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US10339336B2	Method and apparatus for encrypting database columns One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates encryption of data within a column of a database. The system operates by first receiving a command to perform a database operation. Next, the system parses the command to create a parse tree. The system then examines the parse tree to determine if a column referenced in the parse tree is an encrypted column. If a column referenced in the parse tree is an encrypted column, the system automatically transforms the command to include one or more cryptographic commands to facilitate accessing the encrypted column while performing the database operation.
US10339334B2	Augmented reality captcha Aspects of the embodiments are directed to an augmented reality Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (“captcha”). Upon determining that a user, operating a user device, is attempting to access a website, a host server can cause a camera on the user device to activate and begin streaming and image feed to the host device across a network. The host device can determine an appropriate augmentation to the image feed that is germane to the context and/or environment of what is being displayed in the image feed. The augmentation can be displayed to the user on a display of the user device. The augmentation can also include a prompt instructing the user how to interact with the augmentation. The host server can determine whether to grant the user access based on the user's interaction with the augmentation.
US10339332B1	Containerized build steps A method includes receiving a build request containing build step instructions from a user. The build step instructions specify a usage of containers within memory hardware for building an output container. The containers include at least one private container having private contents and/or at least one public container having public contents. The method also includes authenticating the user initiating the build request and determining whether the user is authorized to access the private containers. When the user is authenticated and authorized to access the private containers, the method includes obtaining the containers specified by the build step instructions from the memory hardware, executing the build step instructions to build the output container while using the received containers, and outputting the built output container.
US10339330B2	Data aggregation system for enabling query operations on restricted data that originates from multiple independent multiple sources Examples described herein relate to a data aggregation system for enabling query operations on restricted data that originates from multiple independent sources.
US10339317B2	Computing devices Disclosed herein are embodiments related to security in cloudlet environments. In some embodiments, for example, a computing device (e.g., a cloudlet) may include: a trusted execution environment; a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) to request a Key Encryption Key (KEK) from the trusted execution environment; and a Self-Encrypting Storage (SES) associated with the KEK; wherein the trusted execution environment is to verify the BIOS and provide the KEK to the BIOS subsequent to verification of the BIOS, and the BIOS is to provide the KEK to the SES to unlock the SES for access by the trusted execution environment.
US10339314B2	Device, method and storage medium for terminating operation of software that is not successfully verified A device includes: a memory configured to store in advance a command transmitted from malware to hardware via an operating system; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: hook a first command transmitted from the operating system to the hardware, and transmit information that causes the malware to determine to terminate operation of the malware to the operating system when the hooked first command corresponds with the command stored in the memory.
US10339313B2	System and method for bypassing a malware infected driver Aspects of the present disclosure relate to setting up an alternate communication path to a device, resource, file, etc., in order to avoid a potentially infected driver. New drivers may be established as part of the alternate communications path, thereby providing access to a device, resource, etc. using drivers that are known to be clean or, in other words, not infected by a rootkit. In doing so, a rootkit hunter, e.g., antivirus software, antimalware software, etc., may access an infected device, resource, etc. without alerting a rootkit, thereby avoiding activation of the rootkit's defensive mechanisms. In one aspect, an I/O request may be serviced by using the new communications path bypassing any potentially infected drivers while another request may be serviced using a previously established communications path. The responses (e.g., data returned, action performed, etc.) of the requests may then be compared.
US10339309B1	System for identifying anomalies in an information system A system for identifying anomalies in an information system is typically configured for: collecting information regarding a hierarchy of capabilities, a hierarchy of resources, capability instances, and resource instances of the information system; storing, in a graph database, nodes corresponding to the hierarchy of capabilities, hierarchy of resources, capability instances, and resource instances; collecting information regarding relationships among the hierarchy of capabilities, hierarchy of resources, capability instances, and resource instances; defining, in the graph database, edges corresponding to the relationships among the hierarchy of capabilities, hierarchy of resources, capability instances, and resource instances; collecting event and/or state data for the information system; comparing the event and/or state data to the graph database and determining that an event and/or state is anomalous; and, in response to determining that the event and/or state is anomalous, taking an information security action.
US10339302B2	Creating multiple workspaces in a device Embodiments relate to a system that includes a managed application and a workspace manager that are executable by a computing device. The workspace manager obtains a component invocation message from the managed application and determines whether the component invocation message is intended to invoke a public component in a workspace managed by the workspace manger. The workspace manager provides an instruction to the managed application in response to determining whether the component invocation message is intended to invoke the public component in the workspace managed by the workspace manager.
US10339299B1	Runtime management of application components Techniques are described for runtime checking of function metadata prior to execution of a function in an environment. An application may include any appropriate number of components at one or more levels in a hierarchical arrangement, and each component may be packaged with metadata that describes the component. A function, or any component, may be packaged with metadata that includes term(s) governing the usage of the function. The term(s) may be checked, at runtime, during execution of the application to determine whether the function is to be executed. A function may also be hashed at runtime for verification of function version. Function(s) may be individually and independently executed as containerized nano functions within the environment.
US10339298B2	Weak password support in a multi-user environment Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for supporting weak password authentication in a multi-user application environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for supporting weak password authentication in a multi-user application environment can be provided. The method can include acquiring log in data for a log in attempt by an end user amongst end users in a multi-user application. The method also can include messaging the log in data to others of the end users for subjective analysis by the others of the end users in detecting an unauthorized log in attempt.
US10339289B2	System and method for sharing of data securely between electronic devices A system for securely sharing data and conducting transactions in an electronic environment. The system may include a personal information device having a processor, memory and biometric sensor. Personal data is stored in the memory of the personal information device. The personal information device may be registered with a centralized system. Data stored on the personal information device may be uploaded to an access device upon verification of a user's identity using a biometric recognition technique.
US10339288B2	User authentication for mobile devices using behavioral analysis Usage patterns of an authentic user of a mobile device are generated from data collected representing usage by the authentic user. These usage patterns may then be compared to monitored usage of the mobile device. If usage of the mobile device exceeds a threshold based on one or more of the usage patterns, access to data on the mobile device can be prevented.
US10339286B2	Managing permissions Among other things, a user interface page is served to a first user of an application, and features are exposed to the first user on the user interface page that enable the first user to select and assign independently to each of one or more other users of the application features of a permitted feature set.
US10339268B2	System and method for cytopathological and genetic data based treatment protocol identification and tracking A user interface including a present patient data field, a care team field, a disease identification field, and a plurality of fields presenting data including one or more of imaging data, cytopathological data, genetic information and treatment options for an identified target of the present patient based on a correlation of similarities in data from a plurality of prior patients and the data for the identified target of the present patient. The user interface may further include a diagnosis field and/or a field presenting literature or other information relevant to the diagnosis. Additionally, the user interface may further include a field presenting function data of the present patient. The function data may provide details regarding the health of the present patient or details on the health of the organ in which the target is located.
US10339265B2	Method and systems for off-line control for simulation of coupled hybrid dynamic systems Systems and methods are provided for controlling the simulation of a coupled hybrid dynamic system. A physical test rig configured to drive the physical structure component of the system and to generate a test rig response as a result of applying a test rig drive signal. A processor is configured with a virtual model of a complementary system to the physical structure component. The processor receives the test rig response and generates a response of the complementary system based on a received test rig response. The system can be driven with a random input. The processor compares the test rig response with the response of the complementary system, the difference being used to form a system dynamic response model.
US10339253B2	Method of yield prejudgment and bump re-assignment and computer readable storage medium A method of yield prejudgment and bump re-assignment for a die is provided. The die includes a plurality of areas. Each area is electrically connected to a substrate through a corresponding bump. The successful-connection probability of each area is prejudged. The die is divided into a signal region and a short-circuit region according to the successful-connection probabilities. The positions of the bumps are arranged so that signal bumps are disposed in the signal region and power bumps are disposed in the short region.
US10339247B2	Simulating effects of temperature on acoustic microwave filters A method of designing an acoustic microwave filter comprises generating a proposed filter circuit design having an acoustic resonant element with a defined admittance value, introducing a lumped capacitive element in parallel and a lumped inductive element in series with the resonant element, selecting a first capacitance value for the capacitive element and a first inductance value for the inductive element, thereby creating a first temperature modeled filter circuit design, simulating the first temperature modeled filter circuit design at a first operating temperature, thereby generating a first frequency response, selecting a second capacitance value for the capacitive element and a second inductance value for the inductive element, thereby creating a second temperature modeled filter circuit design, simulating the second temperature modeled filter circuit design at a second operating temperature, thereby generating a second frequency response, and comparing the first and second frequency responses to the frequency response requirements.
US10339243B2	Method and apparatus for automatic hierarchical design partitioning A method for designing a system on a target device is disclosed. The system is synthesized. The system is partitioned into a plurality of logical sections utilizing information derived from synthesizing the system and prior to performing placement of the system on the target device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10339236B2	Techniques for improving computational throughput by using virtual machines A computer implemented method receives a request to run a group of instruction sets. Each instruction set is associated with a sequence of common instructions. The method executes the sequence of common instructions in a first virtual machine (VM) to generate a result which is stored in a first memory associated with the first VM. The method then clones a second VM that shares the first memory with the first VM. The method continues by executing a first instruction set in the second VM. Since the second VM shares memory with the first VM, the second VM can use the result stored in the first memory and the sequence of common instructions does not need to be executed on the second VM. In one example, the result is a run-time model of a circuit and the second VM runs the first instruction set on the run-time model.
US10339235B1	Massively parallel processing (MPP) large-scale combination of time series data Methods and apparatus are provided for performing massively parallel processing (MPP) large-scale combinations of time series data. A given working compute node in a distributed computing environment obtains a given group of time series data of a plurality of groups of time series data; generates a measurement matrix for the given group based on a plurality of selected time series and a plurality of time lags of the selected time series; processes the measurement matrix to generate a first linear model with a predefined number of first independent selected variables; assigns a score to each first independent selected variable; and provides the first independent selected variables and assigned scores to a master compute node that ranks the first independent selected variables for all groups from all working computing nodes according to assigned scores; selects a predefined number of second independent selected variables based on a final rank to create a final group of time series; and processes the final group of time series to generate a final linear model.
US10339233B2	Calculating thicknesses of applied coating material Systems and a method for calculating thickness values of a coating material applied by a coating gun on object surfaces in industrial processes include measuring, on real test surfaces, the thickness values of coating material samples applied by the coating gun on the real test surfaces. The measured thickness values are used to generate 3D virtual objects modeling the coating dispersions of the coating gun at given angles formed between the coating gun and the test surface. The thickness values of the coating material applied on the surface of a simulated object by a simulated gun at a certain angle are calculated by detecting the collision between the 3D virtual object mounted on the simulated coating gun and surface elements of the simulated object surface.
US10339230B2	Simulation apparatus and method of an article and a conveyor in a 3D simulated space A computing method for a simulation in which an article, a conveyor, and a table are plotted in a three dimensional simulated space, and in which the conveyor conveys the article includes setting a priority representing a degree at which the lifter is handled as a single unit as the article higher than another priority representing a degree at which the table is handled as a single unit as the article when the lifter moves the article placed on the table upwardly, and setting the priority representing a degree at which the lifter is handled as a single unit as the article lower than the priority representing a degree at which the table is handled as a single unit as the article when the lifter conveying the article moves downwardly below the table.
US10339226B2	System and method for defining watertight and locally refinable surfaces with interpolatory control points A method for creating a watertight boundary between two graphical elements including the steps of displaying a first surface having a first shape and a second surface having a second shape on the display, an open space existing between the first surface and the second surface, defining a first region of the first surface, and defining a second region of the second surface, and modifying the first surface to a modified first surface such that the first region matches with the second region and the modified first surface and the second surface form a watertight connection at a modified first region and the second region, the step of modifying including geometrically matching the first region of the first surface with the second region of the second surface to establish the modified first region.
US10339221B2	Auto-completion and auto-correction of cryptic language commands with dynamic learning of syntax rules Systems, methods and computer program products for dynamic language learning and solving auto-correction and auto-completion tasks. By means of a computer, knowledge about the syntax of a Cryptic language is extracted from a training data set of Cryptic commands. This knowledge is stored in an n-gram tree forest. The information of the n-gram trees is then used to facilitate human computer interaction and return improved auto-completion and auto-correction suggestions.
US10339218B1	Customizing display of content related to dictionary entries Techniques for customizing a display of content related to dictionary entries are described herein. In one example, a user selects a word from a rendered electronic book. In response, the device outputs a dictionary user interface that includes display elements associated with a particular user. Preferences of a user may be utilized to determine what content (e.g., what display elements) to display within the dictionary UI as well as how the content is to be displayed. The preferences may be user-specified and/or learned from user behavior. For instance, a machine learning mechanism may be used to determine what content is the most interesting to a user.
US10339216B2	Method and apparatus for selecting among competing models in a tool for building natural language understanding models Selecting a grammar for use in a machine question-answering system, such as a Natural Language Understanding System, can be difficult for non-experts in such grammars. A tool, according to an example embodiment, can compare annotations of sample sentences, performed correctly by a human, the annotations having intents and mentions, against annotations performed by multiple grammars. Each grammar can be scored, and the system can select the best scored grammar for the user. In one embodiment, a method of selecting a grammar includes comparing manually-generated annotations against machine-generated annotations as a function of a given grammar among multiple grammars. The method can further include applying scores to the machine-generated annotations that are a function of weightings of the intents and mentions. The method can additionally include recommending whether to employ the given grammar based on the scores.
US10339214B2	Structured term recognition A method, system and computer program product for recognizing terms in a specified corpus. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing a set of known terms t∈T, each of the known terms t belonging to a set of types Γ (t)={γ1, . . . }, wherein each of the terms is comprised of a list of words, t=w1, w2, . . . , wn, and the union of all the words for all the terms is a word set W. The method further comprises using the set of terms T and the set of types to determine a set of pattern-to-type mappings p→γ; and using the set of pattern-to-type mappings to recognize terms in the specified corpus and, for each of the recognized terms in the specified corpus, to recognize one or more of the types γ for said each recognized term.
US10339212B2	Detecting the bounds of borderless tables in fixed-format structured documents using machine learning Techniques are disclosed for detecting the bounds of borderless open tables in fixed-format structured documents, such as PDF documents, and grouping text lines into predicted borderless tables. The target document comprises a set of text lines each having a respective vertical and horizontal position in the target document. A sorted list of the text lines is generated based upon a vertical and horizontal position of each text line in the target document. For each text line in the sorted list, a respective probability that the text line in the sorted list belongs to a borderless table is then determined. According to one embodiment, the probability may be determined using a classifier that may employ a logistic regression algorithm.
US10339208B2	Electronic documentation The electronic documentation system disclosed herein allows displaying a source document and a destination document side by side in two sections of a graphical user interface. A user may select content from the source document, such as a citation, to be linked to a selected content of the destination document. Furthermore, the user may also annotate the selected content from the destination document. The system allows generating an annotated final document including the source document including a link at the selected source document content to the annotated content of the destination document and a portion of the destination document including at least the annotated content of the destination document.
US10339207B2	Identifying a functional fragment of a document object model tree A functional fragment of a document object model (DOM) tree is identified based on detecting at least one handler associated with at least one corresponding element of the DOM tree. In response to determining that the identified functional fragment matches a previously processed functional fragment, the identified functional fragment is excluded from further processing.
US10339192B1	Systems and methods for matching buzzwords in a client management system A method includes providing a server including a memory and a processor coupled to the memory; defining a plurality of databases in the memory, the databases including fields for respective client matters, and the databases including a plurality of notes for respective matters, the notes including text, and the databases including a plurality of buzzwords; associating respective buzzwords with descriptive pages; generating a user interface including a text editing screen area in which a user can type text for a note, the text including a plurality of terms; comparing terms to the buzzwords and, in response to a term matching a buzzword, indicating that the matching term is a buzzword in the user interface; and displaying the descriptive page associated with the typed buzzword in response to the user interacting with the buzzword indicating area of the user interface.
US10339191B2	Method of and a system for processing a search query There is disclosed a method of and system for performing a search responsive to a search query from a user via an electronic device and generating a search engine result page (SERP) responsive to the search query, in which the search results included in the SERP are ranked in part based upon an appeal factor. The method comprising: receiving the search query from the electronic device of the user, performing a search and creating a list of search results, ranking the list of search results, the ranking process including: accessing a screenshot of at least one web page in the list of search results, determining an appeal factor of the at least one web page based on the screenshot, the appeal factor representing a probability that the web page is appealing to the user, and ranking the at least one web page in the list of search results.
US10339190B2	Question answering using entity references in unstructured data Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for collective reconciliation. In some implementations, a query is received, wherein the query is associated at least in part with a type of entity. One or more search results are generated based at least in part on the query. Previously generated data is retrieved associated with at least one search result of the one or more of search results, the data comprising one or more entity references in the at least one search result corresponding to the type of entity. The one or more entity references are ranked, and an entity result is selected from the one or more entity references based at least in part on the ranking. An answer to the query is provided based at least in part on the entity result.
US10339180B2	Preventing biased queries by using a dictionary of cause and effect terms A method, computer system, and computer program product for eliminating confirmation bias in a user search query is provided. The present invention may include receiving a user-entered search query from an open ended-search tool. The invention may also include identifying a field associated with the received user-entered search query. The invention may further include creating a dictionary based on the identified field. The invention may also include determining the received user-entered search query relates to an effect by parsing the created dictionary. The invention may further include identifying one or more causes associated with the effect by parsing the created dictionary. The invention may also include generating a plurality of suggested search queries based on the one or more identified causes.
US10339163B2	Dynamic clustering for streaming data In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for modeling multi-dimensional, dynamically evolving data using dynamic clustering. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a core group of clusters of objects, each object being represented by a corresponding instance of a multi-dimensional feature vector including a dimension k; receiving a stream of data points representing a group of objects, each data point respectively representing an instance of dimension k describing a feature of an object within the group of objects; and, for each data point, adding an object described by the data point to a first cluster of objects within the core group of clusters; updating properties of the first cluster of objects in response to adding the object; and determining whether to update the core group of clusters using the updated properties of the first cluster of objects.
US10339162B2	Identifying security-related events derived from machine data that match a particular portion of machine data Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize and build understandings of machine data generated by a variety of information-processing environments. Machine data is a product of information-processing systems (e.g., activity logs, configuration files, messages, database records) and represents the evidence of particular events that have taken place and been recorded in raw data format. In one embodiment, machine data is turned into a machine data web by organizing machine data into events and then linking events together.
US10339154B2	Decentralized image management Various embodiments of systems and methods for decentralized image management are described herein. The method includes generating, distributing, and retrieving images on peer-to-peer network. Request for generating an image is received. One or more components/layers of a to-be-generated image is identified. A layer is stored as a file. Files corresponding to the layers are packaged as an image file representing the image. The packaged image file and/or files of respective layers are distributed across the network, e.g., across a plurality of available nodes upon receiving a distribution command/request. When a request for retrieving the image is received, the nodes storing the one or more layers of the image are identified. The layers are retrieved from the identified one or more nodes. Using the retrieved one or more layers, the image is recreated/generated.
US10339149B2	Determining and providing quantity of unique values existing for a field A method, system, and processor-readable storage medium are directed towards generating a report derived from data, such as event data, stored on a plurality of distributed nodes. In one embodiment the analysis is generated using a “divide and conquer” algorithm, such that each distributed node analyzes locally stored event data while an aggregating node combines these analysis results to generate the report. In one embodiment, each distributed node also transmits a list of event data references associated with the analysis result to the aggregating node. The aggregating node may then generate a global ordered list of data references based on the list of event data references received from each distributed node. Subsequently, in response to a user selection of a range of global event data, the report may dynamically retrieve event data from one or more distributed nodes for display according to the global order.
US10339142B2	Window management in a stream computing environment Disclosed aspects relate to window management in a stream computing environment to process a stream of tuples using a window of the stream computing environment. A set of tuples which corresponds to the window of the stream computing environment may be detected. The set of tuples may have a set of data. A confidence factor related to a set of expected result data for the set of tuples may be determined based on the set of data of the set of tuples. The set of tuples may correspond to the window of the stream computing environment. The window may be configured in the stream computing environment based on the confidence factor. The window may be configured in the stream computing environment to process the stream of tuples.
US10339138B2	System and a method for determining an index of an object in a sequence of objects A computer-implemented method for determining an index of an object in a sequence of objects. It is frequently needed to determine an index of an object in a sequence for example in order to request the next object in the sequence. Typically, databases do not include nested records that reference previous/next records. The method provides an improved process for determining an index of an object in a sequence of objects, which may also, in case of no exact match for requested object, provide an index of the object closest to the requested one.
US10339115B2	Method for associating item values, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and information processing device An information processing device receives data that includes a plurality of items and an item value associated therewith, displays a matrix in which the items included in the data being received are arranged in either one of a row direction or a column direction, and one or more candidate items for an association destination with which a part or all of the items are associated, are arranged in the other direction; receives specification of a set of any item in the items and any item in the one or more candidate items for the association destination, by specification of a position on the matrix, using the processor; and stores a value of an item that is associated with the position having been specified among the items, in a storage unit, in association with an item that is associated with the position having been specified among the candidate items for the association destination.
US10339111B2	Cloned virtual machine disk replication One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for replicating virtual machine disk clones. For example, a first storage controller, hosting first storage, may have a synchronous replication relationship with a second storage controller hosting second storage. A virtual machine, within the first storage, may be specified as having synchronous replication protection. Accordingly, virtual machine disk clones of a virtual machine disk of the virtual machine may be replicated from the first storage to the second storage. For example, virtual machine disk clones may be synchronous replicated, replicated by a resync process invoked by a hypervisor agent, and/or stored and replicated from a clone backup directory.
US10339110B2	Policy-based selection and configuration of target site resources for data replication Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a source site management server receiving, from first and second potential target site management servers, characteristics of the first and second potential target sites that affect replication of data from the source site to each potential target site. The source site management server receives selection of one or more criteria to be met in the selection of a target site for replication of data. The source site management server determines which potential target site is a better match for the received criteria based upon a comparison of the received criteria with the received characteristics of the target sites. The source site management server configures, automatically in response to the determination, the selected site as the target site for replication of data within the source site.
US10339105B2	Relay server and storage medium A relay server configured to relay service provision from a service provision server to a communication apparatus. The relay server is configured to perform receiving, in a case that a predetermined instruction is provided to the communication apparatus, a request for specific screen data from the communication apparatus, receiving, in a case that the request for the specific screen data is received, first folder relation information related to a first folder, which is a target folder of past data communication, from a database separately configured from the service provision server and the communication apparatus, generating the specific screen data by which a folder name of the first folder received by using the first folder relation information is preferentially displayed on the communication apparatus, and supplying the generated specific screen data to the communication apparatus.
US10339102B2	Automating script creation for a log file In a computer-implemented method for automating script creation for a log file, a log file for a component is displayed. A selection of a string within the log file is received. At least one operation to be performed on the log file using the string is received. The at least one operation is performed on the log file using the string. A script based on the operation and the string is automatically created. The script is stored such that it is accessible for use in other log files.
US10339092B2	Wireless gigabit alliance (WIGIG) accessories Example implementations relate to wireless gigabit alliance (WiGig) enabled computing systems including WiGig accessories. In one example, a WiGig accessory includes a connector to couple the WiGig accessory to a universal serial bus (USB) port of a computing device that is separate and distinct from the WiGig accessory, and a WiGig component to form a WiGig enabled communication system having a wireless peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) communication capability when coupled to the computing device.
US10339088B2	System and method to blacklist equalization coefficients in a high-speed serial interface A serial interface comprises a receiver including a first input compensation module with a first setting that selects a first value from among a plurality of first values for a first input characteristic of the receiver, a memory to store a first blacklist value from among the first values, and a control module to select each of the first values, except for the first blacklist value, to evaluate an indication of a performance level of the receiver for each of the selected first values, and to select a particular first value based upon the indications of the performance level of the receiver.
US10339084B2	Communication system, management apparatus, and controlling apparatus A communication system includes a communication apparatus comprising a plurality of first connectors; a controlling apparatus that comprises a plurality of second connectors; a first gathering unit that gathers first identifiers for the respective communication cables coupled to the plurality of first connectors of the communication apparatus; a second gathering unit that gathers second identifiers for the respective communication cables coupled to the plurality of second connectors of the controlling apparatus; and a connection normality determining unit that determines whether or not the communication cables that connect between the controlling apparatus and the communication apparatus are connected properly, by comparing the first identifiers with the second identifiers.
US10339082B2	Technologies for stable secure channel identifier mapping for static and dynamic devices Technologies for secure channel identifier mapping include a computing device having an I/O controller that may connect to one or more I/O devices. The computing device determines a device path to an I/O device that may be used to identify the I/O device. The computing device identifies a firmware method as a function of the device path and invokes the firmware method. In response, the firmware method determines a channel identifier as a function of the device path. The firmware method may determine a pre-determined channel identifier for static or undiscoverable I/O devices. For dynamic I/O devices, the firmware method may determine the channel identifier using a stable algorithm. The I/O controller may assign the channel identifier to the dynamic I/O device using the same stable algorithm. The computing device establishes a secure channel to the I/O device using the channel identifier. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10339081B2	Methods and devices that utilize hardware to move blocks of operating parameter data from memory to a register set A hardware based block moving controller of an active device such as an implantable medical device that provides electrical stimulation reads a parameter data from a block of memory and then writes the parameter data to a designated register set of a component that performs an active function. The block of memory may include data that specifies a size of the block of memory to be moved to the register set. The block of memory may also include data that indicates a number of triggers to skip before moving a next block of memory to the register set. A trigger that causes the block moving controller to move the data from the block of memory to the register set may be generated in various ways such as through operation of the component having the register set or by a separate timer.
US10339073B2	Systems and methods for reducing write latency A computer system having reduced write latency and methods for use in computer systems for reducing write latency are provided. Processing circuitry of the computer system is configured to execute a volume filter driver (VFD) that can be switched between a fast termination (FT) mode of operations and a normal, or quiescent, mode of operations. When the processing circuitry receives input/output (IO) write requests to write data to memory while the VFD is in the FT mode of operations, the VFD causes metadata associated with received IO write requests to be written to a volume of memory while preventing actual data associated with received IO write requests from being written to the volume, thereby resulting in extremely fast FT mode operation. After the file has been written to the volume, the VFD enters the quiescent mode of operations during which the VFD passes all IO write requests to the volume.
US10339067B2	Mechanism for reducing page migration overhead in memory systems A technique for use in a memory system includes swapping a first plurality of pages of a first memory of the memory system with a second plurality of pages of a second memory of the memory system. The first memory has a first latency and the second memory has a second latency. The first latency is less than the second latency. The technique includes updating a page table and triggering a translation lookaside buffer shootdown to associate a virtual address of each of the first plurality of pages with a corresponding physical address in the second memory and to associate a virtual address for each of the second plurality of pages with a corresponding physical address in the first memory.
US10339066B2	Open-addressing probing barrier An open address probing barrier is utilized in association with a memory container. A starting memory slot is calculated for an item to be found in the memory container. Responsive to the item failing to occupy the starting memory slot, a first predetermined number of memory slots immediately following the starting memory slot are probed. Responsive to the item occupying one of those memory slots, the item is returned to the application. Responsive to the item failing to occupy one of those memory slots, a determination is made as to whether a barrier bit has been set in association with the last of the first predetermined number of memory slots. If so, at least a portion of the memory container is probed for the item and, if found, the item is returned to the application. If the barrier bit is not set, a notification is returned to the application.
US10339064B2	Hot cache line arbitration Embodiments of the present invention are directed to hot cache line arbitration. An example of a computer-implemented method for hot cache line arbitration includes detecting, by a processing device, a hot cache line scenario. The computer-implemented method further includes tracking, by the processing device, hot cache line requests from requesters to determine subsequent satisfaction of the requests. The computer-implemented method further includes facilitating, by the processing device, servicing of the requests according to hierarchy of the requestors.
US10339063B2	Scheduling independent and dependent operations for processing A processor includes an operations scheduler to schedule execution of operations at, for example, a set of execution units or a cache of the processor. The operations scheduler periodically adds sets of operations to a tracking array, and further identifies when an operation in the tracked set is blocked from execution scheduling in response to, for example, identifying that the operation is dependent on another operation that has not completed execution. The processor further includes a counter that is adjusted each time an operation in the tracking array is blocked from execution, and is reset each time an operation in the tracking array is executed. When the value of the counter exceeds a threshold, the operations scheduler prioritizes the remaining tracked operations for execution scheduling.
US10339062B2	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.
US10339058B2	Automatic cache coherency for page table data Aspects include computing devices and methods implemented by the computing for automatic cache coherency for page table data on a computing device. Some aspects may include modifying, by a first processing device, page table data stored in a first cache associated with the first processing device, receiving, at a page table coherency unit, a page table cache invalidate signal from the first processing device, issuing, by the page table coherency unit, a cache maintenance operation command to the first processing device, and writing, by the first processing device, the modified page table data stored in the first cache to a shared memory accessible by the first processing device and a second processing device associated with a second cache storing the page table data.
US10339057B2	Streaming engine with flexible streaming engine template supporting differing number of nested loops with corresponding loop counts and loop offsets A streaming engine employed in a digital data processor specifies a fixed read only data stream defined by plural nested loops. An address generator produces address of data elements for the nested loops. A steam head register stores data elements next to be supplied to functional units for use as operands. A stream template specifies loop count and loop dimension for each nested loop. A format definition field in the stream template specifies the number of loops and the stream template bits devoted to the loop counts and loop dimensions. This permits the same bits of the stream template to be interpreted differently enabling trade off between the number of loops supported and the size of the loop counts and loop dimensions.
US10339047B2	Allocating and configuring persistent memory Methods and apparatus to allocating and/or configuring persistent memory are described. In an embodiment, memory controller logic configures non-volatile memory into a plurality of partitions at least in part based on one or more attributes. One or more volumes (visible to an application or operating system) are formed from one or more of the plurality of partitions. Each of the one or more volumes includes one or more of the plurality of partitions having at least one similar attribute from the one or more attributes. In another embodiment, memory controller logic configures a Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) into a persistent region and a volatile region. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US10339045B2	Valid data management method and storage controller A valid data management method and a storage controller are provided. The method includes creating a valid data mark table and a valid logical addresses table corresponding to a target physical unit according to a logical-to-physical table and a target physical-to-logical table corresponding to the target physical unit, wherein the valid data mark table records a plurality of mark values respectively corresponding to a plurality of target logical addresses, the mark values respectively indicate whether the corresponding logical addresses is valid or invalid, and the valid logical addresses table only records one or more valid target logical addresses according to an order of one or more first bit values in the valid data mark table; and identifying one or more valid data of the target physical unit according to the logical-to-physical table, the valid data mark table and the valid logical addresses table corresponding to the target physical unit.
US10339036B2	Test automation using multiple programming languages A device may receive information identifying a first set of instructions. The first set of instructions may identify an action to perform to test a first program. The device may identify a second set of instructions, related to testing a second program, that can be used in association with the first set of instructions. The first test may be similar to the second test. The device may identify multiple steps, of the first set of instructions, that can be combined to form a third set of instructions. The third set of instructions may be used to test the first program or a third program. The device may generate program code in a first programming language to perform the action. The first programming language may be different than a second programming language used to write the first set of instructions. The device may perform the action.
US10339034B2	Dynamically generated device test pool for staged rollouts of software applications A method includes receiving, by a computing system that includes an application repository, an updated version of an application. The method also includes determining whether the particular computing device contributes additional test scope for the updated version of the application beyond existing test scope for the updated version of the application that is contributed by the group of computing devices. The method further includes, sending the updated version of the application to the particular computing device for installation in response to determining that the particular computing device contributes additional test scope.
US10339029B2	Automatically detecting internalization (i18n) issues in source code as part of static source code analysis A method of detecting potential internationalization issues in source code may include installing a plug-in component in a stand-alone static source code analysis program/application that is configured to enable detection of internationalization issues in source code. The method may also include automatically creating a repository comprising a plurality of internationalization rules for a plurality of programming languages that are provided by the plug-in and accessing a subset of the plurality of internationalization rules corresponding to a particular programming language of the plurality of programming languages. The method may include creating a quality profile for the particular programming language using the subset of the plurality of internationalization rules, scanning source code of a software product for potential issues on a block level, and identifying and displaying the detected internationalization issues in the source code.
US10339026B2	Technologies for predictive monitoring of a characteristic of a system Technologies for monitoring a characteristic of a monitored system include determining a measured value of the primary characteristic of the monitored system sensed by a primary sensor and a measured value of the secondary characteristic of the monitored system sensed by a secondary sensor, and predicating a predicted value of the primary characteristic based on the measured value of the secondary characteristic. The measured and predicted values of the primary characteristic are used to determine whether the primary sensor is properly functioning.
US10339025B1	Status monitoring system and method A signal generation subsystem is configured to receive a plurality of status signals from a plurality of monitored subcomponents within a system being monitored and generate a cumulatively-encoded status signal based, at least in part, upon the plurality of binary status signals, which is indicative of the overall health of the system being monitored.
US10339019B2	Packet capturing system, packet capturing apparatus and method A packet capturing system includes a first apparatus configured to store, into a first storage device, a first mirror packet, and a second apparatus configured to store the first mirror packet into a second storage device, wherein the first apparatus is configured to determine whether the second apparatus is in an operation state or a non-operation state, delete, when the first apparatus determines the second apparatus is in the operation state, the first mirror packet stored in the first storage device, and store into the second storage device, when the first apparatus determines the second apparatus is in the non-operation state, a second mirror packet generated by mirroring a second packet transmitted in a network, while maintaining the first mirror packet stored in the first storage device.
US10339014B2	Query optimized distributed ledger system Disclosed herein are distributed ledger systems and methods for efficiently creating and updating a query optimized distributed ledger. In particular, the present disclosure introduces methods and apparatuses for efficiently updating indexes when new blocks are added to the distributed ledger by using snapshots of data and appending new snapshot tables and indexes to previous snapshot tables and indexes.
US10338997B2	Apparatuses and methods for fixing a logic level of an internal signal line An apparatus includes a first external terminal, a first circuit, a signal line and a second circuit. The first external terminal receives at least one of data mask information and data bus inversion information. The first circuit performs one of an error check operation and a data bus inversion operation. The signal line is coupled between the first external terminal and the first circuit. The second circuit is coupled to the signal line and first a voltage level of the signal line at a substantially constant level responsive to a first control signal.
US10338994B1	Predicting and adjusting computer functionality to avoid failures In some examples, a processing device can receive prediction data representing a prediction. The processing device can also receive files defining abnormal data-point patterns to be identified in the prediction data. The processing device can identify at least one abnormal data-point pattern in the prediction data by executing customizable program-code in the files. The processing device can determine an override process that corresponds to the at least one abnormal data-point pattern in response to identifying the at least one abnormal data-point pattern in the prediction data. The processing device can execute the override process to generate a corrected version of the prediction data. The processing device can then adjust one or more computer parameters based on the corrected version of the prediction data.
US10338988B1	Status monitoring system and method A user-configurable decoder circuit is associated with a controlled subcomponent and is configured to receive a cumulatively-encoded status signal and compare the cumulatively-encoded status signal to a user-definable threshold that defines a subcomponent policy for the controlled subcomponent.
US10338974B2	Virtual retry queue A starvation mode is entered and a particular dependency of a first request in a retry queue is identified. The particular dependency is determined to be acquired and the first request is retried based on acquisition of the particular dependency.
US10338970B2	Multi-platform scheduler for permanent and transient applications A method of scheduling assignment of resources to a plurality of applications includes: determining shares of the resources assigned to each application during a first period; determining shares of the resources assigned to each application during a second period that occurs after the first period; determining an imbalance value for each application that is based on a sum of the shares assigned to the corresponding application over both periods; and considering requests of the applications for resources in an order that depends on a result of comparing the imbalance values of the applications.
US10338969B2	Managing a virtualized application workspace on a managed computing device Methods and systems for providing load balancing are provided. Example embodiments provide a Application Workspace System “AWS” which enables users to access remote server-based applications using the same interface that they use to access local applications, without needing to know where the application is being accessed. In one embodiment, a load balancing message bus is provided that performs load balancing and resource discovery within the AWS. For example, the AWS may use a broadcast message-bus based load balancing to determine which servers to use to launch remote application access requests or to perform session management. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US10338965B2	Managing a set of resources In one example, a controller for managing a set of resources. A first structure has a first entry statically associated with one of the resources. A second structure has a second entry dynamically associative with one of the resources. A resource sharing mechanism borrows for the second structure an idle resource associated with the first structure.
US10338962B2	Use of metrics to control throttling and swapping in a message processing system A system and method of using metrics to control throttling and swapping in a message processing system is provided. A workload status of a message processing system is determined, and the system polls for a new message according to the workload status. The message processing system identifies a blocked instance and calculates an expected idle time for the blocked instance. The system dehydrates the blocked instance if the expected idle time exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10338961B2	File operation task optimization A method includes receiving, by a data processing apparatus, a plurality of file operation requests, each file operation request including a priority, a deadline, and an operation type and representing a request to perform an operation on at least one file maintained in a distributed file system; identifying, by the data processing apparatus, a group of file operation requests to be executed together from the plurality of file operation requests, the identification based at least in part on at least one of: the file operations in the group of file operations being directed to a same storage system, or file operations in the group of file operations sharing a common operation type; and sending a request to execute the group of file operation requests to a system configured to perform the group of file operation requests.
US10338958B1	Stream adapter for batch-oriented processing frameworks An indication of an input data stream comprising data records, stored at a stream management service, that are to be batched for a computation at a batch-oriented data processing service is received. A set of data records of the input data stream are identified, based on respective sequence numbers associated with the records, for a particular iteration of the computation. Metadata associated with the particular iteration, comprising identification information associated with the set of records on which the computation is performed during the particular iteration, is saved in a repository.
US10338956B2	Application profiling job management system, program, and method An application profiling system, initiating profiling a software application; including: apparatus to receive user input information of a software application profiling target and execution requirements, to store profiler specifications; to determine which profiler satisfies the execution requirements, based on the specifications, and to generate needed profiling tasks, each task specifying an application profiler; to select hardware resources the tasks; and to initiate execution of the tasks.
US10338954B2	Method of switching application and electronic device therefor An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display and at least one processor that is configured to display an object corresponding to an application on the display, display an execution screen of the application in an area of the display when a hovering input is detected on the object corresponding to the application, and display the object corresponding to the application on the display when the hovering input is released.
US10338951B2	Virtual machine exit support by a virtual machine function Systems, methods, and techniques for securing a state of a guest are provided. An example method includes determining, by a virtual machine function within a guest, a guest central processing unit (CPU) state that is stored in one or more registers of a CPU and associated with the guest. The method also includes encrypting, by the virtual machine function, a first portion of the guest CPU state that is not used to execute a privileged instruction being attempted by the guest. The method further includes sending, by the virtual machine function, one or more requests based on the privileged instruction to a hypervisor. The method also includes after execution of the privileged instruction is completed, decrypting, by the virtual machine function, the first portion of the guest CPU state.
US10338950B1	System and method for providing preferential I/O treatment to devices that host a critical virtual machine Quality of service is provided to prioritized VMs and applications, based on the varied quality of different shared computing resources. Each VM or application has an associated priority. A quality rating is dynamically assigned to each shared computing resource. Requests for shared computing resources made by specific VMs or applications are received. For each specific received request, the current priority of the requesting VM or application is identified. In response to each received request, a specific shared computing resource is assigned to the specific requesting VM or application. This assignment is made based on the current priority of the requesting VM or application and the current quality rating of the shared computing resource, thereby providing quality of service to the requesting VM or application corresponding to its current priority.
US10338940B2	Adjusting adminstrative access based on workload migration Embodiments of the invention may provide an approach for adjusting administrative access based upon migration of a workload from one system to another. An associated method migrating a workload from a source system to a target system generally may include detecting migration of the workload from the source system to the target system. The method further may include accessing the source system to determine an identity of an administrator. The method further may include adjusting access rights of the administrator for compatibility with the target system. The source system may be an unallocated server or a server allocated to a system pool. Similarly, the target system may be an unallocated server or a server allocated to a system pool.
US10338938B2	Presenting elements based on configuration of device In one aspect, an apparatus includes a touch-enabled display, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to make a first determination that a device is being or has been transitioned between a laptop configuration and a tablet configuration. The instructions are also executable by the processor to, at least in part based on the first determination, make a second determination pertaining to at least one change in presentation of an element presented on the touch-enabled display from a first presentation to a second presentation.
US10338933B2	Method for generating custom BIOS setup interface and system therefor Configuration options to be displayed at a basic input/output system (BIOS) setup interface of an information handling system are specified using a software application executed at the system. The configuration options are communicated to a software agent, and the software agent updates BIOS firmware based on the configuration option.
US10338931B2	Approximate synchronization for parallel deep learning Techniques facilitating synchronization of processing engines for parallel deep learning are provided. In one example, a first processing component associated with a processor and processing components can: generate first output data based on input data associated with a machine learning process, wherein the processing components are communicatively coupled with an assignment component via a network; transmit the first output data to a second processing component of the processing components, wherein the first processing component and the second processing component comprise a first group of the processing components and the first group of the processing components is determined by the assignment component based on a first defined criterion; receive communication data generated by the second processing component; and generate second output data based on the communication data, wherein the second output data is an updated version of the first output data stored in the memory of the first processing component.
US10338930B2	Dual-rail delay insensitive asynchronous logic processor with single-rail scan shift enable There is disclosed a self-timed processor. The self-timed processor includes combinatorial logic comprising multi-rail delay insensitive asynchronous logic (DIAL) to output one or more multi-rail data values to a multiplexer. It also includes a test pattern input to output a test pattern bit stream of multi-rail test data values to the multiplexer. The multiplexer has Boolean logic to output one or more multi-rail multiplexed values to a latch. The multiplexer also has a single rail selector input to select whether the multi-rail multiplexed values are the multi-rail data values or the multi-rail test data values.
US10338928B2	Utilizing a stack head register with a call return stack for each instruction fetch A processor, method, and medium for implementing a call return stack within a pipelined processor. A stack head register is used to store a copy of the top entry of the call return stack, and the stack head register is accessed by the instruction fetch unit on each fetch cycle. If a fetched instruction is decoded as a return instruction, the speculatively read address from the static register is utilized as a target address to fetch subsequent instructions and the address at the second entry from the top of the call return stack is written to the stack head register.
US10338920B2	Instructions and logic for get-multiple-vector-elements operations A processor includes an execution unit to execute instructions to get data elements of the same type from multiple data structures packed in vector registers. The execution unit includes logic to extract data elements from specific positions within each data structure dependent on an instruction encoding. A vector GET3 instruction encoding specifies that data elements be extracted from the first, second, or third position in each XYZ-type data structure. A vector GET4 instruction encoding specifies that data elements be extracted from the first, second, third, or fourth position in each XYZW-type data structure and that the extracted data elements be placed in the upper or lower half of a destination vector. The execution unit includes logic to place the extracted data elements in contiguous locations in the destination vector. The execution unit includes logic to store the destination vector to a destination vector register specified in the instruction.
US10338919B2	Generalized acceleration of matrix multiply accumulate operations A method, computer readable medium, and processor are disclosed for performing matrix multiply and accumulate (MMA) operations. The processor includes a datapath configured to execute the MMA operation to generate a plurality of elements of a result matrix at an output of the datapath. Each element of the result matrix is generated by calculating at least one dot product of corresponding pairs of vectors associated with matrix operands specified in an instruction for the MMA operation. A dot product operation includes the steps of: generating a plurality of partial products by multiplying each element of a first vector with a corresponding element of a second vector; aligning the plurality of partial products based on the exponents associated with each element of the first vector and each element of the second vector; and accumulating the plurality of aligned partial products into a result queue utilizing at least one adder.
US10338913B2	Active adaptation of networked compute devices using vetted reusable software components A method includes receiving a text description of a system capability request, and converting the text description into a normalized description of the system capability request. A repository is then queried, based on the normalized description and using a search algorithm, to identify multiple candidate application software units (ASUs). The candidate ASUs are displayed to a user for selection. The user-selected ASU is then deployed, either locally or to at least one remote compute device, in response to receiving the user selection. Deployment can include the user-selected candidate ASU being integrated into a local or remote software package, thus defining a modified software package that is configured to provide the system capability.
US10338900B2	Method for generating software architectures for managing data A method generates data elaboration software architectures suitable for MES or MOM systems. The method includes providing at least one source program block capable of generating a suitably formatted signal capable of being processed and at least one elaboration program block capable of elaborating the signals generated by the source program blocks.
US10338894B2	Generating applications based on data definition language (DDL) query view and application page template A method and system for generating an application has been described. A request is received to generate the application. Based on the received request, a Data Definition Language (DDL) query view defined for the application is executed to obtain a query view and a data transfer service. Next data is retrieved from the database based on the query view and the data transfer service. An application page template including a user interface (UI) related elements of the application is then generated based on the received request. The application page template and the retrieved data is then bound to generate a plurality of application pages of the application.
US10338893B2	Multi-step auto-completion model for software development environments Systems and methods for providing auto-completion functionality in a source code editor are described. In accordance with the systems and methods, code entities that are candidates for auto-completion are presented to a user via multiple auto-completion menus that are accessed in steps rather than via a single auto-completion menu. The multiple auto-completion menus include at least a first menu and a second menu. The first menu includes a common portion (e.g., a common prefix) of a subset of the candidate code entities. The second menu includes the subset of the candidate code entities and is presented when the user selects the common portion from the first menu.
US10338892B2	Dynamic provisioning of a set of tools based on project specifications A device may receive project information that identifies a set of tools to be provisioned on multiple devices. The multiple devices may be used during a project. The device may process the project information to identify the set of tools based on receiving the project information. The set of tools may include different tools associated with different roles related to the project. The device may provide tool information related to installing or configuring the set of tools on the multiple devices based on processing the project information. The tool information provided to a first device of the multiple devices may relate to the first device and not to a second device of the multiple devices.
US10338889B2	Apparatus and method for controlling rounding when performing a floating point operation An apparatus and method are provided for controlling rounding when performing a floating point operation. The apparatus has argument reduction circuitry to perform an argument reduction operation, and in addition provides reduce and round circuitry that generates from a supplied floating point value a modified floating point value to be input to the argument reduction circuitry. The reduce and round circuitry is arranged to modify a significand of the supplied floating point value, based on a specified value N, in order to produce a truncated significand with a specified rounding applied, the truncated significand being N bits shorter than the significand of the supplied floating point value, and then being used as a significand for the modified floating point value. The specified value N is chosen such that the argument reduction operation performed using the modified floating point value will inhibit roundoff error in a result of the argument reduction operation. By enabling roundoff error to be inhibited in such a way, it is possible to use such argument reduction circuitry in the computation of a number of floating point operations while enabling the correct rounded result to be obtained.
US10338886B2	Information output system and information output method An information output system includes an output unit (25) configured to output information, an information recognizing unit (212) configured to recognize first information according to designation operation by a user, and an output control unit (211) configured to cause, on condition that a present OFF period of a moving body (3) is started, the output unit (25) to output, in a form recognizable by the user, an interface for requesting an input of second information that should be associated with the first information recognized after a start of a present ON period of the moving body (3) and information indicating one or both of the location and the time point.
US10338885B1	Aural and visual feedback of finger positions Methods and systems for providing aural and/or visual feedback of finger positions to help improve user friendliness and usability of control panels are disclosed. A control panel may include a control element, a sensor associated with the control element, and one or more processors in communication with the sensor. The sensor may be configured to detect a presence of a finger near the control element and generate a detection signal. The one or more processors may be configured to process the detection signal and provide a feedback indicating the presence of the finger near the control element to a user.
US10338884B2	Computing device with force-triggered non-visual responses In one example, a method includes receiving, by a computing device, an indication of a detected force applied to the computing device. The method further comprises determining, by the computing device, that the detected force matches a corresponding input that the computing device associates with a corresponding function that is executable by the computing device. The method further comprises generating, by the computing device and in response to determining that the detected force matches the corresponding input and, a non-visual output based on the corresponding function.
US10338879B2	Synchronization object determining method, apparatus, and system The present disclosure discloses a synchronization object determining method, apparatus, and system, where the method includes determining a first distance between the first terminal and the second terminal in a display picture according to location information of the first terminal and location information of the second terminal, and predicting a second distance between the first terminal and the second terminal after specified duration in the display picture, and classifying, by the synchronization device, the second terminal as a synchronization object of the first terminal if the first distance is greater than the second distance. According to the foregoing method, a proper synchronization object is selected for each terminal according to a mobility feature of a terminal. Therefore, on the one hand, an objective of synchronization can be achieved.
US10338873B2	Waveguides in a computing device Examples disclosed herein relate to a computing device. In one aspect, the computing device may include a housing including a first point and a second point spatially separated from each other, a first and second wireless communications modules, and a controller. A first waveguide may couple the first point to an input of the first wireless communications module, where an output of the first wireless communications module may be coupled to an input of the controller. A second waveguide may couple the second point to an output of the second communications module, where an input of the second communications module may be coupled to an output of the controller.
US10338868B2	Apparatus, method and non-transitory computer readable medium for displaying omission information to print serial number A display control apparatus, when a display displays side by side a plurality of serial number elements with a predetermined regularity in order of serial number printing in which the plurality of serial number elements are printed in turn, includes a controller configured to replace at least two consecutive serial number elements from among the plurality of serial number elements excepting first and last serial number elements with omission information, which is a symbol or a character indicating omission of the at least two consecutive serial number elements, and to display the omission information on the display.
US10338864B2	Remote communication system that improves security of remote session between image forming apparatus and connection terminal, and session management system A remote communication system includes an image forming apparatus, an electronic device, a session relay system, and a session management system. The session relay system notifies a first session ID and a second session ID to the session management system. The session management system executes a notification of the first session ID to the electronic device and a notification of the second session ID to the image forming apparatus. The electronic device establishes a connection with the session relay system. The connection uses the first session ID. The image forming apparatus establishes a connection with the session relay system. The connection uses the second session ID. The session relay system relays the session by associating the connection established with the electronic device with the connection established with the image forming apparatus using the first session ID and the second session ID.
US10338862B2	Information processing device, non-transitory recording medium storing computer readable program, and printing system An object of the invention is to solve low productivity of foil-stamping printing due to frequent replacement of foil rolls when the positions of sizes of foil objects are different in a plurality of jobs. A grouping unit groups jobs on the basis of a foil roll which can be attached to a foil stamping device and foil object information. A job sorting unit sorts the grouped jobs on the basis of a sorting policy by group. A foil-stamping print data transmitting unit transmits foil-stamping print data including the foil object, which is extracted from print data to a foil stamping device. A foil roll replacement information output unit outputs foil roll replacement information indicating a timing that a foil roll is replaced.
US10338853B2	Media aware distributed data layout A storage system includes a plurality of vdisks, with each vdisk containing a plurality of storage segments, and each segment providing a specific class of service (CoS) for storage. Each vdisk stores files with data and meta data distributed among its storage segments. A storage system includes a memory having multiple classes of service. The system includes an interface for storing a file as blocks of data associated with a class of service in the memory. The interface chooses the class of service for a block on a block by block basis for storage. A file system for storing a file. A file system for storing includes a plurality of vdisks. A method for storing a file.
US10338852B2	Systems and methods for list retrieval in a storage device Systems and methods for list retrieval in a storage device are provided that significantly reduces the number of commands needed to retrieve data. A single command or request may be issued to receive data stored at a parent node, a child node, and/or a grandchild node. For example, a request may be issued that includes a node corresponding to a particular level, a depth level below that particular level to which to obtain data and/or filter criteria. With this information, the requested information may be obtained to the depth level while filtering out information not included in the request. When the request corresponds to a parent node and information about the children nodes is desired, for example, additional requests are not needed to obtain information from all of the parent node and the children nodes. Thus, the length of time needed to provide certain stored management information is reduced.
US10338847B1	Coherent buffer mapping for virtualized graphics processing Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for coherent buffer mapping for virtualized graphics processing are disclosed. A virtual graphics processing unit (GPU) is implemented using a physical GPU in a GPU server and attached to a computing device over a network. Based on a memory mapping call issued by an application on the computing device, a local buffer is allocated. The local buffer represents a view of a memory buffer of the physical GPU and is protected from access by the application. Based on a request by the application to access the local buffer while the local buffer is protected, metadata is generated indicating that the local buffer needs transfer. Based on the metadata, contents of the local buffer are transferred from the computing device to the physical GPU or contents of the memory buffer are transferred from the physical GPU to the computing device.
US10338837B1	Dynamic mapping of applications on NVRAM/DRAM hybrid memory This disclosure relates to allocating memory resources of a computing device comprising non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) and dynamic random access memory (DRAM). An exemplary method is performed for every independently executable component of an application and includes determining attributes of the component. The method also includes associating the component with a memory profile of a plurality of memory profiles based on the attributes, wherein each memory profile of the plurality of memory profiles specifies a number of banks of the NVRAM and a number of banks of the DRAM. The method also includes causing the computing device to generate an assignment of the component to banks of the NVRAM and DRAM based on the memory profile associated with the component so the computing device can execute the component using the banks of the NVRAM and DRAM based on the assignment.
US10338833B1	Method for achieving sequential I/O performance from a random workload Methods, computer media encoding instructions, and systems that receive write requests directed to non-sequential logical block addresses and write the write requests to sequential disk block addresses in a storage system include an overprovision of a storage system to include an increment of additional storage space such that it is more likely a large enough sequential block of storage will be available to accommodate incoming write requests.
US10338831B2	System and method for preserving data in volatile memory Present disclosure includes a system for preserving data in a volatile memory and a method thereof. The volatile memory comprises a plurality of refreshing units, and each of the refreshing units comprises a plurality of word lines for storing data. The system comprises an accessing unit. The accessing unit is configured to detect a row-hammer indication indicating a first word line is frequently accessed, wherein the accessing unit is configured to copy data stored in the first word line to a second word line when the row-hammer indication is detected on the first word line, wherein the data stored in the first and the second word lines are available to be selectively accessed.
US10338819B2	Controller transmitting output commands and method of operating the same A controller includes a host command sensor suitable for generating a target ratio between first typed host commands and second typed host commands; an output command generator suitable for generating first and second typed output commands respectively corresponding to the first and second typed host commands; and an arbiter suitable for sequentially transmitting the first and second typed output commands from the output command queue to a channel, and generating a channel ratio between first and second typed output commands transmitted from the output command queue to the channel. The arbiter transmits one of the first and second typed output commands from the output command queue to the channel by comparing the channel ratio with the target ratio.
US10338816B2	Reducing negative effects of insufficient data throughput for real-time processing Techniques for controlling access to a memory are provided. The techniques may include receiving and storing output pixel data in a buffer, providing the stored output pixel data to a display controller, receiving stored output pixel data from the buffer at the display controller, switching to a second operating mode state based at least on an amount of available data in the buffer being less than or equal to a threshold, identifying a portion of the image data stored in a memory device for use in generating output pixel data for an updated image, and, in response to operating in the second operating mode, generating the output pixel data without issuing a memory read command via an interconnect to retrieve the portion of the initial image while operating in the second operating mode, and providing the output pixel data to the buffer.
US10338813B2	Storage controller and using method therefor The present invention provides a storage controller and a using method therefor. The method comprises: processors send a storage instruction; a processor controller receives the storage instructions sent by the processors, and sends the storage instructions to an exchanger; the exchanger sends the storage instructions to a hard disk controller one by one; and the hard disk controller sends the storage instructions to a hard disk according to storage address spaces indicated in the storage instructions, the indicated address spaces being address spaces allocated to the processors sending the storage instructions. By using the technical scheme of the present invention, multiplexing of the same physical storage space for the storage instructions of multiple processors can be ensured in a time-sharing mechanism, and accordingly, a purpose that the multiple processors share the same physical storage space by means of hardware is achieved.
US10338810B2	Four row overload QWERTY-like keypad layout Provided is an overloaded keypad layout which is efficient, ergonomic, unambiguous, intuitive to operate, and also familiar to the average user in its letter arrangement. More particularly, the overloaded keypad layout comprises four rows, and a space-key is positioned in the third row from bottom, and is QWERTY-like its letter arrangement. Further, the multitap input method or selector (select-the-next-letter key) input method may be employed to disambiguate the overloaded keypad layout.
US10338807B2	Adaptive ink prediction A facility for adapting the prediction of ink is described. In some examples, the facility receives information about a spatial movement by a user. On the basis of the received information, the facility predicts future spatial movement by the user, and generates an ink stroke that reflects both the spatial movement described by the received information and at least a portion of the predicted future spatial movement. The facility enforces against the generated ink stroke a limit that has the effect of controlling the area of a portion of the ink stroke corresponding to the at least a portion of the predicted future spatial movement, and causes the generated ink stroke, subject to the enforcement of the limit, to be displayed.
US10338798B2	Haptically enabled user interface A device has a user interface that generates a haptic effect in response to user inputs or gestures. In one embodiment, the device receives an indication that the user is scrolling through a list of elements and an indication that an element is selected. The device determines the scroll rate and generates a haptic effect that has a magnitude that is based on the scroll rate.
US10338796B2	Event services modeling framework for computer systems Embodiments include an event services modeling framework. The event services modeling framework includes an event services modeling editor that provides a user interface and mechanism for users to model and customize event flow configurations within a system and/or network. The user interface can be used to connect events with actions that will take place in response to the events. The system components and/or modules that need to receive the information from the events can then react and respond appropriately. Users can modify event configurations based on their own particular needs. the event services editor can be used for generating one or more event services models. The event services models may include events, conditions (rules) for processing the events, activities to be perform during event processing, subscriber modules defined for performing the activities during event processing, and a specified time for processing the events in each modeled event flow.
US10338792B2	Object stop position control method, action indicating device, and program An object stop position control method includes: when a movement instruction as to an object displayed on a display unit is received by a first operation method, moving the object in accordance with the movement instruction, stopping the movement of the object based on the movement instruction when the object moves past a predetermined stop position, and causing the object to automatically stop at the stop position; and, when the movement instruction is received by a second operation method, not causing the object to automatically stop, but moving the object in accordance with the movement instruction.
US10338791B2	Interface for navigating imagery A user interface for rotating imagery among a plurality of canonical views of a geographic area of interest is disclosed. The interface includes at least one rotation control icon for rotating the imagery among a plurality of canonical views of the geographic area, and a direction indicating portion that indicates a compass direction associated with the canonical view presented on the display device. In particular implementations, the interface can be configured to come into view over the imagery whenever a user navigates to a particular view of the imagery where a plurality of canonical views is available. The motion of the navigation control interface appearing into the imagery is intended to draw attention to the control interface to inform the user that additional canonical views are available.
US10338782B2	Specifying control and data connections in graph-based programs A first component of a graph-based program specification includes an output control port. A second component includes an input control port and an input data port. A third component includes an output data port. The output control port is connected to the input control port, and the output data port is connected to the input data port. The first component includes control code that when executed causes the output control port to provide, to the input control port, at least one of suppression information or invocation information. The second component includes control code that when executed causes a computing system configured by the graph-based program specification to begin processing data received at the input data port in response to the invocation information if no suppression information is received at the input control port before the invocation information is received at the input control port.
US10338762B2	Environmental pertinence interface An environmental pertinence interface generated by an example apparatus, method, and computer program product is provided. The apparatus receives an interface request from a mobile device and location data relating to the mobile device. The apparatus queries a database to identify environmental objects that satisfy a proximity threshold. The apparatus identifies environmental pertinence digital content items when the proximity threshold is satisfied. The apparatus applies user permissions rules to determine a user-permitted environmental pertinence digital content item set and generates an environmental pertinence interface for display by the mobile device.
US10338754B2	Edge-effect mitigation for capacitive sensors An input device for capacitive sensing includes: a plurality of sensor electrodes, the plurality of sensor electrodes comprising a plurality of transmitter electrodes and a plurality of receiver electrodes, wherein the plurality of transmitter electrodes is configured to be driven by sensing signals and the plurality of receiver electrodes is configured to receive detected signals corresponding to respective sensing signals driven onto the plurality of transmitter electrodes; a plurality of transmitter electrode vias, wherein each transmitter electrode via corresponds to a respective transmitter electrode of the plurality of transmitter electrodes; and conductive shielding, configured to mitigate effects of the plurality of transmitter electrode vias on the detected signals received on one or more receiver electrodes of the plurality of receiver electrodes, wherein the conductive shielding comprises: a first portion disposed above the plurality of transmitter electrode vias; and a second portion disposed outside the plurality of transmitter electrode vias.
US10338731B2	Fingerprint sensor integrated type touchscreen device A fingerprint sensor integrated type touchscreen device comprises a sensor array comprising a touch sensor area with sensors, a fingerprint and touch sensor area with sensors, sensor lines connected to the sensors in the touch sensor area, and sensors lines connected to the sensors in the fingerprint and touch sensor area. At least some of the sensor lines connected to the sensors in the fingerprint and touch sensor area are separated from the sensor lines connected to the sensors in the touch sensor area.
US10338721B2	Display substrate and display panel A display substrate comprises a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region and including at least one display signal line, at least one pressure sensor with two pressure signal output terminals, a first and a second pressure signal output lines electrically connected to two pressure signal output terminals of the corresponding pressure sensor. The first pressure signal output line includes at least one first and at least one second line sections, electrically connected by a first connecting section. The second pressure signal output line includes at least one third and at least one fourth line sections, electrically connected by a second connecting section. All line sections are in parallel to the display signal line. A first distance from the first and third line sections to the display signal line is greater than a second distance from the second and fourth line sections to the display signal line.
US10338720B2	Pressure detection structure and touch device A pressure detection structure and a touch device are disclosed. The structure is mounted on a middle frame of the touch device and includes a cover, a display device and a pressure sensor. The display device is arranged below the cover, and includes a display module. The pressure sensor is arranged in the display device; any electrically conductive member in the display device or the middle frame which is electrically conductive is used as a reference electrode; and a variable gap is present between the pressure sensor and the reference electrode, and the pressure sensor outputs a pressure signal according to variation of capacitance between a sensing electrode thereof and the reference electrode. According to the present application, pressure detection may be carried out accurately, and thus reliability of products is enhanced.
US10338715B2	Array substrate for touch display device and method of fabricating the same An array substrate for a touch display device includes: a substrate having a pixel region; a thin film transistor on the substrate in the pixel region; a planarizing layer on the thin film transistor; a touch common line on the planarizing layer; a first passivation layer on the touch common line, the first passivation layer having a touch common contact hole exposing the touch common line; a touch common electrode on the first passivation layer in the pixel region, the touch common electrode contacting the touch common line through the touch common contact hole; a second passivation layer on the touch common electrode; and a pixel electrode on the second passivation layer, the pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor.
US10338704B2	Mitigating display noise for touch and pen sensing A display device includes a display controller and a timing controller to drive frames at a frame rate onto a display. The display device may include sensor circuitry to detect a signal from a pen. The signal from the pen includes a sync signal indicative of a repetition rate of the signal. In one embodiment, the sync signal and the display timer are asynchronous. The sensor circuitry is configured to sense the signal from the pen during sensing windows, where timing of the sensing windows is based on the repetition rate. In one embodiment, the display controller is configured to pause driving a frame onto the display during the sensing windows.
US10338699B2	Variable density device profile The description relates to devices. One example device can involve a mesh structure with a density profile varying from a first end of the mesh structure to a second end of the mesh structure.
US10338695B1	Augmented reality edugaming interaction method An augmented reality edugaming interaction method includes the steps of: creating at least one database in a processing device and at least one target value in the database and linking the target value with different data values; defining plural interactive object images and at least one controllable object image by the processing device; setting plural interaction statuses for the interactive object image and at least one interactive instruction for the controllable object image, and selecting one of the target values, so that its data value depends on the interactive object image; setting at least one color recognition value for the processing device; defining the image with the range of the color block as a characteristic area, if the image captured by the image capturing device has a color block corresponding to the color recognition value, and letting the controllable object image depend on and be controlled in the characteristic area.
US10338687B2	Teleportation in an augmented and/or virtual reality environment In a system for teleporting and scaling in a virtual reality environment, a user may teleport from a first virtual location, being experienced at a first scale, to a second virtual location, to be experienced at a second scale. The user may select the new, second virtual location and the new, second scale with a single external input via a handheld electronic device so that, upon release of a triggering action of the electronic device, the user may teleport to the newly selected second virtual location at the newly selected scale.
US10338685B2	Methods and apparatus recognition of start and/or stop portions of a gesture using relative coordinate system boundaries Described are apparatus and methods for reconstructing a gesture by aggregating various data from various sensors, including data for recognition of start and/or stop portions of the gesture using a detection of an intersection with a relative coordinate system boundary.
US10338680B2	Operating apparatus having feedback mechanism Provided is an operating apparatus having a feedback mechanism. An apparatus main body is supported on a base using a plurality of plurality of supporting metal plates. Each of the supporting metal plates includes a first mounting piece, a second mounting piece, and an intermediate plate. When a pressing force of a finger on an operating surface of the apparatus main body acts, the intermediate plate is deformed to depress the apparatus main body, thereby operating a detecting member. When a feedback force from the feedback mechanism acts on the apparatus main body, the second mounting piece is bent to move the apparatus main body along the feedback force.
US10338677B2	Adjusting image frames based on tracking motion of eyes In some examples, techniques and architectures for operating a device that may be wearable, such as a head-mounted device, may be used for virtual reality applications. A processor of the device may operate by dynamically tracking the cornea, and thus the gaze direction, of a user's eyes. By tracking the gaze direction, retinal velocity of a display image projected onto the retina, measured in the retina coordinate frame may be computed. Display times of image frames viewable by the user may be modified based on the retinal velocity.
US10338674B2	Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and user equipment Embodiments of the present application disclose an information processing method, an information processing apparatus, and a user equipment. The method comprises: obtaining object information of an external object in an environment in which a user is located, wherein the object information comprises function information and location information of the external object; determining at least one virtual object in virtual presented content at least according to the function information, wherein the at least one virtual object has a virtual attribute that matches at least one function corresponding to the function information; and determining a presentation attribute of the at least one virtual object at least according to the location information. According to the technical solution in the embodiments of the present application, sense experience brought by a virtual presentation device to the user can be consistent with other sense experience brought by the external object, and better immersive virtual reality experience is brought to the user.
US10338673B2	Touchscreen hover detection in an augmented and/or virtual reality environment A system for detecting and tracking a hover position of a manual pointing device, such as finger(s), on a handheld electronic device may include overlaying a rendered mono-chromatic keying screen, or green screen, on a user interface, such as a keyboard, of the handheld electronic device. A position of the finger(s) relative to the keyboard may be determined based on the detection of the finger(s) on the green screen and a known arrangement of the keyboard. An image of the keyboard and the position of the finger(s) may be rendered and displayed, for example, on a head mounted display, to facilitate user interaction via the keyboard with a virtual immersive experience generated by the head mounted display.
US10338670B2	Input voltage reduction for processing devices Voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In one example, a method of determining operating voltages for a processing device includes executing a voltage adjustment process to determine at least one input voltage for the processing device lower than a manufacturer specified operating voltage. During the voltage adjustment process, the method includes applying incrementally adjusted input voltages to the processing device, operating the processing device according to a functional test that exercises the processing device in context with associated system elements of a computing assembly, and monitoring for operational failures of at least the processing device during application of each of the incrementally adjusted input voltages. Responsive to the operational failures, the method includes determining corresponding values of the incrementally adjusted input voltages and establishing an input voltage based at least in part on the corresponding values of the incrementally adjusted input voltages.
US10338665B2	Microcontroller power reduction system and method A microcontroller that can be configured to selectively operate in a synchronous mode or an asynchronous mode, and a method of selectively switching the operating mode is described. The microcontroller can include a processor and a system controller. The processor can be configured to operate synchronously in a synchronous operating mode and asynchronously in an asynchronous operating mode. The processor can also be configured to generate a processor idle status signal indicative of the processor operating in a reduced power mode, and generate a programming signal. The system controller can be configured to generate an asynchronous mode signal based on the programming signal and the processor idle status signal, and provide the asynchronous mode signal to the processor to control the processor to selectively operate in the synchronous operating mode and in the asynchronous operating mode.
US10338663B2	Energy saving method and apparatus of mobile terminal Energy saving methods and apparatuses of a mobile terminal may be provided, For example, an energy saving method includes monitoring whether the mobile terminal loads a webpage data stream, determining webpage complexity of the webpage data stream, when the webpage data stream is loaded, determining one or more set parameter values, from among a plurality of parameter values of a set of regulation parameters, based on a correspondence relationship among the regulation parameters used for adjusting a frequency of a processor, setting one or more set regulation parameters based on the one or more set parameter values, adjusting the frequency of the processor based on the one or more set regulation parameters, and loading the webpage data stream at the adjusted frequency such that the mobile terminal completes loading of the webpage data stream in a set time range with reduced energy consumption may be provided.
US10338660B2	Method and apparatus for dynamic sleep mode based on predicted communication activity A method for communicating system activity in a communication system includes receiving communication beam activity information, the communication beam activity information related to communication information destined for a user device on a communication beam, the communication beam activity information comprising information relating to data activity on the communication beam, and using the communication beam activity information to determine a period within which the user device may enter an inactive state.
US10338649B2	Fan control apparatus and method of operating the same A fan control apparatus used to control a plurality of fans, and the fan control apparatus includes a power port, a control unit, a drive unit, and a trigger switch. The control unit receives a PWM signal with a duty cycle outputted from a processor and the control unit determines whether the duty cycle is greater than at least one threshold value set by the control unit. When the duty cycle is greater than at least one threshold value, the control unit controls the fans through the drive unit.
US10338646B1	Radio frequency amplifier circuit and mobile terminal having the same A mobile terminal according to the present invention includes a main transmitter to amplify and transmit a first signal of a first frequency band through a first path and a second path, and an auxiliary transmitter to amplify and transmit a second signal of a second frequency band through a third path. The mobile terminal further includes a controller to control the amplified first signal and the amplified second signal to be combined with each other when the distortion signal is to occur in frequency bands adjacent to the first frequency band due to the amplified first signal, thereby providing a radio frequency (RF) front end and a mobile terminal with improved non-linearity.
US10338622B2	Power adjustment device, power adjustment method, power adjustment system, power storage device, server, program A power adjustment device supplies power received from a power grid and power of a storage battery to an electric load in a consumer's facility. Power adjustment device includes a prediction portion, a planning portion, and a controller. Prediction portion obtains a prediction value of demand power that is power to be consumed in the electric load in a planning period, the planning period being a period in which the storage battery is charged and discharges. Planning portion determines a control content of charging of and discharging by the storage battery in the planning period depending on the prediction value of the demand power to minimize any one of an amount of power to be received from the power grid, a compensation for power to be received from the power grid, and an emission amount of carbon dioxide. Controller controls the power conditioner in accordance with the control content.
US10338621B1	Voltage regulator in USB power delivery integrated circuit An integrated circuit (IC) comprises an output and a voltage regulator. The voltage regulator comprises an amplifier having a first input coupled to a reference voltage source and a second input coupled to the output, a first resistor coupled to the output and coupled to a ground terminal, a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) having a gate coupled to an output of the amplifier and a drain coupled to the output, and a second resistor coupled to a source of the MOSFET and coupled to the ground terminal.
US10338619B2	Voltage regulator with performance compensation A digitally-assisted voltage regulator includes a gate driver circuit and a compensation circuit. The voltage regulator digitizes the load profile, and uses the digital information to compensate for process and temperature variations. The voltage regulator outputs a regulated voltage signal and one or more control signals based on a supply voltage and a reference voltage. The gate driver circuit receives the regulated voltage signal and generates a gate driver signal. The compensation circuit receives the control signal and generates first and second compensation signals. The voltage regulator regulates a voltage level of the regulated voltage signal using the regulator compensation signal, and controls a ramp-rate of the gate driver signal using the second compensation signal.
US10338614B1	Low dropout linear regulator with internally compensated effective series resistance A voltage regulator circuit having an internally compensated effective series resistance includes a control circuit to generate an out current at a regulated output voltage based on a reference voltage. The control circuit includes an amplifier, a resistive element to feedback output voltage to an input of the amplifier, and a compensation circuit to couple the internally compensated effective series resistance into the control circuit. The compensation circuit includes a first current sense device to generate a first sensed current proportional to a current through an N-type pass device, a second current sense device arranged to generate a second sensed current proportional to the current through the N-type pass device, and a bias circuit coupled to sink the first sensed current and the second sensed current to reduce a bias voltage across the resistive element below a threshold voltage.
US10338612B2	Machine tools and methods of operation thereof A fluid temperature control assembly in combination with a machine tool, and a method of adjusting the temperature of a fluid being supplied to a machine tool. The assembly is arranged to adjust the temperature of a fluid being supplied to the machine tool to maintain the fluid at a setpoint temperature at a location downstream of the assembly. The assembly comprises a radio frequency (RF) or microwave energy source to supply energy to the fluid as it passes through the assembly to heat the fluid, a temperature sensing arrangement for outputting a temperature signal responsive to the temperature of the fluid at the downstream location, and a control arrangement configured to receive the temperature signal and control the energy source with reference to the temperature signal to heat the fluid so as to maintain the fluid at the setpoint temperature at the downstream location.
US10338603B2	Systems and methods for a material handling vehicle network One or more material handling vehicles of a fleet can be equipped with telematics controllers and configured for wireless communication. In different arrangements, the material handling vehicles of the fleet can communicate with each other and with a management system, in order to effect management of the fleet and of particular material handling vehicles belonging thereto.
US10338596B2	Positioning of a mobile platform using a bumper A method for positioning a mobile platform at a station that includes moving the mobile platform near a bumper by applying torque to a drive shaft. The mobile platform is maneuvered until a contact stop of the platform is touching the bumper. A locking mechanism is engaged to the mobile platform before the torque to the drive shaft is released to assure position retention at the station. A system for precise positioning of a mobile platform at a station is provided that includes a stationary bumper at the station. A mobile platform has contact stops, a drive shaft, and sensors for measuring contact with the stationary bumper. The mobile platform having a locking mechanism for preventing movement of the drive shaft in response to input from at least one of the sensors in response to contact with the stationary bumper to provide the precise positioning of the mobile platform.
US10338594B2	Navigation of autonomous vehicles to enhance safety under one or more fault conditions Various embodiments relate generally to autonomous vehicles and associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computing software, including autonomy applications, image processing applications, etc., and computing systems, and wired and wireless network communications to facilitate autonomous control of vehicles, and, more specifically, to systems, devices, and methods configured to navigate autonomous vehicles under one or more fault conditions. In some examples, a method may include localizing an autonomous vehicle, accessing map data to identify safe zones, computing drive parameters and alternate drive parameters, detecting an anomalous event, and apply alternate drive parameters to a vehicle control unit.
US10338590B2	Trajectory planning method for ascertaining a control profile for a motor vehicle A trajectory planning method ascertains a control profile for a motor vehicle, in particular for a self-driving motor vehicle. The method includes the acts of: providing a first position set and a second position set, the first position set having at least one piece of information relating to a starting condition at a trajectory start and the second position set having at least one piece of information relating to an end condition at a trajectory end; providing a first and a second control set, the first control set having at least one piece of information relating to a first control state of the motor vehicle at the trajectory start and the second control set having at least one piece of information relating to a second control state of the motor vehicle at the trajectory end; providing a vehicle movement modeling function which has a kinematic movement model of the motor vehicle; providing a solver; ascertaining a control profile information set, which has two profile information values that are indicative of the trajectory, by using the solver on the vehicle movement modeling function dependent on the first and second position set and the first and second control set; and determining a control profile for the motor vehicle dependent on the control profile information set.
US10338589B2	Controller, driving control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program A controller that controls driving of an autonomously moving vehicle includes a first sensor that detects an obstacle and a direction of travel of the vehicle, and a processor that sets a virtual region surrounding the vehicle. Processor stops the vehicle when the obstacle is detected therein, determines whether the obstacle is present in the direction of travel, determines whether the vehicle has been stopped for a predetermined amount of time when the obstacle is present, reduces a length of the virtual region in the direction of travel to provide an adjusted virtual region when the vehicle is determined to have been stopped for the predetermined amount of time, causes the vehicle to drive when the obstacle is not detected within the adjusted virtual region, and stops the vehicle when the obstacle is detected within the adjusted virtual region.
US10338587B2	Controlling a motor vehicle A method for controlling a third motor vehicle, includes scanning, by a first motor vehicle, the surroundings of the first motor vehicle and determining an assumption for a traffic situation based on the scanned information; transmitting the assumption thus determined from the first motor vehicle to a central office, scanning, by a second motor vehicle, the surroundings of the second motor vehicle and determining an assumption for a traffic situation based on the scanned information, transmitting the assumption thus determined from the second motor vehicle to a central office, whereupon the surroundings of the first and a the second motor vehicle overlap, determining, by the central office, a traffic situation in the area of the first and second motor vehicles on the basis of the transmitted information and transmitting the traffic situation thus determined to a third motor vehicle to enable prompt consideration of the traffic situation thus determined.
US10338580B2	System and method for determining vehicle orientation in a vehicle consist A system and method for determining an orientation of a vehicle are provided. The system and method determine (with a sensor assembly disposed onboard a first vehicle) a direction in which a fluid flows within the first vehicle. The first vehicle is included in a vehicle consist with a second vehicle. The orientation of the first vehicle relative to the second vehicle is determined based at least in part on the direction in which the fluid flows within the first vehicle. The fluid may be air in an air brake pipe of the vehicle consist.
US10338576B2	Intelligent management system for balance of plant Systems and methods for providing intelligent management of balance of plant are provided. According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a system for determining a malfunction of a feedwater pump includes one or more processors and a database communicatively coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors can be configured to receive plant parameters. The one or more processors can be further configured to correlate the plant parameters to historical operational values. Based at least partially on the correlating, the one or more processors may be operable to identify a malfunction in a feedwater pump. Based at least partially on the identifying, the one or more processors may be operable to provide an advisory action concerning an operation of the feedwater pump.
US10338575B2	Production processing apparatus, production processing method, and work manufacturing method A production processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a first robot arm and a plurality of first tilt tables. The first robot arm is capable of conveying a work. On each of the plurality of first tilt tables, the work conveyed by the first robot arm can be mounted. The plurality of first tilt tables are tilted a predetermined angle from a horizontal surface at positions on a circumference of a circle with the first robot arm being a center, and the work is subjected to production processing in a state where the work is mounted on one of the plurality of first tilt tables.
US10338571B2	Motor controller and methods of wirelessly reprogramming motor controller A motor controller for controlling an electric motor includes a motion control microcontroller unit (MCU) for storing initial control parameters for the electric motor, and a wireless receiver communicatively coupled to the motion control MCU. The wireless receiver is configured to activate in response to initiation of a wireless connection with a remote device, receive a wireless control signal from the remote device, the wireless control signal including updated control parameters, and transmit the updated control parameters to the motion control MCU. The motor controller also includes an energy management system configured to power the wireless receiver and the motion control MCU.
US10338562B2	Numerical controller, control system, control method, and control program To provide a numerical controller, a control system, a control method, and a control program that can realize proper adjustment of a method of machining by each machine tool in a machining step. A numerical controller comprises: a ROM that stores multiple combinations of machining programs and parameters together with a first cycle time required for machining; a receiving unit that receives a second cycle time of a bottleneck step; and a selection unit that selects a combination from the multiple combinations of the machining programs and the parameters. The selected combination is to extend the first cycle time to a range not exceeding the second cycle time.
US10338561B2	Data generating device that generates drawing data representing index pattern to be drawn on workpiece by laser beam for measuring deformation of workpiece A data generating device includes a memory; and a controller. The memory is configured to store a plurality of sets of drawing information about an index pattern and a laser beam used for drawing the index pattern on a surface of a workpiece in association with respective ones of a plurality of sets of machining contents individually. The index pattern is represented by drawing data. Each of the plurality of machining contents indicates a machining process to be performed on the workpiece to measure deformation of the workpiece. The controller is configured to perform: receiving a generation instruction instructing to start generating the drawing data; designating one set of machining contents from the plurality of sets of machining contents; and generating the drawing data according to designated one set of machining contents and corresponding one of the plurality of sets of drawing information.
US10338559B2	Methods and system for reducing energy use in buildings The present disclosure provides systems and methods for reducing energy use in buildings. A data center receives source data from one or more building systems and/or one or more external sources. A plurality of energy optimization strategies are applied to at least a subset of the source data to determine a set of proposed output values for each energy optimization strategy, independently of each other, wherein each set of proposed output values includes at least one equipment set point. Conflicts between the sets of proposed output values are resolved, to generate a set of harmonized output values. The set of harmonized output values is transmitted to the one or more building control systems through one or more gateway devices.
US10338544B2	Communication configuration analysis in process control systems The present invention is concerned with Process Control systems including a client IED and a plurality of server IEDs connected to an Ethernet communication network. A protocol analyzer tool connected to the communication network captures messages directed to the client IED and assigns, from a standardized configuration representation of the PC system comprising the logical data flow definitions, a server or source IED to each captured message. A client IED independent way of diagnosing a cause of client overload problems is provided by analyzing statistically the captured messages. Such statistical approach allows identifying any operating server or source IED sending, on average, more messages than during a preceding period or more messages than calculated.
US10338542B2	Method for computer-aided installation control optimization using a simulation module An interactive assistance system and method for computer-aided control optimization for a technical system is provided. For example, a gas or wind turbine, in particular for optimizing the action sequence or the control variables of the plant (e.g. gas supply, compression), wherein an input terminal is provided for reading at least one status parameter providing a first system status of the technical system, and at least one setting parameter for adapting a reward function. A simulation module having a pre-trained neuronal network, simulating the plant, serves to simulate an action sequence on the technical system, starting from the first system status and to the prediction of the resulting statuses of the technical system.
US10338540B2	Method of optimized global management of an energy network of an aircraft and corresponding device The invention relates to a method and to a device for optimized global management of a power network of an aircraft comprising a plurality of items of power equipment, characterized in that it comprises a module 40 for selecting at least one optimization objective (19) from a plurality of predetermined objectives, a module (42) for receiving equipment data, a module (41) for receiving aircraft data, and a module (43) for determining operating setpoints (22) of the power equipment from equipment data (21) and aircraft data (20) which is suitable for achieving at least one selected optimization objective (19).
US10338532B2	Trigonometric display and method thereof A trigonometric function display clock includes a clock face that has a center aligned with a central axis, axial markings aligned with an x-axis and a y-axis, and a secondary circle having a diameter equal to a radius of the axial markings. A first point on the secondary circle is aligned at the center of the central axis, and the secondary circle is configured to be rotatable about the first point. The secondary circle is configured to overlap and align with at least a portion of the axial markings as the secondary circle rotates about the first point.
US10338531B2	Analog electronic watch An analog electronic watch includes a hand and a control unit. The hand is configured to be rotatable. The control unit fast-forwards the hand to perform a fast-forward operation in different ways according to whether a type of a display object after switching is a time type or a period type, in a case where display contents are switched by using the hand.
US10338530B2	Timepiece mechanism for control of a plurality of displays A control mechanism for control of a plurality of timepiece displays, including a group with one first display and one second display which are separate, driven, according to a reference period, by a timepiece movement, and including, for each group of displays, a train provided to drive, according to a control period, a control moving body, this mechanism including, for each group, a first control element, for control of the first display, and a second control element, for control of the second display, at different moments within the control period, and control device for disengaging the first and the second control elements, including a control lever, which is provided to pivot with a to-and-from motion, according to a limited angular course, and which supports the first control element and the second control element.
US10338525B2	Holographic display apparatus having steerable viewing A holographic display apparatus capable of steering a location of a viewing window according to a location of an observer is disclosed. The holographic display apparatus includes a light source; a spatial light modulator configured to modulate incident light and thereby reproduce the holographic image; a spatial filter configured to transmit only the holographic image; an eye tracker configured to track a pupil location of an observer; and a controller configured to adjust locations of the light source and the spatial filter in response to a change in the pupil location of the observer received from the eye tracker. The controller is configured to move the light source and the spatial filter simultaneously in the same direction by the same distance.
US10338516B2	Photoconductor refreshing cycles Examples of refreshing a photoconductive layer in an image forming apparatus are described. In one example, a method includes performing a first refreshing cycle comprising applying, at a first refresh unit, a first refresh voltage to the photoconductive layer and applying, at a second refresh unit, a second refresh voltage to the photoconductive layer. A second refreshing cycle is performed including applying, at the first refresh unit, a third refresh voltage to the photoconductive layer, the third refresh voltage being higher than the first refresh voltage and higher than the second refresh voltage. Each of the first and second refreshing cycles electrically bias the photoconductive layer to a refresh polarity opposite to a print polarity applied during a print routine of the image forming apparatus.
US10338506B2	Fixing device A fixing device includes: a fixing rotator; a pressure rotator configured to be pressed into contact with the fixing rotator to form a nip portion; a heating section configured to be provided over an outer circumference of the fixing rotator in a non-contact manner with the fixing rotator and heat the fixing rotator; and a power shutdown section configured to shut down power supply to the heating section when temperature becomes higher than a predetermined setting temperature, wherein the heating section includes an infrared heater and a reflection member which covers the infrared heater and whose portion facing the fixing rotator is an opening portion, a longitudinal length of the reflection member is longer than a length in an axis direction of a light emitting unit of the infrared heater, and a temperature detection unit of the power shutdown section is arranged outside the reflection member.
US10338503B2	Fixing device including rotary member to suppress vaporized component escape A fixing apparatus including a rotary member in which a generatrix direction thereof is substantially parallel to a generatrix direction of a film, the rotary member being provided between the film and a cover member such that a gap is formed between the film and the rotary member.
US10338501B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a guiding portion that acts on a shutter member to open and close the shutter member when a unit, including the shutter member, is mounted to and dismounted from a main assembly. The guiding portion includes an opening operating portion that moves the shutter member from the closing position to the opening position in interrelation with an inserting operation of the unit, a closing operating portion that moves the shutter member from the opening position to the closing position in interrelation with an extracting operation of the unit, and a shutter closing portion contacted to the shutter member at a position upstream of the opening operating portion and the closing operating portion, with respect to an inserting direction of the unit relative to the guiding portion, to move the shutter member from the opening position to the closing position in interrelation with the inserting operation.
US10338497B2	Delivery nozzle receiving device and toner cartridge A toner cartridge and a delivery nozzle receiving device, the latter includes a fixture bracket, a closer, and an elastic element. A guiding slot is formed in the fixture bracket along a length direction of the fixture bracket, and one end of the guiding slot is provided with a delivery nozzle receiving opening. The closer is mounted inside the fixture bracket and can move along the guiding slot between a closed location and an opened location. The elastic element is sleeved outside the fixture bracket and pushes the closer towards the closed location, a first end of the elastic element is limited on an end of the fixture bracket close to the delivery nozzle receiving opening, and a second end of the elastic element is connected to an end of the closer away from the delivery nozzle receiving opening.
US10338494B2	Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus having developer movement apparatus A developing apparatus includes a developer carrier that carries a developer, and a developer casing that contains the developer to be supplied to the developer carrier. An opening/closing part is capable of controlling a moving amount of the developer between a first region on one side in an axial direction of the developer carrier and a second region on the other side in the axial direction of the developer carrier by opening or closing the first region and the second region. A hardware processor controls an open/closed state of the opening/closing part in accordance with the state of the developer in the first region and the second region.
US10338491B2	Optical scanning apparatus and optical scanning apparatus system An optical scanning apparatus according to the present invention includes a light source, and a substrate including an electric circuit for causing the light source to emit light. The number of holes in the substrate into which terminals in the light source are respectively inserted is larger than the number of the terminals, so that the substrate can also be used for another light source including a different number of terminals.
US10338489B2	Two-component developer and image forming method using the same The present invention provides a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic charge image, which includes a toner and a carrier, wherein the toner contains an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin as binder resins and an inorganic particle as external additive particle, and the carrier has a surface to which silica particles having a number average particle diameter of 10 to 30 nm are attached in an amount in the range of the following Equation (1): 5 at %≤S1≤10 at %, wherein S1 represents a concentration of Si element as measured by XPS and indicates an amount of silica on the surface of the carrier.
US10338488B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a charging device, an electrostatic charge image forming device, a developing device having a toner, a transfer device, and a fixing device, wherein the fixing device includes a fixing belt, a rotational member, and a heater; the toner contains an amorphous polyester resin as a binder resin; and the toner has a weight average molecular weight Mw and a number average molecular weight Mn, Mw is from 25000 to 60000, and Mw/Mn is from 5 to 10, and has an infrared absorption spectrometry, the ratio of absorbance for a wavelength of 1500 cm−1 to absorbance for a wavelength of 720 cm−1 is 0.6 or less, and the ratio of absorbance for a wavelength of 820 cm−1 to absorbance for a wavelength of 720 cm−1 is 0.4 or less.
US10338484B2	Recipe selection based on inter-recipe consistency A method including: determining recipe consistencies between one substrate measurement recipe of a plurality of substrate measurement recipes and each other substrate measurement recipe of the plurality of substrate measurement recipes; calculating a function of the recipe consistencies; eliminating the one substrate measurement recipe from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes if the function meets a criterion; and reiterating the determining, calculating and eliminating until a termination condition is met. Also disclosed herein is a substrate measurement apparatus, including a storage configured to store a plurality of substrate measurement recipes, and a processor configured to select one or more substrate measurement recipes from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes based on recipe consistencies among the plurality of substrate measurement recipes.
US10338477B2	Lithography apparatus A lithography apparatus is provided. The lithography apparatus a reticle having a first surface and a second surface facing each other, and a pattern region formed on the first surface, a reticle stage facing the second surface of the reticle, the reticle stage to chuck the reticle, a protection conductor within a chamber housing the reticle and the reticle stage; and a power source to supply a voltage to the protection conductor.
US10338458B2	Projector-use luminescent wheel and manufacturing method therefor, and projector-use light emitting device Provided is a luminescent wheel for a projector, which has a novel structure in which a phosphor layer is hard to break even if its thickness is reduced; a manufacturing method therefor; and a light emitting device for a projector. A luminescent wheel for a projector includes: a phosphor layer (11) which has a first principal surface (11a) and a second principal surface (11b) located on an opposite side to the first principal surface (11a) and is capable of being excited by the entry of excitation light to emit fluorescence; a first glass layer (12) provided on the first principal surface (11a) of the phosphor layer (11); and a second glass layer (13) provided on the second principal surface (11b) of the phosphor layer (11).
US10338457B2	Electronic device casing and projector An electronic device casing can be used in a projector and includes a first casing member and a second casing member. The first casing member includes a first side wall. The first casing member and the second casing member are engaged with each other to form an internal accommodating space. The second casing member includes a second side wall. The first side wall and the second side wall are oppositely disposed to form a narrow passage therebetween. The internal accommodating space is connected to an external space of the electronic device casing through the narrow passage. The narrow passage has a non-straight traveling path. Furthermore, the electronic device can includes an air flow bypass passage near the narrow passage.
US10338454B2	Optical clock generator An optical clock generator includes a nonlinear cavity unit, a cross-waveguide logic gate unit and a delayer unit; and is of a six-port photonic crystal structure including two reference-light signal-input ports, a feedback-signal-input port, a system-signal and feedback-signal output port and two idle ports; the output port of the cross-waveguide logic gate unit is connected with the input port of the nonlinear cavity unit whose system-signal output port is connected with the input port of said delayer unit whose output port is connected with the input port of the cross-waveguide logic gate unit, the system-signal output port is connected with a two-branch waveguide one of which is used as the system-signal output port, and another is used as the feedback-signal output port and connected to an input port of said delayer unit, the delayer unit performs time delay on an input signal and outputs the signal to the feedback-signal-input port.
US10338447B2	Liquid crystal display device A method of manufacturing, with high mass productivity, liquid crystal display devices having highly reliable thin film transistors with excellent electric characteristics is provided. In a liquid crystal display device having an inverted staggered thin film transistor, the inverted staggered thin film transistor is formed as follows: a gate insulating film is formed over a gate electrode; a microcrystalline semiconductor film which functions as a channel formation region is formed over the gate insulating film; a buffer layer is formed over the microcrystalline semiconductor film; a pair of source and drain regions are formed over the buffer layer; and a pair of source and drain electrodes are formed in contact with the source and drain regions so as to expose a part of the source and drain regions.
US10338446B2	Semiconductor device having low resistance source and drain regions A semiconductor device has a top-gate structure resistant to creation of parasitic capacitance between a low-resistance region formed in a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode. A TFT (100) has a low-resistance region, a portion of which has a first length (L1) ranging from a first position (P1) corresponding to an end of a gate insulating film to a region below a gate electrode (40), and the first length is substantially equal to a second length (L2) ranging from the first position (P1) to a second position (P2) corresponding to an end of the gate electrode (40). Thus, the overlap between the gate electrode (40) and either a source region (20 s) or a drain region (20 d) can be reduced, resulting in diminished parasitic capacitance.
US10338442B2	Liquid crystal display panel structure The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel structure in which the red sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel, and the blue sub-pixel of each pixel are arranged in two adjacent sub-pixel rows and the shape of the pixel is L-typed or inverted L-typed. The number of data lines can be reduced to ⅔ or ⅓ of the existing technology, then, the cost of liquid crystal display panels is reduced to enhance the competitiveness of products.
US10338438B2	Array substrate having partially oxidized source electrode, drain electrode and data line The embodiments of the invention disclose an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device. Due to the fact that the surfaces of a source electrode, a drain electrode and a data line which are arranged on the same layer are provided with an oxide film which is formed after annealing treatment is conducted on the source electrode, the drain electrode and the data line, in the process that the pattern of a pixel electrode is formed on the source electrode, the drain electrode and the data line by the adoption of a composition technology, the oxide film can protect the source electrode and the data line under the oxide film from being corroded by an etching agent when the pattern of the pixel electrode is formed by etching, and the display quality of a display panel will not be affected.
US10338433B2	Light-emitting apparatus and display apparatus A light-emitting apparatus includes: a light-source unit configured to emit light of a first color; a sheet member containing a conversion member configured to emit light of the first color and light of a second color, according to incidence of the light emitted from the light-source unit; a bottom-surface member; a side-surface member; and an upper-surface member, wherein the sheet member emits the light of the second color by a light amount corresponding to a length of a path where the incident light of the first color passes through the sheet member, a space including the light-source unit and the conversion member is formed by the bottom-surface member, the side-surface member, and the upper-surface member, and a first opening connecting an inside and an outside of the space is provided at a position, on the upper-surface member, which does not face the light-source unit.
US10338432B2	Display device A display device includes a backlight structure, a first liquid-crystal layer, a second liquid-crystal layer, and polarized layers. The first liquid-crystal layer is disposed on the backlight structure. The second liquid-crystal layer is disposed on the first liquid-crystal layer. The polarized layers are located between the backlight structure and the first liquid-crystal layer, between the first liquid-crystal layer and the second liquid-crystal layer, and located on the second liquid-crystal layer. The extinction ratio of the polarized layers is in a range from about 5000 to 50000.
US10338430B2	Liquid crystal display apparatus There is provided a liquid crystal display apparatus having the following feature: although the liquid crystal display apparatus has a step between its display screen and outermost surface, the step is hardly recognized; and the liquid crystal display apparatus can achieve bright display. A liquid crystal display apparatus according to the present invention includes a liquid crystal cell; a first polarizer arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal cell; a second polarizer arranged on a viewer side of the liquid crystal cell; a cover sheet arranged on a viewer side of the second polarizer, the cover sheet having an opening portion at a position corresponding to a display region of the liquid crystal cell; and a third polarizer arranged on a viewer side of the cover sheet to cover the opening portion, wherein the opening portion of the cover sheet is filled with a pressure-sensitive adhesive.
US10338429B2	Method for manufacturing quantum dot color filter The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a quantum dot color filter, which uses a printing mold to pick up quantum dots and printing the quantum dots into a partially cured photoresist layer and then separates the quantum dots and the printing mold, followed by irradiation of UV light to completely cure the photoresist layer so that the quantum dots may uniformly distributed in the photoresist layer. This simplifies the process of transferring a quantum dot layer and reduces cost; requires no process of forming a sacrifice layer and no step of dissolving the sacrifice layer to prevent damage to the quantum dot layer; allows the quantum dots to be uniformly distributed in the photoresist layer to thereby improve the utilization of the quantum dots; and allows a quantum dot color filter so manufactured to be used with white backlighting or blue backlighting for achieving displaying of three primary colors of red, green, and blue.
US10338428B2	Quantum dot display apparatus and manufacturing method thereof The present disclosure provides a quantum dot display apparatus. By adding quantum dot display technology of the present disclosure can provide sophisticated quantum dot patterns in the color filter layer and have higher resolution, color saturation and color gamut of the display apparatus, the well structure and manufacture is simple. The disclosure also provides a manufacturing method of a quantum dot display apparatus, the methods includes exposure, coating, developing process of the existing color filter to contain the surface modified red and green quantum dot resin composition with more sophisticated patterns, and making high resolution, color saturation and color gamut quantum dot display apparatus, the material preparation and fabrication process of this manufacturing method is simple, less waste of materials, low production cost, suitable for mass production.
US10338418B2	Light emitting module and display device including the same A light emission module includes: a light guide including emission sides disposed facing each other, a first and second side connecting the emission sides, a third side connecting the first and second side; a light source unit including a first and second light source corresponding to the first and third side respectively, and a light source substrate supporting the first and second light source and including a first and second portion supporting the first and second light source respectively, the second portion inclined at a first angle with respect to the first portion, the second light source emits a light incident on the third side comprising a first and second orientation angle edge light, the former inclined at a second angle and refracted to propagate in a path adjacent to the second side, and then refracted adjacent to the second side, the first angle smaller than the third angle.
US10338415B2	Nanostructured flat lenses for display technologies Embodiments described herein relate to display devices, e.g., virtual and augmented reality displays and applications. In one embodiment, a planar substrate has stepwise features formed thereon and emitter structures formed on each of the features. An encapsulating layer is disposed on the substrate and a plurality of uniform dielectric nanostructures are formed on the encapsulating layer. Virtual images generated by the apparatus disclosed herein provide for improved image clarity by reducing chromatic aberrations at an image plane.
US10338409B2	Lens with off-axis curvature center An off-axis curvature center lens is characterized by an x-y-z coordinate system of the convergence-reducing lens, the off-axis curvature lens comprising a distance-vision region with a non-negative distance-vision optical power, having a front distance-vision surface with a center of front distance-vision curvature, and a rear distance-vision surface with a center of rear distance-vision curvature; and a near-vision region with an optical power within 0.5D of the distance-vision optical power, having a front near-vision surface with a center of front near-vision curvature, and a rear near-vision surface with a center of rear near-vision curvature; wherein at least one of an x-coordinate of the center of front near-vision curvature is nasal relative to an x-coordinate of the center of front distance-vision curvature, and an x-coordinate of the center of rear near-vision curvature is temporal relative to an x-coordinate of the center of rear distance-vision curvature.
US10338403B2	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.
US10338402B2	Despeckling stability An apparatus and method that improves the stability of despeckling using stimulated Raman scattering in an optical fiber. Optical modes in the fiber are scrambled by physical movement of the optical fiber, focusing assembly, or laser beam. The improvement in stability may include a reduction in flicker or reduction in long-term drift.
US10338400B2	Augmented reality eyewear with VAPE or wear technology This invention is augmented reality eyewear with Volumetric Annular Photon Emission (VAPE) technology comprising: an annular light projector; an annular light reflector/refractor which redirects light rays from the annular light projector away from the person's eye; and a semi-reflective eyewear lens which reflects light rays from the projector back toward the person's eye and also transmits light rays from the environment toward the person's eye. This technology can enable a person to see their environment with minimal vision impairment while simultaneously displaying virtual objects with minimal light loss.
US10338398B2	Inflatable light box An inflatable light box includes securing plates and panels in association with upper and lower interior connecting planks when coupled to a cylindrical barrel in which an inflatable airbag is disposed, and encompassed by a decorative cover, form a housing for an inflatable light apparatus.
US10338388B2	Light guide unit, image display device, and display apparatus There is provided an image display device that comprises an image forming unit and a light guide unit.The light guide unit includes a light guide plate configured to guide light of an image formed in the image forming unit, and a support member. The light guide plate is supported by one or more buffer members at, at least, a plurality of portions of the support member.
US10338383B2	Display control device According to an instruction of a display control device, a head-up display displays display information of individual types in a displayable region of a windshield. The display control device includes a type deciding unit for deciding the types of display information; and a display controller for causing the head-up display to display the display information with the types decided by the type deciding unit in the display areas of the displayable region, the display areas being provided for the individual types of display information, and to display the display guides indicating the display areas regardless of the presence or absence of the display information.
US10338364B2	Light source module and light source unit A light source module including at least one optical film and a light source unit is provided. The light source unit is disposed under the at least one optical film, and a space is formed between the light source unit and the at least one optical film. The light source unit includes a plurality of light emitting elements and a plurality of secondary lenses. The light emitting elements are arranged along a direction parallel to the at least one optical film. The secondary lenses are correspondingly disposed on the light emitting elements and each of the secondary lenses has a patterned reflective layer. Each of the secondary lenses has a light hole radius R, a distance between a distribution range of the patterned reflective layer and a bottom of the corresponding secondary lenses is H, and the distribution range of the patterned reflective layer satisfies 1/R
US10338356B2	Projection optical system and projection type display device A projection optical system is constituted by, in order from the reduction side, a first optical system constituted by a plurality of lenses for forming an image displayed by image display elements as an intermediate image, and a second optical system constituted by a plurality of lenses for forming the intermediate image on a magnification side conjugate plane. Conditional Formula (1), being that 0.020
US10338351B2	Image lens assembly and image capturing device An image lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface, wherein both of the surfaces of the fifth lens element are aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein the image-side surface thereof has at least one inflection point, and both of the surfaces of the sixth lens element are aspheric. The image lens assembly has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.
US10338348B2	Optical image capturing lens system This disclosure provides an optical image capturing lens system comprising: a positive first lens element having a convex object-side surface, a negative second lens element, a positive third lens element having a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens element having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; and a positive fifth lens element having a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region thereof, both of the object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric, and at least one inflection point is positioned on at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof. When particular relations are satisfied, the angle at which light projects onto the image plane can be efficiently controlled for increasing the relative illumination and preventing the occurrence of vignetting.
US10338344B2	Small form factor telephoto camera A compact telephoto lens system that may be used in a small form factor cameras. The lens system may include five lens elements with refractive power. Alternatively, the lens system may include four lens elements with refractive power. At least one of the object side and image side surfaces of at least one of the lens elements is aspheric. Total track length (TTL) of the lens system may be 6.0 mm or less. Focal length f of the lens system may be at or about 7.0 mm (for example, within a range of 6.5-7.5 mm). Lens elements are selected and configured so that the telephoto ratio (TTL/f) satisfies the relation 0.74
US10338341B2	Lens holder driving device and camera-equipped portable terminal A lens holder driving device is provided with a lens holder, a securing part including a base member, a drive mechanism, and a position detection unit. The drive mechanism includes a yoke that is provided to stand on the base member. The position detection unit includes a sensor magnet mounted to the outer peripheral surface of the lens holder, and a magnetic detection element provided in the securing part. The yoke is provided with a tube-shaped external cylinder part, and the external cylinder part includes a plurality of plate sections each having a cutout section. The lens holder driving device includes a foreign matter entry prevention member that prevents foreign matter from getting inside from the cutout sections of the plate sections.
US10338335B2	Mid-span clamp for aerial fiber optical cable system A mid-span optical fiber cable support system is provided. The system includes a mid-span clamp system engaging a main span cable to support a mid-span later drop cable run. The mid-span clamping system includes a main span cable clamp engaging the main span cable, and a drop cable clamp engaging the drop cable. The drop cable clamp is supported from the main span cable such that the second portion of the drop cable extends away from the main span cable such that a load applied by the drop cable at the drop cable clamp is substantially perpendicular to the preferential bend axis of the main span cable. In addition, the main span cable clamp includes a bend strain reducing curved surface.
US10338331B2	Fiber optic ribbon cable having enhanced ribbon stack coupling and methods thereof A fiber optic ribbon cable includes a jacket of the cable, the jacket having a cavity defined therein, an optical element including an optical fiber and extending within the cavity of the jacket, and a dry water-blocking element extending along the optical element within the cavity. The dry water-blocking element is wrapped around the optical element with at least a portion of the dry water-blocking element disposed between another portion of the dry water-blocking element and the optical element, thereby defining an overlapping portion of the dry water-blocking element. The optical element interfaces with the overlapping portion to provide direct or indirect coupling between the optical element and the jacket.
US10338330B2	Optical transceiver and optical transceiver insertion/ejection mechanism The optical transceiver includes a case that has a second engagement portion engaging with a first engagement portion provided in the cage to prevent the optical transceiver from being ejected from the cage, a slider that moves relative to the case in the first direction with respect to the case, and a pusher that is oscillatably supported by the case via an oscillation shaft extending in a second direction and disengages the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion from each other by pushing the first engagement portion in a third direction while being interlocked with a movement of the slider. The oscillation shaft is positioned in an ejecting direction with respect to an interlocking part of the slider and the pusher.
US10338329B2	Arrangement for connecting photonic and electronic components An optoelectronic device having three substantially planar substrates arranged such that one of the substrates is orthogonal to the other two substrates. In an example embodiment, the first substrate may have one or more photonic devices configured to emit or receive light traveling substantially orthogonally with respect to a major plane of the first substrate. The second substrate has an optical waveguide circuit thereon that is edge-coupled to receive (or transmit) the light from (to) the one or more photonic devices. The third substrate has an electrical circuit thereon and is connected to form an L-shaped junction with the first substrate, the L-shaped junction providing electrical connections between the corresponding electrical transmission lines located on the first and third substrates, e.g., to communicate electrical signals with the one or more photonic devices. In some embodiments, the optoelectronic device can be used to implement an optical transmitter or receiver.
US10338327B2	Device for incoupling and/or outcoupling optical signals A device for coupling optical signals into at least one waveguide having at least one electro-optical converter, which sends out the optical signals in the direction of the axis or of the core of the waveguide, in such a way that active alignment of the waveguide is not necessary. The electro-optical converter is incorporated, in particular embedded, in at least one send-site optical subassembly, the send-site optical subassembly has at least one guiding channel for aligning the waveguide with respect to the electro-optical converter, in particular relative to the output port or to the active surface of the electro-optical converter, and at least one extension is assigned to the send-site optical subassembly, in particular to the guiding channel, the extension being provided for aligning the waveguide with respect to the guiding channel. Also, a device for decoupling optical signals from at least one waveguide having the features noted above.
US10338324B2	Optical connector An optical connector includes: a housing that houses a ferrule; a mounting member that movably attaches the housing to a board in a direction perpendicular to connector insertion and removal directions; and a first elastic member arranged between the mounting member and the housing. The housing is held in the mounting member via the elastic member and a space is maintained between a peripheral surface of the housing and the mounting member.
US10338323B2	Hardened fiber optic connector The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic connector for use with a fiber optic adapter. The fiber optic connector includes a connector housing having an end defining a plug portion. A ferrule assembly is mounted at least partially within the connector housing. The ferrule assembly includes a ferrule located at the plug portion of the connector housing. A sealing member is mounted about an exterior of the connector housing for providing a seal between the connector housing and the adapter. The fiber optic connector further includes first and second separate retaining mechanism for retaining the fiber optic connector within the fiber optic adapter.
US10338317B2	Systems and methods for traceable cables A traceable cable includes at least one data transmission element, a jacket at least partially surrounding the at least one data transmission element, and a tracing optical fiber incorporated with and extending along at least a portion of a length of the cable. The tracing optical fiber includes a core having a first index of refraction and a cladding having a second index of refraction. The traceable cable also includes at least one launch point provided through at least a portion of the jacket for optically accessing the tracing optical fiber. The launch point includes an optical medium accessible from an exterior of the jacket and in contact with the tracing optical fiber, wherein the optical medium is substantially index-matched to the core of the tracing optical fiber. Related systems and methods are also disclosed.
US10338316B2	Polarization dispersion adder and optical receiver In order to provide a configuration for suppressing deterioration in the transmission quality of a signal light due to a nonlinear phenomenon in an optical fiber, a polarization dispersion adder is provided with: a polarization rotation unit which, with respect to each pulse of signal light generated by modulating a light carrier, rotates and outputs the polarization of the pulse during a period from a pulse rise start time (T0) to a pulse fall completion time (T1); and a delay addition unit which adds a delay of an amount corresponding to the rotation amount of the polarization added by the polarization rotation unit to the pulse outputted from the polarization rotation unit.
US10338312B2	Photonic crystal all-optical self-and-transformation logic gate The present invention discloses a PhC all-optical self-AND-transformation logic gate, which comprises an optical-switch unit, a PhC-structure unit, a NOT-logic gate and a D-type flip-flop unit; said clock-signal CP is connected with an input port of the two-branch waveguide, said two output ports of the two-branch waveguide are respectively connected with the input port of said NOT-logic gate and a first clock-signal-input port of said PhC-structure unit; the output port of said NOT-logic gate is connected with the second clock-signal-input port of said D-type flip-flop unit; the signal-output port of the PhC structure is connected with the D-signal-input port of said D-type flip-flop unit; a logic-signal X is connected with the logic-signal-input port of said PhC-structure unit. The structure of the present invention is compact in structure and ease of integration with other optical-logic elements.
US10338311B2	Photonic crystal all-optical multistep-delay and-transformation logic gate The present invention discloses a photonic crystal (PhC) all-optical multistep-delay AND-transformation logic gate, which comprises a PhC-structure unit, an optical-switch unit (OSU), a wave-absorbing load, a NOT-logic gate, a D-type flip-flop (DFF) and a memory or delayer; an input port of a memory is connected with a first logic-signal X1, and an output port of the memory is connected with the delay-signal-input port of the OSU; a second logic-signal X2 is connected with the logic-signal-input port of the OSU; two intermediate-signal-output ports of the OSU are respectively the intermediate-signal-input port of the PhC-structure unit and the wave-absorbing load; a clock-signal CP is connected with the input port of a three-branch waveguide; the signal-output port of the PhC-structure unit is connected with the D-signal-input port of the DFF unit. The structure of the present invention is compact in structure and ease of integration with other optical-logic elements.
US10338309B2	Method and system for stabilized directional couplers Methods and systems for stabilized directional couplers are disclosed and may include a system comprising first and second directional couplers formed by first and second waveguides, where one of the waveguides may comprise a length extender between the directional couplers. The directional couplers may be formed by reduced spacing between the waveguides on opposite sides of the length extender. An input optical signal may be communicated into one of the waveguides, where at least a portion of the input optical signal may be coupled between the waveguides in the first directional coupler and at least a portion of the coupled optical signal may be coupled between the waveguides in the second directional coupler. Optical signals may be communicated out of the system with magnitudes at a desired percentage of the input optical signal. The length extender may add phase delay for signals in one of the first and second waveguides.
US10338304B2	Backlight module and display device A backlight module includes two light guide plates, two light-emitting modules, and a controller. Each of the light guide plates has an incident surface and a light-output surface. The light guide plates are arranged side-by-side to make the light-output surfaces be coplanar. Each of the light-emitting modules is configured to provide a first kind of light and a second kind of light to the incident surface of the corresponding light guide plate. The first kind of light has a first triplet. The second kind of light has a second triplet different from the first triplet. The controller is configured to asynchronously drive any of the light-emitting modules to alternately provide the first kind of light and the second kind of light.
US10338295B2	Backlight module for curved liquid crystal display device and curved liquid crystal display device A backlight module for curved liquid crystal display device and a curved liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The backlight module comprises a backplate, a light guide plate and a backlight source that are arranged in the backplate, and quantum tubes that are arranged between the light guide plate and the backlight source, wherein a fold line which matches a curved surface of the curved liquid crystal display device is formed by the quantum tubes. In the backlight module according to the present disclosure, the fold line that is formed by the quantum tubes can be fitted into a curved line so as to match the curved surface of the curved liquid crystal display device. The quantum tubes can be applied to the curved liquid crystal display device through this arrangement, whereby the color purity of the curved liquid crystal display device can be improved, and the color gamut thereof can be enlarged.
US10338293B2	Backlight source and display device The present disclosure provides a backlight source, including: a light-guide plate, a diffuser arranged at a light-exiting side of the light-guide plate, and a light bar arranged at a light-entering side of the light-guide plate and including a light-emitting diode (LED) lamp and a flexible circuit board connected to the LED lamp. The flexible circuit board includes a base material, and a first solder mask and a second solder mask arranged at two surfaces of the base material opposite to each other. The base material includes a first region where the second solder mask is arranged and a second region where the second solder mask is not arranged. The second region is located at a side of the base material adjacent to the light-guide plate. The diffuser includes, at an end adjacent to the light bar, a connection member partially or completely covering the second region.
US10338292B2	Light guide plate, backlight module and display device A light guide plate, a backlight module and a display device are provided. The light guide plate includes a main body, plural first strip structures and second strip structures. The main body includes a light incident surface, an end portion and a light guide portion. The end portion has at least one inclined surface. The light guide portion is connected to the end portion. The light guide portion has a first optical surface and a second optical surface. At least one portion of each of the first strip structures is disposed on the first optical surface. At least one portion of each of the second strip structures is disposed on the second optical surface. An inherent type, an arrangement manner or an arrangement position of the first strip structures is different from an inherent type, an arrangement manner or an arrangement position of the second strip structures.
US10338291B2	Multilayer film, polarization plate, and multilayer film production method A multilayer film including: an A layer composed of a thermoplastic resin; and a B layer disposed on at least one of the surfaces of the A layer, the B layer being composed of a material Y that contains as a main component a polymer having a glass transition temperature of −50 to 40° C., and a thickness Ta of the A layer, a thickness Tb of the B layer, a planar orientation coefficient P of the A layer, a loss modulus Ea″ of the A layer, a loss modulus Eb″ of the B layer, a storage modulus Ea′ of the A layer, and a storage modulus Eb′ of the B layer satisfying following formulae (1) to (4): 2.5×10−31.0×10−3 (2) Eb″>Ea″+0.01 GPa (3) Eb′
US10338288B2	Reflection member, projection screen, combiner, and heat shield member Due to the present invention, a reflection member including two or more layers of fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phases, in which the two or more layers of fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phases exhibit central wavelengths of mutually different selective reflection, and the two or more layers of fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phases include a layer formed of a composition including a disc-like liquid crystal compound and a layer formed of a composition including a rod-like liquid crystal compound and a projected image display member and a heat shield member which include the reflection member are provided. The reflection member of the present invention has favorable selective reflection characteristics with respect to oblique incidence rays.
US10338287B2	Infrared-rejecting optical products having pigmented coatings Optical products are disclosed that include a polymeric substrate, provided with an infrared-reflective metal layer on an outer surface thereof that is subject to oxidation. The optical products are further provided with a protective coating, comprising one or more of a metal oxide or a metal nitride, deposited directly on the infrared-reflective metal layer using chemical vapor deposition. The optical products are further provided with a composite pigment coating, deposited on the protective coating, that include at least a first layer and a second layer, at least one of which layers comprises a first pigment, wherein each of the first layer and the second layer includes a binding group component, each of which binding group components together form a complementary binding group pair.
US10338286B2	Multi-band color vision filters and method by LP-optimization The invention generally relates to optical filters that provide regulation and/or enhancement of chromatic and luminous aspects of the color appearance of light to human vision, generally to applications of such optical filters, to therapeutic applications of such optical filters, to industrial and safety applications of such optical filters when incorporated, for example, in radiation-protective eyewear, to methods of designing such optical filters, to methods of manufacturing such optical filters, and to designs and methods of incorporating such optical filters into apparatus including, for example, eyewear and illuminants.
US10338276B2	Antireflective film, polarizing plate, cover glass, image display device, and method of manufacturing antireflective film There is provided an antireflective film, including: a plastic substrate; a infiltration layer; and an antireflective layer containing metallic oxide fine particles with an average primary particle diameter of 50 nm to 250 nm and a viscosity increasing compound, in this order, wherein the infiltration layer contains a polymer of a (meth)acrylate compound having a molecular weight of 400 or less, and the antireflective layer has a moth-eye structure including an uneven shape formed by the metallic oxide fine particles.
US10338264B1	EMU impulse antenna with controlled directionality and improved impedance matching An electromagnetic energy source for emitting pulses of electromagnetic energy includes a sonde assembly and an energy storage capacitor. The energy storage capacitor has an electrode mounted in the sonde assembly and operable to generate an electric field, and a capacitive charge storage medium surrounding the electrode. A communication cable extends through a tubular member to the electrode. A fast-closing switch is positioned such that when the fast-closing switch is in a closed position, a circuit is formed that discharges the electrode.
US10338252B1	Systems and processes for building multiple equiprobable coherent geometrical models of the subsurface A method, apparatus and system for, in a computing system, perturbing an initial three-dimensional (3D) geological model using a 3D vector field. A coherent 3D vector field including 3D vectors may be generated where each 3D vector of the 3D vector field is associated with a node of the initial 3D geological model and has a magnitude within a range of uncertainty of the node of the initial 3D geological model associated therewith. The coherent 3D vector field may be applied to the initial 3D geological model associated therewith to generate an perturbed 3D model. The perturbed 3D model may differ from the initial 3D geological model by a displacement defined by the 3D vector field associated with nodes having uncertain values. The perturbed 3D model may be displayed.
US10338248B2	Method for processing seismic images The invention relates to a method for processing seismic images containing a reference trace and a control trace. During said method, a reference level and a recording level are defined. Then, the control trace is transformed on the reference level by means of a velocity model. A portion of the reference trace including the recording level is transformed by means of a current velocity model. A portion of the transformed control trace including the recording level is corrected by means of the current velocity model. Finally, an optimized current velocity model is determined.
US10338246B1	Method and system for microseismic event wavefront estimation In the field of seismic data analysis, the problem of estimating features of a microseismic event waveform, detected at the sensors of a geophone array in the presence of background seismic energy and sensor noise, is considered. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for estimating wavefront arrival times and polarizations across the sensors of an array, while simultaneously extracting the associated event sensor waveforms from the seismic background. The resulting waveform estimates are estimated in such a way that estimation errors are expected to be noise-like, and free of any systematic changes in the magnitude or phase of the arriving wavefronts.
US10338237B2	Inductive radiation detector A radiation detector includes a block of a material capable of interacting with ionizing radiation to produce charge carriers, an inductor positioned adjacent to the block and having an inductance that depends on a number of the charge carriers in the block, and a sensing circuit coupled to sense a change in the inductance and detect the ionizing radiation base on the change. The sensing circuit may particularly contain an RF synthesizer that drives the inductance, e.g., an LC circuit containing the inductance, and an analyzer that detects changes in the response of the inductance.
US10338221B2	Device for extracting depth information and method thereof A device for extracting depth information according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a light outputting unit for outputting IR (InfraRed) light; a light inputting unit for inputting light reflected from an object after outputting from the light outputting unit; a light adjusting unit for adjusting the angle of the light so as to radiate the light into a first area including the object, and then for adjusting the angle of the light so as to radiate the light into a second area; and a controlling unit for estimating the motion of the object by using at least one of the lights between the light inputted to the first area and the light inputted to the second area.
US10338218B2	Method and apparatus for obtaining vibration information and user equipment Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and an apparatus for obtaining vibration information and user equipment. The method comprises: obtaining at least one group of reflected electromagnetic wave signals, wherein the at least one group of reflected electromagnetic wave signals are formed by reflecting an electromagnetic wave signal by at least one electromagnetic wave reflective array when the at least one electromagnetic wave reflective array vibrates in response to a sound in an environment; each electromagnetic wave reflective array comprises multiple first reflective units with different electromagnetic wave reflective characteristics; analyzing the at least one group of reflected electromagnetic wave signals to obtain at least one set of vibration information corresponding to the at least one electromagnetic wave reflective array; and obtaining, according to the at least one set of vibration information, at least one piece of vibration source direction information corresponding to at least one location of the at least one electromagnetic wave reflective array. In technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, obtaining sound information in an environment by using a wireless electromagnetic wave is especially applicable to some scenarios where an active component is not suitable for use at a sound collecting location and a scenario where sound information at multiple locations needs to be collected in a space.
US10338215B2	Measuring point information providing device, change detection device, methods thereof, and recording medium The measuring point information providing device of the present invention inputs an SAR image set holding at least information indicative of a reflection intensity and a phase so as to be associated with each pixel corresponding to a resolution cell within a field of vision for image capturing including a specific region. The information is generated from observation data formed of four basic polarization pairs, i.e. HH, HV, VH and VV polarization pairs observed at generally the same time. The measuring point information providing device determines a polarization pair whose reflection intensity is not less than a predetermined value or the highest with respect to each target pixel by using the input SAR image set, and generates measuring point information including at least information indicative of the determined polarization pair of the target pixel based on a polarization pair determined by the polarization pair determination unit.
US10338213B1	Auto tier II A system for providing an estimate of far-field radar cross-section (RCS) measurements of an aircraft. The system includes a plurality of automatic guided vehicles (AGV) each including a robot arm and a radar unit selectively mounted thereto and being interchangeable with a camera. Each AGV includes an AGV controller for controlling the robot arm, the radar unit and the camera so as to cause the radar unit to provide the near-field RCS measurements or the camera to provide images of the aircraft. The system further includes a real time signature diagnostic sub-system (SDS-RT) responsive to the near-field RCS measurement signals from the radar units and the images from the cameras in real time, and an SDS controller responsive to re-configured near-field RCS measurement signals and images from the SDS-RT and configuring the near-field RCS measurement signals and the images into the estimate of the far-field RCS measurements of the aircraft.
US10338204B2	Sensor systems We describe a sensor system for measuring relative distance between sensors of the system, the sensor system comprising at least two sensors, wherein each said sensor comprises an RF transceiver coupled to a microprocessor and stored program code for controlling the microprocessor, wherein said stored program code comprises code to: send, using said RF transceiver a group of one or more data bits from the sensor to a second sensor; receive, using said RF transceiver, an acknowledgement of reception of said group of data bits from said second sensor; determine a time difference between said sending and said receiving; compensate said time difference from a processing delay by the microprocessor of said second sensor between the second sensor receiving said group of data bits and sending said acknowledgement, to determine timing data reprinting distance to said second sensor.
US10338197B2	System and method for use of qualitative modeling for signal analysis A system and method for qualitative analysis of time progressive signals, comprising: a qualitative signal analysis module, comprising at least a processor, a memory, and a long term storage device; and an output processor module comprising at least a processor a memory and a network interface has been devised. The qualitative signal analysis module retrieves signal data over time and applies pre-programmed protocols to compare multiple aspects of the signal data to derive meaningful data. The output processor module encodes data generated by the qualitative signal analysis module for use in subsequent analytical steps such as further manipulation, classification or long term storage.
US10338190B2	Enabling a validation of an estimated position of a mobile device An apparatus obtains results of measurements by a mobile device on radio signals transmitted by a plurality of transmitters, the results of measurements comprising characteristics of the radio signals at the location of measurement. The apparatus estimates a position of the mobile device based on the obtained results of measurements and based on assistance data including information on expected characteristics of radio signals of various transmitters at various locations. The apparatus matches a distribution of characteristics of radio signals in the obtained results of measurements with a reference distribution of characteristics of radio signals. Alternatively or in addition, the apparatus determines matching transmitters for which characteristics are available in the results of measurements and in the assistance data, and matches a determined expected distribution for the matching transmitters with a predetermined reference distribution. A result of any matching is provided as an indication of the validity of the estimated position.
US10338189B2	Metadata-based emitter localization A method includes obtaining signal information corresponding to a plurality of radio signals received at two or more sensing devices from a candidate location, determining a plurality of reconstructed signals based on the signal information, determining time-estimates and frequency-estimates based on a correlation between the plurality of radio signals and the plurality of reconstructed signals, determining metadata corresponding to the plurality of radio signals based on the signal information, the time-estimates, or the frequency-estimates, transmitting at least a portion of the metadata to an information combining node, obtaining the portion of the metadata from the information combining node, determining a relationship between the metadata, and determining the candidate location based on the metadata and the relationship between the metadata. Transmission of the plurality of radio signals to the information combining node is restricted based on a bandwidth of the two or more sensing devices or the information combining node.
US10338186B2	Positional tracking systems and methods Optical positional tracking systems that may be used in virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR) applications are described. Exemplary implementations comprise one or more receivers and one or more transmitters. Exemplary transmitters contains two orthogonal rotors that each emit a fan-shaped laser beam. Each beam is swept as the rotors are spun at constant speed. Exemplary optical receivers can be relatively small, and mounted at convenient locations on the VR display. These receivers consist of small optical detectors that may be mounted on head-mounted VR displays. Exemplary systems determine position by measuring the time at which each swept beam crosses each receiver/detector.
US10338180B2	System and method for gradient measurement using single-point imaging A system and method for determining an actual gradient field generated by a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system when controlled to produce a prescribed gradient field is provided. The techniques include using the prescribed gradient field, controlling the MRI system to perform a phase encoding including a gradient that is scaled along each direction desired to be measured over a selected number of encoding times and acquiring one-dimensional (1D) data using a prescribed k-space trajectory during the phase encoding. The 1D data is used to determine scaling factors between encoding times that correlate to actual k-space trajectories achieved when controlling the gradient coils to perform the phase encoding based on the desired gradient field and a report is generated that provides a measure of the actual gradient field generated when controlling the MRI system to produce the prescribed gradient field.
US10338177B2	Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging method and magnetic resonance imaging system A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a sequence control unit, an image generating unit, and a deriving unit. The sequence control unit executes first imaging scan for acquiring data of a range including a target internal organ and second imaging scan for acquiring data for a diagnostic image by controlling execution of a pulse sequence. The image generating unit generates an image by using data acquired by the first imaging scan. The deriving unit derives an imaging scan area in which data for the diagnostic image are acquired in the second imaging scan and a related area set associated with the imaging scan area in the second imaging scan, based on image processing using the image.
US10338173B2	Device for cancellation of large magnetic susceptibility artifacts in magnetic resonance imaging of patients with pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators The present invention is directed to a system and method for reducing large magnetic artifact susceptibility in magnetic resonance imaging. The present invention is used to maximize cancellation of the magnetic field distortion cremated when objects with high variations in magnetic susceptibility are placed in a uniform magnetic field. Particularly, the present invention reduces the magnetic resonance imaging artifact produced by pacemakers and internal cardiac defibrillators in order to maximize the diagnostic image quality in the region surrounding these devices.
US10338172B2	Power device and method for driving a load Embodiments of the invention provide a power device. The power device comprises a switch mode power conversion circuit with power semiconductors for driving a load in response to a control signal, a controller coupled to the switch mode power conversion circuit to generate the control signal based on a predetermined current profile to be provided to the load and a maximum junction temperature of the power semiconductors, and a current injector coupled to the switch mode power conversion circuit and the controller for generating an offset current. The switch mode power conversion circuit is controlled to output the predetermined current profile or an adjusted current profile in response to the control signal, and the adjusted current profile has an offset with respect to the predetermined current profile. The offset current is equal to the offset between the adjusted current profile and the predetermined current profile and further summed with the adjusted current profile to generate the predetermined current profile to flow through the load if the control signal controls the switch mode power conversion circuit to output the adjusted current profile.
US10338166B2	Magnetic resonace imaging apparatus and control method therefor In order to provide a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus capable of calculating the amount of absorption of electromagnetic waves into the object with high accuracy, the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes: a calculation means for calculating the amount of absorption of electromagnetic waves into the object upon the emission of RF pulses in a part of the object or a bed position where imaging is scheduled; a means for setting imaging conditions, in which the calculated amount of absorption satisfies conditions of the specified value of the amount of absorption of electromagnetic waves, from the relationship between the calculated amount of absorption and the specified value of the amount of absorption of electromagnetic waves; and a bed control device that controls a top plate according to the set imaging conditions.
US10338149B2	Method and apparatus for calculating SOC of a battery being charged and battery pack including the apparatus A method and an apparatus for calculating the SOC of a battery being charged and a battery pack including the apparatus are disclosed in the present disclosure. The method for calculating the SOC includes: obtaining a full charge voltage and a reference charging voltage curve of the battery; taking a voltage value from the approximately linear ascent stage of the reference charging voltage curve as a preset reference voltage, and obtaining a corresponding reference SOC; acquiring a current charging voltage at which a charging voltage curve corresponding to a current charging state of the battery enters into an approximately linear ascent stage; determining a compensation factor according to the preset reference voltage, the full charge voltage, and the current charging voltage; and utilizing the compensation factor and the reference SOC to calculate a current SOC corresponding to the current charging state of the battery.
US10338130B2	System and method for electrical spark detection A spark detector indicates the presence of a spark by analyzing sound waves generated when an electrical spark is produced from an electrical spark generator located on an igniter rod. The spark detector includes an acoustic sensor that is in communication with the igniter rod to determine the time for the spark sound wave to travel through the igniter rod to the acoustic sensor. If a spark is not detected, the spark detector may output a signal indicating at least one of (i) the spark was not detected, (ii) to replace the electrical spark generator immediately, or (iii) replace the electrical spark generator soon such as at the next scheduled maintenance. Furthermore, the spark detector may be calibrated based on current temperature of the igniter rod based upon time of propagation of a pulse sound wave, generated by a pulse-echo generator, to reflect off an end of the igniter rod.
US10338125B2	Test point adapter for coaxial cable connections A test point adaptor for coaxial cables includes a main body, a test body, and a cap. The main body has a first longitudinal axis and includes a first end comprising a first interface, a second end comprising a second interface, and a first center conductor extending at least from the first interface to the second interface. The test body has a second longitudinal axis arranged transversely to the main body and includes an outer conductive sleeve, a test body end comprising a third interface, an electrically conductive contact member in electrical contact with the first center conductor, and a gripping arrangement electrically coupled with the electrically conductive contact member. The third interface includes a conical contact surface of the outer conductive sleeve. The cap includes a sleeve configured to matingly engage an outer surface of the outer conductive sleeve. The outer conductive sleeve includes a conical contact surface configured to engage the conical contact surface of the outer conductive sleeve when the cap is matingly engaged with the outer sleeve. The cap includes a terminator configured to be aligned with and received by the gripping arrangement, which electrically couples the terminator to the electrically conductive contact member.
US10338120B2	Methods and apparatus to analyze radio frequency emissions from devices Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to measure radio frequency emissions are disclosed. An example measurement device includes an antenna to collect a radio frequency emission signal, a calibrator to convert the received radio frequency emission signal to a far-field signal, a filter to remove a baseline signal from the radio frequency emission signal, and an interface to output the filtered radio emission signal.
US10338111B2	Method of monitoring operation of an electric power system and monitoring system In a method, operation of an electric power system which has a power utility automation system (1981-1984, 1991-1994) is monitored. The power utility automation system (1981-1984, 1991-1994) comprises a plurality of intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) (1981-1984, 1991-1994) communicating via a communication network. During operation of the electric power system, properties of the electric power system are monitored, the monitored properties comprising monitored data messages which are transmitted by the plurality of IEDs (1981-1984, 1991-1994) over the communication network. The monitored data messages are evaluated based on configuration information for the power utility automation system (1981-1984, 1991-1994) to detect a critical event. An alert signal is generated in response to detection of the critical event.
US10338099B2	Low profile edge clamp socket A socket assembly for a microelectronic device can include a body and a plurality of arm. The body can include a central socket configured to receive a microelectronic device therein. The plurality of arms can each be adjacent to the central socket, where each of the plurality of arms can be rotatably coupled to the body and each of the plurality of arms can be translatable relative to the body to move between an open position and a closed position. The arms can retain a microelectronic device within the central socket when the arms are in the closed position.
US10338098B2	Thermal probe for a near-field thermal microscope and method for generating a thermal map A thermal probe and method for generating a thermal map (M) of a sample interface (1). A scanning thermal microscope (100) is provided having at least one or more probe tips (11,12). The probe tips (11,12) are scanned at a near-field distance (D1) over the sample interface (1). Heat flux data (H) is recorded as a function of a relative position (X,Y) of the probe tip (11) over the sample interface (1). The thermal map (M) is calculated from the recorded heat flux data (H) based on a spatially resolved heat flux profile (P) of the probe tip (11) at the sample interface (1). The heat flux profile (P) has a local maximum at a lateral distance (R) across the sample interface (1) with respect to an apex (11a) of the probe tip (11).
US10338095B2	Method for the correction of a measured value curve by eliminating periodically occurring measurement artifacts, in particular in a soil compactor A method is provided for the correction of a measured value curve by eliminating periodically occurring measurement artifacts. The method includes steps of provision of a measured value curve representing a periodically repeating event, division of the measured value curve into period-measured value curves allocated to a plurality of successive periods of the periodically repeating event, based on the period-measured value curves allocated to the plurality of periods, determination of a mean period-measured value curve, formation of a difference between the period-measured value curves allocated to the plurality of periods, and the mean period-measured value curve for the provision of the difference-period-measured value curves allocated in each case to the periods, and based on the difference-period-measured value curves, determination of a corrected measured value curve for the plurality of successive periods of the periodically repeating event.
US10338092B2	Physical quantity sensor and method for manufacturing the same In a physical quantity sensor, a contact part that is directly and electrically connected to an external circuit is formed in a support substrate, and the support substrate is maintained at a predetermined potential through the contact part. With this configuration, the support substrate is maintained at the predetermined potential without disposing an electrode in the interior of the semiconductor layer. For that reason, a processing precision can be restrained from being reduced in forming the movable electrode, and hence a detection precision can be restrained from being reduced.
US10338091B2	Concussion detection and communication system A concussion detection and communication system is described. In some examples a concussion data module may be worn by one or more subjects. Each concussion data module may include multiple accelerometers and may communicate data signals wirelessly to a base unit. Upon determining that the base unit is not within effective communication range, a concussion data module may relay signals to the base unit through another concussion data module.
US10338089B2	System and method for determining speed of a vehicle based on GPS speed A method and system for determining a speed of a vehicle based on a GPS speed captured from a Global Positioning System (GPS). A capturing module captures GPS speed Vx and a horizontal accuracy value corresponding to a time stamp Tx. A speed modification module modifies the GPS speed Vx corresponding to the time stamp Tx. A speed correcting module corrects the GPS speed Vx corresponding to the time stamp Tx. The GPS speed may be corrected by filtering an error in the GPS speed by using a Slope dependent averaging (SDA) filter in order to obtain a first corrected speed Vx′. Further, the first corrected speed is corrected by selecting one of a center weight (CW) filter and an edge weight (EW) filter, based upon a pre-defined condition, in order to obtain a second corrected speed Vx″ indicating the speed of the vehicle.
US10338083B2	Pathway specific markers for diagnosing irritable bowel syndrome The present invention provides methods for aiding in the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in an individual. In particular, the present invention is useful for determining whether the individual does not have either celiac disease or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and has IBS and/or a subtype thereof. Thus, the present invention provides an accurate diagnostic prediction of IBS and is useful for guiding treatment decisions.
US10338082B2	Methods for in vitro investigating mitochondrial replication dysfunction in a biological sample, kits and uses thereof, therapeutic methods against progeroid-like syndromes or symptomes and screening method for identifying particular protease inhibitor(s) and/or nitroso-redox stress scavenger compound(s) The invention relates to a method for in vitro investigating mitochondrial replication dysfunction in a biological sample removed from a subject susceptible of suffering from physiological ageing or physiopathological conditions related to physiological ageing, or physiopathological ageing or associated symptoms or conditions, in particular premature ageing or accelerated ageing, or of a progeroid syndrome, such as Cockayne syndrome (CS), or neurodegenerative disorders or symptoms thereof, in which the levels of at least one species selected in the group of: POLG1 protein, POLG1 RNA, POLG2 protein, protease(s) which have POLG as a target, in particular serine protease(s) such as HTRA3 protein, HTRA2 protein and, HTRA3 RNA or HTRA2 RNA, or any combination of these species, are investigated. The invention also relates to kits and uses thereof, therapeutic methods against progeroid-like syndromes or symptoms and screening method for identifying particular protease inhibitor(s) and/or nitroso-redox stress scavenger compound(s) having relevance for the symptoms discussed herein.
US10338080B2	Methods and compositions for detection of complement fixing antibodies The invention provides methods for sensitive and specific detection of complement fixing antibodies in a biological sample using complement factor C1q, including autologous complement factor C1q present in the biological sample and a detectably labeled antibody that binds the autologous complement factor C1q, exogenous human complement factor C1q and a detectably labeled antibody that binds the exogenous human complement factor C1q, detectably labeled exogenous human complement factor C1q, or a combination of autologous complement factor C1q and exogenous human complement factor C1q. The invention also features kits, systems, and devices for use in the methods of the invention.
US10338079B2	Methods and systems for diagnosing diseases The present disclosure provided methods and systems for diagnosing diseases and monitoring their progression and therapeutic responses by detecting a presence or absence, or an increase or decrease, of one or more substances in a sample.
US10338073B2	Lymph node specimen collection kit and method of pathological analysis for lung cancer diagnosis using such a kit A unique system for the correlation between removed lymph nodes for lung cancer diagnosis and pathological analysis thereof is provided. Such a system includes the removal of certain lymph nodes from a suspected or known lung cancer patient with subsequent categorization thereof and placement within a properly divided and labeled specimen collection kit. Through the utilization of such a separation and placement allows and facilitates understanding and non-verbal communication between a surgeon and a pathologist in order to denote the location of the removed lymph nodes in relation to a known or suspected lung cancer tumor or growth. The overall diagnostic method, including the important communicative properties accorded both the particular surgeon and pathologist, is encompassed within this invention, as well as the specific collection specimen kit that permits the surgeon proper distinction of specific removal lymph nodes in relation to their location within the patient's body.
US10338070B2	Cell-free assay device and methods of use Provided herein is a cell-free assay device, sometimes comprising a lipid bilayer and an endopeptidase assay component, for characterizing a pore forming protein. In some embodiments provided herein is an apparatus comprising a pressure system for characterizing an interaction. Also, provided herein are methods for using a cell-free assay device to characterize a pore forming protein and/or a test substance.
US10338066B2	Measurement of protein expression using reagents with barcoded oligonucleotide sequences Some embodiments disclosed herein provide a plurality of compositions each comprising a protein binding reagent conjugated with an oligonucleotide. The oligonucleotide comprises a unique identifier for the protein binding reagent it is conjugated with, and the protein binding reagent is capable of specifically binding to a protein target. Further disclosed are methods and kits for quantitative analysis of a plurality of protein targets in a sample and for simultaneous quantitative analysis of protein and nucleic acid targets in a sample. Also disclosed herein are systems and methods for preparing a labeled biomolecule reagent, including a labeled biomolecule agent comprising a protein binding reagent conjugated with an oligonucleotide.
US10338061B2	Method for diagnosis of diseases using morphological characteristics of luterial The present invention relates to a method for diagnosis of diseases using morphological characteristics of luterial which exists in blood. According to the present invention, morphological characteristics of luterial, such as the number, size or shape, and movement (nano-tracking speed) thereof change according to the kind and progress of a disease, and thus diagnosis and prognosis of a disease (particularly, cancer) can be effectively determined by observing and measuring the characteristics of luterial in the blood.
US10338054B2	Method for evaluating monomers having effect on copolymer characteristics, and system using same This invention relates to a method of evaluating monomers having an effect on copolymer characteristics and a system using the same, and particularly to a novel method of evaluating the magnitude of the effect of monomers on copolymer characteristics, which cannot be evaluated using existing methods. The method of evaluating monomers having an effect on copolymer characteristics and the system using the same are innovative because the extent of changes in copolymer characteristics can be predicted at the monomer level by quantitatively evaluating the effect of the monomers on the copolymer characteristics, taking into consideration the kind or linkage type of monomers.
US10338048B2	Food freshness indicator ink and method for the manufacture of a food freshness indicator ink Food freshness indicator ink and method for the manufacture of a food freshness indicator ink. It comprises a varnish that constitutes between 90-98% of the total, the varnish comprising between 5-25% of the total amount of the varnish of at least one film-forming resin or at least one vinylic resin or a mixture thereof, between 10-25% of the amount of the resin of a plasticizer additive and between 50-75% of the total amount of the varnish of solvents, and between 2-10% of the total of metallic salts.
US10338047B2	Air-pollution anomaly location mechanism A mechanism is provided for detecting air-pollution anomalies. A historical air-pollution pattern is identified for each of a plurality of air-pollution monitoring stations. For each of the plurality of air-pollution monitoring stations, responsive to receiving real-time data from a particular air-pollution monitoring station, the real-time data is compared to the historical air-pollution pattern associated with the particular air-pollution monitoring station. A density difference value is generated based on the comparison of the real-time data to the historical air-pollution pattern associated with the particular air-pollution monitoring station and a determination is made as to whether the density difference value is greater than a predetermined confidence threshold. For each of a subset of the plurality of air-pollution monitoring stations whose associated density difference value is greater than the predetermined confidence threshold, an indication of an anomaly in detected air-pollution levels is identified to an administrator.
US10338042B2	Apparatus and method for investigating discontinuous product fluid streams in the reaction of reactant fluid streams over solid catalysts An apparatus suitable for investigating solid catalysts and processes in which discontinuous fluid streams arise, the apparatus including: a reactant fluid supply point; a reaction space; at least one fluid mixing space; at least one throttle element; at least one pressure control valve; and at least one analyzer. An outlet side of the reaction space is operatively connected to the fluid mixing space via a connecting line and a substream line. The fluid mixing space is connected to the throttle element. The throttle element is operatively connected to the analyzer and an outlet line. The connecting line is operatively connected to the pressure control valve and an exit air line. The pressure control valve is arranged either downstream or upstream of the substream line. When the pressure control valve is upstream of the substream line, the outlet line is provided with a second pressure control valve and a pump.
US10338037B2	Compounds and conjugates for identifying and separating post-translationally modified analytes Disclosed herein are embodiments of compounds, conjugates, and devices, such as columns comprising such compounds and/or conjugates, that can be used to identify, separate, and quantify post-translationally modified analytes. The disclosed compounds and conjugates can be used to discriminate between analytes, such as peptides, having different post-translation modifications, such as methylations, phosphorylations, acetylations, citrullinations, hydroxylations, nitrosylations, ADP-ribosylations, glycosylations, propionylations, butyrylations, crotonylations, 2-hydroxyisobutyrylations, malonylations, succinylations, formylations, ubiquitinations, neddylations, proline cis-trans isomerizations. In particular disclosed embodiments, the compounds and conjugates can be used to separate peptides having different degrees of methylation.
US10338035B2	Imaging method and device based on guided wave scattering of omni-directional magneto-acoustic transducers An imaging method based on guided wave scattering of omni-directional EMATs includes: selecting an nth omni-directional EMAT from N omni-directional EMATs uniformly arranged in a detection region of a metal plate to be detected as an excitation EMAT; selecting m omni-directional EMATs as omni-directionally receiving EMATs to omni-directionally receive an ultrasonic guided wave signal, and calculating a travel time and intensity of the ultrasonic guided wave signal; judging whether the excitation EMAT and the omni-directionally receiving EMATs form a scattering group, if yes, calculating a position of a scattering point; judging whether the position of the scattering point is within a preset scattering region, if yes, determining the position of the scattering point as an effective scattering point; repeating the above steps until all N omni-directional EMATs have excited omni-directional ultrasonic guided waves, and performing curve fitting on all effective scattering points to obtain a defect profile image.
US10338031B2	Component-embedded substrate and substrate flaw detecting method A component-embedded substrate includes a multilayer body including a plurality of insulating layers stacked in a stacking direction, an embedded component embedded in the multilayer body, and planar conductors disposed on both sides of the embedded component in the stacking direction, the planar conductors overlapping the embedded component. The planar conductors each include a plurality of openings that overlap the embedded component over substantially the entire region occupied by the embedded component, as seen in the stacking direction.
US10338028B2	Ion mobility separation device An ion mobility separation device includes: an ion source that generates an ion; a pair of flat-plate electrodes having an introduction opening and a discharge opening for the ion generated by the ion source; a pump for causing the ion introduced via the introduction opening of the pair of flat-plate electrodes to travel toward the discharge opening; a voltage control unit that applies an asymmetric time-varying voltage and a direct-current voltage to the pair of flat-plate electrodes; a plurality of detectors disposed in a direction orthogonal to both an ion travel direction due to the pump and an applied direction of the asymmetric time-varying voltage; and a signal processing unit that processes a signal detected by the plurality of detectors. The voltage control unit performs a total transmission measurement involving application of the voltages to the pair of flat-plate electrodes so as to generate equal fields at least at two different points in the direction orthogonal to both the ion travel direction due to the pump and the applied direction of the asymmetric time-varying voltage. Compared to conventional technology, both high accuracy and high throughput are achieved in an asymmetric field application-type ion mobility separation device.
US10338027B2	Fast-switching dual-polarity ion mobility spectrometry Systems and methods disclosed provide for methods of managing polarity switching in an ion mobility spectrometer, and provide for management of the repelling grid voltage, the gating grid voltage, and the fixed grid voltage during polarity switching. Systems and methods also provide for the management of the effect of dielectric relaxation in an insulator proximal to the collector, and provide for a preamplifier coupled to the collector including a switch, and a method of managing the collector output including the switch. Systems and methods consistent with the current disclosure further provide for a method of normalizing ion mobility data by determining fitting coefficients associated with a plurality of measurement data sets, and subtracting the curves determined by the fitting coefficients from the data acquired by the ion mobility spectrometer.
US10338023B2	Temperature and humidity sensor A temperature and humidity sensor includes a substrate, a first electrode provided on the substrate, a linear second electrode at least part of which is so provided as to extend along the first electrode, and a moisture sensitive film provided between the part of the second electrode extending along the first electrode and the first electrode. The second electrode has a section that is formed in a spiral shape when viewed from above so as to form an inductor. With this, a precise oscillation circuit can be configured so that a temperature-humidity sensor small in size and capable of being easily manufactured can be provided.
US10338008B2	Conductive film, display device having the same, and method of evaluating conductive film In a conductive film, a method of evaluating a pattern in the conductive film, and a display device, thin metal lines of at least one wiring portion of two wiring portions is formed in a wiring pattern where the opening portions, of which angles are maintained and pitches are made to be irregular with respect to rhomboid shapes of a regular rhomboid wiring pattern, have parallelogram shapes. In frequencies of the moirés that are equal to or less than a frequency threshold value and are calculated for each color from two peak frequencies and two peak intensities of 2DFFT spectra of image data of the wiring patterns of the two wiring portions and luminance image data of pixel array patterns of the respective colors at the time of lighting up for each single color, the wiring patterns of the two wiring portions are formed such that an indicator of evaluation of moirés is equal to or less than an evaluation threshold value. The indicator of evaluation is calculated from evaluation values of the moirés of the respective colors obtained by applying human visual response characteristics in accordance with an observation distance to intensities of the moirés equal to or greater than an intensity threshold value.
US10338004B2	Production sample shaping that preserves re-normalizability Methods and systems for generating defect samples are provided. One method includes identifying a set of defects detected on a wafer having the most diversity in values of at least one defect attribute and generating different tiles for different defects in the set. The tiles define a portion of all values for the at least one attribute of all defects detected on the wafer that are closer to the values for the at least one attribute of their corresponding defects than the values for the at least one attribute of other defects. In addition, the method includes separating the defects on the wafer into sample bins corresponding to the different tiles based on their values of the at least one attribute, randomly selecting defect(s) from each of two or more of the sample bins, and creating a defect sample for the wafer that includes the randomly selected defects.
US10338001B2	Porous detection system, apparatus and method A system, apparatus and method for detecting a porous object are provided. The system includes a light emitting module, a detecting module and an analyzing module. The light emitting module emits light onto an object to be measured such that the light passes through a plurality of holes of the object. The detecting module has a porous plate having a plurality of non-circular holes and a plurality of photosensitive units respectively corresponding to the non-circular holes. Each of the non-circular holes corresponds to at most one of the holes at one time point. The light passes through the plurality of non-circular holes corresponding to the plurality of holes. The photosensitive units respectively sense luminous flux of the light passing through the plurality of non-circular holes to produce a luminous flux signal. The analyzing module analyzes a status of the plurality of holes corresponding to the plurality of non-circular holes.
US10337999B2	Replaceable detection module We describe a detection module useful with an apparatus and/or system for conducting luminescence assays, and a kit, a system, an apparatus, and a method incorporating the detection module.
US10337988B2	Device for measuring moisture in a gas Modulation amplitude used for frequency modulation of laser light is set to a1 (
US10337984B2	Spectroscopic measurements with parallel array detector A measurement apparatus comprises optical components arranged to provide parallel measurements of a biological sample. The parallel sample measurements provide improved accuracy with lower detection limit thresholds. The parallel measurements may comprise one or more of Raman spectroscopy measurements or infrared spectroscopy measurements. The parallel measurements can be combined with a light source. In many embodiments, the light source comprises one or more wavelengths corresponding to resonance frequencies of one or more molecules of the sample, such as wavelengths of ultraviolet light. The wavelengths of light corresponding to resonance frequencies can provide an increased signal to noise ratio. The parallel array optical configuration can be combined with wavelengths of light corresponding to resonance frequencies in order to provide increased measurement accuracy and detection of metabolites.
US10337975B2	Method and system for characterizing particles using a flow cytometer The invention relates to a method and system for characterizing particles using a flow cytometer comprising generating a waveform, as a digital representation of detected radiated light, and transforming said waveform using one or more basis functions and obtaining one or more coefficients characterizing the waveform. The one or more coefficients characterizing the waveform preferably correspond to particular properties of the particle(s), thereby enabling analysis of physical properties of the particles (such as size or shape) or biological properties of the particles, such as cell type, localization and/or distribution of molecules within the cell and/or on the cell surface, structural elements of the cell such as the nucleus or the cytoskeleton, antibody or antibody-fragment binding to the cell or cell morphology. Preferred embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems in which the waveform is transformed by a wavelet transformation or Fourier transformation.
US10337959B2	System, method and apparatus for making evident diesel exhaust fluid contamination A system, method and apparatus for making evident, diesel exhaust fuel (DEF) contamination is provided. The system, for use with a diesel exhaust fluid system, includes a container having an opening to receive a diesel exhaust fluid. A reactive device is located near the opening and reactive upon exposure to one or more predetermined components potentially present in a fluid pourable into the container through the opening. The reactive device is not reactive to the diesel exhaust fluid.
US10337949B2	Leak detector A portable handheld gas leak detector that draws in a sample of ambient air for detecting the presence of a gas by sensing changes in infrared (IR) energy between an IR emitter and an IR sensor when the gas is in the space between the IR emitter and the IR sensor.
US10337947B2	Method for detecting a leak in a fuel delivery system A leak detection system is provided for detecting a leak in a fuel line. A controller determines the presence of a leak in the fuel line based on an analysis of data obtained from individual leak tests performed on the fuel line, the individual leak tests may span one or more fuel delivery events.
US10337944B2	Method and apparatus for turbine engine rotor automatic self balancing An online real time steam or gas turbine engine rotor balancing system is incorporated in a rotor balance plane. A selectively displaceable balancing weight is coupled to the rotor and is selectively displaced by a motor that is coupled to the balancing weight. The motor selectively displaces the balancing weight along a displacement path that is in the balance plane. A turbine engine rotor vibration monitoring system monitors rotor vibration in real-time. A control system is coupled to rotor vibration monitoring system and the motor, for determining in real time a desired balance weight displacement position to counteract the monitored rotor vibration. The controller selectively causes the motor to displace the balancing weight to the desired displacement position. The motor power source is an inductive power source or a permanent magnet generator.
US10337936B2	Dynamometer having a chassis to chassis load measurement device A dynamometer includes a dynamometer chassis configured to support a vehicle thereon. A roller load test unit is mounted in a load supporting surface of the dynamometer chassis, and a chassis to chassis load measurement device is attached between the dynamometer chassis and a chassis of the vehicle positioned on the dynamometer chassis. A load sensing mechanism is attached within the chassis to chassis load measurement device between the dynamometer chassis and the chassis of the vehicle supported on the dynamometer chassis such that a longitudinal axis of the vehicle extends therethrough, and the load sensing mechanism is configured to measure force in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
US10337932B2	Adaptive method for calibrating multiple temperature sensors on a single semiconductor die A system is disclosed, including an interface to a DUT and a testing apparatus. The DUT includes a first plurality of temperature sensing circuits. The testing apparatus may store a plurality of control values. Each control value may depend on at least two calibration values of corresponding temperature sensing circuits of a second plurality of temperature sensing circuits. The testing apparatus may generate a plurality of calibration values for the DUT. Each calibration value corresponds to one of the first plurality of temperature sensing circuits. The testing apparatus may determine a plurality of test values for the DUT. The testing apparatus may calculate a probability value, and repeat generation of the plurality of calibration values upon determining that the probability value is less than a predetermined threshold value. The probability value corresponds to a likelihood that the plurality of calibration values is accurate.
US10337931B2	Systems and methods for icing resistant total air temperature probes with air jets Systems and methods for icing resistant total air temperature probes with air jets are presented. In one embodiment, a probe comprises: a base having a forced air input port; and a body having leading and trailing edges extending from the base, the body comprising: a first interior airflow passage; a temperature sensor positioned within the first airflow passage; a notched intake port at a distal end of the body including an open channel extending into an intake aperture, and a cutaway region defining a recessed second face inset from the first face and exposes the open channel. The intake aperture opens into the first interior airflow passage, the notched intake port comprising air jet ports at a tip of the notched intake port; and a heated airflow passage through the body and isolated from the first interior airflow passage, coupling the forced air input port to the air jet ports.
US10337919B2	Optical unit and spectrometer provided with same A PDA 5 has a plurality of light receiving elements. An A/D converter 30 converts an output signal from each of the light receiving elements of the PDA 5. A conversion processing unit 42 sequentially executes, for the plurality of light receiving elements, a conversion process of converting an output signal from an identical one of the light receiving elements at least twice within a preset time range with the A/D converter 30, to acquire at least two output values. An average value calculation unit 43 calculates an average value of the at least two output values for each of the light receiving elements acquired by the process executed by the conversion processing unit 42.
US10337917B2	Adjustable multi-wavelength lamp An adjustable multi-wavelength lamp is described. The lamp can include a plurality of emitters. The emitters can include at least one ultraviolet emitter, at least one visible light emitter, and at least one infrared emitter. The lamp can include a control system for controlling operation of the plurality of emitters. The control system can be configured to selectively deliver power to any combination of one or more of the plurality of emitters to generate light approximating a target spectral distribution of intensity.
US10337912B2	Sensor support for use with lighting refractor A sensor support for use with a lighting refractor includes a housing defining an interior cavity configured to receive and support a sensor for sensing at least one of motion or light. The sensor support further includes a locking structure operatively associated with the housing and configured to selectively attach the housing to a peripheral portion of a lighting refractor, and an aperture in the housing and arranged to expose the sensor to an environment around the lighting refractor. Sensor and lighting unit assemblies are also disclosed. A sensor assembly includes the sensor support and a sensor configured to sense at least one of motion or light. A lighting unit assembly includes the sensor support and a lighting unit having a refractor with a peripheral portion.
US10337909B2	Load measuring apparatus for a working machine The load measuring apparatus for a working machine includes a front load acquisition unit that acquires a front load applied to front suspension cylinders 18Al, 18Ar, a rear load acquisition unit that acquires a rear load applied to rear suspension cylinders 18Bl, 18Br, a surface resistance detection unit 320 that detects a surface resistance of a travel road for a dump truck 1, an adder 313 that based on the front load acquired by the front load acquisition unit and the rear load acquired by the rear load acquisition unit, computes a total load acting on the suspension cylinders 18Al, 18Ar, 18Bl, 18Br to determine the load of a cargo 14A, and a total load correction unit 321 that corrects the total load, which has been computed by the adder 313, according to the surface resistance detected by the surface resistance detection unit 320.
US10337906B2	System and method for determining a load capability In a particular implementation, a method includes generating an initial weight estimate associated with an aircraft based on a reference operational empty weight (OEW) and at least one of a latitude or an altitude of the aircraft at a first location. The reference OEW is predetermined at a second location that is distinct from the first location. The method includes determining an additional load capability of the aircraft based on a difference between the initial weight estimate and the reference OEW. The method further includes generating an output that indicates the additional load capability.
US10337905B2	Calibration device and calibration method To provide a calibration device for apparatus filling a gas such as hydrogen gas and capable of precisely measuring quantity of the gas that is filled at high pressure. A calibration device of the present invention includes: a filling vessel 2, accommodated in a measurement housing 1, to the filling vessel 2 a high pressure fuel gas such as hydrogen gas being fed from outside of the measurement housing 1; a scale 3 for measuring a weight of a fuel gas fed to the filling vessel 2; and a control device CU for eliminating an error caused by changing buoyant force from a gas in the measurement housing before and after filling the fuel gas.
US10337899B2	Thermal flow meter with thin resin portion sealing temperature detection element To obtain a thermal flow meter capable of providing thermal insulation without degrading responsiveness of a temperature detection element. A thermal flow meter 300 of the present invention includes an air flow sensing portion 602 that detects a flow rate by performing heat transfer with a measurement target gas passing through the main passage 124 using a heat transfer surface, a temperature detection element 518 that detects a temperature of the measurement target gas, a circuit package 400 obtained by connecting a processing unit 604 that processes signals of the air flow sensing portion 602 and the temperature detection element 518 to a lead and sealing the processing unit 604 using a first molding resin through a first molding process, and a housing 302 where the circuit package 400 is fixed using a second molding resin through a second molding process, wherein, in the circuit package 400, a thickness of a temperature detecting portion 452 for sealing the temperature detection element 518 is thinner than that of a package body portion 426 for sealing the processing unit 604.
US10337896B2	Ultrasonic meter An ultrasonic meter detects a flow rate of a fluid. The ultrasonic meter has a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet and a flow passage connecting the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet. The flow passage has a measuring tube, which extends in a straight line in a flow direction. An inner wall of a side wall delimiting a flow cross section of the measuring tube has at least one groove, extending in the flow direction, which enlarges the flow cross section. The side wall has an aperture and/or a step exclusively within the groove, between a normal region and a recessed region in the flow direction. A groove depth of the groove is greater in the recessed region than in the normal region.
US10337895B2	Assembly for control and/or measurement of fluid flow An assembly for the control of the flow of a fluid stream is provided, the assembly comprising a fluid flow conduit having a longitudinal axis; an inlet in the conduit for the fluid stream being processed; an outlet in the conduit for the fluid stream being processed; a control fluid feed assembly having an inlet for a control fluid; wherein the conduit comprises a control portion having one or more apertures therein, the control portion being disposed between the inlet and the outlet of the conduit, the one or more apertures being in flow communication with the inlet for the control fluid in the flow control assembly and extending in a direction at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the fluid flow conduit; whereby in use the control fluid supplied to the inlet of the control fluid assembly is caused to flow into the conduit through the one or more apertures. A method for the control of the flow of a fluid stream comprises causing the fluid stream to flow through a flow control zone from an inlet to an outlet in a first direction; introducing a flow of a control fluid into the flow control zone through one or more apertures at a pressure above the pressure of the fluid stream, whereby the control fluid flows into the fluid control zone at an angle to the first direction to thereby cause a restriction to the flow of the fluid stream through the flow control zone in the first direction.
US10337893B2	Optically powered sensor calibration data storage module An aircraft measurement system includes an interrogator and an optical sensor assembly. The optical sensor assembly includes an optical sensor connected along a sensor path to the interrogator, a data storage device, and a control circuit connected along a power path to the interrogator. The sensor assembly also includes an opto-electric device for converting an optical signal to an electric current, connected along the power path between the interrogator and the control circuit, to power the data storage component through the control circuit, and a transmitter operationally connected to the control circuit and connected along a data path to the interrogator, to provide operational data along the data path to the interrogator. The data storage component provides operational data to the interrogator across the data path, and the interrogator is configured to receive sensor data from the sensor across the sensor path.
US10337892B2	Sensor and method of manufacturing sensor A sensor including: a generating unit; a detecting unit that detects the object to be detected generated by the generating unit; and a substrate at which the generating unit and the detecting unit are provided. The substrate is a flexible substrate that includes a first portion provided with the generating unit and a second portion provided with the detecting unit, the first portion and the second portion being integrated, and that takes a curved shape or a bent shape in which a surface of the first portion at which the generating unit is provided and a surface of the second portion at which the detecting unit is provided face each other. A plate support member is attached to a back-side surface of at least one of the surface of the first portion and the surface of the second portion.
US10337887B2	Magnetic sensor inhibiting influence of induced electromotive force A magnetic sensor includes: a magnetic converging plate; Hall elements disposed on one surface side of the magnetic converging plate; wires connecting with the Hall elements; and a signal processing circuit that connects with these wires to receive a signal from the Hall element. Between the Hall element and the signal processing circuit, the two wires cross while being spaced apart from each other in a depth direction of a substrate, and forms a compensation loop between a cross of the two wires and the circuit, and in a planar view as seen in a depth direction, at least part of a region occupied by the compensation loop is covered by the magnetic converging plate. The compensation loop compensates an induced electromotive force caused to the closed loop formed by the wires including the Hall element.
US10337882B2	Optical projection system and devices thereof The structure of the present invention majorly includes: an outer shell body; at least one connection portion; and an optical projection system set inside the outer shell body. The optical projection system includes: an imaging unit; a reflector; a reflective curved mirror; and at least one optical lens; wherein the imaging unit projects the predefined image and incidents on the reflective curved mirror after being reflected by the reflector to adjust the imaging path and correct the aberration. And, the optical lens will magnify the predefined image in the imaging path to make the predefined image reflected to the user's eyes through the windshield to form the virtual image of the predefined image refracted outside the windshield. The present invention can realize the triangle imaging principle in a smaller space, enlarge the imaging range, reduce the aberration problem, and simply set outside the dashboard through the outer shell body.
US10337881B2	Navigation device, vehicle, and method for controlling the vehicle Disclosed are provided a navigation device or a method for overlaying a travel route, in which the position of other vehicles located on the travel route is considered, on an image obtained from a front-view camera, wherein a navigation device includes: a display device configured to display an image acquired from a front-view camera of a vehicle, to overlay a travel route on the displayed image, and to display the overlaid resultant image; and a processor configured to determine a travel route starting from a position of the vehicle acting as an ego vehicle, when a peripheral vehicle is located at the determined travel route, to determine a travel route along which the ego vehicle dodges or follows the peripheral vehicle on the basis of the position of the peripheral vehicle, and to display the determined travel route on the display unit.
US10337872B2	Vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and vehicle control program A vehicle control system includes: an automated driving controller configured to execute automated driving which autonomously controls at least one of speed control and steering control to allow a vehicle to travel along a route to a destination; and a factor acquisition section configured to acquire a factor which is independent of travel requirements for the vehicle to travel by autonomously driving along the route to the destination. The automated driving controller changes the plan of the automated driving based on the factor acquired by the factor acquisition section.
US10337863B2	Survey system A survey system includes a camera provided on a UAV and taking a plurality of images for photogrammetry. A surveying portion tracking the camera and continuously determining a position of the camera and a relative photographing position calculation portion calculates a relative photographing position of each image based on the plurality of images taken by the camera, and a traveling path calculation portion calculates a traveling path of the UAV from a survey result obtained by the surveying portion. A photogrammetry analysis portion associating a point group of the relative photographing positions calculated by the relative photographing position calculation portion with a flight path calculated by the flight path calculation portion, and generating data for photogrammetry.
US10337845B2	Supporting device for dividable parachute grenade A dividable parachute grenade is provided including a grenade casing, a nose cone, a detonating fuse, a dividing charge, a payload, a parachute device, a grenade bottom, and a supporting device, wherein the supporting device is annular and includes pretensioned sector elements fixed to a fixing ring in the recess on the inner side of the grenade casing, the sector elements are pretensioned with a tension ring arranged around the annular supporting device via recessed grooves in the sector elements, whereof the supporting device is arranged extensibly in the radial direction in a recess on the inner side of the grenade casing behind the payload and supports the payload in the extended position during the acceleration phase of the grenade, and stays in the grenade after the separation of the payload from the grenade.
US10337840B2	Wirelessly conducted electronic weapon An electroshock system wirelessly delivers a shock to a subject. The electroshock system may include a launcher, a wireless projectile, a power source, and a wireless power transmitter. The launcher is configured to be grasped by a user. The wireless projectile is configured to detach from the launcher and adhere to a subject. The power source contributes power for the administration of a shock to the subject. The wireless power transmitter delivers said contributed power to the wireless projectile while the wireless projectile is detached from the launcher. The power source and the wireless transmitter may be co-located with the launcher, or may be separate (such as secured to a person or within a vehicle).
US10337830B2	Portable optical device with interactive wireless remote capability A firearm scope comprises an optical sensor to capture video data, a display, a transceiver configured to communicate data wirelessly through a communication channel, and a controller. The controller can be configured to provide a portion of the video data to the display, provide media content including the video data to the transceiver for wireless transmission, receive a signal from the communication channel in response to the wireless transmission, and selectively modify the portion of the video data to the display in response to receiving the signal.
US10337826B2	Stock for shotgun A stock for shotgun includes a grip suitable for being held by the user, a butt suitable for being placed on a shoulder of the user, a hollow body fixed to the grip, a shank fixed to the butt and suitable for being disposed inside the hollow body and fixing means used to fix the shank inside the hollow body. The shank has an external thread. The stock has a metal ring that is crewed onto the external thread of the shank and is suitable for being stopped against an ending edge of the hollow body, in such a way to adjust the distance between the butt and the grip.
US10337816B2	Trigger mechanism for a firearm A trigger mechanism includes a hammer element that has a ready position, an intermediate position, and a fired position. The hammer element includes a hammer sear and a notch positioned at a front of the hammer element. The trigger mechanism includes a trigger element has a ready position that retains the hammer element in the ready position. The trigger mechanism also includes a fired position that releases the hammer element. The trigger element includes a trigger sear that includes a hammer sear engagement zone and a notch engagement zone. When the hammer element is in the ready position, the trigger sear at least partially engages the hammer sear at the hammer sear engagement zone. When the hammer element is in the intermediate position, the trigger sear at least partially engages the notch at the notch engagement zone and not at the hammer sear engagement zone.
US10337808B2	Condenser A condenser has a core part having tubes, a first modulator tank and a second modulator tank. The first modulator tank is provided along a side portion of a header tank. The second modulator tank communicates with an interior of the first modulator tank and is provided along a lower edge of the core part in a gravity direction. An interior of the header tank is provided with a communicating space that communicates with the interior of the first modulator tank and an interior of the second modulator tank. The header tank has an introduction passage that guides liquid-phase refrigerant in the communicating space to a supercooling portion of the core part. A first connection part between the communicating space and the introduction passage is disposed on a lower side, in the gravity direction, of a second connection part between the communicating space and the second modulator tank.
US10337806B2	Fin plate, frame comprising at least one such plate and heat exchanger comprising said frame A finned plate 20 comprises a base 22 and a plurality of heat exchange fins 30 extending from said base, said fins 30 being arranged in mutually parallel strips 34 of fins. According to the invention, two adjacent strips 34 of fins are spaced apart in a direction perpendicular to the direction of said strips of fins by at least one flat strip not having any fins 32. Two finned plates 20 of this type can be assembled together to form a frame, in particular a frame that is suitable for being incorporated in a heat exchanger.
US10337801B2	Heat exchanger for cooling a flow of charge air, and method of assembling the same A heat exchanger for cooling a flow of charge air includes a heat exchanger core that is inserted through an aperture of a housing. A leak-free seal is maintained along the periphery of the aperture by the compression of a gasket between a top plate of the heat exchanger core and a planar bearing surface of the housing. Compression of the gasket is maintained by one or more deformable retaining members that are disposed against the top plate.
US10337799B2	Dual duty microchannel heat exchanger A heat exchanger includes a first tube bank having at least a first and a second flattened tube segments extending longitudinally in spaced parallel relationship. A second tube bank includes at least a first group of flattened tube segments and a second group of flattened tube segments extending longitudinally in spaced parallel relationship. The second tube bank is disposed behind the first tube bank with a leading edge of the second tube bank spaced from a trailing edge of the first tube bank. The first group of flattened tube segments is configured to receive a first fluid. The second group of flattened tube segments is configured to receive a second fluid. A fan provides an airflow across the first tube bunk and the second tube bank sequentially.
US10337793B2	System and methods involving fabricating sheet products A system for fabricating a sheet product. A first rotatable roller includes a rotatable drum portion having an outer surface that rotates about a rotational axis in a first direction and conveys a sheet product. The rotatable drum portion also has a plurality of ports communicative between an inner surface and an outer surface. The ports extend along and around the drum portion. The first rotatable roller emits a pressurized fluid. A second rotatable roller has an outer surface arranged proximate to the outer surface of the rotatable drum portion of the first rotatable roller, and a heat source portion to heat the second rotatable roller to dry the sheet product. The second rotatable roller rotates in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction. A gap is defined between the second rotatable roller and the first rotatable roller through which the sheet product passes.
US10337792B2	System and method for production of argon by cryogenic rectification of air A system and method for producing argon that uses a higher pressure column, a lower pressure column, and an argon column collectively configured to produce nitrogen, oxygen and argon products through the cryogenic separation of air. The present system and method also employs a once through argon condensing assembly that is disposed entirely within the lower pressure column that is configured to condense an argon rich vapor stream from the argon column against the oxygen-enriched liquid from the higher pressure column to produce an argon liquid or vapor product. The control system is configured for optimizing the production of argon product by ensuring an even flow split of the oxygen-enriched liquid is distributed to the argon condenser cores and by adjusting the flow rate of the argon removed from the argon condensing assembly to maintain the liquid/vapor balance in the argon condensing assembly within appropriate limits.
US10337784B2	Phase change material (PCM) belts A container assembly for controlling the thermal condition of cargo includes an insulated container having a cover and a pair of belt assemblies having a plurality of pouches. The container may comprise handles and/or a detachable and/or adjustable shoulder strap. The container assembly further includes a plurality of phase-changing material packs configured to provide for the control of the temperature of cargo contained within the container. The phase-changing material packs are positioned within the belt assemblies and are thermally conditioned prior to use. The belt assemblies may be made of a durable material and may be configured to provide for the expedient exchange of thermal energy between the phase-changing material packs and an exterior of the belt assemblies. The belt assemblies may comprise features that provide for the efficient orienting of the belt assemblies within the container and/or the appropriate selection of phase-changing material packs for a respective belt assembly.
US10337777B2	Controlling air conditioning systems Air conditioning systems and processes may monitor properties of the system and/or properties related to the system. The air conditioning system may allow operation based on user requests and/or allow stress operation(s) based on monitored properties.
US10337775B2	Method and apparatus for noise attenuation for HVAC and R system An apparatus for noise attenuation of an HVAC&R system including an enclosure having a first enclosure frame and a chassis insertable inside the enclosure and supported by the first enclosure frame upon insertion inside the enclosure. The chassis includes a first chassis structure securing a self-contained refrigerant loop. The loop maintains a gap from the enclosure upon insertion of the chassis inside the enclosure. A second chassis structure supports the first chassis structure. At least one vibration damping device is positioned beneath the first chassis structure and between the first chassis structure and the second chassis structure. The vibration damping device is supported by the second chassis structure, the second chassis structure is supported by the first enclosure frame. The enclosure is vibrationally isolated from the loop.
US10337770B2	Thermoelectric-based thermal management of electrical devices Disclosed embodiments include thermoelectric-based thermal management systems and methods configured to heat and/or cool an electrical device. Thermal management systems can include at least one electrical conductor in electrical and thermal communication with a temperature-sensitive region of the electrical device and at least one thermoelectric device in thermal communication with the at least one electrical conductor. Electric power can be directed to the thermoelectric device by the same electrical conductor or an external power supply, causing the thermoelectric device to provide controlled heating and/or cooling to the electrical device via the at least one electrical conductor.
US10337757B2	In-duct acoustic measuring apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for measuring one or more acoustic parameters in a duct are described. The method includes arranging at least one pair of microphones in an array on a microphone support device, disposing the microphone support device including the array of microphones in the duct, generating an acoustic signal in the duct such that the acoustic signal propagates toward the array of microphones, and receiving by the array of microphones, the acoustic signal to provide a microphone output signal. The microphone support device is configured to fit within an inner diameter of the duct.
US10337752B2	Ventilation system and method for air-conditioning an interior using at least one such ventilation system A ventilation system comprising a conveying unit for conveying a supply airstream into an interior space through at least one air outlet channel, and at least one exhaust air opening which may have an adjustable opening width. The at least one air outlet channel arranged at a distance from the at least one exhaust air opening, such that an airstream is established during operation therebetween in the interior space. The ventilation system is paired with a humidifying device to supply humidity into the interior space, said humidifying device comprising a generator for generating an aerosol from a liquid with droplets sized to be carried by the airstream, and at least one aerosol outlet channel arranged in the interior space such that the aerosol is captured by the airstream. A method for conditioning an interior space using at least one or more such ventilation systems is further described.
US10337747B2	Selectable efficiency versus comfort for modulating furnace A furnace controller for a modulating furnace that helps provide a balance between energy efficiency and occupant comfort across various burner firing rates and/or across various circulating blower speeds. In some cases, the furnace controller can be configured to permit a user to customize operation of the furnace in accordance with their particular needs and/or desires with respect to efficiency and comfort. A selection may be made between an energy efficiency setting and a user comfort setting. Then, a plenum parameter such as a discharge air temperature (DAT) or discharge air flow (DAF) may be regulated in accordance with the selected setting.
US10337746B2	Heat pump A heat pump has an evaporator for evaporating water as a working liquid so as to produce a working vapor, the evaporation taking place at an evaporation pressure of less than 20 hPa. The working vapor is compressed to a working pressure of at least 25 hPa by a dynamic-type compressor so as to then be liquefied within a liquefier by direct contact with liquefier water. The heat pump is preferably an open system, wherein water present in the environment in the form of ground water, sea water, river water, lake water or brine is evaporated, and wherein water which has been liquefied again is fed to the evaporator, to the soil or to a water treatment plant.
US10337743B2	Assembly unit for an induction hob, induction hob and method for manufacturing an assembly unit The invention relates to an assembly unit for an induction hob with at least one induction element has a) at least one carrying element for carrying the circuits and/or devices for supplying the at least one induction element. The at least one carrying element has a base area and side areas protruding upwards from the base area. The at least one carrying element is connectable with at least one further carrying element along a side area. The side areas have connection elements for connection with the at least one further carrying element, preferably at least one power wire slot for inserting at least one power supply wire and/or preferably at least one signal wire slot for inserting at least one signal wire. Furthermore, the invention a method for manufacturing an assembly unit is described.
US10337742B2	Cooking appliance A cooking appliance (1) includes a cooking chamber (4) heatable by a heating device (3), a cooking chamber opening (5), a cooking chamber door (6) closing off the cooking chamber opening (5), and a control device (7) for controlling the heating device (3). The cooking chamber door (6) has a multi-pane construction having a first pane (8) and a second pane (9). A detector device (10) operatively connected to the control device (7) is actuated by the cooking chamber door (6). In addition, a locking device (11) between the first (8) and the second pane (9) includes a locking element (12), which is held preloaded in an initial state (13) between the first (8) and the second pane (9), and if the first pane (8) is defective, the locking element (12) is automatically displaced to a locking position (14), thereby preventing a complete closure of the cooking chamber door (6).
US10337741B2	Illumination system of a cooking appliance Provided is an illumination system of a cooking appliance that includes at least one burner and an associated knob. The system comprises an electric circuit associated with the knob, with a display device in a second electrical branch that lights up when an electric current with a minimum value circulates through the second electrical branch. Activation means in a first electrical branch is operated by means of turning the knob. Both the first and second electrical branches are connected in parallel. Acting on the knob causes a change in voltage drop in the first and second electrical branches, and the illumination system is configured to control the electric current circulating through the display device depending on said voltage drop.
US10337734B2	Plant for dry conveying of slag and / or heterogenous materials A transport system for the transport of combustion waste, comprising:—a belt conveyor for transporting the waste, arranged at the bottom of a combustion chamber and apt to transport the waste onto a transport surface (311) movable along a longitudinal direction of advancement; and—side boards (81, 82) for containing the waste in a transport region (80), arranged above said transport surface, ratably connected to a casing of the conveyor and bearing wearable members (811, 812) apt to establish a sliding seal with lateral fins (312, 313) of the movable transport surface of the conveyor belt, so that the transported material be confined in the transport region defined by said movable transport surface and by said boards bearing the wearable members.
US10337728B2	Low NOx, high efficiency, high temperature, staged recirculating burner and radiant tube combustion system Embodiments of the present invention include high-temperature staged recirculating burners and radiant tube burner assemblies that provide high efficiency, low NOx and CO emissions, and uniform temperature characteristics. One such staged recirculating burner includes a combustion tube having inside and outside helical fins forming opposing spiral pathways for combustion gases and products of combustion, a combustion nozzle coupled to the combustion tube, a gas tube running axially into the combustion tube, and a staging gas nozzle coupled to the gas tube, where the staging gas nozzle includes radial exit holes into the combustion tube and an axial gas staging tube extending into the combustion nozzle to stage combustion.
US10337715B2	Lighting box and monitoring method therefor This application provides a lighting box and a monitoring method therefor. The lighting box includes; a power management module, including a monitoring power supply module. The monitoring power supply module includes; a monitoring sensing module; a door opening sensing module; a heat dissipation device, configured to reduce the temperature of the lighting box; and an alarm apparatus, configured to send an alarm signal. The power management module further includes a lighting box power supply module including a light source module. The power management module controls the monitoring power supply module and the lighting box power supply module.
US10337712B2	Light emitting device, image display device, and electronic apparatus According to an aspect, a light emitting device includes a base that includes at least a frame body; a light source that emits light; and a temperature sensor with which the base is provided and that detects changes in temperature of the light source. A space is provided between the temperature sensor and a portion of the base corresponding to a portion in which the temperature sensor is provided.
US10337707B2	Luminaire with articulated LEDs Described is a method for controlling the movement of LED devices in luminaires, specifically to a method relating to allowing both synchronized and independent pan and tilt movement of LED light modules in a light curtain. The LEDs may be mounted in a plurality of modules. The modules may be in a linear arrangement. The LEDs may be mounted in a plurality of modules that are arrayed in a two dimensional array. The modules in the linear arrangement or in the two dimensional array may be mounted in groups forming modular group assemblies where modular group assembly are independently articulated to pan and/or tilt the modules mounted thereon independent of other modular group assemblies.
US10337702B2	Methods and apparatus for optic holder design A lighting system (100) including a plurality of LED-based light sources (102), where each of the light sources includes an optic holder (210) with an upper edge region (260). The arrangement of the optic holders within the lighting system results in gaps (220) between neighboring optic holders. The system includes a plurality of interstitial spacers (310) manufactured on or attached to the upper edge region of the optic holders, such that the interstitial spacers are arranged to substantially fill the one or more gaps.
US10337701B2	Decorative LED integrated luminaire A luminaire is provided, the luminaire is fitted with a decorative element (3) that is simple to exchange for a user without the need for additional tooling. Further, a range of optical structures (2) are provided that enable the user to easily tailor the light distribution generated by his luminaire without having to purchase an entire new luminaire.
US10337687B2	Metal PCB assembly for vehicle lamp and manufacturing method thereof The present invention relates to a manufacturing method of a metal PCB assembly for a vehicle lamp and the metal PCB assembly made by the method. The manufacturing method of a metal PCB assembly for a vehicle lamp comprises a step S100 in which a material of a metal PCB 14 is prepared, a step S110 in which a circuit pattern 22 and a plurality of unit patterns 16 are formed and cut from the material of a metal PCB 14 to form a metal PCB 14, a step S120 in which a bending groove 24 is formed on a bottom surface of the metal PCB 14, a step S130 in which each of the unit patterns 16 is protruded forward around the bending groove 24 of the metal PCB 14 such that each of the unit patterns 16 is bent to be inclined from the metal PCB 14, and a step S140 in which a stepwise injection molded products 12 is coupled with the metal PCB 14 while the unit pattern 16 is protruded.
US10337686B2	Headlight for a vehicle A headlight for a vehicle with a projector includes a reflector, a light source, a diaphragm, and a collimating optical element. The reflector includes a bowl-shaped reflective surface, which presents the shape of a concave curve in a cross-section formed by a vertical plane passing through the optical axis of the projector. The light source is positioned substantially at the source focal point of the curve. The diaphragm is positioned substantially at the image focal point of the curve to create a light-darkness boundary in front of the vehicle. The optical element is for collimation of the output light beam into the required direction. The diaphragm is made of a transparent material and includes one or more optical surfaces arranged to direct those rays that have fallen onto it and passed through it to the collimating element directly, or through a supplementary optical element.
US10337677B1	Edge-lit luminaire An edge-lit luminaire designed to be of minimal weight and to distribute illumination evenly upon an environment is provided. In some embodiments, the luminaire comprises a frame, a plurality of panels, a light source, and power circuitry. More specifically, the panels are arranged at desired angles so as to maximize the evenness with which light is emitted from the light source, which is secured to interior sides of one or more edges of the frame. In use, the frame is lightweight and configured to mount within or suspend from a ceiling.
US10337674B2	Control system in a gas pipeline network to satisfy pressure constraints Controlling flow of gas in a gas pipeline network, wherein flow within each pipeline segment is associated with a direction (positive or negative). Minimum and maximum signed flow rates are calculated for each pipeline segment constituting lower and upper bounds, respectively, for flow in each pipeline segment. A nonlinear pressure drop relationship is linearized within the lower and upper flow bounds to create a linear pressure drop model for each pipeline segment. A network flow solution is calculated, using the linear pressure drop model, and includes flow rates for each pipeline segment to satisfy demand constraints and pressures for each of a plurality of network nodes to satisfy pressure constraints. Lower and upper bounds on the pressure constraint comprise a minimum delivery pressure and a maximum operating pressure, respectively. The network flow solution is associated with control element setpoints used by a controller to control one or more control elements.
US10337668B2	Mounting bracket and method of use A mounting bracket for storing large items, such as ladders, off of the ground and on a wall structure. The bracket can store up to three ladders or similar items using a pair of mounting prongs forming a Y-bracket, and a pair of mounting hooks which can receive bungee cords for stretching and connecting around ladder rungs. The bracket can mount to a wall structure by inserting mounting screws through a pair of mounting holes and drilling the mounting screws into the wall or a wall stud.
US10337667B2	Modular motorized slider system A modular, motorized camera slider system for use with various camera devices, including mobile phones and small, lightweight portable video cameras. A motorized shuttle, straight and curved connectable track pieces, and removable bipod legs enables users to add controlled linear movements to video and time lapse photography. The motorized shuttle supports a camera and moves along the connected tracks, which in turn are supported by the bipod legs or other support system.
US10337656B2	Quick connect with visual indicator Methods and systems are provided for a quick connect device. In one example, a connector may include a first visual cue for coupling an outer portion to a middle portion and a second visual cue for coupling an inner portion to the middle portion.
US10337654B2	Toroidal fluid swivel for high pressure applications A fluid swivel for fluid transfer across a rotary interface includes inner annular and outer annular elements, located with their adjacent surfaces in close proximity to define a chamber between the adjacent surfaces. The swivel inner annular element has a conduit connected to an end of an incoming fluid line. The outer annular element is connected to outgoing product piping and has a primary duct for transport of fluid from the chamber to the product piping. The swivel includes an outer reinforcing annular wall arranged adjacent to the outer peripheral wall of the outer annular element. The outer reinforcing annular wall has two peripheral centering surface portions for contacting and/or registering with the outer peripheral wall of the outer annular element. The outer reinforcing annular wall further has a central peripheral opening extending along a portion of the periphery for allowing the primary duct to pass through.
US10337647B2	Obstruction detection for a control valve A system receives a plurality of data samples associated with a control valve with each of the plurality of data samples associated with a setpoint and a position. A first subset of the data samples that are in a control zone associated with normal operation of the control valve is determined. In a case that a second subset of the data samples are determined to be (i) not in the first subset and (ii) close to a minimum position of the plurality of data samples and (iii) have setpoints less than their associated positions, an alert associated with a low obstruction is indicated. In a case that a second subset of the data samples are determined to be (i) not in the first subset and (ii) close to the maximum position of the plurality of data samples and (iii) have setpoint greater than their associated position, an alert is indicated.
US10337632B2	Diaphragm valve A diaphragm valve with a drive housing and with a drive subassembly arranged in the drive housing is proposed, for controlling a process fluid by means of a diaphragm. The diaphragm valve comprises a pretensioning subassembly for the arrangement between the drive subassembly and the diaphragm. A first spring element holds the drive subassembly in a pretensioned state before introduction into the drive housing. A second spring element holds the pretensioning subassembly in a pretensioned state before introduction into the drive housing.
US10337629B2	Check valve A check valve with a a housing having an inlet connected to an outlet. A stop and a membrane are disposed in the housing. The membrane is movable and bendable to control fluid flow between the inlet and the outlet. The stop may be an elongated extension about which the membrane may bend along a line or a curve such that the extension lies between overlapping sections of the membrane.
US10337622B2	Eccentric valve An eccentric valve has a drive mechanism, a drive force receiving part, a bearing for supporting a rotary shaft, and a return spring for generating a return spring force. During non-operation of the drive mechanism, the eccentric valve generates a separating-direction urging force to cause the rotary shaft to incline about the bearing serving as a fulcrum and urge the valve element in a direction away from the valve seat, the separating-direction urging force being a force caused by the return spring force. Either the valve element or the valve seat is provided with a sealing member to seal between the valve element and the valve seat during non-operation of the drive mechanism.
US10337611B2	Variable-speed drive device for power unit A variable-speed drive device for a power unit to be used in a vehicle equipped with a stopper pin passed through an opening in a master arm for regulating the amount of rotary movement of the master arm. Shock-absorbing device is provided on the master arm or the stopper pin At least a part of the shock-absorbing device is formed to project into the path along which the stopper pin moves relative to the opening of the master arm, from a stopper pin outer surface or from edge portions of a defining edge of the opening in the master arm onto extension of the stopper pin path. As a result, even if the master arm and the stopper pin contact one another at high speed, it is possible to suppress the sound of contact and suppress an increase in the weight of a stopper pin fixing part.
US10337609B2	Clutch control in a continuously variable transmission A continuously variable transmission, a transmission control system, and a method is provided. The control system is configured to determine whether a predetermined condition is met for applying a clutch critical pressure to an applied clutch. The clutch critical pressure is less than line pressure and is a pressure at which the clutch may slip upon experiencing a predetermined torque disturbance level. The control system is configured to command the clutch critical pressure to be applied to the clutch if the predetermined condition is met. The control system is further configured to determine whether the clutch is slipping beyond a predetermined threshold, and if the clutch is slipping beyond the predetermined threshold, command a clutch slip control scheme to be applied to the clutch that is configured to bring a clutch slip of the clutch under the predetermined threshold.
US10337602B2	Multi-stage planetary gear mechanism for a wind turbine, comprising a special lubricant guide A multi-stage planetary transmission for a wind turbine includes a transmission housing having an oil supply channel disposed therein; an input-side first planetary stage disposed in the transmission housing; at least one second planetary stage disposed downstream of and connected to the first planetary stage by a spline of a sun gear shaft of the first planetary stage; a first oil conducting channel supplied by the oil supply channel and configured to supply oil to planetary gear bearings of the first planetary stage; a second oil conducting channel supplied by the oil supply channel and disposed so as to pass through a planet carrier of the second planetary stage at least partially in an axial direction, the second oil conducting channel configured to supply oil to planetary gear bearings of the second planetary stage; and a third oil conducting channel supplied by the oil supply channel.
US10337601B2	Gear and method of lubricating a gear A gear includes a toothed portion that has a plurality of teeth, an inner wall that defines a cavity, and a lubricant feed aperture. The lubricant feed aperture extends from the inner wall portion to a surface of a tooth. The lubricant feed aperture can deliver lubricant from the cavity to the surface of the tooth.
US10337600B2	Scalable in-situ gear box and powertrain lubricant monitoring systems and methods Disclosed is an apparatus for in-situ filtering and monitoring of a lubricating fluid which includes, among other elements, a housing, a filter assembly and a lubrication monitoring module. The housing is adapted for being secured directly to a source of lubricating fluid and defines an internal filter chamber. The filter assembly is positioned at least partially within the internal filter chamber of the housing and the lubrication monitoring module is in fluid communication with the internal filter chamber of the housing. The filter assembly and the lubrication monitoring module are arranged so as to create first and second flow paths for lubricating fluid within the housing. The first flow path directs a portion of the lubricating fluid from the source, through the filter assembly where it is conditioned and returned to the source. The second flow path directs a second portion of the lubricating fluid from the source to the lubrication monitoring module and subsequently it is returned to the source.
US10337593B2	Lower attachment for trimmable horizontal stabiliser actuator A lower attachment system for a trimmable horizontal stabilizer actuator (THSA) includes a screwshaft forming a part of or coupled to a main screw of the actuator, the screwshaft having an axial direction and a primary ballnut disposed on the screwshaft and forming a part of a primary load path of the lower attachment system. The THSA also includes a lower secondary nut and an upper secondary nut as well as a secondary connection arranged for axial and rotational movement and coupled to each of the lower secondary nut and the upper secondary nut. The secondary connection is arranged to be loaded when the secondary load path is loaded and the secondary load path also includes the upper and lower secondary nuts.
US10337590B2	Multi-speed planetary transmission A multi-speed transmission including a plurality of planetary gearsets and a plurality of selective couplers to achieve at least nine forward speed ratios is disclosed. The plurality of planetary gearsets may include a first planetary gearset, a second planetary gearset, a third planetary gearset, and a fourth planetary gearset. The plurality of selective couplers may include a number of clutches and a number of brakes. The multi-speed transmission may have four planetary gearsets and six selective couplers. The six selective couplers may include four clutches and two brakes.
US10337589B2	Multi-Speed Transmission A transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, at least three planetary gear sets, a plurality of interconnecting members and six torque transmitting mechanisms. The torque transmitting mechanisms include clutches and brakes that are actuatable in combinations of three to establish at least ten forward gear ratios and at least one reverse gear ratio.
US10337586B2	Tensioning unit A tensioning unit for pull elements such as cables includes a tensioning element and a spring element, wherein the tensioning element and the spring element are arranged in a row, a length of the tensioning element is shortened in such a manner that the tensioning element has a pretension, the pretension is designed to increase the length of the tensioning element, and wherein the direction of the length enlargement of the tensioning element is directed away from the spring element.
US10337585B2	Vibration isolation device The vibration isolation device (10) includes a first mounting member (11) connected to one of a vibration generating portion and a vibration receiving portion, and a second mounting member (12) connected to the other thereof; and an elastic body (13) disposed between the mounting members. On either one of opposing surfaces (24, 25) that oppose each other, respectively on the first mounting member (11) and the second mounting member (12), a stopper elastic body (27) having a stopper surface (26) which faces the other of the opposing surfaces (24, 25) such as to be capable of coming into contact therewith, and a hollow portion (30) in which the stopper elastic body (27) is disposed, are provided. The stopper elastic body (27) is fitted into the hollow portion (30) such that, among the surfaces of the stopper elastic body (27), a counter-stopper surface (34) which faces the direction opposed to the stopper surface (26), is in a state of non-contact.
US10337582B2	Damper and method for manufacturing damper A damper is formed by a housing member wherein an outer cylinder portion and an inner cylinder portion that are cylindrically formed are concentrically disposed, and respective lower ends are connected to each other at a bottom portion, and at an upper end of the outer cylinder portion, an open end portion is formed, and a groove portion is formed on an inner periphery; and a lid member provided with a rotor inserted from the open end portion, and housed in the housing member, and formed with a projection portion engaging the groove portion. A thin wall portion which is thinner than the outer cylinder portion is formed in a vicinity of a groove portion side in the outer cylinder portion.
US10337575B2	Ball screw type electromechanical brake An electromechanical brake may include a drive device for the electromechanical brake to which a non-circulation type ball screw is applied, and may automatically compensate for a position movement amount of a ball caused by pad abrasion, wherein the electromechanical brake includes a drive device, that is, an electromechanical brake with a non-circulation type ball screw, in which pad abrasion is compensated by the ball screw, a torsion spring, and a ball retainer mounted at the other side of the torsion spring.
US10337573B2	Two-phase transmission clutch staging In order to pre-stage a clutch piston in preparation for clutch engagement, a controller commands a high current to a Casting Integrated Direct Acting Solenoid (CIDAS) valve. This staging is performed in two distinct phases wherein the current is higher in the first phase than in the second phase. Staging the piston in this manner reduces the staging time and reduces the variability of the staging time. The duration of the first phase may be adjusted based on a number of parameters including, the length of a preceding engine off period, the number of clutch applications since the engine off period, a fluid temperature, and a length of time since a preceding engagement of the clutch.
US10337571B2	Electronically-controlled selectable clutch with backlash arrangement A bi-directional clutch assembly includes an outer race presenting a plurality of inner ratchet teeth and an inner race presenting a plurality of outer ratchet teeth. A passive one-way clutch includes a plurality of passive struts supported by the inner race and pivotable into engaging relationships with the inner ratchet teeth during rotation of the inner race in a first direction. A selectable one-way reverse clutch includes at least one active strut supported by the outer race and selectively pivotable from an unlocked position to a locked position to engage one of the outer ratchet teeth during rotation of the inner race in the second direction. The passive struts are unevenly circumferentially spaced from one another along the inner race to establish an indexed relationship among the passive struts for staggering engagement of sequential passive struts with the inner ratchet teeth of the outer race.
US10337570B2	Transaxle including bi-directional overrunning clutch A transaxle includes a transaxle casing, a bi-directional overrunning clutch in the transaxle casing, a friction mechanism, and a clutch-off biasing mechanism. The bi-directional overrunning clutch includes coaxial input and output members journalled by the transaxle casing, and includes a cage disposed between the input member and the output member. Rollers carried by the cage are rotatable to follow rotation of the output member. The cage is rotatable relative to the input member according to the rotation of the rollers following the output member until the rollers contact the input member to engage the bi-directional overrunning clutch. The friction mechanism applies a friction resistance to the cage to rotate the cage relative to the input member. The clutch-off biasing mechanism biases the cage to the initial position. The friction mechanism and the clutch-off biasing mechanism are distributed in the transaxle casing at first and second end portions of the cage.
US10337569B2	Switchable one-way clutch A switchable clutch includes an outer ring, an inner ring, a roller cage, a plurality of rollers, and a drag plate. The outer ring includes a plurality of ramped surfaces. The roller cage is disposed radially between the outer ring and the inner ring. The rollers are guided by the roller cage. The drag plate is rotationally fixed to the inner ring and is engageable with the roller cage to rotate the rollers relative to the outer ring. In an example embodiment, the switchable clutch has a spring engaged with the outer ring for urging the roller cage in a first rotational direction relative to the outer ring. In an example embodiment, the switchable clutch has an electromagnet for engaging the drag plate and the roller cage and/or a coil spring assembly for disengaging the drag plate and the roller cage.
US10337566B2	Low loss direct point wet clutch fluid wall system An improved multi-disc wet clutch assembly. The improvements include an inner clutch hub having eighteen holes extending through a wall of the inner clutch hub, arranged in six series of three holes with each series being disposed approximately sixty degrees apart from each other and starting at a different position along the length of the inner clutch hub wall. The improvements further include a diaphragm plate disposed within a bore at the distal end of the inner clutch hub. Methods of retrofitting preexisting clutch assemblies are also described.
US10337561B2	Transmission with integrated overload protection for a legged robot An example robot includes: a motor disposed at a joint configured to control motion of a member of the robot; a transmission including an input member coupled to and configured to rotate with the motor, an intermediate member, and an output member, where the intermediate member is fixed such that as the input member rotates, the output member rotates therewith at a different speed; a pad frictionally coupled to a side surface of the output member of the transmission and coupled to the member of the robot; and a spring configured to apply an axial preload on the pad, wherein the axial preload defines a torque limit that, when exceeded by a torque load on the member of the robot, the output member of the transmission slips relative to the pad.
US10337558B2	Sliding component and method A sliding component may include an overlay comprising a polymeric material and a metal oxide. The metal oxide may have a thermal conductivity of greater than about 1.5 Wm−1K−1, and a Mohs hardness of between about 5 and about 7. The sliding component may be a sliding component for an engine, such as a bearing, a bearing shell, a bush, a thrust washer, a journal bearing or the like.
US10337557B1	Rotodynamically isolated magnetic coupling An inner barrel shaft is separate from the shaft of the first rotating machine. A first bearing assembly is configured to support the inner barrel shaft. The first bearing assembly is separate from the first rotating machine. An outer barrel includes an outer barrel shaft that is separate from a shaft of a second rotating machine. The outer barrel is configured to be coupled to the shaft of the second rotating machine. The second rotating machine is configured to drive or be driven by the first rotating machine. The outer barrel is fluidically isolated from the inner barrel. The outer barrel is configured to surround the inner barrel. The outer barrel is magnetically coupled to the inner barrel to co-rotate with the inner barrel. A second bearing assembly is configured to support the outer barrel shaft. The second bearing assembly is separate from the second rotating machine.
US10337553B2	Spring-loaded cable attachement An attachment assembly for securing a transmission shifter cable includes an outer frame and an inner frame disposed at least partially within the outer frame and axially movable relative to the outer frame. The attachment assembly further includes an attachment block disposed at least partially within the inner frame and axially movable relative to the inner frame. An axial displacement of the attachment block secures the inner frame to the outer frame to inhibit axial movement of the inner frame relative to the outer frame.
US10337549B2	Method of assembling a floating structure In one aspect the invention provides a nut and tie rod assembly which includes a composite material tie rod defining a main shaft with an exterior surface. The tie rod is formed from reinforcing fibers encapsulated within a matrix material, and at least a portion of the exterior surface of the shaft defines an engagement structure. The assembly also includes at least one nut which includes an internal cavity with an interior surface defining an engagement structure which is complimentary to the engagement structure defined on the exterior surface of the shaft of the tie rod.
US10337546B2	Insert assembly for finishing gap region An insert assembly inserted in a gap region provided in a panel to fill the gap region, the insert assembly including a body unit covering the gap region not to be exposed to the outside, an insert unit extended from the body unit and inserted in the gap region, and a hook unit extended a preset distance from the insert unit toward the body unit, the hook unit comprising one end connected to the insert unit and the other end provided as a free end, wherein the body unit, the insert unit and the hook unit are integrally formed with each other as one body.
US10337542B2	Curtain retention bracket Apparatus and methods for retaining a foldable curtain in a stowed position. A curtain retention bracket comprises a U-shaped chambered body having high torsional stiffness and a clasp comprising a flexible strap. The clasp has one end configured to be pivotably coupled to one arm of the U-shaped chambered body and another end configured to be latchable onto the other arm of the U-shaped chambered body. The clasp can be easily opened and closed manually using one hand. The geometry of the clasp is such that forces exerted on it by the stowed curtain cause it to pull tighter closed. The U-shaped chambered body may be produced using an additive manufacturing process.
US10337536B2	Methods and apparatus for shape control In exemplary implementations of this invention, a shape controller controls the shape of a bladder as the bladder inflates. The shape controller includes a first set of regions and a second set of regions. The second set of regions is more flexible than the first set of regions. The shape controller is embedded within, or adjacent to, a wall of the bladder. When the bladder is inflated, the overall shape of the bladder bends in areas adjacent to the more flexible regions of the shape controller. For example, the shape controller may comprise paper and the more flexible regions may comprise creases in the paper. Or, for example, the more flexible regions may comprise notches or indentations. In some implementations of this invention, a multi-state shape display changes shape as it inflates, with additional bumps forming as pressure in the display increases.
US10337534B2	Pressure medium device comprising fluidic connections which are variable on the basis of molded seals A vehicle pressure medium device in which a pressure medium flows, has a multilayer design which has at least two mutually contacting layers. A groove-shaped recess is arranged between a first chamber into which a first flow opening opens and a second chamber into which a second flow opening opens when viewed on a plane parallel to the layers. The groove-shaped recess has at least one opening for a fluidic connection between the first chamber and the second chamber on a plane parallel to the layers. A group of molded seals is provided for mounting between the two layers. A fluidic connection is either produced between the first chamber and the second chamber or not depending on the molded seals which are mounted between the two layers and each of which is selected from the group of molded seals.
US10337531B2	Diffusion pump to supply heat from a condenser to a heating element A diffusion pump is provided that includes a housing and a boiling chamber connected to the housing. The boiling chamber has a heating element. The housing has a nozzle that is connected to the boiling chamber. The housing also has a condenser is arranged at an internal surface, where the condenser has a cooling system. The boiling chamber is thermally isolated from the condenser by an isolator. The cooling system is at least partially a water cooling system and is connected to the heating element via a heat pump such that heat from the condenser is supplied to the heating element.
US10337526B2	Blower A blower includes a fan for generating an air flow, a motor for driving the fan to rotate about a central axis, a battery pack for supplying power to the motor, an air duct portion including an air duct, the air duct extending long the central axis, a coupling portion for coupling with the battery pack, and a connection portion for connecting the air duct portion with the coupling portion. The fan is received in the air duct. The air duct includes an air duct inlet and an air duct outlet which are respectively located at the two ends of the air duct. The air duct inlet is located between the air duct outlet and the coupling portion. The connection portion is provided with an air intake space located between the air duct inlet and the coupling portion. The air intake space is opened in a radial direction of the central axis.
US10337522B2	Centrifugal compressor A centrifugal compressor includes: a compressor housing; an impeller wheel for compressing intake air, disposed inside the compressor housing; a parallel flow generating unit for rectifying the intake air flowing in via an intake port to be parallel to the direction of a rotation shaft; and a recirculation channel for returning a part of the intake air in an outer circumferential section of the impeller wheel to an upstream side of the impeller wheel. The parallel flow generating unit includes a parallel flow generating part including a plurality of guide vanes and a central intake-air flowing section which is a space surrounded by the parallel flow generating part. An intake-air outflow direction from an upstream opening is oriented toward the parallel flow generating part.
US10337518B2	Variable turbine geometry turbocharger vane pack retainer A variable turbine geometry turbine turbocharger (1) includes a vane pack (50) disposed in the exhaust gas path upstream of the turbine wheel (12). The vane pack (50) includes vanes (30) that are rotatably supported between a pair of vane rings (34) and configured to adjustably control the flow of exhaust gas to the turbine wheel (12). In addition, a retainer (60, 160) secures the vane pack (50) to the bearing housing (16) in such a way that the vane pack (50) is mechanically decoupled from the turbine housing (4).
US10337517B2	Gas transfer vacuum pump An improved vacuum pump mechanism is described in which an intersecting solid or perforated element is arranged to intersect a channel member. Relative movement of the intersecting solid or perforated element and channel member causes gas molecules to be urged from inlet to an outlet of the pump. Gas molecules are constrained within the channel member and interaction of the gas molecules with the flat and smooth surfaces of the intersecting solid or perforated member influence momentum of the gas molecules so that they are directed towards the outlet. In one embodiment, the channel member is formed as a helix and the intersecting solid or perforated elements are disk-shaped. An alternative embodiment is provided having the channel member configured as a spiral and the perforated elements as cylindrical skirts. The pump provides significant improvements in pump capacity, reduced power consumption and size of pump.
US10337509B2	Internal gear pump Provided is an internal gear pump. The shape of any one of a plurality of external teeth and a plurality of internal teeth of the pump is formed on the basis of formulae (1)-(5). r=ro−dr·cos θ, Formula (1): Px=(ro−dr)+1/4dr{1−cos(2θ)}, Formula (2): Py=1/4dr{−2θ+sin(2θ)}, Formula (3): Qx=Px−r·cos θ, Formula (4): Qy=Py+r·sin θ Formula (5):.
US10337502B2	Early detection of wind turbine degradation using acoustical monitoring Disclosed is a system and method for monitoring wind turbines, generally comprising: measuring sound levels of a plurality of wind turbines; checking the sound levels of each of the plurality of wind turbines against sound levels of others of the plurality of wind turbines; detecting that one of the plurality of wind turbines is an anomalous wind turbine based upon the checking; and generating a corrective action alarm signal identifying the anomalous wind turbine based upon the detecting.
US10337499B1	Self-installing column stabilized offshore wind turbine system and method of installation A self-installing offshore column stabilized semi-submersible platform has at least one vertical buoyant ballastable column, a telescoping keel tank or stiffened damper plate movably connected with the vertical column that extends and retracts relative to a lower end thereof, and a tilt and telescoping wind turbine tower assembly pivotally coupled to an upper end of the vertical column telescopes and reciprocates relative thereto between a horizontal retracted position and an axially extended vertical position. A wind turbine with blades is coupled to a top portion of the upper section of the tower assembly. The relative position and weight of the keel tank or damper plate is selectively adjustable to raise or lower the center of gravity of the entire mass of the semi-submersible platform including the wind turbine and tower assembly with respect to the center of buoyancy of the platform.
US10337490B2	Structural component for a modular rotor blade The present disclosure is directed to a pre-formed, continuous structural component for use in assembling a modular rotor blade for a wind turbine. Further, the structural component provides support to the modular rotor blade during operation. The pre-formed structural component includes a root portion and a body portion. The root portion is configured for mounting the structural component to a blade root section of the rotor blade. The body portion is configured to extend in a generally span-wise direction. Further, the body portion defines a predetermined cross-section having a flatback portion with a first end and a second end. In addition, the first and second ends each have a flange extending perpendicularly therefrom. Thus, each flange defines a mounting surface for one or more blade segments.
US10337486B2	Direct drive portable hydroelectric generator and power source A generator device for generating an induced electrical power from the movement of a fluid stream. The generator device can include a circumferential casing that houses a stator, a power storage system and a power management system that receives the induced electrical power, and a propeller-rotor assembly located in the central opening of the casing and rotatably coupled to the casing. The propeller-rotor assembly has two or more propeller blades with distal ends opposite the axis of the propeller-rotor assembly to which magnets are attached. The device can also have a tether assembly for anchoring the generator device in a moving fluid stream and positioning the generator device so that the movement of fluid stream through the generator device causes the propeller-rotor assembly to rotate and, thereby, through interaction with the stator, to generate the induced electrical power. The generator device can be portable and easily deployed by a single user.
US10337482B2	Starter A starter includes a coil spring disposed between a pinion gear and a motor and a buffer rubber disposed between the pinion gear and the coil spring. When the pinion gear is subjected to a reactive force from an engine, the buffer rubber absorbs the impact. Before the impact acts on the pinion gear, the coil spring is subjected to a given initial load. When the impact acts on the pinion gear, the coil spring absorbs it transmitted through the buffer rubber. The cover in which the coil spring is stored has a flange which is held from moving to the pinion gear in response to expansion of the coil spring, while it is permitted to move to the motor in response to contraction of the coil spring. This eliminates a risk that mechanical noise occurs when the pinion gear is advanced and then brought into mesh with the engine.
US10337479B2	Holder for fastening a component to an internal combustion engine A holder is used for fastening a component, in particular a fuel distributor, to an internal combustion engine. The holder has at least one connection element, which includes a locating area. In the installed state, in which the connection element rests against an outer side of the component via its locating area, the locating area of the connection element extends across an angle greater than 180 degrees in relation to a longitudinal axis of the component. Furthermore, in the installed state, in which the connection element is resting via its locating area against the outer side of the component, the locating area has the form of a cylinder jacket. In addition, a system having a component and such a holder is provided.
US10337478B2	Fuel injector A fuel injector includes a collar, which may be formed of a porous, sintered material, the collar being located around the needle and allowing a restricted fluid pathway, such as orifices through the collar, between first and second volumes of fuel, the collar being located in a section of the nozzle body which has a greater cross-sectional area than the rest of the bore.
US10337474B1	Air intake system An air intake system for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The motor vehicle has a frame and a body on the frame. The frame and the body define a passenger cabin and an engine compartment longitudinally rearward of the passenger cabin. A firewall separates the passenger cabin and the engine compartment. An engine is attached to the frame in the engine compartment, and wheels are driven by the engine. The air intake system includes an air intake snorkel for providing air to the engine, a first vent in the body for directing air to the air intake snorkel, a second vent in the body for directing air to the air intake snorkel, a flexible member installed around the air intake snorkel for isolating the air intake snorkel from the engine compartment, and a compartment floor isolating the air intake snorkel from the wheels.
US10337471B2	Filter and filter cartridge A filter cartridge for a filter for filtration of a fluid has a prismatic basic shape with a base face and a top face arranged parallel to each other and each having a polygonal basic shape. The prismatic basic shape is provided with a first lateral face and a second lateral face neighboring the first lateral face, wherein the first lateral face is an inflow surface and is substantially positioned perpendicular to the neighboring second lateral face. The prismatic basic shape has a third lateral face that is an outflow surface and is positioned at an angle relative to the first lateral face, wherein the angle is greater than 10° and smaller than 80°. A filter with such a filter cartridge is disclosed.
US10337455B2	Fan nacelle inlet flow control The present disclosure relates generally to a system for fan nacelle inlet flow control in a gas turbine engine, the nacelle comprising a nacelle inlet cowl including an inlet lip disposed at a leading edge of the nacelle inlet cowl, an inner surface extending aft from the inlet lip, and an outer surface extending aft from the inlet lip and positioned radially outward of the inner surface; and at least one flow control passage extending through the nacelle inlet cowl, each of the at least one flow control passage including a flow control passage inlet, disposed on the inlet lip, and a flow control passage outlet; wherein air may flow into the flow control passage inlet, through the flow control passage, and exits the flow control passage outlet.
US10337448B2	Methods and systems for a fuel injector assembly Methods and systems are provided for moving an injector needle of a fuel injector assembly from a first position to a second position to provide a first fuel injection at the first position, and moving the needle from the second position to the third position to provide a second fuel injection at the third position, and moving the needle back to the first position via the second position, and providing a third fuel injection at the second position. In this way, three fuel injections may be performed during a single actuation cycle of the injector during a single combustion cycle.
US10337444B2	System and method for controlling fuel for reactivating engine cylinders Systems and methods for operating an engine with deactivating and non-deactivating valves are presented. In one example, fuel supplied to cylinders being reactivated is supplied by direct fuel injectors even though the engine is operating in a region (e.g., speed and torque) where under conditions where cylinders are not being reactivated the engine injects fuel solely via port fuel injectors.
US10337437B2	Abnormality diagnosis device and abnormality diagnosis method for internal combustion engine An abnormality diagnosis device for an engine includes an electronic control unit configured to execute temperature rise processing by controlling an air-fuel ratio of at least one of a plurality of cylinders to be a rich air-fuel ratio and controlling an air-fuel ratio of each of the other cylinders to be a lean air-fuel ratio. The electronic control unit is configured to determine whether or not the execution of the temperature rise processing is ongoing, to execute abnormality determination processing to determine whether or not the engine is in an abnormal state, to execute the abnormality determination processing based on whether or not the variation degree during stop of the temperature rise processing exceeds a first determination value, and to execute the abnormality determination processing based on whether or not the variation degree during the execution of the temperature rise processing exceeds a second determination value.
US10337431B2	System and method for controlling busyness of cylinder mode changes Systems and methods for operating an engine with deactivating and non-deactivating valves are presented. In one example, mode changes between deactivating cylinders is based on an amount of time a valve is deactivated, and the longer the valve is deactivated the sooner cylinder valves may be deactivated. If the amount of time the valve is deactivated is short, the time that valves may be deactivated may be delayed.
US10337429B1	Control apparatus and method for internal combustion engine cylinder balance A method of operating an internal combustion engine of a vehicle is provided to maintain cylinder balance. A first operating mode corresponding to a steady state operation of the internal combustion engine is differentiated from a second operating mode corresponding to a transient operation of the internal combustion engine based upon a first operating parameter of the internal combustion engine. In the first operating mode, a first control strategy provides cylinder balance. In the second operating mode, a second control strategy, different than the first control strategy, provides cylinder balance. The second control strategy utilizes a dynamic factor based upon a second operating parameter of the internal combustion engine.
US10337420B2	Method for controlling engine system A method for controlling an engine system having a supercharger and a turbocharger includes: an accelerator-pedal-opening-degree determination operation of determining whether an opening degree of an accelerator pedal detected after an engine starts is a first reference value or more; a first coolant temperature determination operation of determining whether, when the opening degree of the accelerator pedal is less than the first reference value, a detected temperature of a coolant is a second reference value or more; a second coolant temperature determination operation of determining whether the temperature of the coolant is the second reference value or more and is within a temperature threshold; and a boosting operation of calculating boosting contribution rates of the supercharger and the turbocharger, respectively, when the determined temperature of the coolant is within the temperature threshold and driving the supercharger and the turbocharger using the calculated boosting contribution rates.
US10337407B2	Low noise compressor for geared gas turbine engine A gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a fan, a compressor section having a low pressure compressor and a high pressure compressor, a combustor section, and a turbine section having a low pressure turbine, the low pressure turbine for driving the low pressure compressor and the fan; a gear reduction effecting a reduction in the speed of the fan relative to a speed of the low pressure turbine and the low pressure compressor; and at least one stage of the compressor section having a ratio of vanes to blades that is greater than or equal to 1.8. The corrected tip speed of the blades is greater than or equal to 480 ft/sec at an approach speed.
US10337406B2	Method and apparatus for handling pre-diffuser flow for cooling high pressure turbine components A gas turbine engine that includes a compressor section, a combustor section, a diffuser case module, and a manifold. The diffuser case module includes a multiple of struts within an annular flow path from said compressor section to said combustor section, wherein at least one of said multiple of struts defines a mid-span pre-diffuser inlet in communication with said annular flow path. The manifold is in communication with said mid-span pre-diffuser inlet and a bearing compartment.
US10337405B2	Method and system for bowed rotor start mitigation using rotor cooling An apparatus and method of cooling a rotatable member enclosed within a casing are provided. The gas compressor includes a rotor, a plurality of stages of compression extending along said rotor from an inlet stage configured to receive a flow of relatively low pressure gas to an outlet stage configured to discharge a flow of relatively high pressure gas, a casing at least partially surrounding said plurality of stages, and a conduit extending radially inwardly from said casing to an area proximate said rotor.
US10337403B2	Gas turbine combined cycle facility and water-surface facility A gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) facility (10A) provided with a gas turbine unit (20), a heat recovery steam generator (30) for recovering heat and producing steam from exhaust gas produced by the gas turbine unit (20), and an exhaust duct (32) for guiding the exhaust gas of the gas turbine unit (20) to the heat recovery steam generator (30). At least a portion of the heat recovery steam generator (30) is disposed in the same plane as the gas turbine unit (20), and the heat recovery steam generator (30) is disposed side-by-side so that a direction in which exhaust gas flows in the heat recovery steam generator is parallel to a turbine axis direction of the gas turbine unit.
US10337402B2	Systems and methods for a mobile power plant with improved mobility and reduced trailer count A system a first mobile body configured to support a turbine engine and an auxiliary skid communicatively and fluidly coupled to the turbine engine. The auxiliary skid includes one or more interconnects configured to support a turbine engine component. The system also includes a second mobile body configured to support a generator. The first and second mobile bodies are configured to align a removable coupling between the turbine engine and the generator.
US10337395B2	System and method for operating a pressure-relieving fluid-metering valve assembly A fluid control system may include a fluid conduit defining a fluid passage, and a fluid metering assembly in fluid communication with the fluid passage. The fluid metering assembly may include a metering valve rotatably secured within an internal chamber. An actuator may be coupled to the metering valve. A control unit may be coupled to the actuator. The control unit is configured to operate the actuator to rotate the metering valve between an open position in which fluid flows through the fluid passage and a closed position in which the fluid is prevented from flowing through the fluid passage. The control unit is configured to operate the actuator to rotate the metering valve into a pressure relief position beyond the closed position that is configured to allow a reduced portion of the fluid to flow through the fluid passage.
US10337394B2	Blower for vehicle A blower has a blower fan and a half shroud. The blower fan supplies air to a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger has a core that performs a heat exchange between a heat medium and the air. The half shroud covers a part of the core and defines an air passage extending from the heat exchanger to the blower fan. A blocking plate is disposed in a non-overlapping portion in which the half shroud and the core are located not to overlap with each other. The blocking plate prevents the air, which is blown by the blower fan, from flowing into an upstream area of the blower fan in a flow direction of the air through the non-overlapping portion.
US10337393B2	Dirt trap as a functional module in the impeller of a coolant pump A coolant pump (1) of an internal combustion engine, having a pump casing (2), in which a pump shaft (3) is rotatably supported by a water pump bearing assembly (4) and an impeller (6) connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the pump shaft (3) is associated with an intake space (7). During a rotation of the impeller (6) together with associated blades (8), a coolant as a working medium is pumped from the intake space (7), via a coolant outlet of the coolant pump (1), into a cooling system of the internal combustion engine. A dirt trap is associated as a functional module (12a) with the impeller (6) on a side facing away from the intake space (7), wherein the working medium flows into the functional module (12a) from the intake space via at least one opening (13) introduced into the impeller and emerges via a flow outlet (15a).
US10337389B2	Control means for controlling the coolant flows of a split cooling system Methods and systems are provided for a split cooling system for an engine. In one example, a system may include a valve with a plurality of positions for diverting coolant or mixing coolant based on engine conditions.
US10337388B2	Corrosion resistant metal substrate A method for producing a corrosion resistant metal substrate and corrosion resistant metal substrate provided thereby. The method involves forming a plated substrate including a metal substrate provided with a nickel layer or with a nickel and cobalt layer followed by electrodepositing a molybdenum oxide layer from an aqueous solution onto the plated substrate, which is subsequently subjected to an annealing step in a reducing atmosphere to reduce the molybdenum oxide in the molybdenum oxide layer to molybdenum metal in a reduction annealing step and to form a diffusion layer which contains nickel and molybdenum, and optionally cobalt.
US10337386B2	Method of testing a proper functioning of a selective catalytic reduction system A method and system is disclosed to test for a proper functioning of a selective catalytic reduction system of an internal combustion engine. The engine is operated at idle speed and a functionality check of the pressure sensor is executed. The engine is operated to increase an exhaust gas temperature in the exhaust pipe upstream of the catalyst and a functionality check of the pump is executed. A functionality check of the injector is executed after the functionality check of the pump and once the exhaust gas temperature has reached a predetermined target value thereof. A functionality check of the supply conduit is executed after the functionality check of the injector. The selective catalytic reduction system is identified as functioning properly when all of the functionality checks yields a positive result or malfunctioning when any one of the functionality checks yields a negative result.
US10337380B2	Mixer for a vehicle exhaust system A vehicle exhaust system includes an outer housing defining an internal cavity surrounding an axis, an inlet baffle configured to direct engine exhaust gas into the internal cavity, and an injector that is configured to spray a fluid into the internal cavity to mix with engine exhaust gas. An inner wall is spaced radially inward of an inner surface of the outer housing to define a gap. The inner wall has an impingement side facing the axis and a non-impingement side facing the gap. At least one heat transfer element is positioned within the gap and in is contact with at least one of the inner surface of the outer housing and the non-impingement side of the inner wall to transfer heat through the inner wall to the impingement side to reduce spray deposit formation.
US10337379B2	Mixer assembly for a vehicle exhaust system A mixer assembly includes an outer housing having an inlet area that receives exhaust gas from an upstream exhaust component and an outlet area that directs exhaust gas to a downstream exhaust component. The outer housing includes an outer wall extending outwardly from the base wall about a periphery of the base wall and a deflector wall that directs exhaust gas from the inlet area to the outlet area. The deflector wall has a portion spaced from the outer wall to define a flow guide path that first directs exhaust gas flow from the inlet area in a first direction against a first portion of the outer wall and then directs exhaust gas flow in a second direction against a second portion of the outer wall that is transverse to the first portion.
US10337376B2	Exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine An exhaust gas purification system comprises a first fuel supply unit to supply fuel to exhaust gas flowing in an exhaust passage by a supply valve arranged in the exhaust passage, and a second fuel supply unit to supply fuel to exhaust gas by adjusting a fuel injection condition, wherein in a temperature raising stage of the NOx SCR catalyst associated with the exhaust gas temperature raising processing, first control is performed in which fuel is supplied by the first fuel supply unit, and in a temperature holding stage of the NOx SCR catalyst associated with the exhaust gas temperature raising processing, at least second control is performed in which the ratio of an amount of fuel supply by the second fuel supply unit with respect to an amount of fuel supply by the first fuel supply unit becomes higher in comparison with that when performing the first control.
US10337373B2	Exhaust purification device The invention provides an exhaust purification device capable of suppressing the temporal decrease in NOx catalyst removal efficiency due to soot accumulation. The invention provides an exhaust purification device using an air injection nozzle to inject pressurized air into a casing of a catalyst reactor containing an NOx catalyst as a catalyst and removing soot adhering to the NOx catalyst, wherein it is determined and externally notified that there is abnormal deterioration in the NOx catalyst when the pressure difference ΔP in exhaust between the upstream and downstream sides of the NOx catalyst has increased by at least a first reference pressure difference increase ΔPt1, which is the allowable amount of pressure difference increase, above the pressure difference ΔPi in exhaust between the upstream and downstream sides of the catalyst in the initial state at the same exhaust flow rate Ve.
US10337372B2	Exhaust gas purification catalyst device, exhaust gas purification system, and method for detecting deterioration of exhaust gas purification catalyst device An object of the present disclosure is to provide an exhaust gas purification catalyst device; an exhaust gas purification system; and a method for detecting deterioration of the above device.The exhaust gas purification catalyst device includes a substrate, a first catalyst layer containing Pd and formed on the substrate, and a second catalyst layer formed on the first layer. Regarding the above device, ceria, Pd, and Rh are contained in a mixed state in the second layer; in the first and second layers, the total mass of ceria having a fluorite-type structure per 1 L volume of the substrate is 16.0 g or less; and in the second layer, the mass of Pd per 1 L volume of the substrate is 0.32 g or more.
US10337369B2	Engine exhaust gas additive storage tank A tank for storing an internal combustion engine exhaust gas liquid additive, the tank including a wall defining an internal volume, an electrical component located in the internal volume, and at least one electric cable configured to connect the electrical component to a voltage source outside the tank, at least one portion of the electric cable being inserted into an intermediate part connected to a base plate mounted over an opening in the wall, the base plate incorporating a casing mounted leaktight around an orifice in the base plate. The intermediate part is fastened by a quick-connect coupling including an electrical connector to which the electric cable is connected leaktight with aid of a seal and that emerges from the orifice in the base plate to outside the tank. The seal is inserted between the intermediate part and the connector and/or into a housing of the intermediate part.
US10337368B2	Engine device To provide an engine device with high reliability and high safety in which a pipe conduit in a portion where a blow-by gas having leaked from a combustion chamber is merged with intake air (outdoor air) is not blocked with ice coating even in use in a cold region, especially an arctic region at −20° C. or less, a blow-by gas mixed joint configured to introduce a blow-by gas flowing in a returning hose to an intake pipe includes a blow-by gas guide plate that defines introduction space expanding upstream and downstream of a blow-by gas inlet in an intake direction of an intake passage. The blow-by gas guide plate closes an upstream end of a part of the introduction space expanding upstream of a blow-by gas inlet and opens a downstream end of a part of the introduction space expanding downward of the blow-by gas inlet in the intake passage.
US10337365B2	Control shaft for inlet valve shut-off A control shaft of a cam shaft adjustment unit has axially spaced adjustment cams, which are designed in a first axial section of the control shaft for a continuous operation of a cylinder and in a second axial section for a cylinder shut-off. The adjustment cams for the continuous operation of a cylinder have, over the entire circumference of the cam circle, a radial extension which is greater than a zero stroke extension and the adjustment cams for the cylinder shut-off have, around their circumference, a shut-off section of the cam circle with a radial extension which is less than or equal to the zero stroke extension. The control shaft has a stop that reduces the rotation in both circumferential directions and functions as the calibration point for an engine electronics system.
US10337349B2	Anti-windmilling system for a gas turbine engine A gas turbine engine has an engine static structure. At least one component rotatable relative to the engine static structure about an engine axis of rotation. A fan is coupled to at least one component for rotation about the engine axis of rotation. An actuator is mounted to the engine static structure, wherein the actuator is activated to prevent the fan from rotation and is inactivated to allow the fan to rotate. A method for preventing rotation of a fan in a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US10337347B2	Method and systems for an energy recovery and energy converting unit for an engine Various methods and systems are provided for generating exhaust energy and converting exhaust energy to electrical energy while an engine is not running. In one example, a system for an engine comprises: a first turbocharger including a first compressor driven by a first turbine, the first turbine disposed in an exhaust of the engine; a fuel burner fluidly coupled to the exhaust upstream of the first turbine; a generator coupled to one of the first turbine or an auxiliary, second turbine fluidly coupled to the exhaust downstream of the fuel burner; and one or more bypass valves configured to adjust a flow of air that bypasses the engine and is delivered to the fuel burner.
US10337338B2	Wheel disk assembly having sealing plates A wheel disk assembly having a wheel disk, a plurality of blade devices fastened along an outer circumference of the wheel disk, a plurality of sealing plates accommodated between the wheel disk and the blade devices such that the sealing plates are moveable in the circumferential direction, and securing devices designed such that the securing devices secure the sealing plates against movement in the circumferential direction. Pins are provided as securing devices, which pins are detachably retained in bores arranged on the wheel disk and reach into recesses that are formed on surfaces of the sealing plates facing the wheel disk, wherein at least one of the pins, preferably all of the pins, are designed such that, in order to disengage a pin from the associated recess, the pin in question can be plunged further into the bore in a resilient manner.
US10337321B1	System and method to automate data acquisition in a wireless telemetry system A system and method to automate data acquisition in a wireless telemetry network optimizes data acquisition to best match a target data set that the user desires given the performance limitations of the telemetry network. The user defines the target data set by providing inputs regarding a target quality of the target data set relative to a data set that has been produced and stored by a communication node in the network. The performance limitations of the network are defined in a system operating envelope. A data acquisition cycle is then automatically initiated and propagated in the network to acquire an actual data set that is an optimal match for the user's target given the system operating envelope.
US10337319B2	Wired motor for realtime data A bottomhole assembly may include a downhole motor and bearing assembly. The downhole motor may include a rotor and stator. The bearing assembly may include a bearing mandrel. The bearing mandrel may be coupled to the rotor by a transmission shaft. The bottomhole assembly may include one or more sensors positioned in the bearing mandrel, transmission shaft, or rotor. The bottomhole assembly may include a conductor that passes through one or more of the bearing mandrel, transmission shaft, and the rotor from the sensor to a communications package.
US10337314B2	Shallow ground water characterization system using flexible borehole liners A simplified system and method for lining a borehole in the Earth's surface. The liner has a tubing sleeve disposed upon the interior liner wall surrounding and defining the liner's interior volume when the liner is installed within a borehole. This compact and relatively lightweight system simplifies the modes and methods of subsurface installation. Each of at least one tubing sleeve preferably contains and holds at least one slender sample tubes for transporting borehole sample water (or water pressure change data) from a liner sampling spacer to above the ground's surface. The method is a relatively inexpensive, and allows for the sealing of a borehole to define various different sampling intervals with an external spacer at each liner port, and to use tubing directly to the surface from each port, to perform various subsurface sampling and monitoring functions.
US10337310B2	Method for the enhancement and stimulation of oil and gas production in shales By removing material of low permeability from within and around a perforation tunnel and creating at least one fracture at the tip of a perforation tunnel, injection parameters and effects such as outflow rate and, in the case of multiple perforation tunnels benefiting from such cleanup, distribution of injected fluids along a wellbore are enhanced. Following detonation of a charge carrier, a second explosive event is triggered within a freshly made tunnel, thereby substantially eliminating a crushed zone and improving the geometry and quality (and length) of the tunnel. In addition, this action creates substantially debris-free tunnels and relieves the residual stress cage, resulting in perforation tunnels that are highly conducive to injection under fracturing conditions for disposal and stimulation purposes, and that promote even coverage of injected fluids across the perforated interval.
US10337299B2	Perforating apparatus and method having internal load path A perforating apparatus for a gun string is presented. The apparatus experiences an axial load and potentially a radial load during use. A central charge-carrier supports shaped-charges and substantially bears the axial load on the apparatus during use. The charge-carrier is positioned within an exterior sleeve and the plurality of shaped-charges, upon detonation, perforate the exterior sleeve. The exterior sleeve does not bear a substantial portion of the axial load on the apparatus and can therefore be thinner and cheaper than in prior art assemblies. An annular space can be defined between the charge-carrier and exterior sleeve. The exterior tubular can bear the radial load due to differential pressure in one embodiment. Alternately, the apparatus includes radial support members extending between the charge-carrier and sleeve for transmitting radial load to the charge-carrier. Alternately, the sleeve and charge-carrier abut one another along a substantial portion of the length of the charge-carrier.
US10337292B2	Downhole completion system and method The present invention relates to a completion method for completing a uniform inner bore downhole completion system in a reservoir in a formation, comprising the steps of drilling a hole in the formation, inserting a surface casing having an inner surface casing diameter, cementing an outer face of the surface casing to the hole, inserting a drilling head in the surface casing, drilling a main bore extending from the surface casing, the main bore having a first part and a second part, the second part comprising an end of the main bore, and the main bore having an inner main bore diameter which is substantially the same as the inner surface casing diameter of the surface casing, retracting the drilling head from the main bore and the surface casing, inserting a lower production casing in the second part of the main bore, the lower production casing having annular barriers and an inner diameter, setting at least one of the annular barriers of the lower production casing, inserting the drilling head into the first part of the main bore below the surface casing, drilling a lateral bore from the first part of the main bore, the lateral bore having an inner lateral bore diameter which is substantially equal to the inner main bore diameter, retracting the drilling head from the lateral bore, inserting a lateral production casing fully in the lateral bore, the lateral production casing having annular barriers and an inner diameter which is substantially equal to the inner diameter of the lower production casing providing a uniform inner bore completion having the same inner diameter in all production casings, enabling service also in the lateral production casing while service of the main production casing is performed, setting at least one of the annular barriers of the lateral production casing, inserting a main production casing in the first part of the main bore, so that the main production casing is fluidly connected with the lower production casing, the main production casing having annular barriers and an inner diameter which is substantially equal to the inner diameter of the lower production casing, setting the annular barriers of the main production casing, and providing an opening in the main production casing opposite the lateral production casing fluidly connecting the lateral production casing with the main production casing, so that the lower production casing, the main production casing and the lateral production casing is in fluid communication. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a downhole completion system for enhancing hydrocarbon-containing fluid production in a reservoir.
US10337283B2	Optimum flow control valve setting system and procedure A technique facilitates selection of optimum flow control valve settings to improve a desired objective function in a multizone well having zonal isolation. A network of flow control valves is provided in a completion network disposed along isolated well zones of at least one lateral bore of the multizone well. Data is acquired from downhole in the multizone well and processed on processor system modules which may be used in selected combinations. Examples of such modules comprise completion network modules, deconvolution modules, optimization modules, and/or inflow-outflow modules. The modules are designed to process the collected data in a manner which facilitates adjustment of the flow control valve settings in the network of flow control valves to improve the desired objective function.
US10337265B1	Well pipe guide spool A tubular guide assembly provides lateral support to a tubular extending through a BOP. The inner diameter of the BOP encasement is larger than the joint diameter. The assembly has a guide spool with a central bore extending therethrough along a longitudinal axis, wherein the diameter of the guide spool central bore is greater than the joint diameter of the tubular. At least two guide spool apertures extend radially inwardly through a wall of the guide spool to the central bore. A guide post for each guide spool aperture is movable through the respective guide spool aperture into the guide spool central bore to limit lateral displacement of a tubular extending therethrough. A method for providing lateral support to a tubular extending through a BOP during a snubbing operation uses their guide assembly.
US10337261B2	Universal joint A universal joint assembled to a drill string transfers torque and axial force between two components along a longitudinal axis where the shafts of the components are not completely aligned. The universal joint includes axially spaced members joined by transversely spaced links. As the joint rotates the links move to accommodate misalignment between the drill string components and the connected members.
US10337249B2	Drilling wells with air A technique for drilling oil, gas and disposal wells in the earth includes drilling a surface hole with by delivering air down one flow path in a drill string and circulating air and drill cuttings up another flow path in the drill string. Surface pipe is cemented in the surface hole and a well bore is drilled below surface pipe.
US10337248B1	Adjustable ladder extension Provided is an adjustable extension for attachment to a ladder leg. The extension has an extension body and a friction surface that presses against the extension body to prevent movement of the extension body. The extension also includes a retainer that engages a retainer catch attached to the extension body to releasably hold the extension body in a retraced position, thereby allowing for one-handed operation and easy transportation of the ladder.
US10337244B2	Retract gate A retract gate has an upper roller assembly, a lower roller assembly, an axial tube, a holding pole, and a screen body. The upper roller assembly has a rolling mechanism and a controlling mechanism. The controlling mechanism has a switch and an engaging component, the engaging component selectively sticking the differential crown gear. Two ends of the axial tube are connected with the upper roller assembly and the lower roller assembly. Two ends of the screen body are securely fixed on the holding pole and the axial tube. When the upper roller assembly is turned on, the rolling mechanism is released; when the upper roller assembly is turned off, the rolling mechanism can memorize the maximum length of the screen body and make the screen body not able to be unrolled further. Consequently, the retract gate can restrict babies and pets within a safe area.
US10337240B2	Window blinds with capacitor in slats to charge slats and clean the air We disclose a window blind that includes a capacitor within each slat. Each plate of the capacitor may be connected to one of two batteries. At least one switch may be placed between each capacitor plate and its adjoining battery. When one switch is open, another switch may be closed thereby sending current to only one plate at a time. The plate that receives the current is negatively charged and the remaining plate is positively charged. The switch that is open may be changed to reverse the charges of the plates. This charge reversal may be actuated through a series of pull cord gestures from a user. By creating an electrical charge on the plates, dust is pulled from the air according to the net charge of the dust particles. The window blind therefore functions as an air purifier as well as a traditional window blind.
US10337235B2	Insulating glass unit and a method and apparatus for filling and sealing same An insulating gas unit, and a method and apparatus for filling and sealing the insulating gas unit with an insulating gas, such as argon or krypton. The insulating glass unit includes a spacer frame having at least one elongated or oblong opening dimensioned to receive a gas filling nozzle. A mating elongated or oblong plug is dimensioned to be received within the opening in order to seal the insulating space of the insulating gas unit. A dimpling tool engages with the plug to form dimples that secure the plug in the opening.
US10337233B2	Window system with interchangeable exterior accessory covers Window assemblies and methods for making window assemblies are disclosed herein. In one aspect, the window assembly can include a base frame assembly, an accessory support frame assembly, and an exterior accessory frame assembly. The base frame assembly is connected to and supported by the accessory support frame. The accessory support frame can be attached to a building structure via a first plurality of fasteners. The exterior accessory frame assembly, which provides much of the exterior aesthetic appearance of the window assembly, can be connected to the accessory support frame via a second plurality of fasteners which are concealed from view by the exterior accessory frame. In one example, the accessory members conceal the first plurality of fasteners once the exterior accessory assembly is connected to the base frame assembly. Many different styles of exterior accessory frames can be supported by the accessory support frame.
US10337232B2	Method for opening doors A method and device for opening a door in a hygienic manner, is done by positioning a foot or hand in a specific defined area so that a light beam that is directed towards the area is interrupted within a set range of distances such that an automatic opening mechanism for the door is activated.
US10337206B2	Hidden-lock door panel and containing device having the same A hidden-lock door panel for use in a container includes a door panel body, a covering lid, a first lock, and a second lock. The door panel body includes a hidden space. The covering lid is disposed corresponding to the hidden space and slidably connected to the door panel body. The first lock and the second lock are both disposed in the hidden space. The first lock is an electronic lock and is used to control whether the covering lid can be released to slide. The second lock is used to control the door panel body to be unlocked or locked with respect to the container. Accordingly, unknowing persons are prevented from opening or breaking the door lock.
US10337205B2	Portable fence system A relocatable security fence system that may comprise a fence panel system attached to posts with bases and adjustable braces adapted to be used during instances where it is prohibitive to install a fence system by bolting to the ground or otherwise damaging the ground.
US10337202B1	Combination parking structure, roadway and train station The combination parking structure, roadway and train station is a commuter-based system for relieving traffic congestion. The combination parking structure, roadway and train station includes a parking structure having a plurality of levels, at least one roadway, and a train station within the parking structure. A primary entry ramp branches from the at least one roadway, and a plurality of secondary entry ramps each branch from the primary entry ramp. Each secondary entry ramp connects with, and leads into, a corresponding one of the plurality of levels of the parking structure. Similarly, a primary exit ramp feeds into the at least one roadway, and a plurality of secondary exit ramps each connects with, and leads from, a corresponding one of the plurality of levels of the parking structure and feeds into the primary exit ramp. An internal portion of a set of train tracks is located within the parking structure.
US10337201B2	Fast fill and shut off system A portable apparatus for filling a pool or vessel in rapid form as well as sensing water level and terminating fill source. An apparatus including of a base element placed beside pool edge on which will seat one or more high flow electric liquid shut off valves connected to fill fluid source. Also extending from base is a horizontal adjustable supporting member to which attaches a vertical supporting member onto which liquid sensing device would be attached. High flow electric liquid shut off valves respond to and are a slave to liquid level sensing device by electric connection allowing fluid level sensor to determine when full flow electric liquid shut of valve opens or closes.
US10337199B2	Drain for a pool An inflatable pool is includes a floor drain having a drainage conduit and two sealing plug. The drainage conduit includes a midsection pipe having an oblong cross section, an inlet cap having a truncated profile, and an outlet cap that transitions from the oblong profile of the midsection to a cylindrical profile.
US10337191B2	Floor panel for forming a floor covering and method for manufacturing a floor panel A floor panel for forming a floor covering, wherein this floor panel comprises a substrate, which substrate is manufactured on the basis of synthetic material; wherein this floor panel, on at least one pair of opposite edges, comprises coupling parts, which coupling parts allow that two such floor panels can be coupled to each other by means of a downward movement of one floor panel in respect to the other floor panel.
US10337186B2	Ductile fiber reinforced polymer plates and bars using mono-type fibers The present invention provides a fiber reinforced polymer composite having a plurality of layers containing a plurality of fibers. The layers may be configured to maintain predetermined load sharing ratios among the layers at different load levels to produce a gradual load transfer between the different layers during the progressive failure of the composite. The composite is comprised of mono-fibers and the load sharing ratios of the layers have coefficients of variation that are less than 20%.
US10337178B2	Sink A sink having at least one bowl with a bottom wall and a circumferential side wall, with an outlet opening in the bottom wall. First and second rectilinear grooves are provided in the side wall that extend toward the bottom wall. A plate-shaped divider fits into the first and second grooves in watertight manner. The divider has a peripheral edge with first and second portions that engage the first and second grooves, respectively, and a third portion located between the first and second portions contacts the bottom wall. A gasket is arranged on the edge in the first through third portions having three seal beads. First and second seal beads are arranged on first and second opposite lateral side of the edge of the divider, respectively, and a third seal bead is arranged on the peripheral edge between the first and second seal beads.
US10337165B2	Automatic tilt control An industrial machine and methods for providing automatic tilt control for the same. One method includes determining a current tooth vector of a tooth included on a bucket of the industrial machine and a current path vector of the tooth and determining a current digging angle between the current tooth vector and the current path vector. The method also includes determining a delta angle based on the current digging angle and a target angle and automatically adjusting a tilt of the bucket based on the delta angle.
US10337159B2	Vis-NIR equipped soil penetrometer Soil penetrometers capable of measuring soil reflectance along the direction of insertion of the penetrometer are provided. The penetrometer can house an array of sensors, such as, for example, a Vis-NIR reflectance sensor, a load cell, a displacement sensor, and a moisture sensor. The reflectance data collected using the penetrometer can allow the interpretation and quantification of soil constituents and contaminants at high vertical resolution, such as 3 cm or more.
US10337158B2	Snow roller accessory for use on snow blower devices A snow roller accessory for use on a snow blower device installed on a mechanical vehicle comprising a support frame having a first end and a second end; a first bracket coupled to the first end, and a second bracket coupled to the second end; a first ball bearing member attached to the first bracket, and a second ball bearing member attached to the second bracket; a cylinder rotationally connected to the first and second ball bearing members; and at least one hydraulic piston having a upper end and a lower end, wherein the at least one hydraulic piston is configured to adjust the snow roller accessory in relation to a ground level.
US10337156B1	Autonomously controlled animal waste disposal system and method of use A method to dispose of animal feces includes providing an autonomous aerial vehicle having a body with a plurality of rotor assemblies, an articulated claw secured to a bottom surface of the body, and a sensor secured to the body; detecting the presences of the animal feces with the sensor; activating the plurality of rotor assemblies; flying to the location of the animal feces; capturing the animal feces with the claw; flying to a disposal dropoff location; and disposing of the animal feces at the dropoff location.
US10337154B2	Asphalt recycler A asphalt pavement recycling device comprising a base frame hingedly secured to a platform, a rotatable drum unit rotatably secured to the base frame, the drum unit having a drum opening and a drum rear, a hopper assembly hingedly secured to the base frame, a burner assembly hingedly secured to the base frame wherein the burner is used to heat the materials which are to be recycled/processed, a fuel source, a plurality of right-handed flights secured within the rotatable drum unit, a plurality of left-handed flights secured within the rotatable drum unit, a plurality of gator plates secured within the rotatable drum unit, a hydraulic unit secured to the device and operationally associated with the base frame, the rotatable drum unit, the hopper assembly and the burner and a control station operationally associated with the hydraulic unit, the base frame, the rotatable drum unit, the hopper assembly and the burner.
US10337148B2	Hesperaloe tissue having improved cross-machine direction properties Soft, durable and bulky tissue products comprising non-wood fibers and more particularly high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers are disclosed. The tissue products preferably comprise at least about 5 percent, by weight of the product, high yield hesperaloe pulp fiber and have relatively modest tensile strengths, such as a geometric mean tensile (GMT) less than about 1,000 g/3″, and improved durability and cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as a CD Stretch greater than about 10 percent. Additionally, at the foregoing tensile strengths the products are not overly stiff. For example the tissue products may have a Stiffness Index less than about 10.0.
US10337129B2	Process of debundling carbon fiber tow and molding compositions containing such fibers A process for debundling a carbon fiber tow into dispersed chopped carbon fibers suitable for usage in molding composition formulations is provided. A carbon fiber tow is fed into a die having fluid flow openings, through which a fluid impinges upon the side of the tow to expand the tow cross sectional area. The expanded cross sectional area tow extends from the die into the path of a conventional fiber chopping apparatus to form chopped carbon fibers, or through contacting tines of a mechanical debundler. Through adjustment of the relative position of fluid flow openings relative to a die bore through which fiber tow passes, the nature of the fluid impinging on the tow, the shape of the bore, in combinations thereof, an improved chopped carbon fiber dispersion is achieved. The chopped carbon fiber obtained is then available to be dispersed in molding composition formulations prior to formulation cure.
US10337120B2	Alumina substrate An alumina substrate having a carbon-containing phase with an AlN layer formed on a surface of the alumina substrate.
US10337111B2	Solid oxide electrochemical gas separator inerting system An air inert gas generating system consists of heat exchangers, a heating element, and a plurality of solid oxide electrochemical gas separator (SOEGS) cells. The SOEGS cells are interconnected in series to create a stack. A voltage is applied to the stack causing oxygen ions to be transported from the air flowing through the cathode through the electrolyte to the anode side of the SOEGS, resulting in oxygen-depleted gas. The oxygen-depleted gas can be used to inert the ullage of aircraft fuel tank or support the fire suppression system in the cargo hold. The oxygen-enriched gas can be used for other purposes.
US10337101B2	System and process for chemical vapor deposition A chemical vapor deposition method comprises flowing a carrier liquid through a reactor. A fluid comprising one or more reactants is introduced into the carrier liquid. The fluid is at a first temperature and first pressure and is sufficiently immiscible in the carrier liquid so as to form a plurality of microreactors suspended in the carrier liquid. Each of the microreactors comprise a discrete volume of the fluid and have a surface boundary defined by an interface of the fluid with the carrier liquid. The fluid is heated and optionally pressurized to a second temperature and second pressure at which a chemical vapor deposition reaction occurs within the microreactors to form a plurality of chemical vapor deposition products. The plurality of chemical vapor deposition products are separated from the carrier liquid. A system for carrying out the method of the present disclosure is also taught.
US10337100B2	Sputtering target comprising Ni—P alloy or Ni—Pt—P alloy and production method therefor A method of producing a Ni—P alloy sputtering target, wherein a Ni—P alloy having a P content of 15 to 21 wt % and remainder being Ni and unavoidable impurities is melted and atomized to prepare a Ni—P alloy atomized powder having an average grain size of 100 μm or less, the Ni—P alloy atomized powder is mixed with a pure Ni atomized powder, and the obtained mixed powder is hot pressed. An object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a Ni—P alloy sputtering target which achieves a small deviation from an intended composition.
US10337097B2	Mask frame assembly, evaporation method, and array substrate A mask frame assembly, an evaporation method and an array substrate are provided. The mask frame assembly according to the disclosure includes a frame, a covering mask and at least two evaporation masks, the evaporation masks are sequentially arranged on the frame with a gap between two adjacent evaporation masks. A first groove is arranged at a location corresponding to the gap in the frame. The first groove includes a first groove welding portion and a first groove weldless portion, the evaporation mask includes a first evaporation sub-mask corresponding to the first groove welding portion and a second evaporation sub-mask corresponding to the first groove weldless portion; and an edge of the first evaporation sub-mask and an edge of the first groove welding portion coincide.
US10337094B2	Hot-dip galvanized steel sheet and production method therefor Provided are a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having excellent formability and a tensile strength of 440 MPa or more and a method for manufacturing the same. A steel sheet has a microstructure containing a ferrite phase having an area fraction of 60% or more, a pearlite phase having an area fraction of 20% to 30%, and a bainite phase having an area fraction of 1% to 5%, the area fraction of a cementite phase present in a grain of the ferrite phase being 5% or less. Upon manufacture, a hot-rolled sheet or a cold-rolled sheet is heated to a temperature of 650° C. or higher at an average heating rate of 10° C./s or more, is held at a temperature of 700° C. to (Ac3-5)° C. for ten seconds or more, is cooled to a temperature of 300° C. to 500° C. at an average cooling rate of 10° C./s to 200° C./s, is held at a temperature of 300° C. to 500° C. for 30 seconds to 300 seconds, and is then hot-dip galvanized.
US10337092B2	Steel sheet A steel sheet according to the present invention includes a predetermined chemical composition, in which amounts of each elements by mass % in the chemical composition satisfy both of expression “0.3000≤{Ca/40.88+(REM/140)/2}/(S/32.07)” and expression “Ca≤0.0058−0.0050×C”, and a number density of carbonitrides including Ti which exists independently and has a long side of 5 μm or more is limited to 5 pieces/mm2 or less.
US10337082B2	Hearth roll and continuous annealing facility Provided is a hearth roll for supporting and conveying a steel sheet in a continuous annealing furnace, wherein all of a shaft portion and a roil main body are made from one or more ceramic materials, preferably constituted with concentric ceramic layers of different ceramic materials centering on the rotation shaft of the roll. The hearth roll has not only an excellent pickup resistance but also a long roll life free from maintenance for long periods. Also provided is a continuous annealing facility using the hearth roll in at least one of a heating zone, a soaking zone and a cooling zone.
US10337076B2	Pneumatic ore charging A method for reducing metal oxide containing charge materials (1): reducing the metal oxide containing charge materials (1) in at least two fluidized bed units (RA,RE) by means of a reduction gas (2), wherein at least some of the resulting off-gas (3) is recycled and wherein the metal oxide containing charge materials (1) are conveyed into the fluidized bed unit RE by a propellant gas. Also, apparatus for carrying out the method according to the invention is disclosed.
US10337075B2	Process and apparatus for treatment of biomass Reactor assemblies and methods for hydrolytic biomass conversion are disclosed herein. The reactor assemblies employ solely hydrostatic pressure, applied by the liquid biomass slurry, as means of providing pressure necessary to maintain high temperature conditions suitable for hydrolytic biomass conversion resulting in the formation of soluble pentose compounds. In embodiments, the methods employed in conjunction with the reactor assemblies yield soluble C5 carbohydrates in the forms of oligosaccharides and monosaccharides from one or more biomass slurries.
US10337072B2	Copy number detection and methods Described herein are methods of measuring, in a genomic sample from an individual, the relative frequency of a target sequence (that is, its copy number) with respect to a control sequence of known copy number at a different genomic locus in the same genome, wherein the target and control sequences differ by at least one single nucleotide variation (SNV). These methods involve both the target sequence and the control sequence in a single reaction/container, using a pair of primers that prime amplification of both the target sequence and the control sequence, or a single downstream primer and two upstream primers (that differs only at the position of the SNV between the target and control sequences), and measuring the abundance of each of the target sequence and the control sequence using SNV-specific labeled probes or primers, or a melting curve analysis that distinguishes between the amplified control and target sequences. The methods are exemplified with various different amplifications process. Also provided are methods of using these copy number detection methods, for instance, in breeding programs, identification, diagnosis, and so forth.
US10337071B2	Oncogene NRF2 The present invention provides a marker which can be used as an indicator for efficacy prediction of an mTOR related anticancer agent or prognostic prediction, and a novel anticancer agent. The present invention provides a method for efficacy evaluation of a cancer drug, and, specifically, a prediction method for the efficacy of an mTOR-related cancer drug by detecting NRF2 abnormality. In addition, the present invention provides a prognostic prediction method for cancer, and, specifically, a prediction method for the prognosis of cancer by detecting NRF2 abnormality. Furthermore, the present invention provides a novel anticancer agent that targets NRF2.
US10337067B2	Compositions and methods for determining likelihood of twinning Collections of polynucleotides useful for estimating breeding value or detecting likelihood of twinning are disclosed. The polynucleotides are used to detect genomic sequences quantitatively associated with the twinning trait. Also disclosed are methods and kits for using the collections to estimate breeding value or predict likelihood of twinning.
US10337064B2	Method for screening agents promoting skin barrier function and method for evaluating skin barrier function taking epidermal serine racemase and/or D-serine level as indicator The purpose of the present invention is to develop a method for screening drugs having the effect of increasing skin barrier function in in vitro studies and to evaluate barrier function in the skin. Candidate drugs can be screened by using the activity and/or expression level of serine racemase as an indicator.
US10337057B2	Methods and systems for nucleic acid sequencing validation, calibration and normalization A system for performing quality control for nucleic acid sample sequencing is disclosed. The system comprises a set of solid supports, each solid support having attached thereto a plurality of nucleic acid sequences, wherein the set comprises plural groups of solid supports and each group contains solid supports having the same nucleic acid sequences attached thereto. The nucleic acid sequences of each group differ from each other. The nucleic acid sequences are synthetically derived, and the nucleic acids sequences are designed such that the nucleic acid sequences produce a predefined pattern of detectable signals during a sequencing run. A method of preparing a quality control for performing nucleic acid sample sequencing, a method of validating a nucleic acid sequencing instrument during a nucleic acid sequencing experiment, and a method of processing nucleic acid sequencing data during a nucleic acid sequencing experiment are also disclosed.
US10337055B2	Method for analyzing SNPs of mitochondrial DNA using PNA probes and melting curve analysis A method is disclosed for analyzing single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) using a peptide nucleic acid (PNA) probe and a melting curve analysis, and more particularly, a method is disclosed for analyzing SNPs of mtDNA by the melting curve analysis of a PNA probe and mtDNA, in which the PNA probe is coupled with a reporter and a quencher. By using PNA probes labeled with a reporter and a quencher in the method for analyzing SNPs of mtDNA, the time and cost required for individual identification can be drastically decreased, initial analysis can be carried out in the event of a large number of inspections or mass casualties, and human identification information can be coded, and thus the method is very easy to manage and supervise.
US10337054B2	Enrichment of nucleic acid targets Methods and apparatus providing for the isolation of an unknown mutation from a sample comprising wild type nucleic acids and mutated nucleic acids through the application of time-varying driving fields and periodically varying mobility-altering fields to the sample within in an affinity matrix.
US10337052B2	Method for testing a mutant gene through real time polymerase chain reaction using inhibition of 5′-flap endonuclease activity The present invention relates to a method for detecting single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) using a feature that the 5′-flap endonuclease (FEN) activity of DNA polymerase is inhibited when a probe complementarily binds to the end of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) product. More specifically, the present invention relates to a novel method wherein it was verified that, when a probe used for a real-time PCR complementarily binds to the end site of a PCR product, the 5′-FEN activity of thermostable DNA polymerase to the probe is inhibited, and thus when such a feature is used to make a design such that an SNP site to be detected is located at the 5′-end site of the probe, the 5′-flap formation is induced according to the allele, thereby allowing effective SNP detection.
US10337045B2	Methods and means for the production of Ig-like molecules The invention provides means and methods for producing one or more Ig-like molecules in a single host cell. Novel CH3 mutations enabling the production of monospecific and/or bispecific Ig-like molecules of interest are also provided.
US10337043B2	Carbohydrate-enriched recombinant microorganisms The present disclosure relates to recombinant microorganisms engineered for enhanced production of a desired carbohydrate, as well as related biomass, and compositions which are useful, inter alia, as animal feed ingredients. The present disclosure also provides related methods.
US10337042B2	Method for producing galactooligosaccharides from lactose Methods are disclosed for the enzymatic preparation of galactooligosaccharide (GOS) from lactose using two different microbial lactase enzymes to maximize the extent of transgalactosylation during the digestion of lactose. Methods are also disclosed for avoiding the turbidity of a solution comprising GOS and lactose as it is adjusted for incubation with a yeast neutral lactase.
US10337036B2	Processes for starting up and operating deep tank anaerobic fermentation reactors for making oxygenated organic compound from carbon monoxide and hydrogen Processes for starting up and operating anaerobic, deep tank fermentation reactors including a process for anaerobic bioconversion of a gas substrate comprising carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide in a reactor by contact of the gas substrate with an aqueous menstruum containing microorganisms suitable for converting the gas substrate to an oxygenated organic compound in the reactor. The process further includes: blanketing the reactor above the aqueous menstruum to the essential exclusion of oxygen with a head space gas comprising at least one of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and a lower alkane; continuously supplying a feed gas comprising at least a portion of the gas substrate to the aqueous menstruum in the reactor; and injecting the gas substrate and a motive liquid into the reactor to form a dispersion of the motive liquid and microbubbles, the microbubbles having a diameter of less than about 500 microns.
US10337035B2	Method for preparing organic acid by fed-batch-feeding carbon source substrate and base The present invention provides a fed-batch culture method comprising a step of fed-batch-feeding a carbon source base and a base in such a manner that the pH level can be maintained at a level suitable for the growth of microorganisms for fermentation of a carbon source. The present invention also provides a method for preparing organic acids using the fed-batch culture method. The present invention fed-batch-feeds a neutralizing agent such as ammonium bicarbonate, ammonium carbonate or alkali metal-containing weak base, and a carbon source substrate in preparing organic acids by microorganism fermentation. Thus, a pH level suitable for the survival of microorganisms for carbon source fermentation can be maintained, and the speed of injecting the carbon source base which is the source material can be appropriately adjusted. The present invention may improve productivity, yield rate and concentration of organic acids and may automatically inject a base and a carbon source substrate according to a variation in the pH level, thus improving reliability and convenience of a fermentation process operation.
US10337034B2	Biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals This disclosure relates to compositions and methods for converting biomass to various chemical intermediates and final products including fuels. Aspects include the depolymerization of lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose to a wide slate of depolymerization compounds that can be subsequently metabolized by genetically modified bacterium, and converted to cis,cis-muconic acid. Other aspects include the use of monometallic catalysts for converting the cis,cis-muconic acid to commodity chemicals and fuels, for example adipic acid and/or nylon.
US10337033B2	Carbonyl reductase oligomers and their application in synthesis of chiral alcohols Disclosed are methods for the synthesis of chiral alcohols by Sortase A-mediated oxidoreductase oligomers, which relates to the field of biocatalysis. In the present disclosure, oxidoreductase oligomers were used as biocatalysts for chiral alcohol preparation. Compared to wild-type enzymes, the oxidoreductase oligomers significantly improved catalytic activity and thermal stability. The sortase A-mediated oxidoreductase oligomers had 6-8 folds improvement in specific activity over that of the wild-type enzymes. The oligomers displayed a Tm value 6-12° C. higher than that of the wild-type, suggesting the sortase A-mediated oxidoreductase oligomers significantly improved thermostability of the enzymes. The oxidoreductase oligomers catalyzed asymmetric transformation to produce (S)-1-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol or (R)-1-phenethyl alcohol within 3-6 hr, with an optical purity of 98%-100% and a yield of 98%-99%.
US10337024B2	Plants with enhanced photosynthesis and methods of manufacture thereof A transgenic plant having enhanced photosynthesis is disclosed. The transgenic plant is transformed with a transgenic polynucleotide encoding a heterologous bicarbonate transporter. The bicarbonate transporter can be from an algae or a cyanobacterial species. The transgenic polynucleotide comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding the bicarbonate transporter under the control of a functional plant promoter and optionally includes a chloroplast envelope targeting peptide heterologous to the bicarbonate transporter. Methods of making the transgenic plant and transgenic polynucleotide are disclosed.
US10337023B2	Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides, and methods of using same for increasing plant yield and/or agricultural characteristics Provided are isolated polypeptides which are at least 80% homologous to SEQ ID NOs: 710-1153 and 9276-15726, isolated polynucleotides which are at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NOs: 1-709 and 1157-9275, nucleic acid constructs comprising same, transgenic cells expressing same, transgenic plants expressing same and method of using same for increasing yield, abiotic stress tolerance, growth rate, biomass, vigor, oil content, photosynthetic capacity, seed yield, fiber yield, fiber quality, fiber length, and/or nitrogen use efficiency of a plant.
US10337013B2	Treatment of RNASE H1 related diseases by inhibition of natural antisense transcript to RNASE H1 The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the expression of and/or function of RNase H1, in particular, by targeting natural antisense polynucleotides of RNase H1. The invention also relates to the identification of these antisense oligonucleotides and their use in treating diseases and disorders associated with the expression of RNASE H1.
US10337011B2	Treatment of fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) related diseases by inhibition of natural antisense transcript to FGF21 The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the expression of and/or function of Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), in particular, by targeting natural antisense polynucleotides of Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21). The invention also relates to the identification of these antisense oligonucleotides and their use in treating diseases and disorders associated with the expression of FGF21.
US10337009B2	Single-stranded nucleic acid molecule for inhibiting TGF-β1 expression The invention provides a single-stranded nucleic acid molecule of (A) or (B) containing a TGF-β1 gene expression inhibitory sequence. The single-stranded nucleic acid molecule (A) consists of region (Xc), linker region (Lx) and region (X) from the 5′-side to the 3′-side, wherein linker region (Lx) has a non-nucleotide structure containing at least one of a pyrrolidine skeleton and a piperidine skeleton, and at least one of region (X) and region (Xc) contains the expression inhibitory sequence. The single-stranded nucleic acid molecule (B) contains region (Xc), linker region (Lx), region (X), region (Y), linker region (Ly) and region (Yc) from the 5′-side to the 3′-side, wherein region (X) and region (Y) are linked to form inner region (Z), region (Xc) is complementary to region (X), region (Yc) is complementary to region (Y), linker region (Lx) and linker region (Ly) each have a non-nucleotide structure containing at least one of a pyrrolidine skeleton and a piperidine skeleton, and inner region (Z) contains the expression inhibitory sequence.
US10337006B2	Chimeric double-stranded nucleic acid A method of reducing the level of a transcription product in a cell comprising contacting with the cell a composition comprising a double-stranded nucleic acid complex comprising a first nucleic acid strand annealed to a second nucleic acid strand, wherein: (i) the first nucleic acid strand hybridizes to the transcription product and comprises (a) a region consisting of at least 4 consecutive nucleotides that are recognized by RNase H when the strand is hybridized to the transcription product, (b) one or more nucleotide analogs located on 5′ terminal side of the region, (c) one or more nucleotide analogs located on 3′ terminal side of the region and (d) a total number of nucleotides and nucleotide analogs ranging from 8 to 35 nucleotides and (ii) the second nucleic acid strand comprises (a) nucleotides and optionally nucleotide analogs and (b) at least 4 consecutive RNA nucleotides.
US10337002B2	MicroRNAs for cardiac regeneration through induction of cardiac myocyte proliferation The present invention discloses a set of human microRNAs, or a primary transcript for such microRNAs, or a precursor of such microRNAs, or a mimic of such microRNAs or a combination thereof, and their use as medicaments for inducing proliferation of cardiomyocytes for the prevention and treatment of heart diseases associated with a loss of cardiomyocytes. The invention also relates to a method for screening microRNAs and biological and therapeutically active compounds for their ability to increase proliferation of cardiomyocytes.
US10336993B2	Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity, catalytic domains, cellulose binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains.
US10336981B2	Recombinantly engineered diazotrophs for whole cell hydrocarbon production and methods for making and using them In alternative embodiments, provided are genetically or recombinantly engineered nitrogen-fixing, nitrogenase expressing bacteria capable of enzymatically synthesizing hydrocarbons, and methods for making and using them. In alternative embodiments, provided are genetically or recombinantly engineered nitrogen-fixing, nitrogenase expressing bacteria including nitrogen-fixing diazotrophs such as nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the family Pseudomonadaceae, or the genus Azotobacter, for the whole cell synthesis of hydrocarbons and carbon-carbon bonds. In alternative embodiments, nitrogen-fixing, nitrogenase-expressing bacteria used to practice the invention are genetically or recombinantly engineered to express an exogenous nitrogenase express more endogenous nitrogenase or have increased nitrogenase, activity. In alternative embodiments, nitrogen-fixing, nitrogenase-expressing bacteria used to practice the invention are genetically or recombinantly engineered to lack or have decreased molybdenum transporter activity. In alternative embodiments, provided are culture systems, fermenters and bioreactors using nitrogen-fixing, nitrogenase-expressing bacteria for enzymatically synthesizing hydrocarbons.
US10336977B2	Bioreactor for cell co-culture A bioreactor for cell co-culture having at least first and second cell culture chambers which are separated by a porous membrane. The membrane has at least one sealing gasket integrated in the membrane and being integral therewith. The sealing gasket defines a closed perimeter delimiting a first cell culture area.
US10336975B2	Cell culture bag and cell culture method There is provided a cell culture bag including: plural tubular portions having gas permeability in which a tube axis direction is directed to a first direction and which are arranged side by side in a second direction intersecting with the first direction and are separated from each other using a partition wall; and communication portions having gas permeability which allow communication between two mutually adjacent tubular portions of the plural tubular portions in an intermediate region R between one end and the other end of the tubular portions.
US10336973B2	Articles comprising water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol film with plasticizer blend and related methods Disclosed herein are articles that include water-soluble films, where the water-soluble films include a polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) polymer and a combination of at least three plasticizers. The combination of plasticizers includes dipropylene glycol as a first plasticizer, a sugar alcohol such as sorbitol as a second plasticizer, and a polyol such as glycerin as a third plasticizer. When the PVOH polymer and plasticizers are blended in particular proportions and/or selected with regard to various criteria related to physical and chemical film properties, the resulting water-soluble film formed from the PVOH resin blend exhibits beneficial combinations of aged tensile strength, aged melting transition delta elevation, aged adhesion value, and/or resistance to seal peeling, which provide strong film seals that retain their water-solubility characteristics.
US10336970B2	Liquid detergent composition comprising an encapsulated enzyme Liquid detergent composition that includes encapsulated enzymes. Related uses and methods.
US10336966B2	Fragrance compositions and uses thereof The present invention relates to a composition having improved or enhanced fidelity and/or longevity of the fragrance profile, comprising fragrance materials in a diamond construction and at least one substantially non-odorous fragrance modulator. The invention also relates to methods of use of the compositions for perfuming suitable substrates, including hard surfaces and body parts, particularly skin and hair.
US10336965B2	Process for the extraction of lipids and sugars from algal biomass Process for the extraction of lipids and sugars from algal biomass, which comprises: —producing an aqueous suspension of algal biomass; —bringing the pH of said aqueous suspension of algal biomass to a value higher than or equal to 10, preferably ranging from 10.2 to 12, obtaining an aqueous suspension of algal biomass at basic pH; —adding at least one anionic flocculant to said aqueous suspension of algal biomass at basic pH obtaining a concentrated algal biomass; —recovering said concentrated algal biomass; —subjecting said concentrated algal biomass to extraction of the lipids obtaining: (i) an organic phase comprising lipids; (ii) a semi-solid phase comprising a residue of said algal biomass; —subjecting said semi-solid phase (ii) to hydrolysis obtaining sugars. The lipids thus obtained can be advantageously used in the production of biodiesel or green diesel which can be used as such, or in a mixture with other fuels for motor vehicles. The sugars thus obtained can be advantageously used as carbon sources in fermentation processes for the production of lipids and also for the production of alcohols (e.g., ethanol, butanol). Said alcohols can be advantageously used as biofuels for motor vehicles or as components that can be added to fuels for motor vehicles.
US10336956B2	Natural-gas purification apparatus A natural-gas purification apparatus includes: a compressor that adjusts the pressure of natural gas; a cooling unit that liquefies and separates a part of natural-gas liquid by cooling the natural gas after the pressure adjustment by the compressor; a heating unit that heats the natural gas after the separation of the part of the natural-gas liquid by the cooling unit; carbon-dioxide separation units that are arranged in series and separate carbon dioxide from the natural gas heated by the heating unit through carbon-dioxide separation membranes; and a thermostatic chamber that adjusts the temperature of at least the carbon-dioxide separation unit disposed at the most downstream side among the carbon-dioxide separation units.
US10336954B2	Compositions and methods for inhibiting fouling in hydrocarbons or petrochemicals Antifoulant compositions and methods are used for inhibiting fouling on structural parts of a system exposed to a fluid hydrocarbon or petrochemical stream. The antifoulant compositions may comprise at least one polyalkylene anhydride ester (“PAAE”) dispersant. Other antifoulant compositions may comprise an alkylphenol sulfide (“APS”).
US10336947B2	Process for conversion of a hydrocarbon feed The present invention relates to a process for conversion of a hydrocarbon feed comprising saturated hydrocarbon compounds to olefin products comprising contacting a hydrocarbon feed stream with a catalyst in an oxidic form of the formula M1M2M3M4O comprising metals M1, M2, M3 and M4, wherein: M1 is selected from Si, Al, Zr, and mixtures thereof; M2 is selected from Pt, Cr, and mixtures thereof; M3 is selected from W, Mo, Re, and mixtures thereof; and M4 is selected from Sn, K, Y, Yb and mixtures thereof; wherein: mass fraction of M1 is in the range of 0.1 to 0.8; mass fraction of M2 is in the range of 0.001 to 0.2; mass fraction of M3 is in the range of 0.001 to 0.2; mass fraction of M4 is in the range of 0.0001 to 0.2; and mass fraction of oxygen is in the range of 0.1 to 0.8.
US10336945B2	Process and apparatus for decoking a hydrocarbon steam cracking furnace A process for the decoking of a hydrocarbon steam cracking furnace having a firebox, radiant coils, a transfer line exchanger, and an oil quench connection wherein liquid quench oil is injected to directly cool the steam-cracked effluent. Decoking feed comprising steam and air is supplied to the furnace under conditions sufficient to at least partially combust coke accumulated on the interior of the radiant coils, the transfer line exchanger, and the quench connection. Quench steam is supplied and injected into the decoking process effluent in an amount sufficient to cool the decoking process effluent below the metallurgical temperature limit of downstream piping. Also, a pyrolysis furnace for the production of ethylene is also provided.
US10336943B2	Method for coke oven repair The ovens (F) are arranged side by side in a battery and are each delimited by two sidewalls (10) formed by side bricks (11) and joined by transverse bricks (12, 13). The method comprises: cutting each sidewall (10) to be repaired in accordance with a cutting plane (PC) defining a respective end flat face (14) in the middle portion of the wall (10a) to be maintained and coinciding with the face of a row of transverse bricks (12, 13) facing an adjacent end wall portion (10b) which is being removed; providing in each flat end face (14), a pair of cutouts (15), each having in a basic transverse face, a longitudinal middle channel (15c) in which a tongue (11c) of new bricks from a new end wall portion (10b) is fitted; fitting in each cutout (15) a corresponding portion of a vertical row of side bricks (11a, 11b) for the new end wall portion (10b) until the formation is complete.
US10336941B2	Impact-modified hydroxyapatite as flame retardant polymer fillers A process for forming an impact-modified flame retardant polymer fillers, as well as the impact-modified flame retardant polymer filler, are disclosed. A polymer filler is an additive that can be added to a polymer matrix. The polymer filler can be mixed or otherwise incorporated into a polymer to modify the properties of a polymer matrix to create the flame retardant material. The impact-modified flame retardant polymer fillers can include an impact-modified hydroxyapatite filler.
US10336937B2	Monolithic rare earth oxide aerogels Disclosed here is a method for making a monolithic rare earth oxide (REO) aerogel, comprising: preparing a reaction mixture comprising at least one rare earth metal nitrate, at least one epoxide, at least one base catalyst, and at least one organic solvent; curing the mixture to produce a wet gel; drying the wet gel to produce a dry gel; and thermally annealing the dry gel to produce the monolithic REO aerogel. Also disclosed is an REO aerogel comprising a network of REO nanostructures, wherein the REO aerogel is a monolith having at least one lateral dimension of at least 1 cm, wherein the REO aerogel has a density of about 40-500 mg/cm3 and/or a BET surface area of at least about 20 m2/g, and wherein the REO aerogel is substantially free of oxychloride.
US10336916B2	Thermally conductive flexible adhesive for aerospace applications Provided are methods of forming thermally conductive flexible bonds for use in electronic boards of unmanned spacecraft and other types of aircraft. Also provided are methods of preparing adhesive materials to form these bonds including methods of preparing treated filler particles. In some aspects, an adhesive material includes filler particles having organofunctional groups, such as boron nitride particles treated in silane. These particles may be combined with a urethane modified epoxy to form the adhesive material. The weight ratio of the particles in the adhesive material may be about 40-60%. The adhesive material may be thermally cured using a temperature of less than 110° C. to prevent damage to bonded electronic components. The cured adhesive may have a thermal conductivity of at least about 2 W/m K measured in vacuum and may have a glass transition temperature if less than −40° C.
US10336914B2	Hexahydrotriazine hybrid coatings for sulfur capture Methods and compositions related to chemically active hexahydrotriazine inorganic-organic hybrid coatings are described. The coatings have affinity for sulfur compounds, and thus may bind or capture sulfur containing contaminants and gases. The coatings have organosilicon containing functional groups and segments, and may also contain silica particles, which cumulatively enhances adhesion, abrasion resistance and further provides steric barriers to gaseous diffusion. The coatings have utility as protective barrier coatings in the field of electronics.
US10336912B2	Methods for producing and using aqueous polyurethane/polyacrylate hybrid dispersions and use of said aqueous polyurethane/polyacrylate hybrid dispersions in coating agents The present invention provides an aqueous polyurethane (PU)-polyacrylate hybrid dispersion obtainable by free radical polymerization of at least one acrylate polymer (A1) in the presence of at least one polyurethane (P1), a process for preparing these aqueous polyurethane-polyacrylate hybrid dispersions, wherein said process comprises a) preparing an aqueous polyurethane dispersion and b) using the polyurethane dispersion thus prepared as raw material for the further synthesis of a polyacrylate dispersion, and the use of the hybrid dispersion thus obtained as binder in filled coating materials, particularly as a binder for flexible roof coatings.
US10336910B2	Sacrificial coating for intermediate transfer member of an indirect printing apparatus An embodiment of the present disclosure is directed to a sacrificial coating composition for an image transfer member in an aqueous ink imaging system. The coating composition is made from ingredients including: a latex having polymer particles dispersed in a continuous liquid phase; at least one hygroscopic material; at least one oil-in-water emulsion; and at least one surfactant.
US10336908B2	Three-dimension forming support material, three-dimension forming support material cartridge, and three-dimension forming composition set A three-dimension forming support material for ink jet includes a warm water-soluble radiation curable compound that exhibits solubility in warm water of at least 40° C. to 90° C. after the compound is cured; and at least one polyglycerin compound selected from the group consisting of fatty acid esters of polyglycerin, ethylene oxide adducts of polyglycerin, and propylene oxide adducts of polyglycerin.
US10336904B2	Composition of a blend of polyamide and polyester resins A resin blend composition of a polyamide resin and a polyester resin is described, which includes a polyamide resin, a polyester resin and an epoxy resin. The resin blend composition can have improved compatibility between the polyamide resin and the thermoplastic polyester resin, and therefore mechanical properties (strength, bending strength, elasticity, abrasion resistance, impact strength), chemical properties (solvent resistance), thermal resistance, dimensional stability, and paintability.
US10336899B2	Polybutylene terephthalate resin composition A polybutylene terephthalate resin composition containing a polybutylene terephthalate resin, 10 to 20% by mass of glass fiber relative to a total mass of the composition, an ethylene/ethyl acrylate copolymer, and an epoxy compound having an epoxy equivalent weight of 600 to 1,500 g/equivalent, and having a comparative tracking index (CTI) of 600 V or higher, measured in accordance with the third edition of IEC 60112.
US10336898B2	Process for stabilizing phenolic resins containing calixarenes This invention relates to a process for stabilizing a phenolic resin containing a mixture of linear phenolic resins and calixarenes and a demulsifier composition comprising the stabilized phenolic resins prepared from the process. The process comprises contacting the phenolic resin with an alkylene carbonate, in the presence of a base catalyst, to at least partially alkoxylate the phenolic hydroxyl groups of the calixarenes. This process forms a stabilized phenolic resin with an increased solubility in a hydrocarbon solvent.

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