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| US10237135B1 |
Computing optimization
A technology to optimize virtualized computing is described. Usage of a plurality of virtualized computing instances is identified in a virtualized computing environment. Purchasing configuration optimization rules are applied to calculate an optimized purchasing configuration for the plurality of virtualized computing instances in a virtualized computing environment. The optimized purchasing configuration is recommended for the plurality of virtualized computing instances. |
| US10237134B2 |
Method and system for updating distributed resilient network interconnect (DRNI) states
A method of configuring a set of conversation identifiers (IDs) at a network device in a distributed resilient network interconnect (DRNI) of a link aggregation group is disclosed. The method starts with initializing the set of conversation IDs, wherein the initialization includes setting entries of a Boolean vector associated with the set of conversation IDs to be a sequence of zeroes, and wherein the Boolean vector includes values indicating processing the set of conversation IDs through the single gateway or the single aggregator of the network device. The method continues with determining that distribution of the set of conversation IDs needs to be updated, setting values of an operational vector indexed by the conversation IDs, and setting values of the Boolean vector, wherein the Boolean vector lists whether the single gateway or the single aggregator of the network device is associated with each of the conversation IDs. |
| US10237133B2 |
Techniques of restoring BMC configurations to multiple BMCs
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a computer system are provided. The computer system may include a first embedded-system device and a second embedded-system device. The first embedded-system device receives a first message instructing the first embedded-system device to make configurations of the first embedded-system device available at a location in a network. The first embedded-system device makes the configurations available at the location. The second embedded-system device obtains a subset of the configurations made available at the location. The second embedded-system device restores itself with the subset of the configurations. |
| US10237132B2 |
Configuration method, network device, and user equipment
Embodiments relate to the communications field, and provide a configuration method, a network device, and user equipment, so as to correctly configure different types of radio bearers and correctly configure a MAC entity. The method includes determining, by the network device, a configuration type and generating a first message according to the configuration type. The method also includes sending the first message to the user equipment. The method embodiment is used to configure a radio bearer. |
| US10237128B2 |
Method for the installation with an electronic device of an outdoor unit and electronic device for such an installation
A method for installing an outdoor unit, the outdoor unit for receiving signals from a satellite, the method including determining, with an electronic device, pointing information to be applied to the outdoor unit; receiving signal quality information on the electronic device and from an indoor unit, the indoor unit including a modem or receiver and being connected to the outdoor unit, and pointing the outdoor unit according to the received signal quality information. |
| US10237125B2 |
Dynamic line management system
A method and Dynamic Line Management, DLM, system for controlling Digital Line Subscriber, DSL, connections, comprising applying a first line profile to a DSL connection, the first line profile specifying a first virtual noise template for the DSL connection, wherein the first virtual noise template specifies a first set of frequency dependent virtual noise levels for the DSL connection; configuring a connection parameter (such as the data rate) of the DSL connection based on the first set of frequency dependent virtual noise levels; applying a second line profile to the DSL transceiver unit, the second line profile specifying a second virtual noise template for the DSL connection, wherein the second virtual noise template specifies a second set of frequency dependent virtual noise levels for the DSL connection; and reconfiguring the connection parameter for the DSL connection based on the second set of frequency dependent virtual noise levels. |
| US10237122B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing high availability support at a bypass switch
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing high availability support at a bypass switch are disclosed. One method occurs at a bypass switch. The method includes determining that an inline tool associated with a bypass switch is unavailable. The method also includes determining whether the inline tool is required or optional. The method further includes in response to determining that the inline tool is required, disabling at least one link associated with the bypass switch so as to trigger a switchover involving a second bypass switch. |
| US10237121B2 |
Apparatus and method for interconnecting multiple linear protection domains
A linear protection switching-based domain connecting method includes determining, by a protection interconnecting node, a user traffic transceiving path based on information on a presence or absence of defect in working paths and protection paths, generating working path control information and protection path control information based on information on the determined user traffic transceiving path and the information on the presence or absence of the defect in the protection paths, and transmitting the generated working path information to the working interconnecting node, and connecting two paths among the protection paths, and the connection path based on the protection path control information. |
| US10237113B2 |
Apparatus and a method for approximating a first signal using a second signal
A method for approximating a first signal having a first oscillation period within a quantized time interval using a second signal is provided. The second signal has a second oscillation period. The method includes calculating a phase offset of the first signal at at least one position within the quantized time interval. Further, the method comprises shifting the second signal within the quantized time interval until a phase offset of the second signal at the at least one position satisfies a quality criterion related to the phase offset of the first signal. |
| US10237109B2 |
Mitigating passive intermodulation interference in a wireless network
Interference (I1, I2) is mitigated in a waveform received at the input of a receiver in a wireless network, the interference comprising passive intermodulation PIM products of at least a first signal (C1). A first stream of time samples (5) is generated of a simulated first PFM product of at least the first signal (C1), and a second stream of time samples (6) is generated of the simulated first PIM product. The second stream has a delay with respect to the first stream. A replica (8) is generated of the interference by processing (7) at least the first stream and the second stream, the processing comprising reducing a degree of correlation between the first stream and the second stream, and the replica of the interference is combined with a stream of time samples of the received waveform (40) to reduce the interference in the received waveform. |
| US10237106B2 |
Method and system for combining DFT-transformed OFDM and non-transformed OFDM
Methods and systems are provided that enable an OFDM transmitter to be used for transmitting conventional OFDM or a form of transformed OFDM. A technique is provided for transforming a coded and modulated sequence of samples prior to an IFFT that enables the transformed sequence of samples to be transmitted using conventional OFDM or transformed OFDM. The selection of a transform function for transforming the coded and modulated sequence of samples may be based on optimizing the transform function for particular operating conditions between the transmitter and receiver. In some embodiments of the invention OFDM and time transformed OFDM are multiplexed in time and/or frequency in a transmission frame. In some embodiments of the invention a pilot pattern is provided in which the pilot are sent using OFDM and data is sent using OFDM and/or transformed OFDM. |
| US10237101B2 |
Receiving device
A receiving device according to the present invention includes: a search range control unit that determines, for a reception signal including a plurality of wireless signals partially overlapping on at least one of a time axis and a frequency axis and received by a moving object, a search range for the plurality of wireless signals in a search space including the time axis and the frequency axis based on information on position and velocity of the moving object; a time frequency detection unit that generates information on time and frequency at which a wireless frame included in each of the plurality of wireless signals is received in the search range for the reception signal determined by the search range control unit; and a detection unit that demodulates the reception signal to acquire the wireless frame based on the information on time and frequency generated by the time frequency detection unit. |
| US10237100B2 |
Method and apparatus for digitization of broadband analog signals
Methods and systems for digitization of broadband analog signals may comprise in a radio frequency (RF) transceiver comprising a diplexer, first and second automatic gain and slope control (ASCS) modules, and a combiner): receiving an input RF signal comprising at least two signals, splitting the input RF signal in the frequency domain into first and second signals of different frequency utilizing the diplexer, configuring a frequency-dependent gain level for each of the first and second signals utilizing the first and second ASCS modules, and combining output signals from the first and second ASCS modules utilizing the combiner. The frequency dependent gain levels of the first and second signals may be configured to enable an ADC receiving the combined signal to operate with an effective number of bits (ENOB) of approximately 10. |
| US10237099B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for electronic spectrum management for identifying open space
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for automated identification of open space in a wireless communications spectrum, by identifying sources of signal emission in the spectrum by automatically detecting signals, analyzing signals, comparing signal data to historical and reference data, creating corresponding signal profiles, and determining information about the open space based upon the measured and analyzed data in near real-time. |
| US10237098B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating a multi-level pseudo-random test signal
The present invention relates to a method for generating multi-level PRBS patterns for testing purposes, wherein the method includes the steps of providing a binary PRBS signal with a binary bit pattern sequence and mapping each bit of the binary bit pattern sequence to a symbol of a multilevel output. |
| US10237096B2 |
Processing of a faster-than-Nyquist signaling reception signal
There is provided mechanisms for processing a reception signal r. The method is performed by a receiver. The method comprises receiving a reception signal r representing a sequence of input symbols xn, the reception signal comprising a sequence of pulse forms gT selected from a set of pulse forms. The method comprises generating a set of decoded symbols Formula (I) from the reception symbols by subjecting a set of sampled symbols yn derived from the reception signal to a whitening filter defined by second coefficients K, and to an equalizer defmed by first coefficients R. The first coefficients R and the second coefficients K are selected from respective matrices of a Toeplitz decomposition of a Gram matrix G defmed by the inner product of all pulses in the set of pulse forms. {circumflex over (x)}n (I) |
| US10237094B2 |
Method for receiving radio signals in a receiving device, and receiving device
Radio signals are received in a receiving device having an internal radio receiver that is designed to carry out a channel estimation for error correction, in the course of a receiving process of the radio signals received in a radio channel. The internal radio receiver communicates with an external radio receiver, which receives the same radio signals as the internal radio receiver at the measuring time, carries out a channel estimation for error correction, and transmits the channel estimation to the internal radio receiver, wherein the internal radio receiver uses the channel estimation of the external radio receiver in order to improve its own channel estimation. |
| US10237092B2 |
Technique for routing and switching redundancy
A technique for routing datagrams between customer equipments, CEs, (102) and a pool (110) of broadband network gateways, BNGs, (112) is provided. As to a device aspect (120) of the technique, a first establishing unit (122) is configured to establish a first connection (123) between the device (120) and each of the CEs (102). A second establishing unit (124) is configured to establish a second connection (125) between the device (120) and each BNG (112) in the pool (110) of BNGs (112). A mapping unit (126) is configured to map each of the first connections (123) to one of the second connections (125). The mapping specifies the routing of the datagrams. |
| US10237087B2 |
Method for controlling transmission speed and electronic device thereof
A method of operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes communicating data with a wireless network using a wireless communication, connecting to an external electronic device using a wired communication, exchanging data with the external device at a first data throughput using the wired communication while performing the wireless communication, and changing the first data throughput to a second data throughput while performing the wireless communication. |
| US10237086B2 |
Smart home wireless control system
A smart home wireless control system includes a mobile control terminal, a plurality of remote-controlled devices and a signal access point (AP), wherein the mobile control terminal and the remote-controlled devices exchange data through the AP, each remote-controlled device includes an access controller and a controlled appliance connected to the access controller, the inside of the access controller is provided with a wireless signal station and a counter, the mobile control terminal detects the signal intensities of the wireless signal stations of each remote-controlled device, and the mobile control terminal conducts smart control on the remote-controlled devices according to the changes of the received signal intensities of the remote-controlled devices. |
| US10237084B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving single-cell multi-transmission data and apparatus therefor
Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing point-to-multipoint transmission in a single cell in E-UTRAN. The method may include receiving system information for single-cell multi-transmission in a primary cell (PCell); determining whether to transmit a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) interest information message; and transmitting the MBMS interest information message, wherein the MBMS interest information message is determined to be transmitted when the terminal sets an RRC connection or when interest group communication service information of the previous interest information message, which the terminal transmitted last, has been changed. |
| US10237083B2 |
RBridge for routing and forwarding a data packet
In an approach to routing and forwarding a data packet with a forwarding RBridge and a corresponding RBridge, a computer, in response to receiving a TRILL data packet, performs the following steps: parsing a TRILL header of the TRILL data packet, and acquiring an egress RBridge nickname of the TRILL data packet; obtaining routing information corresponding to the egress RBridge nickname, wherein the information indicates whether the forwarding RBridge is the penultimate hop RBridge on the forwarding path to which the egress RBridge nickname is corresponding; and in response to the indication in the information that the forwarding RBridge is the penultimate hop RBridge on the forwarding path to which the egress RBridge nickname is corresponding, stripping the TRILL header of the TRILL data packet off to obtain an original data packet, and forwarding the original data packet to the egress RBridge from an out port specified by the information. |
| US10237080B2 |
Tracking data usage in a secure session
A first device may obtain a session time record that includes information relating to a secure session. The session time record may include a content identifier and a device identifier that is associated with a second device. The content identifier may be associated with content to be provided via a secure session and via the second device. The content may be associated with a sponsored data campaign. The first device may obtain, from the second device, data usage information identifying an amount of data provided via the second device and in association with the secure session. The first device may determine information identifying a party responsible for the amount of data provided in association with the secure session based on the session time record and based on the data usage information. The first device may store or provide the information identifying the party responsible for the amount of data. |
| US10237079B2 |
Intelligent network sleep proxy for low power sleeping devices
In one embodiment, a sleep proxy device identifies one or more services offered by a first node in the network. The sleep proxy device announces the one or more identified services to a second node in the network on behalf of the first node. The sleep proxy device intercepts an attempt by the second node to use the one or more services offered by the first node. The sleep proxy device causes the first node to switch from a low power state to an awake state, based on the intercepted attempt. |
| US10237076B2 |
Communication device
A communication device includes a first interface configured to perform communication using a first network and a second interface configured to perform communication using a second network. The communication device is configured to generate a first server certificate including first device information for identifying the communication device in the first network and a second server certificate including second device information for identifying the communication device in the second network, receive a communication request, execute communication with the first specific device through the first interface by using the first server certificate in a case where the communication request is received from a first specific device through the first interface, and execute communication with the second specific device through the second interface by using the second server certificate in a case where the communication request is received from a second specific device through the second interface. |
| US10237075B2 |
Reconstructable content objects
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for delivering a content piece over a network using a set of reconstructable objects. During operation, the system obtains a metadata file that includes a set of rules; generates the set of reconstructable objects for the content piece based on the set of rules included in the metadata file; cryptographically signs the set of reconstructable objects to obtain a set of signed reconstructable objects; and delivers, over the network, the set of signed reconstructable objects along with the metadata file to a recipient, thereby enabling the recipient to extract and store a copy of the content piece and then to reconstruct the set of signed reconstructable objects from the stored copy of the content piece and the metadata file. |
| US10237072B2 |
Signatures for near field communications
A data-carrying device and methods of authenticating the same are disclosed. The data-carrying device is described as being capable of communicating via the Near Field Communications (NFC) protocol and may have one or more NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF) records stored in its memory. The data-carrying device also comprises or has the ability to generate a signature that proves the data-carrying device is the authorized device for storing the one or more NDEF records. A data-carrying device that attempts to transmit an NDEF record without a valid signature may be identified as an unauthorized data-carrying device. |
| US10237071B2 |
Authentication of a card by contactless reading
The invention relates to a method of authentication of a contactless communication circuit, PICC, by a contactless communication terminal, PCD. Within the PCC, a first number is generated and without encryption, transmitted to the PCD. Within the PCD a second number is determined by decryption of the first number with a first key. The determination of a third number is based on the second number, and the determination of a fourth number is by encryption of the third number with the first key. Decryption of the fourth number with the first key to obtain the third number and an interruption of the authentication if a sixth number obtained from the third number is different from a seventh number, is performed by the PICC. |
| US10237069B2 |
On-car-data recording apparatus and in-train-image data managing system
An on-car-data recording apparatus mounted on a train to record image data, which is data of a video or an image photographed by an image pickup apparatus set in the train, including: a secret-key retaining unit that retains a secret key paired with a public key for electronic signature for which certification by a certification authority is completed, a train-specific-information managing unit that manages information specific to the own train capable of specifying a traveling position of the own train, an electronic-signature generating unit that integrates, the image data and the information managed by the train-specific-information managing unit, calculates a hash value of obtained integrated data, and generates an electronic signature on the basis of the calculated hash value and the secret key, and an image data managing unit that retains the generated electronic signature and the image data used in generating the electronic signature in association with each other. |
| US10237065B2 |
Cryptographic chip and related methods
There is described a chip for performing cryptographic operations. The chip comprises a key storage module, a rule storage module, an interface module and a cryptographic module. The key storage module is configured to store one or more cryptographic keys. The rule storage module is configured to store one or more rules, each rule comprising respective rule data, the rule data identifying a respective predetermined cryptographic operation associated with the rule and further identifying at least one of the one or more cryptographic keys to be used in the respective predetermined cryptographic operation. The interface module is configured to receive a rule execution request, wherein the rule execution request comprises a rule identifier to identify a specific rule of the one or more rules to be executed. The cryptographic module is configured to execute the specific rule so as to perform the respective predetermined cryptographic operation in response to the rule execution request. The chip is configured such that the cryptographic keys and the cryptographic module may only be used by executing rules from the one or more rules in response to associated rule execution requests received by the interface module. There is also described a set top box comprising the chip, a chip-implemented method of performing a cryptographic operation, and a method of loading a new rule into a rule storage module of a chip. |
| US10237064B2 |
Using everyday objects as cryptographic keys
This disclosure involves the notion of using physical objects to generate public key-based authenticators and, in particular, to use “everyday” physical objects to create a generator seed for a key generator that will use that seed to generate a key pair comprising a public key, and its associated private key. In a preferred approach, the physical object is used to create a digital representation (of the physical object) that, together with some uniqueness associated to the user, gives rise to a key generator seed value. Without knowledge of (a) the physical object itself, (b) how the physical object characteristic is converted (to a digital representation), and (c) the uniqueness value, an attacker cannot reproduce the key generator seed (or the key(s) generated from that seed). |
| US10237061B2 |
Generating master and wrapper keys for connected devices in a key generation scheme
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for generating master and wrapper keys for connected devices in a key generation scheme. For each of the devices, a wrapped master key comprising a master key for the device and a wrapper key is stored. The wrapper keys for a plurality of the devices are generated by another of the devices. For each of a plurality of the devices, the master key for the device is used to generate the wrapper key for a target device comprising another of the devices. For each of the devices, the wrapper key for the device is used to decrypt the stored wrapped master key. At least one of the devices uses the master key for the device to encrypt and decrypt data at the device. |
| US10237058B2 |
Identification of artificail object and artifical object used therein
The present invention can be a method, system, and computer program product. One embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-implemented method for identifying an artificial object. The method includes receiving capacitance data which is obtained by measuring with at least one electrodes in a sensor at least one predefined surfaces of the artificial object placed against the sensor; converting each of the obtained capacitance data into an evaluation level in an evaluation system having more than two evaluation levels, to obtain a capacitance distribution on the surface of the artificial object; determining whether the obtained capacitance distribution matches a pre-registered capacitance distribution or one of pre-registered capacitance distributions; and if the determination result is positive, concluding the artificial object is identified. The method can further include identifying or performing an authentication of a user associated with the artificial object when artificial object is identified. |
| US10237057B2 |
Method and system for controlling the exchange of privacy-sensitive information
A method for controlling the exchange of private data, associated with a client device, between an application in execution on or for the device and a serving node in a data network, comprising transmitting a request to the serving node from the application for access to a service requiring use of the private data, receiving challenge data at the application from the serving node, requesting authorization for the use of the private data using a secure user interface of the client device to a trusted information manager on the basis of the challenge data, transmitting an obfuscated version of the private data for use with the service from the trusted information manager to the application on the basis of the authorization. |
| US10237055B1 |
Method and systems for radio transmission with distributed cyclic delay diversity
Systems and methods for a communication system including a set of transmitters, wherein operations of the set of transmitters are synchronized with an accuracy bound by a synchronization error. A controller forms a message with ordered symbols including data symbols and at least one identification symbol, and controls transmitters from the set of transmitters to transmit the message using a cyclic delay diversity (CDD). Wherein each transmitting transmitter prior to transmitting, circularly rotates the ordered symbols of the message with a unique shift, then copies some symbols located at an end of the message. Wherein a number of the copied symbols is based on a predetermined cyclic prefix length, into a first position in the rotated message, to form a transmitter identifiable message, and transmits via each transmitting transmitter the transmitter identifiable message. |
| US10237052B1 |
Multiphase clock generation and interpolation with clock edge skew correction
Systems and methods disclosed herein provide for effectively eliminating the rotational and static phase skews between the in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) clocks generated by phase interpolators in decision feedback equalizer based receivers. Embodiments of the systems and methods provide for (i) a ring oscillator that eliminates the rotational phase skews and (ii) a plurality of clock mixers that eliminate the static phase skews. |
| US10237051B2 |
Jitter sensing and adaptive control of parameters of clock and data recovery circuits
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there is provided systems and methods for jitter sensing and adaptive control of parameters of clock and data recovery (CDR) circuits. A receiver component includes an adaptive CDR loop dynamic control circuit. The adaptive CDR loop dynamic control circuit is to detect first sinusoidal jitter at a first frequency and a first amplitude and update parameters of the CDR circuit to a first plurality of values based on the first frequency and the first amplitude. The adaptive CDR loop dynamic control circuit is further to detect second sinusoidal jitter at a second frequency and a second amplitude and update the parameters of the CDR circuit to a second plurality of values based on the second frequency and the second amplitude. The first sinusoidal jitter is in a first incoming data signal and the second sinusoidal jitter is in a second incoming data signal. |
| US10237050B2 |
Tunable filter for LTE bands
A tunable filter reduces the total number of filters used in TDD (Time-Division Duplex) communication circuitry. The communication circuitry may include a tunable filter and a first switch associated with the tunable filter. The tunable filter may include a tuning component and a filtering component. The tuning component may be located with the first switch on a first die. The filtering component may be located in a laminate underneath the first switch. Power amplifiers for amplifying transmission signals may be located on a second die, and the second die may be located on the laminate. |
| US10237048B2 |
Method and apparatus for scheduling data in a wireless communication system
A method and an apparatus for scheduling data in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes checking first control information in a first subframe, checking a first block including second control information and first data based on the first control information in the first subframe, and decoding the first data based on the second control information in the first subframe. The first control information includes resource allocation information related to the first block, and the second control information includes one of channel state information about the first data, or resource allocation information related to a second block in a second subframe. |
| US10237043B2 |
Terminal device, base station device, retransmission method, and resource allocation method
The present invention provides a terminal device that allows constraints on user allocation to be prevented and spread codes to be allocated in a scheduler when non-adaptive HARQ is employed using a PHICH. A codeword generator (103) generates code words (CW) by encoding data, a layer mapping unit (108) places each CW in one or a plurality of layers, a DMRS generator (110) generates a reference signal for each layer in which a CW is placed by using any resource among a plurality of resources defined by a mutually orthogonal plurality of OCCs, and an ACK/NACK demodulator (102) receives a response signal indicating a retransmission request. When a response signal requesting retransmission of only a CW placed in a plurality of layers is received, the DMRS generator (110) uses each resource having the same OCC among the plurality of resources for the reference signals generated in the corresponding layers. |
| US10237042B2 |
Method and apparatus for feeding back and receiving acknowledgement information of semi-persistent scheduling data packets
The application relates to radio communications and discloses a method and apparatus for feeding back and receiving acknowledgment (ACK) information of semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) data packets. The method includes receiving downlink data packets and an uplink data assignment indicator (UL DAI) from a base station, wherein a value of the UL DAI indicates a number (N) of all scheduled downlink sub-frames which scheduled by the base station for the user equipment, the number N is greater than 1, and a number k (k |
| US10237037B2 |
Pilot reconfiguration and retransmission in wireless networks
Adaptive pilot signaling is disclosed in which resources allocated to pilot symbols are allowed to vary to more closely match channel conditions. User equipments (UEs) may request different pilot configurations depending on channel conditions. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first set of pilot symbols using a first number of resource elements during a first transmission time interval (TTI), and receiving a second set of pilot symbols using a second number of resource elements during a second TTI. In the embodiment, the first TTI and the second TTI include the same number of resource elements, and the first number of resource elements is different than the second number of resource elements. |
| US10237029B2 |
Transmitter and method of transmitting payload data, receiver and method of receiving payload data in an OFDM system
A transmitter transmitting payload data using OFDM symbols includes a frame builder configured to receive the payload data, receive signalling data for use in detecting and recovering the payload data at a receiver, and form the payload data with the signalling data into transmission frames. A modulator is configured to modulate a first OFDM symbol with the signalling data forming a part of each of the frames and to modulate one or more second OFDM symbols with the payload data to form each of the frames. The transmitter combines a signature sequence with the first OFDM symbol, so that the first OFDM symbol can be detected within the frame before the second OFDM symbol. The transmitter includes a pilot signal inserter configured to insert a number of pilot symbols on selected sub-carriers of the first OFDM symbol sufficient to estimate a coarse frequency offset of the transmitted OFDM symbol. |
| US10237027B2 |
Method and apparatus for implementing dual connectivity
A wireless access node (e.g. a master eNB (MeNB)) is described for a wireless communication system that comprises a first wireless access network and a second wireless access network supporting a dual connectivity terminal device arranged to communicate with both the wireless access node (MeNB) on the first wireless access network and a second wireless access node (e.g. a secondary eNB (SeNB)) on the second wireless access network is provided. The wireless access node comprises a communication unit and a controller. The controller is operably coupled to the communication unit and configured to control the communication unit to transmit a first message including configuration information for a secondary cell group (SCG) to perform a certain action, to the other base station, and to receive a second message in response to the first message from the other base station, and to control the communication to transmit a third message based on the second message to the terminal, wherein the configuration information includes multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) interest information. |
| US10237024B2 |
Method and apparatus for allocating HARQ-ACK channel resources supporting transmit diversity and channel selection
Examples of the present invention provide a method for allocating Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) channel resources supporting transmit diversity and channel selection. The method includes: receiving, by a UE, Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) information and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) data from a base station through two Carrier Components (CCs); obtaining, by the UE according to specific indication information, Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) channel resources required for transmitting HARQ-ACK feedback information using a transmit diversity technique; and transmitting, by the UE, the HARQ-ACK feedback information on the obtained PUCCH channel resources adopting the transmit diversity technique. According to the method provided by the examples of the present invention, it is possible to allocate HARQ-ACK channel resources to the UE reasonably and avoid waste of channel resources in the premise that channel selection and SORTD technique are supported. |
| US10237023B2 |
Hybrid automatic repeat request method and apparatus in relay wireless communication system using compressed-and-forward scheme
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system which will be provided in order to support a higher data transmission rate than in 4G communication systems such as LTE. A method at a relay node according to one example of the present invention is a hybrid automatic repeat request method at the relay node in a relay wireless communication system using a compress-and-forward (CF) scheme, and may comprise the steps of: when receiving data from a previous node, performing mesh quantization so as to have redundant information at the time of quantization for transmitting, to a next node, the data received from the previous node; transmitting to the next node by channel-coding only an amount transmittable to a channel set for transmitting to the next node from upper information among the quantized information; and when receiving negative acknowledgement (NACK) from the next node, retransmitting to the next node by channel-coding only an amount transmittable to the set channel among the other information which is not transmitted among the quantized information. |
| US10237021B2 |
Network device and method thereof
The present invention relates to a network device (1) for joint decoding of received signals in a cellular wireless communication system (50) comprising a plurality of spatially distributed base stations (10) interconnected to said network device (1) by means of at least one backhaul interface having a round-trip delay being larger than a transmission interval for a HARQ cycle of a HARQ algorithm employed by the cellular wireless communication system (50), said network device (1) comprising a processor ( ) adapted to: receive a plurality of baseband signals (BBSs) corresponding to uplink signals received by said plurality of base stations (10) in uplink radio links, said uplink signals being associated with an uplink transmission (ULT) from a user device (20); and decode said uplink transmission (ULT) from said user device (20) by combining said plurality of baseband signals (BBSs). |
| US10237017B1 |
Power saving in stations connected to a very high throughput access point
A system and method for power saving in power saving stations connected to a Very High Throughput (VHT) access point is disclosed. The access point receives triggers from power saving stations. The power saving stations are one of VHT Transmission Opportunity (TXOP) power saving stations and non-VHT TXOP power saving stations. Successively, Quality of service (QoS) requirements of buffered data for the power saving stations connected to the VHT access point is determined. In a first case, the QoS requirements of buffered data corresponding to the non-VHT TXOP power saving stations exceed the QoS requirements of the VHT TXOP power saving stations. During the first case, the VHT TXOP power saving stations are sent into a sleep state and buffered data corresponding to the non-VHT TXOP power saving stations is transmitted. In a second case, the QoS requirements of buffered data corresponding to the VHT TXOP power saving stations either exceeds or equal to the QoS requirement of buffered data corresponding to the non-VHT TXOP power saving stations. During the second case, the non-VHT TXOP power saving stations are sent into a sleep state and the buffered data corresponding to the VHT TXOP power saving stations is transmitted. |
| US10237014B1 |
Link adaptation enhancements
Certain aspects relate to methods, apparatuses, computer readable mediums and wireless nodes. For example, an apparatus generally includes an interface configured to obtain, during a TXOP owned by a second apparatus, at least one first frame from the second apparatus and a processing system configured to (i) determine a MCS associated with the at least one first frame, (ii) increase a value of a counter if the MCS associated with the at least one first frame is the same as a MCS associated with a frame previously obtained by the apparatus during the TXOP and (iii) take one or more actions based on the counter value. |
| US10237011B2 |
Methods and apparatus for pre-programming layer-0 service turn up speeds for photonic service provisioning or restoration
Pre-programming Layer-0 optical protection path restoration speeds is provided based on available path margin. Higher layer routers and switches can be made aware of the expected Layer-0 restoration time, and their switch time can be programmed accordingly. The proposed method can provide users an option to program a restoration speed for a specific photonic service on a per restoration path basis. The method can highlight which services will potentially be impacted by the selected restoration speed on that path. The user can proceed with the selected speed for restoring high priority layer-0 services even if that means the fast restoring event can potentially impact other low priority services already in-service on the restoration path. |
| US10237009B2 |
Dynamic hitless resizing in optical transport networks
The invention relates to techniques for controlling a dynamic hitless resizing in data transport networks. According to a method aspect of the invention, a network connection comprises M tributary slots defined in a payload area of a higher order transport scheme of the data transport network and the method comprises the steps of receiving a connection resize control signal at each of the nodes along the path of the network connection; adding at each node along the path in response to the connection resize control signal a second set of N tributary slots to the first set of the M tributary slots, such that the network connection comprises M+N tributary slots; and increasing, after M+N tributary slots are available for the network connection at each node along the path, a transport data rate of the network connection. |
| US10237006B2 |
Spectrum detection method and apparatus, and base station
Embodiments of the present invention provide a spectrum detection method and apparatus, and a base station. According to the method, in the embodiments, a first base station sends spectrum detection information to an auxiliary device, where the spectrum detection information is used to instruct the auxiliary device to detect whether a first spectrum is occupied; then, the first base station receives first spectrum status information sent by the auxiliary device, so that the first base station determines whether the first spectrum in an area in which the auxiliary device is located is occupied. Therefore, it is implemented that the first base station may determine whether user equipment is interfered by another communications system device in a process in which the user equipment uses the first spectrum, so as to implement sharing of a spectrum by the user equipment with the another communications system device. |
| US10237005B2 |
Apparatus and method in radio communications system
The present invention provides an apparatus and a method in a radio communications system. The apparatus in a radio communications system comprises an estimation unit and a statistics collection unit. The estimation unit is used for estimating a signal receiving strength of each of multiple transmission positions, compared with a signal transmission strength of each of one or more possible transmission positions of a first-type node of a to-be-test communications system on a transmission resource block. The statistics collection unit is used for collecting, according the estimation result, statistics on power space distribution of the first-type node of the to-be-tested communications system. |
| US10237003B2 |
Method and apparatus for estimating channel communication quality of wireless communication technology
Provided is a channel communication quality estimating method of a wireless communication technology. A method for estimating a channel communication quality of a second wireless communication technology whose frequency band entirely or partially overlaps a frequency band of a first wireless communication technology includes: transmitting predetermined data to an external device through each of a plurality of first channels which forms a frequency band of the first wireless communication technology; generating a channel map which represents a communication quality for each of the plurality of first channels based on a data transmission result through each of the plurality of first channels; and calculating a communication quality index for each of a plurality of second channels which forms a frequency band of the second wireless communication technology, based on the channel map. |
| US10237002B2 |
Method for determining calibration parameter of zero intermediate frequency radio receiver, and zero intermediate frequency radio receiver
A method for determining a calibration parameter of a zero intermediate frequency radio receiver, and a zero intermediate frequency radio receiver are provided. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of sub-band training signals, where a sum of the plurality of sub-band training signals is a fullband training signal; determining a sub-band calibration parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of sub-band training signals; determining a fullband calibration signal according to the plurality of sub-band training signals and the sub-band calibration parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of sub-band training signals; and performing coefficient fitting on the fullband training signal and the fullband calibration signal, to determine a fullband calibration parameter. Because sub-band calibration parameters are obtained according to a plurality of different sub-band training signals, aliasing between an image signal and a training signal is reduced. Therefore, a speed and precision of determining a calibration parameter can be improved. |
| US10237001B2 |
Method and measuring device for intermodulation measurement
A method for intermodulation measurement for locating points in a signal transmission path for a high-frequency signal that are faulty with regard to HF transmission properties of the signal transmission path, by generating a first HF signal uTest, having a carrier frequency f1 and a digital signal uCode modulated thereon; generating a second HF signal u2 having a frequency f2; introducing the first HF signal uTest and the second HF signal u2 into the signal transmission path at a predetermined introduction point; receiving an intermodulation product, which is generated in the signal transmission path from the first HF signal and the second HF signal at at least one faulty point, as an intermodulation product signal uRX; recovering a digital signal udemod from uRX; and determining a time shift tx between the digital signal uCode and the recovered digital signal udemod. The invention further relates to a measuring device for performing this method. |
| US10237000B1 |
Phase compensation in an NFC system
A method for compensating phase shift is provided. The method includes sweeping a transmitter (TX) clock frequency over a frequency range and sampling resistance values at a receiver (RX) circuit while sweeping the TX clock frequency. A first frequency in the frequency range is determined which corresponds to a maximum resistance value sampled at the RX circuit. Using a look-up table (LUT), a phase adjust value is determined based on the first frequency. A phase of the TX clock is adjusted based on the phase adjust value. |
| US10236995B2 |
Optical receiver sensitivity system
A system includes a detector array having a plurality of level detectors to monitor an optical input signal. Each level detector of the detector array operates in a different operating range, and each operating range for each level detector has a different saturation level and a different cutoff level based on a power level of the optical input signal. A controller monitors the plurality of level detectors of the detector array to detect a present power level for the optical input signal by selecting the operating range that is associated with the level detector operating between its saturation level and its cutoff level. |
| US10236986B1 |
Systems and methods for tiling free space optical transmissions
Systems and methods for optical narrowcasting are provided for transmitting various types of content. Optical narrowcasting content indicative of the presence of additional information along with identifying information may be transmitted. The additional information (which may include meaningful amounts of advertising information, media, or any other content) may also be transmitted as optical narrowcasting content. Elements of an optical narrowcasting system may include optical transmitters and optical receivers which can be configured to be operative at distances ranging from, e.g., 400 meters to 1200 meters. At such far-field distances, light beams emitted from the optical transmitters can be combined in a tiled fashion to create energy efficient and directable optical transmissions. |
| US10236984B2 |
Mitigating noise and OBI in RFOG networks
A bi-directional optical transceiver includes multiple single mode optical ports and a multi-mode optical port. A multi-mode optical combiner combines single mode optical signals received at the single mode optical ports into a multi-mode optical signal at the multi-mode optical port. Each single mode optical signal has a distinct optical mode that does not interfere with the optical mode of the other single mode optical signals. A photo detector detects a total optical power of the plurality of single mode optical signals in the multi-mode optical signal. An amplifier is coupled to receive an output of the photo detector. |
| US10236983B2 |
Communication system
A communication system includes a vehicle exterior antenna, an electro-optic converter, and a multimode optical fiber. The vehicle exterior antenna transmits and receives an electric signal to and from a cloud system in the exterior of a vehicle. The electro-optic converter is connected to the vehicle exterior antenna and converts an electric signal received by the vehicle exterior antenna into an optical signal. The multimode optical fiber has a plurality of propagation modes for propagation of optical signals and connects the electro-optic converter and an on-vehicle device (an opto-electric converter, an on-vehicle router, and the like) in the interior of the vehicle. |
| US10236982B1 |
Fiber parameter identification
Technology for fiber parameter identification in an optical communications network is described. One or more C-matrices are calculated from one or more corresponding signals received at a receiver from a transmitter over a link in the optical communications network, where each C-matrix comprises a plurality of C-coefficients representative of nonlinear noise in the received signal. A combination of chromatic dispersion (CD) pre-compensation applied at the transmitter and CD post-compensation applied at the receiver may substantially compensate for a net CD of the link. The one or more C-matrices are used to identify one or more fiber parameter estimates of the link, such as one or more fiber types, one or more nonlinear coefficients, or one or more dispersion coefficients. A controller of the optical communications network may use the identified fiber parameters estimates to control a state of the network to achieve an objective, such as improved network performance. |
| US10236977B2 |
Management system for GPON based services
A computerized system and method for managing a passive optical network (PON) is disclosed. The system includes a detection and analysis module adapted for receiving uploaded measurement data from an optical line terminal (OLT) and at least one optical network terminal (ONT), and at least one of technical tools data, service failure data, and outside plant data. The detection and analysis module is adapted for determining a source of failure or potential failure in the PON by correlating the uploaded measurement data and the at least one of technical tools data and service failure data with information stored in a memory medium for the OLT and each ONT. |
| US10236975B2 |
Programmable photonic-electronic integrated circuit for optical testing
The present disclosure provides a programmable integrated circuit die for optical testing. The integrated circuit die includes both photonic and electronic elements. In particular, the integrated circuit die may include a memory block, a programmable logic block (for example, a field programmable gate array), an electrical transceiver block, an optical transceiver block, and an optical test interface unit. The programmable logic block may be programmed to have logic functionalities of an embedded microcontroller and of various encoders/decoders. The logic functions may be soft, hard, or mixed. The memory may be used to store test patterns, look-up tables, measured waveforms, error time profiles and statistics. The electrical and optical transceivers may implement PAMn, NRZ, or QAMn modulations and may have programmable parameters, including: voltage levels; optical power; slew rate; magnitude/phase; clock generation and recovery; equalizations; sampling levels; and sampling times. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed. |
| US10236972B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing expanded interface operation between a portable communication device and an accessory
Improved connectivity between a portable communication device and an accessory is provided through the configuration of a USB type interface. Independent control of a mission-critical subsystem and auxiliary subsystems allow for mission-critical audio and push-to-talk (PTT) to be maintained even in the event of a fault condition within the system. The configurability aspect of the interface allows for additional mission-critical input features to be configured into independent mission-critical subsystems. |
| US10236968B2 |
High altitude point to multipoint links
Systems and methods for communicating in a point to multipoint (PTMP) network that includes an aerial station and a plurality of ground stations. The method includes the aerial station receiving positional information of a ground station of the plurality of the ground stations, selecting antenna elements on a phased antenna array for generating a directional beam based on the positional information, sweeping the directional beam to cover the plurality of ground stations, determining that the directional beam has a beam width sufficient to cover the plurality of ground stations and a transmit power sufficient to provide signals to the ground stations based on the sweeping of the directional beam; and establishing a radio link between the aerial station and the ground station in the plurality of ground stations. |
| US10236966B2 |
Beamforming of harmonics
Apparatus and methods related to beamforming of harmonics are provided herein. In certain implementations, a communication device for operating in a wireless network is provided. The communication device includes an antenna array including a plurality of antenna elements that generate a plurality of receive signals in response to a radio wave, a plurality of signal conditioning circuits operatively associated with the plurality of antenna elements and that condition the plurality of receive signals to provide beamforming of a receive beam, and a beam control circuit that controls the plurality of signal conditioning circuits to provide beam steering of the receive beam based on a direction of one or more harmonic lobes of the receive beam. |
| US10236964B2 |
Method and apparatus for beamforming training in basic service set discovery
A method and apparatus for beamforming training in basic service set discovery is provided. Beacon data is transmitted from a first wireless communication device, the beacon data comprising: beacon data parameters for operation of a basic service set: and beamforming data that includes receive beamforming training fields. Beamforming occurs with a second wireless communication device that receives beacon data. |
| US10236963B2 |
Method and apparatus for CSI feedback in a MIMO wireless communication system with elevation beamforming
A method of operating a communication system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a plurality of channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) sub-resources and a plurality of mode configuration signals to a remote transceiver. The method further includes receiving channel state information (CSI) signals according to the mode configuration signals for the respective sub-resources. |
| US10236957B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink signals using multi-antenna
A method and apparatus for allowing a UE to transmit uplink signals using a MIMO scheme are disclosed. In order to maintain good Peak power to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) or Cubic Metric (CM) properties when the UE transmits uplink signals using the MIMO scheme, the UE uses a precoding scheme based on a precoding matrix established in a manner that one layer is transmitted to each antenna in specific rank transmission. |
| US10236956B2 |
Beamforming handover messaging in a wireless network
A wireless device may support a plurality of channel state information (CSI) processes. The wireless device may send an indication of a number of supported CSI processes to a first base station. The first base station may send an indication of a number of CSI processes supported by the wireless to a second base station. This information may be used during handover of the wireless device. |
| US10236953B2 |
Packet capture grouping for MU-MIMO (multi-user / multiple input—multiple output) access points
An access packet group is formed for packet capture of MU-MIMO capable access points. A neighbor list for a plurality of access points discovered by an access point is received. The access point has MU-MIMO capability for multiple concurrent streams of data with multiple clients. A frame report is received from the access point of RSSI values for the plurality of access points on the neighbor list. A group of access points is selected from the plurality of access points to switch into packet capture mode, based on RSSI values. The group of access points is configured into packet capture mode. |
| US10236949B2 |
Multiple-antenna data transmission method, base station, user equipment, and system
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a base station, including: a first channel state information acquiring module, configured to acquire channel state information of dimension-reduced channel subspace by means of level-one channel state information measurement; a set determining module, configured to: schedule the user equipment, and determine a set of user equipment involved in multiple-input multiple-output; a second channel state information acquiring module, configured to: perform level-two channel state information measurement on user equipment in the set of user equipment to acquire state information of a dimension-reduced real-time channel; and a data sending module, configured to: process downlink data and a user-specific demodulation reference signal by means of two-level precoding, and send processed downlink data and a processed user-specific demodulation reference signal to the user equipment in the set of user equipment. |
| US10236944B2 |
Establishing wireless communication between a train and base stations
One or more communication channels may be setup for communicating between a first transceiver from a plurality of transceivers in a transportation object and a network transceiver of a communication network that is in proximity to the transportation object. Channel related data may be determined for the first transceiver; and the determined channel related data may be determined to a second transceiver that is determined to come within communication range of the network transceiver due to movement of the transportation object. The channel related data may then be used for communicating via the one or more communication channels with the second transceiver. Cooperative communication schemes may be used when communication via the one or more communication channels. The cooperative communication schemes may comprise use of one or both of spatial diversity and spatial multiplexing. |
| US10236942B2 |
Electronic device having loop antenna
An electronic device is provided that includes a housing having a first surface facing a first direction, and a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction. The electronic device also includes a conductive pattern having a first conductive coil with an axis that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction or the second direction. The electronic device additionally includes a communication circuit configured to cause the first conductive coil to generate a magnetic flux. The second surface includes a first region made of a conductive material and a second region made of a nonconductive material. When viewed from the second surface, the first conductive coil is disposed mostly under the first region. The first conductive coil is configured to include a first section disposed near or on the second region to cause the magnetic flux to pass through the second region. |
| US10236939B1 |
Sharing system of near-field communication and high-frequency wireless charging coils
The present invention relates to a sharing system of the near-field communication and the high-frequency wireless charging coils. The main structure comprises a wireless signal transmission unit for receiving signals which will then transmit to a first resonance unit and a second resonance unit at both ends, and then the signals will enter a first notch filter module and a second notch filter module and then charge a load element. The near-field communication module connects with the wireless signal transmission unit to receive a signal. Such that, the near-field communication module can share coils with the high-frequency wireless charging coils to achieve the space-saving effect. |
| US10236936B2 |
Link emission control
Establishing a communication link may include transmitting by a first device an unmodulated first electromagnetic EHF signal and receiving by a second device the first electromagnetic EHF signal. The second device may determine whether the received first electromagnetic EHF signal indicates that a first shield portion and a second shield portion are in alignment. The transmission of a modulated second electromagnetic EHF signal may be enabled when the received first electromagnetic EHF signal indicates that both the shield portions are in alignment and may be disabled when the received first electromagnetic EHF signal indicates that the first and second shield portions are not in alignment. |
| US10236934B2 |
Multi-length cyclic prefix for OFDM transmission in PLC channels
Embodiments of the invention provide multiple cyclic prefix lengths for either both the data-payload and frame control header or only the data payload. Frame control header (FCH) and data symbols have an associated cyclic prefix. A table is transmitted in the FCH symbols, which includes a cyclic prefix field to identify the cyclic prefix length used in the data payload. A receiver may know the cyclic prefix length used in the FCH symbols in one embodiment. In other embodiments, the receiver does not know the FCH cyclic prefix length and, therefore, attempts to decode the FCH symbols using different possible cyclic prefix lengths until the FCH symbols are successfully decoded. |
| US10236932B1 |
Signal isolator having magnetic signal latching
Methods and apparatus for transmitting signals that are magnetically latched at a receiver. In embodiments, a signal isolator comprises a transmitter and a receiver on separate die. Signal disruptions may be minimized. In embodiments, the transmitter and/or receiver can be monitored for proper operation. |
| US10236930B1 |
Automatically activated flotation device for use on a mobile communications device and methods of making and using same
An automatically activated flotation device for use on a mobile communications device, including a mobile communications device, and a case operatively attached to the mobile communications device, wherein the front side of the case is located adjacent to the mobile communications device, wherein the case further includes a rod carrier connected to the case such that the at least one rod carrier, a one-way valve assembly operatively connected to a first end of the rod carrier, a chemical rod located within the rod carrier and located adjacent to the one-way valve assembly, and an inflation assembly operatively connected to the case and operatively connected to the at least one rod carrier, wherein if the mobile communications device contacts a body of water, a portion of the body of water interacts with the chemical rod to produce a gas that triggers the inflation assembly to inflate and cause the mobile communications device to float on the body of water. |
| US10236928B2 |
Molded mobile device case with storage compartment having hinged access
A protective case for a mobile device having a molded multi-layered construction is disclosed. The case includes a mobile device cavity that is configured to receive and retain the mobile device and a storage cavity that extends internally from an upper portion of the case to a lower portion of the case. The lower and upper portions of the case are hinged to one another to facilitate access to the storage compartment. The exterior back surface of the case is configured to conceal the existence of the storage compartment. Other and various unique aspects relating to the construction, configuration and manufacture of the case are disclosed. |
| US10236924B2 |
Reducing out-of-channel noise in a wireless distribution system (WDS)
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to reducing out-of-channel noise in a wireless distribution system (WDS). A digital filter in a remote unit is configured to suppress out-of-channel noise in a downlink digital communications signal based on at least one filter configuration parameter received from a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to determine the filter configuration parameter based on physical characteristics of the downlink digital communications signal. By suppressing the out-of-channel noise of the downlink digital communications signal, it is possible to provide a downlink RF communications signal communicated from the remote unit that complies with a spectrum emission mask (SEM). Further, by suppressing the out-of-channel noise at the remote unit, it is not necessary for a central unit to perform digital filtering before distributing the downlink digital communications signal to the remote unit, thus helping reduce complexity, cost, physical size, and power consumption of the central unit. |
| US10236923B2 |
Method of processing a digital signal derived from an analog input signal of a GNSS receiver, a GNSS receiver base band circuit for carrying out the method and a GNSS receiver
For suppression of continuous wave interferers at, e.g., up to four interferer frequencies (f1, f2, f3, f4) in a GNSS receiver base band circuit a raw digital signal is, in a band stop unit (21), shifted, by a first mixer (31a), by the negative of the first interferer frequency (f1) in the frequency domain whereupon the continuous wave interferer is suppressed by a band stop filter (30a), a linear phase FIR filter with a suppression band centered at zero, e.g., a filter subtracting a mean over previous subsequent signal values from the actual signal value. After further shifting of the shifted digital signal by the negative of the difference between the second interferer frequency (f2) and the first interferer frequency (f1) the shifted digital signal is again filtered by an identical band stop filter (30b) and so on. After the last filtering step the shifted digital signal is shifted back to its original position in the frequency domain to provide a filtered digital signal which corresponds to the raw digital signal with narrow interferer bands centered at the interferer frequencies (f1, f2, f3, f4) suppressed. |
| US10236918B2 |
Transmission apparatus including encoder, reception apparatus including decoder, and associated methods
An encoder and decoder using LDPC-CC which avoid lowering the transmission efficiency of information while not deteriorating error correction performance, even at termination; and an encoding method of the same. A termination sequence length determining unit determines the sequence length of a termination sequence transmitted added to the end of an information sequence, according to the information length (information size) and encoding rate of the information sequence. A parity calculation unit carries out LDPC-CC coding on the information sequence and the known-information sequence necessary for generating a termination sequence of the determined termination sequence length, and calculates a parity sequence. |
| US10236917B2 |
Providing memory bandwidth compression in chipkill-correct memory architectures
Providing memory bandwidth compression in chipkill-correct memory architectures is disclosed. In this regard, a compressed memory controller (CMC) introduces a specified error pattern into chipkill-correct error correcting code (ECC) bits to indicate compressed data. To encode data, the CMC applies a compression algorithm to an uncompressed data block to generate a compressed data block. The CMC then generates ECC data for the compressed data block (i.e., an “inner” ECC segment), appends the inner ECC segment to the compressed data block, and generates ECC data for the compressed data block and the inner ECC segment (i.e., an “outer” ECC segment). The CMC then intentionally inverts a specified plurality of bytes of the outer ECC segment (e.g., in portions of the outer ECC segment stored in different physical memory chips by a chipkill-correct ECC mechanism). The outer ECC segment is then appended to the compressed data block and the inner ECC segment. |
| US10236915B2 |
Variable T BCH encoding
A system for implementing variable T BCH encoders includes: a polynomial multiplier for multiplying a message polynomial by a difference polynomial to achieve a first value, wherein the message polynomial comprises data bits as coefficients and the difference polynomial comprises minimal polynomials that are present in a T error correcting code and are absent from a T−ΔT error correcting BCH code; a shifter/zero-padder coupled with the BCH encoder, the shifter/zero-padder for multiplying the first value by xN-{tilde over (K)} to achieve a second value; a BCH encoder coupled with the polynomial multiplier, the BCH encoder for dividing the second value by a generator polynomial of the T error correcting BCH code and calculating a remainder based on the dividing to achieve a third value; and a polynomial divider for dividing the third value by the difference polynomial to achieve a fourth value comprising parity of the T−ΔT error correcting BCH code. |
| US10236914B2 |
Transmitter, receiver, transmission method, and reception method
One coding scheme is selected from a plurality of coding schemes, an information sequence is encoded by using the selected coding scheme, and an obtained encoded sequence is modulated to obtain a modulated signal. The obtained modulated signal is subjected to a phase change and is transmitted. The plurality of coding schemes include at least a first coding scheme and a second coding scheme. The first coding scheme is a coding scheme with a first coding rate for forming a generated first codeword as a first encoded sequence by using a first parity check matrix. The second coding scheme is a coding scheme with a second coding rate obtained after puncturing processing, for generating a second encoded sequence by performing the puncturing processing on a generated second codeword by using a second parity check matrix different from the first parity check matrix. The number of bits of the first encoded sequence is equal to the number of bits of the second encoded sequence. |
| US10236909B2 |
Bit-order modification for different memory areas of a storage device
A storage device may program data differently for different memory areas of a memory. In some embodiments, the storage device may use different codebooks for different memory areas. In other embodiments, the storage device may modify bit orders differently for different memory areas. What codebook the storage device uses or what bit order modification the storage device performs for a particular memory area may depend on the bad storage locations specific to that memory area. Where different codebooks are used, optimal codebooks may be selected from a library, or codebooks may be modified based on the bad storage locations of the memory areas. |
| US10236906B2 |
Compression and timely delivery of well-test data
A modem is described having a transceiver assembly, a non-transitory processor readable medium coupled to the transceiver assembly, transceiver electronics coupled to the transceiver and the non-transitory processor readable medium, and a power supply supplying power to the transceiver assembly and the transceiver electronics. The transceiver electronics are configured to calculate a size of an output bit stream based on an encoding scheme to encode for transmission data stored in the non-transitory processor readable medium, decimate the data if the size of the output bit stream exceeds a predetermined size, recalculate the size of the output bit stream, after decimation of the data, based on the encoding scheme to encode for transmission the decimated data, and encode the data using the encoding scheme. |
| US10236898B2 |
Digital synthesizer, communication unit and method therefor
A digital synthesizer is described that comprises: a digitally controlled oscillator, DCO; a feedback loop; a ramp generator configured to generate a signal of frequency control words, FCW, that describes a desired frequency modulated continuous wave; and a phase comparator configured to compare a phase of the FCW output from the ramp generator and a signal fed back from the DCO via the feedback loop and output a N-bit oscillator control signal. The digital synthesizer comprises a gain circuit coupled to a multiplier located between the ramp generator and the DCO and configured to apply a frequency-dependent gain signal to the N-bit oscillator control signal to maintain an open loop gain of the all-digital phase locked loop, ADPLL, and a PLL loop bandwidth that is substantially constant across a frequency modulation bandwidth. |
| US10236894B2 |
Digital phase locked loop and method for operating the same
The present disclosure relates to a Digital Phase Locked Loop (DPLL) for phase locking an output signal to a reference clock signal. The DPLL comprises a phase detector for detecting a phase error of a feedback signal with respect to the reference clock signal. The DPLL comprises a digitally controlled oscillator for generating the output signal based at least on a frequency control word and at least one control signal representative of the phase error. The phase detector comprises an integer circuit for generating a first control signal representative of an integer phase error. The phase detector comprises a fractional circuit comprising a Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) for processing the feedback signal and a delayed reference clock signal. The fractional circuit is provided for generating from the TDC output a second control signal representative of a fractional phase error. The DPLL comprises an unwrapping unit for unwrapping the TDC output. |
| US10236892B2 |
System and method for maintaining high speed communication
A data communication system includes a transmitter, a channel, and a receiver includes a Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) phase detector that is configured to: calculate an overall pulse response of the data communication system; obtain a function value for each of a plurality of phases, the plurality of phases corresponding to a resolution per symbol; set a crossing phase to be a phase at which this value is minimum among the plurality of phase; and set the CDR locking phase to be the crossing phase plus a midpoint from among the plurality of phases. |
| US10236891B1 |
Lock time measurement of clock and data recovery circuit
A lock time measurement system to determine a lock time includes a measurement device, a serializer-deserializer (SERDES), a pattern generator, and a splitter. In a first mode, the SERDES receives first data from the pattern generator by way of the splitter. A receiver of the SERDES outputs a recovered clock signal based on the first data to a transmitter. The transmitter includes a serializer and a multiplexer. The serializer receives the recovered clock signal by way of the multiplexer and modifies second data based on the recovered clock signal and outputs serial data. A measurement device, connected to the transmitter and the splitter determines the lock time. In a second mode, the SERDES functions as a transmitter for transmitting data and a receiver for receiving data in a communication link. The system has a better accuracy and utilizes existing receiver and driver circuits. |
| US10236890B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for controlling the same
A semiconductor device includes a mode determination unit configured to determine a power mode based on a temperature of the semiconductor device and a reference temperature, the power mode including one of a first mode which sets the operating frequency of the operation clock to be a first operating frequency and a second mode which sets the operating frequency of the operation clock to be a second operating frequency, and output a control signal according to the power mode to a clock generating unit. |
| US10236888B2 |
Correlated electron switch device
Disclosed are a circuit and method for implementing a switching function. In an embodiment, the circuit includes a first logic circuit, a second logic circuit, and a Correlated electron switch (CES) element. The CES element is configurable to have a non-volatile state to enable or disable an electrical connection between the first logic circuit and the second logic circuit. |
| US10236886B2 |
Multiple via structure for high performance standard cells
A MOS device of an IC includes pMOS and nMOS transistors. The MOS device further includes a first Mx layer interconnect extending in a first direction and coupling the pMOS and nMOS transistor drains together, and a second Mx layer interconnect extending in the first direction and coupling the pMOS and nMOS transistor drains together. The first and second Mx layer interconnects are parallel. The MOS device further includes a first Mx+1 layer interconnect extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first Mx+1 layer interconnect is coupled to the first Mx layer interconnect and the second Mx layer interconnect. The MOS device further includes a second Mx+1 layer interconnect extending in the second direction. The second Mx+1 layer interconnect is coupled to the first Mx layer interconnect and the second Mx layer interconnect. The second Mx+1 layer interconnect is parallel to the first Mx+1 layer interconnect. |
| US10236883B1 |
All-digital low voltage swing circuit for intra-chip interconnection
A circuit includes a first driver unit and a second driver unit. The first driver unit is configured to generate a first output signal in response to a data signal and an enable signal, and drive the first output signal towards a power supply voltage, or towards a reference voltage, or hold the first output signal at a previous voltage level. The second driver unit is configured to generate a second output signal in response to the data signal and the enable signal, and drive the second output signal towards the power supply voltage, or towards the reference voltage, or hold the second output signal at a previous voltage level. The first output signal and the second output signal are complementary to each other. |
| US10236874B2 |
Overvoltage protection circuit for a power semiconductor and method for protecting a power semiconductor from over-voltages
The invention relates to an overvoltage protection circuit (5) and a method for protecting a power semiconductor (31, 32) from over-voltages. For this purpose, a voltage applied across a power semiconductor switch is first converted to a lower voltage signal corresponding to the voltage applied to the power semiconductor switch by means of a resistance voltage divider. The reduced voltage signal is then evaluated by means of an overvoltage detector, such as a Zener or suppression diode, and the power semiconductor switch to be protected is activated if the response voltage of said diode is exceeded. By lowering the voltage level by means of a voltage divider, a Zener or suppression diode having a lower voltage level can be used for monitoring the overvoltage, said Zener or suppression diode having improved operating properties in comparison with corresponding diodes having a higher voltage level. |
| US10236868B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor chip including a level shift circuit to output a high amplitude signal from an input of a logical signal, the level shift circuit including a series coupling circuit coupled to a second power supply, a control circuit coupled to the series coupling circuit for controlling the series coupling circuit based on the logical signal, and a first potential conversion circuit coupled between the series coupling circuit and the control circuit and coupled to a first power supply. The series coupling circuit includes a plurality of first MOS transistors coupled in series between the second power supply and a reference power supply, and a plurality of second MOS transistors coupled in series between the second power supply and the reference power supply in series with the plurality of first MOS transistors. |
| US10236866B2 |
Pulse width modulation signal frequency generation
A timer including a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal generator configured to generate, based on a clock, a PWM signal having a first frequency resolution; a PWM time shifter configured to receive from the PWM signal generator the PWM signal having the first frequency resolution, and output a PWM signal having a second frequency resolution, wherein the second frequency resolution is higher than the first frequency resolution; and a control monitor configured to: control the PWM time shifter to time shift rising edges or falling edges of the PWM signal by an amount corresponding with a second frequency resolution. |
| US10236859B2 |
Filter component with passive element and radio-frequency module
A filter component with a passive element includes a filter substrate, an elastic wave filter including an elastic wave resonator in a predetermined region of one main surface of the filter substrate, and a support substrate on another main surface of the filter substrate, wherein a passive element is provided in or on a support substrate, the passive element includes a wiring electrode and is electrically connected to the elastic wave filter. |
| US10236858B1 |
Differential split-electrode feedthrough cancellation mechanism
An electromechanical resonator including a drive electrode set having at least one pair of alternating pole interdigitated drive electrodes and including a sense electrode set having at least one pair of alternating pole interdigitated sense electrodes. |
| US10236844B2 |
Active inductor and amplifier circuit
According to an embodiment, an active inductor has a first conductivity type MOS transistor with a source that is connected to an electrical power source supply line and a drain that is connected to an output terminal. It has a capacitance between a gate of the first conductivity type MOS transistor and the electrical power source supply line. It has a diode element that is connected between a drain and a gate of the first conductivity type transistor. It has an electric current source that supplies a bias electric current in a forward direction to the diode element. |
| US10236837B2 |
Circuits, devices and methods for reducing co-channel interference
Circuits, devices and methods are disclosed, including radio-frequency circuitry comprising a polar modulator configured to invert a sampled transmitted signal into an inverted sampled transmitted signal, a signal combiner configured to combine the inverted sampled transmitted signal with a received signal and a control logic circuit coupled to the polar modulator, the control logic circuit configured to adjust one or more tuning parameters of the polar modulator for inverting the sampled transmitted signal. |
| US10236836B1 |
Tuned amplifier matching based on band switch setting
Methods and devices for tuning a configurable amplifier of a multi-band RF front-end stage based on a setting of a band switch are described. A lookup table provided with the configurable amplifier is used to map configuration control data of the band switch to configuration control data of the configurable amplifier. The configurable amplifier can be part of a transmit path or a receive path of the multi-band RF front-end stage. |
| US10236832B1 |
Audio system
An audio system includes a reference voltage generation circuit to generate a digital encoding signal and generate an analog reference voltage according to the digital encoding signal, wherein, during a booting procedure and/or a shutdown procedure, the analog reference voltage is smoothly increased and/or decreased at a smooth rate related to a bit number of the digital encoding signal; a first analog operational amplifier for receiving the analog reference voltage to generate a common voltage, which is smoothly increased and/or decreased during the booting procedure and/or the shutdown procedure; and a differential analog operational amplifier pair, coupled to the first analog operational amplifier, for receiving a differential audio input signal pair and outputting a differential output voltage pair to drive a load, wherein, during the booting procedure and/or the shutdown procedure, the differential audio output signal pair is smoothly increased and/or decreased. |
| US10236830B2 |
Signal processing system and method thereof
A signal processing system and method is disclosed, applicable to environment providing voltage to Class-H driver. When using the signal processing system, the first is to detect the volume change of inputted voice and use the detection result as a power source to generate an expectation value for the circuit; the input end of the power generation circuit also adds a voltage offset in addition to the expectation value, so that the output voltage from the output end of the power generator provided to the Class-H driver is higher than a fixed value. The signal processing system and method of the present invention can adjust automatically and rapidly the output voltage signal for the power voltage provided to the Class-H driver by using negative feedback controller (such as, negative feedback loop, voltage offset and proportional integral differential (PID)) based on the detected volume change of inputted voice. |
| US10236829B2 |
Dynamic error vector magnitude duty cycle correction
Aspects of this disclosure relate to dynamic error vector magnitude (DEVM) compensation. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an amplifier, a low pass filter, and a bias circuit. The amplifier, such as a power amplifier, can amplify an input signal. The low pass filter, such as an integrator, can generate a correction signal based at least partly on an indication of a duty cycle of the amplifier. The indication of the duty cycle of the amplifier can be an enable signal for the amplifier, for example. The bias circuit can generate a bias signal based at least partly on the correction signal and provide the bias signal to the amplifier to bias the amplifier. |
| US10236828B2 |
Power amplifier
A power amplifier has improved power added efficiency at high output power. The power amplifier includes: a first transistor for amplifying an input signal input to the base thereof and outputting the amplified signal from the collector thereof; a second transistor with power-supply voltage applied to the collector thereof to supply bias voltage or bias current from the emitter thereof to the base of the first transistor; a third transistor whose collector is connected to the collector of the first transistor to amplify the input signal input to the base thereof and output the amplified signal from a collector thereof; a fourth transistor whose base and collector are connected to supply bias from the emitter thereof to the base of the third transistor; and a first resistor with bias control voltage applied to one end thereof and the other end connected to the bases of the second and fourth transistors. |
| US10236815B2 |
Sensor error detection and correction
Electric motors may include one or more sensors usable to determine rotor alignment and/or speed. A method and apparatus for rotor alignment and/or speed error detection and/or correction are proposed, such as using signals from one or more sensors. A method and apparatus for controlling stator tooth activation based, at least in part, on corrections and offsets is also disclosed. |
| US10236813B2 |
Method and device for detecting a control method of an inverter
The invention relates to a method for detecting a control method of an inverter (11) for supplying current to an electric machine (1), in particular a synchronous machine, having N phases. The method comprises sensing a control signal (CU, DU, CV, DV, CW, DW), which is fed to the inverter and which is clocked with a periodic cycle, over a specified number of periodic cycles of the control signal; determining a duty cycle frequency for the sensed control signal over the specified number of periodic cycles; and detecting the control method on the basis of the determined duty cycle frequency. The invention further relates to a device (5) designed to perform the method. In addition, the invention further relates a use of the method or of the device to monitor a torque of the electric machine and in particular to estimate an operating-point-dependent power loss of the electric machine according to the detected control method. |
| US10236812B2 |
Stray magnetic field compensation for a rotor position sensor
A method may be used to error compensate a measurement of an electric motor's rotor position in a power steering system of a motor vehicle. The electric motor generates torque for assisting steering of the motor vehicle, and stray magnetic fields of motor currents affect the measurement of the rotor position with a magneto-resistive rotor position sensor. The method may involve calculating at least two compensation values based on a current vector, rotor position, and hardware dependent parameters. The at least two compensation values account for errors in the rotor position measurement due to stray magnetic fields of motor currents. The method may also involve calculating a compensated rotor position signal by subtracting the at least two compensation values of the measured rotor position, as well as transferring the compensated rotor position signal as part of a feed-back loop to a target motor torque determination in the motor control. |
| US10236807B2 |
Shift range controller
A shift range controller includes a target angle setter obtaining, from an output shaft sensor, sensor signals provided by switches. The target angle setter corrects a target count value that corresponds to a requested shift range, based on the respective sensor signals. When a legitimate number of edges are detected within a signal detection range, or an edge detection window for detecting at least one of the sensor signals (e.g., P1 signal), the target angle setter calculates a post-correction target count value based on an actual count value at an edge detection timing. When the number of edges detected in the detection window is greater than the legitimate number, or, when the edge is detected at a position outside the detection window for at least one of the sensor signals, the target angle setter invalidates the correction of the target count value based at least on the one of the sensor signals. |
| US10236806B2 |
Power module, power module group, power output stage, and drive system comprising a power output stage
The present disclosure relates to electric motors. The teachings thereof may be embodied in a power module, e.g., a power module for the delivery of a phase current for a current phase of an electric motor. For example, a power module may include: a circuit carrier having a surface; at least two first contact surfaces, a second contact surface, at least two third contact surfaces defined on the surface; a first power transistor connected to each of the at least two first contact surfaces; at least two second power transistors connected to the second contact surface; wherein the at least two second power transistors are connected via a further contact surface to one of the at least two third contact surfaces; and the at least two first and the at least two third contact surfaces are arranged one after the other, in one direction, and the second contact surface is disposed next to both the at least two first and the at least two third contact surfaces. |
| US10236792B2 |
Control system for power conversion apparatus
A first drive circuit Da includes a temperature information transmission unit that transmits a binary output signal changing between High and Low and an abnormality information transmission unit that transmits an output signal fixed to Low, and a second drive circuit Db includes the abnormality information transmission unit. A temperature information signal and an abnormality information signal from the first drive circuit Da are subjected to OR operation on the side nearer the first drive circuit Da than to a magnetic coupler Ma so the abnormality information signal takes precedence when the abnormality information signal represents an abnormality, or on the side nearer a control unit than to the insulation elements Da and Db so the output signal from the insulation element Db takes precedence when the abnormality information signal from the second drive circuit Da represents an abnormality, and then the logical sum is output to the control unit. |
| US10236789B2 |
Load control device for controlling a driver for a lighting load
A load control device is configured to generate a control signal having a desired magnitude for controlling a load regulation device adapted to control the power delivered to an electrical load. The load control device may comprise a control terminal arranged to provide the control signal to the load regulation device, a communication circuit for generating the control signal, and a control circuit configured to generate an output signal that is provided to the communication circuit. The communication circuit may be characterized by non-linear operation. The control circuit may adjust the magnitude of the output signal in response to the difference between the magnitude of the control signal and the desired magnitude to adjust the magnitude of the control signal towards the desired magnitude. The control circuit may also be configured to determine if an incompatible load regulation device is coupled to the load control device. |
| US10236788B2 |
Temperature-compensated rectifying component
A temperature-compensated rectifying component is configured to receive an input signal and comprises: a diode part, for rectifying the received input signal and providing a rectified output signal thereby, the diode part having an operational temperature; and a temperature compensation controller, configured to control a power dissipated by the diode part over a predetermined period of time, such that an average of the operational temperature over the predetermined period of time meets pre-set criteria. This may be used in a RF detector for generating a DC level from a RF input signal, which may form part of a control circuit for setting an amplitude of an RF potential for supplying to an electronic amplifier in an analytical instrument, such as an ion optical device. |
| US10236787B2 |
Device for operating a rectifier, in particular a semi-controlled rectifier bridge, and method for operating a rectifier
In a device for operating a rectifier, in particular a semi-controlled rectifier bridge, and a method for operating a rectifier, in particular a power converter, the rectifier is supplied from system phases, in particular from a three-phase AC voltage system, and supplies a unipolar voltage on the output side, the rectifier including controllable switches, in particular semiconductor switches such as thyristors, etc., a respective system phase supplying a respective current source, the current generated in each case being used as trigger signal for the controllable switch allocated to the respective system phase as a function of the state of a controllable switch unit. |
| US10236782B2 |
Module having measurement signal feedback via a galvanically isolated converter
The invention relates to a module for operating at least one illuminant, preferably at least one LED, said module having at least one electrically insulating barrier, which separates a primary side that can be supplied, originating from a mains voltage, from a secondary side of the module, from which the at least one illuminant can preferably be supplied. A secondary-side passive circuit is provided, which is connected in a supply path to a primary-side control circuit across the barrier via a galvanically isolated converter. The primary-side control circuit is designed to apply a test signal with predetermined temporal development to the secondary-side passive circuit (via the converter) and simultaneously to monitor a measurement signal generated thereby on the secondary side and fed back into the supply path, more particularly to monitor an increase of current in the converter. |
| US10236776B2 |
Inter-supply bidirectional DC-DC converter of a non-insulation type
A bidirectional DC-DC converter includes: a voltage conversion circuit; a first switch circuit connected between the voltage conversion circuit and a high-voltage DC power supply; a second switch circuit connected between the voltage conversion circuit and a low-voltage DC power supply; a smoothing capacitor provided between the first switch circuit and the voltage conversion circuit; and a control unit. The control unit controls the second switch circuit such that turn-on time of the second switch circuit gradually increases, and thereafter, controls the voltage conversion circuit such that a voltage-boosting switching element of the voltage conversion circuit is turned on and off. After a predetermined time elapses from when the voltage-boosting switching element starts to be turned on and off, the control unit turns off the voltage-boosting switching element and turns on the first switch circuit. |
| US10236773B2 |
Low quiescent current DC-to-DC converter with increased output voltage accuracy
Systems and methods for driving a low quiescent current DCDC converter are disclosed. An error threshold compensation circuit of the DCDC converter is configured to detect an output voltage of the DCDC converter, compare the output voltage to a target voltage, and modify a first threshold voltage of the hysteresis control circuit based on the comparison. |
| US10236764B2 |
Snubber circuits for power converters
A power converter for converting an input power at an input of the converter to an output power at an output of the converter includes a power conversion circuit and a snubber circuit coupled to the power conversion circuit. The power conversion circuit includes a switching device coupled to a reference potential, and an inductance coupled to the switching device. The snubber circuit includes a snubber switching device, a capacitance coupled to the snubber switching device, and an auxiliary inductance coupled to the inductance of the power conversion circuit and the snubber switching device. The snubber switching device and the capacitance are coupled across the switching device of the power conversion circuit. The capacitance is adapted to store leakage energy output from the power conversion circuit and discharge at least a portion of the stored leakage energy via the snubber switching device. Other example power converters are also disclosed. |
| US10236763B2 |
Reverse current blockage through buck controller block
A switching circuit with reverse current prevention for use in a Buck converter includes a power switch coupled to a coupling node, which is an interconnection point of a power switch, an inductor and a freewheeling diode of the Buck converter. The inductor is coupled between the coupling node and an output of the Buck converter, and the freewheeling diode is coupled between coupling node and an output return of the Buck converter. A controller is coupled to receive a feedback signal to control switching of the power switch to regulate a transfer of energy from the input to the output of the Buck converter. A reverse current prevention circuit is coupled to detect a reverse current condition of the power switch to generate an inhibit signal to inhibit the power switch from receiving a drive signal to prevent a reverse current through the power switch. |
| US10236762B2 |
Common-stator macro/micro integrated precision motion one-dimensional linear motor assembly
A common-stator macro/micro integrated precision motion one-dimensional linear motor assembly, includes a base, linear guide rails, slide blocks, a U-shaped linear motor stator, a macro motion rotor, a micro motion rotor and a macro/micro integrated platform. A macro and micro motion platforms are connected to form an integrated platform through an elastic member, an outer frame of the macro/micro integrated platform is mounted on the linear guide rails and the slide blocks, the U-shaped linear motor stator is arranged on the base, rotors are respectively mounted on the macro and micro motion platforms, and large-scale overall high-speed motion can be realized when macro and micro rotors are simultaneously driven, and when a motion deviation occurs, the micro motion platform realizes precise displacement output by virtue of elastic deformation due to small inertia and zero friction, and high-frequency motion deviation compensation can be realized by virtue of individual drive. |
| US10236761B2 |
Vibrating motor
A vibrating motor is provided in the present disclosure. The vibrating motor includes a shell, a base covered by the shell for forming an accommodating space, a vibrating system accommodated in the accommodating space, and a pair of elastic connectors connected to two opposite ends of the vibrating system respectively for elastically suspending the vibrating system in the accommodating space. Each elastic connector includes a first elastic member and a second elastic member for connecting a corresponding end of the vibrating system to the shell; the first elastic member includes a first elastic arm, and the second elastic member includes a second elastic arm crossing over and interesting with the first elastic arm. |
| US10236759B2 |
Stator structure and resolver
A stator structure includes a stator unit, and first and second coil covers, the stator unit having: a stator core having a first main body portion with a plurality of through holes, and a plurality of teeth portions; and a coil, and the first and second coil covers covering the coil from a stator core axial direction; the first and second coil covers have first and second protecting portions and first and second engagement portions; each of the first and second protecting portions is arranged between the teeth portions; the first and second protecting portions arranged between the same teeth portions are in a non-restrained state, where their mutual movement in the axial direction is not restrained; their distal end portions overlap each other; and the first and second engagement portions are engaged with each other through the respective through holes. |
| US10236758B2 |
Single phase permanent magnet motor and stator core thereof
The present invention provides a stator core comprising an end portion and a pole arm extending from the end portion. The pole arm includes two spaced connecting arms and two pole claws respectively formed at distal ends of the connecting arms. The two pole claws define a space for receiving a rotor therein. The pole claws surround the space and form an arc pole surface. The arc pole surface forms a discontinuity opening along a circumferential direction. The discontinuity opening faces a spacing between the connecting arms and has a width changed along an axial direction. |
| US10236757B2 |
Rotating electric machine and method for manufacturing the rotating electric machine
A rotating electric machine includes: a stator core having a plurality of slots aligned along a circumferential direction; a stator having a stator coil with an enamel coating inserted into the slots of the stator core; and a rotor rotatably arranged over the stator core through a given gap. The stator coil includes: main coils of a plurality of phases in which a plurality of segment coils each having a rectangular cross-section wire formed into a substantially U-shaped wire in advance is connected to each other; a first sub-coil having a lead wire led from the slots and attached with an AC terminal, and connected to one end of the respective main coils; and a second sub-coil having a neutral wire led from the slots, and connected to the other end of the respective main coils. The lead wire and the neutral wire are each formed of a wire with a bend structure having a plurality of straights and bends. |
| US10236756B2 |
Rotating electric machine
A rotating electric machine includes a multi-phase coil, an armature core, a rotor, a yoke core and a superimposer. The armature core has the multi-phase coil wound thereon. The rotor is rotatably disposed and has a plurality of magnetic poles facing the armature core. The yoke core is arranged so as to surround outer peripheries of the multi-phase coil and the armature core. The yoke core is magnetically connected with the magnetic poles of the rotor. The superimposer superimposes a DC component on a multi-phase alternating current supplied to the multi-phase coil, thereby supplying a DC field magnetic flux to a magnetic circuit that is formed by the armature core, the magnetic poles of the rotor and the yoke core. |
| US10236755B2 |
Method for manufacturing rotors
A method includes steps of: preparing first and second plates, each first plate having surrounding apertures, each aperture including a first accommodation portion and an outer necking portion, each second plate having surrounding accommodation portions; stacking the first plates by aligning necking portions to form band gaps extending linearly and parallel to each other; stacking two second plates to two opposing terminal portions of the stacked first plates; penetrating metal bars into the aligned first and second accommodation portions by exposing both ends of each metal bar; beetling the necking portions at each band gap so as to locate firmly the corresponding metal bar; positioning a first mold and a second mold to clamp the stacked plate structure; injecting metal slurries into the first and second molds and then solidifying the metal slurries to form two end rings; and, removing the first and second molds to complete a rotor structure. |
| US10236748B2 |
Cooling of an active part of an electric machine
An active part of an electric machine includes at least two teeth, each having a magnetically permeable material and protruding from a lateral surface of the active part in a radial direction. Each tooth has an open recess in a plane spanned by a substantially radial direction and a direction substantially along an axis of rotation. A winding groove is arranged between the two teeth substantially along an axis of rotation of the active part for receiving an electrical winding. Arranged at least partially in the open recess is a thermally conductive element having a thermally conductive material with a thermal conductivity which is greater than a thermal conductivity of the magnetically permeable material. |
| US10236745B2 |
Motor
A circuit board is in the shape of a strip and includes: in one longitudinal end portion thereof, power connection portions connected to an external power supply; in another longitudinal end portion thereof, land portions to which portions of conducting wires drawn out downwardly of a base portion are connected; and pattern portions electrically connected to the power connection portions and the land portions. The land portions include a first land portion, and a second land portion arranged adjacent to the first land portion. The pattern portions include a first pattern portion electrically connected to the first land portion, and a second pattern portion arranged adjacent to the first pattern portion, and electrically connected to the second land portion. The first pattern portion and the second land portion are arranged to overlap with each other when viewed in a widthwise direction of the circuit board. Alternatively or additionally, the first and second land portions are arranged to overlap with each other when viewed in a longitudinal direction of the circuit board. |
| US10236743B2 |
Motor having structures for improving dynamic balance and improving installation of a reset protector
A motor, including: a rotational shaft, a rotor, a stator, a housing, a first end cover, and a second end cover. The first end cover includes: a cover body including a bottom surface and a top surface, a bearing cavity, and a plurality of first bosses. The rotor is mounted on the rotational shaft; the stator is nested and installed inside the housing. The rotor is nested inside the stator; the first end cover and the second end cover are disposed on a rear end and a front end of the housing, respectively. The bearing cavity is disposed in the middle of the bottom surface of the cover body. The first bosses are circumferentially disposed at intervals on the top surface of the cover body. Outer side surfaces of the first bosses are located on a circle having a circle center coincident with the center of the cover body. |
| US10236738B2 |
Rotary electric machine
The armature winding is configured by mounting into slot pairs n types of winding bodies that are each configured by winding a conductor wire for m turns into a helical shape, where m is a natural number that is greater than or equal to two, the n types of winding bodies have different spacings between rectilinear portions that are linked by coil ends, are housed in n adjacent pairs of slot pairs, and are configured so as to be concentric, the coil ends include a top portion at an approximately central portion, and the radial displacement at the top portion is approximately a×d, where a is a natural number that is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to (m−1), and d is a radial thickness of the rectilinear portions that are housed inside the slots. |
| US10236737B2 |
Synchronous generator, in particular multipole synchronous annular generator of a direct-drive wind turbine, and wind turbine having the same
A synchronous generator, in particular a multipole synchronous annular generator of a direct-drive wind turbine, for generating electricity, with a rotor and a stator, wherein the stator has multiple grooves in which a stator winding is arranged, wherein the stator winding releases heat energy as a result of the generation of power, and wherein a cooling body for absorbing and dissipating released heat energy is arranged in one groove, multiple grooves or all of the grooves. |
| US10236735B2 |
Electric conductor for coil and rotating electric machine
An electric conductor is provided for forming a coil upon being bent. The electric conductor includes a pair of electric conductor wires and an insulating coat. The electric conductor wires each have a substantially rectangular cross section and are arranged in alignment with each other in an alignment direction. The alignment direction is perpendicular to corresponding sides of the substantially rectangular cross sections of the electric conductor wires; the corresponding sides have the same length. The insulating coat is formed on outer peripheral surfaces of the electric conductor wires. The insulating coat has a thick portion formed at a boundary between the electric conductor wires. The thick portion is thicker than and protrudes outward from other portions of the insulating coat which adjoin the thick portion in a circumferential direction of the electric conductor. |
| US10236729B2 |
Method and system for regulating contactless transformer
Disclosed are a regulating method and system for a contactless transformer, applied to a regulating system including a contactless transformer and a detecting device (2), wherein the contactless transformer includes a transmitting end (11) and a receiving end (12), and the method includes: using the detecting device (2) to detect power transmission parameter information between a transmitting coil (111) and a receiving coil (121) of the contactless transformer, and a transmitting end controller (113) regulating operating parameters of a power transmitting end circuit (112) based on the power transmission parameter information; a receiving end controller (123) regulating operating parameters of a power receiving end circuit (122) based on the power transmission parameter information. |
| US10236723B2 |
Wireless power transmission system, and method for controlling wireless power transmission and wireless power reception
A wireless power transmission system, and a method for controlling wireless power transmission and wireless power reception are provided. According to an aspect, a method for controlling a wireless power transmission may include: detecting a plurality of target devices used to wirelessly receive power; selecting a source resonating unit from among a plurality of source resonating units, based on the amount of power to be transmitted to one or more of the plurality of target devices, a coupling factor associated with one or more of the plurality of target devices, or both; and wirelessly transmitting power to a target device using the selected source resonating unit. |
| US10236720B2 |
Wireless power transfer system and driving method thereof
A wireless power transmission system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention transmits power from a primary side to a secondary side, and includes: a secondary coil provided at the secondary side; a capacitor and a control switch electrically coupled in series between lateral ends of the secondary coil; and a regulation controller controlling a switching operation of the control switch according to a result of comparison between a control signal synchronized by a frequency at the primary side and a feedback signal corresponding to an output of the wireless power transmission system. |
| US10236714B2 |
UPS operation with high converter efficiency
The present invention provides a method for controlling an uninterrupted power supply system comprising multiple converters and a control device, the multiple converters are connected in parallel between a power supply side and a load side of the uninterrupted power supply system, each converter is provided to be individually activated by the control device to provide power from the power supply side to the load side, comprising the steps of determining a system load level at the load side of the uninterruptable power supply system, determining a number of required active converters based on the system load level and a system efficiency depending on the number of active converters, and activating the number of required converters based on the above determination. |
| US10236713B2 |
Monitor housing apparatus
A monitor housing apparatus comprises an opening and closing mechanism, a drive motor, a power supply, a backup capacitor, a contact switch, and a controller. The opening and closing mechanism turns a monitor around a rotation shaft. The power supply supplies electrical power to the drive motor. The backup capacitor supplies power to the drive motor in the event that the supply of power from the power supply to the drive motor is shut off. The controller applies voltage to the backup capacitor when the contact switch detects that the monitor is in its deployed state, and halts the application of voltage from the power supply to the backup capacitor when the contact switch detects that the monitor is in its stowed state. |
| US10236712B2 |
Dual-distribution lighting device for lighting systems
Aspects are described for dual-distribution lighting devices. For example, a dual-distribution lighting device includes a forward-throw module with a first lighting element that can provide directional light, a wide-throw module with a second lighting element that can provide light with a wide distribution, an interface element that can to receive input, and a processing device. In response to the input being received via the interface element, the processing device deactivates one of the forward-throw and wide-throw modules and activates the other of the forward-throw and wide-throw modules, thereby causing the dual-distribution lighting device to switch between providing directional light and a wide distribution of light. |
| US10236708B2 |
Re-charging pack for an e-cigarette
Various embodiments provide a pack for holding and re-charging an e-cigarette. The pack includes a pack battery; a body portion including a tube for receiving an e-cigarette; a re-charging mechanism for re-charging the e-cigarette received into the tube using the pack battery, wherein the e-cigarette can be re-charged in the tube without disassembly of the e-cigarette; and a dual activation mechanism comprising two separate triggers for causing the re-charging mechanism to begin re-charging the e-cigarette received into the tube using the pack battery. The re-charging begins only in response to the direct activation by a user of both of the separate triggers. |
| US10236707B2 |
Charging system using wound rotor synchronous motor
Disclosed herein is a charging system using a wound rotor synchronous motor (WRSM), capable of reducing volume, weight, and cost of a vehicle increased due to an on-board charging circuit and increasing a battery charge capacity. The charging system using a wound rotor synchronous motor (WRSM) includes an inverter converting power of a battery into alternating current (AC) powers having a plurality of different phases, a WRSM having a plurality of stator coils each receiving AC power of a different phase and a field coil forming mutual inductance with the plurality of stator coils and installed in a rotor to form a magnetic flux using power of the battery, and a controller controlling the battery side and the field coil side are insulated from each other in a charge mode in which grid power is applied to the field coil side of the WRSM. |
| US10236706B2 |
Configurable apparatus and methods for supplying power and data to electronic devices
Embodiments of a system, topology, and methods for providing electrical power to electronic devices from various power sources are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| US10236705B2 |
Electric vehicle supply equipment and charging method
An Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment includes a plurality of first power modules and a control circuit. The first power modules are electrically coupled in series at output and configured to provide a charging current and a charging voltage to charge an Electric Vehicle. The control circuit is configured to output a first current control signal to control one of the first power modules to be operated in a constant current mode and output first voltage control signals to control the other first power modules to be operated in a constant voltage mode respectively. The control circuit controls the charging current via the first power module operated in the constant current mode, and controls the first power modules operated in the constant voltage mode have the output voltages corresponding to their first voltage control signals respectively. |
| US10236703B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling charge and discharge of secondary battery
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for controlling charge and discharge of a secondary battery. The apparatus for controlling charge and discharge of the secondary battery includes the power control unit calculates an amount of discharging power of the secondary battery, and when voltage value of the secondary battery is less than a preset reference voltage value, outputs a compensation charge control signal to charge the secondary battery with an amount of charging power obtained by adding an amount of power compensation to the calculated amount of discharging power. According to the present disclosure, the problem of a charge amount of the secondary battery reducing gradually with increasing charge and discharge cycles of the secondary battery may be prevented by compensating for the charge amount of the secondary battery. |
| US10236702B2 |
Method and apparatus for rapidly charging battery
Provided are a method and an apparatus for rapidly charging a battery, such that a battery can be rapidly charged while having an extended lifetime. The method for charging a battery according to the present invention charges a battery by starting from an initial charging rate higher than 1 C, while stepwise decreasing the charging rate, such that a negative electrode potential of the battery does not drop to a level less than or equal to 0V. An occurrence of Li-plating of a negative electrode of the battery can be prevented by the criteria for preventing the negative electrode potential from dropping to a level less than or equal to 0V, thereby providing an effect of rapidly charging the battery while extending the lifetime of the battery. |
| US10236701B2 |
System, mobile device, and charging device
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a charging method, a mobile device, and a charging device. The mobile device includes a battery and a connector, where the connector includes a charging pin and a ground pin. When the charging pin establishes a connection to an output pin of the charging device by using a charging cable or a battery charging stand, the charging pin receives a first current signal transmitted by the output pin of the charging device, and transmits the first current signal to an anode pin of a battery, so as to charge the battery. |
| US10236698B2 |
Movable charging apparatus
The present invention provides a movable charging apparatus comprising a house, at least one storage portion and a plurality of movable units. The house is provided to allow a power converting module. The storage portions, located at a side of the house, is provided to allow a power cable and a charging cable. The plurality of movable units are located at a bottom of the house. The apparatus further comprises a control module, an auxiliary power module, a circuit breaker, a metering module, a thermal unit and a filtering unit. |
| US10236688B2 |
Method for regulating an electrical power circuit and an electrical power regulating apparatus
An electrical power regulating apparatus includes a controller arranged to detect an electrical source characteristic of an electrical power source; and a power converter arranged to adjust an electrical load characteristic of an electrical loading stage in connection with the electrical power source based on the at least one electrical source characteristic being detected by the controller, such that the electrical power source is arranged to deliver a maximum amount of electrical power to the electrical loading stage. A method for regulating an electrical power circuit is also provided. |
| US10236673B2 |
Cover assemblies for cables and electrical connections and pre-expanded units and methods including same
An integral, unitary pre-expanded cover assembly unit for covering an electrical connection between first and second electrical cables each having a primary conductor and a sleeve defines a cable passage to receive the electrical connection and the primary conductors of the first and second cables. The outer sleeve surrounds the inner sleeve. The duct is neutral conductor includes a cover assembly and a removable holdout. The cover assembly includes an elastomeric inner sleeve, an elastomeric outer sleeve, and a duct. The inner interposed radially between the inner and outer sleeves. The duct defines a duct passage configured to receive at least one of the neutral conductors therethrough. The holdout is mounted within the inner sleeve. The holdout is operative to temporarily maintain the inner sleeve in an expanded state and the outer sleeve in an expanded state. The duct is flexible. The duct is operative to resist radial collapse of the duct and to bend radially inwardly as the holdout is axially removed from the inner sleeve. |
| US10236665B2 |
Insulated electrical switch cabinet cover
A temporary insulating switch cabinet cover is installed in the doorway of an electrical switch cabinet having high voltage energized switchgear in order to enable a worker to perform maintenance tasks on the switchgear while the switchgear is energized. The cover is designed to expose a part of the energized switchgear while covering and isolating another part of the energized switchgear so that a worker is enabled to work on the exposed part of the energized switchgear while being protected and insulated from the unexposed covered part of the energized switchgear. |
| US10236663B2 |
Semiconductor optical device
A semiconductor optical device includes a laminated structure constituted of a first compound semiconductor layer of an n type, an active layer, and a second compound semiconductor layer of a p type, the active layer including at least 3 barrier layers and well layers interposed among the barrier layers, and the semiconductor optical device satisfying Egp-BR>Egn-BR>EgWell when a bandgap energy of the barrier layer adjacent to the second compound semiconductor layer is represented by Egp-BR, a bandgap energy of the barrier layer between the well layers is represented by EgWell, and a bandgap energy of the barrier layer adjacent to the first compound semiconductor layer is represented by Egn-BR. |
| US10236660B2 |
Submount, optical transmitter module, optical module, optical transmission equipment, and control method therefor
A submount which has a mounting surface on which three or more semiconductor lasers are arranged in a first direction, and includes a heat generator configured to increase the temperatures of the three or more semiconductor lasers, in which, where the heat generator generates heat, a first heat of the heat absorbed by a first semiconductor laser of the three or more semiconductor lasers disposed at one end along the first direction is larger than a second heat of the heat absorbed by a second semiconductor laser of the three or more semiconductor lasers disposed to be adjacent to the first semiconductor laser on the mounting surface. |
| US10236658B2 |
Light source utilizing wavelength conversion
There is herein described a light source comprising a semiconductor device emitting a primary light, a thermally conductive optic having a reflective coating and a wavelength converter having a front surface and a rear surface. The optic is mounted to the rear surface of the wavelength converter and the primary light impinges on the wavelength converter in an emission region. The wavelength converter converts at least a portion of the primary light into a secondary light that is emitted from the front and rear surfaces of the converter and the optic reflects secondary light emitted from the rear surface back into the emission region. The light source may be used in either transmissive or reflective configurations. |
| US10236655B2 |
Solid laser amplification device
A solid laser amplification device having a laser medium that has a solid medium, into which a laser light enters and from which the laser light is emitted, and an amplification layer, provided on the surface of the medium, receives the laser light in the medium, and amplifies and reflects the light toward the exit; and a microchannel cooling part that has a plurality of cooling pipelines, into which a cooling solvent is conducted and which are arranged parallel to the surface of the amplification layer, and a cooling surface, at the outer periphery of the cooling pipelines and attached on the surface of the amplification layer, the microchannel cooling part cooling the amplification layer. The closer the position of the cooling pipeline to a position facing a section of the amplification layer that receives the laser light, the greater the cooling force exhibited by the cooling part. |
| US10236652B2 |
Terminal-equipped electric wire, terminal crimping apparatus, and method of manufacturing terminal-equipped electric wire
An electric wire connection portion of a crimp terminal includes a core wire crimping portion crimped to a core wire at an end of an electric wire, a bottom of the core wire crimping portion includes a recess, formed by causing a part of a supported surface on an outer wall surface side to be recessed to an inner wall surface side and a protrusion protruding from the inner wall surface toward the core wire at the end of the electric wire by the recess of the recess, and ends of the recess and the protrusion on a side opposite to the sheath crimping portion side are inclined to the sheath crimping portion side as being directed from the outer wall surface side to the inner wall surface side. |
| US10236650B2 |
Contact bending unit and contact bending apparatus
A contact bending unit comprises a frame and a bending tool pivotally mounted on the frame. The bending tool has a row of receiving slots formed in a bottom surface of the bending tool receiving a plurality of contacts. The bending tool bends the contacts when the bending tool is rotated. |
| US10236648B2 |
Power distribution unit system incorporating smart cables and adapters
A power distribution unit including a plurality of outlet cores arranged along an outlet panel of a housing and mounted to one or more circuit boards with an unobstructed space between adjacent pairs of the plurality of outlet cores. The outlet cores each extend a portion of the distance between the circuit boards and the outlet panel, and the outlet panel includes a plurality of apertures each corresponding to an associated one of the plurality of outlet cores. One or more overcurrent protection devices are mounted in a non-outlet panel aligned along the length of the housing. |
| US10236647B2 |
Routing members connection structure
A routing members connection structure electrically connects a long first trunk routing member which is routed in a vehicle and can transmit power and a first branch routing member routed in the vehicle, can transmit power, and branches off from the first trunk routing member. Each of the first trunk routing member and the first branch routing member has a flat conductor and an insulator that is formed on the outer circumferential surface of the flat conductor. The first trunk routing member has a post-shaped first stud bolt that is made of a metal and extends outward from a first branching portion where the flat conductor is exposed without being covered with the insulator. The flat conductor of the first trunk routing member and the flat conductor of the first branch routing member are electrically connected to each other via the first stud bolt. |
| US10236646B2 |
Shielded coaxial connector
A coaxial connector has a selectively engageable radio frequency interference shield. |
| US10236645B1 |
Electrical connector
An electrical connector includes a terminal module and a housing receiving the terminal module therein. The terminal module includes a first, a second, a third and a fourth terminal module, which include a first, a second, a third and a fourth terminal unit, respectively. The second and the third terminal unit are located at a distance behind the first and the fourth terminal unit. At least one of the first, the second, the third and the fourth terminal unit includes one ground terminal and two signal terminals arranged on at least one lateral side thereof from an outmost position to two inner positions. The housing includes an upper cover and a lower cover that are connected and closed to each other; the lower cover includes a hollow-out area, in which a connection end of each of the first, the second, the third and the fourth terminal unit is received. |
| US10236639B2 |
Attachment structure of shield connector for directly mounting on device
An attachment structure for directly attaching a shield connector to an opening formed in a metal casing is provided. A shield connector for directly mounting on a device is attached to an opening formed in a metal casing. A connector housing is fastened to the casing with bolts from outside the casing. The opening of the metal casing has a diameter-enlarged portion formed in an end portion of the opening in an outside direction of the casing to be enlarged toward the outside direction. The shield shell has a contact piece at an end portion of the shield shell, and the contact piece is housed in and contacts with the diameter-enlarged portion in a state that the shield connector is attached to the opening. |
| US10236636B2 |
Coaxial cable connector with integral RFI protection
A coaxial cable connector for coupling an end of a coaxial cable to a terminal is disclosed. The connector has a coupler adapted to couple the connector to a terminal, a body assembled with the coupler and a post assembled with the coupler and the body. The post is adapted to receive an end of a coaxial cable. The post has an integral contacting portion that is monolithic with at least a portion of the post. When assembled the coupler and post provide at least one circuitous path resulting in RF shielding such that RF signals external to the coaxial cable connector are attenuated, such that the integrity of an electrical signal transmitted through coaxial cable connector is maintained regardless of the tightness of the coupling of the connector to the terminal. |
| US10236632B2 |
Electrical connector for safely conveying high voltage
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base portion; a number of conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing and arranged in two rows, each conductive terminal comprising a contacting portion, and each row of conductive terminals comprising a pair of grounding terminals and a number of internal terminals located between the pair of grounding terminals; a metal shielding plate affixed to the insulative housing and sandwiched between the two rows of conductive terminals; and a main shell enclosing the insulative housing; wherein a distance between the contacting portions of the internal terminals and the metal shielding plate is greater than a distance between the contacting portions of the grounding terminals and the metal shielding plate. |
| US10236627B1 |
Electrical connectors for lighting and the like
An electric light including a lamp base and lamp housing with electrical connectors that are closed by magnetic attraction when polarity is correct. The lamp base is held physically in place in the lamp housing by the magnetic attraction of two pair of magnets without the need of a threaded connection. The magnet pairs hold the lamp base to the lamp housing in a fixed orientation allowing electricity to flow through the terminals in the lamp housing regardless of whether the source of electrical current is direct or alternating, and, if direct current is the source, such as electrical current from solar cells or batteries, preserves polarity, and can deliver direct current when the light source uses direct current, such as LEDs. |
| US10236626B2 |
Plug insert with positioning element
A plug insert comprises a base body, a receptacle extending through the base body, and a positioning element at least partially received in the receptacle. The base body has a plug side and an opposite contact side. The receptacle extends through the base body from the plug side to the contact side and at least partially receives a connector. The positioning element is accessible from both the plug side and the contact side and positions a contact pin of the connector. |
| US10236625B2 |
Cable retention device
A retention device includes a ruggedized electrical cable including a first electrical connector at a first end and a second electrical connector at a second end, and a cap including a threaded interior for removably capturing the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector, wherein the threaded interior is configured to screw onto a corresponding threaded surface comprising the exterior of the first end and the exterior of the second end. |
| US10236624B2 |
High voltage connector for vehicle
A high-voltage connector for a vehicle is provided. The high-voltage connector includes a first connector having an open circuit terminal configured to transmit an electrical signal in one direction. Additionally, a second connector is provided and includes a plating part which is electrically in contact with the open circuit terminal of the first connector. |
| US10236623B1 |
Connector for sealably engaging and disengaging contacts, and methods of making and/or using same
A connector for sealably engaging contacts therein can include a first unit having one or more first contacts that can each include an elongated shaft with a conductive tip. A second unit can have one or more closed chambers therein. Each closed chamber can contain fluid. At least one of the closed chambers can contain one or more second contacts. Each closed chamber can have at least one resilient end wall portion including a bore and a tap integrally formed with the resilient end wall portion. The bore and the tap can create a sealing engagement therebetween when not engaged with the first contact, and create a sealing engagement with the first contact when engaged with the first contact. At least a portion of each closed chamber can be configured to be movable with respect to another portion of the closed chamber. |
| US10236621B2 |
Electrical connector with conduit adapter
An electrical connector is provided that includes a housing defining a cavity and an aperture extending into the cavity. The electrical connector further includes an electrical contact supported by the housing, in which the electrical contact is electrically connected with a conductor. The electrical connector further includes a conduit fitting assembly connecting a conduit to the housing. The conduit feeds the conductor into the cavity of the housing through the aperture via the conduit fitting assembly. |
| US10236611B2 |
Electrical interfaces using modular VPX technologies
A printed circuit board assembly and method for electrically communicating between a first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board is disclosed. The method includes coupling the first printed circuit board to the second printed circuit board via an electrical communication cable. The electrical communication cable includes a VPX-compliant electrical interface, a flat flex interface, and a flexible cable that electrically couples the VPX-compliant electrical interface to the flat flex interface; and electrically communicating over the electrical communication cable. |
| US10236602B2 |
L-shaped PCB terminal
The present disclosure includes a method of assembling a power distribution box, that may include providing a circuit board and providing a first L-shaped terminal. The first L-shaped terminal may include a horizontal portion and a vertical portion. A second L-shaped terminal may include a horizontal portion and a vertical portion. In embodiments, the first terminal and/or the second terminal may be inserted into the circuit board such that the horizontal portion of the second terminal may be disposed above the horizontal portion of the first terminal with an air gap between the horizontal portion of the first terminal and the horizontal portion of the second terminal. A power distribution box cover may include a recess that may be configured to receive the first terminal and the second terminal without contacting the first terminal. |
| US10236601B2 |
Card edge connector with anti-wicking structure
A card edge connector forms a plurality of passageways in the elongated housing to receive the corresponding contacts. Each contact has a retaining section secured to the housing, a resilient arm extending from an upper part of the retaining section with a contacting section exposed in the central slot, a soldering section extending from a lower part of the retaining section and out of the housing. A width of the passageway around the contacting section in the longitudinal direction is smaller than that around the soldering section. |
| US10236598B2 |
Method of installing an electrical grounding system at a site
A method of installing an electrical grounding system at a site can comprise the steps of inserting a hollow electrode into a hole formed into native soil at the site, the hollow electrode comprising an electrically conductive tube configured for communication with a fault current source, and a carbon fiber layer in conductive relationship with at least a portion of the electrically conductive tube; positioning the hollow electrode in the hole circumferentially around a ground member driven into native soil at a bottom of the hole; and electrically interconnecting the ground member and the hollow electrode. |
| US10236595B2 |
Terminal fitting with a plurality of wire connection portions
A terminal fitting includes a fastening portion and a wire connection portion. The fastening portion is formed with an installation insertion hole through which a fixing member is inserted. The wire connection portion extends from a peripheral edge portion of the fastening portion. A notch is provided in the fastening portion so as to extend along the peripheral edge of an opening of the installation insertion hole and between the installation insertion hole and the wire connection portion. A through hole or a thin recessed portion is formed on the notch at an intersection portion between the notch and an axis in an extending direction of the wire connection portion. |
| US10236593B2 |
Stacked patch antenna array with castellated substrate
Described is a printed circuit antenna array including at least one castellated substrate. Also described is a stacked patch antenna array having at least one castellated substrate. |
| US10236592B2 |
Wide band antenna array platform that can find direction on azimuth and elevation angles
The present invention relates to an antenna array platform comprising at least one bottom plate, at least one magnet preferably located on the bottom side of the bottom plate, which provides the bottom plate to be attached to suitable platforms made of a material that can be attracted by magnetic field force without the need for any mechanical adaptations, at least one box located on the bottom plate, at least one lid covering the upper part of the box, a number of antenna slots equal to the number of antennas to be used, made in the lid, at least one plate that provides support so that the box stays at a required position, at least one screw positioned on at least one side of the plate and entering the angling hole that corresponds to the required angle, providing the plate stays fixed. |
| US10236590B1 |
Foldable segmented structure and deployable reflector antenna comprised thereof
A foldable segmented structure includes a substantially center portion and a plurality of strut assemblies radially disposed around the center portion. Each strut assembly includes an inner and outer strut. The inner strut includes a first end portion rotatably coupled at the center portion and a second end portion rotatably coupled to the outer strut at an intermediate portion of the strut assembly. The intermediate portion is spaced apart from the center portion. At least one shell segment is disposed on at least one of the inner and outer strut. Each inner strut is configured to rotatably articulate about the first end portion in a first angular direction. Each outer strut is configured to rotatably articulate about the second end portion in a second angular direction opposite to the first angular direction to form an axially extending structure from the center portion to the intermediate portion in a stowed configuration. |
| US10236579B2 |
Dual-band dual-port antenna structure
A dual-band dual-port antenna structure is provided. The dual-band dual-port antenna structure includes a first antenna structure and a second antenna structure. The first antenna structure operates in a high-frequency band and includes a first feeding port, a first feeding path electrically connected to the first feeding port, and a first radiating element. The second antenna structure operates in a low-frequency band and includes a second feeding port, a second feeding path electrically connected to the second feeding port, and a second radiating element. The first feeding path includes a first capacitor and a first feeding line. The second radiating element of the second antenna structure at least partially surrounds the first radiating element of the first antenna structure. |
| US10236576B2 |
Wireless power transfer using tunable metamaterial systems and methods
The present disclosure provides system and methods for optimizing the tuning of impedance elements associate with sub-wavelength antenna elements to attain target radiation and/or field patterns. Both static and variable (tunable) antenna systems may be manufactured. Static embodiments may be entirely passive in some embodiments. A scattering matrix (S-Matrix) of field amplitudes for each of a plurality of modeled lumped ports, N, may be determined that includes a plurality of lumped antenna ports, Na, with impedance values corresponding to the impedance values of associated impedance elements and at least one modeled external port, Ne, located external to the antenna system at a specified radius vector. Impedance values may be identified through an optimization process, and the impedance elements may be tuned (dynamically or statically) to attain a specific target radiation pattern. |
| US10236573B2 |
On-chip coupling capacitor with patterned radio frequency shielding structure for lower loss
A capacitor radio frequency (RF) shielding structure may include a ground plane partially surrounding a coupling capacitor in an RF signal path. The ground plane may include a first ground plane portion extending between a positive terminal of the RF signal path and a negative terminal of the RF signal path. The ground plane may include a second ground plane portion extending between the positive terminal and the negative terminal of the RF signal path. The second ground plane portion may be opposed the first ground plane portion. The capacitor RF shielding structure may also include a patterned shielding layer electrically contacting the first ground plane portion and/or the second ground plane portion. The patterned shielding layer may electrically disconnecting a return current path over the patterned shielding layer to confine a return current to flowing over the first ground plane portion or the second ground plane portion. |
| US10236572B2 |
Radio frequency chokes for integrated phased-array antennas
Embodiments described herein provide for integrating a transmit phased-array (Tx) antenna and a receive phased-array (Rx) antenna onto an electrically-conductive plate that forms a ground plane. The plate includes groves that operate as an RF choke. The RF choke mitigates the energy coupling between the Tx antenna and the Rx antenna. Spatial features of the grooves are selected based on a scan angle of at least one of the Tx antenna and the Rx antenna. Due to the electronic scanning performed by the Tx antenna and the Rx antenna, the energy coupling between the Tx antenna and the Rx antenna dynamically varies and may depend upon the relative scan angles between main beams of the antennas. The energy coupling may also depend upon the side lobe energy pattern of the Tx antenna, which varies based on the scan angle of the Tx antenna. |
| US10236570B1 |
Cable management floor system
A floor system uses interlocking elements to form a surface raised above a floor surface for the distribution of electrical power and data throughout the floor of a building. The base units of the interlocking elements define channels which receive cables for data and power transmission. Channel and corner covers overlie the channels and interlock with the base units to form the raised surface. Fused electrical feed modules within channels provide electrical power to bus bars which distribute the power to fused terminal boxes and radio frequency sensors and beacons mounted in the base units. |
| US10236568B2 |
Curve-typed rigid board and three dimensional antenna having curve-typed rigid board
The curved-type rigid board includes: a main sheet layer capable of maintaining a curved state with a certain curvature; a first adhesive layer formed on the main sheet layer; a sub sheet layer bonded onto the main sheet layer by the first adhesive layer while the sub sheet layer forms a line structure having diagonal lines, which do not match directions of horizontal and vertical lines of the mesh structure of the thermosetting resin of which the main sheet layer is made, in order for the main sheet layer to have rigidity to maintain the curved state; a second adhesive layer formed on the sub sheet layer; and a pattern forming layer bonded onto the sub sheet layer by the second adhesive layer. |
| US10236567B2 |
Third brake light antenna mount
A third brake light antenna adapter includes an antenna base attached to a spacer that is installed between the vehicle third brake light and the third brake light opening. The spacer is provided with gaskets, substantially identical to the OEM third brake light gaskets, which provide weatherproof seals between the spacer and the vehicle and between the spacer and the third brake light. Special support brackets enable the spacer to grip the inside of the vehicle passenger compartment to hold it securely to the vehicle without extensive modifications to the vehicle structure itself. |
| US10236564B2 |
Wearable electronic device with detachable antenna support
Embodiments herein relate to the detection and switchable use of a detachable GNSS antenna with a wearable electronic device. In various embodiments, a wearable electronic apparatus may include a multi-band antenna to receive satellite positioning signals in a first frequency band and local radio frequency communication signals in a second frequency band, an antenna connector to optionally receive a detachable satellite positioning antenna, and a switch having a switching terminal, a first input terminal coupled with the multi-band antenna, a second input terminal coupled with the antenna connector, and an output terminal, wherein the switch is to selectively connect the first input terminal or the second input terminal to the output terminal, in response to a state of a switching signal received at the switching terminal. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US10236562B2 |
Separated and optimization sensor pad design for dual mode LTE application
A mobile device includes a dual band T-shaped antenna and a sensing element. The sensing element includes a first sensing part extending in first direction, a second sensing part, and a third sensing part, wherein the second sensing part and the third sensing part each includes portions that extend in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. The sensing element is used to both detect proximity to an object, to meet specific absorption rate (SAR) criteria, and to affect resonance of the dual band T-shaped antenna. |
| US10236557B2 |
Electronic device and antenna device
An electronic device and an antenna device are provided that use a coil module which is thinned without losing the characteristics of the coil module and which can be mounted in a narrowed space. A coil module including a loop-shaped antenna coil wounded in a planar shape and a sheet-shaped magnetic sheet which is formed of a magnetic material and which overlaps with at least a part of the antenna coil is included. In the coil module, a part of the antenna coil is overlapped with an internal structure of a housing and the magnetic sheet is provided in a position that does not overlap with the internal structure on an antenna coil surface side that overlaps with the internal structure. |
| US10236556B2 |
Antenna structure and wireless communication device using same
An antenna structure includes a metallic member. The metallic member includes a front frame, a backboard, and a side frame. The side frame defines a slot. The front frame defines a first gap and a second gap. The front frame between the first gap and the second gap forms a first radiating section, the front frame between the first gap and an end of the slot forms a third radiating section. Current enters the first radiating section from the first feed portion, the current flows through the first radiating section and towards the first gap and the second gap, respectively, thus activating radiating signals in a first frequency band and a second frequency band, the third radiating section obtains current from the first radiating section by coupling, thus activating radiation signals in a fourth different frequency band. A wireless communication device using the antenna structure is provided. |
| US10236555B2 |
Device for transferring signals from a metal housing
The present disclosure relates to a device for transferring signals from at least one housing opening of a housing, which is metallic at least in part, by means of electromagnetic waves of at least one specific wavelength. The device includes a transmitting/receiving unit arranged in the housing; at least one primary antenna arranged in the housing; a first secondary antenna for receiving the electromagnetic waves decoupled from the primary antenna; and a second secondary antenna for receiving the electromagnetic waves transferred from outside the housing, wherein the second secondary antenna is arranged outside the housing on the housing opening, wherein a reflection point is arranged between the first and second secondary antennas, such that an impedance jump occurs between the first and second secondary antennas. |
| US10236553B2 |
Method and apparatus of coupling dielectric waveguide cables
A method for coupling dielectric waveguide cables is disclosed. The method comprises positioning a first dielectric waveguide cable and a second dielectric waveguide cable such that a first segment of the first dielectric waveguide cable and a second segment of the second dielectric waveguide cable are disposed side by side, generating an electromagnetic coupling between the first segment and the second segment, and transmitting an electromagnetic wave signal from the first dielectric waveguide cable to the second dielectric waveguide cable through the electromagnetic coupling. |
| US10236550B2 |
In-line filter having mutually compensating inductive and capacitive coupling
An in-line resonator filter has a linear array of three or more conductors. A first pair of adjacent conductors has inductive main coupling and oppositely signed capacitive main coupling, while a second pair of non-adjacent conductors has inductive cross-coupling. The first and second pairs have one conductor in common. Between the second pair of non-adjacent conductors, there is no direct ohmic connection that provides the corresponding inductive cross-coupling. The oppositely signed capacitive main coupling compensates for at least a portion of the inductive main coupling between the first pair of adjacent conductors. The in-line resonator filter is able to provide one or more transmission zeros without requiring any discrete bypass connectors that provide direct ohmic connection between pairs of non-adjacent conductors. As such, the in-line resonator filters can be smaller, less complex, and less susceptible to damage. |
| US10236549B2 |
Lithium air battery and method of manufacturing the same
A lithium air battery includes: a composite cathode including a porous material and a first electrolyte; an anode including lithium metal, and an oxygen blocking layer disposed between the composite cathode and the anode, wherein a weight ratio of the porous material and the first electrolyte in the composite cathode is less than about 1:3. Also a method of manufacturing the lithium air battery. |
| US10236547B2 |
Battery thermal management systems including heat spreaders with thermoelectric devices
Disclosed embodiments include thermoelectric-based thermal management systems and methods configured to heat and/or cool an electrical device. Thermal management systems can include a heat spreader positioned near a localized heat general of the electrical device. A fin can be connected to the heat spreader with a thermoelectric device positioned on the fin. Electric power can be directed to the thermoelectric device to provide controlled heating and/or cooling to the electrical device. |
| US10236544B2 |
Heater for electric vehicle batteries
A battery pack assembly interleaves pouch cells with thin flexible heater elements to provide for distributed low-power heating with reduced thermal resistance between the heater elements and the cells. The heater elements may include terminals for direct attachment to pouch cell electrodes and to each other to facilitate power distribution among the heater elements. |
| US10236543B2 |
Rapid charging electric vehicle and method and apparatus for rapid charging
An electric vehicle is provided. The electric vehicle includes an electric battery powering a drive system of the vehicle. The battery has a housing and a plurality of cells within the housing. The cells are spaced apart by interconnectors. The electric vehicle also includes a coolant delivery. The coolant delivery delivers coolant to the interconnectors. An electric battery is also provided. |
| US10236541B2 |
Battery cell testing fixture
A battery cell testing fixture is provided which includes a user interface, a separator assembly and an optional stand. The user interface includes a module for receiving input voltage data from at least one circuit to provide a variety of battery cell conditions. The separator assembly includes an integrated reference electrode or reference component. The separator assembly is operatively configured to be used with a plurality of test batteries in succession. The separator assembly may be operatively configured to communicate with a current collector, a meter and the user interface. |
| US10236539B2 |
Battery cell for a battery of a motor vehicle, battery, and motor vehicle
A battery cell for a battery of a motor vehicle having a galvanic element, a battery cell housing for accommodating the galvanic element, and at least two microelectronic circuits for monitoring the battery cell, wherein a first microelectronic circuit of the at least two microelectronic circuits is attached to a first carrier and a second microelectronic circuit of the at least two microelectronic circuits is attached to a second carrier, wherein the two carriers are arranged on top of one another and thus form a stack such that a top side of the first carrier is facing toward a bottom side of the second carrier. Embodiments of the invention further relates to a battery and a motor vehicle. |
| US10236536B2 |
Secondary battery including electrolyte storage portion
A secondary battery including: an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an accommodation portion, wherein the electrode assembly is disposed in the accommodation portion, and wherein a semipermeable electrolyte solution storage portion is adjacent to the electrode assembly in an upper end or a lower end of the accommodation portion. |
| US10236533B2 |
Electrode assembly having separator exhibiting high elongation property and secondary battery including the same
Disclosed herein is a stacked/folded type electrode assembly configured to have a structure in which two or more unit cells, each of which includes a separator disposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, each having an electrode mixture including an electrode active material applied to a current collector, are wound using a sheet type separation film, wherein the positive electrode is configured to have a structure in which a positive electrode mixture is coated on an aluminum foil as the current collector and the negative electrode is configured to have a structure in which a negative electrode mixture is coated on a metal foil, other than the aluminum foil, as the current collector, the unit cells include one or more full-cells and/or bi-cells, one of the unit cells located at each outermost side of the electrode assembly is configured such that one outermost electrode of the unit cell is a single-sided electrode, the single-sided electrode being configured such that the electrode mixture is applied only to one major surface of the current collector facing the separator, and the separation film has higher elongation than the separator. |
| US10236531B2 |
Powder for negative electrode of lithium ion secondary battery, and method for producing such powder
This invention provides a powder for a negative electrode of a lithium ion secondary battery, which is a powder that includes a silicon oxide powder containing Li. When a molar ratio between Li, Si and O is taken as y:1:x, the average composition of the powder overall satisfies the relation 0.5 |
| US10236529B2 |
Fuel cell stack
Provided is a fuel cell stack capable of suppressing damage to a seal member and suppressing leakage of a reaction gas to the outside of a casing or entry of water from the outside of the casing for a long period of time. The fuel cell stack includes a pair of end plates and holds a laminate from two sides in a direction, a casing which houses the laminate and has connection bars extended between the pair of end plates, a fastening member inserted into an end plate side mounting hole and a connection bar side mounting hole, and chamfered parts formed in an end plate side small diameter part of the end plate side mounting hole. A chamfer angle between an inner surface of the outer chamfered part and the direction is larger than a chamfer angle between an inner surface of the inner chamfered part and the direction. |
| US10236528B2 |
Three dimensional extrusion printed electrochemical devices
Solid oxide electrochemical devices, methods for making the electrochemical devices, and methods of using the electrochemical devices are provided. The electrochemical devices comprise a plurality of stacked functional layers that are formed by a combination of three-dimensional (3D) extrusion printing and two-dimensional (2D) casting techniques. |
| US10236526B2 |
On-line monitoring of process/system
Disclosed herein are methods and systems that relate to an on-line monitoring of a process/system by controlling rate of oxidation of metal ions at an anode in an anode electrolyte of an electrochemical process and controlling rate of reduction of the metal ions in a catalysis process to achieve steady state. |
| US10236524B2 |
Method for purging a fuel cell and device for carrying out said method
A method is provided for purging a fuel cell. The method is characterized by suctioning the purge gas through the fuel cell by use of low pressure. |
| US10236517B2 |
Method for manufacturing and cleaning a stainless steel fuel cell bipolar plate
A method for manufacturing a coated metal substrate includes the steps of: (1) inserting a substrate with a chromium(III) oxide layer inside a CVD chamber; (2) heating the substrate to a temperature which falls in the range of 400 to 500 degrees Celsius; (3) transporting gaseous nitrogen (N2) and tantalum chloride (TaCl5) into the CVD chamber for at least two cycles; (4) ceasing the transportation of tantalum chloride (TaCl5) while nitrogen continues to flow from the inlet to the outlet; (5) reacting the tantalum chloride and the chromium(III) oxide and creating by-products; and (6) vacuuming the by-product matter from the CVD chamber via the flowing nitrogen gas. |
| US10236514B2 |
Lithium ion flow battery
A lithium ion flow battery comprising cathode current collectors (21), an anode current collector (22), a cathode reaction chamber (24), an anode reaction chamber (25), a separator (23), a cathode suspension solution (26) and an anode suspension solution (27), wherein the cathode and anode current collectors are located at both sides of the separator respectively and are in close contact with the separator to form sandwich composite structure layers of the cathode current collector, the separator and the anode current collector; and in that several sandwich composite structure layers are arranged in sequence in an order that current collectors with the same polarity are oppositely arranged, and the electrode suspension solution continuously or intermittently flows in a battery reaction chamber between adjacent sandwich composite structure layers. Thus, the size of the battery reaction chamber can be flexibly designed according to the viscosity of the electrode suspension solution without increasing the polarization internal resistance of the battery, thereby solving the restriction conflict existing in the existing lithium ion flow battery between the size of the battery reaction chamber and the polarization internal resistance of the battery. |
| US10236513B2 |
Alkali-metal batteries with a dendrite-free anode interfacing an organic liquid electrolyte
A rechargeable battery cell has an organic-liquid electrolyte contacting a dendrite free alkali-metal anode. The alkali-metal anode may be a liquid at the operating temperature that is immobilized by absorption into a porous membrane. The alkali-metal anode may be a solid that wets a porous-membrane separator, where the contact between the solid alkali-metal anode and the liquid electrolyte is at micropores or nanopores in the porous-membrane separator. The use of a dendrite-free solid lithium cell was demonstrated in a symmetric cell with a porous cellulose-based separator membrane. A K+-ion rechargeable cell was demonstrated with a liquid K—Na alloy anode immobilized in a porous carbon membrane using an organic-liquid electrolyte with a Celgard® or glass-fiber separator. |
| US10236507B2 |
Nickel-manganese composite hydroxide particles, method for producing same, cathode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, method for producing same, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
The object of the present invention is to improve the roundness of nickel-manganese composite hydroxide particles obtained by a crystallization process, and to improve the filling characteristic of cathode active material produced using the nickel-manganese composite hydroxide particles as a precursor. A reaction aqueous solution is formed by supplying a raw material aqueous solution including at least Ni and Mn, an aqueous solution including an ammonium-ion donor, and an alkali solution into a reaction tank, and mixing, then nickel-manganese composite hydroxide particles are crystallized. When doing this, the oxygen concentration inside the reaction tank is controlled to be 3.0% by volume or greater, the temperature of the reaction aqueous solution is controlled to be 35° C. to 60° C., and the nickel-ion concentration is controlled to be 1,000 mg/L or greater. As a result, nickel-manganese composite hydroxide particles are obtained that include secondary particles formed by an aggregation of plural primary particles and expressed by the general formula: NixMnyMt(OH)2+α (where 0.05≤x≤0.95, 0.05≤y≤0.95, 0≤t≤0.20, x+y+t=1, 0≤α≤0.5, and M is one or more elements selected from among Co, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta and W); and the average value of the roundness of cathode active material having a particle size that is 70% the average particle size or more is 0.82 or greater, and the tap density is 2.20 g/cm3 or greater. |
| US10236503B2 |
Mixing device for preparing lithium composite transition metal oxide, lithium composite transition metal oxide prepared using the same, and method of preparing lithium composite transition metal oxide
A device for preparing a lithium composite transition metal oxide includes first and second mixers continuously arranged in a direction in which a fluid proceeds, wherein the first mixer has a closed structure including a hollow fixed cylinder, a rotating cylinder having the same axis as that of the hollow fixed cylinder and having an outer diameter that is smaller than an inner diameter of the fixed cylinder, an electric motor to generate power for rotation of the rotating cylinder, a rotation reaction space, as a separation space between the hollow fixed cylinder and the rotating cylinder, in which ring-shaped vortex pairs periodically arranged along a rotating shaft and rotating in opposite directions are formed, first inlets through which raw materials are introduced into the rotation reaction space, and a first outlet to discharge a reaction fluid formed from the rotation reaction space. |
| US10236494B2 |
Secondary battery
A secondary battery may include a fuse formed in an electrode terminal. In exemplary embodiments, the secondary battery may include an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate and a separator, a current collector plate electrically connected to the electrode assembly, a case accommodating the electrode assembly, the current collector plate and an electrolyte, and an electrode terminal electrically connected to the current collector plate and protruded to an outside of the case, wherein the electrode terminal portion includes a protrusion part electrically connected to the current collector plate in a normal condition and selectively electrically disconnectable therefrom. |
| US10236492B2 |
Secondary battery
A positive electrode and a negative electrode include stress relaxation regions each of which includes a tab and a lead of each electrode and may include a region divided by a slit provided for the electrode. In the case where the stress relaxation region includes a tab and a lead, the length of the stress relaxation region is 20% or more and 50% or less of the sum of the lengths of the lead and the electrode not overlapping with the lead in an inner region of a secondary battery. In the case where the stress relaxation region further includes a region divided by the slit, the length of the stress relaxation region is 20% or more and 95% or less of the sum of the lengths of the lead and the electrode not overlapping with the lead in an inner region of a secondary battery. |
| US10236490B2 |
Separator for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including the same
A separator for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same, the separator including a substrate, and a heat-resistant porous layer on at least one side of the substrate, the heat-resistant porous layer including a crosslinked binder and a non-crosslinked binder, wherein the crosslinked binder has a cross-linked structure of at least one crosslinkable compound, the at least one crosslinkable compound including a multi-functional urethane-based compound, and the crosslinked binder and the non-crosslinked binder are included in a weight ratio of about 3:7 to about 8:2. |
| US10236488B2 |
Battery pack
The present application relates to the field of battery technologies and, particularly, relates to a battery pack, which includes a battery box, a battery module and a liquid cooling pipe are arranged inside the battery box and the liquid cooling pipe is arranged at bottom of the battery module, a moisture absorbing area is arranged inside the battery box and the moisture absorbing area is configured to absorb inner moisture of the battery box. The present application has the following beneficial effects: the battery box of the present application adopts a passive moisture-removing function and achieves controlling of the air humidity in the battery box, thereby guaranteeing the reliability of the battery system, and reducing the risk of failure of the electric components. |
| US10236486B2 |
Rechargeable battery pack
A rechargeable battery pack is disclosed. In one aspect, the rechargeable battery pack includes multiple a plurality of sets of unit cells adjacently placed to each other, wherein each unit cell includes a rechargeable battery and a plurality of rechargeable battery modules each configured to electrically connect a corresponding set of the unit cells to each other, wherein each rechargeable battery module includes a pair of end plates respectively placed on outermost opposing sides thereof. The rechargeable battery pack also includes a coupling member connecting the end plates of the rechargeable battery modules to each other. Each of the end plates includes a first flange having a first width and extending from a bent portion of a main body to be fastened to the coupling member and a second flange having a second width smaller than the first width and extending from a middle portion of the first flange. |
| US10236485B2 |
Battery module
A battery module, including a plurality of battery units each including a plurality of bare cells, each bare cell having a first electrode tab and a second electrode tab; a holder at one side of each of the battery units, the holder including a plurality of penetrating holes into each of which the first electrode tab and the second electrode tab are penetrated; a plurality of electrode plates in the holder, the plurality of electrode plates electrically connecting the bare cells in each of the battery units; connection members coupled to ends of one of the plurality of electrode plates, the connection members electrically connecting the plurality of battery units to each other, and a pair of mounting protrusions protruding from one side of the holder and being spaced apart from each other, a portion of one of the plurality of electrode plates passing between the pair of mounting protrusions. |
| US10236476B2 |
Flexible electrochemical device including electrode assembly
An electrochemical device includes a plurality of electrode assemblies arranged spaced apart from each other in a same direction and a casing member which packages the electrode assemblies, in which the casing member includes a plurality of accommodation portions which accommodates the electrode assemblies, respectively, and a connecting portion which connects between two adjacent accommodation portions, a thickness of the connecting portion is less than a thickness of the accommodation portions, and the connecting portion is bent defining a curved bending portion. |
| US10236475B2 |
Mask frame assembly and manufacturing method thereof
A mask frame assembly including a frame, a mask coupled to the frame and including a pattern region for deposition, and a partitioning stick coupled to the frame and configured to partition the pattern region of the mask into unit cell patterns. The partitioning stick includes a pair of opposing fixing ends fixed to sides of the frame, and a narrow width portion connecting the pair of fixing ends and including a first partitioning portion and a second partitioning portion respectively recessed inwards from both edges of the fixing ends in a width direction to maintain rigidity balance between the first and second partitioning portions. |
| US10236474B2 |
Organic light emitting display device having a resonance structure of proper internal reflection by including a light extraction reduction preventing layer
In an organic light emitting display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a light extraction reduction preventing layer is disposed between a display unit disposed on a substrate and an encapsulation layer for protecting the display unit, and as a result, light emission efficiency may be improved by reducing an amount of light dissipating while light generated from an emission layer of the display unit is extracted to the outside. |
| US10236471B2 |
Flexible display device
A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel having a bending area to be folded, and including a display substrate, and a thin-film encapsulation layer above the display substrate, a driving portion, and a function layer below the flexible display panel, and including a step portion below which the flexible display panel is electrically connected to the driving portion. |
| US10236467B2 |
Organic light emitting display device and method for manufacturing the same
Disclosed is an OLED device capable of reducing the number of manufacturing processes to apply a micro-cavity structure, and a method for manufacturing the same, wherein the OLED device may include a pixel having first to third subpixels, wherein each of the first to third subpixels includes a first electrode including a reflective metal material, an organic light emitting layer on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the organic light emitting layer and formed of a transparent metal material, and a semi-transmissive electrode on the second electrode, wherein a distance between the first electrode and the semi-transmissive electrode in the first subpixel, a distance between the first electrode and the semi-transmissive electrode in the second subpixel, and a distance between the first electrode and the semi-transmissive electrode in the third subpixel are different from one another. |
| US10236466B2 |
Organic light emitting device
According to one embodiment, an organic light emitting device is described including a first light emitting unit, a second light emitting unit and a charge generation layer wherein the second light emitting unit is stacked over the first light emitting unit and is connected to the first light emitting unit by means of the charge generation layer and wherein the charge generation layer includes an electron transport layer, a transition metal oxide layer arranged over the electron transport layer and a diffusion suppressing layer arranged between the electron transport layer and the transition metal oxide layer to separate the electron transport layer from the transition metal oxide layer. |
| US10236464B2 |
Organic light emitting diode
An organic light emitting diode, including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode, the second electrode including magnesium; an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an electron injection layer between the second electrode and the emission layer, the electron injection layer including a dipole material including a first component and a second component having different polarities, the dipole material including halide, and a content of the magnesium included in the second electrode being in a range of from 10 to 40 volume %. |
| US10236453B2 |
Dibenzoborole-based compound and organic light emitting device including the same
A dibenzoborole-based compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same. The dibenzoborole-based compound is represented by the formula A1-(A2)n1, wherein A1 may be selected from specific aromatic and non-aromatic carbocycles and heterocycles, n1 may be an integer selected from 1 to 10, and each A2 moiety may independently be selected from a group represented by Formula 2: The dibenzoborole-based compound may be included in the hole transport region or hole transport layer. When the dibenzoborole-based compound has strong electron acceptor characteristics, the hole injection barrier between the anode and the organic layer may be reduced, and thus, an organic light-emitting device including the dibenzoborole-based compound may have high efficiency and a long lifespan. |
| US10236452B2 |
Compound and organic light-emitting device including the same
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including a compound represented by Formula 1. The organic light-emitting device including the compound of Formula 1 may have high efficiency, low driving voltage, high brightness, and long lifespan characteristics. |
| US10236450B2 |
Organic conductive materials and devices
Embodiments described herein relate to compositions including bridged bicyclic compounds such as iptycene-based structures and extended iptycene structures. In some embodiments, the compositions may be useful in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic photovoltaics, and other devices. |
| US10236447B2 |
Selective die repair on a light emitting device assembly
A method of repairing a light emitting device assembly includes providing a light emitting device assembly including a backplane and light emitting devices, where a predominant subset of pixels in the light emitting device assembly includes an empty site for accommodating a repair light emitting device, generating a test map that identifies non-functional light emitting devices in the light emitting device assembly, providing an assembly of a repair head and repair light emitting devices, wherein the repair light emitting devices are located only on locations that are mirror images of empty sites within defective pixels that include non-functional light emitting devices, and transferring the repair light emitting devices from the repair head to the backplane in the empty site in the defective pixels. |
| US10236445B2 |
Organic optoelectronic component and method for producing an organic optoelectronic component
According to the present disclosure, a method for producing an optoelectronic component is provided. The method includes forming an organic first layer above a substrate, and forming an organic second layer above the first surface region. The first layer includes a surface. The surface is opposite the substrate and includes a first surface region and a second surface region. The second surface region surrounds the first surface region. The second surface region remains free of the second layer. The first layer and the second layer differ in their chemical composition. |
| US10236443B2 |
Combined CMP and RIE contact scheme for MRAM applications
A method is presented for establishing a top contact to a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device, the method including selectively etching, via a first etching process, an oxide layer to expose a top surface of a nitride layer of a dummy fill shape and selectively etching, via a second etching process, a top portion of the nitride layer of the dummy fill shape to expose a top surface thereof. The method further includes selectively etching, via the second etching process, the oxide layer to expose a top surface of a nitride layer of the MTJ device, and selectively etching, via the first etching process, a top portion of the nitride layer of the MTJ device to expose a top surface thereof such that a height of the MTJ device is approximately equal to a height of the dummy fill shape. |
| US10236440B2 |
Semiconductor device
The vertical Hall element includes: a second conductivity type semiconductor layer; electrodes aligned along a straight line in a surface of the semiconductor layer, and each include a second conductivity type impurity region that is higher in concentration than semiconductor layer; and first conductivity type electrode isolation diffusion layers isolating the electrodes from one another, each of the electrode isolation diffusion layers being provided between each pair of the electrodes in the surface of the semiconductor layer, the electrodes including an electrode that functions as a drive current supply electrode and an electrode that functions as a Hall voltage output electrode, the drive current supply electrode and the Hall voltage output electrode being arranged alternately, the Hall voltage output electrode having a first depth, the drive current supply electrode having a second depth that is larger than the first depth and a depth of the electrode isolation diffusion layers. |
| US10236437B2 |
Magnetic memory device
A magnetic memory device includes a semiconductor substrate; a magnetoresistive element provided on the semiconductor substrate. The magnetoresistive element includes a storage layer, a tunnel barrier layer, and a reference layer which are stacked, the reference layer having a magnetization direction perpendicular to a principal surface of the semiconductor substrate. The magnetic memory device further includes a magnetic field generation section provided away from the magnetoresistive element and configured to generate a magnetic field perpendicular to the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate, the magnetoresistive element and the magnetic field generation section are integrated as one unit. |
| US10236431B2 |
Thermoelectric conversion element and thermoelectric conversion module
Provided are a thermoelectric conversion element and a thermoelectric conversion module which can efficiently generate power by preventing heat from being accumulated in a cooling side even in a naturally cooled environment. The thermoelectric conversion element includes a substrate having a sheet-like low thermal conduction portion, a first high thermal conduction portion, and a second high thermal conduction portion, a thermoelectric conversion layer provided on the substrate, a coating layer covering the thermoelectric conversion layer, a third high thermal conduction portion which is provided on the coating layer, has thermal conductivity higher than that of the coating layer, and does not completely overlap the first high thermal conduction portion in a plane direction, and a pair of electrodes, in which the second high thermal conduction portion is thinner than the first high thermal conduction portion and separated from the first high thermal conduction portion in the plane direction, and at least a portion of the second high thermal conduction portion overlaps the thermoelectric conversion layer and the third high thermal conduction portion. |
| US10236427B2 |
Light emitting device package
Embodiments provide a light emitting device package including a first lead frame and a second lead frame, a light emitting device electrically connected to each of the first lead frame and the second lead frame, the light emitting device having a first electrode pad asymmetrically formed on a top surface thereof, and a reflective member disposed around the light emitting device to reflect light emitted from the light emitting device. The reflective member is configured such that a standard deviation of tilts of a reflective surface of a first area, in which the first electrode pad is disposed, is greater than a standard deviation of tilts of a reflective surface of a second area opposite to the first area. |
| US10236411B2 |
Light-emitting device
A light-emitting device comprises a first light-emitting semiconductor stack comprising a first active layer; a second light-emitting semiconductor stack below the first light-emitting semiconductor stack, wherein the second light-emitting semiconductor stack comprises a second active layer; a reflector between the first light-emitting semiconductor stack and the second light-emitting semiconductor stack; a protecting layer between the reflector and the second light-emitting semiconductor stack; and wherein the first light-emitting semiconductor stack further comprises a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer sandwiching the first active layer, the second light-emitting semiconductor stack further comprises a third semiconductor layer and a fourth semiconductor layer sandwiching the second active layer, wherein the second semiconductor layer has a first band gap, the third semiconductor layer has a second band gap, and the protecting layer has a third band gap between the first band gap and the second band gap. |
| US10236410B2 |
Semiconductor nanocrystals, methods for making same, compositions, and products
A semiconductor nanocrystal characterized by having a solid state photoluminescence external quantum efficiency at a temperature of 90° C. or above that is at least 95% of the solid state photoluminescence external quantum efficiency of the semiconductor nanocrystal at 25° C. is disclosed. A semiconductor nanocrystal having a multiple LO phonon assisted charge thermal escape activation energy of at least 0.5 eV is also disclosed. A semiconductor nanocrystal capable of emitting light with a maximum peak emission at a wavelength in a range from 590 nm to 650 nm characterized by an absorption spectrum, wherein the absorption ratio of OD at 325 nm to OD at 450 nm is greater than 5.5. A semiconductor nanocrystal capable of emitting light with a maximum peak emission at a wavelength in a range from 545 nm to 590 nm characterized by an absorption spectrum, wherein the absorption ratio of OD at 325 nm to OD at 450 nm is greater than 7. A semiconductor nanocrystal capable of emitting light with a maximum peak emission at a wavelength in a range from 495 nm to 545 nm characterized by an absorption spectrum, wherein the absorption ratio of OD at 325 nm to OD at 450 nm is greater than 10. A composition comprising a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals wherein the solid state photoluminescence efficiency of the composition at a temperature of 90° C. or above is at least 95% of the solid state photoluminescence efficiency of the composition 25° C. is further disclosed. A method for preparing semiconductor nanocrystals comprises introducing one or more first shell chalcogenide precursors and one or more first shell metal precursors to a reaction mixture including semiconductor nanocrystal cores, wherein the first shell chalcogenide precursors are added in an amount greater than the first shell metal precursors by a factor of at least about 2 molar equivalents and reacting the first shell precursors at a first reaction temperature of at least 300° C. to form a first shell on the semiconductor nanocrystal cores. Populations, compositions, components and other products including semiconductor nanocrystals of the invention are disclosed. Populations, compositions, components and other products including semiconductor nanocrystals made in accordance with any method of the invention is also disclosed. |
| US10236409B2 |
Methods for using remote plasma chemical vapor deposition (RP-CVD) and sputtering deposition to grow layers in light emitting devices
Described herein are methods for using remote plasma chemical vapor deposition (RP-CVD) and sputtering deposition to grow layers for light emitting devices. A method includes growing a light emitting device structure on a growth substrate, and growing a tunnel junction on the light emitting device structure using at least one of RP-CVD and sputtering deposition. The tunnel junction includes a p++ layer in direct contact with a p-type region, where the p++ layer is grown by using at least one of RP-CVD and sputtering deposition. Another method for growing a device includes growing a p-type region over a growth substrate using at least one of RP-CVD and sputtering deposition, and growing further layers over the p-type region. Another method for growing a device includes growing a light emitting region and an n-type region using at least one of RP-CVD and sputtering deposition over a p-type region. |
| US10236404B2 |
Back sheet and solar cell module including the same
Discussed is a back sheet for a solar cell module. The back sheet includes a base member and a first layer formed on one surface of the base member, the first layer including a resin. A reflector is formed in at least a portion of the back sheet. |
| US10236403B2 |
Solar cell module
A solar cell module can include a plurality of solar cell strings, which include first and second solar cell strings including a first and second plurality of solar cells electrically connected in the first direction, respectively, and parallel to each other, first conductive wires connect a first electrode of a first solar cell to a second electrode of a second solar cell neighboring the first solar cell in the first direction within each of the solar cells, the first and second solar cell strings are electrically connected by a second conductive wire connecting a first electrode of a third solar cell located at a first end of the first solar cell string and a second electrode of a fourth solar cell located at a first end of the second solar cell string, and the second conductive wire is between the third solar cell and the fourth solar cell. |
| US10236401B2 |
Solar cell module and method of producing the same
A solar cell module includes a substrate, and first and second cells connected in series. The first and second cells each include a first electrode, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer and a second electrode stacked in this order on the substrate. The first semiconductor layer contains an oxide of a first metal and includes first and second portions. A groove separates the second semiconductor layers of the first and second cells. The groove and the first portion entirely overlap each other in a plan view. The first portion contains a second metal different from the first metal. A ratio of a number of atoms of the second metal to a number of atoms of all metals in the first portion is grater than a ratio of a number of atoms of the second metal to a number of atoms of all metals in the second portion. |
| US10236398B2 |
Method for manufacturing transparent electrode
The present disclosure relates to a transparent electrode, and provides a method for manufacturing a transparent electrode, the method comprising forming a multi-layered transparent conductive film by sequentially laminating a first oxide layer, a metal layer, and a second oxide layer on a transparent substrate, forming a mask pattern on the second oxide layer, performing an etching process using the mask pattern as an etching mask to form, in the second oxide layer, a trench exposing the upper surface of the metal layer, and forming a metal pattern in the trench. |
| US10236395B2 |
Antireflection substrate structure and manufacturing method thereof
A manufacturing method of antireflection substrate structure includes: providing a silicon wafer having a first rough surface; forming an antireflection optical film on the silicon wafer, wherein the antireflection optical film conformally overlays the first rough surface; performing a surface treatment on the antireflection optical film so that the antireflection optical film has a hydrophilic surface, and the hydrophilic surface is relatively far away from the silicon wafer; dropping a colloidal solution on the hydrophilic surface of the antireflection optical film, wherein the colloidal solution includes a solution and multiple nano-balls and the nano-balls are adhered onto the hydrophilic surface; and performing an etching process on the hydrophilic surface of the antireflection optical film by taking the nano-balls as an etching mask so as to form a second rough surface, wherein the roughness of the second rough surface is different from the roughness of the first rough surface. |
| US10236391B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
It is an object to provide a highly reliable semiconductor device including a thin film transistor with stable electric characteristics. In a semiconductor device including an inverted staggered thin film transistor whose semiconductor layer is an oxide semiconductor layer, a buffer layer is provided over the oxide semiconductor layer. The buffer layer is in contact with a channel formation region of the semiconductor layer and source and drain electrode layers. A film of the buffer layer has resistance distribution. A region provided over the channel formation region of the semiconductor layer has lower electrical conductivity than the channel formation region of the semiconductor layer, and a region in contact with the source and drain electrode layers has higher electrical conductivity than the channel formation region of the semiconductor layer. |
| US10236389B2 |
Manufacturing method of semiconductor device
A miniaturized transistor is provided. A first layer is formed over a third insulator over a semiconductor; a second layer is formed over the first layer; an etching mask is formed over the second layer; the second layer is etched using the etching mask until the first layer is exposed to form a third layer; a selective growth layer is formed on a top surface and a side surface of the third layer; the first layer is etched using the third layer and the selective growth layer until the third insulator is exposed to form a fourth layer; and the third insulator is etched using the third layer, the selective growth layer, and the fourth layer until the semiconductor is exposed to form a first insulator. |
| US10236388B2 |
Dual gate oxide thin-film transistor and manufacturing method for the same
A dual gate oxide thin-film transistor and manufacturing method for the same. The thin-film transistor comprises: a substrate; a bottom gate electrode formed on the substrate; a first gate insulation layer disposed on the bottom gate electrode; a semiconductor layer formed on the first gate insulation layer; a second gate insulation layer formed on the semiconductor layer; and a top gate electrode formed on the second gate insulation layer; wherein, the transistor further comprises a data line, the data line and the bottom gate electrode, or the data line and the top gate electrode are located at a same metal layer. Because the data line and the bottom gate (or the top gate) electrodes are located at a same metal layer, and through one photolithography for patterning to reduce the number of the mask, decrease the production cost. Besides, the stability and the response speed are increased. |
| US10236387B2 |
Semiconductor device and electronic device
In a logic circuit including transistors with the same conductivity, a reduction in output voltage is prevented with use of at least three transistors and a capacitor. With use of an oxide semiconductor in a semiconductor layer of the transistor, a logic circuit with high output voltage and high withstand voltage is achieved. With use of the logic circuit, a semiconductor device with high output voltage and high withstand voltage is achieved. |
| US10236384B2 |
Formation of FinFET junction
A finFET structure, and method of forming such structure, in which a germanium enriched nanowire is located in the channel region of the FET, while simultaneously having silicon-germanium fin in the source/drain region of the finFET. |
| US10236382B2 |
Multiple finFET formation with epitaxy separation
A semiconductor device includes a buried epitaxially grown substrate and a silicon on insulator (SOI) layer. The device also includes a buried oxide (BOX) layer between the buried epitaxially grown substrate and the SOI layer, an isolation trench having first width (w1), a contact trench having a second width (w2) and a capacitive trench having a third width (w3). Methods are described that allow the formation of the trenches in a normal process flow. |
| US10236379B2 |
Vertical FET with self-aligned source/drain regions and gate length based on channel epitaxial growth process
A fin extends from, and is perpendicular to, a planar surface of a substrate. A self-aligned bottom source/drain conductor is on the substrate adjacent the fin, a bottom insulator spacer is on the bottom source/drain conductor adjacent the fin, and a gate insulator is on a channel portion of the fin. A gate conductor is on the gate insulator, a self-aligned top source/drain conductor contacts the channel portion of the fin distal to the bottom insulator spacer, a top gate length limit insulator is positioned where the channel portion meets the top source/drain conductor, and a bottom gate length limit insulator is positioned where the channel portion meets the bottom insulator spacer. The gate length of the gate conductor is defined by a distance between the gate length limit insulators. |
| US10236377B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a first conductivity type first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region on the first semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region on the second semiconductor region, a first insulating portion extending inwardly of, and surrounded by, the first semiconductor region, a gate electrode extending inwardly of the first insulating portion and spaced from the second semiconductor region in a second direction that intersects a first direction extending from the first semiconductor region to the second semiconductor region, by the first insulating portion, and a first electrode including a portion spaced from the first semiconductor region in the second direction by the first insulating portion, and surrounded by the first insulating portion and the gate electrode. |
| US10236375B2 |
High voltage metal oxide semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A high voltage MOS device includes: a well region with a first conductive type, a body region with a second conductive type, a gate, plural source regions with the first conductive type, a drain region with the first conductive type, and a body contact region with the second conductive type. The plural source regions contact the gate, and are substantially arranged in parallel along a width direction, and each two neighboring source regions are not contacted with each other. The body connection region extends along the width direction and overlaps with at least two of the source regions, such that the body connection region includes at least a first region and a second region, wherein the first region overlaps with at least one of the source regions, and the second region does not overlap any of the regions. The contact region does not contact the gate along a lateral direction. |
| US10236369B2 |
Techniques for forming non-planar germanium quantum well devices
Techniques are disclosed for forming a non-planar germanium quantum well structure. In particular, the quantum well structure can be implemented with group IV or III-V semiconductor materials and includes a germanium fin structure. In one example case, a non-planar quantum well device is provided, which includes a quantum well structure having a substrate (e.g. SiGe or GaAs buffer on silicon), a IV or III-V material barrier layer (e.g., SiGe or GaAs or AlGaAs), a doping layer (e.g., delta/modulation doped), and an undoped germanium quantum well layer. An undoped germanium fin structure is formed in the quantum well structure, and a top barrier layer deposited over the fin structure. A gate metal can be deposited across the fin structure. Drain/source regions can be formed at respective ends of the fin structure. |
| US10236366B2 |
Semiconductor-on-insulator lateral heterojunction bipolar transistor having epitaxially grown intrinsic base and deposited extrinsic base
After forming a trench extending through an insulator layer and an underlying top semiconductor portion that is comprised of a first semiconductor material and a dopant of a first conductivity type to define an emitter and a collector on opposite sides of the trench in the top semiconductor portion, an intrinsic base comprising a second semiconductor material having a bandgap less than a bandgap of the first semiconductor material and a dopant of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type is formed in a lower portion the trench by selective epitaxial growth. The intrinsic base protrudes above the top semiconductor portion and is laterally surrounded by entire top semiconductor portion and a portion of the insulator layer. An extrinsic base is then formed on top of the intrinsic base to fill a remaining volume of the trench by a deposition process. |
| US10236360B2 |
Method of forming vertical transistor having dual bottom spacers
A method of forming a spacer for a vertical transistor is provided. The method includes forming a fin structure on a substrate, depositing a first spacer on exposed surfaces of the substrate to define gaps between the first spacer and the fin structure and depositing a second spacer on the exposed surfaces of the substrate in at least the gaps. |
| US10236358B1 |
Integration of gate structures and spacers with air gaps
Structures for a field-effect transistor and methods for forming a field-effect transistor. The structure includes a gate structure having a sidewall and a sidewall spacer arranged adjacent to the sidewall of the gate structure. The sidewall spacer includes an energy removal film material and one or more air gaps in the energy removal film material. |
| US10236357B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same
A semiconductor device having stable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device that can be miniaturized or highly integrated is provided. One embodiment of the present invention includes a transistor including an oxide, a first barrier layer over the transistor, and a second barrier layer in contact with the first barrier layer. The oxide is in contact with an insulator including an excess-oxygen region. The insulator is in contact with the first barrier layer. The first barrier layer has a thickness greater than or equal to 0.5 nm and less than or equal to 1.5 nm. The second barrier layer is thicker than the first barrier layer. |
| US10236351B2 |
Power semiconductor device trench having field plate and gate electrode
A method of processing a power semiconductor device includes: providing a semiconductor body with a trench extending into the semiconductor body along an extension direction and including an insulator; providing a monolithic electrode zone within the trench; and removing a section of the monolithic electrode zone within the trench to divide the monolithic electrode zone into at least a first electrode structure and a second electrode structure arranged separately and electrically insulated from each other. |
| US10236342B2 |
Electronic device including a termination structure
An electronic device can include a termination structure that includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer, and a first trench. The substrate includes a semiconductor material of a first conductivity type. The semiconductor layer has a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type and overlies the substrate and has a primary surface. The first trench extends through a majority of a thickness of the semiconductor layer. In an embodiment, a body extension region of the second conductivity type is adjacent to the primary surface and spaced apart from the first trench. In another embodiment, a doped region of the first conductivity type is adjacent to the primary surface and abuts the first trench. In a further embodiment, the termination structure can include a second trench extending through a majority of the thickness of the semiconductor layer and a doped region is spaced apart from the first and second trenches. |
| US10236335B2 |
Display device
The present disclosure is provided a display device. The display device includes subpixels and at least one scan line. The subpixels are formed on a first substrate, and each of the subpixels includes an emission area, in which a light emitting element for emitting light is disposed, and a circuit area in which a circuit for driving the light emitting element is disposed. The at least one scan line may be disposed on the circuit area in a horizontal direction. The at least one scan line may include: an upper scan line and a lower scan line spaced apart from each other; and a scan connection line positioned between the upper scan line and the lower scan line and electrically connecting the upper scan line and the lower scan line. |
| US10236333B2 |
Organic light-emitting display device
An organic light-emitting display device having reduced color dispersion effects includes a substrate, a first conductive line disposed on the substrate, a second conductive line disposed on the same layer as the first conductive line and insulated from the first conductive line and a pixel electrode disposed on the first and second conductive lines and overlapping the first and second conductive lines. A distance between the first conductive line and the second conductive line is about 0 to 10 μm. |
| US10236332B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display having high luminescence
The present disclosure relates to an organic light emitting diode display having high luminescence. The present disclosure suggests an organic light emitting diode display comprising: a data line, a scan line and a driving current line defining a pixel area on a substrate; an anode electrode formed within the pixel area; an additional capacitance formed by overlapping expanded portions of the anode electrode with some portions of the driving current line; a bank defining a light emitting area in the anode electrode; an organic emission layer formed on the anode electrode; and a cathode electrode formed on the organic emission layer. The present disclosure suggests high luminescence organic light emitting diode display by including an additional capacitance for increasing the anode capacitance. |
| US10236330B2 |
Display device and method for manufacturing the same
A plurality of thin film transistors provided in a peripheral region are first staggered thin film transistors where a first channel layer configured of low-temperature polysilicon is included, and the first channel layer is not interposed between a first source electrode and a first gate electrode, and between a first drain electrode and the first gate electrode. A plurality of thin film transistors provided in a display region are second staggered thin film transistors where a second channel layer configured of an oxide semiconductor is included, and the second channel layer is not interposed between a second source electrode and a second gate electrode, and between a second drain electrode and the second gate electrode. The first thin film transistor is located below the second thin film transistor. |
| US10236328B2 |
Method of manufacturing organic light-emitting display device
A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display device includes forming pixel electrodes on a substrate, forming a first protective layer with a first exposure portion that exposes a first pixel electrode of the pixel electrodes, forming on the first pixel electrode a first intermediate layer and a first blocking layer covering the first intermediate layer, removing the first protective layer, forming a second protective with a second exposure portion that exposes a second pixel electrode of the pixel electrodes, forming on the first pixel electrode a second intermediate layer and a second blocking layer covering the second intermediate layer, removing the second protective layer, forming a third protective with a third exposure portion that exposes a third pixel electrode of the pixel electrodes, and forming a third intermediate layer on the third pixel electrode, wherein each of the first and second blocking layers includes a self-assembled monolayer. |
| US10236324B1 |
Full-color light emitting diode display having improved luminance and method of manufacturing the same
A full-color light emitting diode (LED) display having an improved luminance is provided herein. More specifically, provided herein are a full-color LED display, in which an amount of light blocked by electrodes and not extracted is minimized and ultra-small LED devices are connected to ultra-small electrodes without defects such as electrical short circuits and the like, wherein the full-color LED display exhibits a further improved luminance when a direct current (DC) driving voltage is used and each pixel of the full-color LED display exhibits uniform luminance when the DC driving voltage is used, and a method of manufacturing the same. |
| US10236318B2 |
Solid-state imaging device, driving method for solid-state imaging device, and electronic appliance
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a driving method for the same, and an electronic appliance, and an object is to provide a solid-state imaging device that can achieve the pixel miniaturization and the global shutter function with higher sensitivity and saturated charge amount. Another object is to provide an electronic appliance including the solid-state imaging device. In a solid-state imaging device 1 having the global shutter function, a first charge accumulation unit 18 and a second charge accumulation unit 25 are stacked in the depth direction of a substrate 12, and the transfer of the signal charges from the first charge accumulation unit 12 to the second charge accumulation unit 25 is conducted by a vertical first transfer transistor Tr1. Thus, the pixel miniaturization can be achieved. |
| US10236317B2 |
Heterogeneous integration using wafer-to-wafer stacking with die size adjustment
A method is provided for three-dimensional wafer scale integration of heterogeneous wafers with unequal die sizes that include a first wafer and a second wafer. The method includes selecting a periodicity for the second wafer to be manufactured that matches the periodicity of the first wafer. The method further includes manufacturing the second wafer in accordance with the selected periodicity. The method also includes placing, by a laser-based patterning device, a pattern in spaces between dies of the second wafer. The method additionally includes stacking the first wafer onto the second wafer, using a copper-to-copper bonding process to bond the first wafer to the second wafer. |
| US10236314B2 |
Optical devices and opto-electronic modules and methods for manufacturing the same
The optical device comprises a first substrate comprising at least one optical structure comprising a main portion and a surrounding portion at least partially surrounding said main portion. The device furthermore comprises non-transparent material applied onto said surrounding portion. The opto-electronic module comprises a plurality of these optical devices comprised in said first substrate.The method for manufacturing an optical device comprises the steps of a) providing a first substrate comprising at least one optical structure comprising a main portion and a surrounding portion at least partially surrounding said main portion; and b) applying a non-transparent material onto at least said surrounding portion. Said non-transparent material is present on at least said surrounding portion still in the finished optical device. |
| US10236306B2 |
Semiconductor device and display device including the same
To improve field-effect mobility and reliability in a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. A semiconductor device includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. The transistor includes a region where the maximum value of field-effect mobility of the transistor at a gate voltage of higher than 0 V and lower than or equal to 10 V is larger than or equal to 40 and smaller than 150; a region where the threshold voltage is higher than or equal to minus 1 V and lower than or equal to 1 V; and a region where the S value is smaller than 0.3 V/decade. |
| US10236303B2 |
Semiconductor device having oxide semiconductor layer
A protective circuit includes a non-linear element, which includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer covering the gate electrode, a pair of first and second wiring layers whose end portions overlap with the gate electrode over the gate insulating layer and in which a second oxide semiconductor layer and a conductive layer are stacked, and a first oxide semiconductor layer which overlaps with at least the gate electrode and which is in contact with the gate insulating layer, side face portions and part of top face portions of the conductive layer and side face portions of the second oxide semiconductor layer in the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer. Over the gate insulating layer, oxide semiconductor layers with different properties are bonded to each other, whereby stable operation can be performed as compared with Schottky junction. Thus, the junction leakage can be decreased and the characteristics of the non-linear element can be improved. |
| US10236300B2 |
On-pitch drain select level isolation structure for three-dimensional memory device and method of making the same
A three-dimensional memory structure includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, an array of memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack, an array of drain select level assemblies overlying the alternating stack and having a same periodicity as the array of memory stack structures, drain select gate electrodes laterally surrounding respective rows of the drain select level assemblies, and a drain select level isolation strip located between a neighboring pair of drain select gate electrodes and including a pair of lengthwise sidewalls. Each of the pair of lengthwise sidewalls includes a laterally alternating sequence of planar sidewall portions and convex sidewall portions. |
| US10236299B2 |
Three-dimensional charge trapping NAND cell with discrete charge trapping film
A three-dimensional charge trap semiconductor device is constructed with alternating insulating and gate layers stacked over a substrate. During the manufacturing process, a channel hole is formed in the stack and the gate layers are recessed from the channel hole. Using the recessed topography of the gate layers, a charge trap layer can be deposited on the sidewalls of the channel hole and etched, leaving individual discrete charge trap layer sections in each recess. Filling the channel hole with channel material effectively provides a three-dimensional semiconductor device having individual charge trap layer sections for each memory cell. |
| US10236298B2 |
Non-volatile memory devices with vertically integrated capacitor electrodes
Provided is a vertical non-volatile memory device in which a capacitor constituting a peripheral circuit region is formed as a vertical type so that an area occupied by the capacitor in the entire device can be reduced as compared with a planar capacitor. Thus, a non-volatile memory device may be highly integrated and have a high capacity. The device includes a substrate having a cell region and a peripheral circuit region, a memory cell string including a plurality of vertical memory cells formed in the cell region and channel holes formed to penetrate the vertical memory cells in a first direction vertical to the substrate, an insulating layer formed in the peripheral circuit region on the substrates at substantially the same level as an upper surface of the memory cell string, and a plurality of capacitor electrodes formed on the peripheral circuit region to penetrate at least a portion of the insulating layer in the first direction, the plurality of capacitor electrodes extending parallel to the channel holes. The plurality of capacitor electrodes are spaced apart from one another in a second direction parallel to the substrate, and the insulating layer is interposed between a pair of adjacent capacitor electrodes from among the plurality of capacitor electrodes. |
| US10236295B2 |
Method of fabricating semiconductor device using dry etching
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a material layer and a mask pattern on a substrate, mounting the substrate onto an electrostatic chuck, loading the substrate, including the material layer and the mask pattern, mounted on the electrostatic chuck, into an etching chamber, and forming a material pattern by dry etching the material layer using the mask pattern as an etching mask. The dry etching of the material layer includes adjusting a pressure of the etching chamber to adjust a lateral over-etch of the material pattern in a first direction, wherein the first direction is parallel to a surface of the substrate facing the material pattern, and adjusting a temperature of the electrostatic chuck to adjust an etching of the material pattern in a second direction, wherein the second direction crosses the first direction. |
| US10236294B2 |
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
The present invention proposes a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, which includes the steps of providing a substrate with a memory region and a logic region, forming bit lines and logic gates respectively in the memory region and the logic region, wherein storage node regions are defined between bit lines, forming a first low-K dielectric layer on sidewalls of bit lines, forming a doped silicon layer in the storage node regions between bit lines, wherein the top surface of doped silicon layer is lower than the top surface of bit line, forming a second low-K dielectric layer on sidewalls of storage node regions, and filling up storage node regions with metal plugs. |
| US10236292B1 |
Complementary FETs with wrap around contacts and methods of forming same
The present disclosure relates generally to wrap around contact formation in source/drain regions of a semiconductor device such as an integrated circuit (IC), and more particularly, to stacked IC structures containing complementary FETs (CFETs) having wrap around contacts and methods of forming the same. Disclosed is a stacked IC structure including a first FET on a substrate, a second FET vertically stacked above the first FET, a dielectric layer above the second FET, and a spacer layer between FETs, wherein each FET has an electrically isolated wrap-around contact formed therearound. |
| US10236291B2 |
Methods, apparatus and system for STI recess control for highly scaled finFET devices
At least one method, apparatus and system are disclosed for forming a fin field effect transistor (finFET) having an oxide level in a fin array region within a predetermined height of the oxide level of a field region. A first oxide process is performed for controlling a first oxide recess level in a field region adjacent to a fin array region comprising a plurality of fins in a finFET device. The first oxide process comprises depositing an oxide layer over the field region and the fin array region and performing an oxide recess process to bring the oxide layer to the first oxide recess level in the field region. A second oxide process is performed for controlling a second oxide recess level in the fin array region. The second oxide process comprises isolating the fin array region, depositing oxide material, and performing an oxide recess process to bring the oxide level in the fin array region to the second oxide recess level. The first oxide recess level is within a predetermined height differential of the second oxide recess level. |
| US10236286B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus and manufacturing method for same
A semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus and a manufacturing method for the same are provided in such a manner that a leak current caused by a ballast resistor is reduced, and at the same time, the inconsistency in the leak current is reduced. The peak impurity concentration of the ballast resistors is made smaller than the peak impurity concentration in the extension regions, and the depth of the ballast resistors is made greater than the depth of the extension regions. |
| US10236285B2 |
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a pair of first well regions formed in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the pair of first well regions have a first conductivity type and are separated by at least one portion of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a first doping region formed in a portion of at least one portion of the semiconductor substrate separating the pair of first well regions, and a pair of second doping regions, respectively formed in one of the pair of first well regions, having the first conductivity type. Further, the semiconductor device includes a pair of insulating layers, respectively formed over a portion of the semiconductor substrate to cover a portion of the first doped region and one of the pair of second doping regions. |
| US10236269B2 |
Semiconductor device having semiconductor chip with large and small irregularities on upper and lower side surface portions thereof
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor chip adhesively bonded to a die pad. An area having large irregularities is formed on an upper side surface of the semiconductor chip to be covered by an encapsulating resin, and an area having small irregularities is formed on a lower side surface of the semiconductor chip, thereby improving adhesive strength between the semiconductor chip and the encapsulating resin and preventing penetration of moisture from outside. |
| US10236268B1 |
Robust pillar structure for semicondcutor device contacts
Methods and systems for a robust pillar structure for a semiconductor device contacts are disclosed, and may include processing a semiconductor wafer comprising one or more metal pads, wherein the processing may comprise: forming a second metal contact on the one or more metal pads; forming a pillar on the second metal contact, and forming a solder bump on the second metal contact and the pillar, wherein the pillar extends into the solder bump. The second metal contact may comprise a stepped mushroom shaped bump, a sloped mushroom shaped bump, a cylindrical post, and/or a redistribution layer. The semiconductor wafer may comprise silicon. A solder brace layer may be formed around the second metal contact. The second metal contact may be tapered down to a smaller area at the one or more metal pads on the semiconductor wafer. A seed layer may be formed between the second metal contact and the one or more metal pads on the semiconductor wafer. The pillar may comprise copper. |
| US10236265B2 |
Semiconductor chip and method for forming a chip pad
A semiconductor chip with different chip pads and a method for forming a semiconductor chip with different chip pads are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method comprises depositing a barrier layer over a chip front side, depositing a copper layer after depositing the barrier layer, and removing a part of the copper layer located outside a first chip pad region, wherein a remaining portion of the copper layer within the first chip pad region forms a surface layer of the chip pad. The method further comprises removing a part of the barrier layer located outside the first chip pad region. |
| US10236264B2 |
Wireless IC device, resin molded body comprising same, communication terminal apparatus comprising same, and method of manufacturing same
A wireless IC device includes an element body including first and second principal surfaces, an RFIC element buried in the element body, and an antenna coil disposed in the element body. The antenna coil includes a first wiring pattern provided on the second principal surface, a first metal pin reaching the first principal surface and the second principal surface, a second metal pin reaching the first principal surface and the second principal surface, and a second wiring pattern provided on the first principal surface. Terminal surfaces of the first input/output terminal and the second input/output terminal of the RFIC element face the second principal surface of the element body and are spaced away from the antenna coil while being connected to the first wiring pattern through first and second conductors extending from the second principal surface of the element body in a direction of the first primary surface. |
| US10236262B2 |
System and method for protecting an integrated circuit (IC) device
Embodiments of the invention provide a system for protecting an integrated circuit (IC) device from attacks, the IC device (100) comprising a substrate (102) having a front surface (20) and a back surface (21), the IC device further comprising a front side part (101) arranged on the front surface of the substrate (102) and stacked layers, at least one of said layers comprising a data layer comprising wire carrying data, the front side part having a front surface (13). The system comprises an internal shield (12) arranged in a layer located below said data layer and a verification circuit configured to check the integrity of at least one portion of the internal shield. |
| US10236261B2 |
Electronic package and method for fabricating the same
An electronic package is provided, which includes: a substrate; an electronic component and a shielding member disposed on the substrate; an encapsulant formed on the substrate and encapsulating the electronic component and the shielding member; and a metal layer formed on the encapsulant and electrically connected to the shielding member. A portion of a surface of the shielding member is exposed from a side surface of the encapsulant and in contact with the metal layer. As such, the width of the shielding member can be reduced so as to reduce the amount of solder paste used for bonding the shielding member to the substrate, thereby overcoming the conventional drawback of poor solder distribution. The present disclosure further provides a method for fabricating the electronic package. |
| US10236259B2 |
Mark, method for forming same, and exposure apparatus
A mark forming method includes: forming recessed portion on a mark formation area of a substrate; coating the recessed portion with a polymer layer containing a block copolymer, allowing the polymer layer in the recessed portion to form a self-assembled area; selectively removing a portion of the self-assembled area; and forming a positioning mark by using the self-assembled area from which the portion thereof has been removed. |
| US10236256B2 |
Pre-spacer self-aligned cut formation
Methods of forming self-aligned cuts and structures formed with self-aligned cuts. A dielectric layer is formed on a metal hardmask layer, and a mandrel is formed on the dielectric layer. A cut is formed that extends through the dielectric layer to the metal hardmask layer. A section of a metal layer is formed on an area of the metal hardmask layer exposed by the cut in the dielectric layer. After the metal layer is formed, a spacer is formed on a vertical sidewall of the mandrel. |
| US10236253B2 |
Self-aligned local interconnect technology
A self-aligned interconnect structure includes a fin structure patterned in a substrate; an epitaxial contact disposed over the fin structure; a first metal gate and a second metal gate disposed over and substantially perpendicular to the epitaxial contact, the first metal gate and the second metal gate being substantially parallel to one another; and a metal contact on and in contact with the substrate in a region between the first and second metal gates. |
| US10236251B2 |
Method for providing electrical antifuse including phase change material
An antifuse structure including a first electrode that is present in at a base of the opening in the dielectric material. The antifuse structure further includes an antifuse material layer comprising a phase change material alloy of tantalum and nitrogen. A first surface of the antifuse material layer is present in direct contact with the first electrode. A second electrode is present in direct contact with a second surface of the antifuse material layer that is opposite the first surface of the antifuse material layer. |
| US10236248B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
The manufacturing method of a semiconductor device can improve the mechanical strength of a pad more than before, and suppress the occurrence of a crack. The manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes: forming a first pad constituted by a first metal layer; forming an insulating layer on the first pad; providing an opening portion in the insulating layer by removing the insulating layer on at least a partial region of the first pad; forming a second pad constituted by a second metal layer in the opening portion of the insulating layer so as to have a film thickness that is smaller than the film thickness of the insulating layer; and forming a third pad constituted by a third metal layer on the second pad. |
| US10236247B2 |
Isolation device
An isolation system, isolation device, and Integrated Circuit are disclosed. The isolation system is described to include an integrated circuit chip having a first capacitive plate, a second capacitive plate positioned with respect to the first capacitive plate to enable a capacitive coupling therebetween, an enhanced isolation layer positioned between the first capacitive the second capacitive plate that facilitates an electrical isolation between the first capacitive plate and the second capacitive plate, a first bonding wire that is in electrical communication with the second capacitive plate, and an isolation trench that at least partially circumscribes the first capacitive plate and is positioned between the first capacitive plate and the first bonding wire. |
| US10236246B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods for forming a semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a crack propagation prevention structure. The crack propagation prevention structure is located at an edge region of a wiring layer stack located on a semiconductor substrate of the semiconductor device. Furthermore, the crack propagation prevention structure laterally surrounds at least one wiring structure located within the wiring layer stack. Additionally, the semiconductor device includes an insulation trench extending into the semiconductor substrate. The insulation trench comprises at least an insulation layer electrically insulating the crack propagation prevention structure from the semiconductor substrate. The crack propagation prevention structure extends vertically at least from a surface of the wiring layer stack to the insulation trench. |
| US10236244B2 |
Semiconductor device and production method therefor
Provided is a semiconductor device having a wiring structure on a semiconductor element and capable of securing high quality and high reliability in response to the desire for high-temperature operations, a large-current specification, thinner wafers, smaller device size, and reduced loss. A semiconductor device that includes an insulating circuit board; a semiconductor element implemented on the insulating circuit board; a first insulating resin layer laminated on the insulating circuit board; a copper-plated wiring which contacts the semiconductor element via a window portion formed in the first insulating resin layer, which enables contact with the semiconductor element; and a second insulating resin layer laminated so as to seal the copper-plated wiring, and a method for producing the semiconductor device are provided. |
| US10236242B2 |
Chip package and package substrate
A package substrate is provided. The package substrate includes a dielectric layer and a passive component embedded in the dielectric layer and contacting the dielectric layer. A circuit layer is embedded in the dielectric layer and has a first surface aligned with a second surface of the dielectric layer. A conductive structure is embedded in the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the passive component and the circuit layer. A chip package is also provided. |
| US10236238B2 |
Semiconductor device
A first semiconductor device includes: a first wiring layer including a first interlayer insulating film, a first electrode pad, and a first dummy electrode, the first electrode pad being embedded in the first interlayer insulating film and having one surface located on same plane as one surface of the first interlayer insulating film, and the first dummy electrode being embedded in the first interlayer insulating film, having one surface located on same plane as the one surface of the first interlayer insulating film, and being disposed around the first electrode pad; and a second wiring layer including a second interlayer insulating film, a second electrode pad, and a second dummy electrode, the second electrode pad being embedded in the second interlayer insulating film, having one surface located on same surface as one surface of the second interlayer insulating film, and being bonded to the first electrode pad, and the second dummy electrode having one surface located on same plane as the surface located closer to the first interlayer insulating film of the second interlayer insulating film, being disposed around the second electrode pad, and being bonded to the first dummy electrode. A second semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor section including a first electrode, the first electrode being formed on a surface located closer to a bonding interface and extending in a first direction; and a second semiconductor section including a second electrode and disposed to be bonded to the first semiconductor section at the bonding interface, the second electrode being bonded to the first electrode and extending in a second direction that intersects with the first direction. |
| US10236237B2 |
Bipolar transistor, semiconductor device, and bipolar transistor manufacturing method
Disconnection of a base line is suppressed even when a short-side direction of a collector layer is parallel to crystal orientation [011]. A bipolar transistor includes: a collector layer that has a long-side direction and a short-side direction in a plan view, in which the short-side direction is parallel to crystal orientation [011], a cross-section perpendicular to the short-side direction has an inverted mesa shape, and a cross-section perpendicular to the long-side direction has a forward mesa shape; a base layer that is formed on the collector layer; a base electrode that is formed on the base layer; and a base line that is connected to the base electrode and that is drawn out from an end in the short-side direction of the collector layer to the outside of the collector layer in a plan view. |
| US10236235B2 |
Thermally enhanced semiconductor package having field effect transistors with back-gate feature
The present disclosure relates to a thermally enhanced semiconductor package having field effect transistors (FETs) with a back-gate feature. The thermally enhanced semiconductor package includes a first buried oxide (BOX) layer, a first epitaxial layer over the first BOX layer, a second BOX layer over the first epitaxial layer, a second epitaxial layer over the second BOX layer and having a source, a drain, and a channel between the source and the drain, a gate dielectric aligned over the channel, and a front-gate structure over the gate dielectric. Herein, a back-gate structure is formed in the first epitaxial layer and has a back-gate region aligned below the channel. A FET is formed by the front-gate structure, the source, the drain, the channel, and the back-gate structure. |
| US10236233B2 |
Heat spreaders with integrated preforms
Embodiments of heat spreaders with integrated preforms, and related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a heat spreader may include: a frame formed of a metal material, wherein the metal material is a zinc alloy or an aluminum alloy; a preform secured in the frame, wherein the preform has a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of the metal material; and a recess having at least one sidewall formed by the frame. The metal material may have an equiaxed grain structure. In some embodiments, the equiaxed grain structure may be formed by squeeze-casting or rheocasting the metal material. |
| US10236227B2 |
Electronic package and fabrication method thereof
An electronic package is provided, including a circuit portion, an electronic element disposed on the circuit portion and a lid member disposed on the circuit portion to cover the electronic element. A separation portion is formed between the lid member and the electronic element. The lid member facilitates to prevent warping of the overall package structure. The invention further provides a method for fabricating the electronic package. |
| US10236226B2 |
In-situ calibration structures and methods of use in semiconductor processing
Systems and methods of in-situ calibration of semiconductor material layer deposition and removal processes are disclosed. Sets of test structures including one or more calibration vias or posts are used to precisely monitor processes such as plating and polishing, respectively. Known (e.g., empirically determined) relationships between the test structure features and product feature enable monitoring of wafer processing progress. Optical inspection of the calibration feature(s) during processing cycles permits dynamic operating condition adjustments and precise cessation of processing when desired product feature characteristics have been achieved. |
| US10236224B2 |
Apparatus and method for reducing wafer warpage
An apparatus and a method for reducing wafer warpage are provided. The method includes positioning a mold wafer structure on a stage. The mold wafer structure includes a mold layer and a stack structure positioned on a wafer. The stage includes a center region and an edge region adjacent the center region. Warpage information of the mold wafer structure is obtained. The mold wafer structure is heated by the stage based on the warpage information to reduce a warpage of the mold wafer structure. A temperature of the center region and a temperature of the edge region are different from each other. An operation test is performed on the stack structure. |
| US10236223B2 |
Substrate processing method, program, apparatus and system to determine substrate processing result
Disclosed is a substrate processing method. The substrate processing method includes: a first acquisition step of acquiring a first processing condition in a first processing performed using a first number of monitor substrates and a first processing result related to the monitor substrates; a second acquisition step of acquiring a second processing condition in a second processing performed using a second number of monitor substrates and a second processing result related to the monitor substrates; a first calculation step of calculating a processing condition difference between the first processing condition and the second processing condition; and a second calculation step of calculating a processing result of substrates at slot positions where no monitor substrate is placed in the first processing, based on the first processing result, the second processing result, the processing condition difference, and a process model representing a relationship between a processing condition and a processing result. |
| US10236217B1 |
Stacked field-effect transistors (FETs) with shared and non-shared gates
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of stacked gate regions spaced apart from each other on a substrate, a plurality of first epitaxial source/drain regions between the plurality of stacked gate regions, wherein the first epitaxial source/drain regions extend from sides of the plurality of stacked gate regions in a first doped region, a plurality of second epitaxial source/drain regions between the plurality of stacked gate regions and positioned over the first epitaxial source/drain regions, wherein the second epitaxial source/drain regions extend from sides of the plurality of stacked gate regions in a second doped region, and a contact region extending through a second epitaxial source/drain region of the plurality of second epitaxial source/drain regions to a first epitaxial source/drain region of the plurality of first epitaxial source/drain regions. |
| US10236214B2 |
Vertical transistor with variable gate length
A method of forming a vertical transistor includes forming a first pair of fins on a substrate; forming a second pair of fins on the substrate; forming a first trench in the substrate and interposed between each one of the first pair of fins; forming a second trench in the substrate and interposed between each one of the second pair of fins, wherein the second trench is deeper than the first trench; forming a first semiconductor structure interposed between each one of the first pair of fins, the first semiconductor structure having a first gate region interposed between a first source region and a first drain region; and forming a second semiconductor structure interposed between each one of the second pair of fins, the second semiconductor structure having a first gate region interposed between a second source region and a second drain region. |
| US10236213B1 |
Gate cut structure with liner spacer and related method
A gate cut structure for finFETs, and a related method, are disclosed. The gate cut structure separates and electrically isolates an end of a first metal gate conductor of a first finFET from an end of a second metal gate conductor of a second finFET. The gate cut structure includes a body contacting the end of the first and second metal gate conductors. A liner spacer separates a lower portion of the body from an interlayer dielectric (ILD), and an upper portion of the body contacts the ILD. During formation, the liner spacer allows for a larger gate cut opening to be used to allow quality cleaning of the gate cut opening, but also reduction in size of the spacing between metal gate conductor ends of the finFETs. In one example, the body may have a lower portion having a width less than an upper portion thereof. |
| US10236211B2 |
Method of manufacturing vertical memory devices
A vertical memory device may include a plurality of word lines spaced apart in a first direction, each extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and having a first width in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions, a dummy word line over an uppermost word line, including an opening and having a portion thereof with the first width in the third direction, a first string selection line (SSL) and a second string selection line (SSL) over the dummy word line, the first and second SSLs being at substantially the same level along the first direction, each of the first and second SSLs having a second width less than the first width in the third direction, and a plurality of vertical channel structures, each through the word lines, the dummy word line, and one of the first and second SSLs. |
| US10236210B2 |
Direct bonding method
The method is carried out of a first substrate having a first layer made of a first material with a second substrate having a second layer made of a second material, the first material and the second material being of different natures and selected from alloys of elements of columns III and V, the method having the steps of: a) providing the first substrate and the second substrate, b) bringing the first substrate into contact with the second substrate so as to form a bonding interface between the first layer and the second layer, c) performing a first heat treatment at a first predefined temperature, d) thinning one of the substrates, e) depositing, at a temperature less than or equal to the first predefined temperature, a barrier layer, on the thinned substrate, and f) performing a second heat treatment at a second predefined temperature, greater than the first predefined temperature. |
| US10236208B2 |
Semiconductor package structure and method of manufacturing the same
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor package structure and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor package structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The semiconductor substrate has a space extending from the second surface to the first surface and an insulation body is disposed in the space. The semiconductor package structure includes conductive posts in the insulation body. |
| US10236206B2 |
Interconnects with hybrid metallization
Structures for interconnects and methods for forming interconnects. A dual-damascene opening is formed in a dielectric layer and a first liner is formed on the dielectric layer at one or more sidewalls of the dual-damascene opening. A first conductor layer is formed in a portion of the dual-damascene opening. The first liner is removed from the one or more sidewalls of the dual-damascene opening vertically between the first conductor layer and a top surface of the dielectric layer. After the first liner is removed, a second liner is formed on the dielectric layer at the one or more sidewalls of the dual-damascene opening between the first conductor layer and the top surface of the dielectric layer. A second conductor layer is formed in the dual-damascene opening between the first conductor layer and the top surface of the dielectric layer. The first and second liner materials differ in composition. |
| US10236204B2 |
Semiconductor processing system
The semiconductor processing system includes a reactor chamber that has an upper wall and a lower wall. A hold member is disposed in the reactor chamber to hold a semiconductor substrate in such a way that it faces the lower wall of the reactor chamber. |
| US10236200B2 |
Exposure device and substrate processing apparatus
With a cover member being located directly upward of an opening of a casing, a substrate in a horizontal attitude is carried into a gap between the cover member and the opening. The carried-in substrate is moved to the inside of the casing through the opening. The cover member is lowered, so that the opening is closed. An inert gas is supplied to the inside of the casing. One surface of the substrate is irradiated with vacuum ultraviolet rays by a light emitter while the substrate is moved in a horizontal direction in the casing. The cover member is lifted, so that the opening is opened. The substrate is moved to a position between the cover member and the opening from a position inside of the casing through the opening. Thereafter, the substrate in the horizontal attitude is taken out in the horizontal direction. |
| US10236199B2 |
Substrate processing method and substrate processing apparatus
A substrate processing method comprises: an execution step of executing the first processing for the plurality of substrates, and executing the second processing for the substrates having undergone the first processing; a recovery step of recovering the plurality of substrates having undergone the first processing and the second processing to the retraction chamber; a conditioning step of, after completion of the first processing for the last substrate among the plurality of substrates, loading a dummy substrate into the first processing chamber, executing the third processing for the dummy substrate, and unloading the dummy substrate from the first processing chamber; and a second execution step of, after the dummy substrate is unloaded from the first processing chamber in the conditioning step, loading the substrates recovered in the recovery step into the first processing chamber, and executing the third processing for the substrates loaded into the first processing chamber. |
| US10236196B2 |
Substrate processing system
A substrate processing system is provided. The substrate processing system includes: a first transfer apparatus; at least two first accommodating units including an upper first accommodating unit and a lower first accommodating unit; multiple first substrate processing units, which are divided into at least a first group and a second group and arranged in a height direction; an upper second accommodating unit corresponding to the first group; an upper second transfer apparatus corresponding to the first group; a lower second accommodating unit corresponding to the second group; a lower second transfer apparatus corresponding to the second group; a first delivery apparatus corresponding to the first group; and a second delivery apparatus corresponding to the second group. |
| US10236194B2 |
Supporting unit and substrate treatment apparatus
Provided is a supporting unit supporting a substrate. The supporting unit includes a body including a plurality of heating regions and disposed with the substrate on a top surface thereof and a heating unit heating the body. Herein, the heating unit includes heating lines provided in the plurality of heating regions, respectively, to control temperatures of the plurality of heating regions independently from one another, terminals provided to the body and receiving power from the outside, and connecting lines connecting the heating lines to the terminals mutually corresponding to one another. Also, the terminals are disposed in one of the plurality of heating regions in a top view. |
| US10236192B2 |
Liquid processing apparatus, liquid processing method, and storage medium
A liquid processing apparatus of the present disclosure holds and rotate a substrate in a substrate holding unit, ejects an etching liquid while moving a main nozzle of a main nozzle unit between a first position where the etching liquid reaches a center of the substrate and a second position closer to a peripheral side of the substrate than the first position, and then, ejects the etching liquid to the substrate from a sub nozzle provided at a third position closer to the peripheral side of the substrate than the first position at an ejection flow rate higher than that from the main nozzle. |
| US10236191B2 |
Wafer drying apparatus and method for drying a wafer
A wafer drying apparatus includes air supply unit having first and second air supply tube provided at respective first and second front-surface side of wafer, and wafer holding unit configured to vertically hold wafer, and configured so that wafer relatively moves with respect to air supply unit, plurality of first air outlets separated from each other at predetermined intervals are provided at wafer side of first air supply tube, plurality of second air outlets separated from each other at predetermined intervals are provided at wafer side of second air supply tube, plurality of first and second air outlets are respectively provided to form an angle with respect to vertical direction regarding wafer as to blow air from peripheral portion to central portion with respect to central line in vertical direction of wafer. It is possible to provide wafer drying apparatus with simple structure, which reduces undried portion without degrading productivity. |
| US10236190B2 |
Method for wafer outgassing control
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to methods for controlling substrate outgassing such that hazardous gasses are eliminated from a surface of a substrate after a III-V epitaxial growth process or an etch clean process, and prior to additional processing. An oxygen containing gas is flowed to a substrate in a load lock chamber, and subsequently a non-reactive gas is flowed to the substrate in the load lock chamber. As such, hazardous gases and outgassing residuals are decreased and/or removed from the substrate such that further processing may be performed. |
| US10236189B2 |
Adhesive-bonded thermal interface structures for integrated circuit cooling
A heat sink can be attached to a heat-producing electronic device by aligning an adhesive material to a surface of the heat sink, applying the adhesive material to the surface to form an outer perimeter and applying, within the outer perimeter, a thermally conductive material to the surface. The surface of the heat sink and a surface of the heat-producing electronic device can then be aligned, and the heat sink can be assembled to the heat-producing electronic device by bringing the heat-producing electronic device surface into contact with the adhesive material. The heat sink can then be affixed to the heat-producing electronic device by applying a compressive force to the assembly to activate the adhesive material. |
| US10236187B2 |
Semiconductor package and method for fabricating base for semiconductor package
The invention provides a semiconductor package and a method for fabricating a base for a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package includes a base. The base has a device-attach surface. A radio-frequency (RF) device is embedded in the base. The RF device is close to the device-attach surface. |
| US10236186B2 |
Methods for dry hard mask removal on a microelectronic substrate
The disclosure relates to methods for a multi-step plasma process to remove metal hard mask layer from an underlying hard mask layer that may be used to implement a sub-lithographic integration scheme. The sub-lithographic integration scheme may include iteratively patterning several features into the metal hard mask layer that may be transferred to the hard mask layer. However, the iterative process may leave remnants of previous films on top of the metal hard mask that may act as mini-masks that may interfere with the pattern transfer to the hard mask layer. One approach to remove the mini-masks may be to use a two-step plasma process that removes the mini-mask using a first gas mixture ratio of a carbon-containing gas and a chlorine-containing gas. The remaining metal hard mask layer may be removed using a second gas mixture ratio of the carbon-containing gas and the chlorine-containing gas. |
| US10236184B2 |
Porous tin oxide films
Initial film layers prepared from tin(II) chloride spontaneously generate open cavities when the initial film layers are thermally cured to about 400° C. using a temperature ramp of 1° C./minute to 10° C./minute while exposed to air. The openings of the bowl-shaped cavities have characteristic dimensions whose lengths are in a range of 30 nm to 300 nm in the plane of the top surfaces of the cured film layers. The cured film layers comprise tin oxide and have utility in gas sensors, electrodes, photocells, and solar cells. |
| US10236181B2 |
Manufacturing system and method for forming a clean interface between a functional layer and a two-dimensional layeyed semiconductor
A manufacturing system and a method for forming a clean interface between a functional layer and a 2D layered semiconductor are provided herein. In the steps of the method, the substrate equipped with the 2D layered semiconductor is exposed to a reaction gas, and a stimulus is applied to the reaction gas to generate active particles having higher selectivity toward contaminants on the exposed surface of the 2D layered semiconductor so that the contaminants can be decomposed and removed. Additionally, the contaminants can be removed without damage to the 2D layered semiconductor. A functional layer is in-situ deposited to be in contact with the 2D layered semiconductor. Without the contaminants, a clean interface between the functional layer and the 2D layered semiconductor can be obtained and the 2D layered semiconductor can exhibit better electrical properties. |
| US10236180B2 |
Method of making semiconductor integrated circuit device relating to resistance characteristics
A semiconductor integrated circuit device may include a structure, a first capping layer, a channel layer and a second capping layer. The structure may have an opening formed in the structure. The first capping layer may be formed in the opening of the structure. The channel layer may be arranged between the structure and the first capping layer. The second capping layer may be arranged on the channel layer and the first capping layer. |
| US10236177B1 |
Methods for depositing a doped germanium tin semiconductor and related semiconductor device structures
A method for depositing a germanium tin (Ge1-xSnx) semiconductor is disclosed. The method may include; providing a substrate within a reaction chamber, heating the substrate to a deposition temperature and exposing the substrate to a germanium precursor and a tin precursor. The method may further include; depositing a germanium tin (Ge1-xSnx) semiconductor on the surface of the substrate, and exposing the germanium tin (Ge1-xSnx) semiconductor to a boron dopant precursor. Semiconductor device structures including a germanium tin (Ge1-xSnx) semiconductor formed by the methods of the disclosure are also provided. |
| US10236170B2 |
Methods and devices for generating double emulsions
The present disclosure describes devices and methods capable of generating multi¬phase emulsions, including double emulsion droplets in a gas phase. The present disclosure also describes interfaces for coupling a multi-phase emulsion droplet source to an analytical instrument such as a mass spectrometer. The present disclosure further describes methods, systems, and apparatuses for using the devices and interfaces described to perform analysis, including mass spectrometry. The present disclosure also describes methods, systems, and apparatuses for generating and using multi-phase emulsions to perform analysis. |
| US10236168B1 |
Ion transfer method and device
An ion transport device of a mass spectrometer includes a plurality of pole rod arranged in first and second parallel rows and a controller. The controller is configured to apply voltages in a repeating voltage pattern to the pole rods of the first row and apply a common voltage to the pole rods of the second row thereby creating a plurality of potential wells capable of capturing ions, wherein each ion transport cell receives the same pattern of voltages; move the repeating voltage pattern along the pole rods of the first row to move captured ions within and between the plurality of ion transport cells along the ion transport device; and apply at least one ejection voltage to one or more electrodes to cause ions to be ejected from the ion transport device. |
| US10236166B1 |
Lenslet array based integral field spectrograph and data processing
A lenslet based integral field spectrograph (IFS) may have a design that makes better use of the detector pixels by placing adjacent spectra next to each other rather than staggering the spectra. Such a design maintains the main compactness and simplicity of prior lenslet array based IFSs, but improves the detector efficiency, which is rather low in conventional lenslet array based IFSs. |
| US10236158B2 |
Heat transfer plate and writing apparatus
A heat transfer plate according to the present embodiment includes a first heat transfer unit transferring heat generated in a member mounted on the first heat transfer unit, the heat being generated due to shaping or controlling of a beam generated by a light source in a decompressed atmosphere, a second heat transfer unit provided around the first heat transfer unit, and a plurality of third heat transfer units making the first heat transfer unit movable with respect to the second heat transfer unit, the plurality of third heat transfer units connecting the first and second heat transfer units. |
| US10236157B2 |
Electronic beam machining system
The disclosure relates to an electronic beam machining system. The system includes a vacuum chamber; an electron gun located in the vacuum chamber and used to emit electron beam; a holder located in the vacuum chamber and used to fix an object; a control computer; and a diffraction unit located in the vacuum chamber; the diffraction unit includes a two-dimensional nanomaterial; the electron beam transmits the two-dimensional nanomaterial to form a transmission electron beam and a plurality of diffraction electron beams; the transmission electron beam and the plurality of diffraction electron beams radiate the object to form a transmission spot and a plurality of diffraction spots. |
| US10236154B2 |
Method and apparatus for a porous electrospray emitter
An ionic liquid ion source can include a microfabricated body including a base and a tip. The body can be formed of a porous material compatible with at least one of an ionic liquid or room-temperature molten salt. The body can have a pore size gradient that decreases from the base of the body to the tip of the body, such that the at least one of an ionic liquid or room-temperature molten salt is capable of being transported through capillarity from the base to the tip. |
| US10236153B2 |
Multiple knob structure
A multiple knob structure including a knob top module having a head cover, a silicone keyboard and a head annular PCB, from top to bottom, a bearing module, which includes a bearing holder and a bearing, and a knob bottom module, which includes a bottom cover and a bottom PCB, where the knob bottom module also includes a torsional spring and a rotation damper, the torsional spring is mounted on an installing groove of the bottom cover, the rotation damper is mounted on a rotation damper installing groove of the bottom cover. |
| US10236144B2 |
Surgical instruments with non-contact switch assemblies
A non-contact button assembly for a powered surgical instrument includes a light emitter, a rocker switch, and a button shaft. The rocker switch defines a through passage about a longitudinal axis of the button assembly. The button shaft is disposed within the through passage. The button shaft includes a proximal portion, a distal portion, and a flange positioned therebetween. The button shaft has a deactivated position such that the button shaft is configured to prevent light from the light emitter from illuminating a light detector and the button shaft has an activated position such that the button shaft is configured to permit light emitted from the light emitter to illuminate the light detector. |
| US10236142B2 |
Luminous keyboard
A luminous keyboard includes a key structure, a supporting plate, a switch circuit board, a light guide plate, a top-view light-emitting element and a reflecting element. The supporting plate includes a supporting plate opening. The supporting plate is located under the key structure. The switch circuit board is located over the supporting plate. The light guide plate is located under the supporting plate, and includes a light guide plate opening. The top-view light-emitting element is inserted into the light guide plate opening. The reflecting element is arranged between the top-view light-emitting element and the key structure. After the light beam is transmitted through the supporting plate opening, the light beam is transmitted through the switch circuit board and reflected to the light guide plate by the reflecting element. Then, the light beam is guided to a periphery region of the key structure by the light guide plate. |
| US10236140B2 |
Illuminated dual pressure sensing key
A key structure includes a movable element, an elastic element, a light-emitting element and a pressure sensing element. The pressure sensing element is arranged between the elastic element and the light-emitting element. The elastic element is disposed on the movable element. The light-emitting element emits a light beam. The light beam is transmitted through the pressure sensing element and projected to the movable element to illuminate the key structure. While the key structure is depressed, the elastic element is pushed by the movable element. The pressure sensing element is pushed by the elastic element according to different magnitudes of the depressing force. Consequently, the key structure generates different pressure sensing signals. |
| US10236136B1 |
Arrangement for double break contact with electro-magnetic arc-blow
A high voltage switch system including a circuit interrupter having a first set of contacts in series with a first coil, which are in series with a second coil and a second set of contacts, the first coil wound around a first core and the second coil wound around a second coil such that upon an arc forming between the contacts of the first and second contacts, the arcs are motivated in opposite directions to be extinguished. |
| US10236132B2 |
Hermetically sealed electrolytic capacitor with double case
An electrolytic capacitor is provided having an inner case housing a capacitor element and an electrolyte, which is sealed by an inner cap insulated from the body of the inner case by a gasket, with the anode terminal of the capacitor element connected to the inside face of the inner cap and an anode lead connected to the outside face of the inner cap. The inner case is placed in an outer case having a sleeve surrounding the body of the inner case and an outer cap with a hermetic seal overlaying the inner cap. An insulating spacer is positioned between the inner cap and the outer cap, whereby the spacer resists movement of the inner cap, thereby preventing outward expansion of the inner case, which otherwise might lead to failure, especially at relatively high operating temperatures. |
| US10236131B2 |
Implantable energy storage device including a connection post to connect multiple electrodes
An example includes a capacitor case sealed to retain electrolyte, at least one anode disposed in the capacitor case, the at least one anode comprising a sintered portion disposed on a substrate, an anode conductor coupled to the substrate in electrical communication with the sintered portion, the anode conductor sealingly extending through the capacitor case to an anode terminal disposed on the exterior of the capacitor case with the anode terminal in electrical communication with the sintered portion, a second electrode disposed in the capacitor case, a separator disposed between the second electrode and the anode and a second electrode terminal disposed on an exterior of the capacitor case and in electrical communication with the second electrode, with the anode terminal and the second electrode terminal electrically isolated from one another. |
| US10236128B2 |
Electrolytic capacitor production method
An electrolytic capacitor production method is performed in the following procedure. An anode body having a dielectric layer is impregnated with a dispersion containing a conductive polymer and a first solvent. Then, a pH of the dispersion with which the anode body has been impregnated is adjusted or a base is added to the dispersion with which the anode body has been impregnated. Then, at least a part of the first solvent is removed from the anode body. |
| US10236124B2 |
Electronic component mount structure, electronic component, and method for manufacturing electronic component
An electronic component mount structure includes an electronic component and a mount substrate. The electronic component includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers, internal electrode layers and an insulating layer stacked in a stacking direction. The multilayer body includes two main surfaces opposed to each other in the stacking direction, two side surfaces opposed to each other in a width direction perpendicular to the stacking direction, and two end surfaces opposed to each other in a length direction perpendicular to the stacking and width directions. An insulator is provided on the side surfaces of the multilayer body. The mount substrate includes a land electrode on a mount surface. The electronic component is mounted on the land electrode with a solder fillet being interposed such that the side surfaces are perpendicular to the mount surface. The land electrode is smaller in the width direction than the electronic component. |
| US10236121B2 |
Capacitor unit and electric power conversion device
A capacitor unit is integrally provided with: a capacitor main body; a pair of bus bars that are connected to a pair of corresponding electrodes of the capacitor main body; and a casing that internally contains the capacitor main body and the bus bars and is made of resin. The bus bars are each provided with an input terminal on a first end side to which a connection terminal of a high-voltage cable for DC power is connected, while being each provided with an output terminal on a second end side to which an inverter substrate is connected. |
| US10236120B2 |
Manufacture of coils for electrotechnical components using strips of unsealed anodized aluminum
A method for manufacturing a strip of impregnated anodized aluminum, for use in a coil of an electrotechnical component, said coil including an interstitial material providing dielectric cohesion and insulation functions, said interstitial material being suitable for cross-linking, in other words for forming, by chemical reactions between the components thereof when subjected to certain physical conditions, molecular structures being organized in a lattice, the method comprising: a step of applying the precursor mixture of said interstitial material to the anodized aluminum; at least one step of cross-linking the precursor mixture in order to form said interstitial material on the strip of aluminum; wherein the anodized aluminum has not been subjected to the sealing of the pores of the alumina formed by anodization prior to the application of the precursor mixture of said interstitial material. |
| US10236118B1 |
Wireless energy coil arrangement
A system and method are provided for wirelessly transmitting energy from a transmitter platform to a receiver platform. The system reduces the number of coils on the receiver platform to one, while the remaining coils are located on the transmitter platform. The spacing of the coils on the transmitting platform can be adjusted to optimize the magnetic flux transfer to the single coil on the receiving platform based on the unique distance between the transmitter and receiver platforms. |
| US10236116B2 |
Power supply apparatus for vehicle and insulation structure applied to the same
A power supply apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The power supply apparatus includes a plurality of bobbins around which coils are wounded, a bobbin assembling plate configured to be integrally formed with the plurality of bobbins, a support body configured to support the bobbin assembling plate, a connection housing configured to have a plurality of phase electrode terminals connected to a plurality of connecting terminals, which are installed at one side of an upper end of the support body, and to connect ends of the coils wound around the plurality of bobbins and a plurality of insulators having the plurality of phase electrode terminals alternately disposed sequentially therein and disposed between the plurality of phase electrode terminals, and a housing cover configured to form an outer cover of the connection housing and an outer cover of the support body. |
| US10236115B2 |
Integrated transformer
An integrated transformer includes a primary winding and a secondary winding each having a spiral planar arrangement coils. A dielectric portion of dielectric material is interposed between the primary winding and the secondary winding. A field plate winding is electrically coupled with the primary winding. The field plate winding includes at least one field plate coil having a first lateral extension greater than a second lateral extension of a primary outer coil of the primary winding. The field plate coil is superimposed in plan view to the primary outer coil of the primary winding. |
| US10236114B2 |
Transformer for an electric connector
A transformer (100) includes a magnetic core (1), a primary coil (2), and a secondary coil (3) wound around the magnetic core (1), the primary coil including a first enameled wire (21) and a second enameled wire (22), one end of the first enameled wire and one end of the second enameled wire forming a first center tap (23) twisted into a bundle, the secondary coil including a third enameled wire (31) and a fourth enameled wire (32), one end of the third enameled wire and one end of the fourth enameled wire forming a second center tap (33) twisted into another bundle, the transformer (100) having only four enameled wires and the first center tap (23) is cross with the second center tap (33). |
| US10236109B1 |
Magnetic spring assembly for mass dampers
A magnetic spring assembly that uses the bistable magnetic nature of permanent magnets mediated by a spring material to allow one or more attached vibrating masses to take on the damping characteristics of the magnetic spring assembly includes a permanent magnet body with an attach point 15 for a first vibrating mass, two spring materials, and two magnetic disks firmly attached to a shaft having an attach point 23 for a second vibrating mass to manufacture a mass damper 20 for damping vibrations on at least one of the attached masses. The spring materials can be an elastic material or a spring that is placed between the magnetic disks and the magnetic body to allow the magnetic disks to vibrate in a spring like manner. Passive tuning of the damping characteristics of the magnetic spring assembly is achievable through selected force tuning between the magnetic force from the permanent magnet and the compression force of the spring materials, and active tuning of the magnetic spring assembly is achievable by adding control coils in the magnet body to alter the magnetic force or having spring materials with characteristics that are electrically control to alter the compression force. |
| US10236102B2 |
Lightning arrester
A lightning arrester is disclosed. The lightning arrester comprises a housing, a body partially disposed in the housing, a cap disposed at a first end of the housing, and an elastic element compressed between the cap and the body. |
| US10236101B2 |
Grommet and wire harness with grommet
A grommet and a wire harness with a grommet are provided. The grommet is for attachment to the joint between tube members into which electrical wires are inserted, and includes a main body portion that is formed by a material that has elasticity and is shaped as a tube capable of coming into close contact with the tube members. The main body portion has a pair of divided bodies that are obtained dividing the main body portion such that the interior of the main body portion is open over the entire length thereof. Mating surfaces of the pair of divided bodies are fixed to each other in a liquid-tight manner. |
| US10236098B1 |
Fireproof cable with ceramified silicone rubber insulating sheath and stainless steel interlocked armor
A fireproof cable which has a ceramified silicone rubber insulating sheath and a stainless steel interlocked armor. The cable includes wire cores each having multiple flexible copper conductors, wherein each conductor is wrapped with a ceramified silicone rubber insulating layer. A ceramified silicone rubber sheath layer and a stainless steel interlocked armor protection layer are wrapped around the wire core successively. |
| US10236097B2 |
Wire harness
A wire harness including a conductive portion that can be electrically connected to a device that is located midway along the routing path. A wire harness includes a conductive portion extending along a routing path to form a circuit. The conductive portion is formed of a single-core wire or a pipe. A branch connection portion configured to be flat against a portion of the conductive portion that is adjacent thereto is provided in the conductive portion midway in an extension direction thereof. A branching wire is connected to the branch connection portion. |
| US10236093B2 |
Meter lug isolator
The present disclosure provides for an electrically insulative cover that can be used to cover a variety of electrical components, namely hot lugs. The cover has a top surface and at least one side surface. The cover provides a shield between the lug and the individual performing work on the lug containing device. This reduces the need to disconnect and reconnect the flow of electricity which can be costly for customers. Additionally, it allows electrical work to be done more autonomously efficiently and safely. |
| US10236090B1 |
Synthesizing radioisotopes using an energy recovery linac
An apparatus and method for the production of radioisotopes utilizing an energy recovery linac. The ERL system is composed of an electron beam source, multiple superconducting radio frequency cavities operating at 4.5 K, a thin radiator, a target material, and a beam dump. The accompanying method discloses the use of the ERL system to generate desired radioisotopes via target interaction with bremsstrahlung photons while allowing recovery of a substantial portion of the electron beam energy before the beam is extracted to the beam dump. |
| US10236083B2 |
Visualization apparatus and visualization method
A visualization apparatus includes a memory unit and a computing unit. The memory unit stores a circulation model in which a vascular network, of an organ, having a diameter equal to or smaller than a predetermined value is defined on a two-dimensional plane, and a simulation result of a blood flow in the vascular network of the circulation model. The computing unit transforms the circulation model into a three-dimensional structure including the vascular network located on a cylindrical surface of a cylinder, and displays the simulation result on the three-dimensional structure. |
| US10236081B2 |
Device for providing health management service and method thereof
An electronic device includes a display, communication circuitry, at least one sensor, and a processor electrically connected with the display and the at least one sensor. The processor is configured to, based on state information obtained by the at least one sensor satisfying a predefined condition when a health state of a user corresponds to a first state, control transmitting the state information to an external server through the communication circuitry, control receiving from the external server a symptom check result corresponding to the state information, set a health state of the user to a second state based on the symptom check result, and provide a user interface (UI) for user health management at least once until the health state of the user changes from the second state to the first state based on at least one of the state information and the symptom check result. |
| US10236080B2 |
Patient medical support system and related method
A medical equipment case is provided for containing and transporting at least one article of medical equipment and a two-way audio-visual system. Such equipment may be used, for example, for telemedicine applications by a patient discharged from a hospital, or other subject in need of remote health care monitoring. The medical equipment case may include features that provide for security and facilitate return of the medical equipment case and medical equipment and audio-visual system contained therein, such as machine-readable indicia encoding information for return of the case from a usage location. The medical equipment case and contained medical equipment and two-way audio visual system together form a medical support system that can be used by a patient discharged from a hospital. Methods of controlling the medical support system are also described. |
| US10236079B2 |
Managing user information—authorization masking
Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for managing user information. For example, data of the user may be stored in a memory. A request for a user to authorize access of at least a portion of the data may be provided. The authorization may be for an application to access the portion of the data. In some examples, a response to the request may be received, and an indication that the request was provided to the user may be provided without indicating whether the user denied the request. |
| US10236078B2 |
Methods for processing or analyzing a sample of thyroid tissue
The present disclosure provides methods for processing or analyzing a sample of tissue of a subject, to generate a classification of the sample of tissue as positive or negative for thyroid cancer. The present disclosure also provides algorithms and methods of classifying cancer, for example, thyroid cancer, methods of determining molecular profiles, and methods of analyzing results. |
| US10236076B2 |
Methods and apparatus for predictable protocol aware testing on memory interface
Methods and apparatus for predictable protocol aware testing on a memory interface are are shown. An apparatus to support a protocol aware testing on a memory interface may include a digital controller to receive a plurality of read request commands from a unit under test. The digital controller further to hold the plurality of read request commands while a hold signal has a first value, and to sequentially release individual read request commands of the plurality of read request commands while to the hold signal has a second value. The digital controller further to provide input/output (I/O) commands to an output based on a particular released read request command of the plurality of read request commands. Timing of provision of the I/O commands is deterministic based on a transition of the hold signal from the first value to the second value. |
| US10236075B1 |
Predicting tunnel barrier endurance using redundant memory structures
A processor-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: activating a subset of a plurality of p-MTJ cells oriented in one or more columns of a MRAM array. Activating the subset of p-MTJ cells includes: applying a first voltage to a gate terminal of the transistor in each of the p-MTJ cells in parallel, applying a second voltage to a first end of the MTJ sensor in each of the p-MTJ cells in parallel, and applying a third voltage to a drain terminal of the transistor in each of the p-MTJ cells in parallel. The processor-implemented method also includes: monitoring the activated subset of p-MTJ cells, determining whether any of the activated p-MTJ cells have failed, and in response to determining that an activated p-MTJ cell has failed, physically locating the failed p-MTJ cell. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments. |
| US10236074B1 |
Circuits for and methods of making measurements in a testing arrangement having a plurality of devices under test
A method of making measurements in a testing arrangement having a plurality of devices under test is described. The method comprises configuring a device interface board with the plurality of devices under test; running a set of test vectors in a plurality of loops on each device under test of the plurality of devices under test, wherein the set of test vectors is run in parallel on the plurality of devices under test and comprises edge shifted test vectors which are shifted by a predetermined edge shift step during each loop; receiving test result data for the plurality of devices under test; and determining, for each device under test, fail information to identify when the device under test failed based upon a number of edge shift steps. A system for making measurements in a testing arrangement having a plurality of devices under test is also described. |
| US10236069B2 |
Word line read disturb error reduction through fine grained access counter mechanism
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a storage device having multiple non volatile memory chips and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is to implement wear leveling of storage cells of the non volatile memory chips at a granularity of segments of storage cell arrays of the non volatile memory chips that share a same disturber node and that are coupled to a same storage cell array wire to diminish disturb errors. |
| US10236062B2 |
Processor
According to one embodiment, a processor includes a core controlling processing data, a cache data area storing the processing data as cache data in a nonvolatile manner, a first tag area storing a tag data of the cache data in a volatile manner, a second tag area storing the tag data in a nonvolatile manner, a tag controller controlling the tag data. The tag controller determines whether the processing data is stored in the cache data area by acquiring the tag data from one of the first and second tag areas. |
| US10236061B2 |
Resistive random access memory having charge trapping layer, manufacturing method thereof, and operation thereof
A resistive random access memory (RRAM) including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a charge trapping layer is provided. The second electrode is located on the first electrode. The charge trapping layer is located between the first electrode and the second electrode. The charge trapping includes a first region and a second region. The first region has a first dopant and is close to the first electrode. The second region has a second dopant and is close to the second electrode. |
| US10236060B1 |
Nonvolatile memory device
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile memory device includes word lines, bit lines, resistance change memory elements, each selectively exhibiting a low or high-resistance state, and a write voltage generating circuit generating a write voltage supplied to the resistance change memory element selected via the bit line selected. The write voltage generating circuit supplies the write voltage to the first and second resistance change memory elements connected to one selected word line and two selected bit lines adjacent to each other in a temporally overlapping manner, and generates the write voltage such that a magnitude of the write voltage supplied to the first resistance change memory element becomes smaller when a write voltage for high-resistance state setting is supplied to the second resistance change memory element than when a write voltage for low-resistance state setting is supplied. |
| US10236059B2 |
System and method for performing memory operations on RRAM cells
A resistive RAM (RRAM) device has a bit line, a word line, a source line carrying a bias voltage that is a substantially static and non-negative voltage, an RRAM cell, and a bit line control coupled to the bit line circuit. The RRAM cell includes a gate node coupled to the word line, a bias node coupled to the source line, and a bit line node coupled to the bit line. The bit line control circuit is configured to generate non-negative command voltages to perform respective memory operations on the RRAM cell. |
| US10236058B2 |
Non-volatile semiconductor memory device adapted to store a multi-valued data in a single memory cell
A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes an electrically data rewritable non-volatile semiconductor memory cell and a write circuit for writing data in the memory cell, the write circuit writing a data in the memory cells by supplying a write voltage Vpgm and a write control voltage VBL to the memory cell, continuing the writing of the data in the memory cell by changing the value of the write control voltage VBL in response to an advent of a first write state of the memory cell and inhibiting any operation of writing a data to the memory cell by further changing the value of the write control voltage VBL to Vdd in response to an advent of a second write state of the memory cell. |
| US10236057B2 |
Memory cells and methods for writing data to memory cells
Semiconductor memory devices and methods for writing data in memory cells are provided. An exemplary method for writing data in a memory cell includes providing the memory cell with a first pull-up transistor, a first power supply line coupled to the first pull-up transistor, a second pull-up transistor, and a second power supply line coupled to the second pull-up transistor. The method further includes applying a primary voltage from the first power supply line to the first pull-up transistor. The method also includes applying a secondary voltage from the second power supply line to the second pull-up transistor, wherein the secondary voltage is higher than the primary voltage. Further, the method includes performing a write operation to save a selected value in the memory cell. |
| US10236055B1 |
Memory element write-assist circuitry with dummy bit lines
Integrated circuits with memory elements are provided. In particular, a group of random-access memory cells may be coupled to first and second data lines via corresponding access transistors. One of the first and second data lines can be driven to a ground voltage level to write a zero or one into a selected memory cell in the group. A first dummy data line can be formed adjacent to the first data line, whereas a second dummy data line can be formed adjacent to the second data line. During data loading operations, at least one of the dummy data lines can be pulsed to temporarily drive the voltage on the associated data line to below the ground voltage level. Operated in this way, the write operation of the memory cells can be improved. |
| US10236054B1 |
Method and system for systematic read retry flow in solid state memory using a retry table
In general, embodiments of the technology relate to improving read performance of solid-state storage by using decoding parameters deemed particularly suitable for the read operation that is currently being performed. More specifically, embodiments of the technology relate to using different decoding parameters when a read operation needs to be repeated because the initial read operation has failed. |
| US10236052B2 |
Current sense amplifiers, memory devices and methods
A current sense amplifier may include one or more clamping circuits coupled between differential output nodes of the amplifier. The clamping circuits may be enabled during at least a portion of the time that the sense amplifier is sensing the state of a memory cell coupled to a differential input of the sense amplifier. The clamping circuits may be disabled during the time that the sense amplifier is sensing the state of a memory cell at different times in a staggered manner. The clamping circuits may be effecting in making the current sense amplifier less sensitive to noise signals. |
| US10236048B1 |
AC current write-assist in orthogonal STT-MRAM
Methods and structures useful for magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) are disclosed. The MRAM device has a magnetic tunnel junction stack having a significantly improved performance of the free layer in the magnetic tunnel junction structure. The MRAM device utilizes an in-plane polarization magnetic layer and a perpendicular MTJ in conjugation with a programming current pulse that comprises an alternating perturbation frequency. |
| US10236045B2 |
Semiconductor memory device having detection clock patterns phase-inverted from each other and detection clock generating method thereof
A clock pattern generating method of a semiconductor memory device is provided. The method includes generating the same clock pattern through a plurality of detection clock output pins when an output selection control signal is in a first state and generating clock patterns different from each other through the plurality of detection clock output pins when the output selection control signal is in a second state different from the first state. |
| US10236044B2 |
Memory system
A memory system includes a semiconductor memory and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a read operation on the semiconductor memory in response to a read instruction received from a host. In response to the read instruction that includes a first logical address, the controller converts the first logical address into a first physical address, and issues a read command and a second physical address different from the first physical address, to the semiconductor memory. |
| US10236036B2 |
Sense amplifier signal boost
Apparatuses for signal boost are disclosed An example apparatus includes: first and second digit lines coupled to memory cells; a sense amplifier including: first and second transistors having gates operatively coupled to the first digit line and drains coupled to a first node, sources of the first and second transistors coupled to first and second control lines providing first and second power supply voltage respectively; and third and fourth transistors having gates coupled to the second digit line and drains coupled to a second node, sources of the third and fourth transistors coupled to the first and second control lines respectively; a power line coupled to the first node and the second node; and a power switch providing either the first power supply voltage or a third power supply voltage smaller than the first power supply voltage to the power line. |
| US10236035B1 |
DRAM memory device adjustable refresh rate method to alleviate effects of row hammer events
The present disclosure provides a dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The DRAM includes a refresh unit, an accessing device and a refresh device. The refresh unit has a plurality of memory rows. The accessing device is configured to access the memory rows. The refresh device is configured to refresh the refresh unit in a first manner in response to a first event, in which a quantity of accessed memory rows of the refresh unit is not greater than a threshold quantity. The refresh device is configured to refresh the refresh unit in a second manner in response to a second event, in which the quantity of accessed memory rows of the refresh unit is greater than the threshold quantity. |
| US10236032B2 |
Mass data storage system with non-volatile memory modules
A mass data storage system, which comprises: a controller for issuing and receiving signals to carry out memory operations; a motherboard comprising at least one first connector and providing signal pathways for establish a ring from the controller via each of the at least one first connector and back to the controller; and at least one non-volatile memory module comprising a second connector electrically connected to a chain of non-volatile memory devices, wherein mating of the second connector with a given one of the at least one first connector causes the chain of non-volatile memory devices to be inserted into the ring, thereby to allow the controller to carry out the memory operations on the non-volatile memory devices in the chain. |
| US10236031B1 |
Timeline reconstruction using dynamic path estimation from detections in audio-video signals
A dynamic path estimation method reconstructs a program timeline in real time from an incoming stream of audio or visual content in which watermark payloads are redundantly encoded. A receiving device buffers a portion of the incoming signal, executes watermark detection on the contents of the buffer, presents detection results, and then advances the incoming signal in the buffer. Each detection result corresponds to different possible detection paths, as the detector does not reveal the precise position of the watermark payload. The dynamic path estimation method operates on the detection results to determine a global cost function for each possible detection path. As the incoming audio advances through a detection buffer, the method updates cost values for the possible paths, determines a global cost for the paths, and outputs a timeline based on the path of the lowest global cost. |
| US10236025B2 |
Evaluation method of magnetic tape and manufacturing method of magnetic tape
Provided are an evaluation method of a magnetic tape, in which the magnetic tape which is an evaluation target includes a magnetic layer including a servo pattern, the method including: reading the servo pattern by a magnetic head including a tunnel magnetoresistance effect type element as a servo pattern reading element; measuring electric resistance of the tunnel magnetoresistance effect type element after the reading; and determining quality of the magnetic tape by using a degree of a decrease in the measured electric resistance from a reference value as an index, and a manufacturing method of a magnetic tape including: evaluating the magnetic tape including a servo pattern in a magnetic layer by the evaluation method. |
| US10236022B2 |
Multi-layer PZT microactuator having a poled but inactive PZT constraining layer
A multi-layer piezoelectric microactuator assembly has at least one poled and active piezoelectric layer and one poled but inactive piezoelectric layer. The poled but inactive layer acts as a constraining layer in resisting expansion or contract of the first piezoelectric layer thereby reducing or eliminating bending of the assembly as installed in an environment, thereby increasing the effective stroke length of the assembly. Poling only a single layer would induce stresses into the device; hence, polling both piezoelectric layers even though only one layer will be active in use reduces stresses in the device and therefore increases reliability. |
| US10236016B1 |
Peripheral-based selection of audio sources
A speech interface device may be configured to act as a remote speaker peripheral for multiple audio sources such as media players and phones. Upon receiving a request from a user to connect to an audio device, the speech interface device determines which of the multiple audio devices are currently available, selects one of the audio devices based on information about or received from the user, establishes an audio connection with the selected one of the audio devices, and begins acting as a remote speaker or speakerphone for the selected audio device. |
| US10236013B2 |
Personal audio assistant device and method
A personal audio assistant includes a housing for a device, a first microphone within or on the housing where the first microphone captures audio, a communication module within the housing, a logic circuit communicatively coupled to the device, and an interaction element. The interaction element and logic circuit are configured to initiate control of audio content or initiate at least an operation of the device in response to an analysis of the audio. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10236011B2 |
Personal audio assistant device and method
A computer readable medium containing instructions for controlling an electronic device causes one or more processors to perform operations including receiving an ambient signal, receiving a desired signal, combining the ambient signal with the desired signal to generate a mixed signal, and initiating control of audio content or at least one operation of the electronic device in response to at least one voice command detected in the mixed signal. In another aspect, the one more processors apply at least one among active noise reduction, echo cancellation, or signal cancellation to the ambient signal using an environmentally customized filter to provide a filtered signal and initiate control of audio content or at least one operation of an electronic device. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10235993B1 |
Classifying signals using correlations of segments
An input signal may be classified by computing correlations between feature vectors of the input signal and feature vectors of reference signals, wherein the reference signals correspond to a class. The feature vectors of the input signal and/or the reference signals may be segmented to identify portions of the signals before performing the correlations. Multiple correlations of the segments may be combined to produce a segment score corresponding to a segment. The signal may then be classified using multiple segment scores, for example by comparing a combination of the segment scores to a threshold. |
| US10235991B2 |
Hybrid phoneme, diphone, morpheme, and word-level deep neural networks
A hybrid frame, phone, diphone, morpheme, and word-level Deep Neural Networks (DNN) in model training and applications-is based on training a regular ASR system, which can be based on Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) or DNN. All the training data (in the format of features) are aligned with the transcripts in terms of phonemes and words with the timing information and new features are formed in terms of phonemes, diphones, morphemes, and up to words. Regular ASR produces a result lattice with timing information for each word. A feature is then extracted and sent to the word-level DNN for scoring Phoneme features are sent to corresponding DNNs for training. Scores are combined to form the word level scores, a rescored lattice and a new recognition result. |
| US10235987B1 |
Method and apparatus that cancel component noise using feedforward information
A method and apparatus that cancel component noise are provided. The method includes: detecting a trigger to activate component noise cancellation, in response to detecting the trigger, receiving feedforward information from a component, generating noise cancellation information based on the feedforward information, and outputting a noise cancellation sound according to the noise cancellation information. |
| US10235986B1 |
Acoustic system for cancelling out-of-phase reflected soundwaves of audio output systems
An acoustic system for cancelling out-of-phase reflected soundwaves of an audio output system is provided. The acoustic system provides an acoustic element operatively associated with a positioning system adapted to selectively and bidirectionally position the acoustic element relative to an acoustic center arc of the audio output system so as to be disposed at or nearest a deepest reflector point of the acoustic center arc, cancelling out-of-phase reflected soundwaves from a wall adjacent to the audio output system. |
| US10235985B2 |
Externally coupled loudspeaker system for a vehicle
A loudspeaker system is provided that includes a loudspeaker that is arranged in a baffle between a passenger compartment of a vehicle and the outside of the passenger compartment. The loudspeaker is configured to radiate an acoustical signal to the passenger compartment. The loudspeaker system further includes active noise control system wherein a microphone is acoustically coupled to the loudspeaker via a secondary path, and the loudspeaker is electrically coupled to the microphone via an active noise control filter. |
| US10235984B2 |
Karaoke device
A karaoke device includes a processor, a microphone, a wireless transceiver, an AM/FM transmitter, and a memory. The karaoke device may receive a music stream from a connected mobile device via the wireless transceiver, which may be mixed with vocals received via the microphone before the resulting audio signal is transmitted to a nearby radio via the AM/FM transmitter for playback. |
| US10235983B2 |
Music shaper
A music composition, editing, and playback system and method provides a user interface design based on geometric interpretation of music theory replacing traditional modern music notation with geometric shapes including chords represented by polygons that are colored with colors or hues. |
| US10235981B2 |
Intelligent crossfade with separated instrument tracks
A method is provided including separating a first file into a first plurality of instrument tracks and a second file into a second plurality of instrument tracks, wherein each instrument track of each of the first plurality and second plurality corresponds to a type of instrument; selecting a first instrument track from the first plurality of instrument tracks and a second instrument track from the second plurality of instrument tracks based at least on the type of instrument corresponding to the first instrument track and the second instrument track; fading out other instrument tracks from the first plurality of instrument tracks; performing a crossfade between the first instrument track and the second instrument track; and fading in other instrument tracks from the second plurality of instrument tracks. |
| US10235978B2 |
Dual volume percussion instrument system
The present invention comprises a drum with two playing surfaces on opposites ends of a hollow drum body. The drum is configured for the first drum head to produce a loud sound and the second head to produce a quiet sound, under the same full force drum strikes without compromising the feel and rebound of the drum heads. The drum may have a central base, a shell disposed on each side of the base, and a drum head stretched over each of the shell. The drum heads are attached to a shallow drum body with independent tensioning of the heads and sandwiched drum shells. The tensioning system is mounted to the central base. An optional snare system may be mounted to the base. |
| US10235976B2 |
Vehicle display device for changing the position of displayed traffic indicators based on the road having left or right side traffic
A display device for a vehicle, which is installed to a targeted vehicle, selectively makes one of a left side display part, which is at least one of the plurality of display parts and is a position on a more left side than the center of the display means in a lateral direction, and a right side display part, which is at least one of the plurality of display parts and is a position on a more right side than the center, show a passing section-related sign image, indicating whether the vehicles in a country have to keep to the left or keep to the right. The passing-section related sign image corresponds to a road sign representing traffic information related to whether the vehicles have to keep to the left or have to keep to the right, when the identified road sign is the passing section-related sign. |
| US10235975B2 |
Method and system for providing a real time content updates to a user
Embodiments herein provide a method and system for constantly rendering a dynamic content of an item displayed in an electronic device. Further, the method includes identifying the dynamic content associated with a region of the item. Further, the method includes generating an overlay including a transparent region and an opaque region. The overlay is sized in accordance to a display coordinates associated with the object. Further, the method includes rendering the identified dynamic content of the item in the transparent region of the overlay on the electronic device. Furthermore, the transparent region is configured to adaptively display the identified dynamic content in the display coordinates of the object. |
| US10235974B2 |
Display system and display method
A display system displays, on each of a plurality of display devices arranged side by side, among image data of a plurality of pages, each of image data of the number of display devices, and reflects input information, which indicates information input by a user, on image data displayed on a master display device among the plurality of display devices. Moreover, the display system displays, on each of the plurality of display devices, among the image data of the plurality of pages, each of image data which is obtained by shifting the image data of the number of display devices in accordance with an operation on a page operation unit. Thereby, a viewer is able to view image data of several pages at once, and it is possible to reflect information input by a user even when image data of a target page is shifted backward or forward. |
| US10235971B1 |
System and method for enhancing display uniformity at display boundaries
Disclosed is a system and method for enhancing display uniformity at display boundaries. A memory stores multiple input data patterns comprising pixel data to be displayed for multiple display time intervals. A comparator receives input data patterns for a preceding time interval. The comparator compares the difference between a pixel data associated with a pixel of a current line and a preceding line with a predefined threshold. A display controller determines a rescan pattern corresponding to a blanking time interval between the preceding display time interval and a current display time interval by driving the pixel data using a look-up table. The display panel displays the input data patterns corresponding to current display time interval after the blanking time interval having the rescan pattern such that coherency amongst display characteristics of the current display time interval and the preceding display time interval is achieved. |
| US10235968B2 |
Medical image display apparatus, medical image adjustment method and recording medium
A medical image display apparatus, including: a storage section; a display section; a specification section which receives user's specification of medical image data as an adjustment reference; a display control section which controls the display section to display an adjustment reference medical image on the basis of the medical image data as the adjustment reference and a density adjustment value associated with the medical image data; an adjustment instruction section which receives user's instruction to perform density adjustment of the adjustment reference medical image displayed on the display section; and an overall adjustment section which, for each piece of medical image data other than the medical image data as the adjustment reference, changes a density adjustment value associated with the medical image data on the basis of change information indicating a content changed by the density adjustment. |
| US10235966B2 |
Image display device and method of displaying image
An image display device includes an image display unit including first pixels each constituted of sub-pixels of three or more colors included in a first color gamut and second pixels each constituted of sub-pixels of three or more colors included in a second color gamut different from the first color gamut, the first pixels and the second pixels being arranged in a matrix and adjacent to each other; and a processing unit that determines an output of the sub-pixels included in each pixel of the image display unit corresponding to an input image signal. The processing unit determines an output of the sub-pixels included in the other one of the pixels based on part of components of an input image signal corresponding to one of the first pixel and the second pixel that are adjacent to each other. |
| US10235962B2 |
Techniques for robust reliability operation of a thin-film transistor (TFT) display
The present disclosure provides devices and techniques for dynamically adjusting the bias voltage (V) levels (e.g., low level gate voltage (VGL) and high level gate voltage (VGH)) for display screens made with thin-film transistor (TFT) technology based on a display run time. Thus, as the positive bias temperature stress for the TFTs increases over the course of the display lifetime, features of the present disclosure adjust the bias voltage levels to maintain operation margin (e.g., the ratio between the high level gate voltage (VGH) value and the voltage value which the display can maintain with normal operation). By dynamically adjusting the bias voltage levels, the TFT displays of the present disclosure consume lower power than their conventional counterparts and improve the lifetime of the display itself. |
| US10235958B2 |
Gate driving circuits and liquid crystal devices
The present disclosure relates to a gate driving circuit including N number of cascaded-connected GOA driving units, wherein the GOA driving units at each of the levels includes a pull-up control circuit, a pull-up circuit, a level transfer circuit, a boast capacitor, and a pull-down holding circuit. The pull-down holding circuit of the GOA driving unit of the n-th level and the pull-down holding circuit of the GOA driving unit of the (n+1)-th level are turned on alternatedly. The pull-down holding circuit of die GOA driving unit of the n-th level may keep the potential of the node within the GOA driving units at the n-th and the (n+1)-th level in the off state, wherein n=1, 3, 5, . . . , N−1, and N is an even number greater than one. The present disclosure also relates to a LCD including the above gate driving circuit. |
| US10235946B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling liquid crystal display brightness, and liquid crystal display device
An apparatus for controlling liquid crystal display brightness includes: a subarea image grayscale determining section configured to determine image grayscale values of subarea image data blocks corresponding to backlight subareas according to a received image signal; a subarea backlight value pre-obtaining section configured to pre-obtain subarea backlight values corresponding to the subarea image data blocks according to the image grayscale values of the subarea image data blocks; a subarea backlight value gain section configured to multiply the pre-obtained subarea backlight values with a preset backlight value gain coefficient to obtain gained backlight values of the backlight subareas, wherein the preset backlight value gain coefficient is more than 1; a subarea backlight value adjusting section configured to obtain a subarea backlight value adjustment coefficient, and to further multiply the gained subarea backlight values with the corresponding backlight value adjustment coefficient to obtain adjusted subarea backlight values, wherein if the pre-obtained subarea backlight value or the gained subarea backlight value is below a first threshold, then the corresponding backlight value adjustment coefficient is less than 1; and a subarea backlight value outputting section configured to output the respective adjusted subarea backlight values to driver circuits of backlight sources in the corresponding backlight subareas to control the brightness of the backlight sources in the corresponding backlight subareas as a result of driving. |
| US10235945B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling display in electronic device having processors
An apparatus and a method for controlling a display so as to reduce power consumption in an electronic device having a plurality of processors are provided. The apparatus includes a display and a control unit. The display is configured to display information formed by a first image and a second image. The first image corresponds to a partial region of the information, and the second image corresponds to a background region of the information. The control unit includes a first processor and a second processor. The processor may be configured to transmit the first image to the second processor in response to a request for displaying the information on the display. The second processor may be configured to store the second image in a memory and control the display to display the received first image together with the second image. |
| US10235943B2 |
Display panel, method for controlling display panel and display device
The present disclosure provides a display panel, its controlling method and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units, a plurality of gate scanning lines arranged on a display substrate and a plurality of data lines arranged on the display substrate and crossing the gate scanning lines. Each pixel unit includes a data writing module, a driving module and a light-emitting element. The data writing module is configured to apply a data voltage to the driving module under the control of a current-level gate scanning signal, and the driving module is configured to drive the light-emitting element to emit light in accordance with the data voltage. The data writing modules of N adjacent pixel units in an identical row are connected to an identical data line, and N is an integer greater than 1. The data voltage across the data line is applied to the data writing modules of the N adjacent pixel units in a time-division manner under the control of the current-level gate scanning signal. |
| US10235940B2 |
Pixel-driving circuit, the driving method thereof, and display device
The embodiment of present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit and a driving method thereof and a display device, which can improve the undesirable phenomena of uneven display luminance of a display caused by a threshold voltage. The pixel driving circuit comprises a light emitting unit and at least one driving unit. The driving unit comprises a driving module, a compensation module and an initialization module. The light emitting unit is connected to the driving unit, a high level signal terminal, a low level signal terminal and a first signal terminal; the driving module is connected to the light emitting unit, a second signal terminal, the compensation module and the initialization module, respectively; the initialization module is connected to the light emitting unit, the driving module, the compensation module, an initial voltage terminal and a fourth signal terminal; the compensation module is connected to the driving module, the initialization module, a reference voltage terminal, a scanning signal terminal, a data voltage terminal and a third signal terminal. The driving unit further comprises a first driving unit and a second driving unit for alternately driving two adjacent frames of image. |
| US10235938B2 |
Gate driver circuit including variable clock cycle control, and image display apparatus including the same
A gate driver IC (i.e., gate driver circuit), when set to a first mode by a logic signal of the terminal FNC*, shifts data in the gate driver IC in synchronization with one clock cycle of a clock inputted to the terminal CLK** (clock input terminal), and outputs a selection voltage or a non-selection voltage based on a data position in the gate driver IC; and when set to a second mode by a logic signal of the terminal FNC*, shifts data in the gate driver IC in synchronization with n clock cycles (n is an integer of at least 2) of a clock inputted to the terminal CLK**, and outputs the selection voltage or the non-selection voltage based on the data position in the gate driver IC. |
| US10235936B2 |
Luminance uniformity correction for display panels
This application relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for reducing non-uniform luminance of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel. In order to reduce non-uniform luminance, the display panel can compensate for an amount of voltage drop that is occurring across a line of the display panel. The voltage drop can be estimated based on image data provided to the display panel and one or more calibration constants stored by the display panel. The calibration constants can be generated during manufacturing of the display panel in order to equip the display panel with an accurate means for predicting voltage drop across each line of the display panel. During calibration, a predetermined display pattern is output by the display panel. Thereafter, an amount of luminance projected from the display panel is compared with an expected amount of luminance associated with the predetermined display pattern to calculate the calibration constant. |
| US10235934B2 |
Organic light emitting display panel and organic light emitting display device including the same
Discussed are an organic light emitting display panel and an organic light emitting display device including the same, which allows a uniform current to flow in a plurality of driving power lines, thereby reducing consumption power. The organic light emitting display panel can include first to mth gate lines and first to nth data lines configured to define a plurality of pixel areas by intersections therebetween, a plurality of color pixels respectively provided in the plurality of pixel areas, and a plurality of driving power lines. Each of the plurality power lines is shared by two color pixels which are adjacent to each other in a first direction corresponding to a length direction of the first to mth gate lines. Two color pixels, which are adjacent to each other in a second direction corresponding to a length direction of the plurality of driving power lines, have different colors. |
| US10235932B2 |
OLED inverting circuit and display panel
An inverting circuit is disclosed. The inverting circuit includes a pull-up unit including first, second, and third terminals. The first terminal receives a first control signal, and the third terminal is connected to a signal output terminal and outputs a first level signal. The inverting circuit also includes a pull-down unit including fourth, fifth, and sixth terminals. The fourth terminal is connected to the second terminal of the pull-up unit, and the fifth terminal receives a second control signal. In addition, the sixth terminal is connected to the signal output terminal and outputs a second level signal. The inverting circuit also includes a first capacitor, connected to the second terminal of the pull-up unit and the fourth terminal of the pull-down unit, and to the third terminal of the pull-up unit and the sixth terminal of the pull-down unit. |
| US10235931B2 |
Timing controller
A main input interface receives input image data. Memory stores multiple segment data that specify the on/off states of the multiple respective segments that form a segment character on an image frame. A sub input interface receives sub data that specifies the segment character to be displayed. A segment decoder converts the segment character into a raster image based on the sub data and the multiple segment data. An image processing circuit generates output image data to be displayed on a display panel, based on at least one of the input image data and the output data of the segment decoder. |
| US10235927B2 |
On-chip clock calibration systems and methods for electronic device displays
Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices with displays. A display may include display control circuitry including an internal oscillator and one or more counters. The counters may be used to calibrate a display line time to a system line time to ensure that each displayed frame is synchronized with received display data frames from system circuitry for the electronic device. The counters may include a first counter that maintains a current-row count during operation of a current row of display pixels during a current display frame and a second counter that maintains a current-frame count that indicates a number of counts accumulated during the current display frame. The current-row count and the current-frame count may be referenced to the system line time during operation of each pixel row to remove any errors accumulated during operation of the previous pixel rows. |
| US10235921B2 |
Display Device
A display device includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, and a pixel array. The pixel array is electrically coupled to the data lines and the scan lines. Colors of the sub pixels electrically coupled to the same scan line are the same. The pixel array includes a plurality of first color sub-pixel rows, a plurality of second color sub-pixel rows, and a plurality of third color sub-pixel rows. The third color sub-pixels corresponding to the same data line include a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel have different polarities. The sub-pixels configured between the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel have the same polarity. |
| US10235917B2 |
Display device and method of driving the same
A disclosed display device includes a data driver configured to receive data signals corresponding to an input image and to output a first data signal corresponding to a first portion of the input image to be displayed. The display device also includes a display panel having a plurality of data lines and a display area configured to display the first portion of the input image based on the first data signal from the data driver. The data driver is further configured to cut off a second data signal corresponding to a second portion of the input image substantially outside the display area of the display panel from being output. |
| US10235916B2 |
Apparatus and method for correcting image distortion and curved display device including the same
An apparatus for correcting image distortion may correct a luminance level of image data in accordance with a curvature of a curved display panel in a curved display device and a viewing distance of a viewer and display an image optimized for the curvature and the viewing distance on a full area of the curved display panel, whereby an image having no distortion may be provided to the viewer. The apparatus for correcting image distortion includes a virtual curved surface generator, a coordinate mapping unit, and a luminance converter. |
| US10235905B2 |
Automatic injection training device
An automatic injection training device is presented having an elongated housing assembly and a demo container. The device further has a reloadable plunger assembly comprising a hollow plunger, a piston rod, a first energy accumulating member arranged between the hollow plunger and the piston rod and an actuation assembly configured to hold the hollow plunger in a first position and thereby the piston rod in the start position and to release the hollow plunger from the first position and thereby the piston rod from the start position. The hollow plunger can have a chamber sealed by the piston rod, and a passage; such that movement of the hollow plunger from the first to the second position by a force exerted from the first energy accumulating member causes an airflow into the chamber through the passage whereby the movement of the hollow plunger is dampened. |
| US10235901B2 |
Automated training and evaluation of employees
This specification generally relates to automated training and evaluation of employees. One example method includes presenting a clothing selection task to an employee, the clothing selection task including providing categories of clothing items to the employee and directing the employee to select a clothing item for each of the categories, and associated with a training scenario including evaluation criteria for evaluating the clothing items selected by the employee; in response to presenting the clothing selection task to the employee, identifying a set of clothing item selections by the employee associated with the categories included in the clothing selection task; in response to identifying the set of clothing item selections, automatically evaluating the set of clothing item selections based on the evaluation criteria included in the training scenario associated with the clothing selection task; and presenting a result of automatically evaluating the set of clothing item selections to the employee. |
| US10235897B2 |
Providing drawing assistance using feature detection and semantic labeling
Methods for providing drawing assistance to a user sketching an image include geometrically correcting adjusting user strokes to improve their placement and appearance. In particular, one or more guidance maps indicate where the user “should” draw lines. As a user draws a stroke, the stroke is geometrically corrected by moving the stroke toward a portion of the guidance maps corresponding to the feature of the image the user is intending to draw based feature labels. To further improve the user drawn lines, parametric adjustments are optionally made to the geometrically-corrected stroke to emphasize “correctly” drawn lines and de-emphasize “incorrectly” drawn lines. |
| US10235893B2 |
Flight control method and unmanned unmannered aerial vehicle
A method for controlling an aerial vehicle includes determining a direction in which the aerial vehicle is traveling; determining, with reference to a table, an altitude range which corresponds to the determined direction and within which the aerial vehicle is caused to fly, the table indicating correspondences between directions in which the aerial vehicle is traveling and altitude ranges within which the aerial vehicle is to fly; obtaining, from an altimeter, a first altitude, which is a current altitude, at which the aerial vehicle is flying; determining whether the first altitude is included in the determined altitude range; and if it is determined that the first altitude is not included in the determined altitude range, changing an altitude at which the aerial vehicle is caused to fly from the first altitude to a second altitude included in the determined altitude range. |
| US10235886B1 |
Integral damage control by interaction between a collision detection system and a bumper system
Activating a smart bumper system is provided. Traffic data are received from a set of sensors located on each of a plurality of vehicles within a defined area. A collision is predicted between two or more vehicles is imminent based on analyzing the traffic data. A smart bumper system of at least one of the two or more vehicles that will be involved in the predicted collision is actuated to minimize an amount of damage during the predicted collision. |
| US10235885B2 |
Autonomous vehicle driving system and method
Disclosed are an autonomous vehicle driving system and method that increase probability that a signal of a traffic light will be recognized by using map information built in an autonomous vehicle driving system and a traffic light infrastructure, determine which travel route is allowed according to a camera recognition result and signal information delivered through V2X communication (traveling is allowed from which entrance lane to which exit lane), and enable an autonomous driving vehicle and a traffic light infrastructure to exchange intersection passage route information in order to allow the autonomous driving vehicle to efficiently pass through an intersection. |
| US10235880B2 |
Method and apparatus for forecasting flow of traffic
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for forecasting the flow of traffic. The method includes: detecting measurement information of a vehicle by using a sensor; generating vector data based on the measurement information; and transmitting the generated vector data. |
| US10235877B1 |
Self-driving vehicles safety system
Self-driving vehicles safety system, comprising synthesized and coordinated components and entities, including vehicles, pedestrians, and traffic control light mechanisms, exchanging information, employing lidar (light imaging detection and ranging), radar and intelligent computer-based decision support algorithm systems that analyze images and extract information, to provide safety and vehicle control, regulated and prioritized traffic, and reduced vehicle emissions. |
| US10235876B2 |
Traffic network reliability evaluating method and system thereof
A method and a system of evaluating traffic network reliability adapted to a traffic route network with sub-routes are provided. The method includes obtaining a connecting configuration, threshold distribution values, a state distribution value of each sub-route; enumerating at least one path according to a maximal threshold value of the traffic route network, the connection configuration and the threshold distribution values of each sub-route wherein each path is composed of a plurality of the sub-routes and includes threshold distribution values corresponding to each sub-route, wherein if a specific path is not composed of a specific sub-route, a threshold distribution value of the specific path corresponding to the specific sub-route is 0; and calculating a difference between user-side network reliability value and system-side network reliability of the traffic route network based on the threshold distribution values corresponding to each sub-route of each path and the state distribution value of each sub-route. |
| US10235874B2 |
Remote control system, remote control method and gateway
A remote control method, and a remote control system and a gateway for implementing the method are provided. The method includes receiving, by a remote control device, a plurality of ultra-wideband signals transmitted by a main control device to calculate position data; calculating, by the remote control device, rotation vector data according to detection data of the remote control device; transmitting, by the remote control device, the rotation vector data and the position data to the main control device to allow the main control device to identify an electronic device the remote control device aims at and transmit control information corresponding to the electronic device to the remote control device according to the rotation vector data and the position data; and displaying, by the remote control device, a control interface for controlling the electronic device according to the received control information. |
| US10235873B2 |
System and method to facilitate configuration of a controlling device
A system and method wherein geographic data is used to configure a controlling device to control operations of a target device and/or to configure the controlling device to control tuning operations of a target device. The system additionally provides for the harmonization of controlling device configurations made on the controlling device and/or a remote computer. |
| US10235869B2 |
Remote control device
A remote control device configured communicate with an air conditioner or a heat pump includes a touch panel having an electrode unit, a liquid crystal display, and a casing accommodating the touch panel and the liquid crystal display. The casing has a back surface part and a front surface part. The liquid crystal display is disposed to overlap the touch panel as seen from a front surface part side. The electrode unit has a first electrode section to detect a touched position, and a second electrode section that may function as an antenna to perform wireless communication with another communication device. The first and second electrode sections are configured and arranged to be nearer to the front surface part than to the back surface part inside the casing, and to be disposed so as not to overlap with each other as seen from the front surface part side. |
| US10235868B2 |
Embedded shared logical instrument
System and method for controlling a custom modular measurement system. An editor may receive user input specifying one or more system definitions, each mapping message based commands, parameters, variables and/or metadata (“information”) accordant with a control protocol for standalone instruments to functions and data in a programming language, and generates the definitions accordingly, each being useable by a client application to interface with a custom modular measurement system that includes multiple logical instruments via the message based information. At least one of the definitions may be deployed onto the measurement system. A run-time engine of the measurement system may accept a message based command from the application, and call a corresponding function, which may invoke operation of at least one of the logical instruments. The logical instruments may be operated concurrently, including sharing use of a single physical measurement device by at least two of the logical instruments. |
| US10235865B2 |
System and method for monitoring handwashing compliance
A hand-washing monitor and hand washing monitoring system are provided. The hand-washing monitoring system includes a motion detector mounted near, to or in a sink and configured to detect a scrubbing motion near a location of an outlet of a sink faucet. Both the hand-washing monitor and the hand-washing monitoring system include a processor coupled to the motion detector and a memory coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to monitor the motion detector for signals indicative of the scrubbing motion that is continuous during a predetermined scrubbing interval and to provide signal indicating a successful scrubbing operation when the scrubbing motion is continuously detected during the entire interval. The hand-washing monitor includes a housing containing the processor, the motion detector, the memory and proximity sensors for detecting the application of soap. |
| US10235863B2 |
Smart location-based reminders
A method and device for providing a reminder to a user of a mobile device are provided. The method includes receiving a request to establish a first geographical area for the mobile device for triggering a first location-based reminder, the request including a flag indicating that other sensor information is to be used to determine when to provide the first location-based reminder to the user. A location of the mobile device is monitored to identify whether the first geographical area is triggered by the mobile device crossing a first boundary of the first geographical area. After the mobile device crosses the first boundary the first location-based reminder is identified and a state of the mobile device is determined. The first location-based reminder is provided to the user based on the state of the mobile device being included in a list of trigger states. |
| US10235861B1 |
Monitoring a disinfected state of a mobile device
A mobile device that includes an input device, an output device, and an electronic processor connected to the input device and the output device. The electronic processor is configured to receive, from the input device, information about a disinfectant and set a threshold time, a threshold activity level, or both the threshold time and the threshold activity level based on the information about the disinfectant. The electronic processor is also configured to track a passage of time, an activity level, or both. If the passage of time is greater than or equal to the threshold time, the activity level is greater than or equal to the threshold activity level, or both then the electronic processor is configured to output a user notification, via the output device. |
| US10235860B2 |
Location beacon assembly
A location beacon assembly includes a wrist band that may be worn on a wrist. A beacon unit is coupled to the wrist band. The beacon unit is turned on when the beacon unit is exposed to water. The beacon unit selectively emits blue light. Thus, the beacon unit is visible at a maximum depth in water thereby facilitating a swimmer to be located when the swimmer is drowning. The beacon selectively emits an echolocation sound that has a frequency ranging between 10 kHz and 20 kHz. Thus, the beacon unit is audible at a maximum depth in water thereby facilitating the swimmer to be located when the swimmer is drowning. |
| US10235859B1 |
Systems and methods for the mitigation of drowsy or sleepy driving
Systems and methods for mitigating drowsy and/or sleepy driving may include utilizing vehicle-related and wellness-related telematics to detect and/or predict drowsy and/or sleepy driving states of a driver of a vehicle and take mitigating actions to thereby increase the safety of the driver and other people and/or vehicles in the vicinity of the driver's vehicle. Vehicle-related telematics data and wellness-related telematics data (which may include sleep data) may be collected via sensors that disposed on-board the vehicle, in the vehicle's environment, and at a personal health/fitness tracker of the driver. The collected data may be collectively interpreted to detect, predict, and/or otherwise discover information relating to a drowsy and/or sleepy state of the driver, and one or more mitigating actions may be automatically performed based on the discovered information to thereby mitigate undesirable effects of drowsy/sleepy driving and increase driving safety. |
| US10235856B2 |
Electronic apparatus and method
According to one embodiment, a method executed by an electronic apparatus including storage configured to store device information including first position information indicating a position of a device installed in a particular range and risk information associated with use of the device is provided. The method includes receiving second position information indicating a position of a user wearing an eyeglasses-type wearable terminal and working within the particular range, from the eyeglasses-type wearable terminal and estimating a status of the user, based at least in part on the first position information and the risk information included in the device information, and the second position information. |
| US10235855B2 |
Acousto-magnetic anti-theft label with embossed features on the upper surface and method of manufacture
An anti-theft AM label is formed with a housing that includes concave and/or convex patterns and wordings on the upper surface thereof. The concave and/or convex patterns and wordings provide a different appearance for anti-theft AM labels that can deter shoplifters from finding and removing the labels from the goods the labels are protecting. The concave and/or convex patterns can be the logo of the store in which the labels are used. The upper surface of the housing can be formed with a cold forming process or a hot forming process. The shape of the housing can be varied between square, rectangular, circular, sector and oval configurations, as desired by the customer. The depth of the patterns and words relative to a flat portion of the upper surface of the housing is in the range of 0.05-1.0 mm or, more preferably, in the range of 0.2-1.0 mm. |
| US10235844B1 |
Networked gaming system enabling a plurality of player stations to play independent games with online play
A system, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement a networked gaming system that enables a plurality of players to wager on one or more dealers at different dealing stations dealing independent games simultaneously. A live video is captured on each dealing station and simulcast to player stations where players are playing at. Players can bet on any combination of the games that are being broadcast. |
| US10235841B2 |
Tournament game system and tournament method
In an embodiment of a gaming method, an identifier may be received from a first gaming unit, wherein the identifier is associated with a tournament game card, wherein the tournament game card is provided to a player in response to paying a fee. Whether the identifier received from the first gaming unit is authentic may be determined. A duration the player may play in a tournament may be determined based on the identifier, and the first gaming unit may be enabled for play in the tournament for the duration if the identifier is authentic. A tournament score of the player may be received, and a winning player of the tournament, if any, may be determined. Data indicative of a value payout to be awarded to the winning player may be generated if the winning player of the tournament is determined. |
| US10235838B2 |
Electronic voucher ticket system
A voucher ticket system and method of use employing a bill validator installed into any suitable automated machine, including an Automated Teller Machine (ATM), a gaming machine, etc. The bill validator is integrated with a bill reader, a voucher ticket reader, a reader to obtain an electronic voucher ticket from a portable computing device, a printer, and any other supporting peripheral devices. The method processes a deposit, a withdrawal, a transfer and a management of a financial balance of each account. The electronic money handling terminal and the electronic money transaction server communicate through an electronic money handling terminal interface. Upon recognition of an electronic money account of a gaming player, the system receives a voucher ticket master ID issued by a voucher ticket management system at the cash-out, and proceeds with a cash out event to the electronic money account. |
| US10235836B2 |
Triggering in-application currency transfer
Systems and methods are disclosed for electronically transferring currency from a source user account to a target user account in relation to a game application. A payment service provider may receive a request to transfer an amount of currency from the source user account to the target user account to be used for the game application. |
| US10235816B2 |
Methods and systems for electronic payment for parking in gated garages
The methods describe the use of Handset Apps in garages currently using paper tickets or ID tokens in ways that minimize disruption to the existing infrastructure. The techniques include automatic recognition of garage/gate ID, automatic identification of paper ticket ID without optical scanning, and direct payment in manually operated garages, including those using valet parking. |
| US10235815B2 |
3D object localization with quantization
The invention notably relates to a computer-implemented method for localizing a 3D modeled object in a 3D scene, the method comprising a positioning of the 3D modeled object in the 3D scene, the positioning being performed following an algorithm that rewards, for each of first couples made of two 3D points of the 3D modeled object and their respective associated normal vectors, a match with a respective second couple made of two 3D point of the 3D scene and its respective associated normal vectors, the first couple being positioned substantially on the second couple, the match between the first couple and the second couple amounting to a substantial integer equality between the value of a quantized descriptor for the first couple and the value of the quantized descriptor for the second couple. This improves the localizing a 3D modeled object in a 3D scene. |
| US10235810B2 |
Augmented reality e-commerce for in-store retail
The augmented reality e-commerce may maximize limited physical space within a store by providing virtual displays of products in predetermined physical spaces. A virtual shelf blueprint that includes positional information for virtual display locations on a virtual shelf may be received. Subsequently, geospatial sensor scans of multiple reference markers in a real-world may be received. The multiple reference markers may correspond to reference points in the virtual shelf blueprint. The virtual shelf may be mapped to the real-world based on the multiple reference markers, in which the mapping may be performed by assigning positional data of the multiple reference markers to the reference points in the virtual shelf blueprint. The virtual shelf may be populated with one or more 3-dimensional (3D) objects that virtually represent at least one real-world product for viewing via an augmented reality device. |
| US10235808B2 |
Communication system
A user device comprises a network interface, a rendering module, and a scene modification module. The network interface is configured to receive a video signal from another device via a network. The rendering module is configured to control display apparatus of the user device to display a virtual element to a user of the user device, the virtual element comprising a video image derived from the video signal. The modification module is configured to generate rendering data for displaying a modified version of the virtual element at the other device. The modified version does not include said video image. The network interface is configured to transmit the rendering data to the other device via the network. Alternatively or in addition, the rendering data can be modified at the other device to the same end. |
| US10235807B2 |
Building holographic content using holographic tools
A system and method are disclosed for building virtual content from within a virtual environment using virtual tools to build and modify the virtual content. |
| US10235800B2 |
Smoothing 3D models of objects to mitigate artifacts
A system and method is provided for smoothing portions of a 3D model of an object based on the likelihood of a portion being an accurate representation of the surface of the object, and based on whether the surface of the object according to the model is relatively jagged or relatively smooth. |
| US10235791B2 |
Digital device and service processing method thereof
Disclosed in the present specification are a digital device and a service processing method thereof. The digital device and the service processing method thereof according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: receiving text data; activating a text field for displaying the received text data; displaying the text data within the activated text field; checking whether or not the attribute type of the text field is a marquee attribute; and as a result of checking, if the attribute type of the text field is a marquee attribute, moving the text displayed within the text field in a predetermined direction. |
| US10235786B2 |
Context aware clipping mask
A context aware clipping mask is described. Context aware clipping masks may provide an automated approach for creating clipping sets that generate aesthetically pleasing photo texts. In at least some implementations, an input image is analyzed to generate an image saliency map and an image gradient map. A plurality of image rects of varying sizes and aspect ratios are generated on a grid over the input image. A score is assigned to each image rect, incorporating a visual composition, a boundary simplicity based on the image gradient map, and a content preservation based on the image saliency map. An image rect with the highest score is selected and utilized to create a photo text from the input image. |
| US10235779B2 |
Image display device and image display method
An image display device may include a display and a controller configured to change a value of a pixel included in an input image based on a hue value and a saturation value of the pixel and control the display such that the display displays the image in which the value of the pixel has been changed. |
| US10235776B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing program
According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes processing circuitry. The circuitry acquires a first picture including a first object and a second object; and acquires a second picture including the first object and an object different from the first object. The circuitry generates first data to display first associated information; and generates second data to display the first associated information superimposed onto the second picture in response to a change between a first positional relationship in the first picture and a second positional relationship in the second picture, the first positional relationship being a relative positional relationship between the first and second objects in the first picture. The second positional relationship is a relative positional relationship between the first object and the object different from the first object in the second picture. |
| US10235774B1 |
Method and system for calibration of an image capturing device mounted on a machine
A method for calibrating an image capturing device mounted on a machine is provided. The image capturing device is configured to capture one or more images of a calibration target. The one or more images include a set of reference points corresponding to the calibration target. The method includes receiving a first positional data and a second positional data associated with the image capturing device and the calibration target respectively. The method includes generating, through the processor, a set of augmented reality points based on the first positional data and the second positional data. The method further includes overlaying, through the processor, the set of augmented reality points on the set of reference points displayed on the display. The method includes iteratively adjusting, through the processor, at least one of a roll, a yaw, or a pitch of the image capturing device until the set of augmented reality points align with the corresponding set of reference points. |
| US10235771B2 |
Methods and systems of performing object pose estimation
Techniques are provided for estimating a three-dimensional pose of an object. An image including the object can be obtained, and a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) projections of a three-dimensional bounding (3D) box of the object in the image can be determined. The plurality of 2D projections of the 3D bounding box can be determined by applying a trained regressor to the image. The trained regressor is trained to predict two-dimensional projections of the 3D bounding box of the object in a plurality of poses, based on a plurality of training images. The three-dimensional pose of the object is estimated using the plurality of 2D projections of the 3D bounding box. |
| US10235770B2 |
Pothole detection
A system for pothole detection comprises an input interface configured to receive sensor data and a pothole detector configured to determine a pothole based at least in part on the sensor data using a model, wherein the model is used to classify sensor data; and store pothole data associated with the pothole, wherein the pothole data comprises a pothole video. |
| US10235768B2 |
Image processing device, in-vehicle display system, display device, image processing method, and computer readable medium
In an image processing device (120), an extraction unit (121) extracts a plurality of objects from a captured image (101). A prediction unit (122) predicts a future distance between the plurality of objects extracted by the extraction unit (121). A classification unit (123) classifies into groups the plurality of objects extracted by the extraction unit (121) based on the future distance predicted by the prediction unit (122). A processing unit (124) processes the captured image (101) into a highlight image (102). The highlight image (102) is an image in which the plurality of objects classified by the classification unit (123) are highlighted separately for each group. |
| US10235763B2 |
Determining optical flow
Systems and methods of determining optical flow are provided. For instance, a plurality of input color vectors respectively associated with a plurality of input pixels can be obtained. Each input pixel can have a known position within an image. A color rate of change associated with each input pixel in the image can be obtained. An optical flow estimate associated with a subject pixel within the image can be determined based at least in part on the plurality of input color vectors and the color rates of change associated with the input pixels in the image. |
| US10235761B2 |
Method and apparatus for segmenting object in image
An object in a first image is segmented by obtaining the first image including the object; receiving a first input signal including first information about a first position in the first image; selecting at least one pixel included in the first image, based on the first information about the first position; generating a second image by dividing the first image into several areas, using the selected at least one pixel; and segmenting the object in the first image by using the first image and the second image. |
| US10235754B2 |
Semi-automated heart valve morphometry and computational stress analysis from 3D images
A method is provided for measuring or estimating stress distributions on heart valve leaflets by obtaining three-dimensional images of the heart valve leaflets, segmenting the heart valve leaflets in the three-dimensional images by capturing locally varying thicknesses of the heart valve leaflets in three-dimensional image data to generate an image-derived patient-specific model of the heart valve leaflets, and applying the image-derived patient-specific model of the heart valve leaflets to a finite element analysis (FEA) algorithm to estimate stresses on the heart valve leaflets. The images of the heart valve leaflets may be obtained using real-time 3D transesophageal echocardiography (rt-3DTEE). Volumetric images of the mitral valve at mid-systole may be analyzed by user-initialized segmentation and 3D deformable modeling with continuous medial representation to obtain, a compact representation of shape. The regional leaflet stress distributions may be predicted in normal and diseased (regurgitant) mitral valves using the techniques of the invention. |
| US10235753B2 |
Automatic recognition of anatomical landmarks
A method for automatic recognition of at least one anatomical landmark in a hollow organ of a patient is provided. The method includes providing an image dataset of the hollow organ, establishing or providing a three-dimensional mesh of a surface of the hollow organ from the image dataset, and determining a centerline of the mesh by skeletization. At least one feature is determined for each of a plurality of points on the centerline. A classifier pre-trained on the at least one feature is used for detecting candidates for the at least one anatomical landmark from the plurality of points. The candidates are grouped together with a distance from one another below a threshold. At least one specification determined from the anatomy of the hollow organ is used for confirming or rejecting the candidates for the at least one anatomical landmark. One or more candidates are defined as an anatomical landmark. |
| US10235752B2 |
Slice selection for interpolation-based 3D manual segmentation
Slice selection for interpolation-based 3D manual segmentation is provided such that propagation error is minimized during 3D reconstruction. In various embodiments, a plurality of 2D images is read. Each of the plurality of 2D images represents a slice of a 3D volume. Deformable registration is performed between each adjacent pair of the plurality of 2D images. From the deformable registration, propagation error is estimated between each pair of the plurality of 2D images. The plurality of 2D images is clustered into a predetermined number of clusters. A slice is selected for annotation from each of the predetermined number of clusters. |
| US10235749B2 |
Food processing method and system
A method and system for forming a packaged product (100) and ensuring that the packaged product (100) is adequately filled. In one aspect, the method includes forming a product (101); introducing the product (101) into a package (103), thereby forming a packaged product (100); obtaining an x-ray image (201) of the packaged product (100); analyzing the x-ray image (201) utilizing a processor (118) to identify whether bounded contours (200) exist in the x-ray image (201) for each of the bounded contours (200), the processor (118) determining whether the bounded contour (200) is a threshold defect based at least in part on bounded area (208) of the bounded contour (200) for each of the threshold defects, the processor (118) classifying the threshold defect as one of a plurality of pre-determined defect types; and determining a source of at least one of the threshold defects in the packaged product (100) based at least in part on the classification of the at least one of the threshold defects. |
| US10235747B2 |
System and method for determining the current parameters of a zoomable camera
An accurate camera pose is determined by pairing a first camera with a second camera in proximity to one another, and by developing a known spatial relationship between them. An image from the first camera and an image from the second camera are analyzed to determine corresponding features in both images, and a relative homography is calculated from these corresponding features. A relative parameter, such as a focal length or an extrinsic parameter is used to calculate a first camera's parameter based on a second camera's parameter and the relative homography. |
| US10235745B2 |
Image processing method, computer storage medium, apparatus and terminal
Embodiments relate to the field of image processing technologies, and in particular, to an image processing method and apparatus. In embodiments, when an image is being photographed, an exposure time that is required is first determined, and if the required exposure time is longer than a preset exposure time, the preset exposure time is used to photograph N second images, that is, and a final image is obtained by processing the N second images. |
| US10235740B2 |
Flexible information handling system display resolution scaling
An information handling system communicates visual information to a display in a first pixel value format and the display converts the first pixel formation to a native format with a graphics processing unit. The graphics processing unit adapts its programming to convert various input pixel values into desired native formats, such as by converting High Definition input into Ultra High Definition native format. The information handling system and display coordinate through configuration information to identify and program the display graphics processor to perform desired pixel conversion. |
| US10235739B1 |
Computing device independent and transferable game level design and other objects
A system which employs a method of creating transferrable map schemas, storing the map schemas to storage devices, receiving target device settings, re-sampling the map schemas to fit the target devices using the target device settings, delivering the re-sampled map schemas to the target devices is described. Thereby providing the innovation that map schemas may be accessed by more than one type of device, the method by which maps are scaled from a created map dimension with given details to either a larger map having the ability to be utilized on a more capable playing device or to a map or a smaller map having the ability to be utilized on a less capable device without losing the important game-specific required data is also described. |
| US10235736B2 |
Intelligent graphics dispatching mechanism
An apparatus to facilitate data intelligent dispatching is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processing units including a plurality of execution units (EUs) to execute a plurality of processing threads and collection logic to collect statistics data for threads executed at the processing unit during execution of an application, and dispatch logic to dispatch the threads to be executed at a subset of the plurality of EUs during a subsequent execution of the application based on the statistics data. |
| US10235734B2 |
Translation of artificial intelligence representations
Techniques for translating graphical representations of domain knowledge are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, a graphical representation of domain knowledge. The graphical representation comprises information indicative of a central concept and at least one chain of events associated with the central concept. The computer-implemented method further comprises translating, by the device, the graphical representation into an artificial intelligence planning problem. The artificial intelligence planning problem is expressed in an artificial intelligence description language. The translating comprises parsing the graphical representation into groupings of terms. A first grouping of terms of the grouping of terms comprises an event from the at least one chain of events and a second grouping of terms of the grouping of terms comprises the information indicative of the central concept. The computer-implemented method also comprises validating, by the device, the artificial intelligence planning problem. |
| US10235732B2 |
Scheduling and dispatch of GPGPU workloads
A method and system are described herein for an optimization technique on two aspects of thread scheduling and dispatch when the driver is allowed to pick the scheduling attributes. The present techniques rely on an enhanced GPGPU Walker hardware command and one dimensional local identification generation to maximize thread residency. |
| US10235731B2 |
Serialized digital watermarking for variable data printing
Digital watermarking is adapted for the variable data printing. A reference signal serves as a proxy for optimizing the embedding a watermark in a host image to be printed. Using the reference signal, embedding parameters are generated, which are a function of constraints such as visual quality and robustness of the machine readable data. Adjustments needed to embed a unique payload in each printed piece are generated using the embedding parameters. These adjustments are stored in a manner that enables them to be efficiently obtained and applied within the RIP or press during operation of the press. Various other methods, system configurations and applications are also detailed. |
| US10235729B1 |
Methods and systems for preferred pharmacy designation
Methods and systems for managing pricing guarantees for prescription drugs are described. In one embodiment, a designation of a pharmacy within a pharmacy network may be received as a preferred pharmacy designation. The preferred pharmacy designation may be associated with a member. A set of preferred pharmacy benefits may be associated with the member and the preferred pharmacy designation. A pharmacy claim associated with the preferred pharmacy designation for a prescription for the member may be adjudicated based on the set of preferred pharmacy benefits. Other methods and systems are described. |
| US10235727B2 |
Learning facility management in a modular learning system
A system and method are disclosed for managing learning facilities in a modular learning system. Information about a plurality of learning facilities, each associated with learning infrastructure, is stored in the modular learning system. Learning applications are also stored in the modular learning system, with each learning application associated with ergonomic requirements. The modular learning system receives a request to set up a learning facility for at least one learning application, and based on the infrastructure and ergonomic requirements determines whether the facility and the at least one learning application are compatible. |
| US10235725B2 |
Method and system for determining merchant gratuity values
A method for communicating an index of service performance based on gratuity value includes: storing transaction messages, each including a merchant identifier associated with a merchant involved in the related payment transaction, a transaction amount, and addendum data; receiving a data request including a specific merchant identifier; identifying a subset of transaction messages that includes the specific merchant identifier; identifying a tip amount for each transaction message in the by (i) extracting the tip amount from the addendum date, or (ii) calculating the tip amount based on the transaction amount stored respective transaction message and a transaction amount stored in a matching clearing record; calculating an average gratuity index for a merchant associated with the specific merchant identifier as an average of the identified tip amounts; and transmitting the calculated average gratuity index in response to the data request. |
| US10235724B2 |
Energy efficient hot water distribution
A method and system of providing hot water efficiently. A cost of heating a volume of water to a predetermined temperature in a first water heater is determined. A cost of transferring a volume of hot water from a second water heater of a network of interconnected water heaters to the first water heater is determined. Upon determining that the cost of transferring the volume of hot water from the second water heater is lower than the cost of heating the volume of water of the first water heater, the second water heater transfers at least part of the volume of hot water to the first water heater. Otherwise, the volume of water is heated to the predetermined temperature in the first water heater. |
| US10235723B2 |
System and method for automatic generation of reports based on electronic documents
A system and method for automatically generating reports. The method includes: retrieving reporting requirements for an enterprise; obtaining, based on the retrieved reporting requirements, at least partially unstructured data; creating, based on the obtained at least partially unstructured data, at least one template, wherein each template is a structured dataset; and generating, based on the created at least one template and the retrieved reporting requirements, at least one report. |
| US10235721B1 |
System and method for automated data gathering for tax preparation
A computer-implemented method for gathering user-related tax data for use with tax preparation software includes a computing device executing a data capture utility configured to connect to one or more remotely located data sources, wherein the data capture utility captures user-specific tax data from the one or more remotely located data sources and stores the captured data in a data store. The computing device executes a tax logic engine configured to read data from the data store and determine the completeness of the data contained within the data store. The computing device communicates a message to the user regarding the level of completeness of the data contained within the data store. |
| US10235719B2 |
Centralized GAAP approach for multidimensional accounting to reduce data volume and data reconciliation processing costs
Systems and methods for a centralized approach to multidimensional accounting are provided. Exemplary embodiments of systems and methods include the creation of GAAP-independent and GAAP-dependent posting documents in an accounting database. The GAAP-independent and GAAP-dependent posting documents may be stored separately in the accounting database, and a given GAAP-independent posting document may be associated with multiple GAAP-dependent posting documents, allowing for significant reductions in data volume and data reconciliation processing costs. |
| US10235715B2 |
Visualization of changes through the use of graphical geometric shapes
Methods and systems are disclosed for determining changes or revisions to a set of data and providing a user with a computerized graphical depiction of these changes through the use of multiple geometric shapes, the positioning of which shapes relative to one another and the size of which shapes relative to one another depict the changes to the user. |
| US10235705B2 |
Providing an enhanced shopping experience
Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for enhancing a shopping experience that include: determining, by a self-checkout terminal, that a shopper invoked a help event; selecting, by the self-checkout terminal in dependence upon the help event, a shopper assistant to assist the shopper; and providing, by the self-checkout terminal to the shopper, distinguishing information identifying the shopper assistant. |
| US10235704B2 |
Universal ledger
The present invention provides systems and methods for tracking obligations incurred between individuals. The method may include receiving a request from a first party, where the request includes an expense incurred by the first party for the benefit of a second party. The method may also include providing a notice of the request to the second party and receiving an acceptance from the second party to assume an obligation associated with the expense. The method may further include associating the obligation with the second party and associating a benefit with the first party. The obligation and/or benefit may be substantially equal in value to the expense. The method may additionally include interfacing with a social network service to provide the social network service with information about the obligation and/or the benefit. |
| US10235702B2 |
System for utilizing redemption information
A system to determine offers and/or to determine the acceptability of offers based on received information relating to product redemption at a third party. According to one embodiment, the system includes arrangement for a customer to redeem a product from a third party, reception of information relating to a redemption of the product by the customer, reception of an offer to purchase a product for an offer price, determination to accept the offer based on the received information relating to the redemption, determination of an assigned third party at which the offer product may be redeemed based on the received information, and transmission of an acceptance of the offer and an indication of the assigned third party. |
| US10235700B2 |
Method for operating pay stations of an ID-based access control system for a post-payment scenario
As part of the method for operating pay stations of an ID-based access control system for a post-payment scenario comprising a central server (1) and at least one access control device (5), each access control device (5) of the access control system is assigned to a zone and each pay station (4, 4′, 4″) is assigned to a zone. Each zone comprises a unique zone-ID and, at the start of the execution of the method for each zone a presence record created in the central server (1) is forwarded via one or more proxy-servers (2,3) to the pay stations (4, 4′, 4″) of each zone and stored in the pay stations (4, 4′, 4″). Subsequently, at pre-set, definable time intervals or when the Delta changes recorded in the central server (1)—namely the IDs of the customer media no longer present in the zone and the IDs of customer media newly added—a pre-set threshold in a zone for the customer media newly added in this zone and/or for the customer media no longer present in the zone is exceeded, a file containing the Delta changes for updating the presence record stored in the pay stations (4, 4′, 4″) is transmitted via one or more proxy-servers (2, 3) to the pay stations (4, 4′, 4″). |
| US10235694B2 |
Rules-based targeted content message serving systems and methods
A method of serving targeted content messages for display in a website accessed in a browser program of a networked computer communicatively connected to a network at a network address for communications, delivers uniquely targeted content messages displayed in websites viewed in web browsers. The method includes placing a script device in a website file, processing the website file, together with the script device by a particular web browser on download of the website file, including by determining the network address of the networked computer, determining an identifier of the website file, and sending an artifact representing the network address and the identifier over the network to a server computer. The method also includes detecting the network address and the identifier by the server computer, querying a database for a database article related to the network address and the identifier, constructing a script program stored in memory of the server computer for the particular browser and website file, and constructing an ad device stored in memory of the web browser device from the script program. The method further includes calling the server computer by the ad device by communication of an identifier representing an action of the web browser device, receiving the identifier by the server computer, querying the database for a select message artifact related to the script program, the identifier, the website file, and the web browser, and responding by the server computer to the web browser with the select message artifact. A message represented by the select message artifact is displayed in the website then viewed in a browser window of the web browser. Messages can be prioritized and are uniquely targeted in content, based on real-time activities of the web browser. |
| US10235693B2 |
Method and system for providing advertisement based on gaze of user
Methods and systems of modifying content displayed by a mobile device are provided. A region of interest (ROI) of a user is recognized. The ROI may be associated with content being displayed on a display of the mobile device. A time duration of interest based on the ROI is determined. The displayed content is modified based on the ROI, the time duration of interest, and a content type of the displayed content. |
| US10235691B2 |
System and method for viral marketing and management
Systems, methods, and software for relatively low cost or free viral marketing management are provided. The system, method and software may be configured to create a primary advertisement including a code associated with the primary user, and send the created primary advertisement, the primary promotional code, and information associated with a marketing management system to one or more prospective secondary users. The secondary user may use the marketing management system to create a secondary advertisement including at least a portion of the primary advertisement, and send the created secondary advertisement, primary or secondary promotional code, and information associated with a marketing management system to one or more subsequent users. |
| US10235684B2 |
Methods and apparatus to generate consumer data
Methods and apparatus to generate consumer data are disclosed. An example method of selecting a sample of transaction data corresponding to a membership program includes defining a first type of member of the membership program; defining a second type of member of the membership program; calculating, via a processor, a target for the sample; selecting, via the processor, a first portion of the transaction data for the first type of member in accordance with the target; generating, via the processor, an updated target by recalculating the target with the first portion of the transaction data removed from consideration; and selecting, via the processor, a second portion of the transaction data for the second type of member in accordance with the updated target. |
| US10235678B1 |
System and method for managing distributed offerings
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for deploying an offering to a customer in a data processing system having an offering platform program. A customer asset that is a hardware or software component of a customer device is located. The customer asset and its location on the customer device are identified by the offering. A request to deploy the offering is received. The offering is transmitted to the customer device and enabled on the customer device. |
| US10235675B1 |
Vehicle identifier communication and authentication
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a vehicle identifier (VID), the VID uniquely identifying a vehicle of a user, receiving a response that indicates the user and that provides user information associated with the user, the user information including one or more of behavioral information and disbursement information, and at least partially performing an operation based on the user information. |
| US10235674B2 |
Method for a prepaid, debit and credit card security code generation system
This invention is a comprehensive “Dynamic Security Code” (“DSC”) System (“DSC System”) that can change the security code of a prepaid, debit, or credit card (“Payment Card”). In an effort to thwart Card-Not-Present (“CNP”) fraud, the DSC System provides dynamic security code values (“DSC Values”) that have a limited use. The DSC Values provided by this DSC System can be calculated by various methodologies and can be used within existing standard payment card infrastructures. The DSC System can also be used with other form factors and in other environments not related to payments such as balance inquiries. The DSC Values can be calculated by a DSC Generator Server or on the card itself. |
| US10235673B2 |
System and method of detecting fraudulent user transactions
Systems and methods for detecting fraudulent activity in user transactions. An exemplary method includes: collecting user behavior data during the user's interaction via an input device with one or more groups of elements of a graphical interface of an application on a computing device; calculating, by a processor, an anomalous user behavior coefficient for each group of elements of the graphical interface based on the collected user behavior data; detecting, by the processor, a fraudulent activity when a combination of anomalous user behavior coefficients exceeds a predetermined threshold value; and in response to detecting a fraudulent activity, blocking, by the processor, the interaction of the user with the application. |
| US10235669B2 |
Real-time mobile wallet server
Techniques and apparatuses for providing wallet server information to an entity using a real-time mobile wallet server (MWS) are disclosed herein. The MWS may receive a request for personal information from an entity. The MWS may then display to a user a summary of the request, a list of selections available in the wallet server that may satisfy the request, and a list of selectable response options for the user to choose to respond to the entity. In some aspects, the wallet server may store username and associated passwords, payment information, and/or contact information. In further aspects, the MWS may generate limited-use payment information associated with existing payment information. The MWS may communicate ad hoc messaging to the entity using voice-based or real-time text-based communications over an established communication link between the MWS and entity. |
| US10235668B1 |
System and method for a mobile wallet
A computer-implemented method for receipt management includes receiving, using a mobile wallet stored on a mobile device of a user, receipts that include a record of transactions between the user and one or more merchants, the transactions being performed using the mobile wallet account of the user. The method includes receiving receipts for transactions that were not performed using the mobile wallet account of the user, the receipts being received from a user e-mail address, the receipts for non-mobile wallet transactions being received by the mobile wallet of the user. The method includes aggregating the mobile wallet receipts with the receipts of non-mobile wallet transactions and retrieving and displaying one or more of the mobile wallet receipts and the receipts of non-mobile wallet transactions. |
| US10235666B2 |
Receipt production system, printer, and receipt production method
A printer for outputting receipts enables easily producing receipts for mobile payments.A receipt production system includes a server that receives payment information; a payment processing terminal including a storage unit that stores server information, a payment unit that executes a payment process and generates payment information including identification information, a transmission unit that sends payment information including the identification information to the server, and an identification information provider unit that transmits the identification information and the server information by wireless communication; a mobile terminal including a terminal communication unit that sends and receives the identification information and the server information transmitted from the payment processing terminal; and a printer including a wireless communication unit that receives identification information and server information transmitted from the mobile terminal by wireless communication, a communication unit that receives payment information including the identification information from the server based on the server information, and a print unit that prints a receipt based on payment information. |
| US10235660B1 |
Systems and methods for image monitoring of check during mobile deposit
An image of a check that is in the field of view of a camera is monitored prior to the image of the check being captured. The camera is associated with a mobile device. When the image of the check in the field of view passes monitoring criteria, an image may be taken by the camera and provided from the mobile device to a financial institution. The image capture may be performed automatically as soon as the image of the check is determined to pass the monitoring criteria. The check may be deposited in a user's bank account based on the image. Any technique for sending the image to the financial institution may be used. Feedback may be provided to the user of the camera regarding the image of the check in the field of view. |
| US10235659B2 |
Instant availability of electronically transferred funds
A system and method for making proceeds of a transaction available to a user before the transaction is completed is provided. The system may be part of an on-line system or traditional merchant configured to facilitate payments or fund transfers from users. In example embodiments, a request from a first entity to conduct a transaction involving a first value is received. Funds of the transaction are caused to be released prior to the transaction clearing a financial institution. Based on the transaction being rejected by the financial institution, at least a portion of the first value is charged against a credit source. |
| US10235656B2 |
Visualization of runtime resource policy attachments and applied policy details
An effective applied policy configuration associated with a selected policy resource is created responsive to a selection of a policy resource within a service policy visualization interface based upon results of programmatic introspection of the selected policy resource. The effective applied policy configuration includes correlated and combined effects of service policies identified by the programmatic introspection as attached to the selected policy resource within a resource hierarchy associated with the selected policy resource. The effective applied policy configuration associated with the selected policy resource, including the correlated and combined effects of the attached service policies, is displayed within the service policy visualization interface. |
| US10235653B1 |
Packing locations for inventory items
An inventory packing system and method are described. In some examples, a plurality of items having various dimensions may be accessed. A plurality of trays having various height dimensions into which the plurality of items can be packed may be identified. The plurality of items may be grouped into one or more groups based on height. Allocated inventory trays may be searched to locate free space that can function as a packing location for a first item. If free space is not found in the allocated inventory trays, other inventory trays can be allocated, searched, and free space identified in one of the other inventory trays. |
| US10235648B2 |
Cloud service usage risk assessment
A method of assessing a risk level of an enterprise using cloud-based services from one or more cloud service providers includes assessing provider risk scores associated with the one or more cloud service providers; assessing cloud service usage behavior and pattern of the enterprise; and generating a risk score for the enterprise based on the provider risk scores and on the cloud service usage behavior and pattern of the enterprise. The risk score is indicative of the risk of the enterprise relating to the use of the cloud-based services from the one or more cloud service providers. |
| US10235647B2 |
Sub-problem optimization of supply chain planning problems
A system and method is disclosed for optimizing supply chain planning problems associated with a supply chain network. The system includes a supply chain planner coupled with one or more supply chain entities. The supply chain planner determines a supply chain plan for managing the flow of one or more items through the supply chain network. |
| US10235646B2 |
Systems and methods for automated real-time task scheduling and management
Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for automated task scheduling and management. In some embodiments, a system for automated task scheduling may comprise at least one processor configured to receive a request with information for a task to be performed by a respondent. The one or more processors may retrieve employee information and, based on one or more attributes in the employee information and one or more attributes in the task information, identify one or more employees to complete the task. The one or more processors may assign the task to the identified employee(s), and monitor a status of the task based on periodic inputs from the employee. |
| US10235645B2 |
Hierarchical permissions model within a document
Case management systems and techniques are disclosed. In various embodiments, a hierarchical document permission model is received, the model describing a document hierarchy comprising a plurality of hierarchically related document nodes and defining for each of at least a subset of said document nodes one or more document roles and for each such role one or more document permissions with respect to that document node. The hierarchical document permission model is used to determine and enforce permissions with respect to case management instances to which the hierarchical document permission model applies. |
| US10235644B2 |
Retail point seed treatment systems and methods
An automated seed treatment system is adapted for on-site operation at a retail seed distributor. A sealed seed-treater vessel is configured to apply a plurality of chemical treatments to a batch of seed based on a seed treatment recipe. A programmable system controller is electrically coupled to a pump controller of each of a plurality of pump-stations. The programmable system controller is configured to receive a material transfer indication from each of the plurality of pump-stations and issue commands to the pump controller of each pump-station in response to the seed treatment recipe. The programmable system controller is configured to collect operational data representing at least consumption of chemical from the chemical container at each of the pump-stations based on the corresponding material transfer indication during seed treatment and to provide the operational data to a remotely hosted information system located remotely from the site of the retail seed distributor and accessible to at least one third party that is distinct from the retail seed distributor. |
| US10235643B2 |
Clinical plug-in application
Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage media for accessing clinical information on a mobile device are provided. A plug-in application receives from a mobile device a set of authorization credentials and a request for clinical information. A set of clinical information is determined based on the set of authorization credentials. The set of clinical information is retrieved from clinical information servers, and the set of clinical information is parsed and populated into a generic hierarchical structure. The populated hierarchical structure is communicated to the mobile device where it is subsequently rendered for display. |
| US10235638B2 |
Adaptive key performance indicator thresholds
Techniques are disclosed for providing adaptive thresholding technology for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Adaptive thresholding technology may automatically assign new values or adjust existing values for one or more thresholds of one or more time policies. Assigning threshold values using adaptive thresholding may involve identifying training data (e.g., historical data, simulated data, or example data) for the time frames and analyzing the training data to identify variations within the data (e.g., patterns, distributions, trends). A threshold value may be determined based on the variations and may be assigned to one or more of the thresholds without additional user intervention. |
| US10235637B2 |
Generating feature vectors from RDF graphs
The technology disclosed describes systems and methods for generating feature vectors from resource description framework (RDF) graphs. Machine learning tasks frequently operate on vectors of features. Available systems for parsing multiple documents often generate RDF graphs. Once a set of interesting features to be considered has been established, the disclosed technology describes systems and methods for generating feature vectors from the RDF graphs for the documents. In one example setting, a machine learning system can use generated feature vectors to determine how interesting a news article might be, or to learn information-of-interest about a specific subject reported in multiple articles. In another example setting, viable interview candidates for a particular job opening can be identified using feature vectors generated from a resume database, using the disclosed systems and methods for generating feature vectors from RDF graphs. |
| US10235635B1 |
Capacitively-shunted asymmetric DC-SQUID for qubit readout and reset
A tunable resonator is formed by shunting a set of asymmetric DC-SQUIDs with a capacitive device. An asymmetric DC-SQUID includes a first Josephson junction and a second Josephson junction, where the critical currents of the first and second Josephson junctions are different. A coupling is formed between the tunable resonator and a qubit such that the capacitively-shunted asymmetric DC-SQUIDs can dispersively read a quantum state of the qubit. An external magnetic flux is set to a first value and applied to the tunable resonator. A first value of the external magnetic flux causes the tunable resonator to tune to a first frequency within a first frequency difference from a resonance frequency of the qubit, the tunable resonator tuning to the first frequency causes active reset of the qubit. |