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| US10268508B1 |
System and method for transfer of an application state between devices
To enable continuous execution of an application, a system and method for transferring an application state is provided. A gesture corresponding to a transfer act is detected by a gesture detection module in a first device executing the application. The first device communicates with a registration and relay server to determine eligible transfer recipients based on criteria such as location and/or devices that are currently executing the application. A transfer recipient is selected and platform independent application state Data Transfer Objects are generated that describe the state of execution on the first device. The application state DTOs are transferred via the server to the recipient device which enacts the application state DTOs to continue the execution of the application on the recipient device. Because the application state DTOs are platform independent, the application state can be transferred to almost any device that is able to execute the application. |
| US10268500B2 |
Managing virtual machine instances utilizing a virtual offload device
Generally described, the present application relates to systems and methods for the managing virtual machines instances using a physical computing device and an offload device. The offload device can be a separate computing device that includes computing resources (e.g., processor and memory) separate from the computing resources of the physical computing device. The offload device can be connected to the physical computing device via a bus interface. The bus interface can be a high speed, high throughput, low latency interface such as a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface. The offload device can be used to offload virtualization and processing of virtual components from the physical computing device, thereby increasing the computing resources available to the virtual machine instances. |
| US10268498B2 |
Web browser for spoofing supported features
Emulating as supported web browser feature when a webpage is merely testing for web browser support of various features. Frequently a web page may test for support of various features of a web browser. The present technology prevents the unnecessary and premature initiation of supported features saving a user time from having to authorize its use in addition to saving the valuable system resources (e.g. memory, power, etc.) before the supported features are actually needed by the webpage. By emulating or spoofing support of various features of a web browser, the user of a computing device can be spared authorizing use of the various features, and spared the extra power consumption of initializing the various features that may not be used. |
| US10268494B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method and program
There is provided an information processing device including a receiving unit for receiving a command to be input to a first operating system and a command to be input to a second operating system different from the first operating system, a storage unit for storing a table in which given information included in the given command received by the receiving unit and information for identifying an application are related to each other, a generation unit for generating an application selection command for selectively executing the application based on the given command received by the receiving unit and the table stored in the storage unit, and an execution unit for executing the application selection command generated by the generation unit to selectively execute the application. |
| US10268493B2 |
Connection-based resource management for virtual desktop instances
A computing system that provides virtual computing services may generate and manage remote computing sessions between client computing devices and virtual desktop instances hosted on the service provider's network. A computing resource instance manager may monitor connections to and disconnections from a virtual desktop instance during particular time periods, and may apply a resource management policy to determine whether and when to shut down an underlying virtualized computing resource instance following a disconnection (e.g., immediately, after some period of time, or only between certain hours). A storage volume for the virtual desktop instance may be detached during a shutdown. In response to a reconnection request, the virtualized computing resource instance (or another such instance) may be restarted and the storage volume may be reattached. The computing resource instance manager may develop a model for predicting when to shut down or restart an instance based on historical data or machine learning. |
| US10268484B2 |
Redundant PC system
A redundant PC system includes a plurality of redundant PCs which is to be connected through a network. Each of the redundant PCs includes hardware on which an interface for connection to the network is mounted and a host OS configured to operate on the hardware. The host OS is provided with a virtualization unit, and a redundant unit and a real-time communication unit, the redundant unit and the real-time communication unit being configured to operate as separate processes independent of the virtualization unit. The redundant unit is configured to perform a control monitoring for making a PC redundant via a universal interface. |
| US10268482B2 |
Multi-slice processor issue of a dependent instruction in an issue queue based on issue of a producer instruction
Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes execution slices and load/store slices coupled via a results bus includes: receiving, by an execution slice, a producer instruction, including: storing, in an entry of an issue queue, the producer instruction; and storing, in a register, an issue queue entry identifier representing the entry of the issue queue in which the producer instruction is stored; receiving, by the execution slice, a source instruction, the source instruction dependent upon the result of the producer instruction, including: storing, in another entry of the issue queue, the source instruction and the issue queue entry identifier of the producer instruction; determining in dependence upon the issue queue entry identifier of the producer instruction that the producer instruction has issued from the issue queue; and responsive to the determination that the producer instruction has issued from the issue queue, issuing the source instruction from the issue queue. |
| US10268481B2 |
Load/store unit for a processor, and applications thereof
A load/store unit for a processor, and applications thereof. In an embodiment, the load/store unit includes a load/store queue configured to store information and data associated with a particular class of instructions. Data stored in the load/store queue can be bypassed to dependent instructions. When an instruction belonging to The particular class of instructions graduates and the instruction is associated with a cache miss, control logic causes a pointer to be stored in a load/store graduation buffer that points to an entry in the load/store queue associated with the instruction. The load/store graduation buffer ensures that graduated instructions access a shared resource of the load/store unit in program order. |
| US10268480B2 |
Energy-focused compiler-assisted branch prediction
A processing system to reduce energy consumption and improve performance in a processor, controlled by compiler inserted information ahead of a selected branch instruction, to statically expose and control how the prediction should be completed and which mechanism should be used to achieve energy and performance efficiency. |
| US10268479B2 |
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for broadcast compare addition
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for executing an instruction. The instruction includes fields for a first source operand, a second source operand, and a destination operand. A decoded instruction causes a reduction of broadcasted packed data elements of a first packed data source with a reduction operation and store a result of each of the reductions in a packed data destination, wherein the packed data elements of the first packed data source to be used in the reduction are dictated by a result of a comparison of broadcasted values of packed data elements stored in a second packed data source to the packed data elements stored in the second packed data source without broadcasting. |
| US10268472B2 |
Upgrading systems with replicated data
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for executing, by a target system deploy tool, a first portion of a target-side maintenance procedure on the target system, halting execution of the first portion of the target-side maintenance procedure, executing, by a source system deploy tool, a source-side maintenance procedure on the source system, wherein, during execution of the source-side maintenance procedure, table structure change events are recorded in a source-side orchestration table, reading, by a replicator, the table structure change events recorded in the source-side orchestration table, writing, by the replicator, the table structure change events to a target-side orchestration table, and executing, by the target system deploy tool, a second portion of the target-side maintenance procedure on the target system, at least in part, by performing the table structure change events of the target-side orchestration table on one or more tables of the target system. |
| US10268471B2 |
Method for upgrading terminal system, terminal, and system
A method includes obtaining, by a first terminal, version information of a second terminal, where the version information of the second terminal includes at least a device model and a version number of system software of the second terminal; if the device model of the second terminal is compatible with a device model of the first terminal, determining, by the first terminal according to the version number of the system software of the second terminal and a version number of system software of the first terminal, whether system upgrade is to be performed on the first terminal; and if the first terminal determines that system upgrade is to be performed, obtaining, by the first terminal from the second terminal, system software data indicated by the version number of the system software of the second terminal. |
| US10268468B2 |
Dynamic release baselines in a continuous delivery environment
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a common interface for associating an ordered set of instructions and/or resources from a release automation application with a configuration manager node associated with a server type. Embodiments are directed to a single-click bootstrapping of an unassociated node to a configuration management server. Embodiments include receiving an indication to associate a node with a configuration management server; connecting to the node though a release automation agent; installing a configuration management server client; connecting to the configuration management server using the configuration management server client; and registering the node to the configuration management server. |
| US10268463B2 |
Profile-based per-device code optimization
Methods and systems for optimizing an application include optimizing, with a processor on a first device, an application for a second device in accordance with an application execution profile received from the second device to generate a binary for the application that is optimized for use indicated by the application execution profile. The optimized binary is set to be a default application binary, to be sent to devices requesting the application for a first time, if a percentage of matching application profiles exceeds a threshold. The optimized binary for the application is transmitted to the second device. |
| US10268460B2 |
Systems, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating code for displaying a webpage
A system for use in displaying a webpage is described herein. The system includes a web site hosting server and a monitoring server. The web site hosting server operates in a plurality of rendering modes including a server render mode and a client render mode. The server render mode includes retrieving server rendering application code associated with a webpage, generating rendered code, and transmitting the rendered code to a client computing device. The client render mode includes retrieving client rendering application code associated with the webpage and transmitting the client rendering application code to the client computing device including instructions to generate rendered code for use in displaying the webpage. The monitoring server is configured to determine a current performance level of the web site hosting server computer and transmit instructions to the web site hosting server to operate in the client render mode or the server render mode based on current performance levels. |
| US10268459B1 |
Analytic system that eliminates unneeded computations
A computing device identifies and eliminates unneeded computations from an analytic computation. A symmetric matrix includes a row and a column for each of a set of partial derivative equations where each cell includes an indicator of whether or not a direct dependency exists and is updated to include an indicator of whether or not an indirect dependency exists. A solution row is identified from the symmetric matrix that includes a requested partial derivative. A cell is identified of the identified solution row that does not include the indicator that the direct or indirect dependency exists. The column is identified from the symmetric matrix that includes the identified cell. The partial derivative equation associated with the identified column is removed from the defined set of partial derivative equations to reduce a computer processing time to compute a derivative value for the requested partial derivative. |
| US10268456B2 |
Standardized approach to contextual code identification in editors and IDEs
In various aspects, systems and methods provide a standardized approach to contextual code identification in editors and integrated development environments (IDEs). Thus, a given cursor position inside a language file like cascading style sheets (CSS), JavaScript, or java can be represented by storing language type and hierarchy information at the current position in a mime type or mime type-like syntax. Different editor assist handler modules can then be chained to process the syntax to provide a particular feature or insight. Features or products can evolve incrementally by adding a new handler module that processes the same syntax. In one aspect, the actual handler modules used can be determined depend on the cursor context. |
| US10268455B2 |
Augmenting an original class with an augmenting class
An augmenting system for augmenting a program's original class with an augmenting class is provided. In some embodiments, the augmenting system receives a definition of an augmenting class that includes a data member. The augmenting system generates resolution code for the computer program. The resolution code is for accessing a reference to an original instance of the original class and providing a reference to a corresponding augmenting instance of the augmenting class. When processing a statement of the computer program that accesses the data member using the reference to the original instance, the augmenting system generates access code for the computer program. The access code uses the resolution code to retrieve the reference to the augmenting instance for the original instance and accesses the data member based on the retrieved reference to the augmenting instance. |
| US10268448B2 |
Data flow control for multi-chip-select
A system, method and computer readable medium for operating a First In, First Out (FIFO) buffer that transfers data between a host and a plurality of endpoints using chip select is disclosed. The method includes receiving a current value of a read pointer and a status for an active endpoint and reading data at a location to which the read pointer points and setting a tag associated with the location to which the read pointer points to indicate availability. |
| US10268445B2 |
Methods, systems and media for controlling audio output
Methods, systems, and media for controlling audio output are provided. In some implementations, a method for controlling audio output is provided, the method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, audio content to be presented; determining that an output port of the computing device is connected to a corresponding connector; providing the audio content at the output port; recording a first portion of audio using a microphone; determining that the audio content is present in the first portion of audio; continuing to provide the audio content at the output port; recording a second portion of audio using the microphone; determining that the audio content is not present in the second portion of audio; and presenting the audio content using a speaker of the computing device. |
| US10268444B2 |
Bluetooth identity binding for volume control
Techniques for controlling audio volume output by a paired device are described. A first notification indicative of a change to a first volume by a first audio output device generated. The first notification comprises a first identifier of the first audio output device. A first record indicative of a volume of audio is stored. The first record is indexed by the first identifier. A second notification indicative of an audio stream being redirected from the first audio output device to a second audio output device is generated. The second notification comprises a second identifier of the second audio output device. A second record indicative of a second volume of audio output by the second device is retrieved. The second record is retrieved based at least in part on the second identifier. The second audio output device outputs audio at the second volume, based at least in part on the second record. |
| US10268442B2 |
Systems and methods for the identification and/or distribution of music and other forms of useful information
The present invention relates generally to the field of telecommunications systems and methods. More specifically, the present invention is directed to systems and methods for identifying and/or distributing music and other types of useful information for users in a very simple and convenient manner. A variety of systems and methods are disclosed which provide users with quick and convenient access to various forms of information, such as, for example, audio information including music and news items as well as coupons and other information. The systems and methods allow users to store data representative of a time of transmission and preferably a source of transmission so that data of interest may be identified for ordering an/or downloading. |
| US10268440B2 |
Vehicle display system, mobile terminal apparatus, and vehicle display program
According to a vehicle display system, a mobile terminal apparatus includes: a primary-screen-view display section that displays an output screen-view generated with execution of an application on the mobile terminal apparatus as a primary screen-view; a conversion section that converts the primary screen-view into a secondary screen-view complying with a vehicle apparatus; a manipulation layer generation section that generates a manipulation layer to manipulate the application; a state layer generation section that generates a state layer indicating a state of the mobile terminal apparatus; and a transmission section that transmits the secondary screen-view, the manipulation layer, and the state layer to the vehicle apparatus. The vehicle apparatus includes a secondary-screen-view display section that displays the manipulation layer and the state layer on the vehicle apparatus itself together with the secondary screen-view. |
| US10268438B2 |
Display screen front panel of HMD for viewing by users viewing the HMD player
Method for providing image of HMD user to a non-HMD user includes, receiving a first image of a user including the user's facial features captured by an external camera when the user is not wearing a head mounted display (HMD). A second image capturing a portion of the facial features of the user when the user is wearing the HMD is received. An image overlay data is generated by mapping contours of facial features captured in the second image with contours of corresponding facial features captured in the first image. The image overlay data is forwarded to the HMD for rendering on a second display screen that is mounted on a front face of the HMD. |
| US10268431B2 |
Printer and method therein for printing information on at least one article
Embodiments herein relate to a printer for printing information on at least one article. The printer receives printing instructions to print information on the at least one article. The printing instructions indicate a remote data provider service from which at least a part of the information to be printed on the at least one article is to be requested. Then, the printer transmits a request to the remote data provider service requesting said at least part of the information from the remote data provider service when printing according to the received printing instructions. Also, the printer prints, on the at least one article, said requested at least part of the information upon receiving said requested at least part of the information from the remote data provider service. |
| US10268430B2 |
Information processing device for controlling job history to control an operation on a file generated by execution of a job and non-transitory medium
An information processing device includes a controller that references a job history to control an operation on a file generated by execution of a job. |
| US10268428B2 |
Medium prompting mechanism
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for paper properties needed to perform page raster image processing (RIP) of a page and prompting an operator to load a virtual paper without inserting a physical medium. |
| US10268418B1 |
Accessing multiple data snapshots via one access point
A system, computer program product, and computer-executable method, including creating a production Logical Unit (LU) and one or more snapshots of the production LU on a data storage system, wherein the data storage system provides an interface to the production LU and each of the one or more snapshots, receiving an I/O request at the interface to the production LU, analyzing the received I/O request to determine whether a code is embedded in the received I/O request, and processing the received I/O request based on the code, wherein the received I/O request is enabled to be sent to the production LU or a first snapshot of the one or more snapshots based on the code. |
| US10268415B2 |
Data storage device including a first storage unit and a second storage unit and data storage control method thereof
According to one embodiment, a data storage device includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a first queue, a second queue, and a distributor. The second storage unit is used as a cache of the first storage unit and has a lower write transfer rate and a faster response time than the first storage unit. The first queue corresponds to the first storage unit. The second queue corresponds to the second storage unit. The distributor distributes a write command received presently from a host to one of the first and second queues in which the number of write commands registered presently is smaller. |
| US10268412B2 |
Technologies for deterministic constant-time data compression
A compute device to generate deterministic compressed streams receives a current string to be matched to one or more prior instances of the current string, the current string being located within an input buffer and the one or more prior instances located within a history buffer. The compute device identifies a limited subset of index memory designated for storing pointers to the prior instances, identifying a reserved slop region in the index memory, and compares the current string to a prior instance, locating the at least one prior instance using at least one pointer to the at least one prior instance. The at least one pointer is stored within the limited subset of the index memory, and the compute device also prohibits use of any pointers stored in the reserved slop region of the index memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10268411B1 |
Policy and heuristic based conversion of write-optimized virtual disk format into read-optimized virtual disk format
A method of converting a data format in a storage system is provided. The method includes identifying a condition for when to make a data conversion from a write-optimized virtual disk format to a read-optimized virtual disk format; and locating, in response to the identified condition, a version of data. The method may include moving the version of data to a thin-provisioned format in-place virtual disk and detecting a set of overwrites from a remaining set of versions of the data, including blocks of data having been previously overwritten. The method may further include compacting each block within the set of overwrites to create a contiguous block such that an associated physical memory space is reclaimed, wherein the read-optimized virtual disk format of the data includes the thin-provisioned format in-place virtual disk and the contiguous block. |
| US10268410B2 |
Efficient modification of storage system metadata
A first plurality of block identifiers is sorted based, at least in part, on a measure of spatial locality. A second plurality of block identifiers is sorted based, at least in part, on the measure of spatial locality. At least the first plurality of block identifiers and the second plurality of block identifiers are incrementally merged into a third plurality of block identifiers based, at least in part, on the measure of spatial locality. A block of data corresponding to metadata associated with a plurality of block identifiers of the third plurality of block identifiers is updated. |
| US10268408B2 |
Flexible efficient runtime placement of data across multiple disks
In a storage cluster having nodes, blocks of a logical storage space of a storage object are allocated flexibly by a parent node to component nodes that are backed by physical storage. The method includes maintaining a first allocation map for the parent node, and second and third allocation maps for the first and second component nodes, respectively, executing a first write operation on the first component node and updating the second allocation map to indicate that the first block is a written block, selecting the second component node for executing a second write operation, and executing the second write operation on the second component node. Upon execution of the second write operation, the third allocation map is updated to indicate that the second block is a written block and the first allocation map is updated to indicate that the second block is allocated to the second component node. |
| US10268407B1 |
Method and apparatus for specifying read voltage offsets for a read command
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a memory array and a controller. The controller is to receive a first read command specifying a read voltage offset profile identifier; identify a read voltage offset profile associated with the read voltage offset profile identifier, the read voltage offset profile comprising at least one read voltage offset; and perform a first read operation specified by the first read command using at least one read voltage adjusted according to the at least one read voltage offset of the read voltage offset profile. |
| US10268405B2 |
Dynamic rank switching for low power volatile memory
A memory interface includes a buffer for storing requests for accessing a volatile memory, which includes at least two ranks of memory cell of a memory channel The memory interface monitors the requests to access each rank in the buffer. Upon detecting from the requests that a given rank of the at least two ranks is to be idle for a time period exceeding a time threshold, the circuitry signals a controller to command the given rank to enter a self-refresh mode independent of a refresh mode of other ranks. The memory interface is coupled to a processor, which executes an operating system (OS) kernel to prioritize memory allocation from a prioritized rank of the at least two ranks over the given rank, and migrates allocated memory blocks from the given rank to the prioritized rank to increase a probability of idleness of the given rank. |
| US10268403B1 |
Combining multiple copy operations into a single copy operation
Optimizing copy operations in a storage array, including: receiving a plurality of copy operations; detecting a triggering event that causes a storage array controller to initiate execution of the plurality of copy operations; and combining, in dependence upon a metadata optimization policy, the plurality of copy operations into a single copy operation. |
| US10268396B2 |
Systems and methods for managing storage endurance
Storage divisions of a non-volatile storage medium may have a writable state and an unwritable state. Storage divisions may be reclaimed by, inter alia, resetting the storage division from an unwritable state to a writable state. Writable storage divisions may be used to service incoming storage requests. If no writable storage divisions are available, requests may stall. One or more storage divisions may be held in a writable state to avoid stall conditions. This, however, may increase the erase dwell time of the storage divisions, which can result in increased wear and reduce the usable life of the storage device. Storage divisions may be prepared for use such that the storage divisions are transitioned to a writable state such that erase dwell time of the storage divisions is reduced, and the storage divisions are available as needed to service incoming requests. |
| US10268395B1 |
Systems and methods for communicating addressable requests to a programmable input/output memory over a hardware bridge
Systems and methods described herein provide for communicating an addressable request from cache circuitry to a cache memory. The addressable request is received at a hardware bridge coupled to the cache circuitry and is directed to the cache memory, wherein the cache memory includes a direct memory access (DMA) memory and a programmable input/output (PIO) memory operable within a same address space of the cache circuitry. A service command associated with the addressable request is sent from the hardware bridge to a microcontroller. In response to receiving the service command, the microcontroller activates the PIO memory by: 1) transferring write data from an on-die memory to the PIO memory when the service command is a write command, and 2) transferring read data from the PIO memory to the on-die memory when the service command is a read command. |
| US10268394B2 |
Data storage device performance optimization method and apparatus
A method includes storing a data group in a first zone of a plurality of radial zones of a data storage disc. Each different one of the plurality of zones has a different throughput level. The method further includes obtaining information related to an access frequency of the data group stored in the first zone of the plurality of zones. Based on the information related to the access frequency of the data group and the different throughput levels of the different zones, a determination is made as to whether to migrate the data group from the first zone of the plurality of zones to a second zone of the plurality of zones. |
| US10268392B2 |
Memory controller architecture with improved memory scheduling efficiency
Integrated circuits that include memory interface and controller circuitry for communicating with external memory are provided. The memory interface and controller circuitry may include a user logic interface, a memory controller, and a physical layer input-output interface. The user logic interface may be operated in a first clock domain. The memory controller may be operated in a second clock domain. The physical layer interface may be operated in a third clock domain that is an integer multiple of the second clock domain. The user logic interface may include only user-dependent blocks. The physical layer interface may include memory protocol agnostic blocks and/or memory protocol specific blocks. The memory controller may include both memory protocol agnostic blocks and memory protocol dependent blocks. The memory controller may include one or more color pipelines for scheduling memory requests in a parallel arbitration scheme. |
| US10268389B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for in-memory operations
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for in-memory operations. An example apparatus includes a memory device including a plurality of subarrays of memory cells, where the plurality of subarrays includes a first subset of the respective plurality of subarrays and a second subset of the respective plurality of subarrays. The memory device includes sensing circuitry coupled to the first subset, the sensing circuitry including a sense amplifier and a compute component. The apparatus also includes a controller configured to direct a first movement of a number of data values from a subarray in the second subset to a subarray in the first subset and performance of a sequential plurality of operations in-memory on the number of data values by the first sensing circuitry coupled to the first subset. |
| US10268384B2 |
File transfers between machines without target CPU intervention
Techniques for transferring files between machines include creating a zero-length target file on non-volatile storage, truncating the file to a desired size, and allocating storage on the non-volatile storage for each block of the target file. The technique also includes determining a logical block address (LBA) for each location in the target file. The technique further includes sending a request to an input/output (I/O) node to transfer a source file to the non-volatile storage, where the request includes a mapping between the LBAs and file offsets. The technique includes opening the source file and a block device at the I/O node. The technique further includes reading each block from the source file and writing each block to the target file on the non-volatile storage utilizing the block device, and then closing the source file and the block device. |
| US10268383B2 |
Selectable read modes for a two dimensional magnetic recording system
Two or more read modes of a data storage system and device are defined. The data storage device is capable of concurrently reading from two or more tracks using two or more read transducers. The read modes utilize different numbers of the two or more read transducers while reading data. The read modes are selected based on an operating condition of the data storage system or device. |
| US10268382B2 |
Processor memory architecture
A processing device includes a first memory interface for accessing a first memory device of a main memory. Each first memory interface is compatible with Low-Power Double-Data-Rate (LPDDR) signaling. The processing device further includes a second memory interface, which has different signaling characteristics from the first memory interface, for accessing a second memory device of the main memory. The second memory device has an access latency higher than the first memory device and lower than a secondary storage device. The first memory device and the second memory device may be used as a dual memory or a two-tiered memory. |
| US10268381B1 |
Tagging write requests to avoid data-log bypass and promote inline deduplication during copies
A storage technique includes selectively tagging a set of write requests by applying tags to write requests that are pursuant to copy operations and not applying tags to at least some write requests that are not pursuant to copy operations. For each of the set of write requests, the technique further includes performing a decision operation configured to (i) direct the write request down a first processing path that supports inline deduplication in response to the write request satisfying a set of criteria and (ii) direct the write request down a second processing path that does not support inline deduplication in response to the write request failing to satisfy the set of criteria. The set of criteria include whether the write request has a tag applied, such that the decision operation preferentially directs write requests down the first processing path in response to the write requests being tagged. |
| US10268378B2 |
Congestion mitigation in a distributed storage system
A system comprises a plurality of computing devices that are communicatively coupled via a network and have a file system distributed among them, and comprises one or more file system request buffers residing on one or more of the plurality of computing devices. File system choking management circuitry that resides on one or more of the plurality of computing devices is operable to separately control: a first rate at which a first type of file system requests (e.g., one of data requests, data read requests, data write requests, metadata requests, metadata read requests, and metadata write requests) are fetched from the one or more buffers, and a second rate at which a second type of file system requests (e.g., another of data requests, data read requests, data write requests, metadata requests, metadata read requests, and metadata write requests) are fetched from the one or more buffers. |
| US10268370B2 |
Character input device and character input method with a plurality of keypads
Character input device includes touch screen; word dictionary database; first keypad information database for storing information on first keypad; second keypad information database for storing information on second keypad; first keypad creation unit for displaying the first keypad; first key touch recognition unit for acquiring character code corresponding to value of the first key from the first keypad information database and invoking second keypad creation unit; the second keypad creation unit for creating and displaying the second keypad on the first keypad; second keypad touch recognition unit for acquiring character code corresponding to touch movement from the second keypad information database; input character string creation unit for creating one or more input character strings by combining the character code of the first key with the character codes acquired by the second keypad touch recognition unit; and word recognition processing unit for extracting and displaying character strings of a completed word. |
| US10268368B2 |
Method and systems for touch input
Various systems and methods for determining a set of gesture components of touch input are provided. Touch data can be obtained (301), and a number of gesture components to be generated can be selected (302). A set of gesture components can be generated (303) based on the touch data and the number. For example, a sparse matrix decomposition can be used to generate the set of gesture components. The set of gesture components can be stored (304) in a non-transitory computer-readable medium. |
| US10268362B2 |
Method and system for realizing functional key on side surface
A method and a system for implementing a side function key is provided, comprising: detecting whether a side of a mobile terminal simultaneously has at least two finger touch points, if yes, displaying an icon of the function key on a side of the touchscreen of the mobile terminal, and implementing a corresponding function in response to a clicking of the icon of the function key. The method and system may comprise: detecting whether one side of a mobile terminal has finger touch points, if at least two finger touch points are simultaneously detected, then displaying a function key, thereby achieving a function of the function key on a side of the mobile terminal. |
| US10268357B2 |
Playback modification based on proximity
Techniques described herein may involve modification of playback based on the proximity of a user to a playback device. An example technique involves a device determining that a listener is within a given proximity of a first playback device and based on determining that the listener is within the given proximity of the first playback device, causing the first playback device to begin playback of first media and causing a second playback device to modify playback of second media. |
| US10268356B2 |
Moving lights forming pixels of a video
A video is divided into portions, and the portions are used to control moving lights. A video is displayed where each moving light becomes a superpixel of the eventual displayed video. The superpixels themselves may be formed of pixels. |
| US10268348B2 |
Information processing terminal, information processing method, and information processing system
Multiple information processing terminals, among which display data to be displayed on a display screen of one of the information processing terminals can be shared, are disclosed. The information processing terminal includes a rendering unit which renders information on the display data of the information processing terminal based on an operation of a user; a display synchronization unit which renders the information rendered by the rendering unit on the display data displayed on display screens of the information processing terminals other than the information processing terminal; a calculation unit which calculates an information amount based on the information rendered by the rendering unit; and a rendering suppression unit which suppresses rendering of the information on the display data of the information processing terminal by the rendering unit when the information amount is at least a predetermined value. |
| US10268345B2 |
Mehtod and system for multi-modal lineage tracing and impact assessment in a concept lineage data flow network
According to some embodiments, system and methods for representing nodes and data flows in a network are provided, comprising providing a hierarchical taxonomy for one or more concepts; providing one or more hierarchical taxonomies for one or more boundary types, wherein one or more values from each boundary type are combined to form a definition of a boundary; and associating the at least one concept and at least one boundary with a transmission of data between a first node and a second node, wherein the transmitted data is a data flow. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US10268344B2 |
Method and system for providing a content based on preferences
A method for providing a content based on a user's preference(s) includes analyzing meta-data information of a pre-stored content, determining at least one preference based on the analyzed meta-data information, transmitting the at least one preference to a content-providing server; searching, at the content-providing server, for at least one content corresponding to the at least one preference, extracting general information of at least one content found to correspond to the at least one preference and transmit the general information to the portable terminal. |
| US10268341B2 |
Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects with visual and/or haptic feedback
In accordance with some embodiments, a device displays a user interface that includes user interface objects associated with respective object-specific operations that are triggered by changes in contact intensity. While displaying the user interface, the device detects a first input. In response to detecting the first input: if a focus selector is at a first location, the device performs a first operation associated with the first object; if a focus selector is at the second location, the device performs a second operation associated with the second object; and if a focus selector is at a location that is away from any objects that are associated with object-specific operations that are triggered by changes in contact intensity, perform a third operation that includes updating the user interface on the display to concurrently visually distinguish the first and second objects in the user interface. |
| US10268339B2 |
Enhanced camera-based input
Enhanced camera-based input, in which a detection region surrounding a user is defined in an image of the user within a scene, and a position of an object (such as a hand) within the detection region is detected. Additionally, a control (such as a key of a virtual keyboard) in a user interface is interacted with based on the detected position of the object. |
| US10268336B2 |
User interface displaying and processing method and user interface displaying and processing device
The present disclosure provides a user interface displaying and processing method comprising following steps: applying Surface from a SurfaceFlinger to serve as a drawing board for drawing an interface; binding an OpenGL ES after being initialized and the Surface which is applied to server as the drawing board; controlling a function of the OpenGL ES to draw the interface on the Surface which is applied to server as the drawing board; after the interface has already been drawn, combining all Surfaces to form drawing board window data and exchanging the drawing board window data with display frame buffer window data; outputting to display the exchanged display frame buffer window data. The present disclosure further provides a user interface displaying and processing device. The present disclosure can improve the portability of applications. |
| US10268334B2 |
System for communicating avionics information through portable electronic devices
A method and apparatus for using portable electronic devices such as commercial off-the-shelf cell phones and tablets for the communication of critical aviation data provides a protocol which minimizes processing by the portable electronic device other than the confirmation of a receipt of uncorrupted data. Failure of timely, accurate communication is detected at a certified avionics data server and communicated to the portable electronic device in the form of a fail-image. The communicated images may be composited with animated frames to provide a human recognizable indication of data integrity. |
| US10268333B2 |
Software robots for programmatically controlling computer programs to perform tasks
A system, comprising at least one computer hardware processor; and at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one computer hardware processor, cause the at least one computer hardware processor to perform: generating an object hierarchy comprising a plurality of objects corresponding to active graphical user interface (GUI) elements of a first application program; and controlling the first application program to perform a first sub-task. The controlling includes automatically accessing, in the object hierarchy, a first object corresponding to an active GUI element of the first application program, the accessing comprising searching for the first object in the object hierarchy, the searching comprising modifying the object hierarchy; and automatically using the first object to cause the first application program to at least partially perform a first action in furtherance of the first sub-task. |
| US10268331B2 |
Information processing method and electronic device
An information processing method and an electronic device where the method includes determining current time information associated with the current time; and adjusting, based on the current time information, a display parameter of a first interactive object; wherein the first interactive object is an interactive object being operatively presented on a display unit of an electronic device and used to set a time-related parameter of the electronic device. The information processing method and the electronic device solve the technical problem that the currently displayed time cannot reflect the current true time in some cases, and achieve the technical effect of accurately and intuitively displaying the current true time. |
| US10268330B2 |
Conductive component and conductive component for touch panel
A conductive component including two or more conductive first and second large lattices composed of a thin metal wire, wherein the first and second large lattices each contain a combination of two or more small lattices, a first unconnected pattern composed of a thin metal wire separated from the first and second large lattices is formed around a side of the first large lattices, a second unconnected pattern composed of a thin metal wire separated from the first and second large lattices is formed around a side of the second large lattices, the first large lattices are arranged adjacent to the second large lattices as viewed from above, the first and second unconnected patterns overlap with each other to form a combined pattern between the first and second large lattices as viewed from above, and the combined pattern contains a combination of two or more of the small lattices. |
| US10268327B2 |
Touch sensitive method, apparatus and electronic system for reducing interferences from pixel update
The present invention provides a touch sensitive method including: transmitting a driving signal via a first driving electrode of a touch screen during a first blanking interval; and sensing the driving signal via a plurality of sensing electrodes of the touch screen during the first blanking interval for detecting an external conductive object on or near the first driving electrode. |
| US10268325B2 |
Display device with a partition member
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the display panel having a display area with the pixels thereon and a peripheral area adjacent to the display area on a plane, a driving circuit part at the peripheral area and configured to provide an electrical signal to each of the pixels, a main circuit part at the peripheral area, the main circuit part having at least one portion that is spaced apart from the driving circuit part on a plane, the main circuit part being configured to provide a driving signal to the driving circuit part and the display panel, and a first partition member at a space between the main circuit part and the driving circuit part. |
| US10268324B2 |
Peak detection schemes for touch position detection
Apparatuses and methods of peak detection are described. One method measures touch data on a sense array, the touch data represented as multiple cells. The method performs multiple different peak-detection schemes on each of the cells to generate a list of one or more possible peaks in the touch data. The method selects one or more actual peaks from the list. The actual peaks are used to determine locations of touches proximate to the sense array. |
| US10268323B2 |
Flexible display device with touch panel
A flexible display device includes a display panel including a first surface including a display area configured to display an image, and a second surface disposed on the opposite side of the display panel from the first surface, and a touch panel disposed on the first surface, the touch panel including a base film and a transparent conductive layer disposed on a surface of the base film facing the display panel, in which at least a portion of each of the display panel and the touch panel is bendable such that centers of curvature of the display panel and the touch panel are positioned outside the second surface. |
| US10268319B2 |
Edge-coupled touch-sensitive apparatus
A touch-sensitive apparatus includes a light-transmissive panel having a front surface, an opposite rear surface, and a side edge connecting the front and rear surfaces, and a light-transmissive sheet laminated over the front surface of the light-transmissive panel. The light-transmissive sheet has a portion extending beyond the side edge of the light-transmissive panel to cover a light emitter and detector. The touch-sensitive apparatus further includes a shielding element on a lower surface of the light-transmissive sheet, the shielding element covering at least said light emitter and detector, and the shielding element blocking light having a wavelength range in which the light emitter outputs light. The lower surface of the light-transmissive sheet is in optical contact with the front surface of the light-transmissive panel. |
| US10268318B2 |
Touch sensitive mat of a system with a projector unit
Examples disclosed herein relate to aligning content displayed from a projector on to a touch sensitive mat. Examples include detecting a border of the mat, wherein the mat includes a surface area of a first spectral reflectance characteristic on to which the projector is to project the content, and the border of a second spectral reflectance characteristic different from the first spectral reflectance characteristic surrounding a perimeter of the surface area. As an example, detecting the border of the mat generally includes differentiating the second spectral reflectance characteristic of the border from the first spectral reflectance characteristic of the surface area. Examples include detecting a border of the content displayed on to the mat, and adjusting projector settings for the border of the content displayed on to the mat to fit within the detected border of the mat. |
| US10268308B2 |
Input processing method and device
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an input panel configured to periodically sense touch coordinates corresponding to a touch manipulation of a user; and a processor configured to periodically receive the touch coordinates from the input panel, calculate a variation of the touch coordinates based on the touch coordinates, change a reference value for determining movement of the touch manipulation based on the variation of the touch coordinates, and determine whether the touch manipulation moves, based on the reference value. |
| US10268303B2 |
Touch and hover sensing
Improved capacitive touch and hover sensing with a sensor array is provided. An AC ground shield positioned behind the sensor array and stimulated with signals of the same waveform as the signals driving the sensor array may concentrate the electric field extending from the sensor array and enhance hover sensing capability. The hover position and/or height of an object that is nearby, but not directly above, a touch surface of the sensor array, e.g., in the border area at the end of a touch screen, may be determined using capacitive measurements of sensors near the end of the sensor array by fitting the measurements to a model. Other improvements relate to the joint operation of touch and hover sensing, such as determining when and how to perform touch sensing, hover sensing, both touch and hover sensing, or neither. |
| US10268300B2 |
Display device with touch detection function
According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a touch detection electrode that detects proximity or contact of an object; a drive electrode to which the excitation signal is applied; a first substrate on which the drive elements are provided; a second substrate on which at least one of the touch detection electrode and the drive electrode is provided, the second substrate being bonded to the first substrate to face each other via a sealing member; a conductor that electrically is coupled to at least one of the touch detection electrode and the drive electrode; and a conductor support member that fills a space between the first substrate and the second substrate and on the surface of which the conductor is provided. |
| US10268297B2 |
Mutual-capacitance organic light emitting touch display apparatus
A mutual-capacitance organic light emitting touch display apparatus includes a thin film transistor substrate, a common electrode layer, an organic light emitting material layer, and at least a touch electrode layer, including a plurality of first touch electrodes arranged along a first direction, and a plurality of second touch electrodes arranged along a second direction; a thin film encapsulation layer; a display controller having a display power source, and electrically connected to a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode and the common electrode layer of the thin film transistor substrate; and a touch controller including a touch power source. The touch controller applies a touch driving signal to a selected first touch electrode, and senses a touch sensing signal at a second touch electrode, and outputs the touch sensing signal to the common electrode layer or a reference point of the display controller by a non-inverting amplifier. |
| US10268294B2 |
Organic light emitting display device including a reflective touch sensing electrode and method of manufacturing the same
A organic light emitting display device includes a substrate comprising a light-emitting region and a reflection region, a first sensing electrode which senses a touch position, is disposed in the reflection region, and comprises a material having a first reflectivity and a second sensing electrode which senses a touch position, is disposed in the light-emitting region and the reflection region, and comprises a material having a second reflectivity, and overlapping a portion of the first sensing electrode. |
| US10268292B2 |
Touch type liquid crystal display device
A touch type liquid crystal display device includes a first pixel region and a second pixel region that neighbor each other with a data line therebetween, and each pixel region includes a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor. The touch type liquid crystal display device further includes a first touch block and a second touch block including the first pixel region and the second pixel region, respectively, a common electrode that is arranged in a same substrate as the pixel electrode, and is located in each of the first and second touch blocks, and a sensing line that is connected to the common electrode of each of the first and second touch blocks, wherein the common electrode of the first touch block goes over the data line and extends into the second pixel region. |
| US10268291B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, program, and information storage medium
To make it possible to exclusively treat an operating input to a touch sensor or an operating input to an operating key different from the touch center as an operating input serving as a basis for the performance of processing. A processing executing section performs processing according to an operating input to a touch sensor or an operating input to an operating section. When the operating inputs to both of the touch sensor and the operating section are received, the processing executing section performs only processing according to one of the operating inputs. |
| US10268289B2 |
Conductive film and display device provided with touch panel
An object of the present invention is to provide a conductive film including a polarizer in which performance deterioration of the polarizer is suppressed while suppressing cracking of the polarizer due to a change in moisture heat environment; and a display device provided with a touch panel including the conductive film. The conductive film of the present invention includes a polarizer; and a conductive layer which is disposed on the polarizer and includes fullerene functionalized carbon nanotubes. |
| US10268286B2 |
Controlling power distribution to haptic output devices
Systems and methods for controlling power and/or current consumption for multiple haptic output devices are provided. Various features of the haptic output device may be described within a data structure. In response to a haptic instruction, a power budget for the haptic output device may be determined in accordance with its operational characteristics. A drive signal may then be applied to the haptic output device to produce the haptic effect in accordance with the calculated power budget. The calculated power budget may be configured to limit the current or power drawn by the haptic output device. |
| US10268283B2 |
Pointing system, control device, and control method
A pointing system including: a pointing device including an operation portion and a light-emitting portion that emits light according to an operation to the operation portion; and a control device including an image pickup portion that picks up light from the light-emitting portion when the light-emitting portion emits light and outputs an image including information on a light spot of the light, a display portion that includes a screen and displays a pointer on the screen, and a control portion that judges, as well as judge a movement of the light spot based on the information on the light spot in the image and move the pointer on the screen based on the movement of the light spot, whether the light spot is turned off based on the information on the light spot in the image and executes processing related to a click when the light spot is turned off. |
| US10268281B2 |
Transmission member, irradiation device and electronic pen
According to an aspect of the invention, an atransmission member includes plural first surfaces disposed side by side in a width direction of an optical path from a light source to an irradiation target, the plural first surfaces refracting light from the light source entering each of the first surfaces in a direction toward the irradiation target; a second surface interposed between the first surfaces adjacent to each other to form first highs and lows together with the adjacent first surfaces; and a third surface from which light refracted on the first surfaces exits, second highs and lows having a smaller interval than an interval of the first highs and lows being provided on the third surface. |
| US10268279B2 |
Detection of user gestures
In one example, a system may include a display including a display screen; a display controller configured to display visual information on the display screen of the display screen, control at least portions of one or more pixels corresponding to the display screen to render the display screen transparent; and a depth camera, positioned behind the display screen, that is configured to obtain depth image information of one or more objects in front of the display screen when at least portions of the one or more pixels are rendered transparent. |
| US10268276B2 |
Autonomous computing and telecommunications head-up displays glasses
A pair of eyeglasses (100) has a frame (104) and lenses (102) mounted on the frame. A computer processor (130) is mounted on eyeglasses together with a plurality of cameras (105) and a digital projection system. IR sensors and/or dual zoom cameras may also be mounted on the glasses (100) and configured to track the movement of the user's hand (800). |
| US10268275B2 |
Three-dimensional perceptions in haptic systems
An acoustic field may be produced from a transducer array having known relative positions and orientations In this acoustic field, one or more control points may be defined. An amplitude may be assigned to the control point. Mid-air haptic effect for a virtual object on a human body part may be generated by moving the control point in a single closed curve comprising a plurality of curve segments. The single closed curve traverses at least one location where the human body part intersects with the virtual object. Additionally, a user may interact with virtual three-dimensional content using the user's hands while a tracking system monitoring the user's hands, a physics engine updates the properties of the virtual three-dimensional content and a haptic feedback system provides haptic information to the user. |
| US10268273B1 |
Stylus with multiple inputs
According to some embodiments, an electronic stylus including flexible contact members disposed at a distal end of the housing, and at least some of which are capable of independently flexing relative to one another when contacting a protective layer of an electronic device. The components further include a sensor capable of (i) detecting a change in flexure of the flexible contact members in accordance with the contacting, and (ii) responding to the change in flexure by providing a corresponding detection signal. The components can include a processor capable of generating a feedback instruction that is based upon the change in flexure. The component can include a communications unit that responds to the feedback instruction by transmitting a feedback parameter to the electronic device such that a graphical output is presented at a display of the electronic device in accordance with the change in flexure. |
| US10268272B2 |
Dampening mechanical modes of a haptic actuator using a delay
Described herein is a method for determining a higher order resonance mode frequency of a haptic actuator for an electronic device. The higher order resonance mode frequency may correspond to a frequency in which a mass of the haptic actuator exhibits undesired movement. The movement may cause the mass to collide or otherwise impact an enclosure of the haptic actuator. Once the higher order resonance mode frequency is determined, a delay or a polarity inversion may be added to one or more of a series of input waveforms to suppress or brake the undesired movement. |
| US10268270B2 |
System and method for shape deformation and force display of devices
Various systems, devices, and methods for shape deformation of a haptic deformation display device are provided. For example, the haptic deformation display device may receive an input signal when the shape of the haptic deformation display device is in a first shape configuration. In response to the input signal, the haptic deformation display device may activate an actuator of the haptic deformation display device. The actuator may move a deformation component of the haptic deformation display device. The deformation component may at least partially defining a shape of the haptic deformation display device, thereby causing the shape of the haptic deformation display device to deform into a second shape configuration different from the first shape configuration. The second shape configuration may be substantially maintained. |
| US10268269B2 |
Glove for use with touch interface devices
The present invention is directed to a glove system comprising a plurality of closed tip finger sheath with a secondary finger sheath disposed near the finger tips to allow for improved interaction with a portable electronic devices. |
| US10268253B2 |
Flexible display with power consumption
A flexible display includes a display panel, a gate driver, and a bending sensing unit. The display panel has a plurality of rows of pixels arranged in sequence. The gate driver has a plurality of stages of shift register circuitries electrically coupled to each other in sequence. The shift register circuitries are electrically coupled to the plurality of rows of pixels, and are configured to provide a plurality of refreshing pulses for driving the plurality of rows of pixels to refresh. Each stage of the shift register circuitries are further configured to provide a trigger pulse to drive another stage of the shift register circuitries. The bending sensing unit is electrically coupled to the gate driver. The bending sensing unit is configured to control, according to bending of the display panel, the impedance of a path used by at least one of the stages of the shift register circuitries to transmit the trigger pulse to the other stage of the shift register circuitries. |
| US10268251B2 |
Memory system and controller
In a memory system in an embodiment, in a case of normal operation, a control unit returns a write completion response upon completion of reception of write data from a host, and writes the write data into nonvolatile memory in a multiple values. In a case of unordinary power-off, changeover to operation using a backup battery is conducted and the control unit writes dirty data that is not completed in writing into the nonvolatile memory, into the nonvolatile memory with two values. When next boot, the control unit reads the dirty data from the nonvolatile memory into the volatile memory, and thereafter writes the dirty data into the nonvolatile memory in a multiple values. |
| US10268245B2 |
Housing assembly and electronic device
A housing assembly is provided. The housing assembly includes a first housing, a second housing, a connecting member and a coupling member. The first housing has a first groove. The second housing has a second groove. The connecting member is coupled between the first housing and the second housing. The first housing and the second housing are close to each other by bending the connecting member so that the first housing is stacked onto the second housing. The coupling member faces to the connecting member and is coupled between the first housing and the second housing. The coupling member is partially received in the first groove and the second groove and is capable of sliding with respect to the first housing and the second housing. |
| US10268243B2 |
Connector and an electronic device having the same
A connector and an electronic device having the connector are described. The connector includes a first connecting sheet and a second connecting sheet, each having a connecting portion and a non-connecting portion, wherein, each of the connecting portions of the first and second connecting sheets includes a plurality of teeth for mutual engagement and cooperation to effect a relative rotary motion of the first and second sheets, and each of the non-connecting portions of the first and second connecting sheets includes an external planar surface. |
| US10268242B2 |
Flexible display device
An embodiment provides a flexible display device adhesive that is foldable with respect a folding axis, that has a folding area corresponding to the folding axis, and that has non-folding areas. The flexible display device includes a first substrate configured to be flexible, a second substrate above the first substrate and configured to be flexible, and an adhesive layer between the first substrate and the second substrate to adhere the first substrate to the second substrate. The adhesive layer includes two or more adhesive portions having different adhesive strength. |
| US10268241B2 |
Touch screen panel and mobile terminal including the same
A touch screen panel including a display panel; a first flexible circuit board including a first end connected to the display panel, the first flexible circuit board having at least one first opening; a touch panel disposed on the display panel and the first flexible circuit board; and a second flexible circuit board including a first end connected to the touch panel, the second flexible circuit board having at least one second opening corresponding to the at least one first opening. |
| US10268240B2 |
Supporting assembly
A supporting assembly including a stand and a positioning module is provided. The positioning module includes a carrier, a first rod, a first guiding element, a second guiding element, at least one position-limiting element, and at least one elastic element. The carrier is fixed to a portable electronic device. The first rod is pivoted to the carrier and the stand is fixed to the first rod. The first guiding element is fixed to the first rod. The second guiding element is movably disposed on the first rod, and the first guiding element and the second guiding element are coupled to each other. The position-limiting element is disposed at a side of the second guiding element, and the second guiding element is located between the position-limiting element and the first guiding element. The elastic element leans against the position-limiting element and the second guiding element. |
| US10268237B2 |
Housing assembly and electronic device
A housing assembly is provided. The housing assembly includes a first housing, a second housing, a coupling member coupling the first housing and the second housing, first locating member and a second locating member. The first housing is rotatable with respect to the second housing by the coupling member. The first locating member is positioned between the first housing and the coupling member and is configured to prevent the coupling member from sliding with respect to the first housing. The second locating member is positioned between the second housing and the coupling member and configured to prevent the coupling member from sliding with respect to the second housing. |
| US10268235B2 |
Device for handheld operation and method thereof
A device (100) for handheld operation, such as a mobile phone, a mobile terminal, a smartphone, a User Equipment (UE), a tablet, a phablet, a media player, a remote control, or a gaming console, is provided. The device is operative to detect an imminent or prevailing indication of an unstable operation of the device when being held by a hand (110) of a user of the device, and, in response thereto, to increase a grip between an outer surface (101, 103) of the device and one or more fingers (111-114) of the hand. The grip may, e.g., be increased by generating an adhesive force, or by increasing a friction, between the outer surface and the one or more fingers. Thereby, the risk for the user dropping the device is reduced, and a more convenient operation of the device is achieved, in particularly if operated single-handedly. |
| US10268234B2 |
Bracket assembly for a multi-component vision system in an electronic device
An electronic device that includes a vision system carried by a bracket assembly is disclosed. The vision system may include a first camera module that captures an image of an object, a light emitting element that emits light rays toward the object, and a second camera module that receives light rays reflected from the object. The light rays may include infrared light rays. The bracket assembly is designed not only carry the aforementioned modules, but to also maintain a predetermined and fixed separation between the modules. The bracket assembly may form a rigid, multi-piece bracket assembly to prevent bending, thereby maintaining the predetermined separation. The electronic device may include a transparent cover designed to couple with a housing. The transparent cover includes an alignment module designed to engage a module and provide a moving force that aligns the bracket assembly and the modules to a desired location in the housing. |
| US10268227B2 |
Transmission apparatus, transmission system and data detection method
A transmission apparatus including: a branch circuit that branches a signal including first data and second data superimposed on the first data into two signals; a limiting amplifier that amplifies one signal in the two signals; a linear amplifier that amplifies another signal in the two signals; a first detector that detects the first data from the amplified one signal; and a second detector that detects the second data from the amplified another signal and the amplified one signal. |
| US10268224B2 |
Managing devices within micro-grids
An approach to provide power from power supply devices to power consuming devices based on using priority levels for each of the power consuming and supply devices. The approach includes the steps of receiving information of a power consuming device from an energy management, including criticality information obtained from a universal appliance service system. The approach further includes receiving power supply information of one or more power supply devices associated with an electric grid, and receiving a power request from the power consuming device. The approach further includes determining that the power consuming device receives power from the power supply device, based on the criticality information and the power supply information. |
| US10268223B2 |
System and method for managing energy
A method of managing energy consumption in an enclosed spaced includes the step of providing temperature and foot traffic data to a plan generator. The method further includes the steps of generating an energy plan based on the temperature and foot traffic data and controlling one or more energy consuming devices based on the energy plan. |
| US10268211B2 |
Method for controlling a valve actuator and a valve actuator control device
A method for controlling a valve actuator, a valve actuator control device and a valve actuator assembly. The method includes the steps of providing a valve actuator control device, connecting the control device to a valve actuator with a signal transmitting wire, and supplying operating power to the valve actuator from the control device. The method further includes a step of transmitting control signals from the control device to the valve actuator via the signal transmitting wire in order to control the actuator. Hereby, configuration, control and maintenance of valve actuators are facilitated. |
| US10268205B2 |
Training and testing of a neural network method for deep odometry assisted by static scene optical flow
A method of visual odometry for a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs is disclosed. The one or more programs include instructions, which when executed by a computing device, causes the computing device to perform the following steps comprising: in response to images in pairs, generating a prediction of static scene optical flow for each pair of the images in a visual odometry model; generating a set of motion parameters for each pair of the images in the visual odometry model; training the visual odometry model by using the prediction of static scene optical flow and the motion parameters; and predicting motion between a pair of consecutive image frames by the trained visual odometry model. |
| US10268203B2 |
Calibration validation for autonomous vehicle operations
Systems and method are provided for controlling a vehicle. In one embodiment, a vehicle includes: an imaging device, a reference data source, one or more sensors, one or more actuators, and a controller. The controller detects a stationary condition based at least in part on the sensor output, obtains an image during the stationary condition, identifies a reference position for a reference object based on reference data for a field of view of the imaging device during the stationary condition, identifies the reference object at a second position within the image, validates a transformation associated with the imaging device based on a difference between the reference position and the second position, and thereafter autonomously operates the one or more actuators in a manner that is influenced by the validated transformation. |
| US10268193B2 |
Method of fishing with unmanned aerial vehicle
The present disclosure discloses a method of using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising a housing, a processor, a positioning unit, a sonar unit, a launching unit and a fishhook unit in fishing. The method comprises manipulating the UAV to fly to a designated destination determined by the processor according to one of a received wireless communication and a preset program, adjusting the sonar unit to a predetermined height by the positioning unit, determining a coordinate corresponding to a signal detected by the sonar unit as a fishing region when the signal is consistent with a predetermined value, launching bait to the fishing region by the launching unit, releasing a fishhook from the fishhook unit to the fishing region, and manipulating the UAV to hover or return by the processor according to one of a received wireless communication and a preset program. |
| US10268190B2 |
Vehicle and controlling method for the same
A vehicle includes: a communication unit performing low frequency (LF) communication and radio frequency (RF) communication with a fob key and performing short-range communication with a portable device; and a controller estimating a position of a user having the fob key using the LF and RF communication with the fob key and controlling a connection between the portable device and the communication unit according to the estimated position of the user using the short-range communication with the portable device. |
| US10268189B2 |
Signal guided cleaning device and signal guided cleaning system thereof
The present application provides a signal guided cleaning device and a signal guided cleaning system thereof. The signal guided cleaning system includes a signal emitter and a signal guided cleaning device. The signal emitter is used to emit at least one first emission signal. And the signal guided cleaning device includes a body, at least one mobile element, at least one driver, and a controlling unit. Each first signal receiver received the first emission signal in receiving range and provides a first reception instruction. Each mobile element connects with the corresponding driver. Controlling unit connects with the first signal receivers and drivers, provides a corresponding first controlling instruction according to the received first reception instruction, and drives the corresponding drivers so as to make the mobile elements drive the body forward an emitting direction of the first emission signal. |
| US10268187B2 |
Manufacturing cell machine management system based on component degree of consumption
A manufacturing management system capable of appropriately evaluating a degree of consumption of each component of a manufacturing machine, and efficiently operating a manufacturing cell including the manufacturing machines. A control unit of a cell controller has: a manufacturing machine information receiving part configured to receive manufacturing machine information regarding an operational history of each component constituting the manufacturing machine; a component degree of consumption calculating part configured to calculate a weighed degree of consumption of each component, based on the manufacturing machine information and a predetermined weight of each component; a manufacturing machine degree of consumption calculating part configured to calculate a degree of consumption of each manufacturing machine, based on the weighed degree of consumption of each component; and a manufacturing machine selecting part configured to select a manufacturing machine to be used in the manufacturing cell, based on the degree of consumption of each manufacturing machine. |
| US10268185B2 |
Multiple deployment of applications with multiple configurations in an industrial automation environment
Systems and methods are provided to implement a design apparatus for applications in an industrial automation environment. The design apparatus is configured to maintain multiple configuration settings in connection with an application project. At deployment-time, a particular configuration can be selected and utilized when building an application for installation on a target device. The same application project can be utilized to deploy the application to multiple systems through selection of different configurations. |
| US10268184B2 |
Apparatus and method for transforming NC programs
An apparatus and method for transforming NC programs are provided, and the apparatus is electrically connected to a controller configured to, according to a NC program, command a machine to drive a cutting tool to cut a workpiece. The apparatus includes a triggering module, a coordinate position processing module, and a storage module. The triggering module is electrically connected to the controller. The coordinate position processing module is electrically connected to the controller and the triggering module. The storage module is electrically connected to the coordinate position processing module. The triggering module triggers the controller to execute the NC program in a single block mode. The coordinate position processing module is triggered by the triggering module to acquire at least one coordinate position from the controller. The storage module stores the at least one coordinate position. The triggering module simultaneously triggers the controller and the coordinate position processing module. |
| US10268177B2 |
Method and apparatus of coordinating independent automated systems
A method of coordinating automated systems, the method includes providing a first automated system that is programmed with a set of predetermined operating instructions that correspond with automated system processing requirements, monitoring an operational status of the first automated system with a second automated system, automatically generating a second system action, with the second automated system, that is complementary to a first system action of the first automated system, where the first system action corresponds to the set of predetermined operating instructions and the second system action depends on the operational status of the first automated system, and performing the second system action with the second automated system so that the second automated system cooperates with the first automated system to perform a predetermined operation. |
| US10268175B2 |
Information presentation method and information presentation apparatus
A computer-implemented method includes obtaining one of image information of a recording medium placed in a sensing area and tag information attached to the recording medium; obtaining environmental control information corresponding to the obtained one of image information and tag information from a storage; and based on the obtained environmental control information, controlling one or more of a light-emitting device, a display device, an audio device, a temperature control device, an air-flow control device, a vibration device, and an aroma emitting device that are disposed around the sensing area. |
| US10268172B2 |
Remote controller
A remote controller controlling an air-conditioning apparatus includes: a main part, a three-axis acceleration sensor; a normality determination part that determines whether an installation state of the remote controller is in a normal installation state or in an abnormal installation state, based on a detection value of the acceleration sensor; a stationary state determination part that determines whether the installation state is in a stationary state; a vibration determination part that determines whether a vibration occurs; a thermo sensor; and a control part that controls the air-conditioning apparatus. The main part includes a back face, a front face, and a bottom. The remote controller is in the abnormal installation state due to a shape and a centroid when the remote controller is placed on a horizontal surface. The control part performs a limited control that includes limitation of a control of the air-conditioning apparatus based on the environment temperature. |
| US10268171B2 |
Demand response control result presentation apparatus
A demand response control result presentation apparatus is used in an energy consumption amount management system granting an incentive to a user of a facility device when the facility device performs a demand response control to adjust an energy consumption amount in response to a control request. The demand response control result presentation apparatus is configured to present a control result of the demand response control performed by the facility device. The demand response control result presentation apparatus includes a control result acquiring unit configured to acquire information relating to the control result, an incentive amount acquiring unit configured to acquire information relating to an amount of the incentive, and a control result presentation unit configured to present the control result. The control result corresponds to a variation in the amount of the incentive in a predetermined period. |
| US10268169B2 |
Adaptive sample-by-sample controller for under-determined systems
A device and method to adapt a model in a underdetermined adaptive system that provides an output in response to an input. A controller provides parameters to the model in a transceiver system, composed of linearizers, equalizers, or estimators as a function of an error signal. The controller and the model parameters are manipulated to allow agnosticism with respect to input signals or model complexity, enabling robust operation and efficient implementation. |
| US10268166B2 |
Intelligent surface systems for building solutions
An intelligent surface system is provided for deployment in a space. The intelligent surface system includes a personnel movement device (PMD) configured to move an individual between first and second locations, sensors deployed to sense characteristics of the individual and a controller configured to determine a condition of the individual based on the characteristics and control an operation of the PMD in accordance with the determined condition of the individual. |
| US10268158B2 |
Drive transmission device and image forming apparatus incorporating the drive transmission device
A drive transmission device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes an output body, an input body, and an intermediate body. The output body has a drive output portion. The input body has a drive input portion. The intermediate body is supported by a support side body that is one of the output body and the input body. The intermediate body includes a relay portion to receive a driving force applied by the drive output portion and to transmit the driving force to the drive input portion, and a retaining portion to prevent the intermediate body from falling from the support side body. A distance from a center of rotation of the intermediate body to a leading end of the retaining portion is greater than or equal to a distance from the center of rotation of the intermediate body to a leading end of the relay portion. |
| US10268151B2 |
Image forming apparatus having photoconductor and method of controlling the same
An image forming apparatus, including: a photoconductor configured to be rotatable; a charger configured to charge the photoconductor; an overcurrent detector configured to output an overcurrent detection signal in response to detection of an overcurrent in the charger; and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to execute: an obtaining process of obtaining the overcurrent detection signal output from the overcurrent detector; a first counting process of counting a first number of detections based on the overcurrent detection signal obtained in the obtaining process, the first number of detections being the number of the overcurrent detection signals synchronized with a first cycle corresponding to one rotation of the photoconductor; and a first determining process of determining whether the first number of detections is not smaller than a first threshold which is not smaller than 2. |
| US10268146B2 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus
A fixing device includes a contact member that comes into contact with a recording medium on which an image is formed, a heater that has a contact-member facing surface, which faces the contact member, and a back surface, the heater heating the contact member, a heat supply member disposed in contact with the back surface of the heater, and supplying heat of a portion of the heater having a high temperature to a portion of the heater having a low temperature, and a heat transfer portion disposed in contact with the contact member, and having a flat contact surface that comes into contact with the contact member, the heat transfer portion transferring heat of the heat supply member to the contact member. |
| US10268145B2 |
Image heating apparatus having a plate-like heater and a heat conduction plate
A fixing device includes a cylindrical film having an inner surface and a plate-like heater that extends in a longitudinal direction of the film, with the heater having (i) a first surface that contacts the inner surface of the film, and (ii) a second surface opposite to the first surface. The fixing device further includes a heat conduction plate that extends in the longitudinal direction of the film and contacts the second surface of the heater, and a supporting member that supports the heater through the heat conduction plate. An image that is formed on a recording material is heated by heat from the heater through the film. |
| US10268143B2 |
Drive device and image forming apparatus incorporating the drive device
A drive device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a drive source, a drive switching device configured to switch between a transmission state and a halting state, a first rotary body having a rotary shaft, a first drive transmission passage through which a driving force is transmitted to the first rotary body, a second rotary body, a second drive transmission passage through which the driving force is transmitted to the second rotary body, a drive transmission body rotatably mounted on the rotary shaft of the first rotary body, and an input drive transmission body mounted on the rotary shaft of the first rotary body and configured to input the driving force to the rotary shaft of the first rotary body, the input drive transmission body configured to rotate together with the drive transmission body as a single unit. |
| US10268137B2 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus
An optical scanning device includes a light source having plural light emitting portions, a deflection unit that deflects and scans plural light beams emitted from the light source in a main scanning direction, and plural optical element groups disposed between the light source and the deflection unit and including an optical element having a negative refractive power along a sub-scanning direction intersecting the main scanning direction. An interval in the sub-scanning direction of the plural light beams is adjusted by tilting the optical element having the negative refractive power on an axis along the main scanning direction. |
| US10268136B2 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus provided with same
In a first scanning lens, a first lens section and a second lens section are vertically overlapped in such a manner as to separate lens centers thereof by a first distance. In a second scanning lens, a third lens section and a fourth lens section are vertically overlapped in such a manner as to separate lens centers thereof by a second distance equal to the first distance. A vertical positional relationship of the first lens section with the second lens section is the same as a vertical positional relationship of the third lens section with the fourth lens section. Further, a separating direction of a lens center of the first lens section from that of the second lens section is opposite to a separating direction of a lens center of the third lens section from that of the fourth lens section. |
| US10268135B2 |
Image forming apparatus for removing adhered matter from a charging unit
An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit (control unit) configured to detect operation information of the image forming apparatus and a controller (control unit) configured to apply an AC voltage to a charging roller by a charging power source during a non-image-forming operation of the image forming apparatus. The controller is configured to control the duration for which the AC voltage is applied on the basis of the operation information detected by the detection unit. |
| US10268134B2 |
Charging device, image forming unit comprising the same, and image forming apparatus comprising the same
To provide a charging device that allows a discharging electrode to be cleaned without damaging a protruding portion at an end portion of the discharging electrode. The device is provided with: a discharging electrode including a plurality of protruding portions arranged along a predetermined direction, the discharging electrode discharging electricity from at least part of the protruding portions; a cleaner for cleaning at least some protruding portions included in the plurality of protruding portions; a cleaner conveyance mechanism for conveying the cleaner along the predetermined direction for performing the cleaning, such that the cleaner interferes with at least some protruding portions included in the plurality of protruding portions; and a cleaner height adjustment mechanism for adjusting a height of the cleaner in a vicinity of the protruding portion where the cleaner reaches at first. |
| US10268130B2 |
Negative charge carrier resins with RH sensitivity
The instant disclosure describes methacrylate coated carrier resins with hydrophobic substituents for charge control and improved RH sensitivity. |
| US10268119B2 |
Extreme ultraviolet light generating device
An extreme ultraviolet light generating device may include a chamber, an EUV light focusing mirror provided therein, including a reflection surface having a concave curved shape and an outer peripheral portion around an outer edge of the reflection surface, and configured to focus EUV light radiated from plasma generated when a target is irradiated with laser light, a gas supplying device including peripheral heads provided on or along the outer peripheral portion; and a discharge device including a discharge path forming a discharge port near the outer peripheral portion, and configured to discharge an ion or a particle from the discharge port. The peripheral heads each may blow out a gas flow from the outer peripheral portion or a vicinity thereof along the reflection surface, and allow gas flows to join on the reflection surface to thereby form a gas flow along the reflection surface toward the discharge port. |
| US10268118B2 |
Extreme ultraviolet light generating apparatus
An extreme ultraviolet light generating apparatus includes a light collecting mirror that reflects and focuses extreme ultraviolet light, and a magnet that generates a magnetic field. The light collecting mirror includes a first mirror portion that includes a first reflective surface formed by a portion of a spheroidal surface, and a second mirror portion that includes a second reflective surface having a focal point at substantially the same position as a focal point of the first reflective surface, formed by a portion of a spheroidal surface different from that of the first reflective surface. The second reflective surface is provided at a position at which a magnetic flux density caused by the magnetic field is lower than that of the first reflective surface. |
| US10268117B2 |
Top-layer membrane formation composition and method for forming resist pattern using same
[Object] To provide compositions for forming a top coat layer capable of forming patterns with an excellent roughness and pattern shape in a pattern formation method by exposure to extreme ultraviolet rays, and a pattern formation method using the composition.[Means for solving problem] Provided are compositions for forming a top coat layer comprises an aromatic compound having an aromatic hydroxyl group and an aqueous solvent; and a method of forming patterns by applying the composition onto the resist surface and subjecting the resultant to exposure and development. This composition can further comprise binders. |
| US10268116B2 |
Processing liquid supplying apparatus and method of supplying processing liquid
A processing liquid supplying apparatus performs an ejecting step in which a processing liquid suctioned into a pump passes through a filter device and is ejected from an ejecting part without returning the processing liquid back to the pump; a returning step in which the processing liquid suctioned into the pump is returned to a processing liquid source side of a mixing section; and a replenishing step in which the processing liquid returned to the processing liquid source side is suctioned into the pump together with the processing liquid replenished from the processing liquid source. The processing liquid passes through the filter device in at least one of the returning step and the replenishing step. The amount of the processing liquid returned to the processing liquid source side in the returning step is larger than the amount of the processing liquid ejected from the ejecting part in the ejecting step. |
| US10268112B2 |
Illumination optical system and image projection apparatus with the same
An illumination optical system illuminates an image display element and includes a first lens array configured to divide light emitted from a light source, a second lens array configured to receive light from the first lens array, and a condenser optical system configured to guide light from the second lens array to the image display element, and a conjugate point of the image display element is located between an incident surface of the first lens array and an incident surface of the second lens array. |
| US10268111B2 |
Phosphor wheel, light source device, and projector-type image display apparatus
A phosphor wheel includes a disc-shaped substrate and a phosphor ring fixedly bonded to the substrate. At least three cut-out sections or openings are formed on a rim of the substrate. The shortest length from the center of the substrate to inner edges of the cut-out sections or inner edges of the openings is generally equal to a radius of an outer circumference of the phosphor ring. |
| US10268106B2 |
System installation of backstage
The system of backstage installation contains at least one vertical rack, which supports a tool that forms the backstage. System that forms the backstage, includes at least one movable structure for the installation of backstage connected with stationary vertical rack with the help of at least one rotating element. Movable structure is made with the possibility of rotation in the horizontal plane to transfer from the folded position into unfolded and to be rotated to the specified angle for formation of functional decorated zone. The system contains the backstage facility to form the front decorative backstage surface construction for the installation of the backstage. |
| US10268103B2 |
Camera device and camera device control method
According to the invention, there is provided a camera device including a light transmitting cover, a rotatable camera unit that is provided in the cover, a light shielding plate unit that can move the positions of a plurality of light shielding plates each of which blocks a portion of light incident on the camera unit, and a control unit that controls the light shielding plate unit, in which the control unit changes a light shielding range of each of the plurality of light shielding plates according to a tilt angle of the camera unit. |
| US10268101B2 |
Optical logic circuit
An optical logic circuit includes a NOT circuit. The NOT circuit reflects by fixed end reflection an data pulse input into the optical logic circuit which is an ON pulse of which a wavelength and an intensity are similar to a wavelength and an intensity of a standard optical pulse or an OFF pulse obtained by applying OFF modulation to the standard optical pulse. The NOT circuit multiplexes the reflected data pulse and the standard optical pulse and outputs the multiplexed pulse. |
| US10268092B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area, and a wiring substrate mounted on the second area of the display panel, wherein the first area includes an insulating substrate, an inorganic insulating film disposed on the insulating substrate, and a signal line disposed on the inorganic insulating film, and the second area includes a protective layer and the signal line disposed continuously from the first area on the protective layer. |
| US10268089B2 |
Display device and method
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a light source, a light guide and a prism sheet. The display panel includes a display area in which unit pixels each containing first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels are arranged along a first direction and a second direction. In the display area, the first sub-pixels have a width different from that of the second sub-pixel in at least one of the first direction and the second direction, or each unit pixel contains different numbers of first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels. The prism sheet is interposed between the light guide and the display panel and includes prisms extending along a third direction inclined with respect to the second direction by an acute angle of inclination. |
| US10268087B2 |
Display substrate and liquid crystal display device comprising the same
A display substrate includes a base substrate having a plurality of pixel areas and a pixel electrode in a pixel area of the plurality of pixel areas. The pixel electrode a first stem portion extending in a first direction, a second stem portion extending from the first stem portion in a second direction that intersects the first direction, a plurality of branch portions diagonally extending from at least one of the first stem portion and the second stem portion, and a bent portion extending from at least one of the plurality of branch portions. |
| US10268082B2 |
Display panel and method of manufacturing the same, and display device
A display panel and a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device. The display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a sealant provided on a periphery of the first substrate and the second substrate for bonding the first substrate and the second substrate; and a first alignment mark disposed on the first substrate and a second alignment mark disposed on the second substrate; the second alignment mark is provided on a side, adjacent to the liquid crystal layer, of the sealant, and the first alignment mark and the second alignment mark match in a plan view direction according to their preset shapes. By providing a first alignment mark and a second alignment mark, the accuracy of the two substrates can be improved effectively, and the application accuracy of the sealant can be further improved. |
| US10268079B2 |
Display device and optical sheet used in same
A display device includes a display panel, a backlight module, an optical sheet, and a polarizer. The display panel includes a plurality of first-color sub-pixels, a plurality of second-color sub-pixels, and a plurality of third-color sub-pixels. The backlight module includes a blue light source. The optical sheet includes a substrate, a plurality of transparent bumps, and a photo-excitation layer. The transparent bumps are overlapped with the third-color sub-pixels in a vertical projecting direction. The photo-excitation layer includes first photo-excitation regions which are overlapped with the first-color sub-pixels in the vertical projecting direction, and second photo-excitation regions which are overlapped with the second-color sub-pixels in the vertical projecting direction. Each of the first photo-excitation regions and the second photo-excitation regions has a plurality of first-color quantum dots and a plurality of second-color quantum dots. The polarizer is between the display panel and the optical sheet. |
| US10268078B2 |
Liquid crystal display
A spectrum of light which is emitted from an illuminator (2) of a liquid crystal display device (100) has a peak in each of the wavelength ranges of 447 to 453 nm, 538 to 542 nm, 613 to 617 nm, 628 to 632 nm, and 648 to 652 nm. The peak wavelength and rising wavelength of the transmission spectrum of the red color filters are, respectively, not less than 600 nm; and not less than 568 nm and not more than 572 nm. At wavelengths of 400 nm, 420 nm and 580 nm, the transmission spectrum of the red color filters has transmittances of, respectively, 10 to 15%; 3 to 6%; and 25 to 30%. The wavelengths at which the transmission spectrum of the red color filters exhibits a transmittance of 50% are contained within a range of 583 to 587 nm. The peak wavelength of the transmission spectrum of the green color filters is not less than 500 nm and not more than 560 nm. At wavelengths of 480 nm and 580 nm, the transmission spectrum of the green color filters exhibits transmittances of, respectively, 45 to 55%; and 65 to 70%. The wavelengths at which the transmission spectrum of the green color filters exhibits a transmittance of 50% are contained within a range of 478 to 482 nm and a range of 590 to 600 nm. The peak wavelength of the transmission spectrum of the blue color filters is not less than 440 nm and not more than 470 nm. At wavelengths of 400 nm and 500 nm, the transmission spectrum of the blue color filters exhibits transmittances of, respectively, 25 to 40%; and 40 to 50%. The wavelengths at which the transmission spectrum of the blue color filters exhibits a transmittance of 50% are contained within a range of 493 to 503 nm. |
| US10268073B2 |
Backlight, assembly method thereof and display device
A backlight, an assembly method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The backlight includes a light source configured to emit light having a first wavelength; a wavelength converter disposed on a light-emitting side of the light source and configured to convert the light having the first wavelength into light having a second wavelength upon passing through the wavelength converter, in which the second wavelength is different from the first wavelength; and a light guide plate disposed on one side of the wavelength converter away from the light source, and configured to receive and re-emit the light emitted from the wavelength converter. |
| US10268070B2 |
Display device incorporating reflective and retroreflective elements
According to one embodiment, a display device includes an optical element which transmits or reflects incident light, and a first reflective element including a first reflective portion and a second reflective portion. The first reflective portion retroreflects reflective light reflected on the optical element. The second reflective portion has an area less than an area of the first reflective portion and regularly reflects the reflective light. |
| US10268069B2 |
Transparent liquid crystal display
The invention provides a transparent LCD. By providing stop walls (4) in LC layer (2) to divide the LC layer (2) into the first areas (21) disposed correspondingly to the active areas (11) and the second areas (22) disposed correspondingly to the non-active areas (12), and providing LC only in the first areas (21) but not in the second areas (22), and by dividing the metal grid polarizers into polarizing areas corresponding to active areas (11) and non-polarizing areas corresponding to non-active areas (12), the polarization effect only occurs on the active areas (11) instead of the non-active areas (12), the invention reduces the number of TFTs, improves the transmittance ratio of the transparent LCD and simplifies the control system for transparent LCD. |
| US10268068B2 |
Electrooptical device, electronic apparatus, and method for manufacturing electrooptical device
There is provided an a electrooptical device which includes a electrooptical layer and an element substrate, in which the counter substrate includes a lens layer disposed on the electrooptical layer side of the lens layer, the element substrate includes a lens layer disposed on a substrate, a TFT that is provided on the electrooptical layer side of the lens layer, a light shielding portion that includes an opening for each of the pixels and is provided on the electrooptical layer side so as to overlap with the TFT, the lens layer is provided so as to fill a recess formed in a first region of a surface of the substrate and a recess formed at the bottom of the recess, and a surface of the lens layer constitutes a plane continuous with a surface in a second region of the substrate. |
| US10268067B2 |
Display substrate, display panel and display apparatus having the same, and fabricating method thereof
The present application discloses a display substrate comprising a base substrate having at least a first region, a second region adjacent to the first region, a third region adjacent to the second region and spaced apart from the first region by the second region on one side, and a black matrix region; a black matrix in the black matrix region on the base substrate comprising a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns intersecting each other; a first color filter layer in a first region and extending into the black matrix region, the first color filter layer overlapping with the black matrix throughout the plurality of columns of the black matrix; a second color filter layer in the second region; and a third color filter layer in the third region. |
| US10268062B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a light modulation layer and a light source. The light modulation layer is disposed between a pair of transparent substrates, has determined refractive index anisotropy, and includes plural light modulation elements which differ in responsiveness to an electric field generated by electrodes formed on a transparent substrate. The light source emits light of a determined color incident on the light modulation layer from a side of the light modulation layer. When the electric field is not generated, the light modulation layer transmits the incident light emitted from the light source. When the electric field is generated, the light modulation layer scatters the incident light and emits scattered light to a transparent substrate. |
| US10268059B2 |
Display
A display which thickness is allowed to be reduced is provided. A display includes: a display panel; and a back-face member having rigidity and provided on a back face of the display panel, the back-face member covering the back face, or the back face and other part of the display panel. |
| US10268054B2 |
Eyewear with interchangeable ornament mounting system, ornament receiving system for eyewear and method of mounting ornaments to eyewear
An eyewear is configured to receive at least one interchangeable ornament. The eyewear includes at least one temple arm having a cavity defined therein and at least one ornament receiving member configured to removably receive at least one ornament thereon. The at least one ornament receiving member is detachably engageable with one of the at least one temple arm and extends into the cavity of the at least one temple arm when connected thereto. An ornament receiving system is adapted for the eyewear. A method mounts at least one ornament to an eyewear are also disclosed. |
| US10268053B2 |
UV/visible-absorbing vinylic monomers and uses thereof
Described herein are UV-absorbing vinylic monomers and their uses in preparing UV-absorbing contact lenses capable of blocking ultra-violet (“UV”) radiation and violet radiation with wavelengths from 380 nm to 440 nm, thereby protecting eyes to some extent from damages caused by UV radiation and potentially from violet radiation. |
| US10268050B2 |
Spectacle lens
A spectacle lens can inhibit ametropia of the eyes and ensure full visibility. The spectacle lens comprises: first refraction areas and second refraction areas. Each first refraction area has a first refraction force that may be based on a prescription for correcting the ametropia of the eyes. Each second refraction area has a refraction force different from the first refraction force and may function to focus images on the positions except the retina of the eyes, to inhibit the development of the ametropia. Near the central part of the lens, the second refraction areas form a plurality of independent island-shaped areas, and the first refraction areas form the areas beyond the areas of the second refraction areas. |
| US10268049B1 |
Eye wear retainer system
The article of manufacture is cable with a rubberized outer coating. The cable has sufficient stiffness that it resists being bent. Two retainers with openings through their middle are placed on the cable. The two retainers are tapered at the top and have a cylindrical bottom. The retainers are placed on the cable with the tapered tops facing each other. On the cylindrical bottom a thread opening is drilled for a set screw. The cable is thread through the center of the retainer and held in place by tightening the set screw. Over the cylindrical bottom of the retainers a rubber tube is placed. The tube is held in place by machined barbs. To use the invention one takes the tubes and places them over the eyeglasses' temples. Then the individual takes the invention with the eyeglasses and places it over his head. |
| US10268045B2 |
Adjustable multiple-ring polarizing ND filter assembly with elastic engaging member for axial ring securement
An adjustable multiple-ring polarizing neutral-density filter assembly with an elastic engaging member for axial ring securement includes a fixedly connecting ring and a first pivotally connecting ring. The fixedly connecting ring is mounted with a polarizing lens and has a first end threadedly connectable to a camera lens and an opposite second end axially provided with a receiving groove. The elastic engaging member is mounted in the receiving groove and has a free end extending out of or forced into the receiving groove. The first pivotally connecting ring is mounted with another polarizing lens and has one end pivotally connected to the second end of the fixedly connecting ring and circumferentially provided with an engaging portion. The free end of the elastic engaging member can press against the bottom wall of any of the engaging recesses in the engaging portion to maintain the corresponding light-reducing effect while being shaken. |
| US10268043B2 |
Wavelength beam combining laser systems utilizing prisms for beam quality improvement and bandwidth reduction
In various embodiments, one or more prisms are utilized in a wavelength beam combining laser system to regulate beam size and/or to provide narrower wavelength bandwidth. |
| US10268042B2 |
Head-mounted image display device
A head-mounted image display device mounted on the head of a user includes an image display section, a left contact section set in contact with a temporal region on the left side, a right contact section set in contact with a temporal region on the right side, a left supporting section provided in the image display section and configured to support the left contact section, and a right supporting section provided in the image display section and configured to support the right contact section. At least one supporting section of the left supporting section and the right supporting section supports an entire target contact section, which is the contact section supported by the at least one supporting section of the left and right contact section, to be movable from a first position to a second position away from the first position in a left-right direction with respect to the head. |
| US10268039B2 |
Vibration device and camera
A vibration device includes a support body that includes first and second principal surfaces and a through hole penetrating through the support body to open at the first and second principal surfaces, a first vibration element on the side of the first principal surface of the support body, and a second vibration element on the side of the second principal surface of the support body. The first vibration element includes a first vibration body that is translucent. The second vibration element includes a second vibration body and a second piezoelectric vibrator provided on the second vibration body. |
| US10268036B1 |
Electrowetting cell with stepped lateral wall electrodes
A system comprises a driver and an electrowetting cell controlled by the driver that includes a substrate that includes a well filled with at least two non-mixing media. The well has lateral walls and a stepped control channel electrode matrix including multiple stepped control channel electrode arrays. The lateral walls can collectively form a continuous perimeter around the well (e.g., circle shaped). Each stepped control channel electrode array includes a number of stepped control channel electrodes formed at different longitudinal levels along a respective lateral wall. Each stepped control channel electrode is independently controllable to control a shape of the at least two non-mixing media via an electric field. Each lateral wall encloses the at least two non-mixing media inside the well. |
| US10268034B2 |
Telescope, and method for manufacturing telescope
A telescope includes a first reflector having a first concave cylindrical surface with a first radius and a second reflector having a second concave cylindrical surface with a second radius different from the first radius, and a fixing member configured to fix the first reflector and the second reflector in such a way that the first concave cylindrical surface and the second concave cylindrical surface face each other and a central axis of the first concave cylindrical surface and a central axis of the second concave cylindrical surface are orthogonal to each other. |
| US10268031B2 |
Illumination in digital pathology scanning
The present invention relates to digital pathology. In order provide enhanced use of available imaging radiation, a digital pathology scanner (10) is provided that comprises a radiation arrangement (12), a sample receiving device (14), an optics arrangement (16), and a sensor unit (18). The radiation arrangement comprises a source (20) that provides electromagnetic radiation (22) for radiating a sample received by the sample receiving device. Further, the optics arrangement comprises at least one of the group of a lens (24) and a filter (26) that are arranged between the sample receiving device and the sensor unit. The sensor unit is configured to provide image data of the radiated sample. Still further, a lens array arrangement (28) is provided that comprises at least one lens array (30) arranged between the source and the sample receiving device. The at least one lens array comprises a plurality of linear cylindrical lenses (32) that modulate the electromagnetic radiation from the source such that, in an object plane, a radiation distribution pattern (34) is generated with a plurality of first parts of intensified radiation and a plurality of second parts of weak radiation. |
| US10268030B2 |
Zoom lens and imaging apparatus
The zoom lens consisting of, in order from an object side: a first lens group that has a positive refractive power; a second lens group that has a negative refractive power; a third lens group that has a negative refractive power; an intermediate part; and a final lens group that has a positive refractive power. The first lens group consists of three lenses, and has a cemented lens which is formed by cementing at least one positive lens and at least one negative lens. The second lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a negative meniscus lens, a biconcave lens, and a biconvex lens. The third lens group consists of one lens. The final lens group has a lens, which is convex toward an image side, at a position closest to the image side. Each lens group moves in a predetermined direction during zooming, and only the third lens group moves in the direction of the optical axis during focusing, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied. |
| US10268027B2 |
Imaging optical system, imaging apparatus, and projection-type display apparatus
An imaging optical system that conjugates a reduced-side conjugate point, a magnified-side conjugate point, and a position of an internal intermediate image with each other includes, continuously in order from a most magnified side, a negative lens group and a positive lens. The negative lens group consists of three or more negative lenses. The imaging optical system includes a first cemented lens which is a lens component closest to the intermediate image, a positive second cemented lens disposed immediately after a reduced side of the first cemented lens, and one or more sets of cemented lenses disposed between the positive lens on the most magnified side and the first cemented lens. |
| US10268025B1 |
Camera optical lens
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of glass material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of glass material, the sixth lens is made of plastic material, and the seventh lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions. |
| US10268022B1 |
Camera optical lens
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions. |
| US10268020B2 |
Optical image capturing system
An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. At least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive force. The fifth lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras. |
| US10268018B1 |
Lens module
A lens module includes a circuit, a sensor mounted on the circuit, a base mounted on the circuit, a motor mounted on the base, and a lens unit mounted on the motor. The base has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and an outer surface connected with the first surface and the second surface. The base forms a plurality of heat dissipation layers, the heat dissipation layers are made of metal materials. The heat dissipation layers are spaced from each other. The heat dissipation layers are formed on the first surface and the outer surface of the base. |
| US10268015B2 |
Optical fiber cable having a plurality of stranded optical fiber ribbons
This optical fiber cable comprises an optical unit obtained by creating strands of a plurality of optical fiber tape cores, a tube in which the optical unit is housed, and a cable sheath that covers the outside of an aggregate of a plurality of tubes. The optical fiber tape cores have provided thereto, between some or all of optical fiber cores when a plurality of optical fiber cores are positioned in parallel, and intermittently in the longitudinal direction thereof, connecting parts that connect adjoining optical fiber cores, and non-connecting parts at which adjoining optical fiber cores are not connected. The tube has a Young's modulus lower than the Young's modulus of the cable sheath, and the aggregate is such that the plurality of tubes on the inside of the cable sheath deform elastically with respect to one another, with some thereof being in surface contact with the cable sheath. |
| US10268012B2 |
Thermally conductive closure for electronics
A closure (100) facilitates upgrading a network to extend optical fibers closer to, or all the way to, the subscribers by facilitating the transition between optical signals to electrical signals. The closure includes a base (110) and a cover (120) defining an interior; and a circuit board (130) disposed within the interior. A management tray (140) can be coupled to the base. The circuit board (130) includes the optoelectronic circuitry. The management tray (140) includes a platform (141) disposed between the circuit board (130) and the cover (120). Various types of fiber and electrical cable sub-assemblies (160) can be received at a port (113) defined in the closure. |
| US10268008B2 |
Plastic optical fiber ribbon
To provide an optical fiber ribbon whereby a plastic optical fiber can be used in such a state that the tensile strength is good. A plastic optical fiber ribbon 10 characterized in that at least one plastic optical fiber 1 and at least one plastic wire 2 having a Young's modulus of at least 3,000 MPa are arranged so that their central axes are parallel to each other in the same plane, and integrated by a collective coating 3. |
| US10268005B2 |
Method for manufacturing active optical cable
A method for manufacturing an active optical cable comprises (a) flip-chip packaging chips onto a circuit board to form a OE circuit board, (b) integrating the OE circuit board onto an optical bench to form a OE bench, (c) integrating the OE bench onto a printed circuit board to form a OE module, (d) molding encapsulant onto the OE bench, (e) coupling a hybrid cable onto the OE module, and (f) utilizing low temperature, low pressure injection molding process to form the active optical cable. |
| US10268003B2 |
Methods and systems for providing a fiber optic cable network testing platform
In embodiments, methods and systems for implementing fiber optic cable network testing using a fiber optic cable network testing platform are provided. A fiber optic cable network testing adapter assembly comprises an attachment and a port. The attachment attaches the adapter assembly to a mobile device and the port receives a fiber optic cable. A fiber optic cable network testing application receives, via a camera of the mobile device, light data from the cable. The fiber optic cable is coupled to the port to transmit the light data to the application. The application is part of the fiber optic cable network testing platform, the platform provides integrated fiber optic cable network testing. The application analyzes the light data based on a fiber optic cable network testing option to generate testing results data. The application communicates the testing results data using an interface to facilitate presenting the testing results data. |
| US10267998B2 |
Device and method for performing lens-free imaging
Embodiments described herein relate to an imaging device, a method for imaging an object, and a photonic integrated circuit. The imaging device includes at least one photonic integrated circuit. The photonic integrated circuit includes an integrated waveguide for guiding a light signal. The photonic integrated circuit also includes a light coupler optically coupled to the integrated waveguide. The light coupler is adapted for directing the light signal out of a plane of the integrated waveguide as a light beam. The imaging device also includes a microfluidic channel for containing an object immersed in a fluid medium. The microfluidic channel is configured to enable, in operation of the imaging device, illumination of the object by the light beam. In addition, the imaging device includes at least one imaging detector positioned for imaging the object illuminated by the light beam. |
| US10267997B2 |
Infrared scene projector with per-pixel spectral and polarisation capability
A scene projector including an array of light emitting pixels, a tunable filter element, and a spatial light modulator. The tunable filter element is optically coupled to the array of light emitting pixels such that light emitted from the array of light emitting pixels is passed through the tunable filter element as filtered light. The spatial light modulator is optically coupled to the array of light emitting pixels and is configured to generate transmitted light by interacting with the filtered light to control at least one of an amplitude, a phase, and a polarization of the filtered light. |
| US10267994B2 |
Wavelength selective switch including a liquid crystal on silicon
A wavelength selective switch (WSS) apparatus is disclosed, which includes: a liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) phase array configured for selectively diverting a certain wavelength component of light beams to continue to propagate and keeping another wavelength component of the light beams from propagating by controlling a voltage applied thereto and/or a polarization of the light beams, the LCOS phase array being provided with a first liquid crystal (LC) domain, a second liquid crystal (LC) domain, and a reflection component, the reflection component being configured to reflect a light beam input through the first LC domain back to the first LC domain and reflect a light beam input through the second LC domain back to the second LC domain; and a reflective element that is arranged to reflect the light beams output from the LCOS phase array back to the LCOS phase array. |
| US10267993B2 |
High-numerical aperture light stripper
A fiber connector, comprising a housing comprising a region extending in a lengthwise direction an optical fiber disposed in the region, a first portion of the optical fiber comprising an inner core, a cladding layer surrounding the core, and a first outer polymer layer surrounding the cladding layer and a second portion of the optical fiber comprising the inner core, the cladding layer surrounding the core and a second outer polymer layer that is different from the first polymer layer. |
| US10267991B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
First, half etching is performed to a semiconductor layer formed on an insulating layer to form trenches at positions of slab-portion regions in which slab portions are to be formed. After filling the trenches with an insulating film, a resist mask which covers the semiconductor layer at a projecting-portion region in which a projecting portion is to be formed and whose pattern ends are located on upper surfaces of the insulating films is formed on upper surfaces of the semiconductor layer and the insulating film, and full etching is performed to the semiconductor layer with using the resist mask and the insulating film as an etching mask, thereby forming an optical waveguide constituted of the projecting portion and the slab portions. Thereafter, a first interlayer insulating film is formed to cover the optical waveguide. |
| US10267990B1 |
Hybrid interconnect device and method
In an embodiment, a method includes: forming an interconnect including waveguides and conductive features disposed in a plurality of dielectric layers, the conductive features including conductive lines and vias, the waveguides formed of a first material having a first refractive index, the dielectric layers formed of a second material having a second refractive index less than the first refractive index; bonding a plurality of dies to a first side of the interconnect, the dies electrically connected by the conductive features, the dies optically connected by the waveguides; and forming a plurality of conductive connectors on a second side of the interconnect, the conductive connectors electrically connected to the dies by the conductive features. |
| US10267989B2 |
Prestructured substrate for the production of photonic components, associated photonic circuit and manufacturing method
A substrate locally pre-structured for the production of photonic components including a solid part made of silicon; a first localised region of the substrate, including a heat dissipation layer, produced in a localised manner on the surface of the solid part and made of a material of which the refractive index is less than that of silicon; a wave guide on the heat dissipation layer; a second localised region of the substrate, including an oxide layer produced in a localised manner on the surface of the solid part, the oxide having a heat conductivity less than that of the material of the heat dissipation layer; a wave guide on the oxide layer. |
| US10267988B2 |
Photonic package and method forming same
A method includes bonding an electronic die to a photonic die. The photonic die includes an opening. The method further includes attaching an adapter onto the photonic die, with a portion of the adapter being at a same level as a portion of the electronic die, forming a through-hole penetrating through the adapter, with the through-hole being aligned to the opening, and attaching an optical device to the adapter. The optical device is configured to emit a light into the photonic die or receive a light from the photonic die. |
| US10267987B2 |
Flat optical fiber light emitters
Light emitters are made of one or more cladded flat optical fibers having opposite flat sides and disruptions along at least a portion of the length of the fibers to cause light entering at least one end to be emitted from at least one side. The ends of the flat optical fibers may have substantially the same thickness as a light source and a width substantially equal to or substantially greater than the width of the light source for ease of optically coupling one or more such light sources to the flat optical fiber ends. |
| US10267986B2 |
Optical fiber plate manufacturing apparatus and method using vibration
An optical fiber plate manufacturing apparatus using vibration, includes: an optical fiber supply unit configured to supply an optical fiber; an optical fiber cutting unit configured to cut the optical fiber, supplied from the optical fiber supply unit, to a preset size; an optical fiber storage case configured to collect and store optical fibers, cut to the preset size, in a predetermined direction; and an optical fiber arranging unit configured to arrange the optical fibers, stored in the optical fiber storage case, using vibration so as to minimize a gap between the optical fibers. |
| US10267985B2 |
Fiber device and method for amplifying pulses of laser light
The present application discloses a double-clad crystal fiber which includes a Yb-doped CALGO core region, a pump cladding region configured to have the core region positioned therein, and a second cladding region configured to have the core region and pump cladding region positioned therein. |
| US10267984B2 |
Optical fiber
The refractive index of the inner core part 11 in a region in contact with the boundary of the outer core part 12 is higher than the refractive index of the outer core part 12. The refractive index of the outer core part 12 is gradually decreased from the inner circumferential side to the outer circumferential side. The refractive index of the inner cladding part 21 is equal to the refractive index of the outermost circumferential part of the outer core part 12 and not greater than the refractive index of the outer cladding part 22. |
| US10267981B1 |
Terminal block with light guide bar
A terminal block includes an insulative casing, a bottom plate, conductive terminals and a light module. The insulative casing has first chambers, second chambers and through holes separately communicating with the first chambers. The bottom plate coves the first chambers. A side of the bottom plate and the second chambers are formed with a circuit board slot. The bottom plate is extended with light guide bars separately passing through and exposed in the through holes. The conductive terminals are separately received in the first chambers. Each conductive terminal is extended with a contact sheet disposed in the second chamber. The light module includes a circuit board, LEDs mounted on the circuit board and conductive units. When the circuit board is detachably inserted into the circuit board slot, the LEDs correspond to the light guide bars in position, and each conductive unit electrically connects to one of the contact sheets. |
| US10267980B2 |
Illuminating device
According to one embodiment, an illuminating device includes a lightguide plate including a curved emitting surface, and an incidence surface including a side edge curved along the emitting surface, a printed circuit board facing the incidence surface, and light sources mounted on the printed circuit board. Each light source includes a light-emitting center, a pair of connection terminals, and a central axis extending through the connection terminals and the light-emitting center. The light sources are arranged along a curved mounting line extending along the curved side edge of the incidence surface on the printed circuit board. The light-emitting centers are located on the mounting line, and the central axes are parallel to each other. |
| US10267979B2 |
Wall wash luminaire with light guide and optical element therefore
A light shaping article includes a solid optic having a cross-sectional profile including an input interface; a convex output surface opposite the input interface; a concave first side surface extending between the input interface and the convex output surface; and a second side surface opposite the concave first side surface extending from between input interface to the convex output surface. The concave first side surface and the convex output surface are configured such that, when the solid optic receives input light having an input angular range in a plane of the cross-sectional profile, the solid optic guides the light to and emits the light from the output surface in an output angular range in the plane. A prevalent propagation direction of output light in the output angular range is tilted toward the second side surface relative to a prevalent propagation direction of input light in the input angular range. |
| US10267977B2 |
Device for transporting light
It is provided a device for transporting light, comprising at least two light pipes and at least one connection part, the at least two light pipes and the at least one connection part are molded with same material as a single component, wherein each connection part includes a triangular prism having a connection surface for connecting the at least two light pipes and two other surfaces having acute angles with the connection surface. |
| US10267975B2 |
Light guide plate, and backlight unit and display device including the same
A backlight unit and a display device includes a light source which generates light used by a display panel to display an image; and a light guide plate which receives the light from the light source and emits the light through a light emission surface thereof. The light guide plate includes: a base layer; a light transmitting layer on the base layer and defining the light emission surface of the light guide plate; and a light transmitting particle provided in plurality between the base layer and the light transmitting layer. The light transmitting particle has a refractive index higher than a refractive index of the light transmitting layer. |
| US10267974B2 |
Light guide plate, backlight and display device
A light guide plate, a backlight and a display device are provided. The light guide plate includes a light incident surface, and a light emergent surface intersecting with the light incident surface, the light emergent surface being provided with a blank region close to the light incident surface; the blank region is provided with a plurality of convex point structures thereon. The light guide plate can reduce a disadvantageous effect of an adhesive preparation structure on the backlight and improve a light utilization rate of the backlight. |
| US10267973B2 |
Wavelength conversion member, backlight unit, polarizing plate, liquid crystal panel, and liquid crystal display device
Provided is a wavelength conversion member, including: a wavelength conversion layer containing a quantum dot which is excited by excitation light and emits fluorescent light; and an adjacent layer directly laminated on the wavelength conversion layer, in which the shape of an interface between the wavelength conversion layer and the adjacent layer includes an irregular shape formed of a concave portion and a convex portion. Provided are a backlight unit, a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal panel, and a liquid crystal display device: including the wavelength conversion member. |
| US10267972B2 |
Shaped light guide illumination devices
A shaped illumination panel having a broad-area sheet-form configuration and including a flexible sheet of an optically transmissive material and one or more light sources optically coupled to an edge of the flexible sheet. The flexible sheet may include forward-deflecting or forward-scattering elements configured to extract light from one location of the flexible sheet and direct the extracted light to a second location of the flexible sheet where the extracted light can be transversely propagated through and reemitted from the flexible sheet. |
| US10267966B2 |
Composite functional polarized lens
A composite functional polarized lens is a polarized lens in which lens substrate layers made of, for example, an allyl diglycol carbonate resin (produced by PPG Industries: CR-39), an urethane resin or other predetermined resin are integrally formed on both front and back surfaces of a polarizing film by way of insert molding, wherein a first lens substrate layer formed on the front surface of both the front and back surfaces of the polarizing film contains a light absorber which is an ultraviolet absorber, an infrared absorber, photochromic light absorber or a thermochromic light absorber as an additional component, and a second lens substrate layer formed on the back surface does not contain the light absorber. |
| US10267963B2 |
Wavelength conversion member, wavelength conversion element, and light emitting apparatus using those
Provided are a wavelength conversion member and a wavelength conversion element which are capable of reducing the decrease in luminescence intensity with time and the melting of a component material when irradiated with light of a high-power LED or LD, and a light emitting apparatus using the wavelength conversion member or the wavelength conversion element. A wavelength conversion member contains, in % by mass, 70 to 99.9% inorganic phosphor particles and 0.1 to 30% easily sinterable ceramic particles, wherein the easily sinterable ceramic particles are interposed between the inorganic phosphor particles and the inorganic phosphor particles are bound together by the easily sinterable ceramic particles. |
| US10267962B2 |
Method for making pine shaped metal nano-scaled grating
A method of making a pine shaped metal nano-scaled grating, the method including: forming a first metal layer on a substrate, forming an isolation layer on the first metal layer, and locating a second metal layer on the isolation layer; placing a first mask layer on the second metal layer, wherein the first mask layer comprises a body, and the body defines a plurality of openings parallel with and spaced apart from each other; etching the first mask layer and the second metal layer to obtain a plurality of triangular prism structures; etching the isolation layer to obtain a plurality of second rectangular structures using the plurality of triangular prism structures as a first mask; and etching the first metal layer to obtain a plurality of first rectangular structures using the plurality of second rectangular structures as a second mask. |
| US10267956B2 |
Multi-wavelength optical dielectric metasurfaces
Structures for scattering light at multiple wavelengths are disclosed. Scattering elements are fabricated with different geometric dimensions and arrangements, to scatter or focus light at the same focal distance for each wavelength, or at different focal distances according to the desired application. Scattering elements can be circular or elliptical posts, allowing polarization dependent scattering. The elements can have different orientations to scatter light from multiple wavelengths at the desired focal length. |
| US10267954B2 |
Near eye display device and method
A near eye display device and method are provided. The near eye display device including: a display panel and a lens module. The display panel includes a plurality of display areas arranged in an array, each of the display areas includes at least one pixel unit; and the lens module includes a plurality of micro-lenses arranged in an array, which include a plurality of deflection micro-lenses, an end of the deflection micro-lenses close to a center of the lens module is closer to the display panel than an end of the deflection micro-lenses far away from the center of the lens module, each of the display areas corresponds to at least one of the micro-lenses, and an adjacent portion of two adjacent display areas of the display areas corresponds to two different micro-lenses of the micro-lenses, and the two different micro-lenses include at least one of the deflection micro-lenses. |
| US10267952B2 |
Comfortable ophthalmic device and methods of its production
This invention relates to comfortable ophthalmic devices and methods of producing such devices by treating unhydrated, polymerized ophthalmic lens with a polymeric wetting agent, wherein the ophthalmic lens formulation does not comprise said wetting agent prior to its polymerization. |
| US10267949B2 |
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
To record an interesting image. An information processing apparatus includes an imaging unit and a control unit. The imaging unit is provided at a flight vehicle which moves in air by utilizing gas lighter than air and is configured to image a subject to generate image data. The control unit is configured to perform control movement of the flight vehicle on the basis of at least one of information relating to the flight vehicle and information of surroundings of the flight vehicle, and to perform control to record the image data generated by the imaging unit. |
| US10267946B2 |
Magnetic resonance pulse sequences having wait times based on carrier speed
An embodiment of a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) apparatus for estimating properties of an earth formation includes an NMR measurement device including a transmitting assembly configured to emit a pulse sequence and a receiving assembly configured to detect an echo train based on the pulse sequence, and a processor. The processor is configured to perform receiving input parameters including an axial speed of the NMR measurement device and a T1 value associated with a selected formation fluid, analyzing polarization data associated with the T1 value, the polarization data describing a dependency between polarization and axial speed, determining a wait time for the pulse sequence based on the polarization data, applying the pulse sequence with the determined wait time to the transmitting assembly, and estimating a property of the earth formation based on the echo train detected by the receiving assembly in response to the pulse sequence. |
| US10267943B2 |
Monitoring hydrocarbon reservoirs using induced polarization effect
Some examples of monitoring hydrocarbon reservoirs using induced polarization effect includes inducing polarization in a subterranean zone using an induced polarization fluid. The subterranean zone includes first formations and second formations. A quantity of hydrocarbons in the first formations is greater than quantity of hydrocarbons in the second formations. The induced polarization data is obtained from the subterranean zone. A portion of the induced polarization data from the first formations is different from a portion of the induced polarization data from the second formations. The second formations in the subterranean zone are identified based on the obtained induced polarization data. |
| US10267941B2 |
Estimate of formation mobility from Stoneley waveforms
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to estimate formation mobility from Stoneley waveforms. An objective function can be generated that represents misfit between measured Stoneley pressure values and synthetic pressure values. A minimization process can be applied to the objective function to estimate formation mobility and intrinsic attenuation. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. |
| US10267935B2 |
Induced seismic source method and device
Method and device for generating an induced source shot point gather. The method includes receiving seismic data at least partially generated by an unintentional seismic source; calculating plural reconstructed receiver traces (RGi) based on pairing traces from the seismic data; and generating the induced source shot point gather based on the plural reconstructed receiver traces (RGi). |
| US10267934B2 |
System and method for generating a depositional sequence volume from seismic data
A method of generating a depositional sequence volume from seismic data is performed at a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing programs to be executed by the one or more processors. The method includes the following steps: receiving a seismic dataset, wherein the seismic dataset includes image values at a plurality of grid points of a 3-D subsurface model; identifying reflections at a first subset of the plurality of grid points and geological constraints at a second subset of the plurality of grid points of the 3-D subsurface model from processing the image values of the seismic dataset; and generating a depositional sequence volume for the 3-D subsurface model from the reflections at the first subset of grid points and the geological constraints at the second subset of grid points. |
| US10267933B2 |
Auxiliary device communication
A system may include a message server. The system may include a telemetry unit in communication with the message server. The telemetry unit may be configured to discover an identification of an auxiliary device coupled thereto. The telemetry unit may be configured to report the identification to the message server. The telemetry unit may be configured to request the message server to send messages associated with the identification to the telemetry unit. The telemetry unit may be configured to forward the messages to the auxiliary device. |
| US10267929B2 |
Method of pixel volume confinement
Method of pixel volume confinement in a crystal of an energy resolving radiation detector, preferably an X-ray detector, more preferably a Computed Tomography detector, the crystal having a cathode side and an anode side, comprising: a. Inducing a break line (501) in the crystal along a pixel virtual limits b. Passivating the break line. |
| US10267928B2 |
Dark current compensation
The present invention is directed towards a photon counting radiation detector (10) comprising an array of pixels (13) comprising a plurality of detection pixels (131) for detecting imaging information. At least one pixel of the array of pixels (132) is shielded from receiving radiation. A dark current is determined from the shielded pixel (132) and is used to compensate for dark current in the other, non-shielded pixels (131). Embodiments are directed to integrating pixel shielding within an Anti Scatter Grid or in a mask. |
| US10267927B2 |
Structured detectors and detector systems for radiation imaging
Detector module designs for radiographic imaging include first and second layers of scintillator rods or pixel arrays oriented in first and second directions. The first and second directions are transversely oriented to define a light sharing region between the first and second layers. Encoding features may be disposed in, on or between the first and second layers, and configured to modulate propagation of optical signals therealong or therebetween. |
| US10267923B2 |
Method and systems for restoring a GPS signal
A method and system for restoring a GPS signal is provided. The method including the steps of receiving a target location, receiving location of visible satellites, calculating a transmit delay, calculating a Doppler offset, calculating a chipping offset, computing navigating data and PRN codes, formulating signals using the transmit delay, Doppler offset, chipping offset, navigation data and PRN codes, and transmitting the formulated signal. |
| US10267922B2 |
Multipath mitigation in positioning systems
An apparatus for receiving positioning signals comprises an antenna configured to output a plurality of antenna signals and a multipath compensation module for detecting multipath interference, and if multipath interference is detected, selecting one or more of the antenna signals and combining the selected one or more antenna signals to obtain a compensated signal. The antenna is arranged to distinguish between ones of the positioning signals received at different incident angles, and each antenna signal includes ones of the positioning signals received in a predetermined range of incident angles. The multipath compensation module may determine whether multipath interference is present in each antenna signal, and may not select any antenna signals which include interference when selecting the antenna signals to be combined. The gain of each antenna signal may be adjusted before the signals are combined, to maintain the noise power of each antenna signal below a predetermined limit. The phase of each antenna signal may be adjusted before the signals are combined, to reduce phase differences between the antenna signals. |
| US10267918B2 |
Lidar detector having a plurality of time to digital converters integrated onto a detector chip
A scanning system includes a light source configured to emit light as a series of one or more light pulses, a scanner configured to direct the one or more light pulses towards a remote target, and a receiver configured to detect light scattered by the remote target. The receiver includes a light detector element disposed on an ASIC that includes multiple comparators disposed in parallel with one another, and corresponding time-to-digital converters (TDCs) coupled to the comparator. Each of the comparators processes a received electrical signal from the light detector element to produce a digital edge signal when the amplitude of the received electrical signal reaches a particular threshold. A corresponding TDC outputs a time delay value associated with a time at which the received electrical signal reaches the particular threshold. |
| US10267917B2 |
Distance measuring method and apparatus
Disclosed are a distance measuring method and a distance measuring apparatus. During the distance measuring, an image is obtained. If the location of a center of gravity of the image is within a first segment, the calculating unit calculates a distance between the object and the distance measuring apparatus corresponding to the projection point, according to a first mapping relationship and the location of a center of gravity of the image. If the location of a center of gravity of the image is within a second segment, the calculating unit calculates a distance between the object and the distance measuring apparatus corresponding to the projection point according to a second mapping relationship and the location of a center of gravity of the image. |
| US10267914B2 |
Method and device for probing by wave propagation
An incident wave is emitted into a medium comprising diffusers that can reflect the wave. Signals representing a reflected wave reverberated by the medium from the incident wave are captured, said captured signals being the sum of a simple diffusion component and a multiple diffusion component. The captured signals are treated by separating the multiple diffusion component from the simple diffusion component. |
| US10267910B2 |
Frequency-scalable imaging radar
An imaging device includes an antenna configured to transmit millimeter waves, a connector adapted to connect a radio frequency (RF) signal source with the imaging device and a signal path connected between the connector and the antenna. A nonlinear transmission line (NLTL)-based frequency multiplier is arranged along the signal path to receive an RF signal from the RF signal source and increase a frequency of the RF signal to millimeter frequency to produce a millimeter wave. A NLTL-based variable delay line is arranged along the signal path between the NLTL-based frequency multiplier and the antenna. A time delay of an NLTL of the NLTL-base variable delay line is variable to steer a beam of the millimeter wave in at least one dimension as the millimeter wave is transmitted by the antenna. A receiver processes a return signal received in response to the millimeter wave. |
| US10267906B2 |
Angle estimating method and radar system
An angle estimating method applied in a radar system includes receiving a first signal and a second signal reflected from a target object via a first antenna and a second antenna; obtaining a first phase difference and at least one virtual phase difference, where the first phase difference is a phase difference between the first antenna and the second antenna; and obtaining a direction of arrival (DOA) of the target object according to the first phase difference and the at least one virtual phase difference. |
| US10267904B2 |
Artificial skin and human phantom for use in active millimeter wave imaging systems
The present disclosure is directed to an artificial skin including: a radar absorbing layer; a conductive layer comprising at least one material selected from the group consisting of a semiconductive oxide deposited onto a substrate and an electrically conductive polymer, wherein the substrate is in contact with the radar absorbing layer, and wherein the artificial skin has a reflection coefficient substantially equal to a human skin reflection coefficient, the human skin reflection coefficient being determined at an electromagnetic radiation frequency ranging from 1-500 GHz. A human phantom composed of the artificial skin and methods of using the human phantom are also disclosed. |
| US10267902B2 |
Digital ROIC enhancement and repetition frequency decoding of asychronous laser pulses
A method includes acquiring a pulse detection bitmap from an imaging sensor array into a digital read out integrated circuit (DROIC), filtering the pulse detection bitmap within the DROIC to convert the pulse detection bitmap into a filtered pulse detection bitmap, and determining for a given pixel in the filtered pulse detection bitmap whether the pixel has a value that exceeds a threshold, indicating a true laser pulse return has been detected in the pixel. |
| US10267901B2 |
Ranging device with imaging capability
A ranging device includes an array of photon detection devices adapted to receive an optical signal reflected by an object in an image scene. First and second logic devices are adapted to respectively combine the outputs of first and second pluralities of the photon detection devices. A first range detection circuit is coupled to outputs of the first and second logic devices and a first counter is coupled to the output of the first logic device and adapted to generate a first pixel value by counting events generated by the first plurality of photon detection devices. A second counter is coupled to the output of the second logic device and is adapted to generate a second pixel value by counting events generated by the second plurality of photon detection devices. The first and second pixel values may be used in estimating a range to the object in the image scene. |
| US10267898B2 |
Scan patterns for lidar systems
A lidar system is disclosed. The lidar system can include a light source to produce first and second sets of pulses of light. The system can also include a first lidar sensor with a first scanner to scan the first set of pulses of light along a first scan pattern, and a first receiver to detect scattered light from the first set of pulses of light. The system can also include a second lidar sensor with a second scanner to scan the second set of pulses of light along a second scan pattern, and a second receiver to detect scattered light from the second set of pulses of light. The first scan pattern and the second scan pattern can be at least partially overlapped in an overlap region. The lidar system can also include an enclosure to contain the light source, the first lidar sensor, and the second lidar sensor. |
| US10267888B2 |
Pointing an antenna at a signal source using augmented reality
An anticipated direction to a signal source is determined by a communication device having an antenna. The communication device receives video images in a field of view of a camera and determines, using sensors of the communication device, an antenna direction. The antenna direction is the direction that the antenna of the communication device is pointing. The communication device displays, using a display screen, the video images, an antenna direction indicator, and a guiding icon. The antenna direction indicator indicates the antenna direction relative to the field of view of the camera, and the guiding icon represents a direction offset from the anticipated direction. An energy value of a signal received from the signals source is determined by the communication device using the antenna, and a position of the guiding icon on the display screen is updated based on the anticipated direction. |
| US10267883B2 |
System and method for motion resolved MRI
A method comprises acquiring navigation data during navigation scans at each of a plurality of points in time. A plurality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) k-space data corresponding to an imaged object are acquired at the plurality of points in time using Cartesian sampling, the k-space data including at least two spatial dimensions, a time. The respective motion state for each of the k-space data are computed based on the navigation data. At least one image is reconstructed from the plurality MRI k-space data using k-space data corresponding to at least two motion states and the same point in time to reconstruct the at least one image. |
| US10267881B2 |
Multi-echo parametric variation saturation (MePaVARS CEST imaging and other MR imaging
CEST MR imaging, called Multi-echo Parametric VARiation Saturation (Me-PaVARS) CEST places multiple image readouts in between a series of saturation pulses. The saturation pulse parameters are varied in a designated systematic pattern, which allows the generation of CEST contrast maps by encoding the patterns of signal loss into the images for better discrimination between various CEST imaging agents. The saturation parameter changes include, but are not limited to, saturation amplitude (B1), saturation length (tsat), number of pulses, shape of saturation pulses, amplitude of saturation pulses, saturation offset frequency, or a combination of these variations. |
| US10267876B2 |
Magnetic resonance apparatus with a cooling apparatus
A magnetic resonance apparatus has a scanner with a superconducting basic field magnet, a gradient coil unit, and a radio-frequency antenna unit, an electronics unit, and a cooling apparatus. The cooling apparatus has a cryostat for cooling the superconducting basic field magnet and a first cooling circuit for cooling the electronics unit and/or the gradient coil unit and/or the radio-frequency antenna unit, and a second cooling circuit for cooling the cryostat. |
| US10267874B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and bed device
An MRI apparatus includes a supporting unit, a first radio communication unit, a second radio communication unit and a power supply unit. The supporting unit supports a table inside a gantry. The first radio communication unit acquires an MR signal detected by an RF coil device, and wirelessly transmits the MR signal. The second radio communication unit receives the MR signal wirelessly transmitted from the first radio communication unit. At least a part of the power supply unit is disposed inside a bed device or inside the supporting unit. The power supply unit supplies consumed power of the RF coil device via the first radio communication unit, by wirelessly supplying electric power to the first radio communication unit. |
| US10267872B2 |
Magnetic flux probe data streamer for a generator
A device for streaming magnetic flux data generated by an electrical generator for a power plant. The device includes a flux probe located on the generator to enable detection of a magnetic flux of the generator. The device also includes a computer having an interface, wherein the computer includes an analog-to-digital converter. In addition, the device includes a calibration circuit attached to the flux probe by a first cable and the interface by a second cable. The calibration circuit measures a resistance of the second cable and a voltage of the flux probe wherein ends of the second cable are shorted when measuring the cable resistance and the flux probe voltage. A gain is determined based on the cable resistance and flux probe voltage to provide a suitable input voltage at the interface to deliver the magnetic flux data to the computer. |
| US10267868B1 |
Identifying a location of an audio device relative to a mobile device
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving, at a mobile device, a magnetic field produced by an audio device, determining, by the mobile device, a location of the audio device relative to the mobile device, utilizing the magnetic field, and performing, by the mobile device, one or more operations, utilizing the location of the audio device relative to the mobile device. |
| US10267865B2 |
Portable device with power monitoring to signal battery replacement prior to a voltage supervisor response
A medical infusion pump and a method for logging a power source voltage of a medical infusion pump are disclosed. The medical pump may include a power source, a processor, and a voltage supervisor which responds if a voltage (VDD) drops to a response voltage level which is above a reset voltage level of the processor. When the voltage supervisor responds, the processor start logging the voltage (Vbat) of the power source in a memory, thus generating a voltage log. The memory maintains the logged data when the power supply by the power source is interrupted, thus enabling retrospective analysis of the voltage log. |
| US10267862B2 |
Fuel cell system with minimum cell voltage estimation
A fuel cell system comprises: a fuel cell formed of a plurality of cells stacked therein, each cell generating electric power through an electrochemical reaction between a fuel gas and an oxidant gas; a cell monitor capable of detecting a group voltage for each group wherein each group is composed of two or more cells; and an estimation device that estimates a minimum cell voltage. The estimation device comprises a maximum cell voltage estimation part that estimates a maximum cell voltage, and the estimation device estimates the minimum cell voltage by using an estimated value of the maximum cell voltage and a minimum group-average voltage, where an average voltage of a group having the lowest voltage value among the group voltages is defined as the minimum group-average voltage. |
| US10267861B2 |
Automatic method for estimating the state of charge of a battery cell
An automatic estimation procedure for estimating a battery's state-of-charge includes predicting the state-of-charge using a state model that includes a state-transition matrix. An observation model then uses an observability matrix in connection with predicting a measured value of a parameter. State noise, the covariance of which is characterized by a state-noise covariance matrix contaminates this prediction. Similarly, measurement noise, the covariance of which is characterized by a measurement covariance matrix, contaminates this prediction. The values of these covariance matrices are then adjusted during the estimation procedure. |
| US10267860B2 |
Fault detection in induction machines
A method of detecting a fault in an induction machine having one or more windings arranged to draw current at a supply frequency, the method including: performing a process of judging whether a respective sideband of one or more selected harmonics of the supply frequency exists at a predetermined fault frequency in a signal in the one or more windings; and determining that a fault has occurred if the judgement is positive; wherein in the judging process each of the selected harmonics of the supply frequency is a harmonic frequency of the supply frequency other than the supply frequency itself. |
| US10267859B2 |
Method and apparatus for identifying open phase of circuit breaker on basis of voltage
A method and apparatus for identifying an open phase of a circuit breaker on the basis of voltage. The method comprises: a protection apparatus measures three-phase voltages at two sides of a circuit breaker; respectively calculates a vector difference and an effective value of the voltages at two sides of the circuit breaker; when the phase voltages at two sides are both greater than 80% to 90% of a rated voltage, and the voltage vector difference at two sides of the one-phase or two-phase circuit breaker is greater than a set voltage, it is determined that the circuit breaker has an open phase; and actuates an alarming or tripping operation after a short time delay t. |
| US10267858B2 |
JTAG lockout for embedded processors in programmable devices
A Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) communication lockout processor is disclosed. The processor is configured to generate a multi-channel unlock sequence based on an operational mode change of an operably connected programmable device, and save the unlock sequence to one or more memory registers. The processor can also receive an execution of the multi-channel unlock sequence via two or more unlock channels, determine, via an unlock logic, whether the execution of the multi-channel unlock sequence is valid, and responsive to determining that the execution of the multi-channel unlock sequence is valid, allow or disallow the JTAG communication with an embedded processor. |
| US10267852B2 |
Inputting TDI addresses when TDI high, moving update-DR to RT/I
The disclosure provides a novel method and apparatus for inputting addresses to devices to select the device TAP for access. Further, the disclosure provides a novel method and apparatus for inputting addresses for selecting device TAPs and for inputting commands for commanding circuitry within the device. The inputting of addresses or the inputting of addresses and commands is initiated by a control bit input on TDI that is recognized during the Run Test/Idle, Pause-DR or Pause-IR TAP states. |
| US10267851B2 |
Signals on tap bi-directional TMS terminal selecting serial communication register
The present disclosure describes using the JTAG Tap's TMS and/or TCK terminals as general purpose serial Input/Output (I/O) Manchester coded communication terminals. The Tap's TMS and/or TCK terminal can be used as a serial I/O communication channel between; (1) an IC and an external controller, (2) between a first and second IC, or (3) between a first and second core circuit within an IC. The use of the TMS and/or TCK terminal as serial I/O channels, as described, does not effect the standardized operation of the JTAG Tap, since the TMS and/or TCK I/O operations occur while the Tap is placed in a non-active steady state. |
| US10267849B2 |
Sensing structure of alignment of a probe for testing integrated circuits
A sensing structure is presented for use in testing integrated circuits on a substrate. The sensing structure includes a probe region corresponding to a conductive region for connecting to the integrated circuit. A first sensing region at least partially surrounds the probe region. A plurality of sensing elements connects in series such that a first of the plurality of sensing elements has two terminals respectively connected to the first sensing region and the probe region. And a second of the plurality of sensing elements has two terminals respectively connected to the probe region and a first reference potential. |
| US10267845B2 |
Wafer level burn-in system
A system for simultaneously burning in, testing and curing all the die on an uncut semiconductor wafer having top and bottom surfaces, the system having upper and lower platen assemblies with a flow section configured to receive and discharge a temperature-controlled, circulated liquid heat transfer medium to maintain the temperatures of the top and bottom surfaces of the uncut semiconductor wafer within desired limits during wafer burn-in and testing and a programmable CPU and service controller configurable to selectively energize, monitor, test, display and store a plurality of performance parameters for the electronic circuitry of each of the plurality of die of the uncut semiconductor wafer simultaneously throughout a desired burn-in and test period. |
| US10267843B2 |
Direct current fault arc detection method
A direct current (DC) fault arc detection method, including performing sampling, filtering and fast Fourier transform (FFT) on an input current of a high frequency power electronics converter, to obtain an amplitude-frequency characteristic curve of a current high frequency component; and selecting, from the amplitude-frequency characteristic curve, at least one frequency band including a switching frequency or a multiple frequency, calculating a peak value D1 of amplitudes and an average value D2 of the amplitudes within the frequency band, and determining, according to a change of a distance between the peak value D1 and the average value D2, whether an arc occurs, where if the average value D2 approaches the peak value D1, an arc occurs; otherwise, no arc occurs. |
| US10267831B2 |
Process variation compensation with correlated electron switch devices
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to correlated electron switch devices, and may relate more particularly to compensating for integrated circuit manufacturing process variation with correlated electron switch devices. |
| US10267829B2 |
Voltage detecting probe and measuring device
A voltage detecting probe includes: a shield barrel that is a barrel-shaped member made of an electrically conductive material and has an insertion concave for inserting a wire formed in a front end thereof by cutting away an outer circumferential wall at the front end along a direction perpendicular to an axis; and a detection electrode that is formed of a cylindrical member made of an electrically conductive material, whose front end surface and outer circumferential surface are covered with an insulating covering, and is housed inside the shield barrel and capable of moving relative to the shield barrel along the axis direction. When the detection electrode has been moved relative to the shield barrel and the front end surface is positioned at the insertion concave, the front end surface becomes capacitively coupled, via the insulating covering, with a wire inserted in the insertion concave. |
| US10267825B2 |
Current sensor including a housing surrounded by bent portions of primary conductors
In a current sensor, primary conductors each include front and back surfaces, a length direction, a width direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the length direction, and a thickness direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the length direction and the width direction, and further include a bent portion surrounding at least a portion of an outer periphery of a housing at an intermediate position in the length direction when viewed in the width direction. The housing is disposed in a region surrounded by the bent portion of each of the plurality of primary conductors when viewed in the width direction. |
| US10267820B2 |
Apparatus, systems and methods for cross track error calculation from active sensors
The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to determining cross track error between a stored planted location and the actual physical location of plants. An array of active light sensors is mounted on a vehicle for travel above the plants. The array of active light sensors generate an electrical signal from each sensor corresponding to the reflected light from the sensor. A computer system generates a reflectance curve from the array of sensors to determine the location of a plant below the array of sensors and also generates the cross track error. |
| US10267818B2 |
Automated diagnostic analyzers having rear accessible track systems and related methods
Example apparatus and methods related to automated diagnostic analyzers having rear accessible track systems. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes an analyzer to perform a diagnostic test, the analyzer having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The example apparatus includes a loading bay disposed on the first side of the analyzer to receive a first carrier and a pipetting mechanism coupled to the analyzer adjacent the second side. The example apparatus also includes a first carrier shuttle to transport the first carrier from a first location adjacent the loading bay to a second location adjacent the pipetting mechanism and a track disposed adjacent the second side of the analyzer to transfer a second carrier to a third location adjacent the pipetting mechanism. |
| US10267816B2 |
Automatic analysis device
An automatic analysis device has a structure that allows the operator to add or replace a reagent. A reagent container loading portion has an opening through which a reagent container is adapted to be introduced into the device. A reagent container transport tool has a plurality of reagent container insertion slots and is movable up and down. A refrigerator to cool a plurality of reagent containers has an opening that allows the reagent container transport tool to pass therethrough. An elevating and lowering mechanism is configured to elevate or lower the reagent container transport tool. A reagent container loading portion has a plurality of guide grooves arranged radially on its lower surface in front of the opening that are adapted to guide a reagent container. The guide grooves communicate with the respective reagent container insertion slots arranged radially on the reagent container transport tool at an elevated position. |
| US10267808B2 |
Molecular indicia of cellular constituents and resolving the same by super-resolution technologies in single cells
Methods and systems are provided for creating molecular barcodes or indicia for cellular constituents within single cells and for resolving such barcodes or indicia with super resolution technologies such as super resolution microscopy. By this approach, numerous molecular species that can be measured simultaneously in single cells. It has been demonstrated that multiple mRNA transcripts can be labeled with a spatially ordered sequence of fluorophores, and that barcode can be resolved. The methods and systems can be used for genome-wide transcriptional profiling in individual cells by super-resolution barcoding and suggest a general strategy to bring large-scale-omics approach into single cells. |
| US10267807B2 |
Diagnosis and/or prognosis of renal dysfunction
The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing and/or prognosing renal dysfunction. The method comprises the steps of: —(a) determining the level of an anti-inflammatory cytokine present in a urine sample from a subject prior to physical trauma, prior to a hypotensive event, prior to sepsis, and/or prior to septic shock syndrome; (b) determining the level of the anti-inflammatory cytokine present in a urine sample from the subject following physical trauma, following or during a hypotensive event, following or during sepsis, and/or following or during septic shock syndrome; (c) calculating the difference between the level of the anti-inflammatory cytokine determined in step a) from the level of the anti-inflammatory cytokine determined in step b), and (d) providing a diagnosis and/or prognosis on the basis of a comparison between the difference calculated in step c) and the difference calculated in step c) when steps a) and b) are practiced on a control group. |
| US10267806B2 |
Isotyping immunoglobulins using accurate molecular mass
This document relates to methods for detecting and quantifying heavy and light chains of immunoglobulin using mass spectrometry techniques. |
| US10267803B2 |
HCV NS4A/modified NS3 polypeptides and uses thereof
Modified hepatitis C virus polypeptides are described. The polypeptides include the HCV NS4a domain and modified NS3 domain. The polypeptides retain conformational epitopes. HCV immunoassays including the polypeptides are also described. |
| US10267802B2 |
Methods of prognosis and diagnosis of ovarian cancer
Cellular markers indicating a poor prognosis for ovarian cancer patients are disclosed. In particular, the invention relates to methods utilizing the frequency of a subset of cells in ovarian tumor tissue expressing vimentin, cMyc, or HE4, or any combination thereof, to predict an ovarian cancer patient will relapse. |
| US10267797B2 |
Detection of oral microbial virulence factors
Methods for detecting and quantifying toxins present in the oral cavity. The methods may include providing a biological sample, providing reporter cells expressing one or more Toll like receptors, exposing the cells to the biological sample, measuring the EC50 value of the lipopolysaccharide on activation of a Toll like receptor, quantification of the lipopolysaccharide in the biological sample. |
| US10267794B2 |
LSPR-based high sensitivity aptamer sensor using intercalation agent
Disclosed herein is an aptamer sensor including a substrate having metal nanoparticles formed thereon, an aptamer attached to surfaces of the metal nanoparticles to form a structure by selectively reacting with a target material to be detected, and an intercalating agent inserted between the aptamer and the target material in reaction of the aptamer with the target material to increase shift of an absorption spectrum due to local surface plasmon resonance sensor through aggregation toward the metal nanoparticles. |
| US10267790B1 |
Systems for biological sample processing and analysis
Provided are systems for biological sample processing and analysis. A system can comprise a substrate configured to rotate. The substrate can comprise an array configured to immobilize a biological analyte. A fluid flow unit comprising a fluid channel can be configured to dispense a solution comprising a plurality of probes. The solution may be directed, via centrifugal force, across the substrate during rotation of the substrate, to couple at least one of the plurality of probes with the biological analyte. A detector in optical communication with the array can be configured to detect one or more signals from the at least one probe coupled to the biological analyte. |
| US10267788B1 |
Linear peptides that mimic structural epitopes for antibody assays
A method including identifying one or more structures in adjacent sequences of one or more proteins that can be mimicked by a peptide; and assembling a peptide that mimics the one or more secondary structures. A method including assembling epitopes of linked pairs of discontiguous peptide subsequences that mimic one or more structures in sequences of a protein; and assaying antibodies against the epitopes. |
| US10267786B2 |
Systems and methods for high-resolution imaging
In one aspect, methods of imaging are described herein. In some embodiments, a method of imaging described herein comprises disposing a population of ultrasound-switchable fluorophores in a biological environment, the fluorophores having a switching threshold between an off state and an on state; exposing the biological environment to an ultrasound beam to create an activation region within the biological environment; switching at least one of the fluorophores within the activation region from the off state to the on state; exciting the at least one fluorophore with a beam of electromagnetic radiation; and detecting light emitted by the fluorophore. In some embodiments, the activation region has a maximum negative pressure and/or maximum temperature and the switching threshold of the at least one fluorophore is at least about 50 percent of the maximum negative pressure or at least about 50 percent of the maximum temperature of the activation region. |
| US10267785B2 |
Translocation of a polymer through a nanopore
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to methods, systems and devices, for analyzing the molecules. For example, in some embodiments, a system is provided which includes a first volume of conducting fluid, a second volume of conducting fluid, an orifice in communication with the first and second volumes of fluid, and means for applying an electric potential difference between the first and second volumes of fluid. In some such embodiments, a conjugate product is provided which includes charged polymers each having attached thereto at least one first molecule for analysis, where the product carries a predetermined charge greater than the charge on the first molecule, and upon dissolving the product in the first volume of fluid, the product is directed into the orifice. |
| US10267782B2 |
Kits for determining sediment and pore water toxicity with dormant zooplankton having dormant life stage
The present disclosure provides methods for determining the toxicity of fresh-water and marine sediments and sediment pore water containing indigenous or introduced toxicants from each as a one-time analysis and/or for analysis over a period of time. The present disclosure further provides kits assembled for the afore-mentioned determination. The methods and kits of the present disclosure can be used for analyzing sediment and pore water samples from, among other locations, all environments where species having a dormant life stage may exist including, for example, natural zooplankton. |
| US10267775B2 |
Extraction, derivatization, and quantification of analytes
The present specification discloses methods for determining the presence one or more analytes in a test sample, materials useful to perform the disclosed methods, and kits comprising reagents useful to practice the disclosed methods. |
| US10267771B2 |
Method for testing a structural component of a vehicle
A method for structural component crack testing comprising: a) identifying a structural component hole and inserting a probe thereinto; b) for different emission directions, automatically performing the following: b1) controlling a probe ultrasound beam emission; b2) measuring a probe signal; b3) if the measured signal amplitude is above a predetermined threshold: determining a distance between the probe and a structural component discontinuity point; recording a data set comprising at least the distance between the probe and the discontinuity point, together with a data element corresponding to the probe emission angular direction, c) automatically searching for data sets corresponding to characteristic discontinuity points, and consequently establishing a correspondence between the probe emission angular directions and an angular reference frame linked to the component; d) based on the recorded data sets, automatically determining the discontinuity point positions; e) determining a dimensional characteristic of a crack based on the discontinuity point positions. |
| US10267768B2 |
Device and method for determining the concentration of a vapor by means of an oscillating body sensor
A device and a method determines the concentration of a vapor in a volume, in particular for determining or controlling the mass flow of the vapor being conveyed through the volume by a carrier gas. The device comprises a sensor, which supplies a sensor signal that is dependent on the concentration or partial pressure of the vapor. The sensor has an oscillatory body that can be brought to oscillation, the oscillation frequency of which is influenced by a mass accumulation formed on a surface of the oscillating body by the condensed vapor. The oscillating body has a temperature control unit, by means of which the oscillating body can be brought to a temperature below the condensation temperature of the vapor. An evaluation unit determines the concentration or the partial pressure of the vapor from the temporal change of the oscillator frequency. |
| US10267767B2 |
Non-destructive inspection having phase amplitude modulation with time division multiplexing
A combination of pulse-amplitude modulation and time division multiplexing is used to increase the scan speed when performing non-destructive inspection, such as with an eddy current array. |
| US10267764B2 |
Potentiometric sensor apparatus
A potentiometric sensor apparatus, comprising: a measuring half-cell having a measuring membrane; a reference half-cell; and a measurement circuit for registering a potential difference between the measuring half-cell and the reference half-cell. The measuring membrane has, covering at least one portion of the measuring membrane during dry storage of the sensor apparatus, a coating, which is embodied, upon immersion of at least one immersion region of the sensor apparatus (which region comprises the measuring membrane and is intended for immersion in a measured medium) in a liquid, especially a water containing liquid, in the case of continued contact with the liquid, to dissolve, at least partially, off of the measuring membrane. |
| US10267760B2 |
Sensor arrangement and method for determining orthophosphate content of a liquid
A method for determining orthophosphate content of a liquid, comprising: registering a first measurement signal (ISE1) of an ion selective dihydrogen phosphate sensor; registering a second measurement signal (ISE2) of an ion selective hydrogen phosphate sensor; and determining the orthophosphate content of the liquid based on the first (ISE1) and second (ISE2) measurement signals. The dihydrogen phosphate sensor can comprise an ion selective dihydrogen phosphate electrode and the hydrogen phosphate sensor an ion selective hydrogen phosphate electrode. In the step of determining the orthophosphate content of the liquid, a cross-sensitivity of the dihydrogen phosphate electrode to hydrogen phosphate present in the liquid and a cross-sensitivity of the hydrogen phosphate electrode to dihydrogen phosphate present in the liquid can be taken into consideration. |
| US10267759B2 |
Method of detecting test substance
Disclosed is a method of detecting a test substance contained in a sample using a working electrode and a counter electrode. The method comprises (A) forming a complex on the working electrode, the complex comprising the test substance and a metal particle; (B) washing the working electrode; (C) adding a measurement solution to the working electrode and measuring a current, voltage or electric charge from the metal on the working electrode in the measurement solution by electrochemical measurement; and (D) detecting the test substance in the sample based on a measurement result obtained in the step (C). In the method, the step (B) comprises washing the working electrode using a measurement solution having the same composition as the composition of the measurement solution used in the step (C). In the method, pH of the measurement solution is set, based on zeta potentials of the metal particle and the working electrode, to pH in which no electrostatic interaction occurs between the metal particle and the working electrode or pH in which an electrostatic repulsive force occurs between the metal particle and the working electrode. |
| US10267757B2 |
Method for fabrication of a sensor device
A method for fabrication of a sensor device (1) for measuring a parameter of a test substance, comprising: i) providing a substrate; ii) arranging on its front side a structured first protection layer (2); iii) arranging on the substrate with the structured first protection layer (2) a stack including first and second electrodes (3,4), a sacrificial layer between the first and second electrodes (3,4); and iv) etching in an etching step from the back side through the substrate such as to remove material of the semiconductor substrate and the sacrificial layer. The present invention also relates to such a sensor device (1). |
| US10267754B2 |
Assessing biopharmaceutical aggregation using magnetic resonance relaxometry
The present invention generally relates to a method of using NMR relaxation rates (R2) of water molecules as an indicator of the extent of aggregation of biopharmaceutical formulations. The biopharmaceutical can be evaluated nondestructively without the vial or container being opened or protective seal compromised (i.e., broken). The method is applicable to all biopharmaceuticals and the water signal obtained by magnetic resonance relaxometry is very strong and sensitive because water is used as the solvent and is present in high (>90%) concentrations in every biopharmaceutical formulation. |
| US10267752B2 |
X-ray phase-contrast imaging system and imaging method
The present disclosure relates to X-ray imaging systems and methods. An exemplary system may comprise a distributed X-ray source arrangement, a fixed grating module, an X-ray detecting device, and a computer workstation. In one illustrative implementation, X-ray sources of the distributed incoherent X-ray source arrangement may sequentially generate and emit X-rays to an object to be detected. Further, for each exposure, the X-ray detecting device may receive the X-rays, wherein after a series of stepping exposures and corresponding data acquisitions, at each pixel of the X-ray detecting device, X-ray intensities are represented as an intensity curve; the intensity curve may be compared to an intensity curve in the absence of the object to be detected, and a pixel value at each pixel may be obtained from a variation of the intensity curves; and image information of the object to be detected may be obtained according to such pixel values. |
| US10267751B2 |
Image acquisition device and image acquisition method
An image acquisition device is an image acquisition device that acquires an X-ray transmission image of an object conveyed in a conveyance direction, and the image acquisition device includes an X-ray irradiator that outputs an X-ray, a belt conveyor that conveys the object in the conveyance direction, an X-ray detection camera having a scintillator that converts an X-ray penetrating the object into scintillation light, a line scan camera that detects the scintillation light and outputs a detection signal, and an amplifier that amplifies the detection signal at a predetermined set amplification factor and outputs a amplified signal, a controller that generates an X-ray transmission image based on the amplified signal, and an amplifier controller that sets one of a first amplification factor or a second amplification factor corresponding to an amplification factor lower than the first amplification factor as the set amplification factor based on a predetermined imaging condition. |
| US10267749B2 |
Inspection method
Provided is an inspection method including: irradiating a sample to be inspected with illuminating light; acquiring a first image of the sample to be inspected, with an auto focuser using the illuminating light reflected from the sample to be inspected; storing autofocus function coordinates acquired with the auto focuser in the acquiring the first image; calculating a two-dimensional polynomial approximation of the autofocus function coordinates; and controlling focusing in acquiring a second image of the sample to be inspected, with the two-dimensional polynomial approximation. |
| US10267738B2 |
Method and device for chirality assignment of carbon nanotube
A method for assigning chirality of carbon nanotube is provided. Firstly, carbon nanotube sample, an optical microscope with a liquid immersion objective and a liquid are provided. Secondly, the carbon nanotube sample is immersed in the liquid. Thirdly, the carbon nanotube sample is illuminated by an incident beam to generate resonance Rayleigh scattering. Fourthly, the liquid immersion objective is immersed into the liquid to get a resonance Rayleigh scattering (RRS) image of the carbon nanotube sample. Fifthly, spectra of the carbon nanotube sample are measured to obtain chirality of the carbon nanotube sample. |
| US10267736B2 |
Imaging flow cytometer using spatial-temporal transformation
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for imaging particles and/or cells using flow cytometry. In one aspect, a method includes transmitting a light beam at a fluidic channel carrying a fluid sample containing particles; optically encoding scattered or fluorescently-emitted light at a spatial optical filter, the spatial optical filter including a surface having a plurality of apertures arranged in a pattern along a transverse direction opposite to particle flow and a longitudinal direction parallel to particle flow, such that different portions of a particle flowing over the pattern of the apertures pass different apertures at different times and scatter the light beam or emit fluorescent light at locations associated with the apertures; and producing image data associated with the particle flowing through the fluidic channel based on the encoded optical signal, in which the produced image data includes information of a physical characteristic of the particle. |
| US10267735B2 |
Surface plasmon-field enhanced fluorescence detection device
This detection device has a holder, light irradiation unit, angle adjustment unit, light receiving sensor, light receiving optical system, optical filter, and a control unit. The light receiving optical system guides light from a detection chip to the light receiving sensor. The optical filter is disposed in the light receiving optical system, blocks a part of plasmon scattered light, and passes, out of the light emitted from the detection chip, a part of the plasmon scattered light, and fluorescence emitted from a fluorescent material. The light receiving sensor detects the fluorescent light, and the part of the plasmon scattered light, which have been emitted from the detection chip and passed the optical filter. On the basis of the detection results of the plasmon scattered light, the control unit controls the angle adjustment unit, and adjusts the incident angle of the excitation light to a predetermined incident angle. |
| US10267731B2 |
Fluorescence observation method
This fluorescence observation method is a method of observing a living organism into which a fluorescent dye is injected. The method includes the steps of: irradiating the living organism with excitation light including a wavelength for exciting the fluorescent dye using a light irradiation means, acquiring a first fluorescence image of the living organism generated by the irradiation with the excitation light using an image acquisition means, specifying an observation object in the living organism on the basis of the first fluorescence image; acquiring a second fluorescence image of the observation object generated by the irradiation with the excitation light using the image acquisition means; and specifying a linear fluorescence pattern appearing in the second fluorescence image. |
| US10267728B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting oxygen in-situ in a substrate area of a substrate processing system
A measurement system to measure a concentration of neutral gas species above a substrate includes a substrate support located in a chamber to support a substrate. A plasma source generates plasma in the chamber above the substrate. The plasma generates metastable species having higher ionization energy than a neutral gas species. The metastable species excite the neutral gas species located above the substrate. An optical emission spectrometer (OES) sensor measures spectra from a location above the substrate while the plasma is generated by the plasma source. A controller is configured to determine a concentration of the neutral gas species in a region above the substrate based on the measured spectra and to selectively process the substrate based on the concentration. |
| US10267725B2 |
Surface profile measurement system
Apparatus for measuring surface profiles within passages such as the interiors of pipes, tubing, casing or the like includes an optical scanning system that acquires digital data that directly identifies the surface profiles. A temperature control system facilitates operation in high temperature environments. The optical scanning system may include a camera located between a light source and a conical mirror. Light deflecting elements may guide light from the light source to the conical mirror along a path that reverses direction. |
| US10267723B1 |
Bioaerosol particle detector
A particle detector that includes a housing defining a chamber, and an air stream injector, producing an airstream with entrained particles, in the chamber. A light source produces a light beam that intersects with and is wider than the air stream. A light detection assembly detects light generated by scattering of the light beam, by particles in the air stream. A digitizer produces a sequence of scattering digital values, each representing light detected per a first unit of time duration. Additionally, a summing assembly produces a sequence of summed scattering digital values, each equaling a sum of a sequential set of n of the digital values, and wherein successive summed digital values are offset by a the first unit of time duration and overlap by n−1 of the first units of time duration with a nearest neighbor. Finally, a detection assembly processes the summed scattering digital values to detect particles. |
| US10267719B2 |
Method for automatic thermogravimetric volatile analysis of coal and coke
An automatic method for thermogravimetric analysis of multiple samples of coal or coke for volatile matter in a thermogravimetric analyzer of the type including an auto-loading delivery system, a furnace, a movable platform within said furnace, an external balance and an internal balance for measuring the weights of sample holders, lids and samples before and after treatment in the furnace. Coal or coke samples are placed in the sample holders and weighed in the external balance and are auto-loaded into the furnace at 950° C. All sample holders are weighed sequentially on the internal balance at exactly 7 minutes from introduction time with space time 14-20 seconds in between them and the weight of the sample holder prior to being placed in the furnace is compared with the weight of the sample holder after it has been treated in the furnace to determine the amount of volatile material. |
| US10267718B2 |
Additive manufactured component that indicates wear and system and method thereof
A three-dimensional printed metal component for a lubricated system is provided. The metal component includes a three-dimensional printed metal body formed of a plurality of metal layers of a first metal and having a contact surface configured to movingly contact another component of the lubricated system. The metal component further includes at least one first three-dimensional printed wear-identifying layer of a material different from the first metal embedded in the metal body at a predetermined depth, a predetermined distance from an outer surface portion of the contact surface. The predetermined distance defines a predetermined wear state of the contact surface associated with replacement of the metal component. |
| US10267716B2 |
Board test apparatus
A board testing apparatus and method and in particular a testing apparatus for testing a board made of a corrugated material, such as corrugated cardboard, for failure characteristics. The method comprises taking a corrugated board from a corrugator or converter, locating at least a part of the board into a testing machine, performing a non-destructive compression test on a sample region of the part of the board within the machine and providing a compression test characteristic reading of that region of the board, comparing that characteristic reading against a predefined acceptable compression test characteristic reading that design of corrugated board should have and concluding from the comparison as to whether the board, or that sample region of the board, meets a required compression stiffness parameter. |
| US10267715B2 |
Automated ultra-filtration workstation
The present invention provides a disposable ultra-filtration system comprising a disposable pipetting tip and a disposable ultra-filtration cartridge, wherein the cartridge includes a membrane filtration chamber and a dead-end channel. In use, a piston in the pipette pressurizes air within the channel; the pressurized air can subsequently move the piston and cause a reverse flow back through the membrane of the cartridge, unplugging the pores thereof. Also disclosed is an automated workstation incorporating the disposable ultra-filtration system, and a system comprising the automated workstation, useful for measuring the free therapeutic drug concentration and free hormone concentration in a sample. |
| US10267708B2 |
Wind tunnel balance and method of use
A balance has a balance centerline and an axial force measurement section having a longitudinal slot partially dividing the axial force measurement section into a first part and a second part longitudinally overlapping each other and interconnected by corner flexure groups. The axial force measurement section has an axial force measurement beam located approximately midway between the corner flexure groups. The axial force measurement beam has strain gages for determining axial force on the model. Each corner flexure group includes flexures each having a first flexure root and a second flexure root respectively joined to the first part and the second part. The flexures each have a flexure midpoint between the first and second flexure roots, and a flexure thickness that is tapered along the flexure length from each of the first and second flexure roots to a reduced thickness proximate the flexure midpoint. |
| US10267705B2 |
Hydrostatic and vibration test system for a blowout preventative
A method and apparatus for testing blowout preventers for leaks involves maintaining a constant pressure in the portion of the blowout preventer to be tested. A sensor is connected to a controller for maintaining a constant pressure within the blowout preventer. Any amount of fluid introduced into or removed from the blowout preventer in order to maintain constant pressure is measured and is an indication of the leak rate in the blowout preventer. |
| US10267704B2 |
Oil leakage detection device
In order to detect a point of generation of oil leakage in a machine, an oil leakage detection device is provided with a state observation unit configured to acquire a change pattern of the flow rate of oil from log data recorded during operation of a machine tool and create input data based on the acquired change pattern of the oil flow rate, a label acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the presence of generation of oil leakage and a point of generation of oil leakage from the log data and create teacher data based on the acquired information on the presence of generation of oil leakage and information on the generation point of oil leakage, a learning unit configured to perform supervised learning based on the input data and the teacher data, thereby constructing a learning model, and a learning model storage unit configured to store the learning model. |
| US10267703B2 |
Rotor balancing
A procedure defining a balancing strategy includes: providing a computer model which predicts the vibration amplitude at a given axial position along the spool when the spool is rotated at a given rotational speed; using the model to predict respective vibration amplitudes at the given axial position for different axial positions of a unit unbalance applied to the spool; plotting the predicted vibration amplitudes as data points on a graph of vibration amplitude against axial position of the applied unit unbalance; using the graph to identify axial positions which are more or less likely to contribute to flexing of the spool at the given rotational speed when mass is added or removed from the first rotor module to reduce imbalances at the axial positions; and defining a balancing strategy based on the identification. |
| US10267698B2 |
Brake test stand
A brake test stand includes at least one driving motor that is coupled, via at least one torque transmitting device to a load generator and at least one brake to be tested, wherein the driving motor provides the energy to be converted by the brake to be tested and the load generator accepts the energy provided by the driving motor at least prior to the brake test. |
| US10267695B2 |
Servo electric press 2-stage force
A 2-stage force measuring system particularly useful for a high capacity press. A first stage load cell provides a high force range for measurements over 1,000 lbs. A second stage load cell is for measurements below 1,000 lbs. The assembly improves sensitivity and reduces noise by a factor of 16 (16,000 pounds/1,000 pounds) when pressing less than 1,000 pounds. If a press cycle exceeds 1,000 pounds, the force monitor will automatically and seamlessly transition from the low range load cell to the high range load cell. If the force required is less than 1,000 pounds, only the low range load cell will detect the load, providing a dramatic improvement in force resolution and accuracy. |
| US10267691B2 |
Aggregated pulse phase difference torque determination system and method
A system and method determines torque applied to a rotating shaft by a load. Two sensors determine the rotation of the shaft at two spaced-apart axial positions. Controller(s) analyze two pulse trains associated with signals received from the sensors corresponding to rotation of the shaft at the respective axial positions under the load. The controller(s) determine a delta phase value for each pulse of one pulse train with respect to a corresponding pulse of another pulse train, and aggregate each delta phase value for a prescribed period of pulses to determine an aggregate delta phase value. The controller(s) determine a load phase value as a ratio of the aggregate delta phase value to the prescribed period, a total delta phase value as a difference between the load phase value and a reference phase value, and a torque value from the load based on the total delta phase value and physical parameters of the shaft. |
| US10267690B2 |
Capacitive force/torque sensor
A capacitive force sensor is provided that includes a first support layer and a second support layer, a dielectric layer disposed between the first support layer and the second support layer, where the dielectric layer is a non-conductive elastomer that is incompressible in the a normal direction and deflects in a shear direction, a layer of parallel conductive traces disposed between and bonded to the dielectric layer and the first support layer, and a conductive layer of parallel shear channel traces having at least two distinct channels disposed between and bonded to the dielectric layer and the second support layer, where the parallel conductive traces and the parallel shear channel traces are locally parallel to each other and provide capacitive shear force measurement sensitivity while rejecting normal forces, where the normal force measurement is decoupled from the shear force measurement. |
| US10267689B2 |
Temperature measuring system and temperature measuring method
A temperature measuring system includes a laser light source that emits optical pulses, an optical fiber, arranged to pass through a plurality of temperature measuring points, and input with the optical pulses, and a measuring device that detects back-scattering light output from the optical fiber and measures a temperature at the plurality of measuring points, to acquire measured temperature data. The measuring device computes corrected temperature data by varying a degree of averaging of the measured temperature data in a time direction, according to whether a time-sequential difference temperature data have a spatial correlation or a time correlation within a range that uses a target position of the optical fiber as a reference. |
| US10267681B2 |
Quantum yield calculation method, spectrophotofluorometer, and quantum yield calculation program
A quantum yield calculation method uses a quantum yield calculation program for a spectrophotofluorometer. When a quantum yield is calculated using a spectrophotofluorometer 1, a calibration processing unit executes the processing to calibrate a photon number A2 that is a photon number of the fluorescence in a blank measurement state based on a photon number A1 that is the photon number of an excitation light in the blank measurement state and a photon number B1 that is the photon number of an excitation light in the sample measurement state. A quantum yield calculation processing unit calculates a first quantum yield based on a background photon number A2′ after a calibration in addition to the photon number A1 of the excitation light in the blank measurement state and the photon number B2 of the fluorescence in the sample measurement state. |
| US10267679B2 |
Light switching indicators by wavelength filtration for a testing device
A testing system configured to determine an analyte concentration has a user interface that includes a number of visual indicators on its exterior housing. The visual indicators convey different types of information to a user of the testing system when illuminated. Additionally, the indicators are independent of one another in that they can each be illuminated in different colors from one other and turn on and/or off independently of one another. Further, the visual indicators are illuminated using a common lighting element (e.g., a single light emitting diode (“LED”)) in combination with one or more waveguides and one or more filters located inside the testing system. |
| US10267677B1 |
Calibrated brightness estimation using ambient color sensors
Calibrated brightness estimation using an ambient color sensor, involving determination and use of lighting cluster parameters effective for automatically identifying which of multiple lighting clusters is associated with a color measurement obtained for the ambient color sensor, and per-cluster sensor brightness estimation factors for each of the first plurality of lighting clusters. |
| US10267675B2 |
Multi-directional optical receiver
An optical receiver (100) for detection of light from one or more sources (108) comprises an opaque layer (102) disposed on a first surface. An aperture (104) is formed in the opaque layer. An optical detector (106) has a detection region disposed on a second surface. The first and second surfaces are spaced apart from one another such that light passing through the aperture (104) illuminates a corresponding illumination region (110) on the second surface, and is detected by the optical detector (106) In the event that the detection region overlaps the illumination region. Multiple apertures may be formed in the opaque layer, and/or multiple optical detectors may be disposed on the second surface. The optical receiver may thereby enable optical signals originating at different locations to be detected, and distinguished, over a wide field of view. |
| US10267674B2 |
Analysis device and analysis method
An analysis device constructs an analytical model with a circuit board and a medium, and applies a concentrated load grouping composed of concentrated loads to the circuit board. In this case, the concentrated loads are established such that the sum of the respective vectors is zero, and such that the torque is zero with respect to the center of gravity. The analysis device applies a finite element method to the analytical model to figure out the vibration of the circuit board, which is caused when the concentrated loads vibrate with a constant period. The change in the pressure of the medium is computed from the vibration of the circuit board, and the change in the pressure is converted to a sound pressure. |
| US10267669B2 |
Estimation of gross weight and center-of-gravity
Embodiments are directed to obtaining data from at least one sensor, the data pertaining to rotor loads and motion, processing, by a device comprising a processor, the data to obtain an estimate of at least one of gross weight (GW) and center of gravity (CG) for a rotorcraft, and outputting the estimate. |
| US10267665B2 |
Fuel tank level monitoring system
Described herein are embodiments of a system for monitoring and detecting a level of a tank storing a material. The system may be used in making a determination of whether and/or when to provide additional material to the tank, to refill the tank partially or entirely. In some embodiments, the tank may be disposed at a premises such as a residence or commercial building and the system may be disposed in part at that premises to monitor the level of the material in the tank. In some embodiments, the material may be a fuel and the tank may be a fuel tank, to provide fuel to utilities equipment at the premises. In other embodiments, the tank may include other materials, such as other utilities materials. In some embodiments, the utilities material may be potable water. |
| US10267662B2 |
Method and apparatus for multi-channel sensor interface with programmable gain, offset and bias
A system supporting enhanced programmable signal adjustments may include a plurality of circuits configured to generate a corresponding plurality of input signals; a signal conditioner configured to condition the plurality of signals; and a controller configured to control the signal conditioner. The controller may generate one or more control signals for the controlling of the signal conditioner. The signal conditioner may select one or more input signals from the plurality of input signals, based on a first control signal generated by the controller; may generate an adjustment signal based on a second control signal generated by the controller; and may adjust at least one of the selected one or more input signals based on the adjustment signal and a third control signal generated by the controller. |
| US10267656B2 |
Capacitive encoder
A human machine interface includes a capacitive sensor disposed on an interior side of a face plate. A control device is rotatably coupled to the face plate and is disposed on an exterior side of the face plate. The control device includes at least one electrically conductive element. The control device rotates about an axis substantially perpendicular to the face plate such that the at least one electrically conductive element follows the rotation of the control device. The capacitive sensor senses a rotational position of the at least one electrically conductive element. |
| US10267653B2 |
Position sensor and method for determining a position of a timepiece setting stem
A position sensor and method for determining an axial and/or an angular position of a setting stem of a timepiece. A magnet is provided on the setting stem, and at least one magnetic field sensor is configured to detect changes in magnetic field strength along at least a first axis and a second axis as the rotatable element rotates; the second axis is not parallel to the first axis. The changing magnetic field sensed by the magnetic sensor is converted into a characteristic signature path which may then be mapped onto a circular signature path in two dimensions to derive the angular position of the setting stem. |
| US10267648B2 |
System for measuring distances traveled by a mobility assistance device
A system may have a mobile device having at least two wheels and a distance measuring device configured to be removably attached to a frame of the mobile device, which can be a mobility assistance device, such as a walker and a wheelchair. The distance measuring device may have at least a sensing mechanism, an accumulator, and a display that are in communication with one another, with the sensing mechanism configured to monitor rotation of the at least one of the at least two wheels of the mobile device and the accumulator configured to determine the distance traveled by the mobile device based on this rotation and output the distance result on the display. |
| US10267647B2 |
Information processing device, traveling direction estimation method and storage medium
An information processing device acquires acceleration generated by movement of a user, and estimates that the movement of the user is walking or running based on this acquired acceleration. In addition, traveling direction estimation methods for estimating the traveling direction of the user are switched between, based on the estimation results for the movement of the user, and the traveling direction of the user is estimated by way of this selected traveling direction estimation method. |
| US10267643B2 |
System and method for automated correction of geofences
A system and method and system flow for identifying and correcting geofences. |
| US10267641B2 |
Navigation method and device
A navigation method and device are provided. The method includes: receiving start point information and end point information sent by a target device; acquiring a target path navigation video from a start point to an end point based on the start point information and the end point information; and sending the target path navigation video to the target device. Accordingly, the target path navigation video is broadcasted in real time, thereby the user may determine whether a deviation occurs between the target path and the actual route in real time, and an accuracy of navigation is improved. |
| US10267639B2 |
Method and apparatus for validating potential points of interest using user and device characteristics
An approach is provided for validating potential points of interest using device and user characteristics. The validation platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of location information associated with at least one device to determine one or more potential points of interest visited by the at least one device. Next, the validation platform causes, at least in part, a tagging of the one or more potential points of interest with one or more characteristics of the at least one device, one or more users of the at least one device, or a combination thereof. Then, the validation platform causes, at least on part, a validation of the one or more potential points of interest based, at least in part, on the one or more characteristics as captured by at least one other device, one or more other users of the at least one other device, or a combination thereof. |
| US10267638B2 |
Method and system for adapting a navigation system
A navigation system comprises a base system and at least one correction system. The base system and the at least one correction system each capture measured values. The measured values describe navigation data, and are each burdened with error values. The error values describe discrepancies in the measured values from the described navigation data. At least the error values of the measured values of the base system are recognized by the measured values of the at least one correction system and wherein the recognition is effected by considering an availability of the at least one correction system. The consideration represents adaptation of parameters of a stochastic system model. The stochastic system model prescribes a weighting for measured values of the at least one correction system with respect to measured values of the base system in accordance with the parameters. |
| US10267637B2 |
System and method for providing navigation information based on an operating mode
A navigation information providing server based on an operation mode, the navigation information providing server including a movement information reception unit which receives information associated with a movement of a user terminal, an operation mode determination unit which determines whether an operation mode of navigation is changed, based on the received information associated with the movement of the user terminal, and a navigation information providing unit which changes navigation information according to the determination regarding the change of the operation mode and provides the changed navigation information to the user terminal. |
| US10267635B2 |
Incremental updates of pose graphs for generating high definition maps for navigating autonomous vehicles
A high-definition map system receives sensor data from vehicles travelling along routes and combines the data to generate a high definition map for use in driving vehicles, for example, for guiding autonomous vehicles. A pose graph is built from the collected data, each pose representing location and orientation of a vehicle. The pose graph is optimized to minimize constraints between poses. Points associated with surface are assigned a confidence measure determined using a measure of hardness/softness of the surface. A machine-learning-based result filter detects bad alignment results and prevents them from being entered in the subsequent global pose optimization. The alignment framework is parallelizable for execution using a parallel/distributed architecture. Alignment hot spots are detected for further verification and improvement. The system supports incremental updates, thereby allowing refinements of subgraphs for incrementally improving the high-definition map for keeping it up to date. |
| US10267632B2 |
Non-exposure supplied fuel quantity testing device and method of vehicle-mounted type
Provided are non-exposure supplied fuel quantity testing device and method of a vehicle-mounted type, and more particularly, a device formed in a trunk of a vehicle without being exposed to test whether or not the ordered fuel quantity is supplied at the time of supplying fuel. Since the device is formed so as not to be exposed, it is disable to perform an artificial tampering of a lubricator, and since the device is mounted in the trunk, it is enable to measure whether or not the ordered fuel is supplied accurately at the same time as supplying fuel. The present invention relates to a testing method using the testing device. |
| US10267626B2 |
Measurement method, measurement apparatus, measurement program and computer readable recording medium in which measurement program has been recorded
A phase of a specific frequency component of an image of a grid image on the surface of an object taken by a camera is found, and the location of the surface of the object is found from the phase. As a result, measurement that is strong against noise can be carried out without projecting a grid having a brightness distribution of precise cosine waves. In addition, the process is simple and can be used for the surface of a moving object. The number of pixels used for the measurement is smaller than that in the sampling moire method. |
| US10267620B2 |
Optical three-dimensional coordinate measuring device and measurement method thereof
An optical three-dimensional coordinate measuring device of the present invention ensures both the measurement range and the measurement accuracy. The optical three-dimensional coordinate measuring device includes an imaging device, a table that is displaceable from an original position, a probe for designating a measurement position of a measurement object, a probe marker that is disposed on the probe, and a stage marker that is disposed on the table. The position and the attitude of the probe with respect to the imaging device are identified on the basis of the probe marker included in a captured image. The position and the attitude of the table with respect to the imaging device are identified on the basis of the stage marker included in a captured image. Relative position coordinates of a measurement position designated by the probe are obtained. |
| US10267616B2 |
Displacement sensor and distance adjustment apparatus
A displacement sensor includes a coil, an inverter electrically connected to the coil, the inverter being configured to generate an oscillation signal, a reducer electrically connected between the coil and an output terminal of the inverter, the reducer being configured to reduce the strength of the oscillation signal, and a frequency detector electrically connected to the inverter, the frequency detector being configured to detect an oscillation frequency of an oscillator circuit in response to a distance between a measurement target and the coil, the oscillator circuit including the coil, the inverter, and the reducer and having an oscillation frequency of 30 MHz or higher. |
| US10267615B2 |
Distance measurement sensor based on magnetic signal triangulation
The subject invention reveals a distance measuring device comprising: a sensing module, a target module, and an evaluating module, wherein the sensing module and the target module are mountable so as to execute a movement with respect to each other along a movement trajectory, wherein the target module comprises a magnetic field generating element having a magnetic pole axis, wherein the sensing module comprises a first magnetic field sensing array being arranged distant to the movement trajectory. The sensing module and the target module can advantageously be situated within the pressurizable chamber of an air spring which is defined by (contained within) a first mounting plate, a second mounting plate, and a flexible member of the air spring. |
| US10267612B2 |
Booster comprising a printed electronic circuit
A booster component which includes a booster housing for a booster explosive material and a printed electronic circuit which is associated with the housing and which includes a module for harvesting energy emitted by an energy source, a storage device for storing energy harvested by the module, an igniter and a circuit, powered at least by energy drawn from the storage device and responsive to a control signal for firing the igniter. |
| US10267611B2 |
Wireless detonators with state sensing, and their use
Wireless detonator systems present opportunities for controlled blasting of rock without the encumbrances of physical wired connections at the blast site. Disclosed herein are wireless detonator assemblies, which sense the state of environmental condition(s) of their immediate vicinity, and which are active to receive and/or process a command signal to FIRE only if the environmental condition(s) are deemed suitable or appropriate according to predetermined parameters. Also disclosed are improved methods of blasting involving such wireless detonator assemblies, as well as corresponding wireless electronic primers. |
| US10267605B1 |
High G-force resistant initiator assembly having an exploding foil initiator
An initiator assembly with a housing, an exploding foil initiator, an input charge, which is formed of an energetic material, and a support plate. The exploding foil initiator has a base coupled to the housing, a bridge mounted to the base, a flyer overlying the bridge, and a barrel. The barrel is coupled to the base and defines a channel through which the flyer traverses when the exploding foil initiator is activated. The support plate supports an axial end of the input charge and is interposed in a path of travel of the flyer between the bridge and the input charge. A related method is also provided. |
| US10267594B2 |
Auxiliary device mounting system for firearms
A mounting system includes a rail system. The rail system can include a plurality of powered rails and at least one control rail. The rail system can be disposed on a firearm, extending along the barrel toward a front of the firearm. The front or forward direction of the firearm extends from the trigger toward the distal end of the barrel. The rail system can extend along the barrel forward of the trigger, stock, and firearm handle. |
| US10267593B2 |
Cocking and loading apparatus for repeater air rifle
A cocking and loading system for an air rifle utilizes a movable compression cylinder linked to the cocking arm to urge a piston into a cocked position, wherein the compression cylinder returns to a rest position urging a pellet feed tube through a magazine to load a pellet into the barrel. |
| US10267582B2 |
Apparatus for measuring the temperature of chambered projectile
A system, device, and method for measuring the temperature of a chambered projectile within a firearm are provided. A test ammunition round may include a projectile, a sleeve, and a case including a first end coupled to sleeve, and a second end coupled to the projectile. A thermocouple may be located within the projectile, and an electronic coupler may be coupled to the thermocouple, and extends through the case and the sleeve and exits the sleeve through a slot for coupling to a data acquisition system. |
| US10267580B2 |
Rim-fire firearm receiver with charging handle opposite ejection port
A firearm receiver and bolt operating assembly for use in combination with a standard bolt for a semi-automatic rim-fire action of a Ruger 10/22®-pattern firearm. It includes a receiver configured to function with a reciprocating bolt and having an ejection port which does not include a bolt handle opening on a first side and an elongated charging handle slot on a second, opposite side of the receiver. A bolt closure mechanism includes a guide rod, a recoil spring on the guide rod, and an engagement member slidably mounted over the other end of the guide rod. The engagement member is received in a transverse seat of the bolt and provides a bolt handle configured to extend through the slot opposite the ejection port. The spring and rod are inwardly adjacent to the slot and laterally between the handle and the portion received in the seat of the bolt. |
| US10267578B2 |
Shape memory material based thermal coupler/decoupler and method
A thermal interface is provided. The thermal interface includes a shape memory material and a thermally-conductive material. The thermal interface is configured to be formed as a compressed thermal interface and as an expanded thermal interface. The compressed thermal interface is configured to partially fill a thermal gap between a first component and a second component. The expanded thermal interface is configured to substantially fill the thermal gap between the first and second components. |
| US10267573B2 |
Polyhedral array heat transfer tube
A heat exchanger tube that comprises a tubular member having a longitudinal axis and having an inner surface that is divided into at least two regions along the circumferential direction. A first plurality of polyhedrons are formed on the inner surface along at least one polyhedral axis. Each of the polyhedrons have four opposite sides. The polyhedrons have first and second faces that are disposed parallel to the polyhedral axis and have third and fourth faces disposed oblique to the polyhedral axis. The polyhedral axis is disposed at a first helical angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the tube. A second plurality of polyhedrons is formed on the inner surface adjacent to the first plurality of polyhedrons. The second plurality of polyhedrons is disposed along at least one polyhedral axis. Each of the polyhedrons has four opposite sides. The polyhedrons have first and second faces disposed parallel to the polyhedral axis and have third and fourth faces disposed oblique to the polyhedral axis. The polyhedral axis is disposed at a second helical angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the tube. The orientation of the second helical angle is opposite to the orientation of the first helical angle. |
| US10267572B2 |
Flat tube and heat exchanger having a flat tube of said type
A flat tube, in particular for a heat exchanger, is provided that has an areal material strip with two mutually opposite first and second side walls which are connected to one another via third and fourth side walls, wherein the third side wall is formed by two sections of the material strip that are laid one against the other in double-layer form, wherein an internal fin is arranged in the interior of the flat tube, which fin, at the end sides, bears against the third side wall and against the fourth side wall, and which fin, between the third side wall and the fourth side wall, is supported alternately against the first side wall and against the second side wall. |
| US10267566B2 |
Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger in one aspect of the present disclosure comprises a plurality of plate parts. The plurality of plate parts is arranged such that respective outer surfaces of mutually-adjacent plate parts of the plurality of plate parts are in a non-contact state having a gap between the respective outer surfaces, and apexes, each of which is an apex of the at least one convex protruding from each of respective mutually-facing outer surfaces of the mutually-adjacent plate parts, do not face each other in an arrangement direction of the plurality of plate parts. |
| US10267564B2 |
Heat treatment container for vacuum heat treatment apparatus
A heat treatment container for a vacuum heat treatment apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes a bottom portion and a sidewall, and a support protruding inward. |
| US10267561B2 |
Apparatus for the production of air gases by the cryogenic separation of air
An apparatus for the production of air gases by the cryogenic separation of air can include a cold box having a heat exchanger, and a system of columns; a pressure monitoring device; and a controller. The cold box can be configured to receive a purified and compressed air stream under conditions effective for cryogenically separating the air stream to form an air gas product. The apparatus may also include means for transferring the air gas product from the cold box to an air gas pipeline. The pressure monitoring device is configured to monitor the pipeline pressure, and the controller is configured to adjust the product pressure of the air gas product coming out of the cold box based upon the pipeline pressure. |
| US10267560B2 |
Process for recovering hydrocarbons from crude carbon dioxide fluid
The power required to recover C3+ hydrocarbons from crude carbon dioxide comprising C1+ hydrocarbons and hydrogen sulfide may be reduced by distilling the crude carbon dioxide to produce carbon dioxide-enriched overhead vapor and C3+ hydrocarbon-enriched bottoms liquid such that the hydrogen sulfide is rejected with the overhead vapor. Power consumption reductions may be achieved by incorporating a heat pump cycle using carbon dioxide vapor as working fluid to provide at least a part of the refrigeration duty and using a side reboiler to reduce the bottom reboiler duty. Where the bottoms liquid is further processed to produce “lighter” and “heavier” hydrocarbon fractions, the process enables optimization of upgrading crude oil on the basis of API gravity, Reid Vapor pressure and/or viscosity. |
| US10267553B2 |
Household refrigerator with an icemaker unit and a cooling device having a pressure chamber for cooling the icemaker unit
A household refrigerator has a housing formed with a receiving space. An icemaker unit for dispensing ice is arranged in the receiving space. The icemaker unit has a tray in which shaping regions are formed for specifying a shape of shaped ice elements that are produced from liquid poured into the tray. The icemaker unit has a cooling device with which a cooling air flow is produced for cooling the tray. The cooling device has an evaporator and a fan. A fan wheel of the fan blows the cold produced by the evaporator in a cooling air flow. The fan wheel is arranged in a separate pressure chamber. |
| US10267552B2 |
Multi-duct and refrigerator including the same
A multi-duct that is coupled to a surface of a cabinet including a plurality of spaces divided by one or more shelves in a refrigerator and that includes: a flow channel (i) that extends between a first end of the flow channel and a second end of the flow channel in a first direction, (ii) that passes through the plurality of spaces, and (iii) that guides cool air from the first end to the second end; an inlet; and a plurality of outlets, wherein the flow channel includes a first curved flow channel (i) that is configured to discharge cool air through a first outlet of the plurality of outlets and (ii) that has a concave shape that is curved toward a second direction opposite to a direction in which cool air is discharged through the first outlet is disclosed. |
| US10267551B2 |
Ice maker and refrigerator comprising same
An ice maker includes: an ice tray having partitioned spaces for receiving ice-making water; an ejector for separating ice in the ice tray; a detection unit for detecting at least one of a position of the ejector and a temperature of the ice tray; a control box provided to face the ice tray and including a motor operating the ejector and a printed circuit board provided therein; and a surface type heater provided in the ice tray and including a heating element of a metal thin film or a heat wire and an insulating member surrounding the heating element. The surface type heater is adhered to the ice tray by being pressed by an instrument provided in the ice tray or adhered to the ice tray by being bonded thereto. |
| US10267550B2 |
Tray for ice making machine, ice making machine comprising same, and refrigerator comprising ice making machine
The objective of the present invention is to provide: a tray for an ice making machine which has low heat capacity without requiring surface treatment such as silicon coating and the like; an ice making machine comprising the same; and a refrigerator comprising the ice making machine. The tray for an ice making machine, according to the present invention, which has an inner space capable of accommodating liquid, comprises: a first case which is formed from sheet metal and has a hollow partition for dividing the inner space; and a second case which is formed from resin, wherein the second case is formed by insert injection of the resin into the first case so that the first case and the second case are coupled so as to be superimposed on each other. |
| US10267549B2 |
Refrigeration cycle device
An air conditioner which includes a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an outdoor expansion valve, and an indoor heat exchanger that have been successively connected by a pipeline, and in which a hydrofluoroolefin-containing refrigerant is to be used, the air conditioner being characterized in that an oxygen adsorption device in which a synthetic zeolite is used as an adsorbent has been disposed somewhere in the pipeline, the synthetic zeolite having a pore diameter which is larger than the size of the oxygen molecule but smaller than the size of the hydrofluoroolefin molecule. |
| US10267546B2 |
Vehicle HVAC system with combination heat exchanger for heating and cooling vehicle interior
A vehicle having a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system for heating and cooling a passenger compartment is provided. The vehicle may be described as including a CO2 loop positioned within an engine compartment, a coolant loop positioned at least partially within the passenger compartment, a first heat exchanger positioned within the engine compartment for transferring heat from a coolant within the coolant loop to a CO2 within the CO2 loop, a pump for moving the coolant within the coolant loop, a second heat exchanger within the coolant loop for heating or cooling an air temperature within the passenger compartment, and first and second valves for controlling movement of the coolant through the second heat exchanger and a heated coolant loop. |
| US10267544B2 |
Electrocaloric heat transfer system
A heat transfer system cycles between a first mode where a heat transfer fluid is directed to a first electrocaloric module and from the first electrocaloric module to a heat exchanger to a second electrocaloric module while one of the first and second electrocaloric modules is energized, and a second mode where the heat transfer fluid is directed to the second electrocaloric module and from the second electrocaloric module to the heat exchanger to the first electrocaloric module, while the other of the first and second electrocaloric modules is energized. The modes are repeatedly cycled in alternating order directing the heat transfer fluid to cause a temperature gradient in each of the first and second electrocaloric modules, and heat is rejected to the fluid from the heat exchanger or is absorbed by the heat exchanger from the fluid. |
| US10267542B2 |
Wide speed range high-efficiency cold climate heat pump
A heat pump system includes a refrigerant circuit, at least one variable speed compressor operating with a maximum pressure ratio of at least 5.0 and a variable speed range of at least three times (3×), a heat absorption heat exchanger, a heat rejection heat exchanger, an ejector disposed on the refrigerant circuit upstream of the compressor to extend a pressure ratio range and a volumetric flow range of the compressor in the cold climates, a separator disposed downstream of the ejector and upstream of the heat absorption heat exchanger, and at least one variable speed fan configured to move air through the heat rejection heat exchanger to provide a predefined an air discharge temperature greater than 90° F. A two-phase refrigerant is provided to an inlet of the heat absorption heat exchanger with a quality of less than or equal to 0.05. |
| US10267538B2 |
Method for conveying concentrated solar power
The method is for of conveying a solar power. A parabolic reflector receives sunrays that reflects and concentrates the sunrays as light into second reflector that reflects the light into a tapering device. The tapering device conveys the light to a first curved glass rod section. The first curved glass rod section conveying the light to a second curved glass rod section via a gap defined between the ends of the first and second rod sections. The second rod section conveys the light to a third rod section via a second gap. The first rod section is rotated relative to the second rod section and the second rod section is rotated relative to the third rod section so that the parabolic reflector follows a path of the sun. |
| US10267537B2 |
Dual energy electric and gas water heater with igniter shutoff circuit
A dual energy electric and gas water heater with an igniter shutoff circuit provides the user with a quick connect by which the electrical heating system may be selectively enabled or disabled. A transformer and relay limit the function of the gas igniter to only function when the electrical heating system is not energized, whether by manual disconnection or power loss. |
| US10267536B1 |
Siphon adapted for cleaning vessels
A siphon is adapted for thoroughly cleaning fluid vessels. The siphon is capable of elevating discharge waste fluid through a transfer of kinetic energy provided by a pressurized fluid source, thereby obviating any need for undesirable electrical, chemical, or other mechanical power sources. An inlet couples pressurized fluid to a divider that splits the pressurized fluid between a jet port outlet and a tank flush source conduit. A siphon return conduit is operative to carry waste fluid from the fluid vessel, with the cleaning attachment protruding from the siphon return conduit. By slightly protruding, the cleaning attachment operatively blocks the siphon return conduit from being held by siphon vacuum against a surface of the fluid vessel while developing a beneficial eddy current flow path. A drain conduit is provided, as is a mixing chamber at a junction between the jet port outlet and an outlet from the siphon return conduit. |
| US10267532B2 |
Thermostat with power stealing
A thermostat or other in-line, two-conductor control device employs a power-stealing technique to obtain DC power for its electronic controls where the thermostat wire run has an R wire but no C (common) wire. The controlled switch for a reactive load, such as the gas valve relay or compressor contactor, is formed of a pair of power capacitors and a pair of switching transistors or other electronic controlled switches. The conductors for feeding DC power to control electronics are connected with the junctions of the power capacitors and their respective switching transistors. The power capacitors and switching transistors can be configured in respective series combinations, with the series combinations forming a parallel combination. The control device can be considered to have an energy storage and switching arrangement that forms with the load an L-C circuit and an electronic switch in circuit between the energy storage arrangement and the load and can be switched on and off to provide an input to a DC power supply. |
| US10267529B2 |
System and method for dynamically controlling economizers
A system and method for a controller of economizers operatively connected to HVAC equipment. The controller is adapted to maintain the temperature within a facility based on inside air setpoints and outside air setpoints. The controller receives inside air temperature readings and compares them to inside air setpoints in order to determine the cooling demand for the facility. The controller also receives outside air temperature readings and compares them to outside air setpoints in order to determine which economizers may be activated. The outside air setpoints may be dynamically adjusted to adapt and meet the cooling demand of the facility. The controller compares the outside air setpoints to predetermined maximum and minimum setpoints in order to determine whether to adjust the outside air setpoints. |
| US10267526B2 |
Power conversion apparatus and air conditioner including the same
A power conversion apparatus (and an air conditioner including the same) may include a rectifier to rectify a voltage of an input alternating current (AC) power source and a voltage drop device to output a dropped voltage using the voltage from the rectifier. The voltage drop device may include a transformer and a communication voltage output device provided at a secondary side of the transformer to output a direct current (DC) voltage for operation of a communication device. Accordingly, a voltage may be stably supplied to the communication device while reducing standby power. |
| US10267523B2 |
Combustor dome damper system
The present invention discloses a novel apparatus and way for controlling combustion dynamics in a premix combustion system. The apparatus comprises a hemispherical dome assembly with a plurality of dome dampers having a predetermined damper volume and air supply with the damper in fluid communication with the combustion chamber. The dome dampers are pressurized with a volume of air to dampen pressure waves received from the combustion chamber. One or more combustor frequencies can be targeted through use of the present invention. |
| US10267511B2 |
Advanced flash exhaust heat recovery
Waste heat is extracted in two stages from the exhaust (20) of a biomass dryer (14) in a grain alcohol plant (10). A boiler circuit (56) provides high pressure steam to a balance of the plant (54). A first energy recovery circuit (36) extracts heat from the exhaust via a non-contact heat exchanger (24) and provides a first relatively lower pressure steam (78) to the balance of the plant, thereby bypassing a portion of the boiler circuit. Working fluids in the boiler and first energy recovery circuits are maintained within boiler water quality specifications and are intermixed to allow the production of the first relatively lower pressure steam without a pressure reduction device. A second energy recovery circuit (44) extracts heat from the exhaust downstream of the first energy recovery circuit using a direct contact heat exchanger (38) and provides a non-boiler quality heated fluid (52) to the balance of the plant. |
| US10267504B2 |
Electrical supply module for flexible coupling
An electrical supply module including: a composite board including an anode layer and a cathode layer of electrically conducting material, which anode layer and cathode layer are separated by an insulator of electrically insulating material, the anode layer and the cathode layer each having a trench extending from a connection surface of the composite board; an adapter for mounting in a hole extending entirely through or partly through the composite board, the adapter including a circuit board carrying an electronic component, the circuit board establishing electrical connection from the anode layer to an anode of the electronic component and electrical connection from the cathode layer to a cathode of the electronic component; and a power supply capable of providing a constant voltage or a constant current between the anode layer and the cathode layer. An electrical supply system including the electrical supply module and an extension module. |
| US10267500B2 |
End cap of lamp tube and illuminating device using said end cap
Various embodiments may relate to an end cap for a lamp tube of an illuminating device, including a mounting ring fixedly mounted to one end of the lamp tube by means of an assembled end, and a cover plate for closing the mounting ring at a free end. The end cap further includes a rotating ring mounted between the mounting ring and the cover plate at the free end, the cover plate rotatably closes the mounting ring by means of the rotating ring. Further various embodiments relate to an illuminating device adopting the end cap. |
| US10267499B2 |
Wall lamp with variable illumination direction
The invention discloses wall lamp with a variable illumination direction, including lamp beads, a lamp bead seat, a mounting box, and a power adapter. The power adapter is installed within the mounting box; the lamp bead seat is of a cuboid structure, and an accommodating cavity is formed in the cuboid structure, the mounting box is located in the accommodating cavity. The lamp beads are arranged on an outer wall of one side surface of the cuboid structure. A first connector is arranged on an inner side wall of the lamp bead seat, and a second connector is arranged on the mounting box. The first connector is connected to the second connector in a pivotal way. A side surface of the first connector pushes against a side surface of the second connector, so that a level adjusting knob is formed by the mounting box and the lamp bead seat. |
| US10267496B2 |
LED covers and LED light bulbs incorporating the same
A translucent cover for an LED light bulb is disclosed. The translucent cover includes a cover body made from a light-transmissive material, light-scattering particles in the light-transmissive material, and a series of micro-structure features on and inner surface of the cover body. The micro-structure features are configured to refract and reflect light emitted from the LED light bulb to increase the emission angle of the light emitted from the cover. |
| US10267493B2 |
Optical device for adjusting light emitted from a multimedia mobile communication device
An optical device includes a clamp seat and a light tuning assembly. The clamp seat includes a base, a curved portion extending from the base, and a pressing portion extending from the curved portion. The light tuning assembly includes a support frame disposed at the base, an optical lens restrained by the support frame, and an adjusting member coordinating with the optical lens. In an application of the optical device, a user may clamp a multimedia mobile communication device by the base and the pressing portion to allow the optical lens to align with a light projecting assembly of the multimedia mobile communication device. The adjusting member is rotated to adjust a distance between the optical lens and the light projecting assembly. Light from the light projecting assembly is then focused or dispersed through the optical lens to solve an issue of unadjustable light of a conventional solution. |
| US10267492B2 |
Illumination device for synthesizing light from an object at virtually infinite distance
An illumination device for synthesizing light from an object at virtually infinite distance comprises a primary light source configured to emit a primary light, a concentrator positioned downstream the primary light source and configured to reduce the divergence of the primary light, an emitting surface positioned downstream the concentrator, and an absorber made of light-absorbing material positioned upstream the emitting surface and configured to absorb light rays which cross the emitting surface in an upstream direction and which, in the absence of the absorber would not be directed toward the primary light source, wherein the primary light source, the concentrator, the emitting surface and the absorber are configured so that they produces from the primary light an output light that exits the emitting surface with a luminance profile which is spatially uniform across the emitting surface, and has a narrow peak in the polar-angle distribution around an output-light direction. |
| US10267487B2 |
Lighting device
A lighting device, in particular a LED lighting device, comprises at least one light source and a reflector extending along and around a longitudinal axis and having an internal reflective surface arranged so as to intercept at least part of the light emitted by the light source and reflect said part towards a light exit opening; the internal reflective surface is a faceted polynomial surface. |
| US10267485B2 |
Lighting module and lighting lamp
The present disclosure discloses a lighting module including a light source module, a driving module, and an optical element and a lighting lamp. The light source module includes a light source plate and a plurality of Light-Emitting Diode (LED) light sources. Emergent light of the LED light source is emitted after passing through the optical element, and the optical element has a light incident portion and a light emergent portion. The driving module and the LED light source are respectively adhered to the light source plate and are integrated on the light source plate, the light incident portion of the optical element covers above the light source plate, receives the emergent light of the LED light source and carries out optical configuration on the emergent light of the LED light source, and the driving module is arranged in a periphery of the light incident portion of the optical element. |
| US10267481B2 |
Illuminating vehicle assemblies with illuminated badges
An illuminating vehicle assembly includes a plastic grille component and a badge mounted to the plastic grille component. The badge houses at least one light source. The light source may be illuminated to create various lighting effects. Any heat generated by the at least one light source can be dissipated into the plastic grille component. |
| US10267480B2 |
Lighting assembly for lighting and/or signaling in a motor vehicle
A lighting assembly for lighting and/or signaling in a motor vehicle that palliates the disadvantages resulting from the reflection and focusing of solar rays by focusing means of a lighting module for lighting and/or signaling in a motor vehicle onto a mask disposed under a lighting module. The lighting assembly comprises means for emitting and means for focusing one or more light beams, together with a mask, a part of which extends under the focusing means. A part of the mask is transparent to light, so that solar rays reflected and focused by the focusing means onto the mask pass through the transparent part. |
| US10267479B2 |
Light module with reduced bulk
A light module, in particular for lighting and/or signalling, in particular for a motor vehicle, including a light source and a plurality of light-emitting units of submillimetric size, at least a first set of light-emitting units projecting from a first face of a first substrate; and, a first carrier designed to dissipate heat from the first set of light-emitting units, the first carrier being linked to a second face of the first substrate; wherein the first carrier is furthermore designed to form a first electrode of the first set of light-emitting units so as to conduct a current to the first set of light-emitting units. |
| US10267474B2 |
Vehicle lighting and/or signaling device having a steerable dynamic beam
A steerable lighting and/or optical device for a vehicle. A light source transmits a light beam to a rotating mirror which scans or points the light transversely ahead of the vehicle to create a desired beam shape. An intensity of the light source may be modulated during sweeping, including modulation to zero intensity, to control the pattern of light generated by the sweeping beam. |
| US10267473B2 |
Lighting device for vehicle having a reflective fluorescent body and prism
A lighting device for a vehicle includes a lens; a prism that is disposed on a rear side of the lens and that is configured to totally reflect an incident light and to then emit the light; a light source device configured to emit light toward the prism; and a reflective fluorescent body disposed on the rear side of the lens and configured to convert a wavelength of light emitted by the prism and to then reflect the wavelength-converted light to the lens. The prism includes an emitting surface that is spaced apart from an optical axis of the lens. A distance between the reflective fluorescent body and a rear surface of the lens is greater than a distance between the emitting surface of the prism and the rear surface of the lens. |
| US10267472B2 |
Headlight module and headlight device
A headlight module includes a light source, a light guide element, and a projection optical element. The light source emits light. The light guide element has a reflecting surface for reflecting light emitted from the light source and an emitting surface for emitting light reflected by the reflecting surface. The projection optical element projects light emitted from the emitting surface. In a direction of an optical axis of the projection optical element, an end portion on the emitting surface side of the reflecting surface includes a point located at a focal position of the projection optical element. |
| US10267467B2 |
Light emitting module
A light emitting module is disclosed. The light emitting module includes a condensing lens for condensing incident light into a space, a light source for providing first light to pass through the condensing lens, a first optical path conversion member for reflecting the first light to provide first reflected light to pass through the condensing lens, a second optical path conversion member for providing the first reflected light as second reflected light to pass through the condensing lens, and a case for receiving at least the condensing lens, the light source, the first optical path conversion member, and the second optical path conversion member. |
| US10267460B2 |
Light emitting device
A lighting device includes translucent shell, bottom base, lamp base, light bar module, two or more metal support bars and two metal conducting bars. The bottom base connected with the translucent shell and formed a receiving space together. The lamp base set on the bottom base and equipped with a table-board. The light bar module is formed by connecting two or more light bars in series, between said two or more light bars, there are two supporting points, and s the light bar module has two electrical connection points. The metal support bars are connected to the one support point, respectively; the metal conducting bars are connected to the two electrical connection points of the light bar module, respectively, wherein the metal support bar, the light bar and the metal conducting bar constituted a side component of two substantial triangular frame structures. |
| US10267455B2 |
Sealed insulating tank and method of manufacturing the same
A sealed insulating tank in which the secondary insulating barrier, the secondary sealing membrane, and the primary insulating barrier essentially consist of a set of prefabricated panels juxtaposed on the supporting structure. Sealing strips are arranged so that they overlap the adjoining edge zones of the leaktight linings of the prefabricated panels in order to complete the secondary sealing membrane between the prefabricated panels. Insulating blocks arranged on the sealing strips have a layer of thermal insulation covered by a rigid board and a reinforcing mat having a stiffness under tension which is greater than or equal to the stiffness under tension of the sealing strips and is glued to the layer of thermal insulation on a face of the layer of thermal insulation opposite the rigid board, the insulating block being each time fixed to the prefabricated panels by gluing the reinforcing mat to the underlying sealing strip. |
| US10267454B1 |
Security monitoring system
A security monitoring system includes a sensor and a magnetic bracket. The sensor may include a ferromagnetic convex cover. The magnetic bracket may include a concave surface. The sensor is configured to be magnetically releasably mounted onto the magnetic bracket by constructing the convex cover of the sensor to snug with the concave surface of the magnetic bracket. |
| US10267452B2 |
Removable tripod foot with securement
Installation of a removable tripod foot is facilitated by a cross-axis aperture in the foot and loosening of the threaded connection of the foot and the tripod's leg is resisted by a resilient element engaging interfacing surfaces of the foot and the leg. |
| US10267446B2 |
Pipe assembly comprising a draining system
A pipe assembly includes two pipes connected together by a joining device and a drainage system, the drainage system includes a drainage slot created in the joining device, two annular seals arranged on either side of the drainage slot over the entire periphery around a pipe, and a drainage element configured to send fluid present in the drainage slot from a first end entering the drainage slot to the other end of said drainage element. |
| US10267445B2 |
Releasable valved coupler
A releasable valved coupler and a method of producing and using such a coupler including a coupler body having a first valve element and a coupler insert having a second valve element, wherein a first valve tip of the first valve element can engage a second valve tip of the second valve element upon insertion of the coupler insert inside of a tubular chamber of the coupler body, whereby the first valve element disengages a first valve seat and the second valve element disengages a second valve seat to open a flow path through the coupler. By moving the coupler body and the coupler insert in outward opposed axial directions, the first and second valve tips can disengage, correspondingly engaging the first valve element with the first valve seat and engaging the second valve element with the second valve seat to close the flow path through the coupler. |
| US10267444B2 |
Rapid engagement/release coupling
A rapid engagement/release coupling having a female connector, a male connector, and a retaining ring. The female connector having an insertion end, a cylindrical sealing portion, and an annular groove having a first stop surface. The male connector carrying a sealing ring configured to cooperate with the cylindrical sealing portion and having a recessed annular portion having a second stop surface. The retaining ring having a collar and a tubular portion equipped with a plurality of longitudinal splits which divide the tubular portion into a plurality of sectors. The sectors having teeth configured to engage the annular groove, wherein the teeth have outer conical surfaces and inner conical surfaces. The inner and outer conical surfaces of the teeth having different inclination angles with respect to a longitudinal axis. The inclination angle of the outer conical surfaces is greater than the inclination angle of the inner conical surfaces. |
| US10267429B2 |
Plastic injection mold—SVG actuator—internal seal upgrade
An improved life hydraulic valve actuator for a mold used in an injection molding machine. The actuator includes a housing for insertion into a hot runner assembly having a movable valve gate pin. A bore in the housing for receives an actuation piston which is connected to the gate pin. A hydraulic chamber in the assembly lifts the piston upward and downward for actuation of the pin in a valve gate. The actuation piston includes a centrally located circumferential double lip seal. The wall of the bore includes a pair of circumferential seals for engaging the outer circumference of the piston. The seals are positioned axially on either side of said centrally located double lip seal of the piston for sealing and guiding the piston. The circumferential bore seals include a Teflon ring which protects the bore in the event of seal failure and a second seal made of a Viton material. The seals in combination increase the longevity of the actuator over three fold than a similar actuation valve. |
| US10267428B2 |
Modular check valve
The invention relates to a check valve which in one embodiment is a modular three-piece valve assembly with easily serviceable and replaceable internal parts, and in another embodiment is a nodular two-piece valve with easily serviceable and replaceable internal parts. In each embodiment, the check valve includes a valve body of two or more pieces detachably attached to each other, and a poppet assembly for sealing the valve removably located within the overall body formed by the attachment of those detachably attached pieces. |
| US10267426B2 |
Valve assembly and method of operating same
A valve assembly has a port selection assembly with an inlet fluid path and a plurality of outlet fluid paths and a servo-driven barrel. The barrel includes a slot that is aligned with the inlet fluid path. The barrel also includes multiple pockets. The valve assembly also includes ball seals, each of which is at least partially disposed within a respective pocket. The rotation of the barrel moves the ball seals to block or unblock one or more of the outlet fluid paths, thereby controlling the flow of fluid from the inlet fluid path, through the slot, and through the outlet fluid path. |
| US10267425B2 |
Diaphragm, fluid control apparatus, and method of manufacturing diaphragm
A diaphragm having chemical resistance is disclosed. The diaphragm includes a membrane portion and a connection portion which enables connection of the membrane portion to another member. The membrane portion is formed of a first material having chemical resistance. The connection portion is formed of a second material whose main material is the same as that of the first material. The membrane portion and the connection portion are directly bonded together. |
| US10267422B2 |
Sealing device
The invention provides a sealing device which can suppress occurrence of static leakage and has a seal lip and a seal flange which are slidably in contact with each other, and a screw groove arranged in an end face, in an axial direction, of the seal flange. In the sealing device, the seal lip attached to a non-rotational housing side is slidably in contact with the end face, in the axial direction, of the seal flange on the rotational axis side, and which has the screw groove arranged in the end face, in the axial direction, of the seal flange so as to exert a fluid pumping action during rotation, is characterized in that the screw groove has an inner-circumferential-side inclined surface and an outer-circumferential-side inclined surface as the internal surfaces, and has a groove bottom part in a circular arc cross-sectional shape that interconnects both of the inclined surfaces. |
| US10267418B2 |
Vehicle control device and vehicle control method
The present invention relates to a control device and a control method for a vehicle in which a lockup clutch is disengaged when a rotation speed of an engine falls below a disengagement rotation speed. The device/method changes a speed ratio of a variator on the basis of a shifting map in which a primary pulley rotation speed on a coast line is set higher than a primary pulley rotation speed on a drive line and sets a target input rotation speed of the variator to a predetermined target input rotation speed higher than the primary pulley rotation speed on the drive line when an operation of an accelerator pedal is performed such that an accelerator pedal opening falls to a first predetermined opening or less. As a result, the present invention can suppress drop of fuel efficiency of the engine caused by disengagement of the lockup clutch which is a friction engagement element. |
| US10267417B2 |
Shifter with noiseless BITSI shift lever control
A transmission shifter includes a base, a shift lever movable between gear positions, and a pawl, a pawl blocker, a permanent magnet, an electro-magnet, and an electrical circuit for selectively activating the electro-magnet when a predetermined vehicle condition is sensed. The permanent magnet's attraction to an iron based surface of the electro-magnet normally holds the blocker in a pawl-blocking position, keeping the shift lever in park position, until the electrical circuit activates the electro-magnet and the pawl is depressed. When activated, the electro-magnet biases the blocker toward a pawl-unblocked position. A ramp lever keeps the pawl blocker in the park position until the pawl mechanically moves the ramp lever and magnetically-biased blocker together, thus allowing the shift lever to be moved from park position. The park lock system is characterized by an absence of movement in response to an electrical signal to an electro-mechanical device and thus operates noise-free. |
| US10267414B2 |
Controller for automatic transmission
In a controller for an automatic transmission, when a jump gear shift via a plurality of intermediate shift stages is executed, a first and a second target intermediate shift stages are extracted, and a target input shaft rotation speed change rate is calculated from a difference in synchronous rotation speed between a shift stage before a current gear shift and the second target intermediate shift stage as a target shift stage of a gear shift which is executed after the current gear shift. Accordingly, it is possible to avoid a situation in which a shifting time in the gear shift control of the step before the second target intermediate shift stage becomes very short and thus packing of a clutch pack is not executed in a timely manner. |
| US10267412B2 |
Upshift control for regenerative braking
A vehicle includes a powertrain and a controller. The powertrain includes a transmission mechanically coupled to an electric machine and configured to transfer torque between a wheel and the electric machine. The transmission has a gearbox configured to establish gear ratios through a shift. The controller is programmed to, in response to an indication of an expected regenerative braking event having a timing falling within a shift window of the transmission, prevent a clutch of the transmission from disengaging until first occurrence of application of an accelerator pedal or removal of the indication to inhibit the shift prompted by a shift schedule of the gearbox. |
| US10267409B2 |
Shift lever housing for manual transmission
A shift lever housing for a manual transmission may include a shift cable base portion sealed to not have a hole that is open downward to a bottom located between a shift cable through-hole and a shift cable connector; and a select cable base portion positioned at one side of the shift cable base portion and having a base hole that is open downward to a bottom located between a selector lever installation hole and a select cable connector. |
| US10267405B2 |
Isolator with improved damping structure
In an aspect, an isolator is provided for isolating torsional vibration between a crankshaft of an engine and an endless drive member. The isolator includes a driver drivable by the crankshaft, a pulley that is engageable with an endless drive member, at least one isolation spring that is positioned to transfer forces between the driver and the pulley and to isolate torsional vibrations in the driver and the pulley from one another, and a damping structure configured to frictionally resist relative movement between the driver and the pulley beyond a selected relative threshold angle, and to permit relative movement between the driver and the pulley within the selected relative threshold angle without frictional resistance from the damping structure. |
| US10267403B2 |
Method of designing member of spline wheel contour, spline surface contour and cam periphery of roller-type wave-motion
A method for designing a spline surface contour of a roller-type wave-motion includes of the steps of slicing radial movement track of a roller between a cam and a spline aperture and circumference rotation track at equal proportion at equal time intervals to sequentially obtain circle centers and points of tangency of the track circles during movement of the roller; connecting the points of tangency to form a unit cam circumference segment of a cam periphery in order to draw and form a single-sided tooth flank contour; and forming a correspondent side tooth flank contour by mirroring and projecting the single-sided tooth flank contour. A method of forming a spline wheel contour and a method of forming a cam periphery are obtained. |
| US10267400B2 |
Differential apparatus
A differential apparatus includes a differential mechanism, a differential case that accommodates the differential mechanism, and a clutch mechanism that transmits a driving force between the differential case and the differential mechanism. The clutch mechanism includes a side member movable inside the differential case in an axial direction and an actuator for moving the slide member to the axial direction. The slide member has a first meshable portion at one end in the axial direction, is allowed to move relative to the differential mechanism, and is prevented from rotating relative to the differential mechanism. The differential case has a second meshable portion facing the first meshable portion in the axial direction. When the slide member moves toward the second meshable portion by actuation of the actuator, the first meshable portion meshes with the second meshable portion so that the differential case and the slide member are coupled to prevent a relative rotation between the differential case and the slide member. |
| US10267399B2 |
Variable charge pump system for closed hydrostatic circuits
The invention relates to a charge pump system (190) comprising a hydrostatic charge pump (12) capable to generate a hydraulic flow rate to be fed into a closed circuit of a hydrostatic transmission, a planetary gear set (20), whose planet wheel carrier (22) is connected to an input shaft (11) of the charge pump (12), and whose sun wheel (21) is driveable by a driving shaft (3); and a charge pump motor (30) capable to drive the ring gear (23) of planetary gear set (20). |
| US10267397B2 |
Turbine assembly for hydrokinetic torque converter, and method for making the same
A turbine assembly for a hydrokinetic torque converter. The turbine assembly is rotatable about a rotational axis and hydrokinetic torque converter and comprises a first turbine component coaxial with the rotational axis, and a second turbine component non-moveably secured to the turbine component coaxially therewith. The first turbine component is formed separately from the second turbine component. The first turbine component has a plurality of first turbine blade members integrally formed therewith. |
| US10267396B2 |
Attitude control device
A heavy-weight object such as a motor is installed separately from a movable portion to reduce the weight of the movable portion. The invention includes a support unit, a movable unit to which equipment is attached, and a drive unit interposed between the support unit and the movable unit. The movable unit has a first rotating member rotatably attached to the support unit about a first rotation axis line and a second rotating member rotatably attached to the first rotating member about a second rotation axis line orthogonal to the first rotation axis line. The support unit is provided with paired first brackets positioned so as to sandwich the first rotating member, and these first brackets are each provided with a first shaft configuring the first rotation axis line. The second rotating member is provided with paired second brackets positioned so as to sandwich the first rotating member from a direction orthogonal to the paired first brackets, and the second brackets are each provided with a second shaft configuring the second rotation axis line and causing the first rotating member to rotatably support the second rotating member. The drive unit includes paired motors attached to the support unit and having a rotation axis line parallel to each of the first shafts, an endless belt wound between a pulley and each of the motors, and paired gears respectively attached to the first shaft and the second shaft adjacent to each other as a set and converting rotation about the first rotation axis line into rotation about the second rotation axis line. One of the gears is fastened to the pulley and is rotatably attached to the first rotating member, the other gear is fastened to the second bracket of the second rotating member, and to the first shaft to which the gear is not attached, the pulley provided to this first shaft and the first rotating member are fastened. |
| US10267389B2 |
Multi-stage transmission for vehicles
A multi-stage transmission for vehicles includes an input shaft for receiving power from an engine, an output shaft for outputting the power, a first planetary gear device, a second planetary gear device, a third planetary gear device, and a fourth planetary gear device. Each of the planetary gear devices has three rotary elements, a first rotary shaft connected to the input shaft, a second rotary shaft, a third rotary shaft, a fourth rotary shaft, a fifth rotary shaft, a sixth rotary shaft, a seventh rotary shaft, and an eighth rotary shaft connected to the third rotary element of the third planetary gear device, to the second rotary element of the fourth planetary gear device, and to the output shaft. |
| US10267381B2 |
Method for attaching a connector element to a belt end of a conveyor belt
A method for attaching a connector element to a belt end of a conveyor belt, wherein the connector element has a base tier provided with central passages and an adhesive tier disposed on one side of the base tier that produces adhesive under the effect of heat, including (i) disposing the connector element on the belt end of the conveyor belt positioned in a U-shaped deflection that is disposed on averted sides of the belt and on one end side of the belt with the passages positioned in the region of the U-shaped deflection and the adhesive tier disposed so as to face the averted sides of the belt; and (ii) connecting the connector element to the averted sides of the belt, wherein the connector element is adhesively bonded to the belt under the effect of a heated pressing installation on both sides of the belt. |
| US10267378B2 |
Sealing structure
A sealing structure allows for formation of a labyrinth structure between an oil seal and a torsional vibration damper even when the oil seal does not include a side lip. The oil seal 100 includes an oil lip 121 provided such as to be slidable on an outer circumferential surface of a tubular part 210, and a dust lip 122 provided further on an air side (A) than the oil lip 121 and slidable on the outer circumferential surface of the tubular part 210. An annular member 250 is further provided, which is fixed to the outer circumferential surface of the tubular part 210 further on the air side (A) than the dust lip 122 and covering an outer circumferential surface of the dust lip 122 such that there is a gap between the annular member 250 itself and the outer circumferential surface of the dust lip 122. |
| US10267375B2 |
Damper and method for manufacturing damper
A damper (10) includes a housing (11) and a rotor (16) combined with the housing (11) so as to be capable of rotating relative to the housing (11). The damper (10) includes an attenuating medium (90) filled in a rotation area inside the housing (11) wherein the rotor (16) rotates, and added with viscoelasticity by a viscoelasticity treatment; and an enclosure portion (80) provided outside the rotation area of the rotor (16), and communicating with the rotation area. |
| US10267373B2 |
Characteristic value variable dynamic vibration absorber and characteristic value variable vibration isolator
To solve a problem, for example, in which holding a movable mass becomes difficult because the spring characteristics of a rubber constituting a basis are set low in order to set the characteristic value at a low value. In a first dynamic vibration absorber including a movable mass that is coupled to a vibration damping target member via an MRE as a first elastic member having elastic characteristics variable with a magnetic field, and being capable of varying a vibration characteristic value of the movable mass by controlling the magnetic field, the dynamic vibration absorber has a second elastic member different from the MRE, and the vibration damping target member and the movable mass are elastically-coupled to each other via the second elastic member. |
| US10267371B2 |
Devices for operating a parking brake
An assembly that includes a parking brake system including two or more spindle/nut devices. The two or more spindle/nut devices include a high efficiency device and a low efficiency device. The high efficiency device is in communication with a first end of a brake pad, and the low efficiency device in communication with a second end of the brake pad. The high efficiency device moves the first end of the brake pad against a braking surface, and the low efficiency device moves the second end of the brake pad against the braking surface. After one or both of the ends of the brake pad are moved against the braking surface and a clamping force is created, the low efficiency device locks and prevents movement of the high efficiency device so that the clamping force is maintained. |
| US10267362B2 |
Sliding contact surface-forming material, and multi-layered sliding contact component having the same
A sliding contact surface-forming material includes a reinforcing base impregnated with a resol-type phenolic resin having polytetrafluoroethylene resin dispersed therein. The reinforcing base being composed of a woven fabric formed by using, respectively as the warp and the weft, a ply yarn which is formed by paralleling at least two strands of a single twist yarn spun from fluorine-containing resin fiber and a single twist yarn spun from polyester fiber, and by twisting them in the direction opposite to the direction in which the single twist yarns were spun. Additionally, a multi-layered sliding contact component having the overall shape of a flat plate or a circular cylinder includes the above-described sliding contact surface-forming material so as to configure at least the sliding-contact surface thereof. |
| US10267358B2 |
Drill drive for a drilling rig
A drill drive for a drilling rig includes a motor, by which a drive shaft is rotationally driven which is supported in a rotatable manner in a housing with a bearing arrangement having at least a radial bearing, a first axial bearing and a second axial bearing. On the first axial bearing a first force measuring device is arranged for determining a first axial force on the first axial bearing and on the second axial bearing a second force measuring device is arranged for determining a second axial force on the second axial bearing. A drilling rig, in particular for oil or gas drilling, with a drill mast, along which a drill string with a drilling tool is arranged, wherein on the drill mast a drill drive according to the invention is supported in a displaceable manner for rotationally driving the drill string. |
| US10267357B2 |
Tapered roller bearing
A tapered roller bearing is used in a planetary gear speed reducer, and includes an outer race, and a retainer formed with a first annular portion, a second annular portion, and pillars. At least one retainer guiding surface (raceway) which guides the retainer in a radial direction is formed only on an inner periphery of the outer race. Guided surfaces are formed at least either on the pillars or on the first and second annular portions, and guided by the at least one retainer guiding surface. Therefore, it is possible to guide an axial central portion or both side portions of the retainer, to make the retainer less likely to tilt due to a centrifugal force, and to apply a preload to both side surfaces of the outer race. |
| US10267352B2 |
Bearing cap of internal combustion engine
A bearing cap (1) is attached to a bulkhead (22) of a cylinder block (21) made of a light metal through a pair of bolts (24). The bearing cap (1) has a frame (2) made of an iron-based metal and a cast light-alloy part (3). The frame (2) has a pair of pillar parts (9) through which the bolts (24) extend and a circular-arc-shaped arch section (10). At high temperatures, the span of the pair of the bolts (24) increases due to thermal expansion of the light-alloy material, and the pair of the pillar parts (9) expand. This causes the middle part of the arch section (10) to shift upward, thereby suppressing an increase in bearing clearance. |
| US10267351B2 |
Failure detection for push-pull rods having a reserve load path
A fail-safe push-pull rod has two load paths that are separated from each other, of which always only one takes up the load transmission and which automatically detects possible damage to or functional failure of the first load path so that in such a case then the second load path takes over the load transmission, whereby the functional change from the first to the second load path can be determined during the routine maintenance inspection by an inspection hole irreversibly showing the damage or the failure of the first load path. |
| US10267350B2 |
Integrated armboard and wrist support apparatuses and methods of use
The present invention includes an apparatus, to be used during a medical procedure to support a patient's arm, which generally includes an armboard and an optional wrist support device attached to a patient that may be removably connected to the armboard, and a general method of use. |
| US10267348B2 |
Bolt for peeling coating film
A bolt for peeling a coating film of the present invention includes notch parts for peeling a coating film, the notch parts being formed over a plurality of pitches at top parts of screw threads in a male screw part formed in a shaft part. The bolt is characterized in that the respective notch parts formed over the plurality of pitches are arranged to be greatly inclined at an angle of 40° to 50° to an axial line of the shaft part. Since the respective notch parts can be rolled sequentially, it is possible to form the notch parts to be deeper and sharper than conventional ones and to enhance the coating film peeling performance. Also, the coating film peeled can be discharged efficiently as compared with conventional cases. |
| US10267344B2 |
Compression ring
A compression ring made of an initially open clamping band has ends which mutually engage in puzzle-like fashion for closing the compression ring. One band end carries a tongue which projects in the longitudinal direction of the band and has arms extending transversely to the longitudinal direction of the band, and the other end of the band is formed complementarily thereto. The transverse edges of the arms, which extend transversely to the longitudinal direction of the band and face the free end of the tongue, each have a convex part at the outer end and a concave part at the inner end. |
| US10267343B2 |
Control system for a hydraulic work machine
Disclosed is a control system for a hydraulic work machine, comprising a plurality of hydraulic work circuits for supplying actuators and/or drive units of movable machine parts with hydraulic fluid, and an emergency stop circuit for the work circuits for avoiding danger caused by the machine parts. According to this disclosure, the emergency stop circuit comprises a single safety valve which is connected in parallel to the work circuits via at least one branch line each at the inlet and to a pressure relief point at the outlet. |
| US10267341B2 |
End position detection of a variable hydraulic machine
The invention relates to a method and a device for determining of at least one end position of a displacement element of an adjustable hydraulic machine, in particular of the axial piston type, shiftable or displaceable between two ends position a by means of a displacement unit between a first end position and a second end position. According to the invention the determination of having reached an end position of displacement takes place by means of a measurement circuit, whose electrical characteristics are changed jumpily when an end position is reached. This is done by connecting a partial branch of the measuring circuit with earth, when a moveable element comes into electric contact with a limit stop assigned to the corresponding end position. |
| US10267338B2 |
Impeller and motor
An impeller includes a hub rotated about an up-down axis and inclined blades disposed circumferentially on a hub's outer circumferential surface. The outer circumferential surface includes a first surface including a portion axially overlapping the blade above its joined portion to the blade, a second surface including a portion axially overlapping the blade below the joined portion, and a connecting portion connecting a rotating-direction rear end of the first outer circumferential surface and a rotating-direction front end of the second outer circumferential surface. The connecting portion is arranged forward of a rotating-direction blade front edge. A distance from the axis to a first point, positioned at the rotating-direction rear end of the first outer circumferential surface, is not shorter than that from the axis to a second point, positioned at the rotating-direction front end of the second outer circumferential surface and at the same axial position as the first point. |
| US10267335B1 |
Methods and apparatus for mounting an impeller with positional repeatability
A flange for centering an impeller on a motor shaft includes a central bore for receiving a motor shaft, an impeller facing end and a motor bearing facing end formed opposite the impeller facing end, wherein the impeller facing end includes at least one impeller engaging element configured to couple with a flange facing side of the impeller, wherein the flange facing side of the impeller includes at least one flange engaging element complementary to the at least one impeller engaging element of the flange. An assembly including the motor shaft an impeller is disclosed, as well as centering elements for use in repeatably mounting the assembly to an impeller. Methods of determining optimal balance are disclosed. |
| US10267334B2 |
Annular heatshield
A fan section includes a fan inlet case, fan bearing assembly, and an annular heatshield. The fan bearing assembly may be coupled to the fan inlet case and the annular heatshield may be mounted to the fan inlet case. In various embodiments, the annular heatshield is configured to reduce convective heat transfer from heated fluid to the fan bearing assembly. |
| US10267333B2 |
Cross-flow wave making pump
This invention relates to a cross-flow wave making pump comprising an impeller shell forming a water intake and a water outlet, an impeller assembly pivotally connected to two ends of the impeller shell, and a motor used for driving the impeller assembly; wherein, the impeller assembly comprises an impeller used for driving a liquid flow, a first turntable and a second turntable respectively fixed at two ends of the impeller, wherein the first turntable is provided with a shaft rotatably mounted in the impeller shell, the second turntable is provided with a cavity used for receiving a rotor shaft of the motor. The embodiments of the present invention can provide a sufficient liquid-circulation in a container, and significantly reduce the dead zone where the liquid flows extremely slowly. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10267332B2 |
Compressor
A compressor includes: an impeller including a hub and a plurality of blades disposed on an outer surface of the hub; and a housing which houses the impeller. The housing includes: a shroud section facing the outer surface of the hub to form a fluid flow path between the shroud section and the outer surface, and surrounding the impeller; and a casing section formed integrally with the shroud section and supporting the shroud section. The shroud section includes a first resin-based material having a static tensile strength of at least 65 MPa and no more than 200 MPa and a breaking strain of no more than 0.3 mm/mm at a temperature of 100° C. The casing section includes a second resin-based material having a static tensile strength of at least 40 MPa and a breaking strain of at least 0.1 mm/mm at a temperature of 100° C. |
| US10267331B2 |
Liquid pump housing
A liquid pump includes a housing, a motor fixed in the housing, and an impeller driven by the motor. The motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The impeller is connected to a rotor of the motor. The housing includes a guide wall surrounding the stator, and a guide face extending outwardly from an outer surface of the guide wall to guide a liquid flowing to the guide wall to flow in a direction away from the stator, thus ensuring the electrical safety of the liquid pump. |
| US10267326B2 |
Variable vane scheduling
An example variable vane scheduling method includes adjusting variable vanes from a position based on a first schedule to a position based on a different, second schedule in response to a control feature. An example method of controlling flow through a compressor of a turbomachine includes moving variable vanes to positions that allow more flow into the compressor in response to bleed air being communicated away from the compressor. |
| US10267325B2 |
Air cycle machine speed diagnostic
A method and apparatus for operating an air cycle machine is disclosed. The apparatus includes a detector for measuring a rotational speed of a component of the air cycle machine. A processor estimates a rate of change of rotational speed of the component from the measured rotational speed and shuts down the air cycle machine when the estimated rate of change of the rotational speed of the component is greater than a selected rate threshold. |
| US10267318B2 |
Method and system for tuning a turbine using a secondary injection valve
A turbine and method of operating a turbine includes a housing having an inlet, a volute and an outlet. The inlet is coupled to the volute through a primary fluid path and a secondary fluid path. The turbine further includes an impeller rotatably coupled to the housing and a hydraulically actuated valve assembly disposed within the secondary fluid path selectively communicating fluid from the inlet to the volute. The turbine includes a hydraulic actuator coupled to the valve assembly moving the valve assembly from a first position communicating fluid from the inlet into the volute to a second position blocking flow from the inlet to the volute. |
| US10267310B2 |
Variable pressure pump with hydraulic passage
A variable capacity pump includes a control ring moveable within a pump chamber to alter the volumetric capacity of the pump. First and second control chambers individually receive pressurized fluid to create forces to bias the control ring in a predetermined direction. A return spring urges the control ring toward a maximum volumetric capacity pump position. The control ring connects and disconnects the second control chamber from a source of pressurized fluid based on a position of the control ring. Forces from the control chambers and the spring act in combination with one another or against one another and against the spring force to establish first and second equilibrium pressures based on a pressurized or vented condition of the second control chamber. |
| US10267304B2 |
Hose system
A hose system has a pump hose with a hose portion insertable into a pump head of a hose pump. The hose portion has at least a first stop element fixing the hose portion in the feed direction. The first stop element can subsequently be connected immovably to the pump hose at a predefinable position of the pump hose. Thus, the pump hose can be used more universally and can be adapted to different pump heads. |
| US10267297B2 |
Self-calibrating return spring pump, in particular self-calibrating return spring dosing pump
Self-calibrating return spring pump (300; 400), in particular self-calibrating return spring dosing pump, configured to carry out a volume pumping of a fluid (190) in a variable-volume front chamber (180), the self-calibrating pump (300; 400) being provided with a rear chamber (200) housed in a lantern (205) and with movable mechanical means (140, 150, 160; 140; 150) for forming a movable wall (170; 340) of the rear chamber (320) and for causing the movable wall (170; 340) of the rear chamber (320) to make a reciprocating motion when said movable mechanical means (140, 150, 160; 140; 150) interacts with cam or eccentric mechanical means (110), the front chamber (180) being configured to increase in volume when the rear chamber (200) decreases in volume and vice versa, the pump further comprising elastic means (210) for elastic return of said movable mechanical means (140, 150, 160; 140; 150), the pump being characterised in that the rear chamber (320) is provided with one-way valve means (310) configured to allow air to pass only from the rear chamber (320) to the outside of the lantern (205), the rear chamber (320) being sealed and delimited by the movable wall (170; 340), by sealing means (330; 350), by internal walls of the lantern (205), and by said one-way valve means (310), whereby a pressure ppost within the rear chamber (320) is kept not higher than an ambient pressure Patm outside the lantern (205) and not higher than a pressure pa nt within the front chamber (180). |
| US10267296B2 |
Combined solar thermal power generation system
The invention belongs to the technical field of solar thermal power generation equipment, and discloses a combined solar thermal power generation system. The system comprises a parabolic trough collector subsystem, a heat exchanger subsystem, a Rankine cycle power generation subsystem and a dish power generation subsystem; the parabolic trough collector subsystem comprises a trough-type mirror field, a pump and a valve; the heat exchanger subsystem comprises a superheater, an evaporator and a preheater; the Rankine cycle power generation subsystem comprises a temperature-decreased pressure reducer, a steam turbine, an electric generator, a condenser, a condensate pump, a deaerator and a feedwater pump; and the dish power generation subsystem comprises a dish-type mirror field and a Stirling engine set. The system utilizes the heat released by the cold chamber of the Stirling engine by condensed fluid of the Rankine cycle. It provides an extra heat source for the Rankine cycle, which increases the power of the steam turbine and improves the solar to electric efficiency of the thermal power generation system. |
| US10267295B2 |
Method and apparatus for solar power generation through gas volumetric heat absorption based on characteristic absorption spectrum
The present application discloses a method and an apparatus for solar power generation through gas volumetric heat absorption based on characteristic absorption spectrum. A radiation energy conversion device absorbs concentrated solar radiation and converts radiation energy into thermal energy; the thermal energy is transferred to the other side of the radiation energy conversion device and then is converted into radiation energy; and the energy is transferred in a receiver cavity. The working gas from the outlet of a recuperator flows into the receiver cavity and absorbs the radiation energy. The heated working gas with high temperature flows into a turbine, doing shaft work through expansion. The expanded working gas flows through the recuperator to exchange heat. The working gas flows into a cooler, a compressor and the recuperator in sequence, and then flows into a receiver cavity to be heated volumetrically, completing a thermal power cycle. |
| US10267294B2 |
Spring return device
A spring return device comprising a rotatable drive coupling configured for releasably engaging a rotatable drive part on a first side of the device and configured for releasably engaging a rotatable drive part on an opposite second side of the device; a spring engaged with the drive coupling; and a retainer that retains the spring; wherein: rotation of the drive coupling in a first direction relative to the retainer causes mechanical energy to be stored in the spring; and the spring return device comprises an integral locking mechanism that is actuatable between a first state in which rotation of the drive coupling relative to the retainer is allowed and a second state in which rotation of the drive coupling relative to the retainer is prevented. |
| US10267292B2 |
Wind turbine and operational control method and device therefor
A wind turbine and an operational control method therefor are disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining current directional data from the nacelle of the wind turbine; and, according to the directional data, positional data of each wind turbine of a wind farm, as well as wind condition data as measured by each wind turbine, and controlling operational equipment of the wind turbine, so as to increase power generated by the wind turbine. According to the current direction of the nacelle of the wind turbine, positional data of each wind turbine of a wind farm, and wind condition data as measured by each wind turbine, accurate control policy adjustment is performed in advance on operational equipment of a wind turbine, thereby increasing the power generated by the wind turbine. A device for implementing the control method is also disclosed. |
| US10267290B2 |
Guide vane assembly
Disclosed herein is a guide vane assembly including a rig structure configurable with a turbine and having an inner portion and an outer portion forming extremities thereof, a sail and an actuator assembly. The sail is coupled to the rig structure and shaped for presenting a trough to a flow of impinging fluid, the trough having a depth defined from the rig plane. The sail extends from the outer portion towards the inner portion of the rig structure to terminate at an inner edge whereat a vent is defined. The fluid impinging on the sail is concentrated at the trough and redirected towards the turbine from the vent. |
| US10267289B2 |
Wind turbine blade having a forwardly oriented flow guiding device
A wind turbine blade with a flow guiding device attached to a profiled contour on a pressure side of the blade is described. The flow guiding device has a front surface facing toward an oncoming airflow and comprises at least a first portion, which is angled towards the oncoming airflow and a leading edge of the wind turbine blade. |
| US10267282B2 |
Pressure relief valve systems
Various methods and systems are provided for a pressure relief valve of a fuel system. In one example, a valve includes a first chamber in fluid communication with a first fuel line, a second chamber in fluid communication with a second fuel line and in fluid communication with a fuel storage tank, a piston separating the first chamber from the second chamber, and a needle coupled to the piston and controlling a flow passage between the second fuel line and the second chamber, where the piston and needle are sized such that a force applied on the piston by the first chamber parallel to an axis of movement of the piston maintains the needle in a closed position when the first fuel line flows fuel at a first pressure and the second fuel line flows fuel at a second pressure, the second pressure greater than the first pressure. |
| US10267280B2 |
Fuel delivery assembly for an internal combustion engine
A fuel delivery assembly for an internal combustion engine, including an injector cup, a fuel injector received therein, and a spring clip is disclosed. The injector cup has a circumferential wall with an external shoulder. The fuel injector has a shoulder which is axially spaced apart from the injector cup. The spring clip has a base portion with two radially compliant webs bearing against the shoulder of the circumferential wall and being in force-fit engagement with the circumferential wall. The spring clip has an axially compliant portion bearing against the shoulder of the fuel injector and being elastically deformable to bias the fuel injector in axial direction from the upper end towards the lower end. |
| US10267278B2 |
High pressure pump
A high pressure fuel pump unit includes a pump head where an inlet channel opens into a low-pressure chamber itself in fluid communication with a compression chamber. A valve is arranged so that when it is closed the fuel fills the low-pressure chamber and when the valve opens the fuel flows from the low-pressure chamber into the compression chamber. The pump head also includes a resilient member arranged so that when the valve is closed, the resilient member deforms to increase the volume of the low pressure chamber. When the valve opens, the fuel flows into the compression chamber, pushed by the resilient member which takes back its original shape. |
| US10267277B2 |
Fuel filter employing one or more layers of wetlaid synthetic fibers
An in tank depth media fuel filter assembly includes a closed body having an interior and an exterior. The closed body has a first composite panel of filtration media and a second composite panel of filtration media. Each of the composite panels includes and outer support layer and at least three inner layers of filtration material including at least two spunbonded layers of synthetic filaments and at least one layer of wetlaid synthetic fibers. An opening is provided in the body for providing fluid communication with the interior thereof. |
| US10267276B2 |
Filtering device
A filtering device may includes a bag-shaped filter member that is capable of being connected to a fuel inlet port of a fuel pump disposed in a fuel tank in order to filtrate fuel drawn by the fuel pump, and a wall member that is connected to the filter member such that a fuel reservoir portion can be defined above the filter member. |
| US10267274B2 |
Intake noise reduction device
An intake noise reduction device that can mitigate deformation of a flow-regulating net portion made of an elastic body. The intake noise reduction device 100 is made of an elastic body that is disposed downstream of a throttle valve and includes an annular gasket portion 110 and a flow-regulating net portion 120 provided inside the gasket portion 110 integrally with the gasket portion 110, constituted by a linear portion having a mesh shape. The linear portion having the mesh shape constituting the flow-regulating net portion 120 includes first linear parts 121 that extend radially and second linear parts 122 that extend circumferentially. One of any given two parts of the first linear part 121 on a radially outer side has a width larger than or equal to that of the other part on a radially inner side, and a radially outermost part of the first linear part has a larger width than a radially innermost part. |
| US10267271B2 |
Temperature-controllable engine fuel supply device
A temperature-controllable engine fuel supply device is used to feed fuel into a fuel inlet (40) of an engine (40). The temperature-controllable engine fuel supply device includes a fuel tank (1) for receiving the fuel, a cooling unit (2) and a nozzle (3). The cooling unit (2) communicates with the fuel tank (1) to cool the fuel. The nozzle (3) is disposed corresponding to the fuel inlet (40) to jet the fuel toward the fuel inlet (40). A cooling path (P) through which the fuel passes is from the cooling unit (2), through the nozzle (3), to the fuel inlet (40). A temperature sensor (21), (23) is installed on the cooling path (P) to detect temperature of the fuel, so temperature of the fuel is controlled to be within an ideal range before the fuel enters the engine (4). |
| US10267266B2 |
Attachment structure for solenoid valve to carburetor unit
An attachment structure for a solenoid valve which can be stably attached to and removed from a carburetor unit with a single movement and without increasing the number of parts. A rod-like supporting portion is disposed a predetermined distance away from a surface of a carburetor unit and extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction of and installed near an opening in the surface of the carburetor unit. A cylindrical engaging portion extends from a circumferential face of a cylindrical body fitted on the solenoid valve substantially perpendicular to an axial line of the rod-like supporting portion, and forms a groove-like engagement portion which is narrower in diameter than the rod-like supporting portion, whereby the engaging portion, via the groove-like engagement portion, is coupled to and supported by rod-like supporting portion when an insertion portion of the solenoid valve is inserted into the opening. |
| US10267264B2 |
Monopropellant driven hydraulic pressure supply
A liquid propellant driven hydraulic pressure supply device may include an elongated body having an internal bore extending from a power end to a discharge end having a discharge port, a hydraulic fluid disposed in the bore between a piston and the discharge end and a liquid propellant gas generator connected to the power end. |
| US10267262B2 |
Thrust reverser assembly
A thrust reverser assembly for a gas turbine engine including a core engine, a nacelle surrounding at least a portion of the core engine defining a bypass duct between the nacelle and the core engine where an outer door movable between a stowed position and a deployed position extends outwards from the nacelle and a blocker door movable between a stowed position and an deployed position extends into an airflow conduit defined by the bypass duct to deflect air outwards. |
| US10267259B2 |
Cylinder head with valve deactivators
To improve fuel efficiency, some gasoline engines are equipped with valve deactivators in some of the cylinders so that at low torque conditions only a subset of the total number of cylinders are active. In prior art engines, particularly when they have four valves per cylinder, space is tight. It is known to provide a cam carrier in the head between the cylinder head and the camshaft. The cylinder head bolts pass through the head under the cam carrier. According to the present disclosure, the cam carrier, and its associated disadvantages, is obviated by widening the bearings for the camshafts, using smaller diameter head bolts, and putting the orifices for the head bolts directly through the bearings. |
| US10267255B2 |
Control system of internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine comprises an exhaust purification catalyst and a downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor which is arranged at a downstream side of the exhaust purification catalyst. A control system can perform fuel cut control which stops the feed of fuel to the internal combustion engine during operation of the internal combustion engine, and, after the end of fuel cut control, performs post-return rich control which sets the exhaust air-fuel ratio to a rich air-fuel ratio. The control system correct the output air-fuel ratio of the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor, based on a difference between the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio and the output air-fuel ratio in the output stabilization time period, which is a time period when the amount of change per unit time of the output air-fuel ratio of the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor is a predetermined value or less, in the time period after the end of the fuel cut control and before the output air-fuel ratio of the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor becomes a rich judged air-fuel ratio or less. |
| US10267254B2 |
Engine device
An engine device of including: an intake manifold configured to supply air into a cylinder; a gas injector configured to mix fuel gas with air supplied from the intake manifold, and supply mixed gas to the cylinder; an igniter configured to ignite, in the cylinder, premixed fuel obtained by pre-mixing the fuel gas with the air; and a control unit configured to execute a combustion control of a premixed fuel based on the output signal indicative of an output from the engine device. When the air amount is determined to be insufficient and when the output signal is lost, the control unit estimates an output signal based on the fuel gas injection amount from the gas injector, and executes the combustion control based on the estimated output signal. |
| US10267253B2 |
Fuel injection system for internal combustion engine
A booster circuit installed in a fuel injection device of an internal combustion engine, wherein malfunctions and characteristic changes of the booster circuit are detected, among which the detection distinguishes between decreases in capacity caused by deterioration or broken wires in a booster capacitor, and failures of a current monitor circuit, coil, externally connected fuel injection valve, and other components. The range of decrease in boost voltage when the fuel injection valve is opened is monitored, as is the range of increase per switch performed in order to restore the boost voltage. This makes it possible to detect malfunctions and characteristic changes of the booster circuit. |
| US10267250B2 |
Control apparatus for hybrid vehicle
A control apparatus: controls air fuel ratios so that while combustion is performed sequentially through a plurality of cylinders, at least one cylinder where rich combustion is performed and the other cylinders where lean combustion is performed are generated; makes an internal combustion engine execute a catalyst warming operation for promoting warm-up of a three-way catalyst; and controls a second motor generator so that a torque difference between output torque from a rich cylinder where the rich combustion is performed and output torque from a lean cylinder where the lean combustion is performed is eliminated on an output shaft during the catalyst warming operation. |
| US10267247B2 |
Purge pump control systems and methods
A fuel vapor control system for a vehicle includes a fuel vapor canister that traps fuel vapor from a fuel tank of the vehicle. A purge valve opens to allow fuel vapor flow to an intake system of an engine and closes to prevent fuel vapor flow to the intake system of the engine. An electrical pump pumps fuel vapor from the fuel vapor canister to the purge valve. A vent valve allows fresh air flow to the vapor canister when the vent valve is open and prevents fresh air flow to the vapor canister when the vent valve is closed. A purge control module controls a speed of the electrical pump, opening of the purge valve, and opening of the vent valve. |
| US10267246B2 |
System and method for controlling an electronically-controlled turbocharger during a transmission autoshift event
An internal-combustion engine has an electronically-controlled one of a turbocharger and an exhaust-driven turbo supercharger coupled to an exhaust duct of the engine, and the engine is controlled during a shift event of a transmission coupled to an output shaft of the engine by determining a target engine speed at the end of the shift event, and controlling electrical energy supplied to an electric machine, rotatably coupled to a rotatable shaft that is rotatably coupled to the electronically-controlled turbocharger or exhaust-driven turbo supercharger, to control rotation of the rotatable shaft coupled to the turbocharger or exhaust-driven turbo supercharger to attain the target engine speed. |
| US10267243B2 |
Method and system for pulsed engine water injection
Methods and systems are provided for learning a transport delay for individual cylinders that is associated with maldistribution of water among cylinders during a water injection event. Differences in knock intensity between individual cylinders, following a water injection, are used to identify water maldistribution. Differences in the amount and timing of an engine dilution effect following a manifold water injection are learned via an intake oxygen sensor and used to reduce cylinder-to-cylinder imbalance in water delivery. |
| US10267242B2 |
Combination control assembly of dual fuel internal combustion engine
A combination control assembly of dual fuel internal combustion engine comprises a dial (2) that can be rotated to manipulate operation of a dual fuel internal combustion engine; a turntable (3) includes a disk body (301) and a shift lever (302), characterized in that the shift lever (302) is settled on the disk body (301); a first rotating part (4) that can be rotated by cooperating with the shift lever (302); a second rotating part (9) that can be rotated by cooperating with the shift lever (302); a first fuel valve (6) opened by the first rotating part (4), a second fuel valve (11) opened by the second rotating part (9). The combination control assembly controls the first fuel valve (6) and the second fuel valve (11), simplifying the manual operation and keeping the engine runs stable. |
| US10267234B2 |
Motive air conditioning system for gas turbines
A motive air conditioning system for a gas turbine assembly is provided. The motive air conditioning system may include an inlet flow channel configured to be fluidly coupled with the gas turbine assembly. The motive air conditioning system may also include a filtration assembly fluidly coupled with the inlet flow channel and configured to filter motive air. The filtration assembly may include a plurality of filter modules disposed adjacent one another and further disposed circumferentially about a longitudinal axis of the inlet flow channel. |
| US10267233B2 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring lubrication pump operation during windmilling
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a lubrication monitoring system is disclosed that includes a fan, a gear reduction operatively coupled to the fan, and a lubrication pump that is operatively coupled to the fan and is in fluid communication with the gear reduction. A first sensor is configured to detect a windmilling condition of the fan, and a second sensor is configured to detect an operational state of the lubrication pump. A controller in communication with the first and second sensors is configured to monitor the windmilling condition and the operational state of the lubrication pump, and command a status indicator in response thereto. |
| US10267232B2 |
Oil baffles in carrier for a fan drive gear system
A gearbox assembly for a gas turbofan engine includes a sun gear rotatable about an axis and a plurality of intermediate gears driven by the sun gear. A baffle disposed between at least two of the plurality of intermediate gears includes a first gap distance within a first gap portion and a second gap distance within a second gap portion. The first gap portion is disposed between the baffle and one of the intermediate gears away from the meshed interface with the sun gear and the second gap portion is disposed near the interface with the sun gear. The first gap distance within the first gap portion is different than the second gap distance within the second gap portion to define a desired lubricant flow path. |
| US10267228B2 |
Geared turbofan arrangement with core split power ratio
A gas turbine engine includes a fan section and a compressor section. The compressor section includes both a first compressor section and a second compressor section. A turbine section includes at least one turbine and driving the second compressor section and a fan drive turbine driving at least a gear arrangement to drive the fan section. A power ratio is provided by the combination of the first compressor section and the second compressor section, with the power ratio being provided by a first power input to the first compressor section and a second power input to the second compressor section, the power ratio being equal to, or greater than, about 1.0 and less than, or equal to, about 1.4. |
| US10267223B2 |
Portable four-stroke engine
The present utility model discloses a portable four-stroke engine, comprising: an engine body, a flywheel and an oil storage tank, wherein an air valve distribution chamber and a crank shaft chamber are arranged in the engine; a crank shaft is arranged in the crank shaft chamber, and is connected to the flywheel; the oil storage tank is arranged on the engine body, located above the flywheel, and configured to store lubricating oil; a cam and a rocker arm mechanism are arranged in the air valve distribution chamber; and the cam is configured to drive the rocker arm mechanism. The portable four-stroke engine provided by the present utility model has a small volume and therefore has better operation performance. |
| US10267222B2 |
Method for controlling transitions in a variable displacement engine
Methods and systems are provided for controlling transitions between engine operating modes in a four-cylinder engine. One method includes transitioning engine operation between two-cylinder, three-cylinder, and four-cylinder modes wherein the transitioning includes a sequence of firing events such that successive firing events are separated by at least 120 crank angle degree intervals. |
| US10267214B2 |
Compressor inlet recirculation system for a turbocharger
A compressor inlet recirculation system is disclosed. The compressor inlet recirculation system may have a compressor housing. The compressor inlet recirculation system may also have a compressor impeller disposed within the compressor housing. The compressor inlet recirculation system may further have an inlet flow guide attached to the compressor housing. The inlet flow guide may be configured to direct air to the compressor impeller. The inlet flow guide may have an inlet slot and an outlet slot spaced axially from the inlet slot. The compressor inlet recirculation system may also have an annular air passage extending between the inlet slot and the outlet slot. |
| US10267213B2 |
Combustion chamber structure of spark-ignition internal combustion engine
A combustion chamber structure for a spark-ignition internal combustion engine includes a combustion chamber, an ignition plug, and a guide portion. The combustion chamber is configured to produce tumble flow that swirls in an axial direction of a cylinder. The ignition plug is disposed in a central portion of an upper wall of the combustion chamber. The guide portion protrudes from the upper wall of the combustion chamber, and is configured to guide airflow passing through the central portion of the combustion chamber in an intake-exhaust direction of the combustion chamber while dispersing the airflow around the guide portion. |
| US10267209B2 |
Fan shroud for motor vehicle
A fan shroud assembly for a vehicle including a fan shroud for the vehicle which minimizes a noise generated by utilizing additional or supplemental flow spaces for smoothing air introduction to sections in which a vent hole of the shroud and a circumferential part of the shroud are adjacent each other. |
| US10267208B2 |
Cooling structure of internal combustion engine
A cooling structure of an engine includes a cylinder head and a coolant temperature sensor. The cylinder head gas a first water jacket for cooling a combustion chamber and a second water jacket for cooling an exhaust manifold. The cylinder head includes a joining portion where coolants from the first water jacket and the second water jacket join together. The joining portion has a first coolant passage. A second coolant passage is disposed downstream of the joining portion. The temperature sensing portion is disposed in the second coolant passage. A coolant outlet of the second water jacket is defined in the first coolant passage, and is located at a position on the cylinder head cover attachment surface side in the first coolant passage. The temperature sensing portion is located at a position on the cylinder block attachment surface side in the second coolant passage. |
| US10267206B2 |
Exhaust device for internal combustion engine
In inline four cylinder internal combustion engine (1), exhaust ports for a #2 cylinder and a #3 cylinder merge inside cylinder head (3) and form an opening serving as a single collective exhaust port. Exhaust manifold (5) has individual exhaust pipes (6, 7) for #1 and #4 cylinders and collective exhaust pipe (8), and the leading ends of these three exhaust pipes (6, 7, 8) are connected to catalytic converter (11). Exhaust gas introduction angle (θ2) of each of individual exhaust pipes (6, 7) is larger by 30-60 degrees than exhaust gas introduction angle (θ1) of collective exhaust pipe (8). Consequently, flow velocity distribution and temperature distribution in a catalyst carrier become uniform. |
| US10267205B2 |
Exhaust system for engine
An exhaust system for the engine includes two exhaust pipes for discharging therethrough exhaust gases from the engine, a muffler for silencing the exhaust gases, an introducing pipe for introducing the exhaust gases into the muffler and a collecting duct for merging the exhaust gases from the two exhaust pipes together and then to introduce them into the introducing pipe. The collecting duct has a single outlet opening within an interior of the introducing pipe, which single outlet opening has a first passage area that is chosen to be smaller than the sum of respective second passage areas of discharge openings of the exhaust pipes and also to be smaller than a third passage area of the introducing pipe. |
| US10267203B2 |
Virtual reductant level sensor
An aftertreatment system comprises a reductant storage tank and a SCR system fluidly coupled thereto. A reductant physical level sensor and a tank temperature sensor are operatively coupled to the reductant storage tank. A controller is communicatively coupled with each of the sensors and configured to: interpret a first level output value from the physical level sensor and a first temperature output value from the tank temperature sensor. If the first level output value is below a first threshold, the controller determines if the first temperature output value is below a second threshold. If the first level output value is below the first threshold and the first temperature output value is below the second threshold, the controller determines a virtual reductant level in the reductant storage tank and indicates the virtual reductant level in lieu of a physical reductant level in the reductant storage tank to a user. |
| US10267201B2 |
Device for exhaust waste heat recovery
In one embodiment, an exhaust waste heat recovery system includes a first exhaust waste heat recovery assembly including a central exhaust channel configured to allow passage of exhaust along an exhaust axis, and a first plurality of thermoelectric (TE) legs, each of the first plurality of TE legs including a hot end in thermal communication with the exhaust channel, and a cold end opposite to the hot end, and an electrical coupler in electrical communication with each of the first plurality of TE legs, the electrical coupler configured to receive electricity from the first plurality of TE legs. |
| US10267196B1 |
Treatment of reductant urea solutions with catalyst precursors to assist selective catalytic reduction
The present disclosure is directed at treatment of reductant urea solutions with water soluble organometallic catalyst precursors which convert to active catalyst compounds in diesel exhaust gas systems. The active catalysts then promote hydrolysis of isocyanic acid into ammonia and/or decomposition of relatively high molecular weight deposits which deposits may otherwise reduce selective catalytic reduction efficiency. |
| US10267195B2 |
Conveyor unit for conveying a liquid
The invention relates to a conveyor unit for conveying a liquid, comprising a distributor block made of plastic for the liquid-conducting connection of at least one component for conveying the liquid, the distributor block comprising at least one metallic clamping element which encloses the distributor block at least in some regions on the outside. |
| US10267193B2 |
Emission control system with controlled induction heating and methods for use therewith
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a emission control system that includes a emission control substrate having a plurality of passages to facilitate at least one catalytic reaction in an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. A magnetic field generator responds to a control signal by generating a magnetic field to inductively heat the emission control substrate. A magnetic shield is configured to direct at least a portion of the magnetic field to the emission control substrate. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10267191B2 |
Turboprop engine assembly with combined engine and cooling exhaust
A turboprop engine assembly for an aircraft, including an internal combustion engine having a liquid coolant system, an air duct in fluid communication with an environment of the aircraft, a heat exchanger received within the air duct having coolant passages in fluid communication with the liquid coolant system and air passages air passages in fluid communication with the air duct, and an exhaust duct in fluid communication with an exhaust of the internal combustion engine. The exhaust duct has an outlet positioned within the air duct downstream of the heat exchanger and upstream of an outlet of the air duct, the outlet of the exhaust duct spaced inwardly from a peripheral wall of the air duct. In use, a flow of cooling air surrounds a flow of exhaust gases. A method of discharging air and exhaust gases in an turboprop engine assembly having an internal combustion engine is also discussed. |
| US10267189B2 |
Variable valve actuation device for internal combustion engine
A variable valve actuation device includes a plurality of valve lifter. Each valve lifter slidable in a lifter support hole between an upper position and a lower position. A valve rest recess communicating with a valve rest chamber opens out at an outer circumferential surface of the valve lifter, and a valve rest supply port of a valve rest passage opens out at an inner circumferential surface of the lifter support hole in such a positional relationship that the valve rest passage and the valve rest chamber communicate with each other when the valve lifter is at the upper position, and continue to communicate with each other until the valve lifter has moved downward to a shut-off position located at a prescribed part of a down stroke from the upper position. The communication between the valve rest passage and the valve rest chamber shut off at the shut-off position. |
| US10267188B2 |
Rotor for a hydraulic camshaft adjuster and manufacturing method for a rotor for a camshaft adjuster
A rotor for a hydraulic camshaft adjuster. The rotor includes a first rotor element and a second rotor element. At least one of the rotor elements has oil channels separated from each other by radially arranged elevations. Each elevation of the first rotor element has a first joining profile and the second rotor element forms a complementary-shaped second joining profile corresponding to the position of each first joining profile, wherein the first and the second joining profile engage with each other in the assembled rotor. The first joining profile of the first rotor element has a notch and an elevation and the second joining profile of the second rotor element has a notch and an elevation formed in such a way that prior to the joining of the two rotor elements, a height of the elevation of the second joining profile, which engages in a notch of the first joining profile, is less than a height of the notch of the first joining profile, and a height of the elevation of the first joining profile, which engages in a notch-of the second joining profile, is less than a height of the notch of the second joining profile. |
| US10267187B2 |
Method and system for variable cam timing device
Methods and systems are described for an engine with a cam torque actuated variable cam timing phaser. Phaser positioning control is improved by reducing inaccuracies resulting from inadvertent spool valve and/or phaser movement when the spool valve is commanded between regions. In addition, improved spool valve mapping is used to render phaser commands more consistent and robust. |
| US10267185B2 |
System and method for controlling coolant supply to an exhaust gas
A system may include an exhaust conduit configured to route an exhaust gas from an engine to a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). The system may also include a coolant supply coupled to the exhaust conduit. The coolant supply is configured to supply a coolant to the exhaust conduit. Additionally, the system may include a controller configured to control the coolant supply to control an exhaust temperature of the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust conduit from the engine to the HRSG, or a steam temperature of steam generated by the HRSG, or a combination thereof. The controller may be configured to control the coolant supply differently in a full load condition relative to a part load condition of the system. |
| US10267181B2 |
Turbomachine with axial stop member
A turbomachine having an axial stop member arranged to restrain axial movement of a bearing assembly of the turbomachine, the axial stop member having a bore defined by a radially inner surface of the axial stop member which forms a close radial fit with a shaft of the turbomachine, or a member mounted on the shaft to rotate with the shaft, an anti-rotation formation engageable with a complimentary formation provided on an outer race of the bearing assembly so as to rotationally fix the outer race relative to the axial stop member and wherein the axial stop member further comprises a lubricating fluid directing member and a lubricating fluid outlet, the lubricating fluid directing member being arranged to receive lubricating fluid that is flung radially outward from said axis, due to the rotation of the shaft, and to direct the lubricating fluid to the lubricating fluid outlet. |
| US10267177B2 |
Turbine assembly having a rotor system lock
A rotor system lock for a gas turbine engine is described which blocks movement of rotating wheel assemblies relative to static vane assemblies in a gas turbine engine in order to block unintended rotation (or windmilling) of the gas turbine engine when it is exposed to high winds while at rest or to ram air during pre-launch flight and thereby avoid damage to components of the engine. |
| US10267175B2 |
Hydraulic power recovery turbine with integrated bearing-clutch housing
The hydraulic power recovery turbine comprises a casing and a rotor arranged for rotation in the casing. The rotor comprises a rotor shaft and at least one impeller mounted on the rotor shaft. The rotor shaft is supported by bearings arranged in respective bearing housings. The drive-end bearing housing further houses a clutch, which connects the rotor shaft to an output shaft of the hydraulic power recovery turbine extending from the drive-end bearing housing. |
| US10267170B2 |
Turbine stator vane assembly for a turbomachine
A turbine stator vane assembly comprises a plurality of circumferentially arranged struts and a plurality of circumferentially arranged stator vanes. Each stator vane has a leading edge, a trailing edge and a chord length. Each strut has a leading edge, a trailing edge, a chord length, a pressure surface and a suction surface. The chord length of the struts is greater than the chord length of the stator vanes. The stator vanes are arranged in groups between adjacent pairs of struts and each group of stator vanes comprises a plurality of stator vanes. The circumferential spacing between adjacent struts is substantially the same and each stator vane in a group of stator vanes has a different chord length to the other stator vanes in that group of stator vanes. |
| US10267164B2 |
Blade having platforms including inserts
A fiber preform for a turbine engine blade and a single-piece blade suitable for being made by means of such a preform, a bladed wheel, and a turbine engine including such a blade; the fiber preform obtained by three-dimensional weaving comprises a first longitudinal segment (41) suitable for forming a blade root, a second longitudinal segment (42) extending the first longitudinal segment (41) upwards and suitable for forming an airfoil portion, a first transverse segment (51) extending transversely from the junction between the first and second longitudinal segments (41, 42), and suitable for forming a first platform; the first transverse segment (51) includes at least one non-interlinked portion comprising a top strip (51b) and a bottom strip (51a), and at least one insert (61) is arranged between the top and bottom strips (51b, 51a) of the non-interlinked portion of the first transverse segment (51). |
| US10267162B2 |
Platform core feed for a multi-wall blade
A cooling system for a turbomachine blade including a multi-wall blade and a platform. A cooling circuit for the multi-wall blade includes: a central cavity and a plurality of outer cavities, wherein the central cavity comprises an intermediate passage of the cooling circuit, and wherein a flow of cooling air is fed into the cooling circuit through a first outer cavity of the plurality of outer cavities; and a connection for fluidly connecting a second outer cavity of the plurality of outer cavities to a platform core of the platform, the flow of cooling air passing through the connection into the platform core of the platform. |
| US10267159B2 |
System and method for creating a fluidic barrier with vortices from the upstream splitter
A turbofan engine has a fan portion in fluid communication with a core stream and a bypass stream of air separated by splitters disposed both upstream and downstream of the fan portion. A fluid passage is defined between the splitters. The turbofan engine has a plurality of surface interruptions on a core side surface of the upstream splitter and a plurality of vortices originating from the surface interruptions, thereby restricting the migration of the core stream into the bypass stream through the fluid passage. |
| US10267158B2 |
Airfoil fillet
The present disclosure includes airfoils for use in gas turbine engines. The airfoils comprise a fillet having a height of greater than 20% of the airfoil body span length. The airfoil may be a blade or a vane. Further, such airfoils may be used in the high pressure compressor section, as well as other gas turbine engine sections. |
| US10267153B2 |
Gas turbine, gas turbine control device, and gas turbine cooling method
A gas turbine includes a cooling air supply passage which supplies compressed air bled from a compressor to a disk cavity of a turbine, a cooler side valve in the cooling air supply passage, a temperature measurement unit which measures ambient temperature of the disk cavity, and a control device which adjusts an opening degree of the cooler side valve based on the ambient temperature measured by the temperature measurement unit. The control device includes a first valve opening degree setting value and a second valve opening degree setting value larger than the first valve opening degree setting value of the cooler side valve, the first valve opening degree setting value is used when the ambient temperature is lower than a predetermined switching temperature, and the second valve opening degree setting value is used when the ambient temperature is higher than the switching temperature. |
| US10267149B2 |
Combined electric and hydraulic motor
The invention is a combined motor that combines or integrates electric and hydraulic power producing technologies into a single compact motor by means of common or shared rotor and stator elements. The invention allows optimized power, torque, performance and energy usage in electric and electric-hybrid vehicles and offers reduced weight and lower production costs due the use of common or shared components. The combined motor's electric and hydraulic power producing elements are preferably coaxial and coplanar, permitting axial compactness and enabling efficient space utilization in the vehicle. In typical electric vehicle drive cycles disproportionately large energy losses occur during the launch acceleration and brake energy recovery modes of vehicle torque demand. The combined motor increases overall efficiency by substituting high-efficiency hydraulic torque for low-efficiency electric torque during these modes. These peak efficiency substitutions conserve battery energy during launch acceleration, maximizing the state of charge to extend driving range or runtime. |
| US10267145B2 |
Increasing borehole wall permeability to facilitate fluid sampling
A drill string tool assembly, in some embodiments, comprises a punching tool that induces fissures to increase permeability in a localized region of a borehole wall. The assembly also comprises a sensor that detects spatial features of the fissures and processing logic, coupled to the sensor and punching tool, that adapts operation of the punching tool based on the spatial features. The assembly further comprises a fluid sampling probe, coupled to the processing logic, that samples fluid from the localized region. |
| US10267140B2 |
Extendable/collapsible apparatus for fracture imaging and use of same
Fracture imaging modules having one or more 3-component sensors, are incorporated into a tool comprising two or more of the modules for detecting microseismic events in a formation from the same wellbore as is being stimulated. The modules are locked together in a compact mode to permit injection into the wellbore through a conventional lubricator which has a fixed length. Once injected into the wellbore, the modules are spaced from one another in an extended mode to form an axially spaced sensor array which increases the measurement window in the wellbore compared to sensor arrays conventionally injected through a fixed length lubricator. Following the operation, the modules are actuated to return to the compact mode for pulling out of the hole through the lubricator. |
| US10267136B2 |
Methods for analyzing and optimizing casing while drilling assemblies
A method for selecting a bottomhole assembly (BHA) includes inputting casing while drilling BHA parameters, wellbore parameters, and casing while drilling operating parameters, performing a dynamic simulation of a first BHA based on the casing while drilling BHA parameters, wellbore parameters, and casing while drilling operating parameters, and presenting a first set of performance data of the first BHA calculated from the dynamic simulation. |
| US10267135B2 |
Oil production well gas separator system using progressive perforations
A downhole system for oil production wells includes a tubular cover having a specific length to diameter configuration, the tubular cover including: a first section including 3 groups of 4 perforations equally spaced around the tubular cover; a second section including 3 groups of 4 perforations equally spaced around the tubular cover, wherein the second section is located below the first section, and a third section including 4 groups of 4 perforations equally spaced around the tubular cover, wherein the third section is located below the second section. The system further includes a suction rod having a specific length to diameter configuration based on the tubular cover length to diameter configuration, the suction rod located within the tubular cover, wherein the tubular cover and suction rod are configured for coupling to a suction of a positive displacement pumping device located within production tubing. |
| US10267133B2 |
Systems and methods for fracturing a subterranean formation
Systems and methods for fracturing an interval of a subterranean formation to produce fluid from a reservoir through a wellbore. A treating fluid flows into the wellbore to create fractures in the formation. A flow constraint material is selectively flowed into the wellbore simultaneously with the treating fluid. A parameter of the formation is monitored to determine whether a formation system strain is within a range. When the formation system strain is out of the range, the flow of the flow constraint material is adjusted. The flow constraint material partially constrains the treating fluid from entering a fracture so as to at least partially redistribute the treating fluid to an another fracture or fractures. |
| US10267131B2 |
Competition between transverse and axial hydraulic fractures in horizontal well
An apparatus and methods for forming a transverse fracture in a subterranean formation surrounding a wellbore including measuring a property along the length of the formation surrounding the wellbore, forming a stress profile of the formation, identifying a region of the formation to remove using the stress profile, removing the region with a device in the wellbore, and introducing a fluid into the wellbore, wherein a transverse fracture is more likely to form than if the region was not removed. Some embodiments benefit from computing the energy required to initiate and propagate a fracture from the region, optimizing the fluid introduction to minimize the energy required, and optimizing the geometry of the region. |
| US10267129B1 |
Homocentric squares-shaped well structure for marine hydrate reserve recovery utilizing geothermal heat and method thereof
The present invention relates to the field of marine hydrate reserve recovery technology, and discloses a homocentric squares-shaped well structure for marine hydrate reserve recovery utilizing geothermal heat and a method thereof. The present invention employs a homocentric squares-shaped well structure and utilizes heat-carrying fluid to transfer the energy in a geothermal reservoir to a hydrate reservoir to promote dissociation of natural gas hydrates. The homocentric squares-shaped well structure can realize cyclic utilization of the heat-carrying fluid while improving heat conduction efficiency, and has advantages including high recovery rate, low recovery cost, low energy loss, and high heat utilization efficiency, etc. |
| US10267121B2 |
Expandable slip system
An expandable slips system for use on a mandrel having a longitudinal axis, the mandrel adapted to be run into a borehole, the expandable slips system comprising: at least one slip which in use is adapted to be moved outwardly from the longitudinal axis of the mandrel to grip against and thereby engage a downhole formation, the at least one slip comprising at least one angled member; at least one cone member for engagement with the at least one slip, the cone member comprising at least one angled member for engagement with the at least one angled member of the slip; and at least one cone member expansion device for engagement with the at least one cone member, the cone member expansion device comprising at least one angled member for engagement with another at least one angled member of the cone member. |
| US10267120B1 |
Formation interface assembly (FIA)
Provided is an oil/gas service tool assembly. The oil/gas service tool assembly, in this example, may include a washpipe apparatus, the washpipe apparatus including an uphole washpipe portion, and a downhole washpipe portion having washpipe perforations therein, wherein the uphole washpipe portion and downhole washpipe portion are telescopingly coupled to one another. The oil/gas service tool assembly, in this example, includes a washpipe check valve coupled downhole of the downhole washpipe portion. |
| US10267115B2 |
Wellhead isolation tool and methods
An isolation tool and related methods for protecting a wellhead to which a casing string is operably coupled. In an exemplary embodiment, the isolation tool includes an anchor assembly adapted to be connected to the wellhead; a mandrel adapted to sealingly engage an interior portion of at least one of the wellhead and the casing string; and a lock assembly including a mandrel head connected to the mandrel and adapted to be displaced, relative to the anchor assembly and the wellhead, to sealingly engage the mandrel with the interior portion; a landing sleeve connected to the mandrel head and adapted to be displaced, relative to the mandrel head, the mandrel, the anchor assembly, and the wellhead, to engage the anchor assembly; and a connector adapted to secure the landing sleeve to the anchor assembly when the mandrel sealingly engages the interior portion and the landing sleeve engages the anchor assembly. |
| US10267114B2 |
Variable intensity and selective pressure activated jar
A jarring tool used to dislodge a stuck tubular string or bottom hole assembly within an underground wellbore. Tubular strings with which the tool may be used may be formed from drill pipe, jointed pipe, or coiled tubing. A funnel element is placed underground either within, or as part of, a tubular string. A deformable ball may be seated within the funnel element to block fluid from passing within the tubular string. Hydraulic pressure may build within the tubular string until it exceeds the pressure the ball can withstand. This will cause the ball to deform and be expelled through the funnel element. With no ball to block its flow, fluid will be rapidly released through the funnel element. The rapid release of fluid will cause a powerful jarring or jolting to the tubular string or bottom hole assembly. |
| US10267112B2 |
Debris bridge monitoring and removal for uphole milling system
A bottom hole assembly (BHA) contains a motor and a section mill for milling in an uphole direction after blade extension with circulating fluid through the BHA. Below the section mill is sensing equipment to detect location of a bridge formed by the cuttings or swarf from the section mill. A secondary mill oriented for cutting in a downhole direction is located at the bottom of the BHA for use in removal of the bridge. The sensing equipment delivers in real time data as to the density of the bridge so that decisions to interrupt the section milling and to lower the secondary mill to the bridge can be made in real time. Cement is pumped and displaced by a wiper plug to plug and abandon the hole. |
| US10267108B2 |
Plug launching system and method
A plug launching system includes a main body and a plug canister disposed within the main body. The plug canister includes a liner, a first rotational assembly disposed about the liner, wherein the first rotational assembly is configured to support a first plug disposed within the liner and selectively enable fluid flow from an annulus between the main body and the plug canister to a central passage of the liner, and a second rotational assembly disposed about the liner, wherein the second rotational assembly is configured to support a second plug disposed within the liner and selectively enable fluid flow from the annulus between the main body and the plug canister to the central passage of the liner, wherein the first and second rotational assemblies are configured to be actuated independently from one another. |
| US10267106B2 |
System, method and apparatus for treating mining byproducts
The present invention provides various systems, methods and apparatuses for recovering mining fluids, providing enhanced oil recovery and treating produced water. Plasma arc torches and electrolysis cells are used in various combinations. The plasma arc torch includes a cylindrical vessel, a first tangential inlet/outlet connected to or proximate to a first end, a second tangential inlet/outlet connected to or proximate to a second end, an electrode housing connected to the first end such that a first electrode is (a) aligned with a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical vessel, and (b) extends into the cylindrical vessel, and a hollow electrode nozzle is connected to the second end such that the hollow electrode nozzle is aligned with the longitudinal axis, the hollow electrode nozzle is partially disposed within the cylindrical vessel and outside the cylindrical vessel. |
| US10267102B2 |
Ball socket connector
A coiled tubing system includes a first section of coiled tubing, a second section of coiled tubing, a first insert assembly attached at an end of the first section of coiled tubing, a second insert assembly attached at an end of the second section of coiled tubing, and a connector disposed between the first and second sections of coiled tubing and removably coupled to the first and second insert assemblies. A portion of the connector is configured to pivot with respect to a longitudinal axis of the connector. |
| US10267101B2 |
Hardbanding method and apparatus
Various methods of hardbanding an apparatus are described. In one aspect of the invention an improved method of re-applying a hardbanding alloy to worn tool joints of a previously hardbanded drill pipe results in preservation of the metallurgical properties of the drill pipe and preservation of the internal polymer coating that lines the drill pipe. A method for applying hardbanding includes arc welding a consumable metal welding wire to a tool joint having a surface temperature that ranges from about 50° F. to about 170° F. and the arc welding power supply utilizes DC current. The method herein produces a hardbanded tool joint comprising a heat affected zone (HAZ) of a based metal having a Rockwell hardness of 40 Rc or less. |
| US10267100B2 |
Wireline standoff
An embodiment includes a wireline standoff that may ameliorate the effects of wireline cable differential sticking, wireline cable key seating, and high cable drags by reducing or eliminating contact of the wireline cable with the borehole wall during the logging operation. An embodiment includes a wireline standoff. The wireline standoff may comprise a pair of opposing assemblies. The opposing assemblies may each comprise a half shell, a cable insert configured to be disposed in the half shell, and external fins coupled to the half shell. The wireline standoff may further comprise one or more fasteners configured to couple the opposing assemblies to one another. |
| US10267098B2 |
Drill string constant velocity connection
A constant velocity connection for use in a drill string can include at least one ball-and-socket joint, and an insert rotationally received in an opening formed laterally through a ball of the joint. A method of constructing a constant velocity connection can include installing an insert in an opening formed in a ball of at least one ball-and-socket joint of the constant velocity connection, and allowing the insert to rotate in the opening about a lateral axis. A drill string can include a drilling motor, a drill bit, and a constant velocity connection connected between the drilling motor and the drill bit, the constant velocity connection including at least one ball-and-socket joint, and an insert rotationally received in an opening formed laterally through a ball of the joint. |
| US10267093B2 |
Drilling tool including multi-step depth of cut control
In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of configuring depth of cut controllers (DOCCs) of a drill bit comprises determining a primary depth of cut for a first radial swath. The first radial swath is associated with a first area of the bit face. The method further comprises configuring a primary DOCC for placement on the bit face within the first radial swath based on the primary depth of cut. In addition, the method comprises determining a back-up depth of cut for a second radial swath. The second radial swath is associated with a second area of the bit face that overlaps the first area of the bit face associated with the first radial swath. The method further comprises configuring a back-up DOCC for placement on the bit face within the second radial swath based on the back-up depth of cut. |
| US10267091B2 |
Drilling assembly utilizing tilted disintegrating device for drilling deviated wellbores
A drilling assembly for use in drilling a wellbore is disclosed that in one embodiment includes a steering unit that includes a tilt device in a disintegrating device and an electro-mechanical actuation device having a force application member that applies axial force on the disintegrating device to tilt the disintegrating device about the tilt device along a selected direction. In one embodiment, the actuation device translates a rotary motion into an axial movement of the force application member to apply the axial force on the disintegrating device to tilt the disintegrating device about the tilt device. |
| US10267086B2 |
Impact-resistant fenestration with offset dual pane insulated glass unit
Embodiments can provide an impact-resistant fenestration comprising an offset dual-pane insulated glass unit, comprising a small pane; a large pane, wherein the large pane has a greater surface area than the small pane; a layer of impact-resistant film attached to either the large pane or the small pane; wherein the small pane and the large pane are secured together using an insulated glass spacer to create an airspace between the small pane and large pane; and wherein the small pane is centrally secured on the large pane to create an overhang section; a tiered frame comprising an overhang mount and a tiered mount; and a glass stop; wherein the offset dual-pane insulated glass unit is mounted into the tiered frame such that the overhang section of the offset dual-pane insulated glass unit is secured to the overhang mount of the tiered frame using a layer of overhang adhesive, the small pane of the offset dual-pane insulated glass unit is secured to the standard mount of the tiered frame using a layer of standard adhesive, and the glass stop attaches to the overhang section and the tiered frame. |
| US10267079B2 |
System and method of blockage detection during an automatic adjustment of a movable vehicle part in a motor vehicle
A system and method are provided for detecting blockages during an automatic adjustment of a movable vehicle part in a motor vehicle equipped with an electric motor drive and an electronic control unit. The drive current as well as the movement speed of the drive are detected by the electronic control unit. When the movement speed increases above the normal level, the control unit suppresses the detection of a blockage event if a drive current increase required for the movement speed increase cannot be ascertained. |
| US10267075B2 |
Self-contained door hinge mechanism
A self-contained hinge mechanism is provided including a hinge movement control assembly. The hinge movement control assembly includes a number of stacked alternating friction rings and pressure disks providing a tunable pivoting resistance. As the hinge mechanism is actuated, an internal shaft and a set of friction rings rotationally-locked to the internal shaft and door moves relative to a set of pressure disks rotationally-locked to a fixed hinge mechanism housing and mount frame. A resistance to the pivoting of the hinge mechanism elements is provided by the clamping force of multiple force members moving the pressure disks along axial translation guides of the housing closer to one another and sandwiching the friction rings closer together. |
| US10267074B2 |
Eccentric hinge
An eccentric hinge includes a rail, a stop block arranged on a first end of the rail, a fixing rod parallel with the rail, a sliding block, a connecting rod and a transmission rod, where the sliding block is arranged on the rail; a first end of the connecting rod is connected with a second end of the rail; a second end of the connecting rod is connected with the fixing rod; a first end of the transmission rod is connected with the sliding bock; a second end of the transmission rod is connected with the connecting rod; when the eccentric hinge is in a closed state, a first centerline of the fixing rod and a second centerline of the rail are parallel lines in a same plane; and a distance between the parallel lines is greater than 0 mm and less than or equal to 10 mm. |
| US10267073B2 |
Washing machine device
A device for a washing machine having a base and an arm is disclosed. The arm is rotatable and pivotable relative to the base. With the base secured to a surface of a washing machine, the arm is pivoted to and locked in a position in which the arm holds the door of the washing machine open. |
| US10267066B2 |
Padlock
A padlock comprises a lock body and a hoop, in particular a flexible hoop, which has a first hoop end. In this respect, the lock body has a first hoop receiver in order to selectively receive the first hoop end therein. The lock body further comprises a blocking element which is displaceable between a blocked position in which it blocks the first hoop end against an exiting from the first hoop receiver and a release position in which it releases the first hoop end for an exiting from the first hoop receiver. The lock body furthermore comprises a drive element which is rotatable between a locked position in which it locks the blocking element in its blocked position and an unlatched position in which it permits a displacement of the blocking element into its release position. The drive element in turn comprises a rotary body and a latch element which is displaceably supported at the rotary body, with the latch element being preloaded toward the blocking element in the unlatched position in order to secure the blocking element against an automatic displacement into the release position. |
| US10267062B2 |
Electronic combination lock with different levels of access control
An electronic combination lock has a touch panel for combination code entry. If the combination code matches a preset code, a solenoid in energized to unlock the lock, allowing a user to pull up the shackle to open the lock. The user can be a master user, a regular user or a temporary user with each type of users having different level of access. For example, the master user can have unlimited number of times to use the master combination code, while a temporary user has only a limited number of times to use its temporary code as designated by the master user. In one embodiment, the lock can be opened with a key. In another embodiment, the user can enter the combination code from a detached electronic device. |
| US10267056B1 |
Tent with enhanced load-bearing capacity
A tent with an enhanced load-bearing capacity secures accessories and equipment. The tent includes an upper panel assembly having a front panel, a rear panel and a pair of side panels connecting the front and rear panels together, the front, rear and side panels forming a roof with an upper sloping surface, and a plurality of support legs coupled to the upper panel assembly, each support leg having an upper end coupled to the upper panel assembly and a lower end in contact with the ground surface, each support leg designed to slidably adjust to permit height adjustments of the roof above the ground surface. Each support leg and each panel in the upper panel assembly are designed to permit the attachment of one or more accessories or equipment thereon. |
| US10267055B2 |
Fastener-less single door multi-niche dual locking modular columbarium assembly
A fastener-less single door multi-niche dual locking modular columbarium assembly for containing cremated remains has a first single door multi-niche dual locking modular columberiums, a second single door multi-niche dual locking modular columberiums, and a plurality of spacers. The first single door multi-niche dual locking modular columbariums and additional single door multi-niche dual locking modular columbariums have a plurality of solid vertical walls, a plurality of aligned horizontal bases, a top plate, a bottom plate, a first side, a second side, a unitary door, a hinge, and a dual non-identical key locking mechanism. The fastener-less single door multi-niche dual locking modular columbarium assembly is configurable, expandable, and alignable using the plurality of modules. The single door multi-niche dual locking modular columbarium is configured to receive simultaneously multiple cremation containers into the dual niches via each unitary door, the fastener-less single door multi-niche dual locking modular columbarium assembly forming a small footprint modular columberium. |
| US10267053B2 |
Method and apparatus to minimize and control damage to a shear wall panel subject to a loading event
A building wall comprises a shear wall panel having a horizontal bottom edge, a bottom left corner, and a bottom right corner. The wall sits atop a horizontal base support located under the horizontal bottom edge of the shear wall panel. A tie-down couples the shear wall panel to the base support at a central point along the horizontal bottom edge of the shear wall panel such that the shear wall panel rocks under horizontal forces. Toe crushing elements are situated under the bottom corners of the shear wall panel. The bottom corners of the shear wall panel compress the toe crushing elements as the shear wall panel rocks about the tie-down under horizontal forces. |
| US10267051B2 |
Formwork tube
Formwork tube consisting of a first portion with a first conical end, and a second portion with a second conical end. The first portion and the second portion are coupled to each other, so that the tube can be completely extracted from the formwork after use. The first portion is extracted from one of the sides of the formwork while the second portion is extracted from the other side of the formwork. The formwork tube is suitable for housing therein a transverse tie rod. |
| US10267048B2 |
Floor panel
A floor panel has a rectangular and oblong shape, and includes a substrate and a top layer provided on the substrate and forming a decorative side of the floor panel. The top layer is composed of a print provided on a carrier sheet and a transparent thermoplastic layer situated above the print. The substrate has a thickness from 2 to 10 millimeter and forms at least half of the thickness of the floor panel. The substrate is a polyurethane-based substrate and the transparent thermoplastic layer is polyurethane-based. The floor panel has a length of more than 1.1 meters and has a plurality of reinforcing layers situated outside the center line of the substrate. A reinforcing layer may be provided in combination with the substrate and the top layer. |
| US10267044B2 |
Modular structure, module for such a modular structure and method for the production of such a modular structure
Modular structure (1) comprising: —a plurality of modules (2), each module (2) having a basic element (5) comprising a basic body (6) that is identical to the basic bodies (6) of the basic elements (5) of the other modules (2), and a facade element (20) chosen from a range of facade elements that each have different functionalities, the basic element (5) and the facade element (20) of each module (2) being designed to be mounted removably one on the other such that the facade element (20) covers at least a part of a front face (7) of the basic element (5), —a plurality of connectors (30) that are each designed to connect two modules (2) disposed adjacently, each connector (30) having a connector body (31) that is identical to the connector bodies (31) of the other connectors (30). |
| US10267039B2 |
Ceiling systems
A ceiling system in one embodiment includes an overhead support grid comprised of a plurality of intersecting grid support members and a ceiling tile mountable to the grid. Retaining clips support the ceiling tile from the grid which may be concealed from view. The retaining clips each include a cavity that receives a grid support member and a pair of resilient mounting elements configured to lockingly engage a support member. The mounting elements are laterally movable in response to inserting the support member into the cavity of the retaining clip. In one embodiment, the movable elements include locking tabs which create a snap-fit interlock with the grid support member for securing the ceiling tile to the grid. |
| US10267035B2 |
Modular system
The invention relates to a modular system (10) for structuring or shaping spaces, surfaces, or the like, comprising a component assembly, which comprises at least two modular elements (12) and at least one connecting element (14, 15, 16), said modular element being designed as a box-shaped body, whose base has at least three corners, each corner forming a connecting structure for connecting the modular element to a connecting element, said connecting structure being designed as an arc-shaped contour of the corner together with a void adjacent to the contour, said connecting element forming a pin for each of the connecting structures to be connected, said pin being designed congruent with the void and in such a manner that the pin can be interlockingly inserted into the void, said connecting element forming a positioning device for positioning the connecting element on the modular element, said positioning device comprising an axis, said axis being designed congruent with the contour and in such a manner that the axis can be arranged on the contour. |
| US10267031B2 |
Variable shape frame and variable shape three-dimensional structure
A variable shape frame having a polygonal shape includes: extendable arms forming each side of a polygonal frame; and corner members located at at least two of the corners of the polygon. Each of the extendable arms includes cross units each formed by two rigid members in an X-shape and pivotally coupled by a middle coupling shaft, and an end coupling portion pivotally coupling ends of adjacent ones of the cross units. The end coupling portion includes inner end coupling shafts and outer end coupling shafts. Adjacent two of the extendable arms are pivotally coupled by a common one of the inner end coupling shafts at every corner of the polygon. The corner member includes a first guide portion linearly guiding the inner end coupling shafts of the first extendable arm, and a second guide portion linearly guiding the inner end coupling shafts of the second extendable arm. |
| US10267030B1 |
Building construction method
A method of constructing a building using wall panel assemblies and roof panel assemblies that are made up of traditional framing materials, such as studs and interior walls, coated with insulating foam, except that the typical exterior sheathing is optional. Because the panel assembly is structurally sound and thermally insulated, the only reason to install an exterior sheath or additional roofing material is for aesthetic or practical purposes. A beneficial mode for readily applying insulating foam to provide for sealably joining roof panel assemblies to wall panel assemblies is disclosed. |
| US10267025B2 |
Wet area device
A sanitary device includes a wet area device includes a radio wave sensor, a control section and a controlled section. The radio wave sensor is configured to output a sensing signal concerning a water flow. The control section is configured to determine a state of the water flow based on phase information of the sensing signal and to output a control signal based on a determination result. The controlled section is configured to be controlled based on the control signal. |
| US10267021B2 |
Antifreezing apparatus
An anti-freezing apparatus comprises: a main block including an accommodation space and a water inlet at one side thereof to communicate with the accommodation space; a temperature sensitive member provided in the accommodation space and having one end for opening and closing the water inlet, the length of the temperature sensitive member variable due to expansion or contraction according to changes in temperature; an elastic member installed between the temperature sensitive member and the main block; a connecting rod connected to the other end of the temperature sensitive member; a locking part having opposite ends locked in a locking protrusion formed in the accommodation space and having a through-hole through which water passes; and an adjustment part coupled to the tip end of the connecting rod and rotatably screw-coupled to the locking part. The elastic member applies an elastic force to the temperature sensitive member to close the water inlet. |
| US10267019B2 |
Divided pump implement valve and system
A hydraulic system and method of controlling such on a machine is disclosed. The hydraulic system may comprise a primary hydraulic circuit that includes a first load sense controlled pump, a secondary hydraulic circuit that includes a second load sense controlled pump, a flow sharing valve, and a load sense arrangement. The load sense arrangement may include a main resolver configured to select a higher pressure signal between the primary and secondary hydraulic circuits, and a load sense valve having an open position at which pressure signal flow between the primary hydraulic circuit and the main resolver is allowed, and a closed position at which pressure signal flow between the primary hydraulic circuit and the main resolver is blocked. In an embodiment, when the load sense valve is in the closed position, the second load sense controlled pump may be controlled only by the secondary hydraulic circuit. |
| US10267018B2 |
Work vehicle load control system and method
Systems and methods are provided for adjusting a position of an implement of a work vehicle to control a load on the work vehicle. The implement is movable by a hydraulic circuit controlled by a Grade Control System. The method includes: determining, by a processor of the work vehicle, a slip condition associated with the work vehicle; determining, by the processor, an engine speed condition associated with the work vehicle; determining, by the processor, an offset to adjust the position of the implement based on at least one of the slip condition and the engine speed condition; and outputting the offset to the Grade Control System to adjust the position of the implement based on the offset to control the load on the work vehicle. |
| US10267015B2 |
Surface-forming equipment and motorized surface-forming equipment
Surface-formation equipment includes a blade including a beam; and an attachment structure having a proximal end connected to the blade and a distal end configured to be attached to a mobile unit. The surface-formation equipment may also include a blade including a beam; and at least one lateral wing pivot-connected to one end of the main section, the at least one lateral wing being able to be configured in an unfolded configuration and at least one folded position. The surface-formation equipment may include a cutting edge secured to the beam near the lower surface. |