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| US10336162B2 |
HVAC system with odor absorbent regeneration
An HVAC system is provided for a motor vehicle. That HVAC system includes a heater plenum, a fresh air inlet, an odor absorbent and a regeneration blower assembly that is connected between the heater plenum and the fresh air inlet. The HVAC system further includes a controller configured to regenerate the odor absorbent when an ignition system of the motor vehicle is switched off and a coolant temperature of the motor vehicle exceeds a predetermined coolant temperature required for odor absorbent regeneration. |
| US10336160B2 |
Vehicular cooling system
A vehicular cooling system is provided which includes a water tank, a cooling unit, a vent unit, a closed loop conduit assembly, and a water pump. The cooling unit includes an evaporative media in the shape of a closed loop structure having a center hole. The evaporative media is gas porous and preferably made of bactericidal wood shavings. The water pump pumps water from the water tank to saturate the evaporative media to provide water-saturated-air. The cooling unit includes an air pump for sucking air through the evaporative media into a vehicle's interior. Advantageously, the vehicular cooling system requires minimal modification of a vehicle structure. |
| US10336159B2 |
Refrigeration
A system comprising a cryogenic engine system and a refrigeration system, wherein the cryogenic engine system and the refrigeration system are mechanically and/or thermally coupled with each other. The refrigeration system is driven by the cryogenic engine system and the cryogenic engine system enhances cooling of the refrigeration system. |
| US10336157B2 |
Method and system for vehicle climate control
Methods and system for operating a vehicle climate control system comprising a heat pump and one or more coolant loops are described. In one example, the heat pump sends fluid to high and low temperature coolant loops based on operating mode. The systems and methods may be incorporated into electric, hybrid, and internal combustion engine propelled vehicles. |
| US10336150B1 |
Determining payload properties using actuator parameter data
Payload properties may be determined utilizing actuator parameter data. A mobile drive unit may transport a payload around a workspace in accordance with one or more safety. To comply with safety policies, a motion controller of the mobile drive unit may limit acceleration and deceleration to safe maximums for given payload characteristics such as payload mass and payload center of gravity. The motion controller may utilize actuators to cause various motions of the mobile drive unit, including motion across a surface, vertical movements of the payload and motion rotating the payload. To ameliorate worst case assumptions about payload characteristics, in accordance with at least one embodiment of the invention, a payload characterization module may obtain information about payload characteristics based on measurements of operational parameters of the actuators. Utilizing motor current data provides a relatively inexpensive mechanism for obtaining such information compared to special purpose sensors, enabling widespread adoption. |
| US10336147B2 |
Spring guide and suspension device
A spring guide includes: a mounting portion formed so as to be depressed, the rubber sheet being fitted to the mounting portion; and a plurality of lock pieces formed to stand at an outer periphery of the mounting portion. At least one of the plurality of the first lock pieces and the second lock piece is disposed at a position that restricts deformation of a circumferential end portion of the rubber sheet to an outside in a radial direction, in a state where the rubber sheet is fitted to the mounting portion. |
| US10336145B1 |
Multiple ball size/clevis hitch
A multiple hitch member assembly is described for connecting a trailer to a tow vehicle where a hitch member is rotatably with respect to a main hitch member that is connected to a hitch receiver on the tow vehicle, where the hitch member carries a plurality of hitch elements (e.g., ball hitches of varying sizes) and where with the main hitch member secured to the hitch receiver the hitch member is rotatable to position a desired hitch element to be connected to a trailer or the like such that the hitch member cannot be removed from the main hitch member. |
| US10336144B2 |
Tire electronics securing structures
An inflatable electronics band for use in a tire features an annular, flexible, inflatable, tubular body configured to contact an inner portion of a tire opposite the tread surface, such as an innerliner. The inflatable electronics band further features an inflation valve, disposed on the tubular body. The tubular body is configured to inflate to a pressure at least 10% greater than the recommended tire inflation pressure. |
| US10336143B2 |
Tyre deflection monitoring
An apparatus for monitoring deflection of a tire including a non-transitory memory, storing tire behavior information which relates tire deflection to tire load and tire pressure; and a controller in communication with the memory. The controller is configured to: receive load information which relates to a load on the tire; receive pressure information which relates to a pressure of the tire; and determine a deflection of the tire based on the received load information, the received pressure information, and the stored tire behavior information. |
| US10336139B2 |
Body ply shape for a tire
A tire is provided having a body ply that is displaced from the conventional equilibrium curve along the shoulder and upper side wall region of the tire in a manner that provides more uniform inflation growth along the crown region so as to reduce differences in rigidity between the center and shoulders of the tire, reduce load sensitivity, and/or decrease the propensity for cracking. A method for designing or constructing such a tire is also provided. |
| US10336136B2 |
Wheel carrier assembly with disk brake
A wheel carrier assembly (10) of a machine for agricultural use, such as a tractor, has a drive axle (2) and steering wheels. The wheel carrier assembly (10) includes a constant-velocity joint (100) for the connection, upstream, of the wheel carrier assembly (10) to the transmission. The assembly includes, downstream, a rotation shaft (101) for the rotation of the wheel assembly. A disc brake device (200) controls the braking of the wheel assembly. A gear reducer (300), connects to the wheel assembly and to the rotation shaft (101). The disc brake device (200) is operationally connected to the rotation shaft (101) so that the braking action is applied directly on the rotation shaft, upstream of the gear reducer (300). |
| US10336131B2 |
Canvas with support
The present disclosure is directed to a framed canvas. The framed canvas includes a frame including at least two sides, each of the at least two sides including a front surface and a rear surface, the rear surface of at least one of the at least two sides including a cavity, a canvas sheet contacting each of the at least two sides, and at least one support, the at least one support including a first end and a second end, the first end configured to extend into the cavity, the second end configured to contact a base. |
| US10336124B2 |
Security element comprising an interference pigment and a nanometric filler
A security element, preferably a security wire, for a secure document, that may include a masking structure for reducing the visibility of a surface of the element when the latter is located inside the document or on the surface of the document, the masking structure comprising a nanometric filler and a multilayer interference pigment. |
| US10336123B2 |
Multilayer security element
An easily manufacturable multilayer security element has an opaque functional layer that is arranged between two build-up layers of transmissive material. The opaque functional layer has at least one cutout. The layers are connected by lamination to form an areal body with planar surfaces. The cutout is filled up with transmissive material of the build-up layers. One build-up layer supports a feature carrier layer. A security feature, which is arranged at least partially below the cutout, is formed in the feature carrier layer and/or between the functional layer and the feature carrier layer. The cutout forms an inner window through which the security feature is recognizable. |
| US10336115B2 |
Transfer sheet
SOLVING MEANS The main challenge thereof is to provide a transfer sheet that allows printing with a high printing density, which never causes a blur and a crushing of an image.SOLUTION There is provided a transfer sheet comprising a substrate, as well as a releasing layer and a hot melt colored layer in this order on the substrate, the hot melt colored layer comprising, as a binder resin, a (meth)acrylic resin having a glass transition temperature of not less than 75° C., and a colorant. |
| US10336114B2 |
Method of flexographic printing over a textured surface
Disclosed herein is a method for flexographically printing over a textured surface. The method comprises selecting a substrate for application of a print pattern and advancing the substrate through a flexographic coil paint line in order to apply a primer to at least one side of the substrate. Next a finish coat is flexographically applied to the primed substrate and due to a chemical reaction of the applied finish coat along with supplemental heating, the finish coat forms a textured surface. Next, a print pattern is flexographically applied atop the textured surface. |
| US10336111B2 |
Opening/closing structure of opening/closing cover
An opening/closing structure of a cover includes a casing and a rotatable cover. A shaft part and a bearing part are formed to one and the other of the casing and the cover, respectively. One of the shaft part and the bearing part is formed with one of a protrusion and a relief part on a part of an end surface in an axial direction, and the other of the shaft part and the bearing part is formed with the other of the protrusion and the relief part on a facing surface facing the end surface. The protrusion circumvents contact with the surface having the relief part when the cover is closed. When the cover is opened, from the closed state, by a particular angle, the protrusion contacts the surface so as to be applied with a resistant force against rotation of the cover. |
| US10336108B2 |
Credential production device having a movable processing assembly
A credential production device includes a processing path, a transport mechanism, a processing assembly and at least one assembly guide. The transport mechanism is configured to feed individual substrates along the processing path. The processing assembly includes a supply spool support, a take-up spool support, a plurality of ribbon supports, and a print head or a transfer roller. Each assembly guide is configured to guide movement of the processing assembly substantially perpendicularly to the processing path between an operating position and a loading position relative to the processing path. |
| US10336103B2 |
Tape printing apparatus
A tape printing apparatus includes a cartridge mounting portion in which a tape cartridge is mounted, the tape cartridge including a first case that has a first hook, a length of which is different for a plurality of types of tape cartridge, and a second case that has a first hook receiving portion with which the first hook engages is mounted, and a first hook detection sensor in which the output changes depending on the length of the first hook in a state in which a tape cartridge is mounted in the cartridge mounting portion. |
| US10336102B2 |
Method of inkjet printing onto aligners
Provided herein are methods of obtaining good photocured-ink adhesion to low surface energy materials. The methods have greatly improved adhesion of photocured ink on low surface energy materials, including those that are subjected to high humidity or wet environments. The methods take into account the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the materials and the onset for the glass transition temperature, including ink applied to an exposed surface of the material at an elevated temperature that is close to the Tg of the material. The ink is allowed to sit briefly or soak, such as for more than 1 second, before the ink is cured. The ink may be photocured. Furthermore, the methods do not require solvents or surface treatment, including plasma or corona treatments, to obtain good ink adhesion. |
| US10336099B2 |
Fabric holder, heater, and image applier
A fabric holder includes a platen to hold a portion of a fabric to be printed, and a peripheral cover including a frame to sandwich the fabric between the platen and the frame. The fabric holder is detachably attachable to a heating device that heats the fabric, and the peripheral cover includes a heat insulator having a thermal conductivity lower than a thermal conductivity of the peripheral cover. |
| US10336098B2 |
Computer-readable storage medium, information processing apparatus, and method for image processing
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer is provided. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer running the image processing program, cause the computer to generate an image to be printed on a particular type of printing medium in a printing apparatus, control a display to display the generated image, set a printing mode to one of a regular printing mode and a trial printing mode, in the regular printing mode, generate print-image information to be used in the printing apparatus to print the image on the particular type of printing medium, and in the trial printing mode, generate print-image information to be used in the printing apparatus to print the image on another type of printing medium different from the particular type, and transmit the generated print-image information to the printing program. |
| US10336097B2 |
Printing apparatus and printing method
A printing apparatus uses a printing unit on which a right and a left printing heads are mutually arranged in opposite orientations in a predetermined direction to execute multi-pass printing. |
| US10336094B2 |
Inkjet printer
An inkjet printer includes a first ink head to eject a first ink, and a second ink head to eject a second ink. A generator generates dot groups including at least a first dot group and a second dot group including ink dots of the second ink. The dot groups include all the ink dots of the second ink. A first printing controller forms, on a recording medium, a first printing layer of the first ink and the first dot group. A second printing controller forms a second printing layer of the second dot group, above or below the first printing layer. |
| US10336093B2 |
Image formation device
An image formation device includes a plurality of nozzles arranged at an interval D [in], a processor which forms an image of a resolution R [dpi] on the basis of print data and a memory which stores computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, performs a process including performing ejection control, ejection control including relatively moving the nozzles in the sub scan direction a plurality of times from a print start position on the basis of a reference LF value, when performing printing with respect to each of pixels of adjacent pixels at a high density Ph [%], relatively moving the nozzles in the main scan direction less than a (j×R×D) number of times, and a total of the densities of the ink of each of the pixels of the adjacent pixels is caused to be the high density Ph [%]. |
| US10336091B2 |
Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge method
A liquid discharge head includes: a substrate, where a recording element is disposed; and a discharge orifice forming member, where a discharge orifice, facing the recording element, and configured to discharge the liquid, is formed. The liquid discharge head has a pressure chamber, a first liquid channel configured to supply liquid to the pressure chamber, and a second liquid channel configured to recover liquid from the pressure chamber. The substrate has a liquid supply channel connected to the first liquid channel to supply liquid to the first liquid channel, and a liquid recovery channel connected to the second liquid channel, to recover liquid from the second liquid channel. Pressure at an inlet portion of the liquid supply channel is higher than pressure at an outlet portion of the liquid recovery channel, and a flow velocity of liquid within the pressure chamber is 3 to 140 mm/s. |
| US10336086B2 |
Server device for ordering cartridge and program thereof
A server device comprising: a communication unit, a storage unit storing device identification information for identifying an image forming apparatus communicable with the server device via the communication unit. Recording material is contained in a cartridge attachable to and detachable from the image forming apparatus. The control unit is configured to perform: (a) receiving residual amount information about residual amount of the recording material; (b) determining whether or not the residual amount of the recording material is equal to or less than a first threshold; (c) determining whether or not the residual amount information is about the cartridge that has been delivered in accordance with an order instruction; and in response to affirmative determination made in (b) and affirmative determination made in (c), transmitting the order instruction to the external device via the communication unit. |
| US10336085B2 |
Inkjet printing apparatus
An inkjet printing apparatus includes a tank, a print head including a pressure chamber filled with ink supplied from the tank and an ejection opening which is communicated with the pressure chamber and which ejects ink filled in the pressure chamber a supply flow path for supplying ink from the tank to the print head, a collection flow path for collecting ink from the print head to the tank, a circulation unit configured to circulate ink so as to flow through the supply flow path, an inside of the pressure chamber, and the collection flow path, and a buffer chamber disposed inside the print head or in the collection flow path and which is volume variable. The tank is disposed higher than the print head in a vertical direction, and a one-way valve is provided between the buffer chamber and the tank in the collection flow path. |
| US10336083B2 |
Ink cartridge chip, ink cartridge and operation method for giving response to printing work
The application provides an ink cartridge chip, an ink cartridge and an operation method for giving response to printing work, and belongs to the technical field of printing. The ink cartridge chip comprises a storage module at least provided with a first ink quantity data block and a second ink quantity data block which share data with a printer and make the printer have one printing mode, wherein the first ink quantity data block is fixed in the printing mode, and the second ink quantity data block is variable in the printing mode. The ink cartridge comprises the ink cartridge chip. The application with a printing system is easy, convenient and fast, universality is high, printing at a high ink utilization rate is achieved in one printing mode, and the problems of resource waste, consumable loss, high cost and the like are solved. |
| US10336081B2 |
Method of maintaining a fluidic dispensing device
A method for maintaining a fluidic dispensing device includes providing a fluidic dispensing device having a fluid reservoir containing fluid, the fluid reservoir being defined in part by a base wall, and having a stir bar located in the fluid reservoir adjacent to the base wall, and having a fluid ejection chip having a fluid ejection direction; positioning the fluidic dispensing device at a predetermined orientation, wherein the fluid ejection direction is oriented in a range of upward vertical, plus or minus 90 degrees; and rotating the stir bar in a first rotational direction starting with a first rotational speed and increasing rotational velocity from the first rotational speed to a second rotational speed. |
| US10336076B2 |
Liquid ejecting apparatus
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit that can eject a first liquid and a second liquid to a medium, a first rotating body having a circumferential surface that can receive the first liquid ejected from the liquid ejecting unit, a first sliding contact member that can be slidably in contact with the circumferential surface of the first rotating body, a first collection unit that collects the first liquid that is collected from the circumferential surface by the first sliding contact member, a second rotating body having a circumferential surface that can receive the second liquid ejected from the liquid ejecting unit, a second sliding contact member that can be slidably in contact with the circumferential surface of the second rotating body, and a second collection unit that collects the second liquid that is collected from the circumferential surface by the second sliding contact member. |
| US10336074B1 |
Inkjet printhead with hierarchically aligned printhead units
A hierarchically aligned inkjet printhead includes a plurality of printhead units and a base holding the printhead units. Each printhead unit includes a plurality of drop ejector array devices, each of which includes at least one drop ejector array; a first butting edge having a first mechanical alignment feature; and a second butting edge having a second mechanical alignment feature. Each printhead unit includes an ink manifold that is fluidically connected to each of the plurality of drop ejector array devices in the printhead unit; and a mounting member to which the drop ejector array devices are affixed. A pair of opposing alignment edges of each printhead unit are substantially parallel to the butting edges of the drop ejector array devices. A first of the opposing alignment edges includes an outwardly-extending projection, and a second of the opposing alignment edges includes a niche that is substantially complementary to the projection. |
| US10336071B2 |
Multi-nozzle print head
A print head (1) for depositing a liquid on a substrate comprises a layer structure including a stop layer (5) made of a dielectric material, an electrically conducting device layer (6), and an insulator layer (7) made of a dielectric material. A nozzle (3) is formed in the layer structure. The nozzle has a nozzle opening (34) for ejecting the liquid. A ring trench (31) is formed around the nozzle. The nozzle opening and the ring trench are radially separated by an annular nozzle wall (32). An ejection channel (37) is formed adjacent to the ring trench along the direction of ejection. An extraction electrode (8) is arranged on the insulator layer (7) and surrounds the nozzle. |
| US10336069B2 |
Electrically-functional optical target
In one example, a printhead having an electrically-functional optical target. The printhead includes a substrate. An optical target having an optically-distinguishable shape and formed from at least one polysilicon strip is deposited on the substrate. An electrical connection to at least one of the polysilicon strips connect the strip into a circuit that is deposited on the substrate. |
| US10336068B2 |
Liquid jetting apparatus and method of coping with floating of medium
There are provided a liquid jetting apparatus in which the deterioration of production efficiency is suppressed in a case in which the floating of a medium occurs, and a method of coping with the floating of a medium. A medium is fed; liquid is jetted to the medium, which is transported by a medium transport unit including a medium support surface on which the medium is supported and transporting the fed medium in a medium transport direction, by a liquid jet head; drying processing is performed on the medium, to which the liquid jetted from the liquid jet head adheres, at a position on the downstream side of the liquid jet head in the medium transport direction; and in a case in which the floating of the medium is detected at a position on the upstream side of the liquid jet head in the medium transport direction, the medium continues to be fed, the liquid jet head is moved to a retreat position from a liquid jet position, and the intensity of drying processing is suppressed in comparison with that in a liquid-drying processing-performing state in which drying processing is performed on the medium. |
| US10336065B2 |
Inkjet recording apparatus capable of confirming with user whether ink chambers have been refilled with ink
An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a tank; a recording head; a display; an operation interface; a memory; and a controller. The controller performs: an inquiry process in which a displaying and receiving process is repeatedly performed for each of ink chambers of the tank to inquire whether ink has been injected into a target ink chamber; an operation determination process to determine whether all of operations received in the inquiry process are first operations; and, in response to the determination in the operation determination process that all of the operations received in the inquiry process are first operations, a confirmation process to prompt a user to input a third operation to confirm that ink has been injected into all of the ink chambers. The controller initializes, in response to receipt of the third operation in the confirmation process, count values for all of the ink chambers. |
| US10336061B2 |
Printing apparatus, liquid absorbing apparatus, and printing method
A printing apparatus includes a liquid absorption unit configured to absorb a liquid component from an ink image formed on a transfer member before transferring the ink image to a print medium. The liquid absorption unit includes a liquid absorbing member configured to absorb the liquid component, a support unit configured to support the liquid absorbing member to be movable cyclically, an applying unit arranged in a moving path of the liquid absorbing member and configured to apply a moisturizing liquid while contacting the liquid absorbing member, and a supply unit configured to supply the moisturizing liquid to the applying unit. The printing apparatus includes a control unit configured to control a supply amount of the moisturizing liquid to the applying unit supplied by the supply unit. |
| US10336060B2 |
Coating for aqueous inkjet transfer
An aqueous ink transfer process includes coating the surface of an image transfer member (ITM) with a coating composition to a first thickness, the coating composition including a hydrophilic composition and a surfactant, partially drying the coating composition to reduce its thickness and then applying aqueous ink onto the coating composition. The coating composition in the vicinity of the applied ink swells by absorbing water from the ink, and can further exhibit reduced adherence to the ITM. The ink is partially dried and then transferred onto a substrate. |
| US10336051B2 |
Three-dimensional object forming apparatus, method of controlling three-dimensional object forming apparatus, method of producing three-dimensional object using three-dimensional object forming apparatus, information processing apparatus capable of communicating with three-dimensional object forming apparatus, and three-dimensional object forming system
A three-dimensional object forming apparatus includes: a head unit; a curing unit that cures the liquid discharged from the head unit, and forms a dot; and a forming control unit that controls an operation of the head unit such that a three-dimensional object is formed as an aggregate of dots by representing a shape of the three-dimensional object to be formed as a voxel-set and forming a dot in a voxel of the voxel-set which is determined as a target in which the dot is formed by a determination unit. The determination unit determines a target voxel in which a dot is formed depending on a result of comparing a forming index value which is a value depending on a dot forming rate in a voxel of the voxel-set which is positioned on an inside of the three-dimensional object with a threshold of a dither mask. |
| US10336049B2 |
Method for forming a heat-reflective blank and container
A machine for continuously forming heat-reflective blanks is provided. The heat-reflective blanks each include a blank of sheet material and a thermal film patch coupled to the blank. The machine includes an intake station configured to align a first blank of sheet material and a second blank of sheet material for application of a first thermal film patch and a second thermal film patch, respectively. The intake station is further configured to maintain a spacing between the first blank and the second blank. The intake station includes adjustable hold-down bars for maintaining an alignment and the spacing of the first and second blanks. The machine also includes an applicator station configured to apply the first and second thermal film patches to the first and second blanks, respectively, to form a first heat-reflective blank and a second heat-reflective blank, and an ejection station configured to eject the heat-reflective blanks. |
| US10336041B2 |
Coextruded multilayer film with propylene-based polymer and ethylene-based polymer
The present disclosure provides a coextruded multilayer films. In one embodiment, the coextruded multilayer film includes a core component having from 15 to 1000 alternating layers of layer A and layer B. Layer A has a thickness from 30 nm to 1000 nni and layer A includes a propylene-based polymer having a crystallization temperature (Tpc). Layer B includes an ethylene-based polymer having a crystallization temperature (TEc), wherein Tpc |
| US10336040B2 |
Method for manufacturing a composite element for vacuum insulation elements
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a composite element comprising a single- or multi-part core and an envelope which are in a force fit combination with each other, at least comprising providing a single- or multi-part core of an evacuable organic material; at least partly enveloping the core with an envelope to obtain a composite element precursor; and treating the composite element precursor for a period leading to an at least partial softening of the evacuable organic material and of the envelope surface apposing the core. The present invention further relates to composite elements obtained or obtainable by a method of the present invention and also to the method of using a composite element of the present invention as a vacuum insulation panel or as a thermal insulation material. |
| US10336038B2 |
Fire resistant coatings for wood veneer panels
Methods for treating panels are described that include coating a wood substrate with a polymeric solution, curing the coated wood substrate by subjecting the coated wood to ultraviolet radiation and causing the polymeric solution to crosslink to produce a fire-resistant veneer. Also described is a composite material comprising a wood substrate layer, and a UV-cured flame retardant coating the wood substrate layer, wherein the composite material has a Flame Spread Index values within 0 to 25 and a Smoke Developed Index of 450 or lower. |
| US10336037B2 |
Galvanized steel sheet and method for producing the same
A galvanized steel sheet according to the present invention includes a steel sheet and a galvanizing layer which is formed on a surface of the steel sheet. The steel sheet includes as a chemical component, by mass %, C: more than 0.100% to 0.500%, Si: 0.0001% to less than 0.20%, Mn: more than 0.20% to 3.00%, Al: 3.0% to 10.0%, N: 0.0030% to 0.0100%, Ti: more than 0.100% to 1.000%, P: 0.00001% to 0.0200%, S: 0.00001% to 0.0100% and a remainder including Fe and impurities. The galvanizing layer includes as a chemical composition, by mass %, Fe: 0.01% to 15% and a remainder including Zn and impurities. The galvanized steel sheet has a specific gravity of 5.5 to less than 7.5. |
| US10336035B2 |
Polyurethane based rigid flooring laminate
The laminate according to the invention is a multiple layer structure and contains predominantly urethane-based polymeric materials in the cap and base layers thereof, with no significant amount of PVC. As such, under combustion conditions, the laminate releases substantially no harmful halogen-based bases, such as HCl or other toxic gases, and exhibits toxicity and smoke generation parameters well below acceptable industry standards. |
| US10336033B2 |
Release films
A multilayer release film has a first outer layer comprising a first base polymer and having a first adhesion affinity, and a second outer layer comprising a second base polymer and an adhesion adjusting additive. The second outer layer has a second adhesion affinity that is different from the first adhesion affinity of the first outer layer. The difference in adhesion affinity between the first and second outer layers of the release film enable the film to exhibit full release characteristics from a molding tool (e.g., a metallic or composite surface material), but tight or controlled release from the surface of the part being cured or molded. |
| US10336032B2 |
Method for producing a printing material and a directly printed decorative panel
Method for producing a printing substrate for direct printing onto a decorative panel, comprising the steps of providing a plate-shaped carrier; applying a resin layer onto the plate-shaped carrier; applying a paper or non-woven fabric layer onto the plate-shaped carrier; and calendering the resulting layered structure at a temperature between ≥40° C. and ≤250° C.; wherein after the calendering process a resin composition is applied, which comprises between ≥0.5 wt.-% and ≤85 wt.-% of a solid material having a mean grain diameter d50 between ≥0.1 μm and ≤120 μm. |
| US10336029B2 |
Method of fastening an object to a construction element
A method of fastening an edge structure to a construction element includes providing the construction element, being a planar structure with two cover regions and a middle region between the cover regions; providing the edge structure being continuously extended, the edge structure having contact surfaces with a thermoplastic material shaped to lie against the cover regions in an outer surface of the construction element, and, opposite the contact surfaces, a coupling-in surface for coupling energy into the edge structure; coupling energy into the edge structure and pressing the contact surfaces against the cover regions until at least a portion of the thermoplastic material is liquefied and pressed into the cover regions; and repeating or continuing the steps of coupling and pressing until the edge structure is attached to the building element at a plurality of discrete locations or over an extended region along an edge of the construction element. |
| US10336028B1 |
Waterproof shape-shifting surface
The first objective of this paper is to take an existing design for a shape-shifting surface (SSS) and make it waterproof, making it an effective barrier to fluid flow. The second objective is to minimize internal stresses in the device during operation, by optimizing the kinematic geometry of the SSS. The first objective was achieved by adding a waterproof membrane between the layers of the SSS, where the membrane had an origami fold pattern that enables the membrane to mimic the kinematics of the SSS. The second objective was achieved by creating a two objective optimization routine, which determined the kinematic geometry of the SSS which would minimize the internal stresses due to compression/tension of the flexure portion of the SSS during operation. The resulting SSS is easier to operate due to lower stresses, and has a membrane which prevents transverse fluid flow and mimics its motion. |
| US10336026B2 |
Use of vacuum to increase effective skid depth of pre-cured tread
A method for increasing effective skid depth on a retreaded tire is provided along with a retreaded tire assembly. A kit for increasing effective skid depth of a retreaded tire is also provided. |
| US10336024B2 |
Polyvinyl alcohol based polarizing film containing iodine and boric acid
There is provided a polarizing film that is excellent in optical characteristics, and is excellent in durability and water resistance. A polarizing film according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin film having a thickness of 10 μm or less. The polyvinyl alcohol-based resin film has an iodine concentration of 6.0 wt % or less; and the polarizing film has a cross-linking index defined by the below-indicated equation of from 100 to 200: (Cross-linking index)=(Iodine concentration in film)×(Boric acid concentration in film). |
| US10336023B2 |
Method for creating patterns
The invention relates in particular to a method for creating patterns in a layer (410) to be etched, starting from a stack comprising at least the layer (410) to be etched and a masking, layer (420) on top of the layer (410) to be etched, the masking layer (420) having at least one pattern (421), the method comprising at least: a) a step of modifying at least one zone (411) of the layer (410) to be etched via ion implantation (430) vertically in line with said at least one pattern (421); b) at least one sequence of steps comprising: b1) a step of enlarging (440) the at least one pattern (421) in a plane in which the layer (410) to be etched mainly extends; b2) a step of modifying at least one zone (411′, 411″) of the layer (410) to be etched via ion implantation (430) vertically in line with the at least one enlarged pattern (421), the implantation being carried out over a depth less than the implantation depth of the preceding, modification step; c) a step of removing (461, 462) the modified zones (411, 411′, 411″), the removal comprising a step of etching the modified zones (411, 411′, 411″) selectively with respect to the non-modified zones (412) of the layer (410) to be etched. |
| US10336014B2 |
Double diaphragm vacuum bagging assembly and method of use
A vacuum bagging diaphragm assembly used in forming a component from composite material includes a first sheet of a first material. Also included is a second sheet of a second material for positioning between a three dimensional forming tool and the first sheet. A modulus of elasticity of the second material is greater than a modulus of elasticity of the first material. A method includes a step of positioning a composite laminate material between a first sheet of a first material and a second sheet of a second material. The second material has a modulus of elasticity greater than a modulus of elasticity of the first material. The method further includes a step of positioning the second material of the second sheet in overlying relationship to a three dimensional forming tool with the second material positioned between the three dimensional forming tool and the composite material. |
| US10336012B2 |
Method for forming of a tubular semi-finished product from fibre-reinforced plastic material
Disclosed is a method for producing a profiled semi-finished plastic product from flexible web material, including: providing a plurality of webs of flexible material, —continuously and simultaneously feeding the webs of material to and along a plurality of shaping pieces arranged next to each other, folding each web of material around a respective shaping piece to form a body and an edge strip which projects transversely with respect to the body,—causing the edge strips of different webs of material to at least partly cover each other, impregnating the webs of flexible material provided or the assembly of webs of material with folded-over edge strips covering each other with a hardenable unit, causing the hardenable unit to harden to form the profiled semi-finished plastic product, wherein open spaces remain between two neighbouring bodies and edge strips. |
| US10336009B2 |
Three-dimensional modeling apparatus, three-dimensional modeling method and computer program
The color of object data that indicates the shape and the color of an object is reproduced faithfully when modeling an object. A model is formed by discharging droplets having the same color from droplet discharging units onto a medium, based on the same reference signal. Colorimetry is performed on the model, and a first-portion and a second-portion having a color with a higher density are specified. The liquid amount of droplets per unit area to be discharged from droplets discharging units that formed the first-portion and the liquid amount of droplets per unit area to be discharged from droplets discharging units that formed the second-portion are adjusted such that a difference in density of colors to be reproduced decreases. The object is modeled by repeating processing for discharging droplets from the droplet discharging units based on the object data. |
| US10336005B2 |
Manufacturing apparatus of display device
A manufacturing apparatus of a display device includes a first jig configured to hold a first member; a second jig located under the first jig and coupled to or separated from the first jig such that the first member is locatable between the first jig and the second jig; fixing parts located at both ends of the second jig and configured to hold a second member between the first member and the second jig, the second jig including a pad; and a stage located under the pad and provided with a groove formed therethrough and having an area smaller than an area of the pad when viewed in a plan view, wherein one portion of the pad, which faces the stage, is configured to be within the groove. |
| US10336004B2 |
Apparatus and method for stitching together leading end and trailing end of a tire component
An apparatus and a method for stitching are provided. The apparatus includes a separator for separating in a separation position the leading end and the trailing end from a working surface to form a separation space, a stitcher unit with a stitcher foot to support the leading end and the trailing end from the separation space and a stitcher head for stitching the leading end and the trailing end on the stitcher foot from outside the separation space, a stitcher drive for driving the stitcher unit, a separator drive for retracting the separator, and a control unit to control the separator drive and the stitcher drive simultaneously such that, during the stitching, the separator is retracted in the stitching direction ahead of the stitcher unit. |
| US10336002B2 |
Method and apparatus for high speed plastic strapping welding
An apparatus for producing an improved friction-fused welded joint is provided for use with overlapping thermoplastic strap portions. In an embodiment, the gripper is caused to swing back and force with a sufficiently large stroke and with a sufficiently fast stroke to cause sufficient reciprocation to rapidly heat the thermoplastic so that the two straps are welded together while reducing the depth of the area that is melted compared to traditional methods. Also, in an embodiment, a method is provided for stopping the relative motion of the two portions of straps with the portions of the plastic straps oriented in the same aligned relative positions at the end of the welding operation as at the beginning is disclosed. |
| US10336001B2 |
End effector for wound closure device
A suture device including an improved welded fixation device at its distal end, to provide improved holding strength during and after implantation of the suture in tissue. |
| US10335997B2 |
Method of stabilizing a photohardening inhibitor-permeable film in the manufacture of three-dimensional objects
A method and apparatus for making a three-dimensional object by solidifying a photohardenable material are shown and described. A photohardening inhibitor is admitted into a surface of a photohardenable material through a flexible film to create a “non-solidification zone” where little or no solidification occurs. The non-solidification zone prevents the exposed surface of the photohardenable material from solidifying in contact with the film. The inhibitor tends to cause the film to deform along the build axis, thereby creating a non-planar interface between the photohardenable material and the film, which distorts the resulting three-dimensional object. An apparatus is provided to stabilize the flexible film and eliminate or minimize such deformation. |
| US10335996B2 |
Using depth in three-dimensional object printing to form colors that change with viewing and illumination angles
A three-dimensionally printed object includes a plurality of different material regions that together define a surface region of the object. The plurality of different material regions includes a first material region and a second material region. The first material region has a first color, and the second material region has a second color that is different from the first color. The different material regions overlap from each other within the object by different amounts viewed from different directions so that different proportions of light from the plurality of different material regions are visible to an observer viewing the surface region of the three-dimensionally printed object from different view directions, different view angles, and with illumination lighting the surface region at different angles. A coloration of the surface region is altered based on the proportions of light from the plurality of different material regions visible to the observer. |
| US10335995B2 |
System and method for compensating for dissimilar shrinkage rates in different materials used to form a three-dimensional printed object during additive manufacturing
A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional object compensates for different rates of shrinkage during curing of dissimilar materials. The compensation is achieved by ejecting the different materials with reference to the shrinkage rates of the materials to enable the materials to be at approximately a same height following curing of the materials. |
| US10335993B2 |
Manufacturing method for forming a container from a preform with a handle notch
A method for forming a container with an integral handle includes heating a preform having an integral handle in a first oven, stretching the preform, closing a first mold having a first mold recess and a second mold having a second mold recess around the preform, and blowing air into the preform. A handle pocket wedge block is inserted into a handle pocket of the integral handle of the preform within the first mold and the second mold. |
| US10335988B2 |
Injection mold with a transfer loader and associated injection method
An injection mold including at least one first station for the injection of a first portion of the part, at least one second station for the injection of a second portion of the part, a first loader including at least one first molding cavity, the first loader being movable at least in rotation between the first injection station and a first transfer and/or assembly area, a second loader including at least one first molding cavity, the second loader being movable at least in rotation between the second injection station and a second transfer and/or assembly area, wherein the injection mold includes at least one transfer loader, movable at least in rotation between the first transfer and/or assembly area and the second transfer and/or assembly area. |
| US10335986B2 |
Reflective display device, injection mold, and method for manufacturing reflective display device
A reflective display device includes a substrate that has a side surface and that is formed by injection-molding, and a vapor-deposited film formed on a first surface of the substrate. Two corner portions on one side of the substrate each have a curved portion, and two corner portions on another side opposite to the one side of the substrate each have a bent edge portion. The substrate includes a level difference portion where a second surface side portion is formed recessed with respect to a first surface side portion with a parting line as a boundary, where the parting line is positioned in such a proportion that the first surface side portion becomes greater than the second surface side portion on an opposite side of the first surface side portion with respect to a width dimension of the side surface of the substrate. |
| US10335985B2 |
Molded pocket in transaction card construction
Methods and apparatuses are provided for manufacturing a transaction card. The disclosed methods and apparatuses may be used to form a transaction card frame within a mold. The transaction card frame may include one or more recessed portions formed within a first surface of the transaction card frame. The one or more recessed portions may be configured for affixing one or more electronic components. |
| US10335982B2 |
Bead immobilisation method and bead arrays made thereby
A bead immobilization method including receiving at least one bead in at least one well in a casting surface, and casting a casting material over the casting surface to form a reverse casting in which the at least one bead is cast onto at least one post upstanding from a surface of the reverse casting. |
| US10335981B2 |
Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
A display apparatus includes a first substrate including a display region and a peripheral region, where the peripheral region surrounds the display region, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a resin layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, where the resin layer covers a surface of the second substrate, a first member disposed at a bottom surface of the second substrate corresponding to the peripheral region of the first substrate, where the first member covers a portion of the resin layer, and a second member which surrounds the first substrate, the second substrate, the first member and the resin layer, where the second member is disposed at opposing side portions of the second substrate, the second member is spaced apart from the first substrate, and the second member surrounds opposing side portions of the resin layer. |
| US10335980B2 |
Dust suction drill and dust suction unit
A dust suction drill includes: a drill tip with cutting edge portions; a shaft joined to the drill tip and configured to rotate about an axis; and a dust suction passage that is generated when the cutting edge portions rotate, the dust suction passage being formed inside the shaft. The cutting edge portions are provided on a distal end surface of the drill tip and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction. Cutting edges, each of which is formed by a joint ridge between a rake face and a relief face of a corresponding one of the cutting edge portions, are arranged radially, and at a center of the drill tip, form a chisel point, which is a pointed end. A dust suction hole, which communicates with the dust suction passage, is formed in the rake face or the relief face closely to the chisel point. |
| US10335977B2 |
Method for treating a wood board
The invention relates to a method for treating a wood board. According to the invention, a composition containing a hydrophobic agent is provided onto the surface of the wood board and coating agent is provided over it to form a coating layer. |
| US10335976B2 |
Treated porous material
A treated cellulosic material comprising a cellulosic material having a porous structure defining a plurality of pores, at least a portion of the pores containing a treating agent comprising a cured low viscosity epoxy resin. The present disclosure further describes a method for preparing a treated cellulosic material comprising (a) providing a cellulosic material; and (b) a first treatment protocol comprising impregnating the cellulosic material with a liquid epoxy resin. |
| US10335974B2 |
Table saw with scale system
A table saw includes a worktable, a left extension frame and a right extension frame respectively slidably mounted at left and right sides of the worktable, a scale unit including a first scale, a second scale and a third scale respectively mounted at the worktable, the left extension frame and the right extension frame, and an indicator unit including a first indicator, a second indicator and a third indicator respectively disposed to aim at the first, second and third scales. Thus, when operating the table saw to cut a workpiece, the user can selectively pull out the left or right extension frame and use the corresponding scale and indicator for quickly judging the correctness of the length to be cut. |
| US10335972B2 |
Table Saws
Table saws with safety systems are disclosed. The safety systems detect and react to dangerous conditions, such as contact between the blade and a person. The table saws may include a switch, a first light that illuminates to indicate the safety system is operable, and a second light that illuminates to indicate that the safety system is inoperable. The switch may not power the saw when switched on if the second light is illuminated. |
| US10335970B2 |
Razor with detachable replacement blade
A razor blade cartridge is detachably attached to a holder. A socket portion is provided to the holder. A coupler projection, which detachably attaches to the socket portion through the insertion/ejection opening of the socket portion, is provided to the blade cartridge. A guide portion, which extends towards the opposite side from the skin contacting surface of the blade cartridge and is supported by the socket portion of the holder, is provided to the coupler projection of the blade cartridge. The end of the guide portion is provided with a manipulation portion, which is manipulated at the manipulation opening of the socket portion to release the guide portion from the socket portion and the manipulation of which removes the blade cartridge from the insertion/ejection opening of the socket portion. Thus, the blade cartridge can be easily removed by a gentle application of pressure on the manipulation portion. |
| US10335969B2 |
Shaving cartridge with enhanced rinsing
A razor cartridge having a body with an elongate opening, a plurality of blades arranged longitudinally within the elongate opening, and first and second trapezoidal side chutes each having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, where a total area of the inlets exceeds a total area of the elongate opening of the cartridge body. |
| US10335963B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
A position and an orientation of an object are measured with high accuracy. An approximate position-orientation of a target object is obtained, positional information of the target object is obtained by measuring the target object using a noncontact sensor, positional information of contact positions touched by a contact sensor is obtained by bringing the contact sensor into contact with the target object, and a position-orientation of the target object is obtained by associating shape information of the target object with the positional information of the target object and the positional information of the contact positions in accordance with the approximate position-orientation. |
| US10335960B2 |
Key for actuating a plurality of humanoid robot mechanisms
An equipment item comprising a key and a humanoid-type robot comprising several mechanisms that can be actuated from outside the robot, wherein each of the mechanisms comprises a connection interface into which the key can be inserted, the connection interface of each of the mechanisms being configured such that the insertion of the key actuates the mechanism. The key comprises two slender fingers inserted simultaneously into two longitudinal orifices. |
| US10335958B2 |
Robotic end effector quick change mechanism with switchable magnetic coupler
A robotic end effector quick change coupling apparatus employs a drive motor assembly having a center drive interface. A coupling component having a magnetic element extends from the drive motor assembly concentric with the center drive interface. An end effector tool has a drive connection adapted to removably receive the center drive interface. A mating coupling component having a mating magnetic element extends from the end effector tool concentric with the drive connection. The magnetic element and mating magnetic element are separably engaged by mutual magnetic attraction to couple the end effector to the drive motor assembly. |
| US10335951B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, robot control apparatus, and robot system
An information processing apparatus includes, an acquisition unit that acquires surface position information on an object, a decision unit that decides a measurement position for measuring the object based on the surface position information acquired by the acquisition unit, a measurement unit that measures contact position information on contact with the object at the measurement position decided by the decision unit, a creation unit that creates map information indicative of spatial position information on the object based on the contact position information measured by the measurement unit, and a recognition unit that recognizes the position and orientation of the object based on the map information created by the creation unit. |
| US10335949B2 |
System for operating mobile robot based on complex map information and operating method thereof
Disclosed are a system for operating a mobile robot based on cleaning area information and a method thereof. A mobile robot based on cleaning area information according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a memory which stores a plurality of cleaning area information in which at least a part of a cleaning available area is changed; and a controller which controls to select one cleaning area information among the plurality of stored cleaning area information, recognize a position on a cleaning area map which configures the selected cleaning area information and perform cleaning on the cleaning available area from the recognized position. |
| US10335948B2 |
Abnormality determining device and abnormality determining method
An abnormality determining device includes: a current value detecting unit configured to detect a current value which is a value of a drive current of a motor; a variance ratio calculating unit configured to group time-series current values detected in time series by the current value detecting unit at a predetermined time interval, to calculate a variance value of the current values of each group, and to calculate a variance ratio of each group by dividing the variance value of the current values of the corresponding group by a variance value of a reference current value of the motor when a reduction gear is normal; and a determination unit configured to determine that the reduction gear is abnormal when the variance ratios calculated by the variance ratio calculating unit for all the groups are equal to or greater than a threshold value. |
| US10335947B1 |
Robotic system with piece-loss management mechanism
A method for operating a robotic system that includes calculating a base motion plan, wherein the base motion plan includes a sequence of commands or settings, or a combination thereof, that operates a robotic arm and a gripper to transfer a target object from a start location to a task location; receiving a contact measure while executing the base motion plan, wherein the contact measure represents an amount of grip of the gripper on the target object; and generating one or more actuator commands/settings that deviate from the base motion plan when the contact measure fails to satisfy a threshold, wherein the one or more actuator commands/settings thereof are configured to operate the robotic arm, the gripper, or a combination thereof to execute one or more response actions not included in the base motion plan. |
| US10335946B2 |
Compositional impedance programming for robots
Described herein are concepts, techniques, and structures for robot control using compositional impedance programming. In one embodiment, a robot control system comprises a plurality of impedance modules, each of the impedance modules defining one or more mechanical impedance parameters and an impedance controller. |
| US10335942B2 |
Simultaneous pivoting and translation of robot arm of storage library
Utilities (e.g., systems, apparatuses, methods) that reduce robotic assembly contention in media element storage libraries by translating (e.g., displacing) a robot arm of a first robotic assembly mounted over a first storage array of a storage library away from a central reference plane as the robot arm is being pivoted into a first position adjacent the first storage array to allow a robot arm of a second robotic assembly to slide or otherwise move past the robot arm of the first robotic assembly, even when the robot arms of the first and second robot arms are disposed at the same height (e.g., along a z-axis) within the storage library. For instance, a pivot member of the robot arm may be mounted on a carriage that is configured to translate between the first and second storage arrays in response to the pivot member being pivoted about a pivot axis. |
| US10335938B2 |
Cushion device for cylinder of pneumatic tool
A cushion device is used for a cylinder of a pneumatic tool, and the pneumatic tool contains: a body, a cylinder, a valve unit, a piston member, a cushion washer, and at least one spring. The body includes a grip and a fitting sleeve having a chamber, a closing element, and an opening. The cylinder is fitted in the chamber and includes a room and an abutting portion. The valve unit is mounted between the room and the abutting portion. The piston member is accommodated in the room and slides along a movement axis. The cushion washer and the at least one spring are mounted in the chamber, and the cushion washer abuts against the closing element and the pressing face. The cushion washer includes at least one open segment which has at least one air groove each having a mouth parallel to the movement axis. |
| US10335937B2 |
Fastener-driving tool including a fastening result detector
A fastener driving tool including a housing, a cylinder enclosed by the housing, at least one sensor associated with the cylinder and a piston configured to reciprocate within the cylinder and having a driver blade depending therefrom. The tool includes at least one signal generator associated with the piston, where movement of the piston relative to the at least one sensor generates a signal. A controller is configured to receive the signal and indicate a fastening result based on the signal. |
| US10335933B2 |
Adjustable socket wrench
An adjustable wrench provides a drive head that rotates about two axis with respect to a drive gear. The wrench includes a wrench casing having an orbital cavity. A drive head, drive gear, pawl gear and an axis pin bushing are positioned in the orbital cavity. A drive head axis pin connects the drive head to the axis pin bushing such that the drive head can rotate about a first axis with respect to the drive gear. A drive gear axis pin connects the drive gear to the axis pin bushing such that the drive head can rotate about at second axis with respect to the drive gear. The pawl gear and drive gear rotate the drive head about a third axis with respect to the wrench casing. |
| US10335926B2 |
Vise
A vise includes a base plate that receives a fixed jaw and a pusher jaw. The fixed jaw receiving portion of the base plate includes particular stations for receiving the fixed jaw, the particular stations defined by at least a latitudinal slot at each particular station, each latitudinal slot configured for receiving a latitudinal tab extending from the bottom of the fixed jaw. A longitudinal slot traversing a length of the fixed jaw receiving portion of the base plate may receive a longitudinal tab extending from the bottom of the fixed jaw. Double-threaded lock bolts secure the fixed jaw to the base plate once the tabs are engaged with the slots of the base plate. The pusher jaw portion of the base plate includes a worm shaft, a threaded portion of the worm shaft engaging a worm shaft mating portion milled from the bottom of the pusher jaw. The pusher jaw portion of the base plate also includes a slide bar cavity arrangement into which slide bars at the bottom of the pusher jaw slide previous to engagement of the worm shaft with the worm shaft mating portion of the pusher jaw. |
| US10335924B2 |
Method and blasting means for producing a satinized finish on an aluminium substrate
A method and a blasting material for producing a satinized surface on an aluminum substrate is provided. There is proposed a method for producing a satinized surface on an aluminum substrate, including the steps of: providing an aluminum substrate and treating by blasting with a blasting material the surface regions of the aluminum substrate provided that are to be satinized; wherein there is used as the blasting material a mixture of angular and spherical particles having a grain diameter D90 of ≤0.3 mm. |
| US10335917B2 |
Pad for supporting abrasive disc
A pad for supporting an abrasive disc by being fixed with the abrasive disc to a shaft of a grinder, the pad including a supporting surface opposing the abrasive disc. In a radial direction, an outer edge of the supporting surface is located inward of an outer edge of the abrasive disc. The supporting surface includes a taper portion inclined away from the abrasive disc as it approaches the outer edge of the supporting surface. The abrasive disc is not fixed to the taper portion. |
| US10335914B2 |
Method for determining a position of a work piece in a machine tool
The invention relates to a method for determining a position of a work piece and of a tool in a machine tool, in which a work piece is clamped at the machine tool, in which the tool is subsequently inserted into a rotatable spindle shaft by means of a tool holder and the spindle shaft is set into rotation, in which an electrical voltage is applied between the work piece and the tool, in which the tool and the work piece are displaced with respect to one another, and in which a variation in the applied voltage is determined in the event of a contact between the tool and the work piece, and the respective position of the work piece and/or of the tool is determined and recorded in a computing program for control/regulation of the machining of the work piece. |
| US10335904B2 |
Device for manufacturing an assembled camshaft
A clamping device for manufacturing an assembled camshaft for valve-controlled internal combustion engines, in which at least one cam disc with a base circle region and cam region is machined on the running surface and has a cam-disc recess, includes shrinking the cam disc onto a corresponding shaft designed with a defined dimensional overlap by cooling the shaft and heating the cam disc. Before being shrunk onto the shaft, the at least one cam disc is clamped by the clamping device such that a tension force acts on the recess wall region, the tension force corresponding to a predetermined extent to the state of stresses and/or deformation state of the recess wall region after the operation of shrinking the cam disc onto the corresponding shaft. The running-surface machining of the at least one cam disc occurs when the cam disc is clamped by the clamping device. |
| US10335902B2 |
Method and system for arresting crack propagation
A method of arresting propagation of an incident crack through a transparent material includes focusing pulsed laser beams into a laser beam focal line directed into the transparent material a series of locations corresponding to a predetermined pattern that is designed to arrest an incident crack that propagates through the transparent material, and generating, with the laser beam focal line (1460), an induced absorption within the transparent material in order to produce a defect (1440) in the transparent material. |
| US10335900B2 |
Protective shield for liquid guided laser cutting tools
This disclosure provides a shield for use in a liquid guided laser system and related method of use. The shield comprises a rigid body with a target facing surface. The rigid body defines a through hole with a diameter that accommodates a liquid guided laser path. The rigid body has a thickness that defines a length of the liquid guided laser path through the rigid body. The thickness of the rigid body is at least twice the diameter of the through hole. The rigid body is positioned in the liquid guided laser path of the liquid guided laser system between a discharge nozzle of the liquid guided laser system and a target. |
| US10335898B2 |
Laser processing apparatus capable of retracting processing nozzle upon power failure
A laser processing apparatus including a processing nozzle for irradiating a workpiece with laser beam, a driving mechanism for relatively moving the processing nozzle and the workpiece, and a gap sensor for detecting a gap between the processing nozzle and the workpiece. The apparatus includes a gap control section referring to a measured value detected by the gap sensor and calculating a manipulating variable used for controlling the driving mechanism so as to maintain the gap during execution of laser processing at a first dimension, a power monitoring section monitoring electric power from a power supply and sending an abnormality detection signal to the gap control section when a power abnormality occurs, and a control action switching section switching a control action of the gap control section so as to increase the gap from the first dimension when the abnormality detection signal is sent to the gap control section. |
| US10335897B2 |
Laser ablation of accelerometer proof mass
A system for producing a proof-mass assembly includes a translation stage to receive a flapper hingedly supported by a bifilar flexure that extends radially inwardly from a support ring, wherein the bifilar flexure comprises a pair of flexure arms spaced apart by an opening or window; and a femtosecond laser optically coupled to the translation stage with focusing optics, the femtosecond laser applying a laser beam on the flexure arms over a plurality of passes to gradually thin the bifilar flexure regions, the laser periodically reducing a laser output to minimize damage from laser scanning and maximize bifilar flexure strength until the bifilar flexure reaches a predetermined thickness. |
| US10335896B2 |
Boresighting a laser to an imaging sensor systems and methods
Techniques are disclosed for an improved boresighting apparatus and related method for boresighting a light source to an imaging sensor, and for an improved material to be used in a target object in such a boresighting apparatus. For example, an apparatus for use in boresighting may include a catadioptric element and a target object, where the catadioptric element is configured to focus a laser beam from the light source and also to collimate light emitted from the target object at a different wavelength than the laser beam to be detected by the imaging sensor for indicating the location of the focused laser beam. The target object may, for example, comprises a fluorescent optical material doped with one or more optically active ions to absorb light having the wavelength of the laser beam and emit light in one or more wavebands detectable by the imaging sensors. |
| US10335886B1 |
Vibrating welding system
A vibrating welding torch attachment utilizes a battery-operated vibrating mechanism secured within a cylindrical housing. The attachment is configured to be detachably secured to the welding end of a traditional TIG-style welding torch. The battery pack within the attachment is rechargeable. |
| US10335883B2 |
Gravity-based weld travel speed sensing system and method
A welding system includes an orientation sensing system associated with a welding torch and is configured to sense a welding torch orientation relative to a direction of gravity. The welding system also includes a processing system communicatively couple to the orientation sensing system and configured to determine an angular position of the welding torch relative to a pipe based at least in part on the sense welding torch orientation. |
| US10335881B2 |
Coating concept
The present invention relates to composition comprising a blend of at least one boron source and at least one silicon source, and the composition further comprises particles selected from particles having wear resistance properties, particles having surface enhancing properties, particles having catalytic properties or combinations thereof, wherein the blend comprises boron and silicon in a weight ratio boron to silicon within a range from about 3:100 wt:wt to about 100:3 wt:wt, wherein silicon and boron are present in the blend in at least 25 wt %, and wherein the at least one boron source and the at least one silicon source are oxygen free except for inevitable amounts of contaminating oxygen, and wherein the blend is a mechanical blend of particles in and the particles have an average particle size less than 250 μm. The present invention relates further to a method for providing a coated product and a coated product obtained by the method. |
| US10335880B2 |
Racks for high-temperature metal processing
In various embodiments, apparatuses for receiving and supporting one or more components during processing thereof at process temperatures greater than approximately 1000° C. feature refractory metal shelves separated by refractory metal support posts. |
| US10335879B2 |
Method and apparatus for forming a vehicle window assembly using induction soldering
Induction soldering via an assembly fixture is utilized to bond one or more items of hardware to a vehicle window to form a vehicle window assembly. A method of operating the assembly fixture to bond the one or more items of hardware to a vehicle window by induction soldering is also an aspect of the invention. |
| US10335878B2 |
Ni—Ti—Cr near ternary eutectic alloy for gas turbine component repair
A ternary near eutectic alloy of Ni, Ti, Cr is described having a relatively low melting temperature of approximately 1230 deg. C. or less, suitable for fusing cracks in turbine blades and vanes without substantial risk of cracking during the repair process. Such an alloy is suitable for low temperature joining or repair of turbine blades since it contains the same components as typical turbine blades and vanes without foreign elements to lower the melting point of the repaired material or adversely affect the mechanical properties of the repaired component. Exclusion of boron eliminates the formation of brittle boron compounds, detrimental to the properties of the repair or seam. |
| US10335875B2 |
Methods and devices for dicing components from a sheet of copper alloy
A saw blade for dicing a sheet of copper alloy to form individual resistors is disclosed, wherein the sheet of copper alloy has a thickness of less than 0.3 mm. The saw blade includes a ring having a first side, a second side, and a circumferential surface, wherein the thickness of the ring between the first side and the second side is less than 0.6 mm. |
| US10335872B2 |
Cutting insert having arc-shaped cutting edges and inclined seating surfaces, tool body and cutting tool
A cutting insert has first and second end surfaces, a peripheral side surface, a reference central axis A perpendicular to and passing through the two surfaces, and a cutting edge having at least one circular-arc-shaped cutting edge. A contact surface portion is formed in the second end surface. The arc-shaped cutting edge is part of virtual circle having a center E which is spaced apart from the central axis A. A longitudinal plane B includes the central axis A and the center E; a median plane C perpendicular to the central axis A passes midway between the two end surfaces; and a virtual plane D perpendicular to both the longitudinal plane B and the median plane C, intersects the circular-arc-shaped cutting edge and traverses the contact surface portion. In a cross-section along the virtual plane D, the contact surface portion is inclined relative to the median plane C. |
| US10335871B2 |
Replaceable face-milling head with integrally formed threaded shank-connector
A replaceable face-milling head configured for rotating about a central rotation axis AR. The head includes a cutting portion and an integrally formed threaded shank-connector portion, the latter of which being configured for connecting to a shank. A length-diameter ratio LDR, defined as a cutting portion length LC divided by a cutting portion diameter DE, fulfills the condition: LDR≤1.00. |
| US10335869B2 |
Device for machining a planar workpiece and corresponding method
The invention relates to a device for machining a flat workpiece, which comprises: a machine stand which comprises a support surface for a flat workpiece, wherein the support surface is formed by at least one counterholder, on the front face of which the workpiece can be placed, a hold-down unit, by means of which the workpiece is pressed against the support surface, and a processing head which can be moved relative to the support surface for the machining of the workpiece, wherein the at least one counterholder comprises a vibration damper which acts in a direction perpendicular to the support surface. |
| US10335868B2 |
Pneumatic milling wheel cap section burr device
Disclosed is a pneumatic milling wheel cap section burr device, which includes a lifting cylinder, guide posts, guide sleeves, a lifting table, adjusting guide rails, an adjusting slide block, an adjusting cylinder, a connecting rod, a turnover platform, feeding guide rails, a feeding platform, a feeding cylinder, an air compressor and a pneumatic milling cutter. A servo motor drives a rotating table to turn over 90 degrees, and the clamped wheel can turn over 90 degrees, so that the wheel is upright; the lifting cylinder drives the lifting table to move up and down to adjust the height of the pneumatic milling cutter; and the adjusting cylinder adjusts the angle of the turnover platform to adjust the contact angle of the pneumatic milling cutter and the cap section edge. |
| US10335866B2 |
Method for producing a rotary tool and rotary tool
A method is specified for producing a rotary tool (2) having a base body (4), which extends in a longitudinal direction (L) and in which at least one flute (6) is ground in by grinding in a first partial flute (12A) with a first helix angle (W1) in a first grinding step and by subsequently grinding in a second partial flute (12B) with a second helix angle (W2) in a second grinding step, the second helix angle differing from the first helix angle (W1) so that a flute (6) that expands in the longitudinal direction (L) is formed, wherein the two partial flutes (12A, 12B) are ground in using the same grinding wheel (11). In this way, a particularly quick production is realized. Furthermore, a corresponding rotary tool (2) is specified. |
| US10335865B2 |
Methods for processing a confined area of a workpiece
A method for processing a drilling location in a confined area of a workpiece along a drilling axis A using an end effector is disclosed. The method comprises positioning the end effector relative to the drilling location of the workpiece, clamping the workpiece between a clamp of the end effector and a pressure foot of the end effector, wherein the pressure foot supports the clamp movable relative to the pressure foot, and drilling the workpiece with a flat angle drill of the end effector. |
| US10335862B2 |
Tool body and a turning tool for grooving operations
A tool body and a turning tool for grooving operations having the tool body include a fitting member extending along a longitudinal first axis for fixing the tool body to a machine. The tool body's upper and lower clamping members each having respective inner seating surfaces facing one another and separated by an intermediate gap in which a cutting insert is insertable. A major part of the lower inner seating surface extends along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. The clamping members are movable toward one another by a tightening device in order to secure the cutting insert in the intermediate gap. The tool body is integrally formed in a unitary piece. A hinge joint is formed between the clamping members, such that they are movable with respect to one another by turning around an axis of rotation of the hinge joint, extending perpendicularly to the second axis. |
| US10335857B2 |
Method of manufacturing gas turbine engine component from a molybdenum-rich alloy
A method for manufacturing a gas turbine engine component from a molybdenum-rich alloy. The method includes the steps of providing a molybdenum powder of at least 50% molybdenum by weight, extruding the molybdenum powder to provide a first shape, forming the first shape to a second shape and forging the second shape to provide a third shape. |
| US10335855B2 |
Additive manufacturing of functionally gradient degradable tools
An article comprises a plurality of micro-sized or nano-sized galvanic cells, wherein the article has a seamless structure encompassing a plurality of empty spaces of different sizes, geometries, distributions, or a combination thereof, and one or more of the following properties of the article vary in different directions: tensile strength; compressive strength; electrical resistance; thermal conductance; modulus; or hardness. |
| US10335850B2 |
Light weight housing for internal component and method of making
A method of making a light weight component is provided. The method including the steps of: forming a metallic foam core into a desired configuration; inserting a pre-machined component into an opening in the metallic foam core; applying an external metallic shell to an exterior surface of the metallic foam core after it has been formed into the desired configuration and after the pre-machined component has been inserted into the metallic foam core; introducing an acid into an internal cavity defined by the external metallic shell; dissolving the metallic foam core; and removing the dissolved metallic foam core from the internal cavity, wherein the component and the external metallic shell are resistant to the acid. |
| US10335840B2 |
Production lines and methods for hot rolling steel strip
The present disclosure relates to production lines and methods for hot rolling steel strips. Example production lines may include a hot rolling line that comprises a plurality of rolling stands through which a steel strip passes in a conveying direction. The production line may also include a cooling section for intensively cooling the steel strip as the steel strip exits a final rolling stand of the rolling line. The steel strips may be deformed so as to have a thickness of more than 15 mm and to comply with the most stringent requirements with respect to, for example, toughness. Further, at least a portion of the cooling section may overlap with a portion of the hot rolling line. |
| US10335834B2 |
Waste storage device and corresponding sorting method
A waste storage device and corresponding waste sorting method. The waste storage device may include compartments for storing waste; an acquisition unit that acquires at least one characteristic of a piece of waste that is to be stored in the waste storage device; a processor unit that obtains data identifying the waste from the characteristic; a communications unit that sends the identifying data to a remote server and that receives data in response; and an advice supply unit that delivers sorting advice to a user. The sorting advice may come from the data that was received in response and it may identify at least one of the compartments of the waste storage device into which the piece of waste should be stored or placed by the user. |
| US10335830B2 |
Ultrasonic probe
According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic probe includes piezoelectric elements, a flexible printed circuit, and one of an air gap layer and a resin layer. The piezoelectric elements transmit and receive ultrasonic waves. The flexible printed circuit located on a rear surface side of the piezoelectric elements and electrically connected to the piezoelectric elements. The air gap layer locates on a rear surface side of the flexible printed circuit and has air gaps. The resin layer is obtained by filling the air gap layer with a resin and locates on the rear surface side of the flexible printed circuit. |
| US10335821B2 |
Accessible housing device
An accessible housing device (FIGS. 1 and 1A—200) of one embodiment that provides a housing body (FIG. 2—60) for housing a pop-up sprinkler assembly FIG. 1—140, and the immediate connectors FIGS. 1 and 1A—93, —95, and —96, and a plurality of cutouts (FIG. 2—69) in a bottom section (FIG. 2—62) for permitting an entrance to multiple incoming water feed lines simultaneously, a housing cover (FIG. 3—18) comprising a plurality of fingers (FIG. 3—16), for enclosing and positioning various pop-up sprinkler assemblies having individually sized outer diameters, and additionally comprising a retaining lip (FIG. 3—35) for housing a safety cover (FIG. 4—97), for diminishing liability concerns and recognition purposes, an offset insert (FIG. 5—100) comprising a plurality of offset fingers (FIG. 5—103), for enclosing and positioning a flexible riser pipe when an offset of the housing body (—60) is necessary. |
| US10335818B2 |
Dual dispenser
A dual dispenser having two pumps and an outlet channel that is fed with the fluids coming from both pumps. The two pumps include respective actuator rods that are movable axially over strokes of different lengths, namely a first actuator rod having a long stroke, and a second actuator rod having a short stroke. The common dispenser head includes a pivot member that forms two bearing elements that are constrained to move together, so as to move both actuator rods simultaneously over an axial height that corresponds to the short stroke, with one bearing element then continuing its movement so as to terminate its long stroke by pivoting and turning the pivot member about the bearing element that is blocked in position as a result of the second actuator rod already being fully depressed. |
| US10335814B2 |
Fluid application system
A container includes a reservoir holding a non-pressurized product. A metering device and valve assembly are within the reservoir. The valve assembly includes a product intake conduit and a spring biased valve stem. The valve stem is at least one of an upwardly extending conduit or reciprocating conduit, which is in fluid communication with the product intake conduit. |
| US10335811B2 |
Two-phase flow nozzle
A two-phase flow nozzle, having limited dimensions of main parts relating to size of atomized particle and having practical means to assure the important dimension is provided. The nozzle is composed with the first liquid passage, the liquid nozzle with a liquid splaying exit, a concave located at an end of the liquid nozzle where said liquid exit is located lower than said end of liquid nozzle, a gas nozzle having a gap to supply compressed gas for atomizing from the outer periphery of said liquid nozzle to the liquid injected from said liquid exit, and a gas nozzle having a gas exit, wherein said gap is formed by sticking the minute extrusion composed integrally on said liquid nozzle with said gas nozzle or sticking the minute extrusion composed integrally on said gas nozzle with said liquid nozzle. |
| US10335806B2 |
Fluid ejection device
The fluid-ejection device (100) comprised a first member (110) having an inlet suitable for being connected to a source of fluid (120); a second member (130) that can be moved relative to the first member (110); and a control member (150) arranged to be at least in a first condition, in which the control member (150) is at least substantially inside the second member (130) preventing the flow of fluid through the second member (130) to define a first stroke (S1) of the second member (130) where no discharge of fluid is allowed out of the device (100); and a second condition, in which the control member (150) is at least substantially outside the second member (130) allowing the flow of fluid through the second member (130) to define a second stroke (S2) of the second member (130) along which discharge of fluid is allowed out of the device (100). |
| US10335805B2 |
Nozzle arrangement and dispensing head
A nozzle arrangement for the preferably fan-like atomization of a fluid, particularly oil, a dispensing head with such a nozzle arrangement, and the use of such a nozzle arrangement for the particularly fan-like atomization of a fluid, particularly of an oil, is proposed, wherein a channel of the nozzle arrangement has a first channel portion and a second channel portion that connects to the first channel portion in the direction of flow of the fluid, wherein the first channel portion converges in the direction of flow of the fluid, wherein the second channel portion is elongate and/or slot-like in cross section and bordered by two elongate side surfaces and two short leg surfaces, wherein the leg surfaces are inclined relative to the direction of flow and/or a longitudinal axis of the channel, and/or wherein the second channel portion is embodied as a trapezoidal prism and the side surfaces are arranged so as to be at least substantially parallel to one another. |
| US10335802B2 |
Centrifuge and segment holder
A centrifuge (70) is provided with a cup (80) configured to house a blood bag system (10a) and centrifugally separates blood in the blood bag system (10a) by rotating the cup (80). The cup (80) has a segment holding section (86) capable of holding a plurality of segment tubes (44a), aligned in a parallel state by being folded at a sealing portion (44b) of an outlet-side tube (44), along a direction in which a centrifugal force acts during centrifugal processing or a direction inclined with respect to the direction in which the centrifugal force acts. |
| US10335800B2 |
Method for controlling a mineral material processing plant and a mineral material processing plant
A mineral material processing plant and a method for controlling thereof. The mineral material processing plant includes at least one motor, at least one actuator, a control system, an arrangement for holding the operating speed of the at least one actuator substantially unchanged. The control system is configured to control the processing plant in such a way that a change of amount and/or quality of material arriving to be processed is recognized and in response to the recognized change of amount and/or quality of the material arriving to be processed, the load of a motor is recognized, and in response to the recognized load of the motor, the running speed of the motor or motors of the mineral material processing plant is increased or decreased so that the operating speed of at least one actuator is held substantially unchanged. |
| US10335797B2 |
Heavy duty drive arrangement and mill
A heavy duty drive arrangement (1, 1′) having a first spur gear including a first gear wheel (4; 4′, 4″) meshing with a pinion (3) of a motor (2) and a second spur gear comprising a gear wheel (8; 8′, 8″). A drive pinion (9; 9′, 9″) configured to mesh with a ring gear (10) of the working equipment is coupled to the gear wheel (8; 8′, 8″) of the second spur gear and has an axis of rotation (E) which is essentially parallel to the rotor axis (A). The first spur gear and the second spur gear are coupled by means of a dynamic coupling (5; 5′, 5″), preferably an elastic or a hydrodynamic coupling. A mill (20) may include the heavy duty drive arrangement (1, 1′). |
| US10335795B2 |
Gyratory crusher for comminuting material to be crushed
The invention relates to a gyratory crusher for comminuting material to be crushed, comprising a crusher housing, in which a crusher shaft is arranged, said shaft being held in the crusher housing so that it can tumble about a vertical axis. To accommodate the crusher shaft, the crusher is provided with a cross member which extends diametrically across the crusher housing and the cross member ends of which are connected to the crusher housing. According to the invention, the connection of the cross member ends to the crusher housing has at least one hydraulic tensioning device. |
| US10335793B2 |
Connector for fluid chromatography
The invention generally relates to a connector for fluid chromatography, such as gas chromatography and liquid chromatography, having a female assembly including a receiving member being designed and configured to receive, and releasably interlock with, a male assembly. The connector is particularly suited for high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) applications. |
| US10335790B2 |
Micro-fluidic system using micro-apertures for high throughput detection of cells
A microfluidic detection system for micrometer-sized entities, such as biological cells, includes a detector component incorporating a plate with a plurality of opening, the plate separating two chambers, one in communication with a fluid source containing target cells bound to magnetic beads. The openings are sized to always permit passage of the magnetic beads therethrough into a lower one of the chambers and are further sized to always prevent passage of the target cells from the upper one of the chambers. The detector component further includes a magnet positioned to pull unbound magnetic beads through the openings and to capture target cells bound to magnetic beads on the surface of the plate. The microfluidic detection system includes a pump flowing the fluid through the detector component at high flow rates of milliliters per minute for high throughput detection of target cells. |
| US10335786B2 |
Cartridge for preparing a sample fluid containing cells for analysis
A cartridge configured for use in a blood analyzer is provided. The cartridge may include a substantially rigid frame, a flow path within the rigid frame, at least one opening in the substantially rigid frame configured to align and stabilize a capillary tube, and a seal within the flow path. The seal may be configured to temporarily obstruct flow through at least a portion of the flow path. The seal may also be configured to open in response to a force exerted via a capillary tube inserted into the at least one opening. |
| US10335781B2 |
Nanopipette provided with membrane containing saturated ion-sensitive material, method for preparing same, and ion measuring apparatus comprising same
Disclosed are a nanopipette provided with a membrane containing a saturated ion-sensitive material, a method for preparing the same, and an ion measuring apparatus comprising the same. |
| US10335780B2 |
Method for regenerating denitrification catalyst
A method for regenerating an NOx removal catalyst, which includes connecting an upstream fixing member (10) to one end of a member to be ground, and connecting a downstream fixing member (20) to the other end; connecting a mixing part (40) for mixing an abrasive with a gas to an upstream portion of the upstream fixing member, and disposing a screen member in the expanded part, and connecting a classification part (70) and a dust-collecting part (80) to the downstream fixing member; and transferring the abrasive which has been mixed with the gas from the mixing part to the upstream fixing member, reducing the flow rate of the mixture in the expanded part, subsequently, causing the mixture to pass through the through-hole of the NOx removal catalyst and the downstream fixing member, and then collecting dust by means of the dust-collecting part via the classification part. |
| US10335775B2 |
Magnetically separable iron-based heterogeneous catalysts for dehydrogenation of alcohols and amines
The present invention discloses an iron-based nitrogen doped graphene catalyst, process for preparation thereof and use of said catalyst in oxidant-free catalytic dehydrogenation of alcohols and amines to the corresponding carbonyl compounds, amines and N-heterocylic compounds with extraction of molecular hydrogen as the only by-product. |
| US10335771B2 |
Aqueous dispersion and coating material using the same, and photocatalytic film and product
An aqueous dispersion of an embodiment includes visible-light responsive photocatalytic composite microparticles containing tungsten oxide and zirconium oxide, and an aqueous dispersion medium in which the photocatalytic composite microparticles are dispersed. In the photocatalytic composite microparticles, a ratio of a mass of the zirconium oxide to a mass of the tungsten oxide is in a range of from 0.05% to 200%, and a D50 particle size in particle size distribution is in a range of from 20 nm to 10 μm. The aqueous dispersion has pH in a range of from 1 to 9. |
| US10335764B2 |
Method for manufacturing plasterboards
A process for the manufacture of a plasterboard including activated carbon, includes: preparing a main mixed batch including a foaming agent and devoid of activated carbon; preparing a secondary mixed batch including powdered activated carbon; providing a first facing sheet; pouring the secondary mixed batch over the first facing sheet, the secondary mixed batch forming a first plaster layer; pouring the main mixed batch over the first plaster layer, the main mixed batch forming a second plaster layer; providing a second facing sheet on the first and second plaster layers; and forming the plasterboard; wherein the secondary mixed batch has a greater density than the main mixed batch. |
| US10335762B2 |
Mid-temperature range dry regenerable solid carbon dioxide sorbent, slurry composition and method for manufacturing the same
Provided are a composition and a manufacturing method of a solid CO2 sorbent having excellent physical properties and chemical reaction characteristics, particularly having an excellent mid-temperature range activity for a fluidized bed process, for use in collecting a CO2 source (pre-combustion or pre-utilization) in syngas application fields such as integrated coal gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power systems, synthetic natural gas (SNG) and synthetic liquid fuel (CTL). |
| US10335757B2 |
Process for making environmental reactant(s)
A process for making a reduced size oxidant particle is provided. The process forms reduced sized oxidant particles by feeding a coating material and oxidant particles of an initial size into a mill. The coating material may be oleophilic, hydrophobic, siliphilic, hydrocarbon soluble, or a combination thereof. The oxidant particles are then milled, reducing the particle size of the oxidant particles. During the milling step, the coating coats a substantial portion of each reduced sized oxidant particle reducing reagglomeration during the milling step. Optionally, the oxidant particles produced by the process of the instant invention are encapsulated. Alternatively or additionally, the oxidant particles may be placed in suspension. An outermost encapsulant may be substantially non-reacting, impermeable and non-dissolving with water. The oxidant particles formed by the process of the present invention may be placed directly into or in the path of the contaminant(s) in the environmental media to be treated. Processes for using the encapsulated reactant in environmental media are also hereby disclosed. |
| US10335756B2 |
Apparatus for introduction of droplets into a reactor
The invention relates to an apparatus for introduction of droplets into a reactor, comprising a holder for at least one dropletizer unit, where the dropletizer unit has a feed for a liquid to be dropletized and a dropletizer plate and the dropletizer plate has holes through which a liquid to be dropletized is introduced into the reactor, where the holder for the at least one dropletizer unit can be pushed into the reactor or pulled out of the reactor through an opening in the shell of the reactor. At least one rail is accommodated within the reactor and is used to guide the holder for the at least one dropletizer unit along it. |
| US10335752B2 |
Pouring shield for a stand mixer
A pouring shield for a stand mixer includes an upper collar for mounting to a mixer head of the stand mixer in a friction-fit manner without the need for clamps or other mounting accessories. The stand mixer is configured to receive a mixing bowl with an open top, and the pouring shield is configured to cover the open top of the mixing bowl at an upper rim of the mixing bowl using a seal member which is disposed around an outer perimeter of the pouring shield. The seal member is a flexibly resilient member configured to close the open top of the mixing bowl when the stand mixer is in a closed position, and includes a wide surface for accommodating mixing bowls of various sizes. |
| US10335750B2 |
Magnetic drive for bioreactor
The system and method of the invention pertains to use of a back iron on one or both ends of the impeller to increase the magnetic field density, and thus strengthen the magnetic coupling. In addition, pie-shaped (i.e. wedge) magnets, or variations thereof, increase the utilization volume and hence provide higher torque to allow the use of less expensive material (e.g. ferrites). In another embodiment, the rotor side is constructed with a Halbach array which increases the torque without the need to add a back iron piece. In another embodiment, an axial flux stator is implemented to replace the drive-end magnets and the drive motor. |
| US10335747B2 |
Adhesive-air infuser device and method of using the same
An adhesive-air infuser comprises a hollow body through which adhesive and air flow. The air is directed into the hollow body at an upstream end of the hollow body through an air nozzle positioned within the hollow body, and the adhesive is directed into the hollow body at the upstream end of the hollow body such that the adhesive flows around at least a portion of the air nozzle as the adhesive flows through the hollow body. The adhesive and air are directed by adhesive supply pressure and air supply pressure to flow through the hollow body toward an output port. In various embodiments, adhesive and air flow along a tortuous path that causes the air to mix into the adhesive to form an adhesive-air solution having a density less than the adhesive supplied to the upstream end of the hollow body. |
| US10335744B2 |
Method of producing flat sheet membrane element and flat sheet membrane element
A sheet filter membrane is arranged on a surface of a filter plate of a thermoplastic resin, and a plurality of projections provided in a hot plate is pressed against the filter plate above a periphery of the filter membrane with different timing for each of the projections to abut on the filter membrane. A plurality of recessed bonding portions with different depths are thus formed in the filter plate, and the filter membrane is bonded to the filter plate by heat welding in each of the recessed bonding portions. Sealing is therefore provided between the filter membrane and the filter plate along the periphery of the filter membrane. |
| US10335743B2 |
Composite membrane, semi-permeable membrane including the composite membrane, and water treatment device including the semi-permeable membrane
A composite membrane including an organic polymer matrix and a plurality of porous inorganic particles is disclosed, wherein each of the porous inorganic particles has a plurality of pores arranged while forming a channel in a predetermined direction, and wherein an average length of the porous inorganic particles in a direction parallel to the channel is less than three times the average maximum length of the porous inorganic particles in the direction perpendicular to the channel. |
| US10335742B2 |
Asymmetric composite membranes and modified substrates used in their preparation
Durable asymmetric composite membranes consisting of a film of cross-linked poly(ether ether ketone) adhered to a sheet of hydrophilic microporous poly(ethylene) are disclosed. The membranes are suitable for use in the recovery or removal of water from feed streams where repeated clean-in-place protocols are required such as in the processing of dairy products. |
| US10335739B2 |
Spiral wound membrane element and method for cleaning spiral wound membrane sheet
A spiral wound membrane element and a method for cleaning a spiral wound membrane sheet are provided. The spiral wound membrane element comprising a perforated central tube; one or more membrane sleeves, each sleeve comprising two membrane sheets enclosed at two edges around a feed spacer sheet and wrapped around the central tube; a permeate carrier sheet attached to the central tube at a first edge opposite a second edge; and a seal on third and fourth edges of the permeate carrier sheet. The method comprises introducing two solution with different solute concentration to two sides of the spiral wound membrane sheet; establishing a concentration gradient between the first and second sides; communicating a first solvent from the first side to the second side to remove a foulant located on the second side of the membrane sheet; and collecting a waste stream that contains the foulant. |
| US10335730B2 |
Filter elements; air cleaner; assembly; and, methods
A filter cartridge, a safety element and fluid cleaner assembly are described. The fluid cleaner assembly generally includes a housing having a cover and a primary fluid cleaner section. The filter cartridge generally comprises z-filter media, arranged in a straight through configuration. Preferred cartridges include a seal gasket positioned to extend continuously around at outer perimeter of the straight through flow construction. The fluid cleaner assembly can have a precleaner positioned therein. Preferred features are described. Methods of assembly and use are also provided. |
| US10335726B2 |
Gas purification device and image forming apparatus
A gas purification device includes an inflow port provided in an upper part of the gas purification device in a gravitational direction so that gas flows therein, a removing member that removes powder contained in the gas when the gas passes through the removing member, the removing member being disposed at a position such as not to overlap with the inflow port when viewed from above in the gravitational direction, and an outflow port provided in a lower part of the gas purification device in the gravitational direction so that the gas flows out therefrom after passing through the removing member. |
| US10335719B2 |
Three-part end cap and filter element including same
A multi-component end cap is provided. The multiple components combine to form one or more seal carriers where each seal carrier is formed in part by at least two different ones of the components. Methods of manufacturing an end cap having multiple components are also provided. |
| US10335718B2 |
Filter insert for a fluid, in particular transmission oil
A filter insert for a filter for filtering a fluid having] an inflow surface, and outflow surface, and a main throughflow direction. A filter body of the insert has a filter medium with pleats forming a pleated bellows, are arranged perpendicular to the main throughflow direction. A first number of the pleat edges form the outflow surface and a second number of the pleat edges on a pre-filtration side of the filtration body form the outflow surface. A first seal prevents the fluid from overflowing from the pre-filtration side to the post-filtration on a surface formed by a first number of of end face of the pleats. A second seal prevents the fluid from overflowing from the pre-filtration side to the post-filtration side on a surface formed by a second number of end faces of the pleats. |
| US10335715B2 |
Water skimming device and method
A water skimmer has a float portion supporting a drain portion for draining water from a sediment basin. The drain portion includes a first pipe connect via flexible couplings to a second pipe and then to a water removal system. Water enters the first pipe's orifice through a removable, restrictive orifice saddle. The first pipe is bolted to the float portion using a guard and brackets that hold first pipe just below the water surface to receive water with less sediment. The guard also blocks floating debris while allowing water to flow to the weir under its bottom edge. As the water level rises and falls, the flexible couplings and float portion help maintain first pipe horizontal. |
| US10335712B2 |
Method using pressure gradient profiling in an extraction column
A method and apparatus for extracting compounds from raw materials with an extraction column is provided. The control and manipulation of pressure exerted and contained within the extraction vessel or column may be vital in obtaining a certain flavor profile or intensity of the effluent extracted from the raw materials. As such, the method may include directing a flow of pressurized solvent into a base of the extraction column and utilizing the flow of pressurized solvent to create a pressure gradient applied to the raw materials. The method may further include compressing the raw materials with hydraulic compression. As the raw materials become further compressed, frictional heating may result allowing most, if not all, of the volatile aromatic heat sensitive compounds and constituencies to be extracted depending on the pressure strength applied to the raw materials. As such, manipulating the pressure gradients for each extraction process allows for distinct and specific flavor profiles to be extracted from the raw materials. |
| US10335708B2 |
System and method to generate steam by mixing a feed water stream with a heating medium
A system and method to generate steam from a feed water stream does so in a liquid pool zone of a vessel as the stream comes into contact with a heating medium that is less volatile than the feed water stream. To keep the pool hot, the heating medium can be recirculated through a heater of a pump-around loop or a heater can be placed in the liquid pool. As the feed water stream is vaporized or partially vaporized, any solids or unvaporized water present in the feed water stream come out of the stream and move into the heating medium. These solids and the unvaporized water may be further removed from the heating medium in the pool or in the pump-around loop. The heat exchange surface does not contact the feed water to generate steam. |
| US10335706B2 |
Combined lifting barn fencing equipment
A combined lifting burn fencing equipment is disclosed herein. The combined lifting barn fencing equipment includes a barn movably mounted in a first annular groove in the periphery of stage, a lifting mechanism that drives the barn to lift up and down, a fence movably mounted in a second annular groove of the barn, and a hoisting mechanism that drives the fence to lift up and down. The lifting mechanism is mounted at the bottom of the first annular groove. The hoisting mechanism is mounted at the top of the gate above the stage. The barn is mounted a bedplate. The barn descends to the first annular groove or rises to the above of the stage driven by the lifting mechanism. |
| US10335702B2 |
Circuit building system
The present invention provides a circuit building system, comprising a plurality of electrically conductive and detachably and mechanically interconnectable blocks that extend between a low voltage power source and one or more electrically active members and that are selectively interconnected in such a way to build a closable electric block-defined circuit through which current is flowable to activate said one or more electrically active members and by which a triggerable action is generatable independently of a separate data line, wherein a first block of said plurality of electrically conductive blocks is an electrically switchable block that comprises first and second electrically conductive terminal members by which said activating current, in response to said triggerable action, is selectively flowable to an adjacent block of the plurality of blocks in abutting and electricity conducting relation therewith. |
| US10335697B2 |
Combination toy projector and nightlight
A toy projector includes a housing and a light projector adapted to project light from the housing. A sheet is associated with the housing to be disposed over the light projector to thereby diffuse light emitted from the housing and to be selectively withdrawn from being over the light projector to allow the projection of light from the housing to be unobstructed. |
| US10335692B2 |
Game history recording apparatus and method for recording and interacting with game history
An apparatus for recording game history is coupled between a game host and a game console and performs a game history recording and interaction method. The apparatus communicates with the game host through a first wireless unit, and communicates with the game console through a second wireless unit, to receive game operation information generated from operations of the game console. The apparatus receives a video signal outputted by the game host through a video input port. The processing module is coupled to the wireless units and the video input port respectively and is used to obtain the game operation information from the wireless units and generate operation information images corresponding to the game operation information. The processing module superimposes the operation information images on the video signal correspondingly to form game history video data and outputs the superimposed game history video data to a display device for display. |
| US10335685B2 |
Storage medium having stored therein game program, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and game processing method
An exemplary information processing apparatus arranges, in a virtual three-dimensional space, first to fourth objects, a first connection object connecting the first object and the second object, and a second connection object connecting the third object and the fourth object. The information processing apparatus controls actions of the first object and the second object, with restriction being imposed on movements of the first object and the second object based on the first connection object. Further, the information processing apparatus controls actions of the third object and the fourth object, with restriction being imposed on movements of the third object and the fourth object based on the second connection object. A virtual camera is arranged in the virtual three-dimensional space such that at least one of the third object and the fourth object is included in a field-of-view range of the virtual camera. |
| US10335684B2 |
Game system, game processing method, computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having stored therein game program, and game apparatus
A first determination region, a second determination region, and a third determination region are set for each non-operation target object. When an operation target object is located within the first determination region, it is determined that the operation target object has collided with the non-operation target object, and a process is performed. In addition, when a touch input is performed in a state where the operation target object is located within the second determination region, it is determined that the operation target object has collided with the non-operation target object, and a process is performed at this time. Moreover, when the operation target object is located within the third determination region, movement control of the operation target object is performed such that the operation target object avoids a collision with the non-operation target object. |
| US10335679B2 |
Video processing device, video processing method, and program
Provided are a video processing device, a video processing method, and a program that allow for identification of a portion showing playing details at the time of occurrence of an event from a video showing game playing details on the basis of an event log. A tag data acquisition section (56) acquires logs of events that took place in a game. A material video acquisition section (58) acquires a video showing playing details of the game. An identification section (60) identifies a portion, in the video, showing the game playing details at the times of occurrence of the events represented by the logs. |
| US10335675B2 |
Game controller
An example game controller includes L and R buttons provided in both left and right end portions on an upper surface of a housing and ZL and ZR buttons provided to sides of the L and R buttons closer to a back surface of the game controller. The ZL/ZR button includes a protruding portion protruding in the direction of the back surface of the game controller and the direction of a side surface of the game controller. This makes it possible to increase the area of an upper surface of a key top of the ZL/ZR button and improve the operability of the ZL/ZR button. |
| US10335669B2 |
Self-balancing board with primary wheel and distal auxiliary wheel
A self-balancing board is provided, comprising a primary wheel assembly, a platform, at least one sensor, a controller, a first auxiliary wheel assembly, and a first brake element. The primary wheel assembly comprises a primary wheel and a motor driving the primary wheel. The platform is secured to the primary wheel assembly and has a foot deck. The at least one sensor senses the orientation of the platform. The controller receives data from the at least one sensor and controls the motor in response to the received data. The first auxiliary wheel assembly is secured to the platform distal the primary wheel assembly, and is elevated from contacting a flat surface upon which the primary wheel rests when the foot deck is parallel to the flat surface. The first brake element is manually movable relative to the first auxiliary wheel assembly to engage the first auxiliary wheel assembly to provide resistance to rotation of the first auxiliary wheel assembly. |
| US10335656B1 |
Golf bag with club spacing features
A golf bag having a body with a pair of flat sides. The body having a separator structure at an upper end that defines a plurality of openings to a plurality of club compartments. The separator structure defines a width between the openings configured to prevent contact between a club head of each club and the shaft of adjacent clubs. In some configurations, each compartment is fully separated from one another. Each club compartment defines a terminal point upon which the club rests within the compartment. The terminal points are configured to offset the club heads of adjacent clubs within the golf bag. In some configurations, a plurality of club receptacles can be provided on one or both of the pair of flat sides. |
| US10335654B2 |
Golf clubs and golf club heads having a configured shape
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a golf club head which includes a wood type golf club head body including a ball striking face portion at a front side thereof, a rear side opposite the front side, a crown portion, and a sole portion. Further, the sole or crown or rear portion of the golf club head body may be configured so that the golf club head body includes a bump portion which protrudes from the sole or crown or rear portion and an indented portion which recedes into the sole or crown or rear portion and creates a recess in the sole or crown or rear portion of the golf club head body. Further, the bump portion and the indented portion may be configured so that a center of gravity of the club head body is nearer to one of the heel edge of the club head body and the toe edge of the club head body. |
| US10335652B2 |
Golf club head
An iron-type golf club head according to one or more aspects of the present disclosure may include a striking face, a rear surface opposite the striking face, and a perimeter weighting element at least partially surrounding the rear surface. The club head may further include a resilient component associated with the perimeter-weighting element, the resilient component including a recess, and a preload spacer associated with the rear surface, a portion of the preload spacer engaging the recess. At least a portion of the resilient component is compressed between the preload spacer and the perimeter weighting element. |
| US10335647B2 |
Method of manufacturing golf club head having stress-reducing features
A method of manufacturing a golf club head having a plurality of structural connectors, and particularly solid rods proximate the face, is disclosed. The method includes the steps of preparing a wax of a golf club head body, the body having first and second through-holes, a hollow interior, and first and second receiving pockets, preparing waxes of first and second solid rods, inserting the first solid rod wax into the first through-hole and seating its lower end in the first receiving pocket, inserting the second solid rod wax into the second through-hole and seating its lower end in the second receiving pocket, bonding each of the first and second solid rods to the body with an adhesive material to form a combined wax mold, and casting a golf club head from the combined wax mold. |
| US10335644B2 |
Reinforced faces of club heads and related methods
Some embodiments include a reinforced face of a club head. Other embodiments for related reinforced faces of club heads and related methods are also disclosed. |
| US10335642B2 |
Golf ball
A golf ball (2) includes a core (4), an inner cover (6), a main cover (8), and an outer cover (10). X=Hc×Rc×0.05, S=Hs×Rc×0.05, M=Hm×Tm, I=Hi×Ti, O=Ho×To, and Q=(I+O)/2 that are calculated from a radius Rc of the core (4), a Shore C hardness Hc at a central point of the core (4), a Shore C hardness Hs at a surface of the core (4), a thickness Tm of the main cover (8), a Shore C hardness Hm of the main cover (8), a thickness Ti of the inner cover (6), a Shore C hardness Hi of the inner cover (6), a thickness To of the outer cover (10) and a Shore C hardness Ho of the outer cover (10), satisfy 15≤M−S≤100, 0.25 |
| US10335640B2 |
Golf ball dimple surface
Golf ball dimples having a surface defined by a mode, or a weighted superposition of multiple modes, of oscillation of a circular membrane are disclosed. |
| US10335636B2 |
System for monitoring physical activity
A system that monitors user activity includes a wrist device including a curved body and an electronic circuitry supported by the body. The electronic circuitry includes a first set of light emitting diodes arranged in a matrix form and forming a display unit, at least one motion sensor configured to measure physical motion caused by a user to the wrist device, and at least one processor configured to acquire motion measurement data from the at least one motion sensor, to process the motion measurement data into a motion activity metric, and to cause the display unit to display the motion activity metric. The at least one processor is further configured to acquire heart activity measurement data from a heart activity sensor, to process the heart activity measurement data into a heart activity metric, and to cause the display unit to display the heart activity metric. |
| US10335635B2 |
Head and neck exercise methods
Methods for instructing a user to perform head and neck exercises with head and neck apparatuses are disclosed. The apparatus may include a member operatively arranged with a valve mechanism with a threshold pressure. The apparatus may further include an acoustic apparatus, membrane, chromogenic material, or moveable element that may be configured to respond when the pressure within the member is greater in magnitude than the threshold pressure. The head and neck exercise apparatus may also include a member operatively arranged with an acoustic apparatus, membrane, chromogenic material, or moveable element that may be configured, without a valve mechanism, to respond when the absolute pressure within the member is greater in magnitude than a threshold absolute pressure. |
| US10335634B2 |
Roller exercise device
The present invention relates to a novel roller exercise device that has the inherent advantages of using a roller and without the associated risks of imbalance and instability. The device can be customized to provide rolling features to cater to exercising needs of different organs, and is helpful for elderly users, in particular. The invention comprises a left roller support member, a right roller support member, a cylindrical core roller member, a bottom rest unit, a head rest unit. |
| US10335633B2 |
Detachable speed determining device capable of computing accurate speed information of a bicycle and fixing a bike component of the bicycle
A detachable speed determining device includes an optical detecting module, an energy generating module and an energy storage module. The optical detecting module is adapted to determine axial rotational displacement of a bike component by detecting a movement of a pattern on the bike component. The energy generating module is adapted to generate energy. The energy storage module is sealed inside a housing of the detachable speed determining device in a water-resistance manner and electrically connected with the optical detecting module and the energy generating module. The optical detecting module is powered by the energy storage module, and the energy storage module is charged by the energy generating module. The detachable speed determining device further includes a bolted joint and a quick releasing handle, the bolted joint passes through an axle of the bike component, and the quick releasing handle is foldably disposed on the bolted joint. |
| US10335630B2 |
Exercise accessory
The present invention provides an exercise accessory which advantageously provides an athlete with a secure and hygienic grip on exercise equipment during training. The exercise accessory includes (a) a moisture absorbent or moisture wicking fabric having opposing ends; and (b) a reinforcing member arrayed along a length of the fabric and coupled to the fabric. The moisture absorbent or moisture wicking fabric is configured to envelop at least a portion of the reinforcing member. The reinforcing member defines one or more loops configured to be operably coupled to an exerciser via an attachment accessory such as a carabiner. |
| US10335628B1 |
Rolling dumbells
The rolling dumbbells is a continuation in part of USPTO non-provisional application U.S. Ser. No. 14/969,138. The present disclosure presents an alternate attachment mechanism for attaching the first wheel and the second wheel of the cited disclosure to the grip of the cited disclosure. The rolling dumbbells comprises a threaded rod, a first nut, and a second nut. The grip of the cited disclosure is modified to further comprise a third axial aperture. The threaded rod forms a threaded connection with the first nut, a first threaded center, the third axial aperture of the grip, a second threaded center, and the second nut to attach the first wheel and the second wheel to the grip. |
| US10335627B2 |
Methods of resistance training to arm and leg movements while running
A method for resistance training to arm and leg movement can include connecting a horizontally oriented raised weight base secured to a moveable sled in a spaced apart relationship, mounting a agility box, threading a first flexible and extendable one piece stretch cord through a plurality of aligned first upper rollers, securing a static non-extending stretch cord between the moveable sled and a subject, pulling on the first flexible and extendable one piece stretch cord connected to the moveable sled by the subject to receive a first load of resistance causing a physiological change to a targeted part of the subject and simultaneously receiving a second load of resistance to a targeted part of the subject while pulling the moveable sled with the static non-extendable stretch cord. |
| US10335623B2 |
Non-flammable compositions of chloro-trifluoropropene
The present invention relates to non-flammable compositions comprising chlorotrifluoropropene with reduced risk of flammability which are useful as refrigerants, heat transfer fluids, solvents, cleaners, blowing agents, aerosols, extraction fluids, and the like. |
| US10335613B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for commissioning and quality assurance data validation of radiation therapy systems
Beam configuration data obtained during the commissioning and/or quality assurance (QA) testing of a radiation therapy device can be validated against other radiation therapy devices within the radiotherapy community. Data and parameters from previously commissioned or QA-tested devices can be compiled and analyzed at a remote module. At the remote module, data and parameters obtained from a radiation therapy device undergoing commissioning or QA testing can be compared to the previously compiled data and/or parameters, to factory data and/or parameters, and/or to predetermined device limits, in order to provide an indication to an end user of potential issues or errors. Warnings, feedback, and/or suggestions can be provided to the end user of the radiation therapy device based on the comparison. |
| US10335612B2 |
Particle beam treatment system, particle beam treatment method, and computer program product
According to an embodiment, a particle beam treatment system includes a storage, an estimator, a target value generator, and a particle beam treatment device. The storage stores therein a respiratory movement model obtained by synchronizing amount of displacement of an affected area of a subject with a signal related to respiration of the subject and performing modeling. The estimator estimates, based on the measured signal related to respiration and the respiratory movement model, amount of displacement of the affected area corresponding to the measured signal. The target value generator generates a target value, which is used for performing movement control on a platform on which the subject is lying down, corresponding to the estimated amount of displacement of the affected area. The particle beam treatment device irradiates, with particle beams, the affected area of the subject on the platform subjected to movement control according to the target value. |
| US10335610B2 |
Catheter apparatus, brachytherapy system and method using the same
The present application relates to a catheter apparatus including a tubular member, and four or more fluid-flow pipe members, each having a proximal end and a distal end, and each being disposed around a periphery of the tubular member along an axial direction thereof. Each of the four or more fluid-flow pipe members is provided with an independent positioning member at the distal end thereof, and the number of positioning members is four or more. A brachytherapy system and a method of reducing area of radiation exposure of normal tissue in a brachytherapy treatment using the catheter apparatus are also disclosed. |
| US10335603B2 |
Medical devices including flexible circuit bodies with exposed portions of circuit traces attached to electrical contacts of components
Medical devices include stimulation and/or sensing circuitry that is interconnected to electrical components by a flexible circuit body having exposed portions of circuit traces that are attached to electrical contacts of the electrical components. Each circuit trace may span a separate window formed in an insulative body of the flexible circuit body, or a plurality of circuit traces may span a single window or may be freely extending from the insulative body. The exposed portion of the circuit trace may be plated with a conductive metal and then attached to the electrical contact of the electrical component. The flexible circuit body may be an extension from a flexible electrical circuit board containing the circuit. The circuit may be present on a circuit board that includes electrical contacts and where the flexible circuit body has exposed portions of circuit traces attached to the electrical contacts of the circuit board. |
| US10335602B2 |
Holder for an implantable medical device
A holder for an implantable medical device (IMD) is disclosed. The holder is configured to hold the IMD in a single, operational orientation when the holder containing the IMD is implanted in a patient. The holder is designed to prevent the IMD from moving within the patient and shifting orientation. The holder may have an opening for receiving a connecting pin, for stimulating electrodes, for example, in a mating orientation with respect to a receptacle contained within the IMB. According to some embodiments, the IMB features a metal housing that can serve as an electrode and the holder is configured with a window to allow a portion of the housing to electrically contact flesh of a patient during operation. Holders for containing a single IMD and holders for containing multiple IMDs are disclosed. Holders for containing multiple IMDs are configured to maintain alignment of the IMDs with respect to each other, for example, a parallel alignment. |
| US10335599B2 |
Method and apparatus for programming charge recovery in neurostimulation waveform
An example of a neurostimulation system may include a storage device to store a stimulation waveform, a programming control circuit to generate a plurality of stimulation parameters controlling delivery of neurostimulation pulses according to the stimulation waveform, and waveform definition circuit configured to create and adjust the stimulation waveform. The waveform definition circuit includes a charge recovery module that may include a stimulation to receive the stimulation waveform including charge injection phases, a charge recovery scheme input to receive a charge recovery scheme, and a waveform adjuster configured to identify a need for recovering charges injected during the charge injection phases and adjust the received stimulation waveform by automatically inserting charge recovery phases into the received stimulation waveform based on the identified need for recovering the injected charges and the received charge recovery scheme. |
| US10335591B2 |
Auditory signal processing
Methods, systems, and devices for processing an auditory signal to generate auditory prosthesis electrode stimuli in response to an incoming acoustic signal are disclosed. An example method includes dividing the incoming acoustic signal into one or more frequency envelopes. The example method also includes determining which auditory prosthesis electrodes to stimulate. The example method additionally includes determining a temporal reference point to which auditory prosthesis electrode stimuli are referenced. The example method further includes determining a delay for each of the auditory prosthesis electrode stimuli from the temporal reference point. The example method yet further includes determining amplitudes of the auditory prosthesis electrode stimuli. The example method also includes determining a wait period length before each successive temporal reference point. |
| US10335590B2 |
MRI compatible leads for a deep brain stimulation system
A lead for an implanted medical device is disclosed in which the lead is adapted for electrical communication with an electrical signal source and has a distal tip with an electrode. The lead comprises a wire adapted to be placed in electrical communication with electrode. The wire includes: (i) a core comprising a polymeric material, and (ii) a metallic layer surrounding an outer surface of the core. The metallic layer includes a first section having a first thickness and a second section having a second thickness, wherein the first thickness is greater than the second thickness. The lead is substantially transparent to radio frequency waves in clinically-applicable magnetic resonance environments to reduce radio frequency absorption and avoid substantial heating effects. |
| US10335589B2 |
Method for positioning terminal end of pacemaker lead, which has passed through coronary sinus, in interventricular septum
The present invention relates to a method for positioning a tip of a pacemaker lead that has passed through coronary sinus into an interventricular septum. More particularly, it relates to a method for positioning a tip of a pacemaker lead that has passed through a coronary sinus into an interventricular septum in order to more effectively transmit an electrical stimulus in a treatment using a pacemaker for patients with arrhythmia.A method of positioning a tip of a pacemaker lead, which has passed through a coronary sinus, into an interventricular septum, in order to effectively transmit electrical stimulus, includes: inserting into an intervention wire through a superior vena cava and a coronary sinus to pass through the interventricular septum and then guiding the intervention wire to an inferior vena cava; and positioning the tip of the lead into the interventricular septum by inserting the pacemaker lead along the intervention wire. |
| US10335585B2 |
Patient fluid line access valve antimicrobial cap/cleaner
Cap and cleaning devices antiseptically maintain patient fluid line access valves to minimize the risk of infection via catheters. The devices have a cap that may contain a dry pad impregnated with an antimicrobial agent. The cap covers the access portion of the access valve when not in use. The devices have a hood that contains a wet pad impregnated with a cleaning solution and, optionally, an antimicrobial agent. The wet pad cleans the access portion of the access valve prior to and optionally, after the access valve is utilized to access the patient fluid line. |
| US10335583B2 |
Conduit connector for a patient breathing device
In an embodiment, a connector or connector assembly for attaching a nasal cannula with a gas delivery hose includes a sensor port for a sensor probe positioned near an end of a nasal cannula, which can allow the sensor probe to be placed closer to the patient's nostrils than previous connector parts allowed. The connector can be configured to advantageously allow the nasal cannula to rotate relative to the gas delivery hose, thereby allowing a patient or healthcare provider to untangle or otherwise straighten the hose or the cannula. The connector assembly can be configured to automatically align locking protrusions on a first component with locking recesses on a second component, where insertion of the second component within the first component causes the second component to rotate relative to the first component, thereby aligning the locking protrusions with associated locking recesses. |
| US10335582B2 |
Alcohol prep applicator
The present invention is an improved applicator comprising an applicator body having a top portion, a bottom portion and a central portion, a bladder positioned between the bottom portion and the central portion of the applicator body and designed for holding alcohol solution, a hinge lever extending from an inner side of the central portion and extending outwards from the top portion of the applicator body and a hinge door positioned on the central portion of the applicator body. The cartridge of swabs can be easily loaded by opening the hinge door and rests between the bottom portion and the central portion of the applicator body. The used swabs can be easily discarded by clicking the hinge lever. The improved applicator allows easy application of alcohol solution to the patient's skin in a simple and safe manner and provides a safe and convenient hand-held method for safe preparation of skin. |
| US10335581B2 |
Medical balloon including pleats
A balloon for a balloon catheter includes a body section and cone sections. At least one of the cone sections defines a plurality of grooves spaced around the circumference of the cone section. |
| US10335580B2 |
Guidewire with varying properties
A method of making a core metal element for a medical guidewire including providing a wire of nickel titanium alloy having a length that includes a proximal portion having a first diameter and a distal portion having a second diameter. The method further includes applying cold work to the distal portion and not applying cold work to the proximal portion, thereby imparting to the distal portion a third diameter that is smaller than the second diameter; and then applying a reducing process to the wire whereby the proximal portion is reduced to have a fourth diameter that is less than the first diameter. |
| US10335565B2 |
Measuring respiratory mechanics parameters of ventilated patients
An airflow perturbation device for measuring respiratory resistance of a patient breathing with the use of a ventilator comprises a sealed housing having a first port and a second port each configured to couple to a ventilator hose, a perturbation mechanism to periodically alter air flow resistance between the first port and the second port, a pneumotachometer comprising a flow sensor to measure airflow between the first port and the second port, a pressure sensor to measure a difference in air pressure between the first port and the second port, and a computing system comprising at least one processor configured to receive data from the flow sensor and pressure sensor. The computing system determines an airflow resistance based on the received data. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for measuring respiratory resistance of a ventilated patient in substantially the same manners described above. |
| US10335560B2 |
Single high dose dry-powder inhaler and method
A dry-powder inhaler comprising a housing comprising at least one air inlet to a first air passage and a second air passage extending from the first air passage and terminating in a mouthpiece; the housing thereby providing a continuous air passage through the at least one air inlet, the first and second air passages, and the mouth piece; a rigid, fixed, powdered-medicament reservoir comprising a base, the reservoir being associated with the first air passage, and together with the first air passage forming a powder chamber; wherein air passing through the powder chamber travels substantially parallel to an upper surface of the reservoir and powdered-medicament positioned on the base in the reservoir, the upper surface of the reservoir having a surface area, and the reservoir having a volume. |
| US10335558B2 |
Methods of treatment
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to methods, compositions and apparatus for administering active agents to the lungs of a subject. |
| US10335557B2 |
Method for making patch-sized fluid delivery systems
A patch-sized fluid delivery device may include a reusable portion and a disposable portion. The disposable portion may include components that come into contact with the fluid, while the reusable portion may include only components that do not come into contact with the fluid. Redundant systems, such as redundant controllers, power sources, motor actuators, and alarms, may be provided. Alternatively or additionally, certain components can be multi-functional, such a microphones and loudspeakers that may be used for both acoustic volume sensing and for other functions and a coil that may be used as both an inductive coupler for a battery recharger and an antenna for a wireless transceiver. Various types of network interfaces may be provided in order to allow for remote control and monitoring of the device. |
| US10335552B2 |
Piercing means protective device for a syringe
The invention relates to a piercing means protective device for a syringe having a syringe body and a piercing means arranged at the distal end of the syringe body, comprising a dimensionally stable sleeve element, which extends along an axial direction and at least partially encloses an inner element extending along an axial direction, wherein the inner element consists of a resilient material and at least partially encloses the piercing means. The piercing means protective device is characterized in that a connection element connected to the sleeve element has at least one projection extending in an axial direction, which projection is received at least in portions in a recess of the inner element, so that a connection with a force fit and/or an interlocking fit exists between the sleeve element and the inner element. |
| US10335551B2 |
Needle assembly and drug injection device
A needle assembly includes: a retaining portion; and an elastic member that includes a close contact portion that closely contacts and retains the needle tube such that the needle tube protrudes toward a fitting opening, and a deformation portion that extends from the close contact portion toward the fitting opening and is configured to deform when the drug ejection portion comes into contact with the elastic member, and which is provided in a fitting portion. Further, the length of the deformation portion is in a range of 35% or more and 50% or less with respect to the length of the elastic member, and the length of a portion of the needle tube which protrudes from the close contact portion toward the fitting portion is in a range of 45% or more and 245% or less with respect to the deformation portion. |
| US10335538B2 |
System and treatment method to increase circulation and pluripotency of stem and progenitor cells within a patient
A treatment method that increases circulation and pluripotency of stem and progenitor cells within a patient can be used to fight off or cure various diseases for the patient such as chronic kidney disease or end-stage renal disease. An administrator of the treatment method is provided with a medicinal-administration system such as an intravenous injection system. The treatment method begins by preparing a dosage of oxygen-ozone mixture with the medicinal-administration system. The medicinal-administration system then transfuses the oxygen-ozone mixture in the patient's bloodstream so that the renal system and/or the bone marrow can be targeted by the oxygen-ozone mixture. These steps are repeated as a plurality of treatment session for the patient. |
| US10335535B2 |
Injection device with a needle cannula
The present invention relates to an injection device for injecting a pharmaceutical liquid drug containing a preservative. The injection device comprises a housing (1) supporting a cartridge (20) having an interior chamber (21) holding the pharmaceutical preservative containing liquid drug to be injected, and a needle cannula (10) having a front part (11) and a back part (12), which back part (12) is adapted to be in liquid communication with the interior chamber (21) of the cartridge (20). The injection device is further provided with a telescopic needle covering shield (30) which distally is provided with a reservoir (31) which holds a liquid containing the same preservatives as in the pharmaceutical preservative containing liquid drug contained in the interior chamber of the cartridge. The telescopic needle covering shield (30) is telescopic movable in relation to the needle cannula (10) by a first resilient member between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the tip (13) of the front part (11) of the needle cannula (10) is maintained inside the reservoir (31), and in the second position, the tip (13) of the front part (11) of the needle cannula (10) is located outside the reservoir (31) and distally to the reservoir (31). The tip (13) of the needle cannula (10) is thus cleaned by the preservatives in the reservoir (31) between subsequent injections. |
| US10335533B2 |
Device for separating blood into its components as well as a method for doing so and use of such a device
The invention relates to a device for separating blood into its components and a method for the same and use of such a device. The device comprises a magnetic drive device, which causes a container to rotate about its own axis, wherein the container has at least one open end and at least one inlet therein and is suspended in a magnetically floating manner. |
| US10335532B2 |
Dialysis system having autoidentification mechanism
A dialysis system is disclosed including an autoconnection mechanism. The autoconnection mechanism in an embodiment is configured such that (i) a tip protector remover is translated in a first direction towards a plurality of supply line connectors, (ii) the tip protector remover is locked to each of a plurality of supply line tip protectors connected to the plurality of supply line connectors, (iii) the tip protector remover is translated in a second direction away from the plurality of supply line connectors to remove the plurality of supply line tip protectors from the supply line connectors, the tip protector remover is translated in a third direction different from the first and second directions, and (v) solution line connectors are translated towards the supply line connectors to connect each of the solution line connectors to one of the supply line connectors. |
| US10335531B2 |
System and method for cardiopulmonary bypass using hypobaric oxygenation
A system for cardiopulmonary bypass, including: a cardiopulmonary bypass reservoir configured to store a blood; a pump in fluid communication with the cardiopulmonary bypass reservoir configured to provide pressure to the system; an oxygen source including a pressure regulator configured to regulate an oxygen pressure; an oxygenator fluidly connected to the pressure regulator of the oxygen source via an sweep gas inlet, wherein the sweep gas inlet is configured to have a sub atmospheric pressure and the oxygenator is configured to oxygenate the blood; a vacuum regulator fluidly connected to the oxygenator via an sweep gas outlet, and configured to provide the sub atmospheric pressure; a flow restrictor fluidly connected to the sweep gas inlet and configured to allow for a pressure drop from the oxygen source to the oxygenator; and an arterial filter fluidly connected to a blood outlet of the oxygenator and to the cardiopulmonary bypass reservoir. |
| US10335530B2 |
Lung assist device with oscillating fiber bundle
An extracorporeal system for lung assist includes a system housing, which includes a blood flow inlet and a blood flow outlet and a fiber bundle housing movably positioned within the system housing. The fiber bundle housing includes a gas inlet and a gas outlet. A fiber bundle is in operative connection with the fiber bundle housing. The fiber bundle includes a plurality of hollow gas permeable fibers, wherein lumens of the plurality of hollow gas fibers are in fluid connection with the gas inlet at a first end thereof and in fluid connection with the gas outlet as a second end thereof. The system further includes an actuator to impart oscillatory motion to the fiber bundle housing and thereby to the fiber bundle. |
| US10335524B2 |
Portable chest tube pressure and CO2 monitor
Systems and methods can be used improve the efficacy of tube thoracostomy. For example, this document provides devices and methods for confirming the proper placement of a chest tube within the pleural space. |
| US10335523B2 |
Incontinence aid
An incontinence aid may include a pad body. The pad body may include a liquid receiving area. The incontinence aid may further include a liquid passage connected to the pad body. The liquid passage may form a boundary about a majority of the liquid receiving area. The liquid passage may include at least one lateral opening facing the liquid receiving area. |
| US10335522B2 |
Interfaces, systems, and methods for use in reduced pressure tissue treatment
Systems and devices for treating a tissue site may include an interface adapted to provide a reduced pressure to a dressing. The interface may include a positive-pressure channel for delivering a positive pressure from a positive-pressure port to a positive pressure outlet. The positive-pressure channel may include a constricted portion configured to provide a pressure drop. The interface may additionally include a reduced-pressure channel adapted to deliver reduced pressure to the dressing that substantially corresponds to the pressure drop. The reduced-pressure channel may be fluidly coupled between the positive pressure channel and a side of the interface body adapted to face the dressing. Other systems and devices are disclosed. |
| US10335520B2 |
Device and method for clearing tubing
A device for moving contents of a tube by acting on the exterior of the tube is provided. The device includes a housing having a top portion and a bottom portion, the top portion including a tube passageway extending along a length thereof for holding a tube therein. A roller housed within a roller chassis contacts the tube and is configured to move between a first position in which the tube is disengaged and a second position in which the tube is engaged. A second roller is rotatably coupled to an actuator for rotatably energizing the second roller and is moveable between a first position in which the tube is disengaged and a second position in which the tube is engaged. A lever is operably coupled to the housing and configured to actuate a motor to move the second roller to the second position. The first roller and the second roller are configured to compress the tube to move contents within the tube. |
| US10335516B2 |
Bioactive porous bone graft implants
Bioactive porous bone graft implants in various forms suitable for bone tissue regeneration and/or repair, as well as methods of use, are provided. The implants are formed of bioactive glass and have an engineered porosity. The implants may take the form of a putty, foam, fibrous cluster, fibrous matrix, granular matrix, or combinations thereof and allow for enhanced clinical results as well as ease of handling. |
| US10335511B2 |
Bioadhesive for occluding vessels
Bioadhesives and crosslinked gels therefrom are disclosed. The bioadhesives can be applied to a vessel for occluding the vessel. The present disclosure also describes kits that comprise the various components for preparing and applying the bioadhesives. Bioadhesives of the present disclosure include: (i) a biopolymer having one or more first chemically reactive amine groups; (ii) a biocompatible crosslinker having at least two second chemically reactive groups that can chemically react with the one or more first chemically reactive amine groups of the biopolymer; and (iii) a biocompatible rheological modifier. |
| US10335509B2 |
Pressure-sensitive adhesive agent for skin, pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for skin, and face plate of ostomy appliance
[Objective]To provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive agent for skin containing a pressure-sensitive adhesive agent for skin that has favorable shape retention properties and skin-follow up properties without being adversely affected by moisture from excrement or the like even when adhered to the skin over a long period of time and yet leaves no adhesive residue after separation and a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for skin contains a base material and a layer of the pressure-sensitive adhesive agent for skin.[Means to Achieve Objectives]A pressure-sensitive adhesive agent for skin contains 2 to 35% by weight of a thermoplastic elastomer, 25 to 60% by weight of a hydrophilic polymer compound, 16 to 40% by weight of a softener, and 0.01 to 4.8% by weight of a physiologically active agent; and has a water absorption 3 hours after of 55 to 240% and a water absorption 24 hours after of 240 to 450%. A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for skin contains a base material and a layer of a pressure-sensitive adhesive agent for skin that contains 2 to 35% by weight of a thermoplastic elastomer, 25 to 60% by weight of a hydrophilic polymer compound, 16 to 40% by weight of a softener, and 0.01 to 4.8% by weight of a physiologically active agent and is formed on one side of the base material; and has a water absorption 3 hours after of 55 to 240% and a water absorption 24 hours after of 240 to 450%. |
| US10335495B2 |
Biomolecule conjugates
The present invention relates to biomolecule conjugates which comprise a biomolecule wherein at least one non-natural amino acid (NNAA) is integral to the structure of the biomolecule and wherein the NNAA is a point of attachment of a linker to which a payload, particularly a cytotoxic agent, is attached. More specifically, this invention relates to conjugates of cell-binding agents and active release products comprising cytotoxic agents wherein the conjugates are produced by means of a cycloaddition reaction. Methods of production, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use are provided. |
| US10335494B2 |
Combination of aurora kinase inhibitors and anti-CD30 antibodies
The present invention relates to methods for the treatment of cancers. In particular, the invention provides methods for treatment of cancer by administering an Aurora kinase inhibitor in combination with an anti-CD30 antibody. The combined administration of the Aurora kinase inhibitor and anti-CD30 antibody can be simultaneous, separate, sequential or consecutive. |
| US10335490B2 |
Fluorinated polymerizable hydrogels for wound dressings and methods of making same
Fluorinated hydrogels are used to dissolve oxygen or other oxygenated small molecules. The fluorinated hydrogels may release the dissolved oxygen or other oxygenated small molecules upon exposure to an environment of lower tension. The fluorinated hydrogels have a particular application in wound healing, where the fluorinated hydrogels may be used as a wound dressing. |
| US10335485B2 |
Anti-VLA-4 antibodies
This invention relates to alpha-4 binding antibodies, and fragments thereof. |
| US10335484B2 |
Methods of generating robust passive and active immune responses
The invention relates to methods of generating a robust passive and an active immune response in a subject comprising administering a neutralizing antibody and a pathogen to the subject. The invention also relates to kits and pharmaceutical compositions useful in generating a robust passive and an active immune response in a subject. |
| US10335480B2 |
Peptide sequences and compositions
The present specification discloses recombinant nucleic acid constructs encoding an immunogenic multiepitope polypeptide comprising two or more polypeptides, recombinant nucleic acid constructs encoding at least two epitopes from two or more internal proteins of influenza virus, compositions comprising such recombinant nucleic acid constructs and methods of eliciting a T cell immune response against an influenza virus in a vertebrate using such recombinant nucleic acid constructs and compositions. |
| US10335479B2 |
Methods and compositions for stabilizing dried biological materials
The present invention relates to methods for producing dried formulations of biopharmaceutical agents that aim to minimize the loss of activity of the agents upon drying and to provide dried formulations with an extended shelf life. The method comprises the step of drying an aqueous solution comprising, in addition to the biopharmaceutical agent, at least an amino acid, a polyol and a metal salt. Preferably the amino acid is glutamate, the polyol is sorbitol and optionally also mannitol and the metal salt is a magnesium salt. The solution is dried by vacuum drying or by lyophilization. The methods are particularly useful for preparing dried formulations of viruses such as poliovirus or respiratory syncytial virus to be used for vaccination. The invention also relates to dried formulations prepared in accordance with the methods of the invention and to their use as medicaments, e.g. as vaccines. |
| US10335476B2 |
Vaccine to protect against Ehrlichia infection
Certain embodiments are direct to a vaccine composition comprising an immunizing amount of an Ehrlichia sonicate, wherein the Ehrlichia sonicate elicits a protective physiologic response. In certain aspects the Ehrlichia is one or more of E. canis, E. chaffeensis, E. muris, E. ruminantium, E. ewingii, and E. ovis. |
| US10335475B2 |
Peptides and combination of peptides for use in immunotherapy against NHL and other cancers
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules. |
| US10335471B2 |
Method for treating cancer with activated T cells
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules. |
| US10335466B2 |
AADC polynucleotides for the treatment of parkinson's disease
The invention relates to compositions and methods for the preparation, manufacture and therapeutic use of polynucleotides encoding AADC for the treatment of Parkinson's Disease. |
| US10335463B2 |
Therapeutic agent preparations for delivery into a lumen of the intestinal tract using a swallowable drug delivery device
Embodiment of the invention provide swallowable devices, preparations and methods for delivering drugs and other therapeutic agents within the GI tract. Many embodiments provide a swallowable device for delivering the agents. Particular embodiments provide a swallowable device such as a capsule for delivering drugs into the intestinal wall or other GI lumen. Embodiments also provide various drug preparations that are configured to be contained within the capsule, advanced from the capsule into the intestinal wall and degrade to release the drug into the bloodstream to produce a therapeutic effect. The preparation can be operably coupled to delivery means having a first configuration where the preparation is contained in the capsule and a second configuration where the preparation is advanced out of the capsule into the intestinal wall. Embodiments of the invention are particularly useful for the delivery of drugs which are poorly absorbed, tolerated and/or degraded within the GI tract. |
| US10335461B2 |
Interferon therapy
Interferon therapy is improved by concomitant administration of an agent which minimizes the ability of interferon to up-regulate expression of Programmed Cell Death Protein 1 (also known as CD279). |
| US10335459B2 |
Compositions for modulating IL-10 immunostimulatory and anti-inflammatory properties
The invention provides compositions and methods for modulating the immunostimulatory properties and/or anti-inflammatory properties of IL-10. The present invention provides scIL-10 polypeptides of Formula 1. The polypeptides of the invention are optionally linked to a fusion partner. The polypeptides of Formula 1 are referred to herein as “scIL-10” polypeptides and comprise an amino acid sequence arrangement from N-terminus to C-terminus in accordance with Formula 1: (first monomer subunit)-LINKER-(second monomer subunit) Formula 1 wherein the first monomer subunit, the second monomer subunit or both the first and second monomer subunits may be independently selected from: an unsubstituted IL-10 monomer subunit; or a substituted IL-10 monomer subunit comprising at least one amino acid substitution; and wherein LINKER is any amino acid linker of at least 1-100 amino acids in length. |
| US10335454B2 |
Combination and use
The present invention relates to the use of one or more compounds selected from the following: caffeic acid, thymol, aspirin, benzydamine hydrochloride, diclofenac sodium, flurbiprofen, ibuprofen, indomethacin, trifluoperazine hydrochloride, chlorprothixene hydrochloride, triflupromazine hydrochloride, suloctidil, thioridazine hydrochloride, dichlorophen, saccharin and piroxicam, in combination with a polymyxin selected from colistin or polymyxin B or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof, for use in the treatment of a microbial infection, and in particular for killing clinically latent microorganisms associated with microbial infections. The invention also provides a combination comprising suloctidil or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative or prodrug thereof, and a polymyxin selected from polymyxin E and polymyxin B or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof. This combination is particularly useful for the treatment and/or prevention of microbial infections. |
| US10335451B2 |
Method of treating low blood pressure
A method for treating a patient suffering from one of septic shock, acute kidney injury, severe hypotension, cardiac arrest, and refractory hypotension, but not from myocardial infarction, is provided. The method includes administering a therapeutically effective dose of Angiotensin II, or Ang II, to the patient. |
| US10335448B2 |
Compositions and methods for inhibiting fibrosis
Provided herein are compositions and methods for treating or preventing fibrosis. |
| US10335446B2 |
Methods of treating diseases using grape proteins
A food composition for human consumption comprising a plurality of grape ingredients, wherein the plurality of grape ingredients comprise ground flesh, seed, stem, and skin from grapes, and wherein the plurality of grape ingredients further comprise one or more KH Grape proteins. A method of treating a certain disease in a patient comprising administering the food composition to a patient in need thereof, wherein the food composition has a concentration of KH Grape protein above 0%. |
| US10335442B1 |
Method for topical treatment of nail conditions
A method for treating discoloration of nails comprising applying to the nails a composition containing undecylenic acid, a urea-based component, a monohydric alcohol such as isopropanol, a diol such as propylene glycol, dimethyl isosorbide, and a carboxylic acid other than undecylenic acid, preferably lactic acid. |
| US10335439B2 |
Method for producing human corneal epithelium sheet
[Problem] To provide a method for producing human corneal epithelial sheet, wherein the human corneal epithelial-derived cells obtained by culturing human corneal epithelial cells are cultured on an amnion substrate.[Solution] A method for culturing human corneal epithelial cells using mesenchymal stem cells as the feeder cells; and a method for culturing human corneal epithelial cells using a medium containing a ROCK inhibitor, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, a MAP kinase inhibitor and a TGF-β receptor inhibitor in various combinations. |
| US10335436B2 |
Medical treatment composition comprising mammalian dental pulp stem cells
A medical implant comprising in components from a tooth and stem cells harvested from at least one tooth. Pluripotent stem cells, other cells, and biologic constituents of the dental pulp may be harvested from the dental pulp of mammalian teeth, such as unerupted third molars in humans. After the stem cells are removed and isolated from the other teeth tissue, the hard tooth may be ground into a base material for the manufacture of a porous matrix into which the pluripotent stem cells, other cells, and biologic constituents of the dental pulp can be added. Additionally, soft tissue from the harvested tooth may be used as a carrier scaffold for soft tissue applications such as meniscal or cartilage repair. |
| US10335433B2 |
NDGA polymers and metal complexes thereof
Provided herein are NDGA polymers and metal complexes of such polymers, preferably those metal complexes of the polymers that are insoluble or substantially insoluble in an aqueous solvent, and processes for making the same. |
| US10335428B2 |
P-ethoxy nucleic acids for liposomal formulation
Provided herein are therapeutic oligonucleotides that comprise at least one p-ethoxy backbone linkage but no more than 80% p-ethoxy backbone linkages. Provided herein are improved delivery systems for therapeutic oligonucleotides comprising a liposome that comprises neutral phospholipids and a p-ethoxy oligonucleotide that is entrapped in the liposome. |
| US10335426B2 |
N-acetyl mannosammine as a therapeutic agent
The invention relates to compositions and methods for treating kidney and muscle dysfunction that involves use of therapeutic amounts of N-acetyl mannosamine. |
| US10335423B2 |
Inhibition of HIV infection through chemoprophylaxis
A process is provided for protecting a primate host from a self-replicating infection by an immunodeficiency retrovirus. Protection is achieved by administering to the primate host a combination of a pharmaceutically effective amount of a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor and a pharmaceutically effective amount of a nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor prior to exposure to the immunodeficiency retrovirus. The administration is effective if provided in a single dose within 24 hours of the exposure. A regime of regular daily doses is also effective in providing protection against an immunodeficiency retrovirus becoming self-replicating after infecting a primate host. A process for controlling retrovirus transmission within a population includes the administration to a subpopulation at high risk for contracting an immunodeficiency retroviral infection the detailed combination prior to sexual exposure to a source of immunodeficiency retrovirus so as to preclude the immunodeficiency retrovirus from becoming self-replicating in a member of the subpopulation. |
| US10335420B2 |
Nanoparticle-based tumor-targeted drug delivery
An aqueous tumor-targeting liposome nanoparticle composition comprises an aqueous dispersion of liposome nanoparticles. The nanoparticles preferably encapsulate an anti-cancer chemotherapeutic agent, which can be added to a pre-formed liposome composition or can be incorporated in the liposomes during the formation of the liposomes. The liposome nanoparticles comprise a legumain-targeting lipid admixed with one or more other micelle or vesicle-forming lipid materials in the form of nanoparticulate liposomes dispersed in an aqueous carrier. A preferred tumor-targeting liposome nanoparticle composition comprises a legumain-targeting lipid component and polyethylene glycol-conjugated lipid component. The legumain-targeting lipid component comprising a hydrophobic lipid portion covalently attached to a legumain-binding moiety. |
| US10335419B2 |
Slow release oxysterols and methods of use
Provided is a slow release composition to promote bone growth, the slow release composition comprising: an oxysterol encapsulated in a biodegradable polymer to control the release of the oxysterol. Methods of making and use are further provided. |
| US10335417B2 |
Thiazideamide derivative and use thereof
The invention belongs to the technical field of medicines. In particular, the invention relates to a thiazideamide derivative compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, a method for preparing the compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, and a use of the compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof. For example, the compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof according to the invention can be used to prevent and/or treat a neurodegenerative disease or a neuropathic disease caused by a physical trauma or a related disease. |
| US10335410B2 |
Heteroaryl compounds useful as inhibitors of sumo activating enzyme
Disclosed are chemical entities which are compounds of formula (I): or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; wherein Y, Ra, Ra′, Rb, Rc, X1, X2, X3, Rd, Z1, and Z2 have the values described herein and stereochemical configurations depicted at asterisked positions indicate absolute stereochemistry. Chemical entities according to the disclosure can be useful as inhibitors of Sumo Activating Enzyme (SAE). Further provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of the disclosure and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of proliferative, inflammatory, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases or disorders. |
| US10335404B2 |
Methods of treating cancer patients with farnesyltransferase inhibitors
The present invention relates to the field of molecular biology and cancer biology. Specifically, the present invention relates to methods of treating a subject with a farnesyltransferase inhibitor (FTI) that include determining whether the subject is likely to be responsive to the FTI treatment based on genotyping and expression profiling of certain immunological genes and RAS mutation status in the subject. |
| US10335403B2 |
Niacin formulation
The present invention provides a composition including an amphiphilic compound capable of self-assembling into a liquid crystalline phase; and a niacin compound. In another aspect, the present invention provides a method for the treatment of a disease state comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition incorporating that composition. |
| US10335402B2 |
Sulfonyl piperidine derivatives and their use for treating prokineticin mediated gastrointestinal disorders
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof (Formula (I)) in which m, n, W, X, Y, Z, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined in the specification for use in treating irritable bowel syndrome or inflammatory bowel disease. |
| US10335401B2 |
Non-aromatic heterocyclic derivative having MGAT2 inhibitory activity
The present invention relates to a compound represented by Formula (I): wherein X is, for example, C(═O); Z is, for example, C(═O); L is, for example, a single bond; A is, for example, aromatic carbocycle; R is, for example, R6 or B; R2 is, for example, hydrogen; R3 is, for example, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl; R4a is, for example, hydrogen; R4b is, for example, hydrogen; R5 is, for example, halogen; R6 is, for example, halogen; R7a is, for example, hydrogen; R7b is, for example, hydrogen; R8 is, for example, hydrogen; R9 is, for example, hydrogen; m is 0 to 5; n is 0 to 5; and p is 1 to 6, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same. |
| US10335391B2 |
Stabilized oxymetazoline formulations and their uses
The present invention provides stabilized cream formulations of oxymetazoline and uses thereof. The present invention also provides a method of treating facial erythema associated with rosacea in a patient in need of such treatment, comprising topically administering once or twice daily to the site of erythema on the face of the patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising 0.5%, 1.0% or 1.5% oxymetazoline or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as the sole active ingredient. |
| US10335389B2 |
Beraprost-containing patch
The present invention provides a patch containing beraprost or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, which achieves high transdermal absorption of beraprost or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof and has excellent formulation properties. |
| US10335388B2 |
Combination therapy of a HIF-2-alpha inhibitor and an immunotherapeutic agent and uses thereof
The present invention provides methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating proliferative disorders. The method involves step of administering to said subject a HIF-2alpha inhibitor and an immunotherapeutic agent. |
| US10335377B2 |
Over-patch having improved compatibility and a long adhesion duration and method for producing said over-patch
The invention relates to a medical product for a fastening duration of at least 7 days having good skin compatibility. The medical product includes a central adhesive compartment (3) and an over-patch. The over-patch is free of active ingredients and is formed from a water-vapor-permeable back layer (1) and an adhesive polymer layer (2) that is free of active ingredients. The invention further relates to a method for the production of the foregoing medical product, and to kits of parts containing laminates of layers 1 and 2. |
| US10335375B2 |
Anti-overingestion abuse deterrent compositions
Described herein are abuse deterrent oral pharmaceutical compositions, methods for making the same, and methods of treatment using such compositions. In particular, oral pharmaceutical compositions that mitigate the risk of overingestion of one or more active pharmaceutical ingredients are described. |
| US10335369B2 |
Compositions comprising a delivery agent and preparation thereof
The invention relates to granules and pharmaceutical compositions comprising a salt of N-(8-(2-hydroxybenzoyl)amino)caprylic acid and a lubricant obtained by mixing hereof for more than 5 minutes prior to granulation as well as processes for their preparation and use thereof in medicine. |
| US10335367B2 |
Use of selected anticholinergic zwitterions
Selected anticholinergic zwittehons are administered to slow the progression of myopia in children and to treat myopia generally. |
| US10335366B2 |
Risperidone or paliperidone implant formulation
The present invention is directed to an injectable intramuscular depot composition suitable for forming an in situ solid implant in a body, comprising a drug which is risperidone and/or paliperidone or any pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in any combination, a biocompatible copolymer based on lactic and glycolic acid having a monomer ratio of lactic to glycolic acid of about 50:50 and a DMSO solvent, wherein the composition releases the drug with an immediate onset of action and continuously for at least 4 weeks and wherein the composition has a pharmacokinetic profile in vivo that makes it suitable to be administered each 4 weeks or even longer periods. |
| US10335364B2 |
Composition for topical application comprising glycerol and tannins
A preparation for topical application comprising glycerol and plant tannins, wherein the plant tannins have the capacity to bind to glycerol so that the glycerol has filmogen quality. |
| US10335362B2 |
Water-in-oil type emulsion cosmetic
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a water-in-oil type cosmetic which ensures emulsion stability in the case where a volatile hydrocarbon oil component is added, has excellent texture such as not leaving a greasy feeling, and is highly compatible with the skin. The present invention relates to a water-in-oil type emulsified cosmetic comprising: (A) 20 to 30 mass % of an oil component; (B) a fatty acid ester having an HLB of 5 to 10; (C) a nonionic surfactant having an HLB of 1 to 4; (D) an organic modified clay mineral; and (E) water, wherein volatile hydrocarbon oil accounts for 10 mass % or more of the oil component (A) and silicone oil is not contained. |
| US10335360B2 |
Disposable toothbrush having toothpaste composition bonded to bristles thereof
A disposable toothbrush having a toothpaste composition distributed over the bristles of the toothbrush without the use of metal graft initiators and catalysts, and in which the toothpaste and the flavoring is maintained for an extended period of time. |
| US10335348B2 |
Filling needle for use in a tube layer for transferring a flowable medium, in particular a pharmaceutical product
A filling needle can be used in a tube set for transferring a flowable medium, in particular a pharmaceutical product. The filling needle has a needle end for temporary insertion in a filling vessel. Furthermore, the filling needle has a connector end for connecting the filling needle to a filling vessel, via which the medium can be supplied to the filling needle. An inner tube lumen of the filling needle is defined by an inner tube layer made of silicone. The result is a filling needle that can be manufactured inexpensively. |
| US10335346B2 |
Optical techniques for the measurement of chest compression depth and other parameters during CPR
Embodiments of the present invention are related to a method and device for the determination and calculation of the depth of chest compressions during the administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Embodiments use an optical sensor to monitor the distance that a victim's chest is displaced during each compression throughout the administration of CPR. The optical sensor is most commonly an image sensor such as a CMOS or CCD sensor, and more specifically a CMOS image sensor capable of three-dimensional imaging based on the time-of-flight principle. An infrared emitter may illuminate the victim's body and any visible piece of ground beside the victim. As the infrared light interacts with any surfaces it encounters, it is reflected and returns to the image sensor where the time of flight of the infrared light is calculated for every pixel in the image sensor. The distance data is used to gauge the effective displacement of the victim's chest. The optical sensors can be used to visualize the size of a patient and immediately gauge the body type and instruct the user accordingly. Furthermore, optical measurement techniques can be used to accurately measure chest rise during artificial respiration and ensure that proper ventilation is being administered in between compressions. In addition, optical measurements of the chest of the victim and the hands of the rescuer can be used to help ensure that the rescuer has positioned his or her hands in the anatomically correct location for effective CPR. |
| US10335343B2 |
Method and device for treating female pelvic nerve dysfunction
A method and devices for stimulating visceral pelvic or somatic nerves or their pathways of a female person suffering from a pelvic condition of nerve dysfunction in which non-electrical, external physical stimulation is applied to the clitoral region of the person. |
| US10335338B2 |
Apparatus for applying multi-dimensional traction to the spinal column
A physical medicine table for treating a patient's spine that is capable of providing precise, repeatable, and effective traction force treatment to a patient in multiple dimensions to adjust an unhealthy spinal structure towards a normal, healthy structure. Generally, the spinal structure treatment can be applied to a patient using the described traction device to secure the patient to the adjustable support portions and selectively impart a combination of longitudinal Y-axis traction forces, lateral X-axis traction forces and/or sagittal Z-axis traction forces to the patient using a control system in accordance with a prescribed treatment regimen. |
| US10335328B2 |
Harness system for patient transport apparatus
A harness system for a patient transport apparatus. The harness system comprises one or more harness assemblies. Each harness assembly comprises a flexible restraint member formed of a coated fabric and comprising one or more joints in which stitches join sections of the coated fabric. Covers are attached to the coated fabric over the stitches to provide a barrier to outside contaminants and to ease cleaning of the flexible restraint member. |
| US10335324B2 |
Absorbent articles with channels
The present disclosure is directed, in part, to an absorbent article that comprises a liquid management system (LMS) and an absorbent core disposed at least partially intermediate a topsheet and a backsheet. The LMS defines one or more channels substantially free of superabsorbent polymers. The one or more channels of the LMS may at least partially overlap channels defined by the absorbent core. The absorbent article may comprises a liquid distribution system (LDS) that defines one or more channels. |
| US10335322B2 |
Adhesive support devices and methods of making and using them
Described herein are adhesive support devices, which may include adhesive medical devices. In particular, three-dimensional adhesive medical devices from a single layer of material, typically by stamping or pressing (including cold pressing) a sheet of the material to form rigid and complex 3D shapes capable of use for a variety of medical and non-medical purposes. These adhesive support devices typically also include an adhesive material allowing the device to be attached to a subject's skin and/or mounted on a surface (e.g., wall, etc.). In particular, described herein are methods of manufacturing, assembling, and using adhesive support devices. |
| US10335318B2 |
Light blocking eye cover attachable to a pillow
An assembly is configured to include an elongate eye covering portion and optionally a pillow portion. The pillow portion includes an enclosure which can contain a pillow therein. The elongate eye covering portion is preferably configured as a sleeve divided into multiple adjacent cells filled with beads or other media. The cells on the sleeve are spaced apart by a distance similar to a spacing between eyes of an adult. Adjacent cells can thus cover eyes and optionally also ears of the user. Seams divide the cells from each other and define a contour of the cells. This contour preferably includes notches between adjacent cells to provide relief for a nose of the user between adjacent cells. Opposite sides of the sleeve can have different heat transfer characteristics so one side feels cooler than the other, allowing selection of a preferred side to contact the wearer. |
| US10335313B2 |
Method for removing colored spots to whiten the eye
A new method whitens the eye by continuously wearing away colored spots on the conjunctiva, such as nevi and pigmented lesions. The method includes the steps of selecting an area of the conjunctiva to be removed, including a colored portion; selecting and activating a motorized conjunctiva remover, which includes a body and an eye attachment with a tip; and, applying the tip of the eye attachment to the selected area of the conjunctiva to continuously wear away the conjunctiva until it is cleared of the colored portion. The eye attachments can be supplied with a variety of different tips. |
| US10335310B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for disrupting and preventing snore
Apparatuses and methods for snore disrupting and prevention are disclosed. One apparatus includes: an inflatable bladder assembly configured to inflate and deflate to move a head of a user; a conduit connected to the bladder assembly and configured to extend at a distance from the bladder assembly; an air inflator connected to the conduit for inflating the bladder assembly through the conduit, the air inflator being at the distance from the bladder assembly when in use to minimize noise, radiation or discomfort for the user a controller in communication with the air inflator to actuate the air inflator to inflate the bladder assembly; and an audio processor in communication with the controller, the audio processor being configured to detect sound waves and transmit control commands to the controller to trigger cyclical actuation of the air inflator upon a trigger event. |
| US10335303B2 |
Intragastric device
Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly a device for assisting a patient in swallowing an intragastric balloon is provided, comprising an elongate tube, a gastric balloon assembly reversibly attached to an orifice of the elongate tube and comprising an inflation catheter engaged with a gastric balloon, a handle member, and an engagement subassembly comprising a female portion and a male portion and configured and arranged for threading the inflation catheter into and engaging the elongate tube. |
| US10335301B2 |
Modular handle comprising a trigger wire actuation mechanism for a prosthesis delivery device
A handle assembly for a prosthesis delivery device is disclosed. The handle assembly comprises a stationary main handle having a proximal end and a distal end and an outer surface extending therebetween. A first helical groove is formed in at least a portion of the outer surface of the main handle and a first trigger wire actuation mechanism disposed about the main handle and rotatably moveable relative to the main handle. A first trigger wire is operatively connected to the first trigger wire actuation mechanism, the first trigger wire having a prosthesis capture condition and a prosthesis release condition. Movement of the first trigger wire actuation mechanism causes movement of the first trigger wire thereby moving the first trigger wire from the prosthesis capture condition to the prosthesis release condition. Additional trigger wire actuation mechanisms operatively connected to one or more additional trigger wires may also be disposed about the main handle. |
| US10335296B2 |
Graft within a graft endoluminal graft
A segmented endograft includes at least one positioning segment and at least one main body segment which are separately deployable. The at least one positioning segment and at least one main body segment may be connected one to another. For example, the at least one positioning segment and at least one main body segment may be connected along a portion of a circumference thereof, but unconnected along a remainder of the circumference thereof. The at least one positioning segment overlaps a portion of the at least one main body segment. Deployment systems may include the segmented endograft and the segmented endograft may be deployed according to various methods. |
| US10335293B2 |
Damping control method for lower-limb prostheses
A damping control method for a lower-limb prosthesis, comprising the following steps: isolate the driving motor of the lower-limb prosthesis from the driving voltage; the driving motor is driven to rotate by the force that results from locomotion of a human's CoM (Center of Mass), and generates an alternating induced voltage, when the driving motor behaves as a generator; connect output terminals of the driving motor with a full-bridge rectification circuit that is made of Schottky diodes to transform the alternating induced voltage to a direct-current voltage; connect the output terminals of the full-bridge rectification circuit with a controlled switch to form a closed circuit, which will generate induced current from the induced voltage; control the on-off ratio of the controlled switch with a Pulse-Width-Modulation signal to generate a controllable motor current, which will result in controllable braking torque under the magnet field of the driving motor. |
| US10335292B2 |
Torque measuring spring for a prosthetic device
An improvement to a prosthetic device which provides a spring member between first and second structural members that are rotatably connected to one another, the spring member providing predictable resistance as it is compressed by the rotation of the first and second structural members with respect to each other. The known resistance of the spring is used as an input to a model controlling a motor control circuit to provide counter-torque as rotational torque is applied to compress the spring. |
| US10335288B2 |
Surgical implant secured by pegs and associated methods
An apparatus and method is provided relating to artificial discs. An artificial disc is provided that facilitates simultaneous and independent articulation of flexion/extension, lateral bending, anterior/posterior translation, and axial rotation. The artificial disc provides these four simultaneous and independent articulations by independently addressing each type of articulation in the design of the artificial disc. In one example, an artificial disc is comprised of a bearing disposed between first and second end plates. The bearing is movable relative to each end plate, independent of the other end plate. The end plates are affixed to adjacent vertebrae. |
| US10335286B2 |
Expandable interspinous process spacer implant
An expandable interspinous spacer implant that is configured to be inserted into an interspinous space that is defined between a spinous process of a superior vertebral body and a spinous process of an inferior vertebral body is provided. The implant may include a superior housing, an inferior housing, and a distracting member. The superior housing may have an outer surface that is configured to engage the spinous process of the superior vertebral body and the inferior housing may have an outer surface that is configured to engage the spinous process of the inferior vertebral body. The distracting member may be disposed between the superior and inferior housings, such that activation of the distracting member distracts the superior and inferior housings apart from each other. |
| US10335283B2 |
Reverse hip system and method
A reverse hip prosthesis include an acetabular cup arrangement configured for insertion into an acetabulum of a patient and fixation therein, an acetabular ball configured for threaded attachment to the acetabular cup arrangement, a femoral stem configured for insertion into an intramedullary femoral canal of the patient, and a femoral cup arrangement configured for attachment to the femoral stem and to operatively receive the acetabular ball therein. The acetabular cup arrangement includes an anchor portion which becomes fixed to the patient's acetabulum and is the largest size suitable for the patient, and an insert which comes in different sizes and are connectable to the anchor portion, so that the most appropriate insert for the patient may be used. The acetabular cup arrangement and ball are interconnected with a threaded stem that also functions as an artificial Ligamentum Teres. |
| US10335280B2 |
Method for ablating target tissue of a patient
A method for treating a human patient includes emitting ultrasound energy from an ultrasound transducer positioned remotely from target tissue of the patient. The ultrasound transducer is positioned at a desired location relative to the patient and target tissue using location and imaging techniques. The method further includes focusing the ultrasound energy such that one or more focal points are directed to the target tissue of the patient and ablating the target tissue at each focal point. The target tissue is ablated via the focused ultrasound energy without ablating non-target tissue through which the ultrasound energy passes between the ultrasound transducer and the one or more focal points. |
| US10335276B2 |
TAVR ventricular catheter
A catheter for positioning a valve during a transcatheter aortic valve replacement is formed from a resilient hollow body conformable to a guide wire when a guide wire is passed in through an upper opening in the hollow body and through the hollow body. When the guide wire is retracted, the catheter deploys to form a substantially straight upper shaft portion that extends downwardly from the upper opening and a distal ring perpendicular to the upper shaft portion. The distal ring approximates the size and shape of the patient's aortic valve annulus. An outer surface of the distal ring is radiopaque, and the distal ring comprises openings for dispersing radio opaque medium used in imaging. The deployed catheter is retracted until it snugly contacts the aortic valve annulus. The distal ring will be viewed as a straight line when the x-ray C-arm is properly aligned with the aortic valve annulus. |
| US10335269B2 |
Speaking valve having a cover part formed at least partially of an elastic material
In order to solve the problem of providing a speaking valve which is of simple construction and which is inexpensive to produce, a speaking valve (1) is proposed which has a cover part (2), a controller (3), a housing part (5) and a filter (8), wherein the housing part provides a valve seat arranged proximally therein, wherein the controller comprises a closure part (4), and wherein the closure part cooperates with the valve seat when the speaking valve is moved from an open position into a closed position, wherein the cover part is formed at least partially of an elastic material, wherein an at least partial deformation of at least one region of the cover part takes place as a result of the speaking valve being moved from the open position into the closed position, and wherein the filter is arranged on the controller in such a way that the filter can substantially follow the movement of the controller. |
| US10335267B2 |
Intraocular lens having partly overlapping additional optical active sectors on opposite sides
An intraocular lens includes an optic having first and second sides. The optic has a first main lens surface at the first side, a second main lens surface at the second side, the first main lens surface providing a first main lens surface optical power, the second main lens surface providing a second main lens surface optical power, the first and second main lens surfaces providing a main lens having a main lens optical power and main optical axis defining radial, tangential and axial directions. The optic has: a first additional optical active part at the first side, providing a positive relative optical power with respect to the first main lens surface optical power; and a second additional optical active part at the second side, partly overlapping the first additional optical active part, providing a relative optical power and/or optical aberration with respect to the second main lens surface. |
| US10335264B2 |
Vascular graft
Provided is an artificial blood vessel including a cylindrical inner tube having a hollow part formed therein; an outer tube provided at an outer circumferential surface of the inner tube and surrounding the inner tube so as to form a double tube structure with the inner tube; and a connecting line formed in circumferential directions of the inner tube and the outer tube to connect the inner tube and the outer tube. |
| US10335261B2 |
Vessel filter and methods for use
An apparatus and methods for use are provided, where the apparatus includes: (a) a filter, and (b) a frame having a first end and a second end, wherein the frame includes a first support and a second support extending between the first end and the second end, wherein at least the first support and the second support of the frame are coupled to at least a portion of a periphery of the filter, wherein the frame and the filter together define a lumen, wherein the frame has shape memory and is movable between a first position in which the lumen has a first diameter and a second position in which the lumen has a second diameter, and wherein the first diameter is smaller than the second diameter. |
| US10335259B2 |
3D filter for prevention of stroke
The present invention relates to implantable endoluminal prosthesis for preventing stroke. The endoluminal prosthesis (1) consists of a braided framework (20) defining a cylindrical lumen (21) devoid of impermeable membrane. Said braided framework (20) is self-expandable comprising a plurality of layers (22, 23, 24) of wires (25) made of biocompatible material. Each layer forms a mesh. The meshes form a lattice with a plurality of wires (2) of given layers (22, 23, 24). The lattice defines polygonal opening units (26) when observed normal to a wall of the implantable endoluminal prosthesis (1). The diameter (Ø25) of wire (25) being at least 30 μm and at most 150 μm, the mean diameter (Ø27) of the inscribed circle (27) of the polygonal opening units (26) being at least 75 μm and at most 200 μm in fully expanded state. The braided framework (20) consists of at least 128 and at most 512 wires (25). The ratio (T1/Ø25) of the thickness (T1) of a wall of said implantable endoluminal prosthesis (1) to the diameter (Ø25) of wire (25) is at least 3.0. In a fully expanded state, the surface coverage ratio (SCR) of said braided framework (20) is more than 50% and less than 90%. |
| US10335258B2 |
Prosthesis for repairing a hernia defect
A prosthesis for repairing a hernia defect includes a patch body, a hoisting frame releasably attachable to the patch body, and a tether attached to the hoisting frame with a free end extendable through the thickness of the patch body and accessible from the side of the patch body opposite to where the hoisting frame is releasably attached. The patch body and/or the hoisting frame includes a self-expanding support member. The hoisting frame includes a frame body with an outer frame component and a force translation component for directing pulling forces on the tether across the frame body. The outer frame component has a loop configuration to generally follow the patch periphery with overlapping end portions or a gap between free ends thereof. The force translation component is separable into multiple segments to facilitate withdrawal of the hoisting frame through an opening when released from the patch. |
| US10335256B2 |
Surgical articles and methods for treating pelvic conditions
Described are pelvic implants and methods of surgically placing pelvic implants, that provide treatment for pelvic floor disorders by support of the levator. |
| US10335254B2 |
Method and apparatus for recording spatial gingival soft tissue relationship to implant placement within alveolar bone for immediate-implant placement
A dental implant has a hollow shell with outer bio-compatible surface for engaging a soft tissue socket left in gingival tissue after a tooth has been extracted, to promote healing. The shell tapers outwardly from a first to a second perimeter, the second perimeter being asymmetrically scalloped with opposite distal and mesial peaks and opposite lingual and facial valleys between the peaks. A dental implant in the bone socket left after tooth extraction is rigidly connected to a temporary post, the temporary post extending in the shell. The shell engages against the soft tissue socket without gaps and without requiring alignment between the shell and implant axes. |
| US10335253B2 |
Tooth-positioning appliance for closing spaces
A tooth-positioning appliance for closing spaces has at least two appliance segments, each segment having a thin elastomeric shell with recesses for removably engaging a set of teeth, and tooth-clasping elements for removably engaging bonded attachments protruding from the teeth. One of the appliance segments includes a flat receptacle extending horizontally on the thin shell of the appliance segment, and the other appliance segment has a thin elongated tab extending laterally from the second appliance segment spanning the space to be closed, and in sliding engagement with the flat receptacle of the other appliance segment. An activating element is connected between the appliance segments to exert a force to change the size of the space between the sets of teeth as the tab slides with respect to the flat receptacle. |
| US10335252B2 |
System and method for digital tooth imaging
Method and system for managing multiple impressions of a patient's jaw for an orthodontic treatment is provided. The method includes scanning at least a first impression and a second impression of same jaw for the orthodontic treatment; determining if the first jaw impression and the second jaw impression have distortion in different areas; selecting the first jaw impression or the second jaw impression as a base impression; and replacing a distorted tooth data from the base impression with data for the same tooth from a non-base impression. The method also includes scanning at least a first jaw impression for the orthodontic treatment; scanning a bite impression for the orthodontic treatment; matching the scanned first jaw impression with the scanned bite impression; comparing bite information with a tooth occlusal surface; and determining if reconstruction is to be performed on the tooth occlusal surface. |
| US10335250B2 |
Three-dimensional printed dental appliances using lattices
Method and apparatus for fabricating an oral appliance are described for correcting malocclusions on a dentition of a subject. A three-dimensional representation of the dentition may be captured and a free-form structure having a lattice structure which matches at least part of a surface of the dentition is generated. The lattice structure defines a plurality of open spaces such that the free-form structure is at least partially transparent. The lattice structure may then be manufactured by impregnating or covering a coating into or upon the lattice structure such that the oral appliance is formed. |
| US10335248B2 |
Therapeutic tooth bud ablation
A method for fabricating a custom surgical stent. A human third molar tooth bud ablation system for use in a tooth bud ablation procedure that results in tooth agenesis. A tooth bud ablation procedure that results in tooth agenesis. These methods, systems, and procedures may include and/or use ablation probe tips and/or stents. |
| US10335246B2 |
Disposable kit for medical apparatus
A disposable kit for a medical apparatus includes a tray and a subassembly with sections foldably connected to each other. At least one of the sections can fold itself onto the tray so that the subassembly encloses a region of the tray. When the tray is laid on the subassembly in a predetermined position, elevated channel regions formed on a front side of the tray and facing the subassembly can accommodate component installations of the subassembly, and a section of the subassembly can be folded to the rear side of the tray so that component installations on that section can be accommodated in elevated channel regions formed on the rear side of the tray. In this manner, the subassembly forms a hard-shell that at least partially surrounds the tray and protects pre-installed or packed pressure-sensitive components, parts and or regions of the disposable kit. |
| US10335245B2 |
Packaging, packaging assembly, and method for using the same
A packaging assembly is arranged for holding an article at a predetermined location relative to the packaging assembly in closed and open configurations of the packaging assembly. The packaging assembly includes at least two sections arranged to be secured in place relative to one another in the closed configuration of the packaging assembly, and move relative to one another in the open configuration of the packaging assembly. The at least two sections form an inner surface defining an attachment area for receiving the article. The packaging assembly includes at least one instruction area located along the inner surface and having indicia pointing to features of an article for placement in the packaging assembly and displayed relative to the attachment area. |
| US10335240B2 |
Endovascular navigation system and method
The endovascular navigation system includes an elongate flexible member configured to access the venous vasculature of a patient, a sensor disposed at a distal end of the elongate flexible member and configured to sense a physiological characteristic of the venous vasculature, a processor and an output device. The processor is configured to receive and process the physiological characteristic of the venous vasculature, and to determine that the position of the distal end of the elongate flexible member is within a predetermined structure within the venous vasculature. The output device is configured to display a visual indication that the distal end of the elongate flexible member is within the predetermined structure within the venous vasculature, where the visual indication is different from the physiological characteristic of the venous vasculature of the patient. |
| US10335236B1 |
Surgical system using a registration device
A system and method creates a patient-specific surgical plan for use during a surgical procedure. The plan may reference an instrument for registering a portion of a patient during the procedure. The plan may be based on a computer-generated model of a portion of the patient's anatomy. The plan may be provided to a surgeon who uses the registration instrument to register the portion of the patient's anatomy according to the plan. Spatial location data for a plurality of points on the instrument and/or on the patient's anatomy may be obtained, and a patient-based coordinate system may be established using the registration instrument, the captured spatial location data or combinations thereof. The coordinate system may be used to attach one or more prosthetic components to the patient at locations and/or orientations specified in the plan. |
| US10335232B2 |
Apparatus for using intense pulsed light to non-invasively treat blepharitis, dryeye, conjunctival blood vessels, pigmented lesions, and other problems of the eye and eyelid
A new configuration of Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) equipment includes a handpiece that allows the application of IPL directly to the eye and eyelid. The handpiece is sized and configured for precise digital manipulation. The invention also includes a distance guide for maintaining precise distances between the area to be treated and a crystal mounted in the handpiece. Eye shields protect the cornea and surrounding sclera during the application of IPL. |
| US10335230B2 |
Systems for thermal-feedback-controlled rate of fluid flow to fluid-cooled antenna assembly and methods of directing energy to tissue using same
A method of directing energy to tissue using a fluid-cooled antenna assembly includes the initial step of providing an energy applicator. The energy applicator includes an antenna assembly and a hub providing at least one coolant connection to the energy applicator. The method also includes the steps of providing a coolant supply system including a fluid-flow path fluidly-coupled to the hub for providing fluid flow to the energy applicator, positioning the energy applicator in tissue for the delivery of energy to tissue when the antenna assembly is energized, and providing a thermal-feedback-controlled rate of fluid flow to the antenna assembly when energized using a feedback control system operably-coupled to a flow-control device disposed in fluid communication with the fluid-flow path. |
| US10335226B2 |
Surgical forceps capable of adjusting sealing pressure based on vessel size
A surgical forceps includes a housing having one or more shafts attached thereto and an end effector assembly disposed at a distal end thereof. The end effector assembly includes first and second jaw members disposed in opposing relation relative to one another. At least one jaw member is moveable from an open position to a closed position for grasping tissue therebetween. The jaw members include at least one sensing component that determines an output of one or both of cross-sectional diameter and composition of tissue disposed between the jaw members. A processing component is configured to receive the output and determine a seal pressure for adequately sealing tissue disposed between the jaw members based upon the output. A regulating component regulates the movement of the jaw members between the first and second positions such that the determined seal pressure is applied to tissue disposed therebetween. |
| US10335222B2 |
Induction coil vapor generator
An induction coil vapor generator is provided that may include any of a number of features. One feature of the vapor generator is that it can inductively generate high quality condensable vapor. The vapor generator can comprise an outer assembly that supports a coil wire, and an inner assembly disposed in the outer assembly. The inner assembly can house a plurality of microtubes configured to be inductively heated by the coil wire to convert a fluid to condensable vapor. The generator can be disposed in a medical device to treat tissue with vapor. One feature of the medical device is that it can apply condensable vapor energy to tissue, such as a prostrate, to shrink, damage, denaturate the prostate. Methods associated with use of the vapor generator are also covered. |
| US10335221B2 |
Methods and devices to treat nasal airways
Methods and devices for treating nasal airways are provided. Such devices and methods may improve airflow through an internal and/or external nasal valve, and comprise the use of mechanical re-shaping, energy application and other treatments to modify the shape, structure, and/or air flow characteristics of an internal nasal valve, an external nasal valve or other nasal airways. |
| US10335215B2 |
Bone screw with self-constrained flexibility
A bone screw is provided including a longitudinal core member having a longitudinal axis defining a longitudinal direction and having an outer surface and a helical groove in the outer surface, the groove being defined by opposed sidewalls; and a helical thread body configured to be accommodated in the groove. When the thread body is assembled in the groove of the core member and when the core member is straight, the thread body is configured to abut one opposed sidewall without abutting the other opposed sidewall along a full turn of the thread body, the thread body is configured to slide in the groove between the opposed sidewalls of the helical groove parallel to the longitudinal axis, and a first portion of the thread body that is outside the helical groove has a height greater than a second portion of the thread body that is in the helical groove. |
| US10335213B2 |
Bone plate with a bone screw
The invention relates to an osteosynthesis device with a bone plate and with at least one bone screw, wherein the bone plate has at least one through-hole with a conical inner thread formed at least in part in the through-hole. Moreover, the bone screw has a screw shank and also a screw head with a conical thread, with the possibility of forming a connection at a variable and stable angle between bone screw and bone plate by receiving the screw head with conical outer thread in the respective through-hole of the bone plate. According to the invention, the thread in the screw head has a first portion A with a first conicity and a second portion B with a second conicity, wherein a zone of discontinuity with respect to the conicity is present between the first portion A and the second portion B. |
| US10335209B2 |
Systems and methods for spinal fixation
A rod inserter tool for inserting a rod into a surgical site, and a rod inserter tool assembly is provided. The tool includes a handle disposed at a proximal end of a shaft. An interior rod actuates the rod so as to rotate the rod generally 90 degrees. In one embodiment, the rod inserter tool includes a rack-and-pinion mechanism that is configured to slide out of the shaft and to rotate the rod about an axis orthogonal to the shaft. In another embodiment, the interior rod is rotatably coupled to the rod so as to rotate the rod when driven axially. In one embodiment, the handle is threaded to an interior of the shaft. |
| US10335205B2 |
MIS cross-connector
A bone fixation system for implanting in bone, the system comprising a plurality of bone fastener assemblies that attach to bone, a pair of elongate members that attach to the plurality of bone fastener assemblies, a connector member that contacts the pair of elongate members, and a plurality of locking caps that secure the connector member and the elongate members to the plurality of bone fastener assemblies, wherein at least one of the plurality of locking caps comprises a cap portion and a hook portion, where the cap portion is adapted to rotate while the hook portion is stationary. |
| US10335204B2 |
Bone anchoring device
A polyaxial bone anchoring device includes a bone anchoring element having a head and a shaft, a receiving part having a head receiving portion, a rod receiving portion, and a bore having a bore axis, and a pressure member movable in the bore and having a first surface for engaging the head, wherein the pressure member is movable to a first position where friction between the first surface and the head generates a preload on the head to maintain the shaft at a temporary angular position relative to the receiving part, and wherein the pressure member is configured to engage the receiving part to generate a holding force for holding the pressure member at the first position without a positive lock, and wherein the pressure member is movable in and out of the first position by applying an axial force on the pressure member greater than the holding force. |
| US10335203B2 |
Polyaxial screw for surgical implant
A polyaxial screw for surgical implant comprising an axially hollow central body; an anchoring element having an anchoring portion and a coupling portion, said anchoring portion projecting from said central body and said coupling portion being received inside the axial cavity of said central body; an insert axially received inside said axial cavity of the central body and an attachment element suitable to couple internally to said central body, characterized in that said insert has an elastic portion able to apply to at least a portion of the anchoring element a distributed compression load the resultant force of which being directed along the central axis X. |
| US10335201B2 |
Spinal implant system and methods of use
A bone fastener comprises a first member defining an implant cavity. A first part is disposed with the implant cavity and engageable with an implant. A second member is configured to penetrate tissue and includes a mating surface engageable with the first member such that the members are expandable. Implants, spinal constructs, systems, instruments and methods are disclosed. |
| US10335200B2 |
Pivotal bone anchor assembly with twist-in-place insert having alignment notches
A pivotal bone anchor assembly includes a shank, a receiver with an open channel in communication with a central bore, and a pressure insert with an upwardly-facing seating surface for receiving an elongate rod. The receiver bore includes a downwardly-facing surface below a closure top mating feature and one or more integral structures protruding inwardly toward a central longitudinal axis. The insert includes one or more notches formed into an outer side surface and an upwardly-facing surface positioned radially outward from the seating surface. Upon installation into the receiver bore, the insert is rotatable about the longitudinal axis until the insert upwardly-facing surface is rotated under the receiver downwardly-facing surface to inhibit upward movement of the insert within the receiver bore along the longitudinal axis and the receiver inwardly-protruding structures become positioned within the insert outer notches to prevent further rotation of the insert within the receiver bore. |
| US10335199B2 |
Spinal correction construct and method
A method for treating a spinal disorder includes the steps of: disposing an expandable spinal construct in a selected configuration; fixing the spinal construct in the selected configuration with a member; attaching a first end of the spinal construct with tissue; attaching a second end of the spinal construct with tissue; and disengaging the member from the spinal construct to release the spinal construct from the selected configuration. Implants, surgical instruments, systems and methods are disclosed. |
| US10335198B2 |
Screw element for use in spinal, orthopedic or trauma surgery and a system of such a screw element and a screw driver adapted thereto
A screw element includes a screw axis, a shank for inserting in a bone, and a drive portion for engaging a screw driver. The drive portion includes a first wall defining a first recess and a second wall defining a second recess. Drive grooves are formed in the first wall and extend parallel to the screw axis. The second wall extends axially from a free end portion of the screw element to the first wall and has an inner diameter that continuously increases from the first wall towards the free end portion. A plurality of guide grooves are formed in the second wall at circumferential positions corresponding respectively to circumferential positions of the drive grooves. The guide grooves extend further radially from the screw axis than the drive grooves and guide the screw driver from the free end portion of the screw element to the drive grooves. |
| US10335192B2 |
Apparatus for determining a property of an object using ultrasound scatter
A monitoring apparatus for monitoring an ablation procedure applied to an object comprises an ultrasound signal providing unit for providing an ultrasound signal. The ultrasound signal is produced by sending ultrasound pulses out to the object, by subsequently receiving dynamic echo series after the ultrasound pulses have been reflected by the object, and finally by generating the ultrasound signal depending on the received dynamic echo series, whereby ultrasound scattering properties of the object are determined that represent blood perfusion. The monitoring apparatus further comprises an ablation depth determination unit for determining an ablation depth from the provided ultrasound signal. |
| US10335189B2 |
Systems and methods for percutaneous division of fibrous structures
A device for dividing a fibrous structure comprising a catheter; an expandable member positioned near a distal end of the catheter and in fluid communication with a lumen of the catheter; and a cutting element situated on an outer surface of the expandable member. A method for dividing a fibrous structure comprising positioning, proximate the fibrous structure, an expandable member having a cutting element situated thereon; expanding the expandable member outwards to tension the fibrous structure across the cutting element; and activating the cutting element to weaken or cut the fibrous structure. A method for treating carpal tunnel syndrome comprising inserting a needle into the carpal tunnel; directing a guidewire to a position proximate the transverse carpal ligament; advancing, along the guidewire, a device having an expandable member and a cutting element; positioning the cutting element; tensioning the ligament across the cutting element; and weakening or cutting the ligament. |
| US10335182B2 |
Surgical instruments with articulating shafts
Various embodiments are directed to articulatable surgical instruments and surgical systems comprising articulatable surgical instruments. Some embodiments comprise an end effector to treat tissue, where the end effector comprises an ultrasonic blade. A hollow shaft may extend proximally from the end effector along a longitudinal axis. A waveguide may extend through the hollow shaft and may be acoustically coupled to the ultrasonic blade. The waveguide may comprise a distally positioned flange positioned within the hollow shaft proximally from the ultrasonic blade and may be held stationary at a first pivot point positioned within the hollow shaft proximally from the flange. A reciprocatable wedge may be configured to interact with the flange to cause the ultrasonic blade to pivot about the first pivot point in a first direction. |
| US10335180B2 |
Motor control and feedback in powered surgical devices
Surgical devices and methods are described herein that provide improved motor control and feedback, thereby combining advantages of manually-operated and powered surgical devices. In one embodiment, a surgical device includes a proximal handle portion that includes a motor, a distal end effector coupled to the handle portion, and a cutting element configured to cut tissue engaged by the end effector, wherein the motor is configured to supply power that moves the cutting element. The device also includes a motor control mechanism configured to cause the amount of the power to dynamically change in response to a manual user input when the cutting element is moving. |
| US10335177B2 |
Medical instrument with snake wrist structure
A medical instrument includes a snake wrist structure further including: a first joint disk having a first rim having a first tooth slot and a first toothed gear with the first tooth slot opposite the first toothed gear along the first rim; and a first strut having a first slot bearing and a first hole bearing connected by a first connection strut with the first slot bearing in the first tooth slot. |
| US10335175B2 |
Apparatus for removing calculus in vitro
Disclosed is a lithagogue equipment in vitro, comprising a vibrating bed (10) and a control device (20) located externally, wherein said vibrating bed (10) includes a primary oscillator (111) located above a bed body (102) and connected therewith via an adjustable mechanical arm (108) and a sub oscillator (107) protruding from an upper surface of the bed body (120), wherein said control device (20) is used for controlling the vibration of the primary oscillator (111) and the sub oscillator (107) and the movement of the bed body (102). Said control device (20) and said vibrating bed (10) are separated from each other, and a display (201) is arranged on the control device (20). Accordingly, medical personnel are able to timely adjust the vibrating bed (10), the primary oscillator (111) and the sub vibrator (107) based on the calculus condition displayed via the display (201), greatly improving the operational efficiency. |
| US10335174B2 |
System and method for re-entering a vessel lumen
This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for re-entering the true lumen of a vessel. The re-entry catheters employ deflectable struts to stabilize and support the distal tip in a subintimal location while a passageway back into the true lumen is formed. Re-entry to the true lumen can be effected with a cutting element or with a conventional guidewire. |
| US10335173B2 |
Re-entry stylet for catheter
A stylet for re-entry into a vessel includes an elongate body including a proximal portion, a middle curved portion, a pointed distal end, and a longitudinal axis extending through the proximal portion, the middle curved portion, and the pointed distal end. The proximal portion and the middle curved portion have substantially circular cross-sections. The middle curved portion has a pre-shaped curve along the longitudinal axis configured to match a curve of an occlusion-crossing device. The pointed distal end has an s-curve along the longitudinal axis and a flattened portion along the longitudinal axis, the flattened portion having a substantially oblong cross-section. |
| US10335169B2 |
Angled orthopaedic driver
An orthopedic driver includes a drivetrain having a driven end and a second end opposite the driven end, the drivetrain defining a first axis; an instrument connector rotatably coupled to the second end of the drivetrain and defining a second axis angled relative to the first axis; an angling bushing associated with the instrument connector; and a housing having a straight portion covering at least a portion of the drivetrain and an angled portion connected to the straight portion, the angled portion interacting with the angling bushing to hold the instrument connector angled relative to the drivetrain. |
| US10335168B2 |
Retro-cutting instrument with adjustable limit setting
Cutting instruments and related methods are disclosed herein in which the diameter of the retrograde cutting blade can be adjusted to any of a plurality of diameter settings, allowing the same instrument to be used to form holes of different diameters. The limit diameter can be preset such that, during the cutting operation, the user need not be concerned with selecting the appropriate diameter, but rather can simply deploy the cutting blade until the preset limit is reached. Cutting instruments are also disclosed in which the retrograde cutting blade is distinct from the forward drilling tip and protected within a cavity formed in the body of the instrument when not in use, as are instruments in which the user is given visual and/or tactile feedback to confirm desired positioning of the cutting blade. |
| US10335166B2 |
Surgical burs with decoupled rake surfaces and corresponding axial and radial rake angles
A surgical bur including flutes and lands. Each of the flutes includes a cutting edge, rake surfaces and a clearance surface. The rake surfaces of one of the flutes are decoupled from each other. Each of the lands is disposed between a pair of the flutes. |
| US10335165B2 |
Bone punch with secure punching slide
A bone punch includes a base body with a guide shaft (3), a handle (4) and a punching slide (8) supported adjustably along an upper guiding surface (13) of the guide shaft (3). An actuating lever (6) with an adjusting lever (65) interacts with the punching slide (8) for adjustment against a spring action of a restoring spring (46). In a distal end area (10), the punching slide (8) has a securing element (45), which extends between two side walls (25, 26) of the punching slide (8) on the guide shaft (3). The securing element (45) has two laterally protruding positive-locking elements (51, 52). Each side wall (25, 26) is provided with an inner, distally limited longitudinal groove (40, 41) running in the longitudinal direction (9) of the guide shaft (5). Each positive-locking element (51, 52) is longitudinally displaceably inserted into a respective one of the grooves (40, 41). |
| US10335150B2 |
Staple cartridge comprising an implantable layer
A Staple cartridge assembly for stapling patient tissue is disclosed comprising a staple cartridge including a deck. The deck includes a plurality of staple cavities and is configured to support the tissue. The staple cartridge assembly further includes a plurality of staples removably stored in the staple cavities and an implantable layer positioned adjacent to the deck. The implantable layer comprises a composite absorbable material, wherein the composite absorbable material comprises at least two distinct fibrous materials. At least one freeze-dried medicament is releasably held on at least one of the fibrous materials. The staple cartridge assembly further includes a liquid impermeable film wrapped around the staple cartridge and the implantable layer. |
| US10335149B2 |
Articulatable surgical instruments with composite firing beam structures with center firing support member for articulation support
A surgical stapling instrument comprising an elongate shaft that includes a surgical end effector that is operably coupled thereto by an articulation joint. The surgical instrument may include a central firing beam support member that extends across the articulation joint and is coupled to the surgical end effector and the elongate shaft assembly. A longitudinally movable flexible firing beam assembly may be configured to traverse the articulation joint. The firing beam assembly may comprise a plurality of beam layers that are supported relative to each other such that at least one of the beam layers is configured to movably pass on one lateral side of the central firing beam support member and at least one other of the beam layers is configured to movably pass on another lateral side of the firing beam support m member. |
| US10335147B2 |
Method of using lockout features for surgical stapler cartridge
A surgical instrument comprises a body, shaft, and end effector. The shaft couples the end effector and body together. The end effector comprises an anvil and lower jaw configured to receive a surgical staple cartridge. The anvil is configured to pivot toward and away from the staple cartridge and lower jaw. The shaft assembly comprises a knife member configured to longitudinally translate to thereby substantially simultaneously cut clamped tissue and staple the severed tissue. The end effector may comprise lockout features configure to prevent longitudinal translation of the knife member. The end effector or staple cartridge may comprise lockout bypass features configured to prevent lockout of the knife member. These lockout bypass features may operate to permit longitudinal translation of the knife member once or multiple times. The end effector may comprise features configured to ensure proper alignment of the anvil relative to the staple cartridge. |
| US10335145B2 |
Modular surgical instrument with configurable operating mode
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for operating and controlling a modular surgical instrument comprising an operating mode. A controller may receive electrical signal associated with an activation of at least one user-actuated input device electrically coupled to the controller and override the operating mode of the surgical instrument upon receiving the electrical signal. |
| US10335144B2 |
Surgical instrument
A surgical stapling instrument comprising a stapling assembly, a shaft, a firing member, a closure member, a manually-actuatable closure trigger, and a motor is disclosed. The stapling assembly comprises a first jaw and a second jaw. The first jaw is movably coupled to the second jaw. The shaft is configured to support the stapling assembly. The firing member is configured to transmit a firing motion to the stapling assembly. The firing member comprises a cutting member, a first camming member configured to engage the first jaw, and a second camming member configured to engage the second jaw. The closure member is configured to transmit a push-to-close motion to the stapling assembly. The manually-actuatable closure trigger is operable to impart the push-to-close motion to the closure member. The motor is operably coupled to the firing member to impart the firing motion to the firing member. |
| US10335140B2 |
Meniscal repair systems and methods
A device for repairing a tear in a portion of tissue comprises a proximal actuator portion, a transfer needle extending distally from the proximal actuator portion and a catch needle extending distally from the proximal actuator portion. A suture needle is disposed in the transfer needle, and is extendable from the transfer needle toward the catch needle and retractable from the catch needle toward the transfer needle. An extendable catch plunger is disposed in the catch needle for capturing suture therein when it is transferred from the transfer needle. A retractable insertion sheath is provided for covering the transfer needle and the catch needle when the device is inserted into a procedural site. A depth limiting apparatus limits the depth of insertion of the needle into the procedural site. |
| US10335139B2 |
Instruments for delivering transfascial sutures, transfascial suture assemblies, and methods of transfascial suturing
An instrument for delivering a suture transfascially may include a handle, a shaft extending from the handle, and a pair of needles that are moveable to an extended position beyond the end of the shaft. One or more sutures are carried by the instrument and may be delivered transfascially. A transfascial suture assembly includes a suture having a first segment, a second segment, and an intermediate segment therebetween. A force distributing member is locatable at the intermediate segment. Suture retainers may be provided at the end of each suture segment, and may have a connection that is moveable relative to the portion of the suture segment connected therewith. A method of delivering transfascial sutures includes inserting a twin-needle instrument loaded with one or more sutures into an abdominal cavity and deploying, from within the abdominal cavity, the suture carrying needles through a soft tissue repair patch and then through at least part of the abdominal wall. |
| US10335136B2 |
Tensionable constructs with multi-limb locking mechanism through single splice and methods of tissue repair
Systems and methods for soft tissue to bone repairs, without knot tying. Soft tissue repair systems include self-cinching constructs with a fixation device, a flexible strand with multiple flexible limbs, and a shuttle/pull device attached to the flexible strand to shuttle the multiple flexible limbs through the flexible strand and form a locking splice. |
| US10335135B2 |
Fixing device for suture threads to be inserted into a bone tissue
A fixing device for suture threads to be inserted into a bone tissue comprises: a first portion (11) provided with at least a first eyelet (10), slot or eye, through which at least a first suture thread (4) can be threaded; at least a second portion (12) destined to be coupled stably in a transosseus seating or hole (5) afforded in a cortical part thereof. The second portion (12) is elastically deformable in order to enable effective coupling to the seating or hole (5). |
| US10335134B2 |
Magnaretractor system and method
A system and method for performing surgical procedures within a body cavity, e.g. abdomen, uses a magnetized device is utilized to allow a surgeon to control intra-abdominal organs and objects. The system and method allows a surgeon to perform an intra-abdominal procedure without the need to position surgical tools inside of the body cavity. Additional surgical ports are not necessary as the magnetized device allows the surgeon to retract or position various objects within the abdomen. |
| US10335131B2 |
Methods for preventing tissue migration
A method of inhibiting tissue migration comprises positioning an open area of a hood against or adjacent to a tissue region. The method also comprises displacing an opaque fluid with a transparent fluid from the open area. The method includes engaging a portion of the tissue region within the open area via an end effector advanced through the open area and which grasps onto the portion. The end effector includes a tapered section, tapered along its entire length, through which a lumen extends. The tapered section includes threads extending from a surface of the tapered section in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis. The tissue region is pierced while displacing the opaque fluid with the transparent fluid through the distal opening of the hood and while maintaining engagement of the portion of the tissue region such that distal movement of the tissue is inhibited. |
| US10335127B2 |
Biopsy device with selectable tissue receiving aperature orientation and site illumination
A method for collecting a tissue specimen from a target site within a patient includes rotating an elongated tubular section about a longitudinal axis to provide a desired aperture orientation of a tissue receiving aperture; applying a vacuum within the elongated tubular section to draw tissue at the tissue site through the tissue receiving aperture of the elongated tubular section into the interior thereof; advancing an elongated tissue cutting member longitudinally within the elongated tubular section to cut a tissue specimen from the tissue extending into the elongated tubular section; and applying a vacuum to the proximal end of the elongated tissue cutting member for transporting a cut tissue specimen through the inner lumen of the elongated tissue cutting member to discharge the cut tissue specimen directly from the proximal end of the elongated tissue cutting member into a tissue collection device. |
| US10335124B1 |
Marker delivery device with adaptor for biopsy site marking and method of use thereof
A marker delivery device includes a cannula with a first end, a second end, a marker exit near the second end, a handle into which the cannula extends or to which the cannula is attached, the cannula being capable of receiving a plunger and rod that are operable to deploy a marker from the marker exit, the marker delivery device further including a tapered adaptor portion attached to or surrounding the cannula and abutting the handle. The tapered adaptor portion is configured to engage a plurality of different sleeves for differing biopsy devices. Various aspects offer improved ease of removal from commercially available biopsy devices due to its “pinch release” feature. Various aspects of the device allow use with multiple commercially available biopsy devices so as to ensure proper positioning of the devices for marker deployment. |
| US10335122B2 |
Multi-chamber tissue sample cup for biopsy device
A biopsy device includes a body, a needle, a cutter, and a tissue sample holder. The needle extends distally from the body. The cutter is longitudinally translatable relative to the needle and defines a cutter lumen. The tissue sample holder includes a rotatable member, an individual sample tray, and one or more bulk sample trays. The rotatable member defines a single chamber partially divided by a plurality of tray protrusions extending radially inwardly from a cylindrical wall of the rotatable member. The individual sample tray includes a single sample chamber that is configured to receive a single tissue sample. The bulk sample tray is configured to receive a plurality of tissue samples. |
| US10335115B2 |
Multi-view, multi-source registration of moving anatomies and devices
Multi-source, multi-type image registration is provided. Images are received from a plurality of image devices, and images are received from a medical imaging device. A pre-existing diagram of a probe of the medical imaging device is received. A four-dimensional model is determined based on the received images from the image devices. A pose of the probe of the medical imaging device is determined based on the pre-existing diagram of the probe and the received images from the image devices. The plurality of images from the medical imaging device are registered with the four-dimensional model based on a common coordinate system and the determined pose of the probe. |
| US10335112B2 |
X-ray CT apparatus and control method for the X-ray CT apparatus
In order to appropriately reduce time until scanning can be started after preparation in both an operation console and a scan room is completed, an X-ray CT apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a rotation disk, an image calculation device, a display device, a system control device, an operation console instruction device that instructs the system control device to prepare, start, and stop scanning in an operation console, and a scan gantry instruction device that instructs the system control device to prepare, start, and stop scanning in a scan room, in which the system control device includes a scanning preparation control unit that performs some scanning preparation processes among a plurality of scanning preparation processes on the basis of an instruction for scanning preparation from the operation console instruction device or the scan gantry instruction device. |
| US10335111B2 |
Electronic cassette system and electronic cassette
A center position of a female connector is located near to a rear surface of a housing compared with a center position of the housing in a thickness direction of the housing of an electronic cassette. An inclined surface, which is inclined relative to a side surface and the rear surface of the housing, is formed between the side surface and the rear surface. The female connector is formed on the inclined surface. Therefore, it is possible to attach an outer grid provided with a longer side panel to the housing, in comparison with the case where the center position of the female connector is made coincident with the center position of the housing in the thickness direction of the housing, without requiring any processing. |
| US10335107B2 |
Tomographic image generation device and method, and recording medium
An image obtaining unit obtaining a plurality of projection images taken by imaging a subject with different radiation source positions. A pixel value projecting unit projects pixel values of the projection images on coordinate positions on a desired slice plane of the subject based on the positional relationship between the radiation source position with which each projection image is taken and the radiation detector, while preserving pixel values of the projection images. A pixel value calculating unit calculates a pixel value at each coordinate position of interest on the slice plane based on a plurality of pixel values of the projection images projected in a predetermined range relative to the coordinate position of interest on the slice plane to thereby generate a tomographic image of the slice plane. |
| US10335106B2 |
Computing system and method for identifying and visualizing cerebral thrombosis based on medical images
Disclosed are a computing system and method for identifying and visualizing a thrombosis. The method includes: registering an acquired computer tomography (CT) image of an examinee and a computer tomography angiography (CTA) image-based average standard model to each other; identifying a candidate blood vessel region from the CT image based on the results of the registration; acquiring a volume, selected by applying a threshold value for the brightness of the CT image to the candidate blood vessel region, as a first thrombosis candidate region; acquiring at least part of the first thrombosis candidate region as a second thrombosis candidate region based on the size information of the first thrombosis candidate region; and visualizing the second thrombosis candidate region by assigning a visual effect, adapted to distinguish the second thrombosis candidate region from the remaining portion of the CT image, to the second thrombosis candidate region. |
| US10335103B2 |
Image display system, radiation imaging system, recording medium storing image display control program, and image display control method
An image display system, radiation imaging system, image display control program and image display control method, which make the position of an object of interest easier to perceive, are provided. A tomographic image generation section generates a tomographic image DG. A nipple height specification section specifies the height of a nipple P as measured from an imaging plane on the basis of the generated tomographic image DG. An image display control section controls displays at a display, via an interface section, such that an information image IG is displayed together with the generated tomographic image DG. The information image IG indicates the height of the nipple P and the slice height of the tomographic image DG that is being displayed. |
| US10335101B2 |
Integrated portable digital x-ray imaging system
A method for processing a radiographic image of a patient, executed at least in part on a host processor, initiates exposure in response to an instruction entered from an operator console and obtains radiographic image data from a digital detector that is subjected to the exposure. The obtained radiographic image data is analyzed according to a set of predefined criteria for diagnostic suitability of the image. One or more results of the diagnostic suitability analysis at the operator console is indicated and a listing of one or more corrective actions at the operator console according to the indicated results is provided. |
| US10335099B2 |
Periodontal disease testing apparatus and image processing program used therein
A periodontal disease testing apparatus of the present invention includes: an X-ray CT scanner photographing a portion including a tooth, a gingiva, and alveolar bone within an oral cavity to generate volume data of the portion; region setting means setting a related region of a subject tooth based on the volume data; defining means defining a principal axis of the subject tooth; correcting means correcting the related region so as to align the principal axis of the subject tooth with a normal direction of a cross-section of an X-ray CT image; multi-planar reconstruction image generating means generating a multi-planar reconstruction image of the corrected related region; means for generating developed image and the like transforming a coordinate of the related region to generate a developed image and a rotated image; and navigating means indicating correspondences of a spatial coordinate among the multi-planar reconstruction image, the developed image, and the rotated image. |
| US10335097B2 |
Patient-supporting unit for a device for supporting a patient, who is to be X-rayed, during an operation
A patient-supporting device is disclosed. The patient-supporting device includes a fastening assembly that fastens the patient-supporting device to a structural member, a support member configured to receive a body part of a patient, and a height adjustment assembly that adjusts a distance between the fastening assembly and the support member. The height adjustment assembly includes a locking assembly and an elongated member. The support member is attached to a first end portion of the elongated member. The locking assembly is stationary relative to the fastening assembly. The elongated member is guided in an aperture of the locking assembly in a longitudinal direction of the elongated member. A plurality of first snap-in recesses is disposed on a first side portion of the elongated member. The locking assembly includes a first locking member. |
| US10335094B2 |
Breast biopsy and needle localization using tomosynthesis systems
Methods, devices, apparatuses and systems are disclosed for performing mammography, such as utilizing tomosynthesis in combination with breast biopsy. |
| US10335093B2 |
Biosignal processing method and apparatus
A method and apparatus for processing a biosignal is disclosed. The apparatus may extract reference points from a waveform of a biosignal, determine a pulse direction of the biosignal based on the extracted reference points, and determine a feature point of the biosignal based on a feature point determining method corresponding to the determined pulse direction of the biosignal. |
| US10335092B1 |
Building predicted future medical profiles
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for creating a probabilistic healthcare value profile for a patient. One of the methods includes obtaining a current medical history including multiple current characteristics of a first patient having a first current age, obtaining multiple sets of age-correlated characteristics, each set corresponding to a different second patient, determining, for one or more sets of the age-correlated characteristics, that characteristics in at least a threshold portion of the respective age-correlated characteristics match one of the multiple current characteristics of the first patient, and generating a future probabilistic medical profile of the first patient, the future probabilistic medical profile including an aggregation of at least a portion of the age-correlated characteristics in the one or more sets, the aggregation including at least one non-matching age-correlated characteristic that does not match any of the current characteristics of the first patient. |
| US10335088B2 |
Apparatus and method for detecting biometric information
A biometric information detecting apparatus includes a bio-signal measurer including a light-emitting unit and a light-receiving unit, the light-emitting unit configured to emit an optical signal and the light-receiving unit configured to detect the optical signal that is modulated by a target object; a low-frequency signal obtainer configured to obtain a low-frequency signal from the bio-signal measured by the bio-signal measurer; and a signal processor configured to analyze biometric information from the bio-signal in response to determining that the low-frequency signal obtained from the bio-signal is within a reference range. |
| US10335086B2 |
Item attachable to a subject and including a sensor for sensing an object that a body portion of the subject may contact
An embodiment of a device includes at least one sensor, a determiner, and a notifier. The at least one sensor is configured to be located on a body portion of a subject and to sense an object. The determiner is configured to determine, in response to the sensor, whether the body portion may contact the object. The notifier is configured to notify the subject in response to the determiner determining that the body portion may contact the object. Such a device (e.g., attached to, or part of, a shoe) may be useful to warn a subject of a potential collision between an object (e.g., stairs, furniture, door jamb, curb, toy) and a body part (e.g., foot, toes) in which the subject has lost feeling, the ability to feel pain, or proprioception. And such a warning may help the subject to avoid inadvertently and repeatedly injuring the body part. |
| US10335084B2 |
Audio device
There has been no sufficient study to address an issue caused in the use of an open-air type audio device. Therefore, provided is an audio device with an actually useful organism sensor. In particular, the audio device includes an audio unit 10 to externally abut on the ear without being inserted thereinto, and an organism sensor unit 70 to be inserted into the ear. |
| US10335083B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting and analyzing biosignals
A system for monitoring biosignals of a user includes a first end region, positionable proximate a first ear of a user and including a first sensor array; a second end region, positionable proximate a second ear of the user and including a second sensor array; an intermediate region, positionable on a neck region of the user; a coupling element configured to couple the first and second end regions to the intermediate region; and a first attachment element and a second attachment element. The first attachment element couples the first end region to a head-mounted accessory and the second attachment element couples the second end region to the head-mounted accessory. The first end region includes a first electrode and the second end region includes a second electrode, such that there is a fixed distance between the first and second electrodes. |
| US10335079B2 |
Assessing cognition using item-recall trials with accounting for item position
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for analyzing data include: receiving data including responses, and lack thereof, for items of a cognitive test including multiple item-recall trials; processing the data using a stochastic model of a cognitive process, in which a conditional probability distribution of future states of the cognitive process depend upon a present state; and encoding a result of the processing on a non-transitory computer-readable medium for use in an assessment related to cognition; wherein the processing using the stochastic model includes representing recall or recognition of an item in the multiple item-recall trials using distinct cognitive states; and wherein the processing using the stochastic model includes adjusting separate memory storage and retrieval parameters for each of the distinct cognitive states in the modeled cognitive process to account for position of the items in each respective trial of the multiple item-recall trials. |
| US10335073B2 |
Endoscope system, processor device thereof, and method for controlling endoscope system
An electronic endoscope has normal and high-sensitivity image sensors. In a special mode for imaging an oxygen saturation level of blood, one of the normal and high-sensitivity image sensors is selected in accordance with a reflected light amount of special illumination light. When the normal image sensor is selected, the normal image sensor captures an image under irradiation with the special illumination light and outputs a second normal-sensor image. When an average pixel value of the second normal-sensor image is less than a first sensor selection threshold value, the use of the high-sensitivity image sensor is started. When the high-sensitivity image sensor is selected, the high-sensitivity image sensor captures an image under irradiation with the special illumination light and outputs a high-sensitivity-sensor image. When the average pixel value of the high-sensitivity-sensor image is more than a second sensor selection threshold value, the use of the high-sensitivity image sensor is stopped. |
| US10335071B2 |
Physiological parameter measuring apparatus and physiological parameter measuring system
A physiological parameter measuring apparatus is configured to perform a screening for a likelihood of the critical congenital heart disease, based on the oxygen saturations at two locations on a body of a patient and the difference between the oxygen saturations, and to display the likelihood as a result of the screening. The physiological parameter measuring apparatus manages, with respect to each patient, a scheduled time for starting the screening, the result of the screening, and information relating to the patient. The physiological parameter measuring apparatus can display a first screen containing information relating to the scheduled time, a second screen for receiving the instruction to perform the screening, and a third screen containing the result of the screening. A physiological parameter measuring system includes sensors to be attached to the body at the two locations, and the physiological parameter measuring apparatus. |
| US10335068B2 |
Multi-stream data collection system for noninvasive measurement of blood constituents
The present disclosure relates to noninvasive methods, devices, and systems for measuring various blood constituents or analytes, such as glucose. In an embodiment, a light source comprises LEDs and super-luminescent LEDs. The light source emits light at least wavelengths of about 1610 nm, about 1640 nm, and about 1665 nm. In an embodiment, the detector comprises a plurality of photodetectors arranged in a special geometry comprising one of a substantially linear substantially equal spaced geometry, a substantially linear substantially non-equal spaced geometry, and a substantially grid geometry. |
| US10335064B2 |
Systems and methods for applying or receiving signals to or from biological tissues
Systems and methods for applying and/or receiving electrical, magnetic, magnetoelectric, vibratory, or electromagnetic signals to biological tissues are described. In some embodiments, one or more of a body, a conductor, an electrode, and a magnetic element may be provided. The conductor may be configured to be electrically coupled to at least one of a power source and a detector. The electrode may include a surface configured to contact a biological tissue portion and apply and/or receive an electrical signal to and/or from the biological tissue portion. The magnetic may selected from a group consisting of a magnet, a toroid, a conductive coil, a magnetic powder, and a magnetic fluid. |
| US10335063B2 |
Systems and methods for applying or receiving signals to or from biological tissues
Systems and methods for applying and/or receiving electrical, magnetic, magnetoelectric, vibratory, or electromagnetic signals to biological tissues are described. In some embodiments, one or more of a conductive tip and a base may be provided. The tip may include a channel and an outer surface that approximates a portion of a sphere or cone and may be sized to fit within a user's ear. The base may be configured to be coupled to the tip and may include a conductor in electrical contact with the tip such that an electrical signal may pass between the base and the tip. |
| US10335060B1 |
Method and apparatus to provide monitoring
An activity band designed to be wearable 24 hours a day, and able to monitor the user's activity level when awake and asleep, comprising an accelerometer to detect motion of a user, a first interface to enable the activity band to be coupled to a computer system, and an analysis logic to analyze the user's motion. |
| US10335056B2 |
Sensor for electrically measuring a force having a spring unit arranged in-between surfaces
A sensor for electrically measuring a force distributed unevenly across a measurement surface of the sensor includes a spring device between a measurement surface and a counter-surface. A first measuring element is arranged in or on the measurement surface and a second measuring element is arranged in or on the counter-surface, the elements substantially completely covering these surfaces in each case. The measuring elements include capacitor plates, and are designed such that the measuring signal can be generated from a distance between the measuring elements. The spring device has a large number of elastically designed spring members which are arranged spaced apart from each other by gaps so that each spring member upon loading by the force can deform into the gaps. This arrangement makes it is possible to measure unevenly distributed forces between bodies which may be of very different forms. |
| US10335055B2 |
Kinetic assessment and alignment of the muscular-skeletal system and method therefor
A system is disclosed herein for providing a kinetic assessment and preparation of a prosthetic joint comprising one or more prosthetic components. The system comprises a prosthetic component including sensors and circuitry configured to measure load, position of load, and joint alignment. The system further includes a remote system for receiving, processing, and displaying quantitative measurements from the sensors. The kinetic assessment measures joint alignment under loading that will be similar to that of a final joint installation. The kinetic assessment can use trial or permanent prosthetic components. Furthermore, adjustments can be made to the applied load magnitude, position of load, and joint alignment by various means to fine-tune an installation. The kinetic assessment increases both performance and reliability of the installed joint by reducing error that is introduced by elements that load or modify the joint dynamics not taken into account by prior assessment methods. |
| US10335049B2 |
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting with steady state precession (MRF-FISP)
Example embodiments associated with NMR fingerprinting are described. One example NMR apparatus includes an NMR logic that repetitively and variably samples a (k, t, E) space associated with an object to acquire a set of NMR signals that are associated with different points in the (k, t, E) space. Sampling is performed with t and/or E varying in a non-constant way. Sampling is performed in response to a fast imaging with steady state free precession (MRF-FISP) pulse sequence having an unbalanced gradient that dephases transverse magnetization. The NMR apparatus may also include a signal logic that produces an NMR signal evolution from the NMR signals, and a characterization logic that characterizes a resonant species in the object as a result of comparing acquired signals to reference signals. The unbalanced gradient in the MRF-FISP pulse sequence reduces sensitivity to B0 in homogeneity. |
| US10335047B2 |
Automatic heart rate diagnostics
In some examples, processing circuitry of a medical device system determines, for each of a plurality of periods, a plurality of heart rates of a patient based on a cardiac electrogram signal, and identifies a first subset of the plurality of heart rates as nighttime heart rates and a second subset of the plurality of heart rates as resting heart rates. The processing circuitry determines a representative nighttime heart rate based on the first subset of the plurality of heart rates, determines a representative resting heart rate based on the second subset of the plurality of heart rates, and determines a nocturnal dip base on the representative nighttime heart rate and the representative resting heart rate. The processing circuitry compares at least one of the representative nighttime heart rate, the representative resting heart rate, and the nocturnal dip in heart rate to a respective threshold value, and determines whether to generate an alert indicating a change in the cardiac function of the patient based on the comparison. |
| US10335043B2 |
Implantable vital sign sensor
An implantable vital sign sensor including a housing including a first portion, the first portion defining a first open end, a second open end opposite the first end, and a lumen there through, the first portion being sized to be implanted substantially entirely within the blood vessel wall of the patient. A sensor module configured to measure a blood vessel blood pressure waveform is included, the sensor module having a proximal portion and a distal portion, the distal portion being insertable within the lumen and the proximal portion extending outward from the first open end. |
| US10335041B2 |
Non-invasive method and system for detection of cancer or arterial vascular disorders using metal nanoparticles
Non-invasive methods and systems for detection of cancer or arterial vascular disorder involving administering to an individual a composition comprising noble metal nanoparticles that accumulate in a cancerous or injured vascular tissue; optically irradiating an area of a tissue suspected of being a cancerous or injured vascular tissue with a light source outputting an optical signal of at least one wavelength; and measuring diffusion reflection of the area of the irradiated tissue using at least one detector, whereby detection from the measured diffusion reflection of accumulation of the noble metal nanoparticles in this area indicates that the irradiated tissue is a cancerous or injured vascular tissue. |
| US10335036B2 |
Pulsed ultrasound modulated optical tomography using lock-in camera
A system and method of performing ultrasound modulated optical tomography. Ultrasound is delivered into a target voxel in an anatomical structure, and sample light is delivered into the anatomical structure, whereby a portion of the sample light passing through the target voxel is scattered by the biological tissue as signal light, and a portion of the sample light not passing through the target voxel is scattered by the anatomical structure as background light. The ultrasound and sample light are pulsed in synchrony, such that only the signal light is frequency shifted by the ultrasound. Reference light is combined with the signal light and background light to generate an interference light pattern, which is sequentially modulated to generate a plurality of different interference light patterns. Spatial components of each of the different interference light patterns are simultaneously detected and stored in bins. |
| US10335034B2 |
Dependency-based startup in a multi-modality medical system
A dependency-based startup method in a multi-modality medical processing system that includes receiving initialization information about a plurality of executable components to be started, the plurality of executable components including an executable modality component configured to communicate with a medical device communicatively coupled to the multi-modality medical processing system. The method also includes receiving dependency information about the executable modality component, the dependency information identifying one or more of the executable components upon which the executable modality component depends and transforming the initialization information and the dependency information into a dependency map that represents the dependencies between the plurality of executable components. Further, the method includes deriving a start order for the plurality of executable components based on the dependency map and starting the plurality of executable components in the multi-modality medical processing system according to the start order. |
| US10335033B2 |
Physiological measurement device
A sensor interface is configured to receive a sensor signal. A transmitter generates a transmit signal. A receiver receives the signal corresponding to the transmit signal. Further, a monitor interface is configured to communicate a waveform to the monitor so that measurements derived by the monitor from the waveform are generally equivalent to measurements derivable from the sensor signal. |
| US10335030B2 |
Rakan's adjustable glaucoma valve and shunt with intraocular pressure indicator and rasha's posterior—anterior chamber shunt
The present invention is a device that is used for glaucoma management by using an adjustable shunt that drains the aqueous humour from inside the eye in a precise way. This new device has a valve that prevents back flow of the drained fluid and that decreases the risk of hypotony, and also this device has an intraocular pressure indicator. In addition to the main device, there is a small device that is implanted throughout the iris, in order to shunt aqueous humour from posterior chamber to anterior chamber of the eye. |
| US10335025B2 |
System and method for the training of head movements
The invention relates to a system and to a method for training head movements of a person. Visual stimuli are generated with a visual stimulus generation device for a left and/or right eye of the person. Head movements of the person are captured with a measurement device. The head movement of the person captured with respect to a generated visual stimulus is assessed in a computational unit. Assessment information that is dependent on the assessment of the head movement captured with respect to a generated visual stimulus is then provided for the person with an output device. |
| US10335022B1 |
Ear-mounted dental mirror support
The ear-mounted dental mirror support includes two arms, each having a hooked end configured to wrap around the back of an ear. The arms are connected to a cross-member at the end opposite the hook. A multi-rod adjustment member is pivotally attached to the cross-member. A mirror is pivotally attached to the free end of the adjustment member. The device is designed to be secured to a patient's ears by the arms with the cross-member resting on the patient's chin. The mirror can be adjusted to reflect different portions of the patient's mouth to help a person applying treatment visualize the treatment zone. The arms and cross-member may include projections to assist in securing a dental dam in place around the patient's mouth. |
| US10335021B2 |
Endoscope wiper blade cleaner
A minimally invasive surgical instrument including a viewing instrument and a wiper mechanism configured and adapted to clean a lens of the viewing instrument. The wiper mechanism includes a wiper that is configured and adapted to contact and translate across a surface of the lens. An actuator moves the wiper across the lens to clean the lens. |
| US10335018B2 |
Actuating member and medical device
An actuating member for making a flexible elongate member for medical use perform a predetermined action. The actuating member includes a push/pull member, an operating member, and a cam member. The push/pull member includes a first moving portion and a second moving portion, which are movable relative to each other. The push/pull member is pushed/pulled in conjunction with a movement of the first moving portion and the second moving portion. The operating member is rotatable about an axis in a direction intersecting an axial direction of the elongate member. The cam member moves the first moving portion and the second moving portion in conjunction with rotation of the operating member. The push/pull member makes the elongate member perform at least one of (i) an advance/retraction action and (ii) a bending action by transmitting the movement of the first moving portion and the second moving portion to the elongate member. |
| US10335016B2 |
Reflective optical objective
The present invention relates to a reflective optical objective (1) comprising: —a first reflecting element (3) including a front surface (3a) and a hack surface (3b), the front surface (3a) including a convex reflecting surface (11); and —a second reflecting element (5) including a concave reflecting surface (13) facing the convex reflecting surface (11) of the first reflecting element (3), the second reflecting element (5) including a transmissive section (7) permitting electromagnetic radiation to pass through the concave reflecting surface (13) of the second reflecting element (5) to the first reflecting element (3). The reflective optical objective (1) is characterized in that the reflective optical objective (1) includes a carrier material (9) embedding at least the front surface (3a) of the first reflecting element (3) and defining the distance (d) between the first (3) and second (5) reflecting elements. |
| US10335013B2 |
Collapsible dish rack for dishwasher
A dishwasher includes a tub, a first dish rack, and a second dish rack disposed above the first dish rack in the tub. The second dish rack includes a frame configured to couple to and adjust in a vertical position relative to a plurality of mounting rails in the tub. The second dish rack also includes a collapsible portion coupled to the frame and configured to adjust in a vertical position relative to the frame. In some embodiments, the second dish rack further includes a feed pipe coupled to the collapsible portion, the feed pipe having at least one connection point configured to align with at least one water supply point, wherein each vertical position of the collapsible portion corresponds to a different alignment of the at least one connection point and the at least one water supply point. |
| US10335005B2 |
Robot cleaner
A robot cleaner includes a body to travel on a floor; an obstacle sensing unit to sense an obstacle approaching the body; an auxiliary cleaning unit mounted to a bottom of the body, to be extendable and retractable; and a control unit to control extension or retraction of the auxiliary cleaning unit when the obstacle is sensed. The control unit prevents the auxiliary cleaning unit from extending if a signal is received from a charger. |
| US10335003B2 |
System and method for an autonomous cleaning apparatus
Method for an autonomous cleaning apparatus, the method comprising the steps of: scanning a vicinity of an autonomous cleaning apparatus by means of at least one sensor; detecting an unreachable area, being unreachable by the autonomous cleaning apparatus; detecting a door in proximity to the unreachable area; detecting that the unreachable area is unreachable due to the positioning of the door wing; automatically moving the door wing, by the autonomous cleaning apparatus, in order to obtain access to and clean the unreachable area. |
| US10335001B1 |
Dust collection box and robot vacuum cleaner
Embodiments can provide a dust collection box and a robot vacuum cleaner. The dust collection box includes a box body and a lower lid. The box body defines a dust extraction port in the bottom thereof. The lower lid includes a first lateral portion and a second lateral portion opposite to each other. The first lateral portion is rotatably connected with the box body to enable the lower lid to open or close the dust extraction port. When the lower lid closes the dust extraction port, the second lateral portion is snap-fitted with the box body through a first snap structure. |
| US10334999B1 |
Tissue dispensing assembly
A tissue dispensing assembly for discrete tissue access includes a first shell that defines an interior space and a second shell that defines an internal space. The second shell has an upper end that is open. A plurality of tissues, which is rolled, is configured to position in the internal space. A first hole and a second hole are positioned in a top and a bottom of the first shell, respectively. A panel is coupled to and extends between a perimeter of the first hole and a circumference of the second hole to defines a chamber in the interior space. The second hole is positioned to insert the second shell into the chamber so that a terminal sheet of the plurality of tissues is positioned through the first hole. The terminal sheet is extracted by pulling concurrent with positioning of an adjacent sheet through the first hole. |
| US10334998B2 |
Flexible container and reusable closure element
An assembly offering to consumers a choice between two types of closure systems for a wipes flexible container is provided. The assembly comprises at least one flexible container and a reusable closure element. |
| US10334996B2 |
Paper dispenser and related methods
An apparatus for dispensing paper product has an encasement that is configured to enclose the roll of paper. The encasement has a base at a longitudinal end for supporting the roll of paper in that encasement, with the base including a base opening for the paper to be inserted there through. The base also has an inner surface that is configured to contact the roll of paper, as well as an oppositely disposed outer surface. A dispensing portion of the apparatus is located adjacent the outer surface of the base, and is releasably coupled to the encasement. Coupling between the dispensing portion and the encasement is free of fasteners. The dispensing portion includes a rotatable dispensing element that has a dispensing orifice for dispensing paper from within said encasement to the exterior. |
| US10334991B1 |
Combination cutting and straining apparatus
A combination cutting and straining apparatus includes a cutting board that includes a planar configuration having opposed top and bottom surfaces, the cutting board having opposed front and rear edges and having first and second side edges extending between ends of the front and rear edges, respectively. The bottom surface of the cutting board defines first and second grooves that are proximate to and extend parallel to the first and second side edges, respectively, and extend between the front and rear edges, respectively. A strainer basket includes a bottom wall and a plurality of walls extending upwardly from peripheral edges of the bottom wall, respectively, for collectively defining an interior straining area. Side walls of the strainer basket include upper edges received in respective grooves for slidable movement of the cutting board atop the strainer basket. Cutting board legs are pivotally coupled to a bottom surface of the cutting board. |
| US10334986B2 |
Method and device for making nut butter and nut milk
A device for producing nut butter and/or nut milk from nuts. The device includes a base having a motor, an outer container positioned above the base, a mixing container positioned within the outer container, and a cutting device positioned within the mixing container and configured to be driven by the motor during operation. The mixing container has inner sidewalls and at least one screen, the inner sidewalls being substantially vertical and the at least one screen having a plurality of holes particularly sized to allow emulsified nut milk to freely pass therethrough. The cutting device has a central hub and at least two blades, the at least two blades vertically offset and each having a blade tip, with each blade tip positioned a certain radial distance from the inner sidewalls of the mixing container. A method for producing nut butter and/or nut milk is further described. |
| US10334984B2 |
Apparatus and methods for making bread
Devices and methods for automating the process of making flatbread, such as roti. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a housing, an ingredient metering assembly, a mixing bowl assembly, a mixing actuator assembly, a cooking assembly, and an electronic assembly. The housing defines an interior volume and has several access openings with corresponding lids and/or covers. The ingredient metering assembly includes a flour container assembly, a flour delivery system, a water reservoir, and an oil reservoir. The mixing bowl assembly includes two bowls and a measurement system. The mixing actuator assembly includes a mixing mount, a mixing motor, a mixing paddle assembly, and a lower motor. The cooking assembly includes two platens and an actuator assembly. The electronic assembly includes a power source, a control module, and a LCD input/output screen. All components are integrated within the housing such that the apparatus is a consumer grade countertop appliance. |
| US10334979B2 |
Easy assembly centrifugal juicer
Systems and methods herein relate to an easy assemble centrifugal juicer. The centrifugal juicer includes a top section having a juice spout and pulp spout, wherein the top section defines a cavity with a first mating surface and a second mating surface; a strainer section having a strainer, a drive member, and a projection, the projection structured to engage with the first mating surface to couple the strainer section to the top section; and a motor housing structured to house a motor, wherein the motor is operatively coupled to a motor adapter structured to engage with the drive member. |
| US10334978B1 |
Cutting tool with curved blade
A cutting tool is provided having a cupped, double-edged blade and a handle. The knife blade is configured to be generally “C”-shaped in cross-section, curving upwardly on opposing longitudinal sides from a central portion. A longitudinal edge of the curved blade may have a serrated cutting edge. A protective handle is disposed at a rear of the blade. |
| US10334977B2 |
Mounting bracket lock
A mounting bracket lock may be configured to secure the mounting bracket of a window treatment housing to a rail of the housing. The mounting bracket lock may be slidably attachable to the rail and, when in a locked position, may prevent the mounting bracket from detaching from the rail. The mounting bracket lock may include a body that is mountable to the rail. The body may include a first portion that slidably attaches to the rail, and a second portion that receives a portion of the rail and a portion of the mounting bracket, thereby securing the mounting bracket in a locked position relative to the rail. The body of the mounting bracket lock may define one or more projections that extend therefrom, and that engage in a friction fit between corresponding surfaces of the mounting bracket when the mounting bracket lock is in the locked position. |
| US10334973B2 |
Adjustable and mountable gallery device
A gallery device is described that can be mounted over a door for showcasing or organizing various items. The gallery device includes at least two vertically arranged cords that are substantially parallel to each other. The gallery device additionally includes one or more horizontal cords, extending between the vertical cords, that provide points of attachment for the various items. The horizontal cords are vertically adjustable along the vertical cords to accommodate different sized items. |
| US10334971B1 |
Ultraviolet shadow box
A box is provided for displaying items, at least one of which is an ultraviolet-reactive item. The box is sized for insertion into a showcase. The box includes a box structure for containing the items to be displayed, and has at least one shadowing surface, and at least one open or glazed surface. Lighting is provided that is wired with the box structure, and includes a 365 nm ultraviolet LED diode assembly in an adjustable strip. A means is provided for directing the position or orientation of the adjustable strip so that the ultraviolet LED stimulates visible fluorescence in the ultraviolet-reactive item, while areas in the box are subject to ambient or showcase white light penetrating into the box structure through the at least one open or glazed surface; and areas in the box are subject to shadowing from the at least one shadowing surface. |
| US10334970B2 |
Adaptive merchandising platform (AMP) mounting system and method of installing thereof
The mounting system includes at least one first crossbar with a first end cavity and a second end cavity, and a first support bracket insertable into the first end cavity of the first crossbar. The first support bracket includes a first engaging structure, a second support bracket insertable into the second end cavity of the first crossbar. The second support bracket includes a second engaging structure, the first and second engaging structures configured to attach to respective first and second columns of a consumer product display. More than one vertical upright is connectable to the at least one first crossbar, where the more than one vertical upright includes a third engaging structure. The method includes connecting the vertical uprights to the crossbars, inserting support brackets in the first crossbar, attaching the support brackets to a column of a consumer product display and connecting shelves to the vertical uprights. |
| US10334958B2 |
Glueless pocketed spring assembly with improved airflow
A pocketed spring assembly comprises first and second sheets of fabric and a plurality of parallel rows of springs held in place with the sheets. Longitudinal seams joining the first and second sheets extend generally the same direction as the rows of springs. Pockets are formed along a strand of springs by aligned separating seams. At least one spring is positioned in each pocket. Each separating seam joins one of the sheets to itself and keeps the spring in its pocket. Ends of aligned separating seams are spaced from each other, thereby improving airflow between pockets. Openings between adjacent longitudinal seams further improve airflow. |
| US10334955B2 |
Modular mattress foundation having generally ladder-shaped sections
A modular mattress foundation comprises multiple sections which may be secured together quickly and easily so that the mattress foundation may be easily broken down into pieces for storage or transportation. Each section has a ladder-like shape. In one embodiment, each side section is generally L-shaped having curved members. A middle ladder extends parallel the sides and may be secured to the outer frame in any known manner. Deck members extend transversely and pass through the middle ladder. |
| US10334954B1 |
Collapsible and foldable portable bench
Disclosed is a collapsible and foldable portable bench having a number of flexible seats that are aligned side-by-side one another upon which a corresponding number of individuals can be seated. The seats are attached to and held up by respective frames that are pivotally connected together by C-shaped couplers to enable the frames to rotate relative to one another and the bench to be moved between axially expanded (i.e., straight line), folded (i.e., curved) and collapsed (i.e., compressed) configurations in response to pulling, pushing and bending forces applied thereto. In its collapsed configuration, the bench has a compact size that is suitable for storage or transport in a backpack or inside the hatch of a motor vehicle. To facilitate the manipulation of the bench from one configuration to another, a flexible triangular web is attached between each pair of adjacent seats. |
| US10334953B2 |
Furniture, load support member for chair, and chair
Furniture and a chair include a shielding piece (7b5) which is provided in an operation plate (7b2) or a flange (7a5) and closes a gap generated by the operation plate (7b2) and the flange (7a5) when the operation plate (7b2) has an operation posture. In addition, a chair includes a load support member for a chair, the load support member for a chair includes a frame member which includes a pair of rod members (19) and an extension material (22) which is formed in a bag shape and covers the frame member, a support portion (26) is provided on each of inner surfaces facing each other in the pair of rod members (19), and an interior material (21) having a repulsive force with respect to a load in a surface perpendicular direction is bridged between the pair of rod members (19) by being supported by the support portion (26). |
| US10334952B2 |
No-tools chair having detachable height and tilt control paddles
A chair is disclosed herein of the kind that is shipped disassembled in a compact shipping package to be assembled by the end user without the use of tools. The chair has a pair of user actuated height and tilt control paddles by which the elevation of the seat and the tilt of the seat and back of the chair can be adjusted relative to the base which holds the seat above the ground. In one embodiment, the height and tilt control paddles are removably attached to the seat at respective paddle receivers connected to the bottom of the seat. In another embodiment, the height and tilt control paddles are removably received by respective paddle cavities formed in the arms of the chair. By removing the paddles from their paddle receivers or paddle cavities, the parts of the disassembled chair may be more efficiently packaged for shipment. |
| US10334948B2 |
Electric shelf
An electric shelf is provided which comprises at least one column to be installed on a wall, a slidable component arranged on the column to slide along the column vertically, at least one layer of shelf board component connected to the slidable component to move simultaneously with the slidable component, and a linear driving device connected to the slidable component and the column to actuate the slidable component to move relative to the column. Advantages of the present disclosure compared to prior arts include a simpler structure and less space occupied by the shelf board component. |
| US10334946B2 |
Movable cabinets
A Highly Hung Vertically Moveable Cabinet (HHVMC) comprising a cabinet having a bottom and a top essentially parallel thereto; and an electrical motion system configured to allow movement of the cabinet to a predetermined distance of at least 500 mm in a first direction and in a second opposite direction. Both first direction and second direction being essentially normal to the cabinet bottom and top, and switches electrically coupled to the motion system, wired to allow selection of the movement in the first or second direction. |
| US10334945B2 |
Modular rack for phytochemical extraction system
A modular rack for mounting components of a phytochemical extraction system is described. The module rack includes at least two legs and one or more frame modules that are each at least 2 units in length. Multiple frame modules can be combined to create racks of width N, where N is an integer greater than 2 units in length. Each frame module may also include mounting devices configured to removably attach extraction columns to the frame module. |
| US10334944B2 |
Shelving systems
A shelving system includes first and second side members. A cross member is coupled to the side members. A guide member is coupled to the cross member such that the guide member is movable relative to the cross member. A container including a rail is coupled to the guide member. The rail includes a first locking element and a second locking element that is connected to the first locking element. The container includes a handle having a third locking element that engages the first locking element. The locking elements are configured to move the container between a first orientation in which the container is provisionally fixed to the guide member and a second orientation in which the container can translate relative to the guide member. |
| US10334940B2 |
Composite head toothbrush having safety features
A composite head safety toothbrush is disclosed. The toothbrush apparatus detailed herein employs a composite head made from a rigid inner polymer material and a softer thermoplastic material surrounding the inner material. The softer material provides safety for prison toothbrush applications as well as elderly and patient care where care givers may brush the teeth of a patient. Innovative pin connectors in the inner toothbrush head assist in the composite formation. The toothbrush solution herein further importantly provides for a toothbrush having a flexible handle. |
| US10334939B2 |
Apparatus for securing mobile devices to a belt
An apparatus for securing mobile devices to a belt are presented. The invention has a receiver coupled to a belt, e.g. utility belt. The receiver is a stud of a one-way fastener coupled to the belt with a post. A clip with a socket of the one-way fastener is removably couplable to the receiver. The clip is made of a flexible member with a grip section on one side of said socket and a lanyard section on an opposing side of the socket. The grip section is configured for a user to grip and pull to disengage the clip from the receiver. A lanyard is coupled to the clip through a hole in the lanyard section and secured with a nut. A mobile device is removably coupled to the other end of the lanyard and also secured with a similar type nut. |
| US10334938B2 |
Personal item management apparatus
An embodiment personal item management apparatus includes a wearable band having a fixed circumference that defines a first outer diameter; and a clasp coupled to the wearable band, the clasp having a second outer diameter that is less than the first outer diameter and being adapted to couple a personal item to the wearable band. In an exemplary embodiment, the ratio of the second outer diameter to the first outer diameter is about 0.4. |
| US10334937B2 |
Lid assembly with ring to control flow
A lid assembly for a beverage container is described. The lid assembly includes an outer ring, a spout, and a base member. The outer ring is rotated by the user to drive the spout toward the base member. The movement of the spout opens and closes openings or fluidic passages of the lid assembly. |
| US10334935B2 |
One-touch compact case having refillable structure
The present invention relates to a compact case including an upper cover unit and a lower body for hermetically accommodating various types of cosmetics in which the upper cover unit and the lower body are combined by a pin. The lower body and the upper cover unit are separably combined by a pin for refilling, the lower body is hermetically sealed with a cut plate that can be cut at the top and with a bottom plate at the bottom after a cosmetic is put into the lower body, and the cut plate is cut and opened for use in a single motion by pulling a ring. Accordingly, the compact case is simply sealed and opened, so efficiency including economical efficiency is improved. |
| US10334931B2 |
Puff-embedded cosmetic powder container
Disclosed herein is a puff-embedded cosmetic powder container including: a main body, a shoulder cap, a puff receiving cap, and an upper cap. A sealing step is formed on an inner circumference in a space of the main body, and a sealing wing is formed on an outer circumference of a sidewall of the shoulder cap to correspond to the sealing step, so that the sealing wing is elastically and airtightly coupled to the sealing step, and a rotary portion included in a hinge unit of the puff receiving cap has a movable space in which an end of a pin is movable up and down, so that, when the upper cap is closed, the puff receiving cap is pressed down via the movable space, thus sealing a powder discharge hole of the shoulder cap. |
| US10334928B1 |
Container for mobile device
A container includes a housing having a base wall and an upper wall, and the housing includes a cover panel extended from the upper wall and foldable relative to the upper wall and movable toward the upper wall, a base plate is engaged in the housing, a support device is foldably attached to the base plate with a hinge device, and the support device is foldable relative to the base plate and the housing, and a display is attached to the support device and movable relative to the upper wall between an upwardly working position and a downwardly folded storing position. The housing includes a chamber formed by a base wall and the upper wall for receiving a mobile device. |
| US10334910B1 |
Shoe having elastic tongue-securing straps
Provided are, among other things, shoes having elastic tongue-securing straps. In one representative embodiment, a shoe includes: (a) a sole; (b) an upper, extending above the sole, that includes a front section, a left side, a right side, a rear section, and a tongue that originates from the front section and extends rearwardly between the left side and the right side; (c) a left elastic strap that extends from a left side of the tongue and: (1) extends through a loop that is securely attached to the left side of the upper and has a distal end securely attached to the sole, and/or (2) has its distal end securely attached to the left side of the upper; and (d) a right elastic strap that extends from a right side of the tongue and: (1) extends through a loop that is securely attached to the right side of the upper and has a distal end securely attached to the sole, and/or (2) has its distal end securely attached to the right side of the upper, with the left elastic strap having a proximal end fixedly attached to the left side of the tongue and the right elastic strap having a proximal end fixedly attached to the right side of the tongue. |
| US10334908B2 |
Article of footwear with decoupled upper
An article of footwear including a connecting member is disclosed. The connecting member provides partial decoupling between the upper and the sole structure. The connecting member can include an upper layer and a lower layer that are attached at a central attachment portion. |
| US10334907B2 |
Bio heel pad, bio heel pad shoe and methods of manufacturing same
A shoe having a bio foot pad, including a plurality of circumferential elastic fibers surrounded by a viscoelastic material; wherein said fibers impart a biphasic characteristic to said viscoelastic material; and wherein said fibers under compression develop a plurality of hoop stresses to facilitate load conversion and distribution of axial forces exerted against a heel area of a user. |
| US10334906B1 |
Intelligent electronic footwear and control logic for automated infrastructure-based pedestrian tracking
Presented are intelligent electronic footwear and apparel with controller-automated features, methods for making/operating such footwear and apparel, and control systems for executing automated features of such footwear and apparel. A method for automating a collaborative operation between an intelligent electronic shoe (IES) and an intelligent transportation management (ITM) system includes receiving, via a detection tag attached to the IES shoe structure, a prompt signal from a transmitter-detector module communicatively connected to a traffic system controller of the ITM system. In reaction to the received prompt signal, the detection tag transmits a response signal to the transmitter-detector module. The traffic system controller uses the response signal to determine a location of the IES's user, and the current operating state of a traffic signal proximate the user's location. The traffic system controller transmits a command signal to the traffic signal to switch from the current operating state to a new operating state. |
| US10334898B2 |
Radio frequency shielded clothing
Clothing for shielding a person from radio frequency energy relating to an electronic device includes a garment adapted to be worn by the person that includes at least one pocket having an inner panel and an outer panel. The pocket is sized to bold the electronic device. The inner panel of the pocket includes an electrically conductive shield material. |
| US10334889B2 |
Athletic wear nursing bra
An exercise top that is designed for nursing women, whereby the garment is stylish, comfortable, adjustable, and functional as an exercise top, yet also allows a convenient, easy and discrete mechanism that allows the user to nurse a baby without disrobing in that there are several points of adjustability to the garment, as well as an outer release mechanism and an inner release mechanism, which allow the wearer to selectively expose a breast for nursing. |
| US10334881B1 |
Electronic vaporizer
An electronic vaporizer is provided. The electronic vaporizer includes a cartridge that facilitates provision of a vaporized solution to an individual. The cartridge includes a housing that includes an interior, wherein the housing is one of a polymer housing or a ceramic housing. The cartridge also includes a heating element located in the interior of the housing, wherein the heating element is configured to vaporize a solution for oral provision to the individual. The vaporizer may also include a power harvesting device operative to acquire energy from the environment for use with powering the heating element. |
| US10334877B2 |
Atomizing head assembly
The present invention discloses an atomizer head assembly, comprising: an outer tube; an inner tube disposed in the outer tube, having a outer supporter openings formed on a lateral side of wall of the inner tube; a liquid storage chamber formed between the inner tube and the outer tube; a liquid inlet opening formed on a lateral side of wall of the outer tube; and an atomizing member having an end arranged in the one or more outer supporter openings. Moreover, the atomizing head assembly of the present invention comprises a plurality of atomizing members for atomizing liquid electrically connected in parallel and spatially arrange in various configurations, such that the atomizer head assembly can operated with an elevated voltage such that the heat generated per unit time by the atomizer head assembly is increased and the volume of atomized cigarette liquid in the atomizing chamber is increased accordingly. |
| US10334873B2 |
Breakable capsules and methods of forming thereof
A breakable capsule such as a seamless breakable capsule useful in a smoking article or a smokeless tobacco product includes an outer shell formed of a cross-linked agar matrix including at least one filler, and an inner core surrounded by the outer shell which comprises a liquid or gel based composition of a flavorant and/or non-flavorant. The cross-linked agar matrix is reinforced with carboxymethyl cellulose that is dispersed throughout the agar matrix so as to fill empty spaces in the agar matrix and inhibit the composition from passing through the empty spaces of the agar matrix. |
| US10334869B2 |
Method for increasing concentration of avenanthramides in oats
Methods for increasing the levels of avenanthramides in oats through false malting is disclosed. Oats are first subject to induction or enhancement of a secondary dormancy, and then malted for up to 5 days at an elevated temperature. The malted but not germinated oats are then dried and used as is, or further processed or milled to produce food, feed, nutraceutical or personal care products and ingredients. Methods are also provided for rendering non-dormant oats dormant and thus suitable for false malting. |
| US10334866B2 |
Handheld assembly and method for uniform decoration of the sidewall for foodstuff
An assembly and method for uniform decoration of the sidewall for foodstuff coats a sidewall of a baked foodstuff, such as a cake, with a plurality of decorative granular members, while restricting coating the top region of the baked foodstuff with the decorative granular members. A spray gun variably coats the foodstuff with decorative granular members at controllable rates of discharge, while at least one shield blocks the decorative granular members from the top region of the foodstuff, such that only the sidewall is coated with decorative granular members. A fan generates air flow to blow the decorative granular members through a conduit in the housing, and out through an outlet. A screen positions coplanar and adjacent to the fan to prevent backflow of granular members into the fan. The at least one shield is rectangular or curved to accommodate a rectangular-shaped cake or a disc-shaped cake. |
| US10334865B2 |
Brown butter and systems and methods for the continuous production thereof
A system and method for the continuous production of brown butter involves concentrating butter while retaining solids non-fat in the butter, and continuously transferring and heating the concentrated butter to cause the solids non-fat in the butter to react in a maillard reaction to form a brown butter product. The system may use one or more of a heating vessel, an evaporator and a reaction vessel to form the brown butter in the continuous process. A brown butter product derived from butter includes reacted solids non-fat particulates from a maillard reaction suspended by nascent fat crystals nucleated about the reacted solids non-fat particulates and by large fat crystal structures joined to the nascent fat crystals. |
| US10334858B2 |
Compositions and methods for the improved production and delivery of RNA by efficient transcription termination
Compositions and methods for efficiently producing and delivering double stranded RNA (dsRNA) are provided. Vector constructs useful for in vitro and in vivo expression of dsRNA are described. Also described are cell expression systems for efficient and cost-effective production of dsRNA in living cells and methods and compositions for providing the expressed dsRNA to target organisms. The described compositions and methods can be used to produce RNA molecules for screening or other uses, and to amplify RNA sequences for analysis. |
| US10334853B2 |
Compositions and methods for treating ectoparasite infestation
Compositions suitable for topical use to treat ectoparasite infestations are described. The compositions are suitable for use on the hair of humans or animals, without the need for pharmaceuticals or medicaments. The compositions are essentially nonaqueous and non-Newtonian, such that the compositions can be controllably delivered either manually or through use of a dispensing means. One such exemplary dispenser/applicator is described. Although the compositions are otherwise substantially free of water, they exhibit good risibility characteristics and pseudoplastic rheology. Methods for the use of the nonaqueous compositions and kits containing the compositions are also presented. |
| US10334850B2 |
Recombinant microorganism expressing avermectin analogue and use thereof
The present invention relates to a recombinant microorganism expressing avermectin or analogs thereof and construction method thereof, and also relates to a method of producing avermectin or analogs thereof using the recombinant microorganism, and avermectin or analogs thereof obtained using the method. In addition, the present invention further relates to uses of the avermectin or analogs thereof as insecticides. Using the recombinant microorganism of the present invention to produce avermectin or analogs thereof has numerous advantages, for example comprising at least one of the following: good stability, high yield, simple process, environmentally friendly, and greatly saving of production costs. |
| US10334849B2 |
Salts of carboxylic acid herbicides
Amine salts of certain herbicides that in free acid form include at least one carboxylic acid moiety are described. Herbicide salts comprising the cation of various imidazole, piperazine, piperidine, and morpholine compounds are provided. The herbicide amine salts described are suitable for formulation into herbicidal application mixtures and/or stable concentration compositions that exhibit acceptable volatility characteristics upon application. |
| US10334848B2 |
Methods and compositions for weed control using EPSPS polynucleotides
Provided are novel polynucleotide compositions for enhancing the herbicidal activity of glyphosate. Specifically provided are methods and compositions for modulating 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) in plant species. The present compositions and methods are useful in controlling glyphosate resistant weeds. |
| US10334847B2 |
Antifungal composition
The present invention provides antifungal compositions, and in particular, to antifungal formulations comprising a combination of an antifungal active agent and an AOX inhibitor for use in treating fungal infections in plants and animals. |
| US10334845B2 |
Olfactory ligands
The invention provides analogs of (S)-germacrene D analog which have improved insect repellent properties compared to (S)-germacrene D analog or which have insect attractant properties. |
| US10334842B1 |
Agricultural adjuvant compositions, pesticide compositions, and methods for using such compositions
Pesticide compositions containing an adjuvant which contains, based on 100 parts by weight of the adjuvant, (a) greater than about 50 parts by weight of at least one alkyl fatty acid ester, (b) from about 2 parts by weight to less than about 5 parts by weight of a surfactant comprising: (b)(i) one or more anionic surfactants selected from sulfonic acids, sulfonic acid esters, alkylsulfosuccinic acid esters, phosphate esters, sulfate esters, and oleoyltaurate salts, or (b)(ii) one or more non-ionic surfactants selected from sorbitan fatty acid esters, aryl alkoxylates, alkoxylated fatty alcohols, alkoxylated fatty acids, alkoxylated triglycerides, alkoxy copolymers, alkylpolyglucosides, alkoxylated fatty amines, and ether amines, or (iii) a mixture (b)(i) and (b)(ii), exhibit improved performance, particularly when sprayed through a flat fan spray nozzle, an air induction spray nozzle, or other spray nozzle and at a pressure of from about 10 pounds per square inch to about 100 pounds per square inch. |
| US10334841B2 |
Electrical deterrent system for repelling pinnipeds
An electrical deterrent system including a pulse generator, power source, and substrates with accompanying electrodes for attaching to different types of surfaces and supports on various manufactured structures to repel pinnipeds from a manufactured or man-made structure that otherwise is not intended for pinniped use. |
| US10334838B2 |
Deadfall trap apparatus and method
A deadfall device for capturing targeted animals. In one embodiment the device is a bidirectional trigger manually set survival tool that can be selectively used to capture or crush a small animal. When not set up to capture an animal the device is compact and easily transportable. When not being used an elongated body of the device, comprised of two walls separated by a connected web, will house the movable elements of the device inside the elongated body. This allows the device to be stored compactly thus enabling ease of transportation. |
| US10334835B2 |
Method for preparing an optimum density termite bait composition
A composition in compacted form for use for termite monitoring and control comprises a cellulose material which may be purified cellulose or micro-crystalline cellulose as a base bait, the composition being compacted to an optimum density of not less than approximately 1.033 g/cc. Also disclosed is a method for monitoring and controlling termite infestations which comprises the steps of a) preparing such a composition; b) placing the composition in a bait station; c) monitoring the station at periodic time intervals for termites; and d) upon observing termite infestation in the bait station, replacing the above composition with a bait composition containing a termite killing agent. |
| US10334822B2 |
Behavioral training aid
A behavioral training aid comprising: (a) a body; (b) a tract including: (i) a tract locking mechanism that secures the tract to an outer surface of the body; and (ii) a tract insert removably attached to the tract locking mechanism; (c) one or more legs extending from the body; and (d) one or more base supports extending from a distal end of the one or more legs; wherein the tract insert is configured to receive a receptacle so that the receptacle is elongated and forms a depository within the body. |
| US10334820B2 |
Method for displaying information on an animal and for locating an animal
A method for locating an animal on which a display apparatus is arranged, and/or for displaying information on the animal, wherein information which is to be displayed is activatable and/or adjustable in and/or on the display apparatus (2), wherein a specific display is assigned to an animal in order to identify animals for selection, wherein a pushbutton key on the display apparatus (2) is used for acknowledgement by a user, and wherein a counterweight (8) is assigned to the display apparatus (2). |
| US10334819B2 |
Storage bag with joined center portion
A flexible and collapsible liquid storage bag comprising front and back walls formed from a sheet material is described wherein a front wall and a back wall are joined along a perimeter of the bag and are also joined at a joined center portion proximate the centers of the respective front and back sheets. The bags are typically used in the storage, heat-treatment and dispensing of bovine colostrum. |
| US10334814B1 |
Pea variety SV5685QG
The invention provides seed and plants of pea line SV5685QG. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of pea line SV5685QG and to methods for producing a pea plant produced by crossing a plant of pea line SV5685QG with itself or with another pea plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of pea line SV5685QG, including the seed, pod, and gametes of such plants. |
| US10334802B1 |
Maize hybrid X00M487
A novel maize variety designated X00M487 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X00M487 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X00M487 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X00M487, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X00M487 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X00M487 and methods of using maize variety X00M487 are disclosed. |
| US10334801B2 |
Soybean variety SM14328903
Disclosed is the seed of a novel soybean variety, designated SM14328903, a sample of which is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-123575. Also disclosed are plants, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of the variety, plants having the morphological and physiological characteristics of the SM14328903 variety, and methods of using the plant or parts thereof in a soybean breeding program. |
| US10334799B1 |
Hybrid tomato variety H1765
Hybrid tomato variety ‘H1765’ is described. The tomato variety is a ground-culture hybrid tomato variety suitable for machine harvest, and is adaptable to the climactic conditions of regions such as California, USA, Portugal, Spain, and Italy. |
| US10334798B2 |
Melon variety NUN 16215 MEM
The invention provides a new and distinct hybrid variety of Melon, NUN 16215 MEM as well as seeds and plants and fruits thereof. |
| US10334797B2 |
Melon plants with a dominant melon yellowing associated virus (MYaV) resistance gene
The present invention relates to the field of melon plants having a dominant Melon Yellowing associated Virus (MYaV) resistance gene in their genome, introgressed from wild melon accessions. |
| US10334796B2 |
Methods and systems of cultivation
Examples may include a method of cultivating cannabis plants. The method may include placing a first cannabis plant of a plurality of cannabis plants in a first tray of a plurality of trays. The method may also include placing a second cannabis plant of the plurality of cannabis plants in a second tray of the plurality of trays. The first tray may be at a first height. The second tray may be at a second height, and the first height may be different the second height. Furthermore, the method may include flowing a nutrient mixture from a reservoir to the plurality of cannabis plants. In addition, the method may include returning a portion of the nutrient mixture to the reservoir after flowing the nutrient mixture from the reservoir to the plurality of cannabis plants. |
| US10334792B2 |
Composite plant cage with locking clips
A plant cage for supporting growing plants includes horizontal and vertical support rods connected by locking clips to form a cage of a desired size and shape. The locking clip includes a clamp at each end of an elongated body, with each clamp formed of two tabs extending outwardly at oblique angles, with an aperture formed in each tab for receiving a horizontal or vertical support rod. The outwardly extending tabs are resilient and flexible such that the tabs can be moved towards each other to a deflected position so that the apertures align and a support rod can be inserted, the resiliency of the material then biases the tabs away from each other when released so that the apertures become unaligned so that the inserted rod is frictionally captured by the clamp. |
| US10334787B2 |
Device for controlling the outlet flap of a baler and method thereof
A device for controlling an outlet flap of a baler in at least one manual and one automatic mode includes an outlet flap drive, a first and a second pressure line via which the outlet flap drive is selectively charged with pressure, a first pressure measuring apparatus operatively connected to the first pressure line, and a second pressure measuring apparatus operatively connected to the second pressure line. A distributor valve is connected to the first and second pressure lines downstream of the first and second pressure measuring apparatus. The distributor valve is disposable in a first pass-through position, a second pass-through position, and a shut-off position. In an automatic mode, the distributor valve is disposed in a predetermined position dependent on a pressure difference between the pressures in the first and second pressure lines. |
| US10334786B2 |
Bale accumulator and bale accumulation methods
A bale accumulator for grouping bales for group baling includes a platform, a depositor mounted adjacent to the platform for sequentially depositing bale sets onto the platform, each bale set when deposited onto the platform comprises a pair of bales positioned upright and side-by-side in a packing orientation so that their corresponding long sides are axially juxtaposed, and a packer apparatus mounted adjacent to the platform for packing one bale set at a time from the platform into a group baler trailing the platform each time a bale set is deposited onto the platform from the depositor without changing the packing orientation of the bales of each bale set. |
| US10334783B2 |
Stalk roll for agricultural row unit
An agricultural harvester row unit has side-by-side stalk rolls oriented to receive crop stalks. Each of the stalk rolls have a forward section with an annular base tapered towards the forward end and spiral auger flights that overlap one another and cooperate with adjacent bases to positively move crop stalks in an aft direction. |
| US10334773B2 |
Seed dispenser for a precision automatic sower
A single seed dispenser for a precision automatic sower includes a cover for seeds to be distributed joined to a body containing a cavity in communication with an aspirator of the seeds via a conduit inserted in a hole on the body, a distribution disc with holes contained in a compartment delimited by the body and by the cover; a driving disc joined through pins to the distribution disc, both discs being put into rotation by a shaft actuated by an actuator for commanding rotation of the discs; and a selector device for the seeds pivoted on the edge of the body. The selector device includes a plate which presents at least two toothed portions, having teeth of different sizes and a curved sector mounted against the surface of the distribution disc opposite to the plate and has protrusions having inclined surface facing the distribution disc. |
| US10334771B2 |
Wheel position control system for an agricultural implement
An agricultural implement system includes a toolbar assembly configured to support multiple row units, and multiple wheels configured to support the toolbar assembly. The wheels include a first wheel and a second wheel, and at least one row unit is configured to be disposed between the first wheel and the second wheel. The agricultural implement system also includes a wheel position control system configured to instruct first and second actuators to lower the first wheel and the second wheel to transition the agricultural implement system to a non-working position, to instruct the first and second actuators to raise the first wheel and the second wheel to transition the agricultural implement system to a working position, and to instruct the second actuator to raise the second wheel while the agricultural implement system is in the working position such that the second wheel is disengaged from a soil surface. |
| US10342165B2 |
Data center coolant switch
A data center cooling system has an indoor portion wherein heat is absorbed from components in the data center, and an outdoor heat exchanger portion wherein outside air is used to cool a first heat transfer fluid (e.g., water) present in at least the outdoor heat exchanger portion of the cooling system during a first mode. When an appropriate time has been reached to switch from the first mode to a second mode, the outdoor heat exchanger portion of the data cooling system is switched to a second heat transfer fluid, which is a relatively low performance heat transfer fluid (compared to the first fluid). It has a second heat transfer fluid freezing point, lower than the first heat transfer fluid freezing point, and sufficiently low to operate without freezing when the outdoor air temperature drops below a first predetermined relationship with the first heat transfer fluid freezing point. |
| US10342163B2 |
Cooling a data center
A data center cooling system includes a plurality of server racks aligned within a row in a human-occupiable workspace of a data center, the server racks supporting a plurality of heat-generating computing devices; a warm air aisle positioned adjacent the server racks opposite the human-occupiable workspace and including a warm air inlet adjacent to a back side of the row of server racks and a warm air outlet in fluid communication with a warm air plenum; a plurality of cooling modules each including at least one fan and a cooling coil; and a controller to perform operations including controlling the plurality of fans in the plurality of cooling modules to operate at a specified fan speed, and controlling a plurality of valves fluidly coupled to the plurality of cooling coils in the plurality of cooling modules to modulate to a specified valve position. |
| US10342162B2 |
Data center pressure anomaly detection and remediation
A system is described that can detect pressure anomalies within a data center, generate an alert when anomalies are detected, and initiate remediative actions. The system monitors each of a plurality of fans used to dissipate heat generated by one or more servers to obtain data that indicates how an actual speed of each of the fans relates to a target speed thereof. The system compares the obtained data to reference data that indicates, for each of the plurality of fans, how an actual speed of the fan relates to a target speed thereof in a substantially pressure-neutral environment. Based on the comparison, the system determines whether or not a pressure anomaly exists. If the system determines that a pressure anomaly exists, then the system may perform various actions such as generating an alert and modifying a manner of operation of one or more of the fans or servers. |
| US10342152B2 |
Electronic device having a housing with a circuit board provided therein
The invention relates to an electronic device having a multi-part printed circuit board, the printed circuit board parts of which are connected to one another by current-carrying, flexible regions, having a support, around which the printed circuit board bent around the flexible regions of the printed circuit board is arranged and fixed, and having a housing in which the printed circuit board mounted on the support is fixed. |
| US10342150B1 |
Magnetically latched LRU installation and extraction mechanism
A magnetically latched installation and extraction mechanism for an avionics display unit or other Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) installable in, and extractable from, a vehicle instrument panel includes a bezel attachable to the LRU, the paddle or the bezel including magnets embedded into opposing corners configured to attract the magnetic surfaces of, or the embedded magnets in, the opposing bezel or paddle. The LRU may include hinged paddles having an open position for installing/extracting the LRU from the instrument panel and a stowed position substantially flush with the surface of the bezel, the paddles corresponding to the embedded bezel magnets. Magnets embedded in the hinged paddles may secure the paddles in the stowed position via attraction to the bezel magnets. |
| US10342149B2 |
Opening and closing structure of electronic device casing
An opening and closing structure arranged on a casing of an electronic device includes a cover plate and at least one connecting assembly. The cover plate is arranged inside a groove defined in an outer surface of the casing. The connecting assembly includes a connecting rod. A first end of the connecting rod is coupled to the cover plate. A second end of the connecting rod passes through the groove. The connecting rod is slidable within the casing to allow the cover plate to open and close relative to the casing. |
| US10342144B1 |
Power supply with a staggered configuration
A power supply with a staggered configuration includes a housing having an accommodation space, a first power supply module, a second power supply module, and an electric fan which are disposed inside the accommodation space. The first power supply module includes a first frontend power conversion unit and a first backend power conversion unit which are disposed at separate airflow passages. When the power supply is in operation, the electric fan turns and drives the air to flow into the housing in such a way that one airflow passage is through the first frontend power conversion unit and another airflow passage is through the first backend power conversion unit. In this way, the heat dissipation efficiency is increased with two separated air flow passages respectively flowing through and cooling down the first frontend power conversion unit and the first backend power conversion unit. |
| US10342139B2 |
Printer and printing method for printing of printed circuit boards
A printer includes a belt, a tray and a plurality of printing devices located over the belt. The tray is located on the belt and receives a printed circuit board (PCB). A sensor attached to the tray. The sensor is used to sense whether the PCB is located in the tray, when the PCB is located in the tray, the belt is driven by a driving device to transport the tray to be located below each of the plurality of printing devices. Each of the plurality of printing devices is used to print the PCB. The disclosure further offers a printing method for the PCB using the printer. |
| US10342135B2 |
Printed circuit board and manufacturing method thereof, and semiconductor package including the printed circuit board
Disclosed herein are a printed circuit board, a manufacturing method thereof, and a semiconductor package including the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a base substrate including a plurality of circuit patterns, a cavity formed above the base substrate, a pad embedded in the base substrate and being exposed through the substrate bottom surface of the cavity, and an electronic component mounted in the cavity and electrically connected to the pad.According to the present invention, a cavity having a predetermined depth is formed in a base substrate of a printed circuit board so as to mount an electronic component therein, such that a gap between an upper semiconductor package and a lower semiconductor package may be obtained even if pitches between the balls are decreased for high density and high performance of the upper semiconductor package in the manufacturing of a semiconductor package having a PoP structure. |
| US10342132B2 |
Memory device with insertable portion
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a memory device insertable into a PCB, e.g., a motherboard of a computing device. In some embodiments, the memory device may include a first PCB having a first thickness, to house one or more memory modules disposed on at least one side of the first PCB. The memory device may further include a layer having a second thickness, which may be attached to the side of the first PCB in an area that is proximate to an edge of the first PCB, to form a memory device portion that may be insertable into a connector slot disposed on a second PCB. The insertable portion may have a thickness that comprises the first and second thicknesses, to fit into the connector slot of the second PCB. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US10342131B1 |
PCB laminated structure and mobile terminal having the same
The present disclosure relates to a PCB laminated structure, including a first substrate; a second substrate disposed to overlap with the first substrate on the top and bottom; and an interposer assembly provided between the first substrate and the second substrate to allow electromagnetic connection between the first and second substrates, wherein the interposer assembly includes a housing configured to form a closed region along a top surface circumference of the first substrate and a bottom surface circumference of the second substrate to support the first and second substrates; a signal via connected to the first and second substrates, respectively, to transmit electromagnetic signals between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a ground via connected to the housing to serve as a ground, and spaced a set distance from the signal via at one side of the signal via. |
| US10342125B2 |
Multilayer substrate
A multilayer substrate includes a laminate, signal conductors, and external connection conductors. The signal conductors are at different positions in a lamination direction of the laminate. The external connection conductors are provided on a back surface of the laminate. A first signal conductor is connected at one end to one of the external connection conductors by a first wiring conductor. A second signal conductor is connected at one end to one of the external connection conductors by a second wiring conductor. The first signal conductor is closer to the back surface than the second signal conductor. The first wiring conductor includes wiring adjusting conductors each having a length corresponding to a distance difference in the lamination direction between the first and second signal conductors. |
| US10342120B2 |
Method of manufacturing display device
Discussed is a method of manufacturing a display device. The method of manufacturing the display device according to one example includes providing a first substrate including a display part, a bending part at one side of the display part, and a pad part at an end of the bending part. The method further includes providing a second substrate facing-coupled to the display part, providing a back film, and adhering the back film to a portion corresponding to the display part and the pad part on a bottom of the first substrate. |
| US10342116B2 |
High-frequency module
A high-frequency module includes a wiring board; a plurality of components mounted on an upper surface of the wiring board; a sealing resin layer that is stacked on the upper surface of the wiring board and that has a step; a groove that is formed in the sealing resin layer to intersect with the step when the wiring board is viewed in plan view, and that extends between predetermined components; and a shield wall disposed in the groove and formed with a conductor. The groove includes a first portion at an upper surface side of the wiring board and a second portion at an upper surface side of the sealing resin layer, the second portion being continuous from the first portion. An area of the second portion is larger than an area of the second portion. |
| US10342115B2 |
High-frequency-tuning sliding electrical contact
Disclosed is a high-frequency-tuning sliding electrical contact. The contact includes a tuning ring which is composed of an inner elastic piece, an upper base, an outer elastic piece and a lower base. Pull rods are welded to an upper side face of the upper base, and upper ends of the pull rods are driven to move up and down by a motor, so that the tuning ring slides up and down between the outer sleeve and the inner sleeve along the pull rods. The overall structure of the novel electrical contact is simple, compact and economical. The disclosure reduces joule heat produced by contact resistance and prevents contact surface fusion welding or conductive damage, and is especially suitable for tuning in a small gap range. |
| US10342105B2 |
Relay device with automatic grouping function
The present disclosure relates to a device including relay circuitry and light sensor circuitry. The relay circuitry is configured to selectively deliver alternating current (AC) power to a load. The light sensor circuitry is configured to detect one or more modulated light signals, wherein the device is configured to join a group including a plurality of devices based at least in part on the one or more modulated light signals. |
| US10342104B2 |
Video on demand for communication devices
A power management system for a lighting circuit may include a grid shifting controller that includes a processor and a connection to an external power source. The power management system may also include a communication interface associated with the grid shifting controller. The grid shifting controller may be configured to provide control information to a processor of at least one grid shifting electrical fixture over the communication interface, the control information being configured to direct the at least one grid shifting electrical fixture on the use of power from the external power source and an energy storage device associated with the at least one grid shifting electrical fixture. |
| US10342095B2 |
Input voltage stabilization circuit for rear combination lamp, rear combination lamp, and vehicle
An input voltage stabilization circuit for a rear combination lamp includes: an optical output unit including a plurality of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs); a voltage converter; and a feedback unit. The voltage converter is configured to supply an output voltage for driving the plurality of OLEDs by converting a first voltage supplied by a vehicle battery to the output voltage, the output voltage being different from the first voltage. The feedback unit is configured to provide, as feedback to the voltage converter, information regarding a maximum voltage value for the plurality of OLEDs. The voltage converter is further configured to adjust the output voltage based on the information provided as feedback by the feedback unit regarding the maximum. |
| US10342094B1 |
Lighting device with active thermal management
A LED lighting device includes a temperature sensitive component having a temperature limit. A driver controls current delivered to the at least one LED and includes a temperature sensor for determining a temperature of the driver. A controller stores a correlated temperature limit of the driver, the controller controls the driver to reduce the current delivered to the LEDs when the correlated temperature limit is reached. The correlated temperature limit is the temperature of the driver when the temperature of the temperature sensitive component reaches its temperature limit. |
| US10342092B2 |
Light source apparatus and control method thereof
A light source apparatus includes: a light source unit; and a control unit configured to perform lighting control, wherein the light source unit emits first color light at a first timing, and emits second color light at a second timing which delays after the first timing by a predetermined period, in accordance with the lighting control, and the control unit performs a plurality of times of lighting control based on the predetermined period, so that at least a part of a period in which the light source unit emits the second color light in accordance with a first lighting control overlaps with at least a part of a period, in which the light source unit emits the first color light in accordance with a second lighting control, which is performed after the first lighting control. |
| US10342090B2 |
Illuminated doorknob and lockset
An illuminated doorknob or lockset which provides for a self-contained unit where light components and all control apparatus are included within the structure of the doorknob or lockset. The doorknob or lockset will generally provide for a dual signal activation where activation of illumination occurs only after a certain level of dimness is detected and motion is detected within a certain range of the doorknob or lockset. The doorknob or lockset may also include an audible sound which is triggered in conjunction with the illumination. |
| US10342080B2 |
System-in-package for LED driving and LED lighting device including the same
A light-emitting diode (LED) lighting apparatus including at least one LED group including a plurality of LEDs, a rectifier configured to rectify an alternating current (AC) voltage and generate a driving voltage for the at least one LED group, and a system-in-package (SIP) configured to drive and control the at least one LED group, in which the SIP is connected to the at least one LED group and the rectifier, and includes a driving module, a functional module, and a first resistor disposed on a single substrate. |
| US10342078B2 |
LED tube lamp
An LED tube lamp comprises a tube, an LED light strip inside the tube, a plurality of LED light sources on the LED light strip, a power supply, and a first and a second end caps. The power supply comprises a circuit board, a plurality of electronic components and a heat-dissipating element. The plurality of electronic components and the heat-dissipating element are on the circuit board. The first end cap and the second end cap are respectively attached at two ends of the tube. The first end cap comprises a lateral wall and an end wall having an opening. The lateral wall is substantially coaxial with the tube and connected to the tube. The end wall is substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the lateral wall and connected to an end of the lateral wall away from the tube. At least some of the plurality of electronic components and the heat-dissipating element are disposed inside the first end cap. The heat-dissipating element is closer to the opening on the end wall of the first end cap than the electronic components in the end cap are. |
| US10342076B2 |
Illumination system and controller
An illumination system includes a luminaire, a controller, and a switch that turns ON and OFF power supply to the luminaire. The controller includes: a light intensity controller that performs light intensity control of controlling the brightness of the luminaire; and a power supply controller that instructs the switch to turn OFF the power supply to the luminaire on which the light intensity control is performed at a light intensity rate that is equal to or greater than 0 and at most a predetermined value. |
| US10342075B2 |
Induction heating device and induction hob comprising an induction heating device of this kind
An induction heating device including two induction heating coils and a plug-type contact device has a flat coil carrier for the induction heating coils, the plug-type contact device being arranged on the bottom face of the coil carrier with an insertion direction perpendicular to the surface of the coil carrier. The plug-type contact device has, on the bottom face of the coil carrier, a plug housing being movable with a defined movement travel in a plane parallel to the surface of the coil carrier. The plug housing has four receiving chambers being open at the bottom and having a direction of extent parallel to the insertion direction, in each of which a plug-type contact is arranged. A contact-making line runs from the plug-type contact to the induction heating coil. |
| US10342074B2 |
Distributed transistor-based power supply for supplying heat to a structure
A heating system includes a structure to be heated, and a heating apparatus disposed to heat the structure. The heating apparatus includes a housing member, a plurality of resonant frequency power sources, and a plurality of associated controls. The plurality of resonant frequency power sources are attached to the housing member. The plurality of associated controllers is configured to separately operate the plurality of resonant frequency power sources at resonant frequencies matching heating requirements of the structure. |
| US10342072B2 |
Electric heater with clamping jacket
An electric heater (100) with an axial opening (131) for receiving an object to be heated, with an electric heating element (130) surrounding the axial opening (131) in at least in some sections and with an essentially cylindrical or essentially frustoconical clamping jacket (110) surrounding the electric heating element (13) at least in the radial direction for generating an adjustable force acting radially in the direction of an axis (A) of the axial opening (131). The clamping jacket (110) is a multipart clamping jacket and has at least one pressing segment (113, 114) for introducing the force acting radially in the direction of an axis (A) of the axial opening (131) as well as at least one clamping segment (111, 112), with which the width of the gap (119a, 119b) between adjacent edges of oppressing segments (113, 114) can be varied for adjusting the force acting radially in the direction of an axis (A) of the axial opening (131) by moving the clamping segment (111, 112) relative to the pressing segment (113, 114). |
| US10342071B2 |
Communication device, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for communication device, and method executed by communication device
A communication device may shift an operation state of the communication device from a child station state to a specific state, in a case where a first wireless connection with a second external device is established via a second wireless interface under a predetermined state where the communication device is participating, as a child station, in a first wireless network in which a first external device is a parent station. The communication device may receive a request signal from the second external device via a first wireless interface after the operation state has been shifted to the specific state, and in a case where the request signal is received from the second external device, establish a second wireless connection with the second external device via the first wireless interface so as to belong to a second wireless network for executing a wireless communication via the first wireless interface. |
| US10342070B2 |
Apparatus to establish wireless backhaul connection
Provided is an apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating one or more second base stations located within coverage of a first base station connected to a wired backhaul; and a controller configured to control establishment of a wireless backhaul between the first base station and each of the one or more second base stations. |
| US10342069B2 |
Beacon control system and method
Disclosed is a method and system for controlling one or more beacon devices. In one implementation, the method comprises receiving a list of users connected to an access point and a list of beacon devices located within predefined distance from the access point and identifying a total number of users from the list of users utilizing a predefined service. Further, the method comprises generating a command based on comparison of the total number of users and a predefined threshold. The method furthermore comprises, transmitting the command to the one or more beacon devices, from the list of beacon devices, for one of a) activating the beacon devices, b) modifying a time interval between two consecutive beacons transmitted by the one or more beacon devices, or c) deactivating the beacon devices, thereby controlling the one or more beacon devices. |
| US10342068B2 |
Method for transmitting data in wireless communication system and device using same
A method and a device for transmitting data in a neighbor awareness network (NAN) are provided. A NAN device acquires a NAN association identifier (AID) from a unique identifier and receives a traffic indication map (TIM) information on the basis of a TIM offset. TIME offset is determined on the basis of the NAN AID. |
| US10342067B2 |
Systems and methods for vehicular positioning based on wireless fingerprinting data in a network of moving things including, for example, autonomous vehicles
Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things). For example, systems and method for vehicular positioning based on wireless fingerprinting data in a network of moving things including, for example, autonomous vehicles. |
| US10342062B2 |
Technologies for a local network power management protocol
Technologies for local network power management include multiple computing devices in communication over a network. Each computing device may advertise an active-to-network-power-down state in response to determining to trigger a network power down (NPD) state and then determine whether any peer device of the local network rejected or aborted the request. If not, the computing device advertises the NPD state and then determines whether any peer device rejected the request. If not, the computing device enters the NPD state. In the NPD state, the computing device may receive a network power management packet from a peer device. If the network power management packet is a state advertisement, the computing device may update a data table based on the advertised state of the peer device. If the network power management packet is a command, the computing device may wake and return to the active state. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10342061B2 |
Radio communication system and control method
A radio communication system is disclosed that includes at least one user equipment and multiple base stations including a first base station configured to execute radio resource control of the user equipment through a control path and a second base station configured not to execute radio resource control of the user equipment. The system includes multiple gateways, including a first gateway connected with the first base station and a second gateway connected with the second base station, and a switching station that controls the establishment of user paths among nodes. |
| US10342059B2 |
Wireless Internet system and method
A method, system, and apparatus, including a program encoded on computer-readable medium, for transmitting data to a server. A wireless communication connection is established between a first computing device and a second computing device. Data transmitted from the first computing device to the second computing device is received over the wireless communication connection and stored on the second computing device for uploading to a server on an IP based network. The wireless communication connection is disconnected. An IP communication connection is established between the second computing device and the server on the IP based network, and at least a portion of the stored data is transmitted from the second computing device to the server on the IP based network over the IP communication connection after the wireless communication connection between the first computing device and the second computing device is disconnected. |
| US10342058B2 |
Observation assisted bandwidth management
Observation assisted bandwidth management techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a request is received at a terminal to initiate a call with another terminal. Responsive to the request, a communication is formed to be communicated to a service provider for bandwidth parameters, the request including network parameters associated with the terminal. The bandwidth parameters, received form the service provider, are used as part of a model to estimate an amount of bandwidth that is available for the call. The call with the other terminal is initiated, the call configured to at least initially consume the estimated amount of bandwidth. |
| US10342054B2 |
IP address assignment for a UE in 3GPP
A method performed in a user equipment, UE, (1) and a gateway (2) for data communication in a 3GPP network via an access point name, APN, capable of providing support for packet data network, PDN, connectivity using a first internet protocol version and PDN connectivity using a second internet protocol version. The method comprises the steps of the UE requesting (S1) dual stack PDN connectivity from a gateway (2) and receiving (S2) a single IP address on either the first or the second internet protocol version from the gateway (2) and further receiving (S3) from the gateway (2) a cause code indicating that only the assigned PDN and internet protocol version is allowed. |
| US10342053B2 |
Automatic wireless communication protocol toggling
In general, this disclosure is directed to techniques for toggling communication connections based on signal strengths. A first computing device receives an indication of a user input to send data packets to a second computing device. Responsive to receiving the indication, the first computing device determines a signal strength of a first wireless communication connection, comprising one of a cellular network connection or a wireless local area network connection, to the second computing device, and determines whether the signal strength satisfies a threshold signal strength level. Responsive to determining that the signal strength does not satisfy the threshold signal strength level, the first computing device automatically establishes a second wireless communication connection, including a mesh network using a different wireless communication protocol than the first wireless communication connection, to the second computing device, and sends the data packets to the second computing device via the second wireless communication connection. |
| US10342051B2 |
Device and method of handling long term evolution-wireless local area network aggregation
A communication device of enabling long term evolution (LTE)-Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) aggregation comprises instructions of transmitting a first message indicating support of LTE-WLAN aggregation, to the BS via LTE communication, when a WLAN function of the communication device is not enabled; receiving a first configuration message configuring the LTE-WLAN aggregation from the BS via the LTE communication; receiving at least one first LTE packet from the BS via a WLAN configured by a WLAN configuration in the first configuration message; and transmitting a notification message indicating that a connection to the WLAN is lost or requesting the BS to release the WLAN configuration to the BS via the LTE communication, when the WLAN function of the communication device is enabled by an operating system of the communication device. |
| US10342048B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing random access in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a 5G communication system or a pre-5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate compared to beyond 4G communication system such as LTE. A terminal, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure, comprises: a reception unit for receiving pilot signals; a processor for measuring reception strength of the pilot signals, determining beam-based random access participation on the basis of the measured reception strength, and controlling for an attempt for a beam-based random access if a random access is beam-based random access participation and an attempt for normal random access if not; and a transmission unit for transmitting a random access signal on the basis of the random access attempt. |
| US10342046B2 |
Sending request message based on received annoucements
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to an sending request message based on received announcements system. A device may identify a transmitter announcement received from a first device. The device may identify a receiver announcement received from a second device. The device may cause to send a request message to transmit to a third device based at least in part on a predetermined threshold associated with the receiver announcement. The device may identify an indication that the third device is able to receive one or more packets from the device. The device may cause to send the one or more packets to the third device. |
| US10342042B2 |
Method and apparatus for sending and receiving signaling in wireless local area network
The method includes generating, by an access point (AP), signaling that includes an AP identifier (ID) field, a bandwidth (BW) field, a guard interval (GI) field, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) field, and a tail field, the AP ID field is used to indicate an ID of the AP, the BW field is used to indicate bandwidth required for data transmission subsequent to the signaling, the GI is used to indicate a length of a cyclic prefix (CP) required for data transmission subsequent to the signaling, the CRC field is used to guard a field before the CRC field in the signaling, and the Tail field is used to empty an encoder and a decoder, where the CRC field and the Tail field are the last two fields of the signaling. The method also includes sending, by the AP, the signaling. |
| US10342040B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing access initiation and response for cell on unlicensed carrier in wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for performing a random access procedure at a cell on an unlicensed carrier in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits a random access preamble, and receives a random access response including an index of a second cell. A first cell is a first serving cell on a licensed carrier, and the second cell is a second serving cell on the unlicensed carrier. |
| US10342038B2 |
Method and apparatus for scheduling multiple uplink grants of different types
Aspects of the present disclosure provide for scheduling multiple types of uplink grants for a single user equipment to support different types of service with different traffic patterns and quality of service (QoS) requirements. In some aspects of the disclosure, the user equipment may be configured with uplink grants for different types of semi-persistent scheduling, along with a dynamic uplink grant. In some examples, the different types of semi-persistent scheduling may include dedicated semi-persistent scheduling and contention-based semi-persistent scheduling. |
| US10342036B2 |
Secondary scheduling request
The present invention addresses method, apparatus and computer program product for handling of secondary scheduling request in carrier aggregation. Thereby, a message comprising a request of radio resources for uplink transmission from the user equipment to a base station is composed, it is determined whether the user equipment is in a carrier aggregation mode in which two or more carriers are aggregated forming one primary cell and at least one secondary cell, the primary cell and at least one secondary cell supporting physical uplink control channel, the message is assigned to a physical uplink control channel, wherein assigning is permitted to the physical uplink control channel of the primary cell and a physical uplink control channel of any of the at least one secondary cell, and transmission of the message is caused using the assigned physical uplink control channel. |
| US10342035B2 |
Method for reporting a buffer status and device therefor
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for reporting a buffer status in the wireless communication system, the method comprising: generating a MAC PDU (Protocol Data Unit) including first BSR MAC CE (Buffer Status Reporting MAC Control Element) for an amount of data to be transmitted via the first MAC entity; and transmitting the MAC PDU via the second MAC entity to a base station. |
| US10342034B2 |
Method for reporting cell status information in wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor
A method for reporting cell activation status information at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes a step of reporting, to a network, the cell activation status information for a plurality of cells configured to the UE when a condition is met, wherein the cell activation status information for the plurality of cells indicates whether each of the plurality of cells is activated or deactivated. |
| US10342031B2 |
Data transmission method and device
A data transmission method and a device are disclosed and relate to the field of communications technologies, so that a channel resource preemption probability of a device can be effectively increased by reducing a CCA interval at which a CCA is performed on a channel resource. The method includes: determining, by a first device, a CCA start moment at which a clear channel assessment CCA is performed; determining, by the first device, a CCA interval, where the CCA interval is a time interval between two adjacent CCAs, and a time interval between any two adjacent CCAs is less than a preconfigured data frame period; performing, by the first device, a CCA process according to the CCA start moment and the CCA interval; and sending, by the first device, data at an end moment of the CCA process. The method and the device are used for data transmission. |
| US10342029B2 |
WiFi-coordinated LAA-LTE
A method includes detecting, using a WiFi access point, channel use data indicating traffic on a plurality of channels of an unlicensed LTE band in a wireless network. The method further includes providing the channel use data to a Long Term Evolution (LTE) access point. The method further includes selecting, using the LTE access point, a channel for use in transmitting data by the LTE access point from among the plurality of channels based on the channel use data from the WiFi access point. The method further includes providing, from the LTE access point, an indication of an upcoming transmission configured to transmit data on the channel to the WiFi access point. The method further includes broadcasting one or more messages from the WiFi access point to one or more WiFi nodes, the one or more messages configured to prevent the WiFi nodes from transmitting on the channel. |
| US10342028B2 |
ZigBee, thread and BLE co-existence with 2.4 GHz WiFi
A system and method of minimizing interference and retries in an environment where two or more network protocols utilize the same frequency spectrum is disclosed. A lower-power network controller is co-located with a WIFI controller. The lower-power network controller parses incoming packets as they are received and generates a request signal once it is determined that the incoming packet is destined for this device. This maximizes the likelihood that no WIFI traffic will occur while the incoming packet is being received. |
| US10342022B2 |
Improving communication efficiency
There is provided a method including generating, by a network element, at least one transmission gap within data transmission performed by the network element, transmitting a control message to at least one terminal device, wherein the control message includes a first request to perform, by the at least one terminal device, a first interference measurement during the at least one transmission gap, and wherein the control message further includes a second request to perform, by the at least one terminal device, a second interference measurement during the said data transmission, receiving, from the at least one terminal device, an interference report including information that is at least partly based on the first and the second interference measurements, and providing communication resources on the basis of the received interference report. |
| US10342019B2 |
UE discovery method and system in D2D network
A 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE) is provided, including a method for performing device to device (D2D) discovery by a user equipment (UE), which is out of the coverage area serviced by a base station, in a wireless communication network. The method includes the operations of receiving pre-configuration information for transmitting a discovery message, and transmitting the discovery message in a transmission resource determined on the basis of the pre-configuration information, wherein the pre-configuration information includes a list of pools for transmitting the discovery message, and the transmission resource is determined from the list of pools. |
| US10342014B2 |
Method of satellite communication with flexible capacity distribution based on beam hopping and on a fractional reuse scheme
A method, and associated equipment, for dynamically allocating resources in a satellite network comprising at least one satellite configured to form a plurality of satellite beams and terminals, comprises the steps of: clustering the beams into groups of beams, allocating frequency resources to each of the groups of beams, determining geographical zones in which these frequency resources can be used simultaneously, determining a hop frame comprising first timeslots, in which the frequency resources are allocated to the whole set of terminals of one of the beams of the group, and second timeslots, in which the frequency resources are allocated to a subset of terminals of at least one beam of the group, identifying the subset of terminals and allocating to the terminals of the frequency resources, and uploading of information relating to the overall loading of each of the beams. |
| US10342002B2 |
Method and device for transmitting and receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system
The resent invention relates to a wireless communication system, and particularly to a method and device for same, the method including the steps of: receiving, from a base station, L1 information about M number of UCells (M≤N) on which downlink resources are temporarily configured, wherein M number of UCells (M≤N) are a subset of N number of UCells; selectively aggregating K number of UCells (K |
| US10342001B2 |
Base station and user equipment having on-demand signalling mechanism in directional wireless communication system
The disclosure is directed to a base station and a user equipment having on-demand signaling mechanism in directional wireless system. According to one of the exemplary embodiment, the present disclosure proposes a base station which includes at least but not limited to a transmitter and a receiver to transmit and receive data respectively and a processing circuit coupled to the transmitter and the receiver and is configured at least to receive through the receiver a service request to start an on-demand transmission, configure a control signaling to schedule a schedulable resource based on the service request in response to starting the on-demand transmission, and transmit through the transmitter the control signaling for triggering reference signals of an external base station to transmit the scheduled schedulable resource, wherein the reference signals are aperiodic and directional. |
| US10342000B2 |
Control information sending method and apparatus
Embodiments of this application provide a control information sending method and apparatus, where the method includes: obtaining a control information indication message from a first standard network, selecting a second standard network from one or more other networks that constitute a heterogeneous network with the first standard network, and sending the control information indication message to the second standard network, and then to a client over the second standard network. The control information indication message is used to instruct to substitutively send control information of the first standard network. According to the method and apparatus provided, the control information of the first standard network is substitutively sent over the second standard network, and sending the control information does not need to occupy bandwidth of the first standard network. Therefore, in comparison with the prior art, a network capacity of service data sent over the first standard network can be increased. |
| US10341993B2 |
Multiplexing large payloads of control information from user equipments
An apparatus and method for transmitting Uplink Control Information (UCI) over a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH) in a communication system. A method includes acquiring, by a user equipment (UE), from an evolved Node B (eNB), information for a PUCCH format associated with multiple cells; generating, by the UE, UCI to be transmitted; encoding, by the UE, the UCI; performing, by the UE, a Fourier transform (FT) operation on the encoded UCI; performing, by the UE, an inverse Fourier transform (IFT) operation on the Fourier transformed UCI; and transmitting, by the UE, the inverse Fourier transformed UCI using the PUCCH format. |
| US10341986B2 |
Method for transmitting a paging message to a terminal using a virtual network node
The objective of the invention is to suppress increases in a C-Plane processing load on a mobile network side even if requests to call a plurality of terminals in the mobile network are generated within a short period of time. In some embodiments, a terminal transmits a control signal for connecting to a network in response to receiving a paging message. In some embodiments, a plurality of virtual network nodes, each capable of running on a virtual machine, have a function of processing the control signal from the terminal. Also disclosed is a control device which, in response to receiving a packet addressed to the terminal, requests at least one of the plurality of virtual network nodes to transmit a paging message addressed to the terminal. |
| US10341985B2 |
Area calibration and beamforming refinement
A wireless device of the present disclosure may be able to reduce the time needed to determine a subarray and/or beamforming direction used for mmW communication. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus may maintain first information associated with a correlation between each of a plurality of wireless device positions and wireless device orientations and a plurality of nodes, at least one subarray, and a corresponding beamforming direction. In another aspect, the apparatus may transmit the first information associated with the correlation to a plurality of nodes. |
| US10341983B2 |
Locating customer premises equipment in a narrow beamwidth based radio access network
A device may receive, from a base station, a wireless signal. The device may determine, based on the wireless signal, at least one of a signal quality value associated with the wireless signal or information indicative of a location of the base station relative to the device. The device may output a positioning notification, indicative of a manner in which the device is to be positioned, based on at least one of the signal quality value or the information indicative of the location of the base station. |
| US10341982B2 |
Technique and system of positioning a mobile terminal indoors
The technique and the system may be used for indoor positioning, where signals of navigation satellites are not available. In accordance with the technique patterns identifying location of the mobile terminal in a specific position may be detected, on the basis of data acquired from at least one inertial and non-inertial sensors in the process of movement of at least one mobile terminal; the path of movement of the above mobile terminal may be detected and saved in the local coordinate system associated with the above position, as well as data acquired from non-inertial sensors; statistically averaged parameters of conversion of local coordinate system of the mobile terminal may be generated in the positions detected in the process of terminal movement; at least one map of distribution of output values of non-inertial sensors may be prepared on the basis of data acquired at the previous step; the position of the above mobile terminal may be detected on the basis of data acquired at the previous step. The system may include a set of sensors of mobile terminal, a computer, a probability computation module, a module for selection of patterns, a data storage package and a coordinate converter. |