaced apart from each other, each layer comprising at least one through-hole (11). |
| US10184650B1 |
Diversionary light end cap
An end cap accessory for use with a baton. The end cap accessory includes an attachment section that removably attaches to an end of a handle section of a baton. The end cap further includes a tubular section with an opening that faces away from the attachment section, wherein the tubular section includes therein a battery compartment for holding a battery, a light source operable to emit a light when powered by the battery, and a lens operable to focus the light emitted by the light source towards the opening. In addition, the end cap includes a push button positioned on an exterior surface of the tubular section, wherein the push button is operable to activate the light source to emit light when held in a depressed position. |
| US10184649B2 |
Quickly charger has USB charging-ports for lighting device
A light device includes a USB charger, an AC to DC converter, and a DC to DC circuit to provide power to a light source that provides area illumination, at least one USB charging port and optional additional functions. |
| US10184645B2 |
Cylindrical housing for modular lighting system
A modular lighting system that includes a pendant that is hung from and gets power from a power bar. The pendant can include a pendant body that is attached directly to and depends from the power bar. The pendant can be provided with one light source or two light sources that are directed in opposite directions. In another version, the pendant is attached to the power bar by a hanger and has connectors allowing the pendant to rotate about a horizontal axis. The hanger can include a member attached to the power bar and configured to allow two rods and the pendant depending from the rods to rotate about a vertical axis. |
| US10184636B2 |
Head lamp for vehicle including moisture removing apparatus
A head lamp for a vehicle including a moisture removing apparatus may include a moisture removing apparatus, moisture generated in the head lamp is removed by a moisture absorbent, wherein the moisture absorbent is dried, such that moisture absorbing performance of the moisture absorbent is restored, continuously maintaining a smooth moisture absorbing function. In addition, the moisture generated during drying the moisture absorbent is not again introduced into the head lamp, but is discharged to the outside, blocking the moisture from being generated in the head lamp. |
| US10184625B1 |
Artificial candle with flexible shroud resembling a candle flame
An artificial candle has a delicate glowing shroud or sock that can flutter like a candle flame, and the shroud may surround a “wick” that can be seen through the shroud to glow. Such a diaphanous shroud can be actuated by a fan, air pump, solenoid or conductor, which can be provided adjacent to the shroud or distanced from the shroud, for example in a central body of a chandelier. The wick may be lighted by a light emitting diode (LED) or other light source, and the shroud can include fluorescent material that absorbs and reradiates some of the light from the light source. The wick and the shroud can be coupled to a shaft that simulates a wax candle body. A standard threaded fitting can be provided so that the artificial candle can thread into a socket to replace a light bulb. |
| US10184622B2 |
Electrical supply and shelf system having same
A shelf system and a label LED strip lamp includes a shelf and a label LED strip lamp. Each of at least one carrier element includes a body, and a clamping assembly. The clamping assembly includes a clamping slot and a catch plate provided on the clamping slot. The label LED strip lamp includes a snap assembly for engagement with the catch plate, and a lamp tube. The snap assembly includes a connecting edge, a set of clamping tooth disposed on one side of the connecting edge, and a wavy-shaped engaging edge spaced from the clamping tooth. The clamping tooth inserts into the clamping slot. The lamp tube includes a non-transparent edge, an upper light transmitting edge connecting the non-transparent edge with the catch plate, and a lower light transmitting edge. |
| US10184620B2 |
Battery life extender for portable lighting
A battery life extender for a portable lighting device employs a reconfigurable mechanism operable to selectively electrically isolate one or more batteries from a circuit having a parasitic power drain. For example, a lighting device includes a light generating element, at least one battery, a user operated switch configured to control delivery of electrical power from the at least one battery to the light generating element, and a housing assembly supporting the at least one battery and the light generating element. The user operated switch can impart a parasitic power drain. The housing assembly is reconfigurable to: (a) a first configuration in which the user operated switch is electrically connected to the at least one battery, and (b) a second configuration in which the at least one battery is electrically isolated and the at least one battery is retained by the housing assembly. |
| US10184619B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes one or more light emitting elements, a light transmissive member, a first light reflective member and a second light reflective member. The light transmissive member is disposed on the one or more light emitting elements and having a first upper surface, a lower surface, first lateral surfaces, and second lateral surfaces each positioned on an outer side of a corresponding one of the first lateral surfaces. The first light reflective member covers the first lateral surfaces. The second light reflective member is disposed on lateral surfaces of the first light reflective member, the second lateral surfaces of the light transmissive member, and lateral surfaces of the one or more light emitting elements. |
| US10184615B2 |
Peristaltic infusion pump with locking mechanism
A medical device includes an interface unit body, which is configured to hold a portion of a flexible infusion tube. A hinge insert is fixed to the interface unit body and is configured to engage a hinge receptacle, which defines a hinge axis, on an infusion pump. A catch insert is fixed to the interface unit body and is configured to lock onto a catch receptacle on the infusion pump upon rotation of the mechanical interface unit about the hinge axis while the hinge insert engages the hinge receptacle, so as to bring the tube into engagement with a peristaltic mechanism of the infusion pump in order to enable the peristaltic mechanism to propel a fluid through the tube. |
| US10184610B2 |
Rotation range-limiting device-equipped apparatus
A rotation range-limiting device 10 is provided with a rotation body 20 provided with a first surface and a carrying surface, and a stationary body 30 supporting the rotation body such that the rotation body is rotatable about a center point thereof. The stationary body has a second surface opposed to the first surface. One 212 of the first surface and the second surface is provided with an arc-shaped slide-guiding portion 24 whose center corresponds to the center point of the rotation body, and a slider 26 movable along the slide-guiding portion. The other 301 of the first surface and the second surface is provided with a locking portion 36, which projects toward the slide-guiding portion at a location on a circle having the same diameter as the slide-guiding portion such that it can abut against the slider. |
| US10184609B2 |
Key supporting structure
Disclosed is a key supporting structure. The key supporting structure includes a scissor-type component having a first supporting element and a second supporting element that are pivotally connected to each other. The first supporting element has a first frame, and two end of the first frame have at least one first pivot and at least one second pivot respectively. The second supporting element has a second frame, and two end of the second frame have at least one third pivot and at least one fourth pivot respectively. The first frame and the second frame are made from a powder sintered material. The first pivot, the second pivot, the third pivot, and the fourth pivot are formed on the first frame and the second frame by plastic injection molding method. |
| US10184606B2 |
Camera, stand, and camera unit having camera and stand
Disclosed herein is a camera including a light receiving section and a camera body incorporating the light receiving section. An outside surface of the camera body has, at least on a portion thereof, a curve surface curving around a rotation centerline extending along a left-right direction, and the curve surface is formed at least at portions positioned opposite to each other around the rotation centerline when the camera body is seen in the left-right direction. Also disclosed herein is a stand including a camera holding section configured to hold the outside of the camera. The camera holding section is formed so as to enclose the outside surface of the camera at an angle of at least 180 degrees when seen in the left-right direction, and the camera holding section has an inside surface formed so as to make the camera rotatable around the rotation centerline. |
| US10184605B2 |
Pipe access tool
A hand tool that is capable of efficiently, inexpensively, and quickly attaching to a pipe and allows for boring an access hole to be used for accessing the inside of the pipe and unclogging the pipe. |
| US10184604B1 |
Equalizer manifold system and method of use
A fluid manifold includes an elongated hollow body forming an inner area, having: a first end extending to a second end; and a top surface and a bottom surface; a cylindrical conduit having a length that extends through the inner area, the cylindrical conduit forming a channel that is fluidly separable from the inner area of the elongated hollow body, the cylindrical conduit extending through the first end of the elongated hollow body; a plurality of exit ports in fluid communication with the inner area and extending at a perpendicular angle relative to the cylindrical conduit; a mounting plate secured to the plurality of exit ports; a first row of a plurality of cutouts extending through the thickness of the elongated body, the first row of the plurality of cutouts providing fluid passage between the channel of the cylindrical conduit and the inner area of the elongated body; and a second row of a plurality of cutouts extending through the thickness of the elongated body, the second row of the plurality of cutouts providing fluid passage between the channel of the cylindrical conduit and the inner area of the elongated body. |
| US10184598B2 |
Aircraft washer
An aircraft pipe coupling including a first pipe end and a second pipe end, and a locking washer disposed between the first pipe end and second pipe end. The locking washer including a first tab in engagement with the first pipe end, and a second tab in engagement with the second pipe end. |
| US10184593B2 |
Fire stop sleeve, partition provided with fire stop sleeve and method for installation for stop sleeve
A partition is penetrated by a duct. The partition has a passage through which the duct passes. A fire stop sleeve is positioned in the passage and arranged around the duct. The fire stop sleeve includes a casing having a tubular form and one or more elements of intumescent material arranged on a side of the casing facing the duct. The casing is provided with at least one movable retaining member which lies within an outer contour of the casing. The movable retaining member is actuable by intumescent material such that, in the occasion that swelling of the intumescent material occurs, the retaining member is moved radially outward towards engagement with a passage wall in the partition so as to retain the sleeve in the passage. |
| US10184591B2 |
Cable suspension clamp
A cable clamp includes an elongated, open-top base having a first end, a second end, and a central region. A suspension arm extends from the open-top base. An eyelet having an opening, a top portion, and a base portion is coupled to the suspension arm. The eyelet base portion has a first width and the top portion has a second width greater than the first width. A keeper is coupled to the base. |
| US10184589B2 |
Riser assembly and method
A riser assembly and method of supporting a riser assembly are disclosed. The riser assembly includes a riser; at least one buoyancy compensating element attached to the riser; and at least one damped biasing element for controlling movement of the riser about a neutral position with respect to an adjacent underwater structure. The biasing element is directly or indirectly connected to the riser and is directly or indirectly connectable to the adjacent underwater structure. |
| US10184587B1 |
Underwater pipe lifting and cutting apparatus and method
An improved method and apparatus is provided for underwater salvage of a pipeline, pipe section, pipe, tubular, elongated object, riser, beam or the like. A specially configured tool both grips and cuts the pipe (or object) at a selected locale. |
| US10184586B2 |
Self-energizing sealing mechanisms
An electronic device having an interior volume, the electronic device including a sealing mechanism to prevent ingress of water into the interior cavity. The sealing mechanism having a channel having a first opening at an external environment and a second opening that leads to the interior volume, a membrane that covers the second opening, the membrane being air permeable and water resistant such that the membrane allows air to pass and prevents passage of water up to an upper pressure threshold, a stopper mechanism, and a diaphragm comprising a surface arranged to receive an external water pressure and that is air and water impermeable, the diaphragm being coupled to the stopper mechanism that deflects in response to the water pressure such that the diaphragm actuates the stopper mechanism and seals off the channel from at the first opening preventing water pressure at the membrane from exceeding the upper pressure threshold. |
| US10184584B2 |
Magnetic valve device
A magnetic valve device includes a valve receiving device and a valve insert of a magnetic valve which is received in the valve receiving device. A high pressure resistance is obtained in one of the modes of embodiment. The magnetic valve device includes either a pressure mechanism configured to press the valve insert against the valve receiving element or a sealing element arranged in a notch in the valve insert or a sealing element arranged between an axial filter and the valve insert. |
| US10184581B2 |
Relief valve
A relief valve includes: a case; a valve seat provided in a channel; a poppet valve that opens and closes the channel by being seated on and separated from the valve seat; a spring that biases, at a first end, the poppet valve in a direction in which the poppet valve is seated on the valve seat; an adjusting screw that is threaded into the case and changes, in accordance with a threaded depth, a distance between the valve seat and a bearing surface, which is in contact with a second end of the spring; and a positioning plate that has an engaging hole with which a projected portion of the adjusting screw is engaged such that relative rotation is not allowed and that restricts rotation of the adjusting screw by being fixed to an end surface of the case and by being brought into contact with the adjusting screw only at a side surface of the projected portion. |
| US10184575B2 |
Faucet with multi-directional controls
A faucet that includes a base configured to detachably mount to a mounting surface; a sleeve coupled to and extending upwardly from the base; a handle body disposed around the sleeve and configured to rotate about a vertical axis, the handle body including a vertical portion and a horizontal portion extending outward from a side of the vertical portion; a first valve disposed within the base; a second valve disposed within the horizontal portion of the handle body; and a spout configured to receive water from the sleeve and direct the water to an outlet of the spout; where the vertical portion of the handle body is configured to be rotated about the vertical axis to control the first valve, and the horizontal portion of the handle body is configured to be rotated about a horizontal axis to control the second valve. |
| US10184570B2 |
Vacuum valve
The vacuum valve includes a closure member that can be moved, parallel to a longitudinal movement direction, between an open position in which it unblocks the valve opening and an intermediate position in which it covers the valve opening but is raised off the valve seat, and that can be moved, parallel to a transverse movement direction, between the intermediate position and a closed position in which it bears against the valve seat; a valve rod that bears the closure member is mounted for displacement parallel to the longitudinal and transverse movement directions; a displacement part rigidly connected to the valve rod; and a drive motor which rotates a driveshaft about an axis parallel to the longitudinal movement direction in order to move the closure member between the open position, the intermediate position and the closed position. The drive shaft has, in a first section, a longitudinal displacement cam member of a longitudinal displacement cam mechanism that interacts with a longitudinal displacement engagement member of the longitudinal displacement cam mechanism in order to move the closure member between the open position and the intermediate position, and has, in a second section, a transverse displacement cam member of a transverse displacement cam mechanism that interacts with a transverse displacement engagement member of the transverse displacement cam mechanism in order to move the closure member between the intermediate position and the closed position. |
| US10184567B2 |
Spring ring valve seat and butterfly valve with spring ring valve seat
A butterfly valve has a housing that has an annular valve seat and a butterfly disk that has an annular valve seat. At least one of the valve seats is a spring seat that has an annular mounting portion and an axially opposite annular engagement portion. The engagement portion is configured to contact the other valve seat and resiliently deform radially under hoop stress caused by the contact as the butterfly disk moves to the closed position. The engagement portion is connected to the main body of the respective one of housing or the butterfly disk by the mounting portion. The mounting portion is attached to the main body of the respective one of housing or the butterfly disk in a manner such that the mounting portion can articulate relative to the main body of the respective one of housing or the butterfly disk as the engagement portion resiliently deforms radially. |
| US10184564B2 |
Seal assemblies and related methods
Spring energized seal assemblies configured for use in static or dynamic application and methods of using and making same are provided. The seal assemblies can each have a sealing component and optionally a backup ring or a locking ring or both. An annular spring can be used with a spring groove of either the backup ring or the locking to facilitate assembling of the mentioned components of a seal assembly onto each other and the entire seal assembly into a seal cavity of a housing. |
| US10184561B2 |
Transmission device having a hydraulic system
A transmission includes a hydraulic system connected to a hydraulic pump and to an additional hydraulic pump. A secondary pressure circuit is connectable to a primary pressure circuit with a system pressure valve. A pressure side of the hydraulic pump is coupled directly with the primary pressure circuit and connectable to the secondary pressure circuit with the system pressure valve. A pressure side of the additional hydraulic pump is coupled directly with the secondary pressure circuit. The pressure side of the hydraulic pump proximate the secondary pressure circuit is connectable to a gear set, to a dual-clutch system and to a suction area of the hydraulic pump and the additional hydraulic pump by a valve device. The pressure side of the additional hydraulic pump is in connection with the gear set and is connectable with the dual-clutch system by the valve device. |