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US10552334B2	Systems and methods for acquiring data for loads at different access times from hierarchical sources using a load queue as a temporary storage buffer and completing the load early A method and system acquires cache line data associated with a load from respective hierarchical cache data storage components. As a part of the method and system, a store queue is accessed for one or more portions of a cache line associated with the load, and, if the one or more portions of the cache line is held in the store queue, the one or more portions of the cache line is stored in a load queue location associated with the load. The load is completed if the one or more portions of the cache line stored in the load queue location includes all portions of the cache line associated with the load.
US10552333B2	Data storage device and operating method thereof An operating method for a data storage device may include: reading data from a first memory region of a storage medium; storing the read data in a data buffer; and writing the data stored in the data buffer to a second memory region of the storage medium, based on a read count for the first memory region.
US10552331B2	Arithmetic processing device having a move-in buffer control unit that issues a move-in request in shorter time upon a memory access request, information apparatus including the same and method for controlling the arithmetic processing device An arithmetic processing device includes a memory access request issuance unit and a cache including a cache memory for tags and data and a move-in buffer control unit for issuing a move-in request for data on the memory access request when a cache miss occurs. The move-in buffer control unit, when the cache miss occurs, determines to acquire a move-in buffer and issue the move-in request when the memory access request has the same index as an index of any move-in request registered in the move-in buffer and the number of move-in requests of the same index registered in the move-in buffer is less than the number of ways, and determines not to acquire the move-in buffer and does not issue the move-in request when the memory access request has the same index and the number of the move-in requests of the same index reaches the number of the ways.
US10552329B2	SSD caching system for hybrid storage A SSD caching system for hybrid storages is disclosed. The caching system for hybrid storages includes: a Solid State Drive (SSD) for storing cached data, separated into a Repeated Pattern Cache (RPC) area and a Dynamical Replaceable Cache (DRC) area; and a caching managing module, including: an Input/output (I/O) profiling unit, for detecting I/O requests for accesses of blocks in a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) during a number of continuously detecting time intervals, and storing first data corresponding to first blocks being repeatedly accessed at least twice in individual continuously detecting time intervals to the RPC area sequentially; and a hot data searching unit, for detecting I/O requests for accesses of a HDD during a independently detecting time interval, and storing second data corresponding to second blocks being accessed at least twice in the independently detecting time interval to the DRC area sequentially.
US10552325B2	Reducing write-backs to memory by controlling the age of cache lines in lower level cache A method and apparatus for reducing write-backs to memory is disclosed herein. The method includes determining whether a read/write request entering a lower level cache is a cache line containing modified data, and responsive to determining that the read/write request is not a cache line containing modified data, manipulating age information of the cache line to reduce a number of write-backs to memory.
US10552324B2	Populating a second cache with tracks from a first cache when transferring management of the tracks from a first node to a second node Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for populating a second cache with tracks from a first cache when transferring management of the tracks from a first node to a second node. Management of a first group of tracks in the storage managed by the first node is transferred to the second node managing access to a second group of tracks in the storage. After the transferring the management of the tracks, the second node manages access to the first and second groups of tracks and caches accessed tracks from the first and second groups in the second cache of the second node. The second cache of the second node is populated with the tracks in a first cache of the first node.
US10552323B1	Cache flush method and apparatus Various embodiments of a method and apparatus for flushing a cache are disclosed. In a system, a cache memory is accessible by an execution circuit. The execution circuit executes instructions and may utilize data and/or instructions stored in the cache. A flush circuit is also coupled to the cache. Responsive to execution of a power down instruction by the execution circuit, the flush circuit performs a cache flush. If a control state is asserted in a control register, the flush circuit generates a dummy event upon completing the cache flush. Responsive to generating the dummy event, a processor core that includes the execution circuit is inhibited from being powered down.
US10552314B2	Memory system and method for ware leveling According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile first memory, and a controller. The controller associates a first number of consecutive logical addresses with the first number of physical addresses which are included in a second number of consecutive physical addresses of the first memory. The controller executes a first updating and a second updating. The first updating includes associating a first physical address among the second number of physical addresses with a first logical address. The second updating includes obtaining a second logical address which is away from the first logical address by a value corresponding to distance information on the basis of origin information and the distance information and associating, with the second logical address, a second physical address which had been associated with the first logical address before the first updating is executed.
US10552307B2	Storing arrays of data in data processing systems In a data processing system that comprises a memory 8 comprising N memory banks 11, a memory controller is configured to store one or more N data unit×N data unit arrays of data in the memory 8 such that each data unit in each row of each N×N data unit array is stored in a different memory bank of the N memory banks 11, and such that each data unit in each column of each N×N data unit array is stored in a different memory bank of the N memory banks 11.
US10552306B2	Automated test generation for multi-interface and multi-platform enterprise virtualization management environment Embodiments for automated testing of a virtualization management system are described. An example computer-implemented method for automated testing of a virtualization management system includes sending, by a test server, a test case to a plurality of instances of the system under test, the test case sent to each instance of the system under test via each interface from a plurality of interfaces supported by the system under test. The method further includes, for each instance of the system under test, performing multi-interface comparison. The comparison includes comparing, by the test server, responses to the test case from each of the interfaces. The method also includes in response to the responses from each of the interfaces being identical, storing the responses in an instance-response file corresponding to the instance. The method also includes reporting, by the test server, an error in response to the responses from each interface not being identical.
US10552300B2	Oracle-free match testing of a program using covering arrays and equivalence classes A process for testing a program includes: receiving a variable comprising a plurality of input values; producing a plurality of equivalence classes for the input values; producing a representative value per equivalence class; producing, by a processor, a primary covering array comprising a plurality of primary vectors; producing a secondary covering array comprising a plurality of secondary vectors; providing the secondary vectors to the program; and producing a result vector comprising a plurality of result entries to test the program. A computer system for testing the program includes: a memory; and a processor, in communication with the memory, wherein the computer system is configured to perform the process for testing the program. A computer program product for testing the program includes: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium readable by a processor and storing program code for execution by the processor to perform the process.
US10552297B2	Determining instruction execution history in a debugger Determining instruction execution history in a debugger, including: retrieving, from an instruction cache, cache data that includes an age value for each cache line in the instruction cache; sorting, by the age value for each cache line, entries in the instruction cache; retrieving, using an address contained in each cache line, one or more instructions associated with the address contained in each cache line; and displaying the one or more instructions.
US10552296B2	Human-readable, language-independent stack trace summary generation Various aspects of the subject technology related to systems and methods for generating a human-readable, language-independent stack trace summary. A system may be configured to receive error reports which include a language-dependent stack trace generated in response to a software test failure and metadata. The generated language-dependent stack trace includes one or more frames. The system may generate a language-independent stack trace summary by processing each frame of the language-dependent stack trace by removing line number values from each of the one or more frames, removing column number values from each of the one or more frames, collapsing one or more file names identified in each of the one or more frames, and removing spaces from each of the one or more frames. The system may output the generated language-independent stack trace summary.
US10552294B2	Management of internet of things devices A method and system for communicating with IoT devices to gather information related to device failure or error(s) is disclosed. The system receives log files from an IoT device (e.g., a smart refrigerator) that recently failed. The system determines which log files the IoT device created before and/or after a failure. After gathering this information, the system stores the information in a database, sends it to the IoT device manufacturer, or sends it to a cloud provider. The system can also send the failure-related information to the IoT device-related entities (e.g., IoT device manufacturers), and the entity uses this information to troubleshoot the failure and send a fix or software update to the IoT device.
US10552293B2	Logging as a service Techniques are described for managing log data generated by software applications. The techniques can be implemented in a cloud-based infrastructure capable of collecting and analyzing log data generated by software applications through logging and tracing. Logging and tracing are techniques for monitoring the execution of the software applications. The techniques include a processing step where log data is screened before it is saved within log storage and an analyzing step where saved log files are retrieved or analyzed.
US10552292B2	System, method and computer product for management of proof-of-concept software pilots, including neural network-based KPI prediction A computerized computer software pilot evaluation method for quantifying performance of a first population of start-up end-users, each start-up end-user contending within at least one software pilot defined by, including performing a software task for, an enterprise end-user from among a second population of enterprise end-users, the method comprising: generating at least one neural network model, using a processor, for at least one startup server participating in at least one enterprise's pilot (aka computer software pilot), the computer software pilot comprising a task to be performed by each of at least one startup server participating in the pilot, and using the at least one neural network model to predict at least one derivable kpi from measurable kpi's generated by the startup server within the enterprise's pilot.
US10552291B2	Method and system for measuring user engagement with content items Method, system, and programs for measuring user engagement with content items. In one example, a query is received. A set of content items related to the query is obtained. A presentation of at least one content item of the set of content items is provided on a user interface. A user activity related to the at least one content item is determined. An amount of time between a time at which the presentation of the at least one content item is provided on the user interface and a time at which the user activity occurred is determined. A score associated with the content item is determined based on the amount of time. Information related to user engagement with the set of content items is generated based on the score.
US10552290B2	Measuring user interface responsiveness Example embodiments relate to measuring user interface (UI) responsiveness related to a UI of an application running on a computing device. An example method may include accessing a list of actionable controls, where the list indicates at least one UI control of the UI as being actionable. The method may include detecting a user interaction when a user interacts with a UI control of the UI. The method may include determining a list of change controls. The change controls are UI controls that change, refresh or load in response to the user interaction, which will ultimately be displayed on a next screen of the UI after the user interaction, and which are also on the list of actionable controls. The method may include determining a UI responsive time based on the list of change controls.
US10552288B2	Health-aware garbage collection in a memory system A data storage system includes a controller that controls a non-volatile memory array including a plurality of garbage collection units of physical memory. For each of the plurality of garbage collections units storing valid data, the controller determines an invalidation metric and a health-based adjustment of the invalidation metric. The controller selects a garbage collection unit on which to perform garbage collection from among a plurality of garbage collections units predominately based on the invalidation metric for the garbage collection unit and also based on the health-based adjustment for the garbage collection unit. In response to selection of the garbage collection unit, the controller performing garbage collection for the garbage collection unit.
US10552287B2	Performance metrics for diagnosing causes of poor performing virtual machines The disclosed embodiments include a method for identifying a performance metric to diagnose a cause of a performance issues of virtual machine. The method includes obtaining data of a virtual machine, an indication that a storage volume contains data of the virtual machine, data about the storage volume, and an identification of the storage volume. The data of the virtual machine is correlated with the data about the storage volume based on the indication that the storage volume contains data of the virtual machine and the identification of the storage volume. A performance metric is identified based at least in part on an outcome of the correlating. The performance metric indicates that the storage volume is a cause of a performance issue of the virtual machine. A state related to the storage volume is changed to mitigate the cause of the performance issue of the virtual machine.
US10552284B2	System and method for controlling PCIe direct attached nonvolatile memory storage subsystems Techniques for controlling power on a PCIe direct attached non-volatile memory storage system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for controlling power including providing power to a memory attached via the PCIe interface; monitoring a state of the attached memory; determining whether a new operation to be implemented on the attached memory would cause the power provided to the memory to exceed a preset threshold; and stalling execution of the new operation on the attached memory when it is determined that the new operation would exceed the preset threshold while continuing execution of preexisting operations on the attached memory.
US10552282B2	On demand monitoring mechanism to identify root cause of operation problems A monitoring mechanism is used to detect, via client side monitoring, malfunctions of services within a cloud environment. Additional monitors are activated against the problem-related services in the system. Recursively, the monitored problem-related services act as the client to other services inside the cloud environment and can be used to detect more services which need to be monitored until all the problem-related services are monitored. After the problem is fixed, the monitoring can be disabled automatically or manually.
US10552277B2	Electronic devices An electronic device may include a data conversion circuit, a parity conversion circuit and a verification signal generation circuit. The data conversion circuit may be configured to convert the data to generate internal data. The parity conversion circuit may be configured to convert a parity to generate an internal parity. The verification signal generation circuit may be configured to generate a verification signal from a syndrome signal and the error insertion code. The syndrome signal may be generated from the internal data and the internal parity.
US10552272B2	Maintaining high availability during N-node failover A system and method for reserving resources for a virtual machine to use during failure of an underlying node are disclosed. The system and method include a scheduling module that is configured to reserve resources for the virtual machine on at least one candidate node. To reserve the resources, the scheduling module is configured to identify a list of candidate nodes based upon a qualifier function, rank the candidate nodes based upon a priority function, and determine the candidate nodes that satisfy a high availability threshold. The scheduling module is also configured to select a highest-ranked candidate node that satisfies the high availability threshold and reserve the resources on the highest-ranked candidate node.
US10552271B2	Switching servers without interrupting a client command-response queue The present invention provides computer implemented method, system, and computer program product of switching servers without interrupting a client command-response queue. In an embodiment, the present invention includes selecting standby computer server systems, connecting a CRQ of a client computer system to a previous active computer server system and to the selected standby computer server systems, transmitting setup commands to the selected standby computer server systems, communicating data with the previous active computer server system via at least one sub-CRQ, communicating management commands with the previous active computer server system and the selected standby computer server systems via the CRQ, receiving a notification that a switchover has occurred, redirecting the CRQ to one of the selected standby computer server systems, in response to the redirecting, communicating data with a new active computer server system via at least one sub-CRQ, and sending new setup commands to the new computer server system.
US10552270B2	Systems and methods for in-field core failover A multicore processor may include multiple processing cores that were previously designated as active cores and at least one processing core that was previously designated as a functional spare. The processor may include an interface to receive, during operation of the processor in an end-user environment, a request to change the designation of at least one of the processing cores. The processor may be to store, into a desired cores configuration data structure in response to the request, data representing a bitmask that reflects the requested change, and to execute a reset sequence. During the reset sequence, the processor may activate, dependent on the bitmask, a processing core previously designated as a functional spare, or may deactivate, dependent on the bitmask, a processing core previously designated as an active core. The processor may include a predetermined maximum number of active cores and a predetermined minimum number of functional spares.
US10552267B2	Microcheckpointing with service processor A method, computer program product, and computer system to maintain high availability of a service processor. An embodiment provides program code with a location of a second service processor (the second service processor is communicatively coupled to the first service processor). The program code stops a virtual machine during runtime, including instruction execution and IO operations, where during runtime, the virtual machine executes one or more processes to service and manage computing resources in the distributed computing environment. The program code generates a micro-checkpoint of the virtual machine. The program code resumes the instruction execution of the virtual machine and transmits the micro-checkpoint to a second service processor based on the location and then resumes IO operations. The second service processor utilizes the micro-checkpoint to enable a hypervisor on the second service processor to start a virtual machine on the second service processor.
US10552261B2	Semiconductor device and memory module A selection decoder controls levels of a plurality of selection signals based on an address bit having at least one or more bits. A memory module is selected when its corresponding selection signal is at an activated level, and data can be read and written therein. A failure determination unit determines whether or not the selection decoder is in a failed state based on the levels of the plurality of selection signals.
US10552260B2	Detection of double bit errors and correction of single bit errors in a multiword array An error correction code for an array of N words of M bits each may be generated by: (i) for each word of the N words, computing a respective set of checkbits for single-error correction of such word; (ii) computing a set of bit-position-related checkbits comprising a bitwise logical exclusive OR of all of the sets of checkbits for single-error correction of the N words; (iii) for each word of the N words, computing a respective parity for the respective set of checkbits and the word itself in order to form a vector of N parity bits; (iv) computing a set of word-related checkbits for single-error correction of the vector of N parity bits; and (v) computing a cumulative parity bit comprising a parity calculation of the set of bit-position-related checkbits, the set of word-related checkbits, and the vector of N parity bits.
US10552256B2	Morphable ECC encoder/decoder for NVDIMM over DDR channel A hardware coding mechanism is described. The coding mechanism may include a first encoder to produce a first code using a base number of bits and a second encoder to produce a second code using a supplementary number of bits. The second code and the first code together may be stronger than the first code alone. A mode register stored in a storage may specify whether a switch to the second encoder is open or closed: the first coder is always used.
US10552255B2	Memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a memory configured to store data; an error correcting circuit configured to correct an error in data read from the memory, and to generate a first signal of a first state, which is transmitted to an external along with the data if the error in the data cannot be corrected; and a first pin configured to transmit the first signal to the external and receive a data mask signal from the external.
US10552254B2	Partially written superblock treatment The present disclosure relates to partially written superblock treatment. An example apparatus includes a memory device operable as a multiplane memory resource including blocks organized as superblocks. The memory device is configured to maintain, internal to the memory device, included in a status of an open superblock, a page indicator corresponding to a last written page of the open superblock. The memory device is further configured, responsive to receipt, from a controller, of a read request to a page of the open superblock, determine from page map information maintained internal to the memory device and from the indicator of the last written page, which of a number of different read trim sets to use to read the page of the open superblock corresponding to the read request.
US10552252B2	Patterned bit in error measurement apparatus and method A method includes detecting different data patterns in data read from a portion of a non-transitory data storage medium. Bit errors in the different data patterns are then determined. Further, bits in error for a total number of bits in each of the different data patterns are calculated from the determined bit errors in the different data patterns.
US10552247B2	Real-time monitoring alert chaining, root cause analysis, and optimization Managing real-time monitoring alerts is provided. An alert is generated for one or more metrics exceeding corresponding defined metric threshold values. A root cause dependency table showing relationships between alerts is retrieved. It is determined whether current real-time metrics are needed from one or more monitoring agents that correspond to dependent alerts not triggered in an alert chain of the generated alert based on information in the root cause dependency table. In response to determining that the current real-time metrics are needed from the one or more monitoring agents that correspond to the dependent alerts not triggered in the alert chain of the generated alert based on the information in the root cause dependency table, the current real-time metrics are requested from the one or more monitoring agents that correspond to the dependent alerts not triggered in the alert chain.
US10552246B1	Computer system and method for handling non-communicative assets The example systems, methods, and devices disclosed herein generally relate to handling operating data from non-communicative assets. In some instances, a data-analytics platform receives operating data points from a given asset of a plurality of assets. Based on that data, the data-analytics platform detects a communication abnormality at the given asset, in accordance with one or more techniques disclosed herein. In response to detecting the communication abnormality, the data-analytics platform designates the given asset as being non-communicative. The data-analytics platform handles operating data points received from the given asset in accordance with the non-communicative designation.
US10552241B2	Action recommendation to reduce server management errors An actuator to execute on a server may be automatically selected based on risk of failure and damage to the server. Requirement specification and environment parameters may be received. A subset of actuators may be selected based on a risk threshold from an actuator catalog database storing actuator information and actuator risk metadata associated with a plurality of actuators. The actuator risk metadata may be augmented with risk information. A ranked list of the subset of actuators may be generated based on the actuator risk metadata associated with each actuator in the subset. An actuator in the ranked list may be executed on the server.
US10552230B2	Post-copy migration of a group of virtual machines that share memory A hypervisor of a source host receives a request to migrate a group of virtual machines that provide network function virtualization support (NFV) from the source host to a destination host. The hypervisor of the source host determines that a first virtual machine of the group of virtual machines being migrated to the destination host shares a memory space on the source host with the group of virtual machines on the source host. Upon receiving a request from a second virtual machine of the group of virtual machines on the source host to access a first memory page of the shared memory space on the source host that has been migrated to the destination host, the hypervisor of the source host initiates migration of the second virtual machine to the destination host.
US10552229B2	Systems and methods for determining placement of computing workloads within a network Systems and methods for determining placement of computing workloads within a network are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes determining one or more attributes of a computing workload to be placed within a network. The method also includes predicting interaction of the computing workload with one or more other computing workloads within the network based on the one or more attributes. Further, the method includes determining placement of the computing workload within the network based on the predicted interaction and a topology of the network.
US10552225B2	Virtual device migration or cloning based on device profiles Techniques for placing virtual machines based on compliance of device profiles are disclosed. In one embodiment, a list of device profiles may be maintained, with each device profile including details of at least one virtual device and associated capabilities. Further, a device profile from the list of device profiles may be assigned to a virtual machine running on a first host computing system. A virtual device and associated configurations required by the virtual machine may be identified to comply with the device profile. A management operation may be performed to migrate or clone the virtual device and associated configurations from a second host computing system to the first host computing system to support the compliance of the device profile assigned to the virtual machine.
US10552224B2	Computer system including server storage system A server storage system has a plurality of logical partitions obtained by logically dividing at least part of a plurality of resources including a plurality of types of resource. The plurality of resources include a plurality of server resources including a plurality of types of server resource provided in a server system and a plurality of storage resources including a plurality of types of storage resource provided in a storage system. A resource allocated to each of two or more logical partitions includes at least one of an exclusively allocated resource and a commonly allocated resource. The type of each of a plurality of resources exclusively allocated to each of the two or more logical partitions varies in accordance with a load characteristic of a load on the logical partition.
US10552223B2	User interface and system supporting user decision making and readjustments in computer-executable job allocations in the cloud A visual tool may be provided to display information associated with computer job allocation and to allow a user to explore different job configurations. Jobs executing on a computing environment comprising a shared pool of configurable computing resources may be monitored. Cost and duration estimates may be determined with uncertainty associated with the cost and duration estimates. Sandbox environment may be provided that allow users to manipulate one or more different job configuration options for executing the jobs in the computing environment.
US10552220B2	Sizing of one or more jobs within one or more time windows Aspects of the present invention provide systems and methods that ascertain appropriate time windows for when a task or tasks are best suited to be performed and also for appropriately sizing the number of tasks so that they can be completed within a window or windows. In embodiments, a system for estimating a system resource comprises a component selection system configured to receive a selection of one or more components and/or one or more metrics to be monitored. In embodiments, an analyzer uses at least some of the gathered data to determine one or more resource capacity windows for performing a task or tasks and determines an appropriate job size or sizes for scheduling the tasks to be performed within the one or more resource capacity windows.
US10552219B2	Computing resource management of computing devices Pooling computing resources based on inferences about a plurality of hardware devices. The method includes identifying inference information about the plurality of devices. The method further includes based on the inference information optimizing resource usage of the plurality of hardware devices.
US10552218B2	Dynamic context of tasks In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for linking tasks and resources are provided. A plurality of attributes associated with a task resource may be analyzed. A plurality of contexts that are associated with the plurality of attributes may be determined and the plurality of attributes may be classified into one or more contextual groups. At least one resource node related to the task resource may be identified, the at least one resource node having a plurality of identified attributes sharing at least two contexts associated with the plurality of attributes that are associated with the task resource. An actionable link to at least one resource corresponding to the at least one identified resource may be displayed.
US10552214B2	Media balancer employing selectable evaluation source A media balancer obtains a master schedule to be used as a basis for generating target schedules, user input specifying one or more target stations for which the one or more target schedules are to be generated, and a duration delta indicating a maximum difference between runtimes of the replacement media items and the one or more scheduled media items. The media balancer selects a media scheduler to identify replacement media items to be substituted for one or more scheduled media items identified in the master schedule and transmits information associated with the duration delta to the media scheduler. The media balancer receives a list of identified replacement media items selected by the media scheduler, and generates the target schedules by replacing scheduled media items with particular replacement media items taken from the list of identified replacement media items.
US10552213B2	Thread pool and task queuing method and system A system includes a memory, at least one processor in communication with the memory, a counter, and a scheduler. The scheduler is configured to classify a thread of the pool of threads as a first classification as either available or unavailable. Additionally, the scheduler is configured to classify the pool of threads, based on a counter value from the counter, as a second classification less than a configured core thread pool size, equal to or larger than the configured core thread pool size but less than a maximum core thread pool size, or equal to or larger than the maximum core thread pool size. The scheduler is also configured to classify a resistance factor as a third classification as either within a limit or outside the limit, and schedule a work order based on at least one of the classifications.
US10552212B2	Data processing Data processing apparatus comprises a group of two or more processing elements configured to execute processing instructions of a program task; the processing elements being configured to provide context data relating to a program task following execution of that program task by that processing element; and to receive context data, provided by that processing element or another processing element, at resumption of execution of a program task; in which a next processing element of the group to execute a program task is configured to receive a first subset of the context data from a previous processing element to execute that program task and to start to execute the program task using the first subset of the context data; and in which the next processing element is configured to receive one or more items of a second, remaining, subset of the context data during execution of the program task by that processing element.
US10552211B2	Mechanism to increase thread parallelism in a graphics processor A processing apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a plurality of execution threads having a first thread space configuration including a first plurality of rows of execution threads to process data in parallel, wherein each thread in a row is dependent on a top neighbor thread in a preceding row, partition logic to partition the plurality of execution threads into a plurality of banks, wherein each bank includes one or more of the first plurality of rows of execution threads and transform logic to transform the first thread space configuration to a second thread space configuration including a second plurality of rows of execution threads to enable the plurality of execution threads in each of the plurality of banks to operate in parallel.
US10552210B2	Method and apparatus for migrating virtual machine Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for migrating a virtual machine. A specific embodiment of the method comprises: loading a target kernel module of a target operating system, the target operating system used for controlling a target electronic device running a virtual machine, and the target kernel module used for performing a shutdown operation for the target electronic device; determining whether to perform the shutdown operation based on electronic device running state information of the target electronic device; determining whether to migrate the virtual machine when a preset triggering condition is met, in response to determining not to perform the shutdown operation; and migrating the virtual machine if determining to migrate the virtual machine.
US10552205B2	Work conserving, load balancing, and scheduling A system and method are described for work conserving, load balancing, and scheduling by a network processor. For example, one embodiment of a system includes a plurality of processing cores, including a scheduling circuit, at least one source processing core that generates at least one task and at least one destination processing core that receives and processes the at least one task, and generates a response. The scheduling circuit of the exemplary system receives the at least one task and conducts a load balancing to select the at least one destination processing core. In an embodiment, the scheduling circuit further detects a critical sequences of tasks, schedules those tasks to be processed by a single destination processing core, and, upon completion of the critical sequence, conducts another load balancing to potentially select a different processing core to process more tasks.
US10552201B2	Software-assisted instruction level execution preemption One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for instruction level execution preemption. Preempting at the instruction level does not require any draining of the processing pipeline. No new instructions are issued and the context state is unloaded from the processing pipeline. Any in-flight instructions that follow the preemption command in the processing pipeline are captured and stored in a processing task buffer to be reissued when the preempted program is resumed. The processing task buffer is designated as a high priority task to ensure the preempted instructions are reissued before any new instructions for the preempted context when execution of the preempted context is restored.
US10552199B2	System and method for binary throttling for live migration of virtual machines A system and method include initiating a live migration of a virtual machine from a first host machine to a second host machine. The system and method include copying an initial copy of data stored in a memory of the first host machine to a memory of the second host machine, determining a set of modified data, determining that transferring the set of modified data exceeds a downtime limit, calculating an increased throttling amount based on a rate of data copying and a rate of data change using from the set of modified data, determining the increased throttling amount does not exceed a throttling limit, applying the increased throttling to the virtual machine executing on the first host machine, and copying the set of modified data while the increased throttling is applied to the virtual machine executing on the first host machine.
US10552194B2	Virtualization operations for directly assigned devices Embodiments relate to enabling state manipulation of virtual machines (VMs) that have directly assigned hardware devices. A hypervisor manages execution of a VM with a guest operating system. The hypervisor directly assigns a physical (non-virtual) hardware device to the VM, such that the VM has exclusive use of the hardware device and the guest operating system uses the hardware without needing virtualization abstraction/mapping by the hypervisor. When the VM needs to be pauses, suspended, restored, or similarly manipulated, the hypervisor communicates with the VM to cause the guest operating system to perform whatever operations might be necessary by the hardware device. The hypervisor and VM/guest may communicate with a variety of mechanisms, such as a host driver communicating with a guest driver, a virtual bus service backed by a hardware bus of the computer, a virtual bus channel, or the like.
US10552193B2	Security protocols for low latency execution of program code A system for providing security mechanisms for secure execution of program code is described. The system may be configured to maintain a plurality of virtual machine instances. The system may be further configured to receive a request to execute a program code and allocate computing resources for executing the program code on one of the virtual machine instances. One mechanism involves executing program code according to a user-specified security policy. Another mechanism involves executing program code that may be configured to communicate or interface with an auxiliary service. Another mechanism involves splitting and executing program code in a plurality of portions, where some portions of the program code are executed in association with a first level of trust and some portions of the program code are executed with different levels of trust.
US10552192B2	Entity database timestamps In particular embodiments, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes host machines, each of the host machines including a hypervisor, user virtual machines (UVMs) and a virtual machine controller. The virtualization environment also includes virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, and being accessible by the virtual machine controllers. The virtual machine controllers conduct I/O transactions with the virtual disks. The system stores an entity-relationship graph representing elements in the virtualization environment. Each of the elements is represented by an entity-type node in the entity-relationship graph, and relationships between the elements are represented by edges between the nodes.
US10552191B2	Distributed hybrid cloud orchestration model Aspects of the instant disclosure relate to methods for facilitating intercloud resource migration. In some embodiments, a method of the subject technology can include steps for instantiating a first intercloud fabric provider platform (ICFPP) at a first cloud datacenter, instantiating a second ICFPP at a second cloud datacenter, and receiving a migration request at the first ICFPP, the migration request including a request to migrate a virtual machine (VM) workload from the first cloud datacenter to the second cloud datacenter. In some aspects, the method may further include steps for initiating, by the first ICFPP, a migration of the VM workload via the second ICFPP in response to the migration request. Systems and machine readable media are also provided.
US10552187B2	Policy-based hypervisor configuration management Methods and apparatus to manage configuration of policy-based hypervisors are disclosed. An example method includes generating, by executing an instruction with a processor, a specification for a target configuration of a host based on a policy-based profile, the policy-based profile describing a source configuration of a source host at a virtualization software level; applying, by executing an instruction with the processor, the specification to the target configuration; and in response to an update to the policy-based profile, updating, by executing an instruction with the processor, the target configuration to place the host in compliance with the updated policy-based profile.
US10552184B2	Array clocking in emulation Examples of techniques for emulating an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) array using a field programmable gate array (FPGA) are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method may include loading configuration information to the FPGA, wherein the configuration information is representative of configuration information of the ASIC. The method may further include emulating the ASIC using the FPGA loaded with the configuration information by applying a fast emulation clock signal to the FPGA. The fast emulation clock signal is a multiple of a system clock signal.
US10552178B2	Method for controlling startup of application and terminal device A method for controlling application includes following operations. Startup of a target application of a terminal device is accelerated in response a control instruction of starting the target application. Accelerating the startup of the target application is stopped when a duration of accelerating the startup of the target application reaches a preset value, based on that a time length required for successfully starting the target application is greater than or equal to a preset time length, or accelerating the startup of the target application is stopped when a refresh rate of frames of a main thread of the target application reaches or exceeds a preset refresh rate, based on that the time length required for successfully starting the target application is less than the preset time length. A related terminal device is also provided.
US10552159B2	Power management of branch predictors in a computer processor A computer processor includes a branch prediction unit that includes a local branch predictor and a global branch predictor. Managing power consumption in such a computer processor includes, for each of a plurality of branch instructions: performing, by the local branch predictor, a local branch prediction; performing, by each of the global branch predictors, a global branch prediction; determining to utilize the local branch prediction over the global branch predictions as a branch prediction for the branch instruction; incrementing a value of a counter; determining whether the value of the counter exceeds a predetermined threshold; and if the value of the counter exceeds the predetermined threshold, powering down at least one of the global branch predictors and configuring the branch prediction unit to bypass the powered down global branch predictor for branch predictions of subsequent branch instructions.
US10552157B2	System and method to clear and rebuild dependencies A data processing method for a data processing system, comprising: initializing a value of a counter associated with a first entry to indicate a number of destinations of other entries on which the first entry depends; changing the value of the counter in a first direction in response to selecting a first one of the other entries; and changing the value of the counter in a second direction opposite the first direction in response to cancelling a second one of the other entries.
US10552155B2	Livelock recovery circuit configured to detect illegal repetition of an instruction and transition to a known state Livelock recovery circuits configured to detect livelock in a processor, and cause the processor to transition to a known safe state when livelock is detected. The livelock recovery circuits include detection logic configured to detect that the processor is in livelock when the processor has illegally repeated an instruction; and transition logic configured to cause the processor to transition to a safe state when livelock has been detected by the detection logic.
US10552149B2	Data processing device A data processing device has an instruction decoder, a control logic unit, and ALU. The instruction decoder decodes instruction codes of an arithmetic instruction. The control logic unit detects the effective data width of operation data to be processed according to the decode result from the instruction decoder and determines the number of cycles for the instruction execution corresponding to the effective, data width. The ALU executes the instruction with the number of cycles of the instruction execution determined by the control logic unit.
US10552148B2	Building dynamic documentation based on installed services Techniques for dynamically building documentation based on installed services are described herein. In an embodiment, a plurality of different electronic documents are stored in a data repository. A server computer system identifies one or more service software components of an application program that have been installed as part of a particular application instance. The server computer identifies a subset of one or more particular documents from the plurality of documents stored in the data repository that correspond to the identified one or more services. Using the subset of one or more particular documents, the server generates a particular customized document which is then stored in association with the particular application instance.
US10552146B2	Information processing apparatus that executes update application, control method therefor, and storage medium An information processing apparatus has a printer driver module and a USB port and executes an update application that firmware of an MFP that carries out communications via the USB port and firmware of an MFP that is capable of carrying out communications with the device driver. When the printer driver module is a printer driver module that manages connection information indicating that the printer driver module and the USB port are connected together, an MFP having firmware to fee updated is determined as an update candidate based on first information indicating the MFP capable of carrying out communications with the printer driver module and second information indicating the MFP connected to the USB port. When the printer driver module is a device driver module that does not manage the connection information, the update candidate is selected using the first information without using the second information.
US10552144B2	Method for updating firmware of devices The invention relates to a method for updating firmware of devices such as automation devices and/or energy management devices, including the process steps of: providing at least one firmware file; loading the at least one firmware file into a loading tool; connecting the loading tool to the device; and transferring the firmware file to the device in consideration of loading information. In order to enable the firmware updating of different devices by means of only one loading tool, the loading information according to the invention is hived off from the loading tool, stored in at least one external data source and loaded by the loading tool from the at least one external data source.
US10552143B2	Relay device, program update system, and program update method One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a relay device communicating with a plurality of control devices that belong to on-vehicle networks. This relay device is provided with: a storage unit configured to store therein a plurality of update programs for simultaneous update required for the plurality of control devices, and topologies of the on-vehicle networks; an in-vehicle communication unit configured to transmit the plurality of update programs to the corresponding control devices, respectively; and a control unit configured to control the in-vehicle communication unit such that, as for control devices that belong to a plurality of on-vehicle networks that are individually connected to the relay device and are independent from each other, the plurality of update programs corresponding to the control devices are transmitted in parallel with each other.
US10552142B2	System and method for distributed revision control A system and method for distributed revision control includes receiving, by a revision control module being executed by one or more processors of a server, a request to store a first version in a repository, the repository comprising a plurality of stored versions, determining whether the first version is in the repository, incrementing a client reference counter associated with the first version when the first version is in the repository, adding the first version to the repository and sending the first version to one or more additional servers when the first version is not in the repository, and decrementing a server reference counter associated with a second version in the repository when the first version replaces the second version as a head version of the repository.
US10552141B1	Upgrading an execution environment for event-driven functions An event-driven compute service upgrades an execution environment for registered functions of the compute service. Some compute nodes of the service have an updated version of the execution environment and some compute nodes have the old version of the execution environment. As a part of the upgrade process, some functions are executed in both environments. For example, for some invocations of a particular function, the function is executed in the updated execution environment while for other invocations of the same function, the function is executed in the old execution environment. Based on resulting status of the executions, the compute service determines that the particular function is compatible or incompatible with the updated version of the execution environment. The compute service performs subsequent executions of incompatible functions in the old version of the execution environment instead of in the updated version. A client may be notified of the incompatibility.
US10552140B2	Automated identification of deployment data for distributing discrete software deliverables Methods and systems are disclosed for defining deployment data that identify a manner in which to divide a software package of source code deliverables into smaller discrete software package. A triggering event occurring in response to a modification of one or more source code deliverables causes a set of source code deliverables to be identified. One or more particular metadata identifiers associated with the modified one or more source code deliverables may be used to define a group of source code deliverables. The group of source code deliverables includes a subset of the set of source code deliverables that may also be associated with the one or more particular metadata identifiers. One or more packaging rules may facilitate defining deployment data identifying package transmissions for the group of source code deliverables. The deployment data may then be output to one or more devices.
US10552138B2	Technologies for secure software update using bundles and merkle signatures Technologies for secure software update include an update server and one or more client computing devices. The update server generates a software release including release components, such as packages and/or bundles, and a version number. The update server generates an integrity hash tree over the software release and a Lamport one-time signature key pair for each node of the integrity hash tree. The update server generates a Merkle signature scheme authentication tree based on the key pairs and signs each node of the integrity hash tree. The update server signs the root of the authentication tree with an anchor private key. A client computing device downloads one or more release components and verifies the release components with the integrity hash tree, the signatures, and the authentication tree. The client computing device verifies the root of the authentication tree with an anchor public key. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10552137B2	Method and apparatus for running mobile device software A method and an apparatus for running mobile device software, the method comprising: receiving a request to run mobile device software on the apparatus; activating an application of the apparatus to determine whether a platform for operating the mobile device software is installed on the apparatus and whether the mobile device software is installed on the apparatus; downloading and installing the platform and/or the mobile device software, if applicable; determining screen size and/or orientation for displaying graphical contents of the mobile device software on a display; running the mobile device software through the platform; displaying translated graphical contents of the mobile device software on the display; and converting user controls received at the apparatus to controls for the mobile device software based on predefined configuration data, wherein the platform is configured to operate in an existing operating system of the apparatus not originally configured to run the mobile device software.
US10552135B1	Reducing a size of an application package Some examples include techniques for efficiently handling an application package. For instance, a native code library used by an application may be identified. A wrapper library that enables the application to access the native code library may be created. The wrapper library may be stored in a first area of the application package. The native code library may be stored in a second area of the application package. If the application package includes more than one native code library, the application package may include a loading order specifying an order in which the native code libraries are to be loaded into a memory of a computing device.
US10552133B2	Image deployment method and apparatus This application discloses an image deployment method, where the image deployment method is applied to a container system. Information about an image that has been deployed on each host is collected. After an image tag of a to-be-deployed image is obtained, a degree of overlapping between the image that has been deployed on each host and the to-be-deployed image is determined. A host with a higher overlapping degree needs to download a smaller amount of data when deploying the to-be-deployed image and deploys the to-be-deployed image at a higher speed. Finally, a management node selects, according to overlapping degrees of the hosts, a deployment host for deploying the to-be-deployed image.
US10552132B2	Binary merging device, method, and computer program According to various example embodiments, a first binary, i.e., an original binary of an application, and a second binary to be added to the application may be merged in a binary form without having to modify a source code.
US10552129B2	Agglomerative algorithm for graph clustering Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for determining clusters of operations in a data processing pipeline. By clustering the operations according to the operations' programming languages using the algorithm disclosed herein, performance efficiency gains can be achieved. The algorithm is iterative, traversing all operations in a data processing pipeline with subsequent iterations addressing the clustering regime determined by prior iterations.
US10552127B2	Method and system for developing relation-context specific software applications Some embodiments described herein provide a system to run a source program. The system receives a source program with derived variables and/or derived functions. The system first performs syntax and semantic analysis on the received source program, and subsequently generates executable code. When the source program has a derived variable, the system generates executable code for: creating an object that includes the derived variable, assigning a value to the derived variable, and searching for a value of the derived variable at runtime. When the source code has a derived function, the system generates executable code for searching for a value of the derived function at runtime. Finally the system runs the generated executable code at runtime.
US10552125B1	Messaging between components in graphical user interfaces for industrial control systems A method for delivering a message between components in a project using a GUI through which users may be able to monitor and control industrial processes. Each component has graphical features and/or behavioral features. The method comprises steps of: receiving first definition input to define a message handler associated with a first component in the project for receiving messages for the first component and receiving second definition input to define a messenger associated with a second component in the project for sending messages. The method includes, in response to receiving a payload input via the messenger associated with the second component: identifying components having associated message handlers with a message type definition that matches a message type argument of the messenger and a scope definition that matches a scope argument of the messenger, delivering the payload, and executing script implementations of the message handlers.
US10552124B2	Systems and methods for building applications using building blocks linkable with metadata Systems and methods relate to creating applications using building blocks linked together with metadata. A user interface can enable a user to create an application. Creating the application can include defining a new building block configured to generate output data. The new building block can include one or more existing building blocks and the metadata associated with the existing building blocks. For example, a building block can include at least one input/output (I/O) feature configured to receive inputs and/or generate outputs. Further, the existing building block can correspond to a data structure including external I/O features. The new building block can be linked to an existing building block by mapping an external I/O feature of the existing building block to an open I/O feature of the new building block. The mapping can be stored in metadata associated with the new building block.
US10552109B2	Methods for assessing reliability of a utility company's power system Methods are provided for assessing reliability of a power system of a utility company. At least one main overview display is obtained. Violation markers are displayed on the one main overview display. A monitored elements tab is updated with a list of monitored elements.
US10552101B1	System and method for automated generation and installation of MFP applications from monitored device usage A system and method provides for monitoring of popular multifunction peripheral instruction sequences for generation and installation of custom applications. The MFP has a user interface, including a display, and receives a sequence of document processing instruction sequences from one or more users. The processor generates log data corresponding to a logging of each received document processing instruction sequence. The processor sends generated log data to an associated server via a network interface. The network interface receives an application generated by the associated server in accordance with generated log data via the network interface. The processor then installs a received application on the multifunction peripheral along with control indicia on the display. The processor performs a sequence of document processing instructions specified by the received application upon a user selection of the control indicia.
US10552100B2	Information processing apparatus that executes a printer driver for merging address books, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium An information processing apparatus executes a printer driver, and includes processing circuitry and one or more memories. The processing circuitry is configured to display a first setting screen and a second setting screen. The first setting screen is used to perform setting of the printer driver via a desktop application. The second setting screen is used to perform setting of the printer driver via a store application. The memories include a first memory area and a second memory area. The first memory area is editable on the first setting screen, and stores a first address book editable by the processing circuitry. The second memory area editable on the second setting screen, and stores a second address book editable by the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to merge the first address book and the second address book.
US10552099B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes a state control unit, a position information acquisition unit, and a power control determination unit. The state control unit controls the image forming apparatus in at least a normal state and a power saving state. The position information acquisition unit determines position information of a mobile terminal, based on a signal strength in wireless communication that is performed between the mobile terminal and a radio device disposed at a predetermined position. The power control determination unit determines whether or not to change a control state from the power saving state to the normal state, based on the position information of the mobile terminal that issues a printing instruction. The state control unit changes the control state from the power saving state to the normal state, according to a determination result of the power control determination unit.
US10552091B2	Using deterministic logical unit numbers to dynamically map data volumes Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include storing one or more data volumes to a small computer system interface storage device, and receiving a request to map a given data volume to a host computer. One or more attributes of the given data volume are identified, and using the identified one or more attributes, a unique logical unit number (LUN) for the given data volume is generated. The given data volume is mapped to the host computer via the unique LUN. In some embodiments, the generated LUN includes one of the one or more attributes. In additional embodiments, the generated LUN includes a result of a hash function using the one or more attributes. In storage virtualization environments, the data volume may include secondary logical units, and mapping the given data volume to the host may include binding the SLU to the host.
US10552090B2	Solid state drives with multiple types of addressable memory Solid state drives with multiple types of addressable memory, where the solid state drives include: a first memory component comprising a plurality of nonvolatile registers; a second memory component comprising flash memory; and one or more controllers configured to: receive a write operation, wherein the write operation indicates a first portion of data to be written to the flash memory and indicates a second portion of data to be written to one or more of the plurality of registers; and atomically write the first portion of the data to the flash memory and the second portion of the data to the one or more of the plurality of registers.
US10552088B2	Computer system and method for redundantizing nonvolatile memory A computer system including: a first computer including a first processor and a first nonvolatile memory; and a second computer including a second processor and a second nonvolatile memory in which the second computer is connected to the first computer. The first computer includes a redundant hardware that, on receiving a write command from the first processor, writes the write data of the write command both into the first nonvolatile memory and into the second computer.
US10552086B2	Global pool of garbage collection units (GCUs) in a shared non-volatile memory device Apparatus and method for managing shared resources in a data storage device such as a solid-state drive (SSD). In some embodiments, a non-volatile memory (NVM) has a population of semiconductor memory dies which are divided into die sets for different users. Each die set includes user garbage collection units (GCUs) for storage of user data blocks by the associated user and overprovisioned global GCUs to store user data blocks from the users of the other die sets. When an imbalance condition exists such that the workload traffic level of a first die set exceeds a workload traffic level of a second die set, at least one host I/O command for the first die set is offloaded for servicing using a selected global GCU of the second die set. The offloaded data may be subsequently transferred to the first die set after the imbalance condition is resolved.
US10552079B2	Planning of data segment merge for distributed storage system Balancing resource usage for client applications workload and data merge optimization of the backend for both a local merge within one server and a merge across multiple servers is determined based on previous resource usage pattern in a distributed storage system.
US10552077B2	Techniques for managing partitions on a storage device Disclosed herein are techniques for managing partitions on a storage device. A method can include (1) identifying a storage capacity of the storage device, (2) generating a first data structure that defines a first partition on the storage device, where the first partition consumes a first amount of the storage capacity, and (3) generating a second data structure that defines a second partition on the storage device, where the second partition consumes at least a portion of a remaining amount of the storage capacity relative to the first amount. In response to receiving a shrink request directed to the first partition, the method can further include (4) identifying a first utilized area within the first partition that will no longer be utilized as a result of the shrink request, and (5) updating first information in the first data structure to indicate that the first utilized area is unutilized.
US10552073B2	Storage system including non-volatile memory device A storage system includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller. The nonvolatile memory device includes first and second memory blocks and stores data corresponding to first and second volumes. The controller performs a snapshot function on the data corresponding to the first and second volumes and determines data to be stored in the first and second memory blocks based on parameters for generating snapshots of the first and second volumes. The controller stores data corresponding to a snapshot deleted at a first time point in the first memory block, stores data corresponding to a snapshot deleted at a second time point in the second memory block, adds the first memory block to a victim block list after the first time point, and adds the second memory block to the victim block list after the second time point.
US10552068B2	Access method and device for random access memories, control chip and storage medium Disclosed are a device and method for accessing to a RAM and a control chip. The device includes a register module configured to acquire attribute information and startup information configured by a CPU and send the startup information to a searching and matching module, and also configured to store data information successfully matched by the searching and matching module and instruct the CPU to read the data information. The searching and matching module is configured to send address information to an RAM interface module according to the startup information, and also configured to acquire the data information sent by the RAM interface module, match the data information based on the attribute information in the register module and send the data information to the register module after matching is successful. The RAM interface module is configured to read the data information from the RAM based on the address information sent by the searching and matching module and send the data information to the searching and matching module.
US10552065B2	Storage apparatus including nonvolatile memory A storage apparatus includes a first memory, which is nonvolatile, a first controller that controls the first memory, a wireless antenna, a second memory, which is operable based on power supplied from the wireless antenna, and a second controller that is operable based on the power supplied from the wireless antenna, and performs communication using the wireless antenna. When performing communication with an external apparatus using the wireless antenna, the second controller performs authentication of the external apparatus, and stores in the second memory an authentication result indicating whether the authentication succeeded or failed. If the authentication result indicates that the authentication succeeded, the second controller permits reading by the external apparatus of first data from the second memory by communication using the wireless antenna or writing by the external apparatus of second data to the second memory by communication using the wireless antenna.
US10552064B2	Enabling data integrity checking and faster application recovery in synchronous replicated datasets One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for utilizing snapshots for data integrity validation and/or faster application recovery. For example, a first storage controller, hosting first storage, has a synchronous replication relationship with a second storage controller hosting second storage. A snapshot replication policy rule is defined to specify that a replication label is to be used for snapshot create requests, targeting the first storage, that are to be replicated to the second storage. A snapshot creation policy is created to issue snapshot create requests comprising the replication label. Thus a snapshot of the first storage and a replication snapshot of the second storage are created based upon a snapshot create request comprising the replication label. The snapshot and the replication snapshot may be compared for data integrity validation (e.g., determine whether the snapshots comprise the same data) and/or quickly recovering an application after a disaster.
US10552057B2	Methods for improving journal performance in storage networks and devices thereof A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and storage server computing device that determines when a generated storage operation corresponds with one of a set of predefined storage operations. The storage operation is executed and a result of the execution of the storage operation is withheld from a file system, when the determining indicates that the storage operation corresponds with one of the set of predefined storage operations. A determination is made when a consistency point operation has completed. The result of the execution of the storage operation is presented to the file system, when the determining indicates that a consistency point operation has completed. This technology reduces the number of storage operations that are required to be journaled to maintain consistency of a file system, thereby reducing the runtime resources required to facilitate the journaling and replay resource required to replay the storage operations in a journal following a recovery.
US10552054B2	Peripheral component interconnect express (PCIE) network with input/output (I/O) chaining to reduce communication time within execution of I/O channel operations A set of memory access operations is obtained. The set of memory access operations includes a plurality of memory access operations to be chained, in which the plurality of memory access operations are to be processed as an atomic unit. The plurality of memory access operations are executed in a particular order, and one or more results are provided.
US10552053B2	Hybrid data storage device with performance mode data path Apparatus and method for managing data in a hybrid data storage device. In some embodiments, a hybrid data storage device operates in a normal mode in which data transfer commands received from a host device are serviced by a top level controller circuit which directs a first subset of the received data transfer commands to a non-volatile rotatable recording memory and a second subset of the received data transfer commands are directed to a non-volatile solid-state memory. The controller circuit transitions to a performance mode responsive to a detected first parameter so that subsequently received data transfer commands are directed exclusively to the solid-state memory. The controller circuit terminates the performance mode and resumes the normal mode responsive to a detected second parameter.
US10552052B2	Memory interface circuitry with distributed data reordering capabilities An integrated circuit may include memory interface circuitry for communicating with an external or in-package memory module. The integrated circuit may also include out-of-order (OOO) clients and in-order (IO) clients that issue read and write commands to the memory interface circuitry. The memory interface circuitry may include a memory controller having an OOO command scheduler, a write data buffer, and a simple read data pipeline. The memory interface circuitry may also include a multiport arbitration circuit for interfacing with the multiple clients and also OOO adaptor circuits interposed between the multiport arbitration circuit and the IO clients. Each of the OOO adaptor circuits may include an ID generator and a local reordering buffer and may allow the memory controller to return data to the various clients without throttling.
US10552051B2	Allocation of heat-tiered storage among throttling units A data storage system has multiple tiers of data storage including an upper tier having a lower access latency and a lower tier having a higher access latency. A storage controller of the data storage system implements throttling limits regulating access to data in the data storage system for a plurality of throttling units sharing the data storage system. The storage controller also tracks access frequencies of extents in the data storage system. The storage controller migrates extents among the multiple tiers based on the access frequencies of the extents and the throttling limits implemented for the throttling units.
US10552050B1	Multi-dimensional computer storage system In an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus comprises: a multi-dimensional memory that is expandable in a first direction; wherein the multi-dimensional memory comprises a serial chain; wherein the serial chain comprises a first serial chain that is expandable in a first direction; and wherein the first serial chain comprises a first memory controller, a first memory module coupled to the first memory controller, a second memory controller coupled to the first memory controller, and a second memory module coupled to the second memory controller. In another embodiment of the invention, a method comprises: providing a multi-dimensional memory that is expandable in a first direction; wherein the multi-dimensional memory comprises a serial chain; wherein the serial chain comprises a first serial chain that is expandable in a first direction; and wherein the first serial chain comprises a first memory controller, a first memory module coupled to the first memory controller, a second memory controller coupled to the first memory controller, and a second memory module coupled to the second memory controller. Data can be stored into the serial chain, wherein the data is written by a memory transaction from a host.
US10552040B2	Fixed size extents for variable size deduplication segments Mechanisms are provided for maintaining variable size deduplication segments using fixed size extents. Variable size segments are identified and maintained in a datastore suitcase. Duplicate segments need not be maintained redundantly but can be managed by updating reference counts associated with the segments in the datastore suitcase. Segments are maintained using fixed size extents. A minor increase in storage overhead removes the need for inefficient recompaction when a segment is removed from the datastore suitcase. Fixed size extents can be reallocated for storage of new segments.
US10552039B2	Storage control apparatus, storage management system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A storage control apparatus including a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to execute a process, the process including storing, in the memory, management information including an operation history for a storage region of a storage device, specifying at certain timing, from the management information, a first operation that has been executed to set a configuration of the storage region to a configuration at the certain timing, determining a second operation from among operations, in the management information, that precede the execution of the first operation and that target the storage region, deleting the second operation from the management information, and transmitting the management information after the deletion to a management apparatus that manages a state of the storage region of the storage device.
US10552037B2	Software keyboard input method for realizing composite key on electronic device screen with precise and ambiguous input A software keyboard input method for implementing compound keys on an electronic device screen is provided to assist a user in fast inputting a text with convenience and efficiency. Two letters are displayed on a key. The user performs a ambiguous input by directly clicking a key, and performs a precise input by moving a contact point via which a fast selection of a symbol and a fast switching of a uppercase letter are realized. With the software keyboard input method for implementing compound keys on an electronic device screen, information can be inputted on the electronic device screen easily and accurately. The method is of convenient usage and flexibility.
US10552034B2	Display processing method, display processing system and electronic device A display processing method, a display processing system and an electronic device are disclosed. The display processing method includes: acquiring a touch operation on a first display area, the touch operation being detected by a touch operation device; recognizing the touch operation according to a preset rule to obtain a recognition result; and generating a control instruction based on the recognition result to control a display operation of an electronic device.
US10552032B2	System, method and apparatus for implementing an improved user interface on a terminal An apparatus, system and method are presented for implementing a user interface on a terminal. The terminal includes a processor, LCD display and touch-screen device. Software implemented by the processor receives input from the touch-screen device to determine complex interactions with the display that are then used to select and/or modify functions and features provided by the terminal.
US10552031B2	Experience mode transition Techniques for an experience mode transition are described. Generally, an experience mode refers to a visual and functional arrangement that is presented to a user of a device. Different experience modes present different visual and functional arrangements to a user. According to various embodiments, a computing device is configured to operate in multiple experience modes and may transition between different experience modes and based on a variety of different triggering events. Generally, a transition between different experience modes causes a visual and/or functional reconfiguration of a user experience on a device.
US10552023B2	User interface extensions A predefined user interface definition specifying a first service is accessed in persistent storage. The user interface definition includes an extension including a fragment definition specifying a second service. First content is retrieved from the first service according to the user interface definition. Second content is retrieved from the second service according to the fragment definition. A user interface is rendered in a display space according to the predefined user interface definition and including the first content and the second content. At least one of the accessing, the retrieving first content, the retrieving second content, and the rendering is performed by at least one data processor forming part of at least one computing system. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US10552020B2	Methods and systems for presenting a camera history A method, in an application executing on a client device, includes: displaying a camera event history provided by a remote server system, where the camera event history is presented as a chronologically-ordered set of event identifiers, each event identifier corresponding to a respective event for which a remote camera has captured an associated video; receiving a user selection of a displayed event identifier; and in response to receiving the user selection of the displayed event identifier: expanding the selected event identifier into a video player window, the video player window consuming a portion of the displayed camera event history; and playing, in the video player window, the captured video; and in response to terminating playback of the captured video or user de-selection of the displayed event identifier, collapsing the video player window into the selected event identifier thereby stopping the playing of the captured video.
US10552019B2	Portable device and method for controlling brightness of the same A portable device and a method for controlling brightness thereof are provided. The portable device includes a display, a sensor and a controller. The display provides a display region that is displayed with a first brightness. The sensor senses a surrounding brightness of the portable device. The controller controls the display to display a partial region corresponding to a User Interaction (UI) element in the display region with a second brightness based on the sensed surrounding brightness.
US10552018B2	Methods and systems to display data records extracted from a database via a graphical user interface A system and method for managing display of database records are provided. The method includes determining whether a pointer is positioned over a data cell of a plurality of data cells of a graphical user interface; in response to receiving an actuation signal related to the pointer while the pointer is determined to be over the data cell, automatically modifying search criteria applied to database data according to the data of the data cell; and automatically outputting the database data filtered by the modified search criteria to the graphical user interface.
US10552011B2	Data processing method and electronic device supporting the same An electronic device includes a short range communication module configured to establish a communication channel for collecting device-related information on at least one other electronic device. The electronic device also includes a communication module configured to establish a communication channel with a service supporting device. The electronic device also includes a control module configured to transmit a message requesting function-related information installable or updatable on the other electronic device to the service supporting device in correspondence to the device-related information and configured to control transmitting identification information for receiving the function-related information and the device-related information.
US10552009B2	Stopwatch and timer user interfaces An electronic device may display a first lap time representation, and may move the first lap time representation in accordance with a first amount of elapsed time. While moving the first lap time representation, the electronic device may detect a lap input. In response to the lap input, the electronic device may cease movement of the first lap time representation, display a second lap time representation, and move the second lap time representation in accordance with a second amount of elapsed time. A relative positioning of the first lap time representation and the second lap time representation may correspond to a difference between a first lap time and a second lap time. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update the timescales of lap time representation(s) in accordance with a rotational input. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update a timer duration setting in accordance with a rotational input.
US10552008B2	Managing a domain specific ontology collection A domain specific ontology collection associated with a user is determined. At least one action of the user is received. A task for the user is determined based on the domain specific ontology collection for the user and the at least one action of the user.
US10552006B2	Electronic album apparatus and method of controlling operation of same An electronic album is created taking into consideration the intentions of the user regarding electronic album creation. Face images are extracted from among a number of images for an electronic album and the face images are displayed on a display screen. A face image of an important person is dragged and dropped onto an important image setting area, and the face image of a person not required to be included in the electronic album is dragged and dropped onto an excluded image setting area. An electronic album in line with user intentions is created so as to increase the proportion of images of an important person and exclude images of unwanted persons.
US10552002B1	User interface based variable machine modeling In various example embodiments, a comparative modeling system is configured to receive selections of a data set, a transform scheme, and one or more machine-learning algorithms. In response to a selection of the one or more machine-learning algorithms, the comparative modeling system determines parameters within the one or more machine-learning algorithms. The comparative modeling system generates a plurality of models for the one or more machine-learning algorithms, determines comparison metric values for the plurality of models, and causes presentation of the comparison metric values for the plurality of models.
US10552000B2	Network interaction optimization A method and system for improving network interaction is provided. The method includes monitoring biometric attributes of a user and determining a functionality status of a mobile hardware device of the user. A cognitive state of the user is determined based on the biometric attributes of the user and selections associated with transmitting the cognitive state of the user and the functionality status of the mobile hardware device to additional hardware devices of additional users are received via a graphical user interface. A user task interaction plan is enabled based on the cognitive state of the user and the functionality status of the mobile hardware device. The cognitive state of the user, the functionality status of the mobile hardware device, and the user task interaction plan are transmitted to the additional hardware devices.
US10551999B2	Multi-phase multi-group selection methods for real-time collaborative intelligence systems Systems and methods for real-time collaborative computing and collective intelligence are disclosed. A collaborative application runs on a collaborative server connected to a plurality of computing devices. Collaborative sessions are run wherein a group of independent users, networked over the internet, collaboratively answer questions in real-time, thereby harnessing their collective intelligence. Systems and methods for selection among a set of user-input suggestions. The group is divided into subgroups, each subgroup selecting one suggestion from a subgroup of suggestions. The process is repeated with the remaining selected suggestions until one final target is selected, by the entire group, from the remaining suggestions.
US10551998B2	Method of displaying screen in electronic device, and electronic device therefor A method for displaying a screen on an electronic device is provided. The method includes displaying, on a display of the electronic device, a first screen configured with a plurality of areas in which a plurality of contents are respectively displayed in a plurality of rows, and displaying, if an area is selected from among the plurality of areas, a second screen configured with one or more recommended item areas in which information related to content corresponding to the selected area is arranged.
US10551995B1	Overlay user interface In a general aspect, a computer-implemented method can include displaying a first user interface window on a touchscreen display of a computing device, where first user interface window includes a plurality of application icons associated with respective applications available for execution by the computing device. The computer-implemented method can further include detecting a touch input on the touchscreen display at a location associated with a first application icon from the plurality of application icons. The computer-implemented method can also include, in response to the touch input, displaying concurrently on the touchscreen display of the computing device a first portion of the first user interface window and a second portion of a second user interface window, wherein the second user interface window displays a user interface of the application associated with the first application icon.
US10551993B1	Virtual reality content development environment A computer-implemented content development environment enables creation of interactive characters and other digital assets for use in various types of 3D content. In this context, 3D content generally may refer to any type of content (e.g., short films, video games, educational content, simulations, etc.), including VR content that can be consumed by viewers using one or more types of VR devices. In many instances, 3D content may be generated using visualization and/or input mechanisms that rely on VR equipment, including one or more three dimensional, computer-generated environments (either real or fantastical) that a viewer can explore using VR devices in similar fashion to how the viewer might explore the real world. For example, a viewer may use a head-mounted display (HMD) device, various motion detecting devices, and/or other devices to simulate the experience of exploring a landscape. One or more different types of VR devices may be used to simulate various sensory experiences including sight, motion, touch, hearing, smell, etc.
US10551991B2	Display method and terminal A display method and a terminal are provided. The display method comprises: receiving a first operation instruction by a terminal from a user positioned at a first orientation with respect to a first display area of the terminal; and responsive to receiving the first operation instruction, displaying, by the terminal, a guiding interface at least including identification information of a first display interface disposed at least partially outside the first display area of the terminal.
US10551989B2	System and method of a customer management system A system and method are disclosed for an interface system comprising a communication device and a system administrator, the system administrator is configured to initiate a setup process, receive an identification number, receive user information, and in response to the setup process, associate the identification number with the user information.
US10551987B2	Multiple screen mode in mobile terminal Provided are a method and a mobile terminal for simultaneously displaying at least two application windows on a display unit of a mobile terminal. The method may include displaying a first application window associated with a first application on an entire display area of the display unit, receiving a multi_screen mode initiation input from a user, dividing a display area of the display unit into at least two display areas including a first display area and a second display area in response to the multi_screen mode initiation input, and displaying the first application window and a second application window on the at least two display areas, respectively, in a multi_screen mode.
US10551986B2	Touch sensing device and display device including the same A touch sensing device and a display device for improving hovering performance including: a touch sensing display panel including sense electrodes arranged in a matrix; and a sensing signal controller connected to the touch sensing display panel. The sense electrode includes a metal mesh electrode and a conductive layer contacting the metal mesh electrode.
US10551985B2	Fast multi-touch noise reduction A low-latency touch sensitive device provides a method for determining a location of a touch event thereon. The touch sensitive device row conductors and column conductors, the path of each of the row conductors crossing the path of each of the column conductors. Each of a set of orthogonal row signals are simultaneously transmitted on a respective one of at least some of the row conductors and an amount of each of the plurality of orthogonal row signals present on each of the plurality of column conductors is detected. A set of orthogonal column signals are simultaneously transmitted on a respective one of at least some of the column conductors. An amount of each of the orthogonal column signals present on each of the plurality of row conductors is detected. The detected amount of each of the plurality of orthogonal row signals and the detected amount of each of the plurality of orthogonal column signals is used to determine the location of a touch event on the device.
US10551981B2	Systems and methods for distributing haptic effects to users interacting with user interfaces A system includes a user interface configured to receive an input from a user of the system, a sensor configured to sense a position of a user input element relative to the user interface, and a processor configured to receive an input signal from the sensor based on the position of the user input element relative to the user interface, determine a haptic effect based on the input signal, and output a haptic effect generation signal based on the determined haptic effect. A haptic output device is configured to receive the haptic effect generation signal from the processor and generate the determined haptic effect to the user, the haptic output device being located separate from the user interface so that the determined haptic effect is generated away from the user interface.
US10551976B2	Touch-control substrate, fabrication method, and display device A touch-control substrate, a fabrication method of the touch-control substrate, and a display device including the touch-control substrate are presented. The disclosed touch-control substrate includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes. The first and second electrodes are crossly configured and electrically insulated from one another. Each of the first and second electrodes includes a plurality of conductive structures. A mark region (8) has an alignment mark (81) and is located within a region containing the first and second electrodes. At least one of the conductive structures in the mark region (8) is at least partially absent in the mark region (8). The mark region (8) includes at least one transparent conductive element (5) complementing the at least partially absent conductive structure and being electrically connected to a corresponding conductive structure outside the mark region (8) and contained in either one first electrode or one second electrode.
US10551969B2	Display device A display device is capable of substantially minimizing sensing errors and substantially minimizing a pressure applied to a pixel area during a touch action, the display device including: a frame; a window facing at least a portion of the frame; a panel support portion between the window and a base portion of the frame; a flexible display panel including a central portion between the panel support portion and the window and an edge portion between the panel support portion and the base portion of the frame; and a first pressure sensing unit between the edge portion and the panel support portion.
US10551968B2	Array substrate and touch display panel for increased accuracy of touch detection by including a common electrode layer and a wiring layer arranged on the same side of the array substrate An array substrate and a touch display panel are provided. An auxiliary electrode layer is additionally provided in the array substrate. The auxiliary electrode layer may be located between a common electrode layer and a wiring layer, or located on a side of the wiring layer facing toward the substrate. The auxiliary electrode layer is provided to reduce coupling capacitance between the wiring and the touch display electrode. With the auxiliary electrode layer additionally provided in the array substrate, the coupling capacitance between the wiring and the touch display electrode block is reduced, thereby improving accuracy of the touch detection.
US10551967B2	Two-way communication between an electronic card and a touchscreen device Systems and methods of bi-directional communication between an electronic card and a touchscreen device is described. The method may include modulating an electrostatic field of the touchscreen device using touch communication channels; receiving visible light signals from the touchscreen device in response to the modified electrostatic field via one or more optical communication channels; ranking, by the electronic card, the optical communication channels according to the signal quality received from each optical communication channel; selecting at least one optical communication channel as preferred optical communication channel based on the ranking; and using the preferred optical communication channel and the touch communication channels for subsequent bi-directional communication.
US10551965B2	Method and device for testing rotation performance of touch display screen A method and a device for testing a rotation performance of a touch display screen are provided. The method includes: determining at least two test positions in a display region of the touch display screen, the at least two test positions including at least one test position located in a central region of the display region and at least one test position located in an edge region of the display region; and testing a rotation performance corresponding to each test position of the at least two test positions.
US10551963B2	Touch panel with mesh electrodes to mitigate moire, and display device comprising same A touch panel enabling a repeat arrangement with a small design load, and a mesh pattern with a high degree of freedom and does not generate moiré, and a display device comprising same. A touch panel in which a drive electrode pattern/sensing electrode pattern include: first main electrode wires/second main electrode wires constituting line segments having a linear shape extending along a first wire direction/second wire direction; and first auxiliary electrode wires/second auxiliary electrode wires constituting line segments having a linear shape extending along the second wire direction/first wire direction and joining the first main electrode wires/second main electrode wires, and respective end points of the first main electrode wires/second main electrode wires are connected to end points of the closest first main electrode wire/second main electrode wire in adjacent nodes, by connecting wires having a different angle of inclination from the first main electrode wires/second main electrode wires.
US10551962B2	Touch detection device, display device with touch detection function, and covering member According to an aspect, a touch detection device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate opposed to the first substrate; a cover base material opposed to the second substrate; a plurality of first electrodes overlapping a display region on a plane parallel with the first substrate; and a second electrode arranged at the cover base material and overlapping a frame region outside the display region. Proximity or contact of an object with respect to the frame region is detected based on capacitance between the first electrodes and the second electrode. The second electrode extends along a side of the frame region.
US10551959B2	Touch input device and electronic device A touch type input device includes: a resistive film; an electrode formed along a portion of an outer periphery of the resistive film; a conductor installed with a gap between the resistive film and the conductor; a first line drawn from the electrode; and a second line connected to the conductor, wherein the resistive film and the conductor are configured to contact in a position touched by a user.
US10551955B2	Touch display panel and touch display apparatus A touch display apparatus not subject to a visible moiré pattern includes a touch display panel and a brightness enhancement film (BEF). The touch display panel includes a substrate and a color filter layer. The color filter layer on the substrate facing the BEF includes color filters spaced from each other. The BEF includes auxiliary structures parallel with each other along a second direction. The auxiliary structures extend from the BEF toward the color filter layer. A number of the auxiliary structures per unit area is less than a number of the color filters per unit area. Auxiliary structures otherwise visible to eyes of user are completely covered by the color filters based on a refraction of light passing through the substrate, preventing interference leading to the moiré phenomenon.
US10551953B2	Display apparatus According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a plurality of pixels configured to display an image; a plurality of signal lines configured to supply pixel signals to the pixels; a plurality of detection conductors configured to be capacitively coupled to the signal lines; and a controller configured to output the pixel signals to the signal lines and read detection signals generated in the detection conductors due to the pixel signals.
US10551946B2	Position pointer A position pointer is provided for indicating a position on a sensor of a position detection device. The position pointer includes an elongate pointer body having a distal end and a proximal end; a first electrode disposed near the distal end; and a second electrode different from the first electrode and disposed near the distal end, wherein both the first and second electrodes are capacitively coupleable with the sensor of the position detection device. The position pointer includes a detection circuit configured to intermittently detect signals transmitted from the position detection device; a signal circuit configured to generate a position signal to be transmitted to the position detection device; and a transmission circuit configured to control transmission of the position signal. The transmission circuit, based on a detection result of the detection circuit, controls transmission of the position signal via the first electrode.
US10551942B2	Writing data processing device for correcting position discrepancies in characters A writing data processing device includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform processes. The processes include acquiring stroke data describing a plurality of tracks of a writing portion on a mount portion. The processes include identifying the tracks as a group among the plurality of the tracks described by the acquired stroke data. The processes include acquiring a group region. The processes include selecting an entry frame from among at least one entry frame described by entry frame data included in paper medium data that is stored in a storage portion and is corresponding to the paper medium. The entry frame to be selected has the greatest amount of overlap with the acquired group region. The processes include moving the identified group included in the acquired group region into the selected entry frame.
US10551939B2	Attitude detecting device The present invention relates to an attitude detecting device requiring no optical nor visual sensors but instead using an advanced processing method, which can be used in applications such as data-login, measurements, motion control, cursor pointing on graphic user interfaces, gaming, etc. The device includes inertial measurement units (IMU) such as accelerometers, gyroscopes and may also include magnetometers. The method utilizes the IMU's sensor data and uses a revised method to transfer 3-dimensional rotations into a representation, such as quaternions, Euler angles, yaw, pitch, and roll. The method also provides better performance when the device recovers from interrupts. The method further utilizes the above mentioned representation and turns it into 2-dimensional values in a precise way while intentionally remove the effects caused by rotation in the other unused degree of freedom.
US10551938B1	Optical membrane switch device An optical membrane switch device includes a first membrane layer, a second membrane layer, and a spacer layer. The first membrane layer includes a first surface and light input lines. The light input lines are disposed on the first surface. Each light input line is slantingly extended with first branch lines. The second membrane layer includes a second surface and light output lines. The light output lines are disposed on the second surface. Each light output line is slantingly extended with second branch lines. The second branch lines respectively extend to the corresponding first branch lines to form contact regions. The spacer layer is clamped between the first membrane layer and the second membrane layer and includes through holes respectively corresponding to the contact regions. The first and second branch lines corresponding to the through holes at least partially overlap each other and keep a preset interval from each other.
US10551934B2	Gesture recognition method, apparatus and device, computer program product therefor Hand gestures, such as hand or finger hovering, in the proximity space of a sensing panel are detected from X-node and Y-node sensing signals indicative of the presence of a hand feature at corresponding row and column locations of a sensing panel. Hovering is detected by detecting the locations of maxima for a plurality of frames over a time window for sets of X-node and Y-node sensing signals by recognizing a hovering gesture if the locations of the maxima detected vary over the plurality of frames for one of the sets of sensing signals and not for the other of set. Finger shapes are distinguished over “ghosts” generated by palm or fist features by transforming the node-intensity representation for the sensing signals into a node-distance representation based on distances of detection intensities for a number of nodes under a peak for a mean point between valleys adjacent to the peak.
US10551932B2	Wearable device, control method, and control program A wearable device according to an example of embodiments includes a display unit configured to display characters, a detector configured to detect a user's upper limb existing in a real space, and a controller. When a first body motion of allowing one part and the other part of the upper limb to approach each other is detected from a detection result of the detector, the controller executes a character selection process of selecting the characters. The wearable device is attachable to the head.
US10551930B2	System and method for executing a process using accelerometer signals Apparatus and process for controlling a computer process with gestures and a handheld pointing device. The computer system employing the pointing device to determine what component a user wants to control and what control action is desired.
US10551928B2	GUI transitions on wearable electronic device In one embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more processors and a memory coupled to the processors that includes instructions executable by the processors. When executing the instructions, the processors present on a display of the apparatus a first screen of a graphical user interface. The first screen includes one or more first elements. The processors receive user input indicating a transition in the graphical user interface and, in response to the user input, transition from the first screen to a second screen of the graphical user interface and apply one or more visual transition effects to the transition. The second screen includes one or more second elements.
US10551924B2	Mobile device configured to receive squeeze input An electronic device having a user interface device that has a flexible surface, a haptic output device operatively coupled to the flexible surface and configured to cause a deformation of the flexible surface, and a controller in signal communication with the haptic output device. The controller is configured to trigger the haptic output device to cause the deformation of the flexible surface based on a simulated physical behavior of a virtual element represented on the user interface.
US10551920B2	Wearable device and method of operating the same Provided are a wearable device and a method of operating the same. The wearable device includes: a display configured to display content; a user input unit configured to receive a command of a wearer; and a controller configured to: when the content is reproduced in a state in which the wearable device is worn, output, through the display and based on content reproduction related information of the wearable device, information informing the wearer that stopping reproduction of the content is requestable, and control to stop the reproduction of the content in response to a reproduction stop request for the content, received through the user input unit in response to the output information, wherein the content reproduction related information corresponds to information influential on a health of the wearer when the content is reproduced in the state in which the wearable device is worn.
US10551917B2	Compliant multi-region angular displacement and strain sensors An apparatus includes a glove for a human hand, and a sensing network coupled to the glove. The sensing network includes a strand of compliant material with a center axis and a multi-region angular displacement sensor connected to the strand. The multi-region angular displacement sensor includes a first angular displacement unit in a first sense region of the stand. The first angular displacement unit is used to determine a first angular displacement in response to deformation of the first angular displacement unit by a first joint of the human hand. The multi-region angular displacement sensor also includes a second angular displacement unit disposed in a second sense region of the strand. The second angular displacement unit is used to determine a second angular displacement in response to deformation of the second angular displacement unit by a second joint of the human hand.
US10551911B2	Analysing device for determining a latency time of an immersive virtual reality system A device (DA) analyses an immersive virtual reality system (SI) comprising a target (CD) that is securely fastened to an object (OM), detecting means (MD) that deliver a first signal representative of the current position of the target (CD), processing means (MT) that define images depending on the detected current position, and at least one image-displaying means (EA, PI). This device (DA) comprises a first sensor (C1) that generates a second signal when the object (OM) reaches a known position, a second sensor (C2) that generates a third signal when it detects a change in displayed image consecutive to the detection of the object (OM) in this known position by the detecting means (MD), and analysing means (MA) that determine first and second times of reception of the second and third signals then a first time difference between these first and second times of reception.
US10551906B2	Methods and apparatus for running and booting inter-processor communication link between independently operable processors Methods and apparatus for an inter-processor communication (IPC) link between two (or more) independently operable processors. In one aspect, the IPC protocol is based on a “shared” memory interface for run-time processing (i.e., the independently operable processors each share (either virtually or physically) a common memory interface). In another aspect, the IPC communication link is configured to support a host driven boot protocol used during a boot sequence to establish a basic communication path between the peripheral and the host processors. Various other embodiments described herein include sleep procedures (as defined separately for the host and peripheral processors), and error handling.
US10551901B2	Core frequency management using effective utilization for power-efficient performance A frequency governing method for a processor includes reading power management information from the processor. The processor operates in an active state or one of multiple power saving states. The power management information includes first information indicating occupancy of a first core of the processor in the active state and second information indicating occupancy of the first core in a first power saving state. The method includes generating an effective utilization based on the first information and the second information. The method includes setting a target frequency by performing a selected action of a first action including increasing the target frequency and a second action including decreasing the target frequency with respect to a current frequency of the processor based on the effective utilization. The selected action is selected according to the effective utilization. The method includes instructing the processor to operate the first core at the target frequency.
US10551899B2	Electronic device, control method of electronic device, and program Aspects of the present invention include a device including processing circuitry that detects a first user action according to a first signal received from a first sensor while operating in a first mode, the first user action being gripping and lifting up of the device, changes an operation mode from the first mode to a second mode based on the first user action, detects a second user action according to a second signal received from a second sensor while operating the second mode, the second user action being a touch operation, performs an operation based on the second user action, and changes the operation mode from the second mode to a third mode after a predetermined period of time elapses, the second mode consuming more power than the first mode, and the third mode consuming more power than the first mode.
US10551898B2	Global throttling of computing nodes in a modular, rack-configured information handling system A computer-implemented method enables global throttling of processing nodes in a rack-configured information handling system (RIHS). A rack-level management controller receives power-usage data and operating parameters associated with processing nodes within separately-controlled blocks of the RIHS. A power subsystem of the RIHS regulates an amount of power supplied to the processing nodes of the RIHS based on the power-usage data and operating parameters for the processing nodes and a total amount of available power for distribution within the RIHS. In response to detecting a condition that reduces the total amount of available power for distribution within the IHS, the management controller autonomously initiates global throttling of the processing nodes within the IHS to reduce power consumption by at least one of the processing nodes. The global throttling is completed via a signal transfer over a select Ethernet cable wire to connected block controllers that control the processing nodes.
US10551892B1	Centralized backup power module Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for a centralized backup power support system that improves testability of non-volatile dual in-line memory modules (NVDIMM) on Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) testers and in-system tests. An NVDIMM includes both volatile memories and non-volatile memories. According to an embodiment, a compact backup power distribution board is powered with an external power supply with an individual protection circuit. The backup power distribution board has an unlimited energy capacity for any density of NVDIMM and zero charge waiting time. According to an embodiment, instead of using an electric double-layer capacitor (EDLC) to support backup power, a resistor is used instead of an EDLC on each backup power module. There is no charging time when the backup power module does not have EDLC cells, resulting in significant reduction in test time and production cost and increase in production output.
US10551891B2	Smart cord reel A smart cord reel cable including at least one sensor for measuring cord or cord reel usage, a memory for receiving sensor input to create usage records, and a processor for analyzing the usage records to provide information for maintenance status indication and/or usage analytics.
US10551890B2	Integrated inductive charging in protective cover Accurate and reliable techniques for wirelessly powering a tablet device are disclosed.
US10551889B2	Temperature management in wearable devices Systems and methods for managing temperatures of wearable device components are disclosed. In one aspect, a wearable electronic device includes glasses, a wireless transmitter, an ambient temperature sensor, hardware processing circuitry, and a hardware memory storing instructions that when executed configure the hardware processing circuitry to determine an ambient temperature using the ambient temperature sensor, determine a maximum temperature of the wearable electronic device based on the ambient temperature, determine a temperature of the wearable electronic device, determine a difference between the maximum wearable temperature and the determined temperature of the wearable electronic device, and adjust a transmission rate of the wireless transmitter based on the difference.
US10551887B2	Control device for fan state A control device for fan state includes fan connectors arranged on a substrate and connected with at least one fan. The substrate and the fan are arranged in a case of a computer. The substrate is provided with at least one communication port, at least one microphone and a microcontroller. The communication port receives temperature signals transmitted by the computer. The microphone receives volume signals within the case. A microcontroller is electrically connected with the fan connectors, the communication port and the microphone. After the microcontroller receives the temperature signal and the volume signal, the microcontroller uses them to determine whether a value of the temperature signal or the volume signal is larger than its given value. If the answer is yes, the microcontroller controls a rotational speed of the fan, turns off the fan, or provides control items displayed on a screen of the computer to choose.
US10551884B1	ATX specification power supply comprising a redundant power supply architecture The present invention provides an ATX specification power supply comprising redundant power supply architecture. A casing where the ATX specification power supply is located includes an ATX specification housing and a frame provided in the ATX specification housing. The frame is defined with a plurality of power module assembly regions and a modulation module assembly region in the ATX specification housing. The power module assembly regions are for a plurality of power modules to be provided therein, and the modulation module assembly region is for a power modulation module to be provided therein. The plurality of power modules and the power modulation module are further connected to a power integration backplate provided in the ATX specification housing, enabling the ATX specification power supply to construct redundant power supply architecture.
US10551877B2	Bendable display device A display device includes a substrate having a first area, a second area, and a bending area disposed between the first area and the second area. An inner wiring is disposed in the first area. An outer wiring is disposed in the second area. An interlayer insulating layer covers the inner wiring and the outer wiring, and includes a first contact hole. A conductive layer is disposed on the interlayer insulating layer, and is connected to the inner wiring or the outer wiring through the first contact hole. An inorganic protective layer covers at least a portion of the conductive layer and includes an inorganic insulating material.
US10551876B2	Systems, devices, and methods for changing between different display modes for a touch-sensitive secondary display using a keyboard key A method is performed at a computing system, the computing system including: a first housing that includes a primary display, and a second housing containing (i) a physical keyboard and (ii) a touch-sensitive secondary display (TSSD). The method includes displaying, on the primary display, a first user interface. While the TSSD is operating in an adaptive display mode, the method includes: displaying, on a respective portion of the TSSD, application-specific user interface elements that are selected based on current state of the first user interface for the application. The method further includes, in response to detecting a press of a key via the physical keyboard: displaying, on the primary display, representations of available display modes for the TSSD. The method additionally includes, receiving a selection of a representation of another display mode of the available display modes; and operating the TSSD in the other display mode.
US10551874B2	Multiple-element light-bending structures for minimizing display borders An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of display pixels that provide image light to a user. The array of display pixels may form an active display structure with a rectangular shape. The rectangular active display structure may be surrounded by an inactive border region. Optical structures such as upper structures formed from a sheet of glass and lower optical structures that lie beneath the sheet of glass may be configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The upper optical structures may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical structures may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. The lower and upper optical structures may have curved surfaces for bending the light.
US10551873B2	Docking station for electronic device According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a docking station includes a base housing comprising a first surface having a recessed portion, a second surface directed in an opposite direction to the first surface, and a side surface at least partially surrounding a space between the first surface and the second surface, a slide housing slidably mounted on the recessed portion to open and close at least a part of the recessed portion, and a connection member disposed on the recessed portion, in which as the slide housing slides, the connection member is hidden or exposed, and in a state where the at least the part of the recessed portion is opened, the slide housing is positioned inclined with respect to the first surface or the second surface. The docking station described above may be implemented variously depending on embodiments.
US10551869B2	Clock skewing strategy to reduce dynamic power and eliminate hold-time violations in synchronous digital VLSI designs This disclosure relates generally to digital synchronous circuits that introduce clock skew without requiring clock buffers in a clock network. In one embodiment, the digital synchronous circuit includes a first flip flop and a second flip flop. The first flip flop is synchronized to be transparent and to be opaque in accordance with a first clock signal while the second flip flop is configured such that the second flip flop is synchronized to be transparent and to be opaque in accordance with a second clock signal. However, the second flip flop is configured to generate the first clock signal such that the second flip flop provides the first clock signal in a first clock state in response the second flip flop becoming transparent and provides the first clock signal in a second clock state in response the second flip flop becoming opaque thereby providing a clock skew without clock buffers.
US10551864B2	Bandgap voltage reference circuit A bandgap voltage reference circuit configured to generate a bandgap reference voltage is provided. The bandgap voltage reference circuit includes a bandgap current generating circuit, a differential pair circuit and a flipped voltage follower. The bandgap current generating circuit converts the bandgap reference voltage into a bandgap current and generates a first voltage and a second voltage according to the bandgap current. The differential pair circuit is coupled to the bandgap current generating circuit to receive the first voltage and the second voltage and configured to reduce a voltage difference between the first voltage and the second voltage and generate a third voltage. The flipped voltage follower is coupled to the differential pair circuit to receive the third voltage and generates the bandgap reference voltage accordingly.
US10551862B2	System on chip with different current setting modes A system on chip (SOC) is provided. The SOC includes a system core logic, a voltage regulator, a clock generator and a system balance circuit. The voltage regulator provides an operating voltage to the system core logic and receives a current setting signal to set the voltage regulator to a low current mode or a high current mode. The clock generator provides a reference clock signal. The system balance circuit receives the reference clock signal to provide the current setting signal to the voltage regulator and provides the system clock signal to the system core logic, wherein the current setting signal is used to set the voltage regulator to the high current mode before the system clock signal is enabled, and set the voltage regulator to the low current mode after the system clock signal is enabled.
US10551861B2	Gateway for managing energy use at a site A gateway includes a processor operable to manage energy use at a site. The processor is configured to receive network device data from a long range communication network, wherein the network device data is initiated from at least one of a mobile device or a cloud service to alter an operating condition of a network device located at a site. The processor is also configured to detect an availability of the network device connected to a second network configured as a local network, and format the network device data to a message bus format configured to be output to a communication device configured to access the second network. The processor is further configured to receive response data from the network device formatted to be communicated using the second network, and translate the received response data to another format capable of being output over the long range communication network.
US10551859B2	Methods and apparatus for overshoot, undershoot and delay reduction of a voltage regulator output by dynamically offsetting a reference voltage In a described example, a method includes using a power supply, supplying an output voltage that varies in response to a reference voltage; detecting a voltage ramp in an input reference voltage; generating an offset voltage waveform; adding the offset voltage waveform to the input reference voltage to generate a second reference voltage; and using the second reference voltage, operating the power supply to supply the output voltage.
US10551858B2	Selection of a default phase in a multiphase voltage regulator based on a wear score A computer program product and an apparatus are provided. The computer program product includes a computer readable medium and program instructions embodied therein, wherein the program instructions are executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform various operations. The operations include obtaining, for each phase in a voltage regulator having multiple phases, values of at least one operating parameter over a period of time. The operations further include determining, for each phase in the multi-phase voltage regulator, a wear score as a function of the obtained values of at least one operating parameter. Still further, the operations include selecting a default phase, from among the multiple phases, that has a wear score indicating that the phase has less cumulative wear than any of the other phases, and instructing the voltage regulator to turn on the selected phase as a default phase when only one phase is turned on.
US10551855B2	Regulator with convertible trim assembly A regulator includes a body, a first cage positioned in the body, a diaphragm positioned within the body, and a second cage operatively connected to the diaphragm. The body has an inlet, an outlet, and a passage formed between the inlet and the outlet and the first cage is positioned adjacent the passage. The second cage moves with the diaphragm and is positionable on a first side of the diaphragm, opposite the first cage, or on a second side of the diaphragm such that the second cage is positioned within the first cage and is movable relative to the first cage.
US10551854B2	Method for detecting target object, detection apparatus and robot A method for detecting a target object includes: identifying a target object in a monitored region, and calculating first state information of the target object with respect to this detection apparatus; estimating second state information of the target object after a pre-set delay duration value according to the first state information; and performing a processing operation on the target object according to the estimated second state information. The present disclosure can quickly and accurately complete the tracking and state estimation of a target object, which adds new functions and satisfies automation and intelligence requirements of a user for object tracking and movement state estimation.
US10551853B2	Aerial vehicle control method and aerial vehicle An aerial vehicle control method includes, upon receipt of an auto return instruction, controlling power output of an aerial vehicle in accordance with return point position information to cause the aerial vehicle to return to a return point indicated by the return point position information, and during returning to the return point, if a flight control instruction is detected, adjusting the power output of the aerial vehicle in accordance with the flight control instruction.
US10551852B2	Systems and methods for automated landing of a drone There is provided a method of automatically landing a drone on a landing pad having thereon guiding-elements arranged in a pattern relative to a central region of the landing pad, comprising: receiving first image(s) captured by a camera of the drone, processing the first image(s) to compute a segmentation mask according to an estimate of a location of the landing pad, receiving second image(s) captured by the camera, processing the second image(s) according to the segmentation mask to compute a segmented region and extracting from the segmented region guiding-element(s), determining a vector for each of the extracted guiding-element(s), and aggregating the vectors to compute an estimated location of the central region of the landing pad, and navigating and landing the drone on the landing pad according to the estimated location of the central region of the landing pad.
US10551850B2	Low quality pose An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes a vehicle computing system including one or more processors configured to receive map data associated with a map of a geographic location, receive pose data based on a pose estimate associated with a location of the autonomous vehicle, determine, based on the pose data, that the autonomous vehicle is on a coverage lane, and, in response to determining that the autonomous vehicle is on the coverage lane, determine one or more candidate lanes, generate a route plan, based on the one or more candidate lanes and a current lane, and control travel of the autonomous vehicle on the route plan. The map includes (i) a coverage lane where the autonomous vehicle can travel under a partially-autonomous mode or a manual mode, and (ii) an AV lane where the autonomous vehicle can travel under a fully-autonomous mode. The autonomous vehicle configured to determine a pose estimate in a submap of a plurality of submaps where an autonomous vehicle can travel.
US10551849B2	Automated vehicle simulated lane-marking guidance system A simulated-attribute guidance system for an automated vehicle includes a location-device, a digital-map, and a controller. The location-device indicates a location of a host-vehicle. The digital-map indicates a position of a simulated-attribute proximate to the location of the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the location-device and the digital-map. The controller is configured to operate the host-vehicle in accordance with the simulated-attribute.
US10551841B2	Moving robot and method of controlling the same A autonomous robot includes a main body, a driving unit to move the main body within an operation region, a battery to supply power to the driving unit, and a controller to control the driving unit in a manner that the main body travels along a wall of the operation region to move to a charging stand when a remaining power level of the battery drops below a reference power level, wherein the controller controls the driving unit in a manner that the main body escape from one region corresponding to a closed curve when a movement path of the main body forms the closed curve while the driving unit performs wall following.
US10551840B2	Planning driven perception system for autonomous driving vehicles A perception perceives a driving environment surrounding an ADV based on sensor data obtained from a variety of sensors. Based on the perception data received from the perception module, a planning module is to plan a trajectory for a current driving cycle to drive the ADV. In addition, the planning module determines a driving intent and one or more regions of interest (ROIs) surrounding the ADV based on the trajectory. The driving intent and the ROIs information is then provided to the perception module as a feedback. The perception module can then processing the sensor data from selective sensors to generate the perception data for a next driving cycle. The selected sensors may be determined and selected based on the driving intent and the ROIs, such that the sensor data of the unrelated sensors may be ignored to reduce the computation cost of the perception module.
US10551838B2	Method and system for multiple sensor correlation diagnostic and sensor fusion/DNN monitor for autonomous driving application The system can diagnose sensor issues for a vehicle that can perform automatic driving functions based on areas where sensors overlap coverage and sensor performance limitation (SOTIF (Safety Of The Intended Functionality) in ISO 26262). First, the system can identify sensor overlap zones for advanced driver assistance systems/automated driving (ADAS/AD) applications that can be used for multiple sensor correlation and diagnostics. Once the zones have been identified, the system can define detailed multiple sensor correlation and diagnostics (e.g., the same kind of sensor, different kind of sensors, two-way plausible check, three-way voting, etc.). Finally, verified sensor output may be used in monitoring sensor fusion/deep neural network (DNN) outputs within defined a monitor zone.
US10551836B2	Driver assist A computing system can determine a probability of precipitation based on Bayesian inference conditioned on probabilities associated with vehicle wiper status, vehicle jerk, vehicle sway, and vehicle lateral offset. The computing system can disable a vehicle lane assist system based on the probability of precipitation and operate a vehicle with the disabled vehicle lane assist system.
US10551835B2	Systems and methods for operator skill mitigation The systems and methods described herein disclose regulation of vehicle access based on operator proficiency. The systems and methods for regulating vehicle access by an operator include determining, using driving capacity information, a driving capacity metric for an operator in a vehicle. A vehicle system of the vehicle can then be evaluated for a vehicle system proficiency. The driving capacity metric and the vehicle system proficiency can then be compared. Then, using the comparison, a proficiency level of the operator can be determined for the at least one vehicle system. Finally, access to the at least one vehicle system can be provided to the operator based on the proficiency level.
US10551832B2	Method and system for transporting an autonomous agricultural vehicle In one aspect, a method is disclosed for transporting an autonomous agricultural vehicle and an operator-driven agricultural vehicle from a first agricultural work site to a second agricultural work site. Each of the vehicles may have respective front ends and rear ends, and each of the respective rear ends may include a respective hitch. The method may include arranging the autonomous agricultural vehicle and the operator-driven agricultural vehicle such that the rear end of the autonomous agricultural vehicle faces the rear end of the operator-driven agricultural vehicle. The method may include coupling the hitch of the autonomous agricultural vehicle with the hitch of the operator-driven agricultural vehicle. The method may include towing the autonomous agricultural vehicle behind the operator-driven agricultural vehicle with the rear end of the autonomous agricultural vehicle facing a forward travel direction of the operator-driven agricultural vehicle.
US10551831B2	Method and device for operating a vehicle, and method for operating a parking area A method is described for operating a vehicle, the driverlessly driving vehicle halting in response to an emergency stop signal in the context of driverless driving of the vehicle within a parking facility, the method being free of a step of checking whether halting is necessary. A corresponding apparatus is described for operating a vehicle, and to a vehicle. A method is described for operating a parking facility for vehicles, and to a corresponding parking facility. A computer program is also described.
US10551827B2	Hybrid inspection system for efficient process window discovery An inspection system includes a controller communicatively coupled to a physical inspection device (PID), a virtual inspection device (VID) configured to analyze stored PID data, and a defect verification device (DVD). The controller may receive a pattern layout of a sample including multiple patterns fabricated with selected lithography configurations defining a process window, receive locations of PID-identified defects identified through analysis of the sample with the PID, wherein the PID-identified defects are verified by the DVD, remove one or more lithography configurations associated with the locations of the PID-identified defects from the process window, iteratively refine the process window by removing one or more lithography configurations associated with VID-identified defects identified through analysis of selected portions of stored PID data with the VID, and provide, as an output, the process window when a selected end condition is met.
US10551825B2	Numerical controller for controlling corner speed of a machine To provide a numerical controller that is capable of analyzing a machining program so as to determine whether machining is machining placing emphasis on accuracy and machining placing emphasis on speed and vary an allowable speed difference. The numerical controller includes a determination unit and a corner deceleration control unit. The determination unit analyzes a machining program so as to determine which machining is to be performed between machining placing emphasis on accuracy and machining placing emphasis on speed. The corner deceleration control unit executes corner deceleration control based on a speed difference between cutting feed speeds on blocks leading and following a corner and an allowable speed difference which is predetermined. At this time, the corner deceleration control unit varies the allowable speed difference in accordance with a determination result of the determination unit.
US10551821B2	Robot, robot control apparatus and robot system A robot includes a movable part, and the movable part performs an action based on a position of a first marker obtained using first position and attitude of the movable part when a first image containing the first marker is captured by an imaging unit provided in the movable part and second position and attitude of the movable part when a second image containing the first marker is captured by the imaging unit.
US10551817B2	Device and method of controlling machine tool, to control synchronized operation of spindle axis and feed axis A controller controlling a synchronized operation of spindle and feed axes. The controller is configured to make a spindle axis perform an accelerated rotation at maximum capacity from a starting position aiming at a maximum rotation speed; detect a maximum acceleration of the spindle axis; detect a residual rotation amount of the spindle axis; detect a current speed of the spindle axis; and execute a position control for making the spindle axis perform a decelerated rotation so as to reach a target position, after the accelerated rotation at maximum capacity. The controller is further configured to make the spindle axis perform the decelerated rotation at a positioning deceleration higher than a deceleration corresponding to the maximum acceleration and equal to or lower than a maximum deceleration capable of compensating for a mechanical loss in a drive source during the decelerated rotation of the spindle axis.
US10551812B2	Methods and systems for the industrial internet of things The system generally includes a crosspoint switch in a local data collection system having multiple inputs and multiple outputs including a first input connected to a first sensor and a second input connected to a second sensor. The multiple outputs include a first output and a second output configured to be switchable between a condition in which the first output is configured to switch between delivery of a first sensor signal and a second sensor signal and a condition in which there is simultaneous delivery of the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal. Each of multiple inputs is configured to be individually assigned to any of the multiple outputs. The local data collection system includes multiple data acquisition units each having an onboard card set configured to store calibration information and maintenance history. The local data collection system is configured to manage data collection bands.
US10551811B2	Methods and systems for the industrial internet of things The system generally includes a crosspoint switch in a local data collection system having multiple inputs and multiple outputs including a first input connected to a first sensor and a second input connected to a second sensor. The multiple outputs include a first output and a second output configured to be switchable between a condition in which the first output is configured to switch between delivery of a first sensor signal and a second sensor signal and a condition in which there is simultaneous delivery of the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal. Each of multiple inputs is configured to be individually assigned to any of the multiple outputs. The local data collection system includes multiple data acquisition units each having an onboard card set configured to store calibration information and maintenance history. The local data collection system is configured to manage data collection bands.
US10551806B2	System for providing an access area for a data storage library An enclosure configured to at least partially surround a data storage library, and a system including a data storage library and enclosure(s). The enclosure includes at least one surface configured to surround the at least one library access opening and form a chamber and to permit movement of the movable panel to permit access to the interior of the data storage library, and at least one enclosure access opening in the at least one of the surface to permit access to the interior of the chamber. The enclosure is configured to resist environmental conditions from intruding into the interior of the enclosure, and is further configured to permit exterior environmental conditions from within the interior of the library to intrude into the chamber of the enclosure.
US10551802B2	Method and apparatus for operating a technical system Provided is a method for operating a system including components controllable by control variables, including the determining of at least one optimized control variable at an optimization period for minimizing or maximizing a target function of the system in such a way that at least one system variable fulfills predetermined secondary conditions with respect to the control period, wherein the determining includes the establishment of an evaluation function for each of the secondary conditions to evaluate a change of the system variable at the end of the optimization period based on a current value of the system variable at the beginning of the optimization period, based on a gradient of the system variable relating to the secondary condition and maximally achievable over the control period, and based on a gradient relating to the secondary condition and minimally achievable over the control period.
US10551798B1	Rotatable crown for an electronic device A compact crown for an electronic device such as an electronic watch, including a set of wipers capable of determining a rotation angle, rotation direction, or rotation speed, is disclosed. The set of wipers is in contact with at least one resistance member at different angular positions around a rotation axis. The crown may have a group of ground taps disposed along the resistance member and a measured signal may vary based on the position of each wiper as it contacts the at least one resistance member. A compact crown may also include capacitive members and capacitive sensors in order to similarly determine rotation angle, rotation direction, or rotation speed.
US10551795B2	Spatial light modulator providing improved image quality and holographic display apparatus including the same A spatial light modulator providing an expanded viewing window and a holographic display apparatus including the spatial light modulator are provided. The spatial light modulator includes a mask member having a periodic pattern that is arranged to split an area of each of a plurality of pixels into at least two portions such that a space between lattice spots formed by a period structure of the spatial light modulator increases.
US10551784B2	Image forming apparatus having a pressing member that presses sheets against a tray An image forming apparatus includes a tray configured to accommodate a plurality of sheets which are conveyed out of the tray for printing, a pressing member movable between a first position at which the pressing member presses the plurality of sheets against the tray and second position at which the pressing member does not press the plurality of sheets against the tray, a drive mechanism configured to cause the pressing member to be moved between the first and second positions, and a control unit configured to control the drive mechanism to move the pressing member into the first position, while a sheet is not supplied for printing from the tray and into the second position while the sheet is supplied for printing from the tray.
US10551780B2	Image processing apparatus with shared operation panel and program for controlling the shared operation panel An image processing apparatus includes: a first device; a second device; and an operation display part, wherein the operation display part includes: an operation panel; and a hardware processor that controls operations of the operation panel, the hardware processor is: capable of sending operation input information on the operation panel to the first device via a first interface; sending the operation input information on the operation panel to the second device via a second interface; and receiving a switch request of switching a device, the first interface and the second interface are of mutually different types, and when receiving the switch request, the hardware processor: changes a source device from which display contents of the operation panel are sent, and changes a destination device to which the operation input information on the operation panel is sent, and sends the operation input information to a post-changing destination device.
US10551779B2	Fixing device including pressing mechanism for pressing region and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a heating member, a pressing member, a pressing mechanism and a locking mechanism. The heating member is rotatable. The pressing roller is configured to come into contact with the heating member. The pressing mechanism is configured to convert a rotational force transmitted from a drive source to a pressing force of pressing the pressing roller against the heating member and to form a pressing region between the pressing roller and the heating member. A sheet is conveyed through the pressing region. The locking mechanism is configured to be engaged with an image forming apparatus main body linked with a pressing operation of applying the pressing force to the pressing roller and to be disengaged from the image forming apparatus main body linked with completion of a pressing release operation of removing the pressing force.
US10551778B2	Fixing device enhancing heat insulation performance and image forming apparatus including the same A fixing device includes a fixing member, a fixing frame and an upper cover. The fixing member is configured to rotate around a rotation axis extending along one direction and configured to fix a toner image on a recording medium. The fixing frame is configured to cover an upper side of the fixing member. The upper cover is configured to cover an upper side of the fixing frame. An air layer for heat insulation is formed between the fixing frame and the upper cover.
US10551777B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a rotary endless fixing belt; a nip forming member disposed in an interior of the fixing belt; a rotary opposed member to contact the nip forming member via the fixing belt to form a nip together with the fixing belt; a heat source to directly heat the fixing belt at a portion other than the nip, including at lease one heat-generation part disposed outside lateral ends of a maximum area of the fixing belt where a recording medium passes through, wherein a recording medium carrying an unfixed image is conveyed to the nip and the fixing device fixes the unfixed image onto the recording medium; and a shielding member disposed between the fixing belt and the heat generation part of the heat source and configured to shield heat from the heat source at least at an area outside the maximum passing area of the recording medium.
US10551764B2	Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus An optical scanning apparatus includes a deflector for deflecting a beam emitted from a light source, the deflector including a rotatable polygonal mirror for reflecting the beam, a motor for rotating the rotatable polygonal mirror, a substrate carrying the motor and provided with a circuit for driving the motor, and a magnetometric sensor carried on the substrate; an optical box accommodating the deflector. The substrate is provided with two holes for fastening the substrate to the optical box. The optical box is provided with two contact portion contacting the substrate in a state that the substrate is fastened to the optical box through the two holes. The magnetometric sensor is disposed at a position closer to a line m connecting the two holes than to a line n connecting two positions on the substrate where the two contact portions contact.
US10551761B2	Toner for electrophotography To provide a toner for electrophotography exhibiting an excellent charge rise property, and a process for producing the same.[1] A toner for electrophotography containing a binder resin, and a polyhydroxyamine compound represented by the following formula (1) in an amount of 0.001 part by mass or more and 5.0 parts by mass or less per 100 parts by mass of the binder resin, and [2] a process for producing a toner for electrophotography, including: melt-kneading a toner raw material mixture containing a binder resin, and a polyhydroxyamine compound represented by the following formula (1) in an amount of 0.001 part by mass or more and 5.0 parts by mass or less per 100 parts by mass of the binder resin; and pulverizing a resulting melt-kneaded material.
US10551758B2	Toner Provided is a toner, including a toner particle having: a toner base particle containing a binder resin and a colorant; and protrusion derived from a resin fine particle in a surface of the toner base particle, wherein the protrusion is covered with a condensation product of an organosilicon compound represented by the formula (1), and wherein the resin fine particle is in direct contact with the toner base particle. (Ra)n—Si—(Rb)4-n (1)
US10551757B2	Magenta toner for developing electrostatic images The magenta toner for developing electrostatic images includes colored resin particles containing a binder resin and a magenta colorant, and an external additive. A volume average particle diameter of the colored resin particles is from 5.5 μm to 7.0 μm. The external additive contains silica particles. The silica particles contain at least silica particles A having a number average particle diameter of from 5 nm to 30 nm and silica particles B having a number average particle diameter of from 31 nm to 100 nm; wherein a total content of the silica particles is from 0.5 part by mass to 4.5 parts by mass, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the colored resin particles. A liberation rate of the silica particles calculated by a specific liberation rate measuring method is in a range of from 2.2% to 9.5%.
US10551753B2	Imprint device, substrate conveying device, imprinting method, and method for manufacturing article An imprint device that forms a pattern by having the imprint material on a substrate and a mold come in contact with each other, the imprint device including a substrate holding unit that holds the substrate with a suction unit including partial areas, a moving unit including the substrate holding unit, a mold release being performed while a suction force of a partial area corresponding to an area in which the pattern is formed is set weaker than a suction force of other partial areas, an acquisition unit acquiring measurement data indicating a positional relationship between the substrate and the substrate holding unit, a target of the measurement data including an end portion of the substrate and the substrate holding unit, and a processor unit obtaining a correction amount to correct a positional deviation of the substrate with respect to the substrate holding unit using the acquired measurement data.
US10551751B2	Lithography apparatus and device manufacturing method A lithography apparatus and device manufacturing methods are disclosed. A lithography apparatus includes a support stage, and a measurement system including a sensor part and a reference part, the measurement system being configured to determine the position and/or orientation of the support stage, or of a component mounted on the support stage, relative to a reference frame by using the sensor part to interact with the reference part, wherein: the reference frame comprises N sub-frames coupled together so as to behave predominantly as a single rigid body with respect to vibrations below a first reference frequency and predominantly as an N-body system with respect to vibrations above a second reference frequency, where N is an integer greater than 1.
US10551749B2	Metrology targets with supplementary structures in an intermediate layer Metrology targets, production processes and optical systems are provided, which enable metrology of device-like targets. Supplementary structure(s) may be introduced in the target to interact optically with the bottom layer and/or with the top layer of the target and target cells configurations enable deriving measurements of device-characteristic features. For example, supplementary structure(s) may be designed to yield Moiré patterns with one or both layers, and metrology parameters may be derived from these patterns. Device production processes were adapted to enable production of corresponding targets, which may be measured by standard or by provided modified optical systems, configured to enable phase measurements of the Moiré patterns.
US10551748B2	Fluid handling structure, a lithographic apparatus and a device manufacturing method A fluid handling structure for a lithographic apparatus configured to contain immersion fluid to a region, the fluid handling structure having, at a boundary of a space: at least one gas knife opening in a radially outward direction of the space; and at least one gas supply opening in the radially outward direction of the at least gas knife opening relative to the space. The gas knife opening and the gas supply opening both provide substantially pure CO2 gas so as to provide a substantially pure CO2 gas environment adjacent to, and radially outward of, the space.
US10551744B2	Systems, devices, and methods for printing on three-dimensional objects Systems, devices, and methods for printing on surfaces of three-dimensional objects are provided. The systems, devices, and methods allow for images, and three-dimensional structures, to be printed onto a surface of a three-dimensional object. The surface of the three-dimensional object can have many different shapes, including an arbitrary or non-uniform shape having multiple curves. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes associating a pattern of polygons with a surface of a three-dimensional object and then scaling a pattern of polygons associated with an image to be printed onto the surface with the pattern of polygons associated with the surface. One or more polygons of the scaled pattern of polygons are then progressively projected onto the surface, and a photosensitive material associated with the surface is cured to set projected image portion on the surface. Systems, devices, and other methods for printing onto surfaces of three-dimensional objects are also provided.
US10551740B2	Transparent substrate with antireflective film having specified luminous transmittance and luminous reflectance Provided is an antireflective-film attached transparent substrate, which contains a transparent substrate having two principal surfaces and an antireflective film formed on one of the principal surfaces of the transparent substrate, in which the antireflective-film attached transparent substrate has a luminous transmittance being in a range of 20% to 85% and a b* value of a transmission color being 5 or smaller under a D65 light source, and the antireflective film has a luminous reflectance being 1% or lower and a sheet resistance being 104Ω/□ or higher.
US10551738B2	Photoresist compositions, intermediate products, and methods of manufacturing patterned devices and semiconductor devices A photoresist composition includes a photoresist polymer including a repeating unit to which a silicon-containing leaving group is combined, a photo-fluorine generator including a sulfonium fluoride, and a solvent.
US10551736B2	Methods for providing lithography features on a substrate by self-assembly of block copolymers A method of designing an epitaxy template to direct self-assembly of a block copolymer on a substrate into an ordered target pattern involves providing a primary epitaxy template design and then varying the design to optimize a pattern fidelity statistic, such as placement error, relative to the target pattern by modelling predicted self-assembled block copolymer patterns and optimizing pattern placement as a function of a varied design parameter. In addition to varying a design parameter to optimize the pattern fidelity statistic, a random error in the template design is included prior to modelling predicted patterns in order to compensate for expected template inaccuracy in practice. The inclusion of a realistic random error in the template design, in addition to systematic variation of a design parameter, may improve the template design optimization to render the result less sensitive to error which may be inevitable in practice.
US10551735B2	Pellicle composition for photomask, pellicle for photomask formed from the pellicle composition, method of forming the pellicle, reticle including the pellicle, and exposure apparatus for lithography including the reticle A pellicle composition for a photomask, a pellicle for a photomask, the pellicle for a photomask being formed from the pellicle composition, a method of forming the pellicle, a reticle including the pellicle, and an exposure apparatus for lithography including the reticle are provided. The pellicle composition includes: at least one selected from graphene quantum dots and a graphene quantum dot precursor, the graphene quantum dots having a size of about 50 nm or less; and a solvent.
US10551734B2	Mask blank, phase shift mask, method for manufacturing phase shift mask, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A mask blank with phase shift film where changes in transmittance and phase shift to an exposure light of an ArF excimer laser are suppressed. The film transmits light of an ArF excimer laser at a transmittance of 2% or more and less than 10% and generates a phase difference of 150 degrees or more and 190 degrees or less between the exposure light transmitted through the phase shift film and the exposure light transmitted through the air for the same distance as a thickness of the phase shift film. The film has a stacked lower layer and upper layer, the lower layer containing metal and silicon and substantially free of oxygen. The upper layer containing metal, silicon, nitrogen, and oxygen. The lower layer is thinner than the upper layer, and the ratio of metal to metal and silicon of the upper layer is less than the lower layer.
US10551731B2	Glass ceramic for ultraviolet lithography and method of manufacturing thereof An extreme ultraviolet mask and method of manufacture thereof includes: providing a glass-ceramic block; forming a glass-ceramic substrate from the glass-ceramic block; and depositing a planarization layer on the glass-ceramic substrate.
US10551730B2	Image capturing apparatus and method of controlling the same An image capturing apparatus including an audio input unit and a driving unit attenuates or disables driving sounds of the driving unit and post-driving sounds as appropriate to reduce unnecessary sounds and improve usefulness of audio data, and an image capturing apparatus including an image capturing unit, a panning/tilting unit configured to change an image capturing direction, and an audio input unit attenuates or disables an audio-related function while the panning/tilting unit is driving and until a predetermined determination condition is satisfied after the driving.
US10551727B2	Illumination device and projector An illumination device of the invention includes a light source unit including light emitting devices having light emission surfaces, a collimating system having collimating lenses provided to respectively correspond to the light emitting devices of the light source unit, into which lights from the respective light emitting devices enter, a collecting lens into which the lights output from the collimating lenses enter, and a rod lens having a light incident end surface into which the light collected by the collecting lens enters. The light source unit and the collimating system are adapted so that a principal ray of the light output from the light emission surface corresponding to a part of the light emitting devices of the light source unit may enter a position separated from an optical axis of the collimating lens corresponding to the part of the light emitting devices of the light source unit.
US10551725B2	Photographic assembly and unmanned aerial vehicle The present invention provides a photographic assembly, including a pitch motor, a roll motor and a camera. A second rotor portion of the pitch motor is coupled to the third stator portion of the roll motor and a third rotor portion of the roll motor is coupled to the camera, so that a connection manner of the photographic assembly is a pitch-roll manner. When the roll motor is working, a displacement variation of the camera along a pitch axis is small. That is, a rotation interference phenomenon is weakened, so that a rotation space that needs to be reserved between the camera and the roll motor is correspondingly reduced. That is, distances between the centre of gravity of the camera and the motors are also decreased. Therefore, the photographic assembly becomes more compact at some portions, thereby achieving an objective that the volume, the weight, and the moment of inertia of the photographic assembly are reduced.
US10551724B2	Motorized monopod jib for cameras One embodiment provides a monopole for a camera, including: a pole of length sufficient for two handed operation; an offset arrangement attached to an end of the pole, the offset arrangement comprising a first element connected at an angle to the end of the pole and a second element connected to the first element; the first element rotating about a first axis with respect to the end of the pole; the second element rotating about a second axis with respect to the first element; a camera mount attached to the second element, wherein the camera mount rotates about a third axis with respect to the second element; and at least one motor aligned with the first, the second or the third axis and imparting movement to the camera mount with respect to the pole in at least one degree of freedom selected from the group consisting of tilt, pan and roll. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10551723B2	Electronic device The electronic device can be used with various modules attached to a device main body and is electrically connected by the respective connector portions. The device main body includes a connection terminal portion with a concave shape, and the module has a connection terminal portion with a convex shape that fits into the connection terminal portion of the device main body. The device main body includes a power source terminal group in a first surface, and includes a ground terminal group and terminal groups that are compatible with the external communication interface in the second surface on the side opposite thereto. The terminal groups has a pair of terminal groups that are used for transmitting differential signals and a ground terminal, and communication terminal groups for communication with a power source module are adjacent to the ground terminal.
US10551722B2	Fused opaque and clear glass for camera or display window Apparatus, systems and methods for windows integration with cover glass and for processing cover glass to provide windows for electronic devices are disclosed. Transparent windows such as a transparent camera window, a transparent illuminator window and/or a transparent display window can be integrated into the cover glass. The apparatus, systems and methods are especially suitable for cover glasses, or displays (e.g., LCD displays), assembled in small form factor electronic devices such as handheld electronic devices (e.g., mobile phones, media players, personal digital assistants, remote controls, etc.). The apparatus, systems and methods can also be used for cover glasses or displays for other relatively larger form factor electronic devices (e.g., portable computers, tablet computers, displays, monitors, televisions, etc.).
US10551719B2	Integrated quantum information processing controlled phase gate An electro-optical directional coupler is provided having a substrate and a first and second optical waveguide formed on the substrate, where the second waveguide extends adjacent to and parallel with the first waveguide for at least one interaction length. The interaction length has a first end and a second end such that an optical signal applied only to one of the first and second waveguides couples to the other of the first and second waveguides between the ends. A first electrode is proximate the first and second waveguides and between the ends of the interaction length. A first voltage applied to the first electrode independently tunes a coupling of a TE mode. A second electrode located proximate the first and second waveguides and the first electrode and between the ends of the interaction length. A second voltage applied to the second electrode independently tunes a coupling of a TM mode.
US10551715B2	Optical ring modulator thermal tuning technique An optical signal modulator (modulator) includes, in part, a first multitude of diodes coupled in parallel and disposed along an outer periphery of the optical ring of the modulator, a second multitude of diodes coupled in parallel and disposed along the outer periphery of the optical ring, and a doped region adapted to supply heat to the optical ring. A pair of current sources supply substantially constant currents to the first and second multitude of diodes to generate a pair of electrical signals. The modulator further includes, in part, a control circuit adapted to control the temperature of the optical ring in accordance with the pair electrical signals. To achieve this, the control circuit varies the voltage applied to the doped region to vary the supplied heat. Alternatively, the control circuit applies a voltage to the optical ring to maintain a substantially constant resonant wavelength in the optical ring.
US10551710B2	Transparent display device There is disclosed a transparent display device including: a transparent display panel, a first optical structure fixed on a light incidence side of the transparent display panel, and a plurality of light sources arranged on a side of the first optical structure, wherein there is a scattering lens structure arranged on a side of the first optical structure facing away from the transparent display panel and a refractive index of a medium between the first optical structure and the transparent display panel is less than a refractive index of the first optical structure.
US10551707B2	Array substrate and liquid crystal display device including the same An array substrate is provided. The array substrate includes: a first substrate; and a color filter layer disposed on the first substrate, wherein the color filter layer comprises: a first color filter that is located on the first substrate and comprises a recess and a sub-protrusion; and a second color filter that is located on the first substrate to be adjacent to the first color filter along a first direction, and comprises a protrusion protruding toward the recess of the first color filter. The sub-protrusion of the first color filter protrudes toward the protrusion of the second color filter and is at least partially superimposed with the protrusion.
US10551706B2	Display device The present invention is intended to control the color temperature of white exhibited by a liquid crystal display device. White is produced when light waves emitted through pixels associated with three colors of red, green, and blue have maximum intensities. The amounts of light emitted through the respective pixels are controlled by differentiating the shapes of the pixel electrodes disposed at the respective pixels from one another. Thus, the color temperature of white is controlled. Otherwise, the shapes of interceptive films disposed at the respective pixels are differentiated from one another in order to control light waves emitted through the respective pixels. Thus, the color temperature of white is controlled. The interceptive film may be shaped like the pixel electrode. Otherwise, the interceptive film may be realized with an interceptive pattern other than that of the pixel electrode or one of openings bored in a black matrix.
US10551705B2	Array substrate, display panel and mobile terminal The present invention relates to a display panel technology field. An array substrate comprises a first metal layer, a buffer layer, a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer, a scanning metal layer, an inter layer dielectric, and a second metal layer that are sequentially stacked on a glass substrate along a first direction, and a first pixel set and a second pixel set that are arranged alternately along a second direction; and a first conductive path sequentially connecting the first pixel set and a second conductive path sequentially connecting the second pixel set. The first conductive path and the second conductive path change lines alternately in the first metal layer and the second metal layer, such that the first pixel set and the second pixel set are sequentially connected in series. With the array substrate of the present invention, the metal layer for changing line can be eliminated.
US10551703B2	Liquid crystal screen and display device A liquid crystal screen and a display device that prevents light leakage caused by non-uniformity of the electric field of the sub-pixel electrode. The liquid crystal screen comprises a first substrate comprised of first leads and second leads that cross each other, and a liquid crystal screen comprised of a plurality of display areas. Each display area corresponds to an area between two adjacent first leads and two adjacent second leads, and each display area is comprised of two sub-pixels. The liquid crystal screen further comprises a black matrix, which has a plurality of openings, each at a position corresponding to each display area, and comprised of protrusions extending into each opening. The liquid crystal screen of the present invention can effectively prevent light leakage caused by non-uniformity of the electric field of the sub-pixel electrode, and can increase contrast of the liquid crystal screen, thereby improving display effect.
US10551702B1	Array substrate, display panel, and display device An array substrate, including a first substrate, a metal shielding layer, a first black shading layer, and a data line; in which the metal shielding layer includes a first shielding metal lines, and an orthographic projection of the first black shading layer onto the first substrate partially overlaps with orthographic projections of the two first shielding metal lines arranged at the opposite sides of the data line onto the first substrate.
US10551697B2	Electrooptic display device An electrooptic display device includes a TFT substrate, a touch panel superimposed and placed on the TFT substrate, a circuit board spaced apart from the TFT substrate and the touch panel, one side of the circuit board facing the TFT substrate and the touch panel, a plurality of first FPCs each including one end electrically connected to one side of the TFT substrate, and the other end electrically connected to one side of the circuit board, and a second FPC that is electrically connected to the touch panel and extends in parallel to the first FPCs. The circuit board includes a cutout in a portion overlapping the second FPC on one side of the circuit board.
US10551696B2	Method of producing metal electrode, array substrate and method of producing the same, display device The present disclosure relates to a metal electrode, an array substrate and a method of producing the same, and a display device. In an embodiment, the method includes: forming a protection layer on a metal layer; patterning the protection layer to form a protection pattern, a profile of the protection pattern being the same as a profile of a predetermined pattern of the metal electrode; and etching a part of the metal layer not covered by the protection pattern to form the metal electrode, the metal electrode being covered by the protection pattern, wherein an etching anisotropy of the protection layer is larger than an etching anisotropy of the metal layer.
US10551692B2	Array substrate and liquid crystal display panel Disclosed are an array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel. The array substrate includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines. The plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines are interleaved to form a plurality of pixel areas, and a pixel electrode is formed in each of the pixel areas. The pixel electrode is connected to a corresponding gate line and a corresponding data line via a thin film transistor. The array substrate further includes a common electrode, which is connected to a first pixel electrode and a second electrode via a thin film transistor. A signal in the first pixel electrode and a signal in the second pixel electrode have opposite polarities. The array substrate realizes automatic adjustment of a common electrode voltage, and corresponding regulators or machines are no longer needed. It is favorable to improvement of productivity and competitiveness of the array substrate and the liquid crystal display panel.
US10551691B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display including a partial plate electrode along with a minute pattern in a pixel electrode thereby increasing the viewing angle and the lateral visibility of the liquid crystal display, as well as the response speed A step provider is provided to reinforce the control force of the liquid crystal molecules, thereby reducing the texture generated in the center of the pixel.
US10551682B2	Display device An active matrix substrate includes: first to third lines formed in first to third line layers, respectively, a signal different from a signal supplied to the first lines and the second lines being supplied to the third lines; first connection lines 21a, 21b that connect the first lines or the second lines with the first terminals; and second connection lines 24c that connect the third lines with the second terminals. One of two adjacent ones of the first connection lines is at least partially formed in one of the first line layer and the second line layer, and the other is at least partially formed in the other line layer. In areas that are in the sealing area and where the first connection lines and the second connection lines are superposed, the two of the first connection lines are at least partially superposed when viewed in a plan view.
US10551680B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, and a first pixel which is disposed on the first substrate, and includes a pixel area and a circuit area adjacent to the pixel area where the first pixel further includes a first pixel electrode in which a slit extending in a first direction is defined, a first sub-pixel electrode disposed on one side of the slit, and a second sub-pixel electrode disposed on another side of the slit, the slit, the first sub-pixel electrode and the second sub-pixel electrode are disposed in the pixel area, and the first sub-pixel electrode and the second sub-pixel electrode are directly connected to each other in the circuit area.
US10551676B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes an optical member disposed on a display panel. The optical member includes a linear polarizer and a λ/4 phase retarder overlapping with green and red pixel areas and not overlapping with a blue pixel area.
US10551675B2	Display substrate, liquid crystal display panel and display device The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate, and an optical compensation structure attached to the base substrate. The optical compensation structure is capable of expanding viewing angle ranges of the display substrate in different directions.
US10551673B2	Light source assembly, back light moudle and display device The present disclosure provides a light source assembly, a backlight module, and a display device. The light source assembly includes: at least one semiconductor laser, at least one beam expander, and a package; the at least one semiconductor laser and the at least one beam expander are in one-to-one correspondence and are all encapsulated in the package; each of the at least one beam expander is disposed on a side of a light emitting surface of a corresponding one of the at least one semiconductor laser; light emitted by each of the at least one semiconductor laser is expanded by a corresponding one of the at least one beam expander and then emitted from the package.
US10551671B2	Display panel with light converting layer therein, display device including the same and method of manufacturing the same A display device includes a display panel including a first display substrate and a backlight unit. The first display substrate includes a base substrate in which a groove is recessed from a first surface thereof, a light converting layer in the groove, and a protection layer overlapping the light converting layer in the groove and the first surface of the base substrate.
US10551670B2	Liquid crystal display with improved color reproducibility A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the inventive concept includes a display panel and a color conversion panel disposed on the display panel, in which the color conversion panel includes a color conversion media layer and a scattering layer including a scatterer and at least one of a pigment and a dye adsorbed on the scatterer.
US10551668B2	Liquid crystal display panel with border areas of miniscule dimensions A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel and a backlight module. The display panel includes a TFT substrate. The TFT substrate includes a base portion that is flat and an extending portion curvedly extending from a side of the base portion. A driving chip is positioned on the extending portion and electrically coupled to the TFT substrate. The backlight module includes a light guiding plate including a main portion that is flat and a bending portion curvedly extending from a side of the main portion. The main portion is laminated on a side of the base portion. The bending portion extends toward a direction away from the base portion. An end surface of the bending portion away from the main portion is a light-incident surface of the light guiding plate. A surface of the main portion facing and adjacent to the base portion is a light-emitting surface.
US10551666B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device includes: a first substrate having a first area that allows an image to be transmitted therethrough and a second area that blocks an image; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a polarizing layer on the second substrate. The polarizing layer may include first polarizing patterns and second polarizing patterns, wherein, in a planar view, the first polarizing patterns overlap with the first area and the second polarizing patterns overlap with the second area.
US10551663B2	Display panel and display device A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has a display region and a peripheral region on a periphery of the display region and includes: an array substrate; an opposed substrate, opposite to the array substrate; a sealant, in the peripheral region so that the array substrate and the opposed substrate are bonded to form a cell; and a black matrix layer, between the array substrate and the opposed substrate. At least one opening in the peripheral region is provided in the black matrix layer, the at least one opening includes a first annular opening which is between the sealant and the display region and surrounds the display region, and the black matrix layer is disconnected at a position of the at least one opening.
US10551662B2	Display device substrate, display device using same A display device substrate includes a transparent substrate, a frame member disposed on the transparent substrate and formed in a frame region surrounding a display region, a first transparent resin layer formed on the transparent substrate having the frame member formed thereon, a black matrix formed on the first transparent resin layer such that the display region is divided into plural openings in a matrix form, and a second transparent resin layer formed on the first transparent resin layer on which the black matrix is formed. The frame member includes carbon as a major colorant and has a light shielding property, and the black matrix includes at least one organic pigment as a major colorant.
US10551660B2	Cholesteric liquid crystal writing board A cholesteric liquid crystal writing board, which can display a writing track, includes a cholesteric liquid crystal device, an optical layer, a photo-sensing array and a voltage control circuit. The cholesteric liquid crystal device includes plural liquid crystal control areas. The optical layer has plural optical openings. The photo-sensing array includes plural photo sensors arranged in an array. The photo sensors are disposed corresponding to the optical openings. One of the photo sensors senses a luminous flux change and generates an erasing signal accordingly. The voltage control circuit receives the erasing signal and outputs a voltage signal accordingly to the liquid crystal control areas corresponding to the photo sensors having the luminous flux change, such that a part or all of cholesteric liquid crystals corresponding to the liquid crystal control areas are morphologically changed so as to clear a part or all of the writing trace.
US10551658B2	Image display apparatus with touch panel An image display apparatus that that can easily separate an image display apparatus from a touch panel. The image display apparatus comprises a liquid crystal panel (image display apparatus main body), a touch panel that has a fine, uneven structure on its surface and faces the liquid crystal panel via a gap, and an adhesive member for securing these, the adhesive member comprising a substrate, a first adhesive layer, and a second adhesive layer, wherein an adhesive strength (W1) between the first adhesive layer and the liquid crystal panel is less than an adhesive strength (W3) of the first adhesive layer and the substrate, an adhesive strength (W3′) of the second adhesive layer and the substrate, and an adhesive strength (W5) of the second adhesive layer and the touch panel, and wherein a breaking strength (W4) of the substrate is greater than W3′ and/or W5.
US10551654B2	Display device A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a front cover including a first side wall covering one side of the display panel and a hook provided on an outer surface of the first sidewall, and a back cover coupled to the front cover. The back cover includes a rear wall positioned behind the front cover, a second side wall bent forward from the rear wall and covering the first side wall, and a latching portion bent toward inside of the second side wall and engaged with the hook.
US10551651B2	Substrate support device A substrate support device is provided, including: a support rod movably arranged on a table; a first driving mechanism configured to control the support rod to move in a first direction; a support platform movably arranged on the support rod; a second driving mechanism configured to control the support platform to move in a second direction parallel to a lengthwise direction of the support rod; and a support pin movably arranged on the support platform.
US10551650B2	Manufacturing method of liquid crystal display device A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device including a first substrate and a second substrate each including a flexible board, the manufacturing method includes a first step of forming the flexible board by forming, in a first region on a glass substrate, a first resin unit made of a first resin having a property of absorbing infrared light and forming, in a second region on the glass substrate, a second resin unit made of a second resin smaller in infrared absorptivity than the first resin; and a second step of, subsequent to the first step, irradiating the first resin unit with infrared light to cut a portion corresponding to the first region in the flexible board.
US10551649B2	Display panel, controlling method thereof and window comprising the same A display panel includes an array substrate, and a plurality of display units disposed on the array substrate each of which includes a display sub-pixel for receiving sunlight radiation and performing display, a solar cell disposed adjacent to the display sub-pixel and configured to receive sunlight radiation and perform photoelectric transformation, a micro-electromechanical optical valve disposed above and movable over the display sub-pixel and the solar cell to control a light transmittance of the display sub-pixel, and a blocking structure disposed at an edge of the display unit to limit the movement of the micro-electromechanical optical valve within the display unit.
US10551643B2	Compact, energy efficient mach-zehnder interferometers and optical attenuators Mach-Zehnder interferometers comprise heater elements configured to have projections in the plane of optical waveguides positioned such that two adjacent sections of one optical waveguide arms are heated by a common heater element. The heater and at least a substantial section of the heated waveguide segments can be curved. Configurations of an optical waveguide arm can comprise an outer curved heated section, an inner curved heated section, and a loopback waveguide section connecting the outer curved heated section and the inner curved heated section, with average radius of curvature selected to form an open accessible space. Appropriate configurations of the two optical waveguide arms provide for nested configurations of the arms that provide for a compact structure for the interferometer.
US10551638B2	Imaging apparatus and imaging method An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging lens module, having an adjustable imaging parameter, and used to image an observed object of an imaging receiver; an information processing module, used to detect a focus position of the imaging receiver, and determine the imaging parameter of the imaging lens module according to the focus position; and a lens adjustment module, used to adjust the imaging lens module according to the determined imaging parameter. Through the apparatus and method of the embodiments of the present invention, a focus position of an imaging receiver is automatically detected and an imaging parameter of an imaging lens module located between the imaging receiver and an object is automatically adjusted according to the focus position, thereby enabling an imaging receiver (for example, a user's eyes) to conveniently obtain clear imaging of objects at different distances.
US10551637B2	High performance selective light wavelength filtering providing improved contrast sensitivity The present invention relates to ophthalmic systems and coatings comprising a selective light wavelength filter, wherein said selective filter provides improved contrast sensitivity.
US10551634B2	Blur correction device, imaging apparatus, and blur correction method that correct an image blur of an object in a target image region A processor of a blur correction device functions as a detection unit configured to detect motion information between a plurality of images imaged by an imaging apparatus, the detection unit detecting motion information of a plurality of image regions, and a determination unit configured to determine a target region, among the plurality of image regions, based on motion information of the imaging apparatus and motion information of a first direction detected by the detection unit. The processor also functions as a correction control unit configured to switch between a control operation in which the correction control unit corrects an image blur in a second direction of an object present in the target region based on motion information of the second direction orthogonal to the first direction in the target region, and a control operation in which the correction control unit does not correct the image blur in the second direction.
US10551630B2	Display apparatus for motor vehicle A display apparatus for motor vehicle capable of enhancing stereoscopic image effect utilizing a simple configuration. Since the front part includes a tilt approaching to an upward side as the front part proceeding to the front side of the motor vehicle, and a stereoscopic image is displayed on a display surface, the image is made visible in combination with the front part when the ring member is positioned at the tilt position. The image is expressed as having a visual depth by not only a mere image but also by the tilted front part so that the stereoscopic image effect is enhanced due to the combination of the front part and the stereoscopic image having a visual depth. Further, the configuration is simplified since the stereoscopic image effect can be enhanced without a need of altering the direction of the display surface.
US10551629B2	Parallax device and three-dimensional display device The present application relates to the field of 3D display technique, and provides a parallax device and a 3D display device. The parallax device includes a first grating unit and a second grating unit. The first grating unit includes first barriers and second barriers arranged alternately. The second grating unit includes third barriers that are in one-to-one correspondence with the first barriers. The third barriers are configured to prevent light transmitted through the first grating unit from entering and interfering with a viewing region.
US10551627B2	3D display device A 3D display device is provided. The 3D display device includes a display panel and a light source, the display panel including a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein, the light source is disposed on a side surface of the first substrate, and configured to emit light into the first substrate, wherein, light is propagated in the first substrate in a total reflection manner; the 3D display device further includes a light adjustment structure disposed on a surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate; the light adjustment structure is configured to adjust an emergent direction of light incident into the light adjustment structure from the first substrate, such that a first part of light emerging from the light adjustment structure is propagated in a left eye direction through a first display unit of the display panel, and a second part of light emerging from the light adjustment structure is propagated in a right eye direction through a second display unit of the display panel. Thus, a utilization rate and brightness of light can be improved, and a thickness of the display device is reduced.
US10551626B2	Method and system for multispectral beam combiner A multispectral beam combiner includes a prism body having an output surface, a fiber entry block attached to the prism body, and a plurality of input fibers attached to the fiber entry block. Each of the plurality of input fibers is operable to support a different wavelength. The multispectral beam combiner also includes a collimator attached to the prism body. The collimator is operable to reflect and collimate light propagating from the fiber entry block. The multispectral beam combiner further includes an immersion grating operable to diffract light propagating from the collimator. The output surface of the prism body is operable to pass light propagating from the immersion grating.
US10551623B1	Safe head-mounted display for vehicles Head-mounted displays (HMDs) are being used more and more for entertainment and work while traveling in vehicles. However, the use of an HMD can be risky in the event of a collision if it is not removed from the head in time. This disclosure describes HMDs that are dismantled automatically from the heads of passengers in vehicles. In one embodiment, an HMD includes a display module and a mount that includes a flexible piece and a stiff piece connected by a lock. The mount attaches the display module to a passenger's head while the pieces are connected. Upon receiving an indication of an imminent collision involving the vehicle, the lock disconnects the pieces such that the flexible piece stays on the head shortly after the disconnection, and the stiff piece is removed from the head shortly after the disconnection.
US10551618B2	Vehicle display device Provided is a vehicle display device that can improve visibility without providing a feeling of strangeness to a passenger. A vehicle display device includes a display unit provided in an inner side of an instrument panel and which projects a display image, a transparent cover that transmits the display image projected from the display unit toward a windshield, and a bezel body including an opening portion that allows the display image transmitted through the transparent cover to pass through and having an outer edge portion continuing into the windshield, and the degrees of brightness of respective reflected images of the instrument panel, the transparent cover, and the bezel body, the respective reflected images being reflected in the windshield, are made uniform, and therefore dark visual recognition of any of the reflected images is suppressed, and the feeling of strangeness provided to the passenger is relieved.
US10551616B2	Display device system with tilted lens group to prevent ghost images A display device system includes a display engine and optical waveguide. The display engine includes an image former, that produces light corresponding to an image, and one or more lens groups that collimate the light corresponding to the image and outputs the light from the display engine. Each lens group includes one or more lenses that share a mechanical axis. The light corresponding to the image produced by the image former has an optical axis ray coincident with a principal ray of the light that originates at a center of the image produced by the image former. At least one lens group has its mechanical axis tilted relative to the optical axis ray of the light corresponding to the image produced by the image former, to prevent a ghost image from being formed by light corresponding to the image that is reflected-back from the waveguide toward the display engine.
US10551615B2	Casing of optical scanning device An optical scanning device includes a casing (31). The casing (31) can be stacked in a plurality of stages in a state in which a lid member (32) has been removed, and includes a connection leg part (31e) extending from a predetermined position of the outside surface of a sidewall part (31b) to a lower side of a lower surface of the casing (31), and the connection leg part (31e) is provided with an engaged part (31g) for connection which is engaged with an engaging part (31d) formed at a sidewall part (31b) of another casing (31) when the casing (31) is stacked on an upper side of the other casing (31).
US10551614B2	Camera assembly with programmable diffractive optical element for depth sensing A depth camera assembly (DCA) for depth sensing of a local area includes a structured light generator, an imaging device, and a controller. The structured light generator illuminates the local area with a structured light pattern. The structured light generator includes a programmable diffractive optical element (PDOE) that generates diffracted scanning beams using optical beams. The PDOE functions as a dynamic diffraction grating that dynamically adjusts diffraction of the optical beams to generate the diffracted scanning beams of different patterns. The diffracted scanning beams are projected as the structured light pattern into the local area, wherein the structured light pattern is dynamically adjustable based on the PDOE. The imaging device captures image(s) of at least a portion of the structured light pattern reflected from object(s) in the local area. The controller determines depth information for the object(s) based on the captured image(s).
US10551612B2	Scanning apparatus Disclosed is a scanning apparatus including a substrate, an outer gimbal connected to the substrate and including an outer coil, an inner gimbal connected to the outer gimbal and including an inner coil, a mirror connected to the inner gimbal and having a reflective face formed on one side, and a magnetic assembly disposed below the substrate, wherein a spring including a plurality of strings is provided between the inner gimbal and the mirror, the plurality of strings being symmetrical to one another with respect to a longitudinal axis of the spring.
US10551611B2	Techniques for removing particulate from an optical surface The present disclosure generally relates to a method, and apparatus implementing the method for removing particulate accumulation from an optical element of a micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) package. The method may select a cleaning mode based, at least in part on, one or more of output of a sensor or a maintenance routine. Cleaning modes may include actuating, using an actuator of the MEMS package, one of a plurality of motion modes across the optical element. Optionally, the cleaning mode may include applying, using a power source of the MEMS package, a charge to the optical element. The disclosed techniques may enable the MEMS package to automatically and dynamically remove particulate matter without introducing additional mechanical elements.
US10551610B2	Alignment and rotation of Janus microparticles in response to acceleration Gravitational Janus microparticle having, a center-of-mass, a center-of-volume, and a non¬uniform density, wherein: the center-of-mass and the center-of-volume are distinct. When suspended in a fluid, the microparticle substantially aligns with either: i) the gravitational field; or ii) the direction of an acceleration, such that the Janus microparticle is in substantial rotation equilibrium. After perturbation from substantial rotational equilibrium, the Janus microparticle reversibly rotates to return to substantial rotational equilibrium. The gravitational Janus microparticle may comprise at least two portions, each having distinct physical and/or chemical characteristics, wherein at least one portion provides a detectable effect following rotation and alignment of the microparticle.
US10551609B2	Microscope and method for generating 3D images of a collection of samples The invention relates to a microscope and a method for producing 3D images of various transparent or semi-transparent samples, fundamentally comprising: causing a relative movement according to the detection direction between the sheet of light and the sample while maintaining a constant angle of acquisition; producing, for said angle of acquisition, a single 2D projection image formed by a representative parameter for each pixel; modifying the angle of acquisition by means of a relative rotation between the sheet of light and the sample, combined with a relative vertical translation between the sheet of light and the sample, and repeating the previous steps; and generating a 3D image of each of the samples from the set of 2D projection images that are produced.
US10551605B2	Confocal inspection system having non-overlapping annular illumination and collection regions A confocal inspection system can optically characterize a sample. An objective lens, which can be a single lens or a combination of separate illumination and collection lenses, can have a pupil. The objective lens can deliver incident light to the sample through an annular illumination region of the pupil, and can collect scattered light returning from the sample to form collected light. Confocal optics can be positioned to receive the collected light. A detector can be configured with the confocal optics so that the detector generates signals from light received from a specified depth at or below a surface of the sample and rejects signals from light received from depths away from the specified depth. An optical element, such as a mask, a reconfigurable panel, or the detector, can define the annular collection region to be non-overlapping with the annular illumination region in the pupil.
US10551603B2	Detection system with one-piece optical element to concentrate and homogenize light Detection system comprising an examination region, a one-piece optical element including a focusing portion to concentrate light received from the examination region and a guiding portion to homogenize light received from the focusing portion, and a detector configured to detect homogenized light received from the guiding portion.
US10551602B2	Wafer-level optical device having light guide properties An optical device (1) includes two prism bodies (41, 42) and four side panels (71-74) attached to both prism bodies (41, 42). A cavity (9) is thereby enclosed. A first reflector (81) can be present at a first side face (81) of the first prism body (41), and a second reflector (82) can be present at a second side face (82) of the second prism body (42). At least one of the prism bodies (41, 42) and/or at least one of the side panels (71-74) can be at least in part made of a non-transparent dielectric material such as a printed circuit board. In some implementations, an optoelectronic component (90) can be attached to the respective constituent of the optical device (1).
US10551601B2	Zoom lens, optical apparatus, and a manufacturing method of the zoom lens A first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, a third lens group having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power are provided in order from an object. The first to fourth lens groups move on an optical axis so that zooming is performed by changing each distance between adjacent lens groups. The first lens group comprises, in order from the object, a negative lens arranged closest to the object, a negative lens and a positive lens, and when an air interval between the third and fourth lens groups in the wide-angle end state is denoted as D3T and an air interval between the third and fourth lens groups in the telephoto end state is denoted as D3T, the following condition is satisfied: 0.30
US10551597B2	Telephoto lens assembly A telephoto lens assembly comprises sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis a first lens, a second lens, a stop, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. The first lens has negative refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side. The second lens has negative refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The third lens has positive refractive power. The fourth lens has refractive power. The fifth lens has refractive power. The sixth lens has positive refractive power. The fourth lens and the fifth lens are cemented.
US10551593B2	Optical lens An optical lens including a first lens group and a second lens group is provided. The first lens group is arranged between a magnified side and a minified side. The first lens group includes a lens closest to the magnified side. A refractive power of the lens is negative, and at least one surface of the lens is an aspherical surface. The second lens group is arranged between the first lens group and the minified side. A distance between the first lens group and the second lens group is smaller than 0.7 millimeter. The optical lens is complied with conditions of 0.53
US10551588B2	Lens driving apparatus, camera module, and optical apparatus The present invention relates to a lens driving apparatus, comprising: a cover member which comprises an upper plate and a side plate extending downwardly from the upper plate; a housing which is located in an inner space formed by the upper plate and the side plate; a base which is positioned below the housing; a first driving unit which is positioned in the housing; a second driving unit which is located in the base and has an electromagnetic interaction with the first driving unit; and a side support member which elastically supports the housing with respect to the base, wherein the cover member comprises a first round portion formed to be rounded in at least a part of portion at which the upper plate and the side plate meet, and the housing comprises a second round portion which is formed in a part of the housing corresponding to the first round portion and has a curvature radius which is smaller than or equal to a curvature radius of the first round portion.
US10551581B2	Optical connector cage with enhanced thermal performance Apparatuses and associated methods of manufacturing are described that provide an optical connector cage configured to receive an optical cable connector. The optical connector cage includes a body defined by a top portion, a bottom portion, two side portions, a first end, and a second end. The body defines a receiving space that can at least partially receive an optical cable connector therein and one or more openings. The optical connector cage defines one or more heat dissipation units disposed within the one or more openings, and each heat dissipation unit further includes a first set of heat dissipation elements having a first height, and a second set of heat dissipation elements having a second height. The second height is different than the first height such that the one or more heat dissipation elements allow heat to be transferred from the body to an external environment.
US10551579B2	Ferrule-to-lens latch mechanism A ferrule-to-lens latch mechanism includes a cover movable with respect to a housing of an optical assembly between an open position in which a cavity defined by the housing is visible and a closed position in which the cavity is covered by the cover. A lens is positioned in the cavity and has one or more guide pins which are visible when the cover is in the open position prior to mating a ferrule to the lens. A spring clip coupled to the housing and positioned in the cavity is configured to allow insertion and removal of the ferrule from the cavity when the cover is in the open position and may bias the ferrule against the lens when the ferrule is mated to the lens. When the ferrule is mated to the lens, the cover may cooperate with the spring clip to inhibit removal of the ferrule.
US10551576B2	Optical fiber fixing structure An optical fiber fixing structure includes: a cylindrical member; an optical fiber inserted into a hole of the cylindrical member; and a fixing material configured to fix the cylindrical member and the optical fiber, wherein the optical fiber is a polarization maintaining optical fiber having a polarization axis, and a center of the optical fiber is arranged so as to be eccentric to a center of the hole, and an angle formed by an eccentric direction connecting the center of the hole and the center of the optical fiber and the polarization axis is −22.5° to 22.5°, or 67.5° to 112.5°.
US10551573B2	Fiber optic connector sub-assemblies and fiber optic connectors including the same A fiber optic connector sub-assembly includes a ferrule having a front end, a rear end, and a ferrule bore extending between the front and rear ends along a longitudinal axis. The fiber optic connector sub-assembly also includes a bonding agent disposed in the ferrule bore and having first and second ends along the longitudinal axis. The bonding agent has been melted and solidified at the first and second ends without there being an optical fiber present in the ferrule bore.
US10551572B2	Fiber optic end-face transparent protector system and method A protective assembly method using a transparent layer within the fiber interconnect system aids in optical coupling by preventing an air gap from forming between the fiber cores within a connector. A fiber protection device made of a thin transparent film, which includes an adhesive layer, is applied over the fiber end-faces at the connector interface, the film having characteristics which allows it to conform to the fiber end and minimize coupling loss between fibers. According to one aspect, the film is part of a cartridge that provides structural support for the film to facilitate application of the fiber protection device. The film may be divided by perforate patterns that define one or more fiber protection devices formed by the film. The assembly method can include usage of an applicator base plate upon which the cartridge is mounted. According to another aspect, the film may be part of a single-use disposable pod for application of a single fiber protection device.
US10551570B2	Optical transmission connector, plug, and receptacle A plug of a connector that performs optical transmission is provided with an optical connection unit. The optical connection unit includes a lens that is provided on a side surface of the optical connection unit and performs optical connection with a lens provided on an optical connection unit of a receptacle in a direction orthogonal to an inserting/removing direction of the plug, and a locating surface that is provided on the side surface of the optical connection unit and abuts on a locating surface of the receptacle to determine a position of the optical connection unit in a mating condition of the plug into the receptacle.
US10551565B2	Distributed passive optical networks A passive optical network includes one or more multi-service terminals each having a housing and a plurality of ruggedized plug-receiving distribution ports accessible from outside the housing. The multi-service terminals also each include an optical power splitter or wave division multiplexer for splitting an optical signal and directing the split signal to the plug-receiving distribution ports. Some of the multi-service terminals provide a different power split ratio from others of the multi-service terminals.
US10551558B2	Lighting unit A lighting unit includes a single core optical fiber, a light converter, and an exit end. The single core optical fiber includes an incident end and a distal end, and is configured to guide primary light, which is a laser light incident on the incident end, to the distal end. The light converter is formed inside the optical fiber, and is configured to receive the primary light guided by the optical fiber, convert optical properties of at least part of the received primary light and generate secondary light. The exit end is arranged at the distal end of the optical fiber, and is configured to emit the secondary light externally as illumination light.
US10551554B2	Display device Provided is a display device with a see-through display which can be produced at low cost by using a reduced number of components. A display 110 capable of see-through display uses a light guide 20 integrally formed with a wire grid 70, which has the function of a conventional component as typified by a reflective polarizing plate. Accordingly, the display 110 has a reduced number of components, resulting in shorter assembly time. Thus, the cost of producing a liquid crystal display device 100 can be reduced.
US10551545B2	Light guide plate, backlight module and display apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide a light guide plate, a backlight module and a display apparatus. The light guide plate includes: a light guide plate body, and a prism structure disposed on a light exit face of the light guide plate body and including a plurality of prisms. The plurality of prisms each have a top farthest from the light exit face of the light guide plate body. A height difference is formed between the tops of the plurality of prisms, and/or the top of at least one of the plurality of prisms has a portion with a part farthest from the light exit face of the light guide plate body, and a height difference is formed between the part and the top of the at least one of the plurality of prisms.
US10551542B1	Light modules and devices incorporating light modules According to one implementation an assembly is provided that facilitates a coupling of one or more light diffusing optical fibers to one or more light emitting diodes. According to one implementation the assembly includes a light emitting diode positioned inside a cavity of a frame that is equipped with means to directly or indirectly electrically couple the anode and cathode of the light emitting diode to a printed circuit board. A proximal end portion of the light diffusing optical fiber is supported inside a through opening of a lid positioned over a front side of the frame. The light diffusing optical fiber includes a core that is surround by a cladding. According to some implementations the proximal end of the light diffusing optical fiber is butt-coupled to the light emitting diode with there being no gap between the proximal end of the fiber and the light emitting side of the light emitting diode.
US10551540B2	Separator-attached adhesive layer structure and production method therefor, separator-attached adhesive layer and polarizing film combination structure and production method therefor, and image display device Provided are a separator-attached adhesive layer structure which comprises a separator having moderate light peelability with respect to an adhesive layer and exhibits excellent processability and durability, and a production method therefor. The production method comprises: a first step of forming a layer of an adhesive composition containing a (meth)acryl-based polymer, a peroxide and a phenolic antioxidant, on a release treatment surface of a separator subjected to a release treatment; and a second step of, after completion of the first step, heating the adhesive composition to cause cross-linking therein so as to be formed as an adhesive layer.
US10551538B2	Flexible display device A flexible display device includes a display module including a bending area that is bendable along a reference axis, and a polarization member disposed on the display module. The polarization member includes a λ/4 phase retardation layer disposed on the display module and including a nematic liquid crystal coating layer. The polarization member further includes a first adhesion member disposed on the λ/4 phase retardation layer, a λ/2 phase retardation layer disposed on the first adhesion member and including a discotic liquid crystal coating layer, a second adhesion member disposed on the λ/2 phase retardation layer, and a line polarizer disposed on the second adhesion member and including an absorption axis, wherein an angle between the reference axis and the absorption axis is about 15 degrees to about 75 degrees.
US10551537B2	Composition for optical film, and films and display device A composition for an optical film including a liquid crystal and a polysiloxane represented by Chemical Formula 1 wherein in Chemical Formula 1, R1 to R5, L1 to L3, X, Y, Z, T1, T2, a, b, c, and d are the same as described in the detailed description.
US10551535B2	Image pickup apparatus capable of inserting and extracting filter An image pickup apparatus that is capable of preventing degradation of quality of an image obtained. An insertion-extraction unit inserts and extracts a filter of which transmittance for infrared light is higher than the transmittance for visible light. A computation unit computes an object distance between the image pickup apparatus and an object. An evaluation unit evaluates an image quality based on at least a sharpness in an image including a picked up object image. A control unit controls the insertion-extraction unit so as to insert or extract the filter based on at least one of the image quality and the object distance.
US10551532B2	Imaging device and imaging method An imaging device includes: a modulator with a first pattern, which is configured to modulate light intensity; an image sensor configured to convert light passing through the modulator to image data, and output the image data; and an image processing unit configured to restore an image on the basis of cross-correlation operation with the image data and pattern data that represents a second pattern.
US10551528B2	Low reflection articles and related systems and methods Low reflection articles, and related systems and methods are disclosed. The articles have a surface with primary pores and secondary pores. At least some of the secondary pores contain agent, such, for example, a light absorbing dye.
US10551527B2	Photonic diode and method of manufacturing the same A photonic diode includes a first meta-material structure having a first bar and a second meta-material structure having a second bar arranged in a direction perpendicular to the first bar. The first bar and the second bar are separated from each other. Further, the first bar and the second bar are at least partially overlapped when viewed from a light propagation direction.
US10551522B2	Workflow adjustment methods and systems for logging operations In an embodiment a method of automatic adjustment of logging, processing, inversion, and visualization operations is disclosed. The method comprises gathering data about formation properties in a database, filtering the gathered data, generating rules based on the filtered data, and providing automatic adjustments to automatically adjust the logging, processing, inversion, and visualization operations. The gathered data includes a plurality of in-well measurement points and a plurality of wells in a given geological area. A quality factor is derived based on a difference between the automatic adjustments and parameters that an operator communicates as a best parameter. The quality factor is used to determine which of the gathered data is to be stored in the database. The rules are applied to a next iteration of data that is to be gathered. The method repeats until no further improvement is obtained.
US10551521B2	Magnetic resonance pulse sequences and processing A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) apparatus includes a carrier configured to be deployed in a borehole, a magnet assembly configured to generate a static magnetic field in an earth formation, and at least one transmitting assembly configured to generate an oscillating magnetic field in a volume of interest within the formation. The apparatus also includes a pulse generator configured to apply a direct-echo pulse sequence to the at least one transmitting assembly, the direct-echo pulse sequence having a plurality of successive pulses including a first pulse and a second pulse configured to generate a first direct NMR echo, and a third pulse, the third pulse selected to at least partially separate a stimulated NMR echo from a second direct NMR echo occurring after the third pulse. The apparatus further includes at least one receiving assembly configured to detect the first and second direct echoes of an NMR echo train.
US10551517B2	Multiples mitigation and imaging with incomplete seismic data Synthetic survey data is generated using a two-way or one-way wave propagator based on a current model of a target structure. The current model is modified to reduce a difference between the synthetic survey data and observed survey data, while maintaining unchanged a velocity component of the current model, where the modifying of the current model produces a modified model. The modified model is used to reduce an adverse effect of multiples in the target structure, or to promote a favorable effect of multiples in the target structure.
US10551510B2	Data processing apparatus, method of obtaining characteristic of each pixel and method of data processing, and program Provided are a data processing apparatus a method of obtaining the characteristic of each pixel and a method of data processing, and a program. A data processing apparatus 100 to correct X-ray intensity data measured by a pixel detector includes a characteristic storage unit 130 to store the characteristic of each pixel in a specific detector, a correction table generation unit 120 to apply a measurement condition input as that in measurement by a specific detector and a value expressing the characteristic of each pixel to an approximate formula expressing the count value of each pixel and to generate a correction table for the specific detector using the calculation result of the approximate formula, and a correction unit 160 to correct the X-ray intensity data measured by the specific detector using the generated correction table.
US10551508B2	Quick positioning system and vehicle-mounted system A quick positioning method and a vehicle-mounted system are disclosed. The quick positioning method includes: acquiring position information from an external positioning terminal the same time when the vehicle-mounted system is started, and determining continuously whether position information is available from a local GPS positioning module; and using the position information acquired from the external positioning terminal until position information is available from the local GPS positioning module. By the above method, there would be available position information before the GPS module of the vehicle-mounted system is fully activated, thus effectively enhancing the positioning efficiency of the vehicle-mounted system.
US10551506B2	Onboard device and controller for vehicle-to-vehicle detection An onboard electronic device for mounting to a first vehicle. The onboard device may include a capture device configured to capture identifying data associated with a second vehicle. The onboard device may also include a GNSS receiver configured to detect position data based on at least one GNSS signal. The onboard device may further include an onboard controller communicatively coupled to the capture device and the GNSS receiver. The onboard controller may be configured to perform operations including receiving the identifying data from the capture device, receiving the position data from the GNSS receiver, and generating a data report signal based on the identifying data and the position data. The onboard device may further comprise a transmitting antenna configured to transmit the data report signal.
US10551505B2	Ionospheric scintillation prediction A method of generating scintillation prediction data comprises: •a) for a plurality of satellites (12A), and reference stations (10A, 10B, 10C, 10D) measuring phase scintillation data, satellite by satellite for each reference station during multiple epochs (t−2, t−1, t, t+k); •b) forecasting an expected phase scintillation value for each satellite and reference station for a period of at least 24 hours based on a cyclical prediction model; •c) for a given user location (20) and a given satellite, spatially interpolating the expected phase scintillation values of the plurality of reference stations to determine a predicted phase scintillation index; •d) repeating step c) for further satellites visible from the user location.
US10551503B2	Method and apparatus for determining a schedule for contact with a constellation of satellites A method and apparatus are provided for determining a schedule for a contact between a ground segment and a space segment. The ground segment comprises multiple ground stations, each ground station having one or more antennas, such that the overall number of ground station antennas in the ground segment is (Nant), and the space segment comprises a constellation of satellites in orbit, in which the number of satellites is (Nsat). The method comprises selecting a subset of no more than Nant satellites from the Nsat satellites for contact at a given epoch with the ground segment; and allocating each of the selected Nant satellites to the Nant antennas in a one-to-one relationship at the given epoch. The selecting of the subset of no more than Nant satellites from the Nsat satellites comprises determining a subset of the Nant satellites that has maximum spatial diversity.
US10551502B2	Positioning system for determining the position of a vehicle in a charging station A positioning system for determining the position of a vehicle when driving into a charging station for charging an energy accumulator of the vehicle includes a vehicle-side marking having at least one marking property changing in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. A route-side sensor device measures a distance from the marking to the sensor device when the vehicle passes the sensor device and generates a distance signal indicating a distance from the marking to the sensor device in the transverse direction of the vehicle. The sensor device reads out the marking property in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and generates a longitudinal vehicle direction signal indicating the position of the marking and/or the vehicle relative to the sensor device in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. A charging station, a vehicle and a method for determining the position of a vehicle, are also provided.
US10551500B2	Infrared optical element for proximity sensor system An optical device includes an optical element. The optical element includes a first surface configured to receive light in a first direction and a second surface that is non-parallel to the first surface. The second surface is configured to transmit a first portion of the light in a second direction that is different from the first direction and internally reflect a second portion of the light that is distinct from the first portion of the light. The optical element further includes a third surface configured to receive the second portion of the light from the second surface and reduce internal reflection of the second portion of the light by the third surface. Also disclosed is a method of steering light by the optical device.
US10551499B2	Optical detecting device capable of increasing signal-to-noise ratio and economizing power consumption An optical detecting device capable of increasing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and economizing power consumption is installed on a wearable device. The optical detecting device includes a base, an optical detecting component and a light emitting module. The optical detecting component is disposed on the base and has a detecting surface normal vector. The light emitting module is disposed on the base and outputs a sampling signal to project onto an external object, and the optical detecting component can receive the sampling signal reflected from the external object. The light emitting module is slanted toward the optical detecting component, and an optical axis of spatial distribution of the sampling signal and the detecting surface normal vector are crossed to form a deviated angle.
US10551496B2	Systems and methods for verifying participation in a meeting using sound signals Systems and methods for verifying the presence of an attendee in an education session include providing, by a computer hardware processor, information for a codified sound to a leader of the education session, where the leader is located in a substantially enclosed space in which the education session is held. The codified sound represents a leader code. The codified sound is emitted from a first device associated with the leader. A sound signal is received by a second device associated with the attendee. An attendee code is determined from the sound signal received by the second device. The system, such as using the computer hardware processor or the second device, determines whether the attendee code matches the leader code.
US10551495B2	Apparatus for warning a driver of a vehicle about a stationary object and vehicle having such an apparatus An apparatus/vehicle for warning a driver of a vehicle or vehicle/trailer (V-VT) about a stationary object (SO): a) a sensor device having a detection area (DA) including a side DA arranged laterally from a vehicle side (VS) and extending front to rear, in the direction of a longitudinal centerline of the (V-VT), and detecting the SO within the DA; b) a control device to evaluate the sensor signals as to the SO detected within the DA and define a dynamically alterable warning area (WA) that is no more than the side DA; c) a warning device to generate a warning signal if the sensor device detects the object(s) in the WA; d) the control device, on detection of the SO within the side DA and on detection of the (V-VT) turning toward the VS on which the side DA is situated, to assign a triangular cross-section to the WA.
US10551494B2	Road information detection apparatus and road information detection method A road information detector acquires road information by emitting a beam via a variable directivity transmission antenna to a road sign having plural flat portions and includes a transceiver that controls the antenna to scan the beam by switching an emission angle including an azimuth angle relative to the front direction of a vehicle and receives, as reflected wave signals, waves reflected by the flat portions, a distance and reflected wave intensity detector that detects a distance between the vehicle and each of the flat portions and a reflected wave intensity of each of the reflected waves, an emission angle detector that detects the emission angle based on the reflected wave signal, and a road information analyzer that acquires the road information by generating a heat map based on the emission angles, distances, and reflected wave intensities and analyzing the heat map using a threshold value of the wave intensity.
US10551493B2	Widely spaced radar nodes with unambiguous beam pattern A vehicle, a radar system for the vehicle, and method of driving the vehicle. A radar array having plurality of radar nodes is arranged along the vehicle. Each radar node includes a first transmitter at one end of the node, a second transmitter at a second end of the node and a plurality of receivers aligned between the first transmitter and the second transmitter. At least one of an aperture length of the nodes and a spacing between the nodes is a variable parameter. A processor activates a transmitter of the radar array to generate a test pulse, receive, at a receiver of the radar array, a reflection of the test pulse from an object, and determines an angular location of the object from the reflection of the test pulse. A trajectory of the vehicle can be changed using the determined angular location of the object.
US10551491B2	Systems and methods for performing synthetic aperture radar imaging using superchirps Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging systems that transmit repeated waveforms based upon pseudonoise sequences to generate SAR imaging data in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are disclosed. A synthetic aperture radar in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes: a transmitter configured to transmit superchirps, where the superchirp is generated by convolving a kernel with a pseudonoise modulated impulse sequence having a flat power spectrum; a receiver configured to receive backscatters of transmitted superchirps and digitize the received backscatters; and signal processing circuitry configured to perform matched filtering on digitized backscatters.
US10551483B2	Method and system for personal area radar A personal area radar is provided to permit a user to be aware of their surroundings. This may be in 360 degrees or any other suitable coverage area and angle. The personal area radar can show objects to the user through fog, smoke, precipitation, darkness and with full 360 degree field of view capability, significantly improving the user's overall situational awareness. They may also be used to view things that are behind solid objects such as in or behind walls or underground. These systems may be highly integrated phased array radar systems mounted on a helmet. They may use small, high frequency radars able to detect solid objects (and/or semi-solid objects) such as people, improvised explosive devices (IED), or other solid objects. These methods and systems may provide the user with 360 degrees view and awareness of objects regardless of external conditions such as weather, darkness or other obstructions.
US10551482B2	Vehicular radar system with self-interference cancellation A radar system is described that comprises a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter transmits radio signals. The receiver receives interfering signals due to local signal coupling of transmitted signals. The local signal coupling comprises at least one interfering path or mechanism. The receiver is configured to output a replica of each of the interfering signals. Each replica is configured to replicate a particular interfering signal received. The receiver is configured to combine into a signal path a replica of an interfering signal to subtract the interfering signal from the signal path. The receiver receives the transmitted radio signals transmitted by the transmitter and reflected from objects in an environment without saturating the signal path due to the subtraction of the interfering signal from the signal path.
US10551479B1	Systems and methods for using ranging to determine locations of wireless sensor nodes based on radio frequency communications between the nodes and various RF-enabled devices Systems, apparatuses, and methods for determining locations of wireless nodes in a network architecture are disclosed herein. In one example, a system for localization of nodes in a wireless network architecture comprises a plurality of wireless anchor nodes each having a known location and a wireless device with one or more processing units and RF circuitry for transmitting and receiving communications in the wireless network architecture and a wireless node having a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver to enable bi-directional communications with the plurality of wireless anchor nodes in the wireless network architecture. One or more processing units of at least one of the plurality of wireless anchor nodes are configured to execute instructions to determine a set of possible ranges between each anchor node and the wireless node having an unknown location and to perform a triangulation algorithm that iterates through possible locations of the wireless node to minimize error.
US10551478B2	Multi-factor location verification In one embodiment, a method includes accessing at least two determinations of the location of a mobile computing device, with each determined location having been determined without reference to explicit location information manually input by a user of the mobile computing device. At least one first determined location is compared with at least one second determined location, with comparisons being made between location determinations made based on different location determination input. A functionality associated with the mobile computing device is allowed if the first determined location corresponds to at least one of the second determined locations.
US10551476B2	Frequency channel diversity for real-time locating systems, methods, and computer program products Provided are architectures, systems, methods, and computer program products for real-time object locating and position determination using frequency channel diversity for transmitting and receiving position determination signals including bursts of location signals. Channelized frequency diversity of a short burst of small location signals that “hop” across multiple frequency channels is used to collectively produce a quasi-wideband position determination signal. Object tags operating with frequency channel diversity for transmitting location signals of position determination signals require low power consumption, but can still efficiently provide adequate position determination signals for reliable position determination.
US10551474B2	Delay compensation while controlling a remote sensor The presently disclosed subject matter includes a method, a system and a delay compensation unit configured for compensating a delay in communication between a sensing unit and a control unit. A succession of two or more captured images are received from the sensing unit; information indicative of command dynamics parameters are obtained from the control unit; based on the information and a respective transfer function which models the dynamics of the sensor module, the expected reaction of the sensor module to the command is determined; and information indicative of the reaction before the command is executed in the sensing unit can be provided.
US10551473B2	Underwater tracking system A method comprises transmitting (901) a first ultrasonic ping signal from a first floating unit (M1). The first ultrasonic ping signal is received in an underwater device (D1, D2, D3). After a predetermined delay from the reception of the first ultrasonic ping signal, the underwater device transmits (905) a second ultrasonic ping signal from the underwater device. The second ultrasonic ping signal is received in the first floating unit. The first floating unit determines a time difference between a time of transmission of the first ultrasonic ping signal from the first floating unit and a time of reception of the second ultrasonic ping signal, and based on the time difference, provides location information and/or other information to the underwater device by transmitting (910) to the underwater device sequential underwater ultrasonic ping signals such that time differences between the sequential underwater ultrasonic ping signals indicate the provided information.
US10551471B2	Data mining based approach for online calibration of phasor measurement unit (PMU) Data quality of Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) is receiving increasing attention as it has been identified as one of the limiting factors that affect many wide-area measurement system (WAMS) based applications. In general, existing PMU calibration methods include offline testing and model based approaches. However, in practice, the effectiveness of both is limited due to the very strong assumptions employed. This invention presents a novel framework for online error detection and calibration of PMU measurement using density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) based on much relaxed assumptions. With a new problem formulation, the proposed data mining based methodology is applicable across a wide spectrum of practical conditions and one side-product of it is more accurate transmission line parameters for the energy management system (EMS) database and protective relay settings. Case studies are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
US10551470B2	Calibration apparatus, calibration system and method for calibrating at least one of the signal generator and a signal analyzer A calibration apparatus for calibrating at least one of a signal generator and a signal analyzer is described, wherein the calibration apparatus comprises an input terminal for establishing a connection with the signal generator, an output terminal for establishing a connection with the signal analyzer, a reference signal source for providing a reference signal, and a combiner circuit for combining signals received. The combiner circuit has a first input connected to the reference signal source and a second input assigned to the input terminal, the combiner circuit having an output assigned to the output terminal. Further, a calibration system and a method for calibrating at least one of a signal generator and a signal analyzer are described.
US10551469B2	Calibration of inverting amplifier based impedance analyzers A circuit for measuring an impedance of a device under test (DUT). The circuit includes: (i) circuitry for generating a stimulus wave at a stimulus frequency; (ii) an amplifier circuit coupled to the DUT to present a response signal from the DUT in response to the stimulus wave; (iii) switching circuitry for selectively coupling, between the stimulus wave and an input to the amplifier, either the DUT, a first calibration impedance, or a second calibration impedance. With the switching functionality, calibrations are performed so to provide a measure of impedance of the DUT in response to the plural calibrations.
US10551467B2	Method and apparatus for movement compensation during magnetic resonance imaging In a magnetic resonance apparatus and operating method therefor, movement compensation during raw data acquisition is accomplished by operating the data acquisition scanner to acquire data from a reference navigator volume at a first point in time, using a simultaneous multi-slice technique with a first acceleration factor and a first number of first slice groups, and to acquire data from a navigator volume at a second point in time, also using a simultaneous multi-slice technique, but with a second acceleration factor and a second number of second slice groups, with the first and second acceleration factors being equal. Movement information is determined from the reference navigator volume and the navigator volume, describing movement of the patient occurring between the first and second points in time. Data acquisition parameters of the scanner are set after the second point in time, dependent on the movement information, for acquiring further magnetic resonance data.
US10551466B2	Correction of a magnetic resonance transmission signal The disclosure relates to a method for determining a transfer function of a transmitting system of a magnetic resonance device, to a method for the correction of a transmission signal of a magnetic resonance device, to a corresponding magnetic resonance device, and to a computer program product for carrying out the method. The method includes determining a transfer function using a transmission characteristic of a transmitting system of the magnetic resonance device, wherein the transfer function is frequency-dependent. A transmission signal may be corrected using the transfer function. An excitation pulse may be emitted by the transmitting system using the corrected transmission signal.
US10551465B2	Magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus with simultaneous image acquisition of multiple sub-volumes with synchronous acquisition of navigators In a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and a method for generating magnetic resonance image data of a field of view of an examination object, magnetic resonance raw data are acquired by preferably different transverse magnetizations being excited in at least one sub-volume of a navigator volume and at least one sub-volume of an image volume, and are used for position determination and for imaging. These preferably different transverse magnetizations are simultaneously present in at least one period of the scan.
US10551462B2	Accuracy and off-resonance performance in quantitative magnetization prepared magnetic resonance imaging A method for performing magnetic resonance imaging with variable flip angle (VFA) readouts includes preparing longitudinal magnetization of a spin system associated with a subject to a target state, yielding a prepared longitudinal magnetization. The prepared longitudinal magnetization is converted to an image using a VFA readout sequence, wherein the VFA readout sequence comprises a plurality of radio-frequency pulses with corresponding flip-angles varying according to a modulation function.
US10551461B2	Method for performing parallel magnetic resonance imaging A method of parallel magnetic resonance imaging of a body, comprising:—acquiring a set of elementary magnetic resonance images of said body from respective receiving antennas having known or estimated sensibility maps and noise covariance matrices, said elementary images being under-sampled in k-space; and performing regularized reconstruction of a magnetic resonance image of said body; wherein said step of performing regularized reconstruction of a magnetic resonance image is unsupervised and carried out in a discrete frame space. A method of performing dynamical and parallel magnetic resonance imaging of a body, comprising:—acquiring a set of time series of elementary magnetic resonance images of said body from respective receiving antennas having known or estimated sensibility maps and noise covariance matrices, said elementary images being under-sampled in k-space; and performing regularized reconstruction of a time series of magnetic resonance images of said body.
US10551455B2	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems and methods using adiabatic tip-down and matched adiabatic flip-back pulses Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems and methods using adiabatic tip-down and matched adiabatic flip-back pulses are disclosed. According to an aspect, a system includes a signal generator configured to generate a pulse sequence for on-resonance magnetization transfer preparation. The pulse sequence includes an adiabatic tip-down pulse and a matched adiabatic flip-back pulse for separating spins in a mobile spin pool from spins in a bound spin pool of an anatomical region of interest for imaging. The system includes radio frequency (RF) coils configured to transmit RF pulses in response to the pulse sequence and to acquire RF data in response to transmission of the RF pulses. Further, the system includes a processing system configured to process the RF data to provide a display image indicating different tissue types with discrimination.
US10551453B2	Gradient coil and magnetic resonance imaging device A gradient coil according to an embodiment includes a saddle coil conductor part that is formed of a conductive material to have a substantially cylindrical shape. The conductor part includes a first region on which a spiral shaped first pattern is formed and a second region on which a second pattern different from the spiral shaped first pattern is formed.
US10551452B2	Radio frequency coil tuning methods and apparatus Some aspects comprise a tuning system configured to tune a radio frequency coil for use with a magnetic resonance imaging system comprising a tuning circuit including at least one tuning element configured to affect a frequency at which the radio frequency coil resonates, and a controller configured to set at least one value for the tuning element to cause the radio frequency coil to resonate at approximately a Larmor frequency of the magnetic resonance imaging system determined by the tuning system. Some aspects include a method of automatically tuning a radio frequency coil comprising determining information indicative of a Larmor frequency of the magnetic resonance imaging system, using a controller to automatically set at least one value of a tuning circuit to cause the radio frequency coil to resonate at approximately the Larmor frequency based on the determined information.
US10551448B2	Trellis coil arrangement and methods for use thereof A further exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure can be, for example, a coil arrangement, which can include a loops including a plurality of first conductors extending in a first direction; a plurality of second conductors extending in a second direction, where the first direction is different from the second direction, and a plurality of linking points linking the first conductors to the second conductors, where the loop(s) can be configured to stretch in a third direction, and a perimeter of the loop is constant. The third direction can be different from the first and second directions, or it can be the same as the first direction or the second direction. The linking points can mechanically and pivotally connect the first conductors to the second conductors. The linking points can include flexible conductors, or the linking points can link the first conductors and the second conductors to a substrate. The substrate can be a trellis substrate.
US10551445B2	Pulse width modulated binary frequency shift keying A control system that facilitates energy efficient management of building automation systems is disclosed. The control system comprises a source circuit configured to generate a modulated DC control signal comprising data modulated on a DC source signal having a power associated therewith and a load circuit configured to receive the modulated DC control signal. In addition, the control system comprises a transmission circuit comprising a DC powerline, coupled between the load circuit and the source circuit, and configured to transfer the modulated DC control signal from the source circuit to the load circuit, thereby multiplexing both the power and the data transfer over the DC powerline. In some embodiments, a frequency of the modulated DC control signal comprises a first information associated with the data, and a pulse width of the modulated DC control signal comprises a second, different information associated with the data.
US10551440B2	RFID status monitor for high voltage and remote electric power systems A remote blade closing detector switch is positioned on or near the jaws of an electric power disconnect switch, where proper seating of the blade in the jaws activates a detector switch. An extended conductor lead electrically connects the detector switch an RFID tag placed in a convenient reading location. The detector switch is configured to control a data signal, power to the antenna of the RFID tag, the power supply to the RFID tag, or a data signal between an RFID chip and an antenna as mechanisms for enabling and disabling the tag to report a status indicator. An antenna tuning compensator may be utilized to compensate for the impedance of the long conductor lead connected to the antenna. A noise filter may also be used to suppress electrical noise picked up by the long conductor lead in the harsh electrical environment of the disconnect switch.
US10551437B2	Error rate meter included in a semiconductor die An apparatus for performing an electrical test at a device is described. In one general implementation, an apparatus may include a memory, a receiver, and a processor. The receiver is configured to receive a test signal, convert the test signal into a digital test signal (bit stream) and store the digital test signal in the memory. The receiver identifies when a pre-defined number of bits of the bit stream are available in the memory. The processor is configured to perform a logic operation on the bit stream and a reference signal, generate a test result based on the logic operation, and determine whether the test result satisfies a condition. In some implementations, the processor may be configured to synchronize the digital test signal with the reference signal prior to performing of the logic operation.
US10551433B2	Testing head comprising vertical probes A testing head for testing a device includes a couple of plate-like supports separated from each other by a suitable gap and provided with respective guide holes to slidably house a plurality of contact probes, each including a rod-like body extending along a preset longitudinal axis between a first and second ends, the first end being a contact tip that abuts a contact pad of the device and the second end being a contact head that abuts a contact pad of a space transformer. At least one of the supports comprises a couple of guides that are parallel to each other and separated by an additional gap and provided with corresponding guide holes. Each contact probe comprises a protruding element or stopper originating from a lateral wall and realized in correspondence of one wall of a guide hole of the guides contacting the lateral wall of the contact probe.
US10551430B2	Remote diagnostic system and method for circuit protection devices such as miniature circuit breakers A system for diagnosing circuit protection device field issues includes a remote computer system and a diagnostic circuit protection device installed at a customer location, wherein the circuit protection device includes a processor configured to execute a number of routines, a plurality of sensors structured to sense power circuit information, a memory accessible by the processor, and a communications module coupled to the non-volatile memory. The routines are structured to input sensed power circuit information and determine trip information for one or more trip cycles and cause the stored power circuit information and trip information to be transmitted to the remote computer system by the communications module over a network for storage and subsequent access for diagnostic purposes.
US10551429B2	Method for detecting anti-island protection performance of inverter The present invention provides a method for detecting the anti-island protection performance of an inverter. An RLC circuit is serially connected between the inverter and a grid connection switch, the resonant frequency of the RLC load is set as three different numerical values for enabling the same to present resistance, capacitance and inductance, and a time value from the disconnection of the grid connection switch to the operation stop of the inverter under detection is recorded after a fundamental current value of the grid connection switch is set to a different value each time; and weighted calculation is performed on the time value to obtain a test result and grade evaluation of the anti-island protection ability of the inverter. By adoption of the detection method provided by the present invention, the problem that the anti-island protection ability of the photovoltaic inverter is difficult to precisely evaluate is solved; the anti-island protection performance of the inverter is comprehensively and objectively reflected; and meanwhile the phenomenon that a part of inverters cannot correctly reflect the anti-island ability of the inverters with respect to characteristic load design is effectively avoided, a technical support is provided for the existing method for detecting the anti-island protection performance, and related standard systems in the field of detection of the anti-island protection performance are further enriched and perfected.
US10551426B1	Live URD cable elbow connectivity identification method and apparatus Methods and apparatus are described to quickly and easily identify live URD elbow connectivity between junction cabinets in underground electric utility power distribution circuits so URD connected elbows can be correctly tagged. A first method segregates elbows in a cabinet into input elbows from an upstream cabinet, output elbows to a downstream cabinet, and by phase attribute. A second method injects a tracer signal into the elbow capacitive test point of an upstream output elbow and detects the tracer signal at the elbow capacitive test point of a downstream elbow capacitive test point to identify connectivity. A third method compares the output current of an upstream output elbow to that of the input current of a downstream input elbow to identify connectivity.
US10551425B2	Method for quickly identifying disconnection of CT in protection of 3/2 connection mode based bus The present disclosure relates to a method for quickly identifying disconnection of a Current Transformer (CT) in protection of a 3/2 connection mode based bus. The present disclosure can quickly and accurately identify the disconnection of the CT, thereby avoiding the problem of a maloperation in protection of a bus caused by the disconnection of the CT.
US10551424B2	Protection and fault detection for high voltage power lines on aircraft A high voltage conductor for transmitting high voltage is provided. The high voltage conductor includes a power wire, a fault detection unit, and a monitoring unit. The power wire is configured for transmission of electrical energy. The fault detection unit is configured for detecting an electromagnetic field emanated by the power wire, and the monitoring unit is configured for detection of degradation in an isolation of the high voltage conductor. The monitoring unit is connected to the fault detection unit and is configured to receive an electrical signal induced in the fault detection unit, which electrical signal is induced as a result of a degradation of the isolation of the high voltage conductor. Thus, degradation of the isolation of the high voltage conductor may be recognized at an early stage.
US10551418B2	Method for identifying the electrical resistance of the rotor of an electric motor A method for identifying a resistance value (Rr) of the rotor of an electric induction motor (M), including determining a reference voltage (urefS) on the basis of a chosen value ({circumflex over (R)}r) for the resistance of the rotor of the electric motor, applying a control voltage (uS) to the electric motor, the control voltage being determined on the basis of the reference voltage (urefS), acquiring the values of the currents (i1, i2, i3) measured in the three phases of the electric motor, so as to deduce a stator current (iS) of the electric motor therefrom, comparing the obtained stator current (iS) with a predetermined value (irefS), correcting the value ({circumflex over (R)}r) used for the resistance (Rr) of the rotor and applying steps a) to d) until obtaining a stator current (iS) equal to the predetermined value.
US10551416B2	Multi-sensor configuration for non-contact voltage measurement devices Systems and methods for measuring AC voltage of an insulated conductor are provided, without requiring a galvanic connection between the conductor and a test electrode or probe. A non-galvanic contact (or “non-contact”) voltage measurement system includes a sensor subsystem, an internal ground guard and a reference shield. A common mode reference voltage source is electrically coupled between the internal ground guard and the reference shield to generate an AC reference voltage which causes a reference current to pass through the conductive sensor. Control circuitry receives a signal indicative of current flowing through the sensor subsystem due to the AC reference voltage and the AC voltage in the insulated conductor, and determines the AC voltage in the insulated conductor based at least in part on the received signal. The sensor subsystem includes at least two independent sensors that are used to compensate for conductor position while improving accuracy and dynamic range.
US10551414B2	Integrated voltage sensor A resistor assembly can include a resistor having a first end and a second end, and a conductive member, where the conductive member is coupled to the first end of the resistor. The resistor assembly can also include a shield cup and a housing, where the housing includes at least one housing wall having at least one aperture, and where the housing encloses at least a portion of the resistor and at least a portion of the shield cup. A volume of space between the at least one housing wall of the housing and the resistor can be substantially filled with an insulating material and at least the outside of the housing is substantially covered with the insulating material.
US10551410B2	Inspection device An inspection device with improved inspection accuracy of electrical characteristics of a component, including a holding table, a pair of measuring elements configured to grip a component held on the holding table 32 and measure electrical characteristics of the component; and a relative movement device configured to relatively move the holding table and the pair of measuring elements. In a state in which component is clamped by the pair of measuring elements, by moving holding table, component and the holding table are separated by at least a set value, and in that state the electrical characteristics are measured. Therefore, even if the holding table is made of a conductive material, effects on the component are reduced, and the electrical characteristics can be measured accurately.
US10551409B2	Mechanical shock resistant MEMS accelerometer arrangement, associated method, apparatus and system An accelerometer arrangement and method are described for determining accelerations of an inground tool. First and second triaxial accelerometers are supported such that a normal sensing axis of the first triaxial accelerometer is at least generally orthogonal to the normal sensing axis of the second triaxial accelerometer for determining the accelerations along the three orthogonal axes based on a combination of sensing axis outputs from one or both of the triaxial accelerometers. A weaker sensing axis of one triaxial accelerometer can be supported at least approximately normal to a weaker sensing axis of another triaxial accelerometer such that the weaker axes are not used. The triaxial accelerometers can be supported such that one axis of one accelerometer can be redundant with respect to another axis of another accelerometer. One triaxial accelerometer can be mounted on a tilted plane with respect to another triaxial accelerometer.
US10551405B2	Signal travel time flow meter A method for determining a flow speed of a liquid in a fluid conduit is provided. During a signal-generating phase, an impulse signal is applied to a first ultrasonic transducer. A response signal is then received at a second ultrasonic transducer. A measuring signal is later derived from the response signal, wherein the derivation comprises reversing a signal portion with respect to time. During a measurement phase, a liquid moves with respect to the fluid conduit. The measuring signal is then applied to one of the two transducers and a response signal of the measuring signal is measured at the other transducer. A flow speed is derived from the response signal of the measuring signal.
US10551403B2	Pitot tube instrument An apparatus for obtaining pressure measurements in an airstream includes a Pitot tube. The Pitot tube includes at least one total pressure port configured to be positioned in the airstream facing upstream, at least one static pressure port configured to be positioned in the airstream facing downstream, at least one first directional port, and at least one second directional port. The at least one first directional port and the at least one second directional port are positioned on opposite sides of the at least one total pressure port and face obliquely with respect to the direction that the at least one total pressure port faces.
US10551401B2	System for collecting liquid samples Systems and methods are described to determine whether a sample transmitted through a transfer line from a remote sampling system contains a suitable sample to analyze by an analysis system. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a sample receiving line configured to receive a liquid segment a first detector configured to detect the liquid segment at a first location in the sample receiving line; a second detector configured to detect the liquid segment at a second location in the sample receiving line downstream from the first location; and a controller configured to register a continuous liquid segment in the sample receiving line when the first detector and the second detector match detection states prior to the controller registering a change of state of the first detector.
US10551400B2	Device for solid-phase microextraction Device for solid-phase microextraction and analysis of substances to be analyzed, in particular in a gas chromatograph, with at least one collector, which is made of sorbent and/or adsorbent material and is placed on a rod-like support, and with at least one sample container, which is sealed with a pierceable partition wall and into which the collector is introduced piercing the partition wall for a sampling time, wherein the sealing of the sample container is assembled from the pierceable partition wall and a clamping ring, which can be mounted on the sample container and presses the partition wall together with a sealing element onto an upper rim of the sample container, and which comprises a socket in which a fitting of a transport adapter which is attached to a handling end of the rod-like support can be anchored detachably and with sealing surface pressure after the collector is inserted into the sample container following piercing the partition wall.
US10551397B2	System comprising at least two laboratory instruments for instrument-controlled handling of a partial problem in a treatment process containing treatments of at least one laboratory sample, laboratory instrument and method The invention relates to a laboratory instrument for the instrument-controlled handling of a partial problem in a treatment process which contains treatments of at least one laboratory sample. The invention moreover relates to a system containing a plurality of such laboratory instruments, wherein the system serves for the instrument-controlled handling of a problem containing a plurality of these partial problems in the treatment process of at least one laboratory sample. And the invention relates to a method for the instrument-controlled handling of a partial problem in a treatment process which contains treatments of at least one laboratory sample.
US10551395B2	Staining reagents and other liquids for histological processing of biological specimens and associated technology Processing specimens in an automated histological staining system comprising robotically moving a slide carrier into a stainer of the system, the slide carrier carrying slides which respectively carry the specimens, and the specimens being at least partially embedded in paraffin. Liquids are automatically dispensed onto the slides according to a predetermined recipe for at least deparaffinizing, staining, and counterstaining the specimens. The slide carrier can be robotically moved out of the stainer after automatically dispensing the liquids. In some embodiments, a total of all liquid dispensed onto the slides after moving the slide carrier into the stainer and before moving the slide carrier out of the stainer has a greater volumetric concentration of polyol than of monohydric alcohol.
US10551394B2	Lipidomic biomarkers for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease The present invention inter alia provides a method, and use thereof, of diagnosing and/or predicting atherosclerosis or CVD by detecting the lipid concentrations or lipid ratios of a biological sample and comparing it to a control and has identified specific lipid markers that are more specific and sensitive in detecting and predicting atherosclerosis and CVD than currently utilized clinical markers. Also provided is an antibody towards said lipids, and the use thereof for predicting, diagnosing, preventing and/or treating atherosclerosis or CVD. The invention additionally relates to kits comprising lipids and/or an antibody thereto, for use in the prediction and/or diagnosis of atherosclerosis or CVD.
US10551392B2	Biomarker for barrett's oesophagus The present invention, relates to the use of TFF3 in the diagnosis and detection of Barrett's Oesophagus using non-invasive, non-endoscopic methods.
US10551390B2	Lysine monomethylated derivative and corresponding antibody and use thereof Provided are artificially synthesized modified mono-methylated lysines and modified mono-methylated lysine derivatized polypeptides. Also provided is an antibody produced by using this modified mono-methylated lysine and modified monomethylated lysine derivatized polypeptide as an antigen, the antibody can be used in recognizing and enriching the modified polypeptide after the lysine mono-methylated polypeptide being derivatized in vitro. Also provided are a preparation method of said antibody, a method for identifying and quantifying the lysine mono-methylated modified substrate in cell or tissue by using proteomics approach of affinity enrichment for specific antibody and mass spectrometry.
US10551389B2	Target binding molecules identified by kinetic target-guided synthesis Methods of identifying target binding molecules by target guided synthesis are provided. The methods include providing two or more fragments capable of reacting to form the target binding molecule and mixing the fragments with the target. The methods can be used to identify target binding molecules that bind targets such as proteins or nucleic acids, including those that bind shallow binding pockets on the surface of such targets. The methods are applied to the Bcl-XL and Mcl-1 proteins from the Bcl-2 family of proteins. Using thio acid and sulfonyl azide fragments capable of reacting through sulfo-click chemistry, new acyl sulfonamides are identified that bind one or both of the Bcl-XL and Mcl-1 proteins. Pharmaceutical formulations of these target binding molecules are also provided.
US10551386B2	Biological substance detection method The present invention provides a biological substance detection method for specifically detecting a biological substance from a pathological specimen, by which method, when immunostaining using a fluorescent label and staining for morphological observation using a staining agent for morphological observation are simultaneously performed, the results of fluorescence observation and immunostaining can be assessed properly even if the fluorescent label and/or the staining agent is/are deteriorated by irradiation with an excitation light. The biological substance detection method according to the present invention is characterized in that the brightness retention rate of an immunostained part is in a range of 80% to 120% in relation to the brightness retention rate of a part stained for morphological observation when the fluorescent label used for the immunostaining is observed.
US10551379B2	Methods and compositions for improving detection and/or capture of a target entity Methods, compositions, kits and systems for detecting and/or capturing a target entity in a sample are disclosed. In particular, the methods, compositions and kits described herein can be used for pretreatment of target-binding agents with a blocking agent to reduce non-target binding in a complex matrix (e.g., blood). Methods and compositions for detecting and/or capturing a microbe in a test sample, including bodily fluids such as blood and tissues of a subject, food, water, and environmental surfaces are also disclosed.
US10551376B2	Capture and release of particles from liquid samples Systems, methods, and devices for selective capture and release of target particles, e.g., living cells, from liquid samples, e.g., blood, are provided. The particle capture systems include a substrate; a first layer of gelatin bound to the substrate by physical adsorption, wherein the gelatin is functionalized with a plurality of first members of a binding pair; a second layer of gelatin wherein the gelatin is functionalized with a plurality of the first members of the binding pair and the second layer is bound to the first layer via a plurality of second members of the binding pair that are associated with the first members of the binding pair on both the first and the second layers; and a plurality of nanostructures bound to the second members of the binding pair and to one or more particle-binding moieties that selectively bind to the target particles.
US10551375B2	Analyte sensor and analyte sensing method A biosensor includes a detection element having an analyte detecting portion which is monotonically increased in mass in response to detection of an analyte; a reference element having a reference measuring portion which exhibits no reactivity to the analyte; a mixer which mixes a detection signal responsive to mass variations in the analyte detecting portion from the detection element and a reference signal from the reference element; a measurement portion which calculates two candidate phase-change values of a positive value and a negative value, from a signal mixed by the mixer in accordance with a heterodyne system, and determines a phase-change value from the two candidate phase change value by judging whether the phase is positive or negative based on temporal changes in signal strength; and a detection amount calculation portion which calculates a detection amount of the analyte based on the phase change value determined by the measurement portion.
US10551374B2	Method and device for detecting an analyte using phase lag According to the invention there is provided a method of detecting an analyte including the steps of: i) providing a sample which contains the analyte and magnetic nanoparticles, in which the magnetic nanoparticles include a magnetic body portion which acts as a signalling vector and at least one receptor moiety attached to the body portion for binding to the analyte; ii) applying a magnetic field across at least a portion of the sample to orient the magnetic nanoparticles with respect to the applied magnetic field; iii) introducing electromagnetic radiation into the sample; iv) detecting a physical property which varies in dependence on the orientation of the magnetic nanoparticles with respect to the applied magnetic field, wherein the physical property is associated with the interaction of the electromagnetic radiation with the magnetic body portion which thereby acts as a signalling vector; and v) correlating the detected physical property with the presence of the analyte.
US10551370B2	Method and apparatus for evaluating values representing a mass or a concentration of a substance present within the body of a patient The present invention relates to a method for evaluating a value representing the mass or the concentration of a substance comprised by a tissue or a bodily fluid of a patient, the method including the steps of a) determining a relation between one or more calculated or measured value(s) reflecting the mass or the concentration and a distribution space of the patient or an approximation thereof, and b) assessing whether the relation fulfils a criterion. The present invention further relates to systems and computer programs for performing this method.
US10551366B2	System and method for drug classification using multiple physical parameters A system and method for classifying a sample are provided. The system includes a housing containing the sample, a sensing element to measure at least one physical parameter of the same, and a processor configured to receive and analyze the physical parameter measurement, and to determine if the sample can be classified based on the measurement. If the sample cannot be classified, the processor selects and applies other analytical techniques until the sample is classified. The method includes selecting an analytical technique to apply to a sample, applying the technique to the sample, obtaining the results of the analytical technique, and determining if the sample can be classified based on the analytical technique. The method further includes selecting and applying further analytical techniques if the sample was not classified, until the sample is able to be classified.
US10551360B2	Low dead-volume connector for fluid chromatography A low dead-volume connector for fluid chromatography, such as liquid chromatography and gas chromatography, has a female assembly including a receiving member being designed and configured to receive, and releasably interlock with, a male assembly. The connector is particularly suited for high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) applications.
US10551354B2	Method for the determining of properties of a medium and device for the determining of properties of a medium It is provide a method for determining at least one of physical, chemical and biological properties of a medium with the aid of at least two transmitter-receiver pairs and on the basis of at least one first and one second acoustic wave. The first acoustic wave has propagated at least in part between a first transmitter-receiver pair through the medium and the second acoustic wave has propagated at least in part between a second transmitter-receiver pair through the medium, wherein the medium adjoins an inner lateral surface of an elongate conduction element that is arched transversely to its direction of longitudinal extent.
US10551351B1	System and method for efficiently reviewing weld scan data by a weld inspector A system is disclosed that increases the efficiency of a weld inspector by reducing the amount of weld data that needs to be examined for any non-destructive (“NDT”) phased array and time-of-flight, diffraction ultrasonic testing of welds. The system reads ultrasonic testing data from an NDT scan of a series of metal welds and creates a table of target weld indications ranked by a series of filters representative of predetermined exclusion and significance criteria. The invention acts as a weld analysis concentrator by focusing the attention of an inspector on potential weld flaws that merit their attention, thereby increasing the efficiency of the inspector. The process typically reduces 95% to 98% of the ultrasonic weld testing data that must be reviewed by the inspector, while retaining flaw indications necessary for an inspector's competent review in conformity with various code requirements and regulations.
US10551350B2	Method for simulating magnetic flux leakage based on loop current The present invention provides a method for simulating magnetic flux leakage based on loop current, the magnetic distribution of a single loop current is obtained by solid angle, then the magnetic field distribution of a semi-infinite solenoid is obtained based on the assumption of arrangement of loop currents in the magnetized specimen, and its equation is given; and the JA hysteresis model is introduced to obtain the distribution of quasi-static magnetic flux leakage field, on the basis of analyzing the relation between the distribution of a loop current on the surface of the defect and the excitation magnetic field, the distribution of quasi-static magnetic flux leakage field is obtained based on the semi-infinite solenoid.
US10551349B2	Method for determining defect depth in ferromagnetic structures based on magnetic flux leakage direction The system and method involve a permanent magnetization induction process for ferromagnetic structures, carried out to the saturation point to overwhelm the intrinsic magnetic fields in the structures. The permanent magnetization to overwhelm the intrinsic magnetization eliminates the effect of intrinsic fields for subsequent measurements. The permanent magnetization along a hollow structure yields two residual magnetic field components: axial and circumferential. The circumferential component varies as a function of depth. Thus, an analysis system can analyze defects and the depth of those defects by detecting the direction of the magnetic flux leakage around the defects. This can further be performed at a distance from the structures.
US10551348B2	Ion mobility spectrometer A spray area in which a large number of droplets of a liquid sample sprayed from a spray nozzle is separated from the tip of a needle electrode for corona discharge by a sufficiently large distance, with a grid electrode facing the needle electrode placed in between. Ring electrodes for creating an electric field which drives primary ions that should react with the sample and generate sample-derived ions are provided within an ion chamber between the grid electrode and the spray area. Primary ions generated by corona discharge within the space between the needle electrode and the grid electrode pass through the opening of the grid electrode, reach the spray area under the effect of the electric field, and ionize sample components. Since the droplets are prevented from adhering to the needle electrode, the corona discharge is maintained in a stable state.
US10551347B2	Method of isolating ions A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising isolating a group of different ions derived from chemical compounds in the same class, wherein the different ions have different mass to charge ratios and ion mobilities. The step of isolating comprises temporally separating the ions according to their ion mobility in an ion mobility separator; and mass filtering the ions according to mass to charge ratio with a mass filter. The mass to charge ratios transmitted by the mass filter are varied as a function of time such that said different ions derived from chemical compounds in the same class are transmitted by the mass filter and other ions are not transmitted by the mass filter.
US10551346B2	Ion analysis device An ion analysis device includes: an ion source that ionizes an analyte in a liquid sample; an ion guide into which droplets and ions produced in the ion source are introduced, the ion guide having different outlets, one outlet being an ion outlet for the ions and the other outlet being a droplet outlet for the droplets; an ion analysis unit that analyzes ions ejected from the ion outlet; a droplet measurement unit that is placed on an axis of the droplet outlet, and measures the amount of droplets; and an analysis control section that compares the amount of droplets measured at the droplet measurement unit with a threshold.
US10551342B2	Field effect sensors Apparatus and methods are disclosed for single molecule field effect sensors having conductive channels functionalized with a single active moiety. A region of a nanostructure (e.g., such as a silicon nanowire or a carbon nanotube) provide the conductive channel. Trapped state density of the nanostructure is modified for a portion of the nanostructure in proximity with a location where the active moiety is linked to the nanostructure. In one example, the semiconductor device includes a source, a drain, a channel including a nanostructure having a modified portion with an increased trap state density, the modified portion being further functionalized with an active moiety. A gate terminal is in electrical communication with the nanostructure. As a varying electrical signal is applied to an ionic solution in contact with the nanostructure channel, changes in current observed from the semiconductor device can be used to identify composition of the analyte.
US10551340B2	Capacitor-based fluid sensing units and operating methods thereof The present invention provides capacitor-based fluid sensing units. The capacitor-based fluid sensing unit comprises a substrate, a first electrode configured on the substrate, a sensing layer configured on the first electrode, a second electrode configured on the sensing layer. More particularly, the second electrode is a porous electrode, while the sensing layer is made of a porous dielectric material and has a thickness between 50 nm and 5 mm. Permittivity of the sensing layer changes as fluid permeates from the second electrode to the sensing layer. The subsequent change in capacitance of the capacitor-based fluid sensing unit is used to determine the volume of the fluid.
US10551334B1	Impedance spectrometer with metamaterial radiative filter A system and method for sensing the wave impedance of a material using an RF power source with a sensor structure comprised of a metamaterial radiative filter (MRF). The wave impedance is specified or monitored by processing a differential RF signal level with an impedance calculator. The differential RF signal level is obtained from a reference source signal and a response signal. RF field-coupling of the RF source with the material effects the response signal level. In embodiments, the spectrometer is physically configured for noninvasive and invasive measurements. In embodiments, the material is sensed when shielded by RF-opaque media. In embodiments, wherein the MRF has a fixed response characteristic, the dielectric constant may be obtained with a sensing structure comprised of two transponders and a single RF frequency. In embodiments wherein the MRF has a fixed response characteristic, both the dielectric constant and the loss tangent may be obtained using three transponders and a single RF frequency. In embodiments wherein the MRF is tuned with programmed control, both the dielectric constant and the loss tangent may be obtained using two transponders and a single RF frequency.
US10551332B2	Apparatus for determining the congealing point of a petroleum wax sample and methods therefor An apparatus for determining the congealing point of a wax-containing sample, the sample placed within a sample flask. The apparatus includes a motor having a rotatable shaft extending horizontally therefrom; clamp for mounting the sample flask thereto, the clamp operatively connected to the rotatable shaft; and a temperature sensor for determining sample temperature over time. A method for determining the congealing point of a wax-containing sample is also provided.
US10551328B2	Ceramic ring test device A test fixture includes an outer conductor and an inner conductor disposed within and electrically isolated from the outer conductor. The inner conductor includes a top portion having a first diameter, a bottom portion having a second diameter, and a third portion proximate the bottom portion that has a third diameter that is less than the second diameter and is greater than the first diameter. An electrical property of a chamber component disposed within the outer conductor is measurable based on application of a signal to at least one of the outer conductor or the inner conductor.
US10551324B2	Device and method for checking windshield wiper blades A device for checking a windshield wiper blade of a motor vehicle, includes an at least partially transparent body having a contact side which is designed for contacting with the windshield wiper blade to be checked; a light-incidence side which is designed to allow light to enter into the body; and a light-exit side. The at least partially transparent body is designed in such a way that light entering the body through the light-incidence side is reflected at least partially at the contact side, and reflected light exits the body through the light-exit side.
US10551323B2	Plasma spectroscopy analysis method The disclosure provides plasma spectroscopy analysis methods using a preparatory process of adding a control metal species that is different from an analyte metal species to a sample so as to have a known concentration; a concentration process of introducing the sample to a measurement container, and applying an electric current across a pair of electrodes disposed in the measurement container to concentrate the analyte metal species and the control metal species in the sample in a vicinity of at least one of the electrodes; a detection process; a correction process; and a quantification process.
US10551320B2	Activation of wafer particle defects for spectroscopic composition analysis Methods and systems for detecting a particle defect on a wafer surface, transforming the particle to a spectroscopically active state, and identifying a material composition of the activated particle by a spectroscopic technique are described herein. Particle defects are transformed by chemical treatment, thermal treatment, photochemical treatment, or a combination thereof, such that an activated particle exhibits atomic vibrational bands that can be observed spectroscopically. In one embodiment, a surface inspection system detects the presence of a particle defect on a wafer surface, activates observable Raman bands in one or more of the detected particles, and identifies the material composition of the activated particle by a spectroscopic technique. By performing both defect detection and composition analysis on the same inspection tool, it is not necessary to transfer a wafer to a different review tool, or combination of tools, to perform composition analysis of particle defects deposited on semiconductor wafers.
US10551317B2	Detector with reduced fluorescence range noise There is set forth herein a device comprising structure defining a detector surface configured for supporting biological or chemical substances, and a sensor array comprising light sensors and circuitry to transmit data signals using photons detected by the light sensors. The device can include one or more features for reducing fluorescence range noise in a detection band of the sensor array.
US10551311B2	Determining an absorption or turbidity coefficient of a liquid A method of determining an absorption or turbidity coefficient of a liquid involves storing a set of data describing a plurality of droplets or other discrete bodies of liquid of different shapes, sizes and absorption or turbidity coefficients. Each body is captured as a combination of a measurable transmission parameter obtained by modelling the interaction of light with a drop, and of one or more dimensional measurements selected from lengths, areas and volumes. The absorption or turbidity coefficient is indicated also. By measuring the transmission of light through a real body of liquid, and making measurements allowing the droplet to be specified, the absorption or turbidity coefficient associated with a droplet giving rise to the same behaviour in transmitting light can be identified from the data set.
US10551306B1	Tomographic approach to 3-D holographic refractometry A system for performing 3-dimensional (3-D) digital holographic refractometry includes a splitter to split a source light into a first light beam and a second light beam. A tomographic optical setup shines a sample with the first light beam and generates an image light beam. A detector array generates an interferogram signal in response to being simultaneously exposed to the image light beam and the second light beam.
US10551305B2	Method for determining the origin of a mixture of constituents by spectral analysis The invention relates to a method for determining the origin of a mixture of constituents by spectral analysis. The invention especially relates to a method for determining the concentration and origin of raw gases and/or crude oils in a mixing zone following mixing by the transport of said raw gases and/or crude oils that come from at least two different sources of extraction, said method comprising a specific spectral analysis.
US10551302B2	Calibration of optical computing devices using traceable filters Calibration of optical computing devices is achieved using mapping functions that map real detector responses to simulated detector responses which are simulated using high-resolution spectra of traceable optical filters and optical computing device characteristics.
US10551301B2	Brightness colorimeter having measurement error caused by linearly polarized light, which is corrected A brightness colorimeter having a measurement error caused by linearly polarized light, which is corrected, includes: a lens module to which light irradiated from one side is input; a polarization conversion module configured to intersect the light input through the lens module to convert polarization characteristics; a spectral module provided in one unit block to reflect and intersect the light input through the polarization conversion module so as to branch the light in different three directions; filter modules arranged on progress paths of the light branched in different three direction through the spectral module to intersect monochromatic light beams having specific spectra among the light branched in the three directions; and measurement modules arranged to correspond to exit angles of the monochromatic light beams penetrated through the filter modules, to measure at least one of a brightness, a chromaticity, and an error obtained by the monochromatic light beams.
US10551294B2	Temporal noise reduction in 2D image of an observation object moving in a flow path An observation apparatus observes an observation object moving in a flow path with a fluid, and includes a light source, a splitting unit, a combining unit, a collimator, a cylindrical lens, an objective lens, a collimator, a cylindrical lens, an objective lens, a modulation unit, an imaging unit, an analysis unit, and the like. The imaging unit includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a direction intersecting with a moving direction of an image of the observation object on a light receiving plane on which the image of the observation object moving in the flow path is formed, and receives combined light output from the combining unit to repeatedly output a detection signal indicating a one-dimensional interference image. The analysis unit generates a two-dimensional image of the observation object on the basis of the detection signal.
US10551292B2	Colloid particle size-mass distribution measurement technology A system and method for measuring particle mass distributions as a function of particle diameter. The system includes a nebulizer, a particle size classifier and a particle detector. The system may include a dilution module. It may also include a particle mass classifier. The system and method are useful for distinguishing particle populations of similar size and different densities as well as determining the interaction between materials (binding) in mixed colloid systems with varying material ratios. The system and method are also useful for determining particle density in both homogeneous and heterogeneous colloids.
US10551290B2	Device for measuring and controlling on-line viscosity at high pressure Device that can be used in an enhanced oil recovery method by injection of a solution of water soluble polymer and brine having a viscosity below 1000 cps that includes a mixer, and preferably a static mixer, capable of homogenizing the solution on-line; a device capable of measuring the viscosity of the homogenized solution, continuously, downstream of the solution injection pump, at a pressure below or equal to 250 bars, and preferably between 50 and 250 bars, and at a temperature below or equal to 120° C., and preferably between 40 and 120° C., by measuring a pressure drop in a calibrated tube, at a constant rate of flow.
US10551278B2	Wheel end face detection and correction device Disclosed is a wheel end face detection and correction device, which includes a frame, a self-made cylinder, a detection system, a correction system and the like. A wheel is preliminarily positioned in the center, a cylinder II drives an expansion sleeve to descend to match a center hole of the wheel, the attitude of a datum plate is adjusted to attach to a flange face of the wheel, and an expansion core is pulled by a cylinder rod; the cylinder II drives the wheel to ascend, and a servo motor drives the wheel to rotate; a servo electric cylinder II drives a dial indicator to be located below a rim end face of the wheel, a servo electric cylinder I drives the dial indicator to contact an end face of the wheel, and the end face run-out of the wheel may be detected.
US10551271B2	Designing a calibration system for use in calibrating unstable sensors Using a calibration sensor to calibrate an unstable sensor from a network of unstable sensors. Approaches for using a calibration sensor to calibrate the unstable sensor initially identify an unstable sensor in a geographic region to be calibrated by a calibration sensor using a model of environmental conditions for the geographic region, and then use the model to determine how to calibrate the unstable sensor using the calibration sensor.
US10551267B2	Diaphragm type pressure detection device Provided is a pressure detection device which includes: a pressure detection unit configured to detect a pressure transmitted to a diaphragm of the pressure detection unit; a flow passage unit in which a flow passage and a diaphragm of the flow passage unit are formed, a fluid being made to flow through the flow passage along a flow direction from an inflow port to an outflow port, and the diaphragm of the flow passafe unit being configured to transmit a pressure of the fluid flowing through the flow passage to the diaphragm of the flow detection unit; and a nut configured to allow the flow passage unit to be detachably mounted on the pressure detection unit. The pressure detection unit includes a mounting detection sensor configured to detect that the flow passage unit is mounted on the pressure detection unit in a state where the diaphragm of the pressure detection unit and the diaphragm of the flow passage unit are in contact with each other.
US10551263B2	MEMS pressure sensing element The present invention discloses an MEMS pressure sensing element, including a substrate provided with a groove; a pressure-sensitive film disposed above the substrate, the pressure-sensitive film sealing an opening of the groove to form a sealed cavity; and a movable electrode plate and a fixed electrode plate which are located in the sealed cavity and form a capacitor structure, wherein the fixed electrode plate is fixed on a bottom wall of the groove of the substrate, and the movable electrode plate is suspended above the fixed electrode plate and opposite to the fixed electrode plate; and the pressure-sensitive film is connected to the movable electrode plate so as to drive the movable electrode plate to move under the action of an external pressure. According to the MEMS pressure sensing element, pressure sensitivity and electrical detection are separated, the pressure-sensitive film is exposed in air, the capacitor structures are disposed in the sealed cavity defined by the pressure-sensitive film and the substrate, and the movable electrode plates of the capacitor structures can be driven by the pressure-sensitive film. In this way, not only is a pressure-sensitive function finished, but also external electromagnetic interferences on the capacitor structures are shielded.
US10551261B2	Joint for brittle materials A method of joining a brittle material to a component is provided. The method includes depositing a metallization layer on a surface of the brittle material. A layer of joining material is applied between the brittle material and the component, such that the component and the brittle material define an interface area. The metallization layer and the joining material layer extends beyond the interface area.
US10551260B2	Pedal exercise signal detection device A pedal exercise signal detection device includes a sleeve having an outer circumference having a pressure signal connection device and a pressure detection unit mounted thereon; a first bearing disposed in the sleeve; a stator having a positioning axle having an end formed with a fastening hole; a fastener element fastening the stator and the sleeve together; a pedal having an axle hole into which the sleeve is inserted to be positioned therein and a receiving trough including a through opening corresponding to the pressure signal connection device; and a control circuit board disposed in the receiving trough and including signal reader units that extend through the through opening and corresponding to the pressure signal connection device.
US10551255B2	Optical sensor device, sensor apparatus and cable The invention relates to an optical sensor device comprising a reference body and at least one sensing transducer. The sensing transducer is arranged for receiving an input action, and is movably arranged relative to the reference body for moving relative to the reference body in response to the input action. The device further comprises an optical fiber and one or more transmission arms including a first transmission arm. The optical fiber comprises an intrinsic fiber optic sensor. The optical fiber is connected with a first connecting part thereof to the first transmission arm and with a second connecting part thereof to an element exterior to said first transmission arm. The first connecting part and the second connecting part are on either side of the intrinsic fiber optic sensor. For receiving the input action, a base of the first transmission arm is connected at a first part thereof with the reference body and with a second part thereof with the sensing transducer. The optical fiber is connected at a location along the first transmission arm remote from the base thereby converting the input action received by the sensing transducer into a sensing action applied to the optical fiber such as to modify strain in the optical fiber dependent on said input action.
US10551254B2	Approach to measuring strain effects using ring oscillators A ring oscillator system for characterizing substrate strain including, a substrate including a through-substrate-via, at least two ring oscillators, wherein a first ring oscillator is closer to the through-substrate-via than a second ring oscillator, and a logic difference circuit that is configured to receive an input from at least the first ring oscillator and the second ring oscillator, and detect a difference between the signal frequency of the first ring oscillator and the signal frequency of the second ring oscillator.
US10551253B2	Temperature and angular speed sensing apparatus A sensing apparatus for a turbomachine comprises: a magnet; a sensing coil; a power supply; and a processor. The magnet is arranged to produce a magnetic field and the sensing coil is at least partially disposed in the magnetic field. The power supply is operable to provide a voltage across the sensing coil. The processor is operable to determine a periodicity of a voltage across the sensing coil. The processor is further operable to determine a quantity indicative of temperature dependent characteristic of the sensing coil.
US10551252B2	Internal temperature measuring apparatus and sensor package An internal temperature measuring apparatus includes: a sensor package in which a MEMS chip and a temperature sensor are disposed in a bottomed tubular package, the MEMS chip including one or a plurality of thermopiles each of which measures a heat flux passing through a region of a bottom of the bottomed tubular package, the temperature sensor measuring a reference temperature used as temperature of a predetermined portion of the MEMS chip; and a printed circuit board configured to calculate the internal temperature of the measurement object based on output of the sensor package. An outer bottom face of the sensor package projects from a plate face of the printed circuit board through a through-hole made in the printed circuit board.
US10551249B2	Process and system for sample analysis Components resolved in time by a separator accumulate in a sample cell and are analyzed by electromagnetic radiation-based spectroscopic techniques. The sample cell can be configured for multiple path absorption and can be heated. The separator can be a gas chromatograph or another suitable device, for example a distillation-based separator. The method and system described herein can include other mechanical elements, controls, procedures for handling background and sample data, protocols for species identification and/or quantification, automation, computer interfaces, algorithms, software or other features.
US10551244B2	Photon detector Provided is a photon detector. The photon detector includes an optical waveguide including input and detection regions, which are spaced apart from each other in a first direction, and a conversion region between the input region and the detection region, a nano pattern disposed on the optical waveguide in the conversion region, and a nanowire disposed on the optical waveguide in the detection region. The nano pattern includes a first pattern and a second pattern, which extend in the first direction, and the first pattern and the second pattern are spaced apart from each other in a second direction crossing the first direction.
US10551243B2	Power efficient machine diagnostic monitoring using multiple vibration sensor wireless configuration A wireless monitoring unit performs condition monitoring associated with a test point location of a host machine. The unit includes a high performance vibration sensor useful for monitoring the host machine for fault conditions and the like. The unit includes a second vibration sensor that has poorer metrological performance, but draws a comparatively insignificant amount of power from the battery. The second sensor takes a vibration measure periodically, which measure is processed to evaluate whether the machine is in a state eligible to undergo a health assessment. Diagnostic monitoring using the high performance vibration sensor is enabled only when the host machine it is in the eligible state. A low power temperature sensor provides additional data for guarding against a false trigger, in effect allowing the processor to distinguish against vibration from another machine propagating to the host machine causing the host machine to vibrate while the host machine is not running.
US10551239B2	Sensor arrangements, sensor systems, and methods for determining height of liquids in tanks A sensor arrangement for measuring liquid height in a tank can include a housing, a transducer, and a couplant. The housing can have an interior and an aperture, the aperture placing the interior of the housing in communication with the environment external to the housing. The transducer can be seated within the aperture. The couplant can be mechanically connected to the transducer and can have a compressible couplant body. The couplant body can extend between the transducer and the external environment for transmitting an acoustic pulse from the transducer to a tank bottom for measuring height of a liquid overlaying the transducer.
US10551236B2	Method for determining an air volume in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine A method for determining an air volume in a combustion chamber of a fuel-injection internal combustion engine, especially during a load change condition, including synchronizing a throttle valve setpoint signal to an operating state criterion (tn); determining a curve dynamics of the throttle valve position taking into account the synchronized throttle valve setpoint signal; determining an actual air volume quantity at an ACTUAL time point (t0); determining a desired time point (t0+Δt); predicting a further air volume quantity for the desired time point (t0+Δt) and determining a total air volume quantity from the ACTUAL air volume quantity and the further air volume quantity for the desired time point (t0+Δt).
US10551233B2	Air flow rate measurement device An air flow rate measurement device disposed in an intake passage by passing through an insertion hole of an intake pipe of an engine to communicate inside and outside includes: a case having a bypass channel, a part of air flowing through the intake passage flows into the bypass channel; a flow rate sensor arranged inside of the case, and having a flow rate detector which detects a flow rate of air flowing through the bypass channel; and a humidity sensor arranged outside of the case, and having a humidity detector which detects a humidity of air flowing through the intake passage. A surface of the humidity detector is arranged to oppose a wall of the case through a clearance.
US10551231B2	Compact ultrasonic flowmeter with adjustment for various flow diameters An ultrasonic flow meter is disclosed comprising adjustable rotating blocks and a piezoelectric wafer mounted in connection with each rotating block. The piezoelectric wafers or chips are used for transmitting and/or receiving upstream and downstream ultrasonic waves. The rotating blocks adjust the incident angle of the piezoelectric wafers to account for installation in connection with different pipe sizes. By adjusting angle in a linked and continuous manner, no translational sensor movement is required for an optimal ultrasonic wave reflection for the downstream transducer to receive a signal from the upstream transducer and the upstream transducer to receive a signal from the downstream transducer. As such, the devices and methods described enable measurement of liquid flowing in pipes across a range of different diameter pipes so as to greatly increase the convenience and the extent of application or technology adoption.
US10551230B2	Measuring system for measuring at least one parameter of a fluid A measuring system, embodied as a clamp-on, ultrasonic, flow measuring device, comprises a tube, or a pipe, having a lumen surrounded by a tube, or pipe, wall, which tube or pipe is adapted to guide a volume portion of the fluid in its lumen; an ultrasonic transducer mounted on the tube, or pipe, on an outside of the tube, or pipe, wall facing away from the lumen, and acoustically coupled via the tube, or pipe, wall to fluid guided in the lumen, and adapted to convert a time varying electrical voltage into ultrasonic waves propagating through the tube, or pipe, wall and further through fluid guided in the lumen; an ultrasonic transducer mounted on the tube, or pipe, separated from the ultrasonic transducer on the outside of the tube, or pipe, wall, and acoustically coupled via the tube, or pipe, wall to fluid guided in the lumen, and adapted to receive ultrasonic waves propagating through fluid guided in the lumen, and further through the tube, or pipe, wall and to transduce such into an electrical voltage varying as a function of time; as well as an operating- and measuring electronics adapted to generate, a driver signal for the ultrasonic transducer. The driver signal has a time variable, electrical voltage, for effecting a received signal, of the ultrasonic transducer likewise having an electrical voltage, uB,II, varying as a function of time, in such a manner that both the driver signal, as well as also the received signal, each contain a plurality of spectral signal components, equally as well, in each case, a dominating spectral signal component having a maximum power spectral density, and that a frequency, of the dominating signal component of the driver signal, deviates by a magnitude of no more than \|±100 kHz\| from a frequency of the dominating signal component of the received signal, and/or by no more than 10% of the frequency of the dominating signal component of the received signal, from such frequency. Furthermore, the operating- and measuring electronics is adapted to produce by means of the received signal, at least one measured value for the at least one parameter.
US10551226B2	System and method for scalable cloud-based sensor calibration A scalable sensor calibration system and method configured to calibrate and/or recalibrate sensors based on calibration parameters received from secure cloud storage. A plurality of calibration parameter sets for a plurality of sensors may be received from the secure cloud storage and successively transmitted to each of the plurality of sensors using a calibration system bus interface. Calibration output data generated by the sensors using the calibration parameters is received and used to create new, optimized calibration parameters sets.
US10551225B2	Chromaulic displacement transducer, method of manufacturing a chromaulic displacement transducer, and closed loop control system incorporating the same Described herein is an improved displacement transducer, a closed loop control system incorporating the same, and an improved method of manufacturing of manufacturing a displacement transducer. The improved transducer has several advantages, including improved manufacturability; improved fluid flow within the sensor and reduced cavitation as a result; and the enablement of closed loop control for assisted manual or fully automatic displacement.
US10551221B2	Sensor devices, systems and methods Magnetic field sensor devices, corresponding systems and corresponding methods are discussed where a plurality of magnetic field sensors senses a magnetic field. An evaluation circuit generates a first signal component associated with a periodicity of a magnetic field, and a second signal component at least for periods of the magnetic field exceeding a threshold period length, the second signal component having a resolution smaller than one half period of the magnetic field.
US10551220B2	Capacitive measurement device A capacitive measurement device for indicating when two surfaces moving relative to each other are spaced less than a predetermined distance apart. The device comprises a probe having an elongated conductor, an insulating core, a conducting inner guard, an insulating interlayer, and a conducting sheath. A portion of the conductor, insulating core and conducting inner guard form a probe tip which extends beyond the insulating interlayer and conducting sheath by a predetermined offset. The probe is configured to extend from a first surface by a predetermined distance and to generate a signal when the tip is contacted by a second surface.
US10551213B2	Sickle-shaped magnet arrangement for angle detection An example includes a sickle-shaped magnet arrangement, for use in determining a rotational angle of a rotatable object and is configured to co-rotate with the rotatable object around a rotational axis, includes an inner circumferential surface having an inner radius that is based on an azimuthal coordinate of the sickle-shaped magnet arrangement, an outer circumferential surface having an outer radius that is based on the azimuthal coordinate of the sickle-shaped magnet arrangement, wherein at least the inner radius or the outer radius varies based on the azimuthal coordinate; and an axial thickness between a first end of the sickle-shaped magnet arrangement and a second end of the sickle-shaped magnet arrangement, wherein the inner circumferential surface and the outer circumferential surface form a first sickle-shaped portion and a second sickle-shaped portion, wherein the first sickle-shaped portion is diametrically opposite the second sickle-shaped portion, and wherein the first sickle-shaped portion is magnetized in a first direction and the second sickle-shaped portion is magnetized in a second direction that is within a threshold angle of the first direction and different from the first direction.
US10551206B2	Navigation system including navigation server, mobile terminals, and beacon signal generating devices A navigation server includes a network interface controller through which identification information and movement line information of a mobile terminal are received from the mobile terminal, the movement line information including location information and a timestamp, a storage device in which movement line data of the mobile terminal and location data of different places are stored, and a processor configured to extract the movement line data from the movement line information and record the extracted movement line data in the storage device. The processor, in response to a search criteria received from the mobile terminal through the network interface controller, generates using the movement line data and the location data of the different places, a navigation map that shows a place that is located along a route defined by the movement line data and meets the search criteria, and transmits the navigation map to the mobile terminal for display.
US10551202B2	Generating itinerary destinations and recommendations from scanned content For tourists, interactions with digital public displays often depend on specific technologies that users may not be familiar with (Quick Response codes, near field communication, and so on) may not have access to because of networking issues, may lack a required application or device technology, may not want to use because of time constraints, or may not want to use because they are worried about sharing their data with a third-party service. Example implementations described herein are directed to a system that allows users to seamlessly share content with a public travel kiosk system.
US10551199B2	Utilizing artificial neural networks to evaluate routes based on generated route tiles This disclosure covers methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that generate route tiles reflecting both GPS locations and map-matched locations for regions along a route traveled by a client device associated with a transportation vehicle. For example, in some implementations, the disclosed systems use an artificial neural network to analyze the route tiles and determine route-accuracy metrics indicating GPS locations or map-matched locations for particular regions along the route. The disclosed systems can then use the route-accuracy metrics to facilitate transport of requestors by, for example, determining a distance of the route or a location of a client device associated with a transportation vehicle.
US10551197B2	Mobile X-ray examination apparatus A mobile X-ray examination apparatus has an instruction receiving device that receives an entered instruction for the mobile X-ray examination apparatus to reach a designated position. A navigation device creates an environment map of an environment of the mobile X-ray examination apparatus, determines a current position of the mobile X-ray examination apparatus according to detected environment profile information, calculates a movement trajectory of the mobile X-ray examination apparatus according to the environment map, the current position and the designated position received by the instruction receiving device, and sends corresponding information to a central control device. The central control device causes the mobile X-ray examination apparatus to reach the designated position along the movement trajectory according to the corresponding information sent by the navigation device.
US10551194B2	Sensor unit, electronic apparatus, and moving body A sensor unit with high reliability and stable detection accuracy against vibrations of an installation target object is to be provided.A sensor unit includes: a sensor module configured including a substrate with inertial sensors mounted thereon, and an inner case in which the substrate is installed; and an outer case accommodating the sensor module. A recessed part is formed in the inner case. The inertial sensors are arranged in an area overlapping with the recessed part as viewed in a plan view seen from the direction of thickness of the substrate, and a filling member is provided to fill a space formed by the substrate and the recessed part. The sensor module is joined to a bottom wall of the outer case via a joining member.
US10551190B1	Multi Coriolis structured gyroscope A resonator paradigm, where the resonator structure is made up of a very large number of small, coupled Coriolis sensitive units arranged in a periodic 1D or 2D (and, possibly, in the future, 3D) structure to create a Coriolis-sensitive “fabric” that supports a large number of Coriolis-coupled “supermodes. Such a “fabric” can be shaped into arbitrary “waveguides” that propagate either pulses of excitation that are Coriolis-coupled, thus enabling an acoustic version of a FOG-type gyroscope (where a pulse of excitation travels along a passive waveguide and it's phase/time delay is measured), or support multiple “stationary” Coriolis-coupled vibration modes analogous to optical laser modes in an RLG where counter-propagating modes of oscillation are maintained at constant amplitude via a continuous addition of energy.
US10551189B2	Gyroscopic balance unit and precessional propulsion method An apparatus integrates two gyroscopes into one unit, allowing their forces to unite in such a manner that they work together in balanced harmony. This is achieved by applying a “precessional propulsion method” of operation to the gyroscopic balance unit to harness balance and direct gyroscopic forces so they flow together and work as a team, developing dual-balanced gyroscopic precession that in turn generates balanced propulsion.
US10551181B2	Board inspection machine A board inspection machine includes a carrier conveyance device that loads, positions, and unloads a carrier member on which multiple individual boards are placed, solder paste being printed and a component being mounted on the individual boards; a board lifting-up device that lifts up the individual board, and a flatness inspection device that inspects flatness of the lifted individual board and determines usability of the individual board. As the multiple individual boards are sequentially lifted by the board lifting-up device and the flatness can be sequentially inspected by the flatness inspection device, efficient inspection may be performed. In addition, since full inspection is performed with respect to the flatness of the multiple individual boards, quality of the individual board may be improved.
US10551175B2	3D-shape auto-tracing method and measuring apparatus In a first step, numbering with a reference field of view at one area set first by an operator being defined as an original point is performed. In a second step, a place adjacent to a side around the reference field of view is numbered, then the measurement range is automatically moved to sequentially execute measurement at that position, presence of shape data is checked, measurement results is stored, and, presence of shape data at the numbered position is recorded on a memory device. In a third step, field of view with shape data found therein as a next reference field of view is employed, a place adjacent to a side around the reference field of view is numbered, then the measurement range is automatically moved to sequentially execute measurement at that position other than a position at which measurement has already been made or no shape data is found.
US10551173B2	Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend angle associated with a multi-core fiber A multi-core fiber includes multiple optical cores, and for each different core of a set of different cores of the multiple optical cores, a total change in optical length is detected. The total change in optical length represents an accumulation of all changes in optical length for multiple segments of that different core up to a point on the multi-core fiber. A difference is determined between the total changes in optical length for cores of the set of different cores. A twist parameter and/or a bend angle associated with the multi-core fiber at the point on the multi-core fiber is/are determined based on the difference.
US10551171B2	Optical measurement device A white light confocal optical measurement device capable of detecting abnormalities in a received light waveform; the optical measurement device includes: a light source; an optical system; a light receiving unit; and a processor configured to compute the distance from the optical system to the measurement object on the basis of a received light intensity of the wavelength components received in the light receiving unit. The processor compares a received light intensity of a wavelength component to a reference value for the wavelength component for a plurality of wavelength components in a waveform representing the light received, and detects an abnormality in the received light waveform when the amount of change in the received light intensity compared to the reference value therefor is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold for any wavelength component in the plurality of wavelength components.
US10551168B2	Deformation device, including an optical waveguide and method for measuring deformation of a tubular structure at multiple measuring points The invention includes an apparatus (110) and method (152) for determining a deformation (170) of a three-dimensional, flexible structure in the form of a tubular construct (112) with a minimum of optical waveguides. An optical waveguide (116) is introduced into the tubular construct (112), where the optical waveguide (116) extends as a helical winding (118) within the tubular construct (116) and has a multiplicity of strain measuring means (126). The configuration of the apparatus and method performed reduces the average material load of the strain measuring means and improves resolution and measurement range of the sensor (optical waveguide) while maintaining readout frequency of the strain measurements. The apparatus (110) also includes an evaluation device (130) configured to determine the deformation of the tubular construct (112), in particular in relation to an axis, surface and/or volume of the tubular construct (112), from measurement values (154) from the multiplicity of strain measuring means (126).
US10551165B2	Methods and devices for the high-volume production of silicon chips with uniform anti-reflective coatings This present disclosure generally relates to devices, methods, and systems for producing large numbers of SiO2 coated silicon chips with uniform film thickness controlled to angstrom and sub angstrom levels. The disclosure further relates to etching plates configured for receiving a plurality of chips mounted thereon.
US10551154B2	Rifle cartridge with improved bullet upset and separation A rifle cartridge with a bullet has desirable penetration capabilities and controlled separation of components upon terminal impact. In embodiments of the invention, the bullet comprises a forward component, a lead core, and a copper jacket. The lead jacket having a leading edge portion that extends to the cylindrical mid portion. The forward component may have a forward pointed ogive portion, a cylindrical mid portion, a mid ogive portion, and a pair of cylindrical portions separated by an annular groove. The jacket having a cannelure at the annular groove and the casing upper lip crimped into the cannelure.
US10551150B1	Body armor plate A body armor plate having an integral Molle compatible front covering that allows pouches and other Molle compatible accessories to be directly affixed to the plate. The armor plate includes a ballistic core, an integral front covering of durable fabric having a plurality of horizontal slits arranged in a Molle compatible array and a rear covering of hook or loop pile fabric material. The array of slits in the integral front cover of the armor plate allows Molle compatible pouches to be directly attached to the plate, thereby eliminating the need for a separate plate carrier or vest and greatly reduces the overall weight and bulk of the personal armor system. The hook and/or loop pile material of the integral back covering of the armor plate itself allows support straps to be connected directly to the plate without additional support or carrier apparatus needed to hold the plates to a wearer.
US10551149B2	Powered accessory platform for weapon A powered accessory platform for a weapon includes a handguard assembly having an upper handguard portion and an opposed lower handguard portion. The upper handguard portion and the lower handguard portion cooperate to define a sleeve. The sleeve has a proximal end configured to attach to the weapon and a distal end opposite the proximal end. The sleeve is configured to surround at least a portion of the weapon when the proximal end is attached to the weapon. A flexible circuit within the sleeve includes one or more circuit elements disposed on a flexible circuit substrate. An accessory mounting rail is located on a top portion of the upper handguard portion, the mounting rail having at least one electrical connector thereon. A first accessory mounting pad is mechanically and electrically coupled to the accessory mounting rail. A power supply connector on the sleeve is configured to attach a power supply.
US10551145B2	Modular key-slot accessory mounting system for a firearm An accessory mounting system for use on a firearm includes an elongated opening having first and second ends and an entry aperture between the first and second ends. A fastener with a major dimension larger than the minor dimension of the elongated opening, but small than the width of the entry aperture can be inserted into the entry aperture and slid toward either of the first and second ends of the elongated opening. The fastener may be, for example, a T-nut or a screw-like fastener with a circular head. If a T-nut is used, it can be inserted into the elongated opening transverse to the elongated opening and slide to either end in the transverse orientation so it spans across the elongated opening without having to turn it.
US10551138B1	Takedown firearm with integral forend storage A stock assembly for a takedown firearm and related methods are disclosed. The stock assembly has a buttstock assembly, and a forend assembly removably couplable to the buttstock assembly at a first location and a second location. When the forend assembly is coupled to the buttstock at the first location, the forend assembly is positioned to support a barrel of the firearm in a longitudinal firing position. When the forend assembly is coupled to the buttstock at the second location, the forend assembly is positioned to support the barrel at an angle relative to the longitudinal firing position.
US10551137B2	Semi-automatic pistol A semi-automatic pistol has a frame having a trigger guard defining a trigger finger space, a barrel connected to the frame and defining a bore axis, a slide connected to the frame and operable to reciprocate along the bore axis between a forward battery position and a rearward open position, a recoil mechanism operably connected between the slide and the frame, and operable to bias the slide to the battery position, and the recoil mechanism being entirely below the barrel axis and forward of the trigger finger space. The recoil mechanism may be a recoil spring defining a spring axis. The spring axis may be parallel to the bore axis. The recoil spring may be a helical shape defining a bore receiving a guide rod. The guide rod may be below the barrel. The trigger guard may have a downwardly facing upper surface defining the trigger finger space.
US10551136B2	Semi-automatic rifle restrictors A production direct gas impingement semi-automatic AR-style rifle is converted to a single shot, straight pull bolt action rifle that includes: a) conventional rifle components, including an upper receiver and lower, trigger, trigger guard, barrel; b) a direct gas impingement semi-automatic firing mechanism including automatic gas actuated casing ejection, automatic gas actuated bolt and hammer reset, and automatic gas actuated cartridge reload functionality, including a bolt carrier with two production carrier gas key screw threaded receiving orifices and having no production carrier gas key, and a having a metal gas blocking and diverting mechanism attached to the bolt carrier in the place of a production carrier gas key. This inhibits semi-automatic operation of the rifle by disabling the automatic gas actuated casing ejection, bolt and hammer reset, and cartridge reload functionality. In some embodiments the bolt carrier assembly and aforementioned gas diverting block mechanism components are unistructurally formed.
US10551131B2	Method for manufacturing a curved heat exchanger using wedge shaped segments A method for manufacturing a heat exchanger includes stacking a plurality of parting sheets, a plurality of lengthwise closure bars, and a plurality of widthwise closure bars to form a rectangular first heat exchanger section. The first heat exchanger section includes at least one widthwise passage extending between a pair of the widthwise closure bars and at least one lengthwise passage extending between a pair of the lengthwise closure bars. The method also includes brazing the rectangular first heat exchanger section together and cutting a first side and a second side of the rectangular first heat exchanger section to give the first heat exchanger section a tapered-trapezoid profile. The method further includes brazing an end of a second heat exchanger section to the first or second side of the first heat exchanger section.
US10551124B2	Process and apparatus for vacuum distillation of high-purity magnesium A process for producing high-purity magnesium by means of distillation at reduced pressure, characterized in that, the high-purity magnesium condenses in the liquid state, whereby the starting material in the form of a magnesium-containing melt is present together with the upper region of a condensation vessel in the upper region of a retort, whereby the retort consist of a material that releases no volatile impurities into the magnesium steam, whereby the upper region of the retort is brought to a temperature above the boiling point of magnesium, within the limits of two level lines, and is then held constant, such that steam rises from the boiling magnesium-containing metal melt and fills the interior of the upper region of the retort, whereby the steam infiltrating the upper region of the condensation vessel condenses below the lower level line and collects as high-purity melt in the lower region of the condensation vessel, and whereby in order to prevent contaminated melt that drops from the region above the upper level line from reaching the opening of the condensation vessel, this is protected by a cover, which conveys the impure magnesium back again into the melt.
US10551122B2	Apparatus and method for continuous lyophilization A method and apparatus for the continuous sublimation of a substance includes cascading a material containing a substance capable of sublimation, such as water, between a plurality of trays vertically stacked within a processing zone provided within a processing chamber. A substantially atmospheric environment is maintained within the processing zone at a temperature whereby the substance sublimes forming a sublimate within the environment. The environment containing the sublimate is contacted with a drying agent such as a desiccant to maintain the environment whereby the substance sublimes at substantially atmospheric pressure and at the controlled temperature.
US10551118B2	Hydrocarbon gas processing A process and an apparatus are disclosed for a compact processing assembly to improve the recovery of C2 (or C3) and heavier hydrocarbon components from a hydrocarbon gas stream. The preferred method of separating a hydrocarbon gas stream generally includes producing at least a substantially condensed first stream and a cooled second stream, expanding both streams to lower pressure, and supplying the streams to a fractionation tower. In the process and apparatus disclosed, the tower overhead vapor is directed to an absorbing means and a heat and mass transfer means inside a processing assembly. A portion of the outlet vapor from the processing assembly is compressed to higher pressure, cooled and substantially condensed in a heat exchange means inside the processing assembly, then expanded to lower pressure and supplied to the heat and mass transfer means to provide cooling. Condensed liquid from the absorbing means is fed to the tower.
US10551117B2	Method of natural gas liquefaction on LNG carriers storing liquid nitrogen A method for producing liquefied natural gas (LNG). A natural gas stream is transported to a liquefaction vessel. The natural gas stream is liquefied on the liquefaction vessel using at least one heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the natural gas stream and a liquid nitrogen stream to at least partially vaporize the liquefied nitrogen stream, thereby forming a warmed nitrogen gas stream and an at least partially condensed natural gas stream comprising LNG. The liquefaction vessel includes at least one tank that only stores liquid nitrogen and at least one tank that only stores LNG.
US10551116B2	Vertical plate freezer system There is disclosed a plate freezer apparatus. The plate freezer apparatus comprises a first frame member configured to support a plurality of vertically disposed freezing plate members arranged to define a freezing cavity therebetween and a flooring system configured to extend below the freezing plate members to form a base for the freezing cavities, wherein the flooring system is configured to be raised so as to lift any frozen material present in freezing cavities out of the freezing cavities so that the frozen material extends from the freezing cavities to project above an upper edge of the freezing plate members. A second frame member is mounted above said first frame member so as to extend substantially a length of the first frame member, the second frame member having a plurality of paddle members mounted therein that are individually actuable to extend between a horizontal axis where the paddle members extend substantially parallel with the second frame member, and a vertical axis where the paddle members extend from the second frame member to be received between the frozen material raised from the freezing cavities. The first frame member further comprises a lifting mechanism adjacent a proximal end thereof, the lifting mechanism being actuable to raise the proximal end of the first frame member so as to tilt the first frame member towards a distal end and wherein the paddle members are actuable to facilitate controlled release of the frozen material such that upon release the frozen material is able to slide along the upper edges of the plates and off the distal end of the first frame member for collection.
US10551115B2	System and method for redundant power supply transport container An apparatus, method, computer program product, and computer system for monitoring at least one of an environment of at least one freezer unit of one or more freezer units inside a mobile container and a macro environment of the mobile container maintained by a refrigeration unit. Data of at least one of the macro environment of the mobile container and the environment of the at least one freezer unit may be logged. The data may be provided to an external display. An alert may be provided in real-time to the external display based upon, at least in part, at least one of the macro environment of the mobile container and the environment of the at least one freezer unit. A first power supply providing power to the at least one freezer unit may be switched to a second power supply providing power to the at least one freezer unit based upon, at least in part, at least one of the macro environment of the mobile container and the environment of the at least one freezer unit.
US10551113B1	Appliance equipped with a cascading basket system An appliance equipped with a cascading basket system is provided. In one example aspect, the cascading basket system includes a first basket connected to a door and movable together forward and backward, a second basket positioned above the first basket, and a third basket positioned above the second basket. The cascading basket system includes features that allow a user to pull out the baskets as a single unit and in a cascading manner by moving the door forward. As one example, the first and second baskets can define pocket recesses configured to receive rollers of the seconds and third baskets respectively to engage the baskets. As another example, the first and second baskets can include protruding ribs that receive bosses of the seconds and third baskets respectively to engage the baskets. In another example, the baskets can include magnets to move the baskets forward together as a single unit.
US10551109B2	Duct structure for cooling container-space of door and refrigerator using the same A duct structure of a refrigerator equipped with a door provided with a container space separated from an internal space of the refrigerator comprises: a multi-duct which is provided in a rear space in the internal space of the refrigerator and which discharges cool air into the internal space of the refrigerator while allowing air to flow upward; a connecting outlet which is provided in an upper end of the multi-duct; a connecting duct which communicates with the connecting outlet and which is extended in a front-rear direction; a front duct which is connected to a front end of the connecting duct and which is extended in a left-right direction; and a nozzle unit which is provided in a lower portion of the front duct and which discharges cool air into the container space of door.
US10551106B2	Refrigeration system using emergency electric power In certain embodiments, a refrigeration system comprises an emergency electric power supply configured to supply power to at least one motor drive of the system. The system comprises a power switch coupled to the emergency electric power supply, a tank configured to store a refrigerant, a first compressor configured to compress the refrigerant of the tank, and a controller coupled to the power switch and first compressor. The controller may receive an indication from the power switch that the system is using the emergency electric power supply, and in response to receiving the indication from the power switch that the system is using the emergency electric power supply, operate the system in a first power outage mode. The controller may determine an amount of power to supply to the first compressor based on the first power outage mode and transmit a signal to instruct the first compressor to turn on.
US10551105B2	Multi-stage control for electromechanical heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit A control system for a heat transfer circuit, an HVAC unit containing a heat transfer circuit, and a method of retrofitting an HVAC unit are described. The control system includes a thermostat having a first cooling stage signal output terminal and a second cooling stage signal output terminal; a controller electrically connected to the thermostat; a sensor electrically connected to the controller; and a switch electrically connected to the controller, and that receives a first cooling stage signal output from the thermostat. The switch is in a first state when a sensor value from the sensor is less than a threshold, and a second state when the sensor value from the sensor is greater than or equal to the threshold.
US10551102B2	Bulb for a thermostatic expansion valve, set comprising a bulb and at least a part of a thermostatic expansion valve connected to a capillary and method for connecting a bulb and a capillary of a thermostatic expansion valve A bulb (5) for a thermostatic expansion valve is provided, said bulb (5) comprising a chamber (7), said chamber (7) being located within a metallic casing of said bulb and being filled with a filling adapted to influence a valve element of said thermostatic expansion valve. Service of a temperature controlled valve connected to a bulb should be facilitated. To this end said bulb (5) comprises a connection geometry (10) adapted to be connected to a capillary member (6) and said casing being provided with a closed opening zone located within said connection geometry (10), said opening zone being adapted to be opened upon mounting a counterpart (15) to said connection geometry (10).
US10551093B2	Cryocooler and rotary valve mechanism A rotary valve mechanism of a cryocooler includes a valve rotor and a valve stator. A rotor recessed portion is formed such that the rotor recessed portion fluidally communicates with a stator recessed portion at a first opening degree at a second phase of a valve rotation. The valve rotor includes a first rotor communication groove and/or a second rotor communication groove formed in the valve rotor such that the rotor recessed portion fluidally communicates with the stator recessed portion at an opening degree which is smaller than the first opening degree at a first phase preceding the second phase, and/or the valve stator includes a stator communication path formed in the valve stator such that the rotor recessed portion fluidally communicates with the stator recessed portion at an opening degree which is smaller than the first opening degree at the first phase preceding the second phase.
US10551089B2	Solar concentrator for a tower-mounted central receiver A solar concentrator may have a horizontal circular track on the ground, a tower centered on a vertical axis of the track, and a rotatable structure around the track having an upper, concave mounting surface approximating the shape of part of a sphere centered on the top of the tower. Articulated concave mirrors are attached to the rotatable structure, and the mirrors have a focal length approximately equal to the radius of a sphere portion formed by the concave mounting surface. Sunlight is focused at a receiver mounted atop the tower, and the receiver may convert sunlight into thermal or electrical energy. As the position of the Sun changes, sunlight is maintained on the receiver by turning the rotatable structure toward the Sun, turning the receiver about said vertical axis to face the mirrors, and articulating the mirrors toward the receiver in response to the changing elevation of the Sun.
US10551087B2	Heat exchanger with an internal conduit for conducting a fluid A heat exchanger and a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger having an internal conduit for conducting a fluid, and a heat dissipating body for dissipating heat of the fluid. The heat dissipating body has a cavity extending in a longitudinal direction. An end piece of the internal conduit extends inside of the cavity and has an orifice facing a bottom surface of the cavity for feeding the fluid into a bottom area of the cavity. An inner shell of the heat dissipating body includes a first portion and a second portion, each portion having at least two ribs transversally displaced in relation to each other. At least one rib of one of the first and the second portion is transversally displaced in relation to each rib of the other of the first and the second portion.
US10551085B2	Extraction hood The present invention relates to a suction device (103) for a hood (101), comprising a motor, and further comprising an impeller driven by the motor and configured to draw an air flow and direct it into an outflow collar (203); the suction device (103) further comprises at least one flap (204, 205) connected to the collar (203) and hinged (301) on one side only, the at least one flap (204, 205) being configured to close the collar (203) when the impeller is idle, and to be lifted by the air flow so as to clear the collar (203) when the impeller is rotating.
US10551082B2	Air-conditioning device An air-conditioning device includes: a suction air temperature sensor provided in an indoor unit; a wireless temperature sensor unit separate from the indoor unit; an abnormal condition determining section determining whether or not the wireless temperature sensor unit is in an abnormal condition; an index setting section setting a temperature index value; and a controller controlling operation of the air-conditioning device based on the set temperature index value. While the abnormal condition determining section determines that the wireless temperature sensor unit is in the abnormal condition, the index setting section determines a measurement value of the suction air temperature sensor to be the temperature index value.
US10551081B1	Air conditioner with safety device An air conditioning appliance having a safety device. The safety device preferably communicates with at least one sensor that is configured to detect an undesirable condition. If an undesirable condition is detected, then the operation of the air conditioning appliance can be modified as needed for safety.
US10551080B2	Household electrical appliance and household electrical system A household electric appliance and a household electric system are provided which are capable of quickly responding to the electric power demand in which the peak cut of the power consumption is requested. The household electric appliance comprises: a receiving unit that receives a request for a peak cut of power consumption at a predetermined rate from a remote controller and a mobile terminal; a drive unit that drives a power-consuming object to be driven; and a control unit that controls an action of the drive unit. The control unit, in the case of reception of the peak cut request from the remote controller or the mobile terminal, controls the action of the drive unit so as to cut a maximum value of the power consumption within the appliance based on the requested rate.
US10551077B2	Building structure for a multi-story building A structure for a multi-story building comprises a first passageway constructed internally within a building being configured with a mount for a ducted condenser unit (DCU) of a split type, unitary air conditioning system to achieve a desired level of condenser based heat dissipation and with a plurality of penetrations to accommodate a conduit through which refrigerant circulates between inside and outside units of the air conditioning system; and a second passageway constructed internally within the building for receiving air discharged from the DCU the second passageway terminating at an opening of the building through which the discharged air is exhausted to the atmosphere. The passageways have walls that are essentially closed, with the exception of the wall that is formed with an opening through which the discharged air flows. One or both of the first and second passageways upwardly extends across at least two stories of the building.
US10551073B2	Thermostatic actuator for radiator valve and zoned heating system comprising same A thermostatic actuator for a radiator valve includes a thermostat mechanism configured to passively open the valve when an environmental temperature is less than a set point and to close the valve when the temperature is greater than the set point. A set point adjustment mechanism draws power from a power supply to selectively drive unitary movement of the thermostat mechanism to adjust the set point. Multiple actuators are used in a zoned radiant heating system in which a controller is operatively connected to the set point adjustment mechanism of each actuator to selectively transmit a control signal to actuate the set point adjustment mechanism to drive unitary movement of the respective thermostat mechanism to adjust the respective set point.
US10551070B2	Home appliance Disclosed is a home appliance including a latch for a door having an improved structure. The home appliance includes a main body having a cavity, a door rotatably coupled to the main body to open and close the cavity, a latch having a locking portion provided to fix the door to the main body and a leg provided to rotate the locking portion in a first direction, and an elastic member coupled to the latch to elastically bias the locking portion in a second direction.
US10551069B2	Oven An oven includes a main body having a cooking room, a door disposed in the main body to open or close the cooking room, a door having a window to view the inside of the cooking room, a light emitting member disposed in the door, and a guide member to guide light of the light emitting member toward the cooking room.
US10551066B2	Combustor liner panel and rail with diffused interface passage for a gas turbine engine combustor A liner panel for use in a combustor of a gas turbine engine, the liner panel including a cold side; and a rail that extends from the cold side, the rail includes a first diffusion interface passage surface and a second diffusion interface passage surface, the first diffusion interface passage surface angled with respect to the second diffusion interface passage surface.
US10551063B2	Boiler ash remover based on combined flow A boiler ash remover based on a combined flow includes a frequency-adjustable acoustic flow generator, a fixing bracket, a compressed air source, a three-way air-source electric-control valve, an air jet generator, an acoustic-jet combined transmission tube, an acoustic jet intelligent control system, and a scale measurement and control sensor. The compressed air source is connected to an inlet end of the three-way air-source electric-control valve. An outlet end of the three-way air-source electric-control valve is connected to the frequency-adjustable acoustic flow generator and an air source inlet end of the air jet generator respectively. An acoustic flow outlet end of the frequency-adjustable acoustic flow generator is connected to an inlet end of the acoustic-jet combined transmission tube. An outlet end of the acoustic-jet combined transmission tube and a jet outlet end of the air jet generator are both disposed opposite to an external heat exchange component by means of the fixing bracket. The area of an acoustic flow transmission orifice at the outlet end of the acoustic-jet combined transmission tube covers that of a jet injection orifice at the jet outlet end of the air jet generator. The acoustic jet intelligent control system is connected to an electric control device of the three-way air-source electric-control valve and the scale measurement and control sensor respectively. The scale measurement and control sensor is disposed on the external heat exchange component. The boiler ash remover has the advantages of combining a frequency-adjustable acoustic flow with an air jet and implementing acoustic jet intelligent control, and has a desirable effect of removal of scales in a hearth or a flue gas heat exchanger.
US10551052B2	Lighting system with integrated smoke detector A lighting system made up of a smoke detector including a detector, a power source, alarm and control means, and a light socket. At least the detector is integrated into the light socket.
US10551051B2	Illuminated cabinet A cabinet and a kit for retrofitting a cabinet are disclosed. The cabinet includes a stationary box, at least one moveable wing attached to the stationary box and configured to open and close relative to the stationary box. The at least one moveable wing includes at least one of a door hinged to the stationary box or a drawer mounted via slide actuators to the stationary box. The cabinet also includes a reed switch attached to the stationary box, a magnet attached to the at least one moveable wing, and at least one light emitting diode (LED) fixture installed within the stationary box. Opening the at least one wing separates the reed switch from the magnet and permits current to flow to the at least one LED fixture to illuminate at least an interior portion of the stationary box.
US10551046B1	Light assembly A light assembly includes at least one lighting set and at least one remote controller. The lighting set comprises a first units, two end members, two first plugs, at least one control member and at least one second plug. The first unit has multiple light members received therein. The two end members, the two first plugs, the at least one control member and the at least one second plug are assembled together correspondingly. The at least one control member is signally and electrically connected with two first plugs and the at least one second plug. The first plugs of two lighting sets are connected with each other by a first connection cable. The second plug connects to a power source by a first power cable. The at least one remote controller is for emitting control signals to the at least one control member so as to control the light members.
US10551044B2	Recessed lighting assembly A fire-resistant, recessed lighting unit that obviates the need for a separate junction box and a separate incandescent “can”. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10551040B2	Lighting trim ring friction fit system A trim system includes a trim housing defining a top trim housing end and a bottom trim housing end, the trim housing defining an inner trim housing surface, the inner trim housing surface defining a trim housing bore extending into the trim housing from the bottom trim housing end towards the top trim housing end, the trim housing bore defining an axis; and a trim piece defining a top trim piece end and a bottom trim piece end, the top trim piece end inserted into the trim housing bore, the trim piece including a retention clip defining a first end and a second end, the first end secured to a base of the trim piece, the second end defining at least one tooth, the at least one tooth cutting into the inner trim housing surface and axially securing the trim piece to the trim housing relative to the axis.
US10551039B2	Removable mounting device and packaging system for lighting product A modular lighting strip mounting system provides for modular linear and curved lighting solutions. The system can generally comprise a bracket that is designed/configured to hold an LED lighting product and allows a user to mount the bracket with LED product to entertainment stages, platforms, risers, etc. relatively quickly and easily. Several different mounting embodiments are provided allowing lighting strips to be quickly secured to stages as well as to truss structures.
US10551036B2	Light unit A light unit for general purpose or decorative lighting having a directional light source, a light transmissive optic arranged to direct light from the light source and a plurality of reflectors arranged to receive light from the optic and/or light source and at least partially a reflect portion of the light in a predetermined distribution pattern, the optic being further arranged to mechanically couple together the light source and reflectors to hold the light source, optic and reflectors in a predetermined spatial relationship.
US10551033B2	Phosphor, light emitting device package, and electronic apparatus A light-emitting device package and an electronic apparatus are discussed. The light light-emitting device package according to an embodiment includes a light emitting device configured to emit light of a first main wavelength band within a visible light wavelength band; and a first phosphor including a first core and a first shell, the first core including a fluorescent material capable of emitting light of a first wavelength band different from the first main wavelength band of the light emitted from the light emitting device. The first shell eliminates light of a specific wavelength band or attenuates an intensity of light of the specific wavelength band from the light of the first wavelength band to emit light of a second main wavelength band within the visible light wavelength band. The light light-emitting device package further includes a second phosphor including a second core.
US10551029B2	Lighting device with homogeneous light distribution A lighting device for a motor vehicle is provided, for example a head lamp or a tail lamp. The lighting device includes an array of light sources, a lens assembly having a collimator lens, an inner lens, and an outer lens, and a housing to maintain the lens assembly in fixed relation relative to the array of light sources. The collimator lens includes a central geometry to manage high intensity light from directly above the LEDs and a lateral geometry to manage low intensity light that is offset from the LEDs, such that the light output from the LEDs exits the lens assembly with a homogeneous light distribution. The lighting device is suitable for vehicle applications, including internal lighting applications and external vehicle lighting applications. The lighting device can be manufactured by extrusion, making it well suited for low cost applications, such as interior ambient lighting.
US10551024B2	Combination rear lamp A combination rear lamp is revealed. A light emitting unit is disposed in a mounting space formed between a lamp base and a lamp cover. A plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) is arranged at a substrate of the light emitting unit. A transparent first area is formed on a middle part of the lamp cover and a translucent second area is formed around the first area. A light guide bar is located directly under the first area and its length is longer than that of the first area. Two LEDs that emit white light are corresponding to light incident parts on two sides of the light guide bar respectively. Thereby white light emitted and transmitted through the light guide bar and the first area of the lamp cover is projected in a three-dimensional sense. The LEDs and light spot emitted will not be seen through the lamp cover.
US10551018B2	Vehicular lamp, vehicular lamp system To reduce the optical members and the complexity of optical design. A vehicular lamp including: a light source; a light collecting member; a first polarizer advancing in a first direction a first component of the light, and advancing in a second direction a second component; a liquid crystal element disposed on one side of the first polarizer in the first direction; a second polarizer disposed on one side of the liquid crystal element in the first direction; a projection lens disposed on one side of the second polarizer in the first direction and projecting the first component to the front of an own vehicle; a reflecting member for reflecting the second component; where the first component is focused at a first focal point, the second component of the light is focused at a second focal point, and the liquid crystal element is disposed corresponding to the first focal point.
US10551017B2	Light control system for a luminaire utilizing a lamp with intense hotspot Automatic light control system for a Luminaire with a light source and beam forming light collector with and intense hotspot. The Luminaire automatically selects a large aperture when a gobo is selected. When no gobo is selected then a medium aperture is automatically selected. In some embodiments these selections can be overridden. In some embodiments the large and medium aperture are on a non-glass gobo wheel. In further embodiments, when blackout is selected, this wheel automatically advances ½ position or 1 and ½ position so as to support a blackout state of the fixture until a non-blackout condition is selected.
US10551013B2	Task-area light A light assembly includes a base having a receiving port, and a first light source supported by the base. The first light source includes an area light emitting diode configured to emit light in an upward direction from the base. A second light source is supported by the base and includes a flood light emitting diode configured to emit light from a side of the base. A diffuser is supported by the base and extends upwardly from the base to enclose the first light source. A battery pack is removably received in the receiving port of the base.
US10551012B2	Wrist-mounted flashlight with remote control switch A wrist-worn flashlight can include a lighting unit attached to a wrist band for allowing a user to wear the device on the wrist and a remote control that attaches to a finger of the user for allowing the user to control the light unit by finger. The remote control may allow the user to power the lighting unit on/off and/or switch between multiple lighting modes. The wrist-worn flashlight can enable a user to operate and toggle between modes using the user's fingertips. The flashlight can illuminate a target and free both hands of the user to work on the target. Moreover, the flashlight can allow the user to directionally train the beam on the target as desired and control the beam without diverting it.
US10551010B2	Multizone mixing cup A zoned optical cup which mixes multiple channels of light to form a blended output, the device having discreet zones or channels including a plurality of reflective cavities each having a domed light converting appliance (DLCA) covering a cluster of LEDs providing a channel of light which is reflected upward by the cavities and mixed by angles walls and structures above the open top of the cavities in the common body of the cup.
US10551009B2	Lighting module comprising at least one removable light source Lighting module for a motor vehicle including an optical means that is fixedly mounted in the lighting module, the optical means having a base with a first housing. A carrier of the optical means, which is translationally movable with respect to the optical means, has a base with a second housing. The carrier of the optical means is able to take a locked position in which at least one light source is held partially in the first housing and partially in the second housing, an unlocked position in which the at least one light source may be removed from the lighting module, and at least one removable light source being removable having light-emitting means.
US10551007B2	Lighting device and the manufacturing method of lighting devices The lighting device includes at least one filament module, a base, at least one pillar, and a base. The filament module includes more than two filaments. Each filament includes a substrate, multiple LED chips, a phosphor film, a top extended electrode, and a bottom extended electrode. Multiple LED chips are mounted on the substrate. The phosphor film covers the substrate and multiple LED chips. The top extended electrode and bottom extended electrode are connected to two ends of the substrate respectively. At least part of top extended electrode and bottom extended electrode are not covered by the phosphor film, and each top extended electrode of the filaments is fixed together.
US10551004B2	Refillable ampoule with purge capability A fluid delivery system adapted to isolate an ampoule and/or process line during purge, including an inlet control valve connecting a source of pressurized gas to a refillable ampoule, an outlet control valve connecting the refillable ampoule to a location of use, a process control valve connecting a process line to the refillable ampoule, a process isolation valve, and a purge supply valve, e.g., a three-way purge supply valve, arranged between the process isolation valve and the process control valve. A method of purging a fluid delivery system is also disclosed, including closing a process isolation valve, connecting a process line to a refillable ampoule, supplying a purge gas through a purge supply valve, e.g., a three-way purge supply valve, and cycling open and close at least once a process control valve coupled to the process line. A manifold for use in refilling an ampoule and purging a fluid supply system is also described.
US10551003B2	Adsorbed natural gas storing tank An adsorbed natural gas storing tank is provided. The adsorbed natural gas storing tank includes a tank body that has an upper plate and a lower plate coupled to define an inner space provided with an adsorbent material. The tank body includes an opening that extends through the upper and lower plates. A central plate is inserted in the opening to seal one side of the tank body. Additionally, the central plate has a plurality of discharge apertures formed along a circumferential wall thereof to discharge natural gas reacted with the adsorbent material and has a mounting region therein. A filter assembly is inserted in the mounting region, is fastened to the central plate, filters natural gas passing through the discharge apertures, and is equipped with a control valve for adjusting natural gas discharge.
US10551002B2	Cryogenic tank assembly with a pump drive unit disposed within fluid storage vessel A fluid storage and pressurizing assembly includes a storage receptacle and a pump assembly. The storage receptacle includes an inner vessel defining a cryogen space for storing a fluid at a storage pressure and a cryogenic temperature, an outer vessel surrounding the inner vessel, and an insulated space between the inner vessel and the outer vessel, and a pump assembly. The pump assembly includes a pump having an inlet disposed within the cryogen space for receiving a quantity of the fluid from the cryogen space, and an outlet for delivering the fluid therefrom, and a pump drive unit for driving the pump, the pump drive unit being at least partially disposed within a space defined by the storage receptacle.
US10550996B1	Adjustable screen lift arm An adjustable screen lift arm includes a support frame assembly with a frame base, a balance adjustment mechanism including a gear set consisting a drive gear and a sector-like driven gear, a gear rack meshed with the drive gear and a spring connected between the frame base and the driven gear, and a holder block assembly has a holder block body that combined with the gear rack and a first sliding rail, the other side combined with a second sliding rail. When the holder block body is moved vertically, the gear rack rotates the drive gear, causing the driven gear to stretch or compress the spring so that the arm of force is relatively changed to offset the spring force of the spring, enabling the holder block assembly to be freely adjusted to the desired elevation and then automatically positioned.
US10550991B2	Clamping apparatus and unmanned aerial vehicle gimbal A clamping apparatus includes a carrier portion formed on a regularly shaped panel, where a track slot is formed in a length direction in the carrier portion; a movable unit, mounted at an end of the carrier portion and capable of being separated from the carrier portion along a length direction of the track slot; and a clamping unit, mounted on a movable unit and configured to prevent, in at least four directions, a clamped object from being separated from the carrier portion. The problem that a size range of clamped objects applicable to the clamping apparatus is limited. The clamping unit is configured to prevent, in the at least four directions, the clamped object from being separated from the carrier portion, effectively preventing the clamped object from being separated from the carrier portion and allowing the clamped object to be protected even in a complex environment.
US10550989B2	Latch assembly for use with an inversion drum A hinged cover overlays an opening that provides access to a pressurized inversion drum. A releasable latch assembly holds the cover in a closed and locked position. The latch assembly comprises a plurality of first knuckles formed in the cover that are interlaceable with a plurality of second knuckles formed in the body adjacent the opening. The latch assembly further comprises a rotatable latch pin that may be installed within the first and second knuckles. The latch assembly is moved from an unlocked to a locked position by rotation of the latch pin within the knuckles.
US10550986B2	Dampening valve unit A dampening valve unit (40) for use in a liquid distribution system, the liquid distribution system having a centrally located liquid source connected via a separate feeding conduit to a liquid tap unit. In the liquid distribution system each feeding conduit is evacuated of liquid when an associated tap unit is closed and refilled with liquid when the tap unit is opened. The unit (40) comprises a dampening chamber (26) which is connectable to said feeding conduit, and a liquid stop valve unit (1′, 18), connectable at an inlet end (22) thereof, to said associated feeding conduit and which has an outlet end (24) being connectable in use to said associated liquid tap unit. Said dampening chamber (26) is adapted to collect gas and is connectable to said associated feeding conduit via a passage (23) which is located at said inlet end (22) of said liquid stop valve unit (1′, 18). The dampening valve unit (40) and the feeding conduit in use form a closed system separated from the ambient air.
US10550985B1	Mesh apparatus for diffusing rainwater droplets in a downspout A mesh apparatus for use in a downspout of a drainage system of a building to reduce noise of passing rainwater is provided. The mesh apparatus includes a mesh assembly having a mesh sheet with a rolled portion, the mesh sheet having a plurality of wires connected together to form a plurality of openings disposed throughout the sheet, and a fastener coupled to the mesh assembly to retain the rolled portion of the mesh sheet in a rolled configuration. The mesh assembly is inserted into the downspout. Rainwater passing through the downspout contacts any portion of the connected wires in the rolled portion of the sheet assembly, thereby diffusing the rainwater.
US10550982B2	Quick connector A quick connect coupling includes a hollow female connector body, a male end form configured to be received in the female connector body, a retainer, and a verifier coupled. An entry end of the female connector body defines a pair of windows on opposite sides of the entry end. The retainer extends along the windows and into a bore of the female connector body. The verifier includes legs and feet that extend into the windows and into the bore. The windows define a ramped edge, and the retainer is forced against the ramped edge by an annular upset of the male end form. The retainer spreads outward and springs back after the upset clears the retainer. The feet of the verifier include a ramped surface and spread outward in response to a force applied by the upset. The verifier can be pushed down after the legs are spread apart.
US10550979B2	System for conduit squeeze retainer A pipe system includes a tubular body with an axis, a bore that is axial and a retainer groove formed in the bore of the tubular body. A retainer is mounted in the retainer groove. An entirety of the retainer is both axially movable and radially movable relative to the retainer groove during formation of a pipe assembly with a pipe in the bore.
US10550978B2	Joining structure and joining method thereof Provided are: a joining structure capable of suitably obtaining joining strength between components which compose the joining structure; and a joining method thereof. For this purpose, a joining structure (1) includes: a shaft member (10); and a thin-walled cylindrical member (20) that fits an inner circumferential surface thereof to an outer circumferential surface of the shaft member (10). The thin-walled cylindrical member (20) has: a first crimped portion (21), in which an axially intermediate portion is reduced in diameter in a radial direction, and is crimped to the shaft member (10); and a second crimped portion (22), in which an end surface (20a) is folded radially inward, and is crimped to the shaft member (10).
US10550974B2	Retaining clamp with interconnected segments A retaining clamp for securing the joints that connect ducting, tubing, filters, or other components is disclosed. The retaining clamp includes a chain of segments that defines a central axis, and a locking mechanism coupled to a first end of the chain and a second end of the chain. A groove is defined in each segment, and the groove is sized to receive a joint connecting ducting, tubing, filters, or other components.
US10550969B2	Connector A connector has a cylindrical sleeve device having a first part, with an external screwthread on its outer side, and a second part, with an internal screwthread on its inner side. One of the screwthreads engages a corresponding screwthread on a further part when the device is in use. At least a portion of the said second part is yieldable. A locking part is provided with a screwthread which engages the other of the screwthreads of the cylindrical sleeve device when the connector is in use. The second part and the locking part have mutually engageable portions which, when the locking part is tightened relative to the cylindrical sleeve device, interengage to cause yielding of the second part or yieldable portion thereof. This effects locking of the cylindrical sleeve device with respect to such a further part when the connector is in use.
US10550967B2	Connector assembly A connector assembly has a pipe, a sealing element, and a plug connector which includes a connector body. The connector body has an annular chamber which is located between a first exterior section and a second exterior section of the plug connector. A connecting section of the pipe is inserted into the annular chamber of the connector body from the pipe receiving side and is connected thereto. The connecting section of the pipe includes a fastening recess and a seal receptacle which are incorporated in a circumferential surface of the pipe, the seal receptacle being structurally separated from the fastening recess. The first or the second exterior section is deformed in the region of the seal receptacle in such a way that the sealing element is pressed between the first or second exterior section and the seal receptacle.
US10550964B2	Methods and assemblies for pie cuts Pre-manufactured pie cut pieces provide internal cutouts such that the cutouts from one piece are complementary to the cutouts of an adjacent piece so that the pieces connect by an interlocking friction fit. A series of pie cut pieces can be connected this way in concatenated fashion to produce a section of curved piping. The joints between the joined pieces can be sealed by welding or other suitable sealing means.
US10550961B2	Lead service water pipe line removal apparatus and method An apparatus and a method of extracting buried lead water supply pipe with minimal excavation and which allows removal and containment of the lead pipe. The extraction apparatus includes a frame having an upwardly extending mast, a guide pulley mounted on the frame, and a pulling apparatus mounted on the mast. A take-up spool is mounted on the mast between the guide pulley and pulling apparatus and positioned to force a pipe pulling cable into a non-linear path between the guide pulley and the pulling apparatus. Extracted pipe is pulled into the non-linear path until the pipe is fully extracted from the ground. Multiple spiral loops around the take-up spool by the pulling cable may be necessary to fully contain the extracted pipe. Following extraction, the pipe may be unspooled from the take-up spool, the pulling cable removed for re-use, and the pipe may then be sent for disposal.
US10550956B2	Locking/ indexing pin A locking pin assembly having a body including a wall defining an interior space and having at least one aperture therethrough for allowing fluid communication between the interior space and an exterior environment. A barrel defines a bore and has an outer wall with external threads. A pin travels longitudinally within the interior space of the body and the bore of the barrel. A spring actuated assembly maintains an end of the pin in an extended position relative to an end of the barrel when no force is applied to the pin and allows the pin to retract relative to the end of the barrel when a force is applied to the pin.
US10550950B2	Check valve with nylon cage insert A check valve has a cage assembly set within a cage assembly containment portion defined within a cylindrical housing member, where the cage assembly containment portion is bounded between a first circumferential shoulder and a second circumferential shoulder of the interior of the cylindrical housing member. The cage assembly has a valve seat, a spacer member, and a nylon insert, where the nylon insert has a fluid inlet end and a fluid outlet end, where the fluid outlet end has at least one ball stop member. The valve seat is urged against the first circumferential shoulder by, in respective order, the spacer member, the nylon insert, and the second circumferential shoulder which urges the nylon insert against the spacer member. A ball travel section is defined between the valve seat and the ball stop member and a ball is disposed in the ball stop section.
US10550949B2	Barrier fluid pressure system and method System and methods are configured to adjust fluid pressure within a barrier fluid system on a subsea fluid processing machine. More specifically, a barrier fluid pressure system is located at the subsea location and includes a barrier fluid pressure regulator module having one input communicating or being pressure matched with a process fluid flowline and a second input communicating with the barrier fluid pressure system. The pressure regulator module is configured to locally adjust the barrier fluid pressure depending upon the fluid process pressure.
US10550947B2	Block valve and block valve for raw material container A block valve and a block valve for a raw material container having a structure in which a retaining part of a liquid material or cleaning fluid is not present inside. In the block valve, a first side of a main flow path in communication with a supply route of a block body and a first minimal port part of a first diaphragm valve in a tilted state with respect to the block body are connected, a second side of the main flow path and a second minimal port part of a second diaphragm valve are connected, a port opening of the second diaphragm valve is in communication with a supply port part, and a joint port part of the first diaphragm valve and a connection line in a vertical direction are connected by a communication path.
US10550945B2	Emergency shutdown valves with bypass features A bypass feature and an emergency shutdown valve that includes such a bypass feature, which is selectively operable to permit a flow of material to pass through the emergency shutdown valve when a shutoff element thereof is closed so as to otherwise prohibit flow through the valve, as well as an associated method of testing an emergency shutdown valve.
US10550937B2	Gear shift control device for vehicle transmission and gear shift control method for vehicle transmission In gear-shift control apparatus and method for a vehicular transmission, a variator which is interposed between an engine and driving wheels and which is capable of modifying a gear (speed) ratio continuously; a sub transmission which is installed in series with the variator and which is capable of switching a plurality of gear-shift stages through a replacement of engagement elements; and a transmission controller which performs a gear ratio control for the variator and a gear-shift stage control for the sub transmission are installed. During a deceleration through a second speed stage of the sub transmission, when the variator is a state in which the variator is at a lowest gear (speed) ratio, a down-shift in which the sub transmission is forced to perform the gear-shift from a second speed stage to a first speed stage, with the variator maintained at the lowest gear (speed) ratio.
US10550935B2	Hydraulic mechanical transmission A hydraulic mechanical transmission includes a first hydraulic unit having a first shaft and a second hydraulic unit having a second shaft. The second hydraulic unit is connected in hydraulic fluid communication with the first hydraulic unit by high and low pressure lines. At least one of the first and second hydraulic units has variable displacement. A mechanical torque transfer arrangement transfers torque between the first shaft and the rotatable component of the second hydraulic unit. One of the first and second hydraulic units operates as a hydraulic pump and the other of the first and second hydraulic units operates as a hydraulic motor.
US10550932B2	Sequential shift gearbox converter assembly A sequential shift gearbox converter assembly to convert a H-pattern gearbox to a sequentially shifted gearbox, the converter assembly including a shifting lever mounted relative to a converter housing, a drive arm mounted for movement driven by the shifting lever, a first shaped cam for rotation driven by the drive arm, a first gear for movement caused by movement of the first shaped cam, a second gear for movement caused by movement of the first gear, a second shaped cam mounted for movement when the second gear is moved, a reciprocating shifter member moved according to movement of the second shaped cam, a reciprocating shifter member moved according to movement of the second shaped cam to in turn move an elongate shifter rod of a gearbox transversely and a shifter rod rotating arm having a first portion biased into contact with the first shaped cam and a second portion to rotate the elongate shifter rod when urged to by the shape of the first cam during rotation thereof.
US10550926B2	Pulley assembly with module plate A window regulator assembly for a motor vehicle includes a pulley assembly with integrated module plate for redirecting a cable. The pulley assembly includes a base element and a cable pulley rotatably coupled with the base element. The base element has a pair of fingers and a stepped area for engaging with an integrated module plate. The integrated module plate has a pulley assembly receiving site for placing the pulley assembly. The pulley assembly receiving site of the integrated module plate has at least one aperture, a slot and a mating portion for easily engaging with the pulley assembly. The mating portion includes a third support surface for supporting the edge of the stepped area of the base element.
US10550925B2	Bicycle sprocket A bicycle sprocket is basically provided with a sprocket body and a plurality of chain-driving teeth. The sprocket body includes a central portion, an annular portion and an intermediate portion. The central portion has a first end surface disposed around a central opening on a side surface of the intermediate portion. The annular portion is disposed radially outward from the central portion. The intermediate portion extends between the central portion and the annular portion in a radial direction. The chain-driving teeth extend radially outward from the annular portion of the sprocket body to engage with a bicycle chain. The sprocket body includes a rib protruding from the side surface of the intermediate portion. The rib has a second end surface being axially outermost in the intermediate portion. The second end surface is farther away from the center plane than the first end surface in the axial direction.
US10550924B2	Transmission A transmission, in particular a coaxial transmission or linear transmission, comprising a toothing, a tooth holder in which a plurality of tooth segments are accommodated to engage with the toothing, wherein the tooth segments are borne to be radially shiftable relative to the tooth holder, a drive element having a profiling for radially driving the tooth segments borne in a radially shiftable manner, wherein the transmission has inner initial stress.
US10550922B2	Multi-mode infinitely variable transmission An infinitely variable transmission (IVT) provides a plurality of transmission modes. At least one mode is a serial mode and at least one other mode is a split-path mode. The serial mode may provide a powered zero and creeper ground speeds. The split-path mode(s) may provide higher field speeds.
US10550919B2	Gearbox assembly for an electric power steering assembly A gearbox assembly for an electric power assisted steering apparatus comprising: a first pivoting means for the worm shaft main bearing which reacts the axial component of the worm shaft tooth load for a first direction of gearwheel torque but not for a second, opposing, direction of gearwheel torque and defines at least one first pivot point about which the main bearing pivots that is located on a pivot axis, a second pivoting means for the worm shaft main bearing, positioned distal from the first pivoting means, which reacts the axial component of the worm shaft tooth load for the second direction of gearwheel torque but not the first direction of gearwheel torque and defines at least one second pivot point about which the main bearing pivots that is located on a second pivot axis, the second pivot point being spaced apart from the first pivot point.
US10550910B2	Magnetic damper for vibration absorbers Rotationally symmetric dampers (FIG. 3A) of a new type for eliminating and avoiding vibrations in machines and installations, particularly wind turbines. The damping occurs by magnetically generated eddy currents. In addition, vibration absorbers, particularly pendulum absorbers (7), are equipped with such magnetic dampers, and to installations, particularly wind turbines, that are exposed to vibratory forces and that comprise such vibration absorbers.
US10550909B2	Methods and apparatus for suspension lock out and signal generation Methods and apparatus for regulating the function of a suspension system are disclosed herein. Suspension characteristics often contribute to the efficiency of a suspended system. Depending on the desired operating parameters of the suspended system, it may be desirable to alter the functional characteristics of the suspension from time to time in order to maintain or increase efficiency. The suspension hereof may be selectively locked into a substantially rigid configuration, and the damping fluid may be phase separated and/or cooled to increase damping rate during use (or offset rate degradation). The suspension hereof may generate power usable to achieve any or all of the foregoing or to be stored for use elsewhere in the suspended system or beyond.
US10550905B2	Integrated wheel speed and brake pad wear monitoring system An integrated monitoring system for a vehicle including a brake pad wear sensor and a wheel speed sensor. A wheel speed sensor signal line is connected between the wheel speed sensor and an electronic control unit. A wheel speed power line is connected between the wheel speed sensor, the brake pad wear sensor, and the electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to monitor the wheel speed sensor signal line for a signal indicative of a wheel speed and monitors the wheel speed power line for a signal indicative of a brake pad condition.
US10550897B2	Driving force transmission control apparatus A driving force transmission control apparatus includes: a driving force transmission device that includes an electromagnetic clutch mechanism configured to generate a frictional force between clutch plates by energization of an electromagnetic coil and transmits a driving force by actuating the electromagnetic clutch mechanism; and a control device that controls the driving force transmission device. The control device includes a storage unit storing a hysteresis value representing the difference between a current value required to transmit a predetermined torque when an energization current to the electromagnetic coil is gradually increased and a current value required to transmit the predetermined torque when the energization current is gradually reduced, a torque command value calculator that calculates a torque command value, and a current command value calculator that calculates a current command value representing a target value of a current to be supplied to the electromagnetic coil based on the torque command value and the hysteresis value.
US10550895B2	Wedge plate clutch with off-set snap rings A wedge plate clutch, including: inner and outer rings; circumferentially aligned wedge plate segments radially disposed between the inner and outer rings; a plurality of snap rings urging the circumferentially aligned wedge plate segments radially outwardly; and a cage. The plurality of snap rings includes: a first snap ring with a first circumferential gap; and a second snap ring with a second circumferential gap. The second circumferential gap is circumferentially off-set from the first circumferential gap. For a disconnect mode for the wedge plate clutch, the inner ring and the outer ring are rotatable with respect to each other. To transition from the disconnect mode to a connect mode for the wedge plate clutch, in which the inner and outer rings are non-rotatably connected, the cage is arranged to displace the circumferentially aligned wedge plate segments.
US10550894B2	Constant velocity universal joint A constant velocity universal joint has a large-diameter mounting portion fastened and fixed by a first fastening clamp onto a boot receiving portion of an outer joint member, and a small-diameter mounting portion fastened and fixed by a second fastening clamp onto a boot receiving portion of a shaft. A circumferential clamp groove to which the first fastening clamp is fitted is formed in an outer peripheral surface of the large-diameter mounting portion. A protruding portion is formed at a boot outer side end portion of an inner peripheral surface of the large-diameter mounting portion. A recessed portion to which the protruding portion is fitted is formed in the boot receiving portion being a cylindrical surface of the outer joint member. A projection is formed in the vicinity of a boot inner side of the recessed portion.
US10550893B2	Rolling bearing Provided is a bearing having a plurality of rolling elements disposed between an inner ring and an outer ring that are disposed coaxially, wherein a groove section extending in a circumferential direction of an outer circumferential surface of the outer ring outside in a radial direction is formed on the outer circumferential surface, and an enveloping layer formed of any one of rubber, a thermoplastic elastomer and a plastic is formed on the outer circumferential surface.
US10550891B2	Seal member for rolling bearing and rolling bearing assembly A rolling bearing has a pair of inner rings and an annular groove provided on an outer circumference of a portion where end portions of the pair of inner rings abut against each other. A seal member for a rolling bearing has an elastic portion. The seal member for a rolling bearing is mounted in the annular groove. The elastic portion has an annular proximal end portion that is fixed to one axial end side of the annular groove and an annular extending portion extending from the proximal end portion towards the other axial end side and having on an inner circumference thereof a sliding contact lip configured to be brought into sliding contact with the other axial end side of the annular groove.

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