US10262311B1
The present invention communicates with a point of sale terminal using near field data communications and a purchase is either allowed or denied by a billing statement network according to a set of parameters.
US10262310B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for generating a verifiable download authorization code. A computing device obtains a transaction identifier that corresponds to an acquisition of a digital product by a user. The computing device generates a download authorization code based at least in part on the transaction identifier.
US10262308B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for handling and/or authorizing payment requests by a consumer for a transaction are provided. Challenge questions may be presented from the non-merchant to the consumer after receiving the payment information, thereby allowing a judicious determination of when to ask such challenge questions and allowing complex and probative questions. The time limit for such challenge questions may advantageously be unconstrained, while still preserving security. Also, a risk analysis may be started prior to the consumer submitting payment information, thus allowing an efficient and complex risk analysis. Information about an access device used by the consumer may be obtained at the non-merchant from the access device with code sent to the access device from the merchant, and the device information may be used in the risk analysis.
US10262303B2
A method for applying promotion codes to a payment transaction using an input device in communication with a database is provided. The payment transaction includes a purchase made by a cardholder using a payment card over a payment card network. The method includes storing promotion data within the database including at least one promotional program having a qualifying number of rewards points for a rewards program, and storing rewards data within the database including a current number of rewards points accumulated by the cardholder. The method further includes providing access to the promotion data through the at least one input device including each promotional program having a qualifying number of rewards points that is less than the current number of rewards points for the cardholder, receiving a selected promotional program from the cardholder, and automatically applying the promotion codes associated with the selected promotional program to the payment transaction.
US10262301B2
A computerized system is provided for generating a visual presentation for visually organizing one or more activities of a user, including vendors. The methods and systems are directed to calendaring, social networking, and planning for users, including vendors, consumers and enterprises.
US10262296B2
A method, system, and computer program product are provided to manage inventory. The method includes: obtaining, by a processor, a signal of decodable indicia; decoding, by the processor, the signal of decodable indicia to access decoded data, where the decoded data includes information identifying an object, where the object includes a plurality of items. Based on the information identifying the object, the processor obtains, from a memory, a visual representation of a portion of the object. The visual representation is divided into a plurality of regions and each region represents an item of the plurality of items. The processor displays the visual representation on a client and obtains a designation of at least one of the plurality of regions. Based on obtaining the designation the processor generates an order request for an item represented by the at least one of the plurality of regions.
US10262293B1
An inventory location such as a shelf may be used to stow different types of items. The shelf may be equipped with a plurality of lanes arranged parallel to one another. Items may rest upon two or more of the lanes. Each lane includes a weight sensor that provides weight data about a load on the lane. Based on the weight data and item data indicative of individual weights of those items stowed on the shelf, interaction data indicative of an activity such as a pick or place of an item may be determined. The interaction data may specify what item was picked or placed, quantity of that item that was picked or placed, and so forth. Data from other sensors, such as a camera, may be used to determine the interaction data.
US10262286B2
A method for comparing and analyzing data based on data analysis reports is provided. The method may include receiving a first dataset. The method may also include identifying a first portion of the first dataset and a second portion of the first dataset. Additionally, the method may include comparing and analyzing the first portion of the first dataset with the second portion of the first dataset. The method may also include receiving a second dataset from a location different from the first dataset. The method may further include comparing and analyzing the first portion and second portion of the first dataset with the second dataset. The method may also include receiving a plurality of first analysis results and a plurality of second analysis results based on the comparisons and the analyses. The method may also include presenting the plurality of first analysis results and the plurality of second analysis results.
US10262284B2
An inventory management system performs inventory management for complex packs. The inventory management system receives a request to estimate inventory for a complex pack. The inventory management system then determines, based on a data indicator stored in an accounting database, whether inventory for the complex pack is held at component level or at pack level. When inventory is held at component level, the inventory management system determines an estimate complex pack inventory based on component inventories and number of components in the complex pack.
US10262282B2
Automatic sorting and propagating of information relating to electronic documents is presented. With regard to an electronic document, such as an incoming message, an enhanced information management component (EIMC) can analyze the document to identify a file folder associated with a subject to which the document relates. Based on interaction with or tagging of the document in a first user interface (UI) and predefined user preferences, the EIMC can propagate information relating to the subject and/or document to a second UI. The EIMC can archive the document in the identified file folder automatically or in response to as little as one UI control manipulation. The EIMC can analyze audio or video content to facilitate tagging and archiving of such content using the first UI and propagation of information relating to such content and/or related subject to a second UI.
US10262279B2
A system and method for providing career-related information. An example method includes acquiring user information, wherein the user information includes an indication of a target career position or opportunity; obtaining aggregated information pertaining to workers who have attained the target career position; and employing the user information and the aggregated information to provide career-related information pertaining to one or more career paths. In the example method, a user questionnaire is employed to facilitate acquiring the user information. The step of obtaining aggregated information includes collecting anonymous information from profiles of the workers. The profile information may be retrieved from a Human Capital Management (HCM), performance management system, social network system, or other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system component of an organization.
US10262277B2
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for automated dynamic data quality assessment. One aspect of the subject matter described in this specification includes the actions of receiving a data quality job including a new data sample; and, if the new data sample is determined to be added to a reservoir of data samples, sending a quality verification request to an oracle; receiving a new data sample quality estimate from the oracle; and adding the new data sample and estimate to the reservoir. A second aspect of the subject matter includes the actions of receiving, from a predictive model, a judgment associated with a new data sample; analyzing the new data sample based in part on the judgment to determine whether to send a new data sample quality verification request to an oracle; and, if a new data sample quality estimate is received from the oracle, determining whether to add the new data sample and the judgment to the reservoir.
US10262273B2
A method for interfacing with a cognitive inference and learning system comprising: processing data from a plurality of data sources to provide cognitively processed insights via a cognitive inference and learning system, the cognitive inference and learning system further comprising performing a learning operation to iteratively improve the cognitively processed insights over time; receiving the data from the plurality of data sources to the cognitive interface and learning system via a first interface, and, providing the cognitively processed insights to a destination via a second interface.
US10262271B1
Systems and methods for implementing and using a data modeling and machine learning lifecycle management platform that facilitates collaboration among data engineering, development and operations teams and provides capabilities to experiment using different models in a production environment to accelerate the innovation cycle. Stored computer instructions and processors instantiate various modules of the platform. The modules include a user interface, a collector module for accessing various data sources, a workflow module for processing data received from the data sources, a training module for executing stored computer instructions to train one or more data analytics models using the processed data, a predictor module for producing predictive datasets based on the data analytics models, and a challenger module for executing multi-sample hypothesis testing of the data analytics models.
US10262255B2
A low-cost, multi-function tracking system with a form factor that unobtrusively integrates the components needed to implement a combination of different localization techniques and also is able to perform a useful ancillary function that otherwise would have to be performed with the attendant need for additional materials, labor, and expense. An example tracking system is implemented as an adhesive product that integrates tracking components within a flexible adhesive structure in a way that not only provides a cost-effective platform for interconnecting, optimizing, and protecting the components of the tracking system but also maintains the flexibility needed to function as an adhesive product that can be deployed seamlessly and unobtrusively into various tracking applications and workflows, including person and object tracking applications, and asset management workflows such as manufacturing, storage, shipping, delivery, and other logistics associated with moving products and other physical objects.
US10262252B2
A wireless communication device is provided that has a dielectric member attached to a metal surface of an article, an RFIC element including first and second terminal electrodes, a first radiation electrode disposed on the dielectric member in parallel with and oppositely to the metal surface of the article at a predetermined distance and connected to the first terminal electrode of the RFIC element, and a second radiation electrode disposed on the dielectric member in parallel with and oppositely to the metal surface of the article at the predetermined distance and connected to the second terminal electrode of the RFIC element independently of the first radiation electrode. The first and second radiation electrodes extend in respective directions intersecting with each other, with the first radiation electrode having a smaller width and a shorter length in an extending direction than the second radiation electrode.
US10262248B2
An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit, a connector including a power supply terminal, a power supply unit for generating an operating voltage, a switch for turning on and off application of the operating voltage to the power supply terminal, a capacitor connected between the power supply terminal and the switch, and a control circuit configured to start up when a reset signal is changed. When the main power supply is turned on, the switch is temporarily turned on, and the reset signal is changed after the switch is turned off. After a start-up process is started, the control circuit interrupts the start-up process when recognizing that there is a connected device based on a result of comparison between a capacitor voltage and a threshold voltage.
US10262245B2
Electronic devices are provided with ejectable component assemblies. Each ejectable component assembly may include a tray that can be loaded with one or more types of removable module, such as a mini-SIM card and a micro-SIM card, and inserted into the device. Each assembly may also include a base coupled to a circuit board for electrically coupling with the removable module, a cage for biasing the module down against the base, and a guide for retaining the module at a functional insertion position within the device.
US10262241B2
Embodiments of this disclosure belong to the field of computer technologies and disclose a method and an apparatus for recognizing a character string in an image. The method includes: according to image data of a pre-stored sample image block including a character string, and based on a convolutional neural network algorithm, constructing an expression of a probability set corresponding to a character string recognition result of the sample image block, the expression of the probability set being constituted by a to-be-determined parameter; based on a training target of maximizing a probability that the character string recognition result determined according to the probability set is the character string included in the pre-stored sample image block, training the plurality of to-be-determined parameters to obtain a training value for each to-be-determined parameter; and when a to-be-recognized target image block is obtained, determining, based on the convolutional neural network algorithm and the training values of the plurality of to-be-determined parameters, a target probability set corresponding to the target image block, and determining, according to the target probability set, a character string recognition result of the target image block. By means of the embodiments of this disclosure, correctness of recognizing a character string can be improved.
US10262238B2
A camera system captures images from a set of cameras to generate binocular panoramic views of an environment. The cameras are oriented in the camera system to maximize the minimum number of cameras viewing a set of randomized test points. To calibrate the system, matching features between images are identified and used to estimate three-dimensional points external to the camera system. Calibration parameters are modified to improve the three-dimensional point estimates. When images are captured, a pipeline generates a depth map for each camera using reprojected views from adjacent cameras and an image pyramid that includes individual pixel depth refinement and filtering between levels of the pyramid. The images may be used generate views of the environment from different perspectives (relative to the image capture location) by generating depth surfaces corresponding to the depth maps and blending the depth surfaces.
US10262234B2
In one embodiment, 3D LIDAR data points are collected using a 3D LIDAR device mounted on an ADV, while the ADV is driving within a predetermined proximity. GPS information associated with a number of objects that are located and moving within the proximity surrounding the ADV. The GPS information of the objects may include a location, a speed, and a heading direction of the objects captured at a particular point in time. The objects are associated with at least some of the LIDAR data points based on the GPS information of the objects. The 3D LIDAR data points are then labeled based on a type of the objects, wherein the labeled 3D LIDAR data points are utilized to train a machine-learning algorithm or model to be utilized for object recognition by ADVs.
US10262232B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object, such as a layer or ply during a composite laminate layup procedure. An exemplary method includes generating a plurality of images of the reference object from a plurality of angles, removing at least one lighting effect from at least one reference image to generate at least one processed image, generating a reference fingerprint for the reference object based on the at least one processed image, generating at least one candidate image of a candidate object, generating a candidate fingerprint for the candidate object based on the at least one candidate image, comparing the candidate fingerprint and the reference fingerprint to determine whether a correlation exists between the candidate fingerprint and the reference fingerprint, and generating an alert based on the comparison of the candidate fingerprint and the reference fingerprint.
US10262230B1
A two-dimensional (2D) image and a three-dimensional (3D) of an environment may be captured. Upon identifying a location and/or contour of an object from the 3D image, the object from the 3D image may be mapped onto the 2D image. The object, including its location and contour, may be identified from the 2D image. Based at least partly on a comparison between the object from the 3D image and the object from the 2D image, a disparity may be calculated. The location and contour of the object may be determined when it is determined that the disparity is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold. Otherwise, the object from the 3D image may be remapped onto the 2D image.
US10262215B2
A scene understanding device obtains map data where one, two or more obstacle detection frames, shaped corresponding to a road structure, for detecting an obstacle are set in advance for a specific spot on a road where a vehicle would otherwise bump into a vehicle or a pedestrian. The scene understanding device determines whether there exists an obstacle in the obstacle detection frames set for the specific spot on a scheduled traveling route of a host vehicle, and calculates the degree of risk at the specific spot based on a result of determining whether there exists an obstacle therein.
US10262209B2
The invention provides a method of analyzing video data comprising the steps of recording the video data using one or more video recording devices; analyzing at least one video frame of the video data to extract identification information regarding a specific object of interest that is comprised in a watch list of a plurality of objects of interest, the watch list including at least one entry for each of the plurality of objects of interest; computing a matching value by comparing the extracted identification information with predetermined identification information of the specific object of interest; and storing object data and the matching value as an additional entry in the watch list in association with the specific object of interest.
US10262207B2
The present invention relates to a method for tracking a position of at least one keypoint in an image of an object moving relative to an optical sensor, wherein light reflected from the object (12) is detected so as to generate an image of the object, and wherein a position of at least one keypoint (Kj) in said image is detected and updated using temporal contrast events (Ev) of the optical sensor. The invention also relates to a corresponding computer program and device.
US10262187B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for performing spoof detection. The method includes: receiving, by a processor from a biometric sensor, an input image of a biometric; analyzing the input image to identify pixels associated with a first feature in the input image; performing a local binary pattern (LBP) analysis on the pixels associated with the first feature, which comprises computing, for a given pixel associated with the first feature, an LBP value corresponding to texture of one or more neighboring pixels around the given pixel, wherein the neighboring pixels around the given pixel comprise eight pixels around the given pixel, including pixels on a top, a bottom, a left, a right, and at four corners of a location of the given pixel; and, determining whether the input image is a replica of the biometric based on results of performing the LBP analysis on the pixels associated with the first feature.
US10262184B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a touchscreen display, a pressure sensor positioned to sense external pressure against the display, a fingerprint sensor positioned to detect a fingerprint on at least a portion of the display, a processor electrically coupled to the display, the pressure sensor, and the fingerprint sensor, and a memory electrically coupled to the processor, in which the memory stores at least one registered fingerprint. The processor is configured to sense pressure of a user's finger against the display using the pressure sensor, upon sensing of the pressure, activate the fingerprint sensor, detect a fingerprint of the finger using the fingerprint sensor, determine whether the detected fingerprint is matched with any of the at least one registered fingerprint, and perform a preselected function without further requiring authentication, when the detected fingerprint is matched with any of the at least one registered fingerprint.
US10262178B2
The present disclosure discloses an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor package. The ultrasonic fingerprint sensor package includes a substrate, a control chip, an ultrasonic probe, and packaging material. The substrate includes a substrate top surface and a plurality of first connection electrodes formed on the substrate top surface. The control chip includes a chip bottom surface and a plurality of second connection electrodes formed on the chip bottom surface. The control chip is connected to the substrate using a flip chip mounting technology. The second connection electrodes are connected to the first connection electrodes. The ultrasonic probe is arranged on the control chip, and configured to emit ultrasonic wave and receive ultrasonic wave reflected by an object. The packaging material covers the substrate and the control chip, and fixes the ultrasonic probe using a molding technology.
US10262176B1
An automatic object identification scanner is equipped with recognition units that provide detection results for objects and a controller that resolves potential conflicts in the results. One form of recognition unit detects product identifiers and flags in a digital payload that is encoded redundantly across packaging or labels applied to packaging. The controller gets detection results and evaluates them relative to a state data structure, which maintains state for identifiers obtained within a time interval, such as a timeout interval or waiting period after a detection result. Identifiers are reported to a POS system depending on logic that evaluates code priority and pending waiting periods.
US10262167B2
A radio frequency identification (RFID) switch tag is disclosed. This RFID switch tag includes a base component having an ultra-high frequency (UHF) booster, and a detachable component having at least one UHF RFID module and a high frequency (HF) RFID module. In some embodiments, the detachable component is positioned in close proximity to the base component in a first configuration of the RFID switch tag such that the at least one UHF RFID module is sufficiently coupled to the UHF booster in the base component to form an UHF RFID system having a desired performance. The detachable component can also be separated from the base component to obtain a second configuration of the RFID switch tag, and the HF RFID module remains functional within the detached detachable component so that the detachable component can be used as a standalone HF RFID tag.
US10262164B2
A transform-enabled integrated circuit for use in cryptographic proof-of-work systems is provided. The transform-enabled integrated circuit includes a transformation block embedded among other circuitry components within the cryptographic datapath of the transform-enabled integrated circuit. The transformation block may be configured at a time subsequent to the manufacture of the integrated circuit to embody as circuitry any one of a plurality of mathematical transformation functions, thus enabling a user to systemically modify the results of cryptographic operations performed by the integrated circuit while retaining the high performance and efficiency characteristics of application specific integrated circuits. Embodiments of the technology disclosed herein provides an hereto unachievable level of flexibility in the deployment of application-specific integrated circuits within proof-of-work verification systems, such as private block chain systems, public block chain systems, digital rights management, secure token and other cryptography-related fields.
US10262162B2
In an embodiment, the present invention includes a processor having an execution logic to execute instructions and a control transfer termination (CTT) logic coupled to the execution logic. This logic is to cause a CTT fault to be raised if a target instruction of a control transfer instruction is not a CTT instruction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10262155B1
Examples are generally directed towards disabling features using a feature toggle associated with an application programming interface (API). A server receives an API request including one or more elements. An element is associated with a set of features. If a feature state of every feature within the set of features is an enabled feature state, the element state is an enabled element state and the request is validated. The validated request is executed and a response to the request is returned to the client. If at least one feature state of at least one feature within the set of features is a disabled feature state or a hidden feature state, the element state is a disabled element state and the request is invalided. The invalidated request is rejected and an error message is returned to the client.
US10262152B2
An access control apparatus comprises a control unit that, based on predetermined access control information, restricts access to an electronic file by software that is permitted to access or prohibited from accessing the electronic file. An access control system comprises: an access control apparatus that has a control unit that, based on predetermined access control information, restricts access to an electronic file by software that is permitted to access or prohibited from accessing the electronic file; and a management apparatus that is provided outside the access control apparatus, and provides, to the access control apparatus, at least one of the predetermined access control information and a judgment result based on the predetermined access control information.
US10262122B2
An analysis apparatus analyzes access logs including authentication results and authentication information of users, and includes: a calculation unit that calculates a similarity between pieces of authentication information in two consecutive access logs when access logs of the same access source, from the access logs, are chronologically arranged, and presumes that a piece of authentication information of the access logs of the user has been input by a human if the calculated similarity is equal to or greater than a predetermined value; and a risk determination unit that determines that there is a possibility that the access source in the access logs is being an attack source if an authentication result of any of the two access logs is authentication failure and the calculation unit presumes that any piece of authentication information of the two access logs has not been input by a human.
US10262121B2
Current CAPTCHA tests are designed to be difficult for a bot and simple for a human-user to answer; however, as artificial intelligence improves, bots are more capable of using techniques such as optical character recognition to resolve current CAPTCHAs in similar manners as human-users. By providing a CAPTCHA challenge from a library or set of challenges that are designed in a manner that causes or likely causes a human-user to trivially get the answer to the challenge wrong, helps to confirm that a user is a human-user, as a bot would answer the challenge correctly.
US10262114B2
Example embodiments of the present invention may provide an efficient method of identifying unit doses of medication, and more specifically, to dispensing, identifying, packaging, and labeling unit doses of medication for distribution. In particular, methods may include receiving medication information, causing identifying information related to the medication information to be printed to a web of material, where the identifying information is printed at regular intervals, and preparing a medication unit dose to be dispensed to a container. Methods may further include verifying that the medication unit dose corresponds to the identifying information printed to the web of material, and joining the web of material to the container in response to the dispensed unit dose corresponding to the identifying information.
US10262104B2
Presented herein are methods and compositions for determining haplotypes in a sample. The methods are useful for obtaining sequence information regarding, for example, HLA type and haplotype. Also presented herein are methods of determining haplotypes in a sample based on a plurality sequence reads.
US10262099B2
A method of providing self-aligned via (SAV) awareness in optical proximity correction (OPC) includes identifying non-SAV edges, identifying any lower metal structure that is within a critical distance from the non-SAV edges, and defining replacement non-SAV edges proximate to the lower metal structure using a distance constraint that is evaluated as part of the OPC objective function to redefine the mask solution and relocate at least one non-SAV edge away from the lower metal structure.
US10262095B1
A method for converting real number modeling to a cycle-driven simulation interface file is provided. The method includes verifying an input in a file that includes a real number modeling code, requesting a user input parameter, converting the file to a cycle-driven simulation interface file based on the user input parameter, and verifying the cycle-driven simulation interface file. Converting the method includes building a definitions file storing a width of at least one real number in the circuit design, and selecting a real number modeling file from the circuit design. For the real number modeling file, the method includes parsing the real number modeling file, building a header file associated with the real number modeling file, and building a compilation file associated with the cycle-driven simulation interface file. A system and a computer readable medium to perform the above method are also provided.
US10262090B1
A system and method for electrical tree simulation based on a modification of a discharge avalanche model with an application of a charge simulation method to determine partial discharge data during the growth of electrical trees in an insulation system and a method of using the model to determine the remaining useful life of an insulation system.
US10262086B2
An analyzing apparatus generates first displacement distribution data indicating a displacement distribution of a member caused by springback based on finite element model data, material physical property data, and stress distribution data; generates second displacement distribution data indicating an amount of displacement of the member in each of a plurality of, for example, all, natural vibration deformation modes based on the finite element model data and the material physical property data; obtains a degree of coincidence between the first displacement distribution data and each of the second displacement distribution data, and selects one or more natural vibration deformation modes based on the degree of coincidence, to determine a modified shape in which natural vibrations are increased, thereby bringing the member closer to a target shape.
US10262082B2
A map generator machine generates influence maps based on profiles of entities, such as members of an online social networking service. The entities can be treated as nodes within a social graph, and each node may be represented by a corresponding node profile. The machine is configured to access a database of node profiles and rank the nodes according to seniority information contained in the node profiles. The machine is further configured to group nodes into clusters based on skill similarity based on skill descriptors included in their corresponding node profiles. The machine is also configured to generate one or more maps to depict one or more the subsets of the nodes. As generated, such a map is a graphical presentation of at least some of the nodes of the social graph, and the map may be generated with visual indicators of seniority and skill similarity.
US10262081B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for improved string searching. Embodiments described herein provide a mechanism for retrieving string positions of nearest sorted strings. Each letter of the string being used to search for uses its own pointer, each with an array large enough to hold all possible characters. Only the minimum number of letter pointers are needed to make the string unique within the list. Near strings are found by walking up and down each array of pointers to find the closest string.
US10262077B2
Methods and systems for pattern matching and relationship discovery in graphs. The graph may be adapted as an actor graph, where vertices may include processing functionality and executable logic. The vertices of an actor graph may send messages to other vertices to which they are connected. A first vertex may receive an initial regular expression. The first vertex may evaluate which of its edges and/or respective vertices connected to these edges satisfy a first condition in the initial regular expression. If the first condition is met by an edge and or its connected vertex, the initial regular expression may be modified, if necessary, to reflect that the first condition has been met. The modified expression is then communicated to the connected vertex. The identity of the edge and/or the connected vertex may be recorded. A subsequent vertex may then proceed in a similar manner as the first vertex.
US10262073B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating and distributing interactive documents. An interactive document generation platform receives information that defines a series of interactive pages of an interactive document to be provided for facilitating performance of a procedure, receives multimedia content to be presented with interactive pages of the interactive document, and generates a data package that includes metadata, structural data, and multimedia content for the interactive document. The data package is provided to an interactive document distribution platform configured for adapting the interactive document for presentation by a plurality of different types of computing devices, receiving a request for the interactive document for a computing device of a particular type, and providing to the computing device a version of the interactive document that is adapted for presentation by the particular type of the computing device.
US10262065B2
A computer-implemented method for hybrid task assignment is presented. A working hardware node crawls a particular application and encounters a task. A mapping function is used to determine whether the task encountered is reserved. In response to a determination the task encountered is not reserved, the task is handled by the working node, and in response to a determination the task encountered is reserved, the task encountered is sent to a central unit. A determination is made as to whether the working node is idle. In response to a determination the working node is idle, another task is requested from the central unit by the working node. In response to a determination the working node is not idle, as determination is made as to whether all tasks are complete. In response to a determination all tasks are not complete, the task is handled by the working node.
US10262062B2
Natural language system question classifier, semantic representations, and logical form template techniques and systems are described. In one or more implementations, a natural language input is classified as corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of classes of questions. A semantic intent of the natural language input is extracted as a semantic entity and a semantic representation. Question classification labels that classify the question included in the natural language input is then used to select at least one of a plurality of logical form templates. The semantic intent that is extracted from the natural language input is then used to fill in the selected logical form templates, such as to fill in entity, subject, predicate, and object slots using the semantic entity and semantic representation. The filled-in logical form template is then mapped to form a database query that is then executed to query a database to answer the question.
US10262055B2
The present disclosure is directed towards a data storage setting arrangement in a federated database system that includes applications configured to handle data in corresponding databases. The arrangement includes a communication interface for obtaining application requirement data (AIC) related to database usage, a database determining unit for predicting database type using the application requirement data and selecting database based on the database type prediction, a processing type determining unit for predicting database processing type based on the application requirement data and selecting database processing type based on the processing type prediction, a data model creating unit for creating a data model for storing of data in the database based on the application requirement data and an instantiating unit for instantiating a connection between the application and the selected database based on the selected database processing type and data model.
US10262054B2
The upgrading of a relational database on multiple of machines (e.g., a service) that perform data operations via stored procedures. The upgrade occurs without changing the functionality of the set of one or more stored procedures. Accordingly, even if the machine itself is not upgraded, the machines can still interface with the database via the set of one or more stored procedures. The upgrade of the relational database occurs by adding occur by adding new table(s) to the relational database, and thereafter adding new stored procedures to the stored procedure store, the new stored procedures referencing parameters of the new tables. Since the machines that interface with the relational database can still operate on the upgraded database using the old stored procedures, each machine may then be upgraded in an orderly manner to interface with the new stored procedures.
US10262043B2
A method for evaluating annotation quality is provided. The method may include obtaining annotation information associated with a plurality of annotators and a plurality of data elements including a plurality of annotation entries corresponding to at least one data element and entered based on an annotation guideline, determining a quality rating for the annotation guideline based on a comparison between a first value associated with the plurality of annotators and the plurality of data elements and a second value associated with any disparity among the plurality of annotation entries, determining a proficiency rating for an annotator from the plurality of annotators based on a comparison between a third value associated with annotation entries by the annotator and the second value, and generating a report based on the quality rating and the proficiency rating.
US10262037B2
An approach for joining operations on document-oriented databases. The approach consists of receiving database identifiers, common attributes and results attributes for core and target databases being joined. Common attributes are searched for in the databases. The searches performed include string, expansive, character and nested. Common attribute join conflicts are identified and input is received to resolve attribute join conflicts. Resolved join conflicts are updated in a join substitution database for subsequent use and joined data results are output to virtual table(s).
US10262036B2
A computing device includes a logic machine and a storage machine holding instructions. The instructions are executable by the logic machine to, receive a machine-understandable representation of voice input, determine a pronoun associated with the voice input, map the pronoun to an object of user focus, generate one or more focus-specific search queries for the object of user focus, execute the one or more focus-specific search queries, and present the results of the one or more focus-specific search queries.
US10262031B1
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computing system program products for decrementally calculating kurtosis for Big Data or streamed data. Embodiments of the invention include decrementally calculating one or more components of a kurtosis for an adjusted computation subset based on one or more components of the kurtosis calculated for a previous computation subset and then calculating the kurtosis based on the components. Decrementally calculating kurtosis avoids visiting all data elements in the adjusted computation subset and performing redundant computations thereby increasing calculation efficiency, saving computing resources and reducing computing system's power consumption.
US10262030B1
A data recipe may be automatically generated to provide requested information to a user. After the information is requested, one or more data sources may be interrogated to discover a plurality of data types of data stored in the data sources. The data types may be categorized to define a plurality of data recipe ingredients that are likely to be needed to provide the requested information. The data recipe ingredients may be compared with a reference data recipe. Based on the results of the comparison, a new data recipe that provides the requested information may be made by either modifying the reference data recipe or by proceeding independently of the reference data recipe. The new data recipe may, for example, calculate a key performance indicator used to measure organizational performance.
US10262019B1
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform implementing an Internet of Things (IoT) distributed management system accessible to a plurality of user devices over at least one network. The processing platform is configured to determine IoT infrastructure for a given IoT deployment in at least one particular usage context, to control placement of multiple workflow processes for the IoT deployment over a plurality of distributed locations within the IoT infrastructure, and to manage execution of the workflow processes at the distributed locations in accordance with one or more constraints of the particular usage context. The IoT deployment comprises one or more IoT platforms each configured to interact with a different set of IoT devices. The placement of multiple workflow processes over the plurality of distributed locations illustratively provides a designated distribution of data, services, applications and analytics for the IoT deployment in the particular usage context.
US10262008B2
In response to detecting a file upload request of a file to storage within a file repository, at least one filename metadata token is identified that includes a subset of characters of a filename of the file and that is mapped in association with the file repository using the subset of characters to at least one repository upload processing action of the file repository. Each mapped repository upload processing action, identified using the subset of characters of each of the at least one filename metadata token, is executed in association with the file upload request of the file to the storage within the file repository.
US10262000B1
Techniques are provided for globally appending data from a group of distributed processes to a shared file using a log-structured file system. Data generated by a plurality of processes in a parallel computing system are appended to a shared file by storing the data to the shared file using a log-structured file system (such as a Parallel Log-Structured File System (PLFS)); and generating an index entry for the data, the index entry comprising a logical offset entry and a timestamp entry indicating a time of the storage, wherein the logical offset entry is resolved at read time. The logical offset entry can be populated with an append placeholder that is resolved when the shared file is read. At read time, a plurality of the index entries associated with the shared file can be sorted using the timestamp entry to deliver the requested shared file to a requesting application.
US10261994B2
The present invention provides a method that includes receiving a result word set in a target language representing a translation of a test word set in a source language. When the result word set is not in a set of acceptable translations, the method includes measuring a minimum number of edits to transform the result word set into a transform word set. The transform word set is in the set of acceptable translations. A system is provided that includes a receiver to receive a result word set and a counter to measure a minimum number of edits to transform the result word set into a transform word set. A method is provided that includes automatically determining a translation ability of a human translator based on a test result. The method also includes adjusting the translation ability of the human translator based on historical data of translations performed by the human translator.
US10261989B2
A method for mapping a source lexical unit in a first language with target lexical unit in a second language, the method comprising: acquiring a source digital text comprising a plurality of source sentences; parsing the plurality of source sentences into source lexical units; generating, for each of the one or more source lexical units a source context parameter; acquiring a target digital text comprising a plurality of target sentences; parsing the plurality of target sentences into target lexical units; generating for each one or more target lexical units, a target context parameter; selecting a first source lexical unit having a first source context parameter; comparing the first source context parameter with a plurality of target context parameters to determine a target context parameter having a lowest difference value; mapping the first source lexical unit with a first target lexical unit associated with the given target context parameter.
US10261985B2
The facilitating of output on an output device that receives output from an application that actually redefines during use. An initial output of information to be presented is caused to be rendered on the output device. Then, upon encountering that the application itself is redefined, the output is altered, and the output device updated. Furthermore, there may be other triggers that change the output on the output device including a change in allocation of output between multiple output devices, a change in users of the output device, a change in position of one or more users with respect to the output device, a change in control of one or more users with respect to the output device, a change in authorization of one or more users with respect to the output device or the information outputted. Accordingly, the output device may be updated appropriately even in a dynamic computing environment.
US10261982B2
Particular embodiments of a computing device may provide a main thread, a graphics thread to handle tasks related to rendering and presenting a graphical user interface (GUI), and an input thread to handle tasks related to processing input-related events. The GUI may comprise at least one animated component associated with a set of state variables. The main thread may handle tasks to generate a GUI hierarchy and provide copies of the GUI hierarchy to the input thread and the graphics thread. The input thread may handle tasks to initialize and update the state variables and provide information about the state variables to the graphics thread. The graphics thread may then handle tasks to update the GUI by rendering a first frame of the animation based on the state variables.
US10261980B2
A method and system for storing data used by an add-in application in, or associated with, a document. Document-based applications, such as Microsoft® Word and Corel® WordPerfect®, can be functionally enhanced with third-party add-ins. Present methods of storing data in a document body can slow down the document-based application processing significantly as the document grows large and the data associated with the add-in or document application also grows. Other current methods use auxiliary files, which means that the auxiliary files must be kept with the document. The presented method and system enable efficient add-in storage in a document, without substantial slow-down in performance or interference with the user's ability to manipulate the document. Because data is stored within the document itself, the document can be shared without losing data used by the add-in application.
US10261967B2
A computer implemented method is provided for creating a regular expression for extracting data from a data set. The method comprises the steps of: identifying a first common substring, the first common substring being present in at least two data entry strings of a first data set, by comparing a first and second data entry string of the first data set; and creating a first regular expression for extracting data from a second data set, the first regular expression including a first part for matching the first common substring.
US10261966B2
A video searching method and a video searching system are applied to an auxiliary searching of an original video. The video searching method includes setting a region-of-interest in a screen of the original video, setting a capturing condition that includes an interactive relation between the region-of-interest and a moving object of the original video, capturing a background screen of the original video and object snapshots of the moving object that comply with the capturing condition, selecting at least one of the object snapshots captured from the same moving object as a representative object snapshot, or integrating some of the object snapshots as a single representative object snapshot; and pasting the representative object snapshot at a coordinate corresponding to the background screen according to a corresponding timestamp, to generate a graphical event timeline that displays all the object snapshots.
US10261962B2
A method for organizing images from multiple image capture devices includes automatically determining a coarse offset between image capture times recorded in a first image capture device and image capture times recorded in a second image capture device. The coarse offset is determined by a computing a correlation between image counts of images captured by the first image capture device and images captured by the first image capture device. The method also includes adjusting the image capture times of images recorded in the second image capture device by the coarse offset to produce adjusted image capture times for images captured by the second image capture device.
US10261960B2
A method is described that includes providing a snapshot counter for a storage system implemented with multiple distributed consistent database instances. The method further includes recognizing the taking of a snapshot of the storage system by incrementing the snapshot counter from a first snapshot counter value to a second snapshot counter value. The method further includes, in response to a first change for one of the distributed consistent databases subsequent to the taking of the snapshot, performing the following: saving state information of the distributed consistent database as the state information existed prior to the change and associating the first snapshot counter value to the state information. Associating the second snapshot counter's value with the distributed consistent database having the first change. Another method for the taking of a snapshot of a distributed consistent database is also described.
US10261959B2
Systems and methods for converting a data item provided by an external data provider system into a data type specified by a data processing system for a data field of the data item. A data processing system stores a coercion rule for each data field of a first data set provided by the data provider system. Each stored coercion rule identifies at least one data type for the corresponding data field. Responsive to a second data set provided by the data provider system, the data processing system coerces each data item of the second data set into at least one data type specified by the stored coercion rule for the data field of the data item to generate at least one converted data item of the second data set. The data processing system generates information from at least one converted data item, and provides the information to a consuming system.
US10261954B2
Techniques for optimizing search result snippet selection. In one aspect, the techniques include receiving a query and identifying a set of documents matching the query. A set of one or more snippet field types for a snippet representing a corresponding document of the set of documents is selected based at least in part on a snippet selection model. The snippet selection model is adjusted to reinforce or discourage selection of the set of one or more snippet field types for future queries based on the user click.
US10261952B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for restoring temporal coherence of ranked content that was previously shown to a user. During operation, the system receives a set of content items to display to the user. For each content item, the system obtains a ranking score; determines if the content item was impressed upon the user during a prior session; and, if so, adds the content item to an impressed subset of content items. The system creates a display order for the set of content items by: removing the impressed content items from the set of content items; ordering the set of content items according to their ranking scores; ordering the impressed subset of content items according to their display order in the prior session; and inserting the impressed subset into the set of content items at a determined insertion point. The system then displays the ordered set of content items.
US10261951B2
In an example embodiment, a local search of non-local search results is introduced such that when an initial call is performed, the entire list of non-local search results is saved locally on the mobile device. When subsequent searches are to be performed after additional characters are typed in a search box, these subsequent searches are performed on the list of non-local search results that has been saved locally. As long as a preset, threshold number of matching search results is found from the list of non-local search results that has been saved locally, no additional calls to the server need to be made. If at any point the number of matching search results found from the list of non-local search results that had been saved locally falls below the threshold, then a call to the server is made for a refreshed list of non-local search results.
US10261945B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for a value of at least one data element defined by a master data management (MDM) model, wherein the at least one data element is based, at least in part, on monitoring data collected from a monitored system. The method further includes determining from a central data store whether the at least one data element is centrally stored or is federated. The central data store maintains a common representation of a plurality of data elements in conformance to the MDM model. The MDM model is extended to indicate whether each data element of the plurality of data elements is centrally stored or is federated. The determining is based, at least in part, on the indication.
US10261942B2
Example embodiments relate to embedded processing of structured and unstructured data. Example embodiments may traverse a directory structure of the computing device, wherein a storage medium of the computing device comprises structured data and non-structured data. For a first file traversed in the directory structure, a first file format of the first file may be detected, the first file format comprising an unstructured file type. The content and metadata of the first file may be obtained and included in a directory table stored in the storage medium. For a second file traversed in the directory structure, a second file format of the second file may be detected, the second file format comprising a structured file type. The content and metadata of the second file may be obtained and included in the directory table stored in the storage medium.
US10261939B2
In accordance with at least one embodiment, a processor system is disclosed having a SIMD processor device that has a plurality of subsidiary processing elements that are controlled to process multiple data concurrently. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the SIMD processor is a vector processor (VPU) having a plurality of vector Arithmetic Units (AUs) as subsidiary processing elements, and the VPU executes an instruction to transfer table information from a global memory of the VPU to a plurality of local memories accessible by each AU. The VPU also executes an instruction that results in each processing element performing a table lookup from a table stored at its local memory. In response to the instruction, this table lookup uses a portion of a lookup value to access information from the table, and uses another portion of the lookup information to calculate an interpolated resultant based upon the accessed information.
US10261929B2
A system and method for enhancing ground bounce immunity of cables such as USB type-C cables. More specifically, in certain embodiments, ground bounce immunity is enhanced by making use of alternate modes of operation of cables conforming to the USB 3.1 specification to achieve a higher power over a cable that conforms to the USB 3.1 voltage drop specification requirements on the ground signal paths when the cable is operating at normal power levels (i.e., at a power level supported by the USB 3.1 specification). In certain embodiments, ground bounce immunity is enhanced by making use of alternate modes of operation of USB 3.1 type cables and standard use USB3.1 power delivery negotiation protocol to allow a host and end device to negotiate higher power than what would normally conform to the USB 3.1 specification.
US10261928B2
A wafer-level package includes a first die and a second die that are wafer-level packaged. The first die has a first clock source. The second die has a second clock source. The first clock source generates a clock shared by the first die and the second die. The second clock source, however, does not generate a clock used by any of the first die and the second die.
US10261922B2
A field device commissioning system includes a commissioning tool, a communication module and an IO module. The commissioning tool is configured to communicate with a client in a plurality of communications. The commissioning tool is configured to perform a parallel execution of executing a plurality of loop processing logics that includes at least one input loop check or at least one output loop check in parallel for all of a plurality of channels which belongs to each slot in each unit, in accordance with the plurality of request for executions of loop checks from the client in the plurality of communications. The commissioning tool is configured to perform in series a plurality of the sequential executions for a plurality of the slots in each unit, wherein each execution including the plurality of loop processing logics. The commissioning tool may be configured to perform in series a plurality of sets of the plurality of the sequential execution for a plurality of the units.
US10261919B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a method may include receiving, by a processor on a system on a chip (SoC), a request to encrypt a subset of data accessed by a process. The method may also include receiving, at a page encryption hardware unit of the SoC, a system call from an operating system on behalf of the process, to generate an encrypted memory page corresponding to the subset of data. The method may also include generating, by the page encryption hardware unit, an encryption/decryption key for the first physical memory address. The encryption/decryption key may not be accessible by the operating system. The method may also include encrypting, by the page encryption hardware unit, the subset of data to the physical memory address using the encryption/decryption key and storing, by the page encryption hardware unit, the encryption/decryption key in a key store.
US10261915B2
A processor architecture which partitions on-chip data caches to efficiently cache translation entries alongside data which reduces conflicts between virtual to physical address translation and data accesses. The architecture includes processor cores that include a first level translation lookaside buffer (TLB) and a second level TLB located either internally within each processor core or shared across the processor cores. Furthermore, the architecture includes a second level data cache (e.g., located either internally within each processor core or shared across the processor cores) partitioned to store both data and translation entries. Furthermore, the architecture includes a third level data cache connected to the processor cores, where the third level data cache is partitioned to store both data and translation entries. The third level data cache is shared across the processor cores. The processor architecture can also include a data stack distance profiler and a translation stack distance profiler.
US10261905B2
A method for accessing a cache including reading an access instruction for acquiring data; determining, according to a delay identifier carried by the access instruction, whether the access instruction produces a delay; accessing the cache and performing, according to a location identifier carried by the access instruction, a pre-fetch operation if a delay is produced; and modifying, according to a location where the data required by the access instruction is acquired, the delay identifier and the location identifier carried by the access instruction. The technical solutions solve the problem of a low hit rate upon cache access, reduce the probability of misses, and reduce an access delay caused by a level-by-level access to each level of cache upon target data acquisition, which correspondingly lowers the power consumption generated upon the cache access and improves the CPU performance.
US10261898B1
Aspects of the subject technology relate to concurrent marking of objects in memory. A garbage collection process accesses objects in a marking deque. The objects have status indicators which can be unmarked, pending, processing, and marked. For each object in the marking deque, the garbage collection process determines whether the object is marked. If the object is not marked, the garbage collection process determines whether the object is pending. If the object is pending, the garbage collection process sets the object to processing. The garbage collection process adds objects referenced by the object to the marking deque and determines if the object is marked. If the object is marked already, the garbage collection process removes the referenced objects from the marking deque. If the object was not marked, the garbage collection process marks the object and processes the referenced objects. A mutator process may also update the status indicators for the objects.
US10261896B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for adaptively self-tuning a bucket memory manager. An embodiment operates by receiving requests for memory blocks of varying memory sizes from a client. Determining a workload for the client based on the requests. Analyzing buckets in the bucket memory manager based on the workload. Adjusting parameters associated with the bucket memory manager based on the analyzing to accommodate the requests.
US10261894B2
In an embodiment, a system on a chip (SOC) includes a component that remains powered when the remainder of the SOC is powered off. The component may include a sensor capture unit to capture data from various device sensors, and may filter the captured sensor data. Responsive to the filtering, the component may wake up the remainder of the SOC to permit the processing. The component may store programmable configuration data, matching the state at the time the SOC was most recently powered down, for the other components of the SOC, in order to reprogram them after wakeup. In some embodiments, the component may be configured to wake up the memory controller within the SOC and the path to the memory controller, in order to write the data to memory. The remainder of the SOC may remain powered down.
US10261891B2
Techniques for automated generation of inputs for testing microservice-based applications are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises: traversing, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a user interface of a microservices-based application by performing actions on user interface elements of the user interface; and generating, by the system, an aggregated log of user interface event sequences and application program interface call sets based on the traversing. The computer-implemented method also comprises: determining, by the system, respective user interface event sequences that invoke application program interface call sets; and generating, by the system, respective test inputs based on the user interface event sequences that invoke the application program interface call sets.
US10261877B2
Systems and methods for testing mobile device s are disclosed. In an embodiment, a mobile device testing system comprises a non-transitory memory and one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory. The one or more hardware processors execute instructions to perform operations that include receiving a command XML sheet and rendering the command XML sheet into a user interface application, wherein the command XML sheet comprises elements corresponding to one or more commands for testing a mobile device.
US10261874B2
An approach is disclosed that receives power related data from one or more power systems. The approach then determines, based on an analysis of the power related data, an anticipated power outage, with the power outage includes a power outage time estimate. The approach further identifies jobs to be migrated from a primary data center to a remote data center. The identification of the jobs to be migrated is based, at least in part, on the power outage time estimate.
US10261861B2
Error correction methods for arrays of resistive change elements are disclosed. An array of resistive change elements is organized into a plurality of subsections. Each subsection includes at least one flag bit and a plurality of data bits. At the start of a write operation, all bits in a subsection are initialized. If any data bits fail to initialize, the pattern of errors is compared to the input data pattern. The flag cells are then activated to indicate the appropriate encoding pattern to apply to the input data to match the errors. The input data is then encoded according to this encoding pattern before being written to the array. A second error correction algorithm can be used to correct remaining errors. During a read operation, the encoding pattern indicated by the flag bits is used to decode the read data and retrieve the original input data.
US10261860B2
A semiconductor system includes a host and a media controller. The host may generate first host parities from first host data based on an error check matrix. The media controller may include a first input/output (I/O) circuit and a second I/O circuit. The media controller may generate first media data and first media parities based on the first host data and the first host parities. The first I/O circuit may generate, based on the error check matrix, first internal data by correcting errors in the first host data using the first host parities. The second I/O circuit may generate the first media data and the first media parities from the first internal data.
US10261858B2
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with techniques to detect soft errors of a TCAM are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include a TCAM, and logic and/or circuitry to apply a plurality of fault detection patterns to the TCAM to generate respective hit output arrays for the plurality of fault detection patterns, generate parity signatures for the hit output arrays, and compare the generated parity signatures to expected parity values. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US10261853B1
A system, computer program product, and computer-executable method of managing replication within a data storage system, the system, computer program product, and computer-executable method including receiving an error related to a replication session within the data storage system, analyzing the error, based on the analysis, determining whether to retry the replication session, upon a positive determination, calculating a first time interval for the replication session, and retrying the replication session upon completion of the first time interval.
US10261849B1
A remediation server utilizing a deep neural network to analyze a live service to predict when a service is about to experience a failure and determine the least intrusive method of remediation. The remediation server prioritizing maintaining the highest level of system availability when determining a remediation for a failed or failing service.
US10261847B2
An interface software layer is interposed between at least one application and a plurality of coprocessors. A data and command stream issued by the application(s) to an API of an intended one of the coprocessors is intercepted by the layer, which also acquires and stores the execution state information for the intended coprocessor at a coprocessor synchronization boundary. At least a portion of the intercepted data and command stream data is stored in a replay log associated with the intended coprocessor. The replay log associated with the intended coprocessor is then read out, along with the stored execution state information, and is submitted to and serviced by at least one different one of the coprocessors other than the intended coprocessor.
US10261843B2
Disclosed aspects relate to speculative execution management in a coherent accelerator architecture. A first access request from a first component may be detected with respect to a set of memory spaces of a single shared memory in the coherent accelerator architecture. A second access request from a second component may be detected with respect to the set of memory spaces of the single shared memory in the coherent accelerator architecture. The first and second access requests may be processed by a speculative execution management engine using a speculative execution technique with respect to the set of memory spaces of the single shared memory in the coherent accelerator architecture.
US10261842B2
A technique for managing distributed computing resources in a virtual computing environment is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a recommended change to a virtual architecture of a virtual computing environment; determining an impact on current workload in the virtual computing environment if the recommended change is performed; determining an impact on future workload in the virtual computing environment if the recommended change is performed; calculating a combined impact on current and future workload; determining if the combined impact is above or below a threshold; if the combined impact on current and future workload is below the threshold, do not perform the recommended change; and if the combined impact on current and future workload is above the threshold, perform the recommended change.
US10261832B2
A sorter receives a list of elements to be sorted. An element of the list is supplied to a selected one of a plurality of processing units to be processed. The selected one of the processing units sends the element to one of a plurality of list element cells, which rank orders the elements among other elements in the same list element storage as well as storing the position of each element from the original list. Each of the plurality of list element cells processes and stores a different range of element values. The element being processed is stored in sorted order in the list element cell that has an element value range that encompasses the value of the element of the list.
US10261825B2
Disclosed aspects relate to agent flow arrangement management in a distributed commit processing environment. A first set of agent utilization data may be collected with respect to a first commit processing agent. A second set of agent utilization data may be collected with respect to a second commit processing agent. An agent flow arrangement may be determined based on a first value with respect to the first set of agent utilization data exceeding a second value with respect to the second set of agent utilization data. The agent flow arrangement may have the first commit processing agent subsequent to the second commit processing agent. The distributed commit operation may be processed using the agent flow arrangement which has the first commit processing agent subsequent to the second commit processing agent.
US10261815B2
Methods and systems to compute cost efficiency of virtual machines (“VMs”) running in a private cloud are described. Methods and systems compute a cost efficiency value for each VM in the private cloud based on cost of the VM in the private cloud, cost of similar VMs in the private cloud, price of similar VM running in the public cloud, and the cost of similar VMs running in one or more private clouds in the same geographical area. When the cost efficiency of a VM is greater than a cost efficiency threshold, the methods generate an alert and recommendations for moving the VM to a lower cost public cloud.
US10261809B1
A system and method for building a driver are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes one or more processors and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: obtain an interface description; obtain at least one mapping rule; operate a flow controller that controls a flow of operations, the operations using one or more of the interface description and the at least one mapping rule; obtain a protocol adapter; and implement access to a data source based on the operation of the flow controller using the obtained protocol adapter.
US10261804B2
Apparatuses and methods of a gradual power wake-up mechanism are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of activating a device based on detection of a fingerprint image may include monitoring a first metric level of a first set of regions of the fingerprint image, determining a second metric level of a second set of regions of the fingerprint image in response to the first metric level exceeding a first threshold, and activating the device based on the second metric level of the second set of regions of the fingerprint image.
US10261799B2
A mechanism is provided for programmatic implicit multithreading. A first operation is executed on a first thread in a processor, where the first operation is from a set of operations within a block of code of an application that are distinct and process unrelated data. A determination is made as to whether a time limit associated with executing the first operation has been exceeded. Responsive to the time limit being exceeded, a determination is made as to whether there is one or more unexecuted operations in the set of operations. Responsive to one or more unexecuted operations existing in the set of operations, a new thread is spawned off on the processor to execute a next unexecuted operation of the one or more unexecuted operations.
US10261789B2
A data processing apparatus and a method of controlling performance of speculative vector operations are provided. The apparatus comprises processing circuitry for performing a sequence of speculative vector operations on vector operands, each vector operand comprising a plurality of vector elements, and speculation control circuitry for maintaining a speculation width indication indicating the number of vector elements of each vector operand to be subjected to the speculative vector operations. The speculation width indication is set to an initial value prior to performance of the sequence of speculative vector operations. The processing circuitry generates progress indications during performance of the sequence of speculative vector operations, and the speculation control circuitry detects, with reference to the progress indications and speculation reduction criteria, presence of a speculation reduction condition. The speculation reduction condition is a condition indicating that a reduction in the speculation width indication is expected to improve at least one performance characteristic of the data processing apparatus relative to continued operation without the reduction in the speculation width indication. The speculation control circuitry is responsive to detection of the speculation reduction condition to reduce the speculation width indication. This can significantly increase performance (for example in terms of throughput and/or energy consumption) when performing speculative vector operations.
US10261785B2
In aspects of arithmetic lazy flags representation for emulation, a host processor system receives application instructions that are designed for execution by a guest processor system that is different than a processor architecture of the host processor system. A host emulator receives an application instruction that includes an arithmetic operation, determines a result value of the arithmetic operation that is performed on integer values, and determines a first state variable and a second state variable. The host emulator also determines whether a subsequent application instruction will need a derivation of a subset of arithmetic flags based in part on a third state variable. The host emulator can then determine that the subsequent application instruction does not need the derivation of the subset of arithmetic flags, and perform the subsequent application instruction without a determination of the third state variable, thereby reducing processor clock cycles to emulate the application instructions.
US10261783B2
Automated unpacking of a portable executable file includes setting a debugging breakpoint at an original entry point address of a packed portable executable file. A debugging process is executed for the packed portable executable file to obtain a debugged portable executable file in memory. One or more of import address table data and relocation table data are collected during execution of the debugging process for the packed portable executable file. The debugged portable executable file in memory is copied to a storage medium, and the debugging process is terminated.
US10261771B1
Method and apparatus for a system to efficiently and with limited disruption of overall activities, install software patches into a target application. The system maps out segments comprising the various system units that interact with the target application and that may be impacted by the patch. A model simulates various possible alternatives for deactivating none, one, some or all of the various units of the segment in identification of an optimal patching strategy. Implementation of the optimal strategy results in efficient patching with minimal disruption of system activities.
US10261766B2
A system, method, and a computer-readable storage device for sloppy feedback loop compilation are described herein. For example, a dataflow application definition can be obtained. The dataflow application definition may include a feedback loop bounding a compute block. It may then be determined that the feedback loop is to be compiled as a sloppy feedback loop. The dataflow application can then be compiled as an executable object that pipelines the compute block of the dataflow application.
US10261764B2
In one approach, a method comprises receiving one or more higher-level instructions specifying to assign a value of a particular value type to a particular container of a plurality of containers, wherein the plurality of containers represent a data structure for maintaining one or more variables during execution of a block of code, wherein at least two containers of the plurality of containers are different sizes; generating one or more lower-level instructions that assign the value to the particular container based on applying one or more assignment rules to the one or more higher-level instructions based on the particular value type and executing the one or more lower-level instructions.
US10261758B2
A software development environment receives an input string from a user, and searches for the input string in a plurality of program code files. The system then displays a result of the scope of the search on a viewport of a display unit, wherein the search result includes miniature views of the program code files. In an embodiment, the search result on the viewport of the display unit includes equally-sized tiles. In another embodiment, the result on the viewport of the display unit includes a set of closely-packed blocks with a varying compression rate applied to the closely-packed blocks.
US10261755B2
A system includes a plurality of antennas, positioned to be capable of receiving a wireless near field communication (NFC) device signal associated with a device located in any one of a driver's back pocket or front pocket, a center console or a passenger seat. The system also includes an NFC reader, in communication with the plurality of antennas. The NFC reader is operable to assign, based at least in part on a number of signals received and a signal strength, one of one or more devices associated with detected signals to a driver. The NFC reader is in communication with a vehicle computing system, operable to retrieve additional information associated with the device assigned to the driver and to apply that information to control vehicle settings.
US10261753B2
Method and apparatus for allowing visually impaired users to easily interact with GUI applications is provided. The method and apparatus may utilize a directed graph of the GUI and a language model to describe the GUI in a brief but concise and descriptive manner.
US10261751B2
Multiple simultaneous calls are controlled. At least one processor is used to display an interface including indicators corresponding to at least two audio presentation devices. Each interface includes call contextual controls which change according to the state of a call. A swap control swaps an active call between the audio presentation devices corresponding to the indicators.
US10261749B1
Implementations relate to audio output for panoramic images. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes causing a first portion of a panoramic image to be displayed by a display device of a user device, and receiving user input at the user device. Based on the user input, the method determines at least a part of a second portion of the panoramic image for display, the second portion associated with a first audio segment and a second audio segment, selects one of the first audio segment and the second audio segment, and causes a change in display of the panoramic image, where the change includes transitioning the display from the first portion to the second portion. The method causes output of the selected audio segment by an audio output device in communication with the user device.
US10261743B2
In certain examples, a content hub subsystem receives data representative of content from an access device included in a plurality of access devices associated with the predefined group of users, maps the content to the predefined group of users, and provides data representative of the content to one or more other access devices associated with the predefined group of users. In certain examples, the content hub subsystem selects one or more data formats and encodes the content into the one or more data formats for distribution to the one or more other access devices associated with the predefined group of users. Each of the access devices associated with the predefined group of users is configured to generate at least one interactive graphical object representative of the content, and generate and present a graphical user interface including the interactive graphical object.
US10261736B2
In an example implementation, a processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to receive a list of print jobs, and calculate a preparation time and a printing time for each job in the list. The instructions further cause the processor to generate an ordered print job queue that minimizes printing press downtime by maximizing an amount of the preparation time fulfilled during the printing time.
US10261730B2
An electronic system includes an electronic apparatus and a mobile terminal that transmits instruction signals to the electronic apparatus to allow the electronic apparatus to perform a plurality of various functions. When a plurality of the mobile terminals exist within a predetermined distance and transmit the respective instruction signals for allowing the electronic apparatus to perform the same function, an operation control section of the electronic apparatus performs the function indicated by the instruction signal transmitted from, of the plurality of the mobile terminals, the mobile terminal located nearest to the electronic apparatus.
US10261719B2
Examples include volume and snapshot replication. In some examples, a user-initiated snapshot of a volume at a source array may be created, wherein the user-initiated snapshot has a pending status and the volume is a member of a set of volumes in a replication group. A synchronization snapshot may be created of the volume at a periodic synchronization time. The synchronization snapshot may have a pending status. Each snapshot of the volume may be stored at the source array and each snapshot may be recorded via a representative entry in an original snapshot list. The volume may be incrementally replicated to a target array such that the target array has a replica of the volume at the source array via a replication engine. Creation of a corresponding snapshot at the target array may be requested after each incremental replication of the volume such that each snapshot recorded in the original snapshot list is recreated and stored at the target array and the original snapshot list is recreated as a recreated snapshot list at the target array.
US10261714B2
A memory controller, a memory system and a method of operating the memory controller are disclosed. A memory controller includes a CPU selecting a memory bank, a memory storing a first extended address associated with the selected memory bank, and a memory management unit (MMU) cloning the first extended address and storing the cloned first extended address as a second extended address. The MMU includes snoop logic that stores a first address corresponding to the first extended address, receives a second address from the CPU, compares the first address with the second address, and provides an update signal in response to the comparison of the first address and second address. The MMU also includes a cloning register that updates the second extended address with input data received from the CPU in response to the update signal. The memory and MMU are both directly connected to the CPU via a low latency interface.
US10261708B1
On a local data storage system, a single buffer of contiguous local memory is allocated to store host data from multiple received host data buffers in a local cache, and local internal data processing operations may be performed on the host data with local data processing resources using the single buffer of contiguous local memory in the local memory to store the host data. On a remote data storage system onto which the host data is replicated, a single buffer of contiguous remote memory is allocated to store host data from multiple transmission units used to convey the host data to the remote data storage system, and remote internal data processing operations may be performed on the host data by one or more remote data processing resources using the single buffer of contiguous remote memory to store the host data from the received transmission units.
US10261701B2
Embodiments of methods to communicate a timestamp to a storage system are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10261696B2
Technology is disclosed for improving performance during playback of logged data storage operations. The technology can monitor a log to which data storage operations are written before data is committed to a volume; determine counts of various types of data storage operations; and when the counts exceed a specified threshold, cause the data storage operations to be committed to the volume. Some data storage operations can be coalesced during playback to further improve performance.
US10261695B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for intelligent fetching of storage device commands from submission queues are disclosed. On method is implemented in a data storage device including a controller and a memory. The method includes collecting submission queue command statistics; monitoring resource state of the data storage device. The method further includes using the submission queue command statistics and the resource state to select a submission queue from which a next data storage device command should be fetched. The method further includes fetching the command from the selected submission queue. The method further includes providing the command to command processing logic.
US10261690B1
A method of operating a storage system is disclosed. The method includes determining a storage cluster among storage arrays of the storage system. Each storage array includes at least two controllers and at least one storage shelf. The at least two controllers are configured to function as both a primary controller for a first storage array and a secondary controller for a second storage array.
US10261687B2
Provided herein are a pin sharing circuit, a pin sharing method and an electronic device, an electronic wire using the same. The pin sharing circuit enables at least one pin on an integrated circuit to be shared by a keyboard device and a touch panel and prevents signal interference between the keyboard device and the touch panel using an impedance element disposed on a wire for the pin, such that the pin can output or receive a stimulation signal and a sensor signal that contain both an AC component and a DC component so as to enhance the efficiency of the overall system and prevent the stimulation signal and the sensor signal from conflicts between the keyboard device and the touch panel.
US10261682B2
A flexible display apparatus configured to sense deformation of the flexible display apparatus, control display of an object displayed on the flexible display apparatus based on the deformation, and execute operations based on the displayed object.
US10261680B2
An alert may provide a user with notification when a trigger condition regarding the operation of an enterprise is satisfied. Prior to setting the alert, a proposed alert with the trigger condition may be received. The trigger condition may be compared with a database of operational data related to operation of the enterprise over a period of time to obtain historical trigger data. The historical trigger data may indicate how the proposed alert would have functioned if applied to the operational data for the period of time, for example, by indicating how many times the alert would have been triggered during the period of time. The historical trigger data may be provided to a user, and may facilitate user determination of whether the proposed alert will perform as desired. Once the desired proposed alert has been entered, the user may set the proposed alert as an actual alert.
US10261675B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for displaying a screen in a device having a touch screen. The method for displaying a screen in a device having a touch screen, according to the present invention, comprises: a detection step of detecting the approach of a touch means on the touch screen; and a displaying step of magnifying at least one input item corresponding to a position at which the approach has been detected, among a plurality of input items displayed on the touch screen, and displaying the magnified input item. According to the present invention, input errors can be reduced.
US10261674B2
Embodiments are disclosed for a method of providing a user interface on a computing device. The method includes presenting a virtual keyboard on a display of the computing device, detecting input to the virtual keyboard. The method further includes, for each detected input, determining whether the input selects any of one or more delimiter keys, displaying a placeholder for the input responsive to the input not selecting any of the one or more delimiter keys, and receiving suggested candidate text from a word-level recognizer and replacing all currently displayed placeholders with the suggested candidate text responsive to the input selecting any of the one or more delimiter keys.
US10261666B2
A system, method, apparatus and graphical user interface are provided for navigating a multi-component application or service—such as an application that executes on a mobile device and that includes multiple features, pages, content items, utilities, settings, etc. A shortcut bar provides rapid access to application components that correspond to multiple shortcuts, and the shortcut bar can be opened, by swiping it, to reveal a set of options associated with an open shortcut (e.g., the shortcut closest to where the user swiped on the bar). The options can be scrolled (e.g., vertically) or swiped in another direction (e.g., sideways) to access options associated with other shortcuts. The shortcut bar and the options provide set paths of navigation to desired content, without regard to the current context (e.g., the displayed content). Navigation paths to the content via the current context will vary, depending on the displayed content.
US10261664B2
A method for providing an activity management tool includes receiving a user request for an activity overview, and identifying installed applications and open windows of the installed applications. The method further includes presenting an activity overview graphical user interface (GUI) having a first area and a second area. The first area includes visual indicators of the installed applications. The second area includes the open windows of the installed applications, where the open windows are resized and positioned in such a way as to be simultaneously viewable by the user.
US10261661B2
A system and method for facilitating preservation of context information during navigation of a visualization. An example method includes representing hierarchical data via an orbit visualization; providing a first user option to navigate to a child node selected from among the one or more child nodes of the orbit visualization; and updating the orbit visualization in response to user selection of the first user option, resulting in an updated orbit visualization, wherein the updated orbit visualization includes a parent node positioned at a periphery of the visualization, and wherein the selected child node is positioned as a new central node of the updated orbit visualization. A carousel control may be displayed concurrently with the orbit visualization, wherein the carousel control includes one or more user options to navigate to a previously navigated-to node of the orbit visualization.
US10261643B2
The present invention discloses a novel and inventive transparent conductive film Differing from conventional metal mesh substrates are mainly constituted by silver nanowires (AgNW), the present invention particularly designs a nano metal wire consisting of a metallic core wire, a transition layer and a protection layer, and further develops a transparent conductive film consisting of a substrate and a metal mesh layer; wherein the metal mesh layer is constituted by the said nano metal wires. It is worth describing that, a variety of experimental data prove that the thermal resistance of this novel transparent conductive film is up to 400° C.; moreover, experimental data also exhibit that the transparent conductive film can filter part of blue light portion out of a white light by 20-30%.
US10261641B2
The present invention relates to a method of providing input to an electronic unit comprising a touch-sensitive surface that is configured for registering application of touch by a flexible unit and a toy comprising an electronic unit comprising a touch-sensitive surface and a structure; the structure configured from a material that cannot be registered by the touch-sensitive surface, and it comprises, either at the periphery or within the periphery, at least one marked position. One or more flexible units that comprise(s) material that can be registered by the touch-sensitive surface, wherein the one or more flexible units extend(s) past the top side of the structure and to the bottom side of the structure, to the effect that the registration of a flexible unit is conditioned by the configuration of the at least one marked position.
US10261636B2
A touch and hover sensing device includes a sensing module, a hover sensing unit, a touch sensing unit, and a switching control unit switching between a hover mode and a touch mode. The sensing module includes a plurality of first electrostatic sensing elements and a plurality of second electrostatic sensing elements electrically insulated from each other and located on a surface of an insulating substrate. The plurality of first electrostatic sensing elements is spaced from each other and extends along a first direction, and the plurality of second electrostatic sensing elements is spaced from each other and extends along a second direction. Each first electrostatic sensing element and each second electrostatic sensing element includes a single walled carbon nanotube or few-walled carbon nanotube.
US10261626B2
An example method of driving a display having a touch sensor includes: generating a plurality of display frames having an alternating sequence of display and blanking periods; supplying pixel line data to the display during the display periods and sensing signals to the touch sensor during the blanking periods; and timing the blanking periods so that display frames of a first type each have a first number of the blanking periods and that display frames of a second type each have a second number of the blanking periods, the second number less than the first number.
US10261618B2
A touch driving circuit and a touch sensitive display panel are provided. The touch driving circuit is disposed on a corresponding touch sensitive display panel. The touch driving circuit includes a touch driving chip, driving signals encoders, driving lines, sensing lines, driving wires, and sensing wires. Preliminary touch driving signals herein include touch data signals and touch clock signals, and the driving signals encoders convert the touch data signals into the touch driving signals according to the touch clock signals.
US10261604B2
A touch-sensitive display device includes a touch sensor having a plurality of touch-sensing electrodes and control logic coupled to the plurality of touch-sensing electrodes. The control logic is configured to, in a non-reference time frame and based on a spatial capacitance measurement received for a first stylus electrode of an active stylus, estimate a non-reference time frame location of the first stylus electrode relative to the plurality of touch-sensing electrodes. In a reference time frame, based on a spatial capacitance measurement received for a second stylus electrode of the active stylus, a reference time frame location of the second stylus electrode is estimated. Based on an estimated velocity of the first stylus electrode, the non-reference location of the first stylus electrode is velocity corrected to give a reference time frame location of the first stylus electrode.
US10261590B2
An apparatus and method to recognize a moving direction of gesture are provided. A final moving direction of gesture is determined using the number of intersecting points based on output values from one or more sensors disposed in up, down, left, right directions and a code of an accumulated sum. Thus, a moving direction of target (hand) that moves on the sensors is recognized more accurately. The apparatus to recognize a moving direction of a gesture includes first to fourth sensor disposed at a position that is north, south, west, and east from a center; and a controller configured to identify a number of intersecting points based on output values of the first sensor, the second sensor, the third sensor and the fourth sensor and to estimate a moving direction of the gesture according to the number of the intersecting points.
US10261589B2
An information processing apparatus may include a control unit to control a user interface based on a determination of (i) a change in position of a user and (ii) a state of the user, by detecting at least one information signal input to the apparatus from outside of the apparatus.
US10261587B2
A control device for automotive vehicle is disclosed. The control device includes a tactile surface to detect a contact of a finger of a user, a haptic feedback module configured to vibrate the tactile surface, and a drive unit configured to drive the haptic feedback module so as to generate a haptic feedback in response to a press on the tactile surface. The haptic feedback is composed of at least two individual haptic patterns which exhibit an identical trend and are generated successively, with a period of no haptic feedback intercalated between two successive individual haptic patterns, the energy of the individual haptic patterns varying with their repetition. A method of control of such a device is also disclosed.
US10261579B2
A head-mounted display apparatus may include: a main frame, one surface of which faces a user's face; and a support part coupled to at least part of the main frame to fix the main frame to the user's face, wherein the main frame has a cavity structure such that an electronic device is mounted on an opposite surface thereof and includes a position adjustment part for adjusting the position of an electronic device, and a structure for preventing the electronic device from being tilted during the position adjustment is included in the interior of the main frame.
US10261575B2
Different methods and systems for a new-era electronic book are disclosed. In one embodiment, the content of the book can be presented by an electronic presentation device. The device includes a display to present the content to a user; a sensor to sense the user; and a processor. The processor can become aware of an attribute of the user, and change a portion of the content of the electronic book to be presented accordingly. In one embodiment, the attribute is a behavior of the user. In another embodiment, the attribute can be a location of the user, or a social network of the user. The book can include a story and a non-story theme. The story theme can convey a concept, and the non-story theme can include scenes, scripts and/or props. The portion changed can be the story or the non-story theme, or both.
US10261571B2
Example implementations relate to backup power supply support. For example, a backup power supply support system can include a shared backup power supply controlled by a backup power control module and a support switch coupled to the shared backup power supply. The support switch enables a transition from a primary power supply to the shared backup power supply and the support switch includes system firmware. The system firmware detects a primary power supply compromise, isolates a hardware switch from the shared backup power supply, enables the hardware switch, and transitions to the shared backup power supply.
US10261569B2
Aspects disclosed in the detailed description include scheduled universal serial bus (USB) low-power operations. In this regard, in one aspect, a USB host controller determines a low-power operation schedule for a USB client device. The low-power operation schedule comprises one or more scheduled low-power operation periods, each corresponding to a respective entry time and a respective exit time. The USB host controller communicates the low-power operation schedule to the USB client device using one or more USB standard packets. By scheduling the one or more scheduled low-power operation periods with respective entry and exit times, the USB host controller or the USB client controller is able to start and end the one or more scheduled low-power operation periods without incurring additional signaling, thus improving efficiency of the USB low-power operation. Further, by communicating the low-power operation schedule using USB standard packets, it is possible to preserve compatibility with USB standards.
US10261567B2
Disclosed herein are intelligent electronic devices configured for monitoring an electric power delivery system and for determining a plurality of configuration settings based on measurements from the electric power delivery system. An IED may identify a configuration event, obtain a plurality of electrical parameters associated with the configuration event, determine a plurality of configuration parameters from the electrical parameters, determine a plurality of configuration settings based on the configuration parameters, and apply the settings to the IED. The IED may also be configured to initiate the configuration event by opening a single pole of a multi-phase power line.
US10261562B2
Sleeping device(s) may be changed from a sleeping state to an awake state using a multicast packet that sent to a multicast address of a multicast wake-up group. The packet may include an identifier for one or more particular device(s) in the multicast group, which, when received by the device(s), causes the device(s) to wake up.
US10261561B2
A voltage droop mitigation system, that includes a first processor core that executes computer executable components stored in a memory. A time-based sensor component generates digital data representing voltage values associated with a power supply. A filtering component digitally conditions the generated digital data, and an analysis component analyzes the conditioned data and determines slope of the power supply voltage and employs counters to determine rate of data change over time; and if the slope is negative and exceeds a first pre-determined value for a pre-determined time period. The system implements one or more voltage droop-reduction techniques at the first processor core; and the first processor core transmits at least one of the following types of information: its voltage value, slope information or decision to apply droop reduction to one or more other cores.
US10261558B2
An example modular computing system may include a host unit. The host unit may include a port that includes a data bus and a power delivery bus. The system may further include a controller to populate a message delivery routing table. The message delivery routing table may include a first address for a first module directly connected to the host unit by the port and a second address for a second module indirectly connected to the host unit by the first module. The controller is to communicate with the second module across the power delivery bus based upon the message delivery routing table.
US10261556B2
Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for controlling power delivery in a power sourcing equipment. In embodiments, a power sourcing equipment that has a higher demand for power that it can provide supplies power according to priorities assigned to the attached devices. In embodiments, the power sourcing equipment may also receive identifying information from a device connected to the port and determines whether the device is a trusted device according to a security policy. If the device is not a trusted device, the power sourcing equipment may not provide any power to the device regardless of whether power is available.
US10261548B2
A hinge module includes a first motion component, a second motion component, a third motion component, a sliding member, an elastic member and an axle. The first and second motion components are pivoted to the axle, the third motion component is fixed to the axle, the sliding member is slidably disposed on the axle, and the elastic member is connected between the sliding member and the axle. When the second motion component rotates from a first operation state to a second operation state, the second motion component props against the axle to drive the third motion component and the sliding member to rotate, and the sliding member resists elastic force of the elastic member and moves along the axle. At the moment that the second motion component continues rotating, the sliding member is rotated by elastic force of the elastic member to drive the third motion member to rotate.
US10261538B2
A standard voltage circuit includes an operational amplifier, first and second diodes, a resistance element, and a dummy leak generation circuit. The first diode is electrically connected to a first node of a first line which is disposed on an output terminal side of the operation amplifier and is electrically connected to a first input terminal of the operation amplifier through the first node. The second diode is electrically inserted connected to a second node of a second line which is disposed on the output terminal side of the operation amplifier and is electrically connected to a second input terminal of the operation amplifier through the second node. The resistance element is electrically connected to the second node in series with the second diode. The dummy leak generation circuit is electrically connected to one of the first line and the second line.
US10261532B1
A load drive circuit is configured to control driving of an electric load that is a direct current load, and includes a controller, a switching element, and a current detection portion. The controller generates and outputs a control signal for controlling a flowing state of a load current that flows to the electric load. The switching element switches flowing and interrupting of the load current based on the control signal. The current detection portion detects the load current. The controller includes a type determination portion and a control signal output portion. The type determination portion determines a type of the electric load based on the load current detected by the current detection portion. The control signal output portion generates and outputs the control signal based on the type determined by the type determination portion.
US10261530B2
The invention relates to a control apparatus (3) for an HVAC system (5), wherein the control apparatus (3) has a communication module (33) for communicating with one or more components of the HVAC system (5). The control apparatus comprises a passive NFC transponder (34), which is set up to receive and store a unique identifier (341) of each of the one or more components from a mobile service apparatus (2) before a power supply for the control apparatus (3) is switched on, and a control module (35) which is set up to access stored identifiers (341) after a power supply for the control apparatus (3) has been switched on and to transmit control signals to components determined by the identifiers via the communication module (33). The invention also relates to a mobile service apparatus (2) and to components in the form of drives (1), sensor apparatuses, regulators, operating devices and/or communication devices of the HVAC system (5).
US10261524B2
The disclosure relates to monitoring systems and methods. A first aspect relates to a monitoring system for use when loading fluid from a source tank to a destination tank via a loader apparatus, the monitoring system having: a first input for coupling to the source tank in order to receive a source tank input signal; a second input for coupling to the destination tank in order to receive a destination tank input signal; a sensor input for receiving a sensor signal from a fill level sensor in the destination tank; circuitry configured to determine: a first status of an electrical continuity between the loader apparatus and the source tank in accordance with the source tank input signal, a second status of an electrical continuity between the loader apparatus and the destination tank in accordance with the destination tank input signal, and a fill level status in accordance with the sensor signal; and a single user interface for displaying the first status, second status and fill level status.
US10261521B2
Disclosed is a processing apparatus including a chamber, at least one nozzle, a measuring unit, an opening/closing unit, and a controller. The chamber accommodates a workpiece therein. The nozzle is provided in the chamber to supply a processing fluid toward the workpiece. The measuring unit measures a supply flow rate of the processing fluid supplied to the nozzle. The opening/closing unit performs opening/closing of a flow path of the processing fluid to be supplied to the nozzle. The controller outputs opening and closing operation signals at a preset timing. After outputting the opening operation signal, the controller calculates an integrated amount of the processing fluid based on a measurement result of the measuring unit, and performs an output timing change processing to change a timing of outputting the opening or closing operation signal from the preset timing based on the calculated integrated amount.
US10261519B2
A stage arrangement system is configured to arrange stage elements on a stage where a performance is to take place. The stage arrangement system is configured to move the stage elements to reflect arrangement data that reflects desired positions and orientations for each stage element. The stage arrangement system first localizes one or more stage elements by determining the position and orientation associated with each such element. Then, the stage arrangement system repositions and/or reorients each stage element to comply with the arrangement data. Each stage element may indicate position and/or orientation changes to stagehands or manual laborers, who then move each element accordingly. Alternatively, each stage element may autonomously move in order to implement the position and/or orientation changes.
US10261515B2
This disclosure relates generally to controlling navigation of a vehicle and more particularly to a system and method for controlling the navigation of the vehicle based on a distance between the vehicle and an obstruction.A system for controlling navigation of a vehicle is disclosed. The system comprises a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory stores processor instructions, which, on execution, causes the processor to generate an embedded image comprising a pre-generated reference object image and an obstruction image. The processor further determines a reference-obstruction distance based on the embedded image, wherein the reference-obstruction distance is a distance between a reference object and an obstruction. The processor further determines a distance between the vehicle and the obstruction based on the reference-obstruction distance. The processor further controls navigation of the vehicle based on the distance between the vehicle and the obstruction.
US10261503B2
A building control and management system including an automation controller and a plurality of peripheral devices configured to perform building control-management system functions. The automation controller and peripheral devices communicate wirelessly and the peripheral devices may be enabled and disabled as wireless repeaters in a network formed by the automation controller and the peripheral devices. The automation controller may monitor the communication traffic levels in the wireless network and enable or disable peripheral devices as wireless repeaters to increase or decrease the communication traffic in the network.
US10261481B2
This control device is configured to, based on a premise that an operating condition of a plant is a specific operating condition that is defined in advance, search for a virtual current value of a controlled variable for ensuring that a specific state quantity does not conflict with a constraint in the future using a prediction model, set the virtual current value which was found by the search to a target value of the controlled variable, and determine a manipulated variable of the plant so that an actual current value of the controlled variable approaches the target value. Due to this configuration, even if the operating condition of the plant suddenly changes to the specific operating condition, the controlled variable of the plant can be adjusted in advance so that the specific state quantity in the specific operating condition does not conflict with the constraint.
US10261472B2
The invention relates to a striking mechanism, comprising striking hammers, gongs, each being arranged to produce a sound under the action of a hammer associated therewith, actuators for actuating the associated hammer, a striking control device, and at least one striking drive device arranged to engage with the control device. The invention further comprises at least one mechanism for striking multiples of n hours, n≥2, kinematically connected to said striking drive device, said mechanism for striking multiples of n hours being arranged to actuate the hammers to strike the multiples of groups of n hours according to a specific striking when said control device has been actuated.
US10261463B2
An image forming apparatus includes a mounting unit configured to mount a cartridge including a developing member by moving the cartridge in the insertion direction, and a pressing member having a first pressing portion configured to press the cartridge mounted on the mounting unit to separate the developing member from a photosensitive member. The pressing member has a second pressing portion configured to press the cartridge mounted on the mounting unit to bring the developing member into contact with the photosensitive member, and the first pressing portion and the second pressing portion integrally moves with the movement of the pressing member. The image forming apparatus also includes an elastic member configured to press the pressing member so that the second pressing portion presses the cartridge.
US10261456B2
A method for automated process control of a printing machine system by using a computer includes the steps of applying a set of rules including process parameters to be examined by the computer to detect whether and when process control is required. The values of the process parameters are made available to the computer by respective responsible components of the printing machine system. The computer is used to implement process control and the computer is used to evaluate process control results. The computer is used to implement actions that are deemed necessary based on the evaluation of the results and the computer is used to save the established data of the implemented process control.
US10261453B2
A printing system that includes a print unit capable of printing at a first printing speed and a second printing speed that is faster than the first printing speed includes a storage unit that stores a number of sheets for which the printing can be executed at the second printing speed, and a display unit that displays a screen for designation of the second printing speed by a user, and that displays a remaining number of sheets for which the printing can be executed at the second printing speed, based on the number of sheets stored in the storage unit. Based on the designation, the print unit can execute the printing for the print job at the second printing speed, and an update unit updates the stored number of sheets by reducing the number of sheets stored by a number of sheets used for the printing at the second printing speed.
US10261450B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a plurality of image bearers, an endless belt, a contact and separation mechanism to generate a first trajectory and a second trajectory of the endless belt, a sensor to detect an object on a surface of the endless belt, and a positioning mechanism to enable the sensor to detect the object in the first trajectory and the second trajectory of the endless belt. The positioning mechanism includes a stay to support the sensor, a first bracket, a second bracket, a first positioning portion attached to the apparatus body to position the sensor in a direction of rotation of the first bracket and the second bracket at a time of the first trajectory, and a second positioning portion attached to the second bracket to position the sensor in the direction of rotation of the first bracket at a time of the second trajectory.
US10261445B2
Examples of printing devices are described. Such printing devices may include an end cap having an engaging portion and a hook portion, a roller, and a latch unit to hold the roller in contact with the end cap when the latch unit is in a closed position. The latch unit may include a latch having a protrusion to engage with the engaging portion of the end cap, and a spring attached to the end cap and to the latch. In one example, the hook portion of the end cap is to hold the latch in a closed position in counteraction to a force provided by the spring under a tension.
US10261440B2
A cartridge for use with an image forming apparatus. The cartridge includes a container configured for storing a volume of particulate image forming material and a dispensing port in communication with the container. The dispensing port includes a perimeter lip extending around a delivery passage. A dispensing spindle is rotatable relative to at least the dispensing port. The dispensing spindle includes a spindle core a plurality of arms extending from the spindle core. Each of the arms includes a sweeping face configured to sweep across the perimeter lip to convey a quantity of the particulate image forming material to the dispensing port.
US10261437B2
Liquid electrophotography apparatus including a plurality of members defining a flow path for a printing liquid. At least a first member of the plurality of members is arranged to generate an electric field. The liquid electrophotography apparatus also includes a first insulation layer arranged around at least a portion of a surface of the first member to prevent electrical discharge from the printing liquid.
US10261427B2
Disclosed are a method, computer program and associated apparatuses for measuring a parameter of a lithographic process. The method comprising the steps of: obtaining first measurements comprising measurements of structural asymmetry relating to a plurality of first structures, each of said plurality of measurements of structural asymmetry corresponding to a different measurement combination of measurement radiation and a value for at least a first parameter; obtaining a plurality of second measurements of target asymmetry relating to a plurality of targets, each of said plurality of measurements of target asymmetry corresponding to one of said different measurement combinations, determining a relationship function describing the relationship between said first measurements and said second measurements, for each of said measurement combinations; determining, from said relationship function, a corrected overlay value, said corrected overlay value being corrected for structural contribution due to structural asymmetry in at least said first structure.
US10261423B2
A method of determining a configuration of a projection system for a lithographic apparatus, wherein manipulators of the projection system manipulate optical elements so as to adjust its optical properties, the method comprising: receiving dependencies of the optical properties of the projection system on a configuration of the manipulators, receiving a plurality of constraints of the manipulators, formulating a cost function, wherein the cost function represents a difference between the optical properties of the projection system for a given configuration of the manipulators and desired optical properties, wherein the cost function is formulated using the dependency of the optical properties on the configuration of the manipulators, scaling the cost function into a scaled variable space, wherein the scaling is performed by using the plurality of constraints and finding a solution configuration of the manipulators which substantially minimizes the scaled cost function subject to satisfying the plurality of constraints.
US10261416B2
A resist composition which generates an acid upon exposure and whose solubility in a developing solution changes under the action of an acid, including a base material including a copolymer having a structural unit represented by general formula (a9-1) or a structural unit represented by general formula (a9-2), 30 mol % or more of a structural unit represented by general formula (a10-1) and 45 mol % or more of a structural unit having an acid-decomposable group which increases a polarity under the action of an acid. In each formula, Rs is a hydrogen atom or the like; Ya91 and YaX1 are a single bond or a divalent linking group; R91 is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or the like; R92 is an oxygen atom or the like; j and nax1 are integers of 1 to 3; Wax1 is a (nax1+1)-valent aromatic hydrocarbon group.
US10261411B2
A pellicle is contaminated with dust or the like for various reasons during the production thereof. Especially, there is a problem that the risk that the dust or the like is attached is high during trimming or various other processes performed on a pellicle film. The present invention provides a method for producing a pellicle for EUV that decreases the attachment of dust or the like. A method for producing a pellicle includes forming a pellicle film on a substrate; trimming the substrate; and removing at least a part of the substrate after trimming the substrate. Before the part of the substrate is removed, at least particles attached to a surface of the pellicle film are removed.
US10261409B2
A mask blank, which is capable of being formed with high transfer accuracy when a hard mask film pattern is used as a mask, and even when the mask blank includes a chromium-based light shielding film. A light-semitransmissive film, a light shielding film, and a hard mask film are laminated in the stated order on a transparent substrate. The light-semitransmissive film contains silicon, and the hard mask film contains any one or both of silicon and tantalum. The light shielding film has a laminate structure of a lower layer and an upper layer, and contains chromium. The upper layer has a content of chromium of 65 at % or more, and a content of oxygen of less than 20 at %, and the lower layer has a content of chromium of less than 60 at %, and a content of oxygen of 20 at % or more.
US10261400B2
An optical device includes a light modulation device disposed on an optical axis of incident light, and a holding section configured to hold the light modulation device. The holding section includes an inflow part to which a liquid supplied from an outside of the holding section inflows, a flow channel forming part disposed along a circumferential edge of the light modulation device so as to have an annular shape, and having a flow channel through which the liquid flowed from the inflow part circulates, and an outflow part from which the liquid having flowed through the flow channel outflows to the outside of the holding section. At least one of an inside of the inflow part and an inside of the flow channel is provided with at least one projection.
US10261393B2
A method for controlling an infrared illuminator and a related image-recording device are provided. The method for controlling an infrared illuminator includes: turning on the infrared illuminator in a filming environment to provide light; filtering out light-reflection interference caused by the light to obtain an actual visible illuminance value; and controlling on and off states of the infrared illuminator based on the actual visible illuminance value.
US10261389B2
An integrated optical beam steering device includes a planar dielectric lens that collimates beams from different inputs in different directions within the lens plane. It also includes an output coupler, such as a grating or photonic crystal, that guides the collimated beams in different directions out of the lens plane. A switch matrix controls which input port is illuminated and hence the in-plane propagation direction of the collimated beam. And a tunable light source changes the wavelength to control the angle at which the collimated beam leaves the plane of the substrate. The device is very efficient, in part because the input port (and thus in-plane propagation direction) can be changed by actuating only log2 N of the N switches in the switch matrix. It can also be much simpler, smaller, and cheaper because it needs fewer control lines than a conventional optical phased array with the same resolution.
US10261388B2
A device includes a waveguide grating out-coupler, and a tunable uniform phase shifter communicating with the waveguide grating out-coupler. The tunable uniform phase shifter steers a Hat phase front along a first angle in a first plane. Optionally, the waveguide grating out-coupler includes a modulated refractive index and a physical grating period. The tunable uniform phase shifter controls the refractive index, thereby controlling an effective grating period. The grating period relates to die modulated refractive index, and the physical grating period. Optionally, the tunable uniform phase shifter includes a first thermo-optic phase shifter, a first electro-optic phase shifter, or a first micro-electro-mechanical system index perturbation phase shifter. Optionally, the tunable linear gradient phase shifter communicates with the waveguide grating out-coupler and steers a beam along the flat phase front along a second angle in a second plane, which is perpendicular to the first plane.
US10261386B2
Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a display device and a display terminal. The display device includes a light emitting panel and at least one optical modulation unit provided on a light exit side of the light emitting panel, a grating layer being provided in the light emitting panel, or between the light emitting panel and the optical modulation unit, wherein the optical modulation unit is configured to modulate incident light to exit at a certain preset angle, and the grating layer is configured to parallelize exit directions of incident light.
US10261375B2
Provided are an array substrate and driving method thereof, and a display apparatus. The array substrate comprises multiple storage electrode lines (1) each of which comprises at least two storage electrode signal input terminals (11). The array substrate can improve the driving capability of the storage electrode signals on the storage electrode lines (1).
US10261366B2
In order to avoid generation of black unevenness caused by the water intrusion into a liquid crystal display device, there is to provide a liquid crystal display device including a display area and a terminal portion, in which a TFT substrate with an organic passivation film formed and an opposite substrate are adhered to each other by a seal portion and a liquid crystal is enclosed there, wherein in the seal portion of the TFT substrate, a groove-shaped through-hole is formed in the organic passivation film to surround the display area, a water absorption layer formed of the same material in the same process as that of the organic passivation film is formed within the groove-shaped, through-hole, and the water absorption layer is not covered with the inorganic insulating film.
US10261351B2
An alignment apparatus includes a base, an alignment roller and a mounting frame, the alignment roller being attached with an alignment rubbing cloth, the mounting frame having two mounting portions for mounting one of two ends of alignment roller, respectively. The alignment apparatus further includes: at least one laser emitting unit disposed on a mounting portion where one end of alignment roller is located, light rays emitted from each laser emitting unit being distant from axis of alignment roller by preset distance; at least one laser blocking unit corresponding to at least one laser emitting unit, respectively, and disposed on a mounting portion where the other end of alignment roller is located; a controller in a signal connection with each laser emitting unit and configured for controlling a part or all of the laser emitting units to be activated while alignment roller is performing rubbing alignment on a surface of the substrate.
US10261348B2
A display device according to the present disclosure may be provided with a light path conversion protrusion on a lower surface of a cover window to suppress external light even for light incident at a side viewing angle, thereby improving contrast and visibility.According to the present disclosure, side-view angle incident light may be converted into the same incident light as that of vertical incident light, thereby providing an effect capable of preventing the reflection of incident light from a viewing angle as well as the vertical incident light.
US10261347B2
A technique facilitates control over optical transmittance and, in some applications, the technique may be carried out without using moving mechanical parts. A system may comprise a light source and an optical fiber line, e.g. a plurality of optical fiber lines, in optical communication with the light source. An electrochromic device is positioned along each optical fiber line and may be selectively operated via electrical inputs to control optical transmittance along the corresponding optical fiber line. When plural optical fiber lines are employed, the corresponding plurality of electrochromic devices may be operated to also provide control over optical path selection. In fluid analysis operations, at least one sample chamber for receiving fluid samples may be positioned along a corresponding optical fiber line to enable analysis of light directed into the fluid sample as controlled by the corresponding electrochromic device.
US10261339B2
Embodiments of a skin contact reduction device that is substantially spherically shaped and attaches to the temple portion of facial equipment that goes over the ear or alongside the wearer's face. The device is directionally positioned with a larger opening pointing towards the front of the wearer's face and a smaller opening towards the rear. Both the larger front opening and interior of the device are significantly larger than the width of the temple portion of the facial equipment and therefore the device does not compress or stiffen when installed. The smaller rear opening of the device resiliently grips the temple portion of the facial equipment. Once attached, the device is adjusted by the wearer to a preferred position to keep a wearer's equipment on their face while minimizing contact and pressure between the temple or ear portion of the equipment frame and the wearer's head.
US10261334B2
A lens holding frame includes: a frame portion, a plate-shaped portion, holding portions, and auxiliary holding portions. The frame portion has a tubular shape extending along a reference axis. The plate-shaped portion overhangs inward from an inner circumferential surface of the frame portion. The holding portions protrude at sites of at least three places, which are away from each other in a circumferential direction around the reference axis on a surface of the plate-shaped portion, in a direction along the reference axis and are located on an abutting plane. The auxiliary holding portions protrude from a surface of the plate-shaped portion up to heights at which the auxiliary holding portions do not reach the abutting plane in the same direction as the holding portions.
US10261301B2
Disclosed is a photographing control device, microscope and program that can simply confirm whether time lapse photography is being executed normally or not. A photographing control unit may control an operation of each apparatus of the microscope that performs processing related to the time lapse photography, in an execution mode for executing the time lapse photography, and a test mode for confirming an operation of the time lapse photography before the execution mode. The photographing control unit may also control the operation of each apparatus of the microscope in the execution mode according to information acquired in the test mode.
US10261300B2
The invention relates to a light microscope comprising a polychromatic light source for emitting illumination light in the direction of a sample, focussing means for focussing illumination light onto the sample, wherein the focussing means, for generating a depth resolution, have a longitudinal chromatic aberration, and a detection device, which comprises a two-dimensional array of detector elements, for detecting sample light coming from the sample. According to the invention, the light microscope is characterized in that, for detecting both confocal portions and non-confocal portions of the sample light, a beam path from the sample to the detection device is free of elements for completely masking out non-confocal portions. In addition, the invention relates to a method for image recording using a light microscope.
US10261299B2
Provided is an image-acquisition apparatus including: a scanning portion that scans illumination light emitted from a light source; an optical system that focuses the scanned illumination light on a sample, while collecting signal light beams generated at the individual scanning positions on the sample; a detector that detects the collected signal light beams and that generates detection signals thereof; a signal controller that is configured to generate periodic signals that are repeated at a predetermined period; a light controller that is configured to temporally control a position or an intensity of the illumination light in accordance with the generated periodic signals; and a computer that is configured to process, in accordance with the generated periodic signals, the detection signals generated, wherein the computer is provided with a frequency shifter for shifting frequencies of the detection signals, and an integrator that integrates the shifted detection signals at an integration time.
US10261292B2
A variable magnification optical system comprises, in order from an object side, a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power, and a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power. The first lens group (G1) comprises a front group (G11) having negative refractive power and a rear group (G12) having positive refractive power. Focusing is carried out by moving the front group (G11). The first lens group (G1), the second lens group (G2) or at least a portion of the third lens group (G3) is moved in a direction having a directional component perpendicular to the optical axis as a vibration reduction lens group.
US10261285B2
The present invention aims to provide a lens driving device capable of realizing the reduction of power consumption by improving the driving efficiency of an electromagnetic drive mechanism. The lens driving device includes: one or mores drive coils having one or more forward path sides and one or more return path sides, and drive magnets each having a forward path side magnet plate and a return path side magnet plate. The magnetization directions of the forward path side magnet plate and the return path side magnet plate of each drive magnets define an angle which is expanded towards the oppositely arranged one or more drive coils. The magnetic induction intensity applied to the drive coils from the drive magnets can be increased and improved, and thus powerful lorentz force can be effectively generated by the drive coils after being electrified.
US10261282B2
An imaging element mounting substrate may include an insulating substrate and a metal substrate. The insulating substrate may include a first mounting region for mounting an imaging element on a top surface, and a second mounting region located a distance away from the first mounting region for mounting one or more electronic components. The insulating substrate may include a fixed region for securing a lens housing surrounding the first mounting region. A metal substrate may be bonded to a bottom surface of the insulating substrate. A third mounting region located between the first mounting region and the second mounting region in the fixed region of the insulating substrate may be positioned with respect to the center of the insulating substrate in a plan view. The metal substrate may be located to overlap with the third mounting region and bestride the first mounting region and the second mounting region.
US10261280B1
An optical fiber distribution box includes a base, a seat, an input tube and output tubes. The seat includes a standing wall, two protruding ribs and two holes. The standing wall is disposed behind and connected to the base and has a positioning hole formed therethrough along a front-to-rear direction. The protruding ribs rearwardly extend from the standing wall, are opposite along a left-to-right direction, and respectively formed with two through holes for extension of a binding belt. The holes extend through the standing wall and respectively through the protruding ribs and flank the positioning hole.
US10261277B2
An optical device for illuminating the vasculature of a mammal using ultraviolet, visible, and/or infrared light is described. The optical device includes an optical fiber encased in a biocompatible sheath, and is dimensioned to lie within an intravascular catheter. When placed within a vascular space and coupled with a suitable light source the optical device illuminates the vascular space and its contents. The faces of the optical fiber are configured to optimize the capture of ultraviolet, visible, and/or infrared light from a light source without the use of active optics.
US10261266B2
The disclosure relates to a fiber optic connectors and sub-assemblies having a retention body for connectorizing a fiber optic cable along with fiber optic connectors and methods'therefor. In one embodiment, the sub-assembly comprises a cable lock comprises a cable channel for receiving a fiber optic cable therethrough, and at least one strength member engagement surface. The retention body comprises an optical fiber channel for receiving an end portion of at least one optical fiber of the fiber optic cable therethrough, and at least one strength member engagement surface. The strength member engagement surfaces of the cable lock and the retention body are configured to cooperate with each other to receive and retain at least one strength member of the fiber optic cable. Other fiber optic connector sub-assemblies are also disclosed.
US10261263B2
An optical power transfer system for launching a spacecraft into low Earth orbit comprising a ground-based laser power generation station and a launch vehicle optically connected thereto. The generation station is capable of generating high optical power in the range of kilowatts to tens of megawatts and transferring the optical power generated to a launch vehicle to generate thrust. The generation station comprises a high power source, a chilling station, a laser, optical fiber, and at least one coupler. The launch vehicle comprises an actively cooled fiber spooler mounted thereon with a length of fiber for transmission of high optical energy circumscribing at least part thereof. The launch vehicle also contains a working fluid and fluid reservoir, a thruster assembly, an air intake and a storage chamber. In alternative embodiments, the launch vehicle may contain a beam switch assembly, multiple fiber spoolers and multiple thruster assemblies wherein at least one thruster assembly is gimbaled.
US10261262B2
According to one example, the present application discloses an optical circuit comprising a grating to receive input light of mixed polarizations and output light of a same polarization to a first waveguide and a second waveguide. The first waveguide and second waveguide are optically coupled to a plurality of resonators that are coupled to a plurality of gratings that are to output light of mixed polarizations.
US10261257B2
A waveguide includes a segment with a substantially uniform cure profile and related methods and systems for making and using the same. The waveguide is formed by modifying a laser beam used to write the waveguide to provide a substantially uniform cure profile in the waveguide. A marker characteristic of laser writing may be present in the waveguide. A method or system modifies an intensity profile or a shape profile of a laser beam to proactively compensate for exposure convolution based on the characteristics of the laser beam spot profile. A convolution compensator is positioned in the path of the laser beam to modify the beam spot profile during writing to form the one or more segments of the waveguide in a photo-curable layer.
US10261250B2
An optical device comprising a planar waveguide and a quantum emitter is presented. The planar waveguide comprises a longitudinal extending guiding region with a first side and a second side. A first nanostructure is arranged on the first side of the guiding region, and a second nanostructure is arranged on the second side of the guiding region. The planar waveguide includes a first longitudinal region where the first nanostructure and the second nanostructure are arranged substantially glide-plane symmetric about the guiding region of the planar waveguide, and the quantum emitter is coupled to the first longitudinal region of the planar waveguide.
US10261247B2
Optical waveguide cores having refractive index profiles that vary angularly about a propagation axis of the core can provide single-mode operation with larger core diameters than conventional waveguides. In one representative embodiment, an optical waveguide comprises a core that extends along a propagation axis and has a refractive index profile that varies angularly about the propagation axis. The optical waveguide can also comprise a cladding disposed about the core and extending along the propagation axis. The refractive index profile of the core can vary angularly along a length of the propagation axis.
US10261246B2
A higher-order mode (HOM) fiber is configured as a polarization-maintaining fiber by including a pair of stress rods at a location within the cladding layer that provides for a sufficient degree of birefringence without unduly comprising the spatial mode profile of the propagating higher-order modes. Long-period gratings are used as mode couplers at the input and output of the PM-HOM fiber, where the gratings are formed by exposing areas of the core region orthogonal to the position of the stress rods. The diameter of the stress rods (D) and displacement of the rods from the center of the core region (R1) are controlled to yield a configuration with an acceptable birefringence and polarization extinction ratio (PER) within the HOM fiber, even in situations where the fiber is bent (a bend radius less than 50 cm).
US10261243B2
Optical sensors having one or more soluble coatings thereon are used to detect the presence of a degrading fluid. In a generalized embodiment, the fiber optic sensor includes a fiber optic cable having two strain sensor positioned therein. A soluble layer is positioned over one of the strain sensor. Due to the presence of the soluble layer, the covered strain sensor optically responds differently than the other strain sensor to changes in pressure, strain and temperature. In the presence of a degrading fluid, the soluble layer degrades and ultimately dissolves, thereby changing the optical response of the previously covered strain sensor. When the soluble layer is dissolved, the strain induced by the soluble layer relaxes, thus causing a wavelength shift in the signal of the grating. By monitoring the wavelength shifts of both strain sensors, the fiber optic sensor acts as a detector for the presence of the degrading fluid.
US10261241B2
An illuminated window having an illuminate film, controller device, and wiring connection in between two pieces of glass forming the window. The window displays at least one of illuminated letters and numbers in order to provide information to a viewer.
US10261238B2
The present disclosure provides a backlight source and a display device. The backlight source includes a back plate, a light bar and a rubber strip. The back plate is made of a metal material and includes a base, one first side portion and three second side portions, wherein the first side portion and the three second side portions are connected to the base and arranged at four sides of the base respectively. The first side portion includes a parallel part which is parallel to the base and a connection part which connects the parallel part to the base. The light bar is fixed on the parallel part. The rubber strip is fixed on at least one of the second side portions. An upper surface of the rubber strip and a surface of the parallel part form a support surface.
US10261230B2
LED lighting devices are provided that include two optical waveguides and at least one LED in an intermediate region between end faces of the optical waveguides so that radiation from the LED is coupled into the optical waveguides through the end faces. A de-coupler is on outer circumferential surface regions of each of the two separate optical waveguides. The de-coupler reflects the radiation guided in the optical waveguides so that the radiation passes through the optical waveguides and is coupled out of the optical waveguides laterally. The intermediate region has a length that is selected so that a brightness difference, measured perpendicular to an axis of the optical waveguides in the center of the intermediate region, at a distance of 10 mm perpendicular to the axis of the optical waveguides is at most 25% based on a maximum value of brightness along the axis of the optical waveguides.
US10261224B2
An optical element includes a transmission diffraction portion, which reflective portions and transmissive portions. The reflective portions are arranged at equal intervals along a given axis. Each reflective portion reflects light included in the visible light. The light reflected by the reflective portions forms a reflection image. The transmissive portions transmit the visible light. Each transmissive portion is sandwiched by two corresponding reflective portions that are adjacent to each other along the given axis. At least part of each reflective portion forms the reflection image by rendering a reflection angle of the light reflected by the reflective portions different from an angle of light incident on the reflective portions. The transmission diffraction portion forms diffracted images having different colors with diffracted light that is produced by diffracting light transmitted through the transmissive portions in a predetermined direction.
US10261215B2
Described herein are implementations of various technologies for a method. The method may receive seismic attributes regarding a region of interest in a subsurface of the earth. The method may receive electrical attributes regarding the region of interest. The method may receive a selection of a rock physics model for the region of interest. The method may calculate values of rock parameters for the selected rock physics model using a nonlinear relation that links cross-properties between the seismic attributes and the electrical attributes for the region of interest. The method may determine the presence of hydrocarbon deposits in the region of interest using the calculated values.
US10261213B2
A radiation detector useable in a downhole tool configured to be positioned in a borehole includes a printed circuit board and at least one detector element coupled to the printed circuit board. The at least one detector element includes a semiconductor direct conversion material for directly converting gamma rays into electrical signals. The semiconductor direct conversion material includes a cathode surface and an anode surface. In addition, the at least one detector element includes a cathode operatively connected to the cathode surface, and an anode operatively coupled to the anode surface. The radiation detector also includes a voltage source coupled to the printed circuit board and configured to provide a voltage to the at least one detector element.
US10261207B2
A seismic noise mitigation method. The method comprises identifying a wavenumber of a component in a residual wavenumber spectrum having a largest norm based on a preconditioned residual wavenumber spectrum. A contribution to the residual wavenumber spectrum from the identified wavenumber component, is subtracted therefrom. A next residual wavenumber spectrum is based thereon and a relative residual computed based on that. The identifying, subtracting and calculating are repeated until a first to occur termination condition selected from the group consisting of: a current relative residual is less than a threshold residual; a difference between the current relative residual and a smallest relative residual exceeds product of the smallest relative residual and a preselected threshold factor; and a difference between a current number of iterations and a number of iterations corresponding to a currently encountered smallest relative residual encountered exceeds a preselected threshold number of iterations.
US10261192B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for radionavigation for swimmers are described. A mobile device configured to estimate a location using radio frequency signals can estimate a position of the swimmer when the mobile device is worn on a limb of the swimmer and periodically submerged. The mobile device can supply auxiliary information to a radionavigation subsystem to correct a navigation solution affected by limb motion of the swimmer and affected by the periodic submersion of the mobile device.
US10261183B2
A system to determine a position of one or more objects includes a transmitter to emit a beam of photons to sequentially illuminate regions of one or more objects; multiple cameras that are spaced-apart with each camera having an array of pixels to detect photons; and one or more processor devices that execute stored instructions to perform actions of a method, including: directing the transmitter to sequentially illuminate regions of one or more objects with the beam of photons; for each of the regions, receiving, from the cameras, an array position of each pixel that detected photons of the beam reflected or scattered by the region of the one or more objects; and, for each of the regions detected by the cameras, determining a position of the regions using the received array positions of the pixels that detected the photons of the beam reflected or scattered by that region.
US10261175B2
A ranging apparatus includes a first array with first light sensitive detectors configured to receive light which has been reflected by an object and generate an output. A second array, spaced apart from the first array by a spacing distance, is further included, the second array having second light sensitive detectors. The second array is configurable to either receive light which has been reflected by the object or to be a reference array and generate an output. A processor operates to determine a distance to the object in response to the outputs from the first and the second arrays.
US10261173B2
A method of processing FMCW radar signal retrieves a configuring parameter set (120) corresponding to a working environment or a detected material, receives a reflection time-domain signal, executes a time-domain-to-frequency-domain converting process to the reflection time-domain signal for obtaining a reflection frequency-domain signal, executes the corresponded process on the reflection frequency-domain signal according to the configuring parameter set (120), and analyzes the processed reflection frequency-domain signal and generates a detecting result. The present disclosed example can effectively reduce the time of the development and the cost of manufacture via executing the corresponded process according to the configuring parameter set (120) corresponding to the working environment or the detected material.
US10261168B1
The present disclosure generally relates to localization and, more particularly, to remote localization and radio-frequency identification using a combination of structural and antenna mode scattering responses. A method and system include receiving location data of an object from a plurality of transmitter-reader pairs (TRPs); generating a plurality of first ellipses representing the received location data; determining blocking likelihoods at points of intersection between the plurality of first ellipses; generating additional ellipses representing additional location data received from additional TRPs; and updating the blocking likelihoods at points of intersection between the plurality of first ellipses and the additional ellipses.
US10261156B2
In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for determining diffusion-weighted image data, first raw data are acquired with a first diffusion weighting, and the first raw data are assigned to a first k-space matrix. Second raw data are acquired with a second diffusion weighting, and the second raw data are assigned to a second k-space matrix. The first k-space matrix and the second k-space matrix are different from one another at at least one position. The diffusion-weighted image data are determined in a processor based on the first raw data and the second raw data.
US10261153B2
A magnetic resonance (MR) method and apparatus use simultaneous multislice imaging, with different excitations being effective for different slices in respective iterations of a single scanning sequence, in order to acquire raw MR data from different multiple slices, with respectively different contrasts, in the single scanning sequence. Single band excitation of a first slice among the multiple slices takes place in a first iteration of the single scanning sequence, with multi-band excitation then occurring for all of the multiple slices. Raw data are then acquired from the first slice, and at least one other slice among the multiple slices, that respectively exhibit different contrasts due to only the first slice being affected by the single band excitation. In a second iteration of the single scanning sequence, another slice is excited with single band excitation, and the first slice is among the multiple slices excited with multi-band excitation. Raw data are then acquired from the first slice and at least one other slice among the multiple slices that have the respective contrasts swapped in comparison to the first iteration.
US10261148B2
The MRI apparatus includes a main magnet forming a static magnetic field in a bore, and a gradient coil assembly which forms a magnetic field gradient in the static magnetic field and includes a plurality of shim trays arranged therein at a predefined interval and at least one first shim token provided between the shim trays.
US10261146B2
A method of reducing artifacts produced during Fast Spin Echo measurements made using permanent magnet NMR instruments. The method includes applying encoding gradients that do not switch signs throughout the experiment. Prior to the 90° RF pulse, a strong RM gradient pulse is given to produce a dominant and constant residual magnetization. The encoding is done through the combination of encoding gradients with the aid of the 180° RF pulses of the echo train. A first constant encoding gradient is given before the first 180 pulse. Then two variable encoding gradients are provided after each 180 pulse; one applied prior to and one applied subsequent to each acquisition in the echo train.
US10261142B2
A magnetic resonance imaging system (10) includes a scanner unit (12) including a main magnet with a magnet bore (16), and a bore region lighting unit (28) including lighting members (32, 36), which is configured for generating lighting conditions at a bore region (26) by using the lighting members (32, 36), for influencing the subject of interest's optical perception regarding a radial dimension (b) of the magnet bore (16) by at least one out of detracting the subject of interest's attention, generating an optical illusion in connection with the radial dimension (b) of the magnet bore (16) and camouflaging the magnet bore (16).
US10261139B2
A method of making a magnetic field sensor using in situ solid source graphene and graphene induced anti-ferromagnetic coupling and spin filtering, comprising providing a substrate comprising silicon wafers and thermal oxide, performing DC magnetron sputtering, back-sputtering the substrate, growing amorphous carbon on the substrate, sputtering and growing a first ferromagnetic metal surface on the amorphous carbon, annealing the substrate and the amorphous carbon and the first ferromagnetic metal surface, forming a graphene film on the first ferromagnetic metal surface, wherein the first ferromagnetic metal surface comprises NiFe, sputtering and growing a second ferromagnetic film on the graphene film, and capping the second ferromagnetic film with a platinum layer.
US10261131B2
An inspection method for a secondary battery according to the invention includes: a first aging treatment process for performing aging treatment on the secondary battery that has initially been charged at a first temperature; a first voltage measurement process; a second aging treatment process for performing the aging treatment on the secondary battery at a second temperature; a second voltage measurement process; a self-discharge amount computation process; a non-temperature dependent failure determination process for determining non-temperature dependent failure that does not depend on a relationship between a self-discharge amount and a temperature in accordance with the measured self-discharge amount; and a temperature dependent failure determination process for determining temperature dependent failure that depends on the relationship between the self-discharge amount and the temperature in accordance with the self-discharge amount, temperature dependency of which is suppressed.
US10261130B2
The invention relates to a method for measuring ageing of permanent magnets of a synchronous machine comprising a stator and a rotor, the machine being fitted with at least one angular position sensor of the rotor, the rotor comprising the permanent magnets provided to move said rotor around the stator, the angular position sensor comprising at least two fixed magnetic induction measurement sensors extending to an axial end of the rotor, facing and immediately adjacent to the axial edges of the permanent magnets, characterized in that the method consists of: j1) determining, while stopped or during a laden or unladen rotation phase of the synchronous machine, the maximum value of the magnetic induction using the magnetic induction measurement sensors and the electronic unit; j2) comparing the measured maximum magnetic induction value with a reference value; and j3) if the maximum magnetic induction value is less than the reference value, presenting a difference determined with respect to said reference value in order to generate warning information S using the electronics unit and, if this is not the case, returning to step j1).
US10261126B2
This disclosure describes die test architectures that can be implemented in a first, middle and last die of a die stack. The die test architectures are mainly the same, but for the exceptions mentioned in this disclosure.
US10261118B2
A subset of mobile devices is selected from a set of mobile devices located in a local area. From a mobile device in the subset, a magnetic measurement value obtained by performing a magnetic measurement is received. The magnetic measurement value comprises a change in a magnetic property of an immediate surrounding ambient environment of the mobile device. When the magnetic measurement corresponds to a deviation in a network condition in a portion of a network, the portion being located in the local area, a conclusion is output that the deviation is caused by an electromagnetic disturbance (EMD), where an effect of the EMD causes the magnetic measurement value. A notification including an indication of the EMD and an identification of the local area is generated.
US10261113B2
A power converter with average current detection and the corresponding detecting method and detecting circuit are disclosed. The average current detecting circuit has an average voltage detecting circuit and a voltage-current converting circuit. The average voltage detecting circuit generates a voltage across a detecting resistor by letting an inductor current flowing through an output inductor of the power converter flowing through the detecting resistor. Further, the average voltage detecting circuit samples the voltage across the detecting resistor when a switch of the power converter transits from an on state into an off state and the opposite and then calculates the average value of the two sampled voltages. The voltage-current converting circuit converts the average value into an average current by multiplying the average value by a scaling factor.
US10261112B2
A voltage sensor and the method for compensating installation position variation thereof are disclosed. The voltage sensor may comprise a casing, two substrates, a plurality of voltage sensing units and an iterative operation unit. One side of the casing may include two grooves. The substrates may be respectively disposed in the grooves, and an accommodating space is formed between the substrates. The voltage sensing units may be disposed on the substrates to measure a plurality voltage parameters of a dual-wire power cable disposed in the accommodating space. The iterative operation unit can be disposed in the casing and connected to the voltage sensing units, wherein the iterative operation unit can perform an iterative operation process according to a compensation database and the voltage parameters for compensating the horizontal and vertical displacements occurring when installing the voltage sensor on the cable, and calculate the estimated input voltage of the cable.
US10261111B1
An oscilloscope includes a probe and an analog to digital converter. The probe detects a varying electronic signal and produces an analog signal. The analog to digital converter converts the analog signal to a digital signal. The oscilloscope detects vertical movement of the digital signal as a first digital trigger triggered at a trigger time. A segment of the digital signal is compared with predetermined parameters for the varying electronic signal received from a user to confirm whether a pattern of the varying electronic signal in the segment matches the predetermined parameters. When the pattern of the varying electronic signal in the segment matches the predetermined parameters, the process includes generating a display showing the varying electronic signal in the segment based on the trigger time.
US10261105B2
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) accelerometer is described. The MEMS accelerometer is arranged to limit distortions in the detection signal caused by displacement of the anchor(s) connecting the MEMS accelerometer to the underlying substrate. The MEMS accelerometer may include masses arranged to move in opposite directions in response to an acceleration of the MEMS accelerometer, and to move in the same direction in response to displacement of the anchor(s). The masses may, for example, be hingedly coupled to a beam in a teeter-totter configuration. Motion of the masses in response to acceleration and anchor displacement may be detected using capacitive sensors.
US10261102B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a biosample plate that includes a memory component for storing biosample identification and analysis data, and a wireless communication interface for transferring the data to and from the biosample plate. In one embodiment, the biosample plate comprises a base for receiving a biosample, a memory component coupled to the base for storing identification and analysis information related to the biosample, and a wireless communication interface coupled to the memory component for transferring the information to and from the memory component. The wireless communication interface may include an electromagnetic device.
US10261099B2
Chemokine receptor CCR4 and its ligands CCL17 and CCL22 are used as markers for the identification and/or staging of cancer. The level of CCR4, CCL17 and CCL22 are found to increase during malignant tumour progression. CCR4, CCL17 and CCL22 are used as markers for the stratification of cancer patients according to their suitability for treatment with anti-cancer agents. Information of diagnostic character is provided by measuring the level of one or more of CCR4, CCL17 and CCL22 present in a patient sample. Methods of treatment of cancer patients which agents that modulate the activity of CCR4, CCL17 and CCL22. Methods of screening for agents which modulate the biological activities of CCR4, CCL17 and CCL22 provide anti-cancer agents.
US10261098B2
Biomarkers associated with neuroimmunological disease are described. The disclosed biomarkers are secreted proteins identified in cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) samples of patients with neurological disease. The disclosed biomarkers identify patients with intrathecal inflammation, distinguish multiple sclerosis (MS) patients from patients with other types of inflammatory neurological diseases and from subjects without MS, distinguish progressive MS patients from patients with relapsing-remitting MS, identify subjects with non-MS inflammatory neurological diseases, differentiate healthy subjects from patients with any type of neurological disease, and/or identify subjects with increased disability, CNS tissue damage and/or neurodegeneration. Process-specific biomarkers that can be used in place of a brain biopsy to identify immune cell infiltration and/or activation in the CNS are also described. Methods of treating subject with neurological disease, and methods of evaluating the efficacy of particular treatments, based on detection of the disclosed biomarkers are also described.
US10261090B2
[Problem] To provide the following: a novel fluorescent probe for detecting a compound, such as glutathione, that contains a —SH group; a detection method using said fluorescent probe; and a detection kit containing said probe.[Solution] A fluorescent probe for detecting a compound containing an —SH group, wherein the fluorescent probe comprises a compound represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof (In the formula, X represents Si(Ra)(Rb), Ge(Ra)(Rb), Sn(Ra)(Rb), C(Ra)(Rb), or O (wherein Ra and Rb each independently represent a hydrogen atom or alkyl group); R1 represents a hydrogen atom, or 1-4 identical or different substituents independently selected from the group consisting of a cyano group, alkyl group, carboxyl group, ester group, alkoxy group, amide group, and azide group, each of which may be optionally substituted; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, hydroxyl group, cyano group, or an alkyl group, alkynyl group, alkoxy group, aryl, or heteroaryl, each of which may be optionally substituted; R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or 1-3 identical or different substituents independently selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group, halogen atom, or an alkyl group, sulfo group, carboxyl group, ester group, amide group and azide group, each of which may be optionally substituted; R5, R6, R7 and R8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or alkyl group, wherein, R5 or R6, respectively together with R3, may form a ring structure including the nitrogen atoms bonded thereto, or R7 or R8, respectively together with R4, may form a ring structure including the nitrogen atoms bonded thereto).
US10261084B1
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method of diagnosing sepsis or a virus-related infection (often a viral hemorrhagic fever infection) in a subject by detecting and measuring the level of a set of sepsis and virus infection-associated-GTPase biomarkers in a sample obtained from the subject using multiplexed flow cytometry. Related kits are also provided. In a preferred embodiment, the invention provides point of care diagnostic methods for determining an early stage sepsis or the severity of a virus infection, especially in a hospital or other setting.
US10261078B2
The present application relates to a biosensor that employs an acoustic cavity to store mechanical energy. In particular examples, the biosensor includes an electrode region and one or more reflector regions to form the acoustic cavity, as well as a functionalized active area disposed in proximity to the cavity. Methods of making and using such biosensors are also described herein.
US10261075B2
There is disclosed a microarray having base cleavable linkers and a process of making the microarray. The microarray has a solid surface with known locations, each having reactive hydroxyl groups. The density of the known locations is greater than approximately 100 locations per square centimeter. Optionally, oligomers are synthesized in situ onto the cleavable linkers and subsequently cleaved using a cleaving base. Optionally, the oligomers are cleaved and recovered as a pool of oligomers.
US10261066B2
A system for detecting a biomolecule comprises a nano-gap electrode device including a first electrode and a second electrode adjacent to the first electrode. The first electrode can be separated from the second electrode by a nano-gap that is dimensioned to permit the biomolecule to flow through the nano-gap. The nano-gap can have at least a first gap region and a second gap region. The second gap region can be oriented at an angle that is greater than zero degrees with respect to a plane having the first gap region. The system can further include an electrical circuit coupled to the nano-gap electrode device. The electrical circuit can receive electrical signals from the first electrode and the second electrode upon the flow of the biomolecule through the nano-gap.
US10261062B2
A method for detecting a volatile analyte to class and sort cork stoppers depending on the concentration of the analyte, detection being preformed of concentrations in the order of ng/L (parts per trillion), in a concentrated gas applied to the cork stoppers in close containment. Cork stoppers are conveyed individually or groups to an incubation chamber; air/nitrogen is injected into the incubation chamber, the gas enriched with cork volatile compounds is entrained and carried to the concentration system containing a trap heated by desorption of entraining gas to a detection system recording a signal associated with presence of the analyte, the signal being used for classing the stopper/groups of stoppers; a software receives and compares the signal with a minimum limit, deciding to approve or reject the stopper. A system for implementing this method is described.
US10261053B2
A device and method for performing ultra-sound scanning of a substantially cylindrical object. The device comprises a cuff adapted to fit around a circumference of the object, an ultrasound probe mounted about the inner circumference of the cuff and positioned to scan the circumference of the object, and one or more data connections providing control information for the ultrasound probe and receiving scanning data from the ultrasound probe. The probe includes one or more sensors to determine its orientation or location, and this data is used to control the operation of the device and to process data from the array.
US10261048B2
One embodiment of the present disclosure provides an ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) device for performing chemical analysis. The IMS device includes a first set of electrodes arranged linearly in a first direction and separated by a first set of gaps. The IMS device includes a second set of electrodes positioned directly opposing the first set of electrodes to match the first set of electrodes on a one-to-one basis, wherein the second set of electrodes are separated by a second set of gaps. The IMS device includes a drift region between the first set of electrodes and the second set of electrodes, wherein charged particles enter at a first end of the drift region and traverse the drift region along the first direction. The IMS device additionally includes a detector positioned at a second end of the drift region and configured to receive charged particles exiting the drift region.
US10261040B2
A measuring device includes an integrated sensor unit. The integrated sensor unit is configured to record at least one moisture characteristic value of at least one building material. The measuring device further includes a communication unit. The communication unit is configured to receive at least one signal from at least one external sensor unit.
US10261035B2
The disclosure includes an inductive conductivity sensor for measuring the specific electrical conductivity of a medium with a transmitter coil energized by an input signal, a receiver coil coupled with the transmitter coil via the medium, which receiver coil supplies an output signal that is a measure for the conductivity of the medium, and a housing enclosing the transmitter coil and the receiver coil, which housing comprises at least one housing section designed to be immersed in the medium, the housing wall of said housing section surrounding the transmitter coil and the receiver coil. The housing is made of a magnetic plastic or resin for inductively decoupling the transmitter coil from the receiver coil. In certain embodiments, the housing may be made of a ferromagnetic material. Another aspect of the disclosure includes a method for manufacturing the conductivity sensor.
US10261032B2
A noncontact resonameter includes: a resonator to: produce an excitation signal including a field; subject a sample to the excitation signal; produce a first resonator signal in a presence of the sample and the excitation signal, the first resonator signal including: a first quality factor of the resonator; a first resonance frequency of the resonator; or a combination thereof, the first resonator signal occurring in an absence of contact between the sample and the resonator; and produce a second resonator signal in a presence of the excitation signal and an absence of the sample, the second resonator signal including: a second quality factor of the resonator; a second resonance frequency of the resonator; or a combination thereof; a circuit in electrical communication with the resonator to receive the first resonator signal and the second resonator signal; and a continuous feeder to: provide the sample proximate to the resonator; dispose the sample intermediately in the field of the excitation signal during production of the first resonator signal; remove the sample from the resonator; and manipulate a position of the sample relative to the resonator in a continuous motion and in an absence of contact between the sample and the resonator.
US10261030B2
An inspection device and method for testing and inspecting integrity of a container (200) is disclosed. The inspection device has an angled member (102) and a viewing member (104) secured to the angled member. Together, the angled and viewing members are configured to hold a container to be analyzed. The inspection device also includes a cradle (106) secured to the angled member, the cradle including a cavity (108) configured to hold the angled member at an angle. The inspection device also includes a light source holder (110) secured to the viewing member, a leg member (112) extending from the light source holder, and at least one light source (114) extending through the light source holder. The light source has a first end extending outwardly from the light source holder and a second end extending within the light source holder from which light projects. The light from the light source is projected toward the viewing member. The viewing member includes at least one viewing window (105). A lens is located between the second end of the light source and the viewing member, and a filter is located between the lens and the viewing member.
US10261029B2
A container inspection device and a container inspection method for inspecting containers are provided. The container inspection device comprises at least one light fixture for illuminating containers at a predetermined inspection instant of time for inspecting the containers, and an electrical line for connecting the at least one light fixture to an electrical energy supply and to a bus system, so that the electrical line serves both to supply the at least one light fixture with electrical energy and to connect with a real time data network.
US10261025B2
A detecting method for a workpiece surface includes the following steps. Firstly, a workpiece is provided with a first environment, wherein the first environment has a first environmental temperature higher than a first saturation temperature corresponding to an environmental-relative humidity. Then, the workpiece is provided with a second environment, wherein the second environment has a second environmental temperature lower than the first environmental temperature, such that a itself-temperature of the workpiece reduces to a mist temperature, wherein the mist temperature is substantially equal to or higher than the second environmental temperature. Then, the workpiece is provided with a mist environment, wherein the mist environment has a mist-saturation temperature corresponding to a mist-environmental relative humidity is equal to or higher than the mist temperature for misting a surface of the workpiece. Then, the surface of the misted workpiece is detected.
US10261024B2
A visual inspection device is an inspection device using an image obtained by shooting an inspection surface of an object to be inspected with a camera disposed so as to face the inspection surface. The object to be inspected is a rolling bearing and the inspection surface is a surface included in an outer ring of the rolling bearing. A lighting device emits light from a light source as diffused light to the inspection surface in a direction different from a direction in which the camera shoots the inspection surface, and the camera shoots the inspection surface irradiated with the diffused light.
US10261014B2
Metrology systems and methods are provided herein, which comprise an optical element that is positioned between an objective lens of the system and a target. The optical element is arranged to enhance evanescent modes of radiation reflected by the target. Various configurations are disclosed: the optical element may comprise a solid immersion lens, a combination of Moiré-elements and solid immersion optics, dielectric-metal-dielectric stacks of different designs, and resonating elements to amplify the evanescent modes of illuminating radiation. The metrology systems and methods are configurable to various metrology types, including imaging and scatterometry methods.
US10261013B2
Provided are improved optical detection systems and methods for using same, which systems and methods comprise single channel interferometric detection systems and methods for determining a characteristic property of samples. Such interferometric detection systems and methods employ a light beam that impinges two or more discrete zones along a channel, thereby avoiding variations that can result in increases in detection limits and/or measurement errors.
US10261000B2
Systems and methods that enable automated processing of specimens carried on microscope slides are described herein. Aspects of the technology are directed, for example, to automated specimen processing systems and methods for dispensing liquids onto slides. The system can concurrently or sequentially perform lock cycles. Each lock cycle can include lock steps for addressing respective slides to dispense liquid. The lock steps of different lock cycles can be synchronized to prevent any collision between dispensers.
US10260999B2
Particle collecting unit for the detection of particles in the particle level of substance without evaporating the collected particles is disclosed. The particle collecting unit comprises a body, a duct extending through the body and connecting between a rear opening of the body and an air intake orifice of the body, an aperture or slit in a mid-portion of the body adapted for receiving a removable sampling member into a position within the duct, wherein the particles collecting unit is configured to be removably coupled to a vacuum generator of a vacuum cleaner model available in the market, with said rear opening of the body coupled to an air intake opening of the vacuum generator. Pressure release openings are provided in walls of the duct for reducing the load on a motor of the vacuum cleaner.
US10260987B2
A first reflection member, when light is incident, reflects a part of the light by a first reflection surface, reflects light transmitted through the first reflection surface by a second reflection surface, and emits reflected light components in an opposite direction. The second reflection member, when light emitted from the first reflection member is incident, reflects a part of the light by a first reflection surface, reflects light transmitted through the first reflection surface by a second reflection surface, and emits reflected light components. Interference fringes are formed on a screen by light reflected on the first reflection surface of the first reflection member and the second reflection surface of the second reflection member and light reflected on the second reflection surface of the first reflection member and the first reflection surface of the second reflection member.
US10260983B2
In at least one embodiment, an apparatus for diagnosing a state of a capacitive sensor is provided. The apparatus comprises a measuring circuit for being electrically coupled to a capacitive sensor. The measuring circuit is configured to measure a first impedance of the capacitive sensor at a first frequency and to determine a first capacitance of the capacitive sensor at the first frequency based on the first impedance. The measuring circuit is further configured to compare the first capacitance of the capacitive sensor to a first threshold and to a second threshold to diagnose the capacitive sensor.
US10260977B2
The present disclosure relates to differential pressure transducers. The teachings thereof may be embodied in diaphragm-beam configurations for measuring small values of differential pressure and/or a bridge circuit for converting mechanical strains into an electric output signal. For example, a diaphragm-beam structure for measuring differential pressure may include: a frame; a paddle; a resilient beam member; a diaphragm; and a gap defined between the paddle and the frame. The diaphragm flexes under pressure on one surface. The resilient beam member anchors the paddle to the frame. The second surface of the diaphragm is mounted to the first surface of the paddle and the frame to bridge the gap. The paddle moves due to flexure of the diaphragm. The resilient beam member bends due to movement of the paddle. The thickness of the diaphragm is less than 50 micrometers.
US10260965B2
A heat flow sensor includes a heat transfer layer that has first and second surfaces confronting each other and has flexibility and a temperature difference measurement unit that measures a temperature difference between the first and second surfaces of the heat transfer layer. The heat transfer layer includes a first member having flexibility and a second member with higher thermal conductivity than the first member. The thickness of the heat transfer layer is equal to or greater than 0.5 mm, thermal conductivity of the heat transfer layer is equal to or greater than 10 W/(m×K), and Shore hardness of the heat transfer layer is equal to or less than A50.
US10260962B2
A device that operates over a plurality of predetermined temperature ranges that can include a subthreshold operating circuit including a first insulated gate field effect device (IGFET) having a first conductivity type. The first IGFET can be coupled to receive a first back body bias potential that changes according to the temperature range in which the device is operating. The subthreshold operating circuit can operate at a power supply potential below a threshold voltage of the first IGFET.
US10260952B1
A Faraday rotation device includes a light source configured to transmit a light beam; a first rotation stage polarizer configured to forward the light beam from the light source at a predetermined reference polarization angle; a quartz cell configured to receive the light beam from the first rotation stage polarizer at the predetermined reference polarization angle; one or more stacked ring permanent magnets coaxially fitted around the quartz cell; a stepper motor configured to adjust a rotational motion of a second rotation stage polarizer connected to the stepper motor, wherein the second rotation stage polarizer is configured to change a polarization angle of the light beam received from the quartz cell; a light detector; and an electronic circuit board configured to record a change in angle between the predetermined reference polarization angle and the changed polarization angle.
US10260951B1
A Faraday rotation device includes a light source configured to transmit a light beam; a first rotation stage polarizer configured to forward the light beam from the light source at a predetermined reference polarization angle; a quartz cell configured to receive the light beam from the first rotation stage polarizer at the predetermined reference polarization angle; one or more stacked ring permanent magnets coaxially fitted around the quartz cell; a stepper motor configured to adjust a rotational motion of a second rotation stage polarizer connected to the stepper motor, wherein the second rotation stage polarizer is configured to change a polarization angle of the light beam received from the quartz cell; a light detector; and an electronic circuit board configured to record a change in angle between the predetermined reference polarization angle and the changed polarization angle.
US10260949B2
A Raman spectrum-based object inspection apparatus and a Raman spectrum-based object inspection method are disclosed. In one aspect, an example apparatus includes: a laser device configured to emit a laser; an optical guiding device configured to guide the laser to an object to be detected and collect a Raman scattering light from the object. The apparatus includes a spectrum generator configured to receive the Raman scattering light collected by the optical guiding device and generate a Raman spectroscopic signal. The spectrum analyzer is configured to analyze the Raman spectroscopic signal to obtain an inspection result. The apparatus includes a monitoring device configured to monitor a state of the object and control an object inspection operation depending on the state of the object.
US10260943B2
A color measurement device includes a measurement array (MA) which includes: a plurality of illumination arrays (20, 30, 40) for exposing a measurement spot (MS) on a measurement object (MO) to illumination light in an actual illumination direction (2, 3, 4) in each case, and a pick-up array (50) for detecting the measurement light reflected by the measurement spot (MS) in an actual observation direction (5) and for converting it into preferably spectral reflection factors; and a controller for the illumination arrays and the pick-up array and for processing the electrical signals produced by the pick-up array. The controller is embodied to process the measured reflection factors on the basis of a correction model, such that distortions in the measurement values as compared to nominal illumination and/or observation directions, caused by angular errors in the illumination arrays and/or the pick-up array, are corrected.
US10260942B2
Methods and systems for spectrometer dark correction are described which achieve more stable baselines, especially towards the edges where intensity correction magnifies any non-zero results of dark subtraction, and changes in dark current due to changes in temperature of the camera window frame are typically more pronounced. The resulting induced curvature of the baseline makes quantitation difficult in these regions. Use of the invention may provide metrics for the identification of system failure states such as loss of camera vacuum seal, drift in the temperature stabilization, and light leaks. In system aspects of the invention, a processor receives signals from a light detector in the spectrometer and executes software programs to calculate spectral responses, sum or average results, and perform other operations necessary to carry out the disclosed methods. In most preferred embodiments, the light signals received from a sample are used for Raman analysis.
US10260936B2
A frequency-sweep experimental method for predicting noise of a power capacitor, comprises steps of: (1) loading the capacitor with a sine voltage excitation with a loading frequency value of ½ to 50 times of a power frequency in sequence, at an increase of half of the power frequency for each time, and measuring vibration velocity at various points on a case of the capacitor; (2) under each loading frequency, dividing vibration velocity by a square of each voltage applied; (3) calculating frequency spectrum of a square of the voltage of the capacitor according to the voltage and a current of the capacitor; (4) multiplying the frequency spectrum of the square of the voltage of the capacitor by the electromechanical vibration frequency response function value of the capacitor to obtain a vibration velocity spectrum of the case of the capacitor; (5) calculating acoustical power of the noise.
US10260931B2
A dynamic yield monitor system includes a plurality of instruments to measure harvested crop characteristics while a crop is in-flow within a harvester elevator. The system includes a volume instrument that measures a harvested crop volume from the in-flow harvested crop within the harvester elevator, and a weight instrument that measures a harvested crop weight from the in-flow harvested crop within the harvester elevator. Optionally, the system includes other instruments including a moisture and temperature instrument. A receiver and processing node communicates with the instrument. The receiver and processing determines variable harvested crop test weight based on at least the measured harvested crop volume and measured harvested crop weight of the in-flow crop. The receiver and processing node further determines a variable yield of the harvested crop based on the measured harvested crop volume, the measured harvested crop weight, and the variable harvested crop test weight.
US10260928B2
A fill level measurement device for determining a topology of a filling material surface in a container including an antenna apparatus, a receiver and control circuitry. An emission angle of the antenna apparatus and a spatial position of the antenna apparatus relative to the filling material surface is settable by the control circuitry. A resultant emission direction of the fill level measurement device is changeable by the control circuitry by controlling a position of the antenna apparatus and by controlling an emission and/or receiving angle of the antenna apparatus.
US10260923B2
A fluid flow meter is described, that includes intermeshing gears that may rotate synchronously. The fluid flow meter may produce a pulsed output that can be normalized to suitable values according to a method of normalizing input pulses generated in response to the rotation of gears. A volume counter can be incremented by an amount equal to a volume per input pulse each time an input pulse is generated. When the volume counter exceeds a first reference volume, a normalized output pulse can be generated until the volume counter exceeds a second reference volume.
US10260915B2
A container for use as a single-use component in a processing system for performing a biological, biochemical, or biotechnological process includes a wall surrounding a container interior space with a sensor arrangement integrated into the wall, where the sensor arrangement includes at least one sensor and one housing, and where the housing includes a housing wall, which surrounds a housing interior space containing the sensor and separates the housing interior space from the container interior space, characterized in that the housing wall comprises a wall region, which is designed as a predetermined breaking point.
US10260911B2
In a method for applying a structure such as a marking and/or inscription to at least one element with a marking system, such as a laser system, the at least one element is arranged relative to a shaft, the method including: a) arranging the shaft or the shaft with the element arranged relative to the shaft in the marking system; b) determining a spatial position and/or a centre of rotation of the shaft in relation to a reference point, preferably the origin, of the marking system; and c) applying a structure to the element.
US10260904B2
A position sensing system for measuring a position of a moving object includes a first magnetic sensor configured to measure an intensity of a magnetic field produced by the moving object. The system includes a controller configured to estimate a position of the moving object based on a nonlinear model of the magnetic field produced by the moving object as a function of position around the moving object, and based on the measured intensity of the magnetic field produced by the moving object.
US10260901B2
A method for optimizing the switch-on time of a Coriolis gyroscope (1) having a mass system (100) which can be excited to an excitation oscillation of the Coriolis gyroscope (1) parallel to a first axis (x), wherein a deflection of the mass system on account of a Coriolis force along a second axis (y) which is provided perpendicular to the first axis (x) can be verified using an output signal from the Coriolis gyroscope, comprises determining the amplitude (A) of the excitation oscillation of the Coriolis gyroscope at a defined time, determining the output signal (S) from the Coriolis gyroscope at the defined time, and generating a normalized output signal (S0) from the Coriolis gyroscope by multiplying the determined output signal (S) by the quotient of the amplitude (A0) of the excitation oscillation of the Coriolis gyroscope in the steady state and the determined amplitude (A).
US10260895B2
An apparatus for controlling a path of a vehicle includes: a path generating processor configured to generate a first path by searching for a path from a current location of the vehicle to a destination and generate a second path by searching for a path from a path deviation prediction area on the first path to the destination based on a request; a path deviation area extracting processor configured to extract the path deviation prediction area based on road attributes on the first path; and a path controller configured to determine whether to generate the second path based on a congestion level of a road around the vehicle and reset a driving path of the vehicle to the second path when path deviation occurs on the extracted path deviation prediction area.
US10260892B2
A data structure of an environment map includes: position information indicating a position in a space; and a state quantity variability of the position. The state quantity variability is correlated with the position information, and the state quantity variability indicates a variation tendency of a state quantity of the position with respect to time.
US10260890B2
Apparatus and methods related to generating roadmaps are provided. A layout of an environment can be displayed on a display. Input data indicative of a plurality of shapes placed on the layout can be received, where each shape corresponds to an aisle of a plurality of aisles. For each aisle, lanes can be generated based on a width of the aisle, and the lanes extend along the aisle such that a robotic device can traverse each lane. An intersection between a first shape and second shape can be identified, where the first and second shape correspond to a first and second aisle. Responsive to identifying the intersection and based on a swept space of the robotic device, a curve that connects a first lane of the first aisle to a second lane of the second aisle can be generated. Then, a roadmap that comprises the aisles and curve can be generated.
US10260888B2
A navigation satellite system includes a first electronic device that decides, based on received GNSS correction data, integer ambiguity in a difference between a first carrier phase of a first radio wave received by a fixed station and a second carrier phase of a second radio wave received by the first electronic device to calculate a path difference between the first radio wave and the second radio wave. The system also includes a second electronic device that calculates, based on the GNSS correction data, a difference between a third carrier phase of a third radio wave received by the second electronic device and the first carrier phase received from the first electronic device and calculates, by using the integer ambiguity, a path difference between the first radio wave and the third radio wave to calculate second relative coordinates of the second electronic device with respect to the fixed station.
US10260886B2
Methods, apparatuses and storage medium associated with navigation service are disclosed. In various embodiments, a method may include collecting, by a client mobile device, ambient barometric pressure information at a current location of the client mobile device. The method may further include providing, by the mobile device, contemporaneous navigation assistance to a user of the mobile device or for a user of the mobile device, assisted by a remote navigation assistance service. Assistance by the remote navigation service is associated with determining the current elevation level, based at least in part on ambient barometric pressure information collected by the client mobile device and by one or more crowdsourced mobile devices at the current location. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US10260881B2
An interface for a hollow core fiber is provided that facilitates the direct pigtailing of the hollow core fiber to a port on an electro-optic device. The interface includes an angled face that attaches to the electronic device at an angle that minimizes optical power loss as light propagates from the electronic device to the hollow core fiber.
US10260865B1
The present invention relates to a metallographic system including a measurement module configured to provide precise differential measurements of a sample after serial sectioning, as well as methods of employing such a module. In particular example, the measurement module provides differential measurement(s) without contacting the surface of a sample, thereby minimizing contamination of the sample surface.
US10260858B2
Spatially modulated light emanating from an object moving along a flow path is used to determine various object characteristics including object length along the flow direction. Light emanating from at least one object moving along in a flow path along a flow direction of a spatial filter is sensed. The intensity of the sensed light is time modulated according to features of the spatial filter. A time varying electrical signal is generated which includes a plurality of pulses in response to the sensed light. Pulse widths of at least some of the pulses are measured at a fraction of a local extremum of the pulses. The length of the object along the flow direction is determined based on the measured pulse widths.
US10260848B2
Arrowhead (1) for a target, comprised of an arrowhead body (2) having three portions, including a front portion (2a), a central portion (2b), and a rear portion (2c), the front portion constituting the point for penetrating into the target, comprising mechanisms for facilitating the removal of the lodged arrow, such mechanisms being formed by at least one projecting profile (3), characterized in that the projecting profile(s) is/are in the form of a portion of a sphere.
US10260847B2
A casing for use in a cartridge for a firearm comprises a sleeve and attached base. The sleeve has cylindrical portion with a mouth for holding a bullet and an opposing bulkhead from which extends a nipple. At the terminal end of the nipple is a lip that radially decreases in thickness and has curved surface portions; the lip forms a first seal region within a passageway that runs through the base. Preferably a second seal zone around the nipple near the bulkhead. A bulkhead comprises a circumferential wave or ridge that creates a hollow on the surface facing the base. A sleeve is preferably made of austenitic stainless steel that has differential hardness and magnetic properties along the sleeve length; and the base has a hardness less than any portion of the sleeve.
US10260846B1
A consumer-ready, disposable pyrotechnic display system includes a pyrotechnic module and a control module. The pyrotechnic module includes a mounting substrate, electrically ignitable pyrotechnic devices, and electrical conductors connected to the pyrotechnic devices and disposed beneath the mounting substrate. The control module includes a housing having an upper surface and a bottom surface on which electrical contacts are disposed; and a processor, a memory, a power supply, and a transceiver within the housing. The electrical conductors are connected to the electrical contacts prior to receipt by the consumer. When the transceiver receives a signal from a remote device (such as a cellular telephone), the processor ignites each of the electrical conductors in a sequence programmed into the memory of the control module.
US10260840B2
A mobile ballistics processing and display system for receiving data associated with one or more ballistics variables, for processing such variables, and for displaying a ballistics solution associated with such variables in an easily and quickly understandable map format. One or more ballistics variables are inputted into a mobile computing device or are otherwise acquired by such device. Projected in-flight projectile characteristics are calculated by the computing device based upon ballistics variables. Users are provided with the ability to input in-flight bullet characteristics criteria into the computing device. The computing device is configured to depict in map format, projected paths of a projectile from one or more shooter locations to one or more target locations. Differing graphical representations of the projected path of the projectile may be displayed, depending on how the projected in-flight projectile characteristics compare to the in-flight projectile characteristics criteria at each step of the projected path.
US10260836B1
An archery training system provides an archer the ability to safely condition psychologically and physically without the need of a bow and arrow while maintaining the sensation of using a bow and arrow. The archery training system is easily portable or stowed, and offers a combination of variables replicating the activity of compound and traditional bow shooting, such as a counter balanced replication of a grasped bow while drawing a bowstring, an archery release aid configured to mimic the finger positioning of a traditional bow, the utilization of accessory bow sights for target acquisition and aiming, the adjustability to accommodate the various hand grip styles unique to each archer, and immediate visual feedback to performance or shooting technique.
US10260834B2
A system for bow gripping is disclosed. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include a grip component configured to couple to a bow. In some embodiments, the grip component may interact and/or attached to an archer's lead hand. Some components may have a third metacarpal offset that encourages a grip angle of over twenty degrees. Depending on design goals, the encouraged grip angle may also be larger or smaller than twenty degrees. The grip component may also include a mechanism for attaching the component to an archer's bow or hand.
US10260833B1
A pulley assembly for a compound bow comprises a draw cable pulley, a power cable pulley attached to the draw cable pulley, and a cable deflector attached to the power cable pulley or the draw cable pulley and adjustable among multiple deflector arrangements. The cable deflector engages the power cable during a let-off portion of drawing of the bow after the power cable is taken up by the power cable pulley. Different deflector arrangements result in corresponding draw force curves for the bow that differ from one another with respect to one or both of (i) draw force let-off rate with respect to draw distance or (ii) hold weight at full draw. The adjustment can be performed without using a bow press and without derigging the bow.
US10260830B2
One aspect includes a method of configuring a smart-gun that includes configuring a smart-gun from a locked configuration where the smart-gun is inoperable to fire, to an unlocked configuration where the smart-gun is operable to fire, the configuring in response to authenticating unlock data at the smart-gun; receiving an unlock ping at the smart-gun; maintaining the smart-gun in the unlocked configuration in response to the unlock ping being received; determining by the smart-gun that a second subsequent unlock ping has not been received within a timeout limit; and configuring the smart-gun from the unlocked configuration to the locked configuration in response to the determining that the second subsequent unlock ping has not been received within the timeout limit.
US10260827B2
A magazine conversion system mounts within a magazine well of a lower receiver, and includes a front spacer having a wedge-shaped main body with a lower end, and an upper end having a feed ramp extending upwardly therefrom; and a rear spacer having a wedge-shaped main portion with a lower portion and an upper portion having an ejector element extending upwardly therefrom. With the front and rear spacers positioned within the magazine well, at least a portion of the feed ramp and at least part of the ejector element are positioned above the magazine well.
US10260825B2
A dual fluid heat exchange system is presented that provides a stable output temperature for a heated fluid while minimizing the output temperature of a cooled fluid. The heated and cooled fluids are brought into thermal contact with each other within a tank. The output temperature of the warmed fluid is maintained at a stable temperature by a re-circulation loop that connects directly to the mid portion of the tank such that the re-circulated fluid flow primarily warms only a re-circulation section of the tank. The other, lower flow rate, section of the tank may be positioned so that it has a cooler temperature and thus serves to increase the efficiency of the heat exchange by extracting extra heat energy out of the cooled fluid before it leaves the tank. Alternatively, the low flow rate section of the tank may be warmer than the re-circulated section, and thus allow the re-circulated section to be cooler than the output temperature of the warmed fluid.
US10260809B2
A method and a corresponding plant for denitrifying bypass exhaust gases in a cement clinker production plant. Raw meal is sintered in a rotary kiln and deacidified in a calciner. A rotary kiln inlet chamber is connected to the calciner directly or by a riser duct. Bypass exhaust gas is drawn off near the inlet chamber. This exhaust gas is guided into a first mixing chamber, in which the exhaust gas is cooled to between 800 and 950 degrees C., then the exhaust gas is guided through a reaction pipeline segment, wherein the dwell time is between 0.5 and 3 seconds and ammonia, aqueous ammonia solution, or ammonia-releasing substances are injected for denitrification. Then the exhaust gas is guided into a second mixing chamber, in which the exhaust gas is cooled to between 150 250 degrees C. Then the exhaust gas is guided to a filter for dust removal.
US10260805B2
A heating apparatus includes a plurality of heaters to heat a heating object, a plurality of air nozzles to blow air onto the heating object, and a blower to supply air to the plurality of air nozzles. The plurality of heaters is disposed along a conveyance direction of the heating object, at least one of the plurality of air nozzles is disposed between adjacent two of the plurality of heaters, and the plurality of air nozzles blows air onto the heating object while the plurality of heaters heats the heating object in both cases of when the heater performs a heating operation and when the heater does not perform the heating operation.
US10260797B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a refrigerator including a cabinet in which a storage compartment is formed; a refrigerator door for opening and closing the storage compartment; a door opening device having a push rod which may move from an initial position to a door opening position for opening the refrigerator door and a motor for providing power to the push rod; and a controller controlling the motor, wherein the controller controls the push rod to move to the door opening position while in close contact with the cabinet or the refrigerator door in order to open the refrigerator door, and controls voltage supply to the motor so that a time period when the push rod is moved to the door opening position is maintained for a certain time.
US10260794B2
An exemplary support structure for a refrigerator (12) includes a pedestal (10). The pedestal is comprised of a housing (18) comprised of a plurality of panels (20, 22, 24, 26, 28) which are held together in fixed relation through interengaging projections and recesses. A drawer (32) is comprised of a plurality of drawer panels (34, 36, 38, 40, 44) which are held together through interengaging projections and recesses. The panels which make up the pedestal are configured along with other components to be packed and shipped in a single box (30).
US10260777B2
A gas fueled water heater appliance having a temperature control switch is provided herein. The gas fueled water heater appliance may include a tank for storage of water for heating, a chamber wall, a gas burner, a valve, the temperature control switch, and a conductive probe. The chamber wall may define a combustion chamber. The gas burner may be positioned adjacent to the tank and within the combustion chamber to heat the water in the tank. The valve may control a flow of gaseous fuel to the gas burner. The temperature control switch may be in operable communication with the valve. The conductive probe may extend through the chamber wall from a first end positioned on the temperature control switch to a second end positioned within the combustion chamber.
US10260775B2
A hot water system and method are provided. The system includes a tank configured to receive hot water, a heat recovery system for heating water, and a controller configured to use the heat recovery system to maintain the hot water in the tank at a temperature within a predetermined range of temperatures. The method involves receiving a flow of water and heating the water using the hot water system.
US10260770B2
A condensate collection tank (1) for an air conditioning system is provided. The tank (1) comprises a body (20) for storing condensate liquid, a lid (10) releasably connectable to the body (20) to form the tank (1) and a mounting bracket (112) for fixing the lid (10) to a mounting surface. The tank (1) further includes an inlet port (50, 90) for condensate liquid from the air conditioning system, an outlet port (40, 80) for condensate liquid from the tank (1), a sensor (104) for determining whether an amount of condensate liquid in the tank (1) exceeds a threshold value, and a controller for controlling removal of the condensate liquid from the tank (1) via the outlet port (40, 80) when the sensor (104) determines that the threshold value has been exceeded.
US10260765B2
A smart register is described. For example, one embodiment of the smart register apparatus comprises: a set of dampers which enable or restrict airflow from an heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) system when opened and closed, respectively; a motor to control the opening and closing of the dampers; a battery to provide power to the motor; and register control logic to determine a threshold temperature based on a desired temperature set by a user and to read a current temperature from a temperature sensor, the control logic to automatically open or close the dampers to enable or restrict airflow from the HVAC system based on differences between the threshold temperature and the current temperature.
US10260763B2
The invention discloses a method and apparatus for retrofitting air conditioning system using all-weather solar heating. In air conditioning system in which original single cold host is equipped with a cooling tower and a boiler, plate heat exchanger, solar collector plate, energy storage tank and circulating pipelines are provided. The cooling tower is used to absorb the heat in the winter air. The solar collector plate is used to absorb solar thermal heat and transfer to the plate heat exchanger. The single cold machine is used to absorb the heat of the antifreeze liquid. The plate heat exchanger is provided to form a secondary cycle so as to avoid icing risk of the antifreeze liquid. At the outdoor temperature more than five degrees, the indoor users is heated without operating the boiler, which maintains summer operation performance and meanwhile increases winter heating function without changing the original system.
US10260758B2
A household cooking appliance, in particular an oven, comprises a cooking chamber defined by a muffle having a flue with a fume outlet at an upper wall of the muffle, and a front door, for opening and closing the cooking chamber. The appliance further comprises a delivery channel, defined by a duct body that extends above the upper wall of the muffle, the duct body having an outlet of the delivery channel that is substantially at a front region of the appliance, above an upper portion of the door, and having a fume inlet in a lower wall of the duct body, which is in fluid communication with the fume outlet of the muffle and with the delivery channel.Operatively associated to the duct body is a ventilation assembly, so as to draw in fumes from the fume outlet of the muffle and expel them from the outlet of the delivery channel, the ventilation assembly being in a rear end region of the duct body that is generally opposite to the outlet of the delivery channel.The flue has at least one portion which is made integrally with one between the upper wall of the muffle and the lower wall of the duct body and comprises a drawn part of said wall.
US10260753B2
A domestic appliance heating apparatus includes a heating element having two heating connections connected to two supply connections of a supply network, respectively. A first switching element is connected between one of the two heating connections and one of the two supply connections and a second switching element is connected between the other one of the two heating connections and the other one of the two supply connections. A measuring unit has at least one measuring input, at which a potential is present in at least one heating operating state. A control unit interrupts in a network form recognition operating state a conduction path through the heating element by means of the first switching element while the second switching element is closed and takes into account a first potential present at the measuring input when determining a network form present at the heating element.
US10260746B2
The present disclosure deals with the measurement of flows of a fluid in a combustion device. For example, a combustion device may include a burner; a combustion chamber; a side duct; and a feed duct with a connector for the side duct including a mass flow sensor and a flow resistance element. The side duct and the feed duct have a fluid connection to one another. The mass flow sensor senses a mass flow through the side duct. The resistance element subdivides the side duct and includes an admittance surface. There is an outer area. The mass flow sensor projects into the side duct. The outlet of the side duct lets the fluid flow out of the side duct directly into the combustion chamber or directly into the outer area.
US10260737B2
A device for protecting and retaining a decorative light strand. A gutter has a first channel and a second channel. The second channel is formed at a top edge of a front wall of the first channel. The second channel is inverted relative to the first channel. An outer vertical sidewall of the second channel has a plurality of apertures disposed therein. The second channel is configured to house the strand of a decorative light strand and each aperture is configured to frictionally secure a light bulb of the decorative light strand therein.
US10260706B2
A lamp cover capable of simulating multiple images comprises an optically transparent hollow body, an opaque reflector having patterned cutouts and coupled to an inner surface of the body, wherein the opaque reflector is a metal oxide, a matte transparent protective layer formed on the opaque reflector, a polychromatic semitransparent reflector coupled to an outer surface of the body and a glossy transparent protective layer formed on the polychromatic semitransparent reflector.
US10260700B2
The vehicle-mounted light source device of the present invention includes a light source unit including a light source that emits a red laser beam, a light source that emits a green laser beam, and a light source that emits a blue laser beam; a light combining system that combines the red laser beam, the green laser beam, and the blue laser beam; a light diffusing element that adjusts diffusion angles of light beams emitted from the light combining system to a predetermined angle; an optical projection system that projects light beams emitted from the light diffusing element to distance; and a light distribution controller that is disposed between the light diffusing element and the optical projection system and that controls distributions of light beams introduced into the optical projection system.
US10260698B2
A headlamp for vehicles including a light source and an optical unit for generating a specified light distribution pattern that has a light-dark boundary. The optical unit has a lens with a light inlet-side surface and a light outlet-side surface. Tlight inlet-side surface and/or the light outlet-side surface has optical elements in a sub-area. Corrugated profiling is provided as the optical elements. This profiling has at least one arched projection that transitions at opposing edges of this section continuously into arched outlet sections and/or into a main surface of the light inlet-side surface or the light outlet-side surface.
US10260696B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) module holder includes a seat, a first holding member, a second holding member, an LED module and two terminals. The LED module is mounted on the seat. The seat has multiple positioning bosses formed thereon to stop the LED module from moving horizontally. The first holding member and the second holding member are mounted on a rear portion and a front portion of a top of the seat, and the first holding member and the second holding member respectively have a first pressing portion and a second pressing portion that fasten the LED module to prevent the LED module from moving vertically. Accordingly, loose contact of electrical connection portions in the LED module holder arising from issues of alignment and fixing can be avoided.
US10260691B2
An illumination device configured to emit illumination light has a light source arranged inside a housing generating the illumination light; a diffusing panel attached to the housing; and a projector arranged inside a space formed by the housing and a part of the diffusing panel for projecting an image onto a projection surface. An optical unit is arranged so that an incident direction of a light flux incident from a display element provided in the projector onto a projection optical system of the projector is substantially vertical or in a direction closer to a vertical direction than a direction parallel to a horizontal plane, or so that an optical axis of the projection optical system on which the light flux from the display element provided in the projector is incident is substantially vertical or in a direction closer to the vertical direction than the direction parallel to the horizontal plane.
US10260689B2
An adjustable headlight includes a headband and an adjustable illumination device mounted on the headband. The adjustable illumination device includes a light source, a lens, a rotating shell, a first adjuster, a second adjuster, a tubular electrical conductive rack, and a base. The light source is electrically connected to the top end of the tubular electrical conductive rack. The lens is mounted on the front end of the rotating shell. The first adjuster is rotatably connected to the rotating shell. The second adjuster drives the tubular electrical conductive rack to be rotatably coupled with the first adjuster and the base. Rotating the rotating shell changes the distance between the light source and the lens, so as to achieve focus adjustment within the adjustable headlight without changing external length of the device. The device is adapted for being worn on the user's head in various circumstances.
US10260687B2
A light-emitting module is provided. The light emitting module includes a substrate; a thin-film layer that is disposed above the substrate, the thin-film layer defining an opening that exposes a surface of the substrate; a light-emitting element disposed above the substrate and in the opening; and a sealant disposed above the substrate and in the opening, the sealant containing a wavelength converter and sealing the light-emitting element. A thickness of the thin-film layer is less than a thickness of the sealant. An edge portion of the sealant is in contact with the thin-film layer. The surface of the substrate and a surface of the thin-film layer are hydrophilic. The surface of the thin-film layer has a lower wettability than a wettability of the surface of the substrate.
US10260676B2
The invention provides a stabilizer, comprising a first connecting part, a fixing ring, a second connecting part and a rotating component, wherein one end of the fixing ring is sleeved at the first connecting part, the fixing ring and the rotating component are respectively detachably mounted on two ends of the second connecting part. With such configuration, the first connecting part and the second connecting part are connected by the fixing ring rather than being directly connected with each other, thereby providing a stable connection between the first connecting part and the second connecting part and facilitating easy assembly and disassembly and the whole stabilizer having a plurality of detachable components is convenient to package and carry. Moreover, due to the detachable mounting structure of the stabilizer, it is easy to replace the components of the stabilizer when a failure of the components occurs.
US10260671B2
A gas cylinder quick release device has a cylindrical upper assembly, a cylindrical lower assembly arranged below the upper assembly on a common axis, and a handle which is mounted to move between a first position and a second position. Movement of the handle from the first position to the second position imparts axial displacement of the upper and lower assemblies away from each other along the axis, thereby breaking a press-fit engagement of a wheelbase otherwise secured on the gas cylinder.
US10260668B2
A method for pipe coupling encapsulation includes placing two elastomeric partial rings around pipes on opposite sides of a leaking joint coupling, taking a repair coupling, which includes a band and opposing clamp members extending outwards from ends of the band, and placing the band around the leaking joint coupling such that opposite end portions of the band overlie the elastomeric partial rings, and tightening the opposing clamp members towards each other with one or more tightening elements.
US10260662B2
Described is a fitting for coupling fluidic paths which facilitates secure and low leak rate fluid flow through a fluidic path junction such as a junction in a liquid chromatography system or other chemical analysis instrument. Fluid containing various mixtures of chemical samples can pass through the junction at high pressure with little or no trapped residue remaining in a volume at the connection. According to various embodiments, a face seal is achieved between two separate fluidic path features. In some embodiments, the sealing of the fluidic paths is aided by the use of a compliant polymer seal. The seal facilitates intimate contact between adjacent surfaces and significantly limits or prevents the entry of fluid under high pressure into an unswept volume. Thus the risk of carryover and its adverse effect on measurements is reduced or eliminated.
US10260661B2
The invention relates to line elements (600) consisting of a multi-layer inner element (IE) and an outer element (AE), wherein the inner element (IE) and the outer element (AE) are in contact with each other at points, at lines, over part of the surfaces thereof, or over the full surfaces thereof. Furthermore, a frictional contact protection means extending over the component length is provided, or a frictional layer (121) is provided in the contact region of the inner element (IE) and the outer element (AE). The wear of the outer element (AE) caused by friction can thereby be minimized.
US10260660B2
A multi-walled pipe and a method for its manufacture involves a steel sheet forming a steel source layer to which a nickel source layer is applied on at least one or both sides. A solder source layer is applied to the one nickel source layer, or one of the two, or both, nickel source layers. The multi-walled pipe is formed from a strip of the coated metal sheet by rolling. The walls of the pipe are soldered by heating. In one form, the heating takes place by radiation. In another, it takes place by induction.
US10260659B2
A fastening method configured to fasten a mechanical part on a support by means of a fastening flange, the method including: placing the fastening flange on a first segment of the part, in a loose configuration, providing on the first segment at least one stop and on the fastening flange at least one bearing member, which cooperates with the stop so as to limit, in the loose configuration, the stroke of the fastening flange to a predetermined allowed displacement range, which allows to freely select an adapted position among a plurality of accessible positions, and to provide on the flange a locking mechanism arranged such that, when the subassembly is fastened to the support by means of the at least one lug, then a locking of the body of the fastening flange is automatically caused on the mechanical part in the adapted position.
US10260654B2
A valve assembly that includes a main valve having a valve member moveable between a closed position and an open position. The main valve has an upstream side and a downstream side. The valve assembly includes a pressure equalizing assembly for equalizing the fluid pressure across the main valve. The pressure equalizing assembly includes a line extending from the upstream side of the main valve to the downstream side of the main valve and a pressure equalizing valve assembly.
US10260649B2
Provided is a fluidic device including a first fluid unit having a plurality of first passages for passing fluids along a first direction, a second fluid unit having a plurality of second passages for passing the fluids along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a plurality of on/off valves placed at a plurality of points, one at each point, where the first passages and the second passages intersect with each other. The first fluid unit and the second fluid unit are arranged such that outlets formed at a plurality of locations of the first passages are coupled to inlets formed at a plurality of locations of the second passages at each of the points.
US10260647B2
A valve includes a basic body, control spool, sealing ring, and control cover. The control spool is received in the basic body to be movable along a longitudinal axis. The basic body includes a counter-sealing surface, connecting channel, and tank channel having at least one first annular groove surrounding the control spool. The control cover and at least one end face of the control spool facing toward the longitudinal axis delimits, at least in part, a control space. The control cover includes a sealing surface that abuts the counter-sealing surface of the basic body. At least one of the sealing surface and the counter-sealing surface includes a sealing groove that surrounds the control space in ring-like fashion. The sealing ring is received in the sealing groove. The connecting channel opens out into the tank channel and into the sealing groove.
US10260638B2
A multi-blade dosing valve comprising the following elements: a valve body provided with a central opening; a plurality of shafts, each provided with a respective blade, which extend transversely to the central opening; the blades being able to close, at least partially, the central opening; a motor unit which causes the opening/closing of the blades; and vibrators to set in vibration the shafts and the blades. The multi-blade dosing valve comprises an independent vibrator for each shaft.
US10260636B2
A controlled gap seal device is adapted to surround a shaft with an annular seal element. A ring is positioned on an outer surface of the seal element, the ring adapted to modify a diametrical dimension of the seal element by thermally expanding/contracting as a function of temperature variations. A housing assembly has an interior enclosing the seal element and the ring, with the seal configured to be generally stationary in the interior. The housing assembly has an air inlet and air outlet in fluid communication with a surrounding environment for directing a flow of gas from the surrounding environment onto the ring to controllably cool and shrink the ring. A method for modifying a diameter of a controlled gap seal relative to the shaft is also provided.
US10260628B2
A method of controlling a pulley ratio of a continuously variable transmission vehicle, includes: sensing, by a controller, whether or not the position of a shift lever switches to a manual range, fixing, by the controller, a pulley ratio of a continuously variable transmission, when the position of the shift lever switches to the manual range, as a result of sensing, re-adjusting, by the controller, set pulley ratios of a plurality of manual shift positions based on the fixed pulley ratio of the continuously variable transmission, after the fixation, and controlling, by the controller, the continuously variable transmission at the re-adjusted pulley ratio of a target manual shift position, when manual shifting is required, after re-adjustment.
US10260624B2
An electronic control unit updates a target gear shift characteristic value to a target gear shift characteristic value which is set at a gear shift start time with a first predetermined torque based on the first predetermined torque and performs gear shift control from a degree of progress in gear shift based on the updated target gear shift characteristic value, when an input torque becomes equal to or less than the first predetermined torque due to an accelerator returning operation or the like during a gear shift (during a power-on upshift). Accordingly, it is possible to perform stable gear shift control to cope with a decrease in input torque during the gear shift and to suppress occurrence of a shock.
US10260619B2
A carrier structure for an epicyclic gear drive is provided. The carrier structure includes carrier elements connected with at least one planet gear and the first carrier element is connected with the second carrier element through at least two struts with the at least two struts having an inclination angle of more than 20° in the direction of a rotation around a rotation axis of the carrier structure.
US10260616B2
A device for lubrication and noise attenuation of a gear box includes: a case housing where a lubricant is provided in the bottom side thereof; a driving gear provided in the case housing and rotating by a driving torque of an engine; first and second driven gears engaged to lateral sides of the driving gear and rotating; and a third driven gear engaged to an upper side of the driving gear and rotating, wherein the case housing includes a lubrication plate provided in an inclined manner from an upper side of the first driven gear to one side of the third driven gear such that the lubricant drawn up by rotation torque of the first driven gear is churned to an inner surface of the lubrication plate and then dropped at the upper side of the first driven gear and one side of the third driven gear for lubrication.
US10260614B2
A cam follower including a plunger intended to execute a reciprocating movement in an exterior body. The plunger includes a plunger body having a cylindrical exterior surface, an anti-rotation device extending radially beyond the cylindrical exterior surface of the pusher body and engaging via a matching structure in the exterior body, a roller providing the contact with a cam, and a sleeve rotatably supporting the roller in the plunger body. The plunger body includes at least one lateral bore and the sleeve is inserted in the bore. In order to avoid additional components and assembly steps to constitute the anti-rotation device, the present invention proposes to use one end of the sleeve as the anti-rotation device.
US10260607B2
Components, subassemblies, systems, and/or methods for continuously variable transmissions (CVT) having a variator provided with a plurality of tilting, traction planets and traction rings are described. In one embodiment, a variator is coupled to a rangebox to provide multiple operating modes. In another embodiment, a hydraulic system is configured to control the transmission ratio of the variator and the rangebox. Shift-cam-and-sun subassemblies can be used to facilitate shifting of the transmission ratio of a CVT. A transmission housing and bell housing can be adapted to house components of a CVT and, in some embodiments, to cooperate with other components of the CVT to support operation and/or functionality of the CVT. Related devices include, for example, a pivot arm, a control feedback mechanism, axial force generation and management mechanisms, a control valve integral with an input shaft, a pivot pin hub, and a rotatable carrier configured to support planet-pivot arm assemblies.
US10260603B2
To provide a chain tensioner that can maintain the pressure of the oil pressure chamber at a correct level to achieve a desired reaction force and damping characteristics corresponding to the rpm, and enable a reduction in the number of parts to be machined and the number of assembling steps; reduce the amount of oil flowing out of the system; and prevent damage to the check valve, without causing an increase in size of the chain tensioner. The chain tensioner includes a check valve unit 150 that stops reverse flow of oil flowing into an oil pressure chamber 101, and a first relief valve unit 160 and a second relief valve unit 170 that release oil when the pressure reaches or exceeds a predetermined high level. The second relief valve unit 170 has a higher valve opening pressure than that of the first relief valve unit 160.
US10260602B2
A vehicular multi-stage transmission is provided. In particular, the transmission includes an input shaft and an output shaft. A first planetary gear set, a second planetary gear set, a third planetary gear set, a fourth planetary gear set, and a fifth planetary gear set (PG5) are provided and each is disposed between the input shaft and the output shaft to transfer a rotational force and has three rotation elements. Additionally, at least six gear-shifting elements are connected to the rotation elements of the planetary gear sets.
US10260598B2
A transmission for an opposed-piston engine with two crankshafts includes a crankshaft gear train that combines the torque inputs from the two crankshafts and a gear arrangement coupled to the gear train that is operable to obtain various speed ratios for an output torque drive.
US10260586B2
A variable stiffness structure includes a first negative stiffness element configured to buckle in a first direction, a second negative stiffness element configured to buckle in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and an actuator operatively coupled to ends of the first and second negative stiffness elements to control a stiffness of the variable stiffness structure. The first negative stiffness element and the second negative stiffness element are mode-3 buckling beams.
US10260580B2
An apparatus for a vehicle is provided that includes and axle and an articulating brake component mounting plate carried by the axle. The articulating brake component mounting plate has an inner portion and an outer portion, and the position of the outer portion is adjustable with respect to the inner portion. Either the inner portion or the outer portion defines an adjustment nut aperture. An adjustment nut is located in the adjustment nut aperture.
US10260567B2
Disclosed systems couple two rotational shafts in axial alignment with each other such that torque can be transferred between the shafts without undesired loading occurring. A shaft coupling system can include an annular mounting housing positioned around a juncture of two rotational shafts with bearings positioned between the shafts and the housing so that the housing prevents radial motion of the shafts while allowing the shafts to rotate about their common axis. One shaft can be coupled to an engine and the other shaft can be coupled to a shaft-driven device such as a hydraulic pump. One shaft can be smaller in diameter and piloted into a recess in the end of the other shaft. In some embodiments, the two shafts have about the same diameter and are linked via a torque coupler within an annular mounting housing that allows rotation but limits radial motion of the shafts.
US10260566B2
An actuator for a marine antenna having a base with a mount adapted to be fixed to a surface of a vessel, a fixed worm gear arranged on the base, a worm arranged in a gear housing and engaged with the fixed worm gear, a motor comprising an output shaft connected to the worm, the motor being arranged in a motor housing mounted to the gear housing, and an antenna coupler connected to the gear housing. The gear housing is adapted to mate with the base for rotation about the fixed worm gear upon rotation of the worm.
US10260564B2
A rolling-element bearing unit for a wheel bearing assembly of a vehicle includes a first rolling-element bearing having an outer bearing ring and an inner bearing ring and rolling elements disposed between the outer bearing ring and the inner bearing ring and a first seal element having a seal-element base body having a first support member mounted to an axial outer surface of the inner bearing ring and a first seal lip pressed against a radial end surface of the outer bearing ring to hold the outer bearing ring in position relative to the inner bearing ring. Also a wheel bearing assembly including two such rolling element bearing units.
US10260563B2
A bearing cage for a roller bearing assembly is provided. The roller bearing assembly includes an outer annular ring, an inner annular ring including an outer radial surface, and a plurality of roller elements. The bearing cage includes an annular body configured to be positioned between the inner annular ring and the outer annular ring and configured to receive the plurality of roller elements. The annular body includes a first end including a first inner radial surface opposite the inner annular ring and a second end including a second inner radial surface opposite the inner annular ring, wherein the annular body extends from the first end to the second end in an axial direction. The annular body includes a first lubricant interface configured to receive oil and defined by the first inner radial surface and a second lubricant interface configured to receive oil and defined by the second inner radial surface.
US10260562B2
An insulated bearing includes an outer ring, an inner ring, and a plurality of rolling elements. At least one of the outer ring and an inner ring is made of metal, the plurality of rolling elements are provided between the outer ring and the inner ring, so as to be freely rolled, and at least one of the outer ring and an inner ring is coated with an insulating layer. The insulating layer is formed of a mixture in which silicon carbide and/or aluminum nitride as an additive are/is dispersed in aluminum oxide as a base matrix. The content of the additive is 1 to 40 mass % with respect to the total amount of the mixture.
US10260554B2
An actuator assembly includes an actuator with a cylinder-shaped shaft rotatable around an axially extending center axis (A), and the shaft includes an envelope surface. The assembly further provides a fixed, tubular bearing surrounding a section of the shaft, the bearing having an inner surface facing the envelope surface of the shaft so that an interface between the shaft and the bearing is created. The interface provides at least one circumferential groove and at least one complimentary circumferential ridge. The groove is arranged in the one of the envelope surface of the shaft and the inner surface of the bearing and the complimentary ridge is arranged in the other of the envelope surface of the shaft and the inner surface of the bearing.
US10260549B2
A quick-release engagement device for a female threaded member includes a tubular member and an actuating unit. The tubular member includes a contractible portion which has a male threaded segment and an actuated segment, and which is divided into a plurality of contractible sectors by a plurality of slits. The actuating unit is configured to press the actuated segment to permit the contractible sectors to deform synchronously from an expanded state, where the female threaded member is permitted to be in threaded engagement with the male threaded segment, to a contracted state, where the female threaded member is permitted to be quickly sleeved on or removed from the male threaded segment.
US10260548B2
Fastener embodiments include a housing body, a collet body and a central body. The housing body receives a first portion of the collet body, which has internal threads and an external anti-rotation feature, as well as a first portion of the central body. A second portion of the collet body and an exterior portion of the housing body provide work piece contacting surfaces. The central body, which occupies an inner portion of the housing body, is threadably coupled to the collet body and displaces and/or converges radially displaceable portions of the collet body at the second portion thereof. Interaction between the collet body anti-rotation feature and the housing body, which may be a pair of extending pins engaging a pair of slots, prevents rotation of the collet body within the housing body during rotation of the central body, while axial movement thereof remains unaffected within intended operation parameters.
US10260543B2
A plunger clamp is disclosed that includes a body comprising a first end, a second end, and a clamp connector disposed between the first and second ends, wherein the clamp connector comprises a threaded portion that interfaces with one or both of the first and second ends facilitating relative rotation with, and separation from, the first and second ends and the clamp connector.
US10260532B2
A smart load-sensing EHA, comprising a variable displacement hydraulic pump, a symmetrical hydraulic cylinder, a feedback module, a pressure-following valve and an execution mechanism. The symmetrical hydraulic cylinder includes a symmetrical plunger, a first cylinder and a second cylinder separated by the plunger. The variable displacement hydraulic pump includes an oil inlet and an oil outlet. An output of the feedback module is to output a greater one of pressures at the first input and the second input to the execution mechanism. The pressure-following valve is connected between the output of the feedback module and an input end of the execution mechanism to reduce an instantaneous flow input to the input end of the execution mechanism and adjust pressure at the input end thereof. The execution mechanism is to receive an output of the feedback module and generate signal for changing displacement of the variable displacement hydraulic pump.
US10260531B2
A hydraulic drive system includes control valve and operating devices, a variable displacement pump, and a flow regulator. When an operating lever inclination angle becomes a value, a control valve opening area becomes a reference. When the operating lever inclination angle maximizes, the opening area maximizes. The flow regulator: until the operating lever inclination angle becomes the value, increases the pump discharge flow rate with the inclination angle, so a differential pressure between pump discharge and actuator load pressures is constant; when the operating lever inclination angle becomes the value, controls the pump discharge flow rate, so a control valve passing flow rate is an actuator maximum flow rate when the differential pressure is constant; and when the operating lever inclination angle is between the value and the maximum, defines a maximum pump discharge flow rate, so the pump discharge flow rate is kept to the actuator maximum flow rate.
US10260530B2
An aspirator with an aspirator body and an exhaust port coupled to the body, and having a plurality of integral high pressure gas nozzles positioned along the aspirator body the body. The aspirator body includes a high pressure integral conduit in communication with a nozzle array having a plurality of high pressure gas nozzles. The nozzles are arcuate, extending away from the body toward an aspirator centerline, the nozzles extending from the aspirator body at a preselected angle toward the centerline in a direction from an atmospheric air aspiration port toward the exhaust port. A high pressure inlet port integral with the body is in communication with the conduit and a high pressure gas source. The gas may be input into the inlet port using a high pressure inlet fitting, which may be threaded onto the inlet port outside the aspirator body. The aspirator is fabricated by additive manufacturing techniques.
US10260524B2
A compressor section for use in a gas turbine engine is comprised of a plurality of compressor stages, with each stage including a disk having an inner periphery defining a bore that faces a shaft. A flow path flows in a generally axial direction between the shaft and the bores of each disk. At least one deflector is positioned between a pair of adjacent bores to direct the air flow radially outwardly into a cavity formed between an associated pair of adjacent disks.
US10260523B2
A fan module for a gas turbine engine is disclosed herein. The fan module includes a fan, a plurality of outlet guide vanes, and a fluid cooling system. The fan is adapted to rotate about a central axis to pass air at least in part aftward along the central axis and around an engine core of the gas turbine engine. The outlet guide vanes are spaced aft of the fan along the central axis and configured to receive the air passed aftward along the central axis by the fan. The fluid cooling system is configured to transfer heat from a fluid to the air from the fan to cool the fluid.
US10260520B2
A detachable blade structure has a blade seat, a motor, a cover plate, a spherical cover, a blade, a detachable member and first and second screws. The spherical cover has a cover slot, a cover positioning hole and a cover screw hole. The cover plate has a chamber. The blade is inserted through the cover slot and inserted into the chamber. The blade seat has a first seat lug, a first seat screw hole, a second seat lug and a second seat screw hole. The motor has a motor positioning hole and a motor screw hole. The first seat lug is inserted into the motor positioning hole. The first screw is screwed into the first seat screw hole and the motor screw hole. The second seat lug is inserted into the cover positioning hole. The second screw is screwed into the second seat screw hole and the cover screw hole.
US10260519B2
A bidirectional axial fan device includes: a moving blade member with a plurality of vanes; and a casing that includes a mounting portion, a frame, and a plurality of spokes, a motor being mounted to the mounting portion, the frame forming a ventilation hole. The plurality of spokes couple the mounting portion to the frame at an exhaust air side during a normal rotation of the motor. An inner peripheral surface of the frame has a multiple stage shape, in which a part on the exhaust air side during the normal rotation has a diameter larger than a diameter of a part on an air intake side during the normal rotation, such that intervals between tops on the exhaust air side during the normal rotation at outer peripheral edges of the plurality of vanes and the inner peripheral surface of the frame are expanded.
US10260505B2
A pump for delivering fluid has a pump housing and a pump chamber having a pump chamber cover and a pump chamber base in said pump housing, an inlet and an outlet. In the pump chamber, an impeller rotates on a rotor shaft which is connected to a drive motor. The inlet is arranged in the pump chamber cover and the outlet is arranged below the impeller in the axial direction of the pump at that end region of the pump chamber which is remote from the inlet close to the outlet. The distance from the inlet to the outlet with the impeller therebetween can correspond approximately to the diameter of the pump chamber.
US10260486B2
A system may include an actuation member having a first end and a second end. A length of the actuation member is greater than a width of the actuation member. The length extends from the first end to the second end along a longitudinal axis when the actuation member is undeformed. The actuation member may include a magnetic shape memory alloy. The system may further include an anchor retaining the first end of the actuation member. The second end of the actuation member may be free to move laterally to the longitudinal axis in response to a deformation of the actuation member. The system may also include a magnetic field source in proximity to the actuation member. The magnetic field source may be configurable to alter a magnetic field applied to the actuation member to adjust the extent of deformation of the actuation member.
US10260484B2
A bearing arrangement of an electrical machine is provided that includes a drive shaft extending through a housing, the bearing arrangement including a front-end bearing arranged about a front end of the drive shaft, and a back-end bearing arranged about an opposite end of the drive shaft, wherein a bearing includes a plurality of bearing pads arranged in an annular space between the drive shaft and the housing, and wherein at least one bearing includes an uneven distribution of bearing pads about the drive shaft. Furthermore, a wind turbine including such a bearing arrangement is also provided.
US10260480B2
A wind power installation foundation having a cylindrical central unit, a plurality of steel carriers which are arranged radially around the central unit and which respectively have a first and a second end, and a plurality of foundation piles. The first ends of the steel carriers are fixed to the central unit so that the second ends of the steel carriers are in the form of free ends. The second free ends of the steel carriers are respectively placed on one of the foundation piles.
US10260471B2
An aircraft starting and generating system includes a starter/generator that includes a main machine, an exciter, and a permanent magnet generator. The system also includes an inverter/converter/controller that is connected to the starter/generator and that generates AC power to drive the starter/generator in a start mode for starting a prime mover of the aircraft, and that converts AC power, obtained from the starter/generator after the prime mover have been started, to DC power in a generate mode of the. A load-leveling unit (LLU) is selectively coupled with a DC power output from the starter/generator and has an inverter/converter/controller (ICC) with an LLU metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET)-based bridge configuration that supplies DC power to the DC power output in a supply mode, and that receives DC power from the DC power output, in a receive mode. A LLU bridge gate driver is configured to drive the LLU MOSFET-based bridge during a supply mode and a receive mode using bi-polar pulse width modulation (PWM).
US10260470B2
In a fuel injector 10, a first injection hole 155a and a second injection hole 155b having reference inside diameters Dn1, Dn2 different from each other are formed as a plurality of injection holes 155. In such a configuration, an L/D value obtained by dividing the flow channel length Ln1 of the first injection hole 155a by the reference inside diameter Dn1 of the first injection hole 155a agrees to an L/D value obtained by dividing the flow channel length Ln2 of the second injection hole 155b by the reference inside diameter Dn2 of the second injection hole 155b.
US10260457B2
In at least some implementations, a carburetor includes a body, a fuel pump diaphragm and a pressure pulse passage. The fuel pump diaphragm is carried by the body and defines in part a fuel chamber on one side of the fuel pump diaphragm and a pressure pulse chamber on the other side of the fuel pump diaphragm. The pressure pulse passage communicates the pressure pulse chamber with a pressure pulse source to provide pressure pulses in the pressure pulse chamber to actuate the fuel pump diaphragm. The pressure pulse passage includes an inlet communicating with a passage in which pressure pulses are present and the inlet is spaced from a surface defining the passage in which pressure pulses are present.
US10260447B2
An apparatus includes an input module structured to interpret a fuel pressure command indicative of a target fuel pressure within an accumulator and a target fuel injection characteristic, a pump module structured to control a pump assembly to provide fuel to the accumulator to maintain the target fuel pressure within the accumulator, an injector module structured to control a plurality of fuel injectors to inject fuel into an engine based on the target fuel injection characteristic, a pressure module structured to interpret pressure data regarding an actual fuel pressure within the accumulator and to determine a pressure difference between the target fuel pressure and the actual fuel pressure, and a modulation module structured to determine a final fuel injection command responsive to the pressure difference exceeding a first magnitude threshold where the final fuel injection command is based on the pressure difference and the target fuel injection characteristic.
US10260442B2
A plant control device includes a feedback controller that determines a control input of a plant, and a reference governor that corrects an initial target value and outputs the corrected initial target value to the feedback controller. The reference governor determines a target value satisfying an upper limit constraint to be a target value candidate that minimizes a value of an evaluation function. The reference governor determines the target value satisfying the upper limit constraint to be a value of the upper limit constraint when a value acquired by substituting, with the value of the upper limit constraint, a variable of a differential function acquired by differentiating the evaluation function with respect to the target value candidate is greater than or equal to zero.
US10260440B2
An internal combustion engine comprises a port injection injector for injecting fuel into an intake port and a direct injection injector for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber. A controller causes the port injection injector and the direct injection injector to inject fuel on the basis of a running condition of the internal combustion engine. Further, the controller increases an injection amount of the direct injection injector above a normal injection amount of the direct injection injector when the internal combustion engine decelerates, thereby reducing the fuel pressure of the direct injection injector rapidly.
US10260436B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining changes in a flow area of an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve for EGR flow estimates due to a change in temperature difference between a stem and body of the EGR valve. In one example, a method includes adjusting an EGR valve based on an estimate of EGR flow, the EGR flow estimated based on a pressure difference across the EGR valve and an adjusted valve flow area. The adjusted valve flow area may be based on the temperature difference between the stem and body of the EGR valve.
US10260432B1
Provided is a dual-fuel engine control system including: a sensing unit for generating sensing information by sensing a parameter related to a dual-fuel engine; a main control unit for generating a control signal for controlling a micro-pilot injection value and a gas fuel inlet valve by analyzing a state of the dual-fuel engine on the basis of the sensing information; an EFI control unit for controlling the micro-pilot injection value and the gas fuel inlet valve on the basis of the control signal; and a deep learning unit for analyzing a state of the dual-fuel engine on the basis of the control signal transferred from the main control unit and the sensing information transferred to the main control unit at a time point of generating the control signal, and transferring an analysis result to the main control unit and the EFI control unit.
US10260413B2
A five-spindle engine system having a stable center of gravity that operates without oil lubrication, an opposed-piston four-cylinder, two-stroke combustion engine, a double-acting opposed-piston pressure-gradient drive, a multi-rotor/multi-stator/multi-phase disk generator/disk motor including windings printed on printed circuit boards, and/or a heat pump may be integrated in the system and housed in a common sealed housing.
US10260409B2
A system for generating electrical power includes engine generators positioned on a pad and housed within an enclosure. The pad may have a first side having an associated long axis and a shorter second side having an associated short axis. The short axis is transverse to the long axis. The engine generators are electrically coupled to one another in a parallel fashion. Each engine generator includes a prime mover and an alternator that are serially aligned with the short axis of the pad. The enclosure encloses the engine generators and has a plurality of side walls, a roof, and a floor. The enclosure includes at least one intake opening formed in the floor to provide airflow into an interior of the enclosure.
US10260404B2
Disclosed herein is a technique for providing an engine supercharger of a reduced size allowing an exhaust gas to be introduced smoothly into a turbine scroll. A turbine for use in this supercharger includes: a turbine lead-in route, into which the exhaust gas is introduced; a turbine scroll formed continuously with the turbine lead-in route to allow the exhaust gas to swirl around inside; a turbine wheel to turn on an axis of rotation; a turbine lead-out route; a wastegate passage to bypass the exhaust gas around the turbine scroll; and a wastegate valve. The turbine lead-in route includes a throat portion having a tapered downstream portion. The wastegate passage branches from that throat portion.
US10260401B2
Provided are a method for determining the disposition position of a spherical joint for coupling exhaust pipes to each other in an exhaust system, and an exhaust system, which enable engine vibrations to be more effectively damped. In the present invention, strain gauges are attached at a plurality of locations in an exhaust system (1), simulated vibrations which simulate engine vibrations are imparted to the upstream-side end of the exhaust system (1), and bending strain is measured at each strain gauge. On the basis of the bending strain measured at each strain gauge, detected is a position at which generated is a bending moment that is equal to or greater than or equal to a torque amount which generates a maximum static friction force between a spherical inner-circumferential surface (26) and a spherical outer-circumferential surface (27) of a spherical joint (2) which come into contact with each other, and the detected position is determined to be the disposition position for the spherical joint (2).
US10260399B2
Methods and systems are provided sensing particulate matter by a particulate matter sensor positioned downstream of a diesel particulate filter in an exhaust system. In one example, a method may include increasing an inlet opening of the particulate matter sensor when an exhaust flow rate falls below a threshold to allow more particulates to enter the particulate matter sensor and further includes decreasing the inlet opening when the exhaust flow rate rises above the threshold to reduce the particulates entering the sensor. By adjusting the amount of particulates entering the sensor based on the exhaust rate, the rate of deposition of the sensor and hence the sensitivity of the sensor to the exhaust flow rate may be maintained at a desired level, and independent of the exhaust flow rate.
US10260397B2
A thermoelectric generating apparatus may include a thermoelectric generation portion disposed on a first flow passage, and configured to convert thermal energy of exhaust gas passing through the first flow passage into electrical energy; a heat exchange portion disposed on a second flow passage, and configured to heat coolant through heat-exchange of the coolant and exhaust gas passing through the second flow passage; a third flow passage configured to pass through received exhaust gas without change; and a valve configured to selectively open or close the first flow passage, the second flow passage, or the third flow passage, and thus control a flowing route of the exhaust gas.
US10260387B2
The present invention discloses an engine oil supply system, which includes an oil pan for storing lubricating oil. An oil suction pipe is disposed in the oil pan, the oil suction pipe is twisted in the oil pan, and at least two oil suction portions are disposed on the oil suction pipe, so that at least one oil suction portion is below a lubricating oil level when the engine is in any position. The technical solution disclosed by the present invention can ensure that the lubricating oil can enter each part of the engine for lubrication through the oil supply system when the engine is used either in a leant or inverted manner.
US10260385B2
There is described a gasket for a valve of an internal combustion engine; this gasket has a central axis and comprises: an elastically deformable annular seal element; a support member made of plastic material, also annular and having at least a retention portion coupled coaxially on a first portion of the seal element to press it on a guide element of the valve; and elastic means acting on a second portion of the seal element to press it on a stem of the valve; the elastic means comprise a thrust portion of the support member made in one single piece with the retention portion; the seal element is formed by means of an injection molding operation in a molding chamber containing the support member.
US10260381B2
A variable valve mechanism includes a rocker arm including a first input arm, a second input arm, and an output arm, and a switch device that switches an operating state to a first state by coupling only the first input arm to the output arm, and switches the operating state to a second state by coupling only the second input arm to the output arm. The switch device includes two pins that are displaceably placed in the rocker arm and contact each other at their end faces, and a displacement device that switches the operating state to the first state by displacing a contact portion between the two pins to between the output arm and the second input arm, and switches the operating state to the second state by displacing the contact portion between the two pins to between the output arm and the first input arm.
US10260370B2
An article, for example a turbomachinery article is presented. The article includes a weldable first component having a base portion and a flange portion. The flange portion is outwardly projecting normal to a surface of the base portion; and is joined with the base portion by a solid state joint. The base portion comprises a nanostructured ferritic alloy; and the flange portion comprises a steel substantially free of oxide nanofeatures. The first component is joined to a second component through the flange portion of the first component by a weld joint.
US10260357B2
It is an objective of the invention to provide a steam turbine rotor of which a rotor shaft is made of a low-cost heat resistant ferritic steel and that can withstand high main steam temperatures of about 650° C. There is provided a steam turbine rotor comprising: a rotor shaft made of a heat resistant ferritic steel such as a 12-Cr steel; and a rotor blade made of a Ti—Al alloy, wherein the Ti—Al alloy includes: from 38 to 45 atomic % of Al; from 0.5 to 2 atomic % of V; from 2 to 6 atomic % of Cr and/or Mo; and the balance being Ti and incidental impurities.
US10260346B2
An engine includes a housing defining an annular bore and a piston assembly disposed within the annular bore. The engine includes a rotary valve comprising a loop-shaped wall structure defining an opening substantially perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the loop-shaped wall structure. A portion of the rotary valve is disposed within the annular bore such that the axis of rotation of the loop-shaped wall structure is substantially perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the piston assembly. The engine includes a rotary drive mechanism connected to the rotary valve and configured to rotate the rotary valve between a first position to align the opening of the loop-shaped wall structure with the annular bore to allow a piston of the piston assembly to travel within the annular bore and a second position to define a combustion chamber relative to the piston of the piston assembly at the second location.
US10260337B2
A method for determining one or more parameters of a formation fracture comprises injecting a viscous fluid in the formation via a flow path; measuring pressure at a location along the flow path; and calculating one or more parameters of a formation fracture based on the measured pressure. The method may permit improved and/or more efficient planning, design and/or performance of, e.g. conformance treatment of the formation fracture.
US10260333B2
The invention relates to a system and a method for determining flow patterns of fluid in a production well. Especially, the invention relates to a method of determining flow patterns between and into oil production wells drilled in the Earth when flow is improved by water flooding. The system comprises a canister (1) said canister being located in said formation at a subterranean location within or proximate the wellbore, the canister being provided with an exit opening (5), a traceable component (4) being placed in the canister and able to pass through the exit opening and a release mechanism capable of releasing the traceable component when triggered by a triggering mechanism such that the traceable component enters the fluid flowing through the well through the exit opening and is present in the fluid flow in the wellbore. The method comprising the steps of providing a canister in said formation at a subterranean location within or proximate the wellbore said canister holding a traceable component and being provided with an exit opening and monitoring the fluid flow from the wellbore at a location remote from said canister for the presence of traceable component.
US10260331B2
A control system that corrects differential pressure measurements with downhole annulus pressure information is disclosed. When differential pressure is zeroed with the BHA off-bottom, the annulus pressure value is baselined. During drilling, a controller receives surface differential pressure measurements and annulus pressure measurements. As the controller receives each new annulus pressure measurement, it compares it to the baseline annulus pressure value to obtain a different annulus pressure value. The controller corrects the surface differential pressure measurements with the annulus pressure measurements. As the controller receives each new surface differential pressure measurement, it subtracts out the current difference annulus pressure value. As a result, the modified surface differential pressure measurement remains a reflection of mud motor performance that removes the influence of the increased density of the fluid, thereby improving autodrilling control. The modified surface differential pressure measurements are also used to determine mud motor torque.
US10260324B2
Systems and method for producing hydrocarbons from a subterranean well include a combined product tubular extending into the well, a gas production tubular in fluid communication with the combined product tubular and a fluid production tubular in fluid communication with the combined product tubular. A jet pump is located a junction of the tubulars. An electrical submersible pump is in fluid communication with the fluid production tubular. A cyclone separator is located within the well and has a rotating screw with thread surfaces open to an inner diameter surface of the well. The thread surfaces are angled to direct a liquid stream axially downward and radially outward towards the inner diameter surface of the well, and to direct a gas stream to a lower end of the gas production tubular.
US10260321B2
A flow balancing device facilitates polymer injection in a horizontal formation in a manner that minimizes shear effects on the injected polymer. Features of the device reduce velocity using a broad circumferentially oriented inlet plenum that leads to a circumferentially oriented path having zig-zag fluid movement characterized by broad passages that define the zig-zag pattern so as to reduce velocity at such transition locations. Because the path is circumferentially oriented there is room for broad transition passages independent of the housing diameter. The broad crescent shaped inlet plenum also reduces inlet velocity, and therefore shear, to preserve the viscosity of the injected polymer. Other materials can be injected or the device can be employed in production service as well as injection. A related method employs the described device for injection.
US10260305B2
A gate valve assembly for use with a tubing hanger with a vertical bore, the gate valve including a housing located externally to the tubing hanger and a gate at least partially locatable in the housing and configured to extend through the tubing hanger and into the tubing hanger vertical bore. The gate valve assembly also includes a seat assembly having a seat and located within the tubing hanger, the seat assembly configured to seal against the gate when the gate is extended into the tubing hanger vertical bore.
US10260297B2
A subsea wellbore system is disclosed in which a return fluid flows from a wellbore to the surface via an annulus between a drill string and a casing and then between the drill string and a riser, wherein the system includes a device configured to prevent flow of the return fluid flowing through the annulus between the drill string and the riser, and a bypass line configured to divert the flow of the return fluid from the annulus between the drill string and the riser to the surface.
US10260293B2
A downhole manifold assembly includes a manifold body defining a longitudinal axis and having a first end face, a second end face, and an outer surface extending therebetween. A fluid circuit is defined in the manifold body and includes a plurality of axially extending fluid passages and a plurality of radially extending fluid passages. The radially extending fluid passages extend to the outer surface of the manifold body. Each radially extending fluid passage defines a respective aperture in the outer surface. The manifold assembly also includes a control valve coupled to the manifold body. The control valve is positionable between a first position in which a flow of pressurized fluid is channeled through the fluid circuit in a first direction, and a second position in which the flow is reversed and the pressurized fluid is channeled through the fluid circuit in a second direction.
US10260291B2
A hard banding apparatus for pipes and other drilling tools. The hard banding apparatus has a floating weld box that moves in response to the shape of the item to be welded. The apparatus can include a drive roller assembly and lift mechanisms that lift and move the weld box or housing to a desired height.
US10260289B1
A drilling system for a mining machine, the mining machine including a frame and a boom moveable coupled to the frame and a drill string positioned in a blast hole. The system includes an air compressor, a drill bit connected to the air compressor configured to receive low pressure air. The drill bit has a nozzle free drilling body, three sealed rotating cones, each cone with a plurality of cutting elements. Each cone having a sealed bit bearing assembly with diaphragm free lubricant spaces. A single central air conduit in the drilling body providing continuous high flow rate low pressure air from the drill string configured to strike the plurality of outer surfaces of the sealed rotating cones upon exit of the high flow rate low pressurize air from the single central air conduit cooling the sealed bit bearing assemblies. A relief conduit is used.
US10260288B2
Systems and methods contain fluids discharged from a subsea well or at the surface by capping the well blowout with a pre-positioned capping device. The capping device includes at least one blind shear ram and is separate from a blowout preventer. The blowout preventer may operate to control well events up to a certain pressure, above which the capping device is employed since the capping device has a higher pressure rating than the blowout preventer.
US10260278B1
A viewing assembly specifically, but not exclusively, structured for viewing through a solid, glass or transparent material panel includes a housing and an outer section collectively disposed in an operative position, respectively on and inner and outer surfaces of the panel. Inner and outer ends of the housing respectively include aligned first and second viewing apertures. A viewing member, structured for restricted, unidirectional viewing there through, is disposed within the housing in aligned relation to the first and second viewing apertures, and may be in the form of a one way mirror. The outer section is disposed in visually covering relation to the inner end of the housing and includes a third viewing aperture, wherein the first, second and third viewing apertures and the viewing member are collectively disposed in visually aligned relation along a predetermined line-of-sight extending through the panel from an interior to an exterior thereof.
US10260276B2
The present invention discloses an integrated multi-function window in the technical field of building material, which overcomes the disadvantages of the existing windows, including complicated structures and time, labor and cost consuming double constructions. The integrated multi-function window includes a first window frame having a first window. A first window cover is mounted at the upper part of the first window frame and first telescopic curtain cloth is located within the first window cover. One side of the first window frame is fixedly connected to the second window frame having a second window. The position of the second window is corresponding to that of the first window. The integrated multi-function window has a simple configuration and multiple functions and is of a low cost and improved reliability.
US10260271B2
A safe may include a body. The body may include a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a top, a bottom, a rear sidewall and a door that may define an interior volume. The door may be hingably connected to the second sidewall. The safe may also include a first side channel and a second side channel. The first side channel may be attached to the first sidewall and the second side channel may be attached to the second sidewall. The safe may also include a segmentation plate that may include a first vertical side rail and a second vertical side rail. The first vertical side rail may be slideably located in the first side channel and the second vertical side rail may be slideably located in the second side channel.
US10260270B2
A mechanism for influencing the opening and/or closing movement of a wing of a door, a window or the like comprises a sliding arm disposed between the wing and a fixed frame, being mounted rotatably on one hand on the wing or frame and on the other hand, guided by a sliding block in a sliding rail disposed on the frame or wing. Here, energy conversion means are assigned to the sliding rail and/or the sliding block, through which the kinetic energy of the sliding block can be converted to electrical energy, and electrical energy produced in this way can be converted to mechanical energy, in order to supply at least one electrical component with electric current, to generate a braking torque and/or to drive the sliding arm, at least in sections, especially to support the closing and/or opening movement.
US10260264B2
A tensioning assembly for winding a winding system includes a support bracket connectable to a fixed frame, a collar portion removably mountable onto a shaft of the winding system proximate to the support bracket, a ratchet wheel, and a pawl component. The collar portion is removably secured onto the shaft. The ratchet wheel is securely mounted onto the collar portion and is rotatable therewith. The ratchet wheel has a plurality of teeth and a plurality of corresponding recesses. The pawl component is operatively mountable on the support bracket and is moveable with respect to said support bracket, the pawl component having an extremity being positioned, shaped and sized with respect to at least one recess of the ratchet wheel for allowing rotation of the shaft along a winding direction, and for blocking rotation of the shaft along an unwinding direction.
US10260262B2
An integrated hinge structure is disclosed herein, comprising a hinge shaft provided on a first connecting member and a hinge arm provided on a second connecting member, the hinge arm being rotatably connected to the hinge shaft, wherein a coupling structure is formed between the hinge shaft and the hinge arm, the coupling structure allowing the hinge arm only to be installed to or detached from the hinge shaft in a certain direction and allowing the installed hinge arm to rotate for any angle or freely while staying connected to the hinge shaft. Furthermore, the hinge shaft and the hinge arm are respectively formed integrally on the corresponding connecting members, providing a simple and firm structure.
US10260259B2
A door handle device for a vehicle includes a door opening prevention mechanism that is provided with an inertia lever being rotatably supported at a base frame, an inertia body being mounted to the inertia lever, and an elastic member elastically biasing the inertia lever toward an initial position where the movement of a link mechanism is not restricted by the inertia lever. The inertia lever includes a center of gravity of the inertia lever being set at a same position as a position of a center of gravity of the outside handle in an extending direction of the outside handle, the center of gravity of the inertia lever being set at a same position as a position of the center of gravity of the outside handle in vehicle upper-lower directions, or being set at a lower position relative to the center of gravity of the outside handle.
US10260242B2
A floor covering comprises at least first and second floorboards. Each floorboard respectively defines opposite longitudinal ends, an exposed outer surface and an opposite underside surface for engaging a subfloor, and comprises mating structures at each lateral side thereof. The first and second floorboards are configured to be adjacently assembled in a side-to-side arrangement with the mating structure of one of the lateral sides of the first floorboard vertically and removably mating with the mating structure of one of the lateral sides of the second floorboard. The floor covering includes at least one clip for being fastened to the subfloor and comprises mating structures at each lateral side thereof for vertically and removably receiving the respective mating structures first and second floorboards at each lateral side thereof.
US10260241B2
An improved resilient wallboard channel constructed and arranged for attachment to a surface of a framing member and accommodating standard fasteners. Included on the present channel is a first, generally planar surface having an elongate edge, an inclined web disposed along the elongate edge and projecting at an oblique angle relative to the first surface, a web edge of the inclined web opposite the first surface is shared with a second, generally planar surface, a stop flange, which is shorter than the inclined web, projects from a stop flange edge of the second surface opposite the inclined web, and the first surface and the web edge are separated by at least ¾-inch measured normally from the framing member surface.
US10260237B2
An adhered roofing system comprising a roof substrate, a thermoplastic membrane including at least one layer that includes a functionalized thermoplastic polymer, and an adhesive securing the membrane to the substrate, where the adhesive includes a cured residue of a polymer having a silicon-containing hydrolyzable terminal group.
US10260231B2
An acoustically absorbent assembly intended to constitute, inside premises, a partition element able to be fixed to at least one partition for producing false partitions, comprising: two fabrics parallel to each other and assembled on an attachment means at a periphery of the two fabrics, the fabrics defining respectively an inner fabric and an outer fabric when the assembly is fixed to the partition, one of the fabrics being free from perforations, wherein the outer fabric is disposed at a given distance from the inner fabric and the outer fabric comprises microperforations configured as an acoustic fabric.
US10260225B2
The present invention relates to a precast concrete member using a PC member, which comprises a prefabricated plate and fixing channels, and is used as a linear member for a column which is an axial force member, as a planar member for a wall which is an axial force member, or as a linear member for a beam or a girder which is a flexural member. A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a premade precast concrete member having a PC body formed at a predetermined length and multiple steel reinforcements embedded within the PC body along the longitudinal direction, the precast concrete member comprising: a plate assembly in which a pair of board-like plates having a pair of coupling holes formed to be penetrated at a regular interval are formed so as to be spaced apart from each other and to face each other, or two pairs of board-like plates are spaced apart from each other so as to face each other, with one end of each thereof being embedded into one or both longitudinal ends of the PC body, and the other ends thereof protruding, wherein the plate assembly comprises a connecting member of which a part embedded into the PC body of the plate is welded to one side of the steel reinforcement, and both ends are respectively bolt-coupled to the coupling holes of a pair of plates so as to connect a part embedded into the PC body of a pair of facing plates; and fixing channels which comprise a U-shaped channel having an opening formed on the top thereof and multiple anchor bodies coupled to the rear surface of the U-shaped channel, the opening of the U-shaped channel comprising a rib which is formed to be bent inwardly, wherein at least two rows of fixing channels are embedded at regular intervals into one side surface of the width direction of the PC body or into at least one pair of corresponding surfaces of the width direction of the PC body.
US10260217B2
A faucet includes a sprayhead removably supported by a positioning arm. The positioning arm is articulated to provide multiple degrees of freedom.
US10260211B2
A fully recoverable modular steel footing and beam system that allows installation of the rapidly deployable prefabricated folding building system on a wide variety of substrates, including bare earth, existing asphalt, and existing concrete. The substrate may show deviation from level and still be accommodated. The invention also includes three-part folding haunch and ridge braces allowing braces to ship attached to building panels resulting in minimal handling, reduced weights, and ability to install roof and walls separately. Roof weight is reduced and so can be handled with a forklift or telehandler, as the only heavy equipment needed to erect the building. Flashings are insulated, factory cut, and drilled for bolts, in alignable pattern to bolt-receiving rivets installed in the corrugated siding and roofing. Bolts and bolt installation locations are color coded.
US10260206B2
A cylindrical cutting system, a bit holder assembly, and machine for milling or scarifying road surfaces are disclosed. A bit holder is attachable to a milling platform, and includes an inward facing surface for engaging a corresponding mating surface of the milling platform. The inward facing surface of the bit holder and the mating surface include aligning fastener and pin openings. A fastener and a pin are inserted within the respective openings to couple the bit holder to the milling platform. The mating surface may define a part of a recess formed in the milling platform. A wear element may be disposed at the leading side of the bit holder. Multiple platforms may be coupled together with axially extended platform fasteners.
US10260204B2
An attachment roller that attaches to a vehicle includes a main body, a plurality of rolling members, and at least one attachment arm. The rolling members are attached to the main body such that movement of the vehicle causes the rolling members to rotate and move the attachment roller. The at least one attachment arm is attached to the vehicle and the main body of the attachment roller. When the attachment roller is attached to the vehicle by the at least one attachment arm, the attachment roller has a path of travel that is not aligned on or within and is substantially parallel to a path of travel of the vehicle.
US10260198B2
A method for producing a wire cable with a core cable or core strand, the method including the steps of: prior to stranding an outer strand layer, applying an intermediate layer of a plastic material to the core cable or core strand; pressing the outer layer into the plastic material during stranding; and, hammering the wire cable, after the outer strand layer has been stranded, to increase the space factor of the wire cable, wherein the hammering step includes hammering with hammers that are moved from different sides toward the wire cable and essentially completely surround the wire cable with adapted curvatures at the instant of their simultaneous impact.
US10260187B2
A foot controller includes: a pedal portion that is to be depressed by a foot thereon; a pedal stand on which one end of the pedal portion is supported so that the pedal portion freely pivots about a pivot portion; a speed control member that controls an operation speed of a sewing machine; and a depression suppression member that regulates and controls a depressing operation of the pedal portion in accordance with the depression speed of the pedal portion. In response to a depressing operation which does not involve an abrupt speed change of the pedal portion, the depression suppression member is not operated and the operation speed of the sewing machine is controlled according to an amount of depression of the pedal portion. In response to a depressing operation which involves an abrupt speed change of the pedal portion, the depression suppression member is operated.
US10260185B2
An anti-puckering apparatus for forming, on a work piece, a line of stitching substantially free from puckering is disclosed. The apparatus includes a removable base which is added to a sewing machine bed surface proximate to a needle and a stitch formation zone. The apparatus also includes a carrier mounted on, and moveable relative to, the base and an endless row of flexible filamentary elements carried by the carrier. The carrier progressively moves subsets of filamentary elements into and out of a stitch formation zone during the formation of a line of stitching. The filamentary elements are presented across a stitch formation zone in advance of an intended line of stitching at an oblique angle relative to a sewing machine bed surface.
US10260183B2
Methods for forming a tubular braid are described. The method for braiding includes providing a braiding mechanism including a disc, a mandrel, and a plurality of actuators. The disc defines a plane and a circumferential edge and the mandrel extends from a center of the disc. A plurality of filaments are loaded on the mandrel, each extending radially toward the circumferential edge and contacting the disc at a point of engagement. The plurality of actuators are operated to engage and move a first subset of filaments in a generally radial direction to a position beyond the circumferential edge. The disc or the engaged first subset are rotated relative to one another, thereby crossing the first subset over a second subset of filaments. The actuators are then operated to move the first subset to a radial position on the circumferential edge different from its previous point of engagement.
US10260171B1
The present invention relates to a method for the continuous production of low thermal conductivity endless filament yarns with a compact, homogeneous structural morphology. The presently disclosed methods utilize safe and recyclable ionic liquids to produce carbon fiber precursors from cellulose. The fibers are produced by the carbonization of cellulose carbon fiber precursors. The precursor fiber filaments have an increased tear resistance with simultaneously sufficient elongation, a round or crenulated cross-section, and homogeneous fiber morphology. The filament yarns exhibit performance characteristics similar to those produced from traditional viscose rayon. The resulting fibers are especially suited for aerospace applications in composite materials used at the limits of high temperatures, for instance in structures found in rocket nozzles or atmospheric reentry heat shields on spacecraft.
US10260169B2
The method of the invention comprises the following steps:(i) cutting the maize stalks so as the less leafy stalk segments, higher than 70 cm, stay on the field;(ii) cutting the less leafy stalk segments as close to the ground as possible;(iii) harvesting the less leafy stalk segments cut in step (ii);(iv) cutting the in step (iii) harvested less leafy stalk segments into 5-50 mm stalk sections;(v) providing a mechanical impact to the stalk sections of step (iv) to obtain a mix containing: f1. said spongy cores forming the superabsorbent pellets fraction, f2. said elongated fiber pieces forming the fibrous matter fraction, f3. and said leaf matter forming the leafy fraction, (vi) separating the 3 fractions from each other; (vii) recovering the three fractions f1-f2-f3; The invention also pertains to the so obtained products and to their uses in treatments of liquids or gases.
US10260168B2
Contemplated microfluidic devices and methods are drawn to protein arrays in which distinct and detergent-containing antigen preparations are deposited onto an optical contrast layer in a non-specific and non-covalent manner. Detection of binding a is carried out using a dye that precipitates or agglomerates to so form a visually detectable signal at a dynamic range of at least three orders of magnitude.
US10260164B2
Methods and apparatus for deposition processes are provided herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus may include a substrate support comprising a susceptor plate having a pocket disposed in an upper surface of the susceptor plate and having a lip formed in the upper surface and circumscribing the pocket, the lip configured to support a substrate on the lip; and a plurality of vents extending from the pocket to the upper surface of the susceptor plate to exhaust gases trapped between the backside of the substrate and the pocket when a substrate is disposed on the lip. Methods of utilizing the inventive apparatus for depositing a layer on a substrate are also disclosed.
US10260158B2
An anode clamp configured for clamping an anode rod to an anode bus, the anode clamp comprising a first rotating mechanism and a second rotating mechanism. The first rotating mechanism is configured to be rotated by a user and is in contact with the second rotating mechanism. When the first rotating mechanism is rotated, it causes the second rotating mechanism to rotate. The second rotating mechanism as a pawl which is configured for being rotated downwards to apply pressure on an anode rod located below the pawl.
US10260156B2
A system and process are disclosed for electrochemically upgrading bio-oils and bio-crudes that enhance yields of selected reduction products for subsequent production of bio-based fuels.
US10260153B2
The invention relates to compositions and methods that are useful in etching a metal surface. In particular, the invention relates to novel acid compositions and methods of using such compositions in etching a metal surface, preferably an aluminum surface prior to anodizing to dissolve impurities, imperfections, scale, and oxide. The compositions are effective in maintaining their etching capacity and in removing smut produced by the etching of a surface as well as in general cleaning.
US10260152B2
A method, and corresponding apparatus, of fabricating a structure by chemical wet etching starting from a material rod of millimetric or sub-millemetric size, the method comprising: dipping an end portion (170) of the material rod (128,129) into a vessel (105) containing an etchant liquid (110) and a protective overlayer (175) floating on top of the etchant liquid, imparting a relative rotational movement of the etchant liquid with respect to the end portion (170) of the material rod immersed therein, wherein said imparting a relative rotational movement comprises imparting to the etchant liquid a rotational movement component with respect to a static reference system.
US10260148B2
A porous material, including metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous organic polymer (POP), with reactivity with or sorptive affinity towards (a) electronic gas to substantially remove or abate electronic gas in an electronic gas-containing effluent, or (b) contaminants in a stream of electronic gas to substantially remove the contaminants from a stream of electronic gas and increase the purity of said electronic gas, or (c) trace mercury contaminant in a hydrocarbon stream to substantially remove said mercury contaminant and increase the purity of said hydrocarbon stream. MOFs are the coordination product of metal ions and multidentate organic ligands, whereas POPs are the product of polymerization between organic monomers.
US10260145B2
A film formation apparatus includes a chamber that is a sealed container in which a target formed of a film formation material is placed, and into which the workpiece is carried, a gas discharging unit discharging a gas in the sealed container for a predetermined time period after the workpiece is carried into the chamber to obtain a base pressure, and a sputter gas introducing unit introducing a sputter gas containing oxygen to the interior of the chamber having undergone the discharging and becoming the base pressure. The sputter gas introducing unit decreases an oxygen partial pressure in the sputter gas to be introduced in the chamber in accordance with an increase in the base pressure due to an increase of the film formation material sticking to the interior of the chamber.
US10260139B2
An article may include a substrate including a ceramic or a CMC; a bond layer on the substrate; and a diffusion barrier layer between the substrate and the bond layer. The diffusion barrier layer may include at least one of molybdenum metal, tantalum metal, tungsten metal, or niobium metal. In some examples, the article may include a stabilizing layer that includes at least one of a silicide of molybdenum (MoSi2), tantalum (TaSi2), tungsten (WSi2), or niobium (NbSi2), between the diffusion barrier layer and the bond layer.
US10260135B2
A method for manufacturing a surgical needle produced from a wire made of a hyperelastic or superelastic alloy including a Ni—Ti alloy base includes: carrying out a cold shaping or a shaping at ambient temperature of the curved profile of the needle in an appropriate support; subjecting the needle in its support to a thermal treatment in order to memorize the imposed curved-profile geometry; cleaning the needle via a chemical stripping of the electrochemical or electrolytic polishing type or via a chemical solution in order to remove the layer of oxide deposited on the needle during its thermal treatment.
US10260123B2
A rolled steel bar for machine structural use includes a predetermined chemical composition comprising, by mass %, C: 0.45% to 0.65%, Si: higher than 1.00% to 1.50%, Mn: higher than 0.40% to 1.00%, P: 0.005% to 0.050%, S: 0.020% to 0.100%, V: 0.08% to 0.20%, Ti: 0% to 0.050%; Ca: 0% to 0.0030%, Zr: 0% to 0.0030%, Te: 0% to 0.0030%, and a remainder including Fe and impurities, wherein the impurities include: Cr: 0.10% or lower, Al: lower than 0.01%, and N: 0.0060% or lower. In the rolled steel bar for machine structural use, K1 obtained from “K1=C+Si/7+Mn/5+1.54×V” is 0.95 to 1.05, K2 obtained from “K2=139−28.6×Si+105×Mn−833×S−13420×N” is more than 35, K3 obtained from “K3=137×C−44.0×Si” is 10.7 or more, a Mn content and a S content satisfy Mn/S≥8.0, and a total decarburized depth in a surface layer is 500 μm or less.
US10260119B2
The present invention relates to a maraging steel containing, in terms of mass %, 0.20≤C≤0.35, 9.0≤Co≤20.0, 1.0≤(Mo+W/2)≤2.0, 1.0≤Cr≤4.0, and a certain amount of Ni, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which in a case where the contents of V and Nb satisfy V+Nb≤0.020 mass %, the amount of Ni is 6.0≤Ni≤9.4, and in which in a case where the contents of V and Nb satisfy 0.020 mass %
US10260118B2
A formed and hardened component made from a metallic material is post-treated by a device for electric resistance heating that has at least one first pair of contact pieces and at least one second pair of contact pieces; contacting a first partial region of the component with the contact pieces of the first pair such that the first partial region is arranged between the contact pieces of the first pair; contacting the second partial region of the component with the contact pieces of the second pair such that the second partial region is arranged between the contact pieces of the second pair; heating of the first partial region of the component to a first temperature by conducting electric current through the component by the first pair of contact pieces; setting the second partial region of the component to a second temperature by the second pair of contact pieces, which is set independently of the first temperature.
US10260116B2
An apparatus for shaving a tap hole surface of a blast furnace or the like wherein efficiency can be improved, and a worker can be freed from physically burdensome work in the vicinity of the lower furnace wall of a blast furnace under high temperature. The apparatus includes a surface shaving unit having smoothing bits, and a rotating mechanism unit that, when the surface shaving unit is pressed against the tap hole surface, rotates the surface shaving unit, by utilizing the pressing force, by a predetermined angle in a predetermined direction substantially parallel to the surface, and holds the surface shaving unit at the rotated position. The rotating mechanism unit eliminates the need for work such that every time a conventional surface shaving unit is separated from the tap hole surface after being pressed against the surface, a worker manually rotates the surface shaving unit by a predetermined angle.
US10260115B2
A process for leather production from a raw animal hide includes the steps of pre-soaking, soaking, unhairing and liming, re-liming, deliming and bating, pickling and tanning, degreasing, re-tanning, neutralizing, dyeing and fatliquoring, and washing the processed hide. Waste liquid is collected from at least one of the foregoing steps is recycled to at least one of the foregoing steps. The collected waste liquid can be recycled to the same step, to a different step, or to two of more steps in the process.
US10260112B2
The present invention discloses novel oligonucleotide primer sequences BC1, BC2 and BC3 for the identification of Bacillus coagulans. The invention also discloses a PCR based method for the identification of Bacillus coagulants using the aforesaid primers, wherein positive amplification with primer sets BC1, BC2 and negative amplification with primer set BC3 confirms the presence of Bacillus coagulans.
US10260110B2
The present invention provides an artificial exogenous reference molecule for type and abundance comparison among different species of microorganisms. The artificial exogenous reference molecule includes several species detection regions and several linker sequence regions, where the species detection regions and the linker sequence regions are arranged alternately; at least two species detection regions are provided and are species detection regions for different species; and the linker sequence regions are random sequences different from species sequences to be detected. The species detection region includes a primer sequence region and a specific recognition region; the sequence length of the specific recognition region simulates the characteristic detection sequence length of the corresponding species to be detected; and the sequence of the specific recognition region has obviously specific difference from the DNA sequence of a genome in the species to be detected without homology. The artificial exogenous reference molecule provided by the present invention may simultaneously contain universal primer sequence regions of two or more different microorganisms, also contains an artificially recognizable specific sequence, and is used for type and abundance comparison among different species of microorganisms.
US10260109B2
This disclosure is in the field of molecular biology and medical diagnosis and provides means and methods for determining the prognosis and disease outcome of a subject having a melanoma. More in particular, this disclosure provides a method for determining whether a subject having a melanoma has a poor prognosis, the method comprising the step of determining in a sample from the subject whether the LY75 promoter is methylated and if the LY75 promoter is methylated, classifying the subject as having a poor prognosis.
US10260106B2
A method for diagnosing and treating prostate cancer in a human subject is provided, the method comprises: a. providing a sample of prostate tissue, blood, or urine from the subject; b. determining the level of expression of SEQ ID NO: 1 and the expression of SEQ ID NO: 5 in the sample, wherein an increased level of expression of SEQ ID NO:1 and a reduced level of expression of SEQ ID NO: 5 in the sample is indicative of a diagnosis that the subject has prostate cancer; and c. administering a therapeutically effective prostate cancer treatment selected from the group consisting of an androgen receptor (AR)-targeted therapy, an antimicrotubule agent, an alkylating agent and an anthracenedione to the subject to treat the prostate cancer in the human subject diagnosed with prostate cancer.
US10260104B2
The present disclosure includes assays that involve measurement of expression levels of prognostic biomarkers, or co-expressed biomarkers, from a biological sample obtained from a prostate cancer patient, and analysis of the measured expression levels to provide information concerning the likely prognosis for the patient, and likelihood that the patient will have a recurrence of prostate cancer, or to classify the tumor by likelihood of clinical outcome or TMPRSS2 fusion status.
US10260083B1
The present disclosure provides compositions including recombinant K or 812 bacteriophages, methods for making the same, and uses thereof. The recombinant K or 812 bacteriophages disclosed herein are useful for the identification and/or antibiotic susceptibility profiling of specific bacterial strains/species present in a sample.
US10260079B2
The present disclosure relates to an improved method for producing ergothioneine, comprising the steps of: (a) inoculating Pleurotus ostreatus strain CGMCC No.6232 into a seed medium, and culturing it to prepare a seed liquor, wherein the seed medium uses soybean cake powder as nitrogen source; and (b) inoculating the seed liquor into a fermentation basal medium, and then culturing it to obtain a fermentation broth of Pleurotus ostreatus mycelia. Further, any one or more members selected from NH4Cl, NH4NO3, NaCl, polyethylene glycol, folic acid, vitamin B1 (VB1), indolebutyric acid, citric acid, pyruvic acid, arginine, lysine, leucine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, betaine, histidine, cysteine, methionine, tween, span, chitosan, Fluconazole, Miconazole, Ketoconazole, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), isopropyl alcohol and dimethyl sulfoxide are added into the fermentation basal medium.
US10260074B2
The invention provides an adenovirus or adenoviral vector characterized by comprising one or more particular nucleic acid sequences or one or more particular amino acid sequences, or portions thereof, pertaining to, for example, an adenoviral pIX protein, DNA polymerase protein, penton protein, hexon protein, and/or fiber protein.
US10260067B2
Methods for enhancing wound healing, e.g., in diabetic subjects, by administering an antagonist of miR-26a, e.g., an inhibitory nucleic acid that targets miR-26a.
US10260066B2
The present invention, at least in part, relates to the discovery of efficacious delivery of an RNAi agent (in preferred aspects of the invention, an siRNA) to a transplantable tissue. Organ rejection, transplantation-mediated transmission of viral infection, and triggering of apoptosis in transplanted tissues can each be minimized by the methods and compositions of the instant invention. The RNAi agent(s) of the instant invention can be delivered as “naked” molecules, or using liposomal and other modes of delivery, to transplantable tissues. Such delivery can occur via perfusion of the RNAi agent in solution through the vasculature of a whole or partial organ; or tissues including transplantable cells and cell lines may be bathed, injected or otherwise treated with RNAi agents. Preferred transplantable tissues include, for example, pancreas, liver, kidney, heart, lung, and all cells and cell lines derived from such tissues (e.g., pancreatic islet cells that may, e.g., be transplanted as a treated population).
US10260065B2
This invention provides sets and libraries of short hairpin ribonucleic acid (shRNA) molecules comprising a double-stranded region of random sequence containing random mismatches, methods of generating same, sets and libraries of expression vectors for same, methods of generating same, and methods for identifying an RNA therapeutic or RNA molecule that has an ability to affect a biological parameter, for identifying a drug target for a disease or disorder of interest, and for identifying a variant of an RNA molecule that has an altered ability to affect a biological parameter of interest.
US10260058B2
The present invention relates to beta-glucosidase variants, e.g., beta-glucosidase variants of a parent Family GH3A beta-glucosidase from Aspergillus fumigatus. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the beta-glucosidase variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the beta-glucosidase variants.
US10260051B2
The present invention relates to bacteriophage therapy. More particularly, the present invention relates to novel bacteriophages having a high specificity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains, their manufacture, components thereof, compositions comprising the same and the uses thereof in phage therapy.
US10260041B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of cell biology of stem cells, more specifically the directed differentiation of pluripotent or multipotent stem cells, including human embryonic stem cells (hESC), somatic stem cells, and induced human pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) using novel culture conditions. Specifically, methods are provided for obtaining neural tissue, floor plate cells, and placode including induction of neural plate development in hESCs for obtaining midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons, motorneurons, and sensory neurons. Further, neural plate tissue obtained using methods of the present inventions are contemplated for use in co-cultures with other tissues as inducers for shifting differentiation pathways, i.e. patterning.
US10260033B1
A method and apparatus are disclosed for the collection of light scattered from a liquid sample contained within a multiwell plate for which evaporation from the wells is mitigated by the application of a barrier between the liquid sample and the environment. A vertical thermal gradient is applied across the vessel so that condensation is inhibited from forming on the interior surface of the barrier, thus permitting clear illumination of the sample for visual imaging, fluorescence studies and light scattering detection.
US10260032B1
Arrays of closely-spaced holes or cross-grain grooves are formed on the inside surfaces of the staves of a barrel, and/or on an elongated wooden member to greatly increase the amount of end grain wood exposed to the liquid and thereby increase the rate of aging the liquid. The holes and grooves in the staves extend only pa.it-way through the wood in order to maintain the structural integrity of the staves. The amount of end grain wood exposed is selected to produce the desired degree of aging in the desired amount of time. Used barrels can be reconstructed by cutting grooves in the inside surface of the barrel's side wall to expose new end grain wood To produce aging during re-use of the barrel.
US10260028B2
The present invention relates to a process for making soap bar compositions comprising bar matrix comprising predominantly long chain length soap and interspersed regions comprising predominantly shorter chain soaps. The novel bars of the invention are sufficiently hard to survive large scale manufacturing while simultaneously delivering benefits of significant foam value enhancement, for example, due to delivery of short-chain soaps from concentrated regions. Surprisingly, even when soaps in concentrated regions comprise small percentage of overall soap used, they form observable kappa phase pattern.
US10260027B2
The invention provides a substrate detergent composition used for cleaning a surface of a substrate, comprising: (A) A quaternary ammonium salt: 0.1 to 2.0% by mass; (B) Water: 0.1 to 4.0% by mass; and (C) An organic solvent: 94.0 to 99.8% by mass. There can be provided a substrate detergent composition used for cleaning a surface of a substrate contaminated with a silicone component whose water contact angle is 100° or more.
US10260003B2
A reactor is provided for the preparation of modified bitumen, which reactor comprises a horizontal housing comprising a cylindrical wall and two side walls, wherein a bitumen inlet has been provided at or near one of the side walls of the housing and a bitumen product outlet has been provided at or near the opposite side wall of the housing, wherein a plurality of inlets for the provision of oxygen-containing gas has been provided in the cylindrical wall of the housing between the bitumen inlet and the bitumen product outlet, which multi-purpose reactor is further provided with a mixer arranged inside the housing comprising at least one rotor rotating within at least one stator having a plurality of openings. The reaction is used to prepare modified bitumen by contacting bitumen in the reactor with a modified elevated temperature and pressure.
US10259999B2
A method is presented for storage and on-demand release of nanoparticles. Nanoparticles produced by this method can be dried and stored for an extended period of time and subsequently released on-demand in a solvent of choice to form stable suspensions without the need for additional surfactants or stabilizers and without any loss in functionality or material properties. This method can be used to store various categories of nanomaterials including metals, metal oxides, metal chalcogenides, magnetic, polymeric and semiconductor nanoparticles.
US10259992B2
A method of extracting hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation comprises introducing a solution comprising a silicon-containing compound into the subterranean formation. The silicon-containing compound may comprise a terminal group comprising one of an alkanoate group, a fluoroalkanoate group, and a perfluoroalkanoate group, and one or more of an alkoxy group and a chlorine atom bonded to a silicon atom. The method comprises attaching the silicon-containing compound to one or more of formation surfaces of the subterranean formation to form an oleophilic surface on the one or more of the formation surfaces and the surfaces of proppant particles.
US10259991B2
Multifunctional proppants made up of proppant particles that are at least partially coated by a biocide, a breaker, and a cross-linking agent. These components can be positioned around the proppant particles so they function in a sequential or time-release manner. The multifunctional proppants can be provided in fracturing fluids to form or maintain one or more fractures in a subterranean zone penetrated by a well bore and which can minimize or inhibiting bacterial growth.
US10259988B2
A system and method for hydrating a hydratable material are provided in which a first hydration fluid is heated prior to mixing with the hydratable material to produce a hydration mixture. The hydration mixture is subsequently mixed with a second hydration fluid to produce a well injection fluid having a hydrated hydratable material. Generally, the first hydration fluid will be at about ambient temperature before it is heated and the second hydration fluid will be at about at about ambient temperature when it is mixed with the hydration mixture. Typically, the first hydration fluid will be a minor part of the hydration fluid content of the well injection fluid and the second hydration fluid will be a major part of the hydration fluid content of the well injection fluid.
US10259987B2
An amine adduct is made by (1) forming an addition intermediate by heating a mixture comprising at least one diene and at least one unsaturated fatty acyl compound, and reacting the addition intermediate with a diamine to form the amine adduct, or by (2) reacting at least one unsaturated fatty acyl compound with at least one diamine to form an amine intermediate, and heating a mixture of the amidoamine intermediate and at least one diene to form the amine adduct, or by (3) reacting at least one unsaturated fatty tertiary amine compound with at least at least one diene to form the amine adduct. A surfactant composition is derived from the amine adduct and is particularly useful in a method for enhancing the recovery of oil from a reservoir having a production wellbore, comprising introducing an aqueous flooding fluid into the reservoir at one or more locations different from the location of the production wellbore, said fluid comprising the surfactant composition and recovering the oil through the production wellbore.
US10259983B2
Methods and systems of treating a well are provided. A method comprises providing a packer fluid comprising a fluorous oil; and introducing the packer fluid into a wellbore. The method further comprises introducing the packer fluid into the wellbore may further comprise introducing the packer fluid into a volume above a packer and inside a casing.
US10259978B2
An adhesive film, an optical member including the same, and an optical display including the same are disclosed. The adhesive film has a folding evaluation parameter 1 of about 900% to about 1,300% at 25° C., as calculated by Equation 1 and a folding evaluation parameter 2 of about 40% to about 95% at 60° C., as calculated by Equation 2, and includes a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylic copolymer.
US10259977B2
Provided is an adhesive composition including: a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based photo-curable resin; and an oxygen-free di-functional diene-based rubber hardener.
US10259969B2
A composition for use as an assay reagent includes a paramagnetic solid support comprising a coating of a synthetic copolymer. The synthetic copolymer comprises two or three of a first copolymerized monomer, a second copolymerized monomer and a third copolymerized monomer and further comprises a polyethylenic backbone.
US10259962B2
There is provided a printed medium manufacturing method for manufacturing a printed medium by performing printing with ink with respect to a permeable medium, which is a recording medium that permeates the ink, the method including an ink attaching process of attaching the ink to the permeable medium, a pigment fixing process of fixing a pigment in the ink to the permeable medium with a binder resin in the ink by heating the ink attached to the permeable medium in the ink attaching process, and a dye color developing process of causing the permeable medium itself to develop color with the dye in the ink by heating the ink attached to the permeable medium in the ink attaching process.
US10259960B2
An ink jet aqueous ink includes a pigment and a water-soluble organic solvent. The pigment includes a self-dispersible pigment having a carboxylic acid group directly bonded to a particle surface of carbon black having a DBP oil absorption of 120 mL/100 g or more to 150 mL/100 g or less, and has a surface charge amount of 0.20 mmol/g or more to 0.25 mmol/g or less, the water-soluble organic solvent contains a first water-soluble organic solvent having a relative dielectric constant of 28.0 or more at a temperature of 25° C., and a ratio of a content of the first water-soluble organic solvent to a total content of the water-soluble organic solvent is 50.0 mass % or more to 60.0 mass % or less.
US10259958B2
The present invention relates to a radiation curable ink composition comprising an ester compound, that is suitable for printing high gloss images. The invention further relates to a method for making such ink composition and a printing method using such ink composition.
US10259954B2
An ink composition and an adhesion promoter are provided. The adhesion promoter is suitable for production while remaining the stronger adhesion. The adhesion promoter is formed by the reaction of at least one alpha hydroxy acid, at least one alpha hydroxy acid ester, and a polymer having hydroxyl group, amino group, carboxyl group, or a combination thereof with a metal alkoxide. By combining the renewable and green alpha hydroxy acid and safer plasticizing alpha hydroxy acid ester, and the polymer as reagents to react with the metal alkoxide, the eco-friendly and non-toxic adhesion promoter with superior adhesion for use in ink composition can be obtained. The ink composition includes the adhesion promoter, a pigment, a polymeric binder, and a solvent for the polymeric binder. The ink composition is odorless and colorless, and shows good wet crinkle resistance. Especially, the ink composition is suitable for printing on the food package.
US10259953B2
An ink composition and an adhesion promoter are provided. The adhesion promoter is suitable for production while remaining the stronger adhesion. The adhesion promoter is formed by the reaction of at least one alpha hydroxy acid and at least one alpha hydroxy acid ester with the metal alkoxide. More specifically, by combining the renewable and green alpha hydroxy acid and safer plasticizing alpha hydroxy acid ester as reagent to react with the metal alkoxide, the eco-friendly and non-toxic adhesion promoter with superior adhesion for use in ink composition can be obtained. The ink composition includes the adhesion promoter, a pigment, a polymeric binder, and a solvent for the polymeric binder. The ink composition is odorless and colorless, and shows good wet crinkle resistance. Especially, the ink composition is suitable for printing on the food package.
US10259945B2
A pigment particle composition which comprises calcium carbonate particles and pigment particles, its method of manufacture and its use. According to the present invention, the calcium carbonate particles are carbonated so that they bind to each other, in which case calcium carbonate structures are generated, which comprise pigment particles and which form essentially opaque and stable pigment-calcium carbonate aggregates. It is possible to manufacture the composition by atomizing calcium hydroxide-bearing pigment slurry into a carbon dioxide-bearing gas, in which case the calcium hydroxide is carbonated in order to precipitate the calcium hydroxide particles to be attached to each other and the carbonation is continued until essentially all of the calcium hydroxide has been converted into calcium carbonate. The composition is suitable for use, among others, in paints, coating materials, fillers, polymers and printing inks.
US10259944B2
Provided is an external additive for toner, which is suitable for producing a toner having excellent storage stability and chargeability. A silica fine powder suitable for being added to the external additive for toner is also provided. The silica fine powder has a specific surface area of 15 m2/g or more and 90 m2/g or less, a loose bulk density of 0.09 g/cm3 or more and 0.18 g/cm3 or less, a carbon content of 0.25 wt % or more and 0.90 wt % or less, and a hydrophobicity of 60% or more and 75% or less. It is preferable that a ratio (A)/(B) of the loose bulk density of the silica fine powder after surface treatment (A) to a loose bulk density of the silica fine powder before the surface treatment (B) be 1.05 or more and 1.60 or less.
US10259939B1
A pearlescent composition for making plastic containers includes a polyester component and a pearlescent component. The pearlescent component is in an amount ranging from 1 wt % to 10 wt % based on the total weight of the pearlescent composition. The pearlescent component includes at least two materials selected from polymethylpentene, a polyolefin-based material different from polymethylpentene, a silicone rubber, and polymethylmethacrylate.
US10259938B2
Provided herein are high flow and ductile thermoplastic resin compositions for the formation of thin wall articles and articles with desirable impact strengths. These compositions are useful in the manufacture of various shaped, formed and/or molded articles.
US10259937B2
The present invention relates to resin-modifying particles, each of which contains a glycidyl group-containing polymer (B) and a core-shell copolymer (C) at a composite state, and a vinyl chloride resin composition containing a vinyl chloride resin (A) and the resin-modifying particles, and the like.
US10259931B2
The invention relates to a composition comprising an organic material susceptible to oxidative, thermal or light-induced degradation and a compound of formula I-P, I-O or I-M Further embodiments are a compound of formula I-P, I-O or I-M, a process for protection of the organic material by the compound, the use of the compound for stabilizing the organic material, an additive composition comprising the compound, a process for manufacturing the compound and intermediates involved therein.
US10259917B2
A prepreg having at least one layer of carbon fibers and a curable thermosetting resin system, the curable thermosetting resin system at least partly impregnating the at least one layer of carbon fibers, wherein the curable thermosetting resin system includes: a curable thermosetting resin including at least one epoxide group, the curable thermosetting resin having an epoxy equivalent weight of from 140 to 180 g/eq; a curing agent for curing the curable thermosetting resin, wherein the curing agent is present in the liquid phase and includes a cyanamide reactive group; and a rheology modifier for the curable thermosetting resin system, wherein the rheology modifier includes at least one of a thermoplastic resin and an inorganic particulate thickener or a mixture thereof.
US10259913B2
Disclosed herein are nanoactuating rotaxanes comprising a threading component, the threading component comprising a oligoviologen, and at least two macrocylic components, wherein the oligoviologen is threaded through each of the macrocylic components. Also disclosed are methods for making and using the rotaxanes.
US10259910B2
Disclosed is a moisture curable composition comprising a reactive or curable silicone; a crosslinker; an unreactive silicone; and at least of an initial strength-imparting agent and a plasticizer. The composition can have superior waterproofing property and weatherproofing property and allows easy installation on a substrate and easy peeling from the substrate.
US10259904B2
A binder for capacitive deionization electrode is provided, which is formed by reacting a polyether polyol, a diisocyanate, and a diol having a hydrophobic side chain. The binder may bind an electrode material and to form a capacitive deionization electrode. The electrode material and the binder may have a weight ratio of 90:5 to 90:25.
US10259890B2
The invention provides a crosslinked polymer, a hydrogel, a water-based fracturing fluid comprising the same, and methods of making and using thereof. The crosslinked polymer of the invention is represented by formula (I), wherein * denotes a combining site with a polymer starting material and *′ denotes an optional combining site with the polymer starting material, wherein the combining sites denoted by * and *′ may be located in the same polymer molecule, or in different polymer molecules, but there are at least two combining sites located in different polymer molecules; X1 and X2, which may be the same or different, are independently an oxy (—O—) or imino (—NH—) group; X3 is an oxy (—O—) or imino (—NH—) group when *′ denotes a combining site with the polymer starting material, or X3 is a halogen, NH2 or OH when *′ isn't a combining site with the polymer starting material. The crosslinked polymer of the invention can be used in water-based fracturing fluid, in personal care products, household care products and pet care products, in reusable hydraulic fracturing flowback fluid, in gel explosives or in fire extinguishing mortar.
US10259888B2
A compound comprising one or more polysaccharide moieties each independently represented by the formula β(1→4)-[GlcNH—R]n-2,5-anhydromannose, wherein n is a positive integer from 3 to 500, and R is H or an acyl group, is described. The compound can be manufactured by (a) reacting chitosan with an acylating agent sufficient to partially N-acylate the chitosan, yielding a modified chitin/chitosan mixed polymer; and (b) reacting the modified chitin/chitosan mixed polymer with a deaminating agent to cleave the mixed polymer at the unacylated chitosan moieties. The compound can be used to immunize against fungal infection. Antibodies specific to the compound, and the use of such antibodies to protect against fungal infection are also described.
US10259881B2
There is disclosed compositions and methods relating to or derived from anti-CD137 antibodies. More specifically, there is disclosed fully human antibodies that bind CD137, CD137-antibody binding fragments and derivatives of such antibodies, and CD137-binding polypeptides comprising such fragments. Further still, there is disclosed nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, cells comprising such polynucleotides, methods of making such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, and methods of using such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, including methods of treating a disease requiring either stimulation of immune responses or suppression. Diseases amenable to treatment is selected from the group consisting of cancers, autoimmune diseases and viral infections.
US10259879B2
Improved anti-CD154 antibodies are provided herein which have ablated FcR binding and/or complement binding/activation. The use of these antibodies for inducing tolerance and treating immune diseases including autoimmunity, inflammation and allergic disorders is disclosed herein.
US10259878B2
The present invention provides anti-RANKL monoclonal antibodies and related compositions, which may be used in any of a variety of therapeutic methods for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases.
US10259877B2
The present invention relates to methods of migraine prophylaxis using anti-CGRP receptor antibodies or binding fragments. In particular, methods for preventing or reducing the occurrence of migraine headache in a patient in need thereof comprising administering to the patient an anti-CGRP receptor or binding fragment according to specific dosage regimens are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions and administration devices comprising anti-CGRP receptor antibodies or binding fragments for use in the methods are also described.
US10259876B2
The invention provides Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CARs) that specifically bind to EGFRvIII (Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Variant III). The invention further relates to engineered immune cells comprising such CARs, CAR-encoding nucleic acids, and methods of making thereof, engineered immune cells, and nucleic acids. The invention further relates to therapeutic methods for using these CARs and engineered immune cells for the treatment of EGFRvIII-mediated pathologies, including cancers such as glioblastoma.
US10259875B2
Materials and methods for treating cancer especially in patients identified as having elevated levels of Bim are disclosed. Specifically, the disclosure provides a method for treating a mammal having cancer, the method comprises: (a) identifying said mammal as containing an elevated level of Bim, and (b) administering to said mammal an anti-B7-H1 antibody, an anti-PD-1 antibody, an anti-CD80 antibody, or a fusion protein comprising a portion of PD1 or a portion of CD80, under conditions wherein the interaction of naturally occurring B7-H1 with PD-1 or CD80 in said mammal is reduced after said administering.
US10259871B2
The present disclosure provides antibodies specific for an epitope present on CD22. The antibodies are useful in various treatment, diagnostic, and monitoring applications, which are also provided.
US10259869B2
The present invention provides antibodies or antibody fragments binding to human IL-17C. In particular, it relates to antibodies or antibody fragments that have combined beneficial properties and are therefore useful for the treatment of humans having, for example, atopic dermatitis or psoriasis.
US10259865B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the treatment of infection caused by Streptococcus pneumonia. In particular, the invention provides human hyperimmune globulin and compositions thereof for preventing or treating pneumococcal infection. The invention provides methods of producing hyperimmune globulin containing high titers of opsonophagocytic anti-pneumococcal antibodies, compositions containing same, and methods of using the compositions for the prevention and treatment of pneumococcal infection. The invention further provides methods of preventing or treating pneumococcal infection (e.g., upper respiratory infections (e.g., bronchitis, otitis, sinusitis, etc.)) in immunocompromised subjects via administration of hyperimmune globulin compositions of the invention (e.g., containing a high titer of opsonophagocytic anti-pneumococcal antibodies) to immunocompromised subjects.
US10259864B2
Campylobacter jejuni is a leading cause of bacterial food-borne diseases in humans, ranging from acute diarrheal disease to neurological disorders. An isolated or purified antibody or fragment thereof specific to C. jejuni is described. The antibody or fragment thereof binds to a flagellar protein and reduces motility of C. jejuni. The antibody or fragment thereof is derived from a heavy chain IgG variable domain fragment (VHH) of a camelid animal immunized with C. jejuni flagellar protein. A multivalent form, as well as a phage format, of the antibody or fragment thereof is described. Methods of reducing presence of C. jejuni in an animal or an animal environment, methods and formulations for treating C. jejuni infection, and method of detecting C. jejuni are also described.
US10259860B2
The present application discloses an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide capable of synchronously binding VEGF polypeptide and Angiopoietin polypeptide, which includes a nucleotide sequence encoding a Tie2 component and a VEGFR component.
US10259852B2
The P21 protein is used as a medicament in the treatment of cancer, conjugate comprises a first region comprising the P21 protein, or a homolog functional fragment thereof; and a second region comprising a translocation factor.
US10259850B2
Provided are a modified DKK2 polypeptide according to an aspect, a nucleic acid encoding the same, a preparation method thereof, and use thereof. Accordingly, a modified DKK2 protein having an additional glycosyl group or improved binding affinity for a substrate LRP6 may be efficiently prepared, thereby being used for promoting angiogenesis or preventing or treating vascular permeability-related diseases.
US10259847B2
Beta-hairpin peptidomimetics of the general formula (I), cyclo[P1-P2-P3-P4-P5-P6-P7-P8-P9-P10-P11-P12-T1-T2], and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, with P1 to P12, T1 and T2 being elements as defined in the description and the claims, have Gram-negative antimicrobial activity to e.g. inhibit the growth or to kill microorganisms such as Klebsiella pneumoniae and/or Acinetobacter baumannii and/or Escherichia coli. They can be used as medicaments to treat or prevent infections or as disinfectants for foodstuffs, cosmetics, medicaments or other nutrient-containing materials. These peptidomimetics can be manufactured by a process which is based on a mixed solid- and solution phase synthetic strategy.
US10259846B2
The present invention is directed at bouvardin analogs arid related compounds for the treatment of disorders including cancer. Provided herein are bouvardin analogs and related compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and kits comprising at least one bouvardin analog or related compound, and methods for treating disorders including cancer. In some aspects the compounds inhibit translation elongation at the ribosome. The compounds are used in combination with radiation therapy or with known chemotherapeutic compositions.
US10259844B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for selectively targeting an endometriosis cell.
US10259843B2
Cyclic tetrapeptide stereochemical isomers of CJ-15,208, pharmaceutical compositions from such cyclic tetrapeptides, and methods of using such pharmaceutical compositions. The cyclic tetrapeptide compounds and pharmaceutical compositions disclosed herein are potent analgesics active in several pain models with generally minimal tolerance and reduced likelihood to induce addiction relative to other known opiates.
US10259842B2
Described herein is a method for separating a recombinantly produced polypeptide from host cell protein. The method includes a step of loading a clarified cell culture supernatant that includes the recombinantly produced polypeptide and the HCP onto a Protein A chromatography column and washing the Protein A chromatography column with a wash buffer comprising a fatty acid having a chain length of at least about 6 carbon atoms, or a fatty acid salt thereof to remove HCP and then recovering the recombinantly produced polypeptide.
US10259837B2
A method of extracting at least one rhamnolipid compound from a rhamnolipid fermentation mixture, the method comprising the steps of: (a) admixing an inert adsorbing support with a rhamnolipid fermentation mixture; (b) dissolving the mixture in an organic solvent at a temperature higher than 31° C. and at a pressure higher than 73 bars; (c) separating at least one fatty compound; (d) adding a co-solvent to said organic solvent; (e) modifying temperature and/or pressure; (f) separating a first rhamnolipid compound; and (g) separating a second rhamnolipid compound.
US10259826B2
The present invention provides methods of treating or preventing autoimmune diseases with 2,4-pyrimidinediamine compounds, as well as methods of treating, preventing or ameliorating symptoms associated with such diseases. Specific examples of autoimmune diseases that can be treated or prevented with the compounds include rheumatoid arthritis and/or its associated symptoms, systemic lupus erythematosis and/or its associated symptoms and multiple sclerosis and/or its associated symptoms.
US10259824B2
The disclosure provides for compounds that bind with a high affinity to the C3d component of complement. The disclosure further provides for the use of the C3d-binding compounds as therapeutic and/or diagnostic agents for complement-mediated diseases or disorders.
US10259821B2
Novel tetrahydroisoquinoline derivative compounds are disclosed herein that may be used as an active ingredient for a pharmaceutical composition, and in particular, for a pharmaceutical composition useful for preventing or treating a disease or condition responsive to modulation of the contractility of the skeletal sarcomere. This may be accomplished, for example, by modulation of the troponin complex of the fast skeletal muscle sarcomere through one or more of fast skeletal myosin, actin, tropomyosin, troponin C, troponin I, and troponin T, and fragments and isoforms thereof. The tetrahydroisoquinoline derivative compounds can thus be used as an agent for preventing or treating 1) neuromuscular disorders, 2) disorders of voluntary muscle, 3) CNS disorders in which muscle weakness, atrophy, and fatigue are prominent symptoms, 4) muscle symptoms stemming from systemic disorders, and 5) dysfunctions of pelvic floor and urethral/anal sphincter muscle.
US10259820B2
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors are provided. In particular, 4-substituted-2-(N-(5-substituted allyl amide)phenyl)amino)pyrimidine derivatives of formula (I), a preparation method and use thereof as an EGFR inhibitor are provided. The 4-substituted-2-(N-(5-substituted allyl amide)phenyl)amino)pyrimidine derivatives of formula (I) have inhibitory activity against the L858R EGFR mutant, the T790M EGFR mutant and the exon 19 deletion activating mutant, and can be used to treat diseases mediated alone or in part by EGFR mutant activity. The derivatives of formula (I) can be used to treat and/or prevent cancers, particularly non-small cell lung cancer.
US10259819B2
In certain embodiments the invention is directed to a process for preparing an oxycodone hydrochloride composition having less than 25 ppm of 14-hydroxycodeinone.
US10259817B2
The present invention provides a crystal of (6S,9aS)-N-benzyl-8-({6-[3-4-ethylpiperazin-1-yl)azetidin-1-yl]pyridin-2-yl}methyl)-6-(2-fluoro-4-hydroxybenzyl)-4,7-dioxo-2-(prop-2-en-1-yl)hexahydro-2H-pyrazino[2,1-c][1,2,4]triazine-1(6H)-carboxamide.
US10259808B2
Compounds of the formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein m, n, p, q, r, X1, X2, X3, X4, Y, Z, A, Het, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12 and R13 are as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of making the compounds and using the compounds for treatment of inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, muscular sclerosis and psoriasis.
US10259798B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing magnesium lithospermate B. The method is characterized in that: magnesium lithospermate B is extracted or purified from a Salvia miltiorrhiza plant material or a Salvia miltiorrhiza extract in the presence of an added magnesium salt. The present invention also relates to a high-purity magnesium lithospermate B product prepared by the method of the present invention, wherein the content of magnesium lithospermate B is more than 95% by weight.
US10259797B2
Provided herein is a process for preparing a mixture including 5-(hydroxy-methyl)furfural (HMF) and one or more HMF esters of formula (I), the process including the following steps: (A-1) preparing or providing a starting mixture which includes one, two or more carbohydrate compounds and as the solvent or as a co-solvent for the carbohydrate compounds an amount of one or more carboxylic acid esters of formula (II); (A-2) subjecting the starting mixture to reaction conditions so that at least one of the one, two or more carbohydrate compounds reacts, and a fraction of the amount of one or more carboxylic acid esters of formula (II) is hydrolyzed, so that a mixture results that includes 5-(hydroxy-methyl)furfural and/or the one or more HMF esters of formula (I), one or more carboxylic acids of formula (III) and a remaining fraction of the amount of one or more carboxylic acid esters of formula (II).
US10259794B2
The present disclosure is directed to improved methods useful for the preparation of, for example, 2-[[5-chloro-2-[[(6S)-6-[4-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperazin-1-yl]-1-methoxy-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-5Hbenzo[7]annulen-2-yl]amino]pyrimidin-4-yl]amino]-N-methyl-benzamide (CEP-37440).
US10259786B2
Novel amisulpride derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are disclosed. The amisulpride derivative disclosed herein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof may have better membrane permeability compared to amisulpride. The amisulpride derivative disclosed herein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof may be used for antagonizing dopamine and/or serotonin (e.g., 5-HT2a) and/or α2 receptor in a subject. The amisulpride derivative disclosed herein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof may be used for treating one or more conditions responsive to modulation of dopamine and/or serotonin (e.g., 5-HT2a) and/or α2 receptor in a subject. The amisulpride derivative disclosed herein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof may be used for treating one or more disorders associated with an abnormality in levels of dopamine and/or serotonin in the brain.
US10259767B2
The invention relates to an improved method for the preparation of alkylsalicylaldehyde or its corresponding metallic salts. The invention also relates to a method for the preparation of alkylsalicylaldoxime by reacting said alkylsalicylaldehyde or its corresponding metallic salts with hydroxylamine or its salt. The invention also relates to a method for extracting a metal in an aqueous solution containing dissolved metal.
US10259765B2
Disclosed are novel processes for making cyclohexanone compositions, from a mixture comprising phenol, cyclohexanone, and cyclohexylbenzene. The process includes hydrogenation of a feed stream comprising phenol, cyclohexanone, and cyclohexylbenzene. The feed stream may be subjected to one or more pre-hydrogenation treatments, such as passing through one or more sorbents, addition of basic chemical agents, and/or addition of water, so as to improve catalyst activity, minimize undesired side reactions, and/or remove catalyst poisons from the feed stream. The feed stream may be provided to a hydrogenation reaction zone in the vapor phase, with periodic alterations to hydrogenation reaction conditions such that the feed is provided in mixed liquid and vapor phase in order to carry out liquid washing of a hydrogenation catalyst bed within the hydrogenation reaction zone.
US10259764B2
The present invention is directed to inhibitors of tyrosinase, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such tyrosinase inhibitors, and methods of making and using the same. Specifically, included in the present invention are compositions of matter comprised of at least one 2,4-dihydroxybenzene analog, which inhibit the activity of tyrosinase and which inhibit the overproduction of melanin.
US10259761B2
Fluorinated olefins are produced in a reductive coupling reaction by contacting a first reactant with a second reactant in the gas phase under an inert atmosphere at a temperature of at least 500 C. The first reactant may be, for example, a hydrofluorocarbon containing one or two carbon atoms, while the second reactant may be, for example, a two to four carbon hydrohalocarbon (e.g., a hydrofluorocarbon) or hydrocarbon.
US10259759B2
Disclosed is (i) a process of making phenol and/or cyclohexanone from cyclohexylbenzene including a step of removing methylcyclopentylbenzene from (a) the cyclohexylbenzene feed supplied to the oxidation step and/or (b) the crude phenol product (ii) a phenol composition and (iii) a cyclohexylbenzene composition that can be made using the process.
US10259758B2
The present invention relates to an integrated process to convert crude oil into petrochemical products comprising crude oil distillation, aromatic ring opening, and olefins synthesis, which process comprises subjecting a hydrocarbon feed to aromatic ring opening to produce LPG and subjecting the LPG produced in the integrated process to olefins synthesis. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process installation to convert crude oil into petrochemical products comprising a crude distillation unit comprising an inlet for crude oil and at least one outlet for kerosene and/or gasoil; an aromatic ring opening unit comprising an inlet for a hydrocarbon feed to aromatic ring opening and an outlet for LPG; and a unit for the olefins synthesis comprising an inlet for LPG produced by the integrated petrochemical process installation and an outlet for olefins. The hydrocarbon feed subjected to aromatic ring opening comprises kerosene and/or gasoil produced by crude oil distillation in the process; and refinery unit-derived middle-distillate produced in the process. The process and the process installation of the present invention have an increased production of petrochemicals at the expense of the production of fuels and an improved propylene yield.
US10259756B2
A device may include an electrically-operated propellant or energetic gas-generating material, additively manufactured together with electrodes for producing a reaction in the material. The device may also include a casing that is additively manufactured with the other components. The additive manufacturing may be accomplished by extruding or otherwise depositing raw materials for the different components where desired. The electrodes may be made of a conductive polymer material, for example using an electrically-conductive fill in a polymer.
US10259744B2
A process for producing an optical glass with an anti-fog coating is disclosed. The process includes the steps of: a) providing an optical glass, b) preparing a layer having Si—H groups (silane groups) on the optical glass, and c) reacting the silane groups with a compound having hydrophilic groups and at least one group reactive to the silane group.
US10259739B2
Laminated glass articles and methods for making the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a laminated glass article may include a glass core layer and at least one glass cladding layer fused to the glass core layer. The at least one glass cladding layer may be phase separated into a first phase and at least one second phase having different compositions. The first phase of the at least one glass cladding layer may have an interconnected matrix. The at least one second phase of the at least one glass cladding layer may be dispersed throughout the interconnected matrix of the first phase of the at least one glass cladding layer. In some embodiments, the at least one second phase may be selectively removed from the interconnected matrix leaving a porous, interconnected matrix of the first phase.
US10259736B2
A roll forming apparatus includes at least one forming roll being spaced from a forming body to define a gap. The forming roll includes a working zone portion having a working zone surface with a length extending along a rotation axis of the forming roll and a thermal resistance boundary extending at an acute angle relative to the rotation axis. In further examples, methods include the step of feeding a stream of molten glass through the gap to form a glass ribbon including a formed thickness. The thermal resistance boundary facilitates substantial uniform radial expansion of the working zone surface relative to the rotation axis across the length of the working zone surface in response to heating of the working zone portion by the molten glass.
US10259733B2
The present invention includes: a laundry wastewater tank that temporarily stores laundry wastewater from a plant facility; a biological treatment tank in which the laundry wastewater from the laundry wastewater tank is aerated and mixed with activated sludge; a treated water tank that stores the treated laundry wastewater that has been biologically treated; and a treatment preparation supplying device that supplies a laundry wastewater biological treatment preparation to the biological treatment tank. The laundry wastewater biological treatment preparation is introduced when a change in water quality that deteriorates the biological treatment in the biological treatment tank is detected. Thus, biological treatment can be performed stably.
