US10507308B2
The present invention is intended to provide a carrying support that grasps work tubes different in length and type such that the lower ends are at the same height, is easy for the worker to carry by hand and realize automatic carrying, and is further capable of fixing the tube end portions to be processed in many cases at a constant height, thereby to assure the degree of freedom of designing manufacturing devices when the carrying support is also used as a jig for the devices. The carrying support is provided with a first grasping part (11) and a second grasping part (12) that grasp both end sides of work tubes (W) bent in middle parts at an upper position and extending downward.
US10507306B2
An optical guidewire system employs an optical guidewire (10), an optical guidewire controller (12), a guide interface (13) and an optical connector (15). The optical guidewire (10) is for advancing a catheter (20) to a target region relative to a distal end of the optical guidewire (10), wherein the optical guidewire (10) includes one or more guidewire fiber cores (11) for generating an encoded optical signal (16) indicative of a shape of the optical guidewire (10). The optical guidewire controller (12) is responsive to the encoded optical signal (16) for reconstructing the shape of the optical guidewire (10). The guidewire interface (13) includes one or more interface fiber core(s) (14) optically coupled to the optical guidewire controller (12). The optical connector (15) facilitates a connection, disconnection and reconnection of the optical guidewire (10) to the guidewire interface (13) that enables a backloading the catheter (20) on the optical guidewire (10).
US10507297B2
An air delivery system for providing a supply of air from a source of air at positive pressure to an interfacing structure located at the entrance to the airways of a patient includes a manifold adapted to connect with the supply of positive air pressure and at least one tube connected to the manifold and adapted to deliver the supply of air to the interfacing structure. Each tube is structured to allow movement between an open phase in which the tube allows the passage of air and a collapsed phase in which the tube is collapsed. Each tube is structured such that weight of a typical patient's head against bedding apparel is sufficient to collapse the tube from the open phase to the collapsed phase.
US10507295B2
A compound delivery device for delivering a plume derived from a propellant and a drug formulation. The drug formulation is in an intranasal dosage form in the form of powder, suspension, dispersion or liquid. The propelled intranasal dosage form is deposited within the olfactory region of the nasal cavity. The drug deposited within the olfactory region is delivered to the brain avoiding the blood-brain-barrier. Hydrofluoroalkane propellant from a pressurized canister is channeled to a diffuser and drug-containing chamber where the intra-nasal dosage form is aerosolized. The aerosolized intra-nasal dosage form passes through a nozzle thus delivering a plume to the olfactory region of a user's nasal cavity.
US10507271B2
The present invention provides an implantable cardiac compression device comprising: an inflatable cardiac compression jacket configured when inflated to directly compress a heart and assist in displacing blood therefrom, a channel that connects the inflatable cardiac compression jacket and an expandable fluid reservoir configured to contain a fluid when displaced compresses the inflatable cardiac compression jacket, and a fluid driver operably connected to the inflatable cardiac compression jacket and to the expandable fluid reservoir, wherein the fluid driver is configured to inflate the cardiac compression jacket and to deflate the expandable fluid reservoir during systole of the heart; said driver is further configured to deflate the cardiac compression jacket and to inflate the expandable fluid reservoir during diastole of the heart.
US10507262B2
Provided herein are in vivo gelling ophthalmic pre-formulations forming a biocompatible retinal patch comprising at least one nucleophilic compound or monomer unit, at least one electrophilic compound or monomer unit, and optionally a therapeutic agent and/or viscosity enhancer. In some embodiments, the retinal patch at least partially adheres to the site of a retinal tear. Also provided herein are methods of treating retinal detachment by delivering an in vivo gelling ophthalmic pre-formulation to the site of a retinal tear in human eye, wherein the in vivo gelling ophthalmic pre-formulation forms a retinal patch.
US10507259B2
A flexible absorbent pad has a dry thickness of between 2 mm and 10 mm and a difference in flexural-resistance between the dry state and the wet state of an absorbent center zone of the absorbent pad of less than 100 grams-force. The absorbent core of the pad may include an airlaid, a foam, or a fibrous staple filament. The absorbent core of the absorbent pad may be corrugated, such as with flexure hinges, in which case adhesive is applied to the backsheet of the absorbent pad in a pattern that leaves the flexure hinges devoid of adhesive so that the backsheet is attached to the absorbent core in a manner that does not impede the flexing of the flexure hinges.
US10507258B2
A new diffuser for essential oils and the like is rendered more compact by integrating the entire diffuser into a form of cap threaded to fit a bottle operating as a reservoir. The motor and pump system are integrated into a package sleeved inside a housing that then receives in a silo beside the pump and motor the entire reservoir and diffuser system. Simplified control algorithms provide a limited set of buttons that are more intuitive by which a user need only define total time of operation, some level of intensity of scent, and an indication of the comparative size of the space to be conditioned by the diffused scent.
US10507252B2
Some embodiments relate to nanoparticle probes for the detection of disease states in a patient or for tissue engineering. In some embodiments, the nanoparticle probe comprises one or more slip bonds that bind to a cell surface structure. In some embodiments, the binding of the nanoparticle probe is selective. In some embodiments, the nanoparticle probe binds to cells having a certain maximum glycocalyx thickness.
US10507246B2
This invention discloses a method for preparing TDNs-AS1411-nucleic acid drug nanocomposite based drug delivery system, which includes the following steps: binding AS1411 and nucleic acid drug to a tetrahedral DNA nanostructure respectively; selecting four DNA single strands that respectively carry AS1411 and nucleic acid drug; mixing the four DNA single strands; mixing the DNA single strands and the TM buffer uniformly; putting the mixture into a PCR apparatus; raising the temperature to 95° C. quickly and maintaining for 10 min; and next cooling down to 4° C. and maintaining for 20 min to obtain the TDNs-AS1411-nucleic acid drug nanocomposite based drug delivery system. This drug delivery system can directly act on cell nucleus and will not be degraded by lysosomal. The targeting specificity is good. The drug can take a good efficacy and the pertinency is high.
US10507239B2
HIV-1 envelope proteins and fragments that possess naturally occurring and novel engineered epitopes that can be used to elicit (and are recognized by) broadly neutralizing antibodies.
US10507224B2
The present invention relates to a composition for muscle function improvement or exercise ability enhancement, the composition including kirenol, a Siegesbeckia herba extract, or a fraction of the Siegesbeckia herba extract as an active ingredient. Kirenol, the Siegesbeckia herba extract containing kirenol, or the Siegesbeckia herba extract fraction according to the present invention has an excellent effect of increasing muscle mass by increasing the protein expression of p-mTOR, which is a major gene concerned with muscle functions. Also, kirenol, the Siegesbeckia herba extract containing kirenol, or the Siegesbeckia herba extract fraction according to the present invention has an effect of remarkably enhancing exercise ability by increasing the protein expression of PGC-1α, which is a major gene concerned with exercise ability. In addition, the present invention is a natural product, and thus is safe for use without side effects and can be used as a medicine or food.
US10507220B2
A method of increasing beta-islet cells from pancreases of rabbits and a composition for transplantation of beta-islet cells isolated and cultured from rabbit pancreases to promote natural insulin production among diabetic patients.
US10507219B2
Provided are methods for administering multiple doses of cells, such as T cells, to subjects for cell therapy. Also provided are compositions and articles of manufacture for use in the methods. The cells generally express recombinant receptors such as chimeric receptors, e.g., chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) or other transgenic receptors such as T cell receptors (TCRs). The methods generally involve administering a first and at least one consecutive dose of the cells. Timing of the doses relative to one another, and/or size of the doses, in some embodiments provide various advantages such as lower or reduced toxicity and improved efficacy, for example, due to increased exposure of the subject to the administered cells. In some embodiments, the first dose is a relatively low dose, such as one that reduces tumor or disease burden, thereby improving the efficacy of consecutive or subsequent doses, and the consecutive dose is a consolidating dose.
US10507211B2
A method of treating demyelinating diseases involves administering a PAK1 inhibitor that is PF-3758309 to a subject in need of such treatment.
US10507208B2
Compositions, packaged pharmaceuticals, and methods of treatment by the sensitization of resistant tumors are provided. The compositions comprise a combination of a hedgehog pathway modulator, such as itraconazole, and a chemotherapeutic agent. Tumor cells in mammalian subjects treated with the hedgehog pathway modulator are sensitized to the effects of the chemotherapeutic agent, thus increasing the therapeutic index of the agent and reducing toxicity to the subject.
US10507197B2
Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition containing silibinin, which is prepared from the following bulk drugs by weight ratio: 8.75-60 parts of silibinin, 15-65 parts of phospholipid, and 25-200 parts of Pu'er tea extract. The drug has the function of treating non-alcoholic fatty liver.
US10507195B2
Compositions are provided that include having at least 95% by weight of a taxane, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, where the particles have a mean bulk density between about 0.050 g/cm3 and about 0.15 g/cm3, and/or a specific surface area (SSA) of at least 18 m2/g, 20 m2/g, 25 m2/g, 30 m2/g, 32 m2/g, 34 m2/g, or 35 m2/g. Methods for making and using such compositions are also provided.
US10507194B2
The present invention relates to methods of treating overweight or obesity, reducing fat, sugar, and food intake, and reducing body weight or body weight gain in a subject using geranium oil or orlistat mouthwash, or a combination of both.
US10507191B2
The subject invention provides materials methods for reducing infections in subjects. The materials methods utilize chlorhexidine, which has been found to be surprisingly non-toxic. The lack of toxicity facilitates the use of chlorhexidine in contexts that were not previously thought to be possible.
US10507188B2
Particles comprising an opioid receptor antagonist as well as methods of their use and methods of their preparation are provided herein. Such particles may be used for treating and preventing opioid-induced side effects in patients, and may be provided to chronic opioid users as well.
US10507186B2
There is described, inter alia, a coated bead comprising: (a) a granule; (b) a first layer coated over the granule, the first layer comprising a first amount of an active pharmaceutical ingredient comprising a central nervous system stimulant; and (c) a second layer coated over the first layer, the second layer being present in an amount sufficient to substantially delay release of the active pharmaceutical ingredient in the first layer until after the coated bead reaches a distal intestine portion of a subject to whom the coated bead is administered; and (d) the third layer coated over the second layer, the third layer comprising a second amount of the active pharmaceutical ingredient, the third layer being configured to permit substantially immediate release of the active pharmaceutical ingredient comprised therein. Embodiments related to a solid oral pharmaceutical composition are also described.
US10507182B2
The present invention provides liposome compositions containing sparingly soluble drugs that are used to treat life-threatening diseases. A preferred method of encapsulating a drug inside a liposome is by remote or active loading. Remote loading of a drug into liposomes containing a transmembrane electrochemical gradient is initiated by co-mixing a liposome suspension with a solution of drug, whereby the neutral form of the compound freely enters the liposome and becomes electrostatically charged thereby preventing the reverse transfer out of the liposome. There is a continuous build-up of compound within the liposome interior until the electrochemical gradient is dissipated or all the drug is encapsulated in the liposome. However, this process as described in the literature has been limited to drugs that are freely soluble in aqueous solution or solubilized as a water-soluble complex. This invention describes compositions and methods for remote loading drugs with low water solubility (<2 mg/mL). In the preferred embodiment the drug in the solubilizing agent is mixed with the liposomes in aqueous suspension so that the concentration of solubilizing agent is lowered to below its capacity to completely solubilize the drug. This results in the drug precipitating but remote loading capability is retained. The process is scalable and, in liposomes in which the lipid composition and remote loading agent are optimized, the resulting drug-loaded liposomes are characterized by a high drug-to-lipid ratios and prolonged drug retention when the liposome encapsulated drug is administered to a subject.
US10507178B2
An injectable carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) and methylcellulose (MC) hydrogel derived from the plant-based polysaccharide, cellulose, is provided which gels in situ and repairs the intervertebral disc in the spinal column or other cartilaginous tissues. One specific application is for replacement of the nucleus pulposus (NP), the central gelatinous region of the intervertebral disc, following injury or degeneration.
US10507170B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing porous organic/inorganic composite powder which includes attaching inorganic oxide nanoparticles in a multi-layer form by repeating steps of attaching polyphenol to porous polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) microspheres and attaching inorganic oxide nanoparticles to the porous polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) microspheres to which polyphenol is attached, and a cosmetic composition including the porous organic/inorganic composite powder.
US10507159B2
A massage system includes a seat having a first surface, a first massage assembly beneath the first surface and including a first matrix of inflatable bladders, and an interface including a touchscreen. The system further includes a controller displaying an image of the matrix on the touchscreen, receiving a touch input from the touchscreen, interpreting the touch input as an indication of a desired massage sequence, and causing the first massage assembly to implement the desired massage sequence.
US10507158B2
A patient support apparatus includes a frame having a patient support deck. A footboard is removably coupled to the frame. A compression therapy module is located inside the footboard or is mounted to a foot section of the frame. A sleeve port is pneumatically coupled to the compression therapy module and is located on the foot section. The sleeve port is configured for attachment to at least one tube extending from a compression sleeve worn on a limb of a patient. Control circuitry is coupled to the frame and is operable to control functions of the patient support apparatus and to control the compression therapy module. A graphical display screen is coupled to the control circuitry and displays user inputs that are selected to control functions of the patient support apparatus and the compression therapy module.
US10507154B2
A method for exercising a joint and a limb of a patient. The method includes supporting the limb at an angle with an actuation arm of an exercise device. The actuation arm is rotatable about a rotation axis and includes a first portion and a second portion. The second portion is movable in a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis. The method further includes restricting movement of the second portion of the actuation arm and a foot plate at a distal end of the second portion in the direction perpendicular to the rotation axis unless force exerted on the foot plate by the patient exceeds a predetermined force as measured by a foot plate load cell.
US10507141B2
Disclosed herein are several embodiments of a negative pressure appliance and methods of using the same in the treatment of wounds. Some embodiments are directed towards wound dressings comprising a liquid and gas permeable transmission layer, an absorbent layer for absorbing wound exudate, the absorbent layer overlying the transmission layer, a gas impermeable cover layer overlying the absorbent layer and comprising a first orifice, wherein the cover layer is moisture vapor permeable. Some embodiments are directed to improved fluidic connectors or suction adapters for connecting to a wound site, for example using softer, kink-free conformable suction adapters.
US10507140B2
A combination therapy pad that includes a first layer and a second layer operatively coupled to the first layer. A fiber-optic array is disposed between the first layer and the second layer. A third layer is operatively coupled to the first layer. The third layer includes a vacuum tube in fluid communication with a vacuum source and a therapeutic fluid tube in fluid communication with a therapeutic fluid source. The third layer provides at least one of vacuum therapy and therapeutic fluid treatment to a wound area.
US10507128B2
A reduced absorption device may include a proximal anchor and a distal sleeve including a frame and a membrane. The membrane may include a plurality of porous regions, and each porous region may be configured to align with a corresponding region of an intestine configured to absorb nutrients.
US10507125B2
The invention relates to a stent for transluminal implantation in hollow organs, in particular in blood vessels, ureters, esophagi, colons, duodena, or bile ducts, comprising a substantially tubular body, which can be transferred from a compressed state having a first cross-sectional diameter into an expanded state having an enlarged second cross-sectional diameter, wherein the stent comprises a plurality of cells, which are defined by bordering elements formed by the tubular body. The stent is distinguished in that some of the cells are extended in the longitudinal direction of the stent in comparison with the remaining cells in order to form a slanted end face of the stent.
US10507124B2
The invention relates to medical devices and methods of using them. The devices are prostheses which can be percutaneously deliverable with (or on) an endovascular catheter or via other surgical or other techniques and then expanded. The prostheses are configured to have a lattice resistant to dilation and creep, which is defined by a plurality of openings. The prosthesis may also optionally have a stent disposed proximal to the lattice. In exemplary embodiments, the fluoropolymer is expanded polytetrafluoroethylene. The composite materials exhibit high elongation while substantially retaining the strength properties of the fluoropolymer membrane. In at least one embodiment, the lattice is made of a composite material that includes a least one fluoropolymer membrane including serpentine fibrils and an elastomer. A lattice including a generally tubular member formed of a composite material including a least one fluoropolymer membrane containing serpentine fibrils and an elastomer is also provided.
US10507116B2
The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. The fusion device described herein is capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space at a minimum to no distraction height and for a fusion device capable of maintaining a normal distance between adjacent vertebral bodies when implanted.
US10507108B2
A mitral valve repair system includes a delivery sheath, a mitral valve repair device, and an actuator. The mitral valve repair device is disposed in the delivery sheath in an extended condition. The mitral valve repair device is movable out of the delivery sheath while in the extended condition. The actuator is coupled to the mitral valve repair device, such that retracting the actuator reduces a length of the mitral valve repair device from the extended condition.
US10507100B2
A heart valve prosthesis includes a downstream first axial end (6) and an upstream second axial end (8) and a stitching ring (10) extending in an arcuate manner for stitching in a blood vessel. The arcuate course of the stitching ring (10) is formed by three arcs (12) and three transition regions (14). At each end of two of the arcs (12) transition into each other. The stitching ring (10) has a movable tab (18) at at least one of the three transition regions (14). The movable tab (18) can be selectively directed toward the first axial end (6) or folded over toward the second axial end (8).
US10507095B2
A device for the reconstruction of the rotator cuff including a flat element having at least two opposite ends and adapted to be connected to at least one of the damaged tendons of the rotator cuff of a patient at the ends; the flat element being entirely made of biodegradable and resorbable material.
US10507092B2
A power toothbrush having a vibration compensation system, the toothbrush including a toothbrush housing (72), and an actuator which includes a stator (74) having a first moment of inertia and a rotor (76) having a second moment of inertia, at the end of said rotor is mounted a bristle member. A first spring element (86) having a first spring constant connects the stator to the housing, while a second spring element (88) having a second spring constant connects the rotor to the housing, wherein the ratio of the first and second spring constants is substantially the same as the ratio of the first and second moments of inertia.
US10507081B2
Methods of taking an impression or scan of a patient's oral cavity without requiring removal of a healing cap coupled within the implant in the subgingival void. The method may include providing an anatomical healing cap received within the subgingival void of a given tooth position, where the anatomical healing cap is coupled into an implant in the void. A scanning body or an impression post is inserted into an open end (e.g., the hollow core) of the anatomical healing cap, in-situ, with the anatomical healing cap positioned in the subgingival void, and the implant thereunder (or thereover for a maxillary tooth position). The scanning body or impression post is used as a reference in making the impression or scan. Because this is done without requiring removal of the healing cap, further collapse of the gingival tissue surrounding the void is prevented.
US10507080B2
An orthodontic anchor system may include an anchor system having an anchor system distal end and an anchor system proximal end. The anchor system may include an aligner receptacle, an aligner housing, an anchor mechanism, and an elastic band receptacle. The aligner housing may be configured to house an aligner. The anchor mechanism may be configured to house an elastic band. The aligner housing may be configured to house the aligner without requiring a modification of the aligner.
US10507060B2
The present application describes computer apparatus and software programs useful to the field of corrective spinal surgery. The apparatus and software implement and facilitate methods for assessing the degree of balance and alignment achieved through corrective measures applied to the spine prior to completing a surgical procedure. The apparatus and software facilitate pre-operative planning and virtual testing of the corrective measures to be applied. The apparatus and software further facilitate intra-operative reconciliation with the pre-operative plan prior to completing the surgery.
US10507056B2
In the present invention, a system and method for determining the orthogonality and applied force vector of an ablation catheter includes the steps of providing an electrophysiology system including an RF generator, a processor operably connected to the RF generator, a display operably connected to the processor and an ablation catheter operably connected to the RF generator and the processor, the catheter including an ablation electrode disposed opposite the RF generator and a number of microelectrodes disposed on and electrically isolated from the ablation electrode, the processor configured to compare data signals obtained from the microelectrodes with one another to derive a difference value for each pair of data signals, obtaining data signals from the microelectrodes, comparing the data signals from microelectrode pairs to determine difference values and generating a visual representation on the display of the orthogonality and applied force vector of the ablation electrode using the difference values.
US10507049B2
Embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for fixation of a fractured bone with a bone plate. In various embodiments, the systems and plates provide elastic suspension of the receiving holes relative to an osteosynthesis plate. This elastic suspension can promote load distribution between the screws that connect a bone segment to the plate, thereby reducing stress risers and load shielding effect. In addition, stress at the screw holes, and within the construct as a whole, is reduced by incorporation of these elastic elements in the plate. Additionally, in some embodiments where fracture healing by callus formation is desired, elastic suspension of the receiving holes relative to the osteosynthesis plate can enable small, controlled amounts of relative motion between bone fragments connected by the plate. This relative motion can promote fracture healing by callus formation.
US10507046B2
Devices for retracting tissue during a minimally-invasive, posterior spinal fusion procedure include a blade positionable along a passageway device connected to a connecting element implanted in a vertebra of the spine, such that the blade covers at least a portion of a longitudinal opening of the passageway device. The blade may be coupled to the passageway device by receiving the passageway device with a receiving portion. Systems for displacing the vertebrae of the spine include first and second extenders, the distal ends of each of which are configured to engage the connecting elements. Each extender may include a shaft configured to be securely engaged within a cage of the respective connecting element. The devices and systems of the present invention may be used in connection with an interbody fusion technique performed through an opening extending between the passageway devices, and an intermediate retractor blade may provide additional tissue retraction.
US10507043B1
An apparatus and method related to a collet for a spinal screw are described herein. In some embodiments, such an apparatus includes a screw, a movable head comprising a top portion and a bottom portion, a concave interior larger than a screw head, a connecting rod, a locking element screw, and a collet interposed between the screw head and the concave interior of the movable head, where the collet comprises a flexible hinge, and where the collet reduces axial compression force transferred from the set screw to the screw head.
US10507040B2
A surgical system for manipulating tissue. A steerable instrument is at least partially disposed in a deformable conduit. The steering instrument may include a control element and a deflectable portion operatively connected to the control element. The steerable instrument is actuatable to move between at least a substantially straight configuration and a curved configuration when the deflectable portion protrudes from an access cannula positioned within the tissue. The deflectable portion of the steerable instrument moves away from a longitudinal axis of the access cannula in order to deform the deformable conduit so that the deformable conduit occupies a deformed position. The steering instrument is removable from the deformable conduit so as to allow withdrawal of the deflectable portion of the steerable instrument from the deformable conduit without substantially displacing the deformed position of the deformable conduit. Methods of manipulating tissue with the surgical system are also disclosed.
US10507036B2
A tissue-removing catheter includes a tissue-removing element operatively connected to a drive shaft for rotation of the tissue-removing element about an axis of rotation in a cutting direction. In some embodiments, the tissue removing element has a cutting blade and cutting teeth positioned radially inward of the cutting blade with respect to the axis of rotation. The cutting blade and cutting teeth are fixed with respect to one another to form first and second cuts in tissue as the tissue-removing element rotates. In certain embodiments, the tissue-removing element includes a cutting blade and raised elements spaced apart inward of the cutting blade relative to the axis of rotation to define an annular tissue-receiving channel between the cutting blade and the raised elements. A bottom surface of the channel can define cutting teeth.
US10507033B2
An ultrasonic instrument includes a body, a shaft assembly, and an end effector. The shaft assembly extends distally from the body. The shaft assembly includes an acoustic waveguide configured to acoustically couple with an ultrasonic transducer. The end effector includes an ultrasonic blade, a clamp arm and a clamp pad. The ultrasonic blade is in acoustic communication with the waveguide. The clamp arm is pivotally coupled with the shaft assembly. The clamp pad is configured to removably couple with the clamp arm while the clamp arm is pivotally coupled to the shaft assembly.
US10507032B2
The present disclosure relates to a dissecting tip for use in a surgical stapler or instrument.
US10507031B2
A surgical tissue bag (7) for use in the removal of tissue from a surgical site comprises an elongate handle (8) having a proximal portion (15) and a distal portion (14), and a pouch (9) disposed at the end of the handle. The pouch (9) comprises a flexible ring (10) and a bag portion (11) depending from the ring and forming an enclosure to contain tissue and other fluid material. The handle (8) includes an offset portion (13) such that the distal portion (14) is offset from the proximal portion (15) by a discrete amount. The proximal portion of the handle forms a longitudinal axis, and the ring (10) forms a plane at an angle to the longitudinal axis. The bag portion (11) is shaped such that it defines a bag longitudinal axis, the bag longitudinal axis being non-orthogonal to the plane of the ring (10).
US10507029B2
A patient-specific acetabular guide can be used for preparing an acetabulum of a patient to receive an acetabular implant. The acetabular guide includes a patient-specific engagement surface designed to be complementary and mateable with a corresponding surface of the patient's pelvic anatomy. The acetabular guide is designed during a pre-operative plan for the patient by a three-dimensional reconstruction of the anatomy of the patient using two-dimensional medical images. The patient-specific engagement surface has a first portion mateable with a portion of the acetabulum of the patient. The acetabular guide includes a guiding element that extends from the acetabular guide opposite to the first portion of engagement surface. The guiding element defines a bore designed to be oriented along an alignment axis for an acetabular implant when the acetabular guide is engaged to the acetabulum.
US10507027B2
Disclosed is a Rongeur for surgical use. The disclosed Rongeur has a push button actuator which, upon activation, allows the long parts of the Rongeur to be easily separated for thorough cleaning and sterilization for reuse.
US10507026B2
A hemostatic device is provided to stop bleeding at a puncture site on the wrist of a patient, the device comprising a transparent flexible band to be wrapped at the site where the bleeding is to be stopped, a curved frame having an inner peripheral side and possessing a first curved portion in its first half and a second curved portion in its second half, a first balloon provided on the inner peripheral side in the first half of the curved frame and a second balloon provided on the inner peripheral side in the second half of the curved frame. The bleeding from a first artery is stopped by compressing the first artery at the puncture site using inflation of the first balloon and the blood flow in the first artery is increased by compression of a second artery using inflation of the second balloon.
US10507024B2
A long nose manipulatable catheter is described herein. The catheter generally comprises a flexible joint region defining a main lumen and an adjacent wire lumen. The wire lumen has an opening near or at a distal end of the flexible joint region and a push/pull wire can be pushed or pulled through the wire lumen. The catheter assembly may also comprise at least one radio-opaque marker band for securing the push/pull wire. The joint region has a predetermined length sized to affect a flexure of the joint and is generally located at the distal end of the catheter. The joint region itself may be varied to extend distally from where the braid terminates, or it may extend to encompass a portion of the braid. By varying a length of the joint region, the amount of curvature and flexure of the joint region can be controlled.
US10507006B2
A system and method for tracking an invasive device includes a localization system configured to be externally attached to a patient. The localization system includes a transducer module including a plurality of transducer elements. The system and method includes an invasive device including at least one device transducer element. The invasive device is configured to either transmit ultrasound position signals to the transducer module or receive ultrasound position signals from the transducer module.
US10507004B2
The present invention relates to phantom device for a dark field imaging system. Although dark field imaging is known to be sensitive to changes in the micro-structure of the tissue of a human subject that may be caused during a disease progression, there may be a need to quantify information provided by an image of the human subject. A detector signal component representing the dark image may be altered by changes of the X-ray spectrum which passes tissue of the human subject comprising micro-structures. This may be caused due to an attenuation of the X-ray radiation previously provided by an X-ray source, wherein the attenuation may be caused by tissue of the human subject, which covers said micro-structure comprising tissue. In order to provide information in clinical practice regarding the influence of attenuation to the X-ray radiation before it passes the micro-structure issue of the human subject, the phantom device for dark field imaging is proposed. The phantom device comprises a main body, wherein the main body comprises a plurality of reference parts. Each of the reference parts comprises an attenuation part and a de-coherence part. The attenuation part and the de-coherence part of the same reference part are stacked on top of each other. As a result, the different reference parts may imitate different portions of the human subject extending along a propagation direction of an X-ray radiation, which is propagated from an X-ray source of the dark field imaging system towards the corresponding X-ray detector. Thus, if the phantom device is scanned simultaneously or subsequently with the human subject, a dark field image may be acquired, which represents the human subject as well as the phantom device. From the image parts of the dark field image caused by the phantom device, a clinician may assess and classify the corresponding parts of the image, which relates to the human subject, for instance to the portions of the lung. The present invention further relates to an imaging system configured to scan a human subject together with the phantom device as well as a corresponding method.
US10506997B2
An X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes a display, a holding device, bed device, a gesture detecting device and a processing circuitry. The holding device includes an X-ray irradiator, an X-ray detector, and a supporter that supports the X-ray irradiator and the X-ray detector. The bed device is available to place an object on. The gesture detecting device recognizes a gesture of a person. The processing circuitry identifies a state of the X-ray diagnostic apparatus based on at least one of the display, the X-ray irradiator, the X-ray detector, the holding device and the bed device, determines an operation detail based on a combination of the identified state and the recognized gesture, and operates at least one of the display, the holding device, the bed device, a speaker and a room light according to the determined operation detail.
US10506996B2
A medical imaging device allowing easy and robust representation of anatomic structures within a region of interest in a patient body includes an image acquisition device, an image segmentation device, a visualization device and a separate selection button. In an image of the region of interest, anatomic structures may be automatically identified using image segmentation techniques. Therein, not only one but a plurality of candidate images including differently identified anatomic structures is provided. The plurality of candidate images may be visualized on a display sequentially or in an overlying manner. Using the easy accessible and easy to handle separate selection button, a physician may cycle through the plurality of candidate images and manually select one candidate image only by activating the selection button for further exploitation.
US10506995B2
Provided is a mobile X-ray imaging device having a foldable arm unit equipped with an X-ray tube unit, and a storage concave for storing the folded arm unit on the front side of a main body. An end of the arm unit fixed to the main body side is made slidable with respect to the main body. With this configuration, it is possible to provide the mobile X-ray imaging device having a high degree of flexibility in arranging the X-ray tube when imaging is performed, and also the forward view is never be obstructed by the device in transit.
US10506993B2
A grating based interferometric X-ray imaging apparatus having an interferometer (IF). The interferometer comprises at least one grating (G1). The grating (G1) is tiltable relative to an optical axis of the X-ray imaging apparatus. This allows changing a design energy of the X-ray imaging apparatus.
US10506990B2
Aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a fall detection device and method. One or more motion sensors can access a user's acceleration data. The acceleration data can be segmented using a segmentation algorithm to identify a potential fall event. The segmentation algorithm can determine a cumulative sum of the acceleration data, where the cumulative sum is based on acceleration values being greater than or less than an acceleration threshold value, and a potential fall event can be identified where the cumulative sum is greater than a cumulative sum threshold value. Statistical features can be extracted from the segmented acceleration data and aggregated, and a determination can be made as to whether the potential fall event is a fall event based at least in part on the statistical features.
US10506971B2
A system and method for positioning a pill to be ingested by a user in a field of view of an image acquisition camera. The method includes the steps of determining a desired location of the mouth of a user in a field of view of an image acquisition camera, determining a current position of a pill to be ingested by the user in the field of view of the image acquisition apparatus, and indicating on a display a movement to be made by the user to move the pill towards mouth of the user.
US10506965B2
The various embodiments disclosed here relate to systems, methods, and devices for monitoring bladder health. Certain implementations are directed to patients who require daily catheterization. The various embodiments have at least one tube coupled to a catheter, a pressure sensor, a pump, and a processor. Certain embodiments include a digital device with a software application capable of displaying the monitored readings.
US10506930B2
Systems and methods are described for microwave-frequency, passive sensing of internal body temperature. Some implementations include one or more wearable sensors that wirelessly transmit temperature data continuously to a remote receiver. The sensor can include a probe designed to be placed on a skin site of an individual to receive near-field radiation at the skin site, and a radiometer to detect a total power of the received near-field radiation. The remote receiver includes a signal processing system that can convert the detected total power to an internal tissue temperature measurement by applying the detected power to a tissue stack model. The tissue stack model can characterize the skin site according to a set of weighting functions, each weighting function corresponding at least to electromagnetic characteristics of an associated tissue layer of the tissue stack model.
US10506928B2
Methods for treating a wound include positioning a wound filler having a coating agent containing a fluorescent material proximate the wound. The wound filler is removed after a time period. The wound is then scanned using a fluorescence scanner to determine whether a portion of the wound filler remains at the wound. In response to the portion of the wound filler remaining at the wound, the portion of the wound filler is removed. Other methods and systems are presented.
US10506925B2
A reflectometry instrument includes a light source for emitting an illumination beam that illuminates the macula. A portion of the illumination beam is reflected from the macula and forms a detection beam. The detection beam is indicative of macular pigment in the macula. The instrument also includes a first mirror for reflecting the illumination beam toward the macula and for reflecting the detection beam from the macula. The instrument is configured so that the illumination beam and the detection beam remain separated between the macula and the first mirror.
US10506923B2
An optical measurement system and apparatus for carrying out cataract diagnostics in an eye of a patient includes a Corneal Topography Subsystem, a wavefront aberrometer subsystem, and an eye structure imaging subsystem, wherein the subsystems have a shared optical axis, and each subsystem is operatively coupled to the others via a controller. The eye structure imaging subsystem is preferably a fourierdomain optical coherence tomographer, and more preferably, a swept source OCT.
US10506916B2
An endoscopic system includes an endoscope that obtains image information inside a subject; a first recording medium into which the image information obtained from the endoscope is written; a second recording medium that has a table in which a recording condition for writing the image information obtained from the endoscope into the first recording medium has been recorded; and a controller that obtains, on the basis of an operation time period obtained from the endoscope, a recording condition associated with the obtained operation time period from among the plurality of recording conditions recorded in the table that the second recording medium has, and records the image information in the first recording medium under the recording condition.
US10506912B2
A dishwasher appliance includes a vent duct that is positioned within a door. A tub channel is separate from an ambient channel within the vent duct. An insert is positioned within the vent duct. The insert and the vent duct collectively define an outlet of the tub channel and an outlet of the ambient channel. The insert is positioned between the outlet of the tub channel and the outlet of the ambient channel along a transverse direction. The outlet of the tub channel and the outlet of the ambient channel each have a width along a lateral direction that is perpendicular to the transverse direction. The width of the outlet of the tub channel may be about equal to the width of the outlet of the ambient channel.
US10506909B2
Disclosed is a dishwasher having a structure improved to enhance the efficiency of washing. The dishwasher includes a main body, a washing tub provided in the main body, a door configured to close or open an open side of the washing tub, a fixed nozzle fixed on another side of the washing tub and configured to spray washing water, a vane configured to reflect the washing water sprayed via the fixed nozzle toward dishes while being moved within the washing tub, and a rail assembly configured to guide the movement of the vane. The vane is rotationally coupled to the rail assembly to change a direction of movement of the washing water sprayed via the fixed nozzle.
US10506898B2
The present invention relates to a table that can be placed in a bathtub, remain stationary in the bathtub, and be used by the occupant of the bathtub.
US10506894B2
The embodiments herein provide a post mounted grill assembly comprising of a post for vertical mounting in the ground and a grill assembly configured for resting on top of the ground embedded post. The grill assembly comprises a pipe, a load screw and a cooking frame. Grill assembly is rested on top of ground embedded post by sliding over bottom end of pipe onto upper end of the post. Load screw enables user to adjust height of grill assembly by turning clockwise to raise and counter clockwise to lower grill assembly. The grill assembly is 360 degrees rotatable in either direction using a second handle attached to pipe for loading fuel to campfire, for turning over food that is cooking and for returning cooking assembly back to campfire to resume cooking. Dismantling of grill assembly is done by lifting grill assembly off the embedded post on completion of cooking.
US10506893B2
An automatic tea brewing system may include a first container configured to hold a first liquid; a second container configured to hold a second liquid; a brew pot configured to be fluidly coupled to the first container and to the second container; a heating element; and a controller programmed to dispense the first liquid from the first container to the brew pot at a first time, heat the first liquid in the brew pot to a first temperature, dispense the second liquid from the second container to the brew pot at a second time later than the first time to produce a liquid combination in the brew pot, heat the liquid combination in the brew pot to a second temperature, and, at a third time later than the second time, begin decreasing the temperature of the liquid combination.
US10506888B2
A frame for the interchangeable and selective display of panels of artwork or text, where at least one interior surface of the frame defines a cavity in which one or more panels may be disposed, and channels are formed on the interior surface to receive a rod that slidably engages the channels to secure and accessibly store one or more panels within the frame. Also disclosed is a technique for disposing one or more panels within a frame for display and securing the one or more panels by advancing a rod along channels to exert force against the one or more panels.
US10506876B1
A self-assembly cabinet includes a box including a rectangular front frame, a rectangular rear frame, two rectangular side frames interconnecting the front frame and the rear frame, a top frame on tops of the front frame, the rear frame, and the side frames, and a bottom frame on bottoms of the front frame, the rear frame, and the side frames; a plurality of latches secured to four corners of an inner surface of each side frame respectively; and a plurality of cooperating fastening structures secured to four corners of an inner surface of each of the front frame and the rear frame respectively. The latches are releasably secured to the cooperating fastening structures respectively so that the side frames, the front frame, and the rear frame are assembled.
US10506870B2
A table top utilising an anchor affixed to the said table top and at least one leg to support the table top above a ground surface. The anchor is adapted to engage with the leg via a pivoting joint, such that the leg can pivot between an active position where leg is presented to engage with the ground to support the table top above the ground, and a stowed position wherein the leg is disposed to extend substantially adjacent (preferably parallel) to the lower surface of said table top. The leg is releasably retained in the stowed position by the interaction of a catch and receiver at a location distal from the pivoting joint.
US10506860B2
Containers are described herein for the transportation and distribution of replaceable consumer products, e.g. interchangeable shaving assemblies. The containers described herein include a mechanism to securely hold the container in predetermined open and closed positions. The interior of the container may provided features which serve to hold and protect the shaving assemblies when not in use, e.g., during transport or storage.
US10506859B2
The present invention relates to a hair care device (10) for straightening, curling and/or volumizing hair, the hair care device comprising: —a first jaw (12) that extends along a first longitudinal axis (30) and comprises a first handle part (16) which is coupled to a first heating tip (20), wherein the first heating tip (20) has a convex-shaped first heating surface (34), and distance elements (36, 40) to prevent a user from getting burned, preferably a bristle plate (36) that comprises a plurality of bristles or ribs (40), wherein the distance elements are arranged at a side (38) of the first heating tip (20) opposite the convex-shaped first heating surface (34), and wherein the first heating tip (20) is rotatably coupled to the first handle part (16) to permit a user to rotate the first heating tip (20) relative to first handle part (16) about the first longitudinal axis (30) —a second jaw (14) that extends along a second longitudinal axis (32) and comprises a second handle part (18) which is coupled to a second heating tip (22); and wherein the first and the second jaw (12, 14) are coupled to each other, and via the handle parts (16, 18) moveable relative to each other between an open position and a closed position.
US10506856B2
A luggage system with a wardrobe element which extends from the luggage portion and supports a crossbar for hanging clothing or costumes. An arm extends away from the crossbar for supporting a privacy curtain. The wardrobe element is secured within the sides of the luggage, and the opening of the luggage can be opened and closed without needing to store the wardrobe element. In a preferred embodiment, the wardrobe element includes two pairs of structural legs extending out of respective pockets within the luggage, the legs terminating at the crossbar.
US10506849B2
A transport apparatus is for conveying a shoe sole, and includes a rail unit divided into process and bridge regions, a delivery device and a transfer device. The delivery device is movable in the process and the bridge regions, and includes a conveyor belt for carrying the shoe sole and to move the shoe sole on the rail unit. The transfer device is located adjacent to the bridge region, and includes a transfer roller assembly and a transfer belt, which surrounds the transfer roller assembly and is drivable by the same for carrying the shoe sole. When the delivery device is in the bridge region, the conveyor belt is adjacent to the transfer belt, and is operable to convey the shoe sole onto the transfer belt.
US10506845B2
The present application relates to a rubber shoe sole, material and method for manufacturing the same. Disclosed a rubber sole comprising a rubber outsole filled with a high density material; wherein the high density material envelops a higher density TPU strip that is inscribed along the inner edge of the perimeter of the rubber sole and a rigid member enveloped between the heel and mid-sole portion of the sole.
US10506844B1
In described embodiments, the invention provides a foot pad having a generally planar substrate having a medial side and a lateral side and an upper surface extending between the medial side and the lateral side. A first toe loop extends upwardly from the medial side. The first toe loop has a first size. A second toe loop extends upwardly from the lateral side. The second toe loop has a second size, smaller than the first size. A third toe loop extends upwardly between the first toe loop and the second toe loop. The third toe loop is smaller than the first toe loop.
US10506843B2
An orthopedic shoe appliance includes a pad for providing support for midfoot arches, the second metatarsal, and the third metatarsal of a foot, wherein the pad does not provide substantial support under a heel of the foot or under the first metatarsal, the fourth metatarsal, and the fifth metatarsal. A method for manufacturing an orthopedic appliance includes obtaining a pad; and shaping the pad to provide support for midfoot arches, the second metatarsal, and the third metatarsal of a foot, but not provide substantial support under a heel of the foot or under the first metatarsal, the fourth metatarsal, and the fifth metatarsal.
US10506831B2
An exemplary atomizer includes a housing, a liquid storage chamber, and an atomization assembly. The atomization assembly includes a main body defining a liquid inlet, a liquid absorbing element arranged in the main body. The liquid storage chamber defines a liquid outlet fitting the liquid inlet in an inner sidewall thereof, and a heating element. A blocking element defining a through hole is provided between an inner sidewall of the liquid storage chamber and the main body. One end of the housing is provided with a movable element. The movable element is capable of rotating relative to the housing to cause rotation of the blocking element, thus allowing the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet to be in communication through the through hole or allowing a sidewall of the blocking element to cut off the communication between the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet.
US10506824B2
A smoking article includes a mouthpiece having an outer surface and a cooling agent inclusion complex disposed on the outer surface.
US10506821B2
A pulse protein product, which may be an isolate, produces heat-stable solutions at low pH values and is useful for the fortification of acidic beverages such as soft drinks and sports drinks without precipitation of protein. The pulse protein product is obtained by extracting a pulse protein source material with an aqueous calcium salt solution to form an aqueous pulse protein solution, separating the aqueous pulse protein solution from residual pulse protein source, adjusting the pH of the aqueous pulse protein solution to a pH of about 1.5 to about 4.4 to produce an acidified pulse protein solution, which may be dried, following optional concentration and diafiltration, to provide the pulse protein product.
US10506818B2
The present invention relates to a method for treating raw human milk to produce treated human milk having undetectable levels of bacteria. The milk is skimmed to produce skim human milk then subjected to microfiltration to yield a filtrate which has undetectable levels of bacteria, including Bacillus cereus. The resultant human milk can be further processed, used and/or sold.
US10506813B2
An composition having anti-nematodal activity derived from Bacillus firmus bacteria selected from the group consisting of isolated biosurfactant, isolated protease enzyme, isolated amylase, isolated lipase, and isolated cellulase, is disclosed. The disclosure also provides for methods of making the same, methods of controlling plant-parasite nematode, and methods of protecting plants.
US10506809B2
The present invention relates to a herbicidal combination which comprises: a) a herbicide A which is 2-chloro-5-[3,6-dihydro-3-methyl-2,6-dioxo-4-(trifluoromethyl)-1-(2H)-pyrimidinyl]-4-fluoro-N-[[methyl-(1-methylethyl)-amino]sulfonyl]benzamide, b) a herbicide B which is glufosinate or one of its salts, and c) at least one herbicide C different from herbicides A and B which is selected from C.1) herbicides of the group of acetolactate synthase inhibitors which are selected from the group of triazolopyrimidine herbicides, sulfonylamino-carbonyl-triazolinone herbicides and pyrimidinyl(thio) benzoate herbicides, C.2) herbicides of the group of protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors, C.3) herbicides of the group of synthetic auxins, C.4) herbicides of the group of microtubule inhibitors, C.5) herbicides of the group of acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitors, C.6) herbicides of the group of photosystem II inhibitors, C.7) herbicides of the group of pigment synthesis inhibitors, and C.8) herbicides of the group of VLCFA inhibitors which are selected from the group of oxyacetamide herbicides and chloroacetamide herbicides.
US10506805B2
A method for producing fibers with improved color and anti-microbial properties is described. One embodiment includes a method for generating a halogen stable antimicrobial synthetic fiber, the method comprising creating a mixture that includes a polymer, an anti-microbial agent, and a non-halogen pigment, and extruding the mixture to form an anti-microbial synthetic fiber.
US10506803B1
A foldable fishing chair comprising a pull rod; a connecting rod with wheels is arranged at the bottom of the pull rod; a seat frame with a chair surface is rotationally connected to one side of the pull rod, and a front support is rotationally connected to the seat frame; a front support connecting rod that is rotationally connected with the pull rod is rotationally connected to the front support, and the other side of the pull rod is rotationally connected with a rear support; a goods shelf is rotationally connected to the rear support; a rear support connecting rod is arranged on the goods shelf and the rear support in a penetrating mode.
US10506799B2
A bird propelled rotating hummingbird feeder. A pivot housing includes a central axis and a central hole. A plurality of fins is configured as dual opposing fin sets, where each fin is angled at an oblique angle with respect to a plane passing perpendicularly through the central axis and each fin set comprises at least three angled fins attached to the pivot housing so as to be symmetrically located opposite the other dual opposing fin set with the pivot housing centered between the dual opposing fin sets. A feeder jar housing integrated into each of the dual opposing fin sets central fin. A pivot cable is inserted through the central hole and a bearing element it is attached to a bottom end of the pivot cable within the pivot housing. A hanger is attached to a top end of the pivot cable.
US10506795B2
A practice apparatus for use in training a horse and rider for equine barrel racing. The practice apparatus is a barrel that uprights itself when tilted from a vertical position toward a horizontal position. The barrel has an internal assembly with a stretchable section that connects the barrel to a ground loop. This stretchable section allows for limited stretching of the internal assembly when the barrel is tilted whenever it is hit by a horse or its rider during practice.
US10506778B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV657038. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV657038, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV657038 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV657038 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV657038.
US10506772B2
The disclosure relates to a cotton variety, designated PX333103W3FE, the plants and seeds of the cotton variety PX333103W3FE, methods for producing a cotton plant, either varietal or hybrid, produced by crossing the cotton variety PX333103W3FE, with itself or with another cotton plant, hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety PX333103W3FE with another cotton variety or plan, methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes, and the transgenic cotton plants produced by that method. This disclosure also relates to cotton varieties derived from cotton variety PX333103W3FE, to methods for producing other cotton varieties derived from cotton variety PX333103W3FE, and to the varieties derived by the use of those methods.
US10506768B2
A device and method for removing leaves from a plant includes a downward extending and elongate support surface for supporting the plant and a pair of cutting devices disposed on either side of the support surface. Each cutting device includes a rotatable blade assembly and a grating which is disposed between the blade assembly and the support surface.
US10506764B2
A pruner cleaning machine scrubs gummy sap and foreign matter from pruner blades inserted into its cleaning chamber. The machine includes a motor turning a drive shaft having scrubbers coupled thereon. The scrubbers have scrubbing surfaces facing each other and a scrubber barrel resides between the scrubbers.The motor is electronically controlled to provide adjustable regimens of duty cycles of scrubbing in forward and reverse directions and various speeds, and status lights may indicate power available, selected options, and in-process phases and completion of a cleaning regimen.
US10506761B2
An agricultural vehicle is operable in a first state for transport and in a second state for field work and includes a frame supported by a plurality of tires. A processor is operable to receive a signal generated as a result of the agricultural vehicle transitioning from the first state to the second state or from the second state to the first state. A gas system is operable to modify the tire pressure of the plurality of tires of the agricultural vehicle in response to the signal.
US10506758B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for determining the depth of a trench opened by an agricultural planter. Sensors are provided for detecting the position of a ground-engaging element of the planter such as a gauge wheel or seed firmer of a row unit of the planter. Apparatus and methods are provided for installing such sensors onto a row unit of the planter. Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for controlling downpressure on a row unit based on the trench depth. Methods are provided for mapping trench depth measured by the depth sensors.
US10512201B2
A member preparation method includes a request rank determining step of determining a request member rank of a member fitted to production of a mounting board based on board information and component information including a mounting position of a component mounted on the mounting board. Furthermore, the member preparation method includes a fitting member extracting step of extracting a fitting member fitted to the request member rank in a plurality of members based on a production plan of the mounting board and retained member information in which a member rank is associated with each of the plurality of the members. Furthermore, the member preparation method includes a use member selecting step of selecting a use member in the fitting member, and a member preparation instructing step of generating an instruction to prepare the use member.
US10512198B2
A power converter includes: a power module that converts direct-current electric power from a power storage apparatus and alternating-current electrical power to be supplied to a load; a charger that converts alternating-current electrical power supplied via an external connector to direct-current electric power and charges the power storage apparatus therewith; a case that accommodates the power module and the charger; a cooling-medium flow channel that is provided in the case and through which cooling medium flows, wherein the power module and the charger are arranged on the cooling-medium flow channel.
US10512195B2
Example implementations relate to a server device with a capacitive circuit. For example, a server device with a capacitive circuit can include a capacitive circuit located on a printed circuit assembly (PCA) of the server device and a baseboard management controller unit (BMC) to provide a communication interface between the capacitive circuit and a computing device. A voltage can be applied across the capacitive circuit and a signal can be sent from the capacitive circuit to the computing device using the BMC in response to a change in voltage.
US10512190B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a system and a method for mounting a panel within an enclosure. Using one or more sets of mounting blocks, the panel and a frame of the enclosure can be secured together in respective horizontal orientations, then collectively rotated to a vertical orientation. The one or more sets of mounting blocks can include a set of stop blocks, each including a respective tongue, and a set of slide blocks, each defining a respective recess when seated on a frame member of the enclosure frame. Each tongue can be configured to nest within a corresponding recess when the mounting blocks secure the panel to a corresponding frame member.
US10512188B2
The invention relates to a line for a server insert for connecting a power supply unit with a circuit board with distributor contacts. The line comprises a first current rail and a second current rail. The first current rail and the second current rail are arranged parallel to each other. Both current rails can be secured at connections of a power supply unit of a server insert and a circuit board with distributor contacts. The current rails have first connection elements, which are arranged in such a way that two lines can be connected with each other in order to form a point-symmetrical arrangement of lines.The invention further relates to an arrangement and a server insert.
US10512180B2
An electronics cabinet includes front, rear and side walls, wherein the rear wall includes first and second removable panels, the first and second removable panels being mounted to the rear wall with securing fasteners and further includes a security system for preventing removal of the first and second removable panels. The security system includes: an assembly that overlies a securing fastener of the first panel and a securing fastener of the second panel; and a locking device engaging the assembly, the locking device configured to move between locked and unlocked conditions, wherein in the locked condition the locking device prevents removal of the assembly from the first and second rear panels, and in the unlocked condition the locking device permits the removal of the assembly from the first and second rear panels.
US10512171B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a metal wire embedded flexible substrate from a laminate structure. The laminate structure includes a carrier substrate, a debonding layer disposed on at least one surface of the carrier substrate and including a polyimide resin, a metal wiring layer disposed in contact with the debonding layer, and a flexible substrate layer disposed in contact with the metal wiring layer. The adhesion strength between the metal wiring layer and the flexible substrate layer is greater than that between the metal wiring layer and the debonding layer. According to the method of the present invention, the flexible substrate with the metal wiring layer can be easily separated from the carrier substrate even without the need for other processes, such as laser and light irradiation. The embedding of the metal wires in the flexible substrate layer decreases the sheet resistance of an electrode and can protect the metal wires from damage or disconnection even when the flexible substrate is deformed in shape.
US10512169B2
A glazing includes at least one substrate, one portion of which includes an electrically conductive element, the conductive element including a connector made of chromium-containing steel, which connector is soldered with a solder based on tin, silver and copper to an electrically conductive track, wherein the electrically conductive track, which is formed by fritting a silver paste including a mixture of silver powder and glass frit, has a resistivity measured at 25° C. lower than or equal to 3.5 μΩ·cm and a porosity level lower than 20%, the porosity level being measured by scanning electron microscopy from a cross section through the portion of the substrate including the electrically conductive track and having been polished beforehand by ion milling.
US10512155B2
A wiring board that includes a first dielectric layer having a rectangular plate form, a ground conductor wiring, a pair of signal conductor wirings, a ground conductor layer, and a second dielectric layer having a rectangular plate form. The ground conductor wiring is positioned on a first face of the first dielectric layer. The pair of signal conductor wirings carrying out signal transmission is positioned on the first face of the first dielectric layer. The ground conductor layer is positioned on a second face of the first dielectric layer. A first end portion of the signal conductor wiring extends to a first side of the first face. The region of the ground conductor layer where the first end portion of the signal conductor wiring is positioned in plan view is cut away inwardly from a first side of the second face opposing the first side of the first face.
US10512143B1
A lighting control system is provided to reduce the time, cost, and potential for error during device commissioning. A controller is programmed to obtain voice commands from a user and to identify and implement device commissioning modes based at least on the obtained voice commands. In a first commissioning mode, the controller configures one or more buttons or equivalent actuators on a control switch mounted in association with a lighting zone. In a second commissioning mode, the controller assigns device grouping and/or configuration data for a plurality of lighting devices (e.g., lighting fixtures, occupancy sensors, light sensors) in operable connection with the control switch. The controller may further in another commissioning mode identify one or more second lighting devices added to or exchanged with one or more of the plurality of first lighting devices and assign device grouping and/or configuration data thereto.
US10512140B2
A connected downlight including: a housing module including a first housing end and a second housing end; a lighting module mounted to the first housing end; and a wireless communication module including an antenna and arranged within the housing interior proximal the second housing end.
US10512135B2
A control device controls an illumination device that illuminates a surrounding area, and an effect-producing device that emits light producing an effect on the surrounding area. The control device includes a control unit that controls at least one of a color of first light emitted by the illumination device and a color of second light emitted by the effect-producing device so that at least one of the color of the first light and the color of the second light moves into a specified chromaticity range, the color of the first light and the color of the second light being outside of the specified chromaticity range. Colors in the specified chromaticity range are recognized as a same color by a human.
US10512128B2
A master lighting fixture and a satellite lighting fixture can each include an LED board including multiple LEDs that can emit visible light. A power supply and a LED regulator can be connected to the LED board in the master lighting fixture to provide power to operate the LED board. The LED board in the master lighting fixture can be connected to the LED board in the satellite lighting fixture to form a circuit to allow the power provided by the LED driver to be transmitted to the LED board in the satellite lighting fixture. A defect in the LED board in the master lighting fixture or the satellite lighting fixture can open the circuit, which can prevent power from being transmitted through the LED boards to enhance the performance of LEDs in the LED boards or reduce a risk of damage that can be caused by the LED boards.
US10512127B2
Cooking apparatus (10) includes heating chamber (4), radiant heater unit (38), convection device (30), a temperature sensor, and a control unit. Radiant heater unit (38) is provided inside heating chamber (4) and radiant-heats an object to be heated. Convection device (30) is provided behind heating chamber (4) and convection-heats the object. The temperature sensor is provided inside convection device (30) and detects temperature inside convection device (30). The control unit controls the temperature inside heating chamber (4) by making radiant heater unit (38) and convection device (30) operate in response to the temperature detected by the temperature sensor. This aspect achieves a stable level of finish and a prolonged service life of radiant heater unit (38).
US10512126B2
A number of variations may include a method that may include providing a glass substrate that may include a first surface and a second surface; disposing a ceramic frit that may include at least one bus bar and at least one grid line on the first surface to form a window assembly; bathing the window assembly in a first bath solution; and drying the window assembly.
US10512124B2
A method includes placing a first package component over a vacuum boat, wherein the vacuum boat comprises a hole, and wherein the first package component covers the hole. A second package component is placed over the first package component, wherein solder regions are disposed between the first and the second package components. The hole is vacuumed, wherein the first package component is pressed by a pressure against the vacuum boat, and wherein the pressure is generated by a vacuum in the hole. When the vacuum in the hole is maintained, the solder regions are reflowed to bond the second package component to the first package component.
US10512123B2
The invention relates to a motor vehicle wiper system comprising: at least two windscreen wipers 12, 22, including a first windscreen wiper 12 and a second windscreen wiper 22, a heating device comprising a first heating element 14 designed to heat the first windscreen wiper 12 and a second heating element 24 designed to heat the second windscreen wiper 22, an electrical supply device designed to supply electricity to the first 14 and second 24 heating elements, and a control module, the wiper system being characterized in that the control module is designed so as to delay, when the heating device is activated, the electricity supply to the second heating element 24 compared to the electricity supply to the first heating element 14, by a pause duration Δt.
US10512121B2
Methods of and systems for packet gateway and content management integration are disclosed. An integrated gateway and content management module provides content to mobile user equipment from a content delivery network. The module operates on the content based on information about the mobile user equipment and/or network entities with which the mobile user equipment is communicating and information about the content being provided. The integrated gateway and content management module discovers said information.
US10512120B2
Technology for a repeater is disclosed. The repeater can include a first coaxial cable with a first defined connection. The repeater can include a repeater unit communicatively coupled to the first coaxial cable via the first defined connection. The repeater can include a controller configured to adjust a gain or output power of the repeater unit that accounts for known losses on the first coaxial cable.
US10512119B2
Communications devices such as cellular telephones share resources, for example to conserve battery capacity or to enable a device to perform a function not available to another one of the devices. Such devices may find particular utility in a mobile personal emergency response (MPERS) environment, and may enable clients of an MPERS service to take better advantage of the service. The devices communicate over a local wireless communications system to determine which device may perform a particular function. Other resources that may be shared include cellular connectivity and global positioning capability.
US10512114B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for logging a radio resource control (RRC) failure of user equipment (UE) and receiving the log. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for logging an RRC failure of UE may comprise the steps of: attempting random access; if the failure of random access is sensed, logging information on the failure; and if the success of random access is sensed, transmitting information on the failure logged before the success to a connected base station. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus and a method which effectively log a channel state or a connection failure can be provided.
US10512112B1
A method and apparatus for routing packets from a home agent to a user equipment through a first access network and a second access network. The method includes sending a first binding update message from the user equipment over the first access network to create a first binding cache entry at the home agent. The user equipment uses a home address assigned to the user equipment as a source IP address of the first binding update message. The method further includes sending a second binding update message from the user equipment over the second access network to create a second binding cache entry at the home agent. The user equipment receives packets from the home agent through the first access network and the second access network based on the first binding cache entry and the second binding cache entry.
US10512107B2
Provided is a terminal, for example, user equipment (UE), including a processor and that performs a random access (RA) procedure with a base station, for example, for example, eNodeB, E-UTRAN Node B, or also known as Evolved Node B, and is at least temporarily embodied by the processor. The terminal may be at least temporarily embodied by the processor. The terminal may include a generator configured to generate a preamble sequence using a first sequence corresponding to a first root index based on a preamble index that is randomly selected, and a determiner configured to determine a second root index using the preamble index as an input value of a root index function. Further, the generator may be configured to generate a tag sequence using a second sequence corresponding to the second root index based on a tag index that is randomly selected.
US10512103B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to transmit data in a connectionless mode are disclosed. An example method includes identifying, at a user equipment, that data exists to be transmitted to a destination address, the destination address encoded into the data. An indication is transmitted that the user equipment will transmit the data, the data to be transmitted without establishing a bearer with a wireless network. The data is encoded into a preamble of a random access channel message. The random access channel message is transmitted.
US10512096B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting data in dual connectivity, the method comprising: configuring that UL data is only to be transmitted to the first eNB, if an amount of data available for transmission in a PDCP entity is less than a threshold, receiving a PDCP data from an upper layer, transmitting a BSR to request an UL grant to the second eNB, receiving the UL grant from the second eNB, and transmitting the PDCP data using the UL grant to the second eNB if an amount of the PDCP data has been indicated to the second eNB by the BSR.
US10512093B2
Based on a service associated with data, a service-specific level of interference threshold (460) of the service is established and further a level of interference value (200) present on a radio interface of a cellular network is established. Based on the established level of interference threshold (460) and further based on the established level of interference value (200), it is selected between a predetermined first allocation scheme (491, 492) of radio resources on the radio interface and a predetermined second allocation scheme (491, 492) of radio resources on the radio interface.
US10512091B2
A wireless base station receives a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message having a Vehicle-to-X (V2X) service indicator from a User Equipment (UE) and transfers a UE message to a network core that serves the UE with the V2X service. The wireless base station receives another RRC message having a text/multimedia messaging service indicator from another UE and transfers a UE message to a different network core that serves the other UE with the text/multimedia messaging service. The wireless base station receives another RRC message having a video conferencing service indicator from a UE and transfers a UE message to yet another network core that serves the UE with the video conferencing service.
US10512085B2
Provided is a communication system that can be normally and efficiently operated in the case where existing carriers and new carrier types coexist. A base station device and a communication terminal device are configured to perform communication in cells of legacy carriers LC1 to LC3 being existing carriers. When the base station device starts operating new carrier types NCT1 and NCT2, the NCT1 and NCT2 are associated with legacy carriers belonging to the same frequency band. For example, the NCT2 is associated with the LC2 or the LC3 and is not associated with the LC1. The legacy carriers LC1 to LC3 associated with the NCT1 and the NCT2 notify the communication terminal device of the information on the NCT1 and NCT2. This allows the communication terminal device to communicate with the NCT1 and the NCT2.
US10512083B2
A control method comprises: transmitting, by a first management apparatus included in a first network allocated with a first frequency band, to a second network allocated with a second frequency band, an allocation request signal for requesting allocation of a part of the second frequency band to the first network, the signal being generated on the basis of a usage state of the first frequency band, determining, by a second management apparatus included in the second network, on the basis of a usage state of the second frequency band, a bandwidth to be allocated to the first network out of the second frequency band and an allocated frequency band corresponding to the bandwidth; managing the allocated frequency band as unavailable; transmitting, an allocation request response signal including information indicating the allocated frequency band, to the first network; and managing the allocated frequency band as available in the first network.
US10512080B2
A base station may make more efficient use of resources by transmitting data in a control region of a slot in addition to a data region. In order to avoid performance loss, the base station may adjust the data transmission in the control region in comparison to a data transmission in a data region and may signal an indication to a UE to assist the UE in receiving the data transmission in the control region. An apparatus for wireless communication at the UE receives the indication from the base station regarding the data transmission in the control region and uses the indication to perform rate matching or demodulation of the data transmission in the control region. The indication may indicate any of a different MCS/rank/TPR, a reduced MCS/rank/TPR, an MCS/rank/TPR delta, a control span for a group of UEs, and a starting symbol for the data transmission. The indication may also indicate that there is no data transmitted on resources in the control region.
US10512078B2
Provided is a radio communication apparatus including a radio communication unit that performs radio communication with another radio communication apparatus, and a control unit that controls processing of adding information which can be used for communication by the another radio communication apparatus which is a transmission destination to a frame within such a range that transmission is possible using an assigned radio resource.
US10512071B2
In a terminal, a control unit transmits a bundle response signal using a resource in a basic region of an uplink control channel in an uplink unit band of a unit band group when no error is detected in each of a plurality of pieces of downlink data of the unit band group, the uplink control channel in the uplink unit band being associated with a downlink control channel in a basic unit band that is a downlink unit band in which a broadcast channel signal including information relating to the uplink unit band is transmitted, and the control unit transmits the bundle response signal using a resource in an additional region of the uplink control channel when an error is detected in each of the plurality of pieces of downlink data.
US10512064B1
An interference level is determined in an uplink portion of a wireless communication link between a wireless device and an access node. A traffic class of data is identified in a first portion of the uplink portion, and resource blocks in a second portion of the uplink portion are selected based on the determined interference level and the identified traffic class. The wireless device is sent an allocation of the selected resource blocks in the second portion of the uplink portion, and control channel information is received from the wireless device in the uplink portion in the selected resource blocks.
US10512055B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that manages utilization of mobile subscriber identity information including enabling use of such information by different communication devices. The use of the same mobile subscriber identity information by multiple devices can be based on locations. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10512030B2
Provided are a method for a distributed unit (DU) of a base station (BS) to broadcast system information in a wireless communication system, and a device supporting the same. The method may include: receiving system information owned by a central unit (CU) of the BS from the CU of the BS; receiving a request for the system information from a user equipment (UE); receiving a message of a command to broadcast the system information from the CU of the BS; and broadcasting the requested system information.
US10512024B2
A method performed by a first wireless node for enabling relaying by a relaying wireless node of data intended for reception by a second wireless node. The first wireless node, second wireless node and relaying wireless node each operate in a wireless communications network. The first wireless node transmits a first payload data to the relaying wireless node. The first payload data comprises a second payload data intended for the second wireless node. The first payload data further comprises an indicator, which indicator indicates to the relaying wireless node how to relay the second payload data. The indicator comprises parameters related to radio transmission of the second payload data.
US10512023B2
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a sidelink signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving, from a network, a threshold value for a transmission of the sidelink signal; receiving, from the network, an indicator indicating at least one of a specific UE category and a specific service type allowed to transmit the sidelink signal regardless of the threshold value; if a category of the UE is not the specific UE category and the UE is not operating with the specific service type, measuring quality of a serving cell of the UE; and if the quality of the serving cell is less than the threshold value, transmitting the sidelink signal to a target UE, wherein, if the category of the UE is the specific UE category or the UE is operating with the specific service type, the sidelink signal is transmitted to the target UE regardless of the threshold value.
US10512015B2
A method is disclosed for avoiding unnecessary keepalive data transfers, comprising: receiving, at an upstream TCP connection endpoint in a radio access network (RAN) from an operator core network, an Internet Protocol (IP) packet; performing, at the upstream TCP connection endpoint, shallow packet inspection on the IP packet; and forwarding the IP packet to the downstream TCP connection endpoint in the RAN if the IP packet is not a keepalive packet, based on the performed shallow packet inspection. The upstream TCP connection endpoint in the RAN may be one of a nodeB, an eNodeB, a base transceiver station (BTS), a coordinating server, and a mobile edge computing (MEC) gateway. The downstream TCP connection endpoint in the RAN may be one of the nodeB, the eNodeB, or the base transceiver station (BTS).
US10512014B2
The present disclosure relates to a handover apparatus and method capable of avoiding in-device coexistence interference. In order to prevent handover failure due to in-device coexistence interference, an SeNB provides TDM information (including TDM pattern information or TDM activation information) to a UE during a handover procedure, and the UE performs the handover with a TeNB according to the provided TDM information. By the disclosure, the UE can perform ISM signal transmission/reception and LTE signal transmission/reception with the TeNB in a discriminated manner according to a particular TDM pattern, so as to prevent handover failure due to the in-UE coexistence interference.
US10512008B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising a processor configured to receive a set of gap patterns, and measurement activities associated therewith, wherein each of the gap patterns includes an identifier for the measurement activity to be performed, and measure a signal pursuant to at least one of the gap patterns to obtain a measurement.
US10512007B2
A mobile terminal assists in the updating of a neighbor cell list associated with a first cell of a wireless telecommunications network. The list comprises elements that identify other cells that have a neighbor cell relationship with the first cell. The mobile terminal comprises a radio transceiver; and a controller coupled to the radio transceiver.
US10512003B2
A method is described herein that is performed by a connectivity service platform in a communication network. The platform is enabled to communicate with a radio device via a wireless network connection of a first subscription of the radio device. The method comprises falling back to a second subscription, thereby enabling the connectivity service platform to communicate with the radio device via a wireless network connection of said second subscription of the radio device instead of the first subscription. The method also comprises receiving a request message from the radio device via the network connection of the first subscription. The method also comprises sending a reject message to the radio device, in response to the received request message and in view of the platform having fallen back to the second subscription. The reject message comprises a fall-back indication for instructing the radio device to fall back from the first subscription.
US10511994B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for efficiently transmitting a buffer status report for a plurality of logical channel groups (LCG) from a terminal to a base station. The method may include receiving allocation information for uplink resources from a base station; determining whether the number of padding bits for data transmission using the uplink resources is i) greater than or equal to a first value and ii) less than a second value; determining whether available data for uplink transmission is present in one or more logical channel groups (LCGs) when the number of padding bits is greater than or equal to the first value and is less than the second value; and transmitting Short Truncated BSR or Long Truncated BSR to the base station according to a result of comparison between the number of padding bits and the first value when available data for uplink transmission is present in the one or more LCGs.
US10511993B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for buffer status reporting and efficient handling of new quality of service (QoS) flows on the default bearer in next generation (NG) radio access networks (RAN) are provided.
US10511990B1
A wireless relay uses multiple wireless backhaul options. In the relay, a wireless access point exchanges user data with wireless user devices including a visitor device. The wireless access point exchanges the user data with Relay Equipment (RE) in the wireless relay. The RE exchanges the user data with a home wireless communication network. The RE detects a loss of performance for the home wireless communication network, and initiates a backhaul connection through the visitor wireless user device and a visitor wireless communication network. The wireless access point exchanges additional user data with the wireless user devices. The wireless access point exchanges the additional user data with the RE. The RE exchanges the additional user data with the home wireless communication network over the backhaul connection through the visitor wireless user device and the visitor wireless communication network.
US10511988B2
A wireless communication device and method therein for handling operating mode in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The wireless communication device comprises multiple receiving paths and at least two SIMs. A first SIM connection is in active mode towards a first network node, a second SIM connection is in idle mode and camping on a second network node. The wireless communication device is configured to determine a first time instant, a first time duration and a type of idle mode task to be performed by the second SIM connection and determine a number of receiving paths needed for the idle mode task to be performed by the second SIM connection. The wireless communication device is further configured to report at a second time instant prior to the first time instant, to the first network node a changed receiving capability of the first SIM connection. Then the wireless communication device is configured to allocate a first set of receiving paths to the first SIM connection and a second set of receiving paths to the second SIM connection to perform the idle mode task during the first time duration.
US10511986B2
A first, second and third node as well as methods performed thereby are provided for providing a measurement result to the second node by the wireless device. The method performed by the wireless device comprises obtaining an adaptive resolution factor; and providing a combined measurement report based on the obtained adaptive resolution factor and a measurement result, wherein a combined measurement report comprises at least two reported levels, which jointly represents the measurement result, to the second node.
US10511985B2
Provided are a method for a terminal performing wireless local area network (WLAN) measurement in a wireless communication system, and a device supporting same. A terminal receives a WLAN measurement configuration comprising an indicator and a subject to be measured, and on the basis of the indicator, determines a subject for performing a WLAN measurement on, and performs a WLAN measurement on the determined subject for performing a WLAN measurement on, wherein the indicator may indicate whether a measurement of a WLAN AP detected by the terminal is allowed.
US10511984B2
A channel state information (CSI) feedback method and a terminal are provided to enable the terminal to determine a CSI feedback approach based on received information for CSI feedback and perform CSI measurement and CSI feedback. A network device indicates a CSI feedback configuration group for CSI feedback to the terminal. After receiving the CSI feedback configuration group, the terminal determines the CSI feedback approach corresponding to the CSI feedback configuration group.
US10511977B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing a spectrum access sharing front-end processor for mobile management entities. A front-end processor of a mobile management entity associated with a carrier network can receive a spectrum allocation message. The spectrum allocation message can include data that indicates a spectrum allocation that should be implemented by the carrier network. The front-end processor can identify an eNodeB that is controlled by the mobile management entity, generate, based on the spectrum allocation message, a signaling command that includes data that indicates the spectrum allocation, and send the signaling command to the eNodeB.
US10511976B2
A radio terminal (1) selects, from a resource pool in a discovery period, NTX sets of resource blocks for NTX transmissions of a discovery signal based on a first value n1 that is a resource value autonomously selected by the radio terminal (1) or is a parameter received from a base station (2). A frequency domain shift from a second resource block set used in (j−1)th transmission (j is an integer no less than 2) to a first resource block set used in j-th transmission of the discovery signal in the discovery period depends on at least one of the first value n1 and a frequency domain position of the second resource block set in the resource pool. It is thus, for example, possible to attenuate decline in reception quality of a discovery signal due to interference resulting from In-Band Emissions (IBE) when direct discovery of D2D communication is performed.
US10511972B2
[Object] To provide a communication apparatus, a communication method, and a program, each of which is capable of achieving both security and convenience of communication in transmission of information.[Solution] A communication apparatus, including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a position or external environment of the communication apparatus; and a control unit configured to control transmission of information containing first identification information of the communication apparatus in the case where the information acquired by the acquisition unit satisfies a predetermined condition. A communication method, including: acquiring information on a position or external environment of a communication apparatus; and controlling transmission of information containing first identification information of the communication apparatus in the case where the acquired information satisfies a predetermined condition.
US10511966B2
A mobile device, a method for displaying a screen thereof, a wearable device, a method for driving the same, and a computer-readable recording medium are provided. The mobile device operating with a wearable device includes a display configured to display a private screen which is personalized to a user after authentication of the wearable device based on at least one of a user state and an operational state of the mobile device and a controller configured to control the display to display the private screen after the authentication.
US10511956B2
A method includes receiving, by a core network entity, a first message from a first terminal. When the core network entity determines, according to the first message, that the first terminal is allowed to associate with a second terminal, a second message is generated by the core network entity and sent to the first terminal, where the second message is used to establish an association between the first terminal and the second terminal.
US10511946B2
The disclosure relates to dynamic secure messaging using near-field communication. Example embodiments include a near field communication target device (102) configured to respond to a read request (202) transmitted by a reader device (101) by transmitting a message (204) comprising an unencrypted portion and an encrypted portion, the encrypted portion incorporating a counter that is incremented each time a read request is received.
US10511943B2
Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a mobile device to request a transport vehicle. Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a transport vehicle to respond to a request from a mobile device. Various embodiments include customer and transport authentication and security techniques. Various embodiments include location update techniques to enable a transport vehicle to navigate to a mobile device, even in areas of low position accuracy for traditional GNSS and terrestrial transceiver-based systems.
US10511942B2
A method and apparatus are provided for presenting multimedia content to a caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call, and/or post-call. Content presented to a party may be related to another party participating in the call or may be related to a third party (e.g., an advertiser that paid for the ability to have its content presented). Presented content may be actuable, to allow a caller to change the destination of a call, take advantage of an offer presented to him or her, redeem a coupon, schedule or queue a subsequent call, etc. To find a desired destination party, a caller may initiate a manual or automatic search of his or her local contacts (on his telephone) and/or a central or global directory or contact list.
US10511939B1
A method can include, by operation of a first device, generating sequence information for a plurality of sequential transmission windows, the sequence information including at least a channel identification (ID) corresponding to a base frequency for each window; generating payload data for a packet and wirelessly transmitting the packet in one of the windows, the payload data including sequence information for a window later in the sequence than the window in which the packet is transmitted. By operation of an application executed on a second device, a target packet can be composed that includes inverse whitened data; wherein the whitening of the inverse whitened data by the second device results in a substantially sinusoidal signal when the target packet is transmitted. The first device can determine a direction of the second device by processing the substantially sinusoidal signal. Devices for executing such a method are also disclosed.
US10511936B1
The methods and software application described herein monitor the acceleration experienced by a mobile device and determine when said acceleration exceeds a predetermined acceleration threshold that may be indicative of an unusually rapid acceleration or deceleration. In the event of a sudden acceleration or deceleration, the methods and mobile application described herein automatically trigger a timely, event-related notification to the user of the mobile device, such as displaying a banner on the mobile device's display, a text, electronic mail, or voice message.
US10511935B2
A method and system for providing audio information to a mobile device relating to geographical elements at the geo-location coordinates of a location on a map on a screen on the device. The method and system provide for selecting and sending electronic files to the device relating to different geographical elements at the geo-location coordinates.
US10511931B1
The disclosure herein describes receiving wireless signal strength data and detecting movement of a computing device relative to wireless access points based thereon. The computing device receives a signal strength data stream based on a wireless signal from a wireless access point. A signal strength range is determined based on the signal strength data stream during a learning time period while the computing device is within a defined area. The signal strength range indicates that the computing device is within the defined area associated with the wireless access point. During a detection time period, signal strength values outside of the signal strength range are detected and, based on the detected values, a notification is provided that indicates the computing device has moved outside the defined area. The described movement detection method provides rapid detection of movements of a computing device using already-obtained data that does not rely on interaction with other devices.
US10511930B2
A system and methods for presenting a notification for playback at a smart speaker device including a real-time location (RTL) server, a portable device configured to transmit an output signal including a portable device ID representative of the portable device to the RTL server, a notification server configured to communicate with the RTL server, where the notification server is configured to associate the notification with the portable device ID, and at least one of generate, store, distribute, cue and present for playback the notification based on the portable device ID on the smart speaker device associated with a location. The RTL server is configured to determine the location and an identity of the portable device based on receiving the output signal including the portable device ID, and the notification server is configured to cue the associated notification for playback at the smart speaker device based on the determined location of the portable device.
US10511922B2
A method adapted to be implemented in a master device of a distributed sound system is described. The master device includes a plurality of audio input interfaces and is adapted to output audio signals on a set of at least two audio channels. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, the method includes detecting at least one audio signal conveyed by at least one of the audio input interfaces; routing the conveyed signal to at least one of the audio channels, the routing taking into account a number of detected audio signals. A corresponding master device, system, computer readable program product, and computer readable storage medium are also described.
US10511919B2
A hearing-assist system for use in a venue in which ambient sounds contain dialogue as well as other components which comprises circuitry inserted in a signal path between a program source feed in a program occurring in the venue and a hearing-assist unit worn by a user in that venue which reduces psychoacoustic conflict and interference between sound which is ambient in the venue and sound heard by the user via the hearing-assist unit.
US10511916B2
A hearing assistive device having an input transducer (18) for picking up sound from the environment, a digital signal processor (27) for alleviating a hearing loss of a specific user by compensating an audio signal according to the users hearing deficit, and an output transducer (29) for reproducing the compensated audio signal. The hearing assistive device further includes an integrated circuit component (40) having at least one analog-to-digital converter adapted for receiving an audio input signal from a microphone and providing a data output for signal processing. The at least one analog-to-digital converter includes an AC filter (50) preventing audible signal losses towards the microphone, and the AC filter (50) is provided with all components integrated in the integrated circuit component (40).
US10511910B2
The present disclosure provides a smart headphone. The smart headphone includes a sensor configured to sense external information, a memory configured to store feature information, and a controller operatively connected to the sensor and the memory, respectively, and the controller is configured to compare the external information sensed by the sensor with the feature information stored in the memory, and to control a playback state of audio information in the smart headphone according to the result of the comparison.
US10511907B2
A device, system, and a method for adjusting audio parameters for a user are disclosed. The method comprises performing a hearing test of the user. The hearing test comprises playing an audio and capturing an auditory response of the user towards the audio. A hearing profile of the user is generated based on one or more results of the hearing test. A playing speed of the audio is adjusted based on the hearing profile, thereby adjusting the audio parameters for the user.
US10511904B2
Systems and methods for three-dimensional beamforming disclosed herein include, among other features (i) generating a set of received-sound beams by applying a plurality of sets of beamforming coefficients stored in a tangible memory of the network device to sound received via a microphone array of the network device, wherein each received-sound beam corresponds to a separate direction relative to the microphone array, (ii) identifying a subset of the received-sound beams comprising speech content, (iii) for each received-sound beam in the subset of the received-sound beams comprising speech content, determining whether the speech content comprises a wake word, (iv) selecting one final received-sound beam from the received-sound beams in the subset of the received-sound beams determined to comprise a wake word; and (v) causing the selected one final received-sound beam to be processed to identify a voice command.
US10511894B2
A method that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, transmitting media content to a group of set top boxes for presentation with an overlay superimposed onto the media content, where the overlay can include a timeline corresponding to the presentation of the media content and receiving a first comment from a first set top box of the group of set top boxes, where the first comment is presentable with the overlay and the media content by the group of set top boxes. Additional steps can include receiving a tag generated at a first set top box during presentation of the media content, presenting the tag while the media content is presented, correlating the tag to a portion of the media content timeline and analyzing metadata associated with the portion of the timeline that is tagged to determine a first marketing parameter. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10511880B2
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of triggering an instance of companion software to perform an expected action related to a piece of media content during a delivery of that media content by a media device to a content consuming user, the method comprising: the instance of the companion software receiving a synchronization signal transmitted when, in delivering the media content, the media device reaches a reference point in the media content, wherein the synchronisation signal conveys a time instant of that reference point; measuring a current elapsed time from the time instant of the reference point; accessing computer storage holding an association of the expected action with a time instant of a trigger point in the media content; and triggering the expected action when the current elapsed time substantially matches the time instant of the trigger point.
US10511878B2
In one embodiment, an image analysis is performed on an image captured using a camera mounted on an autonomous vehicle, the image representing an exterior environment of an autonomous vehicle. Localization information surrounding the autonomous vehicle is obtained at a point in time. A perception of an audience external to the autonomous vehicle is determined based on the image analysis and the localization information. One or more content items are received from one or more content servers over a network in response to the perception of the audience. A first content item selected from the one or more content items is displayed on a display device mounted on an exterior surface of the autonomous vehicle.
US10511877B2
A system for transmitting auxiliary data within a modulated video signal from a broadcast source to a hand-held device with a slot, the system comprising the broadcast source comprises means for transmitting auxiliary data to the slotted hand-held device via the modulated video signal; an interface device electronically coupled to the hand-held device via the slot and comprises a card microcontroller, a receiver electronically coupled to the card microcontroller for receiving the modulated video signal from the broadcast source, and circuitry electronically coupled to the card microcontroller and the receiver for demodulating the modulated video signal and reproducing the auxiliary data, and transferring the auxiliary data to the hand-held device via an interface protocol, and the hand-held device with the slot comprises a microcontroller for processing the signal auxiliary data received via the interface protocol from the interface device.
US10511874B2
In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine a first media device of a first user of a social-networking system and determine a second media device of a second user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems access a social graph of the social-networking system, update the social graph based on the determined first and second media devices, and stream media from the first media device to the second media device using the updated social graph. The social graph includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes, the nodes including user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system and concept nodes that are each associated with a particular media device.
US10511864B2
This disclosure relates to a system for transcoding a media stream. The system comprises at least one network interface; at least one memory; and at least one processor each coupled to one or more of the at least one network interface and one or more of the at least one memory, the at least one processor configured to publish, via a messaging bus, a segment transcode request in a segment transcode request queue, retrieve the segment transcode request by a transcode worker thread, wherein the first transcode worker thread monitors the segment transcode request queue, transcode by a second transcode worker thread a segment referenced by the segment transcode request, determine by the manifest processor whether the second transcode worker thread has completed transcoding the segment and is still operating, and, if not, transcode the segment by a third transcode worker thread, and store the transcoded segment.
US10511859B2
A method and apparatus of image coding including a no-residue prediction mode are disclosed. At the encoder side, current predictors for a current coding unit are determined according to a target prediction process associated with a target prediction mode. The current predictors are determined based on pixel data including reconstructed pixels in the current slice or the current image. The target prediction process is applied to the current coding unit using the current predictors to generate prediction residues. A distortion condition or a cost measure for the prediction residues is determined. If the distortion condition is satisfied or the cost measure favors coding without the prediction residues, the current coding unit is encoded into current compressed bits of the current coding unit without compressed data associated with the prediction residues. A corresponding decoding method and apparatus are also disclosed.
US10511855B2
A predictive coding system can encode motion vectors by determining a motion vector of a target partition in a frame picture of an encoding target; determining a first motion vector predictor candidate from a motion vector or motion vectors of one or more partitions belonging to a left-neighboring region to the target partition; determining a second motion vector predictor candidate from a motion vector or motion vectors of one or more partitions belonging to an above-neighboring region to the target partition; selecting an optimum motion vector predictor and outputting motion vector predictor indication information to specify the selected optimum motion vector predictor, the optimum motion vector predictor selected based on comparison between one or more motion vector predictor candidates including the first motion vector predictor candidate and the second motion vector predictor candidate, and the motion vector of the target partition; and encoding the motion vector predictor indication information.
US10511851B2
A method of dividing an input image signal into pixel blocks, and performing inter-prediction on the divided pixel blocks. This method includes selecting predicted motion information from a motion information buffer storing motion information in an encoded region, and predicting motion information of an encoding target block by using the predicted motion information. The method further includes acquiring representative motion information from a plurality of items of motion information in an encoded region in accordance with first information indicating a method of selecting the predicted motion information, thereby obtaining only the representative motion information.
US10511837B2
Techniques are provided to encode and decode image data comprising a tone mapped (TM) image with HDR reconstruction data in the form of luminance ratios and color residual values. In an example embodiment, luminance ratio values and residual values in color channels of a color space are generated on an individual pixel basis based on a high dynamic range (HDR) image and a derivative tone-mapped (TM) image that comprises one or more color alterations that would not be recoverable from the TM image with a luminance ratio image. The TM image with HDR reconstruction data derived from the luminance ratio values and the color-channel residual values may be outputted in an image file to a downstream device, for example, for decoding, rendering, and/or storing. The image file may be decoded to generate a restored HDR image free of the color alterations.
US10511835B2
Method and apparatus of video coding using decoder derived motion information based on bilateral matching or template matching are disclosed. According to one method, an initial motion vector (MV) index is signalled in a video bitstream at an encoder side or determined from the video bitstream at a decoder side. A selected MV is then derived using bilateral matching, template matching or both to refine an initial MV associated with the initial MV index. In another method, when both MVs for list 0 and list 1 exist in template matching, the smallest-cost MV between the two MVs may be used for uni-prediction template matching if the cost is lower than the bi-prediction template matching. According to yet another method, the refinement of the MV search is dependent on the block size. According to yet another method, merge candidate MV pair is always used for bilateral matching or template matching.
US10511833B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first visual information associated with at least a portion of a 360-degree perspective; determining that the first visual information is not sufficient to render a complete 360-degree perspective on a display device associated with a first user; receiving second visual information, wherein the second visual information comprises information configured to render a display of one or more videos from one or more second users; and sending rendering information, wherein the rendering information comprises information configured to render a unified 360-degree perspective on the display device, wherein: a first portion of the unified 360-degree perspective is based on the first visual information, and a second portion of the unified 360-degree perspective is based on the second visual information.
US10511831B2
The disclosure provides a 3D image display device. The 3D image display device includes a display module having multiple sub-pixels, a driving module, and an optical module disposed opposite to the display module. The driving module is electrically connected to the sub-pixels. The optical module provides a normal view zone and a reverse view zone. A plurality of view images are arranged in the normal view zone and the reverse view zone. The view images in the normal view zone are arranged in a forward order, the view images in the reverse view zone are arranged in a reverse order, and the width of the normal view zone is greater than the width of the reverse view zone.
US10511814B2
A projector according to the present technology includes a blower mechanism, a liquid crystal lightbulb, a light-incident-side polarization plate, and a light-emitting-side polarization plate. The blower mechanism generates a cooling wind. The light-incident-side polarization plate includes a plurality of wires formed to extend non-parallel to the cooling wind blown by the blower mechanism and is arranged on a light-incident side of the liquid crystal lightbulb. The light-emitting-side polarization plate includes a plurality of wires formed to extend non-parallel to the cooling wind blown by the blower mechanism and is arranged on a light-emitting side of the liquid crystal lightbulb.
US10511809B2
A system and method comprising a mobile device in communication with a server, wherein the server is adapted for receiving surveillance data transferred electronically from a surveillance area. At least one camera is positioned at the surveillance area for capturing surveillance data, wherein the surveillance data comprises metadata comprising at least one of audio, video, images, point in time and location of the surveillance area. The surveillance data is transferred from the server to said mobile device and displayed on the mobile device upon a user request. The surveillance data may be transferred automatically using a combination of a radio, a network, or a base station. A motion detection means can be engaged to the system to detect variations in motion measurements and provide global positioning data at the surveillance area. The system provides automatic updates to a user regarding delivery surveillance data corresponding to the user request.
US10511806B2
For an audio transmission, a computer system detects sounds in the audio transmission, where the audio transmission is for participants in a conversation and the conversation includes spoken word sounds of the participants. The method includes determining, by the computer system, that one of the sounds is transmitted from where one of the participants is located and that the one of the sounds indicates a distraction. Responsive to determining that that one of the sounds indicates a distraction, the computer system generates a predetermined action to mitigate the distraction.
US10511800B2
Methods and systems are described for displaying a thumbnail preview of video content. In an aspect, one or more mosaic images made up of thumbnails corresponding to frames of the video content at multiple time points can be loaded into the system or created by the methods described. In an aspect, the selected thumbnail, as well as any other thumbnails, can be selected in response to receiving a command (e.g., trick play request) from the viewer. The command can dictate the direction from the selected thumbnail that the next thumbnails will be selected. The command can also dictate the frequency with which thumbnails will be selected from the mosaic image. In an aspect, frames comprised of thumbnails can be encoded to create the video content.
US10511797B2
A sound-producing component and a display device are disclosed. The sound-producing component includes a sound-producing element, a backplane and at least one elastic element. The elastic element includes a first clamping portion and a second clamping portion; the sound-producing element includes a first mounting portion; the backplane includes a second mounting portion; the first mounting portion is clamped with one of the first clamping portion and the second clamping portion; and the second mounting portion is clamped with the other of the first clamping portion and the second clamping portion. Thus, the sound-producing element is fixed on the backplane.
US10511793B2
A system and method for correcting fixed pattern noise in far-infrared (FIR) images captured by a shutterless FIR camera. The method includes: determining a drift coefficient based on previously determined calibration values and high pass filter values applied to an input FIR image captured by the shutterless FIR camera; smoothing the drift coefficient based, in part, on previously computed drift coefficient values; and removing noise from the input image based on the smoothed drift coefficient value.
US10511791B2
In an image capturing apparatus that comprises a pixel area of pixels arranged in a matrix, output circuits apply preset processing to signals read out in parallel from divided areas obtained by dividing the pixel area in a column direction and output the processed signals, a controller performs control to execute first driving for reading out signals corresponding to a predetermined voltage to the output circuits, and second driving for reading out image signals from the pixel area, and a correction circuit generates gain data based on the predetermined voltage for correcting differences between the signals for correction of different columns output for each of the divided areas, and corrects the image signals of the divided areas using the gain data generated for the corresponding divided areas.
US10511790B2
Image capturing accuracy is improved while a simple optical system is used. An image capture device includes: a polarizing filter that blocks non-transmitted light that has been in polarized light of an infrared ray radiated from a light source and has not been transmitted through an image capturing target and transmitted light that has been in the polarized light and has been transmitted through the image capturing target without diffusion inside the image capturing target, and transmits transmitted light that has been in the polarized light and has been diffused inside the image capturing target and transmitted therethrough; and an image sensor that receives the light that has been transmitted through the polarizing filter and captures an image of the image capturing target.
US10511786B2
An image acquisition method operates in a hand held image acquisition device with a camera. A first image of a scene is obtained with the camera at a nominal exposure level. A number of relatively bright pixels and a number of relatively dark pixels within the first image are determined. Based on the number of relatively bright pixels, a negative exposure adjustment is determined and based on the number of relatively dark pixels, a positive exposure adjustment is determined. Respective images are acquired at the nominal exposure level; with the negative exposure adjustment; and with the positive exposure adjustment as component images for high dynamic range (HDR) image of the scene.
US10511783B2
There are provided an illumination sensing system and a surveillance camera including the illumination sensing system. The illumination sensing system includes: an illumination sensor configured to sense input light; a circuit board comprising a mount zone in which the illumination sensor is placed; and at least one line provided on the circuit board and connected to the illumination sensor, wherein the mount zone comprises a mount portion on which the illumination sensor is placed and a surrounding portion located around the mount portion, and wherein at least one penetration hole through which air passes is formed in the circuit board.
US10511777B2
A personal care system having a treatment device for applying a treatment to the skin or hair of a user is provided. The treatment device has a camera for taking an image of the skin. The system includes an application programming interface (API) that can process the image. The API can recommend the use of treatment regimens or topical products according to information the API gathers from the digital image of the skin.
US10511773B2
Systems and methods for digital video stabilization via constraint-based rotation smoothing are provided. Digital video data including a set of image frames having associated time stamps and a set of camera orientation data having associated time stamps may be provided. A smoothed set of camera orientation data may be generated by minimizing a rate of rotation between successive image frames while minimizing an amount of empty regions in a resulting set of smoothed image frames reoriented based on the smoothed set of camera orientation data.
US10511770B2
An accessory apparatus attached to an interchangeable lens attached to a camera body can switch between a first accessory power mode and a second accessory power mode consuming less power than the first accessory power mode. The power state of the accessory apparatus is set based on information regarding the power mode of the camera body and the power mode of the interchangeable lens.
US10511767B2
In an information processing device including a display unit that is able to selectively display a multi-directional video and a data processing unit that executes video display control, the data processing unit applies a device-correspondent video display scheme recorded in video display control information and executes the video display process. The video display control information defines a type-based display scheme optimum for each type of information processing device executing a video display process. The data processing unit applies the display scheme associated with a type matching the type of the own device and executes the video display process.
US10511763B1
Techniques for starting an electronic communication based on a captured image are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computer system detects that an image has been captured by a camera on a first mobile device of a first user, where the captured image has been captured by the camera at a point in time, and, in response to detecting that the image has been captured, the computer system identifies at least one other user in the captured image. In some example embodiments, the computer system transmits a message to an electronic destination associated with the other user(s) based on the identifying of the other user(s) in the captured image.
US10511755B2
An image-capturing device includes: a plurality of micro-lenses disposed in a two-dimensional pattern near a focal plane of an image forming optical system; an image sensor that includes a two-dimensional array of element groups each corresponding to one of the micro-lenses and made up with a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements which receive, via the micro-lenses light fluxes from a subject having passed through the photographic optical system and output image signals; and a synthesizing unit that combines the image signals output from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements based upon information so as to generate synthetic image data in correspondence to a plurality of image forming areas present on a given image forming plane of the image forming optical system, the information specifying positions of the photoelectric conversion elements output image signals that are to be used for generating synthetic image data for each image forming area.
US10511753B2
An image capturing device is provided. The image capturing device includes a housing, a first circuit board, a second circuit board, a supporting frame and a lens. The first circuit board is disposed in the housing, wherein the first circuit board includes an image sensing unit. The second circuit board is disposed in the housing and coupled to the first circuit board. The supporting frame is disposed in the housing, wherein at least a portion of the supporting frame surrounds the first circuit board and the second circuit board, the first circuit board and the second circuit board abut the supporting frame, the supporting frame includes at least one spacer formed thereon, the spacer is sandwiched between the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The lens is connected to the housing and corresponds to the image sensing unit.
US10511751B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion unit having a light incident surface and including: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed further toward the light incident surface; and a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. The photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a member in contact with the photoelectric conversion layer and constituting a light guide together with the layer. An area of a first surface parallel to the light incident surface at a portion of the photoelectric conversion layer surrounded by the member is smaller than an area of a second surface disposed between the first surface and the second electrode at a portion of the photoelectric conversion layer surrounded by the member, and an area of orthogonal projection to the light incident surface of the first electrode is smaller than an area of orthogonal projection to the light incident surface of the second surface.
US10511745B2
An information processing apparatus includes a display and a processor. The display displays an image. The processor causes the display to display a color presenting section that presents color-related information and a multilayer display section that displays a multilayer structure of color-related information selected from the color presenting section.
US10511741B2
An image processing apparatus for processing image data to be used for image formation, comprises: a black background area determination unit configured to determine a black background area formed from a plurality of black lines using the number of consecutive black lines and the number of consecutive lines adjacent to the black lines and other than the black lines out of the image data; and a thinning processing unit configured to perform thinning processing for the black background area by switching a thinning pattern to convert a value of a pixel based on the number of lines included in the black background area determined by the black background area determination unit.
US10511732B2
Techniques for signer-initiated electronic document signing via an electronic signature service using a mobile or other client device are described. Example embodiments provide an electronic signature service (“ESS”) configured to facilitate the creation, storage, and management of documents and corresponding electronic signatures. In some embodiments, when a signer user receives a hard copy (e.g., paper) signature document, the signer may capture an image of the signature document with a camera of a mobile device. The signer can then import the captured image into the ESS for signature, storage, and/or transmission to other parties.
US10511727B2
A communication device includes a communication unit, a communication function allocation unit, a communication status determination unit, and a communication control unit. The communication unit performs communications with another communication device using a plurality of communication paths. The communication function allocation unit allocates communication functions to each of the communication paths in the communication unit. The communication status determination unit determines a communication status for each of the communication paths. The communication control unit controls communications for each of the communication paths in accordance with allocation by the communication function allocation unit and a determination result of the communication status determination unit.
US10511725B2
An image forming apparatus includes a reader; an image former, provided below the reader, for forming an image on a sheet; a sheet discharge portion, provided between the reader and the image former, for discharging and stacking the sheet; an operating portion provided in a front side adjacent to the reader in the horizontal direction and slidable along a side of the reader; a sensor unit provided at a side of the reader in a outside of a slidable range of the operating portion, the sensor unit being can project a signal on the side of the reader and receiving a reflection wave of the signal to detect presence of the user in an area in the front side; and a controller for restoring a state of the apparatus from a sleeping state to a stand-by state in response to detection by the sensor unit.
US10511716B2
Techniques for handling contacts and agents in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for handling contacts and agents in a contact center system including determining a first caller grade for a first call, determining a first agent grade for a first agent, and matching the first caller and the first agent based on a comparison of the first caller grade with the first agent grade.
US10511714B2
A solution according to the invention relates to a method for determining a communication channel for providing content data in a context of call setup from a subscriber A to a subscriber B. In the method a capability of the subscriber B to support a specific communication framework is determined and in response to a detection that the subscriber B supports the predetermined communication framework triggering a transmission of the content data over the specific communication framework. Otherwise, the content data is transmitted to the subscriber B over a communication network into which the subscriber B is connected to. The invention also relates to a user equipment, a computer program product and a system.
US10511708B2
Disclosed embodiments process network traffic according to user feedback. At least one intermediary between a client and a server on a network may process network traffic of a session established between the client and the server. The at least one intermediary may intercept a message from the client identifying a level of quality of experience (QoE) indicated by a user based on the network traffic. The at least one intermediary may determine, in response to the intercepted message, that the level of the QoE is below a threshold, and a predefined action to improve a condition of the network causing the identified level of QoE. The at least one intermediary may change, according to the determination, the processing of the network traffic by taking the predefined action.
US10511706B2
Disclosed are a persuasive interaction restriction method and system for the intervention of smart device overuse based on context-awareness. A method of restricting an interaction of a smart device based on context awareness is executed by a computer, and may include training a user's interactivity with a smart device and an app installed on the smart device, setting an intervention method related to restriction on the use of the app based on the trained interactivity, recognizing whether context requires intervention based on predetermined interactivity restraint setting information, and restricting the use of the app based on the intervention method set if the context is recognized to require intervention.
US10511705B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, device, and system for network control. The method includes determining, by one or more processors, whether a target application is running in a foreground of a terminal, the target application being included in a set of target applications, and in response to determining that the target application is running in the foreground, blocking or throttling, by the one or more processors, network communication for at least one application not included in the set of target applications.
US10511701B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus for providing, at the time of occurrence of a predetermined event, screen display which is easier to see. The apparatus includes a display unit that arranges a first display frame and a second display frame side by side on a screen, displays, in the first display frame, information generated by a first application, and displays, in the second display frame, information generated by a second application, and a display controller that automatically changes, if the first application is an application for accepting an event, a size of the first display frame at the time of acceptance of the event.
US10511700B2
A communication terminal including a processor to output a first display image generated by a first application for communication preferentially over a second display image generated by a second application for communication. The processor causes the first application to output state information indicating a state corresponding to an event generated by the second application.
US10511694B2
The present application is directed towards systems and methods for application specific load-balancing for web servers. A device intermediary to a plurality of clients and a plurality of services executing on a plurality of servers, may receive a request from a client for an application. The device may identify an identifier for the application from a table comprising a list of applications and a corresponding identifier assigned to each application. In an embodiment, the device may establish one or more monitors to monitor each service to determine applications available on each service. In an embodiment, the device may determine that one or more services of the plurality of services provides the application and select a service from the one or more services to forward the request. The device may forward the request to the selected service.
US10511687B2
A mobile device includes a frontend application, a prediction layer including a dispatch unit, prediction generation unit, metadata store, and curve fitting unit. A method includes receiving at the prediction layer a frontend application service request, forwarding the service request about contemporaneously to the curve fitting unit, prediction generation unit, and a backend server, the prediction generation unit searching the metadata store for a predictive formula associated with the service request, calculating a response using the predictive formula, and providing the calculated response for display in a user interface as an interim result to the service request. A response from the backend server is displayed by the frontend application. The curve fitting unit generates and/or refines a predictive formula for the service request based on the service request parameters and the backend server response. A non-transitory computer-readable medium is also disclosed.
US10511683B2
A proxy framework communicatively connected to source systems and backend systems can intercept a call from a client device to a legacy backend system, interprets the call, and determines whether an account associated with the client device has migrated to an information exchange platform. If so, the proxy framework can direct the call to a native backend system that is native to the information exchange platform, instead of the legacy backend system. If not, the call is forwarded to the legacy backend system.
US10511666B2
An input information reception unit of a server receives input information relating to a user operation from a client terminal and records the input information into an input information storage unit together with time. An information processing unit carries out an information process immediately on the basis of the input information, and an encoding unit encodes generated primary output data and a data transmission unit transmits the encoded data to the client terminal. An adjustment part adjusts processing contents and an encode parameter at any time in response to a communication situation monitored by a communication situation monitoring unit and records an adjustment history into an adjustment history storage unit together with the time.
US10511665B2
A distributed storage network (DSN) employs one or more distributed storage task execution (DST EX) units for dispersed storage of encoded data slices. A delete-slice request associated with a first encoded data slice is received at a DST EX unit, the encoded data slice is packed into a common file with other encoded data slices, and the common file is stored in a distributed storage (DS) memory included in the DST EX unit. Each encoded data slice packed into the common file is associated with a file offset within the common file. The DST EX unit identifies a file offset of the first encoded data slice within the common file. The DST EX unit releases the portion of the DS memory associated with the particular file offset within the common file to a file system maintained by the DST EX unit.
US10511662B2
A method for moving application related records between distributed cloud domains when a user terminal changes its physical location and a predetermined condition is fulfilled. The user terminal is connected to a telecommunication network and uses an application (App). The method determines that a user terminal location has changed at least from a first network area of the telecommunication network to a second network area, considering one or more constraints associated with (i) a location of the user terminal in the second network area, (ii) a location of a cloud component of the application (App) in a first cloud domain associated with the first network area, and (iii) a location of a second cloud domain associated with the second network area, and moves, when the predetermined condition is fulfilled, the application related records from the first cloud domain to the second cloud domain.
US10511659B1
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device having a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to receive results of intermediate statistical computations performed on respective ones of a plurality of datasets in respective ones of a plurality of distributed processing nodes configured to communicate over at least one network. The processing device is further configured to perform at least one global statistical computation based at least in part on the results of the intermediate statistical computations, and to utilize a result of the global statistical computation to perform one or more benchmarking operations for specified parameters relating to the plurality of datasets. The distributed processing nodes are associated with respective distinct data zones in which the respective datasets are locally accessible to the respective distributed processing nodes. At least a subset of the receiving, performing and utilizing are repeated in each of a plurality of iterations.
US10511654B2
A collaborative phone-based file exchange technique that wirelessly synchronizes a user's work context with his or her mobile phone and makes this context readily available and sharable in collaborative situations. When the user is away from their desk, collaboration with others is possible by sharing/downloading between the mobile phone and a paired PC, which may be a colleague's computer or a meeting room workstation/computer. When the user returns to their office, any recently downloaded files are automatically synchronized back to their office PC.
US10511652B2
In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems and program products. A server system receives from a plurality of computing devices indications that a user of each of the computing devices requested to receive posts that a first user authors. The server system receives from a first computing device a post that was authored by the first user. The post is transmitted from the server system to the plurality of computing devices. A score for the post is determined to satisfy a criteria for transmission to a second user who has not requested to receive posts authored by the first user. The determination uses a distance of the second user to the first user in a social network graph. In response, the post is transmitted from the server system to a second computing device that is associated with the second user.
US10511651B2
A plurality of micro-services is automatically registered with a central data storage device. During registration, a mapping is determined between intermediate identifiers that identify selected micro-services and physical addresses of one or more servers that execute the selected micro-services. At least one of the physical addresses are dynamically updated based upon operational changes to the one or more servers or based upon a registration of an additional server.
US10511650B2
A method includes receiving, at a processor of a server, first quality of service (QoS) data from a first device and second QoS data from a second device. The first QoS data is associated with a satellite media distribution system (MDS) and the second QoS data is associated with a terrestrial MDS. The method includes performing an analysis of the first QoS data and the second QoS data at the processor and identifying a quality of service issue based on the analysis. The method also includes, in response to a first determination that the QoS issue is caused by a combined content source of the satellite MDS and the terrestrial MDS, sending a first notice related to the QoS issue from the processor to a component of the combined content source, a device associated with maintenance personnel for the combined content source, or both.
US10511642B1
A system and method for associating users with a micro-community that is relevant to an object reference. The object reference is anything that can be perceived either physically or conceptually, such as a location, a document, a calendar entry, a document, a news feed, a biometric key, an image, a news feed, etc. A micro-community engine identifies users who are associated explicitly with the object reference as well as people who would be interested in the object implicitly and associates them with a micro-community. The micro-community engine provides an intuitive and flexible means for communication between members of the micro-community.
US10511631B2
Providing safe access of a data item accessed through one of a plurality of access channels while concurrently providing a policy check of the data item. An indication associated with accessing a data item through one access channel of a plurality of access channels may be received. In response to receiving the indication associated with accessing the data item, the data item may be automatically analyzed to determine whether the data item satisfies a policy. Also in response to receiving the indication associated with accessing the data item and while determining whether the data item satisfies the policy, safe access of the data item may be provided. Regardless of the access channel through which the data item was accessed, any of the policy check, the safe access, and the analysis of the data item may be the same.
US10511630B1
This invention provides secure, policy-based separation of data and applications on computer, especially personal computers that operate in different environments, such as those including personal applications and corporate applications, so that both types of applications can run simultaneously while complying with all required policies. The invention enables employees to use their personal devices for work purposes, or work devices for personal purposes. The secure, policy-based separation is created by dividing the data processing device into two or more “domains,” each with its own policies. These policies may be configured by the device owner, an IT department, or other data or application owner.
US10511629B2
Methods and systems for encryption control in optical networks without data loss enable various transitions related to encryption of an ODU data payload. A transition from unencrypted data payload to encrypted data payload is performed without data loss or dropping of OTN frames. A transition from encrypted data payload to unencrypted data payload is performed without data loss or dropping of OTN frames. A rotation of the encryption key to another encryption key is also performed without data loss or dropping of OTN frames.
US10511625B2
Embodiments can identify requests that may be tied to a DDOS attack. For example, the primary identifiers (e.g., a source address) of requests for a network resource (e.g., an entire website or a particular element of the website) can be tracked. In one embodiment, a statistical analysis of how often a particular source address (or other primary identifier) normally makes a request can be used to identify source addresses that make substantially more requests. A normal amount can correspond to an average number of request that a source address makes. According to some embodiments, a system can use statistical analysis methods on various request data in web server logs to identify potential attacks and send data concerned potential attacks to an HBA system for further analysis.
US10511623B2
A data processing method comprising obtaining a plurality of computer network security threat feeds from two or more computer threat detection systems; based upon computer network attack information in the computer network security threat feeds, determining a threat score that represents a severity of an actual or suspected attack on a particular host in a computer network; obtaining an asset value for the particular host that indicates a worth of the particular host, and updating the threat score based upon the asset value; mapping the updated threat score to one of a plurality of remediation actions, wherein a first remediation action is mapped when the updated threat score is low and a second, different remediation action is mapped when the updated threat score is high; based upon the updated threat score and the mapping, selecting and automatically performing one of the plurality of remediation actions on the particular host; wherein the method is performed by one or more special-purpose computing devices.
US10511613B2
A computer-implemented method for implementing a knowledge transfer based model for accelerating invariant network learning is presented. The computer-implemented method includes generating an invariant network from data streams, the invariant network representing an enterprise information network including a plurality of nodes representing entities, employing a multi-relational based entity estimation model for transferring the entities from a source domain graph to a target domain graph by filtering irrelevant entities from the source domain graph, employing a reference construction model for determining differences between the source and target domain graphs, and constructing unbiased dependencies between the entities to generate a target invariant network, and outputting the generated target invariant network on a user interface of a computing device.
US10511612B2
A system capable of detecting an artful risk of intrusion into a communication environment, and protecting the communication environment from the risk. The system includes a security incident detection section configured to monitor information or communication in a communication environment and detect occurrence of a security incident in the communication environment, a normal workflow execution section configured to simulatively execute a normal workflow in a test communication environment in response to detection of the security incident by the security incident detection section, and a communication monitoring section configured to monitor information or communication in the test communication environment when executing the normal workflow in the test communication environment.
US10511608B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: sending, from a device, input from a user requesting access to data retrievable by an aggregate service device; sending, from the device, input from the user selecting, from the aggregate service device, a selection of data; and sending a distribution command; wherein the distribution command comprises information related to distributing a pointer indicating the selection of data.
US10511602B2
Methods and systems for securing a network including IoT devices are provided. A networking device system can regulate the ability of IoT devices to communicate with their corresponding cloud servers over the Internet, for example, by allowing a device to connect to its associated cloud servers when a user (e.g., an authorized user) requests to use the device. The system can communicate (e.g., directly) with users outside of the network through an app and/or a software development kit installed on user client device(s), where communications received from the app or kit (e.g., to access one or more IoT devices on the network) can be presumed to originate from authorized users.
US10511588B2
A logging device configured to store log messages, includes a storage device having a plurality of log entry locations which can be ordered as a sequence, an encryption device configured to generate the encrypted log messages from log messages, an authentication code generator configured to generate an authentication code from the encrypted log message, a key evolving device, a state storage device configured to store state variables for use by the encryption device, the authentication code generator and/or the key evolving device. Furthermore, a verification device configured to verify log entries stored in log entry locations of the storage device is also described. A method for storing log entries in log entry locations of a storage device of a logging device as well as to a method for verifying the integrity of log entries stored in log entry locations of a storage device is also described.
US10511583B2
A portable communication device may include a mobile application executing in an application execution environment and a secure application executing in a trusted execution environment. The secure application may receive, from the mobile application, a storage request to store sensitive data. The storage request may include an encrypted data type identifier and an encrypted sensitive data. The secure application may decrypt the encrypted data type identifier and the encrypted sensitive data using a transport key, and re-encrypt the sensitive data using a storage key. The re-encrypted sensitive data can then be stored in a memory of the portable communication device which is outside the trusted execution environment.
US10511576B2
A method and apparatus that securely obtains services in response to a request for a service while concealing personally identifiable information (PII) includes a software package having a user identification (ID) and network protection module that runs on a third party system and an anonymizer module that runs on a user system. The user system sends the request for the service via an API that invokes the user ID and network protection module to validate the request. In response to receiving validation, the anonymizer module modifies the request for the service to conceal at least part of the PII and sends the modified request to the service provider. In one embodiment, the third party system may be an application program configured to run on the user system. Thus, no PII or data to identify the unique individual is transmitted to the service provider.
US10511573B2
A network device comprises a storage device storing an application program for a secure communications service, and at least one processor configured to execute the application program for the secure communications service so as to enable the network device to send a request to look up a network address of a second device based on an identifier associated with the second device, receive an indication that the second device is available for the secure communications service, the indication including the requested network address and provisioning information for a secure communication link, connect to the second device over the secure communication link, using the received network address of the second device and the provisioning information for the secure communication link, and communicate at least one of video data and audio data with the second device using the secure communications service via the secure communication link.
US10511572B2
In some variations, first and second rule sets may be received by a network protection device. The first and second rule sets may be preprocessed. The network protection device may be configured to process packets in accordance with the first rule set. Packets may be received by the network protection device. A first portion of the packets may be processed in accordance with the first rule set. The network protection device may be reconfigured to process packets in accordance with the second rule set. A second portion of the packets may be processed in accordance with the second rule set.
US10511570B2
Embodiments relate to systems, devices, and computing-implemented methods for performing and requesting registry operations using reseller profiles. A domain name registry can store or access associations between domain name reseller identifiers and domain name reseller profiles, and, based on receiving a domain name registry operation request from a domain name registrar that includes a domain name reseller identifier, applying domain name registry operation policies associated with the domain name reseller profile when performing registry operations.
US10511566B2
Techniques for connecting computer system entities to remotely extended local computer system resources are described herein. A computer system entity that requests access to a local computer system resource has that request fulfilled by a managed directory service which receives the request and connects the computer system entity to the local computer system resource. While connected, the managed directory service extends the local computer system resource to a corresponding extended remote computer system resource, receives commands to perform operations on the local or extended remote computer system resources and, if the computer system entity is authorized to perform the operations on the appropriate computer system resource, the managed directory service performs the operations on the appropriate computer system resource.
US10511560B2
Systems and methods for prioritizing electronic messages in an electronic message repository are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include (1) at least one computer processor determining an amount of message review time for a user; (2) the at least one computer processor estimating a number of electronic messages that the user can review in the message review time; (3) the at least one computer processor determining a priority level for a plurality of electronic messages in the user's electronic message repository; (4) the at least one computer processor selecting electronic messages from the user's electronic message repository based on the estimated number of electronic messages that the user can review and the priority level for the electronic messages.
US10511550B2
Systems and methods are provided for instant messaging. For example, a first association relationship with at least one first apparatus client for instant messaging is established; and a first control instruction is transmitted to the at least one first apparatus client to trigger the at least one first apparatus client to control, according to the first control instruction, an intelligent apparatus connected to the at least one first apparatus client to execute one or more predetermined operations.
US10511542B2
The techniques described herein monitor, store, and evaluate network information associated with an application to determine a connectivity option to use to communicate data. A connectivity option includes a network interface and a type of network connection. The determination is made based on power consumption information associated with available connectivity options. Consequently, a device on which the application is installed can better manage its power consumption associated with network communications.
US10511541B2
Various aspects for scaling an availability of information are disclosed. In one aspect, a response performance associated with responding to data consumption requests is monitored. A characterization of the response performance is ascertained, and a scaling of resources is facilitated based on the characterization. In another aspect, a data consumption status indicative of data consumed is ascertained. Here, a scalability interface is provided, which displays aspects of the status, and receives an input from a content provider. An allocation of resources is then modified in response to the input. In yet another aspect, a response performance associated with responding to data consumption requests is monitored. An application programming interface (API) call is generated based on a characterization of the response performance, and transmitted to a content provider. An API response is then received from the content provider indicating whether a scaling of resources for hosting the data was performed.
US10511539B2
A system and method updates a consumer's preference information not only as a result of explicit preference information received from the consumer, but also resulting from actions of the user.
US10511535B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission control node, a system, and a data transmission management method. A TCP subflow on which data offloading needs to be performed is selected according to a requirement for running the system. By changing an input item of an MPTCP congestion control algorithm, data on the selected TCP subflow can be migrated to another expected TCP subflow that belongs to a same MPTCP connection as the selected TCP subflow. By taking an additional measure to manage and control MPTCP data transmission on an access network side, a result of the data offloading on the TCP subflow can satisfy the expected requirement for running the system, so as to optimize system performance, and improve practicability of the MPTCP congestion control algorithm.
US10511533B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for controlling a congestion window (CWND) value of a communication session of a CDN. In particular, a content server may analyze a request to determine or receive an indication of the type of content being requested. The content server may then set the initial CWND based on the type of content being requested. For example, the content server may set a relatively high CWND value for requested content that is not particularly large, such as image files or text, so that the data of the content is received at the client device quickly. For larger files or files that a have a determined smaller urgency, the initial CWND may be set at a lower value to ensure that providing the data of the content does not congest the link between the devices.
US10511532B2
Some embodiments provide a method for configuring unit memories (e.g., unit static random access memories (SRAMs) and ternary content addressable memories (TCAMs) of a network forwarding IC to implement a set of longest prefix matching (LPM) tables. Two different methods of providing a longest prefix match (LPM) operation that minimize the use of ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) are presented. Each method takes advantage of the use of match-action stages and the programmability of the unit memories. An algorithmic LPM embodiment is presented which uses a TCAM index with pointers to SRAM partitions that store subtrees of a routing tree (routing trie structure) and performs subtree rearrangements in the partitions upon the addition of certain routing entries. A chained LPM embodiment, allocates separate exact-match tables for a set of address prefix lengths in, for example, SRAMS, as well as a set of non-exact match tables in, for example, TCAMs.
US10511530B2
Embodiments provide techniques for providing return-link routing in a hybrid communications network that includes a number of different networks having different characteristics. User terminal routing systems (UTRSs) provide interfaces between local user networks and the multiple communications networks of the hybrid network. Each UTRS can include a routing table having stored mappings that are populated according to forward-link communications (implicitly or explicitly), each associating a respective one of a plurality of routing table entries with one of the communications networks. When a UTRS receives return-link data from its respective local user network, the received data indicates a destination node. The UTRS can determine which of the stored mappings corresponds to the destination node and can route the received return-link data over a selected one of the communications networks in accordance with the identified one of the mappings.
US10511529B2
A packet processing method for a virtual switch is carried out in a virtual switch under the SDN architecture. The method presets a signature pre-computation table including plural destination addresses and signatures corresponding to the destination addresses. With the installation of the signature pre-computation table, the destination addresses fall into packets of the signature pre-computation table without requiring computing the signature of the packet. The method simply obtains the corresponding signature according to the destination address of the packet destination address, and thus saves the time required for processing a packet and improves the throughput of the virtual switch.
US10511526B2
A network system, a network control method, and a control apparatus are provided that can easily achieve assurance of the quality of a network service and optimization of the throughput of an entire system. A network control apparatus (11) controls a network having a multi-layer structure, sets a first layer path that provides virtual network functions for a network service on a first layer, monitors whether or not the network service on the first layer fulfills a required service level, and depending on a result of the monitoring, changes a setting of a packet header so that the first layer path will be switched at an end point of the network service. This causes a resource on a second layer, which is a lower layer than the first layer, to change.
US10511524B2
Control plane management based on the physical topology of nodes in software-defined networks (SDNs) is provided. A tree structure in an SDN such as an access network is identified. Control plan management is provided using the tree structure. A controller configures changes in the SDN and provides notifications to other controllers after configuring devices under its control. A controller prioritizes the status of downstream and/or upstream devices based on a type or direction of data flow when making configuration decisions. A controller provides notifications to other controllers by prioritizing notifications based on the hierarchical position of devices.
US10511509B2
Technologies for low-latency data streaming include a computing device having a processor that includes a producer and a consumer. The producer generates a data item, and in a local buffer producer mode adds the data item to a local buffer, and in a remote buffer producer mode adds the data item to a remote buffer. When the local buffer is full, the producer switches to the remote buffer producer mode, and when the remote buffer is below a predetermined low threshold, the producer switches to the local buffer producer mode. The consumer reads the data item from the local buffer while operating in a local buffer consumer mode and reads the data item from the remote buffer while operating in a remote buffer consumer mode. When the local buffer is above a predetermined high threshold, the consumer may switch to a catch-up operating mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10511505B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to recreate real world application level test packets for network testing. Live network traffic is monitored within a live network infrastructure, and live traffic meta-data is then collected for this live traffic. Application level meta-data is then extracted from the live traffic meta-data and stored in one or more data storage systems. Subsequently, the application level meta-data is received from the one or more data storage systems, and application level test packets for network testing are then generated based upon the application level meta-data. Further, application level meta-data collected during a time slot can be segmented in multiple different data segments associated with different time periods within the time slot, and application level test packets can be generated using these different data segments. Further, the live traffic meta-data collection can occur within multiple time slots.
US10511501B2
An operator creates a function table on an analyzing device, a computer for analysis or a server. In the function table, an instruction is described which includes designation of the computer(s) for analysis or the server, and a process to be executed by the designated computer(s) for analysis or server, and optionally includes parameter information required for execution. For analysis, the function table is displayed on a display screen of the analyzing device. When the operator selects an instruction in the table and instructs execution, the analyzing device causes the designated computer(s) for analysis or server described in the instruction to execute a process associated with the instruction. Such instruction can include a process of powering on the computer(s) for analysis. By previously describing expected processes and the computer(s) for analysis scheduled to perform the processes the processes to be executed can be instructed from the analyzing device.
US10511489B2
The difference in operational management service among a plurality of storage apparatuses is detected by an apparatus that provides at least one operational management service to the storage apparatuses of a plurality of user sites via a communication network. The apparatus classifies the storage apparatuses of the plurality of user sites on the basis of use statuses, and generate at least one group including the plurality of storage apparatuses; and a service difference extraction unit configured to detect, out of the plurality of storage apparatuses that constitute the group, a first storage device that is inferior in terms of a predetermined index and a second storage device that is superior to the first storage device in terms of the predetermined index, and extract a difference between a first operational management service applied to the first storage apparatus and a second operational management service applied to the second storage apparatus.
US10511480B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for message flow management for virtual networks. A processor can identify a target virtual network function instance that is to be taken offline. The processor can change a status associated with the target virtual network function instance to indicate it being taken offline. The processor can start a graceful shutdown timer to trigger shutdown of the target virtual network function instance. The processor can identify external interfaces and a peer network function that identifies the target virtual network function instance as a next hop. The processor can obtain, for the target virtual network function instance and the peer network function instance, a snapshot that identifies configuration data for the target virtual network function instance and the peer network function instance and can generate a command to trigger a shutdown of the target virtual network function instance.
US10511477B2
Examples described herein include methods, devices, and systems which may implement different processing stages for wireless communication in processing units. Such data processing may include a source data processing stage, a baseband processing stage, a digital front-end processing stage, and a radio frequency (RF) processing stage. Data may be received from a sensor of device and then processed in the stages to generate output data for transmission. Processing the data in the various stages may occur during an active time period of a discontinuous operating mode. During the active time period, a reconfigurable hardware platform may allocate all or a portion of the processing units to implement the processing stages. Examples of systems and methods described herein may facilitate the processing of data for 5G (e.g., New Radio (NR)) wireless communications in a power-efficient and time-efficient manner.
US10511471B2
A first communication device transmits a null data packet (NDP) to multiple second communication devices. The NDP spans a channel frequency bandwidth. The first communication device receives a plurality of sounding feedback packets from the second communication devices. Each sounding feedback packet includes one or more signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) indicators corresponding to one or more respective groups of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers, and the SNR indicators correspond to reception of the NDP at the plurality of second communication devices. Each sounding feedback packet in the plurality of sounding feedback packets includes a respective indication of OFDM subcarriers for which the sounding feedback packet includes SNR information, and at least one sounding feedback packet from among the plurality of sounding feedback packets does not include SNR information for all OFDM subcarriers via which the NDP was transmitted.
US10511468B2
An apparatus to estimate a frequency offset in wireless networks is provided. The apparatus comprises: radio frequency (RF) circuitry to down-convert a signal from a base station to generate in-phase and quadrature (IQ) components, wherein the signal includes one or more repeated bursts; and a frequency offset estimator operatively coupled to the RF circuitry, the frequency offset estimator to estimate a frequency offset based on the IQ components and an iterative calculation of phase differences between different sets of bursts of the one or more repeated bursts.
US10511461B2
There is provided a decoder (310) for sequentially decoding a data signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, the received data signal carrying transmitted symbols, the decoder comprising a symbol estimation unit (311) configured to determine estimated symbols representative of the transmitted symbols carried by the received signal from information stored in a stack, the stack being filled by iteratively expanding child nodes of a selected node of a decoding tree comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of the decoding tree corresponding to a candidate component of a symbol of the received data signal and each node being associated with a predetermined metric, the stack being filled at each iteration with at least some of the expanded child nodes and being ordered by increasing values of the metrics associated with the nodes, the selected node for each iteration corresponding to the node having the lowest metric in the stack. The decoder further comprises a stack reordering activation monitoring unit (313) configured to monitor at least one stack reordering activation condition and, in response to a stack reordering activation condition being verified, to cause the symbol estimation unit to: reduce the metric associated with each node stored in the stack by a quantity, reorder the stack by increasing value of the reduced metric, and remove a set of nodes from the reordered stack so as to maintain a number N of nodes in the reordered stack, the maintained nodes corresponding to the N nodes having the lowest metrics in the reordered stack.
US10511459B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a set of central controllers that manages forwarding elements operating in a plurality of datacenters. The method receives a configuration for a bridge between (i) a logical L2 network that spans at least two datacenters and (ii) a physical L2 network. The configuration specifies a particular one of the datacenters for implementation of the bridge. The method identifies multiple managed forwarding elements that implement the logical L2 network and are operating in the particular datacenter. The method selects one of the identified managed forwarding elements to implement the bridge. The method distributes bridge configuration data to the selected managed forwarding element.
US10511458B2
Virtualization software that includes a VDRB (virtual distributed router/bridge) module for performing L3 routing and/or bridging operations is provided. At least some of the VDRBs are configured as VDBs (virtual distributed bridge) for performing bridging operations between different network segments in a distributed manner. The bridging tasks of a network are partitioned among several VDBs of the network based on MAC addresses. MAC addresses of VMs or other types of network nodes belonging to an overlay logical network are partitioned into several shards, each shard of MAC addresses assigned to a VDB in the network. Each VDB assigned a shard of MAC addresses performs bridging when it receives a packet bearing a MAC address belonging to its assigned shard. A VDB does not perform bridging on packets that do not have MAC address that falls within the VDB's shard of MAC addresses.
US10511455B1
A time-sensitive networking system includes gate control circuits configured to control egress of data from multiple queues, respectively. A list execution circuit configures gate states of the plurality of gate control circuits based on a current gate control list that specifies a sequence of operations. Each operation specifies the gate states of the gate control circuits. A cycle timer circuit transmits a timing signal that signals to start a gating cycle by the list execution circuit. A list configuration circuit inputs a new gate control list and establishes the new gate control list as the current gate control list. The list configuration circuit transmits an initial cycle start signal directly to the list execution circuit, bypassing the cycle timer circuit, in response to completion of establishing the new gate control list as the current gate control list.
US10511450B2
Permission control and management for messaging application bots is described. A method can include providing a messaging application, on a first computing device associated with a first user, to enable communication between the first user and another user, and detecting, at the messaging application, a user request. The method can also include programmatically determining that an action in response to the user request requires access to data associated with the first user, and causing a permission interface to be rendered in the messaging application, the permission interface enabling the first user to approve or prohibit access to the data associated with the first user. The method can include accessing the data associated with the first user and performing the action in response to the user request, upon receiving user input from the first user indicating approval of the access to the data associated with the first user.
US10511443B1
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, each of the transmitting and receiving devices can contain a master key. The transmitting device can generate a diversified key using the master key, protect a counter value and encrypt data prior to transmitting to the receiving device, which can generate the diversified key based on the master key and can decrypt the data and validate the protected counter value using the diversified key.
US10511442B2
In a method and system for responding to an unauthorized action on a mobile communications device, a cryptographic key is destroyed. The destruction of the cryptographic key is followed by initiating a boot sequence at the mobile communications device where the device is booted into a kernel that restricts operation of the mobile communications device to communications with a server.
US10511440B2
A device provides a one-time proof of knowledge about a one-time signing key to a server without revealing the one-time signing key by computing a hash as a hash function from the one-time signing key, and transmitting, to the server, the computed hash, an identity associated with the electronic device and a hash path of the hash. The server receives the message from the device and checks whether the hash corresponds to a one-time signing key for a root hash included in a public certificate associated with the identity, checks whether an index corresponding to the hash path from the one-time signing key to the root hash corresponds to a correct time slot, and determines it to be proven that the device is in possession of the correct one-time signing key when the checks are fulfilled.
US10511434B2
A method and encryption node (300) for providing encryption of a message m according to a selected encryption scheme. A set of k noise factors are pre-compiled (3:1) from random numbers and predefined integer parameters of the selected encryption scheme by the encryption node (300) in advance. The k noise factors are saved (300a) to be used for encrypting the message m when later requested (3:2) by a client (302). A subset of/noise factors are then selected (3:3) out of the pre-computed set of k noise factors and used as input to the encryption scheme when encrypting (3:5) the message m by computing a cipher text c which is delivered (3:6) as an encrypted message, e.g. to the client (302). Thereby, less time needs to be spent for computing the necessary noise factors after receiving the encryption request and higher throughput can thus be achieved for messages to be encrypted. In particular, the solution may be used to increase the throughput for a stream of messages.
US10511429B2
To solve the above-mentioned problem, the method for transmitting and receiving a signal by user equipment (UE) through one or more cells, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a first message indicating whether one or more cells usable by the UE are enabled; determining which cells to enable or disable on the basis of the first message; and enabling or disabling the selected cells. According to the embodiment of the present specification, by aggregating carriers amongst different base stations, a possibility for the UE to transmit and receive high-speed data through carrier aggregation can increase.
US10511422B2
Suggested is a method for transmitting a reference signal in a device-to-device (D2D) communication. A terminal according to the present invention may transmit a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH) in which a reference signal is mapped to at least three symbols. The reference signal comprises a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), and may be mapped to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols #4, #6 and #9.
US10511421B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station and user equipment (UE) may use subframe configurations that include dynamically scheduled channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) symbols. For example, a base station may identify a subframe configuration that includes one or more sets of CSI-RS symbols of a subframe. The base station may indicate to a UE whether sets of CSI-RS symbols may be enabled or disabled during the subframe. The UE may receive multiple CSI-RSs at different locations within the subframe as indicated by the base station, and transmit CSI feedback to the base station based on at least one of the received CSI-RSs. In some examples, multiple base stations may coordinate the use of subframe configurations that include CSI-RS symbols that may be enabled or disabled.
US10511420B2
Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosed communication technique and system therefor can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for receiving, by a terminal, broadcast information in a communication system. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method by which a terminal receives broadcast information in a communication system comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of radio frames from a base station; extracting at least one broadcasting channel signal from the plurality of radio frames in every set period; combining, for a preset time slot, the at least one broadcasting channel signal extracted in every set period; and acquiring broadcast information by decoding the combined broadcasting channel signal.
US10511418B2
An apparatus of a base station, comprising: a controller to configure a first measurement gap pattern with a first measurement gap repetition period (MGRP) for a first receive (Rx) chain of a user equipment (UE); and configure a second measurement gap pattern with a second measurement gap repetition period (MGRP) for a second receive (Rx) chain of the UE, wherein the first MGRP is different from the second MGRP. The apparatus may configure the measurement gap patterns to support carrier aggregation and/or dual connectivity.
US10511417B2
Methods and apparatus for multi-carrier communication with variable channel bandwidth are disclosed, where the time frame structure and the OFDM symbol structure are invariant and the frequency-domain signal structure is flexible. In one embodiment, a mobile station, upon entering a geographic area, uses a core-band to initiate communication and obtain essential information and subsequently switches to full operating bandwidth of the area for the remainder of the communication. If the mobile station operates in a wide range of bandwidths, the mobile station divides the full range into sub-ranges and adjusts its sampling frequency and its FFT size in each sub-range.
US10511410B2
The present invention concerns a method and device for demodulating received symbols using a turbo-demodulation scheme comprising an iterative channel equalization and wherein an iterative channel decoder is used in the turbo-demodulation scheme, characterized in that the iterative channel decoder performs a first iterative process named iterative decoding process, the turbo-demodulation performing a second iterative process named iterative demodulation and decoding process, at each iteration of the second iterative process, the iterative channel decoder executing plural iterations in order to decode bits from which symbols are derived from. The iterative channel decoder: —memorizes at the end of the iterations of the first iterative process, the variables used internally by the iterative channel decoder, —reads the memorized variables at the following iteration of the second iterative process.
US10511396B2
A method and a device for triggering an interactive application are applicable in a wearable device. The method includes acquiring interaction information of interactive applications corresponding to a multimedia video, where the interactive applications respectively correspond to different playback moments of the multimedia video; monitoring a user state parameter, where the user state parameter is used for expressing the degree at which a user is interested in the multimedia video being played back at the current moment; determining, on the basis of the user state parameter and a preset criterion received, whether or not to trigger the interactive application corresponding to the current playback moment; and if the determination result is yes, then generating, on the basis of the interaction information of the interactive application corresponding to the current playback moment, first prompt information used for prompting the user to execute the corresponding interactive application.
US10511382B2
A monitoring and calibration apparatus for an optical networking device such as ROADM is provided. Reflectors are integrated into the device, for example at the ends of optical interconnect cables. The reflectors reflect light in specific monitoring wavelengths and pass other wavelengths such as those used for communication. A light source emits monitoring light which is reflected by the reflector and measured by a detector to measure the integrity of optical paths. The optical paths can include optical cables and cable connectors. Path integrity between different modules of the device can therefore be monitored. Multiple reflectors, reflecting light in different wavelengths, can be placed in series along the same optical path and used to monitor multiple segments of the path. A wavelength selective switch (WSS) of the device can be used to route monitoring light to different optical paths. The WSS also operates to route communication signals in the device.
US10511374B2
Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB) comprising a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to generate a reference signal transmission for an eNB Transmitting (Tx) beam corresponding with at least a first eNB antenna port having a first polarization and a second eNB antenna port having a second polarization. The second circuitry may be operable to process one or more reporting transmissions carrying at least one of a first signal reception indication for a first UE antenna port and a second signal reception indication for a second UE antenna port. The third circuitry may be operable to determine a transmission hypothesis based upon the one or more reporting transmissions.
US10511373B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that support overriding a beam monitoring pattern for control channel transmissions based on channel conditions between a user equipment and a base station. A base station may select a beam monitoring pattern for transmitting control channel transmissions, which may include a pattern in which two or more beams are used for control channel transmissions. In the event that a first beam of the beams used in the beam monitoring pattern meets certain metrics, the use of one or more additional beams according to the beam monitoring pattern may be overridden and transmissions continued using the first beam. The metrics for continuing use of the first beam may include channel quality metrics, a number of consecutive successful transmissions using the first beam, one or more other metrics, or any combination thereof.
US10511363B2
Base station (BS) capable of beamforming in a wireless communication includes a transceiver comprising an antenna array, the transceiver configured to measure SRS from a UE, using at least one portion of the antenna array, and a processor configured to select at least one UL beam vector based on an SRS measurement from a UL beam-codebook comprising a set of beam weight vectors, determine at least one DL beam weight vector corresponding to each of the selected at least one UL beam weight vector, transmit a beamformed CSI-RS by applying the at least one DL beam weight vector to the antenna array, receive a CSI feedback including a PMI from the UE, wherein the PMI is determined based on the beamformed CSI-RS, and construct a precoding channel matrix for the UE based on the PMI and the at least one DL beam weight vector.
US10511358B2
During wireless communication with a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) group, a transmitting device may exclude a receiving device from a subset of the multi-user MIMO group to which it communicates data. In particular, based on responses from receiving devices to sounding packets with beamforming information for the receiving devices, the transmitting device calculates beam-pattern settings for a set of antennas so that, when communicating with the subset, receiving devices in the subset are located on beams within beam patterns formed by the set of antennas while a remainder of the receiving devices (including the receiving device) are located at exclusion zones in the beam patterns. Moreover, a beam pattern for a given receiving device in the subset provides a beam at a location of the given receiving device and provides exclusion zones at locations of the other receiving devices in the multi-user MIMO group.
US10511354B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems of a hybrid node are disclosed. One embodiment of the hybrid node includes a first sector and a second sector. The first sector is operative to transmit a signal through a predetermined transmission channel at each of a first plurality of transmit beam forming settings. The second sector is operative to receive the signal through the predetermined channel at a second plurality of receive beam forming settings for each of more than one of the first plurality of transmit beam forming settings. Further, the node is operative to measure a received signal quality of the received signal at each of the second plurality of receive beam forming settings of the second plurality of antenna elements, for each of the more than one of the first plurality of transmit beam forming settings of the first plurality of antenna elements.
US10511346B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, receiving a plurality of communication signals, and generating, by a transmitting device according to the plurality of communication signals, a plurality of wireless signals that induces a plurality of electromagnetic waves that propagates along a pseudo dielectric layer of an uninsulated conductor. The plurality of electromagnetic waves can propagate along the pseudo dielectric layer of the uninsulated conductor without an electrical return path, each electromagnetic wave of the plurality of electromagnetic waves conveying at least a portion of the plurality of communication signals. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10511344B1
An apparatus comprises an input port, an output port, and a resonant receive switch circuit. The resonant receive switch circuit may be coupled between the input port and the output port. The resonant receive switch circuit may comprise a first switch, a second switch, and an input matching circuit. When the first and the second switches are in a non-conducting state, a signal at the input port is passed to the output port. When the first and the second switches are in a conducting state, the signal at the input port is prevented from reaching the output port.
US10511342B1
Provided is a cell phone case capable of storing a card, and more particularly, a cell phone case which can open/close a card storing space by using and semi-automatically sliding elastic slide hooks, and is configured such that a case main body, a card storage part, and an opening/closing cover can all be decoupled/coupled.
US10511339B2
A cell type power supply device includes: a housing having a shape and dimensions based on a cell standard; a cell holder including an inner positive terminal and an inner negative terminal that are brought into contact with front and rear terminals of the external cell held in the housing; an outer positive terminal connected to the inner positive terminal; an outer negative terminal connected to the inner negative terminal; an output transistor interposed between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal or between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal; a control circuit that generates a control signal of the output transistor in accordance with a signal received via an antenna; and a detection resister interposed between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal or between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal in parallel with the output transistor to change a voltage of the outer negative terminal or the outer positive terminal with respect to a reference voltage in accordance with ON/OFF of a power switch.
US10511335B2
A signal processing apparatus for simultaneously receiving and processing a satellite signal and a WCS signal. The system and method is operative to receive the signals, amplify and bandwidth covering both signals, splitting the amplified signal into a first and second portions, filtering the first portion to reduce the WCS signal, amplifying the first portion to amplify the satellite signal in the first portion, and processing the satellite signal in the first portion. The system and method is further operative to processing the WCS signal in the second portion.
US10511332B2
A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to generate a low density parity check (LDPC) codeword by LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol.
US10511327B2
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). Disclosed is an apparatus for performing an iteration decoding scheme for a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive an encoded signal based on a parity matrix set for a plurality of variable nodes including a first variable node with a first degree and a second variable node with a second degree. The apparatus further includes a processor configured to determine at least one variable node based on a first threshold determined according to the first degree and a second threshold determined according to the second degree among the plurality of variable nodes and to generate decoded data from the signal based on the at least one determined variable node.
US10511313B1
A phase-detecting method for testing an under-test circuit under control of a testing station includes the steps of receiving input and output signals of the under-test circuit, combining the input and output signals with each other and accordingly generating a frequency-doubled signal, comparing the frequency-doubled signal with a reference clock signal at a same clock rate and accordingly generating a difference signal, filtering the difference signal and accordingly generating a filtered signal, and determining whether the filtered signal is in an acceptable range and accordingly report a result to the testing station.
US10511310B2
An oven controlled crystal oscillator consisting of heater-embedded ceramic package includes a substrate, a crystal package, a crystal blank, a metal lid, a first IC chip, and a cover lid. The crystal package is mounted on the substrate, and a central bottom of the crystal package is provided with the first IC chip. The crystal blank is mounted in the crystal package and sealed by the metal lid. The crystal package has an embedded heater layer establishing a symmetric thermal field with respect to the first IC chip and the crystal blank. Alternatively, a heater-embedded ceramic carrier substrate is arranged between the first IC chip and the crystal blank to establish a symmetric thermal field with respect to the first IC chip and the crystal blank. The cover lid is combined with the substrate to cover the crystal package and the metal lid.
US10511294B2
A differential signal offset adjustment circuit may include a first circuit for receiving a first one of a differential input signal and generating a first one of a differential output signal with positive offset based on a differential offset signal. The circuit may further include a second circuit for receiving a second one of a differential input signal and generating a second one of a differential output signal with a negative offset based on the differential offset signal.
US10511282B2
A crystal-oscillating device is disclosed with a reduction in size and a favorable Q value. The crystal-oscillating device includes a first packaging material; a crystal resonator mounted on the first packaging material; joining members that join the first packaging material to the crystal resonator; a first sealing frame for joining the second and third packaging materials, the first packaging material, and the second packaging material; and a second sealing frame for joining the second packaging material and the third packaging material to each other. Preferable, the second packaging material is formed in a frame shape to surround an outer peripheral edge of the crystal resonator, and the second packaging material and a crystal substrate of the crystal resonator are formed from the same crystal substrate.
US10511274B2
A traveling wave amplifier includes two input-side lines, two output-side lines, and amplification cells. The amplification cells each include a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first transistor including a base connected to the first input terminal and a collector connected to one output-side line, a second transistor including a base connected to the second input terminal and a collector connected to the other output-side line, a current source connected to an emitter of each of the two transistors, a first series circuit connected between the collector of the second transistor and the base of the first transistor and including a capacitor and a resistor, and a second series of circuit connected between the collector of the first transistor and the base of the second transistor and including a capacitor and a resistor.
US10511273B2
A power transfer device includes an oscillator circuit having a first node, a second node, and a control terminal. The oscillator circuit includes a cascode circuit comprising transistors having a first conductivity type and a first breakdown voltage. The cascode circuit is coupled to the control terminal, the first node, and the second node. The oscillator circuit includes a latch circuit coupled between the cascode circuit and a first power supply node. The latch circuit includes cross-coupled transistors having the first conductivity type and a second breakdown voltage. The first breakdown voltage is greater than the second breakdown voltage. The oscillator circuit may be configured to develop a pseudo-differential signal on the first node and the second node. The pseudo-differential signal may have a peak voltage of at least three times a voltage level of an input DC signal on a second power supply node.
US10511270B2
Radio frequency amplifiers with overload protection are provided herein. In certain configurations, an RF amplifier system includes an RF amplifier that receives an RF signal from an input terminal and that generates an amplified RF signal at an output terminal, and an overload detection circuit that generates a detection signal indicating a detected signal level of the RF amplifier. The RF amplifier includes an amplification device that amplifies the RF signal and a degeneration circuit that provides degeneration to the amplification device. Additionally, the detection signal is operable to control an amount of degeneration provided by the degeneration circuit so as to protect the RF amplifier from overload.
US10511263B2
A class D audio amplifier includes a modulator for receipt of an audio signal and converting the audio signal into a modulated audio signal having a predetermined carrier frequency. The class D audio amplifier additionally includes an output stage having a plurality of power transistors coupled in cascade between a first DC supply voltage and a second DC supply voltage, and a plurality of gate drivers configured to generate respective modulated gate drive signals to the plurality of power transistors. A controller is configured to adjust a level of a first modulated gate drive signal applied to a first power transistor of the output stage based on a level of the audio signal.
US10511261B2
An apparatus, a system, and a chip are provided for improving RF system performance in MRI systems. The apparatus includes a radio-frequency (RF) coil array disposed at least partially in a coil housing, where the RF coil array may include at least one coil configured to receive magnetic resonance (MR) RF signals. The apparatus also includes a mixer disposed in the coil housing and electronically connected to the RF coil array, where the mixer converts MR RF signals from the RF coil array to intermediate-frequency (IF) signals. An electronic amplifier is disposed in the coil housing. The electronic amplifier is electronically connected to the mixer and is configured to amplify IF signals from the mixer to amplified IF signals.
US10511259B2
An oscillator includes a vibration element, an oscillation circuit configured to oscillate the vibration element and output an oscillation signal, a temperature sensor, a temperature compensation circuit configured to compensate for a frequency temperature characteristic of the vibration element based on an output signal of the temperature sensor. The vibration element is within a first case having a first atmosphere, and the oscillation circuit, the temperature sensor, and the first case are within a second case having a second atmosphere, whereby the first atmosphere has a higher thermal conductivity than the second atmosphere.
US10511257B2
Disclosed is a photovoltaic cell including a first electrode and a second electrode having transparency and disposed facing each other, and a photovoltaic cell layer disposed between the first and second electrodes, and configured to produce electric energy by absorbing a part of incident light, wherein the photovoltaic cell layer includes a plurality of unit cells disposed in a specific distance from each other and formed with a plurality of slits for polarizing the incident light, and a transparent insulator disposed in the plurality of slits.
US10511255B2
Some embodiments relate to an attachment system for attaching at least one panel to a supporting structure that includes at least one girder extending in a first direction, the girder including a holding rim and a surface for bearing the panel thereon. The system includes a flange, a clamp and a clamping assembly linking the flange to the clamp, which are arranged so as to sandwich, during assembly, the holding rim of the girder with the panel so that they bear on the bearing surface of the girder. The clamp includes a first series of teeth projecting towards the flange in a manner substantially parallel to an axis of the clamping assembly. The teeth are to engage, via gripping, with the holding rim of the girder during assembly.
US10511254B1
A solar panel alignment device can include a first alignment feature capable of casting a shadow onto a target area. The first alignment feature can be located above a central portion of the target area. The target area can have a second alignment feature that can indicate the location of the central portion of the target area. A method for aligning a solar panel is comprised of the steps of the operator orienting the panel towards the sun so that sunlight strikes the first alignment feature so that the first alignment feature that interrupts the path of the sunlight, creating a cast shadow upon the target area; and the operator moving the panel so that the cast shadow moves to a central portion of the target area.
US10511247B2
In a linear conveyor device, each driver in each of sensor structural bodies includes a sensor position calculation part, a position identification part and a power supply control part. The sensor position calculation part calculates sensor position data of a sensor which forms a sensor structural body to which the sensor position calculation part per se belongs based on first sensor distance data which is stored in a data storage part. The position identification part identifies the position of a slider based on addition data obtained by adding sensor position data by the sensor position calculation part and detection data by a sensor which forms the sensor structural body. Then, the power supply control part drives a linear motor by performing a power supply control of a linear motor stator corresponding to the sensor structural body based on an identification result obtained by the position identification part.
US10511238B2
A method of performing temperature-based diagnostics for motor starters within a physical grouping of motor starters is performed by determining a presently expected temperature operating range for each starter based on measuring operating temperatures of the starters; measuring their current draws, and evaluating the temperature and load draw data in light of compensation values assigned for the known power ratings of the starter and the starter's physical location within the grouping. With the presently expected temperature operating range of the starter determined, and the periodic monitoring of starter temperatures, when an individual starter's temperature exceeds its expected range, a diagnostic warning will be issued for that starter and/or for the control panel itself as a guide for preventative maintenance. Alternately, the warning may be issued for an unexpected temperature rise for a given rise in current draw, or for values exceeding an expected rate of temperature change.
US10511237B2
The present invention provides a driving apparatus capable of suppressing the operation noise. A driving apparatus comprises a piezoelectric element expanding and contracting in accordance with a driving signal; a supporting shaft connected to said piezoelectric element; a movable body frictionally engaged with said supporting shaft and capable of moving along said supporting shaft; and a driving portion applying said driving signal including a first driving signal which moves said movable body towards a first direction to said piezoelectric element, wherein said driving portion can repeatedly apply said first driving signal against said piezoelectric element by taking a first time in between, and said first driving signal comprises a main driving waveform group which moves said movable body to said first direction, and a sub driving waveform group which is placed after said main driving waveform group by having a second rest time shorter than said first time in between.
US10511235B1
An inverter apparatus includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, a load detection unit, and a control unit. The first switch and the fourth switch form a first switch assembly, and the second switch and the third switch form a second switch assembly. The control unit selects a control mode to be that two switches of the first switch assembly are not turned off and at least one switch of the second switch assembly is turned off, or two switches of the second switch assembly are not turned off and at least one switch of the first switch assembly is turned off, or two switches of the first switch assembly and two switches of the second switch assembly are not turned off.
US10511232B2
The present invention relates to a current loop powered DC-DC switch mode converter for use as a local isolated low power supply for electronic circuits such as current loop transmitters where the requirements for supply efficiency and cost of the implementation is critical. It is the object of the invention to provide a simple and low cost solution for driving a synchronous rectifier thereby improving the supply efficiency, especially at low output voltages.
US10511227B2
The present disclosure is made in order to reduce inaccuracy of current sensors. A fuel cell system includes a converter configured to convert output voltage of the fuel cell, and a current sensor including a preliminarily magnetized magnetic core and configured to measure current flowing in the converter from the fuel cell. A controller operates in a first driving mode in which a maximum current value in a target circuit of current measurement by the current sensor is lower than a current value for preliminary magnetization of the magnetic core, and a second driving mode in which the maximum current value in the target circuit is higher than the maximum current value in the target circuit in the first driving mode. When an accumulated temperature value of the current sensor in the first driving mode exceeds a threshold, the second driving mode is executed, followed by the first driving mode.
US10511223B2
Methods and apparatus for a voltage regulator having a boost module and a charge pump module. In embodiments, the charge pump module is configured to operate in multiple modes. In embodiments, an IC package includes the boost module and the charge pump with a shared component, such as a capacitor.
US10511221B2
The present invention relates to a DC/AC converter, comprising switching arms, a voltage and current variation modulation circuit, and an electrical energy harvester module. The energy recovery module is linked to the switching arms and to the modulation circuit.
US10511216B2
A sliding linear bearing includes a guide shaft on which a slider is movably guided in a guide direction. Bushes are inserted between the guide shaft and the slider including a main bush that is fixedly attached to the slider and a preloading bush that is held so as to be rotatable relative to the slider about the guide direction while being preloaded with a torque. The main bush and the preloading bush are preloaded by the torque in opposite directions of rotation without play relative to the guide shaft. A contact region between each of the bushes and the guide shaft blocks rotation about the guide direction between the slider and the guide shaft in both directions of rotation.
US10511200B2
A stator for a electric motor, the stator including: a stator core including a yoke having an annular shape, and a plurality of teeth protruding from an inner circumferential surface of the yoke in a stator radial direction; a stator coil wound around the teeth, the stator coil being configured to generate a rotating magnetic field as a current is applied thereto; and a cancel coil extending in a stator axial direction at positions on the inner circumferential side and the outer circumferential side relative to the yoke, the cancel coil being wound around the stator core so as to extend in the stator radial direction and traverse the yoke at positions outside the stator core in the stator axial direction, and constituting one or more closed circuits.
US10511192B2
An electronic device is provided that includes a housing and a power receiver disposed within the housing. The power receiver includes a conductive pattern for receiving power wirelessly. The conductive pattern includes a main coil having a plurality of turns, a first sub-coil formed at an input port of the main coil, and a second sub-coil formed at an output port of the main coil. The electronic device also includes a controller configured to control to receive power using the conductive pattern.
US10511183B2
A wireless charging system, including a power transmitter configured to generate wireless energy, and a power receiver configured to receive wireless energy at a predetermined carrier frequency that could be fixed or tuned during operation. A controller, wherein the controller is configured to activate when the power receiver receives the wireless energy. The controller may be configured to control a load modulation element to generate one or more signals containing relevant information for system operation and performance optimization, and wherein the one or more signals are transmitted via the power receiver.
US10511181B1
A charging device and a handheld electronic device both with adaptive current limiting protection are provided. Both of the charging device and the handheld electronic device have a connection interface and an adaptive current limiting protection circuit comprising an impedance unit, a switch, and a control unit. The control unit is electrically coupled to the switch, the impedance unit, and an electrical path connected to a power pin of the connection interface. The control unit stores a plurality of voltage values and a plurality of different corresponding current limit values. The control unit is configured to measure the voltage of the electrical path to obtain a measured voltage, and the control unit is further configured to measure the voltage across the impedance unit to calculate a current value. When the current value reaches the current limit value corresponding to the measured voltage, the control unit turns off the switch.
US10511175B2
An information processing device receives plan necessary information relating to a first power generation device and a second power generation device having a power generation output that is more susceptible to an external environment than a power generation output of the first power generation device; and generates power generator operation plans, for the first power generation device and the second power generation device, that include a power generation curtailment plan to curtail a power generation output in the second power generation device, based on the plan necessary information and an operating cost in a power system including the first power generation device and the second power generation device; transmits a power generator operation plan for the first power generation device; and transmits a power generator operation plan including a power generation curtailment plan for the second power generation device to a device controlling or managing the second power generation device.
US10511159B2
A method for configuring an electronic relay for an electric power distribution grid. The method includes the following steps: providing a graphic user interface on a computer display, the graphic user interface including graphic resources activatable by a user; providing first graphic resources on the graphic user interface to assist a user in selecting a set of protection functionalities to be provided by the electronic relay; providing second graphic resources on the graphic user interface to assist a user in providing configuration values to configure operating parameters processed by the electronic relay to provide the selected set of protection functionalities, the operating parameters comprising first protection parameters related to voltage protection functionalities and second protection parameters related to frequency protection functionalities; checking whether the electronic relay meets minimum operating requirements to operate; and if the electronic relay meets minimum operating requirements, transmitting configuration information including the configuration values to the electronic relay.
US10511154B2
An electrical switchgear system includes a switchgear enclosure. The switchgear enclosure has a plurality of compartments housing switchgear components. The electrical switchgear system also includes a vent box. The vent box is in fluid communication with selected compartments of the plurality of compartments. The vent box is disposed on a side of the switchgear enclosure.
US10511152B2
Methods and systems for a unique material and geometry in a high temperature spark plug extender and may include a spark plug extender with a conductive core encased in a liquid crystal polymer where opposite ends of the conductive core are not encased in the liquid crystal polymer. A coil may be coupled directly to the spark plug extender. The spark plug extender and the coil may include threads at a first of the opposite ends of the conductive core for the direct coupling of the coil to the spark plug extender. The first of the opposite ends of the conductive core may include an O-ring that provides a seal with the coil. The spark plug extender may include an insulating wire that is coupled to a coil remote from the spark plug extender, the insulating wire extending from an end of the conductive core.
US10511134B2
A laser system for generating a series of laser pulses comprising a laser generator that supplies an injection pulse to an amplifier; said amplifier comprising: a gain medium enclosed between a first mirror and a second, output, mirror opposite to said first mirror; and an optical switch set in the proximity of said first mirror; said laser system being characterized in that said amplifier is an unstable laser resonator and said injection pulse is supplied to said laser resonator in synchronism with opening of said optical switch; said series of laser pulses comprises at least one pulse having a duration shorter than or equal to 2 ns and an energy higher than 100 mJ and at least three times higher than the energy of any other pulse of said series of pulses.
US10511123B2
The present invention discloses an industrial connector and a connecting structure. The industrial connector comprises a holder and a plug matingly connected to the holder, wherein the holder comprises: a hollow connecting cylinder; a connecting base fixed around an opening of the connecting cylinder; a buckle plate and an elastic component fixed within the connecting base, with buckles embedded into the connecting cylinder being provided on the buckle plate; and an elastic component which is connected to the buckles and used for driving the buckle plate to translate along the plane of the opening. The industrial connector provided by the present invention is easy to mount and reliable in connection.
US10511118B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed herein for managing thermal dissipation in a receptacle assembly. In one embodiment, the receptacle assembly comprises a cage with a front face, a rear face, the front face having a plurality of ports; and a heat transfer unit having a thermal interface disposed with the cage, one or more heat transfer bars coupled, via openings in the cage, to sides of the thermal interface and are external to the cage, and a heat sink coupled to the one or more heat transfer bars, where the heat transfer unit is movable in a vertical direction in response to insertion of a module into one of the plurality of ports.
US10511115B2
A connector with retainer includes a housing (20) configured such that terminal fittings (10) are inserted thereinto from behind, and a front retainer (40) to be mounted into the housing (20) from front. The housing (20) includes locking lances (31) capable of locking the terminal fittings (10) inserted to a proper position. The locking lances (31) are cantilevered forward. The front retainer (40) includes ribs (45) configured to enter spaces (S2) lateral to the locking lances (31). The ribs (45) are disposed in a height range of locking portions (32) of the locking lances (31) to be locked to the terminal fittings (10).
US10511100B2
A radio-frequency responsive device includes a dielectric substrate having a first side and an opposite second side. A Van Atta array reflector is printed on the first side of the dielectric substrate. The Van Atta array reflector reflects an incident signal at a predetermined radio frequency at an incident angle. A conductive ground layer is disposed adjacent the second side of the dielectric substrate. In a method of making a radio-frequency responsive device, a Van Atta array reflector is printed on a first side of a dielectric substrate. A conductive ground layer is applied to a second side of the dielectric substrate, in which the second side is opposite the first side.
US10511094B2
A communication system includes an antenna assembly and a housing holding the antenna assembly. The antenna assembly has an antenna element having a substrate and a dual dipole antenna circuit including a low-band ground terminal, a low-band feed terminal, a high-band ground terminal and a high-band feed terminal and a transmission line electrically connected to the dual dipole antenna circuit. The housing includes an upper shell and a lower shell meeting at an interface having upper and lower strain relief components at the interface to receive the transmission line. The upper shell has an upper locating feature and the lower shell has a lower locating feature interfacing to locate the upper shell relative to the lower shell.
US10511082B2
An antenna including a substrate; top and bottom grounded conductive layers formed on respective larger faces of the substrate; an antenna feed coupled to at least one of the top and bottom grounded conductive layers, and configured to feed radio signals to the antenna; and at least one conductive wall formed to the top and bottom grounded conductive layers, and configured to form a short-circuit between the top and bottom grounded conductive layers, wherein the substrate and the at least one conductive wall forms a plurality of antenna cavities configured to operate at specific, respective frequencies, and each of the plurality of antenna cavities comprises at least two sides not covered by a conductive layer.
US10511079B2
An antenna structure including a conductive housing, a substrate, a ground element and a radiation element is provided. The conductive housing includes an open slot and a conductive segment adjacent to each other. The radiation element is disposed on a first surface of the substrate and is electrically connected to the ground element. A second surface of the substrate faces the open slot and the conductive segment. The ground element is electrically connected to the conductive housing. The radiation element has a feeding point and forms a first path. An orthogonal projection of the radiation element on the conductive housing is partially overlapping with the conductive segment such that the conductive housing and the radiation element form a second path. The antenna structure operates in a first band and a second band through the first path and the second path.
US10511077B2
A method for manufacturing a mode converter including a substrate that is a single member and includes a first main surface, a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, and a micro hole which is formed in the first main surface, grounding conductor layers that are formed on the first main surface and the second main surface, a plane circuit that is formed on the first main surface, and a pin that is formed so as to cover an inner surface of the micro hole and is electrically connected to the plane circuit, the method includes: irradiating the substrate with laser light to form a first modified portion to a desired depth from one main surface of the substrate; removing the first modified portion to form the micro hole; and filling the micro hole with a conductive material to form the pin.
US10511073B2
Devices and methods for manufacturing RF circuits and systems in both passive and active forms are contemplated herein. Exemplary devices include 3D electrical and mechanical structures which are created from individual slices which may be assembled to create a final functional block such as a circuit, component or a system. The slices may fabricated by a variety of manufacturing techniques, such as micromachined layer-by-layer metal batch processing.
US10511072B2
A cascading microwave switch (cascade) includes a set of Josephson devices, each Josephson device in the set having a corresponding operating bandwidth of microwave frequencies, wherein different operating bandwidths have different corresponding center frequencies. A series coupling is formed between first Josephson device from the set and an nth Josephson device from the set, wherein the series coupling causes the first Josephson device in an open state to reflect back to an input port of the first Josephson device a signal of a first frequency from a frequency multiplexed microwave signal (multiplexed signal) and the nth Josephson device in the open state to reflect back to an input port of the nth Josephson device a signal of an nth frequency from the multiplexed signal.
US10511070B2
Provided is a cooling plate having excellent cooling performance and a low weight, a battery module including the same, and a method for manufacturing the same. The cooling plate is interposed between a cooling unit that is in thermal contact with battery cells on at least one surface of a stack of battery cells and the battery cells, and includes a metal plating layer on the surface of a substrate made of a synthetic resin.
US10511068B2
The present invention relates to a process for recovering a metal salt of an electrolyte dissolved in a matrix, said process consisting in subjecting the electrolyte to a liquid extraction with water.
US10511067B2
A power tool/battery pack combination includes an electric motor, one or more electrochemical cells, and a capacitive element. The electric motor is connected in series to a first switch. The series combination of the electric motor and the first switch is connected to a first terminal and a second terminal. The one or more electrochemical cells are connected across a third terminal and a fourth terminal. The third terminal and the fourth terminal are coupled respectively to the first terminal and the second terminal. The one or more electrochemical cells supply power to the electric motor via the first switch. The capacitive element includes one or more capacitors. The capacitive element is connected across the third terminal and the fourth terminal. The capacitive element is capable of storing inductive energy generated by the one or more electrochemical cells.
US10511064B2
A battery having a display function comprises a volatile display layer, a substrate layer (107), and a power supply layer. The substrate layer (107) is located between the volatile display layer and the power supply layer. The volatile display layer comprises a reflector (108), a first polarizer (112), a first optical film (113), a first electrode layer (117), a display medium layer (114), a second electrode layer (118), a second optical film (115), and a second polarizer (116). The power supply layer comprises a first electrode current collector (101), a first electrode material (102), an electrolyte (103), a second electrode material (104), and a second electrode current collector. The substrate layer (107) is a printed circuit board (PCB) substrate (107). By reusing an electrode current collector (105) of a battery as one surface layer of a PCB and realizing a display function on another surface layer of the PCB, the present invention achieves a display function of an electronic device, with no need for an additional display. In this way volume limitations of the battery and display in an electronic device can be reduced while boosting battery capacity and improving user experience.
US10511059B1
A battery cell includes an electrode assembly having a negative electrode, positive electrode, and separator bathed in an alkaline electrolyte, a pouch encapsulating the electrode assembly, and first and second tabs respectively extending from the positive and negative electrodes through the pouch. The first tab has thereon a coating including acrylic paint and the second tab has thereon a coating including lacquer to discourage creepage of the alkaline electrolyte along the first and second tabs and out of the pouch.
US10511055B2
The present disclosure provides an electrochemical storage cell including a battery. The battery includes an alkali metal anode having an anode Fermi energy, an electronically insulating, amorphous, dried solid electrolyte able to conduct alkali metal, having the general formula A3-xHxOX, in which 0≤x≤1, A is the alkali metal, and X is at least one halide, and a cathode including a cathode current collector having a cathode Fermi energy lower than the anode Fermi energy. During operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal plates dendrite-free from the solid electrolyte onto the alkali metal anode. Also during operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal further plates on the cathode current collector.
US10511051B1
Disclosed herein is a secondary lithium-water electrochemical battery cell-comprising a water splitting bi-functional electrode in contact with an inorganic electrolyte, a reversible lithium electrode in contact with an organic electrolyte, a lithium salt and a Li+-ion conductive membrane disposed between the organic and inorganic electrolytes. Cell charged as Li—O2 couple and discharged as Li—H2 couple.
US10511049B2
A highly-concentrated electrolyte system for an electrochemical cell is provided, along with methods of making the highly-concentrated electrolyte system. The electrolyte system includes a bound moiety having an ionization potential greater than an electron affinity and comprising one or more salts selected from the group consisting of: lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI), sodium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (NaFSI), potassium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (KFSI), and combinations thereof bound to a solvent comprising dimethoxyethane (DME). The one or more salts have a concentration in the electrolyte system of greater than about 4M, and a molar ratio of the one or more salts to the dimethoxyethane (DME) is greater than or equal to about 1 to less than or equal to about 1.5. The one or more salts binds to the dimethoxyethane (DME) causing the electrolyte system to be substantially free of unbound dimethoxyethane (DME) and unbound bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (FSI−).
US10511046B2
A fuel cell assembling apparatus includes: a tensile load application device that pulls a coupling plate to apply a tensile load to the coupling plate of which a first end portion is fixed to a first end plate, the tensile load application device being temporarily fixed to a second end portion of the coupling plate; a compressive load application device that applies a compressive load to a cell stack of a fuel cell; and a fixing device that fixes the second end portion of the coupling plate to which the tensile load is applied, and a second end plate to each other. The tensile load application device applies the tensile load to the coupling plate by using a reaction force generated in response to the compressive load applied to the cell stack by the compressive load application device.
US10511042B2
A fuel cell unit includes a fuel cell and a converter. A fuel cell has single cells laminated in a given direction. A converter has a plurality of combinations of a reactor electrically connected with the fuel cell and a power module electrically connected with the reactor. At least either a direction in which first reactors among the reactors are arrayed or a direction in which first power modules among the power modules are arrayed is parallel with a laminating direction of the single cells.
US10511041B2
A method of controlling the operation of a fuel cell system is provided. The method includes diagnosing a water shortage state in a fuel cell stack based on degradation of cooling performance and deterioration of the fuel cell stack and determining a diagnosis level of the fuel cell system based on the diagnosed water shortage state of the fuel cell stack. In addition, a regenerative operation is performed by selecting a regenerative operation mode which corresponds to the determined diagnosis level.
US10511040B2
A fuel cell system configured to generate an electric power by supplying an anode gas and a cathode gas to a fuel cell includes: a connection line configured to connect the fuel cell to an electric load; a converter connected to the connection line and a battery, the converter being configured to adjust a voltage of the connection line; a target output current calculating unit configured to calculate a target output current of the fuel cell in accordance with a load of the electric load; a converter control unit configured to carry out a switching control for the converter in accordance with the target output current; and a flow rate control unit configured to control a flow rate of the cathode gas to be supplied to the fuel cell in accordance with the target output current. The target output current calculating unit sets up an upper limit to the target output current on the basis of a generated electric power of the fuel cell and a guaranteed minimum voltage of the connection line for ensuring performance of the fuel cell and the electric load.
US10511039B2
A solid-state hydrogen storage device and a solid-state hydrogen storage system are provided. The solid-state hydrogen storage device includes a storage unit that stores a first hydrogen storage material therein and a heat medium pipe that is disposed in the storage unit including a heat medium and a second hydrogen storage material. The heat medium pipe includes a separating pipe disposed therein to separate the heat medium and the second hydrogen storage material from each other, and the second hydrogen storage material is disposed in the separating pipe.
US10511036B2
A channel forming body used in a fuel cell module has a gas channel, a water conduit, and a communication path that provides communication between the gas channel and the water conduit. When a ridge is seen in a cross-section perpendicular to a channel extension direction, one of both ends of an external shape of the ridge is shaped so as to be located closer to a center of the ridge than an imaginary surface of the channel assumed to extend in a straight line along the channel extension direction. Portions of the ridge located closer to the center of the ridge are formed opposite from each other at left and right ends of the external shape of the ridge with the communication path interposed therebetween.
US10511024B2
An electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode mixture layer. The electrode mixture layer contains a hollow active material particle and a needle-shaped filler having a through-hole that extends through the needle-shaped filler in a longitudinal direction. The needle-shaped filler is arranged on surfaces of the hollow active material particle.
US10511022B2
A lead-based alloy containing alloying additions of bismuth, antimony, arsenic, and tin is used for the production of doped leady oxides, lead-acid battery active materials, lead-acid battery electrodes, and lead-acid batteries.
US10511020B2
An objective of the present invention is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery positive electrode active material formed from a lithium-nickel composite oxide which, while retaining high capacity and a high level of safety, has an excellent cycle characteristic by controlling reaction resistance and a method for producing it. [Solution] A lithium-nickel composite oxide is produced by steps (a) to (c) described below: (a) nickel hydroxide and/or nickel oxyhydroxide in a prescribed composition are sintered in a non-reducing atmosphere having 850° C. or lower to give nickel oxide; (b) after the nickel oxide and a lithium compound are mixed in a prescribed molar ratio, the mixture is sintered in an oxygen atmosphere at a temperature of 650 to 850° C.; and (c) after an obtained powder is made to be in a prescribed slurry concentration, it is washed with water during a period of time which satisfies the following formula: B/40
US10511008B2
Battery contact with surface texturing. Exemplary battery contacts are located within a battery pack. The battery pack is operable to provide power to a device through a device contact of the device. The battery pack includes a battery pack housing, at least one battery cell located within the battery pack housing, and battery contacts including a positive terminal and a negative terminal. The battery contacts are configured to engage the device contact of the device and allow electric current to transfer from the battery pack to the device. The battery contacts define a surface having a surface texture. The surface texture includes raised portions for contacting the device contact to allow electric current to transfer from the battery pack to the device. The surface texture also includes recessed regions spaced away from the surface and for providing a space between the battery contacts and the device contact.
US10511005B2
Disclosed is a battery pack, which includes a pack case forming an appearance of the battery pack, a battery module assembly provided in the pack case and having at least one battery module, and a service plug configured to electrically connect the battery module assembly or cut off the electric connection of the battery module assembly, the service plug having a plug bus bar directly connected to the battery module assembly.
US10510992B2
A method for exposing an electrode terminal covered with an organic film in a light-emitting device without damaging the electrode terminal is provided. In a region of the electrode terminal to which electric power from an external power supply or an external signal is input, an island-shaped organic compound-containing layer is formed and the organic film is formed thereover. The organic film is removed by utilizing low adhesion of an interface between the organic compound-containing layer and the electrode terminal, whereby the electrode terminal can be exposed without damage to the electrode terminal.
US10510991B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a mask structure for pixel layout of an OLED panel, an OLED panel and a method for manufacturing the same. The mask structure for pixel layout of an OLED panel comprises: a deposition mask patterned on a substrate and surrounding each pixel region, the deposition mask comprising a first deposition wall and a second deposition wall arranged oppositely in pairs in a first direction, a third deposition wall and a fourth deposition wall arranged oppositely in pairs in a second direction intersecting the first direction, as well as a fifth deposition wall and a sixth deposition wall arranged oppositely in pairs in the first direction. The pixel layout comprises a first sub-pixel region adjacent to the second deposition wall, a second sub-pixel region adjacent to the first deposition wall, and a third sub-pixel region adjacent to the fourth deposition wall.
US10510987B2
A display panel and manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The method includes: forming an encapsulation structure layer on a display motherboard to obtain a panel motherboard, the encapsulation structure layer comprising at least one encapsulation film layer, and the at least one encapsulation film layer overlying a surface of the display motherboard; forming a cutting groove on the encapsulation structure layer along a cutting line of the panel motherboard; filling the cutting groove with an isolation material, the isolation material having greater flexibility than the encapsulation film layer in contact with the isolation material; and cutting the panel motherboard from the isolation material along the cutting line to obtain the display panel. The display panel helps improve the encapsulation effect of the encapsulation structure.
US10510986B2
The present invention provides an encapsulation structure for a flexible display having an OLED lighting device on a flexible substrate. The encapsulation structure is disposed on the OLED lighting device, and includes a stack of layers for preventing moist from permeating into the OLED lighting device. The stack of layers includes at least one first organic layer and a plurality of inorganic layers wrapping the at least one first organic layer. Two inorganic layers of the stack of layers have interfacing faces that contact each other and separate the at least one first organic layer into a plurality of independent geometric regions. Through the present invention, moist undergoes an extended path to infiltrate, and is prevented from permeating into and eroding the OLED lighting device through pinholes of the inorganic layers, thereby prolonging the operation life of the OLED lighting device.
US10510980B2
A display module includes a window member including a display area and a bezel area, a display panel including a display part corresponding to the display area, and an edge part corresponding to the bezel area and bent from the display part to extend away from the window member, and a protective frame accommodating the display panel and coupled to the window member.
US10510979B2
A composite transparent electrode, an organic light-emitting diode and a method for manufacturing thereof, an array substrate and a display device. In the composite transparent electrode, a cover layer (12) is provided between a metal layer (11) and a transparent conducting oxide layer (13), the transparent conducting oxide layer (13) is electrically connected to the metal layer (11). The composite transparent electrode can reduce damages to the metal layer (11) or decrease pressure fall during a sputtering process.
US10510973B2
The present invention relates to OLED devices and stacks for OLED devices that include a symmetric emissive-layer architecture. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to an emissive stack having three layers, wherein the top and bottom layers emit light in the same or similar color region while the middle layer emits light in a different color region than the other two layers. In such an embodiment, the three layers are in contact with each other with no other layers in between. The symmetric emissive-layer architecture of the present invention can be used to improve the color stability of OLED devices.
US10510971B2
Described are materials and methods for fabricating low-voltage MHz ion-gel-gated thin film transistor devices using patternable defect-free ionic liquid gels. Ionic liquid gels made by the initiated chemical vapor deposition methods described herein exhibit a capacitance of about 1 μF cm−2 at about 1 MHz, and can be as thin as about 20 nm to about 400 nm.
US10510965B2
A composition for forming an organic semiconductor film that is excellent in printing properties makes it possible to prepare an organic thin film transistor excellent in mobility and insulation reliability. The composition may be used with an organic thin film transistor, electronic paper, and a display device. The composition for forming an organic semiconductor film contains an organic semiconductor material, a phenolic reductant, a polymer compound having a weight-average molecular weight of equal to or greater than 500,000, a surfactant, and an organic solvent having a standard boiling point of equal to or higher than 150° C. A ratio of a content of the organic semiconductor material to a content of the polymer compound is 0.02 to 10 based on mass, and a ratio of a content of the phenolic reductant to the content of the polymer compound is 0.1 to 5 based on mass.
US10510960B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, and to electronic devices which comprise these compounds.
US10510956B2
The present disclosure relates to novel memristive devices, uses thereof, and processes for their preparation. In a first aspect, the disclosure provides a quantum memristor, including a first quantum dot (QD1) which is capacitively coupled to a second quantum dot (QD2), a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a bath electrode, wherein the source electrode and the drain electrode are coupled via quantum tunneling to QD1 and the bath electrode is coupled via quantum tunneling to QD2, and wherein QD2 is capacitively coupled to either the source electrode or the drain electrode.
US10510955B2
A phase change memory includes an L-shaped resistive element having a first part that extends between a layer of phase change material and an upper end of a conductive via and a second part that rests at least partially on the upper end of the conductive via and may further extend beyond a peripheral edge of the conductive via. The upper part of the conductive via is surrounded by an insulating material that is not likely to adversely react with the metal material of the resistive element.
US10510952B2
A storage device includes a first electrode, a stacked feature, a spacer and a barrier structure. The stacked feature is position over the first electrode, and includes a storage element and a second electrode over the storage element. The spacer is positioned on a sidewall of the stacked feature, the spacer having a notch positioned on a top surface of the spacer, in which the notch of the spacer has a surface which is continuous with a top surface of the stacked feature. The barrier structure is embedded in a lateral of the spacer. The barrier structure has a top extending upwards past a bottom of the notch.
US10510949B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a metal-containing layer, a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, a first intermediate layer, a third magnetic layer, a fourth magnetic layer, a second intermediate layer, and a controller. The metal-containing layer includes first, second, third, fourth, and fifth portions. The first magnetic layer is separated from the third portion. The second magnetic layer is provided between the first magnetic layer and a portion of the third portion. The first intermediate layer includes a portion provided between the first and second magnetic layers. The third magnetic layer is separated from the fourth portion. The fourth magnetic layer is provided between the third magnetic layer and a portion of the fourth portion. The second intermediate layer includes a portion provided between the third and fourth magnetic layers. The controller is electrically connected with the first portion and the second portion.
US10510944B2
A vibration actuator can be reduced in manufacturing cost and size thereof without using a magnet. An elastic body of a vibration element includes a base portion joined to an electromechanical energy conversion element, and a pair of contact portions extending from the base portion. The contact portions are brought into pressure contact with a driven element, by elastic deformation, in a third direction orthogonal to both of a first direction of relative motion of the vibration element and the driven element and a second direction as a thickness direction of the conversion element. When driving vibration is excited in the vibration element by applying a predetermined AC voltage to the conversion element, the contact portions apply frictional driving forces to the driven element, for moving the vibration element and the driven element relative to each other in the first direction.
US10510941B2
An embodiment of a process for realizing a system for recovering heat is described, the process comprising the steps of: formation on a substrate of a plurality of L-shaped down metal structures; deposition of a dielectric layer on the substrate and the plurality of L-shaped down metal structures by using a screen printing approach; definition and opening in the dielectric layer of upper contacts and lower contacts of the L-shaped down metal structures; formation of a plurality of L-shaped up metal structures being connected to the plurality of L-shaped down metal structure in correspondence of the upper and lower contacts so as to form a plurality of serially connected thermocouples, each comprising at least one L-shaped down metal structure and at least one L-shaped up metal structure, being made of different metal materials and interconnected at a junction, the serially connected thermocouples thus realizing the system for recovering heat.
US10510940B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methodology for constructing thermoelectric devices (TEDs). N-type elements are paired with P-type elements in an array of pairs between substrates. The paired elements are electrically connected in series by various techniques including brazing for hot side and/or also cold side connections, and soldering for cold side connections while being thermally connected in parallel. In selected embodiments, electrical and mechanical connections of the elements may be made solely by mechanical pressure.
US10510935B2
An optoelectronic component includes at least one optoelectronic semiconductor chip, wherein the semiconductor chip is arranged on a leadframe section, the leadframe section includes a stiffening structure projecting away laterally from the leadframe section, and the leadframe section, the stiffening structure and the semiconductor chip are embedded in an electrically insulating housing.
US10510929B2
Disclosed are a light emitting device and a light emitting device package. The light emitting device includes a light emitting structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer on the first conductive semiconductor layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer on the active layer, an adhesive layer contacting a top surface of the first conductive semiconductor layer, a first electrode contacting a top surface of the first conductive semiconductor and a top surface of the adhesive layer, and a second electrode contacting the second conductive semiconductor layer, wherein the adhesive layer contacting the first electrode is spaced apart from the second electrode.
US10510915B2
The porous silicon nanowire photovoltaic cell includes a first electrode, an n-type silicon layer, and a second electrode, which is formed from a transparent electrode with at least one metal contact. An array of porous silicon nanowires is sandwiched between the second electrode and the n-type silicon layer. Each of the porous silicon nanowires is formed from a porous n-type silicon core coated with a layer of p-type silicon. Empty spaces between the porous silicon nanowires of the array may be filled with indium tin oxide, thus forming a photoactive region formed from the array of porous silicon nanowires embedded in indium tin oxide. An up-conversion layer is sandwiched between the first electrode and the n-type silicon layer. Any suitable type of up-conversion material may be used for the up-conversion layer, such as NaYR4:Er—Yb or the like. Alternatively, the up-conversion layer may be replaced by a down-conversion layer.
US10510908B2
A solar cell panel includes a first solar cell and a second solar cell; and a plurality of leads connecting the first solar cell and the second solar cell. Each of the first solar cell and the second solar cell includes: a first electrode including a plurality of finger lines in a first direction and a plurality of first bus bars in a second direction crossing the first direction; and a second electrode including a plurality of second bus bars in the second direction. The plurality of leads have a diameter or width of 100 to 500 μm, and include 6 or more leads arranged at one surface side of the first or second solar cell. The plurality of leads are connected to the plurality of first bus bars of the first solar cell and the plurality of second bus bars of the second solar cell by a solder layer, respectively.
US10510902B2
Representative methods of manufacturing memory devices include forming a transistor with a gate disposed over a workpiece, and forming an erase gate with a tip portion extending towards the workpiece. The transistor includes a source region and a drain region disposed in the workpiece proximate the gate. The erase gate is coupled to the gate of the transistor.
US10510899B2
The present invention discloses a thin film transistor, a method for manufacturing a thin film transistor, and a liquid crystal display panel. The thin film transistor includes a substrate, a gate layer disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer covering the gate layer, a semiconductor layer disposed on the insulating layer; a conductor layer disposed on the semiconductor layer and a source and drain layer provided on the conductor layer and the insulating layer, and a conductor layer or a conductive spacer is provided between the source and drain layer and the semiconductor layer, and the passivation layer is provided on the insulating layer, the source and drain layer, and the semiconductor layer. The leakage current of the thin film transistor of the invention is small, and the quality of the thin film transistor is high.
US10510889B2
In certain embodiments, a semiconductor device includes a substrate having an n-doped well feature and an epitaxial silicon germanium fin formed over the n-doped well feature. The epitaxial silicon germanium fin has a lower part and an upper part. The lower part has a lower germanium content than the upper part. A channel is formed from the epitaxial silicon germanium fin. A gate is formed over the epitaxial silicon germanium fin. A doped source-drain is formed proximate the channel.
US10510888B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming an alloy semiconductor material layer comprising a first element and a second element on a semiconductor substrate. A mask is formed on the alloy semiconductor material layer to provide a masked portion and an unmasked portion of the alloy semiconductor material layer. The unmasked portion of the alloy semiconductor material layer not covered by the mask is irradiated with radiation from a radiation source to transform the alloy semiconductor material layer so that a surface region of the unmasked portion of the alloy semiconductor material layer has a higher concentration of the second element than an internal region of the unmasked portion of the alloy semiconductor material layer. The surface region surrounds the internal region.
US10510886B2
A method provides a source-drain stressor for a semiconductor device including source and drain regions. Recesses are formed in the source and drain regions. An insulating layer covers the source and drain regions. The recesses extend through the insulating layer above the source and drain regions. An intimate mixture layer of materials A and B is provided. Portions of the intimate mixture layer are in the recesses. The portions of the intimate mixture layer have a height and a width. The height divided by the width is greater than three. A top surface of the portions of the intimate mixture layer in the recesses is free. The intimate mixture layer is reacted to form a reacted intimate mixture layer including a compound AxBy. The compound AxBy occupies less volume than a corresponding portion of the intimate mixture layer.
US10510883B2
The present disclosure provides semiconductor devices with asymmetric source/drain structures. In one example, a semiconductor device includes a first group of source/drain structures on a first group of fin structures on a substrate, a second group of source/drain structures on a second group of fin structures on the substrate, and a first gate structure and a second gate structure over the first and the second group of fin structures, respectively, the first and second groups of source/drain structures being proximate the first and second gate structures, respectively, wherein the first group of source/drain structures on the first group of fin structures has a first source/drain structure having a first vertical height different from a second vertical height of a second source/drain structure of the second group of source/drain structures on the second group of fin structures.
US10510881B2
A well of a first type of conductivity is formed in a semiconductor substrate, and wells of a second type of conductivity are formed in the well of the first type of conductivity at a distance from one another. By an implantation of dopants, a doped region of the second type of conductivity is formed in the well of the first type of conductivity between the wells of the second type of conductivity and at a distance from the wells of the second type of conductivity. Source/drain contacts are applied to the wells of the second type of conductivity, and a gate dielectric and a gate electrode are arranged above regions of the well of the first type of conductivity that are located between the wells of the second type of conductivity and the doped region of the second type of conductivity.
US10510876B2
A novel doping technology for semiconductor wafers has been developed, referred to as a “quantum doping” process that permits the deposition of only a fixed, controlled number of atoms in the form of a monolayer in a substitutional condition where only unterminated surface bonds react with the dopant, thus depositing only a number of atoms equal to the atomic surface density of the substrate material. This technique results in providing a “quantized” set of possible dopant concentration values that depend only on the additional number of layers of substrate material formed over the single layer of dopant atoms.
US10510848B2
Techniques are disclosed for reducing off-state leakage of fin-based transistors through the use of a sub-fin passivation layer. In some cases, the techniques include forming sacrificial fins in a bulk silicon substrate and depositing and planarizing shallow trench isolation (STI) material, removing and replacing the sacrificial silicon fins with a replacement material (e.g., SiGe or III-V material), removing at least a portion of the STI material to expose the sub-fin areas of the replacement fins, applying a passivating layer/treatment/agent to the exposed sub-fins, and re-depositing and planarizing additional STI material. Standard transistor forming processes can then be carried out to complete the transistor device. The techniques generally provide the ability to add arbitrary passivation layers for structures that are grown in STI-based trenches. The passivation layer inhibits sub-fin source-to-drain (and drain-to-source) current leakage.
US10510846B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a transistor cell region formed in the semiconductor substrate and an inner termination region formed in the semiconductor substrate and devoid of transistor cells. The transistor cell region includes a plurality of transistor cells and a gate structure that forms a grid separating transistor sections of the transistor cells from each other, each of the transistor sections including a needle-shaped first field plate structure extending from a first surface into the semiconductor substrate. The inner termination region surrounds the transistor cell region and includes needle-shaped second field plate structures extending from the first surface into the semiconductor substrate. The first field plate structures form a first portion of a regular pattern and the second field plate structures form a second portion of the same regular pattern.
US10510840B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a channel region, extending along a direction, that has a U-shaped cross-section; a gate dielectric layer wrapping around the channel region; and a gate electrode wrapping around respective central portions of the gate dielectric layer and the channel region.
US10510834B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a substrate structure including a high side region, a low side region, a level shift region and an isolation region. The low side region is separated from the high side region. The level shift region and the isolation region are disposed between the low side region and the high side region. The level shift region is separated from the high side region by the isolation region. A doped isolation region, which is disposed in the isolation region, includes a first doped portion and a second doped portion adjacent to the first doped portion. The depth of the first doped portion is decreased linearly along a first direction from the isolation region to the level shift region. The depth of the second doped portion is decreased linearly along a second direction from the isolation region to the high side region.
US10510830B2
An N-type polysilicon crystal, a manufacturing method thereof, and an N-type polysilicon wafer are provided. The N-type polysilicon crystal has a slope of resistivity and a slope of defect area percentage. When the horizontal axis is referred to solidified fraction and the vertical axis is referred to resistivity presented by a unit of Ohm·cm (Ω·cm), the slope of resistivity is 0 to −1.8 at the solidified fraction of 0.25 to 0.8. When the horizontal axis is referred to solidified fraction and the vertical axis is referred to defect area percentage (%), the slope of defect area percentage is less than 2.5 at the solidified fraction of 0.4 to 0.8.
US10510825B2
A reliable metal insulator metal (MIM) capacitor is disclosed. The MIM capacitor is disposed over at least an interlevel dielectric (ILD) layer of a plurality of ILD layers with interconnects disposed over a substrate. The MIM capacitor includes a capacitor dielectric disposed between top and bottom metal capacitor electrodes. The edges of the top metal electrode at the interface with the capacitor dielectric are rounded. The rounded edges of the top capacitor electrode at the interface with the capacitor dielectric reduce edge electric field, thereby improves time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) reliability of the capacitor.
US10510821B2
A display device includes: a substrate; and a plurality of pad terminals on the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of pad terminals includes a lower conductive layer and an upper conductive layer disposed on the lower conductive layer, an elastic layer disposed between the lower conductive layer and the upper conductive layer, and at least a portion of the lower conductive layer being electrically connected to at least a portion of the upper conductive layer in a region in which the elastic layer is not arranged.
US10510812B2
In one embodiment, an electronic display includes a first plurality of hexagon-shaped pixels and a second plurality of hexagon-shaped pixels that are coplanar with the first plurality of hexagon-shaped pixels. The first plurality of hexagon-shaped pixels each include an infrared (IR) emitter subpixel that is operable to emit IR light. The second plurality of hexagon-shaped pixels each include an IR detector subpixel that is operable to detect IR light. Each IR emitter subpixel and each IR detector subpixel includes an anode layer and a cathode layer. Each particular IR emitter subpixel includes an IR emissive layer located between the anode layer and the cathode layer of the particular IR emitter subpixel. Each particular IR detector subpixel includes an IR detector layer located between the anode layer and the cathode layer of the particular IR detector subpixel.
US10510810B2
A display device, in which a first pixel and a second pixel are defined, includes: a display panel including a base substrate and a light-emitting element disposed on the base substrate; a color filter layer disposed over the display panel and including a first color filter disposed in the first pixel and a second color filter disposed in the second pixel; and a first organic layer disposed over the display panel, and including a pigment or a dye. The first pixel displays a first color, and the second pixel displays a second color different from the first color. The organic layer is integrally formed over the first pixel and the second pixel.
US10510808B2
An organic light-emitting structure is described. The organic light-emitting structure includes a first light-emitting unit, a second light-emitting unit, a third light-emitting unit, and a fourth light-emitting unit. Each of the first light-emitting unit, the second light-emitting unit, the third light-emitting unit, and the fourth light-emitting unit comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic laminated body placed between the first electrode and the second electrode. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is a translucent electrode. At least one light-emitting unit is a fluorescent light-emitting unit. The color gamut range of the organic light-emitting structure is increased, the color saturation of the light-emitting device is improved, and quantity of colors is increased, so that the development trend of color reproducibility for the display devices can be satisfied.
US10510801B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an image display device in which it is possible to adjust the spectrum of light emitted by pixels and adjust the chromaticity of the light emitted by the pixels. Provided is an image display device having a pixel region in which each pixel comprises a plurality of subpixels and the pixels are arranged in a matrix, wherein each of the subpixels includes a plurality of light-emitting layers overlapping each other with an electrode sandwiched therebetween, and the plurality of light-emitting layers each contain a quantum dot material and have different peak emission wavelengths from each other.
US10510800B2
An integrated circuit is provided with a (bridge) rectifier circuit configured to couple to an alternating current (AC) supply to a (string of) LEDs monolithically fabricated on substrate, preferably on a patterned sapphire substrate (PSS). The rectifier including at least one schottky barrier diode configured to have a reverse-bias breakdown voltage substantially equal to or greater than half a peak voltage of the AC supply. Further embodiments include a method for fabricating an integrated Schottky barrier diode (SBD) with a LED on a LED wafer. Some embodiments can include etching processes to a wafer that may include a plurality of processing cycles. Some embodiments can further include a wafer having a patterned substrate. The wafer with the patterned substrate may have an interface layer configured to facilitate increasing a forward bias current density of the SBD.
US10510799B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an image sensor integrated chip. The image sensor integrated chip includes a substrate and an image sensing element disposed within the substrate. The substrate has sidewalls defining a plurality of protrusions over the image sensing element. A first one of the plurality of protrusions including a first sidewall having a first segment. A line that extends along the first segment intersects a second sidewall of the first one of the plurality of protrusions that opposes the first sidewall.
US10510785B2
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a TFT substrate and a method for manufacturing a TFT display apparatus, including the steps of: providing a base substrate; forming a source/drain metal layer on the base substrate; depositing a photoresist layer on the source/drain metal layer and patterning the photoresist layer to form a desired pattern of the photoresist layer; using a BCl3 gas to remove metal oxides generated on surface of the source/drain metal layer with air; and using a mixing gas including a Cl2 gas and the BCl3 gas to etch the source/drain metal layer.
US10510782B2
An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The manufacturing method includes: forming a first signal line and a second signal line which have a same extension direction and are separated from each other on a base substrate; forming an initial pixel electrode on the base substrate, such that the initial pixel electrode includes a first extension portion, and the initial pixel electrode is connected to the first signal line by the first extension portion and the initial pixel electrode is separated from the second signal line; and removing at least part of the first extension portion of the initial pixel electrode to form the pixel electrode separated from the first signal line.
US10510774B2
An integrated circuit (IC) power distribution network is disclosed. In one aspect, the IC includes a stack of layers formed on a substrate. The IC includes standard cells with parallel gate structures oriented in a direction y. Each cell includes an internal power pin for supplying a reference voltage to the cell. The stack includes metal layers in which lines are formed to route signals between cells. The lines in each metal layer have a preferred orientation that is orthogonal to that of the lines in an adjacent metal layer. A first layer is the lowest metal layer that has y as a preferred orientation while also providing routing resources for signal routing between the cells. A second layer is the nearest metal layer above this first layer. The IC includes a power distribution network for delivering the reference voltage to the power pin.
US10510764B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stacked body, first, second, third, and fourth insulating bodies, first and second columnar portions. The stacked body includes a conductive layer and an insulating layer stacked alternately. The first, second, third and fourth insulating bodies, the first and second columnar portions are provided inside the stacked body. The second insulating body is at a position different from the first insulating body. The third insulating body is between the first and second insulating bodies. The fourth insulating body is between the first and second insulating bodies, and includes portions contacting the third insulating body and being separated from each other with the third insulating body interposed. The first columnar portion is between the first and fourth insulating bodies. The second columnar portion is between the second and fourth insulating bodies. The first and second columnar portions include a semiconductor layer.
US10510758B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor memory device includes the following steps. A gate structure is formed on a semiconductor substrate. The gate structure includes a floating gate electrode, a control gate electrode, a first oxide layer, and a second oxide layer. The control gate electrode is disposed on the floating gate electrode. The first oxide layer is disposed between the floating gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate. The second oxide layer is disposed between the floating gate electrode and the control gate electrode. An oxide spacer layer is conformally on the gate structure and the semiconductor substrate. A nitride spacer is formed on the oxide spacer layer and on a sidewall of the gate structure. An oxidation process is performed after the step of forming the nitride spacer. A thickness of an edge portion of the first oxide layer is increased by the oxidation process.
US10510754B2
An embodiment complimentary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device and an embodiment method of forming the same are provided. The embodiment CMOS device includes an n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) having a titanium-containing layer interposed between a first metal contact and an NMOS source and a second metal contact and an NMOS drain and a p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) having a PMOS source and a PMOS drain, the PMOS source having a first titanium-containing region facing a third metal contact, the PMOS drain including a second titanium-containing region facing a fourth metal contact.
US10510748B2
A transistor includes a first doping well, a second doping well, a first doping area, a second doping area, a gate layer, and at least one compensation capacitor. The first doping well and the second doping well are formed in a structure layer. The first doping area and the second doping area are formed in the first doping well and have a first conductivity type, the second doping well has a second conductivity type, and the first doping area is used for transmitting the signal. The at least one compensation capacitor is used for adjusting a voltage drop of a parasitic junction capacitor between the first doping area and the first doping well, a voltage drop of a parasitic junction capacitor between the first doping well and the second doping well, or a voltage drop of a parasitic junction capacitor between the second doping well and the structure layer.
US10510746B2
A semiconductor device can include a front-end-of-line region at least a portion of which is disposed on a substrate, where the front-end-of-line region can include an electrostatic discharge protection circuit and an integrated circuit electrically connected to the electrostatic discharge protection circuit. A back-end-of-line region can be on the front-end-of-line region and an electrostatic discharge protection pattern can be on a scribe region of the substrate. The electrostatic discharge protection pattern can include a lower pattern extending horizontally and a side cross-sectional surface defined by a height and a width of the lower pattern, where the side cross-sectional surface can be exposed through a side surface of the back-end-of-line region. A via can be electrically connected to the lower pattern and extend perpendicularly to the substrate and an upper pattern can be electrically connected to the via.
US10510745B2
An array substrate and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region. Gate lines and data lines crossing the gate lines are arranged at the display region. A static charge shielding unit is arranged at the peripheral region. The array substrate further includes a static charge releasing line connected to the static charge shielding unit, and the static charge shielding unit is configured to release static charges at the peripheral region through the static charge releasing line.
US10510743B2
An Electro-Static-Discharge (ESD) protection device has a Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FinFET) with a silicon fin with a step separating a top fin and a bottom fin. The gate wraps around the top fin but not the bottom fin. Normal gate-controlled channel conduction occurs in the top fin between a source and a drain in the top fin. Underneath the conducting channel is a buried conducting region in the bottom fin that conducts after a breakdown voltage is reached during ESD. A ledge, abrupt slope change in the sidewalls of the fin, or a doping increase occurs at the step between the top fin and bottom fin. The bottom fin is 2-3 times wider than the top fin, causing the resistance of the buried conducting region to be 2-3 times less than the resistance of the conducting channel, steering breakdown current away from the channel, reducing failures during breakdown.
US10510742B1
An IC structure includes a substrate, a deep n-well (DNW), a first device, a second device, a first electrical path and a second electrical path. The DNW is in the substrate. The first device is formed inside the DNW and connected to a first lower reference voltage and a first higher reference voltage. The second device is formed in the substrate and outside the DNW, and connected to a second lower reference voltage and a second higher reference voltage. The first electrical path is electrically connected between the first device and the second device. The second electrical path is electrically connected between the first lower reference voltage and the second lower reference voltage. A second metal layer that includes the second electrical path is located in an area outside of an area above a first metal layer in which the first electrical path is located.
US10510738B2
A memory-containing die includes a three-dimensional memory array, a memory dielectric material layer located on a first side of the three-dimensional memory array, and memory-side bonding pads. A logic die includes a peripheral circuitry configured to control operation of the three-dimensional memory array, logic dielectric material layers located on a first side of the peripheral circuitry, and logic-side bonding pads included in the logic dielectric material layers. The logic-side bonding pads includes a pad-level mesh structure electrically connected to a source power supply circuit within the peripheral circuitry and containing an array of discrete openings therethrough, and discrete logic-side bonding pads. The logic-side bonding pads are bonded to a respective one, or a respective subset, of the memory-side bonding pads. The pad-level mesh structure can be used as a component of a source power distribution network.
US10510725B2
A semiconductor device includes a base member having a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface, the base member including at least one interconnect extending in a first direction along the first surface; two or more stacked bodies arranged in the first direction on the first surface, each of the two or more stacked bodies including semiconductor chips stacked in a second direction perpendicular to the first surface; and logic chips electrically connected respectively to the stacked bodies. Each of semiconductor chips includes first and second semiconductor layers. The first and second semiconductor layers each have an element surface and a back surface. An active element is provided on the element surface. The first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are bonded such that the element surface of the second semiconductor layer faces the element surface of the first semiconductor layer.
US10510721B2
Various molded chip combinations and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, a molded chip combination is provided that includes a first semiconductor chip that has a first PHY region, a second semiconductor chip that has a second PHY region, an interconnect chip interconnecting the first PHY region to the second PHY region, and a molding joining together the first semiconductor chip, the second semiconductor chip and the interconnect chip.
US10510717B2
A system and method for packaging semiconductor device is provided. An embodiment comprises forming vias over a carrier wafer and attaching a first die over the carrier wafer and between a first two of the vias. A second die is attached over the carrier wafer and between a second two of the vias. The first die and the second die are encapsulated to form a first package, and at least one third die is connected to the first die or the second die. A second package is connected to the first package over the at least one third die.
US10510712B2
A method includes placing a plurality of dummy dies over a carrier, placing a plurality of device dies over the carrier, molding the plurality of dummy dies and the plurality of device dies in a molding compound, forming redistribution line over and electrically coupled to the device dies, and performing a die-saw to separate the device dies and the molding compound into a plurality of packages.
US10510707B2
A method of forming a semiconductor package includes attaching a thermal conductivity layer to a chip. The chip has a first surface and a second surface. The thermal conductivity layer is attached to the first surface of the chip. The thermal conductivity layer provides a path through which heat generated from the chip is dissipated to the ambient. A substrate is attached to the second surface of the chip after attaching the thermal conductivity layer to the chip. A molding compound is formed to encapsulate the chip and the thermal conductivity layer.
US10510704B2
A package structure and a method of forming the same are provided. The package structure includes a first die, an encapsulant, a first RDL structure, and a conductive terminal. The encapsulant is aside the first die, encapsulating sidewalls of the first die. The first RDL structure is on the first die and the encapsulant. The conductive terminal is electrically connected to first die through the RDL structure. The first RDL structure comprises a first polymer layer and a first RDL, the first polymer layer comprises a non-shrinkage material and a top surface of the first polymer layer is substantially flat.
US10510699B2
A method includes forming a first conductive feature and a second conductive feature, forming a metal pad over and electrically connected to the first conductive feature, and forming a passivation layer covering edge portions of the metal pad, with a center portion of a top surface of the metal pad exposed through an opening in the metal pad. A first dielectric layer is formed to cover the metal pad and the passivation layer. A bond pad is formed over the first dielectric layer, and the bond pad is electrically coupled to the second conductive feature. A second dielectric layer is deposited to encircle the bond pad. A planarization is performed to level a top surface of the second dielectric layer with the bond pad. At a time after the planarization is performed, an entirety of the top surface of the metal pad is in contact with dielectric materials.
US10510697B2
A first protective layer is formed on a first die and a second die, and openings are formed within the first protective layer. The first die and the second die are encapsulated such that the encapsulant is thicker than the first die and the second die, and vias are formed within the openings. A redistribution layer can also be formed to extend over the encapsulant, and the first die may be separated from the second die.
US10510694B2
A packaged radio frequency (RF) module is disclosed. The module can include a substrate, a first die electrically and mechanically attached to the substrate, a second die electrically and mechanically attached to the substrate, an encapsulating material, and a lid attached to the substrate. The first die comprises a silicon-based die, such as an RF switch die, and the second die comprises a compound semiconductor die, such as an RF amplifier. The encapsulating material can protect electrical connections between the first die and the substrate. The substrate and the lid at least partially define an air cavity within which the first and the second die are mounted. An active surface of the second die is exposed to the air cavity.
US10510691B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a die disposed over a first surface of the substrate, a RDL disposed over a second surface of the substrate, a conductive structure disposed within the RDL. The conductive structure is configured as a seal ring protecting the RDL and the substrate from damages caused by cracks, chippings or other contaminants during fabrication or singulation. As such, delamination of components or damages on the semiconductor structure during fabrication or singulation can be minimized or prevented.
US10510684B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit has a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die. The first semiconductor die is bonded to the second semiconductor die by one or more bonding structures. A first plurality of support structures are disposed between the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die. The first plurality of support structures are spaced apart from the one or more bonding structures. The first plurality of support structures are configured to hold together the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die.
US10510683B2
The present disclosure proposes a packaging structure for a metallic bonding based opto-electronic device and a manufacturing method thereof. According to the embodiments, the packaging structure for an opto-electronic device may comprise an opto-electronic chip and a packaging base. The opto-electronic chip comprises: a substrate having a first substrate surface and a second substrate surface opposite to each other; an opto-electronic device formed on the substrate; and electrodes for the opto-electronic device which are formed on the first substrate surface. The packaging base has a first base surface and a second base surface opposite to each other, and comprises conductive channels extending from the first base surface to the second base surface. The opto-electronic chip is stacked on the packaging base in such a manner that the first substrate surface faces the packaging base, and the electrodes formed on the first substrate surface of the opto-electronic chip are bonded with corresponding conductive channels in the packaging base.
US10510682B2
A semiconductor device includes a first die embedded in a molding material, where contact pads of the first die are proximate a first side of the molding material. The semiconductor device further includes a redistribution structure over the first side of the molding material, a first metal coating along sidewalls of the first die and between the first die and the molding material, and a second metal coating along sidewalls of the molding material and on a second side of the molding material opposing the first side.
US10510679B2
A semiconductor device includes a first die embedded in a molding material, where contact pads of the first die are proximate a first side of the molding material. The semiconductor device further includes a redistribution structure over the first side of the molding material, a first metal coating along sidewalls of the first die and between the first die and the molding material, and a second metal coating along sidewalls of the molding material and on a second side of the molding material opposing the first side.
US10510671B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a first mask layer over a dielectric layer. The first mask layer has a trench. The trench has an inner wall and a bottom surface. The method includes forming a second mask layer in the trench. The method includes removing the second mask layer covering the bottom surface to form a second trench in the second mask layer. The second trench exposes the bottom surface and is over a first portion of the dielectric layer. The remaining second mask layer covers the inner wall. The method includes removing the first portion, the first mask layer, and the second mask layer to form a third trench in the dielectric layer. The method includes forming a conductive structure in the third trench.
US10510663B2
The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to transistor structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes active metal lines separated by electrically floating metal layers which have a width less than a width of the active metal lines.
US10510656B2
A semiconductor device includes: a high-side transistor having a first gate electrode, first drain electrodes and first source electrodes; a low-side transistor having a second gate electrode, second drain electrodes and second source electrodes; a plurality of first drain pads that are disposed above the first drain electrodes and are electrically connected to the first drain electrodes; a plurality of first source pads that are disposed above the second source electrodes and are electrically connected to the second source electrodes; a plurality of first common interconnects that are disposed above the first source electrodes and above the second drain electrodes and are electrically connected to the first source electrodes and the second drain electrodes; and a plurality of second common interconnects that are connected to the first common interconnects, and extend in a direction that intersects with the first common interconnects.
US10510651B2
A hard macro includes a periphery defining a hard macro area and having a top and a bottom and a hard macro thickness from the top to the bottom, the hard macro including a plurality of vias extending through the hard macro thickness from the top to the bottom. Also an integrated circuit having a top layer, a bottom layer and at least one middle layer, the top layer including a top layer conductive trace, the middle layer including a hard macro and the bottom layer including a bottom layer conductive trace, wherein the top layer conductive trace is connected to the bottom layer conductive trace by a via extending through the hard macro.
US10510649B1
An interconnect substrate includes an insulating layer having a first resin layer and a second resin layer covering an upper surface of the first resin layer, a first conductive layer having an upper surface and side surfaces covered with the first resin layer, a lower surface of the first conductive layer being exposed from a lower surface of the first resin layer, and a second conductive layer including an interconnect pattern and a via interconnect, the interconnect pattern being disposed on an upper surface of the second resin layer, the via interconnect penetrating through both the second resin layer and the first resin layer to connect the interconnect pattern to the upper surface of the first conductive layer, wherein the first resin layer is made of a resin having a higher modulus of elasticity and a lower coefficient of elongation than the second resin layer.
US10510642B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device module which includes: a semiconductor device including a top electrode and a bottom electrode; a substrate on which the bottom electrode of the semiconductor device is bonded; a heat sink on which the substrate is mounted; a lead electrode through which a main current of the semiconductor device flows; an insulating case disposed to enclose the substrate; and a retainer disposed in a cantilevered manner in the insulating case, the retainer supporting the lead electrode, wherein the lead electrode has one end brazed to the top electrode of the semiconductor device, and another end side inserted into a wall of the insulating case, and the retainer is engaged on the one end of the lead electrode to restrict movement of the lead electrode.
US10510641B2
A semiconductor device includes a through-substrate via extending from a frontside to a backside of a semiconductor substrate. The through-substrate via includes a concave or a convex portion adjacent to the backside of the semiconductor substrate. An isolation film is formed on the backside of the semiconductor substrate. A conductive layer includes a first portion formed on the concave or convex portion of the through substrate via and a second portion formed on the isolation film. A passivation layer partially covers the conductive layer.
US10510635B2
A method includes forming an electrical connector over a substrate of a wafer, and molding a polymer layer, with at least a portion of the electrical connector molded in the polymer layer. A first sawing step is performed to form a trench in the polymer layer. After the first sawing step, a second sawing step is performed to saw the wafer into a plurality of dies.
US10510634B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a substrate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side; an interconnect structure adjacent the first side of the substrate; and an integrated circuit device attached to the interconnect structure; a through via extending from the first side of the substrate to the second side of the substrate, the through via being electrically connected to the integrated circuit device; an under bump metallurgy (UBM) adjacent the second side of the substrate and contacting the through via; a conductive bump on the UBM, the conductive bump and the UBM being a continuous conductive material, the conductive bump laterally offset from the through via; and an underfill surrounding the UBM and the conductive bump.
US10510630B2
Apparatus, and methods of manufacture thereof, in which a molding compound is formed between spaced apart microelectronic devices. The molding compound comprises micro-filler elements. No boundary of any of the micro-filler elements is substantially parallel to a substantially planar surface of the molding compound, or to a substantially planar surface of any of the microelectronic devices.
US10510629B2
A package and a method of forming the same are provided. The package includes: a die stack bonded to a carrier, the die stack including a first integrated circuit die, the first integrated circuit die being a farthest integrated circuit die of the die stack from the carrier, a front side of the first integrated circuit die facing the carrier; a die structure bonded to the die stack, the die structure including a second integrated circuit die, a backside of the first integrated circuit die being in physical contact with a backside of the second integrated circuit die, the backside of the first integrated circuit die being opposite the front side of the first integrated circuit die; a heat dissipation structure bonded to the die structure adjacent the die stack; and an encapsulant extending along sidewalls of the die stack and sidewalls of the heat dissipation structure.
US10510627B2
A display device includes a display panel having a display area and a non-display area. A window is disposed on the display panel. A bezel portion is disposed on the window. The bezel portion at least partially overlaps the non-display area. An adhesive layer is disposed between the display panel and the window. An interlayer is disposed between the bezel portion and the adhesive layer. The interlayer has at least one ultrasound transmitting area overlapping the bezel portion.
US10510623B2
A method for inline inspection during semiconductor wafer fabrication is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of test structures on a semiconductor wafer along two opposite directions. An offset distance between a sample feature and a target feature of each of the test structures increases gradually along the two opposite directions. The method further includes producing an image of the test structures. The method also includes performing image analysis of the image to recognize a position with an extreme of a gray level. In addition, the method includes calculating an overlay error according to the recognized position.
US10510622B1
A method includes forming a stack of semiconductor material layers. A first spacer is formed adjacent a lower region at a first end of the stack, and a second spacer is formed adjacent an upper region positioned at a second end of the stack. A gate structure and sidewall spacer are formed above the stack. The gate structure and a first subset of the semiconductor layers are removed to define inner cavities and a gate cavity. A gate insulation layer is formed. A first conductive material is formed in the inner cavities. The first conductive material is selectively removed from the inner cavities in the upper region. The first conductive material in the inner cavities in the lower region remains as a first gate electrode. A second conductive material is formed in the inner cavities in the upper region to define a second gate electrode.
US10510617B2
Embodiments are directed to a complementary metal oxide semiconductor having source and drain contacts formed using trench. An n-type field effect transistor (NFET) includes a p-type semiconductor fin vertically extending from an n-type bottom source or drain region disposed on the substrate. A p-type FET (PFET) includes an n-type semiconductor fin vertically extending from a p-type bottom source or drain region disposed on the substrate. A first gate of the NFET is formed around a channel region of the p-type semiconductor fin and a second gate of the PFET is formed around a channel region of the n-type semiconductor fin. The first gate and the second gate include a dipole layer. The NFET and PFET each has a threshold voltage of about 150 mV to about 250 mV and a difference between the threshold voltages of the NFET and PFET is less than about 50 mV.
US10510615B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a semiconductor strip protruding above a substrate, forming isolation regions on opposing sides of the semiconductor strip, recessing the isolation regions in a first chamber using a first etching process, and increasing a planarity of the isolation regions in the first chamber using a second etching process.
US10510607B1
The present disclosure relates generally to an epitaxy scheme for forming source/drain regions in a semiconductor device, such as an n-channel device. In an example, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method generally includes forming a recess in a fin, the fin being on a substrate. The recess is proximate a gate structure over the fin. The method includes epitaxially growing a source/drain region in the recess using a remote plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) process. The RPCVD process includes using a silicon source precursor and a hydrogen carrier gas.
US10510599B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor switch structure includes source contacts, drain contacts, gates and fins. The contacts and gates are elongated in a first direction and are spaced apart from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The gates are interspersed between the contacts. The fins underlie both the contacts and the gates. The fins are elongated in the second direction and are spaced apart from each other in the first direction. A contact via extends through one of the contacts without contacting a gate or a fin. A gate via extends through one of the gates without contacting a contact or a fin. A contact-gate via is in contact with both a contact and a gate but not a fin.
US10510594B2
A method includes forming a first dielectric layer over a wafer, etching the first dielectric layer to form an opening, filling a tungsten-containing material into the opening, and performing a Chemical Mechanical Polish (CMP) on the wafer. After the CMP, a cleaning is performed on the wafer using a weak base solution.
US10510590B2
Provided herein are low resistance metallization stack structures for logic and memory applications and related methods of fabrication. In some implementations, the methods involve providing a tungsten (W)-containing layer on a substrate; and depositing a molybdenum (Mo)-containing layer on the W-containing layer. In some implementations, the methods involve depositing a Mo-containing layer directly on a dielectric or titanium nitride (TiN) substrate without an intervening W-containing layer.
US10510582B2
A substrate includes a polycrystalline ceramic core; a first adhesion layer encapsulating the polycrystalline ceramic core; a conductive layer encapsulating the first adhesion layer; a second adhesion layer encapsulating the conductive layer; a barrier layer encapsulating the second adhesion layer, and a bonding layer coupled to the barrier layer, and a substantially single crystalline silicon layer coupled to the bonding layer.
US10510569B2
A pattern forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a pre-alignment unit that performs pre-alignment for a substrate; a transfer unit that transfers the substrate into the pre-alignment unit; a placing table on which the substrate transferred into the pre-alignment unit is placed; a position detecting unit provided at a position included in the placing table and overlapping with an edge of the substrate, and adapted to detect a position of the edge of the substrate; and a control unit that calculates a positional displacement amount of the substrate from the position of the edge of the substrate detected by the position detecting unit, and controls the placing table on the basis of the positional displacement amount of the substrate to correct the position of the substrate.
US10510567B2
Embodiments described herein include integrated systems used to directly monitor a substrate temperature during a plasma enhanced deposition process and methods related thereto. In one embodiment, a substrate support assembly includes a support shaft, a substrate support disposed on the support shaft, and a substrate temperature monitoring system for measuring a temperature of a substrate to be disposed on the substrate support. The substrate temperature monitoring system includes a optical fiber tube, a light guide coupled to the optical fiber tube, and a cooling assembly disposed about a junction of the optical fiber tube and the light guide. Herein, at least a portion of the light guide is disposed in an opening extending through the support shaft and into the substrate support and the cooling assembly maintains the optical fiber tube at a temperature of less than about 100° C. during substrate processing.
US10510563B2
A wafer carrier assembly includes a wafer carrier and a fluid passage. The wafer carrier comprises a retainer ring confining a wafer accommodation space. The fluid passage is inside the wafer carrier. The fluid passage includes an inlet and at least an outlet to dispense fluid into the wafer accommodation space.
US10510560B2
A method of encapsulating a substrate is disclosed, in which the substrate has at least the following layers: a CMOS device layer, a layer of first semiconductor material different to silicon, and a layer of second semiconductor material, the layer of first semiconductor material arranged intermediate the CMOS device layer and the layer of second semiconductor material. The method comprises: (i) circumferentially removing a portion of the substrate at the edges; and (ii) depositing a dielectric material on the substrate to replace the portion removed at step (i) for encapsulating at least the CMOS device layer and the layer of first semiconductor material. A related substrate is also disclosed.
US10510558B2
Disclosed are an electronic device and the manufacturing method thereof, a manufacturing method of a thin film transistor, and an array substrate and manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method of an electronic device includes: forming a metallic structure on a base substrate; forming an oxygen-free insulating layer on the metallic structure and the base substrate; and forming an insulating protective layer on the oxygen-free insulating layer. The manufacturing method of the electronic device protects a metallic structure by forming an oxygen-free insulating layer, not containing oxygen elements, on the metallic structure, and hence prevents the metallic structure from being oxidized.
US10510551B2
Method of forming a protective hard mask layer on a substrate in a semiconductor etch process, comprising the step of applying by solution deposition on the substrate a solution or colloidal dispersion of an alumina polymer, said solution or dispersion being obtained by hydrolysis and condensation of monomers of at least one aluminium oxide precursor in a solvent or a solvent mixture in the presence of water and a catalyst. The invention can be used for making a hard mask in a TSV process to form a high aspect ratio via a structure on a semiconductor substrate.
US10510547B2
Embodiments described herein relate to methods and materials for fabricating semiconductor device structures. In one example, a metal film stack includes a plurality of metal containing films and a plurality of metal derived films arranged in an alternating manner. In another example, a metal film stack includes a plurality of metal containing films which are modified into metal derived films. In certain embodiments, the metal film stacks are used in oxide/metal/oxide/metal (OMOM) structures for memory devices.
US10510534B2
An apparatus for fabricating a thin film is provided. The apparatus includes a tube including one end and another end, a first heater supplying heat to a first region, adjacent to the one end, of the tube, a second heater supplying heat to a second region, adjacent to the another end, of the tube and disposed in parallel to the first heater along the tube, a gas inlet through which a source gas is supplied to the one end of the tube, and a gas outlet through which the source gas is exhausted from the another end of the tube.
US10510528B2
A substrate processing method includes a replacement step of replacing a rinse liquid adhered to the front surface of a substrate with a low surface tension liquid whose surface tension is lower than that of the rinse liquid, where the replacement step includes a low surface tension liquid supply step of supplying the low surface tension liquid to the front surface while supplying a heating fluid to the rear surface on a side opposite to the front surface and a post-heating step of supplying the heating fluid to the rear surface on the side opposite to the front surface of the substrate, in a state in which the supply of the low surface tension liquid to the front surface is stopped, before the start of a spin dry step after the completion of the low surface tension liquid supply step.
US10510527B2
Some embodiments relate to methods and apparatus for mitigating high metal concentrations in photoresist residue and recycling sulfuric acid (H2SO4) in single wafer cleaning tools. In some embodiments, a disclosed single wafer cleaning tool has a processing chamber that houses a semiconductor substrate. A high oxidative treatment unit may apply a high oxidative chemical pre-treatment to the semiconductor substrate to remove a photoresist residue having metal impurities from the semiconductor substrate in a manner that results in a contaminant remainder. A SPM cleaning unit apply a sulfuric-peroxide mixture (SPM) cleaning solution to the semiconductor substrate to remove the contaminant remainder from the semiconductor substrate as an SPM effluent. The SPM effluent is provided to a recycling unit configured to recover sulfuric acid (H2SO4) from the SPM effluent and to provide the recovered H2SO4 to the SPM cleaning unit via a feedback conduit.
US10510524B2
After various ions of sample origin have been captured within an ion trap, unnecessary ions other than a target ion having a specific m/z are ejected from the ion trap (S1, S2). Subsequently, an operation for dissociating the target ion within the ion trap by hydrogen radical dissociation (HAD), and an operation for sequentially ejecting the thereby generated product ions by resonance excitation from the low m/z side to a point located immediately before the m/z of the target ion, are repeated multiple times (S3-S7). The ions ejected by resonance excitation are detected with a detector to acquire MS/MS spectrum data, and the data obtained by performing the ejection by resonance excitation multiple times are accumulated to create the final MS/MS spectrum (S5, S8).
US10510521B2
This invention relates to graphical user-interactive analysis of data, including in particular, mass spectrographic data analysis, as well as methods and software for generating and using such. One aspect provides user-customizable reports, including methods and apparatuses for generating customizable pivot tables and graphs specific to mass spectrographic data.
US10510517B2
A cleaning apparatus of an exhaust path of a process reaction chamber used in a manufacturing of articles including a semiconductor or an LCD. The cleaning apparatus of the exhaust path includes a housing having an inflow pipe, connected to an upstream end of the exhaust path, an outflow pipe, connected to a downstream end of the exhaust path, and a connecting pipe disposed between the inflow pipe and the outflow pipe. A radio frequency generator in the housing applies radio frequency power to the inflow pipe and to the outflow pipe via respective coils. Plasma induced within the inflow and outflow pipes from RF power applied via the respective coils causes the generation of radicals from the exhaust gas flowing within. The radicals act to dislodge accumulated particulates within the exhaust path downstream of the cleaning apparatus.
US10510512B2
Embodiments of method and system for controlling plasma performance are described. In an embodiment a method may include supplying power at a first set of power parameters to a plasma chamber. Additionally, the method may include forming plasma within the plasma chamber using the first set of power parameters. The method may also include measuring power coupling to the plasma at the first set of power parameters. Also, the method may include supplying power at a second set of power parameters to the plasma chamber. The method may additionally include measuring power coupling to the plasma at the second set of power parameters to the plasma. The method may also include adjusting the first set of power parameters based, at least in part, on the measuring of the power coupling at the second set of power parameters.
US10510503B2
Methods of forming and operating a switching device are provided. The switching device is formed in an interconnect, the interconnect including a plurality of metallization levels, and has an assembly that includes a beam held by a structure. The beam and structure are located within the same metallization level. Locations of fixing of the structure on the beam are arranged so as to define for the beam a pivot point situated between these fixing locations. The structure is substantially symmetric with respect to the beam and to a plane perpendicular to the beam in the absence of a potential difference. The beam is able to pivot in a first direction in the presence of a first potential difference applied between a first part of the structure and to pivot in a second direction in the presence of a second potential difference applied between a second part of the structure.
US10510499B1
A surface mount device switch includes a pedestal, a metal dome and a conductive buffering sheet. A pedestal contact part of the pedestal is electrically connected with a circuit board. The conductive buffering sheet is arranged between the pedestal and the metal dome. Due to the conductive buffering sheet, the metal dome does not collide with the conducting part of the pedestal to generate the click sound. Consequently, the comfort of operating the touchpad module is enhanced. The present invention further provides a touchpad module and a computing device with the surface mount device switch.
US10510489B2
A mounting structure includes a circuit board including one principal surface on which a multilayer capacitor is mounted. The circuit board includes a first insulating layer, and a second insulating layer having a Young's modulus smaller than that of the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is closer to the one principal surface than the first insulating layer. A multilayer capacitor built-in substrate includes a circuit board, a multilayer capacitor on one principal surface of the circuit board, and a resin layer on the one principal surface of the circuit board and embedding the multilayer capacitor. The circuit board includes a first insulating layer, and a second insulating layer having a Young's modulus smaller than that of the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is closer to the one principal surface than the first insulating layer.
US10510487B2
A method of producing a multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes: preparing a multi-layer sheet including laminated ceramic sheets, and internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic sheets; cutting the multi-layer sheet to produce a multi-layer chip having a side surface from which the internal electrodes are exposed; removing a superficial layer of the side surface of the multi-layer chip; and providing a side margin to the side surface of the multi-layer chip, the superficial layer being removed from the side surface.
US10510485B2
A magnetic assembly includes a winding and a housing disposed about the winding. The housing includes an interior surface contoured to conform to the winding to facilitate heat transfer between the winding and the housing. A method of manufacturing a magnetic assembly includes forming a contoured interior surface on a housing and assembling a winding into the housing such that the interior surface of the housing conforms to the winding to facilitate heat transfer between the winding and the housing.
US10510482B2
The invention relates to a primary-sided arrangement (1) of primary winding structures (W1, W2, W3) of a system for inductive power transfer, wherein the primary-sided arrangement (1) comprises at least three phase lines and at least one winding structure (W1, W2, W3) per phase line, wherein each winding structure (W1, W2, W3) comprises at least one subwinding structure (SW1_1, . . . , SW3_3), wherein the winding structures (W1, W2, W3) extend along a longitudinal axis (x) of the primary-sided arrangement (1), wherein a pitch (P12_1, . . . , P32_3) between corresponding subwinding structures (SW1_1, . . . , SW3_3) of the winding structures (W1, W2, W3) varies along the longitudinal axis (x) and/or a length (L_SW1_1, . . . , LSW1_3) of the subwinding structures (SW1_1, . . . , SW3_3) of the winding structures (W1, W2, W3) varies along the longitudinal axis (x). The invention further relates to a system for inductive power transfer, to a method of manufacturing a primary-sided arrangement (1) and to a method for inductively supplying power to a vehicle.
US10510480B2
The present invention allows individual control of an output voltage of a main transformer and an output voltage of a teaser transformer while utilizing output characteristics of the respective transformer when a Scott connected transformer has control equipment arranged on the input side thereof, including first control equipment arranged in one of two phases of the main transformer on the input side in order to control a voltage or a current and second control equipment arranged in one end of a primary coil of the teaser transformer on the input side in order to control a voltage or a current, the control equipment controlling an output voltage of the main transformer and an output voltage of the teaser transformer individually.
US10510475B2
The invention proposes an induction component produced using thin film technology which can be used for a variety of functions. It contains, on a magnet core with a ring shape, two coil devices which, for their Part, are in turn constructed from at least two coils. The adjacent end windings of adjacent coils are connected to one another and to a common solder pad within each coil device. This makes it possible to connect individual coils and thus to utilize different functions of the induction component.
US10510462B2
Silver-coated resin particles, method for manufacturing same, and electroconductive paste using same
A silver-coated resin particle including a heat-resistant resin core particle and a silver coating layer formed on the surface of the resin core particle. The average grain diameter of the resin core particle is 0.1 to 10 μm, the amount of silver contained in the silver coating layer is 60 to 90 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of the silver-coated resin particle, and the exothermic peak temperature of the silver-coated resin particle by differential thermal analysis is 265° C. or higher.
US10510457B2
The transparent conductor includes a transparent resin substrate, a first metal oxide layer, a metal layer containing a silver alloy, and a second metal oxide layer in the order presented. The first metal oxide layer contains zinc oxide, indium oxide, and titanium oxide, and the content of SnO2 in the first metal oxide layer is 40 mol % or less with respect to the total of four components of zinc oxide, indium oxide, titanium oxide, and tin oxide in terms of ZnO, In2O3, TiO2, and SnO2, respectively. The second metal oxide layer contains the four components, and the content of SnO2 in the second metal oxide layer is 12 to 40 mol % with respect to the total of the four components in terms of ZnO, In2O3, TiO2, and SnO2, respectively.
US10510456B2
The present disclosure relates to a collimator. The collimator may include a motor, a transmission unit having a first end and a second end, and a leaf unit having a leaf. The first end of the transmission unit may be connected to the motor and the second end of the transmission unit may be connected to the leaf. The present disclosure also relates to a collimator system. The collimator system may include a leaf module having a leaf, a driving module having a motor configured to drive the leaf, and a processing module to generate a movement profile of the leaf. The movement profile of the leaf may include a first speed during a first stage, a second speed of the leaf during a second stage, and a third speed of the leaf during a third stage.
US10510454B2
A main pump shaft seal water injection system of a nuclear power plant includes a jet pump, a high pressure cooler, a hydrocyclone, valves and a main connection pipeline outside of a main pump, and an auxiliary pump and an internal flow path inside the main pump. Inner and outer flow paths of the main pump are connected with a shaft seal water injection hole and a high temperature water drainage hole. The main connection pipeline is connected between an upper filling water pipeline and a shaft seal water injection hole. A bypass pipeline connected with the jet pump, the high pressure cooler and the hydrocyclone, the main connection pipeline is provided with a normally open main pipeline isolating valve. The bypass pipeline allows low temperature upper filling water in the RCV system to enter the shaft seal water injection hole of the main flange directly.
US10510433B2
In some examples, an electromagnetic (EM) shielding file is described. The EM radiation shielding tile may include one or more of an EM radiation shielding fabric layer, a mu metal layer, and/or a microwave absorbing layer. In some cases, the EM radiation shielding tile may be configured to bond to clothing, electronic devices, or other objects to deflect and/or absorb electromagnetic field radiation.
US10510427B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of integrated circuits. Disclosed is a one-time programmable memory with a high reliability and a low reading voltage, comprising: a first MOS transistor, a second MOS transistor, and an antifuse component. A gate terminal of the first MOS transistor is connected to a second connecting line (WS), a first connection terminal of the first MOS transistor is connected to the antifuse component, the antifuse component is connected to a first connecting line (WP), and a second connection terminal of the first MOS transistor is connected to a third connecting line (BL). A first connection terminal of the second MOS transistor is connected to a fourth connecting line (BR), and a second connection terminal of the second MOS transistor is connected to a third connecting line (BL). The invention further comprises a voltage limiting device with a control terminal and two connection terminals.
US10510420B2
Embodiments are provided that include a memory device having a memory array including a plurality of access lines and data lines. The memory device further includes a circuit coupled to the plurality of access lines and configured to provide consecutive pulses to a selected one of the plurality of access lines. Each pulse of the consecutive pulses includes a first voltage and a second voltage. The first voltage is greater in magnitude than the second voltage, and the first voltage is applied for a shorter duration than the second voltage.
US10510414B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including an apparatus having first and second units of vertically arranged strings of memory cells, each unit including multiple tiers of a semiconductor material, including multiple tiers of memory cells, each tier of memory cells including an access line of at least one memory cell. The access line of a first tier of the first unit can be selectively coupled to a first drive transistor through a first decoder transistor, the access line of a first tier of the second unit can be selectively coupled to the first drive transistor through a second decoder transistor, and the access line of the first tier of the first unit can be selectively coupled to the access line of the first tier of the second unit through the first and second decoder transistors.
US10510413B1
Apparatuses and techniques are described for programming memory cells with a narrow threshold voltage (Vth) distribution in a memory device. In a first program pass of a multi-pass program operation, pass voltages of the word lines adjacent to a selected word line are adjusted to increase electron injection in a portion of a charge-trapping layer between the selected word line and an adjacent source side unselected word line. In a second, final program pass of the multi-pass program operation, the pass voltages are adjusted to reduce electron injection in the portion of the charge-trapping layer between the selected word line and the adjacent source side unselected word line.
US10510409B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device, includes a resistance change type memory cell; a first charge section into which a charge based on a current flowing in the memory cell is charged; a second charge section coupled to the first charge section via a switch element; a sense amplifier configured to determine data stored in the memory cell based on the charge charged into the second charge section; and a control circuit configured to control the first charge section, the second charge section, and the sense amplifier.
US10510407B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus that support efficient utilization of die area for cross-point memory architecture are described. A memory array may include active memory cells overlying each portion of the substrate that includes certain types of support circuitry, such as decoders and sense amplifiers. Boundary tiles, which may be portions of an array having a different configuration from other portions of the array, may be positioned on one side of an array of memory tiles. The boundary tiles may include support components to access both memory cells of neighboring memory tiles and memory cells overlying the boundary tiles. Column lines and column line decoders may be integrated as part of a boundary tile. Access lines, such as row lines may be truncated or omitted at or near borders of the memory portion of the memory device.
US10510403B2
In some embodiments, a semiconductor memory device includes an array of semiconductor memory cells arranged in rows and columns. The array includes a first segment of memory cells and a second segment of memory cells. A first pair of complementary local bit lines extend over the first segment of memory cells and is coupled to multiple memory cells along a first column within the first segment of memory cells. A second pair of complementary local bit lines extend over the second segment of memory cells and is coupled to multiple memory cells along the first column within the second segment of memory cells. A pair of switches is arranged between the first and second segments of memory cells. The pair of switches is configured to selectively couple the first pair of complementary local bit lines in series with the second pair of complementary local bit lines.
US10510400B2
A semiconductor storage device provided can increase a write margin and suppress increase of a chip area. The semiconductor storage device includes plural memory cells arranged in a matrix; plural bit-line pairs arranged corresponding to each column of the memory cells; a write driver circuit which transmits data to a bit-line pair of a selected column according to write data; and a write assist circuit which drives a bit line on a low potential side of the bit-line pair of a selected column to a negative voltage level. The write assist circuit includes first signal wiring; a first driver circuit which drives the first signal wiring according to a control signal; and second signal wiring which is coupled to the bit line on the low-potential side and generates a negative voltage by the driving of the first driver circuit, based on inter-wire coupling capacitance with the first signal wiring.
US10510393B2
Provided is a resistive memory device configured to output a value stored in a memory cell in response to a read command, the resistive memory device including a cell array including the memory cell and a reference cell; a reference resistance circuit configured to be electrically connected to the reference cell; an offset current source circuit configured to add or draw an offset current to or from a read current provided to the reference resistance circuit; and a control circuit configured to control the offset current source circuit to compensate for a variation of a resistance of the memory cell.
US10510380B2
An electronic device includes an internal supply rail; a plurality of first main header switches for coupling the internal supply rail to a first power supply; a plurality of second main header switches for coupling the internal supply rail to a second power supply; an auxiliary circuit including a first auxiliary header switch for coupling the internal supply rail to the first power supply and a second auxiliary header switch for coupling the internal supply rail to the second power supply; a feedback circuit, the feedback circuit tracking a status of the first and second main header switches; and a control circuit, the control circuit controlling the first main header switches, second main header switches and first and second auxiliary header switches responsive to the switch control signal and an output of the feedback circuit.
US10510371B1
A light source-unit comprises a laser diode, a sub-mount which the laser diode is joined, and a heater which is joined on a joint surface of the sub-mount. The sub-mount comprises a pair of barrier-members. The barrier-members are formed with lower thermal conductivity material which thermal conductivity is lower than joining metal which is used for joining the laser diode and the sub-mount. The barrier-members are formed on the joint surface so as to sandwich the heater.
US10510356B2
A voice processing method and device, the method comprising: detecting a current voice application scenario in a network (S1); determining the voice quality requirement and the network requirement of the current voice application scenario (S2); based on the voice quality requirement and the network requirement, configuring voice processing parameters corresponding to the voice application scenario (S3); and according to the voice processing parameters, conducting voice processing on the voice signals collected in the voice application scenario (S4).
US10510353B2
The present technology relates to an encoding device and a method, a decoding device and a method, and a program that enables acquisitions of high-quality sound even in a resource-poor setting.A demultiplexer demultiplexes a supplied code string, to obtain the quantized low-band spectrum, the spectral characteristic code, and the quantized expansion coefficient(s). At this point, the code string includes a single quantized expansion coefficient or quantized expansion coefficients of the respective bands in the high band depending on the spectral characteristic code. A spectral inverse quantization unit obtains the low-band spectrum by inversely quantizing the quantized low-band spectrum. An expansion coefficient inverse quantization unit obtains the expansion coefficient(s) by inversely quantizing the quantized expansion coefficient(s). An expanded spectrum generation unit generates an expanded spectrum, in accordance with the low-band spectrum and the expansion coefficient(s) depending on the spectral characteristic code. An IMDCT unit generates a band-expanded time-series signal from the low-band spectrum and the expanded spectrum. The present technology can be applied to decoding devices.
US10510352B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for detecting replay attacks in voice-based authentication systems. In one embodiment, audio is captured via an audio input device. It is then verified that the audio includes a voice authentication factor spoken by a user. The audio is then compared with stored audio spoken by the user. If it is determined that an exact copy of the voice authentication factor is in the stored audio, one or more actions may be performed.
US10510350B2
One embodiment provides a method, including receiving, at an audio capture device, a customized activation cue; identifying, using a processor, contextual information associated with a user; analyzing, using the contextual information, characteristics of the customized activation cue; identifying, based on the analyzation, a uniqueness associated with the customized activation cue; and responsive to said identifying, notifying a user that the customized activation cue has inadequate uniqueness. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10510349B2
Methods employ sensors in portable devices (e.g., smartphones) both to sense content information (e.g., audio and imagery) and context information. Device processing is desirably dependent on both. For example, some embodiments activate certain processor intensive operations (e.g., content recognition) based on classification of sensed content and context. The context can control the location where information produced from such operations is stored, or control an alert signal indicating, e.g., that sensed speech is being transcribed. Some arrangements post sensor data collected by one device to a cloud repository, for access and processing by other devices. Multiple devices can collaborate in collecting and processing data, to exploit advantages each may have (e.g., in location, processing ability, social network resources, etc.). A great many other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US10510346B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices are disclosed for generating smart notes for a meeting based on participant actions and machine learning. One method including: receiving meeting data from a plurality of participant devices participating in an online meeting; continuously generating text data based on the received audio data from each participant device of the plurality of participant devices; iteratively performing the following steps until receiving meeting data for the meeting has ended, the steps including: receiving an indication that a predefined action has occurred on the first participating device; generating a participant segment of the meeting data for at least the first participant device from a first predetermined time before when the predefined action occurred to when the predefined action occurred; determining whether the receiving meeting data of the meeting has ended; and generating a summary of the meeting.
US10510337B2
A method on a mobile device for voice recognition training is described. A voice training mode is entered. A voice training sample for a user of the mobile device is recorded. The voice training mode is interrupted to enter a noise indicator mode based on a sample background noise level for the voice training sample and a sample background noise type for the voice training sample. The voice training mode is returned to from the noise indicator mode when the user provides a continuation input that indicates a current background noise level meets an indicator threshold value.
US10510336B2
A method, system, and apparatus are provided for resolving conflicts between training data conflicts by retrieving independent training data sets, each comprising a plurality of intents and end-user utterances for use in training one or more classifiers to recognize a corresponding intent from one or more of the end-user utterances, providing a first test end-user utterance associated with a first intent from the first independent training data set to the one or more classifiers to select an output intent generated by the one or more classifiers; identifying a first conflict when the first intent does not match the output intent, and automatically generating, by the system, one or more conflict resolution recommendations for display and selection by an end user to resolve the first conflict.
US10510333B1
Provided are a vehicle capable of detecting an occurrence of a fault of a noise control device of the vehicle and indicating a result of the detection to a user upon occurrence of a fault such that the user handles the fault, and a method of controlling the same, the method including outputting an acoustic signal having a predetermined frequency through a speaker; detecting the acoustic signal output through the speaker; detecting a vibration generated by the acoustic signal output through the speaker; and determining that a fault has occurred when the detected acoustic signal and the detected vibration mismatch the acoustic signal having the predetermined frequency.
US10510329B1
A keyboard apparatus includes a plurality of keys, a frame supporting the plurality of keys arranged in a first direction, a first member, a longitudinal direction of the first member being along the first direction, and a second member including a first section, a second section, and a third section, the first section, the third section, and the second section being arranged in this order in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the first section being a plate-shaped member sandwiched between the first member and the frame, the second section being connected to the first member at a position away from the first section, the third section being separated from the first member between the first section and the second section, and a longitudinal direction of the second member being along the first direction.
US10510327B2
A musical instrument system is described to operate as a human to machine input device. The musical instrument outputs an audio signal that is processed to control the movement of an indicator in a computer.
US10510325B2
A rendering method includes receiving an input including pixel pattern information of a device configured to display a rendered image, generating a pixel pattern of the rendered image using the received input indicating pixel pattern information, and outputting a pixel value of the rendered image into a frame buffer using the generated pixel pattern.
US10510318B2
A vehicle mirror system that includes: an electronic rear-view mirror that is switchable between a display mode in which the electronic rear-view mirror displays, by means of a display component, vehicle rear-view ages captured by an image capturing component provided at a rear portion of the vehicle, and a reflecting mode in which the electronic rear-view mirror shows, by optical reflection, what is behind the vehicle; and a control component that causes switching of the electronic rear-view mirror to either the display mode or the reflecting mode in a case in which a determination criterion relating to a field of view in a rear direction of the vehicle has been met.
US10510309B2
A display panel for displaying an image is provided with a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Each pixel includes one or more units each including a plurality of subunits. Each subunit includes a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer which is provided so as to overlap a gate electrode with a gate insulating layer interposed therebetween, a pixel electrode which drives liquid crystal connected to a source or a drain of the transistor, a counter electrode which is provided so as to face the pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode. In the display panel, a transistor whose off current is lower than 10 zA/μm at room temperature per micrometer of the channel width and off current of the transistor at 85° C. can be lower than 100 zA/μm per micrometer in the channel width.
US10510303B2
A current sensor includes a first resistor between a first node and a second node, a first voltage limiting device between the first node and the second node, and a second resistor between the second node and a third node, wherein a resistance level of the first resistor is greater than a resistance level of the second resistor, and wherein a current flowing from the third node to the first node is configured to be measured based on a voltage across the first resistor or a voltage across the second resistor.
US10510302B2
A display device includes a driving thin film transistor (TFT) having a two-gate overlap structure and a power line having a width extension structure that together allow for improved storage capacitance when compared to a display device without such structures.
US10510297B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit including a charging circuit, a driving circuit, a compensating circuit, an adjusting circuit and a light emitting device. In a charging stage, a first node and a second node may be charged through the charging circuit. In a compensating stage, a threshold voltage compensation is applied to the third node through the compensating circuit. In an adjusting stage, a potential of the third node is adjusted by the adjusting circuit. In a light emitting stage, the driving circuit drives the light emitting device to emit light through the first power signal under control of the third node. Meanwhile, a threshold voltage compensation is applied to the third node which controls the driving circuit during the compensating stage.
US10510295B2
An apparatus for controlling an EL drive voltage for a display panel is disclosed, which includes a current sensing circuit configured to detect an EL drive current signal outputted to the display panel, and convert the EL drive current signal into a first voltage signal, a signal generation circuit configured to generate a pulse signal based on the first voltage signal, a current protection circuit configured to generate a first control signal based on the first voltage signal and a reference voltage, and a signal coupling circuit configured to output, based on the first control signal, the pulse signal or a low level signal as a second control signal to control the EL drive voltage. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the EL drive voltage of the display panel can be dynamically controlled, and be reset to normal when it is overhigh.
US10510289B2
An optimization method and device for brightness compensation, including: setting a compensation reference sampling area; providing a brightness obtaining apparatus, and photographing, by the brightness obtaining apparatus, the compensation reference sampling area to obtain a sampling frame; measuring brightness uniformity of all photographing units in the sampling frame, selecting one of the photographing units having good brightness uniformity as a sampling and photographing unit, and using brightness of the sampling and photographing unit as a compensation reference value to obtain a compensation reference curve; photographing a to-be-compensated panel to obtain a brightness compensation reference frame; applying brightness of all photographing units in the brightness compensation reference frame to the compensation reference curve, and calculating a plurality of pieces of brightness compensation data of the first pixel units corresponding to the photographing units; and performing brightness compensation for the first pixel units according to the pieces of brightness compensation data.
US10510285B2
A measurement circuit includes a plurality of measurement units, performs, at a same timing, a main measurement for measuring a current or a voltage with respect to a pixel circuit with supplying a measurement voltage to a part of the measurement units and a dummy measurement for measuring a current or a voltage with supplying a dummy signal to remaining measurement units, and performs a calculation on a result of the main measurement and a result of the dummy measurement. As the dummy signal, a signal with which a value to be measured is approximately zero is used. The measurement result of the current or the voltage is used for correcting a video signal. With this, a display device which can remove noise in measurement when measuring the current or the voltage with respect to the pixel circuit is provided.
US10510279B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register unit, a gate scanning circuit, a driving method, and a display apparatus. The shift register unit comprises a reset circuit configured to transmit a signal from a signal control terminal to a first node and a shift register unit signal output terminal under the control of a reset control signal input terminal; a first pull-down control circuit configured to transmit the signal from the signal control terminal to the first node and the shift register unit signal output terminal under the control of a second node; and a second pull-down control circuit configured to transmit the signal from the signal control terminal to the first node and the shift register unit signal output terminal under the control of a third node control signal input terminal coupled to a third node, so as to cooperate with the reset circuit and the first pull-down control circuit to jointly reset the shift register unit in a phase in which output of the shift register unit should not occur, thereby effectively preventing output of the shift register unit from occurring in the phase in which output of the shift register unit should not occur.
US10510274B2
Disclosed are embodiments of display modules, assemblies of display modules, and systems of display modules. Display modules have a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a predetermined pattern and providing a highly uniform visual effect. Alignment and complementary alignment features enable the alignment of adjacent display modules and the creation of large displays from a plurality of aligned display modules. Features to grip and retain a support frame are provided. Modules and systems have features that permit installation and removal from the front side of the display. A system of modular support frames works cooperatively with the display modules, adapting to different mounting environments, and thereby providing large modular displays with desirable properties.
US10510272B1
The present invention consists of a plug bolt and a bolt seat. The plug bolt comprises a conductor and a circuit board; the conductor has a first stuck-buckle, an accommodation-hole, and a top-cover; the circuit board is set with an RFID chip, an upper contact point, and a lower contact point. The RFID chip forms a first far-field antenna loop through the first pin, the upper contact point, the top-cover, and the conductor. The bolt seat is equipped with an elastic device, an internal antenna, an inserting-hole, and a second stuck-buckle, thereby controlling the elastic device to provide a pre-pressure to the internal antenna to electrically connect with the lower contact point. When the RFID chip is activated, the internal antenna forms a second far-field antenna loop and synchronously activate the first one; which the first and second far-field antenna loops can be cut-off when the top-cover is worn.
US10510270B2
A label having a silicone-free (water-based) release coating and compatible adhesive patch is provided. The label includes a thermally coated substrate having a silicone-free substrate overlaid thereon of a first surface. A second surface includes a microsphere adhesive layer.
US10510265B2
A system and method for predicting a health outcome of a user based on a determination of knowledge the user possesses regarding issues of physiological or mental health.
