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US10338847B1	Coherent buffer mapping for virtualized graphics processing Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for coherent buffer mapping for virtualized graphics processing are disclosed. A virtual graphics processing unit (GPU) is implemented using a physical GPU in a GPU server and attached to a computing device over a network. Based on a memory mapping call issued by an application on the computing device, a local buffer is allocated. The local buffer represents a view of a memory buffer of the physical GPU and is protected from access by the application. Based on a request by the application to access the local buffer while the local buffer is protected, metadata is generated indicating that the local buffer needs transfer. Based on the metadata, contents of the local buffer are transferred from the computing device to the physical GPU or contents of the memory buffer are transferred from the physical GPU to the computing device.
US10338839B2	Memory system and method for controlling nonvolatile memory According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of nonvolatile memory dies, and a controller. The controller classifies the nonvolatile memory dies into a plurality of physical sets such that each of the nonvolatile memory dies belongs to only one physical set. The controller creates a plurality of storage regions which share each of the physical sets and each of which spans the physical sets. The controller sets one of the physical sets to a first mode for permitting a write operation and a read operation, and sets each of the other physical sets to a second mode for permitting a read operation and inhibiting a write operation.
US10338838B2	Multi-mode NVMe over fabrics device for supporting CAN (controller area network) bus or SMBus interface A memory device is configured to communicate with one or more external devices, the memory device including a configurable bit or a mode select pin for determining which one of two or more different communication protocols that the memory device uses to communicate with the one or more external devices, wherein the two or more different communications protocols include at least a Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol and a System Management Bus (SMBus) protocol.
US10338837B1	Dynamic mapping of applications on NVRAM/DRAM hybrid memory This disclosure relates to allocating memory resources of a computing device comprising non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) and dynamic random access memory (DRAM). An exemplary method is performed for every independently executable component of an application and includes determining attributes of the component. The method also includes associating the component with a memory profile of a plurality of memory profiles based on the attributes, wherein each memory profile of the plurality of memory profiles specifies a number of banks of the NVRAM and a number of banks of the DRAM. The method also includes causing the computing device to generate an assignment of the component to banks of the NVRAM and DRAM based on the memory profile associated with the component so the computing device can execute the component using the banks of the NVRAM and DRAM based on the assignment.
US10338836B2	Page aligning method and lookup table generating method of data storage device A page aligning method for a data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes a non-volatile memory and the page aligning method includes steps of: executing a system initialization on the non-volatile memory to obtain a remaining storage capacity; selecting a number from a lookup table as an initial storage capacity according to the remaining storage capacity and a lookup table; and referring the initial storage capacity as a fixed capacity in the data storage device and writing the initial storage capacity into the non-volatile memory. A lookup table generating method and the data storage device are also provided.
US10338832B2	Power efficient method and system for executing host data processing tasks during data retention operations in a storage device A system and method for combining the execution of a query with other operations, such as a data retention scan, in a storage device, when the execution of the query is not time-sensitive. The storage device may be connected to a host, and may operate during intervals of time in a power save mode. When a query is received by the host that is not time-sensitive, the query may be stored in the host or in the storage device until such time as the device would otherwise return to a normal operating mode, and then the query may be executed. Such delayed execution may enable the sharing of read operations for the query with read operations used, for example, for the execution of other queries or for a data retention scan.
US10338830B2	Methods for accessing a solid state disk for QoS (quality of service) and apparatuses using the same The invention introduces a method for accessing a solid state disk for QoS (Quality of Service), performed by a processing unit, including at least the following steps: obtaining execution histories of VMs (virtual machines); selecting one of the FIFO (First-In-First-Out) queues according to the execution histories and QoS; obtaining a first data access request, which was entered earliest in the selected FIFO queue; and directing a storage device to complete a data access operation according to the first data access request.
US10338827B2	Digitally lending content without reproduction Content is lent, or temporarily transferred, without reproduction, by reading first data stored in a first non-volatile storage medium from the first non-volatile storage medium to a first volatile memory, and transmitting corresponding data from the first volatile memory to a second volatile memory. After the reading or transmitting, at least a portion of the first data is erased from the first non-volatile storage medium. The data and corresponding data are also erased from the first volatile memory and second volatile memory and are thus stored in volatile memory for a period of not more than transitory duration. The portion of the first data stored in the first non-volatile storage medium and the corresponding data stored in the second non-volatile storage medium are not concurrently stored. In some embodiments, the first data includes one or more respective keys, each key for decrypting a respective encrypted data chunk.
US10338825B2	Managing SSD wear rate in hybrid storage arrays A technique for use in balancing flash drive wear in data storage systems is disclosed. Multiple sets of flash drives are identified where data is stored as multiple slices striped across the set of flash drives. A write rate at which data will be written to the multiple slices stored on the set of flash drives during a next time interval is predicted. A number of bytes that can be written to each set of flash drives is determined. A metric representative of a wear rate is determined for each set of flash drives. HDD relocation candidates are identified and a relocation process to relocate identified slices initiated.
US10338821B2	Memory controller for high latency memory devices Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for improving the performance of memory controllers for memory devices. A system may have a memory controller that interfaces with a memory device to store or retrieve information. When the system needs to retrieve information from the memory device, the memory controller sends an address and a command to instruct the memory device to read the information stored at the address. The memory device reads the information, and after a specific amount of time, the memory device sends the information to the memory controller. According to an embodiment, “dummy” data is sent first prior to the availability of the data read out of the memory devices, while waiting for the requested data to be accessed, and then the actual data is sent immediately following the dummy data. According to an embodiment, a geometry of a memory device has only one column of memory cells that are used to store information. The memory device with only one column in an embodiment does not require decoding of a column address. As such, the read latency of the memory device is significantly reduced.
US10338820B2	Architecture and algorithms for data compression A system architecture conserves memory bandwidth by including compression utility to process data transfers from the cache into external memory. The cache decompresses transfers from external memory and transfers full format data to naive clients that lack decompression capability and directly transfers compressed data to savvy clients that include decompression capability. An improved compression algorithm includes software that computes the difference between the current data word and each of a number of prior data words. Software selects the prior data word with the smallest difference as the nearest match and encodes the bit width of the difference to this data word. Software then encodes the difference between the current stride and the closest previous stride. Software combines the stride, bit width, and difference to yield final encoded data word. Software may encode the stride of one data word as a value relative to the stride of a previous data word.
US10338819B2	Controller transmitting output commands and method of operating the same A controller includes a host command sensor suitable for generating a target ratio between first typed host commands and second typed host commands; an output command generator suitable for generating first and second typed output commands respectively corresponding to the first and second typed host commands; and an arbiter suitable for sequentially transmitting the first and second typed output commands from the output command queue to a channel, and generating a channel ratio between first and second typed output commands transmitted from the output command queue to the channel. The arbiter transmits one of the first and second typed output commands from the output command queue to the channel by comparing the channel ratio with the target ratio.
US10338818B1	Systems and methods for enabling safe memory de-duplication in shared-computing environments The disclosed computer-implemented method for enabling safe memory de-duplication in shared-computing environments may include (i) identifying a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine, (ii) calculating a trustworthiness score for the first virtual machine based on a trustworthiness score of each binary of the first virtual machine, (iii) calculating a trustworthiness score for the second virtual machine based on a trustworthiness score of each binary of the second virtual machine, and (iv) enabling the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine to share a page frame of physical memory by assigning, based on the trustworthiness scores of the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine being above a predetermined threshold, the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine to a trusted group of virtual machines that can share physical memory. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10338817B2	Systems and methods for storage recovery Storage divisions are selected for garbage collection by use of a first selection criterion that is based on an amount of storage capacity freed by reclaiming the respective storage divisions. The first selection criterion may be overridden by a second, different selection criterion in response to determining that a wear variance of the storage divisions exceeds a threshold. The second selection criterion may select a storage division to reclaim based on a wear-level of the storage division. Overrides of the first selection criterion may be limited to a particular override frequency and/or period. The first selection criterion may comprise a logarithmic comparison of the amount of invalid data within the storage divisions. The amount of invalid data in a storage division may be calculated in terms of recovery blocks, having a size that exceeds the size of the physical storage locations within the storage divisions.
US10338816B2	Reducing negative effects of insufficient data throughput for real-time processing Techniques for controlling access to a memory are provided. The techniques may include receiving and storing output pixel data in a buffer, providing the stored output pixel data to a display controller, receiving stored output pixel data from the buffer at the display controller, switching to a second operating mode state based at least on an amount of available data in the buffer being less than or equal to a threshold, identifying a portion of the image data stored in a memory device for use in generating output pixel data for an updated image, and, in response to operating in the second operating mode, generating the output pixel data without issuing a memory read command via an interconnect to retrieve the portion of the initial image while operating in the second operating mode, and providing the output pixel data to the buffer.
US10338812B2	Replacement of physical buttons with virtual controls In an approach for controlling a computing device without mechanical buttons the computer detects an interaction with a touch capacitive sensing surface on a computing device. The computer determines that the detected interaction includes at least three interactions including at least two different touch capacitive sensing surfaces. The computer determines a virtual control button to display based on the detected interaction. The computer displays the determined virtual control button to the user. The computer receives an interaction with the displayed virtual control button. The computer implements an action associated with the determined virtual control button based on the received interaction.
US10338810B2	Four row overload QWERTY-like keypad layout Provided is an overloaded keypad layout which is efficient, ergonomic, unambiguous, intuitive to operate, and also familiar to the average user in its letter arrangement. More particularly, the overloaded keypad layout comprises four rows, and a space-key is positioned in the third row from bottom, and is QWERTY-like its letter arrangement. Further, the multitap input method or selector (select-the-next-letter key) input method may be employed to disambiguate the overloaded keypad layout.
US10338806B2	Reaching any touch screen portion with one hand A mobile computing device and method performed by a mobile computing device are provided. The mobile computing device includes a touch screen display, a touch enabled border surface, and a processor. The processor is configured to generate image data representing a viewport of the device. The processor is configured to add a graphic representation of at least one user interface element to the image data. The processor is configured to determine a press intensity of a touch pressure applied by a user of the device to the touch screen display in a region where the graphic representation of the at least one user interface element is displayed. The processor is configured to determine a position of the hand of the user using the touch enabled border surface. The processor is configured to slide the viewport downwards based on the press intensity and the position of the hand of the user.
US10338804B2	Display input device, image formation device comprising same, and control method for display input device A display input device including: a display panel provided for the display panel; and a control unit that recognizes user operation content, recognizes a drag operation whereby a predetermined start area in the display panel is touched and, while said touch is continued, the touch position is slid towards a predetermined end area, recognizes arrival at the touch position end area as a power supply OFF command that instructs a power supply to turn OFF, and causes processing for turning off the power supply when a power supply OFF command is recognized.
US10338803B2	Interface for aircraft and method of control of such an interface This interface for aircraft comprises an assemblage of at least one display device for the display of data, at least one support (L) for portable computer equipment comprising means of power supply for the computer equipment, bidirectional means of data transfer to the computer equipment and a communication gateway (4) between the support and the onboard display device, comprising means of copying image data in order to copy the image data coming from the computer equipment onto at least a portion of the screen of at least one of the display devices and means of transfer of data representative of a command gesture between the display device and the support.
US10338801B2	Agricultural vehicle calibration via human machine interface A touchscreen Human Machine Interface (HMI) may be used to communicate with a machine controller which, in turn, may communicate with a variety of systems of an agricultural machine to calibrate those systems. Accordingly, the HMI, via the machine controller, may communicate and interact with various electronically controlled devices of the machine, such as a joystick, a brake pedal, a hydrostatic pump system, a steering angle sensor, a rear steering controller, and the like (such as via an ISO Bus or CAN bus) to effect such calibrations.
US10338796B2	Event services modeling framework for computer systems Embodiments include an event services modeling framework. The event services modeling framework includes an event services modeling editor that provides a user interface and mechanism for users to model and customize event flow configurations within a system and/or network. The user interface can be used to connect events with actions that will take place in response to the events. The system components and/or modules that need to receive the information from the events can then react and respond appropriately. Users can modify event configurations based on their own particular needs. the event services editor can be used for generating one or more event services models. The event services models may include events, conditions (rules) for processing the events, activities to be perform during event processing, subscriber modules defined for performing the activities during event processing, and a specified time for processing the events in each modeled event flow.
US10338792B2	Object stop position control method, action indicating device, and program An object stop position control method includes: when a movement instruction as to an object displayed on a display unit is received by a first operation method, moving the object in accordance with the movement instruction, stopping the movement of the object based on the movement instruction when the object moves past a predetermined stop position, and causing the object to automatically stop at the stop position; and, when the movement instruction is received by a second operation method, not causing the object to automatically stop, but moving the object in accordance with the movement instruction.
US10338788B2	Apparatus and method for processing contents in portable terminal Provided are a method and an apparatus for processing contents in a portable terminal. The method includes displaying the contents on a contents screen. The method also includes displaying a tray to display selected information in the contents screen when the information is selected from the contents screen. The method also includes displaying information and a recommendation application related with the information on the tray when the selected text is moved to the tray. A user selects and collects collected texts in the tray without inconveniently pasting the collected texts into a corresponding field to recommend an application related with the collected texts, and executes a selected application when selection of the application is detected, and collectively maps the executed application to a corresponding item.
US10338785B2	Processing system for multivariate segmentation of electronic message content Mediums, apparatus, computer program code, and means may be provided to launch electronic messages via a distributed communication network by an automated back-end application computer server. According to some embodiments, a database import table associated with a set of electronic destination communication addresses may be created. The set of electronic destination communication addresses may be automatically and dynamically split into multivariate segments, including at least: a current message content subset, a first modified message content subset, and a second modified message content subset. Current message content, first modified message content, and second modified message content may then be automatically launched to electronic destination communication addresses as appropriate in accordance with the multivariate segments. A results log may be created based on computer implemented responses to the messages, and indications associated with the results log may be transmitted to generate an interactive user interface display.
US10338779B1	Methods, systems, and computer program products for navigating between visual components Methods, systems, and computer program products are described comprising a device configured to: present a first window of the first application in a first application region of a presentation space of the display; detect first user input in connection with the first window of the first application; in response to the detection of the first user input in connection with the first window of the first application, present a representation of a second window of the second application in a menu, in a first particular region of the presentation space of the display, for displaying the second window of the second application, in a second application region in the presentation space of the display, the first particular region: located in a first location adjacent to a second location of the first application region, operable for being at least one of re-sized or moved in response to the first application region being at least one of re-sized or moved, and operable for being hidden in response to the first application region being maximized, and represented in response to the first application region being returned to a non-maximized state; detect second user input in connection with the representation of the second window of the second application in the menu; and in response to the detection of the second user input in connection with the representation of the second window of the second application in the menu, present the second window of the second application.
US10338777B2	Method and system for collecting content Method and device of storing content objects within a social network application are disclosed. The method includes: a user device providing a user interface of the social network application on the user device, the user interface including an affordance for forming a content group including respective content objects of one or more object types; receiving a selection of a first plurality of images for inclusion in the first content group; providing a listing of context objects that are associated with at least one of the first plurality of images; receiving a user input indicating completion of the first content group; and forming the first content group containing the first plurality of images and the one or more content object selected from the listing of context objects information.
US10338774B2	Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same A mobile terminal, including a wireless communication processor; a touch screen; and a controller configured to: execute a first function specifying a counterpart, and execute a second function in combination with a display of a first menu for transmitting at least one or more contents selected by the second function to the specified counterpart through the wireless communication processor, in response to an execution command for executing the second function within a prescribed time from a timing of executing, suspending or ending the first function.
US10338772B2	Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects with visual and/or haptic feedback An electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts: displays an application launching user interface; detects a first touch input that includes detecting a first contact at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a first application icon for launching a first application that is associated with one or more corresponding quick actions; in response to detecting the first touch input, in accordance with a determination that the first touch input meets one or more application-launch criteria, launches the first application; and, in accordance with a determination that the first touch input meets one or more quick-action-display criteria, which include a criterion that is met when the characteristic intensity of the first contact increases above a respective intensity threshold, concurrently displays one or more quick action objects associated with the first application along with the first application icon.
US10338770B2	Display apparatus and computer-readable non-transitory recording medium with display control program recorded thereon A display apparatus includes a display section, an operating point detecting section, a first movement information detecting section configured to detect a direction and an amount of movement from an initial point of an operator's touch of the operating point detecting section to a primary stopping point thereof, a second movement information detecting section configured to detect an amount of movement in a predetermined direction from the primary stopping point to a secondary stopping point, an amount-of-value-change calculating section configured to calculate an amount of numerical value change at each numerical display switch, a switching speed calculating section configured to calculate, from the amount of movement detected by the second movement information detecting section, a switching speed at each numerical display switch, and a display control section allowing the numerical display switch of the display section in the calculated amount of numerical value change at the calculated switching speed.
US10338768B1	Graphical user interface for finding and depicting individuals A method, apparatus and computer program for presenting locations of individuals in an interface are described. A location and an orientation of a portable device with respect to an environment are monitored. A set of locations of one or more individuals of interest with respect to a region of interest in the environment is determined. An orienting background and a set of representations against the orienting background are presented in an interface on the display. Each representation is of a respective individual of interest in the region of interest. The interface presented according to the location and orientation of the display. The orienting background contains a positional cue of a landmark of the environment which the portable device is oriented toward. A representation of a respective individual of interest is displayed only if the portable device is oriented toward the respective individual of interest.
US10338767B2	Real-time delivery of interactions in online social networking system A content item is sent for display on client devices of users of an online system. Information indicating that a first user is currently viewing the content item is received from a client device. A second user connected to the first user is identified. The second user is performing a user interaction with the content item while the first user is currently viewing the content item. An emotion associated with the user interaction is determined. A widget identifying the second user and the emotion is sent for display to the client device. The widget is configured to move across the content item displayed on the client device while the first user is currently viewing the content item. Responsive to receiving from the client device a user interaction with the widget, information is sent for display indicating the second user in a field for receiving comments by the first user.
US10338766B2	Audible and visual operational modes for a head-mounted display device The invention is directed towards wearable devices and operating wearable devices in a visual mode when a display device of the wearable device is within a line-of-sight (LOS) of a user and operating the wearable device in an audible mode when the wearable device is outside the LOS of the user. The position of the display device, relative to the user's LOS, is automatically determined. The operational mode of the wearable device is automatically transitioned when a transition of position of the display device is detected. The wearable device may be a head-mounted display (HMD) device. A visual mode provides visual-based presentations of UIs, content, information, and data, via the display device. In contrast to a visual mode, an audible mode provides audio-based presentations of UIs, content, information, and data, via one or more audible speakers included in the wearable device.
US10338765B2	Combined switching and window placement Systems, methods, computer storage media, and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are provided for combined switching and placement of windows based on a single action. The single action may be moving an element to a hot spot or a snap portion of a display area. In response to the single action, an element is automatically launched, repositioned according to a snap portion or a hot spot that recognized the element, and opened, and a view is automatically switched to a view of at least the element.
US10338760B2	Touch sensor unit and touch sensor device A touch sensor unit includes a substrate and a plurality of touch electrodes disposed on the substrate for generating sensing signals. Each of the touch electrodes includes an electrically insulating layer that is light-transmissible, and a plurality of nano-scale conducting elements distributed in the electrically insulating layer and electrically connected to one another. Each of the conducting elements includes a metal body that has a roughened surface, that has a twisted structure, or that is formed with a light light-absorbing member thereon.
US10338756B2	Touch screen and electronic device having the same A touch screen includes a touch panel and an ultrasonic probe. A touch panel includes a cover plate, a first sensing structure including a plurality of receiving electrode lines, and a second sensing structure including a plurality of transmitting electrode lines. The ultrasonic probe includes a first piezoelectric film and a second piezoelectric film. The first piezoelectric film is attached to the touch panel and electrically coupled to the receiving electrode line, and the second piezoelectric film is attached to the touch panel and electrically coupled to the transmitting electrode line. An electronic device is also provided.
US10338753B2	Flexible multi-layer sensing surface A flexible multi-layer sensing surface comprises a first flexible layer and a second flexible layer. The first flexible layer is a sensing layer and the second sensing layer is another sensing layer or an output layer. The sensing surface also comprises a calibration module which is configured to use the first flexible sensing layer to detect the relative position of the first and second flexible layers and this detected relative position is then used to update one or more stored operating parameters.
US10338750B2	Display apparatus, projector, and display control method A display apparatus includes a first detection section detects the position of a first indicator on the image. A second detection section detects the position of a second indicator on the image. A storage section includes a first storage region corresponding to the first indicator and a second storage region corresponding to the second indicator. The first storage control section stores a first virtual object relating to the first indicator in the first storage region. The second storage control section stores a second virtual object relating to the second indicator in the second storage region. A first pasting section pastes the first virtual object stored in the first storage region to the image according to an operation of the first indicator. A second pasting section pastes the second virtual object stored in the second storage region to the image according to an operation of the second indicator.
US10338749B2	Optical device and operation input apparatus An optical device includes a light-guiding plate that guides light in a plane parallel to an emission surface that emits light, and a sensor for detecting an object located on an emission surface side using light that passes through a back surface opposite to the emission surface and through the emission surface. The light-guiding plate has light convergence portions that receive light guided by the light-guiding plate and each have optical surfaces that cause light to be emitted from the emission surface in directions in which the light substantially converges at or scatters from one convergence point or one convergence line in a space, and the convergence points or the convergence lines for the light convergence portions are different from each other, and an image is formed in the space on the emission surface side by a collection of the convergence points or the convergence lines.
US10338745B2	Management of a touchscreen interface of a device Method and system are provided for management of a touchscreen interface of a device. The method includes monitoring touchscreen interface function by logging data relating to user interaction with locations of the touchscreen interface. The logged data is then analyzed to identify one or more areas of the touchscreen interface which are inactive. The remaining active areas of the touchscreen interface are modeled to form a modified interface. An original touchscreen interface is then mapped to the modified interface resulting in only use of the remaining active areas.
US10338743B2	Method and apparatus for preventing accidental touch operation on mobile terminals The present disclosure provides an accidental-touch prevention method and apparatus for a mobile terminal. The method includes: receiving by the touch screen IC layer a touch instruction from a user, and reporting a touch point on a touch track corresponding to the touch instruction to the driver layer; determining by the driver layer whether the touch point is in the chamfered-rounded-angle area; and when the touch point is in the chamfered-rounded-angle area, correcting coordinates of the touch point by the driver layer.
US10338742B2	Detection method for a digitizer A method includes transmitting a Continuous Wave Frequency Modulated (CWFM) signal on a first drive line of a grid based capacitive sensor and transmitting the CWFM signal with an imposed delay on a second drive line of grid based capacitive sensor simultaneously with transmission of the CWFM signal on the first drive line. Output on a receive line is correlated with the CWFM signal, Fourier transformation is performed on the correlation of the output and coordinates of an object interacting with the grid based capacitive sensor is identified based on frequency and phase information determined from the Fourier transformation.
US10338737B2	Display device A display device with a touch panel includes a display panel, and a touch panel formed above the display panel. The touch panel includes X electrodes which extend in a first direction, and Y electrodes which extend in a second direction different from the first direction. The X electrodes and the Y electrodes respectively include intersection portions each formed where the X electrodes and the Y electrodes overlap each other, and electrode portions each formed between the intersection portions, wherein the electrode portions of one of the X electrodes is smaller in area than the electrode portions of one of the Y electrodes, and wherein floating electrodes are formed close to the electrode portion of the one of the X electrodes or Y electrodes, and over a reduced portion of the X electrode.
US10338730B2	Display device and timing controller The present disclosure relates to a display device and a timing controller. The display device includes a panel on which a number of subpixels are disposed and a characteristic sensing circuit sensing characteristic values of the number of subpixels. When a difference between the characteristic value of a specific subpixel among the number of subpixels and a reference value exceeds a predetermined range, the characteristic sensing circuit generates coordinate data of the specific subpixel. The display device includes a host controller recognizing a user manipulation based on the coordinate data.
US10338729B2	Touch controller having a display screen A touch controller having a display screen comprising a display screen, a touch integrated module, a control circuit and a housing. The display screen, touch integrated module and control circuit are separately fixed to the housing. The touch integrated module is connected to the control circuit, and the touch integrated module can be triggered to send an instruction to the control circuit. The display screen is connected to the control circuit, showing the operational information of the instruction after the data processing of the control circuit. The touch controller having a display screen can simultaneously control at least two drivers.
US10338724B2	Array substrate and method for fabricating the same, and display device and method for driving the same An array substrate and a method for fabricating the array substrate, a display device and a method for driving the display device are provided. The array substrate includes: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a touch control signal driving line disposed on the first surface; an isolation layer disposed on the first surface and covering the touch control signal driving line; a via hole formed in the isolation layer; and a gate line disposed on the isolation layer and electrically connected to the touch control signal driving line through the via hole. The scanning time of the array substrate is not reduced due to a touch control detection, and the undercharge of pixels is thus avoided.
US10338722B2	Tactile touch sensor system and method A tactile touch sensor (TTS) system and method allowing physical augmentation of a high-resolution touch sensor array (TSA) is disclosed. Physical augmentation is accomplished using a TSA physical overlay (TPO) placed on top of the TSA. The TPO is constructed to transmit forces to the underlying TSA. Force transmission is accomplished by either using a flexible overlay or with a rigid mechanical overlay that transmits user forces exerted on the overlay to the underlying TSA. Incorporation of TPO identifiers (TPI) within the TPO permits identification of the TPO by a TPO detector (TPD) allowing operational characteristics of the TSA to be automatically reconfigured to conform to the currently applied TPO structure by a user computing device (UCD). The UCD may be configured to automatically load an appropriate application software driver (ASD) in response to a TPI read by the TPD from the currently applied TPO.
US10338719B2	Pressure sensing apparatus and electronic device having said pressure sensing apparatus Pressure applied to the surface of a first panel is measured by a simple beam-type pressure-sensing assembly, said pressure-sensing assembly being in contact with the first panel and a second panel by means of first supports and a second support. When a user applies pressure to a pressing area, the pressure is transferred to an elastic bearing plate; the pressure is then evenly concentrated on the elastic bearing plate; having pressure applied thereto, the elastic bearing plate is then deformed; a pressure sensor detects the deformation of the elastic bearing plate, and then the pressure sensor outputs a pressure signal to a pressure-sensing detection circuit to analyze, process, and then output to a processor for execution of an operation.
US10338716B2	Electronic device Provided is an electronic device with high portability and/or high browsability. The electronic device includes first and second support bodies, a first hinge, and a flexible display panel. The first hinge has a first rotation axis and connects the first and second support bodies to each other, and the first and second support bodies are capable of relatively rotating on the first rotation axis. The display panel includes at least first and second portions supported by the first and second support bodies, respectively; the first rotation axis and a first plane including the display surface overlapping with the first portion or a second plane including the display surface overlapping with the second portion are parallel to each other; and each of a distance between the first rotation axis and the first plane or the second plane is greater than zero.
US10338710B2	In-cell touch panel and display device An in-cell touch panel and a display device are disclosed, in the in-cell touch panel, each of the self-capacitance electrodes includes a plurality of self-capacitance sub-electrodes which are insulated from each other and connecting lines for connecting the self-capacitance sub-electrodes; an orthographic projection on the first substrate of each self-capacitance sub-electrode does not overlap with an orthographic projection on the first substrate of each gate line; and/or an orthographic projection on the first substrate of each self-capacitance sub-electrode does not overlap with an orthographic projection on the first substrate of each data line. Thus, there is almost no overlapping area between the self-capacitance electrodes and the gate lines and/or there is almost no overlapping area between the self-capacitance electrodes and the data lines, thus there is almost no overlapping capacitance.
US10338708B2	Flexible touch screen, method for manufacturing the same and touch device A flexible touch screen includes a flexible substrate having a main outer lead bonding area and a touch lead bonding area provided with flexible-printed-circuit-board bonding pads; and a touch control panel connected to the flexible substrate via an adhesive layer. The touch control panel has a surface facing the flexible substrate and having a touch-control flexible circuit board mounted thereon. The touch-control flexible circuit board corresponds to the touch lead bonding area in position. In bonding of flexible circuit boards, the touch-control flexible circuit board of the touch control panel is bonded to the flexible-printed-circuit-board bonding pads in the touch lead bonding area; the flexible substrate is bonded to a main flexible circuit board via the flexible-printed-circuit-board bonding pads in the main outer lead bonding area. The FPC bonding process for the flexible touch screen is simplified, and the number of FPC is reduced.
US10338704B2	Mitigating display noise for touch and pen sensing A display device includes a display controller and a timing controller to drive frames at a frame rate onto a display. The display device may include sensor circuitry to detect a signal from a pen. The signal from the pen includes a sync signal indicative of a repetition rate of the signal. In one embodiment, the sync signal and the display timer are asynchronous. The sensor circuitry is configured to sense the signal from the pen during sensing windows, where timing of the sensing windows is based on the repetition rate. In one embodiment, the display controller is configured to pause driving a frame onto the display during the sensing windows.
US10338703B2	Touch pad for electronic device A touch pad for an electronic device is provided. The touch pad includes a circuit board member; and a detection member mounted in at least one area of the circuit board member to detect a user's contact, wherein the detection member includes a plurality of film layers; and detection patterns disposed on at least two adjacent film layers, among the plurality of film layers, so as to be misaligned with each other, wherein the detection patterns at least partially overlap each other.
US10338701B2	Active brush stylus The techniques taught in this application include, generally, a brush stylus that includes a number of active bristles. When the brush stylus is in contact with a touchscreen on the computing device, the active bristles provide data to the brush stylus, a computing device the other brush stylus, or both.
US10338699B2	Variable density device profile The description relates to devices. One example device can involve a mesh structure with a density profile varying from a first end of the mesh structure to a second end of the mesh structure.
US10338693B2	Visual collaboration interface Embodiments described herein includes a system comprising a processor coupled to display devices, sensors, remote client devices, and computer applications. The computer applications orchestrate content of the remote client devices simultaneously across the display devices and the remote client devices, and allow simultaneous control of the display devices. The simultaneous control includes automatically detecting a gesture of at least one object from gesture data received via the sensors. The detecting comprises identifying the gesture using only the gesture data. The computer applications translate the gesture to a gesture signal, and control the display devices in response to the gesture signal.
US10338680B2	Operating apparatus having feedback mechanism Provided is an operating apparatus having a feedback mechanism. An apparatus main body is supported on a base using a plurality of plurality of supporting metal plates. Each of the supporting metal plates includes a first mounting piece, a second mounting piece, and an intermediate plate. When a pressing force of a finger on an operating surface of the apparatus main body acts, the intermediate plate is deformed to depress the apparatus main body, thereby operating a detecting member. When a feedback force from the feedback mechanism acts on the apparatus main body, the second mounting piece is bent to move the apparatus main body along the feedback force.
US10338676B2	Gaze-based object placement within a virtual reality environment A head mounted display (HMD) device operating in a real world physical environment is configured with a sensor package that enables determination of an intersection of a device user's projected gaze with a location in a virtual reality environment so that virtual objects can be placed into the environment with high precision. Surface reconstruction of the physical environment can be applied using data from the sensor package to determine the user's view position in the virtual world. A gaze ray originating from the view position is projected outward and a cursor or similar indicator is rendered on the HMD display at the ray's closest intersection with the virtual world such as a virtual object, floor/ground, etc. In response to user input, such as a gesture, voice interaction, or control manipulation, a virtual object is placed at the point of intersection between the projected gaze ray and the virtual reality environment.
US10338675B2	Selective color sensing for motion tracking An electronic device is configured to select a first set of one or more distinct wavelengths for tracking a first portable device in communication with the electronic device; and, subsequent to selecting the first set of one or more distinct wavelengths for tracking the first portable device, initiate the first portable device to emit light of the first set of one or more selected wavelengths; receive information identifying one or more respective intensities of light, detected by the one or more optical sensors, for the first set of one or more selected wavelengths; and determine a position of the first portable device based on the information identifying the one or more respective intensities of light, detected by the one or more optical sensors, for the first set of one or more selected wavelengths. A method for determining a position of the first portable device is also described.
US10338663B2	Energy saving method and apparatus of mobile terminal Energy saving methods and apparatuses of a mobile terminal may be provided, For example, an energy saving method includes monitoring whether the mobile terminal loads a webpage data stream, determining webpage complexity of the webpage data stream, when the webpage data stream is loaded, determining one or more set parameter values, from among a plurality of parameter values of a set of regulation parameters, based on a correspondence relationship among the regulation parameters used for adjusting a frequency of a processor, setting one or more set regulation parameters based on the one or more set parameter values, adjusting the frequency of the processor based on the one or more set regulation parameters, and loading the webpage data stream at the adjusted frequency such that the mobile terminal completes loading of the webpage data stream in a set time range with reduced energy consumption may be provided.
US10338662B2	Low power detection apparatus and method for displaying information A low power detection apparatus and a method for displaying information are provided. When a low power manager drives a proximity detection sensor to generate a proximity interrupt in a state within which the portable terminal is in an idle state, the low power manager drives a motion detection sensor and determines a motion of the portable terminal for a preset time. When there is no motion of the portable terminal for the preset time, the low power manager generates proximity data for displaying screen information and then transmits the generated proximity data to an application processor so as to display screen information which the user desires with low power.
US10338661B2	Planning and managing the power utilization of a battery-powered device A method for managing a battery-powered device. In one embodiment, the method includes a computer processor identifying a first plan of activities to be performed by a battery-powered device, where the first plan of activities includes an estimated first power consumption for the first plan of activities. The method further includes determining a level of power of a first battery of the battery-powered device. The method further includes generating a first set of implementation details that manage power consumption within the battery-powered device while performing the first plan of activities, based on the estimated first power consumption and the determined power level of the first battery of the battery-powered device. The method further includes applying the first set of implementation details to the battery-powered device to perform the first plan of activities.
US10338660B2	Method and apparatus for dynamic sleep mode based on predicted communication activity A method for communicating system activity in a communication system includes receiving communication beam activity information, the communication beam activity information related to communication information destined for a user device on a communication beam, the communication beam activity information comprising information relating to data activity on the communication beam, and using the communication beam activity information to determine a period within which the user device may enter an inactive state.
US10338659B2	Power control for use of volatile memory as non-volatile memory A computing device may comprise a volatile memory and a non-volatile storage device. Upon system shutdown, contents of the volatile memory may be preserved by memory transfer operations from the volatile memory to the non-volatile storage device. During memory preservation, the computing device may enter a low-power state. The low-power state may comprise suspension of power to a core of a processor while maintaining power to the processor's uncore, and disablement of interrupt signals not related to memory transfer operations. Power delivery to the core of the processor may be periodically resumed to initiate additional memory transfer operations.
US10338655B2	Advanced fall through mechanism for low power sequencers Aspects of the disclosure are directed to DC power management. A sequencer may be configured to execute a first command, wherein the first command is associated with a unique group tag; compare the unique group tag to a master group tag; determine if an interrupt is detected; lock the master group tag to yield a locked master group tag; execute a second command, wherein the second command is associated with the locked master group tag; determine that an end of commands in the locked master group tag is reached and execute a sequence jump through command to put a processor back to a regular power state.
US10338653B2	Power delivery to rack-mounted field replaceable units using AC and/or DC input power sources A system for the management of rack-mounted field replaceable units (FRUs) that affords the enhanced availability and serviceability of FRUs provided by blade-based systems but in a manner that accommodates different types of FRUs (e.g., in relation to form factors, functionality, power and cooling requirements, and/or the like) installed within a rack or cabinet.
US10338652B2	High voltage protection system for adjusting duty cycle by using pulse width modulation signal A high voltage protection system includes a high voltage processing circuit, a pulse width modulation signal outputting circuit, a driving circuit, and a coil module. The high voltage processing circuit is used for receiving and processing a high voltage. The pulse width modulation signal output circuit is coupled to the high voltage processing circuit for generating a pulse width modulation signal. The driving circuit is coupled to the pulse width modulation signal outputting circuit for receiving the pulse width modulation signal and generating a driving voltage accordingly. The coil module is coupled to the driving circuit and is operated according to the driving voltage.
US10338647B2	Housing assembly for a computer system and computer system A housing assembly for a computer system includes at least one first shielding casing with a first plurality of ventilation openings in an area of a first housing wall of the first shielding casing; and at least one second shielding casing with a second plurality of ventilation openings in an area of a second housing wall of the second shielding casing, wherein a first contact area of the first housing wall of the first shielding casing borders directly on a corresponding second contact area of the second housing wall of the second shielding casing, and at least one of the first housing wall of the first shielding casing and the second housing wall of the second shielding casing includes a recess so that the first plurality of ventilation openings of the first shielding casing is spaced apart from the second plurality of ventilation openings of the second shielding casing.
US10338646B1	Radio frequency amplifier circuit and mobile terminal having the same A mobile terminal according to the present invention includes a main transmitter to amplify and transmit a first signal of a first frequency band through a first path and a second path, and an auxiliary transmitter to amplify and transmit a second signal of a second frequency band through a third path. The mobile terminal further includes a controller to control the amplified first signal and the amplified second signal to be combined with each other when the distortion signal is to occur in frequency bands adjacent to the first frequency band due to the amplified first signal, thereby providing a radio frequency (RF) front end and a mobile terminal with improved non-linearity.
US10338644B2	Display device A display device having a minimal overall thickness is achieved by receiving a camera in an accommodation space on at least one among upper and lower substrates. The optical affects caused by reflection of light off the camera or its components can be minimized by a special low reflective film provided in the accommodation space.
US10338641B2	Smart bracelet A smart bracelet includes a pedestal, a rotating assembly rotatably coupled to the pedestal, and a flexible display screen supported by the pedestal and the rotating assembly. When the rotating assembly is folded relative to the pedestal, the flexible display screen is bent and has a first display area. When the rotating assembly is unfolded relative to the pedestal, the flexible display screen is unfolded and has a second display area. The second display area is larger than the first display area. The display area of the smart bracelet of the present application is changeable.
US10338637B1	Adjustable strap assembly for a head-mounted display The disclosed strap assembly may include an axial strap, connected to a head-mounted display, configured to be worn around the circumference of a user's head in a manner that holds the head-mounted display against the user's face. The axial strap may include a left axial section and a right axial section. The strap assembly may also include an adjustable attachment mechanism configured to removably attach the right axial section to the left axial section at the back of the user's head. Additionally, the strap assembly may include a top strap, configured to be worn along the top of the user's head. The top strap may include (1) a ventral end coupled to a medial section of the head-mounted display and (2) a dorsal end that splits into a left dorsal end and a right dorsal end, each of which couples to the axial strap.
US10338636B2	Computing device with keyboard mode A device can include a processor; memory operatively coupled to the processor; a display housing that includes a display operatively coupled to the processor; a keyboard housing that includes a keyboard; a hinge assembly that operatively couples the display housing and the keyboard housing for transitions between an closed orientation, an open orientation and a folded orientation; and wireless communication circuitry that, in a wireless keyboard mode of the folded orientation, operatively couples to the keyboard.
US10338635B2	Panel vibration type sound generating actuator and double-faced display device including same The present embodiment relates to a double-faced display device generating sound by directly vibrating a display panel and includes: a first display panel and a second display panel disposed at the front and rear surface thereof, respectively; a single sound generating actuator connected to the first display panel and the second display panel to simultaneously vibrate the first display panel and the second display panel and thus generate sound; and a support part configured to support the sound generating actuator, the first display panel, and the second display panel. The present embodiment does not require a separate speaker and thus can achieve a thin or slim display device, and can improve the localization or the quality of sound output in opposite directions in the double-faced display device.
US10338632B2	Adaptive voltage converter An adaptive voltage converter adapted to compensate for the exponential sensitivities of sub-threshold and near-threshold circuits. The converter can change its power/performance characteristics between different energy modes. The converter may comprise two or more voltage converters/regulators. A multiplexing circuit selects between the outputs of the several converters/regulators depending on the state of a control signal generated by a control facility. The converter is specially adapted to change the output of each converter/regulator based on a number of variables, including, for example, process corner, temperature and input voltage.
US10338630B2	Optical computing system System and method related to photonic computing are provided. A photonic computing system may include an optical interference region and an input waveguide configured to couple an optical input signal to the optical interference region and to create an optical interference pattern in the optical interference region. The interference pattern has an optical power distribution. The photonic computing system may further include a readout unit that is arranged in an inner area of the optical interference region. The readout unit is configured to detect an optical readout signal of the optical power distribution at a readout position of the inner area of the optical interference region. A method is also provided for performing photonic computing.
US10338625B2	Voltage regulation system and method for providing power to a load A voltage regulation system for providing power to a load is provided. The voltage regulation system includes a voltage regulator operable to: set an operating voltage of the load at a first voltage level which corresponds to a first voltage requirement of the load; receive a second voltage requirement of the load which is different than the first voltage requirement; produce a voltage ramp signal which transitions from the first voltage level to a second voltage level which corresponds to the second voltage requirement at a defined ramp rate; and ramp the operating voltage from the first voltage level to the second voltage level based on the voltage ramp signal and at the same ramp rate as the voltage ramp signal, but with a lag between the voltage ramp signal and the ramp in the operating voltage.
US10338624B2	System and method for monitoring and reducing energy usage in the home A system for reporting energy use in a home having an energy consuming device includes an energy sensor device in communication with the energy consuming device and configured to collect energy use data indicative of an energy consumption event. The collected energy use data includes real time data associated with the collected energy use data, including a start time and an end time. An application running on a local computing device receives the collected energy use data. A remote computing device is in electronic communication with the application so as to receive the collected energy use data from the application. Specific programming causes the remote computing device to consider energy use data, real time data, and associated weather data to derive a baseline energy use profile, a proposed reduction in energy usage, tracks savings and makes recommendations, said derivations being displayed by the software application on a local computing device.
US10338622B2	Power adjustment device, power adjustment method, power adjustment system, power storage device, server, program A power adjustment device supplies power received from a power grid and power of a storage battery to an electric load in a consumer's facility. Power adjustment device includes a prediction portion, a planning portion, and a controller. Prediction portion obtains a prediction value of demand power that is power to be consumed in the electric load in a planning period, the planning period being a period in which the storage battery is charged and discharges. Planning portion determines a control content of charging of and discharging by the storage battery in the planning period depending on the prediction value of the demand power to minimize any one of an amount of power to be received from the power grid, a compensation for power to be received from the power grid, and an emission amount of carbon dioxide. Controller controls the power conditioner in accordance with the control content.
US10338619B2	Voltage regulator with performance compensation A digitally-assisted voltage regulator includes a gate driver circuit and a compensation circuit. The voltage regulator digitizes the load profile, and uses the digital information to compensate for process and temperature variations. The voltage regulator outputs a regulated voltage signal and one or more control signals based on a supply voltage and a reference voltage. The gate driver circuit receives the regulated voltage signal and generates a gate driver signal. The compensation circuit receives the control signal and generates first and second compensation signals. The voltage regulator regulates a voltage level of the regulated voltage signal using the regulator compensation signal, and controls a ramp-rate of the gate driver signal using the second compensation signal.
US10338617B2	Regulator circuit A buffer stage includes a first transistor having a control terminal connected to an output terminal of an operational amplifier and a second transistor connected in series to a main energization path of the first transistor. An overcurrent controlling circuit is configured to apply an output voltage of the operational amplifier to the control terminal of the first transistor and allow a normal operation of the first transistor when an energization current of a main energization path of an output transistor detected by an overcurrent detection transistor is less than a predetermined value, and is configured to control the output voltage of the operational amplifier to a predetermined control voltage according to a current flowing in a main energization path of the overcurrent detection transistor when the energization current of the main energization path of the output transistor is equal to or greater than the predetermined value.
US10338616B2	Reference generation circuit A reference circuit constituted of: a voltage/current bias circuitry; a first transistor coupled between a common voltage and an first bias circuitry output; a second transistor coupled between the common voltage and a second bias circuitry output; a third transistor coupled between the common voltage and an output providing a temperature and supply invariant current; a resistor coupled between the second transistor and the second output of the bias circuitry; and an output providing a temperature and supply invariant voltage coupled between the resistor and the second transistor, the voltage output terminal further coupled to a gate of the third transistor, wherein the bias circuitry is arranged, in cooperation with the first transistor, to generate a first current at the first output thereof, and, in cooperation with the second transistor, to generate a second current at the second output thereof, the current magnitudes exhibiting a ratio of a predetermined value.
US10338615B2	Current balance circuit and multiphase converter using the same A current balance circuit is used in a multiphase converter, and the multiphase converter includes power stage circuits, the current balance circuit and a control circuit. The current balance circuit includes detection units, a calculation circuit and error amplifiers. Detection units obtain the output power information of their corresponding power stage circuits. After each error amplifier compares the obtained output power information with the average of all output power information, it amplifies differences between the output power information and the average of all output power information and converts the amplified differences to current information, such that the control circuit adjusts currents provided by the power stage circuits according to the current information from the error amplifiers to balance the currents provided by the power stage circuits.
US10338613B2	Circuits and methods for providing power and data communication in isolated system architectures A switch controller, an isolated system incorporating an integrated circuit (IC) and a method of operating a power switch. In one embodiment, the IC includes: (1) a monolithic substrate, (2) a drive circuit supported by the monolithic substrate and configured to drive a power switch, (3) a diagnostics block supported by the monolithic substrate and configured to provide diagnostic signals indicating at least one attribute associated with the power switch and (4) a control block supported by the monolithic substrate and configured to drive the drive circuit in response to control signals developed based on the diagnostic signals.
US10338612B2	Machine tools and methods of operation thereof A fluid temperature control assembly in combination with a machine tool, and a method of adjusting the temperature of a fluid being supplied to a machine tool. The assembly is arranged to adjust the temperature of a fluid being supplied to the machine tool to maintain the fluid at a setpoint temperature at a location downstream of the assembly. The assembly comprises a radio frequency (RF) or microwave energy source to supply energy to the fluid as it passes through the assembly to heat the fluid, a temperature sensing arrangement for outputting a temperature signal responsive to the temperature of the fluid at the downstream location, and a control arrangement configured to receive the temperature signal and control the energy source with reference to the temperature signal to heat the fluid so as to maintain the fluid at the setpoint temperature at the downstream location.
US10338611B2	Regulator A regulator controls a pressure of fluid. The regulator includes a body having a cavity formed therein, an inlet through which the fluid flows, an outlet through the fluid discharged, and a pilot fluid inlet; a first diaphragm located in the cavity and partitioning the cavity into a first chamber and a second chamber, the first chamber being in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet, the second chamber being in fluid communication with the pilot fluid inlet; a first biasing mean located in the first chamber and configured to bias the first diaphragm; and a second biasing mean located in the second chamber and configured to bias the first diaphragm by being displaced based on pilot fluid pressure of the pilot fluid.
US10338610B2	Aerial display visualization Disclosed herein are systems and methods for distributing a plurality of drones to form an aerial image. The systems and methods may include: receiving, at a computing device comprising a processor, location data and drone data; distributing, by the computing device, a plurality of drones based on the aspects of an aerial image such that, during flight, the plurality of drones form the aerial image; and exporting, by the computing device, coordinates for each of the plurality of drones. The location data may define aspects of the aerial image to be formed by the plurality of drones. The drone data may include a number of drones within the plurality of drones. The coordinate for each of the plurality of drones may define a location for a respective drone within the aerial image.
US10338608B2	Unmanned aerial vehicle and water sampling method thereof A water sampling method includes acquiring, by an unmanned aerial vehicle, a sampling depth at which a water sample is to be taken. The sampling depth is sent by a portable electronic device or is a preset default depth. The method further includes calculating a descending distance based on the sampling depth and a distance between the unmanned aerial vehicle and a water surface, controlling the water sampler to descend for the descending distance, sampling, by the water sampler, a water sample, and sending a sampling result to a ground station or the portable electronic device.
US10338604B2	Vehicle control system A vehicle control system includes a controller that determines a communication loss between a first vehicle and a second vehicle and/or a monitoring device in a vehicle system. The controller determines an operational restriction on movement of the vehicle system based on the communication loss that is determined, and obtains a transitional plan that designates operational settings of the vehicle system at different locations along a route being traveled by the vehicle system, different distances along the route, and/or different times. The controller also automatically changes the movement of the vehicle system according to the operational settings designated by the transitional plan to reduce the movement of the vehicle system to or below the operational restriction determined by the controller responsive to the communication loss being detected.
US10338603B2	Systems and methods for a material handling vehicle network One or more material handling vehicles of a fleet can be equipped with telematics controllers and configured for wireless communication. In different arrangements, the material handling vehicles of the fleet can communicate with each other and with a management system, in order to effect management of the fleet and of particular material handling vehicles belonging thereto.
US10338602B2	Multi-sensor, autonomous robotic vehicle with mapping capability A method for recording data from at least one sensor of a robotic vehicle responsive to the robotic vehicle transiting a portion of a parcel and determining a confidence score associated with the recorded data for each of a plurality of potential detection events. The confidence score may correspond to a probability that the recorded data corresponds to an object or feature. The method may further include generating map data comprising one or more objects or features correlated to potential detection events based at least in part on the confidence score of the respective objects or features.
US10338601B2	Method for generating a surroundings map of a surrounding area of a motor vehicle, driver assistance system and motor vehicle The invention relates to a method for generating a surroundings map (14) of a surrounding area (7) of a motor vehicle (1) in which an object in the surrounding area (7) is detected by means of a sensor device (9) of the motor vehicle (1), a position value (P) that describes a position of the object is determined on the basis of sensor data of the sensor device (9) by means of a control device (3) of the motor vehicle (1) and the determined position value (P) is transferred into the surroundings map (14), wherein a vector (v′) between the object and a predetermined reference point (11) of the motor vehicle (1) that forms an origin (0′) of a vehicle coordinate system (12) is determined, the determined vector (v′) is transformed from the vehicle coordinate system (12) into a global coordinate system (13) of the surroundings map (14) and the position value (P) in the surroundings map (14) is determined on the basis of the transformed vector (v).
US10338598B2	Method for operating an automatically driven, driverless motor vehicle and monitoring system A method for operating an automatically guided, driverless motor vehicle is provided. Sensor data detected by environmental sensors of the motor vehicle is evaluated with respect to objects to be taken into account in trajectory planning. The objects can be classified as an obstacle or not an obstacle using at least one classifier. If an object that cannot be classified or cannot be classified with sufficient certainty as an obstacle or not an obstacle, at least one camera image of the respective object is taken, transmitted to a portable mobile communication device carried along by a user of the motor vehicle, and displayed there. An input, classifying the object as an obstacle or not an obstacle, of a user is accepted as classification information.
US10338595B2	Method for treating a floor surface and floor treating apparatus A method for treating a floor surface is provided using a self-propelled and self-steering floor treating apparatus, wherein the treatment is based on a pattern along which the floor treating apparatus is moved, wherein the pattern has paths in side-by-side relationship to one another, and wherein when the floor treating apparatus travels a path, a respective treatment area is covered and treated. The pattern is adapted to at least one of the size and contour of the floor surface such that boundaries thereof opposite each other each have a path extending therealong with a treatment area adjacent to the boundary and intermediate paths are arranged such that full-coverage treatment of the floor surface is realized, wherein the relative position of at least two paths in side-by-side relationship is such that the treatment areas thereof at least partially overlap. A floor treatment apparatus for carrying out the method is also provided.
US10338594B2	Navigation of autonomous vehicles to enhance safety under one or more fault conditions Various embodiments relate generally to autonomous vehicles and associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computing software, including autonomy applications, image processing applications, etc., and computing systems, and wired and wireless network communications to facilitate autonomous control of vehicles, and, more specifically, to systems, devices, and methods configured to navigate autonomous vehicles under one or more fault conditions. In some examples, a method may include localizing an autonomous vehicle, accessing map data to identify safe zones, computing drive parameters and alternate drive parameters, detecting an anomalous event, and apply alternate drive parameters to a vehicle control unit.
US10338587B2	Controlling a motor vehicle A method for controlling a third motor vehicle, includes scanning, by a first motor vehicle, the surroundings of the first motor vehicle and determining an assumption for a traffic situation based on the scanned information; transmitting the assumption thus determined from the first motor vehicle to a central office, scanning, by a second motor vehicle, the surroundings of the second motor vehicle and determining an assumption for a traffic situation based on the scanned information, transmitting the assumption thus determined from the second motor vehicle to a central office, whereupon the surroundings of the first and a the second motor vehicle overlap, determining, by the central office, a traffic situation in the area of the first and second motor vehicles on the basis of the transmitted information and transmitting the traffic situation thus determined to a third motor vehicle to enable prompt consideration of the traffic situation thus determined.
US10338586B2	Method for controlling autonomous valet system pathing for a motor vehicle A method for autonomously parking or un-parking a motor vehicle includes receiving a map of a parking area having a first temporary obstruction zone, determining a starting location of the motor vehicle relative to the parking area, selecting a destination location within the parking area, setting the first temporary obstruction zone as operative or inoperative, generating a path from the starting location to the destination location, wherein the path does not enter the first temporary obstruction zone when operative, and driving the motor vehicle autonomously along the path from the starting location of the motor vehicle to the destination location.
US10338585B2	Abnormal aircraft response monitor An aircraft flight control system includes at least two flight control computers at least one of which is utilized at any one time to control aircraft flight, each of the at least two flight control computers having at least two processors, each processor being responsive to an aircraft input signal indicative of at least one of a plurality of aircraft flight parameters and being responsive to control laws to provide a control output command signal indicative of a desired control of an aircraft flight control surface. Also, at least one of the at least two processors for each of the at least two flight control computers comprises an abnormal response monitor that is responsive to at least one aircraft input signal indicative of at least one of a plurality of aircraft flight parameters to determine whether the control output command signal is within an acceptable value.
US10338584B2	Autonomous driving control system for vehicle An autonomous driving control system for a vehicle which is able to switch between manual driving and autonomous driving is provided with a driver condition sensor, acting part, and electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is provided with an autonomous driving control part, reliance calculating part for calculating an autonomous driving output reliance, vigilance calculating part for calculating a driver vigilance, and an action control part for controlling a strength of an action against a driver. In a region in which an operating point determined by the autonomous driving output reliance and driver vigilance can fall, a plurality of sub regions are defined by boundary lines extending so that the driver vigilance becomes higher as the autonomous driving output reliance becomes lower. The action control part controls the strength of the action against the driver to differ in accordance with the sub region in which the operating point falls.
US10338583B2	Driving assistance device Disclosed herein is a technique for providing driving assistance for a driver in such a way as to increase the driver's degree of internal focus on driving if his or her degree of internal focus on driving is estimated to be low when deactivation of autonomous driving is predicted. Examples of such driving assistance include boosting the moving vehicle noise to be heard inside the vehicle's cabin, increasing sensitivity to a change in the vehicle's state responsive to driving operations, providing navigation to a road with features that would entertain the driver through driving, and giving guidance in exemplary driving operations.
US10338581B2	Unmanned aerial vehicle, flight control method, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, and control device A controller in an unmanned aerial vehicle determines whether the unmanned aerial vehicle is beyond a visual range within which the unmanned aerial vehicle is visible to an operator. When the unmanned aerial vehicle is determined to be beyond the visual range, the controller determines whether the operator is controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle using the control device while viewing video on a head-mounted display. When the operator is determined to be controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle using the control device while viewing video on the head-mounted display, the controller controls flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle in accordance with control information for controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle. When the operator is determined not to be controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle using the control device while viewing video on the head-mounted display, the controller does not control flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle in accordance with the control information.
US10338577B2	Sensor-based automated transit maintenance system Systems and methods for implementing a sensor-based transit maintenance system. A plurality of sensors are located at a plurality of transit locations within a transit system. The plurality of sensors are configured to collect a plurality of sensor measurements of at least one transit location device. A transit server may receive sensor data comprising the plurality of sensor measurements. The transit server may determine, based on the sensor data, that a current or future defect exists within the transit system. The transit server may determine a transit location of the plurality of transit locations at which the defect is located. The transit server may generate maintenance instructions for addressing the defect and send the maintenance instructions either to a portable electronic device or to one of the at least one transit location device at the transit location.
US10338575B2	Production processing apparatus, production processing method, and work manufacturing method A production processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a first robot arm and a plurality of first tilt tables. The first robot arm is capable of conveying a work. On each of the plurality of first tilt tables, the work conveyed by the first robot arm can be mounted. The plurality of first tilt tables are tilted a predetermined angle from a horizontal surface at positions on a circumference of a circle with the first robot arm being a center, and the work is subjected to production processing in a state where the work is mounted on one of the plurality of first tilt tables.
US10338573B2	Multiple dynamic job sequence A method for operating a system for a multiple dynamic job sequence includes providing a packet of information in order to process different production runs. An additional packet of information is used to inquire about respective states during the manufacturing process so as to enable interventions to be made based on the jobs being not processed as originally. An additional packet of information is received, from which information regarding physical detection of a printing and processing situation is taken such that each downstream processing machine is able to identify the job and a job end. By identifying the job and the job end, an additional packet of information is forwarded to the plant controller, the plant controller detecting an actual state of the manufacturing process therefrom such that new or adapted job sequences and job ends are directly defined during the manufacturing process.
US10338572B2	Methods, network node and wireless device for handling device capabilities A network node (200), a wireless device (202) and methods therein, for handling device capabilities. The wireless device (202) sends (2:1) a capability pointer to the network node (200), which capability pointer is associated with a capability configuration of the wireless device (202). The network node (200) then retrieves (2:2) said capability configuration based on the capability pointer from a capability database (204) or the like where a range of predefined capability configurations and associated capability pointers are maintained. The retrieved capability configuration can then be used in radio communication (2:3) with the wireless device (202).
US10338571B2	Motor controller and methods of wirelessly reprogramming motor controller A motor controller for controlling an electric motor includes a motion control microcontroller unit (MCU) for storing initial control parameters for the electric motor, and a wireless receiver communicatively coupled to the motion control MCU. The wireless receiver is configured to activate in response to initiation of a wireless connection with a remote device, receive a wireless control signal from the remote device, the wireless control signal including updated control parameters, and transmit the updated control parameters to the motion control MCU. The motor controller also includes an energy management system configured to power the wireless receiver and the motion control MCU.
US10338570B2	Numerical controller A numerical controller capable of finely designating a restart condition for look-ahead for a program after suppression of the look-ahead is configured to sequentially read out and analyze commands for blocks of a program, perform look-ahead processing to save the result of the analysis in a buffer, and execute the commands for the blocks looked ahead based on the analysis result saved in the buffer, thereby controlling a machine, and is provided with a function of stopping the look-ahead processing when a block into which a code for stopping look-ahead is inserted is read out from the program. The numerical controller is characterized by being provided with a restart condition determination unit, configured to determine whether or not a look-ahead restart condition commanded by the code for stopping look-ahead is satisfied, and a look-ahead preceding restart unit, configured to restart the look-ahead processing if it is determined by the restart condition determination unit that the restart condition is satisfied, and in that the restart condition is a condition related to the state of the machine.
US10338569B2	Selective modification of build strategy parameter(s) for additive manufacturing A computerized method, system, program product and additive manufacturing (AM) system are disclosed. Embodiments provide for modifying object code representative of an object to be physically generated layer by layer by a computerized AM system using the object code. The computerized method may include providing an interface to allow a user to manually: select a region within the object in the object code, the object code including a plurality of pre-assigned build strategy parameters for the object that control operation of the computerized AM system, and selectively modify a build strategy parameter in the selected region in the object code to change an operation of the computerized AM system from the plurality of pre-assigned build strategy parameters during building of the object by the computerized AM system.
US10338567B2	System and methods for three-dimensional printing A fast and economical system and methods directed to low-fidelity fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) objects using 3D printing. The invention facilitates rapid prototyping by providing a wireframe structure in the form of the underlying design structure of a 3D model, which may be useful for a variety of reasons including to provide a prototype preview that may be used for design validation of a 3D model.
US10338559B2	Methods and system for reducing energy use in buildings The present disclosure provides systems and methods for reducing energy use in buildings. A data center receives source data from one or more building systems and/or one or more external sources. A plurality of energy optimization strategies are applied to at least a subset of the source data to determine a set of proposed output values for each energy optimization strategy, independently of each other, wherein each set of proposed output values includes at least one equipment set point. Conflicts between the sets of proposed output values are resolved, to generate a set of harmonized output values. The set of harmonized output values is transmitted to the one or more building control systems through one or more gateway devices.
US10338558B2	Sequential logic circuitry with reduced dynamic power consumption Digital systems formed on integrated circuits may include sequential logic circuitry. The sequential logic circuitry may form at least part of a finite state machine that records different logical states. The sequential logic circuitry may include a first latching circuit and a second latching circuit that each latch bits onto their respective outputs when clocked at different levels. The first latching circuit may output a first bit. Combinational logic circuitry may be distributed on both sides of the first latching circuit such that a combinational logic circuit interposed between the first and second latching circuits generates a second bit based on at least the first bit. The first and second bits may record one of two possible finite logical states of the sequential logic circuitry. By distributing combinational logic circuitry on two sides of a given latching circuit, dynamic power consumption by the sequential logic circuitry may be optimized.
US10338552B2	Simulation apparatus and method for simulating a peripheral circuit arrangement that can be connected to a regulating device A simulation apparatus for simulating a peripheral circuit arrangement connected to a regulating device and has a first current controller for influencing a first load current and a second current controller for influencing a first source current. The first current controller is controlled by a model code and used to set the first load current, and the first load current is routed to a first load connection of the regulating device. The second current controller is controlled by the model code and used to set the first source current, which is routed to a first supply connection of the regulating device. The model code influences the model code on the first current controller and the second current controller allows the first load current to be recovered at least proportionally from the first source current and/or the first source current to be recovered at least proportionally from the first load current.
US10338551B2	P and ID and control system synchronization A computer-implemented method for automatically exchanging data between a piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) and a control system comprises: parsing a P&ID and identifying instruments and/or groups of instruments within the P&ID, identifying one or more input tags and output tags associated with each identified instrument and/or with each identified group of instruments within the P&ID, and establishing at least one relationship among the one or more input tags and output tags, wherein the input tags and output tags for an instrument and/or a group of instruments and the at least one relationship between the corresponding input tags and output tags are derivable from a template library, and identifying a control loop for each established relationship among the input tags and the output tags, wherein said control loop is for controlling one or more instruments by the control system.
US10338546B2	Systems and methods for variable control and operation of HVAC components A method of controlling operations of an HVAC system includes measuring temperature within an enclosed space, receiving a setpoint temperature within the enclosed space, calculating a temperature difference between the measured temperature and the received setpoint temperature, and determining whether the temperature difference between the measured temperature and the received setpoint temperature is greater than or equal to a first predetermined temperature differential value. If the temperature difference between the measured temperature and the received setpoint temperature is greater than or equal to the first predetermined temperature differential value, determining whether the temperature difference between the measured temperature and the received setpoint temperature is greater than or equal to a second predetermined temperature differential value. If the temperature difference between the measured temperature and the received setpoint temperature is less than the second predetermined temperature differential value, selecting a first operating mode of a plurality of operating modes of the HVAC system.
US10338545B2	HVAC controller having multiplexed input signal detection and method of operation thereof A heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) controller, a method of detecting multiplexed input signals and an HVAC system employing the controller or the method. In one embodiment, the HVAC controller includes: (1) a signal conditioner configured to convert received alternating current (AC) input signals into corresponding square wave signals of a digital logic voltage, (2) a multiplexer coupled to the signal conditioner and configured to select one of the square wave signals and (3) a sample analyzer coupled to the multiplexer and configured to evaluate multiple samples of the selected one of the square wave signals to derive a binary state.
US10338534B2	Semi-impermeable closure device A portable object includes a case forming a housing inside which is arranged a device that requires air to operate, and a closure device including at least one permeable element. The closure device is arranged to provide impermeability to liquids while allowing the atmosphere inside the housing to communicate with the external atmosphere. The case comprises a recess in which a through opening is made, the recess being closed by the closure device. The closure device includes a permeable module mounted to move such that, in a gaseous environment, the permeable module is in a rest position allowing gases to penetrate the case opening through the permeable module, and in a liquid environment, the permeable module is in an operating position in which gases and liquids are blocked. The permeable module comprises a tubular support at the end of which is fixed a membrane.
US10338530B2	Timepiece mechanism for control of a plurality of displays A control mechanism for control of a plurality of timepiece displays, including a group with one first display and one second display which are separate, driven, according to a reference period, by a timepiece movement, and including, for each group of displays, a train provided to drive, according to a control period, a control moving body, this mechanism including, for each group, a first control element, for control of the first display, and a second control element, for control of the second display, at different moments within the control period, and control device for disengaging the first and the second control elements, including a control lever, which is provided to pivot with a to-and-from motion, according to a limited angular course, and which supports the first control element and the second control element.
US10338528B2	Method for fabrication of a balance spring of a predetermined stiffness by local removal of material The invention relates to a method for fabrication of a balance spring of a predetermined stiffness comprising the steps of fabricating a balance spring in dimensions of increased thickness, determining the stiffness of the balance spring formed in step a) in order to remove, locally, a volume of material, in order to obtain the balance spring having the dimensions necessary for said predetermined stiffness.
US10338524B2	Apparatus and method for projecting content The subject matter discloses an electronic device, comprising a frame comprising one or more projecting units, the one or more projecting units are arranged in a manner to project the content on a projecting field, said projecting field is defined by the frame.
US10338523B2	Image forming apparatus capable of preventing fine particles from flowing out of apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes a fixing portion, a sheet conveying portion, a first airflow generating portion, a setting processing portion, and a first drive processing portion. The fixing portion heats a sheet on which a toner image has been transferred to fix the toner image to the sheet. The sheet conveying portion conveys a sheet along a conveyance path that leads to a sheet discharge port via the fixing portion. The first airflow generating portion includes a first fan and generates an airflow flowing upstream from the fixing portion in a conveyance direction of the sheet. The setting processing portion sets a drive speed of the first fan based on either or both of a sheet size, and a conveyance interval at which the sheet conveying portion conveys the sheet. The first drive processing portion drives the first fan at the drive speed set by the setting processing portion.
US10338522B2	Image formation apparatus A cooling device has: first and second guide rollers disposed in the body of a cooling device on upstream and downstream sides, respectively, as seen in a direction in which a continuous medium is fed, and guiding a cooling belt to move in that direction; and a path selection mechanism allowing selection between a non-abutting transport path which does not cause the continuous medium to abut against the cooling belt and an abutting transport path which causes the continuous medium to abut against the cooling belt.
US10338519B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a conveying unit, a boss, a hook member and an auxiliary pressing member. The conveying unit is provided at an apparatus main body in a turnable manner and configured to form or open a nip area. The boss is provided at the apparatus main body. The hook member is provided at the conveying unit in a turnable manner and configured to be engaged with the boss when the conveying unit is turned to a position where the nip area is formed. The auxiliary pressing member is configured to press the hook member in a direction in which the hook member is engaged with the boss after the hook member is engaged with the boss. A direction in which the auxiliary pressing member presses the hook member is different from a turning direction of the conveying unit.
US10338518B2	Redundant electrical contact between a fastener and a component An assembly according to one example embodiment includes an electrically conductive fastener that includes a head and a shank. The shank extends from an undersurface of the head along a longitudinal axis of the fastener to a distal end of the fastener. A fastening hole is formed by an electrically nonconductive material. At least a portion of the shank of the fastener is installed in the fastening hole. An electrically conductive component is held between the undersurface of the head of the fastener and a surface surrounding an entrance to the fastening hole. An electrically conductive flange extends from the component and contacts an outer portion of the head of the fastener such that an electrical path is formed between the fastener and the component.
US10338514B2	Image forming apparatus, developer used thereby, and image forming method An image forming apparatus (1) includes an image bearing member (50), a charging section (51), a developing section (52), and a cleaning member (81). The image bearing member (50) contains filler particles (87). The charging section (51) is either in contact with or positioned close to the image bearing member (50) and is configured to electrically charge the image bearing member (50) by generating a proximity discharge between the charging section (51) and the image bearing member (50). The developing section (52) supplies toner to the circumferential surface of the charged image bearing member (50). The cleaning member (81) has a degree of hardness equal to or higher than 65° and a degree of impact resilience equal to or lower than 30%. The cleaning member (81) is brought into pressure contact with the circumferential surface of the image bearing member (50) being rotated, by applying linear pressure equal to or higher than 15 gf/cm.
US10338511B2	Reading apparatus and image forming apparatus with guide member to guide sheet from first feeding path to second feeding path A reading apparatus includes: a reader that reads an image formed on a sheet; an opposed reading member provided opposite to the reader; a first feeding path that feeds a sheet on an upstream of the reader in a sheet feeding direction; a second feeding path that is continuous to the first feeding path and feeds a sheet between the reader and the opposed reading member; a pair of feeding rollers that feeds a sheet on the first feeding path to the second feeding path; a guide member that guides a sheet fed from the first feeding path to the second feeding path; and a roller that is arranged on the second feeding path and is rotatably driven, wherein the first feeding path and the second feeding path form a feeding path bent, a downstream end of the guide member is positioned in a first region.
US10338509B2	Information inputting apparatus and image forming apparatus having information inputting apparatus An information inputting apparatus includes: a circuit substrate configured to communicate with an information terminal through Near Field Communication; a placement surface on which the information terminal is to be put, the placement surface facing the circuit substrate; an operation unit disposed adjacent to the placement surface, the operation unit having an operation surface parallel to and protruding further than the placement surface; and a protrusion disposed between the placement surface and the operation unit, the protrusion having a height equal to or higher than a height of the operation surface at which the operation unit reacts.
US10338504B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus including the same A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressing member, a cover, and a separation member. The cover is movable between a closing position at which a conveyance path is formed and an opening position at which the conveyance path is exposed. The cover includes a recess. The separation member is movable between a contact position at which the separation member comes in contact with a face of the fixing member and a withdrawing position at which the separation member is separated from the fixing member. The separation member separates a medium from the face of the fixing member in a state in which the separation member is arranged at the contact position. A tip end part of the separation member enters an interior of the recess of the cover in a state in which the separation member is arranged at the withdrawing position.
US10338499B2	Toner cartridge including detection gear A toner cartridge includes a casing, an auger rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction, an auger gear rotatable with the auger, an agitator aligned with the auger in a second direction, an agitator gear rotatable with the agitator, and a detection gear positioned opposite to the auger gear with respect to the agitator gear in the second direction. The detection gear is rotatable from a first position to a second position. At the first position, a through-hole or a cutout of the detection gear is positioned farther away from the auger than an outer surface of another end portion of the casing in the second direction is. At the second position, a portion of the detection gear different from the through-hole or the cutout is positioned farther away from the auger than the outer surface of the another end portion of the casing is.
US10338497B2	Delivery nozzle receiving device and toner cartridge A toner cartridge and a delivery nozzle receiving device, the latter includes a fixture bracket, a closer, and an elastic element. A guiding slot is formed in the fixture bracket along a length direction of the fixture bracket, and one end of the guiding slot is provided with a delivery nozzle receiving opening. The closer is mounted inside the fixture bracket and can move along the guiding slot between a closed location and an opened location. The elastic element is sleeved outside the fixture bracket and pushes the closer towards the closed location, a first end of the elastic element is limited on an end of the fixture bracket close to the delivery nozzle receiving opening, and a second end of the elastic element is connected to an end of the closer away from the delivery nozzle receiving opening.
US10338495B2	Image forming apparatus There is demand to reduce the amount of developing agent fed to a cleaning member. The amount of developing agent that is fed to the cleaning member is decided based on the amount of developing agent recovered by the cleaning member or the amount of use of a process cartridge.
US10338493B2	Developing roller, and method of producing the same A developing roller (1) is provided, which includes a tubular porous inner layer (2) of a foamed product of a semiconductive rubber composition containing an ethylene propylene rubber and a paraffin oil, and an outer layer (4) of a seamless tube of a semiconductive thermoplastic polyamide elastomer provided on an outer peripheral surface (3) of the inner layer (2), and has an overall Asker-C hardness of not less than 30 degrees and not greater than 60 degrees. A production method is also provided, which includes the steps of: preparing a tube having a thickness T of 100 to 400 μm and having an inner diameter D2 for an outer layer; preparing a tubular inner layer having an outer diameter D1; and press-inserting the inner layer into the tube; wherein an interference represented by a difference D1- D2 between the outer diameter D1 of the inner layer and the inner diameter D2 of the tube is 100 to 400 μm.
US10338489B2	Two-component developer and image forming method using the same The present invention provides a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic charge image, which includes a toner and a carrier, wherein the toner contains an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin as binder resins and an inorganic particle as external additive particle, and the carrier has a surface to which silica particles having a number average particle diameter of 10 to 30 nm are attached in an amount in the range of the following Equation (1): 5 at %≤S1≤10 at %, wherein S1 represents a concentration of Si element as measured by XPS and indicates an amount of silica on the surface of the carrier.
US10338483B2	Actuator system and lithographic apparatus An actuator system configured to position an object, the actuator system includes a piezo actuator having an actuator contact surface. The piezo actuator is configured to exert a force via the actuator contact surface onto the object. The piezo actuator includes a transparent piezo material. The actuator system further has an optical position sensor configured to measure a position of the actuator contact surface. The optical position sensor is configured to transmit an optical beam through the transparent piezo material to the actuator contact surface. The optical position sensor may form an interferometer.
US10338477B2	Lithography apparatus A lithography apparatus is provided. The lithography apparatus a reticle having a first surface and a second surface facing each other, and a pattern region formed on the first surface, a reticle stage facing the second surface of the reticle, the reticle stage to chuck the reticle, a protection conductor within a chamber housing the reticle and the reticle stage; and a power source to supply a voltage to the protection conductor.
US10338474B2	Underlying absorbing or conducting layer for Ebeam direct write (EBDW) lithography Lithographic apparatuses suitable for, and methodologies involving, complementary e-beam lithography (CEBL) are described. Particular embodiments are directed to implementation of an underlying absorbing and/or conducting layer for ebeam direct write (EBDW) lithography.
US10338470B2	Photosensitive laminate, transfer material, patterned photosensitive laminate, method for manufacturing the same, touch panel, and image display device An object of the invention is to provide a photosensitive laminate in which two or more layers can be collectively patterned, a transfer material, a patterned photosensitive laminate, a method for manufacturing the patterned photosensitive laminate, a touch panel, and an image display device. According to the invention, there are provided a photosensitive laminate in which a first resin layer, an interlayer, and a second resin layer are laminated on a support in this order, at least one of the first resin layer or the second resin layer includes 20 mass % or greater of inorganic particles, and exposure sensitivity of the second resin layer is higher than that of the first resin layer, a transfer material, a patterned photosensitive laminate, a method for manufacturing the patterned photosensitive laminate, a touch panel, and an image display device.
US10338468B2	Photosensitive resin composition, photosensitive resin laminate, resin pattern production method, cured film, and display device The present invention provides a photosensitive resin laminate in which (A) an alkali-soluble polymer, (B) a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, and (C) a photosensitive resin layer including a photopolymerization initiator are laminated on a support film. The photosensitive resin laminate is used in forming the protective film of a conductor part, the thickness of the photosensitive resin is 20 μm or less, and the cured product of the photosensitive resin layer satisfies conditions (1) to (3): (1) the crosslink density is 1,000 mol/m3-8,000 mol/m3; (2) the peak top value of Tan δ is 0.4 or greater; and (3) the refractive index at a wavelength of 532 nm is 1.50-1.60.
US10338467B2	Method of producing film A method of producing a film includes: a disposing step of disposing a photocurable composition on a substrate; a mold contact step of bringing the photocurable composition and a mold into contact with each other; a photoirradiation step of irradiating the photocurable composition with light to form a cured product; and a mold release step of releasing the cured product and the mold from each other, in which the method further includes an alignment step of aligning the mold and the substrate with each other before the photoirradiation step, in which the photocurable composition contains at least a polymerizable compound serving as a component (A) and a photopolymerization initiator serving as a component (B), and in which the polymerizable compound has a polymerization conversion ratio of 50% or more when exposed to light under conditions of an illuminance of 0.12 mW/cm2 and an exposure time of 11.0 seconds.
US10338466B2	System and method for planarizing a substrate Techniques include providing selective or differential planarization such that different regions of a substrate can have different amounts of material removed. In general, methods herein use photo-reactive generator compounds to generate solubility-changing agents. A specific pattern of light is projected onto a substrate containing such photo-reactive generator compounds to create different concentrations of solubility-changing agent(s) at specific locations across a substrate. As generated solubility-changing agents are diffused into an underlying layer, these concentration differences then control an amount (height or depth) of material removed from a given film or layer at specific spatial locations on the substrate.
US10338464B2	Photomask including transfer patterns for reducing a thermal stress A photomask includes a light transmission substrate, a plurality of pattern regions disposed over the light transmission substrate, a shape of the plurality of pattern regions being transferred onto a wafer during an exposure process, and a light blocking region surrounding the plurality of pattern regions. Each of the plurality of pattern regions is a light transmitting region that exposes a portion of the light transmission substrate. The light blocking region includes first light blocking patterns that respectively surround the plurality of pattern regions to have closed loop shapes and second light blocking patterns that are disposed between adjacent first light blocking patterns, adjacent second light blocking patterns being spaced apart from each other by a first distance in a first direction. And the first light blocking patterns have a first thickness and the second light blocking patterns have a second thickness which is smaller than the first thickness.
US10338463B2	Mask for photolithography, method of manufacturing the same and method of manufacturing substrate using the same A mask for photolithography includes: a transparent substrate; a phase shift pattern on the transparent substrate and configured to change a phase of light; a dielectric layer on the transparent substrate; and a negative refractive-index meta material layer on the dielectric layer.
US10338459B2	Light converter and light source unit, and projector The invention aims to provide small-sized and highly-reliable light converter and light source unit, as well as a projector each of which makes it possible to cool down heat generated in a fluorescent body in a motorless manner. A light converter of the disclosure includes: a fluorescent body (12) that is excited by excitation light; a first light-collecting lens (11A) that has a lens surface to which the fluorescent body is bonded, and causes the excitation light to enter the fluorescent body; and a heat-dissipating member (14) to which the lens surface is adhered at least around a region to which the fluorescent body is bonded.
US10338458B2	Projector-use luminescent wheel and manufacturing method therefor, and projector-use light emitting device Provided is a luminescent wheel for a projector, which has a novel structure in which a phosphor layer is hard to break even if its thickness is reduced; a manufacturing method therefor; and a light emitting device for a projector. A luminescent wheel for a projector includes: a phosphor layer (11) which has a first principal surface (11a) and a second principal surface (11b) located on an opposite side to the first principal surface (11a) and is capable of being excited by the entry of excitation light to emit fluorescence; a first glass layer (12) provided on the first principal surface (11a) of the phosphor layer (11); and a second glass layer (13) provided on the second principal surface (11b) of the phosphor layer (11).
US10338457B2	Electronic device casing and projector An electronic device casing can be used in a projector and includes a first casing member and a second casing member. The first casing member includes a first side wall. The first casing member and the second casing member are engaged with each other to form an internal accommodating space. The second casing member includes a second side wall. The first side wall and the second side wall are oppositely disposed to form a narrow passage therebetween. The internal accommodating space is connected to an external space of the electronic device casing through the narrow passage. The narrow passage has a non-straight traveling path. Furthermore, the electronic device can includes an air flow bypass passage near the narrow passage.
US10338452B2	Electromagnetic wavelength conversion device Technologies are described for devices and methods to convert first wavelength electromagnetic waves to a second wavelength. The devices may comprise a light source to produce first electromagnetic waves of the first wavelength. The devices may comprise a reflector which may define an optical cavity around the light source and include a first and second end. The first end may be disposed around the light source. The reflector may reflect the first electromagnetic waves towards the second end. The devices may comprise a wavelength conversion component disposed at the second end which may absorb the first electromagnetic waves and emit second electromagnetic waves at the second wavelength. The devices may comprise a fixture housing disposed around the light source and the reflector. The devices may comprise a retaining component attachable to, and removable from, the fixture housing. The retaining component may secure the wavelength conversion component to the fixture housing.
US10338451B2	Devices and methods for removing zeroth order leakage in beam steering devices A beam steering device includes a first active deflector. The first active deflector includes a first substrate with one or more electrodes, a second substrate with one or more electrodes, and liquid crystals located between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate is distinct from the first substrate. The beam steering device also includes a passive deflector positioned parallel to the first active deflector. The passive deflector includes a third substrate, a fourth substrate that is distinct from the third substrate, and liquid crystals located between the third substrate and the fourth substrate. A method for separating zeroth order leakage with the beam steering device is also disclosed.
US10338447B2	Liquid crystal display device A method of manufacturing, with high mass productivity, liquid crystal display devices having highly reliable thin film transistors with excellent electric characteristics is provided. In a liquid crystal display device having an inverted staggered thin film transistor, the inverted staggered thin film transistor is formed as follows: a gate insulating film is formed over a gate electrode; a microcrystalline semiconductor film which functions as a channel formation region is formed over the gate insulating film; a buffer layer is formed over the microcrystalline semiconductor film; a pair of source and drain regions are formed over the buffer layer; and a pair of source and drain electrodes are formed in contact with the source and drain regions so as to expose a part of the source and drain regions.
US10338446B2	Semiconductor device having low resistance source and drain regions A semiconductor device has a top-gate structure resistant to creation of parasitic capacitance between a low-resistance region formed in a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode. A TFT (100) has a low-resistance region, a portion of which has a first length (L1) ranging from a first position (P1) corresponding to an end of a gate insulating film to a region below a gate electrode (40), and the first length is substantially equal to a second length (L2) ranging from the first position (P1) to a second position (P2) corresponding to an end of the gate electrode (40). Thus, the overlap between the gate electrode (40) and either a source region (20 s) or a drain region (20 d) can be reduced, resulting in diminished parasitic capacitance.
US10338445B2	Pixel driving structure and liquid crystal display panel Provided are a pixel driving structure, in which the nth column of TFTs (T) are arranged at positions where the nth column of sub pixels (P) is close to the nth data line (D(n)); in the nth column of sub pixels (P), four sub pixels (P) or two sub pixels (P), which are adjacent vertically in the upper and the lower are set to be a pixel group (PG), and the nth data line (D(n)) sets a signal period to define polarities of respective sub pixels (P) in the pixel group (PG) to make polarity inversion occur at a edge of the two adjacent pixel groups (PG) in the upper and the lower, and polarities of two adjacent columns of sub pixels (P) are opposite to achieve display effect similar to a dot inversion. The pixel aperture regions can be neatly aligned to prevent the color washout.
US10338439B2	Touch detection using common electrodes of display device This application is directed to detecting touch events using a display pixel array. The display pixel array includes display pixels each of which is disposed between a display electrode and a common electrode. For touch sensing, a processing device drives the subset of common electrodes with an integration voltage that varies by a voltage variation at a predetermined slew rate. The processing device also drives a subset of display electrodes corresponding to the subset of common electrodes in a synchronous manner, thereby reducing an impact of parasitic capacitance associated with the subset of common electrodes. Each of the subset of display electrodes is driven with an adjusted display voltage that varies by the voltage variation at the predetermined slew rate. While driving the subsets of common and display electrodes, a capacitive sense signal associated with the subset of common electrodes is measured at an output of a capacitance sense circuit.
US10338437B2	Display device and manufacturing method thereof A display device includes: a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas; a thin film transistor on the substrate; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; an roof layer connected between pixel areas adjacent in a first direction and separated from the pixel electrode; a column protruded from the roof layer in a boundary portion of the pixel areas; a space between the pixel electrode and the roof layer, the roof layer partially overlapping an upper inner wall and a first side inner wall of the space and exposing a second side inner wall of the space; a liquid crystal in the space.
US10338431B2	Liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal cell; a first polarizer arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal cell; a second polarizer arranged on a viewer side of the liquid crystal cell; a cover sheet arranged on a viewer side of the second polarizer, the cover sheet having a transmission portion at a position corresponding to a display region of the liquid crystal cell; a first optical compensation layer arranged on a viewer side of the cover sheet, the first optical compensation layer having an Re(550) of from 100 nm to 180 nm; and a third polarizer arranged on a viewer side of the first optical compensation layer, wherein an angle formed by a slow axis direction of the first optical compensation layer and an absorption axis direction of the third polarizer is from 35° to 55° or from 125° to 145°.
US10338430B2	Liquid crystal display apparatus There is provided a liquid crystal display apparatus having the following feature: although the liquid crystal display apparatus has a step between its display screen and outermost surface, the step is hardly recognized; and the liquid crystal display apparatus can achieve bright display. A liquid crystal display apparatus according to the present invention includes a liquid crystal cell; a first polarizer arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal cell; a second polarizer arranged on a viewer side of the liquid crystal cell; a cover sheet arranged on a viewer side of the second polarizer, the cover sheet having an opening portion at a position corresponding to a display region of the liquid crystal cell; and a third polarizer arranged on a viewer side of the cover sheet to cover the opening portion, wherein the opening portion of the cover sheet is filled with a pressure-sensitive adhesive.
US10338426B2	Light diffusion member, base material for light diffusion member production, display device using same and method for producing light diffusion member According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a light diffusion member which includes a light diffusion film, a polarizing film, and a retardation film. The light diffusion film includes a first substrate, a light diffusion portion, and a light shielding layer. The polarizing film includes a second substrate and a polarization layer. The retardation film includes a third substrate and a retardation layer. The retardation layer is formed from a birefringence body which has optically-negative uniaxiality. An alignment direction of the birefringence body is different in a thickness direction thereof. A slow axis of the retardation layer is positioned at azimuth between a transmission axis and an absorption axis of the polarization layer.
US10338425B1	Liquid crystal display device and its display panel A liquid crystal display device and its display panel are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a PDLC layer and a plurality of gridwall structures. The first substrate and the second substrate are opposite to each other. The PDLC layer and the plurality of gridwall structures are located between the first substrate and the second substrate. The plurality of gridwall structures are spaced from each other and disposed in the PDLC layer. Each gridwall structure includes a transparent gridwall and a film structure covering the surface of the transparent gridwall. The refractivity of any two adjacent film layers of the first to Nth are different, and the reflectivity of one surface of the film structure facing the transparent gridwall is higher than the reflectivity of one surface of the film structure facing away from the transparent gridwall.
US10338421B2	Display device The invention provides a display device, which employs ultra-thin flexible substrate with WOA disposed on both sides of the flexible substrate, wherein the WOA on the front side is directly connected to the active area, and the WOA on the back side passes through the holes in the flexible substrate to extend to the front side to connect to the active area. As such, the circuit area utilization is improved so that the same size of substrate area can carry almost twice the circuit structure to reduce the border width of the non-active area to achieve borderless or ultra-narrow borders.
US10338419B2	Liquid crystal display device and electronic device A flicker of an FFS liquid crystal display device that is driven at a low refresh rate is reduced. In an FFS liquid crystal display, a pixel electrode and a first common electrode included in a liquid crystal element are formed on an element substrate side, and a second common electrode is formed on another substrate (counter substrate) side. By making the first and second common electrodes have the same potential, generation of a residual DC voltage can be suppressed in a pixel. Thus, even when a refresh rate is lowered, change in transmittance of a pixel can be suppressed in a data retention period, so that a flicker can be reduced.
US10338406B2	Method for determining a lens blank intended to be used to manufacture an optical lens Disclosed is a method implemented by computer for determining a lens blank intended to be used for the manufacturing of a finished optical article. The method includes: —a virtual volume data determining step, during which virtual volume data are determined based at least on finished optical article data representative of the volume of the finished optical article and over-thickness data representative of over-thickness requirements, the virtual volume data are determined so that the virtual volume defined by the virtual volume data includes the volume of the finished optical article volume of the finished optical article and the over-thickness, —a lens blank determining step, during which a lens blank is determined based on the virtual volume data so as to include the virtual volume defined by the virtual volume data.
US10338403B2	Lens driving mechanism and method for controlling the same A lens driving mechanism is provided. The lens driving mechanism is configured to drive an optical lens, including a holder, a base, a first elastic element, and a first biasing element. The optical lens is disposed in a receiving space of the holder. The base has a central axis, and the holder is movable relative to the base. The first elastic element is connected to the holder and the base. The first biasing element exerts a force on the holder so that an optical axis of the optical lens has an angular displacement relative to the central axis.
US10338398B2	Inflatable light box An inflatable light box includes securing plates and panels in association with upper and lower interior connecting planks when coupled to a cylindrical barrel in which an inflatable airbag is disposed, and encompassed by a decorative cover, form a housing for an inflatable light apparatus.
US10338397B1	Vehicle head-up display device and control method thereof Provided is a vehicle head-up display (HUD) device including a display unit divided into a first display area and a second display area; a folding mirror configured to reflect a first image to the first display area; a picture generation unit (PGU) configured to directly project the first image to the folding mirror; and a control unit configured to adjust a projection distance and a magnification and control the PGU to output the first image to the first image area and to output a second image to the second display area. Here, the first image is an virtual image, and the second image is an real image.
US10338396B2	Optical system and a method for operating an HUD Described is an optical system and method for operating an HUD. The optical system includes an imaging system that generates optical radiation based on image information, a display system that projects the optical radiation, a deflection device that deflects the projected optical radiation, and at least one optically transparent pane-shaped element that at least partially reflects the deflected optical radiation. The deflection device guides the projected optical radiation onto the pane-shaped element, the optical radiation hitting the pane-shaped element at an angle. The imaging system, the display system, the deflection device and the pane-shaped element are arranged to generate a virtual image of optical radiation containing the image information. The optical system includes first and second edge points of the pane-shaped element. The first edge point has a minimal distance (dmin(1)) to the deflection device and the second edge point has a minimal distance (dmin(2)) to the imaging system.
US10338390B2	Method for fabricating a curved eyepiece Techniques and mechanisms for fabricating an eyepiece from a lens blank including blank bodies that are bonded to each other. In an embodiment, the blank bodies are formed by injection molding and adhered to one another. Fabrication of the eyepiece includes variously machining the blank bodies to shape respective lens bodies of the eyepiece. One or more blocking structures are coupled to reinforce the lens blank during at least part of such machining. In another embodiment, any blocking structures that are to resist forces of a particular machining process are coupled only indirectly to one of the blank bodies.
US10338383B2	Display control device According to an instruction of a display control device, a head-up display displays display information of individual types in a displayable region of a windshield. The display control device includes a type deciding unit for deciding the types of display information; and a display controller for causing the head-up display to display the display information with the types decided by the type deciding unit in the display areas of the displayable region, the display areas being provided for the individual types of display information, and to display the display guides indicating the display areas regardless of the presence or absence of the display information.
US10338381B2	Image display apparatus and head-up display system An image display apparatus includes an image forming element, an illumination optical system that guides light emitted from a light source to the image forming element, and a plurality of lenses that project a trapezoidal image formed by the image forming element onto a projected surface. The plurality of lenses have an optical axis that is at an inclination of 1° or more with respect to a perpendicular of a plane including an image forming surface of the image forming element. First rays of the light have a first focal point and second rays of the light have a second focal point. The first focal point is farther from the image forming element than the second focal point is from the image forming element. The first rays form the first portion of the trapezoidal shape and the second rays form the second portion of the trapezoidal shape.
US10338377B1	Head up display based on laser MEMS emissive film projection system An apparatus includes a scan module having one or more laser sources that generate one or more laser beams and a beam deflector that deflects the one or more laser beams; a fluorescent emissive sheet (FES) that receives the one or more laser beams deflected by the beam deflector and emits light at portions of the FES that are struck by the one or more laser beams; and imaging optics that form a virtual image from light emitted from the portions of the FES that are struck by the one or more laser beams, wherein the FES is between the scan module and the imaging optics.
US10338374B1	Electrowetting display device with dual function diffuser A display device includes a first support plate and an opposing second support plate. A pixel region is between the first support plate and an inner surface of the second support plate. A diffuser is disposed on the second support plate. The diffuser has a first diffusion area over the pixel region. The first diffusion area has a first region with a first diffusion profile and a second region with a second diffusion profile.
US10338372B2	Carrier fluid compounds and dye compounds for electrowetting apparatus Electrowetting apparatus including at least one compound selected from the group consisting of: wherein each of R1, R2, R3 and R4 is independently an alkyl group. In examples a fluid includes a dye compound selected from:
US10338369B2	Method and device for setting a suitable evaluation parameter for a fluorescence microscope A method for setting an evaluation parameter for a fluorescence microscope includes exciting dye particles in a sample to fluoresce and detecting fluorescent light from the particles. A graphical representation of a distribution of the fluorescent light is determined and a signal is generated for use in displaying the graphical representation on a display unit. Each subregion of the graphical representation is associated with a comparison value that is representative of a light quantity in the subregion. A predefined threshold is used as an evaluation parameter and compared to the comparison values. The subregions having a comparison value that is greater than the threshold value are marked on the display unit with predefined markings. The threshold value is changed and the comparison values are compared to the changed threshold value. The marked regions are defined as events and a complete image of the sample is obtained based on the events.
US10338359B2	Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus using the same Provided is a small zoom lens having a high zoom ratio and easily designed to achieve favorable optical properties in an entire zooming range. A zoom lens includes, in order from object side to image side, a positive first unit, a negative second unit, an aperture stop, and a rear group including multiple units. Intervals between the adjacent units are changed during zooming. In the rear group, a positive lens unit is arranged on the most image side, and a negative lens unit is on the object side of the positive lens unit. The aperture stop not moving for zooming, but the second unit and the negative lens unit moving during zooming. Focal lengths of the second unit and the positive and negative lens units, and movement amounts of the second and negative lens units, respectively, during zooming from wide angle end to telephoto end are appropriately set.
US10338356B2	Projection optical system and projection type display device A projection optical system is constituted by, in order from the reduction side, a first optical system constituted by a plurality of lenses for forming an image displayed by image display elements as an intermediate image, and a second optical system constituted by a plurality of lenses for forming the intermediate image on a magnification side conjugate plane. Conditional Formula (1), being that 0.020
US10338355B2	Lens assembly A lens assembly includes at least three lens elements. One lens element closest to an imaged object of the lens elements is a first lens element, which is made of an electromagnetic radiation absorbing material.
US10338354B2	Achromatic anastigmatic anamorphic objective In a flow cytometer, an objective lens for focusing an input laser-radiation beam including at least four different laser-radiation wavelengths in a common plane includes only three singlet lens-elements. Two of the elements are cylindrical elements arranged as a cylindrical telescope for shaping and reducing the size of the input laser-beam. The third element is a spherical element arranged to focus the reduced size beam in the common plane. In one example, all three elements are made from the same optical material.
US10338352B2	Wide-angle lens system for ultra-short and large field-of-view camera module A wide-angle lens system comprises a first lens having a concave aspheric surface and a planar surface, a second lens having a convex aspheric surface and a planar surface, a substrate, wherein the planar surface of the first lens is adjacent to a first side of the substrate and the planar surface of the second lens is adjacent to a second side of the substrate, a third lens behind the second lens having a concave aspheric surface and a planar surface, and a stop disposed between the first lens and the substrate. The planar surface of the third lens is secured to an outermost surface of an image sensor.
US10338351B2	Image lens assembly and image capturing device An image lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface, wherein both of the surfaces of the fifth lens element are aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein the image-side surface thereof has at least one inflection point, and both of the surfaces of the sixth lens element are aspheric. The image lens assembly has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.
US10338345B2	Optical image capturing system An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. At least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive power. The fifth lens can have negative refractive power, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
US10338344B2	Small form factor telephoto camera A compact telephoto lens system that may be used in a small form factor cameras. The lens system may include five lens elements with refractive power. Alternatively, the lens system may include four lens elements with refractive power. At least one of the object side and image side surfaces of at least one of the lens elements is aspheric. Total track length (TTL) of the lens system may be 6.0 mm or less. Focal length f of the lens system may be at or about 7.0 mm (for example, within a range of 6.5-7.5 mm). Lens elements are selected and configured so that the telephoto ratio (TTL/f) satisfies the relation 0.74
US10338342B2	Zoom image pickup apparatus A zoom image pickup apparatus includes a mount portion, a zoom lens which forms an image of light incident from the mount portion, and an image pickup element which is disposed at an image forming position. The zoom lens includes in order from an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a lens unit having a negative refractive power. The second lens unit is a focusing lens unit. At the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, the third lens unit and the lens unit having a negative refractive power positioned on an object side of the third lens unit move, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied: ϕL1<ϕ3GL1 (1).
US10338339B2	Lens module The present disclosure provides a lens module. The lens module includes a lens barrel including a first barrel wall forming an optical aperture and a second barrel bending and extending from the first barrel wall. The second barrel wall includes a first inner wall and a first outer wall opposite to the first inner wall. One lens is arranged in the lens barrel, and the lens includes a side wall connecting an object side and an image side, a part of the side wall from the lens attaching to the first inner wall. A gap is formed between another part of the side wall and the first inner wall. A size of the part forming the gap between the side wall and the first inner wall along a direction of an optical axis accounts for at least one second of a total height.
US10338328B2	Ruggedized photonic crystal sensor packaging A method, system, and apparatus are disclosed for a ruggedized photonic crystal (PC) sensor packaging. In particular, the present disclosure teaches a ruggedized packaging for a photonic crystal sensor that includes of a hermetic-seal high-temperature jacket and a ferrule that eliminate the exposure of the optical fiber as well as the critical part of the photonic crystal sensor to harsh environments. The disclosed packaging methods enable photonic crystal based sensors to operate in challenging environments where adverse environmental conditions, such as electromagnetic interference (EMI), corrosive fluids, large temperature variations, and strong mechanical vibrations, currently exclude the use of traditional sensor technologies.
US10338320B2	Scalable optical switches and switching modules Telecommunications switches are presented, including expandable optical switches that allow for a switch of N inputs×M outputs to be expanded arbitrarily to a new number of N inputs and/or a new number of M outputs. Switches having internal switch blocks controlling signal bypass lines are also provided, with these switches being useful for the expandable switches.
US10338313B2	On-chip broadband light source An on-chip broadband radiation source, and methods for its manufacture such that a photonics IC comprises an optical waveguide such as a semiconductor waveguide, a thin III-V material membrane with absorption capability for absorbing an optical pump signal induced in the waveguide. The III-V membrane comprises a LED implemented therein. The photonics IC also comprises a coupling means between the waveguide and the membrane. The device provides a broadband radiation source at a wavelength longer than the wavelength of the transferred radiation. The broadband signal can then be coupled out through the waveguide and used in the chip.
US10338312B2	Photonic crystal all-optical self-and-transformation logic gate The present invention discloses a PhC all-optical self-AND-transformation logic gate, which comprises an optical-switch unit, a PhC-structure unit, a NOT-logic gate and a D-type flip-flop unit; said clock-signal CP is connected with an input port of the two-branch waveguide, said two output ports of the two-branch waveguide are respectively connected with the input port of said NOT-logic gate and a first clock-signal-input port of said PhC-structure unit; the output port of said NOT-logic gate is connected with the second clock-signal-input port of said D-type flip-flop unit; the signal-output port of the PhC structure is connected with the D-signal-input port of said D-type flip-flop unit; a logic-signal X is connected with the logic-signal-input port of said PhC-structure unit. The structure of the present invention is compact in structure and ease of integration with other optical-logic elements.
US10338310B2	Light transmittable and tissue integrable biofiber device The present invention provides a light transmittable and tissue integration integrable biofiber device including a plurality of biofibers. The plurality of biofibers consist a single bare fiber or a single constructed fiber. The single constructed fiber consists a core layer and either a single cladding layer or a plurality of cladding layers, and the cladding layer clads and fuses a circumferential surface of the core layer. Each of the plurality of biofibers comprises a light receiving end and a light emitting end, a light radiates through the light receiving end and the light is emitted from the a light emitting end. Therefore, the biofiber device of the present invention may simultaneously accomplish light transmittable and tissue integrable purposes to facilitate light therapy, optical gene therapy and optogenetics.
US10338309B2	Method and system for stabilized directional couplers Methods and systems for stabilized directional couplers are disclosed and may include a system comprising first and second directional couplers formed by first and second waveguides, where one of the waveguides may comprise a length extender between the directional couplers. The directional couplers may be formed by reduced spacing between the waveguides on opposite sides of the length extender. An input optical signal may be communicated into one of the waveguides, where at least a portion of the input optical signal may be coupled between the waveguides in the first directional coupler and at least a portion of the coupled optical signal may be coupled between the waveguides in the second directional coupler. Optical signals may be communicated out of the system with magnitudes at a desired percentage of the input optical signal. The length extender may add phase delay for signals in one of the first and second waveguides.
US10338307B2	Luminaire having light pipe assembly and method of assembly A luminaire with a light pipe assembly and related methods of assembly are provided. According to one aspect, the luminaire may include a housing and lens covering an opening formed in the housing. A light source may be disposed in the housing and configured to emit artificial light in a forward direction toward the lens. The light pipe assembly may span at least a portion of a distance between the lens and the light source, and may be configured to transport ambient light rays present in an environment outside of the housing to a location within the housing isolated from the artificial light.
US10338305B1	Luminaire with integrated lightguide A luminaire can comprise a lightguide, a substrate to which an array of light emitting diodes is mounted, and a cover that extends over the substrate. A light-receiving edge of the lightguide can be positioned adjacent the array of light emitting diodes so that emitted light couples into the lightguide via that edge. The lightguide can guide the coupled light from the light-receiving edge to an opposing, light-emitting edge that emits the coupled light to provide illumination. The cover can comprise an aperture through which the lightguide extends, so that the cover may enclose the light-receiving edge while the light emitting edge may protrude through the aperture.
US10338304B2	Backlight module and display device A backlight module includes two light guide plates, two light-emitting modules, and a controller. Each of the light guide plates has an incident surface and a light-output surface. The light guide plates are arranged side-by-side to make the light-output surfaces be coplanar. Each of the light-emitting modules is configured to provide a first kind of light and a second kind of light to the incident surface of the corresponding light guide plate. The first kind of light has a first triplet. The second kind of light has a second triplet different from the first triplet. The controller is configured to asynchronously drive any of the light-emitting modules to alternately provide the first kind of light and the second kind of light.
US10338301B2	Lighting system A lighting system including a lighting panel, wherein at least one light source, assigned to a narrow side of the lighting panel, is provided for coupling light into the lighting panel. The lighting system also includes a reflector facing a flat side of the lighting panel, wherein the flat side of the lighting panel facing the reflector and/or the reflector and/or an intermediate layer between the reflector and the lighting panel is provided with a surface structure. The surface structure is formed as a line grid made of continuous and intersecting grid lines. According to the lighting system, a high level of homogenization of the light emission from the lighting panel can be achieved in a simple manner. In this way, in particular, greater transmission losses in the edge regions of the lighting panel are prevented.
US10338299B2	Lighting system using a lightguide A lighting system comprising an array of LEDs, collimators for collimating the light output from the LEDs and a lightguide mounted over the array of collimators. The lightguide comprises an elongate structure having a length direction with one light input end mounted over the collimators, wherein the general shape in cross section perpendicular to the length direction comprises a non-circular arc. The array of LEDs is mounted following a corresponding non-circular arc. Light extraction features are provided for out-coupling light from an outer arcuate surface of the lightguide. The non-circular arc formed by the outer surface of lightguide enables a non-uniform light output distribution to be formed. The shape of the surface can thus be used to control the directional light output.
US10338295B2	Backlight module for curved liquid crystal display device and curved liquid crystal display device A backlight module for curved liquid crystal display device and a curved liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The backlight module comprises a backplate, a light guide plate and a backlight source that are arranged in the backplate, and quantum tubes that are arranged between the light guide plate and the backlight source, wherein a fold line which matches a curved surface of the curved liquid crystal display device is formed by the quantum tubes. In the backlight module according to the present disclosure, the fold line that is formed by the quantum tubes can be fitted into a curved line so as to match the curved surface of the curved liquid crystal display device. The quantum tubes can be applied to the curved liquid crystal display device through this arrangement, whereby the color purity of the curved liquid crystal display device can be improved, and the color gamut thereof can be enlarged.
US10338294B2	Cross runner light fixture In an example embodiment, a cross runner of a suspended ceiling grid is provided, wherein the cross runner may comprise a light fixture configured to function as a cross runner, and the light fixture may comprise a light guide.
US10338293B2	Backlight source and display device The present disclosure provides a backlight source, including: a light-guide plate, a diffuser arranged at a light-exiting side of the light-guide plate, and a light bar arranged at a light-entering side of the light-guide plate and including a light-emitting diode (LED) lamp and a flexible circuit board connected to the LED lamp. The flexible circuit board includes a base material, and a first solder mask and a second solder mask arranged at two surfaces of the base material opposite to each other. The base material includes a first region where the second solder mask is arranged and a second region where the second solder mask is not arranged. The second region is located at a side of the base material adjacent to the light-guide plate. The diffuser includes, at an end adjacent to the light bar, a connection member partially or completely covering the second region.
US10338292B2	Light guide plate, backlight module and display device A light guide plate, a backlight module and a display device are provided. The light guide plate includes a main body, plural first strip structures and second strip structures. The main body includes a light incident surface, an end portion and a light guide portion. The end portion has at least one inclined surface. The light guide portion is connected to the end portion. The light guide portion has a first optical surface and a second optical surface. At least one portion of each of the first strip structures is disposed on the first optical surface. At least one portion of each of the second strip structures is disposed on the second optical surface. An inherent type, an arrangement manner or an arrangement position of the first strip structures is different from an inherent type, an arrangement manner or an arrangement position of the second strip structures.
US10338288B2	Reflection member, projection screen, combiner, and heat shield member Due to the present invention, a reflection member including two or more layers of fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phases, in which the two or more layers of fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phases exhibit central wavelengths of mutually different selective reflection, and the two or more layers of fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phases include a layer formed of a composition including a disc-like liquid crystal compound and a layer formed of a composition including a rod-like liquid crystal compound and a projected image display member and a heat shield member which include the reflection member are provided. The reflection member of the present invention has favorable selective reflection characteristics with respect to oblique incidence rays.
US10338284B2	Optical objective with enlargement of the exit pupil by means of a diffractive element with a lenticule comprising an irregular feature An optical instrument for producing an optical image to be viewed by an observer, the optical instrument comprising: an optical system for producing an optical image of an object which is viewable by an observer at an exit pupil; and a diffractive element located at an image plane of the optical system for producing an array of the exit pupils, which are perceivable as a single, enlarged exit pupil by the observer; wherein the diffractive element comprises a surface which has an array of diffractive units, each of which generates one of the exit pupils of the array of exit pupils, the diffractive units each comprising a lenticule, which is effective to produce diffractive interference of light and generate a plurality of exit pupils which are displaced relative to one another in the form of an array of exit pupils, the lenticules each comprising an irregular feature having a plurality of surfaces; wherein the diffractive units are disposed progressively radially outwardly from the optical axis of the diffractive element and configured progressively to provide for an increasing angular offset, such that, independent of location on the aperture of the diffractive element, light from the received image is relayed to a common region on a viewing plane across the aperture of the diffractive element.
US10338283B2	Composite glue coating device and preparation method for fancy reflective material using the same A composite glue coating device and a preparation method for a fancy reflective material using the same, which relates to the technical field of reflective material production. The composite glue coating device comprises a composite glue roller (1), a glue coating roller (2), a glue sink device (3) and a glue scrapping device (4). The composite glue roller (1) and the glue coating roller (2) are arranged as a clamping roller set and a bead planting film passing interval (L) is formed between the composite glue roller (1) and the glue coating roller (2). The glue scrapping device (4) is connected with a scraper of the glue coating roller (2). A plurality of glue moving grooves (5) are evenly distributed on the glue coating roller (2). The glue coating roller (2) is connected with the glue sink device (3) and is glue immersed. The glue coating roller (2) rotates to transfer the glue (9) inside the glue sink device (3) into the glue moving grooves (5) and to coat the plating layer (13) of the bead planting film (6) with the glue (9) inside the glue moving grooves (5). The composite glue coating device can realize the batch production and the production efficiency is high. The reflective material produced has high tear resistance and comfort degree, with the fancy part being reflective and the rest as non-reflective. The reflective part has the same hand feeling with the rest substrate part, without obvious uneven feeling, and the reflective points are seamlessly connected with the substrate.
US10338281B2	Lighting device for gesture recognition apparatus Described is a lighting device for detecting three-dimensional structures, in particular for a gesture recognition apparatus, as well as a gesture recognition apparatus having a lighting device. In order to be able to compactly construct the lighting device, the lighting device includes a prism through which illumination light (L) passes twice in order to illuminate a gesture.
US10338279B2	Lens array having lenses arranged in rows, lens unit, exposure device, LED head, and image forming apparatus A lens array includes a plurality of lenses arranged in at least two rows parallel with each other. The plurality of lenses are arranged in a first direction in each row. Each of the plurality of lenses allows light to pass in a second direction. An arrangement center is defined at a center position between the two rows in a third direction perpendicular to both of the first direction and the second direction. Each of the plurality of lenses includes an incident surface and an emission surface. A surface apex of the emission surface is displaced with respect to a surface apex of the incident surface in a direction away from the arrangement center in the third direction.
US10338278B2	Anti-fog coating The present invention relates to an optical component having a crosslinked anti-fog coating obtainable by covalent attachment of a silane derivative of the formula (2) to the surface of the optical component and crosslinking of adjacent molecules: RoXmSiBn (2) wherein m=1 to 3, n=1 or 2 and o=0 or 1, with the proviso that m+n+o=4; the radical X is selected from halogen or C1-4-alkoxy, and for m=2 or 3 the individual radicals X may be identical or different, the radical R is C1-4-alkyl, the radical B has the structure -B1-B2, in which -B2 is a terminal hydrophilic group which is crosslinked to at least one hydrophilic group of an adjacent molecule of the anti-fog coat, and -B1- represents either a spacer group, which joins the hydrophilic group B2 to the Si atom, or a covalent bond, where the terminal hydrophilic group -B2 is poly(meth)acrylate, and for n=2 the individual radicals B may be identical or different.
US10338277B2	Polarizing plate protective film, polarizing plate, and display A polarizing plate protective film containing a compound represented by formula (I); a polarizing plate; and a display: in formula (I), X represents a group of formula (I-A-1) or (I-A-2), L represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, Z represents an n-valent linking group, and n represents an integer of 2 or more; however, when n is 2, the case where L and Z each are simultaneously a single bond is excluded: in formulae (I-A-1) and (I-A-2), RAC1 and RAC2 each independently represent an alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, or acyl group; however, the case where RAC1 and RAC2 bond to each other to form a ring is excluded; RAC3 to RAC6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, acyl, alkoxy, or alkoxycarbonyl group; and an asterisk (*) represents a bonding hand to form a bonding with L.
US10338276B2	Antireflective film, polarizing plate, cover glass, image display device, and method of manufacturing antireflective film There is provided an antireflective film, including: a plastic substrate; a infiltration layer; and an antireflective layer containing metallic oxide fine particles with an average primary particle diameter of 50 nm to 250 nm and a viscosity increasing compound, in this order, wherein the infiltration layer contains a polymer of a (meth)acrylate compound having a molecular weight of 400 or less, and the antireflective layer has a moth-eye structure including an uneven shape formed by the metallic oxide fine particles.
US10338270B2	Sensing systems and methods with phase unwrapping based on a dynamic phase change model A system includes distributed sensors and a receiver that receives signals from the distributed sensors and that produces one or more interferometry signals from the received signals. The system also includes a digitizer to digitize each of the one or more interferometry signals. The system also includes at least one processing unit that processes each digitized interferometry signal to obtain unwrapped phase information and related parameter values. The unwrapped phase information is obtained based on a comparison of a current phase measurement with a reference phase predicted using a dynamic phase change model.
US10338269B2	Method and X-ray inspection system, in particular for non-destructively inspecting objects This disclosure relates to methods for non-destructively inspecting an object, wherein electromagnetic radiation is passed through the object and intensity values of unabsorbed beams are measured and evaluated. The method can include generating a three-dimensional data set in which a first material property of the object is associated with individual spatial elements of the object using computed tomography; determining an inspection space, in the three-dimensional data set; deriving values, based on the three-dimensional data set, corresponding to a spatial geometric quantity of the inspection space in a predetermined projection direction; generating a two-dimensional data set in which a second material property of the object is associated with individual surface elements of the object, using two-dimensional X-ray; determining an inspection region in the two-dimensional data set by computing a projection of the inspection space into the two-dimensional data set; and transferring the derived values into corresponding surface elements of the projection.
US10338268B2	Apparatus and method for obtaining T2 distribution A method for determining earth formation properties including a data acquisition tool and a data acquisition processor coupled with NMR sensors and a first memory; transmitting earth formation fluid data to a data processing unit comprising a processor and a second memory. Obtaining a fully polarized state echo train (EFR) and a partially polarized state echo train burst (EPR); inverting the EPR to obtain an apparent transverse relaxation time (T2app) distribution; truncating the T2app distribution by discarding the partially polarized state echo train data; completing a forward model of the EPR to obtain an additional echo train burst (EFR_B), performing a second inversion of the data set; and determining earth formation fluid properties.
US10338266B1	EMU impulse antenna for low frequency radio waves using giant dielectric and ferrite materials An electromagnetic energy source for emitting pulses of electromagnetic energy includes a sonde assembly having a first section axially aligned with, and spaced from, a second section. An energy storage capacitor includes an electrode mounted in each of the first section and the second section of the sonde assembly and operable to generate an electric field. A capacitive charge storage medium is mounted in each of the first section and the second section of the sonde assembly and surrounds each electrode, where the capacitive charge storage medium is a giant dielectrics and giant permeability ferrite. A fast-closing switch is located between the first and second sections of the sonde assembly.
US10338260B2	Metal detection apparatus and metal detection method Detection of contained metal contained in an article can be carried out with a high sensitivity with a simple operation in a limited space. A transmission coil 42 that generates a magnetic field for inspection from an upper surface side through a lower surface side of a placing table 21 and a plurality of magnetic sensors 43 for detecting the magnetic field are provided in a head 40 disposed on a lower surface side of the placing table 21 for placing an article which is an inspection object. When the head 40 is scanned so as to cover the entire lower surface-side region of the placing table 21, metal being contained in the article placed on the placing table 21 is detected on the basis of a change in the magnetic field being detected by the magnetic sensors 43.
US10338258B2	Marine seismic surveying A system for acquiring a marine seismic survey makes use of a propelled vessel (40) towing at least a seismic source assembly (100) behind it. The navigation control system (42) of the propelled vessel is instructed to steer the propelled vessel in response to position information repetitively generated by a source global positioning system (GPS, 130) which forms part of the seismic source assembly being towed. The position information from the source GPS is thus used to navigate the seismic source assembly to a target location. The position information from the source GPS is also used to trigger activation of the seismic source when the seismic source is located within a pre-determined distance from the target location.
US10338255B2	Noise attenuation Noise can be attenuated in marine seismic data from a marine seismic survey. A first near-continuous measurement of a wavefield and a second near-continuous measurement of the wavefield recorded from a marine seismic survey can be equalized, a coherent portion of the equalized second near-continuous measurement can be collapsed, and a noise model can be derived. The noise model can be subtracted from the second near-continuous measurement.
US10338250B2	Method of removing incoherent noise Noise is removed from a data set by performing an integral transform operation that converts instances of noise into identifiable artifacts in the transformed data set. A model of the artifacts is constructed by creating a full-domain or partial-domain noise model and performing the same integral transform operation on the noise model. The resulting transformation of the noise model is adaptively subtracted from the transformed data set to remove the noise. The adaptive subtraction may employ a least-square error filter.
US10338247B2	Microseismic monitoring sensor uncertainty reduction Uncertainty in microseismic monitoring sensor data can be reduced. A computing device can receive information about at least one sensor that is monitoring a subterranean formation, including a location, after a fracturing fluid is introduced into the formation. The computing device can also receive information about a microseismic event and determine a seismic ray bath between a location of the event and the at least one sensor, and an uncertainty value of the location based on information about the formation and the information about the event. The computing device can determine a total uncertainty value associated with the locations of a plurality of microseismic events, including the microseismic event. The computing device can determine a solution to an objective function based on the total uncertainty value and a number of sensors. The computing device can determine a new location of the at least one sensor based on the solution.
US10338245B2	Methods and systems of detecting a microseismic event using an iterative non-linear inversion algorithm The present disclosure includes a method including determining a spatial region for analysis and selecting a segment of time for analysis, analyzing and correcting a plurality of traces from a plurality of receivers using an iterative non-linear inversion algorithm, wherein each iteration of the non-linear algorithm corrects the plurality of traces using at least one set of parameters defining a microseismic event, determining whether a final stack value of the plurality of traces corrected based on the at least one set of parameters of a final iteration of the iterative non-linear inversion algorithm exceeds a predetermined threshold and upon a determination that the final stack value exceeds the predetermined threshold, detecting a microseismic event defined by the at least one set of parameters of final iteration. The present disclosure also includes associated systems and computer-readable media.
US10338244B2	FWI with areal and point sources A method, including performing, with a computer, up/down separation of geophysical data, which produces an approximate up-going wavefield and an approximate down-going wavefield; creating an areal source based at least in part on the down-going wavefield; and performing, with a computer, a full wavefield inversion process with the areal source, and an objective function measuring a misfit between modeled up-going wavefields and recorded up-going wavefields, wherein the full wavefield inversion process generates a final subsurface physical property model.
US10338243B2	Interpretation of seismic survey data using synthetic modelling A method is provided for an improved interpretation of seismic data, comprising the steps of: •(a) obtaining a 3D seismic data set from a predetermined region; •(b) generating at least one attribute volume comprising at least one attribute of said 3D seismic data; •(c) selecting a zone of interest from said at least one attribute volume of said 3D seismic data set; •(d) determining a frequency spectrum of said zone of interest; •(e) generating a synthetic model of said zone of interest based on said frequency spectrum of said zone of interest and the model defined by at least a three dimensional space, wherein a first variable parameter is variable in a first dimension of the space, and at least a second variable parameter is variable in at least a second and/or third dimension; •(f) calibrating said synthetic model utilizing additional data indicative to physical properties of said zone of interest; •(g) utilizing said calibrated synthetic model to provide the frequency spectrum of a synthetic seismic response of said zone of interest and project the spectrum on a horizon of said zone of interest, and •(h) generating a visual representation of said projected spectrum against said first variable parameter and at least said second variable parameter.
US10338241B2	Seismic sweep using odd order harmonics Sweep signals for vibrators used to generate seismic signals for seismic surveys are described. By selecting a certain amount of one or more odd order harmonic components to be included in the sweep signal, the amplitude of the seismic signal generated by the vibrator can be increased.
US10338240B2	Method and seismic vibrator guidance system based on a field acquired trajectory A method for improving a 4-dimensional (4D) repeatability by modifying a given path to be followed by a source during a seismic survey. The method includes receiving the given path at a control device associated with a vehicle that caries the source; following the given path during a first seismic survey that is a baseline survey for the 4D seismic survey; deviating from the given path to follow a new path when encountering an obstacle on the given path; and updating the given path, based on the new path, to obtain an updated given path when a deviation condition is met.
US10338239B2	Detector in an imaging system The disclosure relates to a system and method for evaluating and calibrating detector in a scanner, further evaluating and calibrating time information detected by at least one time-to-digital convertor.
US10338233B2	Assured validation of carrier-phase integer ambiguities for safety-of-life applications Embodiments are directed to performing integer ambiguity validation in carrier phase differential positioning and to calculating a protection level for safety-of-life applications. In one scenario, a computer system accesses double-differenced pseudorange measurements and carrier phase measurements which are combined to produce an estimate of the relative position between receivers. Integer bootstrapping is performed to produce fixed range ambiguity estimates that are integer multiples of a carrier signal wavelength. A validation threshold is then established based on a statistical model of the pseudorange and carrier wave measurements that ensures that a specified probability of correct ambiguity resolution is met. A data-driven validation is initiated on the difference between the float range ambiguity estimates and the fixed range ambiguity estimates to validate the correctness of the fixed range ambiguity estimate. Then, upon determining that the fixed range ambiguity estimates are valid, the estimate of the relative position between the receivers is corrected.
US10338232B2	Navigation satellite wide-lane bias determination system and method A satellite corrections generation system receives reference receiver measurement information from a plurality of reference receivers at established locations. In accordance with the received reference receiver measurement information, and established locations of the reference receivers, the system determines wide-lane navigation solutions for the plurality of reference receivers. The system also determines clusters of single-difference (SD) wide-lane ambiguity values, each cluster comprising pairs of SD wide-lane floating ambiguities for respective pairs of satellites. A satellite wide-lane bias value for each satellite of a plurality of satellites is initially determined in accordance with fractional portions of the SD wide-lane floating ambiguities in the clusters, and then periodically updated by applying SD wide-lane integer constraints in a Kalman filter. A set of navigation satellite corrections for each satellite, including the satellite wide-lane bias value for each satellite, is generated and transmitted to navigation receivers for use in determining locations of the navigation receivers.
US10338218B2	Method and apparatus for obtaining vibration information and user equipment Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and an apparatus for obtaining vibration information and user equipment. The method comprises: obtaining at least one group of reflected electromagnetic wave signals, wherein the at least one group of reflected electromagnetic wave signals are formed by reflecting an electromagnetic wave signal by at least one electromagnetic wave reflective array when the at least one electromagnetic wave reflective array vibrates in response to a sound in an environment; each electromagnetic wave reflective array comprises multiple first reflective units with different electromagnetic wave reflective characteristics; analyzing the at least one group of reflected electromagnetic wave signals to obtain at least one set of vibration information corresponding to the at least one electromagnetic wave reflective array; and obtaining, according to the at least one set of vibration information, at least one piece of vibration source direction information corresponding to at least one location of the at least one electromagnetic wave reflective array. In technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, obtaining sound information in an environment by using a wireless electromagnetic wave is especially applicable to some scenarios where an active component is not suitable for use at a sound collecting location and a scenario where sound information at multiple locations needs to be collected in a space.
US10338215B2	Measuring point information providing device, change detection device, methods thereof, and recording medium The measuring point information providing device of the present invention inputs an SAR image set holding at least information indicative of a reflection intensity and a phase so as to be associated with each pixel corresponding to a resolution cell within a field of vision for image capturing including a specific region. The information is generated from observation data formed of four basic polarization pairs, i.e. HH, HV, VH and VV polarization pairs observed at generally the same time. The measuring point information providing device determines a polarization pair whose reflection intensity is not less than a predetermined value or the highest with respect to each target pixel by using the input SAR image set, and generates measuring point information including at least information indicative of the determined polarization pair of the target pixel based on a polarization pair determined by the polarization pair determination unit.
US10338213B1	Auto tier II A system for providing an estimate of far-field radar cross-section (RCS) measurements of an aircraft. The system includes a plurality of automatic guided vehicles (AGV) each including a robot arm and a radar unit selectively mounted thereto and being interchangeable with a camera. Each AGV includes an AGV controller for controlling the robot arm, the radar unit and the camera so as to cause the radar unit to provide the near-field RCS measurements or the camera to provide images of the aircraft. The system further includes a real time signature diagnostic sub-system (SDS-RT) responsive to the near-field RCS measurement signals from the radar units and the images from the cameras in real time, and an SDS controller responsive to re-configured near-field RCS measurement signals and images from the SDS-RT and configuring the near-field RCS measurement signals and the images into the estimate of the far-field RCS measurements of the aircraft.
US10338209B2	Systems to track a moving sports object Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for tracking a moving sports object. In one example, a method of tracking a moving sports object includes calibrating a perspective of an image of a camera to a perspective of a Doppler radar for simultaneous tracking of the moving sports object, and tracking the moving sports object simultaneously with the camera and Doppler radar. The method may further comprise removing offsets or minimizing differences between simultaneous camera measurements and Doppler radar measurements of the moving sports object. The method may also include combining a camera measurement of an angular position of the moving sports object with a simultaneous Doppler measurement of a radial distance, speed or other measurement of the moving sports object.
US10338208B2	Object detection in multiple radars Methods and systems are provided for controlling a radar system of a vehicle. One or more transmitters are configured to transmit radar signals. A plurality of receivers are configured to receive return radar signals after the transmitted radar signals are deflected from an object proximate the vehicle. A processor is coupled to the plurality of receivers in order to determine when a plurality of detected objects correspond to a single object and to track the single object in a dynamic environment.
US10338207B2	Gated range scanning LFMCW radar structure The present disclosure provides a gated range scanning linear frequency modulated continuous wave (LFMCW) radar structure, including: a frequency synthesizer, a first mixer, a second mixer, a first filter, and a third mixer. The frequency synthesizer is configured for generating a first local oscillating signal and a second local oscillating signal, a frequency of the first local oscillating signal varying in a frequency range, each frequency corresponding to a sub-range of a coverage range scanned by the LFMCW radar structure. The first mixer is configured for mixing a copy of a transmitted signal and the first local oscillating signal to generate a first output signal (the receiver's first local oscillator). The second mixer is configured for mixing the first output signal and a received signal from a receiving antenna to generate a second output signal that includes an intermediate frequency (IF) signal being received by the first filter.
US10338204B2	Sensor systems We describe a sensor system for measuring relative distance between sensors of the system, the sensor system comprising at least two sensors, wherein each said sensor comprises an RF transceiver coupled to a microprocessor and stored program code for controlling the microprocessor, wherein said stored program code comprises code to: send, using said RF transceiver a group of one or more data bits from the sensor to a second sensor; receive, using said RF transceiver, an acknowledgement of reception of said group of data bits from said second sensor; determine a time difference between said sending and said receiving; compensate said time difference from a processing delay by the microprocessor of said second sensor between the second sensor receiving said group of data bits and sending said acknowledgement, to determine timing data reprinting distance to said second sensor.
US10338202B2	System and method for improving LIDAR sensor signal availability on a wind turbine The present subject matter is directed to a system and method for sequencing Light Detecting and Ranging (LIDAR) sensor beam signals from a LIDAR sensor mounted on a nacelle of a wind turbine with the rotor position of the wind turbine so as to improve signal availability. More specifically, the method includes generating, via the LIDAR sensor, one or more laser signals towards the rotor of the wind turbine, the rotor having one or more rotor blades. The method also includes receiving, via a controller, a rotor position of the rotor of the wind turbine. Thus, the method further includes coordinating, via a control algorithm programmed within the controller, the rotor position with the one or more laser signals of the laser sensor so as to minimize interference between the laser signal(s) and the rotor blades during rotation of the rotor.
US10338199B1	Transceiver apparatus, method and applications A transceiver for use in a lidar system includes an optical receiver and a transmitter. The optical receiver includes a circuit board including a detector, a cylindrical inner housing, a C-shaped outer housing that partially surrounds the inner housing, and a lens in the outer housing. The transmitter includes an optical fiber coupled to a light source and a collimator, and a pair of Risley prism rods for adjusting collimator alignment. The collimator and Risley rods sit in a groove formed by the inner housing and the outer housing. A lidar system using the transceiver and a transceiver assembly method are disclosed.
US10338198B2	Sensor apparatus A sensor apparatus includes a housing, a LIDAR sensor attached to the housing, and a window releasably coupled to the housing. The window may be cylindrical. The housing may be a first housing, and the sensor apparatus may include a second housing. The window may be releasably coupled to the second housing.
US10338197B2	System and method for use of qualitative modeling for signal analysis A system and method for qualitative analysis of time progressive signals, comprising: a qualitative signal analysis module, comprising at least a processor, a memory, and a long term storage device; and an output processor module comprising at least a processor a memory and a network interface has been devised. The qualitative signal analysis module retrieves signal data over time and applies pre-programmed protocols to compare multiple aspects of the signal data to derive meaningful data. The output processor module encodes data generated by the qualitative signal analysis module for use in subsequent analytical steps such as further manipulation, classification or long term storage.
US10338196B2	System and method for avoiding sensor interference using vehicular communication A method and system for controlling sensor data acquisition using a vehicular communication network is provided. An example method includes establishing an operable connection between a first vehicle and remote vehicles. The first vehicle and the remote vehicles operate based upon a common time base according to a global time signal. The method includes receiving capability data that includes a sensor actuation time slot of each of the remote vehicles indicting a time slot at which the sensors of each of the remote vehicles are actuating. The sensor actuation time slot of each of the remote vehicle is different. The method also includes dividing a clock cycle into a plurality of time slots based on the remote vehicles and controlling, according to the plurality of time slots and the sensor actuation time slot, sensor actuation of a sensor of the first vehicle and the sensors of the remote vehicles.
US10338193B2	Apparatus and method for RSS/AoA target 3-D localization in wireless networks An apparatus and a method for RSS/AoA target 3-D localization in wireless networks and wireless sensor networks (WSNs), utilizing combined measurements of received signal strength (RSS) and angle of arrival (AoA) are disclosed herein. By using the spherical coordinate conversion and available AoA observations to establish new relationships between the measurements and the unknown target location, a simple closed-form solution is developed. The method disclosed herein has a straightforward adaptation to the case where the target's transmit power is also not known. A representative set of simulations and experiments verify the potential performance improvement realized with embodiments of the method for RSS/AoA target 3-D localization in wireless networks.
US10338187B2	Spherically constrained optical seeker assembly A spherically constrained optical seeker assembly includes a spherical lens having an outer surface, an optical sensor assembly associated with the spherical lens, and a gimbal assembly. The optical sensor assembly is coupled to the gimbal assembly. The gimbal assembly is configured to move the optical sensor assembly to at least one desired position on the outer surface of the spherical lens. A method of manipulating the optical sensor assembly includes positioning the optical sensor assembly with respect to the spherical lens and moving the optical sensor assembly to at least one desired position with respect to the outer surface of the spherical lens by the gimbal assembly.
US10338183B2	Magnetic resonance imaging with different frequency encoding patterns In a method and control device for magnetic resonance imaging, raw magnetic resonance data are acquired from one region of an examination object by a number of magnetic resonance receiving antennas of a magnetic resonance system. Calibration values are determined that represent the sensitivity of at least one of the magnetic resonance receiving antennas. An image reconstruction is performed on the basis of the raw magnetic resonance data, taking into consideration the determined calibration values. The determination of the calibration values is frequency-dependent.
US10338182B2	Receiver assembly of a magnetic resonance imaging system A receiver assembly of a magnetic resonance (MR) system for generating MR recordings of an examination object includes a plurality of reception channels for receiving and amplifying MR signals from reception coils of the MR system connected therewith. A calibration data memory for storing calibration data for the plurality of reception channels is arranged on the receiver assembly. The receiver assembly includes a data link for transmitting the calibration data to the MR system.
US10338181B2	Radio frequency coil assembly for magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance imaging system A radio frequency (RF) coil assembly for magnetic resonance imaging includes a transmit only (Tx only) RF coil to apply an RF signal to an object, and a receive only (Rx only) RF coil to receive a magnetic resonance signal from a region of interest of the object excited by the applied RF signal. The Tx only RF coil and the Rx only RF coil are disposed such that a first center of the Tx only RF coil and a second center of the Rx only RF coil are spaced apart from each other by a distance identical to a distance between a first peak point of a first magnetic field generated by the Tx only RF coil and a second peak point of a second magnetic field generated by the Rx only RF coil.
US10338180B2	System and method for gradient measurement using single-point imaging A system and method for determining an actual gradient field generated by a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system when controlled to produce a prescribed gradient field is provided. The techniques include using the prescribed gradient field, controlling the MRI system to perform a phase encoding including a gradient that is scaled along each direction desired to be measured over a selected number of encoding times and acquiring one-dimensional (1D) data using a prescribed k-space trajectory during the phase encoding. The 1D data is used to determine scaling factors between encoding times that correlate to actual k-space trajectories achieved when controlling the gradient coils to perform the phase encoding based on the desired gradient field and a report is generated that provides a measure of the actual gradient field generated when controlling the MRI system to produce the prescribed gradient field.
US10338179B2	Magnetic resonance method and apparatus for quantitative time-resolved assessment of tissue displacement and related biomarker parameters with blood suppression in the whole cardiac cycle Embodiments relate to acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) images with suppressed residual blood signal in the early cardiac phases, leading to images with a preferred dark-blood appearance throughout the entire cardiac cycle, which improves accuracy of subsequent post-processing algorithms. The acquisition of the desired blood suppressed tissue images is achieved through a double inversion recovery pulse in DENSE sequences. The double inversion recovery pulse is applied after an electrocardiogram (ECG) trigger at a beginning point of a repetition time period, followed by a displacement encoding module at an inversion time during the repetition time period and a readout module comprised of a plurality of frames during a remainder of the repetition time period. The displacement encoding module applies a labelling process on the tissue, while the readout module applies an un-labelling process. The readout module comprises an imaging sequence adapted to acquire DENSE images.
US10338176B2	Method and apparatus for actuation of a magnetic resonance scanner for the simultaneous acquisition of multiple slices In a method and a magnetic resonance imaging system to generate magnetic resonance image data of an object, during the acquisition of magnetic resonance raw data, different transverse magnetizations are excited in multiple sub-volumes to be depicted and used for imaging. These different transverse magnetizations are simultaneously present in at least one time interval of the measurement. Image data are reconstructed from the acquired raw data.
US10338175B2	Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and medical image processing method A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates a plurality of cross-sectional images for setting a sectional position to be collected in main imaging based on a characteristic portion of a target detected in three-dimensional data. The processing circuitry lists the cross-sectional images on a display and superimposes a mark corresponding to the characteristic portion on at least one of the cross-sectional images. The processing circuitry receives a setting operation to determine the sectional position. The processing circuitry causes, when the mark is selected in the setting operation, a cross-sectional image to be emphasized a sectional position of which is defined using the characteristic portion corresponding to the mark among the listed cross-sectional images. The processing circuitry performs main imaging based on the sectional position after the setting operation.
US10338171B2	Generating gradient signal Methods of generating a gradient signal, gradient signal generators and magnetic resonance imaging systems are provided. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a target amplitude and a target duration associated with a target precision corresponding to the gradient signal; generating a first actual amplitude by intercepting the target amplitude according to an actual precision of a DAC; generating a second actual amplitude according to the first actual amplitude, wherein a difference between the second actual amplitude and the first actual amplitude is 1; determining a first actual duration of outputting the first actual amplitude and a second actual duration of outputting the second actual amplitude according to the target amplitude, the target duration, the first actual amplitude and the second actual amplitude; controlling the DAC to output the first actual amplitude according to the first actual duration and output the second actual amplitude according to the second actual duration.
US10338169B2	Transmitter device for a magnetic resonance scanner A transmitter device for a magnetic resonance scanner includes a transmitter that is arranged in spatial proximity of a transmission coil that is connected thereto. The transmitter is embodied as a high-frequency power source that is connected directly to the transmission coil.
US10338168B2	Magnetic resonance measurement apparatus with selective frequency conversion of transmission and/or reception signal In a magnetic resonance measurement apparatus, when a frequency of an observation nucleus falls within a high frequency band, a frequency conversion scheme is selected. In this case, an intermediate frequency signal is generated as an original signal, which is then frequency-converted to generate an RF transmission signal. An RF reception signal is converted into an intermediate frequency signal by frequency conversion, and is sampled. When the frequency of the observation nucleus falls within a low frequency band, a non-conversion scheme is selected. In this case, an RF transmission signal is generated as the original signal, and an RF reception signal is sampled.
US10338163B2	Multi-frequency excitation schemes for high sensitivity magnetometry measurement with drift error compensation A system for magnetic detection includes a nitrogen vacancy (NV) diamond material, a radio frequency (RF) excitation source that provides RF excitation to the NV diamond material, an optical excitation source that provides optical excitation to the NV diamond material, an optical detector that receives an optical signal emitted by the NV diamond material, a magnetic field generator that generates a magnetic field applied to the NV diamond material, and a controller. The controller controls the RF excitation source to apply a first RF excitation having a first frequency and a second RF excitation having a second frequency. The first frequency is associated with a first slope point of a fluorescence intensity response of an NV center orientation of a first spin state, and the second frequency is associated with a second slope point of the fluorescence intensity response of the NV center orientation of the first spin state.
US10338162B2	AC vector magnetic anomaly detection with diamond nitrogen vacancies A system for magnetic anomaly detection is described. The system may include a nitrogen vacancy (NV) diamond material comprising a plurality of NV centers. A controller modulates a first code packet and controls a first magnetic field generator to apply a first time varying magnetic field at the NV diamond material based on the modulated first code packet. The controller modulates a second code packet and control a second magnetic field generator to apply a second time varying magnetic field at the NV diamond material based on the modulated second code packet, wherein the first code packet and the second code packet are binary sequences which have a low cross correlation with each other. The controller determines a magnitude and direction of the magnetic field at the NV diamond material, and determines a magnetic vector anomaly based on the determined magnitude and direction of the magnetic field.
US10338148B2	Communication device and communication system An object of the present invention is to provide a wireless communication technique which can measure a physical state of the measurement object with high accuracy and can transmit the measurement result rapidly. The communication device according to the present invention wirelessly transmits the measurement result during a first time slot, and starts measurement during a second time slot which differs from the first time slot (see FIG. 3).
US10338146B2	Method for determining a control observer for the SoC In order to create a control observer for any battery type in a structured and at least partially automated manner, first, a nonlinear model of the battery, in form of a local model network including a number of local, linear, time-invariant, and dynamic models, which each have validity in specific ranges of the input variables, is determined from the measuring data of a previously ascertained, optimized experimental design via a data-based modeling method. For each local model (LMi) of the model network determined in this manner, a local observer is then determined. The control observer (13) for estimating the SoC then results from a linear combination of the local observers.
US10338142B2	Faulty load detection for multi-phase electric motor An electric motor is electrically commutated with the aid of circuitry, in which the phase current experiences a zero crossing at certain time points per motor phase. Owing to the inductive load portion, the time of said zero crossing of a phase current occurs at different times to the time of the zero crossing that would arise with purely ohmic loads. Without a faulty load condition, the time of said zero crossing is within an expected value range (e.g., expected time window) which can be determined by the circuitry, the ambient conditions and by diverse motor parameters. During occurrence of the a high-side and/or low-side phase connection, it is determined whether and when the current through the switched-on high-side of low-side switch becomes greater or smaller than a predeterminable threshold wherein said time measurement can extend over one or more PWM cycles.
US10338141B2	Power supply protective device, power supply device and switch failure diagnosing method A power supply protective device, when obtaining an open voltage when a second switch is brought into a closed state and a first switch is brought into an open state during discharging of a power supply, and obtaining a close voltage when the second switch is brought into the closed state and the first switch is brought into the closed state during discharging of the power supply, diagnoses the first switch as having a failure or not on the basis of the open voltage and the close voltage. When executing first a close instruction to the first switch and the second switch, if a voltage difference is less than a first threshold voltage, the first switch is determined to have no open failure, and/or when not less than a second threshold voltage, the second switch is determined to have no open failure.
US10338138B2	Low cost design for test architecture A Design-for-testability method based on composition of test patterns copes with increasing test complexity and cost metric of a large system. System-level structural test patterns from test patterns of constituent subsystems, cores and design IPs are constructed without requiring their design netlists. The delivered test patterns can be utilized 100% in the testing of system. The system-level test pattern is delivered to the device under test, the subsystem test patterns can be scheduled and applied continuously without being interleaved by test deliveries until all of the subsystem test patterns are exercised. Absence of design netlist requirement allows uniform integration of external and internal IPs regardless of availability of test isolation logic or design details. Concurrent test of constituents and their mutual independence in scan operations allows implicit distribution of test protocol signals such as scan enable (SE) and the scan clocks. The method enables at-speed testing of memory shadow logic.
US10338137B1	Highly accurate defect identification and prioritization of fault locations A method for defect identification for an integrated circuit includes determining a defect ranking technique, applying at least two defect identification techniques and generating a defect report corresponding to each technique, comparing the defect reports and generating probable defect locations, prioritizing the probable defect locations according to the defect ranking technique; and generating a report of the prioritized probable defect locations.
US10338135B2	Extracting debug information from FPGAs in multi-tenant environments Methods and apparatus are disclosed for programming reconfigurable logic devices such as FPGAs in a multi-tenant server environment. In one example, a computing host includes one or more processors configured to execute a supervisor process and two or more user processes and a single FPGA integrated circuit configured into a plurality of partitions. The partitions include a host logic partition that is accessible only to the supervisor process executing on the computing host, and two or more accelerator partitions. Each of the accelerator partitions is configured to include a virtual debug unit with a logic analyzer that collects logic signals generated by logic within the respective accelerator partition and sends debug data indicating values of the logic signals to one of the user processes. In some examples, the host logic partitions and/or the accelerator partitions can be independently reprogrammed of each other within their respective portions of the single FPGA.
US10338134B2	Interface board, a multichip package (MCP) test system including the interface board, and an MCP test method using the MCP test system In an interface board for testing a multichip package, the multichip package includes a first type semiconductor chip and a second type semiconductor chip, the interface board includes a first surface facing the multichip package and a second surface facing a test apparatus, the first surface includes upper terminals that are electrically connected to terminals of the multichip package, the second surface includes lower terminals that are electrically connected to the test apparatus, and the upper terminals include a first upper terminal group for testing the first type semiconductor chip and a second upper terminal group for testing whether a crack defect exists in the second type semiconductor chip.
US10338133B2	Multi-layer integrated circuits having isolation cells for layer testing and related methods Multi-layer integrated circuits having isolation cells for layer testing and related methods are disclosed. According to an aspect, an integrated circuit includes first and second layers that each have one or more electronic components. One or more electronic components of each layer can be electrically connected by a first via and a second via. The integrated circuit also includes an isolation cell operatively connected between the first via and the second via. The isolation cell is configured to controllably break electrical connection between the first via and the second via subsequent to testing of the at least one electronic component of the second layer. Example isolation cells include, but are not limited to, electronic fuses and tri-state flip-flops.
US10338131B2	System and method for high voltage stress testing plurality of parallel units A system has a chip mounting board and a docking board. The chip mounting board can be loaded with test samples in a low voltage environment and can then be transported to a high voltage environment. The chip mounting board can be connected to the docking board and allows high voltage testing of multiple samples in parallel. The chip mounting board can then be disconnected from the docking board and transported back to a low voltage environment to unload the tested samples.
US10338129B2	Deterioration detection device for printed circuit board A deterioration detection device for a printed circuit board includes a monitoring conductor and a voltage supply conductor for supplying voltage/current arranged on the printed circuit board with an arbitrary clearance. A voltage Vx is applied to the voltage supply conductor at a plurality of points. A voltage (0 V) lower than the voltage Vx for the voltage supply conductor is applied to the monitoring conductor through a resistor. An amplifier circuit amplifies a voltage Vy for the monitoring conductor and outputs an output voltage Vout. If the printed circuit board is deteriorated and an insulation resistance Ry between the monitoring conductor and the voltage supply conductor is reduced, the output voltage Vout increases, so that deterioration of the printed circuit board can be detected.
US10338127B2	Method and system for identifying full parameters of element by fault recording and fault locating method The invention discloses a method for identifying full parameters of an electric element by a fault recording data, comprising steps: inputting fault recording data related to an electric element; conducting data processing on the fault recording data; identifying full parameters of the element by intercepted data and a differential equation of the full parameters of the element; and outputting an identified result. Further proposed are a system for identifying full parameters of a power generator by fault recording data and a method for locating a line fault point with fault recording data. With the implementation of the invention, a fault resistance and full parameters of an element such as an electric line and a transformer, etc. can be identified. The invention can obtain full parameters of a fault element and also a non-fault element, and the parameters precision would be increased from the current 20% to less than 1%.
US10338124B2	Cable fault diagnosis method and system Disclosed herein is a cable fault diagnosis system and method, wherein when an application signal and a reflected signal overlap each other due to the proximity of a fault location to an application location or when the intensity of the reflected signal is weak and thus falls outside of a prescribed fault diagnosis range due to remoteness of the fault location from the application location, a correction location, at which a correlation function value has a global maximum, is derived on the basis of a prescribed correlation function for an application signal applied to a cable to be inspected and an acquired reflected signal, a correction signal, which is a reflected signal from which the application signal is removed at the derived correction location, is calculated, the distance between the correction location and the acquisition location is derived on the basis of a time delay, which is calculated on the basis of the calculated correction signal and the reflected signal at the acquisition location, and a propagation velocity, and therefore, even when the application signal and the reflected signal overlap due to the proximity of the fault location to the application location, the fault type and the fault location of the cable to be inspected may be accurately detected, and even when the intensity of the reflected signal is weak due to remoteness of the fault location from the application location or due to a minute fault level, accuracy and reliability of the fault type determination and the fault location detection for the cable to be inspected may be improved.
US10338123B2	Fluid tank sensor network fault detection method Discussed herein are a sensor-network system and a method thereof for detecting and isolating faults occurring in sub-systems and sensors included in the network. The sub-systems and the sensor measurements are subject to noise and disturbances. A bank of Kalman-filters (KF) is used to detect and isolate the faults. Each KF is driven by either a pair of consecutive sensor measurements or a pair including a reference input and a sensor measurement. The KF residual is computed for each measurement pair and is a reliable indicator of a fault in subsystems and sensors located in the network.
US10338122B2	Method and device for detecting a fault in an electrical network The invention relates to a method for detecting a fault in an electrical network (1) through which an AC current flows, the method comprising a step of acquiring three samples (S1, S2, S3) of a sinusoidal signal (S) that is representative of the current flowing in the network (1), the acquisition of each sample being spaced apart by a fixed sampling time (T), a step of calculating an amplitude (A) of the signal (S), the calculation of the amplitude (A) depending solely on the three acquired samples (S1, S2, S3) and being independent of the sampling time (T), a step of determining a fault if the calculated amplitude (A) is above a first predetermined threshold or if the calculated amplitude (A) is below a second predetermined threshold.
US10338121B2	Electrical supply system An electrical supply system including a voltage converter including having an input electrically coupled to a supply for receiving a supply signal and an output for supplying an output signal having a output voltage different to a supply voltage of the supply signal. The system includes a diode including a diode input electrically coupled to the voltage converter output, a bus electrically coupled to a diode output and at least one of a load and a store, a voltage sensor for detecting the output voltage, a current sensor for detecting a diode input current and an electronic processing device coupled to the sensors for monitoring the diode input current and the output voltage and detecting a fault in the electrical supply system based on at least the diode input current and output voltage.
US10338119B2	Generator waveform measurement A generator waveform is measured using one or more techniques that reduce the computing resources for measuring the generator waveform and the time required for measuring the generator waveform. One example includes a template matching technique that iteratively selects templates to estimate the phase offset of the generator waveform. One example includes a root mean squared value calculated from less than sample time period that is less than one half of a cycle of the generator waveform. A generator controller calculates a command or parameter for the generator based on the estimated phase offset or the root mean squared value.
US10338109B2	Power cable measurement device and measurement method thereof A power cable measurement device is provided, which may include a casing, a plurality current sensing modules and a plurality of voltage sensing modules. The casing may be used to envelope a three-phase three-wire power cable. The voltage sensing modules and the current sensing modules may be disposed on the casing and spaced at regular intervals; any two adjacent current sensing modules may be divided by one voltage sensing module. The power cable measurement device can accurately estimate the electricity information of the three-phase three-wire power cable according to a characteristic curve database constructed by pre-measurement, the induced voltages of the voltage sensing modules and the induced voltages of the current sensing modules.
US10338106B2	Method and apparatus for discrimination of sources in stray voltage detection A method and apparatus for discriminating between electric field sources. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a mobile detection system comprising a sensor probe for remotely measuring an electric field generated by an electric field source in a patrolled area; and a processor, coupled to the sensor probe, for processing data received from the sensor probe to generate a first field strength and at least a second field strength for determining whether the electric field source is potentially hazardous.
US10338103B2	Voltage sensing device The invention relates to a voltage sensing device (1) for a high and/or medium voltage power carrying conductor (2), the voltage sensing device comprising: a radially outer electrode (3) operable as a first sensing electrode of a sensing capacitor for sensing the voltage of the power carrying conductor; a radially inner electrode (2, 6) operable as a second sensing electrode of the sensing capacitor; a dielectric material (5) arranged between the inner and the outer electrode (3, 2, 6), wherein the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of at least one electrode (3, 2, 6) is selected such that it compensates the temperature dependent parameters of the dielectric material (5) and/or the other electrode (3, 2, 6), that influences the capacity of the voltage sensing capacitor.
US10338101B2	Prober Provided is a prober capable of maintaining parallelism between a probe card and a wafer as well as performing wafer-level inspection with high accuracy. A test head is held by a test head holding part, and the test head and a probe card are sucked and fixed to a pogo frame attached to a head stage. A wafer chuck is moved toward a probe card while being fixed to a Z-axis movement-rotation unit in a detachable manner, and the wafer chuck is drawn toward the probe card by reducing pressure in an air-tight space formed between the wafer chuck and the probe card using a pressure reducing unit. Then, an electrical inspection of a wafer is performed while the test head, the pogo frame, the probe card, and the wafer chuck are integrated with respect to the head stage.
US10338100B2	Test socket Disclosed is a test socket for inspecting an electronic device that is particular about properties.The test socket for inspecting electric properties of a subject includes a plurality of probes configured to be retractable in an inspection direction; a probe supporter configured to support the plurality of probes so that first ends of the plurality of probes protrudes to contact with an object contact point of a subject; and a printed circuit board (PCB) configured to be placed beneath the probe supporter, be mounted with electronic parts, be formed with holes through which second ends of the plurality of probes pass, include at least one first pad with which at least one second end of the plurality of probes comes into contact and at least one second pad formed on an opposite side to the first pad, and be formed with electric paths extended from the first pad and the second pad and connected to the mounted electronic parts.
US10338097B2	Joggle jointed detection apparatus A detection apparatus used for detecting an object includes a first platform, a second platform and a plurality of screws. The first platform includes a plurality of first circuit boards that are joggle jointed and combined with each other, at least part of the first circuit boards are electrically connected to each other, and a carrying table for carrying the object to be detected is disposed on the first platform. The second platform includes at least one second circuit board, a detection module being disposed on the second platform for detecting the object, and the detection module is electrically connected to at least a part of the second circuit board. The screws are connected between the first platform and the second platform. The detection apparatus is mainly made by joggle jointing the circuit boards, so that the manufacturing is easy, costs are low, and the detection apparatus is easy to assemble, has small volume and light weight, and is convenient to carry.
US10338096B2	Metrological scanning probe microscope This invention relates to a metrological scanning probe microscope system combining an SPM which employs an optical lever arrangement to measure displacement of the probe indirectly with another SPM which measures the displacement of the probe directly through the use of an interferometric detection scheme.
US10338095B2	Method for the correction of a measured value curve by eliminating periodically occurring measurement artifacts, in particular in a soil compactor A method is provided for the correction of a measured value curve by eliminating periodically occurring measurement artifacts. The method includes steps of provision of a measured value curve representing a periodically repeating event, division of the measured value curve into period-measured value curves allocated to a plurality of successive periods of the periodically repeating event, based on the period-measured value curves allocated to the plurality of periods, determination of a mean period-measured value curve, formation of a difference between the period-measured value curves allocated to the plurality of periods, and the mean period-measured value curve for the provision of the difference-period-measured value curves allocated in each case to the periods, and based on the difference-period-measured value curves, determination of a corrected measured value curve for the plurality of successive periods of the periodically repeating event.
US10338094B2	Pretreatment apparatus and method of wheel speed An apparatus for pretreating a wheel speed includes a tone wheel having a plurality of teeth, a hall sensor configured to detect a measurement angle including an offset of each of the teeth, an offset correcting unit configured to correct the measurement angle with a corrective offset when disturbance is generated and a frequency estimating unit configured to estimate a frequency based on a result value calculated from the offset correcting unit.
US10338090B2	Airspeed estimation system An airspeed estimation system of an aircraft includes an electronic airspeed rate modeler unit configured to output an estimated airspeed rate signal indicating an estimated airspeed rate of the aircraft. The estimated airspeed rate signal is based on a longitudinal body acceleration of the aircraft and at least one adaptive parametric airspeed model. The airspeed estimation system further includes an electronic airspeed estimator unit in signal communication with the airspeed rate modeler unit. The airspeed estimator unit is configured to determine an estimated airspeed of the aircraft based on the estimated airspeed rate signal.
US10338085B2	Devices and methods to determine whether to calibrate a laboratory analyzer Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods that relate to detecting an error in a laboratory analyzer. A device may include an average of deltas (AoD) module to receive pairs of consecutive measurement values of an analyte of one or more patients, each pair of consecutive measurement values including a first measurement of an analyte obtained from a patient of the one or more patient at a first time and a second measurement of an analyte obtained from the patient at a second time after the first time, determine a time delta between each pair of consecutive measurement values, determine whether the time delta is within a specified time window, determine a measurement value deltas between each pair of consecutive measurement values that includes a time delta with the specified time window, and determine an AoD using the determined measurement value deltas.
US10338080B2	Methods and compositions for detection of complement fixing antibodies The invention provides methods for sensitive and specific detection of complement fixing antibodies in a biological sample using complement factor C1q, including autologous complement factor C1q present in the biological sample and a detectably labeled antibody that binds the autologous complement factor C1q, exogenous human complement factor C1q and a detectably labeled antibody that binds the exogenous human complement factor C1q, detectably labeled exogenous human complement factor C1q, or a combination of autologous complement factor C1q and exogenous human complement factor C1q. The invention also features kits, systems, and devices for use in the methods of the invention.
US10338079B2	Methods and systems for diagnosing diseases The present disclosure provided methods and systems for diagnosing diseases and monitoring their progression and therapeutic responses by detecting a presence or absence, or an increase or decrease, of one or more substances in a sample.
US10338076B2	Methods and compositions for the diagnosis of ovarian cancer A diagnostic reagent or device comprises at least one ligand capable of specifically complexing with, binding to, or quantitatively detecting or identifying the biomarker chloride intracellular channel protein 4 (CLIC4) or an isoform, pro-form, modified molecular form including posttranslational modification, or unique peptide fragment or nucleic acid fragment thereof. An alternative diagnostic reagent or device comprises ligand or ligands capable of specifically complexing with, binding to, or quantitatively detecting or identifying multiple tropomyosin biomarkers. Optionally, such reagent or device includes a signaling molecule and/or a substrate on which the ligand is immobilized. Other reagents and methods of diagnosing ovarian cancer include use of CLIC4 ligands and/or multiple tropomyosin ligands with an additional ovarian cancer biomarker. For example, CLIC4 combined with one or more of CLIC1 and/or one or multiple members of the tropomyosin family, e.g., TPM1, TPM2, TPM3 or TPM4, and further optionally including CTSD-30 kDa and/or PRDX-6, among other ovarian cancer biomarkers can form a characteristic diagnostic pattern or profile of expression that is diagnostic of the disease. Still other embodiments are described.
US10338074B2	Compositions, methods and kits for diagnosis of lung cancer Methods are provided for identifying biomarker proteins that exhibit differential expression in subjects with a first lung condition versus healthy subjects or subjects with a second lung condition. Also provided are compositions comprising these biomarker proteins and methods of using these biomarker proteins or panels thereof to diagnose, classify, and monitor various lung conditions. The methods and compositions provided herein may be used to diagnose or classify a subject as having lung cancer or a non-cancerous condition, and to distinguish between different types of cancer (e.g., malignant versus benign, SCLC versus NSCLC).
US10338073B2	Lymph node specimen collection kit and method of pathological analysis for lung cancer diagnosis using such a kit A unique system for the correlation between removed lymph nodes for lung cancer diagnosis and pathological analysis thereof is provided. Such a system includes the removal of certain lymph nodes from a suspected or known lung cancer patient with subsequent categorization thereof and placement within a properly divided and labeled specimen collection kit. Through the utilization of such a separation and placement allows and facilitates understanding and non-verbal communication between a surgeon and a pathologist in order to denote the location of the removed lymph nodes in relation to a known or suspected lung cancer tumor or growth. The overall diagnostic method, including the important communicative properties accorded both the particular surgeon and pathologist, is encompassed within this invention, as well as the specific collection specimen kit that permits the surgeon proper distinction of specific removal lymph nodes in relation to their location within the patient's body.
US10338072B2	Method of detecting cancer The disclosure provides methods for resolving an inconclusive cytological assessment of clinically relevant cells in a sample obtained from a patient based on the cytological detection of antibody binding to telomerase in clinically relevant cells in the sample, wherein binding of the antibody to clinically relevant cells indicates the presence of malignant or cancerous cells.
US10338069B2	Glycan arrays for high throughput screening of viruses Glycan arrays that can detect and distinguish between various sub-types and strains of influenza virus are provided. Methods for using the glycan arrays with assays using nanoparticle amplification technique are disclosed. Sandwich assays using gold nanoparticles conjugated to phage particles comprising influenza virus-specific antibodies for detecting multiple serotypes using a single reaction are provided. Plurality of glycans directed to specific target HA of influenza virus comprises the array. Detector molecules comprising noble metals conjugated to (a) phage display particles expressing antibodies against hemagglutinin and (b) neuraminidase binding agents are disclosed.
US10338067B1	Rapid analysis for cyanobacterial toxins Method and compositions using transition metal salts and/or ammonium chloride to liberate toxins and other molecules from cyanobacteria, useful for assaying for total cyanobacterial toxins in lakes, reservoirs and other waters.
US10338063B2	Centrifuge and method for centrifuging a reaction vessel unit A centrifuge for cleaning a reaction vessel unit, having a rotor for holding at least one reaction vessel unit with its opening(s) directed outwardly, a motor for rotating the rotor around a rotation axis, a housing having a substantially cylindrical inner surface, wherein a drain is provided for discharging fluid expelled from the reaction vessel unit, wherein a gap is provided between the inner surface and the rotor so that by rotating the rotor a wind is generated which drives the expelled fluid on the inner surface to the drain wherein an aspiration pump is connected to the drain for discharging fluid.
US10338061B2	Method for diagnosis of diseases using morphological characteristics of luterial The present invention relates to a method for diagnosis of diseases using morphological characteristics of luterial which exists in blood. According to the present invention, morphological characteristics of luterial, such as the number, size or shape, and movement (nano-tracking speed) thereof change according to the kind and progress of a disease, and thus diagnosis and prognosis of a disease (particularly, cancer) can be effectively determined by observing and measuring the characteristics of luterial in the blood.
US10338056B2	Apparatus for supporting an array of layers of amphiphilic molecules and method of forming an array of layers of amphiphilic molecules An apparatus for supporting an array of layers of amphiphilic molecules, the apparatus comprising: a body (11), formed in a surface of the body, an array of sensor wells (10) capable of supporting a layer of amphiphilic molecules (30) across the sensor wells, the sensor wells each containing an electrode (12) for connection to an electrical circuit, and formed in the surface of the body between the sensor wells, flow control wells capable of smoothing the flow of a fluid across the surface.
US10338054B2	Method for evaluating monomers having effect on copolymer characteristics, and system using same This invention relates to a method of evaluating monomers having an effect on copolymer characteristics and a system using the same, and particularly to a novel method of evaluating the magnitude of the effect of monomers on copolymer characteristics, which cannot be evaluated using existing methods. The method of evaluating monomers having an effect on copolymer characteristics and the system using the same are innovative because the extent of changes in copolymer characteristics can be predicted at the monomer level by quantitatively evaluating the effect of the monomers on the copolymer characteristics, taking into consideration the kind or linkage type of monomers.
US10338038B2	Establishing fluidic connections between chromatography components A clamp assembly includes a rail configured to receive a first fluidic assembly, and a carriage slidably mounted to the rail and configured to receive a second fluidic assembly. The carriage is operable to establish a first fluid tight seal between the first fluidic assembly and a chromatography column received within the clamp assembly, and to establish a second fluid tight seal between the second fluidic assembly and the chromatography column.
US10338037B2	Compounds and conjugates for identifying and separating post-translationally modified analytes Disclosed herein are embodiments of compounds, conjugates, and devices, such as columns comprising such compounds and/or conjugates, that can be used to identify, separate, and quantify post-translationally modified analytes. The disclosed compounds and conjugates can be used to discriminate between analytes, such as peptides, having different post-translation modifications, such as methylations, phosphorylations, acetylations, citrullinations, hydroxylations, nitrosylations, ADP-ribosylations, glycosylations, propionylations, butyrylations, crotonylations, 2-hydroxyisobutyrylations, malonylations, succinylations, formylations, ubiquitinations, neddylations, proline cis-trans isomerizations. In particular disclosed embodiments, the compounds and conjugates can be used to separate peptides having different degrees of methylation.
US10338034B2	Transducer device comprising an insulating film between a through wiring line and a semiconductor substrate A method for creating an electronic device including a semiconductor substrate, an element unit, a through wiring line, and a wiring portion includes forming interstitial via holes in a first surface of the substrate, forming a first insulating film on the inner walls of the via holes, forming openings that reach the first insulating film on the bottoms of the via holes from a second surface of the substrate, forming a second insulating film on the bottoms of the openings, forming a through wiring line in the via holes, forming an element unit that electrically connects the through wiring line, reducing the thickness of the substrate from the second surface so that the second surface becomes flush with the second insulating film on the bottoms of the openings, and forming a wiring portion, on the second insulating film, that electrically connects to the through wiring line.
US10338029B2	Systems and methods for improved physiological monitoring A system and method for monitoring a subject are presented. The system includes a sensing device including at least one magnetic source to generate a magnetic field and an array of magnetic sensors disposed within the magnetic field. The sensor array obtains a plurality of magnetic field measurements at a plurality of locations along a vessel carrying a fluid including one or more magnetic particles. Further, the system includes a processing subsystem communicatively coupled to the sensing device, where the processing subsystem determines variations in the measurements caused by magnetization-relaxation of the magnetic particles based on a coupled model that defines behavior of the fluid in the varying magnetic field based on principles of magnetization-relaxation, bulk motion of the magnetic particles towards a determined gradient of the magnetic field, magnetostatics, and conservation of momentum. The processing subsystem estimates values of one or more desired parameters based on the determined variations.
US10338026B2	Method and device for monitoring the capability of an exhaust-gas analyzer probe to measure rich gas A method for monitoring a capability of an exhaust-gas analyzer probe in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine operated with lean combustion to measure rich gas. Exhaust gas is diffused in the exhaust-gas analyzer probe from the exhaust passage via a diffusion barrier into a measuring cavity of the exhaust-gas analyzer probe, and with the aid of a pump cell having an inner pump electrode and a second pump electrode, by applying a pump voltage between the electrodes, oxygen is pumped into or out of the measuring cavity according to a flowing pump current. During a lean operation mode of the internal combustion engine, the pumping direction of the pump cell is reversed during a diagnostic phase and oxygen is pumped into the measuring cavity, and the capability of the exhaust-gas analyzer probe to measure rich gas is inferred from the pump current and/or the pump voltage.
US10338023B2	Temperature and humidity sensor A temperature and humidity sensor includes a substrate, a first electrode provided on the substrate, a linear second electrode at least part of which is so provided as to extend along the first electrode, and a moisture sensitive film provided between the part of the second electrode extending along the first electrode and the first electrode. The second electrode has a section that is formed in a spiral shape when viewed from above so as to form an inductor. With this, a precise oscillation circuit can be configured so that a temperature-humidity sensor small in size and capable of being easily manufactured can be provided.
US10338016B1	Verification of material composition in precious metal object A system, method, and computer program product for verifying a purported composition of material in a solid metal object based on heat transfer characteristics. Embodiments include determining, using a group of temperature sensors included in a heat sink, a heat transfer profile for the heat sink when connected to the solid metal object. One or more embodiments include comparing the heat transfer profile for the solid metal object to a baseline heat transfer profile determined based on dimensions of the solid metal object and the purported composition. One or more embodiments include determining, based on the comparing, a difference between the heat transfer profile and the baseline heat transfer profile. And one or more embodiments include indicating that the purported composition is verified in response to determining that the difference between the heat transfer profile and the baseline heat transfer profile is within a threshold.
US10338013B1	Position feedback for multi-beam particle detector A multi-beam metrology system includes an illumination source configured to generate a beam array, an illumination sub-system to direct the beam array to a sample at an array of measurement locations, an imaging sub-system to image the array of measurement locations as an array of imaged spots in a detection plane, and a detection assembly to generate detection signal channels associated with each of the imaged spots. The detection assembly includes an array of detection elements configured to receive the imaged spots with separate detection elements, and one or more position detectors to measure positions of the imaged spots in the detection plane. The detection assembly further generates feedback signals for the imaging sub-system based on the measured positions of the imaged spots to adjust the positions of one or more of the imaged spots in the detection plane to maintain alignment of the array of detection elements.
US10338011B2	Multi-modality detection system and method The present disclosure relates to multi-modality detection systems and methods. One illustrative multi-modality detection system may include a distributed radiation source configured to irradiate an object under detection, a primary collimator configured to separate rays of the distributed radiation source into two parts, wherein one part is for CT detection and the other part is for XRD detection, a CT detection device configured to perform a CT detection to acquire a CT image of the object under detection, and an XRD detection device configured to perform an XRD detection to acquire an XRD image of the object under detection, wherein the CT detection and the XRD detection are performed simultaneously.
US10338008B2	Conductive film, display device having the same, and method of evaluating conductive film In a conductive film, a method of evaluating a pattern in the conductive film, and a display device, thin metal lines of at least one wiring portion of two wiring portions is formed in a wiring pattern where the opening portions, of which angles are maintained and pitches are made to be irregular with respect to rhomboid shapes of a regular rhomboid wiring pattern, have parallelogram shapes. In frequencies of the moirés that are equal to or less than a frequency threshold value and are calculated for each color from two peak frequencies and two peak intensities of 2DFFT spectra of image data of the wiring patterns of the two wiring portions and luminance image data of pixel array patterns of the respective colors at the time of lighting up for each single color, the wiring patterns of the two wiring portions are formed such that an indicator of evaluation of moirés is equal to or less than an evaluation threshold value. The indicator of evaluation is calculated from evaluation values of the moirés of the respective colors obtained by applying human visual response characteristics in accordance with an observation distance to intensities of the moirés equal to or greater than an intensity threshold value.
US10338007B2	System and method for detecting package tampering A method for detecting package tampering comprises performing first scanning of a container comprising a packaged item and a plurality of packaging elements surrounding the packaged item, wherein each of the plurality of packaging elements comprises an identification component, and the first scanning comprises using the identification component of each of the plurality of packaging elements to detect each of the plurality of packaging elements. The method further comprises determining an orientation of each of the plurality of packaging elements in the container from the first scanning, performing second scanning of the container, determining an orientation of each of the plurality of packaging elements in the container from the second scanning, and comparing the orientation of each of the plurality of packaging elements in the container from the first scanning with the orientation of each of the plurality of packaging elements in the container from the second scanning.
US10338001B2	Porous detection system, apparatus and method A system, apparatus and method for detecting a porous object are provided. The system includes a light emitting module, a detecting module and an analyzing module. The light emitting module emits light onto an object to be measured such that the light passes through a plurality of holes of the object. The detecting module has a porous plate having a plurality of non-circular holes and a plurality of photosensitive units respectively corresponding to the non-circular holes. Each of the non-circular holes corresponds to at most one of the holes at one time point. The light passes through the plurality of non-circular holes corresponding to the plurality of holes. The photosensitive units respectively sense luminous flux of the light passing through the plurality of non-circular holes to produce a luminous flux signal. The analyzing module analyzes a status of the plurality of holes corresponding to the plurality of non-circular holes.
US10337999B2	Replaceable detection module We describe a detection module useful with an apparatus and/or system for conducting luminescence assays, and a kit, a system, an apparatus, and a method incorporating the detection module.
US10337996B2	Lidar instrument and method of operation The present invention relates to a Lidar surveying instrument, which is capable of detecting and discriminating laser-induced particle fluorescence of any biological or non-biological atmospheric particles. The present astrobiology sensing instrument can remotely sense and discriminate, in real-time, the bio-indicator aerosol material signatures and environmental interferents that exist in an extraterrestrial environment, such as Mars, in order to expand the search for signatures of extraterrestrial life from the planetary soil to the planetary ground level atmosphere, by performing atmospheric volume scans of hundreds of meters in a radial direction around a planetary vehicle or a spacecraft. The Lidar instrument technology of the present invention employs real-time aerosol particle detection and discrimination based on two physical variables: particle fluorescence and particle size in the bio-discrimination space.
US10337995B2	Systems and methods for oblique laser scanning A method for constructing a three-dimensional image of a sample includes producing electromagnetic radiation and directing the produced electromagnetic radiation such that it is incident on the sample at an oblique angle. The incident electromagnetic radiation is scanned in discrete increments to a plurality of discrete locations along a first direction, and at each discrete location, scanned along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The sample reflects a first portion of the incident electromagnetic radiation and absorbs a second portion of the incident electromagnetic radiation, and emits electromagnetic radiation responsive to the absorption. A plurality of cross-sectional images is produced from the reflected electromagnetic radiation and the emitted electromagnetic radiation, and each cross-sectional image is modified to compensate for the oblique angle. The modified cross-sectional images are then combined to create a three-dimensional image of the sample.
US10337994B2	Sample liquid measuring device and measuring method According to one embodiment, a measuring device for a sample liquid includes a container which stores the sample liquid, the container including a transparent or translucent optical component with an inclined surface to be brought into contact with the sample liquid, an optical sensor provided on a bottom of the container, which detects light from the sample liquid, and a measurement module which measures a concentration of a specific substance contained in the sample liquid, or a liquid height or liquid volume of the sample liquid based on a detected signal of the optical sensor.
US10337993B2	Methods and apparatus for fluorescence lifetime imaging with periodically modulated light A light source may illuminate a scene with amplitude-modulated light. The scene may include fluorescent material. The amplitude modulation may be periodic, and the frequency of the amplitude modulation may be swept. During the sweep, a time-of-flight sensor may take measurements of light returning from the scene. A computer may calculate, for each pixel in the sensor, a vector of complex numbers. Each complex number in the vector may encode phase and amplitude of light incident at the pixel and may correspond to measurements taken at a given frequency in the sweep. A computer may, based on phase of the complex numbers for a pixel, calculate fluorescence lifetime and scene depth of a scene point that corresponds to the pixel.
US10337992B2	Optical assurance cap A fluid connector assembly, including a fluid connector including a first through-bore, an optical assurance cap arranged on said fluid connector, said optical assurance cap including a second through-bore, a tubular connector arranged in said first through-bore and secured to said fluid connector, and a tester tool, including a channel, a light source, and a light sensor, said light source and said light sensor axially displaced from one another, wherein said optical assurance cap is arranged in said channel of said tester tool.
US10337988B2	Device for measuring moisture in a gas Modulation amplitude used for frequency modulation of laser light is set to a1 (
US10337985B2	Measurement method and measurement system Provided is a measurement system for performing qualitative measurement and quantitative measurement of a measurement item of a biological sample, the measurement system including a quantitative sample adjustment criterion storage section that stores a quantitative sample adjustment criterion corresponding to a qualitative measurement result in the qualitative measurement, a determination section that determines a proper quantitative sample adjustment condition by referring to the quantitative sample adjustment criterion to determine necessity to change the quantitative sample adjustment condition based on the qualitative measurement result, and an adjustment section that adjusts the biological sample based on the quantitative sample adjustment condition determined by the determination section.
US10337982B2	Binding assay signal analysis Methods for determining a sample concentration of target entities in a sample, for example, determining a concentration of target antigens or antibodies in a blood sample or other biological sample.
US10337981B2	Low volume multipass cell A multipass cell, includes a body; a cavity formed within the body; a first spherical or toroidal mirror at a first end of the cavity; and a second spherical, toroidal or cylindrical mirror at the opposite end of the cavity. The first mirror and the second mirror are configured to reflect a beam entering the cavity next to an outer edge of the first or the second mirror a predetermined number of times so that the beam propagates substantially in a single plane between the first and the second mirror. Also an optical detection system includes the multipass cell; an optical source configured to direct a beam into the cavity; and a detector element configured to receive the beam exiting the cavity or configured to receive the acoustic signal generated by light absorption in the cavity.
US10337980B2	Analyte system and method for determining hemoglobin parameters in whole blood A replaceable cuvette assembly for use in an optical absorbance measurement system for measuring whole-blood hemoglobin parameters or whole-blood bilirubin parameters. The replaceable cuvette assembly includes a cuvette substrate and a cuvette module fixedly connected to the cuvette substrate wherein the cuvette substrate is a support for securing the cuvette assembly within the optical absorbance measurement system. The cuvette module has a sample inlet port, a sample outlet port, an electronic chip assembly, a sample receiving chamber that fluidly communicates with the sample inlet port and the sample outlet port, a first cuvette window, and a second cuvette window forming a portion of the sample receiving chamber. The first cuvette window and the second cuvette window are aligned with each other defining a cuvette optical path length between the first cuvette window and the second cuvette window and disposed within an optical path of the optical absorbance measurement system.
US10337977B1	Systems and methods for glass particle detection A particle detection system includes a light source configured to emit a light beam into a cylindrical glass article when the cylindrical glass article is imaged by the glass particle detection system. The light beam is directed along a beam propagation axis that is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical glass article. The particle detection system further includes a first polarizer positioned between the light source and the cylindrical glass, a camera configured to capture an image of the light beam reflected from the cylindrical glass article, and an analyzer positioned between the cylindrical glass article and the camera. An optical axis of the camera is perpendicular to the beam propagation axis of the light source.
US10337976B2	Microanalysis chip According to one embodiment, a microanalysis chip includes a substrate, a flow channel in which a sample liquid is allowed to flow, the flow channel being provided on a main surface side of the substrate, a reservoir in which the sample liquid is allowed to be stored, the reservoir being provided on a main surface of the substrate, including a bank having a go-around shape and further including a liquid introduction inlet for connection to an end of the flow channel, the liquid introduction inlet being provided on the main surface of the substrate in the bank, and a filter which is provided between the liquid introduction inlet and the end of the flow channel and includes a first micropore for allowing passage of a fine particle in the sample liquid.
US10337975B2	Method and system for characterizing particles using a flow cytometer The invention relates to a method and system for characterizing particles using a flow cytometer comprising generating a waveform, as a digital representation of detected radiated light, and transforming said waveform using one or more basis functions and obtaining one or more coefficients characterizing the waveform. The one or more coefficients characterizing the waveform preferably correspond to particular properties of the particle(s), thereby enabling analysis of physical properties of the particles (such as size or shape) or biological properties of the particles, such as cell type, localization and/or distribution of molecules within the cell and/or on the cell surface, structural elements of the cell such as the nucleus or the cytoskeleton, antibody or antibody-fragment binding to the cell or cell morphology. Preferred embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems in which the waveform is transformed by a wavelet transformation or Fourier transformation.
US10337969B2	High speed vacuum cycling excitation system for optical inspection systems A vacuum system and method for inspecting a workpiece that can include use of the vacuum system, where the vacuum system can include a housing defining at least a portion of a vacuum chamber, a piston within the housing that oscillates to vary a volume of the vacuum chamber, a first valve and a second valve in fluid communication with the vacuum chamber, and a hood in fluid communication with the second valve and the vacuum chamber. The vacuum system can include high-speed valves that enable vacuum system cycling and thus vacuum pressure cycling at a rapid frequency.
US10337967B2	Magnetic base for collection and release of paramagnetic particles A magnetic base for a sample plate of a sample processing system is provided comprising a first plate comprising a first top surface; a bottom surface; and a sample plate mounting cavity wall mounted to the first top surface, wherein the first plate and the sample plate mounting cavity wall define a sample plate mounting cavity configured to accommodate a sample plate of a sample processing system. The magnetic base further comprises a second plate extending parallel to the first plate, the second plate comprising a second top surface; and a magnet mounting cavity wall extending between the bottom surface of the first plate and the second top surface of the second plate, wherein the first plate, the second plate, and the magnet mounting cavity wall define a magnet mounting cavity configured to accommodate a free floating magnet.
US10337966B2	Data logging apparatus A data logging apparatus stores communications data transmitted/received between a first apparatus and a second apparatus as log data, determines whether an event occurs based on the communications data, and stores log data within predetermined time periods before and after the time point at which the event has occurred, i.e., between a log start time and a log end time as event data. The data logging apparatus can efficiently store data that is used for analyzing the cause of the event occurring in the first apparatus.
US10337962B2	Visible audiovisual annotation of infrared images using a separate wireless mobile device A smart phone user captures video and still images of a motor and makes a sound recording of his observations. The images and recordings are tagged with a date/time stamp, a serial number, bar code, matrix code, RFID code, or geolocation and sent wirelessly to an infrared camera. The infrared camera has a collocation application that reads the tag and creates a folder which holds the infrared image and the auxiliary information from the smartphone related to an asset. The collocation program also adds icons to the infrared image. By operating the user interface (not shown) of the infrared camera, the user may select an icon to view the images and listen to the sound recording.
US10337947B2	Method for detecting a leak in a fuel delivery system A leak detection system is provided for detecting a leak in a fuel line. A controller determines the presence of a leak in the fuel line based on an analysis of data obtained from individual leak tests performed on the fuel line, the individual leak tests may span one or more fuel delivery events.
US10337943B2	Centrifuge and method for sensing imbalances in the centrifuge A centrifuge (10), comprising a rotor (12), a drive shaft (14), on which the rotor (12) is supported, a motor (18), which drives the rotor (12) via the drive shaft (14), a supporting unit (30) having damping elements (36), each of which comprises a spring axis (36a), which supporting unit supports a rotational unit (19), which comprises the motor (18) together with the drive shaft (14) and the rotor (12), a sensor unit (82, 84) for sensing the rotational speed, a distance sensor (80) for determining imbalances of the rotational unit (19), which rotational unit rotates about an axis of rotation (14a), an acceleration sensor (88) for determining imbalances of the rotational unit (19), and a control and evaluation unit (90), which evaluates the data of the sensors (80, 82, 88), wherein the distance sensor (80) senses distance changes in an operative axis (36b). The invention is characterized in that the operative axis (36b) is oriented in relation to the axis of rotation (14a) in such a way that an angle between the operative axis (36b) and the axis of rotation (14a) of less than 90° including 0° results, at least in a projection onto a plane parallel to the operative axis (36b) and through the axis of rotation (14a).
US10337941B2	Pressure sensor A pressure sensor includes a sensor assembly and an evaluation unit. The sensor assembly includes a sensor and an electrode arrangement. The sensor generates signals under the action of a pressure profile, and the electrode arrangement transmits the signals to the evaluation unit. The evaluation unit includes an electric circuit board that is connected to the electrode arrangement by material bonding.
US10337938B2	Dual output pressure sensor with single pressure transducer element A dual range sensor apparatus includes a single pressure transducer element coupled to respective inputs of two discrete signal conditioning modules, or to both inputs of a multiple input signal conditioning module that is configured to condition the output signal of two transducer elements. The disclosed sensor apparatus outputs a pressure signal in a limited pressure range with very high accuracy, and also provides a pressure signal in a wider pressure range with the same accuracy that can be achieved with traditional pressure sensor configurations. The sensor apparatus may provide output on a single output node in a multiplexed output signal format. The multiplexed output signal format may include several digital output formats and may be provided on a single output pin of the sensor apparatus.
US10337935B2	Systems and methods for integrated, multi-functional, fault tolerant sensing and communication A fiber-optic sensor system includes a structure having a fiber-optic cable operatively connected thereto. The system includes a network controller with an interrogator operatively connected to the fiber-optic cable to receive optical energy indicative of a characteristic of the structure therefrom and convert optical energy to electrical energy and electrical energy to optical energy for data communication. A sensor and/or a data source are operatively connected to the fiber-optic cable through the network controller to transmit data through the fiber-optic cable and receive data therefrom.
US10337934B2	Non-contact magnetostrictive sensor alignment Systems, methods, and devices for positioning, orienting, and/or aligning a stress sensor assembly are provided. In some embodiments, a sensor assembly can be received within a retaining element of a sensor mounting assembly. The sensor mounting assembly can include the retaining element, an adjustment mechanism, a first member, a second member, and a third member. The adjustment mechanism can allow the sensor assembly to be displaced linearly in a proximal and/or distal direction. The first and second members can be pivotally coupled to enable the sensor assembly to be rotated about a first axis, and the second and third members can be pivotally coupled to allow the sensor assembly to be rotated about a second axis.
US10337933B2	Stirring paddle for isothermal titration calorimetry A stirring paddle for isothermal titration calorimetry includes a blade secured to one end of a shaft. The blade has an edge and a pair of opposing surfaces. A lip extends from the edge and forms a non-zero angle with respect to the opposing surfaces. In some embodiments, the blade has a twisted rectangular shape defined by a pair of first opposing edges and a pair of second opposing edges. One of the first opposing edges is oriented at a rotation angle with respect to the shaft axis that is different than an orientation of the other first opposing edge with respect to the shaft axis. Advantageously, the stirring paddle achieves improved turbulent mixing of injections into liquid within a sample cell, resulting in shorter measurement times. The improved mixing efficiency allows the stirring paddle to be operated at a lower rotation rate.
US10337932B2	Adaptive method for calibrating multiple temperature sensors on a single semiconductor die A system is disclosed, including an interface to a DUT and a testing apparatus. The DUT includes a first plurality of temperature sensing circuits. The testing apparatus may store a plurality of control values. Each control value may depend on at least two calibration values of corresponding temperature sensing circuits of a second plurality of temperature sensing circuits. The testing apparatus may generate a plurality of calibration values for the DUT. Each calibration value corresponds to one of the first plurality of temperature sensing circuits. The testing apparatus may determine a plurality of test values for the DUT. The testing apparatus may calculate a probability value, and repeat generation of the plurality of calibration values upon determining that the probability value is less than a predetermined threshold value. The probability value corresponds to a likelihood that the plurality of calibration values is accurate.
US10337926B2	Low-drift infrared detector A semiconductor device for measuring IR radiation comprising: at least one sensor pixel; at least one reference pixel shielded from said IR radiation comprising a heater; a controller adapted for: measuring a responsivity by applying power to the heater, while not heating the sensor pixel; measuring a first output signal of an unheated pixel and a first reference output signal of the heated pixel, obtaining the responsivity as a function of a measure of the applied power to the heater and of the difference between the first output signal and the first reference output signal; applying a period of cooling down until the temperature of the reference pixel and the sensor pixel are substantially the same; generating the output signal indicative of the IR radiation, based on the difference between the sensor and the reference output signal, by converting this difference using the responsivity.
US10337925B2	Method for estimating land surface temperature lapse rate using infrared image A method of estimating land surface temperature lapse rate using an infrared image is disclosed. In the method of estimating land surface temperature lapse rate using an infrared image, a target area for the estimation of land surface temperature lapse rate is selected. The atmospheric transmittance of the target area is calculated. Reference temperature is estimated at a reference location set in the target area as desired. A temperature difference is calculated from the atmospheric transmittance and the estimated reference temperature, and then a temperature difference image is generated. Land surface temperature lapse rate is estimated from the temperature difference image and a Digital Elevation Map (DEM) in an identical area using an elevation-based temperature difference distribution.
US10337923B2	Directional interpolation and cross-band filtering for hyperspectral imaging Systems and methods are disclosed for processing spectral imaging (SI) data. A training operation estimates reconstruction matrices based on a spectral mosaic of an SI sensor, generates directionally interpolated maximum a-priori (MAP) estimations of image data based on the estimated reconstruction matrices. The training operation may determine filter coefficients for each of a number of cross-band interpolation filters based at least in part on the MAP estimations, and may determine edge classification factors based at least in part on the determined filter coefficients. The training operation may configure a cross-band interpolation circuit based at least in part on the determined filter coefficients and the determined edge classification factors. The configured cross-band interpolation circuit captures mosaic data using the SI sensor, and recovers full-resolution spectral data from the captured mosaic data.
US10337922B2	Colorimeter Colorimeter includes an illumination light reception unit, an attached part, a detection unit, a recognition unit, a color measurement control unit, and an output unit. To the attached part, a mask member is attached to cover the illumination light reception unit. The detection unit detects parts disposed on the mask member. The recognition unit recognizes information on the kind of the mask member in accordance with a detection result by the detection unit. The color measurement control unit causes the recognition unit to recognize information on the kind of mask member in accordance with the detection result at a first timing, and on the kind of mask member in accordance with the detection result at a second timing. The output unit performs a predetermined output in response to a discordance between the information on the kind of mask member at the first timing and at the second timing.
US10337921B2	Direct-stimulus-valve-reading-type colorimetric photometer In a direct stimulus value reading type colorimetric photometer, first, second, and third colorimetric optical systems have spectral responsivities approximate to first, second, and third parts of the color matching function, respectively. A deriving unit derives a colorimetric value corresponding to a case in which the color matching function is selected as an evaluation function for colorimetry and a photometric value corresponding to a case in which the spectral luminous efficiency is selected as an evaluation function for photometry (i.e. “CASE”) from three signals. The spectral luminous efficiency is not consistent with any one of the first, second, and third parts. A fourth colorimetric optical system may have spectral responsivity approximate to the spectral luminous efficiency, and the deriving unit may derive the colorimetric value corresponding to the CASE from a fourth signal.
US10337916B1	Method to obtain full range intrinsic spectral signatures for spectroscopy and spectral imaging A method is provided to obtain a full range intrinsic spectral signature for spectroscopy and spectral imaging. The method eliminates the irrelevant spectral components and is used to normalize the spectral intensities across the full wavelength ranges obtained from different instrumentation. The method determines the intrinsic instrument noise levels and the noise level across the spectral range is averaged for each spectrum. By determining the percent of the integrated instrument noise relative to the integrated illumination energy for each instrument, the instrument noise can be normalized to one common value and the intensity values of the intrinsic sample spectra can be normalized proportionately and combined into a continuous intrinsic spectrum across the wavelength ranges of the contributing instruments. The methodology is also implemented in spectral imaging and spectral data cubes.
US10337914B2	Sensor for motion information, illumination information and proximity information, and operating method of central processing unit (CPU) using the sensor A sensor configured for sensing motion information, illumination information, and proximity information is provided. The sensor includes a light sensing module configured to sense a change in an intensity of light, a filtering module configured to filter light incident to the light sensing module by using a plurality of filters, and a processor configured to process information associated with an intensity of light passing through the filters.
US10337907B2	Positionable material vessel with load cell A material containment and delivery system includes a base assembly and a vessel comprising a housing configured to contain a material. In embodiments, the base is a free standing assembly, is anchored to the ground or a structure, is configured to be coupled to a vehicle, and/or the like. The vessel may be rotatably coupled to the base assembly near the second end, and may include a positioning assembly configured to move the vessel from a first position to a second position. The system may further include a load cell assembly, coupled to the positioning assembly and configured to determine a weight of material within the vessel.
US10337906B2	System and method for determining a load capability In a particular implementation, a method includes generating an initial weight estimate associated with an aircraft based on a reference operational empty weight (OEW) and at least one of a latitude or an altitude of the aircraft at a first location. The reference OEW is predetermined at a second location that is distinct from the first location. The method includes determining an additional load capability of the aircraft based on a difference between the initial weight estimate and the reference OEW. The method further includes generating an output that indicates the additional load capability.
US10337905B2	Calibration device and calibration method To provide a calibration device for apparatus filling a gas such as hydrogen gas and capable of precisely measuring quantity of the gas that is filled at high pressure. A calibration device of the present invention includes: a filling vessel 2, accommodated in a measurement housing 1, to the filling vessel 2 a high pressure fuel gas such as hydrogen gas being fed from outside of the measurement housing 1; a scale 3 for measuring a weight of a fuel gas fed to the filling vessel 2; and a control device CU for eliminating an error caused by changing buoyant force from a gas in the measurement housing before and after filling the fuel gas.
US10337903B2	Measurement device control system for determining a topology of a surface of a bulk material For determining the topology of a bulk material surface, a series of echo curves are detected in different primary radiation directions of the antenna. In the process, the primary radiation direction of the antenna is changed in such a way that all of the generated echo curves of the series of echo curves can be used for determining the topology of the bulk material surface. As a result, the measurement time can be reduced.
US10337900B2	Thermal flow meter, temperature measurement device, and thermal flow meter program A thermal flow meter is provided that can accurately correct zero point and span errors, which change depending on an ambient temperature, independently of a fluid type. The thermal flow meter includes: a flow path through which measuring target fluid flows; an upstream side electrical resistive element provided on the upstream side of the flow path; a downstream side electrical resistive element provided on the downstream side of the flow path; and a flow rate calculation part that calculates a flow rate of the measuring target fluid on the basis of an upstream side voltage that is a voltage applied to the upstream side electrical resistive element, a downstream side voltage that is a voltage applied to the downstream side electrical resistive element, and the thermal conductivity of the measuring target fluid.
US10337896B2	Ultrasonic meter An ultrasonic meter detects a flow rate of a fluid. The ultrasonic meter has a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet and a flow passage connecting the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet. The flow passage has a measuring tube, which extends in a straight line in a flow direction. An inner wall of a side wall delimiting a flow cross section of the measuring tube has at least one groove, extending in the flow direction, which enlarges the flow cross section. The side wall has an aperture and/or a step exclusively within the groove, between a normal region and a recessed region in the flow direction. A groove depth of the groove is greater in the recessed region than in the normal region.
US10337888B2	Sensor circuit, a sensor device and a method for forming a sensor circuit A sensor circuit includes a plurality of half-bridge sensor circuits. The sensor circuit includes a sensor output value determination circuit configured to determine a sensor output value. The sensor circuit further includes an error determination circuit configured to generate an error signal based on a first half-bridge sensor signal and a second half-bridge sensor signal. The sensor circuit further includes a control circuit configured to control a selection of one of the first half-bridge sensor circuit and the second half-bridge sensor circuit for providing one of the first half-bridge sensor signal and the second half-bridge sensor signal to the sensor output value determination circuit to determine the sensor output value.
US10337887B2	Magnetic sensor inhibiting influence of induced electromotive force A magnetic sensor includes: a magnetic converging plate; Hall elements disposed on one surface side of the magnetic converging plate; wires connecting with the Hall elements; and a signal processing circuit that connects with these wires to receive a signal from the Hall element. Between the Hall element and the signal processing circuit, the two wires cross while being spaced apart from each other in a depth direction of a substrate, and forms a compensation loop between a cross of the two wires and the circuit, and in a planar view as seen in a depth direction, at least part of a region occupied by the compensation loop is covered by the magnetic converging plate. The compensation loop compensates an induced electromotive force caused to the closed loop formed by the wires including the Hall element.
US10337886B2	Active proximity sensor with adaptive electric field control A proximity sensor assembly includes a proximity sensor, an insulating layer, and at least one segmented electrode. The proximity sensor is configured to generate an electric field emanating from the proximity sensor assembly. The insulating layer is in overlapping contact with at least one surface of the proximity sensor. A segmented electrode having two or more segments is in overlapping contact with the insulating layer and overlapping the proximity sensor. At least a first segment of the segmented electrode is configured to direct the electric field emanating from the proximity sensor and at least a second segment of the segmented electrode is configured to direct the electric field emanating from the proximity sensor differently than the first segment.
US10337885B2	Voltage pattern analysis system and method A voltage pattern analysis system and method may automate aspects of the process of mapping or assigning utility meters to a specific transformer or other distribution node by identifying misassociated meters and correcting a system-wide transformer assignment or distribution node assignment. When a meter's voltage signal does not correlate well with other meters' voltage signals on the same transformer, the meter is likely misassociated to that transformer. A pairwise voltage signal correlation may be computed for all meters assigned to a transformer and a voltage signal correlation for every transformer in the system, or a subset thereof, may be imputed. Individual meter correlations may then be compared with the transformer correlation. For meters identified as misassociation candidates, transformers or other distribution nodes within a specified radius may be considered for reassignment of the meter.
US10337882B2	Optical projection system and devices thereof The structure of the present invention majorly includes: an outer shell body; at least one connection portion; and an optical projection system set inside the outer shell body. The optical projection system includes: an imaging unit; a reflector; a reflective curved mirror; and at least one optical lens; wherein the imaging unit projects the predefined image and incidents on the reflective curved mirror after being reflected by the reflector to adjust the imaging path and correct the aberration. And, the optical lens will magnify the predefined image in the imaging path to make the predefined image reflected to the user's eyes through the windshield to form the virtual image of the predefined image refracted outside the windshield. The present invention can realize the triangle imaging principle in a smaller space, enlarge the imaging range, reduce the aberration problem, and simply set outside the dashboard through the outer shell body.
US10337877B1	Communication with mobile devices utilizing light emitting diodes A communication system and method for the utilization of LED communication networks to facilitate user interaction. The controller can transmit a unique identification code to each of the LEDs. The client computing device can receive the unique identification code and send the received identification code to the controller. The controller can identify the location of the client computing device based on the received identification code.
US10337874B2	Route selection based on automatic-manual driving preference ratio A navigation system is described for a vehicle equipped with an autonomous driving system. The navigation system includes a human-machine interface with a display and a user control, and an electronic controller. The controller is configured to calculate a plurality of travel routes from a determined starting point to a defined destination point. The controller determines which portions of each travel route will utilized automated driving operation and which portions will utilized manual driving operation. Based on an input received from the user control, the controller defines an automatic-manual driving preference ratio indicating a driver preference for an amount of manual driving operation relative to an amount of automatic driving operation. The controller automatically selects a route from the plurality of travel routes that most closely matches the defined automatic-manual driving preference ratio and outputs the selected route on the display.
US10337873B2	Navigation apparatus, vehicle including the navigation apparatus, and method of controlling the vehicle A navigation apparatus includes a receiver for receiving weather information for one or more areas, a map data storage in which map data is stored, and a controller for generating one or more path sections using the weather information for the one or more areas and for determining a driving path for consuming a minimum amount of air conditioning power using the weather information and the map data for each path section.
US10337870B2	Evacuation system and method for evacuating trapped personnel System and method for generating a dynamic route map for a person trapped in an enclosed space and for enabling quick evacuation of the person is disclosed. When a request for evacuation is made by the person, the evacuation system locates the person based on the RFID person identifier tag and localizes the location of the person with respect to plurality of RFID floor tags and plurality of self-identifying RFID reader antenna tags. Further, condition of the floor is assessed by comparing the RSSI readings of the plurality of RFID floor tags and the RSSI readings of the plurality of self-identifying RFID reader antenna tags and the environmental information with pre-defined baseline RSSI readings of the plurality of RFID floor tags, RSSI readings of the plurality of self-identifying RFID reader antenna tags and an environmental threshold. A dynamic floor map is generated by collecting the RSSI readings from the plurality of RFID floor tags, self-identifying RFID reader antenna tags. Subsequently, the condition of the rest of the floors is assessed by analyzing the environmental information from plurality of environmental sensors and assessing the working condition of RFID tags deployed at each floor. Finally, generating a dynamic route map such that emergency rescue operators can reach out to the trapped person in least amount of time.
US10337868B2	Method and apparatus for recognizing motion feature of user, using orthogonal semisupervised non-negative matrix factorization (OSSNMF)-based feature data An apparatus for recognizing a user's motions based on sensor information and label information, a method for establishing an ONMF-based basis matrix, and a method for establishing an OSSNMF-based basis matrix are provided, where the basis matrices are used to extract motion features of the user. The apparatus for recognizing the user's motions may include a feature vector extractor configured to multiply a transposed matrix of an orthogonalized basis matrix by a sensor data matrix of frequency domain sensor data acquired from sensors to extract an ONMF-based feature vector and a multi-class classifier configured to use the extracted ONMF-based feature vector to classify the user's motion into a type from among types of a user's motions.
US10337867B1	Symmetrical wavelength multiplexor for fiber optic gyro source An apparatus includes a symmetrical wavelength multiplexor (SWM) that includes a first port that receives a depolarized beam of light of a first center wavelength for a first wavelength range. A second port of the SWM receives a second center wavelength of light for a second wavelength range that is greater than the first wavelength range. A third port of the SWM provides a substantially symmetrical wavelength output to drive a fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) in accordance with the second center wavelength. The depolarized beam of light of the first center wavelength travels from the first port to the second port of the SWM and light of the second center wavelength travels from the second port to the third port of the SWM. The SWM mitigates spectral asymmetries between orthogonal axes of the second wavelength.
US10337865B2	Geodetic surveying system A surveying system can have a position determination unit for determining a target position in a defined coordinate system and have a mobile measurement unit for definition and/or position determination of measurement points in the coordinate system. The surveying system may include a control unit for allowing a user to control a surveying task of the surveying system in a surveying environment in order to acquire surveying task data that comprises spatial coordinates of at least one measurement point, the surveying system being adapted to capture and/or receive environment data of the surveying environment, the control unit comprising a processor unit, a data storage unit and an electronic graphical display for displaying a visualization of the surveying task data to the user, wherein the control unit is adapted to provide a virtual walkthrough functionality in a three-dimensional representation of the surveying environment.
US10337862B2	Digital mapping system based on continuous scanning line of sight Apparatus for capturing images while in motion, including at least one CCD camera housed within an aircraft traveling along a flight path, for capturing aerial images of ground terrain, a motor for rotating an axis on which the at least one CCD camera is mounted, and for generating a sweeping back-and-forth motion for a field of view of the at least one CCD camera, the sweeping motion being transverse to the aircraft flight path, and an optical assembly connected to said at least one CCD camera.
US10337858B2	Device for detecting a surface of bulk materials Described is a device for detecting a surface of bulk materials, the device including: a transmitter unit having a radiation direction for transmitting a measuring signal, a receiver unit for receiving a measuring signal reflected on the surface of the bulk material, a control and evaluation unit for controlling the alignment of the radiation direction and for evaluating the received measuring signal, and an alignment arrangement for aligning the transmitter unit. The alignment arrangement includes at least one connecting element for connection to the transmitter unit, at least one bearing element, and at least one positioning member. The connecting element is pivotably connected to the bearing element via the positioning member. The alignment of the transmitter unit can be changed by the positioning member. The positioning member includes a shape memory element that actively changes its shape under variations of an influencing parameter.
US10337855B2	Method of imaging an object for tracking and documentation in transportation and storage In a method of operating a dimensioning system with a plurality of laser scanners, a processor controls the operations of the scanners and processes the scanner signals, and further with memory for storing data delivered by the processor, the data acquired by the dimensioning system in its regular mode of operation are used to construct a three-dimensional model of surface points of the object including spatial coordinates and image intensity for each surface point. The three-dimensional model is stored in the memory. Based on the three-dimensional model, two-dimensional images from any desired viewing angle that was exposed to the scanner rays can be produced on demand to document the appearance of the object at the time the scan was taken.
US10337854B2	Measuring system for measurement on tools in a machine tool A contactlessly or tactilely measuring measuring system having a multipurpose interface socket for accommodating and for connecting a contactlessly or tactilely measuring measuring device having a light transmitter and a light receiver, for determining the position of a tool or for determining the longest cutting edge of a rotating tool in a machine tool. The multipurpose interface socket has the following features: at least one mechanical stop, corresponding to a counterstop on the measuring device, for accommodating and repeatably placing the measuring device on the multipurpose interface socket; at least one second signal transfer point on the multipurpose interface socket, which corresponds to a first signal transfer point on the measuring device; and at least one second fluid transfer point on the multipurpose interface socket, which corresponds to a first fluid transfer point on the measuring device.
US10337852B1	Method for measuring positions of structures on a substrate and computer program product for determining positions of structures on a substrate A method with increased throughput for measuring positions of structures on a substrate is disclosed. The substrate is taken from a load port of a metrology machine and is placed immediately in a stage of the metrology machine. At least two measurement loops are carried out, wherein a first measurement loop is started at a time when a substrate temperature is different from the temperature at the stage, and at least one second measurement loop is started at a time after the first measurement loop when the substrate temperature is different from the temperature at the stage. A model is used to calculate from the measured data, taken while there is a temperature mismatch between the stage and the substrate, a real grid of positions of structures on the substrate, corresponding to a situation where the temperature of the stage matches the temperature of the substrate.
US10337849B2	Capacitive sensor A capacitive sensor includes a sensor sheet having a central electrode layer and a measuring instrument. A first dielectric layer is laminated on the upper surface of the central electrode layer. A second dielectric layer is laminated on the lower surface of the central electrode layer. A first outer electrode layer is formed on the surface of the first dielectric layer. A second outer electrode layer is formed on the surface of the second dielectric layer. The central electrode layer and the first outer electrode layer face each other at a first detection portion. The central electrode layer and the second outer electrode layer face each other at a second detection portion. Capacitances of the detection portions change with deformation. The state of deformation of the sensor sheet is measured on the basis of the total capacitance by adding the capacitances of the first detection portion and the second detection portion.
US10337846B2	Depriming device and method to deprime firearm cases A depriming device and a relative method for the removal of the primer from the head of cases of cartridges for firearms are described. The device includes a depriming mechanism, a device for positioning and restraining at least one case on a surface plate, at the depriming mechanism, and a movement device to shift the depriming mechanism from a raised position, in which the latter is moved away from the case to be deprimed, to a lowered position, in which it comes into contact with the primer of the case and push it thereby causing its detachment from the case itself.
US10337838B1	Camouflage for garment assembly A garment assembly such as a uniform, a military uniform and a military combat uniform is presented. The garment assembly includes a helmet or head cover being cut from a fabric having a first camouflage pattern with a first set of intermixed colored blotches thereon. The colors of the first set of intermixed colored blotches being selected from a first group of colors including an Olive 527 color, a Dark Green 528 color, a Tan 525 color, a Brown 529 color, a Bark Brown 561 color and a Dark Cream 559 color. The uniform also includes a coat being configured to fit at least a portion of a human torso and a trouser configured to fit at least a portion of human legs, the coat and trouser each being cut from a fabric having a second camouflage pattern with a second set of intermixed colored blotches thereon, the colors of the second set of intermixed colored blotches being selected from a second group of colors comprising an Olive 527 color, a Dark Green 528 color, a Light Sage 560 color, a Tan 525 color, a Brown 529 color, a Bark Brown 561 color and a Dark Cream 559 color.
US10337835B2	Method and system for using enhanced location-based information to guide munitions An ordnance munition is included in an intelligent ordnance projectile delivery system and equipped with targeting and guidance systems that allow the ordnance munition to collaborate with other devices to intelligently select targets and/or to guide the ordnance munition to its selected target. The ordnance munition may determine its approximate current location, form a communication group with a wireless transceiver that is in close proximity, and send the approximate current location to the wireless transceiver and/or other devices in the communication group. In response, the ordnance munition may receive location information from the wireless transceiver and/or other devices that are in the communication group. The ordnance munition may determine its more precise location based on the information received from the wireless transceiver, and alter its flight path based in the updated and more precise location.
US10337832B1	Illumination system for weapon optics An illumination system for weapon optics includes a light source and one or more channels that direct light from the light source onto adjustment interfaces of a weapon optical device, such as windage and elevation turrets of a scope. An illumination system for weapon optics may also include an illuminated level device for positioning the weapon level in relation to the surface of the earth. An illumination system for weapon optics illuminates the level device and/or adjustment interfaces of a weapon optical device such that the level device and/or markings on the adjustment interfaces can be read in low-light and no-light conditions.
US10337828B2	Balancing device for firearms A balancing device for firearms having at least one barrel and one stock, a front support and a rear support respectively mounted in a region adjacent to the muzzle and in the region of the stock of the firearm; the front support and the rear support are configured to support one or more weight members which are modular and mutually analogous.
US10337826B2	Stock for shotgun A stock for shotgun includes a grip suitable for being held by the user, a butt suitable for being placed on a shoulder of the user, a hollow body fixed to the grip, a shank fixed to the butt and suitable for being disposed inside the hollow body and fixing means used to fix the shank inside the hollow body. The shank has an external thread. The stock has a metal ring that is crewed onto the external thread of the shank and is suitable for being stopped against an ending edge of the hollow body, in such a way to adjust the distance between the butt and the grip.
US10337819B1	Reduction of first shot noise in firearm sound suppressors First round shot noise and flash caused by combustion of oxygen contained in the air residing in a firearm sound suppresser can be reduced by providing a valve that communicates with the baffled interior space of the suppressor, and connecting a source of non-flammable gas such as CO2 to the valve in order to inject the gas into the suppressor. The non-flammable gas displaces the air in the suppressor, removing the oxygen available for combustion when the first shot is fired.
US10337818B1	AK-47 trigger assembly A modification to a trigger assembly for an AK style firearm having a trigger with sear and a disconnector pivotally coupled to the trigger, includes a secondary disconnector pivotally coupled to the trigger rearward of the disconnector and movable between a limiting position toward the disconnector and a non-limiting position away from the disconnector. A selector bar is movable between a front position, engaging the trigger to prevent rotation thereof, a middle position allowing the secondary disconnector to be biased into the limiting position engaging the disconnector, and a back position engaging the secondary disconnector and retaining the secondary disconnector in the non-limiting position against the bias and spaced from the disconnector.
US10337812B2	Active magazine disengagement structure An active magazine disengagement structure includes: a magazine body, adapted to be in engagement with at least one gun body; at least one trigger device, movably configured on the magazine body; at least one trigger device, movably configured on the magazine body, and positioned on one side of the trigger device and operated in coordination therewith; and at least one on-off device, movably configured on the magazine body, adapted to retain the magazine body with the gun body, and positioned on one side of the interlocking device and operated in coordination therewith to allow the magazine body to be separated from the gun body actively without any manual operation.
US10337809B2	Magazine for cased telescoped ammunition cartridges with side-walls having cartridge orientation ribs A magazine for storing cased telescoped (CT) cartridges. The magazine includes vertically extending side-wall ribs that project inwards into a loading channel. The side-wall ribs are positioned in alignment with a circumferential groove in each CT cartridge. The side-wall ribs prevent a backwards oriented CT cartridge from being pushed from the loading position through the loading channel into a body of the magazine. A moveable lip at the top of the magazine may move out of the way when the magazine is attached to a firearm, to allow the CT cartridge located in the loading position to be fed vertically out of the top of magazine. Each CT cartridge may include a thermal protective insert that provides thermal insulation from heat emanating from a barrel of a firearm when the CT cartridge is located in a chamber of the firearm.
US10337799B2	Dual duty microchannel heat exchanger A heat exchanger includes a first tube bank having at least a first and a second flattened tube segments extending longitudinally in spaced parallel relationship. A second tube bank includes at least a first group of flattened tube segments and a second group of flattened tube segments extending longitudinally in spaced parallel relationship. The second tube bank is disposed behind the first tube bank with a leading edge of the second tube bank spaced from a trailing edge of the first tube bank. The first group of flattened tube segments is configured to receive a first fluid. The second group of flattened tube segments is configured to receive a second fluid. A fan provides an airflow across the first tube bunk and the second tube bank sequentially.
US10337793B2	System and methods involving fabricating sheet products A system for fabricating a sheet product. A first rotatable roller includes a rotatable drum portion having an outer surface that rotates about a rotational axis in a first direction and conveys a sheet product. The rotatable drum portion also has a plurality of ports communicative between an inner surface and an outer surface. The ports extend along and around the drum portion. The first rotatable roller emits a pressurized fluid. A second rotatable roller has an outer surface arranged proximate to the outer surface of the rotatable drum portion of the first rotatable roller, and a heat source portion to heat the second rotatable roller to dry the sheet product. The second rotatable roller rotates in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction. A gap is defined between the second rotatable roller and the first rotatable roller through which the sheet product passes.
US10337780B2	Variable refrigerant flow system operation in low ambient conditions A system comprising a compressor coupled to a first coil through a first valve and a second coil through a second valve, wherein the first coil and the second coil are coupled to a third coil. The system further comprises a fan operable to blow ambient air across the first coil, a first expansion valve coupled to and positioned between the first coil and the third coil and a second expansion valve coupled to and positioned between the second coil and the third coil. The system comprises a controller operable to monitor a pressure of the refrigerant, operate the first expansion valve to reduce refrigerant flow into the first, and operate the second expansion valve to reduce refrigerant flow through the second coil.
US10337777B2	Controlling air conditioning systems Air conditioning systems and processes may monitor properties of the system and/or properties related to the system. The air conditioning system may allow operation based on user requests and/or allow stress operation(s) based on monitored properties.
US10337763B2	Water heating system A plurality of water heaters are connected in parallel with respect to a hot water supply path, and each of the plurality of water heaters has an exhaust path connected to an exhaust path assembly. Each of a plurality of sensing units is configured to be shifted from an electrically conducting state to an electrically non-conducting state when each of the plurality of sensing units senses an abnormal condition about air supply or exhaust. A series circuit of the plurality of sensing units is electrically connected in series to a resistance element between the power supply line and the ground line. The controller is configured to monitor an abnormal condition about air supply or exhaust based on a voltage on a node between the series circuit and the resistance element.
US10337759B2	Transition module for an energy recovery ventilator unit A transition module for an energy recovery ventilator unit. The module comprises a frame having two opposing major surfaces with two separate through-hole openings therein. The module also comprises a self-sealing surface on one of the major surfaces and surrounding the two through-hole openings. One of the through-hole openings is configured to separately overlap with return air openings or supply air openings located in a first target side of one an energy recovery ventilator unit or an air handling unit and in a second target side of the other one of the energy recovery ventilator unit or the air handling unit. The other of the through-hole openings is configured to separately overlap with the other of the return air openings or the supply air openings located in the first and second sides.
US10337757B2	In-duct acoustic measuring apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for measuring one or more acoustic parameters in a duct are described. The method includes arranging at least one pair of microphones in an array on a microphone support device, disposing the microphone support device including the array of microphones in the duct, generating an acoustic signal in the duct such that the acoustic signal propagates toward the array of microphones, and receiving by the array of microphones, the acoustic signal to provide a microphone output signal. The microphone support device is configured to fit within an inner diameter of the duct.
US10337756B2	Air conditioner and method for controlling the same An air conditioner and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The air conditioner is able to operate in an efficient cooling cycle while simultaneously guaranteeing superior cooling performance in a low-temperature operation region. In the air conditioner, an airflow directing apparatus, which is installed in an outdoor unit, suppresses not only natural convection of the air, but also heat exchange between the condenser and outdoor air by the blowing fan, such that the air conditioner forms a normal cooling cycle by guaranteeing condenser pressure. The air conditioner guarantees cooling performance of a low-temperature operation region by adjusting the amount of outdoor air flowing through blade control of the airflow directing apparatus, and operates in an efficient cooling cycle, resulting in acquisition of compressor reliability.
US10337754B2	Distribution of call-home events over time to ameliorate high communications and computation peaks in intelligent control system The current application is directed to an intelligent control system that includes intelligent thermostats and remote servers that spread call-home events over time to avoid large peak computational and communications loads on intelligent-control-system servers. The spreading of call-home vents over time is effected by use of call-home splay values pseudorandomly generated for intelligent thermostats.
US10337751B2	Liquefied petroleum gas solvent extraction room ventilation system and methods The extraction room and ventilation system comprises an extraction room involving opposing supply and exhaust systems that provide a laminar type air flow configured to transmit fresh air flow to said extraction room at a rate of more than 1000 cubic feet per minute at a static pressure of more than 0.5 inch water. The extraction room is configured to use intrinsically safe or Class 1 Division 1, group D electrical appliances; a flammable gas detector, with an alarm and automatic ventilation system connected to said flammable gas detector; and be constructed in accordance with the International Fire Code & International Building Code definition for a One Hour Fire Rated Room construction. In another embodiment the ventilation system may be prefabricated or installed in a standardized movable unit such as a trailer or shipping container.
US10337746B2	Heat pump A heat pump has an evaporator for evaporating water as a working liquid so as to produce a working vapor, the evaporation taking place at an evaporation pressure of less than 20 hPa. The working vapor is compressed to a working pressure of at least 25 hPa by a dynamic-type compressor so as to then be liquefied within a liquefier by direct contact with liquefier water. The heat pump is preferably an open system, wherein water present in the environment in the form of ground water, sea water, river water, lake water or brine is evaporated, and wherein water which has been liquefied again is fed to the evaporator, to the soil or to a water treatment plant.
US10337745B2	Convection oven A convection oven having one or more intermediate air plenums is disclosed. An intermediate air plenum placed within an oven cavity defines the bottom of an upper cooking chamber and the top of a lower cooking chamber. Each intermediate air plenum comprises a left side air inlet for receiving heated air from a left side air channel located on a left side cavity wall of the oven cavity, a right side air inlet for receiving heated air from a right side air channel located on a right side cavity wall of the oven cavity, a top plenum surface including a plurality of top air outlets configured to direct a portion of the heated air upwards, and a bottom plenum surface including a plurality of bottom air outlets configured to direct a portion of the heated air downwards. The top and bottom plenum surfaces are preferably shaped to optimize even distribution of heated air flow into the oven cavity.
US10337744B2	Heat cooking device A heat cooking device comprises a casing, a heating chamber, and an exhaust duct having an outlet provided on a rear edge side of an upper surface of the casing such that exhaust air from an inside of the casing is blown out forward. An upper outer wall surface of a rear surface plate of the casing is covered by the exhaust duct to form an exhaust passage between the casing and the exhaust duct. A guidance part is provided inside the exhaust passage, and guides the water infiltrating into the exhaust passage through the outlet of the exhaust duct, downward inside the exhaust passage.
US10337738B2	Combustor assembly for a turbine engine A rich-quench-lean combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a fuel nozzle and a dome, the fuel nozzle attached to the dome. The combustor assembly additionally includes a liner attached to or formed integrally with the dome, the liner and the dome together defining at least in part a combustion chamber. Additionally, the liner extends between a forward end and an aft end. The liner includes a plurality of quench air jets positioned between the forward end and aft end and defines a forward section extending from the quench air jets to the dome. The dome and the forward section of the liner are configured to be cooled substantially by one or both of impingement cooling or convective cooling.
US10337735B2	Exhaust tube holding member, exhaust structure for combustion apparatus, and method for installing exhaust structure for combustion apparatus An exhaust pipe holding member includes an annular portion, an annular outward protruding portion (protruding piece), and a flange portion. The annular portion is formed with a through hole penetrating from one end through the other end. The outward protruding portion protrudes peripherally outward from the outer peripheral surface of the annular portion. The flange portion is disposed closer to one end than to the outward protruding portion, extending peripherally outward from the outer peripheral surface of the annular portion, and is configured to have a thickness greater than that of the outward protruding portion. The flange portion is formed with an annular groove surrounding the through hole.
US10337734B2	Plant for dry conveying of slag and / or heterogenous materials A transport system for the transport of combustion waste, comprising:—a belt conveyor for transporting the waste, arranged at the bottom of a combustion chamber and apt to transport the waste onto a transport surface (311) movable along a longitudinal direction of advancement; and—side boards (81, 82) for containing the waste in a transport region (80), arranged above said transport surface, ratably connected to a casing of the conveyor and bearing wearable members (811, 812) apt to establish a sliding seal with lateral fins (312, 313) of the movable transport surface of the conveyor belt, so that the transported material be confined in the transport region defined by said movable transport surface and by said boards bearing the wearable members.
US10337732B2	Consumable tip burners, submerged combustion melters including same, and methods Combustion burners, burner panels, submerged combustion melters including the panels, and methods of using the same are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the burner includes an annular liquid cooled jacket defining a central longitudinal through passage. An inner conduit is positioned substantially concentrically within an outer conduit, the latter positioned in the through passage, each conduit comprising proximal and distal ends, the conduits configured so that the outer and inner conduits are movable axially. The inner conduit forms a primary passage and the outer conduit forms a secondary passage between the outer conduit and the inner conduit. In one embodiment the outer conduit has an exterior surface configured along at least a portion thereof with threads mating with adjacent threads on an inner surface of the annular liquid cooled jacket. Other embodiments including lock and release dogs or bolt arrangements. The burners promote burner life and melter campaign length.
US10337728B2	Low NOx, high efficiency, high temperature, staged recirculating burner and radiant tube combustion system Embodiments of the present invention include high-temperature staged recirculating burners and radiant tube burner assemblies that provide high efficiency, low NOx and CO emissions, and uniform temperature characteristics. One such staged recirculating burner includes a combustion tube having inside and outside helical fins forming opposing spiral pathways for combustion gases and products of combustion, a combustion nozzle coupled to the combustion tube, a gas tube running axially into the combustion tube, and a staging gas nozzle coupled to the gas tube, where the staging gas nozzle includes radial exit holes into the combustion tube and an axial gas staging tube extending into the combustion nozzle to stage combustion.
US10337727B2	Furnace inducer choke and a gas furnace employing the same A furnace inducer choke and a gas furnace employing the furnace inducer choke. In one embodiment, the furnace inducer choke includes: (1) a choke body configured to engage a furnace inducer blower, the choke body having an opening extending entirely therethrough to limit an amount of combustion air entering a furnace that the furnace inducer blower is attached, and (2) a tab protruding from the choke body a distance sufficient to identify the opening when the choke body and furnace inducer blower are installed in the furnace.
US10337725B2	Superheated steam generator The present invention intends to highly accurately control a temperature of superheated steam at a high response speed, and provides a superheated steam generator that inductively heats a heating metal body in contact with steam using an induction coil, and thereby heats the steam in contact with the heating metal body to generate superheated steam. In addition, a frequency of an AC power supply connected to the induction coil is 50 Hz or 60 Hz, and a thickness between an induction coil side surface of the heating metal body facing toward the induction coil and a steam contact surface of the heating metal body in contact with the steam is 10 mm or less.
US10337722B1	Modular shelf unit A modular shelf unit includes a shelf frame having a front, a back and right and left sides and a front panel rotatably coupled to the front of the shelf frame. The front panel is configured to rotate about a rotational axis located proximate to a bottom edge of the front of the shelf frame. The front panel includes at least one holder configured to hold sheet material and a plurality of lights located behind the at least one holder to illuminate the sheet material. When the front panel is configured into a rotatably opened position, the plurality of lights are turned off. When the front panel is configured into a rotatably closed position, the plurality of lights are turned on.
US10337717B2	Light source unit, method of manufacturing the same, and vehicle lamp In one embodiment of a light source unit, the heat-dissipation plate is provided with a first heat-dissipation portion in contact with the substrate, the resin molding part is provided with a plurality of heat-dissipation fins and an engaging portion to be engaged with a predetermined member, and the socket housing is formed by an integral molding of the heat-dissipation plate and the resin molding part.
US10337714B1	Luminaires having a wireless antenna A luminaire includes a housing defining an interior volume. The luminaire also includes a lamp within the interior volume and configured to emit light. Additionally, the luminaire includes a wireless antenna positioned within the interior volume, configured to transmit or receive a wireless signal along a first direction, and configured to be operatively coupled to an access point. The wireless antenna can be entirely within the interior volume. The luminaire can include a first reflective surface within the interior volume and configured to redirect the wireless signal. The lamp can be configured to be electrically coupled to a power inserter that powers the access point.
US10337712B2	Light emitting device, image display device, and electronic apparatus According to an aspect, a light emitting device includes a base that includes at least a frame body; a light source that emits light; and a temperature sensor with which the base is provided and that detects changes in temperature of the light source. A space is provided between the temperature sensor and a portion of the base corresponding to a portion in which the temperature sensor is provided.
US10337706B2	Mounting system A mounting system comprises an elastomeric mount portion including: a barrel having a first bore formed therein and a rim at a first end of the barrel that forms a first interface surface, and a pair of mounting arms that project outward from a second end of the barrel that collectively form an arc that defines a curved mounting surface for mounting a first object. A channel is formed in the pair of mounting arms or the barrel that passes through the elastomeric mount portion. The mounting system further includes a fastener for securing the elastomeric mount portion to a second object. The fastener includes a shaft that passes through the first bore along the longitudinal axis and projects outward from the first interface surface of the barrel. The mounting system further includes a strap that passes through the channel to secure the first object to the curved mounting surface.
US10337704B2	Illumination light source having fastener fastening a pedestal and cover together with a mounting substrate interposed therebetween and light emitting elements surround the cover, the entirety of which is spaced in a horizontal direction from the light emitting elements An illumination light source includes a pedestal, a mounting substrate disposed on the pedestal, a plurality of LEDs mounted on the main surface of the mounting substrate, a cover which covers a partial region of the main surface of the mounting substrate, and a fastener which fastens the pedestal and the cover together while the mounting substrate is interposed between the pedestal and the cover. The plurality of LEDs are mounted so as to surround the cover.
US10337702B2	Methods and apparatus for optic holder design A lighting system (100) including a plurality of LED-based light sources (102), where each of the light sources includes an optic holder (210) with an upper edge region (260). The arrangement of the optic holders within the lighting system results in gaps (220) between neighboring optic holders. The system includes a plurality of interstitial spacers (310) manufactured on or attached to the upper edge region of the optic holders, such that the interstitial spacers are arranged to substantially fill the one or more gaps.
US10337700B2	Bolt locking structure for waterproof LED lamp A bolt locking structure for a waterproof LED lamp contains: a first casing and a second casing. The first casing includes multiple first protrusions and multiple first recesses which are arranged on each of four peripheral walls thereof respectively. The second casing includes multiple second protrusions and multiple second recesses which are arranged on each of four peripheral walls thereof respectively. The multiple first protrusions retain with the multiple second recesses, and the multiple first recesses retain with the multiple second protrusions. Multiple through holes are coaxial and form on each peripheral wall of each of the first casing and the second casing respectively, wherein each of the multiple through holes passes through each of the multiple first protrusions and the multiple second protrusions, such that each of multiple connection bolts inserts into the multiple through holes, thus locking the first casing and the second casing together.
US10337696B2	Vehicle lens assembly and lens manufacturing method An exemplary vehicle lens assembly includes, among other things, a transparent base and a transparent film. The transparent film includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is bonded directly to the transparent base. The second layer is polymethylmethacrylate-based and is more resistant to ultraviolet radiation than the first layer and the transparent base. An exemplary lens manufacturing method includes, among other things, coextruding a first layer having a first material composition together with a second layer having a second material composition to provide a transparent film. The method further includes bonding the first layer to a transparent base of a vehicle lighting lens. The second material composition is more resistant to ultraviolet radiation than the first material composition.
US10337695B2	Reflector for lighting component with surfaces that subtend light from a light source and surfaces that subtend external light A lighting component may include a light emitting diode (LED) positioned on a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA), and a reflector positioned on the PCBA over the LED. The LED may be configured to emit an effective span of light which may pass through the reflector from a rearward opening to a forward opening of the reflector. The reflector may include a first region with one or more surfaces configured to subtend a first portion of the effective span of light. The reflector may include a second region with one or more first surfaces configured to subtend a second portion of the effective span and one or more second surfaces configured to subtend exterior light entering the forward opening back through the forward opening. The reflector may include a third region with one or more surfaces configured to subtend exterior light entering the forward opening back through the forward opening.
US10337694B2	LED lamp and lighting device including the same An LED lamp includes a plurality of LEDs and a pillar that is defined by a polygonal cross-sectional shape and includes a plurality of lateral surfaces on which the plurality of LEDs are disposed. A pillar radius ratio is set to fall in a range of greater than or equal to 3.73% and less than or equal to 18.25%. The pillar radius ratio is defined as a dimensional ratio of a pillar radius to a radius of an opening of a reflector made in shape of a bowl. The pillar radius is defined as a distance from a center point of the pillar to each of the plurality of lateral surfaces.
US10337693B1	Apparatus method, and system for cost-effective lighting system retrofits including LED luminaires As lighting systems age the need for retrofits—namely where newer lighting technology is used to replace older or different technology, but where a direct replacement is not possible without some kind of modification to the rest of the lighting system—increases. The residential lighting retrofit market is well established with a one-for-one light source replacement approach that is widely embraced; for example, a table lamp with a failed incandescent bulb can be readily replaced with an LED bulb despite the disparate power requirements because of the onboard driver system, and this avoids having to modify the lamp itself, the outlet, incoming power, etc. No such solution exists for specialized lighting systems such as sports and wide area lighting systems. The present invention is directed to such a solution, and one which is cost effective, easy to implement, and customizable to meet the varying site requirements of such specialized systems.
US10337690B2	Automotive LED module with heat sink and fan Lamp module cooling system 10 contains vehicle solid-state light source 12 coupled to an extruded first heat sink 2 and an extruded second heat sink 20 in thermal communication with one another and with fluid flow directed from fan air outlet 42 of fan 40 over respective heat dissipation first and second ribs 8, 28 to direct warmed air through existing apertures 115 in headlamp bezel 110 aligned with headlamp optics 130 to defog or de-ice headlamp cover 100. Housing cover 30 and cover 32 define air flow path 50, 52, 54 improving warm air guidance and efficient spatial packaging of lightweight lamp module cooling system 10.
US10337686B2	Headlight for a vehicle A headlight for a vehicle with a projector includes a reflector, a light source, a diaphragm, and a collimating optical element. The reflector includes a bowl-shaped reflective surface, which presents the shape of a concave curve in a cross-section formed by a vertical plane passing through the optical axis of the projector. The light source is positioned substantially at the source focal point of the curve. The diaphragm is positioned substantially at the image focal point of the curve to create a light-darkness boundary in front of the vehicle. The optical element is for collimation of the output light beam into the required direction. The diaphragm is made of a transparent material and includes one or more optical surfaces arranged to direct those rays that have fallen onto it and passed through it to the collimating element directly, or through a supplementary optical element.
US10337685B2	Fiber optic light panel having aesthetic appearance in an unlit state Alighting device for a vehicle includes a light source for generating light, and a lighting panel having a light emitting side and a light reflecting side opposing the light emitting side. The lighting panel includes an optical fiber layer having a plurality of optical fibers each configured to emit the light along a length of the optical fiber. The plurality of optical fibers are arranged in a predetermined form such that the optical fiber layer has a first side facing the light emitting side of the lighting panel and a second side facing the light reflecting side of the lighting panel. A reflecting layer is provided on the second side of the optical fiber layer and is configured to reflect the light toward the first side of the optical fiber layer. At least one layer of the lighting panel is an aesthetic layer selected for aesthetic appeal and being visible from the light emitting side of the lighting panel in an unlit state. A bundling element is configured to hold ends of the plurality optical fibers in a bundle which is optically coupled to the light source.
US10337684B2	Lighting device for a motor vehicle comprising a light guide An optical lighting module for a motor vehicle including a primary optical element having a first rear portion with a plurality of light guides of longitudinal main axis arranged along at least one transverse row, each comprising an output front end face for a secondary light beam. Also included is a front portion which has a common output front face for the secondary light beams, wherein the front face of the front portion is conformed to spread the secondary light beams at least in a vertical direction.
US10337683B2	Head lamp apparatus for vehicle A head lamp apparatus may control a supply of power to a laser diode based on a quantity of white light outputted to an outside environment in the head lamp apparatus using the laser diode as a light source, and controls a power supply using only a quantity of pure white light excluding noise light when the supply of power to the laser diode is controlled, thus maximally preventing blue laser beams, which are harmful to human bodies, from being exposed to the outside environment, and allowing an operation of a head lamp to be precisely controlled.
US10337679B2	Modular bay luminaire A luminaire includes a rail assembly including a first rail and a second rail. A light bar assembly is releasably connected to the rail assembly extending between the first rail and the second rail. The light bar assembly includes a light bar and a light emitter connected to the light bar. A control component assembly is releasably connected to the rail assembly extending between the first rail and the second rail and operatively connected to the light bar assembly. The control component assembly includes a control component housing containing at least one control component.
US10337677B1	Edge-lit luminaire An edge-lit luminaire designed to be of minimal weight and to distribute illumination evenly upon an environment is provided. In some embodiments, the luminaire comprises a frame, a plurality of panels, a light source, and power circuitry. More specifically, the panels are arranged at desired angles so as to maximize the evenness with which light is emitted from the light source, which is secured to interior sides of one or more edges of the frame. In use, the frame is lightweight and configured to mount within or suspend from a ceiling.
US10337676B2	LED tube lamp A light-emitting diode (LED) tube lamp includes at least a first and second external connection terminal each connected to an opposite side of the ballast by-pass LED tube lamp and is capable of operating in a ballast-bypass mode The LED tube lamp includes an LED module configured to emit light in response to a lamp driving signal and a power supply module electrically connected to the first and second external connection terminals for receiving an AC supply signal having frequency of 50 Hz or 60 Hz in the ballast-bypass mode and configured to provide the driving current to the LED module. The power supply module comprises a rectifying circuit, receiving the AC supply signal from a rectifying input side; a filtering circuit, electrically connected to the rectifying circuit; a driving circuit, electrically connected to the filtering circuit and configured to generate the lamp driving signal to drive the LED module for emitting light; a first circuit; and a second circuit, electrically connected to the rectifying circuit and the first circuit and configured to form a detection path between the rectifying input side and a ground terminal. The first circuit turns on the detection path and cuts off the detection path so as to cause a detection current having pulse waveform flowing through the detection path, and the second circuit generates a signal, for indicating whether a foreign external impedance is electrically connected to the LED tube lamp, in response to the detection current.
US10337675B2	Insect control lighting device An insect control lighting device having a connector capable of electrically connecting to a common lightbulb socket or electrical outlet. The lighting device includes one or more light sources in electrical connection with the connector. The lighting device further includes an inner module having one or more insect control materials, such an insect attractant and an adhesive. The inner module may be secured within the lighting device by a magnet or by screw threads at one or both ends of the inner module.
US10337674B2	Control system in a gas pipeline network to satisfy pressure constraints Controlling flow of gas in a gas pipeline network, wherein flow within each pipeline segment is associated with a direction (positive or negative). Minimum and maximum signed flow rates are calculated for each pipeline segment constituting lower and upper bounds, respectively, for flow in each pipeline segment. A nonlinear pressure drop relationship is linearized within the lower and upper flow bounds to create a linear pressure drop model for each pipeline segment. A network flow solution is calculated, using the linear pressure drop model, and includes flow rates for each pipeline segment to satisfy demand constraints and pressures for each of a plurality of network nodes to satisfy pressure constraints. Lower and upper bounds on the pressure constraint comprise a minimum delivery pressure and a maximum operating pressure, respectively. The network flow solution is associated with control element setpoints used by a controller to control one or more control elements.
US10337666B2	Flashlight mount A flashlight mount is provided comprising a suction cup base, a flexible mast attached to the suction cup base at a first end wherein the modular, flexible mast is capable of being positioned in any orientation, a clamp adaptor attached to an elbow joint at a second end of the flexible mast wherein a single inner groove is formed vertically on an inside surface wherein the elbow joint is rotatable 360 degrees relative to the flexible mast and wherein the clamp adaptor is rotatable 360 degrees relative to the elbow joint, and an inner ring having a single outer groove formed vertically on an outside surface of the inner ring wherein the inner groove and outer groove interlock wherein the inner ring is rotatable 360 degrees with respect to the clamp adaptor and an opening in the inner ring is configured to hold a flashlight.
US10337664B2	Connection of two adapter parts of a supporting apparatus which can be constructed in a modular manner A connection of two adapter parts of a modularly-constructed supporting apparatus includes a first adapter part which has an end-side attachment with a partially spherical recess, a second adapter part which has an end-side spherical attachment for insertion into the partially spherical recess in the first adapter part and has a clamping ring which bears against the spherical attachment, on its half which is averted from the partially spherical recess, and a connecting clamp which engages behind the attachment and the clamping ring on sides which are averted from one another and also fixes the attachment and the clamping ring axially and radially in relation to one another, wherein the attachment and the clamping ring each have at least one weakening region for deforming the attachment and the clamping ring when the connecting clamp acts on the attachment and the clamping ring. The connection is secure when tools, workpieces or the like of a relatively high weight are held by the supporting apparatus.
US10337662B1	Water cooler stand The water cooler stand is an elevated stand for a water cooler that comprises a foot-operated mechanism for operating the spigot on the water cooler. The water cooler rests on the top surface of the stand and is retained there by a cooler cradle and two handle retention springs. A foot pedal located on the bottom, front leg of the stand is mechanically linked to a pressure plate in front of the spigot. A protrusion on the center of the front pressure plate will depress the push button on the spigot when the foot pedal is depressed. Use of the water cooler stand eliminates contamination and the spread of bacteria and germs to others. The water cooler stand may also comprise a slide-out sink basin and a hinged side tray to provide additional workspace.
US10337661B2	Thermal insulated ice hole wrap devices and methods Ice hole wraps configured to be positioned in a floor of an ice shelter are provided, such as an ice hole wrap that includes a first circular end, a second circular end, a cylindrical wall extending between the first and second ends, and a height extending between the first and second circular ends. The wall is foldable between a first configuration in which the cylinder has a first height between the first and second circular ends, and a second configuration in which the cylinder has a second height between the first and second circular ends.
US10337656B2	Quick connect with visual indicator Methods and systems are provided for a quick connect device. In one example, a connector may include a first visual cue for coupling an outer portion to a middle portion and a second visual cue for coupling an inner portion to the middle portion.
US10337650B2	Cable management system for telescoping assembly Example implementations relating to a cable management system are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, in or with a telescoping assembly. Briefly, a cable assembly may comprise a cable body and a plurality of segments defined via one or more stoppers fixedly disposed on the cable body. The cable assembly may be routed through inner and outer sections of the telescoping assembly and may be retained via cable support members arranged within the sections such that a particular predetermined segment of the plurality of segments is bendable during telescoping movements, such as in a controlled manner.
US10337649B1	Strake system A vortex-induced vibration (VIV) suppression apparatus including a base member having an interior surface dimensioned to at least partly encircle a tubular member; a fin protruding outward from an exterior surface of the base member; and at least one aperture formed through the base member, from the interior surface to the exterior surface.
US10337646B2	Lockout apparatuses and systems Adjustable apparatuses for improved lockout-tag out safety. The apparatus includes anchor, drive and securing portions that allow the apparatus to sit within a valve casing and block access to a valve. The anchor portion is selectively expandable via the drive portion to grip opposing walls of the casing, thereby holding the lockout apparatus in place. The securing portion provides selective access, such as through a lockable latch, to the drive member. When the securing portion is in a closed state, the drive member is inaccessible and the anchor portion cannot be adjusted. Anchor portions can include scissor jacks or other types of pneumatic or hydraulic devices. The shape and size of the securing portion, such as a six-inch diameter disk or plate, can further allow the lockout apparatus to rest on a top portion of the casing when the anchor portion is in a contracted state.
US10337644B2	Adjustable valve grip According to some embodiments, an adjustable valve grip is presented. In an embodiment, the adjustable valve grip comprises a first portion and a second portion wherein the second portion is operatively connected to the first portion and wherein the first portion is dimensioned such a way that the first portion is capable of being snap-fit over a gas cylinder valve handle and wherein the second portion is dimensioned in such a way as to be capable of being adjusted through its operative connection to the first portion so that when the first portion has been snap fit over a gas cylinder valve handle a user can adjust the second portion to bring the second portion into firm contact with the gas cylinder valve handle, and wherein at least one of the first portion, or the second portion, or both are colored in such a way as to be easily visible to the human eye.
US10337640B2	Valve connected to a feed circuit, a feed circuit comprising such a valve and a feeding method operating such a feed circuit This valve includes a first chamber, a second chamber, a seat with a liquid passage, a plug movable between i) an open position and ii) a closed position, and a biasing member for urging the plug toward the closed position. The valve includes an actuating member having a face which sustains an actuating pressure. The actuating member is movable between i) an actuation position for opening the plug and ii) a rest position. The valve operates, selectively: in a feed mode, where the plug is open and the actuating member is at rest, the liquid flowing in one direction throughout the second chamber, or in a latch mode, where the plug is closed and the actuating member is at rest, no liquid flowing in the valve, or in a drain mode, where the plug is open, the liquid flowing in the reverse direction throughout the second chamber.
US10337638B2	Slow-shift SPM valve The disclosure provides devices and methods for controlling the actuation rates of SPM valves by bi-directionally controlling the fluid which actuates the valve or by maintaining enclosed volumes which communicate with each other through predetermined restrictions as the valve actuates. These enclosed volumes can be completely isolated, depth compensated, share fluid with the pilot actuating fluid, or utilize the main system fluid. The restrictions can be modified to increase or decrease the actuation rates of the SPM valve. The disclosure also provides control over the main system fluid passage opening and closing positions as well as how rapidly the flow passage areas increase or decrease while opening or closing the valve.
US10337635B2	Shape-memory alloy valve device A shape-memory alloy valve device includes a shape-memory alloy wire configured to make a valve member perform an opening/closing operation and a valve actuation control unit configured to control an opening/closing operation of the valve member. The valve actuation control unit controls energization of the shape-memory alloy wire in accordance with an input valve open signal or an input valve close signal so as to make the shape-memory alloy wire contract by raising a temperature of the shape-memory alloy wire beyond an operating environmental temperature, thereby controlling valve opening/closing. A preheating unit heats the shape-memory alloy wire to a preset preheat set temperature by energizing the shape-memory alloy wire from a power circuit when the temperature of the shape-memory alloy wire which is measured by a temperature measurement unit is lower than the preheat set temperature.
US10337632B2	Diaphragm valve A diaphragm valve with a drive housing and with a drive subassembly arranged in the drive housing is proposed, for controlling a process fluid by means of a diaphragm. The diaphragm valve comprises a pretensioning subassembly for the arrangement between the drive subassembly and the diaphragm. A first spring element holds the drive subassembly in a pretensioned state before introduction into the drive housing. A second spring element holds the pretensioning subassembly in a pretensioned state before introduction into the drive housing.
US10337623B2	Tapered nut valve plug fasteners Example tapered nut valve plug fastener apparatus disclosed herein include a valve stem, a first nut, a valve plug, and a second nut. The first nut includes a first tapered surface and the second nut includes a second tapered surface. The valve plug includes a bore. The first nut threadably engages the valve stem and the valve stem passes through the bore. The bore engages the first tapered surface. The second nut threadably engages the valve stem and the bore engages the second tapered surface.
US10337616B2	Mechanical seal assembly A mechanical seal assembly has two axially-spaced apart seals and including a rotary component that includes rotational members of each axially-spaced apart seal and a stationary component that includes stationary sealing members of each seal. A sleeve is located radially inwards of the rotational sealing members. An element, such as fluid ports, directs barrier or buffer fluid towards the sleeve and between the two axially-spaced apart seals. The sleeve is provided on its outer surface with means, such as recesses or protuberances, which displace barrier/buffer fluid axially towards both axially-spaced apart seals.
US10337615B2	Machine with reduced cylinder friction A machine having one or more cylinders, each cylinder having an inner surface configured to engage a circumferential surface of a piston ring of a piston thereby defining a contact zone between the inner surface of the cylinder and the circumferential surface of the piston ring, the inner surface having at least one recess indented into the inner surface, wherein the ratio of the dimension of the recess in the direction of travel of the piston to the dimension of the contact zone in the direction of travel of the piston is in the range of approximately 1:5 to 3:5.
US10337610B2	Gear actuator for dual clutch transmission Disclosed herein is gear actuator for dual clutch transmission, including: a driving motor having a driving shaft formed with gear part, a pair of first and second gears gear-coupled to the gear part, first and second guide cams respectively connected to the first and second gears to rotate, a first power transfer unit transferring or cutting off the power from the driving motor to the first guide cam according to rotating direction of the first gear, a second power transfer unit transferring or cutting off the power from the driving motor to the second guide cam according to rotating direction of the second gear, a first finger shaft linearly moved by rotation of the first guide cam and performing a selection operation of an odd-numbered stage, and a second finger shaft linearly moved by rotation of the second guide cam and performing a selection operation of an even-numbered stage.
US10337608B1	Steerable transaxle A drive apparatus includes an internal sump and a center section having a pump running surface for mounting a pump cylinder block and at least one motor running surface for mounting at least one motor cylinder block. A brake mechanism includes set of brake rod guides are formed in and extend from the center section adjacent the pump running surface and the one or more motor running surfaces for supporting one or more brake rods. The brake rods may engage the motor cylinder blocks at oblique angle thereto, to provide a braking force. The brake mechanism may include a brake shaft, and a brake arm attached thereto and operatively engaged to the brake rods.
US10337607B2	Selectively controllable filtration system of a transmission and method thereof A hydraulic system of a transmission includes a controller, a pump, a fluid circuit fluidly coupled to the pump, a pressure regulator for regulating pressure in the fluid circuit, a cooler circuit fluidly coupled to the pressure regulator, a filter disposed in the fluid circuit downstream from the cooler circuit, and a bypass circuit disposed in the fluid circuit and fluidly coupled to the pressure regulator. The bypass circuit includes a valve movable between an open position and a closed position. In the open position, a first portion of fluid flowing from the pressure regulator flows through the bypass circuit and a second portion of the fluid flows through the cooler circuit and filter. In the closed position, the fluid flowing from the pressure regulator only flows through the cooler circuit and filter.
US10337602B2	Multi-stage planetary gear mechanism for a wind turbine, comprising a special lubricant guide A multi-stage planetary transmission for a wind turbine includes a transmission housing having an oil supply channel disposed therein; an input-side first planetary stage disposed in the transmission housing; at least one second planetary stage disposed downstream of and connected to the first planetary stage by a spline of a sun gear shaft of the first planetary stage; a first oil conducting channel supplied by the oil supply channel and configured to supply oil to planetary gear bearings of the first planetary stage; a second oil conducting channel supplied by the oil supply channel and disposed so as to pass through a planet carrier of the second planetary stage at least partially in an axial direction, the second oil conducting channel configured to supply oil to planetary gear bearings of the second planetary stage; and a third oil conducting channel supplied by the oil supply channel.
US10337601B2	Gear and method of lubricating a gear A gear includes a toothed portion that has a plurality of teeth, an inner wall that defines a cavity, and a lubricant feed aperture. The lubricant feed aperture extends from the inner wall portion to a surface of a tooth. The lubricant feed aperture can deliver lubricant from the cavity to the surface of the tooth.
US10337598B2	Limited slip differential A limited slip differential for a vehicle comprising: a carrier containing lubricant and rotatable about a first axis; a pinion gear arranged within the carrier and rotatable about a second axis; a side gear arranged within the carrier and engaged with the pinion gear; and a clutch pack arranged within the carrier and rotatable about the first axis, the clutch pack comprising a captive disk and a floating disk, each of the captive disk and the floating disk have a central aperture, a peripheral region, and at least one lubrication aperture, the captive disk having an inner lubrication aperture arranged proximal to the respective central aperture and an outer lubrication aperture arranged proximal to the respective peripheral region, and the floating disk having an intermediate lubrication aperture arranged between the inner aperture and the outer aperture, whereby rotation of the floating disk relative to the captive disk causes lubricant to travel from the central apertures to the peripheral regions by progressively passing from the inner lubrication aperture to the intermediate lubrication aperture, and to the outer lubrication aperture.
US10337597B2	Engine disconnects with mechanical diodes for vehicle powertrains Disclosed are engine flexplates with integrated engine disconnects, methods for making and for using such flexplates, and motor vehicles with an engine flexplate having an integrated engine disconnect device. An engine flexplate assembly is disclosed for operatively coupling an engine to a hydrokinetic torque converter. The flexplate assembly includes a disk-shaped body with a central hub that rigidly attaches on the fore side thereof to the engine output shaft for common rotation therewith. A disconnect device, which is positioned on the aft side of the disk-shaped body, includes concentric inner and outer races. The outer race is rigidly attached to the disk-shaped body for common rotation therewith. The inner race rigidly attaches to the front cover of the TC housing for common rotation therewith. The disconnect device operatively disconnects the engine output shaft from the TC housing front cover when a torque transmitted therebetween reverses direction.
US10337596B2	Lock-up device for torque converter A lock-up device includes a clutch part, an input plate, an outer peripheral side damper part, an output plate, an inner peripheral side damper part, and an intermediate member. The outer peripheral side damper part includes at least two outer peripheral side springs. The outer peripheral side springs are disposed in a circumferential alignment, act in series, and take circular-arc shapes when in a free state. The inner peripheral side damper part includes at least two inner peripheral side springs. The inner peripheral side springs are disposed in a circumferential alignment on an inner peripheral side of the outer peripheral side damper part, and act in series. The intermediate member is rotatable relatively to the input plate and the output plate, and makes the outer peripheral side damper part and the inner peripheral side damper part act in series.
US10337590B2	Multi-speed planetary transmission A multi-speed transmission including a plurality of planetary gearsets and a plurality of selective couplers to achieve at least nine forward speed ratios is disclosed. The plurality of planetary gearsets may include a first planetary gearset, a second planetary gearset, a third planetary gearset, and a fourth planetary gearset. The plurality of selective couplers may include a number of clutches and a number of brakes. The multi-speed transmission may have four planetary gearsets and six selective couplers. The six selective couplers may include four clutches and two brakes.
US10337588B2	Transmission for vehicle A transmission may include a first input shaft and a second input shaft receiving power from an engine continuously or through a clutch; a sub-shifting mechanism and a main shifting mechanism including a plurality of sub-shifting gear pairs and main shifting gear pairs, which have different gear ratios and are respectively engaged with two shafts of the first and second input shafts, first and second countershafts, and first and second output shafts to select the sub-shifting gear pairs and the main shifting gear pairs, a one-way clutch that transmits power from the engine only from the first countershaft to the first output shaft; a second one-way clutch that transmits power from the engine only from the second countershaft to the second output shaft; and a power transmission gear set engaged between the first output shaft and the second output shaft.
US10337578B2	Suspension element for the mechanical attachment of a load suspended within a mount A suspension element for the mechanical connection of a load which is suspended in a support, having a rigidity. It comprises at least two mechanical interfaces with the load and with the support, respectively, and at least two plates which connect each of the two interfaces in a complete connection, the rigidity of the element being adjusted to specific values along three orthogonal axes in accordance with the number of plates, their distribution between the interfaces and their dimensions in terms of length, thickness and depth.
US10337570B2	Transaxle including bi-directional overrunning clutch A transaxle includes a transaxle casing, a bi-directional overrunning clutch in the transaxle casing, a friction mechanism, and a clutch-off biasing mechanism. The bi-directional overrunning clutch includes coaxial input and output members journalled by the transaxle casing, and includes a cage disposed between the input member and the output member. Rollers carried by the cage are rotatable to follow rotation of the output member. The cage is rotatable relative to the input member according to the rotation of the rollers following the output member until the rollers contact the input member to engage the bi-directional overrunning clutch. The friction mechanism applies a friction resistance to the cage to rotate the cage relative to the input member. The clutch-off biasing mechanism biases the cage to the initial position. The friction mechanism and the clutch-off biasing mechanism are distributed in the transaxle casing at first and second end portions of the cage.
US10337563B2	Wedge clutch with breaker ring A clutch includes a hub, a carrier defining a circular groove, and a wedge disk defining apertures and having a first edge disposed on the hub and a second edge disposed in the groove. The clutch further includes a breaker ring encircling the hub and having projections that are each received in one of the apertures. The breaker ring is slidably connected to the hub and is configured to rotate the wedge disk relative to the hub, via engagement between the projections and the apertures, in response to the breaker ring sliding towards the wedge disk.
US10337557B1	Rotodynamically isolated magnetic coupling An inner barrel shaft is separate from the shaft of the first rotating machine. A first bearing assembly is configured to support the inner barrel shaft. The first bearing assembly is separate from the first rotating machine. An outer barrel includes an outer barrel shaft that is separate from a shaft of a second rotating machine. The outer barrel is configured to be coupled to the shaft of the second rotating machine. The second rotating machine is configured to drive or be driven by the first rotating machine. The outer barrel is fluidically isolated from the inner barrel. The outer barrel is configured to surround the inner barrel. The outer barrel is magnetically coupled to the inner barrel to co-rotate with the inner barrel. A second bearing assembly is configured to support the outer barrel shaft. The second bearing assembly is separate from the second rotating machine.
US10337556B2	Roller for deflecting or guiding a metal strip, which is to be coated, in a metal melt bath A roller for deflecting or guiding a metal strip to be coated in a metal melt bath may include bearing journals disposed coaxially with one another for rotationally supporting the roller. To obtain a high coating quality while hot-dip coating the metal strip, in particular steel strip, and to increase the service life of such a roller, each bearing journal may comprise a plurality of axially spaced annular elevations that have or are formed from a plain-bearing coating. The roller may comprise a steel roller shell, and each bearing journal may include a substantially cylindrical or circular-disk-shaped connecting steel portion that extends radially in the direction of the roller shell. At least one of the connecting portions may comprise a passage opening at an end face of the roller shell. The passage may be closed by means of a gas-permeable plug element comprised of ceramic material.
US10337554B2	Crosshead for a piston rod A crosshead for a piston rod is provided, which comprises a main body having a first and a second seat. The first seat is configured to hold a connecting rod, and the second seat is configured to hold a piston rod. The main body is made as a single piece.
US10337553B2	Spring-loaded cable attachement An attachment assembly for securing a transmission shifter cable includes an outer frame and an inner frame disposed at least partially within the outer frame and axially movable relative to the outer frame. The attachment assembly further includes an attachment block disposed at least partially within the inner frame and axially movable relative to the inner frame. An axial displacement of the attachment block secures the inner frame to the outer frame to inhibit axial movement of the inner frame relative to the outer frame.
US10337551B2	Thread repair insert and method of use A thread repair insert system having a cylindrical body that extends from an upper end to a lower end and includes a threaded exterior surface and a hollow interior having a threaded interior surface. The lower end of the cylindrical body includes a cutting section that includes a plurality of notches that separate threaded sections. The threaded sections include a cutting edge followed in the direction of rotation by a trailing edge. The lower end also tapers or narrows slightly such that the threaded sections transition from partial threads to full threads as they extend upward. As the thread repair insert is rotated into an opening in parent material, the cutting edge cuts material which is forced between the threads of the threaded sections. As the threaded sections transition from partial threads to full threads in the threaded sections, threads are roll-formed in the parent material.
US10337547B2	Outrigger clamp An outrigger clamp to couple together two or more nestable tubes. The clamp can include a guide for retaining filament. The guide can rotate about an axis based on the forces applied to the outrigger to better align the filament and guides, and therefore align the forces applied to the outrigger and filament. The retainer can be, for example, one or more rollers that help prevent the filament from becoming creased or kinked during use.
US10337542B2	Curtain retention bracket Apparatus and methods for retaining a foldable curtain in a stowed position. A curtain retention bracket comprises a U-shaped chambered body having high torsional stiffness and a clasp comprising a flexible strap. The clasp has one end configured to be pivotably coupled to one arm of the U-shaped chambered body and another end configured to be latchable onto the other arm of the U-shaped chambered body. The clasp can be easily opened and closed manually using one hand. The geometry of the clasp is such that forces exerted on it by the stowed curtain cause it to pull tighter closed. The U-shaped chambered body may be produced using an additive manufacturing process.
US10337540B2	Anti-oscillation apparatus and technique for securing wind turbine blades against oscillations The invention relates to a wind turbine blade oscillation preventer comprising an aperture and a sleeve and having a peripheral extent and a longitudinal extent, the preventer being configured for removable application over a wind turbine blade and configured to extend longitudinally thereover and peripherally thereabout; the preventer having a non-aerodynamic exterior surface which exhibits a rough surface capable of disrupting smooth or laminar airflow over a substantial portion of the longitudinal and peripheral extent of the sleeve when the preventer is in place on a wind turbine blade. The preventer further comprises a smooth interior surface extending along a substantial portion of the longitudinal extent of the sleeve. The invention also relates to a method of application of a blade oscillation preventer over wind turbine blades which comprise serrations at a trailing edge thereof.
US10337533B2	Connecting structure of electromagnetic valve and hydraulic pressure control device An connecting structure of an electromagnetic valve includes: a first connecting structure body that prohibits a relative movement between a hydraulic pressure circuit body and an electromagnetic valve in an axis line direction; a second connecting structure body that prohibits a relative movement therebetween in a plane orthogonal to the axis line direction; a third connecting structure body that prohibits a relative rotation about the axis therebetween; and a connection body that is prohibited from moving relatively to the hydraulic pressure circuit body, wherein the first connecting structure body includes a first target connection tool that is provided in an accommodation body and a first connection tool that locks the first target connection tool in the axis line direction at a wall portion constituting an accommodation space.
US10337530B2	Press on heat/splash and engine cooling fan assembly having same A fan shroud assembly (10) includes a fan shroud (14) having a boss (54) formed thereon, and a shield (22) having an aperture (58) and at least one slot (62) communicating with the aperture to allow deflection of the shield in a region adjacent the aperture. The aperture is smaller than the boss such that the aperture receives the boss with an interference fit, causing deflection of the shield, to secure the shield on the fan shroud.
US10337529B2	Turbocharger compressor noise reduction system and method Methods and systems are provided for a compressor of a turbocharger of an engine. In one example, a compressor may include a flow passage and a resonance chamber surrounding the flow passage, with the flow passage fluidly coupled with the resonance chamber by a recirculation passage, a bleed passage, and a plurality of apertures positioned between the recirculation passage and the bleed passage. Flowing fluid from the resonance chamber, through the apertures, and into the flow passage may reduce a noise level of the compressor.
US10337527B2	Turbomachine blade, comprising intersecting partitions for circulation of air in the direction of the trailing edge The invention relates to a turbomachine blade comprising a vane. The vane comprises a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure face and a suction face spaced apart from each other and connecting the leading edge to the trailing edge. The vane further comprises at least one internal cavity between the pressure face and the suction face, wherein air is intended to flow. The vane comprises intersecting transverse partitions, downstream of the cavity, so that air can flow from the cavity in the direction of the trailing edge between the intersecting partitions.
US10337522B2	Centrifugal compressor A centrifugal compressor includes: a compressor housing; an impeller wheel for compressing intake air, disposed inside the compressor housing; a parallel flow generating unit for rectifying the intake air flowing in via an intake port to be parallel to the direction of a rotation shaft; and a recirculation channel for returning a part of the intake air in an outer circumferential section of the impeller wheel to an upstream side of the impeller wheel. The parallel flow generating unit includes a parallel flow generating part including a plurality of guide vanes and a central intake-air flowing section which is a space surrounded by the parallel flow generating part. An intake-air outflow direction from an upstream opening is oriented toward the parallel flow generating part.
US10337520B2	Fluid energy machine having a tandem dry gas seal A fluid energy machine having a rotor, with a casing that separates an interior from an exterior, having at least one shaft seal for sealing a gap between the rotor and casing. The shaft seal is a tandem dry gas seal, having an inner and outer seal. The outer seal has a first sealing gas feed, which opens into the gap axially between the outer and inner seal. The shaft seal has a primary discharge between the inner and outer seal, which extracts primary discharge fluid from the gap. The first sealing gas feed has a first control member for controlling the flow rate of the sealing gas. The primary discharge has a second control member for controlling the flow rate of a primary discharge fluid. The first and second control members are matched such that the first pressure is adjusted to a first pressure setpoint.
US10337518B2	Variable turbine geometry turbocharger vane pack retainer A variable turbine geometry turbine turbocharger (1) includes a vane pack (50) disposed in the exhaust gas path upstream of the turbine wheel (12). The vane pack (50) includes vanes (30) that are rotatably supported between a pair of vane rings (34) and configured to adjustably control the flow of exhaust gas to the turbine wheel (12). In addition, a retainer (60, 160) secures the vane pack (50) to the bearing housing (16) in such a way that the vane pack (50) is mechanically decoupled from the turbine housing (4).
US10337514B2	Scroll compressor having an insulated high-strength partition assembly The present disclosure provides a high-strength thermally insulative partition assembly (e.g., muffler plate) for use in a scroll compressor. The assembly includes at least one metal plate and an insulating region. The insulating region may have at least one insulating material or may be a low-pressure or vacuum chamber. The partition assembly serves to minimize heat transfer between a low-pressure refrigerant on the low-pressure, suction side and a high-pressure, high-temperature refrigerant on the high-pressure, discharge side of the compressor. The insulating region may be sandwiched between multiple metal plates. The insulating region may be coated on the metal plate. The insulating region may also be a preformed component or mask that is coupled to the metal plate via a mechanical interlock system.
US10337511B2	Hydraulic conveying device and hydraulic system A hydraulic conveying device for an internal combustion engine may include a pendulum slide pump including an inner rotor drivingly connected to an outer rotor via a plurality of pendulum slides. A hydraulic actuation device may change an eccentricity between the inner rotor and the outer rotor via an actuation member. The actuation member may be prestressed by a spring device. The actuation device may further include a first pressure-setting chamber and a second pressure-setting chamber for adjusting the actuation member. At least one of the first pressure-setting chamber and the second pressure-setting chamber may be connected via a control valve to a pressure side of the pendulum slide pump. A hydraulic line may connect the pendulum slide cell pump downstream to a hydraulic medium filter. The control valve may be connected to the hydraulic line upstream of the hydraulic medium filter.
US10337509B2	Internal gear pump Provided is an internal gear pump. The shape of any one of a plurality of external teeth and a plurality of internal teeth of the pump is formed on the basis of formulae (1)-(5). r=ro−dr·cos θ, Formula (1): Px=(ro−dr)+1/4dr{1−cos(2θ)}, Formula (2): Py=1/4dr{−2θ+sin(2θ)}, Formula (3): Qx=Px−r·cos θ, Formula (4): Qy=Py+r·sin θ Formula (5):.
US10337507B2	Bypass unloader valve for compressor capacity control A reciprocating compressor includes a cylinder block, a cylinder head, and a bypass unloader valve assembly. The cylinder block has a cylinder disposed therein. The cylinder head is secured to the cylinder block overlying the cylinder and has a suction plenum and a discharge plenum in selective fluid communication with the cylinder. The bypass unloader valve assembly is in operable communication with the cylinder head and is responsive to control signals to rapid cycle to allow for fluid communication of a refrigerant between the discharge plenum and the suction plenum.
US10337505B2	Thermal actuator A wax filled actuator includes a piston in direct contact with the thermally responsive wax material. A cup containing the wax is mechanically secured to a guide that receives and controls axial movement of the piston in response to expansion and contraction of the wax. A seal between the cup and guide prevents leakage of the wax. Another seal surrounds the piston and prevents leakage of the wax around the piston. In a disclosed embodiment, the piston has a cylindrical, polished outside surface that aids in preventing adhesion of the wax to the piston. In a disclosed embodiment, the seal surrounding the piston is a radially compressed annular elastomeric member. The seal surrounding the piston may be disposed between flat, annular wipers. The seal and wipers may be axially retained between the guide and a washer trapped between the cup and guide.
US10337503B2	System and method for removing or installing a main shaft of a wind turbine with rigging A method and system are provided for removing or installing a main shaft and attached main bearing assembly of a wind turbine from a bedplate. The method and system use rigging and specialized tooling and procedures to perform the method in the field with the machine head remaining atop the tower or removed from the tower.
US10337500B2	Release mechanism A release mechanism comprises a locking body mounted for reciprocating movement in a first axial direction between a locked position and a released position. A force transmitting element is coupled to the locking body for transmitting a force (F) to the locking body for moving the locking body from the locked position to the released position. A biasing element acts on the locking body in a direction for moving the locking body from the released position to the locked position. The locking body comprises a slot having a first slot portion extending in said first direction, and a second slot portion extending transversely from one side of said first slot portion at an end thereof. The slot slidably receives an actuating element therein.
US10337495B2	System and method for reducing vortex-induced tower vibrations of a wind turbine The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for reducing vortex-induced vibrations of a tower of a wind turbine. The wind turbine has a nacelle mounted atop the tower. The nacelle has a rotor with a rotatable hub having at least one rotor blade mounted thereto. The rotor blade has a first pitch position. Thus, the method includes measuring, via one or more sensors, an acceleration of the nacelle. The method also includes determining a rotor speed of the rotor. Further, the method includes determining a second pitch position for the rotor blade based on the acceleration of the nacelle and the rotor speed and pitching the rotor blade to the second pitch position if the rotor speed is below a speed threshold and the acceleration of the nacelle is above an acceleration threshold. As such, the second pitch position disturbs vortices caused by interactions between the tower and the rotor blade as the rotor blade passes in front of the tower so as to reduce vortex-induced vibrations of the tower.
US10337492B2	Wind power generation system The wind power generation system comprises a generator, a shaft, at least one leaf group and at least one wind-guiding structure. The generator includes a rotor, and the shaft is connected to the rotor. The leaf group includes a movable barrel, at least one first blade, at least one propeller blade, a plurality of pressurized channels, a first vortex chamber and a decompression chamber. The movable barrel is movably sleeved on the shaft. The first blade is connected to the activity barred. The propeller blade is connected to the movable barrel and above the first blade.
US10337489B2	Method and system for energy conversion from a flow of fluid System for power generation from a flow of fluid, comprising a fluid driven device connected to a tether wherein the tether is coupled with a base station to convert energy from the flow of fluid into transportable energy, wherein the fluid driven device comprises a frame provided with adjustable vanes, and wherein the vanes are adjustable for setting into a predefine position relative to the flow of fluid. The fluid driven device comprises a working mode and a retraction mode, wherein in the working mode the vanes are set in a first predetermined position to generate a lift force from the flow of fluid, and wherein in the retraction mode the vanes are set in a second predetermined position to provide a low drag level to the flow of fluid, and wherein the work performed during working mode is larger than the work supplied during retraction mode.
US10337487B2	Multi axial translational and rotational motion to unidirectional rotational motion An energy harnessing device for harnessing wave energy that results in pitch, sway, yaw, surge, roll, and heave movement, wherein the device effectively converts multiaxial translational and rotational motion to unidirectional rotational motion for power transmission.
US10337486B2	Direct drive portable hydroelectric generator and power source A generator device for generating an induced electrical power from the movement of a fluid stream. The generator device can include a circumferential casing that houses a stator, a power storage system and a power management system that receives the induced electrical power, and a propeller-rotor assembly located in the central opening of the casing and rotatably coupled to the casing. The propeller-rotor assembly has two or more propeller blades with distal ends opposite the axis of the propeller-rotor assembly to which magnets are attached. The device can also have a tether assembly for anchoring the generator device in a moving fluid stream and positioning the generator device so that the movement of fluid stream through the generator device causes the propeller-rotor assembly to rotate and, thereby, through interaction with the stator, to generate the induced electrical power. The generator device can be portable and easily deployed by a single user.
US10337483B2	Electric starter motor for a gas engine The various implementations described herein include apparatuses and methods used to operate engine-based equipment using an electric starter motor. In one aspect, a method for operating an apparatus includes starting an electric starter motor. In response to starting the electric starter motor, the electric starter motor is coupled to a flywheel and the flywheel is turned. In response to turning the flywheel, an engine coupled to the flywheel via a power take-off of the engine is started. After starting the engine, the electric starter motor is decoupled from the flywheel and thus from the engine, and the engine is used to turn the flywheel, thereby enabling operation of a primary assembly coupled to the flywheel.
US10337482B2	Starter A starter includes a coil spring disposed between a pinion gear and a motor and a buffer rubber disposed between the pinion gear and the coil spring. When the pinion gear is subjected to a reactive force from an engine, the buffer rubber absorbs the impact. Before the impact acts on the pinion gear, the coil spring is subjected to a given initial load. When the impact acts on the pinion gear, the coil spring absorbs it transmitted through the buffer rubber. The cover in which the coil spring is stored has a flange which is held from moving to the pinion gear in response to expansion of the coil spring, while it is permitted to move to the motor in response to contraction of the coil spring. This eliminates a risk that mechanical noise occurs when the pinion gear is advanced and then brought into mesh with the engine.
US10337477B2	Internal combustion engine fuel supply system and internal combustion engine fuel supply method An internal combustion engine fuel supply system includes a first fuel tank, a separator, and circuitry. The first fuel tank is to store fuel. The separator is connected to the first fuel tank to separate the fuel supplied from the first fuel tank into a high octane fuel and a low octane fuel which are to be supplied to an internal combustion engine. The high octane fuel has a first octane number. The low octane fuel has a second octane number lower than the first octane number. The circuitry is configured to determine whether fuel has been supplied to the first fuel tank, and to operate the separator to separate the fuel into the high octane fuel and the low octane fuel when it is determined that fuel has been supplied to the first fuel tank.
US10337472B2	Filter and filter cartridge A filter cartridge for a filter for filtering a fluid is to be used downstream of a main filter cartridge in a filter and is provided with an inflow surface, an outflow surface, and a main flow direction extending from the inflow surface to the outflow surface. A filter body is provided that can be flowed through along the main flow direction. A filter cartridge frame supports the filter body. A seal is disposed on the filter cartridge frame and separates a filter interior of a filter into a clean side and a raw side. An adhesive connection is provided that connects the filter body and the filter cartridge frame to each other. In one configuration, the filter cartridge frame at an inflow side is provided with a grip area, wherein the grip area enables inflow of a fluid into the filter body via the grip area and manual removal of the filter cartridge.
US10337470B2	Exhaust gas recirculation apparatus The present disclosure describes an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) apparatus for a turbocharged internal combustion engine, the EGR apparatus comprising: an air intake duct with a throttle valve configured to control an intake air quantity flowing through the air intake duct to a turbocharger compressor; an exhaust gas recirculation inlet connected to the air intake duct downstream of the throttle valve; and an EGR valve configured to control an exhaust gas quantity recirculated to the turbocharger compressor via the exhaust gas recirculation inlet, wherein the throttle valve and the EGR valve are combined in a single valve unit in which the valves are separated by a separating element configured to substantially prevent exhaust gas from entering the air intake duct in a vicinity of the throttle valve.
US10337468B2	Exhaust gas cooler Disclosed herein is an exhaust gas cooler. The exhaust gas cooler may include a heat exchange pipe received in cooling water of an engine, and through which exhaust gas of the engine passes to exchange heat with the cooling water, and a plate configured to mount the heat exchange pipe to the engine. The heat exchange pipe may include a first pipe unit communicating with an inlet hole for exhaust gas and changing a flow direction of exhaust gas drawn from the inlet hole, a second pipe unit communicating with the first pipe unit, and a third pipe unit communicating with an exhaust gas return hole and the second pipe and changing a flow direction of exhaust gas to guide the exhaust gas to the return hole. A heat dissipation fin may be provided in an internal passage of the second pipe unit.
US10337462B2	System and methods for managing fuel vapor canister temperature A system for an engine, comprising: a fuel vapor canister coupled to a fuel tank; a thermal jacket comprising a phase-change material, the thermal jacket spatially sheathing the fuel vapor canister; and an engine coolant passage positioned to transfer thermal energy between engine coolant and the phase-change material. In this way, the phase-change material may buffer the temperature of the fuel vapor canister by absorbing heat generated during hydrocarbon adsorption, and returning the heat to the vapor canister during hydrocarbon desorption. By coupling the phase-change material to engine coolant, the thermal capacity of the thermal jacket can be increased, as heated coolant can thus transfer thermal energy to the phase-change material to replace the thermal energy transferred to the canister during hydrocarbon desorption.
US10337461B2	Method and apparatus for diagnosing a water injection into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine A method for diagnosing a water injection into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, a knock susceptibility of the internal combustion engine being ascertained from signals of a knock sensor and the knock susceptibility being evaluated in order to diagnose the water injection.
US10337459B2	Natural gas fueled vehicle A natural gas fueled vehicle, includes a natural gas fueled Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) to provide motive power to the vehicle. A pressurizable tank is disposed on the vehicle to contain a natural gas. A natural gas adsorbent is disposed in the tank. A fuel supply tube is to convey the natural gas to the ICE. A scroll compressor is on the vehicle to receive the natural gas from the tank and to deliver a first mixture of compressed natural gas and an oil to a gas and oil separator. The gas and oil separator is to receive the first mixture of the compressed natural gas and the oil from the scroll compressor and to separate the oil from the compressed natural gas and to deliver the compressed natural gas to the fuel supply tube substantially free from the oil.
US10337457B2	Rocket motor with energetic grain having region with energetic disposed therein A rocket motor (20) includes a nozzle (22) and a solid propellant section (24) in communication with the nozzle. The solid propellant section includes a first energetic grain layer (38, 32) that has a top surface and a bottom surface, and a second energetic grain layer (40, 44) that has a top surface and a bottom surface. The second layer is located on top of the first layer. The bottom surface of the second energetic grain layer partially abuts the top surface of the first energetic grain layer, and the bottom surface of the second energetic grain layer and the top surface of the first energetic grain layer define a region (46, 48) therebetween. A powder energetic (49) is disposed in the region.
US10337456B2	Intermediate casing hub for an aircraft turbojet engine including a composite outlet pipe The invention relates to an intermediate casing hub of an aircraft turbojet engine, which includes: an outer shroud (14) intended for defining a secondary flow space of a stream of secondary gas on the inside and an inter-flow area on the outside, the outer shroud (14) being provided with a secondary opening (29), and a bleed valve comprising an outlet pipe (30) made of composite material, located in the inter-flow area, wherein the outlet pipe (30) is attached to the outer shroud (14) at the secondary opening (29), at least one gasket (33) for sealing against air and fire being arranged between the outlet pipe (30) and the outer shroud (14), and the outlet pipe (30) made of composite material includes a draped composite wall (30a, 30b), made up of a plurality of folds impregnated with resin.
US10337451B2	Piston for internal combustion engine Disclosed is an internal combustion engine's piston with a piston head having first and second thinnest portions that are thinnest in thickness of the piston head. With respect to the center axis of the first and second pin holes for supporting the piston pin, the first and second thinnest portions of the piston head are respectively provided on both sides of a transverse axis that is perpendicular to the center axis of the first and second pin holes. Each of first and second rib portions that are respectively formed on inner surfaces of first and second pin boss portions extends at the piston head in a direction along the transverse axis to overlap each of the first and second thinnest portions of the piston head. This piston is capable of relaxing stress concentration at a position above the piston pin.
US10337446B2	Control device for internal combustion engine A control device for an internal combustion engine is configured to feed fuel to a combustion chamber in an intake stroke to form a homogeneous premix and make the homogeneous premix burn by flame propagation when a temperature of an engine body is less than a first threshold value, to feed fuel to the combustion chamber in the intake stroke to form a homogeneous premix and make the homogeneous premix burn by compression ignition when the temperature of the engine body is the first threshold value to less than a second threshold value larger than the first threshold value, and to directly feed fuel to the combustion chamber in a compression stroke to form a partial premix and make the partial premix burn by compression ignition when the temperature of the engine body is the second threshold value or more.
US10337445B2	Method for operating a dual fuel injection system A method of operating an engine with dual fuel injection capabilities to address fuel rail over-pressure due to stagnating hot fuel is shown. The method comprises operating an engine cylinder with only port injection, and selectively activating and deactivating the second injector in response to a rail pressure increase of a fuel rail, the fuel rail coupled to the second injector, and deactivating the second injector in response to a rail pressure decrease of the fuel rail to a lower threshold determined based on engine operating conditions. In this way, degradation of the second injector may be reduced while maintaining a desired level of engine performance.
US10337444B2	System and method for controlling fuel for reactivating engine cylinders Systems and methods for operating an engine with deactivating and non-deactivating valves are presented. In one example, fuel supplied to cylinders being reactivated is supplied by direct fuel injectors even though the engine is operating in a region (e.g., speed and torque) where under conditions where cylinders are not being reactivated the engine injects fuel solely via port fuel injectors.
US10337441B2	Air per cylinder determination systems and methods An engine control system of a vehicle includes a cylinder control module a first air per cylinder (APC) module, an adjustment module, and a fuel control module. The cylinder control module determines a target fraction of activated cylinders of an engine. The first APC module determines a first APC value based on an intake manifold pressure and an air temperature. The adjustment module determines an APC adjustment value based on the target fraction of activated cylinders. The first APC module also determines a second APC value based on the first APC value and the APC adjustment value. The fuel control module controls fuel injection based on the second APC value and a target air/fuel mixture.
US10337440B1	System and method for engine poppet valve diagnostics Systems and methods for determining operation of a cylinder deactivating/reactivating device are disclosed. In one example, a warm engine is rotated without being supplied fuel to determine the presence or absence of valve actuator degradation. Degraded valve actuators may be determined when there is a lack of a temperature rise in the engine exhaust system.
US10337438B2	Push-button start system fault diagnosis A method for diagnosing a no-start fault of a vehicle push-button start system including a push-button switch, where the system starts a vehicle engine if the switch is pressed and a vehicle brake is applied. The method includes detecting that a no engine crank condition has occurred if the switch is pressed and the brake is applied, and if so, performs a no crank diagnosis. The method also includes determining that a starter control relay has not been enabled after the system is in a crank power mode, and if so, performs a starter not-enabled diagnosis. The method also includes determining that the starter control relay has been disabled before the engine is running, and if so, performs a start disable diagnosis. The method also includes determining that the engine has stalled within some minimum time after it has successfully been started, and if so, performs an engine stall diagnosis.
US10337436B2	Exhaust gas sensor controls adaptation for asymmetric type sensor degradation Methods and systems are provided for converting an asymmetric sensor response of an exhaust gas sensor to a symmetric response. In one example, a method includes adjusting fuel injection responsive to a modified exhaust oxygen feedback signal from an exhaust gas sensor, where the modified exhaust oxygen feedback signal is modified by transforming an asymmetric response of the exhaust gas sensor to a symmetric response. Further, the method may include adapting parameters of an anticipatory controller of the exhaust gas sensor based on the modified symmetric response.
US10337433B2	Exhaust purification system An exhaust purification system includes: an NOx reduction type catalyst, which is provided in an exhaust passage; an intake air amount sensor, which detects an intake air amount of the internal combustion engine; and a controller, which executes a regeneration treatment that recovers an NOx purification capacity of the NOx reduction type catalyst by switching an exhaust air fuel ratio from a lean state to a rich state by using: an air-system control to reduce the intake air amount; and an injection-system control to increase a fuel injection amount, wherein, in response to a detection value of the intake air amount sensor, the controller changes at least one of a fuel injection timing and the fuel injection amount in the internal combustion engine, in at least one period of switching of: a period of starting the regeneration treatment; and a period of ending the regeneration treatment.
US10337430B2	Method and system for determining air-fuel ratio imbalance Methods and systems include determining a cylinder air-fuel ratio imbalance in a multi-cylinder engine. In one example, the method may include sequentially firing an engine cylinder to provide an expected air-fuel deviation and learning cylinder air-fuel ratio imbalance based on an error between an actual air-fuel ratio deviation from a maximum lean air-fuel ratio relative to an expected air-fuel deviation during a deceleration fuel shut-off event.
US10337428B2	Apparatus and method for controlling EGR valve An apparatus for controlling an EGR valve, includes: a measurement unit to measure at least one operation condition of an engine system; a fresh air amount setting unit to set a target amount of fresh air based on the operation condition; a fresh air amount sensor to measure a current amount of fresh air introduced through an intake line; a control calculation unit to set a signal for controlling an opening degree of the EGR valve so that the current amount of fresh air follows the target amount of fresh air; and an identifier to simulate an input and an output of the engine system, and output engine system input-output sensitivity which is a ratio of a change rate of the current amount of fresh air to a change rate of the opening degree of the EGR valve.
US10337420B2	Method for controlling engine system A method for controlling an engine system having a supercharger and a turbocharger includes: an accelerator-pedal-opening-degree determination operation of determining whether an opening degree of an accelerator pedal detected after an engine starts is a first reference value or more; a first coolant temperature determination operation of determining whether, when the opening degree of the accelerator pedal is less than the first reference value, a detected temperature of a coolant is a second reference value or more; a second coolant temperature determination operation of determining whether the temperature of the coolant is the second reference value or more and is within a temperature threshold; and a boosting operation of calculating boosting contribution rates of the supercharger and the turbocharger, respectively, when the determined temperature of the coolant is within the temperature threshold and driving the supercharger and the turbocharger using the calculated boosting contribution rates.
US10337419B2	Method and system for diesel cylinder deactivation A system and method for cylinder deactivation in a multi-cylinder diesel engine comprises pumping air in to an intake manifold of the diesel engine using a turbocharger. Air is pumped in to the intake manifold using an intake air assisting device. And, fuel injection is selectively deactivated to at least one of the cylinders in the diesel engine. An intake valve and an exhaust valve is selectively deactivated for the at least one of the cylinders of the diesel engine.
US10337417B2	Control unit for internal combustion engine A control unit for an internal combustion engine is configured for suppressing knocking phenomenon with reduction of overlap, while maintaining an opening timing of an exhaust valve at the time of low-rotation, high-load state. A valve opening/closing timing control apparatus includes a phase adjustment mechanism configured to vary a relative rotational phase between a driving side rotary body rotatable in synchronism with a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine and a driven side rotary body rotatable together with an exhaust cam shaft. After an opening timing of the exhaust valve, an advancing operation is effected for displacing the relative rotational phase in the advancing direction relative to the opening timing.
US10337411B2	Auto thermal valve (ATV) for dual mode passive cooling flow modulation An auto thermal valve (ATV) for dual mode passive cooling flow modulation according to an embodiment includes: a gas flow inlet port; a gas flow outlet port; a temperature dependent expandable element; a rod coupled to the temperature expandable element; and a valve disc coupled to a distal end of the rod, the temperature dependent expandable element displacing the valve disc in response to a change in temperature; wherein the valve disc is displaced away from a valve seat by the temperature dependent expandable element at temperatures above and below a range of temperatures to allow a flow of cooling gas to pass from the gas flow inlet port to the gas flow outlet port.
US10337407B2	Low noise compressor for geared gas turbine engine A gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a fan, a compressor section having a low pressure compressor and a high pressure compressor, a combustor section, and a turbine section having a low pressure turbine, the low pressure turbine for driving the low pressure compressor and the fan; a gear reduction effecting a reduction in the speed of the fan relative to a speed of the low pressure turbine and the low pressure compressor; and at least one stage of the compressor section having a ratio of vanes to blades that is greater than or equal to 1.8. The corrected tip speed of the blades is greater than or equal to 480 ft/sec at an approach speed.
US10337405B2	Method and system for bowed rotor start mitigation using rotor cooling An apparatus and method of cooling a rotatable member enclosed within a casing are provided. The gas compressor includes a rotor, a plurality of stages of compression extending along said rotor from an inlet stage configured to receive a flow of relatively low pressure gas to an outlet stage configured to discharge a flow of relatively high pressure gas, a casing at least partially surrounding said plurality of stages, and a conduit extending radially inwardly from said casing to an area proximate said rotor.
US10337400B2	Variable compression ratio internal combustion engine and learning method therefor A variable compression ratio internal combustion engine is equipped with a variable compression ratio mechanism configured to change an engine compression ratio in accordance with a rotational position of a control shaft, and a housing that accommodates therein a drive motor for changing and holding the rotational position of the control shaft. A reference position of the control shaft is learned in a state where a position of maximum rotation of the control shaft in a first rotational direction has been mechanically restricted by bringing a first movable part, which operates in conjunction with the control shaft, into abutted-engagement with a first stopper provided outside of an engine body. Subsequently, a maximum conversion angle range of the control shaft is learned in a state where a position of maximum rotation of the control shaft in a second rotational direction has been mechanically restricted by a second stopper.
US10337398B2	Blowby gas treatment device for internal combustion engine with supercharger Disclosed is a blowby gas treatment device for an internal combustion engine with a supercharger, the blowby gas treatment device comprising: a fresh air introduction passage wherein one end of the fresh air introduction passage is connected to an upstream side of the supercharger and the other end is communicated with a crankcase of the internal combustion engine; a first blowby gas passage wherein one end of the first blowby gas passage is connected to a venturi part provided in an upstream side of the supercharger in the intake passage and the other end is communicated with the crankcase; a first check valve being interposed in the fresh air introduction passage and preventing a flow from the crankcase side to the intake passage side; and a second check valve being interposed in the blowby gas passage and preventing a flow from the intake passage side to the crankcase side.
US10337397B2	Pre-chamber ignition system Methods and systems are provided for purging a pre-chamber. In one example, a system is provided with a combustion chamber formed by a cylinder head coupled to a cylinder block and a pre-chamber in fluidic communication with the combustion chamber. The system is also provided with a purge port coupled to the pre-chamber and structured to flow purge air into the pre-chamber, where the flow of the purge air is driven by operation a purge pump and a piston disposed within the combustion chamber.
US10337395B2	System and method for operating a pressure-relieving fluid-metering valve assembly A fluid control system may include a fluid conduit defining a fluid passage, and a fluid metering assembly in fluid communication with the fluid passage. The fluid metering assembly may include a metering valve rotatably secured within an internal chamber. An actuator may be coupled to the metering valve. A control unit may be coupled to the actuator. The control unit is configured to operate the actuator to rotate the metering valve between an open position in which fluid flows through the fluid passage and a closed position in which the fluid is prevented from flowing through the fluid passage. The control unit is configured to operate the actuator to rotate the metering valve into a pressure relief position beyond the closed position that is configured to allow a reduced portion of the fluid to flow through the fluid passage.
US10337393B2	Dirt trap as a functional module in the impeller of a coolant pump A coolant pump (1) of an internal combustion engine, having a pump casing (2), in which a pump shaft (3) is rotatably supported by a water pump bearing assembly (4) and an impeller (6) connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the pump shaft (3) is associated with an intake space (7). During a rotation of the impeller (6) together with associated blades (8), a coolant as a working medium is pumped from the intake space (7), via a coolant outlet of the coolant pump (1), into a cooling system of the internal combustion engine. A dirt trap is associated as a functional module (12a) with the impeller (6) on a side facing away from the intake space (7), wherein the working medium flows into the functional module (12a) from the intake space via at least one opening (13) introduced into the impeller and emerges via a flow outlet (15a).
US10337392B2	Multicylinder engine cooling apparatus A multicylinder engine cooling apparatus includes: an exhaust side cooing passage individually formed to extend in an exhaust side of the cylinder head in which the plurality of exhaust pipes are disposed; an intake side cooling passage individually formed to extend in an intake side of the cylinder head in which the plurality of intake pipes are disposed; a first downstream cooling water passage through which the cooling water having passed through the exhaust side cooling passage flows; a second downstream cooling water passage that allows the cooling water having passed through the exhaust side cooling passage and then the intake side cooling passage to flow to the first downstream cooling water passage at some midpoint of the first downstream cooling water passage; and a switching valve that switches a flow passage of the cooling water discharged from the exhaust side cooling passage between the intake side cooling passage and the first downstream cooling water passage.
US10337388B2	Corrosion resistant metal substrate A method for producing a corrosion resistant metal substrate and corrosion resistant metal substrate provided thereby. The method involves forming a plated substrate including a metal substrate provided with a nickel layer or with a nickel and cobalt layer followed by electrodepositing a molybdenum oxide layer from an aqueous solution onto the plated substrate, which is subsequently subjected to an annealing step in a reducing atmosphere to reduce the molybdenum oxide in the molybdenum oxide layer to molybdenum metal in a reduction annealing step and to form a diffusion layer which contains nickel and molybdenum, and optionally cobalt.
US10337387B2	Applied-ignition, liquid-cooled internal combustion engine with cooled cylinder head Methods and systems are provided for thermally insulating an integrated exhaust manifold for a cylinder head of an applied-ignition, liquid-cooled internal combustion engine. In one example, a method may include regional insulation at a collection point where individual exhaust lines and/or partial exhaust lines merge to form an overall exhaust line within the cylinder head. The regional insulation may be formed integrally with a seal and coupled to an outlet flange of the cylinder head and may include a series of tongue-like projections that extend from the cylinder head outlet flange toward the cylinder exhaust lines.
US10337386B2	Method of testing a proper functioning of a selective catalytic reduction system A method and system is disclosed to test for a proper functioning of a selective catalytic reduction system of an internal combustion engine. The engine is operated at idle speed and a functionality check of the pressure sensor is executed. The engine is operated to increase an exhaust gas temperature in the exhaust pipe upstream of the catalyst and a functionality check of the pump is executed. A functionality check of the injector is executed after the functionality check of the pump and once the exhaust gas temperature has reached a predetermined target value thereof. A functionality check of the supply conduit is executed after the functionality check of the injector. The selective catalytic reduction system is identified as functioning properly when all of the functionality checks yields a positive result or malfunctioning when any one of the functionality checks yields a negative result.
US10337384B2	System and method for determining exhaust temperature Methods and systems are provided for accurately inferring an exhaust temperature during steady-state and transient vehicle operation based on the duty cycle of an exhaust gas sensor heating element. A steady-state temperature is inferred based on an inverse of the duty cycle, and then adjusted with a transfer function that compensates for transients resulting from changes in vehicle speed, and load, and for the occurrence of tip-in and tip-out events. The inferred temperature can also be compared to a modeled temperature to identify exhaust temperature overheating conditions, so that mitigating actions can be promptly performed.

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