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| US10841566B2 |
Methods and apparatus of viewport adaptive 360 degree video delivery
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for client centric service quality control. A first viewport of a 360 degree video may be determined. The 360 degree video may comprise one or more of an equirectangular, a cube-map, a cylindrical, a pyramidal, and/or a spherical projection mapping. The first viewport may be associated with a spatial region of the 360 degree video. An adjacent area that extends around the spatial region may be determined. A second viewport of the 360 degree video may be determined. A bitstream associated with the 360 degree video may be received. One or more enhanced regions may be included in the bitstream. The one or more enhanced regions may correspond to the first and/or second viewport, A high coding bitrate may be associated with the first viewport and/or the second viewport. |
| US10841565B2 |
3D camera device, 3D imaging method, and human face recognition method
A 3D camera device able to sense reflected visible light and reflected laser light to create a 3D image of a face or other object includes a laser source, one or more image sensors, and a data processing module. The data processing module obtains two-dimensional coordinates of the target object by processing two-dimensional image signal and obtains depth coordinates of the target object by processing depth image signal of the target object provided by the laser. A method applied to such device is also disclosed. |
| US10841560B2 |
3D digital image correlation using single, color camera pseudo-stereo system
An imaging system includes a first light source configured to provide a first light to an object, a second light source configured to provide a second light to said object, a color camera configured to capture an image of the object, a first mirror disposed between the first light source and said object, a second mirror disposed between the second light source and said object, a beam splitter disposed between the color camera and said object, a first filter for the first light source, a second filter for the second light source, and a processor configured to determine at least one of a shape, a deformation, and a strain measurement of said object from the image. |
| US10841559B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting if package walls are beyond 3D depth camera range in commercial trailer loading
Three-dimensional (3D) depth imaging systems and methods are disclosed for use in commercial trailer loading. In various aspects, a 3D-depth camera is configured and oriented in a direction to capture 3D image data of a vehicle storage area. A depth-detection application (app) executing on one more processors determines, based on the 3D image data, a void data region, and a floor data region within the 3D image data. Based on the determination of the void data region and the floor data region, the depth-detection app generates an out-of-range indicator that indicates that a wall (e.g., a package wall) situated at a rear section of the vehicle storage area is not detected. The determination that a package wall is not detected causes a dashboard app to modify a graphical representation of the capacity of the vehicle storage area. |
| US10841555B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus acquires first shape information representing a three-dimensional shape about an object located within an image capturing region based on one or more images obtained by one or more imaging apparatuses for performing image capturing of the image capturing region from a plurality of directions, acquires second shape information representing a three-dimensional shape about an object located within the image capturing region based on one or more images obtained by one or more imaging apparatuses, acquires viewpoint information indicating a position and direction of a viewpoint, and generates a virtual viewpoint image corresponding to the position and direction of the viewpoint indicated by the acquired viewpoint information based on the acquired first shape information and the acquired second shape information, such that at least a part of the object corresponding to the second shape information is displayed in a translucent way within the virtual viewpoint image. |
| US10841549B2 |
Methods and apparatus to facilitate enhancing the quality of video
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for facilitating enhancing the quality of video. An example method disclosed herein includes estimating an optical flow between a first noisy frame and a second noisy frame, the second noisy frame following the first noisy frame. The example method also includes warping a first enhanced frame to align with the second noisy frame, the warping being based on the estimation of the optical flow between the first noisy frame and the second noisy frame, the first enhanced frame being an enhanced frame of the first noisy frame. The example method also includes generating a second enhanced frame based on the warped first enhanced frame and the second noisy frame, and outputting the second enhanced frame. |
| US10841547B2 |
Method for fabricating small right angle prism mirrors involving 3D shape on optical glue layer
The present invention provides a method for fabricating small right angle prism mirrors, projecting system, and small right angle prism mirrors fabricated by a semiconductor process. The method comprises: coating a reflecting layer on a top surface of a glass substrate; forming an optical glue layer on a bottom surface of the glass substrate; utilizing a mold to form a 3D shape on the optical glue layer; exposing the optical glue layer having the 3D shape to solidify the optical glue layer having the 3D shape and combine the glass substrate having the reflecting layer and the optical glue layer having the 3D shape; removing the mold to form a small prism array; and dicing the small prism array to generate a plurality of small right angle prism mirrors. |
| US10841545B2 |
Acousto-optic beam steering modulator for a projection system
An Acoustic-Optic A/O device receives light from a source and deflecting the light onto the second A/O device which may be a multi-stacked set of individual A/O devices. The first and second devices may deflected light according to control signals. Also, a multi-modulator projector display system including a light source, controller, an A/O modulator illuminated by the light source and capable of deflecting light according to controller signals, a second modulator illuminated by light from said A/O modulator and capable of modulating the A/O modulated light, said second modulator comprising a plurality of mirrors, and said second modulator capable of modulating the light according to controller signals. |
| US10841542B2 |
Locating a person of interest using shared video footage from audio/video recording and communication devices
Systems and methods for communicating in a network using share signals in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for sharing video footage captured by audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices is provided, the method comprising: receiving from a first client device a share signal including first image data including a person of interest; receiving from a second A/V recording and communication device second image data; transmitting to a second client device, the first image data and a request to check the second image data; receiving from the second client device a locate person command signal; searching the second image data for a match of the person of interest; and when a match of the person of interest is found, generating and transmitting an alert signal that includes a notification that the person of interest was matched in the second image data. |
| US10841539B2 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring zones
The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for monitoring a zone, which is a contiguous or non-contiguous, two-dimensional (2D) area or three-dimensional (3D) volume. Among its several advantages, the apparatus includes a plurality of sensors that monitor portions of the zone and report intrusion status to a control unit that provides monitoring boundary information to each of the sensors based on user input and further “maps” or otherwise associates each sensor to control unit outputs in accordance with user-defined behaviors. Still further, as a meaningful aid for configuring monitoring boundaries used by the sensors for objection intrusion detection, in one or more embodiments of the apparatus and method, at least a subset of sensors use a common coordinate frame of reference, based on a common origin located within overlapping sensor fields of view. |
| US10841538B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing data subsidies in a communication system
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method, including, for each configuration of a client device of a media content service, accessing a headend of the media content service, and for each media content item of a plurality of media content items accessible via the headend of the media content service, receiving a media content identifier associated with the media content item, sending the media content identifier to an advertising server, receiving, from the advertising server, a set of advertising items associated with the media content identifier, where each advertising item of the set of advertising items includes advertising locator information, and aggregating the set of advertising locator information associated with the media content identifier to generate a plurality of advertising locators associated with the plurality of media content items, and, in turn, storing the plurality of advertising locators associated with the plurality of media content items accessible via the headend of the media content service according to the configuration of the client device as a manifest of advertising items for the configuration of the client device. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10841535B2 |
Configured transparent communication terminals
Enterprise communication display systems enable life-like images for videoconferencing and entertainment productions. Life-like images appear in a 3D environment where imaged people are visible through specially configured see-through displays. Imaged people can be viewed amongst a reflected foreground. Methods for enterprise-wide deployments for corporate, healthcare, education, theater which includes cinema and government communications, including hotel properties and a property management system are shown. Direct projection see-through screen configurations are created that eliminate unwanted secondary images in the room, conceal exposed projector lenses, reduce lens flare, makes practical multi-use room installations, images conferees among a room environment, enables touch screen interactivity, and utilizes extreme and other types of short throw projectors to reduce cost and bulk of common throw projectors. Of these transparent screens inventive configurations of substantially invisible mesh screens for both front and rear projection are described. |
| US10841527B2 |
Image sensors in which pixel array and memory cell array are merged and electronic devices including the same
An image sensor in which a pixel array and a memory cell array are merged includes a first semiconductor chip including the pixel array and the memory cell array in a same semiconductor chip, and a second semiconductor chip overlapping the first semiconductor chip in a vertical direction. The second semiconductor chip includes a first logic circuit that controls the pixel array, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that converts an analog signal output from the pixel array under control of the first logic circuit to a digital signal, and a second logic circuit that stores data that is output from the ADC circuit based on the digital signal to the memory cell array of the first semiconductor chip. |
| US10841526B2 |
Imaging device having a voltage supply circuit supplying potential differences between electrodes of dual imaging cells
An imaging device including a first imaging cell having a first photoelectric converter including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a first reset transistor one of a source and a drain of which is coupled to the first electrode; and a second imaging cell having a second photoelectric converter including a third electrode, a fourth electrode, and a second photoelectric conversion layer between the third electrode and the fourth electrode, and a second reset transistor one of a source and a drain of which is coupled to the third electrode. The imaging device further including a first voltage supply circuitry to supply a first voltage to the first reset transistor; and a second voltage supply circuitry to supply a second voltage different from the first voltage to the second reset transistor. |
| US10841525B1 |
Image data readout circuit with shared data bus
Apparatuses and methods for data transmission in an image sensor are disclosed herein. An example data transmission circuit may include a plurality of transmission banks coupled in series with a first one of the plurality of transmission banks coupled to function logic, where each of the plurality of transmission banks are coupled to provide image data to a subsequent transmission bank in a direction toward the function logic in response to a clock signal, a plurality of delays coupled in series, wherein each of the plurality of delays is associated with and coupled to a respective transmission bank of the plurality of transmission banks, and wherein the clock signal is received by each of the plurality of transmission banks after being delayed by a respective number of delays of the plurality of delays in relation to the function logic. |
| US10841520B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and electronic device
A solid-state imaging device and electronic device with improved charge transfer efficiency from a charge storage unit to a charge-voltage conversion unit via a transfer gate are disclosed. In one example, the solid-state imaging device is configured so that, before an A/D conversion operation for signal level acquisition, a switching unit switches a state to the LG state at least once and to the HG state at least once. A transfer unit is configured to transfer the charge stored in the charge storage unit to the charge-voltage conversion unit at least twice when the state is being switched to the LG state and when the state is being switched to the HG state. A charge-voltage conversion unit adds the charge that is transferred for the LG state and the HG state and convert the added charge into a voltage signal. |
| US10841516B2 |
Methods and systems for thermal image display
An embodiment includes capturing, via a first camera, a first image having a first pixel density, a pixel of the first image corresponding to the first optical axis is substantially centered within the first image; capturing, via the second camera, a second image having a second pixel density that is greater than the first pixel density, where a pixel of the second image that corresponds to the first optical axis is off-center within the second image; processing the second image to generate a fourth image such that a pixel of the fourth image that corresponds to the first optical axis is substantially centered within the fourth image, where a pixel density of the first image is substantially equal to a pixel density of the fourth image, and where the fourth image represents a field of view that is substantially equal to field of view represented by the first image. |
| US10841514B2 |
Endoscopy video feature enhancement platform
An endoscopy video feature enhancement platform (EVFEP) is connected to the output of any type endoscope system, and inputs and captures the output video. The video is visually augmented live with indicators of possible polyp detection and localization, polyp attributes, and procedure metrics, based on the collective learning of the output results of many different types of endoscopy systems on a large scale. An artificial intelligence model is trained on confirmed polyp detection previously determined by this and other EVFEP devices used with many different types of endoscope systems on a large scale. Augmented video, images and automatically generated short video clips of key procedure segments are passed to a reporting system, and supplemented with meta data. |
| US10841510B2 |
Electronic device and method for image processing
A method for displaying images is provided, including displaying, by an electronic device, a first image obtained from an image sensor; displaying, by the electronic device, a plurality of second images together with the first image, wherein each second image is generated based on the first image and a respective image filter; and responsive to a selection of at least one second image, generating a third image based on the first image and the selected second image's respective image filter and displaying the third image in place of the first image. |
| US10841504B1 |
Fluorescence imaging with minimal area monolithic image sensor
Systems, methods, and devices for fluorescence imaging with a minimal area image sensor are disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation, wherein the pixel array comprises active pixels and optical black pixels. The system includes a black clamp circuit providing offset control for data generated by the pixel array and a controller comprising a processor in electrical communication with the image sensor and the emitter. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises one or more of: electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 770 nm to about 790 nm; or electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 795 nm to about 815 nm. |
| US10841500B2 |
Dual aperture zoom digital camera
A dual-aperture zoom digital camera operable in both still and video modes. The camera includes Wide and Tele imaging sections with respective lens/sensor combinations and image signal processors and a camera controller operatively coupled to the Wide and Tele imaging sections. The Wide and Tele imaging sections provide respective image data. The controller is configured to combine in still mode at least some of the Wide and Tele image data to provide a fused output image from a particular point of view, and to provide without fusion continuous zoom video mode output images, each output image having a given output resolution, wherein the video mode output images are provided with a smooth transition when switching between a lower zoom factor (ZF) value and a higher ZF value or vice versa, and wherein at the lower ZF the output resolution is determined by the Wide sensor while at the higher ZF value the output resolution is determined by the Tele sensor. |
| US10841495B2 |
Vehicle camera device and exposure parameter setting method thereof
A vehicle camera device is suitable to be provided in a first vehicle. The vehicle camera device receives at least one of a vehicle speed value of the first vehicle, a distance value between the first vehicle and a second vehicle, and an afterimage motion amount of an image of the second vehicle, and selects one of a plurality of exposure parameter functions according to at least one of the vehicle speed value of the first vehicle, the distance value and the afterimage motion amount to determine an optimized parameter value. |
| US10841491B2 |
Reducing power consumption for time-of-flight depth imaging
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to passive depth determination. Initially, a high power depth map of a scene can be created. An object in the scene can be identified, such as a rigid body or other object or portion of an object. A series of lower power or RGB images can be captured. The object can be located in one or more of the lower power or RGB images. A change in the position of an object, represented by a set of pixels, can be determined. From the change in position of the object, a new depth of the object can be extrapolated. The extrapolated depth of the object can be used to update the high power depth map. |
| US10841490B2 |
Processing method and processing system for video data
It is provided a processing method for video data that can be displayed on at least one display device. A predetermined quantity of static fields of view (FOV) datasets from the video data are precalculated and stored, video data for the temporal transitions between the stored, static FOV data sets are further calculated and stored as dynamic FOV datasets (transition data), wherein, immediately or at a later point in time, a static or dynamic initial FOV and a static or dynamic target FOV are specifically selected for this purpose, in particular by a user, and the video data corresponding in time to the selected FOV datasets, including the dynamic transition data between the initial FOV and the target FOV can be streamed or are streamed. |
| US10841487B2 |
Mobile computing device movement guidance for successful visual code detection within captured image
Movement of a mobile computing device can be guided so that a current focal distance of a camera of the mobile computing device is within a focal distance range within which other mobile computing devices of a same model type captured images at a same location and in which the visual code was successfully detected. Movement of the mobile computing device can be guided so that a distance between prominent points within an image captured by the camera is within prominent points distance range calculated from a distance between the prominent points within each image captured by the other mobile computing devices. An exposure of the camera can be adjusted to be within a range of exposures at which the other mobile computing devices captured the images. |
| US10841483B1 |
System and method for calibrating at least one camera and a light detection and ranging sensor
A system for calibrating at least one camera and a light detection and ranging (“LiDAR”) sensor includes one or more processors and a memory in communication with the one or more processors that stores an initial calibration module and a user calibration module. The initial calibration module includes instructions that cause the one or more processors to obtain a camera image from the at least one camera, determine when the camera image includes at least one object having at least one edge, obtain a three-dimensional point cloud image from the LiDAR sensor that includes the at least one object having at least one edge and generate a combined image, that includes at least portions of the camera image and at least portions of the three-dimensional point cloud image. The user calibration module includes instructions that cause the one or more processors to display the combined image on a display, receive at least one input from a user interface, and adjust a calibration parameter of at least one of the LiDAR sensor and the at least one camera in response to the one or more inputs from the user interface. |
| US10841475B2 |
Camera assembly and electronic device
The present disclosure provides a camera assembly and an electronic device. The camera assembly and the electronic device may both include a first plate, a second plate, a first electromagnetic component, a second electromagnetic component and an elastic component. The elastic component is connected between the second plate and the second electromagnetic component. The first electromagnetic component may be configured to generate or eliminate electromagnetic force between the first electromagnetic component and the first plate. The second electromagnetic component may be configured to generate or eliminate electromagnetic force between the second electromagnetic component and the second plate. The camera module may be driven to move under the generation or elimination of the electromagnetic force and the elastic force of the elastic component. Thus, the adaptability of the camera assembly may be improved. |
| US10841474B2 |
Camera module
One embodiment of a camera module may comprise: a first lens unit including at least one lens; a second lens unit disposed facing the first lens in an optical axis direction, and including at least one lens; a printed circuit board disposed facing the second lens unit; and a base accommodating the second lens unit, and having a conductive resilient member mounted thereon which electrically connects the first lens unit and the printed circuit board. |
| US10841467B2 |
Parts for imaging apparatus, and imaging apparatus
There is provided an imaging apparatus capable of efficiently dissipating heat generated by an electronic circuit unit and eliminating noise. The imaging apparatus includes a housing 8, which includes an outer frame member 7 and an inner frame member 6 that is made of a metal, a lens unit 3, which is attached to an opening of the housing 8, a substrate 41, on which a heat dissipating wiring line is formed, an electronic circuit unit 4, which is provided in the inner frame member 6, and a fixing member 9, which is made of a metal, is in contact with the heat dissipating metal wiring line 43 in the electronic circuit unit 4 and the inner frame member 6, and fixes the electronic circuit unit 4 to the inner frame member 6. The configuration described above achieves not only efficient dissipation of the heat from the electronic circuit unit 4 via the heat dissipating metal wiring line 43 and the fixing member 9 to the inner frame member 6 but noise elimination. |
| US10841466B1 |
Camera mounting system for inspection
A camera mounting system for inspection is intended to be used with lights and a camera connected to a data transmission system to allow temporary installation of the mounting system upon a barge hatch to allow for visual confirmation via a camera or other digital imaging system of the interior space of the barge. The system is intended to be used to reduce personnel exposure to the interior of barges. The camera mounting system is portable and may be folded. The camera mounting system allows use with hatches generally rectangular at the access hatch as well as hatches having rounded or sweeping ninety degree type access hatches with the mounting system providing multiple positions for placement of the camera for either hatch type to ensure repeatability of the visual confirmation between various barge and barge configurations. |
| US10841464B2 |
Method of manufacturing camera module
A method of manufacturing a camera module that includes a housing having an inner space, a frame disposed in the inner space of the housing and configured to accommodate a lens barrel therein, and optical image stabilization driving wires including driving wires driving the frame in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis. The method includes fixing both end portions of a target driving wire, among the driving wires, to a first inner side surface of the housing, disposing the frame adjacent a second inner side surface of the housing that opposes the first inner side surface, and coupling a center part of the target driving wire to a mounting member of the frame that faces the first inner side surface of the housing. |
| US10841462B2 |
Wireless networked record session device
A wireless record booth capable of producing a live video and/or audio stream as if made in a vintage record booth. A concatenated video stream is formed by a record booth sessions recorded in each of a plurality of networked listening/watching record booths. Video and audio filters emulate vintage record booth images and sounds. Record booth sessions are streamed live for other networked record booths to listen and/or watch, and passively and actively rated to dynamically create a concatenated video stream of the most preferred record booth sessions. |
| US10841451B2 |
Define a priority of memory traffic based on image sensor metadata
Systems, apparatuses, and/or methods may define a priority of image memory traffic based on image sensor protocol metadata. For example, a metadata identifier may identify image sensor protocol metadata corresponding to an image sensor physical layer and/or an image sensor link layer. Moreover, a prioritizer may define a priority of the image memory traffic based on the image sensor protocol metadata. The priority may be used to control client access to dedicated memory and/or to shared memory. |
| US10841448B2 |
Image forming system for communicating with mobile terminal and setting mode of image forming apparatus
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal communicates with the image forming apparatus through a communication network. Mode information is inputted to the image forming apparatus from an external device. The mode information indicates one mode among a quiet mode in which an image is formed at a predetermined formation speed, a normal mode in which the image is formed at a faster formation speed than the quiet mode, and an urgent mode in which an image forming process in the quiet mode or the normal mode is interrupted to form the image. The quiet mode is sellable on the mobile terminal. The image forming apparatus forms the image in the urgent mode when the mode information inputted from the external device indicates the urgent mode and setting information indicating the quiet mode is acquired from the mobile terminal. |
| US10841446B2 |
Copying apparatus, and method of producing printout
At the time of copying a smaller document and a larger document on output sheets having the same size, in a first case where a first document is smaller and a second document is larger, a printing control unit analyzes a content of the second document, and copies the first document and the second document on output sheets having sizes corresponding to the analysis result. In a second case where the first document is larger and the second document is smaller, a content of the first document is analyzed, and the first document and the second document are copied on output sheets having sizes corresponding to the analysis result. |
| US10841444B2 |
Image reading apparatus
An image reading apparatus includes: a supply tray, which supports sheets to be supplied and includes a movable plate configured to move from a first position to a second position as the sheet supported by the supply tray is decreased, the second position being higher than the first position; a discharge tray; a conveyance guide; a reading sensor; a discharge unit, which includes a discharge opening to discharge the sheet conveyed by the conveyance guide to the discharge tray and is configured to move from a third position to a fourth position as the sheet supported by the paper feed tray is decreased, the fourth position being higher than the third position; and a first drive source, which generates a drive force, wherein the discharge unit is configured to move by receiving the drive force and to transmit the drive force to the movable plate. |
| US10841443B2 |
Recording apparatus
A recording apparatus includes: a recording unit that performs recording on a medium; a medium discharging section that discharges the medium on which recording has been performed; a medium receiving section that receives the medium discharged by the medium discharging section; a face-down discharge path that guides, to the medium discharge section, the recorded medium with a recorded side thereof facing downward; a document movement path that is provided at an upper part of a housing constituting an outer casing of the recording apparatus and along which a document moves; and a reading unit provided in the document movement path to read the document. The medium receiving section also serves as a support tray that supports the document to be inserted into the document movement path or the document exiting from the document movement path. |
| US10841442B2 |
Recording apparatus
A recording apparatus includes a lower unit having a recording section configured to perform recording on a medium, and an upper unit disposed on the lower unit, the upper unit including a reading section configured to read an image of the document, in which the lower unit includes a medium discharge section configured to discharge the medium toward the rear of the apparatus, and a medium receiving section disposed on the apparatus rear side with respect to the medium discharge section, the medium receiving section being configured to receive the medium discharged, and the upper unit is shorter than the lower unit in the apparatus front-rear direction and the upper unit is closer to the apparatus front with respect to the lower unit such that an end portion of the medium receiving section in the medium discharging direction is exposed at the rear of the upper unit. |
| US10841438B2 |
Guide device, control system, and recording medium
In a case where a predetermined region to perform a next operation on an operation screen relative to a touch position onto a touch panel is made a destination, a guide device makes a force sense presenter generate a guide-use virtual force sense directed to the destination by using relative position information, received from a main body apparatus, up to the destination relative to the touch position. |
| US10841437B2 |
Electronic device for detecting a suspicious operation and displaying the face of a user performing the suspicious operation
An electronic device includes a display, a first camera, a storage unit, and a control unit. The first camera images a face of a user who is operating the electronic device. The storage unit stores an image imaged by the first camera. The control unit includes a processor and, upon execution of a control program by the processor, functions as: a detection section detecting that a suspicious operation is being performed on the electronic device; and a controller allowing, when the detection section detects the suspicious operation, the display to display, as an image to be displayed in occurrence of the suspicious operation, the image that the first camera is imaging. |
| US10841433B2 |
System and method for distributing personal identification numbers over a computer network
The present invention comprises a system and method for managing an inventory of PINs in a PIN distribution network. The distribution network includes a hub coupled to a one or more servers and each of the servers is coupled to at least one client terminal. The system includes a hub for dynamically allocating PINs of the inventory among the servers so as to substantially maintain a quantity of PINs at each server at a desired level for each server. Additionally, the hub acquires additional PINs in response to at least one PIN in the inventory being distributed to at least one user from at least one of the client terminals. In variations, the hub maintains centralized databases and synchronizes the centralized databases with corresponding databases at each server. |
| US10841431B2 |
Detection of acoustic echo cancellation
An echo cancellation detector for controlling an acoustic echo canceller that is configured to cancel an echo of a far-end signal in a near-end signal in a telephony system, the echo cancellation detector comprising a comparison generator configured to compare the far-end signal with the near-end signal, a decision unit configured to make a determination about a first acoustic echo canceller based on that comparison and a controller configured to control an operation of a second acoustic echo canceller in dependence on the determination. |
| US10841430B2 |
Intercom system and data transfer method in said system
An intercom system for use in a housing complex constituted by dwelling buildings is provided in which each of the dwelling buildings is provided with a dwelling parent device installed in each dwelling, a collective foyer device with which a calling operation may be performed for calling the dwelling parent devices, and a building control unit configured to communicatively interconnect the dwelling parent device in each dwelling of the host building and the collective foyer device via an intercom line, the collective foyer device includes a storage unit in which terminal information of the collective foyer device is stored, the collective foyer device or the building control unit is capable of performing communication with an external device connected to an external network, and data on the external network is transferred to the collective foyer device or the building control unit by using the external device as a communication medium. |
| US10841429B1 |
Handling unanswered calls for alternate phone number on mobile device
According to various embodiments, declined (or unanswered) calls to an alternate number on a mobile device can be handled differently than declined calls to the device's native phone number. For example, such declined (or unanswered) calls to an alternate number can be sent to a different voicemail system than the primary voicemail system associated with the device's native voice call functionality. The techniques described herein can be applied to any situation in which a call is declined or otherwise disposed of, including, for example: the recipient failing to answer the call; the device being in airplane mode; a “do not disturb” setting preventing acceptance of the call; or the like. |
| US10841424B1 |
Call monitoring and feedback reporting using machine learning
A device configured to obtain at least a portion of a phone call and to identify a voice signal associated with a person on the phone call. The device is further configured to generate metadata for the phone call and a transcript for the phone call. The device is further configured to input the transcript and the metadata into a machine learning model and to receive a call profile from the machine learning model. The call profile includes a first call classification for the phone call. The device is further configured to identify a call log associated with the phone call that includes a second call classification for the phone call. The device is further configured to determine that the first call classification does not match the second call classification, to generate a feedback report that identifies the first call classification, and to output the feedback report. |
| US10841423B2 |
Computer-implemented system and method for efficiently facilitating appointments within a call center via an automatic call distributor
A computer-implemented system and method for facilitating appointments within a call center is provided. A list of agents for scheduling meetings within a call center is received from a user. An availability status is determined for each agent on the list at a common time. A determination that all the agents on the list are unavailable for a meeting with the user at the common time is made. A notice is provided to the user that all the agents on the list are unavailable. The agents are tracked and at a later time, one of the agents is determined to be available. A determination is made that the user is available at the later time and the available agent is transferred to the user. |
| US10841420B2 |
Virtual communications assessment system in a multimedia environment
A system for data recording across a network includes a session border controller connecting incoming data from the network to an endpoint recorder. A load balancer is connected to the network between the session border controller and the endpoint and receives the incoming data from the session border controller, wherein the load balancer comprises computer memory and a processor configured to parse the incoming data into video data and audio data according to identification protocols accessible by the processor from the computer memory. A recording apparatus includes recording memory that receives the incoming data from the load balancer, stores a duplicate version of the incoming data in the recording memory, and connects the incoming data to the endpoint. |
| US10841418B2 |
Method for verifying the validity of a telephone line of a user of a service or of a software application
Verification of the validity of a telephone line of a user likely to use a service or a software application, the verification process can include: the allocation to said validation procedure, by a validation system, of a temporary validation telephone number that has a predetermined validity duration; the generation of a call by the communication terminal of the user, via a telephone communication network, to the temporary validation telephone number; the verification of the correspondence between the temporary validation telephone number called and the validation procedure; and the validation of the telephone line of the user insofar as the correspondence between the temporary validation telephone number called by the communication terminal of the user and the validation procedure has been verified in the preceding step, such that the client system is able to authorise the user to use the service or software application. |
| US10841415B2 |
Sharing emergency information
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for sharing emergency information associated with a user from a mobile device. A computer system determines a dataset comprising emergency information associated with the user, based on one or more properties of the user and the mobile device of the user and further based on data available on the mobile device of the user. The computer system determines a battery status of the mobile device of the user. The computer system determines a recipient mobile device, responsive to the battery status meeting a predetermined requirement. The computer system communicates the dataset to the recipient mobile device. |
| US10841414B2 |
Information terminal, wrist information device, and system
An information terminal is used with a wrist information device. The information terminal includes a position measurement module, communication circuit, a memory, and a processor. The position measurement module obtains position information. The communication circuit communicates with the wrist information device. The processor obtains information about an operation of a clock function input into the wrist information device during establishment of connection of the communication, obtains the position information from the position measurement module, and stores, in the memory, the position information and the information about the operation of the clock function in association with each other. |
| US10841413B1 |
Systems and methods for using an audio cross-connect cable for remote mobile device testing
The disclosed technology teaches ad hoc testing a connection between subscriber mobile phone and counterpart location with which the subscriber is having trouble, including positioning a test harness near the location, remote from the subscriber and from a service technician. The harness includes a controller, two mobile phones with an audio cross-over cable connection between, and control connections between controller and phones. The cable feeds output of respective speakers to respective microphones and inhibits transmission between the phones of signals for button presses. The controller receives a test start signal from the technician and establishes a test connection between technician equipment and subscriber equipment through the counterpart location, establishing a call connection between the first phone and the technician equipment; and establishing a second test call connection between the second phone and the subscriber phone, so the technician and subscriber have an audio connection over the audio cross-over cable. |
| US10841409B2 |
Tool for installing a screen protector on an electronic device
A tool for assisting in affixing a screen protector to a display of an electronic device is provided. The tool includes first and second segments slidably attached to define an interior of the tool. The first segment has a first side, a second side attached to the first side by a first corner alignment feature, and a third side attached to the second side by a second corner alignment feature. The second segment similarly includes a first side, a second side, and a third side. The first and second corner alignment features of the first segment and the first and second corner alignment features of the second segment are configured to center the electronic device in the interior of the tool when the first segment is slid relative to the second segment. |
| US10841406B2 |
Method for multi-path UDP communication method between two terminals
A method for communication in an IP network is described. The method includes a first communicating device initializing a communication with a second communicating device, signalling to the second communicating device that the first communicating device is compatible with multi-path User Datagram Protocol (UDP) communications. If the second communicating device is also compatible with multi-path UDP communications, one of the first or second communicating devices transmits data to the other device using the UDP transport protocol, including in the messages containing said data, regardless of the path used, a single context identifier, allowing the receiving communicating device to correlate all of the UDP datagrams associated with the same multi-path UDP communication. |
| US10841403B2 |
Accessing a file using a web-based adaptation of an application based on a version of the application installed at a user device
Systems and methods for opening a file via a user device. One system includes an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive a request to open the file, determine a file type of the file, determine an application installed on the user device configured to open files of the file type, and determine a version of the application installed on the user device. The electronic processor is also configured to compare the version of the application installed on the user device to a predetermined version, and selectively open the file using a web-based adaptation of the application based on comparing the version of the application installed on the user device to the predetermined version. |
| US10841395B2 |
Populating a secondary cache with unmodified tracks in a primary cache when redirecting host access from a primary server to a secondary server
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for populating a secondary cache with unmodified tracks in a primary cache when redirecting host access from a primary server to a secondary server. Host access to tracks is redirected from the primary server to the secondary server. Prior to the redirecting, updates to tracks in the primary storage were replicated to the secondary server. After the redirecting host access to the secondary server, host access is directed to the secondary server and the secondary storage. A secondary cache at the secondary server is populated with unmodified tracks in a primary cache at the primary server when the host access was redirected to the secondary server to make available to the host access redirected to the secondary server. |
| US10841394B2 |
Server for caching session information set and method of controlling cache of session information set
When a cache miss occurs for a connection request from a client, a server calculates predicted next connection time which is the sum of time related to reception of the latest connection request from the client and a connection request period of the client. At least when the cache area is full, the server determines whether to cache, in the cache area, a session information set including a session ID associated with the latest connection request on the basis of the predicted next connection time calculated for the client. |
| US10841388B2 |
Method of providing remote service to vehicle and system therefor
A method of providing a remote service includes performing linkage setting for setting a center server, a controller included in a vehicle, a mobile device, and a push server to transmit and receive information to and from each other, requesting, by the center server, that the push server transmit notification information using a push scheme, transmitting, by the push server, the notification information received from the center server to the mobile device using the push scheme, and forwarding, by the mobile device, the notification information received from the push server to the controller. |
| US10841386B2 |
Method and device for determining master gateway
A gateway device performs a method for determining a master gateway device. In the method, the gateway device retrieves one or more other gateway devices and sends a request for a service list to the retrieved other gateway devices. Also, the gateway device receives the service list and version information of each service, and based on the received version information of each service, determines whether to change the master gateway device. |
| US10841383B2 |
Providing device specific security measures in the internet of things
A method for providing device specific security measures in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment includes analyzing a first set of commands received at an IoT device (device) for an unauthorized attempt to gain access to the device. The embodiment further includes in the method generating, for the device, a first device specific code, the first device specific code corresponding to a first set of command options to be performed by the device. The embodiment further includes in the method generating, for the device, a first action map, the first action map corresponding to a first flowchart of steps to be performed upon selection of at least one of the command options. The embodiment further includes in the method transmitting, to the device, the first device specific code and the first action map. |
| US10841379B2 |
Systems and methods for environmental management in a network of moving things
Systems and methods for environmental management in a network of moving things. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide systems and methods for integrating sensors, mobile access points, and/or the network of moving things with municipal waste management systems, pollution control systems, etc. |
| US10841377B2 |
Managing data resources
A method comprising: storing, in a database, a list of geographical regions in which the party consents to their data being stored; receiving a request to store data of the party, wherein at least one of the data has a region-restriction that restricts the regions in which that data can be stored; determining, based on a respective region-restriction of a respective one of the data, in which of the list of regions the respective data can be stored; storing the data, wherein each respective data is stored in at least one respective storage centre associated with one of the regions according to the determination; storing, in the database, a list comprising a pointer to each respective stored data, wherein the pointer identifies the respective storage centre; receiving a request to retrieve a respective stored data; and using the pointer to route the request to the respective storage centre. |
| US10841376B2 |
Detection and correction of copy errors in a distributed storage network
A method begins by one or more processing modules of one or more computing devices of a dispersed storage network (DSN) receiving a delete data request for a data object of a set of data objects, where each data object of the set of data objects has substantially identical data to other data objects of the set of data objects and where only one plurality of sets of encoded data slices corresponding to one data object of the set of data objects is stored in memory of the DSN. The method continues with the one or more processing modules determining whether the data object is associated with a data ID and when the data object is associated with a data ID, identifying linking information associated with the data object. Linking information is updated to indicate that the set of data objects includes one fewer copy of the data object and then it is determined whether the Data ID is associated with a link-object and when the Data ID is associated with a link-object the link-object is deleted from the DSN memory. |
| US10841374B2 |
Dynamic sharding for state-based processing
Enabling a distributed data processing system to process a data set from local storage devices by dynamically reallocating portions of the data set. |
| US10841369B2 |
Determining allocatable host system resources to remove from a cluster and return to a host service provider
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for determining allocatable host system resources to remove from a cluster and return to a host service provider. A determination is made of unused host system resources, that are not currently being used by workloads, in a plurality of host systems. A determination is made of required resources for computational resources required to complete processing unfinished workloads that have not completed. A determination is made of an amount of resources to remove from the cluster by subtracting the unused host system resources by the required resources for computational resources. At least one of the host systems available for the workloads is selected to remove from the cluster having resources that satisfy the amount of resources to remove. |
| US10841362B2 |
Enhanced M2M content management based on interest
Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed for an M2M Interest Function. An M2M Interest Function may receive requests from users to publish the users' personal interests in particular data identify relationships and patterns in the data. Associated data may then be stored in a single best location for such data based on various criteria rather than on separate M2M Gateways or M2M Servers. This location may be provided to users interested in such data. Relationship and association data may be provided to M2M gateways. |
| US10841358B2 |
System and method for determining quality of a media stream
A method for determining the quality of a media stream of a computer network including: receiving a packet from a traffic flow; determining whether the packet relates to a media stream; if the packet is related to the media stream, simulating a content player buffer related to the media stream; reviewing further data chunks associated with the media stream to determine quality events affecting the media stream; analyzing the effect of the quality event on a subscriber viewing the quality event; and determining a Quality of Experience score related to the media stream; otherwise allowing the packet to continue to the subscriber without further analysis. A system for determining the quality of a media stream, the system including modules configured to carry out the method for determining the quality of the media stream. |
| US10841356B2 |
Techniques for encoding a media title while constraining bitrate variations
In various embodiments, a subsequence-based encoding application generates a first set of subsequence encode points based on multiple encoding points and a first subsequence included in a set of subsequences that are associated with a media title. Notably, each subsequence encode point is associated with a different encoded subsequence. The subsequence-based encoding application then performs convex hull operation(s) across the first set of subsequence encode points to generate a first convex hull. The subsequence-based encoding application then generates an encode list that includes multiple subsequence encode points based on multiple convex hulls, including the first convex hull. Subsequently, the subsequence-based encoding application performs filtering operation(s) on the encode list based on a variability constraint associated with a media metric to generate an upgrade candidate list. Finally, the subsequence-based encoding application generates an encoded media sequence based on the upgrade candidate list and the first convex hull. |
| US10841353B2 |
System and method for optimizing defragmentation of content in a content delivery network
A system and method for optimizing defragmentation of content in a content delivery network (CDN). In an example, a manifest available to the content delivery node with respect to a particular content as well as segment files stored in a database cache of the content delivery node are analyzed to determine if any segment files referenced by the manifest are absent from the database cache. If so, one or more delivery rules associated with the content delivery node based on historical ABR asset delivery patterns may be applied to determine representations of the absent segment files that satisfy the one or more delivery rules. After determining compliant representations of the absent segment files, they may be pulled from another content delivery node of the CDN (e.g., a parent node or an edge server node). |
| US10841352B2 |
Non-chronological buffering of segments of a media file
Processing a media file includes receiving a request for a media file from a client system and determining, using a processor, a non-chronological ordering of a plurality of segments of the media file for buffering according to historical playback data for each of the plurality of segments of the media file. A first segment of the media file is sent for buffering to the client system as specified by the non-chronological ordering of the plurality of segments. The non-chronological ordering is determined prior to sending any segment of the media file to the client system. |
| US10841347B2 |
System and method for augmented and virtual reality
One embodiment is directed to a system for enabling two or more users to interact within a virtual world comprising virtual world data, comprising a computer network comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices comprising memory, processing circuitry, and software stored at least in part in the memory and executable by the processing circuitry to process at least a portion of the virtual world data; wherein at least a first portion of the virtual world data originates from a first user virtual world local to a first user, and wherein the computer network is operable to transmit the first portion to a user device for presentation to a second user, such that the second user may experience the first portion from the location of the second user, such that aspects of the first user virtual world are effectively passed to the second user. |
| US10841340B2 |
Custom node and profile classifications for enterprise security management tool
Methods and systems for configuring a security policy for an enterprise within an enterprise security management tool are disclosed. In some aspects, such systems receive a definition of at least one custom classification within a user interface of the enterprise security management configuration tool, including a name of a profile and network activity associated with one or more nodes to be included within the profile. Such systems also generate a security settings file to be applied within the enterprise, the security settings file including, for each profile, a common security policy to each of the nodes included in the profile. The profiles to which the security settings file is applied include the profile defined by the at least one custom classification. |
| US10841338B1 |
Dynamic rule risk score determination in a cybersecurity monitoring system
The present disclosure relates to a cybersecurity-monitoring system, method, and computer program for dynamically determining a rule's risk score based on the network and user for which the rule triggered. The methods described herein addresses score inflation problems associated with the fact that rules have different false positive rates in different networks and for different users, even within the same network. In response to a rule triggering, the system dynamically adjusts the default risk points associated with the triggered rule based on a per-rule and per-user probability that the rule triggered due to malicious behavior. In certain embodiments, network context is also a factor in customizing the risk points for a triggered rule. |
| US10841336B2 |
Selectively providing mutual transport layer security using alternative server names
Examples of techniques for selectively providing mTLS using alternative server names are described herein. An example system includes a processor to generate an alternative server name in response to detecting a legacy indicator. The processor is to also associate the alternative server name with an address of a pod. The processor is to further configure a proxy associated with the pod to selectively provide mutual transport layer security (mTLS) based on the alternative server name. |
| US10841333B2 |
Malware detection using machine learning
Synthetic training sets for machine learning are created by identifying and modifying functional features of code in an existing malware training set. By filtering the resulting synthetic code to measure malware impact and novelty, training sets can be created that predict novel malware and to seek to preemptively exhaust the space of new malware. These synthesized training sets can be used in turn to improve training of machine learning models. Furthermore, by repeating the process of new code generation, filtering and training, an iterative machine learning process may be created that continuously narrows the window of vulnerabilities to new malicious actions. |
| US10841330B2 |
System for generating a communication pathway for third party vulnerability management
The invention utilizes a two-component system to detect third party security threats and drive improved security threat mitigation based on the detection. The first component of the system is a security threat assessment engine, which receives and/or identifies external data and internal data regarding third parties in order to determine information security threats posed by third-parties. The second component of the system is an analytics engine, which may comprise a machine learning component which is configured to detect threat patterns and anomalies. In response to the detection of the threat patterns and anomalies the security threat assessment engine may be modified in order to more accurately determine security threats. The system after identifying a security threat, generates a notification associated with the security threat and transfers the notification to a first set of third parties that may be affected by the security threat. |
| US10841329B2 |
Cognitive security for workflows
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory comprising instructions which are executed by the at least one processor and configure the processor to implement a cognitive security system. The cognitive security system generates a violation array. Each entry of the violation array represents identification of a workflow activity that violates a security policy. Responsive to a new workflow orchestration being created by a user, the cognitive security system compares each activity of the new workflow orchestration to the violation array. Responsive to determining a given activity of the new workflow orchestration exists in the violation array, the cognitive security system recommends to the user to remove the given activity from the new workflow orchestration. |
| US10841323B2 |
Detecting robotic internet activity across domains utilizing one-class and domain adaptation machine-learning models
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for detecting robotic activity while monitoring Internet traffic across a plurality of domains. For example, the disclosed system identifies network session data for each domain of a plurality of domains, the network session data including network sessions comprising features that indicate human activity. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed system generates a classifier to output a probability that a network session at a domain includes human activity. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed system also generates a classifier to output a probability that a network session includes good robotic activity. Additionally, the disclosed system generates a domain-agnostic machine-learning model by combining models from a plurality of domains with network sessions including human activity. |
| US10841322B2 |
Decision system and method for separating faults from attacks
According to some embodiments, a plurality of monitoring nodes may each generate a series of current monitoring node values over time that represent a current operation of the industrial asset. A node classification computer may determine, for each monitoring node, a classification result indicating whether each monitoring node is in a normal or abnormal state. A disambiguation engine may receive the classification results from the node classification computer and associate a Hidden Markov Model (“HMM”) with each monitoring node. For each node in an abnormal state, the disambiguation engine may execute the HMM associated with that monitoring node to determine a disambiguation result indicating if the abnormal state is a result of an attack or a fault and output a current status of each monitoring node based on the associated classification result and the disambiguation result. |
| US10841321B1 |
Systems and methods for detecting suspicious users on networks
The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting suspicious users on networks may include (1) identifying a first cluster of users based on at least one static attribute of the users; (2) identifying a second cluster of users based on both the at least one static attribute of the users and at least one dynamic attribute of the users, where a respective dynamic attribute weight applied to the at least one dynamic attribute when defining the second clusters is based on network monitoring telemetry; (3) comparing the first cluster with the second cluster to identify an outlying user; and (4) designating the outlying user as suspicious. |
| US10841311B2 |
Rule management user interface
Embodiments of the invention are directed to techniques for preventing access to protected resources by unauthorized individuals by enabling an administrator associated with a transport computer to customize filtering rules via a user interface. In some embodiments, a server computer can, from a client computer, receive credentials of the administrator. The credentials can be used to retrieve requesting computers registered with the transport computer. The requesting computers may then be displayed at the client computer. A selection of one of the requesting computers is received from the client computer. A plurality of settings, which represent rules controlling which authorization request messages from the selected requesting computer are forwarded, are displayed at the client computer, wherein one of the settings references one or more attributes that distinguish certain authorization request messages. In response to receiving a selection of the respective setting, modifying the rules in accordance with the plurality of settings. |
| US10841310B2 |
Method for accessing data or a service from a first user device and corresponding second user device, server and system
A method provides access to data or a service from a first device relating to a first user. A set of identifiers relating each to a second device is predefined. Each second device is related to a second user. A server receives, from the first device, a request for accessing the data or service from a current location relating to the first user. The server sends, to each selected second device, a request to determine whether the first user is locally present. Each selected second device requests, from to the second device user, whether the first user is locally present. Each selected second device gets, from the second user, a presence response and sends, to the server, the presence response. The server verifies whether the received presence response includes a predefined positive presence response. If yes, the server authorizes the first device to access the data or service. |
| US10841309B2 |
Controlling accesses to networks based on IT systems having embedded systems or distributed systems
To improve the access control in regard to safety and protection of network operation and network data when controlling accesses to networks based on IT systems including embedded systems or distributed systems, it is proposed that observation and evaluation (detection) of the communication in a network (performance of a network communication protocol collation of the observed protocol with a multiplicity of reference protocols, preferably stored in a list, that are usually used in operation- and/or safety-critical networks) be used to independently identify whether an uncritical or critical network is involved in the course of a network access, in particular the setup of a network connectivity, to at least one from at least one network that is uncritical in regard to operation and/or safety, in particular referred to as a standard network, and at least one network that is critical in regard to operation and/or safety. |
| US10841303B2 |
Apparatus and methods for micro-segmentation of an enterprise internet-of-things network
Apparatus, systems, architectures and methods for communication over an enterprise internet-of-things (EIoT) network are disclosed. Network(s) may be micro-segmented. Network segment(s) may be associated with distinct function(s). EIoT device(s) may be identified by type(s), class(es), functionality(ies), function(s) and/or security level(s). EIoT device protocol(s) may be translated/emulated. EIoT device(s) may be temporarily/permanently quarantined. Network gateway(s) may factor EIoT device/network data based on function(s) and/or specification(s). Data may be routed to network segment(s) based on associated function(s). |
| US10841301B2 |
System and method to authenticate electronics using electronic-metrics
A system for authenticating a first entity. The system comprises a storage component for storing a trained electronic-metric factor, a sensor for receiving an electronic-metric input from the first entity, an analysis component associated with a second entity for determining a first relationship between the trained electronic-metric factor and any electronic-metric input, and an authentication component for authenticating the first entity responsive to the first relationship. |
| US10841299B2 |
Systems, devices, and/or processes for omic content processing and/or partitioning
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to at least one processor to selectively authorize requests from one or more external devices to read from and/or write to particular bio-ledger entries and/or particular biosphere ledger entries based, at least in part, on security tokens provided by the one or more external devices and based, at least in part, on first and/or second sets of particular authorizations. |
| US10841295B1 |
Extensions for using a digital certificate with multiple cryptosystems
In a general aspect, a digital certificate can be used with multiple cryptography systems (“cryptosystems”). In some cases, the digital certificate includes a public key field, which contains a first public key of an entity associated with a first cryptosystem. The digital certificate includes a signature value field, which contains a first digital signature of a certificate authority associated with the first cryptosystem. The digital certificate includes an extension. The extension contains a second public key of the entity, a second digital signature of the certificate authority, or both, associated with a second cryptosystem. The extension contains a policy field that includes instructions for processing the fields associated with the second cryptosystem. |
| US10841294B2 |
Certification system
An electronic communications method includes receiving, by a device, an electronic communication. The electronic communications method further includes analyzing, by the device, the electronic communications. The electronic communications method further includes generating, by the device, an electronic authentication certificate. The electronic communications method further includes sending a second electronic communication to another device that indicates that an electronic authentication certificate is generated for a particular electronic entity. |
| US10841291B2 |
Method for block authentication using embedded virtual machines
The disclosure provides an approach for authenticating a block of storage by embedding a virtual machine and an authentication algorithm into the block. The virtual machine contains the authentication algorithm. The algorithm remains opaque in its operation by hiding its execution within the embedded VM. The non-transparent operation of the algorithm prevents a malicious entity from learning how to modify information in the block and from learning to how to evade detection of that modification by the authentication algorithm. The opaqueness of the algorithm adds security to a computer storage system. |
| US10841290B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling display in electronic device having processors
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network and Internet of Things (IoT) as applied to intelligent services based technologies such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.An apparatus and method for controlling an electronic device through a mesh network of such electronic devices are provided. In a method for controlling an electronic device, a terminal transmits to the electronic device, a terminal identifier for authenticating the terminal and information for authenticating a user of the terminal. If authentication of the terminal is successfully completed, the terminal transmits control information containing at least one service identifier classified according to service types to the electronic device. The control information is transmitted to another electronic device, based on the service identifier, through a network in which the electronic device is connected to another electronic device. |
| US10841287B2 |
System and method for generating and managing a key package
The embodiment herein provides a method for securely transmitting a firmware update image to a device using a key management system. The key management subsystem includes a cellular modem. The method includes (i) configuring a SIM of the cellular modem to update a public key of a server using a key manager module of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM), (ii) enabling the SIM to receive an encrypted key package from the server, using the cellular modem, (iii) processing the encrypted firmware update image that has to be transmitted to the device using the SIM and (iv) transmitting the decrypted key package to the device to enable implementation of the decrypted key package into the device using the SIM. |
| US10841285B2 |
Networked security system
Disclosed are multi-tenant networked security systems and methods. The system includes a central server, a first user application provided on a first computing device, and a second user application provided on a second computer device, wherein the first and second computing devices are communicatively linked with the central server. The system further includes a persistent network key generated by the central server and based at least in part on a unique request identifier and a transient physical key generated by the first user application and based at least in part on the network key, wherein the network key is received by the first user application. The second user application is configured to communicate with the central server to analyze the network key and the physical key in order to verify that a user of the first user application possesses an ingress permission to an access point. |
| US10841283B2 |
Smart sender anonymization in identity enabled networks
A method implemented by a sending host entity comprises sending, by the sending host entity, a data packet to a receiving host entity, a source identifier field of the data packet comprising an anonymized identifier of the sending host entity, the anonymized identifier being a temporary identifier of the sending host entity, and sending, by the sending host entity to a distributed mapping system, a request for the distributed mapping system to send information identifying the sending host entity to the receiving host entity. |
| US10841278B2 |
Zero latency gateway
Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present technique provide apparatus, systems and methods to enable secure communication between devices. In particular, the present techniques provide an apparatus configured to monitor for a data packet transmitted between a transmitter and a receiver, determine if the data packet is permitted to be transmitted, and act on at least part of the data packet to prevent the receiver from acting on the data packet if it is not permitted to be transmitted. In other words, the present techniques provide/implement security filters in a communication channel between a transmitter and a receiver to reduce the risk that unauthorised data packets are sent to, and implemented by, the receiver device. |
| US10841274B2 |
Federated virtual datacenter apparatus
Examples of federated virtual datacenter apparatus are described. In an example, at least two virtual datacenter instances are provided in respective different network broadcast domains and an overlay network encompasses the respective different broadcast domains. An Internet Protocol (IP) address manager assigns IP addresses network devices associated with the plurality of virtual datacenter instances so as to avoid IP address conflicts between virtual datacenter instances. |
| US10841271B2 |
Systems, methods, and media for controlling traffic to Internet of Things devices
Mechanisms for controlling traffic to an Internet of Things (IoT) device are provided, the mechanisms comprising: identifying a first IoT device having an Internet Protocol (IP) address and a Media Access Control (MAC) address; sending a first Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) broadcast on a local area network (LAN) indicating that the IP address of the first IoT device is to be associated with a MAC address of a router on the LAN; receiving first traffic on the LAN; extracting the IP Address of the first IoT device from the first traffic; determining that the first traffic is allowed; and forwarding the first traffic to the first IoT device by inserting the MAC address of the first IoT device in the first traffic and re-broadcasting the first traffic. |
| US10841263B2 |
System and method for message composition buffers
Aspects include a method, system, and computer program product for providing a communication from a first communication device. The composition of a first message by a user in a first composition area of the first communication device is detected. The first message may be part of a first conversation stream between the user and a party on a second communication device. A triggering signal received at the first communication device allows the user to prepare a second message as part of a second conversation stream. In response to the triggering signal: a second composition area is opened at the first communication device for preparing the second message. The second message is transmitted in response to receiving a signal to send the second message. |
| US10841262B2 |
Client-agnostic and network-agnostic device management
In accordance with an example implementation of this disclosure, an email handler comprises email processing circuitry, a web server, and a database. The email processing circuitry is operable to generate a uniform resource locator for a notification object to be embedded in an email message. The email processing circuitry is operable to embed the notification object in the email message. The email processing circuitry is operable to send the email message into a network. The web server is operable to receive a request sent to the uniform resource locator by a client device. The web server is operable to determine characteristics of the client device based on content of the request. The web server is operable to store the characteristics in the database. The web server is operable to control access to content by the client device based on characteristics of the client device stored in the database. |
| US10841261B2 |
Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus
A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communications and that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrently or simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations. |
| US10841260B2 |
Communication system and server facilitating job opportunity message exchange and related methods
A communication system may include a server, and first and second communications devices. The server may be configured to maintain a database having first and second communication profiles respectively associated with first and second users, maintain first and second value accounts respectively associated with the first and second communication profiles, generate a public opportunity database, and post a given opportunity from the second user on the public opportunity database. |
| US10841257B1 |
Determining engagement scores for sub-categories in a digital domain by a computing system
In general, techniques are described to determine engagement scores representative of a level of engagement in a digital domain for a particular sub-category within the common category of entities on a social media platform. In accordance with these techniques, a computing system is configured to receive, from one or more client devices, messages composed by one or more users of the one or more client devices. Each of the messages includes a respective identifier, and each respective identifier is associated with a common category of entities. The computing system is further configured to determine, based on the messages, an engagement score that represents a level of engagement for a particular sub-category within the common category of entities. The computing system is further configured to output, for display at a display device operatively connected to the computing system, a visual representation of the engagement score. |
| US10841255B2 |
Determination of an online collaboration status of a user based upon biometric and user activity data
Methods, systems, and computer readable media are provided for determining a collaboration status of a user of an electronic messaging system based on user data, including: (i) health data representative of a physiological parameter or mental engagement of the user and (ii) collaboration activity data representative of social collaboration activity of the user, to determine the collaboration status. Historical health data and collaboration activity data may be included in the determination of the collaboration status. In some aspects, the collaboration status may reflect a real-time collaboration status of the user. |
| US10841253B2 |
Two-way real time communication system that allows asymmetric participation in conversations across multiple electronic platforms
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for receiving from responders conversation selection criteria and mode of communication information. A request for a conversation is received, from an initiator using a first communication mode that identifies a topic, but does not identify any responders. A conversation identifier is created. Possible responders are determined based on the topic and the conversation selection criteria. The topic of the conversation is sent to the possible responders, without identifying the initiator. A first response from a first responder is received using a second communication mode that is different than the first communication mode. The first response is mapped to the conversation based in part on the conversation identifier. The response is sent to the initiator using the first communication mode. |
| US10841248B1 |
Connection specific selection of automated response messages
Software and computer processor implemented system and method of providing customized automated responses to different types of incoming electronic messages from various contact sources, particularly useful for preventing distracted driving or distractions at a place of work or at a place of rest and relaxation. Here the invention's software, often in the form of an app, runs on a smartphone or other computerized device configured to automatically connect to various devices, such as automobile associated Bluetooth peripherals or WiFi access points/routers. When operating, the invention determines what peripheral connections are active, and uses these to automatically select responses to various incoming messages. Optionally, different automated responses can be assigned to different connected device identification codes or different incoming message originators. Various prioritization schemes, such as last active connection dominates, and various ways in which different contact specific automated responses may interact with various device specific automated responses, are also discussed. |
| US10841247B2 |
Social media connection for a robot
Methods and systems for using a robot to interact in a social media includes receiving a request for registering the robot in the social media from a user. In response to the request, user profile of the user is retrieved. The user profile of the user identifies privileges assigned to the user for interacting in the social media. The robot is paired to the user account of the user by generating a second user account for the robot in the social media and assigning, to the robot, a subset of the privileges associated with the user account. The privileges allow the robot to access the social interactions available in the user account and to generate social interactions on behalf of the user, which are then posted to the social media for the user. |
| US10841244B2 |
System and method for supporting a scalable representation of link stability and availability in a high performance computing environment
System and method for supporting scalable representation of link stability and availability in a high performance computing environment. A method can provide at attribute at each node in a subnet, wherein the attribute provides a single location at each node for a subnet manager to query the stability and availability of each link connected to the queried node. The attribute can be populated and maintained by a subnet management agent residing at the node. |
| US10841243B2 |
NIC with programmable pipeline
A network interface controller that is connected to a host and a packet communications network. The network interface controller includes electrical circuitry configured as a packet processing pipeline with a plurality of stages. It is determined in the network interface controller that at least a portion of the stages of the pipeline are acceleration-defined stages. Packets are processed in the pipeline by transmitting data to an accelerator from the acceleration-defined stages, performing respective acceleration tasks on the transmitted data in the accelerator, and returning processed data from the accelerator to receiving stages of the pipeline. |
| US10841239B2 |
Policy based selection of resources for a cloud service
Selecting resources for a cloud service can include defining a specific resource provider constraint parameter, determining a parameter value for the specific resource provider constraint parameter, analyzing a plurality of specific resource providers and selecting a specific resource provider from the plurality of available specific resource providers based on the analysis and using a best-fit model. |
| US10841237B2 |
Decentralized data management across highly distributed systems
In a system environment comprising a plurality of computing resources, wherein at least a portion of the computing resources are mobile, a method maintains a decentralized messaging network of interconnected messaging nodes and a decentralized data network of interconnected data nodes. Each of the plurality of computing resources is associated with a given messaging node and a given data node. The method manages transfer of a data set between the plurality of computing resources in association with the decentralized messaging network and the decentralized data network. Managing transfer of the data set comprises inserting a policy file into the decentralized data network specifying one or more policies for managing the transfer of the data set and inserting a message into the decentralized messaging network instructing implementation of the one or more policies. |
| US10841231B2 |
Transmission timeout system
A method including providing a hardware-implemented networking system having a sending device, the sending device being configured to communicate with a receiving device via a communications medium, and performing the following at the sending device: providing an initial value for transmission timeout and setting a current value for transmission timeout to the initial value, sending one or more packets associated with a given queue from the sending device to the receiving device via the communications medium, setting a packet transmission timeout timer associated with the given queue to the current value for transmission timeout; and upon expiration of a packet transmission timeout timer associated with the given queue, performing the following: A. determining whether one or more packets have been successfully received by the receiving device, and performing one or both of the following steps B and C: B. if one or more packets have been successfully received by the receiving device, decreasing the current value for transmission timeout, and C. if no packets have been successfully received by the receiving device, increasing the current value for transmission timeout. Related apparatus and methods are also provided. |
| US10841222B2 |
Systems, apparatuses and methods for network packet management
Methods and systems are provided for latency-oriented router. An incoming packet is received on a first interface. The type of the incoming packet is determined. Upon the detection that the incoming packet belongs to latency-critical traffic, the incoming packet is duplicated into one or more copies. Subsequently, the duplicated copies are sent to a second interface in a delayed fashion where the duplicated copies are spread over a time period. The duplicated copies are received and processed at the second interface. |
| US10841210B2 |
Service function proxy performance in software defined networks
A software defined networking (SDN) system includes a switch, a service function chain (SFC) proxy, and a controller communicatively coupled to the SFC proxy and the switch. The controller is configured to obtain a translation rule for a SFC encapsulation provided by the SFC proxy, responsive to obtaining the translation rule transmit one or more instructions to the switch to program the switch to translate packets belonging to a flow associated with the SFC encapsulation according to the translation rule and to forward the packets belonging to the flow associated with the SFC encapsulation to a service function (SF) in a manner that causes the packets belonging to the flow associated with the SFC encapsulation to bypass the SFC proxy, and transmit an indication to the SFC proxy that the packets belonging to the flow associated with the SFC encapsulation are to bypass the SFC proxy. |
| US10841209B2 |
Method, node, and medium for establishing connection between a source and endpoint via one or more border nodes
In one embodiment, a method is performed at a node in a multi-site enterprise fabric. The method includes obtaining map entries from a fabric control plane of the multi-site enterprise fabric, where the map entries are associated with identifiers of endpoints in external networks, site and virtual network identifiers of sites in the multi-site enterprise fabric, location identifiers of border nodes, and characteristics of the border nodes. The method further includes receiving a request from a source to connect to an external endpoint. After deriving an external endpoint identifier and source parameters, the method additionally includes establishing at least one connection between the source and the external endpoint via border node(s) that are selected from the map entries based at least in part on the source parameters, the external endpoint identifier, and characteristics of the border node(s) with their site and virtual network identifier(s) along the at least one connection. |
| US10841206B2 |
Flow modification including shared context
Routing packets by a router involves establishing a first flow configured for forwarding the packets from a first ingress interface to a first egress interface of the router; determining a condition to modify the first flow; deactivating the first flow; establishing a second flow configured for forwarding the packets from at least one of (1) the first ingress interface to a second egress interface, (2) a second ingress interface to the first egress interface, or (3) a second ingress interface to a second egress interface; and activating the second flow. |
| US10841203B2 |
Coordination of multiple routes for a single IP connection
An apparatus for receiving data over a communications link is provided. The apparatus includes a processing system configured to support a protocol stack comprising a first layer and a second layer. The processing system is configured to receive a plurality of data packets. Each of the data packets includes a first segment for processing at the first layer. Each of the first segments includes a first header and a first payload. Each of the first payloads includes a second segment having a second header and a second payload. The processing system is also configured to determine, at the first layer, whether to reorder the second segments for in-sequence delivery to the second layer based on information in one or more of the second headers or one or more configuration information from the processing system. |
| US10841200B2 |
Differentiated routing system and method
A differentiated routing system is provided for routing a communication service according to an access point of a subscriber terminal to a first network domain. The system includes a computing system executing a core routing engine (CRE) that receives a request for a communication service from the subscriber terminal. When the communication service is to be routed to a second network domain, the CRE identifies an access point at which the subscriber terminal accesses the first network domain, includes a tag in the request according to the identified access point. The tag includes information to be used by the second network domain for routing the communication service. The CRE then transmits the request to the second network domain. |
| US10841198B1 |
Routing methods, systems, and computer program products
In various embodiments, a current node, system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable media are provided to: allow receipt of a first packet with first data, and a first header including a first segment identifier that is associated with a first algorithm and that identifies at least one of a particular node, a particular network interface, or a particular region; process the first segment identifier to identify a first path based on the first algorithm; cause transmission, via the first path, of the first data toward the at least one of the particular node, the particular network interface, or the particular region; allow receipt of a second packet with second data, and a second header including a second segment identifier that is different from the first segment identifier, that is associated with a second algorithm, and that identifies the at least one of the particular node, the particular network interface, or the particular region; process the second segment identifier to identify a second path based on the second algorithm; and cause transmission, via the second path, of the second data toward the at least one of the particular node, the particular network interface, or the particular region. |
| US10841194B2 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing traffic based on flow in cloud system
A method, an apparatus, and a system for analyzing traffic through obtaining flow data of a flow from a switch or a router of a network, calculating an average byte per packet rate (BPR) and a TCP flag ratio (TCPFR) for all flows included in a session including the flow using the flow data, and comparing the average BPR and the TCPFR with an average BPR and a TCPFR of previously-known traffic and determining whether the traffic including the flow is normal traffic or abnormal traffic based on the comparison result are provided. |
| US10841192B1 |
Estimating data transfer performance improvement that is expected to be achieved by a network optimization device
Systems and techniques are described for calculating performance improvement achieved and/or expected to be achieved by optimizing a network connection. Network characteristics can be measured for non-optimized network connections. Next, the network characteristics can be analyzed to obtain a set of non-optimized connection groups, wherein each non-optimized connection group corresponds to non-optimized network connections that have similar network characteristics. Network characteristics for an optimized network connection can be measured. Next, a non-optimized connection group can be identified based on the network characteristics that were measured for the optimized network connection. A performance improvement metric can then be calculated based on a throughput of the optimized network connection and corresponding throughputs of non-optimized network connections in the identified non-optimized connection group. |
| US10841191B2 |
Person support apparatuses with communication channel monitoring
A monitoring system includes one or more units that are adapted monitor the radio frequency conditions of a facility or portion of the facility. The units include a packet sniffer and/or an RF spectrum analyzer. Sniffed packets and spectrum data are recorded and made available for analysis and display, either locally on the units or at one or more remote locations. The locations of the units are also gathered, thereby enabling correlation of the sniffed packets and/or RF spectrum data with locations within the facility. Real time RF conditions can thereby be gathered and used to improve the wireless communications within the facility and/or to ensure the wireless communication infrastructure of the facility is operating satisfactorily. The units may be person support apparatuses, such as beds, chairs, stretchers, cots, or the like. |
| US10841190B1 |
Using an inverse cumulative histogram to efficiently analyze web service request latencies
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that analyzes latencies for web service requests. During operation, the system receives web service requests at a web service. The system also records latency values associated with processing the web service requests in an inverse cumulative histogram, which is stored in a set of bins, wherein each bin is associated with a range of latency values between a high range value and a low range value, and wherein each bin contains a sample count for latencies that fall within the bin plus a sample count of an adjacent bin associated with a next higher range of latency values. Next, upon receiving a request to determine a number of web-service requests having latencies that are less than a target latency value, the system returns a sample count from a matching bin, which has a high range value that matches the target latency value. |
| US10841186B2 |
Method for accessing data related to at least one operation implented by a node device of a network
The invention relates to a method for accessing data related to at least one operation implemented by at least one node device (N1) of a network (R) from a plurality of node devices (N1, N2, N3) of said network, which are capable of communicating via a first communication link (L1). According to the invention, the access method is suitable for receiving a message through which a node device signals, to an observation device, an operation implemented by said node device; for recording at least one piece of information on said operation; and, upon receiving a request from a terminal via a second communication link, for transmitting a response developed from at least part of the recorded information. The invention also relates to a data-transmission method. The invention further relates to an observation device (DT) and to a node device (N1) of a network which implement the access method and the transmission method, respectively. |
| US10841182B2 |
Supporting near real time service level agreements
A controller device manages a plurality of network devices. The controller device includes one or more processing units implemented in circuitry and configured to determine that one or more stateful intents used to manage the plurality of network devices and represented by a graph model are degraded due to assigned resources for the stateful intents having become degraded; in response to determining that the one or more stateful intents are degraded, determine resources for the stateful intents, the resources corresponding to vertices of the graph model; provision the stateful intents using the determined resources; determine whether the provisioning of the stateful intents was successful; compile at least one of the stateful intents that was successful into low-level configuration data for at least one network device of the plurality of network devices; and configure the at least one network device using the low-level configuration data. |
| US10841177B2 |
Content delivery framework having autonomous CDN partitioned into multiple virtual CDNs to implement CDN interconnection, delegation, and federation
An autonomous content delivery network (CDN) is partitioned into multiple virtual CDNs which are organized into a CDN hierarchy. Within the CDN hierarchy, a parent virtual CDN grants at least one privilege to at least one child virtual CDN. The parent virtual CDN has an instance of a CD service of a first type and the child virtual CDN has no instance of the CD service of the first type. The CD service of the first type is selected from: a rendezvous service; a streaming service, a configuration service, a control service, a collector service, and a cache service. |
| US10841176B2 |
Systems and methods for managing a plurality of wind power plants
Systems and methods for managing wind power plants (WPPs) having a plurality of wind turbines are provided. The system includes a central server in communication with one or more WPP servers through an external network, wherein each WPP server is associated with a corresponding WPP. The WPP server is in communication with one or more wind turbines in the corresponding WPP through a private network. The central server is configured to identify at least one maintenance activity to be performed based on event information associated with a wind turbine in a WPP. The central server is configured to generate a service operation request (SOR) message including an access request to the turbine based on the identified maintenance activity. The central server transmits the SOR message for approval to an authentication unit and accesses the wind turbine in the first WPP upon approval of the SOR message. |
| US10841173B2 |
System and method for determining resources utilization in a virtual network
A system and method for determining optimized resources utilization in a virtual network. The method includes collecting a computing resource parameter from a virtual network, where the computing resource parameter includes at least performance measurements of computing resources in the virtual network; accessing a key performance indicator, where the key performance indicator includes measurement of network traffic performance; and determining, based on the computing resource parameter and the key performance indicator, an optimized resource parameter over a period of time that indicates a usage rule for a computing resource component. |
| US10841169B2 |
Storage area network diagnostic data
An example implementation may relate to a storage area network (SAN) switch and a SAN target device. For example, the SAN target device may issue an in-band diagnostic command to the SAN switch. The SAN target device may receive an in-band data message from the SAN switch in response to the in-band diagnostic command. The in-band data message may include diagnostic data about a port of the storage area network switch and a storage area network device connected to the port. |
| US10841162B2 |
Transition from a legacy PBX system to an advanced IP-enabled system
A method is provided for replacing an enterprise legacy PBX with an advanced IP-enabled system, comprising: (i) providing configuration data of the legacy PBX; (ii) analyzing the data provided, and detecting missing details from among the legacy PBX configuration data; and detecting conflicts that exist among the legacy PBX configuration data; (iii) retrieving information associated with missing details by approaching data source(s) other than the source for the legacy PBX configuration data, and resolving detected conflicts; (iv) converting data associated with the users of the legacy PBX for use by a system implementing an advanced IP-enabled solution; and (v) configuring the advanced IP-enabled system accordingly. |
| US10841160B2 |
System and method for processing messages during a reboot of a network device
In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes determining that a network device will perform a reboot. The method also includes saving state information. The state information comprises data used by the network device to process address resolution protocol (ARP) messages. The method further includes initiating the reboot of the network device. The method further includes initiating a first ARP service. The first ARP service is configured to process ARP messages during the reboot of the network device. |
| US10841151B2 |
Method and system for configuring a user equipment
The invention relates to a method for configuring a user equipment, comprising the steps of a) accessing user related information, preferably account information, on the user equipment, b) transmitting the user related information to a dedicated configuration server, c) matching the user related information to a specific configuration information, d) upon matching, transmitting the configuration information to the user equipment, e) configuring the user equipment with the configuration information, and wherein initiation of the steps a)-e) is performed by a one-touch-client and wherein the configuration server is provided as a one-touch-server. The invention also relates to a system for configuring a user equipment. |
| US10841146B2 |
Proximity synchronizing audio gateway device
A digital audio gateway device for use in a wireless network of digital audio playback devices. The gateway device is wirelessly linked to one or more digital audio playback devices to provide a gateway to the Internet for the digital audio playback devices. In addition to functioning as a gateway, the device provides additional functionality and may act as a cache of digital audio data for the various digital audio players connected in the wireless network and may also act to automatically update digital audio content on the audio players, synchronize digital audio content and playlists between the digital audio players and continue automatically or upon user request a particular playlist as the user moves from one digital audio player to another. |
| US10841145B1 |
Multi-rotational waveform utilizing a plurality of transmission waveforms and transmission paths
Disclosed is a modem system for transmitting and receiving multi-rotational waveforms comprising at least one waveform modulation subsystem, and a demodulation subsystem programmed to receive a second plurality of sequentially modulated communication waveforms. |
| US10841140B2 |
Active geo-location improvements for orthogonal frequency division multiplex wireless local area network devices
A method and wireless device are disclosed that increase the range of active geo-location from the measuring station as compared with known solutions by increasing the effective receive sensitivity of the measuring station by transmitting a predetermined ranging packet and correlating the raw received bit stream of the response packet with one or more predetermined bit streams. In one embodiment, the disclosed method and system may be applied to the reception of IEEE 802.11 orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) acknowledgments (ACK) and clear-to-send (CTS) packets in response to OFDM data null and OFDM request-to-send (RTS) packets respectively, in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. |
| US10841138B2 |
PAM-4 calibration
A hybrid voltage mode (VM) and current mode (CM) four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) transmitter circuits (a.k.a. drivers) is calibrated using a configurable replica circuit and calibration control circuitry. The replica circuit includes an on-chip termination impedance to mimic a receiver's termination impedance. The amount of level enhancement provided by the current mode circuitry is calibrated by adjusting the current provided to the output node and sunk from the output node by the replica current mode circuitry while the replica voltage mode circuitry is driving an intermediate PAM-4 level. After the level enhancement has been set, the non-linearity between levels is calibrated by adjusting the amount of current provided to the output node by the replica current mode circuitry while the replica voltage mode circuitry is driving a maximum output voltage level. |
| US10841136B1 |
Asymmetric factorization of generalized raised cosine filters for improved selectivity
An apparatus to transmit and receive wireless communications is disclosed in which the transmit circuitry includes a square root raised cosine filter to pulse shape modulate signals and the receive circuitry includes a higher order Nyquist receive filter coupled to receive the input signals and remove the pulse shaping modulation. The cascaded combination of the transmit and receive filters has a frequency response equivalent to a higher order generalized raised cosine filter response. |
| US10841133B2 |
Methods, apparatus, and systems to increase common-mode transient immunity in isolation devices
Methods, systems, and apparatus to increase common-mode transient immunity in isolation devices is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a current mirror including an input terminal and an output terminal; a transistor including a gate terminal, a first current terminal, and a second current terminal, the gate terminal coupled to a reference voltage terminal, the first current terminal coupled to the input terminal of the current mirror, and the second current terminal coupled to an input node; a buffer including an input terminal and an output terminal, the input terminal of the buffer coupled to the output terminal of the current mirror; and a logic gate including an input terminal and an output terminal, the input terminal of the logic gate coupled to the output terminal of the buffer. |
| US10841131B2 |
Distributed WAN security gateway
Some embodiments establish for an entity a virtual network over several public clouds of several public cloud providers and/or in several regions. In some embodiments, the virtual network is an overlay network that spans across several public clouds to interconnect one or more private networks (e.g., networks within branches, divisions, departments of the entity or their associated datacenters), mobile users, and SaaS (Software as a Service) provider machines, and other web applications of the entity. The virtual network in some embodiments can be configured to optimize the routing of the entity's data messages to their destinations for best end-to-end performance, reliability and security, while trying to minimize the routing of this traffic through the Internet. Also, the virtual network in some embodiments can be configured to optimize the layer 4 processing of the data message flows passing through the network. |
| US10841130B2 |
IoT communication module for a building technology device, bus device, a building technology device for IoT-networks, building technology communication system and building technology management system
A communication module for a building technology device, especially a luminaire, is provided, wherein the communication module is configured to be connectable to an IoT-network and a communication bus, and being configured for a bi-directional communication on the IoT-network and the communication bus, wherein the communication module is configured to convert communication data between the communication bus and the IoT-network. |
| US10841126B2 |
Method and apparatus for operating a telecommunications access network
An access network includes a twisted metallic pair connection over which data may be transmitted in accordance with a digital subscriber line protocol of transmission. The access network further includes an access network modem connected to the twisted metallic pair connection which is operable to transmit and receive signals thereover, in accordance with a digital subscriber line protocol of transmission. The access network further comprises a broadband speed estimation tool including a web server and/or an order processing sub-system 1120 and a line length, further deployment factors and speed determiner module 1170. The access network further comprises a line management subsystem which determines an appropriate value for each of one or more configuration parameters associated with the operation of the access network modem in dependence upon an estimated data rate and causes the access network modem to operate in accordance with the determined value or values of the configuration parameters. |
| US10841119B1 |
Device representation management using representation types
A technology is described for operating a device shadowing service that manages device representations for physical devices that are network addressable. An example method may include associating a device representation with a representation type, where the device representation represents a copy of a state of a physical device in network communication with a device shadowing service that maintains the device representation, and the representation type may define a command that can be invoked through the device representation. After the device representation has been associated with the representation type, the command may be invoked through the device representation. Invoking the command may involve identifying the representation type associated with the device representation and determining that the command is supported by the representation type. Thereafter, the command may be executed. |
| US10841118B2 |
Automatic pairing method and server
An automatic pairing method and a server are provided. The automatic pairing method is performed by the server for automatically pairing a first device with a second device. The automatic pairing method includes following steps. A user account associated with the first device is stored. An association request for associating the second device with the user account is received. A first security configuration parameter of the first device is transmitted to the second device. A second security configuration parameter of the second device is transmitted to the first device. |
| US10841117B2 |
Method for performing feedback by terminal in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for performing a feedback for an evolved-multimedia broadcast multicast service (E-MBMS) by a terminal in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving the E-MBMS from a base station; and transmitting feedback information for the E-MBMS in an uplink subframe, wherein the terminal operates in an RRC idle state. |
| US10841115B2 |
Systems and methods for identifying participants in multimedia data streams
Methods of and systems for identifying a discrete participant among a plurality of participants in an audio/video communication (e.g., video content, digital video content, audio content, and audio-visual content) that include: receiving the audio/video communication; identifying from the audio/video communication content (e.g., using metadata from the broadcast content to identify each participant) multiple identification-related features for each participant; associating a first identification-related feature of a first participant to a second identification-related feature of the first participant; organizing the associated identification-related features of the first participant into a feature class(es); logically relating a first feature class to a second feature class; and attributing a grouping of logically-related feature classes to the discrete participant. |
| US10841114B2 |
Methods for sharing images captured at an event
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable medium are described for forming an image sharing pool at a server device. The event associated with the sharing pool may be proposed by a moderator or detected by the server device based on examination of the metadata included in images received at the server device. Users who have uploaded images associated with the event or who are at the event may be invited to join the event. In another aspect of the present disclosure, provisional rights may be granted based on a user accepting an invitation to the event and permanent rights may be granted based on a user contributing an image to the sharing pool. |
| US10841112B2 |
Interactive timeline for communication content
Described herein is a system that generates and displays a timeline for communication content. The system determines events that occur in association with the communication content (e.g., a video conference, a chat or messaging conversation, etc.). The system adds a representation of an event to the timeline in association with a time at which the event occurs. Moreover, the system enables user interaction with the representation so that the user can view information associated with an event. |
| US10841110B2 |
MCVideo identifier in an AAR command in a wireless network
A policy and charging rules function (PCRF) receives from a mission critical video (MCVideo) application function, a DIAMETER AA-Request (AAR) command. The DIAMETER AAR command comprises: an attribute value pair (AVP) comprising an MCVideo-identifier identifying an MCVideo service; and a quality of service (QoS) parameter indicating a QoS of the MCVideo service. The PCRF determines one or more QoS policies based on the MCVideo-identifier and the QoS parameter. The PCRF transmits to a policy charging enforcement function (PCEF), a DIAMETER command comprising the one or more QoS policies. |
| US10841109B2 |
Bundling over-the-top services with third party services
A device may receive a request to access a bundling service that manages access to an over-the-top service provided by an over-the-top service provider. The device may receive information that identifies a third party service provider and a user credential associated with the third party service provider. The third party service provider may be different from the over-the-top service provider, and the third party service provider may not provide the over-the-top service. The device may provide an authentication request, including the user credential, to a third party device associated with the third party service provider. The device may receive an authentication response from the third party device. The authentication response may indicate whether the third party device successfully authenticated the user credential. The device may selectively provide access to the bundling service based on receiving the authentication response. |
| US10841107B2 |
Efficient delay-based PUF implementation using optimal racing strategy
According to various aspects, a delay-based physical unclonable function (PUF) device is provided. According to one embodiment, the PUF device includes circuitry for generating output bits of entropy by comparing, or “racing”, a plurality of PUF cells. A PUF cell is a building block of the PUF device. For example, the PUF device may include two identically designed circuits with only process related variations and each circuit can be a PUF cell. According to another aspect, if PUF cells with same history of winning or losing are being compared in a race, adversaries cannot predict the outcome of the current race based on previous race results. Accordingly, systems and methods are described herein for generating multiple rounds of races based on the previous rounds of races. Thus, one PUF cell can be used in multiple pairwise comparisons while maximal entropy is extracted. |
| US10841106B1 |
Combined authentication and encryption
A system and methods are provided for establishing an authenticated and encrypted communication connection between two devices with at most two round-trip communications. During establishment of an initial authenticated, encrypted communication connection (or afterward), a first device (e.g., a server) provides the second device (e.g., a client) with a token (e.g., a challenge) that lives or persists beyond the current connection. After that connection is terminated and the second device initiates a new connection, it uses the token as part of the handshaking process to reduce the necessary round-trip communications to one. |
| US10841104B2 |
System and method for secure relayed communications from an implantable medical device
The present invention provides systems and methods for supporting encrypted communications with a medical device, such as an implantable device, through a relay device to a remote server, and may employ cloud computing technologies. An implantable medical device is generally constrained to employ a low power transceiver, which supports short distance digital communications. A relay device, such as a smartphone or WiFi access point, acts as a conduit for the communications to the internet or other network, which need not be private or secure. The medical device supports encrypted secure communications, such as a virtual private network technology. The medical device negotiates a secure channel through a smartphone or router, for example, which provides application support for the communication, but may be isolated from the content. |
| US10841100B2 |
Dynamically managing exchanges of data using a distributed ledger and homomorphic commitments
The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented systems, apparatuses, and processes that dynamically manage exchanges of data using a cryptographically secure distributed ledger and homomorphic commitments. For example, and in response to an occurrence of a triggering event, an apparatus may obtain parameter values that characterize the data exchange, first commitment values representative of the parameter values, and a first digital signature. In response to a verification of the first digital signature, the apparatus may apply a second digital signature to commitment data that includes the first commitment values and a second commitment value representative of the first digital signature. The apparatus may transmit a signal that includes the commitment data and the second digital signature to a computing system, which generates an element of distributed ledger that includes the commitment data and the second digital signature in response to a verification of the second digital signature. |
| US10841097B2 |
Method and system for verification of identity attribute information
A method for verification of a data value via a Merkle root includes: storing, in a memory of a processing server, a Merkle root; receiving at least a data value, a nonce, and a plurality of hash path values; generating a combined value by combining the data value and the nonce; generating a first hash value via application of a hashing algorithm to the combined value; generating a subsequent hash value via application of the hashing algorithm to a combination of the first hash value and a first of the plurality of hash path values; repeating generation of the subsequent hash value using a combination of the next hash path value of the plurality of hash path values and the most recent subsequent hash value; and verifying the data value based on a comparison of the Merkle root and the last generated subsequent hash value. |
| US10841095B2 |
Secure data transfer
The disclosure relates to a system, devices and methods for distributing and using a communication scheme to enable secure communication between communication nodes in a network. A method comprises determining, in the network node, a set of available IP addresses and a set of ports, dividing, in the network node, a time frame in time slots, associating, in the network node, each time slot with an IP address, with a port associated with the IP address and with a unique cryptographic key, distributing, from the network node, the communication scheme to the communication node, receiving, in the communication node, the communication scheme and communicating, in the communication node, with another communication node in possession of a corresponding communication scheme by hopping between the IP addresses and ports according to the communication scheme and encrypting the communication using the unique cryptographic key. |
| US10841094B2 |
Private and public media data in a decentralized system
Inserting media data into existing media data in a way that ensures the inserted data is not accessible to all users. The computing system and methods are implemented in a decentralized network that implements a distributed ledger, the distributed ledger backing one or more decentralized identities (DID) for one or more users of the computing system. Access to a first portion of media data is granted to various users. The access is partially based on a DID that is associated with each of the users. A second portion of media data is received that is inserted into the first portion of media data. The second portion of media data is accessible by only some of the users who have access to the first portion of media data. Access to the second portion of media data is also partially based on the DID of each of the subset of users. |
| US10841092B2 |
Method and system for Cheon resistant static Diffie-Hellman security
A method for providing Cheon-resistance security for a static elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman cryptosystem (ECDH), the method including providing a system for message communication between a pair of correspondents, a message being exchanged in accordance with ECDH instructions executable on computer processors of the respective correspondents, the ECDH instructions using a curve selected from a plurality of curves, the selecting including choosing a range of curves; selecting, from the range of curves, curves matching a threshold efficiency; excluding, within the selected curves, curves which may include intentional vulnerabilities; and electing, from non-excluded selected curves, a curve with Cheon resistance, the electing comprising a curve from an additive group of order q, wherein q is prime, such that q−1=cr and q+1=ds, where r and s are primes and c and d are integer Cheon cofactors of the group, such that cd≤48. |
| US10841090B2 |
Plaintexts encrypted with pluralities of keys
Examples discussed herein disclose, among other things, an encrypting device. The encrypting device may include a key engine to obtain a first key associated with a first access level, and a second key associated with a second access level. The encrypting device may also include a multi-key encryption engine to encrypt a first portion of the plaintext with the first key, and encrypt a second portion of the plaintext with the second key, where the first portion may include more detailed information than the second portion, and where the first access level may be higher than the second access level. |
| US10841088B2 |
Secure credential generation and validation
Techniques for generating and validating credentials are disclosed. A server generates credentials using only a single current key, up to a threshold number of credentials. The server accepts client connection requests with credentials that were generated using n most recently used keys, including the current key and one or more legacy keys. The server rejects connection requests with credentials that were generated using any other key. When the current key has been used to generate the threshold number of credentials, the server updates the current key to a new key. |
| US10841085B2 |
Method for generating a secret or a key in a network
Disclosed is a method for generating a secret or key in a network having first and second subscribers and a transmission channel therebetween. The first and second subscribers generating first and second sequences of subscriber values to achieve synchronous transmission; and the first and second subscriber each generate a common secret, the first subscriber doing so based on information about the first sequence and a superposition of the second sequence onto the first sequence on the transmission channel, and the second subscriber doing so based on information about the second sequence and the superposition of the second sequence of subscriber values onto the first sequence of subscriber values. At certain intervals or in accordance with a detected sequence of superposed values, the first or second subscriber outputs at least one filler value onto the transmission channel such that an edge change or change in values occurs on the transmission channel. |
| US10841080B2 |
Oblivious pseudorandom function in a key management system
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a communication system, a memory that stores operational instructions, and processing circuitry operably coupled to the interface and to the memory that is configured to execute the operational instructions to perform various operations. The computing device processes an input value associated with a key based on a blinding key in accordance with an Oblivious Pseudorandom Function (OPRF) blinding operation to generate a blinded value and transmits it to another computing device (e.g., that is associated with a Key Management System (KMS) service). The computing device then receives a blinded key that is based on processing of the blinded value based on an OPRF using an OPRF secret. The computing device processes the blinded key based on the blinding key in accordance with the OPRF unblinding operation to generate the key (e.g., to be used for secure information access). |
| US10841078B2 |
Encryption key block generation with barrier descriptors
Encryption key block generation with barrier descriptors is provided. In some embodiments, a descriptor is read. The descriptor includes a list of revoked devices and a list of boundaries between devices. A plurality of subset differences is generated. The plurality of subset-differences covers a plurality of devices. None of the plurality of devices appears in the list of revoked devices. None of the plurality of subset differences spans any of the boundaries. Encrypted information is generated based on the subset differences. |
| US10841077B2 |
Cryptographic device arranged to compute a target block cipher
A cryptographic device is configured to compute a target block cipher (Bt) on an input message and includes a control unit, and first and second block cipher units for computing the target block cipher (Bt) on the input message. The control unit is configured to take the first block cipher result and the second block cipher result as input, and to produce the first block cipher result only when the first and second block cipher results are equal. |
| US10841071B2 |
Data communication system, data communication apparatus, and sensor apparatus
A data communication system, including master-side and slave-side data communication apparatuses configured to perform bidirectional communication with each other via a single-wire communication line. The master-side data communication apparatus includes first and second transistors performing switching according respectively to an input clock and write data, and a master-side data reproduction circuit reproducing read data transmitted from the slave-side. The slave-side data communication apparatus includes a clock reproduction circuit and a slave-side data reproduction circuit configured to respectively reproduce the input clock and the write data transmitted from the master-side, and a third transistor performing switching both according to the input clock reproduced by the clock reproduction circuit and according to the read data. |
| US10841067B2 |
Wireless communication apparatus
A data unit that requires a receipt acknowledgement response in a plurality of transmitted data units is suitably selected.A wireless communication apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit controls transmission of receipt acknowledgement requests for a plurality of transmitted data units. Further, the receipt acknowledgement request whose transmission is controlled by the control unit is a receipt acknowledgement request including information, the information identifying a data unit that requires a receipt acknowledgement response in the plurality of transmitted data units and specifying the identified data unit. |
| US10841063B2 |
Indicating a number of codewords in 5G wireless communication systems
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for indicating a number of codeword symbols in a data traffic transmission. Depending on the number of layers of a data traffic transmission, the transmission can either comprise one codeword symbol or two codeword symbols. If there are two codeword symbols included in a data traffic transmission, the transmitter can indicate the modulation code scheme and other information for each codeword symbol in the first codeword symbol and second codeword symbol locations in the downlink control information data structure. If there is only one codeword symbol, however, the transmitter can provide a modulation code scheme and redundancy version that would not be self-decodable in the second codeword symbol setting location, indicating to the receiver that there is only one codeword symbol in the data traffic transmission. |
| US10841060B2 |
Method and apparatus for configuring resource block structure for NR in wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for forming a resource block (RB) structure in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a downlink (DL) signal via first physical resource blocks (PRBs), which are indexed by a network from a center of a band or from a center of a carrier, from the network. And, the UE transmits an uplink (UL) signal via second PRBs, which are aligned with the first PRBs according to synchronization signal (SS) blocks, to the network. Accordingly, a global PRB indexing and a local PRB indexing can be aligned with each other. |
| US10841059B2 |
Method of sounding a terminal in a wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
One embodiment according to the present invention, with respect to a sounding method of user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, comprises the steps of: receiving configuration of one or more sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets from a base station; receiving, from the base station, activation command information commanding the SRS transmission activation of a particular SRS resource set from among the one or more SRS resource sets; and transmitting, to the base station, the SRS corresponding to the particular SRS resource set, wherein the reference signal, for which a spatial relationship is assumed for each SRS resource included in the particular SRS resource set, can be determined on the basis of the activation command information. |
| US10841054B2 |
User device and method for transmitting signal
A user device in a wireless communication system supporting D2D communication, includes a first transmitter configured to transmit control information for D2D by using a physical control channel for D2D in a wireless frame configuration in which the physical control channel for D2D and a physical data channel for D2D are frequency-multiplexed; and a second transmitter configured to transmit data corresponding to the control information for D2D by using the physical data channel for D2D in the wireless frame configuration in which the physical control channel for D2D and the physical data channel for D2D are multiplexed in a frequency domain. |
| US10841053B2 |
Method and system for a repeater network that utilizes distributed transceivers with array processing
A device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central processor and a network management engine may be configured to function as relay device, relaying an input data stream from a source device to at least one other device. The relaying may include configuring one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers to particular mode of relay operation and receiving the input data stream from the source device via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The relaying may also include transmitting at least one relay data stream corresponding to the input data stream to the at least one other device, via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. |
| US10841052B2 |
Multi-numerology based data transmitting and receiving method and apparatus capable of frequency hopping in OFDM system
A base station for transmitting data in an OFDM system is provided. The base station is configured to convert data or a signal into a wireless band and transmit the converted data or signal to a terminal, down-convert a signal and output the down-converted signal, and generate a message for requesting terminal capability information for a sub-carrier spacing and transmit the message to the terminal accessing the base station, generate information on sub-bands of groups available to the terminal in response to receiving a terminal capability response message from the terminal and transmit the information on the sub-bands of groups available to the terminal, allocate a resource by selecting sub-bands of one group of the sub-bands of the groups available to the terminal in response to receiving a scheduling request message from the terminal and generate and transmit a resource allocation message, and transmit the data using the allocated resource. |
| US10841051B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for adapting serving cell interruption based on numerology
Methods, systems and devices for communicating via signaling are described. The system or device determines at least one first numerology and at least one second numerology used for communicating radio signals in a first cell and a second cell, respectively, wherein the at least one first numerology and the at least one second numerology include one or more parameters which define the radio signals in terms of time and frequency. The system or device obtains, based on at least one of the numerologies, a threshold related to at least one signal interruption performance metric. The system or device monitors or maintains a signal interruption performance on the first cell relative to the threshold. |
| US10841050B2 |
Signal sending apparatus, signal receiving apparatus, and methods
This application relates to the communications field, and discloses a signal sending method. The method includes: sending, by a first network device, X first signal(s) and Y second signal(s), where each second signal is associated with at least one first signal, X is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and Y is an integer greater than or equal to 1, where the first signal carries OFDM-symbol index information, the OFDM-symbol index information indicates an index of an OFDM symbol in which the first signal is located in a first time unit, the second signal carries first-time-unit index information, and the first-time-unit index information indicates an index of a first time unit in which the second signal is located in a second time unit, that is, a position of the OFDM symbol in which the first signal is located in the second time unit can be located by using a combination of one second signal and one associated first signal. |
| US10841049B2 |
Channel state information transmission resource reconfiguration
A wireless device transmits to a base station, channel state information (CSI) of a secondary cell via a first cell of a plurality of cells. One or more configuration parameters indicating that CSI transmission resources for the secondary cell are received in a first subframe via a second cell different from the first cell. Transmission of CSI of the secondary cell via the first cell is stopped in a second subframe occurring a first quantity of subframes after the first subframe. Transmission of CSI of the secondary cell via the second cell is started in a third subframe occurring a second quantity of subframes after the first subframe. The second quantity is greater than the first quantity. |
| US10841044B2 |
Method for skipping an UL transmission in a wireless communication system and device therefor
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for skipping an UL transmission in a wireless system, the method comprising: receiving a RRC signaling configuring that the UE skips an UL transmission if there is no data available for transmission, receiving an UL grant for new transmission for a HARQ process, and discarding an old MAC PDU in a HARQ buffer of the HARQ process without storing any new MAC PDU in the HARQ buffer, if there is no data available for transmission. |
| US10841042B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission, to meet transmissions requirements of different services
Example HARQ-based transmission methods and apparatus are provided, to meet transmission requirements of different services. In one example method, a network device receives a QoS parameter that is of a service corresponding to a service request and that is delivered by a core network device. The network device determines, based on the QoS parameter of the service, a HARQ configuration parameter corresponding to the service, and notifies the HARQ configuration parameter to the terminal device. Therefore, when different services are transmitted between the network device and the terminal device, different HARQ configuration parameters are configured for different services, and data transmission and retransmission of a service are performed based on a configured HARQ configuration parameter, so that transmission requirements of different services can be met. |
| US10841041B2 |
Infrastructure equipment, wireless telecommunications system and method for HARQ-ACK bundling
An infrastructure equipment that transmits signals representing data via a wireless access interface to a communications device and receives signals representing data via the wireless access interface from the communications device in accordance with a time divided structure in which the wireless access interface is divided into a plurality of repeating time units. The infrastructure equipment provides, in each of a first plurality of the time units, one of a plurality of control channels each configured to schedule one of a plurality of data channels, and provides, in each of a second plurality of time units of the signal transmitted to the communications device, one of the plurality of data channels, the plurality of data channels being formed of one or more bundles of data channels, wherein the infrastructure equipment transmits a bundle status indicator in one or more of the plurality of control channels. |
| US10841038B2 |
Method for transmitting/receiving control information in wireless communication system and apparatus for same
A method for receiving control information by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise the steps of: receiving a reference signal through at least one of multiple antenna ports of a base station; and blind-detecting control information of the terminal on the basis of at least one of a first transmission scheme using a single antenna port for the reference signal and a second transmission scheme using the multiple antenna ports for the reference signal, wherein a resource area for the first transmission scheme may overlap at least partially with a resource area for the second transmission scheme and, when the terminal performs blind-detection on the basis of the first transmission scheme, the terminal may perform the blind-detection on an assumption that the reference signal is transmitted according to the second transmission scheme in the overlapping resource area. |
| US10841034B2 |
Branched communications network
A spread spectrum system is used for transmitting data to and from devices operable as sensors and actuators in a distributed system. Communication is made through a series of aggregation nodes in a branched hierarchical network. Each device and aggregation node has a respective spread spectrum code, and has a corresponding encoder/decoder in a central control system operating the same spread spectrum codes, the encoded data relating to the devices being aggregated over a shared channel. At each level in the hierarchy the aggregated signals to/from the next level are recoded. This allows the same codes to be re-used at different levels, and in different sub-branches in the same level, increasing the number of devices that can be served on one channel. |
| US10841033B2 |
Under-sampling based receiver architecture for wireless communications systems
The disclosed systems, structures, and methods are directed to a wireless receiver. The configurations presented herein employ a structure operative to receive a plurality of analog signals, a signal encoding module configured to encode the plurality of received analog signals into a single encoded analog composite signal based on a coding scheme, a plurality of analog-to-digital converters operative to sample the single encoded analog composite signal and generate digital composite signals representatives of the single encoded analog signal. In addition, a signal decoding module configured to decode the digital composite signals based on the coding scheme in an interleaving manner and to output digital signals corresponding to the received plurality of analog signals containing the desired information content. |
| US10841031B2 |
Systems and methods to improve holdover performance in R-PHY network architectures
Systems and methods for regaining synchronization between a CMTS core and an RPD, where both the core and the RPD are configured for individual synchronization in a slave configuration to a common grandmaster clock. |
| US10841029B2 |
Hybrid time-division multiplexing
A hybrid time-division multiplexing comprises: S1, determining a length of a single time cycle; S2, formulating a working state table corresponding to the length of the single time cycle; S3, dividing the single time cycle into a synchronous time-division multiplexing time section and/or a statistical time-division multiplexing time section with a ratio of the synchronous time-division multiplexing time section to the single time cycle no less than 0 and no greater than 1; and S4, according to the working state table, accessing the channel and transmitting information by the MAC protocol user adopting synchronous time-division multiplexing in the synchronous time-division multiplexing time section, and/or accessing the channel and transmitting information by the MAC protocol user adopting statistical time-division multiplexing in the statistical time-division multiplexing time section. The method realizes compatibility of the above two communication methods on one chip, and satisfies user's requirements on real-time communication and a high channel utilization rate. |
| US10841028B2 |
System and method for analyzing user-supplied media at a sporting event
A system and method of analyzing and presenting user-supplied media at a sporting event is described herein. A user may collect data using a mobile device at a sporting event. The data may be analyzed by an application on the mobile device to determine if the data comprises an event at the sporting event. The data may be combined with data from a plurality of mobile devices to create a combined data set for distribution. The fan may be rewarded for the contribution to the combined data set. |
| US10841027B2 |
Broadcast wave synchronization signal converting device
A broadcast wave synchronization signal converting device that synchronizes broadcast waves with GNSS signals on a reception side and corrects the broadcast waves to global standard times by use of correction values, thereby performing periodic calibrations of frequencies. The broadcast wave synchronization signal converting device includes: a PLL circuit reproduces system clocks on the basis of time information acquired from received broadcast waves; a subtractor (C1) subtracts, from a counter value corresponding to the periodic signal intervals of GNSS signals, a counter value of the system clocks counted at the signal intervals and outputs the difference value; a control amount adjustor calculates a control amount of synchronization as a correction value on the basis of the difference value; and a subtractor (B) subtracts the correction value from the acquired time information and sets the corrected time information to a PCR counter as the internal time information thereof. |
| US10841026B2 |
System, method and computer-accessible medium for simulation and emulation of wireless cluster and/or tapped delay line models
An exemplary device for emulating a wireless channel(s) can be provided, which can include, for example, a first communication interface configured to receive a first data signal(s) from a transmitter unit(s), a hardware processor configured to receive the first data signal(s) from the first communication interface, and generate a second data signal(s) by modifying the first data signal(s) based on a test(s) being performed on the transmitter unit(s), and a second communication interface configured to receive the second data signal(s) from the hardware processor, and transmit the second data signal(s) to a receiver unit(s). A control interface can be included, which can be configured to receive a control signal(s) from the transmitter unit(s) or the receiver unit(s) and provide the control signal(s) to the hardware processor for determining the second data signal(s). |
| US10841021B2 |
Circuit for calibrating baud rate and serial port chip
The present disclosure relates to a circuit for calibrating a baud rate. The circuit includes: a first counter connected to a receiving module of a serial port chip and configured to record a first low level duration of a data frame received by the receiving module; a second counter configured to: receive a bit sampling pulse generated from sampling the data frame according to a current baud rate of the receiving module, and record a quantity of the bit sampling pulse in the first low level duration; a divider, connected to the first counter and the second counter and calculate a calibration baud rate according to the first low level duration and the quantity of the bit sampling pulse in the first low level duration; and a selector, connected to the receiving module and the divider and configured to output the calibration baud rate to the receiving module. |
| US10841017B2 |
Distributed system for radio frequency environment simulation
A method and system for measuring a device under test are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of implementing a measurement system is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of nodes, each node including a combination of a communication tester configured to generate a communication signal and a channel emulator configured to emulate a channel, and providing a user interface configured to enable a user to control at least one of the plurality of nodes. |
| US10841010B2 |
Bi-directional temperature controlled optical transceiver
A local node of an optical network obtains local operating parameters associated with a bi-directional link to a remote node of the optical network, including a nominal local wavelength and a local temperature. The local node also obtains remote operating parameters of the remote node, including a nominal remote wavelength and a remote temperature. The local node further determines a target local wavelength based on a comparison of the local operating parameters and the remote operating parameters, and tunes a local transmitter to generate light at the target local wavelength. The local node also tunes a local filter to transmit light at the target local wavelength and reflect light at a target remote wavelength. This may be done by exchanging a configuration identifier with the remote node. The configuration identifier from the remote node is encoded in pulses of light from a remote transmitter in the remote node. |
| US10841005B2 |
Closed loop module control for communication based on signal quality
The present invention is directed to communication systems and methods. According to an embodiment, a receiving optical transceiver determines signal quality for signals received from a transmitting optical transceiver. Information related to the signal quality is embedded into back-channel data and sent to the transmitting optical transceiver. The transmitting optical transceiver detects the presence of the back-channel data and adjusts one or more of its operating parameters based on the back-channel data. There are other embodiments as well. |
| US10841002B2 |
Low data volume satellite communication system
Systems are disclosed for a communication system optimized for low data volume communications. In embodiments of the invention, a terminal in the communication system is configured to communicate with a satellite and a terrestrial hub using the same communications architecture, such as an air interface. In embodiments of the invention, the terminal sends a burst comprising a message to network infrastructure at a pre-scheduled time such that the network infrastructure can derive a terminal identity for the terminal by the time of the burst without having to include terminal identity information in the message. The terminal can communicate with the network infrastructure either through the satellite or through the terrestrial hub. |
| US10841001B2 |
Dynamically segmenting information according to at least one criterion
A message may be too long to be sent all at once. For example, there may be a limit on the number of bits that can be transmitted by a device operating in a power-save mode. The disclosure relates in some aspects to sending a message over packet boundaries (e.g., several frames or sub-frames). The disclosure relates in some aspects to segmenting a Broadcast Information Block and sending the resulting segments over broadcast information window boundaries. In some aspects, this information may be sent via overhead channels. To facilitate this segmentation, information about the segmentation may be included in the information sent from the transmitter to the receiver. For example, a first segment may indicate the number of segments and subsequent segments may indicate the segment number. |
| US10840998B2 |
Broadband satellite terminal
A satellite system may have a constellation of communications satellites in orbits such as highly inclined eccentric geosynchronous orbits and low earth orbits. Satellite terminals may be used to communicate with the satellite constellation. The satellite terminals may have control circuitry that dynamically adjusts phased antenna array circuitry to steer antenna beams towards one or more satellites. Multiple antenna beams may be steered in different directions simultaneously. A satellite terminal may be used in simultaneously transmitting and receiving data from different respective satellites and may be used in transmitting and receiving satellite signals in multiple satellite bands. The satellite terminal may have an outdoor unit that is coupled to an indoor unit over a digital communications path. The outdoor unit may include the phased antenna array circuitry and transceiver and modem circuitry, whereas the indoor unit may cache media and serve as a firewall, router, and wireless access point. |
| US10840996B2 |
Repeating method of wireless repeating device, and wireless repeating device
The present invention is applicable to the field of communications technologies, and provides a repeating method of a wireless repeating device and a wireless repeating device. The method includes the following steps: synchronizing network connection information of an upstream AP to a downstream WLAN AP interface of the wireless repeating device; obtaining, according to the downstream WLAN AP interface corresponding to the synchronized upstream AP, downstream wireless STA MAC address information, and establishing an upstream WLAN Client interface which is in a mapping relationship with an STA MAC address; and performing, according to the mapping relationship between the STA MAC address and the established upstream WLAN Client interface, management on data forwarded between the upstream AP and a downstream wireless STA. |
| US10840991B2 |
User equipment and method for selection of CSI reference signal and CSI reporting in a beam forming system with multiple beams
A user equipment (UE) includes a receiver that receives multiple Reference Signals (RSs) transmitted using respectively different radio resources from a base station (BS), a processor that selects, out of RS Resource Indicators (RRIs) associated with the radio resources used for RS transmission, multiple RRIs, and a transmitter that transmits the multiple RRIs to the BS. The processor derives Channel State Information (CSI) in each of the RRIs using the RSs. The transmitter transmits the CSI corresponding to the multiple RRIs to the BS. The transmitter transmits the CSI corresponding to a part of the multiple RRIs. The transmitter transmits a RRI rank that indicates a number of the selected RRIs. |
| US10840986B2 |
Enhanced type II channel state information in mobile communications
Techniques and examples pertaining to enhanced Type II channel state information (CSI) in mobile communications are described. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a network node of a wireless network, one or more reference signals via a communication link between the UE and the network node. The UE constructs a precoder such that a number of selected beams for a plurality of delay taps is reduced. The UE also constructs a linear combination-based CSI feedback by utilizing the precoder such that overhead in the CSI feedback is reduced compared to a case in which the number of selected beams for the plurality of delay taps is not reduced. The UE then transmits the CSI feedback to the network node. |
| US10840984B2 |
Method for reporting channel state information, user equipment, and base station
The present disclosure relates to a method for reporting channel state information, a user equipment, and a base station. A channel state information measurement resource is determined by a UE according to an aperiodic CSI trigger signaling, so that a base station transmits a CSI-RS only when the UE needs to report the aperiodic CSI. Compared with transmitting a periodic CSI-RS by an existing base station, unnecessary transmitting of the CSI-RS is reduced, and energy of the base station such as an eNB is saved; and reducing the CSI-RS transmission may reduce resources occupied by the CSI-RS, thereby improving the spectrum efficiency of the system. In addition, reducing unnecessary CSI-RS transmission allows the interference in other cells by the base station being reduced; finally, CSI measurement resources are reserved only when the CSI needs to be fed back, the cost occupied by the CSI measurement resources is reduced. |
| US10840983B2 |
Apparatus and method for integrated beamforming in wireless communication system
The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). An operating method of a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The operating method includes estimating a channel for each of a plurality of terminals based on reference signals received from the plurality of the terminals, determining a beamforming vector matrix for each of the plurality of the terminals by considering scheduling and power allocation information based on the estimated channels, and transmitting data to at least one of the plurality of the terminals using the determined beamforming vector matrix. |
| US10840978B2 |
Cooperative wireless networks
A cooperative multi-user multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) antenna array comprises a MIMO subspace processing system communicatively coupled by a first network to a first set of antennas residing on multiple geographically distributed wireless terminals in a mobile radio network. The first set of antennas is updated to produce a second set of antennas, and the first network is reconfigured to connect the MIMO subspace processing system to the second set of antennas. MIMO subspace processing is reconfigured to employ channel state information for the second set of antennas to generate a plurality of non-interfering subspace channels occupying a common frequency in the mobile radio network. |
| US10840973B2 |
Method for transferring data between an automation field device and a communication box
The present disclosure relates to a method for transferring data between an automation field device and a communication box, wherein the method comprises: voltage modulation of the supply voltage of the field device by the communication box such that a first communication signal is produced and the supply voltage has the first communication signal; demodulation of the first communication signal from the supply voltage applied to the field device by means of the two-wire line such that the first communication signal is separated from the supply voltage; current modulation of an output current of the field device by the field device such that a second communication signal is produced and the output current has the second communication signal; demodulation of the second communication signal from the output current by the communication box such that the second communication signal is separated from the output current. |
| US10840972B2 |
Maintenance over auxiliary power line
Systems, methods, and apparatus for maintenance over an auxiliary power line are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a disclosed method for generating and transmitting maintenance data from a unit on a vehicle comprises powering the unit by an auxiliary power line connected to the unit or a primary power line connected to the unit. The method further comprises modulating, by the unit, at least a portion of the maintenance data to generate at least one modulated signal. Further, the method comprises transmitting, from the unit, at least one modulated signal on the auxiliary power line. In one or more embodiments, the maintenance data comprises health management (HM) data, built in test (BIT) data, built in test equipment (BITE) data, and/or configuration data. |
| US10840971B2 |
Pre-distortion for multi-level signaling
Methods, systems, and devices for pre-distortion of multi-level signaling are described. A device may identify two multi-level signals that are to be transmitted over two transmission lines at the same time. The device may estimate the crosstalk expected to be caused by one of the multi-level signals on the other during propagation. Based on the expected crosstalk, the device may generate a signal that compensates for the expected crosstalk. In some examples, the signal may be a combination of the first signal and a cancelation signal. In some examples, once the compensated signal has been generated, it is transmitted over its respective transmission line at the same time that the other multi-level is transmitted over its respective transmission line. |
| US10840967B2 |
Reduction of in-device coexistence interference
There are provided measures for reduction of in-device co-existence interference. Such measures exemplarily comprise (in a mobile network scenario allowing co-operation of a first radio access technology with a second radio access technology) detecting a need to avoid an in-device co-existence interference in relation to said co-operation, and performing at least one action for avoiding the in-device co-existence interference. |
| US10840965B2 |
Test system
A testing system includes: a bilinear polarized antenna for receiving and dividing a circularly polarized radio wave associating with a horizontal and a vertical polarization path of an object-to-be-tested into a first and a second high frequency signal; a phase retarder for delaying a phase of the first high frequency signal by 90 degrees to form a first high frequency signal with a phase delay of 90 degrees; a power splitter for receiving or synthesizing the first high frequency signal with the phase delay of 90 degrees and the second high frequency signal; and a high frequency signal transceiver for measuring power of the first high frequency signal with the phase delay of 90 degrees and the second high frequency signal and determining states of the horizontal and vertical polarization paths of the object-to-be-tested based on the power. Therefore, the testing system can speed up testing of the object-to-be-tested. |
| US10840964B2 |
Smartphone case
A smartphone case that enables millimeter-wave band communication to be robust in terms of connection stability is provided. The smartphone case is to be removably attached to a smartphone and includes one or more millimeter-wave band communication antennas associated with a communication circuit for carrying out millimeter-wave band communication. This configuration offers a high degree of flexibility in the layout of the one or more millimeter-wave band communication antennas, with the performance of a 5G communication system being fully exploited. |
| US10840962B2 |
Electronic device and grip recognition method thereof
An electronic device and a grip recognition method for reducing the SAR of the electronic device are provided. The electronic device of the present disclosure includes an antenna, a coupler, a processor electrically coupled to the antenna and the coupler, and a memory electrically coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to detect a change of a transmit power value using the coupler during transmission of a radio signal through the antenna. The instructions further cause the processor to determine whether the electronic device is being gripped based on the change of the transmit power value. |
| US10840961B1 |
Method and apparatus for managing feature based user input routing in a multi-processor architecture using single user interface control
Improved management of feature based user input routing in a multi-processor architecture is provided. A portable communication device comprises a primary processor controlling a primary operating system, a secondary processor controlling a secondary operating system, and a user interface input control operatively coupled to the primary processor. The user interface input control is configured to enable a radio function and a secondary user input extension associated therewith. The primary processor selectively determines processing of a radio function by one of the primary and secondary processors based on activation of the user interface input control in conjunction with the user input interface extension. |
| US10840959B2 |
Compact broadband receiver for multi-band millimeter-wave 5G communication
According to one embodiment, a compact broadband radio frequency (RF) receiver circuit includes a low noise amplifier which includes a first amplifier stage, a second amplifier stage, an inter-stage network including a higher order filter network, where the inter-stage network is coupled between the first amplifier stage and the second amplifier stage, and a double resonance transformer network coupled to an output of the second amplifier stage. The RF receiver circuit includes a low pass filter and a mixer circuit coupled between the low noise amplifier and the low pass filter. |
| US10840957B2 |
Radio frequency communication systems with coexistence management based on digital observation data
Radio frequency (RF) communication systems with coexistence management are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a method of coexistence management in a mobile device includes providing an RF receive signal from a first front end system to a first transceiver, generating an RF transmit signal and an RF observation signal using a second front end system, the RF observation signal generated based on observing the RF transmit signal, generating digital observation data based on the RF observation signal using a second transceiver, downconverting the RF receive signal to generate a baseband receive signal using the first transceiver, and compensating the baseband receive signal for RF signal leakage based on the digital observation data using the first transceiver. |
| US10840953B2 |
Coated articles demonstrating electromagnetic radiation transparency and method of mitigating contaminant build-up on a substrate
The present invention is directed to coated articles demonstrating a transmission of electromagnetic radiation having a frequency of 22 to 81 GHz in the range of 70% to 100%. The articles comprise substrates coated with curable film-forming compositions comprising a first film-forming polymer prepared from at least one hydrophobic monomer, a second film-forming polymer prepared from at least one hydrophobic monomer, and a curing agent. Upon application of the curable film-forming composition to the substrate to form a coating layer, the first film-forming polymer is distributed throughout the coating layer, and the concentration of the second film-forming polymer is greater at the surface of the coating layer than the concentration of the second film-forming polymer within the bulk of the coating layer. The present invention is also drawn to methods of mitigating contaminant build-up on a substrate using the curable film-forming compositions described above. |
| US10840952B2 |
RF switching system for 5G communications and design method thereof
A radio-frequency (RF) switching system for 5G communications and a method of designing it are disclosed. The RF switching system includes a MMMB switching unit and an antenna. The MMMB switching unit includes a 5G-mode multiband switching subunit including a 5G-mode low-frequency (LF)-band switching subunit and a 5G-mode high-frequency (HF)-band switching subunit partitioned from the 5G-mode LF-band switching subunit at a reference frequency. The 5G-mode LF-band switching subunit is connected to the antenna via a low-pass filter, and the 5G-mode HF-band switching subunit is connected to the antenna via a high-pass filter. The RF switching system for 5G communications has improved isolation performance in both the HF and LF bands and improved insertion loss performance in the HF band. |
| US10840950B2 |
Adaptive channelizer
A signal identification system includes an analog adaptive channelizer having a plurality of channels. Each channel has a channel size defined by a bandwidth and a gain. The system further includes an electronic signal identification (ID) controller in signal communication with the analog adaptive channelizer. The ID controller is configured to determine a dynamic range event that modifies an energy level of an affected channel among the plurality of channels, and output a feedback signal including channel parameters based on the dynamic range event. The analog adaptive channelizer actively adjusts at least one of the bandwidth and the gain of the affected channel based on the feedback to change the channel size of the affected channel. |
| US10840944B2 |
Encoding apparatus, decoding apparatus, data structure of code string, encoding method, decoding method, encoding program and decoding program
An encoding/decoding technique is provided with which encoding can be performed using a small average number of bits even for a sequence of integer values including small non-zero values and having a distribution heavily biased toward small values. The present invention includes an integer encoding part 110 that, with respect to an inputted sequence of non-negative integer values x_n, n∈{1, 2, . . . , N} (hereinafter referred to as an “integer sequence”), obtains a 1-bit code as a code corresponding to a run of integer values 0 of length L, a predetermined number which satisfies 2≤L≤2K−1, which is included in the integer sequence and obtains a (K×x_n)-bit or (K×x_n+1)-bit code as a code corresponding to a set of a run of integer values 0 of length from 0 to L−1 and one non-zero integer value x_n included in the integer sequence, where K is assumed to be an integer equal to or larger than 2. |
| US10840942B2 |
Method and apparatus for compressing data
Apparatus and a method for compressing data that represent a time-dependent signal that includes a multiplicity of time-dependent signal elements, wherein a multiplicity of spectra are received, where each spectrum corresponds to one of the time-dependent signal elements, and where each spectrum includes a multiplicity of frequencies fj and a multiplicity of amplitudes of the multiplicity of frequencies, wherein a compressed data record is generated, wherein a respective number of coefficients of an autoregressive model for the multiplicity of amplitudes of each of the multiplicity of frequencies is ascertained, and wherein the compressed data record is generated, where the compressed data record includes at least the number of coefficients and the frequencies associated with the coefficients. |
| US10840941B1 |
System and method for improving matching in a signal converter
A signal converter includes a first converter, a second converter, a signal generator, and a controller. The first converter generates a first analog signal from a digital signal, and the second converter generates a second analog signal from the digital signal. The signal generator outputs a converted analog signal based on the first analog signal and the second analog signal. The controller generates one or more control signals to change a power supply state of at least one of the first converter and the second converter. The change in power supply state suppress even order harmonics. |
| US10840939B2 |
High efficiency power amplifier architectures for RF applications
A parallel delta sigma modulator architecture is disclosed. The parallel delta sigma modulator architecture includes a signal demultiplexer configured to receive an input signal and to demultiplex the input signal to output a plurality of streams, a plurality of delta sigma modulators executing in parallel, each delta sigma modulator configured to receive a stream from the plurality of streams and to generate a delta sigma modulated output, and a signal multiplexer configured to receive a plurality of delta sigma modulated outputs from the plurality of delta sigma modulators and to multiplex together the plurality of delta sigma modulated outputs into a pulse train. |
| US10840938B2 |
A/D conversion circuit with shifted encode values
An A/D conversion circuit converts an analog signal into numerical data. The A/D conversion circuit includes: a pulse delay circuit that includes an odd number of delay units connected in series, and inverting and delaying a pulse signal, and that changes the numeral number of the delay units which the pulse signal passes through in accordance with a value of the analog signal; latch circuits that synchronize the pulse signal with sampling clocks, and latch the pulse signal; encoders that set a position of the pulse signal to the numerical data by circulating encode values periodically set in order from an initial value to a final value to synchronously sample the encode values; subtractors that calculate each of differences between a previous value and a current value; and an adder that adds subtraction results. The encode values are set to be shifted between at least two encoders. |
| US10840937B1 |
Server with capability of duplicating video source signal
A server utilizes a BMC to divide a video source signal into original analog and digital component signals, and stores the digital component signal in a set of registers of a duplicator. An ADC converts the original analog component signal into a converted digital component signal, which is stored in another set of registers of the duplicator. A switch set of the duplicator is switched to output a pair of the converted and the original digital component signals. One DAC converts the converted digital component signal into a converted analog component signal, which together with the original digital component signal, serves as a duplicated video signal. |
| US10840936B2 |
Sensor, driving method, and electronic device
Provided is an AD conversion unit that includes a comparator to compare an electric signal with a reference signal having a variable level, and performs AD conversion of the electric signal by using a result of the comparison between the electric signal and the reference signal by the comparator. An attenuation unit attenuates the electric signal supplied to the comparator with the amplitude of the electric signal. |
| US10840935B2 |
Passive conjunction circuit and voltage measurement circuit
A passive conjunction circuit for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is disclosed. In one aspect, the passive conjunction circuit includes a first input node receiving an analog input signal to be converted by the ADC and a second input node receiving a reference voltage other than a ground voltage of the ADC. The passive conjunction circuit also includes a first output node to be connected to a first differential input of the ADC (20) and a second output node to be connected to a second differential input of the ADC. The passive conjunction circuit further includes a first voltage divider interconnected between the first input and output nodes and a second voltage divider interconnected between the second input and output nodes. |
| US10840934B2 |
Methods and apparatus for a successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter
Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and apparatus for a successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC). The SAR ADC may provide a first digital calibration circuit configured to correct systemic mismatch and a second digital calibration circuit configured to correct random mismatch. Together, the first and second digital calibration circuits resolve missing codes in the SAR ADC output. |
| US10840933B2 |
Multi-input data converters using code modulation
A multi-input analog-to-digital converter (ADC), i.e., a single ADC, can receive multiple analog input signals and generate multiple digital outputs. To combine multiple analog input signals into a single multi-input ADC, the multi-input ADC would typically include multiple track and hold (T/H) circuits and an adder, which can consume a significant amount of power and incur large cost overhead. An improved approach is to combine multiple inputs through a unique T/H circuit in the front-end of the ADC. The multiple analog input signals can be aggregated using code sequences, without requiring a significant amount of external circuits. |
| US10840929B1 |
Digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with common-mode correction
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) system. The DAC system generally includes a first current-steering DAC having a positive output, a negative output, and a bypass output; a common-mode (CM) path coupled between the positive and negative outputs; and a CM current compensation path coupled to the CM path. |
| US10840925B1 |
Harmonic injection locking apparatus, methods, and applications
Apparatus and methods demonstrate a chip-scale direct optical to RF link that frequency divides up to 120 GHz optical frequency combs to 10 GHz using harmonic multi-tone injection locking. The embodied invention links widely separated optical frequency combs in the millimeter wave regime (>120 GHz) or THz domain (100s of GHz to THz domain), e.g., microresonator-based frequency combs, which are currently outside of the photo-detection region, into the microwave domain (10s of GHz) where it can be easily photo-detected and controlled. The technique works as a perfect optical divider, using a mode-locked laser and optical injection locking as the technique to phase-lock both lasers. |
| US10840915B2 |
Use of a raw oscillator and frequency locked loop to quicken lock time of frequency locked loop
A method of quickly locking a locked loop includes generating an intermediate reference signal having an intermediate reference frequency between a desired output frequency and a reference frequency of a reference signal, and setting an output frequency of a controllable oscillator to the desired output frequency using a first locked loop having a first loop divider value. The first loop divider value is set such that the intermediate reference frequency multiplied by the first loop divider value is equal to the desired output frequency. The controllable oscillator is then coupled to a second locked loop when the first locked loop locks, with the second locked loop is being activated. The first locked loop is then deactivated. |
| US10840913B2 |
Circuits, apparatuses, and methods for frequency division
Circuits, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed for frequency division. In one such example circuit, a frequency divider is configured to alternate between providing a common frequency clock signal as an output clock signal through a first circuit responsive to a reference clock signal and providing a reduced frequency clock signal as the output clock signal through a second circuit responsive to the reference clock signal. The first and second circuits share a shared circuit through which the output clock signal is provided. An enable circuit is configured to cause the frequency divider to alternate between providing the common frequency clock signal as the output clock signal through the first circuit and the reduced frequency clock signal as the output clock signal through the second circuit. |
| US10840912B2 |
Hierarchical statistically multiplexed counters and a method thereof
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an architecture that uses hierarchical statistically multiplexed counters to extend counter life by orders of magnitude. Each level includes statistically multiplexed counters. The statistically multiplexed counters includes P base counters and S subcounters, wherein the S subcounters are dynamically concatenated with the P base counters. When a row overflow in a level occurs, counters in a next level above are used to extend counter life. The hierarchical statistically multiplexed counters can be used with an overflow FIFO to further extend counter life. |
| US10840911B2 |
Gate driver with serial communication
A gate driver includes a drive signal input terminal, a drive signal output terminal, a gate drive circuit, and a serial communication interface. The drive signal input terminal is configured to receive a gate drive signal. The gate drive circuit is coupled to the drive signal input terminal and the drive signal output terminal. The gate drive circuit is configured to provide the gate drive signal to the drive signal output terminal. The serial communication interface is coupled to the drive signal input terminal. |
| US10840907B1 |
Source-coupled logic with reference controlled inputs
A source-coupled logic (SCL) gate configured to reduce power supply noise generation and reduce DC power consumption by adjusting a bias current to deliver only the performance level required for a given application. The SCL gate circuit arrangement includes a current mirror circuit with transistors configured as pull-up transistors. The pull-up transistors set the logical HIGH voltage level. The SCL gate circuit may also include voltage limiting devices configured to set the logical LOW voltage level. The current mirror circuit and the voltage limiting devices allow the SCL gate to receive a bias current supplied a bias circuit that is less complex than bias circuitry used by other examples of SCL circuitry. Adjusting the bias current delivers the desired performance with the commensurate reduction in power consumption. |
| US10840904B2 |
DV/DT self-adjustment gate driver architecture
A gate driver circuit includes a gate driver and a sensing circuit. The gate driver is configured to generate an on-current during a plurality of turn-on switching events to drive a transistor, where a voltage across the transistor changes from a first value to a second value with a slope during the plurality of turn-on switching events, where the slope is of either an active type dependent on an amplitude of the on-current or a passive type. The sensing circuit determines whether the slope during a first turn-on switching event is the active type or the passive type, and regulates the amplitude of the on-current during a second turn-on switching event that is subsequent to the first turn-on switching event if the slope is the active type and to maintain the amplitude of the on-current as unchanged during the second turn-on switching event if the slope is the passive type. |
| US10840903B2 |
Semiconductor module
A semiconductor module according to embodiments includes a first external terminal, a second external terminal, a first semiconductor switch which is electrically connected between the first external terminal and the second external terminal and includes a first gate electrode, a second semiconductor switch which is electrically connected in parallel with the first semiconductor switch, between the first external terminal and the second external terminal, and includes a second gate electrode, a first fuse electrically connected between the first external terminal and the first semiconductor switch, and a second fuse electrically connected between the second external terminal and the first semiconductor switch. |
| US10840900B2 |
Squib circuit high side ground short protection
A squib driver circuit for deployment of an active safety restraint in a vehicle. The squib driver circuit may include a high side protection circuit. The high side protection circuit may include a comparator circuit to compare a voltage at a high side feed terminal to a reference voltage and activate a timer in response to the voltage at the high side feed terminal exceeding the reference voltage, the timer generating a disable signal to disable the high side driver after a predetermined period of time. The high side protection circuit may disable the high side driver after the short is detected and elapse of the predetermined period of time. The squib driver circuit may be formed on a single chip. |
| US10840899B2 |
Motor drive device and electric power steering device
A motor drive device includes an inverter circuit, a switching circuit that switches between conduction and interruption between a power supply and the inverter circuit, and a switching driver that outputs, to the switching circuit, a command voltage which commands a switching operation. The switching circuit includes a first field-effect transistor (FET) and a second FET connected in series with sources of each other in order from a side of the power supply, and the switching driver includes an output circuit that outputs an interruption command voltage in a case in which a potential difference between drains of the FETs exceeds a threshold value, and a delay circuit that causes a timing at which the command voltage is input to a gate of the first FET to be later than a timing at which the command voltage is input to a gate of the second FET. |
| US10840898B2 |
Semiconductor device and electronic control device
A semiconductor device and electronic control device capable of shutting off the reverse current flow from a load to a power supply is provided.The power transistor QN1 is provided between the positive power supply terminal Pi2(+) and the load-driving terminal Po2(+), and has a source and a back-gate coupled to the positive power supply terminal Pi2(+). The power transistor QN2 is provided in series with the power transistor QN1, and its sources and backgates are coupled to the load-driving terminal Po2(+). The booster CP1a charges the gates of the power transistors QN1. The gate discharge circuit DCG1a discharges the gate charge of the power transistor QN1 to the source when the potential of the negative power supply terminal Pi2(−) is higher than the potential of the positive power supply terminal Pi2(+). |
| US10840893B2 |
Apparatus for generating high pulse voltage
Apparatus for generating high pulse voltage comprises a high DC voltage source, a low DC voltage source, an inductive load, two controllable gates, a controllable switch and, connected in series, a capacitor, a booster diode and an additional controllable switch, as well as a controllable pulse duration converter for pulses from a rectangular pulse generator. The preceding connection of the booster diode anode with the negative terminal of the low DC voltage source ensured by the pulse duration converter and second controllable switch correlates the booster diode switching time with the moment of closing the both controllable gates. Thus, the pulse noise present in the prior art designs is eliminated, and the level of interference emitted into the surroundings is decreased. |
| US10840889B2 |
Low loss reflective passive phase shifter using time delay element with double resolution
A phase shifter for altering the phase of a radio frequency signal is disclosed herein. A Lange coupler is used having reflective ports that are coupled to artificial transmission lines. The artificial transmission lines provide a reflection transmission path, the length of which can be determined by digital control lines. Transistors placed along the length of the central trace provide independent paths to ground that serve to shorten the electrical length of the ATL. Accordingly, by selectively turning the transistors on/off, the electrical length of the ATL can be selected and thus the amount of phase delay introduced by the phase shifter. |
| US10840880B2 |
Elastic wave device, high frequency front-end circuit, and communication apparatus
An elastic wave device includes an LiNbO3 substrate, a first elastic wave resonator including a first IDT electrode and a first dielectric film, and a second elastic wave resonator including a second IDT electrode and a second dielectric film. A Rayleigh wave travels along at least one surface of the elastic wave device. A thickness of the first dielectric film differs from a thickness of the second dielectric film. A propagation direction of an elastic wave in the first elastic wave resonator coincides with a propagation direction of an elastic wave in the second elastic wave resonator. Euler angles of the LiNbO3 substrate fall within a range of (0°±5°, θ, 0°±10°). |
| US10840876B2 |
Temperature compensated acoustic wave devices
Surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator, SAW filters, and methods of fabricating SAW filters. A first plurality of parallel conductors extending from a first bus bar are formed on a surface of a 128-degree Y-cut lithium niobate substrate. A second plurality of parallel conductors extending from a second bus bar are formed on the surface of the substrate, the second plurality of parallel conductors interleaved with the first plurality of parallel conductors. An SiO2 layer overlays the first and second pluralities of parallel conductors. The first and second pluralities of parallel conductors are substantially copper and have a thickness DCU defined by 0.12P≤DCU≤0.24P, where P is a center-to-center spacing of adjacent parallel conductors. The SiO2 layer has a thickness DOX defined by 3.1DCU≤DOX≤4.5DCU. |
| US10840874B2 |
Matching device
A matching device includes a directional coupler, a matching circuit including a first variable capacitance capacitor and a second variable capacitance capacitor, and a control unit. The control unit calculates a reflection coefficient on the basis of a forward power and a reflected power that are detected by the directional coupler, changes the capacitance value of the first variable capacitance capacitor and the capacitance value of the second variable capacitance capacitor such that the calculated reflection coefficient becomes smaller, and makes the cycle of calculation of the set values of the capacitance value of the first variable capacitance capacitor and the capacitance value of the second variable capacitance capacitor shorter than the cycle of acquisition of the capacitance value of the first variable capacitance capacitor and the capacitance value of the second variable capacitance capacitor. |
| US10840873B2 |
Coil device
A coil device includes a first coil wound around a winding axis, and a second coil substantially overlapping the first coil when viewed from a winding axis direction of the first coil. The second coil includes first and second portions adjacent to each other in the winding axis direction. The first and second portions extend so that the directions of electric current flowing through the first and second portions are opposite to each other, and a coil opening is provided between the first and second portions. |
| US10840869B2 |
Capacitive MEMS microphone with active compression
A digital microphone compresses a large voltage swing signal from a MEMS capacitor to a signal suitable for processing by integrated circuitry. The compression may be performed in an analog domain by selectively coupling adjustment capacitors in parallel to the MEMS capacitor. The digital microphone may decompress the signal in the digital domain using a decompression technique substantially an inverse of the compression performed in the analog domain. |
| US10840867B2 |
Playback device group volume control
Embodiments are provided for satellite volume control. An example method includes receiving an input at a playback device to adjust a volume for a plurality of playback devices that are grouped for synchronous playback of audio content, wherein the plurality of playback devices includes the playback device. The method also includes sending a first message over a network from the playback device to a device associated with the plurality of playback devices, the first message including information based on the input, wherein the information is used to adjust the volume of the plurality of playback devices. The method also includes receiving a second message at the playback device over the network, the second message including information for the volume of the playback device, wherein the volume is based on the adjusted volume of the plurality of playback devices. |
| US10840857B2 |
Self biased dual mode differential CMOS TIA for 400G fiber optic links
A transimpedance amplifier (TIA) device. The device includes a photodiode coupled to a differential TIA with a first and second TIA, which is followed by a Level Shifting/Differential Amplifier (LS/DA). The photodiode is coupled between a first and a second input terminal of the first and second TIAs, respectively. The LS/DA can be coupled to a first and second output terminal of the first and second TIAs, respectively. The TIA device includes a semiconductor substrate comprising a plurality of CMOS cells, which can be configured using 28 nm process technology to the first and second TIAs. Each of the CMOS cells can include a deep n-type well region. The second TIA can be configured using a plurality CMOS cells such that the second input terminal is operable at any positive voltage level with respect to an applied voltage to a deep n-well for each of the plurality of second CMOS cells. |
| US10840856B2 |
Apparatus and method for surge protection of a charge-pump powered power amplifier
Components of a power amplifier controller may support lower voltages than the power amplifier itself. As a result, a surge protection circuit that prevents a power amplifier from being damaged due to a power surge may not effectively protect the power amplifier controller. Embodiments disclosed herein present an overvoltage protection circuit that prevents a charge-pump from providing a voltage to a power amplifier controller during a detected surge event. By separately detecting and preventing a voltage from being provided to the power amplifier controller during a surge event, the power amplifier controller can be protected regardless of whether the surge event results in a voltage that may damage the power amplifier. Further, embodiments of the overvoltage protection circuit can prevent a surge voltage from being provided to a power amplifier operating in 2G mode. |
| US10840852B2 |
Multiple configurable solar photovoltaic assembly
A portable multiple configuration solar photovoltaic assembly is disclosed. The assembly contains a plurality of photovoltaic modules that collect solar energy and convert the solar energy into electricity. |
| US10840849B2 |
Solar charger foldable chair side table
A foldable chair side table has a snap-on/snap-off clamp which is designed for easy and simple installation on most foldable chairs. A leveling system is provided for ready adjustment to horizontally align the table in relation to the chair. The table is lightweight for ease of use and portability and comes equipped with an attached strap. It has a variety of unique features not found in prior side tables, including a solar powered charger having charging panels for electrically charging cell phones, tablets, and other electronic devices. The table also comes equipped with dual USB ports having a protective cover, a cup holder, a storage compartment, and rotatable leg members to allow placement of the side table on the ground, a table, or other flat surface. |
| US10840847B2 |
Method of controlling electric oil pump
A method of controlling an electric oil pump driven by a motor, may include changing, by a controller, a frequency of a current applied to the motor with a predetermined control cycle to control RPM of the motor to instantaneously change into a different value according to a frequency change. |
| US10840846B2 |
Motor control system, method for activating motor control system, and motor control assistance device
A motor control system includes a motor having an output line, motor control circuitry that includes DC bus lines and a smoothing capacitor between the DC bus lines and converts DC power supplied from outside the motor control circuitry into AC power and supply the AC power to the motor as driving power, and short circuit circuitry that, while the motor control circuitry is not supplying the driving power to the motor, makes a short circuit between the output line of the motor and a negative line of the DC bus lines of the motor control circuitry. |
| US10840845B2 |
Vehicle drive control device
A vehicle drive control device that controls a vehicle drive device in which a first engagement device, a rotating electrical machine, and a second engagement device are provided in this order from an input side in a mechanical power transmission path connecting an input to an output, the input being drive-coupled to an internal combustion engine serving as a vehicle drive power source, and the output being drive-coupled to wheels, wherein each of the first engagement device and the second engagement device can be changed between an engaged state in which drive power is transmitted and a disengaged state in which drive power is not transmitted, the vehicle control device including an electronic control unit. |
| US10840844B2 |
Controller for rotary electric machine
To provide a controller for a rotary electric machine capable of suppressing occurrence of an angle interval when the rotary electric machine cannot output torque, even if the ON angle interval of the switching devices is set smaller than 120 degrees in the rectangular wave control. A controller for a rotary electric machine performs a rectangular wave control to a rotary electric machine which has 2 groups of three-phase windings, with a phase difference between groups; and switches a first control mode and a second control mode according to a switching condition; wherein the first control mode is a mode which sets an ON angle interval to an angle within a range from 120 degrees to 180 degrees; and wherein the second control mode is a mode which sets the ON angle interval to an angle within a range from 90 degrees to 120 degrees. |
| US10840843B2 |
Method of starting sensorless BLDC motor
A method of starting a sensorless BLDC motor. The method includes: providing a stator flux rotating coordinate system including a ds-axis and a qs-axis, selecting a voltage Vds on the ds-axis, allowing a voltage Vqs on the qs-axis to be 0, and resetting a to-be-started motor to a preset position; providing a flux λ to the motor, allowing the current Iqs on the qs-axis to rise, maintaining the flux constant, calculating a real-time torque T1 according to the torque/current closed loop on the qs-axis, comparing a preset starting torque T0 with the real-time torque T1, performing the torque/current closed-loop control until the real-time torque T1 reaches the preset starting torque T0; and continuously raising the real-time torque according to the torque/current closed loop to operate a load, measuring a real-time rotation speed V1, comparing a preset starting rotation speed V0 with the measured real-time rotation speed V1. |
| US10840839B1 |
Method and system for independent-speed-variable-frequency-generator-based power system voltage regulation
A system may include an independent speed variable frequency (ISVF) generator and an excitation source configured to provide an excitation signal to rotor field windings of the ISVF generator to produce a rotating magnetic flux that is independent of a shaft speed of the ISVF generator. The system may include a bus configured to receive an output voltage of the ISVF generator. A generator control unit may be configured to generate a first excitation voltage reference component based on a shaft frequency of the ISVF generator, generate a second excitation voltage reference component based on a difference between a reference voltage and a measured output voltage of the ISVF generator, and generate an excitation voltage control signal based on a combination of the first excitation voltage reference component and the second excitation voltage reference component, the excitation voltage control signal usable to control a voltage magnitude of the excitation signal. |
| US10840838B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling a generator
In an example, a control system for controlling a generator and providing an alarm upon detection of a fault condition. The control system includes a control relay, which includes a normally-open (NO) contact pair and a normally-closed (NC) contact pair, between the transfer switch and a controller. The NO contact pair is provided by a NO contact and a common contact, and the NC contact pair is provided by a NC contact and the common contact. The controller can receive signals indicative of a state of the contact pairs of the control relay and, based on the signals, determine whether to activate the generator and/or activate an alarm system. |
| US10840837B2 |
Power seat system for sensing motor reverse rotation and method thereof
A power seat system includes: a motor that changes a position of a power seat by performing a rotational operation; a Hall sensor that senses a change in Hall voltage according to the rotation of the motor and outputs a pulse signal; and a motor reverse rotation detection unit that monitors outputs from the motor and the Hall sensor, and detects an occurrence of a reverse pulse according to a motor reverse rotation when a motor current overshooting section and a change in pulse signal value are simultaneously detected in accordance with stop of the motor. |
| US10840835B2 |
Camera module
A camera module includes a lens barrel configured to be movable; a detection target disposed on one side of the lens barrel; an integrated coil and a sensing coil facing the detection target and disposed in a direction perpendicular to a direction of movement of the lens barrel; a driver configured to apply a driving signal to the integrated coil; and a position detector configured to detect a position of the lens barrel according to an inductance of the integrated coil and an inductance of the sensing coil, wherein a width of the integrated coil in the direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the lens barrel and a width of the sensing coil in the direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the lens barrel change in the direction of movement of the lens barrel. |
| US10840833B2 |
High efficiency commutation circuit
A commutation circuit includes a coil connected to an H bridge, the H bridge including four main switches for reversing polarity and a resulting coil current in the coil. The commutation circuit further includes a voltage source configured to generate a bypass current, and at least one auxiliary switch for controlling the bypass current to thereby decrease a switch current through at least one of the main switches. By generating an appropriate bypass current with help of a voltage source, a switch current through a desired main switch in a leading state can be decreased and eventually brought to zero. Zero current in its turn enables the use of thyristors as main switches as it results in the thyristors to be turned off automatically. Furthermore, decreased switch current at the switching moment reduces switching losses even in different types of switches such as GTOs and IGBTs. |
| US10840826B2 |
Electromechanical transducer
Provided is an electromechanical transducer including a lightweight and impact-resistant movable member. The electromechanical transducer using electrostatic interaction between charged portions and opposing electrodes to convert between electric power and motive power includes: a movable member having first electrodes and first grooves in a first surface thereof and having second grooves in a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a fixed substrate having second electrodes and facing the first surface of the movable member. One of the first electrodes and the second electrodes are charged portions carrying electrostatic charge while the other of the first electrodes and the second electrodes are opposing electrodes facing the charged portions. The first and second electrodes are each disposed at intervals in a moving direction of the movable member. The first and second grooves do not penetrate the movable member in a thickness direction thereof and are alternately disposed in the moving direction. |
| US10840821B2 |
Modular multi-level converter
A modular multilevel converter (MMC) converter including an auxiliary sub-module provided between an upper converter arm and a lower converter arm of the MMC converter is provided. An MMC converter includes an auxiliary sub-module including: an energy storage unit storing a DC voltage in the sub-module; a first semiconductor switch connected to the energy storage unit; a second semiconductor switch connected to the first semiconductor switch; a third semiconductor switch connected to the second semiconductor switch; and a switching controller turning ON/OFF the first to third semiconductor switches, wherein a mid-point between the first and second semiconductor switches is connected to the sub-module of the upper converter arm, a mid-point between the second and third semiconductor switches is connected to a load connection terminal, and a mid-point between the third semiconductor switch and the energy storage unit is connected to the sub-module of the lower converter arm. |
| US10840819B2 |
Electric power conversion device
An electric power conversion device according to the present disclosure includes: a positive electrode unit including a positive main conductor portion and a positive joining conductor portion; a negative electrode unit including a negative main conductor portion and a negative joining conductor portion; a capacitor circuit connected to the positive electrode unit and the negative electrode unit; an electric power conversion unit connected to the positive main conductor portion, the positive joining conductor portion, the negative main conductor portion, and the negative joining conductor portion; and a heat dissipation unit joined to the capacitor circuit unit and the electric power conversion unit. The positive main conductor portion and the negative main conductor portion are insulated from each other and arranged facing each other, and the positive joining conductor portion and the negative joining conductor portion are insulated from each other and arranged facing each other. |
| US10840818B2 |
Power conversion apparatus having semiconductor modules each including series-connected semiconductor switches and output terminal coupled to node connecting semiconductor switches, and output bar coupling output terminals of semiconductor modules
A power conversion apparatus includes N semiconductor modules respectively including a switch part including first and second semiconductor switches coupled in series, and an output terminal coupled to a node that connects the first and second semiconductor switches, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 3, wherein the N semiconductor modules are arranged so that the output terminals thereof are adjacent to each other. The power conversion apparatus further includes an output bar to couple the output terminals of the N semiconductor modules so that a parasitic inductance of a current path coupling the output terminals of first and second semiconductor modules among the N semiconductor modules, and a parasitic inductance of a current path coupling the output terminals of the first and third semiconductor modules among the N semiconductor modules, are approximately balanced. |
| US10840817B1 |
Systems and methods of synchronous rectification in active clamp flyback power converters
Synchronous rectification in active clamp flyback power converters. At least some example embodiments are methods including: sensing, based on a rate of change of voltage on a drain of a synchronous rectifier field effect transistor (SR FET), that the power converter has entered a charge mode of a transformer arranged for flyback operation; changing, responsive the sensing, a parameter within a SR driver from an original state to a modified state, the SR driver coupled to the SR FET; making the SR FET conductive during a discharge mode of the transformer; sensing, based on a voltage at the drain of the SR FET, that the discharge mode of the converter has ended; returning, responsive to sensing that the discharge mode has ended, the parameter to the original state. |
| US10840812B2 |
Flyback converter for operating one or more lighting means, associated method and operating device
A flyback converter (10) for operating one or more lighting means, wherein the flyback converter (10) has a transformer and the transformer is arranged between a primary side of the flyback converter (10) and a secondary side of the flyback converter (10), wherein the flyback converter (10) is configured, and wherein the flyback converter (10) has a current detection circuit (107) that is configured to detect the current flowing through the secondary side of the flyback converter (10). The current detection circuit (107) can have a current detection transformer (108, 109). The flyback converter (10) can be configured such that the current flowing through the secondary side of the flyback converter (10) flows in a negative direction at least some of the time. |
| US10840810B2 |
Devices and methods related to boost supply for low battery 2G bias support
A voltage supply system is disclosed, comprising a boost converter configured to receive an input voltage and generate a first output voltage at a first output node, a low-voltage supply circuit configured to receive the input voltage and generate a second output voltage at a second output node, and a routing circuit configured to route the first output voltage of the boost converter to the second output node during a selected condition of the input voltage. |
| US10840806B2 |
Preventing sub-harmonic oscillation with clock delay compensation, in a DC-DC switching converter
The clock input of a buck converter is delayed, and the delay is controlled proportionally to the preceding high-side output switch on time. In the steady state, the high-side switch on time is uniform, and the clock is offset by a fixed amount. When sub-harmonic oscillation begins to occur, the high-side switch on time may increase during a cycle. The longer high-side on time causes the clock to be delayed by an increased amount. This has the effect of increasing the following low-side output switch on time. This further increases the subsequent high-side on time, and counteracts the effects of sub-harmonic oscillation. If the system is properly controlled, loop compensation is implemented correctly and sub-harmonic oscillation is prevented. In addition, the scheme may also be configured for the delay to be controlled proportionally to the preceding low-side output switch on time of the buck converter. |
| US10840805B2 |
Integrated power supply and modulator for radio frequency power amplifiers
An integrated power supply and modulator system includes integrated power supply and modulator system includes three subsystems: a switched-capacitor voltage balancer stage; a magnetic regulation stage; and at least one output switching stage. In one embodiment, the integrated power supply and modulator system further includes startup circuitry, feedback/feedforward circuitry and control circuitry. |
| US10840804B2 |
Time-based supply voltage difference to digital conversion
Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided to generate a regulated supply voltage based on a target voltage. In one example, a method includes converting the target voltage to a first digital time-based signal and converting the regulated supply voltage to a second digital time-based signal. A difference signal is generated based at least on a difference between the first digital time-based signal and the second digital time-based signal. Regulator circuitry is controlled to generate the regulated supply voltage based at least on the difference signal. |
| US10840802B2 |
Isolated switched capacitor converter
An isolated switched capacitor converter can include: first switches coupled in series between terminals of an input port, and being configured to selectively connect a first terminal of a first capacitor to a first or second terminal of the input port; second switches coupled in series between terminals of an output port, and being configured to selectively connect a second terminal of the first capacitor to a first or second terminal of the output port; third switches coupled in series between terminals of the input port, and being configured to selectively connect a first terminal of a second capacitor to the first or second terminal of the input port; and fourth switches coupled in series between terminals of the output port, and being configured to selectively connect a second terminal of the second capacitor to the first or second terminal of the output port. |
| US10840799B2 |
Power supply apparatus and image forming apparatus
The power supply apparatus includes a switching element configured to drive a transformer, a primary side and a secondary side of the transformer being insulated from each other, a control unit configured to output a pulse signal for driving the switching element, and a comparing unit configured to compare a target voltage of an output voltage that is output from the secondary side of the transformer and the output voltage, and to control the output voltage to be the target voltage, wherein the comparing unit cuts off an input of the pulse signal to the switching element in a case where the output voltage is larger than the target voltage, and wherein the control unit determines a frequency or an on-duty ratio of the pulse signal according to the target voltage. |
| US10840794B2 |
Gravity energy generator
A gravity energy generator that provides a better and efficient way to use electricity as a source of power. The gravity energy generator includes a horizontal casing, a plurality of magnets and a plurality of wiring. A magnet is positioned on a midpoint of a centered shaft that is adapted to rotate along the centered shaft from an electromagnetic field from the first pair of magnets placed on the first end and the second end within the interior of the horizontal casing. Other embodiments of the gravity energy generator include a horizontal casing, a plurality of magnets, a battery and a pair of copper plates as well as a horizontal casing, a plurality of magnets and a pair of magnetic push and pull devices. |
| US10840792B2 |
Electromagnetic driving mechanism
An electromagnetic driving mechanism is provided, including a housing, a circuit unit, an electromagnetic driving assembly, and a sensing element. The circuit unit is connected to the housing, and has a plastic material and a circuit element. The plastic material is formed on and covers an outer surface of the circuit element by insert molding. The electromagnetic driving assembly is disposed in the housing for forcing an optical element to move relative to the circuit unit. The sensing element is disposed on the circuit unit, and electrically connected to the circuit element for detecting the displacement of the optical element relative to the circuit unit. |
| US10840788B2 |
Controlling multiple electric stators
A first electric stator surrounds a first electric rotor and is configured to cause the first electric rotor to rotate or generate electricity in the first electric stator when the first electric rotor rotates. The first electric stator includes a first set of electric windings. A second electric stator surrounds the second electric rotor and is configured to cause the second electric rotor to rotate or generate electricity in the second electric stator when the second electric rotor rotates. The second electric stator includes a second set of electric windings. The second electric stator is electrically coupled to the first electric stator. A controller is electrically coupled to both the first electric stator and the second electric stator. The controller is configured to exchange an electric current with a combination of the first electric stator and the second electric stator. |
| US10840784B2 |
Coil forming device and coil of a rotating electric device
An object of the invention is to increase productivity of a coil.A coil forming device according to the present invention includes: a first bending unit 200A that performs a compression bending process with respect to a linear conductor; and a second bending unit 200B that performs a draw bending process with respect to the linear conductor, wherein the first bending unit 200A and the second bending unit 200B are integrated in one device, and wherein the first bending unit 200A and the second bending unit 200B are switched to access one linear conductor so as to perform the compression bending process and the draw bending process onto the one linear conductor. |
| US10840783B2 |
Process and process apparatus for forming protective coating on magnetic pole of permanent magnet motor
A process and process apparatus for forming a protective coating on a magnetic pole of a permanent magnet motor. The process for forming a protective coating on a magnetic pole of a permanent magnet motor includes: horizontally placing a motor rotor, and controlling to perform, at positions of an inlet and an outlet operating on a vacuum bag in a current state, vacuumization and adhesive injection only on an arc section located at the bottom of the motor rotor; and driving the motor rotor to rotate by a predetermined angle after the adhesive in the arc section is initially cured so as to rotate the next arc section in which no adhesive is injected to the bottom, until all arc sections in the circumferential direction of the motor rotor are injected with the adhesive. |
| US10840780B2 |
Motor with brushes at angular interval of 63° to 66° and having a width and a commutator piece with a width
The present invention provides a stator including magnets having six poles; a rotor disposed inside the stator and including thirteen slots; a coil wound around the slot; a rotary shaft coupled to the rotor; a commutator coupled to the rotary shaft and connected to the coil; and a plurality of brushes disposed to be pressed against the commutator and located to have an angular interval of 63° to 66° in the circumferential direction of the rotary shaft, thereby providing advantageous effects in that a current ripple is minimized and a torque is maximized. |
| US10840779B2 |
Drive device for a motor vehicle
A drive device for a motor vehicle includes at least one electric machine and at least one shaft, which shaft is rotatably mounted on a housing element of the drive device and can be driven by the electric machine. At least one discharge ring is provided by which the shaft is brought into electrical contact with the housing element in order to dissipate electrical charges from the shaft to the housing element via the discharge ring. The discharge ring is formed from an electrically conductive fluid. |
| US10840776B2 |
Self-contained brushless motor and brushless controller
A brushless direct current electric motor assembly includes a housing having a first end and a second end and a stator disposed in the housing. The assembly further includes a rotor subassembly disposed in the stator, the rotor subassembly having a shaft having a first end proximate the first end of the housing and a second end proximate the second end of the housing. The assembly further includes a controller disposed in the housing, the controller configured to control rotation of the shaft. The first end of the shaft is configured to provide a rotational output. |
| US10840770B2 |
Rotating electrical machine
An electrical rotating machine includes a housing which has a bearing mounted on a wall thereof. The housing also has a plurality of air inlets, a plurality of air outlets, and spokes. The spokes extend from the bearing in a radial direction of the housing to isolate the air inlets from each other in a circumferential direction of the housing. Each of the spokes is equipped with a heat sink exposed to a flow of cooling air entering the housing through the air inlet to dissipate heat, as transmitted to the spoke, thereby minimizing transfer of the heat to the bearing through the spokes. |
| US10840769B2 |
Rotating electrical machine apparatus
In a rotating electrical machine apparatus, a rotor portion provided in a cylindrical portion and a stator portion provided in a recessed portion in which the rotor portion is housed are aligned along the rotation axis of a rim such that a force is generated in a direction opposite to the direction of a load that acts along the rotation axis of the rim of loads that act on the rim following rotation of a blade. |
| US10840768B2 |
Drive device for vehicle with stator coil temperature detector
An electric motor includes a housing, a stator, and a rotor. The stator is composed of a stator core and a stator coil. The stator coil is composed of a plurality of individual coils provided to teeth of the stator core. The housing has lubricating oil supply portion, through which the lubricating oil is supplied onto coil ends of upper individual coils. A temperature detector for detecting the temperature of the stator coil is disposed at a position lower than an axis of a rotor and higher than an oil level of the lubricating oil accumulated in the bottom portion of the housing. |
| US10840761B2 |
Stator and rotary electric machine
A stator includes: a stator core that includes a plurality of slots; a stator coil that is formed by connecting a plurality of segment conductors to each other; and an insulating member that has insulating properties, in which the segment conductor includes a slot portion and an inclined portion, the slot portion is disposed inside the slot, the inclined portion is disposed outside the slot to be inclined from the slot portion, the insulating member is mounted on the stator core and includes a first insulating portion and a plurality of second insulating portions, the first insulating portion is disposed next to the slot portion, the second insulating portions extend from the first insulating portion in an axial direction and are provided along a radial direction of the stator core, and the second insulating portions insulate adjacent segment conductors in an coil end from each other. |
| US10840760B2 |
Stator of rotary electric machine
A stator of a rotary electric machine related to the invention includes: a stator core in which a plurality of slots are formed and an opening part of each of the plurality of slots is provided in an inner circumferential surface thereof; and a coil including a plurality of coil segments that are inserted from the opening part of each of the plurality of slots. At least a first coil segment and a second coil segment are arranged so as to be overlapped in a radial direction in each slot, and an engagement part which prevents a relative movement in an axial direction is provided on overlapping surfaces of the first coil segment and the second coil segment. |
| US10840759B2 |
Rotary electric machine
In a rotary electric machine, a rotor including a rotor shaft and a rotor main body provided to the rotor shaft. A baffle plate, which is fixed at a plurality of positions to an end portion of the rotor main body in the axial direction, and is configured to define an airflow passage for cooling gas. Further, the baffle plate is segmented into a plurality of baffle segments which are arrayed in a circumferential direction of the rotor. The baffle segments each include an overlapping portion which overlaps an adjacent baffle segment in an axial direction of the rotor. |
| US10840758B2 |
Robot drive unit and robot
A robot drive unit is provided with: a first member and a second member rotated about a axis; a housing fixed to the first member; an output shaft member supported by the housing so as to rotate about the axis and fixed to the second member; a hollow shaft fixed to the output shaft member, and supported by the housing so as to rotate about the axis; and rotating-body sealing members seal a gap between the housing and the output shaft member and a gap between the housing and the hollow shaft, respectively. The hollow shaft is provided with: a shaft body made of a non-ferrous material; and a contact-surface member made of a material having a higher surface hardness than the shaft body and forms a contact surface to be in contact with the corresponding rotating-body sealing member. |
| US10840754B2 |
Method of producing a permanent magnet machine
A permanent magnet machine includes a rotor including a rotor hub and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded in the rotor in a circumferential pattern. The rotor includes a respective bridge between each circumferentially adjacent pair of the permanent magnets. Each bridge is of a different material than that of the rotor hub, and the rotor hub and bridges are integral with one another. |
| US10840751B2 |
Electrical synchronous machine and method for at least partially circumferentially producing an electrical synchronous machine
An electrical synchronous machine is provided for a rail-free vehicle. The vehicle has drive wheels and the synchronous machine is designed to generate a torque, which propels the vehicle, at the drive wheels. The synchronous machine has a stator and a rotor which rotates around the stator, wherein the stator has a stator winding of at least three-phase construction for forming a rotating stator magnetic field, and wherein the rotor has at least one rotor winding which is designed for forming a rotor magnetic field. A method for at least partially circumferentially establishing a current-excited synchronous machine provides a rotor yoke, provides a large number of rotor poles, fastens the rotor poles to the rotor yoke for forming a rotor, provides a stator, and inserts the stator into the rotor. |
| US10840750B2 |
Compressor motor and compressor equipped with same
There is provided a compressor motor in which a teeth member and a yoke member are bonded while inhibiting deformation of bridge portions and which is capable of decreasing drop of torque due to a leakage magnetic flux. A stator is constituted of a teeth member 26 in which inner end portions of adjacent teeth 27 are continuous in a bridge portion and on which wires are wounded, and a yoke member 28 bonded to an outer side of the teeth member to form a magnetic path, the yoke member includes press-fitting concave regions 32 which are opened inwardly and into which outer end portions of the teeth are press-fitted, and inner side surfaces 32A of the press-fitting concave regions which face each other possess projecting shapes, respectively, and both side surfaces 27B of each of the outer end portions of the teeth are formed in a recessed shape which matches the shape of the inner side surfaces of the press-fitting concave regions. |
| US10840747B2 |
Power receiving apparatus, power transmission apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
A power receiving apparatus, which has a first communication function and a second communication function, controls the first communication function to receive a first signal including information representing whether a power transmission apparatus can execute control communication using a second method, controls, based on the information representing that the power transmission apparatus can execute the control communication using the second method, the first communication function to transmit, to the power transmission apparatus, a second signal to request identification information of the power transmission apparatus for the communication of the second method and receive the identification information from the power transmission apparatus, and determines which one of the first communication function and a second communication function should be used for the control communication, based on the first signal and whether the identification information is received. |
| US10840746B2 |
Methods and apparatus for performing demodulation using maximum likelihood sequence matching in a wireless charging device
A wireless power transmitting device transmits wireless power signals to a wireless power receiving device using a wireless power transmitting coil. The wireless power receiving device may transmit data packets to the wireless power transmitting device. The wireless power transmitting device may include a data receiver that is coupled to the wireless power transmitting coil and that receives the transmitted data packets. The data receiver may be configured to demodulate the received data packets. The data packets may include at least preamble bits, start bits, and data bits encoded as biphase half-bit signals in accordance with a predefined wireless power transfer protocol. During demodulation, the receiver may perform preamble detection, start bit detection, and data bit detection by comparing the input signals to corresponding reference patterns using a maximum likelihood sequence detection scheme. Phase recovery may be employed throughout to help provide immunity to phase change. |
| US10840744B2 |
Inductive power transmitter
An inductive power transmitter comprising: at least one power transmitting coil configured to generate an inductive power transfer (IPT) field; and an object detection system configured to detect objects in or adjacent a space occupied by the IPT field when generated; wherein the object detection system is configured to detect a receiver object based on a tag associated with the receiver object. |
| US10840735B1 |
Power source load control
A method and apparatus for managing one or more grid supplied and separately metered power services, backup power sources, transfer switches and related powered loads using load monitoring and control which allow selectively connecting, disconnecting, limiting and controlling various loads which are powered thereby. The method and apparatus include operating with a system with a dual revenue meters providing grid power, a backup power source and a dual transfer switch wherein the power capabilities of each are economically sized while allowing reliability and convenience in selecting and powering loads. The connections to power sources and control of the loads powered thereby take into account various parameters including cost of power, load handling capability, type of load, load size, environmental factors, load usage during and subsequent to load connection, load priority and operator wishes. |
| US10840731B2 |
High power flash battery system and method thereof
A high power flash battery system includes a wayside flash battery and a half-bridge cell. The half-bridge cell has a voltage polarity opposite to that of the wayside flash battery. The half-bridge cell is configured to be in a voltage compensation mode when the system is unloaded, and to be switched to a bypass mode when a voltage drop occurs due to the system being loaded. A high power charging station, an onboard battery operated device, as well as a method for flash charging are also presented. |
| US10840728B2 |
Portable device and apparatus for wirelessly charging the portable device from energy transmitted by a transmitter
A portable device is provided. The portable device includes a power receiving unit configured to receive a first energy or a second energy from a wireless power transmitter, the first energy being used to perform a communication function and a control function, the second energy being used to charge a battery, and the wireless power transmitter being configured to wirelessly transmit a power, a voltage generator configured to generate a wake-up voltage from the first energy, or to generate a voltage for charging the battery from the second energy, a controller configured to perform the communication function and the control function, the controller being activated by the wake-up voltage, and a communication unit configured to perform a communication with the wireless power transmitter based on a control of the controller. |
| US10840723B1 |
Dynamic management of multiple device power consumption
A method, apparatus, and system for dynamic management of multiple device power consumption is disclosed. One or more battery-powered devices may be connected to a power supply for charging. The power supply itself may be another battery-powered device or a dedicated portable charger. The power supply may identify power consumption profiles of the connected devices and determine a power distribution ratio such that the timing of each device's battery depletion may be managed. For example, according to a power distribution profile, a power distribution ratio may be determined such that the projected battery depletion times of all the connected devices substantially coincide with each other. The power supply may distribute power to the connected battery-powered devices according to the determined power distribution ratio and the power distribution ratio may dynamically adapt to changing circumstances such as a device being disconnected, being fully charged, changing its power consumption rate, etc. |
| US10840721B2 |
System and method for controlling an electrical receptacle
A power receptacle including an outlet configured to electrically connect to a load device and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to determine a state of charge of a battery of the load device. The electronic processor is further configured to supply power to the load device when the state of charge of the battery is below a predetermined threshold and to discontinue supply of power to the load device when the state of charge of the battery is at or above the predetermined threshold. |
| US10840720B2 |
Restricting battery charging
For selectively restricting the charge level of a battery, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One apparatus includes a battery, a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the battery, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. Here, the processor selects a maximum charge level using the temperature of the battery, where the maximum charge becomes less than a full charge level of the battery in response to the battery temperature being above a threshold temperature. Moreover, the processor restricts charging of the battery to the maximum charge level in response to the temperature of the battery being above the threshold temperature. |
| US10840718B2 |
Charging stand with advertising light box
A charging stand with an advertising light box. The charging stand with an advertising light box includes a light box, and the light box includes a light box sectional material, the light box sectional material includes horizontal bars and vertical bars, each of the inner and outer sides of the horizontal bar is provided with a clamping groove, the vertical bar is provided with a second clamping groove, a constant current source is mounted in the light box, a support panel is mounted above the light box, a USB socket is mounted above the constant current source, the support panel is provided with a USB charging wire, and a mounting-inserting groove is formed in the support panel. By the disposed USB socket, a user can conveniently use a USB charging wire carried by himself/herself for charging. |
| US10840716B2 |
Safety circuit for multi-function portable power charger
A safety circuit is provided for a portable charger having a charger battery operatively connected by a power supply to positive and negative jumper cable jacks capable of jump starting a 12V car battery as well as at least one USB port capable of charging 5V portable electronic devices. The safety circuit includes a jump start relay operatively connecting the power supply to the positive and negative jumper cable jacks; a microprocessor, and a voltage input analyzer operatively connected with the microprocessor to enable or disable the jump start relay. |
| US10840715B2 |
Wireless charging control based on electronic device events
An electronic device may include a battery, and a charging system in electronic communication with the battery. The charging system may be configured to initiate a charging of the batter when the battery is in a partially-depleted state. The charging system may then discontinue the charging in response to the battery being charged to the threshold charge value, and may monitor the function of the electronic device to predict an event of the electronic device. After the event is predicted, the charging system may determine when to initiate a recharging process, so that the battery is fully charged when the event occurs. |
| US10840712B2 |
Charging device, charging method and terminal
A charging device, a charging method and a terminal, an output end of the main charging circuit and output ends of the at least two secondary charging circuits are connected to a battery of an electronic device, and the output end of the main charging circuit is used for supplying power to an internal chip of the electronic device, disconnecting a connection between the main charging circuit and the battery when a voltage of the output end of the main charging circuit reaches a voltage required by the internal chip, and supplying power for the battery through the output ends of the at least two secondary charging circuits. in this way, charging time is shortened and a purpose of fast charging a battery is achieved. |
| US10840710B2 |
Device capable of achieving fast charge and fast discharge of a vehicle emergency starting power source
The present invention relates to a device capable of achieving fast charge and fast discharge of a vehicle emergency starting source, including an input module, a voltage input adjustment module, a battery module, a voltage output adjustment module, a first output module, a second output module and a third output module. In the device, SC8801 is adopted, which is capable of achieving an input power up to 24 W, thereby improving the practicability of the device. Meanwhile, Type-C QC3.0 protocol is adopted in the first output module, USB QC3.0 protocol is adopted for the second output module, and Type-C PD protocol is adopted for the third output module, to meet different charging needs and improve the practicality of the device. Moreover, the voltage input adjustment module can balance and convert the power, thereby reducing power consumption and loss, improving electricity conversion rate, and improving practical value of the device. |
| US10840709B2 |
Management method, management device, distributed power supply, and management system
A management method comprises: a step A of transmitting, from a management device to a distributed power supply which operates in a first state in which a reverse power flow from a facility to a power grid is not permitted, a permission message permitting to operate in a second state in which the reverse power flow is permitted; a step B of switching by the distributed power supply, the operation of the first state to the operation of the second state after receiving the permission message; and a step C of switching by the distributed power supply, the operation of the second state to the operation of the first state, even when switching from the operation of the second state to the operation of the first state is not instructed, if a predetermined condition is satisfied. |
| US10840707B2 |
Utility pole with solar modules and wireless device and method of retrofitting existing utility pole
A utility pole includes one or more solar modules configured to collect solar energy and convert the solar energy to electromagnetic energy and a wireless device configured to receive the electromagnetic energy from the one or more solar modules and to transmit the electromagnetic energy therefrom. |
| US10840706B2 |
Voltage droop compensation for a utility power system
One example includes a utility power system. The system includes a power generator system, the power generator system comprising a generator step-up (GSU) transformer and a power generator. The power generator can be configured to provide generator power to a power transmission system via the GSU transformer in a feedback manner based on a predetermined setpoint. The system further includes a voltage droop compensation controller configured to monitor the generator power at a high-side of the GSU transformer and to adjust the predetermined setpoint based on the monitored generator power to substantially mitigate circulating currents. |
| US10840705B2 |
Converter configuration
A converter configuration has a converter. The AC voltage side of which can be connected to an AC voltage grid and the DC voltage side of which can be connected to a storage configuration. The converter has a plurality of converter arms, which each have a series circuit of semiconductor switching modules, and the storage configuration is arranged in parallel with at least one of the converter arms. The storage configuration contains a multiplicity of series circuits of individual energy storage modules. Each series circuit extends between a first and a second DC voltage busbar such that the series circuits are connected in parallel with one another. The converter configuration further has a balancing apparatus for balancing energy storage module voltages of the energy storage modules. The balancing apparatus contains balancing lines, which connect individual energy storage modules of different series circuits to one another. |
| US10840699B2 |
Fault current managing branch for surge-less current interruption in DC system
A circuit breaker and fault current managing branch thereof for power transmission using Direct Current (DC) applications. A surge suppressor having DC bus terminal, transmission line terminal, and common terminal. An auxiliary branch comprises a pre-chargeable capacitor. The capacitor is charged by the DC bus before the circuit breaker is closed for operation and the capacitor is connected to be discharged to the transmission line when the circuit breaker is opened in operation, for suppressing the surge voltage across the circuit breaker. The auxiliary branch may comprise a charge sub-branch comprising a first controlled semiconductor switch for closing the charge sub-branch and charging the capacitor by the DC bus before the circuit breaker is closed. The auxiliary branch may comprise a discharge sub-branch comprising a second controlled semiconductor switch for closing the discharge sub-branch and discharging the capacitor to the transmission line when the circuit breaker is opened in operation. |
| US10840698B2 |
Leakage current detection and protection device for power cord
A power cord leakage current detection and protection device, including: a switch unit controlling an electrical connection between input and output ends of the device, a switch drive module, and a leakage current detection circuit which includes a leakage current detection line for detecting a leakage current on a power supply line. The switch drive module includes a semiconductor device assembly, and a solenoid assembly coupled between a power supply line and the semiconductor device assembly. The solenoid assembly includes multiple coils with their current paths coupled in parallel; the semiconductor device assembly includes multiple semiconductor devices with their current paths coupled in parallel. When at least one coil is not an open-circuit and at least one semiconductor device is not an open-circuit, the switch drive module controls the switch unit based on a leakage current signal detected by the leakage current detection circuit to disconnect the power supply. |
| US10840696B2 |
Method and apparatus for limiting the output voltages of switch mode power supplies
An over-voltage comparator and shutdown circuit for a power converter, comprising at least a first voltage divider connected between ground and a monitored voltage, the voltage divider including a first resistor and a second resistor, a switch mode regulator connected to a primary switch of the power converter, and a first threshold comparator, wherein a monitored input of the first threshold comparator is connected between the first resistor and the second resistor, an anode of the first threshold comparator is connected to ground, and a cathode of the first threshold comparator is connected to the switch mode regulator, and wherein the monitored voltage is voltage at an end of a primary winding of the power converter. An auxiliary output circuit of the power converter may be provided having a first output providing the monitored voltage and a second output providing power to the switch mode regulator. |
| US10840694B2 |
Universal ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) device incorporating a water and flame barrier button assembly
A water and flame barrier button assembly is incorporated into an electrical enclosure such as a GFCI housing to provide water and flame resistant set and reset buttons. The buttons are contained within flexible sealing frames that allow one end of the buttons to extend through the top portion of the GFCI housing while the opposite end of the button is exposed within the base portion of the sealing frame. The base portion of the sealing frame attaches to the interior of the housing with the exposed button end positioned inward of the sealing frame base. The base of the sealing frame contacts the GFCI circuit board while providing a rebound force to return either the set or reset button exposed end from a position depressed and in contact with the circuit board to a position not in contact with the circuit board and returning inward of the sealing frame base. |
| US10840690B2 |
Non-ohmic composition and method for manufacturing same, cable interconnect unit and cable end-connect unit
A tubular cable interconnect unit arranged on an outer periphery of a joint of a power cable, includes a tubular insulating tube, a non-ohmic resistor layer formed from a non-ohmic composition and provided on an inner peripheral surface of the insulating tube, and an inner semiconductive layer provided on the non-ohmic resistor layer, wherein the non-ohmic composition includes a base polymer including at least one of thermoplastic and rubber, and varistor grains having a non-ohmic characteristic in which a volume resistivity varies non-linearly with respect to an applied voltage, and the varistor grains have a maximum grain diameter of 30 μm or less. |
| US10840689B2 |
Universal tap-off box with a latch mechanism
A tap-off box includes a latch that automatically secures the tap-off box to a busway upon insertion of a mast into the busway. The latch is in the form of a single spring-loaded member that latches onto a rail as the masthead is pushed into the busway. A push button actuated camming member pushes the latch away from the rail to enable the masthead to be withdrawn from the busway. The push button and camming member are independent of the mechanism that extends and retracts the contacts while the masthead is inserted and latched into the busway. The tap-off box may also include non-contact current monitoring sensors with voltage sensing inserts that an auxiliary breaker switch in applications other than a tap-off box, and an infrared emitting faceplate that can be adapted for monitoring a variety of breakers from outside the tap-off box. |
| US10840679B2 |
Devices for hoisting cables
The present disclosure describes devices and assemblies for hoisting cables. A hoisting grip may comprise a main body formed of a polymeric material, the main body having a length, a width, a thickness, and a longitudinal axis and comprising a plurality of apertures where at least one aperture may be adapted to receive a hoisting member and at least two apertures may be adapted to receive a cable. |
| US10840674B2 |
Diode laser with improved mode profile
A diode laser comprises an n-type first cladding layer, an n-type first waveguide layer arranged on the first cladding layer, an active layer suitable for radiation generation and arranged on the first waveguide layer, a p-type second waveguide layer arranged on the active layer, a p-type second cladding layer which is arranged on the second waveguide layer, an n-type first intermediate layer being formed as a transition region between the first waveguide layer and the active layer, and a p-type second intermediate layer being formed as a transition region between the second waveguide layer and the active layer. The diode laser according to the invention is characterized in that the asymmetry ratio of the thickness of the first intermediate layer to the sum of the thickness of the first intermediate layer and the thickness of the second intermediate layer is less than or greater than 0.5. |
| US10840673B1 |
Electrically pumped surface-emitting photonic crystal laser
An electrically pumped surface-emitting photonic crystal laser has a second surface of a first metal electrode arranged on a photonic crystal structure, a first electrical currents confining structure and a filled layer, and a substrate having a top surface arranged on a first surface of the first metal electrode for the photonic crystal structure to be inversely disposed. The photonic crystal laser has its epitaxy structure etched from above to fabricate the photonic crystal to allow laser beams to be reflected by the first metal electrode due to the inverse disposition and to be emitted from a rear surface of the epitaxy structure. |
| US10840669B2 |
Radiation field amplifier system
Radiation field amplifier system for a radiation field comprising an amplifying unit and a heat dissipation system with one heat spreading element or several heat spreading elements, said one heat spreading element or at least one of said several heat spreading elements of said heat dissipation system is pressed with a contact surface within a contact area against said amplifying unit and said contact surface rises starting from a geometrical reference plane in direction towards said amplifying unit and a distance d between said contact surface and said geometrical reference plane attains its largest value within a central area, which is arranged inside said contact area and said distance d is smaller outside said central area than inside said central area. |
| US10840666B2 |
Laser systems and methods
Laser systems and methods are disclosed. One laser system comprises: a plurality of laser resonators, each resonator being operable to discharge an input laser beam; a relay assembly including at least one curved reflective surface that redirects each input laser beam, and reduces a beam size of the redirected beam; a galvo including a curved reflective surface that receives each redirected beam, and outputs a combined laser beam at power level greater than a power level of each laser input beam; and a coupling assembly that reduces spherical aberrations in the combined laser beam, and directs the combined laser beam into an optical fiber. In this system, the combined laser beam may have a maximum beam parameter product lower than a minimum beam parameter product of the optical fiber. Related systems and methods are also disclosed. |
| US10840665B2 |
Laser machining apparatus
A laser machining apparatus has a machining head connected to a laser oscillator having a plurality of current control units, a plurality of laser diode modules, a plurality of cavities, and a beam combiner, and performs machining by outputting light from the machining head under the control of the control unit. The laser machining apparatus includes: a current monitor unit which monitors each value of current controlled by the plurality of current control units; a power monitor unit which monitors each value of intensity of light outputted by the plurality of laser diode modules, each value of intensity of light outputted by the plurality of laser cavities, and value of intensity of light outputted by the beam combiner; and a judgment unit that judges a failure location based on values of current monitored by the current monitor unit, and values of intensity of light monitored by the power monitor. |
| US10840662B2 |
Wire feeding and attaching system for camera lens suspensions
A wire feeding and bonding tool and method for attaching wires to a component having first and second spaced-apart wire attach structures. Wire from a supply is fed through a capillary having at least a linear end portion with a feed opening. The capillary is positioned with respect to the component to locate a first portion of the wire extending from the feed opening adjacent to the first wire attach structure, and the wire is attached to the first attach structure. The capillary is moved with respect to the component along a wire feed path to feed the wire from the first wire attach structure to the second wire attach structure and to locate a second portion of the wire extending from the feed opening adjacent to the second attach structure. The wire is attached to the second wire attach structure, and cut from the supply. |
| US10840660B2 |
Electronic device and antenna connector
The present invention relates to an electronic device and an antenna connector. The electronic device includes a first unit, a transmission dock, a base, and an antenna connector. The transmission dock is pivotally provided at the first unit. The base is movably provided at the transmission dock, and includes a top plate and a bottom plate that are mutually fixed. The antenna connector is movably provided at the base, and includes a housing, an installation flange, a central moving terminal and an elastic member. The central moving terminal is located in the housing. The installation flange is radially formed outside the housing, and is located between the top plate and the bottom plate and abuts against the top plate. The elastic member is clamped between the installation flange and the bottom plate. |
| US10840659B2 |
Joint connector and busbar
A housing (10) has a mounting groove (12) between a first cavity (11A) in a first stage and second cavities (11B) in a second stage. A first communication portion (13A) allows communication between the mounting groove (12) and the first cavity (11A), Second communication portions (13B) allow communication between the mounting groove (12) and the second cavities (11B). A first terminal (20A) is accommodated in the first cavity (11A), and second terminals (20B) are accommodated in the second cavities (11B). A busbar (60) includes a plate-shaped body (61) accommodated in the mounting groove (12). A first contact piece (62A) integrally projects from the busbar body (61) toward the first stage and enters the communication portion (13A) to contact the first terminal (20A), and second contact pieces (62B) integrally project from the busbar body (61) toward the second stage and enter the communication portions (13B) and contact the second terminals (20B). |
| US10840656B2 |
Bus bar unit and rotary electric machine having the same
A bus bar unit includes a bus bar for energizing a coil wound around a stator; and a bus bar holder formed by an insulating member and holds the bus bar. The bus bar holder includes an engaged part which is configured to be engaged with an engaging part formed at an extending part extended from the stator in axial direction of the stator. |
| US10840647B2 |
PCB mounted connector with two-piece shield for improved ESD tolerance
A shielded connector includes a body with a socket adapted to receive a cable termination plug. Connector contacts in the socket mate with contacts of the cable plug. Connector pins project from the body and are operably coupled to the connector contacts in the socket. An electrically conductive shield covers part of the body and includes (i) a first shield part; and (ii) a second shield part physically disconnected from the first shield part and electrically isolated from the first shield part such that an open space separates the first shield part from the second shield part. The first shield part includes a cable shield contact located adjacent the socket that electrically mates with the EMI shield termination contact of the plug. The first and second shield parts further include respective first and second shield connector pins to physically and electrically connect the shield with an associated printed circuit board for dissipation of electrical charges from the first and second shield parts. |
| US10840646B2 |
Anti-misplug coaxial connector assembly
An anti-misplug coaxial connector assembly includes a female connector and a male connector. The female connector includes: a first inner conductor provided with an accommodation cavity defining a longitudinal axis; a first outer conductor; and a first insulator arranged between the first inner conductor and the first outer conductor. The male connector includes: a second inner conductor, a second outer conductor, and a second insulator arranged between the second inner conductor and the second outer conductor. The first outer conductor and the second outer conductor form radial contact by means of a resilient finger-shaped element that surrounds the second insulator. The first insulator includes a main body portion circumferentially surrounding the first inner conductor and a shoulder portion protruding outwardly along the radial direction relative to the main body portion so as to engage the first outer conductor. |
| US10840641B2 |
Connector
A connector includes a second housing fittable with a first housing, a slide member movable relative to the first housing along a connector fitting direction, a transmission gear member rotatably supported by a support shaft provided on the first housing, a first rack gear portion provided on the slide member along the connector fitting direction, a driven gear portion of the transmission gear member rotated by movement of the first rack gear portion in the connector fitting direction, a main drive gear portion of the transmission gear member provided on a side opposite to the driven gear portion with the support shaft interposed therebetween, and a second rack gear portion provided on the second housing along the connector fitting direction, and movable relative to the first housing along the connector fitting direction by rotation of the main drive gear portion. |
| US10840637B2 |
Docking station with connectors for tablet and smart cover
An electronic assembly including a first device, a second device, a third device, and a triggering member is provided. The first device has at least one first positioning member, at least one first electrical connector, and at least one second electrical connector. The second device has at least one second positioning member and at least one third electrical connector. The third device has at least one fourth electrical connector. The triggering member is disposed in the third device. The triggering member has a driven portion and a locking portion opposite to each other. In a first state, the first device is detachably assembled and electrically connected to the second device. In a second state, the first device is detachably assembled and electrically connected to the second device, and the first device is also detachably assembled and electrically connected to the third device. |
| US10840635B2 |
Strain and pressure relief mechanism in a plug connector housing
A plug housing comprises at least one leaf spring element in a cable duct, which has a central part and a respective first and second lateral part which are bent in relation to said central part. The first lateral part is elastically bent via a first bending edge and the second lateral part is elastically bent via an opposing second bending edge on the central part. The central part extends substantially parallel to the cable duct. In relation to the central part, the first and the second lateral part adopt a respective variable acute angle and a variable respective height. The first and second lateral part narrow the cable duct such that, in an assembled state, a respective end section of the first and second lateral part press against the cable with a respective elastic force and thereby bring about the strain- and pressure-resistant securing of the cable. |
| US10840630B2 |
Contact device and contact system
A first contact device is adapted to fasten to a second contact device of a contact system. The first contact device includes a first contact housing having a first contact receptacle, an actuating unit adapted to be swiveled between a first position and a second position different from the first position, and a contact element arranged in the first contact receptacle and electrically connected to an earthing line. The first contact housing is connected to the actuating unit. The contact element has a contact spring arranged in the first contact receptacle in the first position and, in the second position, the actuating unit adjoins the contact spring. The contact spring is swiveled at least partially out of the first contact receptacle and contacts a shielding contact of the second contact device. |
| US10840625B2 |
Power management panel and controller assembly
An avionics power management panel and power panel controller assembly where the panel includes a cabinet including a set of walls at least partially defining an interior with a printed circuit board. The power panel controller assembly can be provided in the interior and can include a chassis housing one or more power panel control modules adapted to couple to the printed circuit board via one or more complementary PCB connectors. |
| US10840624B2 |
NGSFF and M.2 differentiation and mutual protection circuit
A device includes a connector and a detector device. The connector includes at least one first-type pin and at least one second-type pin. The connector is capable of being connected to a corresponding connector of a solid-state drive (SSD) device. The detector device controls the at least one first-type pin to be coupled to a first power supply voltage based on, at least in part, the at least one second-type pin is connected to a second power supply voltage while the corresponding connector of the SSD device is connected to the first connector. If the at least one second-type pin is detected as being connected to a third power supply voltage different from the second power supply voltage while the corresponding connector of the SSD device is connected to the first connector, the detector device controls the at least one first-type pin to be in a non-connected state. |
| US10840620B2 |
Socket
A terminal unit assembly in which a plurality of terminal units extending in a longitudinal direction are arranged in a lateral direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, and a frame member including an assembly accommodating recess for accommodating the terminal unit assembly; wherein the terminal unit includes a longitudinally extending terminal holding part, a main body held by the terminal holding part, a plurality of terminals including contact parts protruding above the top face or below the bottom face of the terminal unit and contact arms connecting the main body to the contact parts, and a housing wall extending in the longitudinal direction; and the terminal holding part includes a plurality of laterally protruding protrusions, and at least one of the protrusions abuts against a housing wall of an adjacent terminal unit. |
| US10840617B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes: a conductive casing accommodating a circuit board; a connector including a connection surface having formed therein a plurality of connection holes into which a plurality of conducting wires are inserted, the connector being provided for a surface of the casing to connect the plurality of conducting wires and the circuit board; and a conductive, conducting member provided so as to cover at least part of the connection surface except the connection holes and connected to the casing. |
| US10840615B2 |
Connection enclosure assemblies, connector systems and methods for forming an enclosed connection between conductors
An enclosed connection system for mechanically and electrically connecting first and second cables, the cables each including an elongate electrical conductor covered by an insulation layer, includes an insulation piercing connector and an enclosure. The insulation piercing connector includes at least one electrically conductive piercing member and a clamping mechanism. The clamping mechanism is configured and operable to force the at least one piercing member through the insulation layers of the first and second cables and into electrical engagement with the conductors of the first and second cables such that the conductors of the first and second cables are electrically connected to one another through the at least one piercing member. The enclosure is configured to receive and cover the connection and to protect the insulation piercing connector. |
| US10840612B2 |
Electrical contact element and method of producing a hard-soldered, electrically conductive connection to a mating contact by means of a pressed-in soldering body made from hard solder
An electrical contact for forming a materially bonded, electrically conductive connection to a mating contact comprises a contact surface and a soldering body. The contact surface has a recess extending into the contact surface. The soldering body is formed of a hard solder material and is pressed into the recess. The soldering body protrudes out from the recess beyond the contact surface. |
| US10840609B1 |
Low-profile rectangular to circular transition
A low-profile apparatus for transitioning circular polarized electromagnetic waves to linear polarized electromagnetic waves when moving in a first direction and transitioning linear polarized electromagnetic waves to circular polarized electromagnetic waves when moving in a second direction. The apparatus includes a substrate with an electrical path positioned within the substrate. A first antenna element attached to the substrate is capacitively coupled to the electrical path and a second antenna element attached to the substrate is capacitively coupled to the electrical path. The apparatus includes a ground plane and electromagnetic waves propagate along the electrical path in a transverse electromagnetic mode. The first antenna element may be positioned within an interior of a first waveguide and the second antenna element may be positioned within an interior of a second waveguide. The first waveguide may have a circular cross-section and the second waveguide may have a rectangular cross-section. |
| US10840607B2 |
Cellular communication systems having antenna arrays therein with enhanced half power beam width (HPBW) control
Antenna arrays include first and second radiating elements, which are responsive to respective first and second hybrid radio frequency (RF) signals, and a power divider circuit. The power divider circuit is configured to generate the first and second hybrid RF signals as power-reduced combinations of first and second RF input signals received at input terminals thereof. For example, the first hybrid RF signal may be generated as a combination of a 70-90 percent energy contribution of the first RF input signal with a 0.26-2.7 percent energy contribution of the second RF input signal. Similarly, the second hybrid RF signal may be generated as a 70-90 percent energy contribution of the second RF input signal with a 0.26-2.7 percent energy contribution of the first RF input signal. |
| US10840601B2 |
Horn antenna array
A horn antenna array is provided with a plurality of horn antennas arranged in one direction. Each of the plurality of horn antennas includes two pairs of inclined planes, which define a frustum-shape horn, and on an electromagnetic wave incident side of the horn, ends of a pair of inclined planes arranged in the one direction out of the two pairs of inclined planes project from ends of the other pair of inclined planes out of the two pairs of inclined planes. |
| US10840600B2 |
RF tag
There is provided an RF tag that can be mounted in a cavity of a member formed of a conductor having the cavity therein, and has high communication performance. An RF tag 1 of the present invention is an RF tag that is mounted in a cavity 101 of a conductor-made member 100 having the cavity 101 therein, and includes at least a free space antenna 10, a resonance circuit 20, an IC chip 30, a closed space antenna 40, and a substrate 50 for supporting the closed space antenna, a portion of the free space antenna is exposed from the cavity to the outside, and the substrate supports the closed space antenna so that the closed space antenna is not in contact with the inner surface of the conductor-made member. The closed space antenna, the substrate and the conductor-made member forms a capacitor portion C2. |
| US10840599B2 |
Differential-mode aperture-coupled patch antenna
An aperture-coupled patch antenna is described. The antenna includes at least one radiating patch. A first aperture couples a reception signal from the patch to first and second receive ports. A second orthogonal aperture couples a transmission signal from a transmit port to the patch. The transmit feed circuit is a single-ended feed circuit. The receive feed circuit is a differential-mode feed circuit. The receive feed circuit defines a difference port, where the electrical path lengths from the first receive port to the difference port and from the second receive port to the difference port differ by an odd integer multiple of half a signal wavelength. The receive feed circuit also defines a sum port, where the electrical path lengths from the first receive port to the sum port and from the second receive port to the sum port are equal in path length. |
| US10840596B2 |
Tunable antenna system for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi bands with electronically-reconfigurable and mechanically-identical antennas
A radio system supporting 2.4 GHz operation, 5 GHz operation, and dual simultaneous 2.4 GHz/5 GHz operation includes one or more radios; and a plurality of antenna systems connected to the one or more radios via a plurality of switches, wherein each of the plurality of antenna systems includes an antenna element including a first end and a second end; a terminating network connecting the first end to ground; and a matching network connecting the second end to an antenna port which is communicatively coupled to one or more radios, wherein the antenna element operates as one of a quarter wave, a half wave, based on first settings in the terminating network and the matching network, and wherein the one or more radios are selectively connected to the plurality of antenna systems based on second settings of the plurality of switches. |
| US10840595B2 |
Conjoint beam shaping systems and methods
Techniques are disclosed for conjoint beam shaping for optimizing radar and sonar performance. A method may include determining a system pattern of an antenna system based at least on a first antenna pattern and a second antenna pattern. The first antenna pattern may be based on first antenna parameters. The second antenna pattern may be based on second antenna parameters. The method may further include determining a score based at least on the determined system pattern and reference information. The method may further include adjusting the first antenna parameters and second antenna parameters based at least on the score. Related systems and devices are also disclosed. |
| US10840590B1 |
Enclosure with integrated lifting mechanism for antennas
An antenna assembly has a main body configured to receive an antenna, and an uninterrupted top cap attached to the main body. The uninterrupted top cap has an outer surface. A lifting assembly is attached to at the outer surface of said top cap without penetrating the cap. Accordingly, the uninterrupted cap forms an unbroken whole. The uninterrupted cap is continuous without any through-holes or other perturbances or features that extend through the cap or otherwise might allow fluid to pass through the cap into an interior of the main body. |
| US10840584B2 |
Cavity backed antenna
There is provided a method and apparatus for providing a cavity backed antenna suitable for off-body communications. The cavity backed antenna comprising a substantially omnidirectional antenna element (11) mountable upon a user's body such that an underlying bone (17) forms the cavity back plate. The cavity between the antenna element and the underlying bone thereby being filled with soft tissue (14, 15, 16). The cavity backed antenna operating in synergy with the mechanical and electrical characteristics of the body to deliver an overall directional gain pointing away from the user's body. |
| US10840581B2 |
Electronic package
An electronic package is provided with a first substrate having a first antenna portion that is stacked on a second substrate having a second antenna portion via an antenna component. During a packaging process, a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate is held constantly by the antenna component. At the same time, the antenna component is regarded as a third antenna portion of the electronic package. The performance of the antennae is not adversely affected by the antenna component despite the fact that the antenna component is in close proximity to the first and second antenna portions. |
| US10840580B2 |
Dynamically adjusted antenna system and antenna array included therein
An antenna system includes an antenna array, a control device and a driving mechanism. The antenna array includes a plurality of antenna units disposed on a flexible substrate, wherein a configuration of the flexible substrate is variable so as to change relative positions of at least two of the antenna units. The control device determines the configuration of the flexible substrate according to a default setting or in response to a dynamic input. The driving mechanism is connected between the flexible substrate and the control device for driving the change of the configuration of the flexible substrate in response to a command from the control device. |
| US10840575B2 |
Band pass filter including microstrip transmission line
A band pass filter including a microstrip transmission line comprises: a substrate having a grounding surface formed on a rear surface thereof; an input port which is formed on an upper surface of the substrate and receives a transmission signal; an output port which is formed on the upper surface of the substrate and outputs a filtered transmission signal; and a plurality of signal transmission lines spaced at predetermined distance from one another in parallel, each of the plurality of signal transmission lines having one end connected to and in contact with the input port, and having the other end connected to and in contact with the output port. |
| US10840573B2 |
Linear-to-circular polarizers using cascaded sheet impedances and cascaded waveplates
An ultra-wideband linear-to-circular polarizer is disclosed. In accordance with embodiments of the invention, the polarizer includes a plurality of cascaded waveplates having biaxial permittivity or cascaded anisotropic sheet impedances. Each waveplate/sheet has a principal axis rotated at different angles relative to an adjacent waveplate/sheet about a z-axis of a 3-dimensional x, y, z coordinate system. Each waveplate is composed of a unit cell of an artificial anisotropic dielectric. Each sheet impedance is composed of an anisotropic metallic pattern. The polarizer further includes impedance matching layers disposed adjacent the cascaded waveplates/sheets. |
| US10840572B1 |
Solar hydrogen generation and off-peak storage
A new system for producing electricity and fuel to produce electricity has 1) at least two sources of electricity, comprising any two of photovoltaic energy, tidal energy capture, wind mills and the utility interconnect system; 2) an alkaline electrolyzer including an alkaline fluid container, an alkaline fluid, an anode, a cathode and a thin foil; 3) the alkaline electrolyzer positioned downstream from a means for generating low voltage waves sufficient to lower the ground energy of the water, the low voltage means being connected to the electrical distribution box and providing treated water; 4) a fuel cell being connected to an electrical distribution box that is capable of routing electricity from the fuel cell, the fuel cell also being connected to the hydrogen storage area to receive hydrogen gas to convert to electrical energy for dispersion to the utility interconnect system and/or the system for producing electricity; 5) an electricity distribution box, connected to the current best energy source to the alkaline electrolyzer to produce hydrogen for storage and from the fuel cell back into the utility interconnect system; and 6) storage units for hydrogen and oxygen gases, the storage units comprising large containers suited to maintaining gas compression. |
| US10840569B2 |
Storage battery rack and power storage device
A storage battery rack includes bottom frame portion, ceiling frame portion, long support posts, and side panels installed facing the support posts. Each support post has a plurality of attachment holes with a predetermined pitch along the longitudinal direction. Side panel has a plurality of female screw holes with a pitch corresponding to the predetermined pitch. Each side panel is attached to a pair of the support posts with screws fastened to attachment holes and the female screw holes. Side panel has a plurality of parallel support portions. A distance between support portions is set substantially equal to a total value of a predetermined height dimension of a refrigerant passage formed between a plurality of storage batteries and a predetermined height dimension of each storage battery. |
| US10840568B2 |
Apparatus and method for detecting water
An apparatus for detecting water includes at least one battery module for producing and supplying electricity to outside of the apparatus, a housing for accommodating the battery module, and a touch panel for detecting a contact position of water when the water makes contact with one surface of the touch panel, and the touch panel includes a first touch panel located in a first area where the battery module is formed. |
| US10840562B2 |
Energy storage system, monitoring unit for energy storage device, and method of monitoring energy storage device
An energy storage system includes an energy storage device; a current cutoff unit configured to cut off current of the energy storage device; a communication connector to be connected with an external communication connector; a detection terminal provided to the communication connector; and a control unit configured to control the current cutoff unit based on a connection state of the detection terminal of the communication connector when the communication connector is connected with the external communication connector. In a method of monitoring an energy storage device mounted on a vehicle, when a communication connector including a detecting terminal is connected with an external communication connector of the vehicle, current between the energy storage device and the vehicle is cut off based on a connection state of the detection terminal. |
| US10840557B2 |
Electrode assembly, and lithium ion electric roll using the electrode assembly
An electrode assembly and a lithium ion electric roll having the same are provided. The electrode assembly includes: a first electrode unit; a first anti-puncture cushion; in which the first electrode unit includes a first electrode sheet, an second electrode sheet, and a separator, the separator is disposed between the first electrode sheet and the second electrode sheet; the first anti-puncture cushion is disposed on a side of the first electrode unit along a width direction, and covers an edge of the first electrode sheet. |
| US10840556B1 |
Method and system for a battery electrode having a solvent level to facilitate peeling
Systems and methods for a battery electrode having a solvent level to facilitate peeling are disclosed. In examples, a battery may include one or more electrodes and an electrolyte. The electrodes include an electrode slurry layer with a solvent. The electrode slurry is coated on a substrate, where the electrode slurry and substrate produce an active material with a residual amount of solvent in response to a heat-treatment, and where the active material comprises 10% to 25% residual solvent by weight following the heat-treatment. The amount of residual solvent facilitates peeling of the active material from the substrate, which, once pyrolyzed, may be used to create a multi-layer film with the current collector film and the active material. |
| US10840554B2 |
Electrolyte for non-aqueous electrolyte cell, and non-aqueous electrolyte cell wherein same is used
Provided is an electrolyte for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery, which can provide, when used in a non-aqueous electrolyte battery, in a good balance, an effect to suppress an increase in an internal resistance at a low temperature and an effect to suppress an increase in an amount of gas generated at a high temperature, as well as a non-aqueous electrolyte battery containing such an electrolyte. The non-aqueous electrolyte comprises a non-aqueous solvent and at least a hexafluorophosphate and/or tetrafluoroborate as a solute, and further comprises at least one imide anion-containing salt represented by the following general formula [1] but does not contain a silane compound represented by the following general formula [2] or an ionic complex represented by, for example, the following general formula [3]. |
| US10840553B2 |
Free-solvent-free lithium sulfonamide salt compositions that are liquid at room temperature, and uses thereof in lithium ion battery
Free-solvent-free lithium sulfonimide salt compositions that are liquid at room temperature, and methods of making free-solvent-free liquid lithium sulfonimide salt compositions. In an embodiment, the methods include mixing one or more lithium sulfonimide salts with one or more ether-based solvents and then removing the free solvent(s) under suitable vacuum, temperature, and time conditions so as to obtain a free-solvent-free liquid lithium sulfonimide salt composition that is liquid at room temperature. In an embodiment, the only solvent molecules that remain in the liquid lithium sulfonimide salt composition are adducted with lithium sulfonimide salt molecules. An example automated processing system for making free-solvent-free liquid lithium sulfonimide salts is also disclosed. |
| US10840551B2 |
Lithium secondary battery and manufacturing method therefor
The present invention relates to a lithium secondary battery having a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode active material capable of absorbing and releasing lithium ions, a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode active material capable of absorbing and releasing lithium ions, and an electrolyte solution, wherein a positive electrode surface detection component comprises at least one negative secondary ion peak selected from CH3S2O6− and CHS2O4−, and further comprises a negative secondary ion peak of SO3—, wherein the positive electrode surface detection component is detected when a primary ion is irradiated on the surface of the positive electrode active material by a Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) method. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a lithium secondary battery having excellent cycle characteristics. |
| US10840548B2 |
Solid electrolyte laminate and all-solid-state battery using the same
A solid electrolyte laminate which can prevent a reduction in the discharge capacity of an all-solid-state battery despite the inclusion of an insulator such as alumina in the solid electrolyte laminate is disclosed. The disclosed solid electrolyte laminate includes a solid electrolyte and an insulator, wherein the solid electrolyte laminate has a multi-layer structure including a first low-insulator-content solid electrolyte layer, a high-insulator-content solid electrolyte layer, and a second low-insulator-content solid electrolyte layer laminated in this order. The content ratio of the insulator in each of the first and the second low-insulator-content solid electrolyte layer is lower than the content ratio of the insulator in the high-insulator-content solid electrolyte layer. |
| US10840546B2 |
Vitreous solid electrolyte sheets of Li ion conducting sulfur-based glass and associated structures, cells and methods
A lithium ion-conductive solid electrolyte including a freestanding inorganic vitreous sheet of sulfide-based lithium ion conducting glass is capable of high performance in a lithium metal battery by providing a high degree of lithium ion conductivity while being highly resistant to the initiation and/or propagation of lithium dendrites. Such an electrolyte is also itself manufacturable, and readily adaptable for battery cell and cell component manufacture, in a cost-effective, scalable manner. |
| US10840543B2 |
System and method for the formation of facile lithium metal anode interface with a solid state electrolyte
Disclosed are electrochemical devices, such as lithium battery electrodes, lithium ion conducting solid-state electrolytes, and solid-state lithium metal batteries including these electrodes and solid-state electrolytes. In one disclosed method, a solid state electrolyte material including a precursor layer having a first electronic conductivity is provided; and the precursor layer on the solid state electrolyte material is reduced to an interfacial layer having a second electronic conductivity greater than the first electronic conductivity. Also disclosed is a method of forming a solid state electrolyte for an electrochemical device including an anode comprising an electrochemically active metal, wherein the method comprises providing a solid state electrolyte material, and depositing an interfacial layer comprising a first metal on the surface of the solid state electrolyte material, wherein the electrochemically active metal does not form an alloy with the first metal during cycling or formation of the electrochemical device. |
| US10840536B2 |
Stretchable electronic systems with containment chambers
The present invention provides electronic systems, including device arrays, comprising functional device(s) and/or device component(s) at least partially enclosed via one or more containment chambers, such that the device(s) and/or device component(s) are at least partially, and optionally entirely, immersed in a containment fluid. Useful containment fluids for use in containment chambers of electronic devices of the invention include lubricants, electrolytes and/or electronically resistive fluids. In some embodiments, for example, electronic systems of the invention comprise one or more electronic devices and/or device components provided in free-standing and/or tethered configurations that decouple forces originating upon deformation, stretching or compression of a supporting substrate from the free standing or tethered device or device component. |
| US10840535B2 |
Fuel cell mechanical components
A modular fuel cell system includes a base, at least four power modules arranged in a row on the base, and a fuel processing module and power conditioning module arranged on at least one end of the row on the base. Each power module includes a separate cabinet which contains at least one fuel cell stack located in a hot box. The power modules are electrically and fluidly connected to the at least one fuel processing and power conditioning modules through the base. |
| US10840532B2 |
Flow battery with electrolyte rebalancing system
The present invention relates to flow battery systems including a flow battery and an electrolyte rebalancing system. In accordance with certain embodiments, the electrolytes used in the systems of the present invention are aqueous, and in one embodiment, bromine species are used as redox-active species. |
| US10840529B2 |
Method for generating energy and energy generation device for mobile applications
A method for generating energy in mobile applications, such as water vehicles, wherein hydrogen is produced by at least partially dehydrogenating a hydrogenated liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) in a chemical reactor, where electricity and water are generated in at least one fuel cell and heat for the chemical reactor is generated in a heating device from the produced hydrogen, and where the hydrogen produced by the chemical reactor is first conducted through the at least one fuel cell and then supplied to the heating device, such that the at least one fuel cell can therefore be operated under partial load and thus with better efficiency than if the hydrogen for the heating device is branched off before the fuel cell. |
| US10840522B2 |
Fuel cell
A fuel cell includes stacked power cells and an end cell. Each power cell includes a first plate and two first separators sandwiching the first plate. The end cell includes a second plate and two second separators sandwiching the second plate. Through holes formed in each plate and each separator form a power generating gas inlet passage extending in the power cells. The end cell has at least one of a “first structure,” in which a bottom wall of the through hole of the second plate or an upstream one of the second separators is downwardly recessed compared to corresponding portions of the power cells, and a “second structure,” in which a bottom wall of the through hole of the second plate or a downstream one of the second separators upwardly projects compared to corresponding portions of the power cells. |
| US10840517B2 |
Photocurable resin composition, fuel cell, and sealing method
The present invention has an object to provide a photocurable resin composition which exhibits excellent surface curability and deep section curability when irradiated with active energy rays such as ultraviolet rays while maintaining sealability. Specifically, provided is a photocurable resin composition containing the following (A) to (C) ingredients: (A) ingredient: a polymer having a polyisobutylene backbone containing a —[CH2C(CH3)2]— unit, the polymer having one or more (meth)acryloyl groups; (B) ingredient: a photo-radical polymerization initiator; and (C) ingredient: a triarylphosphine derivative or a xanthone derivative. |
| US10840509B2 |
Positive electrode active material, and lithium secondary battery using same
A positive electrode active material for lithium secondary batteries disclosed herein comprises a lithium transition metal oxide of a layered structure, represented by formula Li1+αNixCoyMnzCaβMγO2 (where −0.05≤α≤0.2, x+y+z+β+γ≅1, 0.3≤x≤≤0.7, 0.1≤y≤0.4, 0.1≤z≤0.4, 0.0002≤β≤0.0025, 0.0002≤β+γ≤0.02, and in a case where γ>0, M is absent or represents one, two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Na, Mg, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta and W). The tap density of the positive electrode active material ranges from 1.8 to 2.5 g/cm3. |
| US10840507B2 |
Composite positive electrode active material for all-solid-state secondary battery, method for manufacturing same, positive electrode, and all-solid-state secondary battery
A composite positive electrode active material for an all-solid-state secondary battery containing particles of a positive electrode active material and a sulfide-based solid electrolyte layer coating surfaces of the particles, wherein the composite positive electrode active material has an average roundness that is 1.3 times or more of that of a positive electrode active material at an inner core of the composite positive electrode active material. |
| US10840505B2 |
Apparatus and method of providing an apparatus for use as a power source
An apparatus and method of providing an apparatus, the apparatus comprising: an electrode comprising metal; an anode comprising a composite of halide salt and conductive carbon based material wherein the anode is deposited on the electrode; a cathode comprising metal; and a solid electrolyte provided between the cathode and the anode. |
| US10840503B2 |
Positive electrode material and lithium secondary battery using same
The present invention provides a positive electrode material for lithium secondary batteries, having: a positive electrode active material containing Li; and a cover disposed on the positive electrode active material, and containing Li and F, and further containing one or two or more cover elements from among Al, Ti, Zr, Ta and Nb. With a Point a as an arbitrary point of the cover in contact with the positive electrode active material, a Point c as a point on the surface of the cover at a shortest distance from the Point a, and a Point b as a midpoint between the Point a and the Point c, an analysis of the Point a, the Point b and the Point c by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy yields a ratio of Li concentration at the Point a with respect to the Li concentration at the Point b is 1.1 or higher and lower than 10.8, and a ratio of F concentration at the Point c with respect to F concentration at the Point b is 1.1 or higher and lower than 51.1. |
| US10840497B2 |
Battery module and method for controlling charge and discharge
A battery module (100) and a method for controlling charge and discharge are provided. The battery module (100) includes a battery body disposed in an outer housing, a heat conduction assembly (4) connected between the outer housing and the battery body in a heat conduction manner, a first heating member (5) for heating the battery body, a second heating member (6) for heating the heat conduction assembly (4), a temperature sensor (8) for detecting a temperature of the battery body and generating a temperature signal according to the detected temperature of the battery body, and a control assembly (7) for receiving the temperature signal and controlling the first heating member (5) and the second heating member (6) according to the temperature signal. |
| US10840496B2 |
Bus bar module and power supply device
A bus bar module includes a plurality of bus bars, each of which connects adjacent electrodes in a plurality of batteries so as to connect the plurality of batteries in series, the plurality of batteries being arranged such that the electrodes thereof are aligned in a straight line, a terminal connected to each of the bus bars; and a casing that accommodates the plurality of bus bars and the plurality of terminals. The casing includes a routing groove configured to route an electric wire in the arrangement direction, the electric wire being to be connected to the terminal. The routing groove includes an absorbing portion formed to be swollen such that a groove width dimension of a part thereof is made larger than a groove width dimension of the other part thereof, whereby the absorbing portion absorbs an extra length portion of the electric wire. |
| US10840495B2 |
Functional layer for non-aqueous secondary battery and non-aqueous secondary battery
Provided is a functional layer for a non-aqueous secondary battery having reduced water content and excellent heat resistance and adhesiveness. The functional layer for a non-aqueous secondary battery contains a heat resistant resin and an acidic group-containing polymer. The percentage content of chlorine atoms in the functional layer for a non-aqueous secondary battery as measured by combustion ion chromatography is not less than 0.001 mass % and not more than 2.000 mass %. |
| US10840492B2 |
Separator and secondary battery including the separator
Provided are a separator capable of being used for a secondary battery such as a nonaqueous electrolyte-solution secondary battery and a secondary battery including the separator. A separator having a first layer including a porous polyethylene and an organic additive is provided. A white index of the first layer is equal to or more than 85 and equal to or less than 98, and a reduction rate of diethyl carbonate dropped on the first layer is equal to or higher than 0.048 mg/s and equal to or lower than 0.067 mg/s. The separator may further include a porous layer over the first layer. |
| US10840491B2 |
Process for producing cellulose-nanofiber-filled microporous stretched polyolefin film, microporous cellulose-nanofiber composite film, and separator for non-aqueous secondary battery
A method for producing a cellulose nanofiber-containing polyolefin microporous stretched film according to the invention includes: a first step of obtaining a cellulose powder dispersion mixture by uniformly dispersing a cellulose which has a powder particle shape and whose hydroxyl groups have been subjected to a lipophilizing treatment using a dibasic acid anhydride, in a plasticizer; a second step of melt-kneading the cellulose powder dispersion mixture and a polyolefin to obtain a polyolefin resin composition; a third step of extrusion-molding the polyolefin resin composition to obtain an extrudate; a fourth step of stretching the extrudate with a film stretcher to obtain a film; a fifth step of extracting out the plasticizer from the film; and a sixth step of thermally fixing the film from which the plasticizer has been extracted out for inhibiting contraction, while stretching the film at a temperature not higher than a melting point of the polyolefin, in which a twin-screw kneading extruder is used only once throughout the second and third steps. |
| US10840489B2 |
Attachment device for attaching an energy accumulator to an underbody of a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle equipped therewith
For improved attachment of an energy accumulator to an underbody of a motor vehicle, an attachment device has a top side that is designed to be attached to the underbody via attachment fasteners and an underside that is designed to be connected to a top side of the energy accumulator. The underside of the attachment device and the top side of the energy accumulator are integrally bonded by an adhesive at least in a region remote from outer edges of the top side of the energy accumulator. |
| US10840486B2 |
Battery module
The disclosure relates to a battery module. The battery module comprises: a first end plate, a plurality of batteries and a second end plate successively arranged in a direction, wherein the battery comprises a top cover; a connecting component, wherein the first end plate is fixedly connected to the second end plate through the connecting component; and a pulling component comprising a first connecting segment, an intermediate segment and a second connecting segment successively arranged, wherein the first connecting segment is fixedly connected to the first end plate, the intermediate segment is disposed facing the top cover, and the second connecting segment is fixedly connected to the second end plate, and wherein the pulling component can tighten the first end plate and the second end plate in an arrangement direction of the batteries to compress the batteries along with the first end plate and the second end plate. |
| US10840484B2 |
Heat-radiation module and electric vehicle battery pack using same
Provided are a heat-radiation module and a battery pack for an electric vehicle using the same. The heat-radiation module includes a vapor chamber contacting a heat generation device to uniformly collect heat generated from the heat generation device; a heat sink for diffusing and discharging the heat collected by the vapor chamber; and a heat exchanger for cooling the heat discharged from the heat sink. |
| US10840482B2 |
Battery coil engaging members for downhole tools
Arrangements for retaining coiled battery internals in a coiled orientation within a cell casing, in which end caps and/or sleeves are provided with at least one inward-facing protuberance for engaging and securing the coiled battery internals, and means for securing and aligning pouch cell batteries within a sleeve. |
| US10840480B2 |
Light-emitting system and mobile object
A standard direction (S) is a horizontal direction (a direction along X direction in the drawing). A base material (200) is supported by a frame body (250) so that a second surface (204) of the base material (200) is oriented obliquely upward from the standard direction (S). Thereby, a reference direction (R) is oriented obliquely upward from the standard direction (S). A light distribution of light from a light-emitting region (242) (more specifically, a light-emitting unit (172)) has a maximum value in a first direction (D1). The first direction (D1) is different from the standard direction (S). Specifically, an angle formed between the first direction (D1) and the reference direction (R) is greater than an angle formed between the standard direction (S) and the reference direction (R). |
| US10840479B2 |
OLED display panel
An OLED (organic light emitting diode) display panel is provided. The OLED display includes a substrate having a display region and a non-display region disposed around the display region, and the non-display region is provided with a partition wall. A first inorganic layer is disposed on the display region and the partition wall. A hydrophobic layer is disposed on the first inorganic layer and located corresponding to the partition wall. An organic layer is disposed on the first inorganic layer and a portion of the hydrophobic layer, wherein the organic layer is disposed on an inner side of the partition wall adjacent to the display region. A second inorganic layer is disposed on the organic layer. |
| US10840474B2 |
Electronic devices with flexible displays
An electronic device may have a hinge that allows the device to be flexed about a bend axis. A display may span the bend axis. To facilitate bending about the bend axis, the display may have layers such as a display cover layer with grooves or other recesses. The recesses form a flexible portion in the display layer. The display layer may be formed from glass or other materials that are transparent. Elastomeric material, fluids, and other materials may be placed in the recesses in the display layer. The material in the display layer may have an index of refraction that is matched to the index of refraction of the display layer. A hinge may be formed between rigid planar layers that are separated by a gap. Flexible layers that lie flush with opposing surfaces of the rigid planar layers may be used to span the gap. |
| US10840472B2 |
Display device and light emitting device
A display device having light emitting elements that respectively include a first electrode formed on a substrate, a laminated structure formed on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the laminated structure. The laminated structure is formed by laminating, in the following order from the first electrode side, at least a first organic layer including a first light emitting layer, a charge generation layer in which a first layer into which a first carrier is injected and a second layer into which a second carrier is injected are laminated, and a second organic layer including a second light emitting layer. In a light emitting element including a defect region, the charge generation layer is in a high electrical resistance state or an insulated state in the defect region, while being in a low electrical resistance state in a region other than the defect region. |
| US10840469B2 |
OLED display device and manufacturing method thereof
Each of subpixels includes: an upper electrode; a lower electrode; an organic light-emitting layer sandwiched between the upper electrode and the lower electrode; and a lower carrier supply layer sandwiched between the lower electrode and the organic light-emitting layer. The lower carrier supply layer is configured to: make contact with the lower electrode and the organic light-emitting layer, respectively; supply carriers from the lower electrode to the organic light-emitting layer; cover the lower electrode entirely in an opening of the pixel defining layer; and have an edge at a top surface of the pixel defining layer surrounding the lower electrode. The organic light-emitting layer covers an entire surface of the lower carrier supply layer including the edge of the lower carrier supply layer. |
| US10840465B2 |
Producing method of radiation detection element and radiation detection element
According to an embodiment, a producing method of a radiation detection element, includes: forming an organic semiconductor layer by applying an organic semiconductor solution onto a first conductive layer formed on a support substrate; forming a second conductive layer on the organic semiconductor layer; sealing a laminated body of the first conductive layer, the organic semiconductor layer, and the second conductive layer, formed on the support substrate, with a sealing member; and applying heat to the laminated body sealed with the sealing member. In at least one of forming of the organic layer and forming of the second conductive layer, a forming environment of the organic semiconductor layer and the second conductive layer are adjusted such that the solvent content of the organic semiconductor layer is in a predetermined range. |
| US10840457B2 |
Compound for organic electric element, organic electric element comprising the same and electronic device thereof
The present invention provides the compound represented by Formula 1, an organic electric element comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic material layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an electronic device comprising the same. The driving voltage of an organic electronic device can be lowered, and the luminous efficiency and life time of an organic electronic device can be improved by comprising the compound represented by the Formula 1 in the organic material layer. |
| US10840454B2 |
Organic light-emitting devices
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer includes an emission layer, and the emission layer includes at least one light-emitting material represented by one of Formulas 1 and 2. The organic layer further includes at least one hole-transporting material represented by one of Formulas 2(1) and 2(2). |
| US10840453B2 |
Dibromo-diiodo-dipolycyclic compound and electron acceptor molecules derived therefrom
The present specification provides a di-polycyclic compound, and a polymer chain consisting of alternating electron donor compounds and electron acceptor compounds, which include the di-polycyclic compound. |
| US10840451B2 |
Organic electronic material, ink composition containing same, and organic thin film, organic electronic element, organic eletroluminescent element, lighting device, and display device formed therewith
Provided are: an organic electronic material which can be easily multilayered and that can be used in substrates, such as resin, that cannot be processed at high temperatures; an ink composition containing the same; an organic thin film formed using said organic electronic material or said ink composition; and an organic electronic element and an organic EL element that are formed using said organic thin film and that have a superior luminous efficacy and emission lifespan than conventional elements. Specifically, provided are: an organic electronic material that is characterized by containing an oligomer or a polymer having a structure that branches into three or more directions and has at least one polymerizable substituent; an ink composition containing said organic electronic material; and an organic thin film prepared using the aforementioned organic electronic material. Further, provided are an organic electronic element and an organic electroluminescent element containing said organic thin film. |
| US10840449B2 |
Method for producing resin film having fine pattern, method for producing organic el display device, base film for forming fine pattern, and resin film provided with supporting member
A method for producing a resin film by using a resin material and accurately forming a fine pattern as a vapor deposition mask or an optical element, a method for producing an organic EL display device, a base film for forming a fine pattern and a resin film with a supporting member are provided. A liquid resin material is applied onto a supporting member to form a resin coating film (S1), and a temperature of the resin coating film is increased to a temperature at which the resin material cures, to form a baked resin film (S2). Thereafter, a base film formed by the baked resin film attached to the supporting member is processed by irradiating with lasers, to form a resin film (1b) having a desired fine pattern and the supporting member (S3). Thereafter, the baked resin film on which the fine pattern is formed is peeled from the supporting member, and the resin film having the fine pattern is obtained (S5). |
| US10840448B2 |
Formulation of an organic functional material
The present invention relates to formulations containing at least one organic functional material and at least a first organic solvent, wherein said first organic solvent contains at least one norbornene group as well as to electronic devices prepared by using these formulations. |
| US10840433B2 |
MRAM with high-aspect ratio bottom electrode
An ultra-small diameter and a tall bottom electrode for use in magnetic random access memory (MRAM) devices containing a multilayered MTJ pillar is provided. The bottom electrode is formed by depositing a thick bottom electrode layer on a surface of a metallic etch stop layer. The bottom electrode layer is then patterned by lithography and etching to provide a bottom electrode structure. An angled ion beam etch is thereafter used to trim the bottom electrode structure into a bottom electrode having a high aspect ratio (on the order of 10:1 or greater). |
| US10840431B2 |
Multilayer selector device with low holding voltage
An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: a memory array comprising: a selector switch including top and bottom electrodes, a metal layer, and a solid electrolyte layer; a memory cell in series with the selector switch; bit and write lines, wherein (a) (i) the top electrode couples to one of the bit and write lines and the bottom electrode couples to another of the bit and write lines, and (a) (ii) the memory cell is between one of the top and bottom electrodes and one of the bit and write lines; wherein (b) (i) the metal layer includes silver (Ag), and (b) (ii) Ag ions from the metal layer form a conductive path in the SE layer when the top electrode is biased and disband the conductive path when the top electrode is not biased. Other embodiments Electrode are described herein. |
| US10840428B2 |
Scalable quantum devices with vertical coaxial resonators
Quantum computing devices include a chip carrier that has a conductive carrier body and one or more readout resonators in the conductive carrier body. Each readout resonator has a center conductor and a coaxial dielectric layer. A quantum chip is on the chip carrier and includes one or more qubits positioned over respective readout resonators. |
| US10840425B2 |
Thermal ground planes and light-emitting diodes
Methods and systems for thermal management of one or more LEDs are disclosed. One or more LEDs may be coupled with an external layer of a thermal ground plane according to some embodiments described herein. For example, the one or more LEDs may be electrically coupled with a circuit carrier with one or more electrically conductive traces etched therein prior to coupling with the thermal ground plane. The thermal ground plane may be charged with a working fluid and/or hermetically sealed after being coupled with the LED. |
| US10840418B1 |
Fabricating parabolic-shaped LEDs
Systems and methods for fabricating parabolic LEDs are provided. The parabolic shape of the LEDs is precisely-controlled and highly-uniform across a substrate. By precisely controlling the shape, and providing a high-uniformity across the substrate, the luminance and process yield of the LEDs is enhanced. The precise-control and high-uniformity of the shape is enabled via a precisely-shaped and highly-uniform mask formed on the substrate. The ability to precisely-control both the shape and uniformity the mask is achieved by forming the mask utilizing three-dimensional (3D) patterning and/or machining methods. The mask includes a precisely-shaped boss with the same shape as the LED, and a cylindrical protrusion extending beyond the boss. The combination of the boss and cylindrical protrusion allows for the mask to be over-etched, without significantly effecting the shape of the LED. Thus, any non-uniformities etching process do not decrease the luminance, nor uniformity, of the LEDs. |
| US10840413B2 |
Optoelectronic device and method of producing an optoelectronic device
An optoelectronic device includes at least one optoelectronic semiconductor chip that emits radiation, at least one metallic reflecting surface, at least one functional component having a component surface different from the metallic reflecting surface, and a barrier layer stack for protection against corrosive gases arranged both on the at least one metallic reflecting surface and the component surface, wherein the barrier layer stack includes at least one inorganic oxide, oxynitride or nitride layer and at least one plasma-polymerized siloxane layer. |
| US10840411B2 |
Semiconductor layer sequence
A semiconductor layer sequence is disclosed. In an embodiment the semiconductor layer sequence includes an n-conducting n-region, a p-conducting p-region and an active zone having at least one quantum well located between the n-region and the p-region, wherein the semiconductor layer sequence includes AlInGaN, wherein the n-region comprises a superlattice, wherein the superlattice has a structural unit which repeats at least three times, wherein the structural unit comprises at least one AlGaN layer, at least one GaN layer and at least one InGaN layer, wherein an intermediate layer is disposed between the active zone and the superlattice, wherein the intermediate layer comprises either n-doped GaN or n-doped GaN together with n-doped InGaN so that the intermediate layer is free of aluminum, and wherein the intermediate layer directly adjoins the active zone and the superlattice. |
| US10840410B2 |
Ultrathin solid state dies and methods of manufacturing the same
Various embodiments of SST dies and solid state lighting (“SSL”) devices with SST dies, assemblies, and methods of manufacturing are described herein. In one embodiment, a SST die includes a substrate material, a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material on the substrate material, an active region between the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material, and a support structure defined by the substrate material. In some embodiments, the support structure has an opening that is vertically aligned with the active region. |
| US10840408B1 |
Enhanced efficiency of LED structure with n-doped quantum barriers
The present invention provides light-emitting devices with improved quantum efficiency. The light emitting diode structure comprising: a p-doped layer, an n-doped layer; and a multiple quantum well structure sandwiched between the p-doped layer and n-doped layer, wherein the multiple quantum well structure comprising a quantum well disposed between n-doped barrier layers. |
| US10840404B2 |
Solution-phase inclusion of silver into chalcogenide semiconductor inks
Silver-containing absorbers for photovoltaic devices and techniques for fabrication thereof are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming an ink includes: mixing a silver halide and a solvent to form a first solution; mixing a metal, sulfur, and the solvent to form a second solution; combining the first solution and the second solution to form a precursor solution; and adding constituent components for an absorber material to the precursor solution to form the ink. Methods of forming an absorber film, a photovoltaic device, and the resulting photovoltaic device are also provided. |
| US10840399B1 |
Germanium tin oxide thin films for uncooled infrared detection
Microbolometer is a class of infrared detector whose resistance changes when the temperature changes. In this work, we deposited and characterized Germanium Oxide thin films mixed with Sn (Ge—Sn—O) for uncooled infrared detection. Ge—Sn—O were deposited by co-sputtering of Sn and Ge targets in the Ar+O environment using a radio frequency sputtering system. Optical characterization shows that the absorption in Ge—Sn—O was most sensitive in the wavelength ranges between 1.0-3.0 μm. The transmission data was further used to determine the optical energy band gap (0.678 eV) of the thin-film using Tauc's equation. We also found the variations of absorption coefficient (1.4802×105 m−1-1.0097×107 m−1), refractive index (1.242-1.350), and the extinction coefficient (0.3255-8.010) for the wavelength ranges between 1.0-3.0 μm. The thin film's resistivity measured by the four point probe was found to be 4.55 Ω-cm and TCR was in the range of −2.56-−2.25 (%/K) in the temperature range 292-312K. In light of these results it can be shown that this thin film is in keeping with the current standards while also being more cost and time effective. |
| US10840398B2 |
Photoelectric conversion element, method for manufacturing same, and imaging apparatus
A photoelectric conversion element includes: a first compound semiconductor layer 31 made of a first compound semiconductor material having a first conductivity type; a photoelectric conversion layer 34 formed on the first compound semiconductor layer 31; a second compound semiconductor layer 32 covering the photoelectric conversion layer 34 and made of a second compound semiconductor material having the first conductivity type; a second conductivity type region 35 formed at least in a part of the second compound semiconductor layer 32, having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and reaching the photoelectric conversion layer; an element isolation layer 34 surrounding a lateral surface of the photoelectric conversion layer; a first electrode 51 formed on the second conductivity type region; and a second electrode 52 electrically connected to the first compound semiconductor layer 31. |
| US10840396B2 |
Optoelectronic modules with alignment spacers and methods for assembling the same
Optoelectronic modules, such as proximity sensors, two-dimensional and three-dimensional cameras, structured- or encoded-light emitters, and projectors include optical assemblies and active optoelectronic components that are light sensitive or emit light. The optical assemblies are aligned to the active optoelectronic components via alignment spacers and adhesive. The alignment spacers include surfaces operable to limit the lateral migration of adhesive thereby preventing the contamination of the active optoelectronic components with adhesive. In some instances, small optoelectronic module footprints can be maintained without compromising the integrity of the adhesive. |
| US10840395B2 |
Deposition approaches for emitter layers of solar cells
Methods of fabricating solar cells, and the resulting solar cells, are described herein. In an example, a method of fabricating a solar cell includes forming a thin dielectric layer on a surface of a substrate by radical oxidation or plasma oxidation of the surface of the substrate. The method also involves forming a silicon layer over the thin dielectric layer. The method also involves forming a plurality of emitter regions from the silicon layer. |
| US10840394B2 |
Conductive strip based mask for metallization of semiconductor devices
Methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device, and resulting semiconductor device are described. In an example, the method for manufacturing a semiconductor device include forming a semiconductor region and forming a metal seed region over the semiconductor region. The method can include placing a conductive strip over a first portion of the metal region, where the conductive strip is formed over the semiconductor region. The method can include bonding a contacting portion of the conductive strip to the first portion the metal region. The method can include etching a second portion of the metal region and where the conductive strip inhibits etching of the first portion of the metal region. In an example, the conductive strip can have a coating. In one example, the semiconductor device can be a solar cell. |
| US10840383B1 |
Non-volatile memory (NVM) structure with front and back gates
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a memory cell implemented using front and back gate regions. One example memory cell generally includes a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, and a third semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region being disposed between the first semiconductor region and the third semiconductor region. The memory cell may also include a front gate region disposed above the second semiconductor region, a floating back gate region, a first portion of the floating back gate region being disposed below the second semiconductor region, and a non-insulative region disposed adjacent to the floating back gate region. |
| US10840381B2 |
Nanosheet and nanowire MOSFET with sharp source/drain junction
A semiconductor device that includes a gate structure present on at least two suspended channel structures, and a composite spacer present on sidewalls of the gate structure. The composite spacer includes a cladding spacer present along a cap portion of the gate structure, and an inner spacer along the channel portion of the gate structure between adjacent channel semiconductor layers of at least two suspended channel structures. The inner spacer may be composed of an n-type or p-type doped glass. |
| US10840378B2 |
Fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device and method for forming the same
A fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device structure and method for forming FinFET device structure are provided. The FinFET structure includes a substrate and an isolation structure formed on the substrate. The FinFET structure also includes a fin structure extending above the substrate, and the fin structure is embedded in the isolation structure. The FinFET structure further includes an epitaxial structure formed on the fin structure, the epitaxial structure has a pentagon-like shape, and an interface between the epitaxial structure and the fin structure is lower than a top surface of the isolation structure. |
| US10840377B2 |
Flexible high performance inorganic matter FET using built-in strain of inorganic matter on insulator wafer
Provided is a method for manufacturing an inorganic material having a tensile stress, which includes: forming an inorganic stressor from an inorganic wafer made of an inorganic matter; forming an inorganic layer on the inorganic stressor; and etching a bulk inorganic matter at a lower portion of the inorganic stressor to generate an inorganic material having a tensile stress, wherein the inorganic layer has a tensile stress by etching the bulk inorganic matter to relieve a compressive stress applied to the inorganic stressor when the inorganic stressor is being formed. Therefore, FET and various circuits having higher charge mobility may be realized, and also, since characteristics may be maintained even when being applied to a plastic substrate, high performance flexible electronic device may be manufactured. |
| US10840376B2 |
Gate structure and method with enhanced gate contact and threshold voltage
The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region being adjacent to the first region; first fins formed on the semiconductor substrate within the first region; a first shallow trench isolation (STI) feature disposed on the semiconductor substrate within the second region; and a first gate stack that includes a first segment disposed directly on the first fins within the first region and a second segment extending to the first STI feature within the second region. The second segment of the first gate stack includes a low resistance metal (LRM) layer, a first tantalum titanium nitride layer, a titanium aluminum nitride layer, and a second tantalum titanium nitride layer stacked in sequence. The first segment of the first gate stack within the first region is free of the LRM layer. |
| US10840374B2 |
Semiconductor devices with shaped portions of elevated source/drain regions
A method of forming a semiconductor device can be provided by forming an opening that exposes a surface of an elevated source/drain region. The size of the opening can be reduced and a pre-amorphization implant (PAI) can be performed into the elevated source/drain region, through the opening, to form an amorphized portion of the elevated source/drain region. A metal-silicide can be formed from a metal and the amorphized portion. |
| US10840373B2 |
Integration of input/output device in vertical field-effect transistor technology
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an input/output (IO) field-effect transistor (FET) device area, and an IO FET device formed in the IO FET device area. The IO FET device includes at least two fin structures separated by a distance associated with a length of a channel connecting the at least two fin structures. The length of the channel is determined based on at least one voltage for implementing the IO FET device. |
| US10840364B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate providing a drift layer; a base layer; a plurality of trenches; an emitter region; an emitter electrode; a collector layer; a collector electrode; a main gate electrode for providing an inversion layer and a dummy gate electrode not providing the inversion layer; a common gate pad; a first element that is arranged between the dummy gate electrode and the gate pad, shuts down or restricts conduction when applying a first voltage, and permits the conduction when applying a second voltage; and a second element that is arranged between the emitter electrode and a connection point between the dummy gate electrode and the first element, permits the conduction when applying the first voltage, and shuts down or restricts the conduction when applying the second voltage. |
| US10840361B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device
There is provided a semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; an emitter region of a first conductivity type provided inside the semiconductor substrate; a base region of a second conductivity type provided below the emitter region inside the semiconductor substrate; an accumulation region of the first conductivity type provided below the base region inside the semiconductor substrate, and containing hydrogen as an impurity; and a trench portion provided to pass through the emitter region, the base region and the accumulation region from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. |
| US10840360B2 |
Nanosheet device with close source drain proximity
A nanosheet transistor device having reduced access resistance is fabricated by recessing channel nanosheets and replacing the channel material with epitaxially grown doped extension regions. Sacrificial semiconductor layers between the channel nanosheets are selectively removed without damaging source/drain regions epitaxially grown on the extension regions. The sacrificial semiconductor layers are replaced by gate dielectric and gate metal layers. |
| US10840359B2 |
Method of forming FinFET source/drain contact
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: a first insulating film forming step of forming a first insulating film in a transistor having a structure in which a source and a drain raised in a fin shape are covered with a gate; a sacrifice film forming step of forming a sacrifice film; a hard mask pattern forming step of forming a hard mask film having a desired pattern; a first opening forming step of forming a first opening; a second insulating film forming step of forming a second insulating film made of a material different from the first insulating film, in the first opening; a second opening forming step of forming a second opening by removing the sacrifice film, after the second insulating film forming step; and a contact plug forming step of forming a contact plug in the second opening. |
| US10840355B2 |
Increasing source/drain dopant concentration to reduced resistance
A method includes recessing a semiconductor fin to form a recess, wherein the semiconductor fin protrudes higher than isolation regions on opposite sides of the semiconductor fin, and performing a first epitaxy to grow a first epitaxy layer extending into the recess. The first epitaxy is performed using a first process gas comprising a silicon-containing gas, silane, and a phosphorous-containing gas. The first epitaxy layer has a first phosphorous atomic percentage. The method further includes performing a second epitaxy to grow a second epitaxy layer extending into the recess and over the first epitaxy layer. The second epitaxy is performed using a second process gas comprising the silicon-containing gas, silane, and the phosphorous-containing gas. The second epitaxy layer has a second phosphorous atomic percentage higher than the first phosphorous atomic percentage. |
| US10840341B2 |
Semiconductor devices, radio frequency devices and methods for forming semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device is proposed. The semiconductor device includes a group III-N semiconductor layer, an electrically insulating material layer located on the group III-N semiconductor layer, and a metal contact structure located on the electrically insulating material layer. An electrical resistance between the metal contact structure and the group III-N semiconductor layer through the electrically insulating material layer is smaller than 1*10−7Ω for an area of 1 mm2. Further, semiconductor devices including a low resistance contact structure, radio frequency devices, and methods for forming semiconductor devices are proposed. |
| US10840339B2 |
Silicon carbide semiconductor substrate and silicon carbide semiconductor device
A silicon carbide semiconductor substrate includes a first conductivity type substrate doped with a first conductivity type impurity to have a first conductivity type and having a specific resistance of 30 mΩcm or less. A lifetime of minority carriers in the first conductivity type substrate is set to 100 nsec or less. |
| US10840337B2 |
Method for making a FINFET having reduced contact resistance
A method for making a FINFET may include forming spaced apart source and drain regions in a semiconductor fin with a channel region extending therebetween. At least one of the source and drain regions may be divided into a lower region and an upper region by a dopant diffusion blocking superlattice with the upper region having a same conductivity and higher dopant concentration than the lower region. The method may further include forming a gate on the channel region, depositing at least one metal layer on the upper region, and applying heat to move upward non-semiconductor atoms from the non-semiconductor monolayers to react with the at least one metal layer to form a contact insulating interface between the upper region and adjacent portions of the at least one metal layer. |
| US10840336B2 |
Semiconductor device with metal-semiconductor contacts including oxygen insertion layer to constrain dopants and related methods
A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor layer and at least one contact in the semiconductor layer. The contact may include at least one oxygen monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent semiconductor portions of the semiconductor layer and spaced apart from a surface of the semiconductor layer by between one and four monolayers, and a metal layer on the surface of the semiconductor layer above the at least one oxygen monolayer. The semiconductor portion between the oxygen monolayer and the metal layer may have a dopant concentration of 1×1021 atoms/cm3 or greater. |
| US10840335B2 |
Method for making semiconductor device including body contact dopant diffusion blocking superlattice to reduce contact resistance
A method for making a semiconductor device may include forming spaced apart source and drain regions in a semiconductor layer with a channel region extending therebetween, and forming a gate on the channel region. The method may further include forming a body contact in the semiconductor layer and including a body contact dopant diffusion blocking superlattice extending through the body contact to divide the body contact into a first body contact region and an second body contact region with the second body contact region having a same conductivity and higher dopant concentration than the first body contact region. The body contact dopant diffusion blocking superlattice may include a respective plurality of stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers including a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. |
| US10840333B2 |
Semiconductor arrangement and method of manufacture
A method of forming a semiconductor arrangement includes forming a gate dielectric layer over a semiconductor layer. A gate electrode layer is formed over the gate dielectric layer. A first gate mask is formed over the gate electrode layer. The gate electrode layer is etched using the first gate mask as an etch template to form a first gate electrode. A first dopant is implanted into the semiconductor layer using the first gate mask and the first gate electrode as an implantation template to form a first doped region in the semiconductor layer. |
| US10840330B2 |
Block layer in the metal gate of MOS devices
A method includes method includes forming a dummy gate stack over a semiconductor substrate, wherein the semiconductor substrate is comprised in a wafer, removing the dummy gate stack to form a recess, forming a gate dielectric layer in the recess, and forming a metal layer in the recess and over the gate dielectric layer. The metal layer has an n-work function. A block layer is deposited over the metal layer using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD). The remaining portion of the recess is filled with metallic materials, wherein the metallic materials are overlying the metal layer. |
| US10840325B2 |
Low resistance metal-insulator-metal capacitor electrode
Integrated circuits including metal-insulator-metal capacitors (MIMCAPs) generally include a diffusion barrier layer on the top and bottom surfaces of the electrode and a self-formed oxide layer on sidewalls of the electrode. The diffusion barrier layers and the self-formed oxide layers on the sidewalls of the electrode prevent diffusion of the metal defining the electrode into the interlayer dielectric. Also described are processes for fabricating the MIMCAPs. |
| US10840324B2 |
Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method for the same
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including a bottom terminal, a first middle terminal over the bottom terminal and separated from the bottom terminal by a high-k dielectric layer, a second middle terminal over the first middle terminal and separated from the first middle terminal by the high-k dielectric layer, a top terminal over the second middle terminal and separated from the second middle terminal by the high-k dielectric layer, a first via penetrating the bottom terminal and the second middle terminal, a second via penetrating the first middle terminal, a first passivation layer below the bottom terminal, and a second passivation layer over the top terminal. |
| US10840321B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate including a first display region, a second display region having an area smaller than that of the first display region, a third display region having an area smaller than that of the first display region, and a non-display region, a plurality of pixels provided in the first to third display regions, a power line which is connected to each of the plurality of pixels and applies a first power voltage to the plurality of pixels, and a fan-out line provided in the non-display region, the fan-out line applying a data signal to the plurality of pixels, where the power line includes an additional power line, a first power line, and disposed on the additional power line, and a second power line disposed on the first power line. |
| US10840319B2 |
Display device, method of manufacturing display device, and electronic apparatus
A display device according to the present disclosure includes: a thin film transistor with a bottom gate structure and a thin film transistor with a top gate structure on a same substrate. A gate electrode of the thin film transistor with the top gate structure is provided in a same layer as a wire layer. A method of manufacturing a display device according to the present disclosure, the display device including a thin film transistor with a bottom gate structure and a thin film transistor with a top gate structure on a same substrate, includes: forming a gate electrode of the thin film transistor with the top gate structure in a same layer as a wire layer. |
| US10840316B2 |
Electroluminescent display apparatus
An electroluminescent display apparatus includes: a substrate including a first subpixel and a second subpixel; a first electrode in each of the first subpixel and the second subpixel; a partition wall between the first electrode of the first subpixel and the first electrode of the second subpixel; a light emitting layer on the first electrode and the partition wall; a second electrode on the light emitting layer; a first trench between the first electrode of the first subpixel and the partition wall; and a second trench between the first electrode of the second subpixel and the partition wall. |
| US10840314B2 |
Method for manufacturing electroluminescent display device
Disclosed are an electroluminescent display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The electroluminescent display device includes a first bank on a substrate, an anode electrode extending to one side and another side of the first bank in an area exposed by the first bank, a second bank on each of one side and another side of the anode electrode, a light emitting layer on an upper surface of the anode electrode exposed by the second bank, and a cathode electrode on the light emitting layer. Since the anode electrode is provided on the first bank, the anode electrode is prevented from being damaged in a process of patterning the first bank. |
| US10840313B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a light-emitting substrate including a base substrate having a non-display area and a display area that surrounds the non-display area; an input sensing unit disposed on the light-emitting substrate; and a hole penetrating front and rear surfaces of each of the light-emitting substrate and the input sensing unit, wherein the light-emitting substrate includes a plurality of recesses, the non-display area includes a hole area which overlaps with the hole, a recess area in which the plurality of recesses are disposed and surrounds the hole area, and a peripheral area which surrounds the recess area, and the input sensing unit includes a plurality of first sensor members overlapping the display area and a first connector connecting the first sensor members and overlapping the groove area. |
| US10840312B2 |
Display device
A display device may include a display panel and an input sensor. The input sensor including a sensing electrode and an insulating layer. The display panel may include a light emitting element and a pixel definition layer. The light emitting element may include a first electrode in contact with a base surface, a second electrode, and a light emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The pixel definition layer may include a first portion defining an opening exposing the first electrode, and a second portion provided on and at least partially overlapping with the first portion. The sensing electrode is provided on the plurality of thin films overlapped with the first portion of the pixel definition layer and defining an open region at least partially overlapping the second portion of the pixel definition layer. |
| US10840311B2 |
Display device
Various embodiments provide a thin and lightweight organic light-emitting display device having a touch sensor. The organic light-emitting display device having a touch sensor includes a touch-sensing line and a touch-driving line disposed on an encapsulation stack so as to overlap each other. The touch-sensing line and the touch-driving line overlap each other in a location in which an organic touch dielectric film and an inorganic touch dielectric film are disposed therebetween, thereby preventing the generation of spots in the event of degeneration of the organic touch dielectric film and preventing damage to the organic touch dielectric film. |
| US10840310B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate having a display area and a non-display area located at an outer periphery of the display area; a transistor layer disposed on the substrate; a plurality of partition walls disposed on the transistor layer in the display area; a light emitting element disposed between the partition walls; and a spacer configured to be disposed in the non-display area of the substrate, wherein the spacer may include a spacer body disposed on the same layer as the partition walls and on at least a portion of the transistor layer. |
| US10840309B2 |
Method of fabricating color filter
A method of fabricating a color filter is provided. In the method of fabricating the color filter, a patterned sacrificial layer having a thickness difference is formed on a substrate such that a patterned black photosensitive spacing material layer is formed by a single-tone photomask or a half-tone photomask and has effects of an original black matrix, a main spacer, and a sub-spacer. Thus, production costs can be reduced and a high yield can be carried out. |
| US10840303B2 |
Solid state image sensor, production method thereof and electronic device
A solid state image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate where photoelectric conversion regions for converting light into charges are arranged per pixel planarly arranged; an organic photoelectric conversion film laminated at a light irradiated side of the semiconductor substrate via an insulation film and formed at the regions where the pixels are formed; a lower electrode formed at and in contact with the organic photoelectric conversion film at a semiconductor substrate side; a first upper electrode laminated at a light irradiated side of the organic photoelectric conversion film and formed such that ends of the first upper electrode are substantially conform with ends of the organic photoelectric conversion film when the solid state image sensor is planarly viewed; and a film stress suppressor for suppressing an effect of a film stress on the organic photoelectric conversion film, the film stress being generated on the first upper electrode. |
| US10840292B2 |
Semiconductor devices including infrared sensor with infrared photodiode and color sensor with color photodiode
A semiconductor device may include a first sensor configured to sense light having a wavelength within a first wavelength range from incident light and generates a first electrical signal based on the sensed light and a second sensor configured to sense light having a wavelength within a second, different wavelength range from the incident light and generates a second electrical signal based on the sensed light. The first and second sensors may be electrically connected to each other via an intermediate connector, and the first sensor and the second sensor may share a pixel circuit that is electrically connected thereto via the intermediate connector. The first and second wavelength ranges may include infra-red and visible wavelength ranges, respectively. The first and second wavelength ranges may include different visible wavelength ranges. |
| US10840291B2 |
Multi-junction pixel image sensor with dielectric reflector between photodetection layers
Some embodiments provide a color image sensor and color image sampling method that uses multiple-layer pixels and is capable of producing color images without using absorption color filters (e.g., such as employed in conventional CFAs). In accordance with some embodiments of the color image sensor device and color image sampling method, frequency-dependent reflectors are incorporated between the photodetection layers of multiple-layer (e.g., two layer) pixels. |
| US10840290B2 |
Semiconductor device, solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus
A semiconductor device including a first semiconductor section including a first wiring layer at one side thereof, the first semiconductor section further including a photodiode, a second semiconductor section including a second wiring layer at one side thereof, the first and second semiconductor sections being secured together, a third semiconductor section including a third wiring layer at one side thereof, the second and the third semiconductor sections being secured together such the first semiconductor section, second semiconductor section, and the third semiconductor section are stacked together, and a first conductive material electrically connecting at least two of (i) the first wiring layer, (ii) the second wiring layer, and (iii) the third wiring layer such that the electrically connected wiring layers are in electrical communication. |
| US10840288B2 |
Imaging device, imaging apparatus, and image input device
An imaging device, an imaging apparatus, and an image input device. The imaging device includes a plurality of pixels disposed on a semiconductor substrate, and each of the pixels includes a photoelectric converter. The photoelectric converter includes a photoelectrically converting layer configured to convert incident light into a signal charge, a transparent electrode disposed on the photoelectrically converting layer, a protective layer disposed under the photoelectrically converting layer, an insulating layer disposed under the protective layer, and a pixel electrode disposed under the insulating layer. The imaging apparatus includes the imaging device. The image input device includes the imaging device. |
| US10840284B2 |
Imaging element with a first and second converging portion for converging light between a first and second signal extraction portion of adjacent pixels
The present technology relates to an imaging element and an imaging device that enables reduction of a distance measurement error. The device includes a pixel array unit including a plurality of pixels that performs photoelectric conversion of light, in which each includes: a substrate that performs photoelectric conversion of the light; a first signal extraction portion including an application electrode to generate an electric field by application of a voltage and an attraction electrode to detect a signal carrier generated by photoelectric conversion; a second signal extraction portion including the application electrode and the attraction electrode; and a converging portion that is formed on the substrate and causes the light to enter the substrate. The converging portion converges the light at least between the first signal extraction portion and the second signal extraction portion provided in the substrate. The present technology can be applied to a CAPD sensor. |
| US10840283B2 |
Imaging element and imaging apparatus
An imaging element comprises a photoelectric conversion unit formed in a pixel region and configured to convert light into electrical charge. Further, the imaging element includes a transistor formed in the pixel region and configured to transfer electric charge from the photoelectric conversion unit. The photoelectric conversion unit of the imaging element may be connected to a well of the pixel region, where the well of the pixel region has a negative potential. |
| US10840281B2 |
Imaging device
A device that includes an analog-to-digital converter circuit and a control circuit is disclosed. The analog-to-digital converter circuit converts at least one of analog pixel output signals from a pixel array, to at least one of digital signals. The analog-to-digital converter circuit includes a comparator which generates a comparator output signal for operatively enabling and disabling, in accordance with a reference signal and an analog pixel output signal from the pixel array, a counter generating a digital signal. The control circuit disables, in accordance with the comparator output signal, the comparator. |
| US10840280B2 |
Imaging device having capacitor surrounding first photoelectric converter in plan view
An imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first photoelectric converter which is disposed in the semiconductor substrate; a second photoelectric converter different from the first photoelectric converter, which is disposed in the semiconductor substrate; a wiring layer disposed on or above the semiconductor substrate; and a capacitor which is disposed in the wiring layer and surrounds the first photoelectric converter in plan view. The capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode is connected to one of the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter. |
| US10840270B2 |
Display device
A display device including: a first substrate; a first conductive line disposed on the first substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the first conductive line; a second conductive line disposed on the first conductive line and the insulating layer; a protective layer disposed on the second conductive line; a plurality of first contact holes defined by the insulating layer and the protective layer; a plurality of second contact holes defined by the protective layer; and a conductive layer disposed over the plurality of first contact holes and the plurality of second contact holes, and connecting the first conductive line and the second conductive line. The plurality of first contact holes and the plurality of second contact holes are arranged alternately along a first direction and along a second direction which intersects the first direction. |
| US10840267B2 |
Array substrates and manufacturing methods thereof, and display panels
According to an embodiment, the present invention provides an array substrate that includes a base substrate and a number of film layers provided on the base substrate. The base substrate is provided with an installation slot that provides an installation space for a hardware structure. A packaging-reserved slot is defined in a number of film layers and extending through at least a part of the film layers. The installation slot extends through the base substrate in a thickness direction of the array substrate, and the packaging-reserved slot surrounds the installation slot. |
| US10840266B2 |
Scanning antenna
The scanning antenna (1000) is a scanning antenna in which antenna units (U) are arranged, the scanning antenna including: a TFT substrate (101) including: a first dielectric substrate (1), TFTs, gate bus lines, source bus lines, and patch electrodes (15); a slot substrate (201) including: a second dielectric substrate (51), and a slot electrode (55); a liquid crystal layer (LC) provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate; and a reflective conductive plate (65). The slot electrode includes slots (57) arranged in correspondence with the plurality of patch electrodes, and a thickness of the second dielectric substrate (51) is smaller than the thickness of the first dielectric substrate (1) at least in a region where the antenna units (U) are arranged. |
| US10840264B2 |
Ultra-thin-body GaN on insulator device
An ultra-thin-body GaN-on-Insulator device and a method of manufacturing may be provided. The device comprises a front-end-of-line processed CMOS platform terminated with an interlayer dielectric material, a first bonding layer atop the interlayer dielectric material and an ultra-thin-body GaN-based hetero-structure terminated with a second bonding layer. The GaN-based hetero-structure is bonded with the second bonding layer to the first bonding layer of the CMOS platform building the ultra-thin-body GaN-on-Insulator device. |
| US10840262B2 |
Memory device and manufacturing methods thereof
The memory device includes a conductive layer, a plurality of first electrode layers stacked over the conductive layer and spaced from each other in a first direction, a semiconductor layer extending through the first electrode layers in the first direction, a second electrode layer provided between the conductive layer and the first electrode layers, and a semiconductor base, located between the conductive layer and the semiconductor layer and extending through the second electrode layer, wherein the semiconductor base has a first width at a portion thereof extending through the second electrode layer in the first direction and second width at a portion thereof connected to the semiconductor layer, and the first width is greater than the second width. |
| US10840261B2 |
Semiconductor storage device
A semiconductor storage device includes a base portion, a stacked body, and a first column. The base portion includes a substrate, a semiconductor element on the substrate, lower-layer wiring above the semiconductor element, and a first conductive layer above the lower-layer wiring and made of a metal compound or polycrystal silicon. The stacked body is above the first conductive layer. The stacked body includes second conductive layers and insulating films stacked alternately. The first column includes a semiconductor body and a memory film. The semiconductor body extends in a stacked direction of the stacked body and is electrically connected to the first conductive layer. A memory film has a charge trap between the plurality of second conductive layers and the semiconductor body. The first conductive layer is provided between the stacked body and the lower-layer wiring, and between a peripheral region of the stacked body and the lower-layer wiring. |
| US10840252B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor memory device
A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device including a substrate including a cell array region and a first connection region arranged in a first direction; and a first block structure on the substrate, the first block structure including a lower stack including a plurality of lower electrodes vertically stacked on the substrate; and intermediate stacks exposing the lower stack, the intermediate stacks including a plurality of intermediate electrodes vertically stacked on the lower stack, wherein, on the cell array region, the first block structure has a first width in a second direction crossing the first direction, and wherein, on the first connection region, the first block structure has a second width, which is larger than the first width, in the second direction. |
| US10840251B2 |
Memory device and manufacturing method
A static random access memory device includes a write circuit, a read port circuit, and a substrate. The write port circuit includes a first inverter, a second inverter cross-coupled with the first inverter, a first pass-gate transistor coupled to the first inverter, and a second pass-gate transistor coupled to the second inverter. The read port circuit includes a read pull-down transistor and a read pass-gate transistor that are coupled in series to each other. The substrate includes a standard threshold voltage (STV) region and a low threshold voltage (LVT) region abutting the STV region. The write port circuit is formed within the STV region, and the read port circuit is formed within the LVT region. The LVT region has a first boundary at an edge of a gate of the first pass-gate transistor, or approaching the edge of the gate of the first pass-gate transistor. |
| US10840249B2 |
Integrated circuitry constructions
An integrated circuitry construction comprises a first area and a second area aside the first area. Laterally-alternating first and second conductive lines extend from the first area into the second area. The second conductive lines extend laterally deeper into the second area on one side of the first area than the first conductive lines and comprise pairs of immediately-laterally-adjacent of the second conductive lines. Insulative material is in the second area laterally between the immediately-laterally-adjacent second conductive lines in individual of the pairs. An elevationally-extending wall of insulator material is within the insulative material in the second area. The wall extends laterally between immediately-laterally-adjacent of the second conductive lines within the respective individual pair and laterally all across the first conductive line that is laterally between the immediately-laterally-adjacent second conductive lines within the respective individual pair. The insulator material is of different composition from that of the insulative material. Third conductive lines are in the second area above the second conductive lines. The third conductive lines individually directly electrically couple with individual of the second conductive lines through an elevationally-extending conductive via in the second area. |
| US10840247B2 |
Orientation engineering in complementary metal oxide semiconductor fin field effect transistor integration for increased mobility and sharper junction
A semiconductor device that includes at least one germanium containing fin structure having a length along a <100> direction and a sidewall orientated along the (100) plane. The semiconductor device also includes at least one germanium free fin structure having a length along a <100> direction and a sidewall orientated along the (100) plane. A gate structure is present on a channel region of each of the germanium containing fin structure and the germanium free fin structure. N-type epitaxial semiconductor material having a square geometry present on the source and drain portions of the sidewalls having the (100) plane orientation of the germanium free fin structures. P-type epitaxial semiconductor material having a square geometry is present on the source and drain portions of the sidewalls having the (100) plane orientation of the germanium containing fin structures. |
| US10840245B1 |
Semiconductor device with reduced parasitic capacitance
A semiconductor device comprising a substrate, a first fin and a second fin disposed on the substrate and an isolation material disposed on the substrate, wherein the isolation material separates the first fin and the second fin. A dielectric block is disposed between the first fin and the second fin, wherein the dielectric block is over the isolation material. A gate electrode covers the dielectric block. |
| US10840244B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes first to fourth cells sequentially disposed on a substrate, first to third diffusion break structures, a first fin structure configured to protrude from the substrate, the first fin structure comprising first to fourth fins separated from each other by the first to third diffusion break structures, a second fin structure configured to protrude from the substrate, to be spaced apart from the first fin structure, the second fin structure comprising fifth to eighth fins separated from each other by the first to third diffusion break structures, the first to fourth gate electrodes being disposed in the first to fourth cells, respectively, and the number of fins in one cell of the first to fourth cells is different from the number of fins in an other cell of the first to fourth cells. |
| US10840235B2 |
Semiconductor device
Provided is a semiconductor device with a reduced variation in temperature among a plurality of unit transistors. A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; and a transistor group including at least one column in which a plurality of unit transistors are aligned and arranged along a first axis on the semiconductor substrate. A first column of the at least one column includes: a first group of transistors including two of the unit transistors that are adjacent to each other with a first distance therebetween, and a second group of transistors including two of the unit transistors that are adjacent to each other with a second distance therebetween, the first group of transistors is disposed at a position closer to a center of the first column along the first axis than the second group of transistors, and the first distance is larger than the second distance. |
| US10840231B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing
A semiconductor device includes a first chip, a dielectric layer over the first chip, and a second chip over the dielectric layer. A conductive layer is embedded in the dielectric layer and is electrically coupled to the first chip and the second chip. The second chip includes an optical component. The first chip and the second chip are arranged on opposite sides of the dielectric layer in a thickness direction of the dielectric layer. |
| US10840228B2 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a first connection structure having a first surface and a second surface and including one or more first redistribution layers, a first semiconductor chip disposed on the first surface, a second semiconductor chip disposed on the second surface, a third semiconductor chip disposed on the second surface, and at least one first passive component disposed between the second and third semiconductor chips on the second surface. The first connection structure may include a first region including a region overlapping the first passive component, and a second region including regions respectively overlapping at least portions of the second and third semiconductor chips, when viewed from above. The first region may be disposed between second regions. The first redistribution may include at least one of a power pattern and a ground pattern in the first region and include a signal pattern in the second region. |
| US10840223B2 |
Augmented reality display systems with super-lambertian LED source
Emissive display devices having LED sources with super-lambertian radiation patterns. An exemplary emission source may have a half-emission-cone-angle of less than 40°. A system, such as an augmented reality display system, employing such an emissive display device may display a reduction in power of up to three times relative to LED sources with a lambertian radiation pattern. In some systems, such as augmented reality display systems, the optical path down stream of such an emissive display device may be simplified and/or dimensionally scaled, and/or manufactured to lower tolerances. For example, a discrete collimating lens may be eliminated from the optical path of such an emissive display device. |
| US10840222B2 |
3D semiconductor device and structure
A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level, where the first level includes a first layer, the first layer including first transistors, and where the first level includes a second layer, the second layer including first interconnections; a second level overlaying the first level, where the second level includes a third layer, the third layer including second transistors, and where the second level includes a fourth layer, the fourth layer including second interconnections; a trap-rich layer disposed between the first level and the second level; and a plurality of connection paths, where the plurality of connection paths provides connections from a plurality of the first transistors to a plurality of the second transistors, where the plurality of connection paths includes vertical connections connecting from the first interconnections to the second interconnections, where the third layer includes crystalline silicon, and where the second level is bonded to the first level. |
| US10840204B2 |
Semiconductor device for bonding conductive layers exposed from surfaces of respective interconnection layers
Certain embodiments provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including forming a first interconnection layer having a first conductive layer and a first insulating layer which are exposed from a surface of the first interconnection layer, forming a second interconnection layer having a second conductive layer and a second insulating layer which are exposed from a surface of the second interconnection layer, forming a first non-bonded surface on the surface of the first insulating layer by making a partial area of the surface of the first insulating layer lower than the surface of the first conductive layer, the partial area containing surroundings of the first conductive layer, and connecting the surface of the first conductive layer and the surface of the second conductive layer and bonding the surface of the first insulating layer excluding the first non-bonded surface and the surface of the second insulating layer. |
| US10840203B2 |
Assembly platform
An assembly platform for arrangement as an interposer device between an integrated circuit and a substrate to interconnect the integrated circuit and the substrate through the assembly platform, the assembly platform comprising: an assembly substrate; a plurality of conducting vias extending through the assembly substrate; at least one nanostructure connection bump on a first side of the assembly substrate, the nanostructure connection bump being conductively connected to the vias and defining connection locations for connection with at least one of the integrated circuit and the substrate, wherein each of the nanostructure connection bumps comprises: a plurality of elongated conductive nanostructures vertically grown on the first side of the assembly substrate, wherein the plurality of elongated nanostructures are embedded in a metal for the connection with at least one of the integrated circuit and the substrate, at least one connection bump on a second side of the assembly substrate, the second side being opposite to the first side, the connection bump being conductively connected to the vias and defining connection locations for connection with at least one of the integrated circuit and the substrate. |
| US10840201B2 |
Methods and apparatus for transmission lines in packages
Methods and apparatus for forming a semiconductor device package with a transmission line using a micro-bump layer are disclosed. The micro-bump layer may comprise micro-bumps and micro-bump lines, formed between a top device and a bottom device. A signal transmission line may be formed using a micro-bump line above a bottom device. A ground plane may be formed using a redistribution layer (RDL) within the bottom device, or using additional micro-bump lines. The RDL formed ground plane may comprise open slots. There may be RDLs at the bottom device and the top device above and below the micro-bump lines to form parts of the ground planes. |
| US10840199B2 |
Methods of forming connector pad structures, interconnect structures, and structures thereof
Methods of forming connector pad structures, interconnect structures, and structures thereof are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of forming a connector pad structure includes forming an underball metallization (UBM) pad, and increasing a surface roughness of the UBM pad by exposing the UBM pad to a plasma treatment. A polymer material is formed over a first portion of the UBM pad, leaving a second portion of the UBM pad exposed. |
| US10840198B2 |
Pad structure and manufacturing method thereof in semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a conductive pad region electrically coupled to the substrate, a first dielectric layer over the conductive pad region, and a passivation layer over the first dielectric layer, wherein the passivation layer includes a laterally-extending portion covering the first dielectric layer and a vertically-extending portion on a sidewall of the first dielectric layer. The laterally-extending portion and the vertically-extending portion of the passivation layer are joined along a vertically-extending boundary. |
| US10840197B2 |
Package structure and manufacturing method thereof
A package structure includes a first redistribution circuit structure, a second redistribution circuit structure, a semiconductor die, a waveguide structure, and an antenna. The semiconductor die is sandwiched between and electrically coupled to the first redistribution circuit structure and the second redistribution circuit structure. The waveguide structure is located aside and electrically coupled to the semiconductor die, wherein the waveguide structure includes a part of the first redistribution circuit structure, a part of the second redistribution circuit structure and a plurality of first through vias each connecting to the part of the first redistribution circuit structure and the part of the second redistribution circuit structure. The antenna is located on the semiconductor die, wherein the second redistribution circuit structure is sandwiched between the antenna and the semiconductor die, and the antenna is electrically communicated with the semiconductor die through the waveguide structure. |
| US10840192B1 |
Stacked silicon package assembly having enhanced stiffener
A chip package assembly and method for fabricating the same are provided which utilize a stiffener to improve a package substrate against out of plane deformation. In one example, a chip package assembly is provided that includes a package substrate, at least one integrated circuit (IC) die and a stiffener. The package substrate has a first surface and a second surface coupled by a side wall. The at least one IC die is disposed on the first surface of the package substrate. The stiffener is disposed outward of the at least one IC die. The stiffener has a first surface disposed outward of and bonded to the side wall of the package substrate. The stiffener has a second surface bonded to at least one of the first and second surfaces of the package substrate. |
| US10840187B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor device
A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor device includes a substrate having a cell array region and a peripheral circuit region. A cell array structure is in the cell array region and includes a 3D memory cell array. A peripheral logic structure is in the peripheral circuit region and includes a peripheral circuit transistor. A cell insulating layer insulates the cell array structure. A peripheral insulating layer is insulated from the peripheral logic structure and the cell array region and has a porous layer. |
| US10840186B2 |
Methods of forming self-aligned vias and air gaps
A first metallization layer comprises a set of first conductive lines that extend along a first direction on a first dielectric layer on a substrate. Pillars are formed on recessed first dielectric layers and a second dielectric layer covers the pillars. A dual damascene etch provides a contact hole through the second dielectric layer and an etch removes the pillars to form air gaps. |
| US10840185B2 |
Semiconductor device with vias having a zinc-second metal-copper composite layer
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a substrate with a semiconductor surface layer including circuitry configured for realizing at least one circuit function including a plurality of transistors, including at least one dielectric layer having a first and a second through-via over the plurality of transistors. The through-vias include a first top level via and at least a second top level via lateral to the first top level via. A composite layer includes copper (Cu), a first metal including zinc, and a second metal, wherein the composite layer is on a barrier layer that is on the first top level via and on the second top level. A plurality of Cu traces includes a first Cu top metal trace on the composite layer contacting the first top level via and a second Cu metal trace on the composite layer contacting the second top level via. |
| US10840181B2 |
Semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor device includes a dummy fin structure disposed over a substrate, a dummy gate structure disposed over a part of the dummy fin structure, a first interlayer dielectric layer in which the dummy gate structure is embedded, a second interlayer dielectric layer disposed over the first interlayer dielectric layer, and a resistor wire formed of a conductive material and embedded in the second interlayer dielectric layer. The resistor wire overlaps the dummy gate structure in plan view. |
| US10840178B2 |
Circuit assembly and mounting unit
Each of busbars includes a bottom surface and a top surface. A holding member is made of resin and is formed integrally with the busbars. The bottom surface of each of the busbars includes exposed regions which are exposed downwards from the holding member. |
| US10840175B2 |
Film package, chip-on-film package, and package module
Disclosed are film packages, chip-on-film packages, and package modules. The film package including a film substrate having a first surface and a second surface facing each other, a plurality of output patterns on the film substrate and each including a first chip pad and an output pads electrically connected to the first chip pad and spaced apart in a first direction from the first chip pad, and a plurality of input patterns on the film substrate and each including a second chip pad adjacent to the first chip pad corresponding thereto and an input pad electrically connected to the second chip pad and spaced apart in the first direction from the second chip pad may be provided. At least portions of the output patterns overlap the input patterns across the film substrate. |
| US10840174B2 |
Metallic synapses for neuromorphic and evolvable hardware
Technical solutions are described for configuring a synaptic array. An example computer implemented method includes selecting a first electronic circuit and a second electronic circuit from the synaptic array for executing a task. The method further includes connecting the first electronic circuit to the second electronic circuit to facilitate passage of electric current by forming a metallic protrusion to connect a first connector of the first electronic circuit and a second connector of the second electronic circuit. |
| US10840171B2 |
Integrated circuit package including inward bent leads
A packaged semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die mounted on a leadframe, a housing for the semiconductor die defining a horizontal plane and a horizontal direction. The leadframe includes leads each having an inner lead portion inside the housing and an outer lead portion that includes a first portion that extends out in the horizontal direction from one of the sidewalls of the housing, a transition portion that includes a vertical direction component, and a distal end portion, wherein the distal end portion of the leads are all on the horizontal plane. The outer lead portions alternate between a gull wing lead shape having the distal end portions extending in the horizontal direction outward from the housing and inward extending leads that have their distal end portions extending in the horizontal direction inward toward the housing. The leadframe consists of a single leadframe. |
| US10840163B2 |
Negative electroluminescent cooling device
A negative electroluminescent cooling device including a first layer of material; a second layer of material arranged at a non-zero distance from the first layer of material with help of a set of supporters, and an energy source to apply a reverse bias voltage to the first layer of material to cool the second layer of material. The material of the first layer is a semiconductor with a bandgap less or equal to a surface resonant energy of the second layer of material. |
| US10840161B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor package substrate
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package substrate includes forming a trench in one surface of a base substrate formed of a conductive material, performing a first filling operation of filling the trench with resin, performing a first curing operation of semi-curing the resin filled in the first filling operation, performing a second filling operation of additionally filling resin on a semi-cured resin, performing a second curing operation of fully curing the resin, removing the resin exposed from the trench, and etching an opposite surface of the base substrate to expose at least part of the resin filling the trench. |
| US10840159B2 |
Semiconductor chip including chip pad, redistribution wiring test pad, and redistribution wiring connection pad
A semiconductor chip is disclosed that includes a chip pad disposed in a first region of a chip body, a redistribution wiring test pad disposed in the first region of the chip body spaced apart from the chip pad and connected to the chip pad through a redistribution wiring structure, and a redistribution wiring connection pad disposed in the first region of the chip body or a second region of the chip body and connected to the chip pad through the redistribution wiring structure. |
| US10840158B2 |
Pixel structure
A pixel structure includes at least one sub-pixel. The sub-pixel includes a substrate, a first micro light-emitting element, a repair micro light-emitting element, a first connecting line, a second connecting line, and a bridge pattern. The first micro light-emitting element is disposed on the substrate. The repair micro light-emitting element is disposed on the first micro light-emitting element and partially overlaps the first micro light-emitting element in a vertical direction of the substrate. The first connecting line is electrically connected to a first electrode of the first micro light-emitting element and a third semiconductor layer of the repair micro light-emitting element. The second connecting line is electrically connected to a second electrode of the first micro light-emitting element. The bridge pattern is located between the first micro light-emitting element and the repair micro light-emitting element, and is electrically connected to the second electrode and a fourth semiconductor layer of the repair micro light-emitting element. |
| US10840155B2 |
Method for producing pillar-shaped semiconductor device
Regions including SiO2 layers, Si3N4 layers, and SiO2 layers, and C layers and SiO2 layers, whose two ends in Y-Y′ direction are located on the SiO2 layers and two ends in X-X′ direction are coincident with the rectangular SiO2 layers, are formed on an i-layer. The i-layer is etched using the SiO2 layers as masks to form Si pillar bases, and the C layers and the SiO2 layers are removed. Thereafter, the SiO2 layers are formed into a circular shape by isotropic etching using the Si3N4 layers as masks, and Si pillars are formed on the Si pillar bases using the circular SiO2 layers as masks. |
| US10840147B1 |
Fin cut forming single and double diffusion breaks
A technique relates to a semiconductor device. A trench is formed in a space structured to accommodate at least two dummy gates in a cell, the space structured to accommodate the at least two dummy gates aligning to another two gates in another cell, the space further including an area previously occupied by a portion of fins. Dielectric material is formed in the space, such that the dielectric material in the space in the cell aligns to the another two gates in the another cell. |
| US10840146B1 |
Structures and SRAM bit cells with a buried cross-couple interconnect
Structures and static random access memory bit cells including complementary field effect transistors and methods of forming such structures and bit cells. A buried cross-couple interconnect is arranged in a vertical direction beneath a first field-effect transistor and a second field-effect transistor. The buried cross-couple interconnect is coupled with a gate electrode of the first field-effect transistor, and the buried cross-couple interconnect is also coupled with a source/drain region of the second field-effect transistor. |
| US10840145B2 |
Vertical field-effect transistor devices with non-uniform thickness bottom spacers
Device structures and methods are provided for fabricating vertical field-effect transistor devices with non-uniform thickness bottom spacers to achieve increased device performance. For example, a semiconductor substrate surface is etched to form semiconductor fins having bottom portions with concave sidewall surfaces that undercut upper portions of the fins. A doped epitaxial source/drain layer is formed on the concave sidewall surfaces, wherein portions of the doped epitaxial source/drain layer disposed between the fins have a raised curved surface. A bottom spacer layer is formed on the doped epitaxial source/drain layer, wherein portions of the bottom spacer layer disposed between the fins have a curved-shaped profile with a non-uniform thickness. A thermal anneal process is performed to drive dopants from the doped epitaxial source/drain layer into the bottom portions of the fins to form source/drain extension regions with sharp junctions between the source/drain extension regions and channel regions of the fins. |
| US10840143B2 |
Methods for forming a semiconductor arrangement of fins having multiple heights and an alignment mark
Among other things, one or semiconductor arrangements, and techniques for forming such semiconductor arrangements are provided. An etch sequence is performed to form a first etched region over a planar region of a semiconductor arrangement. The first etched region exposes a planar structure, such as an alignment mark used for alignment during semiconductor fabrication. The etch sequence forms a second etched region over a semiconductor fin region of the semiconductor arrangement. In an embodiment, the etch sequence forms a first trench, a first fin nub and a first pillar in the semiconductor fin region, where the first trench is formed in a semiconductor substrate of the semiconductor fin region. A multi-depth STI structure is formed over at least one of the first trench, the first fin nub, or the first pillar. |
| US10840139B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor device includes a fin type pattern extending in a first direction on a substrate, a field insulating layer on the substrate, the field insulating layer wrapping a side wall of the fin type pattern, a gate electrode on the fin type pattern, the gate electrode extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, a first spacer on a side wall of a lower part of the gate electrode, and an etching stop layer extending along a side wall and an upper surface of an upper part of the gate electrode, along a side wall of the first spacer, and along an upper surface of the field insulating layer. |
| US10840136B1 |
Method for preparing conductive via
The present disclosure provides a method for preparing a conductive plug. The method includes forming a first conductive structure over a substrate; forming a first dielectric structure over the first conductive structure; transforming a sidewall portion of the first conductive structure into a first dielectric portion; and removing the first dielectric portion such that a width of the first dielectric structure is greater than a width of a remaining portion of the first conductive structure. |
| US10840135B2 |
Flat metal features for microelectronics applications
Advanced flat metals for microelectronics are provided. While conventional processes create large damascene features that have a dishing defect that causes failure in bonded devices, example systems and methods described herein create large damascene features that are planar. In an implementation, an annealing process creates large grains or large metallic crystals of copper in large damascene cavities, while a thinner layer of copper over the field of a substrate anneals into smaller grains of copper. The large grains of copper in the damascene cavities resist dishing defects during chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP), resulting in very flat damascene features. In an implementation, layers of resist and layers of a second coating material may be applied in various ways to resist dishing during chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP), resulting in very flat damascene features. |
| US10840133B2 |
Semiconductor structure with staggered selective growth
The present disclosure provides one embodiment of a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a first conductive feature and a second conductive feature disposed on the semiconductor substrate; and a staggered dielectric feature interposed between the first and second conductive feature. The staggered dielectric feature includes first dielectric layers and second dielectric layers being interdigitated. The first dielectric layers include a first dielectric material and the second dielectric layers include a second dielectric material being different from the first dielectric material. |
| US10840126B2 |
FinFET structure with different fin heights and method for forming the same
A method for forming FinFETs comprises forming a plurality of first fins and a plurality of second fins over a substrate and embedded in isolation regions, depositing a first photoresist layer over the substrate, removing the first photoresist layer over an n-type region, applying a first ion implantation process to the first isolation regions, wherein dopants with a first polarity type are implanted in the first isolation regions, depositing a second photoresist layer over the substrate, removing the second photoresist layer over a p-type region, applying a second ion implantation process to the second isolation regions, wherein dopants with a second polarity type are implanted in the second isolation regions, applying an annealing process to the isolation regions and recessing the first isolation regions and the second isolation regions through an etching process. |
| US10840121B2 |
Method and apparatus for unpacking semiconductor wafer container
An automated method of unpacking a container containing semiconductor wafers from a sealed bag is provided. The method includes inflating the bag with a gas using an automated gas dispenser. After inflating the bag, the bag is cut using an automated cutting device to expose the container, and the cut bag is removed from around the container. |
| US10840118B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus and method for assembling tube assembly
In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a substrate processing apparatus includes: a tube assembly having an inner space in which substrates are processed and assembled by laminating a plurality of laminates, a substrate holder configured to support the plurality of substrates in a multistage manner in the inner space of the tube assembly, a gas supply unit installed on one side of the tube assembly to supply a process gas to each of the plurality of substrates in the inner space; and an exhaust unit connected to the tube assembly to exhaust the process gas supplied into the inner space, the substrate processing apparatus that induces a laminar flow to supply a uniform amount of process gas to a top surface of the substrate. |
| US10840113B2 |
Method of forming a coated article and semiconductor chamber apparatus from yttrium oxide and zirconium oxide
Disclosed herein is a ceramic article or coating useful in semiconductor processing, which is resistant to erosion by halogen-containing plasmas. The ceramic article or coating is formed from a combination of yttrium oxide and zirconium oxide. |
| US10840112B2 |
Coated article and semiconductor chamber apparatus formed from yttrium oxide and zirconium oxide
Disclosed herein is a ceramic article or coating useful in semiconductor processing, which is resistant to erosion by halogen-containing plasmas. The ceramic article or coating is formed from a combination of yttrium oxide and zirconium oxide. |
| US10840107B2 |
Method for forming a cavity and a component having a cavity
A method for forming a cavity in a silicon substrate, a surface of the silicon substrate having a tilting angle relative to a first plane of the silicon substrate, and the first plane being a {111} plane of the silicon substrate, and situation of an etching mask on the surface of the silicon substrate. The etching mask has a retarding structure that protrudes into the mask opening, and a first etching projection region. All further edges of the mask opening outside the first etching projection region are situated essentially parallel to {111} planes of the silicon substrate. The method includes an anisotropic etching of the silicon substrate during a defined etching duration. An etching rate in the <111> directions of the silicon substrate is lower than in other spatial directions, and the first retarding structure is undercut in a first undercut direction going out from the first etching projection region. |
| US10840105B2 |
Gate structure with insulating structure and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes forming a gate structure over a substrate and forming a spacer on a sidewall of the gate structure. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure further includes forming a hard mask structure on a top surface of the gate structure and on an upper portion of the spacer but not on a bottom portion of the spacer. |
| US10840103B2 |
Forced grid method for correcting mask patterns for a pattern transfer apparatus
A method for transferring an actual workpiece pattern (23) to a workpiece (24) using a pixelated phase mask (14) includes (i) evaluating a desired workpiece pattern (226) to identify a desired repetitive step cell (230) in the desired workpiece pattern (226), the desired repetitive step cell (230) having a desired step cell width (250), and a desired step cell length (252); (ii) evaluating if the desired step cell width (250) is equal to a first integer multiplied by a pixel width (28A) and an optical adjustment factor; and (iii) evaluating if the desired step cell length (252) is equal to a second integer multiplied by a pixel length (28B) and an optical adjustment factor. |
| US10840100B2 |
Method of thermal processing structures formed on a substrate
The present invention generally describes one ore more methods that are used to perform an annealing process on desired regions of a substrate. In one embodiment, an amount of energy is delivered to the surface of the substrate to preferentially melt certain desired regions of the substrate to remove unwanted damage created from prior processing steps (e.g., crystal damage from implant processes), more evenly distribute dopants in various regions of the substrate, and/or activate various regions of the substrate. The preferential melting processes will allow more uniform distribution of the dopants in the melted region, due to the increased diffusion rate and solubility of the dopant atoms in the molten region of the substrate. The creation of a melted region thus allows: 1) the dopant atoms to redistribute more uniformly, 2) defects created in prior processing steps to be removed, and 3) regions that have hyper-abrupt dopant concentrations to be formed. |
| US10840096B2 |
Method for processing substrate
A substrate on which a processing film made of a directed self-assembly material is formed is placed on a holding plate incorporating a preheating mechanism, and is preheated. A low oxygen atmosphere surrounds the substrate. A preheating temperature is a temperature at which the directed self-assembly material comprised of two types of polymers is phase-separated. By preheating the processing film, the two types of polymers are phase-separated to form a fine pattern. The processing film is irradiated with flashes of light from flash lamps while being preheated. This increases the fluidity of the polymers constituting the processing film to achieve the formation of a fine pattern while suppressing the occurrence of defects. |
| US10840095B2 |
Laser irradiation device, thin-film transistor and thin-film transistor manufacturing method
A laser irradiation device includes a light source that generates a laser beam, a projection lens that irradiates a predetermined region of an amorphous silicon thin film, mounted on each of a plurality of thin-film transistors on a glass substrate moving in a predetermined direction, with the laser beam, and a projection mask pattern provided on the projection lens and has a plurality of columns each including a predetermined number of opening portions and provided parallel to the predetermined direction, in which the projection lens emits the laser beam through the projection mask pattern, and the projection mask pattern is configured such that at least some of the predetermined number of opening portions are not on a straight line parallel to the predetermined direction in each of the plurality of columns. |
| US10840093B2 |
Fabrication of semiconductor substrates
A method for fabricating a semiconductor substrate comprises providing a crystalline base substrate, forming an insulating layer on the crystalline base substrate and forming a trench in the insulating layer. This exposes a seed surface of the base substrate. The trench has sidewalls and a bottom. The bottom corresponds to the seed surface of the base substrate. The method further comprises growing, at a first growth step, an elongated seed structure in the trench from the seed surface of the substrate and forming a cavity structure above the insulating layer. The cavity structure covers the elongated seed structure and extends laterally to the elongated seed structure. The method comprises a further step of growing, at a second growth step, the semiconductor substrate in the cavity structure from the elongated seed structure. The invention is notably also directed to corresponding semiconductor structures and corresponding semiconductor substrates. |
| US10840090B2 |
Method for forming a cross-linked layer
A method for forming on a substrate a cross-linked layer for directing the self-assembly of a self-assembling material is provided. The method including: (a) providing a structure having the substrate; (b) providing on the substrate a layer of a photo- and thermally cross-linkable substance which, when crosslinked, is suitable for directing the self-assembly of a self-assembling material; (d) photocrosslinking the cross-linkable substance partially; and (d) cross-linking the substance further thermally, thereby forming the cross-linked layer. |
| US10840088B2 |
Low temperature high-quality dielectric films
Techniques for deposition of high-density dielectric films for patterning applications are described. More particularly, a method of processing a substrate is provided. The method includes flowing a precursor-containing gas mixture into a processing volume of a processing chamber having a substrate positioned on an electrostatic chuck. The substrate is maintained at a pressure between about 0.1 mTorr and about 10 Torr. A plasma is generated at the substrate level by applying a first RF bias to the electrostatic chuck to deposit a dielectric film on the substrate. The dielectric film has a refractive index in a range of about 1.5 to about 3. |
| US10840087B2 |
Remote plasma based deposition of boron nitride, boron carbide, and boron carbonitride films
A boron nitride, boron carbide, or boron carbonitride film can be deposited using a remote plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique. A boron-containing precursor is provided to a reaction chamber, where the boron-containing precursors has at least one boron atom bonded to a hydrogen atom. Radical species, such as hydrogen radical species, are provided from a remote plasma source and into the reaction chamber at a substantially low energy state or ground state. A hydrocarbon precursor may be flowed along with the boron-containing precursor, and a nitrogen-containing plasma species may be introduced along with the radical species from the remote plasma source and into the reaction chamber. The boron-containing precursor may interact with the radical species along with one or both of the hydrocarbon precursor and the nitrogen-containing precursor to deposit the boron nitride, boron carbide, or boron carbonitride film. |
| US10840083B2 |
Substrate cleaning method, method for creating substrate cleaning recipe, and device for creating substrate cleaning recipe
Provided is a substrate cleaning method for cleaning a substrate having an oxide film on the surface thereof. The method includes a partial etching step of etching the oxide film to a predetermined film thickness, and a physical cleaning step of executing physical cleaning on the surface of the substrate after the partial etching step. The oxide film may be a natural oxide film with particles at least partially taken into the film. In this case, the partial etching step may either expose the particles from the natural oxide film or increase the exposed portion from the natural oxide film. The physical cleaning may remove, by physical action, the particles exposed from the natural oxide film while leaving the natural oxide film on the surface of the substrate. |
| US10840074B2 |
Systems and methods for conducting neutral loss scans in a single ion trap
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for conducting neutral loss scans in a single ion trap. In certain aspects, the invention provides systems that include a mass spectrometer having a single ion trap, and a central processing unit (CPU), and storage coupled to the CPU for storing instructions that when executed by the CPU cause the system to apply a scan function that excites a precursor ion, rejects the precursor ion after its excitation, and ejects a product ion in the single ion trap. |