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| US10795527B1 |
Systems and methods configured to provide the improved real time user experience involving mobile computing devices, a back-end server and NFC-coupled interactive posters including encryption, network operation and/or other features
Systems and methods involving processing and/or mirroring data in real time between one or more mobile devices and a plurality of near field communication (NFC) connected interactive posters are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may comprise: connecting a user mobile computing device to a server as well as coupling the device to a plurality of interactive posters via NFC; receiving user selections made on the interactive posters; processing content data related to the posters based on the user selections and/or other information; generating a GUI comprising interactive simulations corresponding to respective posters and/or statistics related to selections made on the posters; tracking, in real time, a specific experience of a user interacting with the posters; and transmitting, in real-time, data regarding the specific experience to the server. |
| US10795525B2 |
Pressure sensing element and display device having the same
A display device includes a pressure sensing element. The pressure sensing element senses a pressure input applied thereto from the outside, and the display device is controlled based on the sensed pressure input. The pressure sensing element includes a contact sensing area to sense the pressure input and a defect sensing area to sense a defect. The pressure sensing element measures a resistance value in the defect sensing area and identifies whether at least one of lines of the pressure sensing element is disconnected. |
| US10795524B2 |
Touch panel
A touch panel includes a first electrode formed of first thin metal wires arranged in the transmissive region and a second electrode insulated from the first electrode and formed of second thin metal wires arranged to intersect the first thin metal wire in the transmissive region, in which the second thin metal wires is arranged on the side opposite to the viewing side than the first thin metal wires. |
| US10795521B2 |
Pressure and shear sensor
A sensor for sensing contact with an outside object is disclosed. A sensor stackup has top surface, having an outer skin adapted for contact with the outside object. The stackup also including, a deformable layer below top surface in the stackup, the deformable layer including patches made from conductive or high dielectric material. The stackup further including a capacitive sensor layer below the deformable layer, the capacitive sensor layer comprising conductors that are insulated from the patches. Each of the patches is displaceable with respect to the capacitive sensor layer in response contact with the outside object. The stackup also includes a backing layer below the capacitive sensor layer in the stackup. The sensor further includes capacitive sensor circuitry operatively connected to the capacitive sensor layer, the capacitive sensor circuitry configured to detect changes in capacitive coupling between the conductors of the capacitive sensor layer resulting from displacement of the patches with respect to the capacitive sensor layer. |
| US10795519B2 |
Vehicle interior panel with shape-changing surface
A vehicle interior panel includes a capacitive touch panel with a control surface that can assume different contours. The capacitive touch panel includes a conductive layer beneath the control surface that is sufficiently flexible to maintain electrical continuity when the touch panel changes shape. The conductive layer can be formed from carbon nanobuds or other fullerenes to enable such flexibility, while also providing optical transparency. Pushers situated behind the touch panel extend and retract to stretch the touch panel and allow it to morph from one shape to another. |
| US10795516B2 |
Display device
The purpose is to realize the display device installed with touch panel having less moire. A display device having metal wirings on a display screen comprising: the metal wirings include; first and second metal wirings extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction, the first metal wiring has a first line, which has a first angle to the first direction, and a second line, which has a second angle to the first direction, the second metal wiring has a third line and fourth line, which are configured as the same manner as the first metal wiring, the first metal wiring and the second metal wiring are arranged so that the first to fourth lines form rectangle, wherein, at a cross point of the first to fourth lines, the first line and the second line are connected and the third line and the fourth line are separated. |
| US10795515B2 |
Transfer film, electrode protective film for electrostatic capacitance-type input device, laminate, method for manufacturing laminate, and electrostatic capacitance-type input device
A transfer film including a temporary support and a photosensitive transparent resin layer located on the temporary support, in which the photosensitive transparent resin layer includes (A) a binder polymer, (B) a photopolymerizable compound having an ethylenic unsaturated group, (C) a photopolymerization initiator, and (D) a rosin compound can be used to form electrode protective films for electrostatic capacitance-type input devices which have a low moisture permeability and are excellent in terms of heat and moisture resistance after the supply of saline water; an electrode protective film for an electrostatic capacitance-type input device; a laminate; a method for manufacturing the laminate; and an electrostatic capacitance-type input device. |
| US10795513B2 |
Capacitor structure, display device having capacitor structure, and manufacturing method of capacitor structure
A capacitor structure includes: a first substrate having a first electrode part provided on one surface thereof; a second substrate having a second electrode part provided on a surface thereof, which faces the first substrate; and a dielectric layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a Poisson's ratio of the first substrate or the second substrate is different from a Poisson's ratio of the dielectric layer. The capacitor structure has a substantially constant capacitance even when the capacitor structure is exposed to external strain. |
| US10795511B2 |
Touch sensor and touch screen panel having a bending portion
A touch sensor includes a substrate having at least one bending portion; and a sensing pattern on the substrate, the sensing pattern including a first pattern and a second pattern, the first pattern being arranged along a first direction parallel to a surface of the substrate, the second pattern being arranged along a second direction, the second direction being parallel to the surface of the substrate and crossing the first direction. The second pattern includes unit patterns isolated from each other, and a bridge electrode electrically connecting neighboring unit patterns of the unit patterns. The bridge electrode extends along the same direction as a bending direction of the bending portion. |
| US10795506B2 |
Detecting multitouch events in an optical touch- sensitive device using touch event templates
An optical touch-sensitive device is able to determine the locations of multiple simultaneous touch events. The optical touch-sensitive device includes at least one emitter and detectors. Each emitter produces optical beams which are received by the detectors. Touch events disturb the optical beams. Touch event templates are used to determine the actual touch events based on which optical beams have been disturbed. |
| US10795505B2 |
Touch device
A touch device is provided, which includes an elastic material layer, a photosensitive layer and a touch layer disposed in sequence; wherein a key region is disposed in the touch layer; at least one deformable pad is disposed in the elastic material layer and each of the at least one deformable pad has a plurality of deformable blocks; some or all of the deformable blocks of the deformable pad are deformed so as to vary lights incident on the photosensitive layer in response to a corresponding position of the touch layer being subjected to a pressing operation; an electrical signal at a position of the photosensitive layer corresponding to the pressing operation changes in response to the photosensitive layer sensing a change in lights. |
| US10795503B2 |
Device and method for capacitive sensing
A semiconductor device comprises driver circuitry, an analog-digital (AD) converter, and processing circuitry. The driver circuitry is configured to supply a drive signal to a sensor array in a sensing frame comprising 2N bursts, N being an integer of two or more. The mixer circuitry is configured to modulate a plurality of carrier waves with a plurality of sensing signals corresponding to capacitances of a plurality of sensing electrodes of the sensor array, respectively, to output a plurality of mixer outputs. A number of the plurality of sensing electrodes is 2N−1 or 2N. The AD converter is configured to perform AD conversion on a sum signal of the plurality of mixer outputs. The processing circuitry is configured to detect an object based on the output of the AD converter. |
| US10795494B2 |
Touch encoder, touch panel, and input method editor with integrated development environment and methods thereof
An encoder may be configured to receive a first input from a user. The encoder may include a first user input area. A configurator may be configured to communicate with the encoder and the encoder may be configured to communicate with a CPU. The encoder may receive the first input from the user at the first user input area based on an encoder configuration defined by the configurator. The encoder may communicate the first input to the CPU based on the encoder configuration defined by the configurator. A panel may be configured to receive a first input from a user. The panel may include a plurality of input areas. A portable computing device may comprise a configurator. The portable computing device may be configured to communicate with a CPU. |
| US10795493B2 |
Palm touch detection in a touch screen device having a floating ground or a thin touch panel
A touch screen controller includes input circuitry receiving touch data from the touch screen. Processing circuitry acquires touch data from the input circuitry in a self-capacitance sensing mode, locates a force island and locates a sense island. A length of the force island and a length of the sense island is calculated. If the length of the force island is greater than a threshold force length and if the length of the sense island is greater than a threshold sense length, then the product of the lengths is calculated, and if greater than a threshold size, designated a valid area. Touch data in the valid area is then acquired in mutual-capacitance sensing mode, and represents palm touch if a maximum strength value in the valid area is less than a maximum area threshold and if a minimum strength value in the valid area is greater than a minimum area threshold. |
| US10795492B2 |
Input device and method for controlling input device
An input device includes a touch sensor, a pressure detection unit configured to detect pressure on the touch sensor, and a control unit that performs control to execute predetermined processing when, in a state such that the touch sensor detects contact inside a predetermined region, data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies a predetermined standard, and performs control not to execute the predetermined processing when, in a state such that the data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies a predetermined standard, the touch sensor detects contact that transitions from outside the predetermined region to inside the predetermined region. |
| US10795491B2 |
Position detecting device that selects electrodes having different intervals therebetween while different signals are detected
A position detecting device obtains information from a stylus when the stylus moves at high speed, while removing influences of noise. The position detecting device includes a differential amplification circuit that amplifies and outputs a difference in a signal at a first terminal and a signal at a second terminal, and a selection circuit that selects at least a first electrode of a sensor, connects at least the first electrode to the first terminal of the differential amplification circuit, selects at least a second electrode of the sensor, and connects at least the second electrode to the second terminal of the differential amplification circuit. The selection circuit selects electrodes separated by a first interval in a period in which a position indicated by the stylus is detected, and selects electrodes separated by a second interval that is shorter than the first interval in a period in which data is detected. |
| US10795489B2 |
Detecting method for touch panel and detection circuit thereof
A detecting method for a touch panel is disclosed. The sensing electrode of the detecting method is indirectly and repeatedly charged several times via the charge holding capacitor circuit to reach a certain higher voltage. The driving electrode is switched to the first voltage or the second voltage under the cooperation of the driving circuit when several measuring cycle is conducted. After the voltage is switched every time, several measured values of different situations are obtained rapidly so as to eliminate the noise to get the best signal via several measured values. There is only to wait the balancing time in the measuring cycle, which effectively shortens the reaction time of the touch detecting. |
| US10795488B2 |
Flexible self-capacitance and mutual capacitance touch sensing system architecture
A switching circuit is disclosed. The switching circuit can comprise a plurality of pixel mux blocks, each of the pixel mux blocks configured to be coupled to a respective touch node electrode on a touch sensor panel, and each of the pixel mux blocks including logic circuitry. The switching circuit can also comprise a plurality of signal lines configured to be coupled to sense circuitry, at least one of the signal lines configured to transmit a touch signal from one of the respective touch node electrodes to the sense circuitry. The logic circuitry in each pixel mux block of the plurality of pixel mux blocks can be configured to control the respective pixel mux block so as to selectively couple the respective pixel mux block to any one of the plurality of signal lines. |
| US10795486B2 |
Input apparatus, input method and program
There is provided an input apparatus including: a pressure detecting unit which detects press pressure of an operational body applied to a virtual key having one or more input candidates allocated selectively; and an input control unit which varies a selection state of the one or more input candidates selectively allocated to the virtual key for every pressing operation having, as a single time of pressing operation, timing that the press pressure detected by the pressure detecting unit exceeds a predetermined selection threshold value or timing that the press pressure becomes smaller than the selection threshold value as being attenuated after exceeding the selection threshold value. |
| US10795481B2 |
Method and system for identifying tap events on touch panel, and touch-controlled end product
A method for identifying tap events on a touch panel includes measuring vibration signals for tap events on the touch panel to collect the tap events and record types of the tap events as samples; generating a sample set including a plurality of samples; using the sample set to train a deep neural network to determine an optimized weighting parameter group; taking the deep neural network and the optimized weighting parameter group as a tapping classifier and deploying it to a touch-controlled end product; and obtaining a predicted tap type based on a vibration signal and an image formed by touch sensing values detected by the touch-controlled end product to which a tap operation is performed. The present disclosure also provides a system corresponding to the identifying method, and a touch-controlled end product. |
| US10795478B2 |
Array substrate and preparation method therefor, and display apparatus
Provided are an array substrate and preparation method therefor, and a display apparatus. The array substrate includes: a substrate, the substrate having a first TFT region, a touch control region and a second TFT region; a photosensitive PN junction, the photosensitive PN junction being provided in the touch control region; a first thin-film transistor, provided in the first TFT region, and electrically connected to the photosensitive PN junction; and a second thin-film transistor, provided in the second TFT region, and electrically connected to a pixel electrode. |
| US10795477B2 |
System and method for multidimensional flexible display device input
A flexible electronic device is used to receive user inputs via flex gestures. The electronic device includes a flexible substrate, a shape sensor configured to determine an axis of bending and a degree of flex of the flexible substrate, and a processor coupled to the shape sensor and configured to determine a flex gesture associated with the axis of bending and the degree of flex, wherein the processor updates an output of the electronic device based on the flex gesture. The output includes display information, user interface elements, and a flex gesture input for a device that is coupled to the electronic device. The flex gestures can be assigned to functions such as moving, zooming, scrolling, cropping, rotating, and selection to manipulate content associated with the flexible electronic device. |
| US10795475B2 |
Sensing unit having a notch pattern and display device including the same
A sensing unit includes a base layer having a sensing area, the sensing area including a first sensing area, a second sensing area protruding from the first sensing area in a first direction, and a third sensing area protruding from the first sensing area in the first direction, and a non-sensing area adjacent to the sensing area; sensing patterns including a normal sensing pattern in the first sensing area, a first notch sensing pattern in the second sensing area, and a second notch sensing pattern in the third sensing area; a sensing line in the non-sensing area; a connection line in the non-sensing area and between the sensing line and the normal sensing pattern in a plane view to electrically connect the first notch sensing pattern and the second notch sensing pattern; and a connection part electrically connecting the sensing line and the normal sensing pattern. |
| US10795466B1 |
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for configuring programmable buttons
An apparatus may include a transmitter capable of sending a signal to a device that is configured with an action module that interprets the signal and a programming module, a dial that is adjustable to a plurality of positions, where position is matched by the programming module with a programmable action, and a button that is communicatively coupled to the transmitter and that, when pressed, triggers the transmitter to send to the device the signal indicating the current position of the dial, such that the action module activates a programmable action associated with the current position of the dial in response to the button being pressed. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed. |
| US10795460B2 |
Dynamic visual indications for input devices
An input device for providing input to a computing device. The input device includes a body, a visual element, and a processing element in communication with the visual element. The processing element dynamically changes a graphic displayed by the visual element to correspond to presentation data corresponding to the input device as presented to the computing device. The dynamic changes in the graphic provide indication to a user regarding the current state of the input device. |
| US10795446B2 |
Portable electronic haptic vision device
The invention provides a portable electronic haptic vision device configured to be attached to or worn by a user. The portable electronic haptic vision device is arranged to provide haptic feedback with pressurized air on skin of the user based upon detected objects in the surroundings of the user. The information about the detected objects in the surroundings is captured with a digital camera, radar and/or sonar device, and/or a 3-D capture device such as a 3-D scanner or 3-D camera attached to the portable electronic haptic vision device. The portable electronic haptic vision device is realised as a helmet with at least two cameras placed in the position of the eyes of the user, or as a t-shirt or other wearable. |
| US10795445B2 |
Methods, devices, and systems for determining contact on a user of a virtual reality and/or augmented reality device
A method of determining contact on a user of a virtual reality and/or augmented reality device includes a first device including a plurality of transducers and a control circuit coupled to the plurality of transducers. The method includes activating one or more of the first plurality of transducers and generating waves that couple into at least a portion of a first appendage of a user wearing the first wearable device. The method further includes at a second wearable device having a second plurality of transducers, receiving at least a portion of the waves generated by the first plurality of transducers when the first appendage of the user is within a threshold distance from the second wearable device. The user is wearing the second wearable device on a second appendage different from the first appendage and in response to receiving the portion of the waves, providing a signal corresponding to the received portion of the waves to a computing device that uses the signal to determine a position of the first appendage with respect to a position of the second wearable device. |
| US10795441B2 |
Method of recognizing user intention by estimating brain signals, and brain-computer interface apparatus based on head mounted display implementing the method
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method of recognizing, by a controller, an intention of a user who wears a head mounted display to which electroencephalogram electrodes are attached. The method includes obtaining brain signals for learning from each of the head mounted display and an additional electrode device coupled to the head mounted display, in a state where a training image causing brain signals is displayed on the head mounted display; learning a first relational model between electrodes of the head mounted display and electrodes of the additional electrode device using the brain signals for learning; measuring brain signals by the head mounted display decoupled with the additional electrode device, in a state where a specific image is displayed on the head mounted display; estimating brain signals of the additional electrode device non-measured, from the brain signals measured by the head mounted display based on the first relational model; and recognizing a user intention corresponding to the measured brain signals and the estimated brain signals. |
| US10795438B2 |
Electronic finger devices with charging and storage systems
A system may include one or more finger-mounted devices such as finger devices with U-shaped housings configured to be mounted on a user's fingers while gathering sensor input and supplying haptic output. The finger devices may have power receiving circuitry configured to receive power from a power source. The power source may be incorporated into an electronic device such as a battery case, a head-mounted display, or a wireless charging mat or stand. The power source may supply power through terminals that form ohmic contacts with mating terminals in the finger device or may transmit power wirelessly using capacitive coupling or inductive charging arrangements. A finger device may have hinge structures that allow portions of the device to rotate relative to each other. |
| US10795437B2 |
Matrix sensors for use with a controller
An array of antennas form a sensor device. Some of the array of antennas function as receivers and some of the array of antennas function as transmitters. Each of the transmitters may transmit a unique frequency orthogonal signal that may be received at the receivers. Measurements of the received signal are then used to determine a hand motion. |
| US10795432B1 |
Maintaining virtual object location
One embodiment provides a method, including: determining, using a processor, a location of a virtual object within a physical environment with respect to a user having a headset; generating, on a display of the headset of the user, an augmented reality scene of the physical environment having the virtual object; and maintaining, within the augmented reality scene and as the user moves throughout the physical environment, the location of the virtual object, wherein the maintaining comprises identifying a position of the user with respect to other users each having headsets. Other aspects are described and claimed. |
| US10795427B2 |
Control of power state transitions
A method from managing power state transitions in a computing system is disclosed. A processor may initiate a change in power state from a first initial power state to a first new power state and, in response to initiating the change, send an initial notification to a system integrated circuit using a first communication channel, and deactivate the first communication based on responses to the initial notification. The processor may enter the first new power state in response to the deactivation of the first communication channel, and send a final notification to a management controller using a second communication channel. The management controller may send a message to the system integrated circuit upon receiving the final notification. The system integrated circuit may then transition from a second initial power state to a second new power state based on the message. |
| US10795426B2 |
Display device and display system with power-saving mechanism
A display device includes an image receiving unit, a power-saving control device, a display control unit, and a backlight module control unit. The power-saving control device judges whether or not received frames are still for a predetermined time. If the power-saving control device judges that the received frames are still for the predetermined time, the power-saving control device outputs a first control signal to the display control unit for controlling the display panel to perform power saving to reduce its power consumption while continuing displaying frames, and the backlight module control unit controls the backlight module to continue providing the backlight; while if the received frames are not still or are still for a time shorter than the predetermined time, the power-saving control device does not output the first control signal to the display control unit for controlling the display panel to perform power saving to reduce its power consumption. |
| US10795424B2 |
Server power saving system and server power saving method
A server power saving system includes a motherboard and a backplane. The motherboard includes a CPLD, a basic I/O control chip electrically connected with the CPLD, and a clock chip electrically connected with the CPLD. The basic I/O control chip includes a basic I/O control program The backplane includes a HD microcontroller electrically connected with the CPLD and a HD connection port electrically connected with the HD microcontroller and the clock chip. The HD microcontroller sends clock enable signal to the CPLD when a HD is electrically connected with the HD connection port. The CPLD transmits clock enable signal to the basic I/O control chip. The basic I/O control chip sends confirmation signal to the CPLD according to clock enable signal, and the CPLD determines whether to drive the clock chip to send clock signal to the HD connection port according to a content of confirmation signal. |
| US10795414B2 |
Electronic device and operation method of selecting a function item thereof
An electronic device and an operation method of selecting a function item are provided. The operation method is applied to an electronic device. The operation method comprises the following steps: receiving a sliding instruction of a sliding path via the touch display and displaying a first pattern on the touch display. The first pattern includes the first function item or the second function item corresponding to the sliding path. A sliding track is displayed on an outer periphery of the first pattern corresponding to a sliding distance of the sliding instruction. When the sliding track meets a predetermined path, a function corresponding to the first function item or the second function item is executed by the processing unit. |
| US10795411B2 |
Eyewear including a remote control camera and a docking station
Eyewear is provided including a frame, and a camera connected with the frame, in which the camera is configured to be controlled by a remote controller. The camera may be configured to capture video and/or a photo. The eyewear may include data storage, and the camera may be connected to the data storage. A wrist watch may be configured to act both as a time piece and a controller of the camera. The eyewear may also include a heads up display and/or a video file player. The eyewear may also include an electro-active lens. |
| US10795410B2 |
System for auto-securing virtual reality headgear
An automatic strap-tensioning system is provided for head-worn electronic gear including a microprocessor, a powered drive mechanism and sensors. In use, microprocessor reads the outputs of the sensors and, if prescribed conditions are met, instructs the drive mechanism to tension the straps of the headset. The sensors are used as feedback to control the level of tension in the straps. |
| US10795409B2 |
Digital assistant device
One embodiment provides an electronic device, including: a housing comprising: a fixed pyramidal-shaped base having a first triangular stand surface and a second triangular stand surface, wherein the first triangular stand surface comprises different dimensions than the second triangular stand surface; a display positioned on a front surface of the housing; an integrated speaker positioned on the front surface; at least one sensor; a connection port positioned on a back surface of the housing, opposite from the front surface, and at a distal corner along a longer edge of the fixed pyramidal-shaped base; and at least one processor operatively coupled to the display, integrated speaker, and at least one sensor. Other aspects are described and claimed. |
| US10795406B2 |
Work device and time-measuring method of work device
In the case where multiple individual work devices respectively executing a sequence of multiple tasks are controlled in an integrated manner by an integrated control device, log analysis among the multiple individual work devices is difficult. One of four individual work devices transmits time inquiry signal to main integrated control device via serial communication cable. Main integrated control device returns the time at time at which time inquiry signal was received to the one of four individual work devices to which time inquiry signal was transmitted. One of four individual work devices receives a reply from main integrated control device at time, adds the communication time to the time at time, and calculates the time at time. One of four individual work devices starts the calculation of the in-device time from calculated time as a starting point. One of four individual work devices logs based on in-device time. |
| US10795402B2 |
Analog circuit, position indicator, and system
A low-power-consumption, noise-immune analog circuit for a position indicator is provided. The analog circuit provided by the present disclosure is connected to an electrode that receives a control signal by capacitive coupling, and includes an edge detection circuit and a waveform restoration circuit. The edge detection circuit detects rising and falling edges of the control signal received by the electrode. The waveform restoration circuit restores the waveform of the control signal in accordance with the rising and falling edges detected by the edge detection circuit. |
| US10795399B2 |
Device throughput optimization for bus protocols
One embodiment provides a master device in a bus system. The master device includes bus interface circuitry to exchange commands and data with a slave device in communication with the master device; and test sequence generation logic to generate at least one test sequence, each test sequence having a corresponding unique clock signal having a unique clock frequency; the test sequence generation logic also to transmit the at least one test sequence and the corresponding unique clock signal to the slave device; the test signal generation logic also to determine, based on feedback from the slave device, if the slave device is capable of communicating with the master device using the unique clock frequency. |
| US10795398B2 |
Joystick assembly
A joystick assembly for use with a device including a joystick surface and a first magnet having north and south magnetic poles includes a second magnet having north and south magnetic poles and a movable elongated shaft having first and second opposing ends arranged along a major axis of the shaft. The first end of the shaft is coupled to the second magnet such that movement of the shaft results in movement of the second magnet relative to the first magnet such that a line between centers of the north and south magnetic poles of the second magnet is movable relative to a line between the north and south magnetic poles of the first magnet. An attraction of the second magnet to the first magnet results in a restoring force upon the shaft, and the shaft and the second magnet are removable from the joystick surface. |
| US10795397B2 |
Current-voltage convertor, reference voltage generator and non-volatile semiconductor storage device
A stable reference voltage that can be supplied in a layout area smaller than prior art is provided. A current-voltage convertor includes a first current mirror circuit including a first MOS transistor, a second MOS transistor in a pair, and an output resistor; and a depletion type N-channel MOS transistor, inserted between a first voltage to be input and the first MOS transistor and the second MOS transistor, and having a gate to which an output voltage from the output resistor is fed back. When a reference current is input to the first MOS transistor, the output voltage is generated by a current corresponding to the reference current flowing into the second MOS transistor and the output resistor. In addition, a reference voltage generator including the current-voltage convertor is provided to output a reference voltage based on the output voltage of the current-voltage convertor. |
| US10795391B2 |
Voltage regulator wake-up
A system includes a voltage regulator having an output voltage; a power management system, coupled to the voltage regulator, operable to continuously monitor the output voltage to determine whether the output voltage is within a range; and the power management system is operable to set the range to a normal range during normal operation, and is operable to increase the range beyond the normal range during a low power mode and during a wake-up period from a low power mode. |
| US10795381B2 |
Flow-rate adjustable valve
The present invention is a flow-rate adjustable valve for adjusting a flow rate of liquid flowing through a flow path. The flow-rate adjustable valve includes: a main valve body; a back pressure chamber; an inlet hole; an outlet hole; a pilot valve body for opening and closing an end of the outlet hole on a side of the back pressure chamber; an elongated member holding the pilot valve body; and a lifter rotatable and also movable in the axial direction of the elongated member by the rotation of the rotatable member. The lifter and the elongated member are integrally movable in the axial direction. The elongated member is connected to the lifter under a condition in which the elongated member is biased to the lifter in a one-way direction of the axial direction by a biasing-connecting member. |
| US10795377B2 |
Method for autonomously controlling speed of components and functions of a robot
Provided is a robot, including: a first actuator; a first sensor; one or more processors communicatively coupled to the first actuator and to the first sensor; and memory storing instructions that when executed by at least some of the one or more processors effectuate operations comprising: determining a first location of the robot in a working environment; obtaining, with the first sensor, first data indicative of an environmental characteristic of the first location; and adjusting a first operational parameter of the first actuator based on the sensed first data, wherein the adjusting is configured to cause the first operational parameter to be in a first adjusted state while the robot is at the first location. |
| US10795375B2 |
Navigating a vehicle based on predictive aggression of other vehicle
Systems and methods are provided for navigating an autonomous vehicle using reinforcement learning techniques. In one implementation, a navigation system for a host vehicle may include at least one processing device programmed to: receive, from a camera, a plurality of images representative of an environment of the host vehicle; analyze the plurality of images to identify a navigational state associated with the host vehicle; provide the navigational state to a trained navigational system; receive, from the trained navigational system, a desired navigational action for execution by the host vehicle in response to the identified navigational state; analyze the desired navigational action relative to one or more predefined navigational constraints; determine an actual navigational action for the host vehicle, wherein the actual navigational action includes at least one modification of the desired navigational action determined based on the one or more predefined navigational constraints; and cause at least one adjustment of a navigational actuator of the host vehicle in response to the determined actual navigational action for the host vehicle. |
| US10795374B2 |
Vehicle control device
A vehicle control device includes a peripheral image acquisition unit adapted to acquire peripheral image data including a lane marking on a road in a travel direction of a host vehicle, a lane marking recognition unit adapted to recognize the lane marking from the image data, and a specified region determining unit adapted to determine, within the image data, the presence or absence of a specified region where continuity of the road is interrupted. In the case that the specified region exists, the lane marking recognition unit performs recognition of the lane marking on a side closer to the host vehicle than the specified region. |
| US10795372B2 |
Automatic end of row turning control system for a work vehicle by learning from operator
An automatic turning control system for a work vehicle having a ground engaging traction device directed by a manual steering device. The automatic turning control system includes an electronic control unit (ECU), a traction device angle sensor configured to generate an angle signal representative of an angle of the traction device with respect to an axis of the work vehicle, and a vehicle guidance system. The ECU is configured to generate a manual path signal representing an actual path of the work vehicle based on the angle signal. The ECU is operatively connected to a vehicle guidance system and determines a learned path signal based on the manual path signal. The vehicle guidance system automatically directs the work vehicle along the learned path signal when the vehicle moves from a working area, to a non-working area, and back to the working area of a field. |
| US10795365B2 |
Movable body photogrammetry survey system
A photogrammetry analysis unit of an analysis device associates the survey result obtained by a surveying device with a photographing position of each image taken by a camera, recognizes the surveying device from the image containing the surveying device, corrects the photographing position based on the known point coordinates of the surveying device, and generates the data for photogrammetry. |
| US10795364B1 |
Apparatus and method for monitoring and controlling of a neural network using another neural network implemented on one or more solid-state chips
A device implemented on solid-state chips for an autonomous machine with sensors. The device includes a neural network on the autonomous machine, trained with a first training data set that includes training data generated by a sensor located remote from the autonomous machine, and configured to generate output data after processing input data. The device also includes a processor coupled to the neural network, and a detector to receive the output data and determine whether the output data breaches a predetermined condition, and a neural network manager coupled to the neural network and adapted to re-train the first neural network using another training data set if the detector determines the output data breach the first predetermined condition; and another neural network structured and trained identical to the first neural network to generate a second output data by processing the set of input data, wherein the neural networks are executed simultaneously. |
| US10795362B2 |
Detecting and responding to processions for autonomous vehicles
The technology relates to detecting and responding to processions. For instance, sensor data identifying two or more objects in an environment of a vehicle may be received. The two or more objects may be determined to be disobeying a predetermined rule in a same way. Based on the determination that the two or more objects are disobeying a predetermined rule, that the two or more objects are involved in a procession may be determined. The vehicle may then be controlled autonomously in order to respond to the procession based on the determination that the two or more objects are involved in a procession. |
| US10795359B2 |
Apparatus and method of controlling autonomous driving and autonomous parking through navigation apparatus
A method of controlling an autonomous vehicle may include receiving destination information before autonomous driving, providing parking space information corresponding to the destination information, receiving first parking selection information related to the parking space information, and performing the autonomous driving based on the destination information and the first parking selection information, and the autonomous driving includes movement of the autonomous vehicle to a first position corresponding to the destination information and the first parking selection information. |
| US10795357B2 |
Method and device for controlling vehicle and autonomous driving vehicle
A method and device for controlling a vehicle, and an autonomous driving vehicle are provided. The method includes that: historical weather information of a present driving road planned for a vehicle is acquired; a slippery parameter of the present driving road is determined according to the historical weather information; and an autonomous driving mode of the vehicle is controlled according to the slippery parameter. |
| US10795356B2 |
Systems and methods for determining when to release control of an autonomous vehicle
Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes providing a control of the autonomous vehicle to a user associated with a vehicle service. The method includes identifying one or more release signals indicative of one or more actions of the user. The method includes releasing the control of the autonomous vehicle from the user, based at least in part on the release signals. |
| US10795355B2 |
Autonomous vehicles
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a vehicle for maneuvering a passenger to a destination autonomously. The vehicle includes one or more computing devices and a set of user input buttons for communicating requests to stop the vehicle and to initiate a trip to the destination with the one or more computing devices. The set of user input buttons consisting essentially of a dual-purpose button and an emergency stopping button different from the dual-purpose button configured to stop the vehicle. The dual-purpose button has a first purpose for communicating a request to initiate the trip to the destination and a second purpose for communicating a request to pull the vehicle over and stop the vehicle. The vehicle has no steering wheel and no user inputs for the steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle other than the set of user input buttons. |
| US10795354B2 |
Flight aiding method and system for unmanned aerial vehicle, unmanned aerial vehicle, and mobile terminal
A flight aiding method for an unmanned aerial vehicle includes receiving a flight aiding instruction to execute a flight aiding function, recording a position of a point of interest, recording a current location of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and defining a forward flight direction of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the position of the point of interest and the current location of the unmanned aerial vehicle. |
| US10795352B2 |
System having a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles and a method of controlling a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles
A system comprising, a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles and a single controller for controlling said plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles, wherein the single controller is configured such that it can broadcast a command to all of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles so that each of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles receive the same command; and wherein each of the unmanned aerial vehicles comprise a memory which stores a plurality of predefined flight paths each of which is assigned to a respective command; and wherein each of the unmanned aerial vehicles comprise a processor which can, (i) receive a command which has been broadcasted by the single controller to said plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles, (ii) retrieve from the memory of that aerial vehicle the flight path which is assigned in the memory to that command, and (iii) operate the aerial vehicle to follow the retrieved flight path. There is further provided a corresponding method of controlling a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles. |
| US10795348B2 |
Providing a standard operating procedure associated with a monitoring system of a facility
Methods, devices, and systems for providing a standard operating procedure associated with a monitoring system of facility are described herein. One method includes determining a plurality of parameters associated with a facility having a monitoring system, accessing a library of SOP templates to determine a particular SOP template having a correlation with the plurality of parameters, allowing a user to create an SOP by customizing the particular SOP template, and associating the created SOP with the plurality of parameters. |
| US10795346B2 |
Machine learning systems for monitoring of semiconductor processing
Operating a substrate processing system includes receiving a plurality of sets of training data, storing a plurality of machine learning models, storing a plurality of physical process models, receiving a selection of a machine learning model from the plurality of machine learning models and a selection of a physical process model from the plurality of physical process models, generating an implemented machine learning model according to the selected machine learning model, calculating a characterizing value for each training spectrum in each set of training data thereby generating a plurality of training characterizing values with each training characterizing value associated with one of the plurality of training spectra, training the implemented machine learning model using the plurality of training characterizing values and plurality of training spectra to generate a trained machine learning model, and passing the trained machine learning model to a control system of the substrate processing system. |
| US10795343B2 |
Data providing apparatus and data providing method
A data providing apparatus includes a field data acquisition unit configured to acquire field data relating to field equipment, and a data providing unit configured to transmit and receive information to and from a service providing unit, the service providing unit being a communication target and configured to use the field data as service data, in which the data providing unit manages information on a conversion rule defining a relationship between the field data and the service data, acquires the field data specified in a data acquisition request from the service providing unit, from the field data acquisition unit, converts the acquired field data to service data according to the conversion rule when there is a difference between a specification of the field data and a specification of the service data, and transmits the data obtained by the conversion to the service providing unit. |
| US10795339B2 |
Apparatus and method for processing containers having querying processing devices
Provided is a method for processing containers, wherein the containers are processed by. a first processing device in a first predetermined manner and are transported by. a transport device to a second processing device and are processed by this second processing device in a second predetermined manner, and wherein the processing devices are in each case controlled by at least control devices, wherein for the control parameters are used which are characteristic of the containers and/or the processing of the containers. According to the embodiment, predetermination parameters are output on at least one and preferably on several control devices, and said output predetermination parameters are compared with parameters required by at least one processing device, and it is checked whether the parameters required by the at least one processing device can be derived at least from the predetermination parameters. |
| US10795338B2 |
Abnormality detection system, support device, and model generation method
An abnormality detection system, support device, and model generation method for generating a more highly accurate abnormality detection model before an actual operation are provided. A model generation part includes a section for generating feature values from state values provided from a state value storage part; a section for calculating importance levels respectively for the generated feature values based on plural methods, wherein the importance levels indicating a degree that is effective for abnormality detection; and a section for integrating the importance levels calculated based on the plural methods for each of the generated feature values and determining rankings of the importance levels of the generated feature values. |
| US10795337B2 |
Predictive and prescriptive analytics for systems under variable operations
A communication system and method that provides predictive and prescriptive analytics for a system running at an edge. In one embodiment, the communication system includes an architect subsystem configured to build, test and deploy a model based on sensor characteristics of the system. The sensor characteristics are from at least one of an operator input, a historical input, a specification input, and a subject-matter expert input. The communication system also includes an edge subsystem configured to receive said model and perform predictive and prescriptive analytics on sensor data from said system running on said model deployed at said edge. |
| US10795336B2 |
Ball-pitching control method of pitching machine in baseball practice system and baseball practice system using the same
Disclosed are a ball-pitching control method of a pitching machine in a baseball practice system that is capable of automatically compensating for inclination of the pitching machine, which may occur depending on the installation environment of the pitching machine, based on the result of sensing performed by a sensing device for sensing a pitched ball or a hit ball without using a separate sensor or measurement device and that is capable of automatically self-correcting the displacement of the pitching machine from the original position thereof or the corrected position thereof over time due to external impact applied to the pitching machine or a manager's inaccurate correction of the pitching machine by analyzing the results periodically sensed by a sensing device and the cumulative results of set ball pitching information of the pitching machine, and a baseball practice system using the same. |
| US10795335B2 |
Automated manufacturing of shoe parts with a pickup tool
Manufacturing of a shoe or a portion of a shoe is enhanced by executing various shoe-manufacturing processes in an automated fashion. For example, information describing a shoe part may be determined, such as an identification, an orientation, a color, a surface topography, an alignment, a size, etc. Based on the information describing the shoe part, automated shoe-manufacturing apparatuses may be instructed to apply various shoe-manufacturing processes to the shoe part, such as a pickup and placement of the shoe part with a pickup tool. |
| US10795334B2 |
Path planning for additive manufacturing
A method of providing additive manufacturing includes the steps of (a) developing a plurality of layers to result in a final shape product, (b) developing a space filling algorithm to develop a path, (c) estimating a temperature at a location along the path in an existing direction of the path, and (d) comparing the estimated temperature to a desired temperature and altering the existing direction of the path should the estimated temperature differ from the desired temperature by a predetermined amount. An additive manufacturing system is also disclosed. |
| US10795332B2 |
Facilitating automating home control
Systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products that facilitate automating home control are provided. In one embodiment a computer-implemented method comprises: using a voice recognition component to identify user identification by analyzing voice signatures; using a face recognition component to determine user identification by analyzing facial features; using an authentication component to verify user identification and authorize control access to functionality of one or more automated home control systems; using a communication component to facilitate communication between the one or more automated home control systems and one or more devices; using a service component to execute a set of functions based on authorized user commands and information communicated from the one or more devices; and using a machine learning component to learn user preferences by correlating a set of functions with the authorized users commands. |
| US10795330B2 |
Symmetry alternating direction method of multipliers
A method for controlling an operation of a machine exhibiting symmetries in dynamics of the machine, a cost of the operation of the machine, and constraints on the operation of the machine performs iteratively a control optimization until a termination condition is met to produce an optimal control input and controls the machine according to the optimal control input. An iteration includes transforming control inputs to the machine, a state of the machine, an output of the machine, and dual variables from an original domain to a symmetric domain using a symmetric transformation, solving an optimal control problem of the control inputs and the state for fixed values of the output and the dual variables in the symmetric domain, transforming the control inputs and the state from the symmetric domain into the original domain using an inverse of the symmetric transformation; projecting the outputs corresponding to the control inputs and the state in the original domain onto the constraints, and updating the dual variable based on the projected outputs. |
| US10795321B2 |
Wrist watch with hearing function
Provided is a wristwatch provided with a display unit with which the top and bottom of a display can be inverted when being observed, and vibration transferring units for cartilage conduction provided respectively in the vicinity of the distal end of the radius and in a part in contact with the distal end of the ulna when being worn. The wristwatch is provided with an operating portion which is located at the back of the hand when being worn. The orientation whereby the top and bottom of the display unit are in an upright condition is determined on the basis of an acceleration detected by an acceleration detecting unit, and a determination is performed on the basis of a mean value of gravitational acceleration to determine whether the wristwatch is being worn with the operating portion facing up or down. |
| US10795318B2 |
Analog display device, electronic timepiece, display operation control method and storage medium
An analog display device, including: a display; a processor; and an operation member, wherein the display changes a display content by the movable display performing the movement operation, the processor causes the movable display to perform a fast-forward movement operation and display a plurality of display contents in order in accordance with a first input operation, the processor stops the fast-forward movement operation in accordance with a second input operation, and when the processor causes the movable display to perform the fast-forward movement operation, the processor determines a fast-forward movement speed of the movable display in at least a part of switching between display contents which are adjacent to each other in an order of display to a high movement speed which is larger than an average movement speed of the movable display during a round of display of the plurality of display contents. |
| US10795313B2 |
Image forming device, image printing method, and computer program of foil printing
An image forming device that prints a first image using first toner and prints a second image using foil on a sheet of paper, includes: a former that forms a first toner image by the first toner of the first image on the paper and forms a second toner image by second toner different from the first toner of the second image on the paper; a fixer that fixes the first toner image and the second toner image formed on the paper; a melter that melts the second toner out of the first toner and the second toner fixed to the paper; and a foil printer that prints the second image by bonding the foil to the melted second toner. |
| US10795310B2 |
Cartridge having a regulating member that regulates movement of a developing unit
Provided is a cartridge that includes a photosensitive member unit, a development unit that moves with respect to the photosensitive member unit so as to be movable between a first position and a second position, a regulating member that is movable between a regulating position at which the regulating member contacts the photosensitive member unit and the development unit to regulate movement of the development unit from the first position to the second position and a nonregulating position at which movement of the development unit is not regulated, and an urging member that urges the regulating member to move the regulating member from the nonregulating position to the regulating position. |
| US10795309B2 |
Process cartridge and image forming apparatus
A process cartridge comprises a photosensitive drum and a developing roller. A coupling member is provided adjacent to one axial end of the developing roller. The coupling member includes a driven portion, and an intermediary portion configured and positioned to engage with the driven portion. The intermediary portion is also configured to be movable relative to the driven portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the driven portion. The coupling member further includes a driving portion configured and positioned to receive a driving force for rotating the developing roller. The driving portion is also configured to engage with the intermediary portion, and to be movable relative to the intermediary portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the intermediary portion. |
| US10795303B2 |
Method of estimating lifetime of conveyance part provided in image forming apparatus
In an image forming apparatus, a first conveyance part conveys a sheet, a detection unit detects a leading edge of the sheet conveyed by the first conveyance part, a second conveyance part is provided downstream of the detection unit in a conveyance direction of the sheet and conveys the sheet, a measurement unit measures a conveyance time of the sheet from when conveyance of the sheet by the first conveyance part is started until the leading edge of the sheet is detected by the detection unit, and an estimation unit estimates a remaining lifetime of the second conveyance part based on the conveyance time measured by the measurement unit. |
| US10795300B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a power supply board, a driver board, and an engine control board. The driver board includes a plurality of switching elements each configured to supply and shut off a power supply for each of a plurality of distributed power supply voltages supplied from the power supply board. The plurality of switching elements includes a first switching element, to which the power supply voltage is to be applied from the power supply board, and a second switching element, to which the power supply voltage output from the first switching element is to be applied in a distributed manner. The engine control board is configured to performs failure diagnosis of the first switching element when the image forming apparatus is activated, and performs failure diagnosis of the second switching element in a case where an abnormality has occurred in any one of a plurality of loads. |
| US10795299B2 |
Image forming apparatus generating image forming condition based on detected images
An image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet and conveys the sheet through a conveying path. The image forming apparatus includes a color detection sensor which detects a detection image formed on the sheet for generating an image forming condition and a white reference plate used to calibrate the color detection sensor. The white reference plate is arranged opposite to the color detection sensor with the conveying path interposed therebetween at a position where the white reference plate is not concealed by the sheet when viewed from the color detection sensor when the sheet is conveyed to the conveying path. The detection image is formed on a white reference plate side of the sheet. The color detection sensor reads the white reference plate and is calibrated according to a read result. |
| US10795298B2 |
Fixing member, fixing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
A fixing member includes: a base containing a polyimide resin; an elastic layer disposed on the base and containing silicone rubber; and a bonding layer that is disposed between the base and the elastic layer, is a cured product of a composition containing an organic titanate compound, and contains a component originating from the organic titanate compound in an amount of from 5% by mass to 95% by mass inclusive. |
| US10795292B1 |
Sliding member, fixing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
A sliding member contains a resin and a fibrous filler. The dynamic friction coefficient of a surface of the sliding member in an in-plane direction A of the surface is 0.08 or more lower than the dynamic friction coefficient of the surface in an in-plane direction B angled at 90 degrees with respect to the in-plane direction A. |
| US10795289B2 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating the same
A fixing device includes a stationary member, a roller, an endless belt, a pressure rotator, and a lubricant applicator. The endless belt is stretched over the stationary member and the roller. The pressure rotator is disposed opposite the stationary member via the endless belt to form a fixing nip between the pressure rotator and the endless belt on the stationary member. The lubricant applicator contacts the roller over an entire length of the roller in an axial direction of the roller. The lubricant applicator contacts an inner surface of the endless belt and has an axial length equal to or greater than an axial length of the stationary member. |
| US10795288B2 |
Image forming apparatus with controller controlling fixing and transfer members
An image forming apparatus includes an image holding body, a transfer member, and a controller. The image holding body holds an image formed of toner. The transfer member is brought into contact with a continuous medium so as to transfer the image held by the image holding body to the continuous medium, and the transfer member is able to be brought into contact with and separated from the image holding body. The controller causes the transfer member to be separated from the image holding body, and after that, causes the image holding body to move so as to detect an inspection image formed on the image holding body, thereby adjusting, as image quality adjustment, a deviation of a position of the image or a deviation of density of the image to be formed. |
| US10795282B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a developing section, a voltage applicator, a detector, a calculating section, and an evaluating section. The detector detects values of first and second currents. The first current flows between the photosensitive drum and the developing section during formation of an electrostatic latent image. The second current flows between the photosensitive drum and the developing section when the electrostatic latent image is not being formed. The calculating section calculates a toner charge-to-mass ratio. The evaluating section evaluates reliability of a calculation result of the toner charge-to-mass ratio by comparing the second current value to a reference value. The reference value is of a reference current flowing between the photosensitive drum and the developing section when the electrostatic latent image is not being formed, and indicates a current value detected after adjustment to at least one of the photosensitive drum and the developing section. |
| US10795281B2 |
Compensating voltages for electrophotography printing devices
A method of balancing current in a developer roller is described. The method includes pulsing voltage to a squeegee roller and a cleaner roller. The pulsed voltage yields a differential voltage at the developer roller after impression. The method also includes pulsing compensating voltage to at least one of the squeegee roller or the cleaner roller to reduce or cancel an accumulated developer current imbalance of the developer roller. The compensating voltage pulses include pulses before or after the impression. |
| US10795280B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum; an exposure portion including light emitting elements; and a controller configured to control activation of the light emitting elements. The exposure portion includes array chips, each including the light emitting elements, a substrate on which the array chips are arranged in a staggered fashion in the rotational axis direction, and a substrate temperature detecting portion. The controller includes a correcting portion configured to correct magnification of the image data with respect to the rotational axis direction depending on a length fluctuation amount of the substrate calculated on the basis of the temperature detected by the temperature detecting portion, and a converting portion. Depending on magnification correction by the correcting portion, the image data is arranged by the converting portion on the basis of the mounting positions of the array chips. |
| US10795278B2 |
Image forming apparatus and method for controlling image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a charging roller configured to charge the photoconductor, and a self-excited oscillation circuit. The image forming apparatus includes a transformer including a primary coil and a secondary coil, the transformer being configured to produce, at the secondary coil, a voltage applied to the charging roller, in accordance with the primary coil being driven by the self-excited oscillation circuit. The image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to control, at start-up of the self-excited oscillation circuit, the self-excited oscillation circuit to allow an amount of a current flowing through the primary coil to be larger than an amount of a current flowing from the photoconductor through the secondary coil, via the charging roller. |
| US10795273B2 |
Bis-butadiene derivative and electrophotographic photosensitive member
A bis-butadiene derivative is represented by general formula (1) shown below. In general formula (1), Ra, Rb, and Rc each represent, independently of one another, an alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 8 or an alkoxy group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 8. l and m each represent, independently of one another, an integer of at least 0 and no greater than 5. n represents an integer of at least 0 and no greater than 4. Chemical groups Ra may be the same as or different from each other. Chemical groups Rb may be the same as or different from each other. Chemical groups Rc may be the same as or different from each other. |
| US10795272B2 |
Triphenylamine derivative, and charge transport material and electrophotographic photoreceptor using the same
The present invention provides a triphenylamine derivative represented by general formula (1). (In the formula, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14 and R15 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group). |
| US10795270B2 |
Methods of defect inspection
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods for defect inspection. After pattern features are formed in a structure layer, a dummy filling material having dissimilar optical properties from the structure layer is filled in the pattern features. The dissimilar optical properties between materials in the pattern features and the structure layer increase contrast in images captured by an inspection tool, thus increasing the defect capture rate. |
| US10795267B2 |
Model for estimating stochastic variation
A method including: obtaining a resist process dose sensitivity value for a patterning process; applying the resist process dose sensitivity value to a stochastic model providing values of a stochastic variable as a function of resist process dose sensitivity to obtain a value of the stochastic variable; and designing or modifying a parameter of the patterning process based on the stochastic variable value. |
| US10795266B2 |
Method of performing model-based scanner tuning
A model-based tuning method for tuning a first lithography system utilizing a reference lithography system, each of which has tunable parameters for controlling imaging performance. The method includes the steps of defining a test pattern and an imaging model; imaging the test pattern utilizing the reference lithography system and measuring the imaging results; imaging the test pattern utilizing the first lithography system and measuring the imaging results; calibrating the imaging model utilizing the imaging results corresponding to the reference lithography system, where the calibrated imaging model has a first set of parameter values; tuning the calibrated imaging model utilizing the imaging results corresponding to the first lithography system, where the tuned calibrated model has a second set of parameter values; and adjusting the parameters of the first lithography system based on a difference between the first set of parameter values and the second set of parameter values. |
| US10795263B2 |
Compositions for removing photoresist
A composition for removing photoresist, including an alkyl ammonium fluoride salt in an amount ranging from about 0.5 weight percent to about 10 weight percent, based on a total weight of the composition; an organic sulfonic acid in an amount ranging from about 1 weight percent to about 20 weight percent, based on the total weight of the composition; and a lactone-based solvent in an amount ranging from about 70 weight percent to about 98.5 weight percent, based on the total weight of the composition. |
| US10795261B2 |
Additive for resist underlayer film-forming composition and resist underlayer film-forming composition containing the same
An additive for a resist underlayer film-forming composition, including a copolymer having structural units of the following Formulae (1) to (3): wherein R1s are each independently a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 is a C1-3 alkylene group, A is a protecting group, R3 is an organic group having 4 to 7-membered ring lactone skeleton, adamantane skeleton, tricyclodecane skeleton, or norbornane skeleton, and R4 is a linear, branched, or cyclic organic group having a carbon atom number of 1 to 12, wherein at least one hydrogen atom is substituted with a fluoro group and that optionally has at least one hydroxy group as a substituent. A resist underlayer film-forming composition for lithography including additive, a resin that is different from copolymer, organic acid, crosslinker, and solvent, wherein the copolymer's content is 3 parts by mass to 40 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the resin. |
| US10795254B2 |
Transparent screen
According to the present invention, there is provided a plurality of protruding portions that are formed on one surface of the support and have inclined surfaces parallel to each other; a cholesteric liquid crystal layer that is formed on each of the inclined surfaces of the protruding portions; and an overcoat layer that is laminated on the surface of the support on which the protruding portions are formed so as to cover the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, in which a normal line of each of the inclined surfaces of the protruding portions is parallel to a spiral axis of the cholesteric structure of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, an angle formed between a normal line of a surface of the overcoat layer and the spiral axis of the cholesteric structure is 5° to 42°, a difference in refractive index between the cholesteric liquid crystal layer and the protruding portion and a difference in refractive index between the cholesteric liquid crystal layer and the overcoat layer are 0.2 or less. |
| US10795253B2 |
Projection apparatus with wavelength band based on identified region, projection system, method for controlling projection apparatus
A projection apparatus including a light source section, a projection section that projects light outputted from the light source section, and a control section that acquires captured image data produced by an imaging section, identifies a region of a projection target contained in the acquired captured image data and an image captured position of the region in the captured image data, determines a projection range over which the projection section projects light and a wavelength band of the light to be projected over the projection range based on the identified region and image captured position, and controls the projection section to cause the projection section to project light in the determined wavelength band over the determined projection range. |
| US10795251B2 |
Light emission control device, light source device, and projection type video display device
The light emission control device includes a PWM terminal to which a PWM signal is input, a first drive circuit for outputting a first control signal, a second drive circuit for outputting a second control signal, and a mode judgment circuit. The first control signal sets the first switching element to an ON state when the PWM signal is in an active state, and sets the first switching element to an OFF state when the PWM signal is in an inactive state. The second control signal controls an ON/OFF state of the second switching element when the PWM signal is in the active state. The mode judgment circuit judges between a PWM dimming mode and an analog dimming mode based on the PWM signal. |
| US10795250B2 |
Lighting apparatus and lighting tool for vehicle
A lighting apparatus includes a laser source configured to emit a laser beam, a homogenizer optical element that includes a light flux dividing section disposed to face the laser source, configured to divide the laser beam into a plurality of separate laser beams in a plane and make advancing directions of the plurality of separate laser beams different from each other, and a light flux superimposing section formed integrally with the light flux dividing section and superimposing the plurality of separate laser beams on each other in a common radiation region, and a fluorescent material disposed to face the homogenizer optical element, excited by the plurality of separate laser beams superimposed in the radiation region using the light flux superimposing section so as to emit fluorescence. |
| US10795248B2 |
Light source device and projector
A light source device according to the present disclosure includes a substrate having a first surface, a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on the first surface side of the substrate, a frame body which is disposed so as to surround the plurality of light emitting elements, and which is bonded on the first surface side of the substrate, and a lid body which has a light transmissive member configured to transmit light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements, which is disposed so as to be opposed to the first surface of the substrate, and which is bonded on an opposite side of the frame body to the substrate. The plurality of light emitting elements is housed in a housing space, the housing space being formed by the substrate, the frame body and the lid body. The frame body is formed of a material including a nonconductive material. |
| US10795246B2 |
Imaging apparatus and accessory
Included are multiple mount claws, and multiple contact pins following the circumferential direction of a second mount. The second mount can rotate to a first state where multiple claws of a first mount are inserted between the multiple mount claws, and a second state where the multiple mount claws engage the claws in a center axis direction. In the first state, a first mount claw is included in an angle range where a first contact pin of the multiple contact pins and a center axis of the mount are connected in the radial direction of the mount, and a first contact face of the multiple contact faces and the center axis are connected in the radial direction of the mount. The first contact pin and the first contact face come into contact first when rotating from the first state to the second state. |
| US10795245B1 |
Selfie apparatus
Apparatus for use with a communication device having a camera to take a selfie picture. The apparatus comprises a tri-pod stand comprising an upper pole. The apparatus further comprises a control unit engaged with the upper pole. The apparatus further comprises first, second, and third flexible arms extending upward from the control unit. The apparatus further comprises first and second light sources engaged with the first and second flexible arms, respectively. The apparatus further comprises a fastener engaged with the third flexible arm to engage the communication device. The control unit being adapted to send a first signal to the communication device to activate the light sources and a second signal to activate the camera of the communication device. The apparatus further comprises a remote control to send a signal to the control unit to send a signal to the communication device to activate the camera and take a picture. |
| US10795242B2 |
Electronics device that dissipates internal device heat via heat sink having exposed surface
A power consuming electronics device that dissipates internal device heat via a heat sink is disclosed. The power consuming electronics device includes first and second complementary housing parts. The first housing part includes a first surface ending at a first peripheral edge, and the second housing part including a second surface ending at a second peripheral edge. The power consuming electronics device also includes a heat sink having an air exposed surface that is interposed between the first and second peripheral edges. Surface edges of the air exposed surface abut the first and second peripheral edges of the housing parts and are respectively matched therewith in shape and dimension so that an overall composite surface formed by the first and second surfaces of the housing parts and the air exposed surface of the heat sink is substantially continuous and uniform. |
| US10795239B2 |
Drainage structure and electronic device having same
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an upper cover in which at least one first camera facing a first direction is disposed, a housing in which a plurality of second cameras is disposed facing a second direction different from the first direction, a lower cover disposed to face the upper cover with the housing interposed therebetween, the lower cover being configured to cover a third direction different from the first direction, and a drainage structure penetrating the housing from the upper cover and connected to the lower cover. The drainage structure includes a drainage hole disposed adjacent to the at least one first camera, at least one first conduit extending from the upper cover in the third direction, and at least one second conduit extending in the first direction from the lower cover and connected to the at least one first conduit. |
| US10795235B2 |
SAW modulators and light steering methods
An electro-holographic light field generator device is disclosed. The light field generator device has an optical substrate with a waveguide face and an exit face. One or more surface acoustic wave (SAW) optical modulator devices are included within each light field generator device. The SAW devices each include a light input, a waveguide, and a SAW transducer, all configured for guided mode confinement of input light within the waveguide. A leaky mode deflection of a portion of the waveguided light, or diffractive light, impinges upon the exit face. Multiple output optics at the exit face are configured for developing from each of the output optics a radiated exit light from the diffracted light for at least one of the waveguides. An RF controller is configured to control the SAW devices to develop the radiated exit light as a three-dimensional output light field with horizontal parallax and compatible with observer vertical motion. |
| US10795231B2 |
Array substrate and manufacturing method thereof, display panel and manufacturing method thereof, and display device
The present disclosure discloses an array substrate and its manufacturing method, a display panel and its manufacturing method, and a display device. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; a plurality of data lines; and a plurality of pixel units arranged on the base substrate, where each of the plurality of pixel units includes a plurality of subpixel units, and the plurality of subpixel units is in a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of data lines, where each of the plurality of subpixel units includes a first subpixel unit and a second subpixel unit that are adjacently arranged, and the data line corresponding to the first subpixel unit and the data line corresponding to the second subpixel unit are both arranged at a position corresponding to a boundary between the first subpixel unit and the second subpixel unit. |
| US10795229B2 |
Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus
An element substrate of an electro-optical device includes, in a peripheral area surrounding a pixel area, a metal wiring provided at one surface side of a first substrate that is a substrate body, and a plurality of second light-shielding layers overlapping with the metal wiring between the first substrate and the metal wiring. A second light-shielding interlayer area overlapping with the metal wiring is present between the plurality of second light-shielding layers. A third light-shielding layer is formed in a manner overlapping in a plan view with the second light-shielding interlayer area between the first substrate and the metal wiring. Surfaces of the second light-shielding layer and the third light-shielding layer at the first substrate side have lower reflectance than a surface of the metal wiring at the first substrate side. |
| US10795226B2 |
Display device
The present invention provides a display device which includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a third substrate, and a fourth substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate are arranged opposite to each other. The third substrate and the fourth substrate are arranged opposite to each other. A liquid crystal layer is located between the first substrate and the second substrate. A bistable polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer is located between the third substrate and the fourth substrate. A band-pass filter is located between the liquid crystal layer and the bistable polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer. A backlight module is located on one side of the fourth substrate away from the third substrate. |
| US10795222B2 |
Display device and manufacturing method for display device
A display device according to a present disclosure comprises: a first glass substrate including a through-hole; a wiring disposed in a first main surface of the first glass substrate; and a terminal formed in a second main surface of the first glass substrate and electrically connected to the wiring through the through-hole. |
| US10795214B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a first signal line and a second signal line adjacent to each other along a first direction, an organic insulating film located on the first signal line and the second signal line, and a first spacer located on the organic insulating film and a second substrate opposing the first substrate and including a second spacer opposing the first spacer. The organic insulating film has a through-hole between the first signal line and the second signal line in plan view. The first spacer is provided to overlap the through-hole in plan view and filling the through-hole. |
| US10795212B2 |
Light-modulating cell
A stacked body includes a first resin film, a first electrode portion, a first alignment film, and a sealing material which are stacked, wherein the first alignment film has a permeation region where at least a part of components constituting the sealing material permeate. |
| US10795211B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a first area and a second area, a second substrate opposing the first substrate but not opposing the second area, a sealing part which adheres the first substrate and the second substrate to each other, a liquid crystal layer located between the first substrate and the second substrate and surrounded by the sealing part, an alignment film disposed on the first substrate so as to be in contact with the liquid crystal layer and a terminal located in the second area and connected to an external circuit. In plan view, the alignment film includes an end located between the sealing part and the terminal. |
| US10795207B2 |
Quantum rod layer, method of fabricating the same and display device including the same
An example of the present invention provides a quantum rod layer including: a photo-induced polymer including a base polymer aligned along a first direction and a photo-reactive group combined to the base polymer; and a quantum rod aligned along the first direction. |
| US10795205B2 |
Plastic frame, backlight assembly and display apparatus
A plastic frame includes: a first frame portion having a surrounding structure; and a second frame portion having an outer edge part and an inner edge part opposite to the outer edge part, and having a first surface and a second surface between the outer edge part and the inner edge part. The outer edge part is joined with the first frame portion in such a manner that the first frame portion and the second frame portion are connected to form an L-shaped groove when viewed in a sectional view, and that the first surface of the second frame portion is an inner face of the L-shaped groove and the second surface is an outer face of the L-shaped groove. A beveled surface extends between an end face of the inner edge part and the first surface. |
| US10795203B2 |
Reflective liquid crystal display device having a composite layer formed on a side of the backlight unit away from the display panel
A reflective liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first polarizer disposed on a side of the first substrate away from the second substrate, a second polarizer disposed on a side of the second substrate away from the first substrate, liquid crystals, a light guiding plate disposed on a side of the first polarizer away from the first substrate, and a side-entry backlight. The reflective liquid crystal display panel further includes a third polarizer laminated on a side of the light guiding plate away from the first polarizer, a composite layer having a mixture of liquid crystals and dichroic dyes, and a third substrate. The third polarizer has the same polarization direction as the first polarizer and a light absorption axis of the third polarizer is orthogonal to a light absorption axis of the composite layer in a display dark state. |
| US10795200B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel, a light shielding unit and a back plate. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and an upper polarizer. The first substrate is disposed corresponding to the second substrate. The upper polarizer is disposed on the second substrate. The light shielding unit is connected to the upper polarizer. The first substrate is disposed on the back plate. |
| US10795193B2 |
Structure of shield cover and display device including the same
A display device includes a display module, a circuit board, and a shield cover. The display module includes a display panel. The circuit board is disposed under the display module and is connected to a first side of the display panel. The shield cover includes a body portion, a side portion, and a first support portion. The body portion is disposed under the circuit board. The side portion extends in an upward direction from a first side of the body portion along a first side surface of the display module, the first side surface of the display module being adjacent to the first side of the display panel. The first support portion protrudes in the upward direction from a second side of the body portion adjacent to the first side of the body portion, the first support portion contacting a lower surface of the display module. |
| US10795192B2 |
Display device
A display device including: a display panel including a first substrate and a second substrate that are coupled to and face each other; a first polarizing plate attached to the second substrate of the display panel; a second polarizing plate attached to the first substrate of the display panel; and a side cover layer. The first polarizing plate has a first extended portion that extends outwardly beyond an end portion of the second substrate, and the second polarizing plate has a second extended portion that extends outwardly beyond an end portion of the first substrate. The side cover layer is between the first and second extended portions of the first and second polarizing plates and covers a first side surface of the first substrate and a second side surface of the second substrate that are near the first and second extended portions, respectively. |
| US10795191B2 |
Display device including optical element having adjustable refractive index and display method
A display device and a display method are provided. The display device includes: an optical element including a plurality of optical units arranged independent of each other, wherein one or more optical parameters of each of the optical units are adjustable, and the one or more optical parameters comprise at least one of light transmittance or refractive index; a laser source arranged at a side of the optical element, and configured to emit a laser beam related to a to-be-displayed holographic image; and a driving circuit configured to adjust the light transmittance and/or refractive index of each of the optical units in accordance with image data about the to-be-displayed holographic image in such a manner that the optical unit is configured to modulate the laser beam or a linearly-polarized light beam acquired by converting the laser beam. |
| US10795190B2 |
Input sensing unit and display device including the input sensing unit
An input sensing unit includes sensing electrodes and auxiliary electrodes. The sensing electrodes are disposed in an input-sensing area of the input sensing unit. The auxiliary electrodes are disposed in a supplementary area and configured to sense damage occurring in an auxiliary area of the input sensing unit. The supplementary area is adjacent to the input-sensing area. The auxiliary area is part of the supplementary area. |
| US10795186B2 |
Enhancement of forward scattering, suppression of backscattering, and spectral tuning of optical hedgehog particles
Optical materials for optical devices are provided that comprise a plurality of hedgehog-shaped microparticles. Each hedgehog microparticle comprises a core region formed of a first material having a first refractive index and a plurality of needles connected to and substantially orthogonal to a surface of the core region. The needles comprise a second material having a second refractive index. The optical material enhances forward scattering of a predetermined wavelength of light, while suppressing backscattering of the predetermined wavelength of light. Methods of controlling transparency in an optical material comprising a plurality of hedgehog microparticles, while suppressing backscattering are also provided. Spectral tuning with use of such optical materials is also provided. |
| US10795185B1 |
Connector, assistive device and wearable device
Provided is a connector, the connector comprises: a first connecting component provided with a first magnetic component; and a second connecting component provided with a second magnetic component, wherein the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component can be magnetically attached to each other, wherein the second connecting component can rotate by a predetermined angle relative to the first connecting component in a plane perpendicular to a direction of magnetic attraction. The connector of the present disclosure can solve the technical problem that the mounting angle of the assistive device relative to the wearable device cannot be flexibly and conveniently adjusted. |
| US10795183B1 |
Enhanced optical and perceptual digital eyewear
Improved wearable optics is disclosed. The wearable optics comprises a frame member and a lens. The wearable optics also includes circuitry within the frame member for enhancing the use of the wearable optics. A system and method in accordance with the present invention is directed to a variety of ways to enhance the use of eyeglasses. They are: (1) media focals, that is, utilizing the wearable optics for its intended purpose and enhancing that use by using imaging techniques to improve the vision of the user; (2) telecommunications enhancements that allow the eyeglasses to be integrated with telecommunication devices such as cell phones or the like; and (3) entertainment enhancements that allow the wearable optics to be integrated with devices such as MP3 players, radios, or the like. |
| US10795181B2 |
Method and apparatus for limiting growth of eye length
Certain embodiments of the present invention are directed to therapeutic intervention in patients with eye-length-related disorders to prevent, ameliorate, or reverse the effects of the eye-length-related disorders. Embodiments of the present invention include methods for early recognition of patients with eye-length-related disorders, therapeutic methods for inhibiting further degradation of vision in patients with eye-length-related disorders, reversing, when possible, eye-length-related disorders, and preventing eye-length-related disorders. Additional embodiments of the present invention are directed to particular devices used in therapeutic intervention in patients with eye-length-related disorders. |
| US10795180B2 |
Ophthalmic lens and method for manufacturing the same
The invention is to provide an ophthalmic lens comprising a lens body and an antimicrobial hydrophilic layer thereon and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the antimicrobial hydrophilic layer comprises a polydopamine layer and a zwitterionic polymer non-covalently bonded on the polydopamine layer, and the zwitterionic polymer can be selected from one of the group consisting of phosphorylcholine polymer, sulfobetaine polymer, carboxybetaine polymer, mixed-charge polymer and a combination thereof. |
| US10795176B2 |
Three-dimensional display adapted for viewers with a dominant eye
A mobile device has at least two camera lenses for taking a first image and a second image as a stereo-image pair. The mobile device also has an electronic processor for composing a composite image from first image strips compressed from the first image and second image strips compressed from the second image in an interlaced manner. The composite image is conveyed to a display panel so that a viewer can see a 3D image through a parallax separating sheet with parallax separating units. The composite image can also be electronically shifted by haft an image strip to accommodate a viewer with a dominant eye. The shifting can be initiated by a viewer using a switch on the mobile device. |
| US10795175B2 |
Imaging lens and imaging device
According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an imaging lens including: an image shake correcting action unit provided movably in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens; a stationary unit for supporting the image shake correcting action unit; a permanent magnet provided on one of the image shake correcting action unit and the stationary unit and a coil provided on an other; a drive circuit for moving the image shake correcting action unit relative to the stationary unit; a mount section for being connected to an imaging unit; and a conductive member which is nonmagnetically conductive and disposed between the coil and the mount section so as to include a facing surface facing a surface formed by a winding wire of the coil and having a larger area than a surface formed by an inner periphery of the coil. |
| US10795173B2 |
System and method for optimally forming gratings of diffracted optical elements
Optical grating components and methods of forming are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes providing an optically transparent substrate, and forming an optical grating layer on the substrate. The method includes forming an optical grating in the optical grating layer, wherein the optical grating comprises a plurality of angled components, disposed at a non-zero angle of inclination with respect to a perpendicular to a plane of the substrate. A first sidewall of the optical grating may have a first angle, and a second sidewall of the grating has a second angle different than the first angle. Modifying process parameters, including selectivity and beam angle spread, has an effect of changing a shape or dimension of the plurality of angled components. |
| US10795171B2 |
Optical-fiber atomic light-filtering apparatus
An optical-fiber atomic light-filtering apparatus comprising an optical-fiber coupling focusing collimating mirror, a first polarizing optical fiber, a first permanent magnetic ring, a pure iron frame shaped like the Chinese character “”, a heat preservation box, a first capillary atomic cell, an armored twisted-pair heating wire, a second permanent magnetic ring, a second polarizing optical fiber, a thermostat, a cable, a third permanent magnetic ring, a temperature sensor, a second capillary atomic cell, a fourth permanent magnetic ring, a third polarizing optical fiber and a photoelectric detector. The two pairs of permanent magnetic rings are matched with the pure iron frame shaped like the Chinese character “” to provide magnetic fields for the two capillary atomic cells working in the same temperature environment; a polarizing plane changes after interaction between a weak signal light and atoms. |
| US10795169B2 |
Laser homogenizing and beam shaping illumination optical system and method
An illuminator optical system combines, homogenizes, and shapes light spatially and angularly from one or more high power fiber coupled lasers. It may include a multichannel fiber cable, collimation and beam shaping optics, a multiple lens array (e.g., fly's eye lens array), and an objective lens. The multichannel fiber collects the light from the high power fiber coupled lasers and produces an aligned array of one or more optical fibers at the output of the cable. The light output from the cable is collimated and relayed to a multiple lens array that spatially divides and shapes the light into an array of beams. The objective lens homogenizes the light by collimating and overlapping the beams into a uniform top hat irradiance distribution in at least one dimension, resulting in the illumination pattern having the required spatial size and desired angular distribution at the illumination plane. |
| US10795168B2 |
Transmissive metasurface lens integration
Metasurface elements, integrated systems incorporating such metasurface elements with light sources and/or detectors, and methods of the manufacture and operation of such optical arrangements and integrated systems are provided. Systems and methods for integrating transmissive metasurfaces with other semiconductor devices or additional metasurface elements, and more particularly to the integration of such metasurfaces with substrates, illumination sources and sensors are also provided. The metasurface elements provided may be used to shape output light from an illumination source or collect light reflected from a scene to form two unique patterns using the polarization of light. In such embodiments, shaped-emission and collection may be combined into a single co-designed probing and sensing optical system. |
| US10795166B2 |
Head up display system and control method thereof
A head up display system for a vehicle is provided, including an eye tracking device and a head up display device. The eye tracking device is configured to pre-locate an initial gaze position of a driver of the vehicle before the vehicle starts moving and to detect a gaze position of the driver in real time. The head up display device includes a projector and a processor. The processor is coupled to the eye tracking device and the projector. The processor compares the gaze position with the initial gaze position, and controls the projector to project a display image to a first projection position or a second projection position according to a comparison result, wherein the first projection position corresponds to the initial gaze position and the second projection position corresponds to the gaze position. A control method of a head up display system is also provided. |
| US10795163B2 |
Display device and wearable equipment
A display device includes a transparent display screen, and a first lens group that converges light. The transparent display screen intersects a main optical axis of the first lens group, a distance between the transparent display screen and the first lens group along the main optical axis of the first lens group is less than a focal length of the first lens group, such that, both a display image on the transparent display screen and an environmental image through the transparent display screen and the first lens group or through the first lens group can be observed at an observation position that is located on the main optical axis of the first lens group. Both the observation position and the first lens group are located at a same side of the transparent display screen, and the observation position is farther from the transparent display screen than the first lens group. |
| US10795160B1 |
Systems for and methods of using fold gratings for dual axis expansion
A near eye optical display includes a waveguide comprising a first surface and a second surface, an input coupler, a fold grating, and an output grating. The input coupler is configured to receive collimated light from a display source and to cause the light to travel within the waveguide via total internal reflection between the first surface and the second surface to the fold grating; the fold grating is configured to provide pupil expansion in a first direction and to direct the light to the output grating via total internal reflection between the first surface and the second surface; and the output grating is configured to provide pupil expansion in a second direction different than the first direction and to cause the light to exit the waveguide from the first surface or the second surface. |
| US10795149B2 |
Micromirror device having a mechanical stop
A micromirror device having a cap, a function layer, and a window layer, which are disposed on top of one another and parallel to a main extension plane, the function layer being situated between the cap and the window layer, and a micromirror is patterned out of the function layer. The micromirror device has a stop, which is designed to restrict a deflection of the micromirror in a direction perpendicular to the main extension plane. |
| US10795145B2 |
Infrared and night vision pixel by pixel optical fusion system
Infrared and night vision optical fusion systems are provided. The first scheme is to add a common-aperture beam splitter in front of the night vision device, which is a band-pass filter having a high transmission for the light with wavelength of 0.78-1 μm, and a high reflectivity for the visible light with wavelength of 0.38-0.78 μm and for the infrared light with wavelength of 8-14 μm. After electrical processing, a target image with a temperature higher or lower than a certain threshold is obtained on the LCD/OLED. The second scheme is to align the night vision objective lens and the infrared objective lens having the same field of view side by side. Since only infrared targets having a temperature above or below a certain threshold are used, white or red humans, animals and vehicles can be clearly seen in a green night vision background with high contrast no matter which scheme is adopted. |
| US10795144B2 |
Microscopy with structured plane illumination and point accumulation for imaging and nanoscale topography
A sample is bathed in a solution that includes labels having a binding affinity for a structure on the sample and that emit light in response to excitation light. A sheet of excitation light having a FWHM thickness is provided to the sample. Light emitted from labels in response to the excitation light is imaged onto a detector, where the light is imaged with a detection objective having a depth of focus comparable to or greater than the FWHM thickness. The bathing of the sample and the imaging of the light emitted from the bound labels is controlled, such that the imaged light from different individual labels bound to the structure is resolved on the detector. The providing, imaging, and controlling are repeated to image, at different times, light from labels bound to the structure at different locations on or within the sample. |
| US10795141B2 |
LED illumination in microscopy
Disclosed is an LED arrangement for a microscopy instrument (200 FIG. 2) comprising a light emitting area (112), and a part-spherical solid and light transmissive cap (120), in light communication with the light emitting area, the cap having a hemispherical surface (126) including a portion (124) at which light from the light emitting area is reflected and a portion (128) at which light from the emitter can exit the cap, in order to provide a usable light cone L which includes light recycled from the more divergent emitted light, and is thereby more intense. |
| US10795137B2 |
Image-space telecentric lens
An image-space telecentric lens includes, in order from a magnified side to a minified side, a first lens group of negative refractive power, an aperture stop, and a second lens group of positive refractive power. The first lens group has at least one aspheric surface, and the second lens group has at least one aspheric surface. The second lens group has a cemented lens of positive refractive power, and the cemented lens is nearest the aperture stop as compared with other lens in the second lens group. The image-space telecentric lens satisfies the condition: TT<100 mm, where TT denotes a length measured along an optical axis and between two outermost opposite lens surfaces of the image-space telecentric lens. |
| US10795133B2 |
Imaging lens
An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens having negative refractive power; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side with spaces in between each of the lenses. The first lens is formed in a meniscus shape to have an object side convex surface. The third lens is formed in a meniscus shape. The fourth lens has an object side concave surface. The fifth lens has two aspheric surfaces. The sixth lens has two aspheric surfaces and the image plane side convex surface. The fifth lens has a specific thickness, and the sixth lens has a specific thickness. The fourth lens has a specific Abbe's number. The fifth lens has a specific Abbe's number. |
| US10795131B2 |
Camera optical lens
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side, an aperture stop, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions. |
| US10795128B2 |
Image capturing optical lens assembly, image capturing device and electronic device
An image capturing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has negative refractive power. The second lens element has an object-side surface being convex. The fourth lens element has an image-side surface being convex. The fifth lens element has negative refractive power. A total number of the lens elements in the image capturing optical lens assembly is five. |
| US10795123B2 |
Optical imaging lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device
An optical imaging lens assembly includes five lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element has negative refractive power. |
| US10795122B2 |
Optical imaging system
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens having an inflection point formed on an image-side surface thereof. The first to fifth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an imaging plane. The optical imaging system satisfies TTL/(ImgH*2)<0.65, where TTL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, and ImgH*2 is a diagonal length of the imaging plane. |
| US10795121B2 |
Imaging lens and imaging device
An imaging lens is provided with: a first lens with negative power; a second lens with negative power; a third lens with positive power; and a fourth lens with positive power. The cemented fourth lens is formed from an object side lens with negative power and an image side lens with positive power. The thickness of a resin adhesive layer that bonds the object side lens and the image side lens is 20 μm or greater on the optical axis, and when Sg1H is the amount of sag in the image side lens surface of the object side lens and Sg2H is the amount of sag in the object side lens surface of the image side lens. The bonding operation is easy without damage occurring to the cemented surfaces, with a design that takes into account thickness of the resin adhesive layer; therefore various forms of aberration can be corrected. |
| US10795118B2 |
Focusing control device, imaging device, focusing control method, and focusing control program
A focusing control device includes: an evaluation value calculation unit that causes an imaging element which images a subject through a focus lens to image the subject for each of positions of the focus lens while moving the focus lens movable in an optical axis direction, and calculates evaluation values for determining a focusing position of the focus lens based on signals acquired by performing any filtering process selected among a plurality of filtering processes in which passbands are different on captured image signals acquired through the imaging; a focusing position determination unit as defined herein; and a focusing control unit that performs focusing control to move the focus lens to the focusing position, and the focusing position determination unit increases number of the selected evaluation values as a lower frequency limit of the passband becomes lower, as the filtering process selected by the evaluation value calculation unit. |
| US10795116B2 |
Optical member driving module
A moving mechanism for holding a lens is provided, including a carrier having an accommodating space, a coil, a sensing object, a base, at least one magnetic member, and a position detector, wherein the lens is disposed in the accommodating space. The coil and the sensing object are disposed on the carrier, and the coil surrounds the accommodating space. At least a portion of the coil is disposed between the sensing object and the accommodating space. The magnetic member and the position detector are disposed on the base, and the position detector is adjacent to the sensing object. When a current flows through the coil, the carrier moves relative to the base. |
| US10795110B2 |
Lens module
A lens module is disclosed. The lens module includes a lens barrel having a first bonding face; a first lens; and a fixing component installed inside the lens barrel and including a second bonding face. At least one the first bonding face and the second bonding face is configured to be lumpy, and the first bonding face and the second bonding face are bonded by glue. The first bonding face, the second bonding face and the glue form a bonding structure. |
| US10795108B2 |
Spring assist cable clamps
A cable clamp for clamping drop cables to main span cables. The cable clamp has a body that includes an elongated drop cable guide, an elongated main span cable guide, and main body section between the drop cable guide and the main span cable guide. The body has a lower body half and an upper body half. The lower body half is movable relative to the upper body half between at least one open position and a clamping position. When the body is in a clamping position the lower body half and upper body half of the drop cable guide form a drop cable opening, and the lower body half and upper body half of the main span cable guide form a main span cable opening. A stem extends through the lower body half of the main body section and is releasably secured to the upper body half of the main body section such that rotational movement of the stem is translated to movement of the lower body half relative to the upper body half. The stem has a collar and a spring is positioned on the stem between the collar and the lower body half of the main body section to normally bias the body to the clamping position. |
| US10795107B2 |
Modular fiber optic cassette, system and method
A modular fiber optic cassette system, method and cassette is disclosed. The system comprises a case defining a tray receiving space and an opening to a tray receiving space, at least one tray slideably received within the case for movement between a stored position wherein the tray is inside the case and an accessible position wherein a front end of the tray is in front of the opening and outside of the case, a plurality of fiber optic cassettes arrangeable side by side along the tray front end, a first of the cassettes comprising a first cassette width of one of one, two, three, four or six standard width units and a second of the cassettes comprising a second cassette width different from the first cassette width and one of one, two, three, four or six standard width units, and a fastener assembly for removeably securing each of the cassettes to the tray. |
| US10795100B2 |
Removable transceiver module
Examples relate to a removable transceiver module that comprises a base frame installable in a rail-pair receptacle that surrounds a first connector in a system board. It further comprises a module base board, a second connector attached thereto and a lever handle pivotally attached to the base frame and coupled to the module base board. The transceiver module is installed in the rail-pair receptacle in response to a lateral movement of the base frame to the receptacle to align the first and second connectors. The lever handle is movable between a closed position to couple the second connector to the first connector and an open position to install the transceiver module into the receptacle. This lever handle determines a vertical move of the module base board between the closed position and the open position. |
| US10795096B1 |
Line-card
A line-card comprising: an optical blindmate connector to connect to the midplane of the switch sub-chassis; and a printed circuit board (PCB) including: an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC); an electrical blindmate connector to connect to a midplane of a switch sub-chassis; and a liquid blindmate connector to connect to the switch sub-chassis. |
| US10795095B2 |
MPO optical fiber connector with a backpost having protrusions to align a crimp ring
A multiple push-on (MPO) optical connector is provided having a ferrule configured to house multiple optical fibers and a housing having a distal end in a connection direction configured to hold the ferrule. The housing further includes a pair of proximal apertures and at least one proximal groove. A backpost has a distal end that urges the ferrule toward the distal end of the housing and a proximal end configured to receive a crimp ring. The backpost includes a pair of proximally extending latch arms that reverse latch in the proximal apertures of the housing. To strengthen the connector in side-loading environments, the backpost further includes a reinforcing rib that is received in the housing proximal groove. In a further aspect, the proximal end of the backpost may include a neck with an approximately curved side profile that, following crimping with a stepped crimp ring, results in an angled crimp. |
| US10795094B2 |
Optical fiber connector
An optical fiber connector includes an optical fiber ferrule and a single-piece housing in which the ferrule is received. The housing can be installed in an adapter to make an optical connection. A rotational locking mechanism has a rotor mounted on the housing for rotation with respect the housing about a rotational axis. The rotor can be rotated between a locked position and an unlocked position. The rotational locking mechanism is configured to inhibit the housing from being withdrawn from the adapter in the locked position of the rotor and to permit the housing to be withdrawn from the adapter in the unlocked position, and further comprising a guide pin, wherein the housing comprises an integral guide pin retainer configured to hold the guide pin in place on the housing. |
| US10795093B2 |
Optical fiber connector
An optical fiber connector allowing more precise connection, having a front casing and an insertion core assembly; the front casing has an installation hole where the insertion core assembly is installed; the insertion core assembly has an insertion core and a tail rod; the tail rod has a tail rod head portion and a tail rod necking portion; the tail rod head portion fixedly sleeves one end of the insertion core; the tail rod head portion has a quadrilateral cross section; a cross section of the installation hole also has a quadrilateral shape that matches the quadrilateral cross section of the tail rod head portion. |
| US10795091B2 |
Adaptor for optical component of optical connector
An example adaptor for passively aligning an optical component of an optical connector with a ferrule of the optical connector. The adaptor may include first alignment feature and second alignment features. The first alignment features may be to, when the adaptor is connected to the ferrule, cooperate with alignment features of the ferrule to passively force the adaptor into a first configuration relative to the ferrule. The second alignment features may be arranged such that, when the optical component is held in contact with the second alignment features and the adaptor is in the first configuration relative to the ferrule, the optical component is in an aligned position relative to the ferrule. |
| US10795086B2 |
Universal photonic adaptor for coupling an optical connector to an optoelectronic substrate
A photonic adaptor has a first face side to couple the photonic adaptor to an optical connector and a second face side to couple the photonic adaptor to an optoelectronic substrate. The photonic adaptor comprises a plurality of optical fibers being arranged between the first face side and the second face side of the photonic adaptor. The photonic adaptor comprises at least one alignment pin projecting out of at least the first face side of the photonic adaptor. The at least one alignment pin is configured to be inserted in the optical connector to align optical fibers of an optical cable to the optical fibers of the photonic adaptor. |
| US10795083B1 |
Heterogeneous directional couplers for photonics chips
Structures for a directional coupler and methods of fabricating a structure for a directional coupler. A first section of a first waveguide core is laterally spaced from a second section of a second waveguide core. A coupling element is arranged either over or under the first section of the first waveguide core and the second section of the second waveguide core. The first and second waveguide cores are comprised of a material having a first refractive index, and the first coupling element is comprised of a material having a second refractive index that is different from the first refractive index. The first coupling element is surrounded by a side surface that overlaps with the first section of the first waveguide core and the second section of the second waveguide core. |
| US10795080B1 |
Optical receiver with photodiode disposed directly on a planar lightwave circuit
An optical receiver may include a planar lightwave circuit with an optical path and a tapered reflection surface to direct an optical beam toward a top surface of the planar lightwave circuit. The optical receiver may include a photodiode disposed onto the top surface of the planar lightwave circuit such that a receive portion of the photodiode is aligned to the optical path, wherein a gap between the photodiode and the planar lightwave circuit is less than 5 microns. |
| US10795078B2 |
MMF optical mode conditioning device
In one example, an optical device may include a waveguide having a core index of refraction that decreases along a length of the waveguide and an edge index of refraction of the waveguide that is constant along the length of the waveguide. The central rays of the optical signals travelling through the waveguide may be refracted towards higher radii while the outer rays propagate unaffected. The optical device may decrease dispersion of the optical signals travelling through an optical fiber. |
| US10795077B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a light guide plate disposed behind the display panel, the light guide plate being lengthwise or widthwise smaller than the display panel, a light source disposed adjacent to a first lateral surface of the light guide plate and irradiates light onto the first lateral surface, a back chassis disposed behind the light guide plate and supports a back surface of the light guide plate and a support structure disposed along a second lateral surface of the light guide plate different from the first lateral surface of the light guide plate. Further, the support structure includes light blocking protrusion that blocks a portion of the second lateral surface. |
| US10795070B2 |
Backlight unit and holographic display apparatus including the same
Provided are a backlight unit and a holographic display apparatus including the same. The backlight unit includes a light guide plate; an input coupler configured to guide light into the light guide plate; a light deflector configured to deflect light emitted from the input coupler and guide the deflected light to propagate within the light guide plate. The light deflector is disposed on a region of the light guide plate which does not overlap with an optical path of light incident on the input coupler. The backlight unit also includes an output coupler configured to emit the light, having been propagated within the light guide plate, to an outside of the light guide plate. |
| US10795068B1 |
Vehicle badge
A vehicle badge includes a base and a circuit board disposed on the base. A plurality of light sources is disposed on the circuit board. The plurality of light sources defines a pattern. A guide member is disposed over the plurality of light sources. The guide member defines a plurality of light guides. A housing has a viewable portion and is disposed over the guide member. The guide member directs light from the plurality of light sources to the housing. A controller is operably coupled to each light source of the plurality of light sources. The controller selectively illuminates each light source of the plurality of light sources. |
| US10795067B2 |
Confocal optical system-based measurement apparatus and method for manufacturing confocal optical system-based measurement apparatus
A confocal optical system-based measurement apparatus includes: a light source; a light projecting optical fiber group; a light receiving optical fiber group; a spectroscope; and a confocal optical system configured to condense each of a plurality of beams from a plurality of light projecting optical fibers to irradiate a sample therewith, and cause a plurality of beams from a plurality of condensing points on the sample to form images on the plurality of light receiving optical fibers, respectively, wherein the light projecting optical fiber group includes the plurality of light projecting optical fibers configured to receive light from the light source, the light receiving optical fiber group includes the plurality of light receiving optical fibers configured to guide received light to the spectroscope, the shape of an end face of the light projecting optical fiber group and the shape of an end face of the light receiving optical fiber group are in a mirror image relationship, and in the light projecting optical fiber group and the light receiving optical fiber group, the shape of an end face of each light projecting optical fiber and the shape of an end face of a light receiving optical fiber corresponding thereto are in a mirror image relationship. |
| US10795062B2 |
Systems and methods for producing objects incorporating selective electromagnetic energy scattering layers, laminates and coatings
A system and method are provided for forming one-way light transmissive layers implementing optical light scattering techniques in those layers, and to objects, object portions, lenses, filters, screens and the like that are formed of, or that otherwise incorporate, such one-way light transmissive layers. Processes are provided by which to form, or otherwise incorporate, one or more one-way light transmissive, or substantially transparent, object portions or layers in solid or hollow objects Individual one-way light transmissive layers are formed of substantially-transparent sub-micrometer spheres, including micro-particles and/or nano-particles, with nano-voids incorporated between them. Refractive indices of the sub-micrometer particles are tunable in order that the finished layers provide an opaque appearance when viewed from a light incident side that is rendered according to an individual user's desires, but that are substantially-transparent to light passing through the finished layers to areas or sensors behind those finished layers. |
| US10795061B2 |
Light redirecting film with multi-peak microstructured prismatic elements and methods of making them
Light redirecting film articles include a microstructured optical film, such as a daylight redirecting film, bonded to another film. This type of assembly may serve various purposes. For example, the assembly may protect the structured film, provide additional functionality, such as diffusion or infrared reflection, and/or facilitate attachment of the microstructured optical film to a mounting surface, such as a glazing or window pane. |
| US10795060B2 |
System and method for reduction of drift in a vision system variable lens
This invention provides a vision system that is arranged to compensate for optical drift that can occur in certain variable lens assemblies, including, but not limited to, liquid lens arrangements. The system includes an image sensor operatively connected to a vision system processor, and a variable lens assembly that is controlled (e.g. by the vision processor or another range-determining device) to vary a focal distance thereof. A positive lens assembly is configured to weaken an effect of the variable lens assembly over a predetermined operational range of the object from the positive lens assembly. The variable lens assembly is located adjacent to a front or rear focal point of the positive lens. The variable lens assembly illustratively comprises a liquid lens assembly that can be inherently variable over approximately 20 diopter. In an embodiment, the lens barrel has a C-mount lens base. |
| US10795059B2 |
Ultra thin Fresnel lenses and other optical elements
Ultra thin Fresnel lenses and methods of forming the same are described herein. An optical element comprising an ultra thin Fresnel lens includes a plurality of Fresnel elements formed on a surface of a substrate. Each of the plurality of Fresnel surface elements has an angled facet portion and a shallow or substantially horizontal portion. The Fresnel surface elements can be formed, for example, by a hot stamp or cold transfer method. |
| US10795057B2 |
Composition for manufacturing contact lenses
The invention provides a material for contact lenses, including a first siloxane macromer shown as formula (I): in formula (I), R1, R2 and R3 are C1-C4 alkyl groups, R4 is C1-C6 alkyl group, R5 is C1-C4 alkylene group, R6 is —OR7O— or —NH—, R7 and R8 are C1-C4 alkylene groups and m is an integer of about 1-2, n is an integer of about 4-80; a second siloxane macromer shown as formula (II): in formula (II), R9, R10 and R11 are C1-C4 alkyl groups, R12, R13 and R15 are C1-C3 alkylene group, R14 is a residue obtained by removing NCO group from an aliphatic or aromatic diisocyanate, and o is an integer of about 4-80, p is an integer of about 0-1; q is an integer of about 1-20; at least one hydrophilic monomer and an initiator. |
| US10795055B2 |
Distributed weather monitoring system
A distributed weather system includes a storage, a plurality of wireless weather stations, a server, and an interface. Each of the plurality of wireless weather stations is associated with a user and has a battery, a location sensor generating location information, an anemometer generating apparent wind speed, a transmitter transmitting the location information with the apparent wind speed to a network at periodic intervals, and a receiver receiving control commands that include a length of the periodic intervals. The server receives the location information with the apparent wind speed and stores them in the storage. The interface is accessible by a mobile computer, and receives the control commands from a user and sends them to the receiver of the wireless weather station associated with the user. The interface displays a true wind speed for each of the plurality of wireless weather stations, which is calculated using the apparent wind speed, the location information, and historical location information. |
| US10795054B2 |
System and method for sensing wind flow passing over complex terrain
A wind flow sensing system determines a first approximation of the velocity field at each of the altitudes by simulating computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of the wind flow with operating parameters reducing a cost function of a weighted combination of errors, determines a horizontal derivative of vertical velocity at each of the altitudes from the first approximation of the velocity fields, and determines a second approximation of the velocity fields using geometric relationships between a velocity field for each of the altitudes, projections of the measurements of radial velocities on the three-dimensional axes, and the horizontal derivative of vertical velocity for the corresponding velocity field. In the cost function of the CFD, each error corresponds to one of the altitudes and includes a difference between measured velocities at the line-of-site points at the corresponding altitude and simulated velocities at the line-of-site points simulated by the CFD for the corresponding altitude. At least some errors in the weighted combination have different weights. |
| US10795053B2 |
Systems and methods of multi-scale meshing for geologic time modeling
A system and method for modeling a geological structure may include, in an initial model, computing a first function for a geological structure including a first set of iso-surfaces. A processor may detect if the first set of iso-surfaces intersect a set of geological markers within a threshold proximity. If not, the initial model may be corrected using an induced mesh having an increased cell resolution compare to the initial model for computing a second function for the geological structure including a second set of iso-surfaces that intersect the geological markers within the threshold proximity. A processor may insert the second set of iso-surfaces into a second model to locally increase its resolution relative to the initial model by dividing cells in the second model along the second set of iso-surfaces. For each new geological structure, the above steps may be repeated using the second model as the initial model. |
| US10795052B2 |
Topography-meter host based on integrative mainboards
The invention belongs to the field studying the devices for soil and water conservation. The invention involves a topography-meter host based on integrative mainboards, which dynamically observe the landform in real-time and three-dimensions. The linear laser sources are accurately positioned with Ohm-shaped clamps, so as to emit parallel and equidistant laser-planes projecting onto a terrain in an experiment. The positions of the laser-sources on the mainboards are fixed with the Ohm-shaped clamps. The clamps do not only realize the convenient adjustment of the emission angle and spacing distance of the adjacent laser-sources, but also ensure a high accuracy of the positions and angles of the laser-sources even if the topography-meter host is moved. Several multi-segmented cases are freely spliced to observe the landforms with different heights in real-time. The invention is a novel topography-meter host which conveniently and accurately fixes the spacing distances and emission angles of the laser-sources, and the invention also satisfies the requirement in observing the landforms with different heights. |
| US10795049B2 |
Methods for assigning a threat or safe condition to an object in an image
A method for assigning one of a safe and threat condition to an object includes determining density and effective atomic number values for a plurality of predetermined safe and threat objects, plotting the values in a probability map to correlate corresponding density and effective atomic number values with each of the safe and threat objects, scanning an object to provide dual-energy attenuation images representing the object, decomposing the attenuation images into dual-reference material equivalent path length images to provide reference material equivalent path lengths representing the object, converting the reference path lengths into object path lengths, determining the effective atomic number for each pixel representing the object, and, imposing the effective atomic number and the mass density of the unknown object onto the probability map to determine a probability that the object is correlated with one of the predetermined safe and threat objects. |
| US10795046B2 |
Method and apparatus for scanning a clothed human subject
A method of scanning a clothed human subject (14), the method comprising obtaining first scan data using a first scanner (10) by illuminating the subject with a first source of radiation adapted for scanning soft tissue surfaces hidden by the subject's clothing; and obtaining second scan data by illuminating the subject's torso with a second source of radiation (12-1) that is directed more towards the subject's torso than towards other parts of their body, wherein the second source of radiation comprises tissue penetrating radiation. |
| US10795044B2 |
Downhole, real-time determination of relative permeability with nuclear magnetic resonance and formation testing measurements
A method and system for downhole, real-time determination of relative permeability with nuclear magnetic resonance and formation testing measurements is provided. The method includes introducing a nuclear magnetic (NMR) tool and a formation testing tool into a well bore penetrating a subterranean formation. The method also includes measuring a saturation of a fluid in the subterranean formation from the NMR tool, measuring a mobility of the fluid from the formation testing tool, and measuring a viscosity of the fluid. The method includes calculating a relative permeability of the subterranean formation based on the measured saturation, the measured viscosity and the measured mobility. The method also includes providing a reservoir production prediction metric based on the calculated relative permeability of the subterranean formation for facilitating a well completion operation in the wellbore. |
| US10795040B2 |
Thin bed tuning frequency and thickness estimation
A method, apparatus, and program product analyze time-series data such as seismic data collected from a subsurface formation by splitting a time-series data set such as an individual seismic trace into a plurality of spectral components, each having an associated frequency, determining an instantaneous frequency for each spectral component, determining a frequency difference for each spectral component based at least in part on the associated and instantaneous frequencies therefor, and determining a tuning parameter based at least in part on the determined frequency difference of each spectral component. Doing so enables, for example, thin-bed structures in the subsurface formation to be identified, and in some instances, thicknesses of such structures to be determined. |
| US10795037B2 |
Methods for pet detector afterglow management
Disclosed herein are methods and devices for the acquisition of positron emission (or PET) data in the presence of ionizing radiation that causes afterglow of PET detectors. In one variation, the method comprises adjusting a coincidence trigger threshold of the PET detectors during a therapy session. In one variation, the method comprises adjusting a gain factor used in positron emission data acquisition (e.g., a gain factor used to multiply and/or shift the output(s) of a PET detector(s)) during a therapy session. In some variations, a method for acquiring positron emission data during a radiation therapy session comprises suspending communication between the PET detectors and a signal processor of a controller for a predetermined period of time after a radiation pulse has been emitted by the linac. |
| US10795036B2 |
Gamma-ray imaging
A coded mask apparatus is provided for gamma rays. The apparatus uses nested masks, at least one of which rotates relative to the other. |
| US10795034B2 |
Digital X-ray detector panel and X-ray system including the same
A digital X-ray detector panel and an X-ray system including the same are disclosed, which include a Gate-In-Panel (GIP) structure in which a gate driver element is embedded in the panel, reduce production costs, and are easily applied to a narrow bezel and a flexible panel. A light shielding layer including tungsten or copper having X-ray shielding characteristics is disposed in a gate driver element mounting region, minimizing X-ray damage to the gate driver element embedded in the panel. In order to prevent not only damage caused by X-rays vertically incident upon the panel, but also damage caused by X-rays incident upon the panel at an incidence angle of less than 90°, the light shielding layer extends to overlap at least a portion of the gate driver element mounting region. |
| US10795033B2 |
Single photon emission computed tomography imaging with a spinning parallel-slat collimator
A method and a system for single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging capable of performing a rapid acquisition of imaging data. The SPECT imaging system, placed at a fixed radial distance from the center of an object being imaged, includes a gamma detector and a collimator. The collimator, mounted on the gamma detector, includes a plurality of parallel slats, each perpendicular to the surface of the gamma detector. The method implemented by this system rapidly reconstructs a high-resolution and high-sensitivity image. |
| US10795024B2 |
Imaging device and electronic device
The present technology relates to an imaging device and an electronic device that enable construction of an imaging device that outputs information required by a user with a small size. A single-chip imaging device includes: an imaging unit in which a plurality of pixels is arranged two-dimensionally and that captures an image; a signal processing unit that performs signal processing using a captured image output from the imaging unit; an output I/F that outputs a signal processing result of the signal processing and the captured image to an outside; and an output control unit that performs output control of selectively outputting the signal processing result of the signal processing and the captured image from the output I/F to the outside. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an imaging device that captures an image. |
| US10795022B2 |
3D depth map
Machine learning is applied to both 2D images from an infrared imager imaging laser reflections from an object and to the 3D depth map of the object that is generated using the 2D images and time of flight (TOF) information. In this way, the 3D depth map accuracy can be improved without increasing laser power or using high resolution imagers. |
| US10795021B2 |
Distance determination method
A method for determining a distance comprises: providing at least two phase measurements made with modulated light of different modulation wavelengths, each phase measurement being indicative of the distance up to an integer multiple of a respective modulation wavelength; providing a set of possible wraparound count combinations; for each one of the possible wraparound count combinations, calculating a combination of unwrapped phase hypotheses corresponding to the at least two phase measurements; and selecting a most plausible combination of unwrapped phase hypotheses among the combinations of unwrapped phase hypotheses and calculating the distance based upon the selected most plausible combination of unwrapped phase hypotheses. |
| US10795018B1 |
Presence detection using ultrasonic signals
This disclosure describes presence-detection devices that detect movement of a person in an environment by emitting ultrasonic signals into the environment, and characterizing the change in the frequency, or the Doppler shift, of the reflections of the ultrasonic signals off the person caused by the movement of the person. In addition to detecting movement, and thus presence of a person, the presence-detection devices may include a microphone array to perform techniques for identifying a direction of movement of the person, and also to perform techniques for identifying a number of people that are in the room. Additionally, the techniques described herein include processing audio signals in such a way to allow for the use of on-board loudspeakers to transmit ultrasonic signals at out-of-band frequencies. |
| US10795016B2 |
Method and ADS-B base station for validating position information contained in a mode S extended squitter message (ADS-B) from an aircraft
The invention refers to a method and a base station for validating information regarding the position of a target-aircraft, the information contained in an ADS-B signal periodically broadcast by the target-aircraft, with the method being executed in the ADS-B base station. |
| US10795015B2 |
Scanning apparatus and security-inspection device with the same
The present disclosure relates to a scanning apparatus and a security-inspection device with the same. The scanning apparatus include: at least one millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna module, wherein the millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna module include a plurality of millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna units each having a signal terminal facing the predetermined scanning area, and a dustproof film covering the signal terminal of each of the millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna units. The scanning mechanism is simple in structure, more convenient for maintenance, and has a lower cost. When each millimeter-wave transceiving antenna unit emits and receives millimeter waves, the millimeter waves pass through the dustproof film without passing through the organic glass, and the attenuation of the millimeter wave signal is small, thereby improving the 3D imaging effect of the security-inspection device. |
| US10795013B2 |
Multi-target detection in CDMA radar system
A system and method to perform multi-target detection in a code division multiple access (CDMA) radar system involve transmitting, from each transmitter among T transmitters, a transmitted signal with a different code, and receiving, at each receiver among one or more receivers, a received signal that includes reflections resulting from each of the transmitted signals with the different codes. The method includes processing the received signal at each of the one or more receivers by implementing T processing chains. Each of the T processing chains is iterative. The method also includes detecting an object at each completed iteration at each of the T processing chains, and subtracting a subtraction signal representing a contribution of the object to the received signal prior to subsequent iterations. |
| US10795010B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting, tracking and identifying small unmanned systems such as drones
A system for providing integrated detection and countermeasures against unmanned aerial vehicles include a detecting element, a location determining element and an interdiction element. The detecting element detects an unmanned aerial vehicle in flight in the region of, or approaching, a property, place, event or very important person. The location determining element determines the exact location of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The interdiction element can either direct the unmanned aerial vehicle away from the property, place, event or very important person in a non-destructive manner, or can cause disable the unmanned aerial vehicle in a destructive manner. |
| US10795006B2 |
3D time-of-flight camera system and position/orientation calibration method therefor
A camera system comprises a 3D TOF camera for acquiring a camera-perspective range image of a scene and an image processor for processing the range image. The image processor contains a position and orientation calibration routine implemented therein in hardware and/or software, which position and orientation calibration routine, when executed by the image processor, detects one or more planes within a range image acquired by the 3D TOF camera, selects a reference plane among the at least one or more planes detected and computes position and orientation parameters of the 3D TOF camera with respect to the reference plane, such as, e.g., elevation above the reference plane and/or camera roll angle and/or camera pitch angle. |
| US10795004B2 |
Distance measurement apparatus
A distance measurement apparatus 1 includes: a TOF camera 10 having a light-emitting unit 11, a light-receiving unit 12, and a distance-calculating unit 13 to measure a distance to the subject on the basis of light transmission time; and an image processing unit 17 that creates a distance image of the subject from distance data measured by the TOF camera 10. The image processing unit 17 determines whether or not there is a detection target in the created distance image. If there is no detection target in the distance image, the light emission intensity control unit 18 decreases the emitted light intensity from the light source of the light-emitting unit 11, and the operation mode is switched to a power saving mode in which the pixel addition control unit 19 increases an addition ratio of a neighboring pixel signal of the light-receiving unit 12. |
| US10795003B2 |
High-speed light sensing apparatus
An apparatus including a semiconductor substrate; an absorption layer coupled to the semiconductor substrate, the absorption layer including a photodiode region configured to absorb photons and to generate photo-carriers from the absorbed photons; one or more first switches controlled by a first control signal, the one or more first switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the first control signal; and one or more second switches controlled by a second control signal, the one or more second switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the second control signal, where the second control signal is different from the first control signal. |
| US10795001B2 |
Imaging system with synchronized scan and sensing
An electro-optical device includes a laser light source, which is configured to emit at least one beam of light. A beam steering device is configured to transmit and scan the at least one beam across a target scene. In an array of sensing elements, each sensing element is configured to output a signal indicative of incidence of photons on the sensing element. Light collection optics are configured to image the target scene scanned by the transmitted beam onto the array, wherein the beam steering device scans the at least one beam across the target scene with a spot size and scan resolution that are smaller than a pitch of the sensing elements. Circuitry is coupled to actuate the sensing elements only in a selected region of the array and to sweep the selected region over the array in synchronization with scanning of the at least one beam. |
| US10795000B2 |
Laser distance and ranging (LADAR) apparatus, array, and method of assembling thereof
A laser distance and ranging (LADAR) apparatus is provided. The LADAR apparatus includes a first substrate, a LADAR module coupled to the first substrate, and an actuation unit coupled between the first substrate and the LADAR module. The LADAR module is configured to scan with a predetermined field of view in a first viewing position from said LADAR module, and the actuation unit is selectively operable to modify an orientation of the LADAR module such that the predetermined field of view moves from the first viewing position towards a second viewing position from the LADAR module. |
| US10794999B2 |
Method for detecting edge of object by laser ranging device
The present invention provides a method for detecting an edge of an object by using a laser ranging device. An n number of measurement points P(i), P(i−1) and P(i+1) corresponding to an n number of projection lines that are close to each other are extracted from a plurality of measurement points, the distances of which have been measured by a laser ranging device 1, and an approximate straight line L(i) that passes through the n number of measurement points is calculated. The degree of inclination e(i) of the approximate straight line L(i) for a representative line of projection lines corresponding to the n number of measurement points is determined. If the degree of inclination is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, then one of the n number of measurement points is identified as a measurement point of an edge of an object. |
| US10794997B2 |
Smartphone-based power-efficient radar processing and memory provisioning for detecting gestures
Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement smartphone-based power-efficient radar processing and memory provisioning for detecting gestures. The described techniques map different situations that occur with a user to different memory states. A radar processing system's memory management module allocates at least one memory pool according to an active memory state. As the radar system detects different situations that occur with the user, the memory management module reallocates the memory pool for the appropriate memory state, which can adjust a power mode of the radar system. In some cases, physically separate memories may be allocated for different memory states, which respectively include one or more sequences that are executed by different processors. The memory management module enables efficient use of available power and available memory for radar processing such that a total amount of power and a total size of memory used may be significantly reduced for detecting gestures. |
| US10794996B2 |
Calibration device of automobile assistance system
The present invention relates to the technical field of automobile maintenance and device calibration, and discloses a calibration device of an automobile assistance system, the radar calibration device including a support assembly, a beam assembly, and a sliding member. The beam assembly is mounted to the support assembly and may move relative to the support assembly along a vertical direction. The sliding member is mounted to the beam assembly and may move relative to the beam assembly along a horizontal direction. The calibration device of the automobile assistance system may cause a simulator to be mounted on the sliding member that may slide horizontally from left to right, so that the simulator can slide continuously from left to right, radar for blind areas at a left rear and a right rear of the automobile are conveniently and rapidly calibrated, and consistency of parameters such as a height and an angle of the calibration device of an automobile assistance system can be ensured, achieving a convenient and more accurate calibration operation. |
| US10794992B2 |
Apparatus and method for detecting and correcting for blockage of an automotive radar sensor
A radar detection system and method include a radar detector for transmitting radar signals over a plurality of sweeps, detecting reflected returning radar signals for the sweeps, and converting the reflected returning radar signals into digital data signals, which are processed to by a time-averaging approach by which data for each of a plurality of range-plus-velocity (RV) bins is analyzed over multiple sweeps to detect a first clutter object at particular RV value and an RV-averaging approach by which data for a plurality of RV values within each sweep are combined to form RV averages for each sweep and the RV averages for a plurality of sweeps are analyzed over multiple sweeps to detect a second clutter object. The processor indicates that the radar detector is not blocked if the time-averaging approach or the RV averaging approach results in at least one of the clutter objects being detected. |
| US10794991B2 |
Target detection based on curve detection in range-chirp map
A system and method to perform target detection includes transmitting frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) pulses as chirps from a radar system. The method also includes receiving reflections resulting from the chirps, and processing the reflections to obtain a range-chirp map for each beam associated with the transmitting. Curve detection is performed on the range-chirp map for each beam, and one or more targets is detected based on the curve detection. |
| US10794990B2 |
Structure evaluation apparatus, structure evaluation system, and structure evaluation method
A structure evaluation apparatus has an acquisitor and an evaluator. The acquisitor acquires a distribution that represents a distribution of strength of a reflected wave obtained by an electromagnetic radar scan to a reinforced concrete which comprises concrete and a material other than concrete. The evaluator calculates similarity, with reference to a reference region including the material in the distribution, of other regions including the material than the reference region in the distribution. |
| US10794986B2 |
Extending a radio map
A method comprising: receiving a radio map of an indoor venue using survey data collected by a survey device positioned throughout the venue, the radio map including a boundary; receiving harvest data from a mobile device, wherein at least some of the harvest data are obtained by the mobile device while the mobile device is positioned at locations that are outside of the boundary; determining, based on the harvest data, a trajectory of the mobile device, wherein at least some of the trajectory resides outside of the boundary; identifying one or more locations on or proximate to the trajectory; and extending the radio map using the survey data and the one or more identified locations, wherein the extended radio map is defined at least in part by an extension of the boundary to encompass the one or more identified locations. |
| US10794985B2 |
Reference signal configuration
A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) is configured to receive a reference signal of a first type. The first type is other than a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS). Reference signals of the first type are received in resource elements other than resource elements used for a primary synchronization signal or a secondary synchronization signal. The WTRU is configured to receive a radio resource control message indicating a subframe position in which the reference signal of the first type is transmitted and a periodicity of a transmission of the reference signal of the first type. |
| US10794982B2 |
Dynamic calibration of current sense for switching converters
A method for dynamic calibration of current sense for switching converters includes biasing a reference transistor with a Zero Temperature Coefficient current source, and a respective gate of each of the reference transistor and a power transistor with a gate voltage. The reference transistor and the power transistor each comprise a matching temperature coefficient. A reference voltage sensed across the reference transistor is multiplied by a gain, thereby generating a first calibration voltage, wherein the gain is determined by a gain coefficient. A transistor voltage sensed across the power transistor is multiplied by the gain, thereby generating a second calibration voltage. The first calibration voltage is compared to a target voltage to generate an error voltage. The gain coefficient is determined with an Analog to Digital Converter in response to the error voltage, thereby minimizing a difference between the target voltage and each of the calibration voltages. |
| US10794979B2 |
Removal of image artifacts in sense-MRI
The invention provides for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100, 300) comprising: a radio-frequency system (116, 122, 124, 126, 126′, 126″, 126′″) for acquiring magnetic resonance data (152) from an imaging zone (108), wherein the radio-frequency system comprises multiple antenna elements (126, 126′, 126″, 126′″); a memory (140) containing machine executable instructions (170) and pulse sequence commands (150), wherein the pulse sequence commands cause the processor to acquire magnetic resonance data from the multiple antenna elements according to a SENSE protocol; and a processor. Execution of the machine executable instructions causes the processor to: control (200) the magnetic resonance imaging system with the pulse sequence commands to acquire the magnetic resonance data; reconstruct (202) a preliminary image (154) using the magnetic resonance imaging data; calculate (204) a fit (159) between an anatomical model (156) and the preliminary image, wherein the anatomical model comprises a motion likelihood map (158); identify (206) at least one image artifact origin (160) at least partially using the motion likelihood map and the fit; determine (208) an extended SENSE equation (162) at least partially using at least one image artifact origin; and construct (210) a corrected SENSE image (164) using the extended SENSE equation. |
| US10794976B2 |
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting data collection and analysis system
A method of employing a central computer database (18) for supporting a characterization of tissue by magnetic resonance fingerprinting measurements, includes: exciting nuclei of a subject of interest by applying (50) a radio frequency excitation field B1 generated according to a magnetic resonance fingerprinting sequence (38), acquiring (52) magnetic resonance imaging signal data from radiation emitted by excited nuclei of the subject of interest, transferring (54) a magnetic resonance fingerprinting data set (42) to the central computer database (18), retrieving (56) a predefined dictionary from the central computer database (18), matching (60) the acquired magnetic resonance imaging signal data to the retrieved dictionary by applying a pattern recognition algorithm to determine a value (40) or a set of values (40) for at least one physical quantity (T1, T2), adding (62) at least the determined value (40) or the determined set of values (40) as a new entry of an associated medical data set (36) to the central computer database (18), and making (64) the new entry of an associated medical data set (36) accessible to users of the central computer database (18). A magnetic resonance fingerprinting data collection and analysis system (10) includes a central computer database, a data receiving unit (20), a data output unit (22) and a data analysis device (26) configured to carry out the method. |
| US10794975B2 |
RF shielding channel in MRI-incubator's closure assembly
A neonate incubator for positioning a neonate within a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device is provided. The neonate incubator can include RF shielding that can provide RF shielding during imaging, for example, while life support tubes are connected to the neonate during MRI imaging. The RF shielding can include a door to mate with a bore of the MRI device to provide the RF shielding, and a RF channel that extends along an axis that is substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the neonate incubator from an interior chamber of the neonate incubator through the RF shielding door. |
| US10794974B2 |
Methods and apparatus for magnetic field shimming
A method of producing a permanent magnet shim configured to improve a profile of a B0 magnetic field produced by a B0 magnet is provided. The method comprises determining deviation of the B0 magnetic field from a desired B0 magnetic field, determining a magnetic pattern that, when applied to magnetic material, produces a corrective magnetic field that corrects for at least some of the determined deviation, and applying the magnetic pattern to the magnetic material to produce the permanent magnet shim. According to some aspects, a permanent magnet shim for improving a profile of a B0 magnetic field produced by a B0 magnet is provided. The permanent magnet shim comprises magnetic material having a predetermined magnetic pattern applied thereto that produces a corrective magnetic field to improve the profile of the B0 magnetic field. |
| US10794973B2 |
Magnet system with thermal radiation screen
A radiation screen comprising the elongate thermal conductors which reduce temperature gradients along the radiation screen and do no support electrical eddy currents. The radiation screen is easy to manufacture, does not require additional mechanical support and does not generate mechanical resonances so that the heat load onto the cold mass remains low. |
| US10794972B2 |
Device and method for an asymmetrical bus interface for a local coil
The disclosure relates to a local coil as well as a system including a magnetic resonance tomography system with a local coil. The local coil includes a data source and a signal output in signal communication with the data source for outputting data from the data source. The data source is configured to transmit a plurality of data items via the signal output. To this end, the signal output includes a radio-frequency source and a modulator and is configured to modulate to transmit the data from the data source onto a carrier frequency of the radio-frequency source by the modulator. |
| US10794968B2 |
Magnetic field sensor and method of manufacture
A magnetic field sensor that includes a differential bridge in which each path of the bridge includes a first type of magnetic field sensing device and a second type of magnetic field sensing device. The first and second types of magnetic field sensing devices differ in the magnetic moment imbalance present in the synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) included in their reference layers such that that different types of devices produce a different response to perpendicular magnetic fields, but the same response to in-plane magnetic fields. Such different magnetic moment imbalances in the SAFs of magnetic field sensing devices included in a bridge allow for accurate sensing of perpendicular magnetic fields in a differential manner that also cancels out interference from in-plane fields. Techniques for producing such magnetic field sensing devices on an integrated circuit are also presented. Moreover, the free layers within the magnetic field sensing devices can be adjusted in terms of their sensitivity range and level of sensitivity by manipulating the kink filed (Hk) for those free layers. |
| US10794967B2 |
Sensor intermediate part, sensor and sensor manufacturing method
A sensor intermediate part is provided with a physical quantity detection element that has a power source terminal, a ground terminal and an output terminal that outputs a desired output signal, where the physical quantity detection element is capable of adjusting properties of the output signal; a high-capacitance capacitor, which has at least a first terminal and a second terminal, and a jumper wire, one end of which is conducted to either the power source terminal or the second terminal and the other end of which is not conducted. The first terminal is conducted to the ground terminal, and the power source terminal and the second terminal are configured to be electrically connectable by the jumper wire. |
| US10794964B2 |
Device and method for determining a parameter of a transformer
To ascertain a parameter of a transformer (40) that has a high voltage side (41) and a low voltage side (43), a test signal generated by a source (13) is impressed on the low voltage side (43). A test response of the transformer (40) is recorded. A leakage reactance and/or a leakage inductance of the transformer (40) is determined by an evaluation device (18) of an apparatus (10) on the basis of the test response of the transformer (40). |
| US10794963B2 |
Line fault signature analysis
In described examples, a time-domain analyzer is arranged to generate an indication of a number of high-frequency events of an electrical monitor signal that includes a fundamental periodic frequency. The high-frequency events include frequencies higher than the fundamental periodic frequency. A frequency-domain analyzer is arranged to generate frequency band information in response to frequencies of the electrical monitor signal that are higher than the fundamental periodic frequency. A fault detector is arranged to monitor the indication of the number of high-frequency events and the generated frequency band information, and to generate a fault flag in response to the monitored indication of the number of high-frequency events and the generated frequency band information. |
| US10794959B2 |
Battery management system having separate voltage measuring unit and control unit
The present invention relates to a battery management system, and to a battery management system, in which a voltage measuring unit measuring a voltage of a battery and a control unit controlling the battery based on the measured voltage value are separated in a battery management controller included in an existing battery management system and the voltage measuring unit is included in the battery disconnecting unit, thereby preventing insulation resistance between the voltage measuring unit and the control unit from being decreased. |
| US10794957B2 |
Battery module and cell configuration recognition system for ID assignment
The present invention relates to a battery module and cell configuration recognition system for ID assignment, and more specifically, to a battery module and cell configuration recognition system for ID assignment that recognizes the number of battery cells and battery modules connected in series in order to assign an ID to a BMS and a battery cell of each of the battery modules. |
| US10794953B2 |
Functional, tap, trace circuitry with multiplexed tap, trace data output
An address and command port interface selectively enables JTAG TAP domain operations and Trace domain operations within an IC. The port carries TMS and TDI input and TDO output on a single pin and receives a clock signal on a separate pin. The addressable two pin interface loads and updates instructions and data to the TAP domain within the IC. The instruction or data update operations in multiple ICs occur simultaneously. A process transmits data from an addressed target device to a controller using data frames, each data frame comprising a header bit and data bits. The logic level of the header bit is used to start, continue, and stop the data transmission to the controller. A data and clock signal interface between a controller and multiple target devices provides for each target device to be individually addressed and commanded to perform a JTAG or Trace operation. |
| US10794952B2 |
Product performance test binning
A method and associated system. The method includes steps of: (a) a voltage bin is selected from of a set of voltage bins, each voltage bin having a different range of frequencies based on the highest operating frequency and the lowest operating frequency specified for an integrated circuit chip not previously tested; (b) a functional path test is performed on a selected path of a set of testable data paths of the integrated circuit chip not previously tested; (c) if the integrated circuit chip fails the functional path test, then a current supply voltage value is changed to a voltage value associated with a not previously selected voltage bin; (d) a not previously tested path of the set of testable paths is selected. Steps (b), (c) and (d) are repeated until every path of the set of testable paths has been tested. |
| US10794951B2 |
Electronic element inspection equipment and chip inspection method thereof
An electronic element inspection equipment is provided, which is adapted to inspect an electronic element. The electronic element inspection equipment includes a first transmission track, a first rotational unit, a first image capturing device, a second image capturing device, a third image capturing device, a second rotational unit, a fourth image capturing device, and a second transmission track. The first rotational unit rotates around a first axis. When the first rotational unit moves the electronic element, the first image capturing device, the second image capturing device, and the third image capturing device capture images of the electronic element. The second rotational unit rotates around a second axis, wherein the second axis is perpendicular to the first axis. When the second rotational unit moves the electronic element, the fourth image capturing device captures one image of the electronic element. |
| US10794950B2 |
Wear-out monitor device
The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit. |
| US10794949B2 |
Power supply device, a test equipment comprising a power supply device and a method for operating a power supply device
A power supply device for a test equipment, test equipment having a power supply device and a method for operating a power supply device are described. The power supply device is configured for an at least partly capacitive load and has an output voltage provider configured to generate a target voltage, which is energized by an input supply voltage provided at an input of the power supply, wherein the target voltage generates an output supply voltage at the capacitive load, when the capacitive load is connected to an output of the power supply and a supply current monitor configured to monitor supply current flowing into the input of the power supply and to temporarily reduce the target voltage generating the output supply voltage, if a current value of the supply current exceeds a first predetermined threshold. |
| US10794942B2 |
Apparatus and method for processing spectrum
A spectrum processing apparatus includes: a spectrum obtainer configured to obtain an optical spectrum from a light that is scattered or reflected from a subject; and a processor configured to split the optical spectrum into a plurality of bands, determine, based on a predetermined measurement accuracy for measuring a biosignal from the light, one or more key bands from the plurality of bands, and obtain the biosignal from the determined key bands. |
| US10794941B2 |
Abnormality diagnosis apparatus and abnormality diagnosis method
An abnormality diagnosis apparatus includes a time series data obtaining unit for obtaining test data and variable data, the test data being obtained from the test object over a predetermined period of time and being time series data of a predetermined attribute value that dictates whether an abnormality is present in the test object, and the variable data corresponding to the test data for the predetermined period of time and being time series data regarding a variable affecting the attribute value, a superimposed image generating unit for superimposing a waveform of the test data and a waveform of the variable data to generate superimposed image data, and a determining unit for determining whether an abnormality is present in the test object based on the superimposed image data generated by the superimposed image generating unit. |
| US10794934B2 |
Instrument transformer for measuring at least one electricity property in a conductor of a power grid
Instrument transformer for power grid conductor includes: a current sensing device having a secondary coil winding through which a power grid primary conductor is capable of extending and connecting to a primary conductor connector, a first low voltage (LV) lead connected to the secondary coil winding and a LV connector, and a first high voltage (HV) lead connected between the primary conductor connector and a HV connector, the voltage sensing device having a core with a primary coil winding, a second HV lead connected between a HV connector and primary coil winding, a grounding conductor connected between the primary coil winding and an output terminal, a second LV lead connected between a LV connector and output terminal, wherein the current and voltage sensing devices are electrically connected via HV and LV connectors, and wherein the current and voltage sensing devices are separable when corresponding HV and LV connectors are disconnected. |
| US10794932B2 |
Biosensor for the detection of a biological target, and method for manufacturing the same
A substrate for the detection of a biological target by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) is provided. The substrate includes: a conductive surface; a probe area provided on the conductive surface, the probe area comprising receptors responsive to the biological target; and a background area provided on the conductive surface, the background area being disposed around the probe area and comprising electroactive compounds providing imaging contrast between the background area and the probe area. |
| US10794931B2 |
Scanning probe microscope and cantilever moving method
When a liquid surface is detected based on a detection signal from a photodetector during the approaching operation, a photodetector movement processor moves the photodetector to a position where reflected light from a cantilever is incident with the cantilever being in liquid. When the reflected light from the cantilever is incident on the photodetector during the approaching operation continued after the movement of the photodetector by the photodetector movement processor, an optical axis adjustment processor adjusts an optical axis of the reflected light incident on the photodetector. When a surface of a solid sample is detected based on a detection signal from the photodetector during the approaching operation continued after the adjustment of the optical axis by the optical axis adjustment processor, an approaching processor stops the approaching operation. |
| US10794930B2 |
AFM with suppressed parasitic signals
An AFM that suppress parasitic deflection signals is described. In particular, the AFM may use a cantilever with a probe tip that is offset along a lateral direction from a longitudinal axis of torsion of the cantilever. During AFM measurements, an actuator may vary a distance between the sample and the probe tip along a direction approximately perpendicular to a plane of the sample stage in an intermittent contact mode. Then, a measurement circuit may measure a lateral signal associated with a torsional mode of the cantilever during the AFM measurements. This lateral signal may correspond to a force between the sample and the probe tip. Moreover, a feedback circuit may maintain, relative to a threshold value: the force between the sample and the probe tip; and/or a deflection of the cantilever corresponding to the force. Next, the AFM may determine information about the sample based on the lateral signal. |
| US10794928B2 |
Microelectromechanical component
A microelectromechanical component including, vertically at a distance from one another, a substrate device, a first, a second, and a third functional layer, a vertical stop being formed between the second and third functional layer, the vertical stop having a stop area on a surface of the second functional layer facing the third functional layer, wherein the second functional layer is connected to the first functional layer in a connecting area allocated to the stop area. |
| US10794925B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for self-digitization of samples
Systems, methods, and devices for discretizing and analyzing fluidic samples are provided. In one aspect, a microfluidic array for discretizing a fluidic sample comprises one or more flow channels and a plurality of fluidic compartments in fluidic communication with the one or more flow channels. In another aspect, a system for discretizing and analyzing fluidic samples comprises a rotor assembly shaped to receive a microfluidic device. |
| US10794923B2 |
Wiping-type sample sampling and feeding device, card reading apparatus, and gate machine apparatus
The present invention discloses a wiping-type sample sampling and feeding device, a card reading apparatus, and a gate machine apparatus. The wiping-type sample sampling and feeding device comprises a thermally desorbing portion for analyzing a substance; a wiping-type sampling portion for wiping the substance on a card or certificate and includes a first wheel, a second wheel and a wiping conveyor belt that travels between the first and second wheels along a first direction; and a card/certificate conveyor portion including a card carrying belt configured to convey a card or certificate along a second direction so that the card or certificate can contact with the wiping conveyor belt during conveyance of the card or certificate, thereby the wiping conveyor belt wipes a surface of the card or certificate, wherein the second direction is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. |
| US10794919B2 |
Bag containing a reference fluid
A sealed bag containing a reference fluid for the calibration and/or quality control of a creatine and/or creatinine sensor, the bag comprising: an inner polymer layer and an outer polymer layer; and an aluminium oxide gas barrier layer there between; and wherein the inner polymer layer is in contact with the reference fluid. |
| US10794918B2 |
Use of GFAP for identification of intracerebral hemorrhage
The present invention relates to the use of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) as a diagnostic marker for intracerebral hemorrhage. The invention especially relates to methods for the early detection of intracerebral hemorrhage. Such early and rapid detection can be performed rapidly e.g. by a test strip format assay. GFAP can be used as a stand-alone marker or in combination with one or more other markers. |
| US10794917B2 |
Methods and compositions for diagnosis and prognosis of appendicitis and differentiation of causes of abdominal pain
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis, and determination of treatment regimens in appendicitis patients and in patients at risk for appendicitis. In particular, the invention relates to using assays that detect one or more biomarkers as diagnostic and prognostic biomarker assays in such patients. |
| US10794916B2 |
Methods of glycoprotein analysis
Characterization and production of protein preparations, e.g., therapeutic glycoprotein preparations, are described. |
| US10794914B2 |
Assay apparatuses, methods and reagents
We describe apparatuses, systems, method, reagents, and kits for conducting assays as well as process for their preparation. They are particularly well suited for conducting automated sampling, sample preparation, and analysis in a multi-well plate assay format. For example, they may be used for automated analysis of particulates in air and/or liquid samples derived therefrom in environmental monitoring. |
| US10794909B2 |
Companion diagnostic method for use in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with dietary interventions or faecal microbiota transplant
The present invention provides a diagnostic method which may be used to determine the likelihood that a subject with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) will respond to treatment with an IBS intervention diet or faecal microbiota transplant (FMT). In particular, the method may be used to predict, or determine the likelihood of, a positive response of the subject with IBS to treatment with an IBS intervention diet or FMT, especially to determine the likelihood that the dietary intervention or FMT may have a positive (i.e. beneficial) effect on the subject's GI tract, specifically the GI tract microbiota, or other symptoms or complications of IBS (e.g. reducing severity thereof). The method of the present invention is based on analysing the abundance of certain bacteria in GI tract samples, e.g. by nucleic acid analysis. |
| US10794908B2 |
Functionalized nanomembrane, a method for preparation thereof and their use
The present invention discloses functionalized nanomembranes, a method for preparation and their use. The functionalized nanomembrane comprises a) a first layer comprising a nanomaterial, b) a second layer comprising a biorepulsive material, the second layer being attached to at least one side of the first layer, and c) affinity groups, attached to the second layer. |
| US10794904B2 |
Self-referencing sensor for chemical detection
Provided herein is a sensing apparatus comprising, at least one LSPR light source, at least one detector, and at least one sensor for LSPR detection of a target chemical. The sensor comprises a substantially transparent, porous membrane having nanoparticles immobilized on the surface of its pores, the nanoparticles being functionalized with one or more capture molecules. There is further provided a self-referencing sensor for distinguishing non-specific signals from analyte binding signals. The self-referencing sensor comprising one or more nanoparticles having at least two distinct LSPR signals. |
| US10794903B2 |
Pulsed magnetic actuation for sensitive assays
A method for controlling the movement of magnetic or magnetizable objects (10) in a biosensor cartridge. The method comprises the step of providing a biosensor cartridge with a laterally extending sensor surface (A) and at least a magnetic field generating means (20, 30, 30′) for generating a magnetic field with a field gradient substantially perpendicular to the sensor surface (A). The magnetic field generating means (20, 30, 30′) are alternatingly actuated such that the generated magnetic field directs alternatingly the magnetic or magnetizable objects (10) substantially perpendicular to the sensor surface (A) away and toward the sensor surface, wherein pulse lengths of the alternating actuation are adjusted such that a lateral movement of magnetizable objects along the laterally extending sensor surface is substantially avoided. |
| US10794902B2 |
Digital control of on-chip magnetic particle assay
An assay system and method for use in the field of chemical testing is disclosed. The assay system can be used for filtering whole blood for testing on an integrated circuit containing digital control functionality. |
| US10794901B2 |
Quantitative ligandomics for systematic identification of therapeutic ligands
The present invention is directed to methods for developing novel anti-angiogenic therapies. This invention discovers secretogranin III (Scg3) not only as a novel disease-selective angiogenic factor but also as a target for anti-angiogenic therapy of vascular diseases. Inhibitors against Scg3 can treat diabetic retinopathy, wet age-related macular degeneration, retinopathy of prematurity, retinal vein occlusion, neovascular glaucoma, corneal neovascularization, and cancers. |
| US10794900B2 |
Flowcell, sheath fluid, and autofocus systems and methods for particle analysis in urine samples
The present disclosure relates to apparatus, systems, compositions, and methods for analyzing a sample containing particles. A particle imaging system or analyzer can include a flowcell through which a urine sample containing particles is caused to flow, and a high optical resolution imaging device which captures images for image analysis. A contrast pattern for autofocusing is provided on the flowcell. The image processor assesses focus accuracy from pixel data contrast. A positioning motor moves the microscope and/or flowcell along the optical axis for autofocusing on the contrast pattern target. The processor then displaces microscope and flowcell by a known distance between the contrast pattern and the sample stream, thus focusing on the sample stream. Cell or particle images are collected from that position until autofocus is reinitiated, periodically, by input signal, or when detecting temperature changes or focus inaccuracy in the image data. |
| US10794899B2 |
Tim protein-bound carrier, methods for obtaining, removing and detecting extracellular membrane vesicles and viruses using said carrier, and kit including said carrier
The invention provides a carrier and a method for obtaining, removing, or detecting extracellular membrane vesicle or virus present in a sample. In particular, the invention provides (a) a carrier (a Tim carrier) on which a protein (a Tim protein), selected from a T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain-containing molecule-4 (a Tim-4) protein, a Tim-3 protein, and a Tim-1 protein, is bound; (b) a method for obtaining the extracellular membrane vesicle or the virus in the sample; (c) a method for removing the extracellular membrane vesicle or the virus in the sample; (d) a method for detecting the extracellular membrane vesicle or the virus in the sample; (e) a kit for capturing the extracellular membrane vesicle or the virus, comprising the Tim carrier; and f) a kit for capturing the extracellular membrane vesicle or the virus, comprising a reagent containing the Tim protein and a reagent containing the carrier. |
| US10794897B2 |
System and methods for predicting drug-induced inotropic and pro-arrhythmia risk
A drug-induced risk prediction system and associated methods are disclosed for predicting at least one of a drug-induced inotropic risk and a pro-arrhythmia risk in connection with an at least one drug, based on a select at least one contractility parameter associated with an at least one heart. |
| US10794895B2 |
Nanopore sensor including fluidic passage
A nanopore sensor is provided, including a nanopore disposed in a support structure. A fluidic passage is disposed between a first fluidic reservoir and the nanopore to fluidically connect the first fluidic reservoir to the nanopore through the fluidic passage. The fluidic passage has a passage length that is greater than the passage width. A second fluidic reservoir is fluidically connected to the nanopore, with the nanopore providing fluidic communication between the fluidic passage the second reservoir. Electrodes are connected to impose an electrical potential difference across the nanopore. At least one electrical transduction element is disposed in the nanopore sensor with a connection to measure the electrical potential that is local to the fluidic passage. |
| US10794893B2 |
Method for estimating abrasion resistance and fracture resistance
Provided is a method for estimating abrasion resistance and fracture resistance by highly accurately analyzing aggregation (dispersion) of sulfur-based materials in polymer composite materials. The present invention relates to a method for estimating abrasion resistance and fracture resistance, the method including: irradiating a polymer composite material containing at least one sulfur-based material selected from the group consisting of sulfur and sulfur compounds with high intensity X-rays; measuring X-ray absorption of a measurement region of the polymer composite material while varying the energy of the X-rays; calculating areas of spots having a high sulfur concentration equal to or greater than a predetermined level in a two-dimensional mapping image of sulfur concentration of the measurement region; and estimating abrasion resistance and fracture resistance based on the areas. |
| US10794888B2 |
Hyperspectral sensing system
A hyperspectral sensing device may include an optical collector configured to collect light and to transfer the collected light to a sensor having spectral resolution sufficient for sensing hyperspectral data. In some examples, the sensor comprises a compact spectrometer. The device further comprises a power supply, an electronics module, and an input/output hub enabling the device to transmit acquired data (e.g., to a remote server). In some examples, a plurality of hyperspectral sensing devices are deployed as a network to acquire data over a relatively large area. |
| US10794878B2 |
Gas chromatograph mass spectrometer
A GC/MS measurement under an ionization by an electron ionization method is performed for a target sample (S1). Peaks are detected on a chromatogram based on obtained data, and a mass spectrum corresponding to each peak is compared with a compound database to identify a compound (S2-S4). A compound identified with a low degree of similarity is extracted as the measurement compound. For this compound, a measurement window including the retention time of a peak corresponding to the compound is set, and a control program for performing an ionization by a chemical ionization method only within the measurement window is created (S5-S8). According to this control program, a GC/MS measurement for the target sample is performed, with the device controlled so that a reagent gas is supplied into an ionization chamber and a filament for generating thermions is energized within the measurement window, whereas the supply of the reagent gas is discontinued and the filament is deenergized within time ranges other than the measurement window (S9). Since no reagent-gas ion is generated within the time ranges other than the measurement window, the adhesion of the ions to the inside of the ionization chamber and other locations will be reduced. Accordingly, a stable measurement can be performed for a long period of time. |
| US10794877B2 |
Sorbent tube apparatus
A sorbent tube apparatus (10) for high-pressure fluid sample analysis, the sorbent tube apparatus (10) comprising a pressurisable housing (32) having first and second fluid ports (48a, 48b) and defining a fluid chamber (34) therein; and a sorbent tube (12) mountable within the pressurisable housing (32), the sorbent tube (12) extending from one of the first and second fluid ports (48a) and spaced apart from the other of the first and second fluid ports (48b) to be in fluid communication with the fluid chamber (34), thereby enabling in use pressure equalisation between the sorbent tube (12) and fluid chamber (34). A method of analysing high-pressure fluid, an analytic probe apparatus, a further sorbent tube apparatus and method of preventing or limiting damage to a sorbent tube during high-pressure fluid sampling are also provided. |
| US10794876B2 |
High-performance liquid chromatography
A chromatographic column assembly is described, comprising a channel and a flow inducer. The channel comprises an inlet for receiving a sample liquid and an outlet, and is adapted for separating the sample liquid into components when the sample liquid flows through the channel in an axial direction from the inlet to the outlet. The flow inducer is adapted for controllably inducing, when the sample fluid is flowing through the channel, a motion of the sample liquid in the channel in a plane substantially orthogonal to the axial direction. |
| US10794875B2 |
Gas chromatograph
A gas chromatograph, which may have a complex device configuration, capable of starting an analysis by replacing residual gas in a column with a carrier gas in starting up the gas chromatograph and by increasing the temperature of a column oven to an analytical initial temperature immediately after completion of the replacement.Upon command to start a gas chromatograph, a control unit calculates the average linear velocity of a carrier gas using a formula based on information such as the inner diameter and the length of a column, the column head pressure and the column outlet pressure, and the type of carrier gas, which are set as analytical conditions, and, for example, based on a detected temperature of a column oven and further calculates gas replacement necessary time from the average linear velocity and the length of the column. Based on the calculated time, a start time is determined. |
| US10794873B2 |
Signal processing for ultrasound imaging systems
Systems and methods are provided for selectively utilizing ultrasound data to quantify a part being scanned. One embodiment is a system that includes an ultrasonic wave generator configured to induce ultrasonic waves at locations along a part being scanned, and a controller. The controller is configured to operate the ultrasonic wave generator to collect data points that each indicate amplitude data and time-of-flight data of an ultrasonic wave at the part, to calculate a standard deviation of the time-of-flight data of the data points (σtof), to utilize the amplitude data to quantify the part if σtof is less than a threshold value, and to flag the data points in memory as including noise if σtof is greater than the threshold value. |
| US10794872B2 |
Acoustic measurement of fabrication equipment clearance
A system and method for determining clearance between a fabrication tool and a workpiece is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes receiving a substrate within a tool such that a gap is defined there between. A transducer disposed on a bottom surface of the substrate opposite the gap provides an acoustic signal that is conducted through the substrate. The transducer also receives a first echo from a top surface of the substrate that defines the gap and a second echo from a bottom surface of the tool that further defines the gap. A width of the gap is measured based on the first echo and the second echo. In some embodiments, the bottom surface of the tool is a bottom surface of a nozzle, and the nozzle provides a liquid or a gas in the gap while the transducer is receiving the first and second echoes. |
| US10794866B2 |
Acoustic wave sensors and methods of sensing a gas-phase analyte
Acoustic wave sensors comprise: a piezoelectric layer, first and second electrodes arranged with the piezoelectric layer in a piezoelectric transducer circuit; and a polymeric sensing layer for adsorbing a gas-phase analyte, the adsorption of which analyte causes a change in resonant frequency of the piezoelectric transducer circuit, wherein the polymeric sensing layer comprises: (a) a polymer chosen from substituted or unsubstituted: polyarylenes comprising the reaction product of monomers comprising a first monomer comprising an aromatic acetylene group and a second monomer comprising a cyclopentadienone group; polyamides; polypyrazoles; or novolacs; or a cured product thereof; (b) a polymer chosen from substituted or unsubstituted: polyamic acids; or polyamic acid-polyimide copolymers; (c) a polymer formed from one or more monomers comprising a monomer comprising a polar group-substituted arylcyclobutene group, or a cured product thereof; or (d) a polymer comprising polymerized units of a monomer chosen from substituted or unsubstituted: maleimides; or norbomenes; or a cured product thereof. The acoustic wave sensors and methods of using such sensors find particular applicability in the sensing of gas-phase analytes. |
| US10794864B2 |
Eddy current array probe with independent transmitters
There is described an eddy current array probe for detection and depth sizing of a surface-breaking defect in a metallic material, said eddy current array probe comprising: a probe body comprising a plurality of probe elements arranged in a linear configuration, the probe elements each comprising at least one coil, the probe body being adapted to be displaced along a surface of the metallic material so that a longitudinal axis of the coil be parallel to the surface of the metallic material, the coil, when in use, being adapted to induce an eddy current within the metallic material detect the eddy current; and a set of active elements of the plurality of probe elements being adapted to be selectively operated at a plurality of time-spaced instances. |
| US10794863B1 |
Ionizer monitoring system and ion sensor
A sensor for sensing ions, including a circuit board assembly, a core, a cage at least partially surrounding the core, a first wire wrapped around the core and connected to the circuit board assembly, a second wire wrapped around the core and connected to the circuit board assembly, and a third wire connecting the cage to the circuit board assembly. |
| US10794860B2 |
Systems and methods for capillary electrophoresis, isoelectric point, and molecular weight analysis
A system includes a housing, a cartridge retainer disposed within the housing, a detection assembly disposed within the housing, and a reagent tray holder movably disposed in the housing. The cartridge retainer configured to receive a capillary cartridge having a capillary. The detection assembly includes at least one emitter, a first detector, and a second detector. The detection assembly is configured to transition between a first configuration, in which the first detector detects a first output of the at least one emitter, and a second configuration, in which the second detector detects a second output of the at least one emitter. The reagent tray holder is configured to move relative to the cartridge retainer to place the capillary of the capillary cartridge in fluid communication with a reagent volume. |
| US10794858B2 |
Alloy identification device
An electrochemical metal alloy identification device employing electrolytes to measure and identify different potentials of alloys is presented. This includes physical structure, disposables, electrical systems, control circuitry, and algorithms to identify alloys. |
| US10794857B2 |
Gas detector
A gas detector includes a measurement control section that controls a voltage application section, obtains an output current flowing between a first electrode and a second electrode of an electrochemical cell, and detects a concentration of sulfur oxides in exhaust gas based on the output current. The measurement control section uses a minimum value of the output current obtained by using a current detection section in a period in which lowering sweep is executed and in which an applied voltage is a voltage within a detection voltage range that is equal to or lower than a decomposition initiation voltage of sulfur oxides as a parameter used for detection of the concentration of sulfur oxides. |
| US10794856B2 |
Detection device, in particular incorporated in a PH meter, and corresponding production process
A detection stage of an electronic detection device, for example a pH meter, includes an insulating region that receives an element to be analyzed. The insulating region is positioned on a sensing conductive region. A biasing stage includes an electrically conductive region which is capacitively coupled to the conductive region. The electrically conductive region is formed in an uppermost metallization level along with a further conductive region. That further conductive region is electrically connected to the sensing conductive region by a via passing through an insulating layer which insulates the electrically conductive region from the sensing conductive region. |
| US10794855B2 |
High sensitivity ion selective sensors implemented through feedback circuitry
The following relates generally to ion sensing using organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs). In one aspect, a device comprises: an amplification portion including an OECT; a feedback portion that receives a differential voltage from the amplification portion and outputs a feedback signal; and a readout portion which receives the feedback signal and outputs an output voltage. |
| US10794853B2 |
Methods for depositing polymer layer for sensor applications via hot wire chemical vapor deposition
The present disclosure relates to a method of depositing a polymer layer, including: providing a substrate, having a sensor structure disposed on the substrate, to a substrate support within a hot wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) chamber; providing a process gas comprising an initiator gas and a monomer gas and a carrier gas to the HWCVD chamber; heating a plurality of filaments disposed in the HWCVD chamber to a first temperature sufficient to activate the initiator gas without decomposing the monomer gas; and exposing the substrate to initiator radicals from the activated initiator gas and to the monomer gas to deposit a polymer layer atop the sensor structure. |
| US10794847B2 |
Combined water cut and salinity meter
Disclosed is a flow meter and method for measuring water cut and salinity of a multiphase mixture. The water-cut meter includes a conduit configured to receive the multiphase mixture, and a probe array configured to measure a cross-sectional area of the conduit. The probe array includes a plurality of coaxial probes connected in parallel. Optionally, the probe array is configured to operate at a single high frequency, for example, 1 to 3 GHz, to minimize conductivity loss relative to capacitance. The flow meter further includes a processor configured to transmit a signal to the probe array and to receive a reflected signal from the probe array using a single channel. The processor is further configured to calculate the water cut and the salinity of the multiphase mixture based on a single complex permittivity of the multiphase mixture calculated from the received reflected signal. |
| US10794846B2 |
Combined water cut and salinity meter
Disclosed is a flow meter and method for measuring water cut and salinity of a multiphase mixture. The water-cut meter includes a conduit configured to receive the multiphase mixture, and a probe array configured to measure a cross-sectional area of the conduit. The probe array includes a plurality of coaxial probes connected in parallel. Optionally, the probe array is configured to operate at a single high frequency, for example, 1 to 3 GHz, to minimize conductivity loss relative to capacitance. The flow meter further includes a processor configured to transmit a signal to the probe array and to receive a reflected signal from the probe array using a single channel. The processor is further configured to calculate the water cut and the salinity of the multiphase mixture based on a single complex permittivity of the multiphase mixture calculated from the received reflected signal. |
| US10794838B2 |
Method and device for detecting defect of cover lens in laser welding system on automobile production line
A device for detecting a defect of a laser welding cover lens includes a coaxial light source configured to emit collimating detection light, wherein the direction of the detection light is perpendicular to a preset horizontal direction; a half transparent and half reflecting mirror arranged above the coaxial light source to reflect the detection light to a preset position; a reflecting mirror configured to reflect light from the half transparent and half reflecting mirror to the cover lens; an industrial camera parallel to the half transparent and half reflecting mirror and the reflecting mirror and configured to receive incident light from the detection light to obtain a detection image, wherein the incident light is reflected by the cover lens and passes through the reflecting mirror and the half transparent and half reflecting mirror; and a processor configured to determine whether there exists a bad point on the cover lens. |
| US10794837B2 |
On-wafer calibration device
An on-wafer calibration device comprises on a substrate at least a first measuring port, at least a first switch element, at least two calibration standards, and a controller unit or a control interface for control of the first switch element. The first switch element is controlled in a manner that it selectively connects a wafer probe tip connectable to the first measuring port to the at least two calibration standards. |
| US10794835B2 |
Co-location of airborne atmospheric particulate sensing with aircraft lighting
A sensor assembly comprises a device mounted on a surface of a vehicle and extending through at least one passage in the surface of the vehicle, and a sensor comprising a short range particulate (SRP) sensor, or a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) air data sensor. The sensor is co-located and integrated with the device mounted on the surface of the vehicle. No additional passages through the surface of the vehicle are needed to integrate the sensor with the device. |
| US10794833B2 |
Packaging and methods for detecting exposure of a perishable good to an elevated temperature
Nanoreactors having a metal precursor in a carrier are provided. In some embodiments, upon exposure to heat, the metal precursor forms nanoparticles that can be detected, e.g., by detecting a color change in the nanoreactor and/or by detecting the number and/or size and/or size distribution and/or shape of the nanoparticles. The nanoreactors can be used, in some embodiments, as time-temperature indicators for perishable goods. |
| US10794832B2 |
Reducing measurement variation to optical measuring of sample material
A measurement device includes mechanical support elements (101-104) for supporting a sample well, other mechanical support elements (105-109) for supporting a measurement head (112) suitable for optical measurements, and a control system (111) configured to control the measurement head to carry out at least two optical measurements from at least two different measurement locations inside the sample well, where each measurement location is a center point of a capture range from which radiation is captured in the respective optical measurement. The final measurement result is formed from the results of the at least two optical measurements in accordance with a pre-determined rule. The use of the at least two optical measurements from different measurement locations reduces measurement variation in situations where the sample well (153) contains a piece (158) of sample carrier. |
| US10794830B2 |
Detection of organic free radicals and reactive oxygen substances using chemically-stimulated luminescence from structured compound semiconductors
A method of monitoring for the presence of an oxidizing chemical species in an aqueous or non-polar environment includes steps of exposing a structured compound semiconductor material to the oxidizing chemical species in the environment and detecting electromagnetic radiation emitted by the structured compound semiconductor material upon exposure to the oxidizing chemical species. The structured compound semiconductor material is a phytate scaffold material and a metal dopant. |
| US10794828B2 |
Sub-diffraction limit image resolution and other imaging techniques
The present invention generally relates to sub-diffraction limit image resolution and other imaging techniques. In one aspect, the invention is directed to determining and/or imaging light from two or more entities separated by a distance less than the diffraction limit of the incident light. For example, the entities may be separated by a distance of less than about 1000 nm, or less than about 300 nm for visible light. In one set of embodiments, the entities may be selectively activatable, i.e., one entity can be activated to produce light, without activating other entities. A first entity may be activated and determined (e.g., by determining light emitted by the entity), then a second entity may be activated and determined. The entities may be immobilized relative to each other and/or to a common entity. The emitted light may be used to determine the positions of the first and second entities, for example, using Gaussian fitting or other mathematical techniques, and in some cases, with sub-diffraction limit resolution. The methods may thus be used, for example, to determine the locations of two or more entities immobilized relative to a common entity, for example, a surface, or a biological entity such as DNA, a protein, a cell, a tissue, etc. The entities may also be determined with respect to time, for example, to determine a time-varying reaction. Other aspects of the invention relate to systems for sub-diffraction limit image resolution, computer programs and techniques for sub-diffraction limit image resolution, methods for promoting sub-diffraction limit image resolution, methods for producing photoswitchable entities, and the like. |
| US10794827B2 |
Methods for separating, concentrating, and/or differentiating between cells from a cell sample
Embodiments are generally related to differentiating and/or separating portions of a sample that are of interest from the remainder of the sample. Embodiments may be directed towards separating cells of interest from a cell sample. In some embodiments, acoustic impedances of the cells of interest may be modified. For example, the acoustic properties of the cells of interest may be modified by attaching bubbles to the cells of interest. The cell sample may then be subjected to an acoustic wave. The cells of interest may be differentiated and/or separated from the remainder of the sample based on relative displacements and/or volumetric changes experienced by the cells of interest in response thereto. The cells of interest may be separated using a standing wave and sorted into separate channels of a flow cell. Optionally, the cells may be interrogated by a light source and differentiated by signals generated in response thereto. |
| US10794812B2 |
Dynamically determining a rock wettability alteration
Techniques for determining a rock wettability alteration include circulating a first brine fluid into a test cell that includes a rock sample and a hydrocarbon fluid disposed on a surface of the rock sample, the first brine fluid having a property at a first value; contacting the rock sample and the hydrocarbon fluid with the first brine fluid; measuring a first contact angle between the rock sample and the hydrocarbon fluid in contact with the first brine fluid; at least partially displacing the first brine fluid with a second brine fluid in the test cell, the second brine fluid having the property at a second value; contacting the rock sample and the hydrocarbon fluid with the second brine fluid; measuring a second contact angle between the rock sample and the hydrocarbon fluid in contact with the second brine fluid; and determining a wettability alteration of the rock sample based on at least one of the measured first or second contact angles. |
| US10794810B1 |
Fluid composition sensor device and method of using the same
A device and a method for detecting fluid particle characteristics. The device comprises a fluid composition sensor configured to receive a volume of fluid and a controller. The fluid composition sensor comprises a collection media configured to receive one or more particles of a plurality of particles within the fluid; and an imaging device configured to capture an image of one or more particles of the plurality of particles received by the collection media. The controller is configured to determine a particle impaction depth of each of the one or more particles of the plurality of particles within the collection media; and, based at least in part on the particle impaction depth of each of the one or more particles of the plurality of particles, determine a particulate matter mass concentration within the volume of fluid. |
| US10794804B2 |
Microtome sectionable gel support structure and methods
A sectionable tissue sample support structure including a gel compound formed into a self supporting geometric shape for retention and orientation of at least one tissue sample during a histopathology process including processing, embedding and microtome slicing of the tissue sample. A method of orienting, processing, embedding and microtome slicing a tissue sample using a gel compound preformed into a self supporting geometric shape. A combination including the sectionable tissue sample support structure and a package containing the sectionable tissue sample support structure. |
| US10794802B2 |
Whole-body tissue stabilization and selective extractions via tissue-hydrogel hybrids for high resolution intact circuit mapping and phenotyping
In various embodiments, the present application teaches methods for tissue clearing in which tissues are rendered macromolecule-permeable and optically-transparent, thereby exposing their cellular structure with intact connectivity. In some embodiments, the present application teaches ePACT, which is a protocol for enhanced tissue clearing via expansion. In some embodiments, the present application teaches visualizing a tissue that has been expanded via ePACT. |
| US10794800B2 |
Device and a method for managing a sample to be analyzed and a solid sample carrier and liquid sample carrier
A device for managing a sample to be analyzed comprises magnetizing equipment (302) for producing magnetic field capable of interacting, when the sample is moving to or located in a sample well, with magnetically amplifying material attached to the sample, where the magnetically amplifying material has relative magnetic permeability constant greater than one. With the aid of the magnetizing element the movement of the sample to the sample well and/or the position of the sample in the sample well can be monitored and/or controlled. The device can be, for example but not necessarily, an instrument for dispensing samples to sample wells or an optical measurement instrument. |
| US10794798B2 |
Device for assessing the sillage of fragrance materials
Suggested is a device for assessing the sillage of fragrance materials, comprising or consisting of the following parts: (i) an evaluation tube (1) that is open on both ends; (ii) a ventilation system (2); (iii) at least two lockable sniffing ports (3a, 3b . . . ); (iv) a sample port (4); (v) a sample plate (5) and optionally (vi) a sample holder (6) whereby (a) said evaluation tube (1) is aligned horizontally and equipped with said at least two sniffing ports (3) and said sample port (4); (b) the front opening of said evaluation tube (1) is equipped with said ventilation system (2); (c) at least one sniffing port (3a) is located in the front section and at least one sniffing port (2b) is located in the rear section of said evaluation tube (3); (d) said sample port (4) is located within the front section of said evaluation tube (1); and (e) said sample port (4) has a diameter allowing to introduce either the sample plate (5) or the sample holder (6) into the evaluation tube (1). |
| US10794794B2 |
Flow conditioner
According to certain embodiments, a device for conditioning a flow of air includes a casing with an inlet and an outlet. The device has a flow conditioner disposed within the casing and concentrically aligned with the casing. The flow conditioner has a cylindrical portion and a domed end portion capping the cylindrical portion. The flow conditioner forms an annulus region between the flow conditioner and the casing. The flow conditioner also forms a mixing chamber interior to the flow conditioner. The flow conditioner also has a plurality of holes throughout the flow conditioner that are configured to permit air to pass from the inlet of the casing and the annulus into the mixing chamber. The device also has a flow straightener located at the outlet of the casing configured to straighten the airflow as it flows from the mixing chamber out of the device. |
| US10794793B2 |
Device for the detection of leaks and module for the detection of leaks
There is provided a leak detection device configured to check tightness of an object to be tested by a tracer gas, the device including a sniffing probe configured to be connected to a leak detector and/or a spray blower configured to be connected to a source of the tracer gas; and a glove to which the sniffing probe and/or the spray blower is attached. There is also provided a module for detection of leaks, including the device configured to check the checking the tightness of the object to be tested by the tracer gas. |
| US10794792B2 |
Leak detection system
A system for detecting a leak in a condensate generating device, the system including a pH sensor configured for measuring the pH of a condensate of the condensate generating device; and a controller operably connected to the pH sensor, the controller configured for measuring a rate of pH change over time of the condensate and a pH level of the condensate, wherein if the rate of pH change over time is greater than the pre-determined rate of pH over time and the pH level is greater than the pre-determined pH level, a leak in the condensate generating device is determined to have occurred. |
| US10794788B2 |
Dynamic balance testing device
A dynamic balance testing device includes a plurality of support rollers having respective rotation axes extending in a predetermined direction, the plurality of support rollers being configured to support a specimen in internal contact with an inner periphery of the specimen in such a manner that the specimen is rotatable about a central axis of the inner periphery, the plurality of support rollers including, a first support roller having a first rotation axis that is parallel to the central axis of the inner periphery of the specimen, and a second support roller having a second rotation axis that is parallel to the central axis of the inner periphery of the specimen and is positionally different from the first rotation axis of the first support roller. |
| US10794781B2 |
Sensor device
A sensor device where the number of components and mounting steps can be reduced and mountability on a mounting target is improved. A sensor device configured to detect a torque applied to a pinion shaft and pinion shaft's rotation angle. The pinion shaft is formed by coupling an input shaft and output shaft together by a torsion bar. The sensor device includes a torque detecting portion wherein magnetic fields detected by torque detection magnetic sensors change based on the torsion bar's twisting amount, a rotation angle detecting portion wherein magnetic fields detected by rotation angle detection magnetic sensors change based on the pinion shaft's rotation angle, a housing that houses the torque detecting portion and the rotation angle detecting portion, and a circuit board held by the housing. Both the torque detection magnetic sensors and the rotation angle detection magnetic sensors are mounted on the circuit board. |
| US10794779B2 |
Pressure sensor
Object:To provide a pressure sensor that can provide a reduced sensation of a foreign body and that has a good sensitivity to pressure from a low load region to a high load region.Resolution means:The pressure sensor includes a variable resistor and a plurality of electrodes. The variable resistor is made of an electrically conductive foam elastomer material. The electrically conductive foam elastomer material is a material imparted with electrical conductivity by dispersing electrically conductive fillers into an elastomer material and obtained by foaming the elastomer material. The plurality of electrodes are disposed at intervals from each other on one surface in contact with the variable resistor. |
| US10794774B2 |
Spintronic temperature sensor
This disclosure describes various examples of spintronic temperature sensors. The example temperature sensors may be discrete or used to adaptively control operation of a component such as an integrated circuit (IC). In one example, an electronic device comprises a spintronic component configured such that the conductance of the spintronic component is based on sensed temperature. In one example, circuitry coupled to the spintronic component is configured to generate an electrical signal indicative of the sensed temperature based on the conductance of the spintronic component. |
| US10794769B2 |
Thermal detection systems, methods, and devices
Systems, methods, and devices for thermal detection. A thermal detection device includes a visual sensor, a thermal sensor (e.g., a thermopile array), a controller, a user interface, a display, and a removable and rechargeable battery pack. The thermal detection device also includes a plurality of additional software and hardware modules configured to perform or execute various functions and operations of the thermal detection device. An output from the visual sensor and an output from the thermal sensor are combined by the controller or the plurality of additional modules to generate a combined image for display on the display. |
| US10794766B2 |
Method and device for raman spectroscopy
Raman spectroscopy methods and devices are disclosed.The method includes irradiation of excitation radiation onto a sample to be examined. The sample is irradiated with a first excitation radiation of a first excitation wavelength and a different second excitation radiation of a second excitation wavelength. The first excitation radiation scattered by the sample is wavelength-selective filtered by means of a passive filter element. A transmitted filter wavelength of the filter element differs from at least the first excitation wavelength and the second excitation wavelength. A first intensity is determined through a single-channel detector assigned to the filter wavelength from the first excitation radiation scattered and filtered by the sample. Additionally, the filter element wavelength-selective filters the second excitation radiation scattered by the sample. A second intensity is determined through the single-channel detector assigned to the filter wavelength from the second excitation radiation scattered and filtered by the sample. |
| US10794762B2 |
Method for ambient light subtraction
A method for ambient light subtraction providing a sensor having an emitter, a receiver, and a processor; performing a first sampling process, during which the emitter does not emit signals, the receiver receives a first ambient light signal converted into a first data set by the processor; performing a second sampling process, during which the emitter emits a detecting signal, the receiver receives a second ambient light signal and the detecting signal converted into a second data set by the processor; performing a third sampling process, during which the emitter does not emit signals, the receiver receives a third ambient light signal converted into a third data set by the processor; deriving an average value by calculating the average of the first data set and the third data set; and deriving a difference value by calculating the difference between the second data set and the average value. |
| US10794752B2 |
Direct-read meter capable of eliminating magnetic interference of adjacent rotating wheels
A direct-read meter capable of eliminating magnetic interference of adjacent rotating wheels, comprising N coaxial rotating wheel permanent magnets and corresponding magnetic angle sensors, a sampling element, a storage element, and a computation element. The magnetic angle sensors sense a linear superposition of the magnetic field from the intended permanent magnet rotating wheel and the interfering magnetic fields from the other rotating wheel permanent magnets. The sampling element samples the output signals of the N magnetic angle sensors to form a N*1 raw signal matrix [V/Vp]k(i)raw. The storage element stores an N*N correction matrix [Cij]; and the computation element computes the correction signal matrix [V/Vp]kcorr(i)=[V/Vp]k(i)raw−sum{C(i, j)*[V/Vp]k(j)raw}, thus eliminating the interfering magnetic field and permitting calculation of the rotation angle of the rotating wheel permanent magnets. This direct-read meter has the advantages of simple calculation, high precision, and elimination of the need for magnetic shielding. |
| US10794751B2 |
Fuel level sensing apparatus for fuel tank
Provided is a fuel level sensing apparatus for a fuel tank for sensing a remaining fuel level of the fuel tank through a variation in a measured resistance value depending on a position of a wiper in contact with a resistance substrate. The resistance substrate includes a first segment part and a second segment part disposed to be spaced apart from each other. A resistance setting part of the second segment part is connected to positive electrode terminals, and a connecting part of the first segment part is connected to a negative electrode terminal by a negative electrode lead. A connection point of the negative electrode lead connected to the connecting part is formed between both ends of the connecting part in a length direction. A resistance deviation in a measured resistance value depending on a change in the position of the wiper may be reduced. |
| US10794749B2 |
Determining a fill level of a hydrodynamic clutch
A device for filling a hydrodynamic coupling with operating fluid and a method for filling a constantly filled hydrodynamic coupling during commissioning and/or for checking or setting a fill level with operating fluid. The device and the method provide the use of image recognition, by way of which an inspection window can be recognized and by way of which a position of the inspection window can be set. |
| US10794743B2 |
Thermal, flow measuring device and a method for manufacturing a thermal, flow measuring device
A thermal, flow measuring device comprising a sensor with a metal sensor housing, which includes a cap with a lateral surface and an end face, wherein the sensor housing has at least first and second pin sleeves, which protrude starting from the end face, wherein the sensor housing has a first heater in a first of the two pin sleeves and a temperature sensor in a second of the two pin sleeves for ascertaining a temperature of the medium; wherein the end face of the cap is divided at least into a base area and at least a first planar area inclined relative to the base area by an angle, wherein a second heater is arranged on an inner surface of the cap in the region of this first area. |
| US10794742B2 |
Hot wire fluid level or flow sensor having a conductive material in the fluid
A fluid sensing system includes a sensing element having a positive temperature coefficient of resistance. The system also includes a switch which is switchable between an open position which prevents current from passing and a closed position which permits current to pass. An inductor is connected electrically in series between the switch electric output and the sensing element and a diode is connected electrically in series between the sensing element and the inductor such that an output of the diode is between the switch and the inductor. A hysteretic controller changes the switch from the open position to the closed position when current passing to the sensing element falls to a lower current threshold and changes the switch from the closed position to the open position when current passing to the sensing element rises to an upper current threshold. A voltmeter measures voltage across the sensing element. |
| US10794738B2 |
Sensor device with integrated calibration system and calibration method
An integrated sensor device including a first die, housing a sensor element to detect a quantity external to the sensor device and transduce the external quantity into an electrical sensing signal; a second die mechanically coupled to the first die so that the first and second dies are stacked on one another along one and the same axis; and at least one heater of a resistive type integrated in the first die and/or in the second die, having a first conduction terminal and a second conduction terminal configured to couple respective first and second conduction terminals of a signal generator for causing an electric current to flow, in use, between the first and second conduction terminals of the heater and generate heat by the Joule effect. It is possible to carry out calibration in temperature of the sensor element. |
| US10794737B2 |
Slide locking sensor mounting
A mountable sensor assembly for mounting on the sheet metal of a vehicle assembly. The sheet metal may have an opening for mounting the mountable sensor assembly. The mountable sensor assembly may include a sensor circuit and a sensor housing assembly. The sensor housing assembly may include a first portion with a cavity that receives the sensor circuit and a second portion that slideably interacts with the first portion to lock the sensor housing into the opening in the sheet metal. |
| US10794736B2 |
Elimination of floating potential when mounting wireless sensors to insulated conductors
A sensor package includes at least one conductive trace providing a voltage common and a base supporting the at least one conductive trace. A conductive extension extends from the base so as to contact a conductor of an insulated conductor when the sensor package is mounted on an insulator of the insulated conductor and thereby provide an electrical connection between the conductive trace providing the voltage common and the conductor. |
| US10794735B2 |
Pressurized sensor seal
An apparatus includes a housing including an aperture, a sensor in the housing and having a field of view received through the aperture, a seal sealing a gap between the sensor and the aperture, and a blower positioned to blow into the housing. The seal may be attached to the housing concentrically around the aperture. |
| US10794726B2 |
Computing and displaying climb dive marker elevation
A method of calculating a climb-dive marker (CDM) that is visibly present on a display even as the aircraft approaches a roll angle of +/−90° is provided. An exemplary CDM method comprises obtaining, an X-axis velocity, a Y-axis velocity, and a Z-axis velocity in aircraft body coordinates of an aircraft; calculating a CDM elevation; and displaying, by the controller, the calculated CDM elevation. The method can further comprise obtaining an angle of attack (AoA) of the aircraft and a roll angle of the aircraft, wherein the AoA is set as the value of the CDM elevation when the roll angle is within a preset range. The CDM elevation may also be calculated using a combination of the AOA and the CDM formula when roll angle is within a second preset range. |
| US10794724B2 |
Electronic interface device between at least one avionic system and a set of sensors, related avionic installation, communication method and computer program
This electronic interface device between at least one avionic system and a set of sensors, each avionic system and the sensors being capable of being connected to an electronic interface device, is intended to be on board an aircraft. It comprises a module for detecting a first signal sent by a user or a piece of electronic equipment and received by a first sensor of the set; a module for activating at least a first sensor of the set, for receiving a second signal from the user or the piece of electronic equipment, each second sensor being determined based on the first signal and predefined determining rules; a module for acquiring the second signal received by each second sensor; and a module for generating a message corresponding to the second signal and sending said message to one or several avionic systems. |
| US10794723B2 |
Walking measurement device, walking measurement method, and program
A walking measurement device is provided that includes a timing detection unit configured to detect an impact generation timing at which an impact resulting from a landing of a left foot or a right foot has been generated; an acceleration sensor configured to repeatedly detect, at predetermined time intervals, an acceleration in a lateral direction along which the left foot and the right foot are arranged side by side; and a first determination unit configured to determine whether the impact generation timing corresponds to a landing timing of the left foot or a landing timing of the right foot based on the impact generation timing detected by the timing detection unit and the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor. |
| US10794721B2 |
Real-time mapping using geohashing
Systems and methods for real-time mapping using geohashing are described. In an example implementation, a method includes receiving current location data from a first computing device in real-time, mapping the current location data in a map that includes collected location data from a second computing device, generating a heat map based on the current location data and the collected location data, determining a line using the generated heat map, and providing a route suggestion based on the determined line to the first computing device. |
| US10794719B2 |
Vehicle image projection apparatus that projects an image in the front and back of a vehicle based on sensor information
Information related to a vehicle can be displayed by projecting an image based on the information on a road surface or the like. An image projection apparatus that projects an image includes: a sensor unit that acquires information related to a vehicle; and an image projection unit that projects the image based on the information acquired by the sensor unit. |
| US10794711B2 |
High definition map updates based on sensor data collected by autonomous vehicles
An online system build a high definition map for geographical regions based on sensor data captured by a plurality of vehicles driving through the geographical regions. The high definition map comprises landmark map including representations of driving paths and landmarks and occupancy map comprising spatial 3D representation of the road and all physical objects around the road. The vehicles provide information to update the landmark map and the occupancy map to the online system. The vehicles detect map discrepancies based on differences in the surroundings observed using sensor data compared to the high definition map and send messages describing these map discrepancies to the online system. The online system ranks the vehicles based on factors including an upload rate of the vehicle and requests data describing high definition map from vehicles selected based on the ranking. |
| US10794710B1 |
High-precision multi-layer visual and semantic map by autonomous units
Roughly described, a three-dimensional, multi-layer map is built employing sensory data gathering and analysis. The sensory data are gathered from multiple operational cameras and one or more auxiliary sensors. The multi-layer maps are stored in a map stored to be distributed to one or more autonomous vehicles and robots in the future. The techniques herein are described with reference to specific example implementations to implement improvements in navigation in autonomous vehicles and robots. |
| US10794708B2 |
Server system and method for watercraft cruise trajectory based on propulsion type
A server system includes a communicator, a storage, and a controller. The controller is configured or programmed to receive positional information of a watercraft that a user of a wireless communication terminal is aboard and propulsion device information from the wireless communication terminal through the communicator. The propulsion device information indicates a type of a propulsion device on the watercraft. The controller creates cruise trajectory information and stores the created cruise trajectory information in the storage based on the positional information of the watercraft in association with the type of the propulsion device on the watercraft. The controller determines a frequency at which cruise trajectories of the watercraft match the cruise trajectories based on the cruise trajectory information in the storage. The controller creates cruise route information in association with the type of the propulsion device on the watercraft. |
| US10794706B2 |
Position detection system
A position detection system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of fixed stations 20; and a sensor unit 10 including an inertial sensor that detects movement history of a mobile body 51 and a distance sensor that detects separation distances between the mobile body 51 and the fixed stations 20. A position of the mobile body 51 is determined by detecting a first arrival position P1 obtained based on the movement history, a second arrival position P2 obtained based on the separation distances, and a relative distance L1 between the first arrival position P1 and the second arrival position P2, and by comparing a range value R1 obtained based on the movement history with the relative distance L1. The range value R1 is changed based on the movement history. |
| US10794704B2 |
Systems and methods for continuous replanning of vehicle trajectories
A method and system for continuously re-planning a vehicle's path, in the face of stationary and moving obstacles, dynamically calculates a new path in real time which is both efficient and maintains minimum safety clearances relative to obstacles. Repulsion signals emanating from obstacles and propagating through delineated sections of a grid representing a geographic space are summed along with values representing the relative distance of the sections from the vehicle origin and vehicle destination. The grid sections having optimal values according to a predetermined criteria represent an efficient and safe travel path between the vehicle origin and destination. |
| US10794702B2 |
On-chip gap measurement
A MEMS gyroscope includes a proof mass of a suspended spring mass system that is driven at a drive frequency. The proof mass moves relative to a sense electrode such that an overlap of the proof mass and sense electrode changes during the drive motion. A Coriolis force causes the proof mass to move relative to the sense electrode. The overlap and the movement due to the Coriolis force are sensed, and angular velocity is determined based on the magnitude of a signal generated due to a change in overlap and the Coriolis force. |
| US10794701B2 |
Inertial sensor with single proof mass and multiple sense axis capability
An inertial sensor includes a movable element having a mass that is asymmetric relative to a rotational axis and anchors attached to the substrate. First and second spring systems are spaced apart from the surface of the substrate. Each of the first and second spring systems includes a pair of beams, a center flexure interposed between the beams, and a pair of end flexures. One of the end flexures is interconnected between one of the beams and one of the anchors and the other end flexure is interconnected between one of the beams and the movable element. The beams are resistant to deformation relative to the center flexure and the end flexures. The first and second spring systems facilitate rotational motion of the movable element about the rotational axis and the spring systems facilitate translational motion of the movable element substantially parallel to the surface of the substrate. |
| US10794698B2 |
Method and apparatus for indicating direction
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for indicating a direction. The method is executed by a mobile terminal, and includes: determining an orientation of a screen of the mobile terminal; determining any direction in four directions east, south, west, and north of a location of the mobile terminal; determining another direction based on the determined direction when the screen of the mobile terminal is determined to be downward, so that directions for every 90° are respectively the east, the north, the west, and the south in a clockwise direction; and displaying all the determined directions on the screen of the mobile terminal. By using the solutions in the embodiments, a user can obtain a correct direction indication even when holding the mobile terminal non-horizontally, so that accuracy of the direction indication of the mobile terminal is improved. |
| US10794693B2 |
Metrology method, apparatus and computer program
Disclosed is a method and associated apparatus of determining a performance parameter (e.g., overlay) of a target on a substrate, and an associated metrology apparatus. The method comprises estimating a set of narrowband measurement values from a set of wideband measurement values relating to the target and determining the performance parameter from said set of narrowband measurement values. The wideband measurement values relate to measurements of the target performed using wideband measurement radiation and may correspond to different central wavelengths. The narrowband measurement values may comprise an estimate of the measurement values which would be obtained from measurement of the target using narrowband measurement radiation having a bandwidth narrower than said wideband measurement radiation. |
| US10794691B2 |
Appearance inspection device, appearance inspection method and program
An appearance inspection device that can easily determine optimum values of various imaging parameters is provided. An appearance inspection device includes: a moving means which changes relative positions of at least two or more portions within a work-piece, an imaging part, and an illumination part; an imaging processing part which performs, in a state that the illumination part irradiates a light to the work-piece, a processing for changing imaging parameters and taking a plurality of images by the imaging part under a condition that plural types of imaging parameters with mutually different properties are variably set, the plural types of imaging parameters including a change of the relative position between the work-piece and the imaging part caused by the moving means; and a parameter determining part determining a set of optimum values of the plural types of imaging parameters that are set variably based on the plurality of taken images. |
| US10794690B2 |
Apparatus for laser profiling inspection
An apparatus for laser profiling inspection includes a camera housing having a longitudinal axis and a substantially hemispherical viewing window positioned transversely relative to the longitudinal axis. A camera with a fisheye lens is positioned within the camera housing to capture images through the viewing window. A laser mounting is mounted to the viewing window with the laser mounting extending outwardly from the viewing window along the longitudinal axis of the housing. A laser is positioned at a remote end of the laser mounting. The laser projects a laser beam toward the camera. A mirror is supported by the laser mounting between the laser and the camera. The mirror is configured to reflect outwardly a laser beam from the laser to form a laser ring encircling the laser mounting. |
| US10794681B2 |
Long range capacitive gap measurement in a wafer form sensor system
Embodiments disclosed herein include a sensor wafer. In an embodiment, the sensor wafer comprises a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. In an embodiment, the sensor wafer further comprises a first conductive pad with a first surface area, wherein the first conductive pad has a surface that is substantially coplanar with the first surface of the substrate. In an embodiment, the sensor wafer further comprises a second conductive pad with a second surface area that is smaller than the first surface area, wherein the second conductive pad has a surface that is substantially coplanar with the first surface of the substrate. |
| US10794680B2 |
Differential magnetic proximity sensor
A distance measuring device (100) is provided, comprising a first sensing module (110), a second sensing module (120), a reference device (130), and an evaluating module (140). The first sensing module and the second sensing module are arranged on a horizontal base line (150). Each one of the first and second sensing module is configured to detect the strength of a magnetic field (50) and each one of the first and second sensing module has a first sensing direction (y) and a second sensing direction (x). |
| US10794678B2 |
Apparatus for measuring the roughness of a workpiece surface
An apparatus for measuring a surface of a workpiece has a multi-link articulated arm and a roughness sensor carried by the arm, which includes a sensing element linearly displaceable along an advance direction and elastically deflectable along a deflection direction, and which has a coupling link to connect it to a movable carrier of a coordinate measuring apparatus or of a robot. A first arm portion is rotatable relative to the coupling link about a first axis of rotation. A second arm portion is rotatable relative to the first arm portion about a second axis of rotation and arranged between the first and third arm portion which is rotatable relative to the second arm portion about a third axis of rotation, and to which the roughness sensor is fastened. The deflection direction is arranged parallel to the third axis while the sensing element is displaced linearly along the advance direction. |
| US10794677B2 |
Radial conduit cutting system
A metal magnalium thermite pellet for creating heated gas is presented. The metal magnalium thermite pellet is insertable into a cutting apparatus and/or a high power igniter that releasably secures to the cutting apparatus. The cutting apparatus for radially projecting a flow of heated gas to cut from an internal surface through an external surface of a conduit for oil, gas, mining, and underwater pressure sealed tool applications. The metal magnalium thermite pellet comprises a metal magnalium thermite composition consisting of between 1 to 44 percent magnalium alloy, between 1 to 44 percent aluminum, between 40 to 60 percent iron oxide, and between 10 to 20 percent polytetrafluoroethylene. |
| US10794674B2 |
Electric tracer munition
There is disclosed a tracer munition. There is provided a tracer munition for selective activation, the tracer munition comprising: an electronic tracer device, said tracer munition comprising at least one cavity capable of receiving said electronic tracer device wherein the electronic tracer device comprises an electrical power source and an electronic emitter, whereupon selective activation of the electronic tracer device, said electronic emitter emits radiation. |
| US10794672B2 |
Lighted nock
A lighted nock and a method for operating the lighted nock. A nock body has a shaft extending from the nock body. The nock body can form a nock cavity and a light source can be positioned within the nock cavity. A ferrule can form a ferrule cavity. A power source can be at least partially housed within the ferrule cavity and at least partially housed within the nock cavity. The shaft can at least partially be mounted within the ferrule cavity. A bias element can be mounted between the light source and the power source. The lighted nock can be switched between an on condition and an off condition. |
| US10794668B2 |
Lighting control
A method of controlling at least one light source to discourage unwanted behavior at a spectator event comprising a plurality of spectator areas, the method comprising: detecting, based on sensor input received from a sensor at the spectator event, at least one spectator exhibiting unwanted behavior within a first one of the spectator areas; determining a location of the first spectator area; identifying a second one of the spectator areas as being a target of the unwanted behavior and determining a location of the second spectator area; and controlling at least one light source based on the determined locations to increase an amount of glare along at least one line of sight between the first and second spectator areas and thereby discourage the spectator from looking towards the second spectator area to discourage the unwanted behavior. |
| US10794663B2 |
Laser induced friction surface on firearm
A firearm having a laser induced friction surface. A method for forming the laser induced friction surface on the firearm may includes the steps of disposing the laser machine adjacent to a component of the firearm, adjusting the laser machine, then applying the laser beam of the laser machine onto a component surface. |
| US10794662B2 |
Stock assembly systems with mating interfaces
Adjusting the length of firearms using stock assembly systems are provided. In one embodiment, a stock assembly comprises: a receiver extension having a first interface configured to mate with a second interface of a stock; the first interface comprising a base portion, a plurality of first edges, and a plurality of first grooves; the second interface comprising a slot portion, a plurality of second edges, and a plurality of second grooves; wherein the plurality of first edges are in contact with the plurality of second grooves and the plurality of first grooves are in contact with the plurality of second edges of the second interface to mate the stock with the receiver extension; and wherein the base portion of the first interface is in contact with the slot portion of the second interface allowing the stock to slide along a horizontal axis of the receiver extension. |
| US10794658B2 |
Aimable device stock with multi-function forestock
Stocks for aimable devices are provided. In one aspect, stock has a body mechanically associated with the aimable device and movable to determine an aiming axis of the aimable device, a shoulder mount positioned proximate to one end of the body, a firing grip positioned apart from the shoulder mount along a length of the body; a support leg having a mounting end pivotably mounted to the body between the firing grip and an end of the body opposite from the shoulder mount and having a foot end movable between a first range of positions and a second range of positions and a receiver located between the mounting of the support leg to the body and the firing grip and adapted to releasably hold the support leg in the first range of positions wherein the at least one support leg provides a grippable forestock. |
| US10794653B2 |
Systems and methods for barrel attachment assemblies for firearms
A firearm assembly is disclosed. The firearm assembly may include a slide comprising a guide slot and a barrel attachment comprising a main body and an elongated guide beam. The elongated guide beam may be configured to slide within the guide slot. |
| US10794650B2 |
Composite sporting equipment
A sporting equipment is disclosed. The sporting equipment may include a harness, and a protective plate. The protective plate may be integrally formed with the harness from a plurality of fibers that are continuous from the harness into the protective plate. |
| US10794646B2 |
Pistol with frame insert
Pistols with frame inserts have a frame having a grip, the frame having spaced apart upper sidewall portions having upper edges defining a slide interface plane, the upper sidewall portions being planar elements each having inner faces facing each other and exterior faces facing away from each other, each upper sidewall portion defining a side opening adjacent to the slide interface plane and having a perimeter spaced apart from the slide interface plane, a frame insert including pistol action components connected to the frame, and the frame insert having opposed insert sidewalls, each frame insert sidewall having a selected portion registered with and occupying a respective one of the side openings of the frame. The frame may define a cavity width between selected portions of the inner faces adjacent to the frame side openings, and wherein the frame insert has a width at the selected portion greater than the cavity width. |
| US10794640B2 |
Heat exchanger and water heater including same
A heat exchanger includes a heat transfer tube in which a plurality of tube body portions are arranged in a two-tier staggered pattern in a flow direction of heating gas, and a fin, wherein a plurality of cut-out recessed portions are provided in the fin by cutting out sites between first and second upstream side tube body portions, and each cut-out recessed portion extends toward a downstream side in the flow direction of the heating gas beyond the site between the first and second upstream side tube body portions so as to cross straight lines linking a center of a first downstream side tube body portion, which is positioned between the first and second upstream side tube body portions in the width direction, and respective centers of the first and second upstream side tube body portions. Thus, the temperature distribution of the fin is made even, thereby suppressing the generation of thermal stress, and as a result, distortion of the heat transfer tube is suppressed. |
| US10794639B2 |
Cooling structure and mounting structure
A cooling structure includes a plurality of heat radiation parts configured to cool a heat generating component and a holding member configured to hold the plurality of heat radiation parts. Moreover, the heat radiation parts of the cooling structure each include a base portion located on the side of the heat generating component and a fin portion extending from the base portion and radiating heat. Furthermore, the base portions of the heat radiation parts abut on each other. |
| US10794638B2 |
Structurally supported heat exchanger
A heat exchanger plate having a planar plate having an inlet and outlet proximate to a first edge of the heat exchanger plate. The planar plate having a plurality of ribs and a plurality of channels, with the plurality of channels being in a plane different from the planar plate. The plurality of channels being in fluid communication from the inlet to the outlet permitting fluid flow from the inlet to the outlet. A protrusion coupled to the planar plate proximate to the first edge of the heat exchanger plate and laterally extending from an axis, with the heat exchanger plate being susceptible to bending about the axis. |
| US10794631B2 |
Dryer conveyor belt tracking system
The present invention provides a conveyor belt tracking system for a dryer having a web of a mesh material having a protrusion extending along the length proximal one lateral edge and above a flat surface and a first generally cylindrical roller having a three-tiered slot for receiving the protrusion and two flanking shallow tracks for receiving base flanges. |
| US10794630B2 |
Method and device for separating air by cryogenic distillation
Method for separating air by cryogenic distillation, wherein air is compressed in a compressor and is subsequently sent to a heat exchanger, with the air cooled in the exchanger being sent to a check valve downstream of the heat exchanger and subsequently to a turbine, the valve being positioned so that air from a short-circuiting duct cannot return to the exchanger from the compressor. |
| US10794624B2 |
Portable frozen confection machine
The disclosure extends to apparatuses, methods, and systems, for producing frozen confections and conditioning ice for use in frozen confections. The disclosure further extends to apparatuses, methods, and systems for providing a frozen confection machine that is portable and sized for easy storage as well as a portable frozen convection experience. |
| US10794623B1 |
Heating control method, device and ice maker
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a heating control method, a heating control device, and an ice maker. The heating control method comprises: determining that the ice maker is in an ice-making operation state; acquiring a first heating strategy of a target part of the ice maker according to a preset first heating strategy acquisition rule, based on ambient parameter information of an ambient in which the target part of the ice maker is located; and heating the target part based on the first heating strategy. Through the embodiments of the present disclosure, the problem that the deicing heating control technology of the ice maker in the prior art has high energy consumption is solved, and the beneficial effect of precise and low-energy deicing heating control on the ice-prone parts of the ice maker is achieved. |
| US10794619B2 |
Compressor with motor cooling
A compressor includes a compression mechanism, a shaft, a motor, and a cooling medium delivery structure. The motor includes a rotor mounted on the shaft and a stator disposed radially outwardly of the rotor to form a gap between the rotor and the stator. The cooling medium delivery structure includes inlet and outlet conduits located to supply and discharge a cooling medium to and from the motor. The shaft has an external shape different than an internal shape of the rotor to form at least one axial passageway between the shaft and the rotor. The cooling medium is supplied through the gap and the at least one axial passageway to cool the rotor. |
| US10794617B2 |
Thermal management system
A thermal management system comprises a first heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between a first component and a first working fluid, a first working fluid compressor downstream in first working fluid flow of the first heat exchanger and configured to compress the first working fluid, a second heat exchanger downstream in first working fluid flow of the compressor and configured to exchange heat between the first working fluid and a second working fluid and an expander downstream in first working fluid flow of the second heat exchanger, and configured to expand and cool first working fluid and deliver cooled first working fluid to the first heat exchanger. The system further comprises a third heat exchanger upstream in second working fluid flow of the second heat exchanger, and configured to exchange heat between a second component and the second working fluid. |
| US10794603B2 |
Intelligent purifier light
Techniques for purifier light are provided. A purifier light can determine characteristics of the environment in which the purifier light is installed, determine capabilities of purifier light, determine one or more objectives of the installation of purifier light related to purification of the environment, perform a self-configuration of purifier light according to the determined one or more objectives, and determine and execute suitable actions for purifier light to perform to achieve the determined one or more objectives. |
| US10794601B1 |
Adjustable convective heat chamber apparatus and method of use
A heat chamber apparatus comprises a base assembly, a lid assembly operably installed on the base assembly, and a rack assembly and heater assembly incorporated in the base and/or lid assemblies, the base and lid assemblies being optionally telescopically engaged for selectively adjusting the interior space of the heat chamber, and the rack assembly separating the interior space into first and second sub-chambers and being optionally pivotable for selectively accessing the sub-chambers. |
| US10794600B2 |
Glass-ceramic worktop
The present invention relates to an advantageously interactive item of furniture and/or appliance comprising: at least one worktop formed from at least one substrate made of a monolithic glazing material and of area larger than 0.7 m2, said substrate having a lightness L* higher than 10, a light transmission TL lower than 50%, an opacity indicator higher than 90, and if needs be a haze higher than 15%; at least one heating element; at least one light source, in particular intended to light up one or more zones or one or more elements or displays of the substrate, in particular by projection, this source for example being located plumb with the substrate; and at least one interface for communicating with at least one element of the worktop such as the one or more light sources and/or the one or more heating elements and/or if needs be wirelessly with at least one external element. |
| US10794594B2 |
Lighter case
A lighter case for covering a lighter to resemble a shotgun shell includes a disc, a first tube, and a lid. The first tube is coupled to and extends perpendicularly from the disc. The first tube has a top that is open so that the first tube is configured to insert a lighter through the top. The lid is hingedly coupled to the first tube proximate to the top. The lid is configured to selectively couple to the first tube to close the top. |
| US10794593B2 |
Vaporization pipe for a kerosene lamp
A vaporization pipe for a kerosene lamp has an oil tube, a thermally conductive tube, and a first passage. The oil tube is made of steel and has a vaporization jet on a top of the oil tube. The thermally conductive tube is mounted in the oil tube and forms a first channel. The first passage is disposed between the oil tube and the thermally conductive tube. The steel oil tube can prevent the vaporization pipe from being softened and bent during the preheating of vaporization pipe or burning of the kerosene, and thus a useful lifetime of the vaporization pipe is prolonged. The thermally conductive tube is made of high-thermal-conductivity material for keeping the vaporization pipe with adequate thermal conductivity and improving a burning rate of kerosene. The first passage allows the kerosene to flow upward, preventing the kerosene from being vaporized incompletely because the kerosene is over pressurized. |
| US10794591B2 |
Gas inlet fixture and air shutter
A burner assembly including a gas inlet fixture for use with a burner tube, the gas inlet fixture including a plurality of tabs to engage a neck of a gas control valve to improve ignition and center the gas flow down the center of the burner tube. |
| US10794588B2 |
Apparatuses for controlling heat for rapid thermal processing of carbonaceous material and methods for the same
Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for controlling heat for rapid thermal processing of carbonaceous material are provided herein. The apparatus comprises a reactor, a reheater for forming a fluidized bubbling bed comprising an oxygen-containing gas, inorganic heat carrier particles, and char and for burning the char into ash to form heated inorganic particles. An inorganic particle cooler is in fluid communication with the reheater. The inorganic particle cooler comprises a shell portion and a tube portion. The inorganic particle cooler is configured such that the shell portion receives a portion of the heated inorganic particles and the tube portion receives a cooling medium for indirect heat exchange with the portion of the heated inorganic particles to form partially-cooled heated inorganic particles. |
| US10794587B2 |
Solid fuel boiler burner
A solid fuel boiler burner has a rotary combustion chamber mounted in casing. The casing is connected by hooks to a gearwheel. The gearwheel is mounted rotationally between a pair of cage bearings. The gearwheel and a compensating and pressure plate have openings for a inflow of air from a blower chamber through an adjustable screen. The adjustable screen controls a ratio of primary to secondary air. A worm feeder delivers fuel to the combustion chamber through an outlet thereof. The worm feeder has an axially placed aeration duct therein. |
| US10794585B2 |
Light source unit
A light source unit disclosed in an embodiment includes a first cover which has an open region; a second cover which is coupled to the first cover; a light source module which is disposed between the first cover and the second cover, and has a light-emitting device disposed on the open region and a circuit board on which the light-emitting device is disposed; a fixing frame which is disposed between the second cover and the circuit board; and a resin member which is filled in an region between the first cover and the second cover and supports the light source module and the fixing frame. The light source module includes a moisture-proof film which covers an upper surface and side surfaces of the light-emitting device and extends to an upper surface of the circuit board. |
| US10794584B2 |
Luminaire with thermal control
A luminaire includes a housing assembly, a spacer, and a globe optic. A collar may be included on the spacer such that the luminaire can accommodate different sizes of globe optics without requiring complete replacement of the luminaire. The spacer may include airflow apertures that promote air circulation within the luminaire when the luminaire is assembled. A wireless node may be included with the luminaire. In some examples, the wireless node may be positioned on at least one of the housing assembly, the spacer, or the globe optic. |
| US10794582B2 |
LED lamp include first heat dissipating channel with inner channel and outer channel
An LED lamp includes: a lamp shell including a lamp head, a lamp neck and a sleeve; a passive heat dissipating element having a heat sink connected to the lamp shell; a power source having a first portion and a second portion; a light emitting surface connected to the heat sink of the passive heat dissipating element and comprising LED chips electrically connected to the power source; a first heat dissipating channel formed in a first chamber of the lamp shell for dissipating heat generated from the power source while the LED lamp is working, and the first chamber is located between bottom of the LED lamp and an upper portion of the lamp neck; and a second heat dissipating channel formed in the heat sink and between the fins and the base of the heat sink for dissipating the heat generated from the LED chips and transferred to the heat sink; wherein a lateral outline of the LED lamp detours around the axis of the LED lamp 360 degrees to turn around to form a contour of the LED lamp, the outline includes an outline of the lamp neck and an outline of the heat sink, the outline of the lamp neck is a concave curve, the outline of the heat sink is a convex curve, the radius of curvature of the outline of the lamp neck is greater than the radius of curvature of the outline of the heat sink. |
| US10794581B2 |
Connector system for lighting assembly
A linear LED lamp having a body with a length between spaced first and second ends. The linear LED lamp has an elongate heat sink and a light source comprising LED emitters and a first end cap assembly at the first end of the body. The first end cap assembly has conductive power and ground pins and a support connector has conductive power and ground terminals for connecting with an external power supply and providing a grounding path for components of the lamp. The power and ground pins of the first end cap assembly are configured to engage the power and ground terminals of the support connector as an incident of the first end cap assembly moving relative to the support connector in a path that is transverse to the length of the body into an engaged position. A sleeve connector is also provided for mounting a non-power end of a linear LED lamp to a light fixture. |
| US10794579B2 |
Edge-lit lighting device
A circular edge-lit lighting device includes a light emitting panel (LEP) and a first light emitting diode (LED) light source positioned proximal to a first location on a narrow outer perimeter edge of the LEP. The first LED light source is configured to emit a first light into the LEP through the narrow outer perimeter edge. The first light has a first intensity level. The circular edge-lit lighting device also includes a second LED light source positioned proximal to a second location on the narrow outer perimeter edge the LEP. The second LED light source is configured to emit a second light into the LEP through the narrow outer perimeter edge. The second light has a second intensity level. The first location and the second location are different locations. |
| US10794577B2 |
LED downlight apparatus
A LED downlight apparatus includes a light source plate, a heat sink, a reflective cup and a driver container. The reflective cup reflects light of the light source plate and the heat sink is arranged between the driver container and the light source plate. |
| US10794576B1 |
Slide adjustable hinge and latch securement for a light emitting diode (LED) fixture retrofit kit
A hinge apparatus and method of use are provided for securing to a slide of a retrofit kit and to an opening of a fixture. The hinge apparatus includes a hinge configured to couple to the opening of the fixture, a top section coupled to the hinge, a lower section coupled to the top section and having a cavity formed therebetween, the cavity configured to be coupleable to the retrofit kit, a hinge brake securement device coupled to the top section, a neck extending outwardly from the hinge brake securement device, a hinge brake coupled to the neck, and a notch coupled to the hinge brake, the notch configured to be receivable at the slide of the retrofit kit. |
| US10794569B2 |
Wavelength conversion member, light source and lighting device
A wavelength conversion member of the present disclosure includes a first matrix, phosphor particles embedded in the first matrix, and at least one selected from the group consisting of first filler particles embedded in the first matrix and surface coating layers respectively covering surfaces of the phosphor particles. The wavelength conversion member satisfies at least one relationship selected from the group consisting of |n3−n1|>|n1−n2| and |n4−n1|>|n1−n2| wherein n1 is a refractive index of the first matrix, n2 is a refractive index of the phosphor particles, n3 is a refractive index of the first filler particles, and n4 is a refractive index of the surface coating layers. |
| US10794567B2 |
Optical system for managing light from a light emitting diode
An optical system includes an optic and a reflector. The optic has a rear surface with a cavity configured to receive light from a light source and a front surface opposite the rear surface, the front surface configured to emit light processed by the optic and the front surface including a centrally disposed convex region. The front surface and the rear surface of the optic meet at a rim that extends peripherally with respect to the cavity. The reflector is disposed adjacent the optic and comprises a light-receiving end adjoining the rim, a light-emitting end, and a tapered region that extends between the light-receiving end and the light-emitting end. |
| US10794559B2 |
Vehicle lamp and vehicle having the same
A vehicle lamp comprises a light source for road surface drawing configured to emit light becoming a light source image, and a projection lens, which has an optical axis extending in a front and rear direction and the light is to pass therethrough. The vehicle lamp can form a plurality of light distribution patterns on a road surface over a range from a position close to the lamp to a position distant from the lamp by the light emitted from the light source and having passed through the projection lens, and the respective light distribution patterns are to be projected on the road surface at states where relative positions between the projection lens and the light source image are different. |
| US10794558B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes: a substrate; a plurality of light emitting elements mounted on the substrate; a plurality of wavelength conversion members, each containing phosphor particles and being disposed on a respective one of the light emitting elements; and a plurality of light reflecting members disposed between adjacent ones of the wavelength conversion members to reflect light emitted from the light emitting elements. The wavelength conversion members and the light reflecting members are included in a collective body that has a curved upper surface having a concave shape. |
| US10794555B2 |
LED-based emergency lighting equipment and methodology
Systems and methods provide LED-based emergency lighting utilizing AC-DC switch mode power conversion technology, NiMH battery technology, and emergency lighting lamps that use high power white LEDs as the emergency lighting source. A low voltage microprocessor based circuit design reduces the battery input voltage for the unit to a nominal level of 2.4VDC. The microprocessor executes a pulse charging algorithm to lower battery maintenance mode power consumption levels and extend the useful life of the battery. Brownout detection technology does not require the determination of the AC input voltage level or transmission of the brownout detection signal to the secondary side of the circuit. A rechargeable battery is charged by a charge current selectively set to a bulk charge value, a trickle charge high value, or a trickle charge low value based on sampling of the voltage of the rechargeable battery and the charge current. |
| US10794554B2 |
Modular vapor-tight light fixture
A modular vapor-tight light fixture is provided herein which generally includes first and second vapor-tight light modules, and a coupling for connecting the first and second vapor-tight light modules. Each of the vapor-tight light modules includes: a channel housing; a lens secured to the channel housing; a plurality of solid state light generating elements; and, first and second end caps. Each of the channel housings includes first and second rails which each define a mounting channel. The coupling includes mounting strip portions configured such that, with the first and second vapor-tight light modules being adjacent, the mounting strip portions are simultaneously received in the mounting channels of both the first and second vapor-tight light modules. Advantageously, with the subject invention, fully enclosed vapor-tight light modules may be provided at shorter lengths which are connected by the coupling to provide a fixture comparable in length to prior-art vapor-tight light fixtures. |
| US10794550B2 |
Multi-directional flashlight
There is provided a hand held flashlight having different intensity and direction of projected light controlled by switches which function independently or pently. |
| US10794546B2 |
Light bulb apparatus
A light bulb apparatus has a plurality of LED modules, a substrate, a driver circuit board, a plastic piece, a radiator and a lamp cap. The substrate has aluminum material for mounting the plurality of LED modules, a first connection end and a second connection end. The first connection end and the second connection end are electrically connected to the plurality of LED modules. The plastic piece with a guiding groove is used for inserting the driver circuit board. The radiator has a top plate and a side wall. The substrate is fixed on the top plate, and the side wall are connected to the plastic piece. |
| US10794544B2 |
LED lamp
A LED lamp comprises a base, an envelope, a printed circuit board for mounting a plurality of LED chips and a supporting member for supporting the printed circuit board. The envelope has a bottom end coupled with the base. The envelope defines an interior between the base and the envelope, and the printed circuit board is disposed in the interior. The printed circuit board comprises a hollow structure. One end of the supporting member is assembled in the base, the other end of the supporting member is coupled with the printed circuit board. One end of the printed circuit board extends into the base. |
| US10794543B2 |
Substrate for LED packaging, LED package, and LED bulb
The invention provides a substrate for LED packaging, a LED package and a LED bulb. The substrate is in a strip shape, at least one end of the substrate is provided with an electrode lead-out wire. The electrode lead-out wire is connected to the substrate by a connecting component and/or a connecting material, wherein at least one opening arranged along the length direction of the substrate is provided on the substrate. The LED package comprises the substrate, the substrate is provided with a plurality of LED chips, and the plurality of LED chips are connected in series and/or parallel with each other by connecting wires. The LED bulb of the present invention has the LED package. According to the invention, the openings in the middle part of the substrate make the arrangement and control of the LED chips on the substrate simpler and more diversified, which facilitates the air ventilation and heat dissipation of the LED package, makes the service life of the LED bulb longer, and makes the emitting angle more all-directional. |
| US10794537B2 |
System for filling LPG vehicle with LPG using auxiliary bombe
A system for filling an LPG vehicle with LPG using an auxiliary bombe is provided. The system may be configured for easily filling a main bombe with LPG even in the hot season (summertime) or the like during which the outside temperature rapidly rises, by using an auxiliary bombe in addition to using the main bombe. The system may also be capable of always smoothly refilling the main bombe with LPG by moving a portion of the LPG in the main bombe to the auxiliary bombe, when the pressure in the main bombe is higher than the LPG filling pressure of a filling gun in the hot season during which the outside temperature rapidly rises, so that the pressure in the main bombe becomes lower than the filling pressure. |
| US10794535B2 |
High pressure tank
A high pressure tank includes: a resin liner for containing a fluid; a reinforced layer covering an outer surface of the liner; a cap including a supply/discharge hole to supply and discharge the fluid to and from the liner; a barrier layer; and an isolation wall member. The cap includes a cylindrical protrusion having the supply/discharge hole. The barrier layer covers an outer surface of the reinforced layer to block all or at least part of the fluid, and includes an opening to expose the protrusion. The isolation wall member forms a closed space accommodating the protrusion and the opening of the barrier layer. |
| US10794531B2 |
Tripod foot
A foot having a base portion and a handle, the handle being pivotally attached to the base portion at a first end and including a gripping portion at a second end, said handle further comprising a centrally deployed securing member attached to the gripping portion, the handle being movable between a first position in which the foot is removable from a leg and a second position in which an end of the securing member is secured within a securing recess in the leg portion whereby the foot is secured to the leg. |
| US10794530B2 |
Rotating module
A rotating module comprising a mandrel and at least one rubbing element in provided. The at least one rubbing element is sleeved on the mandrel. The diameter of a pivoting space defined by an arcuate arm of the at least one rubbing element is smaller than the diameter of the mandrel so that the at least one rubbing element and the mandrel are assembled with interference fit. |
| US10794529B2 |
Gas cylinder quick release device
A gas cylinder quick release device has an upper bearing plate, and a lower annular collar arranged below the upper bearing plate on an axis common to the upper bearing plate and the lower annular collar. A handle is mounted to move between a first position and a second position. Movement of the handle from the first position to the second position imparts axial displacement of the upper bearing plate and the lower annular collar away from each other along the axis. The lower annular collar moves downward along the axis when the lower annular collar is axially displaced away from the upper bearing plate. |
| US10794528B2 |
Insulation product with inward curling closure flap
A pipe insulation product including a core of insulating material and a laminate surrounding the core and bonded to the core. The core may include an outer surface; an inner surface; and a wall extending between the outer and inner surfaces. The laminate may include a foil or metallized polymeric film sheet, a scrim, a porous media sheet, and a polymeric film sheet bonded together via an adhesive. The laminate may include a closure flap that is configured to adhesively seal opposite ends of the laminate together to form a cylindrical tube with the core enclosed therein. The closure flap may be configured to include a curl that provides a greater closure flap adhesive seal. |
| US10794526B2 |
Sound absorber for vacuum grippers
The invention relates to a sound absorber comprising a housing with an inlet for connection with the exhaust gas line of a suction gripper, the housing comprising at least one elastic segment comprising at least one though hole, and also to a process of sound absorption for a suction gripper. The application of pressurized exhaust gas to the elastic segment leads to its expansion and to enlargement of the opening of the through hole. The expansion and/or the elasticity of the elastic segment in which the through hole is arranged, and the passing of the exhaust gas through the opened through hole in the elastic segment reduce the sound emitted along with the exhaust gas. |
| US10794524B2 |
Pipe coupling assembly
A pipe coupling assembly for coupling a first end portion of a first pipe with a second pipe includes a socket formed on an end of the second pipe and a locking ring. The socket includes a rim defining an end opening through which at least a portion of the first end portion is inserted, the rim including a rim sealing surface adapted to form a liquid-tight seal around the first end portion. The socket also includes a sleeve portion having an exterior surface and an interior surface defining an interior space for receiving the first end portion, the interior surface comprising at least two socket sealing surfaces adapted to form a liquid-tight seal around the first end portion. The locking ring is adapted to cause the rim sealing surface to compress to form a liquid-tight seal around the first end portion. |
| US10794521B2 |
Faucet with integrated push-to-connect fitting
A valve assembly includes a body, a fitting, and a stopper assembly. The body has a first end and a second end. The body includes a connector portion positioned at the first end, a nozzle portion positioned at the second end, and an intermediate portion connecting the connector portion to the nozzle portion. The connector portion includes a peripheral wall having a crimped end that defines a fluid inlet. The nozzle portion defines a fluid outlet. The connector portion, the intermediate portion, and the nozzle portion cooperatively define a fluid flow path extending from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet. The fitting is disposed within the peripheral wall. The fitting is held within the peripheral wall by the crimped end. The stopper assembly is coupled to the body along the intermediate portion. The stopper assembly is configured to facilitate selectively restricting a flow along the fluid flow path. |
| US10794520B2 |
Fluid supply apparatus
To provide a fluid supply apparatus capable of preventing inconveniences cause by cut of a signal line when a filling hose is separated through an emergency separation pipe joint. The fluid supply apparatus (100: fluid supply apparatus for supplying fluid such as hydrogen gas and gasoline) includes a supply system for transporting fluid such as hydrogen gas and gasoline in a housing main body while measuring flow rate of the fluid; a control mechanism for controlling the supply system; a hose (2) introduced from the supply system and having a nozzle (1) at an end thereof; and a signal line (3) along the hose (2), wherein the signal line (3) is detachable. |
| US10794517B2 |
System, method and apparatus for expansion coupling for pipes with sheathed grooves
A pipe system can include a coupling having an axis, axial ends and a bore. Each axial end can include a coupling spline groove formed in the bore, and a seal groove axially inboard of the coupling spline groove. The seal groove can be configured to house a seal. At least two pipes can be configured to be inserted into different axial ends of the coupling and be secured therein with retainers. Each pipe can include a pipe spline groove, a band groove axially adjacent to and radially shallower than the pipe spline groove, and a band mounted in the band groove. |
| US10794515B2 |
Valve or pipe discharge with velocity reduction discharge plate
A discharge for a fluid system has an inlet and an outlet in which a fluid flows from the discharge inlet to the discharge outlet. The discharge inlet has a inlet cross-sectional area. The discharge outlet has a plate. The plate has a plurality of radially extending ribs. The radially extending ribs are equiangularly spaced about a center axis of the plate. The radially extending ribs define a plurality of radially extending slots between the equiangularly spaced apart ribs. The radially extending ribs are dimensioned such that a sum of an area of all of the radially extending slots is greater than the discharge inlet cross-sectional area. When the fluid flows through the plate slots from the discharge outlet, it has a discharge coefficient of greater than 0.4. |
| US10794514B2 |
Security blow out proof valve assembly
A security blow-out-proof valve assembly is provided that includes a valve body, valve stem, and a head. The valve body contains a valve member movable between open and closed positions within the valve body. The valve stem extends from the valve body and moves the valve member between open and closed positions within the valve body. The head located on the valve stem is selectively movable relative to the valve stem and selectively moves the valve stem. When the head selectively moves the valve stem the head moves the valve member between open and closed positions. |
| US10794510B1 |
Electrohydraulic counterbalance and pressure relief valve
An example valve includes a main stage, a pilot stage, and a solenoid actuator. The main stage includes a sleeve and a piston axially movable within the sleeve. The piston defines a cavity therein. The pilot stage includes a pilot pin received at, and axially movable in, the cavity of the piston, where the piston forms a pilot seat at which the pilot pin is seated when the valve is in a closed state. The solenoid actuator includes a solenoid coil, an armature, and a solenoid spring. The solenoid spring applies a biasing force in a distal direction on the pilot pin to seat the pilot pin at the pilot seat. Energizing the solenoid coil causes the armature to move in a proximal direction, thereby reducing the biasing force that the solenoid spring applies on the pilot pin. |
| US10794505B2 |
Spring seat for an internal valve
An internal valve including a valve body, a poppet valve coupled to the valve body, a bleed valve, a stem slidably disposed in the valve body and operatively coupled to the bleed valve. The stem is shiftable from a first position wherein the poppet valve and the bleed valve are both closed, to a second position wherein the bleed valve is open, and a third position wherein the bleed valve is closed, the poppet valve is open, and the poppet valve may shift toward the closed position and the bleed valve may open in response to a pressure change. A spring seat is coupled to the stem via a retaining feature such that the spring seat is movably disposed in the valve body, and a spring is operatively coupled to the stem via the spring seat and configured to bias the stem toward the first position. |
| US10794501B2 |
Mixing cartridge
The mixing cartridge comprises: —a cartridge body (1); —an actuation lever (5) —a fixed plate (2) placed within the cartridge body (1) and comprising inflow input openings and an output opening for the outflow of mixed water; and —a movable element comprising a movable plate (4) provided within the cartridge body, coupled to the actuation lever to be moved on or with respect to the fixed plate and internally defining a mixing chamber (41) open towards the fixed plate and which selectively communicates or blocks the communication of said input openings with the output opening. The mixing cartridge comprises a flow rate limiting arrangement placed within the cartridge body in the path followed by the water flow between said inflows and said outflow, so that the flow rate of said water is limited. |
| US10794500B2 |
Fluid switch-over device
A fluid switch-over device of the type that may be used in sanitary shower devices, the fluid switch-over device including a housing body which includes a fluid inlet channel and a plurality of fluid outlet channels arranged fluidically in parallel, a switch-over body which includes a fluid inlet, at least one fluid outlet and a fluid duct from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet and is disposed within the housing body to be translationally movable axially parallel and rotationally movable in a combined manner in relation to a longitudinal axis between at least two different operating positions. The switch-over body in each of the different operating positions is in fluid connection with the fluid inlet channel via its fluid inlet and differentially unblocks or blocks at least partially a fluid connection of its fluid outlet to the respective fluid outlet channel. An actuation unit for actuating the switch-over body includes an operating element disposed on the housing body to be user-operable. |
| US10794496B2 |
Ball valve system
A ball valve positioned between a first line and a second line includes a housing and a ball disposed a ball disposed within the housing. The ball includes a bore and is configured to rotate between an open position and a closed position. The ball valve also includes an annular seat disposed between the housing and the ball. The annular seat includes a first annular sealing ring extending circumferentially about a radially-outer surface of the annular seat and an axially-extending passageway extending through the annular seat to enable fluid flow from a valve cavity to an annular space between the annular seat and the housing. The first annular sealing ring, the axially-extending passageway, and the annular space facilitate movement of the annular seat away from the ball as the ball rotates from the closed position toward the open position. |
| US10794494B2 |
Bonded seat with annular ribs
A bonded seat for a butterfly valve can comprise a first axial end and a second axial end distal from the first axial end; a central section between the first axial end and the second axial end, the central section defining a radially inward surface and a radially outward surface, the radially inward surface defining a fluid bore therethrough from the first axial end to the second axial end, the radially outward surface defining a plurality of annular ribs. |
| US10794491B2 |
Wheelend assembly seal
A wheelend assembly seal between the hub of a wheelend and a spindle shaft is provided. The wheelend assembly seal is a seal device having at least a static seal structure, a wear ring, and a dynamic seal structure. The dynamic seal structure comprises a resilient member that is biased such that in an uninstalled state, the resilient member diverges from an axially extending portion of the dynamic seal structure. When installed, the resilient member is compressed to be approximately parallel the axially extending portion and forms a seal between the surface of the resilient member and the outer surface of the spindle shaft. |
| US10794490B2 |
High pressure seal
A seal includes a support ring; a sealing ring locked with the support ring to form an enclosed space therebetween, the sealing ring including at least one seal lip; and an energizer held in the enclosed space and contacting the sealing ring. |
| US10794487B2 |
Actuator assembly having self-lubricating components
An actuator assembly includes a housing, a piston rod, and an end gland. The housing defines a housing bore that extends along a first axis between a first housing end and a second housing end. The piston rod is at least partially disposed within the housing bore. The piston rod defines a piston bore that extends from a first piston end towards a second piston end along the first axis. The end gland has a first end gland surface that engages the piston rod and a second end gland surface that engages the housing bore. The end gland defines a first gland groove that extends from the first end gland surface towards the second end gland surface. The first gland groove is arranged to receive a self-lubricating filler that engages the piston rod. A self-lubricating bushing may also be provided to deposit a lubricant into the piston bore. |
| US10794486B2 |
Gear indicator illumination unit
A gear indicator illumination unit for a vehicle, particularly for an automatic vehicle, is shown. The gear indicator illumination unit provides basic lighting and individual spot lighting from a plurality of different lighting devices, particularly in the form of LEDs. The gear indicator illumination unit has a plurality of lighting devices for indicating the gear and a memory for saving parameters and/or characteristic curves of the lighting devices. |
| US10794485B2 |
Vehicle parking mechanism
A vehicle parking mechanism according to the disclosure is a mechanism provided in a vehicle power transmission device that transmits power output from an electric motor to left and right axles and through two planetary gear mechanisms and a differential device, wherein, in a carrier of one of the two planetary gear mechanisms and, a piston engaged and disengaged with and from a carrier of the other is slidably provided, wherein the piston is engaged with the carrier of the other planetary gear mechanism when a vehicle is stopped, and wherein the piston is disengaged from the carrier of the other planetary gear mechanism other than when the vehicle is stopped. |
| US10794480B2 |
Control mechanism for stepless transmission
A control mechanism for a stepless transmission is a control mechanism connected to a manipulation lever in a stepless transmission and disposed outside a housing of the transmission. The control mechanism includes: a) a piston rod connected to the manipulation lever; b) a piston provided on the piston rod coaxially with the piston rod; c) a cylinder case provided with a cylinder adapted to house the piston rod and the piston such that the piston rod and the piston are displaceable in an axial direction, the piston and the cylinder forming a first fluid chamber to be supplied with a hydraulic fluid for withdrawing the piston rod from the cylinder and a second fluid chamber to be supplied with the hydraulic fluid for introducing the piston rod into the cylinder; d) a spring adapted to bias the manipulation lever in a neutral direction coaxially with the piston rod; e) a proportional pressure control valve adapted to selectively supply the hydraulic fluid to the first fluid chamber or the second fluid chamber, the proportional pressure control valves being mounted to the cylinder case; and f) a pivot shaft adapted to support the cylinder case oscillatably with respect to the housing. |
| US10794474B1 |
System and method for controlling a transmission on a marine engine
A method for controlling a transmission of a marine propulsion device powered by an engine is carried out by a control module and includes monitoring a requested gear state of the transmission and a requested throttle position of a throttle valve on the engine. In response to the requested gear state being a neutral state or in response to the requested throttle position decreasing by more than a predetermined amount within a predetermined period of time, the control module controlling at least one of a pressure in a forward clutch of the transmission and a pressure in a reverse clutch of the transmission in a manner that is contraindicated by the requested gear state. |
| US10794473B2 |
Transmission controller for electric vehicle automatic transmission
The present invention generally relates to automatic transmission controllers and related methods. In one case, the present invention provides a method of calibrating a controller to match an automatic transmission to an electric motor or internal combustion engine. The controller is not integrated into the transmission. The method comprises adjusting parameters of the controller and includes the steps of: a) Defining the Control Architecture; b) using the Defined Control Architecture to Identify Control Loop Input/Output; c) using the Identified Control Input/Output to Define the Control Algorithm Controller; d) using the Control Algorithm Controller definition to either Define the Shift Schedule or Define the Solenoid Handler, either of which can be used in Optimizing Calibration Via Testing. |
| US10794469B2 |
Geared gas turbine engine
A gas turbine engine includes a gearbox including a sun gear, annulus gear, plurality of planet gears and a planet gear carrier. Each planet gear is rotatably mounted in the planet gear carrier by a planet gear bearing. A lubrication system is arranged to supply lubricant to the planet gear bearings and at least one of the sun gear, the planet gears and the annulus gears. The planet gear carrier includes an annular extension. The lubrication system includes an annular member arranged around annular extension to define an annular chamber which is sealed at its ends to the planet gear carrier and which contains a reserve of lubricant. The annular member has an inlet to supply lubricant into the annular chamber and the planet carrier has a first passage to supply lubricant to the sun, planet or annulus gear and a second passage to supply lubricant to planet gear bearings. |
| US10794468B2 |
Hydraulic system for a transmission of a motor vehicle
A hydraulic system for a transmission of a motor vehicle, the system having first and second pumps for conveying hydraulic fluid into primary and/or system-pressure circuits so that an intended pressure prevails in the circuits. The system further including liquid retention means preventing a flow of hydraulic fluid conveyed by the second pump from being conducted through the first pump when the first pump is not conveying and the second pump is conveying, and preventing a flow of hydraulic fluid conveyed by the first pump from being conducted through the second pump when the second pump is not conveying and the first pump is conveying. The system additionally including a sailing-mode lubricating valve for controlling, by an open-loop system, a flow rate of hydraulic fluid conveyed by the second pump into the primary and/or secondary system-pressure circuits such that the intended pressure is set in the system-pressure circuits. |
| US10794466B2 |
Planetary gear device
A planetary gear device includes a sun gear; a plurality of planetary gears; a planetary carrier at which the plurality of planetary gears are rotatably provided; and a ring gear, wherein the planetary carrier includes an oil feeding passage which feeds lubricating oil to at least one of the plurality of planetary gears, wherein the ring gear is a double helical gear in which a pair of rows of internal teeth are arranged in a direction of an axis line of the ring gear and the internal teeth of one of the rows and the internal teeth of the other of the rows are inclined in different directions, the ring gear including at least one discharge passage, wherein the at least one discharge passage includes an inlet-side portion and an outlet-side portion, the inlet-side portion being closer to an inlet configured to open in a region between the pair of rows of internal teeth at an inner peripheral surface of the ring gear, and the outlet-side portion being closer to an outlet configured to open in a region of an outer peripheral surface of the ring gear, and wherein the inlet-side portion is formed at the ring gear so that the inlet-side portion is inclined in a rotation direction of the planetary carrier, with respect to a reference line extending in a radial direction of the ring gear. |
| US10794464B2 |
Transmission having a shaft, a housing part and an adapter housing
A transmission includes a shaft, a housing part and an adapter housing, the housing part and the adapter housing being connected. A first bearing for mounting the shaft is accommodated in the adapter housing, and a second bearing for mounting the shaft is accommodated in the housing part. A space region is situated in the housing part, which is at least partially filled with lubricating oil and is limited by and/or sealed from the adapter housing with the aid of at least one first shaft sealing ring. On the side of the first shaft sealing ring facing away from the space region, in particular on the side of the first sealing ring axially facing away from the space region, a sealing ring is situated on the shaft, which is connected to the shaft in a torsionally fixed manner, in particular pressed and/or slipped onto the shaft, the sealing ring at least partially projects into a recess of the adapter housing, the recess including a circumferential depression, which is limited by a wall region of the adapter housing in the direction of the shaft, the sealing ring touches the wall region or radially projects from the wall region, in particular such that lubricating oil that axially flows down the shaft is drained into the recess or the depression, and a sensor for detecting lubricating oil that has drained into the depression is situated on the adapter housing, in particular in a radially oriented bore hole that terminates in the depression. |
| US10794463B2 |
Mounting bracket for a drive assembly
A bracket for a powertrain component in a vehicle includes a base with a sidewall extending upward and outward from the base, the sidewall including gaps at an upper edge to support frame members of the vehicle upwards from the powertrain component. The sidewall also extends downward from the base to attachment points for suspension members of the vehicle. |
| US10794462B1 |
Drive assembly
A variable speed transmission disposed in a housing includes a transmission input shaft and a transmission output shaft. A power take off is disposed in the housing and includes a power take off output shaft and a clutch/brake mechanism having a clutch input hub engaged to and driven by the transmission input shaft, a cage engaged to the clutch input hub, a brake stator and a brake rotor and carrier being selectively engageable with the cage and alternately selectively engageable with the brake stator. An output hub is rotatably driven by the brake rotor; and a biasing member is disposed between the cage and the brake rotor to bias the brake rotor to engagement with the brake stator. |
| US10794457B2 |
Power take off driveline lift and coupling assist device
An assist device for lifting and facilitating the coupling of an implement's driveline to a power take-off on a vehicle is disclosed. The assist device is configured with a handle enabling a user to rotate the device from a storage position to an upright position where the device engages the driveline and hits it into a position suitable for coupling the driveline to the power take-off. The assist device is equipped with a roller to allow the driveline to slide along its longitudinal axis to facilitate coupling. The assist device may be equipped with one or more springs to further accept at least some of the weight of the driveline and enable easier maneuvering of the driveline during the coupling process. |
| US10794455B2 |
Tensioner
A tensioner includes a power spring, and a backup member being in contact with the power spring and supporting the power spring by acting an urging force in a direction opposite to a radial shift of the power spring in a direction in which the power spring is wound. The power spring is unwound in a condition in which an inter-plate frictional force of the power spring is small in a case where an urging force acting from a power spring to a tension member is greater than a load acting from the tensioner arm to the power spring and the power spring is wound in a condition in which the inter-plate frictional force of the power spring is large in a case where the urging force acting from the power spring to the tension member is smaller than the load acting from the tension member to the power spring. |
| US10794451B2 |
Pushbelt for a continuously variable transmission and a transmission provided therewith
In a pushbelt for a continuously variable transmission that includes at least one endless carrier and a number of transverse segments, which are mounted on the endless carrier. The transverse segments include a bearing surface that contacts the radial inside of the endless carrier, as well as a convexly curved tilting edge that is a part of a main body surface of the transverse segment. According to the present disclosure the convex curvature of the tilting edge extends both radially inward or below and radially outward or above the bearing surface, at least as seen in radial or height direction relative to the endless carrier. |
| US10794448B2 |
Isolator that includes first and second isolation spring arrangement in series
In an aspect, an isolator is provided for isolating a device driven by an engine via an endless drive member. The isolator includes a shaft adapter that is connectable with a shaft of the device and that defines an isolator axis, a rotary drive member that is engageable with the endless drive member, a first isolation spring arrangement that includes a first torsion spring, and that is positioned to transfer torque between the shaft adapter and an intermediate drive member, and a second isolation spring arrangement that is positioned to transfer torque between the intermediate member and the rotary drive member. |
| US10794443B2 |
Disc brake for a vehicle, particularly for a commercial vehicle
A disc brake for a vehicle, particularly for a commercial vehicle, includes a brake caliper which straddles a brake disc and in which an application device is arranged, a single-piece rotary lever which has an eccentric element, and at least one brake plunger which is designed as a power screw arrangement having a rotational axis and with which, when the rotary lever is actuated, at least one brake pad can be pressed against the brake disc. The rotary lever is arranged in the brake caliper such that it can pivot relative thereto, and is supported directly or by way of one or more elements connected therebetween, on said brake caliper, in at least one support region. The rotary lever, which can pivot relative to the brake plunger, has at least one convexly-formed section on the side thereof that lies opposite the support point on the brake caliper, and this section lies against a matching concave end face in the axial extension of the rotational axis of said power screw arrangement. |
| US10794441B2 |
Brake disc for a vehicle
A brake disc for a disc brake includes a brake disc hub and at least one friction ring which is connected to the brake disc hub via rivets, a jacket of the brake disc hub being provided with sections with a reduced wall thickness and/or apertures which are axially directed material cut-outs situated on the outer circumference of the brake disc hub jacket and serve for at least partial positioning of the axially directed rivets. The friction ring and the brake disc hub are centered with respect to one another exclusively via the rivets, and each rivet, before the deformation thereof, is configured so as to taper conically at least over a part region of the rivet shank thereof in the region of the brake disc hub, starting from a swage head to a rivet closing head. |
| US10794437B2 |
Wedge cam brake
A wedge cam brake executes a braking operation by causing proximal end portions of brake arms to press a pair of pad assemblies against both sides of a brake rotor so as to hold it therebetween by means of a cam action of a wedge cam which is caused to move to a braking position along the direction of a rotational axis of a ball screw which is screwed into a ball nut which is provided integrally with the wedge cam as a result of the ball screw being driven to rotate. The wedge cam includes a compression coil spring for pushing to bias the ball nut towards the braking position where the proximal end portions of the brake arms are expanded and a spring holding mechanism for holding the compression coil spring in a biasing force accumulating state. |
| US10794434B2 |
Split race for wedge clutch bearing assembly
An outer ring assembly adapted for a one way clutch bearing assembly is provided. The outer ring assembly includes two separately formed rings. A first outer ring includes a groove adapted to receive a plurality of locking wedges, and a second outer ring includes an outer race adapted to support a plurality of rolling elements. The outer ring assembly is installed with a one way clutch bearing assembly including an inner ring defining both an inner race adapted to support rolling elements, and a plurality of ramps axially spaced from the inner race. |
| US10794431B2 |
Clutch actuation mechanism
A clutch actuation mechanism for actuating a clutch operator of a spring loaded friction clutch having at least a motor driven rotary disc for being connected to the clutch operator enables to operate the motor with an essentially constant and reduced torque, if a pin is attached to the disc with an offset from the disc's rotary axis, and if a lever has a curved contacting surface and if a spring forces the lever with its contacting surface against the pin to thereby provide an additional torque to the disc. Thus, the pin travels over the contacting surface when the disc rotates to open or close the spring loaded clutch via the clutch operator and the curvature enables to adapt the torque provided by the spring to the torque required to compensate for the clutch spring. |
| US10794429B2 |
Coupling device and fibre-reinforced articulation device
A coupling device is provided for connecting a motor to a transmission of a vehicle, particularly of a railway vehicle, with at least one first flange, at least one second flange, at least one first thread-reinforced joint mechanism, at least one second thread-reinforced joint mechanism, and at least one connection assembly that is arranged between the first and the second thread-reinforced joint mechanism. The at least one first thread-reinforced joint mechanism and the at least one second thread-reinforced joint mechanism define a connection area between them in the direction of the center axis of the coupling device, with it being possible to connect the first thread-reinforced joint mechanism starting from this connection area to the at least one connection assembly and the first flange, and to connect the second thread-reinforced joint mechanism to the at least one connection assembly and the at least one second flange. |
| US10794428B2 |
Sealing device and hub bearing
There are provided a sealing device and a hub bearing that can reduce torque. Pear-skin-like projections and depressions are provided on each of a sliding surface in a lip for foreign object (a side lip 121a and a middle lip 121b) and a sliding surface in a lip for grease 122. Roughness of the pear-skin-like projections and depressions provided on the sliding surface of the lip for grease 122 is larger than roughness of the pear-skin-like projections and depressions provided on the sliding surface of the lip for foreign object. |
| US10794426B2 |
Sliding member
Provided is a partially-cylindrical sliding member including a sliding layer including fibrous particles having an average particle size of 5-25 μm dispersed in a synthetic resin at a volume ratio of 10-35% of the sliding layer. The particles having a major axis length ≤20 μm are included at a volume ratio of ≥10% to total particles. A sliding surface side area is defined from the sliding surface and has a thickness of 25% of a sliding layer thickness T, where the fibrous particles having a major axis length of ≥20 μm have a dispersion index of 1.1-6. An interface side area is defined from the interface and has a thickness of 25% of T, where the dispersion index is 1.1-6. An intermediate area is defined between the both areas, where the dispersion index is 0.1 to less than 1. |
| US10794422B1 |
System and method for assembling a slewing ring bearing with a predetermined preload
A slewing ring bearing includes an outer race and an inner race rotatable relative to the outer race. At least one of the outer race or the inner race is split into a first portion and a separate, second portion. The slewing ring bearing also has a plurality of roller elements arranged between one or more raceways defined by the inner and outer races. The first and second portions of at least one of the inner or outer races are coupled together via a threaded interface therebetween so as to establish a predetermined preload for the slewing ring bearing. |
| US10794420B2 |
Universal joint including a seal, seal, and method for installing a seal
A universal joint includes a bush, a bearing journal supported in the bush by a bearing and a seal assembly configured to form a seal between the bearing journal and the bush. The seal assembly includes an outer body formed from a first material having a first hardness, and a reinforcing body at least partially embedded in the outer body is formed from a second material having a hardness greater than the hardness of the first material. The reinforcing body contacts and forms a slip surface for a rolling element of the bearing. The reinforcing body and the outer body are configured such that the reinforcing body compresses a portion of the outer body against the journal when the seal assembly is mounted on the bearing journal. |
| US10794419B2 |
Composite connecting rods
A connecting rod includes a shank extending along a shank axis and a first end portion coupled to the shank. The first end portion has an annular shape. The connecting rod also includes a second end portion coupled to the shank. The second end portion has an annular shape. Each of the shank, the first end portion, and the second end portions includes a fiber-reinforced composite. The fiber-reinforced composite includes a matrix and a plurality of fibers embedded in the matrix. At least one of the shank fibers is elongated along the shank axis. |
| US10794415B2 |
Threaded blind fastener and spacer assembly and methods for the assembly and use thereof
A threaded blind fastener and spacer assembly is provided, the assembly including a blind fastener having a flange; and a spacer having a surface, said spacer having a hole therethrough, said hole terminating as a counterbore at said surface, said counterbore receiving said flange. Methods of preparing the assembly and a method of securing the threaded blind fastener and spacer assembly to a substrate material are also provided. |
| US10794413B2 |
Connection assembly
A connection assembly includes a housing, an adaptor and a conducting element. The housing has a chamber and an opening communicating with the chamber. The adaptor has a first through hole. The adaptor is at least partially connected outside the housing. The opening communicates with the first through hole. The conducting element penetrates through the first through hole and the opening. The conducting element is detachably connected with the adaptor. |
| US10794410B1 |
Foldable aerodynamic drag reducing plate assembly for an intermodal container
The embodied invention is a foldable aerodynamic drag reducing plate assembly that is installed on shipping container ends. The drag reducing plates are in two parts and designed to incorporate hinges and attaching components specifically for the spacing and position of corner lifting holes that are part of a standard container shipping car. The drag reducing plates include locking bars that provide stability when a train is moving at high speed. Also, connecting clips, stiffening channels, or hinges are used to combine two halves of the drag reducing plate design into a single, stiffened unit. |
| US10794408B2 |
Method and system for generating an alert relating to a hydraulic actuation system
There is disclosed a method of generating an alert relating to a hydraulic actuation system for actuating a hydraulic cylinder, the hydraulic control system comprising a hydraulic fluid tank and a hydraulic fluid filter. The method comprises monitoring the pressure drop over the hydraulic fluid filter; determining a rate of change characteristic relating to the rate of change of pressure drop over at least one time period in which there is a hydraulic fluid flow through the hydraulic fluid filter; determining whether the hydraulic fluid is dirty based on at least the rate of change characteristic; and generating an alert if it is determined that the hydraulic fluid is dirty. |
| US10794407B2 |
Centre seeking actuator
A centre seeking actuator having an outer cylinder, a slave cylinder slidably disposed within the outer cylinder, and a rod assembly having a piston slidably disposed within the slave cylinder and a rod extending from the piston to a point outside the outer cylinder. One or more first dynamic seals are arranged to act on a side wall of the rod to inhibit working fluid leaking from the outer cylinder, and one or more second dynamic seals are arranged to act on a sidewall of the slave cylinder to inhibit working fluid leaking from the outer cylinder. |
| US10794406B2 |
Arrangement and method for connecting a hydraulic cylinder
Connecting arrangement for a hydraulic cylinder having a cylinder housing and an extendable piston rod, at the free end of which a linkage lug for connection to a construction component is arranged, characterized in that the linkage lug is connected to the piston rod via a plug connection. |
| US10794405B2 |
Valve island
A valve island has at least one valve module and an adapter module, wherein the adapter module includes a first data line and a first voltage supply line, which each extend continuously from an interface on a first front side forming an outer side of the adapter module to an interface on a second side of the adapter module pointing into the valve island. In the adapter module a circuit unit is provided, which within the adapter module is connected to the first data line and/or the first voltage supply line and from which within the adapter module an internal data line and/or an internal voltage supply line proceeds or proceed, which each extends or extend to an interface on the second side of the adapter module. |
| US10794403B2 |
Composite valve for direct attachment to port of hydraulic apparatus
A composite valve includes a valve body, a first valve module, and a second valve module. The valve body includes a first body portion to which the first valve module is attached, a second body portion to which the second valve module is attached, a third body portion that has an input port, and a fourth body portion that has an output port and an attachment portion. The first body portion and the second body portion respectively extend along a first axis and a second axis that are parallel to each other. The third body portion extends along a third axis that is at 90 degrees with respect to the first axis and with respect to the second axis. The fourth body portion extends along a fourth axis L4 that is at 90 degrees with respect to all the first axis, the second axis, and the third axis. |
| US10794400B2 |
Fan with shock-absorbing effect
A fan includes a rotating unit and a housing unit. The rotating unit includes a base and a fan body that is rotatably mounted to the base. The housing unit includes an outer ring that surrounds and is connected to the base, a plurality of connecting members that are mounted to an outer peripheral surface of the outer ring and that are spaced apart from each other, and a base member that surrounds the rotating unit and the outer ring and that is connected to the connecting members. The base member has a plurality of receiving holes, and each of the connecting members is made of a shock-absorbing material, and is fixed in a respective one of the receiving holes. |
| US10794399B2 |
Convection fan and fan blade structure thereof
A fan blade structure of a convection fan includes a fan blade body. The fan blade body includes a central disk secured to the rotating shaft of the motor and multiple blades evenly distributed in a circumferential direction of the central disk. The fan blade body further includes an outer edge frame, the outer edge frame is connected to an outmost side of each of the blades in a radial direction of the central disk. The outer edge frame is connected to an outmost side of the blade in the radial direction of the central disk through the outer edge frame, which makes all the outmost sides of all the blades secured to the outer edge frame, thus the stability of the blade is strengthened, blade deformation in harsh environments is avoided, thereby the balance performance of the fan blade is improved, and the vibration or noise is reduced. |
| US10794395B2 |
Pipe diffuser of centrifugal compressor
In a pipe diffuser (50) of a centrifugal compressor including a plurality of diffuser pipes (51), each diffuser pipe internally defines a diffuser passage including an inlet passage portion (74) having a diffuser inlet opposing an outer periphery of the impeller, an outlet passage portion (78) having a diffuser outlet (76) opening in an axial direction of the impeller, the outlet passage portion having an oval cross section elongated in a circumferential direction of the impeller, and a curved passage portion (80) connecting the inlet passage portion and the outlet passage portion to each other, wherein a part of each diffuser pipe defining the outlet passage portion is provided with a bulging part (82) that bulges into the diffuser passage from a radially inner side thereof with respect to the impeller. |
| US10794393B2 |
Impeller, fan and method for manufacturing fan blade
An impeller includes a hub and a plurality of blade plates. The hub includes a hub body and a plurality of installation portions disposed on the hub body. Each blade plate includes a plurality of fan blades and a folding portion. The folding portion is connected to one end of each fan blade. The folding portions are respectively installed at the installation portions. |
| US10794392B2 |
Hub for propeller having variable-pitch blades, with radial and axial dimensioning variation
A hub for a propeller having variable-pitch blades for a turbomachine with longitudinal rotation axis, including a plurality of blade platforms, each one being designed to receive a blade root, the platforms being distributed around the annular outer periphery of the hub concentrically with the longitudinal rotation axis, wherein each blade platform has the general geometric shape of a spherical cap, and wherein, between two adjacent blade platforms around the longitudinal rotation axis, the transverse dimension, in particular the diameter, of the hub can vary axially and radially. |
| US10794391B2 |
Centrifugal impeller, electric blower, electric vacuum cleaner, and hand dryer
A centrifugal impeller high in efficiency and suction power, an electric blower having the centrifugal impeller, and an electrical apparatus provided with the electric blower are obtained. The centrifugal impeller includes a hub and a plurality of rotor blades. The plurality of rotor blades are coupled to a surface portion of the hub. At least one of the plurality of rotor blades includes an end portion, a first surface, and a second surface. The end portion includes a planar portion and a curved portion. The planar portion is continuous to the second surface and has a flat surface. The curved portion connects the planar portion and the first surface to each other and has a curved surface. |
| US10794378B2 |
Fluid control device, decompression device, and compression device
A fluid control device (1) includes a case (21) including a case top plate, a case side plate, and a case bottom plate and having an internal space (59) and a cavity, a pump (11) provided at a position at which the pump (11) divides the internal space (59) into a bottom-plate-side region and a top-plate-side region, the pump (11) being configured to generate a flow of a fluid between the bottom-plate-side region and the top-plate-side region and control the flow direction of the fluid, and a fixing member (31) that fixes the case (21) in place. The case (21) is mounted on the fixing member (31) by using the case top plate or the case bottom plate as a mounting surface (B). |
| US10794377B2 |
Tube pump and printer provided with the same
A tube pump includes a tube, a housing member having a cylindrical chamber including an inner peripheral surface, a rotator having a first shaft and a first portion, the first portion having a guide, and a roller having a first shank received by the guide. The tube pump includes a contact member having a contact portion in the cylindrical chamber extending outwardly towards the inner peripheral surface at least the first distance and less than the second distance, the contact portion being configured to selectively contact the roller. |
| US10794373B2 |
Linear compressor
A linear compressor is provided that may include a shell having a cylindrical shape, a frame fixed inside the shell, a cylinder inserted to pass through the frame, a piston provided in the cylinder, a motor that linearly reciprocates the piston, and a stator cover coupled to the motor. The stator cover may include a cover body and a reinforcement sleeve bent from an outer edge of the cover body, the reinforcement sleeve having a plurality of protrusions that protrudes in a radial direction from the reinforcement sleeve. A portion of the shell corresponding to a position of each of the plurality of protrusions includes a bulge that protrudes in the radial direction of the shell. |
| US10794372B2 |
Shoe for compressor
There is provided a shoe for a compressor with improved seizure resistance. The shoe for the compressor includes: a first sliding face that slides on a piston; a second sliding face that slides on a swash plate; and a recess formed in the second sliding face. In a section along a height direction and scaled up 1000 times in the height direction and 10 times in a radial direction, a connecting portion between the second sliding face and the recess 53 is formed in a rounded shape with a radius R2 larger than 5 mm. |
| US10794371B2 |
Micro-thruster cathode assembly
Plasma cathodes for micro Hall and ion thrusters of unprecedented power efficiency, low cost, compactness, are provided. The cathodes employ, for example, a very small planar scandate cathode as electron source, delivering over 350 ma of discharge from an emitter area as small as only 0.012 cm2. |
| US10794365B2 |
Tower segment, tower section, tower, wind turbine, and method for producing a tower segment and for connecting tower segments
A tower segment of a tower of a wind turbine, a tower portion of a wind turbine, a tower of a wind turbine, a wind turbine, a method of producing a tower segment of a wind turbine and a method of connecting tower segments of a wind turbine. The tower segment includes a compression element and a tension element, wherein the tension element is arranged with its main direction of extent substantially horizontally in the installation state and is spaced from the tower segment in a direction in orthogonal relationship with its main direction of extent and is connected to the compression element by way of an intermediate element. |
| US10794362B2 |
Method and system for diagnosing wind turbine power generating apparatus
A method of diagnosing a wind turbine power generating apparatus includes: an operation step of operating a pitch actuator corresponding to one of a plurality of wind turbine blades of the wind turbine power generating apparatus, without operating a pitch actuator corresponding to each of the wind turbine blades other than the one of the plurality of wind turbine blades; and a measurement step of measuring a response value indicating a response to operation of the pitch actuator corresponding to the one of the plurality of wind turbine blades. The operation step and the measurement step are performed repeatedly for each of the plurality of wind turbine blades, and the response value is obtained as data for health check of a blade pitch mechanism of the wind turbine power generating apparatus. |
| US10794359B2 |
Jointed wind turbine blade with noise reduction tape
A jointed wind turbine rotor blade includes a first blade segment and a second blade segment extending in opposite directions from a chord-wise joint line. Each of the blade segments includes a pressure side shell member and a suction side shell member. A sealing tape is applied over the shell members so as to bridge across the chord-wise joint line. The sealing tape includes side edges that are aligned parallel with airflow over the shell members at the chord-wise joint line at a defined load and operational condition on the jointed wind turbine blade. |
| US10794352B2 |
Method for starting an internal combustion engine
A method for starting an internal combustion engine by a compressed air starting system, in which in a first starting sequence the engagement of the starter is brought about by compressed air, a decompression valve for relieving the cylinder working space is acted on in the opening direction, and starting of the internal combustion engine is initiated by pulsed compressed air being applied to the starter. In a second starting sequence the decompression valve is acted on in the closing direction, and constant compressed air is applied to the starter. |
| US10794346B2 |
Fuel rail
A fuel rail for an engine includes a tubular body having an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface defining a longitudinally extending fuel bore. The fuel rail also includes a valve bore extending normal to the fuel bore and extending through the outer surface of the tubular body at a first end and completely through the fuel bore to a second end. |
| US10794341B2 |
Device for lowering flow noises
A device (1) for lowering flow noises has opposed first and second connection pieces (2, 3), and outer and inner sleeves (4, 5) between the connection pieces. A radial collar (6) is between the sleeves (4, 5) and forms separated volume chambers. Openings (11) in the inner sleeve (5) connect the volume chambers to a line space (13) enclosed by the inner sleeve (5). A sealing ring (15) at the free end (14) of the collar (6) defines a ring cap with a lateral surface (21) that reaches over the collar (6) and seals against the sleeve (4, 5) adjacent the free end (14) of the collar (6) and that has a surface (23, 26) that seals against either an end face (25) of the collar (6) or a side surface (28) of the collar (6) extending parallel to the radial collar (6). |
| US10794337B2 |
EGR cooler
An EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) cooler includes a cylinder block having a mounting space and having a coolant inlet in which a coolant can flow into the mounting space and a coolant outlet in which the coolant can be exhausted. A cover plate covers the mounting space and forms an exhaust inlet though which the exhaust gas can flow in and an exhaust outlet through which the exhaust gas can be exhausted. Tubes are mounted in the mounting space and through which the exhaust gas can flow. An inlet tank is mounted in the mounting space and is configured to distribute the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust inlet of the cover plate to the tubes. An outlet tank is mounted in the mounting space and is configured to guide the exhaust gas exhausted from the tubes to the exhaust outlet of the cover plate. |
| US10794335B2 |
Fuel tank pressure regulator
A fuel tank vent system includes a venting apparatus for regulating discharge of fuel vapor from a fuel tank and admission of outside air into a fuel tank. The vent valve is used to regulate pressure in a fuel tank. |
| US10794334B2 |
Valve arrangement
A valve arrangement for supplying air to a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine includes a first valve, the first valve including a first valve head, a first valve stem assembly and an internal cavity, which is at least partly located in the first valve stem assembly, and a second valve partly arranged within the internal cavity of the first valve, the second valve including a second valve head and a second valve stem assembly, and being movable within the internal cavity between an upper, closed position and a lower, open position, wherein a junction seal extends over a junction between the first valve stem assembly and the second valve stem assembly when the second valve is in the closed position. A leakage preventing arrangement is arranged to hinder leakage of liquid from the outside of the junction seal from reaching in between the first valve stem assembly and the second salve stem assembly. |
| US10794328B2 |
Thrust reverser with blocker door folding linkage
An assembly is provided for an aircraft propulsion system. This assembly includes a fixed structure, a translating structure, a blocker door and a folding linkage. The translating structure is configured to move between a stowed position and a deployed position. The blocker door is pivotally attached to the translating structure at a first pivot joint. The folding linkage links the blocker door to the fixed structure. The folding linkage includes a member pivotally attached to the blocker door at a second pivot joint that is radially outboard of a skin of the blocker door when the translating structure is in the stowed position. The second pivot joint is radially outboard of the first pivot joint when the translating structure is in the stowed position. |
| US10794321B2 |
Estimation device and control device for combustion system
An estimation device is applicable to a combustion system including an internal combustion engine and includes a mixing acquisition unit, a main region estimation unit, and an after region estimation unit. The mixing acquisition unit acquires a mixing ratio of various components contained in the fuel used for combustion in the internal combustion engine. The main region estimation unit estimates a combustion region of the fuel as a main combustion region for a main combustion produced by injecting the fuel into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine by main injection, based on the mixing ratio acquired by the mixing acquisition unit. The after region estimation unit estimates an injection region of the fuel as the after combustion region based on the mixing ratio, for an after combustion produced by injecting the fuel into the combustion chamber by an after injection, after the main injection in one combustion cycle. |
| US10794317B2 |
Control device for compression-ignition engine
A control device for a compression-ignition engine in which partial compression-ignition combustion including spark ignition (SI) combustion performed by combusting a portion of a mixture gas inside a cylinder by spark-ignition followed by compression ignition (CI) combustion performed by causing the remaining mixture gas to self-ignite is executed at least within a part of an engine operating range is provided, which includes a detector configured to detect a given parameter that changes as combustion progresses inside the cylinder, an A/F (air-fuel ratio) controller configured to change an air-fuel ratio of air to fuel introduced into the cylinder, and a combustion controller configured to determine combustion stability based on the detected parameter of the detector and control the A/F controller to reduce the air-fuel ratio when it is confirmed that during the partial compression-ignition combustion the combustion stability is low. |
| US10794314B2 |
Unequal interval combustion engine misfire determination device and vehicle
An unequal-interval combustion engine misfire-determination device determines whether a misfire has occurred in an unequal-interval combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders in which combustion occurs at unequal intervals. The misfire determination device includes: an unequal interval combustion fluctuation canceled value acquisition unit that acquires, based on a crank angle signal, an unequal interval combustion fluctuation canceled value which is a rotation speed in a section of 720×m crank angle degrees including a predetermined determination angle position, where m is a natural number; an unequal interval combustion fluctuation manifested value calculation unit that calculates an unequal interval combustion fluctuation manifested value in which a fluctuation component attributable to unequal interval combustion is manifested, by removing the unequal interval combustion fluctuation canceled value; and a specific cylinder misfire determination unit that determines a misfire in a specific cylinder based on the unequal interval combustion fluctuation manifested value. |
| US10794312B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling fuel vapor canister purging operations
Methods and systems are provided for increasing an efficiency of a purging operation of a fuel vapor storage canister of a vehicle, the fuel vapor storage canister configured to capture and store fuel vapors stemming from a fuel tank of the vehicle. As one example, a method comprises reactivating one or more cylinders of an engine during a purging operation, in response to an indication that the purging of stored fuel vapors from the fuel vapor storage canister is compromised as a result of fuel vaporization stemming from the fuel tank. In this way, the canister may be effectively cleaned even under high fuel vaporization circumstances, which may improve fuel economy and may reduce release of undesired evaporative emissions to atmosphere. |
| US10794311B2 |
Method for adjusting a fuel/air ratio of an internal combustion engine
The invention relates to a method for adjusting a fuel/air ratio of an internal combustion engine (10), comprising a catalyst volume (26) with a first catalyst partial volume (26.1) and a second catalyst partial volume (26.2). The second catalyst partial volume (26.2) is arranged downstream from the first catalyst partial volume (26.1). An actual filling level of an exhaust gas constituent in the catalyst volume (26) is calculated from operating parameters of the internal combustion engine (10) and the exhaust system (14) using a computing model, and is adjusted to a nominal value by modifying the fuel/air ratio. The adjustment is carried out first for the second catalyst partial volume (26.2) and only later for the first catalyst partial volume (26.1). |
| US10794309B2 |
Methods and systems for a particulate filter
Methods and systems are provided for a particulate filter comprising a pretreatment. In one example, a method may include applying a pretreatment to an unused particulate filter, wherein the particulate filter is subjected to incomplete oxidation conditions following application of the pretreatment. |
| US10794307B2 |
Cylinder deactivation for catalyst drying
An engine control system and method of controlling an engine system are provided. The engine control system includes at least one sensor module configured to generate an exhaust condition signal based on a determined condition in an exhaust component and a cylinder bank control module communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor module. The cylinder bank control module is configured to cause transmission of a first bank control signal to cause a first bank of cylinders of an engine to deactivate at least in part in response to a determination based on the exhaust condition signal that a hydrocarbon mass quantity is above a pre-determined hydrocarbon mass quantity threshold. |
| US10794305B2 |
Valve duty differentiated exhaust gas recirculation control method and exhaust gas recirculation system
An exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) control method includes a valve duty differentiated control including: detecting, by a controller, an engine operation region, a mixer region, and an external factor region as a valve control condition for an EGR valve duty correction variable for controlling an EGR system; applying, by the controller, the EGR valve duty correction variable to an EGR valve duty, which is set by a target air amount to an intake air amount, to calculate a minimum EGR valve duty; and outputting, by the controller, the calculated minimum EGR valve duty to an EGR valve as the EGR valve duty. |
| US10794304B2 |
Method and systems for EGR control
Various methods and systems are provided for estimating fresh intake air flow. In one example, a system comprises an engine having an intake manifold to receive fresh intake air and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system to supply EGR to the intake manifold, where flow of EGR through the EGR system is controlled by one or more exhaust valves. The system further includes a controller configured to adjust a position of the one or more exhaust valves based on an estimated fresh intake air flow rate, where during a first set of operating conditions, the fresh intake air flow rate is estimated based on a total gas flow rate into the engine and further based on a current position of the one or more exhaust valves, intake manifold pressure, air-fuel ratio, and fuel flow to one or more cylinders of the engine. |
| US10794292B2 |
Geared turbofan gas turbine engine architecture
A gas turbine engine typically includes a fan section, a compressor section, a combustor section and a turbine section. A speed reduction device such as an epicyclical gear assembly may be utilized to drive the fan section such that the fan section may rotate at a speed different than the turbine section so as to increase the overall propulsive efficiency of the engine. In such engine architectures, a shaft driven by one of the turbine sections provides an input to the epicyclical gear assembly that drives the fan section at a speed different than the turbine section such that both the turbine section and the fan section can rotate at closer to optimal speeds providing increased performance attributes and performance by desirable combinations of the disclosed features of the various components of the described and disclosed gas turbine engine. |
| US10794287B2 |
Modular gas turbine system
A modular gas turbine system is disclosed. The system includes a base plate and a gas turbine engine mounted on the base plate. The gas turbine engine has a rotation axis, a first air compressor section and a second air compressor section. A rotating load is mechanically coupled to the gas turbine engine and mounted on the base plate. A supporting frame extends above the base plate and supports a plurality of secondary coolers, which are fluid exchange relationship with an intercooler of the gas turbine engine. |
| US10794286B2 |
Method and system for modulated turbine cooling as a function of engine health
A method of modulating cooling flow to an engine component based on a health of the component is provided. The method includes determining a cooling flow requirement of the engine component for each of a plurality of operating conditions and channeling the determined required flow to the engine component during each respective operating condition of the plurality of operating conditions. The method also includes assessing a health of the engine component. The method further includes modifying the determined cooling flow requirement based on the assessed health of the engine component, and supplying the modified cooling flow requirement to the engine component during each subsequent respective operating condition of the plurality of operating conditions. |
| US10794285B2 |
Gas turbine air injection system control and method of operation
The present invention discloses a novel apparatus and methods for controlling an air injection system for augmenting the power of a gas turbine engine, improving gas turbine engine operation, and reducing the response time necessary to meet changing demands of a power plant. Improvements in control of the air injection system include ways directed towards preheating the air injection system, including using an gas turbine components, such as an inlet bleed heat system to aid in the preheating process. |
| US10794284B2 |
Seal plate with fluid bypass control
The present disclosure relates generally to a manifold including a plurality of manifold channels disposed therethrough, each manifold channel including a manifold channel opening, and a seal plate, including a plurality of seal plate apertures disposed thereon, operably coupled to the manifold, wherein the seal plate includes at least one seal plate channel extending between at least two of the plurality of seal plate apertures. |
| US10794280B2 |
Air intake for gas turbine engine
An aircraft intake duct for channeling a flow of ambient air toward an annular engine compressor inlet of a gas turbine engine having a compressor reference axis and a reference plane that extends from such compressor reference axis. The aircraft intake duct includes an oblong air intake inlet for receiving the flow of ambient air, the air intake inlet being offset radially outwardly relative to the compressor reference axis and located on a first side of the reference plane. Two distal intake channels fluidly link distal extremities of the oblong air intake inlet to a segment of the annular engine compressor inlet located on a second side of the reference plane. A central channel fluidly links a central section of the oblong air intake inlet to a segment of the annular engine compressor inlet located on a first side of the reference plane. The distal channels are blended together by the central channel so that a single intake duct is formed. |
| US10794279B2 |
Compressed air energy storage power generation device
This compressed air storage power generation device 10 is provided with: a power demand receiving unit 60; a cold heat demand receiving unit 61; a power supply adjustment device 19 which adjusts the amount of power generated by a generator 15; a cold heat supply adjustment valve 22 which adjusts the amount of cold heat supplied from a first heat medium storage unit 21 to consumer equipment 3; and a control device which controls the power supply adjustment device 19 and the cold heat supply adjustment valve 22 so as to supply the consumer equipment 3 with power and cold heat corresponding to the power demand value and the cold heat demand value. |
| US10794274B2 |
Gas turbine facility with supercritical fluid “CO2” recirculation
The gas turbine facility 10 of the embodiment includes a combustor 20 combusting fuel and oxidant, a turbine 21 rotated by combustion gas, a heat exchanger 23 cooling the combustion gas, a heat exchanger 24 removing water vapor from the combustion gas which passed through the heat exchanger 23 to regenerate dry working gas, and a compressor 25 compressing the dry working gas until it becomes supercritical fluid. Further, the gas turbine facility 10 includes a pipe 42 guiding a part of the dry working gas from the compressor 25 to the combustor 20 via the heat exchanger 23, a pipe 44 exhausting a part of the dry working gas to the outside, and a pipe 45 introducing a remaining part of the dry working gas exhausted from the compressor 25 into a pipe 40 coupling an outlet of the turbine 21 and an inlet of the heat exchanger 23. |
| US10794273B2 |
Advanced distributed engine architecture-design alternative
A gas turbine engine according to the present disclosure includes a first compressor and a first turbine for driving the first compressor. A core section includes a second compressor and a second turbine for driving the second compressor. A third turbine is arranged fluidly downstream of the first turbine and the second turbine and configured to drive a power take-off. A first duct system is arranged fluidly between the low-pressure compressor and the core section. The first duct system is arranged to reverse fluid flow before entry into the core section. |
| US10794272B2 |
Axial and centrifugal compressor
A turbine engine includes a compressor section including a compressor, the compressor including an axial compressor stage, a variable outlet guide vane, and a centrifugal compressor stage, the variable outlet guide vane positioned between the axial compressor stage and the centrifugal compressor stage; a bleed assembly including a bleed airflow duct in airflow communication with the compressor and a bleed valve operable with the bleed airflow duct, the bleed valve including a bleed valve actuator; and a linkage assembly coupling the bleed valve actuator with the variable outlet guide vane such that that variable outlet guide vane is moveable with the bleed valve. |
| US10794269B2 |
Turbocharger unit
An engine structure forming an adapter for connecting a turbocharger unit to a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine includes a set of attachment arrangements for fastening the turbocharger unit to the cylinder block via the engine structure such that the engine structure is positioned in between the turbocharger unit and the cylinder block. The engine structure includes at least one fluid channel extending in a bent manner from a first surface of the engine structure to a second surface of the engine structure. |
| US10794268B2 |
Powering a supercharger for a hybrid electric powertrain
A vehicle has an internal combustion engine, a motor configured to propel the vehicle, and a supercharger. A mechanical connection is configured to transfer torque from at least one of the engine and machine to the supercharger. The supercharger is a single torque load on the mechanical connection. The vehicle further has a first clutch between the motor and engine and a second clutch between the motor and supercharger. |
| US10794263B2 |
Thermostat for engine cooling system
A thermostat for an engine cooling system may include a housing comprising a radiator-side flowing-in inlet for flowing-in coolant from a radiator side, a bypass-side flowing-in inlet for flowing-in the coolant bypassed from an engine, and a coolant flowing-out outlet for flowing-out the coolant to the engine side; and a main valve provided in the housing, and for opening and closing the radiator-side flowing-in inlet by a change in the volume of a wax. The direction in which the coolant flowed-in through the radiator-side flowing-in inlet presses the main valve and the direction operated to open the main valve are opposite to each other. |
| US10794262B2 |
Integrated flow rate control valve assembly and engine cooling system including the same
An integrated flow rate control valve assembly is provided between an engine and a radiator. The integrated flow rate control valve assembly includes a housing in which a plurality of valve rooms separated by partition walls are formed and a plurality of rotary valves provided in the plurality of valve rooms, respectively, and an engine cooling system including the same, and according to the present disclosure, a sealing between cooling water lines is fundamentally solved, thereby enabling cooling water leakage prevention and structural robustness. |
| US10794255B2 |
Apparatus for utilizing waste heat of an internal combustion engine
An apparatus for utilizing waste heat of an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas manifold and a thermoelectric element. The thermoelectric element is configured to generate an electric voltage as a result of a temperature difference between a side facing away from the exhaust gas manifold and an opposite side. The thermoelectric element is arranged on the exhaust gas manifold. The apparatus additionally includes a cooling element arranged on the thermoelectric element on the side facing away from the exhaust gas manifold. The cooling element has at least one cooling passage configured to provide for the throughflow of a fluid. |
| US10794254B2 |
Urea injection control method in exhaust aftertreatment system
A urea injection control method in an exhaust after-treatment system includes: performing an ammonia slip prevention logic that adjusts a urea injection amount based on the highest temperature during a predetermined period of time from an end point of filter regeneration to a thermal equilibrium point when a temperature of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst is higher than or equal to a predetermined threshold temperature at the end point of the filter regeneration; and adjusting a urea injection amount based on an ammonia storage amount map when the temperature of the SCR catalyst is lower than or equal to the predetermined threshold temperature at the end point of the filter regeneration. In particular, the thermal equilibrium point is a point at which a temperature of a filter is close or equal to an exhaust gas temperature. |
| US10794249B2 |
Exhaust gas purification apparatus for internal combustion engine and control apparatus for internal combustion engine
An amount of deposition of intramural PM in a particulate filter is estimated with a high degree of accuracy. A controller obtains, as a correlation between a reference value of an intramural PM deposition amount and an oxygen storage capacity of the catalyst, a change over time of an oxygen storage capacity of the catalyst according to a change of a filter PM deposition amount in a period of time from a point in time at which the filter PM deposition amount is substantially zero to a point in time at which the oxygen storage capacity of the catalyst, which becomes larger according to an increase of the filter PM deposition amount, reaches a maximum value. Further, the controller estimates a current intramural PM deposition amount based on a current oxygen storage capacity of the catalyst and the correlation. |
| US10794248B2 |
Exhaust gas purifying apparatus of vehicle
An exhaust gas purifying apparatus for a vehicle includes: a turbocharger having a turbine which rotates by exhaust gas flowing from an engine into an inlet of the turbine; a filter connected to an outlet of the turbine at an inlet of the filter and allowing the exhaust gas passing through the turbine to flow into the filter; and a gasket disposed between the outlet of the turbine and the inlet of the filter to maintain airtightness between the turbine and the filter. A portion of the gasket is exposed toward the turbine or the filter. |
| US10794243B2 |
Lubrication structure of internal combustion engine
There is provided a lubrication structure of an internal combustion engine. A transmission chamber is arranged adjacently at the rear of a crank chamber. An oil chamber communicates with a bottom part of the transmission chamber. A feed pump supplies oil in the oil chamber to a lubrication target part. A scavenging pump sucks the oil in the crank chamber and discharges the oil to the transmission chamber. The feed pump and the scavenging pump are arranged coaxially in a width direction of the internal combustion engine. At least a part of the scavenging pump is arranged higher than a lower end of the crank chamber. A rear end of the scavenging pump is arranged at the same position as a rear end of the crank chamber or in front of the rear end of the crank chamber in a front and rear direction. |
| US10794236B2 |
Tappet
In a tappet with a built-in lash adjuster, hydraulic oil is prevented from leaking from a low pressure chamber during a long-period stop.A tappet (10) includes a hydraulic lash adjuster (11) which supports a lower end portion of a push rod (96) and a tappet case (12) to which the lash adjuster (11) is internally fitted and which is reciprocally displaced in a vertical direction according to a rotating cam (85). An inner peripheral surface of the tappet case (12) is provided with an air-vent passage (34) through which air existing between the tappet case (12) and the lash adjuster (11) can be discharged upward when the lash adjuster (11) is being assembled. |
| US10794234B1 |
Device for varying load of valve system
A device for varying a load of a valve system can vary a load acting on a valve spring in accordance with driving conditions of a vehicle. In the device, in a low load mode, only a first valve spring is compressed, and a second valve spring is not compressed. Accordingly, the load acting on the valve spring is reduced, and as such, an enhancement in fuel economy is achieved. In a high load mode, both the first valve spring and the second valve spring are compressed. Accordingly, the load acting on the valve spring is increased, and as such, it is possible to prevent a danger of breakage occurring due to striking components of a valve train system. |
| US10794232B2 |
Plant and method for the supply of electric power and/or mechanical power, heating power and/or cooling power
The object of the present invention is a plant and related method for the supply to the end-user, by making use of the heating power transferred by a heat source e.g. gas, oil products, coal or renewable type e.g. biomass, solar, geothermal, simultaneously with electric power and/or mechanical power, heating power and cooling power “Heating-Cooling” operating mode of the plant or simultaneously with electric power and/or mechanical power and heating power only “Heating” operating mode of the plant or simultaneously with electric power and/or mechanical power and cooling power only “Cooling” operating mode of the plant. The operation of the plant, according to each of the three operation modes, is obtained by the regulation of several on-off valves and a flow rate regulation valve. |
| US10794231B2 |
Reversible system for dissipating thermal power generated in a gas-turbine engine
A reversible system for dissipating heat power generated in a gas turbine engine, the system including a condenser-forming first heat exchanger, an evaporator-forming second heat exchanger, a scroll compressor suitable for operating as a compressor when the temperature of the cold source is higher than a predefined threshold temperature and as a turbine when the temperature of the cold source is lower than the threshold temperature, an expander and a pump arranged in parallel, and a control valve arranged upstream from the expander and the pump and suitable for directing the refrigerant fluid to the expander when the temperature of the cold source is higher than the threshold temperature and to the pump when the temperature of the cold source is lower than the threshold temperature. |
| US10794228B2 |
System and method for the generation of heat and power using multiple loops comprising a primary heat transfer loop, a power cycle loop and an intermediate heat transfer loop
Methods and systems for generating power (and optionally heat) from a high value heat source using a plurality of circulating loops comprising a primary heat transfer loop, several power cycle loops and an intermediate heat transfer loop that transfers heat from the high-temperature heat transfer loop to the several power cycle loops. The intermediate heat transfer loop is arranged to eliminate to the extent practical the shell and tube heat exchangers especially those heat exchangers that have a very large pressure difference between the tube side and shell side, to eliminate shell and tube, plate type, double pipe and similar heat exchangers that transfer heat directly from the primary heat transfer loop to the several power cycle loops with very high differential pressures and to maximize the use of heat transfer coils similar in design as are used in a heat recovery steam generator commonly used to transfer heat from gas turbine flue gas to steam or other power cycle fluids as part of a combined cycle power plant. |
| US10794226B2 |
Power plant with heat reservoir
A power plant having a steam circuit which can be supplied, in the region of a heat recovery steam generator, with thermal energy for producing steam, the steam circuit has, in the region of the heat recovery steam generator, a high pressure part, a medium pressure part and a low pressure part. In addition, a heat reservoir which has a phase change material and which is not situated in the region of the heat recovery steam generator is included, wherein, in order to supply the heat reservoir with thermally processed water, a supply line which leads out from the high pressure part or the medium pressure part is included and a discharge line which leads into the medium pressure part, the low pressure part or a steam turbine is included for discharging thermally processed water from the heat reservoir. |
| US10794225B2 |
Turbine with supersonic separation
A turbine with a supersonic separator disposed upstream of the turbine. The supersonic separator imparts a swirl on a vapor stream to remove any heavier components. A superheated vapor stream from the supersonic separator is passed through the turbine to reduce the pressure of the vapor stream. At the same time, electricity is generated by the superheated vapor stream via a turbine wheel. The turbine and the supersonic separator can be integrally formed, or they can be discrete components. |
| US10794222B1 |
Spring flower ring support assembly for a bearing
A support assembly for a bearing of a gas turbine engine including a spring finger ring positioned radially exterior to an outer race of the bearing. The spring finger ring includes an outer ring positioned radially exterior to the outer ring, an inner ring positioned radially interior to the outer ring, and a plurality of spring fingers extending between the inner and outer rings. One or more spring fingers configured as two-sided spring fingers including a first ligament coupled to the outer ring and extending at a first circumferential angle to a first radial bumper proximate to the inner ring and a second ligament coupled to the inner ring and extending at a different second circumferential angle to a second radial bumper proximate to the outer ring. The first and second radial bumpers define first and second radial gaps between the bumpers and the inner and outer rings, respectively. |
| US10794219B2 |
Axial case ring to maximize thrust bushing contact area of variable vane
The bearing surface between a thrust bushing and a boss/or face is increased with the addition of a ring or tab that extends radially into a casing bore configured to receive a bushing and cooperating spindle of a variable stator/guide vane. The addition of the ring adds additional bearing surface area without increasing the size of the vane penny, reducing spindle diameter or reducing the bushing bore diameter. |
| US10794217B2 |
Bleed valve system
A bleed valve system for a gas turbine engine that includes a retaining ring and a metering ring. The retaining ring abuts an end of a bleed air duct and defines a plurality of retaining ring apertures. The metering ring that is at least partially disposed within the bleed air duct and abuts the retaining ring, the metering ring defining a plurality of metering ring apertures, the metering ring being rotatable relative to the retaining ring to selectively facilitate a fluid flow through the bleed air duct. |
| US10794216B2 |
Fan drive gear system DC motor and generator
A gas turbine engine according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure includes, among other things, a fan driven by a fan shaft rotatable about an engine axis; a fan drive electric motor providing a supplemental drive input to the fan; a turbine section driving an input shaft; a geared architecture driven by the input shaft of the turbine section and coupled to the fan shaft to provide a main drive input for driving the fan; and a generator including a rotor supported on the input shaft and a stator disposed on a static structure relative to the rotor, wherein the generator communicates electric power to power the fan drive electric motor. |
| US10794212B2 |
Rotor having improved structure, and turbine and gas turbine including the same
A rotor, installable in a casing of a turbine and configured to be rotated by a flow of combustion gas and cooled by a flow of compressed air, has an improved structure to keep a tip clearance constant during operation of a gas turbine. The rotor includes a disk having an outer circumferential surface; a platform installed on the outer circumferential surface of the disk; and a blade airfoil formed on an upper surface of the platform, the blade airfoil having an airfoil end situated opposite to the platform, the airfoil end having an upstream side and a downstream side with respect to a flow direction of the combustion gas, wherein the blade airfoil is formed so that, when the rotor is installed in the casing, the downstream side of the airfoil end is closer to an inner surface of the casing than the upstream side of the airfoil end. |
| US10794210B2 |
Stiffness controlled abradeable seal system and methods of making same
A stiffness controlled abradable seal system for a gas turbine engine includes a cantilevered arm that supports one of a rotating seal surface and a static seal surface, a stiffness of the cantilevered arm controlled to achieve a desired operational temperature at a seal interface, and an optimally matched abradeable seal material with required thermo-physical and friction properties to enable desired wear mechanisms and maximized sealing and durability. |
| US10794207B2 |
Gas turbine engine airfoil component platform seal cooling
A gas turbine engine component array includes first and second components each having a platform. The platforms are arranged adjacent to one another and provide a gap. A seal is arranged circumferentially between the first and second components and in engagement with the platforms to obstruct the gap. A cooling hole is provided in the seal and is in fluid communication with the gap. The cooling hole has an increasing taper toward the gap. |
| US10794201B2 |
Method for assembling turbomachine parts and assembly used during such a method
A method for assembly of a first turbomachine part with at least one second turbomachine part, including an injection of a vulcanisable elastomer, preferably a silicone that can be vulcanised at ambient temperature called an RTV silicone, in an injection zone at the junction between the first and the second parts; local heating of the injection zone so as to vulcanise the vulcanisable elastomer. |
| US10794198B1 |
Clip with fluid dynamic shape
A clip for attachment as an edge. The clip having two symmetric sides, each side composed of five arcs. A first arc of the side starting at the midpoint of the nose having a radius of 0.2476 inches and an arc length of 0.22395 inches. A second arc connected to the first arc having a radius of 0.5832 inches and an arc length of 0.0947 inches. A third arc connected to the second arc having a radius of 0.4636 inches and an arc length of 0.1682 inches. A fourth arc connected to the third arc having a radius of 0.3822 inches and an arc length of 0.2263 inches. A fifth arc connected to the fourth arc having an arc having a radius of 0.3291 inches and an arc length of 0.1917 inches. The fifth arc of each side forming the slot end on the clip. |
| US10794196B2 |
Steam turbine
A stationary blade includes a main unit having a hollow blade structure formed from a metal plate by plastic forming. The stationary blade includes a blade tail section. In a blade tail upper portion, the metal plate has a concave-shaped recess and a rib formed on an inner surface side thereof and the metal plate further has slits formed by slitting on a blade pressure side thereof, so that droplets affixed on a blade surface can be guided into an inside of the hollow blade when the blade tail section is joined to the hollow blade main unit. The recess in the metal plate is covered so as to be lidded by a suction-side protrusion of a suction-side metal plate from a blade suction side to thereby form a hollow blade tail section. The metal plates are welded together to the main unit. |
| US10794195B2 |
Airfoil having forward flowing serpentine flow
Airfoils including an airfoil body having leading and trailing edges and root and tip regions, wherein an aftward direction is from the leading edge toward the trailing edge and a radially outward direction is from root to tip, a forward-flowing serpentine flow path formed within the airfoil body defined by a first serpentine cavity, a second serpentine cavity, and a third serpentine cavity, wherein the first serpentine cavity is aftward of the second serpentine cavity, and the second serpentine cavity is aftward of the third serpentine cavity, a tip flag cavity extending aftward from proximate the leading edge to the trailing edge along the tip region, and at least one shielding cavity located between a portion of the forward-flowing serpentine flow path and an external surface of the airfoil body. |
| US10794194B2 |
Staggered core printout
A core for gas turbine engine component comprises a body extending between first and second ends to define a length, and extending between first and second edges to define a width. A plurality of core extensions are formed as part of the body. The plurality of core extensions are positioned to be staggered relative to each other such that at least two adjacent core extensions are variable relative to each other in at least one dimension. A gas turbine engine component is also disclosed. |
| US10794189B2 |
Turbine engine assembly comprising a nose cone and a front shroud
The invention relates to an assembly for a turbine engine extending about a longitudinal axis, comprising: a nose cone (20) comprising a conical body (22) extending about the longitudinal axis and a flange (23) comprising a first contact surface (24) forming an extension of an inner surface (25) of the conical body (22); a front shroud (21) comprising an overall annular body (26) extending about the longitudinal axis and a flange (27) comprising a first contact surface (28) forming an extension of an outer surface (29) of the annular body (26), the first contact surface (24) of the nose cone (20) being in contact with the first contact surface (28) of the front shroud (21), the first contact surfaces (24, 28) of the nose cone (20) and the front shroud (21) being tilted in the downstream direction towards the longitudinal axis, so that the flange (23) of the nose cone (20) is secured to the flange (27) of the front shroud (21); and attachment elements (30) configured to clamp the first contact surface (24) of the flange (23) of the nose cone (20) against the first contact surface (28) of the flange (27) of the front shroud (21). |
| US10794187B2 |
Rotary compressor with a valve in the vane
The present invention includes a case, a driving motor, a rotating shaft, a cylinder having a compression space formed in a central portion thereof, a roller, a main bearing and a sub bearing, and a vane for partitioning the compression space into a suction chamber and a compression chamber, wherein the vane includes a vane housing provided with a space portion and a communication hole formed through one side of a front end portion thereof to form a flow path of a compressed refrigerant, and a valve member slidably installed in the space portion of the vane housing and selectively communicating the space portion with the compression chamber, wherein the flow path of the compressed refrigerant is formed by the movement of the valve member. |
| US10794185B2 |
Cylinder block and swash plate type liquid-pressure rotating apparatus including same
A cylinder block includes: a plurality of cylinder bores including respective openings formed on a piston insertion end surface of the cylinder block, pistons being inserted in the respective cylinder bores and being configured to reciprocate and slide in the respective cylinder bores when the cylinder block rotates; and a cooling portion, wherein the cooling portion includes a plurality of cooling holes each formed between the adjacent cylinder bores and extending from the piston insertion end surface in an axial direction of the cylinder block. |
| US10794184B2 |
Recyclable sand-consolidated anchor head prestressed anchor, anchorage jack and its application method
The invention discloses a retrievable sand consolidation anchor head prestressed anchor rod, an anchoring jack and an application method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of geotechnical engineering. The retrievable sand-consolidated anchor head pre-stressed anchor includes a bolt body 6, a rigid frame 5, a load member 1, a sand column 2, a pressure receiving member 4, a cut-off member 3, and an anchor pier 8. The anchoring jack includes a force transmitting frame 12, a first guiding plate 25, a second guiding plate 28, and a housing 13. The application method includes an anchoring method using the retrievable sand-consolidated anchor head prestressed anchor rod and a method of recovering the retrievable sand-consolidated anchor head pre-stressed anchor rod. After the anchoring of the reclaimed sand-consolidated anchor head pre-stressed anchor rod, the bolt body can be recovered and reused, and the operation is simpler and more environmentally friendly. |
| US10794183B2 |
Self-drilling differential grouting combined bolt and anchoring method therefor
A self-drilling differential grouting combined bolt and method of anchoring the same are described. The bolt consists essentially of a drill (1), a grouting pipe (2), a spindle (3), a bolt head mechanism and a bolt tail mechanism, wherein the bolt head mechanism comprises a fixed ring (4), a slip ring (7), a limiting pipe (6) and several pairs of driven linkages (501) and driving linkages (502); and the bolt tail mechanism comprises a bolt disc (11), a connecting cap (12), a spring (13) and a nut (14). The method of anchoring includes the steps of hole drilling, hole expanding at inner anchor end, differential grouting rock bolt fastening. |
| US10794180B2 |
Mineshaft-stratum fracture coupled flowing simulation experiment device and method
A mineshaft-stratum fracture coupled flowing simulation experiment device includes a simulated mineshaft flowing system, a simulated stratum system, a simulated fracture system and a data acquisition system. The simulated mineshaft flowing system includes simulated mineshaft, simulated drilling rod, drilling fluid storage tank, stirring motor, and drilling fluid screw pump. The simulated drilling rod is located in center of the simulated mineshaft. The stirring motor is provided in the drilling fluid storage tank. The drilling fluid screw pump is connected to an inlet end of the simulated drilling rod through the drilling fluid storage tank. The simulated stratum system includes simulated stratum, clean water storage tank, separation tank, gas storage tank, gas air-compressor, and clean water screw pump. The gas storage tank is connected to the gas air-compressor and is connected to the simulated stratum through a gas pressure regulating valve. |
| US10794179B2 |
Poromechanical impact on yield behavior in unconventional reservoirs
A method for obtaining hydrocarbon from a reservoir in a subterranean formation can include measuring a poromechanic pressure change due to lithostatic load sharing in the subterranean formation. The poromechanic pressure change can then be mapped to one or more locations within the subterranean formation. Once mapped, the method can identify one or more local pressure peaks in the poromechanic pressure change, wherein each of the one or more local pressure peaks are marked by a pressure escalation and subsequent pressure depletion. The method can then determine one or more regions within the reservoir exhibiting single phase hydrocarbon production. |
| US10794176B2 |
Drill string length measurement in measurement while drilling system
A measurement while drilling system for a drill string having a fluidic medium in the drill string. The measurement while drilling system includes a first module situated at a distal end of the drill string and including a downhole processor and a pulser communicatively coupled to the downhole processor and configured to provide a pressure pulse in the fluidic medium, and a second module situated at a proximal end of the drill string and including an uphole processor and a pressure sensor communicatively coupled to the uphole processor. The downhole processor is configured to direct the pulser to provide the pressure pulse and the pressure sensor is configured to sense the pressure pulse. The uphole processor is configured to receive signals from the pressure sensor to determine a distance from the first module to the second module. |
| US10794174B2 |
Dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole-sealing apparatus and method thereof for coal seam gas pressure measurement
A dynamically self-balancing pressurized borehole sealing apparatus and method thereof for coal seam gas pressure measurement having a pressure measuring tube arranged in a borehole with one end of the pressure measuring tube provided with a pressure measuring unit. The pressure measuring tube is wrapped with an expansion airbag and provided with a pressure introducing hole communicating with the expansion airbag. On each side of the expansion airbag, the pressure measuring tube is wrapped with a front borehole inflatable sealing airbag and a rear borehole inflatable sealing airbag respectively. A gel injection chamber is reserved between the front borehole sealing airbag and the rear borehole sealing airbag and between the expansion airbag and an inner side of the borehole. Gas from the pressure measuring tube expands the expansion airbag and squeezes sealing gel in the gel injection chamber into borehole fractures for dynamic pressurized sealing. |
| US10794171B2 |
Systems and methods for drill bit and cutter optimization
A drill bit analysis and optimization system for use in a wellbore is provided. The system includes a drill bit including a cutter, a sensor that collects a data signal on a surface of the drill bit proximate to the cutter, and a signal processor unit that receives the data signal from the sensor and receives the expected drilling properties from the data reservoir. The processor analyzes the data signal to detect a resistivity profile from the sensor through a formation and optimizes a drilling parameter by comparing actual drilling properties with expected drilling properties. |
| US10794170B2 |
Smart system for selection of wellbore drilling fluid loss circulation material
A smart system for circulating LCM can implement a method. While a wellbore is being drilled in a geologic formation, drilling parameters identifying wellbore drilling conditions of a wellbore drilling system drilling the wellbore are received. The wellbore drilling system flows a wellbore drilling fluid including particulates of different size distributions. The particulates operate as LCM to reduce loss of the wellbore drilling fluid in the geologic formation. Size distributions of the particulates in the wellbore drilling fluid flowing through multiple different wellbore fluid flow pathways of the wellbore drilling system are received. The size distributions represent a concentration of the particulates in the wellbore drilling fluid. A release of certain particulates into the wellbore drilling fluid is controlled based, in part, on the received drilling parameters and the received size distributions of the particulates. |
| US10794169B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods for generating drilling windows
Systems, devices, and methods for visualizing and steering a drilling apparatus are provided, including a drill string with a bottom hole assembly (BHA), a sensor system, and a controller operable to generate a visualization comprising one or more drilling windows representing drilling tolerances of a drill plan of the drilling operation and a depiction of a location of the BHA based on the one or more measurable parameters of the drilled wellbore. The differences between the location of the BHA and the one or more drilling windows may also be visualized. This visualization may be used by an operator to steer the drilled wellbore. |
| US10794165B2 |
Power distribution trailer for an electric driven hydraulic fracking system
An electric driven hydraulic fracking system is disclosed. A pump configuration that includes the single VFD, the single shaft electric motor, and the single hydraulic pump that is mounted on the single pump trailer. A power distribution trailer distributes the electric power generated by the power generation system at the power generation voltage level to the single VFD and converts the electric power at a power generation voltage level to a VFD voltage level and controls the operation of the single shaft electric motor and the single hydraulic pump. The power distribution trailer converts the electric power generated by the power generation system at the power generation level to an auxiliary voltage level that is less than the power generation voltage level. The power distribution trailer distributes the electric power at the auxiliary voltage level to the single VFD that controls an operation of the of the auxiliary systems. |
| US10794163B2 |
Apparatus, system and method for flow rate harmonization in electric submersible pump gas separators
An apparatus, system and method for flow rate harmonization in electric submersible pump (ESP) gas separators. A method for flow rate harmonization in ESP gas separators includes modifying flow of multi-phase well fluid through vent passages of a crossover when a flow rate of a centrifugal pump differs from a flow rate of a gas separator including the crossover, the gas separator serving as the fluid intake into the centrifugal pump. Flow of fluid through vent passages is modified by one of attaching flow sizing inserts into vent passages or production passages of the crossover, or by attaching a funnel to a crossover inlet. A gas separator system includes a series of interchangeable funnels attachable to a fluid entrance of a crossover of the gas separator, wherein interchanging the particular funnel attached to the crossover modifies flow rate output of the gas separator. |
| US10794161B2 |
Bidirectional electromagnetic propelled thruster device for use in tubulars
A fluid transport system has electromagnetic elements spaced along a tubular that are controlled by a controller. A fluid thruster is provided in the tubular and has a thruster body having a downstream end and an upstream end, and a magnetic element carried by the thruster body. A valve member is carried by the thruster body that is actuatable between an open position that permits fluid flow to traverse the thruster body, and a closed position that prevents fluid flow to traverse the thruster body, in response to fluid pressure. The controller sequentially activates the electromagnetic elements to propel the fluid thruster in either the upstream direction or the downstream direction. In the upstream direction, the valve member is moved to the open position, and in the downstream direction, the valve member is moved to the closed position. |
| US10794158B2 |
Method for sealing cavities in or adjacent to a cured cement sheath surrounding a well casing
A method for sealing cavities in or adjacent to a cured cement sheath (4) surrounding a well casing (3) of an underground wellbore comprises: —providing an expansion device (1) with edged expansion segments (2) that is configured to be moved with the expansion segments (2) in an unexpanded configuration up and down through the well casing (3); —moving the unexpanded expansion device (1) to a selected depth in the well casing (3); and —expanding the edged expansion segments (2) at the selected depth, thereby plastically expanding a selected casing section and pressing the expanded casing section into the surrounding cement sheath thereby sealing the cavities. |
| US10794156B2 |
Multi-bore jumper interface
A vertical multi-bore jumper. The jumper is outfitted with interfaces that include rotatable hubs accommodating perimeter bore terminations that may be rotated about a central production bore. In this manner, the multiple bores may be flexibly aligned with corresponding couplers at equipment located on the seabed. As a result, undue torque is not placed on the jumper in attempting to align multiple bores at the interfaces which may be frequently misaligned at the outset of such installations. |
| US10794152B2 |
Support device for tubing string
A support device may include an upper portion that has a first width and a base portion that has a second width. The support device may be sized to be positioned within a tubing string. The support device may be removable from the tubing string. The support device may include a vertical support that connects the upper portion to the base portion. The vertical support may have a third width and defining a fluid flow path between the vertical support and an inner surface of the tubing string. |
| US10794150B2 |
Predicting and optimizing drilling equipment operating life using condition based maintenance
A system configured to predict and optimize operating life of a piece of drilling equipment includes a plurality of operating sensors coupled to a piece of drilling equipment, wherein each of the operating sensors is configured to measure an operating condition of the piece of drilling equipment. A control system in communication with the operating sensors is configured to calculate an operating life of the piece of equipment based on the operating conditions. |
| US10794148B2 |
Subsurface safety valve with permanent lock open feature
A well system includes a tubing string and a subsurface safety valve interconnected with the tubing string and including a housing that defines a central flow passageway and includes a flapper pivotable within the central flow passageway between closed and open positions. A flow tube is positioned within the central flow passageway and engageable with the flapper to move the flapper to the open position. An actuation piston is operatively coupled to the flow tube, a balance piston is operatively coupled to the flow tube, and a lock-open piston is engageable with an actuator sleeve operatively coupled to the flow tube. A lock-open tool is positionable within the central flow passageway to convey hydraulic pressure into a lock-open piston bore and thereby actuate the lock-open piston to an actuated position that moves the flow tube and permanently locks the flapper in the open position. |