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| US10209879B2 |
Device, method, and graphical user interface for configuring and implementing restricted interactions for applications
An electronic device, while in an interaction configuration mode for a first application, concurrently displays: a first user interface, one or more interaction control user interface objects, and an application restriction controls display user interface object for the first application. The device detects a first gesture, and in response, displays application restriction control user interface objects for the first application. A respective application restriction control user interface object indicates whether a corresponding feature of the first application is configured to be enabled in a restricted interaction mode. The device detects a second gesture, and changes display of a setting in the first application restriction control user interface object for the first application. The device detects a second input, and in response, enters the restricted interaction mode for the first application. The corresponding feature is restricted in accordance with the setting in the first application restriction control user interface object. |
| US10209876B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing a segmented scrollbar
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate the identification of one or more media files within a gallery of media files presented upon a display. In the context of a method, a gallery of media files is caused to be displayed. The gallery of media file is grouped into a plurality of sessions. Each session includes one or more media files. The method also causes display of a scrollbar partitioned into a plurality of segments. Each segment corresponds to a respective session of media files. The method further includes determining the media files of the gallery to be displayed in response to user input selecting a respective segment of the scrollbar. In this regard, the method determines the media files of the gallery to be displayed by determining the media files of the session corresponding to the respective segment of the scrollbar that is selected. |
| US10209873B2 |
Apparatus and method for digital device providing quick control menu
A method for controlling a digital device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification includes activating a display unit, when a first input is detected in a Standby mode, wherein the display unit is deactivated, activating the display unit, when a second control input is detected in the Standby mode, wherein the display unit is deactivated, and displaying a quick control menu based upon a position where the second control input is detected, detecting a third control input selecting the quick control menu, and displaying an execution screen of the application respective to the third control input, and, herein, the first control input and the second control input may each include two parts, and the first control input and the second control input may be partially identical to one another. |
| US10209866B2 |
User interfaces for browsing content from multiple content applications on an electronic device
In some embodiments, an electronic device presents media items from different media applications in a unified media browsing application. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates browsing of media from different media applications based on category of media (e.g., movies, television shows, etc.). In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates setup of a unified media browsing application that presents media items from different media applications in a unified media browsing user interface. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays multiple episodes of a collection of episodic content (e.g., a television series) in a user interface for the collection of episodic content. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays representations of, and provides access to, live-event media items accessible on the electronic device. |
| US10209864B2 |
UI differentiation between delete and clear
An intuitive user interface for clearing or deleting a structured data element is provided. One or more elements in a data structure may be selected and upon selection of a delete option, the contents of the one or more elements may be cleared. One or more animating panels may be provided which contain elements around the cleared elements. A panel may be moved by a gesture-type action to replace cleared elements. The panels may visually indicate which elements may be moved in place of the cleared elements. The user can visualize how elements may be shifted instead of having to understand terminology in a dialog. Selecting outside the panels may cause the panels to disappear, which may be equivalent to a clear action where other elements are not moved into the place of the deleted elements. |
| US10209863B2 |
Method and apparatus for displaying cascading menu
The present disclosure discloses a method of displaying a cascading menu that includes a plurality of submenus. The method determines a first submenu as indicated for browsing by a user based on a clicking event of the user. When an operation interface of the first submenu is in a collapsed mode, a number of submenus that are currently in an expanded mode within an operation interface of the cascading menu is counted. When the number of submenus that are currently in the expanded mode reaches a defined threshold, at least a second submenu is selected from the submenus that are currently in the expanded mode, and an operation interface of the second submenu is shrunk. The operation interface of the first submenu is expanded. Therefore, a size of the operation interface of the cascading menu will not increase as the number of the expanded submenus increases. As such, the amount of a page space occupied by the cascading menu is reduced and utilization of the page space is improved. The present disclosure further discloses a terminal apparatus. |
| US10209861B2 |
Sticky messages
Described herein are techniques related to sticky messaging, which enable the use of the content of text and/or multimedia messages outside the context of the messaging inbox of a telecommunications device, such as a mobile phone. An implementation described herein includes posting of the content (e.g., text, image, audio, and video) of a message onto a home screen of the telecommunications device. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. |
| US10209856B2 |
Stimulus integration apparatus
Apparatus, architecture and methods for integrating and/or presenting stimuli to sensory receptor(s) are provided. An electronically stored value may encode stimuli presentable via electronic display(s) to receptor(s). Stimulus/stimuli may include “attended” and/or “unattended” data. Data may mediate neurophysiological benefit(s). Data may include visual, motion and/or auditory information. Benefits) may include motion sickness alleviation. “Unattended” data may include translucent moving patterns and/or shapes and/or shifts in screen luminance, such as flashing. “Unattended” data may be associated with detected motion function(s) to convey sense of motion. “Unattended” data may be configured to be presented so as to avoid being distracting. “Unattended” data may be configured to be presented in a periphory(ies) of user(s). Display(s) may be handheld, worn and/or vehicle-mounted. |
| US10209850B2 |
Methods and systems for an intermediate graphical desktop sharing protocol
Generating a universal graphical desktop sharing protocol is disclosed. The universal graphical desktop sharing protocol is configured to communicate information (e.g., a sequence of one or more desktop sharing events) that has been translated from a first graphical desktop sharing protocol and is available to be translated into a final graphical desktop sharing protocol. |
| US10209843B2 |
Force sensing using capacitive touch surfaces
In one general aspect, a method can include identifying contact with a surface of a touch-sensitive input device, identifying a location of the contact on the surface of the touch-sensitive input device, and calculating a change in a mutual capacitance between a first electrode and a second electrode included in a sensor module disposed below the surface of the touch-sensitive input device. The first electrode can be adjacent to the second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode can be located approximate to the identified location of the contact on the surface of the touch-sensitive input device. The method can include estimating a contact-coupled capacitance based on the calculated change in a mutual capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode, and calculating a force applied to the surface of the touch-sensitive input device at the identified location. |
| US10209838B2 |
Operating panel for a household appliance with at least one user interface, household appliance, and method for producing the operating panel with user interface
An operating panel for a household appliance is provided with at least one user interface. The operating panel includes a planar support with an outer support surface facing an external region; a planar glass or glass-ceramic substrate with an outer substrate surface facing the external region and an opposite-lying inner substrate surface facing away from the external region and facing the outer support surface; a display element affixed to the support for luminous indication of information, which is preferably disposed on the outer support surface; and a sensor arrangement having at least two sensors, each of which comprises at least one electrode and is disposed on the inner substrate surface, for interaction with a user located in the external region. |
| US10209833B1 |
Apparatus and methods for detecting a conductive object at a location
A method and apparatus to determine capacitance variations of a first number of two or more sense elements of a touch screen device. A processing device is configured to detect a presence of a conductive object on any one of a second number of three or more button areas of the touch screen device. The first number of sense elements is less than the second number of button areas. The processing device is further configured to recognize an activation of one of the three or more button areas using the determined capacitance variations of the first number of two or more sense elements. |
| US10209824B2 |
Mechanism to avoid unintentional user interaction with a convertible mobile device during conversion
A device includes control logic, at least a portion of which is implemented in hardware, to process motion data, the motion data collected from a first accelerometer in a base unit and from a second accelerometer in a display panel attached to a base unit of a mobile device, to determine whether the display panel moves relative to the base unit and to temporarily ignore or disable one or more input devices of the mobile device for a predetermined period of time to avoid unintentional user interaction with the mobile device during the movement of the display panel. |
| US10209823B2 |
Smart wearable device and information input method thereof
The present disclosure discloses a smart wearable device and an information input method thereof. The smart wearable device comprises a secondary touch panel located on at least one side, and a primary screen touch panel located on a front side; when the smart wearable device is in an input state, the secondary touch panel and the primary screen touch panel respectively receive touch instructions; a touch chip detects the primary screen touch panel and the secondary touch panel, obtains touch instructions, processes them and then outputs them; a microcontroller unit sets a first mapping relationship between an event of switching controls in each layer of an input method application and the touch instruction of the secondary touch panel, sets a second mapping relationship between an event of switching different layers, an input confirmation touch event, an input deletion touch event and the touch instruction of the primary screen touch panel, and implements information input based on the first mapping relationship, the second mapping relationship, and the touch instructions. With the secondary touch panel being in cooperation with the primary screen touch panel, the technical solution makes information input more convenient and quicker, and solves the problem about undesirable user experience upon information input on a small-sized smart wearable device. |
| US10209822B2 |
Touch sensor and method for determining touch position by grouping electrodes
A touch sensor includes electrodes that are serially arranged and a processor with multiple input terminals. The electrodes are grouped into first, second and third groups of electrodes. Each electrode of the first group is coupled with a corresponding input terminal of the processor. The electrodes of the second group are sequentially coupled with the input terminals of the processor by way of odd numbered electrodes of the first group. The electrodes of the third group are sequentially coupled with the input terminals of the processor by way of even numbered electrodes of the first group. Each of the electrodes, other than the electrodes on the ends, is triggered simultaneously with at least one of its neighboring electrodes to provide sensed signals to the processor. |
| US10209818B2 |
Display panel and drive method thereof as well as display apparatus
A display panel is disclosed. The display panel can include: a first substrate; a second substrate, arranged opposite to the first substrate; a first pressure-sensitive detection electrode, arranged on the first substrate and positioned proximal to one side of the second substrate; a second pressure-sensitive detection electrode, arranged on the second substrate and positioned proximal to one side of the first substrate, and a third pressure-sensitive detection element, positioned at one side of the first substrate distant from the second substrate and arranged at intervals from the first substrate. A first capacitance is formed between the second pressure-sensitive detection electrode and the first pressure-sensitive detection electrode. A second capacitance is formed between the third pressure-sensitive detection element and the first pressure-sensitive detection electrode. When the display panel is pressed, a magnitude of pressure is determined by detecting a variation of the first capacitance and a variation of the second capacitance. |
| US10209816B2 |
Coordinate measuring apparatus for measuring input position of a touch and a coordinate indicating apparatus and driving method thereof
A coordinate measuring apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided. The coordinate measuring apparatus includes a touch panel including a plurality of electrodes, a driver configured to generate a driving signal and to provide the driving signal to the touch panel, a receiver configured to receive a first receiving signal for detecting a change in capacitance from the touch panel and a second receiving signal corresponding to a signal transmitted from a coordinate indicating apparatus, and a processor configured to determine an activation region from which a hand position is detected, based on the second receiving signal, and determine the hand position in the determined activation region. |
| US10209815B2 |
Touch screen control and display circuit and method alternating a frame update mode and a touch sensing mode
A touch control and display control module of a touch screen includes (n×y) rows of sensing units disposed on a substrate. The touch control and display control module includes: a control circuit, controlling the touch screen to operate in one of a frame update mode and a touch sensing mode; and n first control lines, y second control lines and n control signal output circuits disposed on the substrate. Each control signal output circuit is coupled to one of the n first control line, and includes y control signal buffer units. Each control signal buffer units is coupled to one of the y second control lines and sensing units of one row to output a voltage signal to the sensing units of that row, to cause the sensing units of that row to operate in one of the frame update mode and the touch sensing mode. |
| US10209813B2 |
Integrated touch and display architectures for self-capacitive touch sensors
A self-capacitive touch sensor panel configured to have a portion of both the touch and display functionality integrated into a common layer is provided. The touch sensor panel includes a layer with circuit elements that can switchably operate as both touch circuitry and display circuitry such that during a touch mode of the device the circuit elements operate as touch circuitry and during a display mode of the device the circuit elements operate as display circuitry. The touch mode and display mode can be time multiplexed. By integrating the touch hardware and display hardware into common layers, savings in power, weight and thickness of the device can be realized. |
| US10209812B2 |
Touch substrate and touch device
A touch substrate and a touch device are provided. The touch substrate includes a thin film transistor, and a common electrode layer and a pixel electrode layer that are transparent. The common electrode layer includes a common electrode and a touch driving electrode that extend along a first direction, and an insulating medium is provided between the common electrode and the touch driving electrode. On the touch substrate, there is further provided a touch sensing electrode that is disposed in a layer different from the touch driving electrode and extends along a second direction, and the touch sensing electrode covers a gap region between the common electrode and the touch driving electrode. Within a period of displaying a frame of image, the touch driving electrode transmits a common electrode signal and a touch scanning signal in a time-division mode. |
| US10209810B2 |
User interface interaction using various inputs for adding a contact
A device with a touch-sensitive display, a rotatable input mechanism, processors, and memory storing programs for displaying, on the touch-sensitive display, a user interface comprising a plurality of objects each associated with a contact and an affordance representing a first contact is disclosed. The memory may include programs for, in response to receiving the first input, updating the visual appearance of the affordance to represent the second contact among the plurality of contacts, and the memory also may include programs for, after updating the visual appearance of the affordance, updating display of the affordance to an add contact affordance, where the add contact affordance was not displayed prior to detecting the second input corresponding to the selection of the object that is not associated with any contact. Further, the memory may include programs for displaying a user interface for adding a contact upon selection of the add contact affordance. |
| US10209809B1 |
Pressure-sensitive touch screen system, method, and computer program product for objects
Apparatuses, methods, and a computer-readable media are provided to: display an object and another object via an interface, such that the object and the another object are located in a same virtual display layer; detect a gesture being applied to the touch screen on the object, the gesture capable of causing a plurality of touch states; prior to a first touch state of the plurality of touch states, display information associated with the object; during the first touch state of the plurality of touch states, display the object in a first virtual display layer and the another object in a second virtual display layer; during the first touch state of the plurality of touch states and based on an increase in a pressure being applied to the touch screen on the object, increase a blurring of the another object; during the first touch state of the plurality of touch states and based on a decrease in the pressure being applied to the touch screen on the object, decrease the blurring of the another object; during a second touch state of the plurality of touch states, vibrate the apparatus, during the second touch state of the plurality of touch states, display, in different virtual display layers, at least a portion of the interface that is blurred and at least a portion of a window; during the second touch state of the plurality of touch states and based on another increase in the pressure being applied to the touch screen, increase a size of the at least portion of the window; during the second touch state of the plurality of touch states and based on another decrease in the pressure being applied to the touch screen, decrease the size of the at least portion of the window. |
| US10209805B2 |
Integral sensing apparatus for touch and force sensing and method for the same
An integral sensing apparatus for touch and force sensing includes a touch electrode layer having first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes arranged, a protection layer arranged on one side of the touch electrode layer, a force electrode layer having at least one force sensing electrode, a resilient dielectric layer arranged between the touch electrode layer and the force electrode layer, and a capacitance sensing module. In touch sensing operation, the capacitance sensing module sequentially or randomly sends a touch driving signal to selected ones of the second touch electrodes, and sequentially or randomly receives a touch sensing signal from selected ones of the first touch electrodes. In force sensing operation, the capacitance sensing module sends a force capacitance-exciting signal to the at least one force sensing electrode and obtains a force sensing signal from the force sensing electrode. |
| US10209802B2 |
Micro light-emitting diode display panel and display device
A Micro-LED display panel and a display device, the Micro-LED display panel includes a plurality of light-emitting elements distributed in matrix; each light-emitting element includes a first electrode, a semi-conductor layer, and a second electrode arranged by stacking, the semi-conductor layer is placed between the first and second electrode; the semi-conductor layer includes a first semi-conductor layer, an active layer and a second semi-conductor layer successively stacked up; each light-emitting element further includes a metal layer arranged at a side of the semi-conductor layer, surrounding the semi-conductor layer and insulated from the first and second electrode, respectively; the light-emitting elements are divided into a plurality of light-emitting element groups, each of which includes multiple of the plurality of light-emitting elements; and the metal layers of the multiple of the plurality of light-emitting elements in each light-emitting element group are connected with each other to form one touch electrode. |
| US10209799B2 |
Touch display system and touch operation device
Touch display system and touch operation device are provided. An exemplary touch display system includes a touch operation device for emitting first non-visible light; and a touch display device including a touch screen and a touch detection module. The first non-visible light is able to heat up air around a contact point on the touch screen. The touch detection module is configured for determining a position of a light refraction occurred as a second non-visible light is incident on the air heated by the first non-visible light. |
| US10209798B2 |
Touch display device
A touch display device includes a plurality of scan lines including first portion scan lines and second portion scan lines; a plurality of data lines crossing the plurality of scan lines; a scan driver outputs a plurality of first portion scan signals to the first portion scan lines in a first display scan period in a frame, a plurality of second portion scan signals to the second portion scan lines in a second display scan period in the frame; and a data driver outputs a plurality of first portion display signals corresponding to the plurality of first portion scan signals in the first display scan period; a plurality of second portion display signals corresponding to the plurality of second portion scan signals in the second display scan period. |
| US10209795B2 |
Method for transmitting data
A data transmission method may include receiving identification (ID) information from a data transmission device. The method may also include receiving encoded security information from the data transmission device. The method may include verifying validity of the ID information by decoding the encoded security information. The encoding and decoding of the security information may be performed using a one-time password (OTP) code. |
| US10209793B2 |
Touch display device
The embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of touch display device, and disclose a touch display device, including a touch display panel and a control unit arranged on a side of the touch display panel, with a first wiring area being arranged between the touch display panel and the control unit; wherein a plurality of data connection lines and a plurality of touch connection lines are led out of a side edge of the touch display panel, the plurality of data connection lines being connected with a plurality of data pins on the control unit in a one-to-one correspondence manner, while the plurality of touch connection lines being connected with a plurality of touch pins on the control unit in a one-to-one correspondence manner; and wherein within the first wiring area, the plurality of data connection lines are divided into two wiring layers, the plurality of touch connection lines being arranged at least in layer in which one wiring layer of the data connection lines are located. According to the above technical scheme, by arranging the data connection lines in a layering manner, a bezel width occupied by the data connection lines is reduced, and influence of the data connection lines on the bezel width is in turn reduced, facilitating development of the slim bezel of the touch display device. |
| US10209789B2 |
Enabling a user to enter notes without authenticating the user
In some examples, a computing device may authenticate a user. The user may pair a stylus with the computing device. The stylus may include one or more buttons. After the user performs a first sequence of button presses using the buttons of the stylus, the computing device may receive a first instruction that causes the computing device to begin execution of an application. The application may receive input in response to the user manipulating the stylus on a touchscreen of the computing device. After the user performs a second sequence of button presses using the buttons of the stylus, the computing device may receive a second instruction that causes the computing device to save the input. The computing device may provide the user with access to the saved input in accordance with an access level associated with the stylus. |
| US10209788B2 |
Touch processor, touch device, touch system, and touch method
A touch processor is provided by the present application. The touch processor detects the intensity of a third electrical signal, wherein a touch device induces a second electrical signal due to a first electrical signal, and the third electrical signal of the second electrical signal is transmitted from the touch device to an approached or touched object. Then, according to the intensity of the second electrical signal and the third electrical signal, the touch processor determines if there is a transmitter hovering on the touch device or not. |
| US10209785B2 |
Volatility based cursor tethering
Modifying a tether linked to a cursor based on depth volatility of the cursor is disclosed. Multiple displays show a three-dimensional image that seems to be at the same real world location regardless of the location of the display. One person operates a cursor in the three-dimensional image. Volatility of depth of the cursor from the viewpoint of the cursor operator is tracked. The appearance of the tether is changed in other displays in response to the depth volatility. The tether may include a line from the cursor towards the cursor operator. The tether is not necessarily displayed all of the time so as to not obscure the view of the three-dimensional image. When there is not any depth volatility for some time, the tether is not displayed. In response to high depth volatility, the tether may be displayed as a long line from the cursor. |
| US10209780B2 |
Text character input device and text character input method
A text character input device for inputting a text character selectively from text characters displayed on a display screen is provided. The text character input device includes an area storage that stores positions of areas in the display screen, a text character storage that stores inputtable text characters assigned to any of the areas, a visual line detector that detects a position of a user's visual line in the display screen; a text character display that deploys and displays the text characters assigned to an area when the user's visual line is present within the area; and a text character selector that selects an input text character from the displayed text characters in accordance with a user's operation. |
| US10209779B2 |
Method for displaying content and electronic device therefor
A method for operating an electronic device of the present invention may comprise determining movement information of the electronic device based on sensing data measured through a sensor module; determining bio information for a user by analyzing one or more bio signals; and controlling the electronic device according to the movement information and the bio information. In addition, another embodiment is also possible. |
| US10209768B1 |
File-aware priority driver
The disclosure is related to systems, devices, and methods for file-aware priority drivers in data storage devices. In one example, a device may comprise a data storage medium, an interface circuit to communicate with a host, a driver configured to retrieve file system information related to a structured input/output (I/O) command from the host, select priority attributes based on the file system information, and prioritize execution of the I/O command based on the priority attributes. Another embodiment may be a method comprising inspecting characteristics of an I/O request, choosing priority attributes for the I/O request based on the characteristics, and executing operations in an order based on the priority attributes. |
| US10209767B2 |
Power management architecture
In one embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a power management architecture in which one or more pipelines are actively powered and clocked when data is provided for processing, but which are clock gated and in retention when there is no data to be processed. When data is provided to the pipeline, supply voltage may be actively provided to initial stages of the pipeline and the clocks may be ungated when the voltage is stable enough for operation. Subsequent stages of the pipeline may be sequentially provided power and clocks as the data progresses through the pipeline. Initial stages may be clock gated and power may be deactivated when additional data is not provided for processing. Accordingly, when the pipeline is viewed as a whole, power may be seen as rolling forward ahead of the data processing, and power may be inhibited in a similar rolling fashion. |
| US10209764B2 |
Apparatus and method for improving power-performance using a software analysis routine
Embodiments described herein relate to improving processor power-performance using a binary analyzer routine. In one example, a processor includes a memory interface to couple to a memory, at least one hardware accelerator circuit, and an execution pipeline including at least fetch, decode, and execute stages, wherein the processor, in response to a hot-spot hardware event indicating presence of a hot-spot sequence, is to switch context to a binary analyzer routine stored in the memory, the binary analyzer routine including instructions that, when fetched, decoded, and executed by the processor, cause the processor to analyze a region in the memory containing the hot-spot sequence, analyze hardware metrics relating to execution of the hot-spot sequence, and generate, based on the analyses, a recommendation for the at least one hardware accelerator circuit to improve at least one of power consumption and performance. |
| US10209763B2 |
Power aware switching using analytics
A method is described and in one embodiment includes, for each of a plurality of outgoing ports of a first network element: collecting data comprising a number of packets arriving the outgoing port and an amount of power consumed by the outgoing port for a first time interval; calculating a packet per watt (“P/W”) metric for the port for the first time interval, wherein the P/W metric comprises the number of packets coming into the port divided by the amount of power consumed by the port during the first time interval; repeating the collecting and calculating for a number of successive time intervals; calculating a mean P/W metric for a time period comprising the first time interval and the successive time intervals; and calculating a variance for the time period comprising the first time interval and the successive time intervals. The method further includes redirecting traffic received at the network element to the outgoing port having the lowest variance. |
| US10209762B2 |
Selectively powered layered network and a method thereof
A layered network (10; 11; 12) to provide offload of data in a communication processor (100; 110; 120). The layered network (10; 11; 12) includes a first set (S1) of network elements at a first layer (L1) and a second set (S2) of one or more network elements at a second layer (L2). The network elements of the first set (S1) are configured for processing incoming data and the network elements of the second set (S2) of one or more network elements at the second layer (L2) are configured to process intermediate data received from the first set (S1) of network elements. The network elements of a particular subset (Si1) of the network elements of the first set (Si1) of network elements are connected to only a particular network element (Ei2) of the second set (S2) to transfer the incoming data processed by the network elements of the particular subset (Si1) to the particular network element (Ei2) of the second set (S2). The layered network (10; 11; 12) further includes a powering controller (25) configured to, during offload of the data, put a particular network element (Ei2) of the second set (S2) at the second layer (L2) in an on state only if at least a particular network element (Ei1) of the particular subset (Si1) of the network elements of the first set (S1) at the first layer (L1) is in an on state and at least one of the network elements of the first set (S1) is in an off state. The powering controller (25) is configured to discriminate between chains of network elements formed by at least network elements of the first set (S1) and network elements of the second set (S2) and to have a chain in an on state if a first network element of the chain at a highest layer hierarchy is in an on state. |
| US10209760B2 |
Browser-driven power saving
The embodiments disclosed herein describe ways that a browser application or other process can reduce power usage by a computing device. Methods include the process suspending one or more plug-ins on a web page by replacing them with a snapshot taken from the plug-in, and reducing processing on non-media plug-ins and non-visible portions of web pages running in the browser, but not currently in focus, such as when a tab is in the background behind a different tab, when a browser window is minimized, or when the web page is entirely or partially occluded. |
| US10209758B2 |
Graphics processing system and power gating method thereof
A graphics processing system and power gating method thereof, the graphics processing system comprising: a graphics processing unit (GPU), a bus interface and a power management unit (PMU), the GPU comprising a control circuit and a plurality of partitions; the method includes: when the bus interface receives an external graphics command, utilizing the PMU to turn on a power supply of the control circuit; subsequently utilizing the control circuit to turn on power supplies of one or more partitions of the plurality of partitions corresponding to the external graphics command; when then control circuit detects any one of the plurality of partitions is in an idle state, utilizing the control circuit to turn off the power supply of the partition in the idle state; when the bus interface detects the plurality of partitions are in a full idle state, utilizing the bus interface to turn off the power supply of the control circuit via the PMU; and when the PMU turns off the power supply of the control circuit, the control circuit may also turn off the power supplies of the plurality of the partitions. |
| US10209756B2 |
Operating system and control method thereof
An operating system including a voltage converter, a processing circuit, and a protector is provided. The voltage converter converts an input voltage according to a feedback voltage to generate an output voltage. The processing circuit is coupled to the voltage converter and processes the output voltage according to a control signal to generate the feedback voltage. The protector is coupled to the voltage converter and the processing circuit and activates or deactivates the voltage converter according to the feedback voltage. |
| US10209755B2 |
No-operation power state command
A system comprises a first domain 4 and second domain 6 which communicate via an interface 8. The first domain 4 transmits power state commands to the second domain 6 for controlling transitions of power states at the second domain 6. The power state commands include at least a power up command 50 for triggering a transition to a power up state and a power no-operation command 52 in response to which the second domain remains in the current one of the power states. The no-operation command 52 enables the second domain 6 to be left in either the power up state or a different power state even if the first domain 4 is powered down. |
| US10209748B2 |
Electronic device with heat-dissipation structure
An electronic device with a heat-dissipation structure includes a host, a first heat-dissipation tube, a display, a rotation joint, and a second heat-dissipation tube. The first heat-dissipation tube is disposed in the host. The display is pivoted on the host. The display is rotated relative to the host about a rotation axis. The rotation joint is connected to the first heat-dissipation tube. The second heat-dissipation tube is disposed in the display, and connected to the rotation joint. A cooling liquid is filled in the first heat-dissipation tube. |
| US10209744B2 |
Portable electronic device
A portable electronic device includes a body, a heat source, an evaporator, a pipe, and at least one structural component. An inner space of the body is divided into a first space and a second space. The heat source is disposed at the first space and in thermal contact with the evaporator. The pipe is connected with the evaporator to form a loop and passes through at least one of the first space and the second space. At least a portion of the pipe surrounds and is in thermal contact with the structural component disposed inside the body. A working fluid is filled and is circulated in the loop. By absorbing heat in the evaporator, the working fluid in liquid state is vaporized to exit the evaporator. While passing through the pipe, the working fluid in vapor state dissipates heat to be condensed into liquid and flow into the evaporator. |
| US10209737B2 |
Virtual reality glasses
The disclosure relates to a type of virtual reality glasses used to alleviate a view's feeling of fatigue when he or she wears virtual reality glasses for viewing. The virtual reality glasses comprise a housing, a display device, and an optical imaging device disposed within the housing. The optical imaging device is located between the display device and the human eyes. In addition, the virtual reality glasses further comprise a dimming device disposed on the housing wall. When the viewer feels tired after a long time watch through the virtual reality glasses, the viewer may control the dimming device to adjust the ambient light in the virtual reality glasses to improve the background environment inside the virtual reality glasses, thereby alleviating the viewer's feeling of fatigue resulted from viewing through virtual reality glasses worn by him or her. |
| US10209733B2 |
Rotation limiting device
The present invention provides a rotation limiting device. The rotation limiting device includes a base; a rotator capable of rotating relative to the base; and a rotating shaft slidably connected between the base and the rotator. A spiral groove is provided on one of the base and the rotator, and a stripe groove opposite to the spiral groove is provided on the other one of the base and the rotator, two ends of the rotating shaft are slidahly connected respectively in the spiral groove and the stripe groove, and the rotator is rotated to cause the rotating shaft to slide from starting positions of the spiral groove and the stripe groove to terminal positions of the spiral groove and the stripe groove, such that a rotation angle of the rotator is greater than 360°. |
| US10209731B2 |
Bandgap reference circuit and power supply circuit
A band gap reference circuit includes a first bipolar transistor and a second bipolar transistor that are coupled to a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal, each base of the first bipolar transistor and the second bipolar transistor being coupled to an output terminal, a first resistor that is coupled to the second power supply terminal and the first bipolar transistor, a second resistor and a third resistor that are coupled to an end of the first bipolar transistor of the first resistor and the second bipolar transistor in series, a ninth resistor that is coupled to the first power supply terminal and a collector of the first bipolar transistor, a tenth resistor that is coupled to the first power supply terminal and a collector of the second bipolar transistor, and an amplifier is coupled to the collector of the first bipolar transistor. |
| US10209721B2 |
Hot water heater systems and methods for controlling electronic mixing valves
Hot water heater systems including electronic mixing valves and methods for controlling such valves are provided. An electronic mixing valve provides a flow of water in a mixed output line. A method includes monitoring an input temperature of cold water supplied to the valve, storing a value of the input temperature, and setting a position limit of the valve based on the stored value, wherein the position limit of the valve is greater than a fully closed position of the valve and less than a fully open position of the valve. |
| US10209716B1 |
Systems and methods for communicating autonomous vehicle scenario evaluation and intended vehicle actions
Systems and methods for communicating autonomous vehicle operations are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer implemented method includes obtaining data associated with the autonomous vehicle. The method includes identifying an object within the surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle or a planned vehicle motion action of the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the data associated with the autonomous vehicle. The method includes determining an audible vehicle indication that is associated with the identified object or the planned vehicle motion action. The audible vehicle indication is indicative of a type of the object or a type of the planned vehicle motion. The method includes outputting, via one or more output devices onboard the autonomous vehicle, the audible vehicle indication. |
| US10209715B2 |
System and method of using crowd-sourced driving path data in an autonomous or semi-autonomous driving system
A processing system includes at least one computer processor, which is configured to implement a method that includes receiving crowd-sourced driving path data, map data, and real-time sensor data associated with a roadway. The method includes generating, by the processing system, optimized driving path data for the roadway based on the crowd-sourced path data, the map data, and the sensor data. The method includes providing control signals to control an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle based on the optimized driving path data. |
| US10209711B1 |
Techniques for contention resolution for mobile drive units
Systems and methods are provided herein for providing contention resolutions for components (e.g., mobile drive units, personnel devices) of an inventory system. For example, a method may comprise determining a task to be performed by a mobile drive unit within a storage facility. The MDU may be provided a set of commands related to the task. Conflict information may be received from the MDU that indicates an obstacle related to the set of commands and the task. An alternate set of commands may be generated for the MDU based at least in part on the conflict information and a computer-generated model. In at least one embodiment, the computer-generated model may be trained based at least in part on historical conflict information and conflict resolution information specific to tasks performed within the storage facility. The alternate set of commands related to the task may be provided to the MDU. |
| US10209703B2 |
Communication system and mobile terminal
A communication system is equipped with a mobile terminal and a controller of an industrial machine for forming a shaped product. Mutual communications are carried out between the controller and the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes an image capturing unit for capturing an image of an object to be imaged, an image conversion unit which converts the captured image data captured by the image capturing unit and generates converted image data according to an image format rule corresponding to the controller, a setting data creation unit which creates setting data for the converted image data, so that the converted image data can be used by the controller, and a data transmission and reception unit which carries out communications with the controller and transmits the converted image data and the setting data to the controller. |
| US10209698B2 |
Calibration method and automation machining apparatus using the same
A calibration method applicable for an automation machining apparatus includes building a first stereoscopic characteristic model corresponding to an object, obtaining a stereoscopic image of the object, building a second stereoscopic characteristic model corresponding to the object based on the stereoscopic image, obtaining at least one error parameter corresponding to the second stereoscopic characteristic model by comparing the second stereoscopic characteristic model with the first stereoscopic characteristic model, and calibrating a machining parameter of the automation machining apparatus based on the at least one error parameter. |
| US10209696B2 |
Control system, control method and extension board
A control system, includes a master control device configured to control a first controlled object based on time information output from a first clock unit, and a slave control device connected to the master control device via a network and configured to control a second controlled object different from the first controlled object based on control information transmitted from the master control device and time information output from a second clock unit. The time information of the first clock unit and the time information of the second clock unit are time-synchronized. |
| US10209695B2 |
Method and a system for replacing and commissioning of a field device
In aspects, the present invention discloses a method for replacing a first field device with a second field device using a commissioning tool. The method comprising retrieving a device description file associated with the first field device, analyzing the device description file, generating a first object by mapping a parameters of the second field device to a parameter from the identified one or more parameters based on a first index and a second index, generating a configuration file associated with the second file device based on the device description file and the generated first object, and transmitting the configuration file to the second field device for commissioning operation of the second field device. The step of analyzing the device description file comprises identifying one or more parameters from the plurality of parameters for mapping based on a predetermined criteria. |
| US10209693B2 |
Architecture for providing ubiquitous access to a home automation system
An architecture that provides ubiquitous access to a home automation system utilizes both a home database and a configuration database maintained by remote cloud services. In one example embodiment, a system configuration of the home automation system is generated and maintained in a home database accessible on an in-home LAN. The home database is synchronized with a configuration database of cloud services over the Internet. User input is received in a home automation control UI indicating a change to one or more services or scenes provided by hardware elements of the home automation system. When there is connectivity between a device providing the home automation control UI and the in-home LAN, the system configuration in the home database is utilized to effect the indicated change. When there is no connectivity between the device providing the home automation control UI and the in-home LAN, the system configuration in the configuration database of cloud services is utilized to effect the indicated change. |
| US10209691B2 |
Instructions for conditioning nutritional substances
Nutritional substance systems and methods are disclosed enabling the tracking and communication of changes in nutritional, organoleptic, and aesthetic values of nutritional substances, and further enabling the adaptive storage and adaptive conditioning of nutritional substances. |
| US10209689B2 |
Supervisor history service import manager
A system and approach of importing data from site controllers as history imports with a history service by a supervisor in conjunction with a host processor. The history service may reconfigure the history imports to provide the history service virtually full control over the history imports. The history service may runs a history import cycle to ensure that virtually all enabled history imports are performed. The history service may establish a list of history imports to be processed at a beginning of the history import cycle. The history import cycle may query virtually all history imports in an order on a last success time of a history import operation where an oldest time is first on the list. The history service may ensure a maximum number of history imports are running by querying for a count of history imports of an in progress state. |
| US10209688B2 |
Smart thermostat robust against adverse effects from internal heat-generating components
A thermostat may include a plurality of heat-generating components; a plurality of first temperature sensors, each of the plurality of first temperature sensors being disposed next to a corresponding one of the plurality of heat-generating components; a second temperature sensor that is disposed away from the plurality of heat-generating components; and a memory device storing a coefficient matrix. The thermostat may also include one or more processors that combine a plurality of inputs to calculate an ambient temperature for an enclosure in which the thermostat is installed, the plurality of inputs including readings from the plurality of first temperature sensors, readings from the second temperature sensor, and the coefficient matrix. |
| US10209687B2 |
Realization of energy savings potential through feedback
Feedback is provided to a user based on a setting for a set of energy consuming devices. While a user modifies a thermostat's schedule or provides user commands to adjust a setting for the set of energy consuming devices, a user interface component generates feedback to the consumer in response to an adjusted setting based on a condition for a predetermined function. A positive feedback component generates a positive feedback, such as a positive image in the user interface if the setting meets or exceeds a recommended performance metric for an operational parameter for the set of energy consuming devices. A negative feedback component generates a negative feedback, such as a negative image if the setting meets or exceeds a second condition, such as a discouraged performance metric. |
| US10209684B2 |
Self-configuring extremum-seeking control system
A self-configuring extremum-seeking controller includes a dither signal generator, a communications interface, a phase delay estimator, and a bandwidth estimator. The dither signal generator identifies a stored dither frequency, generates a dither signal having the stored dither frequency, and uses the dither signal to perturb a control input for a plant. The communications interface provides the perturbed control input to the plant and receives an output signal from the plant resulting from the perturbed control input. The phase delay estimator estimates a phase delay between the output signal and the dither signal. The bandwidth estimator estimates a bandwidth of the plant based on the estimated phase delay. The dither signal generator updates the stored dither frequency based on the estimated bandwidth. |
| US10209681B2 |
Safety architecture for failsafe systems
A safety device includes a monitoring unit, a test block and an output stage having at least one contact member. The monitoring unit includes at least two outputs and provides at least two, different output signals for testing its absence from faults. The monitoring unit provides at least one enabling signal for a switch-off function The test block includes at least one input and is configured to monitor at least one of the output signals of the monitoring unit. The test block also includes at least one output and provides at least one enabling signal for a switch-off function. The at least one contact member of the output stage has at least two inputs and is configured to link at least one of the output signals of the monitoring unit to the at least one enabling signal of the test block. |
| US10209679B2 |
Timepiece with internal antenna
A timepiece includes a case that is made of a conductive material, a bezel that is made of a nonconductive material, a patch antenna that is disposed inside the case and at the back side of the dial, and a bezel that is made of a ceramic. |
| US10209671B2 |
Image forming apparatus with cooling fan control
First intake and first exhaust fans provided in a first image forming apparatus and second intake and second exhaust fans provided in a second image forming apparatus having a slower normal image forming speed than the first image forming apparatus are configured with the same specifications, and the numbers of revolutions of the second intake and second exhaust fans are driven and controlled to become less than the numbers of revolutions of the first intake and first exhaust fans. |
| US10209664B2 |
Printing system including printing apparatus and printing control apparatus
A printing system includes a printing control apparatus and a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives data transmitted from the printing control apparatus, and a power source control unit that causes the printing apparatus to enter a first power saving state or a second power saving state. The printing control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a power state of the printing apparatus, and a control unit that causes the printing control apparatus to enter an OFF state in a case where a acquired power state is the first power saving state, and causes the printing control apparatus to enter a power saving state where a wake-up packet for recovering the printing apparatus from the second power saving state can be transmitted in a case where the acquired power state is the second power saving state. |
| US10209661B2 |
Image forming apparatus having an image reading unit for image calibration
An image forming apparatus includes a conveying member, an image forming unit, an image reading unit, a background member and a color sample member. The image reading unit reads a surface of long paper being conveyed by the conveying member, the surface having an image formed by the image forming unit. The long paper is conveyed by the conveying member to pass through between the image reading unit and the background member and avoid passing through between the image reading unit and the color sample member. A switch between a first arrangement where the image reading unit faces the background member via the long paper and a second arrangement where the image reading unit faces the color sample member is made by moving the image reading unit or by moving the background member, the color sample member and the conveying member. |
| US10209656B1 |
Image forming apparatus and consumed power reduction method
An image forming apparatus includes a first printer section configured to form an image on a sheet using decolorable toner which is decolored by heating thereof, a second printer section configured to form an image on the sheet using non-decolorable toner, a heating section configured to heat the sheet on which the image is formed, and a controller configured to control the operation of the image forming apparatus based on an electric energy value which is an integrated value of power consumed within a predetermined time period. |
| US10209650B2 |
Fixation device with endless belt and rollers and image forming apparatus having the same
A fixation device includes: an endless belt member; a first roller arranged inside the belt member; a second roller arranged outside the belt member and biased toward the first roller via the belt member; and a pressure member is biased toward the second roller via the belt member. A facing surface of the pressure member that faces the second roller includes a first flat section and a second flat section that intersect at an intersecting portion. A first end portion of the first flat section on the opposite side to the intersecting portion, a second end portion of the second flat section on the opposite side to the intersecting portion, and the intersecting portion are on an imaginary arc in a cross-section. A radius R of the imaginary arc satisfies, with respect a radius Rp of the second roller, an inequality of “(1/2)×Rp≤R≤(19/20)×Rp”. |
| US10209649B1 |
Shaped fuser reflector for externally heating a fuser assembly with variable size print media
A fuser apparatus includes fuser and pressure rolls rotatably mounted parallel to and in contact with each other to form a nip through which print media with a toner image thereon is passed to fuse the image to the print media. A heating lamp is positioned to heat the fuser roll. A mechanism is used that alters the interior of a fuser housing to harvest the excess heat emitted by the heating lamp and to reflect the excess heat back to the fuser roll at different patterns/angles dependent on the mode of the fusing and the size of print substrate being marked. |
| US10209646B1 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that rotates while carrying a toner image; an image former that forms the toner image; a transfer roller that transfers the toner image to a recording medium; and a bias voltage applier that applies a voltage to the transfer roller, wherein the image former forms transfer images and forms a patch image with toner between a first transfer image and a second transfer image, and the bias voltage applier applies a first voltage having a polarity opposite to a charge polarity of the toner to the transfer roller, applies a second voltage having the polarity opposite to the charge polarity of the toner and larger than the first voltage to the transfer roller, and applies a third voltage having the polarity opposite to the charge polarity of the toner and smaller than the second voltage to the transfer roller. |
| US10209643B2 |
Toner container that restricts removal from mounting portion and image forming apparatus
A toner container is for mounting to a mounting portion of an image forming apparatus along a mounting direction. The toner container includes a container body and an engaging protrusion. The container body houses a toner and rotates. The engaging protrusion projects from an outer peripheral surface of the container body. The engaging protrusion has a spiral pattern and rotates integrally with the container body. The mounting portion includes a lock portion is engageable with the engaging protrusion. Rotation of the container body and the engaging protrusion in one rotation direction in a state where removal of the toner container from the mounting portion is permitted causes the toner container to move to a back side (downstream) in the mounting direction while shifting an engaging part of the engaging protrusion relative to the lock portion to restrict the removal of the toner container from the mounting portion. |
| US10209642B2 |
Charge roller
A charge roller in an image-forming apparatus of a DC electrification mode mitigates occurrence of black lines and prevents fogging. The charge roller has a core, an elastic layer on the core, and a surface treatment layer on the surface of the elastic layer. The elastic layer is a vulcanized rubber composition containing a rubber base mainly containing an epichlorohydrin-based rubber, and additives including a conductivity-imparting agent, an inorganic filler, a vulcanization accelerator, and a vulcanizing agent. The ratio of the conductivity-imparting agent and the inorganic filler, to the entire rubber composition, is 11 mass % or less. The surface treatment layer is formed by impregnating the elastic layer with a surface treatment liquid prepared by dissolving an isocyanate compound in an organic solvent. The roller has a roller surface roughness Rz of 10 μm or less. |
| US10209637B2 |
Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support, a charge generating layer containing a charge generation material, and a charge transporting layer containing a charge transport material in this order, the charge transporting layer serving as a surface layer. The charge transporting layer contains a polycarbonate resin having a particular structural unit. |
| US10209633B2 |
Vibration control apparatus, lithography apparatus, and method of manufacturing article
The present invention provides a vibration control apparatus which controls vibration of an object supported via a support having a damping coefficient, the apparatus comprising a driving device configured to drive the object, and a controller configured to perform negative feedback control of the driving device based on information of vibration of the object, wherein the controller is configured to perform positive feedback control of the driving device based on information of a velocity of the object so as to reduce a force which the support causes to act on the object in accordance with the velocity. |
| US10209632B2 |
Proximity exposure device and exposure method thereof
The embodiments of the disclosure relate to a proximity exposure device and an exposure method thereof. The proximity exposure device includes: a loading table; a holder mounted onto the loading table to hold a mask; a vacuum hood arranged above the mask to form a sealed space above the mask; and a pumping mechanism connected to the vacuum hood to pump air from the vacuum hood such that a negative pressure state is formed above the mask. |
| US10209631B2 |
Exposure apparatus and method of manufacturing article
The present invention provides an exposure apparatus which transfers a pattern of a mask onto a substrate by exposing the substrate while scanning the mask and the substrate, the apparatus including a stage configured to hold the substrate and move, a control unit configured to control movement of the stage, a first measurement unit configured to measure a position, in a height direction, of a shot region of the substrate held by the stage before the shot region reaches an exposure area where the shot region is exposed, and a second measurement unit configured to measure the position of the shot region in the height direction prior to the first measurement unit. |
| US10209627B2 |
Systems and methods for focus-sensitive metrology targets
A lithography system includes an illumination source, projection optical elements, and a pattern mask. The illumination source includes one or more illumination poles. The pattern mask includes a set of focus-sensitive mask elements distributed with a pitch and, is configured to diffract illumination from the one or more illumination poles. The pitch may be selected such that two diffraction orders of illumination associated with each of the one or more illumination poles are asymmetrically distributed in a pupil plane of the projection optical elements. Further, the projection optical elements may expose a sample with an image of the set of focus-sensitive pattern mask elements based on the two diffraction orders of illumination associated with each of the one or more illumination poles such that one or more printing characteristics is indicative of a position of the sample within a focal volume of the projection optical elements. |
| US10209622B2 |
Exposure method and device manufacturing method having lower scanning speed to expose peripheral shot area
An exposure method sequentially exposes a plurality of shot areas of a substrate. The method includes: (i) holding the substrate on a substrate holder such that a gap is formed along an edge of the substrate; (ii) exposing one of the shot areas, located near a center of the substrate, through a liquid of a liquid immersion area which covers only a portion of a surface of the substrate, while moving the substrate at a first scanning speed; and (iii) exposing an other one of the shot areas through the liquid of the liquid immersion area, while moving the substrate at a second scanning speed lower than the first scanning speed. The other one of the shot areas is located near the edge of the substrate and the gap is included in the liquid immersion area during the exposure of the other one of the shot areas. |
| US10209620B2 |
Illumination system for EUV projection exposure apparatus, EUV projection exposure apparatus including illumination system and method for operating an EUV projection exposure apparatus
An illumination system for an EUV projection exposure apparatus is designed for shaping illumination radiation from at least a portion of received EUV radiation. The illumination radiation is directed into an illumination field in an exit plane of the illumination system during exposure operation. An EUV radiation source is arranged in a source module separate from the illumination system. The illumination system includes an alignment state determining system including an alignment detector configured to receive a portion of the EUV radiation emerging from the secondary radiation source and to generate therefrom an alignment detector signal representative of the alignment state. |
| US10209619B2 |
Composition and method of forming pattern using composition
A semiconductor device production composition comprises a product obtained by mixing a metal compound and a compound represented by Formula (1) in a first organic solvent, and a second organic solvent. R and R′ each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a linear or cyclic alkyl group having a carbon number of 2 to 20, a linear or cyclic alkylcarbonyl group having a carbon number of 2 to 20, an aryl group having a carbon number of 6 to 20, or an aryloxy group having a carbon number of 6 to 20, and part of the hydrogen atoms in the cyclic alkyl, cyclic alkylcarbonyl, aryl, or aryloxy group are substituted or unsubstituted. R—O—O—R′ (1) |
| US10209617B2 |
Treatment method for defect reduction in a substrate and substrates treated thereby
A method for treating a substrate surface uses Neutral Beam irradiation derived from a gas-cluster ion-beam and articles produced thereby including lithography photomask substrates. |
| US10209616B2 |
Mask plate
The present invention provides a mask plate, relating to a field of exposure technology, which can solve the problem of an existing mask plate that a resolution is limited by an effect of diffraction. The mask plate of the invention includes: a pattern structure, including a light blocking region and a light transmitting region; and a total reflection structure provided at an light-exiting side of the pattern structure, the total reflection structure including a high refraction layer and a first low refraction layer sequentially provided in a direction away from the pattern structure and contacting each other, wherein a refractive index of the high refraction layer is greater than a refractive index of the first low refraction layer. |
| US10209609B2 |
Electronic device having a heat sink, and projector including the electronic device
An electronic device has a first device holder and a second device holder each having a heat generating device attached thereto, a first heat conductive plate and a second heat conductive plate which are connected to the first and second device holders, respectively, a first heat dissipating fin disposed by the side of the second device holder which is disposed adjacent to the first device holder, a second heat dissipating fin disposed adjacent to the first heat dissipating fin in the same direction as the first heat dissipating fin, two first heat pipes which connect the first device holder with the first heat dissipating fin so that heat can be conducted therebetween, and a second heat pipe which connects the second device holder and the second heat dissipating fin so that heat can be conducted therebetween and which is disposed between the two first heat pipes. |
| US10209605B2 |
Blade driving device and image capturing device
A blade driving device includes an opening forming member forming an opening portion, a pivotal member pivoting about the opening portion, blades configured to enter or exit from the opening portion upon receiving power transmitted from the pivotal member, a cover member arranged so that the pivotal member and the plurality of blades are located between the cover and the opening forming member, and engaging portions engaging the of blades with the opening forming member. The pivotal member comes into slidable contact with the engaging portions in a process of pivoting. A pivotal position of the pivotal member with respect to the opening forming member is defined by the engaging portions. |
| US10209595B2 |
Array substrate and manufacturing method therefor, and display panel
Provided are an array substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display panel. The array substrate comprises: a base substrate; a data line and a passivation layer which are formed on the base substrate; a common electrode layer formed on the passivation layer; and a shielding electrode layer and a barrier layer which are formed on the base substrate, wherein the shielding electrode layer is arranged between the data line and the passivation layer, the barrier layer is arranged between the data line and the shielding electrode layer, the shielding electrode layer is grounded, and the barrier layer is made of a material with an insulation function. |
| US10209592B2 |
Active matrix substrate, display device and display device manufacturing method
An active matrix substrate includes an insulating substrate in which light-transmitting areas and a light-shielding area are formed. The active matrix substrate further includes: a light-shielding film formed in the light-shielding area on the insulating substrate, with a transparent base material containing carbon particles, the light shielding film being colored with the carbon particles; an inorganic film formed on the light-shielding film; light-transmitting films formed in the light-transmitting areas on the insulating substrate, with a transparent base material containing transparent oxidized carbon particles; gate lines provided on the inorganic film; a gate insulating film provided on the gate lines; thin film transistors provided in matrix on the gate insulating film; and data lines provided on the light-shielding film to intersect with the gate lines. The data lines are electrically connected with the thin film transistors. |
| US10209590B2 |
Liquid crystal display
Provided is a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate; a gate line, a data line, and a common voltage line formed on the first substrate; a first passivation layer formed on the gate line, the data line, and the common voltage line; and a pixel electrode and a common electrode formed on the first passivation layer and overlapping each other with a second passivation layer therebetween, and the common electrode is connected to the common voltage line through a common contact hole, and the common contact hole is disposed for every two or more dots. |
| US10209588B2 |
Thin film transistor array panel, liquid crystal display, and method to repair the same
A method of repairing a short of a pixel electrode and a storage electrode including irradiating laser to separate a portion shorted to the pixel electrode among the storage electrode to be disconnected, in which the storage electrode includes a first portion overlapping a data line between two adjacent gate lines and a second portion connected to the first portion and enclosing an edge of a pixel area except for a region where the first portion is formed, the pixel area is defined by the data line and a gate line, a thin film transistor is coupled to the data line, the gate line, and the pixel electrode, and two adjacent pixel areas are defined by the two adjacent gate lines and two adjacent data lines, and the storage electrode is branched between pixel electrodes respectively formed in the two adjacent pixel areas. |
| US10209587B2 |
Array substrate, liquid crystal display panel and display device
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, including: a base substrate, a plurality of scan lines; a plurality of data lines arranged by intersecting with the plurality of scan lines; a plurality of thin film transistors arranged in a matrix, each thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, an active layer and a drain electrode; a planarization layer covering the gate electrode, the active layer and the drain electrode, a position of the planarization layer corresponding to the drain electrode is provided with a through hole penetrating through the planarization layer, and the drain electrode is located in the through hole; a filling electrode, located in the through hole and connected with the drain electrode and covers the drain electrode; and a pixel electrode, indirectly connected with the drain electrode through the filling electrode. |
| US10209583B2 |
Display panel and display apparatus
In accordance with various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a display panel, and a related display apparatus are provided. In some embodiments, the display panel comprises: a plurality of first sub-pixels adjacent to a photo spacer; and a plurality of second sub-pixels separated from the major photo spacer; wherein an aperture area of each first sub-pixel is smaller than an aperture area of each second sub-pixel, while a light transmittance of each first sub-pixel is substantially equal to a light transmittance of each second sub-pixel. |
| US10209574B2 |
Liquid crystal display
A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment includes a display substrate including a display area for displaying an image and a non-display area enclosing the display area; a plurality of normal pixels formed in an edge region among a center region of the display area and a peripheral area of the display area, and a plurality of corner pixels formed in a corner region of the peripheral area of the display area; and a sealant formed in the non-display area. A corner pixel of the plurality of corner pixels and the sealant are separated from each other. |
| US10209572B2 |
Liquid crystal display
A liquid crystal (LCD) panel is provided. The LCD panel has a plurality of pixels. One of the pixels includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first electrode layer and a first alignment layer covering the first electrode layer. The second substrate includes a second electrode layer and a second alignment layer covering the second electrode layer. The second electrode layer has a first electrode pattern and a second electrode pattern. The first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern are separated. The first electrode pattern has a convex edge. The second electrode pattern has a concave edge. The shape of the convex edge is complementary to the shape of the concave edge. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. |
| US10209568B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel and a display device, the display panel includes an array substrate; wherein the array substrate includes a common electrode, a first insulation layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes and an alignment layer; the common electrode, first insulation layer, plurality of pixel electrodes and alignment layer are successively arranged; at least one first through hole is defined in the first insulation layer, and the alignment layer contacts with the common electrode via the at least one first through hole. By arranging in such a manner, although a thin-film transistor stays in a turn-on state for an extremely short time, however, since the common electrode is always in a conductive state, so that the electrostatic charge remaining on the alignment layer can be conducted away by the common electrode, thereby reducing the electrostatic charge remaining on the alignment layer, and thus improving display quality of display panel. |
| US10209567B2 |
Display device with a capacitive touch panel
Disclosed is a display device with a capacitive touch panel including a laminate between a display panel and a cover layer, the laminate having a viewing-side polarizing plate; a first conductive layer, a dielectric layer and a second conductive layer constituting a capacitive touch sensor; and a substrate, in which the first conductive layer, dielectric layer, second conductive layer, and substrate are positioned closer to the cover layer than is the viewing-side polarizing plate, the first conductive layer is formed on one surface of the substrate, the dielectric layer is formed on a surface of the first conductive layer opposite to the substrate side, the second conductive layer is formed on a surface of the dielectric layer opposite to the first conductive layer side, the substrate has an optical film with a phase difference of (2n−1)λ/4, where n is a positive integer, the viewing-side polarizing plate has a polarizing film, and a slow axis of the optical film intersects a transmission axis of the polarizing film at an angle of about 45° as viewed in a stacking direction. |
| US10209557B2 |
Display substrate
Disclosed is a display substrate, which includes a base substrate and a polarization layer, wherein the polarization layer includes grid polarizer (GPs) and light-shielding matrixes arranged in a same layer and made from a same material. The display substrate simplifies the production process, reduces the cost and reduces the thickness of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device. |
| US10209556B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for forming filter elements on display substrates
A method and system for forming filter elements on a plurality of display substrates using a digital imaging system operable to selectively deposit filter material at a plurality of deposition locations is disclosed. The method involves receiving orientation information defining a disposition of a plurality of pixels associated with the at least one display substrate, identifying pixels in the plurality of pixels that are to receive filter material for forming a filter element on the pixel, selecting deposition locations within each of the identified pixels in accordance with the orientation information to meet an alignment criterion associated with placement of the filter element within the pixel, and controlling the digital imaging system to cause deposition of the filter material at the selected deposition locations. A method and system for forming filter elements on a substrate is also disclosed, which involves selecting locations to receive filter material for forming filter elements on the substrate, introducing a random variation in placement of the filter elements, and forming filter elements at the selected locations, the substrate being subsequently aligned to a display substrate for forming a display. A method and system for forming filter elements on a display substrate is also disclosed, which involves selectively depositing filter material to form the filter elements on a plurality of pixels associated with the display substrate, and selectively exposing the deposited filter material to thermal laser radiation to condition the deposited filter material. |
| US10209554B2 |
Method for manufacturing laminated resin black-matrix substrate
The present invention discloses a method for producing a laminated-resin black matrix that has a sufficient optical density and a low reflectance and that can be precisely processed, and a color filter substrate that includes a laminated-resin black matrix substrate produced by the method. The method for producing a laminated-resin black matrix substrate includes the step of exposing, in a single step, a laminate of a coating A of a non-photosensitive resin composition A that contains a light-shielding material and a coating B of a resin composition B that contains a light-shielding material, the laminate being on a substrate, and the step of developing the exposed laminate. The color filter substrate includes red, green, or blue pixels formed in apertures in a laminated-resin black matrix substrate produced by the method. |
| US10209553B2 |
Display device comprising angular filter
A display device includes: a backlight unit emitting a light; a first substrate on a path of a light emitted from the backlight unit; a pixel electrode on the first substrate; a light amount control layer on the pixel electrode; a first polarizer on the light amount control layer; a color conversion layer on the first polarizer; and an angular filter between the backlight unit and the color conversion layer. The color conversion layer includes a phosphor, and the angular filter blocks 50% or more of a light incident to the angular filter at an incident angle of 30 degrees or more. |
| US10209550B2 |
Securing a touch sensor assembly for a touch button
A touch button structure for a mobile communications or other device, including a sensor slot with front-side and back-side slot walls formed in the device wall, an interior surface of a touch button area forming the front-side slot wall, and a sensor component inserted within the sensor slot. The sensor component includes a sense element operable to sense a touch-deflection of the front-side slot wall toward the sense element in response to a touch-press of the touch button, and front-side and back-side elastic insulating retention laminates affixed to the front/back-side of the sense element. The front/back-side elastic laminates being compressible for insertion of the sensor component into the sensor slot, and when inserted, are decompressible to contact respectively the front-side and back-side slot walls, and at least the front-side elastic laminate is compressible in response to a deflection of the front-side slot wall in the direction of the sense element. |
| US10209547B2 |
Apparatus having curable resin adhering plate-shaped base and cover plate and manufacturing method the same
There are provided an apparatus and a method of manufacturing the apparatus. The apparatus includes: a plate-shaped base; a cover plate; and a curable resin adhering the plate-shaped base and the cover plate together. At least one of the plate-shaped base and the cover plate includes a light-shielding member covering a peripheral part of the at least one of the plate-shaped base and the cover plate. In an area which is shielded by the light-shielding member, a part of the curable resin at a side of an inner edge of the light shielding member is lower in one of an elastic modulus, a curing degree, and an adhesion strength than another part of the curable resin at a side of an outer edge of the light shielding member. |
| US10209543B2 |
LCD panel, terminal device and photo-sensing control method
An LCD panel, a terminal device and a photo-sensing control method are provided. The LCD panel includes: a backlight source, an array substrate disposed on the backlight source; a photosensitive device array disposed on the array substrate; and a control circuit coupled to the photosensitive device array. By disposing the photosensitive device array on the array substrate of the LCD panel, a front panel of the terminal device is not required to be divided into multiple regions. Therefore, the camera function can be integrated into the LCD panel, and only the LCD panel is needed in the front panel of the terminal device which has both the display function and the camera function. The integration and appearance of the front panel of the terminal device is thus improved. |
| US10209542B1 |
System and method of embedding driver IC (EmDIC) in LCD display substrate
Disclosed is a display module and method of manufacturing the same, where the display module comprises a LCD panel, a driver IC for driving the LCD panel, and a FPC electrically coupled to the driver IC. The LCD panel includes an array of TFT pixels on a TFT array substrate. The TFT array substrate defines a driver cavity in which the driver IC is disposed. The driver IC includes an interface side and an opposing non-interface side. The interface side includes an image signal input pad and a driving signal output pad. The driver IC is configured to receive image signals from the FPC, to process the image signals into drive signals, and to transmit the drive signals to one or more of the plurality of TFT pixels via an RDL electrical connection. |
| US10209538B2 |
Window having active transparency control
An active, transparency-controlled window comprises at least one layer of a material that is transparent to at least selected wavelengths of light; at least one layer of photochromic material having a transparency, to the at least selected wavelengths of light, that can be controllably altered by an activating light; and a controllable source of light that activates the photochromic material to controllably alter the transparency of the photochromic material to the at least selected wavelengths of light. The material that is transparent to at least selected wavelengths of light may be a material selected from the group consisting of glass and plastic. |
| US10209537B2 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring and controlling a photonic switch using phase sweeping
A method and apparatus for monitoring and feedback control of a photonic switch such as 2×2 Mach-Zehnder Interferometer switch. Optical signals at an input and an output of the switch are monitored via optical taps. A sinusoidal time-varying phase shift is applied to one of the monitoring signals. An optical combiner then combines the monitoring signals. A photodetector monitors output of the optical combiner to provide a feedback signal. The amplitude of the feedback signal due to the time-varying phase shift increases with the amount of input signal present in the output signal. When the input signal is to be routed to the output (e.g. for a bar state), a controller manipulates the switch to maximize feedback signal amplitude. When the input signal is to be routed to a different output (e.g. for a cross state), the controller manipulates the switch to minimize feedback signal amplitude. |
| US10209536B2 |
Method for correcting a wearer behaviour for using a pair of spectacles in optimized conditions
The invention relates to a method (20) for correcting an individual behavior for using a pair of spectacles in optimized conditions, said individual wearing frame (4). According to the invention said method comprises the following steps: —a step (24) of determining parameters that characterize the behavioral conditions of the individual using correcting means securely fastened to the frame of the frame (4) in the preceding various situations for a set time; —a step (26) of comparing said parameters with preset reference values; and —a step (28) of correcting the behavior of the individual using detecting means (1) that are securely fastened to the said frame (4), and that trigger when the difference between a parameter and the corresponding reference value diverges beyond a preset threshold value. |
| US10209535B2 |
Lenses, devices and methods for ocular refractive error
A lens for an eye having an optical axis and an aberration profile along its optical axis, the aberration profile having a focal distance and including higher order aberrations having at least one of a primary spherical aberration component and a secondary spherical aberration component. The aberration profile may provide, for a model eye with no aberrations and an on-axis length equal to the focal distance: a peak, first retinal image quality (RIQ) within a through focus range that remains at or above a second RIQ over the through focus range that includes said focal distance, where the first RIQ is at least 0.35, the second RIQ is at least 0.1 and the through focus range is at least 1.8 Diopters. |
| US10209530B2 |
Three-dimensional display
Three-dimensional displays are described using electrophoresis or electro-wetting media to modulate the total internal reflection of light in a waveguide. |
| US10209527B2 |
Illuminator and projector
An illuminator includes a light source apparatus that outputs light, a light collecting system on which the light is incident, and a diffuser element on which the collected light flux having exited out of the light collecting system is incident. The light includes a first light beam flux that occupies an area including the optical axis of the light collecting system and a second light beam flux that occupies the area outside the first light beam flux. The position where the first light beam flux is focused in the direction of the optical axis by the light collecting system differs from the position where the second light beam flux is focused in the direction of the optical axis by the light collecting system. |
| US10209523B1 |
Apparatus, system, and method for blur reduction for head-mounted displays
An apparatus for reduced display blur may include a display that displays consecutive frames. The apparatus may also include a backlight that intermittently illuminates the display, with variable timing, to render visible each of the consecutive frames. The apparatus may further include a prioritization element that, for each given frame within the consecutive frames, determines a field of interest within the display. The apparatus may additionally include a control element that, for each given frame within the consecutive frames and responsive to the field of interest determined by the prioritization element for the given frame, controls the timing with which the backlight illuminates the display such that the backlight illuminates the display after the display response time has passed for the field of interest within the display for the given frame and finishes illuminating the display before the field of interest within the display is modified for a subsequent frame. |
| US10209521B2 |
Head-mounted display
A head-mounted display according to one aspect includes an interface capable of connecting a cartridge, and a controller configured to execute an application based on data obtained from the cartridge when the cartridge is connected to the interface. The controller is configured to explore other devices existing within an interconnectable area in executing the application, and communicate and connect with other devices associated to the application among other explored devices. |
| US10209520B2 |
Near eye display multi-component dimming system
A system and method are disclosed for controlling an amount of ambient light transmitted to the eye of a wearer through an NED device. A passive component such as a photochromic coating may be applied to a visor of the NED device to block light. An active component may be included to augment the light dimming capabilities of the passive component. |
| US10209515B2 |
Filtering devices and filtering methods
According to various embodiments, a filtering device may be provided. The filtering device may include: an ultraviolet light sensor configured to sense ultraviolet light; an infra-red light sensor configured to sense infra-red light; a visible light sensor configured to sense visible light; a filter selection circuit configured to select a filter based on at least two outputs selected from a list of outputs consisting of: an output of the ultraviolet light sensor; an output of the infra-red light sensor; and an output of the visible light sensor; and a filtering circuit configured to apply the selected filter. |
| US10209513B2 |
Wearable device and control method thereof
A wearable device that is configured to be worn on a body of a user and a control method thereof are provided. The wearable device includes an image projector configured to project a virtual user interface (UI) screen, a camera configured to capture an image, and a processor configured to detect a target area from the image captured by the camera, control the image projector to project the virtual UI screen, which corresponds to at least one of a shape and a size of the target area, onto the target area, and perform a function corresponding to a user interaction that is input through the virtual UI screen. |
| US10209509B1 |
Optical scanning device that includes mirrors and optical waveguide region
An optical scanning device includes: a first mirror; a second mirror; two non-waveguide regions; an optical waveguide region; and a first adjusting element. The optical waveguide region propagates light. The optical waveguide region and the two non-waveguide regions include respective first regions in which a common material exists. The optical waveguide region or each of the two non-waveguide regions further includes a second region in which a first material having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the common material exists. The first mirror allows part of the light propagating through the optical waveguide region to be emitted through the first mirror. The first adjusting element changes at least either the average refractive index of the optical waveguide region or a thickness of the optical waveguide region to change a direction of the light emitted through the first mirror. |
| US10209508B1 |
Color filter support plate having recessed region
A display device includes a first support plate and a second support plate. A pixel region between the first support plate and the second support plate includes a plurality of pixel wall portions over the first support plate forming a perimeter of the pixel region. A first liquid and a second liquid that is immiscible with the first liquid are disposed in the pixel region. A light-blocking portion is disposed on an inner surface of the second support plate and over a first pixel wall portion of the plurality of pixel wall portions. A recessed region is aligned with the light-blocking portion. An electrically conductive layer is disposed within the recessed region and disposed on a portion of the light-blocking portion. The electrically conductive layer has a first surface contacting the second liquid. |
| US10209505B2 |
Optical device for measuring the position of an object
The invention relates to an optical device for measuring the position of an object along a first axis, the object being subjected to light radiations emitted by a light source. The optical device comprises: an imaging system comprising an objective for collecting light radiations diffused by the object, the imaging system having an optical axis extending parallel to the first axis; a transmission mask having at least a first aperture and a second aperture, the first aperture and second aperture being spaced from each other along a second axis, perpendicular to the first axis, the transmission mask being arranged so as to let a first part of the radiations and a second part of the radiations which are diffused by the object pass through the first aperture and the second aperture respectively, while blocking a part of the radiations emitted by the light source which is not diffused by the object; and a detector adapted for generating an image including a first spot and a second spot representative of the first part and second part of the radiations impacting the detector plane, wherein variation of the position of the object relative to the object plane of the imaging system along the first axis causes variation of a position of the first spot and of the second spot relative to each other along the second axis. |
| US10209502B2 |
Microscope and microscopy method
Provided is a microscope provided with: a scanner that scans an excitation beam coming from a light source; an objective optical system that focuses the scanned excitation beam onto a sample and that collects fluorescence generated at individual scanning positions in the sample; a detector that detects the collected fluorescence; a light blocking member that is disposed between the detector and the system and that partially blocks the collected fluorescence; a switching portion that switches the positional relationship between the member and a light-focusing point of the excitation beam in the sample between an optically conjugate positional relationship, in which an in-focus fluorescence generated at the light-focusing point passes through the member, and a non-conjugate positional relationship, in which the in-focus fluorescence is blocked by the member; and a computing portion that computes a difference between fluorescence signals acquired by the detector in the two positional relationships. |
| US10209497B2 |
Imaging lens and imaging apparatus
The imaging lens consists of, in order from an object side: a first lens group G1; a diaphragm; and a second lens group G2 that has a positive refractive power. The first lens group G1 consists of, in order from the object side, a first A lens group G1A that consists of two negative meniscus lenses concave toward an image side, and a first B lens group G1B that consists of only one positive lens or a negative lens and a positive lens. The second lens group G2 consists of, in order from the object side, a biconvex lens, a biconcave lens, one or two biconvex lenses, and a negative meniscus lens that is concave toward the object side. With such a configuration, the imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions. |
| US10209494B2 |
Imaging optical system
An imaging optical system includes a positive or negative first lens group including a negative lens element closest to the object, a diaphragm, and a positive second lens group. The negative lens element closest to the object has an object-side aspherical surface including a paraxial convex surface, a paraxial curvature that is the greatest within the effective aperture, and a portion within the effective aperture having a curvature less than ½ of the paraxial curvature. These conditions are satisfied: R1/f<1.35 D1/f>0.4 −2.5 |
| US10209490B2 |
Optical imaging system for pickup
An optical imaging system for pickup, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, comprising: the first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, the second lens element with refractive power, the third lens element with refractive power, the fourth lens element with refractive power, the fifth lens element with refractive power; the sixth lens element made of plastic, the sixth lens with refractive power having a concave image-side surface with both being aspheric, and the image-side surface having at least one inflection point. |
| US10209489B2 |
Imaging lens
An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens having negative refractive power; and a sixth lens having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The sixth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface on the object side and a surface on the image plane side have negative curvature radii. The first lens has a specific focal length, the second lens has a specific focal length, the fourth lens is arranged to be away from the fifth lens by a specific distance on an optical axis, and the surface of the sixth lens on the image plane side has a specific curvature radius so that specific conditional expressions are satisfied. |
| US10209488B2 |
Optical imaging lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device
An optical imaging lens assembly includes, 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 first lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. 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 has negative refractive power. |
| US10209487B2 |
Optical imaging system
An optical imaging system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, and a fifth lens element. Each of the fourth lens element and the fifth lens element includes at least one aspheric surface. The fourth lens element and the fifth lens element are made of plastic. The fifth lens element includes a concave image-side surface and at least one inflection point. An axial distance is formed between each of the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element, the fourth lens element, and the fifth lens element, and the optical imaging system further comprises a stop. |
| US10209485B2 |
Imaging lens
There is provided an imaging lens which is low-profile, has a small f-value, and obtains wide field of view which aberrations are properly corrected, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface on an object side near an optical axis, a second lens having negative refractive power and a concave surface on the object side near the optical axis, a third lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface on the image side as a double-sided aspheric lens and a fourth lens having negative refractive power and a concave surface on an image side near the optical axis as a double-sided aspheric lens, wherein a conditional expression (1) below is satisfied: 8.5 |
| US10209484B2 |
Photographing lens system, image capturing device, and electronic device
A photographing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, and a fourth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element having positive refractive power has an image-side surface being concave, and an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof being aspheric. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface being concave, and the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric. The photographing lens system further includes an aperture stop, and no lens elements are disposed between the aperture stop and the first lens element. The photographing lens system has a total of four lens elements. |
| US10209471B2 |
Slidable telecommunications tray with cable slack management
A fiber optic telecommunications device includes a rack for mounting a plurality of chassis, each chassis including a plurality of trays slidably mounted thereon and arranged in a vertically stacked arrangement. Each tray includes fiber optic connection locations and a cable manager coupled to the tray and also coupled to the chassis, the cable manager for routing cables to and from the fiber optic connection locations and defining a plurality of link arms pivotally connected such that the manager retracts and extends with a corresponding movement of the tray, wherein the link arms pivot relative to each other to prevent cables managed therein from being bent in an arc having a radius of curvature less than a predetermined value, each link arm defining a top wall, a bottom wall, and two oppositely positioned sidewalls, each link arm defining an open portion along at least one of the sidewalls and an open portion along the top wall for receiving cables therein, the open portions along the top wall and the at least one of the sidewalls communicating with each other. |
| US10209464B2 |
Direct printed circuit routing to stacked opto-electrical IC packages
An optical transmitter may include a chip stack that includes an electrical IC that is mounted using solder balls to a photonic chip. These solder connections permit the electrical IC and the photonic chip to communicate. In addition, the transmitter may include a PCB coupled to the stack so that electrical signals in the PCB are transmitted to the IC and photonic chip (and vice versa). Instead of coupling the PCB to the stack using wire bonds attached to pads on a surface of the photonic chip, at least a portion of the PCB is disposed between the photonic chip and electrical IC. The PCB may also include bond pads used to form a direct solder connection to the electrical IC. As such, the electrical IC may include direct solder connections to both the PCB and the photonic chip. |
| US10209456B2 |
Fiber optic cable assemblies with cap apparatuses for sealing optical fiber connectors and associated methods
A cap apparatus is mounted to a fiber optic connector having a ferrule supporting optical fiber(s). A sealing apparatus is cooperatively configured with the cap apparatus for protecting an end face of the ferrule. The cap apparatus includes a body having opposite ends between which a cavity extends. The opposite ends of the body respectively define first and second openings to the cavity. A portion of the fiber optic connector extends through the first opening and into the cavity. The cap apparatus includes a cover mounted to the body and at least partially obstructing the second opening, wherein the end face of the ferrule is positioned within the cavity at a location spaced from the cover. The sealing apparatus is positioned between at least a portion of the cover and the end face of the ferrule. |
| US10209452B1 |
Method for fabricating silicon photonics package, active alignment method for light coupling, and silicon photonics package
A silicon photonics package includes an L-shaped block formed from a cuboid having a through-hole through front and rear faces thereof. The L-shaped block includes two horizontal inner surfaces lying in a plane longitudinally bisecting a section of the through-hole, a bisected through-hole formed between the two horizontal inner surfaces, and a vertical inner surface. A lens block with a lens or lens array is bonded on the rear face of the L-shaped block. A vertical metal pad is attached on the front face of the L-shaped block. The vertical metal pad is soldered together with two horizontal metal pads on a photonic integrated circuit block formed with a waveguide or waveguide array such that the center of the optical lens is optically aligned with the waveguide. A method for fabricating the silicon photonics package, and an active alignment method for light coupling are also disclosed. |
| US10209448B2 |
Systems and methods for photonic polarization rotators
An integrated non-reciprocal polarization rotator comprises a substrate, a Faraday crystal, a first waveguide, and a second waveguide. The substrate has a recess extending to a predetermined depth. The Faraday crystal is mounted in the recess and optically coupled with the first waveguide and the second waveguide. |
| US10209447B2 |
Micro splice protector
A micro splice protector for a fusion connection between a pair of optical fibers takes the form of a cylindrical sleeve of dimensions similar to that of the fusion splice itself, with an epoxy material used to encase the fusion splice within the sleeve. The sleeve is formed to exhibit an inner diameter only slightly greater than the outer diameter of the optical fibers, with the length of the sleeve typically formed to be only slightly longer than the stripped end terminations of the pair of fibers being spliced together. The cylindrical sleeve is formed of a rigid, but lightweight, material (e.g., stainless steel, fused silica) and an epoxy material is injected into the configuration to fill any gaps between the fusion connection and the inner surface of the sleeve. The result is relatively stiff fusion splice protector that is extremely small in size and well-suited for use in optical component packages where space is at a minimum. |
| US10209446B2 |
Optical fiber assemblies and methods for forming same
A method for forming an optical fiber assembly includes splicing a first fiber and a second fiber together. The first fiber is one of a single mode optical fiber or a multi-mode optical fiber and the second fiber is a coreless silica fiber. The method further includes heating the second fiber, and applying a tensile force to the second fiber during heating of the second fiber. The method further includes discontinuing application of the tensile force when a minimum neck thickness of the second fiber is below a neck thickness threshold. The method further includes discontinuing heating after discontinuing application of the tensile force and after the second fiber has separated into a tip portion and a detached portion, the tip portion connected to the first fiber. |
| US10209444B2 |
Arrayed waveguide grating
An arrayed waveguide grating includes an input/output waveguide 1, an input/output waveguide 2, a slab waveguide, an arrayed waveguide 1, a reflection zone 1, an arrayed waveguide 2, and a reflection zone 2. The input/output waveguide 1 and the input/output waveguide 2 are located on a same side of the slab waveguide, and are coupled to the slab waveguide. The reflection zone 1 is configured to reflect a light wave in a first band, and to transmit a light wave in a second band. The reflection zone 2 is configured to reflect the light wave in the second band. It is implemented that a single arrayed waveguide grating outputs light waves with different adjacent channel wavelength spacings, and a quantity of devices used in a system in which an uplink adjacent channel wavelength spacing and a downlink adjacent channel wavelength spacing are asymmetrical is further reduced. |
| US10209443B2 |
Multi-wavelength transmission apparatus using cylindrical lenses
Disclosed is a multi-wavelength transmission apparatus including a wavelength divider to divide an optical signal by wavelength and output wavelength-divided optical signals to different positions, the optical signal being received from an optical circulator, a first cylindrical lens to diverge the wavelength-divided optical signals along an X axis and a Y axis and allow the wavelength-divided optical signals to be promoted in a Z-direction, a second cylindrical lens to diverge optical signals output from the first cylindrical lens along the X axis and the Y axis and allow the output optical signals to be promoted in the Z-direction, and a reflector to reflect optical signals output from the second cylindrical lens toward the second cylindrical lens, the first cylindrical lens being identical in shape to the second cylindrical lens and rotated by 90° in an Y-axial direction based on the second cylindrical lens. |
| US10209442B2 |
Photonic chip with reflecting structure for folded optical path
Optical coupling of a photonic chip to an external device by use of a system with two lenses. The photonic chip comprises a light guide layer supported by a substrate and covered by an encapsulation layer, and a lens integrated into either the front face or the back face. The light guide layer includes a wave guide coupled to a surface grating coupler. An arrangement of one or several reflecting structures each on either the front face or the back face, is provided. This arrangement comprises a reflecting structure on the back face and is made so as to assure propagation of light between the surface grating coupler, and the lens along an optical path having at least one fold. The invention also covers the fabrication method of such a photonic chip. |
| US10209438B2 |
Endoscope, exoscope or microscope and a method for illuminating a manipulation region of an endoscope, exoscope or microscope
An endoscope, exoscope or microscope, including an optical fiber bundle for transmitting light from the proximal end to the distal end, the optical fiber bundle showing a contiguous bundle at the proximal end and a plurality of partial bundles or else individual fibers at the distal end. Furthermore, it shows a light source for coupling light into the one proximal end of the optical fiber bundle and including a multiplicity of individually actuatable individual-light sources arranged in an array-like manner, and a control unit for actuating the individual-light sources using an assignment function which represents the assignment of a proximal fiber end to a partial bundle. Here, the proximal ends of the fibers which are assigned to one partial bundle are arranged on a surface in such a way that proximal ends of fibers assigned to a different partial bundle are arranged therebetween. |
| US10209437B2 |
Single-mode optical fiber with ultra low attenuation and large effective area
An optical fiber with ultra-low attenuation and large effective-area includes a core layer and cladding layers. The cladding layers have an inner cladding layer surrounding the core layer, a trench cladding layer surrounding the inner cladding layer, an auxiliary outer cladding layer surrounding the trench cladding layer, and an outer cladding layer surrounding the auxiliary outer cladding layer. The core layer has a radius of 4.8-6.5 μm, and a relative refractive index difference of −0.06% to 0.10%. The inner cladding layer has a radius of 9-15 μm, and a relative refractive index difference of about −0.40% to −0.15%. The trench cladding layer has a radius of about 12-17 μm, and a relative refractive index difference of about −0.8% to −0.3%. The auxiliary outer cladding layer has a radius of about 37-50 μm, and a relative refractive index difference of about −0.6% to −0.25%. The outer cladding layer is a pure silicon-dioxide glass layer. |
| US10209433B2 |
Backlight module and display device
A backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a light guide plate and a position limit structure. The position limit structure includes a support plate and an elastic position limit protrusion disposed on the support plate, the elastic position limit protrusion corresponds to a side surface of the light guide plate, and the elastic position limit protrusion generates elastic deformation along a direction perpendicular to the support plate upon being pressed by the side surface of the light guide plate. |
| US10209432B2 |
Lighting device and display device
A backlight device (12) includes a light guide plate (14), and LEDs (17), and wiring portions (18c). The light guide plate (14) has a substantially circular outer shape and has fan-shaped areas (SA) defined by segment lines (SL) extending through a center (C) thereof. All the segment lines (SL) meet at the center (C). The LEDs (17) are arranged such that middle positions between LEDs (17) each located at an end in the circumferential direction in the respective sets of the LEDs (17) provided for the fan-shaped areas (SA) adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction coincides with the segment lines (SL). The wiring portions (18c) are equal or larger in number than the LEDs (17) included in each of the sets of LEDs (17) provided for the fan-shaped areas (SA) and are configured to supply electric power to the respective LEDs (17). |
| US10209430B2 |
LED light source, backlight module and liquid crystal display device
An LED light source, a backlight module and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The LED light source includes: a housing having a light outlet; an LED wafer disposed within the housing, where a light-emitting surface of the LED wafer faces towards the light outlet of the housing; and a light adjustment layer disposed at the light outlet of the housing. |
| US10209425B2 |
Component illumination apparatus, systems, and electronic devices and methods of manufacturing and using the same
Apparatus for illuminating one or more components of an electronic device having a visual display (e.g., a backlit display), such as one or more keys of keyboards, one or more interface ports, or one or more external surfaces are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a component illumination apparatus has a visual display and a light guide optically coupled to the visual display and that is adapted to illuminate one or more components external to the visual display. Methods of component illumination and illumination systems are described, as are other embodiments. |
| US10209424B2 |
Visual display backlight unit
A backlight unit suitable for use in illuminating a liquid crystal display panel of a display device. The backlight unit comprises a light guide plate, the light guide plate comprising a glass substrate with at least one edge, an intermediate waveguide physically and optically coupled to the at least one edge along a length of the edge, and a light source optically coupled to the intermediate waveguide. |
| US10209420B2 |
Polarizing plate, method of manufacturing the same, and optical apparatus
Provided are a polarizing plate having high transmittance characteristics and excellent controllability of reflectance characteristics, a method of manufacturing the polarizing plate, and an optical apparatus including the polarizing plate. A polarizing plate having a wire grid structure includes a transparent substrate and grid-shaped protrusions that are arranged on the transparent substrate at a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light in a use band and extend in a predetermined direction, the grid-shaped protrusion includes, in order from the transparent substrate side, a reflection layer, a dielectric layer, and an absorption layer, a width of the reflection layer is smaller than a width of the dielectric layer, and a grid tip formed at a tip of the grid-shaped protrusion has a tapered shape where a side face thereof is inclined in such a direction that a width thereof is decreased toward a tip side when viewed from the predetermined direction. |
| US10209419B2 |
Broadband polarizer made using ion exchangeable fusion drawn glass sheets
The disclosure is directed to broadband, glass optical polarizers and to methods for making the glass optical polarizers. The glass optical polarizer includes a substantially bubble free fusion drawn glass having two pristine glass surfaces and a plurality of elongated zero valent metallic particle polarizing layers. |
| US10209418B2 |
Achromatic polarization element, and polarization plate
a* and b* values, which define, the hue of a polarization element or a polarization plate using JIS.Z.8729, are adjusted such that the absolute value of the a* and b* values is: less than 1 during a single-body transmittance measurement; less than 2 when two sheets of a base material are arranged parallel, to the absorbing axis direction and the a* and b* values are measured; and less than 2 when two sheets of the base material are arranged orthogonal to the absorbing axis direction and the a* and b* values are measured. |
| US10209417B2 |
Achromatic dye-based highly-transmissive polarization element, and polarization plate
A polarization element, which is obtained from a base material containing a dichromatic dye formed from an azo compound, is characterized in that the single-body transmittance is 35-60%, and a* and b* values, which are acquired for a polarization element or a polarization plate using JIS⋅Z⋅8729, have an a* and b* absolute value that is: less than 1 in a single-body transmittance measurement; less than 2 when two sheets of the base material are arranged parallel to the absorbing axis direction and the a* and b* values are measured; and less than 2 when two sheets of the base material are arranged orthogonal to the absorbing axis direction and the a* and b* values are measured. |
| US10209412B2 |
Display with multilayer diffractive optical elements
The display headset for presenting an image to a user includes an electronic display and an optics block. The electronic display emits image light associated with the image toward an exit pupil corresponding to a location of an eye of the user. The optics block directs the image light from the electronic display to the exit pupil. The optics block includes a first diffractive optical element between the exit pupil and the electronic display, a second diffractive optical element between the first diffractive optical element and the exit pupil, a first protective layer on the first diffractive optical element to protect the first diffractive optical element, and a second protective layer on the second diffractive optical element to protect the second diffractive optical element. The first protective layer and the second protective layer compensate for a variation in a diffraction efficiency at different wavelengths and incident angles of the light. |
| US10209410B2 |
Prism sheet, and a backlight module and a display apparatus including the same
A prism sheet includes a sheet body that includes opposite light exiting and incident surfaces, and a lateral side transversely connected between the light incident and exiting surfaces. The light exiting surface includes two side regions disposed on two opposite sides of a reference line on the light exiting surface, which is perpendicular to the lateral side. The sheet body further includes a plurality of parallel microstructure members protruding from the light exiting surface and extending perpendicularly to the lateral side. The microstructure members have a distribution density decreased in a density-decreasing direction parallel to the lateral side and pointing toward either of the side regions from the reference line. |
| US10209408B2 |
Optical component, infrared camera, and method for manufacturing optical component
The invention provides an optical component, an infrared camera including the optical component, and a method for manufacturing the optical component. Antireflection materials 3A are formed on a chalcogenide glass 2 of which a compositional ratio of germanium and selenium is 60 percent or greater. With respect to the antireflection materials 3A, an extinction coefficient to light of 10.5 μm is 0.01 or less, and a refractive index to light having a wavelength of 10.5 μm are greater than 1 and 2.6 or less. The antireflection materials 3A are formed on a surface of a chalcogenide glass 2 at an interval of 0.5 μm to 2.0 μm, so as to form an antireflection film 3. Adhesiveness of the antireflection film 3 is higher than that In a case where the surface of the chalcogenide glass 2 is evenly coated with the antireflection materials 3A. |
| US10209405B2 |
Mobile electronic device cover plate comprising a thin sapphire layer
An electronic device comprising a cover plate is disclosed. The cover plate comprises one or more thin sapphire layers having a thickness of from about 50 microns to about 500 microns. Also disclosed are methods for preparing these thin sapphire layers. |
| US10209400B2 |
Logging and correlation prediction plot in real-time
In one embodiment, a method includes facilitating a real-time display of drilling-performance data for a current well. The method further includes receiving new channel data for the current well from a wellsite computer system. The method also retrieving input data including historical drilling-performance data for an offset well relative to the current well. In addition, the method includes computing calculated data for the current well based on the channel data and the input data. Moreover, the method includes updating the real-time display with the calculated data. |
| US10209397B2 |
Device and method for detecting objects in a monitoring field
A device for detecting objects in a monitoring range is described, comprising a sensor and an emitter, wherein the emitter includes the following components: a housing, a radiation source for emission of electromagnetic rays and a radiation-conducting device, which is designed to conduct the rays on their path from the radiation source to the point of exit from the emitter, wherein the radiation-conducting device has a focusing element for focusing the rays. The radiation-conducting device is designed to deflect the rays on their path from the radiation source to the point of exit from the emitter by two reflections. |
| US10209396B2 |
Combined radioactive source for gamma-neutron tool
A first set of radiation detectors may be disposable on the a drill string, wherein the first set of radiation detectors are capable of detecting gamma radiation and neutron radiation; and a combined chemical source spaced from the first set of radiation detectors, wherein the combined chemical source comprises a gamma radiation emitting material and a neutron radiation emitting material. The first set of radiation detectors and combined chemical source may be used in methods for logging a wellbore. |
| US10209392B2 |
Method and system for monitoring for scale
A method and system of monitoring for scale compounds that include scale co-contributors of cations and anions. A scale compound can be monitored by measuring gamma ray counts of scale contributors using a spectral gamma ray detector. A scale compound can be identified by identifying an increase in scale co-contributors over time from the gamma ray counts. |
| US10209383B2 |
Distributed acoustic sensing systems and methods employing under-filled multi-mode optical fiber
An illustrative distributed acoustic sensing system includes a multi-mode optical fiber cable for distributed sensing and a distributed acoustic sensing interrogator coupled to the multi-mode optical fiber cable via a single mode optical fiber. The interrogator derives distributed acoustic measurements from Rayleigh backscattering light that is initiated with a substantially under-filled launch configuration that is designed to excite only the lowest-order modes of the multi-mode optical fiber. Mode conversion within the multi-mode optical fiber is anticipated to be negligible. For elastic scattering (i.e., Rayleigh scattering), it is further anticipated that the scattered light will be primarily returned in the incident propagation mode, thereby escaping the extraordinarily large coupling loss that would otherwise be expected from coupling a single-mode optical fiber to a multi-mode optical fiber for distributed sensing. Experiments with graded index multi-mode optical fiber have yielded positive results. |
| US10209380B2 |
Methods and systems for juxtaposition across geological discontinuities
A method is described in which a seismic data set of a geological survey is provided. A geological discontinuity in the seismic data set is identified. A first parameterization of at least a portion of a first side of the geological discontinuity is identified. A second parameterization of at least a portion of a second side of the geological discontinuity is identified. A plurality of isolines of properties of the first and second parameterizations is determined. A surface of the geological discontinuity is divided according to the isolines. The divided surfaces of the geological discontinuity are mapped. |
| US10209379B2 |
Ship-towed hydrophone volumetric array system apparatus
This invention provides a system apparatus and method for ship-towed deployment of a non-linear volumetric array of hydrophones, allowing line-intersect or line-transect sampling of marine mammal populations through passive acoustic monitoring, enabling unambiguous real-time three-dimensional localization of single sounds received through a low-cost, modular, robust, stable, small, light, neutrally to slightly negatively buoyant volumetric array having low self-noise and low flow noise, that avoids putting high tension on the tow cable and that is compatible with standard hydrophones, instrumentation, cabling, and analytical software. |
| US10209378B2 |
Photopeak location systems and methods
A laser photopeak location system comprises a gamma-ray spectrometer and a processor. The processor computes a plurality of correlation coefficients based on a comparison of a pulse-height spectrum of the gamma-ray spectrometer with an array of values. The processor locates one or more photopeaks of the pulse-height spectrum based on at least one of the plurality of correlation coefficients. Additional apparatus, methods, and systems are disclosed. |
| US10209377B2 |
Method for signal separation in scintillation detectors
A method of distinguishing effective pulses from test pulses in a scintillation detector that generates measurement light pulses includes providing a regularly-pulsed test light source that produces individual test light pulses having a time-dependent course of relative light intensity, which differs from a time-dependent course of relative light intensity of the measurement light pulses. The test light pulses are provided to a light detector for measurement of the test light pulses. The time-dependent courses of the relative light intensities of the test light pulses are analyzed. The measured pulses are separated into the test light pulses and the measurement light pulses according to the different time-dependent courses of the relative light intensities. The detector includes a scintillator, a light detector, a regularly-pulsed test light source that is adapted provide test light pulses to the light detector for measurement, and an electronic measuring circuit. |
| US10209373B2 |
Photodetector and detection device
According to an embodiment, a photodetector includes a first photoelectric conversion element, a second photoelectric conversion element, and an absorption layer. The first photoelectric conversion element includes a first photoelectric conversion layer for converting energy of radiation into electric charges. The second photoelectric conversion element includes a second photoelectric conversion layer for converting energy of radiation into electric charges. The absorption layer is arranged between the first photoelectric conversion element and the second photoelectric conversion element to absorb radiation having energy equal to or lower than a threshold value. |
| US10209371B2 |
Radiation detector
According to one embodiment, a radiation detector includes a scintillator layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and an organic layer. The second conductive layer is provided between the scintillator layer and the first conductive layer. The organic layer is provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The organic layer includes an organic semiconductor region having a first thickness. The first thickness is 400 nanometers or more. |
| US10209369B2 |
Photon detection apparatus and method for imaging
A photon detector for use in imaging, comprising a detector surface for detecting photons incident on the detector surface, the detector surface comprising at least one non-flat feature configured such that, during imaging, at least a portion of the photons are blocked from incidence upon at least a portion of the detector surface. |
| US10209367B2 |
Colorimetric radiation dosimetry
A dosimetry device includes a first chamber formed on a substrate with a first decomposable barrier sensitive to radiation and a first chemical component. A second chamber is formed on the substrate in proximity of the first chamber and includes a second decomposable barrier sensitive to radiation and a second chemical component. Upon a radiation event, decomposition of the first and second barriers of the first and second chambers permits a mixing of the first and second chemical components to cause a visible change of the dosimetry device. |
| US10209366B2 |
Method and apparatus for wireless communication in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication method by a terminal in a wireless communication system includes transmitting, to a base station, a first message including assistance information associated with a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) for the V2X communication, receiving, from the base station, a second message including SPS configuration information for the V2X communication, receiving, from the base station, a third message including downlink control information (DCI) associated with activation of the SPS for the V2X communication, and transmitting, to another terminal, data based on the SPS configuration information and the DCI. |
| US10209365B2 |
GPS power conservation using environmental data
Biometric monitoring devices, including various technologies that may be implemented in such devices, are discussed herein. Additionally, techniques, systems, and apparatuses are discussed herein for providing power-conserving techniques and systems for efficiently utilizing a GPS receiver are described. The positional fix frequency of the GPS receiver may, according to some implementations, be modified or adjusted between various levels according to data from one or more non-GPS sensors. Such non-GPS sensors may include, for example, ambient light intensity or spectrum sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, heart rate sensors, galvanic skin response sensors, infrared sensors, etc. |
| US10209364B2 |
Anti-theft device, system and method for valuables
An anti-theft system that is capable of being tracked by and automatically notifies the appropriate authorities when leaving a designated geo-fence area. The anti-theft system includes a storage device having two opaque housing portions that can be secured together along their respective peripheries, providing a cavity. The housing portions are opaque except for a cutout in one of the housing portions. The cavity provides a GPS and a mounting display, wherein the mounting display secure a valuable so that it is partially visible through the cutout, while the GPS is not so visible. The GPS tracks and notifies according to predetermined criteria. |
| US10209363B2 |
Implementing a restricted-operation region for unmanned vehicles
Embodiments are directed to a system for implementing a restricted-operation region. The system includes an instruction development module configured to be utilized in the development of a set of instructions that implement an operation policy of the restricted-operation region. The set of instructions is configured to, when interpreted, implement the operation policy by controlling at least one function of a vehicle that attempts to operate within the restricted-operation region. The system further includes a first transmitter configured to transmit the set of instructions to the vehicle, wherein a processor of the vehicle is configured to interpret the set of instructions based at least in part on a determination that the vehicle is attempting to operate within the restricted-operation region. |
| US10209351B2 |
Non-uniform sampling for unambiguous doppler measurement
A method for removing Doppler ambiguity in a ladar system. The time of each pulse of a sequence of transmitted pulses is offset from that of a uniform sequence of pulses. Each received pulse is represented by a complex number corresponding to its amplitude and phase, and each complex number of the resulting array of complex numbers is multiplied by a complex correction factor having a phase proportional to (i) the time offset of the corresponding pulse, and to (ii) a test frequency of an array of test frequencies, to form a second array of complex numbers. A Fourier transform of the second array is taken, and the value at the test frequency is copied into a corrected spectrum array. The process is repeated for each test frequency in the array of test frequencies, to generate a complete corrected spectrum array. |
| US10209348B2 |
Optical apparatus
An optical apparatus includes a photosensitive diode unit, a lens and a microstructure unit. The microstructure unit is arranged between the photosensitive diode unit and the lens. After plural light beams passing through the lens are received by the microstructure unit, travelling directions of the plural light beams are changed. Consequently, at least a portion of the plural light beams is guided to the photosensitive diode unit. In such way, the light collecting efficacy of the photosensitive diode unit is enhanced. |
| US10209347B2 |
Radar test systems and methods
Radar testing systems with radar system rotational systems and methods for using the radar testing systems are disclosed. A radar testing system includes a radar system to be tested, a computer, and a radar simulator. A radar sensor rotation system mechanically coupled to a radar sensor of the radar system is communicatively coupled to the computer and configured to rotate the radar sensor to predefined and desired angles for predetermined amounts of time during testing of the radar system. |
| US10209343B1 |
Weapon fire detection and localization system for electro-optical sensors
An electro-optical imaging sensors system is disclosed for detecting and locating a blast, including muzzle flash, created by the launch of a projectile from a gun barrel, rocket tube or similar device, generally associated with weapons fire. The system is used in conjunction with detection algorithms and provides the azimuth and elevation from the detecting sensor to the location of the blast (the launch location) and also provides the weapon classification. |
| US10209340B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of a one-sided location measurement
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of one-sided location measurement. For example, an apparatus may include circuitry and logic configured to cause a wireless station to transmit an announcement element to announce a Non-Data Packet (NDP) sounding transmission including a plurality of sounding preambles, the announcement element including at least a measurement type field to indicate a type of a one-sided location measurement, and one or more configuration fields including configuration information to configure the one-sided location measurement based on the NDP sounding transmission; and to transmit the NDP sounding transmission subsequent to the announcement element. |
| US10209339B1 |
Self-adjusting single contact voltage sensor
Disclosed is a voltage sensing apparatus comprising a signal generator coupled to a first conducting layer and a conductive element having a first voltage, the signal generator configured to superimpose a second voltage to the first voltage. The voltage sensing apparatus also comprises a meter disposed between the first conducting layer and a second conducting layer or between the signal generator and the second conducting layer. An output parameter of the meter is a function of one or more of the group consisting of: the first voltage and the second voltage. The output parameter and the second voltage can be used to adjust a determination of the first voltage. |
| US10209337B2 |
Simultaneous multi-slice multi-echo turbo spin echo (TSE) imaging
In a method and apparatus for acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) raw data, an MR data acquisition scanner is operated to execute a turbo spin echo (TSE) or a turbo gradient spin echo (TGSE) sequence wherein nuclear spins are excited in multiple slices of the examination object simultaneously by radiating at least one radio-frequency (RF) pulse from an RF radiator of the MR data acquisition scanner, thereby causing the excited nuclear spins in said multiple slices to produce an echo train. A multi-band refocusing pulse is radiated that refocuses nuclear spins in at least one of said multiple slices that follows a first of the multiple slices, and readout gradients are activated to acquire MR signals, with respectively different contrasts, at respectively different readout times of the echo train. The read out MR signals are entered into an electronic memory organized as k-space. |
| US10209317B2 |
Battery control device for calculating battery deterioration based on internal resistance increase rate
A battery monitoring device includes: a current detection unit that detects an electric current flowing through a battery; a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage between both ends of the battery; a temperature detection unit that detects the temperature of the battery; an internal resistance increase rate calculation unit that calculates the internal resistance increase rate of the battery based on the detected electric current, voltage between the both ends, and temperature; and a calculation invalid time setting unit that sets a predetermined calculation invalid time according to the characteristics of the internal resistance increase rate. The calculation results of the internal resistance increase rate is invalidated for an invalid period from the start of charging or discharging of the battery to the lapse of the calculation invalid time. |
| US10209316B2 |
Dynamic rechargeable battery capacity monitor
A method for dynamically monitoring a capacity of a battery includes estimating a first voltage threshold of the battery that is being discharged, wherein the first voltage threshold corresponds to a low capacity of the battery, and measuring a present voltage and a present current of the discharging battery. The method further includes re-scaling the present current based on the estimated first voltage threshold and the measured present voltage of the discharging battery, and calculating, based on re-scaling the measured present current, the battery's capacity before the present voltage level decreases below the first voltage threshold. |
| US10209311B2 |
Switching state of a mechanical switch
A circuit for monitoring a switching state of a mechanical switch is provided that includes a first mechanical switch configured to couple a high-voltage power storage device to a load, a measuring device that measures a voltage characteristic at the first mechanical switch, the measuring device is being connected to the first mechanical switch via a first measuring resistor such that a voltage drop at the first mechanical switch is measurable over a period of time, an insulation-monitoring unit having a first switchable resistor that can be switched in during measuring such that a voltage divider formed by two or more insulation resistors (R_iso+, R_iso−) of the high-voltage power storage device is modified, and an evaluation device that compares the measured voltage characteristic at the first mechanical switch with a predefined threshold value so that the switching state of the first mechanical switch can be determined. |
| US10209310B2 |
Rotary machine diagnostic system
A rotary machine diagnostic system includes: a current measurement unit for measuring a leakage current of a rotary machine; a voltage measurement unit for measuring a voltage of the rotary machine corresponding to the flowing leakage current; and a data processing unit. The data processing unit has a function of performing transient response analysis on a predetermined equivalent circuit model, which is equivalent to a leakage current path of the rotary machine, using current data and voltage data having a predetermined time width which are respectively measured at predetermined time intervals by the current measurement unit and the voltage measurement unit, and a function of extracting parameters of the equivalent circuit of the leakage current path. |
| US10209309B2 |
Relay protection system
Provided herein are improved relay protection systems that can detect a short to ground condition on an output of a relay. A relay protection system can bias an output of the relay. The output of the relay can be monitored to determine if a bias level reduces below a predetermined threshold, indicating a short to ground condition. If a short to ground condition is detected, the relay protection system can prevent the relay from transitioning from an open position to a closed position. As a result, a power source can remain decoupled from a load, thereby preventing damage to the relay and the load. |
| US10209305B2 |
Wafer tap domain die channel circuitry with separate die clocks
Testing of die on wafer is achieved by; (1) providing a tester with the capability of externally communicating JTAG test signals using simultaneously bidirectional transceiver circuitry, (2) providing die on wafer with the capability of externally communicating JTAG test signals using simultaneously bidirectional transceiver circuitry, and (3) providing a connectivity mechanism between the bidirectional transceiver circuitry's of the tester and a selected group or all of the die on wafer for communication of the JTAG signals. |
| US10209304B2 |
Test compression in a JTAG daisy-chain environment
The disclosure describes novel methods and apparatuses for controlling a device's TCA circuit when the device exists in a JTAG daisy-chain arrangement with other devices. The methods and apparatuses allow the TCA test pattern set used during device manufacturing to be reused when the device is placed in a JTAG daisy-chain arrangement with other devices, such as in a customers system using the device. Additional embodiments are also provided and described in the disclosure. |
| US10209302B2 |
Interface chip and built-in self-test method therefor
An interface chip with a built-in self-test mechanism. An electrical physical layer (EPHY) provides a signal to a transmission terminal of the interface chip, and gets a signal from a reception terminal of the interface chip. A digital code generator generates a source code to be scrambled as a scrambled code and then encoded by an encoder and conveyed to the EPHY to be converted into the signal that is provided to the transmission terminal by the EPHY. The EPHY further converts the signal received from the reception terminal into a receiving code to be decoded by a decoder as a decoded code and then descrambled by the descrambler as a restored code. When the transmission terminal is coupled back to the interface chip via the reception terminal, the code checker checks whether the restored code matches the source code. |
| US10209301B2 |
Waveform mapping and gated laser voltage imaging
Systems, methods, and computer readable media to improve integrated circuit (IC) debug operations are described. In general, techniques are disclosed for acquiring/recording waveforms across an under-test IC during a single sweep of a laser scanning microscope (LSM). More particularly, techniques disclosed herein permit the acquisition of an integrated circuit's response to a test signal at each location across the IC in real-time. In practice the test signal consists of a stimulus portion that repeats after a given period. In one embodiment, the IC's response to multiple complete stimulus portions may be averaged and digitized. In another embodiment, the IC's response to multiple partial stimulus portions may be averaged and digitized. As used herein, the former approach is referred to as waveform mapping, the latter as gated-LVI. |
| US10209300B2 |
Opto-acoustic metrology of signal attenuating structures
Methods and systems for manufacturing and analyzing interconnect structures in integrated circuit (IC) devices. The methods include forming an interconnect structure, such as a pillar, in an IC device. The pillar is analyzed using an opto-acoustic sensor to quantify physical characteristics used to determine whether the pillar satisfies predetermined quality criterion. The analysis includes capturing an opto-acoustic signal from the pillar and estimating optical parameters for a number of local maxima of the signal. A mode may then be fitted for each of the identified local maxima based on the optical characteristics. The modes and estimated optical parameters may then be iteratively corrected in an order from strongest to weakest local maximum. The corrected values may then be compared to a predicted physical model to identify the physical characteristics of the pillar. If the physical characteristics fall outside of the quality criterion, manufacturing processes may be altered. |
| US10209294B2 |
Method for producing an arc detection signal and arc detection arrangement
A method for producing an arc detection signal on the basis of a plurality of observation signals comprises producing an arc detection part-signal for each of at least two observation signals. Producing each of the part-signals includes correlating the respective observation signal with a correlation signal by influencing the correlation signal with the respective observation, thereby producing a correlation result; producing or modifying a coefficient on the basis of the correlation result; and weighting the respective observation signal with the coefficient. The arc detection part-signals are added to form the arc detection signal. |
| US10209290B2 |
Locating of partial-discharge-generating faults
A method of locating incipient faults that generate partial discharges in an AC power distribution system includes detecting at least one spike in a PD pattern generated by such system; getting the voltage wave of the AC power in the system; detecting a phase of such spike with respect to the voltage of the AC power; and locating an incipient fault where such phase is below a predetermined threshold. An apparatus includes at least one sensor of electrical pulses, means for getting a synchronism signal with a power supply of the power distribution system, and modules adapted to carry out the method. |
| US10209289B2 |
Predicting service life of electrical equipment
The service life of electrical equipment is predicted using a thermal history sensor mounted in the electrical equipment. At least one thermal history sensor is mounted inside or on an outer wall surface of electrical equipment. The thermal history sensor includes dissimilar metal joints, and the resistance values of the dissimilar metal joints change in response to the amount of intermetallic compound growing in the dissimilar metal joints due to the temperature inside the electrical equipment or of the outer wall thereof during operation. A determining mechanism periodically or irregularly monitors and stores in memory the resistance values of the dissimilar metal joints from the thermal history sensor, and uses the stored history of resistance values to predict the service life of the electrical equipment. |
| US10209287B2 |
Quick-action leakage detection protection circuit having regular self-checking function
A quick-action leakage detection protection circuit with a regular self-checking function is provided. The quick-action leakage detection protection circuit may include a power input end, a power load end, a power user end, twin induction coils for detecting leakage current and low resistance failure, a control chip, a trip coil in which an iron core is disposed, a reset button, a self-checking chip, and a self-checking silicon controlled rectifier. The reset button may be linked with a main circuit switch, an analog path switch, and a normally-open self-checking path switch. The main circuit switch may include a pair of dynamic contact levers extended from the power load end, a first pair of static contact ends extended from the power input end passing through the twin induction coils, and a second pair of static contact ends extended from the power user end. In some embodiments, a first end of the trip coil may be connected to a live line end of the power input end and to the live line of the power load end via the first normally-closed switch. And, a second end of the trip coil may be connected to a neutral line end of the power load end via a second normally-closed switch. |
| US10209286B2 |
Resistance measurement tool
A tool to measure resistance of a wire harness is disclosed herein. An example disclosed tool includes a connector with first and second plugs. The example disclosed tool also includes a resistor. A first terminal of the resistor is electrically coupled to the first plug. Additionally, the example disclosed tool includes a thermal switch attached to the resistor with a thermally conductive adhesive. A first terminal of the thermal switch is electrically coupled to a second terminal of the resistor, and a second terminal of the thermal switch is electrically coupled to the second plug. |
| US10209284B2 |
Advanced antenna performance testing
A system for testing advanced antennas includes an antenna unit controller, a radio frequency instrument, and a test controller. The antenna unit controller is configured to connect to a device that includes an advanced antenna under test in an anechoic chamber. The radio frequency instrument is connected to a probe antenna in the anechoic chamber. The test controller is configured to control the test of the advanced antenna by controlling the antenna unit controller to reconfigure the advanced antenna under test, and by controlling the radio frequency instrument to communicate wirelessly with the device via the probe antenna in each of a sequence of multiple configurations of the advanced antenna while the advanced antenna remains in the anechoic chamber. |
| US10209282B2 |
Remote monitoring system and method for electricity demand of fused magnesium furnace group
A remote monitoring system and method for electricity demand of a fused magnesium furnace group. The system has a data acquisition device, a local PC, a cloud server and a remote PC. The data acquisition device has a voltage transformer, a current transformer, an active power transducer, a first slave computer, a plurality of multi-purpose electronic measuring instruments and a second slave computer. The method includes acquiring smelting current and smelting power of each fused magnesium furnace and electricity demand of the furnace group, controlling the switch off/on of each fused magnesium furnace according to the smelting current and the smelting power of each fused magnesium furnace and the electricity demand of the furnace group, sending basic monitoring data to the local PC, and achieving data exchange between the local PC and the remote PC through the Zookeeper technology. |
| US10209279B2 |
Methods and apparatus for monitoring a level of a regulated source
A monitor circuit for monitoring a level of a first and second regulated source may monitor a voltage level of regulated voltages or a current level of regulated currents. In an embodiment, the monitor circuit includes circuitry responsive to a first regulated voltage and to a second regulated voltage. A first circuit responsive to the first regulated voltage and to the second regulated voltage generates a first error signal indicative of at least one of an overvoltage condition of the first regulated voltage and an undervoltage condition of the second regulated voltage. A second circuit responsive to the first regulated voltage and to the second regulated voltage generates a second error signal indicative of at least one of an undervoltage condition of the first regulated voltage and an overvoltage condition of the second regulated voltage. A method for monitoring the levels of first and second regulated sources is also provided. |
| US10209276B2 |
Jitter and eye contour at BER measurements after DFE
A method of employing a Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE) in a test and measurement system. The method includes obtaining an input signal data associated with an input signal suffering from inter-symbol interference (ISI). A bit sequence encoded in the input signal data is determined to support assigning portions of the input signal data into sets based on the corresponding bit sequences. The DFE is applied to each set by employing a DFE slicer pattern corresponding to each set, which results in obtaining a DFE adjusted waveform histogram/PDF/waveform database graph for each set adjusted for ISI and accurately captures jitter suppression. The DFE adjusted waveform histogram/PDF/waveform database graphs are normalized and combined into a final histogram/PDF/waveform database graph for determining an eye contour of an eye diagram and jitter measurements. |
| US10209269B2 |
Z-axis microelectromechanical detection structure with reduced drifts
Described herein is a microelectromechanical detection structure, provided with: a substrate having a top surface extending in a plane; a detection-electrode arrangement; an inertial mass, suspended above the substrate and the detection-electrode arrangement; and elastic elements, coupling the inertial mass to a central anchorage element fixed with respect to the substrate, in such a way that it is free to rotate about an axis of rotation as a function of a quantity to be detected along a vertical axis, the central anchorage element being arranged at the axis of rotation. A suspension structure is coupled to the detection-electrode arrangement for supporting it, suspended above the substrate and underneath the inertial mass, and is anchored to the substrate via at least one first anchorage region; the fixed-electrode arrangement is anchored to the suspension structure via at least one second anchorage region. |
| US10209267B1 |
Sample extraction and rotation device for automated blood sample processing systems
Systems, methods, devices, and apparatus for detecting sample defects in blood samples processed in automated processing systems are described herein. One aspect describes an automated blood sample processing apparatus having a pre-analytic specimen integrity monitoring device. Another aspect describes devices, systems, and methods for identifying blood components and properties in blood samples. Further aspects relate to systems and methods for setting reference ranges for sample defects and interference in blood samples. Additionally, devices, systems, and methods for identifying defective samples are described. |
| US10209264B2 |
Method of detecting drug taggants in biological samples to assess drug decay
We disclose a method of using taggants to assess how and to what extent a drug in a drug composition that a user has consumed has decayed in response to storage conditions and time. The taggants may decay in response to environmental conditions which cause different drugs to lose their efficacy. These environmental conditions may include light, temperature, oxidation, moisture, and age. The taggants may be detected in biological samples, including urine and feces. By identifying the taggants, the drug composition and other information relating to the drug may be identified. Additionally, quantification of the different taggants may be used to determine whether the drug in the drug composition has been exposed to environmental conditions which may reduce its efficacy. |
| US10209263B2 |
Methods of measuring adamts 13 activity
The invention generally relates to methods of measuring cleaved von Willebrand factor (VWF) fragments. More specifically, the invention relates to methods of measuring the ability of a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with a thrombospondin type 1 motif, member 13 (ADAMTS13) to cleave VWF in vivo. The invention also relates to methods of using various animal models which demonstrate ADAMTS13 activity similar to that of a human. The invention further relates to methods of measuring the cleavage products of rVWF in mammals, particularly in humans and in human plasma. |
| US10209262B2 |
Blood sample analyzing method, blood sample analyzer, and system
Disclosed is a blood sample analyzing method including preparing a measurement specimen by mixing a blood sample with a measuring reagent of fibrin and a fibrinogen degradation product (FDP); acquiring, based on a time-dependent change in optical information obtained by optically measuring the measurement specimen, first information indicating an FDP concentration and second information indicating a curving degree of a time course curve showing the time-dependent change of the optical information; and determining an enhanced fibrinolytic state of the blood sample or acquiring a value related to a D dimer of the blood sample based on the first information and the second information. |
| US10209261B2 |
Method for assessing protein identity and stability
The present invention relates to methods and other technologies that may be used to determine whether compositions (e.g., pharmaceutical compositions) comprising interleukin-10 molecules (e.g., pegylated interleukin-10) meet particular product-related specifications prior to being administered to a subject for the treatment and/or prevention of the diseases, disorders and conditions, and/or the symptoms thereof, described herein. |
| US10209253B2 |
Methods for diagnosing pervasive development disorders, dysautonomia and other neurological conditions
Methods for aiding in the diagnosis of disorders including, but not limited to, PDDs (Pervasive Development Disorders), Dysautonomic disorders, Parkinson's disease and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). In one aspect, a diagnosis method comprises analyzing a stool sample of an individual for the presence of a biological marker (or marker compound) comprising one or more pathogens, which provides an indication of whether the individual has, or can develop, a disorder including, but not limited to, a PDD, Dysautonomia, Parkinsons disease and SIDS. Preferably, the presence of one or more pathogens is determined using a stool immunoassay to determine the presence of antigens in a stool sample, wherein such antigens are associated with one or more pathogens including, but not limited to, Giardia, Cryptosporidium, E. histolytica, C. difficile, Adenovirus, Rotavirus or H. pylori. |
| US10209252B2 |
Functional porous substrates for attaching biomolecules
A substrate comprising a microporous microstructure, an interlayer over at least a portion of the microstructure and a functional layer attached to the interlayer, the functional layer having functional sites with a density of at least 50 nanomoles/cm2. |
| US10209251B2 |
Electrochemical methods and devices for amending urine samples for immunosensor detection
The present invention is directed to methods and devices for amending undiluted and partially diluted urine samples in a manner suitable for performing immunoassays for target analytes, for example NGAL. Generally, the urine sample is treated with reagents including at least one of buffer materials, water soluble proteins, urease, and other interferent mitigants. These reagents control the pH of the urine sample in a manner suitable for immuno-binding reactions and ameliorate interferences, particularly during the detection step. |
| US10209249B2 |
Labelled silica nanoparticles for immunochromatographic reagent, immunochromatographic test strip using the same, and immunochromomatographic fluorescence-detecting system or radiation-detecting system
Labelled silica nanoparticles for immunochromatographic reagent, comprising silica nanoparticles containing a labelled substance. |
| US10209248B2 |
Multiplex immuno screening assay
The present invention provides an immunoassay leading to the rapid and simultaneous detection of antibodies to a wide range of infectious pathogens in biological fluids of infected patients. This immunoassay involves the covalent and oriented coupling of fusion proteins comprising an AGT enzyme and a viral antigen on an identifiable solid support (e.g. fluorescent microspheres). The thus obtained antigen-coupled microspheres show enhanced capture of specific antibodies as compared to antigen-coupled microspheres produced by standard amine coupling procedures. |
| US10209244B2 |
Sample analyzer and computer program product
A sample analyzer prepares a measurement sample from a blood sample or a body fluid sample which differs from the blood sample; measures the prepared measurement sample; obtains characteristic information representing characteristics of the components in the measurement sample; sets either a blood measurement mode for measuring the blood sample, or a body fluid measurement mode for measuring the body fluid sample as an operating mode; and measures the measurement sample prepared from the blood sample by executing operations in the blood measurement mode when the blood measurement mode has been set, and measuring the measurement sample prepared from the body fluid sample by executing operations in the body fluid measurement mode that differs from the operations in the blood measurement mode when the body fluid measurement mode has been set, is disclosed. A computer program product is also disclosed. |
| US10209243B2 |
Cardiomyocyte containing device, manufacturing method and measuring method
Disclosed is a device (100) for cardiac electrophysiology screening comprising a substrate (10) comprising a cavity (42), said substrate carrying a deformable layer (32) extending over said cavity (42), wherein a portion of said deformable layer (32) covers said cavity and acts as a membrane over said cavity (32), said portion having a surface comprising a pattern of grooves (44) and carrying a multi-electrode structure (110, 110′); and a plurality of cardiomyocytes (130) assembled in at least some of said grooves (44). A method of manufacturing such a device (100) is also disclosed. |
| US10209237B2 |
Charging device for biological information measurement device and biological information measurement device charged using same
Certain implementations have a main body case having a contact face of a biological information measurement device on its surface, and a first non-contact charging portion composed of a charging coil disposed opposite the contact face with the biological information measurement device inside the main body case. In addition, some may have a controller that is connected to the first non-contact charging portion, and a display section that is connected to the controller. Upon completion of the charging of the biological information measurement device via the first non-contact charging portion, the controller connected to the display section may display on the display section that the biological information measurement device will be incapable of measurement for a specific length of time. |
| US10209235B2 |
Sensing and surfacing of crop loss data
A crop loss level generator receives a crop loss sensor signal from a crop loss sensor and generates a crop loss metric indicative of a sensed crop loss level based on the crop loss sensor signal. A first crop loss display generator generates a first crop loss display element based on the crop loss metric and controls a display device to display the first crop loss display element relative to a target loss range indicator indicative of a target loss range. A historic crop loss display generator generates a historic crop loss display element, based on previously generated crop loss metrics, and controls the display device to display the historic crop loss display element relative to the target loss indicator and relative to the first crop loss display element. |
| US10209234B2 |
Multimodal analyte sensor network
The present invention involves a multimodal sensor network for analyte detection. A first mode may involve low-power detection and a second mode may involve determining an analyte concentration and transmitting data associated with the analyte concentration. Specifically, the first mode may include establishing an analyte sensor network in a detection region, detecting an analyte in the detection region, and generating an electrical signal in response to the detecting the analyte. In response to the electrical signal exceeding a first threshold, the analyte detection system may operate in the second mode. The second mode may include requesting data associated with the one or more environmental conditions, determining an analyte concentration based on one or more environmental conditions transmitting data associated with the analyte concentration. |
| US10209230B2 |
Electrode for resistance furnace
An electrode for a resistance analytical furnace has a central opening including a crucible-engaging surface and an annular flange spaced from the crucible-engaging surface. The flange has a lower surface with a plurality of grooves formed therein. The grooves are curved and extend from the central opening of the edge of the flange. |
| US10209229B2 |
Mixer bypass sample injection for liquid chromatography
In a liquid chromatography system, a sample is injected into a column by flowing a solvent mixture from a mixer into the column along a solvent mixture flow path; and injecting a sample into the solvent mixture flow path downstream of the mixer. In another liquid chromatography system, a sample is injected into a column by loading an isolator fluid into a sample loop, loading a sample into the sample loop, and flowing the sample into the column as a plug in front of the isolator fluid. |
| US10209228B2 |
Ultrasonic testing device and ultrasonic testing method
The invention is applied to an ultrasound inspection apparatus including an array probe such that wetting is substantially limited to an inspection surface of the work. The ultrasound inspection apparatus includes: a work holder that holds a work with an inspection surface thereof facing downward; an array probe that probes the work with an ultrasonic wave; a water tank in which the array probe is immersed in water; an arm that holds the array probe such that the array probe faces an underside of the inspection surface of the work; X-axial direction scanning means that horizontally scans the work, with a liquid surface coming into contact with the inspection surface of the work due to surface tension of a liquid stored in the water tank; and Y-axial direction scanning means that horizontally scans the array probe. |
| US10209227B2 |
Method and apparatus for inspecting a part having a non-linear cross-section
In accordance with one or more aspects of the present disclosure, an apparatus for inspecting a part having a non-linear cross section includes a stationary sensor element including at least one phased array sensing unit, each of the at least one phased array sensing unit having a shape that is geometrically complimentary to the non-linear cross section of the part, and a support for the part having the non-linear cross section, the support comprising a drive assembly configured to move the part relative to the stationary sensor element, through an inspection beam emitted from the at least one phased array sensing unit. |
| US10209226B2 |
Photoacoustic microscope apparatus
A photoacoustic microscope apparatus includes a light source that emits excitation light which generates photoacoustic waves, an objective lens which focuses the excitation light on a specimen, a scanning unit which moves a focused position of the excitation light on the specimen, a photoacoustic-wave detecting unit which has a sensor unit that detects a photoacoustic wave generated, and an image constructing unit which constructs an image based on data from the photoacoustic-wave detecting unit. For the sensor unit, an angle of a range which is capable of receiving the photoacoustic wave incident on the sensor unit is larger than an angle corresponding to a numerical aperture on a side illuminated of the objective lens. |
| US10209222B2 |
Method for eddy current testing
A method for testing the integrity of a component in a measurement area of the component, using an instrument having a flexible part and a rigid end part following the flexible part and carrying an eddy current probe. The method comprises a selection step in which a template corresponding to the measurement area is selected, a shaping step in which the flexible part is shaped against the template thus selected, a positioning step, in which the instrument thus shaped is positioned so that the eddy current probe is placed in the measurement area, and a measurement step, in which a measurement is made via the eddy current probe which has been thus positioned. |
| US10209220B2 |
Apparatus for measuring ion mobility of harmful material and reference data obtaining method of the same
Provided are an apparatus for measuring an ionic mobility of a harmful material and a reference data obtaining method thereof. The method includes obtaining a measurement signal by detecting a charge of an ion between electrodes, obtaining a noise signal by insulating the electrodes from the ion, aligning the noise signal with the measurement signal, removing a part of the measurement signal aligned with the noise signal, and calculating reference data from a remaining part of the measurement signal. |
| US10209217B2 |
Devices and methods for sample characterization
Devices and methods for characterization of analyte mixtures are provided. Some methods described herein include performing enrichment steps on a device before expelling enriched analyte fractions from the device for subsequent analysis. Also included are devices for performing these enrichment steps. |
| US10209215B2 |
Integrated circuit sensor device for charge detection hybridizing a lateral metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) and a vertical bipolar junction transistor (BJT)
A semiconductor based integrated sensor device includes: a lateral insulating-gate field effect transistor (MOSFET) connected in series to the base of a vertical bipolar junction transistor (BJT) wherein the drain-drift-region of the MOSFET is part of the base-region of the BJT within the semiconductor substrate thus making electrical contact to the base of the BJT and the distance of the drain-drift-region of the MOSFET to the emitter of the BJT exceeds the vertical distance between the emitter and any buried layer, serving as collector, and the breakdown voltage of the device being determined by the BVCEO of the vertical BJT. |
| US10209213B2 |
Flexible sensor patch and method of using the same
A flexible sensor patch includes a flexible base having outer and inner surfaces and a periphery, an adhesive layer disposed on at least a portion of the outer surface, a flexible porous cover secured to the flexible base along at least major portion of the periphery. The flexible porous cover and the flexible base collectively enclose at least a major portion of a sensor. The sensor comprises a capacitive sensor element. The capacitive sensor element comprises first and second conductive electrodes and a dielectric microporous material disposed therebetween. Methods of using the flexible sensor patch are also disclosed. |
| US10209206B2 |
Method and system for determining strain distribution in a sample
A control system is presented for use in measuring one or more parameters of a sample. The control system comprises an input utility and a processor utility. The input utility is configured for receiving input data including first data comprising X-ray Diffraction or High-Resolution X-ray Diffraction (XRD) response data of the sample indicative of a material distribution in the sample, and second data comprising optical response data of the sample to incident light indicative of at least a geometry of the sample. The processor utility is configured and operable for processing and analyzing one of the first and second data for optimizing the other one of the first and second data, and utilizing the optimized data for determining said one or more parameters of the sample including a strain distribution in the sample. |
| US10209205B2 |
System and method for tire inspection
Among other things, a tire inspection system and method are provided. A radiation source and a detector array are configured to rotate about an axis of rotation. During a first examination of a tire, the tire has a first orientation relative to the axis of rotation, and during a second examination, the tire has a second orientation relative to the axis of rotation. For example, between the first examination and the second examination, the tire is at least one of shifted with respect to the axis of rotation or rotated about a tire rotation axis (e.g., perpendicular to the axis of rotation) to change the orientation of the tire relative to the axis of rotation. In this manner, imagery of the tire may be developed, which can be inspected to identify irregularities, etc., in the tire, for example. |
| US10209201B2 |
Oil detection process and apparatus
An inspection station for detecting oil or lubricant contamination in a manufactured product, the inspection station having (a) a conveyor for advancing manufactured product, and (b) an infrared detection apparatus, including (i) a high intensity infrared light source for directing at the manufactured product, and (ii) a high speed NIR spectrometer sensor tuned to detect an emitted signal from a taggant disposed in the oil or lubricant. |
| US10209199B2 |
Surface inspection method, surface inspection device, manufacturing system, method of identifying defect formed area, and manufacturing method of steel pipe
A surface inspection method for a steel pipe detects a surface defect on a hot steel pipe, and includes: an imaging step of imaging a self-luminous image of the hot steel pipe; a correcting step of making more uniform luminance variation in a circumferential direction of the self-luminous image and correcting the self-luminous image; and a detecting step of detecting a surface defect based on the self-luminous image corrected at the correcting step. |
| US10209194B2 |
Raman scattering nanoprobes
A Raman scattering probe, and a method of making such a probe, uses a capsule of nanometric size, such as a nanotube, to which is coupled at least one Raman-active molecule. The Raman-active molecule may be encapsulated in, or attached on the exterior of, the capsule, and exhibits a Raman scattering response when the probe is illuminated by an excitation light beam. A functionalization chemical group that is attached to an exterior of the capsule provides a connection between the capsule and a target material. This functionalization may include a generic chemical functionalization that bonds with any of a plurality of secondary chemical groups each of which bonds directly with a different target. A method of using the probe for Raman spectroscopy or Raman imaging is also provided. |
| US10209189B2 |
Spectrum measuring device, spectrum measuring method, and specimen container
A spectral measurement apparatus for irradiating a sample as a measurement object with excitation light and detecting light to be measured includes a light source generating the excitation light; an integrator having an input opening portion through which the excitation light is input, and an output opening portion from which the light to be measured is output; a housing portion arranged in the integrator and housing the sample; an incidence optical system making the excitation light incident to the sample; a photodetector detecting the light to be measured output from the output opening portion; and an analysis device calculating a quantum yield of the sample, based on a detection value detected by the photodetector, and the excitation light is applied to the sample so as to include the sample. |
| US10209184B2 |
Removable insert for a test unit having a light source for illuminating an aerosol test chamber
A test unit having a light source (e.g., a laser) for illuminating an aerosol sample directed into a test chamber and a removable insert for the test unit. The test unit includes at least one detector for detecting the effect of the aerosol sample on light, i.e., the detector detects at least one property of light after the light has illuminated the aerosol sample. The removable insert may take a number of different forms. For example, the removable insert can form at least a portion of an unsealed or sealed test chamber when installed in an operating position. Further, the removable insert may include a removable support and at least one film or collection substance connected or applied to the removable support. The at least one film could be a filter or a non-filter. The filter could be a polarization filter (i.e., horizontal or vertical) or a fluorescence filter. |
| US10209180B2 |
Sensor device and a method of detecting a component in gas
A sensor device comprising a planar substrate defining a substrate plane and a waveguide for guiding an electromagnetic wave. The waveguide extends in a length direction in a waveguide plane parallel to the substrate plane and has a width and a height, wherein the width to height ratio is more than 5. The height of the waveguide is less than the wavelength of the electromagnetic wave. The waveguide is supported on the substrate by a support structure extending from the substrate to the waveguide, along the length direction of the waveguide, having a width which is smaller than the width of the waveguide. The invention further relates to a method of detecting a component in gas and a method of fabricating a sensor device. |
| US10209176B2 |
Fluid flow cell including a spherical lens
A flow cell device including a spherical optical element is disclosed. The spherical lens can be sealed to the body of the flow cell device in a manner that provides external optical access to a fluid in an analysis region of a flow path through the flow cell device. The seal can be provided by an elastomer, a polymer, or a deformable metal. The disposition of the spherical lens to the flow path enables in situ optical analysis of the fluid. An optical analysis device can be removably connected to the flow cell device to provide the optical analysis. In some embodiments the optical analysis device is a portable Raman spectrometer. The flow cell device can provide a supplementary interrogation interface, and/or an on board sensor device(s) to enable multivariate analysis and/or advanced triggering. |
| US10209170B2 |
Meter electronics and method for obtaining flow fluid viscosity at a reference temperature
Meter electronics (20) and method for obtaining a flow fluid viscosity at a predetermined reference temperature are provided. The meter electronics (20) includes an interface (201) configured to exchange communications, a storage system (204) configured to store a predetermined reference temperature (211), a measured fluid viscosity (214), a measured fluid temperature (215), and a temperature-viscosity relational data (218) that relates temperature to viscosity over a predetermined range of flow fluid temperatures, and a processing system (203) coupled to the interface (201) and to the storage system (204), with the processing system (203) configured to obtain the measured fluid temperature (215), obtain the measured fluid viscosity (214), and generate a reference temperature viscosity (227) using the measured fluid viscosity (214) and the temperature-viscosity relational data (218), with the generated reference temperature viscosity (227) corresponding to the predetermined reference temperature (211). |
| US10209161B2 |
Measuring optical element for aberration from gravity and holding
A measuring method for an optical element for obtaining a plurality of measurement errors of the optical element is disclosed, which comprises steps of irradiating a laser ray to an overall portion of the optical element, wherein the optical element is supported as one of a horizontal state and a vertical state; rotating continuously the optical element with 360 degrees to reflect the laser ray to obtain a reflected light wavefront picture from the reflected laser ray; analyzing the reflected light wavefront picture to obtain a plurality of aberration characteristics information, respectively, each being one of a sine and a cosine wave functions of a wavefront error for each of the plurality of specified rotation angles; analyzing a plurality of interference factors each for the plurality of measurement errors on each of the plurality of aberration characteristics information, respectively; calculating and extracting a plurality of classified aberration characteristics information for each of the plurality of specified rotation angles of the optical element from each of the plurality of aberration characteristics information according to the plurality of measurement errors, respectively; and analyzing each of the plurality of classified aberration characteristics information to obtain an error amount corresponding to each of the plurality of measurement errors, respectively. |
| US10209159B2 |
Displacement detecting device for structural object, sharing system of displacement of structural object, and method and program of detecting displacement of structural object
A displacement detecting device for a structural object is capable of accurately measuring displacement of the structural object. The displacement detecting device includes first and second attitude data calculators, a data extractor, and a displacement calculator. The first attitude data calculator calculates attitude data at a first position by using received positioning signals, and calculates a calculated time point of the attitude data of the first position based on a time of a positioning system. The second attitude data calculator calculates attitude data at a second position by using received positioning signals, and calculates a calculated time point of the attitude data of the second position based on the time of the positioning system. The displacement calculator calculates a displacement amount and a displacement direction of the structural object by using a difference between the attitude data of the first and second positions calculated at the same time point. |
| US10209150B2 |
Strain gauge
There is provided a strain gauge having both reduced size and symmetry. The strain gauge includes at least four grid resistor connected to each other in series, and at least three trim resistors each connected to a series circuit in parallel, the series circuit being constituted by two grid resistors adjacent to each other (R1,R2; R2,R3; R3,R4) of the at least four grid resistors. The at least four grid resistors have resistance values different from one another. |
| US10209149B2 |
Installation method and an apparatus of a sensor based on strain gauges to generate deformation signals caused by an applied force
An installation method and an apparatus of a strain gauge sensor are capable of driving an object to be measured to generate a deformation signal by a pushing/pulling force. At least two strain gauge sensors are installed on surfaces with different amounts of deformation and at an installation location of an electrical vehicle according to the installation method. The installation method includes Method 1: When a manual pushing/pulling force is applied, the installation location is deformed and the deforming action force is directly proportional to the pushing/pulling force. Method 2: When the pushing/pulling force is applied, the vehicle deforming direction at the installation location is independent to the pushing/pulling force moving direction. Method 3: The strain detecting direction of the strain gauge sensor is the same as the vehicle deforming direction at the installation location. Therefore, pulling or driving force data can be measured accurately. |
| US10209140B1 |
Portable temperature probe
A portable temperature probe. The probe has a handle probe assembly with a longitudinal, steel, antimicrobial, heat-conductive element. A removable, hollow, stainless steel sheath is provided for enclosing and protecting the probe assembly. The heat-conductive element is hardened to resist bending and silver plated for maximum heat-conductivity. The sheath can be carried in a pocket to keep the probe easily accessible, sanitary, and protected from bending. A magnetic closure on the sheath allows the probe to be quickly accessible for removal and storage. The entire unit can be sanitized along with other kitchen utensils without corroding. |
| US10209138B2 |
Filtering distributed sensing data
A distributed sensing device for determining a physical quantity which includes a measuring unit configured for measuring signals over time and space by distributed sensing, a determining unit configured for determining, based on the measured signals, data being correlated to the physical quantity, and a filtering unit configured for filtering the data to reduce noise and substantially preserve real features based on at least one filter parameter which is determined depending on the data which relate to the physical quantity at a plurality of different times. |
| US10209135B2 |
Method for measuring multi-channel mismatch of ultra-high speed photonic sampler and measurement compensation device thereof
The present invention relates to a measuring and compensating method for channel mismatch of an ultra-high speed time-wavelength interleaved optical pulse sequence, by employing a generating module of the to-be tested ultra-high speed time-wavelength interleaved optical pulse sequence, an optical spectrum measuring module, an electrical frequency measuring module, and a data analyzing and processing module. The present invention obtains mismatch information of the pulse sequence for each channel by means of measurement and analysis of the ultra-high speed time-wavelength interleaved optical pulse sequence, thus overcoming the bottleneck of inadequate sampling of time-domain observation via an oscilloscope. The channel mismatch information obtained by the present invention may act as a basis for channel mismatch compensation and correction for the ultra-high speed time-wavelength interleaved optical pulse sequence. |
| US10209130B2 |
Spectrometer with operator assistance for measurement optimization
The present disclosure relates to assistive mechanisms and methods that aid an operator of a spectrometer to make spectral measurements of a sample, the measurements having a desired quality. The method enables quality spectral measurements quickly and simply, without a prior understanding of a sample's spectrum or of the details as to how the spectrum is measured. Data quality is improved, and the time required to collect the data is reduced. While a specific example of sample optic focus is disclosed in detail, the optimization of numerous other parameters is possible. |
| US10209129B2 |
Optical measurement of thin films
Embodiments of measurement apparatus for measuring the optical properties of a sample film are described. The measurement apparatus includes a first stage, a second stage, and an arm structure coupled to the second stage. The first stage includes an optical source and a block of transparent material. The block of transparent material includes a surface that supports a sample film. The second stage includes a plurality of layers and an optical detector. The arm structure is designed to translate the second stage with respect to the first stage. |
| US10209126B2 |
Ultraviolet radiation monitoring apparatus, system having the same, and method thereof
The present application discloses a UV radiation monitoring apparatus, method, and system. The monitoring apparatus includes a case, an authenticator disposed on the case and configured to identify a user, a controller in the case coupled to the authenticator to enable a first mode for an authenticated user, a detector on the case coupled to the controller and configured to measure an intensity of ultraviolet radiation and generate ultraviolet index (UVI) value at the present time, a memory coupled to the controller and configured to store the UVI values over an exposure time added into historical UVI data for the authenticated user, and a display unit to display the UVI value at the present time and the personal health instructions on UV protection for the authenticated user. The monitoring apparatus further is configured to be paired with a mobile terminal for providing updated personal health instructions. |
| US10209124B2 |
Passive infrared sensor system for position detection
According to the invention, a PIR sensor system (100) comprises a first PIR sensor (1) associated with a first sensing region (11) and a second PIR sensor (2) associated with a second sensing region (12). The first and second sensing regions partially overlap and are divided into detection cells (46a-46f) and (45a-45d). Each detection cell is represented by predetermined characteristics of first and second output signals, which signals are based on input signals from first and second sensing elements (4-7) of each PIR sensor. Thereby different detection cells are encoded by a certain combination of signal characteristics (amplitude and sign) of the first and second output signals. Further, the PIR sensor system comprises a processing unit (15) configured to associate the characteristics of the first and second output signals with one of the detection cells for determining in which of the detection cells a heat source is positioned. The invention is advantageous in that production costs of the PIR sensor system are reduced. A calibration method for identifying the correspondence between the detection cells and the output signals at installation is also provided. |
| US10209117B1 |
Method and system for measuring and managing inventory of product in a collapsible tank
Measuring, controlling, and automating inventory of product stored in a collapsible tank. An interface device can interact with a sensor installed at the collapsible tank and a metering device, such as a flow meter, to generate a strap table for the collapsible tank. The strap table can include entries that correlate a process value measured by the sensor to a volume of product corresponding to that process value. Current volume of product stored in the collapsible tank can be determined by comparing a current process value to entries in the strap table or by an interpolation process. The interface device can generate an updated strap table based on a relaxation curve to account for settling of the collapsible tank. The interface device can synchronize data with a host device, such as a personal computer or handheld computer, that includes software for tracking inventory in collapsible tanks. |
| US10209116B2 |
Measuring cup
The measuring cup includes numerous embodiments configured for a user to precisely determine the cup contents without need to lift the cup to one's eye level or to lower the eye level to the level of the cup contents. The various embodiments include folding cups; cups having transparent passages in the wall; cups having adjustably positionable bottoms; cups having level indicator rods in the cup interior extending upward from the cup bottom; cups having one or more filaments extending across the cup interior; cups having rigid level indicators spanning the cup interior; cups having adjustably positionable level indicator tabs therein; cups having buoyant level indicator tabs adjustably positionable in the cup interior; and cups having removable clip-on scales extending down along the interior of the cup wall, the scales having a plurality of attachment points for the removable attachment of a level indicator tab at a desired attachment point. |
| US10209114B2 |
Water meter and water supply management system using same
Disclosed is a water meter including: a reading unit provided in a meter body to display a flow of water supplied through a water pipe; a sensing unit provided in the meter body to detect vibrations transmitted through the water pipe; a conversion unit for converting the vibrations detected by the sensing unit into electric signals; a frequency analysis unit for analyzing frequency components of the electric signals converted by the conversion unit; a comparison-processing unit for comparing each of the frequency components of the analyzed electric signals to a predetermined set-up level, and identifying whether each of the frequency components exceeds the predetermined set-up level; a determination-control unit for calculating a leakage probability on a basis of results from the comparison-processing unit; and an output unit for outputting a determination result of the determination-control unit as at least one of a video signal and an audio signal. |
| US10209109B2 |
Nuclear flowmeter for measurements in multiphase flows
A nuclear flowmeter for measurements in multiphase flows consisting of up to three main phases that is connected in series in the output flow in a production line of an oil well, that includes a “U” shaped arrangement formed by an input branch and an output branch placed at both sides of the “U” shaped arrangement, where the input branch is connected to the production line of the oil well through an input pipe section (1) and the output branch is connected to the line of production of the oil well through an output pipe section (21) placed respectively at both ends of the “U” shaped arrangement; the input branch includes a pipe section with section reduction that forms a Venturi (3) while in the output branch includes a pipe section with possible section reduction (5) where the nuclear measurements are made, is provided. |
| US10209108B2 |
Flow measuring device for lubrication systems
A flow measuring device for measuring flow of a fluid. A housing has a passage which extends between an inlet and an outlet. A shaft is disposed within the housing and is rotatable about a central axis. A flow detector is mounted on the shaft and disposed at least partially within the passage. The flow detector includes a rotatable, generally cylindrical body that rotates about a central axis as the fluid flows. A magnet is disposed within the housing such that the central axis extends through it, and is configured to rotate simultaneously with the body about the central axis. A magnetic encoder is disposed within the housing and configured to sense rotation of the magnet as the flow detector angularly displaces about the central axis so as to detect angular displacement of the flow detector. |
| US10209104B2 |
Absolute encoder, processing method, program, driving apparatus, and industrial machine
An absolute encoder includes a scale having a sequence of marks, a detector configured to detect a signal corresponding to a plurality of marks of the scale, and a processor configured to obtain an absolute position corresponding to the signal. The processor is configured to select code sequences, from a group of code sequences corresponding to absolute positions, as a candidate group for a code sequence corresponding to the signal, and to select the code sequence corresponding to the signal from the candidate group. |
| US10209097B2 |
Inductive displacement measuring sensor and method for operating the latter
In an inductive displacement measuring sensor for measuring the distance, the spatial orientation, the thickness, the material properties or the like of a target object, which sensor has a transmitter element which emits a pulsed signal and a receiver element for detecting a pulse response caused by the emitted pulsed signal in the target object, provision is made, in particular, for the detected pulse response to be immediately evaluated using an artificial neural network. |
| US10209096B2 |
Rotation detecting device
A rotation detecting device includes a plurality of magnetic field generating portions; a magnetic member; a coil wound around the magnetic member; and a magnetic field introducing portion. The magnetic field introducing portion introduces a magnetic flux generated by the magnetic field generating portion to pass through the magnetic member when the magnetic field generating portion passes through a specific location. |
| US10209094B2 |
Rotation detection sensor and resin molding die for the sensor
Provided is a rotation detection sensor and a resin molding die for the sensor, with which manufacturing cost can be readily reduced. The sensor includes an assembly type sensor body having a sensor element and a cable electrically connected to the sensor element. A curved portion is formed at a portion of the cable extending from the sensor body. There is provided a resin sheath portion molded to sheath a portion of the sensor body and the curved portion integrally with resin. |
| US10209093B2 |
Servo gear idle position measuring device and method
A device sod a method for measuring servo gear idle position are provided. The method includes: outputting a start-up fixed force of a first rotation direction to an output shall of a servo under test, and recording a value of a start-up position of the output shaft when a position of a rotor of the servo under test changes for the first time; outputting a counterrotation force of a second rotation direction for rotating the output shaft to the output shaft, and recording a value of an counterrotation position of the output shaft when the rotor is in a stop status after a predetermined interval; and calculating a value of a servo gear idle position in a current measuring point, the value of the idle position is the absolute value of the difference between the value of the start-up position and the value of the counterrotation position. |
| US10209089B2 |
Automated image labeling for vehicles based on maps
A method and system for navigating a vehicle using automatically labeled images. The system includes a camera configured to capture an image of a roadway and an electronic processor communicatively connected to the camera. The electronic processor is configured to load a map that includes a first plurality of features and receive the image. The image includes a second plurality of features. The electronic processor is further configured to project the map onto the image; detect the second plurality of features within the image; and align the map with the image by aligning the first plurality of features with the second plurality of features. The electronic processor is further configured to copy a label describing one of the first plurality of features onto a corresponding one of the second plurality of features to create a labelled image and to use the labelled image to assist in navigation of the vehicle. |
| US10209088B2 |
Method and apparatus for route calculation considering potential mistakes
An approach is provided for route calculation using a navigation system by considering potential mistakes. Using the navigation system, at least one route is calculated. A map database is queried to identify intersections along the at least one route. A predicted probability of a user making a routing mistake at the intersections is calculated. A travel time, travel distance, or a combination thereof that is predicted to result from the routing mistake is calculated. The travel time, the travel distance, or a combination thereof represents a predicted severity of the routing mistake. At least one route is recalculated to accept or avoid the intersections based on the predicted probability and the predicted severity of the routing mistake. The recalculated route is presented in a user interface as an optimal route. |
| US10209086B2 |
Route search system, method, and program
Route search systems, methods, and programs acquire movement paths of a plurality of users, and acquire difference values for a plurality of characteristics. The difference values each indicate a difference between a characteristic of a reference route and a characteristic of the movement paths of the plurality of users. Systems, methods, and programs classify the movement paths of each of the users into a plurality of types such that movement paths with a plurality of similar difference values belong to a same type, set a cost of a road for each of the types; and search for a route on the basis of the set cost. |
| US10209085B2 |
Safe routing for navigation systems
Examples provided herein describe a navigation system to identify routes that take safety considerations into account. The system accesses safety data from various sources and computes safety data for individual road segments of a map database at multiple times for each road segment. The road segment safety data is used when determining routes for requested trips, including estimating the times that the various road segments on the route will be traversed and determining the safety of each road segment at that time. |
| US10209084B2 |
Systems and methods for digital route planning
A method for recommending a route includes obtaining a first start point and a first end point relating to a road network. The method also includes obtaining a route recommendation model. The method further includes determining a recommendation route from the first start point to the first end point based on the route recommendation model. |
| US10209083B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing node-based map matching
An approach is provided for node-based map matching. The approach involves processing probe data to sort a plurality of probe points according to sessions keys. The approach also involves selecting a subset of the plurality of probe points within a threshold distance of a node of a map representation of a transportation network. The approach further involves initiating a map matching of the probe points of each session key to the map representation by, for said each session key: (1) determining a closest probe point to the node; (2) determining another closest probe point to a neighboring node, wherein the neighboring node is connected to the node by at least one link; and (3) projecting the plurality of probe points between the closest probe point to the node and the another closest probe point to the neighboring node onto the link. |
| US10209080B2 |
Robotic cleaning device
A robotic cleaning device having a body, and an obstacle detecting device configured to obtain data from a vicinity of the robotic cleaning device. The robotic cleaning device further has a propulsion system configured to drive the robotic cleaning device across a surface to be cleaned, and a cleaning member. The device also has a processing unit arranged to extract at least one feature from data obtained by the obstacle detecting device, compare the attained feature with stored features and when the attained feature matches one of the stored features, deduce a position of the robotic cleaning device. |
| US10209079B2 |
Optimization of map views based on real-time data
Routing information (e.g., routing information displayed in an electronic map or provided as verbal travel directions) is generated and presented to a user in a tailored manner. A request for routing information is received from a user. Spatial data, temporal data, social data, or topical data is retrieved that is related to the user and/or to a location or change of location of the user. Based on the retrieved data and the routing information, information display data is generated, and is provided to an electronic device of the user to generate an information display. An attribute of the information display is configured/modified based on the location information and/or on the spatial data, temporal data, social data, and/or topical data. For example, a display attribute and/or an audio attribute of the information display may be modified. |
| US10209078B2 |
Local perturbation rejection using time shifting
A system, a method and a computer program product are provided for local perturbation immunity in a vector-based sensing device. Measurement data from at least one vector-based sensing device is evaluated at a given time using a heuristic to identify an occurrence of a perturbing event, wherein the at least one vector-based sensing device includes either a magnetometer or an accelerometer, or both the magnetometer and the accelerometer. A time-shifting component is provided to reject the perturbing event for a duration of the perturbing event and use measurement data from a gyroscope to construct vector-based sensing device measurement data unaffected by the perturbing event. |
| US10209075B2 |
Orientation determination for devices generating electromagnetic interference
A mechanism is provided to determine orientation of a device that includes sources of electromagnetic interference. Data generated by one or more gyroscopes in the device, in conjunction with data generated by one or more accelerometers, can be used to generate an estimate of the change of orientation of the device from the time of a last accurate magnetometer reading. In one embodiment, in order to conserve system power, the gyroscope is kept powered down or in a stand-by state until receiving a control signal to power up. The control signal is provided in advance of the source of electromagnetic interference being powered up, thereby providing an accurate starting point from which magnetometer orientation estimates may be calculated during such interference. |
| US10209074B2 |
Magnetic beacon self-localization using mobile device magnetometers
A computer-implemented method for determining position of a mobile device using magnetic beacons including detecting, by a sensor in the mobile device, a magnetic signal having a unique signature associated with a given magnetic beacon; storing location and an associated signature for each of a plurality of magnetic beacons in a data store of the mobile device, where each of the magnetic beacons is assigned a different signature; extracting the unique signature from the magnetic signal; comparing the extracted signature to each of the signatures stored in the data store; identifying a given magnetic beacon from the plurality of magnetic beacons, where signature for the given beacon matches the extracted signature; and retrieving the location for the given magnetic beacon for the data store and correlating location of the mobile device with the location of the given magnetic beacon. |
| US10209068B2 |
Strapdown heading sensors and systems, and methods of calibrating and compensating the same
A strapdown heading sensor includes an elongated housing and a compass module at least partially positioned within an inner cavity of the elongated housing. The compass module is cantilevered within the inner cavity of the elongated housing. |
| US10209066B2 |
Measuring the position of an installation platform in an elevator shaft using laser transmitters and light detectors
An arrangement includes an installation platform arranged to be movable upwards and downwards in a first direction in the elevator shaft, and two laser transmitters arranged at a bottom of the elevator shaft. Each of the two laser transmitters produce a vertical upwards directed laser plane in the elevator shaft, the laser planes being perpendicular to each other. At least four primary light sensitive detectors are attached to the installation platform so that they are visible to the laser transmitters, each of the primary light sensitive detectors being positioned on a respective side of a rectangle. The position of the installation platform in relation to the elevator shaft can be measured from the hitting points of the laser planes on the primary light sensitive detectors. |
| US10209064B2 |
Online measuring method of concentration and diameter of particles in multiphase system
An online multiphase measuring method of concentration and diameter distribution of dispersed phase particles in a multiphase reactor is provided in the present invention. The method is based on an online multiphase measuring instrument. The method described herein includes the following steps: (1) the online multiphase measuring instrument is placed in a multiphase system, and an image of the particles in the multiphase system is obtained; (2) valid particles are determined as: the particle that its Grad(Φ) is greater than or equal to Grad(Φl/2) is labeled as a valid one; (3) the particle diameter is calculated by di=10×ni/N10; according to the equation α = V c V = ∑ i n 1 6 π d i 3 S × l , the concentration of the valid particles is calculated. The concentration and diameter of bubbles, droplets or solid particles can be obtained in real time and online measurement. The accuracy of this method is high. |
| US10209062B1 |
Use of offline algorithm to determine location from previous sensor data when location is requested
Examples describe systems and methods for iteratively determining a signal strength map for a wireless access point (AP) aligned to position coordinates. An example method includes receiving logs of data from devices. For a plurality of iterations, the method includes selecting a set of logs of data having an amount of GPS being less than a given amount of GPS in a previously selected set, determining estimates of signal strength maps for the wireless AP aligned to position coordinates based on the selected set and on given signal strength maps due to a previous iteration, and performing a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) optimization of the possible locations of the wireless AP based on the given signal strength maps and the estimates of the signal strength maps. Based on the iterative optimizations, an output signal strength map is provided for the wireless AP aligned to position coordinates. |
| US10209060B1 |
Fiber-optic sensors in a rosette or rosette-like pattern for structure monitoring
An apparatus, and related method, relates generally to a fiber-optic sensing system. In such a system, fiber-optic sensors are in a rosette or rosette-like pattern. An optical circulator is coupled to receive a light signal from a broadband light source, to provide the light signal to the fiber-optic sensors, and to receive a returned optical signal from the fiber-optic sensors. A spectral engine is coupled to the optical circulator to receive the returned optical signal and configured to provide an output signal. |
| US10209058B1 |
Multi-probe gauge for slab characterization
The present subject matter at-least provides an apparatus for characterization of a slab of a material. The apparatus comprises a plurality of frequency-domain optical-coherence tomography (FD-OCT) probes configured for irradiating the slab of material at at-least one location, and detecting radiation reflected from the slab of material or transmitted there-through. Further, a centralized actuation-mechanism is connected to the plurality of OCT probes for simultaneously actuating one or more elements in each of said OCT probes to at-least cause a synchronized detection of the radiation from the slab of material. A spectral-analysis module is provided for analyzing at least an interference-pattern with respect to each of said OCT probes to thereby determine at least one of thickness and topography of the slab of the material. |
| US10209051B2 |
Contact measurement on the tooth flank of a gearwheel workpiece
A method and apparatus for carrying out contact measurement on at least one tooth flank of a gearwheel workpiece including the steps of: predetermining or defining a maximum region relating to the tooth flank, predetermining or defining a critical region relating to the tooth flank that overlaps the maximum region at least in part, executing relative movements of a probe of a measuring apparatus to guide the probe along the tooth flank to obtain actual measured values with a first resolution for a plurality of locations on the tooth flank within the maximum region, and obtain actual measured values with a second resolution for a plurality of locations on the tooth flank within the critical region, wherein the second resolution is higher than the first resolution. |
| US10209049B2 |
Fabrication and monitoring device for micro probe ball tip
A fabrication and monitoring device for micro probe ball tips includes a magnetic field generator, a 3-dimensional displacement adjusting mechanism, a wire supplier and an image monitoring system. The magnetic field generator includes a U-shaped electromagnet. The 3-dimensional displacement adjusting mechanism includes a 2-dimensional moving platform, a 1-dimensional moving platform, a guiding tube, and a sparking plug. The wire supplier includes a transmission wheel, a pressing roller, a wire feeding roller and a tungsten wire material supplier. The image monitoring system includes a micro objective, a third-generation infinite beam structure lens and a supporting frame. The present invention overcomes an eccentric problem of a tungsten ball and a tungsten rod, and also overcomes a sphericity problem caused by gravity, so as to improve sphericity, eccentric accuracy and enable monitoring of dynamic manufacturing process of the probe ball tips. |
| US10209048B2 |
Double ball-bar measuring system and errors compensation method thereof
A double ball-bar measuring system includes a calibration unit, at least two double ball-bars and a measuring module. Among the double ball-bars, at least one is a measuring double ball-bar and at least one is a reference double ball-bar. The measuring double ball-bar is installed on a measurement apparatus to measure or calibrate a target machine. The reference double ball-bar is disposed on the calibration unit to measure thermal errors. When the target machine is driven for measurement or calibration, the geometric and thermal errors of the measuring double ball-bar are compensated so that the measurement apparatus can achieve highly accurate measurement. |
| US10209046B2 |
Empty shotgun cartridge separating system
The present invention provides a system for separating empty or used ammunition cartridges, in particular spent plastic shotgun shells, in order to allow the plastic and metal component parts of the cartridge to be recycled, the system comprising a restraint which defines a guideway within which the metal head of the cartridge may be slidingly engaged, and a clamp in the form of a pair of chains arranged to define a clamping path between opposed portions of the chains and along which clamping path the case may be drawn, the guideway diverging from the clamping path so as to draw the case out of register with the head as the cart ridge is displace along the clamping path. |
| US10209045B2 |
Non-jacketed expandable bullet and method of manufacturing a non-jacketed expandable bullet
A non-jacketed expandable bullet including a monolithic sintered body. The monolithic sintered body includes a base portion and a deformed hollow nose portion extending distally from a distal end of the base portion. Also, a method of manufacturing a non-jacketed expandable bullet including providing a monolithic sintered body including a base portion and a hollow peripheral portion extending distally from a distal end of the base portion and forming the hollow peripheral portion into the shape of a hollow tapered nose. |
| US10209044B2 |
Shot shells with performance-enhancing absorbers
Shot shells with enhanced performance due to inclusion of an absorber between the shot wad and the shot payload. The absorber reduces the pressure within a shot gun's chamber during firing of the shell, such as by absorbing energy generated during the firing process, and may thereafter return some of the energy to the pellets as the absorber and pellets are propelled along the fireman's barrel. Accordingly, the absorber enables a shot shell to generate shot payload velocities that are greater than would be achieved without the absorber, typically at a lower internal chamber pressure. In some embodiments, the absorber has (1) a Young's Modulus of less than 2,000 psi (137.9 bar), (2) a compressive strength of at least 100 psi (6.9 bar) and/or less than 10,000 psi (689.5 bar), and/or (3) a tensile strength of at least 145 psi (10 bar) and/or less than 10,000 psi (689.5 bar). |
| US10209043B2 |
Morris 80 plastic shark bolt
When combined with a metal point, this ten inch plastic pistol crossbow bolt is designed to extend past the barrel of a pistol crossbow so it can be used for recreational shooting, competition shooting, small game hunting, pistol crossbow fishing and pistol crossbow scuba fishing.The main fault of the standard bolt for a pistol crossbow is they are less than seven inches in length and do not extend past the end of a pistol crossbow barrel. Therefore, their use is limited to target points and recreational shooting only. Other faults of the standard short bolts are their high travel speed. They are very difficult to be viewed in flight, causing most bolts to be lost after one use. Also, their irretrievability from any commonly used target. Therefore, they cannot be found and scored in any type of shooting competition.This ten inch bolt is a solid one piece unit made of a strong but, light weight plastic compound. It has a NOCK to securely hold the bow string in place. Most bolts do not have a nock. It has two FLAT WINGS and a stabilizing TAIL which creates an accurate and stable bolt flight. No other bolt has flat wings or a tail. These features allow this bolt to be easily viewed in flight. This also allows this bolt to be used for competition shooting because these bolts can be easily located, scored and then retrieved from any type competition target. The shaft has a THREADED TIP to accept almost any type metal point. |
| US10209041B2 |
Detonator for passenger restraint systems
The invention relates to an ignition capsule for a gas generator of an occupant restraint system in a motor vehicle, in particular for the gas generator of an inflatable airbag, said ignition capsule comprising means for supporting extremely high pressures during ignition. |
| US10209040B2 |
Shaped charge having a radial momentum balanced liner
A disclosed example embodiment includes a shaped charge for use in a well perforating system. The shaped charge includes a housing having a discharge end and an initiation end. A liner is positioned with the housing. A main explosive is positioned within the housing between the liner and the initiation end of the housing. The liner has a radially outwardly disposed concave section having a progressively decreasing wall thickness in the direction from the initiation end to the discharge end of the housing and a radially inwardly disposed convex section having a progressively increasing wall thickness in the direction from the initiation end to the discharge end of the housing such that the liner is radial momentum balanced and operable to form a coherent jet having a hollow leading edge following detonation of the shaped charge. |
| US10209039B2 |
Bullet collecting robot, bullet collecting device thereof and shooting game system
A bullet collecting robot comprises a bullet collecting device, a travel driving mechanism, and a controller. The bullet collecting device comprises a collection bin including a bullet accommodating cavity and a collection opening in communication with the bullet accommodating cavity, a friction roller provided at the collection opening, and a collection driving member connected with the friction roller. The travel driving mechanism is configured to drive the bullet collecting device to move. The controller is connected in communication with the collection driving member and the travel driving mechanism, and is configured to control the collection driving member and the travel driving mechanism. |
| US10209025B2 |
Pneumatic system and method for simulated firearm training
A training method and apparatus are disclosed. The training method may include converting a firearm capable of firing live ammunition to a pneumatic training device incapable of firing live ammunition. The training method may further include cycling a pneumatic training device through one or more cycles. Each of the cycles may simulate an actual firing of the firearm. Each of the cycles may also include triggering a trigger assembly of the pneumatic training device, using a charge of a pressurized gas to reset the trigger assembly, and advancing a counter of the pneumatic training device. After a certain number of cycles have been completed, a next cycle may be attempted, but not completed. Accordingly, the training method may enable a user to safely and realistically practice reloading, jam or malfunction clearing, or the like. |
| US10209017B2 |
Cryogenic heat transfer by a nanoporous surface
Various methods and systems are provided for cryogenic heat transfer by nanoporous surfaces. In one embodiment, among others, a system includes a cryogenic fluid in a flow path of the system; and a system component in the flow path that includes a nanoporous surface layer in contact with the cryogenic fluid. In another embodiment, a method includes providing a cryogenic fluid; and initiating chilldown of a cryogenic system by directing the cryogenic fluid across a nanoporous surface layer disposed on a surface of a system component. |
| US10209016B2 |
Thermal energy guiding systems including anisotropic thermal guiding coatings and methods for fabricating the same
Thermal energy guiding systems and methods for fabricating thermal energy guiding systems are provided. A thermal energy guiding system includes a thermal energy source and an anisotropic thermal guiding coating in thermal communication with a surface of the thermal energy source. The anisotropic thermal guiding coating includes a plurality of layers including a first layer and a second layer. The first layer has a first thermal conductivity and the second layer has a second thermal conductivity. The plurality of layers are non-uniformly arranged on the surface of the thermal energy source in order to guide thermal energy from the thermal energy source according to a thermal energy management objective. |
| US10209015B2 |
Heat exchanger and method for making
A hybrid plate-fin heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first fluid and a second fluid is disclosed. The hybrid plate-fin heat exchanger comprises a plurality of plates, each of which comprises channels for conveying the first fluid. Fins are brazed onto each plate, wherein the fins define a plurality of flow channels for the second fluid. The plates are joined to one another via friction-stir welding in such a way that the brazed regions are fluidically isolated from the first fluid during operation. As a result, the heat exchanger is suitable for use in applications that use a first fluid, such as seawater or geothermal fluid, which is corrosive for the brazed regions. |
| US10209014B2 |
Brazed heat exchanger
A brazed heat exchanger, having a block consisting of flat tubes and fins, having header tubes arranged at opposite ends of the flat tubes and having an additional tube, which is connected to one of the header tubes. To reduce brazing defects, provision is made for at least a significant part of an outer surface of the additional tube and/or of the header tubes to be of enlarged design. |
| US10209013B2 |
Vapor compression system
A distributor for use in a vapor compression system includes an enclosure configured to be positioned in a heat exchanger having a tube bundle including a plurality of tubes extending substantially horizontally in the heat exchanger. At least one distribution device formed in an end of the enclosure positioned to face the tube bundle, the at least one distribution device configured to apply a fluid entering the distributor onto the tube bundle. The enclosure has an aspect ratio between about ½:1 and about 10:1. |
| US10209012B2 |
Heat exchanger with louvered fins
The present application provides a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first fluid and a second fluid. The heat exchanger may include a number of fin plates and a number of tubes extending though the fin plates with the first fluid therein. The fin plates may include a number of louvers extending between the tubes such that the second fluid flows through the louvers. |
| US10209011B2 |
Heat transfer tube and cracking furnace using the same
A heat transfer tube includes a twisted baffle arranged in an inner wall of the tube. The twisted baffle extends spirally along an axial direction of the heat transfer tube. The twisted baffle is provided with a non-through gap extending along an axial direction of the heat transfer tube from an end to the other end of the twisted baffle. A cracking furnace uses the heat transfer tube. The heat transfer tube and cracking furnace have good heat transfer effects and small pressure loss. |
| US10209009B2 |
Heat exchanger including passageways
A heat exchanger includes a core defining a first passageway and a second passageway. The core includes a plurality of unit cells coupled together. Each unit cell of the plurality of unit cells includes a first wall and a second wall. The second wall is spaced from the first wall. The first wall at least partially defines a first passageway portion and a second passageway portion. The second wall at least partially defines the second passageway portion. The second wall extends about the first wall such that the first passageway portion is nested within the second passageway portion. |
| US10209005B2 |
UV LED systems and methods
Ultra violet light-emitting diode (hereafter UV LED) curing units containing one or X array or XY arrays of UV LED modules with integrated optical, mechanical, and heat dissipation systems, and one, or X array, or XY arrays of extrusions with integrated air or liquid cooling systems to receive and house the integrated UV LED. The UV LED modules may be any size or shape depending on the power requirements of a given curing application. The LED chips or the groups of LED chips used for the above UV LED modules may be in other wavelengths for other applications. The UV LED modules have excellent heat dissipation because the LED chips or groups of LED chips are directly mounted on metal extrusion. The LED modules also have a single optical lens system between the LED chips and the surrounding ambient air. |
| US10209003B2 |
Electronics cabinet and rack cooling system and method
A thermal management system for a electronics cabinets having an electronics heat source therein. The thermal management system includes a first passive thermal device having an evaporator portion and a condenser portion. The thermal management system can also include a heat sink in contact with air inside the cabinet and in thermal contact with the evaporator portion of the first passive thermal device, wherein the heat sink is contained within the sealed cabinet. The condenser portion of the first passive thermal device can be in contact with a liquid to liquid heat exchanger. |
| US10209000B2 |
Cooling arrangement for refrigerators
A cooling arrangement for refrigerators is provided, which allows better control and temperature maintenance for beverage cans, which facilitates access to them without having to open other cooling chamber of the refrigerator and also prevents an abrupt shift of the cans which can generate overflows of the liquid contents when opening them. |
| US10208998B2 |
Apparatus and method for dispensing ice from a bottom mount refrigerator
A bottom mount household refrigerator is provided with an apparatus to permit the dispensing of ice. According to one embodiment, a sealed ice making compartment is provided within the fresh food compartment. The sealed ice making compartment may be located at the bottom, at the top, or along a side wall within the fresh food compartment. According to another embodiment, ice is made in the ice compartment, and lifted upward to a dispensing location through the door of the fresh food compartment. |
| US10208992B2 |
Cooling-abnormality detecting system
A cooling-abnormality detecting system in which a heat generating component and a cooling component contact each other via a contact section, and the cooling component cools the heat generating component. The cooling-abnormality detecting system includes: a heat-generating-component-temperature detecting sensor, a heat-generating-component-power-consumption detecting sensor, a cooling-component-temperature detecting sensor, and a processor that calculates a heat resistance value of the contact section between the heat generating component and the cooling component and determines the presence or absence of an abnormality in the contact section. |
| US10208988B2 |
Central air conditioning and heat pump system with energy efficient arrangement
An air conditioning and heat pump system includes a main heat exchange system, a heat distribution system and an energy efficient arrangement. The energy efficient arrangement includes a first energy saver heat exchanger connected to a first main heat exchanger and the second main heat exchanger of the main heat exchange system, a second pumping device connected to the first energy saver heat exchanger, and a pre-heating heat exchanger supported in the supporting frame at a positioned between a ventilating heat exchanging unit and an air intake opening of a ventilating device. The pre-heating heat exchanger is connected to the second pumping device and the first energy saver heat exchanger. |
| US10208987B2 |
Heat pump with an auxiliary heat exchanger for compressor discharge temperature control
An air-conditioning apparatus includes a bypass pipe that has one end connected to the discharge side of a compressor and through which refrigerant exiting the compressor flows, an auxiliary heat exchanger that is connected to the other end of the bypass pipe and the suction part of the compressor, and cools refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe and supplies the cooled refrigerant to the suction part of the compressor, and a flow regulating unit that is provided on the refrigerant outlet side of the auxiliary heat exchanger, and regulates the flow rate of refrigerant routed into the suction part of the compressor from the auxiliary heat exchanger. |
| US10208986B2 |
Evaporative fluid cooling apparatuses and methods thereof
An evaporative fluid cooling apparatus includes a cooling housing, at least two fluid coils, an air movement apparatus, and one or more spray apparatuses. The cooling housing defines a cooling chamber with an air housing input and an air housing output. The fluid coils are positioned in and extend across at least a portion of the cooling chamber in a spaced apart stacked arrangement. One of the fluid coils is positioned closer to the air housing output and has a first fluid input configured to be coupled to a fluid return from one or more air handler devices and a first fluid output coupled to a second fluid input to the other fluid coil. The other fluid coil is positioned closer to the air housing input and has a second fluid output configured to be coupled to a fluid supply to the air handler devices. |
| US10208982B2 |
Airfoil blade and method of assembly
An airfoil blade assembly includes a first shell member having a body having a first lock seam formed at one end thereof and a free distal end opposite the first lock seam, and a second shell member having a body having and a second lock seam formed at one end thereof and an a free distal end opposite the second lock seam. The second shell member is inverted with respect to the first shell member. The free distal end of the first shell member is captured within the second lock seam of the second shell member and the free distal end of the second shell member is captured within the first lock seam of the first shell member to lock the blades to one another. |
| US10208977B2 |
Intelligent LED bulb and vent method, apparatus and system
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with an intelligent LED light apparatus are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an intelligent LED light apparatus may include a communication interface, a processor, a body that encases at least the communication interface and the processor, and a plurality of sensors of a plurality of sensor types disposed on the body. The processor may be configured to receive sensor data from the sensors, and transmit the sensor data or results from processing the sensor data to an external recipient. Further, for some embodiments, the intelligent LED bulb apparatus may further comprise LED lights, and the body further encases the LED lights. In other embodiments, the body may include a male connector to mate with a bulb receptor, and a female connector to mate with a LED bulb. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed. |
| US10208975B2 |
Smart pet-crate with interactive features
A smart pet-crate is disclosed. The smart pet-crate provides a den-like habitat for an animal and is configured with electronics that include sensors to detect aspects of the animal's environment and environmental conditioners to adjust the environment within the pet crate in response to the detected aspects. The conditioned environment within the pet crate will provide comfort to the animal, which may help to reduce the animal's fear/anxiety. The smart pet-crate may be communicatively coupled to a body sensor worn by the animal and a computing device used by a human to form a pet care system, allowing for remote control of the pet crate and interaction with the animal. For the particular embodiment of a smart music playing pet crate, a method for selecting songs from a playlist based on sensing and computing the animal's preferences is also disclosed. |
| US10208973B2 |
System and method for rapid input and configuration of sensors for a HVAC monitoring system
The present disclosure relates to a processor based system for using temperature information being reported by a plurality of sensors present within a predetermined environment and controlling how various ones of the sensors are grouped together into a plurality of groups for monitoring purposes. The system includes a software subsystem that generates an association matrix screen on a display system associated with a computer system being used by a user with receives the temperature information. The association matrix screen enables a user to associate or disassociate specific sensors with selected groups of sensors using selection commands, as well as to provide temperature related information concerning all of the sensors being monitored by the system. Each of the sensors is not limited to being assigned to only a single group of sensors but may instead be assigned to two or more different groups of sensors for purposes of monitoring and/or control. |
| US10208971B2 |
Navier-stokes based indoor climate control
A data processor (4) is disclosed that can be used in a climate control system (1) for controlling a climate in an indoor space (10) or in a design system (20) for designing such a climate control system.The data processor jointly resolves a set of coupled optimization problems of the following form: z Φ k = argmin Z Φ ( [ S Φ k 1 O ] z Φ - Φ ~ k 1 ) T Q Φ k ( [ S Φ k 1 O ] z Φ - Φ ~ k 1 ) + ( [ O I ] Z Φ ) T R Φ k ( [ O I ] Z Φ ) ( 5 a ) subject to [ A Φ k - B Φ k ] z Φ - b Φ ′k ( Φ k , e Φ k ) = 0 ( 5 b ) wherein: z Φ = [ Φ q Φ ] is an augmented state-vector comprising a vector Φ specifying the spatial distribution of a climate related variable with respect to a plurality of spatial cells, and a source term qΦ to be resolved, and wherein z Φ k = [ Φ k + 1 q Φ k ] is the solution found for point in time k+1, {tilde over (Φ)}k+1 being a vector specifying a setpoint specified for said climate related variable at point in time k+1 for at least a part of said plurality of cells, eΦk are boundary conditions relevant for said climate related variable at point in time k, S is a selection matrix, selecting cells for said distribution having a setpoint, O is the zero matrix, I is the identity matrix and Q and R are weighting matrices for tracking and energy consumption, wherein AΦ is a matrix that defines the development of vector Φ as a function of one or more other vectors of climate related variables, wherein BΦ is a matrix that maps the source terms for field Φ to the cell field values affected by those source terms, and wherein the data processor (4) controls the plurality of said actuators in accordance with the source term qΦ. |
| US10208970B2 |
Fan coil apparatus including a humidification unit and a humidification unit
A fan coil apparatus includes a humidification unit having a water mist production member, and an air flow path. The water mist production member includes a chamber. In operation, a water mist produced by the water mist production member is present in the chamber. The air flow path extends from an air inlet to an air outlet and passes through the chamber. Air passing through the air flow path draws water mist from the chamber and out the air outlet. The air inlet includes a scoop positioned in a first portion of an air flow path of the fan coil apparatus. |
| US10208968B2 |
Outdoor unit
An outdoor unit according to the present invention includes: a casing; and a heat exchanger accommodated in the casing. The casing includes a bottom panel on a bottom surface of the casing. The bottom panel includes: a first bottom plate portion formed below the heat exchanger; and a second bottom plate portion formed on the bottom panel at a portion other than the first bottom plate portion. A lower end of the heat exchanger is arranged at a position above any point on an upper surface of the first bottom plate portion and below any point on an upper surface of the second bottom plate portion. |
| US10208962B2 |
Glass retainer bracket for appliance door
A bracket for retaining glass used to cover the window of a door of an oven appliance and an oven appliance with such brackets. The bracket supports the glass in position at the window. Embodiments of the bracket may provide features including use on either side of the oven door, use of a shorter length of glass, and other features that can facilitate manufacture. |
| US10208960B2 |
Method for operating a gas turbine installation and equipment for carrying out the method
A method is provided for operating a gas turbine installation which has at least one compressor for compressing combustion air, at least one combustion chamber for combusting a supplied fuel, using the compressed combustion air, and also at least one turbine which is exposed to throughflow by the hot gases from the at least one combustion chamber. Both a first fuel on a carbon base, especially in the form of natural gas, and also a second fuel, in the form of a hydrogen-rich fuel or pure hydrogen, are used as fuel. A reduction of the CO2 emission without basic modifications to the installation is achieved by the first and the second fuels being intermixed and combusted together in the at least one combustion chamber. |
| US10208958B2 |
Method and gas turbine combustion system for safely mixing H2-rich fuels with air
A method and apparatus are disclosed for mixing H2-rich fuels with air in a gas turbine combustion system, wherein a first stream of burner air and a second stream of a H2-rich fuel are provided. All of the fuel is premixed with a portion of the burner air to produce a pre-premixed fuel/air mixture. This pre-premixed fuel/air mixture is injected into the main burner air stream. |
| US10208957B2 |
Image conduit for fuel nozzle assemblies
A fuel nozzle for a gas turbine engine includes a feed arm including a fuel passage for issuing a spray of fuel. A nozzle assembly is fixed at an upstream end of the feed arm having a fuel inlet in fluid communication with the fuel passage. A fiber optic cable is configured to collect burner radiation for a pyrometer input and has a first end centered within an optical connector of the nozzle assembly and a second end exposed from the spray outlet. The fiber optic cable fitted within the feed arm and nozzle assembly has a permanent bend radius preformed in the fiber optic cable. The bend radius can be equal to or greater than the minimum bend radii for the fiber optic cable to serve as a wave guide in wavelengths for monitoring combustion. |
| US10208937B2 |
Light emission system
The invention relates to a light emission system that includes a light source support having a first cooperation member, a printed circuit board fixed to the light source support and a connection system, a connection cable including a connection plug. The connection plug has a second cooperation member. The connection system, the support and the plug are arranged in such a way that when the connection system and the plug are connected to one another, the first and the second cooperation members cooperate together to form a fixed mechanical link. |
| US10208936B2 |
Multi-mode portable lighting device
A lighting device with a light source powered by batteries connected in series utilizes a current-limited load switch which regulates current delivered to the light source from the batteries through use of a controller electrically coupled in series with a mechanical power switch so that when the mechanical power switch is opened, the controller is not powered by the batteries, the controller including an output for providing a control signal for controlling the opening and closing of the current-limited load switch, and current delivered to the light source by the current-limited load switch is set by a resistor connected to an ISET pin of the current-limited load switch. |
| US10208933B1 |
Adjustable light fixture and lighting system
An adjustable light fixture and lighting system are selectively adjustable in the field and provide even light distribution across a space. A housing is selectively adjustable to a selected housing length and is mountable to the surface. A tray mountable to the housing includes plates which are selectively adjustable relative to one another to a selected tray length. Each plate includes a plurality of electroluminescent light sources providing uniformly luminous light across the light fixture. Overlap of plates varies the tray length and blocks light from light sources on one plate by the opposite plate. Evenly distributed light is therefore provided with no bright or dark spots. A lighting system of a plurality of light fixtures electrically connected to one another includes at least one adjustable light fixture, and preferably at least one stationary light fixture of fixed length. Methods of installation are also disclosed. |
| US10208930B1 |
Ceiling light with locking function
A ceiling light includes a threaded rod, a light source module, a tray, a locking member and an outer lampshade. The threaded rod in turn extends through the tray, the light source module, the locking member and the outer lampshade. The outer lampshade is provided with a screw hole screwed onto the lower end of the threaded rod. A receiving space is defined between the tray and the outer lampshade. The light source module is received in the receiving space. The light source module includes a wire board mounted on the tray and an inner lampshade mounted on the wire board. The locking member is mounted on the threaded rod and rests on the bottom of the light source module. |
| US10208929B2 |
LED lighting arrangement
A lighting arrangement and a method for manufacturing the lighting arrangement are provided. The lighting arrangement has a holder to carry an optical element above a LED lighting element. The holder has an optical sub-holder and a connecting sub-holder connecting the optical sub-holder with a support member, where the LED lighting element is arranged on. The optical sub-holder has at least one stress release element dividing the optical sub-holder in one or more outer parts connected to the connecting sub-holder and a main part carrying the optical element, where a mechanical connection between the main part and the one or more outer parts is weakened by the stress release element extending through the optical sub-holder to enable the one or more outer parts to deform freely in case of thermal stress while maintaining the main part closer to the desired position compared to the one or more outer parts. |
| US10208928B1 |
Seamless back-loaded modular LED assembly with stacking interchangeable lenses and optics
A seamless back-loaded modular LED assembly is provided for stacking interchangeable lenses and optics that optimizes thermal management of the LED light source. A sleeve seamlessly secures to a back plate that sandwiches the interchangeable lenses and optics in a stacked arrangement within the sleeve, while the back plate provides a nipple for operatively associating with swivel implements so as to enable 270 degrees of rotational pivoting when directing the LED light source. |
| US10208925B2 |
Soft conformal laparoscopic instrument
A soft robotic instrument that is capable of changing its form factor (e.g., expanding and contracting) during use to facilitate minimally invasive surgery. The instrument may be formed wholly or partly of an elastomeric, electrically insulating material for mitigating the risk of injuring tissue and for mitigating the risk of electrical arcing during electrosurgery. |
| US10208920B2 |
Systems and methods for lighting fixtures
Examples of the present disclosure are related to systems and methods for lighting fixtures. More particularly, embodiments disclose lighting fixtures utilizing metal core PCB (MCPCB) for optical controls. |
| US10208918B2 |
Backlight module and display device
The present disclosure provides a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a plurality of first light sources and a diffusion plate. In a 3D display mode, the first light sources belong to different scanning areas, each of which corresponds to a display area. The backlight module further includes a barrier structure provided corresponding to the respective scanning areas and configured to prevent light emitted by first light sources in the scanning areas other than a current scanning area from entering into a display area corresponding to the current scanning area. In the backlight module of the present disclosure, the barrier structure is provided corresponding to each scanning area, which can prevent light emitted by first light sources in other scanning areas from entering into the display area corresponding to the current scanning area. |
| US10208917B2 |
Lamp
A lamp is disclosed, which comprises a tubular, an elongate and two end-caps, wherein the tubular body comprises two ends of the tubular body; the elongate light source board is inside the tubular body along a longitudinal direction thereof, and the elongate light source board comprises at least one light source arranged thereon and two ends of the elongate light source board; two end-caps are adapted to seal the two ends of the tubular body respectively, and at least one end-cap is slidingly connected to one of the two ends of the tubular body and fixedly connected to one of the two ends of the elongate light source board. The lamp of the present disclosure can be adapted to temperature changes, and can avoid an overall length variation, and/or a bending deformation in appearance. |
| US10208916B2 |
Channel between headlight chambers
Disclosed is a system for thermally distributing hot air generated in a vehicle headlamp. A channel is defined between different chambers in the headlamp to allow for air circulation, thus reducing hot spots inside the housing around light sources which might compromise internal structures or devices. |
| US10208915B2 |
Thermal function of headlight sealing cap
A headlight unit 10, 110 is described including a reflector 12 and a lamp mounting cavity 20. A lamp 30, 130 is mounted within the lamp mounting cavity 20. The lamp mounting cavity 20 is sealed by a cap 40 of partly flexible material. The cap 40 is provided as a heat spreader and dissipation element in thermal contact with the lamp 30. |
| US10208914B2 |
Reflector with concentric interrupted reflecting surfaces
A compact optical assembly includes a linear array of LEDs and a plurality of reflectors. The reflectors include two concentric reflecting surfaces that surround the LED light sources. The inner reflecting surface reflects the majority of the light emitted from the LED light source and the outer reflecting surface reflects light emitted through longitudinal channels in the inner reflecting surface. The concentric reflecting surfaces cooperate to create a wide-angle beam of light with a desired dispersion pattern. |
| US10208913B2 |
Lighting module comprising at least one removable light source
Lighting module for a motor vehicle including an optical means that is fixedly mounted in the lighting module and has a base with a first housing. Also included is a carrier of the optical means, which is movable with respect to the optical means about an axis of rotation. The carrier of the optical means has a base with a second housing. The carrier of the optical means is able to take a closed position in which at least one light source is held partially in first housing and partially in the second housing, an open position in which said at least one light source may be removed from the lighting module, the at least one light source is removable and has light-emitting means and a mechanical carrier of the light-emitting means. |
| US10208908B2 |
Light source, manufacturing method thereof, customizable illumination device and manufacturing method thereof
A light source includes a light-source unit including a plurality of light emitting units and a power supply unit provided at a non-light emitting side of the light-source unit. The plurality of light emitting units are connected in parallel and include common connection electrodes. The common connection electrodes are electrically connected to electrode terminals of the power supply unit, respectively. |
| US10208906B2 |
Ultraviolet court-illumination system
An ultraviolet court-illumination system is used to light a playing court and any related equipment in a fluorescent manner. The system includes at least one playing court, a first plurality of ultraviolet (UV) court lights, a plurality of fluorescent game boundary-markers, and at least one fluorescent game fixture. The playing court is used for playing games or sports. The plurality of fluorescent game boundary-markers is superimposed onto the playing court and is used to delineate the boundaries of the playing court. The fluorescent game fixture is mounted onto the playing court and may be a net, a goal, or any other fixture used to play the sport. Each of the first plurality of UV court lights is peripherally positioned about the playing court and is used to illuminate the fluorescent game boundary-markers and the fluorescent game fixture. The first plurality of UV court lights is powered by a power source. |
| US10208905B2 |
Recessed light fixtures for efficiently providing aesthetically pleasing indirect lighting
A recessed light fixture configured to deliver indirect light to an area. The recessed light fixture includes a trim component, a reflector coupled to the trim component, and an annular ring including a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The trim component has an outer wall and an inner wall spaced radially inward of the outer wall, and defines an annular recess between the outer and inner walls. The reflector includes a patterned reflective surface. The annular ring is arranged within the annular recess of the trim component. The LEDs are configured to emit light toward the reflector so that the reflector redirects the light to deliver the indirect light to the area. |
| US10208901B2 |
Portable lighting device
A portable lighting device includes a main front lamp directed in a first direction, an auxiliary lamp directed in a second direction different from the first direction and a controller connected to the auxiliary lamp so as to selectively illuminate the auxiliary lamp. |
| US10208900B2 |
Fluorescence light source device with wavelength conversion member with particular ratio between light transmission percentage and light reflection percentage
A fluorescence light source device includes a wavelength conversion member that emits fluorescence by excitation laser light. The wavelength conversion member has an excitation laser light receiving surface including a periodic structure having a periodic array of conical or truncated projections with an aspect ratio, which is a ratio of the height of the projection to the pitch in the periodic structure, of not lower than 0.2. The wavelength conversion member is formed from a phosphor composed of a polycrystal and contains a micro-scatterer with a refractive index of not lower than 1.0 for scattering the excitation laser light and fluorescence emitted from the phosphor. A ratio (T/R) between a light transmission percentage T [%] in the wavelength conversion member and a light reflection percentage R [%] in the wavelength conversion member is 1 to 20. |
| US10208899B2 |
Light source including wavelength converter
A light source includes a semiconductor light emitting device; and a wavelength converter. The wavelength converter includes: a substrate; a phosphor layer disposed on the substrate; and a light reflective layer disposed on the substrate so as to surround the phosphor layer. The phosphor layer includes phosphor particles and a first matrix material in which the phosphor particles are dispersed. The light reflective layer includes inorganic compound particles and a second matrix material in which the inorganic compound particles are dispersed. The inorganic compound particles have a refractive index higher than that of the first matrix material. The first matrix material has a refractive index higher than that of the phosphor particles. The phosphor particles have a refractive index higher than that of the second matrix material. |
| US10208897B2 |
LED tube lamp
An LED tube lamp is disclosed. An installation detection circuit is configured in the LED tube lamp configured to receive an external driving signal. The installation detection circuit is configured to detect during one or more pulse signals whether the LED tube lamp is properly installed on a lamp socket, based on detecting a signal generated from the external driving signal. The installation detection circuit includes a switch circuit coupled to the pulse generating circuit, wherein the one or more pulse signals control turning on and off of the switch circuit. The installation detection circuit is further configured to: when it is detected during one or more pulse signals that the LED tube lamp is not properly installed on the lamp socket, control the switch circuit to remain in an off state to cause a power loop of the LED tube lamp to be open; and when it is detected during one or more pulse signals that the LED tube lamp is properly installed on the lamp socket, control the switch circuit to remain in a conducting state to cause the power loop of the LED tube lamp to maintain a conducting state. |
| US10208894B1 |
Compact dual detector Dewar
A compact Dewar for imaging systems having multiple detector elements to support multiple imaging systems. |
| US10208893B2 |
Heavy capacity arm support systems
Systems and methods are provided for supporting an arm of a user while using a tool that include a harness configured to be worn on a body of a user; an arm support pivotally coupled to the harness for supporting a user's arm; and a tool mount on a free end of the arm support for receiving a tool such that the tool is manipulatable by a hand of user's arm supported by the arm support. One or more compensation elements may be coupled to the arm support and/or the tool mount for at least partially offsetting a gravitational force acting on the user's arm and/or the tool received on the tool mount. |
| US10208889B2 |
Collapsible three legged platform
A collapsible three-legged platform is provided. The three legs are attached at a central pivot point such that the platform can collapse flat. The legs can be adapted to support a variety of objects. |
| US10208887B2 |
Gimbal handheld holder
A gimbal handheld holder includes two support legs and a control device. A transverse rod is located between the two support legs. A handle is located on the transverse rod. A gimbal connector is located at a junction of the handle with the transverse rod. The gimbal handheld holder is connected with a gimbal through the gimbal connector. The gimbal is located below the transverse rod and between the two support legs. The handle is located on the transverse rod. The control device controls the gimbal to move. The gimbal handheld holder is able to achieve force balance at two ends thereof, and steadily hold the gimbal below the transverse rod. While being connected with the gimbal, the gimbal handheld holder is able to be directly steadily placed on ground. |
| US10208884B2 |
Watershed protection device and system
The invention relates to a device for use in protecting watersheds from turf treatment contaminants particularly in relation to sports fields and golf courses. The invention further relates to methods and systems for the use of a plurality of the devices in a system to control, impede, or reduce the level of contaminants from turf treatments which enter drainage systems and catch basins associated with turf surfaces, turf sports fields, parks and golf courses. The invention relates to the device alone or in combination with a catch basin cover or in combination with a catch basin directly or in combination with a drainage riser. |
| US10208882B2 |
Magnetic pressure pulse attenuation
A magnetic pressure pulse attenuator can include a variable volume and at least two magnetic devices. A magnetic force between the magnetic devices varies in response to a pressure change in the volume. A fluid system can include a fluid volume with a variable pressure therein, and a magnetic pressure pulse attenuator including a variable volume in communication with the fluid volume. The variable volume can vary in response to a pressure variation, and the attenuator can further include a magnetic actuator which increases a magnetic force in response to an increase in the pressure. A method of attenuating pressure pulses in a fluid system can include connecting a variable volume of a magnetic pressure pulse attenuator to a fluid volume of the fluid system, the attenuator including a magnetic actuator which generates a magnetic force, and the force increasing in response to a pressure increase in the variable volume. |
| US10208881B2 |
Water-saving sheet and water-saving device having the same
A water-saving sheet and a water-saving device having the same is provided. The water-saving sheet includes a sheet body including a central assembling base and a plurality of through holes arranged around the central assembling base. A circumference of the sheet body has an engaging flange structure for being positionably engaged with an inner wall of a tube. An elastic ring is annularly arranged on the central assembling base. The elastic ring and the central assembling base form at least one first passage therebetween, the elastic ring and each said through hole form a second passage therebetween. The water-saving device includes one said water-saving sheet and a barrel member. An inner wall of the barrel member has a shoulder portion engageable with the engaging flange structure to restrict the sheet body from moving toward and out from the inlet end. |
| US10208880B2 |
Noise attenuators for use with process control devices
Example noise attenuators for use with process control devices are described herein. An example apparatus includes a first plate and a second plate disposed in a fluid passageway of a noise attenuator. The second plate is spaced apart from the first plate. The example apparatus also includes a first support rod extending along a central axis of the fluid passageway. The first support rod is coupled to the first plate and to the second plate. The example apparatus further includes a second support rod extending along an axis parallel to and offset from the central axis. The second support rod is coupled to the first plate and the second plate. |
| US10208875B1 |
Quick-connect dielectric union
A quick-connect plumbing device for exemplary use in connection of an appliance, such as a water heater, to supply line of a dwelling, among other uses. Preferably, the connection creates a dielectric coupling between the appliance and supply line to disconnect electrical communication between the supply line and appliance. The device typically includes a length of rigid conduit structured to form a sweat solder connection to a cooperating solderable plumbing element at a first end, and to form a threaded connection to a cooperating threaded plumbing element at an opposite second end, with a resilient seal element being carried at the second end. The threaded connection can be formed by an internally-threaded nut axially affixed to the conduit to permit nut rotation to axially compress the seal element between the conduit and the threaded plumbing element. |
| US10208873B2 |
Fluidic valve
A fluid valve is suitable for use with a hydraulic circuit of an item of aircraft equipment. The fluid valve includes a valve body having one inlet, two outlets and a communication channel with an external pressure source. The fluid valve further includes an electric solenoid actuator located in the valve body and having a movable ferromagnetic pilot. A valve member is movable inside valve body to at least partially block a passage between said inlet and one of the two outlets. The valve member at least partially defines first and second cavities. A fixed limiter is disposed within the communication channel such that a displacement of the movable pilot causes a variation in pressure in one of the first and second cavities to produce a force for moving the valve member. |
| US10208869B2 |
Multi-piece canister assembly for magnetically coupled fluid handling devices
The present disclosure provides a multi-piece containment canister assembly for use in magnetically coupled fluid handling devices such as rotary pumps, mixers, flowmeters or valves. The canister assembly includes a generally tubular single-piece body and an end cap that are sealingly fastened together to form a generally cup-shaped canister. The canister body may be made of strong, non-conductive or low conductive materials, such that it greatly reduces eddy currents. The generally tubular shape of the canister body is easier, and therefore less costly to manufacture than typical cup-shaped canisters. |
| US10208866B2 |
Relief valve
A relief valve comprises a valve body, a pallet assembly, a relief pallet seat, a pilot pallet seat and a force element. The valve body has an interior in fluid communication with a container having a container pressure and the valve body having an exterior exposed to an atmosphere. The pallet assembly has a relief pallet having a relief pressure bearing area, a pilot pallet having a pilot pressure bearing area, and a shaft connects the pilot pallet and relief pallet to space the pilot pallet from the relief pallet. The relief pallet seat extends from the valve body towards the interior of the valve body and is configured to seal against the relief pallet to seal the valve body. The pilot pallet seat extending from the valve body and away from the interior of the valve body and is configured to seal against the pilot pallet to form a reservoir between the pilot pallet, the pilot pallet seat and the valve body. The reservoir has an equalization port to provide fluid communication between the valve body and the reservoir. |
| US10208861B2 |
Sealing device
A sealing device capable of preventing turnover of a dust lip and damage to a dust lip caused by insertion of a shaft. A bumper portion (125) made of a rubber-like elastic body and reducing an impact that the dust lip (122) receives from the shaft when the shaft is inserted into the sealing device (100) is provided on the side opposite to the sealed area (O) with respect to the dust lip (122), and an inner diameter of a tip of the bumper portion (125) on an inner peripheral side is set to be larger than an outer diameter of a part of the shaft on which a main lip (121) and the dust lip (122) slide and to be smaller than an inner diameter of a part having the largest inner diameter in a portion connecting the main lip (121) and the dust lip (122). |
| US10208860B2 |
Sealing system for slide out rooms
A seal useful in sealing slide out rooms used in recreational vehicles. The seal may be used singularly or in pairs to straddle a wall through which the opening is located. A bulb is attached to the base in a cantilevered manner over the base. The bulb has an outer arcuate portion that is integrally joined to opposing sidewall portions. The sidewall portions extend into an inner wall that defines an enclosed space within the bulb portion. The bulb portion may also have a protrusion that can touch the base. A wiper extends from the base substantially co-linearly to the base and opposite the offsetting member. A locating leg extending from the base is movable between a first position and a second position. The first position has the locating leg perpendicular to the base and the second position places the locating leg parallel to the base. |
| US10208855B2 |
Method for starting a mobile vehicle
A method of starting or holding a mobile vehicle and, in particular, a working machine. The method determines whether the vehicle is rolling backward on an inclined surface and, as a function of that knowledge, the rotational speed of the drive engine is increased, or a downshift by one gear is carried out in the transmission. |
| US10208849B2 |
Mechanical gear transmission
In a mechanical gear transmission, a leaked lubricant liquid, used to lubricate an external ring gear meshing with at least one internal gear wheel, is collected and reintroduced in the system by means of a manifold having a first concave portion, which has a concavity facing towards the external ring gear, so as to house a mass of liquid moved outwards as a result of a centrifugal effect, and at least a second concave portion, which is designed to receive the leaked liquid and has a concavity facing towards the first concave portion; channelling walls being provided to channel the leaked liquid towards one or the other concave portion. |
| US10208847B1 |
Structure of transmission mount
A transmission mount installed in a vehicle body in order to support the weight of a transmission includes a housing bracket including a housing having stopper-fixing holes and stopper-position-fixing portions, a stopper having insertion-protruding portions formed so as to be inserted into the stopper-position-fixing portions, fixing pieces formed so as to be inserted into the stopper-fixing holes and curled, and fixing holes formed near the fixing pieces, and an inner steel member having protruding pieces formed so as to be inserted into the fixing holes formed in the stopper. The stopper contacts a transmission bracket of a powertrain when a transmission of the powertrain is biased to the left in response to a right turn of a vehicle, thereby suppressing movement of the powertrain and further improving steering performance. |
| US10208845B2 |
Drive arrangement
A drive arrangement for driving a work machine includes a motor configured to generate a torque, and a transmission apparatus configured to transmit the torque from the motor to the work machine. The transmission apparatus includes a fluid coupling and at least one controllable torque transmitter configured to control transmission of the torque from the motor to the work machine. |
| US10208843B2 |
Recirculation crossover insert and linear motion assembly therewith
A linear motion assembly and recirculation insert therefor is provided. The assembly includes a ball nut having a through bore with an internal helical groove and a screw having an external helical groove. The external helical groove is radially aligned with the internal helical groove to define a plurality of ball raceways. A plurality of inserts is fixed within the bore of the ball nut. The inserts each have a central body fixed within a recessed pocket of the ball nut, with the body having a radially inwardly facing, generally s-shaped groove to route the balls between adjacent turns. A pair of legs extends in opposite directions from the central body, wherein the legs are sized for a clearance fit with the external helical groove. The legs merge with the central body over a smooth transition region that minimizes stress concentrations at the joint between the legs and central body. |
| US10208839B2 |
Sliding rail half for a two-piece sliding rail
The disclosure relates to a sliding rail half for a two-piece sliding rail, the sliding rail being set up to reduce vibrations and undulations for a wraparound means of a wraparound gear mechanism, the sliding rail half being distinguished, above all, by the fact that a first pin is arranged in a first mounting, wherein the first pin, in interaction with a hook of a second sliding rail half to be joined, prevents a displacement of the second sliding rail half relative to the first sliding rail half along a longitudinal axis when a first sliding face and a second sliding face are arranged in a sliding plane and a first joining face is in contact at least partially with a corresponding second joining face and the hook is not received in the first mounting. |
| US10208836B2 |
Multi-stage transmission
A brake of an automatic transmission holds a second ring gear of a second planetary gear stationary, and includes: friction plates and separator plates; and a drum member as a brake hub that is continuously coupled to the second ring gear and is rotatably supported by an inner tubular portion of a center support between the friction plates, for example, and the second planetary gear. The drum member and the second ring gear are coupled together via a spline. |
| US10208835B2 |
Speed reducer
A speed reducer includes: a case; an input shaft rotationally driven by an electric motor and having an eccentric shaft portion; an externally toothed gear wheel rotatably supported on the eccentric shaft portion; an output shaft rotatably supported on the case coaxially with the input shaft and having an internally toothed gear wheel; a guide plate formed with a guide recess recessed parallel to the input shaft, and disposed between the input shaft and the externally toothed gear wheel; a guide protrusion provided in the case to protrude parallel to the input shaft to guide sliding of the recess; and a guide portion provided between the externally toothed gear wheel and the guide plate to guide movement of the externally toothed gear wheel relative to the guide plate, thereby guiding the externally toothed gear wheel so as to be revolvable but non-rotatable in cooperation with the recess and the protrusion. |
| US10208831B2 |
Low frequency torsional vibration damper
Torsional vibration dampers are disclosed that include a hub and an inertia member disposed concentric with and spaced radially outward or radially inward from the hub that together define a plurality of pockets therebetween each having a spool-shaped receptacle. A plurality of spool-shaped elastomeric plugs, one each, are seated in the spool-shaped receptacles. When the inertia member is spaced radially outward of the hub, the hub is mountable on a shaft, and when the inertia member is spaced radially inward of the hub, the hub is mountable inside a shaft. Methods of making the torsional vibration dampers are also disclosed. |
| US10208827B2 |
Adjustable damping valve device with a damping valve
An adjustable damping valve device with a damping valve has an elastic element, applies an axial relative force between two elements which are constructed so as to be axially movable relative to the valve housing, or the elastic element applies a relative force between an element of the damping valve, which element is constructed so as to be axially movable relative to the valve housing, and the valve housing, or the elastic element applies a relative force between an element of the damping valve, which element is constructed so as to be axially movable relative to the valve housing, and an element which is constructed so as not to be displaceable relative to the valve housing, so that one of the axially movable elements releases a flow passage for the flow of damping medium through the damping valve at least in a neutral state of the damping valve device. |
| US10208824B2 |
Suspension assembly
A suspension assembly having a shaft with a first end and a second end. The first end of the shaft is mounted to a force receiving member. The shaft is translatable within a linear bearing, which is mounted to a support member. A first magnet is mounted to the force receiving member and a second magnet is mounted to the support member. A shaft collar is mounted to the second end of the shaft. The first and second magnets are adapted to provide a magnetic force against a force applied to the force receiving member. |
| US10208823B2 |
Variable rate bound stoppers and variable rate suspension systems containing variable rate bound stoppers
A variable rate bound stopper includes a bound stopper in the form of an elastomer member. The elastomer member has an aperture such that the bound stopper is configured to be positioned over and disposed around a piston rod of a shock absorber. A shape memory alloy (SMA) coil formed from an SMA wire extends around at least a portion of the elastomer member. The SMA coil has a relaxed state and an activated state. The SMA coil constrains the elastomer member from deforming radially outward and alters an intrinsic spring rate of the bound stopper when in the activated state. |
| US10208818B2 |
Apparatus having automatic centrifugal brakes for wheels
An apparatus including a shaft, a wheel cylindrically mounted on the shaft, a cylinder coaxial with the wheel and having an inner wall, and at least two centrifugal braking assemblies mounted on the wheel uniformly distributed in a circumferential direction is provided. Each centrifugal braking assembly includes a brake member pivotally mounted on the wheel and having at least one curved friction surface, a cam pivotally mounted on the wheel and in slidable contact with the brake member, and a spring connected between the cam and a pin mounted on the wheel. The brake member, the cam, and the spring cooperate to rotate the curved friction surface of the brake member and in turn, contact with the inner wall of the cylinder when a rotational speed of the shaft exceeds a first predetermined value. |
| US10208812B2 |
Method and system for unlocking an electromagnetic actuator
A method of disengaging an axle disconnect system including providing an actuator having a coil (214) at least partially surrounded by a housing (220), an armature (216) located within the housing and the coil, where the armature is capable of actuating between a first and second position, and at least one of the housing and the armature is part of a magnetic circuit. Applying a current to the coil and actuating the armature from the first position to the second position. Developing an uninterrupted magnetic flux through the magnetic circuit and stopping application of the current to the coil. Permitting the magnetic flux through the magnetic circuit to continue in its uninterrupted state and maintain the armature in the second position. Applying an alternating current, having decreasing amplitude over time, to the coil to dissipate the magnetic flux through the magnetic circuit. |
| US10208810B2 |
Frictionally acting device with end disk arrangement, method for producing an intermediate disk for such an arrangement
The present invention relates to a frictionally acting device (2) comprising a disk pack (28) made from a first disk set (30) which is connected rotationally fixed to a first disk carrier (16) and a second disk set (36) which is connected rotationally fixed to a second disk carrier (18), wherein the disks (32, 34; 38, 40, 42) of the two disk sets (30, 36) are arranged alternating one after another and can be frictionally engaged with one another, the disks (32, 34) of the first disk set (30) are designed as friction lining disks, and an end disk arrangement (54; 56) is assigned to the disk pack (28). The end disk arrangement (54; 56) has an end disk (58; 60) connected rotationally fixed to the first disk carrier (16) and an intermediate disk (62; 64) which follows the end disk (58; 60), is connected rotationally fixed to the first disk carrier (16), and is designed as a friction lining disk with a friction lining (72; 74) fixed to the side facing away from the end disk (58; 60), said friction lining (72; 74) can be frictionally engaged with a disk (38; 42) of the second disk set (36). In addition, the present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an intermediate disk (62; 64) and to a use of an intermediate disk (62; 64) manufactured in such a way. |
| US10208805B2 |
Fixed type constant velocity universal joint
Six track grooves formed in a spherical inner peripheral surface of an outer joint member are each formed into an arc shape having a curvature center at a joint center. The track grooves are inclined in a circumferential direction of the outer joint member with respect to a joint axial line, and are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction with their inclination directions opposite to each other. Six track grooves formed in a spherical outer peripheral surface of an inner joint member are formed so as to be mirror-image symmetrical with the track grooves paired therewith of the outer joint member with respect to a joint center plane at an operating angle of 0°. An inclination angle of each of the track grooves of the outer joint member with respect to the joint axial line is set to 8° or more and 16° or less. |
| US10208799B2 |
Bearing apparatus and method for feeding lubricant to bearing
A bearing apparatus includes a lubrication unit and a sensor to sense the temperature of the lubricant in the lubrication unit. The lubrication unit has a pump having a storage portion in which the lubricant is stored and a piezoelectric body that is deformed by an applied voltage, the pump enabling the lubricant in the storage portion to be discharged into the annular space by reducing the volume of the storage portion in conjunction with the deformation of the piezoelectric body, the pump also enabling the lubricant to be sucked into the storage portion to refill the storage portion with the lubricant by increasing the volume of the storage portion, and a control unit that performs control by outputting a control signal allowing the speed of change in the volume of the storage portion to depend on the temperature of the lubricant. |
| US10208798B2 |
Rolling device
Provided is a rolling device in which hydrogen is not easily accumulated within a roller element made of steel, such as an inner race and an outer race, and premature separation due to hydrogen embrittlement is prevented from occurring. A rolling bearing 1 having an inner race 2, an outer race 3, and rolling bodies 4, and at least one selected from the inner race 2, the outer race 3, and the rolling bodies 4 is made of predetermined steel. At least a part of oxide-based inclusions included in the steel is covered by MnS, and a ratio of a number of oxide-based inclusions covered by MnS is over 40% of a total number of oxide-based inclusions having maximum diameter of 3 μm or greater in the steel. |
| US10208793B2 |
Slide mechanism for use in elevation device
A slide mechanism for use in elevation device comprises: a support seat, longitudinally disposed with at least three wing pieces spaced from each other, wherein at least one lateral surface of each of the wing pieces is respectively and longitudinally pivoted with at least one roller, one of the wing pieces is extended with a neck part having a front end disposed with a connection arm; and a sleeve, having a circumference defined at the top end longitudinally formed with a rail slot, wherein an inner circumference thereof is longitudinally formed with a positioning slot at a location corresponding to the at least one rollers and allowing a guide rail to be disposed and positioned, an outer circumference of each of the rollers is formed with a guide slot sleeved in the guide rail, so that the rollers can be respectively and longitudinally slid along the corresponding guide rail. |
| US10208792B2 |
Self-triggering, anti-seizing guide bearing,shock absorber and cylinder comprising at least one such bearing
A bearing for guiding a first guided piece includes a first bearing surface with respect to a second bearing surface fixedly attached to a second guided piece. At least one first intermediate piece is interposed between the first bearing surface and the first guided piece and at least one first automatic release assembly for i) in a first assembly state, fixedly attaching the at least one first intermediate piece and the first guided piece for guidance forces which are lower than a triggering value, and ii) in a release state, permitting a relative displacement of the first guided piece with respect to the at least one first intermediate piece, at least in one displacement orientation, for guidance forces which are greater than the triggering value of the first assembly. |
| US10208790B1 |
Adjustable spacer with hardened ends
An adjustable spacer with hardened end portions and a non-hardened intermediate portion therebetween is mountable between a pair of roller bearings also mounted on a shaft such an axle or spindle or the like. The hardened material contacts the faces of the roller bearings but helps prevent wear therebetween and unwanted movement of the bearings on the shaft. The unhardened material allows the spacer to collapse in the axial direction to maintain desired axial loads on the bearings. |
| US10208789B2 |
Double row angular ball bearing for CT scanning device
A double-row angular contact ball bearing for a CT scanning device includes an inner member including a pair of raceway rings. The raceway rings have positioning holes into which a positioning member is inserted, to thereby suppress radial decentering of the raceway rings. Both the raceway rings are fastened by fixing bolts. The raceway rings have opposed end surfaces, and are fastened by the fixing bolts to bring the end surfaces into abutment against each other to apply a preload at a fixed position between balls and raceway surfaces. The following relationship is set: Db/h≤0.26, where Db represents a diameter of each of the balls, and h represents a radial dimension from a center of each of the balls to an inner diameter of the inner member. |
| US10208788B2 |
Intake device with flap bearing arrangement and flap bearing arrangement
Disclosed is a flap bearing arrangement (10), having a bearing mount (20) with two side parts (24) connected by means of a tube section (22), between which is arranged an O-ring (30) which surrounds the tube section (22). Also disclosed is a flap bearing arrangement (100) for an intake device (200) having a flap shaft (100). |
| US10208784B2 |
Method for centering bearing compartments
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for dressing centering a bearing compartment in a gas turbine engine. A nut may be inserted through an outer case of a gas turbine engine. The nut may be coupled to a strut which centers a bearing compartment. The nut may be rotated to achieve a desired tension on the strut to center the bearing compartment. A retaining plate comprising a collar may be positioned over the nut. A swaging tool comprising a swaging ramp may be positioned over the nut. The swaging tool may be forced against the retaining plate using a draw-in bolt. The swaging ramp may contact the collar and form indentations in the collar to lock the nut in place. |
| US10208783B2 |
Wheel nut and method of manufacturing wheel nut
Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a wheel nut. The method includes annealing an aluminum (Al) alloy material and preheating the annealed Al alloy material. The Al alloy material is also forged to form a wheel nut. Furthermore, the method includes performing an anodizing treatment to form a primary coating on the wheel nut and performing a vacuum deposition to form a secondary coating on the wheel nut. In addition, the method includes performing a surface treatment using powder paint to form a tertiary coating on the wheel nut. |
| US10208781B2 |
Rivets with anti-rotational features
Semi-tubular self-piercing rivets and solid rivets are provided with surface features such as recesses or lobes. The recesses or lobes engage the panels that are joined by the rivet to prevent rotation of one or both panels after rivet insertion. The recesses or lobes may be provided at the head end or tip end of the rivet or may be provided at both the head end and the tip end of the rivet. |
| US10208780B1 |
Line mounting device
A mounting device for affixing to a hole or bore in a support structure to anchor a line to the mounting device and support structure including a base with a hole passing through the base, hub extending from the base back surface having a pair of flexible legs and engagement members on the outer surfaces of the legs, a stirrup having a line receiving opening attached to the base front surface, and a locking member with a hook member at its proximal end and a distally extending shaft dimensioned to pass through the hole in the base and enter the distally extending cavity to engage the inner surfaces of the legs and bend them laterally thereby affixing the mounting device in the hole or bore and capturing the line in the stirrup. |
| US10208777B1 |
Bracket for holding and locking tablet-type electronic devices of various sizes securely
A bracket for holding and locking tablet-type electronic devices of various sizes securely includes a bracket base, two horizontally clamping members, and a vertically clamping member. The front side of the bracket base includes two horizontal rail grooves, which are adjacent to the bottom side of the bracket base and to two corresponding lateral edges of the bracket base respectively, and a vertical rail groove, which is adjacent to the top side and the center of the bracket base. Each horizontally clamping member can be inserted horizontally into the corresponding horizontal rail groove to any depth desired and then fixed in position. The vertically clamping member can be inserted vertically into the vertical rail groove to any depth desired and then fixed in position. Each of the clamping members is adjustable in position to adapt to the size of the tablet-type electronic device to be supported on the bracket. |
| US10208775B2 |
Methods of frictional coupling
A method of forming a coupling between a first part and a second part is disclosed. The method includes providing a first surface of the first part. The first surface has a first shape and a surface roughness average that is less than or equal to about 500 microinches (13 microns). The method also includes forming a second surface of the second part where the second surface has a second shape and the first shape and the second shape are substantially complementary shapes. Projections form at least a portion of the second surface in a preselected pattern, and are configured to produce a friction fit between the first surface and the second surface when the first surface and the second surface are biased against each other. The projections have an average elastic compressive range substantially equal to the surface roughness average. |
| US10208774B2 |
Fastener with center for limiting engagement
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an apparatus that disengages a tool and indicates undesired contact. More specifically, the embodiments of the disclosure relate to a fastener that limits over insertion, indicates over insertion, and limits undesired contact of that fastener with a surface. Further, the apparatus can limit damage to an underlying component such as a circuit board. The apparatus has a shank having a cavity extending through the shank. Additionally, the shank has a recess for installation by a tool. A slider is positioned within the shank wherein the slider can limit engagement with the recess and indicate a condition. |
| US10208773B2 |
System for hydraulic pump health monitoring
A system may comprise a first sensor; a second sensor; and an electronic control module. The electronic control module may be configured to determine a flow of the fluid based on information regarding the pressure from the first sensor and information regarding the temperature from the second sensor; determine a portion of the flow of the fluid that is directed to a particle counter of the machine; receive, from the particle counter, information identifying a quantity of particles in the portion of the flow of the fluid; determine a quality of the fluid based on the quantity of particles; determine whether the flow of the fluid exceeds a flow threshold or whether the quality of the fluid is less than a quality threshold; and take a remedial action when the flow of the fluid exceeds the flow threshold or the quality of the fluid is less than the quality threshold. |
| US10208770B2 |
Axial flow fan
An axial flow fan improves air capacity and static pressure characteristics, and can ease stress at a leading edge portion of a blade base, even when a shape for noise reduction is adopted. An axial flow fan includes a boss portion and rotor blades. A rotor blade is segmented into a first area extending from the boss portion toward the outer peripheral side, and a second area connected to the first area and extending from the first area to the outermost periphery of the rotor blade. The distribution of a forward sweep angle varies quadratically in the first area, and the maximum forward sweep angle in the first area is not larger than the forward sweep angle in the second area. The distribution of chord-pitch ratio varies in a curved manner from the base as the minimum value in the first area, and is linear in the second area. |
| US10208767B2 |
Fan module and electronic device
A fan module and an electronic device are provided. The fan module includes a fan housing, a fan and a heat dissipating member. The fan housing has an open side and an enclosing side which surrounds the open side, wherein the open side is provided with a first airflow guiding channel. The fan is disposed within the fan housing, the heat dissipating member is disposed at the open side, the heat dissipating member has a second airflow guiding channel which is communicated with the first airflow guiding channel, and the air generated by the fan passes through the first airflow guiding channel and the second airflow guiding channel and flows out for dust exhausting. The electronic device includes a chassis and the fan module, and the fan module is mounted in the chassis. |
| US10208764B2 |
Rotor wheel and impeller inserts
A rotor wheel for an engine includes a plurality of impeller vanes and a plurality of fluid passages defined by adjacent impeller vanes. The fluid passages are radially disposed across at least a portion of the rotor wheel. One or more impeller inserts may be disposed within one or more of the plurality of fluid passages, respectively. The impeller inserts define an impeller passage with a passage shape that controls a flow of fluid through the one or more of the plurality of fluid passages. |
| US10208762B2 |
Swirl brakes for compressors with teeth-on-rotor seals
A device and method for reducing swirl in a gas compressor is provided. The device can include a tubular or annular seal body having an abradable interior surface for use in forming a seal. The tubular body can further have a plurality of swirl teeth arranged on a high pressure side of the seal body. The swirl teeth are disposed so as to form swirl slots between the adjacent swirl teeth. The swirl teeth can have a brake chord and a brake pitch describing the length and separation of each adjacent swirl tooth. The ratio of the brake pitch to the brake chord can be optimized in order to maximize creation of free vortices between the swirl teeth as the compressor rotates for swirl reduction. |
| US10208761B2 |
Housing of a fluid energy machine
A housing of a fluid energy machine which extends along a longitudinal axis, includes a housing casing which extends axially, a housing cover for closing off a housing opening axially on the face side of the housing casing, an annular insert which extends in the housing in a circumferential direction and which bears against the housing casing and against the housing cover, a first seal between the housing cover and the housing casing. To save radial installation space, a second seal is between the housing casing and the annular insert, and a third seal is between the housing cover and the annular insert. |
| US10208758B2 |
Internal hot gas bypass device coupled with inlet guide vane for centrifugal compressor
An internal hot gas bypass device coupled with inlet guide vane for centrifugal compressor includes an inlet guide vane assembly, a driving motor assembly and a gas bypass valve assembly. The inlet guide vane assembly further includes a master vane, a plurality of slave vanes, a vane-front fixing ring, a vane-rear fixing ring, a vane-driving ring, a connecting pipe and a vane-opening indicating disk. The driving motor assembly further includes a motor, a driving unit and a motor fixing base. The gas bypass valve assembly further includes a valve, an external fixing-and-guiding ring, an internal fixing-and-guiding ring, a driven element, a spring, a sealing ring, a valve stud and a valve base. The driving motor assembly is connected with the driving unit and the master vane of the inlet guide vane assembly via a connecting rod, and is further connected with the slave vanes of the gas bypass valve assembly. |
| US10208751B2 |
Scroll compressor having injection ports provided in outer circumferential surface between opening ends of communication paths and inlet ports for injecting liquid refrigerant in direction toward the inlet ports
A second space communicated with a first space through communicating paths is provided on an outer circumferential side of first and second scroll bodies. Scroll end portions of the first and second scroll bodies form an inlet port configured to suck gas refrigerant into a compression chamber from the second space. Open ends of the communicating paths on a side of the second space are located at an angle larger than 0° and less than or equal to 180°, around a central axis of a rotating shaft portion, from the inlet ports in a scroll involute direction of the first scroll body and the second scroll body, respectively. Injection ports in a part of an outer circumference of the second space between the open ends and the inlet ports in a circumferential direction are configured to eject liquid refrigerant in a direction toward the inlet ports, respectively. |
| US10208748B2 |
Installation for pumping hydrocarbons, module and method
The present invention concerns an installation for pumping hydrocarbons, including a pump submerged in a well and a motor for driving the pump, said motor being linked to a variable frequency drive powered during normal operation by an external network, the drive including a rectifier supplying a DC bus, an inverter supplied by the DC bus and linked to the motor, and a controller, said installation wherein it further includes an electricity storage element linked by a reversible DC-DC converter to the DC bus, the installation being arranged to ensure the variable frequency drive is supplied by the storage element in case of an interruption to the supply via the external network. |
| US10208746B2 |
System and method for multi-component mixture control
A system for controlling the mixing ratio of a multi-component mixture including a first pump connectable to a source of a first component and a second pump connectable to a source of a second component. The first and second pump being associated with at least one linear sensor for generating an output indicative of actual pump speed or shaft displacement of the pump. The system further includes a control circuit operative to utilize the output of the linear sensor of one of the pumps to generate a control signal for controlling the output of the other pump. |
| US10208745B2 |
System and method for controlling a fluid transport system
A fluid transport system includes at least one flow control device and a multiphase pump configured to transport fluid. At least one pump sensing device is configured to measure at least one operating characteristic of the multiphase pump. A controller is programmed with a pump map including a correlation of the at least one operating characteristic of the multiphase pump with at least one operating characteristic of the fluid. The controller is configured to determine an estimated value of the at least one operating characteristic of the fluid based on the measured value of the at least one operating characteristic of the multiphase pump and the pump map. At least one regulating device coupled to at least one flow control device is modulated based on the estimated value of the at least one operating characteristic of the fluid. |
| US10208743B2 |
Piston cylinder arrangement for an oil free compressor having cooling passageways and method of cooling wrist pin bearing surface
A piston cylinder arrangement for an air compressor including a cylinder, a connecting rod having a wrist pin receiving end, a wrist pin provided in the wrist pin receiving end of the connecting rod, and a piston provided on the connecting rod via the wrist pin and positioned within the cylinder. At least one passageway may be defined in the wrist pin to permit air to flow into the wrist pin from the cylinder. |
| US10208742B2 |
Arrangement and method for damping vibrations during microscopic examinations
An arrangement for damping vibrations during microscopic examinations of inorganic and organic material specimens in an evacuated measuring at low temperatures that are cooled by an electromechanical cryocooler suppresses transfer of vibrations from the cryocooler onto the specimen, the microscope table and the instrument table. The arrangement includes a cryocooler unit and a microscopy unit combined with a damping unit preferably located on a common longitudinal axis. The damping unit has a series arrangement of inter-coupled evacuable compensation chambers arranged along the longitudinal axis, the series arrangement being combined with damper groups, two of which act at least diametrically. A clamping unit is operationally connected to the damping unit at at least two points on the series arrangement. A tension force of the damping unit is adjustable. |
| US10208739B2 |
Microfluidic pump with thermal control
A microfluidic pump with thermal control. The microfluidic pump employs a fluid motivation mechanism that moves microscopic fluid volumes through a conduit using thermal vapor bubbles generated using supercritical heating. Aspects of the microfluidic pump include the use of a pump temperature controller that monitors temperatures associated with the microfluidic pump and slows or pauses operation of the microfluidic pump to reduce the rate at which heat is generated allowing additional time for heat to be passively dissipated. Controlling the upper microfluidic pump temperature prevents or reduces overheating of the fluid being pumped that renders the fluid less suitable or unsuitable for its intended purpose or harm to the microfluidic pump. Other aspects of the pump temperature controller include an optional substrate heater that helps raise the fluid temperature to a selected operational range for better performance of the fluid and/or the microfluidic pump. |
| US10208738B2 |
Fuel supply system
The present invention provides a fuel supply system having improved assembly and pulsation reducing efficiency. A housing (20) of a fuel supply system (1) is formed by joining a first housing member (20a) forming one end side of a tubular chamber (23) in the direction of the backward and forward movement of a plunger (10) and a second housing member (20b) forming the other end side. A pulsation reducing mechanism (60) includes a tubular bellows damper (61) housed in the tubular chamber (23). |
| US10208734B2 |
Lift-driven wind turbine with force canceling blade configuration
A lift-driven wind turbine has a turbine rotor with blades mounted to the turbine shaft by two struts hinged to the shaft and each blade to form a four-bar linkage. The blades' airfoil cross section generates lift that rotates the blades around the axis in the presence of a prevailing wind. The airfoil chord forms a geometric angle of attack αG relative to the tangent of the blade path and the struts orient the blades with an outward tilt angle γ. The turbine is designed with values of αG and γ that cause the lift generated by each blade to have an upward component that supports the blade against the force of gravity and a mean radially inward component that substantially balances centrifugal forces on the blade. Wind turbines designed according to the principles disclosed herein facilitate the construction of free-floating utility scale wind turbines for deep water installations. |
| US10208732B2 |
Intelligent wind turbine generator
The present invention relates to an intelligent wind turbine generator, which comprises a first blade module, a second blade module, a power generating module, and a control module. The second blade module is disposed at the first blade module. The power generating module is connected with the first and second blade modules. The control module is connected with the power generating module, the first blade module, and the second blade module. The first and second blade modules rotate, driving the power generating module to generate power. The control module detects a voltage value generated by the power generating module and judges if the voltage value is greater or lower than a predetermined value. The control module controls whether the first and second blade modules overlap or not. The intelligent wind turbine generator is able to switch automatically the blade number of the wind turbine generator. |
| US10208726B2 |
Fuel injection device
An inside projection is formed in one piece with a second tubular member and projects in a tubular form toward a third tubular member, and an outside projection is formed in one piece with the third tubular member and projects in a tubular form toward the second tubular member, while an inner wall of the outside projection is engaged with an outer wall of the inside projection. Another inside projection is formed in one piece with the second tubular member and projects in a tubular form toward a first tubular member, and another outside projection is formed in one piece with the first tubular member and projects in a tubular form toward the second tubular member, while an inner wall of the outside projection is engaged with an outer wall of the inside projection. |
| US10208720B2 |
Intake manifold
An intake manifold made of synthetic resin includes first, second and third members stacked in sequence and welded to form the intake manifold; a collector extending inside the intake manifold in a direction of a line of cylinders, a part of wall of the collector being formed by the third member; a plurality of branch passages formed substantially by the first and second members and wound around an outer periphery of the collector; and a connector passage leading from the collector to an outer peripheral side of the branch passage. The first, second and third members are respectively provided with first, second and third cylinder portions that are coaxially arranged with each other in a position between adjacent two branch passages. The connector passage is formed by the first, second and third cylinder portions with the connector passage communicating with an inside space of the collector. |
| US10208719B2 |
Device for the thermal management of engine intake air
The present invention relates to a device (1) for the thermal management of the intake air of an internal combustion engine (3) equipped with a turbocharger (5), said device comprising: a first heat exchanger (7) placed in the air intake circuit (9), a second heat exchanger (10) placed on the main exhaust line (12) and connected to the first heat exchanger (7) to form a heating loop (A), said thermal management device (1) furthermore comprising a so-called low-pressure exhaust gas recuperation system (14), comprising a first take-off (141) placed downstream of the turbine (5b), an outlet (142) placed upstream of the compressor (5a), and a control valve (140), the second heat exchanger (10) being placed between the turbine (5b) and the first take-off (141), the main exhaust line (12) comprising a take-off branch (26) between a second take-off (201) placed on the main exhaust line (12) upstream of the second heat exchanger (10), a take-off device (200) able to manage the circulation of the exhaust gases, and an outlet (202). |
| US10208718B2 |
Air intake system with membrane unit for siloxane removal
An air intake system for directing intake air to an internal combustion engine of a machine is disclosed. The air intake system may comprise an air compressor configured to increase a pressure of the intake air, and a membrane unit downstream of the air compressor and having a membrane with selectivity for siloxanes. The membrane may have a first side and a second side, and the first side may be exposed to a higher pressure than the second side when the air compressor is operating. The membrane may be configured to separate the intake air into a permeate that traverses the membrane from the first side to the second side, and a retenate that remains on the first side. The permeate may have a higher siloxane content than the retenate. The retenate may be directed to the internal combustion engine for combustion. |
| US10208714B2 |
Heat exchanger utilized as an EGR cooler in a gas recirculation system
A heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first medium and a second medium has a body comprising a pair of header plates, a pair of distribution plates, and a pair of case body lateral panels. Input and output header plates have a plurality of orifices, with a flow path assembly extending between each input header plate orifice and the corresponding output header plate orifice. Each flow path assembly includes at least one chamber assembly, having a corresponding medium directing component, disposed between a pair of tubular segments. Input and output distribution plates have a plurality of orifices. A first medium inlet side tank engages with the input header, a first medium output side tank engages with the output header plate, a second medium inlet side tank engages with the input distribution plate, and a second medium output side tank engages with the output distribution plate. |
| US10208712B2 |
Control system of engine
A control system of an engine including a cylinder and a fuel injector, the fuel mixing with air to form a mixture gas and combusting inside the cylinder is provided, which includes a water injector for injecting supercritical water or subcritical water into the cylinder, and a controller. Within a high engine speed operating range, the controller controls the water injector to inject the one of supercritical water and subcritical water into the cylinder for a given period including a top dead center of the cylinder on compression stroke, such that when an injection amount of the one of supercritical water and subcritical water reaches half of a given injection amount, a crank angle of the engine corresponds to a retarding side of the top dead center, the given injection amount being a total amount of the supercritical water or subcritical water injected for the given period. |
| US10208708B2 |
Translating cascade hidden blocker door thrust reverser
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a thrust reverser system of an aircraft comprising: a translating cascade sleeve, a blocker door, and a kinematic mechanism configured to actuate the blocker door, the kinematic mechanism comprising: a first link coupled to the translating cascade sleeve, a second link coupled to the first link and a fixed structure, and a third link coupled to the first link and the blocker door. |
| US10208700B2 |
Method to control fuel spray duration for internal combustion engines
Methods and systems are provided for direct fuel injection. In one example, a fuel injector system includes an injector needle with an injector pin with a curved fuel channel of non-uniform width around the outer circumference of the injector pin, fluidically connected along the length of the curved fuel channel with a fuel reservoir inside the injector pin. An actuator coupled to the injector needle may sequentially move and position the injector needle to establish fluidic connection between the curved fuel channel and with one or more nozzle holes of the fuel injector at each position, where a duration of the fluidic connection at each position is based on a width of the curved fuel channel, and may determine the volume of fuel being discharged from only those nozzle holes, thereby reducing fuel spray interaction and increasing fuel spray atomization. |
| US10208698B2 |
Direct fuel injection internal combustion engine
A direct fuel injection internal combustion engine having an injector for directly injecting fuel into a combustion chamber thereof is provided. The engine is configured so that a tumble flow is generated in the combustion chamber. A fuel injection by the injector can be performed in a first injection mode and a second injection mode, the first injection mode being a mode in which the fuel injection is completed after the tumble flow is generated, and the second injection mode being a mode in which the fuel injection is completed before the tumble flow is generated. The fuel injection of the first injection mode is performed before completion of the warming-up of the engine, and the fuel injection of the second injection mode is performed after completion of the warming-up of the engine. |
| US10208696B2 |
Multivariable engine torque and emission closed-loop control for internal combustion engine
Disclosed are engine torque and emission control (ETEC) systems, methods for using such systems, and motor vehicles with engines employing ETEC schemes. An ETEC system is disclosed for operating an internal combustion engine (ICE) assembly. The system includes an engine sensor for monitoring engine torque, an exhaust sensor for monitoring nitrogen oxide (NOx) output of the ICE assembly, and an engine control unit (ECU) communicatively connected to the engine sensor, exhaust sensor, and ICE assembly. The ECU is programmed to: receive desired engine torque and desired NOx output data; determine, from current engine torque and current NOx output data, desired engine torque, and desired NOx output, desired engine operation and exhaust operation references; determine, from the desired engine operation and exhaust operation references, an engine operation control command and an exhaust operation control command; and regulate operation of the ICE assembly via the engine operation and exhaust operation control commands. |
| US10208694B2 |
Control method for dual injector of engine
A method for controlling a plurality of injectors installed in the same cylinder of an engine may include determining whether an electrical failure occurred in any of the injectors, and entering a fail-safe mode when an electrical failure has occurred only in one of the plurality of injectors in the same cylinder. In the fail-safe mode, fuel supply to an injector that has experienced an electrical failure is cut off, and the amount of fuel injected into the cylinder by a normally operating injector is increased. |
| US10208692B2 |
Misfire detecting system for engine
A misfire detecting system for an engine of a vehicle that detects a misfire of the engine is provided, which includes a processor. The processor determines whether a misfire has occurred by examining whether a fluctuation of a crank angle of the engine is equal to or greater than a determination reference value, acquires a value relating to a density of intake air introduced into the engine, and adjusts the determination reference value according to the value related to the density. |
| US10208690B2 |
Starting control method for a vehicle
A starting control method for a vehicle having an engine may include determining, by an ECU, whether engine RPM rises when the engine is started, determining whether combustion-related parts are normal, when the engine RPM does not rise over a starter RPM, determining whether a cam position sensor and a crank position sensor are normal, when it is determined that the combustion-related parts are normal, performing control to offset a recognized crank angle by 360 degrees, when it is determined that the cam position sensor and the crank position sensor are normal, and restarting the engine based on the offset crank angle. |
| US10208688B2 |
Exhaust gas purification apparatus and method for controlling the same
A method for controlling an exhaust gas purification apparatus as a catalyst oxygen purge control method during a cold engine period of an exhaust gas purification apparatus including a three way catalyst (TWC) converter purifying exhaust gas exhausted from the engine includes determining whether a fuel cut condition of an injector which injects the fuel to the combustion chamber is satisfied; performing a fuel cut of the injector when the fuel cut condition is satisfied; determining heat load of the three way catalyst by use of a temperature detector and an exhaust gas flow rate detector; measuring oxygen storage capacity (OSC) stored in the three way catalyst according to the heat load; determining an inflection point by use of variation amount of the OSC; and controlling oxygen purge period differently around the inflection point. |
| US10208682B2 |
Internal combustion engine and method of operating same
A method for maximizing a fuel efficiency of an engine includes the steps of providing an engine including a plurality of cylinder bores formed therein, disposing at least one first permanent magnet on a piston and at least one second permanent magnet on the throw, disposing a plurality of electromagnets in the engine block, selectively attracting and repelling the at least one first and second permanent magnets with a magnetic field of the electromagnets to affect a motion of the piston in respect of the engine block and deactivating and reactivating the plurality of cylinder bores in a desired sequence by stopping a flow of fuel thereto and a flow of electrical energy to a spark plug for a deactivated cylinder bore without deactivating an intake valve or an exhaust valve for the deactivated cylinder bore. |
| US10208677B2 |
Gas turbine load control system
A gas turbine system includes a combustor configured to combust an oxidant and a fuel in the presence of an exhaust gas diluent to produce combustion products, an oxidant supply path fluidly coupled to the combustor and configured to flow the oxidant to the combustor at an oxidant flow rate, and a turbine configured to extract work from the combustion products to produce an exhaust gas used to generate the exhaust gas diluent. The turbine causes a shaft of the gas turbine system to rotate when the work is extracted from the combustion products. The system also includes an electrical generator that generates electrical power in response to rotation by the shaft, and a controller that performs load control in response to a target load by adjusting the oxidant flow rate along the oxidant flow path as a primary load control parameter. |
| US10208675B2 |
Hybrid drive system for transferring power from a gas turbine engine of an aircraft
A hybrid drive system driven by a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The hybrid drive system includes a planetary gear set, a first motor-generator, and a second motor-generator. The planetary gear set includes a first member, a second member, and a third member. The first member is operatively coupled to the second member and the third member. The first member is operatively coupled to and transmits power from a shaft of the gas turbine engine. The first motor-generator is drivingly coupled to the third member. The second motor-generator includes an output and is drivingly coupled to the second motor-generator by the second member and the third member. The hybrid drive system is configured to transfer the power from the shaft to the output of the second motor-generator. |
| US10208671B2 |
Turbine component including mixed cooling nub feature
A component for a gas turbine engine includes at least one cooled surface configured to contact a cooling flow, the at least one cooled surface has a base surface and a plurality of cooling nubs disposed about the base surface. The plurality of cooling nubs are distributed about the base surface in a mixed pattern. |
| US10208669B2 |
Method and device for regulating the cooling of oil in a turbomachine
A method for regulating oil cooling within an oil cooling device of a turbomachine including a first heat exchanger mounted in series with a second heat exchanger, the first heat exchanger being an oil/air exchanger while the second heat exchanger is an oil/fuel exchanger, each heat exchanger having an oil inlet and an oil outlet, a bypass directly connecting the oil inlet of the first heat exchanger to the oil outlet of the first heat exchanger, and a flow regulator to regulate the flow rate of oil flowing through the bypass. Circulation of oil though the bypass is allowed by means of the flow regulator when the oil temperature is less than or equal to a predetermined temperature comprised between 70° C. and 90° C., preferably equal to about 80° C. |
| US10208666B2 |
Compressed air energy system
Methods and associated systems for storing compressed air and extracting energy from the compressed air are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises: compressing air; storing the compressed air in a first storage tank at a first pressure; transferring the compressed air from the first storage tank to a second storage tank; storing the compressed air in the second storage tank at a second pressure lower than the first pressure; discharging the compressed air from the second storage tank; and extracting energy from the compressed air discharged from the second storage tank. The method may also comprise adding heat to the compressed air between the first storage tank and the second storage tank. |
| US10208665B2 |
Methods and systems for energy conversion and generation
The invention relates to methods and systems of converting electrical energy to chemical energy and optionally reconverting it to produce electricity as required. In preferred embodiments the source of electrical energy is at least partially from renewable source. The present invention allows for convenient energy conversion and generation without the atmospheric release of CO2. One method for producing methane comprises electrolysis of water to form hydrogen and oxygen, and using the hydrogen to hydrogenate carbon dioxide to form methane. It preferred to use the heat produced in the hydrogenation reaction to heat the water prior to electrolysis. The preferred electrical energy source for the electrolysis is a renewable energy source such as solar, wind, tidal, wave, hydro or geothermal energy. The method allows to store the energy gained at times of low demand in the form of methane which can be stored and used to generate more energy during times of high energy demand. A system comprising an electrolysis apparatus and a hydrogenation apparatus, and a pipeline for the transportation of two fluids, is also described. |
| US10208661B2 |
Control device of turbocharged engine
When it is detected that an exhaust cut valve is stuck in a closed state, a control device stops feedback control and maintains a wastegate valve in a completely open state in each of an open operation range and a closed operation range. When it is detected that the exhaust cut valve is stuck in an open state, the control device stops the feedback control and maintains the wastegate valve in the completely open state in the closed operation range, whereas the control device performs the feedback control in the open operation range. |
| US10208659B2 |
Coordination of cam timing and blow-through air delivery
Methods and systems are provided for reducing turbo lag by directing intake air from an intake manifold to an exhaust manifold. The intake air may be directed via an EGR passage by opening an EGR valve or by may be directed via engine cylinders by increasing positive valve overlap. Amounts of air directed via external EGR and air directed via positive valve overlap are based on engine operating conditions. |
| US10208656B2 |
Composite supercharger rotors and methods of construction thereof
A supercharger rotor with reduced rotational inertia may result in increased performance of a supercharger. The rotor may include composite material and may be extrusion molded, injection molded, or otherwise molded or laid-up. In certain embodiments, the rotor may include a core with a central portion and one or more radially extending portions. The core may be extruded or formed of stacked sheets. A molded portion of the rotor, including one or more lobes, may be molded over a corresponding one of the radially extending portions. In other embodiments, a main portion of the rotor includes one or more lobes but no central hole nor a corresponding shaft extending between ends of the main portion. Instead, stub shafts are attached to the ends of the main portion. The increased performance may include decreased noise, decreased cost, increased reliability and/or durability, increased thermal efficiency, an increased power-to-weight ratio, etc. |
| US10208649B2 |
Estimator and estimator system
An estimator includes a model unit that calculates a state quantity by using an input signal and a relational expression that expresses a target model, a correction signal measurement sensor that measures a correction signal for correcting the state quantity, a correction unit that outputs a value for correcting the state quantity based on the correction signal to the model unit, and a model changing unit that changes the model unit in accordance with an oil flow related value that relates to a change of flow of cooling oil. The correction signal measurement sensor is arranged to be in contact with a metal member that includes a coil conductive wire that constitutes the stator coil, a terminal connected to the coil conductive wire, and a power line connected between the coil conductive wire and the terminal, at a point on which no cooling oil drops. |
| US10208648B1 |
Engine oil cooler backflush valve assembly
An engine oil cooler backflush valve assembly is provided as a replacement cap to an engine oil cooler EGR coolant supply cover. The backflush valve assembly includes a main body through which a valve stem is inserted. The valve stem has a bushing threadedly attached thereto which moves the valve stem between first and second positions. A removable cap is provided to cover the backflush valve assembly during normal operation and to be removed during backflush operation. A removable lock can also be used to secure the cap and/or bushing to the main body of the assembly. |
| US10208645B2 |
Mixing chamber for mixing an additive in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine
A mixing chamber for mixing an additive in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, having a single-part or multi-part housing which has an entry opening for exhaust gas having a flow cross-section and having a central entry axis, and which has, arranged downstream of the entry opening, an exit opening for exhaust gas having a flow cross-section and having a central exit axis. A flow-guiding element is arranged within the housing between the two openings, wherein the flow-guiding element is tubular and forms at least one channel having a channel axis, said channel having an inlet and having an outlet, via which the entire exhaust gas stream is guided, in a flow direction parallel to the channel axis, to the outlet having an outlet cross-section, and the flow direction deviates relative to the central exit axis by an angle a of between 20° and 80°. The mixing chamber is to be designed and arranged in such a way that, with a reduced overall length, an improved distribution of the mixture of exhaust gas and additive over the substrate surface is achieved and at the same time deposits of the additive are avoided. A downstream substrate is provided adjacent to the outlet in the direction of the central exit axis, the downstream substrate having a substrate cross-section that corresponds to the outlet cross-section. |
| US10208643B2 |
Particulate matter detection apparatus
A particulate matter detection apparatus includes a particulate matter quantity detection means, a temperature detection means that detects the temperature of exhaust gas, a control unit and a heating means. The particulate matter quantity detection means includes a particulate matter deposition portion that deposits thereon part of particulate matter contained in the exhaust gas emitted from an internal combustion engine and a pair of opposite electrodes arranged apart from each other on the particulate matter deposition portion. The control unit determines a deposition quantity of the particulate matter on the particulate matter deposition portion based on an electrical signal outputted by the particulate matter quantity detection means and receives information on the temperature of the exhaust gas detected by the temperature detection means. The control unit controls the heating means to heat the particulate matter deposition portion to 300° C.-800° C. during a cold start of the internal combustion engine. |
| US10208637B2 |
Sump tank for a gas turbine engine
A sump tank for use with a gas turbine engine in offshore conditions is disclosed. In embodiments, the sump tank includes two circuitous lubricant flow paths. Each flow path includes an end compartment, a side compartment, and a tube that feed to a central compartment. The baffles used to form the central compartment are angled so as to cause the lubricant entering from the tubes to swirl, which may increase the residence time of the lubricant and may help ensure that any entrained air is released from the lubricant prior to entering the suction line. |
| US10208636B2 |
Highly thermally conductive valve seat ring
The invention relates to a powdermetallurgically produced valve seat ring having a carrier layer and a function layer. It is the objective of the invention to provide a valve seat ring of the kind mentioned above that offers significantly higher thermal conductivity properties. To achieve this objective and based on a valve seat ring of the kind first mentioned above the invention proposes that the carrier material of the carrier layer has a thermal conductivity higher than 55 W/m*K at a total copper content ranging between >25 and 40% w/w. |
| US10208635B2 |
Composite structure and valve timing adjustment device having the same
A composite structure includes: a cover plate having a countersunk hole and a plate side fitting hole; a bearing plate having a screw hole and a screw side fitting hole located opposite from the plate side fitting hole through the screw hole; and a plate screw component including a screw part engaged with the screw hole, and a plate side fitting part and a screw side fitting part respectively fitted with the plate side fitting hole and the screw side fitting hole to be in alignment with each other. A difference δϕa in diameter between the plate side fitting hole and the plate side fitting part, a difference δϕb in diameter between the screw side fitting hole and the screw side fitting part, and an effective difference δϕc in diameter between the screw hole and the screw part satisfy a dimensional relation of δϕa<δϕc and δϕb<δϕc. |
| US10208634B2 |
Columnar hydraulic tappet
A columnar-type hydraulic tappet, provided with a housing, a plunger moving axially with respect to the housing being mounted in an inner cavity of the housing, a high pressure cavity used for a hydraulic medium extending between a lower end surface of the plunger and a lower side of the housing, a first ring groove being arranged below a head portion of the plunger, a second ring groove being arranged at a central portion of the plunger, a plunger central wall being between the first ring groove and the second ring groove, the second ring groove being a concave wide ring groove, wherein at least one plunger oil inlet hole being arranged on the plunger concave wide ring groove or the plunger central wall, a bottom portion edge of the plunger oil inlet hole containing flanging facing towards an inner cavity of the plunger. |
| US10208633B2 |
Hydraulic support element
A hydraulic support element including a housing with a central bore and a bottom face that is provided on one axial end of the housing, a piston that is arranged in the bore of the housing, the piston is connected to a bottom closure so as to define a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber is defined between the bottom face and the bottom closure. A valve is provided between the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber to regulate a fluid connection between the pressure chambers, and a seal formed between the piston and the bottom closure with the bottom closure being affixed to the piston in a detachable manner. |
| US10208631B2 |
Power generation system using ejector refrigeration cycle
The present invention drives an ejector refrigeration unit using waste heat, such as a combustion gas generated from the outside, etc., and cools a working fluid sucked into a compressor in a power generator using the working fluid that circulates in the ejector refrigeration unit, thereby reducing a compression work of the compressor so that efficiency of a system can be improved. |
| US10208630B2 |
Method for operating a steam power plant and steam power plant for conducting said method
A steam power plant and method for operation the steam power plant is provided, that comprises: a main water-steam-cycle with a high pressure (HP) steam turbine, an intermediate pressure (IP) steam turbine and a low pressure (LP) steam turbine, a condenser, and a feed water tank, wherein low pressure heaters are arranged between said condenser and said feed water tank and wherein a plurality of high pressure heaters are arranged downstream of said feed water tank, whereby said low pressure heaters, said feed water tank and said plurality of high pressure heaters are supplied with steam from a plurality of extractions at said steam turbines. |
| US10208629B2 |
Piezo-electric motor for bowed rotor mitigation
A piezoelectric motor comprising one or more concentric stator rings arranged to transfer energy and provide torque to an engine rotor or to an engine transmission. Such a piezo-electric motor improves spatial integration of an engine turning motor in a gas turbine engine. |
| US10208617B2 |
Tip clearance control for turbine blades
A carrier segment of a carrier section for circumscribing an array of circumferentially spaced turbine blades of a gas turbine engine, the blades being disposed radially inwardly of a turbine casing, the carrier segment including a carrier wall disposed radially inwardly of the casing and radially outwardly of the turbine blades, and the carrier wall including one or more portions facing the casing, wherein at least one of the one or more portions of the carrier wall is provided with one or more impingement apertures therein for passage therethrough of air of a predetermined temperature, heating air, from a feed source into impingement onto the turbine casing. The application of heating air onto the casing during transient stages of enhanced engine power, e.g. during step climbs, results in better matching of radial expansion of the casing relative to the turbine blades, thereby enabling improved blade tip clearance control. |
| US10208616B2 |
Turbomachine with blades having blade tips lowering towards the trailing edge
A turbomachine, particularly an aircraft engine, having a rotor, which is mounted rotatably around its longitudinal axis in a stator, and which has at least one row of rotating blades, which is formed by a plurality of rotating blades, is disclosed, wherein the stator has at least one abradable layer, and wherein each rotating blade has a blade tip that is lowered radially inward, at least in sections, proceeding from a leading edge on the side of the rotating blades in the direction of a trailing edge on the side of the rotating blades, and with a blade tip region that extends downstream from the leading edge runs into the abradable layer during operation of the turbomachine. |
| US10208615B2 |
Seal shoe for a hydrostatic non-contact seal device
A non-contact seal assembly is provided. This assembly includes a plurality of seal shoes, a seal base and a plurality of spring elements. The seal shoes are arranged about a centerline in an annular array. The seal shoes include a first seal shoe extending axially along the centerline between a first shoe end and a second shoe end. An aperture may extend partially axially into the first seal shoe from the first shoe end and laterally within the first seal shoe. The seal base circumscribes the annular array of the seal shoes. Each of the spring elements is radially between and connects a respective one of the seal shoes with the seal base. |
| US10208610B2 |
Ring seal arrangement
A ring seal assembly is provided. The ring seal assembly may comprise an air side ring seal and an oil side ring seal. The air side ring seal may have one or more axial and radial grooves. The oil side ring seal may also have one or more axial and radial grooves, and may have circumferential slots in fluid communication with one or more of the grooves. The oil side ring seal may have an extended leg protruding towards the air side ring seal. The extended leg and a forward outer surface of the oil side ring seal and an aft outer surface of the air side ring seal may define a spring cavity. |
| US10208609B2 |
Turbine and methods of assembling the same
A turbine operable with a first fluid and a second fluid is provided. The turbine includes a shaft and having a dry gas seal area, a balance area, and a shaft surface. The turbine also includes a stationary component coupled to a housing and having a first side and a second side and defining a channel in flow communication with the shaft surface. A heat exchange assembly is coupled to the housing and in flow communication with the shaft and the stationary component. The heat exchange assembly includes a first flow path coupled in flow communication with the dry gas seal area and the channel and configured to direct the first fluid along the first side. Heat exchange assembly also includes a second flow path coupled in flow communication with the balance area and channel and configured to direct the second fluid along the second side. |
| US10208607B2 |
Cooling circuit for a multi-wall blade
A cooling circuit according to an embodiment includes: a cooling circuit for a multi-wall blade, the cooling circuit including: a pressure side cavity with a surface adjacent a pressure side of the multi-wall blade; a suction side cavity with a surface adjacent a suction side of the multi-wall blade; a central cavity disposed between the pressure side and suction side cavities, the central cavity including no surfaces adjacent the pressure and suction sides of the multi-wall blade; a first leading edge cavity with surfaces adjacent the pressure and suction sides of the multi-wall blade; and at least one impingement opening for fluidly coupling the leading edge cavity with a second leading edge cavity. |
| US10208606B2 |
Airfoil for turbomachine and airfoil cooling method
An airfoil for a turbomachine such as a gas turbine engine includes a pressure side and a suction side, a flow-distributing forward wall and an inner cooling wall. A switchbacked passage extends through the airfoil, and the flow-distributing forward wall has a plurality of jetting orifices formed therein and connecting the switchbacked passage to a forward cavity. The jetting orifices are oriented to produce wall jets of cooling fluid directed in an upstream direction toward a back side of the leading edge. A second passage extends between the forward cavity and outlets of the airfoil, so as to convey cooling fluid in a downstream direction toward the outlets. |
| US10208605B2 |
Turbine blade
A turbine engine comprises an airfoil having one or more internal cooling circuits. The cooling circuits can be fed with a flow of cooling fluid from one or more cooling air inlet passages in fluid communication with the cooling circuits. The cooling circuits can provide the cooling fluid flow within the airfoil to cool the airfoil, as well as provide a cooling fluid to a plurality of film holes to create a cooling film on the external surface of the airfoil. |
| US10208603B2 |
Staggered crossovers for airfoils
An airfoil according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an airfoil section having an external wall and an internal wall. The internal wall defines a first reference plane extending in a spanwise direction and through a thickness of the internal wall. A first cavity and a second cavity are separated by the internal wall. A plurality of crossover passages within the internal wall connects the first cavity to the second cavity. The plurality of crossover passages are arranged such that the passage axis of each of the plurality of cooling passages intersects a surface of the second cavity. |
| US10208602B2 |
Asymmetric diffuser opening for film cooling holes
A film cooled component may comprise a cooling chamber and a first ligament centered about a first axis. The first ligament may be in fluid communication with the cooling chamber. A first meter may be disposed at an end of the first ligament. A first diffuser may extend from the first meter to a surface of the film cooled component. The first diffuser may comprise a first tapered sidewall oriented at an angle of between 5 degrees to 15 degrees relative to the first axis. The first diffuser may further comprise a first non-tapered sidewall oriented at an angle less than 5 degrees relative to the first axis. |
| US10208593B2 |
Chisel holder for a soil treatment machine
The invention relates to a bit holder for an earth working machine, in particular a road milling machine, that comprises a bit receptacle in the region of a working side of a support member and that indirectly or directly carries an insertion projection on an insertion projection side of the support member, the support member comprising two stripping surfaces [first or second stripping surfaces] that form a stripping surface pair and are at an angle to one another. In order to achieve a stable and long-lived configuration with such a bit holder, provision is made according to the present invention that the support member comprises at least one further stripping surface that is at an angle to the two stripping surfaces of the stripping surface pair. |
| US10208592B2 |
Longwall optimization control
A method of controlling a longwall mining system, the longwall mining system including a longwall shearer, a conveyor, and a plurality of roof supports, such that the method includes creating, by a controller, a load profile of the conveyor representing a distribution of mineral along a length of the conveyor, calculating, by the controller, a desired change in the load profile based on the load profile of the conveyor, and controlling, by the controller, the longwall mining system to adjust the distribution of mineral on the conveyor based on the desired change in load profile. |
| US10208589B2 |
Methods and systems for tracking drilling equipment
A drilling equipment tracking system includes a piece of drilling equipment and a traceability tag coupled to the piece of drilling equipment. The traceability tag has a unique identifier. A mobile device is configured to obtain the unique identifier and access a remote server containing an equipment file corresponding to the piece of drilling equipment based on the unique identifier. |
| US10208581B2 |
System and method for detecting screen-out using a fracturing valve for mitigation
A system and method for detecting screen-out using a fracturing valve for mitigation, wherein the fracture method can comprise fracturing a well using a fracturing valve, while a downhole pressure is less than a predetermined threshold. The method can also comprise actuating by automated process the fracturing valve from a fracturing position to a nonfracturing position upon detecting by a pressure sensor in the wellbore that the downhole pressure has reached the predetermined threshold. |
| US10208577B2 |
Method for efficient dynamic gridding
A method, system and computer readable medium is presented for use in enhancing oil recovery in a subsurface reservoir comprising. The method, system and computer readable medium defines a plurality of grid levels on a geological model of a subsurface reservoir. Connectivities and transmissibilities are calculated between neighboring cells in the same grid and between connecting cells between different grid levels. Gas and/or fluid dynamics are simulated using dynamic grid refinement where the connectivities and transmissibilities are updated at each time step based on the previously calculated connectivities and transmissibilities. |
| US10208575B2 |
Alternative helical flow control device for polymer injection in horizontal wells
The flow control device comprises one or more stacked spiral paths where the shape of an inlet to an end of a spiral has a taper on one or more sides to gradually increase the polymer velocity to eliminate rapid acceleration points as the flow enters the spiral path. The entrance with its taper can be curved to get into the spiral. The spiral can be entered tangentially or radially or axially. |
| US10208573B2 |
Perforating gun with integrated retaining system
An apparatus comprising a charge tube for a perforating gun assembly used in harvesting energy in a wellbore and a retaining projection formed on an end of the charge tube. When the charge tube is inserted into a gun body, the retaining projection engages with the gun body of the perforating gun assembly to restrict movement of the charge tube with respect to the gun body when engaged with the gun body. The retaining projection can comprise a plurality of collet fingers on an end of the charge tube that engage with the gun body to longitudinally retain the charge tube. The retaining projection can comprise at least one alignment finger that limits radial movement of the charge tube with respect to the gun body. The retaining projection can comprise a plurality of centralizing bend tabs that restrict radial movement of the charge tube when inserted into the gun body. |
| US10208568B2 |
Downhole tool with an isolated actuator
A downhole tool in accordance to aspects of the disclosure includes a housing forming a bore to convey a wellbore fluid, an actuating piston moveably disposed in a cylinder located in the housing adjacent to the bore and a barrier fluid isolating the actuating piston from the bore. The downhole tool may include a compensator piston in communication with the barrier fluid and the bore that is moveable to balance the pressure between the barrier fluid and the bore. |
| US10208566B2 |
Wellbore stimulation tool, assembly and method
A tubing string ported sub including a valve covering the port that can be opened by a pressure differential established across the valve. The valve includes an exposed portion that can be engaged to mechanically shift the valve. |
| US10208559B2 |
Diameter-expandable annular degradable seal member for downhole tool, plug for well drilling, and method for well drilling
A degradable seal member for downhole tools, the member being a diameter-expandable annular seal member, the diameter-expandable annular seal member comprising: two or more annular members distributed along an axial direction, the annular members being formed from a degradable polymer material having hardness in a range from A60 to D80; a plug for well drilling; and a method for well drilling using the degradable seal member for downhole tools. |
| US10208551B2 |
Well system with settable shoulder
A system for use in a well includes a completion system having a shoulder contact region, an electric submersible pumping system deployed downhole via a cable for landing on the completion system, a tubular member coupled to the electric submersible pumping system and extending downhole from the electric submersible pumping system, and a shoulder mechanism slidably mounted on the tubular member for engagement with the shoulder contact region during landing, the shoulder mechanism being selectively settable along the tubular member to counter tensile loading in the cable. The shoulder mechanism is set against the tubular member via anchors actuated against the tubular member, and the anchors are actuated by a piston movably mounted within a housing of the shoulder mechanism. |
| US10208550B2 |
Anchoring device, system and method of attaching an anchor to a tubular
An anchoring device includes at least one slip configured to fixedly engage the anchoring device to a structure when urged against the structure, and a member separate from the at least one slip positioned radially of the at least one slip having a portion that is radially deformable in response to longitudinal compression, the portion being configured to urge the at least one slip against the structure when deformed. |
| US10208549B2 |
Activating tool for displacing of a component in a well tube and method for adjusting the activating tool
This invention relates to an activating tool (1) for connecting to and displacing a component (40) in a well tube (4), activating tool (1) includes a driving device (8) axially displaced in two axial directions; a sleeve-shaped release element (14) with an annular end portion (52); a gripper holder (20) arranged axially displaceable in release element (14) and displaced by driving device (8); axially longitudinal recesses (24) in gripper holder (20); at least two radially displaceable gripping elements (26) spring-biased in a radial outward direction, positioned in respective recesses (24) and complementarily fitting respective cut-outs (42) in the component (40), and each gripping element (26) has a slanted rear portion (48); gripping elements (26) retracted into release element (14) in passive positions of gripping elements (26), and gripping elements (26), at least partially, displaced out of release element (14) in active positions of gripping elements (26) so end portion (52) hits slanted rear portions (48) of gripping elements (26) when gripper holder (20) is pulled inwards in release element (14), gripping elements (26) optionally switched between active and passive positions. A method for changing gripping element (26) in the activating tool (1) is described. |
| US10208548B2 |
Method for detecting gain or loss of drilling fluid in a drilling installation associated calculation system and associated drilling installation
The present disclosure concerns a method for detecting gain or loss of drilling fluid in a drilling installation, said drilling installation comprising a drilling pipe, drilling fluid pits and a hydraulic connection between the pits and the drilling pipe. Said method comprises: providing (116, 118), during a first period, a set of measurement values (vai,m; vcj,m) representative of a volume of drilling fluid in each of the pits belonging to a predetermined group (112, 113); then based on volume measurement values, identifying (148) volume variations occurring during the first period for the pits of the predetermined group, each volume variation of a pit being associated with a volume variation period; calculating (162), for each measuring time (tm), a corrected cumulated volume of drilling fluid (V′m) for the pits of the predetermined group, based on the identified volume variation occurring in at least a sub-group (113) of the predetermined group, and estimating (163) a first value (Am) for a gain or loss of drilling fluid at a measuring time (tm) by comparing the corrected cumulated volume (V′m) with an expected value (V0). |
| US10208547B2 |
Increasing hydrocarbon recovery from reservoirs
A method, system and apparatus for producing hydrocarbons from a low permeability reservoir formation. A wellbore with a plurality of fractures designated as one of a first or a second set of fractures is provided. A first fluid conduit is formed by an annulus between an outer casing of a tubular and an inner tubular member, and is arranged to transport produced hydrocarbons. An interior of the inner tubular member forms a second fluid conduit which is arranged to transport an injection fluid. A set of first openings is provided in fluid connection with the first fluid conduit, each first opening being located to substantially align with one of a first set of fractures. A set of second openings is provided in fluid connection with the second fluid conduit, each second opening being located to substantially align with one of a second set of fractures. A high pressure fluid is injected into the second set of fractures, which pushes hydrocarbons located in the low permeability reservoir towards the first set of fractures, thereby increasing the recovery rate of hydrocarbons in the low permeability reservoir. |
| US10208545B2 |
Blade stabiliser tool for drill string
A drilling string stabilizer tool comprises a cylindrical body and a plurality of stabilizer blades mounted on the outer surface of the cylindrical body. The stabilizer blades have an elongated shape and a monolithic structure with an upper stabilizing part and a lower mounting part. Between each two adjacent blades there can optionally be a hydrodynamic flute for improving the flow of liquid and cuttings during drilling and tripping. |
| US10208543B2 |
Drive shaft assembly for downhole mud motor configured for directional drilling
A driveshaft assembly comprises a cylindrical upper member, with one end of the upper member being connected to the rotor and an other end of the upper member having a plurality of torque transmitting profiles. An elongated central member has two ends, with each end having a plurality of torque transmitting profiles. A seat is retained within a central bore of the upper member, the seat having a curved end. A catch is retained within the central member, the catch having a curved end. The upper member transfers torque from the rotor to the central member via the torque transmitting profiles of the upper member and the torque transmitting profiles of the central member, and the curved end of the seat contacts the curved end of the catch while maintaining a gap between the other end of the upper member and the adjacent end of the central member. |
| US10208542B2 |
Polycrystalline compacts, earth-boring tools including such compacts, and methods of fabricating polycrystalline compacts
A polycrystalline compact includes diamond, cubic boron nitride, and at least one hard material, which may be aluminum nitride, gallium nitride, silicon nitride, titanium nitride, silicon carbide, titanium carbide, titanium boride, titanium diboride, and/or aluminum boride. The diamond, the cubic boron nitride, and the hard material are intermixed and interbonded to form a polycrystalline material. An earth-boring tool includes a bit body and a polycrystalline diamond compact secured to the bit body. Methods of fabricating polycrystalline compacts include forming a mixture comprising diamond, non-cubic boron nitride, and a metal or semimetal; encapsulating the mixture in a container; and subjecting the encapsulated mixture to high-pressure and high-temperature conditions to form a polycrystalline material. |
| US10208541B2 |
Pullback system for drilling tool
A pullback system for a drilling tool includes features to retain a pulling cable. The drilling tool includes a drill bit body for carrying a plurality of cutting teeth. The drill bit body has a first side and an opposite second side. The drill bit body also defines a first pullback device passage that extends through the drill bit body from the first side to the second side. The first pullback device passage extends generally along a passage axis that extends through the drill bit body. The first pullback device passage includes at least a portion adjacent to the first side that curves as the surface extends in a direction along the passage axis. The passage axis is positioned along a reference plane that generally bisects the drill bit body. |
| US10208539B2 |
Extendable access device
The present invention relates to a particularly compact and safe extendable access device for gaining access to elevated locations via a hatch opening. The access device comprises a telescopic ladder with a plurality of sliding elements movable between an extended position and a retracted position, each sliding element comprising two stiles connected by a rung. The stiles of each sliding element are interlocked with the stiles of adjacent sliding elements, wherein each sliding element comprises a first locking mechanism for releasably connecting at least one of the stiles to an adjacent stile of an adjacent sliding element, the first locking mechanism being adapted to lock each sliding element in its retracted position. The first locking mechanism of each sliding element is adapted to releasably connect at least one stile of each sliding element to a stile of an adjacent sliding element, which is closer to a top end of the telescopic ladder, and is adapted to automatically disconnect said stiles once an adjacent sliding element, which is closer to a bottom end of the telescopic ladder, is in its extended position. The first locking mechanism is adapted to automatically connect the at least one stile of said sliding element to a stile of the adjacent sliding element, which is closer to a top end of the telescopic ladder, when the adjacent sliding element, which is closer to the bottom end of the telescopic ladder, is moved from its extended position towards its retracted position. |
| US10208534B2 |
Rail for an architectural covering
A rail, such as a head rail, for an architectural covering. The rail includes a housing having elongate walls extending along a length of the housing and defining therebetween a width of the housing. A drive shaft is rotatable about a drive axis extending along the length of the housing and is configured to wind and unwind lift cords of the architectural covering. A spring assist module, e.g. a spring motor has an output shaft rotatable about an output axis with rotation of the drive shaft. The spring motor is mounted in the housing with the output axis parallel to the drive axis, but offset from the drive axis with respect to the width of the housing and the output shaft is connected directly to the drive shaft for rotation therewith. |
| US10208532B2 |
Thermally insulating curtain
A thermally insulating curtain for windows and rooms provided with glass or transparent material. The curtain has an outer solar-energy-absorbing surface outside a thermally insulating layer. A space is disposed between the solar-energy-absorbing surface and a transparent layer situated outside the solar-energy-absorbing layer and/or between the solar-energy-absorbing surface and the thermally insulating layer. The curtain includes a structure that transports air through the space, and a fastener for arranging the curtain on the inside of a window, so that absorbed solar energy is supplied to the room behind the curtain. |
| US10208530B2 |
Door with frameless glazed unit, and related kit and methods
A door includes a door frame, first and second door skins having rectangular outer peripheries and inner openings, and a frameless glazed unit received at the openings. The door skins include exterior surfaces facing away from the door frame and opposite interior surfaces facing and secured to opposite sides of the door frame. The exterior and interior surfaces of the first and second door skins establish integral lips and grooves of the first and second door skins Opposite sides of the frameless glazed unit directly contact and are sealed by the integral lips and sealant and/or adhesive contained in the grooves of the first and second door skins. |
| US10208523B1 |
Power tailgate mounting system for a vehicle
A power tailgate mounting system for a vehicle includes a first gusset member and a second gusset member. The first gusset member is secured to an inward side of a roof rail of the vehicle at a rear end portion of the roof rail. The first gusset member has a first gusset tailgate motor mounting portion extending laterally inwardly from the roof rail for mounting an associated tailgate motor. The second gusset member is secured to the inward side of the roof rail at the rear end portion of the roof rail. The second gusset member has a second gusset tailgate mounting portion extending laterally inwardly from the roof rail for mounting the associated tailgate motor. The second gusset tailgate mounting portion overlaps the first gusset tailgate mounting portion. |
| US10208521B2 |
Actuator of a combined acceleration and deceleration arrangement
In an actuator of a combined acceleration and deceleration device with an operating element which is height-adjustable along a guide element and, by means of an adjustment arrangement, relative to the guide element, the operating element comprises a support plate and at least one carrier lug which extends normal to the support plate and has a guide element accommodation opening for receiving the guide element. The adjustment arrangement has a tool receiving cavity and the support plate has elastically deformable abutment webs. The invention also resides in a sliding door comprising an acceleration and deceleration device as well as such an actuator. |
| US10208519B2 |
Concealed hinge for a turn-tilt window and such a window equipped therewith
A concealed hinge for a turn-tilt window with a fixed frame and leaf includes of a pair of scissors with a first arm and second arm, that are connected by a central hinge and which are hingeably connected by a first end to a mounting slat that is intended to be mounted on the frame, and have a hinge at a second end for coupling to the leaf. The first arm is connected by its first end to the mounting slat with a fixed frame hinge with a peg fastened to the mounting slat and the second arm is connected by its first end to the mounting slat by a shiftable frame hinge with a peg that is shiftably affixed in a guide slot of the mounting slat, whereby in the closed situation of the scissors, the mounting slat serves as a support for the tilting movement of these scissors. |
| US10208515B2 |
Anti-rotation device for a lock system
The present disclosure shows an anti-rotation device for a lock system in a motor vehicle, comprising a base cover unit having an opening for passage of a lock system; a cover unit; a rotor rotatably attached to a back side of the base cover unit by a latch mechanism, in which the rotor has a radial rib structure; a hollow receiving body accommodating the rotor and having a recess; and an interlock system on a circumferential line of the recess of the receiving body. On rotation of the rotor in the receiving body the position of the rotor in the receiving body is ascertained by the contact of the interlock system with the rib structure. |
| US10208514B2 |
Door lock transition method and assembly
An exemplary door lock transition method includes transitioning a door lock of a vehicle from a deactivated state to an activated state based on a door lock schedule that includes a deactivated period where the door lock is scheduled to be in the deactivated state, and an activated period where the door lock is scheduled to be in the activated state. An exemplary door lock transition assembly includes, a door lock of a vehicle, and a control system configured to transition the door lock from a deactivated state to an activated state based on a door lock schedule. |
| US10208513B2 |
Immobilization device for steering system of marine outboard motors
An immobilization device for steering systems on marine motors. The device comprises a first and second member, each member having two opposite ends, a non-immobilizing fastener connecting the first member near one of its ends to the second member near one of its ends, and a compressing fastener connecting the first member near the other of its ends to the second member near the other of its ends. The compressing fastener operates to draw the first and second members closer together. The device may also be part of an immobilization system comprising at least one of the devices and a steering system having a steering shaft and a steering ram. The device is assembled around the steering shaft and the compressing fastener is capable of applying sufficient compressive force to resist the steering ram sliding along the steering shaft. |
| US10208512B1 |
Latch and release mechanisms for waste containers
A latch is provided for latching and automatically unlatching a lid from a waste container. The latch mechanism includes a release weight that moves responsive to gravity in a housing from a first position to a second position to cause the latch to disengage from a striker when the latch is rotated to a dump angular orientation. The latch includes a damper that controls movement of the release weight in the housing such that an amount of time for the release weight to move responsive to gravity from the first position to the second position is at least two times an amount of time the release weight would take to move responsive to gravity from the first position to the second position absent the effect of the damper. |
| US10208510B1 |
Integral positive unlock device for drawer and cabinet safety locks
A latch assembly is provided for limiting movement of a first element, such as a drawer or door of a cabinet, relative to a second element in a first position of the latch assembly, and allowing non-restricted movement of the first element relative to the second element in a second position of the latch assembly. Abase plate is mounted to the first element, and a stop element is mounted to the second element. The latch assembly also comprises a latching plate reciprocally, vertically and moveably mounted on the base plate, such that the latching plate is moveable between a first vertical position engaging the stop element and a second vertical position where said latching plate is disengaged from said stop element. An unlock lever is pivotably mounted to the base plate, and the unlock lever is manually moveable from a first position out of engagement with the latching plate to a second position where the unlock lever secures the latching plate in its second vertical position. The latching plate remains unable to engage the stop element in the second vertical position of the latching plate. |
| US10208508B2 |
Modularized electric door lock
A modularized electric door lock includes an operating device mounted to a door, an outer electric device mounted to an outer side of the door for receiving an unlocking signal, and an inner electric device mounted to an inner side of the door and controlling the outer electric device. The inner electric device includes an electric driving device mounted in the operating device for setting the operating device to a locked state or an unlocked state. The outer electric device and the corresponding inner electric device can be selected among various types, such that the door lock of a desired type can be rapidly assembled. |
| US10208506B2 |
Central access control system
A central access control system (10) includes a plurality of doors (44), a plurality of door locks (20) respectively mounted to the doors (44), a control device (33) connected to the door locks (20), and an unlocking device (40) for setting the control device (33) to be in an enabling state or a forbidding state. When the control device (33) is set to be in the forbidding state, the control device (33) outputs a forbidding signal to all of the door locks (20) to set the door locks (20) in a locking state. When the control device (33) is set to be in the enabling mode, the control module (33) outputs an enabling signal to all of the door locks (20), and a locking state or an unlocked state of a locking mechanism (24) of each door lock (20) remains unchanged. |
| US10208501B2 |
Lamp-equipped tent shelf
A lamp-equipped tent shelf, comprising a shelf, an LED lighting assembly, and a plurality of hooks is provided. The hooks are connected to the shelf. The LED lighting assembly is disposed on the shelf. The LED assembly comprises a power source, an LED light source and a switch. The LED light source is connected to the power source and the switch control the LED light source to turn on and off. The tent shelf can be hung directly to the tent frame and serves as an illumination source. |
| US10208499B2 |
Cover assembly for an infant bed
A cover assembly for an infant bed comprising a frame assembly adapted for mounting to the infant bed, a panel assembly supported by the frame assembly to define a covered area generally above the infant bed and extending around the periphery of the infant bed in use and a window panel for closing the opening. |
| US10208498B2 |
Tower segment handling method and apparatus
This application relates to tower segment handling methods and apparatus and, in particular, to methods and apparatus for handling segments of steel wind turbine towers. The wind turbine tower comprises a plurality of cylindrical vertical tower sections, which in the finished tower are mounted on top of one another. The vertical section of the tower has a longitudinal axis and comprises a plurality of wind turbine tower segments, the tower segments have vertical and horizontal edges and combine to form a complete vertical tower section by joining along their vertical edges. Adjacent vertical tower sections are joined to each other along the horizontal edges of the wind turbine tower segments. The tower segments are combined into a tower section using a flat roller bed on which the segments can be assembled. A method of assembling a tower section is discussed. |
| US10208497B1 |
Support for a signpost
A signpost support includes a vertical bar with a first end and a second end, and a ground anchor coupled to the vertical bar between the first end and the second end of the vertical bar. The ground anchor includes a body section coupled to the vertical bar, a spike extending from the body section, where the spike is oriented toward the second end of the vertical bar, a tab coupled to the body section and oriented perpendicular the vertical bar, and a spring section coupled to the body section and extending toward the first end of the vertical bar. The spring section is angled away from the vertical bar. |
| US10208493B1 |
Column reinforcing structure using V-shaped tie bars
Disclosed is a column reinforcing structure using V-shaped tie bars, in which V-shaped tie bars and reinforcing tie bars are used together in a pre-assembled reinforcement when reinforcing an existing column by concrete jacketing such that it is possible to effectively confine the concrete while preventing buckling of main reinforcing bars without installing cross ties and construction can be carried out very quickly and simply. |
| US10208492B2 |
Construction anchor apparatus
A construction anchor apparatus has utility as a safety grip for engagement by construction personnel, and, in addition, a support apparatus for supporting and/or holding construction equipment including ductwork, electrical cables, plumbing, etc. The anchor apparatus is used in conjunction with rebar applied in concrete support walls, floors, ceilings, or other structural elements at a construction site. |
| US10208491B2 |
Device for leveling and aligning tiles and method for leveling and aligning tiles
A device for leveling and aligning tiles and method for leveling and aligning tiles are disclosed. In one embodiment, the leveling device includes a body and two spaced and parallel strip members extending transversely from the body. Each of the spaced and parallel strip members extend to the front and rear of the body. Two opposing lateral open windows are formed in the body. A breakaway section is defined along the body. A wedge device is provided for penetrating one or more of the two opposing lateral open windows and exerting a force on the tiles for leveling them relative to each other. |
| US10208490B2 |
Floor panel
A floor panel has a rectangular and oblong shape, and includes a substrate and a top layer provided on the substrate and forming a decorative side of the floor panel. The top layer is composed of a print provided on a carrier sheet and a transparent thermoplastic layer situated above the print. The substrate has a thickness from 2 to 10 millimeter and forms at least half of the thickness of the floor panel. The substrate is a polyurethane-based substrate and the transparent thermoplastic layer is polyurethane-based. The floor panel has a length of more than 1.1 meters and has a plurality of reinforcing layers situated outside the center line of the substrate. A reinforcing layer may be provided in combination with the substrate and the top layer. |
| US10208488B2 |
Processing facility for manufacturing integrated circuits from semiconductor wafers as well as perforated panel for a processing facility
A processing facility for manufacturing integrated circuits on semiconductor wafers is provided with at least one radiation generator that generates an EUV (extreme ultraviolet) radiation that is supplied to at least one lithography machine, housed in a factory building, for exposure of the semiconductor wafers. The radiation generator is housed in a building or a building section separate from the factory building. At least one beam guide extends from the building or the building section to the factory building, wherein the EUV radiation is supplied from the building or the building section through the at least one beam guide to the factory building. At least one supply line branches off at an obtuse angle from the at least one beam guide inside the factory building, wherein at least a portion of the EUV radiation is supplied through the at least one supply line to the lithography machine. |
| US10208484B1 |
Apparatus for mounting a panel to a facade
An apparatus for mounting a panel to a façade utilizing a base member fastened to such façade. The base member provides a compartment holding a bracket that mates with a receiver. The receiver links to the panel via an extension member held to the panel. |
| US10208478B2 |
Low slope roofing system
A roofing system, comprising an underlayment layer above a roof deck; at least one strap spaced horizontally up the slope of a roof deck and above the underlayment layer; at least two fasteners attached to the at least one strap and into the roof deck; at least one bead of adhesive applied above the at least one strap; and at least two metal roofing panels placed on the at least one bead of adhesive applied to the at least one strap. |
| US10208477B2 |
Veil finishing process
The disclosure provides a fibrous panel including a basemat and a porous veil disposed on at least one side of the basemat, the veil having a first surface in contact with the one side of the basemat and a second facing surface opposite the first surface, the veil having a patterned coating disposed on the second facing surface, the patterned coating including defined areas without any coating and defined areas with at least a single layer of coating. The disclosure further provides a method of making a fibrous panel according to the disclosure. |
| US10208473B1 |
Portable shed system
A portable shed system for securing motorized equipment therein includes a top wall and a perimeter wall that is attached to and extends downwardly therefrom defining a receiving space. The perimeter wall includes a back wall, a front wall and two lateral walls. The front wall comprises a door opening with a front door hingedly coupled thereon and positionable in a closed position covering or an open position exposing the receiving space.A plurality of eyelets is attached to the perimeter wall. A plurality of stakes, each of the eyelets has one of the stakes extending therethrough and into a ground surface securing the housing thereon.A plurality of couplers is positioned inside said housing. A plurality of tethers each is attached to one of the couplers on one end and attached to a motorized device positioned within the receiving space on the other end. |
| US10208470B2 |
Flush toilet, deodorizing device, and deodorizing method
A method for removing odors produced in a toilet main unit of a toilet is made available. Specifically, a deodorizing unit having an air expulsion port and an air suctioning port is provided in a rear portion of the toilet main unit, and air is circulated by expelling air through the expulsion port such as to laterally swirl the air along an inner surface of the toilet's bowl, and by suctioning swirled returning air via the suctioning port. Deodorization is carried out in the course of circulating the air. |
| US10208468B2 |
Maintenance mode for aircraft vacuum toilet
A method of controlling an operation of a toilet system on-board an aircraft is disclosed. The toilet system includes a toilet bowl, a fluid valve controlling input of fluid into the toilet bowl, a flush switch configured to be activated by a user, and a controller configured to operate the fluid valve. The method includes detecting an activation of the flush switch, monitoring a flush switch activation time period, and determining whether the flush switch activation time period exceeds a preset threshold time period. In response to determining that flush switch activation time period does not exceed the preset threshold time period, a standard flush cycle is initiated. In response to determining that the flush switch activation time period exceeds the preset threshold time period, a maintenance mode is initiated allowing a larger volume of fluid to fill the toilet bowl for maintenance. |
| US10208467B2 |
Seamless quick-release strainer structure for metal sink
A seamless quick-release strainer structure includes a water outlet on a bottom of a sink; a strainer attached to the water outlet and including a stepped trough having a lower end provided with a tailpiece connectable to a drain; a circle frame at a periphery of the water outlet extending outwardly from the bottom of the sink; and a connecting sleeve having an outer periphery radially formed with studs. The stepped trough includes an open end facing a lower end of the connecting sleeve formed with a receiving circular frame, the receiving circular frame having an outer periphery provided with a locking sleeve, the locking sleeve having retaining slots corresponding to the studs respectively. Each retaining slot includes an opening and a retaining portion. Each stud slides to position in the retaining portion. |
| US10208465B2 |
Infra-red control device
A control device (1) for a washroom facility that includes an actuator (2); a sensor (4) configured to detect the presence of a user in the proximity of the sensor (4); and a control circuit (6) receiving, as input, signals from the sensor (4) and configured to control the actuator (2). The sensor (4) includes an emitter (10) configured to emit an infrared signal; and a receiver (8) configured to detect the infrared signal emitted by the emitter (10). The invention also provides a washroom facility, a substance dispenser, and a hair dryer or hand dryer, including such a control device (1). |
| US10208459B2 |
Volume estimation device and work machine using same
A blind spot estimation portion for estimating the blind spot region of the object in the bucket; a blind spot region shape estimation portion for estimating a shape of the object in the blind spot region; and a volume estimation portion for estimating a volume of the object in the blind spot region are included, the blind spot estimation portion estimates the blind spot region by mesh disparity data obtained from a captured image of the object in the bucket imaged by a plurality of cameras, the blind spot region shape estimation portion estimates the shape of the object in the blind spot region by the mesh disparity data, and the volume estimation portion estimates the volume of the object in the blind spot region based on the shape of the object in the blind spot region estimated by the blind spot region shape estimation portion and a shape of a bottom of the bucket. |
| US10208448B2 |
Pipe trench system
Systems for providing pipe trenching, and methods of installing the same, are disclosed. Methods of detecting one or more leaks in a pipe trench system and repairing those leaks are also disclosed. The systems may include one or more housings, which may include a trench portion, a lid, a gasket, and one or more leak detectors. The leak detectors may provide a visual indication of a leak in the one or more housings. The leak may be accurately detected, inspected, and repaired without demolition of decking material, excavation of dirt, or damage to the system or surrounding decking material. |
| US10208447B1 |
Apparatus and method for stabilizing cracks and joints
An apparatus for stabilizing a crack or joint has an elongated plate with a cam gear end and a pin end. The cam gear end has a first aperture and the pin end has a second aperture. A cam gear is sized to fit within the first aperture of the elongated plated. The cam gear has a stud pin aperture positioned off a center point of the cam gear and a rotation point. A first stud pin is sized to pass through the stud pin aperture of the cam gear and a second stud pin is sized to pass through the second aperture. A locking mechanism for locking the cam gear in relation to the elongated plate is included. |
| US10208443B2 |
Multiple-stage snow thrower
A multiple-stage snow thrower having a housing, a power supply operatively connected to a plurality of drive shafts for rotating a plurality of stage assemblies. Each stage assembly of the multiple-stage snow thrower is configured to move snow either axially along the axis of rotation or radially away from the axis of rotation. The first stage assembly is configured to expel snow from the housing, thereby throwing the snow away from the snow thrower. The second, third, and fourth stages assemblies are configured to push the snow toward the longitudinal centerline of the housing and then rearwardly toward the first stage assembly. |
| US10208441B2 |
Pull behind ice resurfacing machine and method of use
A pull-behind device to resurface an ice rink. The device includes a rotating brush to sweep the ice anterior to a blade used to the scrape the ice. Collected snow is moved into a water reservoir where it is stored and melted for redeposit onto the skating surface. |
| US10208439B2 |
Pavement marking tape with widely-distributed, multi-edged relief features for improved retroreflectivity
A pavement marking tape has raised, irregular polygonal relief features with retroreflective elements covering a portion of the surface of the tape. The form of the relief features minimizes shadowing effects. Raised relief features are shaped to increase the visible number of vertical faces and edges of the relief features, which are the most reflective structures, and are oriented toward incident light from an approaching observer to maximize retroreflectivity. |
| US10208436B2 |
Scraper device, as well as construction machine
A scraper device for a milling drum mounted in a construction machine at a machine frame between lateral walls with a milling drum axis, with a two-part scraper blade arranged in a height-adjustable fashion behind the milling drum when seen in the direction of travel, the lower part of which can glide over the ground surface milled off by the milling drum, where the lower part of the scraper blade is adjustable in height when in operating position, it is provided that the upper part of the scraper blade is attached, at the upper end, to swivel about a swiveling axis parallel to the axis of the milling drum. |
| US10208435B2 |
Attachment screed unit for a road paver and road paver having such an attachment screed unit
The present invention relates to an attachment screed unit for a road paver, comprising a connecting screed, at least one adjusting screed which is adjustably mounted on the connecting screed and which is adjustable between a retracted position (P1) and an extended position (P2), as a result of which the paving width (b4) of the attachment screed unit can be set in a variable manner, and a hydraulic adjusting device, which is arranged in such a manner that it can adjust the at least one adjusting screed between the retracted position (P1) and the extended position (P2), the adjusting device comprising an electro-hydraulic unit which is arranged on the attachment screed unit (10), and the electric hydraulic unit comprising a separate hydraulic circuit with at least one hydraulic pump and an actuator. The present invention further relates to a road paver with such an attachment screed unit. |
| US10208433B2 |
Heating device
A heating device (1) comprising: an energy well (2), a heat pump (3) which is adapted to take up and transfer heat from the energy well (2) by the aid of a line from the energy well to the heat pump (3) for transport of anti-freeze liquid, a heat extraction device (4) connected to a heat pump (3) which selectively can be brought into a connected and a disconnected position, thaw coils (5) for thawing ground surrounding the thaw coils (5), in which the anti-freeze liquid is transportable, which thaw coils (5) selectively can be connected and disconnected to the line from the energy well to the heat pump (3), a heat exchanger (7) connected to the heat extraction device (4) adapted to selectively transfer heat to the thaw coils (5) by the aid of the heat extraction device (4), a control system (6) which is adapted for controlling the heating device (1) whereby low temperature heat from the energy well (2) alternatively high temperature heat from the heat pump (3) and the heat extraction device (4) selectively can be used for pre-heating, thawing, or maintenance heating ground surrounding the thaw coils (5). |
| US10208431B1 |
Permanent magnet maglev using passive, low-frequency electromagnetic stabilization
A magnetic levitation system includes a guideway and a vehicle. The guideway has ferromagnetic yokes and induction coils. The vehicle has levitation magnets for magnetic interaction with the ferromagnetic yokes wherein the vehicle levitates relative to the guideway. The vehicle has stabilization magnets coupled thereto for electromagnetic interaction with the induction coils as the vehicle travels along the guideway. Each stabilization magnet is a permanent magnet with a two-dimensional pattern of poles alternating in polarity in a first dimension and a second dimension. |
| US10208430B1 |
Fiberglass guard rail
A guardrail system for use along a roadway. The system can include a longitudinal body having one or more longitudinal void spaces formed therein, at least one substantially vertical post connected at one or both ends of the body, and a longitudinal member disposed within any one of the longitudinal void spaces of the body having a crosswise ultimate tensile strength that is at least 20% greater than the crosswise ultimate tensile strength of the longitudinal body. |
| US10208427B2 |
Patterned tissue product
The present invention provides a patterned tissue product comprising a first surface with a first and a second pattern disposed thereon, the first pattern comprising a curvilinear design element having a first maximum segment length and the second pattern comprising a curvilinear design element having a second maximum segment length wherein the second maximum segment length is from about 50 to about 150 percent of the first maximum segment length. |
| US10208420B2 |
Ozone injection systems
An ozone laundry system that injects ozone into the chemical injection system in order to allow the system to inject ozone as other cleaning chemicals are injected into the washer. This allows ozone to be injected through the wash cycle rather than just during the initial fill phase and additional avoids the expense and maintenance of adding ozone recirculation plumping to an ozone laundry system. Accordingly, ozone levels may be maintained at superior levels throughout the wash cycle. |
| US10208418B2 |
Washing machine
A washing machine of the present invention includes: an inner tub receiving laundry; a pulsator rotatably disposed in the inner tub; and guides disposed on the pulsator and guiding washing water, which is turned circumferentially in the inner tub, to the rotational center axis of the inner tub by hitting against the washing water. |
| US10208416B2 |
Hooping station
A hooping station for an embroidery machine, that includes a base configured to receive a garment. A plurality of tracks are formed in the base and a plurality of bumpers are configured to fit within the tracks. At least a first bumper is configured to engage the first track the predetermined position. A light source is configured to form a light mark that is in a predetermined location relative to the first bumper. |
| US10208415B2 |
Method of automatically fabricating pattern composite fabric pieces with seam allowance flaps
A method of fabricating pattern composite fabric pieces by an automatic pattern fabric article piece processing machine is described. A composite fabric sheet is fed in the processing machine onto a conveyor having a permeable belt under which is provided a vacuum chamber to retain the fabric sheet stationary while a laser cutter effects a programmed job function. The machine forms seam allowance flaps for the composite fabric pattern piece. A stitching or ultrasonic bonding machine also forms seams. In a further stage, printed matter may be applied to the allowance flaps. Glue may also be applied to the flaps and labels to some of the pattern fabric pieces. By interconnecting the seam allowance flaps of different fabric pieces, in a specific order, a fabric material article is produced. |
| US10208414B2 |
Soy protein and carbohydrate containing binder compositions
Soy protein and carbohydrate containing binder compositions are described. The binder compositions may include a carbohydrate, a nitrogen-containing compound, and a soy protein. The binder compositions may also optionally include thickening agents such as modified celluloses and polysaccharides. |