US10535619B2
Tamper-proof electronic packages and fabrication methods are provided which include a glass substrate. The glass substrate is stressed glass with a compressively-stressed surface layer. Further, one or more electronic components are secured to the glass substrate within a secure volume of the tamper-proof electronic package. In operation, the glass substrate is configured to fragment with an attempted intrusion event into the electronic package, and the fragmenting of the glass substrate also fragments the electronic component(s) secured to the glass substrate, thereby destroying the electronic component(s). In certain implementations, the glass substrate has undergone ion-exchange processing to provide the stressed glass. Further, the electronic package may include an enclosure, and the glass substrate may be located within the secure volume separate from the enclosure, or alternatively, the enclosure may be a stressed glass enclosure, an inner surface of which is the glass substrate for the electronic component(s).
US10535618B2
Tamper-proof electronic packages and fabrication methods are provided which include a glass substrate. The glass substrate is stressed glass with a compressively-stressed surface layer. Further, one or more electronic components are secured to the glass substrate within a secure volume of the tamper-proof electronic package. In operation, the glass substrate is configured to fragment with an attempted intrusion event into the electronic package, and the fragmenting of the glass substrate also fragments the electronic component(s) secured to the glass substrate, thereby destroying the electronic component(s). In certain implementations, the glass substrate has undergone ion-exchange processing to provide the stressed glass. Further, the electronic package may include an enclosure, and the glass substrate may be located within the secure volume separate from the enclosure, or alternatively, the enclosure may be a stressed glass enclosure, an inner surface of which is the glass substrate for the electronic component(s).
US10535606B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a first source/drain trench and a second source/drain trench over a first and second source/drain region, respectively; forming a first silicon dioxide layer in the first source/drain trench and a second silicon dioxide layer in the second source/drain trench; forming a first source/drain contact over the first source/drain region, the first source/drain contact including a first tri-layer contact disposed between the first silicon dioxide layer and a first conductive material; and forming a second source/drain contact over the second source/drain region, the second source/drain contact including a second tri-layer contact disposed between the second silicon dioxide layer and a second conductive material; wherein the first tri-layer contact includes a first metal oxide layer in contact with the first silicon dioxide layer, and the second tri-layer contact includes a second metal oxide layer in contact with the second silicon dioxide layer.
US10535600B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate including a lower wiring, a first interlayer insulating film disposed on the substrate and including a first region and a second region over the first region, an etch stop film on the first interlayer insulating film, a second interlayer insulating film on the etch stop film, a first upper wiring in the second interlayer insulating film, the etch stop film, and the second region of the first interlayer insulating film and the first upper wiring is spaced apart from the lower wiring and a via in the first region of the first interlayer insulating film, and the via connects the lower wiring and the first upper wiring, wherein the first upper wiring includes a first portion in the second interlayer insulating film, and a second portion in the etch stop film and the second region of the first interlayer insulating film, and a sidewall of the second portion of the first upper wiring includes a stepwise shape.
US10535597B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor package device, which includes an interposer die. The interposer die includes a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of through-silicon-vias (TSVs) extending through the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor package device also includes a semiconductor die spaced apart from the interposer die, a first redistribution layer disposed on a first side of the interposer die and electrically coupling the interposer die with the semiconductor die, and a second redistribution layer on a second side of the interposer die opposite the first side.
US10535594B2
A semiconductor device comprises an interposer with extruded feed-through vias and a semiconductor die. The interposers includes a substrate having a plurality of through-vias. A dielectric liner lining said through-vias. A plurality of feed-thru electrically conducting features provided by a plurality of extruded metal wires within said dielectric liner. A semiconductor die attached to said interposer.
US10535585B2
In one general aspect, an integrated passive device (IPD) die includes at least one passive component that is embedded in an insulator material disposed on a front surface of a substrate. The IPD die includes a through-substrate via (TSV) extending from the backside of the substrate toward the front surface of the substrate. The TSV defines interconnect access to at least one passive component embedded in the insulator material disposed on the front surface of the substrate. The substrate has a thickness less than three-quarters of an original thickness of the substrate.
US10535580B2
A die includes a semiconductor substrate, a through-via penetrating through the semiconductor substrate, a seal ring overlying and connected to the through-via, and an electrical connector underlying the semiconductor substrate and electrically coupled to the seal ring through the through-via.
US10535577B2
In a semiconductor device, a plurality of semiconductor chips included in an upper-arm circuit are connected in parallel between a pair of upper-arm plates, while a plurality of semiconductor chips included in a lower-arm circuit are connected in parallel between a pair of lower-arm plates. In each of the arm circuits, the plurality of semiconductor chips are arranged in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which emitter electrodes and pads are arranged, the pads are disposed on the same side of the emitter electrodes, and signal terminals extend in the same direction. A series-connecting part between the upper- and lower-arm circuits includes a joint part 20 continued to respective side surfaces of the corresponding upper- and lower-arm plates. Each of inductances of respective parallel-connecting parts of the upper- and lower-arm plates which connect the semiconductor chips in parallel is smaller than an inductance of the series-connecting part.
US10535574B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed to an integrated circuit (IC) comprising a floating gate test device with a cell-like top layout, as well as a method for forming the IC. In some embodiments, the IC comprises a semiconductor substrate and the floating gate test device. The floating gate test device is on the semiconductor substrate, and comprises a floating gate electrode and a control gate electrode overlying the floating gate electrode. The floating gate electrode and the control gate electrode partially define an array of islands, and further partially define a plurality of bridges interconnecting the islands. The islands and the bridges define the cell-like top layout and may, for example, prevent process-induced damage to the floating gate test device.
US10535572B2
An assembly includes a wafer having a top wafer surface and a wafer circumference and a device arrangement structure. The device arrangement structure includes a first surface having a perimeter, the perimeter being encircled by the wafer circumference in a plan view. The device arrangement structure also includes an array of devices, each device of the array of devices having an electrical contact on the first surface. The assembly has an adhesive element that affixes the device arrangement structure in a stationary position relative to the wafer.
US10535570B1
Methods for forming cointegrated III-V and Ge channels for vertical field effect transistors are described. Aspects of the invention include forming a first fin and a second fin on a substrate, wherein the first fin includes a first material including a first semiconductor material at a first concentration level, and wherein the second fin includes a second material including a second semiconductor material at a second concentration. A condensation oxidation is performed to increase the first concentration level to a targeted first final concentration level and increase the second concentration level to a targeted second final concentration level. The second fin is replaced with a third fin including a third material including a combination of a group III element with a group V element.
US10535552B2
A semiconductor wafer suitable for fabricating an SOI substrate is provided by: producing a first layer of polycrystalline semiconductor on a top side of a semiconductor carrier; then forming an interface zone on a top side of the first layer, wherein the interface zone has a structure different from a crystal structure of the first layer; and then producing a second layer of polycrystalline semiconductor on the interface zone.
US10535548B2
A substrate holding apparatus that holds a substrate is provided. The apparatus comprises a rotary shaft which rotates about a vertical axis and includes a suction path leading from an upper end of the rotary shaft, and a holding unit which includes a suction hole formed in a rotation center, is fixed at the upper end of the rotary shaft such that the suction hole communicates with the suction path, and holds the substrate by sucking the substrate, wherein a plurality of vent holes for introducing an external gas into a space between the holding unit and the substrate are formed at positions rotationally symmetric with respect to the rotation center of the holding unit with an angle to face a back surface of the substrate placed on the holding unit.
US10535547B2
A semiconductor diode includes an engineered substrate including a substantially single crystal layer, a buffer layer coupled to the substantially single crystal layer, and a semi-insulating layer coupled to the buffer layer. The semiconductor diode also includes a first N-type gallium nitride layer coupled to the semi-insulating layer and a second N-type gallium nitride layer coupled to the first N-type gallium nitride layer. The first N-type gallium nitride layer has a first doping concentration and the second N-type gallium nitride layer has a second doping concentration less than the first doping concentration. The semiconductor diode further includes a P-type gallium nitride layer coupled to the second N-type gallium nitride layer, an anode contact coupled to the P-type gallium nitride layer, and a cathode contact coupled to a portion of the first N-type gallium nitride layer.
US10535544B2
Implementations described herein provide a substrate support assembly which enables both lateral and azimuthal tuning of the heat transfer between an electrostatic chuck and a heating assembly. The substrate support assembly comprises a body having a substrate support surface and a lower surface, one or more main resistive heaters disposed in the body, a plurality of spatially tunable heaters disposed in the body, and a spatially tunable heater controller coupled to the plurality of spatially tunable heaters, the spatially tunable heater controller configured to independently control an output one of the plurality of spatially tunable heaters relative to another of the plurality of spatially tunable heaters.
US10535542B2
Various embodiments provide a wafer box. The wafer box may include a housing with a receiving space for receiving at least one wafer arranged above a housing base, at least one fixing structure which is connected to the housing base and which extends from the housing base, and at least one fixing device which is fastenable to the at least one fixing structure at a variable distance from the housing base. The fixing device and the fixing structure are designed such that the at least one wafer for arrangement in the receiving space can be fixed in a position by means of the at least one fixing device fastened to the fixing structure.
US10535538B2
A system and/or method for heat treatment of substrates. The system includes a housing that defines a heating chamber and a door assembly that encloses an opening of the heating chamber. The door assembly may be opened and closed. When opened, the door assembly defines a loading slot for loading substrates into and unloading substrates from the heating chamber. The door assembly is coupled to a first actuator and a control unit is coupled to the actuator to move the door assembly between a plurality of loading positions. The system may also include a loading assembly mounted to the door assembly to facilitate insertion and removal of substrates from the heating chamber.
US10535523B1
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method of fabricating a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming an opening in a substrate and depositing a conformal metal layer in the opening. The depositing includes performing one or more deposition cycles. The deposition includes flowing a first precursor into a deposition chamber and purging the deposition chamber to remove at least a portion of the first precursor. The method also includes flowing a second precursor into the deposition chamber to form a sublayer of the conformal metal layer and purging the deposition chamber to remove at least a portion of the second precursor. The method further includes performing a metallic halide etching (MHE) process that includes flowing a third precursor into the deposition chamber.
US10535516B2
A method for depositing a semiconductor structure on a surface of a substrate is disclosed. The method may include: depositing a first group IVA semiconductor layer over a surface of the substrate; contacting an exposed surface of the first group IVA semiconductor layer with a first gas comprising a first chloride gas; and depositing a second group IVA semiconductor layer over a surface of the first group IVA semiconductor layer. Related semiconductor structures are also disclosed.
US10535509B2
The present disclosure provides an ion migration tube and a method of operation the same. The ion migration tube includes an interior space and an ion gate disposed within the interior space, the interior space includes an ionization region having an absolute value of potential V1 and a migration region. An ion gate is disposed between the ionization region and the migration region and includes a first ion gate grid having an absolute value of potential V2 and a second ion gate grid having an absolute value of potential V3, the migration region comprises at least a first migration region electrode having an absolute value of potential V4 and a second migration region electrode having an absolute value of potential V5. When the ion gate is opened, a potential well is formed for ionized ions between the first ion gate grid and the first migration region electrode so as to compress an ion group entering the migration region.
US10535508B2
Mass spectrometry systems and methods including ionization devices are provided. The ionization device includes either a gas pulse valve or a piezoelectric striker. The ionization device is configured to direct force to the back of a substrate, where an analyte of interest is deposited on the front of the substrate. The impact ionizes the analyte and the ions are directed into a mass spectrometer for analysis.
US10535507B2
A data processing device (1) is provided with: a data base storage region (32c) for storing MSn mass spectra of a great number of known compounds in advance; an acquisition unit for acquiring the MSn mass spectrum of an unknown compound (31a); and a score calculation unit (31d) for finding respective scores indicating similarities between the MSn mass spectrum of the unknown compound and MSn mass spectra of the great number of known compounds. The data processing device (1) is characterized by being further provided with: an intensity score calculation unit (31b) for classifying the peaks in the MSn mass spectrum of the unknown compound and the peaks in the MSn mass spectra of the known compounds into intensity scores of several ranks depending on the dimensions of the ion intensities, respectively; and a position score calculation unit (31c) for finding the respective position scores indicating error in the mass-to-charge ratio for each peak, wherein the score calculation unit (31d) adds up the intensity score of each peak in the MSn mass spectrum of a known compound, the intensity score of the corresponding peak in the MSn mass spectrum of the unknown compound and the position score, and calculates as a score the sum total of the values that have been added up for all peaks.
US10535505B2
A method for suppressing arcing in helium distribution channels of an electrostatic chuck in a plasma processing chamber, wherein the electrostatic chuck is connected to a voltage source for providing a chucking voltage and wherein the plasma processing chamber comprises a process gas source, and a plasma power source for transforming the process gas into a plasma is provided. A gas is flowed through the helium distribution channels of an electrostatic chuck to a back side of a wafer. The gas comprises helium and an electronegative gas.
US10535501B2
A film forming apparatus includes a first supply unit configured to supply a first reaction gas into the reaction vessel under an environment of a first pressure, a second supply unit configured to supply a second reaction gas into the reaction vessel under an environment of a second pressure lower than the first pressure, a first vacuum exhaust mechanism connected to the reaction vessel through a first exhaust path in order to create the environment of the first pressure within the reaction vessel, a second vacuum exhaust mechanism connected to the reaction vessel through a second exhaust path in order to create the environment of the second pressure, the second vacuum exhaust mechanism being lower in an operation pressure zone than the first vacuum exhaust mechanism, and a switching unit configured to switch exhaust destinations of the reaction vessel between the first path and the second path.
US10535494B2
A particle beam system includes a particle source to produce a first beam of charged particles. The particle beam system also includes a multiple beam producer to produce a plurality of partial beams from a first incident beam of charged particles. The partial beams are spaced apart spatially in a direction perpendicular to a propagation direction of the partial beams. The plurality of partial beams includes at least a first partial beam and a second partial beam. The particle beam system further includes an objective to focus incident partial beams in a first plane so that a first region, on which the first partial beam is incident in the first plane, is separated from a second region, on which a second partial beam is incident. The particle beam system also a detector system including a plurality of detection regions and a projective system.
US10535492B2
An electron energy loss spectrometer is described having a direct detection sensor, a high speed shutter and a sensor processor wherein the sensor processor combines images from individual sensor read-outs and converts a two dimensional image from said sensor into a one dimensional spectrum and wherein the one dimensional spectrum is output to a computer and operation of the high speed shutter is integrated with timing of imaging the sensor. The shutter is controlled to allow reduction in exposure of images corresponding to the individual sensor readouts. A plurality of images are exposed by imaging less than the full possible exposure and wherein the plurality of images are combined to form a composite image. The plurality of images can be comprised of images created by exposing the sensor for different exposure times.
US10535489B2
An anode has a base member, on which an X-ray active layer is applied. A first cooling circuit with a first cooling medium extends at least in part in the base member beneath the X-ray active layer. A second cooling circuit with a second cooling medium is arranged beneath the first cooling circuit. The anode exhibits distinctly improved thermo mechanical properties.
US10535488B2
A slow waveguide for travelling wave tube includes a central plate comprising a beam slip hole, rectilinear in the same direction as the longitudinal axis of the central plate, a bottom plate and a top plate closing the waveguide, respectively arranged on and under the central plate, and a slit folded in the form of a snake having its folds in the direction of the thickness of the guide.
US10535474B2
A porous coordination polymer-ionic liquid composite according to the present invention includes an insulating structure composed of a porous coordination polymer, and an ionic liquid retained inside pores of the porous coordination polymer. The porous coordination polymer preferably has a main chain containing a typical metal element.
US10535473B2
A capacitor that includes a conductive metal base member having a porous portion in a first main surface, a dielectric layer that entirely covers the first main surface and entirely covers side surfaces disposed along a direction orthogonal to the first main surface, an electrode layer covering the dielectric layer, a second extended electrode covering the electrode layer, a first extended electrode covering a second main surface of the conductive metal base member opposite the first main surface, and an insulation layer that insulates the electrode layer and the conductive metal base member from each other.
US10535471B2
A method of forming an electrolytic capacitor is provided. The method includes obtaining an unverified mineral sample from a mine site, analyzing the unverified mineral sample via quantitative mineralogical analysis and comparing data collected during the quantitative mineralogical analysis for the unverified mineral sample to data in a database that corresponds to quantitative mineralogical analysis collected for verified mineral samples sourced from one or more mine sites from a conflict-free geographic region to determine if the unverified mineral sample is sourced from one or more mine sites from the conflict-free geographic region. If it is determined that the unverified mineral sample is sourced from one or more mine sites from the conflict-free geographic region, the method then involves converting the unverified mineral sample into an anode for the electrolytic capacitor. The electrolytic capacitor can be a solid electrolytic capacitor or a wet electrolytic capacitor.
US10535470B2
A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a multi-layer unit and a side margin. The multi-layer unit includes a capacitance forming unit and a cover. The capacitance forming unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction and internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers and mainly containing nickel. The cover covers the capacitance forming unit from the first direction. The side margin covers the multi-layer unit from a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The internal electrodes each include an oxidized area adjacent to the side margin and intensively including a metal element that forms an oxide together with nickel. The capacitance forming unit includes a first portion adjacent to the cover and a second portion adjacent to the first portion in the first direction and including the oxidized area having a smaller dimension in the second direction than that of the oxidized area of the first portion.
US10535463B2
A cylindrical superconducting coil assembly has multiple individual coil units stacked together and retained in place by retaining structures, each coil unit having a resin-impregnated annular superconducting coil bonded at its axial extremities to respective rings of non-ferromagnetic material.
US10535460B2
Provided is a reactor with enhanced strength. The reactor includes a coil, a magnetic core, an interposed member interposed between the coil and the magnetic core, and a resin mold portion. The interposed member includes a frame portion that has a first through hole, and a plate-shaped portion. The resin mold portion includes an interposed resin portion that is formed by a constituent resin of the resin mold portion being filled inside the first through hole, an inner side resin portion is formed by the constituent resin being filled inside a portion of a coil interior space, and an outer side resin portion. The plate-shaped portion includes an interposed wall portion, and a second through hole that is provided locally in a portion other than the interposed wall portion, and inside of which the constituent resin is filled.
US10535459B2
A coil component includes: a body having coil portions disposed therein and exposed to one or more of surfaces of the body opposing each other in a width direction; external electrodes disposed on external surfaces of the body and connected to the coil portions; and insulating layers further disposed on the exposed coil portions.
US10535458B2
Methods and systems are provided for operating an electromagnetic coil assembly. As one example, a method comprises responsive to energization of an electromagnetic coil of an electromagnetic coil assembly, translating the electromagnetic coil along a central axis of the electromagnetic coil assembly toward a magnetic armature while maintaining the armature fixed along the central axis. The electromagnetic coil assembly may be utilized within various clutching, braking, or lever applications.
US10535456B2
A permanent magnet includes at least two antiferromagnetic layers and at least two first ferromagnetic layers. A magnetization direction of each first ferromagnetic layer is set, by an exchange coupling, with one of the antiferromagnetic layers of the stack, parallel to and in the same direction as the magnetization directions of the other first ferromagnetic layers. The permanent magnet also includes at least one second ferromagnetic layer. A magnetization direction of each second ferromagnetic layer is pinned only by RKKY (Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida) coupling with at least one of the first ferromagnetic layers or with at least one other of the second ferromagnetic layers.
US10535454B2
Provided is a compressed powder core that can suppress a decrease in the inductance even when a high magnetic field (of greater than or equal to 40 kA/m) is applied to the compressed powder core while suppressing an iron loss and a decrease in the strength of the compressed powder core. The compressed powder core 1A has soft magnetic particles 11A and aluminum nitride layers 12A formed on the surface layers of the respective soft magnetic particles 11A. The compressed powder core 1A has a ratio of the first differential relative permeability μ′L to the second differential relative permeability μ′H satisfying a relationship of μ′L/μ′H≤6, and has a magnetic flux density of greater than or equal to 1.4 T when a magnetic field of 60 kA/m is applied. The soft magnetic particles of the compressed powder core 1A contain Si in the range of 1.0 to 3.0 mass % and have, when analyzed using XRD, a peak area ratio Sal/Sfe of greater than or equal to 4%, the peak area ratio Sal/Sfe being the ratio of the area Sal of a peak waveform derived from AlN to the area Sfe of a peak waveform derived from Fe.
US10535446B2
A joint between an insulative sidewall of a medical electrical lead subassembly and an underlying fluoropolymer layer includes an interfacial layer. A first section of the interfacial layer is bonded to the fluoropolymer layer and is formed by a thermoplastic fluoropolymer; a second section of the interfacial layer extends adjacent the first section and is bonded to the insulative sidewall. The insulative sidewall, of the subassembly, and the second section, of the interfacial layer, are each formed from a material that is not a fluoropolymer. A recess is formed in the first section of the interfacial layer and the second section of the interfacial layer extends within the recess.
US10535439B2
A system and method for drying cavities containing spent nuclear fuel is devised. The invention utilizes a non-intrusive procedure that is based on monitoring the dew point temperature of a non-reactive gas that is circulated through the cavity. In one aspect, the invention is a system for drying a cavity loaded with spent nuclear fuel comprising: a canister forming the cavity, the cavity having an inlet and an outlet; a source of non-reactive gas; means for flowing the non-reactive gas from the source of non-reactive gas through the cavity; and means for repetitively measuring the dew point temperature of the non-reactive gas exiting the cavity.
US10535435B2
It is possible to achieve self-support of the fuel assembly without an upper grid plate when the fuel assembly is mounted or replaced, and it is also possible to prevent the fuel assembly from floating during a reactor operation. According to the present invention, the lower portion of the lower tie plate 7 as a part of the fuel assembly 3, which is inserted into the fuel support 9, extends, and a stable member 21 is provided around the extension portion 20, and thereby it is possible to achieve the self-support of the fuel assembly without the upper grid plate. In addition, since an increase in a weight due to extension of the lower portion of the lower tie plate 7 can prevent the floating during the reactor operation, a floating preventing mechanism using the upper grid plate is not necessary. Hence, it is possible to achieve the self-support of the fuel assembly without an upper grid plate when the fuel assembly is mounted or replaced, and it is also possible to prevent the fuel assembly from floating during the reactor operation.
US10535430B1
A method and system for grouping medical claims data, including outpatient medical claims, into medical events for further analysis is disclosed. Historical outpatient medical claims data is first aggregated by one or more categorization schemes, and then grouped by patient and date. Once the outpatient medical claims data is aggregated and grouped, the methods disclosed build outpatient events by further grouping together disparate medical claims data records that represent a single encounter with an outpatient healthcare system. The outpatient events may be used for analyzing aspects of outpatient care.
US10535426B2
A method of administering insulin includes receiving blood glucose measurements of a patient at a data processing device from a glucometer. The blood glucose measurements are separated by a time interval. The method also includes receiving patient information at the data processing device and selecting a subcutaneous insulin treatment from a collection of subcutaneous insulin treatments. The selection is based on the blood glucose measurements and the patient information. The selection includes one or more of a subcutaneous standard program, a subcutaneous program without meal boluses, a meal-by-meal subcutaneous program without carbohydrate counting, a meal-by-meal subcutaneous program with carbohydrate counting, and a subcutaneous program for non-diabetic patients. The method also includes executing, using the data processing device, the selected subcutaneous insulin treatment.
US10535407B2
Adaptive write operations for non-volatile memories select programming parameters according to monitored programming performance of individual memory cells. In one embodiment of the invention, programming voltage for a memory cell increases by an amount that depends on the time required to reach a predetermined voltage and then a jump in the programming voltage is added to the programming voltage required to reach the next predetermined voltage. The adaptive programming method is applied to the gate voltage of memory cells; alternatively, it can be applied to the drain voltage of memory cells along a common word line. A circuit combines the function of a program switch and drain voltage regulator, allowing independent control of drain voltage of selected memory cells for parallel and adaptive programming. Verify and adaptive read operations use variable word line voltages to provide optimal biasing of memory and reference cells during sensing.
US10535404B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for word-line path isolation in a phase change memory (PCM) device. In one embodiment, a memory device includes a memory cell of a memory device, a bit-line coupled to the memory cell, a word-line coupled to the memory cell, a bit-line electrode coupled to the bit-line, a word-line electrode coupled to the word-line, current-limiting circuitry of a selection module coupled to one of the word-line electrode and the bit-line electrode having a lower potential, the current-limiting circuitry to facilitate a selection operation of the memory cell by the selection module, sensing circuitry coupled to the one of the word-line electrode and the bit-line electrode having the lower potential, the sensing circuitry to perform a read operation of the memory cell, and write circuitry coupled to the one of the word-line electrode and the bit-line electrode having the lower potential, the write circuitry to perform a write operation of the memory cell. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10535394B2
A memory device includes a first switch for switching a first power voltage and transmitting the first power voltage to a common node of a first power rail. A second switch switches a second power voltage and transmits the second power voltage to the common node. A control logic generates a first control signal for controlling the first switch during initial driving of the memory device. A masking circuit controls the first switch to maintain a turn on state in at least a partial period of the initial driving period of the memory device by providing a first masking control signal obtained by masking the first control signal to the first switch.
US10535393B1
An electronic device including a memory functional block having multiple ranks of memory and a memory controller functional block coupled to the memory. The memory controller includes refresh logic that detects, based on buffered memory accesses for each rank of memory of the ranks of memory, two or more ranks of memory for which a refresh is to be performed during a refresh interval. Based at least in part on one or more properties of buffered memory accesses for the two or more ranks of memory, the refresh logic determines a refresh order for performing refreshes for the two or more ranks of memory during the refresh interval. The memory controller then performs, in the refresh order, refreshes for the two or more ranks of memory during the refresh interval.
US10535392B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array that includes memory cells, a row decoder that is connected with the memory cell array through word lines, a column decoder that is connected with the memory cell array through bit lines and source lines, and a write driver that outputs a write voltage in a write operation. The column decoder includes switches, which are respectively connected to the bit lines and are respectively connected to the source lines. During the write operation, a selected switch of the switches transfers the write voltage to a selected bit line of the bit lines. Each unselected switch of the switches electrically separates the write driver from a corresponding unselected bit line of the bit lines by using the write voltage.
US10535386B2
Various implementations described herein refer to an integrated circuit having level shifting circuitry and bypass switching circuitry. The level shifting circuitry is arranged for translating an input signal from a first voltage domain to an output signal for a second voltage domain. The bypass switching circuitry is arranged for activating and deactivating the level shifting circuitry based on a bypass control signal.
US10535373B2
At least one video stream that is encoded video information, and a management information file indicating attributes relating to the entire recording medium, are recorded in a recording medium. The management information file includes attribute information indicating whether the dynamic range of luminance of an initial video stream, which is played first out of the at least one video stream when the recording medium is inserted into a playback device, is a first dynamic range, or a second dynamic range that is broader than the first dynamic range.
US10535370B2
A system for creating an output comprises a processing unit, a user input module operably connected to the processing unit, and a video monitor operably connected to the processing unit. The processing unit provides on the video monitor: a grid image comprising multiple cells, each cell representing a duration of time; and a selection area comprising multiple select icons, each select icon representing a source data file. The processing unit is configured such that a user can create a grid layout representing the correlation between individual selected source data files and one or more of the multiple cells. The processing unit produces the output based on the correlation.
US10535364B1
A head-mounted wearable device incorporates a transducer that operates as a bone conduction (BC) microphone. Vibrations from a user's speech are transferred through the head of the user to the BC microphone. An air conduction (AC) microphone detects sound transferred via air. Signals from the BC microphone and the AC microphone are compared to determine if a common signal is present in both. For example, both signals may have a cross-correlation that exceeds a threshold value. Based on the comparison, voice activity data is generated that indicates the user wearing the device is speaking.
US10535360B1
A phone stand includes a phone holder for coupling to a phone conducting a voice session, a plurality of directional speakers positioned to project sound to a focused audio area corresponding to a location where a user is expected to be positioned, other speaker(s), and a system controller. The system controller is configured to receive audio signals of the voice session from the phone, separate the audio signals into speech signals and non-speech signals, obtain output mixing attributes, generate mixed signals by combining the speech signals and the non-speech signals according to the output mixing attributes, and send the mixed signals to the plurality of directional speakers. The other speaker(s) can include non-directional speakers, and the system controller is further configured to send the speech signals in the mixed signals to the plurality of directional speakers and the non-speech signals in the mixed signals to the other speaker(s).
US10535356B2
An apparatus for encoding a multi-channel signal having at least two channels is provided. The apparatus includes a time-spectral converter, converting sequences of blocks of sample values of the two channels into a frequency domain representation having sequences of blocks of spectral values for the two channels, a block of sampling values having an associated input sampling rate, a block of spectral values of the sequences of blocks that has spectral values up to a maximum input frequency related to the input sampling rate; a multi-channel processor to obtain a result sequence of blocks of spectral values having information related to the two channels; a spectral domain resampler to obtain a resampled sequence of blocks of spectral values; a spectral-time converter for converting the resampled sequence of blocks into a time domain representation; and a core encoder for encoding the output sequence of blocks to obtain an encoded multi-channel signal.
US10535350B2
A method for controlling a plurality of environmental factors that trigger a negative emotional state is provided. The method may include analyzing a plurality of user data when a user experiences a plurality of various environmental factors. The method may also include determining an emotional state experienced by the user when each of the plurality of various environmental factors is present based on the plurality of user data. The method may include receiving a plurality of calendar information associated with a user account. The method may also include identifying an upcoming event based on the plurality of calendar information. The method may include identifying an environmental factor within the plurality of various environmental factors is present at the upcoming event. The method may also include, in response to determining the environmental factor causes the user to experience a negative emotional state, executing an accommodation method based on the environmental factor.
US10535345B2
An interactive method/system generates a fictional story. A user interface receives human speech and transmits machine-generated speech. A processor(s) is programmed to execute functions that include parsing the human speech into fragments thereof and identifying a primary fragment from the fragments wherein the primary fragment includes a verb. A generalized intent is associated with the verb and at least one object is associated with the generalized intent. The generalized intent and each object associated with the generalized intent are stored. An open-ended question is generated based on the generalized intent wherein the open-ended question is provided to the user interface for transmission as machine-generated speech. After the above steps are repeated for a number of cycles, a sequence of sentences is generated using each generalized intent and object(s) associated with the generalized intent. The sequence of sentences is transmitted as machine-generated speech from the user interface.
US10535328B2
An automatic playing system may include a damper module for changing a sound generated by the automatic playing system. The damper module may include a damper board, a motion driver, and a supporter. The damper board may be configured to control at least one damper of the automatic playing system. The motion driver may be configured to drive the damper board and operated to perform at least one automatic playing function. The supporter may be configured to couple the damper board with the motion driver when the motion driver is operated.
US10535325B2
A method for updating images displayed on an electronic display of a mobile device includes determining a time interval between successive updates of an image frame. The image frame is displayed on the electronic display, and the mobile device is configured to be in a low power mode between the successive updates. The method also includes receiving one or more application updates within the time interval after a first update of the image frame, and updating the image frame after the time interval based on the one or more application updates.
US10535306B2
A pixel circuit, a display panel, a display device and a driving method are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes: a light-emitting circuit including a plurality of light-emitting sub-circuits (111); and a compensation driving circuit including an output terminal and a driving transistor. The plurality of light-emitting sub-circuits are all electrically connected to the output terminal; and the compensation driving circuit is configured to receive a light-emitting data signal, compensate for a threshold voltage of the driving transistor, and drive any one of the plurality of light-emitting sub-circuits to emit light according to an output signal output by the output terminal.
US10535302B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a pixel circuit, a method for driving the same, and a display apparatus. A driving sub-circuit in the pixel circuit includes a driving transistor and a first storage capacitor. The first storage capacitor has a first terminal electrically coupled to a gate of the driving transistor, and a second terminal coupled to a second electrode of the driving transistor. A writing sub-circuit is coupled to a scanning signal line, a data line, and the gate of the driving transistor, and is configured to write a data voltage into the driving transistor and maintain the driving transistor to be turned on. A reset sub-circuit is configured to supply an initial voltage to the light emitting sub-circuit so as to reset the light emitting sub-circuit. The driving transistor is further coupled to the light emitting sub-circuit to drive the light emitting sub-circuit to emit light.
US10535298B2
Disclosed are a pixel circuit and a method for driving the pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a light-emitting diode; a driving transistor; a first transistor connected between a data line and the driving transistor, a gate electrode of the first transistor being connected to a first scanning line; a second transistor connected between a first power line and the driving transistor, a gate electrode of the second transistor being connected to a second scanning line; a third transistor connected between a gate electrode of the driving transistor and the second transistor, a gate electrode of the third transistor being connected to a third scanning line; and a driving capacitor connected between the gate electrode of the driving transistor and the first power line, in which the driving transistor is further connected to a second power line via the light-emitting diode.
US10535294B2
A method and system control an OLED display to achieve desired color points and brightness levels in an array of pixels in which each pixel includes at least three sub-pixels having different colors and at least one white sub-pixel. The method and system select a plurality of reference points in the pixel content domain with known color points and brightness levels. For each set of three sub-pixels of different colors, the method and system determine the share of each sub-pixel to produce the color point and brightness level of each selected reference point, and select the maximum share determined for each sub-pixel as peak brightness needed from that sub-pixel.
US10535291B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display device and a control method thereof, and a display system. The display device includes a substrate and a pair of sub-pixels disposed on the substrate. The pair of sub-pixels includes a display sub-pixel and an interference sub-pixel, wherein the display sub-pixel and the interference sub-pixel are different in at least one of color or gray scale, wherein the display device has a light outgoing direction intersecting with the substrate; in the light outgoing direction, a projection of the display sub-pixel on a main surface of the substrate at least partially overlaps with a projection of the interference sub-pixel on the main surface of the substrate; and the display sub-pixel and the interference sub-pixel are configured to be capable of respectively emitting light in non-overlapping time periods.
US10535278B2
A knitted or woven garment configured for sensing movement of an adjacent underlying body portion of a wearer of the garment via one or more sensors, the garment including a garment body including a plurality of fibres knitted together to form a layer of the garment, the garment layer for positioning adjacent to the underlying body portion when worn by the wearer; one or more electrical connectors attached to the garment body, the one or more electrical connectors for facilitating receipt and transmission of electrical signals between a controller and the one or more sensors when the controller is connected to the one or more electrical connectors; a conductive pathway consisting of one or more conductive fibres incorporated in the garment layer by knitting as part of the plurality of fibres, the conductive pathway electrically connected to the one or more electrical connectors and to the one or more sensors; each of the one or more sensors incorporated in the garment layer by knitting as part of the plurality of fibres, each of the one or more sensors knitted using a plurality of conductive fibres electrically connected to the one or more conductive fibres of the conductive pathway; wherein the controller is configured to measure changes in at least one of resistance or capacitance of the one or more sensors as representative of the movement of the underlying body portion when positioned adjacent to the one or more sensors.
US10535276B2
Route planning and movement of an aircraft on the ground based on a navigation model trained to improve aircraft operational efficiency is provided herein. A system comprises a memory that stores executable components and a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components that comprise an assessment component, a sensor component, and a route planning component. The assessment component accesses runway data, taxiway data, and gate configuration data associated with an airport. The sensor component collects, from a plurality of sensors, sensor data related to performance data of an aircraft and respective conditions of the runway, the taxiway, and the gate configuration data. The route planning component employs a navigation model that is trained to analyze the sensor data, the runway data, the taxiway data, and the gate configuration data, and generate a taxiing protocol to navigate the aircraft to improve aircraft operational efficiency.
US10535274B2
In operating an aircraft, a situation is displayed at each instant representing a spatio-temporal overview of risk zones around the aircraft. Each direction in space around the aircraft is scanned, and a simulated displacement of the aircraft in each direction is analyzed so as to identify potential zones of interference with the aircraft's path. Anticipated movement of risk zones over a planned time duration of a flight is determined. Such anticipated movement is correlated with an anticipation position of the aircraft over the planned time duration. Accordingly, risk zones initially appearing as a potential hazard may be determined to be safe by the time the aircraft reaches them, and vice versa. Such information is presented to pilots at an outset of the flight and continuously updated throughout the flight, enabling accurate and safe evaluation and strategy decisions.
US10535273B2
Unmanned aerial vehicle and method for reconfiguring geofence region thereof using electronic device
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may include: a flight body; a camera installed on the flight body; a sensor module mounted inside the flight body to sense nearby surroundings; a wireless communication module mounted inside the flight body to wirelessly communicate with an external communication device; a processor mounted inside the flight body and electrically connected with the camera, the sensor module, and the wireless communication module; and a memory electrically connected with the processor. The memory may store instructions that, when the unmanned aerial vehicle is in flight, cause the processor to: identify a first geofence region; broadcast flight information on a periodic basis; receive flight information from a second unmanned aerial vehicle in flight; determine whether there is an overlap between the first geofence region and a second geofence region of the second unmanned aerial vehicle; and if so, reset the first geofence region so that the first geofence region does not overlap with the second geofence region.
US10535270B2
A level of vehicle (LOV) informing device mounted in a vehicle includes: an entrance detector determining whether the vehicle enters an entrance of a parking lot; a current location detector detecting a current location of the vehicle; an atmospheric pressure detector detecting an atmospheric pressure of the current location of the vehicle; a wireless communication unit performing wireless communication with an external device through a wireless communication network; and an LOV detector determining an LOV of the vehicle using a difference between a previous atmospheric pressure previously detected by the atmospheric pressure detector and a current atmospheric pressure currently detected by the atmospheric pressure detector, to determine the LOV of the vehicle at a parking time of the vehicle after the vehicle enters the entrance of the parking lot, and informing a user of the LOV.
US10535261B2
The GPS-based vehicular speed limiting system comprises an on board diagnostic (OBD) interface unit and a GPS unit. The OBD interface unit plugs into the OBD-2 (or equivalent) connector inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle and communicates with one or more vehicle computers. The GPS unit receives signals from GPS satellites to determine the current vehicle location, which it may then display in map form utilizing map data stored in memory within the GPS. If the OBD interface unit determines that the vehicle is traveling faster than the posted speed limit, as determined by information stored in the map data and communicated to the OBD interface unit over the wireless link, the OBD interface unit may command the vehicle computers to limit the speed of the vehicle. Unplugging the OBD interface unit may result in a notification being sent to a smartphone.
US10535258B2
A traffic volume determination system includes a processor configured to: calculate, while taking account of a change between a past traffic volume and a current traffic volume of vehicles passing through an area around a link, an estimated value of the current traffic volume of the vehicles passing through the link from the past traffic volume of the vehicles passing through the link; and determine that the link is closed when a current actual traffic volume of the vehicles passing through the link is smaller than the estimated value of the current traffic volume of the vehicles passing through the link by more than a statistical error.
US10535257B2
A method, system, and computer program product for transferring image data taken by an on-vehicle camera. The image data and nearby-vehicle information on a vehicle are received, where the image data and the nearby-vehicle information are successively transferred from each of a plurality of vehicles capable of making a communication with each other. Furthermore, information on a line of vehicles is generated based on the nearby-vehicle information. The image data is then associated with the information on the line of vehicles. Display data may then be generated using the image data. Furthermore, the display data may be presented on a display device in the vehicle.
US10535249B2
A system, apparatus and method for alerting an emergency responder to an emergency, which includes a processor obtaining data from at least one sensor, determining, that the data indicates an emergency condition, based on the determining, obtaining location information and a unique identifier, and communicating the location information and the unique identifier to a node via a network connection.
US10535247B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for providing reminders. A system for providing reminders comprises a communication device configured to receive location information associated with a tracker coupled to an item, a movement pattern database, and a control circuit. The control circuit being configured to: track a current movement pattern of the tracker based on the location information received via the communication device, select an expected movement pattern from the movement pattern database based on the location information associated with the tracker, compare the current movement pattern of the tracker with the expected movement pattern, and generate an alert based on detecting a deviation from the expected movement pattern.
US10535239B2
A merchandise security device is provided. The merchandise security device may include a base configured to be attached to a support surface. The base includes an alarm circuit and a tether, and the tether is configured to be extended and retracted relative to the base and to be coupled to one or more items of merchandise. The alarm circuit is configured to detect removal of the base from the support surface, cutting of the tether, and/or removal of the tether. In addition, the security device includes a lock mechanism configured to lock to the tether for securing the one or more items of merchandise to the tether, wherein one or more items of merchandise are removable from the tether when the lock mechanism is unlocked.
US10535230B2
Some embodiments include receiving, by a computing device from a player, a wager defined by outcomes of a plurality of parlays, in which each parlay includes a respective plurality of games. Some embodiments include for each parlay of the plurality of parlays, determining, by the computing device, whether an outcome of the parlay is a winning outcome for the player based on outcomes of the respective plurality of games. Some embodiments include determining, by the computing device, whether the wager is a winning wager based on a number of winning outcomes for the player determined from the plurality of parlays.
US10535229B2
A gaming machine. A memory stores a first set of symbols including first, second, and third symbols, and a second set of replacement symbols. A symbol selector selects symbols from the set of symbols, displays the selected symbols, and selects a replacement symbol to replace a selected third symbol in response to the third symbol being selected. A value assigner randomly assigns a prize value to a selected first symbol. An outcome evaluator determines if the selected symbols include a defined number of first symbols, and triggers a feature game when a defined number of first symbols are selected. Until an end condition is met in the feature game, the symbol selector causes the display to retain a selected first symbol, remove a selected second symbol, and replace the removed second symbol with a symbol selected from the feature game set of symbols.
US10535225B2
A randomized initial condition gaming system including a gambling game and an entertainment game, where the system applies a randomized initial condition that: triggers a random number generator of gambling game to generate at least one initial condition random value; communicate at least one initial condition that triggers generation of an initial condition within an entertainment game gameplay session, where: the initial condition setting is based upon at least one initial condition random value; at least one payout parameter is determined upon the generation of an initial condition; and communicate a gambling event occurrence detected from the entertainment game that triggers a wager.
US10535223B2
Systems and methods for controlling access to wireless gaming devices and networks are provided. For example, access is controlled through one or more levels of security checks, such as a hard security check instead of or in addition to a soft security check. In a hard security check, the user employs an apparatus such as a card or other physical token that can be used to access the wireless gaming device. Such an apparatus may communicate information that identifies the user to the device or may simply be used to produce a signal without which the device is locked to users. The apparatus may further emit a time varying signal to enhance security.
US10535217B2
An automatic medication dispensing device for bottled medication includes a frame, a medication collection device and medication dispensing units; wherein: the bottled medications are arranged in a single column in the medication container; a medication outlet is set on the bottom wall at the medication discharging end of the medication container; the medication discharging mechanism includes a medication stopper and a push rod; the medication stopper is set at the medication outlet and one end of the medication stopper is hinged to the medication container, and the medication stopper has two working states of blocking the medication outlet and opening and a primary elastic element acts on the medication stopper; the drive device drives the primary pressing portion to act on the medication stopper and the secondary pressing portion acts on the first bottled medication at the medication discharging end.
US10535216B2
The present invention relates to a system for detecting and communicating the position of a pusher assembly on a shelf. In an embodiment, a system includes a control module, a pusher assembly, and a laser scanner. The laser scanner is configured to transmit a swept beam to a mirrored reflective surface located behind the pusher assembly. The control module analyzes the laser beam at the laser scanner to detect the position of the pusher assembly on the shelf. In another embodiment, a system includes a control module, a pusher assembly, and an infrared transceiver that sends and receives infrared signals. The transceiver may be located behind the pusher assembly. The control module analyzes the infrared signals to determine the position of the pusher assembly on the shelf.
US10535215B2
Provided is a switch unit that drastically reduces the effort required to assemble a vending machine. The switch unit includes: a commodity selection part; an illumination part; a price display part; and a control part, wherein the switch unit is communicatively connected to at least one slave switch unit, and the control part includes: a position determination part configured to determine a relative position of the slave switch unit to the switch unit; and a code impartment part configured to impart a code to each of the keys of each of the switch unit and the slave switch unit on the basis of the determined relative position.
US10535203B2
A digital dental mesh segmentation method and a digital dental mesh segmentation device are provided. The digital dental mesh segmentation method includes: receiving a digital dental mesh, including a plurality of teeth; inserting a tooth interface separator at a tooth interface of the digital dental mesh, the tooth interface separator being at a first location; receiving a three-dimensional movement signal and a three-dimensional rotation signal to move and rotate the tooth interface separator from the first location to a second location; and segmenting the digital dental mesh according to the tooth interface separator at the second location to obtain an independent digital teeth model.
US10535200B2
Augmented reality presentations are provided at respective electronic devices. A first electronic device receives information relating to modification made to an augmented reality presentation at a second electronic device, and the first electronic device modifies the first augmented reality presentation in response to the information.
US10535195B2
A virtual reality system includes a drone including a rotor, a display, an audio speaker, a body harness having adjustable straps, and one or more processors in operative communication with the display, the audio speaker, and the drone. The drone may be fixed to the body harness. The one or more processors may be configured to issue audio-visual content to the display and audio speaker and control the rotor based on the issued audio-visual content.
US10535186B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating multi-resolution deferred shading using texel shaders in computing environments. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitating computation of shading rate in a first pass in a graphics pipeline, where the shading rate relates to a plurality of pixels. The method may further include facilitating texel shading operations in a second pass using the shading rate, where the first pass is performed separate from and prior to the second pass.
US10535177B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide an interface that includes a first region and a second region, wherein a live content stream being accessed is presented in the first region, and wherein one or more feedback options for interacting with the live content stream are presented in the second region. A determination is made that at least one user accessing the live content stream has selected a feedback option in response to the live content stream. At least one visual feature corresponding to the selected feedback option is displayed in the first region in which the live content stream is being presented.
US10535171B2
One embodiment of the invention disclosed herein provides techniques for processing an evaluation graph associated with a three-dimensional animation scene. An evaluation management system retrieves a first plurality of nodes from a memory. The evaluation management system determines that a first node included in the first plurality of nodes depends on a first output generated by a second node that also is included in the first plurality of nodes. The evaluation management system generates a third node corresponding to the first node and a fourth node corresponding to the second node. The evaluation management system generates an evaluation graph that includes the third node, the fourth node, and an indication that the third node depends on the fourth node. The evaluation management system schedules the third node for evaluation after the fourth node has been evaluated.
US10535170B2
A method may include receiving a selection of a first variation of a consumer product from multiple consumer product variations. Each consumer product variation may include a first and a second surface, each including a depth attribute and a texture map with a sync point (first and second of each, respectively). The method may also include generating a single image of the consumer product as implemented in the first variation based on the first depth attribute and the second depth attribute, where each of the first surface and the second surface may include a texture map including a sync point. For the method, the first and the second sync points may be selected so that transitions between the first surface and the second surface in the single image depict a designated manufacturer matching scheme that matches a pattern feature from the first surface with the second surface.
US10535169B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for overcoming the technical problem of providing an augmented reality that displays an actual image of the item or a proportionally dimensioned representation of the item to a user. To overcome this challenge, two separate approaches can be used: a beacon/tag/sensor-based approach and a marker-based approach.
US10535166B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for PET image reconstruction. The method may include processes for obtaining physiological information and/or rigid motion information. The image reconstruction may be performed based on the physiological information and/or rigid motion information.
US10535162B2
Encoding and decoding of property data, such as colour values, associated with vertices forming 3D objects. From an analysis of connectivity data, a spiral-like scanning path of the vertices within the 3D model is obtained. The colour values are mapped to a 2D image, each attribute value to a pixel. Next, the mapped 2D image is encoded. To increase redundancies in the 2D image, the spiral-like path is split into path segments, each forming a turn in the spiral; each path segment is assigned to a respective line of the 2D image; and the colour values of each path segment are mapped, in the same order, to the respective line of the 2D image. Successive lines in the 2D image thus contain the colour values of neighbouring vertices in the 3D object, and a better encoding can be achieved.
US10535159B2
An in vivo motion tracking device tracking an in vivo motion that is a tracking target included in an ultrasonic image includes an image acquiring unit that is configured to acquire an ultrasonic image, an advance learning unit that is configured to perform advance learning using the ultrasonic image as learning data, and a tracking unit that is configured to track a position of the tracking target in an ultrasonic image including the tracking target after the advance learning performed by the advance learning unit.
US10535153B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are provided for generating an interactive space. One method includes operations for associating a first device to a reference point in 3D space, and for calculating by the first device a position of the first device in the 3D space based on inertial information captured by the first device and utilizing dead reckoning. Further, the method includes operations for capturing images with a camera of the first device, and for identifying locations of one or more static features in the images. The position of the first device is corrected based on the identified locations of the one or more static features, and a view of an interactive scene is presented in a display of the first device, where the interactive scene is tied to the reference point and includes virtual objects.
US10535141B2
Systems and methods described herein may relate to training an artificial neural network (ANN) using a differentiable Jaccard Loss approximation. An example embodiment may involve obtaining a training image and a corresponding ground truth mask that represents a desired segmentation of the training image. The embodiment may further involve applying an ANN on the training image to generate an output segmentation of the training image that depends on a plurality of weights of the ANN and determining a differentiable Jaccard Loss approximation based on the output segmentation of the training image and the ground truth mask. The embodiment also involves modifying one or more weights of the ANN based on the differentiable Jaccard Loss approximation and providing a representation of the ANN as modified to a mobile computing device.
US10535126B2
A color fringe is corrected by detecting a transition region that includes pixels adjacent in a linear direction. A color difference distribution in the transition region is modeled by a logistic function. Pixel color values in the transition region are corrected using the logistic function to maximize a correlation between a correction color and a reference color with respect to the transition region. Color distortion such as color fringes is corrected without corrupting the original colors of the image by modeling the color difference by the logistic function while maximizing the correlation using information of the undistorted region. A calculation cost is reduced by reducing the number of the parameters required to optimize the logistic function.
US10535123B2
A method for replacing image data in a destination region that is divided into sub-pieces along one or more cutting paths, which start and end at two different points on the border, and finding replacement data for the sub-pieces. The cutting paths may be determined as a function of the type of image structured at the start and the end points. The cutting paths may also be determined as a function of the area of the sub-pieces and the lengths of the cutting paths. Optionally, the destination region may be determined by a spot detection algorithm. Further optionally, the spot detection algorithm may comprise calculation of a high pass filter, or detection of areas of luminosity and border-to-volume ratios. A method for moving an image element within an image is also provided.
US10535119B2
Systems and methods of enhancing the resolution of digital terrain models (DTM) for location-based applications and analyses. The DTM enhancement process takes the signature of the input image (e.g., via the input image and a noise surface file with similar characteristics as the sensor used to capture the input image) and applies it to the DTM without including large features such as buildings. The disclosed methods include utilize a process similar to that used for enhancing a DSM based on mapping the changing intensity from the image file to changes in elevation in the DSM using a regression over a local neighborhood of pixels. Further, the disclosed methods do not rely on information about the sensors and are extendable to be able to utilize any types of images. Additionally, the disclosed embodiments are sensor agnostic and can be applied on any type of image collected by any type of sensor.
US10535110B2
The invention disclosed relates to a claim automatically computer-translating device, comprising: a fundamental element noun capturing unit, a definition capturing unit, and a data translation unit, for automatically computer-translating a first language claim into a second language claim.
US10535102B1
A new design strategy based upon finite state machine models is used to develop a policy administration system. The policy administration system comprises a plurality of finite state machined-based households, each of which is defined by a set of states represented by data that describe or relate to various policies associated with each household, a set of events represented by transactions that operate on the data, and/or a set of transition functions represented by transaction logics and/or product rules that govern how the transactions are processed. In this manner, each finite state machine-based household becomes a type of self-contained policy administration system that may be executed and managed concurrently. Each policy may be an insurance policy, such as an auto, home, life, renters, personal articles, or health insurance policy. Each finite state machine-based or virtual household may facilitate managing, updating, or generating insurance policies for the household and/or household members.
US10535101B2
A computer system for processing data related to last survivor life insurance policies includes a processor configured to process data related to a last survivor policy on two or more insureds, associated single life policies on the two or more insureds, and one or more ancillary benefits. The processing of data may include generation of illustrations, processing of applications, underwriting of applications, and generation of policy documents, employing common data for the last survivor policy and the one or more associated single life policies. The ancillary benefits may include payments based on a medical condition of an insured, payments based on longevity of an insured, and payments based on disability of an insured.
US10535097B2
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating media playback in online auctions. A method may include detecting an indication of an auction event associated with an online vehicle auction for a first vehicle. The method may also include determining current auction information associated with the online vehicle auction. The method may further include determining auction event information associated with the auction event. Additionally, the method may include identifying, based at least in part on the current auction information and the auction event information, one or more media files for playback on a bidder device. The method may also include transmitting, to the bidder device in response to the indication of the auction event, the one or more media files for playback on the bidder device according to a determined sequence, which may result in acoustic output of one or more auctioneer phrases.
US10535087B2
Embodiments for enabling ownership, trade, and marketplace for named geographic locations are provided. Embodiments provide a marketplace for ownership of named location-specifiers. Each named location-specifier corresponds to a latitude/longitude coordinate of a location. Embodiments provide an ownership registry for the named location-specifiers, provide a registry of named location-specifiers that retrieves data based on a user's request for location data related to the named location-specifiers, provide a location data store that stores current location data corresponding to the named location-specifiers, provide a future location data store that stores updated location data and future location data corresponding to the named location-specifiers, and provide a requesting system that allows the user to request location data corresponding to a named location-specifier or to conduct a search related to one or more of the named location-specifiers.
US10535085B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a social platform inquiry from a client; analyzing a current responsibility score associated with the client; recommending one or more social platforms based, at least in part, upon the current responsibility score; and predicting an updated responsibility score for the client based, at least in part, upon the one or more social platforms.
US10535081B2
This disclosure generally covers systems and methods that schedule posts of one or more images, videos, or other digital content items through an account of a social networking system in a way that optimizes user engagement. In particular, certain embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods determine when to post digital content items by calculating data-driven user engagement scores and updating those scores with data tracked by the social networking system.
US10535078B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a coverage area associated with an advertising display device, monitoring presence and motion of a plurality of communication devices with respect to the coverage area to determine a viewing time and a trajectory within the coverage area for each communication device, and associating each device with a user profile that comprises demographic data and preference data. Each user profile is assigned weighting factors based the viewing time and the trajectory for the associated device, thereby generating a weighted user profile for each of a plurality of users. The weighted user profiles are then aggregated to generate a time-dependent audience profile for the coverage area that is associated with an item of advertising content at the advertising display device. The audience profile is analyzed; a new item of advertising content can be selected and displayed. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10535077B2
A method for enabling a value-added transaction involving a vehicle and a merchant via a mobile device is disclosed. Merchant information may be broadcasted from a merchant terminal. Vehicle specific data may be received at the merchant terminal identifying the vehicle in response to the broadcasted merchant information. Transaction data may be provided to the mobile device to initiate an intended transaction. Payment data may be received from the mobile device at the merchant terminal in response to the provided transaction data. Before completing the intended transaction, a value-added transaction offer may be provided to the mobile device. In response to the provided value-added transaction offer, an acceptance of the value-added transaction offer may be received. The intended transaction and the value-added transaction offer may be completed as a single transaction.
US10535076B1
A deal program life cycle system and method is disclosed. The deal program life cycle may oversee the issuance of deals from a deal program to consumers over the life cycle of the deal program. One or more aspects of the deal program may change during different periods of the life cycle of the deal program. For example, the deal program may include deal features, a number of units for deals, and relevance features for the deal program. The deal features, number of units of deals, and/or relevance features for the deal program may change during the different periods of the life cycle.
US10535075B1
The rewards program system and method provide an efficient and effective way for customers to enroll in rewards programs, and accrue and redeem rewards at participating merchants. The system generates promotions, analyzes transaction data to identify whether a customer used a promotion, issued by the system (e.g., promotions provider), with a merchant. When the customer redeems a promotion, the system accrues reward amounts in a customer account, and allows the customer to redeem accrued rewards amounts. The system generates credit card profiles and customer profiles, and offers customers subsequent promotions based on the transaction data and/or the customer's customer profile. The system issues the customer subsequent promotions when the amount credited to the rewards account satisfies a redemption threshold. The subsequent promotions may be redeemable at merchants that have promotions issued by the promotion provider, including the merchant where the promotion was used that resulted in the credited amount.
US10535069B2
A block for an order is received during processing of the order, wherein a reason for the block for the order is associated with the block for the order. A set of actions is identified based on the reason for the block for the order in response to receiving the block for the order. The set of actions is executed with respect to the order in response to identifying the set of actions based on the reason for the block for the order, wherein the set of actions comprises a stage at which processing for the order ceases, restarts, and executes recovery actions, as specified.
US10535067B2
An authorization request for a payment transaction is obtained, from a given one of a plurality of billers, over a payment network having a standard clearing and settlement time period. Via the payment network, a special incremental payments approval authorization request response to the authorization request for the payment transaction is passed, indicating that the given one of the plurality of billers will be paid in connection with the payment transaction in a plurality of incremental payments made in time increments over a selected time period following the authorization request, optionally regardless of whether funds are available for an account associated with the payment transaction. The selected time period is longer than the standard clearing and settlement time period. The payment transaction is not settled until expiration of the selected time period.
US10535062B1
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to securely share data stored in a blockchain. A contactless card may receive a request to provide a data element from a device. An applet of the contactless card may encrypt the data element and a wallet address. The applet may generate a signature for the request, and transmit, to a mobile device, the signature and the encrypted data. The mobile device may transmit, to a verification service, the signature and encrypted data. The verification service may verify the signature based on a public key. A node in a blockchain may generate a block in the blockchain, the block comprising indications of the verification of the signature, the requested data element, and the wallet address. An encrypted data element corresponding to the data element may be decrypted using a public key. The device may receive the decrypted data element from the wallet address.
US10535060B2
A method for processing a financial transaction includes: storing, in a database, a plurality of wallet data entries, wherein each wallet data entry includes at least a mobile device identifier and payment details associated with at least one payment account; receiving, by a receiving device, an authorization request for a financial transaction, wherein the authorization request includes at least a mobile device identifier and transaction data; transmitting, to a mobile computing device associated with the mobile device identifier, at least the transaction data; receiving, from the mobile computing device, an indication of a payment account for funding of the financial transaction; identifying, in the database, payment details associated with the indicated payment account in a wallet data entry including the mobile device identifier included in the authorization request; and transmitting, to an issuer associated with the indicated payment account, at least the payment details and the transaction data.
US10535048B2
Arrangements relate to processing financial transactions on an automated teller machine (ATM). An ATM identifier can be presented on a display of the ATM. An ATM identifier confirmation can be received from a mobile computing device. Responsive to determining that the ATM identifier confirmation matches the identifier presented on the display of the ATM, a customer authentication or a transaction request can be received from the mobile computing device. Responsive to verifying the customer authentication or the transaction request, the transaction request can be processed.
US10535037B2
In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to delivery packages using unmanned delivery aircrafts. Some embodiments include product delivery systems, comprising: a transceiver; a control circuit; a memory coupled to the control circuit and storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to perform the steps of: receive, from a customer, an authorization to deliver a product by an unmanned delivery aircraft; receive, from a portable user interface unit associated with the customer, global location information of a current location of the user interface unit and that designates a delivery location where the customer would like the product delivered; and initiate a delivery, by an unmanned delivery aircraft, of the product to the delivery location defined by the global location information received from the user interface unit.
US10535034B2
Disclosed herein is a system for managing item delivery. The system includes an order management system, comprising an order terminal for receiving an order, a transmitter for receiving the order from the order terminal and sending the order to one or more product providers, a verification terminal by which a recipient can verify completion of delivery of items associated with the order, and a scheduler. The scheduler schedules a robot to be available at an interchange to receive the one or more items, and the order management system provides a delivery destination to the robot by which, or so that, the robot can autonomously navigate to the destination.
US10535025B2
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for developing a criticality profile of an industrial asset. The criticality profile describes the importance of the industrial asset to a system in terms of one or more criticality metrics and/or one or more confidence profiles. Such metrics may include an operational metric indicative of the operation impact of the industrial asset on a system if the industrial asset remains unchanged or enters a degraded or improved state, a restoration metric indicative of a complexity of restoring the industrial asset to an operational state from the unchanged or degraded state and/or complexity of improving the industrial asset to an improved state, and/or an interdependency metric indicative of a relationship between the industrial asset and one or more other industrial assets and/or between the industrial asset and one or more structures in an environment associated with the industrial asset.
US10535021B2
A management system for a Permitting Authority (PA) or its appointed designee to monitor and track application-based commercial ground transportation (ABCT) Provider activity through the ABCT-Driver's mobile device, the ABCT-Provider's app, the ABCT-Provider's computer systems, and the PA's electronically-enabled geo-fence, all without the need for specialized hardware such as transponders or other tracking equipment. Each mobile communication device associated with an ABCT-Vehicle continually transmits information to an ABCT-Provider Information and Communications Technology (“ICT”) System associated with an ABCT-Provider when an application on the mobile communication device is active. The information transmitted by the mobile communication device enables the ABCT-Provider ICT System to identify and monitor the ABCT-Driver's identity, the vehicle information, the geographic locus, and/or the ABCT-Vehicle's activity data.
US10535014B2
Technologies are generally described for methods and systems in a machine learning environment. In some examples, a method may include retrieving training data from a memory. The training data may include training inputs and training labels. The methods may further include determining a set of datasets based on the training inputs. The methods may further include determining a set of out of sample errors based on the training inputs and based on test data. Each out of sample error may correspond to a respective dataset in the set of datasets. The methods may further include generating alternative distribution data based on the set of out of sample errors. The alternative distribution data may be used to determine weights to be applied to the training data.
US10535013B2
A tunable resonator is formed by shunting a set of asymmetric DC-SQUIDs with a capacitive device. An asymmetric DC-SQUID includes a first Josephson junction and a second Josephson junction, where the critical currents of the first and second Josephson junctions are different. A coupling is formed between the tunable resonator and a qubit such that the capacitively-shunted asymmetric DC-SQUIDs can dispersively read a quantum state of the qubit. An external magnetic flux is set to a first value and applied to the tunable resonator. A first value of the external magnetic flux causes the tunable resonator to tune to a first frequency within a first frequency difference from a resonance frequency of the qubit, the tunable resonator tuning to the first frequency causes active reset of the qubit.
US10535006B2
An approach is provided for a redundant feature detection engine. The approach, for instance, involves segmenting an input image into a plurality of grid cells for processing by the redundant feature detection engine. The redundant feature detection engine includes a neural network. The approach also involves, for each of the plurality of grid cells, initiating a prediction of an object code by the redundant feature detection engine. The object code is a predicted feature that uniquely identifies an object depicted in the input image. The approach further involves aggregating the plurality of grid cells into one or more clusters based on the object code predicted for said each grid cell. The approach further involves predicting one or more features of the object corresponding to a respective cluster of the one or more clusters by merging one or more feature prediction outputs of said each grid cell in the respective cluster.
US10534993B2
A cap seal includes a cylindrical member covering a side face of the container, and a top face including an IC tag and connected to a first end that is one of two axial ends of the cylindrical member to close the cylindrical member at the first end. The cylindrical member includes a metal portion disposed on the side face of the container, and at least one insulating portion extending from the first end. The cylindrical member forms a closed annular shape in a circumferential direction of the cylindrical member, and the metal portion and the insulating portion are joined to each other.
US10534992B2
A wireless IC device includes a wireless IC chip arranged to process a radio signal, a power-supply circuit board that is connected to the wireless IC chip and that includes a power supply circuit including at least one coil pattern, and a radiation plate arranged to radiate a transmission signal supplied from the power-supply circuit board and/or receiving a reception signal to supply the reception signal to the power-supply circuit board. The radiation plate includes an opening provided in a portion thereof and a slit connected to the opening. When viewed in plan from the direction of the winding axis of the coil pattern, the opening in the radiation plate overlaps with an inner area of the coil pattern and the area of the inner area is approximately the same as that of opening.
US10534981B2
Disclosed herein is an intelligent agent to analyze a media object. The agent comprises a trained model comprising a number of state layers for storing a history of actions taken by the agent in each of a number of previous iterations performed by the agent in analyzing a media object. The stored state may be used by the agent in a current iteration to determine whether or not to make, or abstain from making, a prediction from output generated by the model, identify another portion of the media object to analyze, end analysis. Output from the agent's model may comprise a semantic vector that can be mapped to a semantic vector space to identify a number of labels for a media object.
US10534975B1
A multi-frequency high-precision object recognition method is disclosed, wherein a multi-frequency light emitting unit is used to emits lights of different frequencies onto an object-to-be-tested, and a multi-frequency image sensor unit is used to fetch the image of lights reflected from the object-to-be-tested. In an X axis and a Y axis is a single-piece planar image, while lights of different frequencies is used to form image depth in a Z axis. The sample light in the Z axis includes two infrared light narrow range image signals, each having wavelength between 850 nm and 1050 nm, and wavelength width between 10 nm and 60 nm. Calculate to obtain a plurality of single-piece planar images in the X axis and the Y axis as sampled by different wavelength widths in the Z axis, superimpose the plurality of single-piece planar images into a 3-dimension stereoscopic relief image for precise comparison and recognition.
US10534961B2
A method for detecting pad construction and/or drilling and/or for hydraulic fracturing of at least one hydrocarbon well, comprising the steps of: selecting at least one specified well location, obtaining at least one time series of top view images of the specified well location, in which each top view image has a date corresponding to a day of acquisition of the top view image, processing the time series of top view images to detect at least one top view image showing the apparition of a well pad and/or showing drilling activity and/or showing fracturing activity, exporting the date corresponding to the acquisition day of the top view image showing the apparition of the well pad and/or drilling activity and/or fracturing activity, providing, based on export date, an information of pad construction date and/or drilling starting date and/or fracturing starting date and/or a full production forecast for the specified well location.
US10534960B2
System and method for locating and performing fine grained classification from multi-view image data
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for identifying geographic locations and for performing a fine-grained classification of elements detected in images captured from multiple different viewpoints or perspectives. In several embodiments, the method identifies the geographic locations by probabilistically combining predictions from the different viewpoints by warping their outputs to a common geographic coordinate frame. The method of certain embodiments performs the fine-grained classification based on image portions from several images associated with a particular geographic location, where the images are captured from different perspectives and/or zoom levels.
US10534954B2
An augmented reality device (ARD) can present virtual content which can provide enhanced experiences with the user's physical environment. For example, the ARD can detect a linkage between a person in the FOV of the ARD and a physical object (e.g., a document presented by the person) or detect linkages between the documents. The linkages may be used in identity verification or document verification.
US10534953B2
An electronic apparatus for illuminating and photographing a user's face and a control method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a camera configured to photograph a user's face, a transceiver configured to perform communication with a user terminal, and at least one processor configured to photograph the user's face a plurality of times on the basis of a plurality of photographing parameters to obtain a plurality of images, extract face regions corresponding to each of the plurality of images photographed on the basis of the plurality of photographing parameters, synthesize the extracted user's face regions with each other to create a synthesized image, and control the transceiver to transmit data on the synthesized image to the user terminal for the purpose of skin analysis for the user's face.
US10534951B2
A fingerprint identification unit and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate, a display device and a fingerprint identification method are disclosed, which can realize fingerprint identification without increasing the thickness of the display device. The fingerprint identification unit can include a photosensitive device, a data read-out signal line and a thin film transistor for controlling the switching of the photosensitive device. On the photosensitive device is formed a first insulating layer for insulating the photosensitive device from an OLED luminescent layer, and the part of the OLED luminescent layer corresponding to the photosensitive device does not illuminate. The data read-out signal line can be configured to read out a photocurrent generated by the photosensitive device, and identify fingerprints according to the amount of each photocurrent. The array substrate includes the fingerprint identification unit mentioned in the above technical solution.
US10534943B2
An information reading device may include a transparent placement member, a first illumination part, a second illumination part, a first optical system structured to read information on the medium, a second optical system structured to read another information on the medium, a housing formed with a medium insertion port and in which the placement member, the first illumination part, the second illumination part, the first optical system and the second optical system are accommodated, and a semi-light shielding member having a semi-light shielding part which transmits light of a part of a wavelength region and blocks lights of other wavelength regions and covers at least an upper side of the medium insertion port. A transmittance curve indicating a relationship between transmittance of light and a wavelength of the semi-light shielding part is a curve having a peak within a wavelength region of visible light.
US10534941B2
Disclosed is a method for carrying out an inventory of a plurality of biological product containers, each container and/or each package including containers being provided with an identification label including a wireless communication chip. The method includes the steps of: providing a device including a gantry defining a direction of travel; providing a receptacle able to be moved, the receptacle carrying the plurality of containers; moving the receptacle in order to cross the gantry in the direction of travel; and reading the wireless communication chip of each container and/or package during the movement of the receptacle.
US10534934B1
An accessibility service protection application for hiding content of a first application from an accessibility service of a second application on a mobile computing device is described. The accessibility service protection application determines the first application currently active in foreground of the mobile computing device. The accessibility service protection application configures a transparent activity to hide content associated with the first application from the accessibility service of the second application. The accessibility service protection application launches the transparent activity on top of the first application, such that the transparent activity protects the content associated with the first application from the accessibility service of the second application.
US10534931B2
Private, personal, secret, or otherwise sensitive data is masked or redacted in response to receiving an event signal indicative of an occurrence, if any, of at least one of a number of defined events associated with the set of data. The data to mask is detected by matching it to one or more defined patterns and then validating it, in the case of the data being a financial account or credit card account number, by using a validation process, such as the Luhn algorithm. Among others, the defined event may be a transmission of the data between a host computer system and a terminal emulator, an entry of the data into a host screen, or an export of a set of host screen data to an external application by an end user computer system.
US10534918B1
A method, apparatus and product for firmware verification. The method comprises obtaining a list of libraries utilized by a firmware. The method comprises determining a set of vulnerabilities of the firmware by identifying vulnerabilities corresponding to each library of the list of libraries. The method further comprises determining a set of remedial actions for the set of vulnerabilities, the set of remedial actions including an offline remedial action and an online remedial action. The method further comprises determining for the set of vulnerabilities a combination of remedial actions based on estimated costs and estimated runtime overheads of the set of remedial actions. The method further comprises providing an output based on the combination of remedial actions.
US10534917B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for penetration testing of a network node by a penetration testing system to determine vulnerability of network nodes to macro-based attacks. A reconnaissance agent runs in a network node to prompt user responses to macro warnings upon detecting file openings by macro-supporting software applications of files not containing auto-executing macros, and the responses are used for determining vulnerability.
US10534914B2
A vulnerability finding device has a vulnerability extracting unit, a normalization processing unit, and a matching unit. The vulnerability extracting unit extracts a first program code corresponding to a vulnerable part of software. The normalization processing unit performs normalization of a parameter included in the first program code extracted by the vulnerability extracting unit and a second program code of software to be inspected for a vulnerable part. The matching unit performs matching between the first program code after the normalization and the second program code after the normalization, and detects a program code, which is a program code that is the same as or similar to the first program code, from the second program code.
US10534911B2
There is a computer program product and computer system that includes program instructions programmed to identify, in a software-defined environment, a security container describing a workload and a set of resources required by the workload, the security container including self-describing sub-containers having associated metadata describing content of a respectively corresponding sub-container; determine, for the workload, a set of resource-divisible portions of the workload including a compute-resource portion; generate a plurality of sub-containers within the security container, a sub-container within the plurality of sub-containers being a self-describing sub-container having associated metadata describing the content of the sub-container representing only one resource-divisible portion, the sub-container being an operating system sub-container; and responsive to identifying a security event while processing the workload, adjust a security mechanism associated with the security container. The plurality of sub-containers represents an end-to-end run time environment for processing the workload.
US10534907B2
A log processing job executing on a log producing computing system is initiated for processing log data associated with the log producing computing system. Log entries are determined to be available for processing. At least one instance of a Log Extractor Factory, Reader, and Transformation component are instantiated for reading and transforming the log data. Read log data is transformed into a common semantic format as transformed log data and transmitted in real-time to a Streaming Component for storage in an Enterprise Threat Detection (ETD) System. A recovery point is stored with a recovery timestamp indicating a next log entry in the log data to process.
US10534905B2
An image processing apparatus, if a login application (login app) is enabled, performs setting of an authentication function (authentication transmission) of a transmission application (transmission app). The image processing apparatus performs an ON or OFF setting of the authentication function (authentication transmission) which has a handover function for receiving authentication information, used for authentication by another application, that is handed over from the other application and using the handed over authentication information. The image processing apparatus, in accordance with the login app being enabled, by setting the authentication transmission of the transmission app to ON, enables handover by the handover function of authentication information used by the login app to the transmission app.
US10534889B2
A computer-implemented method of extracting parasitics associated with a circuit design layout generated by modifying a previous iteration of the layout, includes, in part, identifying a first multitude of nets that have been changed in the circuit design layout relative to the previous iteration of the circuit design layout. The method further includes, in part, calculating a first multitude of parasitic capacitance values between each of the first multitude of first nets and each of a second multitude of nets disposed in proximity of the first multitude of nets. The method further includes, in part, identifying each net in the second multitude of nets as an aggressor net if a number defined by the net's associated parasitic capacitance value is higher than a threshold value. The method further includes excluding nets in the second multitude of second nets that are not identified as aggressor nets from the parasitic extraction.
US10534882B2
A method for configuring the features of an integrated circuit. In the method, the integrated circuit receives a feature vector message from a first party. The feature vector message is included in a response to a feature set request from the first party to a second party. The integrated circuit configures at least one feature of the integrated circuit based on a feature vector in the feature vector message. The integrated circuit generates an attestation result based on the at least one configured feature of the integrated circuit and using a key securely stored in the integrated circuit and known to the second party and not known to the first party. The integrated circuit forwards the attestation result to the first party.
US10534876B2
A simulation device capable of easily constructing the layout of a three-dimensional model of a robot system in a virtual space. The simulation device includes a model arranging section that arranges a component model in a virtual space, the component model being a three-dimensional model of a component of the robot system; a reference setting section that sets a reference point, a reference axis, or a reference plane in the virtual space; a symmetric model generation section that generates a symmetric component model of the component model arranged in the virtual space, the symmetric component model being a three-dimensional model symmetric with respect to the reference point, the reference axis, or the reference plane; and a simulation section that executes a simulation to simulatively operate the component model and the symmetric component model in the virtual space.
US10534868B2
The disclosure relates to information processing apparatus and information processing method. The information processing apparatus includes one or more processors configured for: acquiring a material characteristic of at least one portion of a target entity; matching the material characteristic of the target entity with a predetermined material characteristic, where the predetermined material characteristic is correlated with at least one portion of a three-dimensional model; and generating, based on a result of the matching, information indicative of a correlation between the portion of the target entity and the portion of the three-dimensional model.
US10534866B2
A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product generate an intelligent persona agent for use in designing a product. One or more processors input a persona specification into an intelligent persona agent generator. The persona specification describes attributes of a set of model users of a particular type of product, and the intelligent personal agent generator creates an intelligent persona agent that is a software-based version of the set of model users. The intelligent persona agent monitors intermediate design choices taken during a design of a product of the particular type of product by a design team. In response to the intelligent persona agent identifying an intermediate design choice that will lead to a feature that is in conflict with the persona specification of the intelligent persona agent, designers modify the intermediate design choice, which modifies the design of the product in order to create an improved product design.
US10534865B2
A method of translating a Computer Aided Design CAD model of a product constructed for Computer Aided Engineering CAE analysis into a flexible form, the method comprising: converting the original CAD model into a different format to provide a new-format CAD model; providing visualization data including: an assembly tree extracted from the original CAD model, the assembly tree including each component of the assembly forming the product; and visualization information from the original CAD model for each assembly face in the assembly tree; and providing geometry information including matching information unambiguously identifying each assembly face; wherein the geometry information allows the assembly faces to be matched with the CAD faces in the new-format CAD model.
US10534843B2
A document architecture system includes an intelligent document processing engine that can receive raw data streamed from external data source(s), analyze the raw data to identify triggering events, apply rules to the triggering events identified, break down the raw data accordingly, and generating messages in an internal format to represent the pieces of data without any formatting or layout information. The messages can be augmented with custom metadata and stored as fragments that reference, but that do not physically incorporate, the messages. The stored fragments can be used by the document process engine to intelligently render documents and versions thereof. Some embodiments store only unique fragments, resulting in a significant reduction in storage requirements and an extremely efficient way of processing huge amounts of data (e.g., millions of documents) for document production. The messages and fragments are in internal formats under control of the document architecture system.
US10534842B2
Systems and methods for creating, editing and publishing cross-platform interactive electronic works
Systems and methods for creating, editing and publishing cross-platform interactive digital content works include a content management component configured to store portions of a digital content work and to implement version control of the digital content work; a defect tracking component configured to store a defect record related to a stored portion of the digital content work; a publication pipeline component configured to format the digital content work for publication; and a integration component configured to present a graphical user interface which allows for editing the stored portions of the digital content work, editing the defect record, and instructing the publication pipeline to format the digital content work for publication.
US10534836B2
A method to add a first one bit variable with a second one bit variable and a carry-in bit, to generate a sum bit and a carry-out bit, the method includes initiating the sum bit to the value of the second one bit variable, initiating the carry-out bit to a value of the carry-in bit and modifying the sum bit and the carry-out bit if a comparison of a sequence of the first one bit variable, the second one bit variable and an inverse value of the carry-in bit matches one of a predefined set of a change trigger sequences.
US10534835B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for sharing global lists of media content among multiple apps executing on various client devices. A global list can include a plurality of records for media, each of which can include pointers to media stored elsewhere, a unique identifier for the media, a list identifier for the media, and/or metadata for the media. The global list can be accessed, modified, shared, aggregated, organized, etc. using different apps. These different apps may include apps developed by different developers, apps produced by different companies, apps offered for download by different companies, apps that perform different functions, etc.
US10534826B2
An input from a user is received. The input includes a first content on the Internet to be analyzed. In response to receiving the input, the first content is analyzed. The analysis determines a plurality of topics included in the first content. One or more content related to the first content is determined. The one or more content is determined using an ontology and the plurality of topics. A first node is added to an interest panel. The first node is a link to the one or more determined content. The interest panel is an area displayed on a user interface which includes one or more nodes. An indication from the user selecting the first node is received. In response to receiving the indication, the determined one or more content associated with the first node is received. The interest panel is saved.
US10534824B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query input comprising one or more n-grams; parsing the search query input to identify keywords; generating query commands for the keywords. Each query command may specify: a particular object-type; one or more identifiers of one or more objects that match the search query input; and one or more types of relationships with respect to the objects. The method may further include searching a particular vertical that stores objects of the particular object-type having a relationship of the type of relationship with respect to one or more of the objects; generating a plurality of search-result modules corresponding to the query commands, each search-result module comprising references to objects of the particular object-type specified by the query command; and sending, to a client device, instructions for presenting an interface comprising one or more of the search-result modules.
US10534822B1
Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage mediums, to employ a benchmarking search engine system. In one aspect, a method includes actions of maintaining a medical study instrument index that organizes data based on procedure type, wherein each index entry in the medical study instrument index includes a procedure type. The actions may further include receiving a search query that identifies particular procedure criteria from a user device, accessing the medical study instrument index that is organized based on procedure type, determining a first output that is representative of biometric data that is independent of a procedure specified by the particular procedure criteria, determining a second output that is representative of biometric data that is dependent on a procedure specified by the particular procedure criteria, and generating a page for display on the user device that includes the first output and the second output.
US10534819B2
Methods and systems for a detecting an intruder near or within a vehicle are disclosed. Specifically, a method to detect and identify a person near or within a vehicle as an authorized or an unauthorized user is provided. In the event an unauthorized user is detected within a vehicle, the system may take a number of actions. In one embodiment, the actions comprise providing notice to one or more authorized users of the vehicle, disabling the vehicle, notifying emergency personnel or police, and emitting a visual or audio alarm.
US10534817B2
Configurations for sharing an instance of an executing process for a plug-in based on a session and a cookie data store associated with the session are disclosed. A cookie data store can be associated with a tab running in a corresponding security mode. By way of example, instead of initiating a new process for the plug-in in a new tab, the subject technology can first determine whether a previous tab is running an instance of a plug-in process. If this is the case, the subject technology can then determine whether the previous tab is running in the same security mode (e.g., protected or unprotected) as the new tab. The subject technology then shares the existing plug-in process in the previous tab without instantiating a new plug-in process in the new tab.
US10534806B2
A system and method for cognitive media association including a tracking unit configured to track an output of media over time for a particular user and create a list of the output media for the particular user, a link generation unit configured to generate a link between the media and at least one of a person, a place, an event, an era, an emotion, a theme, a photo, a video, or a social media post, an events recording unit configured to create a comprehensive experience of a specific event including at least one of music played at the specific event, photos displayed at the specific event, videos played at the specific event, social media posts about the event, people present at the specific event, or any combinations thereof.
US10534801B2
A map screen determining method and apparatus, which includes obtaining profile data in a track dimension of a target digital person, where the target digital person is generated by a digital person generation system and consists of multiple dimensions of target user profiles corresponding to a target user, and the target user profiles are generated by processing multiple dimensions of data from multiple data sources, determining map data of a target area, where the target area is a specific map area that needs to be presented to a user, and determining a tracing map screen according to the profile data in the track dimension of the target digital person and the map data, where the tracing map screen represents a track feature of the target digital person in the target area.
US10534799B1
A behavior detection module receives a training database and applies a transformation to the attributes that improves the uniformity of the values associated with each attribute. The transformed training database is used to construct a random forest classifier (RFC). The RFC includes a plurality of decision trees and generates a classification label estimate for a data entry with a plurality of attributes. The classification label estimate is determined based on classification estimates from the plurality of decision trees. Each parent node of a decision tree is associated with a condition of a transformed attribute that directs the data entry to a corresponding child node depending on whether the condition is satisfied or not. The data entry is directed through the tree to one out of a set of leaf nodes, and a classification label associated with the leaf node.
US10534796B1
A first cloud is provided with a first abstraction layer between a first instance of an application and a first set of different storage types. A second cloud, remote from the first cloud, is provided with a second abstraction layer between a second instance of the application and a second set of different storage types. A replication protection appliance (RPA) is connected between the first and second abstraction layers. The first abstraction layer intercepts a write command from the first instance of the application to storage of a particular type among the first set of different storage types. The first abstraction layer sends a copy of the write command to the RPA. The RPA replicates the write command to the second abstraction layer for the second abstraction layer to send to corresponding storage of the particular type among the second set of different storage types.
US10534792B2
A system and method for managing data storage and data access with querying data in a distributed system without buffering the results on intermediate operations in disk storage.
US10534787B2
A method and apparatus for delivering engineering data to a portable device for use in performing an operation. Engineering data for each part in a set of parts is stored in a file system on the portable device. A set of entries, each entry including a part identifier and a target locator for a part, is created for the set of parts to form a table. An initial locator constructed by a visualization tool is matched to a target locator in the table for a selected part. The target locator identifies a physical location in the file system of requested engineering data for the selected part. A local server on the portable device retrieves the requested engineering data based on the target locator. The local server serves the requested engineering data to a browser, which displays the requested engineering data for use in performing the operation on the selected part.
US10534784B2
A computer-based method of formulating and delivering dynamic, severity-based weather peril scoring includes ingesting human-observed weather data and radar weather data, applying a grid that has a plurality of cells to a map of a geographical region to divide the geographical region into a plurality of areas, with each area being defined by a corresponding one of the grid cells, for each area/grid cell: calculating, with a computer-based processor, a first severity-weighted risk index for at least one weather peril based on the human-observed weather data, calculating, with the computer-based processor, a second severity-weighted risk index for the at least one weather peril based on the radar weather data, and blending, with the computer-based processor, the first severity-weighted risk index and the second severity-weighted risk index to produce a blended risk index.
US10534778B2
Search results are improved, in one embodiment, through the use of subscription information about the status of a subscription to content. The subscription information can be transmitted to a cloud storage service used by a user account of a device; later, a search query from the device causes the receipt of search results from a search using the subscription information and these search results can show the status of the subscription such as whether the content is playable.
US10534773B2
Beneficial query parameterization of one or more databases may be automatically determined. Data associated with a workload of the one or more databases may be automatically gathered and accessed. The gathered data may then be automatically analyzed to determine whether query parameterization would be beneficial to the one or more databases. Based on the analysis one or more query parameterization recommendations may be generated for presentation to a user of the one or more databases. A user response associated with implementing at least one of the one or more query parameterization recommendations may then be received. Upon implementing at least one of the one or more recommendations, the at least one implemented recommendation may be automatically verified whether an expected improvement of the one or more databases has been realized. When the expected improvement has not been realized, the one or more databases may be reverted to a previous state.
US10534765B2
A technique includes applying a first mapping to associate a plurality of data records for a plurality of database nodes with a plurality of segments of a storage that is shared by the database nodes; and applying a many-to-many second mapping to associate the segments with the database nodes.
US10534763B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and system for data sampling in a storage system. The storage system includes a dataset comprising records and a buffer. The dataset is scanned record-by-record to determine whether the current record belongs to a random sample. If so, then the current record may be added to a first set of records. Otherwise, at least one storage score may be calculated or determined for the current record using attribute values of the current record. Next, it may be determined whether the buffer includes available size for storing the current record. In case the buffer comprises the available size, the current record may be stored in the buffer. Otherwise, at least part of the buffer may be free up. A subsample of the dataset may be provided as a result of merging the first set of records and at least part of the buffered records.
US10534753B2
A caseless file lookup in a distributed file system is disclosed. A request to store a file in a volume may be received. In response to the request, the type of client system issuing the request may be identified. Based on the type of client system that has been identified, a first hash value or a second hash value may be calculated for the name of the file to generate and assign a hash value to the file. The file may be stored in a storage resource based on the first or second hash value that has been generated for the file.
US10534746B2
A system and method for issuing commands to remote devices comprising determining a criterion that forms a rule for a service, the service comprising a service property, a service method, and a service event, distributing the rule to a behavior engine on a programmable device, the behavior engine comprising a set of rules, and evaluating, at the behavior engine, if a trigger criterion for the rule is met. Upon determining that the trigger criterion is met, the method may further comprise performing an action comprising evaluating, at the behavior engine, if a condition is met, and upon determining that the condition is met, issuing a command to perform a first action comprising setting a service property and calling a service method for all devices including the service property within a scope of the action, defining an action scope.
US10534737B2
A method for accelerating distributed stream processing. The method includes allocating a hardware accelerator to a topology for distributed stream processing. The topology includes a spout and a plurality of bolts. The spout is configured to prepare a plurality of tuples. The plurality of bolts are configured to process the plurality of tuples and include at least one proxy bolt. The proxy bolt is configured to perform a proxy operation on an input tuple of the plurality of tuples. The method further includes obtaining a customized hardware accelerator by customizing the hardware accelerator based on the proxy operation, sending the input tuple from the proxy bolt to the customized hardware accelerator, generating an output tuple of the plurality of tuples by performing the proxy operation on the input tuple in the customized hardware accelerator, and sending the output tuple from the customized hardware accelerator to the proxy bolt.
US10534724B2
Instructions and logic support suspending and resuming migration of enclaves in a secure enclave page cache (EPC). An EPC stores a secure domain control structure (SDCS) in storage accessible by an enclave for a management process, and by a domain of enclaves. A second processor checks if a corresponding version array (VA) page is bound to the SDCS, and if so: increments a version counter in the SDCS for the page, performs an authenticated encryption of the page from the EPC using the version counter in the SDCS, and writes the encrypted page to external memory. A second processor checks if a corresponding VA page is bound to a second SDCS of the second processor, and if so: performs an authenticated decryption of the page using a version counter in the second SDCS, and loads the decrypted page to the EPC in the second processor if authentication passes.
US10534723B1
A system, method and computer program product are provided for conditionally eliminating a memory read request. In use, a memory read request is identified. Additionally, it is determined whether the memory read request is an unnecessary memory read request. Further, the memory read request is conditionally eliminated, based on the determination.
US10534719B2
A data processing network includes a network of devices addressable via a system address space, the network including a computing device configured to execute an application in a virtual address space. A virtual-to-system address translation circuit is configured to translate a virtual address to a system address. A memory node controller has a first interface to a data resource addressable via a physical address space, a second interface to the computing device, and a system-to-physical address translation circuit, configured to translate a system address in the system address space to a corresponding physical address in the physical address space of the data resource. The virtual-to-system mapping may be a range table buffer configured to retrieve a range table entry comprising an offset address of a range together with a virtual address base and an indicator of the extent of the range.
US10534713B2
Modifying prefetch request processing. A prefetch request is received by a local computer from a remote computer. The local computer responds to a determination that execution of the prefetch request is predicted to cause an address conflict during an execution of a transaction of the local processor by determining an evaluation of the prefetch request prior to execution of the program instructions included in the prefetch request. The evaluation is based, at least in part, on (i) a comparison of a priority of the prefetch request with a priority of the transaction and (ii) a condition that exists in one or both of the local processor and the remote processor. Based on the evaluation, the local computer modifies program instructions that govern execution of the program instructions included in the prefetch request.
US10534700B2
Example implementations relate to separating verifications from test executions. Some implementations may include a data capture engine that captures data points during test executions of the application under test. The data points may include, for example, application data, test data, and environment data. Additionally, some implementations may include a data correlation engine that correlates each of the data points with a particular test execution state of the application under test based on a sequence of events that occurred during the particular test execution state. Furthermore, some implementations may also include a test verification engine that, based on the correlation of the data points, verifies an actual behavior of the application under test separately from the particular test execution state.
US10534694B2
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for memory corruption diagnosis is provided. The present invention may include generating a pattern expression (PE) header file, wherein a plurality of common datatypes associated with a software program are pre-defined. The invention may further include generating a PE for each of the plurality of common datatypes, and generating a PE table by merging the generated PEs for each of the plurality of common datatypes. Upon discovery that memory corruption has occurred, the invention may include transmitting a recorded state of the software program as a core dump file to a server, and using a dump utility to identify overlay content of the core dump file. Lastly, the invention may include identifying a possible source program of the memory corruption by matching the PE tables against the illegally-written overlay content.
US10534689B2
This disclosure relates generally to data structure abstraction, and more particularly to method and system for data structure abstraction for model checking. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying data structure accesses in the source code. Loops are identified in the data structure accesses, and loop-types are identified in the loops. An abstracted code is generated based on the loop types for abstracting the data structure. Abstracting the data structure includes, for each loop, replacing the data structure accesses by one of a corresponding representative element and a non-deterministic value in the loop body of said loop based on elements accessed, and eliminating loop control statement of said loop operating on elements of data structure based on loop type of said loop, and adding a plurality of non-array assignments at a start and after the loop body of the source code. The abstracted code is provided for the model checking.
US10534686B2
Apparatuses and methods for address detection are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes an address filter and an address tracking circuit. The address filter may be configured to receive a first address and to determine whether the first address matches an address of a plurality of addresses associated with the address filter. The address tracking circuit may be coupled to the address filter and configured to store the first address responsive to a determination that the first address matches an address of the plurality of addresses associated with the address filter. The address tracking circuit may further be configured to receive a second address and to change a count associated with the first address based on the second address matching the first address. The address tracking circuit may be configured to selectively provide the first address responsive to the count.
US10534679B2
Compare points are detected in a multi-threaded computing environment. One thread of the multi-threaded computing environment has reached a compare point for the one thread. The compare point for the one thread being a point at which results of executing a test case on the one thread is ready to be compared against expected results for that test case. A determination is made as to whether another thread of the multi-threaded computing environment has reached a compare point for the another thread. Execution of the another thread is continued, based on determining the another thread has not reached the compare point for the another thread. The test case of the one thread is, however, not re-executed.
US10534678B2
A computer-implemented method to store data may include writing data to at least one of a database or one or more local storage devices. The method may also include generating redundancy information for the data. The method may also include writing the redundancy information to at least one of a remote storage device or a removable storage device.
US10534665B2
A decoding method for a memory storage device including a rewritable non-volatile memory module is provided according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention. The method includes: reading at least one memory cells by using at least one read voltage level to obtain a codeword; performing a parity check operation on the codeword by an error checking and correcting circuit to generate a syndrome sum corresponding to the codeword; and dynamically adjusting a first parameter used by the error checking and correcting circuit in a first decoding operation based on whether the syndrome sum is less than a first threshold value and performing the first decoding operation on the codeword by the error checking and correcting circuit by using the first parameter.
US10534664B2
A storage aware memory controller for managing a physical storage system. A described controller: a system for mapping physical memory space into a memory region and a storage region; a system for applying different error protections schemes, in which a fine-grained memory fault tolerance scheme is applied to data in the memory region and a course-grained memory fault tolerance scheme is applied to data in the storage region; and a storage file system that includes a mapping table for mapping logical addresses to physical addresses for data stored in the storage region.
US10534660B2
The present invention provides a response message processing method, apparatus, and system, and relates to the communications field. The method includes: sending, according to a device identifier sent by a request device, a query request to a destination device corresponding to the device identifier, so that the destination device returns a response message according to the query request; generating substitution data when an error occurs in the response message, where the substitution data is associated with resource data requested by the query request and is used to substitute for the resource data requested by the query request; and sending response substitution information to the request device, where the response substitution information includes the substitution data and the device identifier.
US10534649B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for query-based interest in a simulation are presented. Entities may be simulated on workers, and each entity may comprise one or more components. A simulation system may run bridges on one or more machines, and the bridges may be configured to facilitate data communications between the workers and one or more entity databases. Each worker may be assigned to a different bridge. The system may modify one or more entities to include an interest component, and the interest component may indicate a query subscription to the one or more entity databases, which may affect the communication between bridges and workers. The interest component may also or alternatively indicate a frequency for receiving, from the one or more entity databases, updates for the query subscription.
US10534618B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a management device. The management device executes a first bootloader from a first image stored at a primary storage device of the management device. The management device re-executes the first bootloader from the first image when the executing is not successful and a number of re-execution is less than a predetermined number. The management device locates a second image from a secondary storage device when the execution of the first bootloader is not successful and the number of re-execution is greater than or equal to the predetermined number. The management device executes a second bootloader from the second image subsequent to the locating the second image.
US10534616B2
Technical solutions are described for executing one or more out-of-order instructions by a load-store unit (LSU) by detecting a load-hit-load (LHL) case based only on effective addresses (EA). An example method includes, in response to receiving a first load instruction, creating an entry in a LHL table. Further, in response to receiving a second load instruction in the load reorder queue, and in response to the predetermined number of bits from a second EA used by the second load instruction matching the predetermined number of bits from the first EA, comparing the first EA and the second EA. Further, a first thread identifier for the first load instruction is compared with a second thread identifier for the second load instruction. In response to the first EA matching the second EA, and the first thread identifier matching the second thread identifier, the method includes flushing the first load instruction.
US10534610B2
Techniques for processing instructions include receiving a plurality of instructions from a program counter (PC) operable to be fused into a PC-relative plus offset instruction. The technique also includes fusing the plurality of instructions into an internal operation (IOP) that specifies PC-relative addressing with an offset. The technique also includes computing a shared PC portion that includes one or more common upper bits of a PC address of each of the plurality of instructions. If the shared PC portion is different than a previously computed shared PC portion, the technique transmits the shared PC portion to one or more downstream components in the processor pipeline. The technique further includes transmitting the IOP with a representation of lower order bits of the PC address and processing the IOP.
US10534596B2
A migration system for migrating an application between environments is provided. The migration system includes analyzes a profile of the application on a first environment based on a conformance check. The migration system reconstructs application dependencies with respect to a second environment, based on the application profile analysis, to produce an updated environment with reconstructed application dependencies. The migration system migrates the application from the first environment to the updated environment with the reconstructed application dependencies.
US10534595B1
Techniques for configuring and validating a data pipeline system deployment are described. In an embodiment, a template is a file or data object that describes a package of related jobs. For example, a template may describe a set of jobs necessary for deduplication of data records or a set of jobs performing machine learning on a set of data records. The template can be defined in a file, such as a JSON blob or XML file. For each job specified in the template, the template may identify a set of dataset dependencies that are needed as input for the processing of that job. For each job specified in the template, the template may further identify a set of configuration parameters needed for deployment of the job. In an embodiment, a server uses the template and the configuration parameter values collected via the GUI to generate code for the package of jobs. The code may be stored in a version control system. In an embodiment, the code may be compiled, executed, and deployed to a server for processing the data.
US10534594B2
Embodiments relate to optimizing an indirect call function. More specifically, an indirect call function configuration comprises a first application module having a target function of the indirect function call, a second application module with a symbolic reference to the target function of the indirect function call, and a third application module to originate an indirect function call. A compiler identifies potential target functions and indicates the potential target functions in the program code. Additionally, the compiler determines and indicates in the program code that the function pointer value resulting from a non-call reference of a function symbol is solely used to perform indirect calls in the same module. A linker can read the indication the compiler made in the program code and optimize the indirect call function.
US10534588B2
A method and system including an application server; a framework including a simulator module; a display; a storage device; and a simulator processor in communication with the simulator module and operative to execute processor-executable process steps to cause the system to: receive a metadata file for an application; receive a request from a user interface associated with the application; transmit the request to the simulator module; generate, in response to the received request, one or more simulated data elements at the simulator module based on the metadata and a communication protocol; and display the one or more simulated data elements on the display. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10534587B1
This disclosure relates to deploying centralized design data in a development system. An exemplary system generally includes a server configured to perform the following steps. The server receives a style element and a reference name paired with the style element. The server then generates a visual definition comprising design data associated with the style element and paired with the reference name. The server then identifies a development environment for use with the visual definition and formats the visual definition into a local definition compatible with the development environment. Finally, the server transmits the local definition to a developer device associated with the development environment.
US10534565B1
A device including an address extraction for a data burst associated with a host processor and to map the data burst to a memory according to a rotation is provided. The device includes a splitter to separate a first command that associates the data burst with a first round in the rotation, and a selection logic to select, from the first round in the rotation, a first bank group at the address in the memory to execute the first command, and execution logic to receive the data burst and the address in the memory to activate the first bank group at the address in the memory, and to schedule an execution of the first command based on an availability of a second bank group from the first round in the rotation. A system and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions to use the device are also provided.
US10534557B2
A system and method for implementing a servicing instruction for a plurality of counters that includes determining a counter set based on the servicing instruction, whether access is authorized to the counter set, and a block of storage in a memory based on the service instruction. In response to the determining that the access is authorized, the system and method extracts the plurality of counters within the counter set in response to the determining that the access is authorized and storing the plurality of counters in the block of storage.
US10534547B2
A System, computer program product, and computer-executable method of transitioning replication on a data storage system including a production site and a replication site from asynchronous replication to synchronous replication, the System, computer program product, and computer-executable method including receiving a request to transition from asynchronous replication to synchronous replication and changing the data storage system to a transition mode, wherein the data storage system transitions the data storage system from using asynchronous replication to synchronous replication.
US10534534B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display and a processor operatively connected to the display and configured to control the display to display a window related to context recognition on the display according to a predefined first layout corresponding to a first event related to screen splitting and control the display to display at least two windows split with respect to a folded portion of the display according to a predefined second layout corresponding to a second event related to the screen splitting.
US10534525B1
A system and method for performing edit actions on media of a first resolution, wherein the media of the first resolution is obtained from a media capture device and the media of the first resolution is stored in a data store. A set of edit actions is obtained, wherein the set of edit actions were previously applied to media of the second resolution, wherein the media of the second resolution is a lower-resolution copy of the media of the first resolution, and edited media is produced by applying the set of edit actions to the at least a portion of the media of the first resolution.
US10534522B2
Examples of pinning portions of data visualizations are provided herein. A portion of interest of a data visualization can be selected, and a pinned portion can be generated that includes the portion of interest. A data visualization can be generated that represents data in a dataset. Instructions to select a portion of interest of the data visualization can be received. A pinned portion of the data visualization can then be generated. The pinned portion has pinned visualization content that includes at least some of the portion of interest of the data visualization. The pinned portion can be presented in association with the data visualization.
US10534521B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to a system and a method of managing an online social network having a plurality of neighborhoods. The system may receive a location from a user, and select, based on the location, a neighborhood from the plurality of neighborhoods. The system may further assign the user to the selected neighborhood and grant the user access to communications by users assigned to the selected neighborhood. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises creating and storing in computer data storage neighborhood data defining a plurality of geographical neighborhoods based upon a plurality of vertices or boundaries; using a computer, for each particular neighborhood among the plurality of neighborhoods, determining one or more nearby neighborhoods is associated with a geographical area proximate to the particular neighborhood; using the computer, receiving from a second computer that is associated with a user account, activation input specifying selections of one or more nearby neighborhoods as activated in association with the particular user account, wherein the activation input specifies fewer than all the one or more nearby neighborhoods; updating a database coupled to the computer to associate the selections of one or more nearby neighborhoods as activated in association with the particular user account; using the computer, receiving a request from the second computer to perform any of displaying a map page that includes the nearby neighborhoods, displaying a feed of messages, and creating a new message; using the computer, in response to the request, performing causing the displaying the map page that includes the nearby neighborhoods, causing displaying the feed of messages, or the creating the new message based upon only the selections of the one or more nearby neighborhoods as activated in association with the particular user account.
US10534504B2
A sales data processing apparatus includes the following. An operation unit is associated with a display and receives operation by touch. A setting unit associates an operator group with each operator according to a predetermined condition and associates a predetermined number of operator groups with each tab or each screen displayed on the display. A display control unit generates an operator selection screen to select the operator based on contents set by the setting unit and displays the operator selection screen on the display.
US10534503B1
Implementations disclose a user interface for viewing and combining media items into a video. A method includes presenting a user interface facilitating a creation of a video from a plurality of media items, the user interface comprising a first portion concurrently playing a first media item and a second media item of the plurality of media items; receiving user input indicating a selection of the first media item in the first portion of the user interface; in response to determining that the user input is of a first type, adding the first media item to a set of selected media items, and presenting the set of selected media items in a second portion of the user interface; and creating the video from the set of selected media items.
US10534494B2
A detection device includes a substrate; a plurality of first conductive thin wires provided in a plane parallel to the substrate and extending in a first direction; a plurality of second conductive thin wires provided in the same layer as that of the first conductive thin wires and extending in a second direction forming an angle with the first direction; first groups that are disposed in first strip-like regions respectively having a first width, each of the first groups including at least two of the first conductive thin wires displaced from one another in the second direction; and second groups that are disposed in second strip-like regions respectively having a second width, each of the second groups including at least two of the second conductive thin wires displaced from one another in the first direction.
US10534490B2
A touch displaying device includes a housing, a displaying screen, a capacitive touch screen, a timing control board, a touch control board, a video control board, an LED driving board, a power control board, a first converting board, and a second converting board. The housing includes a first edge, a second edge, a first side edge, and a second side edge. The first converting board includes a timing signal adapter and a first electrode signal adapter. The second converting board includes a second electrode signal adapter. The first converting board, the timing control board and the touch control board are fixed in the housing and disposed adjacent to the second edge. The timing control board is disposed towards a side of the touch control board. The second adapter plate is fixed in the housing and disposed adjacent to an end of the second edge adjacent to the first side edge.
US10534478B2
A touch sensor detector system and method incorporating an interpolated sensor array is disclosed. The system and method utilize a touch sensor array (TSA) configured to detect proximity/contact/pressure (PCP) via a variable impedance array (VIA) electrically coupling interlinked impedance columns (IIC) coupled to an array column driver (ACD), and interlinked impedance rows (IIR) coupled to an array row sensor (ARS). The ACD is configured to select the IIC based on a column switching register (CSR) and electrically drive the IIC using a column driving source (CDS). The VIA conveys current from the driven IIC to the IIC sensed by the ARS. The ARS selects the IIR within the TSA and electrically senses the IIR state based on a row switching register (RSR). Interpolation of ARS sensed current/voltage allows accurate detection of TSA PCP and/or spatial location.
US10534477B2
A gate driver and a display device having an in-cell touch sensor using the gate driver are disclosed. The gate driver includes a shift register configured to sequentially supply gate pulses to gate lines of a display panel. The shift register includes an (N−1)th stage, where N is a positive integer equal to or greater than 2, configured to output an (N−1)th gate pulse, an Nth stage configured to output an Nth gate pulse, and a hold circuit configured to hold an output voltage of the (N−1)th stage during a predetermined time and supply the output voltage to the Nth stage.
US10534472B2
A touch screen is disclosed. A plurality of common electrodes can be configured to operate as display circuitry during a display phase, and to operate as touch sensing circuitry during a touch sensing phase. The plurality of common electrodes can include a first common electrode associated with a first display pixel, and a second common electrode associated with a second display pixel. Circuitry can be configured to update the first display pixel at a first time while driving the first common electrode but not the second common electrode, and update the second display pixel at a second time, after the first time, while driving the second common electrode but not the first common electrode. In some examples, the circuitry can be configured to leave the second common electrode floating while driving the first common electrode, and leave the first common electrode floating while driving the second common electrode.
US10534470B2
Force touch sensing structure, force touch display device, and force touch sensing method using same
A force touch sensing structure which is immune to changes in sensitivity caused by external factors defines a force touch sensing area. The force touch sensing structure includes protrusions in the force touch sensing area, at least one image recognition camera, and a processor. A height of at least one protrusion varies when the force touch sensing area is force touched. The image recognition camera detects positions of the height-varied protrusions and the extent of the variations. The processor receives and processes signals from the at least one image recognition camera to obtain force touch position and touch force.
US10534466B2
A pressure sensor may be provided that includes: an electrode; a drive unit which applies a drive signal to the electrode; a sensing unit which receives, through the electrode, a reception signal including information on a capacitance which is between the electrode and a reference potential layer and is changed according to a relative distance between the electrode and the reference potential layer spaced from the electrode; and a first impedance between the drive unit and the electrode, and a second impedance between the sensing unit and the electrode.
US10534452B2
An improved portable media device and methods for operating a media device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the portable media device can also function as a solid-state drive for data storage. The form factor of the portable media device can be hand-held or smaller, such that it is highly portable. The portable media device can use one or more status indicators. The portable media device can also include a peripheral bus connector, a rechargeable battery, and one or more input devices. According to another aspect, the portable media device has the capability to store media device status information in persistent memory before powering down. Thereafter, when the portable media device is again powered up, the stored media player status information can be retrieved and utilized. According to still another aspect, the portable media device can form and/or traverse a media asset playlist in an efficient manner.
US10534444B2
A flexible device, comprising a housing (10) and a flexible element (20), and further comprising a driving element (30) received in the housing (10). The driving element (30) may drive the flexible element (20) to be received in the housing (10) when working. By enabling the housing (10) to receive the driving element (30), the length of the flexible device can he effectively reduced, so that the flexible device is easy to carry.
US10534442B2
Provided is a wearable device including: an image sensor configured to sense a gesture image of a user setting a user input region; and a display configured to provide a virtual input interface corresponding to the set user input region.
US10534437B2
A modular sensing device can generate output via one or more output devices. The modular sensing device can include an inertial measurement unit that generates sensor data corresponding to user gestures performed by a user, a wireless communication module, a mode selector enabling the user to select a mode of the modular sensing device out of a plurality of modes, and one or more output devices configured to generate output based on the user gestures and the selected mode. The selected mode configures the manner in which the modular sensing device generates output via the one or more output devices based on the user gestures.
US10534435B2
A handheld interface device configured to provide an electrostatic friction (ESF) effect is provided. The device comprises a plurality of more than two electrodes, with each electrode being separately disposed at a respective portion of an outer surface of the interface device. Each electrode is covered by or forms a respective portion of the outer surface of the handheld interface device. The device includes a control unit that is configured to determine a contact condition at each electrode of the plurality of electrodes, to select a subset of the plurality of electrodes based on the determined contact condition at each electrode of the plurality of electrodes, and to apply a drive signal for generating electrostatic friction to only one or more electrodes in the selected subset of the plurality of electrodes.
US10534431B2
A system including: a first sensor module having an inertial measurement unit and attached to a palm of a hand of a user; a second sensor module having an inertial measurement unit and attached to a first bone of a finger (e.g., a middle or proximal phalange bone) on the palm; and a computing device coupled to the first sensor module and the second sensor module to calculate, based on the orientation of the palm and the orientation of the first bone, orientations of the second bones of the finger (e.g., a distal or proximal phalange bone, a metacarpal bone of the thumb) that have no separately attached inertial measurement unit, according to a predetermined ratio of rotation from a reference orientation along a same axis of rotation.
US10534427B1
An interactive system and method of the present invention provides a customized experience to individual spectators of a live performance. An input device receives a performance parameter selected by a spectator, and physical features of the spectator are scanned into a processor. Real time data collectors are associated with performers in the live performance, wherein the processor receives the performance parameter from the input device and real time performance data from the real time data collectors, and generates an individually customized real time performance based on the performance parameter and the physical features of the spectator as superimposed with the real time performance data, and further provides the customized real time performance to a virtual reality device for real time presentation to the spectator.
US10534425B2
The present disclosure provides a processing method and apparatus for saving power, a mobile terminal, and a cloud server. The method may be applied to a client, and includes: collecting at least one of running information of an application in an operating system of the client, behavior information of the application and scenario information related to the application, to generate client characteristic information; uploading the client characteristic information to a cloud server; receiving a power saving strategy generated by the cloud server with respect to the client characteristic information, and performing a power saving operation on the application according to the power saving strategy.
US10534423B2
An information processing apparatus includes two storage devices, a semiconductor storage device and a magnetic storage device, and controls which of the storage devices is to provide a swap area corresponding to a power saving mode set in accordance with a user input.
US10534415B2
A controller and a method for power sequencing a computer. The controller may be configured to provide to a south bridge, before the south bridge has completed power management resets, a real time clock signal at a first frequency, and provide to the south bridge, after the south bridge has completed power management resets, a real time clock signal at a second frequency.
US10534412B2
A system to regulate the temperature of a Source Port that includes a Port Controller having a first source power capabilities list stored thereon in a non-transitory digital media, the source capabilities list identifying a plurality of first power delivery capabilities that, based on their power requirements, may be negotiated by the Port Controller, a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the power system and communicates that measured temperature to a comparator. The comparator compares the measured temperature to predefined limit temperatures and when the measured temperature crosses a predefined limit temperature threshold, the first source capabilities list being replaced with a second source capabilities list identifying a plurality of second power capabilities that, based on their power requirements, may be connected to the Source Port.
US10534410B2
A card assembly includes a card that includes a first edge and an opposing second edge, where the first edge includes an edge connector; and device sockets mounted to the card and operatively coupled to the edge connector, where each of the device sockets defines an end of a respective device bay, where each of the device bays is disposed at an angle of approximately 25 degrees to approximately 75 degrees with respect to the edge connector.
US10534408B2
A laptop computer includes a host, a hinge mechanism, and a display. The host includes a housing, a pivoting base, and a protection cover that pivots on the pivoting base. The hinge mechanism is connected to the host, and includes a first shaft disposed in the housing, and a connection element connected to the first shaft. The display is connected to the hinge mechanism. When the display is rotated about the host, the connection element is rotated following the first shaft and makes the protection cover rotating relative to the housing.
US10534406B2
Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods have been disclosed that include example hinges that enable a physical keyboard to be stowed between halves of a closed electronic device with dual screens. An example device includes a first screen having a first end and a second end, a second screen having a first end and a second end, and a hinge assembly to couple the first screen and the second screen. The hinge assembly includes a first hinge pair and a second hinge pair. The first hinge pair and the second hinge pair are to cause the first end of the first screen and the first end of the second screen to be separated a first distance when the device is in a closed position. The second end of the first screen and the second end of the second screen are separated a second distance when the device is in a closed position, the second distance less than the first distance.
US10534403B2
An enclosure for a portable computing device can include a cover glass affixed to an enclosure without trim pieces disposed between the cover glass and the disclosure. In one embodiment, the enclosure can include an edge profile that can define a relatively large contact pad about the enclosure. The contact pad can distribute impact forces over a relatively large area and thereby protect the cover glass integrity.
US10534400B2
A foldable electronic device includes an electronic element including a folding line and a cover layer connected to the electronic element through an intermediate layer. The electronic element, the cover layer and the intermediate layer form at least one air gap across the folding line.
US10534399B2
Provided is a flexible display device. The flexible display device includes a flexible substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of lines, a pad part, an outer pad part, and a plurality of outer lines. The plurality of lines is connected to the plurality of sub-pixels. The pad part is connected to the plurality of lines. The outer pad part is disposed to be spaced from the pad part. The plurality of outer lines is connected to the outer pad part. The flexible substrate is bent in a first bending area where the plurality of lines is disposed, and the flexible substrate is bent in a second bending area where the plurality of outer lines is disposed.
US10534389B2
In some embodiments, a Miller compensation and stabilization device for a feedback control loop includes a capacitor and a control circuit. The capacitor has a first terminal configured to be coupled to an output of a comparator of the feedback control loop and a second terminal. The control circuit is coupled to the second terminal of the capacitor and is configured to control, in response to a voltage applied to a setpoint input of the feedback control loop, a first voltage across the first and second terminals of the capacitor by controlling a value of a potential of the second terminal of the capacitor such that the first voltage is lower than a threshold.
US10534388B1
A driver circuit includes a temperature sensor generating a first voltage representative of current operating temperature. An amplifier compares the first voltage to a second voltage representative of an upper threshold operating temperature, and generates a control signal based thereupon. A variable current source generates a load current from the control signal. The amplifier generates the control signal to cause the variable current source to generate the load current as having a magnitude equal to an upper threshold when the first voltage is less than the second voltage. The amplifier generates the control signal to cause the variable current source to generate the load current as having a magnitude that is decreasing until the first and second voltages are equal, and then generates the control signal to cause the variable current source to maintain the load current magnitude at a level at which the first and second voltages are equal.
US10534387B2
A power control integrated circuit (IC) chip can include a direct current (DC)-DC converter that outputs a switching voltage in response to a switching output enable signal. The power control IC chip can also include an inductor detect circuit that detects whether an inductor is conductively coupled to the DC-DC converter and a powered circuit component in response to an inductor detect signal. The power control IC chip can further include control logic that (i) controls the inductor detect signal based on an enable DC-DC signal and (ii) controls the switching output enable signal provided to the DC-DC converter and a linear output disable signal provided to a linear regulator based on a signal from the inductor detect circuit indicating whether the inductor is conductively coupled to the DC-DC converter and the powered circuit component.
US10534384B2
A current mode switching regulator circuit and operating method includes a variable duty cycle power switch controller, a voltage feedback loop that provides a feedback signal based on the output voltage, a current feedback loop that provides a current sense signal based on the output current, and an offset circuit having an external signal input and coupled to the current feedback loop. The power switch controller controls the switching regulator circuit to generate an output voltage and an output current. The offset circuit is configured to provide an offset output control signal, independently of the voltage feedback loop, to control the power switch controller so as to vary a duty cycle of the power switch controller based on the current sense signal and an external offset signal applied to the external signal input.
US10534383B2
An HVAC controller is configured to log and record performance related data related to a performance of an HVAC system over a period of time in one or more performance logs stored in a memory of the HVAC controller. In some cases, the HVAC controller may be configured to retrieve at least some of the performance related data from the performance log that corresponds to a selected period of time that may be selected by a user, and display the retrieved performance related data on a display of the HVAC controller.
US10534376B2
A gas divided flow supplying apparatus, including a control valve 3, a pressure type flow control unit 1a connected to a process gas inlet 11, a gas supply main pipe 8 connected to the downstream side of control valve 3, a plurality of branched pipe passages 9a, 9n connected in parallel to the downstream side of main pipe 8, opening and closing valves 10a, 10n interposed in the respective branched pipe passages 9a, 9n, orifices 6a, 6n provided on the downstream sides of valves 10a, 10n, a temperature sensor 4 provided near the process gas passage between the control valve 3 and the orifices 6a, 6n, a pressure sensor 5 provided in the process gas passage between the control valve 3 and the orifices 6a, 6n, divided gas flow outlets 11a, 11n provided on the outlet sides of the orifices 6a, 6n, and an arithmetic and control unit 7.
US10534368B2
A crowdsourced virtual sensor generator is provided which could be generated by a vehicle or provided to the vehicle as, for example, a service. The crowdsourced virtual sensor generator may include, but is not limited to, a communication system configured to receive contributing vehicle sensor data from one or more contributing vehicles, a location of the one or more contributing vehicles and a target vehicle, and a processor, the processor configured to filter the received contributing vehicle sensor data based upon the location of the one or more contributing vehicles and the location of the target vehicle, aggregate the filtered contributing vehicle sensor data into at least one of a data-specific dataset and an application-specific data set, and generate a virtual sensor for the target vehicle, the virtual sensor processing the filtered and aggregated contributing vehicle sensor data to generate output data relative to the location of the target vehicle.
US10534365B2
A system includes an inspection robot having mounted sleds, and a number of sensors each mounted to a sled. A couplant chamber is disposed within at least two of the sleds, each couplant chamber between a transducer of the sensor and an inspection surface. Each couplant chamber includes a cone, the cone having a cone tip portion at an inspection surface end, and a sensor mounting end opposite the cone tip portion. A couplant entry for each couplant chamber is at a vertically upper side of the cone in the intended orientation of the inspection robot on the inspection surface.
US10534362B2
A request to determine a drone's capability may be received. A request type of the request and service context may be determined. A challenge may be generated based on the request type and the service context. The challenge may be presented to a drone and causing the drone to attempt the challenge. Information may be received from the drone, the information indicating the drone's response to the challenge attempted by the drone. The drone may be controlled to perform a given task or not perform the given task, based on the information.
US10534358B2
An exemplary method is disclosed for estimating operational efficiency of a marine vessel with a propeller mounted to a rotatable shaft for converting rotative shaft power transferred from the shaft to the propeller into thrust to propel the marine vessel across water, the method including obtaining a respective time series of values for operating parameters of the marine vessel; constructing a multi-dimensional power matrix for a first time period based on operating parameter values within a respective sub-series thereof that represents a first time period; computing, for one or more propulsion parameters, fouling values based on information stored in the power matrix and information stored in a base matrix, of a reference fouling level; and creating indications concerning operating status of the marine vessel in dependence of the fouling values.
US10534352B2
A processing device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a provider configured to provide a process to a first device connected to a network of a process control system in a plant, an acquirer configured to acquire a live list generated by the first device based on diagnostic communication packets transmitted from the first device at predetermined time intervals, the live list comprising information indicating whether communication between the first device and another processing device that provides a process to the first device is norma, the processing device and the another processing device constituting a redundant pair 1, and a switch configured to switch a state of the provider from a standby state in which the provider is on standby to provide the process to the first device to an active state in which the provider provides the process to the first device based on the acquired live list.
US10534350B2
A flexible pressing system for accepting and rejecting pressed part into a part may include a pressing apparatus configured to press components into a hole of a part and a controller programmed to receive press data for a press of at least one of the components, the press data including force, distance and time of the press, and determine whether the force is indicative of an inadequate press based on the force and distance at a specific time of the press.
US10534348B2
Provided is a carbon fiber reinforced plastic machining method using CAM which includes the step (S10) of determining machining grade in accordance with a machining target and the step (S20) of determining machining grade in accordance with a machining process, in which the machining grade is a processing condition which is determined in accordance with the rotational speed and the feeding speed of a spindle as a machining tool.
US10534344B2
An operation management system configured to acquire measured values of a workpiece from a numerical controller which controls a machine tool to measure the workpiece is provided with a measurement macro receiving unit configured to read a measurement macro for controlling the measurement from the numerical controller, a measurement macro analysis unit configured to analyze the measurement macro to identify the name of a measurement result variable loaded with the measured values, and a measurement result read-out unit configured to read out the value of the measurement result variable from the numerical controller. The operation management system easily acquires the result of the workpiece measurement from the numerical controller.
US10534337B2
Creating and executing flow plans by performing at least the following: obtaining a run-time flow plan that comprises a trigger, a first operation, and a second operation, wherein the first operation precedes the second operation within the run-time flow plan and one or more input values of the second operation are linked to the first operation, determining whether one or more conditions of the trigger are met, execute the first operation based at least on the determination that the one or more conditions of the trigger are met, monitoring whether the second operation is ready for execution based at least on a determination that the one or more input values of a second action operation are ready, and executing the second action operation when the second action operation has been identified as ready for execution.
US10534320B2
A method of detecting a movement of a timepiece setting stem arranged to be moved axially along and/or rotated about its longitudinal axis. The method includes a light source illuminating a portion of the setting stem; a light detector receiving a reflected or diffracted light pattern from the setting stem; a processor forming a first pixel pattern representative of the reflected light pattern at a first time instant; the processor forming a second pixel pattern representative of the reflected light pattern at a second, later time instant; and determining that the setting stem has been moved, if the second pixel pattern is different or shifted with respect to the first pixel pattern.
US10534316B2
Dual or multi-modulation display systems are disclosed that comprise projector systems with at least one modulator that may employ non-mechanical beam steering modulation. Many embodiments disclosed herein employ a non-mechanical beam steering and/or polarizer to provide for a highlights modulator.
US10534312B2
A developing cartridge includes: a housing extending in a first direction; a developing roller; a memory held at the housing; a holder holding an electrical contact surface; and a relay component electrically connecting the memory to the electrical contact surface. The developing roller is rotatable about an axis extending in the first direction. The developing roller is positioned at one end portion of the housing in a second direction. The holder is movable relative to the housing in at least one of the second direction and a third direction crossing the first direction and the second direction. The third direction also crosses the electrical contact surface.
US10534306B2
A cylindrical base body of the disclosure includes an outer peripheral surface and an end surface which is connected to the outer peripheral surface. The outer peripheral surface includes a first inclined surface which is inclined inwardly toward the end surface, the end surface includes a second inclined surface which is inclined inwardly toward the outer peripheral surface and is connected to the first inclined surface, and a connecting portion of the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface has a radiused surface.
US10534303B2
An image forming apparatus provided with a transfer device includes a separator, a post-transfer-residual-quantity acquirer, and a controller. The transfer device transfers an image formed on an image carrier to a transfer medium. The separator is arranged at downstream side from a transfer device in a conveying direction, is provided with a separation claw which contacts with the image carrier and separates the transfer medium from the image carrier, and performs contact/separate operation of the separation claw with/from the image carrier. The post-transfer-residual-quantity acquirer acquires post-transfer residual quantity in a region determined on a basis of a position of the separation claw in an axial direction of the image carrier. The controller controls the contact/separate operation of the separation claw with/from the image carrier on a basis of the post-transfer residual quantity acquired by the post-transfer-residual-quantity acquirer.
US10534302B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member and transfer and control units. The transfer unit and image bearing member form a nip portion where a recording material receives a toner image. The control unit controls image formation based on a timing when a recording material leading edge is detected. To perform sheet conveyance, the control unit changes a first recording material conveyance speed to a second speed before a fed first recording material leading edge is detected. Before the first recording material leading edge reaches the nip portion, the control unit changes the first recording material conveyance speed to a first speed, slower than the second speed, based on when the fed first recording material leading edge is detected. The control unit obtains a timing for the image formation to the image bearing member based on when the conveyance speed is changed from the faster to slower speed.
US10534301B2
Provided is an apparatus that can reduce a braking force of a medium separating mechanism to thereby reduce occurrence of paper jams only by attaching a medium supply device to an image forming apparatus body. The medium supply device is configured to be attached to an image forming apparatus body including a medium separating mechanism, and includes a medium conveying mechanism that supplies a recording medium from stacked recording media to a predetermined position, and first mechanism that reduces a braking force generated in the medium separating mechanism.
US10534296B2
An image heating apparatus includes a first and second heat generating elements, a thyristor that controls electrical power supplied to the heat generating elements, and a relay that switches a supply destination of the electrical power supply between the heat generating elements. A controller switches the thyristor from on to off, and then actuates the relay to switch the supply destination from the first heat generating element to the second heat generating element, and, thereafter switches the thyristor from off to on. The controller sets a timing of switching of the thyristor from on to off to be in a period in which an image on a current recording material is in a nip, and sets timing of switching of the thyristor from off to on to be in a period in which an image on a current recording material or a subsequent recording material is not in the nip.
US10534290B2
A powder container contains powder and is attached to an image forming apparatus including: a conveying nozzle to convey the powder; a powder receiving hole of the conveying nozzle to receive the powder from the powder container; an apparatus main-body gear to transmit a driving force to the powder container; and a container receiving section including the conveying nozzle and receiving the powder container. The powder container includes: an opening at one end of the powder container in a longitudinal direction; a nozzle receiver at the opening to receive the conveying nozzle; a conveyor to convey the powder; and a container gear to drive the conveyor by meshing with the apparatus main-body gear. The container gear is to mesh with the apparatus main-body gear at a position closer to the opening than the powder receiving hole in the longitudinal direction. The opening is to mate with the container receiving section.
US10534289B2
A toner container attachable to and detachable from a main body of an image forming device and including: a first chamber containing toner; a second chamber adjacent to the first chamber through a partition wall and downstream of the first chamber in a toner supply direction; and a switching member in the second chamber that is movable or rotatable and has a shell structure. The partition wall has a first aperture. A bottom wall of the second chamber opposing the partition wall has a second aperture and sits on the main body. The shell has third and fourth apertures. The fourth aperture coincides with the second aperture when the third aperture coincides with the first aperture, and the first aperture is closed by the shell when the third aperture faces an inner wall surface of the second chamber.
US10534287B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries a latent image, a developer holder that holds developer for developing the latent image carried by the image carrier, and a layer-thickness restriction member that restricts the layer thickness of the developer held by the developer holder. When the developer holder approaches the layer-thickness restriction member, the layer-thickness restriction member moves away from the developer holder and then toward the developer holder.
US10534278B2
The present invention provides an exposure apparatus that exposes a substrate via a projection optical system, the apparatus including a supply unit including a first channel to which a first gas containing air is supplied, a second channel to which a second gas higher in oxygen concentration than the first gas is supplied, and a third channel to which a third gas lower in oxygen concentration than the first gas is supplied, and configured to generate a mixture gas by using at least two of the first gas, the second gas, and the third gas, and supply the mixture gas to a space between the substrate and the projection optical system.
US10534275B2
A method and system are presented for use in controlling a multiple patterning process of n patterning stages subsequently applied to a sample to produce a target pattern thereon. The method comprises: providing intermediate measured data indicative of an optical response of the sample after being patterned by m-th patterning stage, 1≤m
US10534269B2
The disclosure provides a method that includes filling a cavity in a substrate with a second material, wherein the substrate includes a first material. The method also includes using galvanic and/or chemical deposition of a third material to apply an overcoating to a first surface of the substrate in a region of the cavity. The method further includes removing the second material from the cavity. In addition, the method includes, before or after removing the second material from the cavity, applying a reflective layer to the overcoating. The disclosure also provides related optical articles and systems.
US10534230B2
Display device having improved design for position and shape of electrical and structural components
Discussed is a display device with an improved aesthetic design. The display device according to an embodiment includes a display panel configured to include a first substrate, which includes an active area including a plurality of pixels and an inactive area except the active area, and a second substrate facing-coupled to the first substrate. The first substrate includes a first rounding portion formed at each of corner portions thereof to have a first curvature, and the active area includes a second rounding portion formed at each of corner portions thereof to have a second curvature.
US10534228B2
A display device includes a first substrate comprising an insulating film, a first organic layer on the insulating film, and a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix in an active area. The display device further includes a second substrate comprising a black matrix and a second organic layer stacked on the black matrix. The display device also includes a seal material that attaches the first substrate and the second substrate in a circumference area outside the active area. The first organic layer includes a first opening portion which exposes the insulating film, the second organic layer includes a second opening portion which exposes the black matrix, and the first opening portion and the second opening portion overlap the seal material.
US10534225B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a first alignment film and an opposing substrate having a second alignment film with liquid crystals sandwiched therebetween. One of the first and second alignment films, comprises a first polyimide produced via polyamide acid ester containing cyclobutane as a precursor and a second polyimide produced via polyamide acid as a precursor. The polyamide acid has a higher polarity than that of the polyamide acid ester. The one of the first and second alignment films is responsive to photo-alignment. A first side of the one of the first and second alignment films is adjacent to the liquid crystals, and a second side thereof is closer to one of the TFT substrate and the counter substrate than the first side. The first side contains more of the first polyimide and less of the second polyimide than the second side.
US10534222B2
Techniques for driving a dual modulation display include generating backlight drive signals to drive individually-controllable illumination sources. The illumination sources emit first light onto a light conversion layer. The light conversion layer converts the first light, such as blue or ultraviolet light, into second light, such as white light. The light conversion layer can include quantum dot materials. Liquid crystal display (LCD) modulation drive signals are generated to determine transmission of the second light through individual color subpixels of the display. These LCD modulation drive signals can be adjusted based on one or more light field simulations to account for non-uniform, spatial color shifts. Alternatively, one or more light field simulations based on a uniformity assumption determine intermediate LCD modulation drive signals. A compensation field simulation, using backlight drive signals, is then used to adjust the intermediate LCD modulation drive signal for color correction.
US10534221B1
Display module and display device are provided. The display module includes a cover plate, a display screen, and a backlight module. The display screen includes a display region, a first non-display region, and at least one first hollowed-out part. The at least one first hollowed-out part penetrates through the display screen. The backlight module includes a metal frame and at least one second hollowed-out part penetrating through the backlight module. The metal frame includes a main part and a first bending part connected to the main part. The first bending part is disposed on inner sidewalls of the at least one second hollowed-out part and is opaque. The first bending part intersects a plane for the main part; and one end of the first bending part away from the main part extends inside the at least one first hollowed-out part.
US10534220B2
A light reflecting assembly includes a cabinet and a light reflecting member. The light reflecting member includes a center reflecting part, four peripheral reflecting parts and a tongue part. Side end portions of an adjacent pair of the peripheral reflecting parts form a corner section of the light reflecting member at a corner portion of the center reflecting part while the light reflecting member is attached to the cabinet. The tongue part extends from one of the side end portions of the adjacent pair of the peripheral reflecting parts towards the other of the side end portions of the adjacent pair of the peripheral reflecting parts. The tongue part at least partially overlaps with the other of the side end portions of the adjacent pair of the peripheral reflecting parts while the light reflecting member is attached to the cabinet.
US10534218B2
The present disclosure provides a backlight module, which includes at least one quantum wire unit. The at least one quantum wire unit is configured to have an effective wire width such that the at least one quantum wire unit is capable of converting electric energy to emit light of a selected wavelength. Each of quantum wire unit comprises a first electrode, disposed on a first side of a substrate layer; a first buffer layer, disposed on a second side of the substrate layer; an active layer, disposed over the first buffer layer; a second buffer layer, disposed over the active layer; and a second electrode disposed over the second buffer layer. Each quantum wire unit, along with the substrate layer, forms a quantum wire laser generator, which is configured such that the active layer emits light upon application of a voltage difference between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US10534215B2
The present invention discloses an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, a polarizer attaching film and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method of an array substrate includes: removing a part of a release film corresponding to a first attaching area of a polarizer, and attaching the first attaching area of the polarizer onto a base substrate such that the first attaching area is in a non-bonding area; and removing a part of the release film corresponding to a second attaching area of the polarizer, and attaching the second attaching area of the polarizer onto the base substrate such that the second attaching area at least partially overlaps with a bonding area.
US10534213B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a pair of substrates opposed to each other, a liquid crystal layer between the substrates, and a first electrode portion on at least one of the substrates, a backlight device including an optical member and a second electrode portion opposed to the first electrode portion, and an adhesive member between the liquid crystal panel and the backlight device to fix the backlight device to the liquid crystal panel. The adhesive member includes a first base, adhesive layers on both surfaces of the first base, a second base on the first base via one of the adhesive layers, and an adhesive layer on the second base.
US10534202B2
The present technology relates to a wearable device and an electricity supply system that make it possible to reduce the stress on a user in relation to electricity supply. A power generating unit is provided on the external world-side surface or the eyeball-side surface of a contact lens-type wearable device. The power generating unit generates electric power by chemical reaction with a substance contained in a secretion or a body fluid of a user wearing the wearable device, and a power managing unit supplies the electric power obtained in the power generating unit to each part of the wearable device. Thus, the power generating unit performs electricity generation using the secretion or the body fluid of the user as fuel; thereby, electric power can be stably supplied, and the stress on the user in relation to electricity supply can be reduced. The present technology can be applied to a contact lens-type wearable device.
US10534199B2
According to the present invention, a functional sheet, comprising a polarizing or photochromic functional layer and protective layers provided on both surfaces of the functional layer can be provided. The protective layers include an aromatic polycarbonate resin sheet or film. At least one of the protective layers is a co-extruded sheet or film including an aromatic polycarbonate resin layer and an acrylic-based resin layer provided on one surface or both surfaces of the aromatic polycarbonate resin layer. At least one surface of the functional sheet is of the acrylic-based resin layer. Also according to the present invention, a lens using such a functional sheet can be provided.
US10534196B2
A spectacle lens has a transparent substrate and at least one HOE-capable polymer layer arranged on the transparent substrate. The at least one HOE-capable polymer layer is suitable for forming a holographic optical element. Related methods and apparatus are described.
US10534191B2
In some examples, an apparatus includes a housing to removably attach to an electronic device that includes first and second cameras spaced apart by a first distance. The apparatus includes a first light transmissive region of the housing to align with the first camera, the first light transmissive region to pass light from an environment to the first camera. The apparatus further includes a second light transmissive region of the housing spaced apart from the first light transmissive region by a second distance different from the first distance, and a light conduit to pass the light from the environment through the second light transmissive region to the second camera.
US10534188B2
Integrating rod modules are disclosed comprising a plurality of single and/or solid integrating rods that are mated together by straps. Such modules tend to comprise a greater length than the single and/or solid integrating rods and provide good illumination to a modulator that light from a light source is transmitted through the integrating rod module. The straps may comprise a material (e.g., glass) that has substantially same or similar thermal characteristics as the integrating rods. The straps may be glued to the integrating rods by a glue having a substantially different (e.g., lower) index of refraction than the integrating rods, so as not to disturb the internal reflectance of the rods. The straps may be reinforced by braces that may allow the integrating rod module to be set within a projection display system at an angle substantially different from horizontal.
US10534182B2
Systems, devices, and methods that integrate eye tracking capability into scanning laser projector (“SLP”)-based wearable heads-up displays are described. An infrared laser diode is added to an RGB SLP and an infrared photodetector is aligned to detect reflections of the infrared light from features of the eye. A holographic optical element (“HOE”) may be used to combine visible light, infrared light, and environmental light into the user's “field of view.” The HOE may be heterogeneous and multiplexed to apply positive optical power to the visible light and zero or negative optical power to the infrared light.
US10534174B2
Systems, methods and ophthalmic lenses for image display of a virtual image, such as display of a holographic image. An ophthalmic lens is configured to optimize visualization of the displayed virtual images.
US10534172B2
A display apparatus includes a frame and an image display apparatus for a left eye 3 and an image display apparatus for a right eye which are attached to the frame. Each image display apparatus 30 includes an image forming apparatus 40 and an optical system 50 configured to guide an image from the image forming apparatus 40 to a pupil of an observer 10. The optical system 50 includes a reflecting mirror 51 and a lens group 52. The image forming apparatus 40 is curved. A normal NLL of the reflecting mirror 51 included in the optical system of the image display apparatus for a left eye and a normal NLR of the reflecting mirror 51 included in the optical system of the image display apparatus for a right eye intersect with each other in a space on an opposite side of the observer 10 with respect to the reflecting mirror 51.
US10534171B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a sharing method and a sharing device. The method comprises: determining at least one piece of first information associated with a field of view of at least one user; and determining a transmission policy of at least one hologram of the at least one user at least according to the at least one piece of first information, wherein the transmission policy comprises: a sequence that is determined, for any one of the at least one user, at least according to a degree of association between a field of view of at least one other user among the at least one user and a field of view of the any user and is for transmitting at least one hologram of the any user to the at least one other user.
US10534170B2
A MEMS device includes a fixed supporting body forming a cavity, a mobile element suspended over the cavity, and an elastic element arranged between the fixed supporting body and the mobile element. First, second, third, and fourth piezoelectric elements are mechanically coupled to the elastic element, which has a shape symmetrical with respect to a direction. The first and second piezoelectric elements are arranged symmetrically with respect to the third and fourth piezoelectric elements, respectively. The first and fourth piezoelectric elements are configured to receive a first control signal, whereas the second and third piezoelectric elements are configured to receive a second control signal, which is in phase opposition with respect to the first control signal so that the first, second, third, and fourth piezoelectric elements deform the elastic element, with consequent rotation of the mobile element about the direction.
US10534160B2
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of glass material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of glass material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
US10534159B2
An imaging lens including order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, a fourth lens having a meniscus shape with a concave surface facing the object side near an optical axis, a fifth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, and a sixth lens having the concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, wherein the image-side surface of said sixth lens is an aspheric surface which changes to the convex surface at a peripheral portion, and a total track length is 6.0 mm or less and below conditional expressions (2) and (3) are satisfied: 20<νd 3<32 (2) 20<νd 5<32 (3) where νd3: abbe number at d-ray of the third lens νd5: abbe number at d-ray of the fifth lens.
US10534155B2
An optical element driving mechanism is provided, including a first component, a second component, an optical element driving assembly, and a flexible plastic structure. The second component is disposed corresponding to the first component. The first component has a first surface facing the second component. The optical element driving assembly is configured to force the optical element to move. The flexible plastic structure is formed on the first surface of the first component, and the hardness of the first component is greater than that of the flexible plastic structure.
US10534147B2
An optical transceiver includes an optical component (3) whose ground is integrated with a signal ground. The optical transceiver includes a conductor (51) that is electrically connected to the optical component (3), and a sheet-like insulator (52) disposed between the conductor (51) and a housing (1) such that a main surface thereof is positioned along an inner wall of the housing (1), and separating the signal ground and a frame ground on the side of the housing (1) from each other.
US10534145B2
An electrical connector includes a heat dissipation module with a first end and a second end opposed to the first end and two receptacle connectors located at the second end. The first and second ends define a transceiver-mating direction such that, when a transceiver is inserted into the first end of the heat dissipation module in the transceiver-mating direction, the transceiver mates with one of the two receptacle connectors, and in the heat dissipation module, air flows parallel to the transceiver-mating direction between the first and second ends and flows between the two receptacle connectors.
US10534140B2
Methods of forming waveguide connectors include positioning a polymer waveguide in one or more insertion structures within an inner portion of a cap where the polymer waveguide has alignment features on a connection end face corresponding to one or more components of an assembled connector. The method can include inserting a ferrule into the inner portion of the cap such that an inner wall of the cap seals around the assembled connector to prevent contaminants from entering the inner portion and heating the polymer waveguide and the ferrule to a first temperature with the ferrule comprising alignment features and having a different coefficient of thermal expansion from the polymer waveguide. The alignment features of the polymer waveguide align with the alignment features of the ferrule when the polymer waveguide and the ferrule are heated to the first temperature.
US10534136B1
An optical coupler comprises a waveguide structure including a first waveguide layer having proximal and distal ends, the first waveguide layer including a first pair of waveguides that extend from the proximal end along a first portion, wherein the first pair of waveguides each widen along a second portion such that the first pair of waveguides merge into a single waveguide. A second waveguide layer is separated from the first waveguide layer, with the second waveguide layer having proximal and distal ends, the second waveguide layer including a second pair of waveguides that extend from the proximal end of the second waveguide layer along a first portion of the second waveguide layer, wherein the second pair of waveguides each narrow along a second portion of the second waveguide layer to separate distal tips. The waveguide structure matches an integrated photonics mode to a fiber mode supported by an optical fiber.
US10534127B2
A liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a light guide plate configured to guide blue light from a blue light source to the liquid crystal display panel and a light conversion sheet comprising a light conversion layer and a light compensation pattern positioned on edges of the light conversion layer configured to compensate blue light leakage at the edges of the light conversion sheet, wherein the light conversion sheet is positioned between the liquid crystal display panel and the light guide panel.
US10534124B2
In various embodiments, an illumination apparatus includes an air gap between a sub-assembly and a waveguide attached thereto at a plurality of discrete attachment points, as well as a bare-die light-emitting diode encapsulated by the waveguide.
US10534121B2
The present invention provides a means for suppressing an occurrence of a ghost by enhancing diffraction efficiency of a holographic optical element having a volume hologram recording layer. The present invention is a holographic optical element including: a volume hologram recording layer containing a photopolymer; and at least one adjacent layer which is in contact with the volume hologram recording layer and contains a resin, wherein a diffraction grating is formed so as to extend from the volume hologram recording layer to the adjacent layer.
US10534117B2
Described herein are optical filters that provide regulation and/or enhancement of chromatic and luminous aspects of the color appearance of light to human vision, and methods for designing and making the same. The filters have applications in ophthalmics, e.g., in prescription and nonprescription lenses.
US10534113B2
A lens for correcting human vision, for example an IOL, contact lens or corneal inlay or onlay, that carries and interior phase or layer comprising a pattern of individual transparent adaptive displacement structures. In the exemplary embodiments, the displacement structures are actuated by shape change polymer that adjusts a shape or other parameter in response to applied energy that in turn displaces a fluid media within the lens that actuates a flexible lens surface. The adaptive optic means of the invention can be used to create highly localized surface corrections in the lens to correct higher order aberrations—which types of surfaces cannot be fabricated into and IOL and then implanted. The system of displacement structures also can provide spherical corrections in the lens.
US10534111B2
A cover window covering a display panel of a display device comprises a base member covering a display area and a non-display area of the display panel, and an inorganic layer disposed on the base member. The inorganic layer has substantially uniform thickness on the display area, and has a diffraction grating structure on the non-display area.
US10534105B2
A high-Q human-portable, battery-powered self-correcting tunable transmitter apparatus for inducing alternating currents in buried conductors to facilitate their location is disclosed.
US10534102B2
Deblending and deghosting seismic data may include processing blended seismic data acquired after actuation of a first seismic source located at a first depth and a second seismic source located at a second depth. The processing may comprise deblending and deghosting the blended seismic data based on a difference in ghost responses of the first seismic source and the second seismic source.
US10534100B2
A method is described for a manner of geologic analysis using time-lapse seismic data. The method includes steps to produce improved amplitude versus angle (AVA) information that may be used for analysis of geologic features of interest including estimation of pore fluid content and changes in the pore fluid content. The method assesses the probability of hydrocarbons in a subterranean reservoir based on seismic amplitude variations along offsets or angles for portions of a seismic horizon. The method may be executed by a computer system.
US10534097B2
The present disclosure relates to a PET detector and a PET frame. The PET detector may include a plurality of detector modules and a plurality of installing modules configured to install the plurality of detector modules. The plurality of installing modules may be coupled together to form a detector ring. The PET frame may include a detector stabilizing cylinder configured to stabilize a detector and a fixing support configured to support the detector stabilizing cylinder. The detector stabilizing cylinder may be rotatably fixed on the fixing support.
US10534091B2
Provided herein is a method for generating a road surface. The method for generating a road surface includes: obtaining a view height of a laser scanner used in an operation process through a mobile mapping system (MMS); determining a reference height on the basis of the obtained view height and a height measured by a global positioning system (GPS); extracting point cloud data positioned in a predetermined height range from the determined reference height among point cloud data obtained in the mobile mapping system; and generating the road surface on the basis of the extracted point cloud data.
US10534089B2
Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a mobile device to provide indications of power use associated with route options for navigation on a mobile device. Navigation route options may be displayed with associated indications of power usage information, enabling power usage to be utilized in determining route selection.
US10534086B2
Systems, and methods for controlling a modular system for improved real-time yield monitoring and sensor fusion of crops in an orchard are disclosed. According to some embodiments of the invention, a modular system for improved real-time yield monitoring and sensor fusion may include a collection vehicle, a modular processing unit, a volume measurement module, a three-dimensional point-cloud scanning module, an inertial navigation system, and a post-processing server. As the collection vehicle travels through an orchard, the volume measurement module calculates volume measurements of the windrow, the three-dimensional point-cloud scanning module assembles point-clouds of each plant in the orchard, and the inertial navigation system calculates geodetic positions of the collection vehicle. The modular processing unit may fuse the collected data together and transmit the fused data set to a post-processing server. The post-processing server may process the geodetic position data for errors which may be used for geo-referencing the fused data.
US10534085B2
A laser light source; a light sending lens configured to form laser light emitted from the laser light source into a spot shape; a scanner configured to perform irradiation while performing scanning, with the laser light formed into the spot shape, in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of an area to be measured; a light receiving lens configured to receive reflected light reflected from the area to be measured; a light receiving optical system configured to condense the reflected light received by the light receiving lens, in each of the horizontal direction and vertical direction; and an information generating unit configured to generate, based on a received signal output by the light receiving element, three dimensional information of the area to be measured.
US10534071B2
A system for providing a range speed response pattern to a learning system as an image. The system includes a radar sensor and an electronic controller. In one example, the electronic controller is configured to receive a radar signal, obtain a beat signal, apply a fast Fourier transform to the beat signal to generate a transform, apply a power spectral density periodogram to the beat signal to generate an estimate, and filter the transform with the estimate to generate a filtered transform. The electronic controller is further configured to store the filtered transform in a column of a matrix, apply the power spectral density periodogram to each row of the matrix, generate a range speed response pattern from the matrix, generate a signal to control the vehicle's motion based on the range speed response pattern, and control a steering apparatus, an engine, and/or a braking system of the vehicle.
US10534069B2
There is provided a radar device. An extracting unit extracts history peak signals according to estimated peak signals, from a difference frequency between a transmission signal and a reception signal obtained by receiving a reflected wave of a transmission wave based on the transmission signal from a target, in a first period and a second period. An estimating unit estimates current peak signals as the estimated peak signals based on extracted previous peak signals. A pairing unit pairs the history peak signal of the first period and the history peak signal of the second period. A re-pairing unit re-pairs the paired history peak signals, based on peak signals existing in a predetermined range including the paired history peak signals. An information generating unit generates information on the target based on a result of the pairing and a result of the re-pairing.
US10534067B2
A system and method for recovering from a failure during the position tracking of an RF-transmitting device includes tracking the position of the radio frequency (RF) transmitting device based on RF signals emitted by the RF-transmitting device. If the tracking loses the position of the RF-transmitting device, new phase difference data are calculated from the RF signals transmitted by the RF-transmitting device and received at four or more antennas. A subset of candidate position solutions for evaluation is identified based on the new phase difference data. One or more of the candidate position solutions in the subset is evaluated to find an acceptable position solution. The tracking of the position of the RF-transmitting device resumes using the acceptable position solution.
US10534063B2
A zero-optical-path-length-difference optical phased array built with essentially planar photonic devices determines a direction to an incoherent optical source, such as a star. The phased array can replace a 3-dimensional star tracker with a nearly 2-dimensional system that is smaller and lighter. The zero-optical-path-length-difference phased array can be optically connected to an interferometer. Driven by a light source, the zero-optical-path-length-difference phased array can be used as an optical projector.
US10534055B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining a non-oil volume of a rock sample comprising: receiving a rock sample; and receiving a non-oil zone in a NMR map using a T1T2 sequence, the non-oil zone being associated to non-oil in the map; Then, determining a first NMR map of the received rock sample using a T1T2 sequence, and determining a volume of non-oil in the received rock sample based on an integral in an integration zone of the firstNMR map. The integration zone of the first NMR map being determined based on the received non-oil zone, and a calibration value.
US10534049B2
A radio frequency volume coil (136; 236) for use in a magnetic resonance examination system (10) includes a radio frequency shield (148; 248), and a pair of radio frequency conductive loop members (138; 238) spaced along a common longitudinal axis (140; 240), a plurality of axially arranged radio frequency conductive members electrically connected to at least one of the radio frequency conductive loop members (138; 238). At least two axially arranged loop coil interconnecting radio frequency conductive members (114; 244) electrically interconnect the radio frequency conductive loop members (138; 238). At least two of the axially arranged shield connecting radio frequency conductive members are axially arranged in an aligned manner at an azimuthal position within a range between azimuthal positions of the at least two loop coil interconnecting members (144; 244), and electrically serve and connect one of the two radio frequency conductive loop members (138; 238) to the radio frequency shield (148; 248). At least one installation space (152; 252) within an inner volume of the radio frequency volume coil (136; 236) is accessible from outside the radio frequency volume coil (136; 236) at least in a radial direction (56) within the range between the azimuthal positions of the two loop coil interconnecting members (144; 244) and within a range of axial directions between axial positions of ends of the shield-connecting members (146; 246) that are distal to the radio frequency conductive loop member (138; 238).
US10534034B2
A test mode signal is generated to include a test pattern and an error reporting sequence. The test mode signal is sent on link that includes one or more extension devices and two or more sublinks. The test mode signal is to be sent on a particular one of the sublinks and is to be used by a receiving device to identify errors on the particular sublink. The error reporting sequence is to be encoded with error information to describe error status of sublinks in the plurality of sublinks.
US10534032B2
The present invention relates to an insulation resistance measuring system and device which calculate resistance values of the positive electrode insulation resistance and the negative electrode insulation resistance by using convergence values of the first voltage and the second voltage, in order to measure the positive electrode insulation resistance and the negative electrode insulation resistance connected to both terminals of a battery pack with a capacitor, respectively.
US10534010B2
Disclosed is a home-automation device including a displacement detector for a monitored object, an accelerometer, an orientation sensor, a memory, a processing unit. The processing unit is programmed to calculate, upon detection of an event, a displacement energy of the detector from the acceleration signals acquired during a waiting time after the triggering event.
US10534004B2
The present invention provides a method of identifying meningitis as either bacterial meningitis or aseptic meningitis in a subject, comprising: a) measuring the amount of complement C3, complement factor B, complement membrane attack complex (MAC) protein, complement C5b, complement C6, complement C7, complement C8, and/or complement C9 in a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sample obtained from the subject; and b) comparing the amount of complement C3, complement factor B, complement MAC protein, complement C5b, complement C6, complement C7, complement C8, and/or complement C9 measured in (a) with the amount of complement C3, complement factor B, complement MAC protein, complement C5b, complement C6, complement C7, complement C8, and/or complement C9 measured in a control sample, wherein an amount of complement C3, complement factor B, complement MAC protein, complement C5b, complement C6, complement C7, complement C8, and/or complement C9 measured in (a) that is greater than the amount of complement C3, complement factor B, complement MAC protein, complement C5b, complement C6, complement C7, complement C8, and/or complement C9 measured in the control sample identifies the meningitis in the subject as bacterial meningitis.
US10534000B2
Provided herein are methods for identifying a subject with an increased likelihood of developing or having metastatic papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), or a subject with an increased likelihood of developing or having recurrent PTC, and the treatment of such a subject.
US10533999B2
A process for stabilizing glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) from a bacterium of the Clostridium genus, in an aqueous solution, in order to maintain the antigenic properties thereof, includes the step of mixing the glutamate dehydrogenase and a stabilizing composition which is a carboxylic acid having a carbon-based chain of at least 3 carbon atoms and comprising at least 2 —COOH groups, or a salt thereof. GDH compositions thus stabilized and a method of detecting the presence of bacteria of the Clostridium genus are also disclosed.
US10533998B2
The invention generally relates to methods for quantifying an amount of enzyme molecules. Systems and methods of the invention are provided for measuring an amount of target by forming a plurality of fluid partitions, a subset of which include the target, performing an enzyme-catalyzed reaction in the subset, and detecting the number of partitions in the subset. The amount of target can be determined based on the detected number.
US10533992B2
Unlike a conventional method for evaluating a degree of ultraviolet protection through visual evaluation, the disclosed method for measuring a sunlight protection function can accurately and objectively measure and determine a degree of sunlight protection by measuring a change due to a material to be measured with respect to an expression amount of skin tissue antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in skin cells, which decrease from exposure to sunlight, and/or a generation amount of S-nitrosylated protein. Additionally, the disclosed measurement method can determine whether blue/violet light of wavelengths of 400-500 nm, which induces the most skin damage among visible rays, is blocked and provide a more specified sunlight protection effect evaluation result. Moreover, by using the disclosed measurement method, a degree of sunlight protection can be indexed, and a sunlight protection composition for protecting normal skin from the blue/violet light can be provided.
US10533988B2
A composition comprising a novel Ca2+-activated, [ATP]i-sensitive nonspecific cation (NCCa-ATP) channel is described. The channel is found in mammalian neural cells and exhibits a different sensitivity to block by various adenine nucleotides, and is activated by submicromolar [Ca]i. The NCCa-ATP channel is activated under conditions of ATP depletion, which causes severe cell depolarization, followed by cell swelling. The NCCa-ATP channel is regulated by a sulfonylurea receptor and is inhibited by sulfonylurea compounds glibenclamide and tolbutamide. Methods employing compositions comprising the NCCa-ATP channel to screen for compounds that block the channel and the use of such antagonists as therapeutics in preventing brain swelling and damage are described. In addition, methods employing compositions comprising the Kir2.3 channel to screen for compounds that open the channel and the use of such antagonists as therapeutics in preventing brain swelling and damage are described.
US10533960B2
In respective methods for manufacturing a high aspect ratio structure and an ultrasonic probe, a plurality of holes extending in a direction crossing a main surface of a substrate are formed, a plurality of first regions and second regions excluding the first regions from the main surface are periodically defined, and partition walls between the plurality of holes formed in the substrate corresponding to the first regions are removed by etching so that part of each of the partition walls within a predetermined range excluding a bottom portion is left. A high aspect ratio structure and an X-ray imaging apparatus include, over a side wall, a porous member including a plurality of holes extending in a direction crossing a grating surface within a predetermined range excluding a bottom portion in each of a plurality of recesses in a grating.
US10533955B2
A method for use in measuring a composition of a multiphase fluid which includes flowing a multiphase fluid through a fluid flow path defined by a wall of a fluid conduit is disclosed. The wall includes an electrically non-conductive material. The method includes establishing an electromagnetic field which extends through the electrically non-conductive material of the wall of the fluid conduit into the fluid and measuring a property of the electromagnetic field over a measurement time period. The method also includes transmitting additional energy through the fluid over the measurement time period independently of the electromagnetic field and measuring the additional energy transmitted through the fluid over the measurement time period. The method may be used to unambiguously determine a composition of a multiphase fluid which has different components.
US10533945B2
Apparatus and methods for analyzing single molecule and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An apparatus can include an assay chip that includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which, when excited, emits emission energy; at least one element for directing the emission energy in a particular direction; and a light path along which the emission energy travels from the sample well toward a sensor. The apparatus also includes an instrument that interfaces with the assay chip. The instrument includes an excitation light source for exciting the sample in each sample well; a plurality of sensors corresponding the sample wells. Each sensor may detect emission energy from a sample in a respective sample well. The instrument includes at least one optical element that directs the emission energy from each sample well towards a respective sensor of the plurality of sensors.
US10533928B2
There is provided mechanisms for predicting remaining useful lifetime of a bearing of an electric podded azimuth thruster. A method is performed by a controller. The method includes obtaining operational conditions of the bearing. The method includes predicting the remaining useful lifetime of the bearing using the operational conditions. The lifetime of the bearing is divided in three separate phases. The remaining useful lifetime of the bearing is predicted differently in the three separate phases.
US10533926B2
A device for connecting to an optical cable having a set of optical fibers may include a microscope, an assembly to move the microscope in a continuous manner about an axis substantially parallel to a mating surface of the optical cable, and without moving the device, to bring one or more optical fibers, of the set of optical fibers, within a field of view of the microscope without moving the optical cable, and one or more processors. The device may receive an indication to perform a set of analyses of the set of optical fibers of the optical cable. The device may perform the set of analyses of the set of optical fibers by modifying a position of the microscope of the assembly of the device in a set of directions. The device may output a result of the set of analyses for display.
US10533908B1
An activation component testing apparatus comprising an outer sleeve, an inner sleeve, a plunger, a number of bearings, and a compression spring. The outer sleeve forms an interior chamber having opposing first and second openings. The plunger, bearings, inner sleeve, and compression spring are disposed in the central cavity. The plunger includes a number of bearing recesses that engage the bearings such that the plunger is configured to transfer a compressive force applied to the activation component through the inner sleeve and compression spring to a load cell via the bearings when the plunger is in an extended position and urge the bearings out of engagement with the bearing recesses when the plunger is in a maximum force position such that the plunger cannot transfer additional compressive force to the load cell when the plunger is moved beyond the maximum force position.
US10533896B2
There is provided a heat treatment apparatus for performing a predetermined film forming process on a substrate by mounting the substrate on a surface of a rotary table installed in a processing vessel and heating the substrate by a heating part while rotating the rotary table. The heat treatment apparatus includes: a first temperature measuring part of a contact-type configured to measure a temperature of the heating part; a second temperature measuring part of a non-contact type configured to measure a temperature of the substrate mounted on the rotary table in a state where the rotary table is being rotated; and a temperature control part configured to control the heating part based on a first measurement value measured by the first temperature measuring part and a second measurement value measured by the second temperature measuring part.
US10533893B2
An avalanche diode arrangement (10) comprises an avalanche diode (11) that is coupled to a first voltage terminal (16) and to a first node (13), an event detector (14) for detecting a trigger event of the avalanche diode (11) and being coupled to the first node (13), a quenching circuit (15) that is coupled to the first node (13), and a detection circuit (20) coupled to the first node (13). The detection circuit (20) is configured to provide a detection signal (SVC2) that depends on a value of a node voltage (SVA) at the first node (13).
US10533891B2
An inspection system includes a first ultrasonic probe positioned on and configured to move along a surface of a component. The first ultrasonic probe transmits ultrasonic energy. The inspection system also includes a second ultrasonic probe positioned on and configured to move along the surface of the component opposite the first probe. The second ultrasonic probe receives the ultrasonic energy transmitted by the first ultrasonic probe. Additionally, the inspection system includes a probe alignment system in communication with the first ultrasonic probe and the second ultrasonic probe. The probe alignment system is configured to analyze an energy characteristic for the ultrasonic energy received by the second ultrasonic probe to determine if a displacement characteristic for at least one of the first ultrasonic probe and the second ultrasonic probe requires adjustment.
US10533874B2
A walk detection method for detecting a motion state of a user includes: measuring a number of triaxial components of gravitational acceleration vector of the device; calculating a triaxial angular velocity of the device; recording data inputs of the triaxial angular velocity, and recording the data inputs not larger than a filtered threshold as effective data inputs; calculating a mean of effective data inputs; calculating a difference value between the effective data inputs and a mean thereof; and determining that, when the difference value is smaller than a threshold of walking state, the user is in a walking state. Otherwise, the user is determined to be in a shaking state at the same location.
US10533873B2
An information communications system (100) for a vehicle includes an on-vehicle information device (10). The on-vehicle information device (10) includes: an information collection unit (11) which collects vehicle information from an on-vehicle device (41, 42, 43, 44), communication interfaces (14A, 14B) connected to mobile terminals (20) having a communication function and being brought inside the vehicle, and a control unit (12) which transfers the vehicle information collected by the information collection unit (11) to any one of the mobile terminals (20) via any one of the communication interfaces (14A, 14B). If one of the mobile terminals (20) currently selected as a destination of the vehicle information satisfies a predetermined condition, the control unit (12) switches the destination of the vehicle information to a different mobile terminal (20). The mobile terminal (20) which received the vehicle information transfers the vehicle information thus received to a center device (30).
US10533872B2
A system determines a set of POIs that are visible from a location. The system stores a visibility map for each POI. A visibility map includes data about locations or regions from which the associated POI is visible. The data may include information about how visible the POI is from different locations. The system divides a region into road bins (e.g., geofences a route passes through). Each road bin is associated with a set of POIs that are visible from locations within the road bin. When the system receives a request from a user device for information about visible POIs, the system determines a road bin that corresponds to the location of the user device, identifies POIs associated with the road bin, and transmits information about the set of POIs to the user device.
US10533870B1
A method is disclosed for mitigating the risks associated with operating an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle by using calculated route traversal values to select less risky travel routes and/or modify vehicle operation. Various approaches to achieving this risk mitigation are presented. A computing device is configured to generate a database of route traversal values. This device may receive a variety of historical route traversal information, real-time vehicle information, and/or route information from one of more data sources and calculate a route traversal value for the associated driving route. Subsequently, the computing device may provide the associated route traversal value to other devices, such as a vehicle navigation device associated with the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle. An insurance company may use this information to help determine insurance premiums for autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles by analyzing and/or mitigating the risk associated with operating those vehicles.
US10533859B2
A map update system, a navigation device, and a server device is provided. The map update system updates map data of the navigation device based on map data stored by the server device, the map data includes section data corresponding to each section of a navigation map divided into multiple sections and management data designating the section data to be referenced when rendering, the server device receives generation information from the navigation device of map data being currently referenced by the navigation device and creates difference data between map data of a generation corresponding to the received generation information and map data of a newest generation, the navigation device creates updated management data and updated section data by updating management data and section data corresponding to the difference data and writes respectively updated data on different areas that are different from areas on which respective pre-update data area stored.
US10533855B2
A tracking system, in various embodiments, is configured to measure an athlete's performance based at least in part on magnetic field measurements taken by one or more magnetometers. In a particular embodiment, the system comprises one or more magnetometers (e.g., that may be embedded in one or more wearable devices, such as eyewear) and at least one magnet disposed on a portion of the athlete or their equipment. The system is configured to receive magnetic field information associated with the at least one magnet using the one or more magnetometers and determine the performance data based at least in part on the magnetic field information.
US10533853B2
A method of using a photogrammetry system to produce a three-dimensional image representation includes placing an object in the photogrammetry system, illuminating only a plurality of polarized lights, capturing a polarized image capture set of the object using a plurality of cameras while only the plurality of polarized lights are illuminated, and sending the polarized image capture set to the at least one computer processor. The method further comprises illuminating only a plurality of non-polarized lights, capturing a non-polarized image capture set of the object from the plurality of cameras while only the non-polarized lights are illuminated, and sending the non-polarized image capture set to the at least one computer processor. The method still further comprises using the at least one computer processor to generate a three-dimensional image representation of the object includes comparing the polarized image capture set and the non-polarized image capture set.
US10533841B2
An apparatus and a method for measuring surface topography of a work-piece are described. The apparatus comprises a light emitting assembly configured to emit an emitted beam of light, the emitted beam being emitted at a plurality of wavelengths and modulated at modulating frequency, the emitted beam being directed onto a surface of a work-piece. A detector is configured to receive a reflected beam of light that includes at least a portion of the emitted beam as reflected from the surface of the work-piece. The detector is further configured to generate a signal indicative of a position of the reflected beam on the detector. A signal processing unit is configured to remove noise from the signal thus generated based on the modulating frequency to obtain a processed signal. A control unit is configured to determine topography of the surface based on the processed signal.
US10533839B2
Disclosed is a first transmitter that transmits a first optical signal towards a target, a plurality of receivers that receive the first optical signal after the first optical signal is reflected by the target and each provides a respective received optical signal, at least one photodetector that receives the received optical signals and provides at least a first electrical signal, and a processor that receives the first electrical signal to compute a position of the target relative to a baseline position based on: a first position of a first receiver of the plurality of receivers, a second position of a second receiver of the plurality of receivers, the first electrical signal. The processor computes a clearance between the target and a component based on a third position of a third receiver, a fourth position of a fourth receiver and a second electrical signal.
US10533818B1
A method for manufacturing a gun barrel with a cold spray process. The method includes the use of a mandrel having a tubular body and being made of a material with properties suited to use with gun barrel manufacture and materials and cold spray processes. The gun barrel includes a liner, one or more structural layers and an outer jacket. The mandrel is dissolved in a chemical process during manufacture of the gun barrel.
US10533816B2
A rife includes a receiver and a bolt body at least partially disposed in the receiver and including a body axis. The bolt body is discretely (1) rotatable about the body axis within the receiver and (2) axially slidable along the body axis. The rife also includes a bolt handle coupled to the bolt body so as to discretely (1) rotate with the bolt body about the body axis and (2) move with the bolt body along the body axis.
US10533815B1
An adjustable handle auxiliary device includes a main handle body, a handle, a resting part, a tank body and at least one clamping part. The main handle body has one side having a docking portion, and one end edge having a combination tooth portion. The handle has a combination portion. The combination portion and the docking portion can be mutually combined together. The resting part has one side having a resting slot and the other side having a toothed combination slot. The toothed combination slot and the combination tooth portion can be mutually combined together. The tank body is formed with a chamber. The main handle body is disposed in the chamber. The tank body is provided with multiple jointing members. The clamping part includes a first clamping member, a second clamping member and a third clamping member combined together. The second and third clamping members clamp the jointing members.
US10533811B2
A heat dissipation device includes etched or other grooves for adhesive surrounding etched or other recesses for heat-dissipating fluid, these being created in a first copper sheet and a second copper sheet brought together. The first copper sheet includes first recesses and the second copper sheet includes corresponding second recesses. The second copper sheet is adhesively fixed on the first copper sheet and an airtight receiving cavity is formed by the first and second recesses being brought together. The heat-dissipating fluid in the airtight receiving cavity carries away heat generated by a heat-producing device to which the heat-dissipating device is fixed.
US10533810B2
One aspect includes an isothermal compressor that includes an isothermal body, an isothermal cavity defined by the isothermal body, a compressible membrane heat exchanger disposed within the isothermal cavity that defines at least one first fluid chamber, and an actuating assembly configured to compress the membrane heat exchanger. A further aspect includes an isothermal engine that includes the isothermal compressor.
US10533806B2
A rotary heat exchanger through which a first fluid flow—an outside air or inlet air flow, for example—and a second fluid flow—an exit air or outgoing air flow, for example—can flow in a counterflow configuration, has a rotatably mounted rotor (5) that has a first flow sector for the first fluid flow and a second flow sector for the second fluid flow through which the rotor (5) passes during a rotation, a frame in which the rotor (5) is rotatably supported, and a sealing assembly (9) by means of which an inflow side of the first fluid flow and an outflow side of the second fluid flow can be separated from the outflow side of the first fluid flow and from an inflow side of the second fluid flow, respectively. In order to simplify the sealing assembly, with the aim being that a reliable seal between the inflow and outflow sides of the two fluid flows be automatically ensured during operation of the rotary heat exchanger, it is proposed that the sealing assembly (9) have a first seal (12) that bears sealingly against the side of a partition (10) directed upstream into the first fluid flow (2), and a second seal (13) that bears sealingly against the side of the same partition (10) directed upstream into the second fluid flow (3).
US10533803B2
An apparatus for cooling liquids that includes a tank that has two longitudinal walls, two lateral walls and a bottom, and cooling flasks that each of them has two longitudinal walls, two lateral walls and a bottom. The flasks are designed to contain coolant. The lateral walls and at least one longitudinal wall of each flask has at least one protrusion smaller than 2.5 millimeters. The flasks are designed to be set within the tank in such a way that the protrusions are attached to the longitudinal walls of the tank. The protrusions create a gap smaller than 2.5 millimeters between each two adjacent flasks and between the lateral walls of the flasks to the longitudinal walls of the tank. These gaps constitute a single cooling space. The total volume of the flasks is three times greater or more than the volume of the single cooling space.
US10533798B2
An RF laundry dryer includes, amongst other things, an RF generator, an RF applicator having a perforated body supporting anode and cathode elements, a fan arranged relative to the perforated body to flow or draw air through the perforated body and an electromagnetic shield protecting the fan from the e-field. Both anode and cathode elements are operably coupled to the RF generator to generate an e-field between the anode and cathode upon the energizing of the RF generator.
US10533797B2
The invention relates to a device for controlling the temperature of objects, in particular for drying coated vehicle bodies or body parts, the device having a housing and a temperature controlling tunnel accommodated into the housing. A temperature controlling device for controlling the temperature of the objects using a temperature-controlled gaseous fluid comprises fluid nozzles, through each of which a jet of fluid can be dispensed onto the objects. A tunnel atmosphere can be suctioned through at least one suction opening using a suction system, whereby a base current is generated in the direction of the at least one suction opening in the temperature controlling tunnel. A convection device is provided, by means of which a convection current can be generated in addition to the base current, said convection current supporting the base current.
US10533795B2
A method for obtaining an air product in an air separating system in which a liquid fraction is obtained from feed air and used to provide the air product and in which the liquid fraction is temporarily stored in a tank arrangement. A tank arrangement with at least two tanks is used, and the liquid fraction is fed to at least one of the tanks and/or is removed from at least one of the tanks in order to provide the air product. In the process, the liquid fraction is not fed to and removed from any one of the tanks at the same time, and the composition of the liquid fraction in a tank is ascertained prior to each removal of the liquid fraction from the tank. An air separating system is also described.
US10533793B2
Systems and methods for multi-stage refrigeration in mixed refrigerant and cascade refrigeration cycles using one or more liquid motive eductors.
US10533789B2
The present invention as disclosed herein surrounds a cooling apparatus configured to provide an enclosed envelope and cooling-pack for a reduced form-factor. Embodiments of the present invention provide a cooling apparatus for the transportation of beverage containers in a manner that keeps them colder for longer periods than transport within a non-insulated transportation device. The efficient and compact cooling of beverage containers as provided by the present invention in certain embodiments allows the user to transport the cooling apparatus within a backpack, handbag or other secondary transportation device.
US10533788B2
A scoop includes a rear wall and a pair of spaced apart side walls; a gripping portion disposed on at least one of the rear wall or side walls; a floor portion connected to the rear wall and the pair of spaced apart side walls, the floor portion having a front edge portion; and a recessed portion formed in the floor portion adjacent to at least one of the spaced apart side walls and dipping below a level of the floor portion, the recessed portion being configured to guide a material contained in the scoop toward the front edge portion of the scoop while dispensing the material from the scoop.
US10533781B2
A machine quantity controlling device which controls a quantity of a heat source device to operate in a heat source system including a first heat source device and a second heat source device, the first heat source device being a waste heat recovery type absorption chiller, the second heat source device other than a waste heat recovery type absorption chiller, the machine quantity controlling device including an acquisition unit that obtains a waste heat utilization maximum load which is a maximum load when the first heat source device receives only supply of the waste heat; a determination unit that determines a predetermined load range from the waste heat utilization maximum load to be a first optimal load range as an optimal load range of the first heat source device; and a machine quantity control unit that controls a quantity of the second heat source device to operate so that the sum of a total of minimum values of the optimal load range of the first heat source device to operate and a total of minimum values of a second optimal load range of the second heat source device to operate is smaller than or equal to a load required for the heat source system, and the sum of a total of maximum values of a first optimal load range and a total of maximum values of the second optimal load range is equal to or greater than the load required for the heat source system, the second optimal load range being an optimal load range of the second heat source device to operate.
US10533780B2
Disclosed herein are a feedback device and a method of providing thermal feedback using the same. The feedback device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a thermoelectric module including a substrate having flexibility, a thermoelement disposed on the substrate and configured to perform a thermoelectric operation for thermal feedback, and a contact surface disposed on the substrate, and configured to transfer heat generated through the thermoelectric operation to a user through the substrate and the contact surface to output the thermal feedback; and a feedback controller configured to control the thermoelectric module, and wherein the feedback controller controls the thermoelectric module so that, after a temperature of the contact surface reaches a maximum temperature, the temperature of the contact surface is maintained within a predetermined temperature range during an entire thermoelectric operation time interval.
US10533775B2
A solar absorber body for a concentrating solar power system, said solar absorber body including: a tube, designed to contain a heat transfer medium and including a first part designed to be exposed to the sunlight and a second part designed to be unexposed to the sunlight, an assembly of fins made of thermally conductive material, and a selective coating arranged at least on the outer surface of the first part of the tube, said assembly of fins defining at least two longitudinal passages inside the tube, said passages being adjacent in a sectional plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tube, said assembly of fins being configured to create a continuous thermal bridge inside the tube from at least a portion of the inner surface of first part of the tube to at least a portion of the inner surface of the second part of the tube.
US10533771B2
A blower assembly is configured for use with a gas-operated heater having a burner and an exhaust port. The blower assembly has a blower and a sensor. The blower is configured to operate at two or more speeds and is configured to operatively connect to the burner in a manner to facilitate flow of combustion air into the burner and to facilitate flow of exhaust through the exhaust port. The sensor is configured to be sensitive to pressure of exhaust downstream of the blower. The sensor is operatively connected to the blower in a manner such that the blower will change speeds if said pressure exceeds a threshold pressure.
US10533762B2
A method and controller for Heating Ventilation or Air-Conditioning (HVAC), the controller having a processing unit and a storage device, the controller comprising: a mapping obtaining module for obtaining a mapping between a pair of a state of an HVAC unit and an action of the HVAC unit and between a measurement; an action determination component for determining an action to be taken by the HVAC unit in accordance with a current state of the HVAC unit; a measurement determination component for obtaining from the mapping a synthesized measurement that when transmitted to the HVAC unit is adapted to cause the HVAC unit to perform the action; and an HVAC communication module for transmitting the synthesized measurement to the HVAC unit.
US10533757B2
A fan includes a fan member, a motor that drives to rotate the fan member, and a rotating shaft that is connected to the fan via a vibration prevention member and transmits a turning force of the motor to the fan. The vibration prevention member is an elastic member that connects an inner cylinder made of metal included in the rotating shaft and an outer cylinder made of metal included in the fan member. At least one of an outer circumferential section of the inner cylinder and an inner circumferential section of the outer cylinder is configured in a polygonal shape when viewed from the rotating shaft direction. A turning force received by the vibration prevention member acts as compression stress on an adhesion interface between a vibration prevention material and metal.
US10533748B2
A fuel lance for a burner of a combustor has a fuel lance body defining a fuel flow passage and a liquid fuel tip attached thereto and in flow communication with fuel flow passage. The liquid fuel tip has a fuel outlet and an array of air passages having outlets which are arranged outside a blank sector of a circumference around the fuel outlet, the blank sector defined by an angle from 30° to 160°. A burner includes the fuel lance and the igniter and a main air flow passage to direct at least a part of a main air flow over the fuel lance and over the igniter, the blank sector has a centre-line angled between +120° and −120° from a radial line from the axis and passing through the fuel lance. A method includes rotating the fuel lance between a start-up condition and a second condition.
US10533741B2
The pre-mix burner assembly includes a jet pump comprising a suction chamber, a flue gas inlet, and a combustion air tube with a combustion air nozzle. The combustion air inlet includes a combustion air tube with a tapered nozzle, and it is connected to a combustion air fan. The flue gas inlet is connected to the suction chamber and the combustion air fan. The suction chamber surrounds the combustion air tube, and it has a jet pump nozzle with a discharge. The assembly includes a fuel gas inlet connected to the combustion air tube. The combustion air and fuel gas mixture exits the combustion air nozzle creating a negative pressure in the suction chamber and drawing flue gas into the suction chamber. The assembly includes a mixing tube positioned downstream of the jet pump discharge, and a burner block connected to an outlet of the mixing tube.
US10533740B2
A collar configured to couple a burner to a partition plate is provided including a body having a diameter configured to couple to a diameter of the burner. A flange extends outwardly from the body. The collar is formed from a heat resistance material such that heat transfer between the burner and the partition plate is limited.
US10533738B2
The disclosed technology includes a water-resistant lamp assembly for preventing interference with the operation of an electric lamp due to leaks. The water-resistant lamp assembly may include a gasket that provides a seal with the bottom of the base of the lamp holder to prevent water from entering the internal cavity of the lamp holder. The gasket may further shield internal electrical conductors from exposure to water that has leaked into the internal cavity of the lamp holder.
US10533734B2
The present invention discloses a multi-lamp stage light including a base, a support frame rotatably connected to the base, a lamp support rotatably connected to the support frame, and at least two lamp units rotatably connected to the lamp support which is provided with a third driving apparatus for driving the lamp units to rotate. The stage light according to the present invention is simple in structure and easy to use, achieving variable lighting effects with omnidirectional illumination and meeting performance requirements. In addition, the present invention can also avoid control lines intertwined.
US10533732B2
A headlight (1) for a healthcare worker includes: a base part (10), which has a U-shape, is configured to come into abutment, at a center part of the base part (10), with a back side of a head and neck part of a wearer, and includes a right end part (11) and a left end part (11), each of which is configured to be hung on an upper part of an ear so that the base part (10) is retained on a head; a light source device (20), which extends from both or any one of a vicinity of the end parts (11), includes LEDs as light sources, and is configured to illuminate a region in front of the head; and a controller (30) configured to control an illumination state of the light source device (20). The controller (30) is configured to light the light source device (20) when the base part (10) reaches a predetermined depression angle with a standing state of the wearer serving as a reference.
US10533730B2
An illumination apparatus comprises a plurality of LEDs aligned to an array of directional optical elements wherein the LEDs are substantially at the input aperture of respective optical elements. An electrode array is formed on the array of optical elements to provide at least a first electrical connection to the array of LED elements. Advantageously such an arrangement provides low cost and high efficiency from the directional LED array.
US10533727B2
An optical diffuser for a light may comprise an optical body having a substantially flat base at one end thereof and a complex lens structure at the opposing end thereof. The complex lens may have a plurality of curved optical surfaces and may produce a beam of light having a non-uniform light intensity. The optical diffuser may be attached to a light by a holder, and the holder may be movable on the light to place the optical diffuser in front of a light source.
US10533724B2
Provided is a lamp for a vehicle capable of ensuring light efficiency to satisfy the performance requirements for light distribution. The lamp includes a light source portion, a first lens portion with a plurality of micro incident lenses onto which light generated by the light source portion is incident, a second lens portion with a plurality of micro exit lenses corresponding to the plurality of micro incident lenses, respectively, and a shielding portion with a plurality of shields that are disposed on rear focal points of the plurality of micro exit lenses to obstruct a portion of incident light. In particular, a focal distance of a micro exit lens among the plurality of micro exit lenses is shorter than a focal distance of a micro incident lens among the plurality of micro incident lenses, which corresponds to the micro exit lens.
US10533723B2
A light lamp for a vehicle includes a plurality of light function modules, each of the plurality of light function modules including: a light source module including: a light source configured to generate light; a light source lens disposed in front of the light source; and a reflection unit provided on a part of a front surface of the light source lens; a light distribution module disposed in front of the light source module and configured to receive the light from the light source module and to distribute the received light; and a dissipation module disposed behind the light source module and configured to dissipate heat generated by the light source.
US10533718B2
An electronic lighting device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The electronic lighting device may comprise a core, which may comprises an enclosure, a light-emitting element, a flame sheet and a swing mechanism. The flame sheet is movably supported or suspended on the enclosure, and may comprise an upper sheet which is of a flame-like shape. The upper sheet is configured to expose above the top of the enclosure. The light-emitting element may be installed on the enclosure. A light outgoing direction of the light-emitting element may be intersected with the surface of the upper sheet so that the light of the light-emitting element is projected on the surface of the upper sheet. The swing mechanism is disposed beneath the flame sheet and can apply a force on the flame sheet to actuate the flame sheet to sway or swing. By the present application, a visual experience of true fire can be achieved and an interestedness and appreciation can be improved.
US10533715B2
The present application relates to a surgical light for illuminating an operating area, including a housing-like light body that accommodates at least a first and a second light unit and including a first power supply line that is electrically connected to the first light unit in order to feed electric current from a first voltage source to at least one light source of the first light unit, wherein the second light unit of the light body has at least one further light source and is connected to a second power supply line, that is separate from the first power supply line, by means of which second power supply line a second voltage source can be electrically connected to the second light unit.
US10533711B2
Alighting device (1) is provided comprising a base (5), at least one light source (4) arranged at the base, at least one light transmissive optical element (7), and a light transmissive envelope (6) arranged to cover the at least one light source and the at least one optical element. At least a portion of the at least one optical element has a thickness (D) increasing in direction towards the base such that the at least one optical element refracts light emitted by the at least one light source for creating at least one virtual light source (8) spaced from the base. The present aspect is advantageous in that each one of the envelope and the optical element may be manufactured separately, e.g. by standard injection molding technique.
US10533708B2
The present invention is to properly manage life of an accumulator and extend the life of the accumulator.A gas supply system includes a control section, an acquiring section, a classifying section, and a judging section. The acquiring section acquires stress amplitude of accumulators from a pressure difference between first pressure on the gas storage side and second pressure on the gas lead-out side. The classifying section classifies the stress amplitude into a plurality of groups. The judging section divides the calculated acquirement number ni of the stress amplitude for each of the groups by the predetermined breaking cycle number Ni, and determines a fatigue degree Σni/Ni. In a case where this value becomes a predetermined threshold value or more, the judging section judges that the accumulator comes to the end of the life.
US10533707B2
The present invention includes: an independent tank constituting an inner tank to store a storage material therein; at least one sandwich plate modularized and manufactured include a metal plate provided in a pair opposite to each other, the metal plates having a reinforcing material formed therebetween, and a filler filled between the metal plates, the at least one sandwich plate surrounding the outer surface of the independent tank to constitute an outer tank; and an external reinforcing member formed on the outer surface of the sandwich plate.
US10533703B1
An example mounting system for attaching an electronic device, such as a wireless access point, to a structure, such as a drop ceiling rail. The mounting system includes a bracket assembly and a device brace. The bracket assembly includes a first bracket and a second bracket that are separate from one another, each including a bottom flange and a top flange that forms a groove, the first bracket including a retention clip. The device brace is attachable to the electronic device and includes two grooves. The mounting system is tool-lessly attachable to the rail by: sliding the grooves of the first and second brackets onto flanges of the rail, sliding the second bracket into engagement with the retention clip such that the retention clip holds the first and second brackets together on the rail, and sliding the grooves of the device brace onto the bottom flanges of the first and second brackets such that the bracket assembly supports the device brace.
US10533692B2
A heatable media line includes a connecting part, which establishes an electrical connection, and serves to introduce a heat conductor into a media line section. A connection of the heat conductor with contact-forming parts is set up in an end part, and the heat conductor is tightly accommodated in boreholes of a coupling part by means of two sealing bodies spaced apart from each other, as well as introduced into the media line section by way of a supporting body for purposes of heating a medium flowing in the latter. In order to produce a reliable seal intended to prevent the medium from penetrating into the end part, recesses in the walls of the coupling part and an interruption of a creepage distance are configured between the sealing bodies such that the heat conductor is directly in contact with the surrounding atmosphere.
US10533688B2
A pipe coupling for plain end pipe is formed of segments joined end to end surrounding a central space. The segments are connected end to end by lugs on each segment with fasteners extending between them. Each segment has channels on opposite sides that face the central space with floors at different radii. Retainers are received within the channels. The retainers have teeth and one or more offset tabs that cooperate with the channels to prevent improper assembly. A ring seal is received within a channel positioned in each segment between the retainer channels.
US10533685B2
Embodiments include portable support systems configured to support structures, and corresponding methods. The portable support systems include two individual segments, pieces and/or panels that couple or combine and fit together to form the support systems. The support systems of embodiments are configured for the spanning and/or support of structures including pipes, hoses, and/or cables over structures, voids, and/or obstacles, thereby preventing dislodging and insufficient support of pipes, hoses, and/or cables from the support systems. The support systems of embodiments are configured to prevent improperly supported walls from collapse as a result of improper support of objects spanning the wall.
US10533683B2
A cover including an elongate body, capable of being applied to be facing an outer surface of the pipe, and at least one longitudinal interaction element for interacting with the pipe, supported by the elongate body. The elongate body is reversibly deformable under the effect of its own weight, the elongate body having a length of more than 10 m. The cover treats solid build-ups within a fluid-transport pipe in a simple, straightforward and inexpensive manner.
US10533682B2
Methods and apparatus to diagnose a valve using electric valve actuators are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an electric motor to actuate a valve, rotation sensors to monitor a rotation of a drive shaft associated with the electric motor to determine a distance travelled by the drive shaft, and a valve position sensor to monitor a position of a flow control member of the valve. The example electric valve actuator further includes a processor to generate an alert based on feedback from the rotation sensors and the valve position sensor, the alert associated with a failure of the valve.
US10533679B2
An electromagnetic drive for implementing a linear motion includes an electromagnet having a coil, a core and an armature able to move linearly along a symmetrical axis of the core, wherein an air gap is formed between the core and the armature. With the objective of providing for simple, compact, cost-effective and flexible use of the electromagnetic drive in high-pressure systems as well as a concurrent exact positioning of the piston at any given position at optimized extension speed, it is provided for the air gap to exhibit a base and two limbs running symmetrically to the symmetrical axis as well as an essentially frustoconical cross-section in longitudinal section and for the limbs to be arranged relative to the symmetrical axis of the core so as to form an angle α.
US10533678B2
An electromagnetic valve has a valve chamber which has an inflow opening for supplying a liquid and an outlet for discharging the liquid. The valve includes a valve seat and a valve member that is assigned to the valve seat. The fluidic connection between the inflow opening and the outlet of the valve is interrupted when a valve seat is closed by the valve member. The valve member is held on an armature plate which is moved by an electromagnetic drive unit toward an end stop which is formed by a first stop surface. In order for the operative capability of the valve to be guaranteed in the case of wear on the end stop, the armature plate is assigned a second stop surface which upon a predefined wear on the first stop surface forms a downstream end stop.
US10533669B2
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for controlling fluid flow in a pressure sensing system. A bi-directional valve can include a first capillary that can couple to a process fluid in a process fluid channel, and a second capillary that can couple to a pressure sensor. The first and second capillaries can include an interface therebetween for controlling fluid flow between the first and second capillaries. The interface region can be configured to allow fluid flow between the first and second capillaries when a magnitude of a pressure difference between the first capillary and the second capillary is less than or equal to a threshold pressure. The interface region can also be configured to prevent fluid flow between the first capillary and the second capillary when the magnitude of the pressure difference between the first capillary and the second capillary exceeds than the threshold pressure.
US10533668B2
Seal assemblies for use with fluid valves are described. An example apparatus includes a cage; a plug including a seal gland; and means for sealingly engaging an inner surface of the cage at least partially positioned in the seal gland and including a first portion and a second portion, in response to a fluid acting on the first portion in a first direction, the first portion to engage, outwardly urge, and splay the second portion to sealingly engage the cage, in response to the fluid acting in a second direction, the second portion to deter the fluid from acting on the first portion, the first direction opposite the second direction.
US10533661B2
A method for controlling a vehicle installed with an automatic transmission, includes: a sudden stop determination step in which a controller determines whether the vehicle has stopped at a speed greater than or equal to a reference deceleration speed and whether a post-stop elapsed time is within a first reference time; a takeoff determination step in which the controller determines whether an input torque of the transmission exceeds zero within the first reference time when a shift range is in a driving range; a pressure control step in which, when the vehicle takes off, the controller elevates a line pressure of the transmission; a limitation determination step in which if a slippage extent of a turbine exceeds a reference slippage value for a second reference time, the controller limits the takeoff; and a torque reduction step in which the controller reduces a takeoff torque input of the transmission.
US10533660B2
In a hydraulic control device and a hydraulic control method of a transmission, in a case that an oil supplying section is supplying a first oil to a continuously variable transmission mechanism, a TCU outputs, to an LC control valve of the oil supplying section, a control signal for giving a command to start supply of a second oil to a torque converter if a pulley pressure detected by a pressure sensor reaches a pressure threshold value.
US10533657B2
Provided is a wiring unit in which oil bubbles are prevented from being generated. A wiring unit includes: a wire harness; and a rectifying member that is located above the wire harness and is provided with a rectifying plate that is located inside a through hole that penetrates through the rectifying member in a top-bottom direction, and that has a plate surface that is inclined relative to a vertical direction.
US10533656B2
In a vehicle having a continuously variable transmission, a controller selectively performs a first control mode in which a transmission ratio is controlled in a stepless manner, and a second control mode in which the transmission ratio is controlled in a stepwise manner to perform an upshift after a vehicle speed has increased. When the second control mode is selected in response to a driver's acceleration request, the controller continuously downshifts the transmission ratio until the upshift is performed.
US10533650B2
A torsional vibration damper having enhanced damping performance is provided. A first gear held in the holding member includes a first engagement member situated in an opposite side of a fluid coupling and a second engagement member situated between a holding member and the fluid coupling. A second gear is meshed with the first engagement member, and a third gear is meshed with the second engagement member. The second gear is integrated with the input member, the third gear is integrated with the inertial mass, and the holding member is integrated with the output member.
US10533649B2
A combined multistage gearing has a spur gearing having at least one first and one second spur wheel arranged on a spur gear shaft, an epicyclic gearing having at least one first and one second, in particular reduced, planetary wheel set and an epicyclic gearing shaft, wherein at least one of the planetary wheel sets is arranged concentrically to the epicyclic gearing shaft, a gearing housing, wherein the spur gear shaft and the epicyclic gearing shaft are rotatably mounted relative to the gearing housing, and a plurality of switching apparatuses. The first spur gear can be selectively connected in a torque-transmitting manner to the spur gear shaft. The first spur gear can be selectively connected in a torque-transmitting manner to the gearing housing.
US10533642B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft receiving torque of an engine, an output shaft outputting torque, a first planetary gear set including first, second, and third rotation elements, a second planetary gear set including fourth, fifth, and sixth rotation elements, a third planetary gear set including seventh, eighth, and ninth rotation elements, and a fourth planetary gear set having tenth, eleventh, and twelfth rotation elements. The planetary gear train may further include a first plurality of shafts each fixedly connected with at least one of the rotation elements from the first, second, third, or fourth planetary gear sets, a second plurality of shafts, each selectively connected to a transmission housing and fixedly connected to a rotation element of the first and third planetary gear sets that is not fixedly connected with any of the first plurality of shafts.
US10533639B2
An automatic transmission comprises a double-contrate-tooth combined fluted disc (120) and a two stage transmission ordinary gear train. The gear shifting mechanism of the transmission is the double-contrate-tooth combined fluted disc (120), which has double contrate teeth, namely, left contrate teeth and right contrate teeth. By the axial moving of the double-contrate-tooth combined fluted disc (120) on the transmission output shaft, its left contrate teeth and right contrate teeth respectively engage with the contrate teeth of the first gear and the second gear reduction gears, to realize the second shift position and the first shift position, and when it engages with neither of them, the transmission is in the neutral shift position. The left contrate teeth and the right contrate teeth are individually independent or integrally assembled structures. Compared with the traditional AMT, the transmission does not need a synchronizer; therefore, the structure is simple, the reliability is increased, the gear shift duration is shortened, the shifting shock is relatively small, the manufacturing cost is low, and it is easy to realize industrialization. The transmission has simple arrangement of gears, short axial dimension, small weight, and occupies small room, and meets the development trend of light weighting and fuel saving.
US10533633B2
A bicycle chain is used to transmit the drive force to at least one chain wheel and contains chain rollers and inner and outer plates which are connected to each other by means of pins. As a result of a corresponding shaping of the extremely hard inner plate, the wear on the teeth which cooperate with the inner plate can be reduced on the chain wheels or sprockets.
US10533629B2
In the centrifugal pendulum damper, a plurality of pendulums are swingably supported on a rotating body. The pendulum includes a swinging shaft serving as the swing center and a rolling shaft including a rolling surface on the outer periphery thereof. The rotating body includes a plurality of pendulum support portions, and the pendulum support portion includes a swinging shaft guide portion that guides the swinging shaft in a radial direction of the rotating body, and a rolling shaft guide portion that is in rolling-contact with the rolling surface of the rolling shaft to cause the pendulum to swing around the swing axis.
US10533624B2
A stopper mechanism includes a second cylinder provided at an end portion in an inner cylinder, and a second piston configured to move along with movement of a piston rod to be capable of being fit-inserted through the second cylinder. The second piston includes a stopper coupled to the piston rod, a castle integrated with the stopper by plastic flow to form a ring groove on an outer periphery of the second piston between the castle and the stopper, and a piston ring fixed into a ring groove formed by the stopper and the castle so that the piston ring is displaceable in the ring groove in an axial direction and is retained in the ring groove, and has an annular shape with both ends in a circumferential direction which are formed by partially cutting the piston ring.
US10533610B1
An aero gas turbine engine with a fan stage and a bearing rotatably supporting the fan stage, where the bearing is cooled by passing cooling air through the bearing, and the spent bearing cooling air is re-injected into the air flow path at a location where the effect is minimalized. The location is just downstream from a leading edge of a stator vane and along a pressure side surface of the vane. A fine mist of oil can be discharged into the bearing cooling air to also lubricate the bearing, where both the oil and the spent cooling air is reintroduced into the air flow path.
US10533605B2
A method for producing an internally structured slide bearing bushing involves the following steps: a) providing a slide bearing bushing with at least one bearing region which is formed as a hollow cylinder with an internal surface and which has an external diameter and an internal diameter, b) providing an external tool with a through-opening, c) providing an internal tool which has an integral cylindrical operating region with an external surface with a structure, d) inserting the internal tool into the bearing region of the slide bearing bushing, e) introducing the slide bearing bushing and the internal tool into the conical widened portion of the through-opening of the external tool, f) pressing the slide bearing bushing into the through-opening of the external tool, g) removing the slide bearing bushing from the through-opening of the external tool, and h) radially widening the slide bearing bushing.
US10533604B2
A linear module includes: a base, a slide stage, two support frames, two retaining units and a steel belt. With the pivoting freedom given by the guide portions of the retaining units, when the slide stage moves, the rolling elements can be abutted more closely against the contact surface of the steel belt via the pivoting of the guide portions, so as to reduce the occurrence of deformation and clearance produced by the steel belt, which not only improves the sealing performance of the steel belt and operation smoothness of the linear module, but also produces a dust proof effect, thus achieving the purposes of automatically adjusting contact angle, preventing deformation while extending the life of the steel belt.
US10533590B2
Provided are a connector and a connection system for concrete barriers. The connector is configured to slip-fit into a cross-shaped gap formed between the concrete barriers. The connector includes a saddle member and a fork member. The saddle member includes a base plate and peripheral plates. The peripheral plates extend at angles from the base plate to define a channel extending along the length of the base plate. The fork member extends from the base plate of the saddle member. The fork member includes an elongated base, flanges, and legs. The elongated base extends in the channel between the peripheral plates at least along the width of the base plate. The flanges are transverse to the elongated base forming a cross-shaped structure disposed in the channel with the flanges that extend toward the open ends of the channel. The legs extend separately from the elongated base.
US10533588B2
The fastener includes: a first facing portion and a second facing portion disposed so as to face each other, ends of the first and second facing portions being connected through a curved portion; a screw-fixing portion provided in at least one of the first and second facing portions and allowing a screw to be fixed thereto; and a rotation-preventing protrusion provided in one of the first and second facing portions and protruding therefrom in a direction from the one toward the other of the first and second facing portions, the rotation-preventing protrusion being disposed in an area next to the screw-fixing portion opposite to the curved portion.
US10533583B2
A system for determining the operability of a valve in active service which provides a user with real time information pertaining to the Safety Margin, the valve torque or thrust, and the percentage of valve MAST that is required for operation. The system employs a combination of an actuator package comprised of a primary actuator, a tandem force module, and a controller operatively connected to the output shaft of the primary actuator, the controller including a processor for calculating the above-described values and providing an output which can be visually, audibly, or electronically observed.
US10533582B2
An energy storage and regeneration system that converts irregular, non-constant, and variable input power to regular, constant, and controlled output power using hydraulics whereby the irregular input power is used to pump hydraulic fluid into an accumulator array where it is stored pressurized. Energy is released in a controlled fashion using a hydraulic motor operated by the pressurized hydraulic fluid from the accumulator array, in accordance with the specified power demand. One or more power units may be deployed depending on the amount of energy required at the output. Each power unit includes a hydraulic motor and associated floating accumulator assembly whose internal pressure is controlled to maintain a substantially constant pressure differential across its associated motor.
US10533579B2
An electric pump includes: a pump main body that accommodates a pump unit and a motor; and a plate-shaped elastic member that is wound around an outer circumference of the pump main body such that a longitudinal direction of the elastic member extends along a circumferential direction of the pump main body, in which the elastic member is provided with a pair of first locking portions on both end portions in the longitudinal direction, and the outer circumference of the pump main body is provided with a pair of first locking target portions that are locked to the first locking portions.
US10533578B2
A well pump assembly includes a centrifugal pump having a housing with a cylindrical internal side wall. Upper and lower diffusers are located in the housing. A metal-to-metal seal seals an upper end portion of the lower diffuser to the lower end portion of the upper diffuser. The seal also has an outer surface that frictionally engages the internal side wall of the housing. The seal is energized in response to an axial force exerted between the upper and lower diffusers. One version has a metal seal ring located in mating recesses on the outer walls of the diffusers. Another version includes an inner lip on one of the end portions of the diffusers that extends within and deflects an outer lip on the other of the end portions of the diffusers.
US10533574B2
The invention relates to a blade made of composite material, provided with a reinforcement (17) made of a stronger material with regard to a leading edge (5) likely to be struck by solid objects, which comprises, under the aerodynamic portion of the blade, extensions (18, 19) attached to the blade root. According to the invention, the extensions (18, 19) are dissymmetric, the extension (18) located on the suction side being generally further back from the leading edge (5) than the extension (19) on the pressure side.
US10533543B2
A pump capable of dispensing both a large volume and a small volume of colorant comprises a large reciprocating positive displacement pump having a large reciprocating part, a large pump body and a large pump inlet-outlet opening, characterized in that: a small reciprocating part fixed to the large reciprocating part is disposed in the large pump body; a small pump body is disposed on a base of the large pump body, and provided with a small pump inlet-outlet opening; and the small reciprocating part, the small pump body and the small pump inlet-outlet opening constitute a small reciprocating positive displacement pump.
US10533533B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method of manufacturing a modular rotor blade for a wind turbine. The method includes providing a plurality of resin systems for manufacturing a plurality of blade components for the modular rotor blade. Each of the resin systems includes at least one of a thermoset material or a thermoplastic material, optionally a fiber reinforcement material, and at least one additive. Thus, the method includes determining a resin system for each of the blade components based on a location and/or function of each blade component in the rotor blade. In addition, the method includes forming each of the blade components of the rotor blade from one of the plurality of resin systems and securing each of the blade components together to form the modular rotor blade.
US10533531B2
A turbine comprises a shaft (20), a mass (10) eccentrically mounted for rotation about shaft (20), having its center of gravity at a distance from the shaft (20) and a motion base (15). Motion base (15) rigidly supports the shaft (20), and is configured for moving the shaft (20) in any direction of at least two degrees of movement freedom, except for heave.A floating vessel-turbine (120), encloses entirely the eccentrically rotating mass (10) and the motion base (15). The turbine converts ocean wave energy into useful energy, very efficiently.
US10533530B2
The rotating machine, comprises a shaft and at least one device for measuring at least the accelerations of the shaft along pitch, yaw and roll axes of the shaft or the angular position of the shaft around the pitch, yaw and roll axes, the or each device being mounted on the shaft.
US10533523B2
The device comprises two heat exchangers (74, 90) suitable respectively for vaporizing first and second propellants before they are reintroduced in gaseous form into their tanks (16, 18). The heat exchangers co-operate respectively with first and second gas generators (60, 84) suitable for being fed with a mixture of propellants in order to produce combustion, the second gas generator (84) being suitable for being fed at least in part by the exhaust from the first gas generator (60).
US10533522B2
A disclosed fan drive gear system includes a sun gear rotatable about an axis of rotation, a plurality of intermediate gears rotatable about an intermediate gear rotation axis in meshing engagement with the sun gear and a ring gear circumscribing the intermediate gears. A bearing assembly supports at least one of the plurality of intermediate gears and includes a first beam extending in a first direction and a second beam extending from an end of the first beam in a second direction. The bearing surface supported on the second beam such that first and second beams are configured to maintain the bearing surface substantially parallel to the intermediate gear rotation axis during operation.
US10533515B2
An intake-port core includes a body part having the same outer shape as that of the intake port, a port-injector part having the same outer shape as that of a port-injector insertion part, and an extending part. A cooling-water flow-passage core includes a water-jacket core having the same outer shape as that of a water jacket. The intake-port core is inserted from the extending part thereof into the water-jacket core so as to join the cooling-water flow-passage core to the intake-port core. Thereafter, a core print part that is a separate body from the intake-port core is joined to the intake-port core.
US10533498B2
An assembly system for assembling a gas turbine engine including a support beam defining a horizontal plane for assembly of engine components along a horizontal axis substantially parallel with the support beam. A forward arm is supported on the support beam for supporting a forward portion of an engine component. An aft arm is supported on the support beam for supporting an aft portion of the engine component. An aft mounting ring is attachable to an aft end of an engine assembly. A forward mounting ring is attachable to a forward end of the engine assembly. A drive is mounted to the aft arm engageable to the aft mounting ring for rotating the engine assembly about the horizontal axis. A roller is supported on the forward arm and engageable to the forward mounting ring to support the first end of the engine assembly during rotation about the horizontal axis. A method is also disclosed.
US10533482B2
An exhaust handling system comprising: an exhaust pipe having an exhaust outlet, said exhaust outlet having a nozzle arranged to vent exhaust gas; at least one acceleration jet arranged to project an air flow at a velocity head greater than that of the vented exhaust gas; wherein the at least one acceleration jet and exhaust outlet are positioned to project the air flow so as to impinge on a path of said vented exhaust gas, and consequently transfer velocity head to the vented exhaust gas.
US10533480B2
A flameless industrial air heater comprising: a combustion engine having a drive shaft and a combustion exhaust gas conduit to direct hot exhaust gases away from the engine; a mixing chamber having an air inlet and being in fluid communication with the exhaust gas conduit to mix the hot exhaust gasses with air flowing into the mixing chamber to produce a warmed air stream; and a compressor connected to the drive shaft and being driven thereby, the compressor being downstream of the mixing chamber to receive the warmed air stream and to pressurize the warmed air stream for delivery to applications requiring heating.
US10533473B2
A system for treating engine exhaust gas, which engine exhaust gas has a temperature of between T1 and T2, comprises a SCR reactor for converting NOx in a medium containing the engine exhaust gas into N2 and H2O. The SCR reactor has an inlet for receiving the medium and an outlet for outputting the NOx reduced medium. A first boiler unit has an outlet for outputting boiler exhaust gas (temperature greater than T3, T3>T1) from the first boiler unit. A mixing unit mixes the engine exhaust gas with the boiler exhaust gas to produce the medium. The mixing unit has a first inlet communicating with the engine for receiving the engine exhaust gas, a second inlet communicating with the outlet of the first boiler unit for receiving the boiler exhaust gas and an outlet for outputting the medium. The mixing unit outlet communicates with the inlet of the SCR reactor.
US10533472B2
Synergized platinum group metals (SPGM) with ultra-low PGM loadings employed as close-coupled (CC) three-way catalysts (TWC) systems with varied material compositions and configurations are disclosed. SPGM CC catalysts in which ZPGM compositions of binary or ternary spinel structures supported onto support oxides are coupled with commercialized PGM UF catalysts and tested under Federal Test Procedure FTP-75 within TGDI and PI engines. The performance of the TWC systems including SPGM CC (with ultra-low PGM loadings) catalyst and commercialized PGM UF catalyst is compared to the performance of commercialized PGM CC and PGM UF catalysts. The disclosed TWC systems indicate that SPGM CC TWC catalytic performance is comparable or even exceeds high PGM-based conventional TWC catalysts, with reduced tailpipe emissions.
US10533471B2
In an internal combustion engine, the cylinder block includes a first blowby gas passage and a first oil return passage. The cylinder head includes a second blowby gas passage connecting the first blowby gas passage with a connection passage connected with a gas-liquid separator, an oil return chamber separated from a valve operating chamber and the second blowby gas passage by first and second partition walls, respectively, and provided with a first oil return hole connected with the gas-liquid separator, and a second oil return passage connecting the valve operating chamber with the first oil return passage. The first partition wall is formed with a second oil return hole connecting the oil return chamber with the valve operating chamber. The second partition wall is formed with a ventilation hole connecting the oil return chamber with the second blowby gas passage at a higher position than the second oil return hole.
US10533467B1
An outboard motor includes an internal combustion engine having an engine block with vertically-aligned first and second banks of piston-cylinders that extend at an angle with respect to each other so as to form a V-shape. A crankshaft extends along a vertical axis. Combustion in the first and second banks of piston-cylinders causes rotation of the crankshaft. First and second camshafts extend along the first and second banks of vertically-aligned cylinders, respectively. A flexible coupler couples the crankshaft to the first and second camshafts so that rotation of the crankshaft causes rotation of the first and second camshafts. A rotary idler is coupled to the flexible coupler such that rotation of the crankshaft causes rotation of the rotary idler. A lubricating pump is coupled to the rotary idler such that rotation of the rotary idler causes the lubricating pump to pump lubricant to the internal combustion engine.
US10533461B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that provide power generation using predominantly CO2 as a working fluid. In particular, the present disclosure provides for particular configurations for startup of a power generation system whereby the combustor may be ignited before the turbine is functioning at a sufficiently high speed to drive the compressor on a common shaft to conditions whereby a recycle CO2 stream may be provided to the combustor at a sufficient flow volume and flow pressure. In some embodiments, a bypass line may be utilized to provide additional oxidant in place of the recycle CO2 stream.
US10533451B2
A gas turbine engine comprising a gearbox, the gearbox comprising a sun gear, an annulus gear, a plurality of planet gears and a carrier, each planet gear being rotatably mounted in the carrier by at least one bearing, the sun gear meshing with the planet gears and the planet gears meshing with the annulus gear, the sun gear, the planet gears and the annulus gear comprising gear teeth, the annulus gear having a length in the axial direction and an axially forward end and an axially rearward end and wherein the annulus gear is resiliently mounted to a supporting structure at both its axially forward and axially rearward ends.
US10533446B2
A blade outer air seal (BOAS) assembly includes a rotor blade configured to rotate about an axis. The BOAS assembly also includes a BOAS positioned radially outward from the rotor blade and having a forward-facing BOAS face. The BOAS assembly also includes a shroud block positioned radially outward from the BOAS, having an aft-facing shroud face, and being configured to support the BOAS. The BOAS assembly also includes a first bellows seal extending from the forward-facing BOAS face to the aft-facing shroud face and configured to reduce fluid leakage radially between the BOAS and the shroud block.
US10533437B2
A combustor section of a gas turbine engine has a diffuser case with a structural cone having variable wall thicknesses strategically located for reducing localized stress in the cone.
US10533435B2
In a featured embodiment, a fan rotor includes a platform. Clevises extend radially inwardly of the platform. Each clevis has an aperture. A hub has hub lugs positioned intermediate spaced ends of the clevises, and apertures. A pin extends through the apertures in the hub and the clevises to connect the platform to the hub. The apertures in the clevises are formed to have an inner surface for supporting the pin. A method of forming a fan blade platform is also disclosed.
US10533434B2
A device for dismantling a blade from a turbine, the turbine including a set of blades, the device including: a holding element including a blocking surface; a dismantling opening; an attachment system configured to attach the holding element to a shaft of the turbine, the attachment system producing a pivot connection between the holding element and the shaft of the turbine, the defining of an angular position of the holding element allowing a first function of dismantling at least one blade facing the dismantling opening to be carried out and allowing a second function of blocking a set of blades facing the blocking surface to be carried out.
US10533431B2
A blade for a gas turbine engine is disclosed herein. The blade having: a root; a platform located between the root and the blade, wherein the platform defines a cavity; a damper restraint located at a peripheral edge of the platform, wherein the damper restraint is a raised feature extending along at least a portion of the peripheral edge of the platform.
US10533412B2
Apparatus and methods for estimating an azimuth of at least part of a bottomhole assembly (BHA) in a borehole intersecting an earth formation, the BHA comprising magnetic material. Methods include conveying the BHA into the borehole; using a first sensor disposed on the BHA to produce a first measurement of a component of a magnetic field at a first borehole depth; estimating the axial component at the first borehole depth in dependence upon the first measurement; estimating an azimuth of at least a part of the BHA at the first borehole depth using the axial component; and controlling drilling operations with the BHA in dependence upon the azimuth. The magnetic field includes an axial component and a plurality of non-axial components unaligned with the axial component. The magnetic field is affected by the magnetic material and the first measurement is representative of at least one non-axial component of the plurality.
US10533411B2
A method includes deploying an electromagnetic (EM) defect detection tool in a downhole environment having a plurality of tubular strings with different diameters. The method also includes receiving raw measurements collected by the EM defect detection tool. The method also includes deconvolving the raw measurements with another input to obtain deconvolved raw measurements. The method also includes using the deconvolved raw measurements to determine a defect in at least one of the plurality of tubular strings. The method also includes performing, by a device, an operation in response to the determined defect.
US10533410B2
A method of model-based acoustic measurements for a wellbore comprises creating an interpretation chart of acoustic measurements by a downhole tool in a wellbore using a numerical modeling and performing an evaluation with respect to the wellbore based on the interpretation chart.
US10533403B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for modeling slug flow. The method includes receiving a fluid flow model comprising a representation of one or more conduits and a multiphase fluid flow therein, and determining a slug birth rate in the multiphase fluid flow. The slug birth rate is determined based at least partially on a difference between a slug front velocity and a slug tail velocity. The method also includes initiating a slug in the fluid flow model based at least partially on the slug birth rate, and displaying data representative of the slug flow in the model.
US10533400B2
A downhole assembly can include plates in series along a length of a tubular member. Plates can include particulate-blocking areas and pass-through areas. A pass-through area of a plate can be angularly offset from a pass-through area of another plate in the series. The plates may be angled so that particulate carried by fluid from a wellbore may be trapped by particulate-blocking areas that may be tilted away from the fluid source.
US10533391B2
A reducing support ring for a bridge plug and a bridge plug for sealing or packing boreholes or wells. The reducing support ring for the bridge plug includes a ring-shaped body with a setting surface provided on a circumferential outer wall or end face of the ring-shaped body. Deformation of the ring-shaped body under an axial compression force allows the setting surface of the ring-shaped body to be abutted against and positioned on an inner wall of a sleeve where a bridge plug is located and to form a surface contact-type sealed connection with the inner wall of the sleeve. The bridge plug includes the reducing support ring. The reducing support ring and the bridge plug improve the plugging effect and anchoring performance of the bridge plug and the convenience of construction.
US10533390B2
An annular barrier has a tubular part, and a downhole expandable tubular to be expanded in an annulus downhole from a first outer diameter to a second outer diameter to abut against an inner face of a casing or borehole. The downhole expandable tubular has a first end section, a second end section and an intermediate section between the first end section and the second end section, the downhole expandable tubular surrounding the tubular part. Each end section of the downhole expandable tubular is connected with the tubular part and extends along a longitudinal axis, and defines an annular barrier space between the tubular part and the downhole expandable tubular. The tubular is made from one metal tubular blank of one metal material, the metal material of the end sections having a higher yield strength than the metal material of the intermediate section.
US10533386B2
A method is provided for determining a discharge coefficient of a managed pressure drilling choke/valve as a function of valve opening position. The method comprises: a flow of air/gas through the choke/valve; measuring a velocity of the air/gas flow at an inlet of the choke/valve; and measuring a pressure drop of the air/gas flow across the choke/valve.
US10533383B2
An apparatus is provided for spinning a tubular that includes a frame having a first arm and a second arm outwardly extending from a central region where each arm includes a roller. The frame also includes a center roller coupled to the central region of the frame. The frame is also capable of functioning as a clamping mechanism by providing at least one of the rollers on the frame with an internal gear mechanism for increasing the amount of torque that can be applied to a tubular.
US10533381B2
A wet connection system suitable for use in hydrocarbon wells is formed from one or more elongated, small diameter conduits which extend down the wellbore and which terminate adjacent a locating structure on the production tubing. Equipment deployed at the locating structure is connected to one or more self supporting conductors which extend down the conduits from the wellhead. Preferably the conductors are retractable and the conduits are sealingly connected to the equipment, allowing the equipment and conductors to be deployed and recovered independently of each other and to be flushed with dielectric oil pumped down the conduits after re-connection.
US10533377B2
A system and method detect at least one mechanical locking position of a drill string in a soil drilling machine. According the system and method, there are: a sensor apparatus which is configured to detect first data indicating the position assumed by the top of the drill string and second data indicating the position assumed by the bottom of the drill string. A control unit calculates the estimated length of the drill string based on the data and to compare the estimated length with a reference length value. A pair of kelly rods is in a mechanical locking position; and a signaling apparatus is configured to signal when the estimated length corresponds to a reference length value.
US10533370B1
A two unit barrier or three unit barrier. The two unit barrier includes a first end frame portion and a second end frame portion as a first unit and a gate as a second unit. The three unit barrier includes a first end frame as a first unit, a second end frame as a second unit, and a gate as a third unit. In each of the barriers, the gate is swingably engaged and swingable over a lower connection arrangement. The lower connection arrangement may include one or more of a mortise and tenon connection, clamp connection, swinging connection, flush and hidden connection, and telescoping connection.
US10533368B1
A door cover system and method of use for a door having a front surface. The system includes a cover body; an embossing on the front surface of the cover body; a ledge protruding from the back surface of the cover body and configured to engage with a top surface of the door; and a fastener secured to the back surface of the cover body and configured to secure the cover body to the front surface of the door. The method includes removably securing the cover body to the front surface of the door; outlining cut patterns on the cover body; removing the cover body from the front surface of the door; cutting the cut patterns; and rigidly securing the cover body to the front surface of the door via a fastener.
US10533357B1
A window arrangement of a motor vehicle is provided having a window pane unit, which can be linked to a vehicle bodywork via a first and second hinge arrangement, the two hinge arrangements defining a common pivot axis of the window pane unit and each comprising two hinge parts, which are connected to each other in an articulated manner, and which can be separated from each other without the use of tools, the two hinge parts of the first hinge arrangement, in a single defined pivoted position being movable with respect to each other and being separable from each other in the radial direction in relation to the pivot axis and the two hinge parts of the second hinge arrangement, in relation to the pivot axis, only being separable from each other in the axial direction when the two hinge parts of the first hinge arrangement have been detached.
US10533355B2
An improved surface bolt having a one-piece bolt and, in some embodiments, a one piece channel base in which the bolt is slidably mountable. In some embodiments, the channel base has first and second opposing edges with sidewalls along the edges, and each sidewall has a lip overhanging the base to define a groove or slot. The bolt has first and second opposing edges with ridges that slidably mount within the grooves. The bolt can include a handle extending from a first bolt member surface and a bumper extending from an opposed second bolt member surface and constraining sliding movement of the bolt between fastener heads or other stops extending from the channel base. Some embodiments of the bolt and channel base are made of a lightweight material such as plastic for example; and the bolt and channel base can include scoring, allowing their size to be altered at the score lines.
US10533354B2
A flush-mounted handle assembly for a cargo door having an exterior rotatable handle having a bumper assembly and an interior rotatable handle, a housing having a cavity for receipt of the exterior rotatable handle and an actuator positioned between the interior rotatable handle and housing. The housing having a skid plate positioned within the cavity for receipt of the bumper when the exterior rotatable handle is rotated and the housing also having a shaft removably connected to the housing by a nut for receipt of the actuator.
US10533346B2
A locking mechanism, for locking a closure having a closure side edge and a closure bore in the closure side edge relative to a frame having a frame side edge and a frame bore in the frame side edge is disclosed. The locking mechanism may include a locking member, a moveable magnet, and an actuating magnet. The moveable magnet may be attached to the locking member and may be configured to move within one of the closure bore and the frame bore such that the locking member may be moved so as to engage or disengage the other of the closure bore and frame bore. The actuating magnet may be configured to magnetically cooperate with the moveable magnet to move the locking member from a disengaged position into an engaged position and vice versa.
US10533345B2
An electronic locking device including a cylinder and a plug located in the cylinder. Within the plug is a solenoid with a pair of shuttles which move in opposite directions. A control processor controls the solenoids activating the shuttles when connected to the correct key. Blocking elements for each shuttle are inserted through the cylinder and into annular channels in the plug. The blocking elements receive and allow linear movement of the shuttles but prevent their rotation within the annular channels. In a locked condition the shuttles are contained only partially within the annular channels thereby preventing rotation of the plug within the cylinder but in an unlocked condition the shuttles are contained within the annular channels thereby allowing rotation of the plug. The plug also includes a weakness defining a point at which it will break upon application of excessive force.
US10533341B1
Method and apparatus for an assembly which is attachable to a skid-steer or similar front end loader or tractor which is used to install fence wire. The assembly contains a plurality of spindles upon which rolls of wire can be placed, which wire passes through a threader which organizes and separates the wire, then through a clamping device operated hydraulically using electric and hydraulic controllers, then over a roller and around an upright wire guide whereupon the wire is attached to a fence post in a conventional manner. The wire is clamped using a clamping member operated by a hydraulic cylinder to clamp and lock the wire so that the wire can be stretched by the engine powered skid-steer, front end loader or the like so that the wire can be tightly attached to each fence post in a series operation. The plurality of spindles is disposed on an upright central stanchion attached to a platform so that the wire can be easily placed on and removed from the spindle.
US10533337B2
A solar power generation assembly includes a vertical support column; a canopy including a plurality of solar modules for solar power generation; a first brace and a second brace on a first side of the support column to support the canopy; a third brace and a fourth brace on a second side of the support column to support the canopy; and a gutter system integrated into the canopy and directing precipitation along one or more of the second brace and the fourth brace to the support column. One or more of the first brace and the third brace manage electrical cables extending from the canopy to the support column.
US10533323B2
A composite backer board for wet space construction is disclosed, along with a method of producing the backer board. The board includes a rigid foam core of a suitable thickness for wet space construction. A first fabric layer is fixed to at least one face of the rigid foam core with a polymeric adhesive. A first polymer layer is on the first fabric layer in which the polymer layer is dimensionally stable parallel to the face of the rigid foam core. A second fabric layer is on the first polymer layer opposite the first fabric layer and forms a first face that is amenable to thin set mortar and related compositions in wet space construction.
US10533322B2
An attachment assembly for architectural mesh includes a hanger member including a hollow tube with an open channel; a wall bracket; and an attachment saddle including a plurality of projecting tabs, the attachment saddle configured to be secured to the wall bracket; wherein the plurality of projecting tabs are configured to slide into the open channel and be retained within the hollow tube.
US10533321B1
Disclosed herein are modular enclosures for temperature-sensitive components that include a modular wall section some of which include a vertical support panel, a vertical strut channel connected to the vertical support panel, and a temperature-sensitive component connected to the vertical strut channel.
US10533320B2
A reinforced concrete tile having top and bottom surfaces defining a thickness, the reinforced concrete tile comprising two or more reinforcing inserts imbedded in the concrete tile in proximity to the bottom surface, the two or more reinforcing inserts being of elongated shape and comprising a plurality of scales distributed along the length and extending upwardly from the bottom surface whereby a compensating force is created upon application of a load on the top surface such that deflection is reduced as the load is increased for at least a range of loads until a yield load is reached.
US10533317B2
An expansion joint configured to connect first and second vertical mullions of a curtain wall is disclosed. The first and second vertical mullions may each include an elongated body having an inner contour defining a hollow slot, and an inner sleeve may extend through the hollow slot of both of the first and second vertical mullions. The expansion joint may comprise a body, and an inner contour defining a central inner slot configured to receive the inner sleeve therethrough. The expansion joint may further comprise a first raised lip projecting from a lower surface of the body and configured to be inserted inside of the inner contour of the first vertical mullion, and a second raised lip projecting from an upper surface of the body and configured to be inserted inside of the inner contour of the second vertical mullion. The expansion joint may be formed from a polymeric elastomer.
US10533308B2
A wall box apparatus and building wall chase system is described. A wall box apparatus is configured to operatively reduce the number of fluid line joints connected to building and machinery plumbing lines, and more particularly to dialysis treatment facilities and kidney-dialysis machines, respectively. A space-saving wall chase system is configured using the wall box to connect plumbing lines in a dialysis treatment facility to dialysis machines.
US10533304B2
A system and method for the controlled lowering and lifting of a load are disclosed. The system and method may include operating a work machine having a hydraulic system including a hydraulic actuator for supporting a load, a first control valve in fluid communication with the actuator, and a controller for operating the first control valve. In one embodiment, the controller includes a first algorithm for operating the first control valve in a load lowering operation. When an operational fault within the hydraulic system is detected, the controller can be configured to enter into a safe lowering mode. In the safe lowering mode, the first algorithm is disabled and a pulse width modulation (PWM) current is sent from the controller to the first control valve. A user interface is provided to allow an operator to control the PWM current duty ratio to allow the load supported by the actuator to be lowered.
US10533300B1
A method of stabilizing a small to mid-sized skid steer vehicles used to grade earth using a dozer blade in conjunction with GPS automatic grade control equipment. The main arm of the skid steer is retained at a specific height and the hydraulic controlling the main arm is limited. The height of the dozer blade is raised and lowered by affecting the pitch axis of movement of the blade and not by raising and lowering the main arm. The device is most suited to skid steer vehicles capable of using a variety of interchangeable front end accessories in addition to a dozer blade.
US10533299B2
Earth movement machine components including a pivot system with adjustable height to actuate a door latch for an excavator bucket.
US10533298B2
A working machine includes: a boom base portion including: an inner side wall; and an outer side wall disposed opposite to the inner side wall; a lift link disposed on a rear portion of the boom base portion; and a boom cylinder disposed in front of the lift link. One end side of the lift link is inserted between the inner side wall and the outer side wall and is pivotally supported on the boom base portion. The other end side of the lift link is pivotally supported on the machine body. One end of the boom cylinder is inserted between the inner side wall and the outer side wall in front of the lift link and is pivotally supported on the boom base portion. The other end of the boom cylinder is pivotally supported on the machine body by below the lift link.
US10533296B2
Disclosed are a system and method for controlling land deformation, and a method for optimal design of a well in a system for controlling a well in a system for controlling land deformation. The land deformation control system with respect to a land including an confined aquifer and an aquiclude above the confined aquifer includes a first well for water pumping from or water injecting into the confined aquifer; and one or more second wells spaced apart from the first well by a predetermined distance and having a lower end portion positioned in the aquiclude, wherein a water level of the second well is maintained at a preset water level value to control an amount of change in water head of the aquiclude, which drops due to pumping of the confined aquifer or rises due to injection with respect to each of the second wells.
US10533287B2
Provided is a dispersant for carbon fibers which allows uniform dispersion of relatively long carbon fibers, e.g., carbon fibers with a length of 12.5 mm or more, particularly 10.0-100.0 mm, more particularly 12.5-50.0 mm in an aqueous medium.A dispersant for carbon fibers used by combining: (A) a random copolymer of phenylglycidyl ether and ethylene oxide, or a random copolymer of phenylglycidyl ether, ethylene oxide and propylene oxide; and (B) a polyether-based polyurethane resin based on a bifunctional polyol and hexamethylene diisocyanate, the bifunctional polyol being polyethylene glycol and/or an ethylene oxide-propylene oxide random copolymer.
US10533276B2
A washing machine appliance includes a nozzle assembly for providing wash fluid to a tub of the washing machine appliance. The nozzle assembly includes an extendable nozzle mounted on the end of a retractable fluid supply conduit such as a telescoping arm or a folding arm. The retractable fluid supply conduit is movable for positioning the extendable nozzle in a retracted position and an extended position. The retractable fluid supply conduit is fluidly coupled to a valve assembly on the back of the washing machine appliance such that a user may extend the extendable nozzle to perform pretreating operations or otherwise selectively supply wash fluid to the tub.
US10533272B2
A washing machine appliance and method of operation are generally provided herein. The washing machine appliance may include a cabinet, a first pair of diagonal feet, a second pair of diagonal feet, a tub, a basket, a measurement device, a motor, and a controller. The motor may be configured for selectively rotating the basket within the tub. The controller may be in operative communication with the motor and the measurement device. The controller may be configured for rotating the basket for a first period, monitoring movement of the cabinet between the first pair of diagonal feet and between the second pair of diagonal feet during the rotating, determining a first diagonal movement value, determining a second diagonal movement value, evaluating one or both of the diagonal movement values against a predetermined value, and transmitting a stability signal.
US10533269B2
A textile is provided that includes a plurality of warp yarns and a plurality of weft yarns woven together, the plurality of warp yarns each including an elastic warp filament and a non-elastic warp filament, and the plurality of weft yarns each including an elastic weft filament and a non-elastic weft filament. At least one of the elastic warp filament, the non-elastic warp filament, the elastic weft filament, and the non-elastic weft filament includes a hydrophobic material. The materials of the elastic warp filament, the non-elastic warp filament, the elastic weft filament, and the non-elastic weft filament are selected such that the textile has a high elastic stretchability in at least one of a weft direction and a warp direction. A garment including the textile, and methods for manufacturing the textile and the garment, are also disclosed.
US10533268B2
A sealing material composition which comprises sheet-like members containing expanded graphite, and which hardly causes the sheet-like members to be broken is provided.A sealing material composition 1 comprises: a stacked body 5; and a long surrounding body 6 which surrounds the stacked body. The stacked body has a plurality of sheet-like members 10 each of which is formed into a tape-like shape by expanded graphite. In the stacked body, the plurality of sheet-like members are stacked in a direction which intersects with the longitudinal direction of the surrounding body, and, in the plurality of sheet-like members, sheet-like members which are adjacent to each other in the stacking direction are disposed to be displaced from each other in the longitudinal direction of the surrounding body, in a relatively movable manner. The surrounding body allows the adjacent sheet-like members to be relatively moved in the longitudinal direction of the surrounding body, while maintaining the stacked state of the adjacent sheet-like members.
US10533260B2
The chemical treatment steel sheet includes a steel sheet, a mat finished Sn plating layer that is provided as an upper layer of the steel sheet and is formed of a β-Sn, and a chemical treatment layer that is provided as an upper layer of the Sn plating layer. The Sn plating layer contains the β-Sn of 0.10 g/m2 to 20.0 g/m2 in terms of an amount of metal Sn. A crystal orientation index of a (100) plane group of the Sn plating layer is higher than crystal orientation indexes of other crystal orientation planes. The chemical treatment layer includes a Zr compound containing Zr of 0.50 mg/m2 to 50.0 mg/m2 in terms of an amount of metal Zr, and a phosphate compound.
US10533252B2
A showerhead is configured to be mounted inside a processing chamber and provide a processing gas onto a semiconductor wafer inside the processing chamber. The showerhead includes a supply plenum, a faceplate, and an electrode plate assembly. The faceplate is disposed at a side of the supply plenum. The electrode plate assembly is disposed between a gas source and the supply plenum. The electrode plate assembly includes a first plate having a unitary construction and having a plurality of first gas holes, and a second plate having a unitary construction and having a plurality of second gas holes. The second plate is located between the first plate and the supply plenum and separated from the first plate. The plurality of second gas holes are partially overlapped but misaligned with the plurality of first gas holes. A semiconductor apparatus having the same and a semiconductor process are also provided.
US10533250B2
Described herein is a technique capable of improving a quality of a film formed on a substrate. According to the technique described herein, there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: (a) exhausting an inner atmosphere of a first gas supply pipe configured to supply a first gas generated by a vaporizer to a process chamber accommodating a substrate by a first gas discharge system connected to the first gas supply pipe; (b) exhausting an inner atmosphere of the vaporizer through a second gas discharge system provided at a vaporizer outlet pipe of the vaporizer by supplying an inert gas to the vaporizer via a vaporizer inlet pipe of the vaporizer; and (c) supplying the first gas generated by the vaporizer to the process chamber accommodating the substrate via the vaporizer outlet pipe, the first gas supply pipe and a first timing valve provided at the first gas supply pipe before (a) is performed or after (b) is performed.
US10533236B2
A method of manufacturing a high-strength hot rolled steel sheet by hot rolling a steel having a chemical composition including, by mass %: C: more than 0.010% and not more than 0.06%, Si: not more than 0.3%, Mn: not more than 0.8%, P: not more than 0.03%, S: not more than 0.02%, Al: not more than 0.1%, N: not more than 0.01% and Ti: 0.05 to 0.10%, the balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, including: after the steel is heated to an austenite single phase region, the steel is finish rolled at a finishing delivery temperature of 860° C. to 1050° C., the steel sheet is cooled at an average cooling rate of not less than 30° C./s in a temperature range of from a temperature after the completion of the finish rolling to 750° C., and the steel sheet is coiled into a coil at a coiling temperature of 580° C. to 700° C.
US10533235B2
A hot-working tool material has an annealed structure and is to be quenched and tempered before using, wherein: the hot-working tool material has a composition from which a martensite structure can be prepared by the quenching; and, in ferrite crystal grains in the annealed structure in a cross section of the hot-working tool material, the ratio by number of ferrite crystal grains having a largest diameter (L) of 100 μm or more is not more than 10.0% relative to the total ferrite crystal grains, and the ratio by number of ferrite crystal grains having an aspect ratio (L/T) [wherein (L) stands for a largest diameter, and (T) stands for the largest transverse width orthogonally crossing the same] of 3.0 or more is not more than 10.0% relative to the total ferrite crystal grains.
US10533226B2
The gene responsible for encoding SERT has a functional polymorphism at the 5′-regulatory promoter region, which results in two forms, long (L) and short (S). The LL-genotype is hypothesized to play a key role in the early onset of alcohol use. The present invention discloses the differences in treatment and diagnosis based on the L or short genotypes as well as on a single nucleotide polymorphism of the SERT gene, the 3′ UTR SNP rs1042173. The present invention demonstrates the efficacy of using the drug ondansetron and similar drugs for treatment based on variations in the polymorphisms of the SERT gene as well as methods for diagnosing susceptibility to abuse of alcohol and other addiction-related diseases and disorders.
US10533194B2
A system and method for converting biomass with no chemical pretreatment is disclosed. Combination of a microbial system and the use of mechanical disruption during fermentation may help achieve high conversion rate without the extra cost and undesirable by-products typically associated with the pretreatment process.
US10533188B2
Vectors with modified initiation codon for the translation of AAV-Rep78 useful for production of AAV
The present invention relates nucleic acid constructs for the production of recombinant parvoviral (e.g. adeno-associated viral) vectors in insect cells, to insect cells comprising such constructs and to methods wherein the cells are used to produce recombinant parvoviral virions. The insect cells preferably comprise a first nucleotide sequence encoding the parvoviral rep proteins whereby the initiation codon for translation of the parvoviral Rep78 protein is a suboptimal initiation codon that effects partial exon skipping upon expression in insect cells. The insect cell further comprises a second nucleotide sequence comprising at least one parvoviral (AAV) inverted terminal repeat (ITR) nucleotide sequence and a third nucleotide sequence comprising a sequences coding for the parvoviral capsid proteins.
US10533182B2
The invention relates to a method for producing eicosapentanoic acid, docosapentanoic acid and/or docohexanoic acid in transgenic plants. According to said method, the plant is provided with at least one nucleic acid sequence coding for a polypeptide with a Δ6 desaturase activity, at least one nucleic acid sequence coding for a polypeptide with a Δ6 elongase activity, at least one nucleic acid sequence coding for a polypeptide with a Δ5 desaturase activity, and at least one nucleic acid sequence coding for a polypeptide with a Δ5 elongase activity, the nucleic acid sequence coding for a polypeptide with a Δ5 elongase activity being modified in relation to the nucleic acid sequence in the organism from which the sequence originates, such that it is adapted to the codon use in at least one type of plant. For the production of docosahexanoic acid, at least one nucleic acid sequence coding for a polypeptide with a Δ4 desaturase activity is also introduced into the plant.
US10533163B2
A recombinant ribonuclease is disclosed. The recombinant ribonuclease is produced by introducing a recombinant DNA sequence into a host; activating expression of the recombinant DNA sequence within the host to produce the recombinant ribonuclease; and isolating the recombinant ribonuclease from the host. Additionally, a method of analyzing an RNA sequence includes digesting the RNA with a first recombinant ribonuclease to give digestion products comprising nucleotides of the RNA sequence; and analyzing the digestion products using an analytical method to provide the identity of at least some of the nucleotides. The recombinant ribonuclease includes at least one of a uridine-specific recombinant RNase MC1 and a cytidine-specific recombinant RNase Cusativin.
US10533159B2
Provided herein are genetically engineered Pichinde viruses that include three ambisense genomic segments. The first genomic segment includes a coding region encoding a Z protein and a coding region encoding a L RdRp protein. The second genomic segment includes a coding region encoding a nucleoprotein (NP) and the third genomic segment includes a coding region encoding a glycoprotein. Each of the second and third genomic segments optionally include an additional coding region that may encode an antigen or a detectable marker. Also provided herein is a reverse genetics system for making a genetically engineered Pichinde virus, and a collection of vectors that can be used to produce a genetically engineered Pichinde virus. Further provided are methods for using a reverse genetics system, and methods for producing an immune response in a subject.
US10533153B2
The present invention relates to a process for the production of squalene and/or sterol in high amounts using an alkaline solution and an organic lysis solvent at high temperature and high pressure for effectively lysing yeast cells and extracting squalene and/or sterol into an organic extraction solvent, thus obtaining squalene and/or sterolin high amount and of high purity.
US10533152B1
The present disclosure provides instruments, modules and methods for improved detection of edited cells following nucleic acid-guided nuclease genome editing. The disclosure provides improved automated instruments that perform methods—including high throughput methods—for screening cells that have been subjected to editing and identifying cells that have been properly edited.
US10533149B2
A tempering device for tempering of biomass contained in a container, including at least one tempering mechanism, and at least one conveying device for conveying a mass flow of biomass in a main flow direction. The at least one conveying device includes at least one agitator, and wherein the at least one tempering mechanism is arranged in the main flow direction generated by the at least one conveying device. The at least one tempering mechanism is tubular with an inner tube and with an outer tube arranged coaxially to the inner tube. The inner tube and the outer tube form an intermediate space through which a tempering medium may flow. The tempering mechanism is oriented relative to the conveying device such that, in operation of the heating device, at least 40% of the delivery volume of the mass flow generated by the conveying device flows through the inner tube.
US10533144B2
A composition of fuel additives includes at least a first additive having a partial ester derivative of polyols and a second additive having a quaternary ammonium salt. The first additive includes at least 50% by mass of a compound A selected from the partial esters of polyols and saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, cyclic or acyclic C4 to C36 monocarboxylic aliphatic hydrocarbarbons, the partial esters being able to be used alone or in a mixture. The disclosure also relates to a diesel fuel including such a composition and the use of the fuel for limiting the deposits in a diesel engine. In particular, the disclosure relates to the use of the fuel containing the composition of additives of the present disclosure in direct-injection diesel engines.
US10533136B2
The disclosure provides a liquid crystalline compound that has at least one of physical properties such as high stability with respect to heat and light, a high clearing point (or a high upper limit temperature), a low lower limit temperature of a liquid crystal phase, a low viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, a suitable elastic constant, favorable compatibility with other liquid crystalline compounds at room temperature and low temperatures, a liquid crystal composition including the compound, and a liquid crystal display element including the composition. The compound is represented by Formula (1). Here, R1 is an alkyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms in which one —CH2CH2— is substituted with —CH═CH—; R2 is an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms; ring A1 is 1,4-cyclohexylene; Y1 and Y2 are hydrogen or fluorine; Z1 is a single bond; and n1 is 1 or 2.
US10533135B2
The present invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds having negative dielectric anisotropy (Δε), which is distinguished by the fact that it has a value for the ratio γ1/Δn2 in the range 6-45 with a clearing point of >60° C. and a Δε of ≤−2.3. Media of this type are particularly suitable for electro-optical displays having active-matrix addressing based on the ECB, PA LCD, FFS or IPS effect.
US10533134B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems are disclosed for chemically etching parts by generating an enclosed chemical etching chamber in contact with a part surface and directing a flow of chemical etchant solution in contact with a part region to be etched.
US10533131B2
The invention relates to a material represented by the following formula (I) (M′)8M″6M′″6O24(X,S)2:M″″ formula (I). Further, the invention relates to an ultraviolet radiation sensing material, to an X-radiation sensing material, to different uses, to a device and to a method for determining the intensity of ultraviolet radiation.
US10533129B2
This invention relates to an OLED, comprising an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer, the organic layer at least contains one or more layers containing light emitting layer from the hole injection layer, hole transport layer, electron injection layer, electron transport layer, light emitting layer; the light emitting layer is composed of a single compound with the structure of formula (I). The OLED can emit blue light and has the advantages of high light emitting efficiency, excellent color purity and long lifetime.
US10533125B2
A method of treating a subterranean formation including combining a long chain hydrocarbon viscosifier, an ene curing agent, and a thiol crosslinking agent to form a resin compound; coating the resin compound onto at least a portion of proppant particles to create resin-coated proppant particles; and placing the coated proppant particles into the subterranean formation zone, wherein the resin compound does not substantially cure prior to placing the resin coated proppant particles into the subterranean formation zone.
US10533120B2
The present invention relates to compositions for use in refrigeration, air-conditioning, and heat pump systems wherein the composition comprises a fluoroolefin and at least one other component. The compositions of the present invention are useful in processes for producing cooling or heat, as heat transfer fluids, foam blowing agents, aerosol propellants, and fire suppression and fire extinguishing agents.
US10533113B2
This disclosure provides a sol-gel hybrid coating composition, comprising a sol-gel precursor, a polymer and a solvent, wherein the sol-gel precursor comprises tetraethyl orthosilicate and the polymer comprises polyurethane and polyacrylic. This disclosure also provides a coating process, comprising: subjecting a light metal to micro-arc oxidation treatment to form a first protection layer on the light metal, and coating the sol-gel hybrid coating composition onto the first protection layer to form a second protection layer. This disclosure further provides composite coating layers, comprising: a first layer obtained by micro-arc oxidation treatment, and a second layer obtained by dip coating with the sol-gel hybrid coating composition.
US10533112B2
A heavy-duty epoxy coating composition including an epoxy resin, as a main substance, and styrenated phenol represented by Formula 1: wherein n is an integer of 1 to 3.
US10533107B2
A composition set according to the invention includes a first composition which contains a cellulose derivative having a liquid crystalline functional group, and a second composition which contains a liquid crystalline compound having a reactive functional group and can be in a liquid state. The first composition preferably contains particles whose surfaces are at least partially constituted by the cellulose derivative. Further, the first composition preferably contains a liquid component which functions as a dispersion medium for dispersing the particles.
US10533106B2
The present disclosure provides an example where a non-Newtonian white ink can include an aqueous ink vehicle, from 5 wt % to 60 wt % of white colorant, and from 0.1 wt % to 5 wt % of amphoteric alumina particles dispersed in the aqueous ink vehicle. The white colorant can include white metal oxide pigment having an average particulate size from 100 nm to 2,000 nm, an alumina coating on the white metal oxide pigment forming an alumina-coated pigment, and a polymeric dispersant associated with a surface of the alumina-coated pigment. The amphoteric alumina particles can have an average particles size from 2 nm to less than 100 nm.
US10533104B2
Methods for increasing the degree of curing and/or reducing the volatile photoinitiator concentration in cured polymeric film, and particularly in cured polymeric films in a multilayered thin film encapsulation stack are provided. Also provided are highly crosslinked and/or low-outgassing thin polymeric films and encapsulation stacks made using the methods.
US10533092B2
Water soluble polymeric dyes and polymeric tandem dyes are provided. The polymeric dyes include a water solvated light harvesting multichromophore having a conjugated segment of aryl or heteroaryl co-monomers including branched non-ionic water soluble groups (WSG) comprising two or more water soluble polymers. In some cases, the branched non-ionic water soluble groups (WSG) of the present disclosure are capable of imparting solubility in water in excess of 50 mg/mL to the multichromophore. The polymeric tandem dyes further include a signaling chromophore covalently linked to the multichromophore in energy-receiving proximity therewith. Also provided are aggregation-resistant labelled specific binding members that include the subject water soluble polymeric dyes. Methods of evaluating a sample for the presence of a target analyte and methods of labelling a target molecule in which the subject polymeric dyes find use are also provided. Systems and kits for practicing the subject methods are also provided.
US10533085B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a polyethylene for injection molding, which has an excellent balance between moldability and durability, and a molded article such as an injection-molded plastic fuel tank that has an excellent balance among injection moldability, durability, and impact resistance. The invention relates to a polyethylene for injection molding, the polyethylene comprising at least two types of specific polyethylenes, wherein the density, the high load melt flow rate, and the relationship between the weight ratio and the density of the polyethylene satisfy specific characteristics.
US10533083B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a rubber composition which is excellent in wet grip performance and abrasion resistance without deteriorating fuel efficiency, and a tire having a tread composed of the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition comprising a rubber component comprising 20 to 90% by mass of a rubber component A and 10 to 80% by mass of a rubber component B, wherein an SP value of the rubber component A is not less than 17.8 (J/cm3)1/2 and an SP value of the rubber component B is lower than the SP value of the rubber component A by not less than 0.6 (J/cm3)1/2, and a tire having a tread composed of the rubber composition.
US10533082B2
An improved nitrile rubber formulation and process for making elastomeric nitrile rubber articles from the nitrile rubber formulation are disclosed. In particular, the nitrile rubber formulation can produce nitrile rubber based articles which exhibit force-strain characteristics that are comparable to those of natural rubber latex articles, while maintaining the tensile strength properties of nitrile rubber. The process includes adding a stretch modifier during the compounding of the nitrile rubber formulation. The invention also includes an elastomeric nitrile rubber product made by the process, such as examination glove, surgical glove, etc.
US10533078B2
The present invention relates to a polymer film comprising a base film comprising polyamide-based resin; and two or more kinds of copolymers comprising polyamide-based segments and polyether-based segments, and a method for preparing the polymer film.
US10533074B2
Provided are rapidly cross-linkable silicone compositions, systems, kits, and methods for filling implanted medical devices in situ, the implanted medical devices, including for example, body implants and tissue expanders, the compositions including a platinum divinyl disiloxane complex; a low viscosity vinyl terminated polydimethylsiloxane; a low viscosity hydride terminated polydimethylsiloxane; and a silicone cross-linker, where the rapidly cross-linkable silicone composition has a viscosity of ≤150 cPs for ≥1 min. post-preparation and ≤300 cPs≤5 min. post-preparation, at ambient temperature.
US10533072B2
The production method of the present invention includes: a supplying step of supplying reaction raw materials to at least one of a plurality of reaction vessels that mutually communicate through a gas phase; a polymerizing step of carrying out a polymerization reaction; and a step of removing at least some of the water present in the reaction vessels. Each of the steps is carried out in parallel, and a reaction mixture is transferred sequentially between the reaction vessels. The amount of water contained in the reaction mixture in at least one of the reaction vessels is from 0.1 moles to less than 3 moles per mole of a sulfur source, and the total amount of water contained in the reaction raw materials that are supplied is 3 moles or more per mole of the sulfur source.
US10533070B2
Provided is a fluorine atom-containing polymer which is a condensation polymer of a fluorene derivative that provides a repeating unit represented by formula (1), a fluorene derivative that provides a repeating unit represented by formula (2) and a fluorene derivative that provides a repeating unit represented by formula (3).
US10533069B2
The present disclosure relates to a cyclic polysulfane-based polymer, a cyclic polysulfane-polynorbornene block copolymer, a method of preparing the cyclic polysulfane-based polymer, a method of preparing the cyclic polysulfane-polynorbornene block copolymer, and a film including the cyclic polysulfane-polynorbornene block copolymer.
US10533068B2
The present invention provides polyurethanes including a reaction product of components including: (a) an isocyanate functional urethane prepolymer comprising a reaction product of components including: (i) about 1 equivalent of at least one polyisocyanate; and (ii) about 0.1 to about 0.5 equivalents of at least one diol having 2 to 18 carbon atoms; and (b) about 0.05 to about 0.9 equivalents of at least one branched polyol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms and at least 3 hydroxyl groups; and (c) up to about 0.9 equivalents of at least one polyol different from branched polyol (b) and having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, wherein the reaction product components are essentially free of polyester polyol and polyether polyol; compositions, coatings and articles made therefrom and methods of making the same.
US10533067B2
Disclosed are compositions that comprise water and a polyether polyol derived from sucrose and an alkylene oxide, as well as polyurethane foam systems comprising such compositions, methods for their production, and the resulting polyurethane foams.
US10533062B2
The present invention provides a modified conjugated diene-based polymer which includes a functional group derived from a substituted styrene-based compound and a functional group derived from an aminosilane-based compound, a method for preparing the same, and a rubber composition including the same. The modified conjugated diene-based polymer includes the functional group derived from an aminosilane-based compound of Formula 1 and a functional group derived from a substituted styrene-based compound of Formula 2 at both terminals of a main chain, and thus, shows a high modification ratio. When applying the polymer in a rubber composition, excellent affinity with a filler may be shown, and as a result, agglomeration of a filler in the rubber composition may be prevented, and the dispersibility of the filler may be increased, thereby improving the processability of the rubber composition.
US10533047B2
There is provided antibodies or antigen-binding fragments, derivatives or variants thereof which are capable of binding to the FBG domain of tenascin-C. There are also provided uses of such antibodies or antigen-binding fragments, derivatives or variants thereof, as well as methods of identifying such antibodies.
US10533046B2
The present disclosure relates to a human CK8 antigen peptide, an antibody, or antibody fragment thereof, or a humanized antibody, specifically binding the peptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 29, a fragment of CK-8. Said molecules can be used use in the detection and/or treatment of tumors whose cells express CK8 protein, in particular the peptide of sequence according to SEQ ID No.29, on their surface.
US10533045B2
Processes for producing and purifying recombinant proteins are disclosed. In particular, the present disclosure provides processes of producing and purifying multi-subunit proteins expressed in yeast or filamentous fungal cells. The production and/or purification of such proteins are monitored for impurities, preferably using lectin binding assays, such that one or more process parameters may be adjusted to maximize the amount of desired recombinant protein and minimize the amount of glycosylated impurities. The processes can also be monitored for other undesired product-associated impurities, such as aggregates and nucleic acids. In exemplary embodiments, the recombinant proteins are multi-subunit proteins, such as antibodies, the host cell is a yeast, such as Pichia pastoris, and the glycosylated impurity is a glycovariant of the desired recombinant polypeptide, such as an N-linked and/or O-linked glycovariant.
US10533023B2
A first compound having an atom in an oxidized state is reacted with a bis(trimethylsilyl) six-membered ring system or related compound to form a second compound having the atom in a reduced state relative to the first compound. The atom in an oxidized state is selected from the group consisting of Groups 2-12 of the Periodic Table, the lanthanides, As, Sb, Bi, Te, Si, Ge, Sn, and Al.
US10533022B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a silicon oligomer having a novel function that has not been achieved by a conventional condensation product of water and a tetraalkoxysilane. Provided are a silicon oligomer represented by the following formula (I) and a production method therefor: wherein R1 to R10 each independently is an alkyl group or a hydroxyalkyl group, each having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; X1 to X3 each independently is a group represented by the following formula (II); n is 0 or 1; and m is an integer of 1 to 3 when n is 0, and m is 1 when n is 1: wherein A is an alkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms which may be branched, and 1 is an integer of 1 to 3.
US10533019B2
The present disclosure provides a method for preparing a 7α-alkoxyoxacephem intermediate compound, the method comprising a process (S1) including: reacting a compound represented by a following chemical formula 1 with a halogen compound in an organic solvent to form a reaction product such that unreacted halogen compound remains; and adding metal alkoxide and reducing agent to the reaction product with the unreacted halogen compound remaining, thereby to produce a compound represented by a following chemical formula 2: where R is a Cl, Br, I, halogen derivative, R1 is a carboxyl protecting group including diphenylmethyl, p-methoxybenzyl, p-nitrobenzyl or hydrogen (H), and R2 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.
US10533018B2
The present disclosure provides antibacterial prodrugs and methods of making and using the same.
US10533017B2
A method for producing 1,4:3,6-dianhydrohexitols, including the steps of: a) supplying at least one hexitol, b) dehydrating the hexitol, and c) distillating the dehydration product produced in step b), wherein: the hexitol is supplied in the form of an aqueous solution in step a); and the distillation is carried out by means of a thin-film evaporator in step c).
US10533016B2
The invention features compounds (e.g., macrocyclic compounds) capable of modulating biological processes, for example through binding to a presenter protein (e.g., a member of the FKBP family, a member of the cyclophilin family, or PIN1) and a target protein such as CEP250. These compounds bind endogenous intracellular presenter proteins, such as the FKBPs or cyclophilins, and the resulting binary complexes selectively bind and modulate the activity of the target protein. Formation of a tripartite complex among the presenter protein, the compound, and the target protein is driven by both protein-compound and protein-protein interactions, and both are required for modulation of target protein activity.
US10533007B2
This disclosure features chemical entities (e.g., a compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, and/or hydrate, and/or cocrystal, and/or drug combination of the compound) that modulate (e.g., agonize or partially agonize) NLRP3 and TLR7 and/or TLR8 that are useful, e.g., for treating a condition, disease or disorder in which a decrease in NLRP3 and TLR7 and/or TLR8 activities (e.g., a condition, disease or disorder associated with repressed or impaired NLRP3 and TLR7 and/or TLR8 signaling) contributes to the pathology and/or symptoms and/or progression of the condition, disease or disorder (e.g., cancer) in a subject (e.g., a human). This disclosure also features compositions as well as other methods of using and making the same.
US10532983B2
Disclosed are derivative compounds of ELQ-300 that include an ester at position 4. These compounds have enhanced properties relative to ELQ-300. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and methods of treating and preventing malaria infections involving administering the pharmaceutical compositions to the subject.
US10532980B2
This invention provides, among other things, compounds useful for treating viral infections, pharmaceutical formulations containing such compounds, as well as methods of inhibiting the replication of a virus or treating a disease.
US10532977B2
Small molecule compounds derived from α-sulfophenylacetic amide (SPAA) are provided as novel sulfonic acid based pTyr mimetics. These compounds effectively inhibit a variety of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs), such as mPTPA, mPTPB, LMWPTP, and Laforin. Use of these compounds as pharmaceutical agents for treating diseases associated with abnormal protein tyrosine phosphatase activity is also provided.
