US10172728B2
A transtibial prosthetic socket frame may include a distal base assembly having a base plate, a carriage configured to support a socket suspension arrangement, and a distal prosthetic component connector. The distal base assembly supports a set of struts that includes two anterior struts and a single posterior strut. The set of struts and distal base assembly collectively define a prosthetic socket cavity having a central longitudinal axis and a residual limb hosting volume. The distal prosthetic component connector has a connecting adapter that is rotatable with respect to the prosthetic socket, and moveable with respect to the base plate between being aligned with the prosthetic socket's central longitudinal axis and a position offset therefrom.
US10172725B2
A jointed mechanical device is provided. The device includes at least one element having a fixed end and a deflectable end. The device also includes at least one actuating structure having a first end coupled to at least the deflectable end of the element, where the actuating structure includes at least one elastic element in series with at least one non-elastic element. The device further includes at least one force actuator configured to apply an actuator force to a second end of the actuating structure. Additionally, the device includes a control system for adjusting an operation of the force actuator based at least one actuation input, an amount of the actuator force, and an amount of displacement generated by the force actuator.
US10172721B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide a spinal facet cage implant for implantation in a spinal facet joint. In one implementation, the implant includes a distal leading end, a proximal trailing end, a first face, and a second face. The distal leading end has a distal surface generally opposite a proximal surface of the proximal trailing end. The first face has a first surface that is generally parallel with a second surface of the second face. The first and second faces extend between the distal leading end and the proximal trailing end. The first and second surfaces having one or more textured features adapted to provide friction with the spinal facet joint. One or more windows are defined in the first and/or second surfaces, and one or more side windows are defined in the first and/or second side surfaces.
US10172720B2
Tissue spacer implants and surgical methods for inserting the implants are disclosed. The implants may include a first cylindrical body with an outer surface, an axially extending hole, and a first end, a second cylindrical body with an outer surface and an axially extending hole, and an adjustment member with an outer surface, an axial hole, and at least one helical slot. The adjustment member axial hole may be adapted to receive the first cylindrical body and the adjustment member may be configured to be inserted into the axially extending hole of second cylindrical body. The implants may also include a travel mechanism for engaging the first cylindrical body, adjustment member, and second cylindrical body along the at least one helical slot to maintain a space between two bodies of tissue.
US10172712B2
Method and apparatus for measuring contraction characteristics of engineered heart tissue constructs
The invention is directed to a novel method for measuring contraction characteristics of engineered heart tissue constructs (16) which is based on the mechanical coupling of the construct (16) to a support element (8) which comprises or is mechanically coupled to a piezoelectric element (10). An apparatus (1) for carrying out the method of the invention is also provided.
US10172709B2
A delivery system and method for positioning and partially deploying a replacement valve at an implantation site, verifying the location of the replacement valve relative to the implantation site, and retrieving the partially deployed stent for repositioning relative to the implantation site.
US10172707B2
Tubular prostheses are provided for use in airways, upper digestive, and urinary tracts. Each of these uses has its own specific sets of biological specifications, based on what it must contain and exclude and the physical and chemical pressures and stresses to which it is subjected. The prostheses may be made from allogeneic cells. Thus they can be manufactured and stored prior to an individual's personal need arising.
US10172700B2
A prosthesis for repairing a hernia defect includes a patch body, a hoisting frame releasably attachable to the patch body, and a tether attached to the hoisting frame and having a free end extendable through the thickness of the patch body and accessible from the side of the patch body opposite to the side where the hoisting frame is releasably attached. The patch body and/or the hoisting frame includes a self-expanding support member. The hoisting frame includes a frame body and a translation component for directing pulling forces on the tether to the frame body.
US10172687B2
A cannula for a surgical system may include a magnet located in a position to be sensed by the surgical system in a mounted position of the cannula to the surgical system. At least one of a presence of the magnet and a polarity of the magnet is sensed in the mounted position of the cannula to provide identification information relating to the cannula. Exemplary embodiments further encompass a patient side cart for a teleoperated surgical system, the patient side cart including a base, a main column, and an arm connected to the main column. The arm may include a mount to receive a cannula and a reader to sense a magnet of an identification device in the cannula so as to receive identification information relating to a mounted cannula.
US10172683B2
Measuring devices that can be incorporated with gripping tools are described. The measuring devices can be integral to a gripping tool or can be removably attachable to a gripping tool. The measuring devices can be incorporated in conjunction with a gripping tool for use in a medical application such as a clamp, a hemostat, a forceps, or the like. Devices can be utilized to determine a straight length and/or to determine the spread of the jaws a gripping tool associated with the device.
US10172680B2
Example surgical systems include end-effector assembly, arm assembly, and elbow joint assembly. Arm assembly includes proximal and distal ends. Elbow joint assembly secures proximal end of arm assembly to distal end of second arm assembly. Elbow joint assembly includes first and second elbow joint portions. First elbow joint portion includes first end section secured to proximal end of arm assembly, second end section, and first joint joining first and second end sections of first elbow joint portion. Second elbow joint portion includes first end section secured to second end section of first elbow joint portion, second end section secured to distal end of second arm assembly, and second joint joining first and second end sections of second elbow joint portion. First end section of first and second elbow joint portion are pivotable relative to first and second axes, respectively, formed by center line drawn through first and second joints, respectively.
US10172676B2
A first interface for reading image data of an anatomical region obtained by means of a medical imaging method is provided. A modeling module serves for establishing a volumetric biomechanical structure model of the anatomical region on the basis of the image data. Moreover, provision is made of a tracking module, couplable with a camera, for video-based registration of spatial gestures of a user. Furthermore, a simulation module, based on the biomechanical structure model, serves to assign a registered gesture to a simulated mechanical effect on the anatomical region, simulate a mechanical reaction of the anatomical region to the simulated mechanical effect, and modify the biomechanical structure model in accordance with the simulated mechanical reaction. Moreover, provision is made for a visualization module for the volumetric visualization of the biomechanical structure model.
US10172674B2
An intracorporeal marker system includes a tissue marker pellet comprised of a polysaccharide material. The intracorporeal marker system may also include a fibrous marker of bioabsorbable fibers. In one embodiment, for example, an outer layer of bioabsorbable fibers is disposed around at least part of an inner core of bioabsorbable fibers.
US10172672B2
A surgical instrument includes a first shaft, a second shaft, and a hinge. The first shaft includes a proximal handle and a distal jaw member. The second shaft includes a first segment that has a proximal handle and a second segment that has a distal jaw member. One of the first and second shafts is pivotal relative to the other to pivot the jaw members between an open configuration where the jaw members are spaced relative to one another and an activatable configuration where the jaw members are closer to one another and suitable for applying electrosurgical energy to tissue disposed therebetween. The hinge couples the first and second segments to one another. The first and second segments have a straight configuration where the first and second segments align with a longitudinal axis and a pivoted configuration where the second segment is disposed at an angle relative to the longitudinal axis.
US10172659B2
The present invention relates in certain embodiments to medical devices for treating vertebral compression fractures. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to instruments and methods for controllably restoring vertebral body height by controlling the flow of bone cement into the interior of a vertebra and the application of forces causes by the cement flow. An exemplary system utilizes Rf energy in combination a conductive bone cement for selectively polymerizing the inflow plume to increase the viscosity of the cement. In one aspect of the invention, the system utilizes a controller to control bone cement flow parameters to either allow or disallow cement interdigitation into cancellous bone. A method of the invention includes pulsing the flows of bone cement wherein high acceleration of the flow pulses can apply expansion forces across the surface of the cement plume to reduce a vertebral fracture.
US10172658B2
Provided are a medical insertion apparatus including a screw body to be inserted into a body, and a conductive portion provided in the screw body and including an externally exposed portion, wherein the conductive portion may extend in a longitudinal direction of the screw body and form a single closed loop, and a medical insertion apparatus including a screw body to be inserted into a body, a driver to engage with the screw body to be used to fasten or loosen the screw body, and a conductive portion provided in the screw body and the driver and including an externally exposed portion on one side of the screw body, wherein a portion of the conductive portion disposed in the screw body and another portion of the conductive portion disposed in the driver may be electrically connected to each other.
US10172656B1
A surgical screw configured to expand and prevent or minimize bone growth inside of the surgical screw is provided. Accordingly, the surgical screw is configured to increase the purchase of the surgical screw with respect to the bone, but also to be withdrawn from the bone without damaging the bone as a result of bone ingrowth. The surgical screw includes a center post with an inner bore and an outer sleeve concentric to the center post. An outer surface of the outer sleeve includes a thread to engage bone. The outer sleeve includes a cut pattern defining an expandable region configurable between a first state with a first radius measured from a longitudinal axis of the surgical screw to the outer surface and a second state having a second radius measured from the longitudinal axis to the outer surface.
US10172649B2
A polyaxial bone screw assembly includes a threaded shank body having an integral upper portion receivable in an integral receiver, the receiver having an upper channel for receiving a longitudinal connecting member and a lower cavity cooperating with a lower opening. A down-loadable compression insert with tool receiving arm extensions, a down-loadable friction fit split retaining ring and an uploadable shank upper portion cooperate to provide for pop- or snap-on assembly of the shank with the receiver either prior to or after implantation of the shank into a vertebra. The shank and receiver once assembled cannot be disassembled.
US10172647B2
A fixation system comprises a rod, a fastener including a head and an elongated shank, a yoke and an insert. The yoke includes opposite arms defining a slot to receive the rod, an opening to receive the shank, a surface for supporting the fastener head, and a cross bore through each of the arms. The insert has a base configured for slidable insertion between the yoke arms, and defining a rod supporting surface and an opening sized to receive the fastener shank. The insert further includes a pair of resiliently deflectable fingers extending from the base and including a tab projecting therefrom configured to be received within a cross bore. Each tab defines a beveled face configured to bear against the yoke as the insert is advanced into the yoke slot and to deflect the fingers inward until the tabs are aligned with the cross bores.
US10172641B2
Embodiments of a surgical access port system that comprises a retractor that is adapted for being coupled to a cap and that is particularly useful in natural orifice surgery are described. The retractor comprises an outer ring, wherein the outer ring is configured to be disposed proximate the natural orifice of the patient and substantially surround the orifice; a tubular body; and various stabilizing mechanisms surrounding the tubular body, sized and configured to stabilize and retain the retractor within the orifice. The stabilizing embodiments described herein are useful in all natural orifices and are of particular use in the vaginal surgery.
US10172639B2
Devices and methods for protecting an internal channel of a subject are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a device for protecting an internal channel of a subject includes a first end portion having a first diameter and defining a first opening, and a second end portion opposite the first end portion having a second diameter and defining a second opening that is in communication with the first opening. A body portion is defined between the first end portion and second end portion. The body portion defines an interior passage between the first opening and second opening, and is expandable along a longitudinal axis from a collapsed state to an expanded state.
US10172633B2
The devices and methods described herein relate to improved structures for removing obstructions from body lumens. Such devices have applicability in through-out the body, including clearing of blockages within the vasculature, by recanalizing or removing the obstruction within the body lumen.
US10172630B2
Drill guides and related methods are disclosed herein, e.g., for use in surgical procedures. In some embodiments, a drill guide can include an adjustment mechanism that permits one-handed adjustment of the guide depth and does not require that the drill guide be removed from the patient or that the drill be removed from the drill guide when making an adjustment. The adjustment mechanism can include a trigger that moves first and second detents into and out of engagement with a guide stem to allow step-wise adjustment of the guide depth.
US10172626B2
A tissue microfracture apparatus including a housing having a proximal end and a distal end that includes an aperture. The apparatus also includes an elongated member having proximal and distal ends with at least one tissue microfracture spike protruding from the distal end. The member operates cooperatively with the housing to expose a portion of the spike through the aperture. The apparatus also includes a disposing facility between the elongated member and the housing to dispose the spike in a home position within the housing. The disposing facility may be a spring element positioned at either the proximal or distal end of the housing. The elongated member may include a force receiving surface on the proximal end for receiving a force that facilitates exposing the portion of the spike. An exposure limiting facility limits the exposed portion of the spike.
US10172622B2
An applicator instrument has a body portion that has at least one trigger mechanism and a rod extending from the body portion. The applicator instrument has a folding cap mechanism installed or inserted into an end of the rod. The folding cap mechanism has a plurality of extension arms, each of which have a staple clinch bucket. The extension arms are coupled to a trigger of the triggers and are movable between a collapsed position and an extended position by the trigger.
US10172621B2
Implants or systems of implants and methods apply a selected force vector or a selected combination of force vectors within or across the left atrium, which allow mitral valve leaflets to better coapt. The implants or systems of implants and methods make possible rapid deployment, facile endovascular delivery, and full intra-atrial retrievability. The implants or systems of implants and methods also make use of strong fluoroscopic landmarks. The implants or systems of implants and methods make use of an adjustable implant and a fixed length implant. The implants or systems of implants and methods may also utilize a bridge stop to secure the implant, and the methods of implantation employ various tools.
US10172618B2
A surgical stapler end effector comprises a staple cartridge, an anvil, and a buttress assembly. The staple cartridge comprises a plurality of staples and a deck. The staple cartridge is operable to drive the staples through the deck. The anvil is movable from an open position toward the staple cartridge to reach a closed position. The anvil includes an underside having staple forming surface configured to receive staples driven through the deck. The buttress assembly comprises a buttress body and an adhesive material. The adhesive material comprises a polymer. The polymer is bioabsorbable. The polymer has glass transition temperature (Tg) at or below 0° C.
US10172614B1
One example of a surgical apparatus may include a feeder belt, a plurality of staples frangibly connected to the feeder belt, and at least one pull tab extending laterally from the feeder belt. An example of a surgical method of treating tissue within the body of a patient may include providing at least one feeder belt and staples frangibly connected thereto, and at least one wedge movable relative to the feeder belt; moving at least one wedge in a first direction to contact and thereby form and shear at least one staple from at least one feeder belt; and moving at least one wedge in a second direction to engage and advance the feeder belt.
US10172612B2
A surgical instrument including a housing, an elongated portion, an end effector, a drive beam and a force applier is provided. The housing includes a first actuator and a second actuator. The elongated portion extends distally from the housing and defines a longitudinal axis. The end effector is disposed adjacent a distal portion of the elongated portion, and includes a first jaw member and a second jaw member. The first jaw member has a cavity defined therein. Actuation of the first actuator causes distal translation of the drive beam to move the first jaw member relative to the second jaw member toward the approximated position, which applies a fist force against tissue disposed between the jaw members. Actuation of the second actuator causes distal translation of the force applier such that at least a portion of the force applier moves into the cavity of the first jaw member and applies an additional force against tissue disposed between the jaw members.
US10172609B2
A surgical instrument for treating a patient includes a shaft assembly and a body assembly. The shaft assembly includes an articulation joint that is operable to selectively articulate a distal end portion relative to a proximal end portion. The body assembly includes a joint drive assembly, an actuator, and a clutch lock mechanism. The clutch lock mechanism is operatively connected between the actuator and the joint drive assembly. The actuator is configured to actuate the clutch lock mechanism from a locked state to an unlocked state. In the locked state, the clutch lock mechanism is configured to seize the joint drive assembly and inhibit movement of the articulation joint. In the unlocked state, the clutch lock mechanism is configured to transmit movement of the actuator to the joint drive assembly for moving the distal end portion of the shaft assembly.
US10172605B2
The present subject matter relates to a surgical retractor. The surgical retractor includes: a movable body part which is inserted into a body; a hook part which is connected with the movable body part inside the body and pulls out an object that is inside of the body; and an operating part for operating, from the outside of the body, the movement of the movable body part inside the body.
US10172600B2
An insertion apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an insertion portion to be inserted into a subject; a bending operation apparatus to be moved by an operator to input an operation instruction; a bending drive section that generates a drive force based on the movement of the bending operation apparatus; a pulling member to be pulled by the drive force from the bending drive section; a bending portion provided in the insertion portion, the bending portion being connected to the pulling member and being bent upon the pulling member being pulled; and a haptic section that connects the pulling member and the bending operation apparatus via an elastic portion.
US10172591B2
An ultrasonic device includes a substrate, a first piezoelectric body, a second piezoelectric body, and an acoustic matching section. The substrate has a first surface that is a flat surface. The first piezoelectric body is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The second piezoelectric body is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The second piezoelectric body has a different thickness from a thickness of the first piezoelectric body as measured from the first surface of the substrate. The acoustic matching section is disposed on the first piezoelectric body and the second piezoelectric body. The acoustic matching section has a first side facing the first piezoelectric body and the second piezoelectric body, and a second side opposite from the first side. A surface of the acoustic matching section on the second side is a flat surface parallel with the first surface of the substrate.
US10172586B2
A mobile X-ray imaging apparatus and a method of controlling the mobile X-ray imaging apparatus are provided. The mobile X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray source mounted in a movable main body, a battery configured to supply operating power to the X-ray source, a charger configured to supply charging power to charge the battery, and a controller configured to block charging of the battery while X-rays are radiated.
US10172577B2
The invention relates to an X-ray detector device (10) for detection of X-ray radiation at an inclined angle relative to the X-ray radiation, an X-ray imaging system (1), an X-ray imaging method, and a computer program element for controlling such an X-ray imaging system for performing such method and a computer readable medium having stored such computer program element. The X-ray detector device (10) comprises a cathode surface (11) and an anode surface (12). The cathode surface (11) and the anode surface (12) are displaced by a separation layer (13) allowing charge transport (T) between the cathode surface (11) and the anode surface (12) in response to X-ray radiation incident during operation on the cathode surface (11). The anode surface (12) is segmented into anode pixels (121) and the cathode surface (11) is segmented into cathode pixels (111). At least one of the cathode pixels (111) is assigned to at least one of the anode pixels (121) in a coupling direction (C) inclined relative to the cathode surface (11). At least one of the cathode pixels (111) is configured to be at a voltage offset ΔU relative to an adjacent cathode pixel and at least one of the anode pixels (121) is configured to be at a voltage offset ΔU relative to an adjacent anode pixel (121). The voltage offset ΔU is configured to converge the charge transport (T) in a direction parallel to the coupling direction (C).
US10172574B2
An interventional X-ray system (10), includes a processing unit (30), a table (20) for receiving a patient (44), an X-ray image acquisition device (12) having an X-ray source (16) and an X-ray detector (18) and at least one optical camera (46) adapted for acquiring optical images of a patient (44) situated on the table (20) and for providing image data to the processing unit (30). The processing unit (30) is adapted for segmenting an outline (64) of a patient from an existing three-dimensional model, for receiving acquired images from the at least one camera (46) for determining an optical outline (66) of the patient, for registering the optical outline (66) to the outline (64) obtained in the segmentation and for determining a translation vector (48) representing a required movement of the table for coinciding a center (42) of the anatomy of interest given in the three-dimensional model with the iso-center (38) of a rotational X-ray scan that will be performed. By this process, no X-ray exposure or injection of contrast agent is required.
US10172572B2
A digital breast tomosynthesis system includes an object fixing unit including first and second fixing plates, a first vibration plate moved in linkage with the first fixing plate and a second vibration plate moved in linkage with the second fixing plate, and configured to fix the object between the first and second vibration plates, an X-ray generator configured to project X-ray toward the object; an X-ray detector configured to detect the X-ray, a vibration generating device configured to vibrate the first and second vibration plates at a set frequency, and a vibration control device configured to control the vibration generating device by generating a vibration signal corresponding to the set frequency, wherein the X-ray generator projects the X-ray at specific time intervals on the basis of the set frequency.
US10172567B2
The present invention describes systems and methods for predicting and detecting a seizure in a subject. The methods of the invention comprise measuring interneuron synchrony in terms of the coherence between interneuron action potentials and local field potential oscillations. In one embodiment, the detection of specific patterns of coherence, correlation and firing rate of interneurons predicts an upcoming seizures.
US10172555B2
Provided is a device for placement on a human subject to detect impacts on the human subject. The device includes a base member, one or more engagement sensors to detect whether the device is properly placed on the human subject, and one or more motion sensors to detect the kinematics of the human subject. The device also includes a processing unit that includes methodology to detect false positives such as chewing, dropping, and throwing.
US10172552B2
The invention refers to a method for the at least partial determination of a movement pattern of a dental treatment means, in particular tooth cleaning, resulting during a dental treatment and comprises at least the steps:Moving the dental treatment means at least in a x-/y-plane for the treatment of surface parts of the teeth, wherein by means of an optical detection device data are recorded with respect to at least one motion parameter, in particular the movement direction or −rotation, the acceleration, the path and/or the velocity, of the dental treatment means with respect to a reference system moving with the head of the treated person and providing the recorded data to a processor device for the determination of the movement pattern.
US10172550B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for assessing a state of an epilepsy disease or a comorbidity thereof are provided. The methods comprise receiving at least one autonomic index, neurologic index, stress marker index, psychiatric index, endocrine index, adverse effect of therapy index, physical fitness index, or quality of life index of a patient; comparing the at least one index to at least one reference value; and assessing a state of an epilepsy disease or a body system of the patient based on the comparison. A computer readable program storage device encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform the method described above is also provided. A medical device system capable of implementing the method described above is also provided.
US10172547B2
Provided are a sleeping state detection system and method that can detect the sleeping state of a subject such as an inpatient or a tenant without causing the subject stress, and that can ascertain the health state of the subject from the detection results. The sleeping state detection system includes a room or closed space (201) in which the subject sleeps, and a dust counter (206) that measures the dust particles inside the room or closed space (201). In a state where the inside of the room or closed space (201) is kept cleaner than the outside of the room or closed space (201) by using a fan filter unit (208) disposed in the room or closed space (201), while the subject sleeps, the change over time in the number of dust particles inside the room or closed space (201) is measured using the dust counter (206), and thereby the sleeping state of the subject is detected. The inside of the room or closed space (201) is preferably kept at a cleanliness of US 209D Class100 or better.
US10172545B2
Adapter caps for sample collection containers have a monolithic elongate body with an upper neck portion that merges into a larger lower body portion with an open internal cavity. The upper neck portion has an open needle bore that is concentrically aligned with the open internal cavity. The monolithic elongate body has an axially extending centerline. The needle bore has a downwardly extending wall with an inner surface that comprises a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart longitudinally extending flat surfaces.
US10172544B2
A diagnostic Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) procedure is applied to measure values of impedance-related parameters for one or more sensing electrodes. The parameters may include real impedance, imaginary impedance, impedance magnitude, and/or phase angle. The measured values of the impedance-related parameters are then used in performing sensor diagnostics, calculating a highly-reliable fused sensor glucose value based on signals from a plurality of redundant sensing electrodes, calibrating sensors, detecting interferents within close proximity of one or more sensing electrodes, and testing surface area characteristics of electroplated electrodes. Advantageously, impedance-related parameters can be defined that are substantially glucose-independent over specific ranges of frequencies. An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) enables implementation of the EIS-based diagnostics, fusion algorithms, and other processes based on measurement of EIS-based parameters.
US10172541B2
A motion recognition device includes a sensing unit and a processing unit. The sensing unit generates a sense signal in response to a body motion occurring at a specific position on a user's body, wherein the sense signal includes a first sense signal portion and a second sense signal portion different from the first sense signal portion, and the body motion belongs to a motion segment of a motion type. The processing unit processes the sense signal to generate a motion parameter signal structure including a fusion signal of the first and the second sense signal portions, and recognizes the specific position to determine an effective reference signal for recognition of the motion type based on the motion parameter signal structure.
US10172540B2
A multi-activity system may be configured to receive, upload, synchronize and process data for a variety of different activity types and/or recorded using multiple types of activity monitoring devices. In one example, an application interface may be defined with a multiple functions that are each useable by various types of devices and for processing multiple types of data. Additionally or alternatively, data for different activity types and/or recorded using different types of monitoring devices may be processed differently. Synchronization of data may further be handled on a device-by-device basis, device-type basis and/or activity-type basis using various tracking parameters.
US10172537B2
The invention relates to a rod-shaped body comprised of one or more filaments and of a non-ferromagnetic matrix material. The matrix material surrounds the filament(s) and/or adheres them to one another. The rod-shaped body is also comprised of a dopant consisting of particles that generate magnetic resonance tomographic artifacts that is introduced into the matrix material. Rod-shaped bodies of this type can be used to construct guide wires, catheters and other instruments to be used in minimally invasive surgical interventions.
US10172527B2
Method for measuring a physical parameter in soft tissues of a mammal, in which a mechanical shear wave is propagated through the soft tissues and observation of the propagation leads to determine values of a shear wave propagation parameter. The physical parameter is computed on the basis of these values.
US10172523B2
A measurement system includes a light source having semiconductor sources, a multiplexer, and one or more fused silica fibers configured to form an output optical beam having one or more optical wavelengths modulated at a modulation frequency. A light beam set-up includes a monochromator forming a filtered optical beam. A measurement apparatus delivers the filtered optical beam to a sample. A receiver receives a spectroscopy output beam generated from the sample by the filtered optical beam. The receiver is configured to use a lock-in technique that detects the modulation frequency, and to generate first and second signals responsive to light received while the light source is off and on, respectively. The measurement system improves a signal-to-noise ratio of the spectroscopy output beam by differencing the first and second signals. The receiver processes the spectroscopy output beam using chemometrics or multivariate analysis to permit identification of materials within the sample.
US10172522B2
A patient support apparatus includes a control system operable to gather physiological information about a patient supported on the patient support apparatus. The information may be gathered from sensors, a user interface, or a hospital information system. The control system uses the data gathered to predict whether a patient is likely to be in need of care from a caregiver.
US10172520B2
A sensing device allows detection of biological quantities in ways that are minimally invasive. Micrometer or nanometer sized needles allow sensing of bodily fluids in a minimally invasive method. The device comprises electronics and power harvesting. Antennas or coils allow communication and power harvesting from an external device, which can be attached to smartphones to allow operation of a camera and camera light for biosensing.
US10172507B2
A household appliance includes a plurality of walls which delimit a treatment compartment. At least one of the walls, e.g. a rear wall of the treatment compartment, is configured predominantly or entirely with a luminous surface element. The luminous surface element can be sized to occupy at least 50% of a surface of the at least one wall and formed by a plate-shaped or panel-type element.
US10172505B2
A cleaning pad for a robot cleaner includes a back piece, an absorbent sheet, and a water permeable web. The water permeable web has a web body which is of such a dimension as to form a downward draping unit to shield the absorbent sheet. The downward draping unit is embossed toward the back piece and along at least one line oriented in a lengthwise direction to form successive downward draping members each defining a height between a lowermost area thereof and a lower major surface of the back piece. The heights of the successive downward draping members are incrementally decreased from a rearmost one of the successive downward draping members to a frontmost one of the successive downward draping members.
US10172503B2
The present disclosure provides an intelligent closestool including a closestool stand, a closestool seat, a closestool lid, a sensor and a controller. The sensor is configured to sense whether there is an object approaching, or moving away from, the closestool stand, and in the case that there is an object approaching the closestool stand, detect a standing direction of the object relative to the closestool stand. The controller is configured to open/close the closestool lid in the case that the sensor has sensed that the object approaches/moves away from the closestool stand; flip the closestool seat up in the case that the sensor has sensed that the object faces the closestool stand, and flip the closestool seat down in the case that the sensor has sensed that the object turns his or her back to the closestool stand.
US10172502B1
A toilet training device having a flange extending from a cutout in the base assembly that includes an opening that engages an anchoring member located on the underside of a seat assembly and when engaged prevents a child from removing the removable seat assembly from the training toilet base.
US10172497B1
A bread storage dispenser device comprising a housing container made to stand upright having a closed bottom surface and open top end with the housing container further formed having a substantially rectangular chamber extending longitudinally through perimeter walls thereof. A serving drawer assembly is integrally constructed and formed to engage the chamber of the housing container and slide longitudinally therein guided by a pair of side rails on the perimeter walls on opposite sides of the container to a position substantially proximate to the closed bottom surface thereof. The serving drawer assembly includes a top lid member sized to cover and close the open top end of the housing container with a perimeter sealing member secured beneath the lid member, a bottom shelf member having a cross section conforming with the chamber of the housing container and further notched on opposite sides to engage the side rails, and a carriage tray member extending between the top lid and the bottom shelf member configured to retain the slices of bread in a stack held upon the bottom shelf. By raising the serving drawer assembly from its seated position, the stack of bread slices stored within the housing container may be lifted therefrom to allow easy removal of bread slices by the user, and the serving drawer may then be released to descend by itself to a reseated position.
US10172494B2
A semi-automatic food cooking apparatus comprising: a control unit; a communication unit; and a cooking compartment comprising: a cooking cartridge loading tray; a movable press; a movable cooking base; and a cooking cartridge lid guide.
US10172485B2
A decorative and connectable display arrangement that includes a housing of multi-sided form having opposed first and second sides and a bottom, an inner support frame that is disposed within the housing and including a cap member having an open top port, and at least one decorative member that is supported within the housing and extends upwardly through the open top port. The decorative member includes a base piece that is pivotally supported in the housing and a stem piece extending from the base piece and extending through the open top port. A solar energy source or panel is supported in the inner support frame and is effective for driving the at least one decorative member in a predetermined motion direction. The housing has 3 on opposed sides thereof an interlock tongue and groove mechanism that enables adjacent ones of the housings to be engaged together.
US10172472B2
A pocketed spring assembly comprises a plurality of parallel strings of individually pocketed springs. Each string is joined to at least one adjacent string. Each string has first and second opposed plies of fabric and a plurality of pockets formed along a length of the string by transverse segmented seams joining the plies. Gaps between the segments of the seams allow air to pass into and out of the pockets despite the fabric being impermeable to airflow through the fabric. The fabric has at least four layers. The size of the gaps determines the firmness or “feel” of the pocketed spring assembly or portion thereof.
US10172470B1
In various embodiments, a support system includes a multi-layer support system with a number of layers. Systems and methods of removing moisture vapor from an environment surrounding patient are disclosed that accomplish such removal.
US10172468B2
A portable adjustable headrest comprising a base member having on opening and a plurality of tabs, at least two elongated pads having a first end and a second end, wherein the second end has a tab affixed, and the at least two elongated pads are rotationally attached to the first attachment member and the second attachment member by the tabs, an outer shaft secured to the receiving orifice, an inner shaft having a first end and a second end and a central axis, configured to fit securely within the outer shaft in a telescopic relationship, a locking mechanism coupled to the inner shaft and the outer shaft, a cushion base attached to the first end of the inner shaft, wherein the cushion base has an elongated surface, and a cushion situated on the elongated surface of the cushion base.
US10172456B2
A work and discussion space includes two installation blocks that are positioned opposite one another. Each installation block accommodates two people and includes a vertical partitioning structure, two seats positioned against the vertical structure and separated by at least one module for storing professional and/or personal accessories, and a work surface each associated with a seat. The work surfaces are movable between a position that is distant from, and a position that is close to, the corresponding seat.
US10172451B2
Hanging shelf system comprising one or more vertical posts and one or more shelves fastened to said vertical posts, characterized in that said vertical posts are supporting cables which suspend from at least one support.
US10172450B2
Described is an apparatus for positioning an electronic display. The apparatus can be combined with an existing work surface to provide a multi-position workstation. In some cases the apparatus includes a mounting portion configured to support an electronic display and a keyboard. The mounting portion may be movable with respect to the work surface between multiple positions, including for example, a sitting position and a standing position. Methods for positioning an electronic display and a keyboard are also included.
US10172437B2
Disclosed is a dual access-point system for holding an item. The dual access-point system allows a traveler to easily store and retrieve one or more items through two sides of a backpack (e.g., via the top and the side). Additionally, the backpack can be quickly converted into a suitcase; for example, by hiding the straps in the pockets on the backpack. The dual access-point system may be used as a standalone system. Alternatively, the dual access-point system may be integrated with a backpack. The disclosed dual access-point system saves time and money for its users, making their lives easier while making them look good and professional.
US10172433B2
A lipstick cup for securing a lipstick cylinder or bullet, suitable for a soft lipstick formula, having a cylindrical body with a base and a sidewall having axially-arranged ribs distributed substantially evenly around the inner circumference of the sidewall near the base, that extending radially inwardly from the sidewall, and a plurality of shallow undercut structures distributed substantially evenly around the circumference of the sidewall, disposed circumferentially between the pairs of adjacent ribs, and tapering inwardly from the inner surface of the sidewall toward the base to provide an undersurface. The plurality of ribs displace and compress a portion of the material of the lipstick composition circumferentially toward and between the undersurface of the shallow undercut structures, and the base, for preventing the product from being dislodged from the cup.
US10172432B2
An applicator for a stick product, such as lip balm, has a generally tubular housing closed at one end by an elastomeric base cap and at the other by an end cap. The base cap is connected to one end of a plunger shaft, and at the other end the shaft is connected to a tray holding a semi-solid mass of the stick product. The end cap is in the form of a mold so that the stick product may be molded onto the tray in situ. The end cap locks to the housing to cover the semi-solid mass, and when removed the base cap (e. g. durometer 70A), which is bistable, having two relaxed configurations, may be depressed to move the mass out of the housing. The plunger and stick product are easily replaced.
US10172427B2
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for multi-segment weighted trekking poles are provided. A typical three-segment trekking (or other) pole may benefit from removable annular-shaped weights that may provide liquid storage and may be retained in position by one or more weight locks. The standard basket and tip protector may be replaced with a combined tip protector and basket element that threads onto a bottom segment of the pole.
US10172426B2
A magnetic band clasp includes a female clasp assembly of a first band segment and a male clasp assembly of a second band segment. The female clasp assembly defines one or more cavities with one or more magnetic elements disposed underneath. The male clasp assembly includes a projection that may include a magnetic element. Magnetic attraction between the magnetic elements couples the first and second band segments when the projection is positioned in the cavity. In implementations where the female clasp assembly includes multiple cavities, changing which of the cavities the projection is positioned in adjusts a combined coupled length of the first and second band segments.
US10172425B2
Portable decorative element with a metal structure (2) made from cutout metal plate with decorative openings, on the back face of which there is a lining forming a plate that can be seen through these openings, that can be elastically bent (4), the back face of the metal plate comprising attachment means (10, 12) holding the lining (4) in place and clamping this lining, pressing it into contact with the back face of the structure.
US10172422B2
An article of footwear may include an upper incorporating a knitted component. An inlaid strand extends through the knitted component. A combination feeder may be utilized to inlay the strand within the knitted component. As an example, the combination feeder may include a feeder arm that reciprocates between a retracted position and an extended position. In manufacturing the knitted component, the feeder inlays the strand when the feeder arm is in the extended position, and the strand is absent from the knitted component when the feeder arm is in the retracted position.
US10172411B2
A base is provided for a ski boot comprising a sole and an outsole element that is positioned in a predetermined position relative to a longitudinal axis (L). The outsole element is positioned on the sole by using two projections that are carried by one or other of the sole and the outsole element and that locate in holes or cavities defined by the other. Preferably, the projections are carried by the outsole element and locate in holes or cavities defined by the sole. The projections may be integrally formed with the outsole element or the sole. Alternatively, they may be formed by injected pins, rivets, fasteners, t-nuts, or screws.
US10172406B2
A head guard is provided. The head guard includes one or more sensors as part of an sensory input and communications system. The head guard wirelessly communicates data to remote computing devices for intelligent data collection.
US10172402B2
In one embodiment, a hand apparatus, such as a glove or a mitten, with attachable securing members is disclosed. The hand apparatus can have a hand receiving portion, one or more finger portions, a thumb portion, and a body portion. The body portion comprises a dorsal side, a palm side, a first securing member, and a second securing member. The body portion can also comprise of a third securing member attached between the far side and near side of the body portion. The securing members can be attachable to the other securing members by fasteners.
US10172388B2
The present disclosure relates to a microfluidic vaporizer, an aerosol delivery device that may include such vaporizer, and methods for forming an aerosol. A microfluidic vaporizer can comprise a substrate that defines: a reservoir configured to hold a liquid; a heater adapted to vaporize the liquid; and a capillary channel configured for movement of the liquid from the reservoir to the heater. An aerosol delivery device can comprise a shell and a microfluidic vaporizer. The microfluidic vaporizer and aerosol delivery device can be used for forming aerosols with precise and reproducible compositions.
US10172386B2
There is provided a smoking article comprising a filter. The filter comprises a hollow tube having an inner surface. The filter further comprises a flow restrictor disposed in the hollow tube, and adapted to divert at least a portion of the flow of mainstream smoke between an outer surface of the restrictor and the inner surface of the hollow tube. Furthermore, the filter comprises a retaining element disposed downstream of the flow restrictor, the retaining element having one or more openings. Each of the openings of the retaining element has at least one cross-sectional dimension that is smaller than the smallest cross-sectional dimension of the flow restrictor to prevent the flow restrictor from moving downstream of the retaining element. The flow restrictor is substantially spherical, at least one cross-sectional dimension of the one or more openings of the retaining element being smaller than the diameter of the flow restrictor.
US10172383B2
A drying device having a travel path along which a web (W) of paper travels, a plurality of drying ovens arranged side by side along the travel path, a plurality of conveyor rolls provided in each of the drying ovens to convey the web (W) along the travel path, a plurality of roll units each constituted by one or more of the conveyor rolls and separated from each other along the travel path, and a plurality of conveyor motors connected to the respective roll units to rotate the conveyor rolls, wherein a downstream one of the roll units with respect to the travel path is rotated at a lower rotating speed than an upstream one of the roll units.
US10172382B2
The present invention provides a bean roasting device, comprising: a drum unit comprising a base, a drum pivotally provided in the base and having a receiving space, and a rotation device provided on one side of the base and configured to drive the drum into rotation relative to the base; a heat lamp unit comprising a positioning seat connected to the base, one or a plurality of heat lamp tubes connected at one end to the positioning seat and extending into the receiving space, and one or a plurality of air inlet ducts each provided around a said heat lamp tube and configured to guide air into the receiving space of the drum; and an air supply/venting unit provided on one side of the base, the air supply/venting unit comprising an air guiding portion in communication with the receiving space of the drum and an air blower/air extractor provided on one side of the air guiding portion and configured to provide a positive pressure/negative pressure to the receiving space of the drum through the air guiding portion.
US10172378B2
Disclosed are compounds that block off-notes in consumables and methods of blocking off-notes in consumables including off-notes provided by sweeteners such as stevioside, swingle extract, glyccerhizin, perillartine, naringin dihydrochalcone, neohesperidine dihydrochalcone, mogroside V, rubusoside, rubus extract, and rebaudioside A, and artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame K (Acesulfame potassium), sucralose and cyclamate.
US10172376B2
A method of improving the health of a first group of young monogastric mammals, the first group of young monogastric mammals nursing from a first lactating monogastric mammal during a pre-weaning period, the method including feeding the first lactating monogastric mammal an effective amount of an animal feed during the pre-weaning period, and feeding the first lactating monogastric mammal an effective amount of sugar alcohol during the pre-weaning period.
US10172371B2
Provided is a green tea extract composition, including the following components (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E): (A) non-polymer catechins; (B) a sugar; (C) iron; (D) caffeine; and (E) gallic acid, in which a content of the non-polymer catechins (A) is from 25 mass % to 45 mass %; a content of the sugar (B) is from 4 mass % to 13 mass %; a mass ratio between the sugar (B) and the caffeine (D), [(D)/(B)], is from 0.2 to 0.8; a mass ratio between the gallic acid (E) and the iron (C), [(E)/(C)], is from 55 to 2,500; and (F) a water content is 10 mass % or less.
US10172356B2
A bipyridine compound having an excellent controlling effect against noxious arthropods is provided. In particular, a bipyridine compound of formula (I) or an N-oxide thereof is provided in which the variable groups are as described in the specification. Also provided are compositions containing the bipyridine compound or an N-oxide thereof, and methods of using such compounds and compositions to control noxious arthropods.
US10172354B2
A fungicidal composition containing a fungicidally effective amount of (a) the compound of Formula I, (3S,6S,7R,8R)-8-benzyl-3-(3-((isobutyryloxy)methoxy)-4-methoxypicolinamido)-6-methyl-4,9-dioxo-1,5-dioxonan-7-yl isobutyrate, and (b) fluxapyroxad, provides synergistic control of selected fungi.
US10172353B2
The present invention provides a composition comprising (i) chitosan or chitopoly- or chitooligo-saccharides thereof, wherein said chitosan or chitopoly- or chitooligo-saccharides thereof comprise β-(1-4)-linked D-glucosamine and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine monomers and have a degree of acetylation between 0.05 and 0.20 and an average degree of polymerization ≤250 (molecular weight ≤42,000 Da), and (ii) a fungicide not containing chitopoly- or chitooligo-saccharides.
US10172352B1
A method to overcome the unintended effects of repeated glyphosate applications and improve the health and vigor of plants, by remediating the soil with soil remediating microbes and replenishing the amino acid pool by applying foliar essential amino acids.
US10172347B2
The present invention relates to a composition capable of improving storage stability of stem cells. More specifically, the present invention relates to a composition which contains a serum or a plasma for improving cold storage stability of stem cells. The composition for improving storage stability of stem cells according to the present invention can maintain a survival rate of over 90% for at least 9 days without changes in the properties, the number or the size of the stem cells, and thus is useful in the long-term transport of stem cells for cell therapy and the preparation of cell therapeutics injection products having an excellent effect.
US10172343B2
A cage-type animal trap with two opposed animal access openings that can operate in a one-door-opening configuration or a two-door-opening configuration. The trap has a set mechanism for holding one or both doors open to allow access through the corresponding trap access openings. The set mechanism includes a set lever that is movable from a set position to a tripped position and that is coupled to the doors of the trap by an actuating member. Upon actuation, the set lever moves from the set to the tripped position to allow movement of the actuating member which enables one of the doors to move from an opened position to a closed position when the trap is operating in a one-door-opening configuration, and both of the doors to move from the opened position to the closed position when the trap is operating in the two-door-opening configuration.
US10172341B2
The invention relates to a barrier for inhibiting the migration of crawling animals such as insects. The barrier comprises a body that is configured to encircle a leg/wheel of a furniture item and thereby intercept any crawling insects. The body has an annular shape defined by an outer boundary and an inner aperture, in which the leg/wheel of the furniture item can be located. The barrier includes inimical means to inhibit the migration of any crawling insects across the body. The barrier further comprises a slit extending radially from the boundary to the aperture so that the body can be reversibly opened and closed. The slit advantageously allows the body to be opened and closed around the leg/wheel of the furniture item during installation. Likewise, the slit allows the device to be reopened and extracted from around the leg/wheel of the furniture item during removal. As a result, the device can be installed, removed, replaced or retrofitted easily and quickly without having to lift, move and/or disassemble the furniture item. The invention further relates to a method of inhibiting the migration of crawling insects by mounting the said barrier around a leg/wheel of a furniture item, relates to a kit comprising a plurality of barriers and relates to a furniture item protected from crawling insects where a said barrier is mounted for use around a leg/wheel of the furniture item.
US10172338B2
A dual-bearing reel includes a reel body and a spool. The reel body includes a first side plate, a second side plate, and a connecting portion connecting the first and second side plates. The spool includes a bobbin trunk, a first flange portion, and a second flange portion. The first flange portion is disposed on a first side plate side of the bobbin trunk, and has a diameter larger than the diameter of the bobbin trunk and a first cylindrical surface disposed face to an inner perimeter portion of the first side plate and extends toward the first side plate side. The second flange portion is disposed on a second side plate side of the bobbin trunk and has a diameter larger than the diameter of the bobbin trunk. The first side plate has a groove portion recessed radially outwardly in at least a portion of an inner perimeter portion.
US10172337B2
A spinning reel includes, a spool, a spool shaft, a pinion gear, a tubular-shaped collar, a tubular-shaped nut, and an elastic member. The spool is configured to have a fishing line wound thereon when accompanied by rotation of a rotor. The pinion gear is disposed around the spool shaft and on which the rotor is non-rotatably mounted. The tubular-shaped collar is rotatably disposed on the spool shaft on an end side of the pinion gear in the axial direction of the pinion gear, and supports the spool shaft. The tubular-shaped nut is disposed to accommodate the collar and configured to screw onto the pinion gear. The elastic member is disposed between an outer peripheral surface of the collar and an inner peripheral surface of the nut.
US10172336B2
A fishing reel including: a main body mounted on a fishing rod; a spool for allowing a fishing line to be wound or unwound, the spool being installed on the main body so as to be rotatable; and a fishing wheel for rotating the spool, the fishing wheel being connected to a spool shaft gearshift which induces rotation of the spool. The fishing wheel is connected to the spool shaft gearshift via angle variation means, and a connection angle between the wheel and the gearshift varies using the angle variation means to reduce strain applied on a user's wrist while rotating the spool.
US10172335B2
This invention relates to a hollow fishing rod assembly with an inventive mounting block that spaces a hollow rod apart from a fishing reel seat such that when the fishing reel is mounted to the seat the fishing line orifice of the reel is axially aligned with the core of the hollow fishing rod. The mounting bracket may be hinged so that the line opening of the fishing rod is moved above the fishing reel for easy access and threading of new or replacement fishing line through the rod.
US10172330B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for sensing and controlling an amount of gas supply and a method for sensing and controlling an amount of gas supply thereby, which can sense a supply amount of the corresponding gas from an optical sensor in real time on the basis of the number of bubbles generated by any set time difference at the time when a target gas flows in a tube in order to differentiate the supply amount more accurately and whether or not the gas supply state is bad, and which can control pressure of the tube in real time by a series of automated devices in order to precisely realize the target supply amount according to gas supply information obtained from the optical sensor, thereby positively preventing malfunction and continuously maintaining the initial set amount of gas supply.
US10172323B2
A feeding dish for an animal to assist in controlling the rate of consumption of a food item may have a series of protrusions in the form of undulating rings or walls. These rings limit animal access to the food based on the configurations and arrangement of the protrusions. The feeding dishes encourage an animal to exert a more calculated effort to retrieve and eat the food item thereby alleviating potential deadly conditions, such as gastric dilatation-volvulus or aspiration, from afflicting the animal.
US10172322B2
A method for distributing feed over multiple separate feeding locations includes determining which feeding locations have a feed requirement; selecting a first feeding location among the feeding locations having a feed requirement; determining a feed composition to be delivered to the first feeding location; determining which further feeding locations have a feed requirement and require the same feed composition; determining a maximum filling amount of the feed delivery device; selecting at least one further feeding location until the required amount of feed exceeds the maximum filling amount with a surplus amount of feed; filling the feed delivery device with the maximum filling amount; and distributing the feed in the feed delivery device. Each selected feeding location receives the respective required amount except the feeding location requiring the most which receives the respective required amount minus the surplus amount.
US10172316B2
The invention relates to the field of Cucumis sativus, in particular to a new variety of Cucumis sativus designated NUN 53016 CUP plants, seeds and cucumber fruits thereof.
US10172314B2
The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 79-06 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew (Bremia lactucae) races B1:1-31 and Ca-I to Ca-VIII, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri), resistance to lettuce mosaic virus (LMV), deeply incised leaves with very strong undulation of the apical margin. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 79-06 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 79-06 RZ.
US10172312B1
A novel maize variety designated X08M617 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08M617 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08M617 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X08M617, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08M617 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08M617 and methods of using maize variety X08M617 are disclosed.
US10172307B2
The present invention provides a method of regenerating a plant, which allows stable regeneration of plants from calli; and a method of reproducing a plant, which allows stable reproduction of plants without being affected by weather, seasons or other factors. The present invention relates to a method of regenerating a plant, including a step of inducing adventitious embryos from calli; and a method of reproducing a plant, including a step of inducing adventitious embryos from calli.
US10172305B2
The present invention is in the field of plant breeding. More specifically, the invention includes a method for breeding and selecting plants that uniform for one or more seed lot purity traits such as, such as distinct flower color, pubescence color, hilum color, and pod wall color. The invention further includes molecular markers associated with distinct flower color, pubescence color, hilum color, and pod wall color for uses in a breeding program.
US10172298B1
Disclosed is a garden planting guide/irrigation system. It serves as simple planting guide assembled in a grid formation creating individual squares to allow planting of one or several plants per square, while surrounding and irrigating plants at their base. This pre-assembled, ready-to-use system connects to an existing pressurized fluid source, and then irrigates by delivering fluid to various points throughout the grid patterned tubing which have a plurality of fluid distribution openings spaced in pre-defined intervals surrounding each planting.
US10172286B2
Stalk rolls are used for a corn harvester or combine having a chassis, an engine, a cab mounted to the chassis with a head mounted at the front of the body. The head includes an auger, row separators, corn stalk gathering assemblies between the row separators and ear removal assemblies. Each ear removal device includes a pair of stalk rolls. Each stalk roll has a core and longitudinally extending flutes about a periphery of the corn extending along the core. Each stalk roll has a straight first section and a tapered second section. The flutes on each stalk roll have different lengths and end at different locations at the front of the stalk roll. The flutes of the stalk roll may also have notches and different shaped leading edges.
US10172279B2
A system for dispensing a volatile fluid includes a container defining an interior space for holding the fluid. The container is configured to separate the fluid into a liquid and a vapor such that at least a portion of the vapor is disposed above the liquid. The system also includes a fluid inlet, a liquid outlet, a vapor valve, a sensor, and a controller. The liquid outlet is disposed above the fluid inlet and below a liquid reference plane defined through the container. The vapor valve is configured to exhaust vapor disposed above the liquid from the container. The sensor is configured to detect a level of the liquid in the container. The controller is configured to determine the level of the liquid and actuate the vapor valve to maintain the level of the liquid at or above the liquid reference plane.
US10172271B2
A rotary plow (1) with pivoting support wheel (2) for mounting on a plow frame (3). The pivoting support wheel (2) is suitable for plows projecting far behind, such as multi-plowbody mounted, reversible plows or semi-mounted reversible plows with a movable rear part. Furthermore, the pivoting support wheel (2) exhibits self-steering characteristics which have different support or steering forces which act on the pivoting support wheel (2) or the plow frame (3) through the pushed or forwardly-directed arrangement of the pivot arm, and thus enables an accurate lateral guidance of the plow.
US10178820B2
A cut and clinch device includes a movable section slidable with respect to a main body section. A first insertion hole is formed in main body section, and a second insertion hole is formed in the movable section. A lead is cut by the movable section being slid with the lead inserted into the first insertion hole and the second insertion hole. A recognition mark is provided on the movable section and the main body section, and the types of the movable section and the main body section are recognized based on image data of the recognition marks. By this, it is possible to appropriately check the type of the portion that cuts a lead.
US10178815B1
An apparatus and method of making the same is presented. The apparatus may comprise a front portion comprising a front exterior panel and a front interior panel, a back portion comprising a back exterior panel and a back interior panel, the back connected along two sides of the back exterior panel to two corresponding sides of the front exterior panel; and a closure part connecting the non-connected sides of the front exterior panel and the back exterior panel. The front interior panel and the back exterior panel may each comprise a slit opening for a pocket. The closure part may comprise a zipper having a key tab. The apparatus may comprise an RF blocking material. The front may further comprise a flat portion having embossed text, and may also comprise a key chain band. The apparatus may be a wallet, handbag, or other luxury accessory, and/or a wearable item.
US10178802B2
A liquid supply device includes a casing, a cover, a plunger, a driving unit and a sensing unit. The casing has a liquid outlet. The cover is connected to the casing. A chamber is formed between the casing and the cover. The chamber communicates with the liquid outlet. The plunger is movably disposed in the chamber. The driving unit is disposed in the chamber and used for driving the plunger to move. The sensing unit is selectively disposed on one of the cover and the plunger. The sensing unit outputs a sensing signal according to a current position of the plunger.
US10178799B2
A superconducting fault current limiter (10) is provided with superconducting elements (71, 72) that are in a superconducting state during electrification with a current value in a fixed range and in a normal conducting state during electrification with a fault current in which the current value exceeds the fixed range and is further provided with a coolant vessel (20), which accommodates a liquid coolant (60) and a plurality of superconducting elements, and a cooling means (40) that cools the liquid coolant within the coolant vessel. Within the liquid coolant, the superconducting element (71) for which the critical current is smallest among the plurality of superconducting elements is disposed on the upper side of any other superconducting elements (72). Thus, the superconducting element (71) is cooled, and the life of the superconducting fault current limiter as a whole is extended.
US10178794B1
A modular utility room a mobile enclosure is positionable adjacent to an information technology (IT) enclosure of a modular data center (MDC). One of a first and second equipment cabinet is selected for installing in the mobile enclosure. Each equipment cabinet contains functional equipment having a lower electrical coupling component that are connectable to substrate-installed conduits below the mobile enclosure and an upper electrical coupling component that connect to and support rack-based information handling systems (IHSs) in the IT enclosure. An interface panel is received in an interface panel opening in the mobile enclosure correspond to the selected equipment cabinet and will not receive the other equipment cabinet. The interface panel positions the lower electrical coupling over a conduit opening in alignment with a defined location relative to the mobile enclosure for alignment with the substrate-installed conduits at a deployed location of the mobile utility room.
US10178788B2
In order to manufacture an input and output device industrial use as cost-effectively as possible, while also fulfilling the demanding requirements in an industrial environment, it is provided that the frame of the input and output device is assembled from a plurality of individual frame sections which are connected to one another at the corners in order to form the frame and which are firmly bonded at the adjoining connecting surfaces in order to form a fully sealed external front face of the frame and a fully sealed external peripheral surface of the frame.
US10178785B2
A spark-preventing element embedded in a printed circuit board includes a capacitive output electrode, a capacitive input electrode, an interlayer conductive member electrically connecting the capacitive output electrode to a signal line, and an interlayer insulation member electrically insulating the capacitive input electrode from the signal line, The capacitive input electrode is spaced apart from the capacitive output electrode with an air gap disposed between the capacitive output electrode and the capacitive input electrode, surrounds the capacitive output electrode, and is electrically connected to the ground layer. The spark-preventing element has an improved electrical characteristic and an increased durability.
US10178779B2
A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus according to the present invention comprises a display panel with which a source PCB is combined in one side; a rear cover disposed in a rear surface side of the display panel; and a housing supporting at least one of the display panel and the rear cover from a lower surface side of the display panel and being equipped with at least one PCB, wherein the rear cover is made of transparent material through which light passes and at least one penetrating hole corresponding to at least one area of the source PCB is formed in at least one area of the rear cover. According to the present invention, the display panel and the rear cover can be combined easily with each other.
US10178774B2
In an electronic component, a peripheral portion of an external terminal electrode is thicker than a center portion thereof, and at least a portion of the peripheral portion is buried in a component main body. A surface of the external terminal electrode and a principal surface of the component main body are located on the same plane. An electrically insulating coating layer is arranged along the principal surface of the component main body so as to cover at least a portion of the peripheral portion of the external terminal electrode. An end portion of the coating layer is in contact with a thickest portion of the peripheral portion of the external terminal electrode in the principal surface of the component main body. The coating layer and the surface of the external terminal electrode are located on the same plane.
US10178769B2
A bonded assembly including: a first electronic component including a first substrate and a plurality of first electrodes disposed in a pressed area at a first height from a surface of the first substrate; a second electronic component including a second substrate and a plurality of second electrodes disposed at a second height from a surface of the second substrate, a second electrode overlapping with a corresponding first electrode to face the first electrode; a conductive bonding layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode overlapped with each other to bond the first electrode and the second electrode; and at least one spacer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate to overlap the pressed area, the at least one spacer having a thickness that is greater than a value obtained by summing the first height and the second height.
US10178766B2
A stretchable cable 1 includes a sheet-shaped stretchable base material 2 exhibiting elasticity and elongated in one direction, and a stretchable wiring 3 formed on one surface of the stretchable substrate 2 and exhibiting elasticity. The stretchable base material 2 is made of a material exhibiting elasticity. The stretchable wiring 3 is made of a conductive composition including elastomer and a conductive filler filling the elastomer.
US10178758B2
A printed wiring board includes a digital circuit, an analog circuit, and a power supply path that is disposed on an insulating layer between the digital circuit and the analog circuit. A plurality of open stub EBG structures are disposed at an end of a bridge section in a power supply plane. The open stub EBG structure is an open stub state whose one end is connected to the power supply path and other end is in an open state.
US10178757B2
A compartment EMI shield is provided that is suitable for use in system module packages having thin form factors and/or smaller widths and/or lengths. The compartment EMI shield comprises a fence arranged along a compartment boundary at least in between first and second sets of electrical components of the system module package and a substantially horizontal conductive structure that is coupled to the conductive fence. The fence being configured to attenuate EMI of a frequency of interest traveling in at least one of a first direction and a second direction, where the first direction is from the first set of electrical components toward the second set of electrical components and the second direction is from the second set of electrical components toward the first set of electrical components.
US10178755B2
A circuit board includes a first dielectric layer, a first circuit layer, a second circuit layer, a plurality of conductive vias, a second dielectric layer, a patterned seed layer, and a plurality of bonding layers. The first circuit layer is disposed in the first dielectric layer. The second circuit layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer. The conductive vias are disposed in the first dielectric layer and connect the first circuit layer to the second circuit layer. The second dielectric layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer and the second circuit layer and has a plurality of openings to expose a plurality of parts of the second circuit layer. The patterned seed layer is disposed on the exposed parts of second circuit layer and sidewalls of the openings. The bonding layers are respectively disposed on the patterned seed layer and made of porous copper.
US10178754B2
A circuit board module includes: a first electronic component of a surface mounting type; a second electronic component of an insertion mounting type including a lead terminal; a circuit board; and a heat transfer body provided in the circuit board. The first electronic component is mounted on a front surface of the circuit board so as to overlap the heat transfer body in a board thickness direction. The heat transfer body is provided so as to transfer heat generated in the first electronic component to a back surface side of the circuit board. The second electronic component is mounted on a back surface of the circuit board. The second electronic component and the heat transfer body are thermally connected to a heat radiation body provided on the back surface side of the circuit board.
US10178751B2
An ignition plug includes a center electrode; a cylindrical insulator that surrounds at least the circumference of a front end portion of the center electrode and that includes a bottom portion at the front side; and a cylindrical metal shell that holds the insulator from the outer circumference side. The center electrode includes a shaft portion that extends along an axial line and a head portion disposed at a front end of the shaft portion. The head portion has a width greater than that of the shaft portion in the radial direction. The insulator includes a first and second insulator. The first insulator has an axial hole and a diameter smaller than the maximum diameter of the head portion. The second insulator is joined to the first insulator. The shaft portion is disposed in the axial hole of the first insulator. The second insulator encloses the head portion.
US10178747B1
Systems, devices and methods for providing a controller to be wired between a transformer and zones of landscape lights to provide power to and for turning on and off different landscape lights, creating and deleting landscape light zones based on a schedule loaded onto the controller by a wireless communication from a portable digital device, such as a smart phone having a landscape scheduling App thereon. Additional embodiments include wireless receivers in the landscape lights which allow for the portable digital device to remotely change colors of the landscape lights. Additional embodiments for controlling other accessories used in landscapes such as but not limited to sprinkler systems, speakers, and the like.
US10178746B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for controlling light output in a lighting system based on defined light profiles are provided. In one example implementation, a light fixture can include a first light emitting diode (LED) array having one or more LED light sources and a second LED array having one or more LED light sources. The light fixture can include a power circuit configured to provide power to the first LED array and the second LED array according to a power distribution among the first LED array and the second LED array. The light fixture can include one or more control devices configured to control the power circuit to adjust the power distribution among the first LED array and the second LED array based at least in part on a signal indicative of a real time clock and a defined light profile associated with a user identified to be present in a space illuminated by the light fixture.
US10178745B2
A method of charging a light bulb is disclosed. A processor within the light bulb detects a state-of-charge of the battery and if it is below a predetermined dynamic battery state-of-charge threshold then the transceiver sends a wireless signal from the light bulb to a remote light switch with instructions to supply power to the light bulb. The predetermined dynamic battery state-of-charge threshold may be determined based on historical light use data during an on-peak energy time period. The predetermined dynamic threshold allows a battery in the light bulb to supply energy to the light bulb during on-peak hours and recharge during off-peak hours.
US10178744B2
A street light management method includes: receiving from a server at predetermined intervals and updating at least one of information about a node that is at least one street light, information about a gateway that communicates with the node and the server, and information about a communication channel between the node and the gateway; displaying the node in a corresponding position on a digital map displayed on a screen using position information included in the information about the node and displaying the gateway in a corresponding position on the digital map using position information included in the information about the gateway; and displaying corresponding information in at least one of information display windows on the screen according to the received information or a user operation.
US10178742B2
A light emitting diode (LED) driving apparatus includes: a first circuit connected to a primary winding of a transformer, and configured to receive input power and transfer the input power to the primary winding of the transformer; a second circuit connected to a secondary winding of the transformer to generate output power for driving a plurality of LEDs; and a controller including a control circuit configured to control the second circuit, and a power detection circuit configured to compare a magnitude of the input power with a predetermined reference power magnitude range, and transmit a control command to the control circuit in response to determining that the magnitude of the input power is outside the predetermined reference power magnitude range.
US10178726B2
A solid-state light source (SSLS) structure with integrated control. In one embodiment, a SSLS control circuit can be integrated with a SSLS structure formed from a multiple of SSLSs. The SSLS control circuit controls the total operating current of the SSLS structure to within a predetermined total operating current limit by selectively limiting the current in individual SSLSs or in groups of SSLSs as each are turned on according to a sequential order. The SSLS control circuit limits the current in each of the individual SSLSs or groups of SSLSs as function of the saturation current of the SSLSs. In one embodiment, the individual SSLSs or groups of SSLSs has a turn on voltage corresponding to a voltage causing a preceding SSLS or group of SSLSs in the sequential order to saturate current.
US10178708B1
A method and apparatus for providing a summary of what is being and/or has been discussed or experienced by members of a talkgroup is provided herein. Upon a new member joining a talkgroup, or just prior to the new member joining the talkgroup, the new member will be placed on a private channel to provide the new member with knowledge on previous discussions/experiences of talkgroup members. Preferably, the prior knowledge will be conveyed to the user audibly by, for example, use of a digital assistant.
US10178704B2
A method is disclosed for enabling device-to-device, D2D, communication when a communicating device is out of public land mobile network, PLMN, coverage for a first radio access technology, RAT. The method comprises scanning a carrier associated with a carrier predetermined for D2D communication for any signals, and if the scanning determines that D2D communication is present on the carrier, initiating out-of-coverage D2D communication, or if the scanning cannot determine that D2D communication is present on the carrier, determining a signal strength of other signals on the carrier and if the signal strength is below a threshold initiating out-of-coverage D2D communication. Alternatively, the method comprises scanning a carrier for at least a second RAT, and if a second RAT is detected, determining a PLMN of the detected RAT and accessing data on the determined PLMN about out-of-coverage D2D permissions, and if out-of-coverage D2D communication is permitted in the determined PLMN initiating out-of-coverage D2D communication. A communication device and computer program accordingly are also disclosed.
US10178694B2
Computing readable media, apparatuses, and methods for random access with carrier sensing are disclosed. An apparatus is disclosed including processing circuitry configured to: decrement a value of an orthogonal frequency division multiple-access (OFDMA) backoff (OBO) field based on a number of the resource units (RUs) indicated for random access in a trigger frame. The processing circuitry may be further configured to: when the value of the OBO field reaches a predetermined value, randomly select one of the RUs indicated for random access and determine a virtual carrier sense (CS) based on one or more network allocation vectors (NAVs) and perform a physical CS on the selected RU, and if the virtual CS and the physical CS both indicate that the selected RU is idle, transmit a physical (PHY) layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data units (PPDU) on the selected RU in accordance with OFDMA.
US10178680B2
It is provided a method for assisting downlink interference estimation in a cellular network. The method is performed in a network node of the cellular network and comprises the steps of: estimating an average transmit power of the network node in a future time period, resulting in a scaling factor indicating the average transmit power of the network node in relation to a reference transmit power of the network node; transmitting, in a resource element allocated to interference estimation, a reference signal for downlink interference estimation with a transmission power which is based on the scaling factor; and refraining from transmitting in a resource element in at least one instance where another network node transmits a reference signal for downlink interference estimation. A corresponding network node, computer program and computer program product for assisting downlink interference estimation are also presented.
US10178675B1
In a wireless communication base station device, a modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Dch data after coding to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Lch data after coding to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol and Lch data symbol to each sub-carrier composing an OFDM symbol and outputs the allocated sub-carrier to a multiplex unit. In this case, the allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol to a plurality of resource blocks where one Dch is arranged at an interval equal to integral multiples of the number of resource blocks composing a resource block group.
US10178666B2
The invention relates to a method for transmitting messages in a computer network of a real-time system comprising components in the form of computing nodes and star couplets. A first group of components sends, relays or receives time-controlled messages according to a communication schedule, and a second group of components does not communicate according to a communication schedule. For example, the computing node 104 does not execute a communication schedule, i.e. the computing node 104 does not send time-controlled messages. Instead, the computing node 104 reacts to receiving a message 1-201a by sending a message 1-104a in response. According to the invention, the message 1-201a is sent in a time-controlled manner, for example by a star coupler 201. The computing node 104 receives the message 1-201a at time 17-104a and reacts to receiving the message 1-201a by sending the message 1-104a at time 17-104b to the star coupler 201. The star coupler 201 receives the message 1-104a at time 14-201b. Preferably an upper limit OBS of the maximum time interval between the receiving time 17-104a and the sending time 17-104b is determined in the computing node 104. In this way, the star coupler 201 can schedule the relaying time 14-201c, at which the message 1-104a is relayed in the network, as a time-controlled time. Alternatively, the computing node 104 reacts by reading a current value from a local sensor, by altering the state of an actuator.
US10178664B1
Devices, systems, and methods to reduce interference in heterogeneous networks having a plurality of access nodes, such as combinations of macro cells, micro cells, pico cells, femto cells, etc. are disclosed. Interference caused in sectors of two or more access nodes that face each other is minimized by dividing a total number of resource blocks into resource block sets that are uniquely numbered and allocated across each sector of each access node. The allocation is rotated based on a different time stamp or a different starting number, or may be a random sequence of sets per access node. These independent allocations for each access node generally distribute the interference across the system, and provide better interference reduction, resulting in an increase in system capacity per sector of each cell.
US10178661B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for estimating one or more channel properties of a downlink from a cellular communications network based on quasi co-located antenna ports with respect to the one or more channel properties. In one embodiment, a wireless device receives a downlink subframe including a downlink control channel from the cellular communications network. The wireless device estimates one or more large-scale channel properties for an antenna port of interest in the downlink control channel based on a subset of reference signals that correspond to antenna ports in the cellular communications network that are quasi co-located with the antenna port of interest with respect to the one or more large-scale channel properties. As a result of using the quasi co-located antenna ports, estimation of the one or more large-scale channel properties is substantially improved.
US10178657B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for improving SPS operation in a wireless communication system. The method includes configuring an user equipment (UE) with a downlink (DL) assignment or an uplink (UL) grant through a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) addressed by a SPS C-RNTI (Semi-Persistent Scheduling Cell Radio Network Temporary Identity). The method also includes receiving, at the UE, a reconfiguration message for a SPS (Semi-Persistent Scheduling) operation in a higher layer, such as a RRC (Radio Resource Control) layer. The method further includes reconfiguring, at the UE, the SPS operation based on the reconfiguration message if the reconfiguration message includes a release of the SPS operation.
US10178652B2
The invention refers to a method (33) for operating a wireless communication network (11) or a network element (13) thereof, the network (11) comprising a plurality of baseband processing devices (13). In order to allow for performing baseband processing tasks by multiple cooperating baseband processing devices (13) such that the real time constraints are met, it is proposed that the method (33) comprise determining (39) a delay metric (RTT_BBU) that depends on a network delay between the network element (13) and at least one baseband processing device (13) of the plurality of baseband processing devices (13), wherein the delay metric (RTT_BBU) is determined before an event (e) occurs that triggers allocation or reallocation of processing resources of the at least one baseband processing device (13), and selecting (55, 65) the at least one baseband processing device of the plurality of baseband processing devices for remote processing depending on the delay metric (RTT_BBU).
US10178650B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a mobility management entity (MME) receives a downlink data notification (DDN) message sent by a serving gateway (SGW), where the DDN message carries an identity of user equipment, and the DDN message is used to instruct the MME to send a paging message to a base station in a tracking area list (TA list) of the user equipment. After enabling an aggregate paging function, the MME determines, according to the DDN message, whether a priority of the user equipment is higher than a preset level. If the priority of the user equipment is higher than the preset level, the MME directly sends the paging message to the base station. The present disclosure is applicable to a paging message sending process.
US10178649B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus (e.g., eNB) pages UEs on a shared communication. The apparatus obtains paging message(s) for transmission to UEs with different coverage levels. The apparatus transmits an extended common ePDCCH, followed by a paging ePDCCH, followed by repetitive transmissions of the paging message(s) over a plurality of PDSCH subframes. In a further embodiment, the apparatus obtains first and second sets of paging messages for transmission to different paging groups. The apparatus establishes non-overlapping POWs for the first and second paging groups to avoid a paging ePDCCH collision.
US10178647B2
A paging method for use in a network access device, includes: acquiring an identifier of a terminal being called in a voice service of a Packet Switched domain; generating a paging message according to the identifier of the terminal being called, the paging message including a core network domain name field and a value of the core network domain name field corresponding to the voice service of the Packet Switched domain; and sending the paging message to the terminal being called.
US10178645B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a memory that stores grid information corresponding to a plurality of grids corresponding to a cell. The electronic device also includes a processor configured to acquire location information of an external electronic device and cell information related to a cell of the external electronic device corresponding to the location information, to calculate at least one active grid corresponding to the location information of the electronic device among the plurality of grids at least based on the location information, to acquire dominant values corresponding to the at least one active grid based on the cell information, to designate the at least one active grid as at least one dominant grid when the dominant values meet a predetermined condition, and to update the cell information when a number of at least one dominant grid meets a predetermined condition. Various embodiments are possible.
US10178639B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for controlling a timing of a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method for controlling a timing of a terminal by a base station in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: determining a target timing of a terminal so as to locate an uplink signal reception timing of the terminal in a cyclic prefix (CP) interval; transmitting, to the terminal, a timing control command including information on the target timing; receiving an uplink signal from the terminal; and compensating for a time offset value of the received uplink signal on the basis of the target timing.
US10178635B1
Embodiments include a method that includes receiving, by a first device, a first synchronization beacon frame over a first communication channel, wherein the first device is configured to receive synchronization beacon frames over the first communication channel and a second communication channel; indicating, by the first device, that the first synchronization beacon frame received over the first communication channel is not to be considered while determining a state of the first device; and indicating, by the first device, that any synchronization beacon frame received over the second communication channel is to be considered while determining the state of the first device.
US10178628B2
A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, obtaining performance measurements, identifying a performance measurement from the performance measurements that is below performance threshold and, in turn, initiating corrective action to improve the performance measurement of an affected network element falling below the performance threshold. The performance measurements can be determined from measurements associated with signals generated by communication devices, noise levels in a spectral portion used by communication devices to transmit the signals, and interference signals exceeding an adaptive inter-cell interference threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10178626B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for controlling uplink transmission power. A method for controlling uplink transmission power by a terminal may include allocating transmission power of one or more uplink control channels and/or one or more uplink data channels in order to transmit the uplink control channels and/or the uplink data channels in two or more cells and transmitting the uplink control channel and/or the uplink data channel to one or more base stations according to the allocated transmission power.
US10178624B2
In one implementation, satellite coverage provisioning for a service area may be performed by updating power consumption states for satellites in a constellation of satellites and determining whether each satellite of the constellation is required to be in the minimal power consumption mode based on its updated power consumption state. For satellites that are not required to be in the minimal power consumption mode, a power consumption score may be calculated and these satellites may be sorted according to their respective power consumption scores. Based on the sorted order, it may be determined whether at least some of these satellites can be put into a reduced power consumption mode based on their respective power consumption scores and coverage of the service area. Then it may be determined if each of the satellites that are in the reduced power consumption mode can be put into the minimal power consumption mode.
US10178608B2
A method for cross-system network information interaction, and a network element of a terminal system network, and the method includes: receiving, by a terminal, a request message for acquiring history information of the terminal, transmitted by a network element of a specified system network, after the terminal successfully establishes a connection with the system network or the terminal transmits a connection establishment success message or reestablishment success message to the system network; transmitting, by the terminal, history record information of the terminal staying in all the system networks, other system networks except the system network, or a specified system network, to a network element of the system network. In the embodiments of the present document, based on a definition of history record information of the terminal in the WLAN system, a cross-system interaction of the history record information of the terminal in 3GPP-WLAN system may be realized.
US10178599B2
The proposed technology generally relates to sending a data packet from a first node to a second node, wherein there is a direct link to the second node from the first node. The method comprises the steps of: determining a first power metric associated with transmitting the data packet from the first node to the second node on the direct link; when the determined first power metric is above a first power level then determining a first set of aggregation nodes, being within reach of the first node, wherein each aggregation node in the set is comprised in a respective alternative transmission path from the first node to the second node; for each aggregation node in the first set determining a second power metric associated with transmitting the data packet to from the first node to the second node via the aggregation node; selecting a transmission path for sending the data packet from the first node to the second node based on a comparison of the first power metric and the second power metric(s) and sending the packet on the selected transmission path. One aspect of the proposed technology relates to a method and ending a data packet from the first node to a second node as well as a corresponding device and computer program.
US10178598B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems, devices, and methods for interworking between a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) network and a wireless local area network (WLAN). Various embodiments may include utilizing traffic steering rules based on radio access network assistance parameters to perform traffic steering between the UMTS network and the WLAN. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US10178597B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication field, and provides a method for calling in a network congestion state. The method includes: sending a connection request by a smart terminal to a base station of an enabled cell, and starting a timer; when the smart terminal does not receive a connection response after the timer passes a first preset time period, determining a timeout of the enabled cell and setting the enabled cell as being disabled in a second preset time period; repeating actions of sending, starting, determining and setting, until the smart terminal receives the connection response within the first preset time period; and establishing a connection by the smart terminal with a base station of a third cell feeding back the connection response. The present disclosure has an advantage of improving a call completion rate.
US10178589B2
The present disclosure relates to a method (200) in a first radio access node for obtaining neighboring cell information. The method comprises the steps of transmitting via an interface a radio access node request (Si2) for set-up information related to the neighboring cell to at least one second radio access node, and receiving a radio access node response (Si3) over the interface from said at least one second radio access node. The radio access node response (Si3) comprises set-up information including an indicator related to the neighboring cell's capability for uplink transmission. The present disclosure also relates to said first radio access node.
US10178576B2
Various communication systems may benefit from the appropriate logging of measurements. For example, communication systems employing multimedia broadcast multicast service may benefit from logging multicast-broadcast single-frequency network measurements. A method can include logging, by a user equipment, a multicast-broadcast single-frequency network measurement corresponding to a logging period. The method can also include storing, at the time the multicast-broadcast single-frequency network measurement is made, cell measurement results.
US10178557B2
A first network node and a second network node are disclosed. The first network node comprises a processor and a transceiver. The transceiver is configured to receive a first signal S1 comprising a network information message indicating network information associated with a first network operator in a region. The processor is configured to determine an allocation of frequency resources for operation W1, for the first network operator or a second network operator in the region, based on the network information, and the processor is further configured to determine a density of network nodes for operation λb or a frequency spectrum access price, for the first network operator or the second network operator, based on the network information. Corresponding methods, a computer program, and a computer program product are also disclosed.
US10178555B2
A master beacon device emits a data packet that is received and retransmitted by servant beacon devices in a wireless mesh network that enables the beacon devices to detect the received signal strength indicator (“RSSI”) of beacon devices in proximity. Each servant beacon device transmits survey data packets comprising the RSSIs and hardware identifiers of proximate beacon devices to the master beacon device, which constructs a first virtual map of the mesh network. At a later time, each servant beacon device transmits authentication data packets, which are retransmitted, each retransmitting beacon inserting an RSSI and hardware identifier of the beacon device from which the authentication data packet was received, until they reach the master beacon device, which constructs a second virtual map of the mesh network. The master beacon device compares the first virtual map to the second virtual map to determine if the network is secure.
US10178554B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for offloading data of a subscriber from a first radio access technology type to a second radio access technology type. Embodiments may relate to a method comprising: receiving an access request from an access point based on a connection request received from a user equipment, transmitting an authentication request to the user equipment to authenticate a subscriber; receiving an access point name and packet gateway identifier from the home subscriber server; altering the access point name received from the home subscriber server; transmitting the connection request to a packet gateway for authorizing the subscriber for offloading, updating the APN name and the packet gateway identifier at the home subscriber server; and offloading the data from the first radio access technology type to the second radio access technology type, wherein the data is identified based on the subscriber profile.
US10178547B2
Provided are a method for receiving/decoding a system information block by a terminal and a device for supporting same. The terminal can receive one or more MIBs and receive/decode a first SIB on the basis of the received MIBs and a first time offset. The first SIB is an SIB which has been newly defined for a terminal having low complexity.
US10178546B2
Methods, systems and apparatus that facilitate activation of mobile devices, such as communication devices or multi-function devices, via a computer are disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, a mobile device can be forced into a limited service mode until properly activated with a service provider for a wireless network. According to another aspect of the invention, a mobile device can defer its attempt to send a location update request to a wireless network. According to still another aspect of the invention, a mobile device can be automatically controlled to reset a portion of its internal hardware to initiate a location update request.
US10178532B2
A communication method using a communication system including a first communication apparatus, a second communication apparatus, and a communication management apparatus, the communication method includes acquiring, by the communication management apparatus, communication information used for the first communication apparatus to be coupled to a communication network via the second communication apparatus, from the first communication apparatus or the second communication apparatus, transmitting, by the communication management apparatus, the communication information to the first communication apparatus or the second communication apparatus, and based on the transmitted communication information, establishing communication between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus by the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus.
US10178529B2
The present invention relates to a wireless connection system, and in particular, relates to methods of retransmitting data in a machine-to-machine communication system, methods of managing the data, and devices for supporting machine-to-machine communication. As one aspect of the present invention, the method of retransmitting data in the wireless connection system supporting the machine-to-machine communication may include: allocating a data slot for retransmitting data from a first machine, from among two or more peer machines, by transmitting a transmit request message to a second machine; receiving a transmit response message transmitted form the second machine in response to the transmit request message; and retransmitting data to the second machine through the allocated data slot.
US10178526B2
Wireless communication network access is facilitated via multiple logic-capable storage (MLCS) devices. One method comprises: scanning a record of records stored in a MLCS device to determine whether a communication device associated with a request for communication establishment has a defined functionality; and generating information indicative of the communication device failing to have the defined functionality based on identifying a value range inclusive of an identifier of the communication device and based on determining that the MLCS device is a negative logic storage device, wherein the MLCS device is programmable to have a first type of logic at a first time and a second type of logic at a second time. The first type of logic can be the negative logic type and the second type of logic can be a positive logic type.
US10178517B1
An apparatus and method for sending video content to a mobile device is described. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprising embedding a widget in a website, the widget generating a form. The form is provided when a user visits the website so as to execute the widget. The form includes a first field to enter a recipient phone number, a send selector, and one or more non-visible fields, the non-visible fields containing a content service provider identifier, and a video URL. A data packet is generated with the widget when the user selects the send selector, the data packet including the recipient phone number, the video URL, and the content service provider identifier. An encoded version of the data packet is sent to the content service provider and a video link message is sent to the recipient phone number.
US10178510B1
A plurality of communication devices are configured for communicating with the server via the internet. Each communication device is configured for communicating with other communication devices, via short range signals. At least a property of the received short range signals is measured and converted to signal data. Each communication device is associated with a user, and each user is associated with respective user data stored. Location data of at least a first communication device is known at a first time. When a second communication device is inside the communication ranges of two or more first communication devices with known respective locations, the server processes the known locations to yield a location of the second communication device.
US10178509B1
Embodiments described herein are directed to a tracking objects using a cognitive heterogeneous ad hoc mesh network. Participant objects transmit notification signals to inform other participant objects in line-of-sight of their position and movement. The participants also utilize echoes of the notification signals to detect and estimate the position and movement of non-participant objects. Participant objects can then share this positional information with one another to refine the estimated position and movement of non-participant objects. The position of each other participant and non-participant object is updated based on an individualized update rate that dynamically changes based on the distance and velocity of closure between the participant and the other participant or non-participant object.
US10178495B2
Systems and methods to determine a location of a mobile device by combining a radio frequency navigation system and an inertial navigation system, where the radio frequency navigation system determines a location of the mobile device in reference to a map of radio frequency signals and the inertial navigation system based on dead reckoning the position of the mobile device based on measurements from motion sensors. When a set of successive locations determined by the radio frequency navigation system is found to have a predetermined pattern (e.g., within a minimum distance from each other, or separated by more than a maximum distance), the mobile device discards the location results from the radio frequency navigation system for the period of time, in favor of the location results from the inertial navigation system.
US10178493B2
An electronic device identifies a location of a physical object that is away from a listener. The electronic device convolves sound so the sound externally localizes as binaural sound to the physical object. The sound plays to the listener through earphones so the listener hears the sound as emanating from the physical object.
US10178487B2
In order to achieve an enhanced audio experience, audio information, for example a movie soundtrack having binaural components, may be stored on a mobile device prior to the beginning of a movie presentation in a theater. Responsive to an audio sync signal presented to the mobile device, the audio information may be played back from the mobile device in a manner synchronized to display of the movie on a theater screen. The audio sync signal may be a high-frequency signal emitted by a loudspeaker in the theater. The audio information may be customized for a user. For example, via use of a binaural audio system, a user of a first mobile device may experience a movie presentation in a theater in a first language, and user of a second mobile device may experience the same movie presentation in the theater in a second language.
US10178482B2
An audio transmission system and an audio processing method thereof are disclosed. The audio transmission system includes a wireless communication module, a sound receiving module, a memory module, a sound adjustment module, and an output module. The wireless communication module is used for receiving a wireless communication signal or a wireless audio signal from an electronic device. The sound receiving module is used for receiving an ambient sound signal. The memory module stores a first parameter, a second parameter, and a third parameter. The sound adjustment module adjusts the received wireless communication signal, the wireless audio signal, or the ambient sound signal according to the first parameter, the second parameter, or the third parameter so as to generate an adjusted sound signal. The output module is used for outputting the adjusted sound signal.
US10178470B2
Provided is an electronic machine including a speaker unit; a housing; and a rotating device. The rotating device rotates the speaker unit with respect to the housing, wherein the speaker unit is provided with an opening portion and a member which is supported by the housing and extends substantially in parallel to a rotational axis of the speaker unit is adapted to passing through the opening portion.
US10178469B2
Embodiments disclosed in the present disclosure relate to vibration transducers. Such a transducer includes an electromagnet having a conductive coil. The conductive coil is configured to be driven by an electrical input signal to generate magnetic fields. The transducer further includes a magnetic diaphragm that is configured to mechanically vibrate in response to the generated magnetic fields. Additionally, the transducer includes a pair of cantilevered arms formed from damping steel. The cantilevered arms couple the magnetic diaphragm to a frame. The magnetic diaphragm vibrates with respect to the frame when the electromagnet is driven by the electrical input signal. Additionally, the pair of flexible support arms are connected to opposing sides of the magnetic diaphragm.
US10178460B2
An earphone including a housing, a speaker and an eartip is provided. The housing has an accommodating space and a first sound outlet communicated with each other. The speaker is disposed in the accommodating space. The eartip is assembled to the housing. The eartip has a second sound outlet and an incline extension surface. The incline extension surface is configured to fit into a cavum of a user's auricle and withstand an antihelix of the user's auricle.
US10178457B1
A head-mounted display (HMD) includes a housing defining an enclosure having an aperture. A is speaker positioned within the enclosure, the speaker having a back side facing an interior surface of the housing and a front side facing away from the interior surface of the housing, a back volume defined between at least a portion of the housing and the back side of the speaker for enhancing sound generated by the speaker. A sound conduit having an end open to the enclosure and extends outside the housing through the aperture. The sound conduit has another end open toward a rear direction to transmit the sound generated by the speaker.
US10178449B1
A sensor system is provided. The sensor system includes: a battery that powers the sensor system; a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag that stores a unique identifier of the sensor system; a sensor that provides a sensing data for the sensor system; an internet of things (IoT) transceiver that communicates with an access point in an IoT system; and a processor that receives the sensing data from the sensor and controls an activation of the sensor and a frequency of communication of the IoT transceiver with the access point.
US10178443B2
Methods, systems and devices enable enhanced delivery of metadata, as well as auxiliary programs and services associated with a primary content. In one method, a primary content with pre-existing watermarks is received at a content distributor device. The pre-existing watermark include specific fields that allow retrieval of a first metadata. The values and boundary locations of the symbols of the pre-existing watermark messages are determined, and symbols of a new watermark message are embedded in the primary content to render the pre-existing watermarks undetectable. The new watermark message includes symbol values that different from those in the pre-existing watermark messages and enable retrieval of a second metadata. Upon transmission of the primary content to a client device, detection of the new watermark message, and initiation of a request by the client device, access to the first or the metadata, as well as associated programs or services, are enabled.
US10178432B2
A viewer's rights to view content is determined instantly, without exposing any data externally, by capturing both a facial image and speech of the viewer. The data, which can be captured each viewing session, is matched to a secure profile which may have other security information assigned to it, such as service login IDs and passwords, or credit card numbers. If both the facial image and voice match respective templates, the viewer is allowed access to, e.g., cloud-based content (such as email) or is allowed to make a purchases within applications via account level access. Banking transactions may similarly be permitted upon face/voice match without the need to input a code. Personalization of content based on profiles recognized automatically during a viewing session is also facilitated.
US10178424B2
Content delivery system and method for providing customized channels and content to terminal devices
A method of operating a content delivery system that includes a terminal device and a server includes storing, within the memory element, a channel configuration that has been customized for the terminal device. The method also includes authenticating the terminal device with the server and receiving, by the server, a request for the channel configuration from the terminal device. The method further includes sending, by the server to the terminal device, the channel configuration in response to the request for the channel configuration after authenticating the terminal device. Also, the method includes receiving, by the server, a request for content from the terminal device. The request for content corresponds to the channel configuration. Additionally, the method includes sending, by the server to the terminal device, a content element for populating a terminal device channel by the terminal device according to the channel configuration.
US10178414B2
An indication is received, from each of multiple content viewing devices used by multiple remote viewers, that each specifies a respective individual video content sub-area of interest within streamed video content viewed by each of the multiple remote viewers. An aggregated video content area of interest is defined that includes a combination of each individually-specified video content sub-area of interest within the streamed video content. Video content outside of the aggregated video content area of interest is designated as a region not of interest (RNOI) within the streamed video content. A transmission rate of image changes of video content within the RNOI is reduced within the streamed video content. Bandwidth consumed to transmit the streamed video content is reduced in relation to the reduced transmission rate of the image changes of the video content within the RNOI.
US10178408B2
In a video coding device, an intra prediction unit 11 generates a predicted block, based on an adjacent reconstructed image. A intra first chroma prediction mode coding unit 12 codes an intra prediction mode of a first chroma component based on an intra prediction mode of a luma component. A intra second chroma prediction mode coding unit 13 codes an intra prediction mode of a second chroma component depending on the intra prediction mode of the first chroma component.
US10178407B2
A moving image encoding/decoding system may include a video predictive encoding device, which may include: an encoding device which encodes each of a plurality of input pictures to generate compressed picture data including a random access picture, and encodes data about display order information of each picture; a restoration device which decodes the compressed picture data to restore a reproduced picture; a picture storage device which stores the reproduced picture as a reference picture; and a memory management device which controls the picture storage device. Following completion of an encoding process of generating the random access picture, the memory management device refreshes the picture storage device by setting every reference picture in the picture storage device, except for the random access picture, as unnecessary immediately before or immediately after encoding a picture with display order information larger than the display order information of the random access picture.
US10178405B2
A decoding method wherein a motion vector is associated with a block of pixels of a current image, wherein the image is subdivided into spatial subdivisions, wherein the block of pixels belongs to a current spatial subdivision and is to be predicted using an Intra Block Copy mode, using a predictor block of pixels of the image designated by the motion vector, and wherein the predictor block designated by the motion vector may belong to any one of previously decoded spatial subdivisions in the current image. Embodiments provide enhancements to the Intra Block Copy Mode of the HEVC standard.
US10178397B2
In an example, a method of coding video data includes coding one or more non-video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) units of a layer of a multi-layer bitstream, where the one or more non-VCL NAL units contain a decoded picture hash SEI message. The method also includes determining a set of layers of the multi-layer bitstream to which the decoded picture hash SEI message is applicable based on a layer identifier of the one or more non-VCL NAL units containing the decoded picture hash SEI message.
US10178394B2
Video coding techniques are disclosed for resource-limited destination display devices. Input video data may be coded by converting a first representation of the input video to a resolution of a destination display and base layer coding the converted representation. Additionally, a region of interest may be predicted from within the input video. The predicted ROI may be converted to a resolution of the destination display, and the converted ROI may be enhancement layer coded. The base layer coded data and the enhancement layer data may be transmitted to the destination display where the coded base layer data is decoded and displayed until a zoom event occurs. When a zoom event occurs, both the coded base layer data and the coded enhancement layer data may be decoded and displayed. Thus, the switchover from a first field of view to an ROI view may be performed quickly.
US10178365B1
A method for combining a plurality of video files with a tune and a recording medium storing an executable program for implementing the method. The method comprises transmitting a service request from an electronic device to a synchronizing server, wherein the service request includes meta information of a plurality of video files, a display order of the plurality of video files, and meta information of a tune, detecting a plurality of beats from the tune; and selecting, from the plurality of beats, a set of beats that synchronize with the plurality of the video files; and transmitting a service response from the synchronizing server to the electronic device, wherein the service response includes time frames associated with the set of beats.
US10178353B2
The invention relates to the forest video monitoring. A method and system are provided for automatically binding a video camera to the absolute coordinate system and determining changes in the video camera binding. In one aspect, the method comprises the steps of: in each of at least two predetermined time moments, aiming the video camera at an object a position of which in the absolute coordinate system centered in a point in which the video camera resides is known at said moment, and determining an orientation of the video camera in a native coordinate system of the video camera; and, based on the determined orientations of the video camera and positions of the object, calculating a rotation of the native coordinate system of the video camera in the absolute coordinate system. The calculated rotation of the video camera's native coordinate system is used to recalculate coordinates of an observed object from the video camera's native coordinate system into the absolute coordinate system. The technical result relates to the improved accuracy of locating the observed object.
US10178350B2
A technique processes an initial recording of a meeting. The technique involves receiving the initial recording of the meeting, and performing a content classification operation that electronically classifies the initial recording of the meeting into a set of relevant conference portions and a set of irrelevant conference portions. The technique further involves, based on the initial recording of the meeting, providing a shortened recording of the meeting. The shortened recording includes the set of relevant conference portions and omits the set of irrelevant conference portions.
US10178346B2
Various embodiments enable a video messaging experience which permits the exchange of short video messages in an asynchronous manner. The video messaging experience preserves the video intimacy and experience of synchronous-type video communications, while at the same time provides the convenience of SMS-type message exchange.
US10178342B2
An imaging apparatus causes an external output I/F to output raw image data to an external recording device and output image correction data to the external recording device every plurality of frames. The external recording device records the image data from the imaging apparatus in a moving image file in a recording medium and records the image correction data in a correction data file in the recording medium.
US10178331B2
A method for noise reduction in an imaging device comprises a 4T pixel in operation, whereby the 4T pixel comprises a pinned photodiode and a floating diffusion node. The method includes the steps of: detecting a signal impinging on the 4T pixel of the imaging device and integrating the charge of the detected signal simultaneously in the photodiode potential well and the potential well of the floating diffusion node; deriving a linear signal proportional to the detected signal from the charge in the photodiode potential well; deriving a compressed signal from the charge in the potential well of the floating diffusion node, while keeping the compressed signal separate from the linear signal, and the compressed signal being a non-linear function of the detected signal; and summing the linear signal and a linearized version of the compressed signal and performing a non-linear conversion on the summation signal to fit the imaging device's output range.
US10178321B2
A method for providing an extended depth of field (EDOF) image includes: Periodically modulating an imaging system focus position at a high frequency; using an image exposure comprising discrete image exposure increments acquired at discrete focus positions during an image integration time comprising a plurality of modulation periods of the focus position; and using strobe operations having controlled timings configured to define a set of evenly spaced focus positions for the image exposure increments. The timings are configured so that adjacent focus positions in the set are acquired at times that are separated by at least one reversal of the direction of change of the focus position during its periodic modulation. This solves practical timing problems that may otherwise prevent obtaining closely spaced discrete image exposure increments during high frequency focus modulation. Deconvolution operations may be used to improve clarity in the resulting EDOF image.
US10178315B1
This disclosure describes optimizing a clarity of images captured by a camera exposed to vibrations, such as a camera mounted on an aerial vehicle. The vibrations can be caused by rotors, motors, forces (e.g., lift, drag, etc.) acting on the UAV, environmental factors (e.g., wind, turbulence, etc.), or any other force that may cause asymmetry. An inertial measurement unit can measure the vibrations and determine a vibrational pattern imposed upon the camera. The inertial measurement unit can identify one or more dead points in the vibrational pattern, and times associated therewith. The inertial measurement unit can send the one or more dead points and/or the times associated therewith to the camera, and cause the camera to capture and/or store images at times corresponding to the one or more dead points to enable capture of images with little or no blur.
US10178312B2
An image processing apparatus for synthesizing continuously captured images includes a positioning unit configured to position images to be synthesized by using a motion vector indicating a positional deviation of the images between the images, and a synthesis unit configured to synthesize the images positioned by the positioning unit. The image processing apparatus further includes a group classification unit configured to classify the images into groups based on an order of imaging, and a setting unit configured to set a reference image in each group. The positioning unit includes a first positioning unit configured to position the images within the groups with respect to the respective reference images, and a second positioning unit configured to position the reference images between the groups.
US10178308B2
Disclosed is a method for photographing a panoramic image including the steps of recognizing movement of a corresponding photographing apparatus by comparing a current real-time input image with a previous image through a motion estimation mechanism with exposure compensation, determining a time to photograph each next picture by determining whether movement in a photography direction reaches a preset threshold value, and photographing each next picture by manual or automatic operation at the determined time.
US10178307B2
An image processing system includes camera modules each including an imager configured to acquire an image at the timing of a vertical synchronization signal, and a phase controller configured to control the phase of the vertical synchronization signal, and each configured to output the vertical synchronization signal together with a corresponding one of image signals of images of different imaging fields; a phase monitoring unit configured to compare the phases of the vertical synchronization signals from the camera modules; a relative phase control unit configured to output a relative phase control signal to the phase controller of each camera module at a predetermined cycle such that the vertical synchronization signals monitored by the phase monitoring unit are synchronized with each other; and an image synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the images at the timing of the synchronized and controlled vertical synchronization signal to generate a single synthesized image.
US10178306B2
An electronic device includes a housing including a front panel and a rear panel, the rear panel arranged on a side of the housing opposite the front panel, the housing further including side edges connecting the rear panel to the front panel. The electronic device further includes, a processor configured to execute instructions and the processor being arranged within the housing, a display device configured to generate an interface based in part in response to the processor, wherein the display device is arranged in the front panel, a touchscreen associated with the display device and configured to sense a user input, wherein the user input is provided to the processor and wherein the touchscreen comprises part of the front panel, and a rear input arranged on the rear panel of the housing and configured to provide a dedicated input to the processor.
US10178302B2
A safety control device causes an appropriate safety function to operate based on the positional relationship between an operator and a hazard source, the positions of which vary from moment to moment. A hazard source detection section and an operator detection section detect an image of the hazard source and an image of the operator, respectively, from an image of a monitoring area taken by an imaging instrument. A shortest distance search section searches for a shortest distance between the image of the hazard source and the image of the operator. A safety function allocation section selects a safety function based on the shortest distance found by the shortest distance search section. A safety signal generation section transmits a safety signal, which indicates the selected safety function, to an external safety-related instrument using an external communication unit.
US10178294B2
Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for controlling an operation of a video capture device (e.g., in a cognitive robotic device). In an embodiment, a set of conditions is obtained using a cognitive computer system. Each of the obtained conditions includes a specific individual and a potential action that may be performed by the individual. The cognitive computer system analyzes video being captured by the video capture device to determine whether the video satisfies any of the set of conditions (e.g., the individual in the video is performing the action). If the cognitive computer system determines that one of the set of conditions has been satisfied, the operation of the video capture device (e.g., capture rate of the video) is modified to account for the satisfied condition.
US10178288B2
A driver monitoring system for a motor vehicle has: at least one camera device including a cylindrical lens holder having at least one lens; at least one lighting element configured as an infrared radiator, and at least one plug-on module having a plate-shaped bearer on which the at least one lighting element is situated, the at least one plug-on module being configured to be plugged onto the lens holder.
US10178279B2
An image forming device includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium in response to an input of image data representing the image, a reading unit that reads a first image formed by the image forming device, and a second image formed by another image forming device to respectively generate a first read image and a second read image, the first image and the second image being formed based on identical image data, a discrimination unit that discriminates the first read image and the second read image from each other, and a color correction unit that performs, on the image formed by the image forming unit, a color correction that cancels out a difference in color between the first read image and the second read image.
US10178275B2
An information processing system includes an apparatus and an information processing apparatus coupled to an external device via a network. The information processing apparatus includes a first transmitting unit configured to perform authentication using authentication information provided by the apparatus, and to transmit first data denoting a completion of the authentication to the apparatus. The apparatus includes a first identifying unit configured to identify user identification information of the operator of the apparatus, and an acquisition unit configured to receive the authentication information from the operator, to obtain the first data from the information processing apparatus by sending the authentication information, and to store the first data with the user identification information into a first storage unit. When the first data correlated with the user identification information has already stored in the first storage unit, the acquisition unit does not request the operator to input the authentication information.
US10178268B2
A communication system includes a server device and a client device. The server device includes an encoding unit that encodes information about characters contained in a first image to generate an encoded image, a generation unit that generates a second image in which the generated encoded image is embedded at a position specified from a position of the characters on the first image in place of the characters, and a transmission unit that transmits the second image to the client device in response to a request for the first image from the client device. The client device includes an extraction unit that extracts the encoded image from the received second image, a decoding unit that decodes the extracted encoded image, and a replacement unit that replaces the encoded image on the second image with characters specified from decoded information to generate the first image.
US10178263B2
An information processing apparatus includes a setting-change-information receiver, a state-change-necessity-information memory, and a setting processor. The setting-change-information receiver receives setting-change information, which contains a setting item and a set value for the setting item, from a terminal device via a communication line. The state-change-necessity-information memory stores the setting item in association with state-change-necessity information indicating whether or not a physical state of the information processing apparatus has to be changed. The setting processor changes a setting of the information processing apparatus based on the setting-change information. The setting processor reserves changing of the set value for the setting item if the setting item contained in the setting-change information requires a change in the physical change.
US10178253B2
An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, a cover, and a hinge mechanism connecting the cover to the reading unit pivotably about a pivot axis which extends in a first direction. A center of gravity of the cover is closer to a first end of the cover in a first direction than to a second end of the cover. A first hinge is spaced from the center of gravity toward the second end of the cover in the first direction. A second hinge is disposed closer to the center of gravity in the first direction than the first hinge. The first hinge includes a base member disposed movably in the reading unit, a pivot member coupled to the cover, and an urging member exerting an urging force between the base member and the pivot member so as to maintain the cover at a pivoted position.
US10178248B2
The invention relates to printing and other output of documents using data processors, and particularly to methods, apparatus, and computer programming useful for controlling output processes. In various aspects the invention provides systems, methods, and computer programming useful for minimizing the number of command inputs required from a user to complete printing or other output of multiple documents. In other aspects, the invention provides systems, methods, and computer programming useful for printing documents using content data received from users or other sources, together with previously-provided form data, according to predetermined formats.
US10178247B2
A systematic approach to producing multi-dimensional photon images on a computer platform having applications to a plurality of input image(s) from various sources, and applications to coordinate and adjust numerous variables which determine the quality of the image, such as the size of the imported images, the output image size, the resolving power of the viewing screen and the width of the resolving elements, the dots per inch of the output device (or pixels per inch), the desired nearest object, the desired furthest object and the determination of the central or the “key subject”, rules of interphasing, the number of frames or layers, the minimum parallax, and the maximum parallax, and, thus, provide a digital multi-dimensional image without jumping images or fuzzy features or other visual distortions by creating high quality output images both in the form of a printed hardcopy or as a viewed image on an appropriate viewing device. The digital multi-dimensional image platform based system controls the position and path of light from the original object to the human visual system.
US10178242B2
Techniques for managing a plurality of mobile communications devices by an enterprise server are described. The mobile communications devices may be configured to communicate on a mobile communications network operated by a mobile network operator. A communicative link is established with a proxy interface configured to implement a standardized interface for exchanging information between the enterprise and the mobile network operator. Data is received by the enterprise server via the proxy interface. The data is associated with subscription services for a plurality of mobile communications devices that are operable on the mobile communications network. The subscription services are associated with the mobile network operator. Requests are sent by the enterprise server via the proxy interface. The requests are for updating the subscription services of the mobile network operator.
US10178240B2
A multiple subscriber identity module cards (multi-SIM) resource management method, device and multi-SIM terminal. The method comprises: acquiring a subscriber identity module card list in a terminal, the subscriber identity module card list comprising all subscriber identity module cards in the terminal; and if a remaining quantity of a service resource on a subscriber identity module card currently used in the terminal is less than or equal to a preset remaining quantity threshold, then automatically switching to a subscriber identity module card having a sufficient service resource and in the subscriber identity module card list.
US10178224B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed generally to use of biometric identification during a call for detecting an anomaly occurring in the call, such as a change in the parties participating on the call. Communication between parties of a call is monitored and biometric identification is performed using the communication. According to one exemplary embodiment, biometric prints, such as voice prints, face prints, etc., are obtained for parties that are authorized to participate on a call. The call is then monitored and biometric data (e.g., audio, video, etc.) captured from communication during the call is compared with the biometric prints of the authorized parties to detect changes in the parties participating on the call, such as a new, unauthorized party joining the call. Thus, a call processing system can detect anomalies occurring during monitored calls, such as three-way calling, a handoff of a call, etc.
US10178215B2
Systems and methods for establishing communication between a terminal and a device are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, a method used in the device includes receiving a plurality of multicast packets from the terminal. The method also includes determining, according to the multicast packets, wireless connection information of a wireless network. The method further includes connecting to the wireless network according to the wireless connection information. The method further includes generating a notification indicating a password associated with the device.
US10178200B2
In some implementations, a mobile device can be configured to monitor environmental, system and user events associated with the mobile device and/or a peer device. The occurrence of one or more events can trigger adjustments to system settings. The mobile device can be configured to keep frequently invoked applications up to date based on a forecast of predicted invocations by the user. In some implementations, the mobile device can receive push notifications associated with applications that indicate that new content is available for the applications to download. The mobile device can launch the applications associated with the push notifications in the background and download the new content. In some implementations, before running an application or communicating with a peer device, the mobile device can be configured to check energy and data budgets and environmental conditions of the mobile device and/or a peer device to ensure a high quality user experience.
US10178182B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods relating to security and/or automation systems are described. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving linking information from a first device by a second device, linking the second device with the first device via a first connection, the linking based at least in part on the linking information, storing at least a portion of the linking information, and transmitting the stored linking information from the second device to one or more other devices via a second connection.
US10178180B2
A pneumatic system of an agricultural implement includes a radial fan coupled with a plenum. The plenum contains outlets which distribute the airflow into a plurality of product distribution lines for application to a field. An airflow deflector plate has a back face fixed on a sidewall of a region interconnecting the fan outlet and plenum inlet to modify the airflow pattern and obtain an airflow that is at a uniform pressure and flow rate for each product distribution line. The deflector plate is tapered with a narrow edge pointed upstream and includes front face having at least one generally rectangular groove with a bottom surface extending generally parallel to the deflector back face.
US10178174B2
Embodiments are directed to modifying storage capacity within a data store and to modifying resiliency for a data store. In one scenario, a computer system receives a request to move data. The computer system may determine that data is to be moved from an allocation on one data store to a new allocation on another data store. The computer system may create a new allocation on the other data store, where the new allocation is configured to receive data from the first data store. The computer system then moves the data to the new allocation on the second data store as data I/O requests are received at the first data store. Data store access requests are synchronized with the data movement by directing the data store access requests to the first data store, to the second data store or to both data stores depending on the type of access request.
US10178160B2
A virtual execution environment for software applications and other code objects. In one implementation, the present invention allows for virtual execution of applications by transparently capturing the rendered output of natively executed applications, and delivering the output to other processes on the same platform or to remote devices in a platform agnostic manner.
US10178159B2
A first device broadcasts an intent to share data with a second device, using a first communications protocol, The first device connects to a cloud server using a second communications protocol, and shares the data with the second device on the cloud server when the second device is connected to the cloud server.
US10178157B2
A system and method for converting static/still medical images of a particular patient into dynamic and interactive images interacting with medical tools including medical devices by coupling a model of tissue dynamics and tool characteristics to the patient specific imagery for simulating a medical procedure in an accurate and dynamic manner.
US10178147B1
Switching a content location address is disclosed. A mapping data is received from a server indicating one or more translated location addresses that correspond to one or more content requests. At a client device, a request is generated that specifies an initial content location address. The initial content location address is translated to a different content location address using the received mapping data.
US10178141B2
A personal media player (PMP) uses a digital media processing system—comprising a video rendering subsystem, a music rendering subsystem, and a picture rendering subsystem—to produce moving-video (video), audio (music), still-graphics (picture), and other output rendered from media files ported to the PMP from another source. The PMP further comprises a user interface system, a display unit system, a power source system, and a data port system utilizing Universal Plug and Play functionality, all of which are coupled directly or indirectly to the digital media processing system. The physical components constituting the aforementioned systems and subsystems are then encased in a portable housing unit suitable for hand-held use and ready portability.
US10178140B2
Quality-based optimizations of a delivery process of streaming content may be enabled. The optimization may take the form of quality-based switching. To enable quality-based switching in a streaming client, the client may have access to information about the quality of an encoded segment and/or sub-segment. Quality-related information may include any number of added quality metrics relating to an encoded segment and/or sub-segment of an encoded video stream. The addition of quality-related information may be accomplished by including the quality-related information in a manifest file, including the quality-related information in segment indices stored in a segment index file, and/or providing additional files with quality-related segment information and providing a link to the information from an MPD file. Upon receiving the quality-related information, the client may request and receive a stream that has a lower bitrate, thereby saving bandwidth while retaining quality of the streaming content.
US10178137B2
A recording method is presented, including, when an internet protocol private branch exchange (IP PBX) receives a recording instruction sent by any terminal of multiple terminals that are in a same call, sending, by the IP PBX, a first recording indication to a working recording server, which is connected to a mirrored port of a mirror switch, of at least one recording server, acquiring, by the IP PBX, an IP address and a number of a port for transmitting a media stream that are of the working recording server, and sending a terminal identifier to the working recording server; and sending, by the IP PBX, to the working recording server using the IP address and the port number, a media stream that is generated when the multiple terminals that are in the same call have the call, and sending a second recording indication to the working recording server.
US10178133B2
Embodiments are directed towards, gateway computers and management platform server computers for managing secure communication over a network. Gateway computer may intercept communications from unauthenticated source node computers directed to target node computers. If the unauthenticated node computer provides its credentials in response to a request for credentials from the gateway computer, the credentials and the intercepted communications may be provided to a management platform server for further processing. The management platform server may authenticate the unauthenticated source node computer based on its credentials and the intercepted communication and the management platform server may determine a target gateway computer that corresponds to the target node computer based on content of the intercepted communication. The management platform server may provide configuration information for generating a secure private network connection between the gateway computer and the target gateway computer.
US10178132B2
In an example, there is described a server apparatus, comprising: a network connection; and one or more logic elements, including at least a processor and a memory, comprising a mobile device management (MDM) engine to: instruct an MDM agent to register a mobile security posture event; receive from the MDM agent an instance of the mobile security posture event; construct a policy decision responsive at least in part to the mobile security posture event; and enforce the policy decision.
US10178131B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network identifies a set of network entities. The device determines characteristics of the network entities. The device assigns each of the set of network entities to one or more hyperedges of a hypergraph based on the characteristics. The device applies a security policy to a particular one of the network entities based on the one or more hyperedges of the hypergraph to which the particular network entity is assigned.
US10178129B2
A network security method and a device relating to the field of network communication where the method includes, recording a correspondence between an Internet Protocol (IP) address and an security group tag (SGT), and executing a network security policy on a receiver of a data packet according to the recorded correspondence between the IP address and the SGT such that SGT information of the receiver does not need to be specially propagated, thereby decreasing network resource consumption and reducing network complexity.
US10178127B2
A method is provided for securing a mobile communications device to a level required for accessing a network, for example a secured enterprise network, by means of a public network such as the Internet. A mobile communications device is also provided incorporating functionality to enable centralized control over the configuration of the mobile device and thereby to control the actions of users of that device and of applications software that may be installed and executed on that device. Furthermore, a system is provided to implement a mobile communications infrastructure for an enterprise network with centralized control over the configuration of mobile communications devices within the system.
US10178125B2
A web application receives a request for a web site's login page. The web application sends, via a domain name, a response including the login page, a first token in a first field in the login page's header, and a second token in a second field in the login page's header, wherein the first field is modifiable only via a related domain name which is related to the domain name, and wherein the first token is a function of the second token. The web application receives a request to login to the site from a client, wherein the request to login includes a header that includes the first field and the second field. The web application establishes a session with the client if the first field in the header includes a token which is the function of a token in the second field in the header.
US10178118B2
Data surveillance techniques are presented for the detection of security issues, especially of the kind where privileged data may be stolen by steganographic, data manipulation or any form of exfiltration attempts. Such attempts may be made by rogue users or admins from the inside of a network, or from outside hackers who are able to intrude into the network and impersonate themselves as legitimate users. The system and methods use a triangulation process whereby analytical results pertaining to data protocol, user-behavior and packet content are combined to establish a baseline for the data. Subsequent incoming data is then scored and compared against the baseline to detect any security anomalies. A set of metadata layers related to the analysis are also maintained. The techniques are also applicable for detecting performance issues indicative of a system malfunction or deterioration.
US10178116B2
Events related to an end-point connected with one or more devices are recorded and collected to observe end-point behavior and determine the risk of unfavorable conduct occurring on a network/system. The analysis may include a behavioral analysis that matches events to behaviors, and scores behaviors along factors or parameters of fraud including opportunity (O), pressure (P), and rationalization (R). Malicious behavior may be anticipated or identified prior to commission, allowing preventative measures to be taken or behavior intercepted within the early stages.
US10178113B2
Systems, methods, and media for generating sanitized data, sanitizing anomaly detection models, and generating anomaly detection models are provided. In some embodiments, methods for sanitizing anomaly detection models are provided. The methods including: receiving at least one abnormal anomaly detection model from at least one remote location; comparing at least one of the at least one abnormal anomaly detection model to a local normal detection model to produce a common set of features common to both the at least one abnormal anomaly detection model and the local normal detection model; and generating a sanitized normal anomaly detection model by removing the common set of features from the local normal detection model.
US10178105B2
Embodiments enable a system to determine, authorize, and adjust access, writing, retrieval, and validation rights of users and entities associated with one or more distributed block chain networks. The system is capable of receiving an authorization request from a user to conduct an action associated with the block chain distributed network, determine a security level associated with the user, and either authorize or screen the user from conducting the action based on the determined security level. The system may adjust the security level of the user by requesting and receiving additional authorization credentials from the user. Furthermore, the system may adjust the security level of one or more users based on security or functionality needs of the block chain distributed network.
US10178098B2
Methods and systems for controlling access to content include an authentication process that provides for increased speed by reducing, or eliminating in some cases, steps in the authentication process. In particular, the systems and methods can encode content paths previously authenticated for a particular user into an authentication token. When the user attempts to access one of the top content paths, the systems and methods can verify the user based on the encoded authentication token rather than following a complete authentication process.
US10178091B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method implemented on a router for accessing a network, where the method comprises: obtaining an access password sent by a terminal device; performing matching between the access password and each preset access password in an access password list in which at least two preset access passwords are stored; when the access password matches a preset access password in the access password list, determining whether the preset access password is bound to a device identifier list, and when the preset access password is bound to the device identifier list, determining whether a device identifier of the terminal device exists in the bound device identifier list; and when it is determined that the device identifier exists in the device identifier list, allowing the terminal device to access the network.
US10178086B2
A method executed by an Intermediary Node arranged between a Client and a Server for participating in the setting up of a connection between the Client and a Server is described. In response to intercepting a first message, the method transmits from the Client and destined for the Server, and requests for a connection to be set-up between the Client and the Server. The method recognizes, based on content of the received first message, that it is desirable for the Intermediary Node to perform at least one function on the requested connection, the Intermediary Node is transmitting a second message to the Client, comprising an identity of the Intermediary Node. This enables the Client to accept or reject the Intermediary Node as a node participating in the requested connection set-up.
US10178083B2
A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module of a storage unit receiving a write request for storing a data object that includes updated access control list (ACL) information. The method continues with the DS processing module determining whether the data object is a new data object or a revised version of an existing data object and determining write authority of the requesting entity based on information contained in a locally stored access control list. When the write request is regarding the revised version of the existing data object and the write authority includes authorization to issue the write request for the revised version of the existing data object and authorization to issue the updated ACL information, the method continues with the DS processing module storing the revised version of the existing data object and updating the access control list based on the updated ACL information.
US10178074B2
Embodiments provide techniques generating and managing encryption keys within a computing infrastructure. Embodiments provide a key publisher that generates and maintains key pairs in a list at a configurable interval. In addition, the key publisher publishes the list to other components within the computing infrastructure. Embodiments also provide a key consumer that downloads the list of encrypted key pairs and maintains an active window of keys to can be accepted from client devices that communicate sensitive data to the computing infrastructure. If the key consumer receives a key from a client device that is outside of the active window yet that corresponds to a future key pair in the list, the key consumer advances the active window towards the future key pair.
US10178073B2
A method for accelerating data transfer and improving data storage in a computing environment is provided that includes splitting a function into two layers of an operating system to generate two separate sets of outcomes from the two layers. A set of outcomes from the two layers are combined so as to be imperceptible to a user save for faster operation. The splitting of the function is evaluated and optimized based on machine performance feedback. A computing system for communicating with a network is provided that performs this method. A bifurcated operating system affords additional advantages in performing function splitting.
US10178071B2
Techniques to use operating system redirection for network stream transformation operations are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a network stream component operative to receive a network stream, the network stream associated with an application on a device; modify the network stream to generate a modified network stream; and send the modified network stream through an operating system for the device; and a local virtual private network component operative on the processor circuit to: receive the modified network stream from the operating system as a plurality of modified network stream packets; determine a network connection policy based on the application; and send the plurality of modified network stream packets to a destination network address via the network interface controller when the network connection policy indicates sending. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10178066B1
Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a computing server configured to provide a respective group of virtual servers for each of a plurality of accounts. Each of the accounts has a respective set of domain names and a respective settings file. The apparatus also includes a domain name server (DNS). The DNS is configured and arranged to dynamically map a respective set of domain names for each account to network addresses of the respective group of virtual servers, provided for the account. The DNS performs the mapping according to a mapping function indicated in the respective settings file of the account. The respective settings file of a first account accounts includes a mapping function that is different from a mapping function included in the respective settings file of a second account.
US10178060B2
The present disclosure relates to mitigating email spam attacks. A gateway is configured to receive mail from one or more mail systems. If mail is intended for delivery to an invalid address, the gateway can generate status messages for delivery to the mail systems or determine if a threshold for delivery attempts to the invalid address has been met. If the threshold has been met, the gateway can request creation of a honeypot email address, and future mail intended for delivery to the invalid address are delivered to a mailbox associated with the honeypot email address. Various actions can be taken with respect to the mail delivered to the honeypot email address including analysis, blacklisting of senders, and/or other actions.
US10178059B1
Provided are systems and methods for determining consumable content that is associated with a user, determining a position associated with a location in the content, determining a snippet comprising a sub-portion of the content starting at or near the position and ending at a snippet end position, and sending, to an address associated with the user, an electronic message comprising the snippet.
US10178055B2
A method of publishing a publication message includes receiving, at one of a plurality of first relays, a subscription request from a first client and transmitting the subscription request from the one of the plurality of first relays to only one of a plurality of central relays. The method also includes receiving, at another of the plurality of first relays, a publication request from a second client. The publication request includes the publication message. The method further includes transmitting the publication message from the another of the plurality of first relays to all of the plurality of central relays, transmitting the publication message from at least one of the plurality of central relays to the one of the plurality of first relays, and transmitting the publication message from the one of the plurality of first relays to the first client.
US10178045B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods for processing a request from a client are provided. A request for a computer-implemented process to be performed is received from a client. A group of computer resources responsible for performing the computer-implemented process is identified. Dependency information indicating dependency relationships between pairs of computer resources of the identified group is determined. For pairs of computer resources determined to have a dependency relationship, a cost incurred when a first computer resource of the pair invokes a second computer resource of the pair is determined at multiple points in time. It is determined whether to add, remove, or migrate additional computer resources to the group based on the cost information.
US10178043B1
Selecting an optimal bitrate range is disclosed. A request for content from a first client is received. An optimal subset of bitrates for the first client is determined. The optimal subset of bitrates for the first client is determined based at least in part on one or more real-time quality measures. A different optimal subset of bitrates is determined for a second client. An indication of the optimal subset of bitrates determined for the first client is provided to the first client. The first client is configured to obtain content according to the indication of the optimal subset of bitrates.
US10178036B2
Disclosed within is a communication architecture for medium access control (MAC) layer virtualization, where the architecture is made up of: a physical MAC layer, a plurality of physical resource blocks (RBs) associated with the MAC layer, a plurality of virtual medium access control (vMAC) layers, where each vMAC layer corresponds to a separate service group, with each service group programming its own scheduling logic in each vMAC layer, and a plurality of virtual resource blocks (vRBs) associated with each vMAC layer, where the vRBs are filled with data packets according to the scheduling logic in each vMAC instance. The physical MAC layer virtualizes the RBs as vRBs and assigns them to each vMAC layer according to a service level agreement associated with each service group, and each vMAC maps traffic flows of subscribers associated with it onto the assigned vRBs.
US10178035B2
Systems and methods are provided for quality of service over broadband networks. A network device performs a probe transaction over a tunnel of a broadband network. Based on the probe transaction, parameters are determined reflecting tunnel performance, and, based on the parameters, target transmit and receive rates are determined for data communications over the tunnel. Based on the target transmit and receive rates, data communications to and from a first node of the network are regulated. When the tunnel comprises a peered tunnel, the regulation of received data communications comprises performing a set rate transaction with a peer second node of the network (the set rate transaction establishes a rate for data transmitted over the tunnel by the peer second node to the first node). When the tunnel comprises a peerless tunnel, the regulation of received data communications comprises shaping data traffic received by the first node over the tunnel.
US10178027B2
System and method for supporting inter subnet partitions in a high performance computing environment
Systems and methods for supporting inter subnet partitions in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a fabric manager can define a range of P_Key values, among a plurality of P_Key values, as a inter subnet partition (ISP) P_Key range. The fabric manager can communicate this defined range of P_Key values to a number of subnets, via their subnet managers. The subnet managers in each subnet retain management over their subnets. As there is no central management that configures each side of inter subnet communication, subnet managers on within participating subnets can set up ISP membership, and then exchange information with the other subnet.
US10178026B2
A packet broker deployed in a visibility fabric may intelligently assign identifiers to data packets that are routed through sequences of one or more network tools for monitoring and/or security purposes. More specifically, the packet broker may apply packet-matching criteria to incoming data packets to determine a predetermined sequence of network tools through which the data packets are to be guided. For example, the packet broker may guide a data packet through a predetermined sequence of network tools by translating an internal identifier added to the data packet to an external identifier before transmission to each of the network tools, and translating the external identifier to a different internal identifier each time the data packet is received from each of the network tools.
US10178023B2
The present invention provides a packet processing method and an apparatus. The method includes: determining a to-be-installed flow entry and packet sending information; and sending, to a switch, a flow entry installation message carrying the to-be-installed flow entry and the packet sending information, so that the switch obtains the to-be-installed flow entry and the packet sending information from the flow entry installation message, installs the flow entry, and sends a packet according to the packet sending information. In the present invention, a controller sends a flow entry installation message carrying a to-be-installed flow entry and a packet sending message, where the to-be-installed flow entry and a to-be-sent packet are simultaneously sent, so that a switch simultaneously receives the to-be-installed flow entry and the to-be-sent packet, and performs flow entry installation and packet sending, thereby reducing unnecessary signaling exchange, and improving efficiency of flow entry installation and packet sending.
US10178013B2
The present document discloses a frame aggregation method and an electronic device. Herein, the method includes: acquiring state information of a wireless channel; acquiring state information of an operator according to a preset sate parameter; and performing calculation according to the state information of the wireless channel and the state information of the operator to obtain a calculation result, and performing frame aggregation when the calculation result meets a first condition.
US10178010B2
A method for data communication includes submitting from a host processor to a network interface controller (NIC) during a first time period first work items instructing the NIC to transmit over a network packets containing respective data. The first work items include pointer-based work items, which contain a pointer to the respective data in a memory of the host processor, and inline work items, which contain the respective data. The performance of the NIC is measured in transmitting the packets during the first time period. During a second time period, subsequent to the first time period, the host processor submits second work items to the NIC while deciding automatically, under control of software running on the host processor and based on the measured performance during the first time period, how many of the second work items are to be pointer-based and how many are to be inline work items.
US10177999B2
A processor-implemented method includes providing an analytic dashboard with a graphical user interface (GUI) that outputs aggregated results streaming in real-time of a load test performed on a target website. The load test consists of a plurality of virtual users simulated by one or more load servers that execute a test composition on one or more webpages of the website. A waterfall chart is produced on the analytic dashboard that includes a plurality of timeline bars. Each of the timeline bars represents an aggregated result for a resource of the one or more webpages across all of the virtual users. The timeline bars change in real-time as the load test progresses.
US10177983B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a method for performing auto-negotiation using a single conductive path are described. In one embodiment, a method includes performing, with a first device, auto-negotiation in half duplex mode with a second device by way of a single conductive path. The single conductive path connects the first device to the second device.
US10177975B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of remotely communicating with a managed machine. One example method of operation may include selecting the managed machine operating in a communication network, transmitting a connection request message to the managed machine and establishing a secure connection between the managed machine and an administrator machine. The example method may also include responsive to connecting with the managed machine, executing a host service on the managed machine, and connecting to the host service over the communication network via an application client operating on the administrator machine.
US10177959B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments, an electronic device over resource allocation of device to device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system comprises at least one processor configured to generate D2D control information for the D2D communication, and at least one processor configured to transmit the D2D control information through symbols for at least one of a Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH), a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH), and Demodulation-Reference Signal (DM-RS).
US10177951B2
A method of determining reserved tones to be used for reduction of a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of a signal includes: randomly selecting carrier indices for the reserved tones and generating a kernel signal based on the randomly selected carrier indices for the reserved tones; calculating a comparison reference average value of the kernel signal, comparing the calculated comparison reference average value with a prestored comparison reference average value, and preliminarily determining carrier indices of the reserved tones based on the comparison; re-arranging an order of the preliminarily determined carrier indices of the reserved tones; calculating comparison reference average values of kernel signals generated by changing each of the re-arranged carrier indices of the reserved tones, and finally determining carrier indices of the reserved tones which generate a kerneal signal having the smallest comparison reference average value among the comparison reference average values as indices of the reserved tones.
US10177936B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a switch having logic configured to receive an overlay packet via an overlay tunnel, the overlay packet including an overlay tunnel header having Quality of Service (QoS) attributes stored therein and a packet, remove the QoS attributes from the overlay tunnel header, decapsulate the packet from the overlay packet to remove the overlay tunnel header, determine a destination port from the packet, and forward the packet to the destination port. In another embodiment, a method includes receiving a packet on a source port, determining a virtual network associated with the source port, encapsulating the packet with at least one overlay tunnel header to form an overlay packet, storing QoS attributes with the at least one overlay tunnel header, the QoS attributes being determined in part by the virtual network, and sending the overlay packet via an overlay tunnel.
US10177934B1
When providing a user with native access to at least a portion of device hardware, the user can be prevented from modifying firmware and other configuration information by controlling the mechanisms used to update that information. In some embodiments, an asymmetric keying approach can be used to encrypt or sign the firmware. In other cases access can be controlled by enabling firmware updates only through a channel or port that is not exposed to the customer, or by mapping only those portions of the hardware that are to be accessible to the user. In other embodiments, the user can be prevented from modifying firmware by only provisioning the user on a machine after an initial mutability period wherein firmware can be modified, such that the user never has access to a device when firmware can be updated. Combinations and variations of the above also can be used.
US10177931B2
A method for data communication with a domestic appliance by a mobile computer device. The domestic appliance and the mobile computer device are interconnected or interconnectable via a wireless data connection. The wireless data connection is adapted for transferring signals between the domestic appliance and the mobile computer device. Further, the present invention relates to application software for the mobile computer device. Moreover, the present invention relates to a domestic appliance. Additionally, the present invention relates to a mobile computer device including a display or touch screen.
US10177929B1
Described are techniques for configuring a selected audio device of a group of audio devices to send audio data to multiple other devices to enable the devices to provide a synchronized audio output. Link quality values indicative of the quality of communication links between audio devices and an access point and between different audio devices may be used to form subsets of devices in which a first master device receives audio data from a data source, provides data to other master devices via the access point. A value indicative of the airtime that would be used to communicate data to other audio devices may be determined for at least a portion of the audio devices. Additional subsets of audio devices may be formed if the airtime for the existing subset does not exceed a maximum quantity of airtime.
US10177927B2
A portable terminal and a method for controlling an external apparatus thereof are provided. The method for controlling an external apparatus of a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes display, when an application to perform chatting with a user of another portable terminal is executed, a chatting screen including at least one icon corresponding to an external apparatus, obtaining, when one of the at least one icon is selected, information regarding an external apparatus corresponding to the selected one icon, and transmitting the information regarding the external apparatus to the other portable terminal.
US10177925B2
A radio communication device (1) according to the present invention is supplied with power through a communication cable (21). The radio communication device (1) includes a control unit that determines a setting content of the radio communication device (1) so that an amount of power consumption does not exceed an amount of power supply supplied to the radio communication device (1), the amount of the power consumption being calculated by using power consumption information associating the setting content of the radio communication device (1) with power consumption consumed when the radio communication device (1) operates with that setting content. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a radio communication device capable of realizing a stable operation even when a feed system that supplies power through a communication cable is used.
US10177920B2
A server apparatus receives unique information, encrypted information and user information from an information processing apparatus via a network interface, the unique information being information which is uniquely assigned to an image processing apparatus, the encrypted information being information into which the unique information is encrypted using a first key, and the user information being information related to a user of the image processing apparatus; decrypts the received encrypted information using a second key corresponding to the first key so as to obtain decrypted information; determines whether the decrypted information and the received unique information represent same information; and stores, in the memory, the received user information and the received unique information in association in a case where it is determined that the decrypted information and the received unique information represent the same information.
US10177913B2
A semiconductor device may include: a bus; first and second function modules configured to communicate via the bus; a first encryption module configured to encrypt first data output from the first function module using a first encryption key to generate first encrypted data; and/or a second encryption module configured to decrypt the first encrypted data using the first encryption key, to output the decrypted first data to the second function module, and to encrypt second data output from the second function module using a second encryption key to generate second encrypted data. A semiconductor device may include: a bus; first and second modules configured to communicate via the bus; and/or an encryption module configured to use different encryption policies for first data, which is output from the first module and stored in a memory, and second data, which is output from the second module and stored in the memory.
US10177908B2
A system for secure retrieval of stored data includes an encrypted key database and a processor. The encrypted key database is configured to store an encrypted tenant service key and an encrypted tenant master key. The processor is configured to request decryption of the encrypted tenant master key into an unencrypted tenant master key. The decryption of the encrypted master key is approved by a key release system. The processor is further configured to decrypt the encrypted tenant service key using the unencrypted tenant master key into an unencrypted tenant service key and authorize a response to a request using the unencrypted tenant service key.
US10177905B2
In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method for computing a resultant and a free term of a scaled inverse of a first polynomial v(x) modulo a second polynomial fn(x), including: receiving the first polynomial v(x) modulo the second polynomial fn(x), where the second polynomial is of a form fn(x)=xn±1, where n=2k and k is an integer greater than 0; computing lowest two coefficients of a third polynomial g(z) that is a function of the first polynomial and the second polynomial, where g ( z ) = def ∏ i = 0 n - 1 ( v ( ρ i ) - z ) , where ρ0, ρ1, . . . , ρn-1 are roots of the second polynomial fn(x) over a field; outputting the lowest coefficient of g(z) as the resultant; and outputting the second lowest coefficient of g(z) divided by n as the free term of the scaled inverse of the first polynomial v(x) modulo the second polynomial fn(x).
US10177903B1
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a clock recovery circuit that receive a multi-level pulse-amplitude modulated signal and to recover a clock signal. The clock recovery circuit includes a generation circuit and an oscillator. The generation circuit includes a plurality of comparators and pulse generators and a pulse summing circuit. The plurality of comparators and pulse generators compare the multi-level pulse-amplitude modulated signal with a plurality of threshold values to generate a plurality of pulses according to a plurality of comparison results. The pulse summing circuit generates a synthetic pulse based on the generated plurality of pulses. The oscillator oscillates in synchronization with the synthetic pulse to generate the clock signal.
US10177898B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for signal detection. More particularly the disclosure pertains to methods and arrangements for signal detection systems with sparse synchronization signal rate. According to some aspects, the disclosure relates to a method, performed in a radio network node, of detecting at least one signal transmitted from a wireless device, wherein the radio network node transmits a synchronization signal to the wireless device with a synchronization signal rate. The method comprises determining a period of time that has passed since the most recent transmission of the synchronization signal to the wireless device and configuring, in the radio network node, at least one radio setting related to detecting the at least one signal, based on the determined period of time. The method further comprises monitoring a radio spectrum for the at least one signal using the at least one radio setting.
US10177896B2
A method and apparatus for (a) operating a first full-duplex transceiver to exchange radio-frequency signals with a second full-duplex transceiver, (b) determining at the first full-duplex transceiver that a residual self-interference signal exceeds a threshold, (c) in response to the determination that the residual self-interference signal exceeds the threshold, performing a self-training operation.
US10177893B2
The serial communication system includes a first communication device and a second communication device connected with the first communication device. The first communication device and the second communication device respectively operates in response to a first clock signal and a second clock. The first communication device generates a first training signal, transmits the first training signal to the second communication device, encodes a first data signal to generate a first encoded signal, and transmits the first encoded signal to the second communication device. The second communication device measures a second interval length, receives the first encoded signal from the first communication device, and decodes the first data signal from the first encoded signal by detecting the level of the first encoded signal at a preset first point of time preset and a preset second point of time.
US10177892B2
According to one embodiment, a method of operating a wireless terminal may include configuring a first group of component carriers, and while configured with the first group of component carriers, communicating a first MAC CE including a first bit map having a first bit map size with bits of the first bit map corresponding to respective component carriers of the first group of component carriers. The method may also include configuring a second group of component carriers wherein the first and second groups of component carriers are different. While configured with the second group of component carriers, a second MAC CE may be communicated, wherein the second MAC CE includes a second bit map having a second bit map size with bits of the second bit map corresponding to respective component carriers of the second group of component carriers. Moreover, the first and second bit map sizes may be different.
US10177889B2
The present invention discloses a sequence generation method and a base station. The method includes: determining, by a terminal, at least one first sequence according to at least one candidate sequence, where a length of the candidate sequence is less than a sequence length corresponding to a maximum available system bandwidth; and connecting, by the terminal, the at least one first sequence to generate a second sequence or directly using the at least one first sequence as a second sequence, and receiving a signal according to the second sequence, where the second sequence is at least one of a reference signal sequence or a scrambling code sequence.
US10177888B2
Embodiments of an access point and method for high-efficiency WLAN (HEW) communication are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the access point may be configured to operate as a master station and may configure an HEW frame to include a legacy signal field (L-SIG), an HEW signal field (HEW SIG-A) following the L-SIG, and one or more HEW fields following the HEW SIG-A. The L-SIG may be configured for transmission using a legacy number of data subcarriers, a legacy number of pilot subcarriers and a number of additional reference subcarriers modulated with a known reference sequence. At least one symbol of the HEW SIG-A and the one or more HEW fields following the HEW SIG-A of the HEW frame may be configured for transmission using additional data subcarriers. The additional data subcarriers may correspond to the additional reference subcarriers of the L-SIG.
US10177882B2
Provided is a terminal device that is capable of improving the characteristics of a response signal having poor transmission characteristics when ARQ is utilized in communication using an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band. At the time of channel selection, a control unit selects a resource used in sending a response signal from among specific PUCCH resources notified in advance from a base station and PUCCH resources mapped to a CCE, and controls the transmission of the response signal. A response signal generating unit supports implicit signaling with respect to any given response signal, and at the same time as supporting LTE fallback from 2CC, uses a mapping method that, between bits, smooths the number of PUCCH resources that can determine ACK/NACK simply by determining the PUCCH resource regarding which the response signal had notified.
US10177866B2
A broadcast signal transmission apparatus and method using layered division multiplexing are disclosed. A broadcast signal transmission apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame using the time-interleaved signal; and an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmitter configured to generate a pilot signal that is shared by a core layer corresponding to the core layer signal and an enhanced layer corresponding to the enhanced layer signal.
US10177862B2
A test system for testing a device under test includes: a signal processor configured to generate a plurality of independent signals and to apply first fading channel characteristics to each of the independent signals to generate a plurality of first faded test signals; a test system interface configured to provide the plurality of first faded test signals to one or more signal input interfaces of the device under test (DUT); a second signal processor configured to apply second fading channel characteristics to a plurality of output signals of the DUT to generate a plurality of second faded test signals, wherein the second fading channel characteristics are derived from the first fading channel characteristics; and one or more test instruments configured to measure at least one performance characteristic of the DUT from the plurality of second faded test signals.
US10177852B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for automatically controlling a bias voltage of an optical modulator. The method includes: calculating a new Q bias voltage based on an acquired Q reference phase, a Q harmonic phase, a Q harmonic amplitude, a Q bias voltage and a Q error feedback coefficient, calculating a new I bias voltage based on an I reference phase, an I harmonic phase, an I harmonic amplitude, an I bias voltage and an I error feedback coefficient, and calculating a new P bias voltage based on a P reference phase, a P harmonic phase, a P harmonic amplitude, a P bias voltage and a P error feedback coefficient.
US10177845B2
Provided are methods and systems for improved user tracking via the exchange of information over narrow-beam infrared (IR) transmission. IR receivers are positioned around a venue. A limited-range, narrow-beam IR transmitter associated with a user sends IR signals that are received by the IR receiver when the IR transmitter is close enough to the receiver. The receiver then transmits signal data from the received signal to a back-end location tracking system (LTS) that aggregates and processes the received signal data as a detection event. Based on the detection event, the LTS determines the location of the IR receiver hence the location of the user. Because of the limited transmission range of the IR transmitter, analyzing the detection event allows precise determination of the user's location, orientation, and/or movements within the venue. The LTS can also determine the identity of the user.
US10177832B2
Systems and methods for using spatial multiplexing in conjunction with a coaxial cable deployed in-house. Input streams associated with spatial multiplexing are converted into respective signals occupying different respective frequencies. The signals are transported, via a coaxial cable deployed in-house, into a certain room located in-house, thereby enabling a presence of the plurality of signals in the certain room. The signals are shifted into respective output signals that occupy a single wireless frequency by up-converting each signal from the corresponding different frequency into the single wireless frequency. The output signals are transmitted wirelessly, using only the single wireless frequency, via respective antennas located in the certain room, all said antennas operating in conjunction with the single wireless frequency, thereby achieving spatial multiplexing in the certain room and in conjunction with the coaxial cable.
US10177826B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method includes identifying a plurality of channel responses corresponding to a plurality of channels. Each channel of the plurality of channels corresponds to a pairing of a transmit antenna with a receive antenna. Each channel response of the plurality of channel responses corresponds to a plurality of tone subsets. The method also includes selecting, for each channel of the plurality of channels, a subset of non-frequency domain components of the channel response for the channel, and transmitting, for at least one channel of the plurality of channels, at least one subset of channel state information (CSI). The at least one subset of CSI is based at least in part on at least one of the selected subsets of non-frequency domain components.
US10177821B2
A wireless communication system includes a first antenna, a second antenna with an orientation relative to the first antenna that is changeable around a predetermined axis, and a communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling between the first antenna and the second antenna. The first antenna includes a first electrode including a bored portion, where the predetermined axis passes through an inside of the bored portion. The first antenna also includes a second electrode located inside the bored portion The second antenna includes a third electrode that transmits an electric signal between the first electrode and the third electrode and a fourth electrode that transmits an electric signal between the second electrode and the fourth electrode.
US10177815B2
Systems and methods are provided for powering Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) devices. An electronic device that is configured for use in a multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) network may include a communication circuit operable to communicate multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) based signals over coax cabling in the MoCA network, and one or more power circuits operable to support supplying and/or drawing power over the coax cabling in the MoCA network, to enable powering the electronic device and/or one or more other electronic devices in the MoCA network. The power circuits may include one or more of: a power regulator circuit that draws power from the coax cabling and/or regulates use of the power, a power source circuit that supplies power into the coax cabling, and a power management circuit that manages power related operations in the electronic device and/or in the MoCA network.
US10177814B2
Embodiments include methods of powerline communications using a preamble with band extension is provided. A method may include receiving a packet data unit PDU. Bit-level repetition is applied to at least a portion of the PDU to create a repeated portion. Interleaving is performed per a subchannel. Pilot tones are inserted in the interleaved portion. Each data tone is modulated with respect to a nearest one of the inserted pilot tones. The PDU is transmitted over a power line.
US10177812B2
Methods and systems are described for reduction of crosstalk in multi-wire communications systems using ensemble codes. Constraints applied to code construction and/or permissible encoding sequences eliminate transmit patterns shown to generate capacitively coupled and/or inductively coupled crosstalk.
US10177809B1
In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. During a carrier acquisition mode of operation, the samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”). During a data recovery mode of operation, the CMF filters channel-injected noise from the sample stream. Both carrier phase errors and data timing errors are continuously detected and corrected during both the carrier acquisition and data recovery modes of operation. In one embodiment, the carrier recovery and timing recovery are performed using just the carrier loop filter.
US10177800B2
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal, and in particular to a mobile power bank and a combined terminal device formed by splicing the mobile power bank and the mobile terminal. The mobile power bank comprises a display screen, a storage battery located below the display screen, and a casing for holding the display screen and the storage battery. The mobile power bank is generally flat-plate shaped with a front surface and a back surface. Both an area of a display region of the display screen and an area of an occupied region of the storage battery are not less than 70% of the front surface area. A volume of the storage battery can be increased without changing the thickness of the storage battery, providing an extended charging service for mobile phones. In addition, the mobile power bank of the present invention has a large display screen, when the mobile power bank is connected to a mobile terminal, such as a mobile phone, the display screen and a display screen of the mobile terminal may perform display at the same time.
US10177794B1
An integrated circuit (IC) includes an encoder configured to receive input data including a plurality of data bits. The encoder includes a parity computation matrix circuit configured to arrange the data bits according to a matrix format to generate a parity computation matrix. A parity computation circuit is configured to compute a plurality of parity computation row terms corresponding to rows of the parity computation matrix respectively, compute a plurality of parity computation column terms corresponding to columns of the parity computation matrix respectively, and compute parity bits using the parity computation row terms and parity computation column terms. Write data including the data bits and the parity bits are provided to a write circuit. The write circuit writes the write data to a memory cell array in a memory.
US10177788B2
A low density parity check (LDPC) encoder, an LDPC decoder, and an LDPC encoding method are disclosed. The LDPC encoder includes first memory, second memory, and a processor. The first memory stores an LDPC codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 2/15. The second memory is initialized to 0. The processor generates the LDPC codeword corresponding to information bits by performing accumulation with respect to the second memory using a sequence corresponding to a parity check matrix (PCM).
US10177785B2
An approach for generating updated error detecting code for a partial update of data is disclosed. The techniques include receiving data representing a change to a portion of a data object, the data object having a first error detecting code, and the portion of the data object having an offset from the beginning of the data object; generating a combination term by combining the data and the portion of the data object; and computing a second error detecting code based on the combination term. The techniques may further include computing a third error detecting code by combining the first error detecting code and the second error detecting code, the third error detecting code being configured to detect an error in the data object as changed by the data, and storing the data and the third error detecting code.
US10177779B2
The disclosure includes an analog to digital converter (ADC). The ADC includes a comparator to compare sample values of an analog signal in an analog domain to reference values to determine digital values in a digital domain. The digital values correspond to the analog signal and may be determined according to successive approximation. The ADC also includes chop switches to modulate the analog signal to increase a frequency of flicker noise in the analog domain. The ADC also includes an un-chop switch to demodulate the digital values in the digital domain prior filtration of the flicker noise by a digital filter.
US10177777B2
A dual-sensor signal collecting circuit comprises circuit (11), a second sensor signal collecting circuits, an AD sampling circuit, an AND gate determination circuit and a collected signal averaging circuit. Output ends of the sensor signal collecting circuits are connected to respective input ends of the AND gate determination circuit, respective input ends of the collected signal averaging circuit and a first AD sampling port of the AD sampling circuit; an output end of the AND gate determination circuit is connected to a power supply end of the collected signal averaging circuit; an output end of the collected signal averaging circuit is connected to the first AD sampling port of the AD sampling circuit. When the sensors operate normally, the collected signal averaging circuit outputs an average sampling value to the first AD sampling port, when one is damaged, a sampling value of the one operating normally is output to the first AD sampling port.
US10177776B1
A distortion mitigation quantizer circuit includes a pre-quantizer to generate a first quantized signal having L output signal levels from an input signal and a digital pulse-width-modulation (PWM) circuit to modulate the first quantized signal using M modulating carriers with PWM carrier frequency fp and according to an over sampling ratio (OSR) N in order to generate a second quantized signal. In this case, a number of the modulating carriers M is substantially equal to twice L/N.
US10177775B2
At least some embodiments are directed to a system that comprises a differential switch network comprising first and second output nodes, first and second transistors coupled to the network, and first and second resistors coupled to the first and second transistors. The DAC also comprises a voltage source coupled to the first resistor and a ground connection coupled to the second resistor. The DAC further includes a capacitor coupled to the first and second transistors and to the second resistor.
US10177771B1
An apparatus may include a circuit configured to receive first and second samples of an underlying data from respective first and second sample periods and which correspond to respective first and second sensors, a phase control value may have first and second values during respective first and second sample periods. The phase control value may be a control value for a sample clock signal. The circuit may also determine a difference in the phase control value between the first value and the second value. The circuit may then digitally interpolate the first and second samples to produce a phase shifted first and second samples where the digital interpolation of at least one of the first and second samples mat be at least in part based on the difference in the phase control value to compensate for a phase misalignment between the first sample and the second sample.
US10177758B2
The invention concerns a driver circuit for driving a P-Channel MOSFET. The driver circuit is fed by a DC voltage supplied at a power input and it receives a control signal at a control input. The control signal includes the information for controlling a switching of a P-Channel MOSFET the gate of which is connected to a drive output of the driver circuit. For generating the drive signal the driver circuit includes a turn-off bipolar transistor which is powered by the supply voltage received at the power input in that its collector is connected to the power input. The control signal received at the control input is amplified by means of a current amplifier and fed to the base of the bipolar transistor via an inverting capacitor. In response to the amplified control signal at its base, the bipolar transistor actively generates a turn-off signal and provides the turn-off signal to the drive output in that the emitter of the bipolar transistor is connected to the drive output. This driver circuit is immune against a voltage build-up between the gate and the source of the P-Channel MOSFET during the turn-off period and the risk of undesired turn-on of the MOSFET during the OFF period is significantly reduced.
US10177746B1
An overdrive voltage generator includes a first switching circuit, a boosting circuit, a second switching circuit, and a comparison circuit. The first switching circuit is coupled between a first power supply and an output terminal and configured to be controlled by a switching signal to provide an overdrive voltage to the output terminal. The boosting circuit is coupled between a second power supply and a node and configured to boost a voltage of the second power supply to provide a pump voltage to the node. The second switching circuit is coupled between the node and the output terminal and configured to be controlled by the switching signal to provide the overdrive voltage to the output terminal. The comparison circuit is coupled to the first and second switching circuits as well as the output terminal and configured to compare the overdrive voltage with a first reference voltage to generate the switching signal.
US10177734B2
A surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator includes a piezoelectric layer disposed over a substrate, and a plurality of electrodes disposed over the first surface of the piezoelectric layer. A layer is disposed between the substrate and the piezoelectric layer. A surface of the layer has a smoothness sufficient to foster atomic bonding between layer and the piezoelectric layer. A plurality of features provided on a surface of the substrate reflects acoustic waves and reduce the incidence of spurious modes in the piezoelectric layer.
US10177731B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure can include, for example, an apparatus having a matching network adapted to reduce a magnitude of a signal reflection at a port of the matching network. The matching network can have one or more controllable variable reactive elements. A controller can be adapted to determine reflection coefficient information from incident and reflected waves sampled at the port of the matching network, and follow at least one cycle of a coarse tune process for generating one or more control signals to tune one or more reactances of the one or more controllable variable reactive elements. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10177717B2
For broadband data communication, a data signal voltage at a signal input node can be converted to an output signal current at a signal output node. A first transistor device can contribute to the output signal current, with its transconductance or other gain reduced to accommodate larger signal swings, at which a second transistor can turn on and increase an effective resistance value of at least a portion of a gain degeneration resistor associated with the first transistor device. The second transistor can also contribute to the output signal current to help maintain or enhance an overall gain between the signal input node and the signal output node. Multiple secondary stages, push-pull arrangements, buffer amplifier configurations (which may or may not contribute to current in the gain degeneration resistor), input and output transformers, negative feedback to help reduce component variability, and frequency modification circuits or components are also described.
US10177716B2
Metal pillars are placed adjacent to NPN transistor arrays that are used in the power amplifier for RF power generation. By placing the metal pillars in intimate contact with the silicon substrate, the heat generated by the NPN transistor arrays flows down into the silicon substrate and out the metal pillar. The metal pillar also forms an electrical ground connection in close proximity to the NPN transistors to function as a grounding point for emitter ballast resistors, which form an optimum electrothermal configuration for a linear SiGe power amplifier.
US10177715B1
A front end module (FEM) and associated method for receiving signals in a front end module are disclosed. Some embodiments of the FEM have three inputs. The FEM can process the input signals in one of three bypass modes. In bypass modes, switchable tank circuits provide a high impedance to isolate active components from the bypass path. This improves the input return loss in the passive bypass mode and thus improves the performance of the passive bypass mode by allowing the use of LNAs without an input switch. In the active gain mode, one of a plurality of signals are amplified by one of an equal number of amplifiers coupled to the FEM output. Accordingly, the FEM can output signals applied to any one of the FEM inputs in bypass mode, or an amplified version of one of the input signals. In some embodiments, the FEM has only one input and one LNA. In such embodiments, an output selector switch selects between a bypass path and a gain path.
US10177713B1
Methods, circuits, and apparatuses that provide Buffer Amplifier, containing Amplifiers and Buffer Drivers, one or more of the following: ultra low power Buffer Amplifier, capable of having high gain, low noise, high speed, near rail-to-rail input-output voltage span, high sink-source current drive capability for an external load, and able to operate at low power supply voltages. Methods, circuits, and apparatuses that provide regulated cascode (RGC) current mirrors (CM) capable of operating at low power supply and having wide input-output voltage spans.
US10177710B1
An oscillator circuit including a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) resonator is provided. The circuit includes a surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator having a first input transducer responsive to a first input signal for transducing the first input signal into mechanical motion of a substrate material of the resonator, a second input transducer responsive to a second input signal for transducing the second input signal into mechanical motion of the substrate material, and a first output transducer configured to transduce the mechanical motion of the substrate material of the resonator into an output electrical signal. A feedback loop is provided and configured to generate the second input signal, wherein the second input signal is indicative of a detected phase error of the output of the resonator.
US10177703B2
A leak-current detecting unit detects a zero-phase current flowing from an electric-motor driving device, which drives an electric motor with electric power from an alternating-current power supply, or the electric motor to a ground, a leak-current control unit that, on the basis of the zero-phase current detected by the leak-current detecting unit, generates a control signal having cyclicity synchronized with the alternating-current power supply, and an anti-phase generating unit that generates an anti-phase current that is in anti-phase to the zero-phase current on the basis of the control signal from the leak-current control unit, and outputs the anti-phase current.
US10177702B2
A conduction noise filtering circuit configured to inhibit conduction noise is provided. The conduction noise filtering circuit includes a first coil part configured to be supplied with alternating current (AC) power, a second coil part configured to be connected to the first coil part in series, a detector configured to detect common mode noise from at least one selected from the first coil part and the second coil part, and a capacitor configured to supply a current offsetting common mode noise between power lines connecting the first coil part and the second coil part in series.
US10177701B2
A power tool system including a multi-voltage battery pack for use with a first power tool, wherein the first power tool comprises a first battery pack interface and is configured to operate at a first operating voltage and a second power tool configured for use with the multi-voltage battery pack such that the system includes both the multi-voltage battery pack and the second power tool, wherein the second power tool comprises a second battery pack interface and is configured to operate at a second operating voltage, wherein the second operating voltage is higher than the first operating voltage.
US10177688B2
The present invention relates to a floating offshore power generation apparatus using an ionic polymer-metal composite, including: a floating body floating on water; an ionic polymer-metal composite that is attached to the floating body and generates electricity by bending in a vertical or horizontal direction according to the flowing state of sea water; a rectification unit that converts, into a direct electric current, the electricity generated in the form of an alternating electric current in the ion polymeric metal composite; and a load unit that is connected to the rectification unit and supplies or stores the produced electricity. According to the present invention, ionic polymer-metal composites having hydrophilicity are attached to one floating body instead of complicated mechanical parts vulnerable to the offshore environment, thereby facilitating maintenance and increasing power generation efficiency per unit area.
US10177683B2
A multi-level inverter includes a direct current input, a first bidirectional switch, a second bidirectional switch, a third capacitor, and an inverter. The direct current input includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected in series between positive and negative terminals of the direct current input power supply. The inverter includes a first switching tube, a second switching tube, a third switching tube, and a fourth switching tube that are connected in series co-directionally between the positive and negative terminals of the direct current input power supply. One terminal of the first bidirectional switch is connected to a connection point between the third switching tube and the fourth switching tube.
US10177679B2
An inverter circuit, coupled to a two-level DC voltage supply and being able to form a five-level output voltage is described, together with a method for operating the inverter circuit. The inverter circuit comprises a series connection of six unidirectional power semiconductor switches, each coupled to an antiparallel diode, between the positive and negative nodes of the supplying DC voltage. The inverter circuit further comprises a series connection of two internal capacitors between the cathodes of the first and the fifth switches of the series connection, the connection point of the capacitors being coupled to the internal node of the inverter circuit. In use, the unidirectional power semiconductor switches are controlled in order to set the voltage of the output of the inverter circuit.
US10177671B2
This invention is an improvement upon the modified dual active half bridge (MDAB) DC/DC converter whereby the filter inductor is eliminated. Allowing DC bias in the transformer, the transformer's magnetizing inductance serves a secondary role of filter inductance. Due to the high currents on the low voltage side, the filter inductor is a relatively large component, often close in size to the transformer. Eliminating the filter inductor as presented here represents a significant reduction in the size and cost of the DC/DC converter, and further achieves improved efficiency of operation as losses associate with the filter inductor are also eliminated.
US10177664B2
A converter comprising a switch and a control device in “peak charge” mode for generating a command of the switch, and which comprises an error corrector between an output voltage and a reference voltage, a comparison means between a reference charge and a measured charge resulting from the time integration of the current circulating in the switch to develop the command signal, the error signal at the output of the error corrector being a reference power, the control device comprising a conversion unit comprising a divider dividing the reference power by the input voltage to obtain the reference charge.
US10177662B2
A first control device sends a common required carrier frequency, and a synchronizing signal that is synchronous with a first triangular wave, to a second control device. On satisfaction of a first condition that a carrier frequency of the first triangular wave is different from the required carrier frequency, the first control device changes the carrier frequency of the first triangular wave to value of the required carrier frequency. The second control device calculates a recognizing carrier frequency of the first triangular wave, based on the synchronizing signal. On satisfaction of second conditions that a carrier frequency of a second triangular wave is different from the recognizing carrier frequency and that the recognizing carrier frequency is equal to the required carrier frequency from the first control device, the second control device changes the carrier frequency of the second triangular wave to value of the required carrier frequency.
US10177661B2
A method comprises generating a first ramp signal and a second ramp signal for controlling a buck converter portion and a boost converter portion of a buck-boost converter respectively, comparing the first ramp signal and the second ramp signal to a control signal, controlling the buck converter portion using the comparing the first ramp signal to the control signal and the boost converter portion using the comparing the second ramp signal to the control signal, comparing a current flowing through the inductor to a current threshold and terminating a switching cycle based upon the comparing the current flowing through the inductor to the current threshold.
US10177660B1
In certain aspects, a regulator includes a variable-impedance switch coupled between a supply rail and a circuit block, wherein the variable-impedance switch has an adjustable impedance. The regulator also includes a voltage level comparator configured to compare a block voltage at the circuit block with a reference voltage, and to output a first signal indicating whether the block voltage is higher or lower than the reference voltage based on the comparison. The regulator also includes a slope detector configured to determine whether the block voltage is rising or falling, and to output a second signal indicating whether the block voltage is rising or falling based on the determination. The regulator further includes a controller configured to receive the first signal and the second signal, and to control the impedance of the variable-impedance switch based on the first signal and the second signal.
US10177658B2
Described examples include a method of controlling a power converter including executing a plurality of cycles. Each cycle includes turning on a first switch during a first period, the first switch coupled between a power supply and an output inductance; turning on a second switch during a second period, the second switch coupled between an output inductance and ground; turning on a third switch at a first time during the second period, the third switch coupled between the power supply and an auxiliary inductance; and turning on a fourth switch on at a third time after the second time, the fourth switch coupled the auxiliary inductance and ground. The second period ends at a third time period after the first time based on a later of an overlap time and a current through a switch connected to the second switch current handling terminal exceeding a threshold current.
US10177641B2
A stator assembly for an electric motor includes a drive plate, a first magnetic core and a second magnetic core. A first core slot is formed in the first magnetic core and a second slot is formed in the second magnetic core. The first and second magnetic cores each include two elongated members joined at one end by a base member which are defined by the respective core slots. The two elongated members extend from the base member substantially parallel to each other toward the drive plate. A stator coil is wound through the first core slot and the second core slot. An electrical current flowing in the stator coil generates a magnetic field about the stator coil that is absorbed by the first magnetic core and the second magnetic core to generate a magnetic flux in each of the magnetic cores that magnetically attracts the drive plate.
US10177640B2
A stator device for a linear motor comprises an electrically energizable magnetic field generator for forming a magnetic field, the magnetic field generator comprising a stator tooth and a coil wound around the stator tooth and a holding module for holding the magnetic field generator, the holding module having a first and a second holding device, wherein the magnetic field generator is arranged between the two holding devices in that a first end of the stator tooth is fixed to the first holding device and a second end of the stator tooth is fixed to the second holding device.
US10177638B2
A rotor position encoder (01) for an electronically commutated electric machine (02) having a stator and a rotor (03) and including a rotor position sensor (05) which is mounted on the stator so as to rotate therewith and has the purpose of detecting the rotational position of the rotor (03) with respect to the magnetic field of the stator, and a signal encoder (07) which is mounted on the rotor (03) so as to rotate therewith. The rotor position encoder is defined in that it has a reference encoder (08) for detecting reference values of the magnetic flux density of the rotor field, wherein the reference values (09) serve to determine an angular offset (11) between the signal encoder (07) and the position of the rotor (03). Furthermore, a method for determining an angular offset (11) between a signal encoder (07) of a rotor position encoder (01) and a rotor position of an electronically commutated electric machine (02) is provided.
US10177637B2
In a permanent magnet motor, projections each include a second projecting portion and a first projecting portion separated away from a side surface of a permanent magnet. When the first projecting portion has a total length L1 in an axial line direction and a height t1, and when the second projecting portion has a total length L2 in the axial line direction and a height t2, (L1×t1)>(L2×t2) is satisfied. As a result, the permanent magnet motor capable of reducing vibration noise of the motor by reducing irregular rotation, reducing decrease in motor torque, and further reducing increase in motor physical size can be obtained.
US10177633B2
The subject matter described herein includes a multiphase fractional slot concentrated winding machine. One such machine includes a machine module including a rotor and a stator. The stator includes a plurality of radially extending teeth. Each tooth is individually wound with a coil. The machine further includes a multiphase series converter circuit physically connected to an end of the machine module to energize the coils for multiphase operation.
US10177625B2
A motor includes a rotating portion. The rotating portion includes a shaft, a rotor hub, and a flywheel. The rotor hub is arranged to extend in an annular shape around the shaft. The flywheel is arranged axially above the rotor hub. The rotor hub includes a joining portion fixed to an outer circumferential surface of the shaft. A center of gravity of the rotating portion and the joining portion of the rotor hub are arranged to radially overlap with each other. The center of gravity of the rotating portion is arranged axially above a radial bearing portion and at a level equivalent to the level of the joining portion.
US10177624B2
An electric machine includes a first circuit through which a first working fluid can flow and a second circuit through which a second working fluid can flow. The first circuit and the second circuit are formed hermetically. In order to cool the electric machine particularly well, the first circuit and the second circuit have a common heat exchanger surface which is constructed in such a way that thermal energy from the first working fluid of the first circuit can be transmitted to the second working fluid of the second circuit or vice versa from the second working fluid to the first working fluid by way of the heat exchanger surface. A method for cooling an electric machine and a motor vehicle having an electric machine are also provided.
US10177623B2
A first brush holder is assembled to a core-side connection plate by inserting a slit insertion portion into a slit from an outer circumferential side of the core-side connection plate, and a radial outside position of the first brush holder to the core-side connection plate is regulated by both sides in a circumferential direction of a first slit being inserted into a pair of guiding grooves. A radial outside position of the brush holder is regulated by being fixed to a counter-core-side connection plate by press-fitting a convex portion provided on a counter-core-side of the first brush holder into a second slit of a counter-core-side connection plate. A second brush holder is assembled to the counter-core-side connection plate from an outer circumferential side of the counter-core-side connection plate, and a radial outside position is regulated by the core-side connection plate.
US10177620B2
In some embodiments, a system includes a machine segment that includes multiple coils. Each coil is electrically isolated from the other coils in the machine segment, and each coil is electrically coupled to at least one electrical terminal to provide electrical access to the coil. Each electrical terminal provides electrical access to the coil to which it is electrically coupled such that the coil can be removably electrically coupled to an electrical circuit. The machine segment is also configured to be removably mechanically coupled to a second machine segment to form at least a portion of a stator or a portion of a rotor.
US10177603B2
A power-supply-side and the power-receiving-side units include power-supply-side and power-receiving-side coils each of which supplies or receives power in a non-contact manner; and a ceramic capacitor provided with an electrode being housed inside power-supply-side and power-receiving-side cases. The ceramic capacitor is arranged such that the electrode is non-perpendicular to each center axis direction of the power-supply-side and power-receiving-side coils.
US10177601B2
Systems and methods for power distribution allocation are provided. A system may establish a first wireless connection between the system and a first mobile device. The system may receive a first power request from the first mobile device, the first power request associated with a first minimum energy charge of the first mobile device, and may determine an available charging capacity of the charging system. The system may determine a first energy charge to provide wirelessly to the first mobile device, and may establish a second wireless connection with a second mobile device. The system may receive a second power request from the second mobile device, and may receive a first charge indicator from the first mobile device associated with a present charging status of the first mobile device. The system may determine a second energy charge to provide wirelessly to the second mobile device.
US10177600B2
A transmitting coil module for wirelessly transmitting power, the transmitting coil module including at least one transmission coil having a hollow portion in a center area thereof; a shield disposed below the at least one transmission coil; and a metal sheet disposed below the shield. Further, the shield includes at least one functional hole in a region corresponding to the hollow portion of the at least one transmission coil.
US10177588B2
A charging circuit for providing a charging current to a battery includes a power delivery unit and a capacitive power conversion circuit. The power delivery unit converts an input power to a DC output voltage and current, and regulates the DC output current to a predetermined output current level. The capacitive power conversion circuit includes a conversion switch circuit including plural conversion switches coupled to one or more capacitors, and a conversion control circuit which operates the plural conversion switches in plural conversion periods to connect the one or more capacitors between a pair of nodes selected from plural voltage division nodes, the DC output voltage, and a ground node periodically, so that the level of the charging current is scaled-up of the predetermined output current level.
US10177586B2
An electric energy storage apparatus according to an embodiment may include a grid configured to supply first electric energy; a generator configured to supply second electric energy; and an electric energy storage apparatus configured to receive and store at least one of the first electric energy and the second electric energy, and supply the stored electric energy or the received electric energy to an electric load, wherein the electric energy storage apparatus senses a magnitude of electric energy discharged to the grid in an operation mode of supplying the stored electric energy to the electric load, and changes the operation mode when the sensed magnitude of electric energy exceeds a preset first threshold value.
US10177583B2
An apparatus is disclosed that includes a battery-powered wireless switch and a switch dock. The switch includes a microcontroller, a short range wireless transmitter, and one or more tactile control buttons. Additionally, the switch includes one or more docking prongs. Each docking prong is contained within a groove in a switch back, with pivot pins through one end of each docking prong perpendicular to a prong longitudinal axis and parallel to the switch back. The switch also includes flexible strips coupled to the same end of each docking prong as the pivot pins, and a prong extender button coupled to the flexible strips. The dock includes one or more docking prong slots, where the number of slots matches the number of prongs. The prongs fit in the slots to mount the switch to the dock.
US10177577B2
According to one embodiment, a storage battery device includes a battery group, a charge-and-discharge control FET unit, and a drive controller. The battery group includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series. The charge-and-discharge control FET unit is connected to a low potential side of the battery group and includes at least a pair of N-channel MOSFETs source terminals of which are back-to-back connected. The drive controller outputs a drive control signal to a gate terminal of the respective N-channel MOSFETs included in the charge-and-discharge control FET unit. The drive control signal is generated based on a potential level of the source terminals.
US10177570B2
A voltage supply device for an aircraft control device having a first and a second main channel arrangement for redundancy and reliability, wherein the voltage supply device has a first and a second output transformer, wherein a first output inductor of the first main channel arrangement is designed as a primary winding of the first output transformer, and the second output inductor of the second main channel arrangement is designed as a primary winding of the second output transformer; and wherein the voltage supply device has at least a first secondary channel arrangement, wherein the first secondary channel arrangement has a first secondary voltage output and a first secondary winding of the first output transformer and a first secondary winding of the second output transformer, wherein the first secondary voltage output is connected to the first secondary windings which are connected in parallel.
US10177561B2
A selective protection circuit includes a current-limiting module and a control module, where the current-limiting module includes a switch unit, and the switch unit includes a first end, a second end, and a control end; the first end is connected to a positive electrode of a bus voltage of an HVDC power supply, and the second end is connected to a positive electrode of a power supply of a voltage pre-regulator circuit in a load branch connected to the current-limiting module; the control end is connected to the control module; and the control module is configured to output a control signal to the control end when a value of a total current flowing through the switch unit is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, so as to switch off the switch unit.
US10177558B1
A buck switching regulator includes: a power stage, which includes: an upper-gate switch, a lower-gate switch and an inductor, connected with one another at a switching node; and a supply control switch, controlling the power supply form an output terminal to a load. An overvoltage protection method includes the following steps: (A) sensing a voltage of the switching node, to obtain a switching node voltage; (B) determining whether an overvoltage event occurs in the switching node voltage; and (C) if it is determined yes in the step (B), outputting a protection signal. An overvoltage event is determined directly according to the switching node voltage, not directly according to the output voltage.
US10177539B2
Methods of making an insulator for a condition sensing spark plug and tooling that can be used to perform the various methods, the tooling and methods involving machining one or more channels in the insulator body. The machined channels can be used to accommodate one or more wires from a sensing, display, or processing device. In one particular example, the wires are thermocouple wires used to sense temperature in an internal combustion engine while the spark plug is in use. The methods and tooling may result in channels that are formed more precisely, economically, and efficiently.
US10177538B2
An ignition device for a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine includes a first electrode and a second electrode, which is movable with the aid of an actuator. The ignition device is configured to generate a first ignition spark when a contact between the first and second electrode is interrupted. To accomplish this, the second electrode is moved away from the first electrode. A third electrode is also provided, which is spaced apart from the first electrode. With the aid of the third electrode, a second ignition spark can be generated by moving the second electrode away from the other two electrodes. With the three electrodes, the ignition unit is configured to allow the two ignition sparks to pass through a volume formed between the electrodes in the direction transverse to the longitudinal extension of the ignition sparks in the course of the movement of the second electrode.
US10177536B2
An angular gasket for a spark plug used for mounting a spark plug to a wall of a combustion engine. The gasket provided with a first section with predetermined thickness, having a plurality of concave portions provided as grooves intermittently disposed along a circumferential direction on a first surface being a wall section of the gasket, at an inner circumferential edge thereof. The gasket further provided with convex portions on a section of the inner radial side, with respect to the concave portions projecting toward the inner radial side thereof, at the inner circumferential edge, and a second section being thinner than the a thickest part of the gasket, and greater in thickness than the first section, disposed between the plurality of concave portions of the inner circumferential edge surface.
US10177529B2
An optical module with a semiconductor element, which integrates a semiconductor laser diode with an electro-absorption modulator, mounted on a carrier; and an optical transmitter apparatus implementing the optical modules are disclosed. The carrier of the optical module has a back metal connected to the ground on the top thereof through a metal provided in a side surface of the carrier but electrically isolated from the chassis ground of the optical transmitter apparatus. The optical transmitter apparatus installs a plurality of the optical modules on a thermos-electric cooler (TEC) in a top plate thereof. The top plate is electrically isolated from the chassis ground.
US10177527B2
A VCSEL array having a plurality of VCSELs, each having more than two modes, and the optical emission from each of the VCSELs overlaps in a far field of the VCSELs. A VCSEL array having a plurality of VCSELs, each having an aperture size of at least about 6 μm, and the optical emission from each of the VCSELs overlaps in a far field of the VCSELs. A VCSEL array having a plurality of VCSELs, wherein the spectral width of each VCSEL is at least about 0.5 nm, and the optical emission from each of the VCSELs overlaps in a far field of the VCSELs.
US10177524B2
An intra-cavity frequency-tripled OPS laser has a laser-resonator including two optically nonlinear crystals arranged for type-I frequency conversion. One of the crystals generates horizontally polarized second-harmonic radiation from vertically plane-polarized fundamental-wavelength radiation circulating in the laser-resonator. A birefringent filter is located between the optically nonlinear crystals. The birefringent filter selects the fundamental-wavelength, establishes the vertical polarization-orientation, and selectively rotates the polarization-orientation of the second-harmonic radiation from horizontal to vertical. The vertically polarized fundamental and second-harmonic radiations are type-I sum-frequency mixed by the other optically nonlinear crystal.
US10177520B2
The excimer laser apparatus may include a laser chamber configured to contain gas, a pair of electrodes provided in the laser chamber, a power source unit configured to supply a pulse voltage between the pair of electrodes, a gas supply unit configured to supply gas into the laser chamber, a gas exhaust unit configured to partially exhaust gas from within the laser chamber, and a gas control unit configured to control the gas supply unit and the gas exhaust unit, where a replacement ratio of gas to be replaced from within the laser chamber increases as deterioration of the pair of electrodes progresses, the deterioration being represented by a deterioration parameter of the pair of electrodes.
US10177518B2
A universal series bus (USB) connector including a base, a first terminal set, and a second terminal set and a method of manufacturing the universal series bus connector are provided. The first terminal set includes a pair of first differential signal terminals and a pair of second differential signal terminals, and terminals of the pair of first differential signal terminals are adjacent to each other and terminals of the pair of second differential signal terminals are adjacent to each other. Two of terminals of the second terminal set are located at two opposite sides of the pair of first differential signal terminals, and another two of the terminals of the second terminal set are located at two opposite sides of the pair of second differential signal terminals.
US10177508B2
A wire management device for storing an earphone wire having a signal terminal and a pair of speakers includes an elongated frame having first and second ends, the frame having a first channel to hold a first wrapped part of the wire, first and second beaks respectively arranged at the first and second ends of the frame to stay the terminal of the wire, and first and second wings respectively branching from neighboring positions of the first and second ends the frame, the first and second wings are, respectively, bent toward the first and second ends of the frame for wrapping the wire, wherein at least one of the wings includes a clamping portion to clamp a last wrapped part of the wire.
US10177500B2
An electrical connector is provided comprising a female member configured to couple with male member. The female member includes a female receptacle having an opening, and a female electrode is at least partially disposed within the female receptacle. A resilient member is configured to enhance electrical connection between the female electrode and a male connector electrode.
US10177497B2
An improved electrical connector including a latch strike plate, a body having a base, a receiver extending from the base and configured to receive the latch strike plate, an inserter extending from the base, a first electrical connection assembly extending through the body, a second electrical connection assembly extending through the body, an electrical linkage cable assembly connected to the base, the first electrical connection assembly, and the second electrical connection assembly, a latching mechanism partially positioned in the base and the inserter and partially extending from the base and the inserter, and a securing assembly extending in and from the base.
US10177490B2
A preferred embodiment of a magnetic connecting apparatus for connecting two units has at least one first connecting element associated with a first one of the two units and at least one second connecting element associated with a second one of the two units, the connecting elements forming a connecting pair. The connecting elements of a connecting pair each have a plurality of contacts. The connecting elements of a connecting pair make magnetic contact with one another and are rotatable relative to one another in a contacted state.
US10177488B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion; plural contacts affixed to the insulative housing and exposed to the tongue portion; a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing and having a front end; an outer cover enclosing the shielding shell and having a front protrusion, the front protrusion having a pair of side slots; and a sealer having a main body and a pair of side securing portions; wherein an annular groove is defined between the front end of the shielding shell and the front protrusion of the outer cover, the front protrusion of the outer cover having a first inclined face bordering the groove; and the sealer main body is disposed in the groove and the side securing portions engage the side slots, the sealer main body having a second inclined face opposing the first inclined face.
US10177478B2
A board terminal 1 includes a base material 11 made of a metal material and a plating film 12 covering a surface of the base material 11. The plating film 12 includes an outermost layer 120 having a Sn mother phase 120a and Sn—Pd-based alloy phases 120b dispersed in the Sn mother phase 120a, the Sn mother phase 120a and the Sn—Pd-based alloy phases 120b being present on an outer surface. A Pd content in the outermost layer 120 is not more than 7 atomic %. A board connector 2 includes the board terminal 1 and a housing 20 for holding the board terminal 1.
US10177470B2
An electrical connection terminal between two conductive elements includes at least one tightening screw, including a head and a thread, a stirrup, mounted around each screw, between the head and the thread of the screw, and a connector for each screw. Each connector includes a first stage, delimiting a tapping for receiving the tightening screw, and a second stage, arranged between the first stage and the stirrup and including a hole for passage of the screw, aligned with the tapping, the first stage being mobile relative to the second stage parallel to an axis of the screw. The terminal also includes a recess for receiving a first conductive element between the two stages of the connector, and a recess for receiving a second conductive element between the stirrup and the connector.
US10177465B2
An electrically conductive material with which excellent conduction reliability can be achieved for an oxide layer. The electrically conductive material contains electrically conductive particles including resin core particles, a plurality of electrically insulating particles being disposed on the surface of the resin core particles and forming protrusions, and an electrically conductive layer being disposed on the surface of the resin core particles and the electrically insulating particles, a Mohs' hardness of the electrically insulating particles being greater than 7. As a result, the electrically conductive particles pierce and sufficiently penetrate the oxide layer of the electrode surface so that excellent conduction reliability can be achieved.
US10177464B2
Antenna systems and methods providing dual polarization are provided. The system includes one or more antenna elements, with each antenna element having feed points on adjacent sides. A first of the feed points is associated with a first one of a transmitted or received signal, while a second one of the feed points is associated with a second one of a transmitted or received signal. The sides of the rectangular driven element can feature different lengths, to provide transmit and receive bands that are separated from one another in frequency. A polarizer is disposed between the antenna elements and free space. Linearly polarized signals from the antenna elements are transformed into circularly polarized signals by the polarizer. Circularly polarized signals received at the antenna system are transformed into linearly polarized signals before they are passed to the antenna elements. An antenna system as disclosed herein can include a plurality of antenna elements arranged in an array.
US10177447B2
Methods and devices useful in radio frequency (RF) signal transmission are provided. By way of example, a wireless electronic device may include a transceiver, and an enclosure in which the transceiver is disposed. The enclosure may include an RF transparent layer and an RF opaque coating disposed on the RF transparent layer, where the RF opaque coating includes a pattern formed therein to enable RF signals to pass therethrough.
US10177446B2
There is provided an antenna apparatus including: a magnetic sheet; a first antenna provided on one face of the magnetic sheet and used for communication; and a second antenna provided on the other face opposite to the one face of the magnetic sheet and used for wireless power transmission.
US10177438B2
A multi-band radiating array includes a planar reflector, first radiating elements defining a first column on the planar reflector, second radiating elements defining a second column on the planar reflector alongside the first column, and third radiating elements interspersed between the second radiating elements in the second column. The first radiating elements have a first operating frequency range, the second radiating elements have a second operating frequency range that is lower than the first operating frequency range, and the third radiating elements have a third, narrowband operating frequency range that is higher than the second operating frequency range but lower than the first operating frequency range. Respective capacitors are coupled between elongated arm segments and an elongated stalk of the third radiating elements, and a common mode resonance of the third radiating elements is present in a lower frequency range than the second operating frequency range.
US10177437B2
One embodiment provides a device, including: an antenna; a main memory storing code; a processor operatively coupled to the antenna and which executes the code stored in the main memory, wherein the code stored in the main memory includes code which is executed to communicate via the antenna; and a device cover that includes a material having a pattern of conductive fibers and non-conductive fibers; the material including an antenna area; wherein the pattern in the antenna area includes more non-conductive fibers than conductive fibers. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10177420B2
A charger circuit for providing a charging power to a battery includes a power delivery unit and a power conversion circuit. The power conversion circuit includes at least one conversion switch coupled to an inductor, a front stage switch conducting a DC power generated by the power delivery unit to generate a mid-stage power, and a direct charging switch. In a switching charging mode, the conversion switch converts the mid-stage power to the charging current onto a charging node. In a direct charging mode, the power delivery unit regulates the DC current, and the front stage switch and the direct charging switch conduct the DC current onto the charging node. The body diodes of the front stage switch and the direct charging switch are reversely coupled, and the body diodes of the front stage switch and the conversion switch are reversely coupled, for blocking the parasitic body current.
US10177418B2
A secondary battery structure includes a first electrode structure including a plurality of first electrode elements spaced apart from each other and disposed in a form of an array, a second electrode structure spaced apart from the first electrode structure and including a second electrode element, and an electrolyte which allows ions to move between the first electrode structure and second electrode structure, where the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure define a cathode and an anode, and the number of the first electrode elements and the number of the second electrode element are different from each other.
US10177417B2
A battery including an anode including iron sulphide as active material, with the sulphur content being at least 5 wt. % of the total of iron and sulphur, a cathode, and an alkaline electrolyte including an alkaline component dissolved in water, with the anode including less than 50 wt. % of other active materials than iron sulphide. Preferably, the sulphur content of the anode is more than 10 wt. % of sulphur, calculated in the total of iron and sulphur and 70 wt. % or less.The use of iron sulphide in the anode provides a rechargeable electrical energy storage system which is low-cost, easy to produce, and environmental friendly, and which shows a long lifetime and has excellent electrochemical properties like high power density and good cycling efficiency. The battery according to the invention also shows superior charge/discharge behavior as compared to e.g. lead-acid and nickel-iron batteries.
US10177415B2
Provided is an adhesive composition for an electrochemical device capable of forming an adhesive layer that has excellent adhesiveness in electrolysis solution and can improve electrical characteristics of an electrochemical device. The adhesive composition can be used for adhering an electrode assembly and a casing to one another. The adhesive composition contains organic particles having a core-shell structure including a core portion and a shell portion that partially covers an outer surface of the core portion. A polymer of the core portion has a degree of swelling in electrolysis solution of at least a factor of 5 and no greater than a factor of 30, whereas a polymer of the shell portion has a degree of swelling in electrolysis solution of greater than a factor of 1 and no greater than a factor of 4.
US10177414B2
A nonaqueous electrolytic solution, containing an electrolyte, a nonaqueous solvent, an aromatic carboxylate ester and a compound is provided. The compound is fluorine-containing cyclic carbonates, sulfur-containing organic compounds, phosphonate esters, cyano group-containing organic compounds, isocyanate group-containing organic compounds, silicon-containing compounds, aromatic compounds, cyclic compounds having a plurality of ether bonds, monofluorophosphate salts, difluorophosphate salts, borate salts, oxalate salts or fluorosulfonate salts.
US10177408B2
The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery 10 according to the present invention is provided with an electrode body 50 including a positive electrode 64 that contains a positive electrode active material and a negative electrode 84 that contains a negative electrode active material, a non-aqueous electrolyte, and a battery case 15 that houses the electrode body and the non-aqueous electrolyte. The non-aqueous electrolyte contains a complex, which contains copper (I) chloride as a constituent component and which is capable of adsorbing at least carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, and a coating film that contains at least one of phosphorus and boron is formed on the surface of the negative electrode active material.
US10177398B2
Provided are methods and computer programs for predicting lithium battery properties. One method includes operations for selecting candidate structures for the battery, and for obtaining a plurality of delithiated structures of the candidate structures with different lithium concentrations. The quantum mechanical (QM) energies of the delithiated structures are calculated, and a functional form is developed to obtain the voltage of the lithium battery. The functional form is a function of the lithium concentration and is based on the QM energies of the delithiated structures. Further, the capacity of the lithium battery is calculated based on a selected lithium concentration, where the functional form returns a cut-off voltage of the lithium battery when the lithium concentration is equal to the selected lithium concentration.
US10177392B2
A fuel cell assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a first fuel cell stack in series with a variable resistor and a second fuel cell stack in parallel with the first fuel cell stack and in series with a contactor. A resistance level of the variable resistor is adjusted in response to deactivating the contactor.
US10177388B2
Provided are a cathode substrate, a high capacity all-solid-state battery, and a method for manufacturing the same. The cathode substrate includes a base in a mesh form and a cathode formed on the base, wherein the cathode is configured to overlap the base. The present invention may resolve a conventional problem of deterioration in battery efficiency, which has been caused by a long distance between an electrode and a cathode, and may produce a high capacity all-solid-state battery while suppressing or preventing an increase in the thickness of the cathode.
US10177377B2
A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery is a secondary particle formed of an assembly of primary particles of a nickel-based compound. The positive active material has an average particle diameter ranging from 5.5 μm to 7.5 μm and a specific surface area ranging from 0.40 m2/g to 2.0 m2/g. When the positive active material has an average particle diameter ranging from 11 μm to 13 μm, the positive active material has a specific surface area ranging from 0.15 m2/g to 1.0 m2/g. A rechargeable lithium battery includes the positive active material.
US10177376B2
Disclosed are a cathode active material including a lithium transition metal oxide based on at least one transition metal selected from the group consisting of Ni, Mn and Co, wherein at least one hetero element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Co, Al, Cu, Fe, Mg, B, Cr, Bi, Zn and Zr is located at a surface portion of or inside the lithium transition metal oxide, and a secondary battery including the same. The cathode active material according to the present invention includes predetermined hetero elements at a surface thereof and therein, and, as such, a secondary battery based on the cathode active material may exhibit excellent high-speed charge characteristics and lifespan characteristics.
US10177369B2
A process and apparatus for continuously mixing and applying paste to battery grids for use in lead-acid battery systems, in which particulate lead oxide, water and sulphuric acid are reacted in an elongated mixer having a mixing to conveying ratio of about 65:35 to 80:20 with controlled reaction temperature for an exit product temperature in the range of above 60° C. to about 80° C. Additives including reinforcing fibers can be added in an amount up to 0.6 wt % of the lead oxide and carbon and graphite powder can be added in an amount up to 6 wt % of the lead oxide.
US10177364B2
A battery module includes a terminal block assembly having an electrical assembly and a plastic base. The electrical assembly includes a terminal post and a bus bar coupled with the terminal post. A portion of the electrical assembly is overmolded by the plastic base, and the portion includes at least part of a terminal post base that extends outward from a central axis of a post portion of the terminal post. The battery module also includes a plastic housing having a receptacle configured to receive the plastic base of the terminal block assembly.
US10177358B2
A method for film production includes the steps of obtaining information on the position of a defect (D) in a separator (12a) and providing marks (LA, LB) at the respective positions in the vicinity of the defect (D), the marks indicating the position of the defect.
US10177353B2
A rechargeable battery module is disclosed. In one aspect, the battery module includes a plurality of unit cells including first and second outermost unit cells disposed at first and second opposing ends of the unit cells arranged in a first direction, wherein the unit cells have top and bottom surfaces opposing each other. The battery module also includes a bus bar holder covering the top surface of the unit cells, a bus bar disposed at the bus bar holder to electrically connect the unit cells and a pair of end plates respectively supporting the first and second outermost unit cells. The battery module further includes a pair of side plates disposed at third and fourth opposing ends of the unit cells arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein the side plates are connected to the end plates and the bus bar holder.
US10177347B2
In a substrate bonding step of bonding an element original substrate to a counter original substrate through an intermediate layer so that a thin film element layer and a terminal group formed in the element original substrate face a second resin substrate layer formed in the counter original substrate, to manufacture a substrate bonded body, a terminal portion sealing member is formed in a frame shape surrounding the terminal group between the element original substrate and the counter original substrate.
US10177335B2
An EL light-emitting element in which a lower electrode layer, an EL layer, and an upper electrode layer are stacked is formed on a substrate, and a wiring is formed on a counter substrate. Further, the substrate and the counter substrate are bonded so that the wiring is in physical contact with the upper electrode layer of the EL element. Accordingly, the wiring can serve as an auxiliary wiring for increasing conductivity of the upper electrode layer. With such an auxiliary wiring, a potential drop due to the resistance of the upper electrode layer can be suppressed even in the light-emitting device whose light-emitting portion is large.
US10177334B2
An organic light emitting device includes a first electrode, a hole transport region provided on the first electrode, an emission layer provided on the hole transport region, an electron transport region provided on the emission layer, and a second electrode provided on the electron transport region. The electron transport region includes an electron transport layer provided on the emission layer, a first mixed electron transport layer provided on the electron transport layer, and a second mixed electron transport layer provided on the first mixed electron transport layer. The first mixed electron transport layer includes a first electron transport compound and a second electron transport compound different from the first electron transport compound mixed at a first ratio. The second mixed electron transport layer includes the first electron transport compound and the second electron transport compound mixed at a second ratio different from the first ratio.
US10177333B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an organic light-emitting display panel and an organic light-emitting display device. The organic light-emitting display panel includes: a substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode that are stacked, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are both located on the same side of the substrate; an organic light-emitting layer, which is located between the first electrode and the second electrode; an electron transport layer, which is located between the organic light-emitting layer and the second electrode; wherein, a rare earth transitional metal is also contained at any location between the surface of the second electrode away from the organic light-emitting layer and the surface of the electron transport layer near to the organic light-emitting layer.
US10177331B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an organic light-emitting diode (1) comprising the following steps: providing a carrier (3) for the organic light-emitting diode (1), applying a solution (S) comprising a plurality of different emitter materials (E) to the carrier (1), wherein said emitter materials (E) are each formed by a certain type of organic molecule and have electrical charges that differ from each other, applying an electrical field (F), so that the solution is located in the electrical field (F), and drying the solution (S) into a plurality of emitter layers (20) in an organic layer stack (2), while the electrical field is applied, so that the emitter materials (E) are accommodated separately from each other, each in a certain emitter layer (20) of the organic stack (2).
US10177319B2
The present application relates to a polycyclic compound including nitrogen and an organic light emitting device including the same.
US10177315B2
Provided is an arylsulfonic acid compound characterized by being represented by formula (1). [In the formula, Ar1 represents a group represented by formula (2) (in formula (2), R1 to R5 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, cyano group, nitro group, methyl group, or trifluoromethyl group; however, at least one of R1 to R5 represents a halogen atom) and Ar2 represents a group represented by formula (3) or (4).]
US10177293B2
An optoelectronic component includes a first lead frame section and a second lead frame section spaced apart from one another, and having an optoelectronic semiconductor chip arranged on the first lead frame section and the second lead frame section, wherein the first lead frame section and the second lead frame section respectively have an upper side, a lower side and a first side flank extending between the upper side and the lower side, a first lateral solder contact surface of the optoelectronic component is formed on the first side flank of the first lead frame section, and the first lateral solder contact surface is formed by a recess arranged on the first side flank of the first lead frame section and extends from the upper side to the lower side of the first lead frame section.
US10177292B2
A light emitting device may comprise a wing portion of an electrode exposed from the resin housing. The wing portion may be made by a single or multiple stamp cutting process. To increase the connecting region between the electrode and solder, the outer side surface of the wing portion is an uneven surface. The device may further comprise a protective plating layer and an external protective plating layer. The protective plating layer may be coated on the top surface, bottom surface and a portion of the side surface of the electrode. The external portative plating layer would be coated on the outer surface of the wing region. The light reflection of the device from top surface of the electrode portion can be maintained and the outer side surface of wing portion can be protected for improving the reliability of connection between light emitting device and outer substrate.
US10177291B2
Disclosed are a lens for a light-emitting device usable in a display apparatus or a lighting apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a light-emitting device package. The lens may include a lens body including a light-receiving portion provided in a lower surface of the lens body, a light-emitting portion provided on an upper surface of the lens body, and a recess provided at a center of the upper surface of the lens body, and a flat portion provided in a horizontal shape on a bottom surface of the recess perpendicularly to a main emission line of light emitted from a light-emitting device to emit at least a part of light received through the light-receiving portion, upward. A diameter of the flat portion may be 1/100 to 1/10 of an inlet diameter of the light-receiving portion.
US10177290B2
This disclosure discloses a light-emitting device includes a semiconductor stack, an electrode, an electrode post, a reflective insulating layer, an extending electrode, and a supporting structure. The electrode is disposed on a lower surface of the semiconductor stack, and electrically connected to the semiconductor stack. The electrode post is disposed on the electrode. The reflective insulating layer surrounds the electrode post, and has a bottom surface which is coplanar with the electrode post. The extending electrode is disposed on an upper surface of the semiconductor stack. The supporting structure is located on the extending electrode.
US10177285B2
A method of producing a housing cover includes providing a cover blank having a mounting surface formed on an underside; connecting the underside of the cover blank to a silicon slice; creating at least one opening in the silicon slice to expose at least part of the mounting surface; arranging a base metallization on the exposed part of the mounting surface; and removing the silicon slice.
US10177281B2
A light emitting diode includes a substrate, a lower semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, a light emitting unit comprising a first upper semiconductor layer disposed in one region of the lower semiconductor layer and an active layer interposed between the lower semiconductor layer and the first upper semiconductor layer, a second current spreading portion comprising a third upper semiconductor layer disposed in another region of the lower semiconductor layer and an active layer interposed between the lower semiconductor layer and the third upper semiconductor layer, a first electrode disposed on the light emitting cell and electrically connected to the first upper semiconductor layer, and a second electrode separated from the light emitting cell and electrically connected to the lower semiconductor layer.
US10177275B2
An epitaxial structure and a method for making the same are provided. The epitaxial structure includes a substrate, an epitaxial layer and a carbon nanotube layer. The epitaxial layer is located on the substrate. The carbon nanotube layer is located in the epitaxial layer. The method includes following steps. A substrate having an epitaxial growth surface is provided. A carbon nanotube layer is suspended above the epitaxial growth surface. An epitaxial layer is epitaxially grown from the epitaxial growth surface to enclose the carbon nanotube layer therein.
US10177270B2
A solar cell can include a substrate and a semiconductor region disposed in or above the substrate. The solar cell can also include a conductive contact disposed on the semiconductor region with the conductive contact including a conductive foil bonded to the semiconductor region.
US10177253B2
A semiconductor device capable of adjusting profiles of a gate electrode and a gate spacer by implanting or doping an element semiconductor material into an interlayer insulating layer may be provided. The semiconductor device may include a gate spacer on a substrate, the gate spacer defining a trench, a gate electrode filling the trench, and an interlayer insulating layer on the substrate, which surrounds the gate spacer, and at least a portion of which includes germanium.
US10177252B2
A device includes a semiconductor substrate, a doped isolation barrier disposed in the semiconductor substrate, a body region disposed in the semiconductor substrate within the doped isolation barrier and in which a channel is formed during operation, an isolation contact disposed at the semiconductor substrate and to which a voltage is applied during operation, and a plurality of reduced surface field (RESURF) layers disposed in the semiconductor substrate, the plurality of reduced surface field (RESURF) layers being arranged in a stack between the body region and the isolation contact.
US10177247B2
A precursor cell for a transistor having a foundation structure, a mask structure, and a gallium nitride (GaN) PN structure is provided. The mask structure is provided over the foundation structure to expose a first area of a top surface of the foundation structure. The GaN PN structure resides over the first area and at least a portion of the mask structure and has a continuous crystalline structure with no internal regrowth interfaces. The GaN PN structure comprises a drift region over the first area, a control region laterally adjacent the drift region, and a PN junction formed between the drift region and the control region. Since the drift region and the control region form the PN junction having no internal regrowth interfaces, the GaN PN structure has a continuous crystalline structure with reduced regrowth related defects at the interface of the drift region and the control region.
US10177240B2
A technique relates to forming a semiconductor device. A starting semiconductor device having a fin structure patterned in a substrate, and a gate formed over the fin structure, the gate having a mid-region and an end-region is first provided. A trench is then patterned over the mid-region of the gate and a trench is patterned over the end-region of the gate. The patterned trenches are then etched over the mid-region of the gate and the end-region of the gate to form the trenches. A conformal low-k dielectric layer can then be deposited over the structure to fill the trenches and pinch off the trench formed in the mid-region and the trench formed in the end-region.
US10177232B2
A Schottky device includes a plurality of mesa structures where one or more of the mesa structures includes a doped region having a multi-concentration dopant profile. In accordance with an embodiment, the Schottky device is formed from a semiconductor material of a first conductivity type. Trenches having sidewalls and floors are formed in the semiconductor material to form a plurality of mesa structures. A doped region having a multi-concentration impurity profile is formed between two trenches, where the impurity materials of the doped region having the multi-concentration impurity profile are of a second conductivity type. A Schottky contact is formed to at least one of the mesa structures having the doped region with the multi-concentration impurity profile.
US10177221B2
This invention discloses a method for manufacturing a semiconductor power device in a semiconductor substrate comprises an active cell area and a termination area. The method comprises the steps of a) growing and patterning a field oxide layer in the termination area and also in the active cell area on a top surface of the semiconductor substrate b) depositing and patterning a polysilicon layer on the top surface of the semiconductor substrate at a gap distance away from the field oxide layer; c) performing a blank body dopant implant to form body dopant regions in the semiconductor substrate substantially aligned with the gap area followed by diffusing the body dopant regions into body regions in the semiconductor substrate; d) implanting high concentration body-dopant regions encompassed in and having a higher dopant concentration than the body regions and e) applying a source mask to implant source regions having a conductivity opposite to the body region with the source regions encompassed in the body regions and surrounded by the high concentration body-dopant regions.
US10177214B2
An integrated circuit with a metal thin film resistor with an overlying etch stop layer. A process for forming a metal thin film resistor in an integrated circuit with the addition of one lithography step.
US10177212B2
Disclosed herein is an electroluminescent display device capable of improving reliability of a contact portion between low-potential supply line and a cathode electrode of an organic light emitting diode. The electroluminescent display device includes a low potential voltage supply line disposed on a display panel to supply a low potential voltage to the display panel; a cathode electrode overlapped with the low potential voltage supply line and having at least one contact portion; and an auxiliary cathode electrode overlapped with the low potential voltage supply line and the cathode electrode to connect the low potential voltage supply line to the cathode electrode, wherein a bank layer is disposed between the cathode electrode and the auxiliary cathode electrode to cover a rim of the auxiliary cathode electrode, or the cathode electrode covers a rim of the auxiliary cathode electrode and an inorganic insulation layer.
US10177201B2
A device that may be used as a multi-color pixel is provided. The device has a first organic light emitting device, a second organic light emitting device, a third organic light emitting device, and a fourth organic light emitting device. The device may be a pixel of a display having four sub-pixels. The first device may emit red light, the second device may emit green light, the third device may emit light blue light and the fourth device may emit deep blue light.
US10177200B2
Provided is a solid-state image pickup device that makes it possible to enhance image quality, and a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic apparatus. A solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel section that includes a plurality of pixels, the pixels each including one or more organic photoelectric conversion sections, wherein the pixel section includes an effective pixel region and an optical black region, and the organic photoelectric conversion sections of the optical black region include a light-shielding film and a buffer film on a light-incidence side.
US10177197B2
A magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device is described. The magnetic junction has a free layer, a reference layer, and a nonmagnetic spacer layer between reference and free layers. The free layer is switchable between stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction. The free layer has a length in a first direction, a width in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, an exchange stiffness and an aspect ratio equal to the length divided by the width. The aspect ratio is greater than one. The exchange stiffness is not less than 2×10−6 erg/cm.
US10177196B2
Methods and apparatus for use in the manufacture of a display device including pixels. Each pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel configured to provide light of a given wavelength. The method may include: performing, using a pick up tool (PUT), a first placement cycle comprising picking up first light emitting diode (LED) dies, and placing a first LED die on a substrate of the display device at a location corresponding to a sub-pixel the display device. The method further includes performing one or more subsequent placement cycles comprising picking up a second LED die, and placing the second LED die on the substrate of the display device at a second location corresponding to the sub-pixel of the display device. Multiple first and second LED dies may be picked and placed during each placement cycle to populate each pixel of the display device to provide redundancy of LED dies at each sub-pixel.
US10177189B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes receiving a substrate and an interlayer dielectric (ILD) over the substrate; bonding the substrate and the ILD over a carrier substrate; forming a recessed portion extended through the substrate and the ILD; disposing a conductive material into the recessed portion; and removing the carrier substrate, wherein the conductive material is in contact with the ILD and is separated from the substrate.
US10177184B2
A solid-state imaging device including an imaging area where a plurality of unit pixels are disposed to capture a color image, wherein each of the unit pixels includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions; a plurality of transfer gates, each of which is disposed in each of the photoelectric conversion portions to transfer signal charges from the photoelectric conversion portion; and a floating diffusion to which the signal charges are transferred from the plurality of the photoelectric conversion portions by the plurality of the transfer gates, wherein the plurality of the photoelectric conversion portions receive light of the same color to generate the signal charges, and wherein the signal charges transferred from the plurality of the photoelectric conversion portions to the floating diffusion are added to be output as an electrical signal.
US10177183B2
An imaging sensor includes an imaging array with a plurality of pixels. A sub-set of the pixels are marker pixels configured to each provide a constant respective output value to embed an orientation and alignment marker in images produced with the imaging array. The marker pixels can be sparsely distributed across the imaging array.
US10177170B2
This display device is provided with: a circuit substrate having a display region and a non-display region; pixel-driving TFTs for driving pixels, formed in the display region and having source electrodes and drain electrodes being spaced apart from each other on an insulating film and a first active layer formed from an oxide semiconductor, provided on the opposite side from the insulating film so as to cover a separation section between a source electrode and a drain electrode and part of the source electrode and part of the drain electrode adjacent to the separation section; and a driver circuit TFT for driving the pixel-driving TFTs, formed in the non-display region and having a second active layer formed from a non-oxide semiconductor.
US10177167B2
A method for forming a hybrid complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device includes orienting a semiconductor layer of a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate with a base substrate of the SOI, exposing the base substrate in an N-well region by etching through a mask layer, a dielectric layer, the semiconductor layer and a buried dielectric to form a trench and forming spacers on sidewalls of the trench. The base substrate is epitaxially grown from a bottom of the trench to form an extended region. A fin material is epitaxially grown from the extended region within the trench. The mask layer and the dielectric layer are restored over the trench. P-type field-effect transistor (PFET) fins are etched on the base substrate, and N-type field-effect transistor (NFET) fins are etched in the semiconductor layer.
US10177164B2
A stack structure including a plurality of gate electrodes is vertically stacked on a substrate and extends in a first direction. A channel structure includes vertical channels penetrating the stack structure and a horizontal channel connecting the vertical channels. The horizontal channel are provided under the stack structure. First lower wiring patterns are disposed between the substrate and the stack structure and electrically connected to the channel structure. Each first lower wiring pattern includes a first portion and a second portion having different widths from each other in the first direction.
US10177161B2
Methods of forming microelectronic package structures, and structures formed thereby, are described. Those methods/structures may include attaching a die on a board, attaching a substrate on the die, wherein the substrate comprises a first region and a peripheral region, attaching a first memory device on the central region of the substrate, and attaching at least one additional memory device on the peripheral region of the substrate, wherein the at least one additional memory device is not disposed over the die.
US10177159B2
Some embodiments include memory cells having four transistors supported by a base, and vertically offset from the base. The four transistors are incorporated into first and second inverters having first and second inverter outputs, respectively. A first access transistor gatedly couples the first inverter output to a first comparative bitline, and second access transistor gatedly couples the second inverter output to a second comparative bitline. The first and second access transistors have first and second gates coupled to one another through a wordline. The four transistors are along a first side of the wordline, and are vertically displaced from the wordline. The first and second comparative bitlines are laterally adjacent to one another along a second side of the wordline, and are vertically displaced from the wordline. Some embodiments include memory arrays.
US10177157B2
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, at least one first elongated region of n-type or p-type, and at least one other second elongated region of the other of n-type or p-type, the first and second elongated regions crossing such that the first elongated region and the second elongated region intersect at a common area, and a shared gate structure over each common area.
US10177153B2
The fabricating method of a DRAM cell includes forming a facing bar that extends in a direction of the word line; forming a gate of the cell transistor on one side surface of the facing bar; forming a bit line plug that is electrically connected to one side of the transmission channel, which is formed on the one side surface of the facing bar; and forming the storage that is electrically connected to the other side of the transmission channel, which is formed on the horizontal surface of the semiconductor substrate. A pair of DRAM cells shares a facing bar and a bit line plug. In accordance with the present disclosure, a required layout area is significantly reduced.
US10177152B1
Some embodiments include an integrated capacitor assembly having a conductive pillar supported by a base, with the conductive pillar being included within a first electrode of a capacitor. The conductive pillar has a first upper surface. A dielectric liner is along an outer surface of the conductive pillar and has a second upper surface. A conductive liner is along the dielectric liner and is included within a second electrode of the capacitor. The conductive liner has a third upper surface. One of the first and third upper surfaces is above the other of the first and third upper surfaces. The second upper surface is at least as high above the base as said one of the first and third upper surfaces. Some embodiments include memory arrays having capacitors with pillar-type first electrodes.
US10177141B2
A preparation method for a SiGe based plasma p-i-n diode string for a sleeve antenna is provided. The preparation method includes: selecting a SiGeOI substrate with a certain crystal orientation and forming isolation regions on the SiGeOI substrate; etching the substrate to form P-type trenches and N-type trenches, depths of the P-type trenches and the N-type trenches each being smaller than a thickness of a top SiGe layer of the substrate; filling the P-type trenches and the N-type trenches and forming P-type active regions and N-type active regions in the top SiGe layer of the substrate by an ion implantation process; and forming leads on the substrate so as to obtain the heterogeneous SiGe based plasma p-i-n diode. Therefore, a high-performance heterogeneous SiGe based plasma p-i-n diode suitable for forming a solid-state plasma antenna is prepared by using a deep trench isolation technology and the ion implantation process.
US10177139B2
Micromachined ultrasonic transducers formed in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) wafers are described, as are methods of fabricating such devices. A metallization layer of a CMOS wafer may be removed by sacrificial release to create a cavity of an ultrasonic transducer. Remaining layers may form a membrane of the ultrasonic transducer.
US10177133B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes following operations. Gate structures are arranged above a first active region, a second active region and a non-active region of a substrate of a semiconductor structure. The first and second active regions are spaced apart by the non-active region. Contacts are arranged above the first and second active regions. At least one gate via is arranged above the first active region or the second active region. The at least one gate via is electrically coupled with the gate structures. At least one local interconnect is selectively arranged over the non-active region, to couple at least one of the contacts above the first active region to at least one of the contacts above the second active region.
US10177132B2
A layout pattern of a static random access memory, including a first inverter and a second inverter constituting a latch circuit. A first inner access transistor, a second inner access transistor, a first outer access transistor and a second outer access transistor are electrically connected to the latch circuit, wherein the first outer access transistor has a first gate length, the first inner access transistor has a second gate length, and the first gate length is different from the second gate length.
US10177127B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a driver circuit wafer including a plurality of driver circuits arranged in an array, a bonding metal layer formed over the driver circuit wafer, and a horizontally continuous functional device epi-structure layer formed over the bonding metal layer and covering the driver circuits.
US10177125B2
In one implementation, a semiconductor package assembly includes a first semiconductor package having a first semiconductor die and a first redistribution layer (RDL) structure coupled to the first semiconductor die. The first redistribution layer (RDL) structure includes a first conductive trace at a first layer-level, a second conductive trace at a second layer-level, and a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer and a second inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer, which is beside the first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer, wherein the second inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer is disposed between the first conductive trace and the second conductive trace, and the second inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer is zigzag shape in a cross-sectional view.
US10177121B1
A system can include a first semiconductor device, a second semiconductor device and a first semiconductor memory device. The first semiconductor device can include a first capacitor having first and second capacitor nodes that each include at least one essentially vertically formed conductive portion in a substrate. The first capacitor node can be coupled to receive a power supply potential. At least one conductive data path is coupled between the first semiconductor memory device and the second semiconductor device.
US10177117B2
In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a semiconductor package includes providing a multi-layer molded conductive structure. The multi-layer molded conductive structure includes a first conductive structure disposed on a surface of a carrier and a first encapsulant covering at least portions of the first conductive structure while other portions are exposed in the first encapsulant. A second conductive structure is disposed on the first encapsulant and electrically connected to the first conductive structure. A second encapsulant covers a first portion of the second conductive structure while a second portion of the second conductive structure is exposed to the outside, and a third portion of the second conductive structure is exposed in a receiving space disposed in the second encapsulant. The method includes electrically connecting a semiconductor die to the second conductive structure and in some embodiments removing the carrier.
US10177111B2
Consistent with example embodiments, a wafer substrate undergoes processing in which a resilient material is applied to the front-side and back-side surfaces of the wafer substrate. By defining trenches in saw lanes between active device die, additional resilient material may be placed therein. In an example embodiment, after the active device die are separated into individual product devices, the resulting product device has coverage on the front-side surface, back-side surface, and the four vertical faces of the encapsulated active device die. The front-side surface has exposed contact areas so that the product device may be attached to an end user's system circuit board. Further, the resilient coating protects the encapsulated active device die from damage during assembly.
US10177100B2
A fan-out semiconductor package includes a first connection member having a through-hole, a semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole of the first connection member, the semiconductor chip including an active surface having connection pads disposed thereon and an inactive surface opposing the active surface, a passive component attached to the active surface of the semiconductor chip, an encapsulant encapsulating at least a portion of the first connection member and the inactive surface of the semiconductor chip, and a second connection member disposed on the first connection member and the active surface of the semiconductor chip, the first connection member and the second connection member each including at least one redistribution layer electrically connected to the connection pads of the semiconductor chip, and the passive component being electrically connected to the connection pads of the semiconductor chip through the redistribution layer of the second connection member.
US10177097B2
An integrated circuit (IC) structure includes a plurality of driver pins, each driver pin positioned at a driver pin level and oriented in a driver pin direction, and a plurality of layers of metal segment arrays. Each layer of metal segment arrays has a layer direction and includes two parallel metal segments oriented in the layer direction. The layer direction of a lowermost layer is perpendicular to the driver pin direction, the layer direction of each additional layer is perpendicular to the layer direction of a layer immediately below the additional layer, and each metal segment of a topmost layer is electrically connected to each driver pin of the plurality of driver pins.
US10177076B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a semiconductor device and resulting structures having an air spacer between a gate and a contact by forming a gate on a substrate and over a channel region of a semiconductor fin. A contact is formed on a doped region of the substrate such that a space between the contact and the gate defines a trench. A first dielectric layer is formed over the gate and the contact such that the first dielectric layer partially fills the trench. A second dielectric layer is formed over the first dielectric layer such that an air spacer forms in the trench between the gate and the contact.
US10177072B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate including a fastening section at one end and a connecting terminal section at an opposite end, at least one semiconductor device mounted on the package substrate, at least one heat pipe on the at least one semiconductor device, and a lid on the at least one semiconductor device and the at least one heat pipe. At least one end of the heat pipe is between the at least one semiconductor device and either the fastening section or the connecting terminal section.
US10177063B2
A method for manufacturing an element chip includes a protection film stacking step of staking a protection film to the element region, and the dividing region, the part of the exposed second damaged region and a protection film etching step of removing a part of the protection film which is stacked on the dividing region and the protection film which is stacked on the element region by exposing the substrate to second plasma and remaining the protection film for covering the part of the second damaged region. Furthermore, the method for manufacturing an element chip includes a plasma dicing step of dividing the substrate to a plurality of element chips by exposing the substrate to third plasma in a state where the second main surface is supported by a supporting member.
US10177059B2
A base-attached encapsulant for semiconductor encapsulation is used for collectively encapsulating a device-mounted surface of the semiconductor device-mounted substrate having semiconductor devices mounted thereon or a device-formed surface of a semiconductor device-formed wafer having semiconductor devices formed thereon. The base-attached encapsulant has a base and an encapsulating resin layer containing an uncured or semi-cured thermosetting resin component formed onto one of the surfaces of the base, and a linear expansion coefficient α1 of the semiconductor device to be encapsulated by the base-attached encapsulant, a linear expansion coefficient α2 of a cured product of the encapsulating resin layer, and a linear expansion coefficient α3 of the base satisfy both of the following formula (1) and (2); α1<α3<α2 (1) −2<α1+α2−2α3<2 (2) wherein the unit of the linear expansion coefficient is ppm/K. The base-attached encapsulant for semiconductor encapsulation which suppress package warpage even if a package with a large area is encapsulated.
US10177058B1
An encapsulating composition and a semiconductor package are provided. The encapsulating composition adapted to encapsulate a semiconductor die includes a photosensitive dielectric material and a polarizable compound suspended in the photosensitive dielectric material. The polarizable compound within a predetermined region of the encapsulating composition affected by an external stimulus is arranged uniformly in a thickness direction to provide a conductive path penetrating through the photosensitive dielectric material along the thickness direction. The semiconductor package includes the encapsulating composition encapsulating the semiconductor die, a first and a second redistribution layer. The first and the second redistribution layer disposed on the opposite sides of the encapsulating composition are electrically connected each other through the encapsulating composition. A manufacturing method of the semiconductor package is also provided.
US10177048B2
A system for inspecting and reviewing a sample, the system may include a chamber that is arranged to receive the sample and to maintain vacuum within the chamber during at least a scan period; an inspection unit; a review unit; and a mechanical stage for moving the sample, according to a scan pattern and during the scan period, in relation to the inspection unit and the review unit while a spatial relationship between the inspection unit and the review unit remains unchanged; wherein the inspection unit is arranged to detect, during the scan period, multiple suspected defects of the sample; and wherein the review unit is arranged to (a) receive, during the scan period, information about the multiple suspected defects; and (b) locate, during the scan period and in response to the information about the multiple suspected defects, at least one actual defect.
US10177039B2
A dual layer shallow isolation trench region for semiconductor structures including field effect transistors (FETs) and methods for making the same. The first layer of the shallow trench isolation region includes a dielectric material disposed between adjacent FETs. The second layer is an etch resistant material disposed on the dielectric material and has an increased etch resistance relative to the dielectric material. The etch resistant material overlays the shallow trench region to provide the dual layer shallow trench isolation region, which permits self-alignment of contacts to the source and/or drain of FETs.
US10177036B2
Among other things, one or semiconductor arrangements, and techniques for forming such semiconductor arrangements are provided. An etch sequence is performed to form a first etched region over a planar region of a semiconductor arrangement. The first etched region exposes a planar structure, such as an alignment mark used for alignment during semiconductor fabrication. The etch sequence forms a second etched region over a semiconductor fin region of the semiconductor arrangement. In an embodiment, the etch sequence forms a first trench, a first fin nub and a first pillar in the semiconductor fin region, where the first trench is formed in a semiconductor substrate of the semiconductor fin region. A multi-depth STI structure is formed over at least one of the first trench, the first fin nub, or the first pillar.
US10177034B2
A wafer processing method including a protective plate attaching step of attaching a protective plate to the front side of a wafer, a support member providing step of providing a support member on the back side of the wafer, a protective plate cutting step of cutting the protective plate along an area corresponding to each division line formed on the front side of the wafer, thereby exposing each division line, and a plasma etching step of performing plasma etching through the protective plate to each division line of the wafer, thereby etching each division line to divide the wafer into individual device chips.
US10177031B2
A method of forming an integrated metal line and interconnect. The method may include forming a first trench in a first ILD exposing a lower metal line, the first ILD is above a substrate, and the lower metal line is in the substrate; forming a first barrier layer in the first trench; forming an integrated metal layer (including a first metal line and a first via) on the first barrier layer; forming a first hardmask on the integrated metal layer; forming an isolation trench in the first hardmask and in the first metal line; forming a second barrier layer in the isolation trench; removing a portion of the second barrier layer from a bottom of the isolation trench exposing the first ILD; and forming a second ILD on the second barrier and in the isolation trench, where a bottom of the second ILD is in the first ILD.
US10177028B1
The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to fully aligned via structures having relaxed gapfills and methods of manufacture. The method includes: selectively depositing a capping material on a conductive material within a plurality of interconnect structures to form capped interconnect structures; depositing at least one insulator material over the capped interconnect structures; forming a fully aligned via structure through the at least one insulator material to expose the capping material; filling the fully aligned via structure with an alternative metal; and depositing a metal material on the alternative metal in the fully aligned via structure.
US10177023B2
In embodiments, manufacturing a protective cover for an electrostatic chuck comprises coating a top surface and side walls of a conductive wafer with a plasma resistant ceramic, masking an inner region of a bottom surface of the conductive wafer, coating inner region of the bottom surface with the plasma resistant ceramic, and grinding the inner region of the bottom surface to a flatness of less than approximately 300 microns. In embodiments, a protective cover is manufactured by a process comprising applying a mask to an outer perimeter of a bottom surface of a plasma resistant ceramic wafer, coating the bottom surface of the plasma resistant ceramic wafer with an electrically conductive layer, and removing the mask, wherein an inner region of the bottom surface of the plasma resistant ceramic wafer is coated with the conductive layer.
US10177016B2
A pre-screening method, manufacturing method, device and electronic apparatus of micro-LED. The method for pre-screening defect micro-LEDs comprises: obtaining a defect pattern of defect micro-LEDs on a laser-transparent substrate (S6100); and irradiating the laser-transparent substrate with laser from the laser-transparent substrate side in accordance with the defect pattern (S6200), to lift-off the defect micro-LEDs from the laser-transparent substrate.
US10177014B2
An apparatus for a substrate support heater and associated chamber components having reduced energy losses are provided. In one embodiment, a substrate support heater is provided. The substrate support heater includes a heater body having a first surface to receive a substrate and a second surface opposing the first surface, a heating element disposed in the heater body between the first surface and the second surface, and a thermal barrier disposed on the second surface of the heater body, wherein the thermal barrier comprises a first layer and a second layer disposed on the first layer.
US10177012B2
A wiring substrate includes a first insulation layer having a component mounting area and a mark formation area, an electrode pad arranged in the component mounting area and having an upper surface exposed from the first insulation layer and a side surface and a lower surface embedded in the first insulation layer, and a mark arranged in the mark formation area and formed of an insulation pattern layer having an upper surface exposed from the first insulation layer and a side surface and a lower surface embedded in the first insulation layer. A color of the first insulation layer and a color of the insulation pattern layer are different.
US10176987B2
A SiC epitaxial wafer including: a SiC epitaxial layer that is formed on a SiC substrate having an off angle, wherein the surface density of triangular defects, in which a distance from a starting point to an opposite side in a horizontal direction is equal to or greater than (a thickness of the SiC epitaxial layer/tan(x))×90% and equal to or less than (the thickness of the SiC epitaxial layer/tan(x))×110%, in the SiC epitaxial layer is in the range of 0.05 pieces/cm2 to 0.5 pieces/cm2 (where x indicates the off angle).
US10176984B2
Methods and apparatuses for selectively depositing silicon oxide on a silicon oxide surface relative to a silicon nitride surface are described herein. Methods involve pre-treating a substrate surface using ammonia and/or nitrogen plasma and selectively depositing silicon oxide on a silicon oxide surface using alternating pulses of an aminosilane silicon precursor and an oxidizing agent in a thermal atomic layer deposition reaction without depositing silicon oxide on an exposed silicon nitride surface.
US10176982B2
The present invention proposes a method to form a gradient thin film using a spray pyrolysis technique. The method comprises providing a base substrate, preparing a spray aqueous solution by mixing at least two precursor compounds comprising at least two different elements and spraying the spray aqueous solution onto the base substrate. According to the present invention, the ratio of the concentration of the at least two different elements within the spray aqueous solution is varied while performing the method. In this way, a thin film having a gradient of elemental composition over its layer thickness may be formed.
US10176977B2
An ion source is configured for soft electron ionization and produces a low electron-energy, yet high-intensity, electron beam. The ion source includes an electron source that produces the electron beam and transmits it into an ionization chamber. The electron beam interacts with sample material in the ionization chamber to produce an ion beam that may be transmitted to a downstream device. The electron source is configured for generating a virtual cathode upstream of the ionization chamber, which enhances the intensity of the electron beam.
US10176974B2
A sputtering target containing 0.01 to 0.5 wt % of Ag, and remainder being W and unavoidable impurities. The object of the present invention is to provide a sputtering target capable of forming a film having a relatively low specific resistance by sputtering, wherein the obtained film is endowed with good uniformity, and in particular the sputtering target has superior characteristics upon forming thin films for semiconductor devices, as well as to provide a method for producing the foregoing sputtering target.
US10176971B2
In a plasma processing apparatus, an operation unit configured to calculate a parameter including any one of a load impedance, a load resistance and a load reactance of a high frequency power supply and a reflection wave coefficient of a high frequency power, and a controller configured to sequentially perform multiple cycles, each having plural stages which are performed in sequence. The controller is configured to control a setting of the high frequency power supplied to an electrode to be changed at a time point when the parameter exceeds a threshold value after a processing gas is changed. The changing of the setting of the high frequency power includes changing a power level of the high frequency power and/or changing the high frequency power from one of a continuous wave and a pulse-modulated high frequency power to the other thereof.
US10176966B1
An edge detection system is provided that generates a scanning electron microscope (SEM) linescan image of a pattern structure including a feature with edges that require detection. The edge detection system includes an inverse linescan model tool that receives measured linescan information for the feature from the SEM. In response, the inverse linescan model tool provides feature geometry information that includes the position of the detected edges of the feature.
US10176965B1
A charged particle beam device for inspection of a specimen with an array of primary charged particle beamlets is described. The charged particle beam device includes a charged particle beam source to generate a primary charged particle beam; a multi-aperture plate having at least two openings to generate an array of charged particle beamlets having at least a first beamlet having a first resolution on the specimen and a second beamlet having a second resolution on the specimen; an aberration correction element to correct at least one of spherical aberrations and chromatic aberrations of rotational symmetric charged particle lenses; and an objective lens assembly for focusing each primary charged particle beamlet of the array of primary charged particle beamlets onto a separate location on the specimen.
US10176958B2
The present invention is an electrode material constituting a movable electrode of a thermal fuse, having a five-layer clad structure including a core material layer, an intermediate layer formed on the both sides of the core material layer, and a surface layer formed on the intermediate layer, wherein the core material layer includes Cu, the intermediate layer includes an Ag—Cu-based alloy, the surface layer includes an Ag—CuO-based oxide-dispersed strengthened alloy, and the ratio of the thickness of the intermediate layer to the thickness of the surface layer (intermediate layer/surface layer) is 0.2 or more and 1.0 or less. This electrode material can be manufactured by partially internally oxidizing a three-layer clad material in which plate materials made of an Ag—Cu-based alloy are clad-jointed to both sides of the plate material made of Cu.
US10176943B1
A switch includes an insulating base having an upper surface and an assembly having a mounting surface. The assembly configured to be arranged on the insulating base, the assembly having a lower surface, the assembly being configured to be arranged on the upper surface of the insulating base with an open space between the lower surface of the assembly and the upper surface of the insulating base. The switch further includes a plurality of fixed contact units mounted in an aligned arrangement on the mounting surface of the assembly and a movable contactor mounted to move within the bore of the insulating body and the electrical contacts of the plurality of fixed contact units.
US10176928B2
In one embodiment, a system, comprising: a first non-magnetic conductive electrode; a second non-magnetic conductive electrode; a dielectric layer disposed between the first and second electrodes, the dielectric layer extending between the first and second electrodes; and first and second layers comprising plural pairs of magnetically coupled pairings of discrete magnets, the first and second layers separated by a non-magnetic material, wherein the magnets of at least the first layer are conductively connected to the first non-magnetic conductive electrode.
US10176926B2
A composite electronic component includes a composite body in which a capacitor and an inductor are coupled to each other, the capacitor including a ceramic body in which a plurality of dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes disposed to face each other with at least one among the plurality of dielectric layers interposed therebetween are stacked, and the inductor including a magnetic body including a coil part. The inductor and the capacitor are coupled to each other by an adhesive containing a first epoxy resin including a urethane modified epoxy (UME) resin, a second epoxy resin including a bisphenol A type resin, and a latent curing agent.
US10176924B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include a ceramic body including a plurality of dielectric layers; a first internal electrode disposed in the ceramic body and exposed to a first side surface in a width direction of the ceramic body and a second internal electrode disposed in the ceramic body and exposed to the first side surface in the width direction of the ceramic body; and first to third external electrodes disposed on the first side surface in the width direction of the ceramic body.
US10176913B2
An output driving circuit outputs an output current to a solenoid incorporated in a vehicle through an output terminal. A detection resistor connected between the output terminal and the output driving circuit. An amplification unit configured to output an analog detection signal generated by amplifying a voltage between both ends of the detection resistor. A current generation circuit configured to output a reference current. A reference resistor connected between the current generation circuit and a ground and configured to output a reference voltage according to the reference current. An A/D converter configured to convert the analog detection signal into a digital detection signal using the reference voltage as a reference. A control circuit configured to control the output current output from the output driving circuit according to the digital detection signal.
US10176907B2
A cable (100) includes a power wire (1), a ground wire (3), data transmission wires (2) between the power wire and the ground wire, and an insulating outer layer (4) enclosing the outer side of the power wire, the ground wire, and the data transmission wires. The power wire includes a conductor (11), an insulating layer (12) outside the conductor, and a metal shielding layer (13) outside the insulating layer. The power wire and the data transmission wires are spaced from each other by plastic materials.
US10176906B2
Provided is a shielded conductive path exhibiting a shielding function over a broad frequency band between a low frequency and a high frequency even when the shielding member has a small cross-sectional area. A shielded conductive path includes conductive path main bodies, insulating layers surrounding the conductive path main bodies, and shielding members facing the outer circumferential surfaces of the insulating layers, each have a configuration in which a conductive layer and a magnetic layer are layered together. Electromagnetic noise in a frequency band between a low frequency and an intermediate frequency is blocked with the conductive layer, and electromagnetic noise in a frequency band between an intermediate frequency and a high frequency is blocked with the magnetic layer. The different frequency regions are assigned to the conductive layer and the magnetic layer, and therefore, the cross-sectional areas of the conductive layer and the magnetic layer need not be increased.
US10176903B2
A stretchable conductor of the present invention includes: a mixture which is configured of a stretchable portion made of an elastomer, and at least one type of conductive particles dispersed in the stretchable portion; and a conducting portion in which the conductive particles are aggregated in a higher concentration at one or a plurality of positions on an interface of the mixture than that at positions located in an inner portion of the mixture.
US10176890B2
A method comprising receiving a document having multiple sections of different types using a processor. The method also comprises obtaining a plurality of lexicons using the processor, each of the lexicons for interpreting fragments in one or more of the section types. The method further comprises interpreting fragments in a first section of the multiple sections using the processor and one or more lexicons. The method still further comprises determining, based upon the interpretation and using the processor, that a fragment in the first section is misplaced. The method still further comprises re-locating, using the processor, the misplaced fragment to a second section of the multiple sections in the document to generate a re-organized document. The method additionally includes storing the re-organized document in a hardware storage system using the processor.
US10176879B2
Disclosed are a high voltage switch circuit and a semiconductor memory device including the same. The high voltage switching circuit includes: a control signal generating circuit configured to supply a supply voltage to an internal node and generate a control signal in response to a first enable signal; a well bias generating circuit configured to apply a well bias to a well of a transistor included in the control signal generating circuit in response to a second enable signal; and a switching circuit configured to switch an input voltage to an output voltage in response to the control signal.
US10176876B2
A memory control method includes providing a memory including a first area and a second area, and reading data in the first area and the second area when receiving data to be stored. The method also includes selecting, from the first area and the second area, an area in which the data is in an erased state. In addition, the method includes performing a programming operation on each memory cell in the selected area to write the data to be stored into the selected area. Further, the method includes—performing an erase operation on a remaining area in the first area and the second area to perform a next data writing process, after writing the data to be stored into the selected area.
US10176875B2
The semiconductor memory device includes: a memory unit having a plurality of memory blocks; a voltage supply circuit configured to generate a plurality of operating voltages and transmit the operating voltages to global word lines; and a pass unit coupled between respective local word lines of the plurality of memory blocks and the global word lines, and configured to couple the local word lines of a selected memory block to the global word lines in response to block select signals corresponding to the respective memory blocks, wherein the pass unit couples local word lines of an unselected memory block to the global word lines for a preset time and then isolates local word lines of the unselected memory block from the global word lines in response to the block select signals while coupling local word lines of the selected memory block to the global word lines.
US10176858B1
Memory devices may provide a communication interface that is configured to receive control signals, and/or address signals from user circuitry, such as a processor. The memory device may receive and process signals employing different signal paths that may have different latencies, leading to clock skews. Embodiments discussed herein the application are related to interface circuitry that may decrease certain response times of the memory device by adding delays that minimize the clock skews. For example, a delay in a control path, such as a chip select path, may allow reduction in a delay of an address path, and leading to a decrease of the access time of the memory device. Embodiments also disclose how training modes may be employed to further adjust the delays in the control and/or address paths to decrease access times during regular operation.
US10176855B2
An integrated circuit that includes an array of memory cells and an array of write logic cells. The integrated circuit also includes a write address decoder comprising a plurality of write outputs. The array of write logic cells is electrically connected to the plurality of write outputs. The array of write logic cells is electrically connected to the array of memory cells. The array of write logic cells is configured to set an operating voltage of the memory cells.
US10176854B2
A memory decoding system includes a memory decoding reference current module. The memory decoding reference current module includes: a first reference current unit connected to one end of a second reference bit line; a second reference current unit connected to one end of a first reference bit line; a third reference current unit connected to one end of a third reference bit line; a first reference NMOS transistor, a source of which is connected to the second reference bit line; a second reference NMOS transistor, a source of which is connected to a drain of the first reference NMOS transistor; and a gate of the first reference NMOS transistor and a gate of the second NMOS transistor are connected to a logic high level.
US10176850B2
A method and apparatus for memory power and/or area reduction. An array of memory cells may be scanned to detect faulty memory cells, if any, in the array. A supply voltage Vmem applied to the array of memory cells may be controlled based on a result of the scan, and based on a sensitivity coefficient of one, or more, of the array of memory cells. The sensitivity coefficient may indicate an impact that the one, or more, of the array of memory cells being faulty may have on the performance of a device that reads and writes data to the memory array. Additionally or alternatively, the physical dimensions of the memory cells may be determined based on the sensitivity coefficient(s) and/or based on a number of faulty memory cells that can be tolerated in the array of memory cells.
US10176838B2
A cross section of a luminous flux of returning light from a disc is split into a plurality of regions, and an operation is performed so that a weighting of a light amount of a region which has favorable symmetry in a radial direction and is formed on a circumference of an ellipse among the split regions is increased. Further, a lens shift detection signal is formed, and a lens shift detection signal is canceled from a push-pull signal.
US10176836B2
A computer program product according to one embodiment includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions area executable by a data processing system having at least one processor to cause the data processing system to apply, by the data processing system, a current to a lead of a tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) sensor for inducing joule heating of the lead or a heating layer, the level of joule heating being sufficient to anneal a magnetic layer of the sensor; and maintain, by the data processing system, the current at the level for an amount of time sufficient to anneal the sensor.
US10176834B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for provisioning storage devices. An example method includes determining a write status of an adjacent track that is adjacent to a target track of a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) disk drive. The method may further include determining an offset for a write head based on the write status of the adjacent track and positioning the write head according to the offset.
US10176833B1
A folded lasing cavity comprises at least one bend. The folded lasing cavity is disposed on and configured to emit light along a substrate-parallel plane. An etched facet is on an emitting end of the folded lasing cavity and an etched mirror is on another end of the folding lasing cavity. An etched shaping mirror redirects light received from the etched facet in a direction normal to the substrate-parallel plane.
US10176831B2
In one general embodiment, a method includes forming a first magnetic layer, forming a tunnel barrier layer above the first magnetic layer, and forming a second magnetic layer above the tunnel barrier layer. The tunnel barrier layer includes crystalline alumina. The tunnel barrier layer is formed at a temperature of less than 100 degrees centigrade.
US10176830B2
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a first module having a plurality of first write transducers, and a plurality of second modules each having a second write transducer. Planes of deposition of write gaps of the second write transducers are oriented at an angle of greater than 4 degrees relative to planes of deposition of write gaps of the first write transducers.
US10176829B1
Disclosed are systems, methods, and devices for increasing the storage areal density of a storage device. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving host data, the host data including first data and extra bit data; generating run-length limited (RLL) data by encoding the first data with an RLL encoder; generating a symbol corresponding to at least one bit of the extra bit data; and generating superpositioned data by inserting the symbol within a contiguous section of repeating bits in the RLL-encoded first data.
US10176827B2
Various embodiments provide a tool, referred to herein as “Active Lab” that can be used to develop, debug, and maintain knowledge bases. These knowledge bases (KBs) can then engage various applications, technology, and communications protocols for the purpose of task automation, real time alerting, system integration, knowledge acquisition, and various forms of peer influence. In at least some embodiments, a KB is used as a virtual assistant that any real person can interact with using their own natural language. The KB can then respond and react however the user wants: answering questions, activating applications, or responding to actions on a web page.
US10176821B2
A monaural intrusive speech intelligibility predictor unit comprises: first and second input units for providing time-frequency representations s(k,m) and x(k,m) of noise-free and noisy and/or processed versions of a target signal, respectively, k being a frequency bin index, k=1, 2, . . . , K, and m being a time index; first and second envelope extraction units for providing time-frequency sub-band representations of the signals sj(m) and xj(m), j being a frequency sub-band index, j=1, 2, . . . , J; first and second time-frequency segment division units for dividing the time-frequency sub-band representations sj(m) and xj(m) into time-frequency segments Sm and Xm corresponding to a number N of successive samples of the sub-band signals; an intermediate speech intelligibility calculation unit adapted for providing intermediate speech intelligibility coefficients dm estimating an intelligibility of said time-frequency segment Xm, based on said time-frequency segments Sm and Xm or normalized and/or transformed versions {tilde over (S)}m, and {tilde over (X)}m thereof; and a final monaural speech intelligibility calculation unit for calculating a final monaural speech intelligibility predictor d estimating an intelligibility of said noisy and/or processed version x of the target signal by combining said intermediate speech intelligibility coefficients dm, or a transformed version thereof, over time. A hearing aid comprises a monaural, intrusive intelligibility predictor unit, and a configurable signal processor adapted to control or influence the processing of one or more electric input signals representing environment sound to maximize the final speech intelligibility predictor d. A binaural hearing aid system comprises first and second hearing aids.
US10176820B2
A visualization system with audio capability includes one or more display devices, one or more microphones, one or more speakers, and audio processing circuitry. While a display device displays an image to a user, a microphone inputs an utterance of the user, or a sound from the user's environment, and provides it to the audio processing circuitry. The audio processing circuitry processes the utterance (or other sound) in real-time to add an audio effect associated with the image to increase realism, and outputs the processed utterance (or other sound) to the user via the speaker in real-time, with very low latency.
US10176815B1
Described are techniques for determining whether a received audio signal is corrupted or a product of noise, prior to decoding the entire signal. A received audio signal may include both initialization data and encoded payload data. Correspondence between the initialization data and confirmation data may be determined. If the correspondence indicates a match, the audio receiver may continue decoding the audio signal to access the payload data. If the correspondence does not indicate a match, the audio receiver may cease decoding, which may conserve power, computing resources, and time, ensuring that subsequent audio signals are not missed while the audio receiver decodes a false or corrupted signal.
US10176813B2
Methods for generating encoded audio programs indicative of N channels of discontinuity-corrected, encoded audio content, including by applying discontinuity correction values to multi-channel audio content, and for rendering such a program (e.g., to generate a discontinuity-corrected M-channel mix of content indicated by the program). Other aspects are systems or devices (e.g., encoders or decoders, or rendering systems) configured to implement any of the methods.
US10176802B1
An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system may convert an ASR output lattice into a matrix form, thus maintaining certain information included in the lattice that might otherwise be lost in an N-best list output. The matrix representation of the lattice may be encoded using a recurrent neural network (RNN) to create a vector representation of the lattice. The vector representation may then be used by the system to perform additional operations, such as ASR results confirmation.
US10176797B2
A voice synthesis method for generating a voice signal through connection of a phonetic piece extracted from a reference voice, includes selecting, by a piece selection unit, the phonetic piece sequentially; setting, by a pitch setting unit, a pitch transition in which a fluctuation of an observed pitch of the phonetic piece is reflected based on a degree corresponding to a difference value between a reference pitch being a reference of sound generation of the reference voice and the observed pitch of the phonetic piece selected by the piece selection unit; and generating, by a voice synthesis unit, the voice signal by adjusting a pitch of the phonetic piece selected by the piece selection unit based on the pitch transition generated by the pitch setting unit.
US10176792B1
The implementations described include an audio canceling device that receives an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) audio signature representative of audio generated by an unmanned aerial vehicle, monitors audio within an environment in which the audio canceling device is located for audio generated by the UAV, generates an attenuation-signal based on detected audio generated by the UAV, and outputs the attenuation-signal to attenuate the audio generated by the UAV. In one example, the audio canceling device may be used to attenuate audio generated by a UAV that is permeating into a user's home during delivery of an item to the user's home by the UAV.
US10176784B2
A multi-mode display device may, responsive to a user-selection, divide a display region into different regions corresponding to display data received from different user devices, such as a primary information handling system and a secondary portable information handling system. First display data received from the primary information handling system may be output to a first display region and second display data received from the secondary portable information handling system maybe output to a second display region.
US10176783B2
A computer-driven wearable display device incorporating a display engine for presenting virtual images to wearers is interconnected with a computer-driven portable display device incorporating a display screen for presenting real images to the wearers of the wearable display device. An applications management and communication system including an external manager application residing on the portable display device provides for managing and launching applications residing on the wearable display device through the user interface of the portable display device.
US10176782B2
The present disclosure discloses a TFT and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate, a display panel and a driving method thereof, and a display device, which relates to the field of display technology, and is provided for solving a problem of a larger overall power consumption of the display device. The TFT comprises a substrate; a first gate, a bottom gate dielectric layer and an insulating layer sequentially stacked on the substrate; a source and a drain arranged on the insulating layer; and a top gate dielectric layer, a second gate and a passivation layer sequentially stacked on the source, the drain and the insulating layer, wherein the first gate or the second gate is a photosensitive material gate. The TFT and the display panel provided by the present disclosure are applied in the display device.
US10176781B2
A display device is used in conjunction with: (1) optical sensors to collect information about ambient conditions in the environment of a viewer of the display device; and/or (2) privacy element identification and detection mechanisms (PEDMs) to collect information about the presence, orientation, and/or type of privacy elements being used in conjunction with the display device. For one embodiment, a processor in communication with the display device may create a view model based, at least in part, on the predicted effects of the ambient environmental conditions and/or presence of privacy elements being used in conjunction with the display device on the user's viewing experience. The view model may be a function of gamma, black point, white point, privacy element orientation and/or type, backlighting, field of view, number of viewers, color offset, or a combination thereof. The view model is also referred to as an ambient/privacy model.
US10176778B2
A k-th driving stage includes a first pull-down transistor. The first pull-down transistor includes a first control electrode receiving a second control signal activated after the k-th gate signal is output, a second control electrode receiving the switching signal synchronized with a clock signal, an input electrode receiving a first discharge voltage, and an output electrode connected to the output electrode of the first output transistor.
US10176775B2
A disclosed display device comprises a display panel having a display area configured to display an image. The display panel includes in the display area a plurality of data lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of gate lines extending in a second direction and crossing the data lines, and a plurality of pixels defined by the data lines and the gate lines, and arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The display device further comprises at least one gate in panel (GIP) circuit disposed in the display area and having a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of transistors each respectively disposed between two adjacent columns of the pixels among the columns.
US10176760B2
Disclosed are an organic light emitting display capable of preventing lowering of brightness and prolonging its a lifespan, and a driving method thereof. The organic light emitting display controls a level of a gate signal, by outputting a gate high voltage after controlling a level of the gate high voltage, according to a level of a threshold voltage sensed from each pixel of a display panel.
US10176748B2
A novel information processing device that is highly convenient is provided. The information processing device includes a selection circuit having a function of supplying image data to a reflective display element, a light-emitting element, or both of them on the basis of input position coordinate data, sensing data about the illuminance of the usage environment, and the image data. An icon with high selection frequency is displayed by both the reflective display element and the light-emitting element on the basis of icon coordinate data and the input position coordinate data, so that the icon can be displayed brightly with improved visibility.
US10176743B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for adjusting color temperature and a device. The method comprises: acquiring a present light intensity parameter value of each of N primary colors of light emitted by a light source of a display device, determining a set light intensity parameter value of each of the N primary colors according to the present light intensity parameter value of each of the N primary colors and a pre-saved light intensity parameter value of each of the N primary colors, and respectively adjusting the light intensity of each of the N primary colors according to the set light intensity parameter value of the N primary colors.
US10176742B2
There are provided an organic light emitting display device, a driving method thereof and a display apparatus. The organic light emitting display device includes an underlay substrate, and organic light emitting pixel units arranged in a matrix on the underlay substrate; wherein the respective organic light emitting units comprise at least two organic light emitting structures which have different light emitting colors, are disposed in cascades and insulated from each other, and a pixel circuit connected corresponding to the organic light emitting structures and configured to drive the organic light emitting structures to emit light. Since the respective organic light emitting pixel units comprise at least two organic light emitting structures which have different light emitting colors, are disposed in cascades, and are insulated from each other, when displaying, each organic light emitting pixel unit can display, in different frame pictures, grey scale effects of at least two colors according to applied signals. The display effect can be raised because each organic light emitting pixel unit can display more colors.
US10176739B2
An aspect of the present invention proposes a method for performing partial refresh on display panels. According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, the display panels may be implemented as self-refreshing display panels communicatively coupled with a computing device that generates graphical data for display in the display panel. To perform partial refresh, consecutive frames are compared to identify the portions of the frames with updated material. In one or more embodiments, only the pixels corresponding to the updated portion(s) are refreshed in the display panel.
US10176717B2
Vehicular movement detection systems and methods are disclosed. A computing device is configured to monitor sensor data and location data associated with a first user device including one or more sensors, and monitor traffic data associated with a location of the first user device based on the sensor data and location data. In response to the data, the computing device determines whether to provide a user-selectable message to the first user device based on a vehicle speed, proximity to a destination, and vehicle speed relative to traffic speed. The user-selectable message comprises a prompt configured to transmit a search request for a listing location. In response to the determination, the user-selectable message is provided to the first user device. In response to receiving a search request, the computing device is configured to transmit instructions to the first user device to direct the first user device to a first listing location.
US10176714B2
A driving support apparatus includes a display information obtainment section, a lighting state obtainment section, a validity determination section, and a support content setting section. The display information obtainment section obtains display information indicating a display content of at least one road sign present around a vehicle. The lighting state obtainment section obtains a lighting state of a corresponding traffic light, which corresponds to the road sign. The validity determination section determines whether or not a display content of a light limiting sign is effective based on the lighting state, when the light limiting sign is obtained based on the display information, the light limiting sign being a road sign whose display content is effective if the corresponding traffic light is in a predetermined lighting state. The support content setting section that sets a content of driving support based on a determination result of the validity determination section.
US10176701B2
A system for facilitating automated response to a distress signal includes an attachment for a multifunction mobile computing device. In some embodiments, the attachment removably articulates to a sensor location coupled to a housing of the multifunction mobile computing device. In some embodiments, the system includes a computer program product in a non-transitory computer-readable medium. In some embodiments, the program instructions are computer-executable by the multifunction mobile computing device to implement detecting a disarticulation of the attachment from the sensor location on the multifunction mobile computing device, and, responsive to the detecting the disarticulation of the attachment from the sensor location on the multifunction mobile computing device, transmitting to a distress signal response receiver over a radio-frequency network from a radio-frequency transmitter located within a housing of the multifunction mobile computing device the distress signal.
US10176691B2
A tracking and monitoring shoe that includes a tracking device comprising a controller, a battery in electrical communication with at least one solenoid and at least one permanent magnet, a plurality of lights, a microphone, and a speaker. The tracking device may be implanted within a portion of the shoe, defined as the tracking section. The plurality of lights may be operable to emit light from a sole of the shoe and the plurality of lights and the tracking device may be electrically connected to the battery. The battery may be configured to be rechargeable when a walking motion translates the at least one permanent magnet. Furthermore, the tracking device may be configured to activate the plurality of lights, microphone, and speaker when the tracking device detects the shoe has reached or transcended a boundary.
US10176687B2
An electronic lock may be used to monitor and control access throughout a home. The electronic lock is preferably mounted to a main enter/exit door on the home as this provides a good point of contact for users entering and leaving the home. The electronic lock may monitor users, appliances, safety, and operation of interior doors. Access may be controlled and/or monitored by users with a mobile device or through any other similar device.
US10176683B2
A system including a video sequence embodied in memory, a processor that detects a moving object or person within a field of view of the video sequence, a processor that tracks the moving object or person and that identifies a plurality of frames that summarizes movement of the moving object or person within a time interval of the video sequence and a processor that combines the identified plurality of frames into a thumbnail image.
US10176674B2
Methods and systems for electronic interaction comprising a display for presenting a grid of identifying objects, an input for receiving a player selection of an identifying object, a random generator for randomly selecting a winning identifying object, and a point tally system for awarding points to the player according to the rules comprising a first point value if the player selected identifying object exactly matches the winning identifying object, a second point value if the player selected identifying object is in a geometric relationship with the winning identifying object, and a third, negative, point value if the player is not awarded the first point value or the second point value.
US10176663B2
The present specification describes a system for automatically preparing medication cartridges for use in a pharmaceutical dispensing system. The system includes a spooler device that winds a strip of medicine pouches around a cylinder in a cartridge frame. When the cartridge has been loaded with the medication strip, the system validates that there is a match between the information on the cartridge cover and the mediation pouches.
US10176662B2
An empties sorting device includes a sorting table with a table surface, a feed section, and a discharge section. The discharge section has a dividing device with at least one section partition wall. The device further includes a conveying device, which is designed in such a way that the empties can be transferred from the feed section to the discharge section, and a guiding device with a guiding element, designed to be movable at least into a first guiding position associated with a first collecting channel, and a second guiding position associated with a second collecting channel, and a controller designed to control the movement of the guiding element into the first and second guiding positions in accordance with the type of empties. A discharge section partition wall between the collecting channels can be moved parallel to the table surface, thus allowing an associated collecting channel size to be varied.
US10176661B2
This invention uses variables sets, that are called up according to a file a into a Programmable Finite Impulse Transform (FIT) algorithm, which then sends a command to a Programmable Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter (a brick wall filter) that makes multiple passbands. The digital passbands edit a spectral range from 200 nm to 1500 nm into multiple snippets thus generating an edited-down variation on the spectral range coming from fluorescent taggants. The full-wide peaks profile from a zone containing side-by-side fluorescent taggants is uniform on all the value documents or items in a series, but the Programmable FIT algorithm and the Programmable FIR multiple bandpass filter turn that single peaks profile signature into millions of distinct and specific variations, so each value document or item has its own unique key in a database. The full-wide emissions profile, as edited by a digital multiple bandpass filter into snippets, constitutes the product of the digital signal processing aspect of the present invention. This product can be compared on a one-to-one basis with a similarly made product on file in a database. A match of 95% to 100% causes a rating of authentic.
US10176658B2
A document may include a non-magnetic substrate, a first colorant mixture printed as a first image upon the substrate, the first colorant mixture including a magnetic ink, and a second colorant mixture printed as a second image upon the substrate in substantially close spatial proximity to the printed first colorant mixture. The second colorant mixture may consist essentially of one or more non-magnetic inks and exhibit properties of both low visual contrast and high magnetic contrast against the first colorant mixture, such that the resultant printed substrate does not reveal the first image to the human eye, but will reveal the first image to a magnetic image reader.
US10176657B2
A telephone network voting system receives telephone ballots cast by voters by dialing a telephone number. The telephone number is dialed by voters spread over a large geographic area. The voting calls are routed to points of presence local to or otherwise identified with the caller by using the caller's ANI or other originating number identification. The points of presence then accumulate votes and periodically forward tallies to a centralized location over a data network. Instructions may be transmitted from the centralized location to the points of presence.
US10176654B2
A suspicious person detection technology which is less likely to cause a blind spot of detection of a suspicious person is provided. A suspicious person detection system detects a suspicious person present in a predetermined area and includes a probe request detection terminal (100) configured to detect a probe request transmitted from a mobile terminal (400) to generate probe information including first identification information specific to the mobile terminal which transmits the probe information, and an analyzing apparatus (200) configured to acquire the probe information from the probe request detection terminal, and, in the case where the first identification information included in the probe information matches none of one or more pieces of second identification information set in advance, transmit suspicious person information indicating that a suspicious person is detected to a predetermined information processing apparatus (300).
US10176652B2
A computer-implemented method for controlling access of a user to a structure, or objects stored within a compartment of a secure lockbox is provided. In some embodiments, the method may be used to control the access of a user to a structure, or one or more objects, such as a key, located in the compartment of a secure lockbox. In further embodiments the method may include the steps of: receiving identification information describing the user from the secure lockbox or electronically-controllable electronic lock device; receiving identification information of an account holder; verifying the received identification information of the user against the account holder information; providing an unlock code to the secure lockbox or the electronically-controllable electronic lock device if the user identification information matches the account holder information. Also disclosed is an improved secure lockbox having a compartment formed therein, which includes an electronically-actuated latching mechanism coupled to a moveable element, such as a door; a network interface; a sensor for sensing a characteristic related to a user attempting to gain access to the compartment; and a processor, wherein the processor is adapted to cause the network interface to transmit information indicative of a sensed characteristic of a user attempting to gain access to the lockbox compartment and capable of processing an unlock signal.
US10176651B2
A docking apparatus includes a mechanism which allows both manual and powered locking and unlocking of the apparatus. A locking unit is disposed on a housing and is configured to be rotated to either an open position, a closed position, or a neutral position with a key. A key pinion is configured to rotate and drive an engaged key ring in response to a rotation of the locking unit using the key. A motor pinion is configured to rotate and drive an engaged motor ring in response to a rotation of the motor, which is electronically controlled.
US10176634B2
A method and an apparatus pertaining to generating training data. The method may include executing a simulation process. The simulation process may include traversing one or more virtual sensors over a virtual driving environment defining a plurality of lane markings or virtual objects that are each sensible by the one or more virtual sensors. During the traversing, each of the one or more virtual sensors may be moved with respect to the virtual driving environment as dictated by a vehicle-dynamic model modeling motion of a vehicle driving on a virtual road surface of the virtual driving environment while carrying the one or more virtual sensors. Virtual sensor data characterizing the virtual driving environment may be recorded. The virtual sensor data may correspond to what an actual sensor would produce in a real-world environment that is similar or substantially matching the virtual driving environment.
US10176626B2
Presented are embodiments for the generation of point clouds on a surface. A surface is described by a mathematical function. The surface may be subdivided into a plurality of patches, a plurality of triangles, or a plurality of rectangles, inter alia. A plurality of points are calculated and distributed among the patches, triangles, or rectangles comprising the surface. Generation of such point clouds may be useful in rendering N-dimensional surfaces for display or output on computer display or output devices.
US10176625B2
A method uses a two-dimensional (2D) camera in two different positions to provide first and second 2D images having three common cardinal points. It further uses a three-dimensional (3D) measuring device to measure two 3D coordinates. The first and second 2D images and the two 3D coordinates are combined to obtain a scaled 3D image.
US10176623B2
Generation/rendering of a 2D perspective/view of a geographic region, e.g. a map the world or portion thereof, superimposed over which are indicators of related data items and graphical representations of the relationships therebetween is disclosed. Based on location data associated with each data item, a relative geographic presentation within, or otherwise superimposed over, the 2D presentation is generated relative to a 3D representation of the geographic region. Graphical interconnections are then derived based on the positions of the data items relative to each other and depicted in a manner which shows both the relationship between the data items and the geographic relationship with respect to the geographic region. The graphical interconnections may further be derived in a manner so as to depict a or other wise follow the perspective depicted by the 2D view, e.g. as arcs between related data items conforming to the depicted spherical contour of a globe.
