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| US10817985B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for performing artificial intelligence encoding and artificial intelligence decoding on image
An artificial intelligence (AI) decoding apparatus includes a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the stored one or more instructions, to obtain image data corresponding to a first image that is encoded, obtain a second image corresponding to the first image by decoding the obtained image data, determine whether to perform AI up-scaling of the obtained second image, based on the AI up-scaling of the obtained second image being determined to be performed, obtain a third image by performing the AI up-scaling of the obtained second image through an up-scaling deep neural network (DNN), and output the obtained third image, and based on the AI up-scaling of the obtained second image being determined to be not performed, output the obtained second image. |
| US10817982B2 |
Device and method for creating ultra-low resolution image
One pixel unit is composed of plural kinds of basic pieces having plural kinds or three or more kinds of gradations. Basic pieces of predetermined gradations corresponding to an outline or shade of the drawing image is placed at each pixel on the drawing surface to fill the pixels on the drawing surface with the basic pieces, thereby making a desired drawing image. A predetermined background pattern is formed in the drawing image by using the geometric pattern of the basic piece. |
| US10817973B2 |
Task assembly for SIMD processing
A cache system in a graphics processing system stores graphics data items for use in rendering primitives. It is determined whether graphics data items relating to primitives to be rendered are present in the cache, and if not then computation instances for generating the graphics data items are created. Computation instances are allocated to tasks using a task assembly unit which stores task entries for respective tasks. The task entries indicate which computation instances have been allocated to the respective tasks. The task entries are associated with characteristics of computation instances which can be allocated to the respective tasks. A computation instance to be executed is allocated to a task based on the characteristics of the computation instance. SIMD processing logic executes computation instances of a task outputted from the task assembly unit to thereby determine graphics data items, which can be used to render the primitives. |
| US10817972B2 |
Watermarked media content in IPTV or iTV networks
A method that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include embedding a watermark in media content for presentation at a rendering device using an editor to associate the watermark with one or more metadata pointers that point to additional media content according to an embedded link of the watermark to generate a group of one or more metadata pointers where the watermark includes an embedded link to additional media content used to modify the media content based on a content exchange between the rendering device and a computer. The method may further include storing the group of one or more metadata pointers, where a selection of the watermark invokes access to the altered media content containing the additional media content associated with the watermark, thereby producing the altered media content at the one or more user devices. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10817964B2 |
System and method for making patient records follow a physician
A computer-based system for providing physicians automatic, secure access to patient records at the time a patient visits and consults a physician. The system can include one or more computing devices configured to process and display data. The system can also include one or more emitting devices carried by physicians for identifying each particular physician and one or more scanning devices configured to detect and communicatively link to the one or more emitting devices based on the proximity of the physician to an examination room. Additionally, the system can include a manager module communicatively linked to the one or more scanning devices and configured to manage the signal data from the one or more scanning devices. Furthermore, the system can also include one or more servers communicatively linked with the one or more computing devices, one or more scanning devices, and manager module, the one or more servers configured to authenticate and register a particular patient upon a visit to a hospital or office, synchronize the particular physician identifier, patient identifier, personal wellness electronic record (PWER), and examination room identifier based upon physician's proximity to an examination room, initiate a physician-patient session at the at least one computing device at the examination room, transfer the PWER to the at least one computing device at the examination room, and automatically terminate the physician-patient session and receive the PWER based upon the physician leaving the proximity of the examination room. |
| US10817958B1 |
Robotic detection apparatus with artificial intelligence and machine learning
Various robotic detection apparatus with artificial intelligence and machine learning, and with a processor, a memory, a vendor identification engine, a compliance engine, and a reporting engine, are disclosed. The apparatus automatically updates its updating databases, thereby improving its results, and thereby learning and becoming more intelligent as time passes. The apparatus automatically analyses its data and detects non-compliance with various tax statutes by specific tax payors. The apparatus may receive tax information from one or more sources, combine all or some of the information into a single form, and apply various software processes to calculate a weighted average. The average is then compared to a threshold to determine whether a person or entity is in tax compliance. |
| US10817952B2 |
Remote sensor systems
The invention relates to systems and methods for analyzing data collected from sensors monitoring property. In particular, the systems and methods analyze the data to make property insurance underwriting decisions based on the collected sensor data using a computerized process that varies the way in which it manipulates the collected sensor data based on a characteristic of the property being insured, a characteristic of the entity seeking the insurance, and/or on the value of one or more collected data parameters. The invention also relates to systems and methods of making property insurance pricing decisions based on a similarly dynamic computerized process. |
| US10817950B1 |
Usage-based policies
Methods, computer-readable media, systems and apparatuses for determining and implementing usage-based insurance policies are presented. A first cost per day and second cost per day associated with the usage-based insurance policy may be determined and a cost for a first trip may be determined based on the cost per day and cost per mile. Driving data received during the first trip may be used to modify the cost per day and cost per mile to determine a second cost per day and/or cost per mile that may be used to determine a cost of subsequent driving trips. |
| US10817945B2 |
System and method for routing of streaming data as between multiple compute resources
Systems and methods are disclosed for routing of streaming data as between multiple compute resources. For example, the system may comprise a processor, a field programmable gate array (FPGA), a shared memory that is shared by a user space of an operating system for the processor and the FPGA, a network protocol stack, and driver code for execution by the processor. The driver code can be configured to (1) copy the streaming data received by the network protocol stack into the shared memory, (2) facilitate DMA transfers of the streaming data from the shared memory into the FPGA for processing thereby, (3) receive a stream of processed data from the FPGA, and (4) deliver the received processed data to the network protocol stack for delivery to one or more data consumers. |
| US10817939B2 |
Interprogram communication using messages related to groups of orders
A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US10817938B2 |
Systems and methods for routing trading orders
Systems and methods are provided for routing trading orders. The system determines that a first trading entity disclosed to the trading platform a reserve quantity of a first trading order received from the first entity. The system determines that a second trading entity did not disclose a reserve quantity of a second trading order received from the second trading entity. The system receives a third trading order. The system preferences the first trading entity over the second trading entity in the routing of trading orders, e.g., by routing the third trading order to the first trading entity. |
| US10817924B2 |
Method, medium, and system for ordering using a wearable device
A grocery ordering system is disclosed in which a customer can place an order for delivery in a single click or touch. The system can be configured to run on a device with limited screen size such as a watch or a small-screened handheld device. As the screen size of the device may be limited the order can be placed and the delivery time and day allocated in as few screens or menus as possible. A customer can place an order in a single step, as the customer's previous orders and delivery slots are used to allocate an order and delivery time based on a preferred list of goods to order and a likely acceptable delivery slot. The delivery slot is calculated to allow sufficient time for the customer to amend their order on a device with a larger screen size or improved processing power. |
| US10817908B1 |
System for providing a promotion at a point-of-sale terminal based upon an inaudible promotion signal and related methods
A system may include wireless broadcast receivers and a wireless broadcast station configured to broadcast a wireless signal causing each of the wireless broadcast receivers to generate an audible advertisement and an inaudible promotion signal associated therewith. The inaudible promotion signal may be for promotion subscribers. The system may also include a digital promotions network (DPN) device, and a mobile wireless communications device carried by a given subscriber and that may include a microphone, a wireless transceiver, and a processor cooperating with the microphone and the wireless transceiver to wirelessly send notification of the inaudible promotion signal to the DPN device based upon receiving the inaudible promotion signal from a proximate one the wireless broadcast receivers. The DPN device may provide, after receiving the notification of the inaudible promotion signal, the given subscriber with the promotion associated with the inaudible promotion signal at a point-of-sale (POS) terminal. |
| US10817905B2 |
Mobile creative management system
A user interface for generating an ad creative for displaying a video advertisement on a mobile includes a control section and a preview section. The operator enters control parameters in the control section and previews the look-and-feel of a video advertisement as it will be played back on a target mobile platform, based on the control parameters. Control parameters include one or more of URLs for video, a web site visited after completion of the video and a web site visited when a user requests additional information. |
| US10817904B2 |
Controlling content distribution
A computer-implemented method for controlling content distribution includes forwarding information associated with a user to a device operated by the user, the information being configured for use in selecting content from any of multiple content providers for a content distribution to the user. The method includes receiving, in response to the information, an edit of the information forwarded from the device. The edit identifies a first content provider and including a first modification of the content distribution regarding the first content provider. The method includes storing the edit in association with the information such that the first modification is taken into account in the content distribution. The method can be implemented using a computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer-readable storage medium. |
| US10817902B2 |
System and method for preference determination
A system and method for preference determination, including obtaining permission for profile access from social media users where the users agree to participate in surveys. Profile data, preferences, and data from completed surveys is retrieved, and base odds are calculated for particular variables in profiles of respondents and of people in the general population, and attributes for which predictive targeted sets are desired are returned. The profile data, preferences, and survey data is analyzed using a combined index calculation method to reduce the profile data, preferences, and data from surveys to a single index value for one or more particular keywords. The variables are placed in rank order based on the single index value to determine a likelihood of a particular user to prefer a particular item, and a predictive targeted set is returned for a likelihood of users in a particular set of users to prefer a particular item. |
| US10817892B2 |
Digital coupon offer redemption
A coupon clearinghouse server receives a request for a coupon offer from a client device. The server transmits only a first subset of coupon offer data for the coupon offer to the client device, and stores, in memory, a first code for a first merchant at which the coupon offer is redeemable. The code is not revealed to the client device. Subsequently, the server receives, from the client device, a second code that the client device has obtained at a point of sale system. The server determines if there is a match between the first code and the second code, and if so, transmits the second subset of coupon offer data including coupon offer redemption instructions to the client device. The client device presents the now complete coupon offer to the point of sale system to redeem the coupon offer. |
| US10817888B2 |
System and method for businesses to collect personality information from their customers
A web-page or customer interface, that enables a business to increase their customer satisfaction levels, etc. based on the business' improved capability to predict the wants and needs of their customers as a result of it using such an interface to assess the personalities of their customers, includes: (a) dichotomous, personality traits, (b) photographic images to which are assigned ranked dichotomous personality traits based on the psychological content of the respective photographic images, (c) an image viewer adapted to present to a customer these images so as to identify with which of these images the customer elects to be associated, (d) personality types into which a customer is categorized, and wherein each of these personality types is differentiated by the specific set of dichotomous, personality traits associated with it, and (e) an algorithm adapted to categorize one into a personality types. |
| US10817885B2 |
Dynamically adjusted automated item replenishment
A mechanism is described for determining an amount of item that remains in the possession of a consumer for an automatic item subscription system, as well as a subsequent replacement date for that item. The remaining item amount may be determined from a consumption rate that is calculated from a number of factors. In some embodiments, the consumption rate may be based on cluster data or data representing trends related to the underlying item. As the consumption rate for an item changes, the replacement date may be dynamically updated to reflect the change in the consumption rate. |
| US10817883B2 |
Creative quality validation
A computer-implemented method includes generating an emulated view of an advertisement; determining, based on the emulated view, one or more elements associated with the advertisement; comparing the one or more elements to one or more criteria associated with an advertisement marketplace; and determining, based on comparing, whether the advertisement complies with the one or more criteria. |
| US10817881B2 |
Using transaction data from first transaction for second transaction
A computer-implemented method for providing payment account information in a user account by receiving payment card information by a card reader at a point of sale. An account can be created when the payment card information is read by the card reader. Optionally, a gift card can be scanned prior to the creation of the account, and the gift card information can be combined with the payment card information. The gift card can be an electronic gift card which can be personalized with textual, visual, video, and/or audio portions. |
| US10817877B2 |
Selectively using degree confidence for image validation to authorize transactions
An embodiment of the invention provides a method for selectively using degree confidence for image validation to authorize transactions, wherein a request to authorize a transaction is received, the request including a user's name, a photo of the user, and a transaction value. A database is queried with the user's name to identify one or more reference photos of the user; and, the received photo of the user is compared to the reference photo of the user with an analysis engine to generate a confidence value. An authorization threshold is determined with a processor based on the transaction value. The transaction is authorized when the confidence value is equal to and/or greater than the authorization threshold. |
| US10817873B2 |
Auditing of electronic documents
Auditing of mortgage documents is faster and simpler. An electronic mortgage application often contains or references a collection of many separate electronic mortgage documents. Electronic data representing an original version of an electronic mortgage document and its current version may be hashed to generate digital signatures. Any auditor may then quickly compare the digital signatures. If the digital signatures match, then the audit reveals that the electronic mortgage document has not changed since its creation. However, if the digital signatures do not match, then the electronic mortgage document has changed since its creation. The auditor may thus flag the electronic mortgage document for additional auditing processes. |
| US10817871B2 |
Mobile device and control method thereof
A mobile device is provided. The mobile device includes a display unit, a sensor configured to sense user's touch done on a surface of the display unit in a disabled state of the display unit, a storage unit configured to store preset gesture information, a controller configured to enable the display unit when a user's touch operation matched with the gesture information is sensed, execute a wallet application, and display an execution screen, and a communication unit configured to transmit information for a selected payment option to an external apparatus when the payment option is selected on the execution screen and perform a payment. The payment is simply done. |
| US10817867B2 |
Method for carrying out a transaction between an apparatus and a mobile phone
Proposed is a method for carrying out a transaction between a mobile telephone (6) and a sales apparatus (45), the telephone (6) comprising a first memory (40) for storing an identifier (I), the identifier (I) being able to identify the mobile telephone (6) uniquely, the method comprising the following steps: a) reception of the identifier by radiofrequency communication via the sales apparatus (45), b) identification of the mobile telephone (6) by the sales apparatus (45) from the identifier received during the first sending step, and c) generation by the sales apparatus (45) of a proof of purchase comprising a signature computed by the sales apparatus (45) and able to authenticate the proof of purchase, the proof of purchase (PA) being a transportation title. |
| US10817865B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing a transaction
A system and method for performing a transaction can allow a user to perform a multi-step process on a single web page. The system can receive an initiate-application command from a user at an application server and, in response, initiate an application for facilitating a transaction. The system can present a parameter-request panel, including a set of parameter-request fields, to the user at a client. The system can receive transaction parameters from the user via the set of parameter-request fields. In response to receiving the transaction parameters, the system can present a transaction-options panel, including a set of transaction options associated with the transaction parameters, to the user without obscuring the parameter-request panel. The system can receive from the user a transaction-option selection associated with the set of transaction options and, in response, present a transaction-completion panel to the user without obscuring the parameter-request panel or the transaction-options panel. The transaction-completion panel can include a set of transaction-completion fields associated with the transaction-option selection. The system can receive from the user transaction-completion information via the transaction-completion fields and, in response, complete the transaction. |
| US10817859B1 |
Document handler system and method with timed operation
A document handler system and method includes timed operation functionality in which the manufacturer of the document handler may input coded information in the document handler to establish a timed operation of the document handler which may be contingent on continued payments for use of the document handler. Alternatively, or in addition, the timed operation may be used to establish an appropriate warranty period during which the manufacturer is obligated to provide repairs, modification and/or support for the document handler. |
| US10817855B2 |
Systems and methods for unified presentation and sharing of on-demand, live, social or market content
Various embodiments of the present disclosure include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to provide a respective customized portal and a respective unique user identifier for each of a plurality of respective celebrity users of a media system, the media system capable of providing media content, social content, and market content to a first set of users of the media system, each of the respective customized portals being at least partially controlled by the respective celebrity user. One or more content items presented through a first respective customized portal are identified. A purchase transaction request is received from a particular user of the first set of users for a first content item of the one or more content items presented through the first respective customized portal. The purchase transaction request is processed. The processing includes receiving an indication of a payment amount associated with the purchase transaction request, the payment amount being paid by the particular user or an entity associated with the particular user; identifying one or more respective celebrity users of the plurality of respective celebrity users associated with the purchase transaction request; determining, based on one or more compensation rules and the payment amount, a respective celebrity compensation amount for each of the one or more respective celebrity users associated with the purchase transaction request, each of the celebrity compensation amounts being determined at substantially the same time as the indication of the payment amount paid by the particular user is received; and providing, in response to the determining, each of the celebrity compensation amounts to the respective celebrity users based on the respective unique user identifiers of the respective celebrity users associated with the purchase transaction request. |
| US10817844B2 |
Method for sharing schedule and electronic device thereof
Various exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an operating method and an electronic device for sharing schedules between a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The method includes, detecting, at the first electronic device, a user input in a schedule sharing menu displayed on an email application screen. The method also includes, displaying, at the first electronic device, a schedule sharing input region according to the user input. The method further includes, receiving, at the first electronic device, schedule information input in the schedule sharing input region. The method also includes, storing, at the first electronic device, the schedule information in a schedule management application and a transfer protocol header. The method also includes, transmitting, at the first electronic device, an email including the transfer protocol header to the second electronic device. |
| US10817842B2 |
Systems and methods for providing a collective post
Methods, systems, and computer program code for producing a collective post are disclosed. A system for producing a collective post may include a processing device and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium in communication with the processing device. The non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium may include one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to receive at least one input from each of a plurality of users, direct a storage device to store data corresponding to the at least one input, receive an instruction from at least one of the plurality of users, and publish the collective post to the collaborative networking platform as a collective post entry. The at least one input may correspond to one or more interactions between each user and a collective desktop. The instruction may include a command to compile the data into the collective post. |
| US10817838B1 |
Method and system for analyzing and optimizing shipping of sheathing materials for a roof
The present invention is a computer method a computer method for calculating and arranging sheathing material for a roof of a building, comprising: analyzing a building model, wherein roof frame members are identified and isolated; processing a surface of the roof frame members; calculating an area of the surface; selectin, a sheathing material for the surface, wherein the sheathing material has a predetermined panel size; generating a graphical illustration on the model of the sheathing material panel layout; manipulating the sheathing material panels to substantially cover the area of the surface, wherein excess sheathing material panels are removed from the model; arranging the sheathing material based on an analyzed installation process; and formulating a bundle, wherein the bundle is comprised of the pieces of the sheathing material required to substantially cover the area of the surface of the roof. |
| US10817835B2 |
Tank sensor array for inventory signaling in a tank management system
A tank inventory signaling apparatus that has gas cylinder tanks stored in an array at a tank farm. The gas cylinder tanks are placed where weight sensors detect whether a tank of the array is substantially full or not, say greater than 75% full. The substantially full tanks form the tank inventory at a tank farm that is transmitted to a networked local server. The information is relayed to a remote server having tank management software that orders replacement gas cylinders. A threshold level can be set in the inventory for order generation for all non-substantially full tanks in the array with the order generated at the remote server when the inventory drops below the threshold at a local server. |
| US10817834B2 |
System with refrigerator and self-reporting container
A refrigerator is provided with a container for storing a substance and that has a sensing and reporting system configured to determine an attribute of the substance within the container. The sensing and reporting system includes a sensor configured to sense the attribute of the substance, a transmitter, and a processor in communication with the sensor and the transmitter. |
| US10817833B2 |
System and method for managing inventory based on RFID technology
Systems and methods for managing one or more inventories of RFID tagged articles for one or more compounds in which the tagged articles are stored in storage units therein. The system in each compound comprises a plurality of reader units each configured to be located inside or in proximity to a storage unit of the compound, wherein each reader unit comprises: at least one RF antenna for receiving signals data from the RFID tags of articles in the storage unit thereof; and a communication unit configured at least for transmitting the received data through at least one communication link; and a local management module adapted to receive data from the reader units. In certain embodiments, each local management module is configured for communicating with a central remote managing unit configured for managing inventories of a plurality of compounds. |
| US10817832B1 |
Automated replenishment system for personal medical kits
The MedicSMART system can be a replenishment system for personal medical kits. The personal medical kit can house an inventory of personal use medical supplies within a container that is in a location personally associated with a user. Each medical supply can have a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag affixed thereon. The payment artifact can be used for the user's electronic transactions. The MedicSMART system can be configured to automatically replenish the inventory of the personal medical kit using a client device, supply thresholds, supplier data, and a server. The client device can be installed within the container to collect data from the RFID tags. The supply thresholds can define minimum values for the medical supplies. The supplier data can define suppliers for purchasing the medical supplies. The server can be configured to automatically order medical supplies to maintain the personal medical kit in an acceptable state. |
| US10817827B1 |
Drive-thru system implementing location tracking
Embodiments are disclosed to determine customer's prescription information and their position while waiting in a drive-thru lane. The drive-thru lane may have one or more transmitters installed at predetermined locations. By utilizing an application installed on each customer's mobile computing device, each mobile computing device may transmit customer information and ranging data when within range of one or more of the transmitters. The ranging data may include an indication of a range between each of the customer's mobile computing device and one or more proximate transmitters. By correlating the customer information to prescription information from recently filled and/or called in prescriptions, each customer's prescription order may be retrieved. Furthermore, by analyzing the ranging data, the position of each customer in the drive-thru lane may be determined. A drive-thru computing device is disclosed that may display each customer's position in the drive-thru lane along with their prescription order information. |
| US10817825B2 |
Remote integration of cloud services and transportable perishable products active monitor
Status of a payload and a shipping container is tracked and monitored by a tracking module which receives at least one signal from one or more sensors; determines a rate of change over time for the signal(s) and sensor(s); compares, in real-time, memory-stored rate-of-change thresholds corresponding to a payload type to the determined rate(s) of change; and, responsive to the comparison indicating a current or impending violation of a payload handling condition, powers up a wireless communications interface, communicates a digital report to a remote computing system, and powers down the wireless communications interface upon completion of the communicating of the report, while continuing to monitor the sensor(s). |
| US10817821B2 |
Workflow control device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein workflow control program for controlling workflow regarding operation on electronic apparatus
A workflow control device includes a workflow management processing portion, a clumsiness detection processing portion, and a display processing portion. The workflow management processing portion manages a workflow for combining processes corresponding to specific operations on an electronic apparatus, in a specific order and performing execution instructions for the processes. The clumsiness detection processing portion detects clumsiness in an operation which has been performed by a user on the electronic apparatus and delayed from a threshold. The display processing portion causes an order of processes based on a workflow through which execution instructions for processes corresponding to operations of the user can be performed in order, to be displayed on a screen based on detection of the clumsiness. |
| US10817820B2 |
Facilitating provisioning in a mixed environment of locales
Aspects capable of dynamically and flexibly supporting a plurality of locales upon provisioning are provided. An associated management server includes a storage table configured to store a plurality of logical device operations, a plurality of locales, and a plurality of workflows, wherein each resource server among all resource servers connected to the management server is associated with a different one of the plurality of locales. The management server further includes a provisioning circuit configured to dynamically determine, for a required logical device operation, a resource server among all of the resource servers connected to the management server by way of provisioning. The management server further includes a calling circuit configured to search the storage table using a locale among the plurality of locales that is associated with the dynamically determined resource server to select a workflow from the plurality of workflows for the required logical device operation. |
| US10817813B2 |
Resource configuration and management system
A method of operating a resource configuration and project management system involves identifying, for a project, sandboxed task data and task parameters including project skill sets and project tools. The method configures a first selector with project skill sets to select at least one developer from a developer pool. The method configures a second selector with project tools to select at least one container including at least one set of programming functions from a container library. The method assigns at least one developer to a working task queue generated from the task parameters. The method configures the at least one container to operate as a sandboxed environment. The method authorizes the at least one developer to access the at least one container and the sandboxed task data within the sandboxed environment. The method monitors developer resources and computing resources during execution of the project by the selected at least one. |
| US10817812B2 |
System and methods for identifying fields and tasks
Described herein are a system and methods for identifying fields and tasks (e.g., agricultural fields and tasks). In one embodiment, system includes a display device to display a representation of one or more agricultural fields with geo-referenced boundaries and to receive one or more inputs for identifying at least one agricultural field with agricultural field identification information. A processing system is communicatively coupled to the display device. The processing system is configured to automatically transmit raw data including measurement data and location component data to the display device in response to a machine or an implement starting and to automatically identify location component data of the raw data. The processing system is further configured to automatically assign raw data to at least one agricultural field. |
| US10817809B2 |
Systems and methods for customizable route optimization
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to providing, via a client instance hosted by an enterprise management data-center, an optimized travel route, including task assignment and scheduling, based at least on user configured criteria. Particularly, the client instance may execute an algorithm, trained via machine learning, to determine the optimized travel route in view of the user configured criteria. |
| US10817802B2 |
Apparatus for hardware accelerated machine learning
An architecture and associated techniques of an apparatus for hardware accelerated machine learning are disclosed. The architecture features multiple memory banks storing tensor data. The tensor data may be concurrently fetched by a number of execution units working in parallel. Each operational unit supports an instruction set specific to certain primitive operations for machine learning. An instruction decoder is employed to decode a machine learning instruction and reveal one or more of the primitive operations to be performed by the execution units, as well as the memory addresses of the operands of the primitive operations as stored in the memory banks. The primitive operations, upon performed or executed by the execution units, may generate some output that can be saved into the memory banks. The fetching of the operands and the saving of the output may involve permutation and duplication of the data elements involved. |
| US10817799B2 |
Data-driven models for improving products
Techniques for improving products based on data-driven models are provided. In one example, a system comprises a receiving component that receives product data representing information about a set of products, wherein a first product of the set of products comprises a first combination of a first set of ingredients, and wherein the product data comprises product composition data representing a composition of the first product. The system further comprises a learning component that generates product space data representing a product space that characterizes the set of products and respective degrees of similarity between members of the set of products, wherein a degree of similarity between the first product and a second product of the set of products is determined based on product distance data representing a determined distance metric resulting from a comparison of the first set of ingredients to a second set of ingredients combined to produce the second product. |
| US10817797B1 |
Pairwise ansatz for quantum process tomography
A method for characterizing an N-qubit process, for N an integer greater than 1. In some embodiments, the method includes performing a plurality of characterization measurements of the N-qubit process to form a plurality of process maps, and fitting the plurality of process maps with a composition of K-qubit processes, K being an integer greater than 1 and less than N. |
| US10817788B2 |
Machine learning classification with confidence thresholds
A machine learning classifier may classify observations into one or more of i categories, and may be configured to: receive test data that includes j observations, each associated with a respective ground truth category, and produce output that provides, for each particular observation of the j observations, a set of i probabilities, one probability for each of the i categories. For each particular confidence threshold in k confidence thresholds, a computing device may: reclassify, into a null category, any of the j observations for which all of the set of i probabilities are less than the particular confidence threshold, and determine a respective precision value and a respective coverage value for a particular category of the i categories. A specific confidence threshold in the k confidence thresholds may be selected, and further observations may be reclassified into the null category in accordance with the specific confidence threshold. |
| US10817787B1 |
Methods for building an intelligent computing device based on linguistic analysis
Methods for building an intelligent computing device for interacting with users through voice or text conversations. The device uses linguistic analysis methods to detect hidden intentions in a user input, and produces machine responses that address the user's needs. The linguistic analysis includes syntactic and semantic and contextual analysis, and identifies source entities and target entities in the user expression together with a likelihood value that the source entity may have an intention to do something. The system further detects what the user actually needs and then produces machine responses that can perform tasks for the user. |
| US10817772B2 |
Identity determination apparatus and identity determination system
An identity determination apparatus includes a first storage unit that stores registration apparatus information used in a case where reference data obtained by imaging a portion of a surface of an object to be determined is registered, material information regarding the object which is a target for identity determination, collation apparatus information used in a case where collation data is acquired, and collation reference information used in collation in association with each other, a second storage unit that stores the registration apparatus information and the material information in association with reference data acquired in advance, a reception unit that receives collation data acquired from the object to be determined in a case where a determination process is performed, the material information, and the collation apparatus information, and a determination unit that reads out the collation reference information corresponding to the material information and the collation apparatus information which are received by the reception unit and the registration apparatus information to be specified by the collation apparatus information from the first storage unit, reads out the reference data corresponding to the registration apparatus information to be specified by the collation apparatus information, and the material information from the second storage unit, and collates the collation data received by the reception unit and the reference data read out from the second storage unit with each other using the read-out collation reference information to determine identity of the object to be determined. |
| US10817758B2 |
Framework for integrating deformable modeling with 3D deep neural network segmentation
Methods for image segmentation and smoothing of image segmentations are provided. In various embodiments, a plurality of training images is provided to a segmentation network. A candidate segmentation is obtained from the segmentation network for each of the plurality of training images. Each candidate segmentation is compared to a ground truth segmentation to compute a loss metric for each candidate segmentation. Based on the gradient of the loss, the segmentation network is trained to minimize level set smoothing energy. In various embodiments, an input image is downsampled from a first resolution to a second, lower resolution. The downsampled image is provided to a segmentation network. A segmentation at the second resolution is obtained from the segmentation network. The segmentation from the second resolution is upsampled to the first resolution. The input image and the upsampled segmentation are provided at the first resolution to a convolutional network. An updated segmentation at the first resolution is obtained therefrom. |
| US10817747B2 |
Homography through satellite image matching
Provided is a method and system that includes an imaging device to be disposed in a lighting fixture to capture images, a remote computing device in communication with the imaging device, and comprising at least one processor. The processor is capable of processing data related to images from the at least one imaging device and from a satellite imagery system, performing comparison operation by detecting a first set of points of interest in an image from the at least one imaging device and corresponding second set of points of interest in an image of a same area from the satellite imagery system, and calculating a homography matrix by matching the first set of points of interests in the image from the at least one imaging device and the second set of points of interest in the image from the satellite imagery system, to determine latitude and longitude coordinates of the image from the imaging device. |
| US10817743B2 |
User-designed machine-readable target codes
In a template design application, a user creates a template for a machine-readable image target that supports encoded data and augmented reality homography. The design application enforces design constraints that ensure reliable detection of the target by a detection application while supporting creative freedom in designing the template. The design constraints can include specification of a detection contour outlining a transition between a perimeter of a border shape and an adjacent area of a contrasting color. Data to be encoded is applied to the template to create printable image instances of the target. The template is also loaded into a detection application, which scans and recognizes printed instances of the target and decodes the encoded data. The detection application uses the decoded data to create a synthesized image target matching the scanned target and which is used to execute further tracking of the target within a moving field of view. |
| US10817742B2 |
Product information generation system, product information generation program, and product information generation method
Provided is a product information generation system and the like capable of performing comprehensive determination using information on access to a plurality of pieces of media data from media data representing a product and generating product information. A product information generation system including a storage unit that stores access information used for access to product media data representing a product from a plurality of terminal devices in association with the product media data, a communication unit that receives the product media data transmitted from one terminal device, a feature extraction unit that extracts a feature of the received product media data, a similar media acquisition unit that acquires similar product media data of which a degree of similarity to the received product media data is equal to or higher than a predetermined degree of similarity and the access information associated with the similar product media data from the storage unit on the basis of the extracted feature, and an information generation unit that merges a plurality of pieces of access information of the acquired similar product media data to generate product information indicating the product of the received product media data. |
| US10817740B2 |
Instance segmentation inferred from machine learning model output
Techniques for using instance segmentation with machine learning (ML) models are discussed herein. An image can be provided as input to a ML model, which can generate, as an output from the ML model, a feature map comprising a plurality of features. Each feature of the plurality of features can comprise a confidence score, classification information, and a region of interest (ROI) determined in accordance with a non-maximal suppression (NMS) technique. Individual ROIs that are similar can be associated together for segmentation purposes. That is, instead of requiring a second ML model and/or a second operation to segment the image (e.g., identify which pixels correspond with the detected object, for example, by outputting a mask or set of lines and/or curves), the techniques discussed herein substantially simultaneously detect an object (e.g., determine an ROI) and segment the image. |
| US10817733B2 |
Blind spot implementation in neural networks
Techniques for implementing blind spots into neural network models are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises obtaining an image captured within a field of view of an image capture device and comprising an object of a particular type occupying a particular position within the field of view, and determining a confidence value for the object based on the particular position of the object using a neural network model. The confidence value represents a likelihood that the object is an object of interest, and the neural network model is trained to generate lower confidence values for objects of the particular type when the objects of the particular type are occupying the particular position than when the objects of the particular type are not occupying the particular position. |
| US10817716B2 |
Coarse-to-fine hand detection method using deep neural network
Embodiments provide a process to identify one or more areas containing a hand or hands of one or more subjects in an image. The detection process can start with coarsely locating one or more segments in the image that contain portions of the hand(s) of the subject(s) in the image using a coarse CNN. The detection process can then combine these segments to obtain the one or more areas capturing the hand(s) of the subject(s) in the image. The combined area(s) can then be fed to a grid-based deep neural network finely detect area(s) in the image that contain only the hand(s) of the subject(s) captured. |
| US10817714B2 |
Method and apparatus for predicting walking behaviors, data processing apparatus, and electronic device
A method for predicting walking behaviors includes: encoding walking behavior information of at least one target object in a target scene within a historical time period M to obtain a first offset matrix for representing the walking behavior information of the at least one target object within the historical time period M; inputting the first offset matrix into a neural network, and outputting by the neural network a second offset matrix for representing walking behavior information of the at least one target object within a future time period M′; and decoding the second offset matrix to obtain the walking behavior prediction information of the at least one target object within the future time period M′. |
| US10817711B2 |
Determining a need for a workspace graphical notation to increase user engagement
Approaches presented herein enable enhancing user engagement during a video conference. A user introduces (e.g., creates) a graphical notation during the video conference. If a correlation exists betwen the graphical notation and the video conference, then the graphical notation can be dynamically shared with any particpants found to be disinterested or confused as a motivation to understand a concept or to act as a catalyst for additional graphical notations. |
| US10817708B2 |
Facial tracking method and apparatus, and storage medium
A facial tracking method is provided. The method includes: obtaining, from a video stream, an image that currently needs to be processed as a current image frame; and obtaining coordinates of facial key points in a previous image frame and a confidence level corresponding to the previous image frame. The method also includes calculating coordinates of facial key points in the current image frame according to the coordinates of the facial key points in the previous image frame when the confidence level is higher than a preset threshold; and performing multi-face recognition on the current image frame according to the coordinates of the facial key points in the current image frame. The method also includes calculating a confidence level of the coordinates of the facial key points in the current image frame, and returning to process a next frame until recognition on all image frames is completed. |
| US10817707B2 |
Attack sample generating method and apparatus, device and storage medium
The present disclosure provides an attack sample generating method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises: training a generative network which is used to generate an attack picture with a real person's picture; upon completion of training, using the generative network to generate an attack picture, and regarding the generated attack picture as the attack sample. The solution of the present disclosure can be applied to overcome the problem of insufficiency of the attack samples. |
| US10817702B2 |
Method, terminal, and computer-readable storage medium for processing fingerprint
Methods and devices are provided for processing fingerprint. The method may include: acquiring currently input first fingerprint information by a fingerprint detection component when a verification trigger event corresponding to a preset action is detected; adding the first fingerprint information to a fingerprint template library as an unmatched type of fingerprint template when there is no fingerprint template whose matching degree with the first fingerprint information is greater than a first preset threshold in the fingerprint template library and there is a fingerprint template whose matching degree with the first fingerprint information is greater than a second preset threshold in fingerprint template library, wherein the fingerprint template library comprises at least two types of fingerprint templates; and performing the preset action when there is a fingerprint template whose matching degree with the first fingerprint information is greater than the first preset threshold in the fingerprint template library. |
| US10817690B2 |
Industrial digital barcode scanner
A barcode scanner assembly for capturing at least one object appearing in a field of view (FOV) is provided that includes a base defining a curved base surface and a scanner enclosure being mechanically coupled to the base. The scanner enclosure includes a top portion and a bottom portion opposite the top portion. The bottom portion of the scanner enclosure is positioned proximate to the base. The bottom portion of the scanner enclosure includes a curved scanner enclosure surface. The curved base surface and the curved scanner enclosure surface are nested such that a clearance of less than approximately 5 mm is formed between the curved base surface and the curved scanner enclosure surface. |
| US10817687B2 |
Illumination assemblies for use in barcode readers and devices and methods associated therewith
At least some embodiments of the present invention are directed toward optical arrangements for use in providing illumination light emitted by a barcode reader. In some embodiments, the arrangement includes an illumination source, a lens positioned within the path of the illumination light emitted by the illumination source where the lens is operable to collimate the light and redirect its central axis, and a window positioned within the path of the redirected and collimated light where the window is operable to alter the illumination light such that the resulting illumination light beam has a height-to-width ratio of less than 8 to 25. |
| US10817681B2 |
Method and apparatus for improving radio frequency identification coverage
A method and apparatus are disclosed for improving RFID coverage using an antenna array having an adaptive antenna beam. The apparatus includes an RFID reader including an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. Subsets of the plurality of antenna elements are selectively activating in order to direct an antenna beam to communicate with at least one RFID tag. The method includes transmitting an interrogation signal from an antenna array by activating one or more subsets of a plurality of antenna elements forming the antenna array. In this way, the interrogation signal is directed thereby improving antenna coverage. |
| US10817674B2 |
Multifunction simultaneous interpretation device
A multifunction simultaneous interpretation device includes an audio input and recognition module for receiving input speech of a first language, recognizing same, and converting the input speech of the first language into input speech signals of the first language; an interpretation module electrically connected to the audio input and recognition module and configured to receive the input speech signals of the first language, interpret and convert same into speech signals of a second language different from the first language, and make the speech signals of the second language as output; an output module electrically connected to the interpretation module and configured to receive the speech signals of the second language from the interpretation module and output a voice representing the speech signals of the second language; and a wireless transceiver electrically connected to the interpretation module and configured for wireless signal transmission to a mobile phone. |
| US10817673B2 |
Translating languages
A method, performed on a server, of translating between languages includes receiving first audio data for a first language from a mobile device, translating the first audio data to second audio data for a second language, receiving an indication that the mobile device has moved between two locations, and sending the second audio data to the mobile device in response to the indication. |
| US10817672B2 |
Natural language understanding (NLU) processing based on user-specified interests
Methods and apparatus for natural language understanding (NLU) processing based on user-specified interests. Information specifying a weight for each of a plurality of domains is received via a user interface. The plurality of domains each relates to a potential area of interest for the user, and the weight for a domain from among the plurality of domains indicates a level of interest for the user in the domain. A ranking classifier used to rank NLU hypotheses generated by an NLU engine is trained using training data from which features are, at least in part, based on the information specifying a weight for each of the plurality of domains. |
| US10817670B2 |
Enabling chatbots by validating argumentation
Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention validate argumentation in text. In an example, an application forms a communicative discourse tree from a subset of text by matching each fragment of the subset that has a verb to a verb signature. The application identifies that the subset includes an argument by applying a classification model trained to detect argumentation to the communicative discourse tree. The application further creates a logic system based on a claim of the argument, a domain definition clause associated with a domain of the text, a set of defeasible rules based on the communicative discourse tree, and a set of facts from one or more of the communicative actions of the communicative discourse tree. The application evaluates a consistency of the argument with respect to itself and with respect to the domain definition clauses by solving the logic system, thereby validating a claim associated with the argument. |
| US10817661B2 |
System architecture framework
Methods for operating a system architecture framework are provided. Methods may include receiving a spreadsheet file. Methods may include creating a plurality of message files at a message generator. Each message file may correspond to a single row of data included in the spreadsheet file. Methods may include transmitting the plurality of message files to a UNIX-based server. Methods may include handshaking using a shell script located on the UNIX-based server, between the server and the message generator. Methods may include transmitting an instruction to the message generator to initiate message transmission from the message generator to the server. The instruction may be triggered in response to the shell script determining that the message generator has completed message generation. Methods may include performing a validation test on each of the message files. The validation test may compare each message file to the corresponding row in the spreadsheet file. |
| US10817655B2 |
Systems and methods for annotating and linking electronic documents
Computer implemented systems and methods are disclosed for annotating and linking electronic documents. In accordance with some embodiments, annotations assigned to source electronic documents are received and snippets are generated from the received annotations. The generated snippets are aggregated into clusters, which are used to generate an electronic document. Links between the snippets and their respective source documents may be generated and embedded in the generated electronic document. |
| US10817650B2 |
Natural language processing using context specific word vectors
A system is provided for natural language processing. In some embodiments, the system includes an encoder for generating context-specific word vectors for at least one input sequence of words. The encoder is pre-trained using training data for performing a first natural language processing task. A neural network performs a second natural language processing task on the at least one input sequence of words using the context-specific word vectors. The first natural language process task is different from the second natural language processing task and the neural network is separately trained from the encoder. In some embodiments, the first natural processing task can be machine translation, and the second natural processing task can be one of sentiment analysis, question classification, entailment classification, and question answering. |
| US10817649B2 |
Unicode conversion with minimal downtime
Prior to performing a Unicode conversion of a productive system and during an uptime processing stage of the productive system, files in the productive system are mapped to a cluster file system. Prior to the Unicode conversion and during an uptime processing stage of the productive system, a clone system of the productive system is generated using the cluster file system. Prior to the Unicode conversion and during an uptime processing stage of the productive system, the clone system is tested. During a downtime processing stage of the productive system, the Unicode conversion is performed. The clone system is activated, including making the clone system the productive system. |
| US10817641B1 |
Method and system to implement topology integrity throughout routing implementations
Described is an improved approach to implement routing for electrical designs. A structural routing solution is provided, where an automatic routing mechanism is implemented to generate a complete routing tree. The approach captures users' design intent about the topology, and the routing system adhere to that topology intent throughout the layout process. |
| US10817640B2 |
Integrated circuit including different types of cells, and method and system of designing the same
A method of generating an integrated circuit design includes receiving input data defining input cells of the integrated circuit design, selecting first standard cells from a first standard cell library to represent the input cells having a first characteristic, selecting second standard cells from a second standard cell library to represent the input cells having a second characteristic different from the first characteristic, and generating output data representing the integrated circuit design by performing placement and routing on the selected first standard cells and the selected second standard cells. The first standard cell library includes a first type of standard cells manufactured using a first diffusion break scheme. The second standard cell library includes a second type of standard cells manufactured using a second diffusion break scheme. Each of the second type of standard cells has a same function as a respective one of the first type of standard cells. |
| US10817623B2 |
Virus immune computer system and method
A method and apparatus prevents hacker code from infecting an application program by requiring decryption of the application program prior to running the application program on a computer. The method includes steps of: providing a storage device that is a separate unit from components necessary to operate the computer; storing a symmetric private key on the storage device; using the symmetric private key to produce an encrypted application program upon first installation; thereafter decrypting that part of the encrypted application program needed implement a command to run the application program; precluding the computer from running any part of the application program that has not been first encrypted with the symmetric private key; and, decrypting, on the fly, only those follow-on parts of the encrypted application program needed to perform functions called for during operation of the application program. |
| US10817614B2 |
Automatic detection of relatedness in pools of encrypted data
A pool of files are analyzed for relationships between the files. At least some of the files in the pool are encrypted files. The relationships are represented by distances between the files plotted on a graph in two or more dimensions. A point on the graph representing a particular file. The graph includes an interactive interface, such that points or clusters of points can be selected for re-analyzing and re-plotting on a refreshed graph for just those selected points or clusters. |
| US10817613B2 |
Access and management of entity-augmented content
Access and management of a user's content may be facilitated by, in response to receiving a request for content related to a specified entity from the repository associated with at least the user's account, identifying, in a content of a file in the repository, an entity container of at least one entity container associated with the specified entity; and communicating the entity container that is associated with the specific entity to a source of the request. |
| US10817609B2 |
Secure reconfiguration of hardware device operating features
A secure reconfigurable operating mode system includes a hardware device having multiple operating modes and an operating mode selector that is coupled to the hardware device. The operating mode selector has a virtual fusing register that selects an operating mode for the hardware device and a security processor that enables a secure virtual fusing based on documented security files authorizing selection of the operating mode. A method of secure hardware device operating mode reconfiguration is also provided. |
| US10817607B1 |
Securing a network device from malicious executable code embedded in a computer document
Protecting a network device from malicious executable code embedded in a computer document. In one embodiment, a method may include detecting executable code embedded in a computer document stored on a network device. The method may also include detecting a potential hoax object in the computer document. The method may further include determining that the potential hoax object is a hoax object by determining that the potential hoax object includes a message enticing a user to enable execution of the executable code. The method may also include, in response to determining that the potential hoax object is a hoax object, concluding that the executable code is malicious and performing a security action on the network device that secures the network device from the malicious executable code. |
| US10817582B2 |
Systems and methods for providing concomitant augmentation via learning interstitials for books using a publishing platform
A system, method, and electronic device for providing concomitant augmentation via learning interstitials for publications includes activating a scan mode, where the scan mode causes a camera to capture image data; determining the presence of a publication captured in the image data; and analyzing the image data to determine the presence of an augmented reality (AR) identifier. In response to identifying the presence of the AR identifier within the publication captured in the image data, the image data and an AR link that corresponds to the AR identifier is displayed as an AR overlay to the image data of the publication. In response to failing to identify the AR identifier within the publication, a user is prompted to input a page number of the publication; and the AR link that corresponds to the page number of the publication input by the user is displayed in a list view. |
| US10817578B2 |
Method and system for providing context based adaptive response to user interactions
Disclosed herein is method and system for providing context based adaptive response to user interactions. A primary context of the user interactions is determined based on intents and associated named entities extracted from the user interactions. Further, secondary context of the user interactions is determined by detecting enquiry intent in user responses for queries provided for the primary context of the user interactions. Information related to primary and the secondary contexts are stored as Key Context Information (KCI) and is dynamically updated during the user interactions. Finally, context based adaptive responses are generated based on the updated KCI upon determining non-enquiry intent in subsequent user responses. The method of present disclosure maintains track of the user interactions and automatically detects changes in the context of the user interactions. Thereafter, the method provides adaptive responses corresponding to each context of the user interactions, thereby improving overall user experience. |
| US10817572B2 |
Systems and methods for providing access to objects and searchable attributes of objects in a collaboration place
In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods provide a client-server infrastructure capable of supporting a variety of asynchronous and synchronous collaboration activities in a so-called collaboration place. Some of these activities include chatting, viewing and/or editing one or more data files, and sharing one or more applications, data files, and/or displays. The client-server infrastructure supports seamless navigation between the supported asynchronous and synchronous activities in the collaboration place. Additionally, the client-server architecture supports data persistence, so that data files associated with the collaboration place can be stored for subsequent access. |
| US10817570B2 |
Hybrid connectivity for reporting application
A system includes reception of a first user instruction to access a dataset stored in a data source, retrieval of metadata of the dataset from the data source in response to the first user instruction, the metadata defining a plurality of dimensions and measures associated with the dataset, reception of a second user instruction to associate a first one of the plurality of dimensions and measures with a first visualization, determination of a first one or more dimensions or measures associated with the first one of the plurality of dimensions and measures, retrieval, from the data source, of data of the dataset associated with the determined first one or more dimensions or measures and the first one of the plurality of dimensions and measures, updating of the first visualization based on the retrieved data, and display the updated first visualization on a display. |
| US10817567B2 |
Techniques for information graph compression
Techniques and apparatus for providing graph compression structures for graph information are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory, at least one processing circuitry, and logic, coupled to the at least one processing circuitry, to access graph information comprising a plurality of nodes, define a unique index for each of the plurality of nodes, determine whether each of the plurality of nodes has at least one neighbor node, and generate a graph compression structure comprising an entry for each of the plurality of nodes having at least one neighbor node and an adjacency list comprising an array of neighbor nodes of each entry. |
| US10817564B1 |
Content creator feed generation
An online system maintains a plurality of content items for presentation to users in one or more feeds of content items, the users including a plurality of content creators providing content items for presentation. The online system identifies a first set of content items provided by a content creator. The online system identifies a viewing set of users who viewed one or more content items in the first set of content items. The online system identifies a second set of content items provided by other content creators and viewed by the viewing set of users. The online system ranks the second set of content items and generates a feed of content items for the content creator including the ranked content items. The online system provides the generated feed for presentation. |
| US10817550B2 |
Technique for tracking keyword performance
The systems, devices, and techniques described herein are directed to tracking keyword performance associated with search engine optimization. For example, the systems, devices, and techniques described herein can include determining a list of keywords relevant to a website and determining a ranking of the website in search results responsive to individual keywords of the list of keywords. A selection rate associated with search rankings can be determined, as well as a query volume of keywords over time. A keyword ranking index (KRI) can be determined based on the list of keywords, rankings of keywords, selection rates associated with rankings, and expected query volumes. In some instances, the KRI may represent a weighted sum of expected query volume divided by a maximum expected volume associated with the keyword list. Thus, the KRI provides an improved determination of keyword performance with respect to search engines and keyword rankings associated with a website. |
| US10817545B2 |
Cognitive decision system for security and log analysis using associative memory mapping in graph database
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a system to create and employ associative memory maps for analysis of security file and/or logs are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, from an external application, a request for a recommended action; extracting information regarding the entities and relationships between the entities from a data source; constructing an associative memory map from the extracted information; selecting a subgraph from the associative memory map based on a result of employing a vector to search nodes in the associative memory map; identifying the nodes most relevant to the requested recommend action base on a shortest paths of traversal in the selected subgraph of nodes; determining the requested recommended action based on an event identified in the relationships between the identified most relevant nodes; and transmitting the recommended action to the external application. |
| US10817539B2 |
Identification of a trigger-type leader in a social network
Techniques for identification of a trigger-type leader in a social network are described. According to various embodiments, a specific content item posted by a particular actor of a plurality of actors and interactions by other actors of the plurality of actors with the specific content item are identified. A leadership score associated with the particular actor is then calculated, the leadership score indicating a propensity of the particular actor to stimulate discussion among actors of the online social network service. The particular actor is then classified as an information trigger among the plurality of actors of the online social network service, based on the calculated leadership score. |
| US10817538B2 |
Data analysis engine
A system and method of analyzing data receives a user-specified selection of a data source, a user-specified selection of a type of data representation, and a user-specified description of a view to be constructed in accordance with the user-specified selection of the type of data representation. An application program interface (API) function generates a multidimensional query based on the user-specified type of data representation and the user-specified description of the view to be constructed, and submits the multidimensional query to the an On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) server. The application program interface (API) function receives a multidimensional response from the OLAP server containing results acquired by the multidimensional query of the data source, and generates the view based on the results contained in the multidimensional response and in accordance with the user-specified selection of the type of data representation and the user-specified description of the view. |
| US10817531B2 |
Targeted multi-dimension data extraction for real-time analysis
Methods and systems for extracting targeted data for real-time reporting are discussed. In an example, a system can include a data store, a server, and a denormalized database. The data store can maintain data created by an application. The server can be communicatively coupled to the data store. The server can include a data extraction module and a data compression module. The data extraction module can extract a subset of the data stored in the data store according to an extraction scheme. The data compression module can compress the extracted subset of the data into a set of aggregated key value pairs. The denormalized database can store the aggregated key value pairs. |
| US10817525B2 |
Method for displaying customized compilation media items on an electronic display device
A computer implemented method for displaying a customized compilation media item comprising a compilation of multiple images and textual content on an electronic display device screen. A compilation media item creator program stored in an electronic database employing at least first and second templates arranged in accordance with a media application script for display of first and second composite images in a specified sequence is accessed by a user. Saved customized compilation media items are included as individual media item along with other individual media items in a saved player program on an electronic database, and the electronic display device screen is driven with a media player to display media items on the electronic device display screen. Customized compilation media items further may be selected and combined into groups or channels of such compilation media items. |
| US10817504B2 |
Constraint satisfaction software tool for database tables
Techniques and solutions are provided for analyzing constraints. A disclosed embodiment provides for determining whether a table contains a valid tuple, and if so, the minimum index of the first valid tuple. Determining whether the table contains a valid tuple can provide an early indication of whether a set of constraints is violated or entailed, for positive and negative constraints, respectively. Determining the minimum index of the first valid tuple can expedite subsequent constraint analysis. Further disclosed embodiments provide for removal of duplicate and wildcard values from a set of constraints, which can facilitate negative constraint analysis. An indication can be provided, such as through a user interface, of whether a set of constraints is violated or entailed. Software can restrict selection of values that may result in constraint violation based on the provided indication. |
| US10817495B2 |
Systems and methods for performing data processing operations using variable level parallelism
Techniques for determining processing layouts to nodes of a dataflow graph. The techniques include: obtaining information specifying a dataflow graph, the dataflow graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the plurality nodes, the plurality of edges representing flows of data among nodes in the plurality of nodes, the plurality of nodes comprising: a first set of one or more nodes; and a second set of one or more nodes disjoint from the first set of nodes; obtaining a first set of one or more processing layouts for the first set of nodes; and determining a processing layout for each node in the second set of nodes based on the first set of processing layouts and one or more layout determination rules, the one or more layout determination rules including at least one rule for selecting among processing layouts having different degrees of parallelism. |
| US10817493B2 |
Data interpolation
Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for data interpolation. A system for data interpolation can include first circuitry to split a set of data into four disjoint subsets including first, second, third, and fourth subsets and load each of the disjoints subsets into respective first, second, third, and fourth memory portions, second circuitry to retrieve, simultaneously, data from each of the first, second, third, and fourth memory portions, and interpolation circuitry to perform, based on the retrieved data, data interpolation. |
| US10817489B2 |
Content class for object storage indexing system
In some examples, a plurality of content properties may be used for managing indexing of object data, such as a plurality of files. Each content property may include an expression for extracting data values from specific data fields in the object data. Further, each content property may include a name that may be used for indexing the objects using the extracted data values. For instance, multiple content properties may have the same name, but may each have different expressions for extracting different data values from different data fields. Accordingly, the content properties may be used to extract desired data values from the objects for indexing. When a search query is received including a content property name and a specified value, one or more of the objects that are indexed with the specified value may be searched. |
| US10817468B2 |
Document management
Techniques relate to managing a document throughout its lifecycle according to configurable metadata associated with the document. A processor may receive the document in association with an operation and may determine suitable metadata, which may be configurable, to associate with the document. After the operation is closed, the processor may suitably handle the document based on the metadata. Handling the document may include moving the document to an associated profile and/or purging the document. Further, with the configurable metadata, the processor may control the document with increased granularity. |
| US10817467B2 |
Parallel materialisation of a set of logical rules on a logical database
A computer-implemented method of providing a materialisation of a set of logical rules on a logical database comprising a set of logical facts. Each of a plurality of parallel processing threads performs the following steps. A logical fact that has not previously been received by any thread is received by the thread. By applying any of the logical rules to the received logical fact and/or any of the logical facts received by any thread prior to the received logical fact, the thread determines whether a new logical fact is implied, and if so the new logical fact is added to the set of logical facts. The thread then repeats the above steps on any further logical facts in the set of logical facts that have not previously been received by any thread. When all threads are waiting for a new logical fact, the method has completed. |
| US10817464B1 |
Extracting quotes from customer reviews of collections of items
Technologies are described herein for extracting comments from customer reviews for a media item or a collection of media items in order to provide salient comments to promote the media item or the collection of media items. Comments contained in the customer reviews are associated with topics and individual comments are assigned to one or more of the topics. Sentiment indicators corresponding to the comments indicate a majority sentiment that is associated with the topics. Using the majority sentiment, quotes are extracted from the comments to be displayed with an offer to sell at the media item or the collection of media items. |
| US10817457B2 |
Self identification and pollution detection in USB Type-C
A paddle board includes an electronic marker circuit configured to indicate at least one capability of a cable assembly to a device coupled to the cable assembly and to select the device as one of a source or a sink, the paddle board being powered by the device, a register configured to store at least one variable value associated with at least one of the cable assembly and the paddle board, and a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of the paddle board and configured to store a value indicating the sensed temperature in the register. |
| US10817455B1 |
Peripheral I/O device with assignable I/O and coherent domains
Examples herein describe a peripheral I/O device with a hybrid gateway that permits the device to have both I/O and coherent domains. That is, the I/O device can benefit from a traditional I/O model where the I/O device driver manages some of the compute resources in the I/O device as well as the benefits of adding other compute resources in the I/O device to the same coherent domain used by the hardware in the host computing system. As result, the compute resources in the coherent domain of the peripheral I/O device can communicate with the host in a similar manner as, e.g., CPU-to-CPU communication in the host. At the same time, the compute resources in the I/O domain can benefit from the advantages of the traditional I/O device model which provides efficiencies when doing large memory transfers between the host and the I/O device (e.g., DMA). |
| US10817447B2 |
Input/output translation lookaside buffer (IOTLB) quality of service (QoS)
Embodiments of the present disclosure may be related to an electronic device that includes a root complex; and a processor coupled with the root complex. The root complex may identify a first direct memory access (DMA) transaction and a second DMA transaction respectively related to a first task and a second task of a device communicatively coupled with the root complex through an input/output (I/O) fabric. The root complex may further cache a first memory translation related to the first DMA transaction in a first micro translation lookaside buffer (uTLB) of the root complex. The root complex may further cache a second memory translation related to the second DMA transaction in a second uTLB of the root complex. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US10817444B2 |
Sending data from an arrangement of processor modules
A system comprising an arrangement of multiple processor modules, and an external interconnect for communicating data in the form of packets to outside the arrangement. The interconnect comprises an exchange block configured to provide flow control. One of the processor modules is arranged to send an exchange request message to the exchange block on behalf of others with data to send outside the arrangement. The exchange block sends an exchange-on message to a first of these processor modules, to cause the first module to start sending packets via the interconnect. Then, once this processor module has sent its last data packet, the exchange block sends an exchange-off message to this processor module to cause it to stop sending packets, and sends another exchange-on message to the next processor module with data to send, and so forth. |
| US10817441B2 |
Shared accelerator memory systems and methods
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods sharing memory circuitry between processor memory circuitry and accelerator memory circuitry in each of a plurality of peer-to-peer connected accelerator units. Each of the accelerator units includes virtual-to-physical address translation circuitry and migration circuitry. The virtual-to-physical address translation circuitry in each accelerator unit includes pages for each of at least some of the plurality of accelerator units. The migration circuitry causes the transfer of data between the processor memory circuitry and the accelerator memory circuitry in each of the plurality of accelerator circuits. The migration circuitry migrates and evicts data to/from accelerator memory circuitry based on statistical information associated with accesses to at least one of: processor memory circuitry or accelerator memory circuitry in one or more peer accelerator circuits. Thus, the processor memory circuitry and accelerator memory circuitry may be dynamically allocated to advantageously minimize system latency attributable to data access operations. |
| US10817439B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting a message
The present application discloses a method and an apparatus for transmitting a message. The method of an embodiment comprises: dividing a shared memory area allocated by an operating system into a plurality of memory blocks for storing messages having different priorities; dividing each memory block in the plurality of memory blocks into at least one memory unit having a successive serial number; determining, from the plurality of memory blocks according to a priority of a to-be-transmitted message, a target memory block for storing the to-be-transmitted message; and writing the to-be-transmitted message into a memory unit of the target memory block. This embodiment implements message transmission based on priorities of the messages, and improves the control security of an intelligent control system. |
| US10817438B2 |
Safety arrangement
The present invention relates to a security arrangement comprising a data processing unit for serial transmission of data for controlling outputs and for querying inputs of a process and a corresponding method; further comprising at least one parallel-to-serial converter comprising a shift register for converting data to query the inputs; at least one serial-to-parallel converter comprising a shift register for converting data to control the outputs; wherein the data to be transmitted includes diagnostic bits that are output from the serial-to-parallel converter and read back from the parallel-to-serial converter; and the read-back data is checked for errors by the data processing unit to ensure a secure data transmission. |
| US10817435B1 |
Queue-based wear leveling of memory components
A method for wear leveling memory elements in a memory component of a memory subsystem is described. The method includes a memory subsystem receiving a write request that includes user data and a logical address, removing a next physical address from a next address queue, which stores physical addresses that are designated to be used for fulfilling write requests, and writing the user data to the next physical address in the memory component. Further, the memory subsystem locates, in a logical-to-physical table, an entry associated with the logical address of the write request and includes an old physical address that is mapped to the logical address of the write request. The memory subsystem adds the old physical address to a disposal address queue, wherein the disposal address queue stores physical addresses that are not designated to be used for fulfilling write requests. |
| US10817434B2 |
Interruptible translation entry invalidation in a multithreaded data processing system
A processor core among the plurality of processor cores initiates invalidation of translation entries buffered in the plurality of processor cores by executing a translation invalidation instruction in an initiating hardware thread. The processor core also executes, in the initiating hardware thread, a synchronization instruction following the translation invalidation instruction in program order that determines completion of invalidation, at all of the plurality of processor cores, of the translation entries specified by the translation invalidation instruction and draining of any memory referent instructions whose target addresses have been translated by reference to the translation entries. A register is updated to a state based on a result of the determination. The processor core branches execution to re-execute the synchronization instruction based on the state of the register indicating that the translation entries are not invalidated at all of the plurality of processor cores. |
| US10817408B2 |
Generating test cases
Systems and techniques are described for generating test cases. In one example, a manual test of code is performed. The manual test uses proxy code to detect at least one input to the code and a data transfer between the code and other code. The data transfer includes an input to the other code and an output from the other code. A file is generated that includes the at least one input to the code, the input to the other code, the output from the other code, and data that specifies that the manual test of the code resulted in an expected output. A mock test automates the manual test of the code based at least in part on the file. |
| US10817407B2 |
PoC platform which compares startup S/W products including evaluating their machine learning models
A proof-of-concept (PoC) method comprising: on a networked platform, serving a population of enterprise end-users and a population of ISV end-users, on which PoCs are run, providing a PoC-defining user interface via which at least one enterprise end-user generates a definition of at least one PoC; and using a processor to automatically assess whether an individual machine learning model embodied in a body of code of an individual software product registered for an individual PoC, is suitable for the individual PoC as defined by the definition. |
| US10817405B2 |
Storage device and debugging system thereof
A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory, a controller configured to control writing of data to the nonvolatile memory and reading of data from the nonvolatile memory in response to a request from a host, and a power module configured to receive power from the host. The controller is configured to transmit debugging data to the host through a channel connected to the host. The controller may be configured to transmit the debugging data to the host via at least one power line that is configurable for provision of power to the storage device. |
| US10817402B2 |
Method and system for automated building of specialized operating systems and virtual machine images based on reinforcement learning
Methods and systems for building an optimized image for an application are provided. An operating system is decomposed into granular modules. An initial configuration file to a build system is provided. The build system builds an initial image including initial modules for the application based on the initial configuration file. A monitoring system monitors performance indicators for the initial image. Using a machine learning algorithm, a subsequent configuration file based on the performance indicators is derived. The build system, builds a subsequent image for the application. |
| US10817393B2 |
Manager election for erasure coding groups
To ensure that there is an elected manager among storage nodes of an erasure coding group (“ECG”), an ECG manager (“ECGM”) election process is periodically performed among available storage nodes that are configured with the software to perform the services of an ECGM. When a storage node is activated, an ECGM process of the storage node begins executing and is assigned a process identifier (“PID”). A storage node can utilize a service query framework to identify other available storage nodes and retrieve their ECGM PIDs. The storage node then selects a PID according to a criterion and elects the storage node corresponding to the selected PID to be the acting ECGM. This process is performed periodically, so even if the acting ECGM storage node fails, a new ECGM is eventually selected from the available storage nodes. |
| US10817389B2 |
Failure-atomic persistent memory logging using binary translation
A module for rewriting application code as a failure-atomic transaction is disclosed. An application delineates a code fragment that is to become a failure-atomic transaction by writing a tx_begin( ) and tx_end( ) functions into its code. A module detects the tx_begin( ) and tx_end( ) functions and rewrites the code fragment as a failure-atomic transaction. The rewritten code is then available to be executed by the application. The rewritten code stores values and locations of stores to persistent memory locations so that the transaction can be either undone or redone in the case of an application error or a power failure. If the transaction is an undo type of transaction, the application can be rolled back to a state prior to the failure. If the transaction is a redo type of transaction, the application can be advanced to a correct state after the error. |
| US10817384B2 |
Data management system with console module
A data management system that is enabled such that the user can select a data source node, a repository and a data path, choose policies for each and distribute the policies to be managed by the management system. |
| US10817374B2 |
Meta chunks
Data protection with meta chunks increases capacity use efficiency without verification and data copying. In one aspect, a meta chunk is a data protection unit, which combines two or more source chunks that are determined to have a reduced sets of data fragments. The meta chunk can be encoded to generate a set of coding fragments, which can be stored and utilized to recover data fragments of any of the two or more source chunks. Further, the source chunks can be linked to the meta chunk. Furthermore, the sets of coding fragments, that were previously generated by individually encoding each source chunk, can be deleted. |
| US10817363B2 |
Health characteristics of a memory device
An example apparatus includes a first memory and a second memory coupled to the first memory. A controller may be coupled to the first memory and the second memory. The controller may be configured to cause the apparatus to be initialized by executing instructions on the first memory device. Initializing the apparatus may include operating the apparatus according to a set of semantics different than a set of semantics used by the second memory device. The controller may be configured to cause a determination regarding at least one health characteristic of the second memory to be made subsequent to the apparatus being initialized. |
| US10817362B1 |
Automatic contextualization for in-situ data issue reporting, presentation and resolution
Structured metadata is automatically captured regarding issues reported by a user when the user interacts with application software for presentation, analysis, or management of structured data. The reported issues correspond to structured data that is displayed by the application software. During user interaction with the application software, a user interface display screen is presented that includes one or more fields for reporting an issue with respect to structured data that is presently being displayed by the application software. Structured metadata is then automatically captured related to the reported issue. The structured metadata includes at least a location within the structured data for the reported issue. Records are stored of each reported issue in a database. Each record includes the reported issue, and the automatically captured structured metadata related to the reported issue. |
| US10817355B2 |
Method and apparatus for communication between webpage and operating system
Provided is an apparatus for communication between a webpage and an operating system. The apparatus includes memory storing a first software for an operating system and a second software for a web browser. The apparatus also includes processing circuitry that executes the first software to provide the operating system including a clipboard and executes the second software to cause the web browser to access a web page. Further, a software (the first software or the second software) executed by the processing circuitry detects a message that is buffered in a clipboard provided by the operating system, and determines whether the message is in a preset format that is indicative of the software executed by the processing circuitry being a destination of the message. The software executed by the processing circuitry then processes the message when the message is in the preset format. |
| US10817346B1 |
Secure service isolation between instances of cloud products using a SaaS model
The disclosed technology teaches initializing an application instance using a SaaS model in a project implemented on a cloud-based computing service, including running a configuration engine that links a service provider for SaaS application to set configuration parameters for the project and initializing the project in which an application instance will be built, then removing the authorization of the configuration engine to access the project and removing access to set the parameters. The technology also includes running a SaaS application infrastructure builder autonomously, without the service provider having access to the builder, to build the instance, and then delivering the application as a SaaS service. The method further includes running a SaaS maintenance service, under sovereign control of a customer organization, to pull from the service provider and install in the project, maintenance updates for the instance, without exposing data secured by the customer organization to the service provider. |
| US10817342B1 |
Multi-tier resource and load orchestration
Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for process-performing resources and process specifications particularized to loads are provided. A provisional electronic composite for a load may be created. A type of process-performing resource may be identified. Performance data may be accessed to identify a process-performance duration that corresponds to a process type, the type of process-performing resource, process-performance locations, and process-performance times. A process-assignment duration may be defined, and an availability of a process-performing resource may be detected. A performance time may be determined based on the availability of the process-performing resource. Instruction to perform the process at the performance time may transmitted to at least one resource-controlling device. The provisional electronic composite for the load may be modified based on the performance time and the instruction to form an updated electronic composite. |
| US10817340B2 |
Availability factor (AFactor) based automation system
An approach to improving system availability. Availability data for individual resources may be obtained from configuration templates and stored in an Availability Graph. The graph is traversed to calculate availability statistics at a grouped component and at an overall architecture level and grouping components level. Revisions may be made to enhance overall availability levels, and the revised Availability Graph can also be exported as an implementable configuration file. As a result, this solution provides a structured way to detect and resolve availability bottlenecks. |
| US10817337B1 |
Cloud-based access to quantum computing resources
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for cloud-based access to quantum computing resources are disclosed. A classical computing instance is launched based at least in part on a request. The computing instance is launched by a control plane of a provider network. A quantum computing resource is accessible to the computing instance and is selected based at least in part on input from a user associated with the request. The quantum computing resource is implemented in the provider network and comprises a plurality of quantum bits. A quantum algorithm is run on the quantum computing resource. |
| US10817331B2 |
Execution of auxiliary functions in an on-demand network code execution system
Systems and methods are described for providing auxiliary functions in an on-demand code execution system in a manner that enables efficient execution of code. A user may generate a task on the system by submitting code. The system may determine the auxiliary functions that the submitted code may require when executed on the system, and may provide these auxiliary functions by provisioning sidecar virtual machine instances that work in conjunction with the virtual machine instance executing the submitted code. The sidecars may provide auxiliary functions on a per-task, per-user, or per-request basis, and the lifecycles of the sidecars may be determined based on the lifecycles of the virtual machine instances that execute submitted code. Auxiliary functions may thus be provided only when needed, and may be provided securely by preventing a user from accessing the sidecars of other users. |
| US10817326B2 |
Hypervisor-independent block-level live browse for access to backed up virtual machine (VM) data and hypervisor-free file-level recovery (block-level pseudo-mount)
Hypervisor-independent block-level live browse is used for directly accessing backed up virtual machine (VM) data. Hypervisor-free file-level recovery (block-level pseudo-mount) from backed up VMs also is disclosed. Backed up virtual machine (“VM”) data can be browsed without needing or using a hypervisor. Individual backed up VM files can be requested and restored to anywhere without a hypervisor and without the need to restore the rest of the backed up virtual disk. Hypervisor-agnostic VM backups can be browsed and recovered without a hypervisor and from anywhere, and individual backed up VM files can be restored to anywhere, e.g., to a different VM platform, to a non-VM environment, without restoring an entire virtual disk, and without a recovery data agent at the destination. |
| US10817322B2 |
Virtual machine management apparatus and virtual machine management method
A virtual machine management apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to, perform, for each of applications executed in virtual machines, a determination of a tendency of a time when a load associated with execution of each of applications is low, select a certain virtual machine from the virtual machines based on the tendency of the time, and perform an assignment of a first application to the certain virtual machine. |
| US10817310B2 |
Executing graph-based program specifications
A graph-based program specification includes components corresponding to tasks and directed links between ports of the components, including: a first type of link configuration defined by respective output and input ports of linked components, and a second type of link configuration defined by respective output and input ports of linked components. A compiler recognizes different types of link configurations and provides in a target program specification occurrences of a target primitive for executing a function for each occurrence of a data element flowing over a link of the second type. A computing node initiates execution of the target program specification, and determines at runtime, for components associated with the occurrences of the target primitive, an order in which instances of tasks corresponding to the components are to be invoked, and/or a computing node on which instances of tasks corresponding to the components are to be executed. |
| US10817306B2 |
Boot loader for active cable assemblies
According to one embodiment, an active cable assembly may include a cable end, a data receiver, a controller characteristic circuit, and a controller. The data receiver, operable to receive a DC-balanced data signal, can be electrically coupled to a conductive input data line of the cable end. The controller characteristic circuit can be electrically coupled to the conductive input data line. The controller can be communicatively coupled to the data receiver. The controller may include a configurable communication port electrically coupled to the controller characteristic circuit, and memory for storing a boot loader. The controller can execute the boot loader to set the configurable communication port as an output for controller data signals and as an input for the controller data signals. |
| US10817302B2 |
Processor support for bypassing vector source operands
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a high bandwidth, low power vector register file for use by a parallel processor are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes at least a parallel processing unit with a plurality of processing pipeline. The parallel processing unit includes a vector arithmetic logic unit and a high bandwidth, low power, vector register file. The vector register file includes multi-bank high density random-access memories (RAMs) to satisfy register bandwidth requirements. The parallel processing unit also includes an instruction request queue and an instruction operand buffer to provide enough local bandwidth for VALU instructions and vector I/O instructions. Also, the parallel processing unit is configured to leverage the RAM's output flops as a last level cache to reduce duplicate operand requests between multiple instructions. The parallel processing unit includes a vector destination cache to provide additional R/W bandwidth for the vector register file. |
| US10817300B2 |
Managing commit order for an external instruction relative to two unissued queued instructions
In a pipeline configured for out-of-order issuing, handling translation of virtual addresses to physical addresses includes: storing translations in a translation lookaside buffer (TLB), and updating at least one entry in the TLB based at least in part on an external instruction received from outside a first processor core. Managing external instructions includes: updating issue status information for each of multiple instructions stored in an instruction queue, processing the issue status information in response to receiving a first external instruction to identify at least two instructions in the instruction queue, including a first queued instruction and a second queued instruction. An instruction for performing an operation associated with the first external instruction is inserted into a stage of the pipeline so that the operation associated with the first external instruction is committed before the first queued instruction is committed and after the second queued instruction is committed. |
| US10817299B2 |
Handling multiple control flow instructions
A data processing apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of control flow execution circuits to simultaneously execute a first control flow instruction having a first type and a second control flow instruction having a second type from a plurality of instructions. A control flow prediction update circuit updates at most one of: a prediction of the first control flow instruction based on a result of the first control flow instruction, and a prediction of the second control flow instruction based on a result of the second control flow instruction. |
| US10817294B2 |
High-performance block coordinate based on L1 regularized random binning
A block coordinate descent method, system, and computer program product for partitioning a global feature matrix into blocks, each node of the nodes of the blocks having a block size of a number of the blocks over a number of the nodes, selecting, at each node, a subset of the blocks from the blocks, and in one of the nodes, launching a thread to simultaneously update a closed-form solution by minimizing a single coordinate in one of the blocks. |
| US10817288B2 |
Combined instruction for addition and checking of terminals
A processor core comprising in its set of instructions, a combined addition and bound-checking instruction (ADDCK) defining an integer n implicitly, or explicitly as a parameter of the instruction; an adder having a width p strictly greater than n bits; and a processing circuit (MUX, 42) designed to respond to the combined instruction by activating an overflow signal (BX) when the adder generates a carry of rank n during the addition of operands of width p. |
| US10817287B2 |
Code quality evaluation and user interfaces
A processor may generate a UI. The processor may instantiate a plurality of collectors. Each collector may be configured to collect data in real time from a separate one of a plurality of data sources. Each data source may include a different type of data relating to at least one of a plurality of software delivery pipeline tasks. The processor may separately and continuously collect data from each of the plurality of data sources using the plurality of collectors. The processor may separately and continuously analyze the stored data from each of the plurality of data sources to generate a plurality of code quality metrics for the plurality of software delivery pipeline tasks. The processor may continuously report the plurality of code quality metrics through the UI. |
| US10817282B2 |
Application configuration file generation method and apparatus, application page display method and apparatus and storage medium
An application configuration file generation method and apparatus, an application page display method and apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring a source code file of an application page, where the source code file of the page comprises a plurality of variable declarations and access mode description information corresponding to at least part of the variable declarations. The method further includes compiling the acquired source code file to obtain an application configuration file, where the configuration file comprises a code file for describing the application page, the code file comprises an access mode description statement, and the access mode description statement is configured to describe a corresponding relationship between variable data and an access mode in a corresponding page. |
| US10817276B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for machine type communication (MTC)/internet of things (IoT) device software updating
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for machine type communications/Internet of things (MTC/IoT) device updating are described. One method for machine type communications (MTC) device software updating includes receiving, by a control plane network node including at least one processor and via non-Internet protocol data delivery (NIDD) or non-access stratum (NAS) messaging, hardware and software version information regarding an MTC device. The method includes identifying, by the control plane network node, that a software update is available for the MTC device. The method further includes, in response determining that a software update is available for the MTC device, transmitting, by the control plane network node and via NIDD or NAS messaging, the software update to the MTC device. The method further includes receiving, at the control plane network node and via NIDD or NAS messaging, status information regarding delivery of the software update to the MTC device or installation of the software update by the MTC device. |
| US10817275B2 |
Automated internet of things based software patching
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a first processing platform configured to communicate over a network with at least one additional processing platform. The first processing platform further comprises a plurality of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors configured to detect application of software patches to a monitored system, and at least one IoT gateway coupled to the IoT sensors. The IoT gateway is configured to transmit over the network to the additional processing platform information characterizing one or more software patches previously applied to the monitored system, and to receive over the network from the additional processing platform information characterizing one or more additional software patches to be applied to the monitored system. The first processing platform is configured to apply the one or more additional software patches to the monitored system. The information characterizing the one or more additional software patches to be applied to the monitored system is automatically determined at least in part by an analytics engine. |
| US10817270B2 |
AI-generated instant micro apps
An example system and method facilitate automatically generating a software application (e.g., a micro app) to facilitate performing a task, such as collecting information. In one embodiment, the method includes recording plural incidents filed by customers seeking assistance; detecting the filing of a new incident by a customer; using an Artificial Intelligence algorithm to process the incident, based on the plural incidents, to automatically determine additional information, and to determine one or more User Interface (UI) features for facilitating retrieving the additional information from the customer; generating a description of a UI that incorporates the one or more UI features; producing a mechanism (e.g., micro app) for providing access to the one or more UI features to the customer; receiving information from the customer, as entered via the one or more UI features; and storing the information in a database, such that the information is accessible to one or more software applications of the service technician. |
| US10817268B2 |
Framework for modeling with domain model capabilities
Methods, systems, and computing systems are provided for providing a visual representation of a domain model. An example method includes providing a class corresponding to a first stencil. The class is annotated to include a definition, a property, and a rule. A visual representation of the first stencil is provided in a graphical user interface, where the annotated definition and the annotated property modify the visual representation that is displayed. When the visual representation is moved, by a user, in relation to a second stencil, a determination is made, based on the location of the moved first stencil and the second stencil, that the first stencil violates the rule. The visual representation of the moved first stencil is modified to indicate the violation of the rule. |
| US10817260B1 |
Reducing dynamic power consumption in arrays
Systems and methods are provided to skip multiplication operations with zeros in processing elements of the systolic array to reduce dynamic power consumption. A value of zero can be detected on an input data element entering each row of the array and respective zero indicators may be generated. These respective zero indicators may be passed to all the processing elements in the respective rows. The multiplication operation with the zero value can be skipped in each processing element based on the zero indicators, thus reducing dynamic power consumption. |
| US10817259B2 |
System and method for causing actions in a dataset management system
Systems and methods for causing actions in a dataset management system are provided. For example, a change to data maintained by the dataset management system may be detected, and a rule associated with the data and with an action may be obtained. Further, it may be determined if the change is a trigger according to the rule. In some examples, when the change is determined to be a trigger according to the rule, the action associated with the rule may be performed, for example with the data associated with the change. In some examples, when the change is determined not to be a trigger according to the rule, the system may forgo the performance of the action, for example for the data associated with the change. |
| US10817257B2 |
Data flow control for multi-chip select
A system, method and computer readable medium for operating a First In, First Out (FIFO) buffer that transfers data between a host and a plurality of endpoints using chip select is disclosed. The method includes receiving a current value of a read pointer and a status for an active endpoint and reading data at a location to which the read pointer points and setting a tag associated with the location to which the read pointer points to indicate availability. |
| US10817254B2 |
Volume limit
An example playback device includes programming to perform functions including storing an active volume state variable in memory, where the active volume state variable corresponds to a current playback volume. The functions also include storing a volume limit state variable in memory, where the volume limit state variable corresponds to a playback volume limit of the playback device. The functions also include receiving, from a control device, a command to begin playback of media, and determining whether the control device is located in a second zone of the media playback system different from the first zone. Based on whether the control device is located in the second zone of the media playback system different from the first zone, the functions include selecting a startup playback volume to be one of the current playback volume or the playback volume limit, and then playing back media at the startup playback volume. |
| US10817247B2 |
Devices, methods, and user interfaces for facilitating time-shifted broadcast program recording and playback with ad play credit calculation
Recorded broadcast programs, including advertisements, are selected for playback responsive to user input. The user input may include pressing a button multiple times to cause recorded programs to be scanned through for a particular preset channel from newest recorded to oldest recorded. Pressing another button multiple times causes the recorded programs to be scanned through for the particular present channel from oldest recorded to newest recorded. Each time at least a portion of a recorded program is played back, the amount of time of the playback is kept track of. An advertisement credit is awarded for playback of the recorded program based on the amount of time of playback of the recorded program. |
| US10817246B2 |
Deactivating a display of a smart display device based on a sound-based mechanism
A signal corresponding to sound associated with the smart display device is received from a sound capture device. A machine learning model analyzes characteristics of the signal received from the sound capture device to determine whether to deactivate a display of the smart display device. In response to determining to deactivate the display of the smart display device based on the analysis, the display of the smart display device is deactivated. |
| US10817243B2 |
Controlling a user interface based on change in output destination of an application
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an extraction part configured to extract, when an output destination is changed to a recipient candidate device, a change in a screen layout determined in accordance with an output environment of the recipient candidate device, and a notification controller configured to perform control to execute notification of the change in the screen layout extracted by the extraction part. |
| US10817237B2 |
Mobile terminal configured to display screen in accordance with instruction information obtain from communication device
A mobile terminal may obtain instruction information from a communication device in a situation where a first screen is displayed on a display of the mobile terminal, the instruction information indicating an instruction for causing the display to display a different screen from the first screen; obtain state information indicating a current state of the mobile terminal in a case where the instruction information is obtained; determine, by using the state information, whether the different screen is to be displayed in place of the first screen; and in a case where it is determined that the different screen is to be displayed, cause the display to display the different screen in place of the first screen. |
| US10817234B2 |
Image processing device and non-transitory computer-readable computer medium storing image processing program
Displaying a preview image is improved. An image processing device that displays on a display a preview image of printing a print job has a controller configured that acquires the printing order of multiple image layers included in the print job, generates a preview image overlaying the multiple image layers according to the acquired printing order, and displays the generated preview image on the display. The controller displays on the display an input field for receiving an instruction specifying the printing order of the multiple image layers, and acquires the printing order by receiving the instruction through the input field. |
| US10817233B2 |
Printing computing device for operating a multi-function printing device
A printing computing device connects to a printing device using a fast data transfer connector to enable additional functionality and capabilities not offered by the printing device. The printing computing device connects to a network to receive print jobs from external devices within the network. The printing computing device processes the print jobs according to rules such that print jobs are processed accordingly. The printing computing device also includes firmware not available on the printing device such that print jobs not supported by the printing device still may be processed. The printing computing device also includes an engine that determines whether an incoming print job is a PDL print job or a command to perform a function not available on the printing device. |
| US10817226B2 |
Processing data generation program, and processing data generation system
A processing data generation program, a processing data generation system, and a processing data generation method are provided for enabling printed matters having various shapes and sizes. A processing data generation apparatus is configured to display a preview image of a template for print data (S121), contain templates for respective pieces of print data of multiple images having designs identical to each other and different sizes, receive designation of a template selected from a group of templates preview images of which are displayed at S121 (S122), identify cut data indicating a size of a cut area that matches the size of an image in the print data corresponding to the template the designation of which has been received at S122, and generate POP data including the cut data and print data created from the print data corresponding to the template the designation of which has been received at S122. |
| US10817221B2 |
Storage device with mandatory atomic-only access
For preventing implementation errors due to misconfigured host applications, a storage controller provisions a storage destination with a capability identifier configured to indicate that the storage destination mandates atomic write operations. The storage controller also receives a write request for the storage destination from host application, and rejects, in response to the received request including a non-atomic write operation, the non-atomic write request. |
| US10817215B2 |
Data storage system and control method for non-volatile memory
A data structure for storing specific information of a non-volatile memory is disclosed. To store a file, the non-volatile memory is allocated to provide a first block and a second block to store file content and file system data separately. A root table is maintained on the non-volatile memory, wherein the root table contains usage information of the first block and the second block. When updating the root table to update the usage information of the first block and the second block, the usage information of the first block and the second block is also updated to the second block as metadata. The power restoration procedure is greatly simplified. |
| US10817214B2 |
Storage device set including storage device and reconfigurable logic chip, and storage system including storage device set
Provided is a storage device set. The storage device set includes a storage device configured to communicate with a host, the storage device including a controller configured to generate encrypted input data by encrypting data; and a reconfigurable logic chip configured to receive the encrypted input data from the storage device, generate processed data by processing the encrypted input data according to a configuration, and generate encrypted output data by encrypting the processed data. |
| US10817213B2 |
Data storage device and operating method for data storage device
A data storage device in a two-layer control structure is provided. A control unit of the data storage device has a command processor and a first non-volatile memory (NVM) controller. The command processor is operative to communicate with a host. The first non-volatile memory (NVM) controller operates a first NVM of the data storage device. Earlier than the command processor operates according to a ROM image corresponding to the command processor, the first NVM controller operates according to a ROM image corresponding to the first NVM controller to access the first NVM to get a firmware image for the command processor and loads the command processor with the firmware image. |
| US10817210B2 |
Information processing apparatus, method of managing web application, and non-transitory computer-readable medium
An information processing apparatus for managing one or more web applications includes a memory and circuitry. The memory includes a first memory area and a second memory area. The first memory area stores one or more pieces of application initial data, each application initial data including a set of a web application and settings of the web application, and one or more packages of the application initial data. The second memory area is associated with an organization, and stores at least one of the packages that has been sold to the organization. The circuitry copies at least one package of the packages being sold to the organization from the first memory area to the second memory area to allow an electronic device of the organization to use the web application based on the package stored in second memory area. |
| US10817200B2 |
Memory interface for a secure NOR flash memory
A flash memory controller is operative to receive serial commands and command arguments. A flash permissions table identifies each segment of flash memory as READ_ONLY, PRIVATE_R/W or OPEN_R/W. A memory interface is coupled to a flash memory and also the flash permissions table. When a flash memory write operation is received with an associated command argument corresponding to an address indicated as READ_ONLY in the flash permissions table and a DISABLE_WR_REG is true, the write operation is ignored or converted into a non-write command and issued to the flash memory. |
| US10817199B2 |
Memory system and SoC including linear address remapping logic
A system-on-chip is connected to a first memory device and a second memory device. The system-on-chip comprises a memory controller configured to control an interleaving access operation on the first and second memory devices. A modem processor is configured to provide an address for accessing the first or second memory devices. A linear address remapping logic is configured to remap an address received from the modem processor and to provide the remapped address to the memory controller. The memory controller performs a linear access operation on the first or second memory device in response to receiving the remapped address. |
| US10817192B2 |
Data storage apparatus selecting memory block group based on interleaving index and operating method thereof
A data storage apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory block groups and a controller configured to, when use of a first memory block group selected from the plurality of memory block groups is completed, select a second memory block group to be used next from among remaining memory block groups, excluding the first memory block group, of the plurality of memory block groups based on interleaving indexes of the remaining memory block groups. |
| US10817186B2 |
Memory system
According to one embodiment, a memory includes a non-volatile memory, a first buffer, a first circuit, a second circuit, and a third circuit. The first circuit transfers data from a host to the non-volatile memory through the first buffer. The second circuit executes garbage collection through the first buffer. The first buffer includes a second buffer and a third buffer. The second buffer can be allocated to the first and second circuit. The third buffer can be allocated only to the first circuit. The third circuit includes a timer. The third circuit allocates the first buffer to the first circuit or the second circuit upon writing of data in the non-volatile memory from the second buffer. The third circuit, after data is written into the non-volatile memory from the third buffer, allocates the third buffer to the first circuit at timing based on the timer. |
| US10817185B1 |
Fast block device, system and methodology
A device, memory, method and system directed to fast data storage on a block storage device that reduces operational wear on the device. New data is written to an empty write block with a number of write blocks being reused. A location of the new data is tracked. Metadata associated with the new data is written. A lookup table may be updated based in part on the metadata. The new data may be read based the lookup table configured to map a logical address to a physical address. |
| US10817181B2 |
Host device with multi-path scheduling based at least in part on measured parameters
An apparatus comprises a host device configured to communicate over a network with a storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices. The host device comprises a multi-path input-output driver configured to schedule input-output operations for delivery to the storage system over the network. The multi-path input-output driver is further configured to measure latencies of respective ones of a plurality of paths from the host device to the storage system, to schedule particular ones of the input-output operations for delivery to the storage system over particular ones of the paths based at least in part on the measured latencies, and to control transmission of the particular input-output operations over the particular paths in accordance with the scheduling. The scheduling additionally or alternatively takes into account other measured parameters such as measured latencies of respective ones of a plurality of storage volumes of the storage system and/or measured payload size per operation metrics for each of at least a subset of the plurality of paths. |
| US10817174B2 |
Method of operating a display unit and a terminal supporting the same
A method of operating a display unit enhances functionality of one hand control and a terminal supports the same. The method of operating the input area, output on the display unit, includes: determining whether one-hand operation mode is set; and displaying a first input module in which a key map area is displayed to be biased to a specific direction based on a center of the display unit when the one-hand operation mode is set. |
| US10817168B1 |
Navigation of a list of content sharing platform media items on a client device via gesture controls and contextual synchronization
Navigation of a list of content sharing platform media items on a client device via gesture controls and contextual synchronization is disclosed. A method includes providing a playlist for playback in a playback portion of a user interface (UI) of an application, wherein the playlist comprises a collection of media items streamable to the application, receiving an indication of a gesture made by a user with respect to the playlist, identifying a location associated with the gesture on the UI, determining that the location associated with the gesture is in an area covering the playback portion of the UI, in response to determining that the gesture is a swipe left gesture, navigating media items of the playlist in a forward direction, in response to determining that the gesture is a swipe right gesture, navigating media items of the playlist in a backward direction, and updating a viewing state associated. |
| US10817163B2 |
Method and device for managing item
A device includes: a display configured to display a container object and a plurality of items that are movable into the container object; a user input device configured to receive a user input; and a controller configured to in response to the user input indicating a first gesture moving from the container object to a current position of the user input, control the display to display a first connector along a first path of the first gesture, determine a first item of the plurality of items, the first item being located within a threshold distance from an end of the connector, and move the first item into the container object. |
| US10817155B1 |
Suitable building layout determination for a property parcel
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining a suitable building layout for a property. One of the operations is performed by receiving, via a user interface, a selection of a property, and accessing zoning information based on the property. A building envelope is determined and displayed via the user interface. A location for the placement of a suitable building footprint within the building envelope is determined and the building footprint displayed within the building envelope. A building layout is determined that fits within the building envelope. Based on a selected building layout, instructions are generated and transmitted one or more 3D printers to manufacture one or more building structures based on the selected building layout. |
| US10817153B2 |
Augmented audio development
Various implementations include computing devices and related computer-implemented methods for rendering a scene in an augmented audio environment. Certain implementations include approaches for generating application programming interface (API) inputs on a display. Additional implementations include approaches for rendering the API inputs at an audio device. |
| US10817138B2 |
Device and method for input process
An apparatus and a method for processing an input are provided. The apparatus includes a shape identifier configured to identify a first shape corresponding to a user input among shapes, a pattern identifier configured to identify a first pattern corresponding to the user input among patterns, and a determiner configured to determine a first command corresponding to the first shape and the first pattern. |
| US10817128B2 |
Input device for VR/AR applications
In some embodiments, an input device for interfacing within an VR/AR environment can include a processor, one or more motion tracking sensors to track a motion of the input device in three-dimensional (3D) space, where a cursor in the VR/AR environment moves based on the tracked motion of the input device in 3D space and is limited to tracked motion having three degrees of freedom (DOF). The input device can further include a button that, when activated, selects an application window in the VR/AR environment when the cursor is placed over the application window, where the application window moves in the VR/AR environment based on the tracked motion of the input device in 3D space while the application window is selected. The input device can include a user interface that, when activated, accesses and controls content on the selected application window. |
| US10817126B2 |
3D document editing system
A 3D document editing system and graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a virtual reality and/or augmented reality device and an input device (e.g., keyboard) that implements sensing technology for detecting gestures by a user. Using the system, portions of a document can be placed at or moved to various Z-depths in a 3D virtual space provided by the VR device to provide 3D effects in the document. The sensing technology may allow the user to make gestures while entering text via a keypad, thus allowing the user to specify 3D effects in the document while typing. The system may also monitor entries made using the keypad, apply rules to the entries to detect particular types of entries such as URLs, and automatically shift the detected types of entries forward or backward on the Z axis relative to the rest of the content in the document. |
| US10817118B2 |
Display touch device
A display touch device includes a touch panel disposed on one side of a display panel and third patterned electrodes disposed on a supporting substrate. The touch panel includes a transparent substrate; first and second patterned electrodes respectively disposed on the transparent substrate in first and second direction. Mutual capacitors are formed between the first and second patterned electrodes, and the first and second patterned electrodes form a touch sensor structure. The first patterned electrodes or the second pattern electrodes partially overlap with the third patterned electrodes in a third direction to form a pressure sensor structure. The third direction is a stacking direction of the display panel and the touch panel. The touch sensor structure performs touch sensing in a first period of a frame and performs pressure sensing in a second period of the frame. The first period does not overlap the second period. |
| US10817114B2 |
Capacitance detection device for detecting capacitance between object proximate to detection electrode and the detection electrode and input device used for inputting information according to proximity of object
A capacitance detection device includes a first voltage output circuit configured to output a first alternating current voltage supplied to a shield electrode provided proximate to a detection electrode, a second voltage output circuit configured to output a second alternating current voltage whose frequency and phase are the same as that of the first alternating current voltage and whose amplitude is less than that of the first alternating current voltage, and a current output circuit configured to output a driving current Is to the detection electrode so that the difference between the voltage of the detection electrode and the second alternating current voltage becomes smaller, and output a detection signal corresponding to the driving current. The second voltage output circuit outputs a second alternating current voltage whose amplitude is adjusted so that the driving current in the absence of the object proximate to the detection electrode. |
| US10817112B2 |
Moisture compensating capacitive sensing circuit
A capacitive sensing circuit includes circuitry to compensate for moisture or liquid spanning sensor units. The capacitive sensing circuit includes input terminals that couple with respective sensor units to receive sensing signals. A sensing block determines capacitance changes in the sensor units using the sensing signals and generates output signals indicative of the sensed capacitance changes. First switches are coupled with respective ones of the input terminals and are closed during a first scanning stage to couple the sensing signals from the input terminals collectively to the sensing block. Second switches are coupled with respective ones of the input terminals and are closed during a second scanning stage, to generate compensation signals to compensate for capacitance interference between the sensor units. |
| US10817109B2 |
Dynamic space bar
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a dynamic space bar are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of determining, by a computing device that includes a touchscreen keyboard and trackpad, a context of the computing device. The actions further include receiving touch input on the trackpad. The actions further include designating, by the computing device and based on the previously-determined context of the computing device, the touch input on the trackpad to be a selection of a space bar of the touchscreen keyboard. The actions further include providing, for output to a display of the computing device and based on the computing device having designated the touch input on the trackpad to be a selection of the space bar, an indication of the selection of the space bar. |
| US10817102B2 |
Input device for electronic devices
In one example a input device for an electronic device comprises a first panel comprising an array of pressure sensors, a second panel comprising an array of apertures in fluid communication with the pressure sensors, and a controller comprising logic, at least partly including hardware logic, to receive a plurality of output signals from the plurality of pressure sensors, determine, from the plurality of output signals, a location of an input on the second panel, and generate a data point on a bitmap corresponding to the location of the input on the second panel. Other examples may be described. |
| US10817101B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes a window, a display module, a pressure sensor, and a bracket. The window includes a flat area and a curved area. The display module is disposed on a lower surface of the window to overlap with the flat area and the curved area. The pressure sensor is disposed on a lower surface of the display module to overlap with the flat area and the curved area. The bracket is disposed on the lower surface of the display module and coupled to at least one of the window and the display module. The pressure sensor is spaced apart from an upper surface of the bracket. The lower surface of the window and the lower surface of the display module face the same direction. |
| US10817094B2 |
Touch display panel with reduced number of chips and electronic device including the same
A touch display panel and an electronic device are provided. The touch display panel comprises a display panel comprising a display area and a non-display area, a touch layer arranged on the display panel and in the display area, a functional multiplexing chip configured to drive the display panel to display and to drive the touch layer for touch sensing, a flexible printed circuit (FPC), connected to the non-display area of the display panel, and a memory chip configured to store information arranged on the FPC and electrically connected to the functional multiplexing chip. |
| US10817084B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing memo function
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, an electronic pen, a slot in which the electronic pen can be inserted in or detached from, a pen sensing module configured to sense an insertion/detachment of the electronic pen, a pen input module configured to receive an input using the electronic pen, and a processor configured to activate the pen input module while the display maintains an OFF-state when the detachment of the electronic pen is sensed within the OFF-state of the display. |
| US10817080B2 |
Unintentional touch rejection
A method for rejecting an unintentional palm touch is disclosed. In at least some embodiments, a touch is detected by a touch-sensitive surface associated with a display. Characteristics of the touch may be used to generate a set of parameters related to the touch. In an embodiment, firmware is used to determine a reliability value for the touch. The reliability value and the location of the touch is provided to a software module. The software module uses the reliability value and an activity context to determine a confidence level of the touch. In an embodiment, the confidence level may include an evaluation of changes in the reliability value over time. If the confidence level for the touch is too low, it may be rejected. |
| US10817076B2 |
Input system, peripheral device and adjustment method
Provided herein are an input system, a peripheral device and an adjustment method. The peripheral device includes an input interface, a transmission interface and a processing module. The transmission interface is used for connecting a computer. The processing module is connected to the input interface and the transmission interface. The processing module transmits an input signal inputted from the input interface to the computer through the transmission interface at a repeat rate. The processing module receives an adjustment signal from the transmission interface and adjusts the repeat rate according to the adjustment signal, wherein the adjustment signal is outputted from another peripheral device connected to the computer. Accordingly, the present invention can operate a peripheral device to adjust the repeat rate of another peripheral device. |
| US10817075B2 |
Keyboard control system and computer input system allowing a single pin to correspond to a single key when pressed on the keyboard key
A keyboard control system and a computer input system thereof are disclosed. The keyboard control system is used in a keyboard of the computer input system, wherein the keyboard has a plurality of keys. The keyboard control system includes a plurality of key control modules and a main control module. Each key control module is electrically connected to a plurality of keys so as to generate a key control signal according to the actuation of any one of the keys, wherein each key control module is electrically connected to different keys. The main control module is electrically connected to a plurality of key control modules for executing the key control signal. |
| US10817071B2 |
Selectively reducing reflectivity of a display
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for displaying messages by reducing a reflectivity of a display. A display, such as a smart mirror, provides reflective properties and digital information. The reflectivity of some portions of the display may be altered such that the display provides the visual effect of steam. By varying the reflectivity in different portions of the display, messages may be provided via the display so as to appear written in the steam. Trigger actions, such as a user entering the vicinity, the detected sound of miming water, and/or the like, may cause the visual effect of steam or display of the message. A user may provide a message by a hand gesture, or writing the message in the air and see the message at is provided via a display. Users may transmit messages to other users, and may view received messages in the display. |
| US10817068B2 |
Vehicle systems and methods for determining target based on selecting a virtual eye position or a pointing direction
Vehicle systems and methods for determining a final target position based on either a first target position and a second target position are disclosed. A vehicle includes a user detection system configured to output a gesture signal in response to a hand of a user performing at least one gesture to indicate a final target position. The vehicle also includes a user gaze monitoring system configured to output an eye location signal that indicates an actual eye position of the user. The vehicle also includes one or more processors and one or more non-transitory memory modules communicatively coupled to the processors. The processors store machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to select either the first target position or the second target position as the final target position based on a first accuracy and a second accuracy. |
| US10817061B2 |
Multi-dimensional trackpad
A multi-dimensional track pad is described that acts as human-machine interface (HMI). Inputs to the HMI can be made not only using the tradition two-dimensional (X-Y) inputs of a track pad, but also a third dimension, force, and even a fourth dimension, time. Tactile or audible feedback to the inputs can be provided. Methods of using the HMI to control a system are described as well as a track pad system that utilizes the HMI in communication with a processor. |
| US10817060B2 |
Method and arrangement for manufacturing a control device offering haptic feedback
A method of manufacturing a control device comprising an actuator for generating a haptic feedback. The method includes providing at least two flat anchors each of which comprises a connecting element for connection to a support component. The connecting element is arranged differently on each of the flat anchors. An actuator solenoid and the support component are mounted within the control device. A distance between the actuator solenoid and a predetermined point on the support component is determined to obtain a determined distance. One flat anchor is selected from the flat anchors based on an actual distance to the actuator solenoid when the one flat anchor is connected to the support component corresponding to a specific requirement, the actual distance being determined based on the determined distance. The one flat anchor selected is mounted within the control device. |
| US10817051B2 |
Electronic contact lenses and an image system comprising the same
A powered contact lens is configured to receive rendered images and provide the rendered images to a user on a display screen built into it. The powered contact lens is also configured so that the position of the wearer's eyes can be precisely tracked and the images can be rendered at a likely resting position. A power source located on the contact lens powers the display screen and the communication module. The communication module receives the rendered images from a disparate image rendering device. An image system comprises the image rendering device, a pair of powered contact lenses which are configured to received and provide the rendered images to a user. |
| US10817044B2 |
Power saving control apparatus and power saving control method applied to display driving circuit
A power saving control apparatus applied to a display driving circuit is disclosed. The power saving control apparatus includes a data analysis unit, a bias control unit and a charge sharing unit. The bias control unit is used to perform bias control. The charge sharing unit is used for charge sharing. The data analysis unit is coupled to the bias control unit and the charge sharing unit respectively. The data analysis unit instantly analyzes the display data to generate an instant analysis result and dynamically adjust the setting of bias and slew rate of the bias control unit according to the instant analysis result. The data analysis unit can dynamically adjust the setting of charge sharing range and charge sharing group number needed to be performed by the charge sharing unit according to the instant analysis result. |
| US10817035B1 |
Electrical system stability
A control logic firmware is received at a power supply unit. The firmware specifies a configuration selected to place a magnitude of an impedance of the power supply unit above a magnitude of an impedance of a network data center power system. The control logic firmware is executed using a power factor correction circuit of the power supply unit including by setting a voltage loop phase margin of the power factor correction circuit to maintain the magnitude of the impedance of the power supply unit above the magnitude of the impedance of the network data center power system. |
| US10817034B2 |
Wearable electronic device and operating method therefor
According to various examples of the present invention, a wearable electronic device comprises: an energy harvester for generating electric energy on the basis of a movement or a change in the shape of the wearable electronic device; a first processor for controlling the energy harvester; a first sensor and a second sensor; and a second processor for controlling the first sensor and the second sensor, wherein the first processor transmits, to the second processor, a control signal for transitioning the second processor into an activated state if the electric energy generated by the energy harvester satisfies a designated first condition, and the second processor can be set such that first sensor data is acquired through the first sensor and second sensor data is selectively acquired from the second sensor according to whether the first sensor data satisfies a designated second condition, when the second processor is transitioned from an inactivated state to the activated state by responding to the control signal. |
| US10817027B2 |
Window
A window includes a window that includes a first hole, a second hole, and a third hole between the first and second holes, a front protection film disposed on a front surface of the window that covers the first, second, and third holes, a first protection film disposed on a rear surface of the window that covers the first hole, a second protection film disposed on the rear surface of the window that covers the second hole, a cover disposed on the rear surface of the window and inserted into the third hole, the cover including a plurality of holes, and a cap disposed on the rear surface of the window and on the first and second protection films and the cover. |
| US10817026B2 |
Foldable terminal
A foldable terminal is provided. The foldable terminal includes a housing including two casings and a bendable portion capable of being bent and deformed, the bendable portion being connected between the two casings; a flexible screen; and an air bag provided between the bendable portion and the flexible screen. When the foldable terminal is in an unfolded state, gas is in the air bag, and the air bag supports an inner side of the flexible screen, when the foldable terminal is in a folded state, the gas is moved out of the air bag to make the air bag shrunken. |
| US10817025B2 |
Narrow-bezel display module and display device
A narrow-bezel display module includes a display panel, a drive chip, and a flexible printed circuit board. The display panel includes a glass substrate and a TFT substrate. The glass substrate includes a bottom border. The drive chip is attached on the bottom border of the glass substrate. The drive chip includes an output end and an input end arranged opposite to each other and two side surfaces. The input end is connected to a first metal layer of the TFT substrate. The output end is connected to a second metal layer of the TFT substrate. The flexible printed circuit board includes conductive leads and a first connection portion and a second connection portion extended from one side of the conductive leads. The first connection portion and the second connection portion are connected to the input end from the two side surfaces respectively. |
| US10817018B1 |
Electronic devices with ambient light sensors and emissive displays
An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels that display images for a user. The electronic device may have an ambient light sensor for gathering ambient light information. A subset of the pixels in the array of pixels may overlap the ambient light sensor so that ambient light passing through the subset of pixels may be measured. Each pixel may have an emission enable transistor coupled in series with a light-emitting diode. Control circuitry in the electronic device may disable the subset of pixels to reduce stray light during ambient light measurements while enabling remaining pixels in the array of pixels to display an image. Ambient light sensor circuitry may gather ambient light sensor measurements over one or more periods by using transfer transistors to transfer change from the photodetectors to charge storage capacitors formed from floating diffusions in a common substrate. |
| US10817014B2 |
System and method for synchronizing networked components
A method for synchronizing a plurality of components that are networked via a plurality of high speed switches, the method includes frequency-locking to a master clock component clocks of the plurality of components, and synchronizing to a master counter, driven by the master clock, component counters of the plurality of components, so that the frequency-locked component clocks drive the component counters in synchrony with the master counter. |
| US10817013B2 |
Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, non-transitory storage medium encoded with computer readable program for information processing apparatus, and information processing system
An information processing apparatus includes a first transceiver configured to establish synchronous communication with each of a first apparatus and a second apparatus under a first wireless communication standard, and a second transceiver configured to communicate with a third apparatus under a second wireless communication standard, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to perform timing adjustment processing for adjusting, for providing a period of communication by the second transceiver, at least any one of timing of synchronous communication with the first apparatus and timing of synchronous communication with the second apparatus such that a time point of end of synchronous communication with the first apparatus by the first transceiver is substantially continuous to a time point of start of synchronous communication with the second apparatus by the first transceiver. |
| US10817012B2 |
System, apparatus and method for providing a local clock signal for a memory array
In an embodiment, a processor includes at least one processor core and at least one graphics processor. The at least one graphics processor may include a register file having a plurality of entries, where at least a portion of the at least one graphics processor is to operate at a first operating frequency and the register file is to operate at a second operating frequency greater than the first operating frequency, to enable the at least one graphics processor to issue a plurality of write requests to the register file in a single clock cycle at the first operating frequency and receive a plurality of data elements of a plurality of read requests from the register file in the single clock cycle at the first operating frequency. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10817003B2 |
Setting device for a gas pressure regulator, in particular for a pilot device, and gas pressure regulation system comprising said setting device
Setting device for a pressure regulator includes a tubular casing developing according to a longitudinal axis (X) and in which there are a movable body, a sliding setting plate and a spring interposed between them; an adjusting unit suited to adjust the position of the setting plate and having a first rotating shaft connected to the setting plate through a screw mechanism which converts opposite rotations of the first shaft into corresponding opposite movements of the setting plate along the longitudinal axis (X), and an electric motor powered by a control device and provided with a second shaft constrained to the first shaft. The control device includes two different input lines to receive corresponding electric signals and an output line to supply power to the electric motor and is configured to transmit an electric pulse emitted by any of the input lines to the output line with polarity depending on the input line which emitted the electric pulse. |
| US10816995B2 |
GPS based high precision timestamp generation circuit for an autonomous driving vehicle
In one embodiment, a system receives, at a sensor unit, a global positioning system (GPS) pulse signal from a GPS sensor of the autonomous driving vehicle (ADV), where the GPS pulse signal is a RF signal transmitted by a satellite to the GPS sensor, where the sensor unit is coupled to a number of sensors mounted on the ADV to perceive a driving environment surrounding the ADV and to plan a path to autonomously drive the ADV. The system receives a first local oscillator signal from a local oscillator. The system synchronizes the first local oscillator signal to the GPS pulse signal in real-time, including modifying the first local oscillator signal based on the GPS pulse signal. The system generates a second oscillator signal based on the synchronized first local oscillator signal, where the second oscillator signal is used to provide a time to at least one of the sensors. |
| US10816991B2 |
Methods and systems for providing remote assistance via pre-stored image data
Examples described may enable provision of remote assistance for an autonomous vehicle. An example method includes a computing system operating in a rewind mode. In the rewind mode, the system may be configured to provide information to a remote assistance operated based on a remote-assistance triggering criteria being met, such as a detected object having a low detection confidence. When the triggering criteria is met, the remote assistance system may provide data from the time leading up to when the remote-assistance triggering criteria was met that was capture of the environment of autonomous vehicle to the remote assistance operator. Based on viewing the data, the remote assistance operator may provide and input to the system that causes a command to be issued to the autonomous vehicle. |
| US10816989B2 |
Methods and systems of distributing task areas for cleaning devices, and cleaning devices
A method of distributing task areas, adapted to a cleaning device, is provided, including: receiving a task map; obtaining a shape that corresponds to the task map; dividing the task map into a plurality of sub-regions according to a plurality of recesses in the shape; merging the two adjacent sub-regions that have a common long side or short side, and obtaining a plurality of merge results that correspond to each of the merge actions; calculating a plurality of cleaning times for each of the merge results for the cleaning device; selecting the merge result that has the shortest cleaning times as a first distribution result; and enabling the cleaning device to perform a cleaning task according to the first distribution result. |
| US10816977B2 |
Path and speed optimization fallback mechanism for autonomous vehicles
According to some embodiments, a system calculates a first trajectory based on a map and a route information. The system performs a path optimization based on the first trajectory, traffic rules, and an obstacle information describing obstacles perceived by the ADV. The path optimization is performed by performing a spline curve based path optimization on the first trajectory, determining whether a result of the spline curve based path optimization satisfies a first predetermined condition, performing a finite element based path optimization on the first trajectory in response to determining that the result of the spline curve based path optimization does not satisfy the first predetermined condition, performing a speed optimization based on a result of the path optimization, and generating a second trajectory based on the path optimization and the speed optimization to control the ADV. |
| US10816976B2 |
Control aerial movement of drone based on line-of-sight of humans using devices
Examples disclosed herein relate to control of a drone. In one example, aerial movement of the drone is controlled. In the example, it is determined, based on a plurality of devices, whether the drone is within a line-of-sight with at least a respective one of a plurality of humans within a physical proximity to a respective one of a the devices. In the example, the devices are used by the drone to track the humans. In the example, when the drone is determined to lack the line-of-sight, aerial movement of the drone is controlled to move the drone to become within the line-of-sight. |
| US10816970B2 |
System and method for performing an emergency descent and landing
An aircrew automation system that provides a pilot with high-fidelity knowledge of the aircraft's physical state, and notifies that pilot of any deviations in expected state based on predictive models. The aircrew automation may be provided as a non-invasive ride-along aircrew automation system that perceives the state of the aircraft through visual techniques, derives the aircraft state vector and other aircraft information, and communicates any deviations from expected aircraft state to the pilot. The aircrew automation may also monitor pilot health and, when needed, function as a robotic co-pilot to perform emergency descent and landing operations. |
| US10816969B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling unmanned aerial vehicle
A method and an apparatus for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle are provided. The method includes: detecting an abnormality occurring on the unmanned aerial vehicle in a flight process; obtaining a hover instruction in response to detecting the abnormality; and controlling, in response to the hover instruction, the unmanned aerial vehicle to hover based on the hover instruction. |
| US10816966B2 |
Parking position
Various aspects provide for “parking” an apparatus in a “parking position.” A parking position may be a configuration of an apparatus that minimizes damage resulting from extended exposure during periods of inactivity. An apparatus may comprise a marine apparatus, which may be configured to be disposed in an environment comprising saltwater, salty air, brackish water, freshwater, and the like. An apparatus may comprise a propulsion system (e.g., for a ship) and/or a steering system. Some aspects include a water jet based propulsion system having a scoop and a nozzle operable to redirect the water jet, providing a range of forward/backward and port/starboard thrusts. A control cylinder and/or a linkage may be parked in a configuration that segregates damage incurred during periods of inactivity to portions of an apparatus not needed for normal operation. |
| US10816965B2 |
Manufacturing facility management optimization device
This manufacturing facility management optimization device: on the basis of an operation condition of a manufacturing facility, creates, in a simulated manner in time series, an operation state which includes a measurement value, product yield, and quantities of raw materials consumed, of the manufacturing facility; detects an anomaly from the created operation state; identifies maintenance which corresponds to the detected anomaly, corrects the operation condition on the basis of the identified maintenance, and creates a plurality of post-correction operation condition candidates; creates, in a simulated manner in time series, a plurality of post-correction operation state candidates on the basis of the plurality of post-correction operation condition candidates; on the basis of the product yield and the quantities of raw materials consumed in the plurality of pre- and post-correction operation state candidates, and a unit price, creates a management index for the operation state and each of the plurality of post-correction operation state candidates; and, from among the plurality of post-correction operation condition candidates, identifies the candidate which optimizes the management index. |
| US10816964B1 |
Self-recovering orchestrator for control systems
Embodiments herein describe a fault tolerant network connected orchestrator which can handle network outages or hardware resets in a work cell. In one embodiment, the orchestrator determines the next task to assign to the work cell depending on whether the previous task was successfully completed. However, a network outage or a hardware failure may prevent the orchestrator from receiving the results of the previous action from the work cell. In one embodiment, the orchestrator recovers from a communication error by requesting the current state of sensors. Using this information, the orchestrator can deduce or determine the current state of the work cell and determine the next task for the work cell. In this manner, the orchestrator is fault tolerant such that it can recover from communication errors. |
| US10816960B2 |
Using cloud-based data for virtualization of an industrial machine environment
A cloud-based virtualization generation service collects industrial-automation-system-related data from multiple industrial automation systems of multiple industrial customers for storage and analysis on a cloud platform. A virtualization management component analyzes the data and generates a virtualized industrial automation system of the industrial automation system based on the analysis results. The virtualization management component updates the virtualized industrial automation system based on operation of, and user interactions with, the industrial automation system. The virtualization management component receives user interactions with the virtualized industrial automation system to facilitate remotely interacting with and/or controlling the industrial automation system and/or generates corresponding control signals that it sends to the industrial automation system to facilitate controlling operation of the industrial automation system. The virtualization management component also customizes a user's view of the virtualized industrial automation system based on user's role, authorization, or location. |
| US10816941B2 |
Energy efficiency of a building at the planning stage
Various embodiments may include methods and systems for improving the energy efficiency of a building at the planning stage, such as: building a basic digital model of the building using a computer; defining a plurality of different function-related room categories; assigning existing technical building automation functions, previously stored in a memory coupled to the computer, to the different room categories; arranging rooms by assigning the defined categories to the model on the basis of an occupancy plan; coupling the rooms to supply lines of a automation system based on the assigned functions; determining an energy efficiency of the virtual building; and selecting suitable technical system modules from available modules based on the determined energy efficiency. |
| US10816937B2 |
Patient support apparatuses with clocks
A patient support apparatus includes a frame, patient support surface, clock, transceiver, and controller. The transceiver communicates with a headwall and/or a local area network. The controller detects the occurrence of an event and sends a message to a server in communication with the local area network in response to the event. The controller updates its estimate of the local time based upon time data received from the server. The controller may also and/or additionally receive first and second time updates from two different sources. When received, the controller updates its estimate of local time based upon at least one of the following: (a) a comparison of its estimate of local time with the time data from the first source; and (b) a comparison of its estimate of local time with the time data received from the second source. |
| US10816933B2 |
Mechanical braking device for timepiece wheel set
A timepiece mechanism includes a structure in which at least one arbor of a wheel set is pivoted about an axis of rotation and a braking device for the mechanical braking at constant torque of this arbor. The braking device includes a braking component which is removable with respect to the structure and includes, for attachment thereof to the structure, a solid felloe, which carries a plurality of resilient elements, regularly distributed around a common axis about which these resilient elements each have a contact area. The contact areas together defining an opening, arranged to engage, in a press fit with elastic gripping, with the arbor, to make the common axis coincide with the axis of rotation of the arbor, and to apply to the arbor a substantially constant tangential braking force. |
| US10816930B2 |
Image forming apparatus
In a configuration in which a cartridge is removably mounted from a longitudinal direction of the cartridge (a side-oriented configuration), an image bearing member is disposed at a position farther from a light emitting unit in a state in which a cover is opened than a state in which the cover is closed in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the cartridge. |
| US10816927B2 |
Transport device and image forming apparatus
A transport device includes a first rotary part that rotates; a second rotary part that contacts the first rotary part, that forms a pinch region where an object to be transported is pinched between the second rotary part and the first rotary part, and that rotates together with the first rotary part; and a positioning mechanism that positions the second rotary part with respect to the first rotary part. The positioning mechanism includes a swing part that supports one end portion side of the second rotary part, that is supported at one end portion side of the first rotary part, and that is swingable around a rotation center of the first rotary part; and a fixing section that fixes the swing part. |
| US10816922B2 |
Image forming apparatus having fixing device that responds to request when using decolorable ink
An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit which forms a first image on a first recording medium with a first material that is not thermally decolorizable; a second image forming unit which forms a second image on a second recording medium with a second material that is thermally decolorizable; a fixing device which is on a common carrying path shared by the first recording medium and the second recording medium and fixes the first image to the first recording medium; and a controller which controls the fixing device so that a temperature of the fixing device is lower than a decolorizing temperature of the second material when the second recording medium reaches the fixing device. |
| US10816918B2 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method
In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a printing setting acquisition section and a printer section. The printing setting acquisition section acquires printing setting information for holding setting at the time of printing for each kind of a sheet. The printer section applies, in a case in which a label paper is selected as the kind of the sheet, a developing agent in the vicinity of an area coming into contact with an end part of the sheet in an area on an image carrier for transferring the developing agent to the sheet, transfers the developing agent by a transfer member for transferring the developing agent from the image carrier to the sheet, and rotates the transfer member at least once. |
| US10816917B2 |
Developing apparatus
A developing apparatus includes a developer bearing member, a developer container, and a storage tank arranged within the developer container to store liquid developer to be supplied to the developer bearing member. The storage tank includes a first bottom surface including an inclined portion that is inclined downward with respect to a horizontal direction in a rotational axis direction of the developer bearing member, and a discharge port arranged on a lower end of the inclined portion of the first bottom surface. The developer container includes a second bottom surface including an inclined portion that is inclined downward with respect to the horizontal direction toward an opposite direction as the inclined portion of the first bottom surface in the rotational axis direction of the developer bearing member, and a discharge port arranged on a lower end of the inclined portion of the second bottom surface. |
| US10816913B2 |
Developer container, image forming unit, and image forming apparatus
A developer container includes a body and a shutter member. The body has an opening and a containing part. The containing part is to contain a developer put into the containing part through the opening. The shutter member includes a tip portion in a first direction. The shutter member is slidable between a closing position at which the shutter member closes the opening and an open position at which the shutter member leaves the opening open. The shutter member slides in the first direction and thereby moves from the open position to the closing position. The tip portion includes a top surface and a pair of side surfaces. The top surface has inclination that causes a distance in a third direction from the opening to the top surface to decrease in a second direction. Spacing in a fourth direction between the side surfaces is narrowed in the second direction. |
| US10816908B2 |
Light-exposure method and light-exposure apparatus
According to one embodiment, a correction plot in which a slit width is set different depending on overlay deviation in a shot region is generated. Then, a light-exposure scanning speed defined by a relative speed between a photomask stage with a photomask mounted thereon and a stage with a processing object mounted thereon is set, to obtain a desired light-exposure amount at each coordinate position, in accordance with the slit width in the correction plot. Then, a light-exposure process is performed, while controlling the slit width of a light-exposure slit, the photomask stage, and the stage, in accordance with the correction plot and the light-exposure scanning speed. |
| US10816895B2 |
Photomask cleaning processes
Methods of cleaning a photomask may include heating residual coupling material on a surface of the photomask. The photomask may be characterized by active regions and edge regions. The residual coupling material may be located on portions of the edge regions of the photomask. The methods may include applying an etchant to the residual coupling material. The methods may also include rinsing the etchant from the photomask. A portion of the active regions of the photomask may be maintained substantially free of the etchant during the method. |
| US10816893B2 |
Method and system for correction of optical proximity effect
A method for correction of an optical proximity effect, comprising: parsing and dividing the periphery of a design pattern to obtain segments to process; for a segment having a corner comprising a segment side (101) and an adjacent side (102) forming a corner relation with the segment side, setting a target point according to the following principle: when the length of the adjacent side (102) is greater than a preset length, the target point is set at the location of the outer end point (104) of the segment side; when the length of the adjacent side (102) is less than or equal to the preset length, the target point is set between the vertex (103) of the corner and the outer end point (104) of the segment side, and the less the length of the adjacent side (102), the further the target point from the location of the outer end point (104); and adjusting, according to a simulation difference of the target point, the design pattern until it conforms to a design target. |
| US10816889B1 |
Dynamic and multi-sided viewing projection screen assembly for a garage door and system thereof
The present invention relates to a dynamic and multi-sided viewing projection screen assembly and system thereof. In particular, the dynamic viewing and multi-sided viewing projection screen assembly includes a video projector screen, a bottom-support member, a top-support member coupled to the video projector screen. The bottom-support member is mounted to one or more bottom-mounting brackets applied to a bottom interior portion of the garage door, while the top member is detachably coupled to one or more top-mounting brackets applied to a top interior portion of the garage door, and the dynamic and multi-sided viewing projection screen assembly is configured to have a plurality of viewing modes of operations, including a first viewing mode of operation and a second viewing mode of operation for when the garage door is in a vertical, downward position or when the garage door is in a horizontal, upward position. |
| US10816887B2 |
Control device, image projection apparatus, and control method
A control device includes an acquirer, a timing detector, a controller, and a driver. The acquirer acquires an output voltage from a light detector for receiving laser light scanned by a light source and a deflector. The timing detector detects reference timings of the laser light on forward and backward paths in a scanning direction based on the output voltage. The controller generates a control signal for causing the light source and the deflector to draw a forward path image on a scanned surface from time obtained by adding a time to the reference timing on the forward path and to draw a backward path image on the surface from time obtained by adding a time to the reference timing on the backward path. The driver draws the images by driving the deflector, based on the control signal. |
| US10816881B2 |
Wavelength conversion module
A wavelength conversion module for being disposed on a light path of light of a projector is provided. The wavelength conversion module includes a driving module and a wheel. The wheel has an axial hole, a heat dissipation area and a complementary dissipation area. The axial hole is connected to the driving module, the heat dissipation area surrounds the axial hole, and the wavelength conversion area surrounds the heat dissipation area and the light is projected to the wavelength conversion area. The heat dissipation area includes a plurality of through holes penetrating through the wheel, in which the plurality of through holes has a plurality of first through holes and a plurality of second through holes. The plurality of first through holes is arranged circularly on the wheel around the axial hole. Each of the plurality of second through holes is arranged between every two adjacent first through holes. |
| US10816869B2 |
Image display device
An image display device includes a flat panel display, a lens array layer, and a microstructure dynamic optical layer. The lens array layer is located at a side of a display surface of the flat panel display, and can adjust light field. The microstructure dynamic optical layer is located at the side of the display surface of the flat panel display, and can be switched to have a microstructure function or not to have the microstructure function. When being switched to have the microstructure function, the microstructure dynamic optical layer can modulate a direction of light emitted from the flat panel display. Accordingly, the image display device can display a 3D dimensional image floating in mid-air, and enables a user to see the 3D dimensional image at an oblique viewing angle. The image display device can be used in different ways according to practical applications. |
| US10816856B2 |
Photo-alignment material, liquid crystal display panel, and manufacturing method thereof
The present disclosure relates to a photo-alignment material, a liquid crystal display panel, and a manufacturing method thereof. The chemical structural formulas of photo-alignment material includes an orientation anchor group, a linking group, a photosensitive group with one or more photosensitive cyclohexanone, and an alignment group with a linear or branched alkyl having 3-15 carbon atoms; wherein the orientation anchor group, the linking group, the photosensitive group and the alignment group are connected successively. Through the above-mentioned manner, the present disclosure can simplify the manufacturing process of the liquid crystal display panel, and improve the product quality. |
| US10816846B2 |
Display device, display panel, color filter substrate and color filter
The present disclosure provides a display device, a display panel, a color filter substrate, and a color filter, and relates to the field of display technology. The color filter of the present disclosure includes a grating layer and a photo-luminescent layer. The grating layer is configured to generate a surface plasmon effect under the action of incident light. The photo-luminescent layer is disposed on the light exiting surface of the grating layer. |
| US10816842B2 |
Array substrate and method for manufacturing the same, liquid crystal display panel, display device
An array substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, a liquid crystal display panel, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a first substrate, signal lines and an insulating layer; the insulating layer is disposed on the first substrate, and grooves are disposed on a side of the insulating layer facing away from the first substrate and disposed in a region of the insulating layer corresponding to a non-display region of the array substrate; and the signal lines are disposed on inner walls of the grooves, a direction of the inner walls of the grooves is arranged such that at least a portion of light incident on the signal lines from a side of the first substrate facing away from the signal lines is reflected to a display region of the array substrate. |
| US10816841B2 |
Display device
A semiconductor device including a large display portion with improved portability is provided. The display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel, and an adhesive layer. The area of the second display panel is larger than the area of the first display panel. The first display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a reflective liquid crystal element and a first transistor each positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second display panel includes a first resin layer having flexibility, a second resin layer having flexibility, and a light-emitting element and a second transistor each positioned between the first resin layer and the second resin layer. The liquid crystal element has a function of reflecting light toward the second substrate side. The light-emitting element has a function of emitting light toward the second resin layer side. The first substrate and part of the second resin layer are bonded to each other with the adhesive layer. |
| US10816834B2 |
Backlight module, display device and driving method thereof
A backlight module, a display device and a driving method are disclosed. The backlight module includes a first light guide plate and a second light guide plate arranged oppositely, a first light source and a second light source. A surface of the first light guide plate facing the second light guide plate is a light exit surface of the first light guide plate. The first light source is arranged at a light entrance surface of the first light guide plate. The second light source is arranged at a light entrance surface of the second light guide plate. The first light guide plate includes a light guide element guiding light along a direction perpendicular to the light exit surface of the first light guide plate. The second light guide plate includes a scattering element. |
| US10816827B2 |
Process for manufacturing an ophthalmic lens equipped with an insert
The invention relates to a process for manufacturing an ophthalmic lens element equipped with an insert (1), this ophthalmic lens element comprising a front face and a back face, comprising steps consisting in: providing a first portion or intermediate product (2, 2″) made of a first material comprising a first and second frontal face (2A, 2B, 2A″, 2B″), said second face forming the back or front face of said ophthalmic lens element; placing the insert (1) on said first face of said intermediate product; depositing a second material in liquid form on said first face of the intermediate product (2, 2″) so as to cover at least partially said insert with said second material; and solidifying said second material in order to form an integral second portion (4) of said intermediate product. According to the invention, said first material is organic. |
| US10816824B2 |
Multi-colored lens configured as a golf aid
A multi-colored lens for eyewear is disclosed. The lens includes a plurality of segments including a lower segment coated with a blue dye, an upper segment coated with a red/orange dye and middle segment serving to transition between the blue and red/orange dyes. The multi-colored lens provides numerous advantages as a golf aid in assisting the wearer to view the ball. The lower blue segment assists a wearer in viewing a golf ball against a green surface while the upper red/orange segments assists the wearer in viewing the golf ball against a blue or gray sky. |
| US10816818B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display portion and a light control element, wherein the display portion includes a pixel group including sub-pixels for displaying an image of L viewpoints, the light control element includes light controllers, the light controllers, the number of which is equal to m, overlap the pixel group, L and m each represent a natural number greater than or equal to 2, the light controller overlaps the sub-pixels, the number of which is equal to P, arranged in a first direction, and P, L, m satisfy the relationship of P=L/3m. |
| US10816813B1 |
Systems and methods for enhancing accuracy of spatial location and rotational orientation determination of wearable head-mounted display device
Systems and methods for enhancing the accuracy of spatial location and rotational orientation determination of a wearable head-mounted display device while in a motion simulating vehicle are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals conveying vehicle information; generate output signals conveying user information of a user; obtain presentation information; determine, based on the user information and the vehicle information, spatial location and rotational orientation of the wearable head-mounted display device with respect to a reference frame such that accuracy of the determination is enhanced with respect to only using the user information; determine a view of the virtual space that corresponds to the spatial location and the rotational orientation of the wearable head-mounted display device determined; and effectuate, via the wearable head-mounted display device, presentation of the view of the virtual space. |
| US10816805B1 |
Eyewear with integrated heads-up display
Systems and methods for eyewear devices with integrated heads-up displays are provided. In one embodiment, an eyewear device provides an integrated heads-up display having a partially reflective element carried by an eyeglass lens to reflect towards the user computer-generated imagery projected on to it, while permitting the passage of light through the reflective surface in the direction of view of the user. The display mechanism further includes a cooperating projector assembly housed by a frame of the eyewear device in an overhead configuration relative to the partially reflective element. The projector assembly is housed by a top bar of the eyewear frame, with the reflective surface being housed wholly within the lens. |
| US10816798B2 |
Near-eye display with self-emitting microdisplay engine
A near-eye display for an augmented reality display system couples a self-emitting microdisplay to a transmissive waveguide through an input coupler. Light from the self-emitting microdisplay propagates along the waveguide and through an output coupler for generating a virtual image that is visible together with a real-world scene through the waveguide within an eyebox located in front of the output coupler. A light sensor detects light levels within different portions of the real world scene visible within the eyebox. Drive electronics control the light output from individual pixels of the self-emitting microdisplay to preserve desired local contrast values between the virtual image and the real-world scene. |
| US10816797B2 |
Head-up display for a motor vehicle
A head-up display system for a motor vehicle includes a projection unit for providing a display image; a transparent, holographic optical fiber display panel for outputting, on a display surface, a display image that is coupled into the display panel via a coupling-in region; and a guide device designed to move the display panel between an operational position and a parked position. |
| US10816795B2 |
Wearable display for near-to-eye viewing
An optical apparatus has a laser source to direct modulated light toward a scan mirror and objective lens that define a focal surface. Pupil relay optics relay a first pupil at the scan mirror to a second pupil at an eye lens, the pupil relay optics defining an optical axis extending between pupils and having a curved mirror that transmits substantially half of the modulated beam and that has a first center of curvature at the first pupil and a first polarizer in the path of light from the scan mirror to reflect incident light of a first polarization and first angle toward the curved mirror surface and transmit incident light of an orthogonal polarization and second angle, wherein the pupil relay optics direct the modulated light beam twice to the first polarizer, and wherein the modulated light incident the second time is collimated and directed toward the second pupil. |
| US10816792B2 |
Wavelength tunable optical sources, filters and detectors
Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) has enabled telecommunication service providers to fully exploit the transmission capacity of optical fibers. State of the art systems in long-haul networks now have aggregated capacities of terabits per second. Moreover, by providing multiple independent multi-gigabit channels, WDM technologies offer service providers with a straight forward way to build networks and expand networks to support multiple clients with different requirements. In order to reduce costs, enhance network flexibility, reduce spares, and provide re-configurability many service providers have migrated away from fixed wavelength transmitters, receivers, and transceivers, to wavelength tunable transmitters, receivers, and transceivers as well as wavelength dependent add-drop multiplexer, space switches etc. However, to meet the competing demands for improved performance, increased integration, reduced footprint, reduced power consumption, increased flexibility, re-configurability, and lower cost it is desirable to exploit/adopt monolithic optical circuit technologies, hybrid optoelectronic integration, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). |
| US10816786B2 |
Modular objective assembly with moveable laser beam
The present invention provides, in various embodiments, a miniature movable-beam laser objective configured to fit within the very small dimensions of a standard objective. This small, portable movable-laser source allows the beam to be directed at a computer-generated target or at the spot of a focused target-designator beam. |
| US10816783B2 |
Magnifying observation apparatus
When an observation target is enabled to be observed by a plurality of types of measuring methods having different principles, to make it possible switch an illuminating method in a plurality of ways to increase types of observation targets that can be observed. An observation target SP is illuminated by at least one of coaxial epi-illumination 24 and non-coaxial epi-illumination 25. A focus search is performed on the basis of an image acquired by a first light receiving element 50. The observation target SP is illuminated by a light source 26. The focus search is performed on the basis of a signal acquired by a second light receiving element 51. |
| US10816782B2 |
Variable magnification optical system, optical apparatus, imaging apparatus and method for manufacturing variable magnification optical system
A variable magnification optical system comprising a positive first lens group G1 disposed at a most object side, a negative second lens group G2 disposed at an image side of the first lens group G1 and a positive rear group GR disposed at an image side of the second lens group G2, upon varying magnification from an wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, the first lens group G1 being moved toward the object side, a distance between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2 and a distance between the second lens group G2 and the rear group GR being varied, and the rear group GR comprising a focusing group that is moved upon focusing, an A group having positive refractive power and a B group satisfying a given conditional expression with respect to the A group and having negative refractive power. Thus, the variable magnification optical system has excellent optical performance and the focusing group reduced in weight in order to attain high speed focusing operation. |
| US10816780B2 |
Lens system, and image projection apparatus and imaging apparatus that include the same
The lens system forms an image conjugately between each of a magnification conjugate point and a reduction conjugate point; and an intermediate image-forming position. The lens system includes a magnification optical system with positive power, the magnification optical system having a plurality of lens elements and positioned closer to the magnification side than the intermediate image-forming position; and a relay optical system with positive power, the relay optical system having a plurality of lens elements and positioned closer to the reduction side than the intermediate image-forming position. The lens system satisfies following conditions (1) and (2). 0.08≤fp/fr≤0.8 (1) {Ymax−ft·tan(ωmax)}/{ft·tan(ωmax)}≤−0.3 (2) where fr is composite focal length of the relay optical system, fp is composite focal length of the magnification optical system, Ymax is a radius of an effective image diameter, ωmax is a maximum half view angle, and ft is the focal length of the lens system. |
| US10816778B2 |
Image capture system and imaging optical system
An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4π radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses. |
| US10816776B2 |
Imaging lens
A compact imaging lens with high-resolution, low profile, low F-value, and wide field of view, properly corrects various aberrations and comprises a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface facing the object side, a second lens having a meniscus shape with negative refractive power and a concave surface facing the image side, a third lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface facing the object side, a fourth lens having a meniscus shape with positive refractive power and a convex surface facing the image side, and a fifth lens having negative refractive power and a concave surface facing the image side as a double-sided aspheric lens. A pole point at an off-axial point is provided on the image-side surface, and 40<|r6/f|<90 where f: the focal length of the overall optical system and r6: curvature radius of the image-side surface of the third lens. |
| US10816771B2 |
Photographic optical system
The present disclosure provides a photographic optical system. The photographic optical system includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens (having a focal length of f1), a second lens (having a focal length of f2), a third lens (having a focal length of f3), a fourth lens (having a focal length of f4), a fifth lens (having a focal length of f5) and a sixth lens (having a focal length of f6) arranged coaxially and satisfying the following relational expressions: 0.8 |
| US10816770B2 |
Camera optical lens
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of glass material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions. |
| US10816769B2 |
Camera optical lens
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of glass material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions. |
| US10816767B2 |
Camera optical lens
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens, including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of glass material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions. |
| US10816765B2 |
Six lens optical image capturing system having visible and infrared image planes
An optical image capturing system is provided. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. At least one lens among the first lens to the fifth lens has positive refractive power. The sixth lens may have negative refractive power and an object side and an image side thereof are aspherical wherein at least one surface of the sixth lens has an inflection point. The optical image capturing system has six lenses with refractive power. When meeting some certain conditions, the optical image capturing system may have outstanding light-gathering ability and an adjustment ability about the optical path in order to elevate the image quality. |
| US10816764B2 |
Camera optical lens
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of glass material, the fourth lens is made of glass material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, the sixth lens is made of plastic material, and the seventh lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions. |
| US10816761B2 |
Lens module
The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses, and discloses a lens module. In the present disclosure, the lens module includes a lens receiving portion having a receiving space, and a lens disposed in the receiving space. The lens receiving portion includes an inner wall around an optical axis of the lens and defining the receiving space, and an outer wall around the optical axis of the lens and disposed opposite to the inner wall. The lens module further includes a buffer member surrounding and being wrapped on at least a part of the outer wall. The lens module provided by the present disclosure is unlikely to be damaged during the assembly process, thereby preventing its performance from being adversely affected. |
| US10816758B2 |
Camera optical lens
A camera optical lens, includes a first lens power, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. A focal length of the camera optical lens is f, a focal length of the first lens is f1, a focal length of the third lens is f3, a focal length of the fourth lens is f4, a refractive power of the fourth lens is n4, an axial distance from an image side of the fourth lens to an object side of the fifth lens is d8, an effective half caliber of an image side of the fourth lens is SD8, the maximum image height of the camera optical lens is ImgH, an optical total length of the camera optical lens is TTL. The camera optical lens satisfies conditions: 0.5 |
| US10816749B2 |
Optical image capturing module and system with multi-lens frame and manufacturing method thereof
An optical imaging module utilizes conductive lines and electric conductors to reduce the overall thickness of an image sensor element. With the configuration of a fixed lens assembly and a multi-lens frame, incident light passes through the fixed lens assembly and is accurately focused on the image sensor element. Hereby, the image sensor element is thus fully imaged. Besides, the invention can ensure the image quality and prevent the element from deforming during encapsulation and causing the problems such as short circuit, and can reduce the size of the optical image capturing module. |
| US10816748B2 |
Display apparatus having holding member between optical sheet and diffusion plate
There is provided a display apparatus including a holding member disposed between a peripheral part of an optical sheet and a peripheral part of a diffusion plate. The holding member has a first end portion contacting the peripheral part of a rear surface of the optical sheet and a second end portion contacting the peripheral part of the first surface of the diffusion plate. The holding member has a first holding projection for holding the diffusion plate. The first holding projection protrudes from the second end portion along the first surface of the diffusion plate. |
| US10816743B2 |
High-density optical fiber ribbon and ribbon cable interconnects employing small diameter optical fibers
A high-density optical fiber cable interconnect includes a fiber ribbon or fiber ribbon cable having at least one fiber ribbon and first and second ends. The fiber ribbon is formed from small diameter optical fibers arranged in at least one row, with each fiber having a glass section and a non-glass coating section surrounding the glass section. The diameter of the non-glass coating section can be less than 205 microns. A matrix layer encapsulates the small diameter optical fibers to define the fiber ribbon. A first optical connector terminates the first end of the fiber ribbon or fiber ribbon cable and has a first fiber pitch correspond to a standard optical fiber connector. A second optical connector terminates the second end of the fiber ribbon or fiber ribbon cable and has a second fiber pitch less than that of a standard optical fiber connector. |
| US10816740B2 |
Flip chip bonding onto a photonic integrated circuit
Conventional hybrid photonic integrated circuits (PIC) combine one type of semiconductor platform for the main PIC, and a different type of semiconductor platform for a secondary chip. Conventional mounting processes include forming a recess in the main PIC, and mating electrical connectors from the secondary chip and the main PIC within the recess. Mating the first and second electrical connectors in the recess increases the complexity of forming the main PIC, and hampers heat dissipation from secondary chip through oxide layers in the main PIC. Providing a conductive, e.g. redistribution, layer from the first electrode along the bottom and sides of the recess eliminates the complexity in forming the main PIC, and enables the first electrical connector to be mounted directly onto a more thermally conductive substrate material. |
| US10816733B2 |
Piezoelectrically actuated mirrors for optical communications
Embodiments of the invention include an optical routing device that includes an organic substrate. According to an embodiment, an array of cavities are formed into the organic substrate and an array of piezoelectrically actuated mirrors may be anchored to the organic substrate with each piezoelectrically actuated mirror extending over a cavity. In order to properly rout incoming optical signals, the optical routing device may also include a routing die mounted on the organic substrate. The routing die may be electrically coupled to each of the piezoelectrically actuated mirrors and is able to generated a voltage across the first and second electrodes of each piezoelectrically actuated mirror. Additionally, a photodetector may be electrically coupled to the routing die. According to an embodiment, an array of fiber optic cables may be optically coupled with one of the piezoelectrically actuated mirrors and optically coupled with the photodetector. |
| US10816730B2 |
Optical fiber coating removal device, external device, optical fiber coating removal system, and optical fiber coating removal method
An optical fiber coating removal device which heats a coating of an optical fiber with a heater and removes the coating with a blade includes a communicator which receives information based on optical fiber type information to specify an optical fiber type selected by a user from among a plurality of optical fiber types, transmitted from an external device to which the optical fiber type information has been input, and a heater which heats a coating of an optical fiber using the received information based on the optical fiber type information. The heater can heat a coating under a plurality of conditions according to the optical fiber type information. |
| US10816727B1 |
Multimode waveguide bends with features to reduce bending loss
Structures for a waveguide bend and methods of fabricating a structure for a waveguide bend. A waveguide core has a first section, a second section, and a waveguide bend connecting the first section with the second section. The waveguide core includes a first side surface and a second side surface, the first side surface extends about an inner radius of the waveguide bend, and the second side surface extends about an outer radius of the waveguide bend. The waveguide bend includes a central region and a side region that is arranged adjacent to the central region at the first side surface or the second side surface. The central region has a first thickness, and the side region has a second thickness that is less than the first thickness. |
| US10816721B1 |
Hollow-core fiber with anti-resonant arches and method of manufacturing thereof
A hollow-core fiber with a single layer of robust anti-resonant optical arches is disclosed, which is designed and made of infrared soft glass and allows the transmission of mid- to long-infrared wavelengths (1-15 microns). Each curved arch is solidly attached at two locations on the outer solid region surface and together the arches define the core diameter. The thickness and spacing between the arches are selected to minimize the fiber transmission loss <1 dB/m at wavelengths in the mid- to long-infrared where the infrared soft glass has high absorption >30 dB/m. A hollow-core preform with anti-resonant arches is made by extrusion of infrared soft glasses through a die specifically designed to produce the hollow-core fiber with anti-resonant arches. |
| US10816718B2 |
Display device and assembling method thereof
A display device including a back plate, a light emitting module, a light guide plate and a fixing member is provided. The back plate has an inner surface and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface. The light emitting module is disposed on a side of the inner surface of the back plate. The light guide plate is disposed opposite to the inner surface of the back plate. The fixing member includes a portion, which leans on the outer surface of the back plate. |
| US10816717B2 |
Backlight module, display device and terminal
The present disclosure discloses a backlight module, a display device and a terminal, in the field of display technology. The backlight module includes a back plate, a light guide plate and at least one elastic mechanism. The back plate includes a base plate and a lateral plate. The light guide plate is stacked on the base plate. The elastic mechanism is between a side surface of the light guide plate and the lateral plate, and the elastic mechanism is connected to the side surface of the light guide plate and the lateral plate. |
| US10816716B2 |
Application of quantum dot composite material
A quantum dot composite material and a manufacturing method and an application thereof are provided. The quantum dot composite material includes an all-inorganic perovskite quantum dot and a modification protection on a surface of the all-inorganic perovskite quantum dot. The all-inorganic perovskite quantum dot has a chemical formula of CsPb(ClaBr1-a-bIb)3, wherein 0≤a≤1, 0≤b≤1. |
| US10816704B2 |
Controllable planar optical focusing system
An optical device has a first metasurface. A high-contrast pattern of the first metasurface is operable for modifying, over a first phase profile, a phase front of an incident light beam. A second metasurface, is disposed over a plane parallel to the first metasurface with a second high-contrast pattern and operable for shaping, over a second phase profile, the modified phase front of the incident light beam into a converging spherical phase front. A spacer layer, in which the modified phase front of the incident light beam diffracts, is disposed in a controllably changeable separation between the first and second metasurfaces. Controllably changing the separation between the first and the second metasurfaces by a first distance correspondingly changes the position of the focus point of the converging spherical phase front by a second distance. |
| US10816698B2 |
High water content ophthalmic devices
An ophthalmic device is disclosed which is a polymerization product of a monomeric mixture comprising: (a) a major amount of one or more first non-silicone-containing hydrophilic monomers; (b) one or more hydrophobic monomers; and (c) a crosslinking agent mixture comprising (i) one or more di-, tri- or tetra(meth)acrylate-containing crosslinking agents and (ii) one or more di-, tri- or tetracarbamate-containing crosslinking agents, wherein the ophthalmic device has an equilibrium water content of at least about 65 weight percent. |
| US10816692B2 |
Package structure of optical apparatus
The present invention provides a package structure of an optical apparatus which includes a substrate, a light emitting device, a light sensing device, and a light barrier member. The light emitting device is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the substrate. The light emitting device is for emitting light. The light sensing device is disposed on the substrate and is a chip scale package (CSP) device. The light sensing device is for receiving light reflected by an object. The light barrier member is disposed around a periphery of the light sensing device. |
| US10816691B2 |
Multi-element detector systems
The invention provides methods, systems and detector arrangements for scanning an object moving in a first direction that includes the steps of irradiating the object with radiation having a peak energy of at least 900 keV, providing a first detector region having a thickness of at least 2 mm and a second detector region having a thickness of at least 5 mm where the second detector region is arranged to receive radiation that has passed through the first detector region, and detecting the radiation after it has interacted with or passed through the object in order to provide information relating to the object. |
| US10816680B2 |
Detection device and electronic equipment
The present disclosure relates to a detection device and electronic equipment, in which a detection accuracy of minute light can be improved.A detection device includes: a pixel array portion in which a plurality of first pixels including a photoelectric conversion unit, and a plurality of second pixels not including a photoelectric conversion unit, are arranged; and a driving unit configured to drive the first pixel and the second pixel. The present technology, for example, can be applied to a light detector, a radiation counter device performing radiation counting by using the light detector, and a biological examination device using the light detector, such as a flow cytometer. |
| US10816679B2 |
Staggered detector array for locating radioactive sources
A large-area directional radiation detection system may include a large number of slab-shaped detectors stacked side-by-side and alternately displaced frontward and rearward, thereby providing a longitudinally-staggered array of protruding and recessed detectors. The protruding detectors collimate or restrict the lateral field of view of the recessed detectors, thereby enabling the angular position and distance of a source to be determined. The high detection efficiency and large solid angle of the staggered detector array enable rapid detection of even well-shielded threat sources at substantial distances, while simultaneously determining the positions of any sources detected. This detector array will be essential for guarding against clandestine delivery of nuclear materials in the coming century. |
| US10816676B2 |
GNSS/INS integration deep inside of inertial sensors
Embodiments of systems and methods for GNSS and INS integration are described In an embodiment, the method includes receiving a GNSS signal from a GNSS signal source at an antenna coupled to a GNSS receiver. The method may also include generating GNSS data in response to the GNSS signal. Additionally, the method may include communicating the GNSS data to an INS system. The method may also include generating an IMU signal with an IMU sensor. The method may further include generating IMU data in response to the IMU signal. Also, the method may include integrating the IMU data with the GNSS data in a navigation processing unit of an INS. The method may further include generating INS data in response to the integrated IMU data and the GNSS data. |
| US10816663B2 |
Distance measuring device and distance measuring method
A distance measuring device includes a laser light source, an irradiation optical system comprising a beam spreader which is configured to spread the laser light about a first optical axis, a light reception optical system having a second optical axis different from the first optical axis and positioned to receive reflected light of the laser light from the object for measuring a distance to the object, a sensor with light receiving elements arranged in a first direction, the sensor being positioned to receive light reflected from the object which has passed through the light reception optical system, and a distance measuring unit configured to acquire distance information relating to the object based on the difference in time between emission of the laser light source and the reception of the reflected light at each of the plurality of light receiving elements. |
| US10816659B2 |
Method for efficient volumetric integration for 3D sensors
A vehicle, system and method of mapping the environment is disclosed. The system includes a sensor and a processor. The sensor is configured to obtain a detection from an object in an environment surrounding the vehicle. The processor is configured to compute a plurality of radial components and a plurality of angular components for a positive inverse sensor model (ISM) of an occupancy grid, select a radial component corresponding to a range of the detection from the plurality of radial components and selecting an angular component corresponding to an angle of the detection from the plurality of angular components, multiply the selected radial component and the selected angular component to create an occupancy grid for the detection, and map the environment using the occupancy grid. |
| US10816658B2 |
Radar enabled weapon detection system
A method for detecting potential security threats is provided. An image sensor configured for image capture and a radar device comprising a phased array of antennas configured to transmit and receive are provided. Images are captured by the image sensor. Signals emitted by the phased array of antennas are beam steered to scan a field of view of the radar device, reflected signals are received by the phased array of antennas, and a location of a particular object is determined based on the signals received by the phased array of antennas. A field of view of the radar device is mapped over images captured by the image sensor, and the images are transmitted showing the particular object based on the mapping of the field of view of the radar device over the captured images. Further provided is a camera system including an image sensor and a radar device. |
| US10816655B2 |
In-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) imbalance estimation in a radar system
A radar system is provided that includes transmission signal generation circuitry, a transmit channel coupled to the transmission generation circuitry to receive a continuous wave test signal, the transmit channel configurable to output a test signal based on the continuous wave signal in which a phase angle of the test signal is changed in discrete steps within a phase angle range, a receive channel coupled to the transmit channel via a feedback loop to receive the test signal, the receive channel including an in-phase (I) channel and a quadrature (Q) channel, a statistics collection module configured to collect energy measurements of the test signal output by the I channel and the test signal output by the Q channel at each phase angle, and a processor configured to estimate phase and gain imbalance of the I channel and the Q channel based on the collected energy measurements. |
| US10816653B2 |
Swimming speedometer system with near-eye display
An apparatus and method for measuring a swimmer's speed and conveying the speed to the swimmer in real time includes a plurality of ultrasonic beacons each having a transducer configured to emit ultrasonic signals in a pool or other body of water within which the swimmer is swimming. A wearable, waterproof, ultrasonic receiver worn by the swimmer, receives the ultrasonic signals and generates corresponding signal data. The receiver's microcontroller captures and uses the signal data to calculate the swimmer's position and speed in real time, and conveys this information to a wearable, waterproof, user interface device worn by the swimmer, the user interface device including a near-eye display disposed on the swimmer's googles. |
| US10816644B2 |
Modulated infrared lighting
A computing device in a vehicle can emit a sequence of light pulses having a first speed, then receive a signal from another vehicle. Following this, the computing device can emit a message as a sequence of light pulses having a second speed based on the signal received from the vehicle, wherein the first speed is different from the second speed. |
| US10816641B2 |
Imaging radar sensor with synthetic enlargement of the antenna aperture and two-dimensional beam sweep
A device and a method for determining the position of an object, in particular of a moving object, in a three dimensional space is made available. Here the device comprises at least two switchable transmitting antenna arrays having different vertical beam alignments and a number of receiving antennas arranged in a row. The transmitting antennas are arranged spaced apart by a distance that corresponds to the distance between the outer phase centers of the receiving antennas. Otherwise the transmitting antennas can be positioned arbitrarily around the receiving antenna. The horizontal beam sweep over a wide angle range is implemented by the “digital beam forming” method. The vertical object position is measured by comparing the amplitude of the received signals with sequentially operated transmitting antennas having different vertical beam directions. |
| US10816636B2 |
Autonomous vehicle localization system
Autonomous vehicles may communicate with each other to avoid hazards, mitigate collisions, and facilitate the flow of traffic. To enhance such cooperation, it would be highly advantageous if each vehicle were able to determine which vehicle in view corresponds to each communication message, which is generally unknown if a plurality of vehicles are in range. Systems and methods provided herein can enable autonomous vehicles to determine the spatial location of each proximate vehicle by detecting a pulsed localization signal emitted by each of the other vehicles. In addition, each vehicle can transmit a self-identifying code, synchronous with the emitted localization signal, so that other vehicles can associate the proper code with each vehicle. After such localization and identification, the vehicles can then cooperate more effectively in mitigating potential collisions. |
| US10816624B2 |
Method and device for correcting a B0 inhomogeneity by a radio frequency signal
A method for correcting a B0 inhomogeneity in a magnetic resonance scan with a magnetic resonance tomograph is provided. The magnetic resonance tomograph includes a controller, a radio frequency unit, and a transmitting antenna. In the method, the controller determines a transmission signal that is suitable for correcting an effect of an inhomogeneity of a static B0 magnetic field in an examination volume by the Bloch-Siegert effect. The transmission signal is emitted into the examination volume. |
| US10816623B2 |
System and method for reducing acoustic noise level in MR imaging
A system and method for reducing MRI-generated acoustic noise is disclosed. A system control of an MRI apparatus causes a plurality of gradient coils and an RF coil assembly in the MRI apparatus to generate pulse sequences that each cause an echo train to form and acquire blades of k-space data of the subject of interest from the pulse sequences, with the blades being rotated about a section of k-space compared to every other blade. The system control also causes the plurality of gradient coils to generate gradient pulses in each pulse sequence having an optimized gradient waveform that reduces an acoustic noise level generated thereby and causes the RF coil assembly to generate a 180 degree prep pulse subsequent to generation of an RF excitation pulse and prior to generation of a first RF refocusing pulse, the 180 degree prep pulse minimizing echo spacing in the echo train. |
| US10816621B2 |
Magnetic resonance signal detector grid assemblies for magnetic resonance imaging
A magnetic resonance (MR) signal detector grid assembly adapted for detection of signals in a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus is disclosed. The MR signal detector grid assembly may include a non-resonant grid of a plurality of wire elements and a plurality of detector elements. At least one end of a selected wire element may be electrically attached to an end of at least one other selected wire element. At least one of the detector elements may be configured to detect an MR signal induced on a wire element in the non-resonant grid. The plurality of wire elements may be substantially in the same plane, and the plane may be warped into an arbitrary three-dimensional surface. The three-dimensional surface may have a shape that is cylindrical, partially cylindrical, and/or saddle-shaped. The plurality of wire elements may form a rectilinear grid, a hexagonal grid, a triangular grid, and/or a pseudo-random grid. |
| US10816611B2 |
Measuring system
A measuring system having a magnetic device for generating a magnetic field and at least one magnetic field sensor for detecting a flux density of the magnetic field, at least in a first spatial direction. The magnetic device has a top side facing the magnetic field sensor, the magnetic field sensor is spaced apart from the top side of the magnetic device, the magnetic device has a main magnet, having two poles, with a main magnetizing direction for generating a main magnetic field and at least one secondary magnet, having two poles, with a secondary magnetization direction for generating a secondary magnetic field, the main magnet has larger dimensions than the at least one secondary magnet, the magnetic field is formed by superposition of the main magnetic field and the secondary magnetic field, the secondary magnetic field at least partially compensates the main magnetic field in the first spatial direction. |
| US10816607B2 |
Systems and methods for determining a state of charge of a battery
A method for estimating a SOC of a battery electrically coupled to at least one of a load or a power source includes detecting, by a voltage sensor, voltages of the battery. The method further includes determining, by a processor, an average voltage of the battery by averaging the detected voltages of the battery over a predetermined period of time. The method further includes determining, by the processor, a present operating state of the battery based on at least one of the detected voltages of the battery. The method further includes determining, by the processor, a present SOC of the battery based on the present operating state of the battery and the average voltage of the battery. The method further includes transmitting, by the processor, the present SOC of the battery to an output device for outputting the present SOC of the battery. |
| US10816606B2 |
Method and system for noise-tolerant RC response prediction
An electrical system includes a voltage bus, voltage sensor(s) measuring a first voltage between a positive bus rail and electrical ground, and a second voltage between a negative bus rail and electrical ground, a bias resistor, and a controller. When the switch is closed, the controller measures four or more discrete voltage samples of the first and second voltages. The samples are grouped into first and second sample groups each having three discrete voltage samples, with the second and third voltage samples of the first group being the first and second samples of the second group. The controller estimates a steady-state voltage of the first and second voltages using the sample groups, prior to the first and second voltages converging on actual steady-state voltage values. The controller executes a corresponding control action when the steady-state voltage estimate is stable or unstable relative to a defined stability threshold. |
| US10816604B2 |
Estimation of state-of-charge for zinc-bromine flow batteries by in situ OCV analysis
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for estimating a state-of-charge of a zinc flow battery by measuring a concentration of zinc ions contained in an electrolyte through an open-circuit voltage (OCV). The apparatus according to embodiments of the present invention can estimate effectively the state-of-charge of the zinc flow battery from the concentration of zinc ions measured through the OCV of the working electrode with respect to the reference electrode when the measuring electrodes are installed in the cathode electrolyte tank or the anode electrolyte tank. |
| US10816600B1 |
Protocol analysis and visualization during simulation
Protocol analysis can include simulating, using a processor, a circuit design including a protocol analyzer embedded therein. The protocol analyzer can be coupled to low-level signals of an interface of the circuit design. During the simulating, the protocol analyzer detects a transaction from the low-level signals received from the interface. Transaction data is generated by the protocol analyzer specifying the transaction. The transaction data is output from the protocol analyzer. |
| US10816589B2 |
Structure and method for testing semiconductor device
A structure for testing a semiconductor device. A first resistor structure (R1) comprises a first active region (110) and a first polysilicon gate (130) disposed on the first active region (110); the width of the first active region (110) is greater than a predetermined width value; the predetermined width value is the critical value of the width of an active region of the semiconductor device when the step height of a shallow trench isolation structure of the semiconductor device affects the width of a polysilicon gate; the design width of the first polysilicon gate (130) is identical to that of the polysilicon gate of the semiconductor device; a second resistor structure (R2) is connected to the first resistor structure (R1) according to a predetermined circuit structure to form a test circuit, and comprises a second active region (210) and a second polysilicon gate (230) disposed on the second active region (210); the width of the second active region (210) is less than the predetermined width value; the design size of the second polysilicon gate (230) is identical to that of the first polysilicon gate (130); the total resistance of a branch circuit where the second resistor structure (R2) is located is equal to the total resistance of a branch circuit where the first resistor structure (R1) is located. |
| US10816587B2 |
Method and apparatus for evaluating superconducting tunnel junction detector noise versus bias voltage
A technique for characterizing the noise behavior of a superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) detector as a function of its applied bias voltage Vb by stepping the STJ's bias voltage across a predetermined range and, at each applied bias, making multiple measurements of the detector's current, calculating their mean and their standard deviation from their mean, and using this standard deviation as a measure of the STJ detector's noise at that applied bias. Because the method is readily executed under computer control, it is particularly useful when large numbers of STJ detectors require biasing, as in STJ detector arrays In a preferred implementation, the STJ is measured under computer control by attaching it to a digital spectrometer comprising a digital x-ray processor (DXP) coupled to a preamplifier that can set the STJ's bias voltage Vb using a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) controlled by the DXP. |
| US10816579B2 |
Sensor, sensor signal processor, and power line signal encoder
Provided is a sensor in which a current sensor that detects a current of a power line as a change in a magnetic field and a voltage sensor that detects a voltage of the power line using capacitive coupling are integrally formed. The transmission of signals related to substantially the same sections is omitted in order to effectively compress an output signal from the sensor and an output signal from the voltage sensor. When the amplitude and phase of a fundamental wave which are estimated from the output signal from the sensor and the amplitude and phase of harmonics are encoded, the amplitude and phase of the harmonics are relativized with a value for the fundamental wave. |
| US10816577B2 |
Electric field detection device and methods of use thereof
One aspect of the present technology relates to an optical electric field sensor device. The device includes a non-conductive housing configured to be located proximate to an electric field. A voltage sensor assembly is positioned within the housing and includes a crystal material positioned to receive an input light beam from a first light source through a first optical fiber. The crystal material is configured to exhibit a Pockels effect when an electric field is applied when the housing is located proximate to the electric field to provide an output light beam to a detector through a second optical fiber. An optical cable is coupled to the housing and configured to house at least a portion of the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber. The first light source and the detector are located remotely from the housing. A method of detecting an electric field is also disclosed. |
| US10816575B2 |
Testing probe, testing device and testing method
The present disclosure provides in some embodiments a testing probe, including a probe holder, and a probe body at least partially extending into an interior of the probe holder and capable of moving relative to the probe holder. The probe body is configured to be electrically connected to the probe holder within a first travel distance relative to the probe holder so as to output a testing signal, and configured to be electrically disconnected from the probe holder within a second travel distance relative to the probe holder. |
| US10816574B2 |
High insertion count test socket
A test socket and method for using the same are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the test socket comprises a base having a top loading area, an actuator rotatably coupled to the base, and a pushing device rotatably coupled to the actuator, where the pushing device is pressed against a semiconductor device when the semiconductor device is placed onto the top loading area and the actuator is moved to a first position (e.g., a test position). |
| US10816568B2 |
Closed loop accelerometer
A micro-mechanical electrical systems (MEMS) type accelerometer for measuring vibration and movement employs a closed loop measurement mode. The accelerometer comprises at least one capacitive section configured as a sensing section and at least one capacitive section configured as an actuator section. In embodiments of the accelerometer capacitor plates are arranged in a bilateral structure in both the sensing and actuator sections. This structure combined with the capacitive feedback provided by the closed loop operation and other features of the device allow for a much larger sensing range in addition to other advantages over presently available MEMS accelerometers. |
| US10816566B2 |
Liquid dispenser with manifold mount for modular independently-actuated pipette channels
Automated pipetting systems and methods are disclosed for aspirating and dispensing fluids, particularly biological samples. In one aspect, a liquid dispenser includes a manifold and one or more pipette channels. The manifold includes a vacuum channel, a pressure channel, and a plurality of lanes. Each lane includes an electrical connector, a port to the pressure channel, and a port to the vacuum channel. The pipette channels can be modular. Each pipette channel includes a single dispense head and can be selectively and independently coupled to any one lane of the plurality of lanes. In some aspects, a valve in the pipette channel is in simultaneous fluid communication with a pressure port and a vacuum port of the manifold. The valve selectively diverts gas under pressure and gas under vacuum to the dispense head in response to control signals received through the electrical connector of the manifold. |
| US10816565B2 |
Test tube removal device and system
A device and system for extracting simultaneously a plurality of test tubes from one or more aligned racks is provided. The device is operably adapted to extract test tubes having a body with a first diameter and a top portion with a lip having a second larger diameter. The aligned racks generally form collectively a rectangular footprint and provide opposing longitudinal shoulders. A version of the device generally includes an extraction assembly including one or more longitudinal slots adapted to receive and slide over the top portion of each test tube forming the longitudinal row, each longitudinal slot comprising laterally spaced and longitudinally extending interior rims, the lateral distance between the rims being greater than the diameter of the body of the test tube and less than the diameter of the test tube top portion flared lip, thereby during operation the interior rims grasp each test tube in the respective longitudinal row; a frame housing adapted to couple with the one or more racks, the frame housing including at least a first biasing surface; and a cam assembly operably attached to the extraction assembly for moving the extraction assembly between a first position and a raised position, the cam assembly including at least a first cam operably positioned proximate the first biasing surface and a lever operably attached to the first cam for providing rotary motion which translates to linear upward motion of the extraction assembly while moving from the first position to the raised position. |
| US10816564B2 |
Sample test automation system
A sample test automation system which is capable of reducing the workload of an operator and precisely carrying out necessary processes of each of samples without stagnation. In the sample test automation system, a sample tray 120 on which a plurality of samples 150 can be installed is prepared, an identifier for distinguishing the sample tray 120 is attached to the sample tray 120, a sample introducing unit 10 is provided with an identifier reading apparatus 111 which reads the identifier of the sample tray 120, and information about the samples 150 is switched based on the read identifier of the sample tray 120. |
| US10816556B2 |
Tailored nanopost arrays (NAPA) for laser desorption ionization in mass spectrometry
The production and use of semiconducting nanopost arrays made by nanofabrication is described herein. These nanopost arrays (NAPA) provide improved laser ionization yields and controllable fragmentation with switching or modulation capabilities for mass spectrometric detection and identification of samples deposited on them. |
| US10816553B2 |
Methods and compositions for amplified electrochemiluminescence detection
Disclosed herein are formulations, substrates, and arrays. Also disclosed herein are methods for manufacturing and using the formulations, substrates, and arrays. Also disclosed are methods for identifying peptide sequences useful for diagnosis and treatment of disorders, and methods for using the peptide sequences for diagnosis and treatment of disorders, e.g., celiac disorder. In certain embodiments, substrates and arrays comprise a porous layer for synthesis and attachment of polymers or biomolecules. |
| US10816551B2 |
Subject anti-HCV antibody detection assays employing NS3 capture peptides
The present disclosure provides methods, kits, and compositions for detecting subject anti-HCV antibodies in a sample using NS3 capture peptides. In certain embodiments, at least two NS3 helicase (NS3h) capture peptides and at least two conjugate peptides (e.g., NS3h conjugate peptides) are employed together, which allows for a broad dynamic range of subject antibody detection in a one-step type assay. In other embodiments, methods are provided of detecting NS3-specific subject antibodies without the use of a reducing agent. In some embodiments, NS3-specific subject antibodies are detected with a ‘double shot’ of NS3 conjugate peptide (e.g., conjugate peptide added to a sample both before and after washing). |
| US10816542B2 |
Tear glucose measuring device
A tear glucose measuring device includes a tear glucose test strip (101) and a reaction device, wherein the tear glucose test strip (101) is used for collecting tears which are then subjected to an elution reaction with a glucose assay reagent contained in the reaction device. With this device, a user can collect tears by himself by folding a leading portion (1014) of the tear glucose test strip (101) about a folding line (1021) and inserting the leading portion (1014) into the lower conjunctival sac inside the lower eyelid to allow the absorbance of tears therein. If tear glucose test strips (101) of the same lot are consistent in terms of thickness of a moisture-absorbent layer of the leading portion (1014), as long as a tear collection region (1020) of the leading portion (1014) has a fixed area, the leading portion (1014) can collect a quantitative amount of tears. As such, tears can be sampled without needing to stimulate the lacrimal gland, and glucose in the collected tears will not be diluted and thus reflect the patient's true tear glucose level. |
| US10816540B2 |
Device and method for force phenotyping of cells for high-throughput screening and analysis
A system for assaying forces applied by cells includes an optically transparent substrate comprising a soft material having a Young's modulus within the range of about 3 kPa to about 100 kPa. An array of molecular patterns is disposed on a surface of the optically transparent substrate, the molecular patterns include fluorophore-conjugated patterns adherent to cells. The system includes at least one light source configured to excite the fluorophore-conjugated patterns and an imaging device configured to capture fluorescent light emitted from the fluorophore-conjugated patterns. Dimensional changes in the size of the patterns are used to determine contractile forces imparted by cells located on the patterns. |
| US10816530B2 |
Substrate containing latent vaporization reagents
Methods and reagents are disclosed for improved detection of inorganic oxidizers, such as but not limited to chlorates, perchlorates, permanganates, dichromates, and osmium tetraoxides. In one aspect of the invention, latent acid-generating reagents are employed that are chemically stable at room temperature but undergo an acidic transformation when exposed to an elevated temperature or radiation. The latent reagent can be activated by heat or radiation (e.g., UV radiation). The resulting acidic reagent can then transfer a proton to the anion (i.e., chlorate, perchlorate, etc.) of the target analyte, forming an acid (i.e., chloric acid, perchloric acid) that is more easily vaporized and, hence, more easily detected. In another aspect of the invention, heat-sensitive inorganic salts and/or photosensitive onium salts are disclosed as reagents to carry out this method. In various embodiments, these reagents can be embedded in a swipe or other substrate, infused onto the swipe or sample via nebulizer, or otherwise deployed in a desorption chamber of an ion mobility spectrometer or similar detector. |
| US10816528B2 |
Multi parameter swimming pool fluid analysis and regulating method and device
There may be provided a system comprising a spectroscopic device; wherein the spectroscopic device is configured to analyze a fluid of a pool. |
| US10816513B2 |
Wireless damage assessment during manufacturing
A non-intrusive monitoring method and system for the detection and potential assessment of damage that may occur during a manufacturing process is described. Potential damage events such as impact events can be detected by one or more sensors located on a workpiece or on a machine utilized in the manufacturing process. Through wireless monitoring of the sensors, potential damage events are detected and products of the manufacturing process can be examined to determine if the event has led to damage. |
| US10816512B2 |
Inspection of a structure with a sloped back wall
A signal is sent into a first surface of a structure at an angle relative to the first surface of the structure using a transducer array, wherein the structure has a second surface with a portion non-parallel to the first surface. An ultrasound response signal is formed at the portion of the second surface of the structure. The ultrasound response signal is received at the transducer array. |
| US10816511B2 |
Method for detecting a defect in a metal wire of a set of metal wires, in particular for an anchoring area of a civil engineering structure
The invention relates to a method for detecting defects of at least one metal wire of a set of metal wires, in particular in a cable, the method including: a step of emitting a high-frequency ultrasound signal around a so-called specific frequency in the metal wire; a step of reflecting said ultrasound signal in the metal wire; and a step of receiving the reflected ultrasound signal. The emitted ultrasound signal enables the energisation of at least one high-frequency wave capable of propagating in a longitudinal direction of the metal wire and having a phase velocity that is slightly higher than a compression volume wave velocity in the metal from which the metal wire is made. |
| US10816507B2 |
Apparatus and method and system for inspecting a component of a gas turbine engine
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for inspecting a component of a gas turbine engine, which includes a sleeve configured to surround a component of a gas turbine engine, the sleeve including: a pair of opposing wall members being secured to each other at at least one of a pair of opposite ends; an internal cavity located between the pair of opposing wall members, wherein the internal cavity extends from one end of the sleeve to an opposite end of the sleeve; and a plurality of orifices extending through the pair of opposing wall members, and wherein a probe is inserted in each orifice in one of the pair of opposing wall members to determine the state of the internal cavities of a gas turbine component and determine the structural integrity of the component. |
| US10816502B2 |
Using a biased electrochemical sensor for acrylonitrile detection
An electrochemical acrylonitrile sensor comprises a housing, an electrolyte disposed within the housing, and a plurality of electrodes in contact with the electrolyte within the housing. The plurality of electrodes comprises a working electrode and a counter electrode. The electrodes comprise a catalytic material, which may comprise gold. A potential is applied between the counter electrode and the working electrode. |
| US10816501B2 |
Gas sensor and method for manufacturing gas sensor
A gas sensor with excellent detection sensitivity is provided. A sensing electrode, which is provided in a mixed-potential gas sensor for measuring a concentration of a predetermined gas component of a measurement gas to sense the predetermined gas component, is formed of a cermet of a noble metal and an oxygen-ion conductive solid electrolyte. The noble metal includes Pt and Au. A range of at least 1.5 nm from a surface of a noble metal particle included in the sensing electrode is a Au enriched region having a Au concentration of 10% or more. |
| US10816500B2 |
Gas sensor, method for producing conductive paste, and method for manufacturing gas sensor
A gas sensor capable of measuring a high concentration range is provided. A sensing electrode provided in a sensor element of a mixed-potential gas sensor for measuring the concentration of a predetermined component in a measurement gas is formed of a cermet including a noble metal and an oxygen-ion conductive solid electrolyte. The noble metal includes Pt and Au. A Au abundance ratio, which is an area ratio of a portion covered with Au to a portion at which Pt is exposed in a surface of noble metal particles forming the sensing electrode, is 0.1 or more and less than 0.3. |
| US10816499B2 |
Electrochemical test device
An electrochemical test device for determining the concentration of an analyte in a fluid sample, wherein the electrochemical test device has a substrate is provided. The device comprises a micro-voided synthetic polymer. |
| US10816498B2 |
Humidity sensor and related methods
A humidity meter includes a humidity sensor, a heating device oriented towards the humidity sensor, a signal generator capable of modulating a power output of the heating device, and a lock-in amplifier capable of demodulating a response signal of the humidity sensor as induced by the modulated heating device. A method of measuring humidity includes the steps of providing a humidity sensor positioned along a channel, a heating device positioned opposite the humidity sensor along the channel, and a controller including a signal generator and a lock-in amplifier; providing an airflow along the channel; modulating a power supply to the heating device using the signal generator; and demodulating a response signal of the humidity sensor induced by the modulated heating device. |
| US10816496B2 |
Differential sand compaction sensor
A device for monitoring the effectiveness of sand compaction on a production line comprising one or more sensors. The sensor's response measures the changes in sand compaction, which is affected by the mechanics of the vibration system, changes in the sand properties, and environmental changes. A sensor comprises multiple chambers where the sand is compacted, with each of these chambers having a different difficulty in resisting sand filling and compaction. The difficulty of filling and compacting the sand in these chambers can be controlled using factors such as geometry of each of the chambers and direction of the fill and compaction of sand. |
| US10816495B2 |
Verifying structural integrity of materials
An armor piece may include a tested material. The armor piece also may include a plurality of electrical contacts distributed about and electrically connected to the tested material. The armor piece further may include a non-volatile memory (NVM) device. The NVM device may be hardened against exposure to x-ray radiation. The NVM device may be configured to store control voltages associated with respective electrical contacts of the plurality of electrical contacts. |
| US10816487B2 |
Image contrast in X-ray topography imaging for defect inspection
A system for X-ray topography, the system includes a source assembly, a detector assembly, a filter and a processor. The source assembly is configured to direct at least an X-ray beam to impinge, at an angle, on a first surface of a sample, the X-ray beam is divergent when impinging on the first surface. The detector assembly is configured to detect the X-ray beam that had entered the sample at the first surface, diffracted while passing through the sample and exited the sample at a second surface that is opposite to the first surface, and to produce an electrical signal in response to the detected X-ray beam. The filter is mounted between the source assembly and the first surface, and is configured to attenuate an intensity of a selected spectral portion of the X-ray beam. The processor is configured to detect one or more defects in the sample based on the electrical signal. |
| US10816475B2 |
Methods and devices for sample analysis
Methods and devices for cytometric analysis are provided. A cytometry apparatus is provided which may be used with a stationary sample cuvette for analysis of a stationary sample or with a flow sample cuvette for analysis of a flowing sample. The methods and devices provided herein may be used to perform cytometric analysis of samples under a wide range of experimental and environmental conditions. |
| US10816474B2 |
Optical information detection apparatus and microscope system
An optical information detection apparatus includes: a needle-shaped light spot irradiation part that is configured to generate needle-shaped light spot concentrated over a length dimension g greater than a width dimension w along an optical axis, a shifting light spot conversion part that is configured to convert emission light emitted from positions of a detection object into shifting light spot, a shifting light spot reception part that is configured to receive the shifting light spot along a light-receiving plane, and an optical information acquisition part that is configured to acquire optical information from the positions from the shifting light spot. |
| US10816469B2 |
Kit for quantitatively determining substance to be measured in biological sample and method for quantitatively determining substance to be measured in biological sample
An object of the present invention is to provide a kit and a method by which a quantitative determination of a substance to be measured in a biological sample can be carried out with high accuracy while avoiding the influence of an antibody such as an anti-serum albumin antibody present in blood. According to the present invention, a kit for quantitatively determining a substance to be measured in a biological sample, the kit including: a labeled particle that has a first binding substance capable of binding to the substance to be measured, and a first blocking agent; and a substrate that has a detection region having a second binding substance capable of binding to any one of the substance to be measured and the first binding substance, and a second blocking agent, in which the first blocking agent and the second blocking agent are different from each other, is provided. |
| US10816463B1 |
Fast and widely tunable monolithic optical parametric oscillator for laser spectrometer
A laser spectrometer includes a tunable laser assembly, a periodically-poled nonlinear optical crystal, with parallel polished input and output end faces, and a mechanism for controlling an entrance location of a pump input beam of the tunable laser on the input end face of the periodically-poled nonlinear optical crystal, such that the pump input beam traverses different grating periods of the periodically-poled nonlinear optical crystal. |
| US10816459B2 |
Polymeric device suitable for ultraviolet detection
The present invention relates to a flow cell (10) comprising a fluid inlet (16) and a fluid outlet (18) separated by a sample flow-through chamber (12) comprising at least one UV-transparent window (22′), wherein the at least one UV-transparent window (22′) is made of a polymer material and has been subjected to Gamma radiation sterilisation. In one aspect, the flow cell is combustible. |
| US10816455B2 |
Multi-photon counting for high sensitivity flow cytometer systems and methods for using the same
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods and systems for detecting light from a sample in a flow stream by multi-photon counting. Methods according to certain embodiments include irradiating a sample in a flow stream with a light source and detecting light from the sample in the flow stream and counting photons of the detected light by integrating photo-electron charge over a time interval. Methods also include irradiating a sample in a flow stream with a light source, detecting light from the sample in the flow stream and outputting a digital output signal and an analog output signal produced by the detected light. Systems for detecting light from a sample in a flow stream with a detector and counting photons by integrating photo-electron charge over a time interval are also described. Kits having a detector, a photon counter and a flow cell configured to propagate a sample in flow stream are also provided. |
| US10816450B2 |
Particle counter and classification system
A particle counter and classification system and method wherein a first stage magnetometer sensor subsystem for the fluid is tuned to detect and determine the size of ferrous and/or conducting particles in the fluid above a predetermined size. A pump is configured to drive a volume of the fluid through the first stage magnetometer sensor subsystem. A processing subsystem is responsive to the first stage magnetometer sensor subsystem and is configured to count the number of ferrous and/or conducting particles above the predetermined size based on the output of the first stage magnetometer sensor subsystem and to determine and report the concentration of the ferrous and/or conducting particles above the predetermined size as a function of the size of the particles, their number, and the volume of the fluid. |
| US10816447B2 |
High-speed tension testing machine
A high-speed tension testing machine is provided for reliably preventing slippage between a movable side grip tool and a support member even when the movable side grip tool is moved at high speed. The support member that supports a movable body of a displacement meter has an end part on the side opposite to the movable body, and the end part has a split groove structure for surrounding a small-diameter part of the movable side grip tool and has a structure for holding the small-diameter part of the movable side grip tool with function of a screw. Thus, a surface of the support member on the side of the movable side grip tool is in surface contact with a surface of a large-diameter part, constituting a step part, on the side of the support member, so as to prevent slippage between the movable side grip tool and the support member. |
| US10816446B2 |
Thawing biological substances
Dry thawing systems and devices for thawing biological substances are provided herein. Methods for thawing biological substances are also provided. |
| US10816444B2 |
Opposables incorporating fluid control elements and automated specimen processing systems
Disclosed are specimen processing systems capable of processing specimens carried on slides. The specimen processing systems comprise opposables having at least one fluid control element. The fluid control elements may be positioned between spacers or gapping elements the opposable edges. The fluid control elements may comprise an edge, such as a beveled edge or a stepped edge, as described herein, and the edge may be continuous or segmented. |
| US10816440B2 |
Rock mechanical properties from drill cuttings
This disclosure describes a novel method for predicting or estimating rock mechanical properties from cuttings at a particular depth based on determining the facies, plotting the facies on a ternary diagram with clay, silica and carbonate endpoints, and estimating rock mechanical properties based on comparison to a database of core samples from vertical wells that is also organized by depth and facies. We have shown that datapoints at similar locations on the ternary diagram will have fairly similar rock properties. These rock properties can be used to improve the reliability of a variety of reservoir modeling platforms, which can then be used in designing and implementing completion, stimulation and production plans. |
| US10816439B2 |
Methods of testing washing machine appliances
A method of testing a washing machine appliance includes performing a first fill test, performing a second fill test, performing an agitate test, performing a drain test, and performing a spin test. Each of the steps of performing the first fill test, performing the second fill test, performing the agitate test, performing the drain test, and performing the spin test are performed in a continuous process. |
| US10816436B2 |
System for temperature insensitive damage detection
A system for detecting damage in an aircraft structure includes an aircraft structure and a structural health monitoring (SHM) system for monitoring the health of the aircraft structure independent of temperature. The SHM system includes an actuator bonded to the aircraft structure and configured to generate a reference vibration signal having a reference amplitude that propagates through the aircraft structure at a first time, and generate a comparison vibration signal having a comparison amplitude that propagates through the aircraft structure at a second time after the first time. The comparison amplitude represents damage incurred by the aircraft structure between the first time and the second time. The SHM system includes a sensor bonded to the aircraft structure that receives the reference vibration signal and the comparison vibration signal, and a processor configured to compute a gain damage index as a function of the reference amplitude divided by the comparison amplitude. |
| US10816429B2 |
Determining a moment weight of a component based on measured surface geometry/solid model of the component
A method is provided during which surface data indicative of a measured surface geometry of a component is received. The surface data is processed to provide model data indicative of a solid model of the component. The model data is processed to determine a center of gravity distance of the component. A moment weight of the component is determined based on the center of gravity distance of the component and a measured weight of the component. The moment weight is communicated with the component. |
| US10816428B2 |
Field device interface seal and electrical insulation
A field device assembly includes an industrial process field device, a flange and a sealing and electrically insulating system. The field device includes a pressure sensor and a housing containing the active component. The housing includes a base having a base interface, which includes a first base process opening. The flange is attached to the base of the housing and includes a coplanar interface having a first flange process opening. The sealing and electrically insulating system includes a gasket that includes a dielectric material. A first process opening in the gasket is aligned with the first base process opening and the first flange process opening. A first surface of the gasket engages the base interface, and a second surface of the gasket that is opposite the first surface engages the coplanar interface. The gasket electrically insulates the housing of the field device from the flange. |
| US10816424B2 |
Remote seal diaphragm system
A transmitter for measuring a process pressure includes a pressure sensor and a temperature sensor providing an input temperature signal. A first remote pressure sensitive diaphragm couples to the transmitter by a first capillary tube filled with a fill fluid having a density as a function of fill fluid temperature. An input circuit is operably connected to at least the pressure sensor and provides an intermediate pressure signal at least roughly representative of the process pressure. A correcting circuit is coupled to the temperature sensor and to the input circuit. The correcting circuit processes the intermediate pressure signal by compensating for the fill fluid density as a function of the temperature and provides a compensated output more closely representative of the process pressure. The correction circuit further performs an initial height determination based upon a pressure measurement made while no pressure is applied to the first diaphragm. |
| US10816419B2 |
Tripedal flexure member and load/torque measurement systems using same
A flexure structure comprising the unitary combination of three modified S-shaped beams arranged in parallel and sharing common top and bottom structures. The outside beams are oriented alike in one direction while the inside or center beam is oriented in the opposite direction. The outside edge surfaces of the beams are flat and are instrumented with strain sensors connected in bridge circuits. |
| US10816416B2 |
Pressure sensor, electronic device, and method for manufacturing pressure sensor
In the pressure sensor, at least two resistors are simultaneously molded at the first mounting surface and the second mounting surface of the substrate component ensuring uniformity and consistency of resistance of all resistors, at least one of resistors is a strain sensing resistor, and the resistors are electrically connected to form a pressure measuring circuit. Connecting the pressure sensor to the desired panel to accurately detect the curved deformation amount of the panel. The resistors in a pressure measuring circuit are adjacently distributed, and the resistance value of the resistor changes with temperature at the same time, so that the influence of the temperature change on the pressure measuring circuit is very small, and the interference against the external environment is good. |
| US10816412B2 |
Thermometer and body temperature measuring apparatus including the same
A thermometer is provided that includes a main body having a first body including first and second regions and a second body mounted on the first body, the main body extending in a first direction; a rubber cap surrounding the second region and formed to be inserted into the ear; a temperature sensor disposed in the second region and having a specific temperature sensing range with respect to the first direction; and first and second circuit boards electrically connected to the temperature sensor and disposed in the second region in a second direction intersecting the first direction. |
| US10816407B2 |
Radiometry device
The present invention separates radiation from an object by a polarization filter 3 into polarized light beams, causes one of the beams to enter a spectrum analyzer 7 through a first optical path, causes the other to enter the spectrum analyzer 7 through a second optical path, and measures the two-color ratio, while causes radiation of a blackbody 2 placed in a vacuum ultralow temperature thermostatic chamber 1 in a quasi-thermal equilibrium state at an ultralow temperature in vacuo to enter the polarization filter 3 through a third optical path, separates the radiation into polarized light beams, causes the beams to each enter the same optical paths as the respective optical paths for the radiation of the object, causes the beams to enter the spectrum analyzer 7, measures the two-color ratio, and accurately obtains the temperature of the object on the basis of these two two-color ratios. |
| US10816405B2 |
Level and surface temperature gauge
A level and surface temperature gauge includes a housing structure, a level scanner, and a temperature scanner). The level scanner is supported by the housing structure and is configured to generate surface level measurements of a process material surface at a plurality of locations on the surface. The temperature scanner is supported by the housing structure and is configured to generate temperature measurements of the process material surface at a plurality of locations on the surface. |
| US10816404B2 |
Method for determining a temperature without contact, and infrared measuring system
A method for contactlessly establishing a temperature of a surface includes determining the temperature measurement values of the plurality of blind pixels and determining temperature measurement values of the plurality of measurement pixels. The method further includes determining a temperature measurement value and a temperature measurement values by subtracting the temperature measurement value of the first blind pixel of the plurality of blind pixels from a temperature measurement value of a second blind pixel of the plurality of blind. The method further includes correcting the temperature measurement values by pixel-associated temperature drift components in each case, wherein the temperature drift components are determined using the temperature measurement value and/or the temperature measurement value. |
| US10816400B2 |
Spectrometer, optomechanical module, and operation method for spectrometer
A spectrometer including an optomechanical module and a control module is provided. The optomechanical module includes an optomechanical engine and a sampling device. The optomechanical engine and the sampling device are disposed in the optomechanical module. The sampling device is coupled to the optomechanical engine. The sampling device is configured to transfer a sampling light to the optomechanical engine. The sampling device includes a memory device. The memory device is disposed in the sampling device. The memory device is configured to pre-store an optomechanical parameter corresponding to the optomechanical engine. The control module is coupled to the optomechanical module. The control module is configured to read the memory device to obtain the optomechanical parameter. The control module calibrates the optomechanical engine according to the optomechanical parameter. |
| US10816397B2 |
Device and system for measuring flicker
Techniques are disclosed for measuring an amount of flicker produced by a light source. In one embodiment, a flicker measuring device includes a photo sensor to measure the amount of light produced by the light source, a dedicated processor to receive and process data from the photo sensor, a memory bus coupled to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and to a first memory, and a direct memory access (DMA) bus coupled to the ADC and to a second memory. In another embodiment, a flicker measuring system uses a light sensor, an associated circuit and a portable computing device (PCD), such as a smart phone, to measure an amount of flicker produced by a light source by sending an electrical signal from the light source and associated circuit via an audio output to an audio sub-system of the PCD, so that the PCD may calculate the flicker value. |
| US10816389B2 |
Method and apparatus for peak weight detection
A method for determining a peak weight associated with an agricultural machine includes the step of determining a weight associated with the agricultural machine. Operational parameters are stored in response to determining that the weight is above a threshold. The threshold can be based on a maximum weight associated with the agricultural machine and set via user input to a machine control indicator. In one embodiment, a new weight associated with the agricultural machine is determined. The new weight is compared to a previous peak weight associated with the agricultural machine. The new weight is stored as a peak weight in response to determining that the new weight is higher than the previous peak weight. Operational parameters associated with the new weight can also be stored in response to determining that the new weight is higher than the previous peak weight. |
| US10816385B2 |
Radar level gauge
The present invention relates to a radar level gauge for determining a distance (D) to a surface of a product in a tank, said radar level gauge comprising: a transceiver configured to transmit an electromagnetic transmit signal (ST) with varying frequency towards said surface and to receive an electromagnetic return signal (SR), via a signal propagation device; a mixer adapted to mix the transmitted electromagnetic transmit signal with the received electromagnetic return signal to provide a mixer output signal including information about the surface's echo and information about another echo; and processing circuitry configured to apply an algorithm to the mixer output signal, which algorithm provides a distance-level rate matrix wherein the surface's echo and said another echo each is determined in the two dimensions distance and level rate, and to determine the distance to the surface based on the thus determined echo of the surface. |
| US10816383B1 |
Apparatus and method for determination of liquid mass
The present disclosure generally pertains to devices and methods for determining propellant mass based on average measurements irrespective of the fluid orientation in a fuel tank. The device is useful in detecting fuel levels in tanks where the fuel is in motion, for instance in aircraft (i.e., undergoing varying acceleration maneuvers) or spacecraft (i.e., a microgravity environment). The devices and methods can also be used for determining the liquid in a surface tension screen liquid acquisition device (LAD), and particularly, the incipient breakdown as gas bubbles enter or are formed inside the LAD as the screen dries or heat transfer induces vaporization. The same basic electrode configuration can be used to stir the liquid to reduce thermal stratification and condense vapor bubbles. |
| US10816374B2 |
Signal processing apparatus and system including the same
A signal processing apparatus for processing a signal is provided. The apparatus includes a comparator having one input terminal to which a signal is inputted, a first switch configured to switch between application and non-application of a reference voltage, a second switch configured to switch between application and non-application of an envelope reference voltage; a third switch configured to switch between application and non-application of an error detection reference voltage; and a controller configured to perform switching control of the first switch, the second switch and the third switch based on an output of the comparator. |
| US10816372B2 |
Monitoring system and mounting base thereof
The present application discloses monitoring system, which includes a mounting base and a monitoring device. The mounting base includes a base, a first cover, a second cover and a fastening member. The base includes a ball shaft and a first wire accommodating portion located in the ball shaft. The first cover and the second cover are sleeved on the outside of the ball shaft. The second cover includes a second wire accommodating portion, an outer screw thread and a connecting portion, and the outer screw thread is adjacent to the connecting portion. One end of the fastening member is connected to the first cover, and the fastening member is screwed to the second cover. The monitoring device includes a housing connected to the connecting portion of the second cover, and a wire accommodated in the first wire accommodating portion and the second wire accommodating portion. |
| US10816371B2 |
Liquid level sensor with improved removability
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to a liquid level sensor system that allows ease of connection and disconnection of a removable vessel (such as a toilet bowl) from a stationary unit (such as a toilet frame). The system provides at least one liquid level sensor (a first part of the sensor probe connection) mounted to the removable vessel, a liquid level sensor circuit board mounted to the unit, and a connection feature (a second part of a sensor probe connection) configured to extend between the sensor and the circuit board. When the removable vessel is removed from the vessel, the sensor probe connection is disconnected without the need for manual intervention. Installation of multiple probes and varying their location can support detection of a single or several discrete levels, or provide for any required redundancy of detection. |
| US10816358B2 |
Method and test system for sensor fusion positioning testing
A test system for testing the positioning functionality of a device under test (DUT) is provided. The test system includes a high precision global navigation satellite system (GNSS) simulator configured to simulate real-time kinematic (RTK) signals. The test system further includes a sensor simulator configured to simulate ideal sensor signals, and a sensor error model unit. The sensor error model unit is further configured to simulate sensor errors based on a real sensor datasheet. The simulated ideal sensor signals are combined with the simulated sensor errors to form real simulation signals. |
| US10816356B2 |
Autonomous feature optimization for a connected vehicle based on a navigation route
The disclosure includes embodiments for autonomous feature optimization. In some embodiments, a method includes generating one or more candidate navigation routes for a driver of a vehicle. In some embodiments, the method includes determining a set of autonomous features to be provided by the vehicle for each of the one or more candidate navigation routes. In some embodiments, the method includes determining that the set of autonomous features includes an unsafe autonomous feature that is not safe to use during any part between the start point and the end point of the one or more candidate navigation routes. In some embodiments, the method includes displaying a user interface that includes the one or more candidate navigation routes and corresponding autonomous features that are available for each of the one or more candidate navigation routes, wherein the user interface excludes the unsafe autonomous feature. |
| US10816350B2 |
Restricting travel for vehicle passengers
One embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining, using a processor, a user identification of a vehicle passenger; obtaining, based on the user identification, a travel restriction; and providing, to a vehicle, an indication of the travel restriction. Other aspects are described and claimed. |
| US10816347B2 |
Tunnel mapping system and methods
A process for constructing highly accurate three-dimensional mappings of objects along a rail tunnel in which GPS signal information is not available includes providing a vehicle for traversing the tunnel on the rails, locating on the vehicle a LiDAR unit, a mobile GPS unit, an inertial navigation system, and a speed sensor to determine the speed of said vehicle. A stationary GPS, whose geolocation is well-defined, is located near the entrance of the tunnel. Image-identifiable targets having a well-defined geodetic locations are located at preselected locations within the tunnel. The vehicle traverses the tunnel, producing mass point cloud datasets along said tunnel. Precise measurements of 3D rail coordinates are also obtained. The datasets are adjusted based on the mobile GPS unit, the inertial navigation system, the speed sensor, the location of the image-identifiable targets, and the precise measurements of 3D rail coordinates, to thereby produce highly accurate, and substantially geodetically correct, three-dimensional mappings of objects along the tunnel. |
| US10816344B2 |
Method and system for determining the pointing angle of a moving object
An illustrative example method of tracking a moving object includes determining an initial pointing angle of the object from a tracking device, determining an estimated position of a selected feature on the object based upon the initial pointing angle, determining a velocity vector at the estimated position, determining a lateral acceleration at the estimated position based upon the velocity vector and a yaw rate of the object, determining a sideslip angle of the selected feature based on the lateral acceleration, and determining a refined pointing angle of the object from the determined sideslip angle. |
| US10816341B2 |
Backchannel encoding for virtual, augmented, or mixed reality (xR) applications in connectivity-constrained environments
Embodiments of systems and methods for backchannel encoding in virtual, augmented, or mixed reality (xR) applications in connectivity-constrained environments are described. In some embodiments, an Head-Mounted Device (HMD) may include a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the HMD to: encode each of a plurality of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) landmarks, in part, based upon the SLAM landmark's distance to the HMD; and transmit the encoded SLAM landmarks to an Information Handling System (IHS) coupled to the HMD. |
| US10816338B2 |
Surveying device
To provide a surveying device whereby there is no need to remove a light-receiving part when removing a handle. A surveying device is provided with a handle having a cantilever structure provided with a rod-shaped grip part and a handgrip support part for supporting one end of the grip part, and a body having a top-part structure having a two-headed structure configured from a body part and a body part extending upward, a light-receiving part for optical communication is provided, a handgrip support part in which the rod-shaped grip part is fixed in a detachable state is fixed to a top part of the body part, and the handgrip support part is fixed in a detachable state to a top part of the body part. |
| US10816334B2 |
Augmented reality measurement and schematic system including tool having relatively movable fiducial markers
Aspects of the present disclosure include apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for identifying a first geometric position of a first point in space and one or more second geometric positions of one or more respective second points in space associated with placement of the first tool member and a second tool member of a measurement tool, generating a final dimension of a part of the real-world structure based on at least the one or more second geometric positions according to relative geometric relationship with respect to the first point, and displaying a virtual schematic diagram of the real-world structure having the final dimension. |
| US10816331B2 |
Super-resolving depth map by moving pattern projector
The subject disclosure is directed towards active depth sensing based upon moving a projector or projector component to project a moving light pattern into a scene. Via the moving light pattern captured over a set of frames, e.g., by a stereo camera system, and estimating light intensity at sub-pixel locations in each stereo frame, higher resolution depth information at a sub-pixel level may be computed than is captured by the native camera resolution. |
| US10816330B1 |
Shape measuring apparatus
A head provided to a shape measuring apparatus includes a translucent stylus head that displaces integrally with a light source and a photoreceiver, and is arranged between the light source and the photoreceiver. The stylus head includes an incident portion that causes the light from the light source to be incident on an interior of the stylus head, a reflection portion that totally reflects the incident light, and a light emission portion that emits the light that is totally reflected toward the photoreceiver. Evanescent light is generated at the measurement surface by the light that is totally reflected by the total reflection surface. The stylus head brings the measurement surface and a surface of a measurable object to face each other, separates the measurement surface from the surface of the measurable object, and is arranged such that the evanescent light reaches the surface of the measurable object. |
| US10816325B2 |
Deformometer for determining deformation of an optical cavity optic
A deformometer includes: a cavity body; entry and exit optical cavity optics, such that the optical cavity produces filtered combined light from combined light; a first laser that provides first light; a second laser that provides second light; an optical combiner that: receives the first light; receives the second light; combines the first light and the second light; produces combined light from the first light and the second light; and communicates the combined light to the entry optical cavity optic; a beam splitter that: receives the filtered combined light; splits the filtered combined light; a first light detector in optical communication with the beam splitter and that: receives the first filtered light from the beam splitter; and produces a first cavity signal from the first filtered light; and a second light detector that: receives the second filtered light; and produces a second cavity signal from the second filtered light. |
| US10816315B2 |
Check method of worm gears
A check method of worm gears includes the following steps: identification of a real profile (PR) of a worm gear to be checked; scanning of the real profile (PR) in such a way to obtain a measured profile (PM), filtering of the measured profile (PM) with a low pass filter in such a way to obtain a primary profile (PP), filtering of the primary profile (PP) with a high pass filter in such a way to obtain a surface analysis profile (SA), calculation of three parameters (SAa; SAq; SAp) from said surface analysis profile (SA) and comparison of the three parameters (SAa; SAq; SAp) with preset threshold values (TSa; TSq; TSp) in such a way to reject the worm gear when at least one of the parameters exceeds the corresponding threshold value. |
| US10816314B2 |
Gage for detecting a diameter of a bolt hole back socket
A gage for detecting the diameter of a bolt hole back socket consists of a go side cylinder, a first holder, a first digital depth gage, a first screw, a handle, a no-go side cylinder, a second screw, a second holder and a second digital depth gage. The gage can meet the detection requirement for the plane diameter of a bolt hole back socket of a wheel. An operator can use the gage to quickly detect whether the plane diameter of the bolt hole back socket is qualified, so that high-precision complete detection is realized. The gage converts depth detection into determination on whether the diameter is qualified. |
| US10816307B2 |
Weapon targeting system
A point of aim shows where a weapon is aimed on a target. An electronic device determines an impact location on the target of a projectile fired from the weapon, determines a distance from the point of aim to the impact location, and moves the point of aim in order to sight the weapon to the target. |
| US10816306B2 |
Weapon targeting system
A point of aim shows where a weapon is aimed on a target. An electronic device determines an impact location on the target of a projectile fired from the weapon, determines a distance from the point of aim to the impact location, and moves the point of aim in order to sight the weapon to the target. |
| US10816293B2 |
Apparatus, system and method for reducing gun violence
A firearms operating mechanism included in a firearm. The firearms operating mechanism including a trigger bar and a compliant mechanism coupled to the trigger bar, the compliant mechanism operable in at least a first state and a second state. When the compliant mechanism is in the first state the trigger bar is positioned to operate as a part of the firearms operating mechanism to fire the firearm in response to a trigger pull. When the compliant mechanism is in the second state the trigger bar is modified such that the trigger pull is incapable of firing the firearm. |
| US10816275B2 |
Semiconductor device assembly with vapor chamber
Semiconductor device assemblies having stacked semiconductor dies and thermal transfer devices that include vapor chambers are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device assembly includes a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die on a base region of the first die, and a thermal transfer device attached to a peripheral region of the first die and extending over the second die. The thermal transfer device includes a conductive structure having an internal cavity and a working fluid at least partially filling the cavity. The conductive structure further includes first and second fluid conversion regions adjacent the cavity. The first fluid conversion region transfers heat from at least the peripheral region of the first die to a volume of the working fluid to vaporize the volume in the cavity, and the second fluid conversion region condenses the volume of the working fluid in the cavity after it has been vaporized. |
| US10816274B2 |
Vapor chamber
A vapor chamber that includes a housing having a first sheet and a second sheet that oppose each other and of which respective peripheral regions are joined to each other to form a sealing portion. The vapor chamber also includes a working liquid enclosed within the housing and a wick structure on an inside surface of the first sheet or the second sheet. In the vapor chamber, the sealing portion includes a first portion having a first width and a second portion having a second width, the first width being greater than the second width. A specially shaped portion is present in the first portion. The specially shaped portion is a portion at which an inclination angle of the first sheet and/or the second sheet is greater than a second inclination angle of a portion of the first sheet and/or the second sheet outside of the specifically shaped portion. |
| US10816268B2 |
Cement clinker cooler with reciprocating planks
A grate bar (for forming a plank of a conveyor grate for transporting bulk material) includes at least an up-facing surface for supporting bulk material, a down-facing surface for supporting the grate bar on at least one grate bar rest, front end and rear-end sides, first and second profiled narrow sides. The first and second profiled narrow sides are complementary to one another and form a moving gap therebetween if and/or when the first profiled narrow side of the chosen grate bar is positioned adjacent to the second profiled narrow side of a neighboring grate bar (that is identical to the chosen grate bar at least with respect to the profile of the second profiled narrow side). The grate bar can be easily replaced if a front edge between the up-facing surface and the front-end side has a front edge curvature, a rear edge between the up-facing surface and the rear-end side has a rear edge curvature and the rear edge curvature is complementary to the front edge curvature. |
| US10816256B2 |
Thermally insulated container assembly
The present invention provides a thermally insulated container comprising an expanded foam layer, a further layer, internal of the expanded foam layer, formed of a plurality of cool packs or insulation panels, and a locking lid. The cool packs consist of a combination of cool packs with stepped edges and individual side wall cool packs side wall cool packs formed with a living hinge, wherein the cool packs consist of a protruding fill point on one edge and blanking protrusions on the remaining three edges, and the cool packs comprise recesses on the top and bottom edges to accommodate either the fill point or the blanking protrusion of each adjacent cool pack. The insulation panels are pre-assembled on a sheet ready for insertion into the container. The expanded foam layer includes a number of individual preformed sections assembled to form a main body of the container, the main body consisting of a rectangular base and four wall sections, wherein inner faces of opposed pairs of wall sections are substantially parallel to each other. The locking lid comprises a main body formed from an expanded foam and a locking member formed from expanded foam, the main body being arranged to be received in and to close a mouth of the container and the locking member being arranged to rotate to lock the lid in place. The lid in accordance with the invention may provide a particularly efficient thermal barrier. |
| US10816251B2 |
Heat pump
An exemplary heat pump includes: a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant; a first heat exchanger configured to condense the compressed refrigerant; a flow rate adjustment valve configured to adjust a flow rate of the condensed refrigerant; an expansion valve having an adjustable opening and configured to decompress the refrigerant having passed the flow rate adjustment valve; a second heat exchanger configured to cool a temperature control target by using the refrigerant decompressed by the expansion valve; and a control device configured to control the opening of the expansion valve based on a difference between the temperature of the refrigerant flowing into the second heat exchanger and the temperature of the refrigerant flowing out from the second heat exchanger, and to control the opening of the flow rate adjustment valve based on the flow rate of the refrigerant to be supplied to the second heat exchanger. |
| US10816241B2 |
Method for extracting thermal energy in underground high temperature area of coalfield fire area
A method for extracting thermal energy in an underground high temperature area of a coalfield fire area, including: determining a thermal extraction target area by a natural potential method and a ground detecting borehole; using an injection borehole to send a gaseous thermal medium to an underground high temperature area of the thermal extraction target area; after the thermal exchange between the gaseous thermal medium and a high temperature coal rock mass, the gaseous thermal medium is extracted through an extraction borehole; continuously monitoring a natural potential of the thermal extraction target area; arranging a casing-type borehole thermal exchanger in a potential anomaly region to complete the thermal exchange between the high temperature coal rocks and a liquid thermal medium; stopping the thermal extraction operations when the temperatures of the extracted gaseous thermal medium and the liquid thermal medium reach 70° C. or below. |
| US10816229B2 |
Harvesting energy from humidity fluctuations
The innovation uses the disparity between dry and wet conditions of the air, by storing the ‘dryness’ or ‘wetness’ in a hygroscopic material. When the surrounding air is drier or wetter than the hygroscopic material, the potential energy difference between moisture in the air and that in the material can be used as a way of transporting heat from the material to the air and vice versa. A simple way this energy can be used is for heating and cooling of a building. For example, a large storage of adsorbing material can be dried in the hot summer, and allowed to re-adsorb water in the cold winter, thus gaining heat that can be used for domestic heating. |
| US10816216B2 |
Method and apparatus for preventing cooktop fires
A power circuit for controlling power to a heating element includes an electric resistive element and a thermal switch assembly in series. The thermal switch assembly includes a first contact connected to the electric resistive element, a second contact, and a bimetal element configured to electrically connect and disconnect the first and second contacts. The bimetal element establishing an electrical connection between the first and second contacts when a temperature of the bimetal element is below a predetermined cut-off temperature, and no longer electrically connecting the first and second contacts when the bimetal element is at or above the predetermined cut-off temperature. A first voltage is applied to the electric resistive element when the bimetal element electrically connects the first and second contacts and a second voltage, lower than the first voltage, is applied to the electric resistive element when the bimetal element electrically disconnects the first and second contacts. |
| US10816210B2 |
Premixed fuel nozzle
A fuel injector assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a centerbody extended along a lengthwise direction, the centerbody defining a first fuel nozzle, and an annular shroud defining a second fuel nozzle directly surrounding the centerbody and extended along the lengthwise direction. A passage is defined through the annular shroud and extended generally along the lengthwise direction. The passage defines an exit opening disposed at a downstream end adjacent to the combustion chamber and in fluid communication therewith. The annular shroud defines a fuel inlet opening disposed at an upstream end of the passage. The annular shroud defines an air inlet opening in fluid communication with the passage. The air inlet opening is disposed between the fuel inlet opening and the exit opening. |
| US10816209B2 |
Bluff body fuel mixer
A fuel injection system may comprise a mixer and a fuel injector disposed within the mixer. The mixer may comprise an outer housing with an exit port and a bluff body extending across the exit port of the outer housing. A flared surface of the mixer may match a contour of the bluff body. |
| US10816175B2 |
Luminaire for mounting on a pole
A luminaire (1) for mounting on a pole is disclosed. The luminaire (1) comprises: a lighting unit (17); a driver compartment (8) housing a driver (9) electrically connected to the lighting unit (17); and a pole compartment (3) adapted to receive an end portion of the pole, the pole compartment (3) extending along a longitudinal axis (L) along which said end portion is arranged when received by the pole compartment (3), wherein the pole compartment (3) and the driver compartment (5) are arranged adjacent to each other in a direction (D) perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (L), and wherein the driver compartment (8) and the lighting unit (17) are arranged at a distance from each other along the longitudinal axis (L). A street lamp comprising the luminaire (1) is also disclosed. |
| US10816174B2 |
Low voltage security lighting systems including intrusion sensors for use with perimeter fences
A security light system for a fence includes a security light having a light module with an LED, a hat overlying the LED for reflecting light, a junction box having an interior compartment containing an LED driver for controlling operation of the LED, the junction box including a front end having a front opening and a rear end opposite the front end, and a front cover plate covering the front opening. The security light includes an extension tube having an upper end secured to the light module and a lower end secured to the junction box, a clamp assembly for securing the junction box to a fence post, and an offset bracket positioned between a rear end of the junction box and the fence post for spacing the junction box from the fence post which, in turn, spaces the hat from the fence post. |
| US10816171B2 |
Downlight apparatus
A downlight apparatus is designed to be installed in a cavity of a ceiling. The downlight apparatus includes a base part, a major part and a connector. The base part has a shape to be fixed in the cavity of the ceiling. The base part has a base housing for defining a through hole and a light window. The major part includes a major housing, a light source and a driver circuit. The connector connects the major housing and the base housing. The connector provides multiple candidate positions for a user to configure to change a relative position of the base part and the major part so as to change an output light defined determined by the light window and the light source. |
| US10816170B2 |
Interface for cover plate
A system for mounting pendant lighting fixtures includes an interface component adapted to be at least partially retained in an opening defined by a ceiling. The interface component defines at least one aperture to accommodate a hanging support extending through the opening and configured to support a pendant lighting fixture. The system includes a cover plate defining at least one aperture to accommodate the hanging support. The system also includes at least one magnetic element operable to exert a magnetic bias on the cover plate to secure the cover plate against the interface component and at least partially cover the opening. |
| US10816164B2 |
Lamp reflector and laminate for reflector
A lamp reflector (10a) includes a mirror surface (11) and a laminate (12a). The mirror surface (11) is a surface for reflecting light from a light source (30) to guide the light in a predetermined direction. The laminate (12a) covers at least a part of the mirror surface (11) to absorb an electromagnetic wave having a specific frequency of 20 GHz to 90 GHz. The laminate (12a) allows the light from the light source (30) to transmit therethrough toward the mirror surface (11). |
| US10816162B2 |
Vehicular headlight with light diffusing, heat mitigating extension member
In order to provide a vehicular headlight in which a rise in temperature of an extension member due to sunlight can be suppressed, and for which the appearance can be improved, a vehicular headlight includes: a light source; a reflector that reflects light from the light source; a lens having an entry surface through which light reflected by the reflector enters, and an exit surface from which the light that has entered the entry surface exits into an irradiation region in front of the vehicle; an extension member disposed at least in front of and below the lens in a vehicle-mounted state, and including a colored portion and a light-transmitting member that is disposed covering the colored portion and is capable of transmitting light; and a light-scattering portion provided at least in a portion of the light-transmitting member below the lens in the vehicle-mounted state. |
| US10816156B2 |
Light guiding element, light guiding device, and lighting module
Provided are a light guiding element (100), a light guiding device (500), and a lighting module (800). The light guiding element (100) includes a light incident portion (1) and a light exit portion (2), where the light incident portion (1) includes a plurality of light guiding columns (11), each of which includes a first end surface (A) connected to the light exit portion (2), a second end surface (B) facing away from the light exit portion, and a side surface formed between the first end surface (A) and the second end surface (B), where the first end surface (A) has an area larger than that of the second end surface (B). Also provided are a light guiding device (500) including the light guiding element (100), and a lighting module (800) including the light guiding device (500). The light guiding element (100) enables, for a generated light type pattern, the shape to be complete, the color to be even, and the phenomena of vignette effect and dark lines to be reduced. |
| US10816144B2 |
Light bulb base connector
A light fixture having a bulb base connector limited to a DC supply with 10-30 volt DC power. The connector assembly utilizes threading, friction and/or detent connection for connecting a lightbulb assembly to the light fixture in vehicles. A dual threading system and a barrel connector are configured to connect the lightbulb to the light fixture and to supply power from the fixture to the light bulb. The system uses a unique bulb base and connector to adapt to preexisting fixtures. |
| US10816141B2 |
Chemical solution feeder, substrate treatment apparatus, method for feeding chemical solution, and method for treating substrate
A chemical solution feeder feeds a chemical solution to a predetermined feed target, and includes: a feed flow path that is connected at its one end to a supply source of a chemical solution at room temperature and at its other end to a feed target, to guide the chemical solution to the feed target from the supply source; a first filter that removes particles in a chemical solution at room temperature injected from the supply source into the feed flow path; a heating unit that heats the chemical solution having passed through the first filter; and a second filter that removes particles in the chemical solution at high temperature heated by the heating unit, flowing through the feed flow path toward the feed target, wherein the first filter is a hydrophilic filter and the second filter is a hydrophobic filter. |
| US10816136B2 |
Grease gun pressure return valve
The invention provides an apparatus comprising a grease gun (10) having a delivery line (22), the apparatus being configured to return grease under pressure from within the delivery line (22) of the grease gun (10) back to a grease reservoir (14); the grease gun (10) comprising a dispensing head (12) fitted to reservoir (14) containing grease and including a grease inlet port (16), for receiving grease from the grease reservoir (14), a grease outlet port (20) connectable to the delivery line (22) for dispensing grease; a pressure chamber (18) wherein the grease inlet port (16) is in fluid communication with the grease outlet port (20) via the pressure chamber (18); a piston (28) operable for displacing the grease from the grease inlet port (16) to the grease outlet port (20); and a one-way flow control valve located between the pressure chamber and the grease outlet port to inhibit the reverse flow of the grease from the grease outlet port back into the pressure chamber; the dispensing head (12) further comprising a pressure return port (26), located upstream of the grease inlet port (16) and linked to the grease outlet port (20) by a pressure return passage and openable into the pressure chamber (18), for returning the grease under pressure to the pressure chamber (18) and the grease reservoir (14), in which the piston (28) acts as a valve movable between a first position where the pressure return port (26) is closed and a second position where the pressure return port (26) is open. |
| US10816121B2 |
Quick connect coupling with verifier
A quick connect coupling having a female part with a throughbore for receiving a tube having an annular extending bead. A latch is supported in the female part in communication with the throughbore. A verifier is provided in stacked arrangement with the latch. Insertion of the tube results in extending sides of the latch expanding outwardly and likewise expanding the extending sides of the verifier. Upon passage of the bead past the latch, the latch seating in the engaged position, with the verifier held open by alignment with the annular bead. The verifier subsequently being displaced to a fully engaged position to indicate that the fluid coupling is fluidly and fully connected. |
| US10816115B2 |
Capillary connection system
A socket unit for a capillary connection system, especially for use in HPLC applications, includes a housing with a housing outer surface and a housing inner surface that define a housing axial cavity. The socket unit also includes a socket connecting mechanism adapted to engage with a corresponding plug connecting mechanism of a plug unit to connect the plug unit and the socket unit together, wherein the socket connecting mechanism is adapted for a predetermined number of discrete connection states between the socket unit and the plug unit. |
| US10816113B2 |
Thermoplastic composite pipe with multilayer intermediate lamina
A process for producing a thermoplastic composite pipe is provided. The thermoplastic composite pipe thus produced contains a liner, two or more composite layers composed of tape laminas, and a single- or multilayer intermediate lamina arranged between different composite layers. Composite formation between identical polymers in the process achieves improved adhesion. The thermoplastic composite pipe is especially suitable for offshore applications in oil or gas production. |
| US10816112B2 |
Method of lining pipe with high strength liner, high strength liner, and pipe lined with high strength liner
A liner tube for lining a pipe and pipe lining method. Liner material that includes a strength layer and felt backing layer forms the liner tube. The strength layer includes chopped strands of fiber oriented generally parallel to one another and distributed along the strength layer. The felt backing layer can be needle punched to the strength layer. Joining structure can connect opposite longitudinal edge margins of the liner material to form a tube shape. The liner tube is impregnated with a curable polymer, positioned in the pipe, and cured to form the liner. The liner stretches radially when it is positioned in the pipe. As the liner stretches, the strength layer remains fixed to the felt backing and the width of the overlapping edge margins does not decrease. |
| US10816095B2 |
Decoking control valve using dynamic rod seal
The decoking control valve includes a piston, a cylinder, and a hydraulic rod seal at the outlet ports. The piston can move translational inside the cylinder along a fixed direction. The cylinder houses the hydraulic rod seal in a groove of the cylinder that places the hydraulic rod seal next to the piston. The hydraulic rod seal has a seal ring in contact with the piston, and the seal rings are activated. As the piston translates within the cylinder, the seal ring will activate at one outlet port and allow fluid to flow out of another outlet port. |
| US10816093B2 |
Parking lock mechanism
A parking lock mechanism comprises: a parking gear disposed on a power transmission member mechanically coupled to a drive wheel; and a parking pawl provided with a lock claw configured to mesh with the parking gear and switching between a lock state in which the lock claw is meshed with the parking gear and an unlock state in which meshing between the lock claw and the parking gear is released. In the mechanism, the lock claw includes a first end surface and a second end surface opposite to each other in a face width direction, the lock claw includes a tooth tip surface provided with a retreated portion at a corner on the second end surface side, and a position of a center of gravity of the parking pawl is on the second end surface side relative to a center plane in the face width direction of the lock claw. |
| US10816091B2 |
Method for operating a parking lock device by means of a hydraulic system
A method for operating a parking lock device with a hydraulic system, the method including applying the pressure between the parking lock valve and the pressure chamber at the parking lock valve against the actuating force. Moreover, when there is a demand to disengage the parking lock device, the method includes applying the pilot pressure at the parking lock valve against the actuating force when the pressure between the parking lock valve and the pressure chamber of the parking lock valve is less than a threshold value at which the parking lock valve is transferred into a further operating condition range. Additionally, when there is a demand to disengage the parking lock device, the method includes adjusting the pilot pressure applied at the positioning valve to a pressure level at which the positioning valve is transferred into or held in its defined operating condition range. |
| US10816090B2 |
Oil supply system of an automatic transmission or automated manual transmission in a powertrain
An oil supply system of an automatic transmission or an automated manual transmission in a power train has an oil pan and a pressure line for supplying elements of the transmission with pressurized oil. A pumping device pumps oil from the oil pan into the pressure line at a supply pressure P0. A hydrodynamic converter, being a starting element, forms a subsection of the pressure line. A hydrodynamic retarder is disposed in a retarder oil circuit. At least a first switching valve, a second switching valve and a heat exchanger, wherein the heat exchanger is selectively switchable, by way of the switching valves, as a subsection into the pressure line or the retarder oil circuit. A temperature sensor is provided following the pumping device in the direction of flow in order to detect the oil temperature in the pressure line. |
| US10816079B2 |
Actuator with stacked gears and bend shaft
A gear train is contained within the housing of an actuator, is coupled to a movable component outside the housing, and includes a first gear and a second gear. A bend shaft is fixed to an internal surface of the housing and supports the first and second gears. The bend shaft includes a lower portion, a crosspiece, and an upper portion. The lower portion has a first end coupled to the housing and a second end offset from the first end, and extends from the first end to the second end along a first direction. The crosspiece is oriented orthogonal to the first direction and extends from the second end of the lower portion. The upper portion has a third end coupled to the crosspiece and a fourth end offset from the third end, and extends from the third end to the fourth end along the first direction. |
| US10816078B2 |
Systems and methods for a gas turbine engine with combined multi-directional gearbox deflection limiters and dampers
A planet gear train for an engine casing includes a sun gear rotatable by a shaft, a ring gear, a plurality of planet gears rotatably mounted in a planet carrier and meshing with the sun gear and the ring gear, and a damping system. The damping system includes a soft mount disposed about the shaft and coupling the planet carrier the engine casing. The soft mount includes a flexible inner sleeve and a flexible outer sleeve. The flexible inner sleeve and the flexible outer sleeve are fixedly coupled together at respective central portions thereof near the shaft. The damping system further includes a plurality of damping couplers disposed about an outer flange of the planet carrier. The plurality of damping couplers is configured to flexibly couple the flexible inner sleeve to the flexible outer sleeve. |
| US10816066B2 |
Manual-automatic integrated unloading device and display screen module structure
The present invention discloses a manual-automatic integrated unloading device, comprising an electric driving member, a transmission member, an abutment member and a push-out rod. The push-out rod is movably arranged along a length direction thereof, the electric driving member and the push-out rod are respectively connected to the transmission member, and the electric driving member drives the push-out rod to butt against the abutment member through the transmission member to increase spacing between the abutment member and the electric driving member. The present invention further comprises a rotating handle connected to the transmission member, the rotating handle drives the push-out rod to butt against the abutment member through the transmission member to increase the spacing between the abutment member and the electric driving member. For a display screen module with a short mounting position, a user separates a mounting frame body from a display screen by operating the rotation handle. |
| US10816058B2 |
Torsional vibration damper and manufacturing method thereof
A torsional vibration damper in which a vibration damping performance is enhanced without increasing a manufacturing cost. A torsional vibration damper damps torsional vibrations by a relative rotation between a rotary member and an inertia body. Hardness of the contact surface of any one of the inertia body and a rolling mass is harder than the contact surface of the other one. Smoothness of the contact surface of any one of the inertia body and the rolling mass is smoother than the contact surface of the other one. |
| US10816050B2 |
Brake lining for disc brakes of rail vehicles
A brake lining for a disc brake includes a distribution of lining elements which are arranged on a lining support or on group supports in groups, and the group supports are secured to the lining support. The lining elements have first lining elements and second lining elements, and the group supports have a first group support and a second group support. The first lining elements are arranged on the first group support or on the lining support in a non-tiltable and/or inflexible manner, and the second lining elements are arranged on the second group support or on the lining in a tiltable and/or flexible manner. |
| US10816045B2 |
Clutch structure
A clutch structure includes a rotary shaft, a cylinder, and a clutch. An outer peripheral fitting surface of the rotary shaft includes an engagement groove. The engagement groove extends in an axial direction along a rotation axis of the rotary shaft. A clutch cover of the clutch includes an engagement protrusion. The engagement protrusion protrudes inwardly in a radial direction with respect to the rotation axis from an inner peripheral surface of an annular inner edge of the clutch cover. The engagement protrusion engages in the engagement groove to hinder the clutch cover from rotating about the rotation axis relative to the rotary shaft. |
| US10816042B2 |
Coupling arrangement for a gearbox
The invention relates to a coupling arrangement for a gearbox, comprising a coupling sleeve, which is axially displaceable between a first and second position, a first and second rotatable element, which are connectable and disconnectable to each other by means of the coupling sleeve, an electrical machine connected to one of the first and second rotatable element, and a position indicator device for detecting the angular position of a rotor of the electrical machine. The position indicator device also is arranged to detect the axial position of the coupling sleeve. |
| US10816038B1 |
Plastic sleeve on support bearing
A sleeve is provided on a seal seat of a bearing ring, for example an outer bearing ring of a propshaft bearing. The sleeve receives a bearing seal in an interference fit. |
| US10816037B2 |
Seals for linear guides
A seal member for a linear guide including a guide rail and slider movably set on the guide rail through rolling elements, the seal member, attached to the slider, configured to seal an opening of a gap between the guide rail and slider, the seal member includes: fibers having been impregnated with rubber or resin, wherein a sliding contact part of said seal member, which is in sliding contact with the guide rail, is made of the fibers. |
| US10816030B2 |
Two-piece anti-loosening nut assembly
A two-piece anti-loosening nut assembly includes a nut and a washer. The nut is configured to threadedly engaged with a bolt and has a main body including an annular outer flange extending outwardly and radially from an end periphery thereof. The annular outer flange has an annular flange surface formed with a cam structure. The washer is fixedly disposed on the nut, and has a lower ring surface facing the annular flange surface and formed with a cam structure engaged with the cam structure of the annular flange surface, and an upper ring surface opposite to the lower ring surface and formed with a serrated structure configured to bite into a surface of a workpiece. |
| US10816029B2 |
Device for preventing spills from inside mining mills, said device maintaining a seal around bolts used to secure mill liners, and maintaining said bolts under tension by means of an elastic action
The invention relates to a device for preventing spills from inside mining mills, said device maintaining a seal around bolts used to secure mill liners, such that the bolt remains under tension within a range of several millimetres along the length between the head and the nut of the bolt, with the length covered by the elements compressed between the head of the bolt and the device for preventing pulp leaks in mills, exerting pressure on the washer that provides a seal against leaks from inside the mill. The device comprises one or more pairs of Belleville washers which include an annular space into which a sleeve with an inner seal is inserted. Said sleeve includes a flange of larger diameter to allow the action of the bolt on the Belleville washers, said Belleville washers exerting pressure on the washer that provides a seal against leaks from inside the mill. The length of the sleeve is greater than or equal to the total thickness of the Belleville washers at maximum compression, and the flange of the sleeve is only required if the diameter inscribed on the contact surface with the bolt is smaller than the annular diameter of the Belleville washers. |
| US10816025B1 |
Screw band
A screw band has a body and multiple positioning members disposed on the body. The body has two paper layers and an adhesive layer. Each one of the two paper layers has a paper base and a waterproof heat-insulation film. The waterproof heat-insulation film is mounted on an outer surface of the paper base. The adhesive layer is disposed between and is connected with the two paper layers. The adhesive layer is connected to inner surfaces of the paper bases of the two paper layers. The waterproof heat-insulation films of the two paper layers are respectively located at two outer surfaces of the body. With the waterproof heat-insulation films, the screw band has waterproof and heat-insulation effects. Screws or screw assemblies are easy to be applied with coating and baking processes automatically with the screw band. |
| US10816023B2 |
Tamper-resistant fastener for connecting a wheel rim to a hub flange of a motor vehicle
A system for connecting a wheel rim to a hub flange of a motor vehicle, having a fastener such a threaded nut or bolt, and a tool which engages the fastener in a positive-locking manner in order to tighten or release the fastener. To provide improved protection against theft of wheel rims and tires, the fastener has an annular groove extending axially from an end surface of the fastener, the groove having an annular base and inner and outer sidewalls shaped to form an undercut wider than an opening of the groove, a recess extending axially below the base for receiving a projection of a complementally-shaped key on the tool to allow rotation of the fastener. The undercut prevents an unauthorized person using a mold-making material, from being able to make an imprint of the groove and producing a tool therefrom to release the fastener. |
| US10816018B2 |
Hydraulic driving device of industrial vehicle
A hydraulic driving device of an industrial vehicle includes: a tank which stores hydraulic oil; a hydraulic pump which includes a suction port sucking the hydraulic oil and a discharge port discharging the hydraulic oil; a hydraulic cylinder which is driven by the hydraulic oil discharged from the discharge port of the hydraulic pump; a direction switching valve which is disposed among the hydraulic pump, the tank, and the hydraulic cylinder and switches a hydraulic oil flow direction in response to an operation state of operation means for driving the hydraulic cylinder; in which the direction switching valve includes a main spool which moves in response to the operation state of the operation means and a flow regulator which is disposed inside the main spool to control a flow rate of the hydraulic oil flowing from the hydraulic cylinder to the tank. |
| US10816016B2 |
Thrust expansion device
A through-hole of a hydraulic chamber is provided on an input side of a thrust expansion device in accordance with rod diameters of various actuators on the input side, and an input rod of an air cylinder or the like is inserted therein. Thus, a thrust expansion mechanism operates. An input-side actuator attaching portion of the thrust expansion device is configured such that parts can be changed according to a fixing method of various actuators and a rod shape. It is possible to freely change a thrust expansion ratio by changing a cross sectional area of the input rod. A stroke of an output-side rod can be changed by changing an input stroke of the input-side actuator. According to the thrust expansion device, various inexpensive commercially available actuators can be easily attached and replaced by being separated and independent from the input-side actuator. |
| US10816014B2 |
Systems and methods for turbine engine particle separation
A turbine engine incorporating a fine particle separation means. The turbine engine includes: a compressor, a diffuser, and a flow path positioned downstream from the diffuser, wherein the flow path comprises an outer annular wall and an inner annular wall between which the compressed air flows, and wherein the flow path comprises an arc that redirects the compressed air from flowing in a substantially radial flow direction to a substantially axial flow direction. The turbine engine further includes an extraction slot in the outer annular wall that fluidly connects with a scavenge plenum, the extraction slot also being positioned downstream axially along the flow path from the arc. The turbine engine further includes an aspiration slot, downstream from the extraction slot, that allows air from the plenum to recirculate back into the flow path. |
| US10816012B2 |
Mounting assembly of electric pump
A mounting assembly of an electric pump may include a mounting body configured to mount the electric pump, and a bracket including a structure configured for enclosing and fixing the mounting body. Furthermore, force dampening elements of the electric pump hit a seating portion of the mounting body along a fracture line of the mounting body to break the seating portion and move the electric pump toward a front of the vehicle. Accordingly, the safety for driving a vehicle is improved and the injury of a driver is reduced during a collision of the vehicle. |
| US10816007B2 |
Oil tank installation in gas turbine engine
Oil tanks for gas turbine engines and associated assembly methods are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, an oil tank is configured to be installed to occupy a radially-inner space defined by an annular radial air inlet duct of a reverse flow gas turbine engine. The oil tank may comprise a first tank portion and a second tank portion assembled together to cooperatively define an interior volume of the tank. An optional intermediate spacer may be disposed between the first tank portion and the second tank portion in order to form an oil tank of a larger size. |
| US10816001B2 |
Compressor system with internal air-water cooling
A compressor system (01) with a system housing (02), in which are arranged heat generating system components (06) comprising at least one compressor stage (201) for compressing a gaseous medium, an air water cooler (12), a blower (15) which generates a cooling air flow (16), and air conducting elements. A cooling air channel (07) is configured which has an inlet opening (08) in the upper section of the system housing (02) and an outlet opening (09) in the lower section of the system housing (02), wherein upper air conducting elements (13) are positioned in order to conduct the cooling air flow (16) after flowing through the air water cooler (12) to the inlet opening (08), and lower air conducting elements (17) are positioned in order to conduct the cooling air flow (16) from the outlet opening (09) to the system components (06). |
| US10815993B2 |
Scroll fluid machine with improved power transmission mechanism
To provide a scroll fluid machine that can improve reliability in abrasion resistance of a power transmission mechanism including a pin member and a ring member. The machine includes a driving scroll member (20), a driven scroll member (22), and a power transmission mechanism (26) that transmits power to synchronously rotate both scroll members (20, 22) and allow the scroll members to revolve and orbit relative to each other. The power transmission mechanism (26) includes a pin (30) attached to the driven scroll member (22), a ring body (34) provided in the driving scroll member (20) and having an inner circumference in contact with an outer circumference of the pin (30), and a circular groove (32) housing the ring body (34) and having an inner circumference in contact with an outer circumference of the ring body (34). Of surface contact pressure in a contact portion between the outer circumference of the pin (30) and the inner circumference of the ring body (34), and surface contact pressure in a contact portion between the outer circumference of the ring body (34) and the inner circumference of the circular groove (32), the contact portion having higher surface contact pressure has a larger frictional torque. |
| US10815992B2 |
Scroll compressor having Oldham coupling with key portions and different width key gaps
A scroll compressor includes a movable scroll having first key grooves, a stationary member having second key grooves, and an Oldham coupling provided between the movable scroll and the stationary member. The Oldham coupling is movable with respect to the stationary member along a first axis direction, and with respect to the movable scroll along a second axis direction. The second axis is orthogonal to the first axis and passes through a center of gravity of the Oldham coupling. The Oldham coupling has an annular body portion, at least two first key portions fitted into the first key grooves, and second key portions fitted into the second key grooves. Key gaps are formed between outer peripheral surfaces of the first key portions and inner peripheral surfaces of the first key grooves. The key gaps have first gaps and second gaps wider than the first gaps. |
| US10815989B2 |
Quick pull valve and seat assembly
A valve seat assembly comprises a valve. The assembly further comprises a removable upper seat associated with the valve. The assembly further comprises a lower seat configured to be inserted into a fluid end of a pump and releasably couplable to the upper seat. The upper seat is decouplable from the lower seat while the lower seat remains inserted in the fluid end of the pump. The valve is configured to contact the upper seat to prevent a flow of fluid through the fluid end of the pump. |
| US10815987B2 |
Pump protection method and system
Protecting a hydrocarbon pump from excessive flow rates in a hydrocarbon fluid system comprising an electrical motor for driving the pump. For each of a plurality of gas volume fraction values of the hydrocarbon fluid, establishing a maximum torque limit for the pump by mapping the maximum allowable torque of the pump as a function of the differential pressure, thereby creating a plurality of maximum torque curves, each representing the maximum torque limit for a unique gas volume fraction value. Establishing a master maximum torque curve which represents the maximum torque limit for all gas volume fraction values. Monitoring the torque of the pump and the differential pressure across the pump. Based on the monitored differential pressure and using the master maximum torque curve, establishing a maximum allowable torque for the pump. Taking action if the monitored torque exceeds the established maximum allowable torque. |
| US10815967B2 |
Control system and method for operating a plurality of wind turbines
A method for operating a first wind turbine and a second wind turbine, the second wind turbine being located in the wake of the first wind turbine. A prediction model is fed with a current wind value of the first wind turbine, in order to predict a future time point at which the area swept by the rotor of the second wind turbine becomes partially overlapped by the wake of the first wind turbine. The second wind turbine reacts to the prediction in that a control signal is generated in order to alter the pitch angle of a rotor blade of the second wind turbine relative to the pitch angle of another rotor blade of the second wind turbine. The invention additionally relates to a control system suitable for executing the method. Implementation of the disclosed method by a control system can reduce the loading of the second wind turbine. |
| US10815965B2 |
Multi-piston bladeless wind turbine
The multi-piston bladeless wind turbine creates electrical energy using hydraulically connected pistons. The system may include a disk, a small piston in fluid communication with a large piston, and a crankshaft attached to the large piston. The disk transfers forces from the wind to the small piston. Hydraulic fluid then transfers the forces to the larger piston. When the disk and associated small piston have been forced to the end of their stroke by the wind, a gate in the disk is opened to reduce wind force on the disk by allowing air to travel through the disk. Subsequently, the disk and associated small piston are pushed back to the beginning of the stroke by the pressure created by the large piston's weight. This process is repeated by closing the gate in the disk. A crankshaft powering an electric generator is turned by the movement of the large piston. |
| US10815960B2 |
Wave energy converter
A wave energy converter includes a floating portion and an anchor portion, wherein the anchor portion includes a transport support structure configured to carry the floating portion. |
| US10815958B2 |
Adapter element with integrated water turbine generator
An adapter element for a solenoid valve assembly in an irrigation system includes an integral water turbine generator including an impeller positioned in an outlet flow path of a solenoid assembly thereof such that the impeller rotates when water flows to generate electricity. |
| US10815953B2 |
Method for controlling mild hybrid vehicle
A method for controlling a mild hybrid vehicle may include receiving, by a controller, navigation information; determining, by the controller, whether a road on which the mild hybrid vehicle travels is in a dangerous area based on the navigation information; and releasing, by the controller, an idle stop and go state in which fuel supply to an engine of the mild hybrid vehicle is interrupted and the engine is stopped when the mild hybrid vehicle is stopped when it is determined that the road on which the mild hybrid vehicle travels is in the dangerous area. |
| US10815950B2 |
Construction machine starting assist system
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a construction machine starting assist system including: an engine of a construction machine; an input unit which receives a key-on signal and a key-off signal of the engine; a hydraulic pump which is operated by the engine; an actuator which is operated by hydraulic oil discharged from the hydraulic pump; a regeneration valve which is switched so that a part or an entirety of the hydraulic oil returned from the actuator; an accumulator which is charged with the hydraulic oil supplied from the regeneration valve; a charging valve which is controlled so that the hydraulic oil is discharged from the accumulator when the key-on signal is inputted into the input unit; and a hydraulic motor connected to the engine and configured to assist in starting the engine. |
| US10815939B2 |
Separation device, motor device, and separation method
In order to provide a separating device which has a simple design and is operable reliably and efficiently, it is proposed that the separating device comprises the following: at least one separating body for separating the impurities; an ejector device for producing a suction effect on an exit side of the at least one separating body; a supply device for supplying a drive medium to the ejector device, wherein, by means of the supply device, selectively a) compressed supply air from a supply air tract of the combustion engine, b) exhaust gas from an exhaust gas tract of the combustion engine and/or c) a mixture of compressed supply air and exhaust gas is suppliable as drive medium to the ejector device. |
| US10815938B2 |
Method for diagnosing leakage of fuel vapor purge system
A method for diagnosing leakage of a fuel vapor dual purge system is provided. The method includes determining whether an operation region of a vehicle is an operation region in which a turbocharger is operated and adjusting a flow amount of intake air flowing into the turbocharger according to an operation region in which the turbocharger is operated. A hydrocarbon collecting amount of a canister connecting fuel vapor generated in the fuel tank is calculated and a flow amount of the fuel vapor passing first and second purge lines is adjusted. A leak of the fuel vapor is diagnosed in the first purge line and the second purge line. |
| US10815934B2 |
Integral preloaded formed bracket for attachment of heat exchangers
A surface cooler assembly includes at least one surface cooler comprising surface cooler hook rails extending circumferentially the length of the surface cooler and including axially extending and radially extending portions. The surface cooler assembly also includes at least one support bracket comprising bracket hook rails extending circumferentially the length of the support bracket and including axially extending and radially extending portions. The support bracket and surface cooler are contoured in a circumferential direction. Each of the surface cooler hook rails contacts a bracket hook rail. |
| US10815932B2 |
Convergent-divergent nozzle mechanism
A convergent flap roller assembly is provided that includes a first hanger flange, a second hanger flange, a roller, and a pivot axle. Each hanger flange has a panel, a roller shaft, and at least one track tab. Each roller shaft extends outwardly from the respective panel, and includes a roller shaft bore. The roller has a center bore and an exterior contact surface. The roller shafts are received within the roller center bore and are in contact with each other, and the pivot axle extends through the roller shaft bores. |
| US10815931B2 |
Waste heat recovery system with low temperature heat exchanger
Systems and methods are disclosed to recover waste heat from an engine fluid with a heat exchanger subsystem that includes a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger subsystem is thermally coupled to a working fluid and the engine fluid, so the waste heat from the engine fluid is transferred to the working fluid. The engine fluid is bypassed from the heat exchanger in response to a heat exchanger bypass condition. |
| US10815922B2 |
Method and system for variable displacement engine diagnostics
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing a cylinder valve deactivation mechanism in an engine system having cam-actuated valves. Movement of a latch pin of the deactivation mechanism is inferred from an induction current generated by a solenoid coupled to the latch pin, and the inferred movement is used to diagnose operation of cylinder valve deactivation mechanism. The inferred movement and a profile of the induction current is also used to estimate camshaft and crankshaft timing for improved cylinder fuel delivery in the absence of a camshaft sensor. |
| US10815917B2 |
Failure diagnosis device for in-cylinder pressure sensor
A failure diagnosis system for an in-cylinder pressure sensor is provided, which includes an in-cylinder pressure sensor, a fuel injection valve, an engine controller including an engine control module and a diagnosis module. The engine control module controls the fuel injection valve to stop the supply of fuel to the engine, when a fuel cut condition is satisfied while the automobile travels. The diagnosis module includes a limiting module configured to limit an execution of the failure diagnosis of the in-cylinder pressure sensor until the diagnosis module determines that a given period has lapsed after the stop of fuel supply to the engine. The diagnosis module reads a signal of the in-cylinder pressure sensor when the given period has lapsed after the stop of the fuel supply to the engine, and diagnoses the failure of the in-cylinder pressure sensor based on the read signal of the in-cylinder pressure sensor. |
| US10815911B2 |
Engine stopping device
There is provided an engine stopping device including a stopping solenoid, where an operating shaft, interlocked to a control rack of a fuel injection pump, is rotatably supported by an engine case in a pass-through manner. The control rack is forcibly movable to a stopping position by an action of the stopping solenoid on an operation arm provided for a projecting portion of the operating shaft in an integrally rotatable manner. An extending-retracting rod of the stopping solenoid and the operation arm are interlocked by fitting engagement between a pin provided for the extending-retracting rod and a cut-out portion of the operation arm. The cut-out portion is configured in a shape elongated along a direction perpendicular to a movement trajectory of the extending-retracting rod. |
| US10815901B1 |
Aircraft engine
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft has an engine core having a turbine, compressor, and core shaft connecting the turbine and compressor; a fan upstream the engine core, the fan having fan blades; and a gearbox. The gearbox receives an input from a core shaft and outputs drive to a fan to drive the fan at a lower rotational speed than the core shaft. The gearbox is an epicyclic gearbox and has a sun gear, planet gears, ring gear, and planet carrier on which the planet gears are mounted. The gearbox has a gear mesh stiffness between the planet gears and the ring gear and a gear mesh stiffness between the planet gears and the sun gear. The gear mesh stiffness between the planet gears and the ring gear divided by that between the planet gears and the sun gear is in the range from 0.90 to 1.28. |
| US10815900B2 |
Geared gas turbine engine
A gas turbine engine comprises a gearbox including a first epicyclic gearbox and a second epicyclic gearbox. The first epicyclic gearbox comprises a first sun gear meshing with the first planet gears and the first planet gears meshing with a first annulus gear. The second epicyclic gearbox comprises a second sun gear meshing with the second planet gears and the second planet gears meshing with a second annulus gear. An input shaft is arranged to drive the first sun gear and a first planet gear carrier is arranged to drive a propulsor. The first and second annulus gears are fixed to a static structure. A first clutch is arranged between the first planet gear carrier and the second planet gear carrier and a second clutch is arranged between the second sun gear and the input shaft. The gearbox is more efficient at cruise conditions. |
| US10815892B2 |
Turbojet engine with thrust take-up means on the inter-compressor case
A multiflow turbojet engine generally includes an upstream fan driven by a gas generator having first and second coaxial compressors, an intake case forming a mounting for the rotors of the upstream fan and the first compressor, an inter-compressor case downstream from the intake case and forming a mounting for the rotors of the second compressor, and attachment means for thrust take-up control rods arranged in the inter-compressor case. The turbojet engine also includes a structural force shroud connecting the intake case to the inter-compressor case, of the and a floating first compressor case. |
| US10815885B2 |
Anti-ice systems for engine airfoils
An anti-ice system for a gas turbine engine may comprise a power generating device and a first thermally conductive applique comprising a first heating circuit. The power generating device may comprise a first component configured to rotate about an axis and generate a current. A first conductive layer may electrically couple the first heating circuit and the first component of the power generating device. |
| US10815879B2 |
Control method for internal combustion engine and control device for internal combustion engine
A control method and a control device are provided for an internal combustion engine structured to vary a mechanical compression ratio by varying a range of slide of a piston with respect to a cylinder bore. A control process includes: acquiring a temperature correlating with a cylinder bore wall temperature; fixing the mechanical compression ratio to a preset compression ratio point, in response to a condition that the acquired temperature is lower than a preset temperature point; and setting the preset temperature point higher than a point corresponding to a point of the cylinder bore wall temperature at which condensed water occurs in the cylinder bore. |
| US10815878B2 |
Homogeneous charge compression ignition linear generator
A homogeneous charge compression ignition free-piston linear generator is disclosed. The linear generator includes a housing having cylinders at opposite ends. A double-ended piston assembly is to move linearly in the housing to convert kinetic energy of the piston assembly into electrical energy, and to enable conversion of electrical energy into kinetic energy of the piston assembly. Sensors measure one or more states of the cylinders and/or piston assembly, and a controller controls the linear generator based on the sensor data. |
| US10815868B2 |
Cooling control device
A cooling control device includes a switching valve, an electric motor, and a controller. The switching valve has a coolant outlet. The coolant outlet is configured such that a coolant flows through the coolant outlet. The electric motor is configured to operate the switching valve to switch connecting and shutting off between the coolant outlet and a coolant transporting unit. The controller is configured to determine a duty ratio of a signal for controlling the electric motor on a basis of the temperature of the coolant over a predetermined period of time after the electric motor starts operating the switching valve. |
| US10815864B2 |
Technique for cooling for an internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine including a cooling liquid circuit, which is connected to a cylinder head and an engine block of the internal combustion engine and which includes a cooling liquid pump. The cooling liquid pump includes a drive shaft and is capable of conveying cooling liquid in the cooling liquid circuit. Further, the internal combustion engine includes a Visco clutch. The Visco clutch is arranged for the drive by the internal combustion engine. The Visco clutch includes a clutch fluid for torque transmission. At the output side, the Visco clutch is connected to the drive shaft of the cooling liquid pump. The drive shaft of the cooling liquid pump include at least one heat pipe. The heat pipe is in heat exchange with the clutch fluid as a heat source and the cooling liquid as a heat sink. |
| US10815860B2 |
Method for monitoring a nitrogen oxide storage catalyst
A method for monitoring a nitrogen oxide storage catalyst in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, in which a reduction of nitrogen oxides is carried out by means of a reducing agent is disclosed. During a regeneration of the nitrogen oxide storage catalyst, the following steps are carried out: A measurement is carried out, from which a slip rate of the reducing agent not absorbed in the nitrogen oxide storage catalyst is ascertained. In addition, at least one expected value for the slip rate of the reducing agent is ascertained from at least one model. Subsequently, a computation of a monitoring variable is carried out by means of the slip rate of the reducing agent ascertained from the measurement and the at least one expected value for the slip rate of the reducing agent. Finally, a diagnosis of the storage capacity of the nitrogen oxide storage catalyst is carried out on the basis of the monitoring variable. |
| US10815858B2 |
Exhaust system with actuated flow bypass and thermal storage device
An exhaust system is provided that includes an exhaust aftertreatment unit, first and second exhaust pathway in communication with and upstream of the exhaust aftertreatment unit, a thermally activated flow control device operable in a first and second mode, and a thermal storage device. In the first mode, the flow control device permits exhaust to flow to the aftertreatment unit through the first pathway and inhibits flow through the second pathway. In the second mode, the flow control device permits exhaust flow to the aftertreatment unit through the second pathway and inhibits flow through the first pathway. The flow control device may switch between the first and second modes based on a change of temperature. The thermal storage device is within the second pathway, stores thermal mass, and provides thermal insulation to enable a catalyst of the aftertreatment unit to maintain a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time. |
| US10815850B2 |
Method for catalyst purge control based on engine temperature and vehicle using the same
A method for catalyst purge control may include the steps of: performing, by a catalyst purge electronic control unit (ECU), catalyst purge control based on engine temperature; calculating an estimated engine temperature the catalyst purge ECU when fuel-cut is completed, and controlling, by the catalyst purge ECU, an amount of purge fuel injected by an injector based on the estimated engine temperature for the catalyst purge control. |
| US10815840B2 |
Coupling assembly for switchable lever
A switchable lever is provided that includes an outer lever, an inner lever pivotably mounted to the outer lever, and a coupling assembly capable of selectively locking the inner lever to the outer lever. The coupling assembly is arranged to be actuated from either a first side or a second side of the switchable lever. The coupling assembly can have one or more push pins and a coupling pin that is arranged to be actuated by the one or more push pins. An actuated end of the coupling pin can be formed with a receiving land that is configured to engage a cam form on a second end of the one or more push pins. |
| US10815837B2 |
Valve mechanism, engine and vehicle
A valve mechanism includes a valve, a camshaft, a fixed support, an intermediate swing arm and a supporting base. The fixed support is provided with a connecting-portion via hole running from top to bottom, two oil passages are defined in a connecting portion, and each of the oil passages is connected with the connecting-portion via hole and a corresponding intermediate swing arm shaft hole. The supporting base defines first and second oil feeding passages therein, the first supporting-base oil feeding passage is communicated with the connecting-portion via hole, and an upper end of the second supporting-base oil feeding passage extends to a base-body camshaft supporting portion of the supporting base. An engine and a vehicle are also provided. |
| US10815826B1 |
Gas turbine engine airfoil frequency design
An airfoil extends in a radial direction a span in a range 3.97-4.27 inch (100.9-108.6 mm). A chord length extends in a chordwise direction from a leading edge to a trailing edge at 50% span in a range 1.28-1.58 inch (32.4-40.0 mm). The airfoil includes at least two of a first mode with a frequency of 243±10% Hz, a second mode with a frequency of 374±10% Hz, a third mode with a frequency of 741±10% Hz, a fourth mode with a frequency of 1198±10% Hz, a fifth mode with a frequency of 1663±10% Hz, a sixth mode with a frequency of 2411±10% Hz, a seventh mode with a frequency of 3734±10% Hz, an eighth mode with a frequency of 6738±10% Hz and a ninth mode with a frequency of 8977±10% Hz. |
| US10815820B2 |
Integral shear locking bumper for gas turbine engine
A synchronizing assembly including: a synchronizing ring having a countersunk orifice; and a bumper assembly comprising: a bumper at least partially enclosing a cavity, the bumper comprising an outward side, an inward side opposite the outward side, a first side extending between the outward side and the inward side, a first opening on the outward side extending into the bumper to define a first portion of the cavity; and a second opening on the first side extending into the bumper to define a second portion of the cavity; and a bolt comprising a bolt head and a bolt shank, wherein the bolt shank extends through the first opening and the bolt head is secured within the second portion of the cavity, wherein the bumper further comprises a raised boss extending away from the outward surface, the raised boss configured to mate with the countersunk orifice of the synchronizing ring. |
| US10815815B2 |
Actuator for gas turbine engine blade outer air seal
A method of actuating a Blade Outer Air Seal (BOAS) includes moving a retractor against a portion of a BOAS segment to move the BOAS segment from a first position to a second position that is radially outside the first position. The BOAS segment is seated against a support structure when in the first position and spaced from the support structure when in the second position. |
| US10815808B2 |
Turbine bucket cooling
Embodiments of the invention relate generally to rotary machines and, more particularly, to the cooling of at least portions of a turbine bucket. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method of cooling at least a portion of a turbine bucket, the method comprising: during operation of a turbine, altering a swirl velocity of purge air between a platform lip extending axially from the platform and an angel wing extending axially from a face of a shank portion of the turbine bucket, wherein altering the swirl velocity of the purge air includes interrupting a flow of the purge air with a plurality of turbulators disposed along at least one of a radially inner surface of the platform lip or the face of the shank portion. |
| US10815806B2 |
Engine component with insert
An apparatus and method for separating dust from a dirty air flow within an airfoil assembly for a turbine engine. The air foil assembly can include a pair of vanes defining a nozzle through which a flow of air can move. At least one of the vanes can include an insert located within an interior of the vane and having a set of holes. |
| US10815803B2 |
BOAS thermal protection
A vane according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a platform extending from an edge face and between spaced apart lateral faces and an airfoil extending outwardly from the platform. The platform includes at least one ejection port in the edge face and at least one passage connected to the at least one ejection port. A method of cooling a component is also disclosed. |
| US10815802B2 |
Variable vane assemblies configured for non-axisymmetric actuation
A variable vane assembly may comprise a first vane and a second vane. The first vane may comprise a first strut portion and a first flap portion. The first flap portion may be configured to pivot relative to the first strut portion. The second vane may comprise a second strut portion and a second flap portion. The second flap portion may be configured to pivot relative to the second strut portion. The first flap may be configured to pivot independently of the second flap. |
| US10815799B2 |
Turbine blade with radial support, shim and related turbine rotor
A turbine blade has a first end, and an opposing second end. A base includes a dovetail for complementing a corresponding dovetail slot in a rotor. The dovetail has a body and a plurality of projections extend from the body in opposing directions. A tapered groove extends through the body from the first end to the second end, and has a tapered profile such that a first depth of the tapered groove near the first end is greater than a second depth of the tapered groove near the second end. The tapered profile gradually transitions from the first depth to the second depth. The tapered groove is open at a bottom surface of the body and is sized to engage a shim. The tapered groove includes a flat section near the first end or the second end, and the flat section has a constant depth. |
| US10815794B2 |
Baffle for components of gas turbine engines
Baffles for gas turbine engines are provided. The baffles include a baffle body extending between a first end and a second end, a chamfered surface formed at at least one corner of the baffle body, wherein the chamfered surface extends from the first end to the second end, and a plurality of baffle holes formed in the chamfered surface. |
| US10815788B2 |
Turbine blade with slot film cooling
A component for a gas turbine engine, the component having: a cooling slot located on a surface of the component, the cooling slot being defined by a plurality of diffuser portions each extending from a respective one of a plurality of cooling openings providing cooling fluid to the cooling slot. |
| US10815786B2 |
Hybrid rotor blades for turbine engines
A gas turbine that includes a rotor blade that includes an airfoil. The airfoil is defined between a pressure face and a laterally opposed suction face, the pressure face and the suction face extending axially between opposite leading and trailing edges and radially between an outboard tip and a connection with a root of the rotor blade. The airfoil may include non-integral portions in which: a base portion of the airfoil is made from a first material; and a top portion of the airfoil is made from a second material. The airfoil may include a dovetail joint connecting the top portion to the base portion. The dovetail joint may include a dovetail extending from the top portion being received within a complementary dovetail groove formed in the base portion. |
| US10815772B2 |
Detection system for a wellsite and method of using same
A detection system and method for a well site is provided. The well site has a surface rig and a surface unit. The surface rig is positioned about a formation and a surface unit. The detection system includes a well site component deployable from the surface rig via a conveyance, well site equipment positioned about the well site and having a bore to receive the well site component therethrough; and base units. The base units include scanners positioned radially about the bore of the well site equipment. The scanners detect an outer surface of the well site component and generate combinable images of the well site component whereby the well site equipment is imaged. |
| US10815771B2 |
Thermal regulation and vibration isolation system
A system configured to provide thermal regulation and vibration isolation to one or more electronic components. The system includes a sensor chassis defining an interior chamber, an electronics housing in the interior chamber of the sensor chassis, a thermoelectric cooler coupled between the sensor chassis and the electronics housing, a thermal strap coupled to the sensor chassis, and at least one isolator coupled to the sensor chassis. The system may also include an insulating material, such as Aerogel, in the interior chamber of the sensor chassis and extending around the electronics housing. |
| US10815760B2 |
Method of filtering a wellbore fluid
A method of filtering a wellbore fluid can include receiving a wellbore fluid in a chamber. The chamber can be defined by an inner surface of a casing string that is positioned downhole in a wellbore. The method can further include filtering debris particles from the wellbore fluid by a filter assembly positioned within an inner region of the casing string. The filter assembly may include a plurality of slots and the filter assembly may be rotated by the wellbore fluid passing through the plurality of slots in the filter assembly. |
| US10815759B2 |
Performing steam injection operations in heavy oil formations
Systems and methods for performing steam injection operations in heavy oil formations using a fully-coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical model for improved steam penetration during the steam injection operations. |
| US10815753B2 |
Operation of electronic inflow control device without electrical connection
Included are systems, apparatuses, and methods for operation of an electronic inflow control device without electrical connections. An example of a well system comprises an electric control line and an electronic inflow control device. The electric control line comprises at least one primary winding. The electronic inflow control device comprises a secondary winding inductively coupled to the primary winding; a flow regulator in fluidic communication with an inlet of the electronic inflow control device and adjustable to provide a flow resistance to a fluid flowing through the electronic inflow control device and a controller configured to actuate the flow regulator to change the flow resistance through the electronic inflow control device. |
| US10815746B2 |
Multi-coupler connector
A connector (12) such as a multi-coupler stabplate for coupling to or decoupling from another connector (14). The connector may have a secondary release mechanism (80) that allows a seized drive to be rotated to an unlocked position independent of the connector housing moving relative to a multi-coupler plate. Integrated stop features may be provided during such secondary release. The secondary release mechanism may be mounted to the housing (56) and retained with shear pins. Orientation pin(s) (62) may be provided that cooperate with a guide slot(s) (64) for oblique and axial movement of a locking mechanism (46) during coupling/decoupling. A housing shroud (76) may be provided for cooperating with the orientation pin(s) and indicating locked/unlocked states. A stop collar (70) and push-off flange (74) may be provided for facilitating coupling/decoupling. Guide bushings (44) may be provided for facilitating alignment during coupling. One or more additional features may be provided that improve the securing/releasing function(s) of the connector. |
| US10815737B1 |
Tool joint clamp
A tool joint clamp which includes a clamp assembly and a stop ring. The clamp assembly has at least two die carriers, with each die carrier having a translating and pivoting link between the die carriers such that the die carriers may move toward and away from a centerline of the clamp assembly. The stop ring includes a ring body having a central aperture forming an internal sidewall, with at least a portion of the internal sidewall having splines. A cam surface and cam follower are positioned between the clamp assembly and the stop ring, with the cam surface and cam follower configured to urge the die carriers toward the clamp assembly's centerline when relative torque is applied between the clamp assembly and the stop ring. |
| US10815721B2 |
Entryway sealing spacer
A gasket for an entryway is described that includes a compliant sealing portion having an uncompressed gasket thickness and a less compliant compression control portion having opposing exposed surfaces. A perimeter of the less compliant compression control portion is surrounded by the compliant sealing portion. A thickness of the less compliant compression control portion is less than the uncompressed gasket thickness. |
| US10815716B2 |
Touch sensor apparatus for use with vehicles
Touch sensor apparatus for use with vehicles are disclosed. A disclosed touch sensor assembly for a vehicle gate includes a sensor configured to operatively couple to the vehicle gate. The touch sensor assembly also includes a cover having a tubular body that extends over the sensor and ribs interposed between the tubular body and the sensor. At least one of the ribs is configured to transfer a load from the tubular body to the sensor to change a state of the sensor. |
| US10815714B2 |
Opening/closing member driving device
An opening/closing member driving device includes a motor that opens and closes an opening/closing member and a controller configured to perform an abnormality determination process and a masking process. The abnormality determination process determines occurrence of a foreign object being entrapped or caught by comparing driving information corresponding to a driving status of the motor to a predetermined threshold value. The masking process invalidates the abnormality determination process over a predetermined masking period when the motor is activated. The controller includes a correction unit. The correction unit corrects at least one of the masking period or the threshold value when the motor is activated in a direction opposite to that of a preceding operation in a state in which the opening/closing member is in a high-load range. |
| US10815712B2 |
Door closer apparatus and method
A valve mechanism according to certain embodiments includes an adjustment screw and a rotatable control knob coupled with the adjustment screw. The valve mechanism includes a feedback mechanism operable to provide at least one of visual feedback, audible feedback, or tactile feedback to indicate movement and/or a positon of the adjustment screw within a door closer body. |
| US10815706B2 |
Motor vehicle door lock and method for selectively operating a motor vehicle door lock with or without a security device
The invention relates to a motor vehicle door lock which is equipped with a locking mechanism (1, 2) consisting of essentially a rotary latch (1) and a pawl (2), in addition to an actuating lever chain (4) and a locking unit (5, 6). Said motor vehicle door lock also comprises a security device (8, 9, 10) which can optionally set the actuating lever chain (4) and/or the locking unit (5, 6) in a non-functioning state/functioning state. According to the invention, said security device (8, 9, 10) is designed as a retrofitted module (8, 9, 10) which can be connected, according to requirements, to a base module (1-6 and 11), said module surrounding the largest part of the locking mechanism (1, 2), the actuating lever chain (4) and the locking unit (5, 6). |
| US10815701B2 |
Safety device for a vehicle door handle
The present disclosure relates to a safety device for a vehicle door handle. The device includes an activation element configured to activate a latch by rotating from a rest position to an activation position and includes at least one activation protuberance. The device also includes a blocking element having first and second blocking protuberances and being configured to rotate between a disengaged position in which the blocking element allows the activation element to rotate, and first and second blocking positions in which the first or second blocking protuberance interact with the activation protuberance so as to block the activation element in a first or second intermediate positions disposed between the rest and activation positions of the activation element in case of a crash. The present disclosure further relates to the corresponding vehicle door handle and vehicle. |
| US10815700B2 |
Release actuator for latch
A vehicle latch having: a frame; a pawl rotatably mounted to the frame for movement between an engaged position and a disengaged position; a claw rotatably mounted to the frame for movement between a latched position and an open position, wherein pawl is configured to impede rotational movement of the claw from the latched position to the open position when the pawl is in the engaged position; a release lever rotatably mounted to the frame; and a worm wheel having a plurality of cam lobes, wherein each of the cam lobes are located in separate and distinct planes with respect to each other, wherein the release lever operably couples the pawl to the worm wheel such that rotational movement of the worm wheel rotates the pawl. |
| US10815694B2 |
Tamper evident cargo container seal bolt lock
Systems and methods for a tamper-evident cargo container seal bolt lock are disclosed herein. The device can include a bolt member having a conductive medium running the axial length of the bolt, and a receiving member for locking the bolt into place. A battery-driven sensory circuit including a memory means, a processor, and a timing circuit can be disposed within the receiving member such that a continuous circuit is formed from one circuit pin over the conductive medium through the length of the bolt and back to a second pin. The sensory circuit is configured to sense whether the circuit has been interrupted (e.g., if the bolt has been cut). In the event of an interruption, the circuit can record the time and/or date in memory. This information can then be transmitted to an RFID reader/interrogator if a dispute arises as to when the lock had been broken. |
| US10815685B2 |
Temporary safety guardrail for construction sites
A temporary safety guardrail for construction sites is provided. The guardrail includes specially designed anchoring members configured to accept removable posts which vertically extend from each anchoring member. On top of each posts, a guardrail is provided in two versions, a fixed length handrail or a telescopic handrail. Either handrail is connected directly to a fixed bracket, or indirectly by way of one or more orientable bracket so that the guardrail can be oriented to different angles so as to follow the building's contour, such as going up and down staircases or doing corners. |
| US10815674B2 |
Floor panel
Floor panel, with a horizontally and vertically active locking system allowing that two of such floor panels can be connected to each other at said sides by providing one of these floor panels, by means of a downward movement, in the other floor panel; wherein the vertically active locking system comprises a locking element in the form of an insert; wherein this locking element comprises at least a pivotable lock-up body; characterized in that the pivotable lock-up body comprises a support portion which is rotatable against a support surface pertaining to the floor panel concerned, and more particularly in a seat. |
| US10815668B2 |
Roof ridge vent system
A roof ventilation system for asphalt shingle or composition roofs which include a vent slot located through the roof structure along a roof ridge is provided. An unrollable vent assembly that is installable in one piece is formed from an upper water barrier having first and second vent arrangements connected thereto, and each of the first and second vent arrangements include at least two continuous longitudinal strips of a vent material with a continuous longitudinally extending space therebetween separating the strips. The strips and the longitudinally extending space are positionable on the roof parallel to the ridge so that the first and second vent arrangements are located on each side of the ridge vent slot, respectively. The vent system prevents ingress of moisture and debris, and the upper water barrier extends between the first and second vent arrangements and over the vent slot in the installed position. |
| US10815652B2 |
Strainer with improved flow
A wastewater strainer is provided that includes a strainer body that has at least one opening that enhances fluid flow through the strainer body and the wastewater plumbing to which it is interconnected. The strainer body includes a flange for engagement to the inner portion of a bathtub and a hub that is spaced from a lower edge of the strainer body. |
| US10815644B2 |
Tire size calibration and control system
A mobile machine includes a plurality of ground-engaging elements that each include a tire, and a plurality of motors, one motor coupled to each of the plurality of ground-engaging elements configured to drive movement of the plurality of ground-engaging elements. The mobile machine also includes a speed sensor coupled to each motor configured to generate speed signals indicative of an operating speed of each motor. The mobile machine includes a tire calibration system configured to receive the speed signals from each speed sensor and to identify a tire size differential across the plurality of ground-engaging elements based on the speed signals. The mobile machine includes a control system configured to generate a separate control signal for each of the plurality of motors based on the tire size differential. |
| US10815639B2 |
Bucket cleanout
Disclosed are excavators or other power machines having a lift arm structure with a bucket coupled to an arm to pick up material during a digging or scooping operation, and a bucket cleanout devices to aid in removal of material from the bucket. The bucket cleanout devices include components which are rotatably coupled to a support structure, such as the arm, an implement carrier and/or the bucket and configured to aid in removal of material during a material dumping movement of the bucket. |
| US10815624B2 |
Concrete pavement structure comprising a concrete base layer and an elastomer improved concrete wearing layer
A concrete pavement structure includes a base layer directly coated by a wearing layer, wherein the base layer is a concrete base layer and the wearing layer is an elastomer modified pervious concrete layer, having a thickness below to 4 cm, a void content ranging from 5% to 20% in volume, and a maximal diameter of aggregates present in the polymer modified pervious concrete layer is 10 mm. |
| US10815612B2 |
Cloth spreading device
To provide a cloth spreading device capable of operating stably. The cloth spreading device includes: introduction chucks 21, 21 in a pair that grip corner portions of a cloth C; an up and down moving device 23 that moves the introduction chucks 21, 21 in a pair up and down; extension chucks 31, 31 in a pair that receive the cloth C from the introduction chucks 21, 21 in a pair and grip corner portions of the cloth C; and a transversely moving device 34 that moves the extension chucks 31, 31 in a pair transversely. The up and down moving device 23 is driven by an actuator permitting speed control and position control. Thus, an external factor does not cause large change in the operation of the up and down moving device 23 to achieve stable upward and downward moving operations of the introduction chucks 21, 21. The introduction chucks 21, 21 can be moved and stopped at will. This eliminates the need for a position sensor to achieve reduction in facility cost. |
| US10815611B2 |
Method for drying laundry in a laundry treating appliance
A method of drying laundry in a laundry treating appliance having a treating chamber in which the laundry is received for drying comprises moving the treating chamber to redistribute the laundry, supplying air to the treating chamber to define a supply air flow, exhausting the supplied air from the treating chamber to define an exhaust air flow, heating the air supplied to the treating chamber by actuating a heater at full output to define a first heating phase and then cycling the heater ON/OFF to define a second heating phase. |
| US10815603B2 |
Appliance having a touch film on a compound curved surface
An appliance having a door with an interior surface having a compound curvature, a section thereof configured to enable viewing a user interface on the interior surface through the door. The user interface includes a touch film adhered to the interior surface by application of a roller to activate a pressure sensitive adhesive between the touch film and the interior surface. |
| US10815599B2 |
Laundry treating appliance with tuned suspension system
An apparatus and method for reducing displacement of a washing machine having a drum rotatable about an axis of rotation is disclosed. The washing machine comprises a chassis and a motor for rotation a drum. The drum is suspended from the chassis by a suspension. The suspension can comprise springs having six natural frequencies that can resonate at a rotational speed of the drum driven by the motor. The suspension system can be tuned such that resonant frequencies can be varied based upon rotational speed of the drum. |
| US10815595B2 |
Manufacturing method, manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing jig of trim cover surface material
A manufacturing method of a trim cover surface material, includes: providing a jig including a first frame configured to hold an outer periphery of an outer material and a second frame configured to hold an outer periphery of a wadding material by overlapping the wadding material on the outer material which is held by the first frame; holding the outer periphery of the outer material with the first frame of the jig; forming through holes at the outer material which is held by the jig; holding the outer periphery of the wadding material with the second frame of the jig while the outer material is held by the first frame of the jig; and forming stitches at the outer material and the wadding material which are overlapped and held by the jig. |
| US10815594B2 |
Sewing device and sewing method
The invention provides a sewing device which can precisely and evenly carry out a great variety of sewing works further with a good productivity. The sewing device has a sewing machine (2), and a dual-arm robot (7) having a first arm (5) and a second arm (6) which can operate an object to be sewn (4) supplied to a sewing motion portion (3) of the sewing machine. The duel-arm robot is provided with a camera which can image the sewing motion portion. Further, the sewing device is provided with an image processing portion which processes an image information acquired by the camera, and a command transmitting portion which transmits commands to an arm control portion controlling the first arm and the second arm on the basis of a processing result of the image processing portion. |
| US10815590B2 |
Sheath and core yarn for thermoplastic composite
A yarn containing a core of continuous filaments of an inorganic material and a sheath of staple fibers of a thermoplastic polymer is provided. The yarn can be formed into a fabric or unidirectional tape, which can then be heated under pressure to form a composite material that has excellent mechanical strength yet is lightweight. The fabric can be molded into a composite material having a two-dimensional or three-dimensional shape because of its excellent drapability. The composite material can be used in aircraft parts, automotive parts, marine parts, consumer electronic parts, and other products. |
| US10815585B2 |
Susceptor with substrate clamped by underpressure, and reactor for epitaxial deposition
The susceptor for an epitaxial deposition reactor comprises a disc-shaped portion (11, 12) which is adapted to be placed horizontally and which at the top has at least one cylindrical pocket (200) where a substrate (100) to be subjected to an epitaxial deposition process is placed; the pocket (200) has a bottom; one or more conduits (13) fluidically connected to an intake system (300) open on the bottom of the pocket (200); when a substrate (100) is placed on the bottom of the pocket (200) and the intake system (300) is active, the substrate (100) remains adhering to the bottom of the pocket (200). In particular: the upper body 12) superiorly has the pocket (200), the conduits (13) vertically cross only the upper body (12), the conduits (13) are fluidically connected to a plenum (14) located between the lower body (11) and the upper body (12) below the pocket (200), the plenum (14) is fluidically connected to the intake system (300); whereby when a substrate (100) is placed on the bottom of the pocket (200) and the intake system (300) is active, the lower body (11) and the upper body (12) remain united. |
| US10815579B2 |
Catalyst for water splitting and method for preparing same
The present invention relates to a catalyst for water splitting consisted of an oxide or a hydroxide that comprises silicon and one or more transition metals selected from a group consisting of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu, and is amorphous, and a method of preparing the same. |
| US10815578B2 |
Catalyzed cushion layer in a multi-layer electrode
A zero-gap electrode is taught herein having a non-platinum containing catalytic coating that can be applied ex situ or in situ and that significantly reduces hydrogen overpotential. Moreover, the electrode taught herein includes a catalyzed fine mesh layer, cushion layer, and rigid backing. |
| US10815566B2 |
Flexible substrate and manufacturing method thereof, display
A flexible substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display are provided. The method includes: forming a first organic layer on a substrate; forming a first buffer layer on the first organic layer; forming an inorganic layer on the first buffer layer; and forming a second organic layer above the inorganic layer. In this way, it is possible to enhance the adhesion between the first organic layer and the inorganic layer due to the arrangement of the first buffer layer, and in turn reduce or even eliminate the risk that the first organic layer and the inorganic layer may be fallen off from each other during the bending process of the flexible substrate, enhance the anti-water and anti-oxygen abilities of the flexible substrate, and improve the quality of the substrate. |
| US10815557B2 |
Copper alloy sheet material and method for producing copper alloy sheet material
A copper alloy sheet material which contains 0.5 to 2.5% by mass of Ni, 0.5 to 2.5% by mass of Co, 0.30 to 1.2% by mass of Si and 0.0 to 0.5% by mass of Cr, the balance being Cu and unavoidable impurities. The material fulfills the relationships 1.0≤I {200}/I0 {200}≤5.0 and 5.0 μm≤GS≤60.0 μm, and these have the relationship (Equation 1): 5.0≤{(I {200}/I0 {200})/GS}×100≤21.0, in which the I {200} represents an X-ray diffraction intensity of a {200} crystal plane, the I0 {200} represents an X-ray diffraction intensity of a {200} crystal plane of standard pure copper powder, and the GS (μm) represents an average crystal grain size. An electrical conductivity is 43.5% to 55.0% IACS and 0.2% yield strength is 720 to 900 MPa. |
| US10815554B2 |
Ferritic alloy
A ferritic alloy comprising in weight %: C: 0.01-0.1; N: 0.001-0.1; O: ≤0.2; B: ≤0.01; Cr: 9.0-13.0; Al: 2.5-8.0; Si: ≤0.5; Mn: ≤0.4; Y: ≤2.2; Sc+Ce+La: ≤0.2; Mo+W: ≤4.0; Ti: ≤1.7; Zr: ≤3.3; Nb: ≤3.3; V: ≤1.8; Hf+Ta+Th: ≤6.5; the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein, the amounts of Ti+Zr+Nb+V+Hf+Ta+Th and C, N and O are balanced such that: at % Ti + at % Zr + at % Nb + at % V + at % Hf + at % Ta + at % Th - x * at % O - at % N at % C ≥ 1 wherein x is 0.5 unless the content of Y is more than or equal to 0.01 wt % then x is 0.67. |
| US10815549B2 |
Method for the purification of alumina
Digestion of impure alumina with sulfuric acid dissolves all constituents except silica. Resulting sulfates, produced from contaminants in the impure alumina, remain in solution at approximately 90° C. Hot filtration separates silica. Solution flow over metallic iron reduces ferric sulfate to ferrous sulfate. Controlled ammonia addition promotes hydrolysis and precipitation of hydrated titania from titanyl sulfate that is removed by filtration. Addition of ammonium sulfate forms ferrous ammonium sulfate and ammonium aluminum sulfate solutions. Alum is preferentially separated by crystallization. Addition of ammonium bicarbonate to ammonium alum solution precipitates ammonium aluminum carbonate which may be heated to produce alumina, ammonia, and carbon dioxide. The remaining iron rich liquor also contains magnesium sulfate. Addition of oxalic acid generates insoluble ferrous oxalate which is thermally decomposed to ferrous oxide. Carbon monoxide reduces the ferrous oxide to metallic iron. Further oxalic acid addition precipitates magnesium oxalate which is thermally decomposed to magnesium oxide. |
| US10815546B2 |
Highly modular loading tools
A loading tooling for thermochemical treatment of parts includes at least first and second loading stages stacked one on the other in separable manner, each loading stage including a rack extending in a horizontal plane. The rack is supported by four legs extending in a vertical direction with the legs of the second loading stage standing on the legs of the first loading stage. The rack has a plurality of support arms secured thereto, with the plurality of support arms of the first loading stage presenting an arrangement that is different from the arrangement of the plurality of support arms of the second loading stage. |
| US10815538B2 |
Compositions and assays to detect seasonal H3 influenza A virus nucleic acids
Methods for detecting the presence or absence of the swine H1N1 influenza A virus, seasonal H1 influenza A virus and/or seasonal H3 influenza A virus nucleic acids in biological samples are disclosed. Compositions that are target-specific nucleic acid sequences and kits comprising target-specific nucleic acid oligomers for amplifying in vitro the swine H1N1 influenza A virus, seasonal H1 influenza A virus and/or seasonal H3 influenza A virus nucleic acid and detecting amplified nucleic acid sequences are disclosed. |
| US10815533B2 |
Biomarker for diagnosing anticancer drug resistance of gastric cancer and use thereof
The present invention relates to a biomarker composition for diagnosing anticancer drug resistance of gastric cancer, including an FGFR2-ACSL5 fusion gene or a protein that the fusion gene encodes, a composition and a kit for diagnosing anticancer drug resistance of gastric cancer, including a preparation which detects an mRNA or protein of the fusion gene, and a method for diagnosing anticancer drug resistance of gastric cancer by using the biomarker. It is possible to diagnose in advance whether resistance to the drug will be exhibited during the treatment with the FGFR inhibitor by detecting an mRNA of the FGFR2-ACSL5 fusion gene according to the present invention or a protein which the gene encodes in a tissue derived from the patient with gastric cancer, so that the treatment efficiency can be enhanced by applying a more appropriate treatment to the patient. |
| US10815526B2 |
Temporal pediatric sepsis biomarker risk model
Methods and compositions disclosed herein generally relate to methods of identifying, validating, and measuring clinically relevant, quantifiable biomarkers of diagnostic and therapeutic responses for blood, vascular, cardiac, and respiratory tract dysfunction, particularly as those responses relate to septic shock in pediatric patients. In particular, the invention relates to identifying one or more biomarkers associated with septic shock in pediatric patients, obtaining a sample from a pediatric patient having at least one indication of septic shock, then quantifying from the sample an amount of one or more of said biomarkers, wherein the level of said biomarker correlates with a predicted outcome. |
| US10815520B2 |
Nanovesicles, methods, and systems for diagnosis and prognosis of cancer
Methods for diagnosis or prognosis of a cancer in a subject include isolating one or more nanovesicles from a biological sample obtained from the subject, determining the amount in the biological sample of the one or more nanovesicles, and comparing the amount of the one or more nanovesicles to a control level to thereby diagnose the cancer. The one or more nanovesicles are obtained by depleting the biological sample of exosomes prior to the isolation of the nanovesicles. Methods for identifying a tumor metastasis in a subject are also provided and include fractionating a biological sample from a subject to obtain a fraction including one or more exosomes and one or more nanovesicles having a diameter of about 8-12 nm, and then isolating the one or more nanovesicles to diagnose the tumor metastasis. |
| US10815519B2 |
Immunohistochemistry via hybridization chain reaction
The present disclosure relates to methods involving HCR reactions that involve using trigger oligos to activate probes that initiate HCR. |
| US10815518B2 |
Sampler and method of parameterizing of digital circuits and of non-invasive determination of the concentration of several biomarkers simultaneously and in real time
A sampler and a method of parameterization by calibration of digital circuits and non-invasive determination of the concentration of several biomarkers simultaneously and in real time. The method makes use of equipment which, from a set of luminous signatures—spectrum—provided by a spectrophotometer (E5) (E6), applies a digital filter that breaks down the spectrum into sub-spectra that shows the digital signatures of relevant markers and, through a digital decoder, the concentration of a set of several biomarkers is obtained simultaneously and in real time. |
| US10815515B2 |
Coenzyme-linked glucose dehydrogenase and polynucleotide encoding the same
The present invention provides members that produce on a large scale a coenzyme-linked glucose dehydrogenase which has excellent substrate-recognizing ability toward glucose while providing low action on maltose. The present invention relates to a polynucleotide encoding a soluble coenzyme-linked glucose dehydrogenase that catalyzes the oxidation of glucose in the presence of an electron acceptor and has an activity toward maltose of 5% or lower; a polypeptide encoded by the nucleotide sequence of the polynucleotide; a recombinant vector carrying the polynucleotide; a transformed cell produced using the recombinant vector; a method for producing a polypeptide comprising culturing the transformed cell and collecting from the cultivated products a polypeptide that links to FAD to exert the glucose dehydration activity; a method for determination of glucose using the polypeptide; a reagent composition for determination of glucose; and a biosensor. |
| US10815511B2 |
Biosynthesis of human milk oligosaccharides in engineered bacteria
The invention provides compositions and methods for engineering bacteria to produce fucosylated oligosaccharides, and the use thereof in the prevention or treatment of infection. |
| US10815509B2 |
Microorganism producing O-acetyl homoserine and the method of producing O-acetyl homoserine using the same
Disclosed is a microorganism of Escherichia sp. producing O-acetyl homoserine, and a method of producing O-acetyl homoserine in high yield using the microorganism. |
| US10815508B2 |
Enzymatic method for producing 2-hydroxy-4-methylmercaptobutanoic acid (MHA)
The invention relates to an enzymatic method for producing 2-hydroxy-4-methylmercaptobutanoic acid from 3-methylthio-propanal (3-methylmercaptopropanal (MMP) or “methional”) and carbon dioxide. |
| US10815507B2 |
Method for combined preparation of biodiesel
The present invention provides, inter alia, a method for combined preparation of saccharides, alcohols (biofuel) and biodiesel using a composition comprising interior hydrophobic or hydrophilic medium encapsulated by a layer comprising cellulose, cellulose derivative material, and/or starch surrounded by a hydrophilic or hydrophobic medium, respectively. |
| US10815503B2 |
Process for manufacturing propionate products
A process for manufacturing propionate products through fermentation, including the steps of fermenting a carbon source selected from sugars and lactate in a fermentation medium by means of a propionic acid producing microorganism to provide a first fermentation broth comprising a propionate salt, recovering propionic acid producing microorganism from the first fermentation broth, subjecting the first fermentation broth from which propionic acid producing microorganism have been recovered to a water removal step to form a first propionate salt product, fermenting a carbon source comprising glycerol with the propionic acid producing microorganism recovered from the first fermentation broth in the presence of an inorganic alkaline salt to provide a second fermentation broth comprising a propionate salt, subjecting the second fermentation broth to a purification step comprising at least one precipitation step, to form a second propionate salt product. The process allows efficient manufacture of propionate salts products. |
| US10815501B2 |
Method of producing sugar liquid
A sugar liquid or solid sugar is derived from cellulose-containing biomass or blackstrap molasses, wherein content of one or more free amino acids selected from the group consisting of serine, threonine, asparagine, aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid, proline, phenyl alanine, lysine, and histidine, which are impurities, is below the limit of detection. |
| US10815500B2 |
Transcription activator-like effector (TALE) fusion protein
The present invention relates to Transcription Activator-Like Effector (TALE) derived proteins that allow efficient targeting and/or processing of double stranded nucleic acid sequences. The proteins of the invention are typically chimeric protein monomers composed of a core scaffold comprising Repeat Variable Dipeptide regions (RVDs) having binding specificity to a DNA target sequence, to which is fused a catalytic domain to its N-terminus. This later catalytic domain, which can be a monomer of a nuclease, is placed at this position to possibly interact with another catalytic domain fused to another TAL monomer, such that, when the monomers are binding to their respective target DNA sequences, both catalytic domains form a catalytic entity likely to process DNA in the proximity of these target sequences. This new TAL architecture makes it possible to target only one DNA strand, which is not the case, for instance, with classical TALEN architectures. The present invention also relates to vectors encoding such proteins and compositions or kits in which Transcription Activator-Like Effector (TALE) proteins of the present invention are used. |
| US10815499B2 |
Apparatuses and methods using nanostraws to deliver biologically relevant cargo into non-adherent cells
Nanostraws and to methods of utilizing them in order to deliver biologically relevant molecules such as DNA, RNA, proteins etc., into non-adherent cells such as immune cells, embryos, plant cells, bacteria, yeast etc. The methods described herein are repeatedly capable of delivering biologically relevant cargo into non-adherent cells, with high cell viability, dosage control, unaffected proliferation or cellular development, and with high efficiency. Among other uses, these new delivery methods will allow to scale pre-clinical cell reprogramming techniques to clinical applications. |
| US10815494B2 |
Nucleotide sequences and corresponding polypeptides conferring modified phenotype characteristics in plants
Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased[RCL2] low-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels. |