US10782438B2
Technology for obtaining formation parameters of a geological formation includes measuring a resistivity image of the geological formation. The measured resistivity image is compared to a modelled resistivity image where the modelled resistivity image is generated based on estimated formation parameters. A cost function is calculated based on the measure resistivity image and the modelled resistivity image. The estimated formation parameters are adjusted based on minimizing the cost function in order to generate a set of final formation parameters that represents a modelled resistivity image having a smallest cost function.
US10782432B2
A monopole acoustic logging while drilling instrument used together with a bottom hole assembly and a method for measuring a shear wave velocity of slow formations, wherein the bottom hole assembly includes a drill collar and a drill bit, wherein the monopole acoustic logging while drilling instrument is installed on the drill collar. The monopole acoustic logging while drilling instrument comprises: an acoustic receiver array installed on the drill collar; a monopole acoustic source arranged at the drill collar, wherein the monopole acoustic source is configured to emit acoustic waves with a frequency in a preset frequency range, and the ratio of the outer diameter D1 of the drill collar to the outer diameter D2 of the drill bit is d, and 0.75
US10782429B2
A method and apparatus are provided for positron emission imaging to calibrate energy measurements of a pixilated gamma-ray detector using energy sharing events between channels of the detector. Due to conservation of energy, when the energy of a single gamma ray shared among multiple channels, the sum of measured energies across the respective channel must equal the original energy of the incident gamma ray. Further, the fractions of the original energy distributed to the respective channels can span the entire range of zero to the original energy. Thus, a single gamma-ray source (e.g., cesium isotope 137) can be used to continuously calibrate the nonlinear energy response of the detector over an entire range of interest.
US10782424B2
Provided is a radiation detector that is capable of accurately calculating the time of occurrence of fluorescence. In addition to a configuration that calculates a single signal time, the present invention, in view of the case in which a multiple event occurs, also has a configuration that on the basis of an added signal generated by adding detection signals together, calculates the time of occurrence of fluorescence (added signal time). The radiation detector according to the present invention is configured to output the added signal time as the time of occurrence of fluorescence when the number of detection elements 3a in the fluorescence detection is plural (at the time of a multiple event). In the case of a multiple event, from the viewpoint of strengthening of a signal addition, an added signal time is more accurate than a single signal time.
US10782423B2
A mechanical linkage system of PET and CT/MRI and a linkage scanning method thereof are disclosed. According to an example of the disclosure, the mechanical linkage system includes a PET host, a CT/MRI host, a scanning bed, and a moving system. The PET host includes a PET detector installed in a PET detector fixing plate and configured to form a positron emission computed tomography image. The CT/MRI host has a larger aperture than the PET detector. A front end of the PET host and a front end of the CT/MRI host are oppositely disposed. The scanning bed is located to an end of the CT/MRI host. The moving system is connected with at least one of the PET host or the CT/MRI host and configured to move the PET detector into or out of a scanning field of view of the CT/MRI host.
US10782422B2
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to detect radiation accurately, and particularly in a highly radioactive environment. A system includes a detector module for a radiation detector and a parallel signal analyzer configured to receive radiation detection event signals from the detector module and provide a spectroscopy output and a dose rate output. The parallel signal analyzer may be configured to analyze the radiation detection event signals in parallel in first and second analysis channels according to respective first and second measurement times and determine the spectroscopy output and the dose rate output based on radiation detection event energies determined according to the respective first and second measurement times.
US10782408B2
A calibration method includes: (S1) generating an external light path via a laser automatic power control circuit through a high frequency modulation signal, sending the external light path to a measured target, reflecting the external light path back through the measured target and receiving the reflected external light path by a photoelectric receiving circuit; (S2) generating an internal light path via the laser automatic power control circuit through the high frequency modulation signal, directly sending the internal light path to the photoelectric receiving circuit, and receiving the internal light path through the photoelectric receiving circuit; and (S3) performing phase comparison between two paths of light waves respectively corresponding to the external light path and the internal light path received firstly and secondly by the photoelectric receiving circuit, and a reference phase signal through the photoelectric receiving circuit, calculating a distance phase, and outputting a signal whose base is eliminated.
US10782406B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to detecting cloud conditions from a distance by generating a polarized microwave-frequency electromagnetic pulse and evaluating various reflected wave parameters pertaining to a corresponding cloud-reflected microwave-frequency electromagnetic reflection. Various cloud metrics can be calculated using these collected wave parameters. The microwave-frequency pulses can be scanned over multiple dimensions, using a steered beam arrangement which will lead to the ability to scanning a conical sector of the space in front of the aircraft. These collected multi-dimensional wave parameters can then be used to generate multi-dimensional maps of cloud metrics. Such cloud metrics can include relative velocities of moving cloud conditions in the flight direction, particle density distributions, ice/water ratios, estimates of particle side distributions, etc.
US10782392B2
A scanning optical system, includes a mirror unit having a first mirror surface and a second mirror surface which incline to a rotation axis; and a light projecting system having a light source. A light flux emitted from the light source is reflected on the first mirror surface of the mirror unit, thereafter, reflected on the second mirror surface, and then, projected so as to scan in a main scanning direction onto an object in accordance with rotation of the mirror unit. The light flux emitted from the second mirror surface becomes a plurality of spot lights on the object side, and the plurality of spot lights are arranged along a direction intersecting with the main scanning direction.
US10782389B2
A device includes a circuit board having thereon, a controlling component, a first radar chip and a second radar chip. The first radar chip includes a first radar transmission antenna, a second radar transmission antenna and a first radar receiver antenna array. The second radar chip includes a second radar receiver antenna array. The controlling component can control the first radar chip and the second radar chip. The first radar transmission antenna can transmit a first radar transmission signal. The second radar transmission antenna can transmit a second radar transmission signal. The second radar chip is spaced from the first radar chip so as to create a virtual receiver antenna array between the first radar receiver antenna array and the second radar receiver antenna array.
US10782387B2
A method including providing a replica of a signal emitted by an on-board radar, receiving by a radar detector a signal, the received signal being the sum of a first signal depending on the signal emitted by the on-board radar and a second signal independent of the signal emitted by the on-board radar, the first signal being able to be represented by a linear combination of elementary signals each having an amplitude coefficient and a delay relative to the signal emitted by the on-board radar, processing the received signal, determining the amplitude coefficients and the delays of the elementary signals of the first signal relative to the signal emitted by the on-board radar, from the provided replica and the processed received signal, and eliminating, in the processed received signal, the first signal to obtain the second signal, from the provided replica.
US10782384B2
A localization system uses an auction-based cooperative localization method to determine local pose estimations or local pose state corrections. The auction-based cooperative localization method is triggered by receipt of relative position measurements by a member of a cooperative and is cooperatively processed by a bid winning member of the cooperative, where the cooperative refers to a collection of autonomous vehicles and passengers with location/position determinable devices that are in communication with each other for the purposes of sharing localization data, position data and the like. The bid winning member determines local pose estimations or local pose state corrections for itself and provides local pose estimations or local pose state corrections to the other members of the cooperative.
US10782382B2
An RFID system includes multiple antennas and uses amplitude and phase information of the RFID signals received by each antenna to determine the position of RFID tags in the vicinity. More than one antenna can receive the RFID signals during a single read cycle, enabling the RFID system to operate more quickly than a system that energizes antennas separately.
US10782374B2
In a method for providing a selection of at least one protocol parameter from a plurality of protocol parameters for a user-defined protocol parameter setting of at least one magnetic resonance protocol for a magnetic resonance examination on a patient using a magnetic resonance device, a selection mode and a setting mode can be performed. In the selection mode, stored user-dependent parameter information can be provided and a selection of the at least one protocol parameter for a protocol parameter setting can be determined based on the stored user-dependent parameter information. In the setting mode, the determined selection of the at least one protocol parameter can be provided to the user via a user interface.
US10782371B2
A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) apparatus includes a pair of permanent magnets spaced apart from each other and defining a sample space, the permanent magnets providing a magnetic field in the sample space, an array of magnetic field sensors arranged relative to the sample space to provide, during operation, information about a homogeneity of the magnetic field, an array of magnetic coils arranged relative to the sample space so that each magnetic coil, during operation, generates a magnetic field that changes the magnetic field in the sample space, and an electronic controller programmed to receive information about the magnetic field from the array of magnetic field sensors and to variably energize the magnetic coils in the array of magnetic coils so that the magnetic fields generated by the array of magnetic coils reduces inhomogeneities of the magnetic field.
US10782369B2
Transport apparatus pneumatically conveying NMR test samples (2) from or to an NMR spectrometer (1) through a tubular transport channel (3) includes a device (4) generating positive pressure in the end of the transport channel that is remote from the spectrometer. The transport channel has a tube system which has a gas-tight outer tube (5) having an outer diameter Da and an inner diameter da and an inner tube (6), arranged coaxially with respect to the outer tube, having an outer diameter Di
US10782367B2
A method for establishing a local concentration distribution of magnetic particles of at least one particle class within an examination volume or a variable derived from this concentration distribution. The method includes providing at least one system matrix, providing MPI signal data of at least one sample including magnetic particles of at least one particle class within a measurement volume, and reconstructing spatially resolved MPI image data from the provided MPI signal data. At least one spatial projection of at least one part of the system matrix is carried out along a projection direction and a projected system matrix is generated thereby. The reconstruction of the MPI image data is implemented with the at least partly projected system matrix, as a result of which MPI image data of a spatial projection of the local concentration distribution of the magnetic particles are produced along the projection direction.
US10782357B1
The present invention relates to improvements to automatic permanently installed insulation resistance test equipment. More particularly, the present invention relates to improvements to insulation test equipment for testing low voltage, medium voltage, and high voltage electrical equipment on the order of the rated voltage level while limiting the maximum output current to a safe level. The preferred test output voltage of the insulation test equipment would have a maximum test output of 5000 VDC, due to design considerations, but the AIRT test output could be made to be higher, up to a maximum of 15,000 VDC. After installation of the insulation test equipment in the control cabinet of the electrical equipment there will be no requirement to open the control cabinet to operate the insulation test equipment. The improvements will also allow personnel to perform an insulation test on electrical equipment without having to manually isolate the electrical equipment from the power source to perform the testing.
US10782356B2
A system includes a plurality of sensors configured to detect an electrical voltage and an electrical leakage current associated with an operation of an industrial machine, and a controller including a processor and a selection device. The selection device is configured to receive from the plurality of sensors a first input corresponding to the electrical voltage, and a second input corresponding to the electrical leakage current. The first input is paired with the second input to generate a paired input. The selection device is configured to transmit an output to the processor based at least in part on the paired input. The output includes an indication of the electrical leakage current or a dissipation factor associated with the industrial machine.
US10782351B2
Provided is a method of diagnosing at least one winding set of a stator of a generator during operation, the winding set having plural wires for plural phases, the method including: obtaining, for each of the plural wires of the winding set, an individual strength of an individual power output from the respective wire of the plural wires of the winding set; obtaining a sum strength of power; forming, for each considered wire of the plural wires of the winding set, an individual ratio between the individual strength of the considered wire and the sum strength; forming, for each considered wire of the plural wires of the winding set, a diagnostic value by subtracting from an individual ratio not corresponding to the considered wire a term depending on the individual ratio corresponding to the considered wire; diagnosing at least one wire based on comparing the diagnostic values.
US10782346B2
In described examples, a latch includes active feedback circuitry for latching input information. A comparison of logic states between input and output states at selected times can determine whether, for example, the latch has correctly retained latch data. The latch can optionally be included within a scan chain, provide asynchronous latch error notifications, and/or synchronous notifications indicating where in the scan chain a latch error occurred.
US10782343B2
Digital testing is performed on an integrated circuit while radiation upsets are induced at locations of the integrated circuit. For each digital test, a determination is made as to whether there is a variation in the output of the digital test from an expected output of the digital test. If there is variation, a time of the variation is indicated. In one example, a location of a defect in the digital circuit can be determined from the times of the variations. In other embodiments, a mapping of the digital circuit can be made from the times.
US10782337B2
Embodiments of apparatuses of a synchronized noise measurement system and methods for using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of performing noise measurement includes setting up a plurality of device under tests (DUTs), performing noise measurement of the plurality of DUTs synchronously using programmable testing parameters to generate a noise measurement data, collecting the noise measurement data from the plurality of DUTs in parallel, and analyzing the noise measurement data collected to identify deviations in noise performance caused by manufacturing process variations or environmental variations for the plurality of DUTs.
US10782330B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor integrated circuit and a signal processing method that can improve measurement accuracy. Pulses subjected to pulse generation and disconnection control by a control circuit are supplied to a pulse distribution circuit and a CP circuit. The pulse distribution circuit divides one pulse into two or more pulses that do not overlap each other, and supplies the pulses to a CBCM circuit. The CBCM circuit is configured by connecting a capacitance element to be measured to the output of a measurement core circuit called a pseudo inverter. The CP circuit inputs, to the gate electrode, pulses that cause a channel of a non-measurement MISFET to change from the accumulation state to the inverted state, and monitors, from the substrate side, a CP current flowing through a trap acting as a recombination center of the gate insulating film and the semiconductor substrate interface. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a semiconductor integrated circuit for evaluating the characteristics of the gate insulating film of the MISFET.
US10782327B2
A power supply system includes a power control device and a power supply device. The power control device includes a first controller, a power measurement circuit, and a first communication circuit. The power measurement circuit measures power being supplied to the power supply device. The first controller calculates additionally suppliable power based on the power being supplied and selects one operation mode based on the additionally suppliable power. The first communication circuit transmits the operation mode selected to the power supply device. The power supply device includes a second controller, a power converter circuit, and a second communication circuit. The second communication circuit receives the operation mode selected. The second controller outputs a condition of supply power indicating electric power supplied, to the power converter circuit. The power converter circuit converts electric power based on the condition of supply power, and supplies the electric power converted to an external device.
US10782324B2
The disclosure relates to a device for measuring electrical current in an electrical conductor (2), the device comprising: a measuring circuit configured to be connected to the electrical conductor, the measuring circuit comprising: a resistor based measuring circuit comprising a resistor (10), a transformer based measuring circuit comprising a current transformer (20) comprising a primary coil (20a), connected in series with the resistor (10) of the resistor based measuring circuit, a first inverter (12) configured to transform a first digital signal using a transfer function being an inverse of a transfer function representing the resistor based measuring circuit; a second inverter (22) configured to transform a second digital signal using a transfer function being an inverse of a transfer function representing the transformer based measuring circuits; and a signal combiner (5) configured to combine the transformed first and second digital signals, thereby providing a digital signal representing the electrical current in the electrical conductor. The disclosure also relates to a method for measuring electrical current in an electrical conductor.
US10782320B2
A method for measuring a temporal drainage of an alternating current flowing through a measurement object, in which a Rogowski-Steinhaus-Chattock coil is aligned on the measurement object, at least one isolating line is inserted into coil windings of the Rogowski-Steinhaus-Chattock coil, said isolating line minimizing a capacitive coupling of the coil windings of the Rogowski-Steinhaus-Chattock coil with one another and/or with at least one further electrical line, and a voltage induced by the alternating current in at least one measuring line comprising the Rogowski-Steinhaus-Chattock coil is measured. A corresponding sensor and a method for providing a sensor of this type are furthermore disclosed.
US10782311B2
Imaging of complex, non-stationary three dimensional (3D) flow velocities is achieved by encoding depth into color. A flow volume 22 is illuminated with a continuum 40 of light planes 42 whereby each depth corresponds to a respective light plane 14 having a specific wavelength of light. A diffractive component 46 in the camera 24 optics, which records the trajectories of illuminated particles 20 within the flow volume 22, ensures that all light planes 42 are in focus simultaneously. The setup permits a user to track 3D trajectories of particles 20 within the flow volume 22 by combining two dimensional (2D) spatial and one dimensional (1D) color information. For reconstruction, an image formation model for recovering stationary 3D particle positions is provided. 3D velocity estimation is achieved with a variant of a 3D optical flow approach that accounts for both physical constraints as well as the color (rainbow) image formation model.
US10782308B2
Methods, kits and devices for detecting antineoplastic drug contamination of a surface are provided according to aspects of the present invention. According to aspects of the invention, methods for detecting antineoplastic drug contamination of a surface include providing a wetting solution compatible with the antineoplastic drug and formulated to promote release of the drug from the surface to be assayed; providing a solid matrix for reversible absorption of the antineoplastic drug; contacting the solid matrix with the wetting solution, generating an assay matrix; contacting the assay matrix and the surface, generating a surface sample; contacting the surface sample with a volume of wetting solution, generating a fluid test sample; and quantifying the antineoplastic drug in the fluid test sample by lateral flow assay to produce an assay result, thereby detecting antineoplastic drug contamination of the surface.
US10782304B2
The present invention relates to methods and kits for detection protein-protein interactions. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for detecting the binding between a first polypeptide (A) and a second polypeptide (B) in a cell comprising i) providing a cell that expresses (a) a polypeptide (GFP1-9) comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 90% of identity with the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1-4 (b) a first fusion protein wherein the polypeptide (A) is fused to a polypeptide (GFP10) having an amino an amino acid sequence having at least 90% of identity with the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:5-7 (c) a second fusion protein wherein the polypeptide (B) is fused to a polypeptide (GFP11) having an amino an amino acid sequence having at least 90% of identity with the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 8-9 and (d) an intrabody specific for the complex formed by the self-assembly of the first, second and third polypeptides (a), (b) and (c) ii) detecting the fluorescence wherein when the fluorescence is detected it is concluded that the polypeptide (A) binds to polypeptide (B) and wherein the fluorescence is not detected it is concluded that the polypeptides (A) does not bind to polypeptide (B).
US10782290B2
According to the present invention, the amount of a plasmablast (PB) in a sample of a relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patient can be measured, thereby predicting the therapeutic effect of interferon beta (IFN-β) or predicting a RRMS case for which the continuous administration of IFN-β is difficult due to the manifestation of a serious adverse reaction or the aggravation of concomitant immune disorder. In addition, the amount of PB in a sample of a RRMS patient can also be measured, thereby predicting the therapeutic effect of an IL-6 inhibitor in the treatment of RRMS. As a result, a treatment method effective for patients not suitable for IFN-β in the treatment of RRMS can be provided.
US10782287B2
Disclosed herein are methods of using an immobilized substrate, immobilized ligand, and a fusion protein of an enzyme for the substrate and a receptor for the ligand, where the immobilized substrate can react to form an immobilized product that has a different mass than the immobilized substrate, and using this transformation to indirectly determine the binding of the receptor and the ligand. These methods can be used for high-throughput screening for possible modulators (e.g., inhibitors or activators) of the ligand-receptor interaction.
US10782277B1
Aspects for a gas detection system are described herein. As an example, the aspects may include a master device and one or more slave sensor devices communicatively connected to the master controller device. The one or more slave sensor devices may be configured to respectively detect one or more types of gases to generate detection results, convert the detection results into detection signals, transmit the detection signals to the master controller device. The master controller device may be configured to receive the detection signals, generate a detection report based on the detection signals, and transmit the detection report to one or more external devices.
US10782274B2
A long term portable gas detecting and monitoring apparatus includes a case having a continuous sidewall including a first end closed by a first end cap, and a second end closed by a second end cap connected sealably and removably to the continuous sidewall. The continuous sidewall is triangular between the closed end and the open having three sides and three corners, two of the three sides being straight and equal in length, one of the three sides being rounded, and each of the three corners being rounded. A long term gas detection and monitoring unit mounted in the case includes gas, and temperature and humidity sensors in communication with an ambient atmosphere outside the case, a data processor operatively connected to the sensors, data storage, an information display viewable through the case, and a calibration unit for calibrating the gas sensor to a predetermined gas concentration measured by the gas sensors.
US10782273B2
A method of detecting gas with a photoionization detector (PID) system. The method includes powering on a photoionization detector, turning off an ultraviolet lamp of the photoionization detector by a controller of the PID system and keeping it turned off during the zero calibration procedure, flowing ambient air from a surrounding environment by a fan of the photoionization detector system past a detector electrode of the photoionization detector, processing an output of the detector electrode by the controller to determine a zero level of the photoionization detector, and storing the zero level in a memory of the photoionization detector system. The photoionization detector system in a detecting mode compares an output of the detector electrode to the zero level to determine if a threshold concentration of a gas is present.
US10782270B2
A photoacoustic sensor device may include a housing and first and second ceramic cavity packages disposed in the housing. The first ceramic cavity package may include a first sidewall having a first set of electrical contact elements, a first cavity structure, and a light source electrically coupled to the first set of electrical contact elements. The second ceramic cavity package may include a second sidewall having a second set of electrical contact elements, a second cavity structure, and a photoacoustic detector electrically coupled to the second set of electrical contact elements. The first and second ceramic cavity packages may be arranged such that the light source and the photoacoustic detector face one another, and oriented such that the first and second sets of electrical contact elements align with electrical contact points of a PCB when the photoacoustic sensor device is positioned over the PCB for coupling to the PCB.
US10782269B2
Micromachined ultrasonic transducers integrated with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) substrates are described, as well as methods of fabricating such devices. Fabrication may involve two separate wafer bonding steps. Wafer bonding may be used to fabricate sealed cavities in a substrate. Wafer bonding may also be used to bond the substrate to another substrate, such as a CMOS wafer. At least the second wafer bonding may be performed at a low temperature.
US10782267B1
The mobile non-destructive testing inspection system includes a mobile platform, a robotic arm mounted on the mobile platform, and an end effector for the robotic arm. The end effector includes a non-destructive testing (NDT) probe. As a non-limiting example, the NDT probe may be an eddy current testing probe. The mobile platform may be a robotic mobile platform under external control by a remote operator. The robotic arm is mounted on the mobile platform using a mounting plate, which is secured to an upper surface of the mobile platform, and includes a bracket or the like for attachment to a base of the robotic arm. The end effector is connected to an end connector of the robotic arm. The NDT probe of the end effector may be mounted on a support member, which may be selectively rotatable with respect to the end connector of the robotic arm.
US10782266B1
A method of making a fiber reinforced composite material having a two-part liquid solution forming magnetic nanoparticles. The method includes the steps of preparing a fiber reinforced composite having dispersed fibers and a polymer matrix and having a plurality of vascular channels therethrough. A first liquid solution is incorporated in at least one of the vascular channels and a second liquid solution is incorporated in at least one other of the vascular channels. When the liquid solutions are joined together because of damage or cracking to the composite, the liquids form a ferrous magnetic material. Non-destructive evaluation of internal damage to the fiber reinforced composite material may be accomplished by magnetic field disturbance detection, thermal detection, or visual detection.
US10782264B2
Devices and methods for characterization of analyte mixtures are provided. Some methods described herein include performing enrichment steps on a device before expelling enriched analyte fractions from the device for subsequent analysis. Also included are devices for performing these enrichment steps.
US10782263B2
An impedance in an electrochemical gas sensor can be measured by connecting at least one pin in an integrated circuit to at least one electrode in an electrochemical gas sensor, using a damping capacitor to connect the at least one pin in the integrated circuit to an electrical ground, applying a voltage to the electrochemical gas sensor to provide a bias voltage to at least one electrode in the electrochemical gas sensor, receiving a current from at least one electrode in the electrochemical gas sensor, determining a measured gas amount from the received current, activating a switch located within the integrated circuit to isolate the damping capacitor from the at least one pin in the integrated circuit, and measuring an impedance of the electrochemical gas sensor using an excitation signal while the at least one damping capacitor is isolated from the at least one electrode in the electrochemical gas sensor.
US10782258B2
A system for measuring critical temperatures of superconducting components of a superconducting circuit housed in a cryogenic chamber with a controllable ambient temperature is described. The superconducting circuit can have a plurality of superconductor-resistor pairs connected in series. Each of the plurality of superconductor-resistor pairs can include a superconducting component and a resistor coupled in parallel with the superconducting component. The system can also include a resistance meter that measures a resistance of the superconducting circuit. The system further includes a controller that commands the cryogenic chamber to gradually sweep the ambient temperature. The controller can also record an instant ambient temperature as a critical temperature for a given superconducting component of a corresponding one of the plurality of superconductor-resistor pairs in response to detecting a change in a measured resistance across an input node and an output node of the superconducting circuit.
US10782255B2
This invention provides a NMR multi-dimensional method for measuring coupling constants within several coupling networks. At first, a 90° hard pulse was performed to flip the magnetization from the Z axis to the XY plane. After t1/2, a selective 180° pulse is implemented with a simultaneous Z-direction gradient, thus reversing different protons at different slices. Then the PSYCHE element is implemented. After another t1/2, the gradient G1 and Gp are implemented. At last, the EPSI readout is used to simultaneously record both the chemical-shift and the spatial information. As a result, from different specific slices, we can extract the scalar couplings between the proton reversed at this slice and other protons. These couplings lead to splittings in the indirect dimension, from which relevant coupling constants can be measured.
US10782254B2
In a method of detecting a defect, a region of a substrate may be primarily scanned using a first electron beam to detect a first defect. A remaining region of the substrate, which may be defined by excluding a portion in which the first defect may be positioned from the region of the substrate, may be secondarily scanned using a second electron beam to detect a second defect. Thus, the portion with the defect may not be scanned in a following scan process so that a scanning time may be remarkably decreased.
US10782237B2
Tracer gas sensing device comprising a gas discharge cell having cell walls defining a discharge volume and a tracer gas inlet into the discharge volume, an optical spectrometer arrangement having a radiation source on a first side of the discharge cell for emitting radiation into the discharge cell and a radiation detector on a second side of the discharge cell opposite to the first side for detecting radiation which was emitted by the radiation source through the discharge volume, and electrodes on opposing sides of the discharge cell for generating a plasma within the discharge cell, said electrodes being unexposed plasma electrodes. The discharge cell may be a dielectric barrier discharge cell and the electrodes may be powered by an AC power source.
US10782236B2
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise a method and apparatus for a biosensor. The biosensor comprises a vertical flow channel that extends through a photodiode, and wherein the photodiode is lateral to the channel's vertical sidewall.
US10782227B2
Luminescence test measurements are conducted using an assay module having integrated electrodes with a reader apparatus adapted to receive assay modules, induce luminescence, preferably electrode induced luminescence, in the wells or assay regions of the assay modules and measure the induced luminescence.
US10782215B2
This disclosure relates to a real-time video extensometer. Typically, the apparatus of the disclosure combines the image source, data processing and electrical output on to a single processing board in order to achieve high frequency images and low latency times on data flow. Further, the video processing engine processes the image on a pixel basis and updating the output the intermediate extension/strain result so that after receipt of the final image pixel, a final extension/strain value is achieved and immediately output for evaluation.
US10782211B2
A sampling device and an inspection apparatus are disclosed. In one aspect, an example gathering and sampling device includes a cylindrical outer housing and an inner housing disposed within the cylindrical outer housing, a cyclone chamber is formed between the cylindrical outer housing and the inner housing to generate a cyclone by injecting a gas flow into the cyclone chamber. The gathering and sampling device further includes an outer chamber body, and a plurality of gas injection orifices formed in the first inner housing end opening of the inner housing and configured to inject a gas towards a substantial center of a circular region defined by an end face of the first outer housing end opening of the cylindrical outer housing.
US10782208B2
An injector testing device includes a fluid pump, which is configured to convey a test oil; a motor, which is connected mechanically to the fluid pump and is configured to drive the fluid pump; at least one injector holding device for mounting at least one injector to be tested; and a rail, which is configured to receive the test oil conveyed by the fluid pump and to fluidly connect to at least one injector to be tested. In this context, the rail is mounted in the injector testing device in such a manner, that it may be swiveled with respect to the at least one injector holding device, in order to align it with the injector to be tested.
US10782206B2
Encircled flux compliant test apparatus are provided. A test apparatus includes an optical connector, and a light source, the light source operable to emit encircled flux compliant light. The test apparatus further includes a first collimator, and a beam splitter optically aligned with the first collimator. The test apparatus further includes a first optical fiber pigtail connected to the light source, and a second optical fiber pigtail connected between the optical connector and the first collimator. A first portion of the light emitted by the light source is transmitted from the first optical fiber pigtail by the beam splitter and first collimator to the second optical fiber pigtail, and from the second optical fiber pigtail to the optical connector.
US10782200B2
A high-temperature pressure sensor includes a pressure sensor device and a heater shell body external to the pressure sensor device for providing heat to the pressure sensor device. A particle-generating insulation material is encapsulated within an encapsulation material to form an encapsulated insulation structure comprising the particle-generating insulation material within the encapsulation material, such that the encapsulation material substantially contains particles generated by the particle-generating insulation material within encapsulated insulation structure. The encapsulated insulation structure is disposed adjacent to an exterior of the heater shell body.
US10782198B2
A system and method include a gauge device and one or more of a communication device or a pulling assembly. The gauge device may be configured to send a message to display on one or more of the communication device or pulling assembly. Additionally or alternatively, the gauge device may be configured to send the message to be processed by pulling assembly to determine and perform a pull action. Additionally or alternatively, the gauge device may be configured to send the message to be executed by the pulling assembly to perform a pull action.
US10782192B2
Calibration bath with stir motor closed-loop control and stirring viscosity detection and adjustment
A calibration device includes a tank, a propeller disposed within the tank, a motor coupled to the propeller, a processor coupled to the motor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the motor to rotate at a specified speed based on input an indication of an actual speed of the motor. The memory may store instructions that cause the device to dynamically change the speed of the motor based on the viscosity of a fluid in the tank, which changes as the temperature of the fluid changes. In addition, the memory may store instructions that cause the device to determine whether the fluid in the tank is deteriorated, and to provide an operator alert in response to determining that the fluid is deteriorated.
US10782184B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical device. The optical device comprises an electronic component, a plurality of light conducting pillars and an opaque layer. The electronic component includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the light conducting pillars is disposed over a corresponding pixel of the plurality of pixels of the electronic component. The opaque layer covers a lateral surface of each of the light conducting pillars.
US10782180B2
A hopper includes a main body having a first opening to which articles are thrown in and a second opening from which the articles are discharged, a gate capable of being opened and closed with respect to the second opening, a restricting portion configured to restrict an opening and closing operation of the gate with respect to the second opening, and an attaching portion capable of being attached and detached with respect to an attached portion provided on a weighing apparatus. The restricting portion starts restricting the opening and closing operation in a state where the gate is closed with respect to the second opening in conjunction with an operation of detaching the attaching portion from the attached portion.
US10782163B2
An autonomous, low-power turbine flow meter and an assembly of at least one flow meter and at least one signal receiving device configured to receive signals, preferably in a wireless manner, produced and transmitted by the flow meter. The invention further relates to a method for measuring at least one flow characteristic, in particular the flow rate, of a fluid flowing through a flow meter.
US10782159B2
A detection device includes: a movement detector that includes light emitters and light receivers, wherein in accordance with movement of a moving body among moving bodies, each corresponding to a different combination of a light emitter and a light receiver, a light reception level of the light receiver in a combination corresponding to the moving body changes; and a processor coupled to a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to: cause each of the light emitters to sequentially emit light in each light emission period by providing a driving signal, and cause a signal level of the driving signal to differ between unit periods within the light emission period; and select, for each light emission period, a light reception level in one of the unit periods within the light emission period as a detected value for each of the light receivers.
US10782155B2
An angle detection apparatus includes a first integrated circuit and a second integrated circuit. The first integrated circuit generates and outputs an excitation signal to a first resolver for detecting a rotation angle of a first rotating apparatus, generates a first detection sync signal for performing synchronous detection synchronized with the excitation signal for an output signal of the first resolver, and performs the synchronous detection based on the first detection sync signal to output a first angle signal of the first rotating apparatus. The second integrated circuit receives the excitation signal, generates a second detection sync signal for performing the synchronous detection synchronized with the received excitation signal, for an output signal from a second resolver for detecting a rotation angle of a second rotating apparatus, and performs the synchronous detection based on the second detection sync signal to output a second angle signal of the second rotating apparatus.
US10782147B2
A method for determining an operational characteristic of a vibrating structure gyroscope having a movable mass includes: driving the mass to oscillate along a first, predefined path; rotating the vibrating structure gyroscope so as to oscillate the mass along a second path, wherein the second path is different to the first, predefined path; sensing the oscillation of the mass along the second path so as to generate a sensing signal; converting the sensing signal into an in-phase signal and an out-of-phase signal using a demodulator, wherein the in-phase signal is in phase with the oscillation of the mass along the first path, and the out-of-phase signal is out of phase with the in-phase signal.
US10782144B2
An autonomous vehicle and method of providing driving information of an autonomous vehicle, the method includes acquiring outside situation data via a sensor in the autonomous vehicle, generating, based on the acquired outside situation data, a local map comprising the autonomous vehicle, one or more external vehicles within a threshold distance from the autonomous vehicle, and a road on which the autonomous vehicle is travelling, and displaying the generated local map on a display of the autonomous vehicle.
US10782143B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a display of a navigation map. The system may comprise a historical data source device having, for example, a historical data source computer and a database storing historical data associated with one or more of vehicle accident data, traffic data, vehicle volume data, vehicle density data, road characteristic data, or weather data. The system may comprise a map data processing device having a map data processing computer and memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the map data processing computer, cause the map data processing device to, for example, determine, based on a location determining device, a location of a vehicle. The map data processing system may determine one or more historical factors based on the location of the vehicle. The map data processing system may receive, from the historical data source device and for the location, historical data associated with the one or more historical factors. Based on the location of the vehicle, one or more real time factors and real time data associated with the one or more real time factors may be calculated. The map data processing system may calculate, using the one or more historical factors and the one or more real time factors, a navigation score for each segment of a route from the location to a destination location. The map data processing system may determine one or more colors for each navigation score and/or generate a display of a navigation map comprising the one or more colors.
US10782133B2
Geolocation sensor devices, methods, and systems are described herein. One geolocation sensor device includes an optical position sensor configured to receive sunlight and determine a current angular position of the sun relative to the geolocation sensor device based, at least in part, on the received sunlight, a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to determine a current location of the geolocation sensor device based, at least in part, on the determined current angular position of the sun and a current time of day.
US10782130B2
The disclosure describes a microelectromechanical gyroscope comprising a substrate and at least one inertial mass suspended from an anchor points by a suspension structure configured to allow the first inertial mass to oscillate rotationally both in the device plane and out of the device plane. The suspension structure comprises a set of first suspenders coated with piezoelectric transducer structures configured drive or detect the oscillating motion of the suspended inertial mass in the device plane, and a set of second suspenders coated with piezoelectric transducer structures configured to drive or detect the oscillating motion of the suspended inertial mass out of the device plane. The set of first suspenders and set of second suspenders are concatenated in the suspension structure.
US10782116B2
A discrete magnetic angle sensor device can include a first magnetic field gradiometer and a second magnetic field gradiometer. The first magnetic field gradiometer and the second magnetic field gradiometer can be of different types of a group of gradiometer types. The sensor advantageously improves an accuracy of a determination of a rotation angle.
US10782114B2
A sensor assembly includes a first magnetic field sensor that is a first type of sensor and has a first magnetic field sensitivity in a first primary sensing direction. The first primary sensing direction is along a longitudinal axis of the sensor assembly. The sensor assembly further includes a second magnetic field sensor that is a second type of sensor different than the first type of sensor and has a second magnetic field sensitivity in a second primary sensing direction that is less than the first magnetic field sensitivity. The second primary sensing direction is along a second axis that is different than the longitudinal axis.
US10782109B1
A nonlethal projectile includes a debilitating material for immobilizing a target. The projectile is capable of self-separating or otherwise opening after launch by a launcher to release the debilitating material prior to impact with a target. The launcher is capable of initiating separation of the projectile. Opening may also be accomplished by a control circuit with a radio-frequency identification (RFID), where an RFID tag in the projectile causes the projectile to open at a user-specified distance from the launcher or by the force of launch on the projectile. A magazine may hold a plurality of projectiles and the various projectiles of the magazine may be configured to open at different distances and/or times after launch. The launcher may include a trigger and/or a safety switch to prevent the projectile from becoming armed until a certain parameter is met. The debilitating material may also be released through pores in the projectile.
US10782106B2
A shaped charge including an explosive load positioned in a casing, a liner applied on the load, and means ensuring the securing of the casing and the load bearing the liner. These securing means include a ring having a stop surface for the liner and at least two shims each covering an angular sector and moving radially by the action of a tightening means, to be pressed against an inner bearing surface of the casing. According to the invention, the tapped hole of the tightening screw(s) has its axis parallel to the axis of the casing and the shim is positioned axially relative to the ring by at least one radial pin authorizing sliding thereof.
US10782099B2
Implementations of an adapter plate system for mounting optical sights on a pistol are provided. In general, the adapter plate system comprises an adapter plate configured so that an optical sight can be mounted thereon and a pistol slide having an adapter interface configured to receive the adapter plate. The adapter plate can be rotated into position between end walls of the adaper interface. An example adapter interface may include a pivot boss that extends up from the bottom surface thereof. The pivot boss is positioned to be received within a pivot bore located in the underside of an example adapter plate.
US10782097B2
A device that causes a weapon to fire upon a target when the weapon is enabled by an operator, and when the weapon point of impact passes through a target or in a proximity thereto and when the target satisfies certain criteria as determined by one or more sensors/designations.The invention triggers the release of a round, multi-round burst, rocket, missile, or other projectile(s) when enabled by the operator, and when the target passes through the point of impact (or desired/computed proximity thereto), relieving the operator of the split second judgment in timing the release and/or cessation of such fire. The results include reduction in off-target rounds fired, increased hit rate, conservation of ammunition, more effective targeting for non-motion-stabilized weapons, and the introduction of a backup mode for nominally motion-stabilized weapons which may allow effective operations when primary stabilization systems fail or are overwhelmed by dynamics.
US10782093B2
A sling apparatus that improves user comfort and weapon stabilization and that can be easily converted to and from single-point configuration, two-point configuration, and body armor configuration. The configuration flexibility and ease of conversion allows the user to tailor the sling apparatus to user preferences or environment. In any configuration, the sling improves the user's ability to stabilize the weapon, enhances the comfort of the user, secures the weapon more tightly to the user's body for increased weapon control, and provides an integrated source of paracord that can be utilized in emergency situations.
US10782084B2
A bipod for supporting a projectile weapon is provided. The bipod comprises, for example, a bracket attachable to the projectile weapon, a first leg and a second leg pivotally attached to opposing ends of the bracket respectively, and a base attachable to the projectile weapon and pivotally couplable to the bracket at a joint located between the opposing ends of the bracket, the base having a fiction element at a surface of the base, the friction element frictionally engageable with the bracket so as to provide a friction lock between the base and the bipod retaining the projectile weapon in a desired orientation relative to the bipod.
US10782079B2
A three-dimensional pulsating heat pipe includes a pipe member and a connecting member. The pipe member is coiled around an axis to form a plurality of loop portions, and the loop portions are arranged in order along the axis so as to form a three-dimensional coiled structure. The three-dimensional coiled structure has a heat receiving section, and the pipe member has different effective pipe cross-sectional areas on two opposite sides adjacent to the heat receiving section. The connecting member is connected to two ends of the pipe member, such that the connecting member and the pipe member together form a closed loop.
US10782073B2
A waste heat boiler system for cooling a process gas, including a first shell-and-tube heat exchanger for cooling relatively hot gas down to relatively warm gas, an intermediate chamber for receiving gas, cooled down to relatively warm gas, coming out of tubes of the first heat exchanger, and a second shell-and-tube heat exchanger for cooling relatively warm gas further down to relatively cool gas. The intermediate chamber is provided with an outlet fluidly connected to a bypass channel for allowing a part of the relatively warm gas to bypass tubes of the second heat exchanger. The bypass channel and tubes of the second heat exchanger are both fluidly connected with a mixing chamber for mixing together relatively warm gas flowed from the intermediate chamber into the mixing chamber via the bypass channel and relatively cool gas come out of the tubes of the second heat exchanger.
US10782065B2
A domestic appliance device, particularly a domestic refrigerator device, has at least one appliance body with at least one a rear wall, at least one shelf unit, and at least one retainer unit provided for retaining the shelf unit. In order to improve properties with respect to advantageous shelf unit retention, the retainer unit has at least one retainer element whose main extension direction extends, in at least one operating state, at least substantially parallel to the rear wall and at least substantially in a horizontal direction.
US10782053B1
A fluid chiller includes a tubular coil enclosed within a vacuum housing which is partially filled with a coolant and an atmosphere with the vacuum housing connected to a vacuum source. A valve selectively connects the vacuum source to the vacuum housing to allow selective reduction of the pressure within the vacuum housing to obtain a reduction of temperature of the coolant therein. A conventional, compressor type refrigeration system may be connected to the vacuum housing for chilling the vacuum housing and the atmosphere and coolant therein to an initial temperature, prior to applying a vacuum to the vacuum housing for further temperature reduction. A fluid, which may be a secondary coolant, flows through the tubular coil at least partially immersed in the coolant to cool the secondary coolant. The secondary coolant is used to cool a heat load.
US10782051B2
A magneto-caloric thermal diode assembly includes a magneto-caloric regenerator with a plurality of magneto-caloric stages. Each of the plurality of magneto-caloric stages has a respective Curie temperature. Each of the plurality of magneto-caloric stages also has a stack of magneto-caloric material blocks and metal foil layers distributed sequentially along an axial direction in the order of magneto-caloric material block then metal foil layer.
US10782037B2
A bathroom management apparatus includes: a cabinet having an open front; at least one frame configured to be installed at an inner side of the cabinet; at least one function module, wherein the at least one function module is one of a towel care module, a sterilizing module, a secret box module, a refrigerating module, a charging module, and an air conditioning module configured to be installed inside the at least one frame body, wherein guide ribs are formed at both sides of the at least one function module, and inner ribs are formed at first and second side frames of the frame, and are configured to guide and support the guide ribs when inserting the at least one function module into the at least one frame.
US10782034B2
The present disclosure involves a free cooling temperature conditioning system having an air handling assembly having a first cooling coil. The first cooling coil includes an intake port receiving coolant at a first temperature and further includes an output port for the coolant at a second temperature. The air handing assembly receives return air flow from a space being temperature conditioned, where the return air flows over the first cooling coil to condition the return air to supply air. The air handing assembly delivers the supply air into the space being temperature conditioned. The conditioning system also includes a controller configured to maintain a temperature difference between the second temperature and the first temperature.
US10782032B2
An electronic controller device for automatic control of a heating, ventilating, air conditioning or refrigeration (HVACR) system, which has at least a delayed start controller that is capable of delaying sending of a signal to power on a load unit and achieve a selected conditioned space temperature variation, and a demand regulator controller that is capable of calculating on times and off times to obtain a selected electrical demand. The electronic controller device can include a computer-readable storage medium that comprises programs to implement the delayed start and demand regulator controllers, and optionally other controller modules, can delay OEM ON signals and/or adjust the “on” and “off” states, and/or provide other load unit control, to manage and reduce energy consumption and/or demand.
US10782031B2
A ventilation hood is mounted to an underside of a cabinet, including a bottom panel and a lower support frame positioned above a cooking appliance, by first and second brackets secured below the cabinet at spaced positions aligned with outermost edge portions of the lower support frame and at least one fastener assembly secured to a front portion of the ventilation hood. Multiple embodiments are disclosed for the at least one fastener assembly, including tabs bent from a housing of the ventilation hood, feet threadably attached to the hood, mounting blocks including snap connectors, threaded fasteners, and pinned bolts.
US10782026B2
The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for flagging a location on an object with a light image so that when a line of sight of the object is later obstructed, the light flagged location is known available to be utilized. A light is projected onto a cooktop to flag a burner location in order to use that location for centering of a pot over on burner when the pot being placed on the burner obstructs the line of sight of the cook to the burner.
US10782018B2
A gas burner assembly and a method of operating the same are provided. The gas burner assembly includes fuel valve for providing a flow of fuel and an air pump for providing a flow of air into a boost fuel chamber prior to combustion. The method includes obtaining a predetermined cold start airflow schedule and modifying the cold start airflow schedule if the operating history of the gas burner assembly indicates that the temperature of the gas burner assembly is elevated, e.g., not cold. Specifically, the warmer the gas burner assembly, the more the airflow is increased relative to the cold start airflow schedule.
US10782016B2
A system for removing impurities from post-combustion gas includes an oxidizer and a reducer operatively connected to the oxidizer, the reducer configured to receive the post-combustion gas. The system further includes a CLOU material capable of selective circulation between the oxidizer and reducer. The CLOU material further oxidizes impurities present in the post-combustion gas to reduce or remove the same.
US10782013B1
A case for a remote control device having a body, the body including a cavity, wherein the cavity is configured to receive the remote control device. The body further including a first length positioned along a first side of the cavity and a second length positioned along a second side of the cavity, wherein the second length of the body is positioned at a distance from the first length of the body and opposite to the first length of the body. A first light source affixed and positioned along the first length of the cavity, wherein the first light source may be encased within a protective transparent sleeve. A housing receives and stores a power source and an electronic circuit board, coupled to the power source. The remote control case further includes at least one sensor.
US10782011B2
An LED lamp includes: a lamp shell including a lamp head, a lamp neck and a sleeve; a passive heat dissipating element having a heat sink connected to the lamp shell; a power source having a first portion and a second portion; a light emitting surface connected to the heat sink of the passive heat dissipating element and comprising LED chips electrically connected to the power source; a first heat dissipating channel formed in a first chamber of the lamp shell for dissipating heat generated from the power source while the LED lamp is working, and the first chamber is located between bottom of the LED lamp and an upper portion of the lamp neck; and a second heat dissipating channel formed in the heat sink and between the fins and the base of the heat sink for dissipating the heat generated from the LED chips and transferred to the heat sink; wherein a lateral outline of the LED lamp detours around the axis of the LED lamp 360 degrees to turn around to form a contour of the LED lamp, the outline includes an outline of the lamp neck and an outline of the heat sink, the outline of the lamp neck is a concave curve, the outline of the heat sink is a convex curve, the radius of curvature of the outline of the lamp neck is greater than the radius of curvature of the outline of the heat sink.
US10781987B2
The invention describes a light converting device comprising: a light converter for converting laser light to converted light, the light converter comprising a light entrance surface, a bonding surface opposite to the light entrance surface and a side surface; a substrate carrying the light converter and comprising a reflective structure for reflecting laser light and converted light; a reflective side structure optically coupled to the side surface of the light converter and for reflecting laser light and converted light; a cooling element attached to the reflective side structure for cooling the reflective side structure, wherein the cooling element comprises material which is transparent in the wavelength range of the laser light and the wavelength range of the converted light, and wherein the cooling element is arranged in an optical path of the laser light, an optical path of reflected laser light and an optical path of the converted light, and a decoupling structure between the light converter and the cooling element for avoiding light guiding of the reflected laser light and the converted light in the cooling element. The invention further describes a light emitting element, a laser-based light source comprising such a light converting device or such a light emitting device, and a vehicle headlight comprising one or more laser-based light sources.
US10781981B2
A lighting device (1) is disclosed, which comprises a light guide (2) arranged to guide light. The light guide (2) may be constituted by or comprise an elongated light guide (2) having a central axis (3). The light guide (2) may comprise a core section (14) extending along the central axis (3) and being arranged to guide light. The light guide (2) may comprise a cladding section (15; 17, 18) which is at least in part surrounding the core section (14), is coupled to the core section (14) at an inner surface (16) of the cladding section (15; 17, 18), and is extending along the central axis (3). The lighting device (1) comprises at least one communication element (20) mechanically connected to the light guide (2). The at least one communication element (20) is arranged for wireless communication.
US10781980B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) display module including a back panel substantially formed of a material having a thermal expansion that is less than plastic used in injection molding, a housing that frames the back panel comprised of one or more plastic molded parts, and a front face having a louver is disclosed.
US10781975B2
The invention relates to a liquefied-fluid storage tank including a storage wall the inner surface of which defines a storage volume for liquefied fluid, the tank including an exchanger for cooling the fluid contained in the tank in particular to condense vapors of said fluid. The invention is characterized in that the cooling exchanger includes a body of metal, in particular aluminum, in which at least one pipe of a coolant circuit is integrated in order to cool said body and in that the body is in contact with and attached to the outer surface of the storage wall.
US10781970B1
The friction clamp has a basic configuration including a cylindrical body of elongate form between ends and with a slot into which a tubular item can be snapped. Lateral connectors and such as a receiver with a cylindrical recess therein can receive an end of a tubular member, such as a member similar to that which snaps into the slot. A plug with associated hook can be fitted into this recess of the receiver to allow for items to be suspended from the hook. As an alternative to the receiver, a tab can be provided extending from the clamp laterally. The tab includes a hole through which hardware can be placed, and an item having a similar tab can be placed adjacent to the tab extending from the clamp and the hardware tightened to fix the item to the clamp through the pair of tabs at a desired rotational orientation.
US10781966B2
An extendable, load-bearing structure has a main structure and a driving element. The main structure has at least one driving arm. The driving element is placed in connection with the driving arm to drive the extendable, load-bearing structure between first and second positions. The extendable, load-bearing structure has a lock mechanism, and a supporting structure. The supporting structure has at least one supporting arm that is shorter than the driving arm of the main structure. The supporting arm has at least two supporting-arm elements which are connected to each other by joints. The supporting-arm elements of the supporting arm are substantially in line when the extendable, load-bearing structure is in its second position. The lock mechanism is arranged to releasably lock the supporting-arm elements of the supporting arm in position when these are in line.
US10781963B2
A heat-insulating housing (21) includes: a wall body; and an open-cell resin body (4) of thermosetting resin with which a heat-insulating space formed by the wall body is filled by integral foaming, the open-cell resin body including: a plurality of cells (47); a cell film portion (42); a cell skeleton portion (43); a first through-hole (44) formed so as to extend through the cell film portion; and a second through-hole (45) formed so as to extend through the cell skeleton portion, wherein the plurality of cells communicate with one another through the first through-hole and the second through-hole.
US10781956B2
Various connection devices and assemblies, such as telescoping riser joints, can include at least one of the present connection devices. Some of the present connection devices, for example, include a housing having a bore therethrough; a locking ring rotatably movable relative to the housing between a first position and a second position; and an engagement member laterally moveable relative to the bore of the housing between a retracted position and an extended position. In some such connection devices, the locking ring is configured such that movement from the first position to the second position causes the engagement member to move from the retracted position to the extended position.
US10781954B2
A system for selectably fastening a female member with a male member adapted to fit inside the female member, the female member having one or more inward-facing recesses and the male member having one or more outward-facing recess, the recesses being of similar cross-sectional dimensions, includes one or more moveable, ferromagnetic locking elements housed within the inward-facing recesses of the female member; and a locking magnet mounted onto the male member, in magnetic proximity to the one or more outward-facing recesses, wherein, in the presence of a magnetic force applied by the locking magnet, mating of the male and female members bringing the outward-facing and inwardly-facing recesses into mutual registration causes the locking elements to move inwardly into the outward-facing recesses so as to extend across both of the inward- and outward-facing recesses, thereby to lock the male and female members together.
US10781952B2
A hose clamp comprising a clamping strip extending in a circumferential direction (L) and a tensioning device for tensioning the clamping strip. The clamping strip is provided with at least one clip element, by means of which the hose clamp can be secured on a hose at an axially determinable distance from a hose end. In order to prevent the clip element from canting during the tensioning of the hose clamp, the clip element is held on the clamping strip so that said element can move in the circumferential direction (L).
US10781929B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a valve configured to enable the inflation and deflation of an inflatable object.
US10781926B2
The invention relates to a valve body including a membrane which cooperates with a valve seat, wherein the valve body and the membrane are connected to each other in the region of a laser weld seam in a bonded and fluid-tight manner.
US10781923B2
A cover having a container portion whose one end is opened and whose other end is closed by a bottom surface, includes: an annular groove formed into an annular shape along an outer circumference of an opening of the container portion; a plurality of communicating portions that are formed in a side wall partitioning the annular groove and the container portion so as to connect the annular groove and the container portion in a radial direction; and an annular seal member fitted to the annular groove.
US10781916B2
A method for controlling engine braking includes determining an amount of brake pressure being applied by a vehicle traveling on a road. The method includes determining a current velocity of the vehicle, wherein a transmission of the vehicle is operating using a first gear of a plurality of gears. The method includes, according to the amount of brake pressure and the current velocity of the vehicle, determining a road grade threshold for a second gear of the plurality of gears. The method includes determining a grade of the road. The method includes determining that the determined grade of the road satisfies the road grade threshold for the second gear of the vehicle. The method includes, in response to the determination, causing the transmission of the vehicle to operate in the second gear of the plurality of gears.
US10781902B2
For a gear train GL including a drive gear 33 and an idler gear 34 engaged with each other and a lock gear 35, provided are a first drive means 3A configured to linearly drive the lock gear 35 in forward and backward directions, a second drive means 3B configured to rotationally drive the drive gear 33 in normal and reverse directions, and a controller C configured to control the both drive means 3A and 3B. The controller C starts driving the lock gear 35 at the time of an unlocking operation, from an engagement position toward the disengagement position through the first drive means 3A, and when the drive is started, the controller C drives the drive gear 33 into one of normal and reverse directions and into the other direction through the second drive means 3B with a polarity reversal in a predetermined cycles T1 and T2.
US10781890B2
The present disclosure discloses a power-driven system and a vehicle. The power-driven system includes: a power coupling device, where the power coupling device includes a first sun gear, a first planet carrier, a first ring gear, a second sun gear, a second planet carrier, a second ring gear, and a power transmission part; a power source; a first motor generator and a second motor generator; and a first braking device directly or indirectly braking the power transmission part. The power transmission part is coaxially linked to the first sun gear and the second sun gear. The power source is configured to selectively connect to the power transmission part. The first motor generator is linked to the first ring gear, and the second motor generator is linked to the second ring gear.
US10781889B2
A power transmission apparatus of a hybrid electric vehicle may include an input shaft receiving an engine torque, an output shaft disposed at a same axis with the input shaft and outputting a shifted torque, first and second motor/generators, a first shifting section including a compound planetary gear set formed as a combination of first and second planetary gear sets, forming an adjusted torque from the engine torque received through two paths and torques of the first and second motor/generators, and outputting the adjusted torque, and a second shifting section including a third planetary gear set and outputting a shifted torque of two stages from a torque received from the first shifting section to the output shaft.
US10781888B2
A planetary gear train includes an input shaft, an output gear, first to third planetary gear sets respectively having first to third, fourth to sixth, and seventh to ninth rotation elements, a first shaft fixedly connected to the second rotation element and the input shaft, a second shaft fixedly connected to the sixth and eighth rotation elements and the output gear, a third shaft fixedly connected to the first rotation element and a transmission housing, a fourth shaft fixedly connected to the third rotation element, a fifth shaft fixedly connected to the fourth and seventh rotation elements, a sixth shaft fixedly connected to the fifth rotation element, and a seventh shaft fixedly connected to the ninth rotation element.
US10781880B2
This invention relates to a damping device for mounting two separate components for damping oscillations between the components, wherein the damping device has an axial damper that comprises a first connecting element as well as a second connecting element, wherein the first connecting element is connected to the second connecting element via a damping section by ensuring an axial relative movement of the two connecting elements with respect to one another, wherein the damping section is designed for damping the axial relative movement between the connecting elements. The damping device comprises a bending joint 1 that is fastened to one of the connecting elements, wherein the bending joint has a mounting element for mounting on one of the components, wherein the bending joint has a joint section that is designed as a continuous rigidly interconnected component and that extends axially between the connecting element fixed to the bending joint and the mounting element, wherein the bending joint can be bent, in particular resiliently bent, in its joint section about at least one axis of rotation that is perpendicular to the axial direction.
US10781875B2
A disc brake having at least one brake pad, a brake caliper, an actuation mechanism, and a brake pad support structure. The brake pad has a moveable pad retainer formation to permit assembly and retention of the brake pad in the brake pad support structure such that the brake pad is held for operation of the disc brake.
US10781867B2
A hybrid module for a motor vehicle for the coupling of an internal combustion engine includes a separating clutch by means of which the internal combustion engine can be separated from a drivetrain of the motor vehicle and by means of which torque can be imparted to the drivetrain by the internal combustion engine. The hybrid module also has an electric motor which, for torque transmission, is connectable by means of a main clutch to the drivetrain. A separating clutch actuation system is used for effecting an actuation of the separating clutch. A main clutch actuation system is used for effecting an actuation of the main clutch. Both actuation systems are arranged between the separating clutch and the main clutch.
US10781865B2
A power transmitting apparatus inputs or cuts off rotational power of an input member (1) to an output member (3) by press-contacting a plurality of driving-side clutch discs (6) and a plurality of driven-side clutch discs (7) with each other or releases them. A clutch housing (2) includes the driving-side clutch discs (6). A clutch member is (4) connected to the output member (3). A pressure member (5) press-contacts the discs (6) and discs (7) with each other or releases the press-contacting force between them. Application of a resisting force, for resisting relative rotation between the clutch member (4) and the pressure member (5), can be attained. A magnitude of the resisting force is set larger than a sticking torque between the discs (6) and discs (7).
US10781864B2
A drive wheel clutch system for manually disengaging one or more drive wheels from their driveshafts. The drive wheel clutch system generally includes a driveshaft, a flange at one end of the driveshaft, and a flange-engaging member. The flange-engaging member and the flange may be generally disc shaped. The flange-engaging member is spring loaded and includes locking members that can extend through apertures in the flange to engage with locking apertures in the hub of a drive wheel. An operator can pull against spring bias and rotate a handle connected to the flange-engaging member to disengage the locking members from the flange and the hub, allowing the wheel to turn freely while the driveshaft remains stationary.
US10781861B2
A protective cover includes: a synthetic resin disc part having formed therein a separation wall which is thinner than other parts of the disc part and separates a magnetic encoder and a magnetic sensor from each other; and a synthetic resin sensor holder part protruding inward from the disc part. A gate mark caused by the injection molding is present n an outer peripheral surface of the disc part or an outer peripheral surface of a cylindrical part continuous with the disc part, in the radially outer side of the separation wall. Since the gate is at the radially outer side, of the separation wall, which is near the separation wall, no charging end weld is generated on the separation wall when a molten synthetic resin material is injected from the gate into the cavity of the injection mold die and solidified in an injection molding step.
US10781846B2
One aspect is an apparatus including an additively manufactured first component and a captive nut contained within the first component for interconnecting the first component to a second component. Another aspect is an apparatus including a first additively manufactured component having a hole and a second additively manufactured component having a socket. The apparatus further includes a pin having a head engaging a surface of the first component and a shaft extending from the head through the hole in the first component and into the socket of the second component. Another aspect is an apparatus including first and second panels. The apparatus also includes a bolt having a head and a shaft extending from the head and a nut located at a distal end of the shaft. The first and seconds panels may be sandwiched between the bolt and nut to interconnect the first and second panels.
US10781842B2
An expansion anchor is disclosed. The expansion anchor has a bolt having a neck region and an expansion region adjoining the neck region in which the bolt tapers down towards the neck region. The bolt has a groove in the neck region which extends along the bolt, and is at least partially surrounded by an expansion sleeve, and which has on its inside a web. The web at least partially engages in the groove in the neck region and the wall thickness of the expansion sleeve is increased locally by the web. The expansion sleeve is displaceable under radial expansion of the expansion sleeve along the bolt from the neck region into the expansion region. The web, on displacement of the expansion sleeve from the neck region, at least by region, passes into the expansion area and is forced radially outward by the expansion region.
US10781841B1
A Three-Dimensional Positioning and Holding Modular System for office and industrial work stations including embodiments of multi-rail beams and rail-arm-leg modules. The embodiments have tubes, bars, or channels arranged and connected in ways that provide improved ability to transmit torque along a long axis of the multi-rail beam while providing improved resistance to twisting under the forces of the torque.
US10781838B2
A connector device for connecting to one or more pipes. The connector device having one or more arms with static and flexible portions. The connector device connects pipes or other types of tubing by inserting the arms of the connector device into the openings of the tubing. A flexibility of the flexible portions enables the connector device to accommodate varying dimensions of inside diameter of pipes or tubing and to provide a friction fit.
US10781833B2
A hydraulic hybrid system for rotatory applications has an actuator (49, 91) in the form of a motor pump unit (91). The motor pump unit is coupled to a rotatory-operating device (94) and works as a consumer of hydraulic energy in one operating state of the device (94) and works as a producer of hydraulic energy in another operating state of the device (94). A hydraulic accumulator (1) can be charged by the motor pump unit (91) for energy storage in the one operating state and can be discharged for energy release to the motor pump unit (91) in the other operating state. The hydraulic accumulator is an adjustable hydropneumatic piston accumulator (1) in which a plurality of pressure chambers (19, 21, 23, 25) are delimited by active surfaces (11, 13, 15, 17) of different sizes on the fluid side of the accumulator piston (5). An adjusting arrangement (51) connects a selected pressure chamber (19, 21, 13, 25) or a plurality of selected pressure chambers (19, 21, 23, 25) of the piston accumulator (1) to the actuator (49, 91) depending on the prevailing pressure level on the gas side of the piston accumulator (1) and at the actuator (49, 91).
US10781832B2
A milking robot for the fully automatic milking of dairy animals includes at least one moving component and a cylinder configured to support a movement of the component. The cylinder has a cylinder wall having an aeration opening, as well as a cylinder rod slidable into and out of the cylinder. The cylinder wall surrounds at least one variable volume part, which volume part is free from pressure fluid connections for displacement of the cylinder rod. The cylinder is configured to remain, via the opening, substantially in pressure equilibrium with an environment of the cylinder. To the cylinder wall around the aeration opening is connected a gas collecting device which has a changeable volume and which, together with the variable volume part, forms an airtight gas volume. In addition, the gas collecting device has a minimum volume greater than zero.
US10781828B2
A rotary assembly for a centrifugal pump includes a housing, an impeller, a first opening formed in one of the housing or the impeller, a first bushing disposed in the first opening, and a first shaft projection projecting axially from one of the housing or the impeller. The first bushing extends annularly around a central opening thereof and is formed from an elastomeric material. The first shaft projection is received within the central opening of the first bushing. One of the first shaft projection or the first bushing is configured to rotate relative to the other of the first shaft projection or the first bushing during operation of the centrifugal pump.
US10781827B1
A turbomachine airfoil element includes an airfoil that has pressure and suction sides spaced apart from one another in a thickness direction and joined to one another at leading and trailing edges. The airfoil extends in a radial direction a span that is in a range of 27.5-28.5 inches (699-724 mm). A chord length extends in a chordwise direction from the leading edge to the trailing edge at 50% span and is in a range of 13.0-14.0 inches (330-356 mm). The airfoil element includes at least two of a first mode with a frequency of 34±10% Hz, a second mode with a frequency of 90±10% Hz, a third mode with a frequency of 178±10% Hz, a fourth mode with a frequency of 222±10% Hz, a fifth mode with a frequency of 307±10% Hz and a sixth mode with a frequency of 389±10% Hz.
US10781813B2
A controller for operating a rod pumping unit includes a processor configured to operate the rod pumping unit at a pumping profile speed. The processor is further configured to compute a first downhole dynamometer card from surface measurements at the rod pumping unit. The processor is further configured to compute a second downhole dynamometer card from the surface measurements. The processor is further configured to validate at least one of the first downhole dynamometer card and the second downhole dynamometer card based on a rod pumping unit condition.
US10781810B2
A valve includes a first plate (10) having a first through hole (100), a second plate (20) having a second through hole (210) that does not face the first through hole (100), a valve chamber (55) formed by being surrounded by the first plate (10) and the second plate (20), and a valve body (30) disposed in the valve chamber (55) and having a third through hole (300) that does not face the first through hole (100) and that faces the second through hole (200), the valve body (30) being movable up and down between the first plate (10) and the second plate (20). In addition, a second opening area of the second through hole (210) is smaller than a third opening area of the third through hole (300), and the second through hole (210) is located in the third through hole (300) when viewed from a front.
US10781799B2
An actuator, comprising an actuation member positionable into a first retracted position and a second extended position, and a retaining member structured to maintain the actuation member in the first retracted position, and to selectively release the actuation member from the first retracted position in response to an extension force.
US10781793B2
A method for outputting control instructions to at least one first wind power installation or at least one first wind farm using an evaluation device or for outputting an event message relating to an operating state of the at least one first wind power installation or the at least one first wind farm using the evaluation device is provided. Data is received by the evaluation device from at least one further wind power installation or from at least one further wind farm and the control instructions or the event messages are generated by evaluating the data and are output by the evaluation device. An evaluation device and a system having the evaluation device for carrying out the method are also provided.
US10781788B2
A wind turbine blade is described having a serrated trailing edge. Flow straightening vanes are provided on the serrations, to prevent a lateral or side flow over the edges of the serrations, which are preferably provided at incidence to the flow over the wind turbine blade. The vanes can be formed integrally with the serrations, or attached to existing serrations as a retrofit solution. The serrations with the vanes can be provided as a trailing edge panel for attachment to the trailing edge of an existing wind turbine blade.
US10781777B2
A fuel injector includes an injector body and a valve stack within the injector body that includes a valve seat plate. The valve seat plate includes a pressure control passage for controlling fuel injection, and a valve seat positioned fluidly between the pressure control passage and a low-pressure drain. The valve seat plate includes a pressure-limiting annular groove that extends circumferentially around the valve seat and axially inward from a side of the valve seat plate where the valve seat is located. The groove enables deformation in response to pressure differences across the valve seat plate in a manner that limits stress concentrations.
US10781772B2
An oil cooling system and method are provided for use with respect to a lubricated mechanical system within a bypass configured gas turbine engine. A surface cooler is fluidly linked to the lubricated mechanical system to receive oil from the lubricated mechanical system for cooling and reuse. In an embodiment, the surface cooler is mounted on an existing surface within the bypass airflow path of the bypass configured gas turbine engine to provide effective cooling while avoiding the introduction of additional aerodynamic disturbances in the bypass path. In an embodiment, the surface cooler is mounted on the fan casing or on a fan exit guide vane.
US10781771B1
The present invention discloses an automatic cooling system based on stirling engine for combustion engine. The system is configured to utilize thermal energy from the temperature difference between the engine and a radiator to feed the stirling engine. The stirling engine drives a coolant pump to circulate a coolant between the engine and the radiator. If the temperature difference between the combustion engine and the radiator is high, the stirling engine automatically drives the coolant pump and circulates the coolant at high speed. If the temperature difference between the combustion engine and the radiator is low, the stirling engine automatically drives the coolant pump and circulates the coolant at low speed, until the temperature difference between the engine and radiator within a threshold point. Therefore, there is no need for a thermostat and a water pump coupled with the engine.
US10781763B2
A system includes one or more processors configured to obtain environmental data geographically and temporally corresponding to scheduled travel of a vehicle system. The one or more processors are further configured to determine a power output capability range for the vehicle system traveling during a trip based on the environmental data that is obtained. The one or more processors are also configured to communicate instructions to at least one of a propulsion system of the vehicle system or a vehicle controller of the vehicle system for controlling movement of the vehicle system during the trip such that the vehicle system produces a power output within the power output capability range as the vehicle system travels. The environmental data includes historical values of one or more of temperature, pressure, or air constituency in geographic areas through which the vehicle system will travel during the trip.
US10781755B2
A gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a fan, a compressor, a combustor, and a spool including a fan drive turbine that drives the fan through a gear reduction. The gear reduction includes at least two double helical gears in meshed engagement, each of the at least two double helical gears having a first plurality of gear teeth separated from a second plurality of gear teeth such that a first end of the first plurality of gear teeth and a first end of the second plurality of gear teeth are spaced apart by an axial distance. Each of the first plurality of gear teeth is offset a first circumferential offset distance in relation to the next gear tooth of the second plurality of gear teeth when moving in a circumferential direction relative to respective axes.
US10781751B1
Gas turbine engine secondary air system and axial thrust management system for a rotor of the engine
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft such as a UAV includes a compressor connected to a turbine with a combustor to produce a hot gas stream. The rotor is supported by two radial foil bearings. An axial thrust bearing assembly is positioned between the compressor disk and the turbine disk and includes an axial thrust bearing radial disk extending from a hollow axial tube. Compressed air is bled off from the compressor and passed into an axial thrust balance chamber to provide the axial thrust balance for the rotor. The compressed air from the thrust bearing chamber then flows through both of the radial foil bearings for cooling, is collected in and around the hollow tube, and then discharged into the inlet of the turbine. An orifice can be adjusted to meter and control a pressure occurring in the thrust balance chamber.
US10781744B2
A device and method for regulating a compressor for an internal combustion engine. At least one actual variable is detected that characterizes a property of an air column, which is situated at an outlet of the compressor in an induction tract of an internal combustion engine, the actual variable being compared in a comparison with a comparison value, the comparison value characterizing a limit for the property of the air column, a setpoint variable being determined as a function of the result of the comparison in order to shift the actual variable in the direction or opposite direction of the comparison value, and an actuator for influencing the actual variable being operated as a function of the setpoint variable.
US10781741B2
A cooling system after engine shut-down includes a pump, a coolant duct for a coolant, and at least one component to be cooled. The coolant duct is associated with a fuel pump. A cylinder head for an internal combustion engine and a method for operating the cooling system after engine shut-down are provided.
US10781739B2
A system can include an engine, an aftertreatment system with a particulate filter, and a controller. The controller is configured to compare a time value since a last delta pressure soot load estimate process to a predetermined time threshold. Responsive to the time value being greater than or equal to the predetermined time threshold, the controller decreases a flow threshold value to a lower flow threshold value. If the flow amount is greater than or equal to the lower flow threshold value, then the controller activates a delta pressure soot load estimation process. A combined soot load estimate is then calculated using a delta pressure soot load estimation of the delta pressure soot load estimate process responsive to the lower flow threshold value.
US10781733B2
An engine device of this invention includes including a post-treatment device, provided in an exhaust passage of an engine, for purifying an exhaust gas from the engine. As the post-treatment device, a three-way catalyst is used. The engine device further includes a filter case including a filter body for catching deposits in the exhaust gas. The filter case is disposed, in a replaceable manner, upstream of the post-treatment device in the exhaust passage.
US10781732B2
An acoustic attenuator for damping pressure vibrations in an exhaust system of an engine, the acoustic attenuator having a body which is provided with a gas inlet and a gas outlet at opposite ends thereof, and a gas passage duct arranged between the inlet and the outlet inside the body, where in the body encloses a first resonator chamber and a second resonator chamber. The body is provided with a common inlet communicating with the first and the second resonator chambers, and the resonator chambers are arranged to extend from the common inlet towards the opposite ends of the body.
US10781731B2
An exemplary fluid heating method includes, among other things, operating an engine of a vehicle to heat an engine fluid during a drive cycle if the vehicle is in a fluid maintenance mode, and heating the fluid prior to the drive cycle if the vehicle is in the fluid maintenance mode and the vehicle is electrically coupled to a grid power source. An exemplary fluid heating assembly includes, among other things, an engine of an electrified vehicle, and a fluid heater that is activated to heat a fluid of the engine in response to the electrified vehicle being in a fluid maintenance mode when electrically coupled to a grid power source.
US10781729B1
A switchable rocker arm is provided for a valve train of an internal combustion engine. The switchable rocker arm includes a first lever arranged to be rotated by a camshaft about a pivot, a second lever arranged to actuate an engine valve, and a locking part arranged to selectively lock the first lever to the second lever. The locking part is arranged to be mechanically actuated by the pivot.
US10781726B2
An internal combustion engine includes a cam-actuated rocker arm assembly with a solenoid-actuated latch that provides for cylinder deactivation or variable valve actuation. The solenoid has an inductance that varies significantly in relation to the position of a latch pin as it translates between latching and non-latching configurations. A sensor is positioned to monitor a current or a voltage in a circuit that includes the solenoid. Diagnostic information relating to the operation of the rocker arm assembly is determined by comparing data collected from the sensor over a first period to data collected from the sensor over a second period.
US10781723B2
Methods and apparatus to optimize ramp rates in combined cycle power plants are disclosed herein. An example method disclosed herein includes predicting a first setpoint for a gas turbine in a combined cycle power plant over a prediction horizon and predicting a second setpoint for a steam generator over the prediction horizon. The example method includes identifying a first steam property of steam generated by the steam generator in the combined cycle power plant based on the second setpoint. The example method includes comparing the first steam property to a second steam property of steam associated with a steam turbine in the combined cycle power plant and dynamically adjusting at least one of the first setpoint or the second setpoint based on the comparison.
US10781717B2
A turbomachine includes a turbine frame and a turbine, the turbine including a first plurality of turbine rotor blades and a second plurality of turbine rotor blades alternatingly spaced along the axial direction and rotatable with one another. The turbomachine also includes a first support member assembly including a first support member supporting the first plurality of turbine rotor blades; a second support member assembly including a second support member supporting the second plurality of turbine rotor blades; a frame support member assembly including a frame support member coupled to and extending from the turbine frame; and a bearing assembly including a first bearing and a second bearing. The first bearing is positioned between the first support member and the second support member, and the second bearing is positioned between the frame support member and one of the first support member or the second support member.
US10781714B2
Device for limiting overspeeding of a turbine shaft of a turbomachine, and associated control method
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a device for limiting overspeeding of a turbine shaft of a turbomachine, comprising structure for destroying the rotor blades of at least one turbine stage. The structure includes a casing and at least one projectile configured for projecting into the path of the rotor blades of the stage in order for the stage in question to be destroyed.
US10781713B2
A starter air valve (SAV) system includes a pressure actuated SAV actuator configured to be operatively connected to a SAV, a first pressure valve configured to selectively allow pressure from a pressure source to the SAV actuator when in fluid communication with the SAV actuator, and a second pressure valve configured to selectively allow pressure from the pressure source to the SAV actuator when in fluid communication with the SAV actuator. A manual override (MOR) valve selector is disposed between the first pressure valve, the second pressure valve, and the SAV actuator, the MOR valve selector configured to selectively fluidly connect the first pressure valve and the SAV actuator in a first position and to fluidly connect the second pressure valve and the SAV actuator in a second position.
US10781705B2
An inter-compressor case for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The inter-compressor case comprises: an outer casing and an inner casing radially spaced apart relative to a longitudinal axis; a gas path extending from a plurality of radial inlets arranged in a circumferentially spaced apart array around the outer casing to an annular outlet defined by an axially extending downstream portion of the outer casing and an axially extending downstream portion of the inner casing; a plurality of struts having a gas path surface extending across the gas path between the outer casing and the inner casing; and a plurality of flow separators extending from the adjacent radial inlets. The flow separators have trailing edges disposed upstream of the annular outlet and include a plurality of full length flow separators and a plurality of truncated flow separators.
US10781703B2
A turbine rotor blade for a thermal continuous flow machine, wherein a transition region and an aerodynamically shaped turbine blade connected to same, follows a blade foot for securing the turbine rotor blade to a rotor along a notional blade longitudinal axis of the turbine rotor blade from bottom to top. The blade foot has two flat end surfaces facing one another, two contoured side surfaces facing one another and joining the two end surfaces to one another, in which side surface at least one respective carrying edge is formed by creating dovetail- or fir tree-like end surface contour. The carrying edges become free edges or extend into the transition region via concave rounded portions. A channel bordering one of the two end sides is arranged in at least one concave rounded portion, the extension of which channel along the side surface is less than that of the carrying edge.
US10781702B2
A multi-piece fan spacer for a gas turbine engine includes at least one lug comprising a platform portion, a connection portion radially inward of the platform portion, and a support connecting the platform portion to the connection portion. The multi-piece fan spacer includes a plurality of platforms. Each of the platforms is connected to at least one axially adjacent platform portion.
US10781692B2
A method for determining a property of a geological formation based on an optical image of rock samples taken from the formation is presented therein. The image comprises a plurality of pixels and the method comprises defining windows in the image, each window comprising predetermined number of pixels and being of a predetermined shape. The method also includes, for each window, extracting a rockprint value representative of the window. A rockprint comprises indicators for characterizing a texture of the window. The method also includes classifying the windows into categories of a predetermined set. Each category is representative of one type of rock and the classification is based on a comparison of the rockprint value of each window with rockprint values of images of reference rock samples for each category. Based on the classification, the method then includes determining the at least one property of the geological formation, ie the quantification of each type of rock in the sample.
US10781691B2
Systems and methods are provided for producing a continuous survey of a previously drilled portion of a wellbore. The method includes receiving a plurality of stationary survey measurements taken at a corresponding plurality of locations along the portion of the wellbore. The method further includes receiving at least one continuous survey including a plurality of continuous survey measurements taken between a pair of stationary survey measurements of the plurality of stationary survey measurements. The method further includes combining the plurality of stationary survey measurements and the plurality of continuous survey measurements to produce the continuous survey of the portion of the wellbore.
US10781687B2
An electrical impedance tomography based flow monitoring system includes a flow accepting pipe having a cylindrical grid of m×n electrodes, wherein m is an integer greater than 3 representing a number of circumferential grid positions and n is an integer greater than 2 representing a number of axial grid positions. Each combination of adjacent circumferential grid positions and adjacent axial grid positions defines a cell having four electrodes electrically connectable in various combinations by a switch, and the switches are set to connect the electrodes into multiple axially-extending arrays. The system further comprises a controller coupled to the multiple axially-extending arrays to acquire multi-point electrical tomography measurements, wherein the controller processes the measurements to derive a monitored quantity.
US10781685B2
Apparatuses and methods are described, such as for aligning downhole measurements. Apparatuses and methods include an arrangement of at least two tilted transmitters and at least one tilted receiver along a longitudinal axis of the tool. A first and second plurality of azimuthal measurements are processed to provide a first and a second plurality of higher order mode signals configured to be time-shifted.
US10781680B2
A system and method for detecting and quantifying proppant for optimized fracture treatment design in in-fill and new wells. Proppant is isolated from drilling fluids and then analyzed to determine whether a formation within the well has been properly stimulated based on the analysis. Placement of an in-fill well may be based upon the determination of whether the well has been properly stimulated.
US10781670B1
A process for installing or removing a subsea structure in a non-vertical manner at a well includes securing a plurality of barges together in a linear formation in which one of the plurality of barges has a downline extending therefrom, connecting an end of the barges to a primary vessel, moving the primary vessel such that one of the barges is positioned over a target at or adjacent to the well, connecting a plurality of secondary vessels by plurality of mooring lines to an opposite end of the barges, tensioning the mooring line so as to fix the opposite end of the barges, positioning a deployment vessel away from the barges, deploying an ROV, manipulating the ROV so as to connect the subsea structure to the downline, and moving the downline and the subsea structure toward or away from the well.
US10781662B2
A drain-back check valve assembly includes a body having a passageway with an inlet and an outlet. A bypass port extends from the passageway to an outer surface of the valve body. A main poppet valve assembly is disposed in the passageway and moveable between a closed position which prevents fluid flow from the outlet to the inlet and an open position which allows fluid flow from the inlet to the outlet. The main poppet valve assembly includes a poppet and a spool guide fixed to the poppet. The guide has a sidewall which includes a drain-back port. When the main poppet valve assembly is in the closed position, the drain-back port is aligned with the bypass port. When the main poppet valve assembly is in the opened position, the drain-back port is not aligned with the bypass port.
US10781660B2
Systems and methods for thru-tubing completion including a sub-surface completion unit (SCU) system including a SCU wireless transceiver for communicating with a surface control system of a well by way of wireless communication with a down-hole wireless transceiver disposed in a wellbore of the well, one or more SCU anchoring seals having an un-deployed position (enabling the SCU to pass through production tubing disposed in the wellbore of the well) and a deployed position (to seal against a wall of the target zone of the open-hole portion of the wellbore to provide zonal isolation between adjacent regions in the wellbore) and one or more SCU centralizers having an un-deployed position (enabling the SCU to pass through the production tubing disposed in the wellbore of the well) and a deployed position (to position the SCU in the target zone of the open-hole portion of the wellbore).
US10781659B2
A fingered member for a downhole tool that includes a circular body made of a composite material, and also a plurality of fingers integral to and extending from the circular body. At least one of the plurality of fingers has an insert carriage disposed therein. The insert carriage is made of a reactive metallic material.
US10781658B1
A method for operating in a borehole comprises disposing in a downhole environment a system comprising a tubular having a passage and a first restriction positioned inside the tubular; engaging a restrictor with the first restriction to block the passage; injecting a treatment fluid into the tubular, the treatment fluid comprising an invert emulsion, a carboxylic acid ester, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing; and degrading and removing the first restriction.
US10781656B2
Undersea mining base, mining base monitoring device, and chimney avoidance method for seabed deposit
Provided is an undersea mining base capable of corresponding with slopes and undulations of seabed ore deposits. The undersea mining base includes a seabed mineral mining device configured to form a pit in a seabed ore deposit and a platform equipped with the seabed mineral mining device and capable of self-traveling in at least one of an X direction and a Y direction.
US10781653B2
Method and apparatus for removing a downhole casing from a well on a single trip. A downhole tool assembly is arranged on a work string having a downhole pull tool, a spear tool, motor unit and cutting device. The downhole pull tool is set inside a first casing string and the spear tool, motor unit and cutting device are located inside a second casing string, located through the first casing string. The downhole pull tool and spear tool can be configures to grip the respective casings during cutting of the second casing string. The cut casing section can then be pulled using the downhole pull tool to dislodge the casing section, whereupon via attachment to the spear tool, the cut casing section can be removed from the well. The assembly can be re-set at shallower depths in the event that the cut casing section cannot be dislodged for removal.
US10781650B2
A downhole tool includes a tool body and an anchoring device integrated with the tool body. The anchoring device includes a contact pad that is at least partially external to the tool body, the contact pad having multiple stages with different thicknesses. The anchoring tool also includes a first linear actuator and a second linear actuator. The first linear actuator is configured to move the contact pad axially with respect to the tool body to align one of the multiple stages with the second linear actuator. The second linear actuator is configured to apply a radial force to the contact pad.
US10781648B2
Embodiments of methods for reducing lost circulation in a wellbore comprise inserting a conduit comprising a first and second end and an outer diameter and an inner diameter into the wellbore, and pumping a thixotropic cement slurry, wherein the thixotropic cement slurry will increase in viscosity with no shear and decrease in viscosity with shear, and have a power law exponent value of less than or equal to 0.3 when the thixotropic cement slurry has a density of greater than 12.69 pounds per gallon, through the conduit into the wellbore, in which the thixotropic cement slurry comprises at least one cement, at least one viscosifier, mix water, and one or more than one strength accelerating additives. The method further comprises allowing the thixotropic cement slurry to harden in the wellbore to create a plug, removing the conduit from the wellbore, and reducing lost circulation via the plug in the wellbore.
US10781640B2
A downhole cutting tool which may be a reamer or a mill has a rotary tool body with at least one block which carries hard-faced cutters and projects or is extensible from the tool body. A radially outward facing part of the cutter block defines a channel for fluid flow which extends generally axially along the cutter block. The channel is configured such that at least the rotationally trailing edge of the channel extends along the block in one or more directions which are inclined relative to the tool axis. This reduces or avoids the amount of channel edge parallel to the tool axis and thereby mitigates whirling and/or or vibration.
US10781630B2
A covering for an architectural covering is provided. The covering may include a rotatable outer roller, a rotatable inner roller, a first shade secured to the outer roller, and a second shade secured to the inner roller. The outer roller may define an elongated slot extending along a length of the outer roller and opening to an interior of the outer roller. The inner roller may be received within the outer roller and may define a central longitudinal axis. The first shade may be retractable onto and extendable from the outer roller. The second shade may extend through the elongated slot and may be retractable onto and extendable from the inner roller. The elongated slot may be substantially horizontally aligned with the central longitudinal axis of the inner roller when the first shade is in a fully extended position.
US10781629B2
The sliding element includes a sliding plate and a sealing device that includes at least one sealing element, which forms a sealing frame that is arranged on a rear side of the sliding plate and that extends peripherally along an edge of the sliding plate. The sliding plate includes a base plate and a flange plate, which is offset from the base plate, which is connected in one piece to the base plate and which is separated at its edge from the base plate by a circumferential anchor groove, which anchor groove serves for holding the at least one sealing element, which at least one sealing element includes an anchor member that is inserted into the anchor groove and that is connected via a connection body to a compression member.
US10781619B2
A door closure assembly and a method of moving a door is disclosed. The door closure assembly includes a cabinet attachment member attachable to a cabinet, a door attachment member attachable to a door, and first and second arms hingedly attached to the cabinet attachment member and the door attachment member. In some embodiments, the cabinet attachment member is attached to a central portion of the door and the door attachment member is attached to an end portion of the door.
US10781617B2
A vehicular door handle assembly for opening a vehicle door is provided and includes a door grip having a forward end and a rearward end, the door grip movable from a resting position where the vehicle door is latched to an actuated position where the vehicle door is unlatched. The assembly further includes a chassis assembly having a forward end and a rearward end. A rear end of the chassis assembly supports a bellcrank rotatably connected to the chassis and connected to the door grip. The bellcrank pivots between a resting position and an actuated position when the door handle is actuated. Further still, the assembly includes a moveable retaining element to retain the bellcrank in a serviceable position where the door grip can be connected to the bellcrank and to release the bellcrank to a functional position where the bellcrank rotates between the resting position and the actuated position.
US10781611B2
An electric strike having two independent keepers. The strike works with a lockset having both a deadbolt and a mortise lock bolt. A latch adapted to engage a deadbolt is provided with a solenoid to lock or unlock the latch. Another latch adapted to engage a mortise lock bolt is provided with a solenoid to lock or unlock the latch. Each latch is independently operable.
US10781605B2
A scaffold apparatus may have a saddle with a platform and two sides extending above the platform. The saddle may support one or two beams.
US10781602B1
According to some embodiments, a light pole replacement system is disclosed. The light pole replacement system comprises a foundation plate to support a replacement light pole, a plurality of anchor tubes, threaded rods, and tension bolt adapters. The plurality of anchor tubes is placed into the ground based on a determined placement of the plurality of anchor tubes. Holes are created in the foundation plate based on a location of the plurality of anchor tubes and the foundation plate is placed over the plurality of anchor tubes with the threaded rods and the tension bolt adapters in the plurality of anchor tubes to couple the foundation plate to the plurality of anchor tubes.
US10781591B2
A wind protection device for a building has lateral face elements (630) positioned at a distance from an inner building wall (631) creating at least one riser shaft (239) for air. The lateral face element (630) is closed at lateral sides, wherein the wind protection device further has at least one lower air entry element (620, 620′) connected to at least one riser shaft (239) and at least one upper virtual ledge (620″; 643) connected to at least one riser shaft (239) having an outlet opening directing the air flow from the connected riser shaft(s) (239) to the area in front and above the respective upper virtual ledge (620″, 643). The lateral face element (630) has a sequence (650) of side air entries (651, 651′, 651″) connected with at least one riser shaft (239).
US10781590B2
A ceiling system, a ceiling panel, and a method of covering a ceiling support with a plurality of ceiling panels. In one aspect, the invention may be a ceiling system comprising: a plurality of ceiling panels, each of the ceiling panels comprising: an upper face; a lower face opposite the upper face; a first edge, a second edge, a third edge opposite the first edge, and a fourth edge opposite the second edge; each of the first and second edges comprising a tongue; and each of the third and fourth edges comprising a groove; and a plurality of alignment clips, each of the alignment clips comprising a cruciform rib element.
US10781582B2
The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to reinforced concrete moment-resisting buildings with precast beams, precast columns, and replaceable buckling restrained reinforcements. Modular channels and pins or boxes are provided that allow for the replacement and repair of the precast moment-resisting beams and columns. Replaceable buckling restrained reinforcements are used to attach the beams and columns via embedded reinforcements and couplers.
US10781578B2
A water separator with a shower seat includes a valve body, a frictional unit, a shower seat, and a water outflow switching mechanism. The valve body is provided with a plurality of snap-fit joints disposed circumferentially. The frictional unit is mounted on the valve body and an outer wall thereof is provided with a first frictional surface. The shower seat is provided with a connecting chamber having an open end, and a snap-fit surface and a second frictional surface are circumferentially disposed in the connecting chamber, respectively. The water outflow switching mechanism is mounted in the valve body. Hook heads of the snap-fit joints are snapped to the snap-fit surface to prevent the shower seat from getting separated from the valve body. When the shower seat rotates with respect to the valve body, the first frictional surface and the second frictional surface rotate accordingly and interact with each other.
US10781567B2
A foundation treatment method for piling a foundation structure by penetrating a hardpan layer, i.e., a Deep Slurry Mixing method, comprising following steps: disturbing, by a mechanical device, a location where the foundation structure is to be piled, so that the mechanical device penetrates the hardpan layer of a natural foundation; then injecting clay slurry into the hardpan layer of the natural foundation by a pumping device, an improved foundation is formed after mixing; and piling the foundation structure. The method can change soil property of the original natural foundation, break the hardpan layer, reduce piling resistance of the steel plate cylinder or similar foundation structure, reduce uneven force during the piling process and improve driveability.
US10781566B2
A percussion action pneumatic tool for compacting backfill areas including a vibration isolator and a percussion mechanism. The vibration isolator includes an inner shaft and an outer sleeve attached to a pair of springs. The springs dampen vibration or feedback transferred from the percussion mechanism to the outer sleeve and felt by the operator. The percussion mechanism includes a pair of elbows and an air conduit which allows the airflow to move through a second flow path into a second air space when the valve assembly directs the airflow through the second flow path.
US10781563B2
A hydrodemolition rig for an inclined surface comprises a frame, a carriage, and a plurality of wheel assemblies. The wheel assemblies are spaced from one another about the frame, with at least two of the wheel assemblies comprising a wheel and a hydraulic assembly for selectively adjusting the spacing between the wheel and the frame. The carriage is configured to reciprocate within the frame and to carry one or more nozzles for delivering water for hydrodemolition.
US10781562B1
A construction method for reinforcing a loess embankment by combining microbial mineralization with phosphogypsum. The method includes: (1) placing Bacillus pasteurii in a culture medium to prepare a microbial solution, and mixing urea, calcium chloride and water to prepare a cementing solution; (2) mixing a mixture, the microbial solution and water well, and adding the cementing solution and water to prepare an improving mixture; and (3) leveling and compacting an original ground; laying a geomembrane, the improving mixture and a geogrid; laying a last geomembrane on the top of the embankment after the embankment is laid, and then laying a roadbed. The method meets the improvement and construction requirements of loess embankments of high-grade highways, and reduces the stock of phosphogypsum, thereby reducing the occupation of cultivated land. The microbial improvement of the phosphogypsum achieves the immobilization of harmful elements, thereby reducing environmental pollution.
US10781559B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory, machine-readable media for extracting railway fasteners and adjusting railway anchors are disclosed. A tie plate manipulator may be slidably coupled with a frame assembly and may include tie plate tools in an opposing arrangement and slidably coupled with a support framework. A fastener extractor may include fastener-extracting arms and pivot joints pivotably coupling the fastener-extracting arms with a subassembly. The fastener extractor may be slidably coupled with the frame assembly so that at least part of the fastener extractor is disposed over the tie plate manipulator. The fastener extractor may be coupled with the tie plate manipulator at least in part with a cylinder system. Each fastener-extracting arm may be adjustable to selectively engage and extract a railway fastener. The tie plate manipulator may be operable to engage and adjust a tie plate on the railway tie with the pair of tie plate tools.
US10781556B2
The invention relates to an aqueous dry strength composition suitable for use in manufacture of paper, board or the like. The composition includes a mixture of a synthetic polymer component, which is a copolymer of acrylamide and at least one anionic monomer, and a cationic starch component. The polymer component has an anionicity of 1-60 mol-%. The synthetic polymer component and cationic starch component provide the composition with a charge density in the range of 0.05-1 meq/g, when measured at pH 2.8, and 0.2-−3 meq/g, when measured at pH 7.0. The invention also relates to a method for making of paper, board or the like, where the dry strength composition is diluted with water, and the solution of the dry strength composition is added to the fibre stock before or after the addition of a cationic strength agent.
US10781555B2
The present invention relates to a sizing agent composition comprising starch, lignosulfonate and poly(alkyl acrylate), poly(alkyl (meth)acrylate), a mixture of poly(alkyl acrylate) and poly(alkyl methacrylate) or a copolymer of alkyl acrylate and alkyl (meth)acrylate. The present invention further relates to a method for preparing the sizing agent composition, and use of the sizing agent composition for sizing paper, paper products or board.
US10781548B2
The present invention relates to a method for operating a laundry washing machine using a unit dose package comprising a pre-measured amount of treating agent incorporated into a water-soluble pouch, wherein the method comprises introducing the unit dose package into a compartment of a treating agents dispenser of the laundry washing machine and breaking the unit dose package inside the compartment.
US10781542B2
A knit sock includes a foot portion having an upper instep area and a lower sole area integrally knit of a body yarn in circumferential courses and axial wales. The lower sole area defines inner and outer arch regions. The inner arch region incorporates a targeted compression zone adapted to reside generally adjacent an inner arch of a wearer's foot. The compression zone includes axially extending compression ridges of variable length spaced apart from a top of the compression zone to a bottom of the compression zone. When the sock is worn, a compression force applied by the foot portion within the targeted compression zone is greater than the compression force in directly adjacent areas of said foot portion.
US10781535B2
The present invention discloses a highly cut-resistant ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fiber, made of a ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene and an inorganic ultrafine micropowder having a nanocrystalline structural morphology, wherein the inorganic ultrafine micropowder is one of an oxide, carbide, and nitride of aluminium, titanium, silicon, boron, and zirconium, or a combination thereof, and has an average diameter of 0.1-300 μm and a content of 0.1-14% of the total weight of the fiber. The present invention further discloses a method for preparing a highly cut-resistant ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fiber, comprising: adding nanocrystalline silicon carbide particles to a solvent, and repeatedly grinding by a sand mill; adding a ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene, and the silicon carbide nanoparticles to a solvent, and mixing until uniform by stirring by a homogenizer with high shear, to obtain a spinning solution; and subjecting the spinning solution to conventional gelation spinning, and extracting and hot drawing the gel filament spun, to obtain a composite fiber. In the present invention, by introducing the nanocrystalline ultrafine particles into the ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fiber, the composite fiber of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene/nanocrystalline ultrafine particles has a quite excellent cut-resistant performance.
US10781530B2
A cleaning apparatus is provided. This cleaning apparatus includes an inlet, an outlet, a first conveyance path, a second conveyance path, a cleaning unit disposed on the first conveyance path and configured to clean the target object in a non-contacting manner, and a drying unit disposed on the first conveyance path and configured to dry the target object in a non-contacting manner. The first conveyance path and the second conveyance path are vertically arranged side by side. The second conveyance path is positioned above the first conveyance path and connected with the outlet at an end point. The second conveyance path functions as a stocker configured to temporarily store the target object.
US10781526B2
A method for forming a coating on a surface of an airfoil is provided, where the airfoil has a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side, and a suction side. The method can include forming a platinum-group metal layer on the surface of the airfoil along at least a portion of the trailing edge, and forming an aluminide coating over the surface of the airfoil of the leading edge, the trailing edge, the pressure side, and the suction side. The leading edge may be substantially free from any platinum-group metal. The method may further include, prior to forming the aluminide coating, forming a bond coating on the surface of the airfoil along the leading edge, and after forming the aluminide coating, forming a thermal barrier coating over the bond coating. A method is also generally provided for repairing a coating on a surface of an airfoil.
US10781523B1
Provided are an electrolytic copper foil, an electrode comprising the same, and a lithium-ion battery comprising the same. The electrolytic copper foil comprises a drum side and a deposited side opposite each other. The drum side and the deposited side each have a Kurtosis (Sku) in a range of 1.8 to 6.4, a developed interfacial area ratio (Sdr) in a range of 0.06% to 13%, and a texture aspect ratio (Str) in a range of 0.1 to 1. With the surface morphology, the electrolytic copper foil has an improved adhesion strength with the active material, and thus improving the charge-discharge cycle life performance of the lithium-ion secondary battery.
US10781522B2
To provide a production method whereby an ion exchange membrane for alkali chloride electrolysis can be obtained which has high current efficiency, little variation in current efficiency and high alkaline resistance. This is a method for producing an ion exchange membrane 1 having a layer (C) 12 containing a fluorinated polymer (A) having carboxylic acid type functional groups, by immersing an ion exchange membrane precursor film having a precursor layer (C′) containing a fluorinated polymer (A′) having groups convertible to carboxylic acid type functional groups, in an aqueous alkaline solution comprising an alkali metal hydroxide, a water-soluble organic solvent and water, and converting the groups convertible to carboxylic acid type functional groups to carboxylic acid functional groups, wherein the concentration of the water-soluble organic solvent is from 1 to 60 mass % in the aqueous alkaline solution (100 mass %); the temperature of the aqueous alkaline solution is at least 40° C. and less than 80° C.; and the proportion of structural units having carboxylic acid type functional groups in the fluorinated polymer (A) is from 13.0 to 14.50 mol % in all structural units (100 mol %) in the fluorinated polymer (A).
US10781516B2
A chemical deposition apparatus having a chemical deposition chamber formed within the chemical isolation chamber includes a gas seal. The chemical deposition chamber includes a showerhead module having a faceplate with gas inlets to deliver reactor chemistries to a wafer cavity for processing a semiconductor substrate. The showerhead module includes primary exhaust gas outlets to remove reaction gas chemistries and inert gases from the wafer cavity. An inert gas feed delivers seal gas which flows radially inwardly at least partly through a gap between a step of the showerhead module and the pedestal module to form a gas seal. Secondary exhaust gas outlets withdraw at least some of the inert gas flowing through the gap to provide a high Peclet number.
US10781513B2
The present disclosure relates to multilayer constructs for producing metabolite strips. The multilayer constructs include a substrate layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, a thin film metal conductor layer formed on the top surface of the substrate layer and configured to act as an electrode, and a Transparent Conductive Oxide (TCO) protective layer deposited on top of the metal conductor layer. The metabolic strips can be used, along with various measuring devices, for determining the presence of certain analytes in a specimen and for various like applications.
US10781512B2
A method for coating a body includes providing a plurality of granules in which each granule includes silicon (Si), carbon (C), chromium (Cr) and an iron group metal. The relative quantities of the Si, C and Cr are such that a molten phase will form at a melting temperature of less than 1,300 degrees Celsius when a threshold quantity of the iron group metal is accessible to the Si, C and Cr. A second source of the iron group metal is also provided. A combination of the granules and the second source is formed such that the threshold quantity of the iron group metal will be accessible to the Si, C and Cr. The granules and the second source are heated to the melting temperature to form the molten phase in contact with the body. The heat is then removed to allow the molten phase to solidify.
US10781508B2
A high-strength and high-conductivity copper alloy and applications of the alloy as a material of a contact line of a high-speed railway allowing a speed higher than 400 kilometers per hour. The copper alloy has the following characteristics: (1) constituents of the copper alloy are in the form of CuXY, X is one or more selected from Ag, Nb and Ta, and Y is one of more selected from Cr, Zr and Si; (2) at a room temperature, the element X in the copper alloy exists in the form of a pure phase and solid solution atoms, the element Y exists in the form of a pure phase and solid solution atoms or a CuY compound and solid solution atoms, the content of the element X existing in the form of the solid solution atoms is lower than 0.5%, and the content of the element Y existing in the form of the solid solution atoms is lower than 0.1%; and (3) the copper alloy exists in the form of long strip rods or lines, the element X in the form of the pure phase is embedded in the copper alloy in the form of fibers disposed in parallel approximately, and the axial direction of the fibers is approximately in parallel with the axial direction of the copper alloy rods or lines; and the element Y existing in the copper alloy in the form of the pure phase or the CuY compound is embedded in the copper alloy in the form of particles. The copper alloy is suitable for being used as a material of a contact line of a high-speed railway allowing a speed higher than 400 kilometers per hour.
US10781502B2
This application pertains to methods of recovering metals from metal sulfides that involve contacting the metal sulfide with an acidic sulfate solution containing ferric sulfate and a reagent that has a thiocarbonyl functional group, wherein the concentration of reagent in the acidic sulfate solution is sufficient to increase the rate of metal ion extraction relative to an acidic sulfate solution that does not contain the reagent, to produce a pregnant solution containing the metal ions.
US10781500B2
The invention relates to granules composed of agglomerated reactive bulk material and a binder matrix, the binder matrix comprising as binder an organic or inorganic salt.
US10781498B2
The invention relates to a plant complex for steel production comprising a blast furnace for producing pig iron, a converter steel mill for producing crude steel and a gas-conducting system for gases that occur when producing the pig iron and/or producing the crude steel. According to the invention, the plant complex additionally has a chemical plant or biotechnological plant, connected to the gas-conducting system, and also energy storage for covering at least part of the electricity demand of the plant complex. Also the subject of the invention is a method for operating the plant complex.
US10781495B2
Compositions for detecting flavivirus nucleic acids. Particularly described are compositions for detecting West Nile virus nucleic acids in the 3′ non-coding region. These compositions are preferably oligonucleotides comprising nucleotide sequences that are substantially complementary to a West Nile virus target nucleic acid. These compositions preferably comprise a detectable moiety.
US10781492B2
The present invention relates to a method, in particular an in vitro method, for identifying CD8 positive subpopulations of a mammal, wherein said method comprises analyzing the bisulfite convertibility of at least one CpG position in the CD8 beta and CD8 alpha cell specific bisulfite convertibility gene region according to SEQ ID No. 1 and 2, wherein a bisulfite convertibility of at least one CpG position in said gene regions is indicative for a CD3+CD8+ and/or CD3+/−CD8+ cell. The analyses according to the invention can identify CD3+CD8+ and/or CD3+/−CD8+ cells on an epigenetic level and distinguish them from all other cells in complex samples, such as, for example, other blood cells.
US10781481B2
Methods, polynucleotides, kits, and reaction mixtures are disclosed for the enriching of short polynucleotide molecules that have a length within a desired target length range. A Type IIS or Type III restriction enzyme is used to cleave polynucleotides at cleavage sites located at a distance from the restriction enzyme recognition sites. For example, a mixture of polynucleotides can be formed by inserting DNA molecules between a recognition site for the restriction enzyme and a region of non-naturally-occurring nucleotides that block cleavage by the restriction enzymes. If a polynucleotide contains a DNA molecule with a length within a target range, then the cleavage site will be within the blocking region, and cleavage will not occur. Polynucleotides containing DNA molecules with lengths outside the target range can be cleaved. By selectively enriching, through PCR or other means, polynucleotides that are intact, a concentrated population of polynucleotides of a target length can be formed.
US10781480B1
A method of detecting nucleic acids with an amplified signal utilizes first and second amplification nanoparticles. The method includes hybridizing a first segment and a second segment of a target sequence with a first capture probe on capture particles and a second capture probe on first amplification nanoparticles, respectively, and forming a capture particle-target-first amplification nanoparticle complex; adding second amplification nanoparticles and hybridizing the second linker probes on second amplification nanoparticles with first linker probes on the first amplification nanoparticles in the complex, wherein a ratio of the first linker probes to the second capture probes on first amplification particles is from about 1:1 to 50:1; hybridizing reporter probes with third linker probes on the second amplification nanoparticles, wherein a ratio of the third linker probes to the second linker probes on the second amplification particles is from about 3:1 to 20:1; and detecting signals from the reporter probes.
US10781468B2
The invention relates to a medium for producing glucosamine, including 25-500 g/L molasses, 0.01-100 g/L soybean hydrolysate or 0.25-100 g/L corn steep liquor, 0.1-2 g/L MgSO4.7H2O, 0.1-0.5 g/L Al(NO3)3, and 1-5 mL/L methanol. The invention also relates to a method for producing glucosamine, including providing microorganism being able to produce glucosamine, and fermenting the microorganism in the medium mentioned above.
US10781467B2
Provided are a 3-epimerase, an encoding polynucleotide therefor, a nucleic acid construct, vector, and host cell comprising the polynucleotide, a method for producing the 3-epimerase, and use of the 3-epimerase.
US10781461B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a bacterial strain that can decrease the amount of an intermediate Compound P converted into Metabolite M and efficiently accumulate Compound P in a medium that is not supplemented with Metabolite M or the final product generated from Metabolite M. The present invention provides a prokaryotic organism having all features (a) to (d) as defined in the specification so as to accumulate Compound P by regulating expression level of Enzyme X that converts Compound P as an intermediate metabolite into Metabolite M in a biosynthetic pathway in which Metabolite M indispensable for the growth is produced from a carbon source.
US10781454B2
Disclosed herein are viral vectors based on modifications of the Citrus Tristeza virus useful for transfecting citrus trees for beneficial purposes. Included in the disclosure are viral vectors including one or more gene cassettes that encode heterologous polypeptides. The gene cassettes are positioned at desirable locations on the viral genome so as to enable expression while preserving functionality of the virus. Also disclosed are methods of transfecting plants and plants transfected with viral vector embodiments.
US10781450B2
An antisense molecule capable of binding to a selected target site to induce exon skipping in the dystrophin gene, as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 to 59.
US10781449B2
The present application relates to nucleic acid compounds, compositions comprising same and methods of use thereof for treatment of various diseases, disorders and conditions. The compounds are preferably chemically synthesized and modified double-stranded nucleic acid molecules which down regulate expression of a p53 gene.
US10781447B2
Provided are non-propagating transgenic microalgae expressing at least one heterologous RNAi molecule. The RNAi-expressing non-propagating transgenic microalgae are used for oral delivery of the RNAi molecule to a target organism in its intact and functional form. The heterologous RNAi molecule, present within the microalgae, is characterized by being biologically active, exerting at least one specific effect on the organism consuming the microalgae or on a pathogen of said organism. In particular, the non-propagating transgenic microalgae are used as agents for biological control of animal and plant pests.
US10781440B2
An automatic analyzer including a function for operating control materials and its operation method are provided. The analyzer is configured to start sampling by giving priority to an entirety of control materials corresponding to all assay items required for measurement. The analyzer is also configured to automatically start sampling of a patient specimen based on a preliminarily set sampling timing after completion of sampling of the entirety of control materials. The analyzer is also configured to stop, when an abnormality is present in a measurement result of at least any one of control materials in the group of control materials, sampling of a patient specimen corresponding to a control material in which the abnormality is found, and notify a tester of the abnormality.
US10781439B2
Focused acoustic treatment of samples including a target biomolecule, such as cfDNA, may aid in the recovery of the biomolecule from a sample. cfDNA in a sample, whether chemically stabilized or not, may be linked or otherwise bound to histones or other proteins, e.g., by hydrogen bonds of histones or chaperone proteins to DNA and/or covalent crosslinks of such proteins to the DNA. Focused acoustic energy may remove or disrupt such links, aiding in isolation of the cfDNA from the sample.
US10781435B2
Provided are MTSP-1 polypeptides modified to have altered activity and/or specificity so that they cleave a complement protein, such as complement protein C3, to inhibit its activity and thereby inhibit complement activation. The modified MTSP-1 polypeptides that inhibit complement activation can be used for treatment of diseases and conditions in which complement activation plays a role. Such diseases and conditions include inflammatory diseases and diseases with an inflammatory component. Exemplary of these disorders are ischemic and reperfusion disorders, including myocardial infarction and stroke, sepsis, autoimmune diseases, ophthalmic disorders, such as diabetic retinopathies and macular degeneration, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and transplanted organ rejection, such as renal delayed graft function (DGF).
US10781428B2
The present invention relates to laccase variants comprising a substitution at one or more positions corresponding to positions 9, 21, 37, 79, 102, 170, 175, 178, 179, 200, 262, 275, 276, 289, 292, 333, 357, 360, 393, 397, 418, 485, 506, and 518 of the full-length polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
US10781422B1
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for treating, ameliorating or preventing a retinal disease or condition; improving a photopic (day light) vision; for improving correcting visual acuity, improving macular function, improving a visual field, or improving scotopic (night) vision by administration of retinal progenitor cells. The subject matter described herein also provides cell populations comprising retinal progenitor cells and methods of isolation thereof.
US10781419B2
A device and method of use for augmenting the extraction of salivary glands from Plasmodium-infected mosquitoes, where the sporozoite stage of Plasmodium primarily resides. Sporozoites are useful for research as well as for the immunogen in whole parasite vaccines for the prevention of malaria. The device and methods of use disclosed herein greatly increase the rate at which sporozoites can be harvested.
US10781417B2
An apparatus for processing cells is disclosed. In one embodiment, a fixed bed reactor is provided for the cells, the fixed bed reactor including a portion movable from a first position corresponding to a packed condition of the fixed bed to a second position corresponding to a depacked condition of the fixed bed. Movement of the partition facilitates harvesting of the cells there from. Related apparatus, kits, methods, and systems are also disclosed.
US10781413B2
The present invention relates to dryer sheets comprising branched polyester polymers and methods of making and using such dryer sheets. Such dryer sheets, can comprise a variety substrate materials and provide the desired level of performance without the technical and economic drawbacks of conventional dryer sheets.
US10781408B2
Detergent compositions comprising polypeptide variants and methods of cleaning and/or treatment of surfaces using such compositions, and fabric treatment compositions comprising polypeptide variants. The compositions may comprise surfactants: anionic, nonionic and/or cationic surfactants.
US10781400B2
Cleaning compositions that include a non-functionalized alkyl polyglycoside, a nonionic surfactant system, and water. In certain embodiments, the cleaning compositions are substantially free of alkyl phenol ethoxylates. Additionally, some embodiments of the invention are substantially free of butyl cellosolve. The cleaning composition is capable of removing both proteinaceous food soils and hydrocarbon-based oily soils. The cleaning compositions include a biorenewable, environmentally friendly alternative to nonyl phenol ethoxylates and exhibit superior cleaning of food soils.
US10781397B2
A method for improving wear control, while maintaining or improving solubility and fuel efficiency, in an engine or other mechanical component lubricated with a lubricating oil by using as the lubricating oil a formulated oil. The formulated oil has a composition including a lubricating oil base stock as a major component; and at least one metal salt of a carboxylic acid, as a minor component; wherein the metal salt of the carboxylic acid contains no sulfur or phosphorus; wherein the metal is selected from the group consisting of palladium (Pd), silver (Ag), gold (Au), zinc (Zn), and mixtures thereof; wherein the carboxylic acid is selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic carboxylic acid, a cycloaliphatic carboxylic acid, an aromatic carboxylic acid, and mixtures thereof; wherein the molar ratio of (zinc+palladium+silver+gold)/phosphorus of said formulated oil is greater than 1.0. The lubricating oils are useful in internal combustion engines.
US10781396B2
Disclosed herein is a mixed composition for a refrigerator, which contains: a refrigerant containing at least one unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound selected from compounds represented by the following molecular formula (1): CpFrHs, and a refrigerator lubricating oil containing, as a major component, a polyoxyalkylene glycol compound represented by the following general formula (2), and containing an amine compound in an amount of 1.0% by mass or more based on the total amount of the refrigerator lubricating oil: R1—[(OR2)m—OR3]n (2). According to the present disclosure, a mixed composition for a refrigerator can be provided that has a less possibility of autoignition under a high temperature environment even in an unexpected leakage thereof in a refrigerator using a refrigerant containing a slightly flammable refrigerant, and a refrigerator lubricating oil can be provided that is capable of being applied to the mixed composition for a refrigerator.
US10781386B2
Marine fuel oil compositions are provided that exhibit unexpectedly high cetane numbers after addition of a cetane improver. Methods of making such compositions are also provided. The unexpected nature of the marine fuel oil compositions is based in part on the ability to achieve a substantial improvement in estimated cetane number by addition of a cetane improver to a hydrocarbonaceous composition with a natural estimated cetane number of less than 35. These unexpectedly high increases in estimated cetane number for fuels or fuel blending components with low natural estimated cetane numbers can allow for production of fuel compositions with desirable combustion characteristics while also maintaining a higher level of aromatic compounds and/or reducing or minimizing the amount of distillate boiling range components in the fuel or fuel blending component.
US10781384B2
A gasification system for the oxidation of a carbonaceous feedstock to provide a synthesis gas comprising: a reactor chamber for oxidizing the carbonaceous feedstock; a quench section for holding a bath of liquid coolant; an intermediate section having a reactor outlet opening through which the synthesis gas is conducted from the reactor chamber into the bath of the quench section; at least one layer of refractory bricks arranged on the reactor chamber floor, the lower end section of the refractory bricks enclosing the reactor outlet opening and defining the inner diameter thereof; the intermediate section including a number of halved tubes for liquid coolant arranged onto at least part of the reactor chamber floor on a side thereof opposite to the lower end section of the refractory bricks; and a pump system for circulating the liquid coolant through the halved tubes on the reactor chamber floor.
US10781383B2
Methods and systems for treating pygas are disclosed. Methods include depentanizing the pygas to produce a C5 stream and a C6+ stream before hydrotreating the C6+ stream, to integrate the processing of pygas with the production of isoprene, piperylene, and dicyclopentadiene. Systems include a depentanizer added before a pygas hydrotreatment unit.
US10781382B2
The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods for producing olefins and/or aromatics from coker naphtha. In a non-limiting embodiment, a method for producing aromatics includes hydrogenating the coker naphtha stream in the presence of a first catalyst to remove diolefins and sulfur, if any, to obtain a hydrogenated stream and subjecting the hydrogenated stream to aromatization in the presence of a second catalyst to produce an aromatic-rich stream that includes benzene, toluene and xylene. In certain embodiments, a method for producing olefins includes hydrogenating the coker naphtha stream in the presence of a first catalyst to remove diolefins and sulfur, if any, to obtain a hydrogenated stream and subjecting the hydrogenated stream to catalytic cracking in the presence of a second catalyst to produce an olefin-rich stream that includes ethylene, propylene and aromatics.
US10781368B2
A fluoride phosphor includes fluoride particles represented by AxMFy:Mnz4+ where A is at least one selected from lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), and cesium (Cs), M is at least one selected from silicon (Si), titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), germanium (Ge) and tin (Sn), a compositional ratio x of A satisfies 2≤x≤3, and a compositional ratio y of F satisfies 4≤y≤7; and an organic material physically adsorbed onto surfaces of the fluoride particles to allow the fluoride particles to have hydrophobicity. The fluoride particles have a concentration of Mn4+ gradually reduced from respective centers to respective surfaces of the fluoride particles.
US10781367B2
An effect pigment includes a substrate; an outer layer disposed above the substrate; and particles disposed above the substrate and at least partially entrapped by the outer layer, the particles comprising quantum dots.
US10781364B2
An electrochromic medium includes a solvent, a first pair of a first anodic material and a first cathodic material, and at least one of a second anodic material and a second cathodic material. At least one of the first anodic material and the first cathodic material is an electrochromic absorbing in the visible range, and at least one of the second anodic material and the second cathodic material is electrochromic absorbing in the visible range.
US10781355B2
A variety of cement compositions and methods of using cement compositions in subterranean formations. A method of formulating a cement composition may comprise: surface area of a group of pozzolans, wherein the smallest measured surface area of the group of pozzolans and the largest measured surface area of the group of pozzolans vary by about 50% or greater. The method may further comprise selecting one or more pozzolans from the group of pozzolans. The method may further comprise adding components comprising lime and water to the selected one or more pozzolans to form a cement composition.
US10781345B1
A method of preparing polyurethane hot melt adhesive with high temperature resistance generally includes the following steps: (1) adding isocyanate with a silane modifier in a reactor in an inert atmosphere, heating and stirring, then adding chemical dehydrant into the reactor and mixing evenly; (2) adding dehydrated diluent and tackifier resin to the reactor while maintaining the inert atmosphere and heating, adding dehydrated polyester polyol and polyether polyol, stirring, and allowing to react at constant temperature for a predetermined time period; (3) adding dehydrated polyether amine, stirring, and heating; and (4) adding a catalyst, vacuumizing, discharging materials and packaging the materials in an airtight container. The hot melt adhesive made according to the new method has a variety of improved physical and mechanical properties, including improved high temperature resistance, cold and heat shock resistance, drop resistance toughness, high adhesive strength, salt spray resistance and moisture and heat aging resistance.
US10781342B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a polishing composition which can sufficiently improve a polishing speed of an object to be polished having a silicon-oxygen bond such as a silicon oxide film or a polishing speed of an object to be polished having a silicon-nitrogen bond such as a silicon nitride film.Providing a polishing composition including: (1) an organic compound which has an action site interacting with an object to be polished having a silicon-oxygen bond or a silicon-nitrogen bond and an acceleration site accelerating an access of a component polishing an object to be polished to the object to be polished; (2) abrasive grains; and (3) a dispersing medium.
US10781341B2
This disclosure relates to a polyimide polymer that includes the reaction product of: (a) at least one diamine selected from the group consisting of a diamine of Structure (Ia) and a diamine of Structure (Ib), (b) at least one diamine of Structure (II), (c) at least one tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride, and (d) at least one compound containing a first functional group reactive with an amine or an anhydride and at least a second functional group selected from the group consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted linear alkenyl group and a substituted or unsubstituted linear alkynyl group. Each variable in the above formulas is defined in the specification.
US10781331B2
An ink set includes an ink A including water, a first organic solvent, and a first pigment and an ink B including water, a second organic solvent, a second pigment, and a urethane resin particle. The first organic solvent includes at least one of N,N-dimethyl-β-buthoxy propionamide, N,N-dimethyl-β-methoxy propionamide, and 3-ethyl-3-hydroxymethyl oxetane and has a mixing solubility parameter A of 10.00 to less than 13.00 and the second organic solvent has a mixing solubility parameter B of 13.00 to 16.00.
US10781328B2
A purpose of the present invention is to provide an actinic-ray-curable ink-jet ink that gives images of satisfactory quality at temperatures, the center of which lies in a moderate range and that, even when the temperature of the substrate changes to the higher-temperature or lower-temperature side, can give prints of satisfactory quality. The actinic-ray-curable ink-jet ink includes an actinic-ray-curable compound and a gellant. The gellant contains at least one C15-26 alkyl group. The actinic-ray-curable ink-jet ink contains a crystal nucleator, the crystal nucleator comprising a (poly)glycerin fatty acid ester compound A that comprises a (poly)glycerin skeleton and a C15 or higher alkyl group bonded to the (poly)glycerin skeleton. The content of the compound A is 1.0-10 mass % with respect to the total mass of the gellant.
US10781327B2
An ink jet ink composition is provided that can form an image having excellent weather resistance, abrasion resistance, and coloring property. The non-aqueous ink jet ink composition includes a solvent containing at least one cyclic ester compound; and C.I. Pigment Orange-43 (PO-43) as a pigment.
US10781325B2
A curable composition includes an acrylamide compound represented by the following Chemical formula 1: where R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, X represents an alkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and Y represents the following Chemical formula 2 or the following Chemical formula 3, where R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and * represents a bond site with X, where R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and * represents a bond site with X.
US10781322B2
A composition suitable for cleaning hard surfaces comprising a natural oil solvent and a natural oil thickener is provided.
US10781321B2
A coating agent for oil seal comprising 10 to 160 parts by weight of a filler having a particle size of 0.5 to 30 □m based on 100 parts by weight of isocyanate group-containing 1,2-polybutadiene and being prepared as an organic solvent solution, wherein a contact angle between a substrate surface coated with the coating agent and engine oil is less than 35°. The coating agent can improve wettability with oil and reduce dynamic friction coefficient in oil, while increasing the roughness of the coating surface. Thus, low torque characteristics can be achieved, while maintaining excellent seal performance inherent in oil seal.
US10781305B2
Provided is an ECTFE resin composition that is superior in transparency and resistant to yellowing for an extended period of time. The ECTFE resin composition generates a smaller amount of acidic gases, for example, when it is extrusion molded at high temperature. It is an ethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene copolymer resin composition including a bisphenol-based antioxidant. It is preferably an ethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene copolymer resin composition additionally including a phosphorus-based antioxidant.
US10781294B2
An embodiment includes a system comprising: a monolithic shape memory polymer (SMP) foam having first and second states; wherein the SMP foam includes: (a) polyurethane, (b) an inner half portion having inner reticulated cells defined by inner struts, (c) an outer half portion, having outer reticulated cells defined by outer struts, surrounding the inner portion in a plane that provides a cross-section of the SMP foam, (d) hydroxyl groups chemically bound to outer surfaces of both the inner and outer struts. Other embodiments are discussed herein.
US10781287B2
A method for production of a uniform polymer of high molar mass is provides, the method comprising: (a) polymerizing cyclic imino ether monomer in a first reaction mixture by cationic ring opening polymerization to produce a polymerized first reaction mixture containing (i) polymerized material and (ii) solvent and/or unreacted cyclic imino ether monomer; (b) separating solvent and/or unreacted cyclic imino ether monomer from polymerized material contained in the polymerized first reaction mixture; (c) copolymerizing by cationic ring opening polymerization a second liquid reaction mixture containing cyclic imino ether monomer and solvent by combining the separated unreacted cyclic imino ether monomer and/or the separated solvent with other components. Also disclosed are polyoxazoline polymers comprising at least 50 wt. % of repeating units derived from a 2-substituted 2-oxazoline monomer selected from 2-methyl-2-oxazoline, 2-ethyl-2-oxazoline, 2-n-propyl-2-oxazoline, 2-i-propyl-2-oxazoline and combinations thereof, said polymer having a DP of at least 250 and a very low dispersity.
US10781285B2
The present invention relates to an improved method for preparing a high purity polyethylene glycol dialdehyde derivative. The preparation method can provide the polyethylene glycol dialdehyde derivative suitable as a raw material for pharmaceuticals because of high purity and terminal activity, by using PEG-diacetal, which is prepared by reacting polyethyleneglycol methanesulfonate with dialkoxy-1-propanol, as an intermediate.
US10781277B2
The nano-fibre derivative method includes polymerization of 3-methoxthiophene (MOT) monomer on Poly(acrylonitrile co-itaconic acid) matrix and by use of electro-spinning of the produced nano-particulate.
US10781276B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a polymer used for a resist composition having high absorption efficiency for a particle beam or an electromagnetic wave, and excellence in sensitivity, resolution and pattern performance characteristics, and provide a resist composition containing the polymer and a method of manufacturing a device using thereof.The polymer comprises: a unit A; and a unit B, wherein the unit A has an onium salt structure and generates a first radical by irradiation with a particle beam or an electromagnetic wave, the unit B has a radical generating structure containing at least one multiple bond which is between a carbon atom and a carbon atom or between a carbon atom and a heteroatom, and generates a second radical by irradiation with a particle beam or an electromagnetic wave, and the multiple bond is not one contained in a benzenoid aromatic.
US10781275B2
Provided herein are photopolymerizable monomers, optionally for use as reactive diluents in a high temperature lithography-based photopolymerization process, a method of producing polymers using said photopolymerizable monomers, the polymers thus produced, and orthodontic appliances comprising the polymers.
US10781273B2
Apparatuses and processes that produce multimodal polyolefins, and in particular, polyethylene resins, are disclosed herein. This is accomplished by using two reactors in series, where one of the reactors is a multi-zone circulating reactor that can circulate polyolefin particles through two polymerization zones optionally having two different flow regimes so that the final multimodal polyolefin has improved product properties and improved product homogeneity.
US10781272B2
Residual hydrogenation catalyst produced from reduction of nitrile rubber is recovered by a chelation step using a chelating agent and a series of extraction using semi-coagulation with polar solvents and an optional washing steps for the separation of catalyst-chelating agent complex from hydrogenated nitrile rubber solution. The chelating agent is selected from xanthate, dithiocarbamate, and trithiocarbonate compounds.
US10781263B2
The present invention provides immunoconjugates composed of antibodies, e.g., monoclonal antibodies, or antibody fragments that bind to mesothelin, that are conjugated to cytotoxic agents, e.g., maytansine, or derivatives thereof, and/or co-administered or formulated with one or more additional anti-cancer agents. The immunoconjugates of the invention can be used in the methods of the invention to treat and/or diagnose and/or monitor cancers, e.g. solid tumors, recombinant antigen-binding regions and antibodies and functional fragments containing such antigen-binding regions that are specific for the membrane-anchored, 40 kDa mesothelin polypeptide, which is overexpressed in several tumors, such as pancreatic and ovarian tumors, mesothelioma and lung cancer cells.
US10781256B2
Anti-SIRPα antibodies, including multi-specific anti-SIRPα antibodies, are provided, as are related compositions and methods. The antibodies of the disclosure bind to SIRPα and can block the interaction of CD47 on one cell with SIRPα on a phagocytic cell. Antibodies that are bispecific for SIRPα and a second antigen are termed Bi-specific Macrophage Enhancing (BiME) antibodies and have emergent properties. The subject anti-SIRPα antibodies find use in various therapeutic methods. Embodiments of the disclosure include isolated antibodies and derivatives and fragments thereof, pharmaceutical formulations comprising one or more of the anti-SIRPα antibodies; and cell lines that produce the antibodies. Also provided are amino acid sequences of exemplary anti-SIRPα antibodies.
US10781249B2
An object of the present invention is to provide: an anti-GPC3 antibody that recognizes an epitope different from that for existing antibodies (e.g., GC33 and GC199) and can specifically bind, even in the form of single chain antibody, to GPC3 localized on a cell membrane; CAR comprising the anti-GPC3 single chain antibody; an immunocompetent cell expressing the CAR; a gene of the anti-GPC3 antibody or a gene of the CAR; a vector comprising the anti-GPC3 antibody gene or the CAR gene; a host cell in which the vector has been introduced; a method for specifically detecting GPC3; and a kit for specifically detecting GPC3. An antibody comprising particular heavy chain CDR1 to CDR3 and particular light chain CDR1 to CDR3 defined in claim 1, and specifically binding to a human-derived GPC3 polypeptide specifically binds to GPC3 localized on a cell membrane. CAR-immunocompetent cells prepared on the basis of CAR comprising such single chain antibody are useful for cancer immunotherapy.
US10781248B2
The specification provides compositions comprising chimeric proteins comprising AAT conjugated to an Fc region of an immunoglobulin. Methods for treating autoimmune disease, e.g., diabetes, e.g., Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, are also provided.
US10781240B2
EphA2 T-cell epitope are provided herein. The epitopes include peptides corresponding to specific fragments of human EphA2 protein containing one or more T-cell epitopes, and conservative derivatives thereof. The EphA2 T-cell epitopes are useful in an assay, such as an ELISPOT assay, that may be used to determine and/or quantify a patient's immune responsiveness to EphA2. The epitopes also are useful in methods of modulating a patient's immune reactivity to EphA2, which has substantial utility as a treatment for cancers that overexpress EphA2, such as renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The EphA2 epitopes also can be used to vaccinate a patient against EphA2, by in vivo or ex vivo methods.
US10781239B2
Disclosed herein are in vivo engineered cereblon protein and methods of making the same. The in vivo engineered cereblon protein can include a site-specific non-naturally occurring modification at cysteine 287 as set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, or cysteine 286 as set forth in SEQ ID NO:2 or 3, the modification comprising a moiety resulting from an in vivo Michael addition reaction between an exogenous Michael acceptor and the cysteine 287 as set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, or cysteine 286 as set forth in SEQ ID NO:2 or 3.
US10781232B2
The present invention relates to compounds and compositions for use in enhancing flavor and umami taste of food products. Particularly, the present invention relates to compounds of the general formula I) and compositions comprising them.
US10781225B1
The present disclosure is directed to a phosphorus-modified ionic liquid compound, the synthesis thereof and an electrochemical cell electrolyte containing the cyclic phosphorus-modified ionic liquid compound.
US10781221B2
The present disclosure is directed at methods of forming an N—Si silyl bond, the method comprising contacting an organic substrate comprising an aromatic amine having at least one N—H bond with a mixture comprising of (a) at least one hydrosilane or hydrosiloxane and (b) at least one hydroxide or alkoxide, under conditions sufficient to form the N—Si bond. The disclosure is further directed to the compositions involved in these methods and the products that result therefrom.
US10781218B2
The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula (II-A), which inhibit the interaction of menin with one or more of MLL1, MLL2 and MLL-fusion oncoproteins. Also disclosed are methods for the treatment of leukemia, solid cancers, diabetes and other diseases dependent on activity of MLL1, MLL2, MLL fusion proteins, and/or menin.
US10781208B2
The present disclosure provides compounds represented by Formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof wherein R1a, R1b, R2a, R2b, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, E and (B) are as defined as set forth in the specification. The present disclosure also provides compounds of Formula (I) for use to treat a condition or disorder responsive to inhibition of ALK such as cancer. and ®
US10781204B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula I, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same for the inhibition of TYK2, and the treatment of TYK2-mediated disorders.
US10781190B2
A process for producing acesulfame potassium, the process comprising the steps of providing a cyclizing agent composition comprising a cyclizing agent and a solvent and having an initial temperature, cooling the cyclizing agent composition to form a cooled cyclizing agent composition having a cooled temperature less than 35° C., reacting an acetoacetamide salt with the cyclizing agent in the cooled cyclizing agent composition to form a cyclic sulfur trioxide adduct composition comprising cyclic sulfur trioxide adduct; and, forming from the cyclic sulfur trioxide adduct in the cyclic sulfur trioxide adduct composition the finished acesulfame potassium composition comprising non-chlorinated acesulfame potassium and less than 39 wppm 5-chloro-acesulfame potassium. The cooled temperature is at least 2° C. less than the initial temperature.
US10781172B2
Disclosed are complexes and methods of using the complexes as catalysts for addition of amines to unsaturated electrophiles, as well as novel compounds produced by the disclosed complexes and methods. The disclosed methods may utilize the disclosed complexes as catalysts for adding unprotected primary amines and secondary amines to unsaturated electrophiles in an enantioselective manner to produce novel compounds which may include amino substituted succinimide compounds.
US10781165B2
Disclosed are a pH-responsive amphoteric surfactant N-lauryl-(α-alkyl)-β-aminopropionic acid and a preparation method and uses thereof. An alkylamine and a solvent are added to a three-necked flask, stirred for complete dissolution, slowly dropwise added with methyl α-alkyl-acrylate and reacted at room temperature after the ice-water bath is removed. The reaction mixture is refluxed in water bath and evaporated under rotation to remove the solvent and the residual methyl α-alkyl-acrylate to give N-lauryl-(α-alkyl)-β-aminopropionic acid. Then N-lauryl-(α-alkyl)-β-aminopropionic acid and water are added to a three-necked flask, slowly dropwise added with a sodium hydroxide solution and reacted in water bath to give a crude product, which is filtered and dried to give a purified surfactant sodium N-lauryl-(α-alkyl)-β-aminopropionate. This surfactant is suitable for the foamed acid system and its performance can be switched by adjusting pH due to pH sensitivity.
US10781164B2
The present invention relates to a process for the N-alkylation of amines by reacting an amine with an orthocarboxylic acid ester and with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst.
US10781161B2
The present invention includes DNP derivatives that are useful for preventing or treating a metabolic disease or disorder in a subject in need thereof. In certain embodiments, the subject is further administered at least one additional therapeutic agent.
US10781157B2
This invention produces technical (meth)acrylic acid without being confronted with problems of fouling of systems to purify the crude reaction mixture of (meth)acrylic acid synthesis, due to the presence of glyoxal formed during synthesis. The invention is based on the addition or generation of quinoline derivative in a glyoxal-containing (meth)acrylic acid flow in a quinoline/glyoxal derivative molar ratio ranging from 0.1 to 5, during the purification steps, said quinoline compound with one of formulas (I) or (II): wherein, groups R1, R2, R3, and R4 independently denote a hydrogen atom or a C1-C6, or R1 et R2 C-alkyl group combine and together with the atoms to which they are attached, form a saturated or unsaturated ring or heterocycle, preferably a phenyl group, and/or R3 and R4 combine and with the atoms to which they are attached, form a saturated or unsaturated ring or heterocycle, preferably a phenyl group.
US10781154B2
This invention relates to a process for preparing a calixarene compound by reacting a phenolic compound and an aldehyde in the presence of at least one nitrogen-containing base as a catalyst to form the calixarene compound. The invention also relates to processes for high-yield, high solid-content production of a calixarene compound, with high selectivity toward a high-purity calix[8]arene compound, without carrying out a recrystallization step.
US10781153B2
A method of recovering 2-ethyl hexanol (2-EH) from crude alcohol that includes the 2-ethyl hexanol, 2-ethyl, 3-propyl acrolein (EPA), and 2-ethylhexanal (EHA) is disclosed. The crude alcohol stream is first separated into a first stream of primarily 2-EH, a second stream of primarily EPA and 2-EH collectively, and a third stream of primarily 2-EH and EHA collectively. The second stream and the third stream are combined to form a combined stream. The combined stream is processed further to form a first product stream comprising primarily 2-EH and a second product stream comprising primarily, 2-EH, EHA, and EPA collectively.
US10781151B2
A method for producing a hydrofluoroolefin is provided. The formation of by-products of an over-reduced product having hydrogen added to a material chlorofluoroolefin and an over-reduced product having not only chlorine atoms but also fluorine atoms in the chlorofluoroolefin replaced with hydrogen atoms is suppressed in the method. The method includes reacting a specific chlorofluoroolefin with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst supported on a carrier to obtain the hydrofluoroolefin. The catalyst is a catalyst composed of an alloy containing at least one platinum group element of palladium and platinum, and at least one second element of copper, gold, lithium, potassium, silver, zinc, tin, lead, and bismuth.
US10781148B2
A method of preparing butadiene and a device for preparing the same. The method includes passing reaction raw materials containing butene, oxygen, steam, and a diluent gas through an oxidative dehydrogenation reactor, and oxidative dehydrogenation is performed therein to produce a reaction product separating water from the reaction product condensing hydrocarbons to produce a crude hydrocarbon mixture; and separating butadiene from the crude hydrocarbon mixture, where a gas containing n-butane remaining after the butadiene is separated is fed into the oxidative dehydrogenation reactor, and butane is used as a diluent gas. Because butane is used as a diluent gas, a C4 mixture and gas products may be easily separated through cooling and condensation processes. Thus, the method may increase productivity while reducing energy consumption and raw material costs, thereby improving economic efficiency.
US10781144B2
Plant fertirrigation method comprising the formation of a series of mother solutions, the feeding of each of the mother solutions into a dilution system in order to form a fertirrigation solution, the supply to a fertirrigation device by means of a transfer device, supplying said fertirrigation device with said fertirrigation solution, and an addition of iron and of at least one polyphosphate.
US10781143B2
The present invention relates to methods and plants for the treatment of an organic waste material, wherein waste is subjected to anaerobic fermentation in a biogas digester; effluent is mechanically separated from the biogas digester into a concentrated fraction and a liquid fraction; the liquid fraction is heated to a high temperature below the boiling point of the liquid; the heated liquid is introduced to a flash column to partially remove volatile carbon dioxide, the pH of the liquid is elevated and ammonia is removed from the liquid.
US10781137B2
The invention relates to a fiberglass material manufacture method and facility, were in molten glass is converted into fiberglass material via the steps of spinning, drawing, sizing, and collecting, followed by a step of producing a resulting fiberglass material that is then subjected to thermal desizing. The fumes from the melting furnace are used to preheat a combustion reagent from the melting furnace in two steps: a first step in which air is heated via heat exchange with the fumes, and a second step in which the combustion reagent is preheated via heat exchange with the hot air, the air then being used in the step of desizing the fiberglass material.
US10781134B2
An opaque cover for a capacitive sensor is provided. The cover includes a transparent substrate and a black color stack disposed adjacent the transparent substrate. The black color stack includes a pigment stack having a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and a first light absorbing layer positioned between the first and second dielectric layers. The first dielectric layer has a first refractive index. The second dielectric layer has a second refractive index different from the first refractive index. The black color stack also includes a plurality of second light absorption layers interleaved with a plurality of third dielectric layer.
US10781129B2
A method of forming a glass article is provided. The method includes the steps of positioning a first interface surface of a first glass block proximate a second interface surface of a second glass block to define an interface seam, welding the first and second glass blocks together around a majority of the interface seam to define an internal cavity, coupling a vacuum fitting to at least one of the first and second glass blocks, drawing a vacuum in the cavity between the first and second glass blocks, and heating the first and second glass blocks to fuse the first and second glass blocks together.
US10781122B2
Laundry, industrial or food processing wastewater is purified to the degree that it can be reused. Water quality is ensured through the final process of reverse osmosis (“RO”) which removes dissolved contaminants such as mineral hardness, soils and residual detergents. The process combines a ceramic tubular cross-flow membrane filter to remove the suspended solids, oils and greases ahead of the RO. The RO process employs high temperature, low fouling membranes. This enables the RO process to operate sustainably, i.e. without fouling, plugging or membrane degradation.
US10781107B2
Stable mineral slurries and methods of making stable mineral slurries.
US10781101B2
The invention provides a method for producing a solid electrolyte, which includes reacting two or more kinds of solid raw materials using a multi-axial kneading machine to give a crystalline solid electrolyte, and which can provide a crystalline solid electrolyte with excellent productivity.
US10781094B2
A pressure sensor assembly includes a sensor die and a ceramic substrate. The sensor die has a first side and a second side that is opposite to the first side. The sensor die includes a silicon chip that has a diaphragm configured to be exposed to a working fluid. The sensor die includes one or more electrical sensing elements mounted on the diaphragm and configured to measure a pressure of the working fluid. The sensor die is mounted to the ceramic substrate via a solder layer that engages the ceramic substrate and the second side of the sensor die.
US10781089B2
The invention relates to a lifting device, especially a mobile lifting device, for lifting loads, vehicles or the like, said lifting device comprising a lifting column (14), a support (21) which is guided by the lifting column (14) and on which a load carrying means (22) can be arranged, and a drive unit (18) which can be controlled via a control unit (17) and which moves the support (21) up and down in relation to the lifting column (14). The support (21) has a sleeve-type or bullet-type shape and surrounds at least part of the lifting column (14).
US10781087B2
A portable winch system includes a frame, a pair of wheels, a motor that is secured to the frame; and a capstan that is secured to the frame and that is rotatable via the motor. A rope is wound about the capstan in a manner that enables a user to grasp a tail end of the rope and induce friction between the capstan and the portion of the rope that is wound about the capstan. A tow end of the rope is attachable to an object to be pulled by the winch. An input guide attached to the frame is configured to receive the rope and direct the rope toward the capstan as the object is pulled toward the winch. An alignment guide attached to the frame is configured to contact the rope and align the rope about the capstan as the rope is wound about the capstan.
US10781085B2
Methods and systems are provided for a winch including a motor and a contactor assembly positioned within a same housing. In one example, the contactor assembly is positioned at an end of an armature of the motor and may include a controller configured to control winch component operation. The contactor assembly is electrically coupled to the armature via a plurality of electrically conductive brushes.
US10781084B2
The present disclosure relates to a support for a crane, in particular for a mobile crane, having at least two first support beams and two second support beams that are each arranged pairwise at mutually oppositely disposed sides of the support.
US10781083B2
A mobile crane comprising a main boom, which is supported on the mobile crane in such a way that the main boom can be rocked and which can be put upright by means of an elevating cylinder, and a main boom extension, which is releasably connected to a main boom head of the main boom by upper and lower pins. The main boom extension, proceeding from a home position, can be angled in relation to the main boom about a rocking axis by means of an angle drive after the upper pins have been released, which angle drive acts on a base of the main boom extension, where a drive of the mobile crane provided for a different task provides the kinetic energy for the angle drive. The angle drive is designed in such that a telescoping cylinder of the main boom provides the kinetic energy for the angle drive.
US10781081B2
A rotating tower crane for erecting a wind turbine, having a tower and a tower substructure, which is connected to the tower and is intended for supporting the tower, wherein the tower substructure has a supporting cross frame, which has three or more, preferably four, legs, extending from the tower. It is proposed that each leg has fastened on it, on the ground side, a load-distributor plate, which is not connected to the foundation, wherein the load-distributor plates together form the ballast of the tower.
US10781078B2
The invention is directed to an elevator track cleaner. The track cleaner is provided in a rectangular scrub brush configuration, providing a platform with a raised handle affixed to the top surface. The bottom surface provides a longitudinal band of stiff, flexible bristles along the centerline, and two longitudinal bands of small hooks on either side of the bristles for the purpose of securing a flexible white scrub pad. The pad is used to scrub the elevator track, with the bristles urging the pad into the groove where the track is located.
US10781077B2
An apparatus for displacing an elevator car from its pathway includes a rotational vehicle configured to rotate around an axis of rotation and at least one guide rail section mounted with the rotational vehicle along, which at least one guide rail section the at least one elevator car is arranged to travel. The at least one guide rail section is mounted substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotational vehicle. The rotational vehicle is configured to rotate 90 degrees. An elevator system is also disclosed.
US10781075B2
A device for a friction force provider for an emergency safety actuator for an elevator is disclosed. The friction force provider may include a housing having a first end and an opposing second end, where the first end may define an opening. The friction force provider may further include a primary magnet positioned within the housing and configured to move between an armed position and a working position. The primary magnet may be configured to create a force on a rail of an elevator system in the working position and be held within the housing in the armed position.
US10781070B2
A device and method for forming a knot to elongated material is provided. The device includes a body, a central cavity inside the body, a material track along which the elongated material is guided in the device, the material track including opening extending along the material track and open to the central cavity. The device further includes one or more barrier elements for blocking at least part of the opening for preventing the elongated material from escaping from the material track also prevents collapsing/folding of the material to the central cavity via the opening.
US10781067B2
Container having a base portion defining a compartment and a lid portion moveable between an open position for access to the compartment and a closed position to cover the compartment. The base portion includes a bottom panel, a back panel extending from the bottom panel to a back panel upper edge, and back side tabs extending from the back panel and defining opposing sides of the base portion. The base portion further includes a front base panel extending upwardly from the bottom panel to a front angle panel, the front angle panel extending upwardly and inwardly from the front base panel to a free end. The lid portion is hingedly-coupled to the upper edge of the back panel. The container further includes a cutter disposed on the front angle panel. A blank and method for forming the container from a sheet of blank material is also provided.
US10781062B2
A vehicle restraint system that includes a carriage and a hook that is moveable relative to the carriage. The hook is moveable between an engaged or extended position wherein the hook interferes with translation of vehicle relative to the vehicle restraint system and a disengaged or retracted position wherein the vehicle can be associated with or removed from interaction with the vehicle restraint system. The hook is secured to the carriage via an eccentric pivot assembly such that translation of the hook relative to the carriage includes an least partially lateral translation of the hook relative to the carriage thereby improving the repeatability associated with operation of the restraint system to securely engage and disengage respective vehicles from the restraint system without independent manipulation of the position of the vehicle relative to the restraint system.
US10781061B2
The present invention provides an automatic loading apparatus including a loading platform and a transfer plate. The transfer plate includes a rolling portion and a ramp portion. The rolling portion includes plural roller modules. Each of the roller modules includes a metal frame and plural upper rollers and lower rollers disposed in the metal frame. An upper surface of the transfer plate is made up of the upper rollers, and a lower surface of the transfer plate is made up of the lower rollers. The ramp portion is connected to the rolling portion and arranged on one end of the transfer plate.
US10781057B2
Systems for safety grip control of telescoping sheet lifters are provided. The systems incorporate at least one load interlock element and at least two alignment interlock elements joined to a carrying angle of the telescoping sheet lifter. The load interlock element detecting the presence of a load on the sheet lifter. The alignment interlock elements detecting the alignment of the load on the sheet lifter. The systems define three different load conditions: empty lifter, properly aligned sheets, and misaligned sheets. Corresponding or associated methods are also provided.
US10781056B2
Various adaptive apparatus and systems for automated handling of components such as composite plies are provided. In one embodiment, a ply manipulation system is provided that comprises an automated machine having an arm, and a ply manipulation tool attached to the arm of the automated machine. The ply manipulation tool includes a first shuttle including a first gripper, a second shuttle including a second gripper, and an actuator. The ply manipulation system further comprises a processor that automatically controls the actuator to move the first and second shuttles linearly with respect to one another to adapt the first and second grippers to a ply shape. In another embodiment, the first and second shuttles include one or more clamping elements moveable to a position to be deployed outside a perimeter of the ply. Methods for removing a ply from a sheet of material using a ply manipulation tool also are provided.
US10781054B2
A diverter system includes a conveyor belt with a horizontal belt surface, a diverter arm comprising a diverter belt with a vertical diverting belt surface, the diverter arm being operated by an actuator assembly, a sensing device for monitoring a speed of the vertical diverting belt surface, and a control unit operably coupled to the sensing device, wherein the control unit adjusts the speed of the vertical diverting belt surface according to a predefined ratio of speed between the horizontal belt surface and the vertical diverting belt surface.
US10781041B2
The present invention generally relates to waste containers and, more particularly, relates to a safety locking device for waste containers. The locking device contains a base unit and a pivoting unit pivotally mounted to the base unit. The base unit contains a pinion member, having a cam thereon, non-movably attached to the base member. The pivoting unit includes a lock casing defining a cavity which houses a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism contains a locking member which is pivotally movable between a blocking position to prevent relative movement between the pivoting unit and the base unit, and a release position to permit the relative movement between the pivoting unit and the base unit.
US10781037B2
A roof for a modular shipping container is provided. The modular shipping container includes a first end wall, a second end wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall. The roof includes a roof sheet having a top surface and defining a first end, a second end, a first side, and a second side. The roof further includes a pair of skid plate assembles. One of the pair of skid plate assembles is arranged along the first side of the roof sheet, and the other of the pair of skid plate assemblies is arranged along the second side of the roof sheet. The pair of skid plate assemblies partially extend over the top surface of the roof sheet. The roof sheet is formed of a unitary piece of material.
US10781033B1
A reusable bottle package includes an inner bottle, an inner base coupled to the inner bottle, an outer bottle, an outer base coupled to the outer bottle, and a push-to-release button contained by the outer base. The outer base cooperates with the inner base to form at least one snap feature. The inner bottle is secured to the outer bottle when the at least one snap feature is engaged. The at least one snap feature becomes disengaged when the push-to-release button is depressed, thereby allowing the inner bottle to be removed from the outer bottle.
US10781021B2
An apparatus for securing items includes a twist tie and a stretchable end for the twist tie, the stretchable end molded around the twist tie. The stretchable end includes an aperture, a narrow slit in the stretchable end. In one configuration, the aperture may stretch wider and longer than a starting shape. The stretchable end is made of Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) and has a durometer between 30 and 100 shore A.
US10781015B2
A member coupling mechanism capable of coupling two members using a necessary tightening force even in a limited space by a small and simple configuration. A member coupling mechanism includes a first member including a member coupling portion having an open apical surface, a second member coupled to the member coupling portion of the first member, an elastic sealing member inserted between the first member and the second member to seal an opening of the apical surface of the member coupling portion, a coupling member that couples the first member and the second member together, and an acting portion that exerts a force on the coupling member.
US10780997B1
A shock-resistant memory device comprises a housing and a memory module. The memory module is disposed within the housing and surrounded by potting material to protect the memory module from damage during a shock event. The housing can include a port that accommodates a data connection between the memory module and a sensor from which data is desirably received by the memory module. During a shock event the connection between the memory module and the sensor may be severed, but data stored in the memory module can be retained in the memory module which is protected by the housing. To facilitate retrieval of the memory device subsequent to a shock event, a balloon can be affixed to the housing. The balloon can be configured to inflate subsequent to the shock event so that the shock-resistant memory device does not sink in water and to make the memory device more visible for recovery.
US10780996B2
An apparatus and method to equalize the pressure in multiple tires supported by a single axle or strut of an airplane is shown. A control block connects the pressurized gas to a distribution block and meter. From the distribution block high pressure lines and no-loss chuck valves connect the pressurized gas to the multiple tires. Steps to be followed as programmed in the meter include startup, testing, calibration, setup and finalize. A permanent record of the steps in equalizing tire pressures is maintained.
US10780990B2
A projection system of the present disclosure includes: a flying object having an exterior body, a flying device that causes the exterior body to fly, and an image capturing device that captures an image; a projection device that projects a capture-dependent image on the exterior body, the captured-dependent image depending on the image; and a controller that causes the projection device to project the capture-dependent image.
US10780983B2
A de-icing assembly for a surface of an aircraft includes a carcass with a first layer and a second layer, a plurality of seams sewn into the carcass, and a bonded region. The plurality of seams join the first and second layers of the carcass together. Each of the plurality of seams comprises two or more stitchlines. The bonded region is disposed between the two or more stitchlines and seals a portion of the first layer of the carcass to a portion of the second layer of the carcass.
US10780982B2
A cooling system for a vehicle can include a coolant loop having a coolant therein and configured to be in thermal communication with a heat load to receive heat from the heat load, a refrigeration system comprising an evaporator in thermal communication with the coolant loop to receive heat from the coolant loop, and a condenser configured to be in thermal communication with ram air to remove heat from the refrigeration system, an inline ram air heat exchanger disposed in a ram air stream of the condenser, and a ram air cooling branch in fluid communication with the coolant loop and configured to direct coolant to the ram air heat exchanger to cool the coolant.
US10780980B2
An electronic baggage stowage system for an aircraft comprising a first detector to detect free space in a cabin stowage space, wherein the first detector is configured to output cabin stowage space data based on the detection, a processing unit communicating with the first detector, wherein the processing unit is configured to process the cabin stowage space data, receive and process baggage size data indicating the size of one or more baggage items, and output baggage stowage mapping data in response to the processing of the cabin stowage space data and the baggage size data. The baggage stowage mapping data indicates one or more target positions in the cabin stowage space at which the baggage items are to be placed. An indicator communicates with the processing unit to provide the indication of the one or more target positions to a flight attendant or passenger of the aircraft.
US10780976B2
A pitch actuating system for a turbomachine propeller including an actuator having a movable portion configured to be connected to propeller blades for displacement thereof in rotation with respect to the pitch axes of the blades. A first pitch control system for the blades, includes a first transmission screw movable in rotation, a first nut traversed by the first transmission screw and configured to cooperate with the blades for their displacement, an auxiliary system for feathering the blades, which comprise a second fixed transmission screw, a second nut traversed by the second transmission screw and movable in translation on the second nut, and wherein the pitch actuation system is configured so that a translational movement of the second nut causes a translational movement of the first transmission screw.
US10780974B2
A propulsion unit includes a motor rotor that spins about a central rotational axis, propeller blades each having a proximal base and a distal tip, and pivot mounts each coupling the proximal base of a corresponding one of the propeller blades to the motor rotor. The propeller blades each freely pivot at the proximal base about a corresponding offset pivoting axis that is substantially parallel to but offset from the central rotational axis of the motor rotor.
US10780972B2
A coated transparency including an electrically conductive multilayer stack is disclosed. The electrically conductive multilayer stack includes a first metal oxide layer including aluminum doped zinc (AZO), a metal layer including gold, and a second metal oxide layer including AZO. The electrically conductive multilayer stack has a low sheet resistance to provide radar attenuation and anti-static or static-dissipative properties, and has greater flexibility and resistance to corrosion than conventional multilayer stacks used to coat aircraft canopies and other substrates.
US10780967B2
A steering system for a marine vessel comprises a helm, a control head, and a joystick. The helm and control head may respectively provide user inputted steering commands and user inputted shift and throttle commands on a first CAN network. The joystick and the control head may respectively provide user inputted steering commands and user inputted shift and throttle commands on a second CAN network. The helm may provide user inputted steering commands on the first CAN network. The control head may provide user inputted shift and throttle commands on the second CAN network. The joystick may provide user inputted steering commands and user inputted shift and throttle commands on either the first CAN network or the second CAN network.
US10780964B1
A propulsion assembly utilizes at least one fluid propulsion chamber operationally attached or mounted to a vessel. Each fluid propulsion chamber generally comprises an outer housing and an inner sleeve; the outer housing is slidably disposed relative to the inner sleeve. Each inner sleeve further includes at least one water intake vent or aperture, and at least one outlet nozzle or jet. Pedal assemblies are moveably mounted within elongated slots or apertures extending through the vessel. A linkage assembly operationally connects the pedals to the at least one fluid propulsion chamber. Force imparted on said pedals (such as by the legs/feet of a user) is transferred to the fluid propulsion chambers by said linkage assembly to generate positive thrust to propel the vessel.
US10780961B2
A laser-powered ice-penetrating communications payload delivery vehicle for sub-ice submarine missions enables under-ice operations to exchange information with terrestrial facilities or satellite networks with communications methods otherwise blocked by an ice cap. The vehicle comprises an electronics bay, a payload bay, optics bay, and a melt optic with laser. The system and method of establishing communication where the vehicle, tethered to a sub-ice vessel, is released. The vehicle ascends to the bottom of an ice sheet and uses a laser to melt the ice, forming a borehole through which the vehicle continues to ascend. When buoyancy no longer advances the vehicle beyond sea level, the vehicle continues to melt a conical opening through the ice until unobstructed atmosphere is reached and bi-directional communication is established. Where the melting capacity cannot reach ice to continue melting, the vehicle mechanically advances itself toward the surface to establish high bandwidth, bi-directional communication.
US10780960B2
The device (50) includes at least one electronic circuit (52) and a battery (53) provided for powering the circuit, wherein the circuit and the battery are included in a block of hydrophobic material, for example a block of resin (51). The battery is, for example, an inductively charged battery and the device can include optical sockets (56a, 56b, 56c) for fiber-optic cables, so as to avoid all contact of metal parts with water. Such a device is especially suitable for a buoyancy compensator vest, for use as a “stabilizer during immersion” and as a “closed-circuit rebreather”.
US10780955B2
This invention provides a means of loading, processing and conditioning raw production gas, production of CGL, storage, transport, and delivery of pipeline quality natural gas or fractionated products to market. The CGL transport vessel utilizes a pipe based containment system to hold more densely packed constituents of natural gas held within a light hydrocarbon solvent than it is possible to attain for natural gas alone under such conditions. The containment system is supported by process systems for loading and transporting the natural gas as a liquid and unloading the CGL from the containment system and then offloading it in the gaseous state. The system can also be utilized for the selective storage and transport of NGLs to provide a total service package for the movement of natural gas and associated gas production. The mode of storage is suited for both marine and land transportation and configured in modular form to suit a particular application and/or scale of operation.
US10780954B2
A system can include at least one measuring device that captures and collects multiple two-dimensional images of a mooring line disposed in water. The system can also include a mooring line assessment system that includes a controller communicably coupled to the at least one measuring device. The controller can receive the two-dimensional images from the at least one measuring device. The controller can also generate a three-dimensional reconstruction of the mooring line based on the two-dimensional images. The controller can further present the three-dimensional reconstruction to a user. The two-dimensional images can be captured and the recommendation can be made while the mooring line is in situ.
US10780951B2
A marine thru-hull fitting drainage device includes: a channel body having a substantially U-shaped cross-sectional area along a length of the body such that the body forms a channel for directing fluid within the body, the body extending from a first end proximate to the hull of the vessel when the drainage device is installed and a second end that is distal from the hull of the vessel, wherein the second end extends beyond an edge of the thru-hull fitting; and a ring having an inner diameter that is at least as wide as a diameter of the bore in the hull of the vessel, the resiliently flexible channel body attached to the ring at the first end of the channel body. The drainage device is secured to the hull of the vessel by securing the ring between the thru-hull and the hull of the vessel.
US10780946B2
A gear change mechanism for a bicycle may involve a tensioner that has a wheel engaged with a chain in a bicycle drivetrain. This tensioner may be configured to rotate or otherwise change orientation in response to slack in the chain to maintain tension in the chain. A sensor may be used to measure the orientation of a tensioner of a chain in a bicycle drivetrain, and/or the physical orientation of components indicative thereof. Actions may be triggered by signals generated by the sensor.
US10780944B2
The present application describes a transmission system, including a certain tooth profile of toothed wheel and its use. This transmission system enables an improved guidance of the chain by using a non-normative tooth profile, to avoid that when the vehicle is exposed to extreme situations disengagements of the chain may occur. This transmission system applies to vehicles, preferably bicycles.
US10780939B2
A bicycle handlebar assembly including a stem extension and a handlebar cross member, a pair of steering bars affixed perpendicular to the handlebar cross member, and a pair of forearm supports affixed to the handlebar cross member in proximity with the steering bars. The gear shifting and brake controls are placed at the forward ends of the two steering bars. An embodiment of the invention would allow this handlebar assembly to be raised or lowered as the rider desires, to provide raised comfort position and a lowered aerodynamic position. The forearm supports and steering bars provide comfort and control to the rider not provided by typical handlebars. Alternatively the pair of steering bars could be replaced with a single closed steering bar circuit.
US10780937B2
A frame structure for a motorcycle includes a main frame for supporting a front structure of the motorcycle, the main frame including a pair of main pipes extending rearward from a head pipe of the front structure; a pivot bracket including a metal plate, the pivot bracket connected to the main frame and including a rear cushion mounting portion and a swing arm mounting portion for swingably mounting a rear cushion and a swing arm. The main frame further includes: a pair of support pipes extending rearward from the head pipe for supporting the front structure; and a connecting portion jointly connected at a rear end of the pair of main pipes and the pair of support pipes for connecting to the pivot bracket. The rear cushion mounting portion is positioned forward of the connecting portion of the main frame when viewed from a side view of the motorcycle.
US10780914B2
A method of detecting steering wheel angle instability in an auto-guided vehicle includes measuring a steering wheel angle at a plurality of time instances within a pre-determined time window to obtain an array of values of the steering wheel angle, performing a frequency analysis of the array of values of the steering wheel angle to obtain a frequency spectrum of the steering wheel angle, comparing the frequency spectrum of the steering wheel angle to a pre-defined threshold frequency spectrum to determine whether a magnitude of the frequency spectrum of the steering wheel angle at any frequency exceeds a magnitude of the threshold frequency spectrum, and upon determining that a magnitude of the frequency spectrum of the steering wheel angle at one or more frequencies exceeds a magnitude of the pre-defined threshold frequency spectrum, determining that a steering wheel angle instability is present.
US10780913B2
A method of controlling a motor of an electric power assisted steering system, the motor having a plurality of phases, the method comprising taking as an input an input signal indicative of a desired assistance torque and determining from the desired assistance torque a voltage to be applied to each of the phases of the motor, in which the step of determining the voltage to be applied to each of the phases comprises limiting the voltage determined to be applied to each of the phases of the motor dependent upon the voltage provided by a power supply to the motor.
US10780900B2
A compressor module, as a component of a refrigerant cycle device, is attached to a casing that houses a refrigeration cycle device. The compressor module includes a compressor that compresses refrigerant, a supporting member that supports the compressor, a vibration-reducing rubber body that is attached to the supporting member, ancillary equipment that is added to the compressor, a base supporting the supporting member via the vibration-reducing rubber body and supporting the ancillary equipment with a portion of the base other than the portion supporting the supporting member.
US10780899B1
The embodied invention is a foldable aerodynamic drag reducing plate assembly that is installed on shipping container front ends. The drag reducing plates incorporate hinges and attaching components specifically designed for the spacing and position of vertical rods that are part of a standard shipping container. The drag reducing plates include locking bars that provide stability against air wind when a train moves at high speeds. Also, connecting clips, stiffening channels, or hinges are used to combine the drag reducing plate elements design into a single unit.
US10780898B2
A track maintenance machine includes a machine frame being movable on a track, a plurality of working units, and a combustion engine to be connected by a clutch to a transfer case. Hydraulic pumps for supplying a plurality of hydraulic drives of a hydraulic system are connected to the transfer case. An electric motor is provided as an alternative drive of the transfer case for permanent energy supply of the working units and drives. The electric motor is coupled to an intermediate circuit to be supplied with electric energy by a vertically adjustable pantograph to be applied to a catenary of the track. A generator or an electric energy storage device is provided for alternative energy supply of the intermediate circuit. A method for operation of an energy supply system is also provided.
US10780893B2
A system and method for estimating the length of a trailer attached to a vehicle includes a processor and a sensor mounted to the vehicle and in communication with the processor. The sensor is configured to sense at least one target on the trailer and provide information to the processor regarding the location of the at least one target. The processor is configured to determine an estimate of the wheel based length (laa1) of the trailer by utilizing a wheel angle (α) of the vehicle, a hitch point (zk) of the vehicle, the first hitch angle (γ1), a wheel base (lza) of the vehicle, a distance (lzk) between the hitch point (zk) and a front axle of vehicle, and a lane radius (rza). The processor is configured to determine the length of a trailer attached to the vehicle by utilizing the wheel based length (laa1) of the trailer.
US10780891B2
A method for controlling vehicle systems includes receiving monitoring information from one or more monitoring systems and determining a plurality of driver states based on the monitoring information from the one or more monitoring systems. The method includes determining a combined driver state based on the plurality of driver states and modifying control of one or more vehicle systems based on the combined driver state.
US10780889B2
Apparatus for detecting road surface state in motor-driven power steering and control method thereof
Disclosed herein are an apparatus for detecting a road surface state in motor-driven power steering (MDPS) and a method for controlling the apparatus. The apparatus may include a column torque sensor to detect column torque applied to a steering column and to output a column torque signal; a steering angle sensor to detect a steering angular velocity of a steering wheel; a vehicle speed sensor to detect a driving speed of a vehicle; and a road surface determiner to determine a road surface state based on a boost gain, which is calculated based on the driving speed and the column torque, and on a phase offset between the column torque and the steering angular velocity and to output a road surface determination signal.
US10780886B2
Provided is a hydraulic pressure control device. A hydraulic pressure control device includes a solenoid valve configured to supply hydraulic pressure to switch between an engaged state and a released state of a lock-up clutch, and a transmission control device configured to control the solenoid valve. The solenoid valve supplies hydraulic pressure to switch between a parking locked state and a parking released state of a parking lock mechanism, in addition to switching of the lock-up clutch.
US10780885B2
A method includes controlling an electrified vehicle based on a route selected for a desired thermal management of a battery. An electrified vehicle includes at least one battery and a control system configured with instructions for automatically controlling the electrified vehicle based on the route selected for the desired thermal management of the battery.
US10780878B2
The vehicle turning control device for a vehicle includes a first road surface frictional coefficient calculator (22), a second road surface frictional coefficient calculator (25), a control gain calculator (23), a target yaw rate calculator (21), a target yaw rate corrector (27), a first braking/driving force calculator (24), and a second braking/driving force calculator (28). A second road surface frictional coefficient μ2 is obtained without braking/driving forces for respective wheels (2) being taken into consideration, and thus has a magnitude smaller than or equal to the magnitude of a first road surface frictional coefficient μ1. A braking/driving force command value calculator (29) calculates a braking/driving force command value from a braking/driving force (FA) and a braking/driving force (FB) which are respectively calculated with use of the first and second road surface frictional coefficients μ1 and μ2.
US10780876B2
A system for a vehicle is disclosed. The system may include an accumulator, a pump, and a controller. The controller may be configured to, responsive to braking of the vehicle, close a line pressure regulator to isolate the accumulator and pump from a transmission pressure line demand, and operate the pump to charge the accumulator without satisfying any of the demand, and responsive to a tip-in event, open the line pressure regulator and operate the accumulator and pump to satisfy the demand.
US10780873B2
Disclosed is a rail braking system including a detection and storage device designed to receive first information representing the position of a device for locking a service brake piston, to receive second information representing the supply of a service brake pressure chamber with a pneumatic pressure agent, to deduce information representing the application of a parking brake from the first and second information, and to store the deduced information; as a result of which the information representing the application of the parking brake is kept even if the service brake pressure chamber is no longer supplied with the pneumatic pressure agent.
US10780866B2
A vehicle brake mechanism that includes a pedal, a piston attached to the pedal, a spring associated with the piston and exerting a longitudinal force on the piston in a direction opposite the braking direction in order to bring the pedal to a resting position, and an autonomous brake module. A manual braking force on the pedal causes a longitudinal movement of the piston and displaces a transmitter element integrally joined to the piston. The autonomous brake module causes a movement of an intermediate plate that displaces the transmitter element and the piston, exerting a longitudinal force on the piston in the braking direction. The brake mechanism determines the force in the direction opposite the braking direction using a sensor situated on or in the intermediate plate and/or the transmitter element.
US10780860B2
A windshield-wiper system includes a precipitation-detector, a windshield-wiper actuator, an object-detector, and a controller. The precipitation-detector detects precipitation proximate to a host-vehicle. The windshield-wiper actuator clears the precipitation from a windshield of the host-vehicle. The object-detector detects a distance of an object to the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the precipitation-detector, the windshield-wiper actuator, and the object-detector. The controller determines when the precipitation is present based on the precipitation-detector, determines the distance from the object to the host-vehicle based on the object-detector, and adjusts a speed of the windshield-wiper actuator when the precipitation is detected and the object is less than a distance-threshold away from the host-vehicle.
US10780845B2
A clip is disclosed for securing a molding to a flange of a vehicle. The clip has a first side wall and a second side wall each comprising an interior surface and an opposing exterior surface. The interior surfaces face one another and the exterior surfaces are shaped to engage the molding. Each of the side walls terminate at a distal edge providing a passage for the flange. A base connects the side walls at an end that is opposite the distal edges. A tab extends from the base and is disposed between the side walls. The tab and the interior surface of the second side wall define a pocket sized to fit the flange of the vehicle. The interior surface of the second side wall comprises a bump that extends towards and faces the tab. The tab and the bump are configured to engage the flange.
US10780844B2
A fastening system includes a locking pin, a doghouse, including a receiver, and a retainer body held in the receiver. The retainer body includes a retention feature adapted to receive and hold the locking pin. The fastening system is useful in a method of securing a trim component to a door inner.
US10780840B1
A cellphone stand drawer apparatus for supporting a cellphone in a vehicle includes a housing having a housing interior. A drawer track is coupled to the housing and a pair of drawer sides is coupled to the drawer track. A drawer front and a base are coupled to the pair of drawer sides. An opener arm moves the pair of drawer sides from a closed position to an alternate open position. A touch latch is coupled to the housing and the drawer front. A cradle axle is coupled to the pair of drawer sides and a pair of cradle arms is coupled to the cradle axle. The pair of cradle arms pivots and slides on the cradle axle to secure a cellphone both within the drawer apparatus in the closed position and standing in the open position.
US10780838B2
A bicycle rack built into a vehicle's trunk is provided. In some embodiments, the present invention may comprise a bicycle rack that may slide along one or more tracks built into a vehicle's trunk, wherein the bicycle rack may extend from or retract into the vehicle's trunk. In some embodiments, the movement of the bicycle rack along the tracks may be automated according to one or more built-in features of the vehicle.
US10780829B2
A vehicle side mirror (22) housing (12) base (17) and mirror (23) to view behind you.A vehicle side mirror (22) is concealed and revealed through an opening in the vehicle body (11) automatically when started, turned off, in park, in autonomous mode or manually with a switch, key fob or voice command.When concealed in the container (16) the vehicle allows for more room to pass and less damage to the un-exposed vehicle side mirror (22), when driving or in autonomous mode the vehicle side mirror (22) is concealed thus the vehicle can have an increase in fuel economy do to the decrease of the drag coefficient.
US10780825B1
A system and a method of alerting a driver of a vehicle of the presence of a passenger in the vehicle are disclosed. The system comprises a control unit in the vehicle to detect the status of an ignition switch in the vehicle. The system further comprises a control device coupled to the control unit. The system further comprises a plurality of wearable devices, each wearable devices is worn by a passenger in the vehicle. The control unit detects turning OFF of the ignition switch and sends a signal to the control device. The control device sends a transmission signal to the wearable devices to determine the presence of any of the wearable devices. The control device generates an alert to the driver when any of the wearable devices respond to the transmission signal indicating presence of the passenger inside the vehicle when the ignition switch is turned OFF.
US10780823B2
A safety sign device is for a vehicle. The safety sign device includes a first sign having proximal and distal end, a first hinge being coupled to the proximal end of the first sign, the first hinge being coupled to a side of the vehicle, and a second sign being coupled to the side of the vehicle and being substantially parallel to the side of the vehicle. The first hinge is configured to extend and retract the first sign between a retracted position and an extended position. The first and second signs may be transverse to each other in the extended position, and may be flat against the side of the vehicle in the retracted position. The safety sign device includes a first flexible arm coupled to the first hinge and having an elongate housing, and visual indicators carried by the elongate housing.
US10780822B1
A vehicle assembly includes, among other things, an emitter system of a vehicle, a sensor system of the vehicle, and at least one lighting device of the vehicle. The emitter system is configured to project a marker to provide a visual representation of an exclusion zone adjacent the vehicle. The sensor system is configured to detect a position of an individual relative to the exclusion zone. The vehicle configured to redirect light from the at least one lighting device based on the position of the individual relative to the exclusion zone.
US10780815B2
A pickup truck loading device. The pickup truck loading device includes an elongated rod having a first end, a second end, and a central portion. A winch mount is disposed at the central portion of the elongated rod. A first end bracket and a second end bracket each include a channel and are each configured to mount to an upper rim of opposing sides of a truck bed. The first end of the elongated rod is slidably engaged within the channel of the first end bracket and the second end of the elongated rod is slidably engaged within the channel of the second end bracket.
US10780813B2
The current disclosure relates to a tank trailer for transporting meat packaging by-products. The tank trailer has a cylindrical body having a sloped rear end. An opening is formed in the sloped rear end, and a gate selectively blocks the opening. A locking mechanism is provided to securely lock the gate to the cylindrical body, thereby sealing the cylindrical body. The sloped rear end forms a chute through which meat by-products can be poured. The chute extends for a distance rearwardly of the trailer's rear wheel assembly.
US10780806B2
A method for assembling an upholstery for a seat or for stuffed furniture including the steps of: providing a first upholstery element and a second upholstery element to be sewn together, wherein the first upholstery element and the second element have a visible upper surface and a non-visible lower surface; placing a first edge of the first element alongside a first edge of the second element until they are in abutting contact, that is head against head, in a coplanar way; sewing the first edge of the first element to the first edge of the second element with a stitch chosen from classes 300, 400 or 600.
US10780801B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle sheet with a seat back which is provided with a urethane pad covered with a trim cover, and a pressing unit on the reverse side of the urethane pad covered with the trim cover, the pressing unit being formed with a shaft extending laterally and a pair of pressure portions arranged in the vertical direction with respect to the shaft to support both the upper and lower sides of the urethane pad by detecting the intermediate position of turning movement of the pressing unit by means of a turning movement detection unit and stopping the turning movement of the pressing unit, or is configured to press forward the upper side of the urethane pad using the upper pressure portion or the lower side of the urethane pad using the lower pressure portion by turning the laterally-extending shaft of the pressing unit.
US10780798B2
A seat component adjustment actuator (1) comprises a housing, an electric motor (5), and a gearing (10) coupled to the electric motor (5) and comprising at least three worm transmission stages (11-16). A first worm transmission stage (11, 12) comprises a first worm (11) and a first worm gear (12) engaged with the first worm (11). A third worm transmission stage (15, 16) comprises a third worm (15) and a third worm gear (16) engaged with the third worm (15). The first worm (11) is supported in the housing such that the first worm (11) is rotatable about an input rotation axis. The third worm gear (16) is supported in the housing such that the third worm gear (16) is rotatable about an output rotation axis which is transverse to the input rotation axis.
US10780796B2
A method for recognizing a seat occupancy of seats in a motor vehicle including a) preparing a checking sequence of the seats at least using a probability of occupancy of the seats, and b) sequentially checking the occupancy of the seats using the checking sequence prepared in step a).
US10780790B1
The electric charging system for a vehicle is configured for use with an electric vehicle. The electric vehicle further comprises one or more electric drive motors. The electric charging system for a vehicle provides electrical energy to the one or more electric drive motors. The electric charging system for a vehicle comprises a plurality of battery banks, a regenerative circuit, and a control circuit. Each of the plurality of battery banks is a chemical device that converts chemical potential energy into electrical energy used to power the one or more electric drive motors of the electric vehicle. The regenerative circuit is a circuit that converts the motion of the electric vehicle into electricity used to recharge the plurality of battery banks. The control circuit regulates and controls the operation of the electric charging system for a vehicle.
US10780788B2
The high voltage component assembly includes a first high voltage component and a second high voltage component for operating respectively upon reception of high voltage supply from a supply source, a case body for containing the first high voltage component therein, a lid to be attached to the case body to prevent access to an inside of the case body in a state of the lid being attached to the case body, a fastening member to be fastened in a fastening state to fix the lid so as not to be detached from the case body, a receptacle to which the second high voltage component is attached, the receptacle being provided at a position precluding release of the fastening member from the fastening state in a state of the receptacle receiving the second high voltage component attached, and a cutoff device for cutting off the supply of the high voltage from the supply source upon detachment of the second high voltage component from the receptacle.
US10780786B2
A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium to dynamically manage heat in an electric energy storage system, such as a battery pack or ultra-capacitor pack system in a system or device having a variable electrical loads that may impact performance or life, such as in an electric vehicle.
US10780784B2
A method for executing regenerative braking of a mild hybrid system may include performing, when a brake is operated while a vehicle having the mild hybrid system is traveling, regenerative braking only in a state in which a wheel torque is greater than a clutch load torque by a threshold, thereby preventing occurrence of an abnormal engine-off state during regenerative braking.
US10780769B1
A power transmission apparatus of a hybrid electric vehicle using an engine and first and second motor/generators as power sources, may include a first shaft, a second shaft which is selectively connectable to the first shaft and fixedly connected to the first motor/generator, a third shaft selectively connectable to the first shaft, a fourth shaft coaxially mounted with the third shaft, a fifth shaft transferring rotational power transmitted from the third and fourth shafts to a final reduction gear, a sixth shaft fixedly connected to the second motor/generator, a seventh shaft transferring rotational power transmitted from the sixth shaft to the final reduction gear and a planetary gear set including first, second, and third rotation elements wherein the first to seventh shafts are externally gear-meshed with each other by four gear sets so that rotational power is transmitted.
US10780767B2
An energy absorbing and distributing side impact system for a vehicle includes first and second side sills, each of the first and second sills comprising multiple longitudinal channels, at least an upper longitudinal channel positioned above a vehicle floor panel and at least a lower longitudinal channel positioned below the vehicle floor panel, a battery enclosure mounted between front and rear suspensions of the vehicle, the battery enclosure having a first side member attached to the first side sill, and a second side member attached to the second side sill; cross-members integrated into the battery enclosure; and at least one mechanical connection securing the cross-members to the vehicle floor panel.
US10780763B2
During control of an air-conditioning for a vehicle, when a torque to the engine is outputted that satisfies a total value of drive torques of the vehicle and an air-conditioning compressor, a minimum discharge capacity is set when fuel to the engine is cut. An assessment is made as to whether or not the discharge capacity needs to be changed from the minimum discharge capacity in accordance with the state inside the cabin. The discharge capacity is changed from the minimum discharge capacity to an upper limit capacity that is allowed during normal operation upon accessing that the discharge capacity needs to be changed from the minimum discharge capacity. After a predetermined time elapses following the changing of the discharge capacity, the discharge capacity is changed from the upper limit capacity to a discharge capacity that corresponds to the state inside the cabin.
US10780756B1
A boot with a body cavity that protects a moveable joint and retains lubricant associated with the joint is disclosed. The wall of the boot body includes a venting aperture that is protected by a surrounding barrier structure.
US10780748B2
A transmitter includes a condition detecting section, which detects a condition of a tire, a memory section, which stores identification information, a transmitting section, which transmits a data signal, a trigger receiving section, which receives a trigger signal transmitted from a trigger device, and a controlling section. When the trigger receiving section receives the trigger signal, the controlling section generates data corresponding to the trigger signal and causes the transmitting section to transmit the data signal, which includes the generated data. The controlling section generates encrypted data when the trigger receiving section receives a trigger signal of unmodulated waves. The controlling section generates non-encrypted data that includes the identification information when the trigger receiving section receives a trigger signal of modulated waves.
US10780740B2
A tire comprises a tread, a crown with a crown reinforcement, two sidewalls, two beads, a carcass reinforcement anchored to the two beads and extending from one sidewall to the other, characterized in that the tread comprises a composition based on at least a diene elastomer, at a content of between 35 and 99 phr (parts by weight per hundred parts of elastomer), a thermoplastic elastomer system, at a total content of between 1 and 65 phr, said thermoplastic elastomer system comprising at least two block copolymers, referred to as polystyrene and poly(butadiene/styrene) block copolymers, each comprising at least one elastomer block of optionally hydrogenated butadiene/styrene random copolymer type, and at least one thermoplastic block of styrene type, one of the two polystyrene and poly(butadiene/styrene) block copolymers being hydrogenated such that a proportion ranging from 95 to 100 mol % of the double bonds in the butadiene portion is hydrogenated, the latter being referred to as an essentially hydrogenated polystyrene and poly(butadiene/styrene) block copolymer.
US10780731B2
A mail creation method includes forming an address, forming an image, folding, inserting, sealing, and fixing a voucher. In the forming of the address, an image forming section forms the address on an envelope. In the forming of the image, the image forming section forms the image on paper. In the folding, a folding section folds the paper having the image formed thereon. In the inserting, an enclosing section inserts the folded paper into the envelope having the address formed thereon. In the sealing, the enclosing section seals the envelope having the folded paper inserted therein. In the fixing of the voucher, a voucher fixing section fixes the voucher to the sealed envelope. The voucher indicates that postage has been paid.
US10780730B2
A handheld implement having a shaft with two shaft parts which are releasably connectable together via a plug-in coupling, with a coupling unit at each front end of the shaft parts. Each coupling unit has a slide held in a guide hole open on a face side in the associated shaft part and protrudes beyond the guide hole with a slide portion, the free end of which is formed as a latching fork that has a latching opening. The slide portion bears a latching protrusion behind the latching fork in the sliding direction. The coupling unit has a guide sleeve that encloses the slide and is guided into the guide hole counter to a restoring force, and when the front ends, having the coupling units, of the shaft parts are pressed together, the latching fork of one coupling unit is latchable on the latching protrusion of the other coupling unit.
US10780727B2
Security documents often incorporate security devices to prevent or hinder counterfeiters. Disclosed herein are security devices that include a fluid or fluids within the devices. Such devices, and security documents that include them, afford new techniques to check whether a security document is a legitimate or counterfeit copy.
US10780721B2
For detecting label stops in a label printer, a label stop sensing device is provided. In one implementation, the label stop sensing device comprises a sensor configured to sense print media being fed through a printer, wherein the print media comprises a plurality of labels separated by gaps. Also, the label stop sensing device includes a gap detecting module having a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) module. The FFT module is configured to receive time domain signals of the sensed print media from the sensor and to obtain frequency domain signals. The gap detecting module is configured to detect the gaps between the labels on the print media based on at least the frequency domain signals.
US10780719B2
An inkjet printing device includes an ink container accommodating a non-aqueous clear ink containing a resin and an organic solvent, a discharging head to discharge the non-aqueous clear ink directly or indirectly onto a substrate to form printed matter; and a heating device to heat the substrate, wherein the following relationship is satisfied: Tlow (° C.)>Thigh (° C.), where Tlow represents the temperature of the substrate that the heating device is heating during printing in a low gloss printing mode in which the non-aqueous clear ink is directly or indirectly discharged and attached to the substrate to impart low gloss to the printed matter and Thigh represents the temperature of the substrate that the heating device is heating during printing in a high gloss printing mode in which the non-aqueous clear ink is directly or indirectly discharged and attached to the substrate to impart high gloss to the printed matter.
US10780718B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge device, circuitry, and a curing device. The liquid discharge device is configured to discharge a liquid having a curing degree variable by a stimulation amount while relatively moving to a recording medium. The circuitry is configured to acquire surface roughness information indicating glossiness of a formed object formed on the recording medium and set a stimulation amount for the liquid based on the surface roughness information. The curing device is configured to stimulate the liquid discharged by the liquid discharge device based on the stimulation amount set by the circuitry to cure the liquid. The circuitry is configured to set, based on the surface roughness information, the stimulation amount for each region stimulated by the curing device in a same plane of the formed object.
US10780717B2
A photo-curable ink jet ink set includes an undercoating photo-curable ink jet ink containing a (meth)acrylic acid ester having a vinyl ether group expressed by general formula (I), and an overcoating photo-curable ink jet ink. The undercoating photo-curable ink jet ink has a higher surface tension than the overcoating photo-curable ink jet ink.
US10780708B2
In a printer that drives by a ribbon motor (302), a winding axle that holds an ink ribbon positioned between a thermal head that performs a photographic printing operation with respect to a photographic medium conveyed along a sub-scanning direction and a platen that opposes the photographic print head with the photographic medium between the photographic print head and the platen, a flywheel (303) is coupled to a shaft of the ribbon motor (302), and a rotational force of the ribbon motor (302) is transmitted to the winding axle, via a worm gear (501) and a helical gear (502).
US10780705B2
A fluid ejection device includes a fluid slot, two laterally adjacent fluid ejection chambers each having a drop ejecting element therein, a fluid circulation path communicated with the fluid slot and each of the two laterally adjacent fluid ejection chambers, and a fluid circulating element within the fluid circulation path, with the fluid circulating element laterally adjacent at least one of the two laterally adjacent fluid ejection chambers, and the two laterally adjacent fluid ejection chambers to substantially simultaneously eject drops of fluid therefrom such that the drops of fluid are to coalesce during flight.
US10780696B2
A method of forming a printbar module may include providing a printed circuit board (PCB) having a recess extending partially through the PCB and a dam surrounding the recess. An adhesive material may be applied to the recess and a printhead die sliver may be positioned in the recess. The printhead die sliver may be bonded with the PCB and the printhead die sliver and the PCB may be encapsulated with a molding compound. In response to encapsulating, a slot, extending through the PCB and the adhesive material may be formed, wherein the slot is in fluidic communication with fluid feed holes of the printhead die sliver to provide direct fluidic communication without fan-out.
US10780676B2
A method to produce a wear resistant foil, including providing a first foil including a first thermoplastic material, applying wear resistant particles on the first foil, applying a second foil including a second thermoplastic material on the first foil, and adhering the first foil and the second foil to each other to form a wear resistant foil.
US10780668B2
The provided surface protection films include a plurality of layers in the following order: a first polymeric film that is exposed at a major surface of the surface protection film; a foamed adhesive; a second polymeric film; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive. The surface protective films withstand impacts and harsh outdoor conditions, and can be easily applied and removed while minimizing or eliminating the need to use personal protective equipment and volatile organic compounds.
US10780655B2
A tooling apparatus may include a pair of elongated tooling dies independently rotatable about a common central axis. Each tooling die may have a layup surface including a web layup surface and at least one flange layup surface oriented non-parallel to the web layup surface and configured to receive at least one composite ply to form a stringer layup half having a web and at least one flange. The tooling dies may be rotatable into side-by-side relation causing the webs of the stringer layup halves to be positioned in back-to-back mating contact with one another.
US10780650B2
A hole cutter/punch arrangement that can be changed over quickly to a different hole cutter or punch or slitter, or can instead be converted to a sealer in manufacture of items from plastic film. A reciprocating drive such as an air cylinder is coupled to a transverse mount or holder, of a T-shaped profile and the punches and sealers each have a mounting shoe with a transverse T-profile channel to slide onto the mount where a detent holds the shoe releasably in place. A triple-tree arrangement of a center drive post and left and right guide posts connects to the transverse holder.
US10780647B2
A microwave processing system includes: a broadband variable frequency microwave (VFM) source; a plurality of waveguide applicators, each of which includes a waveguide transition and is capable of supporting a selected subset of frequencies within the bandwidth of the broadband VFM source; a microwave switching means allowing the microwave source to be connected to any one of the waveguide transitions so that microwave power is delivered to the corresponding waveguide applicator; and wherein each of the waveguide applicators includes at least one channel through which a microwave transparent tube may be run so that process fluid flowing through the tube may be exposed to microwave power in the applicator.
US10780643B2
Techniques and systems for 3D printing using mirrors that are oriented at about 45 degrees from an X-axis and Y-axis are described. A technique includes receiving an object model; rotating the object model about 45 degrees around the Z-axis; generating cross-sectional images of the rotated object model; mapping pixels of the cross-sectional images to corresponding mirrors of a digital micromirror device of an additive manufacturing apparatus to form additive-manufacturing images, wherein edges of the mirrors are oriented about 45 degrees from the X-axis of the digital micromirror device and about 45 degrees from the Y-axis of the digital micromirror; and providing the additive manufacturing images to generate a build piece corresponding to the object model. Other implementations can include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.
US10780641B2
Techniques and systems for enhancing vertical edges during photopolymer-based three-dimensional (3D) printing are described. A described technique includes accessing an original image corresponding to a slice of a 3D model prepared for printing on a 3D printer; accessing a pixel reduction factor that is associated with an increased exposure duration parameter; classifying pixels of the original image; reducing intensity levels of the interior pixels by the pixel reduction factor so that corresponding printing areas receive first curing doses under the increased exposure duration parameter and the reduced intensity levels that are comparable to doses received under an unmodified exposure duration parameter and unreduced intensity levels; maintaining intensity levels of the exterior pixels so that corresponding printing areas receive second curing doses under the increased exposure duration parameter that are greater than doses associated with the unmodified exposure duration parameter; and outputting a resulting modified image for 3D printing.
US10780629B2
Techniques for applying a peel operation during additive fabrication and related systems and methods
According to some aspects, an additive fabrication device is provided. The additive fabrication device may be configured to form layers of material on a build platform, each layer of material being formed so as to contact a container in addition to the build platform and/or a previously formed layer of material, and may comprise a build platform, a container, and a plurality of mechanical linkages each independently coupled to the container and configured to move the container relative to the build platform.
US10780627B2
There is provided a method for forming a three-dimensional object having a desired decoration. The method using an apparatus for forming a three-dimensional object configured to form a three-dimensional object includes: a head for reflective ink configured to form a light reflection layer, a head for decorative ink, a head for transparent ink, a main scanning driving unit and a sub-scanning driving unit. At least the head for decorative ink and the head for transparent ink are arranged to be positionally offset in a sub-scanning direction, the head for reflective ink, the head for decorative ink and the head for transparent ink are configured to form a transparent layer between the light reflection layer and a decorative layer, thereby forming the decorative layer, the transparent layer and the light reflection layer in corresponding order from a surface layer-side of the three-dimensional object towards an inner side of the three-dimensional object.
US10780626B2
A method is described for manufacturing a three-dimensional product, in particular a hydraulic element, the method encompassing at least the following method steps: Providing a first section of the product to be manufactured, which includes at least one first connection point for a second section of the product to be manufactured; and producing the second section by an additive manufacture in which the at least one first connection point of the first section is used as a substrate for the additive manufacture of the second section.
US10780625B2
A liquid forming and filling system for filling a container with a liquid. The liquid forming and filling system having a motor, a gear box operably coupled to the motor configured to receive a driving output from the motor and outputting a gear box driving force, a linear screw operably coupled to the gear box configured to produce linear movement in response to rotational movement from the gear box, a forming cylinder configured to output pressurized liquid for forming and filling the container, the forming cylinder being in an inverted orientation, a top manifold plate and end cap vent valve assembly coupled to the forming cylinder for receiving the pressurize liquid, and a vent valve operably coupled to the top manifold plate and end cap vent valve assembly configured to vent air entrapped within the pressurized liquid.
US10780622B2
A blow film line and a method for operating the same relates to improving the flow rate in conventional blow film lines without compromising the production quality.The inner cooling body shows an air outlet path, with a cooling ring being embodied in a height-adjustable fashion, with a controller positioning the cooling ring in a lower area of the inner cooling body for the start-up of the facility. The cooling ring is positioned in the upper area of the air outlet path of the inner cooling body in order to achieve the steady-state production.
US10780621B2
The present invention provides a system and method for quickly removing and installing a filament tube and nozzle in an FFF extrusion system. The system utilizes a primary manifold that includes a cooling block, a heating block and a quick-change mechanism. This primary manifold is adapted to mate a filament tube/nozzle assembly. The quick-change mechanism, which in a particular embodiment utilizes a recessed biased-bearing arrangement, enables the filament/nozzle assembly to be removed and inserted without the use of any tools, and without causing any significant downtime for the FFF extrusion system. Once removed, the filament tube/nozzle assembly can be refurbished by a technician, trained so as not to over torque the tube/nozzle threaded interface. This refurbishment (typically consisting of a cleaning and the installation of a new nozzle) could be accomplished “off-line”, without any impact on the continued use of FFF extrusion system.
US10780619B2
Plastic pipes and a continuous production device and method for a glass fiber reinforced tape polyethylene composite pipe is provided. The main structure of the production device includes a first extruder, an inner pipe die, a vacuum sizing box, a first cooling spray box, a first tractor, a first winding machine, a first heater, a second winding machine, a second heater, an automatic tape replacing manipulator, an outer pipe extruder, an outer pipe extrusion die, an outer pipe cooling shaping die, a second cooling spray box, a second tractor, a meter counter, a fixed length cutting machine and finished pipe racks. The process of the production method totally includes four steps: inner pipe extrusion molding, continuous winding of the composite tape, outer pipe extrusion cladding, and cutting and warehousing, thus realizing the continuous on-line production of the glass fiber reinforced tape polyethylene composite pipe.
US10780614B2
A system for forming stacked material includes a housing defining an interior space. The housing includes a bottom wall and a side wall coupled to the bottom wall. At least one tool is configured to shape the stacked material. The at least one tool is disposed within the interior space. A membrane extends at least partially over the bottom wall and is spaced a distance from the bottom wall. The membrane is configured to move towards the bottom wall. At least one intensifier mechanism is disposed in the interior space and is configured to induce a force against a portion of the stacked material and against the at least one tool as the membrane is moved towards the bottom wall.
US10780612B2
A method 100 for generating and dispensing a powdered 60 release agent during an additive manufacturing build is disclosed. A solid body 28 of release agent material is ground insitu by a grinder 50 and dispensed on a surface of the part 72 to prevent adhesion of an adjacent layer of a base material 70. With the addition of the powdered 60 release agent, a support structure 76 is easily separated from the base material 70 when the part 72 is complete, saving time and preventing the part 72 from sustaining unintentional damage. Since no powdered 60 release agent is actually loaded or stored in the apparatus 20, the potential for spillage, waste, inconsistent dispensing, inadvertent dispensing, and clumping due to humidity is eliminated.
US10780606B2
A nanotube particle device for two dimensional and three dimensional printing or additive/subtractive manufacturing. The nanotube particle device comprising a nanotube, a particle shooter, a positioning mechanism, and a detection sensor. The particle shooter shoots a particle down the nanotube towards a target, the detection sensor senses the collision of the particle with the target, and the positioning mechanism re-adjusts the positioning of the nanotube based on the results of the collision. A method for aiming the particle shooter and additive/subtractive manufacturing are also disclosed and described.
US10780589B2
Disclosed herein is a shape compliant electroadhesive gripper for picking up an atypical object. The shape compliant electroadhesive gripper comprises a body, and an electroadhesive module disposed on the body and including an electrorheological elastomer, wherein, when a voltage is not applied, a shape of the electroadhesive module is deformed according to a shape of an external object coming into contact with the electroadhesive module, and when the voltage is applied, rigidity of the electrorheological elastomer is increased to maintain the shape of the electroadhesive module, and when the voltage is applied to the electroadhesive module, electroadhesion is made due to an electrostatic force generated between the electrorheological elastomer and the adjacent external object.
US10780582B2
Devices, systems, and methods for social behavior of a telepresence robot are disclosed herein. A telepresence robot may include a drive system, a control system, an object detection system, and a social behaviors component. The drive system is configured to move the telepresence robot. The control system is configured to control the drive system to drive the telepresence robot around a work area. The object detection system is configured to detect a human in proximity to the telepresence robot. The social behaviors component is configured to provide instructions to the control system to cause the telepresence robot to operate according to a first set of rules when a presence of one or more humans is not detected and operate according to a second set of rules when the presence of one or more humans is detected.
US10780575B2
A robotic system including a robot and an end effector cuff connected to the robot. The end effector cuff has a body and includes at least one fluid inlet, at least one fluid port fluidly connected to the at least one fluid inlet, at least one fluid valve fluidly connected to the at least one fluid port and housed within the body of the end effector cuff, and an electronic control unit operably coupled to the robot and housed within the body of the end effector cuff. The robotic system also includes an end effector connected to the end effector cuff.
US10780573B2
A force transmission mechanism of a surgical instrument, which is configured to releasably engage with a drive interface device located at a patient side cart of a teleoperated surgical system, includes a housing. The housing is configured to cover one or more drive components of the force transmission mechanism. The housing includes a releasable coupling mechanism configured to releasably engage with the drive interface device. The housing and the releasable coupling mechanism are a monolithic construction.
US10780567B2
An accessory attachment for a driven fastener hand tool is disclosed comprising a mounting block having an attachment channel and an indexing guide feature. A plate for covering a fastener driving channel of the fastener tool has a nose end with chamfered edges on opposing sides towards the fastener driving channel and the attachment channel has opposing lips for seating against the chamfered edges of the nose end of the plate. One or more bolts through the mounting block at a bottom of the attachment channel press the nose end of the plate causing the opposing lips of the mounting block to press against the chamfered edges thereby securing the mounting block to the nose end of the plate. Alternately or additionally, the mounting block can be used to support a range of accessories including, a non-marring pad, a light, such as an LED, a level, and/or an edge guide.
US10780564B2
A power tool, such as a rotary hammer or hammer drill, includes a first housing that contains a motor and a drive mechanism for linearly reciprocally driving a tool accessory, and a second housing that includes a handle, a first portion and a second portion. At least one elastic element connects the first and second housings such that the handle is biased away from the first housing. A first set of sliding contact surfaces is defined on or connected to the first housing and the first portion of the second housing. A second set of sliding contact surfaces is defined on or connected to the first housing and the second portion of the second housing. The first and second sets of sliding contact surfaces are located on opposite sides of the motor such that the rotational axis of the motor intersects the first and second sets of sliding contact surfaces.
US10780563B2
An electric power tool according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a main body, a motor, a tool holder configured to hold a tool bit, a hammer, a motion converter, a rotation transmitter, a first load detector, a second load detector, and a motor controller. The first load detector detects, based on information indicating a drive state of the motor, a load imposed from a work piece to the tool bit. The second load detector detects, based on information indicating a behavior of the main body, a load imposed from the work piece to the tool bit. The motor controller sets an upper limit of rotational speed of the motor to a predetermined no-load rotational speed in response to no-load on the tool bit being detected by both the first load detector and the second load detector.
US10780556B2
A screw bit body which allows for efficient torque force application onto a socket fastener. The screw bit body includes a plurality of laterally-bracing sidewalls, a first base, and a second base. The laterally-bracing sidewalls are radially distributed about a rotation axis of the screw bit body with each further including a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge, a bracing surface, and an engagement cavity. The engagement cavity creates an additional gripping point to prevent slippage in between the screw bit body and the socket fastener. The engagement cavity traverses normal and into the bracing surface. Additionally, the engagement cavity traverses into the screw bit body from the first base to the second base. The engagement cavity is specifically positioned offset from the first lateral edge by a first distance.
US10780546B2
A variable radius sanding block for sanding curved surfaces. The variable radius sanding block includes a base member and a plurality of variably sized radius patches. The base member is sized and proportioned to allow radius patches of varying size to be inserted, such that each of the radius patches will change the curvature of the sanding block upon insertion. The base member also having a folded flexible internal structure and a pair of flexible arms that facilitate insertion of radius patches of varying size. The radius patch includes a pair of grooves that receive the flexible arms of the base member and secure the base member to the radius patch.
US10780530B2
A solder ball according to the present invention contains 0.2 to 2.2% by mass of Zn, and a balance of Sn, and has a spherical diameter of 0.1 to 120 μm and a yellowness (b*) in an L*a*b* color system of 2.70 or more and 9.52 or less. An oxide film is formed by performing aging treatment. By producing a solder ball having a yellowness of 2.70 or more and 9.52 or less, it is possible to suppress the growth of a Cu3Sn layer and/or a Cu—Zn(—Sn) layer during joining.
US10780526B2
A laser remote processing system, in particular a laser remote welding system, has a laser cell surrounded by a protective housing, in which a working robot having a remote laser tool and a first processing station in the working region of the working robot are arranged. In order to improve the efficiency of the system, a second processing station in the working region of the working robot, and at least one handling robot are furthermore arranged within the protective housing, it being possible to reposition workpieces between the first processing station or the second processing station and a buffer region with the handling robot. The buffer region is set up to receive workpieces and is integrated into the protective housing as an automatably actuable workpiece lock.
US10780495B2
A gas-recycling device according to an embodiment includes a particle remover, a liquid remover, and a supplier. The particle remover brings a mist of liquid into contact with a gas which includes particles and is discharged from an apparatus, to remove the particles from the gas. The liquid remover removes the liquid from the gas having passed through the particle remover. The supplier supplies the gas to the apparatus.
US10780494B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a metallic nanowire transparent electrode, including generating a metallic nanowire and chemically reducing the metallic nanowire to connect adjacent metallic nanowires.
US10780482B2
Disclosed is a tube-propelling apparatus for a tube bending machine. The apparatus comprises a main tube-propelling base mounted on a slide rail mechanism of a tube bending machine tool, wherein a penetrating hole though which both a fixing sleeve and a core rod pass is provided on the main tube-propelling base, the rear end of the fixing sleeve is fixed in the penetrating hole, and the front end of the fixing sleeve is provided with a tube clamping apparatus. The propelling apparatus further comprises a surplus material auxiliary propelling base mounted on the slide rail mechanism of the tube bending machine tool, wherein the surplus material auxiliary propelling base is provided with a through-hole coaxial with the penetrating hole of the main tube-propelling base. An auxiliary pushing sleeve is mounted in the through-hole, and the core rod passes through the auxiliary pushing sleeve. Meanwhile, the auxiliary pushing sleeve is sheathed in the fixing sleeve and the front end of the auxiliary pushing sleeve is provided with a propelling head engaging with a tube. The tube-propelling apparatus has a simple and rational structure, and can fully utilize surplus material.
US10780478B2
Provided is a method of forming a cup-shaped aluminum-magnesium-alloy article by rotary extrusion, including the following steps. (1) Blanking. (2) Performing rotary extrusion: placing a cylindrical billet into a concave die cavity, wherein a peripheral wall of the cavity of the concave die is provided with at least two symmetrical axial grooves; inserting a convex die into the concave die cavity, wherein an end of a working region of the convex die is provided with a groove of a trapezoidal cross section; subjecting the convex die to forward extrusion and heating, and simultaneously rotating and heating the concave die, wherein an integral torque is formed during the extrusion process of the convex die by using the cylindrical billet inside the groove having a trapezoidal cross section, and wherein a synchronized rotation with the concave die is achieved by using a metallic billet that flows into the axial groove. (3) Demolding.
US10780477B2
An improved system and method of producing nanostructured or ultrafine grained metals is disclosed. In one embodiment, an improved system and method of producing nanostructured materials includes extruding the material through two deformation zones. The first zone consists of an inlet channel for inputting the material and a narrow channel through which the material is extruded, thus reducing its diameter. The second zone is an angular channel through which the compressed reduced diameter material is extruded to increase its diameter back to the original diameter. This eliminates the need for a dual press to provide back pressure to the material for increasing its diameter. Moreover, the total amount of strain applied to the material includes strain applied as a result of extrusion through the narrow channel and strain applied as a result of extrusion through the angular channel. As a result of the additional strain, fewer passes through the system are needed to achieve a desire strength.
US10780471B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for in-pipeline maintenance, delivery and management of sensors are provided herein. An exemplary computer-implemented method includes detecting a sensor within a pipeline via an in-pipeline sensor management system, determining a path for the in-pipeline sensor management system to travel to the detected sensor, and automatically attaching the in-pipeline sensor management system to the detected sensor upon a determination that the in-pipeline sensor management system has completed the path and reached the detected sensor. The method also includes determining maintenance operations to be performed on the detected sensor based on real-time data pertaining to the sensor and historical operation records pertaining to the detected sensor. Further, the method includes performing the maintenance operations, via the in-pipeline sensor management system, on the detected sensor, and automatically detaching the in-pipeline sensor management system from the detected sensor upon determining that the maintenance operations have been completed.
US10780470B2
An apparatus has a plurality of inlet ports each connectable to a material supply container and an outlet port. A disk-shaped valve body has a first side and an opposite second side with a straight throughgoing passage from the first side to the second side, the body being displaceable relative to the inlet ports to provide a switchable connection between a respective one of the plurality of inlet ports and the outlet port. The passage can be also be connected with a respective one of the various inlet ports to enable feeding of different materials successively to the outlet port. One of the inlet ports is a flushing medium inlet port of a flushing device, and the passage can connected with the flushing medium inlet port by displacement of the valve body for flushing the passage.
US10780466B2
The invention provides an object (10), that during use is at least partly submerged in water, wherein the object (100) is selected from the group consisting of a vessel (1) and an infrastructural object (15), the object (10) further comprising an anti-biofouling system (200) comprising an UV emitting element (210), wherein the UV emitting element (210) is configured to irradiate with UV radiation (221) during an irradiation stage one or more of (i) a first part (111) of an external surface (11) of said object (10) and (ii) water adjacent to said first part (111) of said external surface (11) of said object (10), wherein the object (10) further comprises protruding elements (100) with the UV emitting element (210) configured between the protruding elements (100) and configured depressed relative to the protruding elements (100).
US10780465B2
An apparatus for cleaning a felt in a system for producing a paper web has a device for introducing a cleaning liquid into the felt and at least one following suction device in the direction of movement of the felt and having a vacuum duct, through which the cleaning liquid is suctioned out of the felt. The suction device between the vacuum duct and the felt is formed with suction ducts, through which the cleaning liquid in the felt is suctioned away. At least one of the suction ducts is assigned an inflatable valve element. In the inflated state of the valve element the suction duct is closed and in its ventilated state the suction duct is opened.
US10780458B2
An ultrasound sensor includes: a diaphragm; a plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of second electrodes; and a plurality of piezoelectric layers which is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which, in a Z-direction, a portion in which the first electrode, the piezoelectric layer and the second electrode are overlapped is referred to as an active portion, and a range to the extent that the diaphragm is oscillatable by driving the active portion is referred to as a movable portion, when a unit including one movable portion and the active portion which is provided within the one movable portion is referred to as one ultrasound element in plan view, two or more types of ultrasound elements in which a dimension of the active portion with respect to a dimension of the movable portion is different from each other in plan view are provided.
US10780453B2
An elongated painting apparatus including a paint applicator holder, a paint applicator and a lock mechanism. The paint applicator holder has a handle portion and an applicator portion that extends from a distal end of the handle portion. The paint applicator is detachably engagable with the applicator portion. The lock mechanism has a first engagement structure, a second engagement structure and an opening. The first engagement structure and the second engagement structure are provided in one of the applicator portion and the paint applicator. The opening is formed in one of the applicator portion and the paint applicator where the first engagement structure and the second engagement structure are not located. The first engagement structure and the second engagement structure are selectively received in the opening to retain the paint applicator in a first position or a second position with respect to the paint applicator holder.
US10780450B2
A water delivery device is described which includes an outlet pipe through which water is ejected to provide a water display. A disk is positioned relative to the outlet pipe. The relative positions of the disk and outlet pipe are moved so that the disk is located within the outlet pipe or above it to alter the appearance of the water leaving the outlet pipe. As the relative position of the disk and outlet pipe varies, a sequence of water expressions is provided.
US10780445B2
A separator for centrifugally processing a flowable product includes a rotatable drum bounding a centrifuging chamber. The drum has a feeding and removal system having at least one feeding device and one or more removal devices composed of plastic or a plastic composite. An inner drum, composed of plastic or a plastic composite, is arranged in an outer supporting device of the drum. The feeding device and the one or more removal devices extend into the inner drum, do not rotate with the inner drum during operation, and are glued and/or welded to each other in such a way that the feeding device and the one or more removal devices are sealingly connected. The feeding and removal system has one or more grippers as the removal device, each of which one or two or more grippers has a disk segment and a shaft segment.
US10780444B2
A system and method for detection of cells is disclosed. Target cells, such as circulating tumor cells (CTCs), may be of interest. Magnetic beads may be bound to the target cells. After which, the target cells (with the magnetic beads attached thereto) may be identified using an applied magnetic field. In one example, magnetic sensors may be used to detect movement of the target cells responsive to an applied magnetic field. In another example, an optical sensor (such as a camera) may be used to detect movement of the target cells responsive to an applied magnetic field. Further, separate from identification of the target cells, the target cells may be sorted using an applied magnetic field. In this way, a magnetic field may be used in either or both of target cell identification or target cell sorting in order to detect target cells of interest.
US10780437B2
Disclosed is a microfluidic system based on an artificially structured acoustic field, comprising a microcavity used to accommodate a solution containing particles and a ultrasonic emission device used to emit ultrasound, and further comprising a phononic crystal plate placed in the microcavity. The phononic crystal plate has an artificial cycle structure, and is used to modulate the acoustic field so as to control the particles. Also disclosed is a method of controlling microfluid particles based on an artificially structured acoustic field. In the particular embodiments, since a microcavity, an ultrasonic emission device and a phononic crystal plate are comprised, the ultrasonic emission device is used to emit ultrasound, and the phononic crystal plate has an artificial cycle structure, and is used to modulate the acoustic field so as to control the particles.
US10780427B2
A catalytic composition useful for the conversion of an olefin selected from the group consisting of propylene, isobutylene or mixtures thereof, to acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, and mixtures thereof. The catalytic composition comprises a complex of metal oxides comprising bismuth, molybdenum, iron, cerium and other promoters, with a desirable composition.
US10780420B2
Heterogeneous catalysts with optional dopants are provided. The catalysts are useful in a variety of catalytic reactions, for example, the oxidative coupling of methane to C2+ hydrocarbons. Related methods for use and manufacture of the same are also disclosed.
US10780418B2
A zero-valent iron pillared montmorillonite repair material relates to the field of environmental functional materials. A preparation method thereof is mainly to obtain the zero-valent iron pillared montmorillonite repair material by reducing hydroxyl-iron pillared montmorillonite at high temperature in a mixed atmosphere of hydrogen and nitrogen, and mainly includes: (1) preparation of Na-montmorillonite; (2) preparation of a polyhydroxy-iron pillared solution; (3) preparation of hydroxy-iron pillared montmorillonite; and (4) obtaining the zero-valent iron pillared montmorillonite repair material by means of high-temperature reduction-calcination in the mixed atmosphere of hydrogen and nitrogen. The zero-valent iron pillared montmorillonite repair material can be used for removing degradation-resistant organic pollutants, and degrading organics into small molecular organics by means of peroxymonosulfate (PMS).
US10780404B2
Disclosed herein are methods of increasing the hydrophilicity of a membrane. Membranes comprising polyaniline or co-polymer thereof and one or more gel inhibiting agents are treated with one or more hydrophilicity restoration agents, thereby increasing the hydrophilicity of a membrane. Also disclosed are membranes produced by the disclosed methods. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US10780394B2
Compositions for removing air pollutants from the air are provided. These compositions can be sprayed on a variety of surfaces to remove air pollutants such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the environment, and are suitable for use in human dwellings.
US10780385B2
In one embodiment, a system includes an intake section including a filter and one or more strain gauges. The system also includes a processor configured to receive strain information for the filter from the one or more strain gauges and determine an operating condition of the filter based at least in part on the strain information.
US10780381B2
The present technology is generally related to a filter assembly. The filter assembly has a first layer has a base layer defining a first perimeter region and a region central to the first perimeter region. A first adhesive is disposed on a first surface of the first layer substantially within the central region, and first adsorbent beads are coupled to the first adhesive. A second layer has a first sheet of filter material having a second perimeter region, wherein the first perimeter region and the second perimeter region are bonded. A third layer has a second sheet of filter material having a third perimeter region, wherein the first perimeter region and the third perimeter region are bonded. The base layer, second layer, and third layer are substantially coextensive.
US10780379B2
A composite material for purifying air includes a porous foam material which is an open-cell polyurethane foam net; and a mixture sprayed on the interior and/or the surface of the porous foam material, the mixture including an absorbent material, a treating agent and an adhesive; wherein the adsorptive material is diatomite, and the treating agent is alkali solution.
US10780378B2
The invention relates to a process for filtration of fluids, especially of aqueous media, by means of a backflush filter apparatus consisting of a cylindrical housing, a cylindrical and perforated support body installed coaxially therein, a filter material, a support fabric, and a mobile backflush device present therein, said process enabling improved removal of fine and ultrafine particles, and of particles with greasy or compressible consistency, and allowing higher solid concentrations. The process according to the invention has the steps below. a) Formation of a filtercake in the perforation of the support body; b) deposition of the relatively fine particles or of the particles with greasy or compressible consistency on or in the filtercake; c) backflushing after attainment of the predefined filter loading or of the maximum permissible pressure differential, or when the filtrate volume flow goes below a minimum. A further aspect of the invention is a filter apparatus for performance of the process, characterized in that the filter material consists of a filter fabric with an air permeability of 700-1300 l/m2s at pressure differential 200 Pa.
US10780375B2
A liquid filtration apparatus includes a series of upright filter plates forming a filter plate pack. Filtering spaces are formed in the filter plate pack. The liquid filtration apparatus includes at least one filtering space and a filter chamber that is at least partly limited laterally by a filter media. The at least one filtering space has an elongated bottom discharge opening at a level below the filter chamber. The elongated bottom discharge opening is provided with a first openable and closable hatch arrangement and with a second openable and closable hatch arrangement extending across the elongated bottom discharge opening.
US10780374B2
A system for recovery of animal byproducts and providing water reuse from an animal processing plant waste stream. In one embodiment of the invention there is an equalization tank forming part of an animal processing plant that is mechanically filtered to recover animal byproducts from a water mixture in the equalization tank. In another aspect of the invention there is a skimmer tank that contains a skimmer mixture with water and animal byproducts. The system mechanically separates the animal byproducts from the skimmer mixture in a manner that is suitable for human consumption. The system also allows the separated water to be reused in the animal processing plant.
US10780367B2
A track start wedge includes a housing, a ratchet gear assembly, and a locking pawl assembly. The ratchet gear assembly is disposed at least partially within the housing and includes a bar, a pinion gear at each end of the bar, and a ratchet gear between the ends of the bar. The locking pawl assembly is coupled to the housing and includes a locking pawl disengageably coupled to the ratchet gear and a spring operable to bias the locking pawl into engagement with the ratchet gear. The ratchet gear assembly is configured to rotate in unison in a first direction toward a front of the housing and a second direction toward a rear of the housing, but the locking pawl prevents rotation of the ratchet gear in the second direction when the locking pawl is engaged with the ratchet gear.
US10780361B2
The present disclosure provides a collision judgment method and apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a moving device, according to acceleration data collected by an acceleration sensor, that the moving device collides; sending collision information to the corresponding control device, including at least a moving device identifier and a collision time; sending, by the corresponding control device, the collision information to a collision judgment device; detecting, by the collision judgement device, whether at least two collision information sent by the at least two control devices is received within a predetermined time interval; when the at least two collision information is received within the predetermined time interval, and a difference between collision times carried in the at least two collision information is less than a preset threshold, determining that moving devices corresponding to moving device identifiers carried in the at least two collision information collided with one other.
US10780350B2
A robot, including: a controller that communicates with a computing device, wherein the computing device executes a video game and renders a primary video feed of the video game to a display device, the primary video feed providing a first view into a virtual space that is defined by the executing video game; a camera that captures images of a local environment in which the robot is disposed; a projector; wherein the controller processes the images of the local environment to identify a projection surface in the local environment; wherein the computing device generates a secondary video feed of the video game and transmits the secondary video feed of the video game to the robot, the secondary video feed providing a second view into the virtual space; wherein the controller of the robot activates the projector to project the secondary video feed onto the projection surface in the local environment.
US10780349B2
A rhythm-based video game (“game”) is disclosed. In the game, a player slashes blocks representing musical beats using a pair of energy blades resembling a lightsaber. A gaming console renders multiple digital objects, e.g., digital blocks, digital mines and digital obstacles, that are approaching a player in a virtual space. The gaming console also renders a digital representation of an instrument, e.g., a lightsaber (“digital saber”), using which the player slashes, cuts or otherwise interacts with the digital blocks to cause a digital collision between the digital saber and the digital blocks. The player can score by slashing the digital blocks, not hitting the digital mines and avoiding the digital obstacles. The game presents the player with a stream of approaching digital objects in synchronization with music, e.g., a song's beats, being played in the game. The pace at which the digital blocks approach the player increases with the beats.
US10780346B2
A server apparatus for providing a game using game media to a user over a network may include a storage unit, an identifier obtaining unit, and a game content output unit. The storage unit may store identifiers and game media in association with each other. The identifier obtaining unit may obtain, from a terminal apparatus, an identifier selected through a user operation. The game content output unit may obtain a game content associated with the identifier obtained by the identifier obtaining unit and may output the game content to the terminal apparatus. The game content may not be identifiable using the identifier.
US10780341B2
A space puzzle including a plurality of outer face panels, at least two of the plurality of outer face panels each defining at least one path segment. Each of the outer face panels is rotatable, and the rotation of any one of the outer face panels is independent of and not altering any path segment defined in another of the outer face panels. The path segments on the at least two of the outer face panels of the puzzle are configured such that at least one sequence of rotations of at least one of the at least two of the outer face panels exists that permits a position indicator to travel along a continuous pathway between a preset starting point and a preset finish point along the at least one path segment of the at least two of the plurality of outer face panels.
US10780339B2
A ski, wherein the ski includes: a ski core; a ski coating which forms an underside of the ski; a lower flange which is arranged between the ski core and the ski coating; steel edges; and side walls; wherein the lower flange includes at least a front region and/or a rear region which is broader, in a direction transverse to a longitudinal axis of the ski, than a distance between the steel edges in the direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the ski in the region.
US10780331B2
Some embodiments are directed to an analysis device for board sports, intended to be secured to a board, such as a surfboard or ski, at the interface with the user. The device includes: a force sensor designed to capture one or more forces generated by the user on the board; a position and motion sensor designed to capture the position, speed and acceleration of the board in space; and a processing unit or processor connected to the force sensor and to the position and motion sensor and designed to synchronize and process the data from the sensors.
US10780323B2
Golf clubs and/or golf club heads include a club head body defining an interior chamber, structure for engaging a shaft with the body, and/or a shaft engaged with the body. The club head body may have an overall length of at least 4.5 inches and an overall breadth of at least 4.2 inches. In other examples, the club head body may have an overall length of at least 4.6 inches and a ratio of the overall breadth dimension to the overall length dimension of 1 or less. If desired, the ratio of the head breadth to head length dimensions may be in a range from at least 0.94 to 1 or less.
US10780317B1
The present invention discloses a push-up exercise apparatus for performing push-up, particularly in close triceps position. The push-up exercise apparatus comprising a base member, a pair of spaced apart first support members centrally disposed on the base member at an angle of at least forty-five degrees, a pair of spaced apart second support members centrally disposed on the base member at an angle of at least forty-five degrees and parallel to the pair of first support members, a first handle disposed above the pair of spaced apart first support members and a second handle disposed above the pair of spaced apart second support members. The apparatus further enables to adapt a healthy lifestyle, aids in eliminating flabby arms and weak pectoral muscles and sculpts pectoral and triceps muscle.
US10780308B2
An elastic band for use in a resistance-type exerciser. The elastic band includes a continuous loop of elastic material having a pair of receiving portions and a pair of spanning portions extending between the pair of receiving portions. A cross-sectional area of each receiving portion is greater than a cross-sectional area of each spanning portion.
US10780303B2
System and methods to provide ceiling-only suppression fire protection of up to fifty feet (50 ft.) of rack storage of cartoned unexpanded plastic commodities and less hazardous commodities, such as for example, Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4 and/or combinations thereof beneath a ceiling having a maximum ceiling height up to fifty-five feet (55 ft.). The systems and methods provide for hydraulic and system parameters that include a hydraulic design area based upon five to no more than twelve hydraulically most remote sprinklers spaced at a preferred sprinkler-to-sprinkler spacing of eight to ten feet (8-10 ft.) coupled to two to four branch lines tied to a common cross main supply pipe of firefighting fluid.
US10780301B2
Pelican hooks and related systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, the pelican hook includes a hook that defines a hook gap, a gate for the hook gap, and a gate mechanism. The gate is configured to be opened so as to open the hook gap and is configured to be closed so as to close the hook gap. The gate mechanism includes a gate actuator for opening the gate and a lock actuator for unlocking the gate. To do this, the gate mechanism is configured such that actuating the lock actuator toward the gate actuator unlocks the gate and such that actuating the gate actuator toward the lock actuator opens the gate. In this manner, the user can operate the pelican hook with a single hand and without having to let go of the pelican hook.
US10780298B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for applying ultrasound pulses into tissue or a medium in which the peak negative pressure (P−) of one or more negative half cycle(s) of the ultrasound pulses exceed(s) an intrinsic threshold of the tissue or medium, to directly form a dense bubble cloud in the tissue or medium without shock-scattering. In one embodiment, a microtripsy method of Histotripsy therapy comprises delivering an ultrasound pulse from an ultrasound therapy transducer into tissue, the ultrasound pulse having at least a portion of a peak negative pressure half-cycle that exceeds an intrinsic threshold in the tissue to produce a bubble cloud of at least one bubble in the tissue, and generating a lesion in the tissue with the bubble cloud. The intrinsic threshold can vary depending on the type of tissue to be treated. In some embodiments, the intrinsic threshold in tissue can range from 15-30 MPa.
US10780296B2
An apparatus and method of use for a comprehensive transcranial low-level light therapy for use with ischemic brain tissue using a multitude of polychromatic Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) embedded into a flexible head covering that stretches securely around the patient's cranium to bath the entire cranium cavity in a variable frequency, variable power density light spectrum, maximizing all beneficial effects to the cellular tissues whether or not they are specifically deprived of blood from the ischemic stroke event. The bulbs covering the n-p junction of the semiconductor LEDs directly contact the patient's cranial skin to maximize the depth of penetration of the wavelengths into the brain's cortex cells. By using many individual point-source LEDs emitting all around the cranium, greater therapeutic benefit can be achieved as more of the cortex tissues are irradiated.
US10780295B2
Methods and devices for suppressing clinical symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) by irradiating a subject exhibiting the symptoms with an effective dose of UV-containing light from a light source and detecting a suppression of the clinical symptoms of MS. In particular, the detected suppression of the clinical symptoms is disassociated from the vitamin D production within the subject.
US10780293B2
A wearable light emitting apparatus for eyebrow growth is provided. The wearable light emitting apparatus for eyebrow growth comprises a main body and at least one light emitting assembly. The main body is to be wore on an user's head. The at least one light emitting assembly is located on the main body for projecting at least an eyebrow-shaped light beam to an eyebrow growing area of the head when the main body is wore on the user's head.
US10780290B2
Encased magnetic bone growth stimulating devices and methods of use are provided herein. An example device includes a magnet and a biocompatible means for enclosing the magnet. The biocompatible means for enclosing the magnet further comprises a means for releasably coupling with the medical implant and a means for coupling the enclosing means to an implantable medical device.
US10780286B2
A method and device is described, which provides electrical stimulation to the brain of a person, where the device comprises an external portion and at least one implantable portion. The external portion provides the energy source for stimulation to the implantable portions. The implantable portions provide at least two conductive paths through the skull and use the skull's high impedance to generate a current loop with the focus of stimulation lying in the current path.
US10780281B2
Cardiac electrical heterogeneity information may be used to determine whether one or more ventricle from atrium (VfA) paced settings for VfA pacing therapy are acceptable. Cardiac electrical heterogeneity information may be generated during VfA pacing, and then evaluated to determine whether the VfA paced settings are acceptable.
US10780275B2
An implantable electrical stimulation device includes an electrically conductive electrode structure configured for coupling with a pulse generator device and transmitting an electrical signal configured to generate a desirable electric field around a target tissue. The electrode structure includes a porous substrate constructed of a bio-compatible and bio-survivable material having a structure that mimics extracellular matrix embedding. The porous substrate supports an electrically conductive electrode element. The implantable device may further include a pulse generator also embedded, enmeshed, and supported within the porous substrate.
US10780265B2
A system and method for implanting and stabilizing spinal cord stimulators in an epidural space of the spinal column of a patient to prevent or limit axial movement of the stimulators once implanted in the epidural space. The system includes a drill assembly, a guide wire assembly, and a guide wire receiver. The drill assembly includes a cannula, a drill for creating access points in the patient's spinal column for implanting the stimulators, and an incremental drill adjuster for drilling into the patient's lamina a pre-set, discrete distance. The guide wire assembly includes a hollowed guide wire sleeve, a guide wire housed within the sleeve, and a magnet disposed on a proximal end of the guide wire assembly. The guide wire receiver includes a scoop for receiving and catching the magnet to assist in feeding the stimulators through the epidural space.
US10780262B2
A method of assembling an implantable electrode array from a coupon (108) formed from plastically deformable material. Layers of material are disposed on the coupon to form the electrodes (48) and conductors (62) of one or more electrode arrays. Sections of the coupon on which the electrodes and conductors are removed, along with the electrodes and conductors to form the electrode arrays. The removed sections of the coupon thus function as plastically deformable carriers (74) for the arrays (40).
US10780260B2
A luer access device (LAD) and a method of attaching the same are provided to create a sterile fluid-flow path. The LAD includes a female luer connector that has an internal female split septum disposed at a proximal end thereof and is coupled to an internal surface of the LAD. A male luer connector is coupled to an external surface of the female split septum. Additionally, a male split septum is disposed within a male luer tip and seals an opening of a distal end of the male luer connector. At least one aperture is disposed through a sidewall of the distal end of the male luer connector. An internal cannula is exposed out of the female luer connector to open the female split septum upon engagement with the male luer connector.
US10780250B1
A treatment system includes a guide sheath, and a catheter provided with a pressure-controlled element. The pressure-control element preferably includes an expanded configuration adapted to extend across a small feeder vessel branching from the splenic vein. The pressure-control element is positioned with the feeder vessel, and a therapeutic agent is delivered under pressure directly into the feeder vessel, where it is forced to penetrate deep into tissue. Pressure responsive elements for monitoring intravascular pressure are also provided to time delivery of the therapeutic agent for maximum uptake by the target organ.
US10780249B2
Catheter assembly (10) comprises catheter (22), needle (12) having sharp distal tip disposed in catheter (22), catheter hub (14) housing catheter (22) and needle (12), catheter hub (14) having collar (34) including notch (36), needle shield (20) connected to catheter hub (14) when needle (12) is in first position, and clip (40) disposed in needle shield (20) that cooperates with needle (12), wherein clip (40) engages catheter hub (14) in first position of needle (12), and clip (40) disengages catheter hub (14) via notch (36) when needle (12) is retracted to second position to enclose at least portion of needle (12). Clip (40) is mounted in outer housing (38) of needle shield (20) via spade (66) having outer wall (70) exposed to outside of needle shield (20), in order to reduce overall width of needle shield (20).
US10780246B2
There is provided a microcatheter with a tapering wall thickness shaft having varying stiffness/flexibility along its length from proximal end near the medical practitioner to the distal end near the target site in the patient, such as with at least three segments. The shaft is prepared of a thermoplastic material having varying composition along its length. The distal end may be shaped according to the required use just prior to the medical procedure. The microcatheter is particularly adapted for the delivery of microspheric compositions for treatment of tumors or fibroids by embolization of peripheral blood vessels of the tumor or fibroid.
US10780245B2
A method of preparing a ready-to-use catheter by providing a catheter assembly that has a first compartment that includes a catheter therein. The catheter includes on at least a part of its surface an exterior coating designed to reduce the coefficient of friction after treatment with a liquid swelling medium, and a second compartment containing a liquid swelling medium. The method includes sterilising the catheter assembly, adding the liquid swelling medium to the first compartment for wetting/activating the exterior coating of the catheter, and storing the ready-to-use catheter. By using the method according to the invention, the sterilisation of the catheter is effectuated in a dry-state, ensuring that the known problems with wet-sterilisation are completely eliminated and the need for preparing complicated and expensive liquid swelling mediums are no longer required.
US10780242B2
An enclosure including one or more panels that together define a header and two generally opposing sides. The header and two generally opposing sides define a reclining pocket for receiving a body part of an individual. Each of the one or more panels includes a cushion layer and a sound absorbing layer having an interior side. The cushion layer is disposed along and at least partly overlaps the interior side of the sound absorbing layer. The sound absorbing layer exhibits a greater sound absorption coefficient than the cushion layer.
US10780239B2
A system for controlling patient sedation and spontaneous breathing intensity includes a ventilator system that delivers ventilation to the patient. The system further includes a spontaneous breathing control module configured to determine a first spontaneous breathing intensity at a first sedative status of the patient, and a second spontaneous breathing intensity at a second sedative status of the patient. A sedation/breathing relationship is then defined between spontaneous breathing intensity and sedative status for the patient based on the first and second sedative statuses and the first and second spontaneous breathing intensities. The spontaneous breathing control module then receives a desired spontaneous breathing intensity for the patient and determines a desired sedative status that achieves that desired spontaneous breathing intensity based on the sedation/breathing relationship.
US10780221B2
Aspects of the invention are related to a method and a system for administrating an infusion liquid pulse. The system includes a tubing system having an inlet connected to an external reservoir adapted to contain infusion fluids and an outlet connected to a catheter. The tubing system includes a check valve proximate to the inlet and an anti-siphon valve proximate to the outlet. The system further includes an automatic pulse flow generation device. The automatic pulse flow generation device includes an internal reservoir and a bidirectional pump configured to pump infusion fluid from the external reservoir to the internal reservoir and further pump an infusion fluid pulse from the internal reservoir to be injected by the catheter, the infusion liquid pulse has a volume of at least 2 ml and a velocity of at least 5 ml/min.
US10780219B2
Ambulatory infusion pumps, medicament reservoirs, and medicament sealing assemblies, including a variety of trocar seal assemblies and fill plug seal assemblies, plus related components, as well as component combinations and related methods.
US10780216B2
In one aspect, containment devices are provided that include a microchip element having one or more containment reservoirs that are configured to be electrically activated to open; an electronic printed circuit board (PCB) or a silicon substrate positioned adjacent to the microchip element; one or more electronic components associated with the microchip element or the PCB/silicon substrate; and a first inductive coupling device associated with the microchip element or the PCB/silicon substrate, wherein the first inductive coupling device is in operable communication with the one or more electronic components. In another aspect, implantable drug delivery devices are provided that include a body housing at least one drug payload for actively controlled release, wherein the ratio of the volume of the at least one drug payload to the total volume of the implantable drug delivery device is from about 75 μL/cc to about 150 μL/cc.
US10780214B1
A medication delivery device—preferably designed and configured to be implantable for use inside of a human body—secures excess tubing of a catheter to a pump housing. The tubing is received and retained in channels, whereby an excess extent of the catheter that is unneeded can be safely stored in an out-of-the-way position. The channels are defined in and integrally formed with the pump housing. Alternatively, the channels are defined in a catheter retention member that clips onto other otherwise attaches to the pump housing. In the alternative design, the catheter retention member may be provided separately from or provided with the pump and catheter.
US10780208B2
A blood pump comprises a pump casing having a blood flow inlet and a blood flow outlet, and an impeller arranged in said pump casing and rotatably supported in the pump casing by a bearing so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation. The impeller has blades for conveying blood from the blood flow inlet to the blood flow outlet. The bearing comprises at least one stationary bearing portion coupled to the pump casing and having a stationary bearing surface that faces radially outwards. The bearing further comprises a rotating bearing surface interacting with the stationary bearing surface to form the bearing, wherein the rotating bearing surface faces radially inwards and is formed on an exposed radially inner edge of the blades. The blades are designed to draw blood deposit on the stationary bearing surface in a radially outward direction.
US10780206B2
A connection system for an implantable blood pump including a pump housing having an impeller disposed therein and a motor housing including a motor disposed therein, the motor housing spaced a distance from the pump housing. A flexible outer sheath couples the pump housing to the motor housing, the outer sheath defining a maximum total length between 7 and 10 centimeters. An inner shaft is coaxial with the outer sheath and couples the motor to the impeller.
US10780203B2
The illustrative embodiments described herein are directed to an apparatus, system, and method for storing liquid from a tissue site. The apparatus may include a drape having an aperture, and a fluid pouch coupled to the drape such that the fluid pouch is in fluid communication with the aperture. In one embodiment, the fluid pouch is operable to transfer reduced pressure to the aperture such that the liquid from the tissue site is drawn into the fluid pouch. The fluid pouch may have a cavity that stores the liquid that is drawn from the tissue site. In another embodiment, the fluid pouch may include at least one baffle. The fluid pouch may also include a fluid channel at least partially defined by the at least one baffle. The fluid channel may be operable to store liquid from the tissue site when reduced pressure is applied through the fluid channel.
US10780195B2
Methods, compositions, kits, and drug delivery devices are provided for treating, adhering, or sealing biological tissues. The methods include combining a first solution that includes an oligomer/polymer component and a second solution that includes a dendrimer component, and at least one of the oligomer/polymer component and dendrimer component includes at least one substituent that is capable of photoreversible dimerization. The reversible dimerization of the substituent may allow for the reversible dimerization and/or polymerization of one or more components. The substituent that is capable of photoreversible dimerization may be active by the application of light, such as UV light.
US10780187B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for sterilizing an internal channel surface of an endoscope, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for sterilizing an internal channel surface of an endoscope, in which ultrasonic and infrared rays are irradiated to an internal channel of the endoscope to partially or entirely sterilize and removing a biofilm generated on the internal channel surface of the endoscope during a procedure or diagnosis.
US10780179B2
The present disclosure relates to conjugates, preferably, antibody-drug conjugates, directed against select non-transmembrane tumor antigens that are normally intracellular but can be secreted from cancer cells, such as human cathepsin D, and can be targeted in a way that enables the selective delivery of the conjugate to cancer cells. The design and mechanism of action disclosed enable the preferential delivery of the conjugate prodrug to cancer cells over normal cells for the purpose of selectively killing cancer cells. The uses of such conjugates for the treatment of cancer are described.
US10780178B2
The present invention provides novel scaffolded HIV-1 vaccine immunogens. Some of the scaffolded immunogens contain a soluble gp140 trimer linked to the N-terminus of the nanoparticle subunit and a T-helper epitope that is fused via a short peptide spacer to the C-terminus of the nanoparticle subunit. Some other immunogens of the invention contain a soluble gp140 trimer protein that is linked to a stable nanoparticle via a short peptide spacer that is a T-helper epitope. Some of the scaffolded immunogens contain a gp140 trimer immunogen presented on a nanoparticle platform formed with I3-01 protein, E2p, or variants of protein 1VLW. Also provided in the invention are nucleic acids that encode the various vaccine immunogens described herein, and expression vectors and host cells harboring the nucleic acids. The invention further provides methods of using the scaffolded HIV-1 vaccine immunogens for preventing or treating HIV infections.
US10780177B2
SAE-CD compositions are provided, along with methods of making and using the same. The SAE-CD compositions comprise a sulfoalkyl ether cyclodextrin having an absorption of less than 0.5 A.U. due to a drug-degrading agent, as determined by UV/vis spectrophotometry at a wavelength of 245 nm to 270 nm for an aqueous solution containing 300 mg of the SAE-CD composition per mL of solution in a cell having a 1 cm path length.
US10780161B2
Compositions and methods for co-expressing a secretable vaccine protein (such as gp96-Ig) and T-cell co-stimulatory molecules from a single vector, among others, are provided herein. Materials and methods for using gp96-Ig vaccination and T-cell co-stimulation to treat a clinical condition (e.g., cancer) in a subject also are provided.
US10780160B2
An immunogenic composition having 13 distinct polysaccharide-protein conjugates and optionally, an aluminum-based adjuvant, is described. Each conjugate contains a capsular polysaccharide prepared from a different serotype of Streptococcus pneumoniae (1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F and 23F) conjugated to a carrier protein. The immunogenic composition, formulated as a vaccine, increases coverage against pneumococcal disease in infants and young children globally, and provides coverage for serotypes 6A and 19A that is not dependent on the limitations of serogroup cross-protection.
US10780155B2
In alternative embodiments, the invention provides vaccines, pharmaceutical compounds and formulations for diagnosing, preventing, treating or ameliorating Group A Streptococcus (GAS), Group C Streptococcus (GCS), or Group A Streptococcus (GGS), infections, or other pathogenic Streptococcus infections. In alternative embodiments, the invention provides compositions such as diagnostic tests, assays, immunoassays and test strips, and methods, for detecting or diagnosing the presence of a Streptococcal infection, e.g., Group A Streptococcus (GAS), Group C Streptococcus (GCS), or Group A Streptococcus (GGS), infections, or other pathogenic Streptococcus infections.
US10780150B2
Disclosed are oligonucleotides that binds specifically to HIV neutralizing monoclonal antibody 2G12 with a K4 value lower than 20 nM, the oligonucleotide comprising a predicted structure, at 37° C., having exactly one stem-loop whereby the loop comprises the nucleotide sequence of AACCNACGGANAAA (SEQ ID NO: 1), where N is a modified nucleoside base, and the stem includes at least 3 nucleotide base-pairs and one of the nucleotides in the stem includes a modified nucleoside base, wherein the modified nucleoside base has the structure -B-L-A where A is a branched-chain Man9 oligosaccharide, L is a linker molecule, and B is independently a pyrimidine or pyridine base linked to the sugar-phosphate backbone of the oligonucleotide. Immunogenic conjugates that include the oligonucleotide, and pharmaceutical compositions that include the oligonucleotide or the immunogenic conjugate are also disclosed. Various method of using the oligonucleotides, immunogenic conjugates, and pharmaceutical compositions are also disclosed.
US10780143B2
Disclosed are methods of treating kidney disease, infectious or inflammatory diseases, acute kidney injury and hypertension by administering a (pro)renin receptor (PRR) antagonist. In some instances the PRR antagonist is a polypeptide. The PRR antagonist can be a polypeptide having at least 70% identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:2. Also disclosed are methods of decreasing proteinuria and methods of promoting wound healing by administering a PRR antagonist.
US10780139B1
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds obtainable from an extract of Hypericum revolutum and methods of dilating blood vessels by administering such compounds are provided.
US10780132B2
Provided herein are novel methods and compositions utilizing adipose tissue-derived stromal stem cells for treating fistulae.
US10780115B2
Preparation of high-performance antimicrobial agent based on ZnO/GODs-PEI composites. Nano ZnO is regarded as the effective antibacterial agents because of its distinctive photocatalytic properties. However, the fast recombination of photo-generated electrons and holes on the surface of ZnO seriously affects antibacterial activities. Therefore, numerous methods such as controlling the size and morphology of ZnO, doping metal and nonmetal ions, coupling semiconductor, constructing heterojunction and surface modification have been used to increase the activity of ZnO. The application aims to synthesize a stable low-dimensional ZnO/GQD aqueous with excellent dispersity and enhanced absorption to further improve its antibacterial activities. Hence, amphiphilic polyethylenimine-functionalized graphene quantum dots (GQD-PEI) was prepared firstly, which was then used to transfer ZnO NPs to water to obtain water-soluble ZnO/GODs-PEI composites.
US10780108B2
Described are compositions and methods for inhibition of Hepatitis B virus gene expression. RNA interference (RNAi) agents for inhibiting the expression of Hepatitis B virus gene are described. The HBV RNAi agents disclosed herein may be targeted to cells, such as hepatocytes, for example, by using conjugated targeting ligands. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more HBV RNAi agents optionally with one or more additional therapeutics are also described. Delivery of the described HBV RNAi agents to infected liver in vivo provides for inhibition of HBV gene expression and treatment of diseases and conditions associated with HBV infection.
US10780102B2
Compounds having drug and bio-affecting properties, their pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use are set forth. In particular, triterpenoids that possess unique antiviral activity are provided as HIV maturation inhibitors, as represented by compounds of Formula I: with X selected from C4-8 cycloalkyl, C4-8 cycloalkenyl, C4-9 spirocycloalkyl, C4-9 spirocycloalkenyl, C4-8 oxacycloalkyl, C4-8 dioxacycloalkyl, C6-8 oxacycloalkenyl, C6-8 dioxacycloalkenyl, C6 cyclodialkenyl, C6 oxacyclodialkenyl, C6-9 oxaspirocycloalkyl and C6-9 oxaspirocycloalkenyl ring, such that X is substituted with A, wherein A is —C1-6 alkyl-halo. These compounds are useful for the treatment of HIV and AIDS.
US10780094B2
The invention is directed to the use of carbonic anhydrase inhibitors for treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
US10780087B2
A stabilized solid preparation containing 2-{4-[N-(5,6-diphenylpyrazin-2-yl)-N-isopropylamino]butyloxy}-N-(methylsulfonyl)acetamide is provided, namely, a solid preparation containing 2-{4-[N-(5,6-diphenylpyrazin-2-yl)-N-isopropylamino]butyloxy}-N-(methylsulfonyl)acetamide and D-mannitol having a specific surface area of 1.0 m2/g or less.
US10780086B2
The present invention includes a method of inhibiting or reducing deregulated FLT3 tyrosine kinase activity or FLT3 tyrosine kinase expression in a subject with a proliferative disease by administering to the subject having or suspected to have the proliferative disease, a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount of the compound of Formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US10780085B2
An oral product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-stable polymer matrix, cellulosic fibers embedded in the mouth-stable polymer matrix, and a mouth-soluble binder dispersed in the mouth-stable polymer matrix.
US10780084B2
The present invention relates to chimeric (including bifunctional) compounds, compositions comprising those compounds and methods of treating cancer in a patient or subject, especially including metastatic and other cancers where cancer cells exhibit overexpression (heightened expression) of cell surface urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (urokinase receptor) compared to normal (non-cancerous) cells. The compounds bind to the urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) on the surface of a cancer cell, including a metastatic cancer cell, and consequently recruit native antibodies of the patient or subject where the antibodies can selectively degrade and/or deactivate targeted cancer cells through antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis and antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and/or complement dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) against a large number and variety of cancers, thus providing cancer cell death and an inhibition of growth, elaboration and/or metastasis of the cancer, including remission and cure of the patient's cancer.
US10780083B1
The invention provides compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds, compositions, methods and kits of the invention are useful for the treatment of pain, itch, and neurogenic inflammation.
US10780075B1
The invention provides a water-soluble composition comprising cannabis extract. The invention also provides methods of producing a water-soluble composition comprising cannabis extract. The invention further provides a solution comprising cannabis extract. Furthermore, the invention provides a frozen composition, a medication, a pharmaceutical composition, and a kit comprising a water-soluble composition comprising cannabis extract.
US10780068B2
Provided herein are methods of treating glaucoma in a patient, comprising: obtaining a biological sample from the patient; testing the biological sample for presence of a mutation in Kir6.2 protein or KCNJ11 gene; and provided that the biological sample tests positive for the presence of a mutation in Kir6.2 protein or KCNJ11 gene, administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising tolbutamide or a physiologically equivalent salt or solvate thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Also provided herein are methods of maintaining and/or improving eye health in a subject, comprising: administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising tolbutamide or a physiologically equivalent salt or solvate thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US10780067B2
Disclosed are methods and topical formulations for treating and/or preventing cell proliferative diseases and disorders including breast cancer and ductal carcinoma is situ (DCIS) using local transdermal therapy (LTT). The disclosed methods typically include administering topically to the breast or breasts of the patient a topical formulation comprising an effective dose of the tamoxifen metabolite, N-desmethyl-4-hydroxytamoxifen (i.e., endoxifen or ENX) for treating breast cancer. The topical formulation may be described as a transdermal formulation and the topical formulation may comprise, consist essentially of, or consist of endoxifen as an active ingredient.
US10780059B2
A layered body comprising: a core region; at least one intermediate layer disposed around the core region; and an outer layer disposed around the at least one intermediate layer, wherein at least one of the at least one intermediate layers comprises a gas, the layered body having at least one dimension, measured across the body and through the core region, of 100 μm or less.
US10780047B2
The present disclosure describes a vaginal system comprising segesterone acetate and ethinyl estradiol configured for thirteen 28-day product-use cycles that is compatible with male condoms comprising natural rubber latex, polyisoprene, or polyurethane and a method of providing birth control using the vaginal system wherein a secondary contraception is employed when the vaginal system is removed or expelled from the vagina for specified amounts of time during any of the product-use cycles.
US10780046B2
Topical vaginal compositions are disclosed herein which include silica microspheres and an active ingredient in the amount of 0.001 to 15.0% w/w selected from estradiol, metronidazole, clindamycin, butoconazole, and combinations thereof. The topical compositions provide sustained release of the active ingredient so as to reduce skin irritation.
US10780044B2
A method of making a natural antibacterial deodorant composition from the extract of Buchu leaf with arrowroot powder, sodium bicarbonate, witch hazel and aloe vera. The combination of these ingredients provide a natural deodorant that is safe and effective in eliminating bad odor, when the deodorant composition is applied to the body, the deodorant does not occlude the pores of the skin and permits sweating but is effective against malodors.
US10780037B2
An aqueous composition with a higher-than-neutral pH includes a significant amount of one or more surfactants and large amounts of osmotically active solutes. This composition, as well as an acidic counterpart and solid materials, can be used in a variety of applications such as wound care, oral care, medical equipment reprocessing, healthcare acquired infection and implant treatment.
US10780035B2
The subject of present disclosure is an oxidation dyeing agent for the oxidative color change of keratinous fibers, in particular human hair, comprising at least one alkalizing agent, at least one oxidation dye precursor of a developer type and at least one oxidation dye precursor of a coupler type, at least one ether compound of xylitol and, based on the weight of oxidation dyeing agent, zero to less than 0.1% by weight of peroxide compounds, wherein the oxidation dyeing agent preferably has a pH value in the range of 8 to 11, in particular in the range of 8.5 to 10.7, particularly preferably in the range of 9 to 10.3, most preferably 9.5 to 9.7, each measured at a temperature of 22° C.
US10780033B2
A method of maintaining or improving tissue health, maintaining or improving bone health, maintaining or improving cardiovascular health, or improving the appearance or texture of skin by administering a composition of the aloe rind minerals. The aloe rind minerals can be prepared from aloe rind by ashing or fermentation. Compositions can include aloe rind minerals and one or more additional active or inactive ingredients, and can be administered topically or orally.
US10780032B1
An oral care composition with an aqueous phase, hydrophobic phase, active agent, and optionally emulsifier. A jammed emulsion with aqueous phase, hydrophobic phase, active agent, and optionally emulsifier. An oral care composition with aqueous phase, hydrophobic phase, active agent, and optionally emulsifier. Methods of using disclosed compositions for active agent delivery.
US10780030B2
Disclosed are compositions comprising at least one bicarbonate compound, at least one acid, at least one film forming polymer, and at least one cosmetically acceptable carrier, wherein the weight ratio of the at least one bicarbonate compound to the at least one acid is greater than or equal to about 1:1, and methods of altering the shape of keratin fibers comprising contacting the fibers with the compositions.
US10780029B2
A cleansing composition, a method of making the cleansing composition and a method of using a cleansing composition, the composition including a first liquid surfactant component; a first solid component, including a plurality of cellulose particles; and a first gaseous component.
US10780026B2
A method of forming a dental composite includes photopolymerizing a dental composition. The dental composition includes a free-radically polymerizable (meth)acrylate resin, 75 percent by weight or greater of filler particles, and about 0.005 percent to about 5 percent by weight of at least one polymerizable stable radical. The photopolymerizing forms the dental composite such that the dental composite has a flexural modulus of about 9500 MPa or greater and the polymerizable stable radical reduces shrinkage stress of the dental composite caused by the photopolymerizing by 10% or greater. A method of forming a dental composite composition includes combining a free-radically polymerizable (meth)acrylate resin, 75 percent by weight or greater of filler particles, and about 0.005 percent to about 5 percent by weight of at least one polymerizable stable radical to form the dental composite composition.
US10780022B2
A medicament dispensing container comprises a first wall and a second wall defining a cavity therebetween. At least one member is connected to at least one of the walls and is disposable in the cavity. The at least one member defines at least one dose receptacle configured for disposal of at least one dose of at least one medication. The at least one member includes indicia relating to a medication regimen comprising the at least one medication. The walls are movable between a medication accessible configuration and a tamper resistant configuration. Systems and methods of use are disclosed.
US10780016B2
A vertical motion adjuster for a thermotherapy device includes a conveyance unit provided with a movable member configured to move along a mat, a support unit having a first side and a second side, the first side rotatably coupled to one side of the conveyance unit, and an elevation unit installed between the conveyance unit and the support unit and configured to adjust an angle of inclination of the support unit by raising or lowering the second side of the support unit such that the second side of the support unit is moved in the shape of an arc.
US10780011B2
A finger joint rehabilitation exercise aid part includes a rubber part, at least one small bracket, one middle bracket and one large bracket. The small bracket, the middle bracket and the large bracket are fixed on the rubber part and are provided with a fixing hole for fixing a power source. A front end of the rubber part is provided with a finger sheath, and the patient's finger can reach into the finger sheath. As such, according to the finger joint rehabilitation exercise aid part, the rubber part is sheathed on the patient's finger. The rubber part is forced by the power source to bend and straighten and drives the patient's fingers to perform exercise at the same time, thus helping patients perform rehabilitation training.
US10780006B2
A mounting device for mounting a stand device under a ceiling in an operating room incorporates a mounting apparatus extending in the longitudinal direction along a mounting axis configured to bear a connection component of the stand device, in particular a spindle; and a ceiling flange configured to mount the mounting apparatus under the ceiling and to support the stand device on the ceiling; wherein the ceiling flange is mountable in different mounting positions along the mounting axis relative to the mounting apparatus on the mounting apparatus in a way that the mounting device is configured to hold the stand device in a height variable manner in different, in particular predefined, height positions. The invention further relates to a mounting system including such a mounting device.
US10780003B2
An office-type chair includes a base, a height-adjustable pedestal extending upward from the base, a seat assembly including a rear seat part and a front seat part, and a linkage system connecting the pedestal to the seat assembly. The linkage system is adapted to pivot the seat assembly between a lowered position to serve as a task chair and an elevated position to serve as an elevated sitting support. A backrest arrangement may extend from the seat assembly. In the lowered position, the front and rear seat parts are both generally horizontally oriented. In the elevated position, the rear seat part may have a slight forward tilt and be positioned higher than in the lowered position, and the front seat part may extend at a downward angle relative to the rear seat part.
US10779996B2
The invention relates to a vaginal insertion assembly and methods of manufacturing it, which comprises a flexible retention web made by an atraumatic material intended to be introduced into the vaginal cavity with the aid of an applicator, said web comprising removal means and a shorter web flap F1 obtained by strangling the web in a site P, and being arranged into the applicator such that the web becomes more rigid and makes it less penetrable.
US10779995B2
The present invention is directed to a novel process for dosing super absorbent polymer particles into a plurality of particles flows, comprising the steps of: (i) providing super absorbent polymer particles; (ii) imparting a rotation to said particles; and (iii) collecting separate flows of particles, wherein the step (ii) is performed with a rotating mobile (11) provided into a housing (12).Use for manufacturing absorbent article and article thus obtained.
US10779994B2
Compression device (1) for application circumferentially around a patient's limb (10), comprising a) a first band portion (20a) and a second band portion (20b), both band portions (20) being arrangeable along at least a part of the circumference of the limb for creating radial pressure on the limb, b) a spine element (30), extending in axial direction (100) when the compression device is applied around the limb, and comprising a first and a second guide opening (40a, 40b) for guiding the first and the second band portions, respectively. The guide openings (40a, 40b) are arranged offset in axial direction with respect to each other such that, when the first band portion is arranged along at least a part of the circumference of the limb and guided through the first guide opening, and the second band portion is arranged along at least a part of the circumference of the limb, parallel to the first band portion, and guided through the second guide opening, the band portions overlap in an axial direction.
US10779992B2
A manually, selectively attenuating earplug button is disclosed, for insertion into a cavity of an earplug of a hearing protection device The earplug button comprises a nested configuration of a first housing member (including a first opening to receive sound from an ambient environment) and a second housing member, surrounding the first housing member and including a second opening to output at least a portion of the sound passing through an audio channel located between said first and second openings The first and second housing members include sidewall apertures for permitting a wearer to manually adjust the amount of sound admitted to the wear's ear from said ambient environment by rotating the first housing member (and thus its sidewall aperture) with respect to the second housing member.
US10779990B2
An incisional instrument and method of use for creating accurate, reproducible surgical incisions. An exemplary embodiment includes an incisional instrument configured for attachment to a patient's eye and for use performing arcuate limbal relaxing incisions (LRIs). The incisional instrument is made up of two coaxial, interconnecting pieces: a docking piece and a cutting piece. The docking piece includes a suction mechanism and is configured for being secured to a patient's eye just outside the corneal limbus. The cutting piece is configured to fit flush within the docking piece and includes cutting blades and one or more handles for rotating the cutting piece relative to the docking piece. When assembled, the cutting blades extend beyond the proximal end of the docking piece by a length equal to the desired depth of LRIs to be cut. The incisional instrument further includes measurement markings for properly positioning and measuring incisions.
US10779983B2
A compression foot garment is integrally knit of a body yarn, and adapted for wear on a foot of a user. The foot garment incorporates first and second high compression zones, and a compression release zone between the high compression zones. The first high compression zone is adapted for applying substantially circumferential compression to the foot below the plantar fascia between the calcaneus and metatarso-phalangeal joints and generally around the midfoot. The second high compression zone is adapted for applying substantially circumferential compression to the foot above the calcaneus and generally around an ankle of the user. The first and second high compression zones may comprise elastic yarns integrated with the body yarn. The compression release zone is adapted for applying reduced compression to the foot in an area between the first and second high compression zones.
US10779980B2
A intragastric device that contains a compressible free-floating structure and a sleeve attached thereto is provided. The device is considered to be anchorless as the sleeve is not physically attached to any portion of the GI tract. The device is configurable between a compressed pre-deployment configuration and an expanded post-deployment configuration. The free-floating device may be composed of a shape memory material such a nitinol. In some embodiments, the free-floating structure is space occupying and non-porous. The sleeve may be attached to the free-floating structure, such as with sutures and/or glue. In some embodiments, a stent may be inserted at the proximal end of the sleeve. A second free-floating structure may be connected to the free-floating structure such that there is an upper structure and a lower structure. In some embodiments, the gastrointestinal device is used to deliver prebiotic and/or probiotic therapy to a patient.
US10779973B2
A stent includes a cylindrical main body portion, a linkage portion, and a marker attachment portion. The main body portion extends in an axial direction. The linkage portion extends from an end of the main body portion in the axial direction. The marker attachment portion is linked to the main body portion through the linkage portion. The linkage portion includes a bent portion tilting the marker attachment portion outward in a radial direction of the main body portion.
