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US10936544B2	Enabling consistency in push order for network caching A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving a file operation, and determining a transaction identification which corresponds to the file operation. The transaction identification is used to create a unique queue which corresponds to the file operation. A number of fields included in the unique queue is equal to a number of sub-operations included in a predefined template associated with the file operation. Moreover, the number of fields included in the unique queue are populated as each of the respective number of sub-operations are performed. A determination is made as to whether each of the number of fields in the unique queue have been populated, and the unique queue is sent to a global queue in response to determining that each of the number of fields in the unique queue have been populated.
US10936543B1	Metadata protected sparse block set for SSD cache space management A data management device includes a cache for a data storage device and a processor. The cache includes cache devices that store a block set. The processor obtains a cache modification request that specifies a first block of the block set, updates a copy of a header of the block set in each of the cache devices based on the modification request, updates a copy of meta-data of the block set in each of the cache devices based on the cache modification request, and updates the first block in a first cache device of the cache devices based on the cache modification request.
US10936542B2	Integrating object-based data integration tool with a version control system in centralized and decentralized environments The present disclosure relates generally to a data integration system that integrate an object based data integration tool, such a GUI-based data integration tools, with version control systems using a relational database repository for persistence. Examples of distributed version control systems include Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar, and examples of centralized version control systems include Subversion, CVS etc. in centralized or distributed environments.
US10936541B2	Preserving symbolic links and paths in a file system using an intermediate file system structure A method includes identifying data objects for a file system to be installed on a computer system. Each of the data objects is to be stored in the file system using a respective path. The method also includes creating an intermediate file system structure that includes elements representing the data objects to be stored in the file system, each of the elements being placed in the intermediate file system structure at the respective path. Creating the intermediate file system structure may include identifying a subset of the data objects that each includes a symbolic link in a portion of the respective path, and for each data object in the subset, replacing the symbolic link in the portion of the respective path with a target path associated with the symbolic link. The method also includes installing the file system on the computer system using the intermediate file system structure.
US10936539B2	Source data assignment based on metadata Provided are systems and methods for linking source data fields to target inputs having a different data structure. In one example, the method may include receiving a request to load a data file from a source data structure to a target data structure, identifying a plurality of target inputs of the target data structure, wherein the plurality of target inputs include a format of the target data structure, and at least one of the target inputs has a format that is different from a format of a source data structure, dynamically linking the plurality of source data fields to the plurality of target inputs based on metadata of the plurality of source data fields, and loading the data file from the source data structure to the target data structure.
US10936535B2	Providing remote, reliant and high performance PCI express device in cloud computing environments A system architecture, a method, and a computer program product are disclosed for attaching remote physical devices. In one embodiment, the system architecture comprises a compute server and a device server. The compute server includes a system memory, and one or more remote device drivers; and the device server includes a system memory and one or more physical devices, and each of the physical devices includes an associated device memory. The compute server and the device server are connected through an existing network fabric that provides remote direct memory access (RDMA) services. A system mapping function logically connects one or more of the physical devices on the device server to the compute server, including mapping between the system memories and the device memories and keeping the system memories and the device memories in synchronization using the RDMA.
US10936534B2	Converged memory device and method thereof A converged memory device includes at least a first memory and a second memory and a controller to select the first or second memory for performing fast or normal data processing, respectively, in response to a request from a host. The first memory includes a sense amplifier, one or more cell matrices, and a switching device. The cell matrices includes one or more first region memory cells disposed less than a first distance from the sense amplifier and one or more second region memory cells disposed more than a second distance from the sense amplifier, the second distance being longer than the first distance. The switching device is disposed between the first and second region memory cells. The controller controls the switching device to couple the first region memory cells to the sense amplifier and to decouple the second region memory cells from the sense amplifier according to the request.
US10936533B2	GPU remote communication with triggered operations Methods, devices, and systems for transmitting data over a computer communications network are disclosed. A queue of communications commands can be pre-generated using a central processing unit (CPU) and stored in a device memory of a network interface controller (NIC). Thereafter, if a graphics processing unit (GPU) has data to communicate to a remote GPU, it can store the data in a send buffer, where the location in the buffer is pointed to by a pre-generated command. The GPU can then signal to the interface device that the data is ready, triggering execution of the pre-generated command to send the data.
US10936530B2	Method and apparatus for determining link bifurcation availability A method and apparatus for determining link bifurcation availability implemented in a computer system includes assigning, by a controller, lanes that include links for one or more components connected in accordance with a current known configuration. The controller transmits ordered sets including the assignments to the one or more components which are received by the one or more components. The one or more components respond with a first link to the controller. Based upon the links received by the controller not meeting the current known configuration, the controller issues an interrupt and is reconfigured.
US10936522B1	Performing input-output multi-pathing from user space An apparatus comprises a host device configured to communicate over a network with a storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices. The host device is configured to implement a multi-path input-output driver for delivery of input-output operations from the host device to the storage system over the network. The multi-path input-output driver is configured to perform, in user space of the host device, discovery of paths to logical storage volumes of the storage system, to identify two or more of the paths providing connection to a given one of the logical storage volumes, to generate, in the user space of the host device, a given multi-path logical device grouping the identified two or more paths providing connection to the given logical storage volume, and to submit input-output operations directed to the given logical storage volume via the given multi-path logical device in the user space of the host device.
US10936516B2	Accelerated data handling in cloud data storage system The described technology is generally directed towards accelerating data handling in a cloud data storage system by using smart network interface cards (SmartNICs) at the nodes. Instead of copying data to kernel space, many input/output (I/O) operations can be handled primarily by the SmartNIC, using the SmartNIC's memory. For example, mirrored data writes can be sent directly from the SmartNIC's memory associated with the node handling the write to other nodes, without first copying the data to kernel space. Object reads can be handled at a node by having segments of the object queued, in order, in the node's associated SmartNIC's memory, and sent to a requesting client without having to be copied to the handling node's kernel space, unless low memory conditions exist in the SmartNIC's memory.
US10936513B2	Apparatus and method for executing from a host side through a frontend interface input-output commands using a slot bit table The invention introduces a method for executing host input-output (IO) commands, performed by a processing unit of a device side when loading and executing program code of a first layer, at least including: receiving a host IO command from a host side through a frontend interface; generating a slot bit table (SBT) including an entry according to the host IO command; creating a thread of a second layer; and sending addresses of callback functions and the SBT to the thread of the second layer, thereby enabling the thread of the second layer to call the callback functions according to the IO operation of the SBT for driving the frontend interface to interact with the host side to transmit user data read from a storage unit to the host side, or receive user data to be programmed into the storage unit from the host side.
US10936506B2	Method for tagging control information associated with a physical address, processing system and device This disclosure provides a method for tagging control information associated with a physical address in a processing system, including setting a hardware tag for the control information, the hardware tag being invisible to a software system in the processing system; joining the hardware tag with the physical address to form a compound physical address, the hardware tag including M bits carried by a dedicated hardware tag control line, the physical address including N bits carried by a physical address bus, M and N being positive integers; and tagging the control information with the hardware tag in the compound physical address.
US10936504B2	Apparatus and method for address translation and control of whether an access request is rejected based on an ownership table indicating an owner process for a block of physical addresses A data processing apparatus (20) comprises address translation circuitry (40) to translate a first address into a physical address directly identifying a corresponding location in a data store, and a table (50) comprising one or more entries indexed by the physical address, wherein at least one of the entries specifies the first address from which the corresponding physical address was translated by the address translation circuitry (40).
US10936499B2	Method, device and computer programme product for storage management Techniques perform storage management. Such techniques involve, in response to an operation to be performed on data in a cache page, determining a first cache page reference corresponding to the cache page, the first cache page reference comprising a pointer value indicating the cache page. Such techniques further involve creating, based on the first cache page reference and the operation, a second cache page reference corresponding to the cache page, the second cache page reference comprising the pointer value. Such techniques further involve performing the operation on the data in the cache page via the second cache page reference. One cache page can correspond to a plurality of cache page references. Additionally, copy of data from one cache page to a further cache page can be effectively avoided, so as to enhance input/output performance and utilization rate of storage space.
US10936497B2	Method and system for writing data to and read data from persistent storage In general, embodiments of the technology relate to a method and system for storing and reading data from persistent storage. More specifically, embodiments of the technology relate to a method and system for storing data in persistent storage, where the data written to the persistent storage is not immediately accessible in the persistent storage (i.e., during the inaccessibility period). In such instances, embodiments of the technology provide a method and system to enable the storage system to service read requests for the data using a primary cache entry table (PCET) and an overflow table.
US10936496B2	Managing collisions in a non-volatile memory system with a coherency checker A request to read data from a location associated with a memory component is received. The request is assigned a first tag, the first tag having a first identifier of a first buffer to store data read from the location. The request to read data is determined to collide with an earlier request to write data to the location. The earlier request is assigned a second tag, the second tag having a second identifier of a second buffer to store data to write to the location. An attempt to lock the second tag and the second buffer for the request to read data is made. The request to read data is fulfilled from the second buffer in response to a successful attempt to lock the second tag and the second buffer.
US10936493B2	Volatile memory cache line directory tags An example memory system may include a central processing unit (CPU) comprising a CPU cache, a storage class memory, a volatile memory and a memory controller. The memory controller is to store, in the storage class memory, a first cache line including first data and a first directory tag corresponding to the first data. The memory controller is to further store, in the storage class memory, a second cache line including second data and a second directory tag corresponding to the second data. The memory controller is to store, in the volatile memory, a third cache line that comprises the first directory tag and the second directory tag, the third cache line excluding the first data and the second data.
US10936488B1	Incident response in an information technology environment using cached data from external services Described herein are systems, methods, and software to improve incident response in an information technology (IT) environment. In one example, an incident service executes a course of action with one or more actions to respond to an incident in the IT environment. During execution, the incident service identifies a request to obtain data from an external service outside of the IT environment and determines whether the data is cached in a data store for the IT environment. If cached, the incident service obtains the data for the action from the data store. In contrast, if the data is not cached, the incident service obtains the data for the action from the external service.
US10936486B1	Address interleave support in a programmable device Techniques for providing address interleave support in a programmable device are described. In an example, a programmable integrated circuit (IC) includes a processing system, programmable logic, a plurality of master circuits disposed in the processing system, the programmable logic, or both the processing system and the programmable logic, an address interleave and transaction chopping circuit, a memory having a plurality of channels, and a system interconnect configured to couple the address interleave and transaction chopping circuit to the memory. The address interleave and transaction chopping circuit is configured to interleave memory transactions from the plurality of master circuits across the plurality of channels of the memory at a selected boundary.
US10936485B2	Data storage device for dynamic garbage collection triggering and operating method thereof A data storage device includes a controller including a flash translation layer (FTL) for controlling an operation of a nonvolatile memory device. The FTL may monitor a first read operation on the plurality of data storage regions, collect first read operation information of a first subset of data storage regions on which the first read operation is performed, the first read operation information including read counts of the first subset of data storage regions on which the first read operation is performed, and information of the first subset of data storage regions on whether soft decision has been performed on the data storage regions, change a garbage collection (GC) threshold value based on the collected first read operation information, and control the nonvolatile memory device to perform GC on the plurality of data storage regions based on the changed GC threshold value.
US10936484B2	Memory system and operating method thereof A memory system includes: a memory device including super memory blocks each having a plurality of memory blocks; a garbage collection operation time manager suitable for determining an operation time of a garbage collection operation according to a number of valid pages, distribution of the valid pages and distribution of logical addresses of the valid pages; and a garbage collection operation module suitable for controlling the memory device to perform the garbage collection operation within the determined operation time.
US10936482B2	Methods for controlling SSD (solid state disk) and apparatuses using the same A method for controlling an SSD (Solid State Disk), performed by a processing unit when loading and executing a driver, including: obtaining a data access command including information indicating a namespace, a command type, and a logical storage address; determining one of a plurality of storage mapping tables according to the namespace; reading a physical location corresponding to the logical storage address from the determined storage mapping table; generating a data access request including information indicating a request type and the physical location; and issuing the data access request to a SSD.
US10936480B2	Memory management for multiple process instances Intelligent memory brokering for multiple process instances, such as relational databases (e.g., SQL servers), reclaims memory based on value, thereby minimizing cost across instances. An exemplary solution includes: based at least on a trigger event, determining a memory profile for each of a plurality of process instances at a computing node; determining an aggregate memory profile, the aggregate memory profile indicating a memory unit cost for each of a plurality of memory units; determining a count of memory units to be reclaimed; identifying, based at least on the aggregate memory profile and the count of memory units to be reclaimed, a count of memory units to be reclaimed within each process instance so that a total cost is minimized to reclaim the determined count; and communicating, to each process instance having identified memory units to be reclaimed, a count of memory units to be reclaimed within the process instance.
US10936478B2	Fast change impact analysis tool for large-scale software systems A method may include obtaining original source code including entities. The entities each correspond to a location in the original source code. The method may further include generating, from the original source code, a dependency graph including nodes corresponding to the entities, extracting a location index that maps each location in the original source code to one of the nodes, identifying modified locations in the original source code by comparing modified source code to the original source code, obtaining, for each of the modified locations and by searching the location index, matching nodes, determining, for each of the matching nodes, impacted nodes reachable from the matching node, and identifying, using the location index, impacted entities corresponding to the impacted nodes.
US10936473B2	Green software applications Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing green software applications and/or certifying software applications with a green applications efficiency (“GAE”) rating. Implementing green software applications might include performing performance tests of a software application, measuring power consumption of one or more hardware components, in response to execution of the software application during the one or more performance tests, generating a power consumption profile for the software application based on the measure power consumption, and tuning the software application such that power consumption of the one or more hardware components matches a power load caused by execution of the software application, based at least in part on the power consumption profile for the software application. Certifying software applications might include calculating an efficiency rating based on measured or calculated hardware power consumption, calculating the GAE rating for the software application, and certifying the software application with the GAE rating.
US10936472B2	Screen recording preparation method for evaluating software usability Provided is a screen recording preparation method for evaluating software usability using additional data of a user session carried out by a computing system includes at least the following steps in an initial phase: loading a screen recording including a number of N time-ordered screenshots of the user session from a storage medium and detecting visual features within each of the N screenshots, wherein each of the features is attributed a position within the respective screenshot and a score identifying the feature, and creating a set of metadata containing an identifier of each of the N screenshots and the features detected within each of the N screenshots and setting a threshold similarity value. The method also comprises a cycling phase for treating the metadata. Also, a computing system, a computer program and a computer-readable storage medium perform a method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
US10936462B1	Systems and methods for real-time application anomaly detection and configuration A method and apparatus for application anomaly detection and remediation is described. The method may include receiving a plurality of event tracking messages generated by configurable applications after a feature treatment is deployed to configurable applications running on a first set of end user systems, and associating the feature treatment with values of a metric from the event messages that are attributable to the feature treatment being executed by the one or more configurable applications. The method may also include determining an impact of the feature treatment on the degradation of the metric when compared to a control value of the metric determined from a second plurality of end user systems that are not exposed to the feature treatment. Then method may further include, in response to detecting the statistically significant degradation of the metric, performing one or more actions to remediate the undesired impact of the feature treatment on the execution of the application.
US10936461B2	System and method for sequence-based anomaly detection and security enforcement for connected vehicles A system and method for connected vehicle sequence anomaly detection. The method includes creating a normal sequence profile for a group of connected vehicles based on a plurality of first messages by training a normal behavior model using unsupervised machine learning with respect to potential sequences, the normal sequence profile defining normal sequences and triggers, wherein each of the plurality of normal sequences is associated with a timeframe, wherein each sequence is a series of condition combinations; preprocessing a second data set by generating a plurality of second messages in a unified format; identifying at least one instance of the plurality of triggers in the plurality of second messages; and detecting at least one abnormal sequence based on the identified at least one instance and the normal sequence profile, wherein an abnormal sequence is detected when none of the plurality of normal sequences is identified in the second data set.
US10936459B2	Flexible microcontroller support for device testing and manufacturing The disclosed technology is generally directed to microcontrollers. In one example of the technology, an operating system is run on at least one processor of a multi-core controller. At the operating system, a command that is associated with a manufacturer test mode is received. A permission associated with the command is requested. The permission is based, at least in part, on the status of a one-way e-fuse. Responsive to the permission associated with the command being granted, the command is caused to be processed.
US10936458B2	Techniques and system for optimization driven by dynamic resilience Disclosed are hardware and techniques for testing computer processes in a network system by simulating computer process faults and identifying risk associated with correcting the simulated fault and identifying computer processes that may depend on the corrected computer process. The interdependent computer processes in a network may be determined by evaluating a risk matrix having a risk score and non-functional requirement score. An analysis of the risk score and non-functional requirement score accounts for interdependencies between computer processes and identified corrective actions that may be used to determine an optimal network environment. The optimal network environment may be updated dynamically based on changing computer process interdependencies and the determined risk and robustness scores.
US10936439B2	Assigning storage locations based on a graph structure of a workload A method for distributing data among storage devices. The method comprising one or more processors receiving a first graph workload that executes within a networked computing environment. The method further includes identifying data from the first graph workload that is utilized during the execution of the first graph workload that includes a plurality of data packets. The method further includes creating a first graph workload model representative of the graph structure of the first graph workload and determining two or more partitions that are representative of a distribution of the identified data utilized by the first graph workload based, at least in part, on the first graph workload model. The method further includes allocating a plurality of network accessible storage devices among the two or more partitions and copying a first set of data packets of the plurality of data packets to a network accessible storage device.
US10936436B2	Using snapshots for data backups A computer-implemented method includes the following. A start time for a backup of data in a system is received. At the start time, a snapshot of the data in the system is captured. When an environment of the system is a database environment, the capturing includes setting a status of a database to backup mode and freezing data files in the database while permitting applications to run. When the environment of the system is a non-database environment, and when a file system type is general parallel file system (GPFS), the capturing includes caching new input/output operations to a cache and starting a timer (counter) for flushing the cache. At a specified time, the snapshot is copied to media, setting the status of the database to normal mode, and providing copying notifications to users.
US10936435B2	Automatically setting a dynamic backup policy in a cloud environment Systems and methods for performing data protection operation on an application in a manner that is integrated with the environment of the application being protected. A dynamic policy is associated with the data protection application so that a data protection operation can be performed whenever the policy is triggered.
US10936434B2	Backup and tiered policy coordination in time series databases A data protection system configured to backup a time series database is provided. The data protection system may be integrated with or have access to consolidation policies of the time series database. The backup policy and backup retention policy are set by monitoring the consolidation policy and adjusting the backup policy to ensure that the data in the time series database is protected prior to being downscaled, discarded or otherwise consolidated.
US10936432B1	Fault-tolerant parallel computation Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing a fault-tolerant parallel computation framework are disclosed. Execution of an application comprises execution of a plurality of processes in parallel. Process states for the processes are stored during the execution of the application. The processes use a message passing interface for exchanging messages with one other. The messages are exchanged and the process states are stored at a plurality of checkpoints during execution of the application. A final successful checkpoint is determined after the execution of the application is terminated. The final successful checkpoint represents the most recent checkpoint at which the processes exchanged messages successfully. Execution of the application is resumed from the final successful checkpoint using the process states stored at the final successful checkpoint.
US10936431B2	Method, device and computer readable medium for restoring files Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer readable medium for restoring files. The method described herein comprises: at a client, in response to receiving an instruction for restoring a set of files on a virtual machine from a backup server, obtaining a backup of a set of files from the backup server; transmitting information about the backup and a file downloading application to the virtual machine; causing the file downloading application to be executed on the virtual machine by transmitting an instruction for executing the file downloading application to the virtual machine, such that the virtual machine downloads the backup from the client based on the information about the backup.
US10936427B2	Disaster recovery data fetching control Aspects include prefetching a plurality of high-level information, high-level metadata, low-level metadata, and low-level information including a plurality of components associated with a monitored entity for disaster recovery. A subsequent instance of the high-level information, the high-level metadata, and the low-level metadata is requested. The subsequent instance of the high-level information is fetched based on detecting a change in the high-level metadata. A subsequent instance of one or more of the components of the low-level information corresponding to one or more changes in the low-level metadata is fetched for updating a plurality of disaster recovery data of the monitored entity in a persistent database.
US10936426B2	Method of tracking and analyzing data integrity issues by leveraging cloud services One example method, which may be performed by a data integrity check entity, includes receiving a request from a data protection entity to perform a data integrity check regarding a backup dataset, and the backup dataset includes a backup of an entity other than the data integrity check entity and the data protection entity, accessing an information set created by the data protection entity concerning the backup dataset, performing a data integrity check process that includes analyzing the backup dataset and information contained in the information set and, based on the analysis, identifying a data integrity problem that resulted from the data corruption event involving the backup dataset, and as between the data integrity check entity and the data protection entity, only the data integrity check entity checks the integrity of data in the backup dataset, and reporting results of the analysis of the backup dataset and the information set.
US10936425B2	Method of tracking and analyzing data integrity issues by leveraging cloud services One example method includes detecting the occurrence of a data corruption event regarding a backup dataset created by the data protection entity, transmitting, to a data integrity check entity, a request to perform a data integrity check with respect to the backup dataset, and the backup dataset comprises a backup of an entity other than the data integrity check entity and the data protection entity, and as between the data protection entity and the data integrity check entity, no portion of the data integrity check is performed by the data protection entity, receiving, from the data integrity check entity, results of the data integrity check, and the results of the data integrity check identify a data integrity problem that resulted from the data corruption event involving the backup dataset, and taking an action, based on the results of the data integrity check, to resolve the identified data integrity problem.
US10936422B1	Recovery of virtual network function (VNF) boot functionality A Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) executes Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to transfer the VNF boot data to a distributed ledger. The distributed ledger performs a distributed ledger transaction with the VNF boot data to commit the VNF boot data to distributed ledger memory in a blockchain format. The NFVI executes the network VNF to deliver a network communication service. The NFVI loses VNF boot functionality and transfers a VNF boot request to the distributed ledger. The distributed ledger performs a distributed ledger transaction with the VNF boot request and the VNF boot data to transfer VNF recovery data to the NFVI and to commit the VNF boot request and the VNF recovery data to the distributed ledger memory in the blockchain format. The NFVI processes the VNF recovery data to recover the VNF boot functionality. The NFVI executes the recovered VNF to deliver the network communication service.
US10936421B2	Memory system having storage device and memory controller and operating method thereof A memory system includes: a storage device including a plurality pages for storing data; and a memory controller configured to determine, when sudden power-off occurs, whether there is a high probability of a program disturb of unselected pages sharing a word line coupled to a selected page among the pages in rebooting, and output a command to perform an over-write operation for programming data in the selected page or skip the over-write operation, based on a result of the determination.
US10936420B1	RAID storage-device-assisted deferred Q data determination system A RAID storage-device-assisted deferred Q data determination system includes a RAID primary data drive that retrieves second primary data via DMA with a host system, and XOR's it with its first primary data to produce first interim parity data that it DMA's to a RAID parity data drive. The RAID parity data drive XOR's its first parity data and the first interim parity data to produce second parity data. The RAID parity data drive also performs GF operations on the first interim parity data and its second interim parity data and XOR's the results to produce first interim Q data that it DMA's to a RAID Q data drive. The RAID Q data drive XOR's the first interim Q data and its second interim Q data to produce third interim Q data that it XOR's with its first Q data to produce second Q data.
US10936415B2	Error correction scheme in flash memory An error correction scheme in flash memory. Methods include extending a lifetime of a memory block, including: receiving an indication that an error occurred during a write operation at a first location in a memory block, the first location associated with a faulty page of the memory block; and performing a modified exclusive OR (XOR) scheme on the memory block by: performing a de-XOR operation that generates recovery data of the faulty page; storing the recovery data in a location different from the faulty page of memory; marking the faulty page for exclusion in future de-XOR operations; and performing a parity calculation that generates an updated parity value that includes all pages of the memory block that have been programmed except for the faulty page.
US10936406B2	Multi cloud transactional storage for availability and security One example method includes exposing a block storage which is distributed across a group of multiple sites, receiving a primary write request that identifies data to be stored, separating data identified in the primary write request into multiple data pieces, encoding the data pieces by creating multiple new blocks of data based on the multiple data pieces, where the data pieces are encoded in such a way that when a sufficient number, but fewer than all, of the multiple new blocks of data are retrieved, the data identified in the write request is recoverable by decoding, and writing the new blocks of data to different respective sites of the group, where writing of the new blocks of data is performed in conjunction with a plurality of secondary write requests, each of which corresponds to one of the new blocks of data.
US10936405B2	Efficient networking for a distributed storage system A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. Data communication is made more efficient by removing the need to copy data in the networking stack, using hardware accelerated end-to-end checksum calculation, and supporting transmission formatting of data and header for special cases.
US10936398B2	Method of dynamically saving metadata in a process of operating a medical system, medical system and computer program product The present disclosure refers to a method of dynamically saving metadata in a process of operating a medical system, comprising: running a software application for operating a medical device; storing metadata in a transient memory by a controller, wherein the metadata are assigned to one or more operation events while the software application is running; detecting an error operation event by the controller; in response to the detecting the error operation event, transmitting present metadata currently stored in the transient memory and assigned to one or more operation events before the error operation event was detected from the transient memory to a log data memory; storing the present metadata in the log data memory; and storing metadata different from the present metadata and assigned to the error operation event in the log data memory. Further, a medical system, and a computer program product are provided.
US10936397B2	Hybrid control module status communication system and method A vehicle includes a controller having a microcontroller and a monitoring processor. The controller includes a bus transceiver for communicating on an external communication bus. The controller is configured such that each of the microcontroller and the monitoring processor can output a transmit data signal to the bus transceiver. The source of the transmit data signal is selected as the output of the monitoring processor responsive to evaluating the microcontroller as being inoperative.
US10936396B2	Systems and methods for validation of test results in network testing A network testing system includes one or more test devices each including a media-specific testing module and a processing device with a network interface, wherein the processing device is configured to test a network with the media-specific testing module; one or more servers configured to receive test results from the test of the network either directly from the one or more test devices or an intermediate data source communicatively coupled to the one or more test devices; and a validator module executed on the one or more servers configured to perform automated post-processing on the test results to compare the test results to a pre-defined Method of Procedure (MOP), to auto-correct one or more errors in the test results, and to provide a report based on the comparison.
US10936395B1	Smart log parser for backup software to ease troubleshooting In one example, a method can be performed that involves receiving user input concerning a failure of a data protection job, and performing various operations automatically without requiring further user input or action. Such operations include querying a database, based on the user input, to identify a log file, accessing the log file and extracting information from the log file based on the user input, using information extracted from the log file to identify a potential cause of the failure, and generating a report that lists the potential cause of the failure.
US10936392B2	Read window size A processing device in a memory system receives a memory command indicating a read window size and a first read voltage and identifies a read window for a first data block of the memory component having the read window size and centered at the first read voltage. The processing device determines whether a number of bit flips for the first data block within the read window exceeds an error threshold and, in response to the number of bit flips exceeding the error threshold, refreshes data stored on the first data block of the memory component.
US10936390B2	Aircraft cargo monitoring and maintenance A system for monitoring and maintaining aircraft cargos includes a plurality of master control panels each operatively connected with at least one Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) operating in a cargo compartment of an aircraft, and at least one unit load device (ULD). The at least one ULD and at least one LRU are configured to move a cargo unit in the cargo compartment based on a control signal from the master control panel. The system also includes a command unit operatively connected with each control panel of the plurality of master control panels. The command unit includes a processor configured to retrieve a status of the cargo from each of the plurality of master control panels, and display, on an output device, a status of the at least one ULD of a plurality of ULDs and a status of the at least one LRU via the processor.
US10936389B2	Dual physical-channel systems firmware initialization and recovery Aspects of the present invention include a method, system and computer program product. The method includes a processor operating first and second physical channel identifier (PCHID) devices comprised of a plurality of functional logic components, wherein one or more of the functional logic components are specific to one or more of the first and second PCHIDs and wherein one or more of the functional logic components are in common and not specific to one or more of the first and second PCHIDs; determining that an error condition exists in the first PCHID or the second PCHID; and executing a recovery method to remove the error condition from the first PCHID or the second PCHID in which the error condition exists.
US10936387B2	Method and apparatus for failure detection in storage system The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for failure detection in a storage system. One embodiment provides a method for failure detection in a storage system. The method includes determining an amount of data received by a plurality of switches in the storage system within a predetermined time window so as to obtain a plurality of data amounts; determining a count of check errors detected by the plurality of switches in the data to obtain a plurality of check error counts; and calculating a failure risk for the plurality of switches based on the plurality of data amounts and the plurality of check error counts. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a corresponding apparatus.
US10936379B2	Automatically replicate API calls to separate data centers Described herein are systems and methods for transparent resiliency to multiple data centers. The systems and methods depicted determine if an application programming interface (API) call is idempotent. If the API call is idempotent, the calls can be concurrently forwarded to multiple datacenters. If the API call is not idempotent, the calls can be sent to each of a multiple datacenters in turn until a response is received or timeout occurs. Automatically providing multi-region calls in synchrony provides a faster response time during data center or regional failures. Automatically providing multi-region calls in synchrony at the appliance server side, moves the logic out of the client and into a transparent and centrally managed service. This can allow business logic to focus on the core logic and not on logic to retry requests or manage the multi-regional aspect of a dependent service.
US10936377B2	Distributed database system and resource management method for distributed database system The data processing times of data processing nodes are heterogeneous, and hence the execution time of a whole system is not optimized. A task is executed using a plurality of optimal computing devices by distributing a data amount of data to be processed with a processing command of the task for the plurality of optimal computing devices depending on a difference in computing power between the plurality of optimal computing devices, to thereby execute the task in a distributed manner using the plurality of optimal computing devices.
US10936375B2	Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) distributed monitoring system A Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) monitoring system includes server devices that each provide a respective HCI system that is part of an HCI cluster. A communication queue and a manager subsystem are provided on at least one of the server devices. The manager subsystem provides, in the communication queue, first workload code that is configured to run on a first server device and that is associated with a first HCI system identifier for a first HCI system provided by the first server device. The first HCI system accesses the communication queue, retrieves the first workload code in response to the first workload code being associated with the first HCI system identifier, executes the first workload code, and provides associated results to the communication queue. The manager subsystem retrieves, from the communication queue, the first results, and reports at least one of the first results to an administrator device.
US10936374B2	Optimizing dynamic resource allocations for memory-dependent workloads in disaggregated data centers Embodiments for optimizing memory placement in a disaggregated computing environment. A new workload is assigned to a subset of a plurality of processors, the subset of processors assigned a subset of a plurality of memory devices. In some embodiments, a determination is made as to whether the new workload is categorized as a memory-dependent workload having a memory need which can be met primarily by the subset of the memory devices. If the new workload is categorized as a memory-dependent workload, a determination is then made as to whether the subset of the memory devices is meeting the memory need of the new workload. When the subset of the memory devices is not meeting the memory need of the new workload, a memory related action is taken.
US10936373B2	Tag-based control of hosted compute resources A computer system includes hosts for hosting virtual infrastructures. Compute resources provided by the hosts are allocated to user groups (e.g., departments, projects) in the form of reservations that define amounts of resources available to the user groups. Tags can be associated with both hosts and with reservations. A reservation has access to resources of a host having a host tag that matches a user tag associated with the reservation. Thus, to make a host available to a reservation, either 1) a tag can be added to the reservation to match a tag of the host, or 2) a tag can be added to the host to match a tag of a reservation. This can be more convenient than a case in which both a host and a reservation must be configured to give the reservation access to the host.
US10936372B2	Merging scaled-down container clusters using vitality metrics A system for container migration includes containers running instances of an application running on a cluster, an orchestrator with a controller, a memory, and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor executes to monitor a vitality metric of the application. The vitality metric indicates that the application is in either a live state or a dead state. Additionally, horizontal scaling for the application is disabled and the application is scaled-down until the vitality metric indicates that the application is in the dead state. Responsive to the vitality metric indicating that the application is in the dead state, the application is scaled-up until the vitality metric indicates that the application is in the live state. Also, responsive to the vitality metric indication transitioning from the dead state to the live state, the application is migrated to a different cluster while the horizontal scaling of the application is disabled.
US10936371B2	Method for resource allocation and related products A method for resource allocation and related products are provided. The method includes the following. A selection operation performed on a target widget of an operation interface of a target application of a terminal device is received by an operating system of the terminal device. A resource adjustment strategy corresponding to the selection operation performed on the target widget is obtained by the operating system, and allocation of at least one system resource for the target application is adjusted by the operating system within a time interval associated with the selection operation performed on the target widget according to the resource adjustment strategy.
US10936369B2	Maintenance of local and global lists of task control blocks in a processor-specific manner for allocation to tasks In a computing storage environment having multiple processor devices, lists of Task Control Blocks (TCBs) are maintained in a processor-specific manner, such that each of the multiple processor devices is assigned a local TCB list. The local TCB list of each of the multiple processor devices is populated with a respective number of TCBs from a global TCB list. The local TCB list of each of the multiple processor devices exchanges TCBs with the global TCB list during processes to maintain the local TCB list of each of the multiple processor devices at the respective number.
US10936366B2	Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for accessing a shared computing resource Methods that can access a shared computing resource are provided. One method includes determining, by a processor, a level of stress for a shared computing resource during each increment of time in a predetermined period of time, determining an optimized block of time within the predetermined period of time to perform a set of background operations on the shared computing resource based on the determined level of stress, and performing the set of background operations during the optimized block of time. Apparatus and computer program products that can include, perform, and/or implement the methods are also provided.
US10936365B2	Data processing systems When performing “time warp slice” rendering for a virtual reality display, the application rendering (30) of the images required for the application that requires the virtual reality display is synchronised (35) to the display frame rate and treated as a “normal” priority task (51) in terms of its scheduling on a host processor. The time warp slice rendering (50) to render the time warp “slices” into the display buffer (21) of the display (4) for scanning out (23) as the display panel is being refreshed is effected as a “real time” priority task (58). To do this, the rendering task setup processing that must be performed on the host processor for that rendering task is scheduled using an earliest deadline first scheduling policy and is synchronised (52) to specific, recurring display events (53) that allow the “real time” priority time warp slice rendering task setup processing on the host processor to be triggered at specific points in the scan out period (23) of the display (4).
US10936363B2	Automatic data transformations for process automations An Artificial Intelligence (AI) based data transformation system receives a process document and automatically generates processor-executable code which enables automatic execution of a process as detailed within the process document. Various structural elements of the process documents are identified and the data from the document is clustered based on common parameters which can include the structural elements or textual data from the process document. The contextual information including conditional and non-conditional statements along with the entities and entity attributes are also obtained. The domain knowledge is superimposed on the contextual information to generate flows that represent procedures which make up the process to be automated. Platform specific code for the automatic execution of the process is automatically generated from the flows.
US10936360B2	Methods and devices of batch process of content management Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for of processing a batch process including a plurality of content management service operations. The method, comprises: determining, at a client, a batch process template associated with the batch process, the batch process template including shareable information and at least one variable field of the plurality of content management service operations; determining a value of the at least one variable field; generating, based on the determined batch process template and the value, a first request for performing the batch process template; and sending the first request to a server. Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a corresponding method performed at a server side, and a corresponding device.
US10936358B2	Initiating background updates based on user activity In some implementations, a mobile device can be configured to monitor environmental, system and user events. The occurrence of one or more events can trigger adjustments to system settings. In some implementations, the mobile device can be configured to keep frequently invoked applications up to date based on a forecast of predicted invocations by the user. In some implementations, the mobile device can receive push notifications associated with applications that indicate that new content is available for the applications to download. The mobile device can launch the applications associated with the push notifications in the background and download the new content. In some implementations, before running an application or accessing a network interface, the mobile device can be configured to check energy and data budgets and environmental conditions of the mobile device to preserve a high quality user experience.
US10936357B2	Semiconductor device There is a need to provide a semiconductor device that improves an interrupt capability of a virtual machine. A semiconductor device includes a memory to store a plurality of virtual machines and a virtual machine manager to manage the virtual machines and a CPU to perform the virtual machines and the virtual machine manager. The CPU causes an active virtual machine to perform an interrupt process when information (first information) about an interrupt-processing virtual machine is equal to information (second information) about the active virtual machine. When the first information differs from the second information, the CPU causes the virtual machine manager to stop the active virtual machine and operates the interrupt-processing virtual machine to perform an interrupt process.
US10936356B2	Virtual machine management Disclosed aspects relate to virtual machine management in a shared pool of configurable computing resources. A single multi-node server may be established. The single multi-node server may include a running virtual machine, a set of computing resources that includes a possessed subset of the set of computing resources, a source hypervisor, and a target hypervisor. The possessed subset of the set of computing resources may be assigned to the target hypervisor from the source hypervisor. The running virtual machine may be run using the target hypervisor.
US10936351B2	Multi-anchor based extraction, recognition, and machine learning of user interface (UI) Multiple anchors may be utilized for robotic process automation (RPA) of a user interface (UI). The multiple anchors may be utilized to determine relationships between elements in the captured image of the UI for RPA. The results of the anchoring may be utilized for training or retraining of a machine learning (ML) component.
US10936350B2	Active drive API An application programming interface (API) that enables installation of an application as one or more key-value objects on a data storage drive such as a hard disk drive, a solid state drive or a hybrid drive. The API also enables execution of the application within a controlled environment of the data storage drive.
US10936348B2	Computer architecture for performing subtraction using correlithm objects in a correlithm object processing system A system includes a memory and a node. The memory stores first and second linear string correlithm objects. The node receives first and second real-world numerical values, and identifies a first sub-string correlithm object from the first linear string correlithm object representing the first real-world numerical value and a second sub-string correlithm object from the second linear string correlithm object representing the second real-world numerical value. The node aligns the first and second linear string correlithm objects such that the first sub-string correlithm object aligns with a sub-string correlithm object. The node identifies a sub-string correlithm object from the second linear string correlithm object that represents zero and determines which sub-string correlithm object from the first linear string correlithm object aligns with the identified sub-string correlithm object from the second linear string correlithm object. The node outputs the determined sub-string correlithm object from the first linear string correlithm object.
US10936343B2	In-context event orchestration of physical and cyber resources Computer interfaces are provided for accessing and displaying content from disparate and remotely connected computer systems and that can be used for facilitating collaboration and visualization of physical and cloud resources for distributed event management. Systems are provided for generating, modifying, deploying, accessing, and otherwise managing the computer interfaces. Templates are used to build canvas interfaces that are contextually relevant for different entities based on the context of associated events and assigned roles of the entities with respect to the different events. The canvas interfaces can be used to access and orchestrate resources associated with the different events.
US10936342B2	Method and user interface for data mapping Embodiments of apparatus, systems, and methods are described for creating, arranging, and displaying data mappings between two different data schemas in a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI allows scaling of a data schema, automatic data sorting and grouping of objects in a schema, dynamic spacing of data mappings in the GUI, and customizable data map transformations to entities of a canonical data model. The GUI can limit the display of objects and fields to those that have been mapped into entity groups. The GUI can display mapped or unmapped fields to facilitate the mapping of additional fields or objects. The GUI displays visual logic connectors between objects and entities to summarize the relationship and number of mappings between the objects and entities. Objects and entities can be expanded and collapsed to show more granular relationship information. Instance-enabled canonical entities can be created to conceptually group fields.
US10936339B2	Data sharing method and apparatus, electronic device and computer-readable storage medium Provided are a data sharing method and apparatus, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes the following steps: issued data sharing configuration information is received, and a first application set is acquired according to the data sharing configuration information; a local second application set is acquired, and a third application set is determined according to the first application set and the second application set; the third application set is configured according to the data sharing configuration information; and the configured third application set is displayed in a data sharing interface to enable a user to share data through the third application set.
US10936336B1	Configuration change tracking with multiple manifests A configuration management service tracks the configuration of a managed computing environment in accordance with a first version of a tracking policy. When an updated version of the tracking policy is received, the configuration management service initiates tracking of the configuration in accordance with the second version of the tracking policy, while continuing to track the configuration in accordance with the first version. A change to the configuration is detected based on the first version of the tracking policy. The change is verified based on the second version of the tracking policy, and a notification of the change is provided.
US10936334B2	Resource configuration migration and implementation utilizing multiple branches The invention relates to a configuration implementation system that allows users to maintain configurations for production resources (e.g., application, systems, or the like) in a main configuration table, and multiple versions of the configurations in branch configuration tables in order to deploy and test the branch configurations independently of each other based on implementation schedules. Moreover, the configurations in the configuration branches can be implemented in various releases for the production resource as necessary and merged into the other branches in order to maintain consistency with the production resource and to identify any discrepancies between the configuration branches. The invention also utilizes script patterns to create scripts to implement the configuration changes in the production resources in a uniform way regardless of the user that is creating, modifying, deploying, testing, and/or implementing the configurations through the various branches.
US10936333B2	System and method for managing system configuration data models A system, for managing application specific configuration data, that receives, from a local server, a standardized configuration object, at a configuration engine, for a configurable entity, generates at least one configuration object file for the configuration entity, wherein the standardized configuration object is generated based on the application specific configuration data according to a system wide metadata specification. The system can further write each configuration object file to a shared memory structure associated with a configuration file of a configurable entity. The system receives the configuration object, compares the configuration object with another standardized configuration object, and interfaces the configuration object with the configuration engine. The interfaced configuration object can be a piece of configuration. The system permits read access to the configuration engine to the configuration object, permits read and write access to the management server to the configuration object. The local management server executes in a virtual container.
US10936331B2	Running a kernel-dependent application in a container Examples of techniques for running kernel dependent applications in containers are disclosed. In one example implementation, a method includes initiating, by a processing system, a user mode Linux (UML) kernel in a container of a host. The method further includes initiating, by the processing system, an agent inside the UML, the agent configured to handle system call redirection from a host kernel of the host. The method further includes enabling, by the processing system, a system call hook kernel module on the host to hook a system call received from the container. The method further includes determining, by the processing system, whether the UML kernel is running inside the container. The method further includes, based at least in part on determining that the UML is running inside the container, passing, by the processing system, the system call to the UML kernel inside the container.
US10936330B2	Instantaneous boot of virtual machine instances via remote direct memory access Booting a virtual machine instance using remote direct memory access is provided. In response to beginning to receive pages of a predetermined set of pages corresponding to a requested image of a virtual machine from an image provider server, a boot process of an instance of the virtual machine is commenced while the received pages are written directly into a random-access memory (RAM) disk. The received pages are read from the RAM disk during the boot process of the instance of the virtual machine until transfer of the predetermined set of pages corresponding to the requested image is complete. The predetermined set of pages corresponding to the requested image are written to a local hard disk drive from the memory releasing memory usage. In response to completing the boot process, a RAM image is switched to a local hard disk drive image.
US10936306B2	Vehicle control system and software compatibility checking method A vehicle control system includes a plurality of in-vehicle devices. Each of the in-vehicle devices includes a compatibility information storing unit that stores compatibility information including an allowable combination of software versions of all the in-vehicle devices constituting the vehicle control system. A particular in-vehicle device as one of the in-vehicle devices includes an obtaining unit that obtains software versions of the other in-vehicle devices, and compatibility information held by the other in-vehicle devices, a compatibility information specifying unit that specifies proper compatibility information, from the compatibility information stored in the particular in-vehicle device, and the compatibility information obtained from the other in-vehicle devices, and a determining unit that determines whether the software versions of all the in-vehicle devices constituting the vehicle control system are compatible, by checking the software version of the particular in-vehicle device, and those obtained from the other in-vehicle devices, against the proper compatibility information.
US10936301B2	System and method for modular patch based firmware update A method for updating firmware includes determining a difference between versions of a firmware image at a flash memory device, and determining a revision to a firmware file of the first version of the firmware image based on the difference. The method generates a firmware update package that includes a payload containing the revision, and updates the firmware file using the firmware update package.
US10936299B2	Automated intra-system persistent memory updates An Information Handling System (IHS) has persistent memory device(s) coupled to a processor. Each memory device includes a first firmware image, version identifying information associated with the first firmware image, and device type identifying information. A firmware interface suite coupled to the processor has a firmware interface that is executed by the processor. The processor responds to identifying a trigger condition for automatic intra-system firmware update of a persistent memory device. The processor accesses the version identifying information and the device type identifying information for a first memory device containing the first firmware image of the persistent memory device(s). The processor associates the device type identifying information with device type information for a second memory device. In response to the first firmware image being different from the second firmware image, the processor selectively replaces the first firmware image on the first memory device with the second firmware image.
US10936291B1	Recommending the refactoring of microservices A system recommends the refactoring of microservices. The system determines a segments similarity score based on comparing first code segments, associated with a first microservice in an application, against second code segments, associated with a second microservice in the application. The system determines whether the segments similarity score satisfies a segments similarity threshold. The system determines microservices similarity scores based on comparing a size of similar code segments in the first code segments and the second code segments against sizes of the first microservice and the second microservice, if the segments similarity score satisfies the segments similarity threshold. The system determines whether any microservices similarity score satisfies a microservices similarity threshold. The system outputs a recommendation to merge the first microservice with the second microservice, if any microservices similarity score satisfies the microservices similarity threshold.
US10936286B2	FPGA logic cell with improved support for counters A logic cell for a programmable logic integrated circuit having K function inputs, where K is the largest number such that the logic cell can compute any function of K inputs, and where the logic cell is configurable to implement one bit of a counter in parallel with any independent function of K-1 of the K inputs.
US10936283B2	Buffer size optimization in a hierarchical structure A logic device includes a compare unit at one level of a plurality of levels of a hierarchical structure to be used in sorting of records. The compare unit includes a buffer pair in which one or more buffers of the buffer pair are adapted to store at least one record. The logic device further includes another compare unit on another level of the plurality of levels of the hierarchical structure. The other compare unit includes another buffer pair in which one or more other buffers of the other buffer pair are adapted to store a portion of a record. A size of the one or more other buffers of the other buffer pair is insufficient to store the entire record. The one compare unit and the other compare unit are adapted to sort a plurality of records.
US10936278B2	Method and apparatus for managing media file in managed device A method for managing a media file includes sending, by a terminal to a managed device by using a Bluetooth path between the terminal and the managed device, a first request used to obtain at least one piece of media file information stored in the managed device. The method further includes receiving, by the terminal, a first response that is sent by the managed device and that includes the at least one piece of media file information. The method further includes displaying the at least one piece of media file information on the terminal based on the first response. The method further includes after obtaining a first operation request for a target media file, sending, by the terminal to the managed device, a first operation instruction used to instruct the managed device to process the target media file according to a preset operation type.
US10936271B2	Display device and the method thereof The present disclosure discloses a display device. The display device includes an interface wherein the interface obtains content to be displayed, and a plurality of display components each having a front display surface to output sub-content. The sub-content is a portion of the content to be displayed. The display device further includes an adjustment assembly. The adjustment assembly moves one or more of the display components in a direction perpendicular to a front display plane.
US10936270B2	Presentation facilitation Multiple schemes and techniques for facilitating presentations with an interactive application are described. For example, an interactive application provides a console view overlay for integrating multiple productivity applications into a graphical user interface (GUI) window. An interactive application can also share a selected display portion of the console view overlay with other interactive applications. As another example, presenters and other audience members can draw on the selected display portion being shared, and the drawn graphics are synchronously displayed by the other interactive applications. Interactive applications, as directed by their users, can join various member groups and specific presentations thereof. Moreover, a user may share content in accordance with membership grouping.
US10936264B2	Automatic scaling for legibility A method, computer program product and computer system to improve print legibility is provided. A processor receives a file to print. A processor generates a print preview of the file, wherein the print preview is generated at an initial scale. A processor generates a preview text for the print preview. A processor determines a legibility metric based for the print preview on a comparison between the preview text for the print preview and text of the file to print. A processor prints the file at a second scale in response to the legibility metric being below a predetermined value, wherein the second scale is larger than the initial scale.
US10936262B2	Image forming apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing control program, and control method for alerting detection of intruder An image forming apparatus includes a main CPU 70. During an unused period in which the image forming apparatus is not used, the main CPU 70 detects, based on the output of a first operation detection sensor, the presence of a first operation, which is an operation that causes a concern that consumable items or the like may be stolen. When the main CPU 70 detects the first operation, theft alert audio which indicates that there is a concern that consumable items or the like may be stolen is output from a speaker. Also, the main CPU 70 transmits an email to a pre-registered destination which includes a theft alert message, which indicates that there is a concern that consumable items or the like may be stolen.
US10936261B2	Printing method and system using cloud A printing method and a printing system are provided. A printing system comprises a user terminal, a cloud, and at least one authentication server to perform user authentication of at least one image forming apparatus with respect to a user of the user terminal, wherein the cloud receives a registration request for the user with respect to a first image forming apparatus from the user terminal and transmits the registration request for the user including identification (ID) information of the first image forming apparatus and ID information of the user to a first authentication server corresponding to the first image forming apparatus, and receives an authentication request for the user with respect to the first image forming apparatus from the user terminal and transmits the authentication request for the user including the ID information of the first image forming apparatus and the ID information of the user to the first authentication server, and wherein the first authentication server performs authentication in response to the authentication request for the user and transmits a result of the authentication to the first image forming apparatus.
US10936259B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining unit that obtains update data for a common control program capable of controlling plural apparatuses whose models are different from one another and a model information file including maintenance information indicating a current maintenance state of each of the plural apparatuses, a second obtaining unit that, when updating the common control program using the update data obtained by the first obtaining unit, obtains information regarding a model name from a connected apparatus to be controlled, and a display control unit that, if the maintenance information regarding the connected apparatus from which the second obtaining unit has obtained the information regarding the model name indicates that a maintenance period has expired, displays a selection screen for asking a user whether to delete the model name from a model list displayed to the user by the common control program.
US10936258B1	Retargeting events service for online advertising This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable media related to retargeting online advertisement campaign recommendations for advertisements with multiple items or services. Bids may be based on a combined advertisement creative comprising two or more items or services. Dynamically selecting multiple items at bid time using a retargeting model to determine a potential revenue generation amount associated with an event may increase the probability of a conversion event based on the creative that includes the selected items. In some embodiments, a machine-learned retargeting model may be used to select multiple items to be displayed in an advertisement. The retargeting model may be applied to items that were previously viewed by the consumer and may determine a value for each of the items using factors. A bid may be calculated for each of the selected items using the values determined by the retargeting model.
US10936257B2	Generation of images Multiple packages are manufactured by defining a package template, with at least one individualized image area, and selecting at least one image seed. For each package, an index key is selected and, based on the selected index key, a plurality of image attribute modifications are determined from within applicable ranges of image attribute modifications. The determined image attribute modifications are applied to the image seed or seeds to generate respective images, and the image or images are applied to the respective individualized image area of the package.
US10936256B2	Label producing apparatus operated by operation terminal A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a communication processing program. When the program is read, a computer of a label producing apparatus executes a reception start step, machine determination step and a transmission start step. In the reception start step, reception of second state information and second performance/attribute information are started. In the machine determination step, it is determined whether any other label producing apparatus superior with respect to a label producing condition is present or not. In the transmission start step, in the case that any other label producing apparatus superior is present, broadcast transmission of the first state information and the first performance/attribute information is disabled. In the case that no other label producing apparatus superior is present, the broadcast transmission is performed.
US10936252B2	Storage system capable of invalidating data stored in a storage device thereof A storage device includes a non-volatile semiconductor storage device including a plurality of physical blocks, and a controller. The controller is configured to maintain a mapping of logical addresses to locations within the physical blocks, send, to a host, a first list that contains logical addresses corresponding to one or more target physical block that are targeted for garbage collection, and then receive, from the host, a second list that contains one or more logical addresses in the first list, and invalidate data stored in the logical addresses in the second list prior to the garbage collection.
US10936249B2	Stack management in memory systems A memory system having a stack memory, a set of media, and a controller. The controller divides the stack memory into a plurality of stacks, measures usages of the stacks in a period of time of operating on the set of media, and adjusts partitioning of the stack memory into the plurality of stacks according to the measured usages.
US10936247B2	Memory controller, storage device including the same, and method of operating the memory controller A memory controller may include a buffer memory configured to store a plurality of metadata groups and a journal log set for a metadata group of the plurality of metadata groups, wherein the journal log set includes a plurality of journal logs respectively indicating update information for the plurality of metadata groups. The memory controller may include control circuitry configured to identify journal times taken to execute respective journal logs of the plurality of journal logs, identify a prediction time taken to update the metadata group based on the journal log set, and control a number of journal logs included in the journal log set based on the journal times and the prediction time.
US10936245B2	Storage device sharing attribute information with host device to use host memory buffer and electronic device including the same A storage device includes a memory device and a controller. The memory device stores attribute information associated with a host memory buffer allocated on a host memory. The controller communicates with the host memory such that a plurality of pieces of data associated with operations of the memory device is buffered, based on the attribute information, in a plurality of host memory buffers allocated on the host memory. The controller communicates with the host memory such that first data corresponding to a first attribute group managed in the attribute information is buffered in a first host memory buffer among the plurality of host memory buffers and second data corresponding to a second attribute group different from the first attribute group is buffered in a second host memory buffer separate from the first host memory buffer.
US10936242B2	Cloud access through tape transformation Causing data in an in-band storage device coupled to a host computing system to be transferred to an out-of-band (OOB) storage device includes coupling the in-band storage device to the OOB storage device, the in-band storage device detecting commands from the host computing system to transfer the data in the in-band storage device to a cloud storage, and the in-band storage device transferring the data in the in-band storage device to the to the OOB storage device in response to receiving a command from the host computing system to transfer the data in the in-band storage device to the cloud storage. The OOB storage device may be coupled to the cloud storage. Causing data in an in-band storage device to be transferred to an OOB storage device may also include causing data stored at the OOB storage device to be transferred to the cloud storage.
US10936232B1	Methods and apparatus for data repartitioning This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing digital advertisements to targeted users. In some examples, a computing device receives campaign data identifying items to advertise on a website, and generates campaign user data identifying a user that has engaged all of the items on the website. The computing device may then determine a portion of the users based on a relationship between each user and the campaign user data, and may determine user-item values for each of the items for each user of the portion of users, where each user-item value identifies a relational value between the corresponding user and item. The computing device may then identify one or more of the items to advertise to each user of the portion of users based on the user-item values, and may transmit to a web server an indication of the items to advertise for each user.
US10936229B1	Simulating large drive count and drive size system and method A method, computer program product, and computer system for forming, by a computing device, one or more virtual storage arrays using one or more storage processor virtual machines. A storage stack may be run inside the one or more storage processor virtual machines. One or more storage device drives of the one or more virtual storage arrays may be simulated as files.
US10936227B2	Method, device, and computer program product for recognizing reducible contents in data to be written Techniques recognize reducible contents in data to be written. The techniques involve receiving information related to data to be written, the information indicating that the data to be written comprises reducible contents, the reducible contents comprising data with a first reduction pattern. The techniques further involve recognizing the reducible contents in the data to be written based on the information. The techniques further involve reducing the reducible contents based on the first reduction pattern. With such techniques, active I/O pattern recognition with communication between applications and storage devices may be accomplished. In addition, with such techniques, it is easy/simple to expand recognizable new patterns, and I/O pattern limitations in standard approaches no longer exist.
US10936224B1	Cluster controller selection for shared storage clusters Described herein is a system that performs cluster controller selection in a shared storage cluster. A shared storage cluster can include multiple data node devices equipped to access to a shared storage location. The data node devices can be managed by a cluster controller. Furthermore, multiple of the data node devices can be equipped to serve as the cluster controller if necessary. To ensure ongoing operation of a cluster controller, each data node device, including the current cluster controller, can periodically update the shared storage location to indicate the data node device is operational. Each data node device can furthermore perform a cluster controller selection process, and can record its cluster controller selection in the shared storage location. If the current cluster controller fails to periodically update the shared storage location, the cluster controller selection processes at the other data node devices can select a new cluster controller.
US10936222B2	Hardware abstraction in software or firmware for hardware calibration A computer-implemented method for calibrating DRAM is provided. A non-limiting example of the computer-implemented method includes reading, by a processor, system configuration information and disabling, by the processor, one or more steps in a list of calibration steps to be performed based on the system configuration information to leave a list of remaining calibration steps. Based on a determination that two or more remaining calibration steps are co-dependent, the method configures, by the processor, a single calibration step that encapsulates the co-dependent algorithm and places, by the processor, the single calibration step in a list of steps to be called. The method then provides, by the processor, the list of steps to be called.
US10936221B2	Reconfigurable memory architectures Techniques are described herein for a reconfigurable memory device that is configurable based on the type of interposer used to couple the memory device with a host device. The reconfigurable memory device may include a plurality components for a plurality of configurations. Various components of the reconfigurable memory die may be activated/deactivated based on what type of interposer is used in the memory device. For example, if a first type of interposer is used (e.g., a high-density interposer), the data channel may be eight data pins wide. In contrast, if second type of interposer is used (e.g., an organic-based interposer), the data channel may be four data pins wide. As such, a reconfigurable memory device may include data pins and related drivers that are inactive in some configurations.
US10936220B2	Locality aware load balancing of IO paths in multipathing software An apparatus comprises a host device configured to communicate over a network with a storage system. The host device comprises a plurality of nodes each comprising a plurality of processing devices and at least one communication adapter. The host device comprises a multi-path input-output (MPIO) driver that is configured to obtain an input-output (IO) operation that targets a given logical volume. The MPIO driver identifies a source node and a plurality of paths between the source node and the given logical volume. The MPIO driver determines a load factor and a distance for each identified path. The MPIO driver determines a weight associated with each identified path based at least in part on the determined load factor and distance and selects a target path based at least in part on the determined weight. The MPIO driver delivers the obtained IO operation to the given logical volume via the selected target path.
US10936219B2	Controller-based inter-device notational data movement system A switch-based inter-device notational data movement system includes a first processing system in a first chassis that provides a first thread, a second processing system in a second chassis that provides a second thread, each of which are coupled to a memory system by a switch device. A controller device coupled to the switch device receives a data transfer communication from the first thread requesting to transfer data to the second thread. That data stored in a first portion of the memory system associated with the first thread in a memory fabric management database included in the switch device. The controller device then modifies notational reference information in the memory fabric management database to disassociate the first portion of the memory system and the first thread and associate the first portion of the memory system with the second thread, allowing the second thread to reference the data using request/respond operation.
US10936218B2	Facilitating an out-of-order transmission of segments of multi-segment data portions for distributed storage devices Facilitating transmission of multi-segment data portions for storage devices is provided herein. A system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise sending a read request for object data associated with an object, wherein the object data comprises multiple segments distributed across nodes of a storage cluster. The operations also can comprise receiving an out of order transmission that comprises the multiple segments. Further, the operations can comprise ordering segments of the multiple segments based on respective packet sequence numbers associated with the segments, resulting in a properly ordered object data. According to some implementations, the respective packet sequence numbers can be respective precalculated ranges of packet sequence numbers associated with the segments of the multiple segments.
US10936215B2	Automated data quality servicing framework for efficient utilization of information technology resources A method includes determining one or more storage systems storing information technology (IT) resource utilization data, establishing a set of data quality rules for controlling storage of the IT resource utilization data in the one or more storage systems to reduce unallocated IT resource utilization, and analyzing the IT resource utilization data stored in the one or more storage systems to detect data discrepancies affecting allocation of the IT resource utilization data, adjusting the IT resource utilization data stored in one or more of the storage systems to remedy a given data discrepancy associated with the IT resource utilization data, and modifying the set of data quality rules for controlling storage of the IT resource utilization data in the one or more storage systems to prevent the given data discrepancy from occurring on subsequent storage of the IT resource utilization data in the one or more storage systems.
US10936212B2	Memory controller, method for performing access control to memory module The application discloses a memory controller and a method for controlling an access to a memory module. The memory controller is coupled between the memory module and a host controller to control the access of the host controller to the memory module. The memory controller comprises: a central buffer coupled to the host controller for receiving data access command from the host controller and coupled to the memory module for providing an encrypted data access command to the memory module; wherein the central buffer comprises a command processing module, for performing encryption operation to a data access command with a predefined command encryption algorithm to generate an encrypted data access command; wherein a data channel is coupled between the memory module and the host controller, and wherein under the control of the encrypted data access command, the memory module exchanges data with the host controller via the data channel.
US10936210B2	Apparatuses and methods to control memory operations on buffers The present disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods to control memory operations on buffers. An example apparatus includes a memory device and a host. The memory device includes a buffer and an array of memory cells, and the buffer includes a plurality of caches. The host includes a system controller, and the system controller is configured to control performance of a memory operation on data in the buffer. The memory operation is associated with data movement among the plurality of caches.
US10936207B2	Linked lists in flash memory Systems and methods for managing content in a flash memory. A data structure such as a linked is implemented in flash memory. Nodes can be added to the linked list by overwriting portions of the node when only sets are required to update the node. The nodes may include multiple pointer portions such that existing pointers can be invalided and open pointer portions used for the update to the node.
US10936205B2	Techniques for retention and read-disturb aware health binning A technique for performing health binning in a storage system includes in response to a block having a retention time below a first threshold and a read count below a second threshold, utilizing a first error metric for health binning. The first error metric is a current error metric for the block. In response to the block having a retention time above a third threshold that is greater than or equal to the first threshold or a read count above a fourth threshold that is greater than or equal to the second threshold, utilizing a second error metric that is not the same as the current block error metric for health binning.
US10936202B2	Allocating storage extents in a storage system Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for allocating storage extents. Extent input/output information pertaining to an extent on a storage device is received, by a computer, where the extant input/output information includes an access rate of data stored on the extent. The computer determines one or more periods of time where the input/output information exceeds a preconfigured threshold. The computer generates one or more of a first policy and a second policy based on the determined one or more periods where the first policy includes allocating the extent to a high performance disk within a tier storage system when data is stored during the determined periods and the second policy includes reallocating the extent from a low performance disk within the tier storage system to a high performance storage device within the tier storage system during the one or more determined periods.
US10936201B2	Low latency mirrored raid with persistent cache An embodiment of a semiconductor apparatus for use with redundant storage may include technology to cache all data for a write request for at least two member persistent storage drives in a persistent cache with a write access latency at least as low as a lowest write access latency of the at least two member persistent storage drives, write the data for the write request to one member persistent storage drive of the at least two member persistent storage drives, and indicate that the write request is complete after the data for the write request is redundantly stored in the persistent cache and the one member persistent storage drive. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10936198B2	Resistance switching memory-based coprocessor and computing device including the same In a coprocessor performing data processing by supplementing functions of a CPU of a host or independently of the CPU, a processing element corresponding to a core of the coprocessor executes a kernel transferred from the host, and a server manages a memory request generated according to an execution of the kernel by the processing element. A memory controller connected to the resistance switching memory module moves data corresponding to the memory request between the resistance switching memory module and the processing element in accordance with the memory request transferred from the server. A network integrates the processing element, the server, and the memory controller.
US10936195B2	Data storage system using in-memory structure for reclaiming space from internal file system to pool storage A data storage system manages use of a pool of secondary storage by internal file systems hosting logical data storage objects accessed by clients. A choose-and-mark-slices operation scans the file system to identify a subset of the slices as evacuatable slices to be de-provisioned and returned to the pool, the subset having a size exceeding a per-iteration limit observed by a separate evacuate-slices operation. The subset is recorded in an in-memory structure. Each iteration of the evacuate-slices operation (1) examines the in-memory structure to select slices for evacuation, no more than the per-iteration limit being selected, (2) moves data from the selected slices to the remaining slices of the set, and (3) subsequently (i) updates metadata of the file system to reflect the moving of the data and (ii) de-provisions the selected slices from the file-system to return them to the pool for subsequent re-provisioning.
US10936192B2	System and method for event driven storage management A storage array for providing data storage services includes persistent storage that stores approved preferences and a storage array manager that obtains event-response preferences for hosts receiving the data storage services; predicts, based on the event-response preferences, a set of additional event-response preferences for a host of the hosts; predicts an additional event-response preference for a host of the hosts based on a request associated with a second host of the hosts; generates a heat map for the host based on: the event-response preferences, the set of additional event-response preferences, the additional event-response preference, and global event-response preferences that associate events with responses for all of the hosts; identifies a final set of event-response preferences for the host using the heat map; updates the approved preferences based on the final set of event-response preferences; and provides unsolicited data to the host based on the updated approved preferences.
US10936187B2	Electronic album apparatus, and operation method and operation program for the same An inquiring unit displays, before execution of a deletion process of deleting a to-be-deleted image IMP from an album page, a to-be-deleted image list for inquiring whether or not to execute a deletion process on the to-be-deleted image IMP on an album screen. A user selects an image display cell CE of a to-be-deleted image IMP to be kept in the album page and selects a keep button. Accordingly, the to-be-deleted image IMP whose image display cell CE has been selected is kept in the album page. This is user-friendly compared with a case were a to-be-deleted image IMP is deleted without any notice to the user.
US10936184B2	Display apparatus and controlling method thereof A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a communicator configured to communicate with an external device, a touch screen, and a processor configured to, in response to a preset event occurring in a standby mode, control the touch screen to receive a handwriting input of a user, and in response to the handwriting input of the user to control an external device being received through the touch screen, control the communicator to transmit a control command corresponding to the handwriting input to the external device.
US10936183B2	User interface device for industrial vehicle A processing device comprising a graphical user interface in an industrial vehicle is provided. The processing device comprises a touch screen display that receives touch gesture commands from a vehicle operator, memory storing executable instructions, and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor when executing the executable instructions: defines a plurality of widgets, wherein each widget comprises a visual representation of a current state of an associated function of the vehicle, displays a subset of the plurality of widgets on a portion of the touch screen display defining a plurality of widget spaces, and displays an icon tray on the touch screen display comprising one or more icons, in which at least one of the one or more icons corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of widgets.
US10936181B2	System and method for management of digital media A media management system configured provides functionality to store, organize, and share digital media. The media management system may capture media in one or more media capture sessions and organize the media according to the time at which it was created or captured. The media management system may also manage and share media within individual media capture sessions. The media management system may be implemented on various hardware devices, including mobile, desktop, and other computing devices.
US10936180B2	User interface for medical information A user interface for medical information includes a timeline that can be highlighted or selected by a time window with a time duration, and the information plots of biomarkers displayed in subsystem displays can update to display the biomarker information for the time duration highlighted by the time window. The trendline, baseline, and data points shown on the information plot(s) can also be adjusted to display only information during the time duration highlighted or selected by the time window.
US10936177B2	Visual example-based user interface for adjusting photos along two dimensions In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing a visual example-based user interface for adjusting images is provided. In example embodiments, a new image to be adjusted is received. A plurality of basis styles is generated by applying adjustment parameters to the new image. Each of the plurality of basis styles comprises an adjusted version of the new image with an adjustment of at least one image control. A user interface is provided that positions a version of the new image in a center portion and positions the plurality of basis styles on the user interface based on the adjustment parameters applied to the new image. A control mechanism is provided over the version of the new image whereby movement of the control mechanism to a new position on the user interface causes the version of the new image to adjust accordingly.
US10936168B2	Media presentation generating system and method using recorded splitscenes A media presentation generation system and method automatically directs actor(s) in splitscenes to generate recorded splitscenes and automatically edits and combines the recorded splitscenes into a combined media presentation.
US10936167B2	Application customization using a customization file Techniques and systems for receiving and using a customization file are provided, including a computing device, a method, or a computer-program product. For example, a method may include receiving a customization file that includes customized content for customizing a communication interface overlay. The method may further include accessing native application code and executing the native application code to run a native application. The method may further include accessing a compiled set of code that is separate from the native application code. The compiled set of code is accessible by the native application code. The method may further include executing the compiled set of code, wherein a default file of the compiled set of code provides a native communication interface overlay, wherein the native communication interface overlay is overlaid over a graphical interface of the native application, and wherein the native communication interface overlay allows communication with a resource of a third-party. The method may further include executing the received customization file, wherein executing the received customization file customizes the compiled set of code, and wherein the customized compiled set of code customizes the native communication interface overlay to provide a customized communication interface overlay.
US10936166B2	User terminal device and displaying method thereof A user terminal device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The user terminal device includes a display configured to be divided into a first area and a second area which is larger than the first area with reference to a folding line, a cover disposed on a rear side of the display, a detector configured to detect a user interaction on the display and the cover, and a controller configured to, in response to the display being folded along the folding line such that the first area and the second area face each other, control the detector to detect a user interaction through an exposure area, which is an exposed part of the second area, and the cover, and, in response to the display being folded such that the two parts of the cover face with each other with reference to the folding line, control the detector to detect a user interaction through the first area and the second area.
US10936165B2	System and method for calculating metrics A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and system is provided for creating calculated metrics. In an implementation, a method may include providing a user interface including a calculator with a plurality of buttons. The method may also include receiving, via the user interface, a selection of at least one stored metric and a selection of at least one operation, resulting in a new metric. The method may further include storing the new metric with a new metric name.
US10936151B2	System and method for voice activated provisioning of telecommunication services A system and method for provisioning communications services. A remote device controlled by a user is linked with a provisioning system. A verbal selection of a menu associated with a library is received for performing one or more actions within the provisioning system. One or more verbal commands associated with the menu are received. A determination is made of an action within the library associated with the one or more verbal commands. The action associated with the one or more verbal commands is performed in the provisioning system to provision the communications services.
US10936150B2	Method for displaying background screen in mobile terminal A method for displaying a background screen in a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes resizing at least one of a plurality of background screens according to a first input, displaying at least one of the at least one resized background screen, detecting a second input, and transitioning among the resized background screens based on the detected second input, wherein the background screens respectively include an icon.
US10936149B2	Information processing method and apparatus for executing the information processing method A method includes providing a virtual space to a first user via a head-mounted device (HMD) including a display. The virtual space includes a first avatar associated with the first user, a character object operable based on an input operation on a controller, a second avatar associated with a second user, and a virtual camera defining a field-of-view image to be provided to the HMD. The method further includes determining a viewpoint mode. In a first viewpoint mode the virtual camera is associated with a viewpoint of the first avatar. In a second viewpoint mode the virtual camera is associated with a viewpoint of the character object. The viewpoint is determined based on at least one of an input operation determined in advance on the controller or a state of the controller. The method includes providing the field-of-view image via the HMD in accordance with the determined viewpoint mode.
US10936147B2	Tablet computing device with display dock An input system for a 3D display device includes a pen, and a tablet computing device to receive input via interaction with the pen. The tablet computing device including a display dock to dock the 3D display device and a pen dock to dock the pen, wherein docking of the 3D display device in the display dock facilitates a determination of a display position of a visual representation of the tablet computing device on the 3D display device.
US10936146B2	Ergonomic mixed reality step-by-step instructions tethered to 3D holograms in real-world locations The disclosed technology is generally directed to mixed reality devices. In one example of the technology, a mixed-reality view is caused to be provided to an operator, wherein the mixed-reality view includes both a real-world environment of the operator and holographic aspects. The operator is enabled to navigate among a plurality of steps of a task, such that for at least one step of the plurality of steps of the task, while the operator is navigated to the step of the task: the mixed-reality view is caused to include at least one instruction associated with the step. The mixed-reality view is caused to include a hologram at a real-world location in the real-world environment at which work associated with the step is to be performed. The mixed-reality view is caused to continually include a visual tether from the instruction to the real-world location.
US10936143B2	Automated resizing of application windows based on interactive states According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system dynamically resizes one or more application windows displayed on one or more screens based on an interactive state associated with the one or more application windows. Initially, a processor displays a plurality of different windows associated with one or more corresponding applications and determines an interactive state associated with each of the plurality of different windows. The processor then analyzes the interactive states of each of the plurality of different windows and, in response, adjusts a size of one or more of the plurality of different windows in accordance with the determined interactive states. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for dynamically resizing one or more application windows based on the interactive states associated with the one or more application windows in substantially the same manner described above.
US10936138B2	Touch detection circuit and the method of driving the same The present disclosure relates to a touch detection circuit, a driving method thereof, an embedded touch panel, and a display device. A touch detection circuit includes: a magnetic sensing circuit, a voltage input circuit, a voltage storage circuit, a piezoelectric sensing structure, a bottom gate type driving transistor, and a data processing circuit; wherein, by the cooperation of the above circuits and structures, the touch detection circuit can not only support the magnetic touch function based on the electromagnetic induction principle, but also can support the pressure sensing touch function based on the pressure sensing technology, thereby integrating the magnetic touch detection circuit with the pressure sensing device and the pressure sensing detection circuit in one touch detection circuit, and it is possible to reduce the excessive space in the display device occupied by the pressure sensing device and the pressure sensing detection circuit.
US10936129B2	Touch sensor and image display device including the same A touch sensor includes a substrate layer, first sensing electrodes arranged on the substrate layer along a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate layer, the first sensing electrodes including first slits therein, second sensing electrodes arranged on the substrate layer along a second direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate layer and crossing the first direction, the second sensing electrodes including second slits therein, bridge electrodes electrically connecting neighboring ones of the first sensing electrodes, and connecting portions which connect neighboring ones of the second sensing electrodes.
US10936121B2	Method and device for controlling in-plane interference of liquid crystal touch screen, and display system A method and device for controlling in-plane interference of a liquid crystal touch screen and a display system are provided. By detecting a current image of a display panel of the liquid crystal touch screen in real time, and when the image that causes the in-plane interference of the liquid crystal touch screen is detected, inverting original polarities of data voltages input to at least a portion of data lines of the display panel, so that change directions of coupled voltages of adjacent two of the data lines with respect to a common electrode are opposite to each other, solving problems of in-plane interference for the liquid crystal touch screen.
US10936118B2	Touch detection device and method of detecting touch A touch detection device and a method of detecting a touch employ: a current-to-voltage converter configured to convert a reception signal received from a touch panel into a sensing signal, and further configured to be periodically reset for a first time period in response to a reset signal; a digital-to-analog converter configured to convert an analog signal based on the sensing signal into a first digital output signal, and a controller configured to generate a second digital output signal based on the first digital output signal by performing data interpolation on a first portion of the first digital output signal corresponding to the first time period.
US10936117B2	Touch display panel and driving method thereof A touch display panel includes: a plurality of electrode blocks arranged in an array and spaced apart in an active area; an inner common electrode line surrounding the active area and disposed in a non-active area, a spacing area being provided between the active area and a portion of the inner common electrode line located away from a side where a driving circuit area is located; a plurality of dummy touch driving electrode lines arranged in parallel and running through the active area, the plurality of dummy touch driving electrode lines arranged in parallel being in one-to-one correspondence with and electrically connected to at least electrode blocks close to the spacing area; and switch circuits disposed in the spacing area that are in one-to-one correspondence with the electrode blocks electrically connected to the dummy touch driving electrode lines.
US10936116B2	Electronic conference apparatus for generating handwriting information based on sensed touch point, method for controlling same, and digital pen An electronic conference apparatus, a method for controlling the same, and a digital pen are provided. The electronic conference apparatus includes a sensor configured to sense a touch point of a digital pen through first hand writer during a period in which handwriting is input to paper through second hand writer. The electronic conference apparatus further includes a controller configured to generate handwriting information based on the sensed touch point, and a communicator configured to transmit the handwriting information.
US10936114B1	Gesture-equipped touch screen system, method, and computer program product In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided including: at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions and a plurality of applications; a touch screen; and one or more processors in communication with the at least one non-transitory memory and the touch screen, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to: display, via the touch screen, an object and at least a portion of an interface; detect a gesture on the touch screen on the object; when a magnitude of a duration of the gesture being detected on the touch screen on the object is less than a first magnitude threshold, perform an operation; when the magnitude of the duration of the gesture being detected on the touch screen on the object is greater than the first magnitude threshold, perform a scaling in connection with at least the object, where the scaling includes a reduction in a size such that the size is inversely related to the magnitude of the duration of the gesture being detected on the touch screen on the object; and when the magnitude of the duration of the gesture being detected on the touch screen on the object is greater than a second magnitude threshold, perform another operation.
US10936098B2	Display apparatus with integrated touch screen Disclosed is a display apparatus with integrated touch screen, which prevents short circuit from occurring between bridge electrodes and first and second touch electrodes. The display apparatus includes a light emitting device layer disposed on a first substrate, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light emitting device layer, and a touch sensing layer disposed on the light emitting device layer, the touch sensing layer including a plurality of first touch electrodes, a plurality of second touch electrodes, a plurality of bridge electrodes, and a step height cover layer covering a step height caused by at least one of the plurality of first touch electrodes, the plurality of second touch electrodes, and the plurality of bridge electrodes.
US10936095B2	Electronic device for executing various functions based on signal received from electric pen An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a pen sensing panel disposed inside the display or on a rear surface of the display and receiving a first signal from an electronic pen through a first communication protocol, a communication circuit receiving a second signal from the electronic pen through a second communication protocol, a memory storing at least one application, and a processor electrically connected to the display, the pen sensing panel, the communication circuit, and the memory.
US10936093B2	Position detection sensor and position detection module A position detection sensor configured to be used with a display device having a display screen with a curved portion included on an outer edge thereof. The position detection sensor includes a plurality of electrodes arranged in a detection area and configured to detect a position on the display screen pointed to by a pointer. One or more of the electrodes as arranged in the detection area conform to the curved portion of the display screen in a partly-curved contour region of the detection area corresponding to a predetermined region of the display device that includes the curved portion of the display screen. A position detection module including the display device and position detection sensor is also disclosed.
US10936092B1	Force-sensing structures for an electronic device Embodiments are directed to a force sensor used within an electronic device, such as a stylus, watch, laptop, or other electronic device. A force sensor may be positioned, for example, within a stylus body. The force sensor may include an input structure constrained within a housing by a compliant member. The input structure may extend at least partially out of the stylus body and be configured to receive a force input. One or more sensors of the force sensor may detect a value of a displacement of the input structure caused by the force input. A processing unit may determine a value of the force input using a spring characteristic of the compliant member and the detected value of displacement.
US10936089B2	Determining locations of electro-optical pens Determining locations of electro-optical pens. A disclosed example includes, a distance determiner to determine a distance from a pen to a scribing plane at a plurality of points to produce a plurality of distance measurements, a tilt orientation determiner to determine a tilt orientation of the scribing plane relative to the pen based on the plurality of distance measurements, a plane of view corrector to, based on the tilt orientation of the scribing plane, correct a plane of view associated with at least one of the first perspective and the second perspective, and a coordinate determiner to determine coordinates of the pen based on the corrected plane of view. A location determiner determines the location of the pen on a display based on the coordinates.
US10936088B1	Intelligent brightness modulating device of lights of gaming input device Disclosures of the present invention describe an intelligent brightness modulating device for being applied in a gaming input device like a gaming mouse. The intelligent brightness modulating device comprises a photoresistor and a voltage regulating unit. In case of a resistance of the photoresistor varying with an intensity of an ambient light, the voltage regulating unit is adaptively configured for controlling a light driver chip according to the resistance of the photoresistor, such that a driving power of at least one light unit of the gaming mouse is hence correspondingly modulated with the intensity of the ambient light. By using the intelligent brightness modulating device, not only does the gaming mouse be therefore provided with a power saving function, but eyes of a game player are also protected from being stimulated or hurt by a high-intensity light that is radiated from the light unit.
US10936085B2	Gesture detection and interactions Gesture detection and interaction techniques are described. Object detection used to support the gestures may be accomplished in a variety of ways, such as by using radio waves as part of a radar technique. In a first example, the techniques are implemented such that one hand of a user sets a context for a gesture that is defined by another hand of the user. In another example, a gesture recognition mode is utilized. In yet another example, detection of distance is used such that the same motions may be used to different between operations performed. In a further example, split gestures are supported. In another instance, entry into a gesture recognition mode may be implemented through touch and then recognized through three-dimensional orientation and motion of that hand or another.
US10936082B2	Systems and methods of tracking moving hands and recognizing gestural interactions The technology disclosed relates to relates to providing command input to a machine under control. It further relates to gesturally interacting with the machine. The technology disclosed also relates to providing monitoring information about a process under control. The technology disclosed further relates to providing biometric information about an individual. The technology disclosed yet further relates to providing abstract features information (pose, grab strength, pinch strength, confidence, and so forth) about an individual.
US10936078B2	Account management services for load balancers A configurable load balancer can be utilized in a multi-tenant environment, where the load balancer can incorporate, or utilize, an account management service operable to perform security tasks such as authentication, authorization, and session management. Customers can utilize the load balancer to control access that users have to resources associated with those customers, without having to build and maintain a dedicated user management system. By implementing security functionality at the load balancer level, traffic can be managed before reaching the resources, which can help to reduce traffic and load on the resources, and can also help to prevent attacks and secure sensitive information. Visibility into the traffic through the load balancer also allows for behavior and usage monitoring, which is helpful for tasks such as billing and usage limit enforcement.
US10936075B2	Apparatus and method for adaptive gesture recognition in portable terminal An apparatus and method for gesture recognition in a portable terminal. An operation of the portable terminal includes determining a user situation by using at least one situation information, determining a user's gesture by using at least one sensor measurement value, and performing a function corresponding to the user situation and the gesture.
US10936070B2	Haptic signal generator A method and apparatus for generating a haptic signal is described. An audio signal is received and an event signal comprising a plurality of pulses is determined from a characteristic of the audio signal. A haptic output signal is generated by combining a haptic pattern triggered by a first pulse and at least one further substantially identical haptic pattern triggered by at least one further pulse.
US10936068B2	Reference signal variation for generating crisp haptic effects Systems, methods, and instructions for driving an actuator using an open-loop drive circuit that generate, at a processor, a reference input signal according to a predetermined or predicted command signal, supply the reference input signal to an amplifier to generate a command signal, and supply the command signal to the haptic output device to render a haptic effect.
US10936065B2	System and method for embedded cognitive state metric system An embodiment of a method for enabling content personalization for a user based on a cognitive state of the user includes providing an interface configured to enable a third party to request cognitive state data of the user as the user interacts with a content-providing source; establishing bioelectrical contact between a biosignal detector and the user; automatically collecting a dataset from the user; generating a cognitive state metric; receiving a request from the third party for cognitive state data; transmitting the cognitive state data to the third party device; and automatically collecting a dataset from the user as the user engaged tailored content.
US10936062B2	Intelligent device and method of information displaying with projection type using the same According to the present invention, a method of displaying status information for a device to a user comprises receiving a control command for controlling the device to display the status information, determining the user's location, selecting other areas than where the user is located as mapping candidate areas, and selecting at least any one or more of the mapping candidate areas as a mapping area and displaying the status information in the mapping area in a projection fashion. Embodiments of the present invention may be related to artificial intelligence (AI) modules, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), robots, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, and 5G service-related devices.
US10936061B2	Eye tracking using reverse-biased light-emitting diode devices Techniques related to eye tracking using reverse-biased light-emitting diode (LED) devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a viewing apparatus comprises a reverse-biased LED device that is positioned within a field-of-view of an eye. The reverse-biased LED device receives light reflected from the eye and generates signal based on the received light. The generated signal is used to determine a position of the eye.
US10936059B2	Systems and methods for gaze tracking The present disclosure provides systems and methods for gaze tracking. The methods for gaze tracking may comprise (a) collecting video data of a subject's face using a device, and (b) processing the video data to track the subject's gaze. The video data may comprise a plurality of images containing depth information. The methods for gaze tracking may track the gaze of the subject without requiring any prior or subsequent calibration of the subject's gaze to a predefined calibration point in space having a known location. The systems for gaze tracking may be configured to implement the methods for gaze tracking.
US10936055B2	Encoding content for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (xR) applications in connectivity-constrained environments Embodiments of systems and methods for encoding content for virtual, augmented, or mixed reality (xR) applications in connectivity-constrained environments are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may be configured to: receive sensor information from a Head-Mounted Device (HMD) worn by a user during execution of an xR application; calculate, based on the sensor information, a priority of each of a plurality of Regions-of-Interest (ROIs) within one or more images produced by a rendering engine; and indicate the priorities to a video encoder, where the video encoder is configured to use each priority to control at least one of: (a) visual fidelity, or (b) resilience of a corresponding ROI transmitted by the IHS to the HMD in a video signal during execution of the xR application.
US10936054B2	User eye-gaze based derivation of activity stream processing augmentations Content subject matter areas of interest to a user viewing a social network activity stream are determined using iterative eye-gaze analysis to determine content at locations viewed by the user within the social network activity stream, and further using image and text analysis of the viewed content based upon frequencies of occurrence of words and image types within the viewed content. Portions of new content appearing in the social network activity stream determined to include the content subject matter areas of interest to the user are emphasized to attract the user's attention.
US10936048B2	System, apparatus and method for bulk register accesses in a processor In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a bulk write circuit to generate a bulk write message to send to a destination agent to cause the destination agent to write data comprising register contents into a plurality of registers, at least some of the plurality of registers comprising non-consecutive registers. The bulk write message may include a first message header, a first chunk header including an address of a first register of a first subset of the plurality of registers, and a first payload portion having the register contents for the first subset of the plurality of registers. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10936044B2	Quality of service based memory throttling An example memory device comprises at least one memory region; and a controller to determine exceeding of a throttling threshold and to throttle processing of access requests for the at least one memory region.
US10936042B2	Method and apparatus for supplying power to a processor Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, an additional power supply, and a mainboard system for supplying power to a processor. The method comprises determining whether an additional power supply is able to provide extra power required by a processor in response to receiving a first signal from a power supply unit that supplies power to the processor. The first signal indicates that the power required by the processor exceeds maximum power that can be provided by the power supply unit. The method further comprises supplying power to the processor by at least the additional power supply in response to determining that the additional power supply is able to provide extra power. The embodiments of the present disclosure can supply the required extra power to the processor from the additional power supply so as to optimize the performance of the processor in an acceleration mode.
US10936040B2	Semiconductor apparatus A semiconductor apparatus includes a clock control circuit that at least one of generates a plurality of latch control clocks, which are periodically transitioned, in response to a power saving mode signal and a clock, and individually locks each of the plurality of latch control clocks to one of multiple levels regardless of the clock. The semiconductor apparatus also includes a latch circuit that stores an input signal in response to the plurality of latch control clocks and outputs the stored signal as an output signal.
US10936036B2	Soft-start switch circuits using separated power supply paths and related methods and systems There is provided a soft-start switch circuit working in conjunction with a pre-existing computer power delivery system or being an integral part of such a system, for power delivery to at least one component of a computer, comprising at least one separated power supply path. The soft-start switch circuit is configured to receive command/s to activate or deactivate power delivery to the at least one computer component, output a voltage ramped up to a fixed level to the at least one computer component on the at least one separated power supply path when the activation command is received, discontinue power delivery when the deactivation command is received, and receive and transmit a signal stating whether an adequate voltage and current level is received by the at least one computer component. A corresponding method is also provided.
US10936032B2	Information handling system dual charger power balancing and fast role swapping An information handling system port, such as a USB Type C port, interfaces through a switch with first and second chargers that support bi-directional power transfer. A controller selectively configures one charger to accept power from the port and the other charger to discharge power to the port, the controller commanding the switch to interface a selected charger based upon whether a power source or power sink interfaces with the port. First and second batteries interface with the first and second chargers and a power rail through a second switch. The controller selectively interfaces and disconnects the batteries with the power rail to simultaneously support discharge to the power rail and to the port.
US10936028B2	Electronic device having a deformation sensor on a fan module of a fan and using a controller to monitor the deformation sensor and control operation of the fan based on a deformation signal of the sensor An electronic device and a method for controlling a fan operation are provided. A containing space of the electronic device has a fan module and a deformation sensor. The deformation sensor detects whether a fan housing of the fan module is deformed. The deformation sensor transmits a deformation signal to a controller when detecting that the fan housing is deformed. The controller drives a fan blade of the fan module to stop running after receiving the deformation signal.
US10936027B2	Power distribution system An electrical power distribution system and apparatus is provided that that is comprised of multi-source connections, multi-load connections and bi-directional connections, where the system is configured to be multi-functional, hot swappable, changeable, expandable, configurable and controllable.
US10936025B2	Fixing bracket for the installion of computer expansion card A fixing bracket for holding an expansion card in a computer without screws includes first and second fixing frames and an elastic member connected to the first and second fixing frames. The two fixing frames define a receiving space for the expansion card. The first fixing frame can be moved relative to the second fixing frame, or the second fixing frame can be moved relative to the first fixing frame, by applying an external force to deform the elastic member. When the external force is released, the elastic member restores and clamps the expansion card in place until disassembly by the same process.
US10936023B2	Electronic apparatus and a transfer method An electronic apparatus includes a case that protects contents of the electronic apparatus from external mechanical impacts and/or electric disturbance, and two or more parts of electrically conductive material electrically insulated from each other. The two or more parts are electrically coupled with electric circuitry of the electronic apparatus. A first of the two or more parts has at least one electric contact area on an outer surface of the first of the two or more parts, and a second of the two or more parts has at least one electric contact area on the outer surface of the second of the two or more parts. The electric contact areas are configured to electrically couple with external counterpart contact areas for electric signals, electric energy, and/or electric data transfer to and/or from the electronic apparatus.
US10936021B1	Adjustable receptacle for tablet device A receptacle apparatus has a top-side surface, bottom-side surface, right-side surface, and left-side surface. Additionally, the top-side surface has an upward protruding flange. Furthermore, the receptacle apparatus has a top-side gripping member, bottom-side gripping member, right-side gripping member, and left-side gripping member. The top-side gripping member is operably attached to the upward protruding flange, and is configured to grip a first portion of a tablet device to the receptacle apparatus. Moreover, the bottom-side gripping member is configured to grip a second portion of the tablet device to the receptacle apparatus. Also, the right-side gripping member is configured to grip a third portion of the tablet device to the receptacle apparatus. Finally, the left-side gripping member is configured to grip a fourth portion of the tablet device to the receptacle device.
US10936020B2	Electronic device and expansion device An electronic device includes a base, a lifting mechanism, a body and a switching mechanism. The lifting mechanism and the body are movably disposed at the base. The lifting mechanism is located between the body and the base, and two ends of the lifting mechanism are connected to the body and the base. The switching mechanism is disposed at the base. The switching mechanism is configured to lock the body and the lifting mechanism to the base or configured to remove a locking relationship of the body and the lifting mechanism with respect to the base. An expansion device is further provided.
US10936018B2	Electronic device having magnetic attraction positioning mechanism An electronic device includes a supporting plate, at least one main positioning magnet and a body. The supporting plate has an edge. The supporting plate is provided with a first positioning magnet structure therein. The main positioning magnet is disposed at the supporting plate. The body is movably disposed at the supporting plate, wherein the body has a first axis and a second axis intersected with the first axis. The body is provided with a main auxiliary magnet and a first auxiliary magnet structure therein. The main auxiliary magnet is located at the intersection of the first axis and the second axis, and the first auxiliary magnet structure is located on the first axis. The main auxiliary magnet is configured to be aligned with the main positioning magnet and magnetically attracted to the main positioning magnet.
US10936014B2	Portable information apparatus having a display An electronic apparatus having a display that appears to be floating in air is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a display; a first transparent plate that covers a display surface of the display; a second transparent plate that covers a non-display surface of the display; and a film member provided between the second transparent plate and the display. The first transparent plate, the second transparent plate, and the film member have a first region that overlaps with the display and a second region that does not overlap with the display when viewed from the side of the display surface. The film member includes a touch sensor unit provided in the second region and a wire aggregation provided in the first region.
US10936008B2	Synchronization in a multi-tile processing array The invention relates to a computer comprising: a plurality of processing units each having instruction storage holding a local program, an execution unit executing the local program, data storage for holding data; an input interface with a set of input wires, and an output interface with a set of output wires; a switching fabric connected to each of the processing units by the respective set of output wires and connectable to each of the processing units by the respective input wires via switching circuitry controllable by each processing unit; a synchronisation module operable to generate a synchronisation signal to control the computer to switch between a compute phase and an exchange phase, wherein the processing units are configured to execute their local programs according to a common clock, the local programs being such that in the exchange phase at least one processing unit executes a send instruction from its local program to transmit at a transmit time a data packet onto its output set of connection wires, the data packet being destined for at least one recipient processing unit but having no destination identifier, and at a predetermined switch time the recipient processing unit executes a switch control instruction from its local program to control its switching circuitry to connect its input set of wires to the switching fabric to receive the data packet at a receive time, the transmit time and, switch time and receive time being governed by the common clock with respect to the synchronisation signal.
US10936007B2	Hybrid method for high-speed serial link skew calibration A method for reducing a clock-data skew in a serial interface. A clock signal and a data signal are received through the serial interface at first and second inputs of an exclusive OR (XOR) averaging (XOR-averaging) gate. An output of the XOR-averaging gate is determined and compared with a target value. At least one of a delay of the clock signal and a delay of the data signal is determined based on comparing the output of the XOR-averaging gate with the target value. A skew between the clock signal and the data signal is reduced by delaying at least one of the clock signal and the data signal.
US10936003B1	Phase locking multiple clocks of different frequencies Systems and methods are disclosed for phase locking multiple clocks of different frequencies. In certain embodiments, an apparatus may be configured to downsample a first clock having a first frequency and a second clock having a second frequency into downsampled clocks having the same frequency. The apparatus may adjust a frequency of the second clock so that the downsampled clocks are phase aligned. The apparatus may reset counters of the divider circuits that perform the downsampling so align them to a counter for the first clock. A counter for the second clock may also be reset to align with the counter for the first clock. The synchronized clocks may be applied in data storage operations, such as self-servo writing operations, where the first clock may be a read clock and the second clock may be a write clock.
US10936002B1	Ruggedized triggering handle for mobile scanning system A ruggedized triggering handle device for a mobile scanning system supports a mobile device (tablet, smartphone) attachable by a bracket on the upper surface of the handle. The handle may establish a wireless link to the mobile device; a trigger of the handle device includes a magnetic switch which, when driven proximate to a triggering element enclosed within the handle, causes the triggering element to transmit key codes and instructions via the wireless link, enabling the user to trigger applications and peripheral components (e.g., cameras, scanners, imagers) of or proximate to the mobile device via the handle. The handle may be contoured to the user's hand such that the trigger corresponds to the index finger; additional buttons corresponding to other fingers may allow for remote operation of other applications, functions, and peripherals of the mobile device by other fingers without the need for visual reference to the handle.
US10935999B2	Load line circuit for voltage regulators A voltage regulator with a load line circuit is disclosed. The load line circuit is configured to receive a sensed voltage corresponding to an output current of the voltage regulator. The load line circuit is further configured to generate a complex (e.g., nonlinear) load line voltage that is combined with the output voltage of the voltage regulator and compared with a set voltage of the voltage regulator to produce an error signal. The error signal is used as feedback for the voltage regulator so that the output voltage of the voltage regulator can droop by a particular amount corresponding to a particular output current of the voltage regulator. The disclosed analog approach requires neither clock signals nor digital circuitry and utilizes a parallel topology that allows the disclosed approach to be fast and energy efficient.
US10935995B2	Force equilibrium of a valve rod due to internal pressure equalization An apparatus includes a safety shut-off valve for use with a gas regulator. The safety shut-off valve includes a housing, a valve rod, a vent chamber, and a vent line. The housing includes an interior chamber configured to regulated pressure in a fluid. The valve rod is disposed in the housing and controls a valve for interrupting the fluid in the internal chamber. The vent chamber receives ambient air and maintains pressure equalization of the ambient air and the fluid within a maximum pressure of the fluid. The vent line is disposed in a center of the valve rod and provides fluid communication of the ambient air between the vent chamber and an outside of the housing.
US10935991B2	System and method to reflect radar using aircraft The present disclosure is directed to scanning radar reflector systems, methods, and apparatuses; even more particularly to a system, method, and apparatus for scanning and reflecting a radar beam transmitted by a radar transmitter onboard an aerial vehicle with radar reflectors equipped on unmanned aerial vehicles. The radar reflection system may include one or more unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with a one or more axis gimbal upon which a radar reflector is mounted. A user may position the unmanned aerial vehicle and the radar reflector to target a specific region for radar scanning.
US10935990B2	Method for the driverless operation of a vehicle system designed for the fully automatic control of a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle This disclosure relates to a method for the driverless operation of a vehicle system of a motor vehicle designed for fully automatic control of the motor vehicle. In accordance with at least one sequential criterion, which evaluates a status of the driver, comprising location information describing the current position of the driver and/or comprising resource information describing an amount of a resource that is present or required for the driver, of which resource a supply is present in the motor vehicle, operating information describing the taking of the motor vehicle to a sequential position having a shorter, in particular minimum possible distance from the current position of the driver or from a predicted destination of the driver, is automatically determined and applied. A motor vehicle with an onboard vehicle system and a control device, for execution of the method, are also disclosed.
US10935989B2	Methods and systems for navigating a vehicle including a novel fiducial marker system Methods and systems for navigating a vehicle along a surface employ a scanner to scan a light beam over the surface; employ light reflected by one or more fiducial markers on the surface onto pixels of a receiver to determine a spatial arrangement of the fiducial markers on the surface; and compare the spatial arrangement of the fiducial markers with a predetermined map of the fiducial markers to determine a location of the vehicle.
US10935987B2	Landing site localization for dynamic control of an aircraft toward a landing site A system having components coupled to an aircraft and components remote from the aircraft processes sensor-derived data, transmits information between aircraft system components and remote system components, and dynamically generates updated analyses of position and orientation of the aircraft relative to a desired landing site, while the aircraft is in flight toward the desired landing site. Based on the position and orientation information, the system generates instructions for flight control of the aircraft toward a flight path to the landing site, and can update flight control instructions as new data is received and processed.
US10935982B2	Method of selection of an action for an object using a neural network A method, device and system of prediction of a state of an object in the environment using a pre-trained action model defined by an action model neural network. A control system for an object comprises a plurality of sensors for sensing a current state and an environment in which the object is located, and a first neural network. Predicted subsequent states of the object in the environment are obtained using the action model and a current state of the object in the environment The action model maps a plurality of state-action pairs (s, a), each state-action pair encoding a state (s) of the object in the environment and an action (a) performed by the object to a predicted subsequent state (s′) of the object in the environment. An action that maximizes a value of a target, based at least on a reward for each of the predicted subsequent states, is determined. The determined action is caused to be performed.
US10935980B2	Automated maintenance of datacenter computers using mobile robotic manipulators Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for automated replacement of components in a datacenter. A robot is instructed to follow a route to replace parts within a datacenter. Embodiments include predicting a failure rate for a plurality of computer components within a datacenter. A failure time is then predicted for the computer components based on the corresponding failure rate. A route is created that allows the robot to visit the one or more racks containing the computer components that need to be replaced. The robot then replaces the components that require replacing. In this way, datacenter efficiency is improved and operating costs are reduced.
US10935976B2	Blinker judgment device and autonomous driving system A blinker judgment device mounted on a vehicle includes an information acquisition device configured to acquire surrounding situation information indicating a situation around the vehicle; and a control device configured to: recognize blinker flashing of a target vehicle based on image information of the target vehicle, check, based on the surrounding situation information, whether or not there is a cause for the target vehicle to make a lane change, in response to recognition of the blinker flashing based on the image information, judge that the recognition of the blinker flashing based on the image information is falsely positive in response to determining that the cause does not exist, and devise a travel plan based on the recognition of the blinker flashing in response to determining that the cause exists.
US10935974B1	Manual control re-engagement in an autonomous vehicle Vehicles may have the capability to navigate according to various levels of autonomous capabilities, the vehicle having a different set of autonomous competencies at each level. In certain situations, the vehicle may shift from one level of autonomous capability to another. The shift may require more or less driving responsibility from a human operator. Sensors inside the vehicle collect human operator parameters to determine an alertness level of the human operator. An alertness level is determined based on the human operator parameters and other data including historical data or human operator-specific data. Notifications are presented to the user based on the determined alertness level that are more or less intrusive based on the alertness level of the human operator and on the urgency of an impending change to autonomous capabilities. Notifications may be tailored to specific human operators based on human operator preference and historical performance.
US10935973B2	Generation of solution data for autonomous vehicles to negotiate problem situations Methods, apparatuses, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media for generating solution data for autonomous vehicles to negotiate problem situations have been disclosed. The disclosed technology generates state data associated with a vehicle using sensor data received from the vehicle and from external objects within a vicinity of the vehicle. The state data includes any of a location of the vehicle, a destination of the vehicle, an operational status of the vehicle, and information associated with a vehicle environment. In response to determining that the state data satisfies a state criterion, a determination of solution profile data that matches the state data is made on the basis of a comparison of the state data to the solution profile data. Solution data is generated using the matching solution profile data to transmit the solution data to the vehicle for execution.
US10935971B2	Automated decoy with battery holder ballast A decoy system with a ballast that holds batteries to power the various elements of the decoy system including a Global Positioning System or location based receiver and circuitry that automatically controls the navigation of the decoy based on real-time location and desired/selected pattern information. The system can include a decoy with a propulsion system and steering system and an interface to a smart phone running a remote control app. The remote control app can be used to control the navigation of the decoy in view of the location information received from the GPS.
US10935970B2	Electrical device degradation determination A method collects from at least one power measuring device of an environment power consumption data indicating active power consumption during a timeframe by an electrical device in the environment. The method also collects operating parameter data indicating at least one operating parameter under which the electrical device operates during at least a portion of the timeframe. The method performs, based on observing an increase in power consumption of the electrical device during the timeframe, assessing extents of contribution by potential contributing factors to the increase in power consumption, the potential contributing factors including time-based degradation of the electrical device and the at least one operating parameter. The method outputs, based on the assessing, an indication of an extent of contribution of degradation of the electrical device to the increase in power consumption.
US10935969B2	Virtual metrology system and method A virtual metrology system at least includes a process apparatus including a set of process data, the process apparatus producing a workpiece according to the set of process data. A virtual metrology server is configured to gather the set of process data, cluster the set of process data to obtain data clusters, and compare the data clusters with patterns. If the data clusters meet the patterns corresponding to the data clusters, performing a corresponding maintenance, repair, and overhaul step on the process apparatus.
US10935967B2	Machining equipment system and manufacturing system Provided is a machining equipment system including machining equipment that performs machining of a workpiece; a control device that controls the machining equipment on the basis of a machining condition; a state obtaining device that obtains a state of the machining equipment during the machining; an inspection device that inspects the workpiece after the machining; and a machine learning device that performs machine learning on the basis of a result of inspection by the inspection device and the state of the machining equipment, obtained by the state obtaining device, wherein the machine learning device modifies the machining condition on the basis of a result of the machine learning so as to improve the machining accuracy of the workpiece or so as to minimize the defect rate of the workpiece.
US10935966B2	Product inspection device, product inspection method, and computer program A product inspection device and method for correctly calculating consumer and producer risks irrespective of the type of distribution of products. A characteristic value representing a predetermined product characteristic is measured for each product as a product measurement value, and a standard deviation of measurement variations in measurement results is calculated as a measurement value standard deviation. The products are determined to be conforming based on whether the measured product measurement value falls within a range of a product standard. Consumer and producer risks are calculated based on the measurement variations. The calculated consumer and producer risks are respectively and successively added up and it is determined whether the number of products having undergone the adding have reached a predetermined number. If so, the added up consumer risk and producer risk are divided by the number of products to calculate a final consumer risk and a final producer risk.
US10935963B2	Required accuracy setting device A CPU of a management computer sets an nth component in a mounting operation order of the current sequence as a target component, calculates nearby state data of the target component, sets the required accuracy of the target component based on the nearby state data and memorizes the required accuracy of HDD. Because the required accuracy is automatically set based on the nearby state data in this manner, the set required accuracy matches actual circumstances better compared to than with conventional technology. Therefore, it is possible to automatically set appropriate required accuracy of a target component.
US10935958B2	Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing an orthodontic appliance Systems and methods of defining a trimline in relation to modeled teeth including modeled gingiva. The trimline is for use to manufacture an aligner. A margin point is placed proximate a gingival margin at each tooth on at least one jaw in the model. A trimline connects the plurality of margin points from which machine code is generated. The aligner manufactured includes an edge that correlates with the trimline according to the machine code. A margin point may be proximate a gingival zenith. At least one tooth cooperates with the modeled gingiva to define a line around the tooth. The trimline includes at least one tooth curve and at least one connector curve connected to the tooth curve at a transition point. At least one control point is on the trimline between two margin points. The trimline is defined by a spline that may be a Bèzier curve.
US10935956B2	Positioning control device and mold-clamping apparatus A positioning control device mounted on an industrial machine including a driver including a motor, a movable body movable by the driver, a first detector that detects a position of the movable body based on the amount of driving of the driver, a servo amplifier that performs first feedback control of feedback-controlling driving of the motor based on a first detection value by the first detector, and a second detector that detects a position of the movable body when the movable body comes closer to a target position within a distance or shorter. The positioning control device is configured to position the movable body at the target position and includes a controller that controls the servo amplifier. The controller includes a switching unit that switches control modes between a first control mode performing the first feedback control and a second control mode disabling the first feedback control of the servo amplifier and performing second feedback control of feedback-controlling driving of the motor based on a second detection value by the second detector.
US10935951B2	Autonomous operation of an electrical power outlet device In an electrical power outlet device, a processor and a memory are configured to execute an application within the outlet device, which computes a pattern of usage of the outlet device. A set of sensors in the outlet device includes a first sensor that is usable to detect an event in an environment in which the outlet device is supplying power. The environment includes elements that are not participating in an electrical circuit that receives power from the outlet device and the event is usable by the application to alter the pattern of usage. An autonomous modification of an operation of the outlet device is performed in response to the pattern of usage, the event, or both. The operation changes a power supplying state of the outlet device without using an external switching apparatus or an external logic implemented outside the outlet device.
US10935947B2	Method for setting slave identification information for actuator movement sensing element The present invention relates to a method for setting slave identification information for an actuator movement sensing element and, more particularly, to a method for sensing a distance, by which an actuator having a lens assembly coupled thereto has moved in one direction among an x-axis, a y-axis, and a z-axis, and transmitting the sensed distance to a master controller according to a two-wire interface scheme. The method comprises the steps of: when a slave identification information change command is received from a master controller, checking whether actuator movement distance sensing data is input from a hall sensor allocated to itself; and as a result of the checking, when actuator movement distance sensing data equal to or greater than a set value is input, setting slave identification information assigned at the time of production to be changed into slave identification information transmitted by the master controller.
US10935946B2	Industrial automation packaged power solution for intelligent motor control and intelligent switchgear with energy management Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for interfacing process controllers in a process automation system with one or more intelligent electrical devices (IEDs) of an electrical automation system to use process and electrical control space information to perform actions and make decisions regarding actions in a connected enterprise system to facilitate energy management goals as well as process control goals in view of electrical control space information and process control space information.
US10935944B2	Variable air volume modeling for an HVAC system Methods for modeling heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) are described. A heuristic model of air handling in a HVAC system is optimized by a server based on measurements from outdoor sensors, from building space sensors, plant sensors, and sensors for the air handling. Settings of the air handling in the HVAC system are determined by the server from the model as optimized and transmitted to the HVAC system. The heuristic model may be optimized by indicating a mismatch of a fan with a space based on a diversity from a fan flow set point and a fan designed maximum flow; identifying a rogue zone or a critical zone of air handling units based on a number of actuator re-positioning, box pressures, and box flow; and/or determining a coupling of a coupled zone operation with temperature, flow, or temperature and flow.
US10935941B2	Method of a touch screen remote control with feedback for an adjustable bed This disclosure concerns a handheld wireless remote control in communication with a cellular network infrastructure that is adapted to transmit adjustable bed control signals to an adjustable bed controller via one of a standard wireless connection, RF, Bluetooth or WiFi in response to the user input. The remote control can receive, on the touch screen, feedback from the adjustable bed controller indicating the success of the control signal.
US10935940B2	Building management system with augmented deep learning using combined regression and artificial neural network modeling A building management system is provided. The building management system includes a database, a trust region identifier configured to perform a cluster analysis technique to identify trust regions, and a regression model predictor configured to utilize a regression model technique to calculate a regression model prediction. The building management system further includes a distance metric calculator configured to calculate a distance metric, an artificial neural network model predictor configured to utilize an artificial neural network model technique to calculate an artificial neural network model prediction, and a combined prediction calculator configured to determine a combined prediction based on the distance metric, the regression model prediction, and the artificial neural network model prediction.
US10935936B2	Electronic controller with converter component and signal hold circuit to hold and output indicator signals for a duration Systems and methods for controlling lab equipment such as transmitters are provided that includes a mini automation controller (MAC). The system provides a control system, user interface, and interfaces, including network interfaces usable for interfacing equipment, MAC, and user interfaces over a network, which provide a variety of functions including automation and monitoring of transmission sequences and receiver events. An exemplary MAC may include an Ethernet controller capable of converting an Ethernet signal to a serial signal. The MAC may also include a receiver monitor section comprising a fiber optic receiver input, a copper cable receiver input, and a monostable multivibrator. In addition to the receiver monitor section, the MAC may have a transmitter control section including a transmitter control pulse and a power output. An exemplary MAC may have a microcontroller coupled to the Ethernet controller, the receiver monitor section, and the transmitter control section.
US10935935B2	Safety control unit, safety control method, and safety control program A safety control unit includes: a memory; a computation control part; and an input and output unit for connecting the computation control part to a safety input device and an output device to be safely controlled. A system program includes a data refresh program for executing a data refresh of safety control data of the safety input device and the output device and the control data of the memory via the input and output unit. If the computation control part receives a change of a control program, the computation control part stops executing the control program. The computation control part executes the change of the control program while executing a part of the system program including the data refresh. The computation control part resumes executing the control program.
US10935929B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device; a fixing device; a first conveyance passage downstream from the fixing device in a sheet conveyance direction; a second conveyance passage downstream from the fixing device and communicating with the first conveyance passage; a sheet reversing member to reverse a conveyance direction of the sheet to the second conveyance passage; a divider to switch a route of the sheet between the first conveyance passage and the second conveyance passage; and a sheet detection sensor disposed downstream from the fixing device and upstream from the divider. The first conveyance passage includes a sheet outlet from which the sheet is ejected outside the apparatus. The apparatus further includes a ventilation passage communicating with an outside, to guide air from the outside to pass the sheet detection sensor and enter at least one of the first conveyance passage and the second conveyance passage.
US10935928B2	Cartridge A cartridge removably attachable to an image forming apparatus, including a resin-made casing, a planar memory chip configured to store information to be outputted to the image forming apparatus, a recess portion provided on an outer surface of the casing to fit the memory chip, and a regulating portion formed integrally with the casing and provided to project out of the outer surface of the casing in a direction intersecting with a surface of the memory chip to regulate a move of the memory chip in the direction intersecting with the surface of the memory chip, wherein the memory chip is attached to the recess portion in a condition of displaceable within the recess portion in a posture substantially surrounded by side wall of the recess portion.
US10935927B2	Cartridge A cartridge comprises a frame including a chamber, a photosensitive drum supported by the frame, a first coupling member operatively connected to the photosensitive drum such that a rotational force can be transmitted from the first coupling member to the photosensitive drum, and a second coupling member provided adjacent to an opening in the cartridge. The chamber is in fluid communication with the opening, with the second coupling member forming at least a part of the passageway through which toner can move from the chamber to the opening.
US10935924B2	Drive coupler for a replaceable unit of an electrophotographic image forming device An interface drive coupler for a replaceable unit of an electrophotographic image forming device according to one example embodiment includes a first component and a second component coaxial with the first component along a rotational axis of the interface drive coupler. A force receiving portion is positioned on the first component and a force transmitting portion is positioned on the second component. Angled grooves on one of the first and second components matably receive angled ribs on the other of the first and second components to prevent the first and second components from separating from each other.
US10935922B2	Image forming apparatus including locking mechanism and covering with slide member An image forming apparatus (1) includes a front covering (2) and a locking mechanism (2). The front covering (2) is opened and closed in attachment or detachment of a toner container (15). The locking mechanism (3) locks the front covering (2). The term “lock” refers to the front covering (2) being kept closed with no external force acting on the front covering (2). The toner container (15) includes a protrusion (151). Only when the protrusion is located at a specific position of the toner container (15), the locking mechanism (3) operates according to opening or closing of the front covering (2).
US10935917B2	Serpina1 siRNAs: compositions of matter and methods of treatment The technology described herein relates to double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) compositions targeting the Serpina 1 gene, and methods of using such dsRNA compositions to inhibit expression of Serpina 1.
US10935916B2	Sheet conveying device and image recording apparatus A sheet conveying device is configured to start feeding, before a trailing end of a preceding sheet passes a detector, a next sheet following the preceding sheet, based on a calculated sheet length. If the trailing end of the preceding sheet has not been detected by the detector when a counted value reaches a particular count value, the driving of a sheet feed unit configured to feed sheets may be stopped while a conveying unit configured to convey the sheets is continuously being driven. Subsequently, based on the detector detecting the trailing end of the preceding sheet, the driving of the sheet feed unit may be resumed.
US10935915B2	Image forming apparatus having test patterns for image density adjustment An image forming apparatus controls a first image forming unit and a second image forming unit to form a plurality of pattern images. The plurality of pattern images includes a first pattern image formed by the first image forming unit, a second pattern image formed by the second image forming unit, a plurality of third pattern images that are formed by the first image forming unit and have different tones from one another, and a plurality of fourth pattern images that are formed by the second image forming unit and have different tones from one another. The image forming apparatus obtains data that has been output from a sensor and is related to the plurality of pattern images, and generates the conversion condition based on the data.
US10935914B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes an image reading unit that reads an image of an original document, an image processing unit that processes image data of the image read by the image reading unit, and a suspension unit that suspends, if a predetermined pattern has been detected from the image read by the image reading unit, the image processing unit in an operation of processing the image data until the original document is removed from the image reading unit.
US10935913B1	Fixing device including at least one temperature sensing unit that senses a temperature of a lubricant A fixing device includes an annular and rotatable fixing member, a contact member, at least one temperature sensing unit, and a processor. The fixing member has an outer peripheral surface that comes into contact with a recording medium. The fixing member fixes an image on the recording medium onto the recording medium. The contact member is in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the fixing member, and extends in an axial direction of the fixing member. The at least one temperature sensing unit senses a temperature of a lubricant adhering to the inner peripheral surface of the fixing member. The processor controls rotation of the fixing member on a basis of a temperature sensed by the at least one temperature sensing unit.
US10935910B2	Image forming apparatus in which corrugated shape is formed in width direction on sheet to which air is blown Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including: a first guide guiding one surface of a sheet downstream of a fixing unit fixing a toner image on the sheet and upstream of discharging rollers discharging the sheet to a stacking portion in a sheet conveying direction; a second guide facing the first guide, the second guide guiding the other surface of the sheet; protrusions with openings provided on the second guide in a sheet width direction orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction; recesses provided on the first guide in the sheet width direction, the recesses facing the protrusions; and a blower unit blowing air toward the sheet via the openings provided on the second guide, wherein a corrugated shape is formed in the width direction on the sheet to which air is blown by the protrusions provided on the second guide and the recesses provided on the first guide.
US10935909B2	Image forming apparatus including transfer roller to transfer toner image from image bearing member to belt A position of a stretch roller, where the stretch roller stretches an intermediate transfer belt upstream of and adjacently to a most upstream primary transfer roller in a rotational direction of the intermediate transfer belt, is apart from a photosensitive drum with respect to a primary transfer surface. Further, the most upstream primary transfer roller is larger in outside diameter than other primary transfer rollers, and the most upstream primary transfer roller has a transfer pressure larger than the transfer pressure of the other primary transfer rollers. This arrangement inhibits the most upstream primary transfer roller from deforming and a defective transfer due to waving of the intermediate transfer belt, while inhibiting an increase in size of an apparatus.
US10935906B2	Developer supply device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A developer supply device includes a body, a developer supply unit drawably insertable into the body, and a developer container removably installable in the developer supply unit. The developer container contains a developer and includes a developer discharge port. The developer supply unit includes a lever that closes the developer discharge port when the lever has moved to a first position and opens the developer discharge port when the lever has moved to a second position, and a lock that engages an engagement portion of the lever in conjunction with an operation of drawing the developer supply unit from the body to restrict the lever from moving from the first position to the second position and disengage from the engagement portion in conjunction with an operation of inserting the developer supply unit into the body to allow the lever to move from the first position to the second position.
US10935905B2	Powder container A powder container contains powder and is attached to an image forming apparatus including: a conveying nozzle to convey the powder; a powder receiving hole of the conveying nozzle to receive the powder from the powder container; an apparatus main-body gear to transmit a driving force to the powder container; and a container receiving section including the conveying nozzle and receiving the powder container. The powder container includes: an opening at one end of the powder container in a longitudinal direction; a nozzle receiver at the opening to receive the conveying nozzle; a conveyor to convey the powder; and a container gear to drive the conveyor by meshing with the apparatus main-body gear. The container gear is to mesh with the apparatus main-body gear at a position closer to the opening than the powder receiving hole in the longitudinal direction. The opening is to mate with the container receiving section.
US10935904B2	Image forming apparatus When a new development device is mounted, a control unit of an image forming apparatus identifies a development device type. When an identification result corresponds to a first development device containing a first amount of developer, an agitation member operates in a first mode. When the identification result corresponds to a second development device containing a second amount of developer higher than the first amount, the agitation member operates in a second mode. A second operation amount of the agitation member in the second mode is higher than a first operation amount of the agitation member in the first mode. A developer containing chamber of the development device is provided with a discharge opening from which the developer is discharged. The operations in the first and second modes are performed after a sealing member sealing the discharge opening is removed and also before a normal image forming process is executed.
US10935902B2	Toner A toner including a toner particle that includes a binder resin and a crystalline polyester; and inorganic fine particles on the toner particle surface, wherein a content of the crystalline polyester is 0.5 to 20.0 mass parts per 100 mass parts of the binder resin; in the toner cross section, domains of the crystalline polyester are present in a dispersed state, the percentage for areas of these crystalline polyester domains in the region to a depth of 0.50 μm from a contour of the toner particle is at least 10%, the number average of lengths of a major axis is 120 nm to 1000 nm, and the number average of aspect ratios is not more than 4; a dielectric constant of the inorganic fine particles is 25 to 300 pF/m; and a coverage ratio by the inorganic fine particles on the toner particle surface is 5% to 60%.
US10935901B1	Metallic toner particles Described herein is a metallic toner. The metallic toner includes flake shape toner particles having a binder resin, zinc stearate, silica having a particle size of from 7 nm to less than 12 nm in an amount of about 0.1 weight percent to 1.0 about weight percent of the flake shape toner particle and tabular shape metallic pigments. The flake shape toner particles have an average major axis length of from 6 μm to 20 μm, an average thickness of from 1 μm to 4 μm and an average circularity of from 0.5 to 0.97. The tabular shape metallic pigments have an average major axis length of from 1 μm to 14 μm an average thickness of from 0.01 μm to 0.5 μm.
US10935885B1	System and method for cleaning mesa sidewalls Devices, systems, and methods position a template for imprinting a formable material over one or more gas-flow channels on a stage, wherein the template includes a patterning surface, a mesa, and at least one mesa sidewall; and direct a gas flow through the one or more gas-flow channels toward a portion of the at least one mesa sidewall.
US10935883B2	Nanoimprint template with light blocking material and method of fabrication A nanoimprint lithography template, method of fabrication, and method of manufacturing an article using the same. The template includes a body having first and second opposed sides, the second side having a mesa extending therefrom, with the mesa having sidewalls and a surface. A recessed shelf extends around a perimeter of the mesa surface, with a light-blocking material positioned on at least the recessed shelf and at a thickness such that the light-blocking material does not extend beyond a plane defined by the mesa surface.
US10935881B2	Mask blank, phase shift mask, phase shift mask manufacturing method, and semiconductor device manufacturing method An object is to provide a mask blank for manufacturing a phase shift mask in which a thermal expansion of a phase shift pattern, which is caused when exposure light is radiated onto the phase shift pattern, and displacement of the phase shift pattern are suppressed to be small. A phase shift film has a function of transmitting exposure light from an ArF excimer laser at a transmittance of 2% or higher and 30% or lower and a function of generating a phase difference of 150° or larger and 180° or smaller between the exposure light that has been transmitted through the phase shift film and the exposure light that has passed through air by a distance equal to a thickness of the phase shift film. The phase shift film is formed of a material containing a metal and silicon, and has a structure in which a lower layer and an upper layer are laminated in the stated order from a transparent substrate side. The lower layer has a refractive index n at a wavelength of the exposure light that is smaller than that of the transparent substrate. The upper layer has a refractive index n at the wavelength of the exposure light that is larger than that of the transparent substrate. The lower layer has an extinction coefficient k at the wavelength of the exposure light that is larger than that of the upper layer. The upper layer has a thickness that is larger than that of the lower layer.
US10935880B2	Video pipe inspection systems with snap-on pipe guides A video pipe inspection system may include a push-cable, camera head, and pipe guide having a pair of cylindrical shells, with each shell having a plurality of radially extending circumferentially spaced vanes and structure for holding the shells together when the shells are axially mated end-to-end. A pair of curved tab arms may extend circumferentially about corresponding ones of the cylindrical shells. A pair of slide-locks may be configured to slide over corresponding ones of the tab arms to move them into a locking position in which keys on the tab arms extend between adjacent coils of a coil spring surrounded by the shells.
US10935877B2	Projection apparatus and heat dissipation control method A projection apparatus and a heat dissipation control method therefor. The projection apparatus includes a light valve module, a light source providing an illumination beam, a brightness sensor sensing a brightness of the illumination beam, a cooling element having a cold end surface dissipating heat from the light valve module and a hot end surface, a humidity sensor sensing an ambient humidity, a first temperature sensor sensing an ambient temperature, a second temperature sensor sensing a cold end temperature, and a controller coupled to the brightness sensor, the humidity sensor, the first temperature sensor, the second temperature sensor, the cooling element, and the light source. The controller determines a specification temperature according to the brightness, calculates a dewpoint temperature according to the ambient temperature and the ambient humidity, and adjusts a first power of the light source according to the dewpoint temperature, the specification temperature and the cold end temperature.
US10935876B2	Light source device, projection display device, and method of cooling semiconductor light-emitting element A plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements are to be efficiently cooled. There are provided a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements that are arranged in n rows and m columns, and a plurality of flow channels where a cooling medium flows through, the plurality of flow channels being formed to sandwich the n rows of semiconductor light-emitting elements or the m columns of semiconductor light-emitting elements.
US10935867B2	Bottom member and display device including the same A bottom member includes a light-absorbing element; a top coupling layer disposed on the light-absorbing element; a first buffer element disposed under the light-absorbing element, where a first opening is defined in the first buffer element; a filling layer disposed in the first opening; and a vibrating acoustic element disposed below the first buffer element, where the vibrating acoustic element overlaps with the first opening and the light-absorbing element when viewed from a top, and the vibrating acoustic element is coupled with the first buffer element via the filling layer.
US10935866B2	Optical modulator An electrophoretic device for switching between a transparent and non-transparent mode comprises a fluid and particles, electrodes for moving said particles, and various further elements, as well as uses thereof, in particular as a window blind.
US10935861B1	Modular reflective light-diffuser devices The present disclosure relates to non-emissive modular light-diffuser devices that selectively revealing reflective material and that can be utilized in applications ranging from wearable electronics to large format displays. For example, by applying power, the modular light-diffuser devices can switch from a light-scattering state and a non-light-scattering state to reveal reflective material beneath. In particular, a modular light-diffuser device can utilize dual inputs to provide an alternating low-voltage current to a PDLC film layer (e.g., by rotating the direction of electrical polarity), thus, significantly extending the life of the modular light-diffuser device. In addition, multiple modular light-diffuser devices can be grouped and added to objects (e.g., clothing, fashion accessories, or large format displays) to form patterns, designs, and animations based on the modular light-diffuser devices changing states.
US10935851B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display includes a first insulation substrate, a gate line, a data line configured to cross the gate line while being insulated therefrom, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode configured to include a first subpixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor and a second subpixel electrode, a second insulation substrate configured to face the first insulation substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second insulation substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first insulation substrate and the second insulation substrate to include a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, where each of the first subpixel electrode and the second subpixel electrode includes a unit pixel electrode including a plurality of minute branches that is extended from a horizontal stem and a vertical stem.
US10935850B1	Display panel, manufacturing method, and electronic device Aspects of the disclosure provide a display panel that can include a display region, a blind hole arranged in the display region for light passage, and a light-shielding region arranged between the display region and a hole region. The display panel can also include a Photo Spacer (PS) structure that is arranged in a liquid crystal layer in the display region and the light-shielding region for supporting the cell thickness of the liquid crystal layer. The density of the PS structure in the liquid crystal layer increases and then decreases from the display region to the light-shielding region, with the density of the PS structure in the light-shielding region is highest.
US10935848B2	Liquid crystal display device, manufacturing method for liquid crystal display device and electric device A liquid crystal display device according to a present disclosure comprises: a thin film transistor substrate including a thin film transistor array; a counter substrate opposed to the thin film transistor substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the thin film transistor substrate and the counter substrate, wherein the thin film transistor substrate includes: an overlapping part that overlaps with the counter substrate in planar view; and a non-overlapping part that includes a terminal portion and does not overlap with the counter substrate in planar view, and an outer shape of the non-overlapping part has a non-rectangular shape in planar view.
US10935847B2	Display panel and fabrication method thereof and display device The present disclosure provides a display panel and a fabrication method thereof and a display device. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate, which are aligned and assembled to form a cell, and a sealant sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a hollow structure is arranged in at least one of a first surface layer of the first substrate facing the second substrate and a second surface layer of the second substrate facing the first substrate, and wherein a portion of the sealant is embedded in the hollow structure.
US10935845B2	Backlight module and display device A backlight module and a display device are disclosed, and the backlight module includes: a light source component, a wavelength selection film, and a first light emitting film laminated in sequence. The light source component is configured to emit light of a first wavelength range, the wavelength selection film transmits the light of the first wavelength range and reflect at least light of a second wavelength range, the second wavelength range does not coincide with the first wavelength range, and the first light emitting film is configured to excite and emit blue light under an illumination of the light of the first wavelength range.
US10935843B2	Backlight and display device provided with same A backlight is configured by a power supply switching circuit configured to switch a supply destination of a power source voltage for LED driving among a plurality of blocks, a plurality of power source lines which are provided in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of blocks and are each connected to an upstream end of each of LED units included in a corresponding block, an LED drive circuit including the same number of turn-on control switches, which are for controlling whether to supply a current to LEDs, as LED units included in each block, and one or more discharge control circuits provided for each block. The discharge control circuit lowers a voltage level at the upstream end of each of LED snits included in a corresponding block after an end of a period in which the power source voltage is supplied to the corresponding block.
US10935842B2	Nanostructure based display devices A display device includes a backlight unit having a light source and a liquid crystal display (LCD) module. The light source is configured to emit a primary light in a first wavelength region. The LCD module includes a pixel having a first, second, and third sub-pixels. The first sub-pixel includes a first emissive surface configured to emit a first light in a second wavelength region. The second sub-pixel includes a second emissive surface configured to emit a second light in a third wavelength region. The third sub-pixel includes a third emissive surface configured to emit a third light in the first wavelength region. The third luminance is greater than the first luminance and the second luminance. An area of the third emissive surface is smaller than an area of the first emissive surface and an area of the second emissive surface.
US10935840B2	Display apparatus having optical lens A display apparatus including a display element, a frame body, and an optical lens is provided. The display element has a central zone and at least one edge zone located around the central zone. The central zone forms a display surface with at least one edge zone. The frame body has a bezel portion and an accommodating space. The display element is disposed in the accommodating space and the bezel portion surrounds the display element. The optical lens is disposed on the display element and includes a body. The body has a flat portion and at least one extending portion around the flat portion, wherein the at least one extending portion has a feature surface, and the feature surface overlaps the at least one edge zone and the bezel portion in the direction perpendicular to the frame body, so that users can experience a bezel-less visual effect.
US10935837B2	Wire grid pattern, display device including the same, and method for fabricating the same A wire grid pattern used as a wire grid polarizer included in a display device or a master substrate for fabricating the wire gird polarizer includes a substrate; a cell area having a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of cells having a plurality of wires protruding from the substrate and arranged in a substantially parallel relationship at regular intervals; and a bezel area disposed along a periphery of the cell area. The cell area includes a trench area separating at least some of the cells. A method for fabricating the wire grid pattern also is disclosed.
US10935835B2	Optically anisotropic laminate, polarizing plate, and image display device An optically anisotropic layered body including a first optically anisotropic layer and a second optically anisotropic layer, wherein each of refractive indices of the second optically anisotropic layer, in-plane retardations of the first optically anisotropic layer, thickness direction retardations of the second optically anisotropic layer, in-plane retardations of the optically anisotropic layered body, NZ factors of the optically anisotropic layered body, and thickness direction retardations Rth of the optically anisotropic layered body satisfies specific relationships.
US10935834B2	Color display device A color display device comprises an array of a plurality of sub-pixels including a red sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel, a first green sub-pixel and a second green sub-pixel. The first green sub-pixel and the second green sub-pixel are smaller than that of the red sub-pixel or the blue sub-pixel. The two adjacent first green sub-pixels are arranged in a first direction, the two adjacent second green sub-pixels are arranged in the first direction. The blue sub-pixel is directly adjacent to the red sub-pixel in a second direction; the blue sub-pixel is directly adjacent to the two first green sub-pixels and the two second green sub-pixels.
US10935830B1	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for heating a liquid crystal display screen A display system may include 1) a plurality of electronic components, 2) an LCD screen that is heatable at a base heating rate by operation of the LCD screen and one or more of the plurality of electronic components, and 3) a heating subsystem for heating the LCD screen at an accelerated heating rate that is greater than the base heating rate to raise a temperature of the LCD screen above a threshold screen temperature. A head-mounted-display device may include 1) a display housing, 2) a plurality of electronic components disposed within the display housing, 3) an LCD screen disposed within the display housing, and 4) a heating subsystem for heating the LCD screen at an accelerated heating rate. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10935827B1	Back plate, backlight module and display device A back plate, a backlight module, and a display device are provided. The back plate includes a first sub-back plate and a second sub-back plate connected to each other, wherein a thickness of the first sub-back plate is less than a thickness of the second sub-back plate, at least a part of a first main surface of the first sub-back plate is flush with a first main surface of the second sub-back plate, a gap space is formed on a second main surface of the first sub-back plate, and the first main surface of the first sub-back plate is arranged opposite to the second main surface of the first sub-back plate.
US10935825B2	Substrate processing method A substrate processing method includes a first discharge step of discharging, from the first discharge port which faces a predetermined first region including the rotating center of the upper surface, a low surface tension liquid containing gas containing steam of a low surface tension liquid having a larger specific gravity than air and lower surface tension than the processing liquid and not discharging the low surface tension liquid containing gas from the second discharge port which faces a predetermined second region surrounding the outside of the first region on the upper surface of the substrate, and a second discharge step of discharging the low surface tension liquid containing gas from the second discharge port after the first discharge step and not discharging the low surface tension liquid containing gas from the first discharge port.
US10935823B2	Short-circuit detection circuit and display device including the same A short-circuit detection circuit includes a voltage comparison block that receives a scan start signal from a scan start signal transmission line, receives a reference voltage from a reference voltage source, and outputs a comparison result by comparing the scan start signal with the reference voltage at a falling edge of a vertical start signal, and a short-circuit determination block that determines whether the scan start signal transmission line is short-circuited based on the comparison result and operates an over-current protection circuit by providing a short-circuit detection signal to the over-current protection circuit when the scan start signal transmission line is short-circuited.
US10935819B2	Concepts pertaining to integrated sensor and optical phase/amplitude modulator An integrated sensor and optical phase/amplitude modulator device including a modulator stacked on or above a detector. A circuit receives a signal outputted from the detector in response to an input field irradiating the detector. The circuit performs binary operations comprising classifying the input phase of the input electromagnetic radiation into one of two ranges and setting the modulator into one of two states depending on which range the input phase is classified into. The modulator transmits output electromagnetic radiation having an output field modulated according to the state of the modulator set by the circuit.
US10935817B2	Optical device and driving method thereof An optical device according to the embodiment of the inventive concept includes a waveguide path including a light generation region, a wavelength variable region, and a light modulation region, a first light waveguide layer provided in the light generation region to generate light, a second light waveguide layer provided in the wavelength variable region and connected to the first light waveguide layer, a ring-shaped third light waveguide layer provided in the light modulation region and connected to the second light waveguide layer, and first and second light modulation electrodes spaced apart from each other with the light modulation region therebetween. Here, the first light modulation electrode, the third light waveguide layer, and the second light modulation electrode vertically overlap each other.
US10935814B2	Optical device for enhancing human color vision with improved cosmetic appearance A system, method for creating an optical device, and a device to enhance human color vision are disclosed. The system, method for creating the optical device, and device include a substrate, a plurality of thin film layers provided on the substrate, the plurality of thin film layers including materials creating thin film-specific reflectance spectra based on selected pluralities of materials each having their on respective refractive index, and/or a plurality of colorant layers applied to the plurality of thin film layers, the plurality of colorant layers including at least one colorant, the colorant created based on colorant-specific absorption spectra as defined by selected concentrations.
US10935813B2	Methods and apparatus for biomedical devices with customized appearance Designs, apparatus and methods to form contact lenses with aesthetic elements on demand are described. In some examples, the method of defining the aesthetic aspect includes printing patterns. Other examples include photochromic or thermochromic elements which may provide patterning on exposure to electromagnetic irradiation. In some further examples, energized components in contact lenses may provide aesthetic characteristics.
US10935812B2	Magnetic attachment mechanism for eyewear Interchangeably lenses and attachment assemblies for eyewear with removable temples are described. An example attachment assembly for removably magnetically attaching an eyewear temple to a lens may include a magnetic latch having a first latch portion and a second latch portions movably (e.g., pivotably) coupled to the temple. The first and second latch portions may be configured to be positioned on opposite sides of the lens by a carrier. The first and second latch portions may be configured to magnetically attract one another in a magnetic attraction direction. The carrier may be configured to restrict movement of at least one of the first and second latch portions in a second direction opposite the magnetic attraction direction.
US10935809B2	Lens driving mechanism and method for controlling the same A lens driving mechanism is provided. The lens driving mechanism is configured to drive an optical lens, including a holder, a base, a first elastic element, and a first biasing element. The optical lens is disposed in a receiving space of the holder. The base has a central axis, and the holder is movable relative to the base. The first elastic element is connected to the holder and the base. The first biasing element exerts a force on the holder so that an optical axis of the optical lens has an angular displacement relative to the central axis.
US10935803B2	Method to determine the topological charge of an optical beam An apparatus for determining a topological charge of one of more optical beams. For single beams, a trapezoidal optical element having a front face and an opposing rear face that is not parallel to the front face is oriented so that the optical beam is reflected in a direction other than along the optical path. The reflection of the optical beam by the trapezoidal optical element produces an interference pattern that can be captured by an optical imager and that can be decoded to determine the topological charge of the optical beam. For a plurality of superpositioned beams, an air spaced trapezoidal optical element may oriented to reflect the plurality of beams onto an optical imager to capture the interference pattern. The interference pattern may be interpreted to identify the topological charge of each of the plurality of optical beams.
US10935792B2	Virtual/augmented reality system having reverse angle diffraction grating A display subsystem for a virtual image generation system comprises a planar waveguide apparatus, an optical fiber, at least one light source configured for emitting light from a distal end of the optical fiber, and a mechanical drive assembly to which the optical fiber is mounted as a fixed-free flexible cantilever. The drive assembly is configured for displacing a distal end of the optical fiber about a fulcrum in accordance with a scan pattern, such that the emitted light diverges from a longitudinal axis coincident with the fulcrum. The display subsystem further comprises an optical modulation apparatus configured for converging the light from the optical fiber towards the longitudinal axis, and an optical waveguide input apparatus configured for directing the light from the optical modulation apparatus down the planar waveguide apparatus, such that the planar waveguide apparatus displays one or more image frames to an end user.
US10935788B2	Hybrid virtual 3D rendering approach to stereovision A method for stereoscopically presenting visual content is disclosed. The method comprises identifying and distinguishing between a first type of content and a second type of content of a frame to be stereoscopically displayed. The method also comprises rendering the first type of content in a first left and a first right frame from a single perspective using a first stereoscopic rendering method. Further, the method comprises rendering the second type of content in a second left and a second right frame using a second, different stereoscopic method from two different perspectives. Additionally, the method comprises merging the first and second left frames and the first and second right frames to produce a resultant left frame and a resultant right frame. Finally, the method comprises displaying the resultant left frame and the resultant right frame for stereoscopic perception by a viewer.
US10935787B2	Combiner positioning system A combiner positioning system for a head-up display, the system including a combiner for the head-up display, where the combiner is movable between a stowed position and a display position, positioning means built to move the combiner from the stowed position into the display position, and actuation means built to disengage locking means. The positioning means includes spring means built to move the combiner from the stowed position into the display position by means of a spring force in case the locking means are disengaged, and the combiner is built to be moved manually from the display position into the stowed position, where in the stowed position the combiner is built to lock into place by engaging the locking means.
US10935786B2	Method and system for near-eye three dimensional display A 3D near eye display device is provided, the display device comprising a display screen for displaying more than one 2D images, at least one focusing element for collimating the images to sub-images, a spatial multiplexing unit capable of remapping the sub-images to different depths while forcing their centers to align to form remapped sub-images, and an eye piece. The device and methods allow for a high quality, compact 3D display system that can be wearable and overcomes the vergence-accommodation conflict that leads to visual discomfort and fatigue caused by traditional 3D near eye display devices.
US10935785B2	System and method for providing synthetic information on a see-through device A system for displaying a combined image data from several sources on a head-mounted see-through display (HMSTD) defining a line of sight (LOS) is provided herein. The system includes: a tracker configured to track the LOS of the HMSTD; a display controller configured to display a first display area including a synthetic image data conformal to a scene viewed via the HMSTD; a trigger mechanism configured to select a desired point within the scene which intersects the LOS of the HMSTD at a time of a triggering event, wherein the display controller is configured to receive the desired point and to display a second display area on the HMSTD, wherein the second display area is positioned relative to the desired point, and wherein said display controller is further configured to modify the synthetic image data in a portion of the first display area covered by the second display area.
US10935783B1	Optical system for capturing digital images in an aquaculture environment in situ An optical system for immersion underwater in an aquaculture environment. The optical system captures, in situ, digital images of underwater objects such as freely swimming fish such as, for example, sea salmon or sea trout, as the fish swim naturally in the aquaculture environment. The digital images produced by the optical system are of enough quality such that reliable detection of sea lice in different life stages by a human visual inspection of the digital image or by computer vision systems is enabled.
US10935781B2	Maximizing illumination fiber in an endoscope A stereoscopic endoscope includes an outer tube with an internal cavity, an insert, first and second image forming assemblies, first and second optical fiber bundles, and a first adapter. The insert is positioned within the outer tube and has a first side and a second side each including a concave outer surface. The insert holds the first and second image forming assemblies in a parallel relationship. Each optical fiber bundle substantially fills a non-circular void in the outer tube defined as a cross- sectional area between a respective side of the insert and a respective portion of an inner surface of the outer tube. The first adapter is configured to connect at least one of the first optical fiber bundle and the second optical fiber bundle to an illumination source.
US10935780B2	Integrated telescope for imaging applications Integrated telescopes are described that are stable and compact, and include optics pieces that are susceptible to stray light. One example telescope includes an optics piece formed of a transparent optical material and two surfaces with each surface including a reflector surface and a baffle. The baffles may be formed in a groove in one of the surfaces of the optics piece. The baffle may have an index of refraction that is approximately the same as an index of refraction of the optics piece. The baffle may include a blackened epoxy, a carbon black material, or a powdered black spinel. The integrated telescope may include a short-wave infrared image sensor fixed in position relative to the optics piece.
US10935777B2	Focusing of optical devices The present subject matter includes a method of focusing of an optical imaging apparatus. The method comprises causing illumination of an object using an illuminating beam to thereby cause generation of a scattered beam. A first set of luminous parameters are derived from a first detected position of a luminous representation formed by the scattered beam from the object. The illumination-beam is focused upon the object by triggering a movement of the object along an optical-axis in a first direction, the first direction being based a numerical-representation of the first set of luminous parameters. A second set of luminous parameters are derived from a second detected position of the luminous-representation of the object, the second detected position being related to the first detected position and the movement of the object. The focusing of the illumination beam is ceased based at-least on a numerical-representation of the second set of luminous parameters.
US10935775B2	Method and apparatus that enhance the viewing experience of digital displays for long sighted users An apparatus and method for increasing display visibility.
US10935773B2	Systems, devices, and methods for image processing to generate an image having predictive tagging A computing device, method, system, and instructions in a non-transitory computer-readable medium for performing image analysis on 3D microscopy images to predict localization and/or labeling of various structures or objects of interest, by predicting the location in such images at which a dye or other marker associated with such structures would appear. The computing device, method, and system receives sets of 3D images that include unlabeled images, such as transmitted light images or electron microscope images, and labeled images, such as images captured with fluorescence tagging. The computing device trains a statistical model to associate structures in the labeled images with the same structures in the unlabeled light images. The processor further applies the statistical model to a new unlabeled image to generate a predictive labeled image that predicts the location of a structure of interest in the new image.
US10935770B2	Optical photographing lens system, image capturing apparatus and electronic device The present disclosure provides an optical photographing lens system comprising four lens elements, the four lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof; a second lens element; a third lens element; and a fourth lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, the image-side surface of the fourth lens element having at least one convex critical point in an off-axial region thereof, both the object-side and the image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric.
US10935766B2	Optical photographing lens assembly, imaging apparatus and electronic device An optical photographing lens assembly includes seven lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element has negative refractive power. The sixth lens element has positive refractive power. At least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the seventh lens element includes at least one inflection point.
US10935762B2	Optical imaging lens An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element from an object side to an image side in order along an optical axis. The first lens element to the sixth lens element each include an object-side surface facing the object side and allowing imaging rays to pass through and an image-side surface facing the image side and allowing the imaging rays to pass through. A periphery region of the image-side surface of the second lens element is convex. An optical axis region of the image-side surface of the third lens element is concave. A periphery region of the object-side surface of the fifth lens element is concave. An optical axis region of the image-side surface of the sixth lens element is concave.
US10935758B2	Optical imaging system An optical imaging system includes a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens having a positive refractive power and having a convex image-side shape, sequentially arranged in a direction from an object side of the optical imaging system to an imaging plane of the optical imaging system.
US10935756B2	Optical lens assembly generating light beams with different angles, each beam having parallel chief ray and marginal ray An optical lens assembly is provided. A plurality of infrared light beams emitted from a structured light generating unit having a plurality of light sources pass through the optical lens assembly to generate a plurality of light beams. A direction facing the structured light generating unit is a light input side, and an opposite side is a light output side. The optical lens assembly includes a first lens element, a second lens element and a third lens element arranged along an optical axis in a sequence from the light output side to the light input side.
US10935755B2	Optical system and image pickup apparatus Provided is an optical system including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power configured to move during focusing; and a third lens unit. An interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed during focusing. The optical system includes an aperture stop. The first lens unit includes at least three positive lenses including a positive lens (G1P) arranged closest to the object side. A distance LD on an optical axis from a lens surface closest to the object side of the optical system to an image plane, a focal length “f” of the optical system, a refractive index ndG1P of a material of the positive lens (G1P), and an Abbe number νdG1P of the material of the positive lens (G1P) are each appropriately set.
US10935754B2	Solar trough frame, part and method A solar trough frame for holding solar mirrors includes a plurality of chords. The frame includes a plurality of extruded profiles, including chords, chord sleeves, struts, strut end pieces and mirror support pieces, each chord sleeve having at least one chord sleeve fin, each chord sleeve positioned about one of the chords. The frame includes a plurality of struts, at least one of the struts having a strut end piece having at least one strut fin that connects with a chord sleeve fin to connect the plurality of chords. The frame includes a platform supported by the chords and struts on which the solar mirrors are disposed. A chord sleeve for connecting a chord of a solar frame which supports solar mirrors to a strut end piece extending from a strut of the solar frame. A strut end piece for connecting the strut of a solar frame which supports solar mirrors to a chord sleeve of the solar frame. A method for linking a strut of a solar frame which supports solar mirrors to a chord of the solar frame. A method for supporting solar mirrors.
US10935752B2	Lens driving device, and camera module and optical device, which include same An embodiment comprises: a housing; a bobbin, disposed in the housing, for mounting a lens; a first coil arranged on an outer circumferential surface of the bobbin; a magnet arranged in the housing; a second coil arranged in the housing; and a magnetic member, which is attached to the second coil and increases the strength of an induction voltage induced to the second coil by means of an interaction according to a movement of the first coil.
US10935750B2	Voice coil motor A voice coil motor of reduced thickness includes a pedestal and a housing. The side walls of the pedestal are formed with a metal sheet. The housing includes top and side plates, the side plates perpendicularly extending from an edge of the top plate. The side plate is notched, the housing covers the pedestal, and the at least one notch exposes a portion of the metal sheet for purposes of attachment between fixation area the housing and the pedestal fixation area.
US10935746B2	Liquid-free conveyance of fiber optic cable A method of conveying a fiber optic cable through a conduit having an inside diameter involves connecting an interior pig assembly to a far end of the fiber optic cable, the interior pig assembly having an outside diameter smaller than the conduit inside diameter, and inserting the interior pig assembly into the conduit. To convey the fiber optic cable through the conduit, the interior pig assembly may be magnetic, and an exterior assembly including a magnet outside the conduit may be used to pull the interior pig assembly pig through the conduit. In addition or alternatively, a gas may be injected into the conduit to push the pig assembly through the conduit.
US10935745B1	Multi-carrier fiber distribution hub A fiber distribution hub includes a set of carrier-specific and modular service provider housings in a scalable, stacked arrangement. Each service provider housing is associated with a dedicated carrier. The multiple service provider housing modules are individually selectively-integrated with one another to create a vertically-stacked distribution housing of the hub. The distribution housing functions as a common network resource shared by all of the service provider housings. In this shared distribution configuration, all of the service provider housings have access to the same distribution network servicing a subscriber population.
US10935743B2	Vertical optical via and method of fabrication A method for providing a vertical optical via for a semiconductor substrate is described. The semiconductor substrate has a front surface and a back side. A hard mask having an aperture therein is formed on the front surface. Part of the semiconductor substrate exposed by the aperture is removed to form a via hole. The via hole has a width not exceeding one hundred micrometers and a bottom. Cladding layer(s) and core layer(s) are provided in the via hole. The core layer(s) have at least a second index of refraction greater than that of the core layer(s). A portion of the semiconductor substrate including the back side is removed to expose a bottom portion of the core layer(s) and a bottom surface of the semiconductor substrate. The vertical optical via includes the cladding and core layers. The vertical optical via extends from the front surface to the bottom surface.
US10935740B2	Optical plug-in connector module for a modular industrial plug-in connector Disclosed is a plug-in connector module having at least one optical waveguide and at least one optical sensor, preferably a photodiode, which is arranged near the optical waveguide. The optical sensor can reliably detect malfunction of the plug-in connector module in good time. Also disclosed is a method for detecting signal losses during signal transmission in an optical plug-in connector module, in which an optical signal is guided through at least one optical waveguide of the plug-in connector module, and the optical signal is scattered in the event of a structural defect of the optical waveguide or dirt on the front surface of the optical waveguide, the scattered light reaching a photodiode and a current or a voltage being produced thereby on the photodiode. If a threshold value of the current or the voltage on the photodiode is exceeded, an interference signal is generated by an electronic evaluation system.
US10935737B2	Optical waveguide and optical circuit substrate An optical waveguide includes a lower clad having an upper flat surface and a lower flat surface, a core positioned on the upper flat surface of the lower clad and includes a linear-shaped configuration and two end portions in the longitudinal direction of the linear-shaped configuration, and an upper clad positioned on the upper flat surface of the lower clad in the state of covering the upper flat surface and the core. Further, the core includes the convex configurations protruding in the planer direction from the linear-shaped configuration. The upper clad includes the opening for exposing the convex configurations in a plan view.
US10935735B2	Compact universal multi-terminus fiber optic connector hand tool along with related methods The present invention relates to using a connector hand tool to allow for the safe and efficient assembly and disassembly of shipboard fiber optic coupling systems. The exemplary connector hand tools couples with a plug shell ring or receptacle's plug shell ring receiving portion of the multi-terminus fiber optic connector such that the plug shell or receptacle may be tightened or loosed relative to a backshell adapter/coupling nut of a given connector or receptacle without damaging the connector, contaminating a fiber optic element held within an exemplary coupling system, or injuring a user. The hand tool employs a design allowing it to interface with connectors of different sizes and types.
US10935724B2	Polarization rotator with dimensioned rib waveguide and a polarization stabilizer A polarization rotator and a polarization stabilizer. The polarization rotator includes a rib waveguide. The rib waveguide including: a slab portion; and a ridge portion, which is disposed along a surface of the slab portion. The slab portion has a first slab region whose width, as measured in a direction perpendicular to a guiding direction of the waveguide, increases from a first slab width to a second slab width along a first length, and the ridge portion has a first ridge region whose width, as measured in the same direction as the slab widths, decreases from a first ridge width to a second ridge width along the same first length; such that the rotator is configured to rotate the polarization of light during its transmission through the rib waveguide.
US10935723B2	Surface gratings, photonics circuit, and method for wafer-level testing thereof A surface grating coupler for polarization splitting or diverse includes a planar layer and an array of scattering elements arranged in the planar layer at intersections of a first set of concentric elliptical curves crossing with a second set of concentric elliptical curves rotated proximately 90 or 180 degrees to form a two-dimensional (2D) grating. Additionally, the grating coupler includes a first waveguide in double-taper shape and a second waveguide in double-taper shape respectively for split or diverse an incident light into the 2D grating into two output light to two output ports with a same (either TE or TM) polarization mode or one output port with TE polarization mode and another output port with TM polarization mode. The polarization diverse grating coupler is required to test multiple polarization sensitive photonics components and can be used with other single polarization grating coupler via a fiber array to perform wafer-level testing.
US10935721B2	Integrated photodiode with unique waveguide drift layer A monolithic waveguide-integrated photodiode having a first electroconductive contact layer, a depleted waveguide core layer, an absorption layer, and a second electroconductive contact layer, the refractive index of the first electroconductive contact layer being less than the depleted waveguide core layer, the refractive index of the waveguide core layer being less than the absorption layer, and the refractive index of the second electroconductive contact layer being less than the absorption layer. The waveguide core layer is arranged between the first electroconductive contact layer and the absorption layer and also acts as a depleted carrier drift layer. This arrangement results in greater quantum efficiency and shorter photodiode lengths for a given bandwidth.
US10935720B2	Laser beam product parameter adjustments Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for modifying a beam parameter product of a laser beam. The modified beam parameter product may increase the number of tasks that may be performed using a given laser with its original beam parameter product. By increasing the beam parameter product of a laser, an initial low beam parameter product beam may be used to perform tasks requiring a higher beam parameter product. The beam may be modified to redirect portions of the beam at different angles via one or more non-imaging refracting optical components or by one or more Fiber Bragg gratings.
US10935717B2	Lighting device and liquid crystal display device A lighting device includes a light guide plate including a groove on one of a pair of plate surfaces thereof, the groove dividing the one of the pair of plate surfaces into areas each of which includes a portion of an outer peripheral surface, and a light source providing light such that the light enters each of the areas through the portion of the outer peripheral surface thereof. The light source is configured to control light that enters each of the areas such that luminance of light exiting the light guide plate through a light exit surface that is one of a pair plate surfaces thereof is made different in each of the areas.
US10935713B2	Unitary lightguide A unitary lightguide including a first lightguide section extending along a first direction and a second lightguide section extending along a second direction is described. The second lightguide section includes a plurality of light extractors for extracting light that would otherwise propagate within and along the second lightguide section. The unitary lightguide includes a boundary region disposed between and joining the first and second lightguide sections and including a plurality of spaced apart light redirecting features. Each light redirecting feature includes a first portion extending substantially parallel to the first direction, and a second portion extending from proximate the first end of the first portion toward the second lightguide section and making an angle with the first portion in a range from about 10 degrees to about 70 degrees.
US10935712B2	Display lighting device with light guide edgelit by LEDs coupled to triangular prism A device for backlighting a display in day- or night-vision mode includes a light guide with a cuboid shape and having an output face, and a lateral input prism having three rectangular lateral faces, at least one of the rectangular lateral faces being optically coupled to the lateral input face, and another of the rectangular lateral faces being semi-reflective; a first plurality of light emitting diodes arranged on a first carrier and configured to emit light in a first direction orthogonal to the first carrier towards one of the rectangular lateral faces; a second plurality of light emitting diodes arranged on a second carrier and configured to emit light in a second direction orthogonal to the second carrier towards another of the rectangular lateral faces; and an optical filter configured to modify the light emitted by one of the first and second plurality of light emitting diodes suitable for use in night-vision equipment.
US10935710B2	Optical film, polarizing plate, image display device, method for producing optical film, and method for producing polarizing plate The present invention relates to an optical film which ensures adhesiveness between a polymer film and a liquid crystal layer without deteriorating the alignment of a liquid crystal compound; a polarizing plate using the same; an image display device; a method for producing an optical film; and a method for producing a polarizing plate. The optical film includes a polymer film including a cycloolefin-based polymer, and a liquid crystal layer that is provided adjacent to the polymer film, in which the liquid crystal layer is formed by using a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal compound and a compound having a specific structure, where the liquid crystal composition contains the compound having a specific structure at a content of 0.5% to 7.0% by mass with respect to a mass of the liquid crystal compound, and a predetermined eccentricity value is 20% to 80%.
US10935709B2	Methods and devices for reducing actual and perceived glare Partially transparent devices and methods that reduce actual and/or perceived glare by incorporating absorbing materials are described. Actual and/or perceived glare can be reduced by multi-path absorption in the device. Perceived glare is further reduced by accounting for the psychophysics of human visual perception as a function of wavelength, orientation, and field illuminance.
US10935708B2	Retardation film and a display apparatus including the same A retardation film including a stacked structure including 2m tilt +C plates with m as a positive integer and a +A plate disposed over the 2m tilt +C plates. Each of the 2m tilt +C plates includes a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer includes a material satisfying nx≠ny
US10935701B2	Optical system and assembly method of the same An optical system is provided, including a liquid optical module and a first optical module. The liquid optical module includes a liquid lens driving mechanism and a liquid lens assembly. The liquid lens driving mechanism includes a fixed portion, a movable portion and a first driving assembly configured to drive the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The liquid lens assembly includes a liquid lens element, a fixing member and a deforming member. The first optical module is disposed in a receiving space of the fixed portion and includes: a first optical element and a first optical driving mechanism. When the movable portion is driven by the driving assembly to move relative to the fixed portion, the liquid lens element is deformed via the deforming member, causing the optical properties of the liquid lens element to change.
US10935691B2	CT inspection system and CT imaging method for obtaining detection data at a frequency that is N times a beam-emitting frequency of a radioactive source device The present disclosure relates to the technical field of CT detection, and in particular to a CT inspection system and a CT imaging method. The CT inspection system provided by the present disclosure comprises a radioactive source device, a detection device, a rotation monitoring device and an imaging device, wherein the detection device obtains detection data at a frequency that is N times a beam emitting frequency of the radioactive source device; the rotation monitoring device detects a rotation angle of the detection device and transmits a signal to the imaging device each time the detection device rotates by a preset angle; the imaging device determines a rotational position of the detection device each time the radioactive source device emits a beam according to the signal transmitted by the rotation monitoring device and the detection data of the detection device.
US10935689B2	Induction transceiver with electromagnetic sensitive gap An induction transceiver system includes a magnetic core and an insulator surrounding the magnetic core. The system further includes a cylindrically-shaped sleeve substantially surrounding the insulator. The sleeve includes a gap along the length of the sleeve. A potential difference is measured across the gap when receiving, and a current is applied across the gap when transmitting.
US10935682B2	Downhole seismic sensing synchronization systems and methods A seismic system that includes a seismic source configured to generate a first seismic signal and a second seismic signal in a formation adjacent the seismic source. A first downhole sensing device disposed in a first borehole configured to detect the first seismic signal and the second seismic signal in the formation; and a first surface acquisition system is in communication with the first downhole sensing device. The first surface acquisition system is configured to: determine a first reference transit time based at least in part on detection of the first seismic signal by the first downhole sensing device; a first subsequent transit time based at least in part on detection of the second seismic signal by the first downhole sensing device; andwhether a synchronization variation is expected to be present based at least in part on the first reference transit time and the first subsequent transit time.
US10935676B2	Physical structure for a tunable sensor system for particle detection A sensor for detecting particles is presented comprises a silicon wafer substrate and a charge detection layer mounted on the silicon wafer substrate, wherein the charge detection layer comprises a plurality of discrete pixel sensors. The sensor further comprises a converter material, wherein the converter material is operable to interact with a first type of particle to generate a reaction, wherein the reaction produces charged particles, wherein the charge detection layer is configured to detect the charged particles produced by the reaction. Further, the sensor comprises a substrate layer operable to filter a second type of particle, wherein the converter material is coated on an underside of the substrate layer such that the converter material faces the charge detection layer and an air gap is formed between the converter material and the charge detection layer.
US10935675B2	Radiation detector Disclosed is a semiconductor radiation detector for detecting X-ray and/or gamma-ray radiation. The radiation detector comprises: a converter element for converting incident X-ray and gamma-ray photons into electron-hole pairs; a plurality of first cathode electrodes extending along a first axis and being arranged on a first side of the converter element with a pitch (P) along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis; at least one anode electrode arranged on a second side of the converter element; a readout circuitry; and a processing unit connected to the readout circuitry. The Processing unit being configured to determine for each of the plurality of first cathode electrodes the electrical potential at a first and second point in time (t1) (t2) resulting in a plurality of determined potentials; and estimate the location of the event in the converter element along the second axis by processing the plurality of determined potentials.
US10935673B2	Radiation analysis system A radiation analysis system comprising a target comprising two marks which are separated from each other, the target being configured to undergo thermal expansion when illuminated with radiation; a position measurement system configured to measure a change in the separation of the marks; and a processor configured to determine a power of the radiation using the measured change in separation of the marks.
US10935670B2	Navigation system for GPS denied environments Methods and apparatus for providing self-contained guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) functions for a vehicle moving through an environment on or near the ground, in the air or in space without externally provided information are disclosed. More particularly, one embodiment of the present invention includes a Heading Sensor (36), an Absolute Location Sensor (38), a timer (40), a Range Doppler Processor (42), a Navigation Reference Sensor (44), an Area Range and a Velocity Sensor (46) which provide enhanced navigation information about a universal reference frame (22) and one or more targets (20).
US10935669B2	Using SDP relaxation for optimization of the satellites set chosen for positioning A method for determining attitude of an object having multiple GNSS antennas, the method including receiving GNSS signals from at least five satellites, wherein at least 2 of the five belong to a different satellite constellation than the other satellites; processing each of the GNSS signals to generate pseudorange code and carrier phase measurements; resolving carrier phase ambiguities for all the received GNSS signals; generating unbiased carrier phase measurements based on the resolving; determining the attitude, including heading, pitch, and roll angles ψ,θ,ϕ, respectively, by solving a quadratically constrained quadratic minimization problem through finding a minimum of a linear function subject to a linear matrix inequality constraint; and outputting the attitude.
US10935668B2	System and method for determining geolocation of a signal source An antenna receiver has antenna elements that are arranged in an array and spaced apart from each other at a distance greater than one-half wavelength of the highest operating frequency of a signal that is to be detected by the antenna receiver. The antenna receiver has geolocation logic that uses the inter-element phase difference measurements to obtain a location of the signal source. The change in the inter-element phase differences enables the elements to be spaced apart at great distances, which is beneficial for the physical construction of the platform, as the elements may be easily placed at convenient locations for conformal aerodynamic properties.
US10935666B2	Positioning system and method for positioning There is provided a positioning system that comprises a GPS device including a GPS receiver arranged to receive GPS satellite signals from a plurality of GPS satellites and an attenuation device arranged to attenuate GPS satellite signals such that when a GPS satellite is located in a first portion of sky the GPS satellite signals received by the GPS receiver from said GPS satellite are attenuated. A storage is provided to store satellite location information for the plurality of GPS satellites over time at a location of the GPS receiver, and a controller is provided to determine location information of the GPS device based on received GPS information from the GPS device, wherein the received GPS information comprises information on signal strengths of the GPS satellite signals received by the GPS receiver. If a signal strength for a first GPS satellite is lower than a threshold signal strength at a point in time then the controller is arranged to determine that the first GPS satellite is in the first portion of the sky and determine angle information of the GPS device relative to earth's normal and/or orientation information of the GPS device in a horizontal plane using the stored satellite location information.
US10935657B2	System and method for precision spin measurement using doppler radar A method for determining spin of a projectile is disclosed that includes generating an electromagnetic radar signal and transmitting the electromagnetic radar signal towards a projectile, receiving a reflected electromagnetic radar signal from the projectile and transforming the reflected electromagnetic radar signal from a time domain to a frequency domain to generate a frequency domain signal. A peak frequency component of the frequency domain signal is identified, shoulder frequencies adjacent to the peak frequency component in the frequency domain signal are identified, and an estimate of the spin of the projectile as a function of the shoulder frequencies is generated.
US10935656B2	Vehicle radar device and system thereof A vehicle radar device includes a radar control unit, a first antenna array, a second antenna array, a first circuit board and a second circuit board. The first antenna array is communicatively connected to the radar control unit. The first antenna array includes a plurality of first transmitting elements and a plurality of first receiving elements. The second antenna array is communicatively connected to the radar control unit. The second antenna array includes a plurality of second transmitting elements and a plurality of second receiving elements. The first antenna array is a plurality of circuit board antennas and disposed on the first circuit board. The second antenna array is a plurality of circuit board antennas and disposed on the second circuit board.
US10935645B2	Method and apparatus for low-power ultraportable ultrasound imaging Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for ultrasound imaging comprising Time Delay Spectrometry. A frequency swept signal can be transmitted through a medium, such as human tissue. The signal can be a low-voltage signal (e.g., 0 volts to 5 volts peak-to-peak) transmitted for long duration (e.g., 20 milliseconds) at various frequencies. As the signal propagates through the medium it can be reflected and delayed. A delay associated with the signal the can cause a change in the associated frequencies. The signal can be filtered to retain only frequencies in an audio frequency range. The signal can be beamformed and processed to produce an image.
US10935641B2	Phase noise shaping in a distance measurement system A distance measurement system includes a light transmitter to generate a modulated light signal, a light sensor to generate measurement signals from reflected light among four quad phase angles with respect to a phase of the generated light signal, and a controller. The controller selects a first set of quad phase angles, and generates first measurement signals at the quad phase angles of the first set. Based on the first measurement signals, the controller computes a first phase angle between the generated light signal and the reflected light signal, generates a second set of quad phase angles based on the first phase angle, and generates second measurement signals at the quad phase angles of the second set. Further, based on the second measurement signals, the controller computes a second phase angle between the generated light signal and the reflected light signal and calculates a distance using the second phase angle.
US10935638B2	Laser radar system The present invention provides a laser radar system, including: a transmission module, disposed in a transmission optical path, and adapted to transmit a laser beam; a rotating shaft; and a receiving module, disposed in a receiving optical path, and adapted to receive an echo signal of the laser beam, the receiving module including a receiving lens group and a detection assembly. The transmission module and the receiving module are respectively disposed on a first side and a second side of the rotating shaft and are adapted to rotate around the rotating shaft. The receiving optical path includes a first receiving optical path and a second receiving optical path. In the first receiving optical path, the echo signal of the laser beam is transmitted from the first side of the rotating shaft to the second side of the rotating shaft and is received by the receiving lens group. In the second receiving optical path, the echo signal of the laser beam is received by the detection assembly through convergent refraction and back-and-forth reflection of the receiving lens group. A portion, located on the first side of the rotating shaft, of the first receiving optical path is disposed around the transmission optical path.
US10935635B2	Object discrimination based on a swarm of agents A configuration system for identifying a target configuration of agents for acquiring data is provided. In some embodiments, the configuration system generates sample configurations, each of which has a location within the space for each agent. The configuration system selects as the target configuration a sample configuration that is suitable to acquire data. The configuration system selects the target configuration by, for at least one or more sample configurations, directing that the agents assume the sample configuration and then acquire data when in the sample configuration. The configuration system then stores, for each sample configuration, an indication of suitability for acquiring data based on the sample configuration. The configuration system selects a sample configuration that is deemed to be suitable as the target configuration.
US10935633B2	Programmable code generation for radar sensing systems A radar sensing system for a vehicle has multiple transmitters and receivers on a vehicle. The transmitters are configured to transmit radio signals which are reflected off of objects in the environment. There are one or more receivers that receive the reflected radio signals. Each receiver has an antenna, a radio frequency front end, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a digital signal processor. The transmitted signals are based on spreading codes generated by a programmable code generation unit. The receiver also makes use of the spreading codes generated by the programmable code generation unit. The programmable code generation unit is configured to selectively generate particular spreading codes that have desired properties.
US10935630B2	Method for three-dimensional tracking of sinusoidal acoustic source using a rotating microphone A method for determining the location of a first source. A first member is provided. A first tip microphone is attached to a first end of the first member. A first static microphone is provided. An initial frequency is recorded at the static microphone. The first member is rotated at an angular velocity. A tangential distance is calculated from the first tip microphone to the source. A source angle is calculated from the first member to the source. A height of the source is calculated.
US10935628B2	Control device for vehicle A method for controlling a vehicle having a sensor and a display is provided. The method includes the steps of: generating position information of the vehicle on the basis of information received from the sensor; when an external terminal is located within a predetermined range on the basis of the vehicle, receiving position information of the external terminal from the external terminal; setting a current position of the vehicle on the basis of the position information of the vehicle and the position information of the external terminal; and executing one or more functions on the basis of the set current position.
US10935623B2	Correlation sidelobe proximity screening A process of screening direction finding solutions to reduce the number of valid direction finding solution rejections while maintaining an acceptable level of wild bearings being reported utilizing the proximity of the correlation values of the highest correlation and second highest correlation given a correlation pattern of a detected signal of unknown origin.
US10935620B2	On-chip resonance detection and transfer function mapping of resistive-inductive-capacitive sensors A system may include a resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor, a driver configured to drive the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor with a driving signal at a driving frequency, and a measurement circuit communicatively coupled to the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and configured to, during a calibration phase of the measurement circuit, measure phase and amplitude information associated with the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and based on the phase and amplitude information, determine at least one of a resonant frequency of the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and a transfer function of the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor.
US10935615B2	Magnetic resonance imaging with spatial encoding by fast moving or vibrating magnetic field generator components A magnet assembly for magnetic resonance imaging is used to generate the basic magnetic field with a strength needed to produce the steady state or equilibrium position of nuclei or nuclear spins in magnetic resonance imaging. This magnet, or a part thereof, is vibrated or tilted or otherwise periodically moved so as to change its position and thereby generate a time-varying gradient field, which is used to enter the acquired magnetic resonance signals as raw data into k-space.
US10935606B2	Excess/deficiency determination device, method for controlling same, control program, and recording medium A supply amount change prediction component takes into account a decrease in full-charge capacity due to battery deterioration to predict a future amount of power supplied by a plurality of batteries, and a surplus calculator calculates the surplus of the power supply amount with respect to the power demand.
US10935605B2	Battery array activating assembly and method An exemplary array activating assembly includes, among other things a disconnect key moveable back and forth between an engaged and a disengaged position relative to a battery array. The disconnect key completes an electrical conductive path of the battery array when in the engaged position. The electrical conductive path is open when the disconnect key is in the disengaged position. An exemplary array activating method includes moving a disconnect key relative to a battery array from a disengaged to an engaged position. The disconnect key completes an electrical conductive path of the battery array when in the engaged position. The disconnect key does not complete the electrical conductive path when in the disengaged position.
US10935601B2	First, second, and third bus leads, routing and control circuitry A falling edge controller includes a controller having an inverted TCK (Test Clock) input, a TMS (Test Mode Select) input, a shift register control output, an update register control output, and a shift output; a shift register having a TDI (Test Data In) input, a shift register control input coupled to the shift register control output, address inputs, a select input, address and select outputs, and a TDO (Test Data Out) output; an update register having address and select inputs coupled to the address and select outputs, an update register control input coupled to the update register control output, address outputs coupled to the address inputs, and a select output coupled to the select input; and address circuitry having address inputs coupled to the address outputs, and having an enable output.
US10935600B2	Dynamic security protection in configurable analog signal chains A system and method for dynamically protecting against security vulnerabilities in a reconfigurable signal chain. The system includes a signal chain formed from at least a first component connected with a second component. The first component has a set of source outputs and a first authentication block, and the second signal chain component has a set of destination inputs and a second authentication block. The system also includes a signal chain configurator that populates the first authentication block with at least one validated endpoint from the set of destination inputs. A signal chain integrity block, which is communicatively coupled with the first authentication block and the second authentication block, identifies a source-destination pair from one or more endpoint pairs formed from the at least one validated endpoint and the set of source outputs. The signal chain integrity block propagates the source-destination pair to the first authentication block and the second authentication block. The second authentication block authenticates any received input using the source-destination pair.
US10935597B2	Semiconductor device including test circuit A semiconductor device including a test circuit is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a test pad coupled to a probe of a test device during a wafer test; a normal pad configured to receive a power or a signal during a normal mode; and a test circuit configured to perform a predetermined test operation based on a test signal received through the test pad. The test circuit is disposed below the normal pad.
US10935590B2	Electrically-verifiable fuses and method of fuse verification A semiconductor wafer includes a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of die areas separated from one another by dicing areas. Each die area includes one or more metal layers above the semiconductor substrate and a plurality of fuse structures formed in at least one of the one or more metal layers. Each fuse structure includes a fuse area between first and second fuse heads. Each die area also includes a first pair of contacts connected to different areas of the first fuse head of at least some of the fuse structures. The wafer can be singulated along the dicing areas into individual dies. A corresponding method of fuse verification is also provided.
US10935586B2	Measuring device and measuring method with time calculation A measuring device is provided. The measuring device comprises a user input, a storage, and a processor. In this context, the user input is configured to receive at least one measurement sequence from a user, whereas the storage is configured to store at least one measurement parameter and at least one duration of time required by the measuring device to achieve the at least one measurement parameter. In addition to this, the processor is configured to calculate the total time needed for the at least one measurement sequence on the basis of the at least one duration of time.
US10935582B2	Determining the equivalent series resistance of a power converter The invention relates to a device, method, computer program and computer program product for determining the equivalent series resistance of a power converter having power train parameters comprising a capacitance, an inductance and the equivalent series resistance, the device comprising a resistance determining unit that obtains a ripple voltage embedded in an output voltage of the power converter, determines a ripple current based on the output voltage, the inductance and operational switching data of the power converter, and estimates the equivalent series resistance of the power converter based on the ripple voltage, ripple current and the operational switching data.
US10935578B1	Electronic apparatus, voltage detector and voltage detection method thereof An electronic apparatus, a voltage detector, and a voltage detection method thereof are provided. The voltage detector includes a rectifying and filtering circuit, a comparison circuit, and a detection signal generator. The rectifying and filtering circuit receives an alternating current input voltage and performs a rectifying and filtering operation on the alternating current input voltage to generate a processed voltage. The comparison circuit compares the processed voltage with a reference voltage to generate a comparison signal. The detection signal generator has a first side and a second side. The first side receives the comparison signal and generates an induction signal according to the comparison signal. The second side receives the indication signal to generate a detection signal. The first side and the second side are isolated.
US10935575B2	Submersible split core current sensor and housing A submersible current sensor for sensing a current in a submerged conductor includes: a split core current transformer constructed to generate an output representative of the current carried by the conductor, the split core having a first core member, a first winding disposed about at least a portion of the first core member; a second core member; and a second winding disposed about at least a portion of the second core member; and a housing, the housing including: a first housing member constructed to house the first core member and the first winding; and a second housing member constructed to house the second core member and the second winding.
US10935572B2	Contact and test socket device for testing semiconductor device The present invention relates to a contact and a socket device for testing a semiconductor device. The contact of the present invention is a spring contact which is integrally formed by blanking and bending a metal plate member and includes an elastic portion made of various strips of certain pattern and a tip provided at both ends of the elastic portion. Preferably, an inner volume of the contact is filled with a filler having conductivity and elasticity, whereby durability and electrical characteristics are excellent. Further, the test socket according to the present invention is a rubber type employing the above-mentioned contact and has an advantage that it is suitable for testing a fine pitch device.
US10935566B2	Acceleration sensor Provided is an acceleration sensor having a large mass in a movable portion, and realizing high impact resistance. An acceleration sensor element 10a includes an upper substrate 20, a lower substrate 21 spaced apart from the upper substrate 20, and an intermediate substrate 19 provided between the upper substrate 20 and the lower substrate 21. Each of a first movable portion 16, a second movable portion 17, a frame portion 12, a fixed portion 13, and a spring portion 14 constituting the intermediate substrate 19 is configured with two layers of an upper layer and a lower layer, and a stopper portion 18 is provided at one end of the frame portion 12. A distance 31 between an end portion of the first movable portion 16 or the second movable portion 17 and an end portion of the stopper portion 18 in the upper layer and a distance 32 between an end portion of the first movable portion 16 or the second movable portion 17 and an end portion of the stopper portion 18 in the lower layer are different from each other.
US10935564B2	Systems and methods for determining wind velocity In one embodiment, a system includes a vehicle, one or more probes coupled to the vehicle, and a controller. The vehicle is operable to traverse a distance. The one or more probes are operable to measure wind pressure and generate one or more wind pressure measurements. The controller is operable to receive the one or more wind pressure measurements from the one or more probes, determine a wind angle relative to the vehicle using the one or more wind pressure measurements, and determine a wind speed relative to the vehicle using the one or more wind pressure measurements and the wind angle.
US10935563B2	Vascular sap flow speed sensor and method of manufacturing vascular sap flow speed sensor To provide a vascular sap flow speed sensor having a size allowing measurement of the flow speed of vascular sap in a part of a plant such as a stem and capable of being manufactured at low cost. A vascular sap flow speed sensor 1 includes a heater sensor HS and a reference sensor RS. The heater sensor HS includes: a first probe unit 10a including a heat transfer plate 11 and a probe 12; a heater 20; a first temperature sensor 30a; and a first housing 40a in which the heat transfer plate 11, the heater 20, and the first temperature sensor 30a are housed. The reference sensor RS includes: a second probe unit 10b including a heat transfer plate 11 and a probe 12; a second temperature sensor 30b; and a second housing 40b in which the heat transfer plate 11 and the second temperature sensor 30b are housed. Each of the first probe unit 10a and the second probe unit 10b is made of a metallic material.
US10935562B2	Method and device for measuring flight parameters of an unmanned aerial vehicle A method and a device for measuring flight parameters of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are provided, the method includes, capturing images and collecting an angular velocity of the UAC, extracting corner points from a current frame image, estimating an estimated area according to the angular velocity of the UAV, searching for a corresponding corner point in the estimated area, obtaining a speed of each of the corner points, obtaining a pixel velocity, and obtaining an actual speed of the UAV based on the pixel velocity and a flight altitude of the UAV.
US10935561B2	Integrated diagnostic instrument A pathogen detection device is provided. The pathogen detection device may include a pathogen detector circuit configured to detect a target analyte in a patient sample, determine the presence of a pathogen from the target analyte, and generate a detection result including the identity of the pathogen and resistance genes (if any); and a decision support generator circuit configured to generate decision support information for the pathogen by application of user configurable rules to the detection result, wherein each of the configurable rules include a logic expression that indicates the corresponding decision support information of the rule to be included in the detection report.
US10935554B2	Diagnostic tests and methods for assessing safety, efficacy or outcome of allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) The present invention provides in vitro and in vivo diagnostic tests and methods for determining the safety, efficacy, or outcome of allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) in a patient. The present invention also provides for the measurement of allergen specific IgG and IgE in a patient tissue sample, or extract thereof, or in a biological fluid or blood sample, and determining whether the allergen-specific immunoglobulins contained in the patient sample(s), upon injection into an allergen-sensitized animal, will protect the animal following challenge with the allergen. The invention also provides methods for determining whether a patient suffering from an allergy is responsive to therapy with one or more therapeutic antibodies specific for the allergen.
US10935551B2	Ultra-high sensitivity dual-gated biosensor based on MOS transistor An ultra-high sensitivity dual-gated biosensor based on an MOS transistor, which is applicable to detection of a series of early tumors. The sensor is prepared and processed by using SOI wafers, and a unique dual-gated structure is realized by ion implantation technique. The sensor is prepared by an ultraviolet lithography combined with an NLD etching method, realizing trace, instant and marker-free detection of tumor markers. The method detects a change in capacitance in the channel during binding of antigen antibodies. The detection method involved in the invention is more stable and strong in anti-interference, can meet the demands in the aspect of detection range and sensitivity, and especially has extremely outstanding detection sensitivity, and can detect a sample with a lowest concentration in the range of 1 fg/ml˜1 ng/ml.
US10935549B2	Biomarkers of latent tuberculosis infection The present invention provides biomarkers, methods and kits for diagnosing latent tuberculosis (TB) in a subject exposed to TB, and methods and kits for monitoring the effectiveness of treatment for latent TB.
US10935548B2	Methods for diagnosis and prognosis of renal injury and renal failure using insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7 and metalloproteinase inhibitor 2 The present invention relates to methods and compositions for monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis, and determination of treatment regimens in sepsis patients. In particular, the invention relates to using assays that detect one or more biomarkers selected from the group consisting of Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7, Beta-2-glycoprotein 1, Metalloproteinase inhibitor 2, Alpha-1 Antitrypsin, Leukocyte elastase, Serum Amyloid P Component, C-X-C motif chemokine 6, Immunoglobulin A, Immunoglobulin G subclass I, C-C motif chemokine 24, Neutrophil collagenase, Cathepsin D, C-X-C motif chemokine 13, Involucrin, Interleukin-6 receptor subunit beta, Hepatocyte Growth Factor, CXCL-1, -2, -3, Immunoglobulin G subclass II, Metalloproteinase inhibitor 4, C-C motif chemokine 18, Matrilysin, C-X-C motif chemokine 11, and Antileukoproteinase as diagnostic and prognostic biomarker assays of renal injury in the sepsis patient.
US10935546B2	Fluorescent AMP-kinase biosensors The present invention deals with heterotrimeric AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) comprising a fluorophore pair wherein the conformational change can be measured by FRET. It represents an advanced tool to screen and identify AMPK interactors in vitro and in cells in vivo. Such invention can also be considered as a reporter of the cellular energy status as it allows the spatiotemporal monitoring, in situ, of fluctuations in the ratio of AMP and ADP versus ATP.
US10935542B2	Method for identification and culture of multipotent mesenchymal stem cells with high proliferation potential Variations in the differentiation and lineage potential of stem cells, including mesenchymal stem cells, currently limit their therapeutic use. The ability to identify, isolate, and specifically amplify stem cell populations with desired differentiation potential would contribute the use of stem cells in research and therapy. The present invention discloses a method of assessing differentiation potential of stem cells by measuring the differential expression of antigens CD 146 and NG2 on the stem cells. The correlation between CD 146 and NG2 expression and differentiation and trilineage potential is explored. The invention also discloses methods to specifically amplify or enrich stem cells with desired differentiation potential, monitor the differentiation potential of a heterogeneous stem cell population, quantify the heterogeneity in differentiation potential of a stem cell culture, and remove stem cells with specific differentiation potentials from a heterogeneous cell culture.
US10935540B2	GDF-15 as a haematological toxicity biomarker The present disclosure relates to use of GDF-15 as a safety biomarker for determining a toxicological effect of a Mdm2 inhibitor; an ex vivo method for determining a toxicological effect of a Mdm2 inhibitor in a subject, in particular for determining a likelihood of developing thrombocytopenia in a subject in response to administration of a dose of a Mdm2 inhibitor; methods of using a Mdm2 inhibitor in the treatment of cancer in a subject; a kit for use in predicting the likelihood that a patient having cancer will develop thrombocytopenia in response to a treatment with a dose of a Mdm2 inhibitor; a kit for use in treating a patient having cancer and related disclosure embodiments.
US10935533B2	Method of assembling a fugitive gas sensor enclosure A gas sensor enclosure is provided. The gas sensor enclosure includes at least two coaxial shells, a gas sensor, a gas permeable membrane that exposes a portion of the gas sensor to gas exchange through one of the at least two coaxial shells and a screen. The screen encloses the at least two coaxial shells, the gas sensor and the gas permeable membrane.
US10935532B2	Actuation-and-detecting module An actuation-and-detecting module is disclosed and includes a main body, a particle detecting base, plural actuators and sensors. The main body has a first compartment divided into a first chamber and a second chamber, a second compartment having a third chamber and a third compartment divided into a fourth chamber and a fifth chamber by a carrying partition. The particle detecting base is disposed between the fourth chamber and the carrying partition. The first actuator is disposed between the second chamber and a first partition. The second actuator is disposed within a receiving slot of the particle detecting base. The first sensor is disposed within the first chamber. The second sensor is disposed within the third chamber for detecting the air in the third chamber. The third sensor is disposed within a detecting channel of the particle detecting base for detecting the air in the detecting channel.
US10935528B2	Analysis device The detection of minute amounts of components that have been undetectable due to an influence of a mobile phase or reagents or the like added to the mobile phase is realized in LC-MS. At the outset, blank measurement is executed, and an m/z value MBG of a background signal derived from a mobile phase or the like is extracted on a mass spectrum obtained by the blank measurement (S2-S4). An analysis method is then created that executes scanning measurement in a plurality of divided m/z ranges in which the m/z value MBG of the background signal has been excluded from a predetermined m/z range. An LC/MS analysis of the target sample is executed according to the analysis method (S5-S6). When a total ion chromatogram (TIC) is created from data obtained by the LC/MS analysis, influence of the background signal hardly appears in the TIC, and the base line is lowered.
US10935519B2	Apparatus and method for separating molecules Apparatuses and methods for whole column imaging detection (WCID) capillary isoelectric focusing (CIEF). The apparatus includes a separation capillary having a separation inner diameter and a separation outer diameter; a base, wherein the separation capillary is anchored to the base; an inlet transfer capillary having an inlet inner diameter and an inlet outer diameter; and an outlet transfer capillary having an outlet inner diameter and an outlet outer diameter. The inlet transfer capillary, the separation capillary, and outlet transfer capillary are configured to be in fluidic communication with each other. The separation inner diameter exceeds the outlet inner diameter.
US10935518B2	Devices for and methods of processing biological samples The present disclosure provides devices, systems and methods for automated processing of biological samples. This disclosure provides a gel-frame cassette for an automated bioprocessing device, comprising: a gel-frame comprising: a front face, a back face, a frame comprising: two vertical side bars, each comprising a gel-frame holding hole, a top bar connecting the two vertical side bars, a bottom bar connecting the two vertical side bars and a hollow chamber enclosed by the two vertical side bars, the top bar, and the bottom bar; a front panel in contact with the front face of the gel-frame, the front panel comprising an expanded upper portion, and a back panel in contact with the back face of the gel-frame, the back panel comprising a horizontal opening at the bottom of the back panel. This disclosure also provides an automated bioprocessing machine that processes the gel-frame cassette or the gel-frame.
US10935517B2	Gas sensor element and gas sensor unit A gas sensor element of the present disclosure includes a measurement gas chamber, a solid electrolyte body, and a sensor electrode. The sensor electrode has a noble metal region which contains at least Rh and Pt, an electrolyte region which is formed by a solid electrolyte, and a mixed region in which the noble metal and the solid electrolyte are mixed. With respect to a correlation curve which represents a correlation between a mass percentage concentration c of Rh and a thickness d of the mixed region, when a reaction resistance to a measured gas in the sensor electrode is 40 kΩ, the concentration c of Rh and the thickness d are set so that at coordinates (c, d), the concentration c has a positive coordinate point and the thickness d has a positive coordinate point.
US10935512B2	Encoding state change of nanopore to reduce data size A system includes a circuit configured to detect a voltage corresponding to an electrical measurement of a nanopore. The system also includes a component configured to compare the voltage to another voltage. Based at least in part on the comparison, a one bit indicator is determined. The one bit indicator indicates whether the voltage indicates a change in a state of the nanopore. In the event it is determined that the voltage indicates the change in the state of the nanopore, a multiple bit signal is provided for output.
US10935511B2	Ameliorated crosstalk immunoassay test device for determining a concentration of an analyte The present invention relates to systems that utilize a combination of immunoassay and magnetic immunoassay techniques to detect an analyte within an extended range of specified concentrations. In particular, a device includes a first electrochemical sensor positioned within a conduit adjacent to a second electrochemical sensor and spaced apart from one another at a predetermined distance. The first electrochemical sensor includes an immobilized layer of antibodies. The second electrochemical sensor includes a magnetic field disposed locally around the second electrochemical sensor, and the magnetic field is configured to attract magnetic beads onto a surface of the second electrochemical sensor. The device further includes a scavenging electrode positioned between the first electrochemical sensor and the second electrochemical sensor. The scavenging electrode is configured to prevent crosstalk between the first electrochemical immunosensor and the second electrical immunosensor.
US10935507B2	Thermal conductivity detector for gas mixtures having at least three components A gas analyzer for a gas mixture with at least three components includes a channel guiding the gas mixture, a thermoelement probe with a measuring point in the interior of the channel and a cold junction in thermal contact with the channel wall, a control device for pulsed activation of the thermoelement probe, a measuring device for measuring voltage at the cold junction in pauses between current pulses, and an evaluation device for determining temperature differences and calculating the ratio of the components of the gas mixture from temperature difference values determined at different time instant pauses, wherein the control device generates current pulses with at least two different energy contents and the temperature difference values at the first time instant in the pause after a current pulse with a higher energy content and used for the calculation is higher than with a current pulse with a lower energy content.
US10935506B2	Method and system for determining molecular structure Molecular structure may be determined based on structure factors solved from the diffraction pattern and the electron microscopy image of the sample. In particular, the amplitudes of the structure factors may be determined based on intensities of diffraction peaks in the multiple diffraction patterns. The phases of the structure factors may be determined based on electron microscopy images and the intensities of the diffraction peaks.
US10935502B2	Directed energy and sensing for detection of inconsistencies in laminates A method for detecting inconsistencies in an assembly using an energy source and an imaging device is disclosed. An energy source directs energy through first scanning mirrors toward a surface of the laminated composite assembly raising an energy level of an inspection area. An imaging device directs a view through second scanning mirrors toward the inspection area and the imaging device detects a rate of change in energy at the surface of the laminated composite. Movement of the first scanning mirrors is synchronized with movement of the second scanning mirrors for directing a view of the imaging device to the inspection area after the energy level of the area of the surface has been raised. The imaging device detects dissipation of energy at the area of the surface being inspected and identifies inconsistencies associated defects in the assembly.
US10935501B2	Sub-resolution defect detection An optical metrology device, such as an interferometer, detects sub-resolution defects on a sample, i.e., defects that are smaller than a pixel in the detector array of the interferometer. The optical metrology device obtains optical metrology data at each pixel in at least one detector array and determines parameter values of a signal model for a pixel of interest using the optical metrology data received by a plurality of pixels neighboring a pixel of interest. A residual for the pixel of interest is determined using the optical metrology data received by the pixel of interest and determined parameter values for the signal model for the pixel of interest. A defect, which may be smaller than the pixel of interest can then be detected based on the residual for the pixel of interest.
US10935498B1	Fluorescent probe for detecting nitroreductase and preparation method and use thereof in enzymatic reaction The present invention relates to a fluorescent probe for detecting nitroreductase and a preparation method and use thereof in enzymatic reactions, belonging to the field of industrial analysis and detection. The fluorescent probe is 3-(4-(2-(4′-(diphenylamino)-3-((4-nitrobenzyl)oxy)-[1, 1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)vinyl)quinolin-1-ium-1-yl)propane-1-sulfonate. The fluorescent probe of the present invention, with the introduction of hydrophilic groups, sulfonate and quinolinium, the probe's hydrophilicity is enhanced, under the enzymatic catalysis of nitroreductase (NTR), 1,6-rearrangement and elimination reaction occurs, and hydroxyl group is generated. Detection and analysis of the NTR in the industrial enzymatic reactions can be realized due to the change of fluorescence which is induced by the intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) effect. This method has such advantages as easy preparation, high yield and being suitable for detecting high concentration of enzyme in the enzymatic reactions, and it shows an extensive application prospect in the field of enzyme-detection in the industrial enzymatic reaction systems.
US10935496B2	Colloidal metasurface sensors and enhanced Raman spectroscopy methods A chemical analyte sensor. The sensor has a monolayer of shaped nanostructures, a metal or metallized surface, and analyte confined between the monolayer of shaped nanostructures and the metal or metallized surface. The analyte is confined in the highly absorbing optical cavity of the metasurface defined at the metal or metallized surface.
US10935486B2	Environmental test chamber An environmental test chamber, and method of providing an environmental test chamber, includes combining an equipment module made up of an equipment housing and air treatment equipment in the equipment housing with a selected one or more of a plurality of chamber modules connected with the equipment module to provide the environmental test chamber. The equipment housing includes an opening defining an airflow passage and an airflow path extending to the airflow passage. The air treatment equipment includes air moving equipment flowing air along the airflow path through the airflow passage and air-conditioning equipment in the flow path. The air treatment equipment includes one or more of (i) heating equipment for selectively heating the flowing air, (ii) cooling equipment for selectively cooling the flowing air, (iii) humidification equipment for selectively humidifying the flowing air, and/or (iv) dehumidification equipment for selectively dehumidifying the flowing air. A plurality of chamber modules of different sizes from each other are provided. Each of the chamber modules has a chamber housing with an opening defining an airflow passage in the chamber housing that aligns with the airflow opening in the equipment module and an access opening that is selectively opened for accessing an interior of the chamber module. In this manner, the one or ones of the chamber modules that is connected with the equipment module determines a configuration of the environmental test chamber.
US10935485B2	Fluorescence imaging flow cytometry with enhanced image resolution In one aspect, a system for performing flow cytometry is disclosed, which comprises a laser for generating laser radiation for illuminating a sample, at least one detector for detecting at least a portion of a radiation emanating from the sample in response to said illumination so as to generate a temporal signal corresponding to said detected radiation, and an analysis module for receiving said temporal signal and performing a statistical analysis of said signal based on a forward model to reconstruct an image of said sample.
US10935484B2	Automated assessment of sperm samples A method for testing includes capturing a sequence of video images of a sample comprising semen. The sequence of video images is analyzed by a processor so as to compute and output a motile sperm concentration of the sample.
US10935483B2	Optical particle sensor device and method for operating an optical particle sensor device An optical particle sensor device comprises an optical emitter device for emitting a multitude of measurement laser beams; a detector device for detecting the measurement laser beams scattered on particles in the vicinity of the optical particle sensor device and for generating a single measuring signal assigned to this for each measurement laser beam; and an evaluation device for determining at least one estimated particle value for the number of particles per volume using at least one single measurement signal, wherein the evaluation device determines at least two estimated particle values for the number of particles per volume, which are based on at least partially different single measurement signals and/or a different number of single measurement signals, and on the basis of at least part of the estimated particle values, determines at least one output value for the particle load.
US10935481B2	Method and system for estimating breakdown pressure using rock weakness index A method for estimating breakdown pressure values along a wellbore starts from analyzing cuttings from locations along the wellbore to determine rock properties, including rock texture information associated with the locations. The anisotropic elastic and mechanical properties at the locations are calculated based on the rock properties and using at least one rock physics model. Rock weakness index values corresponding to the locations are then calculated based on the anisotropic elastic and mechanical properties and the rock texture information. The breakdown pressure values at the locations are estimated from the rock weakness index values.
US10935479B2	Method for determining the average radius of gyration of particles with a size of less than or equal to 1 micron in a suspension, and device for carrying out the method The invention relates to a method for determining the average radius of gyration (rg) of particles with a size of ≤1 μm in a suspension, and to a device for carrying out the method according to the invention. The method is based on the scattering of linearly polarised electromagnetic radiation on nanoparticles, which, suspended in a solution, are moved through a through-flow cell. The irradiation is carried out perpendicular to the movement direction, wherein the scattering intensity is measured via at least four detectors that are arranged in a defined plane at defined angles. Alternatively, at least one mirror can be used in the position of at least one of the detectors, which deflects the radiation to at least one detector. Based on the scattering intensities, both the average radius of gyration (rg) of the particles as well as the concentration thereof in the suspension can be determined.
US10935477B2	Method and apparatus for automatic detection of entrapped gas bubble location and repairing the same in dispensed adhesives, sealants, and mastics A method of detecting a defect in an applied volume of material includes detecting a pressure discontinuity during dispensing the volume of material along a predetermined path on a substrate. The pressure discontinuity is indicative of the defect in the applied volume of material. The location of the defect along the predetermined path is function of a start time of the pressure discontinuity and the size of the defect is a function of a time duration of the pressure discontinuity. The method can further include determining whether or not to repair the defect as a function of the location and the size of the defect in the applied volume of material. The method includes repairing the defect by re-directing the material applicator to the location of the defect and dispensing additional material at the location of the defect.
US10935472B2	Pumped cooling system in gas detector Embodiments relate to systems and methods for dissipating heat within a gas detector. A gas detector may comprise an airflow generator configured to generate a sample gas flow through the gas detector; a sample gas flow line configured to direct the sample gas flow within a housing of the gas detector from an inlet of the gas detector toward an outlet of the gas detector; a sensor, in fluid communication with the airflow generator via the sample gas flow line, configured to detect one or more potentially hazardous gases within the sample gas flow; and a heat sink, in fluid communication with the airflow generator and positioned after the sensor along the sample gas flow line, configured to transfer heat from an interior of the housing to the sample gas flow, wherein the sample gas flow is directed out of the housing via the outlet of the gas detector.
US10935468B2	Compact testing module, automated system and approach for hydraulic damper valve experiments A compact testing module (1) for use in dynamic characteristics experiments of hydraulic damper valve under extreme high or low temperature conditions, an automated system and approach based on the compact testing module (1). The compact testing module (1) comprises an outer cylinder assembly (2), a guide seat assembly (3), a foam/air separator for guide seat (4), an inner cylinder (5), a piston-and-rod assembly (6), fluids (7), a foot valve assembly (8), a washer for inner cylinder (9), a washer for foot valve assembly (10), a fluid-guiding structure (11), a magnet (12), a fluid-returning assembly (13), a framework oil seal (14), a screw cover (15) and a dust wiper (16). Based on the integrated design principle, the compact testing module (1) allows the fluids (7), the pressure fluid supplier, the hydraulic damper valve being tested (32), the pressure sensors be all integrated in one component.
US10935465B1	Method and apparatus for vehicle inspection and safety system calibration using projected images A vehicle service system and method to determine spatial parameters of a vehicle, employing a display system under processor control, to display or project visible indicia onto surfaces in proximity to a vehicle undergoing a safety system service or inspection identifying one or more locations, relative to the determined vehicle centerline or thrust line, at which a calibration fixture, optical target, or simulated test drive imagery is visible for observation by a sensor onboard the vehicle.
US10935464B2	Method for determining support points of a test plan The invention relates to a method (1) for determining supporting points of a test plan (9) for measuring pre-defined test variables of a test machine on the basis of previously measured operating values (3) of operating variables of at least one field machine during the normal use thereof. In an aggregation step (2), the detected operating values (3) are allocated to categories (4) with regard to at least one selected operating variable, according to a predefined classification rule. Default variables are selected in a default step (5) before or after the aggregation step (2). The default variables form at least one subset of the operating variables. The operating category frequency (7) for each category (4) is determined in a determination step (6) following the aggregation step (2). In a subsequent determination step (8), the supporting points of the test plan (9) are determined on the basis of the operating category frequency (7). The supporting points are determined in the determination step (8) such that a deviation of a relative test category frequency, on the basis of the test plan (9), of determined default values of the default variables, associated with categories (4) according to the classification rules, from a relative operating category frequency of the operating values (3) classed according to the classification rules, of the operating variables corresponding to the default variables, is minimised according to a predefined optimisation criterion.
US10935463B2	Method for diagnosing deviation of air-fuel ratio between cylinders A method for diagnosing deviation of an air-fuel ratio between cylinders using an oxygen sensor roughness, the method may include a diagnosis condition determination step, an oxygen sensor roughness determination activation step, an oxygen sensor roughness level determination step, an air-fuel ratio deviation detection step, and a failure reporting step.
US10935461B2	Method for measuring automobile horsepower using an accelerometer The present invention provides a more accurate method for measuring the automobile horsepower, specifically the internal combustion engine, ICE horsepower at the crankshaft, or the electric motor(s') horsepower, or the combined ICE and electric motor(s') horsepower. It applies to automobiles that do not incorporate, or can disengage, regenerative braking, RGB.In contrast to the in-house, chassis dynamometers that measure the performance of the automobile under conditions that simulate to a certain extent road conditions, the proposed invention measures horsepower in real road test conditions, through the utilization of an accelerometer that performs measurements of the automobile velocity, acceleration and deceleration.
US10935460B2	Ultrasonic tank for a turbomachine A system for performing ultrasonic procedures within a turbomachine. The system includes a bladder and a probe assembly. The bladder includes a bladder body for positioning within the turbomachine. Further, the bladder is inflatable to at least partially define an ultrasonic tank within the turbomachine for containing a fluid medium. The probe assembly includes an extension member and ultrasonic transmitter coupled to or positioned within the extension member. The extension member is insertable into the ultrasonic tank for positioning the ultrasonic transmitter within the ultrasonic tank.
US10935459B2	Unobtrusive and automated detection of frequencies of spatially located distinct parts of a machine This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for unobtrusive and automated detection of frequencies of spatially located distinct parts of a machine. Location of vibration and detection of vibration frequency of each vibrating part in a machine is critical for routine monitoring and fault detection in the machine. Current solutions use either high frames per second (fps) industrial grade camera or stroboscopes tuned at one particular frequency. Manual stroboscopes require manual intervention for objects moving at different speeds with high convergence time. Point-lasers need prior knowledge of exact location of faults. Also Point-by-point scanning of a large machine body is time consuming. In the present disclosure, a movement detector such as RADAR enables detecting all vibration frequencies that also serve to reduce the search space of a stroboscope configured to start strobing at each detected vibration frequency to enable mapping of each vibration frequency to a corresponding vibrating part.
US10935456B2	High-G shock testing machine A shock testing machine including: a test platform for holding one or more objects to be shock tested, the test platform having an impact surface; a fixed member having a surface disposed a predetermined distance from a corresponding surface of the test platform, the test platform being movable such that the surface of the test platform can contact the corresponding surface of the fixed member upon an impact to the impact surface; and a flywheel having one or more cams for contacting the impact surface upon rotation of the flywheel such that the impact of each of the one or more cams on the impact surface causes the surface of the test platform to impact the corresponding surface of the fixed member to produce a shock in the one or more objects to be tested.
US10935454B2	Systems and methods for refrigerant leak management A refrigerant leak management system of a HVAC unit includes a sensor configured to detect a refrigerant in an interior of an air handling enclosure. The refrigerant leak management system includes a plurality of airflow management assemblies configured to fluidly isolate the interior of the air handling enclosure in a closed configuration. The plurality of airflow management assemblies includes a return inlet assembly, a supply outlet assembly, and a purge exhaust outlet assembly. The refrigerant leak management system includes a controller configured to actuate the purge exhaust outlet assembly based on detection of the refrigerant by the sensor such that the purge exhaust outlet assembly transitions from a closed position of the purge exhaust outlet assembly to an open position of the purge exhaust outlet assembly that opens the interior of the air handling enclosure to an external environment.
US10935449B2	Dual fuel combustion intensity A method of detecting uncontrolled combustion in an internal combustion engine includes sampling in-cylinder pressure sensor configured to measure pressure in a cylinder of the engine and generate a pressure signal, calculating a combustion intensity metric based on the pressure signal, determining a parameter describing how close the engine is to an uncontrolled combustion condition based on the combustion intensity metric, and controlling a substitution rate of a first fuel and a second fuel based on one or more of the parameter and the combustion intensity metric.
US10935448B2	Pressure detection device with improved external noise measurement reduction A pressure detection device includes a base plate having first and second principal surfaces and a through-hole in which a fluid to be measured flows. A pressure sensor arranged above the first principal surface to cover the through-hole outputs an electric signal corresponding to the pressure of the fluid. A housing includes a recessed portion and first and second capacitor holders. The recessed portion retains the base plate and first and second lead terminals electrically connected to the pressure sensor and allows a part of each of the lead terminals to be exposed. The capacitor holders each includes an outwardly opened recess and together hold a capacitor electrically connected to the lead terminals. Each of the capacitor holders obliquely protrudes from an outer shape of the housing to both sides when viewed in a plan view in a direction from the first principal surface to the second principal surface.
US10935445B2	Wearable touch button assembly Disclosed herein is a flexible and soft material-based pressure sensor and/or switch assembly that can be used for soft goods as a soft switch. The material selection and design enhances the maximum bending ability and squeezing ability of the pressure sensor/switch and the sensor/switch is made to withstand heavy washes while maintaining its functionality of switching with a light touch based on the use of a waterproof stacking assembly that contains a piezoresistant material, electrodes and other components.
US10935444B2	Stress sensor for monitoring the health state of fabricated structures such as constructions, buildings, infrastructures and the like A stress sensor formed by a membrane plate; a first bonding region arranged on top of the membrane plate; a cover plate arranged on top of the first bonding region, the first bonding region bonding the membrane plate to the cover plate; three-dimensional piezoresistive elements extending across the membrane plate that are embedded in the bonding layer; and planar piezoresistive elements that extend across the membrane plate and are surrounded by and separated from the bonding layer.
US10935438B2	Temperature sensor and method of sensing temperature A temperature sensor and a method of sensing a temperature are provided. The temperature sensor generates a temperature clock signal based on a control signal to adjust a nonlinearity of the temperature clock signal, and outputs a count signal by counting clocks of the temperature clock signal corresponding to a counting interval of a reference clock signal.
US10935436B2	Mapping temperatures across a surface Examples are disclosed that relate to mapping a plurality of temperatures across an area. One example provides a temperature sensing device including a flexible support and a temperature sensing structure having a plurality of individually readable temperature sensing junctions. The temperature sensing structure includes a line of a first conductive material extending across an area of the support, and a plurality of lines of a second conductive material each intersecting the line of the first junction material at a corresponding sensing junction.
US10935435B2	Temperature monitoring devices for electrical apparatus, switchgears with same and related methods Temperature monitoring devices have a primary body with an inner circular perimeter, a temperature monitoring segment held by the primary body, the temperature monitoring segment comprising an inwardly extending thermal probe, and a fastener assembly segment held by the primary body at a location that is circumferentially spaced apart from the temperature monitoring segment. The fastener assembly segment has a circumferentially extending bracket that can be radially extended in a direction that is toward the inner circular perimeter of the device.
US10935434B2	Temperature sensor A temperature sensor 10 according to the present invention includes a coil element (10) connected to a coil of an electric apparatus, an element main body (51) that includes a thermosensitive body (52) detecting heat of the coil element (10) and paired electric wires (55 and 56) connected to the thermosensitive body (52), and a housing (25) that includes an electric insulating resin material and is configured to house the coil element (10) and the element main body (51). The housing (25) according to the present invention includes, at a position corresponding to the thermosensitive body (52), a view window (76) allowing for visual confirmation of the thermosensitive body (52) from outside.
US10935432B2	Kirigami chiroptical modulators for circular dichroism measurements in terahertz and other parts of electromagnetic spectrum Kirigami-based optic devices are provided that include a tunable kirigami-based component comprising a plurality of bridge structures and a plurality of openings therebetween to form a grating structure. At least one surface of the kirigami-based component is micropatterned with a plasmonic material so that the grating is configured to induce or modulate rotational polarity of a beam of electromagnetic radiation as it passes through the plurality of openings. In certain aspects, the micropattern may be a gold herringbone pattern. The kirigami-based component has tunable 3D topography, which when stretched, exhibits polarization rotation angles as high as 80° and ellipticity angles as high as 34° due to the topological equivalency of helix. The kirigami-based components are compact electromagnetic modulators and can be used in THz circular dichroism (TCD) spectroscopy, for example, in a stacked configuration as a modulator, as an encryptor/decryptor for secure communication, in biomedical imaging, and LIDAR systems.
US10935425B2	Spectroscopic detector A spectroscopic detector includes a lamp house, a sample cell, an optical sensor, a heater, a cooling fan, a temperature sensor, and a control device. The heater heats the lamp house while being directly or indirectly in contact with the lamp house containing a light source. The cooling fan is for cooling the lamp house. The temperature sensor is for detecting a temperature of the lamp house. The control device is configured to control operations of the light source, the heater, and the cooling fan. The control device includes a temperature control part configured to maintain a temperature of the lamp house while the light source is lit at a set temperature by controlling at least output of the heater based on a detection signal of the temperature sensor.
US10935424B2	Polarizing sensing for spectrometers A spectral measurement device capable of achieving a high level of diffraction efficiency by reducing the polarization sensitivity of the device. Many such embodiments are capable of achieving high diffraction efficiency by fixing the polarization of the incoming light to a fixed polarized state internal to the device, thereby allowing for the full spectrum of light to be captured and measured by the device.
US10935423B2	Light-to-digital converter A light-to-digital converter of the present invention includes: a plurality of light-to-digital conversion units each creating a first clock signal by performing delta-sigma conversion on a photodiode voltage created from an unbiased photodiode, and outputting a unit output signal obtained by synchronizing the first clock signal with a second clock signal that is a reference clock signal; and an adder outputting a digital output signal by adding up the unit output signals of the plurality of light-to-digital conversion units.
US10935417B2	Distributed acoustic sensing system using different coherent interrogating light patterns and corresponding sensing method A distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system has a coherent light source device that repeatedly sends a coherent interrogating light pattern (CILP) into an optical sensing fiber during a measurement duration that is equal to or greater than a down-up travel time of the optical sensing fiber. The CILP is one of a plurality of patterns composed of coherent carrier light. A detection device detects backscattered light in the optical sensing fiber in response to the CILP and generates a signal indicative of the detected backscattered light. An evaluation device analyses the signal. Each CILP has similar physical properties that render the light patterns indistinguishable by comparing physical properties of the backscattered light responsive to at least two successive interrogating light patterns as detected. The coherent light source device can change the time between successively sent interrogating light patterns after the passing of at least one measurement time duration.
US10935410B2	Apparatus and method for detecting inflow of water into battery system, and vehicle system An apparatus and a method for detecting water flowing into a battery system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a detection circuit unit to output different voltage values based on a level of water flowing into the battery system, and a water inflow determining unit to measure a voltage value output from the detection circuit unit and to determine a water inflow state of the battery system based on the measured voltage value.
US10935405B1	Disaggregation of water consumption data Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for identifying one or more water dispensing appliances that are currently using water. In one aspect, the method includes actions of obtaining a dispensing appliance signature, obtaining water consumption data that is based on first sensor data from a first sensor that is installed at the property, identifying a particular water dispensing appliance from among multiple different water dispensing appliances located at the property based on an analysis of (i) the water dispensing appliance signature and (ii) the water consumption data, and responsive to identifying the particular water dispensing appliance located at the property based on an analysis of (i) the water dispensing appliance signature and (ii) the water consumption data, generating output data based on the one or more particular water dispensing appliances that were identified.
US10935402B2	Fluid contaminant detection using noise levels in magnetic flow meter sensor signals A magnetic flow meter includes electrode sensors generating a sensor signal indicative of flow of a liquid through a conduit. A noise identification module identifies a noise level in the sensor signal and a contaminant identification module uses the noise level to determine whether there is a contaminant in the liquid in the conduit.
US10935400B2	Laser alignment tool The present invention is a laser aligning tool that has two weight bodies, a laser pointer unit, and a threaded tubular shaft. The laser pointer unit is positioned within one of the two weight bodies. While both weight bodies are similar in shape and mass, and both connected to the threaded tubular shaft, only the weight body without the laser pointer unit can be detached from the threaded tubular shaft. The user may remove and place one weight body to the flange opening and introduce the threaded tubular shaft with the other weight body to the opening of another flange in preparation of alignment. The user may then turn on the laser pointer unit and ensure the laser beam traverse through both threaded tubular shaft and the detached weight body for proper alignment.
US10935399B1	Passive random depolarizer for a tunable laser An apparatus for sensing a value of a property includes: an optical sensor having a single mode optical fiber responsive to the property; an optical interrogator having a tunable laser to transmit polarized light to the optical sensor, a photo-detector to receive sensor light, and a controller configured to process the received light and output the value of the property; and a passive random depolarizer disposed between the tunable laser and the single mode optical fiber and having (i) a first polarization maintaining (PM) optical fiber of length L1 having a first fast optical axis and a first slow optical axis and (ii) a second PM optical fiber of length L2 having a second fast optical axis and a second slow optical axis rotationally spliced to the first PM optical fiber in which the second fast and slow optical axes are offset from the first fast and slow optical axes.
US10935396B2	Rotation detecting device A magnetic sensor includes a magneto-resistive element configured to output a signal and a detection circuit configured to receive the signal. The detection circuit includes a regulator configured to supply a potential to the magneto-resistive element, a first current path configured to electrically connect the magneto-resistive element to the regulator, a second current path, a switch, and a diagnostic circuit connected to the second current path. The second current path includes, and is configured to electrically connect the magneto-resistive element to the regulator via the resistor. The switch is configured to select one of the first current path and the second current path, and electrically connect the magneto-resistive element to the regulator via the selected one of the first current path and the second current path.
US10935395B2	Rotational angle detection device A rotational angle detection device includes a first gear that rotates about a first rotation axis and that has a main surface having an annular shape that crosses the first rotation axis and a plurality of first teeth provided on the main surface; a second gear that rotates about a second rotation axis in engagement with the first gear and that has a larger number of second teeth than the first teeth; and a sensor that detects a rotational angle of the second gear. The second rotation axis extends in a direction orthogonal to both of a virtual line that connects a center of the first gear and a position where the first gear and the second gear are engaged with each other, and the first rotation axis. Each of the first teeth extends so as to shift from an outer side toward an inner side in a radial direction of the main surface as it shifts along a circumferential direction of the main surface. Adjacent two of the first teeth are disposed so as to overlap each other in the radial direction.
US10935393B2	Gas meter system A gas meter and a center device, including an analyzer, analyze a cause of an abnormality determination. The center device requests analysis-use data necessary to analyze the cause of the abnormality determination from the gas meter, through a communication by a center communication unit, based on the abnormality type data received from the gas meter. The gas meter transmits the analysis-use data requested by the center device to the center device by a meter communication unit, and the analyzer of the center device determines the cause of the abnormality determination based on the received analysis-use data.
US10935392B2	Inertial sensor data correction A method is provided for determining corrections to rate data output by inertial sensors of a type typically used in tracking changes in orientation of an object. The present invention also extends to a tracker system incorporating the correction functionality of the present invention. The method makes use of rate data output by inertial sensors associated with the object being tracked and rate data derived from measures of orientation supplied by a non-inertial tracker system also associated with the object being tracked and comprises determining from those rate data corrections for errors due to misalignment in rate data output by inertial sensors, by calculating a mapping between vectors linking points in inertial sensor rate space represented by a sample set of received rate data from the inertial sensors and vectors linking points in a derived object orientation rate space represented by a corresponding and synchronised sample set of derived rate data. Corrections for inertial sensor bias may be determined separately from corrections for misalignment-related errors, after correction of inertial sensor rate data for misalignment-related errors by determining the vector translation between a point represented by corrected inertial sensor rate data in the derived object orientation rate space and the point in the same rate space represented by derived rate data synchronised therewith.
US10935390B2	Communication terminal, server device, movement guidance system, and computer program A communication terminal is connected to a server and transmits a route search request for a destination to the server and obtains a route searched for from the server according to the request. When setting a destination or transmitting the route search request to the server, the terminal requests the server for guidance information targeted for at least an update target area around a current location among update target areas. The guidance information is for providing movement guidance for a mobile unit, and the update target areas are areas whose terminal-side map information included in the terminal is an older version of map information relative to the server's device-side map information. The terminal receives the guidance information transmitted from the server according to the request for the guidance information, and provides the movement guidance for the mobile unit using a route set on the terminal and the received guidance information.
US10935388B2	Adaptive optimization of navigational routes using traffic data A traffic control system and a method for optimizing navigational routing based on per-intersection real-time traffic conditions data. One aspect is a method of providing navigational guidance. The method includes identifying at least one intersection along at least one initial route to a destination; modifying the at least one initial route based on user preferences and traffic conditions data associated with the at least one intersection to yield at least one modified route; receiving a selection of a route from among the at least one modified route; receiving updated traffic conditions data for at least one corresponding intersection along the route selected; and modifying the route selected based on the updated traffic conditions data.
US10935387B2	System and method for tracking and storing battery data, and utilizing the data to appropriately match batteries upon swapping A system and method for monitoring the health of smart battery packs in an electric vehicle and determining when one or more of the smart battery packs needs to be replaced. In addition, the system and method locate optimal smart battery packs to exchange with the one or more battery packs that need to be replaced.
US10935382B2	Dynamically providing position information of a transit object to a computing device A system and method for providing position information of a transit object to a computing device is provided. Global positioning satellite (GPS) information of a transit object can be periodically received. For each of some of the GPS information, one or more candidate points of a transit system can be identified based on the GPS information. Using the one or more candidate points, a most likely path of travel can be determined. Additional position points along the most likely path of travel can be extrapolated and transmitted to a computing device.
US10935380B2	Leveling tool A leveling tool is disclosed having a clamp that attaches to tubing, plumbing or other objects to determine whether the object is horizontally level or vertically plumb. The clamp of the leveling tool is capable of attaching to an object with the use of a single hand and/or is capable of remaining attached to an object without requiring a hand to hold the leveling tool.
US10935378B2	System and method for angle measurement A system for generating a ground truth dataset for motion planning is disclosed. The system includes: a collecting module configured to collect LiDAR scans; a detecting module configured to detect two pose estimates that are closest to LiDAR scan accusation time; a determining module configured to determine LiDAR's poses based on an interpolation; and a transforming module configured to transform LiDAR raw scans into undistorted LiDAR scans.
US10935374B2	Systems and methods for generating models of scanned environments Three-dimensional (3D) measurement systems and methods are provided. The systems and methods include a 3D imager and a marker. The marker includes an adapter and a marker element, wherein the adapter is arranged to be at least one of installed, placed, and attached to a fixed object of a scanned environment and the marker element includes a coded identifier that is detectable by the 3D imager, wherein the coded identifier identifies the specific location of the fixed object within the scanned environment.
US10935372B2	Device and method for measuring a surface topography, and calibration method A method and a device for measuring the topography and/or the gradients and/or the curvature of an optically active surface of an object are disclosed. The device allows the object to be arranged in a receiving region with a contact surface for contact with the object. Inside the device, there is a plurality of point light sources that provide light that is reflected at the surface to be measured of an object arranged in the receiving region. The device includes at least one camera with an objective assembly and an image sensor for detecting a brightness distribution which is produced on a light sensor by the light of the point light sources reflected at the surface to be measured.
US10935370B2	Deformometer for determining deformation of an optical cavity optic A deformometer includes: a cavity body; entry and exit optical cavity optics, such that the optical cavity produces filtered combined light from combined light; a first laser that provides first light; a second laser that provides second light; an optical combiner that: receives the first light; receives the second light; combines the first light and the second light; produces combined light from the first light and the second light; and communicates the combined light to the entry optical cavity optic; a beam splitter that: receives the filtered combined light; splits the filtered combined light; a first light detector in optical communication with the beam splitter and that: receives the first filtered light from the beam splitter; and produces a first cavity signal from the first filtered light; and a second light detector that: receives the second filtered light; and produces a second cavity signal from the second filtered light.
US10935369B2	Automated layout and point transfer system A two-dimension layout system identifies points and their coordinates, and transfers identified points on a solid surface to other surfaces in a vertical direction. Two leveling laser light transmitters are used with a remote unit to control certain functions. The laser transmitters rotate about the azimuth, and emit vertical (plumb) laser planes. After being set up using benchmark points, the projected lines of the laser planes will intersect on the floor of a jobsite at any point of interest in a virtual floor plan, under control of a user with the remote unit. An “active target” can be used to more automatically create benchmarks. A laser distance meter can be installed on base units to automatically scan a room or a wall to determine certain key features.
US10935366B2	Method and device for measuring features on workpieces A method and device for geometrically determining features of a workpiece, having an image processing sensor having a first beam path, the first beam path comprising at least one front optical unit facing the workpiece to be measured, and an optical splitter being mounted on the side of the front optical unit facing away from the workpiece. The optical splitter connects a second beam path to the image processing beam path, a common beam path being formed, and the second beam path being associated with a second optical sensor, the image processing sensor and the second sensor being designed to directly measure the surface of the workpiece. The front optical unit is formed as a sphere and/or has a longitudinal chromatic aberration.
US10935365B2	Mounting arrangement for 3D sensor A 3D sensor system with a mounting arrangement is provided. The system includes a 3D sensor that measures 3D coordinates of a surface, the 3D sensor having a body with a slot disposed in a side, the slot further having a recess centrally disposed thereon. One or more slot nuts are disposed in the slot. A mounting bracket is provided having a pair of keystone members and a dowel pin disposed therebetween, the keystone members being disposed in the slot and the dowel pin being disposed in the recess, the mounting bracket having a plurality of holes aligned with the slot. One or more fasteners are provided that extend through the plurality holes and engage the one or more slot nuts to couple the mounting bracket to the 3D sensor.
US10935362B2	Calibratable door status indication system An sensor unit has an analog Hall-effect sensor coupled to a microprocessor containing an analog to digital converter. It is mounted to the frame of a cell door. A magnet is mounted to the cell door so that when the door is closed, they are in close-proximity. A calibration initiates the storage of digital voltage signal presented by the Hall-effect sensor, via an analog to digital converter, when the cell door is closed. This door-closed value is constantly compared to the current value based on the position of the cell door. If this value deviates within preset limitations of the stored value, the sensor unit signals a fault condition to a connected central control panel which sends a “door ajar” notification to a designated user's cell phone as well as activating a local alarm.
US10935356B1	Empty casing feed for a reloader A discrete empty casing feeder for a cartridge reloader is controlled electronically by a control module. Empty casings are loaded on top of each other in a conventional feeder tube and are gravity fed through the feeder tube onto an upper rotating carousel. The discrete empty casing drops into a cylinder in the upper carousel and the carousel and casing rotate until the casing reaches a hole in the floor under the upper carousel. The discrete empty casing drops onto a solenoid lever in a tube. When the typical lower turret is raised mechanically, a sensor detects that the lower turret and push ram are in the correct position. The trap lever opens and drops the empty shell casing into a slot in the front of the push ram. The push ram then pushes the correctly oriented discrete casing onto the conventional turret. As the shell casings go through a normal reloading cycle, a fully loaded cartridge is ejected from the lower turret and the entire process begins again.
US10935354B1	Shotshell having wad with enhanced fin deployment A shotgun shell has a polymer wad with a forward shot cup portion and a rearward propellant cup, the wad in a casing, shot in the shot cup, propellant in the propellant cup, and a primer in a head of the casing. The propellant cup having a plurality of fins extending rearwardly that open to a deployed position upon firing and the shot cup having a plurality of circumferentially spaced axially aligned linear slit segments that permit air to circulate and permit expansion of the shot cup.
US10935352B1	Initiation system having plastic housing, which encapsulates an initiator, and a lid that hermetically seals the housing An initiation system that includes an initiator chip having an electrically conductive bridge, a flyer layer coupled to the initiator chip and overlying the bridge, a housing, an energetic material and a lid. The housing is formed of a first plastic material that is overmolded onto the initiator chip such that the initiator chip is at least partly encapsulated into the first plastic material to thereby fixedly couple the initiator chip to the housing. The housing defines a cavity having a first end and a second, open end that is opposite the first end. The initiator chip is disposed proximate the first end of the cavity. The energetic material is disposed in the cavity. The lid is at least partly formed of a second plastic material and is fixedly and sealingly coupled to the housing to close the open end of the cavity.
US10935349B1	Defeat system for vehicle attached improvised explosive devices An explosive device detection and expulsion system broadly comprising a detection subsystem for sensing an IED attached to a vehicle and an expulsion subsystem for expelling the IED from the vehicle. The detection subsystem includes a sensor for detecting an IED via an electromagnetic field change or capacitance change, vibrations, and/or heat, and a controller for activating the expulsion subsystem upon receiving a detection signal from the sensor. The expulsion subsystem includes a deployable panel configured to be attached to the vehicle and a deployable mechanism for shifting the deployable panel from an undeployed state to a deployed state so as to expel the IED from the vehicle.
US10935340B1	Automated toy dart launcher with motorized driven drum An automated gun-like shaped toy projectiles launcher with motorized driven drum is described. A method of launching a plurality of toy projectiles using an automated toy launcher is further described. The automated toy launcher includes a mechanism including a biasing element configured to accumulate energy upon rotation of the motorized driven drum.
US10935339B2	Adjustment system for training pistol A training pistol having an adjustable trigger with a shot-indicating laser to signify the impact of a shot which would simulate a bullet hole of a live fire pistol. In one form a trigger prep indicating system to indicate where the trigger is pressed showing the trigger finger is on the trigger and the trigger is repositioned from a rest state to a position longitudinally rearward therefrom.
US10935335B2	Gas regulation system A firearm gas piston system provides tool-less removal and adjustment of gas flow along a nonlinear gradient and directs exhaust discharge away from the operator. The system includes a gas block with gas channels for directing exhaust gas away from an operator and a gas plug bore configured to accommodate insertion of a gas plug. The gas plug can include an actuator for rotating the gas plug, a key that fits within a key notch and key channel inside the gas plug bore to secure the gas plug within the bore, and a regulator portion to control the flow of discharge gas from a firearm barrel. The regulator portion includes a passage with two opening segments that accept discharge gas from the barrel and direct the gas through another opening disposed in a regulator cutout and to a piston portion of the gas block.
US10935331B2	Device for assembling a heat exchanger of an air-conditioning apparatus with a radiator for cooling the engine of a motor vehicle The present invention consists in a thermal module (1) for a motor vehicle, comprising a main radiator (2) and at least one auxiliary heat exchanger (3, 4) mounted on the main radiator (2) by means of a junction member (13) disposed between the main radiator (2) and at least one first auxiliary heat exchanger (3), The junction member (13) is principally formed of at least two shaft bearings (14, 15) attached to the first auxiliary heat exchanger (3) and nested inside respective open flanges (16, 17) formed on one of the lateral sides (7, 8) of the main radiator (2).Secondarily, the junction member (13) carries a plurality of auxiliary heat exchangers (3, 4) fixed to one another in staggered succession and composing a thermal submodule mounted on the main radiator (2) by means of the junction member (13).
US10935328B2	Phase change cell A phase change cell includes a housing enclosing a phase change chamber that holds a phase change material and a gas pocket. The housing includes a side wall extending between first and second end walls. A capillary is disposed in an interior surface of the side wall. In response to heating of the phase change cell, the capillary is configured to draw the phase change material in a liquid phase towards the periphery of the phase change chamber. A temperature sensor is coupled to the housing in a vicinity of the capillary to measure the phase change temperature. According to another aspect, the housing includes a moveable surface that bounds a portion of the phase change chamber. The phase change temperature of the phase change material changes based on the position of the moveable wall.
US10935325B2	Two-phase thermodynamic system having a porous microstructure sheet with varying surface energy to optimize utilization of a working fluid A vapor-chamber that includes a porous microstructure sheet with varying surface energy across different regions to optimize utilization of a working fluid. Modulating the surface energy of the porous microstructure sheet can minimize the amount of the working fluid that becomes trapped in the condenser region(s) and maximize an aggregate thin-film evaporation area of the working fluid in the evaporator region(s). The condenser region of the vapor-chamber is treated so that the internal surfaces have low surface energy. For example, the treatment may cause the condenser region to become hydrophobic to minimize the amount of fluid that becomes trapped in the condenser. The evaporator region is treated so that the internal surfaces have high surface energy. For example, the treatment may cause the evaporator region to become hydrophilic to induce the formation of large numbers of robust (e.g., dry-out resistant) thin-film evaporation sites.
US10935322B2	Shell and tube heat exchanger with perforated fins interconnecting the tubes Disclosed is a tube assembly for a shell and tube heat exchanger, the tube assembly having: a plurality of tubes respectively extending in a lengthwise direction L to a respective plurality of opposing ends at respective opposing internal ends of the heat exchanger, the plurality of tubes being collectively arranged in a first grid pattern, wherein the plurality of tubes form a respective plurality of grid nodes; and a plurality of fins connecting the plurality of tubes to form a respective plurality of grid edges, the plurality of fins extending to opposing ends of the plurality of tubes, wherein the plurality of fins each include a plurality of through holes formed therein.
US10935321B2	Energy transfer systems and energy transfer methods An energy transfer system that includes a tank comprising an outer wall having a circumference. A first fluid pathway surrounds a portion of the circumference of the tank. A second fluid pathway seals the portion of the circumference of the tank and the first fluid pathway from the environment.
US10935319B2	U-shaped seal and method for use in cement plants A method to thermally convert alternative fuels within a loop seal reactor by utilizing preheated/calcined cement meal as the heat source within which alternative fuels are immersed, subjected to drying, pyrolysis and subsequently charred, and an apparatus utilized to practice such method.
US10935315B2	Drying plants for painted objects A plant for drying objects which release volatile substances may include: a drying tunnel; a conveying system configured to convey the objects through the drying tunnel; a plurality of sensors arranged along the drying tunnel; and/or a plurality of air exchange units. The sensors may be configured to measure a concentration of the volatile substances along the drying tunnel. The air exchange units may be controlled by the sensors to keep the concentration of the volatile substances in the drying tunnel below a pre-established value. A method for keeping volatile substances below a pre-established value within a plant for drying objects may include: measuring with sensors concentration of the volatile substances at points along the drying tunnel; and/or operating air exchange units, according to the concentration of the volatile substances measured by the sensors, to keep the concentration of the volatile substances in the drying tunnel below the pre-established value.
US10935314B2	Heating values of cellulosic waste Provided herein is a process for improving the heating value of a cellulosic waste material. The process includes the steps of treating the cellulosic waste material with an acid solution, recovering heat produced by treating the cellulosic waste material, and filtering the treated cellulosic waste material to produce a filter cake. The disclosure also relates to a system for implementing the process.
US10935309B2	Predictive maintenance of refrigeration cases Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for predictive maintenance of refrigeration cases. A computer collects a temperature time series for a refrigeration case and, based on the temperature time series, learns a refrigeration case signature for both non-frost and defrost cycles. The computer generates features based on the refrigeration case signature and compares the refrigeration case signature to real time, or observed, temperatures and features using a rule-based and/or machine learning framework. Based on determining that the real time data varies beyond a threshold from the refrigeration case signature, the computer identifies a failure symptom of the refrigeration case and diagnoses a root cause of the symptom or failure. In addition, the computer may activate an alarm and open a work order corresponding to the root cause of the symptom or failure.
US10935303B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator includes a first inner case, a second inner case, a third inner case having a larger size than the first and second inner cases, a first evaporator and a first cooling fan disposed inside the first inner case, a second evaporator and a second cooling fan disposed inside the second inner case, a duct in which a first inlet portion communicating with an inside of the first inner case, a second inlet portion communicating with an inside of the second inner case, an outlet portion communicating with the third inner case, a first conduit for guiding, to the outlet portion, cold air blown from the first cooling fan from the first inlet portion, and a second conduit for guiding, to the outlet portion, cold air blown from the second cooling fan from the second inlet portion are formed, and a damper communicating with the outlet portion.
US10935300B2	Refrigerator including a detachably mounted cooling unit Disclosed is a refrigerator that facilitates access to each evaporator and improves maintenance performance. In the refrigerator, a different temperature of cold air cooled by each evaporator is brought into each cooling chamber with a different temperature range and different humidity range. The refrigerator includes a main refrigerator body including a machine room and a cooling chamber, an evaporator contained in the machine room, and a cooling unit detachably mounted in the machine room and including a compressor, a condenser, and an insulation member, wherein the cooling unit, while mounted in the machine room, has the insulation member tightly contact an inner wall of the machine room to form an insulation space, and the evaporator is contained in the insulation space.
US10935294B1	Bottle with an ice cube mould A bottle with an ice cube mould, comprises a bottle body (1) with a neck (111) and a lid (2), the bottle body (1) has two ice-making plates (3) opposite with each other, at least one of the two ice-making plates (3) has a plurality of recesses (31), and the two ice-making plates (3) are capable of moving relative to each other; when the two ice-making plates (3) are at the closed state, two recesses facing each other (31) form an ice-making space, and a water flow channel for guiding water coming from the water inlet (32) to the ice-making space is formed between the two ice-making plates (3); when the two ice-making plates (3) are at the opened state, a chamber (A) of the bottle body (1) is defined between the two ice-making plates (3), and ice cubes formed inside the recesses drop into the chamber (A) of the bottle body (1). The bottle has both an ice-making function and a water-containing function, and it is sanitary to make ice cubes and also convenient to take the ice cubes out.
US10935293B2	Systems and methods for controlling differential refrigerant pressure Systems and methods are provided for controlling compressor systems to ensure sufficient pressure differentials to provide cooling. A compressor system includes a compressor, a suction pressure sensor at a suction of the compressor, a discharge pressure sensor, a condenser, an expansion device, a liquid line, a liquid line pressure sensor, an evaporator, a condenser blower and a controller. The method includes determining a pressure target based on an intermediate pressure within the compressor and a threshold cooling differential pressure value, determining a pressure ratio setpoint based on the pressure target and a liquid line pressure measured by the liquid line pressure sensor, controlling the condenser blower to operate based on the determined pressure ratio setpoint, determining a subcooling setpoint based on the pressure target and the liquid line pressure in the compressor system, and controlling the expansion device to operate based on the subcooling setpoint.
US10935290B2	Pressure spike prevention in heat pump systems A pressure spike prevention assembly for use in a heat pump system includes a thermostatic expansion valve that includes a first port and a second port. The first port is designed to be fluidly coupled to an indoor coil, and the second port is designed to be coupled to an outdoor coil. The pressure spike prevention assembly further includes a multi-way valve that includes an inlet port, an output port, and a liquid line port. The inlet port is fluidly coupled to the first port. The output port is fluidly in communication with the second port. The liquid line port is configured to be fluidly coupled to a charge compensator of the heat pump system via a liquid line of the heat pump system.
US10935283B2	Air conditioner with a four-way reheat valve An air conditioner unit includes a compressor, an exterior coil, a main interior coil, a main expansion device, a reheat interior coil and a reheat expansion device. The reheat interior coil is positioned adjacent the main interior coil. The main expansion device is connected in series between the exterior coil and the main interior coil, and the reheat expansion device is connected in series between the main expansion device and the reheat interior coil. A reheat valve is operable to selectively adjust a flow direction through the reheat interior coil. The reheat valve is a four-way valve, and one port of the four-way valve is blocked.
US10935280B2	Extreme condensing boiler An extreme condensing boiler includes cold and hot water headers, burner, and multi-tubing heat exchanger, so that cold water absorbs heat from exhaust gas of the burner being heated to medium-hot, which absorbs heat generated by the burner being heated to hot water through absorbing heat from both sides of tube portion of the multi-tubing heat exchanger, and so that the hot water is delivered to the hot water header, and a combustion air heat exchanger is provided around the multi-tubing heat exchanger. The condensing boiler uses dual/triple tubes for fire and water tubes, increasing efficiency by absorbing heat from both sides. The fire tube is surrounded by the cold water tube so as to minimize exhaust gas temperature and maximize condensing by absorbing waste heat. The condensing boiler realizes a direct fire boiler through the fire and water tubes, and an energy-saving tankless boiler including headers and tubes only.
US10935278B2	Tubular heat exchanger The objective of the present invention is to provide a tubular heat exchanger capable of improving heat exchange efficiency and preventing deformation and damage thereof even in a high water-pressure environment. To this end, the present invention includes an outer jacket through which a heat medium is introduced and discharged; a combustion chamber coupled to the inside of the outer jacket so that a heat medium passage is formed between the combustion chamber and the outer jacket, and configured to perform combustion of a burner; a plurality of tubes formed in a flat shape for allowing combustion gas, which is generated in the combustion chamber, to flow along the inside of the combustion chamber and exchange heat with the heat medium; and a turbulator coupled to the inside of the tubes so as to induce generation of turbulence in a flow of the combustion gas.
US10935275B2	HVAC system thermal recovery An HVAC system includes an air handling unit (AHU), a heat recovery device, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine an average heating or cooling demand of one or more zones served by the AHU, determine if a heating or cooling capacity is available at the heat recovery device, where the capacity available at the heat recovery device is a heating or cooling capacity to heat or cool the air from an outdoor environment with air extracted from the one or more zones served by the AHU, determine a heat recovery command setpoint based on the determined average heating or cooling demand and the determined available heating or cooling capacity, and send a signal indicative of the determined heat recovery command setpoint to at least one of the AHU and the heat recovery device.
US10935271B2	System and method of HVAC health monitoring for connected homes According to one embodiment, a method of operating a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) analytics system is provided. The method comprising: obtaining HVAC data for an HVAC unit in electronic communication with the HVAC analytics system; obtaining an HVAC unit characteristic of the HVAC unit; obtaining weather data for a geographical area where the HVAC unit is located; and determining an HVAC capacity available ratio (CAR) in response to the weather data, the HVAC unit characteristics, and the HVAC data.
US10935266B2	System and method for occupancy-driven register airflow control An HVAC register airflow control system and an air flow control method are provided. A housing of the system is in fluid communication with an air source for supplying an airflow. The housing includes an air outlet to the enclosed space. A detection sensor detects occupancy information of the enclosed space. A controller generates a control signal based on the occupancy information and controls the shape change of a damper made of a shape memory material. The damper is controlled to switch between a first operative configuration for preventing the airflow from entering the enclosed space and a second operative configured for permitting the airflow to enter the enclosed space.
US10935263B2	Multi-circuit HVAC system The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system that has a first circuit and a second circuit that each have a compressor and a condenser, a conduit extending from the second circuit downstream of the condenser to the first circuit upstream of the compressor, a valve along the conduit that may manage flow therethrough, and a controller that may operate the HVAC system in a first mode such that each circuit separately circulates the refrigerant in each circuit and transition to a second mode such that refrigerant-sharing occurs between the circuits. In response to a request to transition from the second mode to the first mode, the controller may determine an amount of refrigerant subcooling, compare the amount to a threshold value associated with the first mode, and instruct opening of the valve upon a determination that the amount is less than the threshold value.
US10935255B2	Air conditioner indoor unit and air conditioner An air conditioner indoor unit includes a chassis and a face frame. The chassis extends along an up-down direction and includes a plurality of fastening structures arranged at upper end of the chassis and spaced along a left-right direction. The face frame includes an upper support, a lower frame, and two side connectors opposite to each other and connected between the upper support and the lower frame. The upper support includes a fastening member arranged at a rear end of the upper support. The fastening member is detachably fastened to the upper end of the chassis. The lower frame is detachably connected to a lower end of the chassis.
US10935251B1	Portable cooking assemblies Described herein are portable cooking assemblies, including a portable cooking assembly that may include: a first container having a first sidewall and an opening; a stove disposed in the first container, the stove may include: a second sidewall having an exhaust aperture and an air intake aperture; and a base coupled to the second sidewall; wherein fuel may be capable of being burned within the stove; and a lid coupled to the first sidewall of the first container and covering the opening and the stove.
US10935248B2	Method of operating an ignition element of a gas burner An oven appliance and a method of operating the same are provided. The oven appliance includes a heating element such as a gas burner that is provided with a flow of fuel and an ignition element for igniting the flow of fuel. The method includes activating the ignition element by closing an ignitor relay and determining an adjusted flame time based on a target flame time and an ignition delay. The ignition element is deactivated when the adjusted flame time has passed since the activation of the ignition element. The method may further include compensating for the extinction delay of the gas burner to achieve the desired heating time.
US10935247B2	Cooking apparatus Provided is a cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatus has a structure in which cooking modules different from each other are selectively mounted with a free arrangement structure on a top surface of the cooking apparatus.
US10935245B2	Annular concentric fuel nozzle assembly with annular depression and radial inlet ports A fuel nozzle for a gas turbine engine is generally provided. The fuel nozzle includes an outer sleeve extended circumferentially around a fuel nozzle centerline and extended along a longitudinal direction substantially co-directional to the fuel nozzle centerline. The outer sleeve defines a plurality of first radially oriented air inlet ports through the outer sleeve in circumferential arrangement relative to the fuel nozzle centerline. The fuel nozzle further includes a centerbody positioned radially inward of the outer sleeve. The centerbody is extended along the longitudinal direction substantially co-directional to the fuel nozzle centerline and wherein the centerbody is concentric to the fuel nozzle centerline and the outer sleeve. The centerbody defines a plurality of second radially oriented air inlet ports through the centerbody in circumferential arrangement relative to the fuel nozzle centerline. The centerbody further defines an annular centerbody groove or depression relative to the fuel nozzle centerline at a downstream end directly adjacent to a combustion chamber. The fuel nozzle further includes an inner sleeve extended circumferentially around the fuel nozzle centerline and extended along the longitudinal direction substantially co-directional to the fuel nozzle centerline. The inner sleeve is positioned radially between the outer sleeve and the centerbody. The inner sleeve further defines an annular inner sleeve depression relative to the fuel nozzle centerline at the downstream end directly adjacent to the combustion chamber. The outer sleeve and the inner sleeve together define a first fuel air mixing passage radially therebetween and extended substantially along the longitudinal direction in direct fluid communication with the combustion chamber. The inner sleeve and the centerbody together further define a second fuel air mixing passage radially therebetween and extended substantially along the longitudinal direction in direct fluid communication with the combustion chamber.
US10935242B2	Combustor assembly for a turbine engine A gas turbine engine and combustor assembly is generally provided. The gas turbine engine may include an outer casing while the combustor assembly may include a liner and a damper assembly. The liner may at least partially define a combustion chamber extending between an aft end and a forward end generally along an axial direction within the outer casing. The liner may include an inner surface facing the combustion chamber and an outer surface facing away from the combustion chamber. The damper assembly may extend between the outer casing and the outer surface of the liner. The damper assembly may include a selectively separable support and damper spring. The damper spring may be disposed between the support and the liner.
US10935241B2	Additively manufactured hotspot portion of a turbine engine component having heat resistant properties and method of manufacture A turbine engine component has a first portion and a hotspot portion with both portions being substantially covered with a thermal barrier coating (TBC). The hotspot portion may be additively manufactured to the first portion. Furthermore, the hotspot portion may have a single crystal microstructure to resist high temperatures and the first portion may not have such a microstructure and may further be cast. A method of forming the component includes the steps of casting the first portion and additively manufacturing the hotspot portion to the first portion, then covering the first and hotspot portion with the TBC.
US10935239B2	Trigger devices for exothermic welds Trigger devices for igniting an exothermic reaction is provided. The trigger devices may be flint type trigger devices and electronic type trigger devices. The flint type trigger device has a housing with a spark opening on a rear wall of the housing. A mold mounting assembly is secured to an exterior of the rear wall of the housing. A motor assembly is secured to the inside of the rear wall of the housing. The motor assembly has a flint wheel attached to a shaft of a motor, where the flint wheel is located adjacent the spark opening. A flint assembly is positioned within the housing such that a flint of the flint assembly is in contact with the flint wheel. A controller positioned within the housing is configured to selectively activate the motor to cause the flint wheel to rotate against the flint to create one or more sparks that are ejected from the spark opening.
US10935235B2	Non-planar combustor liner panel for a gas turbine engine combustor A combustor for a gas turbine engine including a liner panel mounted to a support shell via a multiple of studs, the liner panel including a forward section and an aft section that defines an angle therebetween in the axial profile between the forward section and the aft section.
US10935227B2	Systems and methods for coupling a metal core PCB to a heat sink Embodiments may utilize a series of exposed fins, which increase the surface area of the heat sink creating additional air flow. As hotter air rises within the system, cooler is drawn into the heatsink. The fins may be exposed on both sides of the longitudinal axis, allowing cooler air to be drawn towards the longitudinal axis above the heatsink and flow upward. This process may cool the fins. Additionally, the spacing between the fins may have to be wide enough to allow for air to freely enter the heatsink.
US10935221B1	Flexible strip light with spring-loaded base This invention provides a flexible strip light, having a linear array of LEDs mounted in conjunction with a spring-loaded base (a strip of spring steel) that includes a cambered cross section. The camber is adapted to provide beam strength when it is arranged in an extended orientation. The camber otherwise forces the base to roll when the base is bent in a direction opposite the curl of the camber. The diameter of the rolled cylinder can vary. In general the diameter of the base conforms to the cross-sectional dimensions of an underlying curved or polygonal supporting member. The bend can be induced by manually grasping two points on the base surface and causing it to bend against the camber, or simply allowing inertia to generate a bend as the base is struck or slapped against the supporting member. The base and lighting array can be covered with a durable polymer.
US10935220B2	Pool liner with LED light strings Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for attaching pool accessories, such as LED light strings, to a pool liner. The systems and methods for attaching pool accessories can comprise a re-sealable pocket attached to a pool liner where the re-sealable pocket can hold a LED light string or another pool accessory.
US10935214B2	Light-emitting device and electronic apparatus A light-emitting device includes pixels each including subpixels. Each subpixel includes light-emitting elements that emit respective pieces of light of colors different from each other, and a light-shielding film having openings at respective positions where the openings are opposed to the respective light-emitting elements at predetermined intervals. The openings have respective widths different from each other. The widths of the respective openings in a first direction and a second direction are sized to allow the light-shielding film to block a portion of the pieces of light emitted from the respective light-emitting elements and thereby to cause a 45-degree luminance viewing angle to be different between the first and second directions, and are sized to cause color differences (Δu′v′) at a 45-degree chromaticity viewing angle (u′v′) in the first and second directions to be 0.020 or less. The 45-degree luminance viewing angle is expressed in a unit of cd/m2.
US10935212B1	Lighting fixture with direct and indirect lighting A lighting fixture and method of providing lighting is provided herein that utilizes both direct and indirect light sources. The direct and indirect light sources can be provided in arrays of light emitting diodes (LEDs) oriented along desired axes. In some versions, the light fixtures described herein include a direct lighting array having one or more LEDs oriented to project light downwardly and an indirect lighting array having a plurality of LEDs oriented to project light in a transverse direction. Further, the light fixtures can include an indirect lighting member configured to be illuminated by the plurality of LEDs of the indirect lighting array. Additionally, or alternatively, the light fixtures described herein can include one or more controllers that are configured to independently operate the direct and indirect lighting arrays. Moreover, the indirect lighting array can be configured to emit light in a plurality of colors to visually convey information.
US10935209B2	Vehicle illuminating device The present disclosure provides a vehicle illuminating device including a lamp housing that functions as a heat sink, a light emitting element disposed in the lamp housing, and a control board that controls the light emitting element. A protruding portion is formed to have an internal space in the lamp housing, and at least a part of the control board is disposed in the internal space. Since the light emitting element is disposed in the lamp housing functioning as a heat sink, and at least a part of the control board is disposed in the internal space of the protruding portion, heat generated in the light emitting element and heat generated in the control board hardly affect each other, and the generation positions of the heat are apart from each other.
US10935207B2	Aircraft lamp An aircraft lamp includes: a lamp outer case constituted by a lamp housing having an opening and a cover mounted to the lamp housing in a state where the opening is closed, an internal space being formed in the lamp outer case as an arrangement space; a light source including a light emitting diode and arranged on an arrangement surface inclined with respect to a predetermined surface to be irradiated in the arrangement space; and an inner lens arranged in the arrangement space and including a control lens configured to control an irradiation direction of light emitted from the light source. The control lens is formed in a shape having a longitudinal direction and a width direction, and the longitudinal direction and the width direction of the control lens are rotated in a direction around a light source optical axis with respect to a vertical direction and a left-right direction.
US10935205B2	Light source, reflection luminaire and automotive headlamp A light source (210, 310) for a reflection luminaire, a reflection luminaire (200, 300) for an automobile and an automotive headlamp comprising the reflection luminaire (200, 300) are disclosed. The light source (210, 310) comprises a substrate (212), and a light emitting component (214), being a Chip Scale Package light emitting diode, and a light absorbing component (216) on the substrate (212). The light absorbing component (216) is configured to absorb light which is emitted from a side surface of the light emitting component (214) and incident on a surface of the substrate (212). The light source facilitates reducing or eliminating glare of a CSP LED reflection luminaire for an automobile.
US10935201B2	Lighting apparatus disposition structure for saddle riding vehicle A lighting apparatus disposition structure for a saddle riding vehicle by which a traveling performance can be improved is disclosed. A lighting apparatus includes a laser element, a first light guide member and a second light guide member, a front light emission unit and a rear light emission unit, and a driver unit. The laser element and the driver unit are integrated as a light source unit. The light source unit is disposed between a head pipe that includes a steering axis for a front wheel and a pivot shaft that supports a rear wheel through a swing arm.
US10935200B1	Gobo retainer A gobo system for a light fixture. The rotating gobo system including a gobo, a gobo retainer, and a gobo carrier. The gobo retainer is coupled to the gobo and includes a tab. The gobo carrier is coupled to the light fixture. The gobo carrier includes a seat for supporting the gobo and a recess for receiving the tab of the gobo retainer. The gobo retainer is rotatable relative to the gobo carrier between a locked position and an unlocked position.
US10935193B2	Wavelength conversion of primary light by means of a conversion body Wavelength conversion of primary light by means of a conversion body, a conversion device and an illumination apparatus is described herein. In some aspects, a conversion body may include a main body containing a wavelength-converting phosphor. The main body may have an irradiation surface to be irradiated by primary light. The conversion body may further include at least one conduction tract mounted on the main body outside the irradiation surface. The at least one conduction track may be electrically conductive in accordance with some aspects.
US10935191B2	LED light panel system for retrofitting light troffers A light panel retrofit system includes an LED panel with an underside, and having LED panel lens circumscribed by an LED panel frame; a power supply is mounted to the LED panel; and an LED panel support frame configured to support the LED panel frame, and including first and second end frame members connecting first and second side rails to each other.
US10935189B2	LED light bulb The lighting device includes at least one filament module, a base, at least one pillar, and a base. The filament module includes more than two filaments. Each filament includes a substrate, multiple LED chips, a phosphor film, a top extended electrode, and a bottom extended electrode. Multiple LED chips are mounted on the substrate. The phosphor film covers the substrate and multiple LED chips. The top extended electrode and bottom extended electrode are connected to two ends of the substrate respectively. At least part of top extended electrode and bottom extended electrode are not covered by the phosphor film, and each top extended electrode of the filaments is fixed together.
US10935186B2	Device equipped with tank A device equipped with a tank includes: a tank storing gas; a receptacle to be coupled to a gas supply nozzle; a filling passage communicating the tank with the receptacle; and a determination unit configured to determine whether there is a leak in the filling passage based on an amount of decrease in pressure in the filling passage per unit time, after supplying of the gas cooled to below freezing to the tank through the receptacle and the filling passage is finished, when a temperature of the receptacle is a predetermined temperature or greater and a pressure in the filling passage in a state where all valves opening and closing the filling passage are closed is greater than a first pressure, wherein the receptacle incorporates a check valve inhibiting backflow of the gas from the filling passage.
US10935181B2	Stand device A stand device includes a base, a supporting component and a carrying component. The supporting component is pivotally disposed to the base along a first axis. The carrying component is pivotally disposed to the supporting component along a second axis, and slidably disposed to the supporting component in a first direction. The stand device is switchable between a first state and a second state. In the first state, the extending direction of the supporting component is parallel to the extending direction of the base, and the extending direction of the carrying component is parallel to the extending direction of the supporting component. In the second state, the extending direction of the supporting component is staggered to the extending direction of the base, and the extending direction of the carrying component is staggered to the extending direction of the supporting component.
US10935180B1	Motorized mounting systems for televisions A mounting system capable of mounting objects to support structures. The mounting system includes a wall mount including a display bracket configured to hold the object, a fixed support bracket coupleable to a vertical support structure, and a linkage assembly. The linkage assembly has a low-profile stowed configuration in which the object is held in a raised position close to the support structure. Tilt adjustment mechanisms are used to adjust the tilt of the display bracket.
US10935179B2	Wire pressing and holding device for an extension arm support mechanism A wire pressing and holding device is removably mounted on a first extension arm of an extension arm support mechanism to cover a channel thereof, and includes a cover plate, an engaging protrusion projecting from a first end of the cover plate to be inserted into an engaging recess of the arm to serve as a fulcrum such that a second end of the cover plate is turnable relative to the arm, and a releasably retaining member connected to the second end and configured to be displaceable relative to the second end between a retaining position to retainingly abut against the arm for pressing and holding a wire assembly in the channel, and a releasing position to be disengaged from the arm.
US10935177B2	Powered emergency released coupling control and monitoring system The present invention relates to a pneumatically, high pressure gas powered emergency release coupling control and monitoring system (S) comprising a powered emergency released coupling (1) arranged in a fluid-supply line (32) for conveying hazardous fluids, said powered emergency released coupling (1) comprising a couple of coupling members (10, 11) provided with mating faces (10A, 11A) for sealing engagement of the coupling members (10, 11) and formation of a pressurizable chamber (12) between said coupling members (10, 11), said system (S) comprising an actuation line (7) connected at its one end to the pressurizable chamber (12) and at its other end to a source (C) of high pressure gaseous media (GH), preferably high pressure nitrogen gas, an first actuating device (4A, 4B) arranged in the actuation line (7), wherein said system (S) provides a gaseous media at a pilot pressure level to said pressurizable chamber (12) and to said actuation line (7) in a position downstream the first actuation device (4A, 4B) or via said pressurizable chamber (12) for detection of any leakage of gas in the control and monitoring system (S), said pilot pressure gaseous media preferably being low pressure nitrogen gas. The invention further relates to a pneumatically, high pressure gas powered emergency release coupling (1) and a control and monitoring method for such a system (S).
US10935172B2	Pipe clamp and pipe joint with sensor accommodation A pipe clamp is used to connect pipe ends together and thereby establish a pipe joint. The pipe clamp and pipe joint are designed and constructed to accommodate a sensor bung and/or a sensor equipped at one of the connected pipe ends. The pipe clamp and pipe joint can be of an automotive exhaust application.
US10935171B1	Connecting mechanism and tube assembly A connector assembly for connecting a corrugated tube with a braid mounted on the periphery of the hose to a metal connector, comprises an inner sleeve mounted on the corrugated tube, and an outer sleeve mounted on the inner sleeve, the inner and outer sleeve cooperating with each other to hold the braid between the inner and outer sleeves. The inner and outer sleeves have respective inner and outer tapered surfaces. One of the inner and outer tapered surfaces has one or more portions projecting toward the other of the inner and outer tapered surfaces.
US10935170B2	Conduits for transporting fluids A conduit for transporting a fluid comprises a first collar, a second collar, and a bellows. The bellows comprises a corrugated inboard ply , a first corrugated outboard ply, an interstitial space, interposed between the corrugated inboard ply and the first corrugated outboard ply, and a second corrugated outboard ply within the interstitial space. The first corrugated outboard ply and the corrugated inboard ply are hermetically coupled to the first collar and the second collar. The conduit additionally comprises a first sensor, communicatively coupled with an interstitial space. The second corrugated outboard ply is not hermetically coupled to the first inner collar portion or the second inner collar portion.
US10935169B2	Fiber-reinforced composite material, laminate, pipe, riser pipe, and flow line Provided is a fiber-reinforced composite material having a greater maximum stress, maximum elongation, and tensile modulus, which are determined by a tensile test, than conventional fiber-reinforced composite materials containing a fluororesin as a matrix. The invention relates to a fiber-reinforced composite material including a fluororesin and a reinforcing fiber, the fluororesin containing a tetrafluoroethylene unit and a vinylidene fluoride unit, the tetrafluoroethylene unit representing 55 to 95 mol % of all the monomer units constituting the fluororesin, the vinylidene fluoride unit representing 45 to 5 mol % of all the monomer units constituting the fluororesin.
US10935168B2	Spoolable reinforced thermoplastic pipe for subsea and buried applications A reinforced thermoplastic pipe having a polymeric barrier layer formed about a longitudinal axis; at least one first non-metallic reinforcement layer configured to carry an internal pressure load surrounding the polymeric barrier layer; at least one second non-metallic reinforcement layer configured to carry an axial load surrounding the at least one first reinforcement layer; and a polymeric cover layer surrounding the at least one second reinforcement layer. At least one of the first or second reinforcement layers is braided. In some embodiments, the lay angles of the first and second reinforcement layers are selected to reduce the axial compression force in the pipe in a constrained application. In another embodiment, an interior helical metallic layer around which the polymeric barrier layer is formed, the interior layer being an interlocked metallic carcass, a flat helically wound strip or a helically wound wire.
US10935158B2	Inlet valve locking system for inflatable underwater equipment A valve locking system for inflatable underwater equipment includes an inlet valve positioned inside the main body of a power unit, and a retaining element of the valve also positioned in the main body perpendicularly to the actuation and mounting axis of the valve.
US10935155B2	Electronic expansion valve, control system, and control method Provided are an electronic expansion valve, a control system, and a control method, including: a step motor and a Hall sensor; the step motor includes a rotor and a stator; the rotor includes a permanent magnet; the Hall sensor is provided on the outer periphery of the permanent magnet; the Hall sensor and rotor are arranged in the radial direction, and the stator and Hall sensor are arranged in the axial direction; the main-body part of the Hall sensor is used for sensing the magnetic pole change of said permanent magnet; such a structure reduces the effect that an operating environment has on the Hall sensor when detecting a signal.
US10935150B2	Component mounter A rotary head, on which are arranged in a circumferential direction multiple nozzle holders each holding a suction nozzle, is provided with, separately to first negative pressure supply unit that supplies negative pressure to the suction openings of all the suction nozzles, second negative pressure supply unit that supplies negative pressure to the suction nozzle held by the nozzle holder that is lowerable when that nozzle holder is lowered. Accordingly, when performing pickup operation and mounting operation using the suction nozzle, the state of the suction nozzle is not affected by the state of the other suction nozzles.
US10935148B2	Check valves A check valve comprises an annular housing defining a generally circular opening. A plurality of radially extending arms extend across the circular opening from the centre of the valve housing to respective nodes at the periphery of the valve housing. A plurality of cross arms extend between circumferentially adjacent nodes, thereby dividing the circular opening into a plurality of primary, generally triangular radially inner openings and a plurality of secondary, generally segment shaped radially outer openings. A plurality of primary, generally triangular flapper elements close the primary openings and a plurality of secondary, generally segment shaped flapper elements close the secondary openings. Respective mounting posts are arranged at a respective node and a respective hinge pin is mounted between respective circumferentially adjacent mounting posts.
US10935147B2	Electromagnetically actuated valve An electromagnetically actuated valve. The electromagnetically actuated valve with a small longitudinal extension, allows great through-flow quantities for the fluid with a small pressure difference. It is intended in this case that it should be producible cost-effectively in large unit numbers. An armature carries a plurality of valve bodies arranged in a point-symmetrical manner which together form a movable valve, wherein the plurality of valve bodies interact with a same plurality of valve seats which together form a stationary valve. The valve can be used along with a pump, a tank and/or other fluid units in assemblies for conveying mixtures of gas and liquid.
US10935141B2	Apparatus and method for unitizing split ring halves with holder halves of a clamshell split ring mechanical seal face assembly A clamshell half of a split ring mechanical seal face assembly comprises a split seal ring half having circumferential and proximal surfaces that are seated against corresponding radial and axial support surfaces of a holder half. At least one extending member extends from a hole in the proximal surface to an arcuate slot in the axial support surface, or vice-versa, and thereby radially constrains the split seal ring half to remain unitized with the holder half during clamshell assembly, while permitting rotation of the split seal ring half about a shaft axis over a limited range, which in embodiments is between 2 degrees and 20 degrees. Embodiments further include a secondary seal between the holder half and split seal ring half that frictionally resists displacement of the split seal ring half.
US10935139B2	Dual-ended brush seal assembly and method of manufacture A dual-ended brush seal assembly that may be for turbine engine includes a first structure having a first surface and a second structure having a second surface. A brush seal of the assembly includes a bent bristle pack having a first end in sealing contact with the first surface and an opposite second end in sealing contact with the second surface. The first and second ends project in respective first and second directions that generally traverse one-another.
US10935135B2	Multi-component seal and enclosure A seal (110) for a telecommunications enclosure (100) includes a first body (114) made of a first material. The first body (114) defines a port (112) and the port (112) defines a port axis (113). The first body (114) further includes a first axial face (122), an opposite second axial face (124), and a peripheral surface (126). The peripheral surface (126) surrounds the first body (114) between the first axial face (122) and second axial face (124), and the peripheral surface (126) further surrounds the port. The seal (110) also includes a second body (116) made of a second material. The second body (116) is disposed on at least the peripheral surface (126) of the first body (114). The second material is softer than the first material of the first body (114).
US10935133B2	Jointed plunger assembly and method therefor A jointed plunger assembly has a north end cap, a south end cap, and a body therebetween. The body includes at least one joint segment. In one embodiment, multiple joint segments are provided. Joints are formed throughout the body. In one embodiment, a flex rod is positioned in the north end cap, south end cap, and body. The flex rod is configured to flex and also seal fluid within the assembly, thereby preventing fluid leakage and helping to ensure that pumped fluid is moved upward and away from the pump. The assembly is configured to flex at each joint and is capable of flexing in various directions to follow the contours of the wellbore and the pump barrel. This configuration provides increased efficiency for deviated and horizontal pumping operations and helps the assembly components to wear more evenly, extending plunger life.
US10935132B2	Gear shifting apparatus for multi-speed transmission for electric vehicles A gear shifting apparatus for a multi-speed transmission includes a shifting unit controlling gear shifting by a torque of an actuator and a parking unit controlling a parking state by the torque of the actuator. The actuator includes a control motor transmitting a driving torque to driven gears of the shifting and parking units through a drive gear externally gear-meshed with the driven gears. The shifting unit includes a cam block connected to a first driven gear engaged with the drive gear and having a cam surface on an exterior circumference for shift-stages for controlling gear shifting. In addition, the parking unit includes a parking gear and a parking sprag having an engagement end for controlling engagement and disengagement of a parking state.
US10935122B2	Bearing preload apparatus A bearing preload apparatus may include a gearbox assembly, a coupling assembly, and a sensor assembly. The gearbox assembly may include a gearbox housing, a first shaft and a second shaft. The first and second shafts may extend out of the housing and may be rotatable simultaneously with each other at different speeds. The coupling assembly may include a first driver coupling connected to the first shaft and a second driver coupling connected to the second shaft. The sensor assembly may be mounted to a stationary structure and the gearbox housing. The sensor assembly may measure a reaction torque of the gearbox assembly relative to the stationary structure.
US10935120B2	Axle assembly having a spigot bearing assembly An axle assembly having a spigot bearing assembly. The spigot bearing assembly may extend between a motor housing and a rotor output flange that may be fixedly mounted to a rotor. The spigot bearing assembly may rotatably support the rotor output flange and may inhibit deflection of the rotor. A spigot bearing biasing member may exert a biasing force on the spigot bearing assembly.
US10935119B2	Epicyclic gearing, in particular reduction gearing with an integrated spur gear differential An epicyclic gearing that includes a first set of planet gears arranged on a first planet gear plane, a second set of planet gears arranged on a second planet gear plane, and a planet carrier configured to circulate about a gear axis and including a carrier wall that extends between the first planet gear plane and the second planet gear plane in an intermediate region, and the planet carrier further includes planet pins configured to mount the first or second set of planet gears, wherein a web structure is attached to the carrier wall, wherein the web structure extends in the direction of the gear axis, wherein the web structure includes a support structure that extends radially in relation to the gear axis, and a support structure that includes a hole for receiving a section of a planet gear pin.
US10935117B1	Modular drive unit A hydrostatic transmission assembly includes a first housing member and a housing cap sealed to the first housing member to form a sump wherein a pump and motor are rotatably disposed. A pump mount is located in the sump and engaged to the housing cap. The housing cap also includes a motor mount for an axial piston motor, and hydraulic fluid passages for connecting the pump to the motor. A pocket is located in the housing cap to rotationally support a swash plate for the pump.
US10935110B2	Automatic transmission for vehicle An automatic transmission includes: first, second, and third planetary gear sets each having three rotating elements; seven coupling elements variably providing a frictional force; and seven shafts. In particular, a first shaft is fixedly connected to a second rotating element of the third planetary gear set and an input shaft, a third shaft is fixedly connected to a third rotating element of the second planetary gear set, a fourth shaft is fixedly connected to a first rotating element of the second planetary gear set and a third rotating element of the third planetary gear set, a sixth shaft is directly connected to a first rotating element of the third planetary gear set and a transmission casing, a seventh shaft is fixedly connected to a third rotating element of the first planetary gear set and an output shaft, and remaining two shafts are selectively fixed to the transmission casing.
US10935109B2	Work vehicle transmission and work vehicle having the same A work vehicle transmission includes a first transmission mechanism that changes input motive power to any one of multiple speeds, and a second transmission mechanism that changes the motive power changed by the first transmission mechanism to any one of multiple speeds, the number of speeds of the second transmission mechanism being smaller than that of the first transmission mechanism. Multiple speed change multi-disc clutches of the first transmission mechanism are arranged parallel with multiple deceleration multi-disc clutches of the second transmission mechanism so as to be adjacent in the diameter direction thereof.
US10935103B2	Gripping device A gripping device comprises: at least two end walls located at opposing ends of the device; at least one elongate channel for receiving an elongate element, the longitudinal axis of the or each channel extending between the two end walls; a gripping element; and biasing means for bringing the gripping element into engagement with an elongate element located in the said channel. The gripping element is mounted for translational movement in a slot. A force component exerted on an elongate element located in the said channel causes the gripping element to move in the slot at towards the elongate element. Each end wall includes at least one hole therethrough, a first hole for receipt of an elongate element into the said channel and a second hole for exit of said elongate element from said channel.
US10935102B2	Metal element for continuously variable transmission and method of producing the same A metal element for continuously variable transmission and method of producing the same are provided. A rear surface of a metal element includes first contact parts formed at top positions on the outer side in the radial direction of a saddle surface on left and right sides of an ear part, a second contact part formed in a neck part, and third contact parts formed at a top position of the saddle surface on left and right sides of the body part. In a chord on the driving force transmission side of the metal belt, the first to third contact parts are able to be brought into contact with a front surface of another metal element adjacent to the rear side. A plate thickness of the metal element at the second contact part is smaller than the first contact part and is larger than the third contact part.
US10935101B2	Torsional vibration damper having a bearing device A viscous torsional vibration damper includes: a) an annular damper housing, which bounds a damper chamber; b) an inertia ring arranged in the damper chamber; c) a bearing device, which supports the inertia ring in the damper housing and which has at least one bearing element with an axial bearing region and/or a radial bearing region, d) a shear gap between the inertia ring and the damper housing, which shear gap is filled with a viscous fluid, e) wherein a plurality of the axial bearing segments and/or a plurality of the radial bearing segments is circumferentially distributed on the at least one bearing element.
US10935097B2	Canted coil spring with longitudinal component within and related methods A coil spring for use in a cavity, such as in a groove of a pin, a housing, or both. The cavity can also be part of a seal assembly. The coil spring can have a longitudinal component positioned within the plurality of interconnected coils that runs along the spring coil axis in order to increase rigidity of the coil spring. The longitudinal component applies a load against the coil spring and/or provides restriction against the coil spring taking a shape or size different than that of the coil spring retaining groove.
US10935093B2	Active brake cooling using nitrogen enriched air In some examples, a brake cooling system including a brake assembly including at least one brake pad configured to deaccelerate the vehicle during an active braking procedure, a controller configured to monitor a temperature of the at least one brake pad, an onboard inert gas generation system (OBIGGS) configured to receive air and produce a nitrogen enriched air (NEA), a NEA supply conduit connected to the OBIGGS and configured to deliver the NEA from the OBIGGS to the brake assembly, and a NEA control valve coupled to the NEA supply conduit. The controller, in response to detecting the temperature of the at least one brake pad exceeds a threshold value during the active braking procedure, operates the NEA control valve to control the flow of the NEA passing through the NEA supply conduit and delivered to the at least one brake pad.
US10935088B2	Vehicle driving device In a coasting control process, an ECU increases line pressure PL of a hydraulic path to predetermined pressure P1 such that discharge pressure of an MOP becomes higher than that before a C1 clutch is disengaged at timing when an executing condition of coasting control is satisfied (time t=t1). According to such coasting control process, driving torque of the MOP increases, so that deceleration (deceleration G) caused by driving of the MOP by a drive wheel becomes larger than that in conventional coasting control in which the discharge pressure of the MOP is not increased. As a result, it is possible to inhibit a driver from feeling discomfort due to free-running feeling generated during the coasting control.
US10935087B2	Clutch assembly A clutch assembly for driveline components is provided. The ball ramp having first and second ball ramp members and at least one ball is provided. The first ball ramp member of the ball ramp is in operational communication with an input member to the clutch assembly. A first set of plates of a clutch pack are in operational communication with the input member and a second set of plates of the clutch pack are in operational communication with an output member. A sprag clutch assembly that is operationally coupled to the second ball ramp member of the ball ramp, only allows the second ball ramp member of the ball ramp to rotate in first direction. A thrust bearing that is in operational communication with the second ball ramp member of the ball ramp selectively disengages the clutch pack when the output member rotates in a second direction.
US10935085B2	Switchable roller one-way clutch A switchable one-way clutch is provided for selectively switching between operating as a one-way clutch and a bi-directional locking clutch. The clutch includes a housing, and an outer race and an inner race, which is fixed rotationally to the housing. The clutch also includes a roller cage assembly having a plurality of rollers contactable with the inner race and the outer race. A roller cage is configured to position and contain the plurality of rollers therein. The clutch also includes an annular drag plate contacting the inner race. The drag plate is rotationally fixed to the roller cage and is moveable in an axial direction relative to the roller cage. An electromagnet assembly is configured to magnetize in response to electric energy. Via selective magnetization to attract the drag plate axially, the clutch can switch between operating modes.
US10935082B2	Synchronizer device for a manual transmission A synchronizer device for a manual transmission, having a shaft and a selector gear that is mounted on the shaft. The synchronizer device includes a hub, which can be connected to the shaft in a rotationally locked fashion, a slider sleeve, which is supported on the hub in a rotationally locked fashion, and can be slid in the axial direction, a locking element that is designed to limit the slidability of the slider sleeve in a locked position, a friction package, which has an outer synchro ring, an inner synchro ring, and an intermediate ring.
US10935081B2	Clutch device A clutch device is disclosed. The present device includes a driven plate having an annular shape and a clutch center. The driven plate includes a plurality of engaging recesses. The clutch center is rotatable about an rotational axis and makes the driven plate movable in an axial direction and non-rotatable relatively thereto when the driven plate is assembled thereto. Additionally, the clutch center includes a body having a cylindrical shape, one or more first teeth and one or more protruding teeth as a guide portion. The one or more first teeth are provided on the body and are configured to engage with the engaging recesses of the driven plate. The one or more protruding teeth function as a slide guide when the driven plate is slid onto the clutch center so as to be assembled thereto.
US10935080B2	Extended housing sleeve with stiffening ring feature A sleeve for a bearing damper comprising a cylinder shaped body having a forward end opposite an aft end, the body including an interior surface opposite an exterior surface, the body configured insertable between a bearing proximate the interior surface and a housing proximate the exterior surface; a ring portion proximate the forward end, the ring portion having an outer diameter larger than a diameter of the body; and an extension portion configured to provide an active damper surface extending beyond the housing.
US10935076B2	Journal bearing assembly with dual oil cavities A gas turbine engine comprising a gearbox, the gearbox having gear(s). A journal bearing assembly rotatably supports the gear, the journal bearing assembly having at least a pin, and a journal having a tubular body defining a pin-receiving inner cavity having an inner surface, a first cavity and a second cavity defined in the inner surface of the pin-receiving inner cavity, a rib support located between the first cavity and the second cavity, the rib support being aligned with a longitudinal center of the tubular body, with the first cavity and the second cavity on opposed axial sides of the rib support.
US10935071B2	Motor and valve drive device There is provided a motor including a rotor having a magnet fixed to the outer periphery of a rotor main body, a spindle for rotatably supporting the rotor via the rotor main body, a first bearing unit provided at one end side of the rotor in a longitudinal direction of the spindle, and a second bearing unit provided at the other end side of the rotor in the longitudinal direction of the spindle. The first bearing unit slidably contacts the spindle with a set clearance, and the second bearing unit includes an elastic bearing unit slidably contacting the spindle in a state of being elastically pressed against the spindle. When the first bearing unit is defined as a bearing unit at the one end side in the longitudinal direction of the spindle, the elastic bearing unit is configured to be located as a bearing unit at the other end side.
US10935065B2	Method for setting a screw A method for setting a screw, which has an external thread in a front region and a drive in a rear region for introducing a torque into the screw, in a drilled hole in a substrate of a mineral material includes producing an internal thread in the drilled hole by a threaded drill provided with a cutting thread and then introducing the screw into the drilled hole and in so doing the external thread of the screw is screwed into the internal thread, produced by the threaded drill, in the drilled hole. The external diameter of the cutting thread of the threaded drill is smaller than the external diameter of the external thread of the screw.
US10935061B2	Three-sided corner assembly A corner assembly for interconnecting first and second frame members. A first plate member includes an outer face having a mounting rail projecting therefrom which is receivable in a slot in the first frame member and a bolt-receiving bore therethrough extending along a first axis at an acute angle to the outer face. A second plate member includes an outer face generally perpendicular to the outer face of the first plate member and having a mounting rail projecting therefrom which is receivable in a slot in a second frame member. The second plate member including a bolt-receiving bore therethrough extending along a second axis at an acute angle to the outer face of the second plate member. A central portion interconnects the first and second plate members and has a mounting surface and a bore extending therethrough. The mounting surface including an alignment rail projecting therefrom. A corner has a first sidewall configured to abut a terminal end of the first frame member, a second sidewall configured to abut a terminal end of the second frame member, and a mounting wall having a slot therein adapted for receiving the alignment rail of the central portion.
US10935060B2	Splice plate for cable tray fitting A fitting splice plate connects a cable tray fitting to a cable tray section. The fitting splice plate includes a guard extending in an outboard direction from a second longitudinal portion of a plate body adjacent a first longitudinal portion of the plate body. The guard is adjacent one of an upper side and a lower side of the second longitudinal portion. The fitting splice plate may include both upper and lower guards.
US10935054B2	Butterfly rotary piston type actuator The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, an articulated joint includes a first rotary actuator having a first housing defining a first arcuate chamber comprising a first cavity, and an arcuate-shaped first piston having a first radius of curvature and disposed in said first housing for reciprocal movement in the first arcuate chamber, a second rotary actuator having a second housing defining a second arcuate chamber comprising a second cavity, and an arcuate-shaped second piston having a second radius of curvature and disposed in said second housing for reciprocal movement in the second arcuate chamber, wherein a first radial side of the first piston relative to the first radius of curvature is in bearing contact with a first radial side of the second piston relative to the second radius of curvature at a contact point between the first axis and the second axis.
US10935052B2	Safety valve and method for controlling a hydraulic circuit Described herein is a safety valve for a hydraulic circuit comprising a pump designed to supply a hydraulic fluid at a first pressure value to a pressure line, comprising: a chamber, which can be fluidically connected to the pressure line and is filled with the hydraulic fluid at a pressure value and a temperature value; and a casing with an opening, which can be connected to a reservoir of the hydraulic circuit; a shutter, which delimits the first chamber and can be displaced between a first position, in which it occludes the first opening, and a second position, in which it leaves the opening at least in part free; the valve comprises a thermally expandable element, which can be displaced, as a result of the temperature of the hydraulic fluid, between a first configuration that it assumes when the temperature of the hydraulic fluid is below the threshold value and a second configuration that it assumes when the temperature of the hydraulic fluid is above the temperature threshold value and in which it holds or displaces the first shutter in or towards the second position so as to reduce the pressure in the first chamber.
US10935049B2	Axial outlet centrifugal-type blower device with noise reducing space A bladed wheel of a blower device has a main plate, a side plate and multiple fan blades between the main plate and the side plate. A fan casing of the blower device has a bell mouth portion and a guide wall portion, which extends in a radial-outward direction from an axial rear-side end of the bell mouth portion to an outer periphery of the side plate. An air reflecting space is formed in the fan casing at a radial-outside position of the guide wall portion and at an axial front-side position of the fan casing between an axial rear-side end of the guide wall portion and an axial front-end wall portion of the fan casing. Air blown out from the bladed wheel flows through an air blow-out passage, wherein sound wave of the air from the bladed wheel and sound wave of the air from the air reflecting space interfere with each other so that noise is decreased.
US10935048B2	Gas turbine engine front center body architecture In one exemplary embodiment, a center body support for a gas turbine engine includes a fan exit guide vane mounting ring and an outer annular wall. An aft flange extends radially outward from the outer annular wall. An inner annular wall is radially spaced from and structurally interconnected to the outer annular wall by a circumferential array of struts. A brace interconnects the aft flange to a forward portion of the outer annular wall. The aft flange includes inner and outer mounting features spaced radially apart from one another. The inner and outer mounting feature respectively receive first and second sets of fasteners. The forward portion extends in a radially outward direction from the outer annular wall. The forward portion includes a forward mounting feature that receives a third set of fasteners. The outer and forward mounting features are secured to the fan exit guide vane mounting ring respectively by the first and third sets of fasteners. Forward, outer and inner mounting features define a triangular cross-sectional shape. The forward portion has a radial inner end opposite a radial outer end. The brace is joined at the radial outer end. The brace transfers an axial load from the aft flange to the radial outer end of the forward portion.
US10935047B2	Compact air moving device An air moving device includes an outer casing comprising an outer diameter, an inner portion defining a flow path, an inlet portion defining an inlet cross-sectional area, and an opposing outlet portion defining an outlet cross-sectional area. A motor assembly is disposed within the outer casing, and a hub and blade assembly is secured to a shaft on the motor assembly. The air moving device further includes a de-swirl vane package. The package includes a plurality of de-swirl vanes disposed in the flow path. The blades are characterized by one or more resonant frequencies, and a potential excitation source of the blade resonant frequencies is a flow path obstruction comprising a plurality of objects substantially equally spaced about the circumference of the flow path. The flow path obstruction is characterized by a periodic frequency. The periodic frequency differs from the blade resonant frequencies by a safety margin of at least 20%.
US10935042B2	Fan blade mounting structure for ceiling fan, and ceiling fan having same A ceiling fan blade mounting structure includes a blade holding base and a fastening assembly. The blade holding base includes a plurality of connection members spaced apart from each other. The fastening assembly includes a wedging member, a rotating block, and a fastening member. The wedging member is fastened with one of the plurality of connection members. A first end of the rotating block is rotatably connected to the wedging member. A first end of the fastening member is rotatably connected to a second end of the rotating block. The fastening member is configured to rotate about the rotating block to cause a second end of the fastening member to be fastened with another one of the plurality of connection members.

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