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| US10641497B2 |
Cooktop appliance
A cooktop appliance includes an electric heating element positioned on a cooktop surface and a controller operably connected thereto. The controller is configured for monitoring a temperature with a temperature sensor, adjusting a power level of the electric heating element based at least in part on the monitored temperature over a first period of time, and deactivating the electric heating element for a second period of time based at least in part on the monitored temperature. The controller is also configured for storing the first period of time, an average power level over the first period of time, and the second period of time in a memory. When the controller detects a disconnection of the temperature sensor, the controller operates the heating element at the stored average power level for the stored first period of time and deactivates the heating element for the stored second period of time. |
| US10641494B2 |
Cooktop appliance with a gas burner assembly
A cooktop appliance includes a top panel and a gas burner assembly with a support member formed integrally with a cap at a first end portion of the support member. The support member defines a fuel supply passage that extends between first and second end portions of the support member. A burner body is mounted to the cap such that the burner body is positioned above and spaced from the top panel. |
| US10641493B2 |
Aerodynamic fastening of turbomachine fuel injectors
A premixing fuel nozzle assembly for a turbomachine is disclosed as having at least one fuel injector with an outer jacket having a first end and a second end and a threaded surface disposed therebetween. The first end has a cylindrical sealing surface and the second end has at least one wrenching pocket. An annular hub is disclosed as having an aperture with a first end and a second end and a threaded surface disposed therebetween, wherein the aperture is configured to at least partially house the fuel injector therein and the annular hub further has a conical seat about the first end. The fuel injector cylindrical sealing surface swages inward to form a hermetic seal when contacting the annular hub conical seat as the fuel injector is threaded into the aperture. |
| US10641489B1 |
Fire-starting canteen
A canteen having sides, a top portion, and a bottom portion, forming an interior therein. The top portion and the bottom portion are convex shaped and transparent to light. The top portion and the bottom portion have a radius of curvature of 1.5 and 3 inches. When the interior of the canteen is filled with water, the canteen forms a biconvex fire-starting water lens. The canteen, preferably, is made of PETG thermoplastic resin or PLA, is one piece, and the thickness of the sides, top portion, and bottom portion is 5 to 7 mils. The magnification produced by the bioconvex fire-starting water lens is 2 to 6 fold. |
| US10641486B2 |
Refillable gas lighter
A refillable gas lighter comprises a rear case, a front case and a barrel. The lighter is provided with a physical phenomenon of piezo-electric effect to generate the electric spark. Inside the rear case, the pusher is pressed down to the gas tank with the pusher having a plurality of conducting strips that acts as an electrical conductor connected to the gas tank. A copper wire carrying negative charge is connected with a bridge plate that passes through the conductive hose to achieve fuel distribution and electric conduction. The conductive hose transfers the igniting gas from the gas tank to the spark plug, where the ignition initiates the flame. The housing assembly includes a rear case with a rear case neck, a front case with a front case neck, and a barrel. The housing assembly is further locked together by means of a barrel sleeve where the barrel has a flame opening to ignite. |
| US10641482B2 |
Methods for operating a furnace
A method for combusting fuel in the presence of an alkali-containing material may include introducing fuel into a furnace configured to combust the fuel. The method may also include introducing ball clay having a moisture content of at least about 5% by weight into the furnace, and heating at least a portion of the fuel and ball clay, such that at least a portion of the ball clay is at least partially calcined, and the at least partially calcined ball clay adsorbs at least a portion of alkali present in the furnace. |
| US10641477B2 |
High-bay luminaire with heat-dissipating housing defining a cavity with angled inner wall
A high-bay luminaire includes an upper housing having an outer wall with an interior surface defining an interior compartment, and outer wall with an angled portion extending at an oblique angle towards a center of the interior compartment; a plurality of first heat fins extending from the exterior surface of the outer wall; a base connected to the upper housing; a light emitter connected to the base; a lens connected to the base and positioned below the light emitter; and a driver connected to the angled portion and operatively connected to the light emitter. |
| US10641475B1 |
Light fixture having multiple movable light sockets
A light fixture has a cover, a joystick, a plurality of light sockets, a movable platform, and a plurality of shafts. The cover has a plurality of openings receiving the plurality of light sockets, each light socket spherically movable within its opening. The joystick is from a first side of the cover, and has a distal end. The movable platform engages the distal end of joystick to move in at least two dimensions responsive to movement of the joystick. Each of the plurality of shafts has a first end spherically engaging the movable platform and a second end rigidly coupled to a corresponding light socket. Spherical movement of the joystick causes movement of the movable platform, and movement of the platform causes movement of the second end of the shafts. Movement of the second end of the shafts causes spherical movement of the light sockets. |
| US10641474B2 |
Light string and manufacturing method thereof
A light string includes at least two conductor wires each covered with an insulating coating defining plural holes acting as electrical bare spots, a controller with an input terminal connected to an external power supply and an output terminal electrically connected to the at least two conductor wires, and plural light sources. Each light source includes one or more LEDs and a circuit board having a first surface used for fixing the one or more LEDs and a second surface defining at least two conductive strips across the second surface. The at least two conductive strips are electrically connected to the at least two conductor wires through the electrical bare spots, respectively. Each connecting part between the conductive strips and the conductor wires is wrapped around by a light transmissive glue. Two conductive ends of each LED are electrically connected to two of the at least two conductive strips. |
| US10641473B2 |
Folded heat sink with electrical connection protection
A lighting module having a heat sink and at least one light source supported by the heat sink. A printed circuit board is also supported on the heat sink and electrically coupled to the at least one light source with at least one conductor. The heat sink is folded or formed to define a conductor protector for protecting the at least one conductor and has at least one wall that is situated in operative relationship with the at least one conductor in order to shield or protect the at least one conductor. |
| US10641472B1 |
Hybrid laser/LED modular light source with enhanced directional illumination
An improved vehicle light apparatus including an auxiliary light having a housing defining a front opening extending in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction. A light emitting device is mounted in the housing. A transparent cover is mounted over the front opening. A rib extends rearwardly from the housing opposite the front opening and a plurality of fins are mounted on the rib. |
| US10641470B1 |
Light strands bracket device and system
A decorative lighting device and process for mounting method the lighting device on curved or cylindrical surfaces or support structures, such as tree trunks, columns and poles, the lighting device including a system of light strands mounted to at least two brackets at opposite ends of the light strands, and preferably multiple intermediate brackets along the length of the strands between the end brackets, wherein the strands are connected to the brackets by fasteners, such as ties, tie wraps or staples with a first predetermined distance between the fasteners and a second predetermined distance between the light strands, and the brackets are positioned laterally with respect to the strands and spaced apart a third predetermined distance. The brackets may be made of plastic or wood and have predetermined dimensions. The light strands include a plurality of light sources, preferably LED's, that may be a single color or different colors. |
| US10641468B2 |
Lamp device fixing mechanism and illumination device
A lamp device fixing mechanism adapted to be fixed to a lamp rod is provided. The lamp device fixing mechanism includes a casing, a rotating handle, and a fixing member. The casing is adapted to be partially inserted into the lamp rod. The rotating handle is pivoted to the casing. The fixing member is movably disposed at the casing and moved with the rotating handle. The fixing member moves from a first position to a second position along with rotation of the rotating handle to be fixed to the lamp rod. An illumination device is further provided. |
| US10641467B2 |
Retrofit system and method for replacing linear fluorescent lamp with LED modules
A system for replacing linear fluorescent lamps with LED modules in a cabinet sign includes an LED module support structure. The LED module support structure may be attached to the raceways of the cabinet sign or to the sockets formerly used for mounting fluorescent lamps between the raceways. |
| US10641465B2 |
Lighting system
A lighting system may include a plurality of suspenders and a beam configured to provide light in at least one direction. The suspenders may structurally support the beam from a ceiling and may provide electrical power and dimming control signals to the beam. The beam may include a plurality of light engines for emitting light. The light engines may be single sided or dual sided, and may transmit electrical power among each other. The dual sided light engines may emit light upwardly and downwardly from the beam, and the single sided light engines may emit light downwardly. |
| US10641464B2 |
LED light and light support
The invention includes an elongate riser, a circular base having a support arm, an interior wall, an exterior wall, and a coupler, the coupler being engaged to the riser, and a circular housing having an LED light source, a vertical wall, a bottom surface, and an upper surface, the upper surface has a lip extending outwardly from the vertical wall, the vertical wall being disposed interior to the interior wall, the bottom surface being disposed on the support arm, and the housing having a controller and at least one switch, and the controller regulates illumination being generated downwardly from the bottom surface. The housing being a modular drop in unit for removable engagement to the base. |
| US10641461B2 |
Light illuminating apparatus
A light illuminating apparatus for irradiating light of a line shape extending in a first direction and having a predetermined line width in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, includes a light emitting unit including a substrate, and a plurality of light sources arranged at a predetermined interval along the first direction on the substrate such that an optical axis is matched to a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions, and a mirror unit having a mirror surface to reflect and focus the light. In a cross section of the mirror unit taken along a plane defined by the second direction and the third direction, a cross-sectional shape of the mirror surface is a curved shape resulting from rotation of each of a horizontal axis direction positive side part and a horizontal axis direction negative side part of a parabola y=ax2. |
| US10641458B2 |
Light emitting assembly, lighting apparatus and vehicle
A light emitting assembly, a lighting apparatus and a vehicle. The light emitting assembly includes: a mounting plate; a light source assembly mounted on the mounting plate and including a first light source configured for emitting light with a first color and a second light source configured for emitting light with a second color; and a light guide member having a light entrance section and a light guide section integrally formed, the light guide member being configured to couple the light emitted from the light source assembly into the light guide member. The first light source and the second light source of the light source assembly are mounted on different mounting sub-plates of the mounting plate respectively. |
| US10641456B2 |
Lighting module for motor vehicle projector
Lighting module for a projector of a motor vehicle, the lighting module including a light source and a matrix of micromirrors, characterized in that it includes a mask disposed between the light source and the matrix of micromirrors, the mask including an opening allowing light rays coming from the light source to pass and oriented towards the matrix of micromirrors, and the mask including an opaque part blocking light rays coming from the light source and not oriented toward the matrix of micromirrors. |
| US10641455B2 |
Motor vehicle lighting unit with heat sink
The invention relates to a lighting unit (1) for a motor vehicle, which comprises a light module (2) and a mirror module (3), wherein the mirror module (3) is designed to reflect the light emission produced by the light module (3) in an emission direction of the lighting unit (1), characterized by: the light module (2), which comprises at least one light source (4) and a first heat sink (5), the mirror module (3), which comprises a mirror unit (6) and a second heat sink (7), a cooling system (8), which comprises at least one inlet (9), at least one outlet (10), at least one line (11), at least one flow unit (12), a cooling medium, a first cooling sink, and a second cooling sink, wherein the inlet (9) and the outlet (10) are connected by the line (11), and the flow unit (12) is inserted into the line (11) in order to produce a flow of the cooling medium in the line (11) and sucks in the cooling medium through the inlet (9) and discharges the cooling medium through the outlet (10), and the first cooling sink is formed by the first heat sink (5) of the light module (2) and the second cooling sink is formed by the second heat sink (7) of the mirror module (3), wherein the first cooling sink is arranged downstream of the second cooling sink. |
| US10641449B2 |
Lighting and/or signalling device, more particularly for an automotive vehicle
A light-emitting module for an automotive vehicle includes a light source including a plurality of electroluminescent rods, and a layer adapted for encapsulating the electroluminescent rods and for converting at least a portion of the light emitted by the rods into a converted light, the layer including a conversion sublayer extending beyond a free end of the electroluminescent rods, the conversion sublayer including a phosphor compound adapted for generating the converted light from the light emitted by the electroluminescent rods, the phosphor compound being in the form of grains, the dimensions of which are provided to prevent the presence of the grains between spaces delimited laterally between the rods, and an encapsulation sublayer in which at least a portion of the electroluminescent rods is embedded. |
| US10641439B2 |
Nano-scale light-emitting diode (LED) electrode assembly emitting polarized light, method of manufacturing the same, and polarized LED lamp having the same
The present invention relates to a nano-scale light emitting diode (LED) electrode assembly emitting polarized light, a method of manufacturing the same, and a polarized LED lamp having the same, and more particularly, to a nano-scale LED electrode assembly in which partially polarized light close to light that is linearly polarized having one direction is emitted as an emitted light when applying a driving voltage to the nano-scale LED electrode assembly and also nano-scale LED devices are connected to a nano-scale electrode without defects such as an electrical short circuit while maximizing a light extraction efficiency, a method of manufacturing the same, and a polarized LED lamp having the same. |
| US10641438B2 |
Lighting system
Proposed is a lighting system comprising: at least one laser adapted to output light; a pixelated luminous screen for emitting light when excited by incident light; and at least one optical component adapted to redirect and distribute light from the at least one laser to the pixelated luminous screen. The pixelated luminous screen comprises: a plurality of luminous pixels arranged adjacent each other with separated side edges, each pixel comprising luminous material; and a heat sink formed from thermally conductive material. The heat sink is positioned between the plurality of luminous pixels such that it contacts the adjacent side edges of the pixels. |
| US10641434B1 |
Light source carrier
A glow stick carrier comprising one or more openable containers for carrying at least one substance, and one or more attachments of the container to a glow stick. |
| US10641430B2 |
Methods and apparatus for a suspension system
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise a method and apparatus for a space-saving suspension system. In various embodiments, the apparatus may comprise a fine suspension device, a coarse suspension device, and a mechanical assembly. In various embodiments, the fine suspension device is arranged at an angle greater than zero degrees from the z-axis. In various embodiments, the mechanical assembly is coupled to the fine suspension device and a payload, such that when a force is exerted on the mechanical assembly by the payload, an applied force is transmitted to the fine suspension device. |
| US10641429B2 |
Techniques for protecting pipe coatings
A method of protecting a layered coating on a length of pipe for subsea use includes applying an edge finisher to the coating to encase an edge of the coating by fusing the edge finisher with the coating or by moulding the edge finisher at an edge of the coating. Where the coating and the edge finisher are of thermoplastics such as PP, fusing can be achieved by injection moulding the edge finisher or by welding a discrete edge finisher component to the edge of the coating. Mirror welding may be employed for this purpose, with a hot plate being interposed between the edge of the coating and the edge finisher. |
| US10641425B2 |
Depressurizer
To provide a depressurizer with a function of depressurizing a filling hose separated from a filling device when a safety device (safety joint) operates (separates). A depressurizers (10, 11) according to the present invention are mounted to a filling hose (21) for filling hydrogen from a hydrogen filling apparatus (100) to a vehicle. In the present invention, it is preferable that on a main body portion (1) of the depressurizers (10, 11) is formed a depressurizing communication hole (1B) communicating with a hydrogen gas passage (1A); a plug (2) that can be inserted into the depressurizing communication hole (1B) is mounted; and on the depressurizing communication hole (1B) and the plug (2) are formed tapered portions (a pin tapered portion 2B of the plug 2 and a tapered portion 1BB of the depressurizing communication hole 1B) with complementary shapes. |
| US10641424B2 |
Subsea direct electric heating system
A subsea direct electric heating system has a subsea pipeline which has an electrically conducting pipeline material, and a first piggyback cable extending along a portion of the subsea pipeline, electrically connected in series with the subsea pipeline. The system further comprises a topside AC power supply and a power feeder cable which extends from the topside AC power supply to a subsea location. The power feeder cable feeds electric power to the first piggyback cable and the pipeline, resulting in a heating of the pipeline. In order to improve power conditions in the system, the arrangement for reducing the reactive component of the power comprises the power feeder cable, the power feeder cable having a distributed capacitance which is sufficient, in the absence of a capacitor, to result in a power factor of an electric circuit comprising the power feeder cable, the subsea pipeline and the piggyback cable in the range 0.9 to 1.0. |
| US10641423B2 |
Adapters for connecting a separated-outlet fluid cartridge to a single-inlet mixer, and related methods
An adapter for connecting a separated-outlet fluid cartridge to a single-inlet static mixer includes a lock mechanism and a lock release mechanism. The adapter includes a connection portion that engages the mixer. The lock mechanism has at least one snap arm that lockingly engages the cartridge in a snap fit manner so as to secure the adapter to the cartridge in fluid communication. When in the locked position, separate fluids are evacuated from the cartridge into the mixer where they are mixed prior to dispensing. The lock release mechanism quickly and easily unlocks the at least one snap arm from the cartridge for allowing a user to separate the adapter from the cartridge. The adapter sealing engages with both the mixer and the cartridge so that fluid flowing from the cartridge to the mixer does not leak. |
| US10641420B2 |
Pipe connectors and systems
A pipe connector includes a housing body defining an axial bore arranged to receive a length of pipe including an enlarged end section. A locking member is split into two or more segments configured to lock the enlarged end section within the axial bore when the locking member is secured to the housing body. A segment coupling member is arranged to detachably secure the two or more segments together outside the axial bore and on a housing top of the housing body. At least one sealing member is positionable on the length of pipe and arranged to compress between the enlarged end section and the locking member. A retaining member is arranged to secure the locking member to the housing body such that the locking member fills a gap between the length of the pipe and an opening of the retaining member. |
| US10641417B2 |
Fire protection sleeve
A firestop collar for sealing of openings, especially of line penetrations, that pass-through walls or ceilings, has a frame and a block of optionally intumescent material disposed therein, and is characterized in that an intumescent inlay is disposed between the block and the frame. |
| US10641416B2 |
Fixing cable tie
A fixing cable tie binds electric cables and fixes the electric cables to a mounting plate. The fixing cable tie includes a pair of elastic pieces and a pair of cable ties. The elastic pieces serve as a locking section for fixing the electric cables to the mounting plate, and elastically deform inward by external urging to shrink in diameter. The pair of cable ties binds the electric cables. The pair of cable ties (first cable tie section and second cable tie section) is joined respectively to the pair of elastic pieces. |
| US10641412B2 |
Steam trap monitor with diagnostics
A steam trap monitor includes a process variable sensor configured to sense a process variable related to operation of a steam trap. A memory contains information related to a baseline parameter of the process variable. Diagnostic circuitry calculates a current parameter of the process variable sensed by the process variable sensor and compares the current parameter of the process variable with the baseline parameter. Based on the comparison, the diagnostic circuitry responsively provides a diagnostic output based upon the comparison. The baseline and current parameter are based on a time period during which the steam trap is open or closed. |
| US10641410B2 |
Pneumatic valve for air suspension systems
Disclosed is a pneumatic solenoid poppet valve assembly having a dampening element. The valve assembly comprises a housing with a stator having a spring pocket being secured to the housing and an armature slidably located inside the housing. The armature has a spring pocket and an armature return spring located in the spring pockets of the stator and the armature, the spring biases the armature away from the stator thereby creating an air gap between them. A dampening element is located in the spring pocket of the stator surrounding the return spring and extending into the air gap. When the solenoid is energized the armature is moved across the air gap and contacts the dampening element prior to contacting the stator and the dampening element dampens movement of the stator across the air gap. A molded seat retainer locates upper and lower seals, provides a valve seat and flow passages. |
| US10641406B2 |
Venturi vacuum drawback assemblies and dual orifice venturi valve assemblies
A venturi vacuum drawback assembly includes a fluid supply passage that supplies the fluid to the device, a fluid return passage that returns the fluid to the device, a shutoff valve positioned on the fluid supply passage, a bypass passage, a bypass valve positioned on the bypass passage, and a venturi valve positioned on the bypass passage downstream of the bypass valve. The bypass passage includes an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is connected to the fluid supply passage upstream of the shutoff valve, and the outlet connected to the fluid return passage. The venturi valve includes a venturi inlet, a venturi outlet, and a primary orifice positioned between the venturi inlet and the venturi outlet. The primary orifice is connected to a drawback opening on the fluid supply passage by a conduit. The drawback opening of the fluid supply passage is positioned downstream of the shutoff valve. |
| US10641402B2 |
Three-way valve for flow rate control and temperature control device using same
Provided are a three-way valve for flow rate control and a temperature control device using the three-way valve for flow rate control. The three-way valve for flow rate control is capable of controlling a mixture ratio between two kinds of fluids with higher accuracy, as compared to a three-way valve including an inflow port which allows inflow of a high-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid, an inflow port which allows inflow of a low-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid, an outflow port which allows outflow of a constant-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid, and a control valve configured to control the flow rate ratio between the high-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid and the low-temperature heat-medium circulating liquid. The three-way valve for flow rate control includes: a valve main body including a valve seat, the valve seat having a columnar space and having a first valve port, which allows inflow of a first fluid and has a rectangular cross section, and a second valve port, which allows inflow of a second fluid and has a rectangular cross section; a valve body being provided in a freely rotatable manner in the valve seat of the valve main body so as to simultaneously switch the first valve port from an closed state to an opened state and switch the second valve port from an opened state to a closed state, the valve body being formed into a half-cylindrical shape having a predetermined central angle and being formed into a curved-surface shape at each of both end surfaces of the valve body in a circumferential direction; and drive means for driving the valve body to rotate. |
| US10641400B2 |
Three way valve
The utility model discloses a three way valve, which includes a three way valve body, and the three way valve body is provided with a water inlet channel, partition are provided in the center of the three valve body, and two water outlets are provided on the partition, and two water outlets are connected separately to two water outlet channels; A rotor is arranged above the partition, and the eccentric position of the bottom of the rotor is provided with a sealing leather bowl. When the rotor is rotated, the sealing leather bowl can sequentially seal the two water outlet. The utility model is capable of sequentially sealing the water outlet by the rotating rotor and the leather bowl synchronously rotating with the rotor, and can form two water outlet channels to separately discharge water or simultaneously discharge water. |
| US10641399B2 |
Valve
A valve (100, 200, 300). The valve (100, 200, 300) comprises a valve body (1); a valve rod (4, 302); a valve core (2, 2′, 304); a valve base (3, 305); a transmission apparatus (5′, 5″, 307) used for transmitting movement of the valve rod (4, 302) to the valve core (2, 2′, 304); and a limiting apparatus (1h, 1g) used for limiting the movement sequence of the valve core (2, 2′, 304). The limiting apparatus (1h, 1g) is used for limiting the movement of the valve core (2, 2′, 304) during opening of the valve (100, 200, 300). The valve (100, 200, 300) can be opened according to a movement sequence, has a compact structure, and is easy to operate. |
| US10641396B2 |
Seal ring and sealing structure
A seal ring and a sealing structure that reduce the deviation of the central axis of the seal ring from the central axis of a shaft thereby preventing the seal ring from abutting against the tip end of a housing in the operation of inserting the shaft in the housing. The seal ring includes a thin part 100A provided in a range less than 180° with respect to a circumferential direction and a thick part 100B, which is configured to protrude inward in the radial direction from an inner peripheral surface of the thin part 100A, the thin part 100A has an abutment joint part 110, and the thick part 100B has, at respective ends of both side surfaces on an inner peripheral surface side thereof, a concave part 120 over an entire range thereof to form a gap between the ends of the both side surfaces and corner parts at both ends of a groove bottom of the annular groove. |
| US10641390B1 |
Trunnion swash installations in a transmission and methods of assembly
An example pump includes: (i) a swash block having (a) a first trunnion arm on a first side of the swash block, and (b) a second trunnion arm on a second side of the swash block; and (ii) a housing including (a) a through-hole disposed on a respective first side of the housing, (b) a blind hole disposed on a respective second side of the housing opposite the respective first side thereof, and (c) an internal chamber. The swash block is supported within the internal chamber of the housing by the first trunnion arm being positioned in the through-hole of the housing and the second trunnion arm being positioned in the blind hole of the housing. |
| US10641387B2 |
Vehicle shift-by-wire device
A vehicle shift-by-wire device includes: a casing in which the shift actuator is disposed; a coupling member; and a connecting/disconnecting member disposed in the casing movably in the shifting direction and movably in a connecting/disconnecting direction crossing the shifting direction, and moved in the shifting direction integrally with the coupling member, wherein when the connecting/disconnecting member is held at an electrically shifting position in the connecting/disconnecting direction, the connecting/disconnecting member is coupled to the shift actuator and is moved in the shifting direction by the shift actuator to switch the shift corresponding position of the shift position switching mechanism via the coupling member, and wherein when the connecting/disconnecting member is moved to a manually shifting position in the connecting/disconnecting direction, the connecting/disconnecting member coupled to the shift actuator is disconnected so that the shift actuator is disabled to switch the shift corresponding position of the shift position switching mechanism. |
| US10641386B2 |
Automatic transmission control decice
In an automatic transmission control device of the invention configured to start an increase in engagement pressure of a start-up engagement element, when a determination threshold value for determining that a turbine rotational speed has reduced is reached or exceeded, the determination threshold value when a selection operation from a non-traveling range to a traveling range is made before a prescribed period of time from starting of an engine has elapsed, is increased and set greater than the determination threshold value when the selection operation is made after the prescribed period of time has elapsed. Accordingly, a reduction in the turbine rotational speed can be accurately determined, and thus it is possible to suppress torque fluctuations, occurring owing to engagement of a second brake, which is the start-up engagement element. |
| US10641383B2 |
Vehicle control apparatus
A control apparatus includes a shifting delay control portion configured to delay a moment of generation of a shift-down command to implement a power-on shift-down action of the step-variable transmission, with respect to a moment of determination to implement the power-on shift-down action, for thereby reducing a shifting shock of the step-variable transmission in the process of the power-on shift-down action. The shifting delay control portion adjusts a delay time from the moment of determination to implement the power-on shift-down action to the moment of generation of the shift-down command, on the basis of at least one of an output state of the drive power source; an inertia power required in the process of the power-on shift-down action; a consumption power to be consumed by the coupling devices; and a state of a battery to and from which an electric power is respectively supplied from and to the motor/generator. |
| US10641381B2 |
Gear assembly
A gear assembly comprising first and second gears configured to mesh with each other, the first gear comprising inner and outer ring elements and a resilient ring element disposed between and coupled to the inner and outer ring elements, the outer ring element comprising first gear teeth which mesh with second gear teeth of the second gear, wherein the first and second gears each comprise a positioning ring axially spaced apart from the first and second gear teeth, the positioning rings being configured to engage each other and limit the position of the first and second gear teeth relative to each other. |
| US10641380B2 |
Brake assembly structure of transmission, transmission, and vehicle
There is provided a brake assembly structure for a transmission. An automatic transmission includes a torque converter, a transmission case, and a two-way clutch and a first brake which are accommodated in the transmission case and adjacent to each other. The first brake includes a drum, an outer plate that is fixed to the drum in such a manner that the outer plate is unrotatable with respect to the drum, an inner disk that comes in contact with the outer plate in an axial direction, and a hub to which the inner disk is fixed in such a manner that relative rotation is not permitted. The drum is provided separately from the transmission case and includes a hydraulic chamber. The two-way clutch is assembled in the transmission case and the first brake is then assembled in the transmission case. |
| US10641372B2 |
Gearbox unit for a farm vehicle with a wide range of speeds
A gearbox assembly that includes a system of stacked planetary gearsets; a clutch device including an input clutch shaft and an output clutch shaft; a large clutch wheel and a small clutch wheel mounted idle on the output clutch shaft; a clutch coupling device for coupling the small and large wheels with the output clutch shaft; an output shaft including a small output wheel meshing with the large clutch wheel and a large output wheel meshing with the small clutch wheel. |
| US10641361B2 |
Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicle
A planetary gear train apparatus of automatic transmission may include input and output shafts first to fifth planetary gear sets respectively having first to third, fourth to sixth, seventh to ninth, tenth to twelfth, and thirteenth to fifteenth elements, first shaft fixed to the third element and the input shaft, second shaft fixed to the fourteenth element and the output shaft, third shaft fixed to the first and fourth elements, fourth shaft fixed to the second, eighth, and fifteenth elements, fifth shaft fixed to the fifth element, sixth shaft fixed to the sixth, ninth element, and eleventh elements, and shafts, each of which is selectively connectable to housing and fixed to element of the third, fourth, and fifth planetary gear sets which is not fixed to the first to sixth shafts. |
| US10641360B2 |
Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicle
A planetary gear train may include: an input shaft; an output shaft; a first planetary gear set including first, second, and third rotation elements; a second planetary gear set including fourth, fifth, and sixth rotation elements; a third planetary gear set including seventh, eighth, and ninth rotation elements; a fourth planetary gear set including tenth, eleventh, and twelfth rotation elements; four clutches, each selectively connecting at least one of the first to twelfth rotation elements to another rotation element or the input shaft; and two brakes, each selectively connectable at least one of the first to twelfth rotation elements to a transmission housing. |
| US10641355B2 |
Transmission belt
The present invention relates to a transmission belt containing a core wire extending in a lengthwise direction of the belt, an adhesive rubber layer in contact with at least a part of the core wire, a back surface rubber layer formed on one surface of the adhesive rubber layer, and an inner surface rubber layer formed on the other surface of the adhesive rubber layer and engaging or in contact with a pulley, in which the adhesive rubber layer is formed by a vulcanized rubber composition containing a rubber component, a fatty acid amide and a silica. |
| US10641353B2 |
Damping assemblies for a vehicle part to reduce an impact
A damping assembly in a vehicle is provided. The damping assembly comprises a rod; a spring disposed along a lengthwise direction of the rod; and a buffer pad including a connection end coupled to the rod and an external end opposing the connection end and including a buffer surface. The spring is coupled with the rod and configured to be retracted and extended with the rod at the lengthwise direction. |
| US10641352B2 |
Method for applying sand to drum brake linings
The invention relates to a method for applying sand to the inner radius of drum brake linings comprising the following steps: a) rolling a UV-curing adhesive onto the inner radius of a drum brake lining, b) applying a frictional grain, such as zircon sand, to the adhesive layer, c) removing the frictional grain not retained by the adhesive from the lining surface, and d) curing the coating by means of UV radiation. |
| US10641350B2 |
Rotational friction brake regulated by angular acceleration
A rotational friction brake regulated by the rate of change of angular speed is disclosed. The rotational friction brake includes: a first body, a second body rotationally attached to said first body, the second body rotating around a rotational center axis of said second body, and at least one braking arm rotationally attached to said second body in a pivot point. The pivot point is eccentrically offset to said rotational center axis. The at least one braking arm comprises a braking member arranged to frictionally engage a part of said first body. The at least one braking arm has a mass center placed at a distance from said pivot point that is longer than a distance from said pivot point to said rotational center axis. The braking member is arranged to frictionally engage said part of said first body. A fishing reel comprising a rotational friction brake is also disclosed. |
| US10641348B2 |
Popoff valve in hydraulic arrangement for multi-clutch assembly
An arrangement for a multi-clutch assembly including a popoff valve is disclosed. The arrangement also includes a first clutch, a second clutch, and a spool valve assembly. Depending on the mode, the popoff valve either provides a flowpath for residual hydraulic fluid from a latching chamber of the spool valve assembly to a vent of the popoff valve, or provides a flowpath for supplying hydraulic fluid to the latching chamber of the spool valve assembly via a fluid connection from a supply inlet to a latch port of the popoff valve. |
| US10641346B2 |
Clutch arrangement for a drive train of a motor vehicle
A clutch arrangement for a drive train of a motor vehicle comprising a switching element with a control geometry, an actuator, an actuating element, and a running roller. The switching element is arranged on an output element such that it is fixed in terms of rotation but can be moved axially into a first switching position and into a second switching position, an actuator operable for movement of the switching element from the first switching position into the second switching position and/or vice versa. The actuating element, via the actuator, actuates movement of the switching element from the first switching position into the second switching position and/or vice versa. The running roller is arranged on the actuating element. |
| US10641345B2 |
Shifting device for a clutch
A shifting device for a positively engaging clutch having complementary first and second positively engaging coupling elements includes a housing and an actuator rod which is axially movable within the housing by means of an associated rod actuating mechanism. A clutch shift fork for engagement with the first coupling element is mounted on the actuator rod for axial movement of the first coupling element into and out of engagement with the second coupling element in response to axial movement of the actuator rod. The clutch shift fork is mounted on the actuator rod by a threaded connector such that the clutch shift fork is axially movable on the actuator rod. Thus conveniently the axial position of the clutch fork on the shaft may be altered by rotating the shaft relative to the clutch fork for accurate positioning of the clutch fork relative to the coupling element with which it engages. |
| US10641333B2 |
Cage segment for a rolling-element bearing cage
A cage segment for a rolling-element bearing cage includes first and second side elements connected by a bridge extending in a longitudinal direction. A first attaching element on the first side element extends away from the bridge in a first direction parallel to the longitudinal axis and a second attaching element on the second side element extends away from the bridge in a second direction parallel to the longitudinal axis. The first and second attaching elements are configured to receive a wire or cable for connecting the cage segments to other cage segments, and the first attaching element is offset from the longitudinal axis in a first direction by a first distance and the second attaching element is offset from the longitudinal axis in a second direction opposite the first direction by a second distance. |
| US10641332B2 |
Roller element bearing with preloaded hydrodynamic cage guides
A bearing includes an inner ring having an outer surface and a cage having both an inner surface and an outer surface. The cage inner surface is positioned to be in opposition to the inner ring outer surface. The bearing further includes an outer ring having both an inner surface and an outer surface. The outer ring inner surface is positioned to be in opposition to the cage outer surface. One or more of the inner ring outer surface, the cage inner surface, the cage outer surface, and the outer ring inner surface defines a non-circular circumferential profile. |
| US10641331B1 |
Ball cage for ball bearing
A ball cage for ball bearing includes a first race, a second race, a plurality of first ribs equiangularly arranged on the first race with a first curved groove defined between each two adjacent first ribs, and a plurality of second ribs equiangularly arranged on the second race with a second curved groove defined between each two adjacent second ribs. The first ribs are respectively and partially stacked on the second ribs so that each first curved groove is combined with one respective second curved groove to create a respective ball accommodation chamber. Thus, the ball cage can be commonly used for ball bearings lubricated with grease or oil gas to increase the convenience of use. |
| US10641327B2 |
Oil supply system for fluid film damper
A fluid film damper may comprise a sleeve, an annular support housing surrounding the sleeve, an annular volume between the annular support housing and the sleeve, a first supply conduit in fluid communication with a first inlet to the annular volume, a second supply conduit in fluid communication with a second inlet to the annular volume, wherein the first inlet is disposed opposite the annular volume from the second inlet, and a common oil supply conduit in fluid communication with the annular volume via a check valve, wherein the common oil supply conduit supplies the fluid to the annular volume via the first supply conduit and the second supply conduit. |
| US10641326B2 |
Plain bearing bush
The invention relates to a rolled plain bearing bush, having a butt joint, an axial direction, a radial direction, and a peripheral direction, comprising a first semicylindrical segment and a second semicylindrical segment, which are arranged diametrically opposite each other, and a third segment and a fourth segment, which each deviate from the semicylindrical shape of the first and second segments and are arranged between the first and second segments in the peripheral direction and diametrically opposite each other, wherein the first and second segments each have a semicylindrical inner peripheral surface and outer peripheral surface, and wherein the third and fourth segments each have a flat inner peripheral surface, which flat inner peripheral surfaces extend parallel to each other, wherein a smallest radial distance between the inner peripheral surfaces of the third and fourth segments is less than a bush inside diameter, which corresponds to a radial distance between the inner peripheral surfaces of the first and second segments, which is constant along the extent of the inner peripheral surfaces of the first and second segments. |
| US10641320B2 |
Shock reducing tape spring hinge
Provided is a shock reducing tape spring hinge including fixing members fixed to at least two objects, respectively, a thin shell type tape spring having both end portions that are fastened to the fixing members, respectively, and a shell-shaped damping plate aligned with the tape spring, the damping plate having both end portions that are fastened to the fixing members, respectively. The damping plate and the tape spring may be configured to connect the at least two objects being spaced through the fixing members, and the damping plate may be configured to reduce a deployment shock occurring when the tape spring is deployed. |
| US10641317B2 |
Half thrust bearing
Provided is a semi-annular-shaped half thrust bearing having a sliding surface for receiving an axial force and a back surface opposite to the sliding surface. The sliding surface includes a plurality of recesses. Each recess has a recess surface recessed from the sliding surface toward the back surface of the half thrust bearing. The recess surface is convex toward the back surface of the half thrust bearing in cross-sectional view in a circumferential direction of the half thrust bearing. The recess surface includes a plurality of circumferential grooves recessed from the recess surface toward the back surface of the half thrust bearing. The circumferential grooves extend along the circumferential direction of the half thrust bearing, and smooth surfaces and the circumferential grooves are alternately arranged on the recess surface. |
| US10641316B2 |
Bearing sleeve for a shaft
A rolling element shaft assembly includes a solid shaft having a first end and a second end, a tubular shaft configured to receive the shaft first end, and a bearing sleeve coupled to the solid shaft. The bearing sleeve includes a first portion defining a first edge, a second edge, and at least one first bearing aperture, and a second portion defining a third edge, a fourth edge, and at least one second bearing aperture. The first portion is configured to couple to the second portion about the solid shaft. The bearing sleeve further includes at least one first bearing disposed within the at least one first bearing aperture and at least one second bearing disposed within the at least one second bearing aperture. |
| US10641314B1 |
Suction holder
A suction holder includes a suction unit, a housing unit, a pressure deformable unit, and a linkage positioning unit. The suction unit includes a suction cup and a traction element engaged to a top of the suction cup. The pressure deformable unit has a circumference radially distributed with a plurality of elastic pressing elements. The pressure deformable unit is located on the suction cup and is confined in the housing unit. The linkage positioning unit can drive the traction element to move upward so that the suction cup can attach to a surface. When the surface is curved or has arcs, the elastic pressing elements can be deformed to different extents to be pressed on the suction cup to maintain better attachment to the surface. |
| US10641312B2 |
Gasket assembly
A seal assembly for an assembly of a vehicle is provided. The seal assembly comprises a seal configured to create a seal between first and second components of the vehicle assembly and a retaining element configured to couple the seal to the first component prior to assembly of the vehicle assembly, wherein at least a portion of the retaining element is deformable and is configured to deform from a first state to a second state during installation or use of the seal assembly, such that after said deformation the retaining element no longer couples the seal to the first component. |
| US10641311B2 |
Anchor fastener including an expansion sleeve
A fastener including a body having a threaded portion and an opposing, tapered portion, where the tapered portion includes an outwardly angled surface, and a sleeve movably connected to the body. The sleeve includes a plurality of fingers at least partially separated from each other, where each of the fingers includes at least two, axially spaced gripping members protruding from the body. When the fastener is inserted in a borehole formed in a substrate and a fastening member is threaded onto the threaded portion and tightened, the sleeve progressively moves along the angled surface causing the fingers to move outwardly and at least one of the gripping members to engage an inner surface of the substrate forming the borehole to secure the fastener in the borehole. |
| US10641307B2 |
Radiused lead-in for interference fit fasteners
An assembly comprising first and second structural elements having aligned holes, an fastener that occupies at least respective portions of the holes without a surrounding sleeve, and a mating part that is coupled to the fastener. The fastener comprises: a head; a circular cylindrical shank extending from the head; a mating portion comprising external projections; and a transition portion disposed between the shank and the mating portion. The transition portion comprises a first radiused lead-in section that meets the shank at a shank/lead-in intersection and a second radiused lead-in section that meets the first radiused lead-in section. The first radiused lead-in section curves gradually in a first axial direction toward the mating portion and has a first profile that is a circular arc having a first radius, while the second radiused lead-in section curves abruptly in the first axial direction and has a second profile that is a circular arc having a second radius which is much smaller than the first radius. |
| US10641306B2 |
Fixing bolt
A fixing bolt contains: a flexible sleeve and a locking nail. The flexible sleeve is provided with an internal threaded section above a conical hole, multiple-annular protrusions, and multiple projected wings. Furthermore, the flexible sleeve defines a plurality of slits to communicate with the conical hole, and extend across the multiple annular protrusions to be joined at a central axis of the flexible sleeve, below the conical hole, so that a lower portion of the flexible sleeve is formed into a plurality of paws. The locking nail includes an external threaded section configured to be in threaded engagement with the internal threaded section of the flexible sleeve, a driving head, and a forcing section. Furthermore, the forcing section of the locking nail includes a cylindrical portion and a conical portion to facilitate expanding or retracting the paws of the flexible sleeve, thus anchoring or de-anchoring the flexible sleeve. |
| US10641304B2 |
Resistance spot welding method and weld joint
Provided is a method for resistance spot-welding at least two overlapping steel sheets. When an electrode force F after an electric current supply is started changes from an initial electrode force Fi to an electrode force Fh(1) while a lapse from the start of the electric current supply is between 20 ms and 80 ms inclusive, a suspension of the electric current supply of from 20 ms to 60 ms inclusive is started. Then the electric current supply is resumed when the electrode force F reaches an electrode force Fc(1). |
| US10641303B2 |
Connector assembly fitting with co-molded washers
The connector assembly includes a fitting with a first mounting portion having two opposing surfaces and mounting hole(s) extending between the two surfaces for connecting with a first member. A second mounting portion extends angled with respect to the first mounting portion and has two opposing surfaces and mounting hole(s) extending between the two for connecting with a second member. A joint portion integrally connects the first and second mounting portions. One or more washers each have opposing upper and lower surfaces and at least one hole extending between the two surfaces, each receiving a fastener for attaching the second mounting portion to the second member. The washer lower surface is disposed on the second mounting portion inner surface such that the washer opening is centered about the at least one mounting hole axis. Each washer is joined to the second mounting portion to form an integral assembly. |
| US10641298B2 |
Hydraulic control valve for controlling pressure drop across motors
A hydraulic control valve maintains the pressure at a control port at a desired percentage of the pressure at two other ports as the pressure at the two other ports varies. Upon the pressure at the control port reaching a predetermined pressure setting, a fourth port will open to maintain the control port at a second desired percentage of the two other ports. |
| US10641288B2 |
Method for operating a compressor of a turbomachine comprising providing a plurality of stages in a front compressor area, a rear compressor area, and allowing a swirl in the rear compressor area
Described is a method for operating a compressor of a turbomachine, in which, when considered in the direction of a main flow, an, in particular, radially averaged degree of reaction has dropped in a front compressor area from a maximum to a minimum, is held constant or virtually constant across a central compressor area up into a rear compressor area, an, in particular, radially averaged degree of reaction being adjusted in the rear compressors area which is closer to the minimum than to the maximum, and a residual swirl of at least 47° is present in the middle section, and a compressor and a turbomachine. |
| US10641285B2 |
Fan and frame structure thereof
A fan includes an impeller, a drive device, and a frame structure. The driving device drives the impeller to rotate, and the frame structure accommodates the driving device. The frame structure includes a frame body, a first frame, a second frame, a base and a plurality of supports. The frame body has first engaging portions and second engaging portions, which are disposed annularly at the upper end and the lower end of the frame body, respectively. The first frame is mounted on the frame body and disposed corresponding to the first engaging portions. The second frame is mounted on the frame body and disposed corresponding to the second engaging portions. The base is disposed within the frame body and located adjacent to the second frame. The supports are disposed around the base. The material of the frame body is different from that of the first and second frames. |
| US10641284B2 |
Centrifugal blower assemblies having a plurality of airflow guidance fins and method of assembling the same
A centrifugal blower assembly includes a housing and a blower wheel coupled to the housing. The blower wheel includes a plurality of blades circumferentially-spaced about an axis of rotation. Each blade includes a length and is oriented at a first angle along the length with respect to the rotational axis. The centrifugal blower assembly also includes a plurality of circumferentially-spaced fins coupled in flow communication with said blower wheel, said plurality of fins configured to direct an inlet airflow into the blower wheel such that a relative velocity direction of the inlet airflow is oriented at the first angle with respect to the rotational axis. |
| US10641282B2 |
Fan device and vacuum cleaner including the same
A fan device includes an impeller rotating around a central axis and a motor disposed farther downward than the impeller. The impeller includes a base unit enlarged downward and plural blades disposed on a peripheral surface of the base unit. Upper portions of the blades are positioned at a leading end of a rotating direction with respect to lower portions. In an outer end portion on a front surface of each blade at the leading end of the rotating direction, a radial-direction component of a normal unit vector of an upper end portion of the blade is smaller than that of a lower end portion, assuming that an outer peripheral side of the blade is a positive direction. A thickness of a root of the lower end portion is larger than that of the upper end portion. |
| US10641281B2 |
Mistuned laminate airfoil
A gas turbine engine includes a fan mounting a first group of blades and a second group of blades. The first group of blades and the second group of blades share a profile shape. The first group of blades have a first laminate composition, and the second group of blades have a second laminate composition, distinct from the first laminate composition. A frequency of a vibratory mode of the first group of blades is offset from a frequency of a vibratory mode of the second group of blades. |
| US10641279B2 |
Molten metal rotor with hardened tip
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a rotor for a molten metal pump and a molten metal pump including the rotor. The rotor has a main body and a top comprised of a material that is at least twice as hard as the main body. The top, among other things, may form a first portion of each rotor blade wherein the first portion directs molten metal into a pump chamber or other structure in which the rotor is mounted. |
| US10641277B2 |
Gas seal structure and centrifugal compressor
A gas seal structure includes: a first member with a first flow path where seal gas flows; a second member that is disposed to face the first member and includes a second flow path where the seal gas flowing from the first flow path flows toward a predetermined seal surface; and a communicating pipe disposed across the first and second flow paths. The communicating pipe includes: a first pipe end and a first seal member that are held within the first flow path, a second pipe end and a second seal member that are held within the second flow path, and a flexible pipe that connects the first pipe end and the second pipe end. A rigidity of the flexible pipe end is lower than a rigidity of each of the first pipe end and the second pipe end. |
| US10641275B2 |
Compressor
This compressor is provided with a motor, a plurality of shafts each having a gear, a housing (30), and a plurality of impeller sections. The housing (30) includes a first housing element (31) and a second housing element (32) connectable to the first housing element from above and separable from the first housing element. A first upper end surface support section (41) is formed on an upper end surface of the first housing element (31). The housing (30) has at least one insertion support section (40A) having a shape that enables insertion of the gear and that supports the shaft, at a height position different from a height position of the first upper end surface support section (41). |
| US10641272B2 |
Vacuum pump with abatement function
A vacuum pump with abatement function which can prevent contamination of a process chamber without allowing products generated by exhaust gas treatment to flow back to the process chamber, and can reduce the amount of gas to be treated without allowing a purge gas and a diluent gas to be contained in an exhaust gas, and thus can achieve energy saving by reducing the amount of energy required for the exhaust gas treatment in an abatement part is disclosed. The vacuum pump with abatement function includes a vacuum pump to which at least one abatement part for treating an exhaust gas is attached. The vacuum pump comprises a dry vacuum pump having a pair of multistage pump rotors each of which comprises a plurality of rotors arranged on a rotating shaft, and the at least one abatement part is connected to an interstage of the multistage pump rotors. |
| US10641270B2 |
Tensioned support shaft and other molten metal devices
A vertical member, which is preferably a support post used in a molten metal pump, includes a ceramic tube and tensioning structures to add a compressive load to the tube along its longitudinal axis. This makes the tube less prone to breakage. A device, such as a pump, used in a molten metal bath includes one or more of such vertical members. |
| US10641269B2 |
Lubrication of scroll compressor
A scroll compressor is provided, including: a compression mechanism, a driving mechanism, a suction fitting and a lubrication system. The compression mechanism is adapted to compress working fluid and includes a movable scroll component, a fixed scroll component and a suction window, the working fluid flows into the compression mechanism via the suction window. The driving mechanism includes a driving shaft and is adapted to drive the compression mechanism. The working fluid flows into the scroll compressor via the suction fitting and then flow into the compression mechanism. The lubrication system includes a lubricant source and a compression mechanism oil supply device adapted to supply the lubricant to the compression mechanism from the lubricant source. The compression mechanism oil supply device has an oil supply passage and an outflow opening of the oil supply passage is located between an opening of the suction fitting and the suction window. |
| US10641265B2 |
Water pump for marine engine having tool for replacing impeller
A water pump for a marine engine includes a cap covering an internal cavity of the pump's housing when the pump is operating. The cap functions as a tool to remove a damaged or worn impeller from inside the internal cavity. A threaded hub of the cap engages internal threads of the impeller to assist a user in removing the impeller for replacement. A cap lock ring threaded onto the pump housing retains the cap over the internal cavity. A rotatable drive shaft has splines which mate with a splined portion of the impeller to rotate the impeller. The cap lock ring is disengaged from the housing and the cap removed to enable a person to use the threaded hub of the cap to remove the impeller. |
| US10641263B2 |
Method for operating a linear compressor
A method for operating a linear compressor includes substituting a first observed velocity, a bounded integral of the first observed velocity, an estimated clearance, an estimated discharge pressure, and an estimated suction pressure into the mechanical dynamic model for the motor, calculating an observed acceleration for the piston with the mechanical dynamic model for the motor, calculating a second observed velocity for the piston by integrating the observed acceleration for the piston, calculating an observed position of the piston by integrating the second observed velocity for the piston, and updating an estimated clearance, an estimated discharge pressure, and an estimated suction pressure based upon an error between the first and second observed velocities and an error between the bounded integral of the first observed velocity and the observed position. |
| US10641261B2 |
Pump with motor
A pump with a motor includes a pump housing, a motor housing, and a connecting structure configured to connect the motor housing to the pump housing. The connecting structure includes a motor connecting portion provided at an end of the pump housing, and a pump connecting portion provided at an end of the motor housing. The motor connecting portion includes a bearing configured to rotatably support the other end of the rotating shaft whose one end supported by the motor housing, a plurality of through holes, and projections projecting to the side of the motor housing. The pump connecting portion includes a first hole in which the bearing is fitted, a plurality of connecting pieces inserted into the plurality of through holes, respectively, and caulked on the motor connecting portion, and second holes in which the projections are fitted. |
| US10641258B2 |
Inflating device
An inflating device comprises a valve body and a gasbag, the valve body being provided with a gas inlet, a gas outlet and a gas storage chamber; the gas inlet has a gas intake valve device provided therein, and the gas outlet has a gas exhaust valve device provided therein; the gas storage chamber is communicated with the gasbag; and the gas inlet is communicated with the gas outlet through a chamber body of the valve body, and the gas storage chamber is communicated with the chamber body. In the invention, gas can be fed into an inflatable product by continually pressing with hands, without requiring electricity or blowing with mouth. The inflating device of the invention is convenient to operate, clean and sanitary. The inflating device of the invention has a small volume and is thus convenient to carry. |
| US10641256B2 |
Vacuum pump with abatement function
A vacuum pump with abatement function which can prevent contamination of a process chamber without allowing products generated by exhaust gas treatment to flow back to the process chamber, and can reduce the amount of gas to be treated without allowing a purge gas and a diluent gas to be contained in an exhaust gas, and thus can achieve energy saving by reducing the amount of energy required for the exhaust gas treatment in an abatement part is disclosed. The vacuum pump with abatement function includes a vacuum pump to which at least one abatement part for treating an exhaust gas is attached. The vacuum pump comprises a dry vacuum pump having a main pump capable of evacuating gas from an atmospheric pressure and a booster pump for increasing an evacuation speed of the main pump, and the at least one abatement part for treating the exhaust gas is connected between the main pump and the booster pump. |
| US10641254B2 |
Pumping device
A pumping device includes a barrel, a pump, and a control valve. The barrel has a gas hole. The pump includes a cylinder and a piston movable in the cylinder. The piston partitions the cylinder into a first space and a second space. Air in the first space is able to enter the second space via a one-way mechanism, but not in reverse. The control valve includes a main body and a control element. The main body has a first hole, a second hole, a ventilation hole, an inlet, and an outlet. The first hole and the second hole communicate the gas hole. The inlet communicates the first space, and the outlet communicates the second space. The control element is movable to make the inlet communicate the first hole or the ventilation hole and to make the outlet communicate the ventilation hole or the second hole. |
| US10641252B2 |
Actuator based on carbon nanotubes and actuating system using the same
The disclosure relates to an actuator based on carbon nanotubes and actuating system using the same. The actuator includes: a carbon nanotube layer and a vanadium dioxide layer stacked with each other. Because the drastic, reversible phase transition of VO2, the actuator has giant deformation amplitude and fast response. An actuating system using the actuator is also provided. |
| US10641245B2 |
Hybrid power generation system and an associated method thereof
A hybrid power generation system is presented. The system includes a first power generation subsystem including a prime mover driving a generator including a rotor and a stator, one or more first conversion units coupled to at least one of the rotor and the stator, a first direct current (DC) link, and one or more second conversion units coupled to a corresponding one or more first conversion units via the first DC link. The system includes one or more second power generation subsystems coupled to the first power generation subsystem and one or more power conversion subunits including one or more first bridge circuits coupled to a corresponding one or more second bridge circuits via one or more transformers, where at least one of the one or more second power generation subsystems and the first power generation subsystem includes the one or more power conversion subunits. |
| US10641243B2 |
Electrical power generator harnessing a swaying movement of a pole and including a system for generating a magnetic repulsion force
An electrical power generator includes a first part configured to be located in a fluid such that, when the fluid moves, it generates vortices in the fluid so that a lift force is generated on the first part, which produces an oscillating movement of the first part, which has an amplitude. The natural oscillation frequency of the first part may be adjusted to wind speed by way of magnets, which repel each other. Magnets may also be used to generate electrical currents in coils. The first part can have a diameter that increases with distance above the base of the generator. |
| US10641241B2 |
Negative-pressure suction-type fluid-driving dynamical machine
A negative pressure air suction type fluid-driven power machine comprises a fluid pressure accumulation bin, a necking port, a flow inlet, a flow guiding cover, a fluid-inlet flow guiding cover, turbine driving blades, a turbine housing, a turbine shaft, a turbine bracket, nozzles surrounding peripheries of the turbine driving blades, a turbine fluid outlet, a fluid negative-pressure flow guiding cover, a fluid negative-pressure outlet, an external driving fluid inlet, an external driving fluid flow guiding cover, and nozzles. The negative pressure air suction type fluid-driven power machine is formed using a gravity acceleration fluid generated by a fluid flowing to a direction opposite to operation of an object as a main driving power source and using a fluid air suction phenomenon as an auxiliary power source, and can replace some effects of steam engines, internal combustion engines, motors and the like. |
| US10641235B2 |
Device for conversion of wave energy into electrical energy and the process for its deployment at the exploitation location
Device for conversion of wave energy into electrical energy and the process for its deployment at the exploitation location, wherein the device comprises a supporting construction composed of buoyancy elements and having a supporting tube attached on the upper side. The device comprises a joint gear on the inner circumference connected with the outside surface of the supporting tube in a sliding manner and a sphere to which is the floating body pivotally connected. The device has two gears, the first flexible gear for connecting the floating body to the second gear and the second gear for connecting the flexible gear to the generator. The flexible gear consists of pulleys and a flexible element, e.g. a rope or a steel cable and the second gear can be arranged in several suitable forms, e.g. rigid elements as a set of a gear and a rack positioned inside the lower supporting tube or a flexible element, e.g. a chain and a sprocket wheel set in the buoyancy element. The supporting construction is by ropes connected to the anchor weight that is made in a form of a sphere segment either directly or through the rolling elements placed in the spherical dent of the anchor base. The invention comprises the process for device deployment at the exploitation location which is particularly suitable due to stable transport with low draught. |
| US10641234B2 |
Method for engine laser ignition system
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing a laser ignition system of an engine. In one example, a controller may operate the laser in a sealed cylinder hours after key-off. Then, the cylinder may be unsealed and a change in exhaust temperature may be correlated with laser functionality. |
| US10641228B2 |
Methods and systems for enabling engine start/stop function
Methods and systems are provided for enabling engine start/stop function in a vehicle with a detachable door. In one example, a method may include, adjusting an engine start/stop strategy responsive to a driver side door of the vehicle been detected to be absent. The adjustment to the start/stop strategy further may be modified based on a type of transmission system coupled to the vehicle. |
| US10641227B2 |
Electric power system
Provided is an electric power system mounted on a vehicle having an engine, a battery, and a starter that starts the engine. The electric power system includes an SOC estimation part, estimating the SOC of the battery based on a first algorithm; an idling stop control part, permitting implementation of an idling stop control when an estimation result of the SOC estimation part satisfies a predetermined automatic stop condition; a full charge determination part, determining whether the battery is in a full charge state based on a second algorithm different from the first algorithm; and a malfunction determination part, determining that malfunction occurs in the SOC estimation part when the battery is estimated in the full charge state by the full charge determination part and the estimation result of the SOC estimation part does not satisfy the automatic stop condition. |
| US10641225B2 |
Motor assembly for starting engine and driving balance shaft and method of controlling the same
A method of controlling a motor assembly for starting an engine and driving a balance shaft includes: determining whether starting or restarting of an engine is desired; operating an actuator such that a motor shaft is moved forward when the starting or restarting of the engine is desired; and starting or restarting the engine by rotating a motor and by driving a start gear, after the operating the actuator. |
| US10641220B2 |
Fuel filter
A fluid drain off system for a fuel filter, the system comprising a float, movable together with a trigger device for a switch, such as a magnet, in response to the level of fluid contaminant, a switch arranged to be selectively triggered by the trigger device upon the fluid contaminant reaching a predetermined level, and a fluid passage configured to be selectively opened in response to the triggering of the switch to allow fluid contaminants to be drained from the filter. |
| US10641217B2 |
Deformation inhibiting device for fuel tank, and fuel tank device incorporating the deformation inhibiting device
A deformation inhibiting device for inhibiting deformation of a fuel tank includes a strut member. The strut member includes a bottom support portion and a top support portion configured to support a bottom wall portion and a top wall portion, respectively, of the fuel tank when the strut member is disposed within the fuel tank. The strut member is deformable or movable between an arrangement state for arrangement within the fuel tank and an insertion enabled state configured to be inserted into the fuel tank via the opening. |
| US10641216B2 |
Structure for preventing freezing of blow-by gas in intake manifold
The present disclosure relates to a structure for preventing freezing of moisture contents within a blow-by gas in an intake manifold, capable of preventing the blow-by gas introduced into the manifold from freezing even under a low temperature environment. The structure includes a positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) channel into which the blow-by gas is introduced, an insulating member having a first side and a second side that communicate with each other and inserted into the PCV channel, and a PCV nipple having a first end and a second end that communicate with each other and inserted into the insulating member to guide the blow-by gas. The insulating member includes an outer peripheral surface in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the PCV channel and an inner peripheral surface in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the PCV nipple to surround the peripheral surface of the PCV nipple. |
| US10641210B2 |
Optical heat exchanger and associated method
An optical heat exchanger and an associated system and method are provided to allow a vehicle, such as an unmanned air vehicle, a rocket or the like, to deliver more payload at a lower cost. The optical heat exchanger includes a support surface defining a plurality of tapered openings. Each tapered opening tapers from the first size proximate an outwardly facing end of the opening to a second smaller size proximate an inwardly facing end of the opening. The inwardly facing end of each tapered opening is in communication with the propellant. The optical heat exchanger also includes a plurality of lenses with each lens positioned proximate the outwardly facing end of a respective opening. Each lens is configured to receive an electromagnetic energy beam and concentrate the majority of the electromagnetic energy beam through the inwardly facing end of the respective tapered opening, thereby heating the propellant. |
| US10641209B2 |
Jet engine nacelle having a reverser flap
A nacelle comprising a fixed cowl and a movable cowl movable in translation, a window delimited by the fixed cowl and the movable cowl, a reverser flap movable in rotation and a drive mechanism coordinating the movements of the reverser flap with those of the movable cowl. The drive mechanism comprises two bearings fixed to the nacelle, for each bearing, a lever arm with one end movable in rotation on the bearing and one end articulated on the reverser flap, for each lever arm, a rail comprising a straight portion and a curved portion, for each lever arm, a rod with one end articulated on the lever arm, and for each rail, a slider that is movable in translation on the rail and is articulated to one end of the rod. |
| US10641208B2 |
Translating nozzle for mixed flow turbofan engine
A thrust reverser for a gas turbine engine includes a reverser door pivotally mounted to a frame, an exhaust duct translationally mounted to the frame and an actuator having an actuator rod connected to the reverser door and to the exhaust duct. |
| US10641207B2 |
Air flow deflector assembly for a thrust reverser system for reducing re-ingestion of reverse efflux air flow and method for the same
There is provided an air flow deflector apparatus for a thrust reverser system of an engine of an air vehicle. The air flow deflector apparatus is movable between a stowed non-reversing position and a deployed thrust reversing position, to deflect an air flow out of the engine, and to provide an effective reverse thrust for the thrust reverser system. There is further provided an air flow deflector assembly for a structure. The air flow deflector assembly has the air flow deflector apparatus, an extender member, and a recessed housing disposed in the structure. The air flow deflector assembly has an air flow deflector actuator that moves the air flow deflector apparatus between a stowed position and a deployed position adjacent to a reverse efflux air flow exit portion of the structure. The air flow deflector assembly deflects a reverse efflux air flow away from being re-ingested into the structure. |
| US10641205B2 |
Exhaust stream mixer
An exhaust nozzle for a turbine engine includes multiple daisy style corrugations arranged circumferentially about the exhaust nozzle. Each of the daisy style corrugations has a radially inner base portion and multiple lobes protruding radially outward from the base portion. |
| US10641204B2 |
Variable geometry thruster
A propulsion system coupled to a vehicle. The system includes a diffusing structure and a conduit portion configured to introduce to the diffusing structure through a passage a primary fluid produced by the vehicle. The passage is defined by a wall, and the diffusing structure comprises a terminal end configured to provide egress from the system for the introduced primary fluid. A constricting element is disposed adjacent the wall. An actuating apparatus is coupled to the constricting element and is configured to urge the constricting element toward the wall, thereby reducing the cross-sectional area of the passage. |
| US10641189B2 |
Turbocharger protection systems and methods
Methods for protecting turbochargers of engine systems include determining a speed gradient of the turbocharger and implementing a turbocharger speed protection action if the determined speed gradient is above a speed gradient threshold. Implementing a protection action comprises limiting engine torque, engine speed, vehicle speed, and/or fuel injection to the engine. The method can further include determining a cold start condition prior to determining the speed gradient of the turbocharger. A cold start condition can be determined based on ambient temperature, engine oil temperature, or engine coolant temperature. The method can further include, subsequent to implementing the turbocharger speed protection action, disabling the turbocharger speed protection action when a subsequently determined turbocharger speed gradient is below the speed gradient threshold. Systems for implementing the methods are also disclosed. |
| US10641185B2 |
System and method for monitoring hot gas path hardware life
A system and a method for predicting and optimizing remaining hardware life of gas turbine components. Operating parameters of the gas turbine which may impact remaining hardware life are sensed and tracked using a plurality of sensors in communication with a control system including a computing device. Remaining hardware life is predicted using a physics-based hardware lifing model. The hardware lifing model may include an output of a filtration model configured to monitor contaminants based on a pressure drop across a filter. Optimizing the remaining hardware life is achieved by the control system adjusting one or more operation settings of the gas turbine. |
| US10641181B2 |
Gas turbine engine accessory gearbox
An example gas turbine engine includes, among other things, a nacelle having an inner wall providing a bypass duct of a gas turbine engine, and an outer wall; an accessory gearbox is received between the inner wall and the outer wall of the nacelle; and an accessory drive of the accessory gearbox is configured to rotate about an accessory drive axis that is transverse to a central axis of the gas turbine engine. |
| US10641180B2 |
Hydrostatic non-contact seal with varied thickness beams
A non-contact seal assembly includes a plurality of seal shoes arranged about a centerline in an annular array. The seal shoes include a first seal shoe extending axially along the centerline between a first shoe end and a second shoe end. A seal base circumscribes the annular array of the seal shoes. The assembly also includes a plurality of spring elements, each of the spring elements radially between and connecting a respective one of the seal shoes with the seal base. Each of the spring elements comprises a first beam having a first beam thickness and a second beam thickness, where the first and second beam thicknesses are different. |
| US10641177B2 |
Apparatus and process of retrofitting a combined cycle power plant
A process for retrofitting an electric power plant that uses two 60 Hertz large frame heavy duty industrial gas turbine engines to drive electric generators and produce electricity, where each of the two industrial engines can produce up to 350 MW of output power. The process replaces the two 350 MW industrial engines with one twin spool industrial gas turbine engine that is capable of producing at least 700 MW of output power. Thus, two prior art industrial engines can be replaced with one industrial engine that can produce power equal to the two prior art industrial engines. |
| US10641173B2 |
Gas turbine combined cycle optimized for post-combustion CO2 capture
In a gas turbine system including a first gas turbine generator, a heat recovery steam generator and a steam turbine generator heat rejection system, the present invention relates to a method for CO2 capture from flue gas in said system, said method including: (a) diverting an amount of heat recovery steam generator flue gas from the CO2 capture plant; and (b) mixing the diverted heat recovery steam generator flue gas with an air stream, forming a combined gas stream, wherein (1) the combined gas stream is fed to a second gas turbine generator; (2) exhaust gas from the second gas turbine generator is mixed with exhaust gas from the first gas turbine generator, forming a combined exhaust gas stream; and (3) the combined exhaust gas stream enters the heat recovery steam generator, with the CO2 content of the combined exhaust gas stream increased through supplementary firing in the heat recovery steam generator. |
| US10641172B2 |
Bifurcated air inlet housing for a miniature gas turbine engine
A gas turbine engine has a nose cone with a nose cone upstream end and an inlet housing including a plurality of separate flow paths at a housing upstream end which is downstream of the nose cone upstream end. The inlet housing includes a mixing portion downstream of the housing upstream end which mixes airflow from the separate flow paths, such that the airflow is generally around 360 degrees of a rotational axis of the gas turbine engine. A rotor and a turbine drive a shaft to drive the rotor with the shaft including a bearing mounted at a location downstream of the nose cone upstream end. |
| US10641169B2 |
Hybrid combustor assembly and method of operation
A hybrid combustion system, and method of operation, for a propulsion system is provided. The hybrid combustion system defines a radial direction, a circumferential direction, and a longitudinal centerline in common with the propulsion system extended along a longitudinal direction. The hybrid combustion system includes a rotating detonation combustion (RDC) system comprising an annular outer wall and an annular inner wall each generally concentric to the longitudinal centerline and together defining a RDC chamber and a RDC inlet, the RDC system further comprising a nozzle located at the RDC inlet defined by a nozzle wall. The nozzle defines a lengthwise direction extended between a nozzle inlet and a nozzle outlet along the lengthwise direction, and the nozzle inlet is configured to receive a flow of oxidizer. The nozzle further defines a throat between the nozzle inlet and the nozzle outlet, and wherein the nozzle defines a converging-diverging nozzle. The hybrid combustion system further includes an inner liner extended generally along the longitudinal direction; an outer liner extended generally along the longitudinal direction and disposed outward of the inner liner along the radial direction; a bulkhead wall disposed at the upstream end of the inner and outer liners, in which the bulkhead wall extends generally in the radial direction and couples the inner liner and the outer liner, and wherein the inner liner, the outer liner, and the bulkhead wall together define a primary combustion chamber, and further wherein the RDC system and bulkhead wall together define a RDC outlet through the bulkhead wall and adjacent to the primary combustion chamber; and a fuel manifold assembly extended at least partially through the bulkhead wall, in which the fuel manifold assembly defines a fuel manifold assembly exit disposed adjacent to the primary combustion chamber. |
| US10641164B2 |
Internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine equipped with a turbocharger (5) including a turbine (40) and a compressor (27) that are arranged in a coaxial relationship, the internal combustion engine includes an exhaust pipe (41) extending from an outlet (59) of the turbine along a side of the compressor, an actuator (90) attached to a part of the compressor for controlling a flow path of the turbocharger, and a fluid pipe (76, 79) conducting fluid and extending through a space defined between the exhaust pipe and the actuator. |
| US10641163B2 |
Method for operating a supercharged internal combustion engine
A supercharged internal combustion engine has cylinder groups with plural cylinders and plural exhaust gas turbochargers. Exhaust gas can be fed to at least one first exhaust gas turbocharger from first outlet valves of the cylinders of the first and second cylinder groups via at least one first exhaust manifold. Exhaust gas can be fed to at least one second exhaust gas turbocharger from second outlet valves of cylinders of the first and second cylinder groups via a second exhaust manifold. At low rotational speeds and/or in part load and/or non-steady state operation, exhaust gas can be fed via the first exhaust manifolds that are connected to the first outlet valves per cylinder group to a turbine of the first exhaust gas turbocharger in flows that can be divided in the inflow region of the turbine, while the second exhaust gas turbocharger is inactive. |
| US10641158B2 |
Coolant control system and control method for the same
A coolant control system includes: a high temperature radiator communicating with an engine through a high temperature coolant line, a high temperature coolant pump, a coolant temperature sensor, a low temperature radiator, a low temperature coolant pump, a water-cooled intercooler, an intake air temperature sensor, bypass valves provided upstream and downstream of the water-cooled intercooler for selectively controlling the high temperature coolant or the low temperature coolant to flow through the water-cooled intercooler, an ambient temperature sensor, a radiator bypass line connected to the high temperature coolant line and bypassing the high temperature radiator, a thermostat to selectively flow the high temperature coolant to the radiator bypass line, and a controller for controlling the operations of the low temperature coolant pump, the bypass valve and the thermostat in accordance with a vehicle operation state. |
| US10641156B2 |
Exhaust pipe structure
An exhaust pipe structure includes an exhaust pipe, a branching portion including an inflow port, a first flow path, a second flow path, a first discharge port, and a second discharge port, a first muffler, a first pipe, a second muffler, and a second pipe. The second flow path is lower in position in an up-down direction of a vehicle than the first flow path at a downstream side part of the second flow path including at least a portion of the second discharge port. The second pipe is lower in position in the up-down direction of the vehicle at an upstream side part connected to the second discharge port than an upstream side part of the first pipe connected to the first discharge port. |
| US10641155B2 |
Regeneration control device for exhaust gas treatment device
A regeneration control device for an exhaust gas treatment device includes: a DOC blockage risk state determination part configured to determine whether the DOC is in a blockage risk state which is a state where blockage of the DOC is likely to occur, on the basis of comparison between a counter value and a threshold related to an operation time of the diesel engine; a DOC temperature increase execution part configured to execute a blockage recovery process for increasing a temperature of the DOC to a first temperature, if it is determined that the DOC is in the blockage risk state; a DPF forced regeneration condition determination part configured to determine whether a forced regeneration execution condition for the DPF is satisfied; a DPF forced regeneration execution part configured to execute a forced regeneration process for increasing a temperature of the DPF to a second temperature and increasing the temperature of the DOC to the first temperature, if the forced regeneration execution condition is satisfied; and a counter reset process part configured to reset the counter value after completion of the forced regeneration process by the DPF forced regeneration execution part. |
| US10641154B2 |
Particulate matter sensor with engineered particle size cut-point
An aftertreatment system comprises a particulate filter configured to filter PM possessing a predetermined, least effective size range included in an exhaust gas flowing through the aftertreatment system. A PM sensor assembly is positioned downstream of the particulate filter and includes a housing having an inlet, an outlet, a sidewall and defines an internal volume. A PM sensor is positioned within the internal volume. The housing is configured to redirect a flow of exhaust gas entering the PM sensor assembly around the PM sensor so that small particles included in the exhaust gas flow having a first size within or smaller than the predetermined size range are directed around the particulate matter sensor. Large particles having a second size larger than the predetermined size range impact the PM sensor. A controller is communicatively coupled to the PM sensor. |
| US10641153B1 |
Exhaust after-treatment system having an oxidation component bypass for low temperature SCR
An exhaust after-treatment system that is configured to treat an exhaust produced by an engine, and includes a bypass passage including an inlet for receiving an amount of the exhaust from an exhaust passage. A first exhaust treatment component is located within the bypass passage, and a valve is located proximate the bypass passage that is configured to control the amount of the exhaust that enters the inlet of the bypass passage. A second exhaust treatment component is located in the exhaust passage downstream from the inlet of the bypass passage, wherein an outlet of the bypass passage communicates the exhaust treated by the first exhaust treatment component back to the exhaust passage at a location that is downstream from the second exhaust treatment component such that the exhaust treated by the first exhaust treatment component does not interact with the second exhaust treatment component. |
| US10641149B2 |
Gas duct with heated porous metal structure
A gas duct (100) has a duct wall (110) enclosing an interior space (120), a heated porous metal structure (113) arranged in the interior space (120) for passing through gases and an electric heater (102). The electric heater (102) is a mineral-insulated heater including a heat conductor (104), one or more front-side connection openings and an outer metal jacket (108). The electric heater (102) has a section (102a), which is passed through the duct wall (110), so that all front-side connection openings (116) are arranged outside the interior space (120) of the gas duct (100) and the outer metal jacket (108) is welded or soldered to the duct wall (110) in the section. The heat conductor (104) is completely embedded in a ceramic insulation (106) at least in the sections of the electric heater (102) that are arranged in the interior space (120) of the gas duct (100). |
| US10641148B2 |
Exhaust gas control apparatus for internal combustion engine
An exhaust gas control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an outer tube, a downstream side catalyst held in the outer tube via a first mat, and an electric heating catalyst held in the outer tube via a second mat upstream of the downstream side catalyst. A joint of the first mat is disposed in a place other than a vertically lowermost portion. |
| US10641147B2 |
Exhaust gas treatment systems utilizing a single electrically heated catalyst
Exhaust gas systems include an oxidation catalyst (OC) capable of receiving exhaust gas and oxidizing one or more of combustible hydrocarbons (HC) and one or more nitrogen oxide (NOx) species, a selective catalytic reduction device (SCR) disposed downstream from and in fluid communication with the OC via a conduit, and an electrically heated catalyst (EHC) disposed at least partially within the conduit downstream from the OC and upstream from the SCR. The EHC comprises a heating element having an outer surface including one or more second oxidation catalyst materials capable of oxidizing CO, HC, and one or more NOx species. The OC includes one or more storage materials individually or collectively capable of storing NOx and/or HC species. Exhaust gas can be supplied by an internal combustion engine which can optionally power a vehicle. |
| US10641144B2 |
Intake manifold drain assembly of an engine
An intake manifold drain assembly of an engine comprises a drain tube connected to a bottom of a manifold chamber; an oil separator connected to an engine block; and a controlled check valve connecting the drain tube to the oil separator and configured to allow liquid and gas in the manifold chamber to flow into the oil separator and control a gas flow passing the controlled check valve below a threshold flowrate. |
| US10641140B2 |
Hydraulic early engine exhaust valve opening system
An early exhaust valve opening (EEVO) module increases a no-load engine speed so an engine can smoothly transition to driving a load when necessary. The EEVO module includes a drive piston engaging an injector rocker and a driven piston engaging an exhaust rocker. The pistons are fluidly connected by a activation fluid passage so that the drive piston compresses air in the passage when an injector cam rotates the injector rocker and causes movement of the driven gear and the exhaust rocker to open an exhaust valve to release exhaust energy during a piston expansion stroke to limit the energy transferred to a crankshaft. A low pressure timing valve may drain pressurized fluid from the passage during an initial portion of the movement of the drive piston so driven piston does not move to open the exhaust valve until a desired amount of energy has been transferred to the crankshaft. |
| US10641136B2 |
Valve train for an internal combustion engine
A valve train for an internal combustion engine may include a cam shaft and a cam follower. The valve train may also include a first cam arranged on the cam shaft for conjoined rotation, and a second cam for conjoined rotation, arranged on the cam shaft axially adjacent to the first cam. The cam follower may be axially adjustable between a first position, in which the cam follower is drive-connected to the first cam, and a second position, in which the cam follower is drive-connected to the second cam. The cam follower may also include a mechanical adjustment device interacting with the cam shaft for axially adjusting the cam follower between the first position and the second position. |
| US10641132B2 |
Supercritical CO2 power generating system for preventing cold-end corrosion
A supercritical CO2 power generating system prevents cold-end corrosion capable of improving reliability against cold-end corrosion by including a recirculation pump. Part of the working fluid heated in the low-temperature-side external heat exchanger using the recirculation pump is mixed with the low-temperature working fluid at the rear end of the pump, to heat the working fluid above the temperature of the dewpoint of the waste heat gas. The heated working fluid is then supplied to the external heat exchanger. By reducing the cold-end corrosion phenomenon of the low-temperature-side external heat exchanger, the life of the external heat exchanger can be increased and the reliability of the external heat exchanger and the supercritical CO2 power generating system can be improved. |
| US10641130B2 |
Turning device
A turning device includes: a driving source; a main drive gear rotationally driven by the driving source; a driven gear that engages with the main drive gear and is rotated integrally with a rotated body, wherein the turning device rotationally drives the driving source to rotate the rotated body; a movement mechanism that causes the main drive gear to reciprocate in an axial direction between a separated position at which engagement of the main drive gear and the driven gear is released and an engaged position at which the main drive gear engages with the driven gear; a forward rotation mechanism that intermittently rotates the main drive gear; and a reverse rotation mechanism that intermittently rotates the main drive gear in a direction opposite to a direction by the forward rotation mechanism. |
| US10641125B2 |
Nozzle drive mechanism, turbocharger, and variable-capacity turbocharger
A nozzle drive mechanism includes: a plurality of nozzle vanes; a plurality of link plates each fixed to a shaft portion of one of the plurality of nozzle vanes; a nozzle ring having an annular main body portion including shaft holes, each of which pivotally supporting a shaft portion of one of the nozzle vanes, the nozzle ring arranged between the link plates and the nozzle vanes; a regulation pin having one end attached to the main body portion of the nozzle ring and the other end protruding from an opposing surface of one of the link plates facing the nozzle ring; and a positioning pin provided separately from the regulation pin and assembled to a wall portion positioned opposite to the nozzle ring across the link plate at a position where the positioning pin is brought into contact when the nozzle ring rotates. |
| US10641123B1 |
Generator cooling impeller and bearing/rotor cooling
A power plant for an aircraft such as a UAV with a gas turbine engine that drives an electric generator to produce electrical power. The electric generator is rotatably supported by two foil bearings. A centrifugal compressor is secured to a forward side of the generator rotor shaft. The centrifugal compressor draws in cooling air that flows through the two foil bearings and between a space formed between the rotor coil and the stator coil of the electric generator to provide for cooling of both foil bearings and the coils of the generator. |
| US10641122B2 |
Tip clearance control for turbine blades
An arrangement for a gas turbine engine that includes a turbine blade configured to rotate about an axis, a casing radially outside of the turbine blade, and a carrier segment mounted to the casing so as to define a first impingement space therebetween. The carrier segment is positioned radially outside the turbine blade and includes a first impingement carrier wall, a main carrier wall, and a cooling chamber. The first impingement carrier wall is adjacent to and radially inside of the first impingement space, and the first impingement carrier wall includes a first aperture. The main carrier wall is radially inside of the first impingement carrier wall. The cooling chamber is radially inside of the main carrier wall. Additionally, an intermediate chamber is disposed radially between the cooling chamber and the first impingement space. A second aperture is configured to allow ingress of air into the intermediate chamber. |
| US10641118B2 |
Sealing apparatus for gas turbine, gas turbine, and aircraft engine
A sealing apparatus includes a sealing portion configured to be positioned between a platform of a turbine blade and an inner shroud of a turbine vane of a turbine, and an acoustic damper having a closed space portion which is configured to communicate, via an opening, with a disc cavity configured to be positioned between the turbine blade and the turbine vane. |
| US10641113B2 |
Airfoils
An airfoil cluster includes an inner diameter platform and an outer diameter platform. A plurality of airfoils extend radially from the inner diameter platform to the outer diameter platform. Each airfoil has a leading edge and a trailing edge, and pressure and suction sides between the leading and trailing edges. At least one of the airfoils includes a recessed portion on the pressure side adjacent to the trailing edge. |
| US10641111B2 |
Turbine blade assembly with ceramic matrix composite components
A wheel assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a disk and a plurality of blades. The disk is configured to rotate about an axis during operation of the gas turbine engine. The blades each include a circumferentially extending root received in the disk and an airfoil that extends radially away from the root. |
| US10641110B2 |
Turbine disk
A turbine rotor disk for a gas turbine engine includes a disk rotationally disposed about a central axis. The disk includes a number of blade posts, tabs and slots circumferentially disposed about a rim portion of the disk. The tabs each include a blade post transition portion, a slope portion radially inward of the blade transition portion and a face portion radially inward of the slope portion. The blade posts, tabs and slots are circumferentially oriented about the rim portion such that a tab or slot is positioned radially inward of each blade post. |
| US10641106B2 |
Gas turbine engines with improved airfoil dust removal
An airfoil for a rotor blade in a gas turbine engine includes a first side wall and a second side wall joined to the first side wall at a leading edge and a trailing edge. The airfoil further includes a tip cap extending between the first and second side walls such that the tip cap and at least portions of the first and second side walls form a blade tip and an internal cooling system. The internal cooling system includes a leading edge cooling circuit, a central cooling circuit, and a trailing edge cooling circuit. Each of the internal passages within the leading edge cooling circuit, the central cooling circuit, and the trailing edge cooling circuit is bounded in the radial outward direction with a surface that has at least one escape hole or that is positively angled in the radial outward direction relative to a chordwise axis. |
| US10641100B2 |
Gas turbine engine airfoil cooling passage configuration
A component for a gas turbine engine includes an exterior surface that provides pressure and suction sides. A cooling passage in the component includes a serpentine passageway that has first and second passes respectively configured to provide fluid flow in opposite directions from one another. The first pass includes first and second portions nested relative to one another and overlapping in a thickness direction. The first and second portions are adjacent to one another by sharing a common wall. The first portion is provided on the suction side. The second portion is provided on the pressure side. |
| US10641098B2 |
Gas turbine engine hollow fan blade rib orientation
A fan blade includes first and second portions that are secured to one another and provide a cavity. The first and second portions form an exterior airfoil surface that extends in a radial direction from a root to a tip and in a chord-wise direction from a leading edge to a trailing edge. Radial ribs extend in a radial direction from the root toward the tip and are spaced apart from one another in the chord-wise direction. First and second angled ribs intersect one another at a first apex. The radial ribs intersect at least one of the first and second angled ribs. The first and second angled ribs are at an angle relative to one of the radial ribs. The angle is in a range of 45°+/−30°. |
| US10641095B2 |
Energy conversion device
Some embodiments include a mounting system for mounting the device in a fluid, an axle fixed to the mounting system, a solid walled hollow body that rotates about the axle having axial symmetry about a longitudinal axis. The solid walled hollow body may be substantially rounded at the front, expanding to a maximum diameter less than half the distance from the front end to the back end, and tapering radially along the longitudinal axis to the back end. The energy device may further comprise a plurality of blades on the exterior of the hollow body, each blade extending from the front end of the solid walled hollow body to the back end, rising to a maximum height, and having concave and convex walls. |
| US10641091B2 |
Automated downhole fluid classification using principal spectroscopy component data
System and methods for downhole fluid classification are provided. Measurements are obtained from one or more downhole sensors located along a current section of wellbore within a subsurface formation. The measurements obtained from the one or more downhole sensors are transformed into principal spectroscopy component (PSC) data. One or more fluid types are identified for the current section of the wellbore within the subsurface formation, based on the PSC data and a fluid classification model. The fluid classification model is refined for one or more subsequent sections of the wellbore within the subsurface formation, based at least partly on the one or more fluid types identified for the current section of the wellbore. |
| US10641089B2 |
Downhole pressure measuring tool with a high sampling rate
A dynamic monitoring system for dynamically monitoring injection operations on wells by determining the extent of fracturing using downhole pressure measurements. The system comprises a downhole pressure gauge, means to transmit data from the downhole pressure gauge to the surface and a surface data acquisition unit wherein, on inducing a pressure change in a wellbore by an injection operation, the downhole pressure gauge records a pressure trace as data, the data is transmitted to the surface at a first sampling frequency, the data is stored in the surface data acquisition unit and fracture length is calculated from the stored data to indicate extent of fracturing. Sampling frequencies are outside the known operating ranges. |
| US10641088B2 |
Method and device for determining karst development degree of reservoir, computer readable storage medium and device
The present invention relates to the technical field of well logging interpretation. The present invention provides a method for determining the karst development degree of a reservoir, a computer readable storage medium and a device, and pertains to the technical field of well logging interpretation, the method comprising: extracting vertical denudation pore features and horizontal denudation pore features from electrical imaging logging image data of a undetermined reservoir, and counting well logging feature parameters; determining karst belts of the undetermined reservoir and classifying the karst development degree according to the vertical denudation pore features, the horizontal denudation pore features and the well logging feature parameters; and determining the available reservoir development degree of the undetermined reservoir according to the karst belts and the result of the classified karst development degree. By means of classifying the karst development degree of the undetermined reservoir based on the vertical denudation pore features, the horizontal denudation pore features and the well logging feature parameters extracted from the electrical imaging logging image data, we can quickly and visually identify karst belts in a reservoir and classify the karst development degree. And the discrimination result is consistent with that of cores, which provides important technical supports for exploration and development of an oil-gas field. |
| US10641087B2 |
Inductive cavity sensors for resistivity tools
A first magnetic cavity transmitter is in the conductive tool body. A first magnetic cavity receiver is in the conductive tool body. A first transmit module is coupled to the first magnetic cavity transmitter. A first receiver module is coupled to the first magnetic cavity receiver. |
| US10641086B2 |
Pressure compensation device for a fluid pressure pulse generating apparatus
A pressure compensation device for a downhole fluid pressure pulse generator comprising: a membrane sleeve; a membrane support with a bore for receiving a drive-shaft, a central section which receives the membrane sleeve, a male mating section on each side, each having a groove extending around an external surface and at least one opening aligned with the groove; a pair of female mating components with a bore and a channel in an internal surface, each female mating component configured to mate with one of the male mating sections to axially clamp the membrane sleeve between the membrane support and the female mating components; and a pair of retaining rings each received between the male mating section groove and the female mating component channel, where the retaining rings are accessible through the opening in the male mating section and radially expandable into a space in the female mating component to unseat the retaining ring from the groove for removal. |
| US10641082B2 |
Measuring lengths of resizable elements downhole
A well tool can include a resizable element that is longitudinally expandable and contractible. The well tool can include a first acoustic sensor unit positioned at a first longitudinal end of the resizable element for receiving a first wireless acoustic signal, waiting for a predefined period of time, and transmitting a second wireless acoustic signal after the predefined period of time has elapsed. The well tool can include a second acoustic sensor unit positioned at a second longitudinal end of the resizable element for transmitting the first wireless acoustic signal at a first time, and receiving the second wireless acoustic signal at a second time. The second acoustic sensor unit can also be positioned for determining a time delay between the first time and the second time, and determining a distance between the first acoustic sensor unit and the second acoustic sensor unit based on the time delay. |
| US10641081B2 |
Device and method for retaining probe exterior wear sleeve
A device and method for retaining a sacrificial wear sleeve on the exterior of an in-pipe device such as an electronics package or probe. In one embodiment, the retention mechanism comprises a ring having a protuberance or lip extending parallel to and against the end of the sleeve, thus pressing the end of the sleeve against the external surface of the device. This has the advantage, in situations where fluids are flowing through the pipe and around the device, of reducing the risk of fluids moving beneath the sleeve and damaging it and/or the underlying device external surface. In another embodiment, the retention mechanism is of unitary construction with the device itself and comprises a protuberance or lip extending parallel to and against the end of the sleeve, thus pressing the end of the sleeve against the external surface of the device. |
| US10641078B2 |
Intelligent control of drill pipe torque
Tools and method for automatically controlling torque when making-up and/or breaking-down threaded connections between downhole assets such as drill pipe, drill collars, and BAH components. An iron roughneck may be controlled by, for instance, automatically monitoring and adjusting the fluid pressure of cylinders that ultimately provide the torque to the downhole assets. The torque may further be automatically controlled by automatically identifying the downhole assets and selecting a corresponding torque profile or target torque. Clamping force may also be controlled, and is optionally proportional to the target torque. |
| US10641077B2 |
Determining angular offset between geomagnetic and gravitational fields while drilling wellbore
An apparatus is directed relative to geomagnetic and gravitational fields of reference while advancing with rotation in a borehole by determining angular position of the apparatus during the rotation and correcting the angular position of the apparatus relative to an offset of a toolface of the apparatus. To do the correction, a magnetic toolface of the apparatus during the rotation is determined based on geomagnetic readings of the apparatus in each of a plurality of divisions of the rotation relative to the geomagnetic field, and a gravitational toolface of the apparatus during the rotation is determined based on gravitational readings of the apparatus in each of the divisions of the rotation relative to the gravitational field. The offset of the toolface is then calculated as a difference between the magnetic toolface and the gravitational toolface. The corrected angular position can then be used in directing the apparatus. |
| US10641064B2 |
Connecting system and method for connecting two conduits in a body of water
A system for connecting two conduits in a body of water, exhibits a first tubular structure, which is coupled to a conduit that extends along a first longitudinal axis; a second tubular structure, which is coupled to another conduit that extends along a second longitudinal axis and comprises a tubular member, and a sleeve, which is telescopically coupled to the tubular member, and faces the first tubular structure; and an actuating assembly, which comprises a bidirectional translating device configured to selectively displace the sleeve forward and backward to selectively couple and uncouple an end portion of the sleeve and the first tubular structure. |
| US10641063B2 |
Safety valve with integral annular chamber housing
A method of manufacturing a safety valve chamber housing can include depositing a chamber housing material, and thereby gradually building up the chamber housing and forming a chamber in the chamber housing enclosed by the chamber housing material, the chamber being bounded by only a single solid structure of the chamber housing. A safety valve can include a piston, and a chamber housing having a piston bore and a chamber formed therein, the piston bore being in communication with the chamber, the chamber being enclosed by only a single chamber housing material. A well system can include a safety valve connected in a tubular string, the safety valve including a chamber housing with a chamber in communication with a control line, inner and outer walls of the chamber housing being made of a continuous chamber housing material. |
| US10641059B2 |
Extended-life settable compositions comprising red mud
A method for using an extended-life settable composition is disclosed. The method includes providing an extended-life settable composition comprising red mud, calcium hydroxide, water, and a cement set retarder. The method further includes activating the extended-life settable composition. The method additionally includes introducing the extended-life settable composition into a subterranean formation and allowing the extended-life settable composition to set in the subterranean formation. |
| US10641058B2 |
Expansive cement
An expansive additive composition for use in Portland cements and a method of using such an additive composition is provided. The additive composition can include a calcium aluminate cement additive and a lithium compound. The additive composition is capable of producing expansion in set cements when the temperature is at or below room temperature and minimizes the amount of calcium aluminate cement additive needed. |
| US10641055B2 |
Apparatus and method for in-situ stabilization of unconsolidated sediment in core samples
Apparatus and method for in-situ stabilization of unconsolidated sediment in core samples are disclosed. The core sampling apparatus includes a corer having an inner wall, an outer wall, and a plurality of impregnation tubes disposed between the inner and the outer wall, wherein the impregnation tubes are parallel to a central axis of the corer. The method for sampling a core includes extracting a core sample using a corer, and in-situ stabilizing unconsolidated sediment in the core sample within the corer by impregnating the core sample with a resin. The resin is supplied through a plurality of impregnation tubes disposed between the walls of the corer. |
| US10641053B2 |
Modular force multiplier for downhole tools
A modular force multiplier converts a push-down force applied to a work string from the surface into a multiplied linear force that can be used to operate downhole tools to perform tasks requiring the application of linear force. |
| US10641050B1 |
Data transmission system
A gap sub uses a plurality of insulating members in conjunction with at least two metallic members to effect a mechanically and electrically robust configuration. The gap sub includes an upper end portion, a lower end portion, an outer sleeve, an inner sleeve, an insulating outer washer, an insulating inner washer, and an insulating spider. The insulating outer washer is configured to transfer a first axial load between the upper end portion and the outer sleeve. The insulating inner washer is configured to transfer a second axial load between the inner sleeve and the lower end portion. The insulating spider is configured to transfer a torsional load between outer sleeve and the inner sleeve. Because the insulating washers are utilized to transfer axial loads and the insulating spider is utilized to transfer torsional loads, each insulator may be manufactured so that the strongest axis of the material can be optimally and advantageously oriented to be coincident with the forces applied to each insulator, thereby making the gap sub more mechanically robust than a conventional insulated gap collar while permitting reliable and fast transmission of sensor data to the surface. |
| US10641045B2 |
Mesoscale reinforcement of metal matrix composites
A metal matrix composite (MMC) tool includes a mesoscale-reinforced hard composite portion that comprises reinforcing particles and mesoscale reinforcing structures dispersed in a binder material. The mesoscale reinforcing structures are printed using at least one additive manufacturing technique and are larger than an average powder-size distribution of the reinforcing particles. |
| US10641044B2 |
Variable stiffness fixed bend housing for directional drilling
An example apparatus for controlling the direction of drilling a borehole includes an outer housing having non-uniform stiffness and an inner housing at least partially within and rotationally independent from the outer housing and having non-uniform stiffness, A drive shaft may be at least partially within the inner housing. At least one of the outer housing and the inner housing may include a tubular structure with at least one of multiple materials with different stiffness, and a portion with less structural material than another portion. |
| US10641043B2 |
Positionable carriage assembly
A positionable carriage assembly including an actuation device, such as one or more linear hydraulic cylinders, that is linked to a linear drive element. The linear drive element can include a first and second gear racks. The positionable carriage assembly may also include a first carriage member having a third gear rack and a second carriage member having a fourth gear rack. A first gear structure may be provided that operably intermeshes with the first and third racks while a second gear structure may be provided that operably intermeshes with the second and fourth racks. In operation the actuation device imparts a linear movement in a first direction onto the linear drive element which in turn imparts a synchronized linear movement in a second direction orthogonal the first direction onto the carriage members via the intermediate first and second gear structures. |
| US10641034B2 |
Assembly frame structure of wooden casement window and corner assembly method
Disclosed are a frame assembly structure of a wooden doors and windows and a corner assembly method. The window includes, at least, a window frame or a casement window frame mainly formed by joining adjacent profile frame strips via a corner assembler on adjacent connecting end surfaces. The connecting end surfaces of two adjacent profile frame strips are respectively configured to be cross sections of 0° to 180°. A positioning notch of the corner assembler is at least provided on the cross sections. Two half corner assemblers of the corner assemblers are respectively embedded and fixed into the positioning notches on the adjacent cross sections. The two half corner assemblers are connected by an intermediate fastening piece and a fastening bolt to form a complete corner assembler, and the two adjacent profile frame strips are connected tightly and fixedly. The frame assembly structure is easy to assemble. |
| US10641032B2 |
Protective device for door assembly members
A protective device and method for protection of a door frame member and/or door assembly. The protective device may include a body portion and an adjoining flange portion. The body portion may include a free side and a corner side running parallel to each other and may form an L-shaped device. The flange may include guide slot openings for placement of a fastener through the openings. The body portion may have a substantially planar top and a curved bottom with reduced portions forming attachment areas for securing the protective device removably to a door assembly. |
| US10641031B2 |
Mountable cover, blind and/or shade for glass/glazing panels in windows, skylights, walls or doors
A mountable cover provides a shade or blind for glass/glazing panels for window structures, doors, walls, elevated windows, and skylights. The mountable cover comprises a mounting frame with a panel composed of a material adapted to block at least a portion of light external to and traversing the window glass, the panel sitting parallel to and covering a portion of the window glass to block the light that has traversed the window glass. At least one fastening mechanism comprises one or more magnets and metal plates having a top wall, bottom wall and side walls. Each of the magnets is located on the mounting frame and is adapted to engage with one of the metal plates, which are mounted on the window. When brought into engagement with the metal plates the magnets and plates operate to mount the mountable cover over the window. |
| US10641029B2 |
Door control system and methods of operating the same
A door access system including a housing, a motor in the housing with the motor coupled to a shaft extending from the bottom of the housing, an arm rotatively connected to the shaft, a roller rotatively connected to the arm with the roller engaging the surface of a door. |
| US10641028B2 |
Actuator and vehicle door opening and closing actuator
The present invention is provided with: a first housing; a second housing; a guide tube; a third housing; a motor part that is incorporated in the first housing; a screw shaft that is driven to rotate upon reception of the rotational force of a shaft of the motor part and applies power to the third housing; a bearing holder that is provided in the first housing; an inner flange that is provided in the second housing; an outer flange that is provided in the guide tube and that is arranged at a position where the outer flange overlaps the inner flange in an axial direction; a seal that is sandwiched between the inner and the outer flanges; and a coil spring (47) that is provided between the second housing (7) and the guide tube (48) and presses the inner flange (46) toward the outer flange (49) side. |
| US10641026B2 |
Automatic door stopping-closing device and door
An automatic door stopping-closing device comprises a cylinder with a connecting rod, one end of which is connected to a door; a bracket assembly on the door frame, comprising a hook connected with the other end of the rod, a movable lug cooperated with the hook, and a pull rod cooperated with the movable lug, wherein the pull rod and the hook can be engaged or disengaged. After the door is opened, the door can be kept open securely through the cooperation between the hook and the movable lug; and the door can be closed automatically by a slight push, through the cooperation between two of the hook, the movable lug and the pull rod. The automatic door stopping-closing device holds the door open without external force after the door is opened, and closes the door automatically after a slight push. |
| US10641020B2 |
Electromagnetic release door closer
The present invention relates to the technical field of door closers, and particularly discloses an electromagnetic release door closer. The electromagnetic release door closer comprises a door closer body, a slide rail, and a rocker arm, one end of the rocker arm is articulated with the door closer body, wherein the slide rail is provided with a slide groove and a slide cavity which are parallel to each other, a through slot which is parallel to the slide groove is arranged between the slide groove and the slide cavity, wherein an electromagnetic limiting mechanism can be fixed at any position in the slide cavity. In the electrified state of an electromagnet, an electromagnetic attracting plate and the electromagnet are in a fixed state under the action of magnetic force, a limiting latch bolt is located in the slide groove, and is used to limit the sliding of a slider in the slide groove, and under this state, the slider can slide freely between the limiting latch bolt and one end of the slide groove, that is, a door leaf can move freely between a position limited by the limiting latch bolt and a maximum opening position. The defect that a door leaf can only be fixed in one specific state in the prior art is overcome, the range of adjustment is wider, and the electromagnetic release door closer is more convenient to use, and can meet more use requirements. |
| US10641019B1 |
Screen frame retention clip
A clip for fastening a screen to a frame the has a top and a bottom; an opening extending through the clip. A connector extends through opening to attach the clip to a door or window frame. A projection extends a vertical distance from an end of the clip for holding a screen in place. The clip bottom has a circular recess surrounding the opening. Attachable segments extend from the bottom of the clip having a diameter and a thickness and having an opening for receipt of a connector. The attachable segments bottom has a circular recess surrounding the attachable segments opening. The attachable segment top has a protruding ring that mates with the circular recess on the clip bottom or with a circular recess surrounding an attachable segment opening. The segments raising the vertical distance of the projection so the projection contacts the screen. |
| US10641018B2 |
Latch with spring for bell crank lever
A latch having: a fork bolt; a detent lever; and a bell crank lever, wherein the bell crank lever moves the detent lever from a latched position to a released position as the bell crank lever moves from a first position to a second position; and an over center spring secured to the bell crank lever at one end and a portion of a housing of the latch at another end, wherein the over center spring is configured to provide a biasing force to the bell crank lever in a first direction towards first position when the bell crank lever is in the first position and the over center spring is configured to provide a biasing force to the bell crank lever in a second direction towards the second position when the bell crank lever is in the second position. |
| US10641008B2 |
Electromagnetic actuator
The invention provides a magnetic actuator including at least two magnets. One magnet is a semi hard magnet and the other magnet is a hard magnet. The hard magnet is configured to open or close the magnetic actuator. The semi hard magnet and the hard magnet are placed adjacent to each other. A change in magnetization polarization of the semi hard magnet is configured to push or pull the hard magnet to open or close a digital lock realised with the magnetic actuator. The magnetic actuator of the invention can also be used to realise a valve. |
| US10641006B1 |
Leveraging too for trailer latches
A leveraging tool for helping urge open a shipping container or van trailer door latch has a shaft that has a pair of rings that receive a latch arm of the door latch and uses the lever action of the shaft to gain mechanical advantage in opening and closing the latch. The shaft is bent at either one location or optionally two locations to allow for proper clearance of a user's hands with respect to the door. The inner ring has a distal end facing outer edge that is diagonally tapered to allow the device to properly clear the latch in order to allow the rings to receive the latch. |
| US10641002B2 |
Patio support bracket
Herein is disclosed a patio support for securely supporting an object to a patio deck. The patio support includes a base member for sitting on the patio deck, a mounting member for mounting the object to the base member, and an elongated member extending downwardly from the base member. The elongated member passes through the gap separating adjacent patio deck members and is sufficiently long that a hook formed on a lower end of the elongated member can be positioned below a lower edge of the joist supporting the deck members. The elongated member is movable between a lowered position wherein the hook is positioned below the lower edge of the joists and a raised position wherein the hook securely engages the lower edge of the joists. The patio support is further configured to lock the elongated member in its raised position. |
| US10641001B2 |
Column fixing device for frost prevention machine and installation method thereof
A column fixing device for frost prevention machine includes a connecting support, a pedestal, and pedestal bolt. The connecting support is composed of an anti-tilting guide barrel, a fixed pillar, a rib plate, and a connecting plate. The pedestal is composed of pedestal plates spliced to each other, and adjacent pedestal plates are connected via double-end studs. The pedestal bolt is used for fixedly connecting the connecting support with the pedestal. The pedestal is hit into soil to fix the pedestal, and then the frost prevention machine is fixed through the pedestal and the connecting support so as to overcome the difficulty and low efficiency of digging small-diameter installation deep holes required for high precision. |
| US10640996B2 |
Hole cover
A Hole Cover for penetrations in commercial construction floors. One size of hole cover can accommodate a wide variety of hole diameters, and fit snugly. The device is made from a lightweight, yet durable material. A version having a cap with an internal metal core is also available. |
| US10640995B2 |
Method of constructing a wind tower foundation with pedestal and ribs
A wind turbine foundation comprising a concrete support slab having a horizontal rebar grid therein, a concrete pedestal integral with the support slab and having vertical post tensioning elements therein and a plurality of concrete ribs on top of and integral with the support slab and integral with the pedestal, the ribs having rebar therein and extend outwardly from the pedestal, the pedestal, slab and ribs are connected to each other to form a monolithic foundation. The foundation design reduces the weight and volume of materials used, reduces cost, and improves heat dissipation conditions during construction by having a small ratio of concrete mass to surface area thus eliminating the risk of thermal cracking due to heat of hydration. |
| US10640993B2 |
Method for adjustably suspending a structure
A method utilizing an assembly of a sling detachably attached to an adjustment device for suspending one structure relative to another structure. The adjustment device comprises a pair of elongate spaced apart plates which are attached to each other and to a hook, for attachment to one of the structures, at the first end portion. Each plate has a plurality of pairs of longitudinally spaced aligned holes for receiving a pin for connecting one end of a sling to the adjustment device at a selected incremental one of the plurality of pairs of holes. The other end of the sling is connected to the other structure to adjust the distance over which the one structure is suspended relative to the other structure. To allow greater adjustability, two or more of the adjustment devices are joined end-to-end. |
| US10640991B1 |
Wood flooring adjustment and assembly tool and associated use thereof
A wood flooring adjustment and assembly tool includes a stationary flat bar having a distal end provided with a downwardly oriented lip, a guide statically attached to a top surface of the flat bar and located proximally of the downwardly oriented lip, a dynamic bar slidably positioned through the guide and linearly reciprocated along the stationary flat bar wherein the dynamic bar has a plate affixed to a distal end thereof, and a lever having a bottom end pivotally positioned at a proximal end of the stationary flat bar and directly abutted against a proximal end of the dynamic bar. Such a lever is pivotal about a fulcrum axis registered orthogonal to the proximal end of the stationary flat bar. The downwardly oriented lip is registered orthogonal to a longitudinal length of the dynamic bar and parallel to the flat bar. |
| US10640989B2 |
Mechanical locking of floor panels
Floor panels (1, 1′) are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system on long (5a, 5b) and short edges (4a, 4b) allowing installation with angling of long edges and where the short edge locking system has a displaceable tongue that is displaceable essentially in one direction from an inner unlocked position to an final locked position. |
| US10640985B2 |
Device for fastening a panel-shaped component in a receiving groove of a carrying rail
A device for fastening a panel-shaped component in a receiving groove of a carrying rail, comprises a holding element for holding the panel-shaped component in the receiving groove such that an end face of the panel-shaped component introduced into the receiving groove is supported on the bottom of the receiving groove via the holding element, two clamping elements for clamping the panel-shaped component between the flanks of the receiving groove, and at least one tension anchor for positioning the clamping elements. At least one of the tension anchors is flexible and reaches over from one side of the panel-shaped component around the end face of the panel-shaped component to the clamping element, which is to be positioned by the flexible tension anchor, on the other side of the panel-shaped component. |
| US10640983B2 |
Platform system
A platform system comprising a platform structure having at least one modular platform unit with platform connection features on a side surface thereof to which other components can be connected, the other components including at least two of the following: another modular platform unit, a stair unit, a tower unit, a handrail unit, and a ladder unit. A stair assembly is connected to the platform structure via said connection features, the stair assembly comprising a plurality of stair units connected together to provide a number of steps equal to the sum of steps of the stair units. |
| US10640982B1 |
Protective gutter devices, methods, and assemblies
A gutter device may be considered a gutter extension. A gutter extension may include an extension attaching to a gutter system for a facility and projecting away from a back wall. The extension may include at least two extension front walls and a bottom. The extension front walls adjoin with a front gutter wall. Gutter devices, systems, assemblies, kits and methods are shown and described and considered within the scope of the present disclosure. |
| US10640980B2 |
Metal panel electrical bonding clip
A clip for electrically bonding a pair of adjacently-disposed metal panels is disclosed. One embodiment entails such a clip (104) including a first clip member (112) and an oppositely disposed second clip member (116). The surface (114) of the first clip member (112) that faces the second clip member (116) includes at least one grounding projection (128), while the surface (118) of the second clip member (116) that faces the first clip member (112) also includes at least one grounding projection (128). The clip (104) may be installed on a standing seam (102) of a panel assembly (100), with its first clip member (112) engaging one of the metal panels 82″ that define this stand seam (102) and with its second clip member (116) engaging the other of the metal panels 82″ that define this same standing seam (102). |
| US10640979B2 |
Prefabricated offset shingle
A prefabricated offset shingle kit includes a first shingle packet, a second shingle packet, and a third shingle packet. The first shingle packet has a first wrap portion disposed around only a top face, a bottom face, a front face, a rear face, and a left face. The second shingle packet has a second wrap portion disposed around only a top face, a bottom face, a front face, a rear face, and a right face. The third shingle packet has a wrap portion disposed around only a top face, a bottom face, a front face, and a rear face. |
| US10640978B2 |
Barrier cable coupler
A barrier cable coupler for coupling two lengths of barrier cable comprises a coupler body including a threaded inner surface, a first end, and a second end; a fixed retaining collar having an outer surface and being retained to the first end of the coupler body, the fixed retaining collar including a tapered inner surface; one or more fixed end wedges positioned within the tapered inner surface of the fixed retaining collar; a tensioning retaining collar having an outer surface, the tensioning retaining collar positioned at least partially within the second end of the coupler body and including a tapered inner surface; one or more tensioning end wedges positioned within the tapered inner surface of the tensioning retaining collar; and a tensioning nut including a threaded outer surface engaging the threaded inner surface of the second end of the coupler body and retaining the tensioning retaining collar therein. |
| US10640974B2 |
Surface forming system
The present invention relates to a surface forming system intended to be supported by a structural ceiling and/or a wall of a room. The surface forming system comprises a first tile and a second tile, each tile comprising a front major surface, an opposing back major surface and at least one edge surface extending along the perimeter of the tile and connecting the front and back major surfaces, a first connecting member and a second connecting member, each comprising a tile connector and a pivot connector, wherein the tile connector of the first connecting member and the second connecting member are connected to the first tile and the second tile, respectively, and wherein the pivot connector of the first and the second connecting members are pivotably connected to each other such that the tiles are foldable relative each other. The invention further relates to a method for installation of a surface forming system supported by a structural ceiling and/or wall of a room. |
| US10640973B1 |
Buildings with continuous insulation bridging a roof assembly and a floor assembly
Insulated buildings are described. The building include: (a) a sloped roof that is a prefabricated insulated roof assembly; (b) a generally horizontally arranged flooring assembly having an end that is arranged over a wall structure and under the sloped roof assembly; (c) a sloped member that is arranged over the end of the flooring assembly that is over the wall structure, and (d) a rigid foam insulation member arranged in the cavity of the roof assembly so as to bridge a lower surface of a rigid foam insulation board in the roof assembly to the sloped member. |
| US10640966B2 |
Sewer cleaning device
A sewer cleaning device has a rinsing hose, to which pressurized water is applied, which is stored on an assigned storage reel and which passes through a transportation apparatus adjacent to the storage reel. A manner of operating, which protects the rinsing hose, is achieved by providing a reel arrangement, around which the rinsing hose is wrapped at least once, having two redirection reels arranged laterally adjacent to one another in the radial direction, which are offset in relation to one another in the axial direction by at least the thickness of the rinsing hose and of which at least one redirection reel is arranged tilted about an axis of symmetry, which perpendicularly intersects the axes of the two redirection reels, so that during each complete wrap around the reel arrangement forming the transportation apparatus by the rinsing hose, a pitch of the path assigned to the rinsing hose results. |
| US10640960B2 |
Splashless plunging device
A device for removing an obstruction from a pipe or toilet generally includes a handle portion and a flexible head portion having a plurality of grooves. The flexible head portion is configured for insertion into a pipe. The flexible head portion is configured by shape and/or size to allow water from the pipe or toilet to move over the flexible head portion between the flexible head portion and the pipe or drain wall while the plunger is manipulated in the pipe or toilet. Using the handle portion, the flexible head portion can be moved along the inner wall of the pipe to move a column of liquid to effect the removal of the obstruction. If the intervals between the grooves are in contact with the pipe wall, water may still pass between the flexible head portion and the pipe through the grooves. A storage case for the device is provided. |
| US10640958B2 |
Sanitary basin moulded part
A sanitary basin molded part, for example a kitchen sink, a washbasin or a shower tray, has a main part (10) that has the shape of the sanitary basin molded part and ensures its mechanical stability. On the visible side of the sanitary basin molded part a covering layer (20) is arranged in at least one surface region on top of the main part (10). The covering layer includes a fibrous tissue (24) saturated with a cured binding agent. A method produces a sanitary basin molded part of this kind. |
| US10640952B2 |
System and method for modifying a material movement plan
A system for moving material with a work implement includes an image display device, an operator input device, and a position sensor. A controller is configured to determine a position of a work surface at a work site, display a portion of the work site on the image display device including an operational location at the work area, modify a position of the operational location on the image display device with the operator input device to define a modified operational location, generate a material movement plan based upon the position of the work surface and modified operational location, and generate command instructions to move the machine according to the material movement plan. |
| US10640948B2 |
Working device
A working device is provided wherein a tilt bucket 70 is pivotally joined, vertically swingably, to the tip of an arm 33 by a third pivot joint pin P3 and is vertically swung by a bucket cylinder 38 via first link members 81A, 81B and a second link member 82. The connection unit 100 to be connected to the first link members 81A, 81B is pivotally joined, vertically swingably, to the tip of the bucket cylinder 38. By switching the connection position of connection pins 131A, 131B of the connection unit 100 and the first link members 81A, 81B selectively between the position of a connection hole H1 and the position of a connection hole H2, the swing range and excavating force of the tilt bucket 70 are switched. |
| US10640946B2 |
Tip for a foundation pile
A tip is described for attachment to a bottom end of a foundation pile. The tip comprises a cast iron tip body and an element partially molded into the cast iron tip body. A foundation pile assembly comprises such a tip. A method for manufacturing is provided for such a tip. |
| US10640945B1 |
Systems and methods for making compacted aggregate piers in a soil matrix
The present invention discloses a system and method for forming a compacted aggregate pier at a target location. The system comprises a mandrel, which is a composition of a casing pipe and an inner steel shaft with close ended cone and convenient entry and exit of the inner shaft. The system further comprises a casing is equipped with water jet system, a rammer of mandrel attached to hydraulic hammer and an inner mandrel with a casing pipe having two valves with open and close capability. Using this system, the matrix soil radial density and the bearing capacity and the modulus of the reaction of the composite soil are increased and soil settlement decreases. This system also increases the density of loose soils or soils with dense sandy intermediate layers especially in shores and rivers in submerged conditions. Also, the loose granular soil is retrofitted against liquefaction. |
| US10640944B2 |
Pier tool and method of use
A pier tool, includes: a tubular body having an uphole end and a downhole end and defining a flow path therethrough and a tamping head disposed within the flow path of the tubular body and defines tamping surface on a downhole side of the tamping head A method for forming a pier includes assembling a pier tool mandrel, a pier tool mandrel including the pier tool and forming a rammed aggregate pier using the pier tool mandrel. |
| US10640943B2 |
System and method for compacting a worksite surface
A method includes receiving first information indicative of a location of a perimeter of a worksite surface, and receiving second information indicative of compaction requirements specific to the worksite surface. The method also includes generating a compaction plan based at least partly on the first and second information. Such a compaction plan includes a travel path for a compaction machine. In such a method, the travel path is substantially within the perimeter of the worksite surface. The method also includes causing at least part of the travel path to be displayed via a control interface of the compaction machine. The method further includes receiving an input indicative of approval of the travel path, and controlling operation of the compaction machine on the worksite surface, in accordance with the compaction plan, based at least partly on receiving the input. |
| US10640934B2 |
Reclaiming drum having interchangeable rectangular and V-shaped paddles
A paddle for a reclaiming drum may include a block of material configured for attachment to a leading edge of a flighting supporting a cutting bit on the reclaiming drum, and the block of material may assist in breaking up and mixing material removed from a surface by the cutting bit as the reclaiming drum is rotated and moved into the surface. The paddle may include two ear portions protruding from opposite sides of a flat, centrally-located, aft-facing surface of the block of material, each of the ear portions including an inwardly-facing chamfered surface configured to interface with an outwardly-facing, leading edge chamfered surface of the flighting such that a gap is maintained between a flat leading edge surface of the flighting located in between the outwardly-facing chamfered surfaces and the flat, centrally-located, aft-facing surface of the block of material when the block of material is attached to the flighting. |
| US10640928B2 |
Absorbent paper products having unique physical strength properties
An absorbent towel paper product is disclosed. The absorbent towel paper product has two web plies. Each web has from 20% to 90% of a soft wood pulp fiber mixture having from 18.5% to 88.5% of optionally refined soft wood pulp fiber; from 0.25% to 5.0% of cationic strengthening polymer, from 10% to 55% of a hard wood pulp fiber mixture; and not more than 10% moisture. The two-ply paper product has a Mean Square Dry Tensile Index ranging from 10 N·m/g to 18 N·m/g and a Cross-directional Wet Tensile Strength to Cross-directional Dry Tensile Strength Ratio value ranging from 0.295 to 0.33. |
| US10640924B2 |
System of thermal recovery relating to the operation of a dissolver of a chemical recovery boiler
The disclosed solution relates to recovering thermal energy from the operation of a dissolver of a chemical recovery boiler used in pulp manufacturing. According to the solution, a primary fluid circuit conveys green liquor from the dissolver to an external process such as causticizing and solvent such as weak white liquor back to the dissolver, and from this circuit solvent is diverted into a secondary fluid passageway comprising a heat exchanger which cools the solvent by recovering heat from it and transfers the heat to a heat-consuming process. After heat recovery, solvent may be used for further processes before it is at least partly conveyed back to the dissolver. |
| US10640921B2 |
Twisted wire manufacturing method
A twisted wire manufacturing method for manufacturing a twisted wire, includes hanging U-turn portions of the at least two wires on a wire hanging member, checking one end portions and the other end portions of the at least two wires, pulling up the at least two wires in a state that the U-turn portions are hung on the wire hanging member, twisting the at least two wires together after the wire pull-up step is conducted, and transferring a twist-completed wire produced by the wire twisting step to a twisted wire temporary placement hook which is disposed above the wire hanging member. |
| US10640920B2 |
Winch line
A winch line includes a length of synthetic rope having a connector end and a terminal end. An eye is formed by a splice at the connector end of the synthetic rope. An elastomeric coating encapsulates the eye. An elastomer mass is formed over and encapsulates a base portion of the eye and a portion of the splice. The winch line has a number of intermediate sections of consistent length along the length of the synthetic rope extending between the elastomer mass and the terminal end. A number of demarcations reside on a surface of the synthetic rope indicating a boundary between the intermediate sections. |
| US10640912B2 |
Accessory for a steaming device
The present application relates to an accessory (1) for a steaming device (2) comprising a tray to receive a sole plate (6) of a steaming device during a cleaning cycle so that steam and/or scale is directed into said tray, the tray having an opening (14) so that when a sole plate of a steaming device is received on the tray, steam can egress out of the tray in a direction away from said steaming device through said opening. |
| US10640910B2 |
High-speed drying unit for locker
A locker includes a pair of spaced-apart upstanding sidewalls and at least one compartment defined between the upstanding sidewalls. A drying compartment includes an upper and lower horizontal panels, at least one of the upper and lower panels being hollow and extending at least partially between the sidewalls of the locker. A pair of compartment sidewalls are connected to the panels, at least one of the compartment sidewalls being in fluid communication with the at least one hollow upper and lower panels. A perforated rear panel is connected to the compartment sidewalls and the upper and lower panels and is in fluid communication with an interior of the drying compartment. At least one fan is disposed in one of the compartment sidewalls, wherein the fan draws air from the at least one hollow upper and lower panels, directs it into the interior of the drying compartment, and the air is exhausted from the compartment though the perforated rear panel. |
| US10640907B2 |
Laundry treatment machine
A laundry machine (1) having cabinet (2) housing a chamber (3) for treating laundry having a rotation axis (RR), a porthole (8) for providing access to and tightly closing the chamber (3), a hinge (11) to pivot the porthole (8) to the cabinet (2), an electromechanical lock (12) having a first member (13) on the porthole (8) and a matching member (14) on the cabinet (2), and a grip-only handle (15). The porthole (8) has at least one frame (30, 30a, 31), and a glass (32) secured to the at least one frame (30, 30a, 31). The electromechanical lock (12) is configured to be released by applying a force beyond a threshold onto the porthole (8) away from the cabinet (2). The grip-only handle (15) and the first member (13) of the electromechanical lock (12) may be arranged in such a way that, when the porthole (8) is closed, the center of mass of the grip-only handle (15) and the center of mass of the first member (13) of the electromechanical lock (12) are located, with respect to the rotation axis (RR), at different angular positions. The grip-only handle (15b, 15c) may be configured to be alternatively positionable in one of at least two prefixed positions with respect to the frame assembly. |
| US10640906B2 |
Washing machine
A washing machine includes: a dewatering drum provided with an impeller in a free rotation manner; a driving part for rotating the impeller; an inertial rotation number detection part for detecting an inertial rotation number after the driving part stops driving; and a control part for controlling the driving part and the inertial rotation number detection part and detecting the amount of the washings in the dewatering drum as a load according to the inertial rotation number. In the case of determining that a detection result of the inertial rotation number detection part satisfies a specified condition, the control part enables the driving part to drive again; and the inertial rotation number detection part re-detects the inertial rotation number of the impeller, and detects the load according to the detection result and the previous detection result. |
| US10640905B2 |
Laundry washing machine and control method thereof
A laundry treatment machine (1) has an outer casing (2), and a washing tub (3) which is arranged inside the outer casing (2). A rotatable washing drum (4) is arranged in axially rotating manner inside the washing tub (3) and is structured to receive the laundry to be treated. A liquid supplying system is provided for supplying hot liquid and/or cold liquid into the washing tub (3). A temperature sensor (22) is arranged in the washing tub (3) and is designed for sensing the temperature of the liquid contained in the washing tub (3). An electronic control device (23) is configured to: determine whether the temperature sensor (22) is immersed in liquid; and perform a first or a second control procedure, different from one another, to control the water supplying system based on a determined immersion status of the temperature sensor (22). |
| US10640904B2 |
Modular laundry system
A modular laundry system includes a washing machine defining a single width and a single width horizontal module below the washing machine. The single width horizontal module below the washing machine includes a cabinet capable of supporting the washing machine thereupon and having an open face. A drawer is slidably mounted to the cabinet for movement between an opened and closed position relative to the open face. A tub is provided within the drawer, and a wash chamber is provided within the tub. |
| US10640902B2 |
Device and method for controlling the fixation of an in-line thread treatment
A method and device for controlling the fixation of a treatment material being applied to a thread during a thread treatment process are disclosed. The method comprises performing a thread treatment process, forming part of the thread consuming process, by: i) applying a treatment material to the thread; and ii) applying an amount of energy to the thread to at least partly fix the applied treatment material to the thread; wherein the method further comprises controlling the amount of energy being applied to the thread as a response to a detected operational status of the in-line thread consuming process. |
| US10640901B1 |
Portable sewing tool kit
A portable sewing tool kit, wherein the main features include: a substrate with an inner face and a back face, wherein the inner face is provided with first and second pages which can selectively folded, closed or opened mutually; a foldable cutting mat is mounted in the first page of the substrate and has at least two cutting faces and a fold line disposed between each adjacent cutting face, the folded line is optionally folded between the adjacent cutting faces to reduce the storage area; a detachable ironing mat is arranged at the second page of the substrate in a detachable form and has a core board, a cotton layer covering the outer part of the core board and a cotton cloth surface layer covering the outer part of the cotton layer, wherein at least one ironing surface is formed on the outer part of the cotton cloth surface. |
| US10640900B2 |
System and method for multiple surface water jet needling
A water entanglement system having a first rotatable surface comprises a first water jet which may be configured to water-entangle a preform in situ. The water-entanglement system may comprise a second rotatable surface disposed proximate the first rotatable surface. The second rotatable surface may comprise a second water jet configured to water-entangle the preform in situ. The first rotatable surface may be oriented substantially parallel to the second rotatable surface. |
| US10640896B2 |
Knit bra and method of manufacture thereof
The invention provides bras having enhanced dynamic performance and comfort as well as a method of manufacture thereof. Two-dimensional knitting is utilized to generate three-dimensional structures in the bra that conform to unique three-dimensional shapes of the wearer. |
| US10640895B1 |
Items with wire actuators
An item such as a fabric-based item or other item may have one or more actuators. An actuator may have a conductive strand of material. A control circuit may supply a current to the conductive strand that induces a length change in the conductive strand due to ohmic heating and associated thermal expansion effects. The control circuit may be used to activate the actuator in response to user input that is supplied to an associated input device such as a switch, capacitive sensor, force sensor, light-based sensor, or other input component. The fabric-based item may include fabric such as woven fabric or knit fabric. Strands of conductive material may serve as signals paths for supplying current to conductive strands in actuators. Magnetic-field-based actuators may be formed by coiling conductive strands around tubular support structures such as piping in fabric-based items. |
| US10640892B2 |
Incorporation of chip elements in a core yarn
A fabrication method of a sheathed yarn includes the following steps: making a core run axially through a sheathing area; winding a sheathing fibre around the core in the sheathing area; and presenting a microelectronic chip fixed onto the core in the sheathing area. A polymer material is present between the microelectronic chip and the core when the sheathing step is performed. The polymer material creeps during the sheathing step to form a protective coating. |
| US10640891B2 |
Fibers made from soluble polymers
A fiber can be made having a structure with an axial core and a coating layer. The fiber can have a polymer core and one or two layers surrounding the core. The fine fiber can be made from a polymer material and a resinous aldehyde composition such that the general structure of the fiber has a polymer core surrounded by at least a layer of the resinous aldehyde composition. |
| US10640886B2 |
Fiber-containing crystal, method of preparing fiber-containing crystal, apparatus for preparing fiber-containing crystal, and medicine soaking apparatus
A fiber-containing crystal includes a crystal body which is a crystal of a biological substance and a plurality of fibers at least partially incorporated in the crystal body; and a fiber-containing crystal includes a crystal body which is an easy-disintegrating crystal and a plurality of fibers at least partially incorporated in the crystal body. |
| US10640880B2 |
Plated material and connecting terminal using same
Provided are a plated material having excellent abrasion resistance, electrical conductivity, sliding performance, and low friction, in which a plating layer does not undergo embrittlement properly; and a method for producing the plated material. The method includes a first step of at least partially removing a reflow tin plating layer from a metallic base material having the reflow layer on at least a part thereof and a reactive layer provided at the interface between the reflow layer and the base material; a second step of at least partially subjecting a region in which the reflow tin plating layer has been removed to a nickel plating treatment; a third step of at least partially subjecting the nickel plating layer to a silver strike plating treatment; and a fourth step of at least partially subjecting a region of the silver strike plating to a silver plating treatment. |
| US10640879B2 |
High aspect ratio electroplated structures and anisotropic electroplating processes
Devices including high-aspect ratio electroplated structures and methods of forming high-aspect ratio electroplated structures are described. A method for manufacturing metal structures includes providing a substrate having a metal base characterized by a height to width aspect ratio A/B and electroplating a metal crown on the base to form the metal structure with a height to width aspect ratio A/S greater than the aspect ratio A/B of the base. |
| US10640873B2 |
Optical printing systems and methods
Disclosed herein are methods comprising: illuminating a first location of an optothermal substrate with electromagnetic radiation; wherein the optothermal substrate converts at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation into thermal energy; and wherein the optothermal substrate is in thermal contact with a liquid sample comprising a plurality of thermally reducible metal ions; thereby: generating a confinement region at a location in the liquid sample proximate to the first location of the optothermal substrate; trapping at least a portion of the plurality of thermally reducible metal ions within the confinement region; and thermally reducing the trapped portion of the plurality of thermally reducible metal ions; thereby: depositing a metal particle on the optothermal substrate at the first location. Also disclosed herein are systems for performing the methods described herein. Also disclosed herein are patterned substrates made by the methods described herein, and methods of use thereof. |
| US10640863B2 |
Coated cutting tool
The present disclosure relates to a coated cutting tool having a cemented carbide body and a 0.5-10 μm (Ti,Al,Cr)N nanolayered PVD coating with an average composition TiaAlbCrcN, wherein a=0.25-0.7, b=0.3-0.7 and c=0.01-0.2, a+b+c=1. The cemented carbide body has a composition of 5-18 wt % Co, 0.1-2.5 wt % Cr, 0-10 wt % carbides or carbonitrides of metals from groups 4, 5 and 6 in the periodic table of elements, and the balance WC. |
| US10640862B2 |
Method for forming film and method for forming aluminum nitride film
The present disclosure provides a method for forming a film and a method for forming an aluminum nitride film, in which two steps of pre-sputtering having different process parameters are respectively performed before performing a main sputtering, so as to achieve the effect of stabilizing target condition. The method for forming a film of the present disclosure may also form an aluminum nitride film on a substrate, and the aluminum nitride film may serve as a buffer layer between a substrate and a gallium nitride layer in an electronic device, so as to improve film qualities of the aluminum nitride film and the gallium nitride layer and achieve the purpose of improving performance of the electronic device. |
| US10640860B2 |
Laser metal deposition methodology on graphite substrates for aerospace components
A laser direct metal deposition method for a graphite substrate is provided. The laser direct metal deposition method includes creating an assembling by sliding an outer sheath over the graphite substrate. Further, laser direct metal deposition method includes performing a laser scanning of the outer sheath and performing a laser metal deposition over the graphite substrate with the outer sheath. |
| US10640855B2 |
High-strength air-hardening multiphase steel having excellent processing properties, and method for manufacturing a strip of said steel
A high-strength air-hardenable multiphase steel having minimal tensile strengths in a non air hardened state of 750 MPa and excellent processing properties, said steel comprising the following elements in % by weight: C≥0.075 to ≤0.115; Si≥0.200 to ≤0.300; Mn≥1.700 to ≤2.300; Cr≥0.280 to ≤0.4800; Al≥0.020 to ≤0.060; N≥0.0020 to ≤0.0120; S≤0.0050; Nb≥0.005 to ≤0.050; Ti≥0.005 to ≤0.050; B≥0.0005 to ≤0.0060; Ca≥0.0005 to ≤0.0060; Cu≤0.050; Ni≤0.050; remainder iron, including usual steel accompanying smelting related impurities, wherein for a widest possible process window during continuous annealing of hot rolled or cold rolled strips made from the steel a sum content of M+Si+Cr in the steel is a function of a thickness of the steel strips according to the following relationship: for strip thicknesses of up to 1.00 mm the sum content of M+Si+Cr is ≥2.350 and ≤2.500%, for strip thicknesses of over 1.00 to 2.00 mm the sum of Mn+Si+Cr is ≥2.500 and ≤2.950%, and for strip thicknesses of over 2.00 mm the sum of Mn+Si+Cr is ≥2.950 and ≤3.250%. |
| US10640852B2 |
Aluminum-alloy clad material and method of manufacturing the same
An aluminum-alloy clad material includes a skin layer clad to and covering at least one surface of a core layer. The core layer is composed of an aluminum alloy containing Cu: 3.8-4.9 mass %, Mg: 1.2-1.8 mass % and Mn: 0.3-0.9 mass %. The core layer has an area number density of microvoids that have a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.5 μm or greater that is 100/mm2 or less. The skin layer has an Al purity of 99.5 mass % or greater. A method of manufacturing a wrought material from such an aluminum-alloy clad material includes heating the wrought material to the solution heat treatment temperature of the core layer at a temperature-rise rate of 50° C.-200° C./h. |
| US10640848B2 |
Method of creating porous structures by particle expansion
A process for producing a metal foam. The process includes mechanically working a metallic powder such that oxide particles and/or dissolved oxygen are finely dispersed within a metallic matrix of the metallic particles that make up the metallic powder. The mechanically worked metallic powder is then annealed in a reducing atmosphere, where the reducing atmosphere is an atmosphere that results in the reduction of oxide and/or dissolved oxygen into vapor or gas molecules such that intraparticle porosity is formed within the metallic matrix by conversion of the oxide particles and/or dissolved oxygen to create vapor or gas molecules. |
| US10640842B2 |
Method of producing press-hardened and coated steel parts at a high productivity rate
A fabrication method for a press hardened part is provided. A sheet or a steel substrate blank for heat treatment is provided. A pre-coating is applied. The pre-coating has at least one layer of aluminum or aluminum alloy in contact with the steel substrate on at least one of the principal faces of the sheet or blank. Then a polymerized layer is deposited on the pre-coating. The polymerized layer has a thickness between 2 and 30 μm. The polymerized layer does not contain silicon, has a nitrogen content of less than 1% by weight and carbon pigments in a quantity between 3 and 30% by weight. The blank or the sheet is heated to obtain an interdiffusion between the steel substrate and the pre-coating and to give the steel a partly or totally austenitic structure. Then the blank or the sheet is hot stamped to obtain a part. The part is cooled by holding the part in a stamping tool so that the microstructure of the steel substrate includes, at least in a portion of the part, martensite or bainite. |
| US10640840B2 |
Hot press formed article having excellent delamination resistance and method for manufacturing the same
An HPF molding member having a melted aluminum plating layer formed on the surface of a base steel sheet and excellent delamination resistance. The base steel sheet comprises: 0.18-0.25% by weight of C; 0.1-1.0% by weight of Si; 0.9-1.5% by weight of Mn; 0.03% by weight or less of P; 0.01% by weight or less of S; 0.01-0.05% by weight of Al; 0.05-0.5% by weight of Cr; 0.01-0.05% by weight of Ti; 0.001-0.005% by weight of B; 0.009% by weight or less of N; and the balance Fe and other impurities. The plating layer consists of a soft diffusion layer and a hard alloy layer, the hard alloy layer having a tau layer irregularly and non-continuously dispersed and distributed on the inside thereof at 10% or more of the entire area fraction. The difference in hardness between the alloy layer and the diffusion layer is 400 (Hv) or less. |
| US10640825B2 |
Integrated analytical system and method
An analytical assembly within a unified device structure for integration into an analytical system. The analytical assembly is scalable and includes a plurality of analytical devices, each of which includes a reaction cell, an optical sensor, and at least one optical element positioned in optical communication with both the reaction cell and the sensor and which delivers optical signals from the cell to the sensor. Additional elements are optionally integrated into the analytical assembly. Methods for forming and operating the analytical system are also disclosed. |
| US10640824B1 |
Methods of identifying nucleic acids from a single cell using an electrical cell-trapping array
Provided herein are methods, systems, kits and compositions for identifying nucleic acids of interest from individual cells. The methods include isolating single cells on electrodes and identifying nucleic acids of interest from the isolated cells by sequencing. |
| US10640819B2 |
Method for detecting a genetic variant
The present invention provides a method for detecting a genetic variant in a region of interest in a DNA sample comprising (i) determining, for a given sequencing platform, sequencing process and sequencing depth, the distribution of the number of reads supporting a genetic variant or plurality of genetic variants expected to be observed in the sequencing results of amplification reactions due to amplification and sequencing error (read count distribution); (ii) based on the read count distribution determined in step (i), establishing a threshold frequency at or above which the genetic variant must be observed in sequencing results of amplification reactions to assign a positive determination for the presence of the genetic variant in a given amplification reaction; (iii) partitioning the DNA sample into a plurality of replicate amplification reactions, so that the mean number of amplifiable template molecules of the region of interest in a replicate amplification reaction is fewer than the reciprocal of the threshold frequency determined in step (ii); (iv) performing the amplification reactions of step (iii) and sequencing the products of amplification reactions, (v) based on step (ii) and the results of step (iv), determining the presence/absence of the genetic variant in each replicate amplification reaction; and (vi) integrating the results of (v) to determine the presence/absence of the genetic variant in the region of interest in the DNA sample. |
| US10640818B2 |
Compositions and methods for selection of nucleic acids
Methods are provided for reducing the complexity of a population of nucleic acids prior to performing an analysis of the nucleic acids, e.g., sequence analysis. The methods result in a subset of the initial population enriched for a target region, which is typically located within one or more target fragments. The methods are particularly useful for analyzing populations having a high degree of complexity, e.g., chromosomal-derived DNA, whole genomic DNA, or mRNA populations. |
| US10640816B2 |
Simultaneous quantification of gene expression in a user-defined region of a cross-sectioned tissue
The present invention relates to, among other things, probes, compositions, methods, and kits for simultaneous, multiplexed detection and quantification of protein and/or nucleic acid expression in a user-defined region of a tissue, user-defined cell, and/or user-defined subcellular structure within a cell. |
| US10640815B2 |
Set of oligonucleotide probes as well as methods and uses thereto
The present disclosure relates to a set of at least 100 single-stranded oligonucleotide probes directed against (or complementary to) portions of a genomic target sequence of interest. The present disclosure also relates to a method of detecting a genomic target sequence of interest using the set of oligonucleotide probes and a method of generating the set of oligonucleotide probes. Further the present disclosure relates to a kit comprising the set of oligonucleotide probes and at least one further component. |
| US10640810B2 |
Methods of specifically labeling nucleic acids using CRISPR/Cas
Provided herein are methods of detecting a target nucleic acid sequence. In one embodiment, the method includes contacting genomic DNA with a guide RNA having a portion complementary to the target sequence in the genomic DNA and with Cas9 nickase to produce a single-strand break in the genomic DNA at a specific location adjacent to the target sequence. The method further includes contacting the nicked DNA with a polymerase and fluorescently labeled nucleotide. The fluorescently labeled nucleotide is incorporated into the nicked DNA at the specific location and the target nucleic acid sequence is detected via fluorescent label. |
| US10640807B2 |
Methods and systems for detecting a pathogen in a biological sample
Disclosed herein, inter alia, is method, kit and systems for detecting a pathogen infection in a bodily sample, the method comprising (i) staining said bodily sample with two or more dyes, comprising at least one dye predominantly staining DNA to thereby provide differential staining between DNA and at least one other cellular component being different from DNA; (ii) identifying at least a first stained area comprising the DNA, if exists in the sample, and at least one other stained area comprising the other cellular component; (iii) extracting structural features for the first stained area and the at least one other stained area, said structural features comprise at least one of (i) size of at least one of the first stained area and one other stained area and (ii) location of said first stained area and said at least one other stained area one with respect to the other; and (iv) determining the presence of a suspected pathogen in the bodily sample if a first stained area was identified and said structural features conform to structural features predetermined as characterizing the suspected pathogen. |
| US10640805B2 |
Reagent for prothrombin time measurement, method for production thereof, and method for measurement of prothrombin time
Disclosed is a reagent for prothrombin time measurement, containing a tissue factor and a surfactant, wherein the value of formula (I), which is represented by (surfactant amount (μmol))/(total protein amount (μg)), is 0.013 to 0.05 μmol/μg. |
| US10640804B2 |
Methods and materials for detection of biologicals
Methods of detecting biologicals in samples is provided herein. The detection is based on the formation of aggregates. The disclosed compositions include labeling particles and/or aggregating particles. The labeling particles and the aggregating particles may each include a receptor bound to the particle. The receptor can be either directly attached to the particle or indirectly attached to the particle through a linker. One method of detection may be visual and another may include advanced quantification of the formed aggregates. |
| US10640803B2 |
Methods for determining chemosensitivity and chemotoxicity
The present disclosure relates to diagnostic methods that are relevant to various cancers and which comprise BH3 profiling diagnostics for, among others, predication of an adverse patient response to a cancer treatment. |
| US10640802B2 |
AfArsR gene and prokaryotic host cell
Disclosed are methods of detecting organic arsenicals using genetically modified cells containing an arsR gene that encodes an AfArsR (As(III)-responsive repressor) protein and an arsenical resistance operon operably linked to a green fluorescent protein gene. The cell can produce a green fluorescent protein and fluoresce in the presence of trivalent organic arsenic. Trivalent organic arsenics can be one or more of phenylarsenite, travlent roaxarsone, and methylarsenite. |
| US10640797B2 |
Microorganisms for producing diamine and process for producing diamine using them
The present invention relates to a microorganism for producing diamine, in which activity of a protein having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6 or an amine acid sequence having 42% or higher sequence homology with SEQ ID NO: 6 is introduced or enhanced, and a method of producing diamine using the same. |
| US10640795B2 |
Microorganisms and methods for enhancing the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of methanol, and for producing succinate related thereto
Provided herein is a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a methanol metabolic pathway that can enhance the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of methanol. Such reducing equivalents can be used to increase the product yield of organic compounds produced by the microbial organism, such as succinate. Also provided herein are methods for using such an organism to produce succinate. |
| US10640793B2 |
Process for using biogenic carbon dioxide derived from non-fossil organic material
The present disclosure provides a process for forming a biogenic carbon-based fuel or a fuel intermediate from biogenic carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The hydrogen is sourced from a process that produces hydrogen and fossil carbon dioxide from a fossil-fuel hydrocarbon and separates the fossil carbon dioxide from the hydrogen. The process may further comprise carrying out or arranging for one or more parties to carry out at least one step that contributes to a reduction in the GHG emissions of the biogenic carbon-based fuel, or a fuel made from the fuel intermediate, of at least 20% relative to a gasoline baseline. In various embodiments this includes (a) introducing the fossil carbon dioxide underground, and/or (b) using a biogenic carbon-based product selected from a chemical and energy product produced from the non-fossil organic material to displace the use or production of a corresponding fossil-based product. |
| US10640785B2 |
Virus vectors for highly efficient transgene delivery
The invention provides viral vector formulations and methods of uses thereof for delivery of transgenes or therapeutic nucleic acids to human subjects. The formulations include a vector and suitable amounts of empty capsids, viral genome-containing capsids, or viral capsid proteins which are optionally chemically or structurally modified and which bind to neutralizing anti-AAV antibodies thereby reducing or preventing antibody-mediated clearance of the vector, but still allowing the genome-containing (therapeutic) vector to transduce target cells and achieve therapeutic gene transfer. |
| US10640784B2 |
Pathogen resistant citrus compositions, organisms, systems, and methods
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to pathogen resistant citrus compositions, organisms, systems, and methods. For example, a composition may comprise a peptide (e.g., a defensin peptide) and/or a nucleic acid (e.g., a defensin nucleic acid). A pathogen resistant citrus plant may comprise, in some embodiments, a defensin peptide and/or an expressible nucleic acid encoding a defensin peptide. |
| US10640782B2 |
Gene for increasing plant biomass and use therefor
An object of the present invention is to identify a novel gene that effectively increases plant biomass and to provide said gene as well as techniques utilizing the same.This invention provides a nucleic acid encoding a protein, wherein the protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 and an amino acid sequence having at least 25% identity or at least 75% similarity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:7 or 11, and has an activity to increase plant biomass, as well as techniques utilizing the same. |
| US10640780B2 |
Tobacco plant and method for manufacturing same
The present invention provides a tobacco plant which is suitable for cultivation for harvesting leaf tobaccos. The present invention includes (i) a tobacco plant in which a mutation for suppressing the development of axillary buds is introduced and (ii) a method of producing the tobacco plant. |
| US10640776B2 |
Method for propagating adenoviral vectors encoding inhibitory gene products
The invention provides a method of propagating an adenoviral vector. The method comprises (a) providing a cell comprising a cellular genome comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a tetracycline operon repressor protein (tetR), and (b) contacting the cell with an adenoviral vector comprising a heterologous nucleic acid sequence encoding a toxic protein. The heterologous nucleic acid sequence is operably linked to a promoter and one or more tetracycline operon operator sequences (tetO), and expression of the heterologous nucleic acid sequence is inhibited in the presence of tetR, such that the adenoviral vector is propagated. The invention also provides a system comprising the aforementioned cell and adenoviral vector. |
| US10640775B2 |
Fusion protein, nanoparticle composed of a plurality of monomers of said fusion protein, and uses thereof
A fusion protein based on the heavy chain of human ferritin is described, which includes at the N terminus of the protein at least one metalloproteinase cleavage sequence and a PAS polypeptide that acts as a masking polymer that increases the protein-drug stability, as well as a nanoparticle composed of multiple monomers of said fusion protein, a nucleic acid encoding for said fusion protein, and diagnostic and therapeutic applications thereof. |
| US10640772B2 |
DNA aptamers binding to molecular targeted agents and detection method of molecular targeted medicine using the same
The objective of the present invention is to provide a DNA aptamer that can specifically binding to a molecular targeted medicine, a composition comprising the DNA aptamer, and a method for detecting a molecular targeted medicine using the DNA aptamer.A DNA aptamer comprising specifically binding to a molecular targeted medicine, a composition for detecting a molecular targeted medicine comprising the DNA aptamer, a kid for detecting a molecular targeted medicine, and a method for detecting a molecular targeted medicine comprising using the DNA aptamer. |
| US10640771B2 |
Compositions and methods for treating and preventing macular degeneration
Compositions and methods for treating macular degeneration are disclosed. The methods utilize IL17 inhibitors, such as IL17 receptors, as well as fusion proteins including an IL17 receptor fused with a multimerization domain, and recombinant viral vectors encoding such fusions. |
| US10640768B2 |
Method of treating pain with an antibody against netrin-4, UNC5B or neogenin
The present invention provides a screening method for pain suppressors, which method is characterized by using netrin-4 and/or a netrin-4 receptor to select a substance capable of inhibiting downstream signaling from netrin-4. According to the screening method of the present invention, pain suppressors useful as a preventive or therapeutic medicine for pain can be identified. The present invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition for prevention or treatment of pain, which composition comprises, as an active ingredient, a substance capable of inhibiting downstream signaling from netrin-4. |
| US10640756B2 |
Method of producing monomeric card in bacteria
Provided is a method of producing monomeric caspase activation and recruitment domains (CARDs) in bacteria. According to this method, CARD domains may be easily produced in a monomeric form. Monomeric CARDs may be applied to studies on the mechanism of action of caspase, the development of new drugs, detection and elimination of endotoxins, development of cosmetics, etc. |
| US10640750B2 |
Ultrasound technology to control the spatial organization of cells and proteins in engineered tissues
The present invention is directed to methods of inducing spatial organization of cells an in vitro culture system using ultrasound technology. The invention is further directed to methods of inducing extracellular matrix remodeling and neovessel formation in an in vitro culture system and generating vascularized engineered tissue constructs using ultrasound technology. |
| US10640738B2 |
Processes for making liquid detergent compositions comprising a liquid crystalline phase
Processes for making stable, structured, liquid detergent compositions, such as liquid laundry detergent compositions, having a high fraction of liquid crystalline phase. Related base mixes and laundry detergent compositions. |
| US10640737B2 |
Cleaning composition
A cleaning composition including a) from about 1% to about 60% by weight of the composition of a surfactant system comprising an anionic surfactant and a primary co-surfactant selected from the group consisting of amphoteric surfactant, zwitterionic surfactant and mixtures thereof; and b) from about 0.001% to about 5% by weight of the composition of a class II hydrophobin. |
| US10640732B2 |
Lens solution, contact lens, and production method therefor
Provided is a lens solution which has excellent lipid detergency, exhibits high hydrophilization performance, and exhibits an excellent lipid adhesion preventive effect and an excellent lubricity-imparting effect when the solution is used to coat a lens. Disclosed is a lens solution containing a polymer having 2.5% to 95% by mass of the following repeating unit (A) and 2.5% to 95% by mass of the following repeating unit (B): (A) a hydrophilic repeating unit; and (B) a repeating unit having a polyoxyalkylene group in a side chain and having the end of the side chain formed from an alkyl group having 5 to 30 carbon atoms, an alkanoyl group having 5 to 30 carbon atoms, or an aryl group. |
| US10640727B2 |
Corrosion resistant lubricant
A lubricant contains alcohol initiated propylene oxide homopolymer, an oil soluble polyalkylene glycol other than the alcohol initiated propylene oxide homopolymer, and a calcium salt of dinonylnaphthalene sulphonate where the lubricant is further characterized by containing less than ten weight-percent of polyol esters based on total lubricant weight is useful as a lubricant for compressors. |
| US10640724B2 |
Additive package and lubricating oil composition
An additive package is disclosed for preparing an automotive crankcase lubricating oil composition for an internal combustion engine. The additive package is made by admixing: (i) 50 mass % or less of an oil of lubricating viscosity; (ii) 50 mass % or less of at least one overbased metal detergent, preferably at least one overbased metal hydroxybenzoate detergent; (iii) 50 mass % or less of an oil-soluble block or graft co-polymer of at least one polymeric block A which is derived from a hydroxycarboxylic acid and at least one polyalkylene block B which is a residue of a polyalkylene glycol, and (iv) optionally, at least one further additive selected from a dispersant, an antioxidant and/or an antiwear agent. The additive package includes less than 2.00 mass % preferably less than 1.50 mass %, of a friction modifier which is a monoester of a C5 to C30 carboxylic acid and which is free of nitrogen.Component (ii) is preferably an overbased metal hydroxybenzoate detergent.Component (iii) acts as a friction modifier and can be used as a replacement for a friction modifier such as glycerol monooleate.The additive package exhibits improved stability. |
| US10640722B2 |
Lubricating mixture having glycerides
The present invention relates to a lubricating mixture, which contains glycerides of natural origin and fatty acid alkyl esters. The glycerides are at least partly mono and/or diglycerides which form a mass fraction of 10% in the mixture. In a temperature range from ≥10° C. to at least 15° C. the mixture has a liquid phase with a solid fraction of 1 vol. %, which is formed from a fraction of glycerides and/or fatty acid alkyl esters. The mixture can be formed entirely from renewable raw materials, has a high viscosity index and is particularly suitable as a lubricant for use in gearings, electric motors or internal combustion engines. |
| US10640721B2 |
Method for producing renewable middle-distillate composition, use of the composition and fuel containing the same
The present invention provides a fuel comprising a renewable middle distillate composition obtainable by hydrodeoxygenation of a feedstock comprising levulinic acid dimers/oligomers and fractionated distillation. The renewable middle distillate composition contains less than 10.0 wt.-% aromatics. |
| US10640718B2 |
Environment-friendly marine fuel
For the shipping industry, these fuels provide solutions to long outstanding technical problems that heretofore hindered supply of low sulfur marine fuels in quantities needed to meet worldwide sulfur reduction goals. Marine shipping use of high sulfur bunker oils is reported as largest source of world-wide transportation SOx emissions. When ships on the open seas burn cheap low grade heavy bunker oils high in sulfur, nitrogen and metals, the SOx, NOx, and metal oxides go to the environment. This invention converts essentially all of each barrel of crude feed to a single ultraclean fuel versus conventional refining where crude feed is cut into many pieces, and each piece is sent down a separate market path meeting various different product specifications. When in port, ships can use these fuels to generate and sell electricity to land based electrical grids to offset fuel cost in an environment-friendly manner. |
| US10640715B2 |
Supercritical reactor systems and processes for petroleum upgrading
Supercritical upgrading reactors and reactor systems are provided for upgrading a petroleum-based composition using one or more purging fluid inlets to prevent plugging of the catalyst layer in the reactor. Processes for upgrading petroleum-based compositions by utilizing a reactor having at least one purging fluid inlet are also provided. |
| US10640713B1 |
Biomass energy and value maximization
A system and method to a power production cycle optimized for combusting fractionated solid biomass such that the fractionated solid biomass is transported in a solvent that is utilized in a solvent-enhanced biomass liquefaction conversion process and the solvent is subsequently fractionated from the fractionated solid biomass for direct use as a liquid fuel for transport vehicles to maximize energy density and total system energy efficiency. Utilizing the solvent as a waste heat recovery method prior to combustion by the transport vehicle increases the total system energy efficiency and maximizes biomass value creation. |
| US10640711B2 |
Multistage thermolysis method for safe and efficient conversion of treated wood waste sources
Clean, safe and efficient methods, systems, and processes for utilizing thermolysis methods to processes to convert various treated wood sources, such as rail road ties, cross ties, RR crossing roadways, telephone poles, utility poles, cross arm members, bridge timbers, decking, walkways, dock timbers and wharf pilings, lake and ocean pier/pilings, landscaping timbers and edging, treated outdoor engineering structural and other reinforced wood composites, and other end-of-life treated wood materials, into a Clean Fuel Gas and Biochar are disclosed. The invention processes the treated wood sources using thermolysis methods to destroy and/or separate halogen and other dangerous components to provide a Clean Fuel Gas and Biochar source. |
| US10640709B2 |
Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device
Provided are a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature, low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large dielectric anisotropy and a short helical pitch, or the liquid crystal composition having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics; and an AM device including the composition. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific optically active compound as an additive, and a specific compound having high maximum temperature or small viscosity as a first component, and may contain a specific compound having positive dielectric anisotropy as a second component, or a specific compound having negative dielectric anisotropy as a third component. |
| US10640706B2 |
Etching compositions and method of etching by using the same
The present invention relates to an etching composition, an etching method, and a method of preparing a semiconductor device using the same, and more particularly, to an etching composition comprising a compound capable of selectively removing a nitride film with a high selectivity while minimizing an etch rate of the oxide film, and a method of preparing a semiconductor device comprising an etching process using the etching composition. |
| US10640704B2 |
Luminescent material
The invention relates to a material represented by the following formula (I) (M′)8(M″M′″)6O24(X,X′)2:M″″ formula (I). Further, the invention relates to a luminescent material, to different uses, and to a device. |
| US10640701B2 |
Enhancing proppant performance
A method may comprise providing a concentrated proppant slurry comprising a slurry fluid and a proppant, preparing a fracturing fluid by combining components comprising the concentrated proppant slurry, a carrier fluid, and a dispersing agent, and introducing the fracturing fluid through a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation at an injection rate and pressure that is at or above the fracture gradient of the subterranean formation. |
| US10640699B2 |
Treatment of circulating water systems including well treatment fluids for oil and gas applications
A biocidal additive includes a blend of a biguanide compound and a polymeric ammonium compound. A method of treating a water system includes adding a biocidal additive to the water system to achieve a minimum inhibitory concentration or greater in the water system. In exemplary embodiments, the water system is a well treatment fluid for oil and gas applications, the blend is a synergistic blend, the biguanide compound is polyhexamethylene biguanide, and the polymeric ammonium compound is poly[oxyethylene(dimethyliminio)ethylene(dimethyliminio)ethylene dichloride]. |
| US10640695B2 |
Dispersant in cement formulations for oil and gas wells
Cement slurries, cured cements, and methods of making cured cement and methods of using cement slurries are provided. The cement slurries have, among other attributes, improved rheology, such as improved flowability and pumpability and may be used, for instance, in the oil and gas drilling industry. The cement slurry contains water, a cement precursor material and a surfactant having the formula R—(OC2H4)x—OH where R is a hydrocarbyl group comprising from 10 to 20 carbon atoms and x is an integer from 1 and 10. The cured cement have improved strength and density properties due to reduced fluid loss and even placement during curing. The cured cement contains a surfactant having the formula R—(OC2H4)x—OH where R is a hydrocarbyl group comprising from 10 to 20 carbon atoms and x is an integer from 1 and 10. |
| US10640693B2 |
Star macromolecules for wellbore applications
The present disclosure provides treatment fluids that comprise star macromolecules as a fluid loss additive or a viscosifier. An embodiment of the present disclosure is a method comprising: providing a treatment fluid that comprises: an aqueous base fluid; and a star macromolecule that comprises: a hydraulic polymeric core, a first group of polymeric arms attached to the core wherein each of the arms in the first group consists of hydrophilic monomers, and a second group of polymeric arms attached to the core wherein each of the arms in the second group comprises at least one hydrophilic homopolymeric segment and at least one hydrophobic homopolymeric segment; and introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation. |
| US10640692B2 |
Graphene oxide-nanodiamond composite, manufacturing method thereof, and nanofluid including the same
Disclosed herein is a composite comprising a graphene oxide and a nanodiamond that is chemically bonded on a surface of the graphene oxide. |
| US10640691B2 |
Refrigerating machine oil composition and working fluid composition for refrigerating machine using same
Provided is a refrigerating machine oil composition for a refrigerant consisting of difluoromethane, the composition comprising a polymer (A) below and an ester (B) of polyhydric alcohol(s) with aliphatic monocarboxylic acid(s).The polymer (A): a polymer which is obtained by polymerizing monomer(s) consisting of at least one monomer of monosubstituted ethylenes and disubstituted ethylenes, and in which a ratio of a monomer represented by the following general formula (I): wherein R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, R2 represents hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and the sum of carbon numbers in R1 and R2 is 2 to 5, is 75 to 100% by mass based on a total mass of monomers constituting the polymer. |
| US10640690B2 |
Adhesive compositions with (meth)acrylic-based block copolymers
Adhesive compositions are provided that contain a crosslink product resulting from exposure of a (meth)acrylic-based composition to electron beam radiation, gamma ray radiation, or both. More particularly, the (meth)acrylic-based composition includes a (meth)acrylic-based diblock copolymer and an optional (meth)acrylic-based triblock copolymer. These adhesive compositions are particularly well suited for application to biological surface such as skin. |
| US10640687B2 |
Polymeric materials formed using controlled radical initiators
Controlled radical initiators, reaction mixtures containing the controlled radical initiators and various ethylenically unsaturated monomers, polymeric materials formed from the reaction mixtures, crosslinkable compositions containing the polymeric materials, and crosslinked compositions formed from the crosslinkable compositions are provided. The controlled radical initiators are bis-dithiocarbamate or bis-dithiocarbonate compounds having a single carbon between the two dithiocarbamate or dithiocarbonate groups. |
| US10640685B2 |
Multi-layer blown film
A multi-layer blown polymer film comprising a core layer (CL) and at least one sealing layer (SL), said sealing layer(s) (SL) comprise(s) a propylene copolymer composition (P) having a comonomer content in the range of 3.0 to 8.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 α-olefins, said propylene copolymer composition (P) comprises a polypropylene (A) and a polypropylene (B) in the weight ratio [(A)/(B)] of 20/80 to 80/20, wherein said polypropylene (A) has a comonomer content of equal or below 4.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 α-olefins, and said propylene copolymer (B) has a comonomer content of 4.0 to 20.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 α-olefins. |
| US10640680B2 |
Chemical-mechanical processing slurry and methods
Described are chemical mechanical processing (CMP) compositions and related methods, including compositions and methods for polishing nickel-containing substrate surfaces such as nickel phosphorus (NiP) surfaces for hard disk applications, wherein the compositions contain highly irregular-shaped fused silica abrasive particles. |
| US10640678B2 |
Stretchable polymer thick film compositions for thermoplastic substrates and wearables electronics
This invention is directed to stretchable polymer thick film compositions useful for wearable garments. More specifically, the polymer thick film may be used in applications where significant stretching is required, particularly on substrates that can be highly elongated. A particular type of substrate is a thermoplastic polyurethane substrate. |
| US10640675B2 |
Hybrid polymer coating for petrous or ceramic substrates, petrous or ceramic substrate, and obtaining method
A coating having a thickness between 0.1 and 2 mm is obtained from a mixture with the following composition: 10-25% by weight of micronized powder; 40-60% by weight of inorganic gravels of petrographic origin of sizes comprised between 0.063-2 mm; 10-40% by weight of a polymerisable base resin selected from polyurethane, polyester, epoxy or acrylic, with additives, and optionally pigments. The proportion of the mentioned gravel and micronized powder of the coating being up to 90% in an inner most area of interphase between coating and surface of the petrous substrate, covering one third of the thickness of the coating. The method comprises depositing the mentioned mixture on the substrate and vibrating the assembly, and subsequently proceeding to a step of curing and subsequent mechanical finishing of the surface. |
| US10640673B2 |
Methods for maintaining unpaved roads
Methods are described for maintaining unpaved roads. The methods include applying an aqueous composition to a section of an unpaved road (such as a mine haul road in a mine). The aqueous composition includes from 5 to 10,000 ppm of a synthetic polymer in water, and may be applied periodically. The synthetic polymer may be compatible with chemical processes employed by the mine, and the method may also include subsequently mining the section of the mine haul road. |
| US10640672B2 |
Acrylic photovoltaic module backsheet
The invention relates to an acrylic layer (in the form of a coating, film or sheet) useful as part of a photovoltaic module backsheet. The acrylic layer contains at least 40 percent of one or more acrylic polymers, including an acrylic polymer matrix and optionally acrylic impact modifiers. The acrylic polymer is preferably a polymer, copolymer, or terpolymer containing at least 50 weight percent of methylmethacrylate monomer units. The acrylic layer is flexible and optionally contains high levels of white pigment. It may also contain fluoropolymers such as polyvinylidene fluoride to improve weathering, processibility and film formation. The acrylic layer adheres to a polymer support layer such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET). A preferred substrate is PET that is pre-treated to improve adhesion, but unprimed PET can also be used. The backsheet provides excellent weatherability, environmental stability and reflectivity as part of a photovoltaic module. |
| US10640662B2 |
Dispersant, dispersion, ink composition, and methods of preparation thereof
A novel dispersant contains a specific acetylene glycol and/or a specific acetylene glycol ethoxylate in combination with a specific arylphenol compound. Even when added in a small amount, the dispersant rapidly disperses disperse dyes and pigments and moreover exhibits excellent wettability and antifoaming properties. Dispersions and ink compositions containing the dispersant are also disclosed. |
| US10640656B2 |
Primer composition and articles made therefrom
There are provided primer compositions comprising a primer component comprising: a rubber; an amine-functional (meth)acrylic resin; and a plasticizer. There are also provided articles made using these primer compositions. |
| US10640654B2 |
Optical fiber coating and composition with UV-absorbing additive
A coating composition containing a radiation-curable component, a photoinitiator, and a UV absorber is described. The coating composition may be applied to an optical fiber and cured to form a coating. The UV absorber provides a protective function by inhibiting unintended curing of the coating that may occur upon exposure of the fiber to UV light during fiber processing. The spectral overlap of the photoinitiator and UV absorber is minimized to permit efficient photoinitiation of the curing reaction over one or more wavelengths. Photoinitiation may be excited by an LED source with a peak emission wavelength in the range from 360 nm-410 nm. |
| US10640647B2 |
Polyamide resin composition
Provided is a polyamide resin composition which comprises a polyamide resin (A) and an impact-resistant material (B), wherein the polyamide resin (A) comprises an aliphatic copolyamide (A-1) comprising three or more types of monomers and an aliphatic polyamide (A-2), wherein the content of the aliphatic copolyamide (A-1) in the polyamide resin composition is 1% by mass to 30% by mass. |
| US10640642B2 |
Method for producing resin composition
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for obtaining a resin composition in which coloration is suppressed. According to an embodiment, provided is a method for producing a resin composition, including: (a) obtaining a resin by polymerization of a resin raw material containing a compound represented by formula (1) below and (b) obtaining a resin composition by mixing an additive into the resin, wherein a polymerization temperature T1 in step (a) falls within the range of 230° C. |
| US10640629B2 |
Aerogel-containing composition and insulation blanket prepared using the same
The present disclosure provides an aerogel-containing composition including an aerogel, a water-soluble binder, a foaming agent, and a mixture of water and a polar organic solvent as a solvent, and an insulation blanket prepared using the same. In the aerogel-containing composition, the aerogel is uniformly dispersed in the composition, and when preparing a blanket, an insulation blanket having low thermal conductivity and flexibility of low density is prepared without concern of shrinkage of the substrate for a blanket and detachment of the aerogel during a drying process. |
| US10640628B2 |
Natural crystalline colorant and process for production
A crystalline pigment or colorant composition having high color intensity and/or low sugar content, and methods and processes of preparation. The composition may comprise purified fruit and/or vegetable color juices. |
| US10640627B2 |
Method of producing amine adduct of conductive composite, method of producing amine adduct liquid of conductive composite, and method of producing conductive film
Provided is a method of producing an amine adduct of a conductive composite, including: adding an amine compound to a conductive polymer dispersion liquid which contains water and a conductive composite containing a π conjugated conductive polymer and a polyanion at a mass ratio of the π conjugated conductive polymer to the polyanion of 1:3 to 1:7.5 to precipitate an amine adduct of the conductive composite. |
| US10640626B2 |
Compositions of mixed diesters of 1,4: 3,6-dianhydrohexitol
A method for producing a composition of diesters, includes a step including the esterification of 1,4:3,6-dianhydrohexitol by a composition of carboxylic acids, the composition including: at least an acid having formula C7H15COOH (X) and an acid having formula C9H19COOH (Y), the mass ratio (X)/(Y) varying between 10/90 and 90/10. |
| US10640625B2 |
Vinyl chloride resin composition, vinyl chloride resin molded product, and laminate
Provided is a vinyl chloride resin composition that can provide a molded product having superior flexibility at low temperatures. The vinyl chloride resin composition includes (a) a vinyl chloride resin and (b) a dodecanedioic acid diester. Moreover, (a) the vinyl chloride resin includes (x) a base vinyl chloride resin in an amount of from 70 mass % to 100 mass % and (y) vinyl chloride resin fine particles in an amount of from 0 mass % to 30 mass %. |
| US10640623B2 |
Porous body, and method for producing porous body
According to the present invention, there are provided a porous body comprising a porous silicone substrate having communicating pores and a three-dimensional network silicone skeleton which forms the pores and which is formed by a copolymerization of a bifunctional alkoxysilane and a trifunctional alkoxysilane, and a polymeric cover material covering at least a part of a surface of the silicone skeleton, and an a method for producing the porous body. The porous body of the present invention has high flexibility and is strong to tension. |
| US10640622B2 |
Method for providing textured, porous polymeric films
Textured and porous organic polymeric films can be obtained by subjecting organic polymeric films that are swellable in carbon dioxide, to supercritical carbon dioxide while such films are under an atmospheric pressure of at least 73 bar and an applied physical force of at least 0.05 Newtons. The textured and porous organic polymeric films have surface wrinkles having an average peak to valley height of at least 1 μm and up to and including 3,000 μm, and a porosity of at least 10%. |
| US10640621B2 |
Membrane and method for producing the membrane
A membrane for a membrane valve is proposed. The membrane is produced from polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE. An electronic data carrier is arranged between the membrane and a retaining layer. |
| US10640620B2 |
Acrylic resin composition for film
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an acrylic resin composition for a film having reduced bleeding and sticking to a roll during formation of an acrylic resin film. The present invention is an acrylic resin composition for a film, the composition comprising: a high-molecular-weight hindered amine-based light stabilizer (A) having a triazine backbone; and an acrylic resin (B). When this acrylic resin composition for a film is used, there is reduced bleeding to a roll surface during film formation, and minimized sticking of the film to the roll. |
| US10640618B2 |
Polyurethane-polyisocyanurate resins for fiber composite materials with a longer open time
A process is disclosed for producing polyurethane-polyisocyanurate-fiber composite parts, wherein a composition comprising polyisocyanate, a mixture obtainable by introducing an alkali metal salt or alkaline earth metal salt into a compound R—NH—CO—R′ containing urethane groups, with R′ being not hydrogen and/or not COR″, a compound containing one or more epoxide groups, polyetherol having an average functionality of 1.8 to 5.0 and a hydroxyl number of 200 to 500, a chain extender, fibrous reinforcing agents and optionally further additives form a reaction mixture. The reaction mixture is applied to the fibrous reinforcing agent and caused to react to form the polyurethane-polyisocyanurate-fiber composite part. Further disclosed is a polyurethane-polyisocyanurate-fiber composite part producible by such a process, and also the use of a polyurethane-polyisocyanurate-fiber composite part as a bodywork component of vehicles, such as bumpers, fenders or roof parts, or as structural or semistructural components for vehicles or wind turbines. |
| US10640611B2 |
Polyamine addition compounds
The invention relates to polyamine addition compounds, methods for the production thereof, the use thereof as crosslinking agents and dispersing agents, and paints and plastic materials containing the addition compounds. |
| US10640605B2 |
Xylylenediisocyanate composition, xylylenediisocyanate-modified composition, two-component resin material, and resin
A xylylenediisocyanate composition including xylylenediisocyanate and a compound represented by Chemical Formula (1) below, wherein 0.6 ppm or more and 60 ppm or less of the compound represented by Chemical Formula (1) below is contained: |
| US10640600B2 |
Rigid polyurethane foams suitable for use as panel insulation
Disclosed are polyurethane-foam forming compositions, rigid polyurethane foams and methods for their production, as well as to composite articles comprising such foams sandwiched between facer substrates, including use of such composite elements for side-wall and/or roof insulating elements for refrigerated tractor trailers. The rigid polyurethane foams are produced from an isocyanate-reactive component comprising: (1) a polyol blend; (2) a halogenated hydroolefin; (3) a surfactant; (4) water; and (5) a tertiary amine catalyst composition. |
| US10640597B2 |
Method for immobilizing molecularly imprinted polymers
In a first aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for immobilizing a molecularly imprinted polymer onto a substrate, comprising providing a substrate having an amorphous carbon surface; and grafting the molecularly imprinted polymer onto the amorphous carbon surface. |
| US10640596B2 |
Rubber polymer, graft copolymer, preparation methods therefor, and impact resistant and heat resistant resin composition
Disclosed are a rubber polymer, a graft copolymer, methods of preparing the same, and an impact and heat resistant resin composition. According to the present invention, provided are rubber latex and a graft copolymer which may realize a product having superior impact resistance, heat resistance and chemical resistance by adding a specific crosslinking regulator to the rubber polymer, methods of preparing the same, and an impact and heat resistant resin composition. |
| US10640592B2 |
Cation polymer capable of removing positive charges through oxidative response, a preparation method and application
Disclosed are the cation polymers capable of removing their positive charges in oxidative conditions, preparation methods, and applications as gene delivery carriers. The oxidation-responsive unit is the p-(boronic acid or ester)benzylammonium, which upon oxidation eliminates p-hydroxymethlphenol and thus converts in a tertiary amine. Compared with the prior art, different from a common quaternary amination carrier, the synthesized charge reversal type gene delivery carrier for oxidative response of the present invention has a large quantity of positive charges and can well coat a DNA, but the positive charges can be removed under the condition of intracellular oxidation when the charge reversal type gene delivery carrier enters a cell, a charge reverse is triggered, the positive charges turn to negative charges, and the DNA is quickly released for transfection. The carrier is efficient, low in toxicity, and good in application prospect. |
| US10640589B2 |
Polybutadiene polymers and rubber compositions incorporating same for low temperature applications
Embodiments of 1,4-polybutadiene rubber compositions useful at low temperatures are provided, wherein the 1,4-polybutadiene incorporated therein comprises a cis content of at least 85 to about 92%, a vinyl content of at about 1% to about 5%, and a trans content of about 3 to about 12%, and wherein the 1,4-polybutadiene has an enthalpy of melting ΔHm of about 5 to about 25 J/g° C. as measured via differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). |
| US10640586B2 |
Catalyst system for polymerization of an olefin
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a catalyst system suitable for olefin polymerization wherein the external electron donor is n-propyltriethoxysilane, and a catalyst system obtained or obtainable by said process. The invention also relates to a process for preparing a polyolefin using said catalyst system. The invention further relates to a polyolefin, in particular polyprolyene, obtainable by such a process, and shaped articles manufactured from such a polymer. The polymers produced using the catalyst system exhibit low volatiles and therefore have a reduced environmental and health impact. |
| US10640583B2 |
Catalyst composition comprising fluorided support and processes for use thereof
This invention relates to a catalyst system comprising fluorided silica, alkylalumoxane activator and at least two metallocene catalyst compounds, where the first metallocene is a bridged monocyclopentadienyl group 4 transition metal compound and the second metallocene is a biscyclopentadientyl group 4 transition metal compound, where the fluorided support has not been calcined at a temperature of 400° C. or more, and is preferably produced using a west mixing method, such as an aqueous method. |
| US10640582B2 |
Olefin polymerization process
The present invention relates to an olefin polymerization process comprising polymerization of at least one olefin monomer in one or more polymerization reactors. In addition, the present invention relates to a system for vapor phase polymerization of at least one polymerizable monomer. |
| US10640581B2 |
Waterborne damping composition
A waterborne sound and vibration damping composition including a waterborne emulsion polymer, the polymer having a calculated acid number of from 2 to 100; from 0.1% to 50%, solids based on emulsion polymer solids, of certain liquid compounds having a boiling point greater than 150° C.; and a solid filler at a level of from 25% to 85% PVC; wherein the waterborne damping composition has a water content of from 6% to 25% by weight is provided. A method for providing a coated substrate using the waterborne damping composition and a substrate so coated are also provided. |
| US10640579B2 |
Modified conjugated diene-based polymer and rubber composition containing same
The present invention provides a modified conjugated diene polymer in which a phenoxy group of a polar group-containing phenoxy compound is bonded to at least one selected from the group consisting of the end, main chain, and side chain of a conjugated diene polymer, which can further improve a rubber composition in the low-heat-generation property and abrasion resistance, and a rubber composition using the same. |
| US10640577B2 |
Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters and films made therefrom
Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters having a plurality of pivaloyl substituents and a plurality of aryl-acyl substituents are disclosed along with methods for making the same. Such cellulose esters may be suitable for use in films, such as +A optical films, and/or +C optical films. Optical films prepared employing such cellulose esters have a variety of commercial applications, such as, for example, as compensation films in liquid crystal displays and/or waveplates in creating circular polarized light used in 3-D technology. |
| US10640570B2 |
Chimeric antigen receptors, compositions, and methods
This disclosure describes chimeric antigen receptors for expression in a Natural Killer (NK) cell, pharmaceutical compositions that include NK cells (and/or iPSCs) modified to express a chimeric antigen receptor, and methods involving such chimeric antigen receptors. Generally, the chimeric antigen receptor includes an ectodomain that includes an antigen recognition region, a transmembrane domain linked to the ectodomain, and an endodomain linked to the transmembrane domain. The endodomain can include a signaling peptide that activates an NK cell. |
| US10640567B2 |
Anti-CD40 antibodies and methods of treating cancer having CD40+ tumor cells
The present invention relates to antibodies (and fragments, variants, fusions and derivatives thereof) with multivalent binding specificity for CD40, which have a potency for dendritic cell activation which is higher than, or is equal to, the potency for B cell activation and wherein the antibody, antigen-binding fragment, or fusion, variant or derivative thereof has an affinity (KD) for CD40 of less than 1×10−10 M, which have utility in the treatment of diseases such as cancer. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions, uses, methods and kits comprising such antibodies. |
| US10640561B2 |
Methods for manipulating phagocytosis mediated by CD47
Methods are provided to manipulate phagocytosis of cells, including hematopoietic cells, e.g. circulating hematopoietic cells, bone marrow cells, acute leukemia cells, etc.; and solid tumor cells. In some embodiments of the invention the circulating cells are hematopoietic stem cells, or hematopoietic progenitor cells, particularly in a transplantation context, where protection from phagocytosis is desirable. In other embodiments the circulating cells are leukemia cells, particularly acute myeloid leukemia (AML), where increased phagocytosis is desirable. |
| US10640559B2 |
Nucleic acid molecules encoding humanized IL-31 monoclonal antibodies
The invention provides humanized mouse anti-human IL-31 antibodies and antibody fragments that are capable of binding IL-31 and thereby neutralizing, inhibiting, limiting, or reducing the proinflammatory or pro-pruritic effects of IL-31. |
| US10640557B2 |
Pharmaceutical use of FAM19A5 involved in regulating gliogenesis
The present invention relates to the pharmaceutical use of FAM19A5 involved in regulating gliogenesis, and more specifically, to the use of FAM19A5 in the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of central nervous system injuries, degenerative brain diseases, or central nervous system diseases, FAM19A5 being spread in the neural stem cells in vertebrates and regulating gliogenesis. |
| US10640556B2 |
Anti amphiregulin antibodies, compositions comprising same and uses thereof
A method of determining the suitability of a subject to a treatment with an anti-amphiregulin antibody, wherein the subject has a cancer selected from the group consisting of ovarian cancer, head and neck cancer and pancreatic cancer exhibiting resistance to chemotherapy, is provided. The method comprising analyzing in a biological sample of the subject expression level of amphiregulin, transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha) and heparin-binding epidermal growth factor (HB-EGF), wherein a level of expression of the amphiregulin above a predetermined threshold and no expression of the TGF-alpha and/or the HB-EGF or an expression below a predetermined level of the TGF-alpha and/or the HB-EGF is indicative of the suitability of the subject to treatment with the anti-amphiregulin antibody. Methods for treating cancer are also provided, as well as antibodies and pharmaceutical compositions. |
| US10640553B2 |
Targeting cytotoxic cells with chimeric receptors for adoptive immunotherapy
The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating the specificity and activity of T cells. In one embodiment, the invention provides a type of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) wherein the CAR is termed a “KIR-CAR” which is a CAR design comprising a component of a receptor naturally found on natural killer (NK) cells. In one embodiment, the NK receptor includes but is not limited to a naturally occurring activating and inhibitory receptor of NK cells known as a killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR). |
| US10640551B2 |
Compositions, devices, kits and methods for detecting hookworm
Methods, devices, kits and compositions for detecting the presence or absence of hookworm in a fecal sample are disclosed herein. The methods, devices, kits and compositions of the present invention may be used to confirm the presence or absence of hookworm in a fecal sample from a mammal that may also be infected with one or more of roundworm, whipworm, and heartworm. Confirmation of the presence or absence of hookworm in the mammal may be made, for example, for the purpose of selecting an optimal course of treating the mammal and/or for the purpose of determining whether the mammal has been rid of the infection after treatment has been initiated. |
| US10640546B2 |
Non-canonical insulins and their uses
In some aspects, the invention relates to an insulin derivative, comprising a cyclic amino acid at position B28 or B29, wherein the cyclic amino acid is not L-proline. In some aspects, the invention relates to a method of making said insulin derivative. In some aspects, the invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising said insulin derivative. In some aspects the invention relates to a method of treating a disease or condition in a subject comprising administering to the subject a composition comprising said insulin derivative. |
| US10640545B2 |
Apelin peptides and uses thereof
The disclosure relates to modified apelin polypeptides having increased stability against kallikrein, NEP and ACE2 degradation and/or potency relative to the native apelin-13 and apelin-17 polypeptides. Embodiments also disclose methods of using the polypeptides for treating cardiovascular disorders. |
| US10640544B2 |
Antibody-coupled cyclic peptide tyrosine tyrosine compounds as modulators of neuropeptide Y receptors
The present invention comprises conjugates comprising a monoclonal antibody conjugated to a cyclic PYY peptide. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for use thereof. The novel conjugates are useful for preventing, treating or ameliorating diseases and disorders disclosed herein. |
| US10640539B2 |
Recombinant protein-based method for the delivery of silencer RNA to target the brain
The present invention relates to the design and development of recombinant protein for the delivery of silencer RNA complex to mediate RNA interference since it represents a novel therapeutic approach to modulate several neurodegenerative disease-related genes across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). To overcome challenges due to this barrier for biologics and other biological complex, the present invention describes a method wherein peptide having sequence GGGGHLNILSTLWKYRC represented by SEQ ID NO. 1 known to target specific gangliosides was linked to a double-stranded RNA binding protein to bind and deliver silencer RNA to the brain parenchyma. The designed fusion protein comprising a double-stranded RNA-binding domain (dsRBD) of human Trans Activation response element (TAR) RNA Binding Protein (TARBP2) and a brain targeting peptide sequence that binds GM1. Conformation-specific binding of TARBP2 domain to silencer RNA results in the formation of homogenous serum-stable complex with GM1 targeting potential. Uptake of the complex in neural cells reveals selective requirement of GM1 for entry. Remarkably, the invention pertains to the systemic delivery of the complex comprising TARBP-BTP and silencer RNA in AβPP-PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD) led to distinctive localization primarily in the cerebral hemisphere in the hippocampus and brain cortex and in principle can work across other mammalian CNS targets. Further, the delivery of silencer-RNA mediated by brain targeting peptide fusion led to significant knockdown of BACE1, a therapeutic protease target in both AβPP-PS1 and wild type C57BL/6 mice. The invention establishes the emergent importance of fusion proteins in delivering therapeutic siRNA as a simple complex to brain tissues to treat neurodegenerative diseases besides Alzheimer's disease (AD). The complex is also useful to study gene function of hitherto unidentified genes/interplay of genes in mammalian systems and central nervous system. |
| US10640535B2 |
Identification of MHC class I phospho-peptide antigens from breast cancer utilizing SHLA technology and complementary enrichment strategies
The present invention describes novel tumor-specific phosphorylated peptides, nucleic acids encoding those peptides, and antibodies generated against said peptides. The genes, peptides, and antibodies described herein may be used as diagnostic indicators of the presence of breast cancer and/or used in therapeutics to treat breast cancer. |
| US10640532B2 |
Crystal of reduced glutathione
The present invention provides a crystal of reduced glutathione that is stable, and is easy to process, and a method for producing the crystal. According to the present invention, a crystal of a metal salt of reduced glutathione is produced by suspending an amorphous solid of a metal salt of reduced glutathione in a hydrophobic organic solvent, and adding water to the resulting suspension to precipitate a crystal of a metal salt of reduced glutathione. |
| US10640530B2 |
Method for facilitating extraction of a fraction from a biological sample
A method is provided for facilitating extraction of a fraction from a biological sample. The biological sample includes non-desired material and a fraction-bound solid phase substrate. The method includes the steps of capturing the fraction-bound solid phase substrate and bringing an isolation buffer and the fraction-bound solid phase substrate into contact to purify the captured fraction-bound solid phase substrate. |
| US10640525B2 |
Platinum complex, OLED and apparatus for providing visible emission or near-infrared emission
A platinum complex, an OLED and an apparatus for providing visible emission or near-infrared (NIR) emission using the same are described. The platinum complex has a structure represented by formula (I): wherein A1 to A4 each independently represent a 5-membered or 6-membered unsaturated ring, a first chelating ligand including A1 and A4 fragments has a minus one formal charge, and a second chelating ligand including A2 and A3 fragments has a minus one formal charge. |
| US10640515B2 |
Hepatitis C virus inhibitor and uses thereof
Disclosed is a compound of formula (I-a) as an inhibitor of hepatitis C virus (HCV), or an optical isomer, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a hydrate or a solvate thereof, usable to treat HCV infections or hepatitis C diseases and also usable as an inhibitor of HCV non-structural protein 5A (NS5A) In the formula (I-a), A and A′ are independently each R1, R4 and R6 are independently selected from the group consisting of fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine; R2 and R2′ are independently selected from substituted or unsubstituted C1-C6 alkyl; R3 and R3′ are independently selected from substituted or unsubstituted C1-C6 alkyl; R5 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine; n is 2, 3, 4 or 5; m is 0, 1, 2 or 3; and p is 0, 1, 2 or 3. |
| US10640514B2 |
Polymorph of DPPIV inhibitor maleate and preparation method therefor
The invention describes a polymorph of (R)-methyl-2-(3-aminopiperidin-1-yl)-3-(2-cyanobenzyl)-4-carbonyl-3,4-dihydrothiophene[3,2-d]pyrimidine-6-carboxylic acid maleate and a preparation method therefor. The polymorph is a crystal having high stability and low hygroscopicity, and the crystal form is selected from crystal form A, crystal form B and crystal form C. Furthermore, the crystal form has a strong in-vivo hypoglycemic activity and can be used for the preparation of a novel drug for the treatment or prevention of diabetes mellitus type H and/or complications of diabetes mellitus type H. |
| US10640513B2 |
Compound and composition for detecting phosgene and diethyl chlorophosphate
The present invention relates to a compound for detecting phosgene and DCP (diethyl chlorophosphate) and a composition for detecting phosgene and DCP (diethyl chlorophosphate) comprising the said compound. More precisely, the compound for detecting phosgene and DCP of the present invention can selectively detect phosgene and DCP either in the liquid phase of gas phase by detecting the changes of fluorescence and color development very quickly within a few seconds with nM sensitivity. Therefore, the compound can also be effectively used as an ingredient for the composition and kit for the detection of one or more materials selected from the group consisting of phosgene and DCP. |
| US10640511B2 |
Hepatitis B antiviral agents
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, thereof: which inhibit the protein(s) encoded by hepatitis B virus (HBV) or interfere with the function of the HBV life cycle of the hepatitis B virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HBV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HBV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention. |
| US10640510B2 |
Metabotrophic glutamate receptor 5 modulators and methods use thereof
Compounds that modulate GluR5 activity and methods of using the same are disclosed. |
| US10640508B2 |
Diazene directed modular synthesis of compounds with quaternary carbon centers
Diazene-directed modular synthesis is described for the preparation Csp2-Csp3 and Csp3-Csp3 linkages where one or more stereogenic quaternary carbon centers are formed. The disclosed methods are directed to the preparation of compounds of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer or stereoisomer thereof, from compounds of Formula (II): wherein R1-R5 and q are as defined independently for each occurrence herein. A wide variety of compounds can be accessed in this manner, including oligocyclotryptamines, where the stereochemistry of each subunit is beneficially secured before fragment coupling. |
| US10640507B2 |
PBD antibacterial agents
The invention relates to pyrrolobenzodiazepines compounds (PBDs) and to pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are useful as medicaments, in particular, to treat bacterial infections. The PBDs are compounds of formula (I): and salts and solvates thereof; wherein: dotted lines indicates the optional presence of a double bond; X, X1, X2, X3 and X4 are connecting functional groups; L is C1-12 alkylene; R4, R5 and R6 are independently selected from phenylene, cyclopentanylene, cyclohexanylene, 5- to 9-membered heteroarylene and 5- to 6-membered hetereocyclylene groups, and these groups are optionally substituted with up to three optional substituent groups; R7 is selected from N(C1-6 alkyl)(C1-6alkyl), 5- to 6-membered nitrogen-containing hetereocyclyl groups, a monosaccharide moiety and an amino monosaccharide moiety wherein these groups are optionally substituted; and R8 and R9 either together form a double bond, or are selected from H and OR14, or R8 is a prodrug moiety and R9 is OR14; m is 0 or 1; with the proviso that when X4 is C(O)NH then the up to three optional substituents of R7 are not selected from (CH2)k-CO2R12; with the proviso that when X4 is (CH2)tO then R4 is not phenylene, m is 1 and R6 is not a 5- to 9-membered heteroarylene; and with the proviso that when X4 is C(O)NH or NHC(O) that R4 and/or R6 is not 5- to 9-membered heteroarylene. |
| US10640492B2 |
Tubulin inhibitor
Provided are a new tubulin inhibitor and applications thereof, the tubulin inhibitor being a series of compounds based on substituted heterocyclic skeletons, targeting the colchicine binding sites of tubulin. The structure is: Formula (I), wherein: formula (A), n independently expresses an integer between 0 and 5, the condition being that n≤5, A represents mono- or poly-substituted groups, the groups being selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C20 amide group, C1-C20 acyloxy group, C1-C20 alkanoyl group, C1-C20 alkoxycarbonyl group, C1-C20 alkoxy group, C1-C20 alkylamino group, C1-C20 alkylcarboxyamino group, aroyl group, aralkanoyl group, carboxyl group, cyano group, halogen group, hydroxyl group, nitro group and methylthienyl group. |
| US10640489B2 |
3-(1-oxoisoindolin-2-yl)piperidine-2,6-dione derivatives and uses thereof
The present disclosure provides a compound of Formula (I′): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, prodrug, stereoisomer, or tautomer thereof, wherein R1, R2, Rx, X1, n, n1, and q are as defined herein, and methods of making and using same. |
| US10640485B2 |
Methods and compounds for restoring mutant p53 function
Mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressors contribute to the development and progression of cancer. The present disclosure describes compounds and methods to recover wild-type function to p53 mutants. The compounds of the present invention can bind to mutant p53 and restore the ability of the p53 mutant to bind DNA and activate downstream effectors involved in tumor suppression. The disclosed compounds can be used to reduce the progression of cancers that contain a p53 mutation. |
| US10640483B2 |
Salts of indazole derivative and crystals thereof
The present invention provides salts of (E)-N,N-dimethyl-4-((2-((5-((Z)-4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(3-fluoro-1H-indazol-5-yl)-2-phenylbut-1-en-1-yl)pyridin-2-yl)oxy)ethyl)amino)but-2-enamide represented by the formula I and acids, and crystals thereof, possessing a potential to be used as drug substance in pharmaceuticals. |
| US10640482B2 |
Synthesis of cannabinoids
Provided are synthesis processes and intermediates for preparing cannabinoids and analogs. |
| US10640481B2 |
Methods for producing Beraprost and its derivatives
The present invention is directed to methods for preparing Beraprost and novel synthetic intermediates for Beraprost. |
| US10640476B2 |
Bicyclic heteroaryl derivatives and preparation and uses thereof
The present invention relates compounds of Formula (A), as well as their preparation and uses, and further relates pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and their uses as modulators of dysfunctional glutamate transmission. The present invention also relates to uses of the compounds or pharmaceutical compositions in treating or preventing certain neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases as well as cancer in humans. |
| US10640475B2 |
Compositions and methods to produce alkoxylated triazine-arlhydroxy-aldehyde condensates
The embodiments described herein generally relate to methods and chemical compositions of triazine-arylhydroxy-aldehyde condensates. In one embodiment, a triazine-arylhydroxy-aldehyde condensate is reacted with at alkoxylation agent to form alkoxylated triazine-arylhydroxy-aldehyde condensates. |
| US10640472B2 |
Phenoxymethyl derivatives
The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula (I) wherein RA, RB, RC, RC1 and W are as defined herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds. |
| US10640470B2 |
Quinazolin crotyl compound dimaleate crystals and preparation methods and uses thereof
Disclosed are crystal forms K, E, F and G of the dimaleate of the compound as shown in formula I, and preparation methods and uses thereof. The crystal forms K, E, F and G have superior storage stability and solubility, so that they are more suitable for being used as the drug substance for drug product preparations. |
| US10640467B2 |
Process for preparing 2-(1-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)piperidine-4-yl)benzoic acid
The invention relates to processes for preparing 2-(1-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)-piperidine-4-yl)benzoic acid having formula I: Among its various uses, this compound is useful as an intermediate for preparing ampreloxetine and salts thereof. |
| US10640466B2 |
Anthracene based compounds and their uses
A compound of the general formula (A) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, hydrate, polymorph, prodrug, codrug, cocrystal, tautomer, racemate, stereoisomer or mixture thereof, in which: X is independently NO2 or H; and Y is selected from H, amino, amide, ester, carboxy and its esters and amides, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, alkaryl, aryl, heterocyclic or heteroaryl groups, all of which can be substituted with heteroatoms and/or side groups, and wherein any chains can be straight or branched is disclosed. |
| US10640460B2 |
Substituted cyclopentyl- and cyclohexyl-derivatives useful for perfumery
The present invention refers to substituted cyclopentyl- and cyclohexyl-derivatives of formula (I) wherein n, R1, R2, R3, R4 and X have the same meaning as given in the description. The invention further refers to fragrance compositions and fragranced articles comprising them. |
| US10640459B2 |
Inhibiting CPI formation from adiponitrile
Disclosed is a method for inhibiting the formation of by-products from dinitriles, such as the formation of cyclopentylideneimine (CPI) from Adiponitrile (ADN), comprising adding an effective amount of a Brønsted acid to the ADN. Also disclosed is a method of refining a dinitrile compound by distillation the method comprising the steps of: (a) supplying (i) a feedstream comprising the dinitrile compound and (ii) a Brønsted acid to a distillation apparatus; and (b) withdrawing from the distillation apparatus an overhead distillate stream comprising the dinitrile compound. |
| US10640457B2 |
Histone acetyltransferase activators and uses thereof
The invention provides for a method for screening compounds that bind to and modulate a histone acetyltransferase protein. The invention further provides methods for treating neurodegenerative disorders, conditions associated with accumulated amyloid-beta peptide deposits, Tau protein levels, and/or accumulations of alpha-synuclein as well as cancer by administering a HAT-activating compound to a subject. |
| US10640453B2 |
Method of producing diamines and polyamines of the diphenylmethane series
The invention relates to a method for producing diamines and polyamines of the diphenylmethane series, by condensing aniline and formaldehyde followed by an acid-catalysed rearrangement at different production capacities with alteration of the isomer composition in the resulting diamines of the diphenylmethane series (altering the 2,4′-MDA content). Adapting the molar ratios of the total used aniline to the total used formaldehyde and of the total used acid catalyst to the total used aniline, and adapting the reaction temperature, allows the rearrangement reaction to be fully completed despite the change in dwell time inevitably associated with a change in production capacity, and allows the formation of undesired by-products to be avoided as far as possible; the intended modification to binuclear content is likewise achieved. |
| US10640442B2 |
Polyethylene terephthalate depolymerization
The present invention relates to the depolymerization of polymers and the recovery of the starting materials used for the production of the polymer. The present invention also relates to the depolymerization of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and the recovery of terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol. |
| US10640438B2 |
Method for producing tetrafluoropropene
The present invention concerns a method for preparing tetrafluoropropene utilising three reactors and comprising the steps of (a) implementing, in the first and second reactors, at least one step of reacting, in the gas phase, a compound B in the presence of hydrofluoric acid and a catalyst, in alternation with a step of regenerating the catalyst by bringing it into contact with a regeneration flow comprising an oxidising agent, (b) implementing, in the third reactor, a preliminary step of producing the compound B, in alternation with a step of regenerating the preliminary catalyst with a regeneration flow comprising an oxidising agent. The step of regenerating the preliminary catalyst in the third reactor is implemented in the absence of a step of reacting the compound B in the presence of hydrofluoric acid in said first and second reactors. The present invention also concerns a facility configured to implement the present method. |
| US10640435B2 |
Multimetallic catalysts
A multimetallic catalyst having a substrate, intermediate layer and catalyst layer. The catalyst exhibits selectivity greater than 90% and a conversion rate of greater than 30%. |
| US10640424B2 |
Castable material based on cementitious binder with shrinkage resistance
Some embodiments are directed to a new castable cement based material containing a special admixture based internal curing system to reduce the shrinkage and avoid the formation of cracks, and method of producing the same. |
| US10640423B2 |
Method to artificially agglomerate finely divided materials
Method to artificially agglomerate finely divided materials. A method to agglomerate finely divided material into aggregates, the aggregates being larger than the finely divided material, comprising the steps of (a) mixing finely divided material, binder and water in a mixer, (b) adding an agglomerating agent to the mix formed in step (a) and mixing constantly. Finely divided material is selected from the group consisting of cement, sand, clay, glass, slag, fly ash, stone powder, bypass dust, limestone, silica fume, crushed brick, brick powder and crushed stone or a combination thereof. |
| US10640422B2 |
Method of manufacturing cementitious compositions
A method of manufacturing a cementitious composition comprising: dispersing expanded polymeric microspheres into a liquid dispersion, optionally wherein the liquid dispersion comprises an aqueous dispersion; and incorporating the liquid dispersion comprising expanded polymeric microspheres into the cementitious composition; wherein the expanded polymeric microspheres are present in the liquid dispersion in an amount of about 0.1 to about 15 percent by weight, based on the total weight of the dispersion, prior to incorporation into the cementitious composition. An admixture for cementitious compositions comprising unexpanded polymeric microspheres and sodium hydroxide. |
| US10640420B2 |
Strengthened glass with ultra deep depth of compression
Chemically strengthened glass articles having at least one deep compressive layer extending from a surface of the article to a depth of compression DOC of at least about 125 μm within the glass article. The compressive stress profile includes a single linear segment or portion extending from the surface to the depth of compression DOC. Alternatively, the compressive stress profile may include an additional portion extending from the surface to a relatively shallow depth and the linear portion extending from the shallow depth to the depth of compression. |
| US10640419B2 |
Composite plastic display cover
Methods for manufacturing a composite plastic display cover include defining an edge portion of a base plastic cover sheet. A strengthening treatment is applied to the edge portion of the base plastic cover sheet to improve mechanical strength. A hardening treatment is applied to the base plastic cover sheet and over the strengthening treatment to improve anti-glare and anti-scratch properties. |
| US10640413B2 |
Cell cutting device and cell cutting method
A cell cutting device and a cell cutting method are disclosed. The cell cutting device includes a loading stage configured to load a display sheet including a plurality of display cells, a rotation driving unit connected to the loading stage and configured to rotate the loading stage and to separate the display sheet into the plurality of display cells, and a position change unit connected to the loading stage and configured to change a position of the loading stage. |
| US10640412B2 |
Thermal treatment of pane elements for vacuum insulating glass units
A method for manufacturing a plurality of vacuum insulating glass (VIG) units, wherein the method comprises providing a plurality of first glass panes, applying a soldering material arranged for subsequent connection with a second glass pane to provide a seal between an outside of the VIG unit and an inside void of the VIG unit, moving the first glass panes comprising the soldering material into a treatment compartment, wherein the treatment compartment is pre-heated, drying the soldering material in a heating step by evaporating solvent, wherein the heating is forced convection heating, moving the first glass panes to a cooling compartment, cooling first glass panes and the soldering material thereon in a cooling step, wherein the cooling is by forced convection cooling, moving the first glass panes from the cooling compartment, and subsequently connecting the first glass panes to second glass panes using the dried soldering material. |
| US10640411B2 |
Device for bending sheets of glass
A device for bending sheets of glass, includes conveying rollers that convey the sheets one after another in a longitudinal direction, carrying them under an upper bending die and onto a receiving surface formed by the upper level of the rollers under the die. The device includes an intermediate support including a contact path for supporting the sheet of glass to be pressed lying under the die. The contact path has, parallel to the edge of the sheet to be pressed, a curvature that is less accentuated than the curvature that is to be imparted by the upper die. The intermediate support can rise above the receiving surface and support the sheet to be pressed until the sheet breaks contact with the rollers. The intermediate support can be lowered down below the receiving surface. A sheet-pressing system can press the periphery of the sheet against the upper bending die. |
| US10640407B1 |
Septic tank having a lid with access port
A tank suited for use as a septic tank or for otherwise holding or treating water has a top hatchway large enough to enable an adult person to enter the tank. The hatchway is closed by a lid which has a port with a removable cover, where the port that is large enough to enable through-passage of a suction line for cleaning the tank, but small enough to prevent a child from entering the tank. Preferably the port area is less than 6 percent of the effective area of the lid and the centerline of the port lies at a location which is between 20 to 80 percent of the radius of the lid. |
| US10640404B2 |
Water treatment system and method
Disclosed herein is a water treatment system for connection to a water treatment plant (e.g. a dissolved air flotation device). The plant may have an inlet for the receipt of feed water (e.g. waste water) and an outlet for the discharge of treated water. The treatment system may comprise a first sensor disposed such that it is in fluidity communication with the feed water, and a second sensor disposed such that it is in fluidity communication with the treated water. The first and second sensors may be configured to sense parameters of the feed and treated water. The system may further comprise a first applicator (e.g. a pump) that is configured to discharge a treatment source (e.g. a chemical source) to the plant to treat the feed water. The disclosed system may be used to treat waste water (e.g. the treatment of effluent from oil refineries, petrochemical and chemical plants, natural gas processing plants, paper mills and general water treatment). The system has analogous applications in other processing methods that also use DAF, or very similar, systems, such as the processing of mineral ores and other such solid extraction processing methods. |
| US10640403B2 |
Antimicrobial batch dilution system
An antimicrobial supply system employs a process water supply and incorporates a metallic ion supply connected to the process water supply to provide a high ion concentrate to an output. A dilution reservoir is connected to the metallic ion supply output and has an input from the process water supply. A pump is connected to an output of the reservoir. A manifold connected to the pump provides a dilute concentrate to at least one washing system and a recirculation loop to the dilution reservoir for enhanced mixing of the dilute concentrate. An electronics control module is connected to a first flow controller between the process water supply and the metallic ion supply and a second flow controller between the metallic ion supply and the reservoir for dilution control establishing a desired metallic ion concentration. |
| US10640402B2 |
Use of oxidizing and non-oxidizing biocides for control of bacteria tolerant to stabilized-oxidant treatment
The disclosure provides treatment strategies that prevent or control the growth of organisms that degrade oxidant stabilizers in oxidant-stabilized biocides. This allows stabilized halogen programs to perform at their intended level and prevents the need for increased halogen usage in an attempt to maintain control of these microbial populations and reduce the halogen-demand created by their enzyme byproducts. |
| US10640394B2 |
Systems and methods for removing volatile compounds from water-storage tanks
A system for reducing an amount of volatile organic compounds which includes: a water-storage tank having a tank containing water, a roof positioned over the tank, and a headspace region formed between the roof and a surface of the water contained in the tank; an air exchange system positioned at least partially in the headspace region that is configured to exchange air exterior to the tank with air inside the tank; and a water conveyance device located at least partially in the water of the water-storage tank and which is configured to convey water in a manner that produces a surface flow velocity. A method reducing an amount of volatile organic compounds is also included. |
| US10640382B2 |
Vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes
Provided herein are methods and devices for production of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) which have high structural uniformity and low levels of impurities. The device includes, for example, a module for depositing catalyst on a substrate, a module for forming CNTs, a module for separating CNTs from the substrate, a module for collecting the CNTs and a module for continuously and sequentially advancing the substrate through the above modules. The method includes, for example, the steps of depositing catalyst on a moving substrate, forming carbon nanotubes on the substrate, separating carbon nanotubes from the substrate and collecting the carbon nanotubes from the surface, where the substrate moves sequentially through the depositing, forming, separating and collecting steps. |
| US10640379B2 |
Plant for the production of monochloramine and process thereof
A process for the production of monochloramine characterized in that it provides for drawing a portion of water intended for the user and exclusively using the portion for preparing the monochloramine solution. The portion intended for the reaction of formation of monochloramine is subjected to a treatment on osmotic membrane, obtaining osmotized water. Subsequently, there is the reaction of the water with reagents in a reactor. In the reaction step, inside the reactor, the osmotized water enters from a first orifice (C) via a solenoid valve with micrometric regulation (EV1). Inside the same reactor, the base chemical products enter via the respective orifices A and B. The base chemical products enter due to the action of metering pumps (e.g. peristaltic pumps). The system is managed by PLC. |
| US10640376B2 |
Process for the production of sulfur trioxide
Sulfur trioxide is produced from a feed stream comprising sulfur-containing compounds and dissolved metals, such as alkali metals, in a plant comprising an incineration furnace, a waste heat boiler, a dilution air heater, a dust removal absorber and an SO2 converter. The plant may further comprise a sulfuric acid condenser for the production of sulfuric acid. |
| US10640371B2 |
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device packaging
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for manufacturing a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device. The MEMS device includes a substrate, a cap, a microelectromechanical component, and a tag. The cap is coupled to the substrate such that the substrate and the cap cooperatively define an interior cavity. One of the substrate or the cap defines a port. The microelectromechanical component is disposed within the interior cavity. The tag is coupled to the substrate and an exterior surface of the cap to secure the cap to the substrate. |
| US10640369B2 |
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) devices
One example provides a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device that includes a number of silicon die over-molded with an overmold material, a number of active areas formed on the silicon die, the active areas including at least one sensor to sense a number of attributes of a fluid introduced to the at least one sensor, and a fan-out layer coupled to the silicon die, the fan-out layer including a number of fluid channels formed therein that interface with active areas of the silicon die and allow the fluid to flow to the at least one sensor. |
| US10640367B2 |
Water proofing and water detection schemes for MEMS-based environmental sensing devices
A waterproofed environmental sensing device with water detection provisions includes an environmental sensor to sense one or more environmental properties. The device further includes an electronic integrated circuit implemented on a substrate and coupled to the environmental sensor via a wire bonding. An air-permeable cap structure is formed over the environmental sensor, and a protective layer is formed over the wire bonding to protect the wire bonding against damage. |
| US10640366B2 |
Bypass structure
An integrated CMOS-MEMS device includes a first substrate having a CMOS device, a second substrate having a MEMS device, an insulator layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a dischargeable ground-contact, an electrical bypass structure, and a contrast stress layer. The first substrate includes a conductor that is conductively connecting to the CMOS devices. The electrical bypass structure has a conducting layer conductively connecting this conductor of the first substrate with the dischargeable ground-contact through a process-configurable electrical connection. The contrast stress layer is disposed between the insulator layer and the conducting layer of the electrical bypass structure. |
| US10640363B2 |
Active opening MEMS switch device
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) switches are described. The MEMS switches can be actively opened and closed. The switch can include a beam coupled to an anchor on a substrate by one or more hinges. The beam, the hinges and the anchor may be made of the same material in some configurations. The switch can include electrodes, disposed on a surface of the substrate, for electrically controlling the orientation of the beam. The hinges may be thinner than the beam, resulting in the hinges being more flexible than the beam. In some configurations, the hinges are located within an opening in the beam. The hinges may extend in the same direction of the axis of rotation of the beam and/or in a direction perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the beam. |
| US10640360B2 |
Apparatus and method for automatically updating the relationship between measured storage tank depth and storage tank volume and monitoring the accuracy of a dispenser flow meter
An automated liquid inventory monitoring and inventory reconciliation system. The system uses a liquid densitometer to precisely measure the density of liquid being dispensed. This allows the system to account for the significant temperature-induced volume variations existing in common liquids such as gasoline. In the preferred embodiments, a fuel inventory processor tracks the quantity of fuel loaded into the tank and the quantity of fuel dispensed to maintain an ongoing computation of the quantity of fuel that should be present in the tank. An accurate tank depth measurement device is also employed. The processor compares the tank depth measurement to the computed quantity of fuel in the tank and uses the values to create an updated tank strapping chart. |
| US10640352B2 |
Corkscrew with lever
The corkscrew with lever includes a spiral mounted rotating on a zone of a handle between an end segment and a maneuvering segment, and a telescoping arm having a first element mounted rotating on the end segment and a second element, having an upper end and a lower end, mounted sliding in the first element between an idle position and a second position. The lower edge of the lower end of said second element is provided to bear on the neck of a bottle. The end segment defines a circular cam having, as center, the second axis and able to act on the upper end of the second element, which is connected to the second axis using a return member. In a usage position of the corkscrew, its upper end is continuously kept in contact with the cam and its lower end extends continuously outside the first element. |
| US10640351B2 |
Cap orientation
A method and apparatus for applying a cap to a container may include arranging a first cap in relation to the neck portion of a first container, such that a threaded portion of the first cap faces a complementary threaded neck portion of the first container. Further, a symmetry axis of the first cap and a symmetry axis of the neck portion of the first container may be aligned. The first cap may be rotated around its symmetry axis to a pre-recorded initial angular position. The first cap may be applied to the neck portion by moving the cap towards the threaded neck portion or vice versa along their symmetry axes and by rotating the first cap in a direction of engagement with the threaded neck part. A path length of the first cap may be recorded in relation to its initial angular position after which it has completely engaged the complementary threaded neck portion and reached a bottom part of the neck portion. If the recorded path length for the first cap deviates from a predefined value, the initial angular position of a second cap may be adjusted to a new initial angular position. |
| US10640347B2 |
Pallet tracking during engagement and disengagement
An example method may include receiving, from a sensor on a vehicle, an initial plurality of sensor data points representing a position of a face of a pallet. The vehicle may include tines configured to engage the pallet. A baseline geometric representation of the face of the pallet may be determined based on the initial plurality of sensor data points. The vehicle may be caused to reposition the tines relative to the pallet. A subsequent plurality of sensor data points representing the position of the face of the pallet after repositioning the tines may be received from the sensor. An updated geometric representation of the face of the pallet may be determined based on the subsequent sensor data points. It may be determined that the updated geometric representation deviates from the baseline geometric representation by more than a threshold value and, in response, motion of the vehicle may be adjusted. |
| US10640344B1 |
Extendable pivoting winch assembly
The invention is an extendable winch assembly, that include a winch, having a drum for winding and unwinding a line and a first motor for driving the drum about a winding axis. The assembly also includes a winch mount for mounting the winch to a vehicle, the winch mount. The winch mount includes a base attached to the vehicle and extendable arm attached at one end to the base, wherein the extendable arm is configured to move the winch from a retracted position proximate the vehicle to an extended position spaced from the vehicle. The winch mount also includes a plate attached at an other end of the extendable arm, wherein the winch is attached to the plate in such a way as to allow the winch to pivot about a pivot axis perpendicular to the winding axis. |
| US10640340B2 |
Mobile crane for angling a main jib extension relative to a main jib of a mobile crane
A mobile crane having a tiltably mounted main jib which can be erected by a tilting cylinder, and having a main jib extension releasably connected to a main jib head of the main jib by upper and lower bolts. Starting from a normal position, after release of the upper bolts, the main jib extension can be angled about a tilting axis relative to the main jib by an angling drive that engages on a foot of the main jib extension, and a drive that is provided for another purpose supplies the kinetic energy for the angling drive. The angling drive includes a lever element having two lever arms, pivotably mounted on the upper chord of the main jib extension, with the first lever arm being connected to a lifting cable of the lifting gear for operation of the angling drive and engaging the main jib head by the second lever arm. |
| US10640337B2 |
Crane and counterweight for a crane
This invention relates to a crane comprising an undercarriage and a turntable rotatable with respect to the undercarriage with a counterweight and a mounting point for the attachment of a winch, wherein the counterweight includes at least one winch pick-up means for the temporary attachment of a winch to be mounted on the turntable, wherein the winch can be attached to the winch pick-up means such that the winch can be pivoted about a vertical axis. |
| US10640335B2 |
Cantilevered crane system for a factory work station
A workstation having a cantilevered crane system that includes one or more cantilevered header assemblies, with each cantilevered header assembly including an upright column and a horizontally oriented header, with the header extending from the column with a free end distal from the column. The headers support a pair of runway rails, with at least one bridge rail movably mounted to the runway rails and supporting a moveable hoist. The cantilevered crane system defines a workstation area bounded by the columns and headers, with the workstation area including an open side adjacent the free ends of the headers. |
| US10640334B2 |
Actuator control device and work vehicle
An actuator control device performs a reception process in which designations of a minimum operation amount and maximum operation amount of an operation unit for driving an actuator, and a maximum driving speed which is the actuator driving speed corresponding to the maximum operation amount are received. It also performs a determination process in which a function representing a characteristic line that links a first point, which corresponds to the minimum operation amount and the driving speed of 0, and a second point, which corresponds to the maximum operation amount and the maximum driving speed, is stored in a storage unit as a drive control characteristic and a drive control process in which, in response to operation of the operation unit, the actuator is driven at a driving speed corresponding to the operation amount specified by the drive control characteristic stored in the storage unit. |
| US10640332B2 |
Elevator linear propulsion system with cooling device
An elevator system includes an elevator car constructed and arranged to travel in a hoistway. A linear propulsion system of the elevator system is configured to impart a force upon the elevator car to control movement of the car. The linear propulsion system includes a secondary portion mounted to the elevator car and may have a plurality of magnets. A first primary portion (42) of the linear propulsion system includes a mounting assembly (60), a plurality of coils engaged to the mounting assembly (60), and a first cooling device (80) including at least one conduit (82) projecting outward from the mounting assembly (60) and into the hoistway for transferring heat. |
| US10640324B2 |
Expandable width filament spool
An expandable spool includes a first hub extending from a first flange and includes a first plurality of interlocking portions. A second hub extending from a second flange includes a second plurality of interlocking portions that is connectible to the first plurality of interlocking portions to define a spacing between the first flange and the second flange for holding material on the spool. |
| US10640320B2 |
Belt mounted folding tape holder
Belt mounted folding tape holders and related methods and systems. In a first illustrative embodiment, a tape holder assembly has a body with a belt clip disposed on a first side, on the opposite side, a folding hook may be stored in a recess when not in use to provide a slim profile. For use, the folding hook is released from the recess and folded down to provide a generally horizontal shelf on which one or more rolls of tape may be placed. A generally vertical member is disposed at a distal end of the shelf to retain the tape roll thereon. In some embodiments, the vertical member may fold and in others it may be fixed to the end of the shelf member. |
| US10640316B2 |
Mail processing system and method with increased processing speed
A mail singulator system determines a position of an optical panel to automatically adjust a loading conveyor speed to prevent stacked and overlapped mailpieces in the singulator and large gaps between mailpieces. The optical panel is configured between the front mailpiece of a mail stack on the loading conveyor and the optical sensor. The optical panel changes position with the pressure exerted by the mail stack and provides signals to the controller to adjust the conveyor speed. An optical sensor may detect a far threshold position or limit distance to increase the speed of the conveyor and may detect a near threshold position of limit distance to reduce the speed of the conveyor. The optical panel may have a low friction surface to allow the mail to slide into the conveyor and an optical surface to allow reliable optical sensor detection of the optical panel position. |
| US10640314B2 |
Detection system for detecting double sheets in a sheet element processing machine, and sheet element processing machine
A detection system for detecting double sheets being supplied to a lateral positioning device (100) for a sheet element (20, 20′) in a sheet element processing machine. The machine has a drive system including a cam disk (174) and a cam follower lever (172). The detection system includes a detector lever (130) mounted so as to be displaceable between a sheet receiving position and a detection position. The detector lever (130) has a sheet sensing end (132) for engagement with an upper face of the sheet element (20, 20′) when being in the detection position, and a position detector end (133) for cooperating, when being in the detection position, with a position detector (140) adapted for generating a signal dependent on the thickness of the sheet element (20, 20′), and further includes a raising lever (170) for raising the sheet sensing end (132) of the detector lever (130). The raising lever (170) is mounted on the cam follower lever (172) of the sheet element processing machine. Further disclosed is a sheet element processing machine including a detection system as outlined above, mounted in an introduction station (10) upstream of a processing station. |
| US10640313B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a feeding member, a conveying member, and a detecting unit. The feeding member feeds a recording material stacked on a stacking unit. The conveying member convey the fed recording material. The detecting unit detect the conveyed recording material. Where the recording material is a first type, the feeding member feeds the stacked recording material at a first speed, and the conveying member changes the first speed to a second speed that is faster than the first speed before the detecting unit detects the recording material. Where the recording material is a second type that is different from the first type, the feeding member feeds the stacked recording material a third speed that is different from the first speed, and the conveying member changes the third speed to a fourth speed that is different from the third speed after the detecting unit detects the recording material. |
| US10640309B2 |
Material waste sorting system and method
Exemplary embodiments include improved systems and methods for sorting and metering materials to be recycled at a material recovery facility. Systems and methods for the accurate and automated sorting and metering of recoverable materials may include a bunker with an integral conveyor adapted to meter presorted materials such that predetermined amounts of the materials may be delivered to a baler for baling and sale. Exemplary systems may include an auger screw type conveyor sized and shaped to deliver the materials to, for example, a baling system. The systems may also include a crusher for reducing the volume of the materials prior to metering from the bunker; by reducing the volume of the materials in the bunker, a baler may operate more efficiently, increasing output from the facility. |
| US10640298B2 |
Transport unit, material transfer structure, material transfer unit, and mobile haulage arrangement method
A transport unit, a material transfer structure and a material transfer unit for a mobile haulage arrangement are arranged for continuously conveying fragmented material in a conveying direction. A mobile haulage arrangement and a method for continuously conveying fragmented material in a conveying direction is also disclosed. The transport unit includes two ground transportation structures and a support frame suitable for fitting a belt of an enclosed belt conveyor thereunder. The ground transportation structures has at least one height adjustment device, wherein the support frame comprises at least one connector, which is arranged for connecting a support structure thereto. The height adjustment devices are arranged to vary the position of at least a portion of the support frame in relation to the ground transportation structures. |
| US10640297B2 |
Transport system and methods
A transport system and method useful for autonomously or semi-autonomously transporting and positioning materials or components in an industrial facility. In one example in use for passenger vehicle body assembly, a transport device includes a lift device and first and second build devices for alternately supporting a workpiece. The transport device includes a clearance opening for passage by the second build device along the path of travel. The transport device positions the first build device and workpiece over the second build device and deposits the workpiece on the lower second build device for processing. When the process is complete, the first build device re-engages the workpiece for movement to another workstation. |
| US10640290B2 |
Method, system and device for providing information to an SMT system operator
A method and a system for providing operator information in an Surface Mount Technology (SMT) system comprising an SMT information database, a SMT pick and place machine and an identity tag scanner, the method comprising: receiving a bin in said SMT pick and place machine, wherein said bin is adapted to comprise vertically oriented bin load units, wherein said bin load unit has an pallet identity tag attached to the bin load units upwards facing surface; starting SMT production on said SMT pick and place machine; scanning individual identity tags attached to bin load units comprising component tape reels to obtain bin load units IDs. |
| US10640283B2 |
Aerosol valve system and a container containing such an aerosol valve system
An aerosol valve system for storing and dispensing a one- or multicomponent formulation, comprising a casing (8), at least two valves (1, 1a, 4, 4a), connected to at least a first reservoir (2, 2a) and/or at least a second reservoir (17), respectively, wherein the first valve (1, 1a) comprises a stem (7), an outlet channel (3) for discharging the formulation, and a mixing chamber (3a), and wherein between the at least two valves (1, 1a, 4, 4a) extends a cleaning channel (6, 6a), connecting the second reservoir (17) to the mixing chamber (3a) of the first valve (1, 1a). |
| US10640279B2 |
Container assembly with syringe
A container assembly comprising a container with a container neck, a syringe, and a closure with a cap portion having an end wall, wherein the syringe plunger of the syringe is connected to the end wall. The syringe is enclosed by the container body and the cap portion when the cap portion is aligned in a closed position on the container. The syringe is removable from the container when the cap portion is in the open position. |
| US10640278B2 |
Vacuum insulation body
The present invention relates to a vacuum insulation body with at least one vacuum-tight casing and with at least one vacuum region which is surrounded by the casing, wherein the casing is provided with at least one opening, in particular with at least one evacuation port, for evacuating the vacuum region, and wherein in the vacuum insulation body at least one adsorbent material is disposed, which partly or entirely is arranged in the region of said opening, wherein around the opening and within the vacuum range at least one plate is arranged, which forms a wall of the space in which the adsorbent material is disposed. |
| US10640276B2 |
Dual chamber storage device
A dual chamber storage device includes a first chamber having a base and a hollow body for storing a first material. A second chamber within the hollow body of the first chamber has a base, a hollow body for storing a second material, and a neck portion. A dispenser housed within the second chamber has a hollow body, a dispensing tip, and a cutting edge. A cap surrounds the end of the dispenser with the cutting edge, is rotatingly connectable with the second chamber neck portion, and is non-rotatingly connectable with the first end of the dispenser. When the cap is rotated relative to the second chamber neck portion, the second end of the dispenser moves toward the base of the second chamber and the cutting edge pierces the base of the second chamber thereby allowing the second material to enter the hollow body of the first chamber. |
| US10640271B2 |
Method and system for forming packages
A system and method for forming reinforced packages. The method can comprise forming an attached web by adhering a construct to a web of material, and moving the attached web in a downstream direction through at least a web edge forming assembly. The moving the attached web can comprise moving the construct with the web of material. The method further can include at least partially forming a folded web by folding at least a portion of the web of material as the attached web moves through the web folding assembly and forming a reinforced package comprising a liner and the construct by separating the liner from a remainder of the folded web. The construct is adhered to the liner. |
| US10640269B2 |
Method for detecting a breach of a barrier or stowage container
A method for detecting tampering with a stowage container can include configuring the stowage container, the stowage container comprising a container housing and a barrier, wherein edges of the barrier overlap edges of the container housing to prevent access to an interior of the stowage container between the container housing and the barrier when the barrier is in a closed position. A tamper-evident device can be positioned such that the tamper-evident device is viewable from at least one predetermined eyepoint under an ambient light environment. The tamper-evident device can be configured to be inaccessible from an exterior of the stowage container and provides a distinct color contrast with the stowage container and an indication that tampering has occurred. |
| US10640268B2 |
Device for dispensing a liquid in the form of drops
The device makes it possible to dispense predetermined metered quantities of liquid. It includes a sealing member that can take up a liquid release position, allowing liquid to flow out of the device, and a non-return position preventing liquid from flowing back into the device. The sealing member is provided with metering means for metering out the liquid to be dispensed. |
| US10640267B2 |
Screw cap for large containers
A plastic screw cap (100) for large containers, comprises a cylindrical outer jacket (1) having a first internal thread (2) of larger diameter and a head plate (3), which at least partially closes the outer jacket (1) at an axial end, wherein the head plate has an opening (4), which accommodates a removal sleeve (20) having an approximately cylindrical inner jacket having a second internal thread (12) of smaller diameter, which inner jacket protrudes into the interior of the outer jacket, wherein the head plate (3) and the removal sleeve (20) are integrally joined to each other. In order to provide caps of the same functionality that can be produced more simply, the outer jacket (1), according to the invention, together with the head plate (3) on the one hand and the removal sleeve (20) together with the internal thread (2) on the other hand are produced separately from each other by injection molding and are joined to each other fixedly and tightly by welding in order to form the complete screw cap (100). |
| US10640266B2 |
Closure debonding system
An easy-opening end closure that may also be reclosed, suitable for joining to a container. A cover panel is bonded around its perimeter to an end panel with a rotatable lever interposed between them. To open the closure, a user applies force to the rotating lever to move it axially around an attachment point thereby engaging integrated mechanisms to progressively debond segments of the perimeter seal. |
| US10640265B2 |
Tamper resistant device and methods of forming a tamper resistant device
Tamper resistant systems and devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. A tamper resistant system includes a container having a container body defining a cavity having a threaded opening therein, a threaded closure removably covering the threaded opening, and a frangible component including a length of material having a first end and a second end. The first end is integrated with the container body such that the frangible component and the container body have a single piece construction and the frangible component extends from the container body. The second end is coupled to the threaded closure. Subsequent removal of the threaded closure from the container causes damage to at least one of the frangible component, the threaded closure, and the container body. The frangible component, the threaded closure, and the container body are at least partially constructed of an environmentally friendly material. |
| US10640263B2 |
Tamper-resistant closure assembly
A tamper-resistant closure assembly, comprising an elongate body having a proximal end and a distal end; a ferrule defining an interior major surface, wherein the interior major surface has a proximal region and a distal region; and a boss positioned adjacent the distal end of the elongate body and configured to resiliently urge outwardly against the interior major surface; wherein the elongate body is slidably retained within the ferrule by a shoulder extending radially outward of the elongate body; wherein the ferrule, the elongate body, or both defines a region so complementarily arranged relative to the boss as to resiliently urge the elongate body in a proximal direction relative to the ferrule in correspondence with a radially outward force applied by the boss against the interior major surface. |
| US10640256B2 |
Shipping and display container
A shipping and display container includes a top box installable over a bottom box. The bottom box is configured to receive goods provided in the bottom box in an upright and folded orientation and includes a pair of opposed sidewalls and at least one elongate divider affixed to the bottom box and extending between the opposed sidewalls and configured so as to maintain the goods in the upright and folded orientation. The top box is installable upon the bottom box with the goods received therein in the upright and folded orientation for shipping of the goods and is removable from the bottom box after shipping. The bottom box and the divider cooperate to maintain the goods in the upright and folded orientation for display thereof after removal of the top box. |
| US10640253B2 |
Tubular banding applicator and method
An apparatus for applying a tubular band from a supply of flat tubular material to a container includes a flat film feed path and a cutter positioned for cutting tubular material traveling along the feed path. A former is positioned downstream of the cutter for opening the tubular material and includes a film passage with an inlet side and an outlet side. The flat film feed path enters the film passage and a cut segment of tubular material is opened within the film passage to create an opened tubular band. A pusher pushes the opened tubular band out of the outlet side of the former for container application. The pusher includes a film engaging portion that is aligned with and movable into and out of the film passage. The film engaging portion is offset from the flat film feed path to prevent interference with flat tubular film entering the passage. |
| US10640250B2 |
Container-treating machine
An apparatus for treating containers includes treatment positions arranged on a transport element with a rotor, a transport element, treatment blocks, and functional elements. The treatment positions are formed on the treatment blocks, with at least two per block. Each treatment position ha all functional elements required for treating a container. The functional elements can be for controlled relative movement between treatment blocks and containers, for control of controlled fluid paths for a fluid treatment medium, for monitoring the treatment process, a functional element for controlling the treatment process, or for actuating elements or drives. At least one common functional element needed for treatment of the containers is provided jointly for all treatment positions assigned to one treatment block. |
| US10640248B2 |
Weighing machine for products in a packaging assembly
A weighing machine for products in a packaging assembly comprising a vibrating convex disc; a plurality of vibrating trays, a plurality of feeding hoppers, a plurality of weighing hoppers, and a plurality of chutes arranged in a circular pattern; each of the plurality of feeding hoppers comprising a cantilevered flap configured to rotate around a horizontal pivot axis, a counterweight member extending opposite the cantilevered flap, the counterweight member including a plate member configured to slide along at least one groove in relation to the horizontal pivot axis to adjust an effective weight of the counterweight member; a pair of alternating horizontal sliding conveyors; and a pair of transport conveyors positioned under the pair of alternating horizontal sliding conveyors. |
| US10640242B2 |
Sealing member comprising a package volume controlling section
A sealing member comprising a sealing section configured to interact with a sealing band of a tube of packaging material in a sealing stage, and a package volume controlling section configured to interact with a first area next to the sealing band of said tube of packaging material in the sealing stage, wherein said package volume controlling section is provided with a socket for holding an insert. |
| US10640239B2 |
Space debris interception
A vehicle for intercepting a target object orbiting in space is provided, comprising a launching portion for driving the vehicle into an orbit, and an interception portion for intercepting a target object when the vehicle is in orbit, wherein the interception portion comprises means for engaging with the target object and wherein the launching portion is arranged to drive the vehicle into a first elliptical orbit and the vehicle is arranged to adopt a second elliptical orbit when engaged with the target object in which the first elliptical orbit is arranged so as to intersect the orbit of the target object at an interception point, and the second elliptical orbit is such that the vehicle is arranged to move from the interception point towards the Earth's atmosphere when engaged with the target object. A method of controlling a vehicle for intercepting a target object orbiting in space is also provided, comprising controlling the vehicle to be driven into a first elliptical orbit to intersect the orbit of the target object at an interception point and controlling the vehicle to engage with the target object at the interception point and to adopt a second elliptical orbit when engaged with the target object in which the second elliptical orbit is such that the vehicle is arranged to move from the interception point towards the Earth's atmosphere when engaged with the target object. |
| US10640238B1 |
Satellite testbed for evaluating cryogenic-liquid behavior in microgravity
Provided is a testbed for conducting an experiment on a substance in a cryogenic liquid state in a microgravity environment. Such a testbed includes a frame with rectangular nominal dimensions, and a source section supported by the frame for supplying the substance to be evaluated in the cryogenic liquid form. An experiment supported by the frame includes an experiment vessel in fluid communication with the storage tank to receive and condense the substance into the cryogenic liquid state. A sensor senses a property of the cryogenic liquid in the experiment vessel as part of the experiment, and a bus section includes a controller configured to control delivery of the substance to the experiment vessel, and receives property data indicative of the property sensed by the sensor for subsequent evaluation on Earth. |
| US10640231B2 |
Automated self-testing
A flight-time variable associated with an aircraft is determined including by determining the flight-time variable while the aircraft is flying. It is determined whether the aircraft is airworthy based at least in part on the flight-time variable. In response to determining that the aircraft is not airworthy, the aircraft is automatically landed. |
| US10640229B2 |
Hydraulically assisted rat actuator latch mechanism
A ram air turbine actuator having: a housing; at least one solenoid; a latch mechanism operably connected to the at least one solenoid and located within the housing, the latch mechanism in operation moves from a first position to second position when the at least one solenoid is activated; and a hydraulic pressure system operably connected to the latch mechanism, the hydraulic pressure system in operation moves the latch mechanism from the second position to the first position using hydraulic pressure from a hydraulic fluid, when the at least one solenoid is deactivated. The hydraulic pressure system is located within the housing. The hydraulic pressure is relieved when the latch mechanism is in the first position. |
| US10640225B2 |
Selectively regulating current in distributed propulsion systems
A distributed propulsion system includes a first propulsor and a second propulsor, a first generator configured to generate a first AC current, and a second generator configured to generate a second AC current. The system includes a power regulation circuit. The power regulation circuit includes a first current path that includes a first power electronics circuit, a second current path that includes a second power electronics circuit, a third current path that bypasses the first and second power electronics circuits, and a fourth current path that bypasses the first and second power electronics circuits. The power regulation circuit also includes a plurality of switches configured to selectively couple each respective input to a respective selected output to cause a respective current to flow from the respective input to the respective selected output via one of the first current path, second current path, third current path, or fourth current path. |
| US10640223B2 |
Safety maintenance panel for a thrust reverser
A safety maintenance panel for a thrust reverser is provided. The thrust reverser may comprise one or more doors configured to actuate from a closed position to a deployed position. The safety maintenance panel may be located on the thrust reverser. The safety maintenance panel may comprise a safety pin configured to engage the door in the deployed position to at least partially limit movement of the door from the deployed position. In that respect, the safety pin may be inserted into a panel pin hole through the maintenance panel and a door pin hole through the door to lock the door into the deployed position. |
| US10640220B2 |
Anti-kiting device
An inflatable evacuation slide is disclosed. The inflatable evacuation slide includes an inflatable tube having a first end and a second end spaced from the first end and an anti-kiting device disposed proximate the second end of the inflatable tube, wherein the anti-kiting device may include a suction surface panel having a first side portion attached to an outer surface of the inflatable tube and a second side portion attached to the outer surface of the inflatable tube. |
| US10640219B2 |
Energetic evacuation slide
An evacuation system may comprise an evacuation slide comprising an inflatable portion; and a reactant packet disposed within the inflatable portion including a chemically reactive material configured to produce gas and inflate the evacuation slide. |
| US10640217B2 |
Pneumatic deicer with sensors
A pneumatic deicer includes a base layer, a forming layer, a first chamber, and a first sensor. The base layer has an inlet, a first side, and a second side. The forming layer is connected to the base layer along at least two seams and has inner side and an outer side with the outer side being distant from the base layer. The first chamber is formed between the base layer and the forming layer and configured to be inflated by air passing into the first chamber through the inlet in the base layer. The first sensor is situated within the first chamber. |
| US10640215B2 |
Modular refueling systems for aircraft
A modular refueling system for an aircraft includes a modular bay recessed within the aircraft. The modular bay includes a modular bay interface. The modular refueling system includes a plurality of payload modules each having a respective function and a payload interface adapted to connect to at least a portion of the modular bay interface. The plurality of payload modules includes an aerial refueling module. The payload modules are interchangeably insertable into the modular bay to enable the modular bay to support the functions of the payload modules. The aerial refueling module is insertable into the modular bay to enable the aircraft to provide fuel to recipient aircraft during flight. |
| US10640212B1 |
Double wing aircraft
The present invention is a double wing aircraft with two fixed wings embodied as either a flying wing configuration or a double wing configuration having a fuselage with smaller external dimensions, larger airlifting area, thinner airfoils, and lighter airframe relative to prior art that altogether is resulting with lower drag, fuel consumption, harmful emissions, and noise, as well as higher speed and flight safety, longer range, and shorter runway when compared to prior art. |
| US10640211B2 |
Automated commissioning and floorplan configuration
An automated commissioning and floorplan configuration (CAFC) device can include a CAFC system having a transceiver and a CAFC engine, where the transceiver communicates with at least one device disposed in a volume of space, where the CAFC engine, based on communication between the transceiver and the at least one device, commissions the at least one device. |
| US10640210B2 |
Method and apparatus for cable-driven adaptive vibration control
A vibration control system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is disclosed. The system includes a base platform fixedly coupled to a UAV structure, a working platform coupled to the base platform by two or more cables at two or more connection points on the working platform, and two or more actuators positioned either on the base platform or the working platform, each actuator configured to receive a signal to adjust tension in a corresponding cable, wherein by adjusting tension in the two or more cables, natural frequency of the working platform can be adjusted in response to frequency of vibration experienced by the working platform in order to maintain a frequency ratio (FR) of the vibration frequency to the natural frequency at or above a predetermined value. |
| US10640205B2 |
Outboard centrifugal force bearing with inboard blade fold axis in a folding rotor blade assembly
A rotor blade assembly for a tiltrotor aircraft comprising a rotor blade pivotally connected to a yoke with dual concentric blade bolts having a common central axis providing a pivotal axis inboard of an outboard CF bearing and the yoke tip. In use, the compact folded arrangement of the rotor blades reduces folded aircraft dimensions in response to ever increasing restricted storage space parameters. |
| US10640201B2 |
Safety device for landing in crosswind
To provide a safety device that, when a crosswind is present, allows an aircraft to more safely land on a runway in an airport. This safety device 10 for landing in a crosswind is designed for landing of an aircraft 1 on a runway 3 in a crosswind across the runway 3, and provided with a control unit 14 for controlling, when the nose cone 1T of the fuselage 8 of the aircraft 1 is directed windward, the orientation of the wheels of the aircraft 1 such that the wheels are oriented in the direction of travel of the aircraft 1. |
| US10640198B2 |
Propeller for an aircraft turbo engine, including safety means for controlling blade angle of attack
In order to simplify the design of an aircraft turbo engine propeller while enhancing the safety function thereof related to control of the blade angle of attack, a propeller is provided comprising a secondary rotational coupling to couple in rotation, along the radial axis of the blade, the inner radial end of the blade root with a mechanical joining member of a blade angle of attack control device, the secondary coupling being designed and configured to be active in the event of failure of the main pin. |
| US10640195B2 |
Method for manufacturing a thermoacoustic insulation module for an aircraft comprising a bending step
In order to facilitate the thermoacoustic insulation of an aircraft portion, a method for manufacturing a thermoacoustic insulation module for an aircraft comprises a step of providing a mat configured to provide thermoacoustic insulation of an aircraft portion, followed by a step of attaching a bendable structure to the mat, followed by a step of bending the bendable structure, along a bending axis parallel to a longitudinal direction of the mat, such that the bendable structure forms a load-bearing structure supporting the mat in a curved shape. |
| US10640190B1 |
System and method for controlling course of a marine vessel
A method for controlling a course of a marine vessel powered by a marine engine as it moves in a body of water includes determining a current global position and a current heading of the vessel and initiating an auto-waypoint mode of a vessel course control system. In response to initiation of the auto-waypoint mode, the method includes setting a course for the vessel based on a current position of a steering wheel of the system and the vessel's current global position. The method thereafter includes automatically rotating a steerable component coupled to the vessel and rotatable to affect a direction of movement of the vessel so as to counteract external forces on the vessel and thereby to maintain the vessel's set course. |
| US10640189B2 |
Outboard motor
An outboard motor includes an engine, a fan driven by the engine to discharge air surrounding the engine, and a cowl housing the engine and the fan. The cowl includes a top cowl that is disposed above the engine and includes an exhaust pathway for exhaust to flow from the fan, and an exhaust port connected to the exhaust pathway and located on the top cowl. The exhaust port opens in a forward direction of the outboard motor. |
| US10640188B1 |
Passive ballast device, system and methods of using same
A passive ballast device, system and method of using same, configured for use with a submersible vehicle in a liquid environment, including a chamber having at least one rigid wall to define at least a portion of a chamber volume, and a passively movable compensator having at least first and second surfaces, the first surface configured to be exposed to the liquid environment, the second surface excluded from the liquid environment, and forming, together with the at least one wall of the chamber, a fluid-tight seal to establish the remainder of the chamber volume, to exclude the liquid environment from the chamber volume and configured to adjust the chamber volume to at least a first chamber volume and a second chamber volume. The chamber volume is configured to establish at least a first buoyancy and second buoyancy, the compensator is configured to respond to a change in environmental pressure within the liquid environment, and the compensator is passively moved by the change in environmental pressure to change the first chamber volume to the second chamber volume, thereby changing from the first buoyancy to the second buoyancy. |
| US10640187B2 |
Flying underwater imager with multi-mode operation for locating and approaching underwater objects for imaging and maintaining depths and altitudes
A flying underwater imager device operates in two modes, a tow mode and a free fly mode. In the tow mode for locating underwater objects, the imager device opens foldable wings for remaining depressed below the surface when the wings generate a negative buoyancy. Otherwise, neutral buoyancy characteristics bring the imager device back to surface. In the free fly mode for approaching and imaging underwater objects, the imager device closes the foldable wings and uses thrusters for moving into position to image the underwater objects. The flying underwater imager device can be maintained or moved to a desired depth below a surface or height above a sea bed. |
| US10640181B1 |
Wakesurfing systems and methods
Many embodiments described herein prevent damage to a surf rope and/or watercraft due to a surf rope remaining in the water after it is released by a wakesurfer. The wakesurfing system may include a first and second reel assembly arranged and configured to retract a discarded surf rope. The first reel assembly may have a telescoping and rotatable boom and may be coupled to a side of the watercraft. The second reel assembly may be coupled to a tower, pylon, or ski hook of the watercraft. The first reel assembly may have a first cord reel coupled to a handle of the surf rope, and the second reel assembly may have a second cord reel coupled to a proximal location of the surf rope. The first and second cord reels, and the surf rope, may be in a retracted position when not in use, and in an extended position when used by a wakesurfer. |
| US10640180B2 |
Water vehicles
Equipment and methods that combine the use of wave powered vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones). A UAV can be launched from a wave-powered vehicle, observe another vessel, and report the results of its observation to the wave-powered vehicle, and the wave-powered vehicle can report the results of the observation to a remote location. The UAV can land on water and can then be recovered by the wave-powered vehicle. |
| US10640178B2 |
Rotating floating platform
A rotating floating platform, adapted to accommodate energy production systems, namely solar panels but not limited to these systems. The technology now developed provides rotational movement to the entire platform, on the plane of the aquatic medium where it floats, being its rotation capacity independent of fixed and rigid structures. In order to achieve this independency, the rotating floating platform comprises a central floating module connected directly or indirectly to at least two propulsion modules, where the connection to the bottom of the basin being provided through a flexible mooring unit forming a rotation floating structure where the momentum and the rotation axis act as one, thus creating a rotation platform. |
| US10640167B2 |
Frame structure of saddle riding type vehicle
A frame structure of a saddle riding type vehicle, the frame structure includes a main frame body configured to support the power unit and the front wheel suspension device; and a steering post configured to support a steering shaft at above of the main frame body, wherein the steering post includes a shaft holder configured to rotatably support the steering shaft, and a plurality of column members that extend downward from the shaft holder and that are fixed to the main frame body, and wherein the steering post is detachable with respect to the main frame body. |
| US10640159B2 |
Stair-climbing remote control utility wagon
The invention is directed to a stair-climbing remote control utility wagon. The wagon provides a forward chassis arm and a rear chassis arm which are interleaved with each other, providing a broad, stable base. The forward chassis arm terminates in a forward chassis, and the rear chassis arm terminates in a rear chassis. The forward chassis and the rear chassis provide powerful, battery-powered electric motors and caterpillar tracks. The forward chassis arm and rear chassis arm are fully articulated by servomotors, providing telescoping segments which may be extended and retracted with servomotors, and the motor housing of the forward chassis arm further provides infrared sensors, which are controlled by a microprocessor to enable the wagon to climb a flight of stairs. The forward chassis arm and rear chassis arm may also be used to elevate the bed of the wagon to any height, up to 48 inches. |
| US10640149B2 |
Apron upper member of vehicle
An apron upper member of a vehicle extends from a front pillar to a front side of the vehicle, and includes: a rear half portion having a sheet metal structure and having a vehicle rear end connected to the front pillar; and a front half portion formed of a casting product, the front half portion being connected to the rear half portion, extending to the front side of the vehicle, and having a vehicle front end connected to a crash box. The front half portion has a strength lowering portion immediately ahead of a connecting portion connected to the rear half portion. This suppresses significant approach of an occupant to a vehicle body at the time of collision. |
| US10640148B2 |
Vehicle traveling support apparatus
A driving support ECU is configured to, when a specific recognition state occurs where a lane marker recognized changes from a left lane marker to a right lane marker or vice versa under a one side lane marker recognizable state, set a steering angle guard value to a second steering angle guard value smaller than a first steering angle guard value and set a steering angle speed guard value to a second steering angle speed guard value smaller than a first steering angle speed guard value. |
| US10640141B2 |
Tilt apparatus for vehicular steering column
Embodiments disclosed herein provide a tilt apparatus for a vehicular steering column. The tilt apparatus includes: a tilt bracket including a tilt guide portion supported on an outer side of a distance bracket and having a first tilt hole in the tilt guide portion; a fixed gear including a second tilt hole communicating with the first tilt hole and a first screw portion having a thread peak and a thread valley on opposite side ends thereof, the fixed gear being installed outside the tilt guide portion and the first screw portion being spaced apart from the tilt guide portion; a movable gear including a second screw portion having a thread peak and a thread valley to be meshed with or separated from the first screw portion during a tilt operation of an adjusting lever; and a lever bolt configured to rotate in cooperation with the adjusting lever and installed through the first tilt hole, the second tilt hole, and the movable gear. |
| US10640139B2 |
Telescoping steering column
A telescoping steering column is supported by a vehicle structure, and includes a steering shaft, first, second, and third jackets, and first and second adjustment mechanisms. The steering shaft is adapted to rotate about an axis. The first jacket is adapted to rotatably support the steering shaft. The second jacket is adapted to support the first jacket, and the first jacket is constructed to slide axially with respect to the second jacket. The third jacket is adapted to support the second jacket, and the second jacket is constructed to slide axially with respect to the third jacket. The first adjustment mechanism is supported by the first and second jackets for axial movement of the first jacket with respect to the second jacket. The second adjustment mechanism is supported by the second and third jackets for axial movement of the second jacket with respect to the third jacket. |
| US10640138B2 |
Steering wheel grip detection device
A steering wheel grip detection device includes a series circuit including an inductance element, a thermostat incorporated into a steering wheel, and a heater incorporated into the steering wheel; an electrostatic sensor circuit that detects a grip of the steering wheel by means of an electric or electromagnetic field; and a voltage detecting circuit that detects an open/closed state of the thermostat. |
| US10640137B2 |
Automatic control of a heating element in a steering wheel of a vehicle pursuant to predictive modeling that recalibrates based on occupant manual control of the heating element
A method of controlling a heating element within a steering wheel of a vehicle comprising: presenting a vehicle comprising a steering wheel including a heating element, a controller in communication with the heating element, the controller including a Pre-established Predictive Activation Model setting forth rules governing activation of the heating element as a function of data relating to Certain Identifiable Conditions, and a user interface configured to allow the heating element to be manually activated or deactivated; collecting data relating to the Certain Identifiable Conditions; determining, by comparing the collected data to the rules of the Pre-established Predictive Activation Model, whether the collected data satisfies the rules of the Pre-established Predictive Activation Model so as to initially automatically activate the heating element; and automatically activating the heating element. |
| US10640136B2 |
Mechanical system for stabilization of vehicles on castors
The present invention relates to a mechanical system for stabilization on the floor for vehicles on castors (for example a surgical assistance robot used in an operating room) that can adopt two stable states, i.e. disengaged, the vehicle resting on the castors, and activated, the vehicle being immobilized on the floor, respectively. According to the invention, the stabilization system comprises: feet for resting on the floor, movable between a first retracted position, at a distance from the floor, and a contact position ensuring the immobilization of the vehicle through mechanical friction against the floor; means for mechanically controlling said supporting feet, said control means being movable between two stable positions corresponding to the activated and disengaged states; mechanical means for transmitting the displacement of the control means simultaneously to all the supporting feet. |
| US10640134B2 |
Train position detection device
Based on a ratio between Doppler frequencies calculated from a plurality of reception signals outputted by a receiver, a position detector calculates a relative position of a plurality of antennas in a mobile wireless apparatus to a stationary wireless apparatus. A train position detector calculates a position of a train from the calculated relative position, a placement position of the stationary wireless apparatus and placement positions in the train of the plurality of antennas. |
| US10640131B2 |
Aberrant driver classification and reporting
Methods, devices and apparatuses pertaining to aberrant driver classification and reporting are described. A method may involve receiving a message from a user of a first vehicle, the message indicating an instance of aberrant driving of a second vehicle. The method may also involve determining that the instance has occurred using one or more classifiers. The method may further involve collecting information of the second vehicle and generating a warning message based on the information. |
| US10640126B2 |
Tailgating detection and monitoring assembly
A tailgating detection and monitoring assembly includes a speed detector, a sensor, a visual warning module, and an imager, which are configured to couple to a rear window of a first vehicle and are operationally coupled to a control module. The speed detector is configured to measure a speed of the first vehicle. The sensor is configured to measure a distance between the first vehicle and a second vehicle that is behind the first vehicle. The control module is positioned to determine a separation between the first vehicle and the second vehicle and a speed of the second vehicle based on signals from the speed detector and the sensor to determine a tailgating event. The control module is positioned to command the visual warning module to display a notification to a driver of the second vehicle and to command the imager to capture an image of the tailgating event. |
| US10640125B2 |
Inclement weather vehicle system
A vehicle includes a traction control system. The vehicle includes a controller configured to indicate, on a display, a recommended speed based on a precipitous deposit, a temperature, and a speed limit, and activate the traction control system before the vehicle crosses the vector. The indication and activation may be responsive to an expected route of the vehicle crossing the expected precipitous deposit of a weather prediction vector received from a source offboard the vehicle. |
| US10640123B2 |
Driver monitoring system
A driving monitoring system monitors a driver of a host vehicle by a vehicle control unit and a portable terminal which communicate with each other. The vehicle control unit controls the host vehicle. The portable terminal includes a display screen and a camera arranged to capture an image of an area opposing the display screen. The driver monitoring system determines whether the driver of the host vehicle looks at the display screen of the portable terminal during running of the host vehicle, based on an image captured by the camera; the driver monitoring system issues a warning in response to that the driver is determined to be looking at the display screen of the portable terminal. |
| US10640122B2 |
Driving consciousness estimation device
A driving consciousness estimation device includes a driving readiness estimation unit configured to estimate a driving readiness relating to a driving consciousness of the driver from a driver's reaction to the travelling environment, a driving task demand estimation unit configured to estimate a driving task demand which is an index required for the driver with respect to the driving readiness from the travelling environment, and an attention awakening unit configured to execute awakening of attention for the driver relating to the driving of the vehicle based on the result of comparison between the driving readiness and the driving task demand. |
| US10640119B2 |
Method to control a powertrain in a vehicle
A method to control a powertrain in a vehicle during an acceleration is provided, the powertrain including a propulsion unit, a multi-clutch transmission drivingly connected to the propulsion unit, and a control unit for controlling at least the powertrain components, which control unit is provided with a prediction model including at least one simulated shift sequence for the multi-clutch transmission. The method involves monitoring at least one operating parameter of the powertrain; estimating the time (tE) between initiation of a first power upshift and initiation of a sequential second power upshift using the prediction model; and, if the estimated time is shorter than a predetermined time limit (tLIM), controlling the propulsion unit to limit the vehicle acceleration so that the time between the first and second power upshifts is increased to be at least equal to the predetermined time limit (tLIM). |
| US10640118B2 |
Method for controlling powertrain of vehicle
A method for controlling a powertrain of a vehicle may include: controlling, by a controller, an engine of the vehicle to be operated when an ignition key of the vehicle is in an on state; and determining, by the controller, whether the controller generates a command changing a state of a clutch based on an operation state of the vehicle. The clutch connects or disconnects a crankshaft of the engine and a crankshaft pulley including the clutch. The crankshaft pulley is connected to a generator pulley and an air conditioner compressor pulley via a belt. |
| US10640114B2 |
Method for controlling mild hybrid electric vehicle
A method for controlling a mild hybrid vehicle includes: controlling, by a controller, the mild hybrid vehicle to enter into an idle stop and go state in which fuel supply to an engine of the mild hybrid vehicle is interrupted and the engine is stopped when the mild hybrid vehicle is stopped, based on an idle stop and go entry condition; determining, by the controller, whether a road on which the mild hybrid vehicle travels is in a dangerous area based on a distance between the mild hybrid vehicle and a front vehicle that is in front of the mild hybrid vehicle; and releasing, by the controller, the idle stop and go state of the mild hybrid vehicle when it is determined that the road on which the mild hybrid vehicle travels is in the dangerous area. |
| US10640110B2 |
Lane keep assist device
According to a lane keep assist electronic control unit (LKAECU), a lane recognizer recognizes a driving lane in which the own vehicle is traveling. A target trajectory generator, a first adder, a feedforward steering angle calculator, a feedback steering angle calculator, a second adder, a feedforward torque calculator, a feedback torque calculator, and a third adder calculate demanded torque τtgt for controlling steering of the own vehicle so that deviation of the vehicle from the driving lane is suppressed. A road surface camber corrector detects a camber estimated angle θG which is a camber angle of a road surface of the driving lane in which the own vehicle is traveling. The road surface camber corrector detects drift of the own vehicle by calculating a yaw rate difference Δω. The road surface camber corrector corrects the demanded torque τtgt based on the camber estimated angle θG and the yaw rate difference Δω. |
| US10640098B2 |
Brake device for a vehicle
A braking device for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, including an actuatable brake pedal, a piston of a master brake cylinder mechanically coupled to the brake pedal, the piston being supported in the master brake cylinder so as to be axially displaceable in an actuation direction and in a release direction, and including at least one radial seal that acts between the piston and the master brake cylinder. At least one elastically deformable and/or displaceable damping element opposes the displacement of the piston in the release direction. |
| US10640093B2 |
Collapsible snow paddle and method of use
A collapsible snow paddle. The paddle includes an elongated handle, a rotatable coupling affixed to one end of the handle, and a generally planar snow remover, the rotatable coupling affixed to a rear surface of the remover so that the remover may be collapsed against the handle for storage and extended transverse to the handle for use. The snow remover may have a scraper edge inclined at an angle relative to the surface of the snow remover for scraping ice and a relatively soft capped edge for removing snow. |
| US10640089B2 |
Remote control device and vehicle including the same
A remote control device for a vehicle includes a vibration sensor sensing vibration of the remote control device; a communication unit performing communication with the vehicle; and a controller changing an operation mode of the remote control device based on a first signal received from the vehicle via the communication unit. |
| US10640086B2 |
Motorcycle with system of authorization control
A motorcycle (1) including: an electronic system of authorization control (100,200); wherein: a first electronic control unit (200) is adapted and configured to determine whether the motorcycle (1) is in an authorized or non-authorized usage state and is adapted to interrogate a portable transponder, which can have a master identification electronic code or a slave identification electronic code, in order to acquire said electronic code and to verify if said electronic code is correct; and wherein: if the first control unit (200) acquires the master identification electronic code, starting the traction engine is allowed independently from the second electronic control unit; if the first control unit (200) acquires the slave identification electronic code, it is determined that the motorcycle (1) is in the authorized usage state and starting the traction engine is allowed if it receives consent information from the second electronic control unit (100). |
| US10640082B1 |
Child rider features for an autonomous vehicle
An autonomous vehicle including a vehicle propulsion system, a braking system, a steering system, and a computing system that is in communication with the vehicle propulsion system, the brake system, and the steering system. The computing system can receive an indication an account associated with a passenger of the autonomous vehicle for a trip of the autonomous vehicle includes a predefined parent-child link with a second account. The predefined parent-child link indicates the account associated with the passenger is subordinate to the second account and a parent-child relationship exists between the passenger and a person associated with the second account. Responsive to receiving the indication of the parent-child link and the passenger being the child in the parent-child relationship, the computing system can control the autonomous vehicle to enable a linked account feature that would otherwise be disabled. |
| US10640081B2 |
Vehicle seat
A vehicle seat includes a seat back, a motor, a gear, a take-up device and a pre-tensioner component. The seat back extends in a seat vertical direction and supports the back area of a seat occupant. A seat back frame structures a framework of the seat back. The motor is mounted to an upper portion of the seat back frame. The gear is arranged along the seat back frame adjacent to the motor and transmits driving force from the motor. The take-up device is arranged along the seat back frame adjacent to the gear, and is provided with a spool onto which a webbing is wound. Driving force from the motor is transmitted to the take-up device via the gear. The pre-tensioner component is arranged along the seat back frame adjacent to the take-up device. When activated, the pre-tensioner component forcibly takes up the spool. |
| US10640073B2 |
Airbag apparatus
An airbag apparatus includes a gas generator, and an airbag. The airbag includes a first fabric inner tube and a second fabric inner tube, both surrounding at least a gas injecting portion of the gas generator to have a double tubular shape. Common portions of the first inner tube and the second inner tube in a tubular circumferential direction are coupled to an airbag main body by a coupling portion extending in a tubular length direction, and other common portions which are separated from the common portions of the first inner tube and the second inner tube by a central angle (a central angle in a state where the airbag is only deployed and not inflated) of 70 to 180 degrees about the gas generator in the tubular circumferential direction are coupled to each other by a coupling portion extending in the tubular length direction. |
| US10640072B2 |
Vehicle seats for motor vehicles
It is provided a vehicle seat for a motor vehicle, comprising a gas bag inflatable for the protection of a vehicle occupant, which in the inflated condition extends on a side of the vehicle seat facing a vehicle interior; and a retaining element via which the gas bag is connected with a backrest frame of the vehicle seat. There is further provided at least one fastening structure molded to the retaining element, via which a positive connection of the retaining element with the backrest frame exists. |
| US10640069B2 |
Partition
A partition is formed with a thermoformed panel having a front side, a rear side, a driver-side portion, a passenger-side portion, and a gun well positioned between the driver-side portion and the passenger-side portion. The gun well is recessed toward the rear side of the thermoformed panel. The driver-side portion is sized and dimensioned to extend along a majority of a vertical height of a driver-side seat of a vehicle. The driver-side portion is formed with a driver-side seatback transitional surface transitioning from the driver-side portion toward the gun well. The driver-side seatback transitional surface is tangentially angled and non-squared. The passenger-side portion is formed with a passenger-side seatback transitional surface transitioning from the passenger-side portion toward the gun well. The passenger-side seatback transitional surface is tangentially angled and non-squared. |
| US10640064B2 |
Power management method and device
A power management method for a vehicle is provided, and includes: upon a power switch of the vehicle being switched from a conductive state to a non-conductive state, controlling an electrical system of the vehicle to temporarily supply a wireless communication module of the vehicle with electric power and activating a timer; determining whether an elapsed time has reached a predetermined duration according to the timer; when the determination is affirmative, controlling the electrical system to stop supplying electric power; and when the determination is negative, controlling the timer to stop timing upon the power switch being switched from the non-conductive state to the activated state. |
| US10640061B2 |
Maintenance notification apparatus
Even in the case where a vehicle is not utilized for a long period of time, not only maintenance notification but notification of countermeasures is performed by use of vehicle information. There is provided a control unit that: calculates a maintenance timing based on vehicle information obtained by a vehicle information I/F, a present time measured by a time measurement unit, and maintenance information stored in a memory unit; detects that the maintenance timing for the vehicle part has arrived, from the result of a failure determination based on the vehicle information, a stoppage period during which the vehicle is turned off, a usage period of the vehicle part between the usage-start time and the present time, and mileage of the vehicle or an engine driving time; and controls a display unit to notify the user of the arrival of the maintenance timing and a maintenance method. |
| US10640059B2 |
Drive device
A drive device includes: a first current path that has a high-side MOSFET; a second current path that has a low-side MOSFET; and a third current path connected to the other end portion of a coil and positioned between the first current path and the second current path. The drive device further includes: PWM drive circuits that generate a drive signal through PWM control; and an overcurrent detection circuit that detects that an overcurrent has flowed through the current paths. It is possible to precisely detect the occurrence of a battery short circuit and a ground short circuit by detecting which of the first current path and the second current path an overcurrent has flowed through. |
| US10640054B2 |
Stowable computer workstation
A stowable computer workstation (“SCW”) for a workplace within a vehicle is described, where the workplace has an inner sidewall of the vehicle. The SCW may include a video display mount assembly and a deployment support attached to the video display mount assembly. The deployment support is configured to deploy and stow the video display mount assembly against the inner sidewall and the deployment support is secured to the inner sidewall. |
| US10640053B2 |
Display holder
A display holder includes a display mounting stand that includes a pair of upper and lower holding parts configured to hold a display in a stand-up posture therebetween. Each of the holding parts has a cut-out in a portion of the holding part. An accommodating part includes an aperture through which the display mounting stand passes, and which is filled with one of the holding parts when the display mounting stand is accommodated. A portion of the aperture includes a projection projecting inward of the aperture. The projection located at a position through which the cut-outs pass while the display mounting stand is in the laid-down posture. The projection fills the cut-out of one of the holding parts when the display mounting stand is accommodated. |
| US10640052B1 |
Retractable closure for vehicle opening
A retractable closure for an opening in a vehicle includes a pleated panel and a pull cord assembly configured to move the panel from a retracted position to an extended position when pulled and to automatically return the panel to the retracted position when released. A first fastening assembly detachably secures an edge of the panel to the vehicle near a first edge of the opening, and a second fastening assembly is provided for detachably securing the opposite edge of the panel to the vehicle near a second edge of the opening opposite the first edge when the panel is in the retracted position. |
| US10640050B1 |
Holding device for motor vehicle air freshener
A holding device for an air freshener includes a hanging member and a base member. The hanging member includes a rack and a belt. The rack includes two separate hooks arranged in parallel with a reinforcing beam in between. The hooks have their front ends extended downward into two columns, and bended perpendicularly forward and joined into a bottom ring. A top ring is perpendicularly welded to the columns above the bottom ring. The belt has a ring and two belt pieces, and each belt piece is extended from the ring and a buckle at an outer end of the belt piece. The base member includes a cup and an L-shaped seat with a planar element and a wall element. The planar element has a central through opening, and the cup is joined to the planar element from below and exposed by the through opening. |
| US10640049B1 |
Document storage device
A document storage device for staging documents for presentation to a law enforcement officer includes a first panel and a plurality of second panels. A first coupler is coupled to a back of the first panel and is configured to selectively and removably couple the first panel to a surface of a vehicle, such as a visor and a window edge. Each second panel has opposing edges and a bottom edge that are coupled to a front of the first panel to define a plurality of pouches. A top of each pouch is configured to insert a respective document, such as a driver's license, proof-of-insurance, vehicle registration, and other permits, into the pouch. The pouch is readily repositioned from the visor of the vehicle to an edge of the driver's window in event the driver is pulled over by the law enforcement officer. |
| US10640048B2 |
Storage for seating assembly
A vehicle seating assembly includes a seatback. The seatback includes a rear portion and a substantially horizontal strap including first and second ends fixed to the rear portion. The substantially horizontal strap further includes an intermediate attachment area fixed to the rear portion between the first and second ends. |
| US10640047B2 |
Mirror reflective element sub-assembly for vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly
A mirror reflective element sub-assembly for use in an exterior rearview mirror assembly of a vehicle includes a mirror reflective element, a mirror reflector and a mirror back plate disposed at the rear side of the mirror reflective element. A heater pad is disposed between the mirror reflective element and the mirror back plate and has a light transmitting portion that is aligned with an aperture of the mirror back plate. A blind spot indicator module includes a body portion and a connector portion extending laterally from the body portion. Light emitted by at least one light emitting diode passes through the light transmitting portion of the heater pad and through a light-transmitting portion of the mirror reflector and exits the mirror reflective element to provide a visual icon visible to a driver of the vehicle who is driving the vehicle and who is viewing said mirror reflective element. |
| US10640044B2 |
Vehicular vision system
A vehicular vision system includes a plurality of cameras mounted at the vehicle and having respective fields of view exterior of the vehicle. The cameras include a serial data interface for transmitting captured image data to a control via a serial data bus linking the respective camera to the control. The control sends instructions to the cameras via the respective serial data bus linking the camera to the control. The control activates at least one of the cameras responsive to (i) a gear position of the vehicle, (ii) (ii) a driving condition, (iii) a steering angle of the vehicle, (iv) situational analysis information and/or (v) other vehicular sensing systems. Video images derived at least in part from image data captured by the activated camera are displayed at a video display screen of the vehicle for viewing by a driver of the vehicle. |
| US10640041B2 |
Method for dynamically calibrating vehicular cameras
A method for dynamically calibrating without manual intervention a forward viewing vehicular camera with respect to its three rotational degrees of freedom includes disposing a camera at a vehicle and operating the camera to acquire multiple frames of image data as the vehicle is moving and steered through a plurality of steering angles. Feature points are determined in an image frame when the vehicle is steered within a respective range of steering angles and motion trajectories of those feature points are tracked in subsequent image frames for the respective range of steering angles. A vanishing point is established in the image plane for the feature points for the respective range of steering angles. Based on established vanishing points, a vanishing line is determined. When the vanishing line is determined to be non-horizontal, at least one of pitch, roll or yaw of the camera is adjusted. |
| US10640035B2 |
Out-of-vehicle notification device
An out-of-vehicle notification device notifies a moving person in a vicinity of a host vehicle of information related to a behavior of the host vehicle while the host vehicle is being automatically driven. The out-of-vehicle notification device includes a moving person detecting unit configured to detect the moving person who is to be notified, an approaching vehicle detecting unit configured to detect an approaching vehicle approaching the moving person to be notified, a notification unit configured to perform notification of information with respect to an outside of the host vehicle, and a notification control unit configured to cause the notification unit to perform notification of vehicle stoppage information, which indicates that the host vehicle will be decelerated, when the moving person to be notified is detected and a traveling plan is a traveling plan in which the host vehicle is decelerated. |
| US10640033B1 |
Adjusting vehicle headlights
A headlight assembly can include a headlight and one or more actuators operatively positioned to cause the position and/or orientation of the headlight to be adjusted. The one or more actuators include a bladder. The bladder can include a flexible casing. The bladder can define a fluid chamber. The fluid chamber can contain a dielectric fluid. The one or more actuators can include a first conductor and a second conductor operatively positioned on opposite portions of the bladder. The one or more actuators can be configured such that, when electrical energy is supplied to the first conductor and the second conductor, the first conductor and the second conductor can become oppositely charged. As a result, the first conductor and the second conductor are electrostatically attracted toward each other to cause at least a portion of the dielectric fluid to be displaced to an outer peripheral region of the fluid chamber. |
| US10640029B2 |
Work vehicle
A work vehicle is provided with a driving section (5), and a load carrying deck (6) disposed rearwardly of the driving section (5). The load carrying deck (6) is configured to be pivotally liftable between an elevated posture in which a front end portion of the deck (6) is elevated, and a lowered posture in which the front end portion of the deck (6) is lowered. Between right and left ends of an upper end portion (61a) of a front wall (61) of the load carrying deck (6), there is provided a plate-like elastic member 8 extending forwardly upward. |
| US10640025B2 |
Vehicle seat
A vehicle seat is provided that can reduce a runout that occurs in a seat back frame. A seat back frame includes an upper frame part (301), a lower frame part (302), a first side frame part (303), and a second side frame part (301), which are formed as separate components and are joined to each other. The lower frame part (302) is provided in such a manner that a rotational axis (3A) is located on the inner side of the lower frame part (302). The seat back is rotated with respect to the seat cushion about the rotational axis (3A). One end portion in the width direction of the lower panel (305) is joined to the first side frame part (303). The other end portion in the width direction is joined to a second side frame part (304). A lower edge (305B) is joined to the lower frame part (302). |
| US10640022B2 |
Device and method for fastening a backrest cover to a vehicle seat
A device and a method for attaching a backrest cover to a vehicle seat. Provision is made that at least one latching element with which the backrest cover is attached to the vehicle seat in an assembly step is mounted in a floating manner on the backrest cover. In this design, the latching element is movable along a defined guideway relative to the backrest cover. |
| US10640020B2 |
Baby car seat allowing position change
The present invention relates to a baby car seat allowing a position change, and the purpose thereof is to provide a baby car seat which allows the posture of a baby to be changed in the direction thereof to a horizontal direction. |
| US10640014B2 |
Vehicle seat sliding device
According to an embodiment, a vehicle seat sliding device includes a rotary member that integrally rotates with a screw rod, a swinging member that is supported on an upper rail in a manner capable of swinging in a state in which the rotation around a rotational center is restricted and that rotatively supports the rotary member and integrally swings with the rotary member, and receiving members that are fixed to a lower rail and support the swinging member in a manner capable of swinging. |
| US10640001B2 |
Wireless power transfer method using field winding and vehicle assembly and electric vehicle using the same
A wireless power transfer (WPT) method for an electric vehicle (EV) may include a vehicle controller or a vehicle assembly (VA) controller connected to the vehicle controller performing communications, for charging of a battery of the EV, with a ground assembly (GA) controller of a charger connected to a primary coil or a primary pad located outside the EV; and connecting the battery to a field winding of a driving motor of the EV before starting the WPT. The battery is charged by a power magnetically induced at the field winding from the primary coil. |
| US10639999B2 |
Method and circuit for detecting an open line of the sine/cosine receiver coil of a resolver
A method for detecting an open line (10) of a receiver coil (17; 18) of a resolver (16) comprises—providing a pull-up resistor (R1; R3) and a pull-down resistor (R2; R4) at the terminals (7a, 7b; 8a, 8b) on a control device (1) for the signal lines (13a, 13b; 14a, 14b) of the receiver coil (17; 18);—measuring the voltage between the two signal line terminals (7a, 7b; 8a, 8b) of the receiver coil at two sampling times provided symmetrically at the middle of the excitation period;—calculating an offset value by calculating an average value that comprises the measured values measured at the two sampling times in an excitation period; and—identifying an open line (10) if the offset value exceeds a threshold value. |
| US10639994B2 |
Display device for hybrid vehicle
A display device, for a hybrid vehicle for displaying an output relating to traveling of the hybrid vehicle, includes a first region and a second region. The first region indicates the output in a first mode in which an internal combustion engine is stopped and the vehicle travels using an electric motor. The second region indicates the output in a second mode in which the internal combustion engine is operated to travel. The first region and the second region are independently disposed in a predetermined range. Numerals for scale are marked in either one of the first region and the second region. |
| US10639993B2 |
Vehicle shade assembly
A vehicle shade assembly includes a vehicle body structure, a cover supporting structure, a cover material, an electronic display and a controller. The vehicle body structure defines an opening with a transparent material installed within the opening. The cover supporting structure is installed to the vehicle body structure adjacent to the opening. The cover material is supported to the cover supporting structure and is movable from a closed orientation covering the opening and the transparent material and an open orientation exposing the opening and the transparent material. The electronic display is installed to the cover material for movement therewith. The controller is configured to operate the display to display content thereon. |
| US10639988B2 |
Energy absorbing fluid bladder systems and methods
Various techniques are provided for an energy absorbing fluid bladder. In one example, the fluid bladder includes a bladder body and a perforated baffle structure. The perforated baffle structure can be disposed within the bladder body and configured to mitigate a pulse of fluid (e.g., fuel) moving within the bladder body before the pulse reaches the bladder body. Related methods are also disclosed. |
| US10639985B2 |
Three-wheeled vehicle
A vehicle includes a plurality of ground-engaging members, a frame assembly supported by the ground-engaging members, and a powertrain assembly supported by the frame. The powertrain assembly includes at least an engine. The vehicle further includes a cooling assembly fluidly coupled to at least the engine and which includes a radiator and at least one fan positioned rearward of the radiator and angled relative to the radiator. A rear shroud is positioned between the radiator and fan and includes an air bypass assembly to exhaust air thought he rear shroud at higher speeds of the vehicle. |
| US10639972B1 |
School bus emergency egress system
An emergency egress system for a multi-passenger vehicle such as a school bus (10) includes a housing (30) that operatively supports a ramp (34) in movable connection therewith. Opening an emergency exit door (18) of the bus causes a housing door (24) to open and the ramp to move outwardly from a retracted position toward an extended position. Opening the emergency exit door also causes the suspension of the bus to be automatically lowered to place the emergency exit opening (16) closer to the ground (166). |
| US10639971B2 |
Vehicle furniture system
A vehicle furniture system having an article of furniture and a carriage configured to carry the article of furniture between first and second positions within a body portion of a vehicle when the carriage is coupled to the body portion of the vehicle, the vehicle furniture system comprising a first actuator configured to deploy the article of furniture from the carriage when the carriage is in at least one of the first and second positions. |
| US10639970B2 |
Vehicle front quarter glass
A front quarter glass includes a window plate, a frame-like black ceramic layer on a peripheral portion of an interior side surface, and an anti-fogging film provided in a region excluding an entire peripheral portion of the window plate. A boundary is between the regions where the anti-fogging film is provided and not provided, has no perspective distortion, and has a boundary line of 10-200 μm that is visually recognized by scattering of incoming light. An outer periphery of the anti-fogging film is located is located 8 mm (0.31 inch) inside from an inner periphery of the black ceramic layer in a first region. The first region is to less than 50% of an entire inner periphery including a lower front portion. The outer periphery of the anti-fogging film is located 8-35 mm (0.31-1.38 inches) inside the inner periphery of the black ceramic layer in a second region excluding the first region. |
| US10639962B2 |
Air-conditioner for vehicle
A heat pump and a heater core are provided at a heating coolant water circuit connected to an engine. As heating thermal amount control, the control of decreasing the output of the heat pump and increasing the output of the engine with an increase in an engine outlet water temperature detected by an engine outlet water temperature sensor, thereby ensuring a target heating thermal amount. Thus, in response to a decrease in a heat generation efficiency of the heat pump with an increase in the engine outlet water temperature, the output of the heat pump is decreased so that fuel economy can be improved while the output of the engine is increased so that the target heating thermal amount can be ensured. |
| US10639961B2 |
Partial air inlet control strategy for air conditioning system
A system and method of selecting air intake between 100% fresh air mode and 100% recirculated air mode for optimum heating/cooling performance, fuel economy and/or high voltage (HV) battery power consumption is disclosed. The system and method includes a partial recirculation control strategy in which the air inlet door is moved progressively to any position by taking into account cooling/heating loads and cabin fogging probability. As cooling/heating loads increase the air inlet door moves toward 100% recirculation mode. As fogging probability increases the air inlet door moves toward 100% fresh air mode. By selectively choosing a position between 100% recirculation and 100% fresh air, fuel economy and/or HV battery power consumption is optimized without compromising passenger comfort or causing fogging on interior glass surfaces. In cooling applications the compressor load is minimized and air conditioning performance is improved due to the reduced evaporator cooling load. The direct result of this improvement is increased fuel economy in the case of the internal combustion vehicle, reduced engine on time in the case of the hybrid electric vehicle (due to reduced HV battery power consumption), and reduced HV battery power consumption in the case of the hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) and the electric vehicle (EV). In heating applications, as the heating load is reduced the fuel economy of the internal combustion (IC) engine will be improved, the engine on time is reduced in the case of the HEV, and HV battery power consumption is reduced in the case of the EV. |
| US10639957B2 |
Vehicle compressor system
A vehicle cooling system for cooling a vehicle battery may include a cabin cooling system having an electrical compressor arranged on a first refrigerant path and driven by a vehicle electrical system to cool a vehicle cabin, a battery cooling system having a mechanical compressor arranged on a second refrigerant path and driven by a vehicle engine, and a battery chiller in communication with both refrigerant paths and configured to cool coolant provided to a vehicle battery. |
| US10639956B2 |
Temperature-controlled UAV storage system
Described in detail herein is an temperature-controlled UAV delivery system. One or more physical objects can be stored inside a temperature-controlled storage unit of a UAV. A temperature controlling device can control the temperature of the interior volume of the temperature-controlled storage unit. Sensors can detect a temperature of the interior volume of the temperature-controlled storage unit. The computing system can control the temperature controlling device to adjust the temperature of the interior volume of the temperature-controlled storage unit to an ideal temperature for storing the one or more physical objects based on the attributes associated with the one or more physical objects. |
| US10639954B2 |
Multi-link suspension system
A multi-link suspension system that can be used to modify a MacPherson strut suspension system is described. |
| US10639951B2 |
Electrical socket
An electrical socket for connecting an electrical installation of a towing vehicle with an electrical installation of a trailer is provided. The electrical socket comprises a plurality of electrical connectors and a plurality of holes for receiving pins from an electrical plug to connect to the electrical connectors. The socket further comprises one or more light sources, a proximity sensor and a control unit for and a control unit for activating the light sources in response to the proximity sensor detecting a presence of a user at a distance around the socket below a predetermined threshold distance. An electrical kit for connecting an electrical installation of a towing vehicle with an electrical installation of a trailer comprising such an electrical socket is also disclosed. |
| US10639950B2 |
Torsion trailer coupler
A torsion trailer coupler is affixed to a trailer between the tongue and an adjustable coupler. The torsion trailer coupler has a trailer side that affixes to the trailer and a coupler side that affixes to the adjustable coupler. The trailer side has torsion tubes that carry torsion bars and the coupler side has torsion tubes that carry torsion bars. The torsion bars between the trailer and coupler side are connected with torsion arms. The torsion trailer coupler moves between an unloaded position where the torsion bars and arms are at rest and a loaded position where force is applied between the sides and the torsion bars rotate about their central axes. The torsion bars, arms and sides cooperate to absorb transient forces between a towing vehicle and the tongue of the trailer. |
| US10639946B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring tire pressure
A tire pressure monitor system allows for customized configurations and a variety of intelligent alerts to increase usability and reliability over existing tire pressure monitor systems. A central receiver determines the alerts, rather than individual receivers, so that the tires can be monitored as a system rather than as individual tires. For instance, a Cross-Axle Alert is triggered when the pressure in a tire on one side of an axle is significantly greater than the pressure in a tire on an opposite side of the axle. Additional features include the use of Dynamic Reference Pressures, as opposed to static reference pressures, so that the alert parameters can be adjusted according to the current driving conditions. A robust user interface provides a user with a variety of views and screens and enables an administrator to adjust alert parameters while preventing a driver from adjusting the same parameters. |
| US10639935B2 |
Tire with tensioned spokes
A nonpneumatic tire includes an upper ring and a plurality of spokes extending from the upper ring. At least one reinforcement embedded in each spoke, wherein each reinforcement is constructed of a material that shrinks in length by 0.1% to 10% when subjected to a temperature between 38° C. to 260° C. and a pressure between 0.10 mPa to 0.70 mPa. |
| US10639932B2 |
Pneumatic tire and crosslinked rubber composition
The pneumatic tire of the present invention characterized by comprising: bead cores, a carcass ply, an inner liner disposed at an inner side than the carcass ply in a direction of a tire diameter, and a tread disposed at an outer side than the carcass ply in a direction of a tire diameter and having a volume of the low density region of 35% or more at elongation by an applied stress of 1.5 MPa, a volume of the void portion of 7.5% or less at elongation by an applied stress of 3.0 MPa and a filler dispersibility index ΔG* shown by the following equation (I) of 3 or less and the crosslinked rubber composition having a volume of the low density region of 35% or more at elongation by an applied stress of 1.5 MPa, a volume of the void portion of 7.5 or less at elongation by an applied stress of 3.0 MPa and a filler dispersibility index ΔG* shown by the following equation (I) of 3 or less are excellent in abrasion resistance. ΔG*=(G*(4%)−G*(256%))/G*(256%) (I) In the equation (I), G* (n %) indicates a shear modulus when an n % strain is applied. |
| US10639931B2 |
Secure locking hub system
A secure locking hub system for locking a wheel hub of a vehicle in a rotationally fixed position relative to an axle is provided. The system has a locking ring that may be moved between locked and unlocked configurations. When in the locked configuration, the wheel hub will not rotate and the vehicle thus cannot be moved. The system additionally has a security lock that prevents any unauthorized individual from unlocking the wheel hub, thereby preventing theft of the vehicle. The system includes a fastener designed to allow the system to be retrofitted to an existing vehicle axle without requiring replacement or mechanical modification of the axle. |
| US10639929B2 |
Thermal transfer apparatus
A controller includes a memory that stores image data in a vector format representing a shape in the vector format, a contour extractor that extracts a contour of the shape based on the image data in the vector format, a reduced-size contour generator that generates reduced-size contours inside the contour by sequentially reducing inwardly the contour extracted by the contour extractor, and a moving controller that controls a carriage moving mechanism such that a foil transfer tool moves along the reduced-size contours and the contour in order from an innermost reduced-size contour to the contour at an outermost side. |
| US10639924B2 |
Lithographic printing plate precursor, method of producing same, lithographic printing plate precursor laminate, plate-making method for lithographic printing plate, and lithographic printing method
A lithographic printing plate precursor including a hydrophilized aluminum support, and a water-soluble or water-dispersible negative type image recording layer provided on the aluminum support, in which an arithmetic average height Sa of a surface of an outermost layer on a side where the image recording layer is provided is in a range of 0.3 μm to 20 μm; a method of producing a lithographic printing plate precursor; a lithographic printing plate precursor laminate formed of the lithographic printing plate precursor; a plate-making method for a lithographic printing plate; and a lithographic printing method. |
| US10639922B2 |
Ink-jet recording apparatus
An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a first electrification adjuster and a second electrification adjuster. The first electrification adjuster disposed to face the recording material to be conveyed supplies a charge with one polarity. The second electrification adjuster disposed downstream the first electrification adjuster in the conveying direction to face the recording material supplies the charge with opposite polarity to that of the charge supplied by the first electrification adjuster so that the ink-jet image is formed at the downstream side of the electrification adjuster. |
| US10639921B2 |
Transfer printing
Examples described herein include printing systems that include a transfer medium, a binder material applicator to apply a layer of binder material to a surface of the transfer medium, and a print engine to apply printing material to the layer of binder material. The system can also include a roller to press the transfer medium against a print medium to transfer the binder material and the printing material to the print medium. |
| US10639915B2 |
Printing apparatus
A printing apparatus including a transport guiding portion with high manufacturing yield, is provided. A printing apparatus includes a printing portion which is able to print on a medium, a transport portion which transports the medium, and a transport guiding portion on which a transport surface on which the medium is transported is formed and which has a plurality of bent portions, in which the transport guiding portion is provided with a first guiding member which has a bent portion and forms the transport surface on a transport direction upstream side of the medium and a second guiding member which has a bent portion and forms the transport surface on a transport direction downstream side of the medium. |