US10579762B2
A computer-implemented method for synthesizing a digital circuit is disclosed. The method includes receiving producer instructions defining a producer processing thread; generating a producer register-transfer level (RTL) description of the producer processing thread; receiving consumer instructions defining a consumer processing thread; generating a consumer RTL description of the consumer processing thread; and automatically inferring generation of streaming hardware RTL in response to receiving the producer and consumer instructions.
US10579750B2
Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods related to assets and predictive models and corresponding workflows that are related to the operation of assets. In particular, examples involve assets configured to receive and locally execute predictive models, locally individualize predictive models, and/or locally execute workflows or portions thereof.
US10579747B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for detecting a source (such as, e.g., radioactive and chemical sources) using a plurality of networked sensors communicating with a central processor over network. A method can involve injecting a simulated source in the system of networked sensors for use in operational training and/or testing.
US10579744B2
Resetting a basic digital model includes a step of detecting a stable state of at least one first parameter of the model, the first parameter being representative of a signal delivered by a sensor; a step of obtaining a resetting parameter for the model, during the stable state of the first parameter as a function of the first parameter, of a second parameter of the model, and of the basic digital model; and a step of obtaining a reset model from the basic digital model and the resetting parameter.
US10579737B2
A framework for annotating image edit requests includes a structure for identifying natural language request as either comments or image edit requests and for identifying the text of a request that maps to an executable action in an image editing program, as well as to identify other entities from the text related to the action. The annotation framework can be used to aid in the creation of artificial intelligence networks that carry out the requested action. An example method includes displaying a test image, displaying a natural language input with selectable text, and providing a plurality of selectable action tag controls and entity tag controls. The method may also include receiving selection of the text, receiving selection of an action tag control for the selected text, generating a labeled pair, and storing the labeled pair with the natural language input as an annotated natural language image edit request.
US10579736B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for determining a comment, a server and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining text content of an event; determining an event tag of the event according to the text content; comparing the event tag with comment tags in a comment graph, to determine candidate comments, the comment graph being generated according to other events and corresponding comments, and the comment graph including comments and corresponding comment tags; and screening the candidate comments, to determine a candidate comment satisfying a preset condition as the comment of the event.
US10579734B2
A web-based method and system for influencing entities to change their position using semantic web analysis. The identification of entities that might change their position regarding a certain issue is done through their environment, for example by analyzing semantic text between entities) without making a direct connection with those entities.
US10579730B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for natural language processing. One of the methods includes receiving a first voice input from a user device; generating a first recognition output; receiving a user selection of one or more terms in the first recognition output; receiving a second voice input spelling a correction of the user selection; determining a corrected recognition output for the selected portion; and providing a second recognition output that merges the first recognition output and the corrected recognition output.
US10579725B2
A document editor user interface interacts with a user in receiving content from the user and provides suggestions determined via cognitive computing to the user while the user is authoring a document. A search engine searches for information associated with the content and returns the information. A matching candidate template that matches a style of the document being authored is searched for and may be inferred based on the document being authored. The suggestions may be provided based on definitions of the candidate template. A cognitive component may continuously detect behavior of the user while authoring the document and store information associated with the detected behavior. Additional suggestions may be provided based on the detected behavior.
US10579723B2
A graphical user interface for creating a data summary table includes a field pane including a list of a plurality of fields, and a layout pane including a plurality of zones. The zones represent areas of the data summary table, and the layout pane allows a field of the plurality of fields from the field pane to be added to a first zone of the zones. A data summary table is updated upon the field being added to the layout pane.
US10579720B2
Methods and systems are provided for populating user related information, such as in forms at web sites. For example, a method can include providing a web site with information about a user during the front end of accessing the web site by the user. The information can be used to facilitate use of the web site by the user. A system for facilitating access of a web site by a user can comprise an ID provider that is configured to receive a request from a web site for information regarding a user, request information regarding the user from an information provider, and forward the information to the web site. By providing such information to the web site, log on, sign in, and/or registration with a web site can be done quickly, conveniently, and in a manner that is substantially less prone to errors.
US10579719B2
A method including applying a text file to a browser window to operate a text pre-processor on the text file to generate pre-processed text, selecting a plurality of rule sets from a control memory structure, parsing properties from the pre-processed text to generate a word property map, configuring an evaluator with the rule sets to compare the word property map to each of the rule within the plurality of rule sets to insert a plurality of annotations within the word property map to convert it into an annotation map. The annotation map is applied to an editor emulator to insert instructions into the text file to configure a second user interface to display the plurality of annotations within the text file, identifying each annotation as associated with its antecedent rule set.
US10579710B2
A method for bidirectional hyperlink management of a hypertext associated with an on-line media is provided. The method may include searching the on-line media for at least one keyword associated with the hypertext. The method may also include scanning a website associated with the hypertext based on the search of the at least one keyword. The method may further include locating at least one dead-link uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the scanned website. Additionally, the method may include managing the at least one located dead-link based on a set of pre-defined rules associated with the on-line media.
US10579699B2
An example method involves accessing web-traffic data associated with a web page hosted by a first computing-device, wherein the web page comprises meta-tag data; using the accessed web traffic data to determine that the first computing-device received a threshold amount of requests that are (i) for the web page and (ii) associated with a search term; responsive to the determining, modifying the meta-tag data based on the search term; and transmitting the modified meta-tag data to a second computing-device, wherein the second computing-device is configured for (i) receiving the modified meta-tag data, (ii) receiving a request for a list of search results based on a set of search terms, (iii) responsive to receiving the request, using the set of search terms and the modified meta-tag data to perform a web search, thereby generating a list of search results, and (iv) transmitting the list of search results to a third computing-device.
US10579691B2
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing application programming interface representation for multi-tenant non-relational database objects. A database system maintains a multi-tenant non-relational database associated with a number of enterprises, a number of records, and a number of data objects for each of the enterprises. A request is received from a user to retrieve a description of a data object from the number of data objects, and in response, the system determines that the data object is defined to be used in associated with a non-relational database, then retrieves a metadata model representing the data object. The system determines that at least one field of the data object is part of a composite key for the data object, then provides data object information to the user, including information about the composite key.
US10579690B2
The present disclosure discloses a multimedia information pop-up window processing method and a computer storage medium. The method includes: detecting a multimedia information pop-up window event; extracting feature information of the multimedia information pop-up window event, and encapsulating the feature information of the multimedia information pop-up window event into a first request message; sending the first request message, to obtain the type of the multimedia information; and receiving a first request response message, obtaining the type of the multimedia information by parsing the first request response message, and processing the multimedia information pop-up window according to the type of the multimedia information. The present disclosure further discloses another multimedia information pop-up window processing method, a terminal, and a server.
US10579687B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a plurality of web search results, the plurality of web search results generated from a web corpus; including an interface element in the plurality of web search results, the interface element specifying a particular native application and configured to, when selected at the user device, cause a plurality of native application search results responsive to the search query be provided to the user device, each native application search result deeplinking to the particular native application; providing the interface element and the plurality of web search results to the user device; receiving an indication of a selection of the interface element from the user device; and in response to receiving the indication, providing the plurality of native application search results for the particular native application to the user device.
US10579680B2
Techniques to store graph information in a database are disclosed. In various embodiments, each node in a graph may be modeled as a micro b-tree. Node identity, attribute, edge, and edge attribute data may be stored in one or more pages modeled on page formats typically used to store index data for a relational database index. Data associated with a plurality of nodes and edges, each of said edges representing a relationship between two or more of said nodes, may be received. For each node, one or more pages of data may be created, each corresponding to a prescribed page size associated with a storage device in which said one or more pages are to be stored, and each page having a data structure that includes a variable-sized set of fixed length data slots and a variable-sized variable length data region.
US10579673B2
Directional sound location is used to determine security events of a security system. A sound sensor reports a vector direction to a sound source of an acoustic signal. If the vector direction is historically observed at similar times, then perhaps the sound source is not considered a security event. However, if the vector direction is unknown or unfamiliar, the security system may infer the security event and notify emergency services.
US10579672B2
This invention describes an audio snippet exchange network that allows people to subscribe to audio snippets that are published by other members on the network. The audio snippets may also have user contributed metadata related to them, such that the recipients can search a library of audio snippets and play back only those that match the search term. Oftentimes people want to take advantage of communication via social networks but are presently engaged in an activity such as driving or watching a live event. This audio snippet exchange network allows the person to have a largely uninterrupted experience while still publishing and consuming audio messages.
US10579671B2
An embodiment may involve a server device transmitting, over a wide area network, a first playlist with a first duration to a client device. Possibly while the client device is playing out a current audio file of a first plurality of audio files in the playlist, the server device may receive an instruction from the client device and generate a second playlist. The second playlist may include references to a second plurality of audio files, where playout of the second plurality of audio files may have a duration that is less than the duration of the playout of the first plurality of audio files. The server device may transmit, over the wide area network, the second playlist to the client device. Reception of the second playlist at the client device may cause the audio player application to retrieve and play out the second plurality of audio files.
US10579665B2
A media item cache manager system which implements techniques for efficiently using cache memory to respond to requests. The cache memory may include information on items along with a status indicator for each of the items, indicating different status information. Some examples of possible status indicators include valid, invalid, or in-progress indicators.
US10579662B2
Systems and methods for calculating a patent claim scope rating are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a method of calculating a patent claim scope rating includes identifying patent references cited in examination of a subject patent and storing the identified patent references as an applied art list, identifying first backward references for the patent references in the applied art list and storing the first backward references as a first backward list, identifying second backward references for the first backward references in the first backward list and storing the second backward references as a second backward list, identifying forward references for the patent references in the applied art list and storing the forward references as a forward list. A patent claim scope rating is based on a calculation including at least a partial combination listing of the applied art list, the first and second backward lists, and the forward list.
US10579661B2
The present invention relates in general to the field of parallel data processing, and more particularly to machine learning and classification of extremely large volumes of unstructured gene sequence data using Collaborative Analytics Gene Sequence Classification Learning Systems and Methods.
US10579660B2
Systems and methods are provided to augment the search results of a search operation are provided. The method enhances a user's experience by identifying and displaying information within the search results which is of a remarkable value. Such information may be presented with a different presentation semantics from the rest of the search result. Such presentation semantics being indicative of the remarkability of the information.
US10579656B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to executing a mixed query to search a database retained in a data repository. The mixed query includes a regular expression, which is a pattern of elements, and a semantic constraint. The elements in the regular expression include a first wildcard, where the semantic constraint restricts a meaning of the first wildcard. Moreover, the elements in the regular expression include explicit lexical constraint(s) and/or disparate wildcard(s). For instance, semantic constraint(s) can restrict meaning(s) of the disparate wildcard(s). The mixed query is executed to retrieve results that match the pattern of the elements in the regular expression and satisfy the semantic constraint(s).
US10579650B2
In some implementations, a computing device can test the client-side rendering capabilities of a map module running on a computing device. For example, the map module can include a test module that sends test data to a rendering module of the browser. The rendering module can render the test data into a rendering context based on the test data. The test module can compare the pixel data in the rendering context to expected pixel data to determine whether the rendering module is capable of accurately rendering an image based on the test data. If the rendering module is capable of accurately rendering the rendering context based on the test data, the map module can be configured to perform client-side rendering of images. For example, the map module can be configured to perform client-side rendering of map data based on map data received from a map server.
US10579639B2
A map recording device includes: a display which displays information; a storage; and a processor. The processor causes the display to perform a display of an arbitrary region expressed by browsing map information specified by a user's manipulation. The processor further acquires partial map information from the browsing map information. The partial map information is map information other than the browsing map information and expresses a region corresponding to a whole region displayed in the display. The storage stores the partial map information acquired in the acquiring.
US10579637B2
A data generation stack executing on data processing circuitry may generate substitute data for provision in place of data sample from sensor circuitry. A configuration layer of the data generation stack may store a configuration file. A data ingestion and generation layer of the data generation stack may access the configuration file to determine static relationships among different sensors within the system. The data ingestion and generation layer may further determine dynamic relationships among the sensors. Based on a hybrid relationship that accounts for the static and dynamic relationships, the data ingestion and generation layer may generate substitute data for a sensor based on sampled data from another sensor. A data export layer of the data generation stack may access the generated substitute data for output.
US10579636B2
Systems and methods are provided for data driven predictive analysis of complex data sets for determining decision outcomes. The systems and methods include obtaining a first set of data associated with individuals and obtaining, a second set of data associated with events, wherein the events are associated with at least one of the individuals. The systems and methods further include determining a subset of the individuals from the first set of data based on the first subset of individuals having common attributes with a target individual and determining a second subset of events from the second set of data based on the second subset of events having common attributes with the target events associated with the target individual. Additionally, the systems and methods include aggregating data associated with the second subset of events based on the target events and providing for display output associated with aggregated data.
US10579634B2
A system includes a coordinator node and worker nodes in communication with the coordinator node. Each worker node stores data blocks. Each data block has data in a semi-structured format and each data block has an associated foreign table declaration specifying conversion of the data in the semi-structured format into a tabular format interpretable by a query language. A query processor executed by the coordinator node produces a distributed query plan in response to a query language query. The distributed query plan includes sub-queries. The sub-queries are executed by selected worker nodes of the worker nodes. The selected worker nodes use foreign table declarations to convert data in semi-structured formats into tabular formats of a distributed database to provide tabular data in response to the query language query.
US10579626B2
Provided are a system and method for matching search results from multiple websites. In one example, the method includes calculating a probability that a search result of a first website corresponds to a same item as a search result of a second website based on Bayes theorem, in response to the calculated probability being greater than a predetermined threshold, determining that the search result of the first website and the search result of the second website are a match, and displaying an aggregated list of search results combined from the first website and the second website based on the matched search results. By auto-matching search results using Bayes theorem, a true match can be determined that is more accurate in comparison to a manual matching operation performed by a human.
US10579622B1
A data management system for processing electronic files. The data management system includes at least one data source, the at least one data source having at least one column having one or more rows with alphanumerical values and, in one embodiment, at least two data input sets, the data input sets having one or more columns, each column having one or more rows with alphanumerical values, each alphanumerical value having a label associated with that alphanumerical value alone. At least one data transformation node is adapted for “pulling” from one of the at least one data input sets and performing an operation on that data input set. A node independent data result is created, wherein the node independent data result comprises an output of the operation of at least one data transformation node on the at least one data input set and associated labels from one data input set.
US10579618B1
A data warehouse system may include a connection pool manager. The connection pool manager may invoke a first client-provided function for rerouting a connection request from a first database to a second database based on a query that is to be executed using the connection. The connection pool manager may invoke a second client-provided function for rewriting the query to be executed to leverage database aspects found on the second database.
US10579603B2
A stream of tuples is received to be processed by a plurality of processing elements operating on one or more computer processors. Each processing element has one or more stream operators. A first stream operator adds a set number to a first tuple in the stream of tuples. The first tuple having the set number indicates that the first tuple is part of a set of tuples. Each tuple in the set of tuples contains the set number. It is determined to delete the set of tuples, and a set of stream operators deletes tuples containing the set number.
US10579602B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with attribute redundancy removal are described. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying redundant attribute values in a group of attributes that describe two items. The example method also includes generating a pruned group of attributes having the redundant attribute values removed. The similarity of the two items is calculated based, at least in part, on the pruned group of attribute values.
US10579592B2
The size of a source application is reduced by compressing a plurality of invoked files, such as SO files, in the source application with a compression algorithm that has a higher compression rate compared to a default compression rate. A decompression file that corresponds with the compression algorithm is inserted into a plurality of invoking files in the source application so that the source application itself can decompress the invoked files that were compressed with the compression algorithm.
US10579591B1
Techniques for performing incremental block compression using a processor are described herein. The processor receives a request to compress input data, the request including compression parameters for the compression and a target block size. The processor divides the input data into portions. The processor iteratively compresses the input data to an output block, until compressing another portion of data would increase a file size of the output block over a threshold value that is based at least on the target block size.
US10579588B2
A method includes a digital subscription management system (DSMS) receiving from a source system a request to perform an edit of at least one data object, the DSMS sending a request for response (RFR) to subscribing systems having a copy of the at least one data object, the DSMS receiving a response from the subscribing systems, and the DSMS performing the edit.
US10579587B2
One embodiment provides a method for storage management in a hierarchical file system. The method includes tracking directories for sub-file systems of the hierarchical set of file systems and maintaining a directory while providing the directory is capable of residing in more than one sub-file system within the hierarchical file system. If available space in a first sub-file system is below a threshold, the system identifies a second sub-file system with available space above the threshold, wherein the first sub-file system contains a first portion of the directory. If a second portion of the directory exists in the second sub-file system, the system creates or expands a file in the second portion of the directory, otherwise the system first creates the second portion of the directory in the second sub-file system and then creates a link from the first portion of the directory to the second portion of the directory.
US10579582B2
A computer program comprising a sequence of instructions for execution on a processing unit having instruction storage for holding the computer program, an execution unit for executing the computer program and data storage for holding data, the computer program comprising: a switch control instruction which when executed causes the processing unit to control switching circuitry to connect a set of connection wires of the processing unit to a switching fabric to receive a data packet at a predetermined received time, the switch control instruction comprising a delay control field which holds a value defining a delay between issuance of the instruction in the sequence of instructions and its execution by the execution unit.
US10579579B2
An embedded port of a host bus adapter of a storage controller receives, from a driver of the host bus adapter, a first set of commands to quiesce I/O operations in the embedded port for a first period, wherein hardware resets of buses and other logic to which the embedded port is connected are performed in the first period of quiescing of I/O operations. One or more commands are received to resume selected I/O operations in the embedded port. A second set of commands is received to quiesce I/O operations for a second period. A command is received to allow normal I/O operations, subsequent to the driver being reinitialized during the second period of quiescing of I/O operations.
US10579574B2
An instrumentation chassis includes a backplane, multiple peripheral slots located on the backplane and configured to receive insertable peripheral modules, respectively, and at least one protocol agnostic high speed connection mounted on, but not electrically connected to the backplane. The high speed connection is configured to interconnect at least two peripheral modules in corresponding peripheral slots of the multiple peripheral slots, bypassing the backplane.
US10579559B1
An example data processing engine (DPE) for a DPE array in an integrated circuit (IC) includes a core, a memory including a data memory and a program memory, the program memory coupled to the core, the data memory coupled to the core and including at least one connection to a respective at least one additional core external to the DPE; support circuitry including hardware synchronization circuitry and direct memory access (DMA) circuitry each coupled to the data memory, and a stall circuit coupled to the core configured to stall or resume the core in response to one or more inputs.
US10579547B2
Technologies for providing I/O channel abstraction for accelerator device kernels include an accelerator device comprising circuitry to obtain availability data indicative of an availability of one or more accelerator device kernels in a system, including one or more physical communication paths to each accelerator device kernel. The circuitry is also configured to receive a request to establish a logical communication path between a kernel of the present accelerator device and another accelerator device kernel and establish, in response to the request and as a function of the obtained availability data, the logical communication path between the kernel of the present accelerator device and the other accelerator device kernel.
US10579544B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to receive a request from a process to access data is a system, determine if the data is in a virtualized protected area of memory in the system, and allow access to the data if the data is in the virtualized protected area of memory and the process is a trusted process. The electronic device can also be configured to determine if new data should be protected, store the new data in the virtualized protected area of memory in the system if the new data should be protected, and store the new data in an unprotected area of memory in the system if the new data should not be protected.
US10579538B2
Memory systems that can predict a physical address associated with a logical address, and methods for use therewith, are described herein. In one aspect, the memory system predicts a physical address for a logical address that follows a sequence of random logical addresses. The predicted physical address could be a physical location where the data for the logical address is predicted to be stored. In some cases, the host data can be returned without accessing a management table. The predicted physical address is not required to be the location of the data to be returned to the host for the logical address. In one aspect, the memory system predicts a physical address at which information is stored that may be used to ultimately provide the data for the logical address, such as a location in the management table.
US10579537B2
The present disclosure includes memory having a static cache and a dynamic cache. A number of embodiments include a memory, wherein the memory includes a first portion configured to operate as a static single level cell (SLC) cache and a second portion configured to operate as a dynamic SLC cache when the entire first portion of the memory has data stored therein.
US10579530B2
In an embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of cores, with at least one core including prefetch logic. The prefetch logic comprises circuitry to: receive a prefetch request; compare the received prefetch request to a plurality of entries of a prefetch filter cache; and in response to a determination that the received prefetch request matches one of the plurality of entries of the prefetch filter cache, drop the received prefetch request. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10579512B2
A method and an apparatus for testing software for autonomous vehicles by means of a loop simulation involves hardware in the form of one or more real autonomous vehicles able to carry out autonomous test drives in the real world. In response to a work order given by a user, a check is automatically carried out in order to determine which vehicles, among a plurality of real autonomous vehicles which are able to carry out autonomous test drives on globally distributed test tracks in the real world, are currently available for one or more tests defined in the work order. The performance of the software tests and the test drives is then automatically planned and coordinated.
US10579508B2
A mechanism for interacting with code such as software code is provided, whereby the code is represented as a graph such as a finite state machine corresponding to the code, such that a user may define a path through the code for example by way of a gesture or cursor movement, and the representation of the graph being restructured to give prominence to the nodes belonging to the defined path, and their sequence as defined in the path. The underlying code associated with each node may be presented with each corresponding node, so that the code of the nodes in the path is aligned, and can be read through as a continuous text. Amendments made to the code as presented can be reintegrated, and the representation adjusted as necessary.
US10579501B2
A method and system for testing a server code in a server concurrently handling multiple client requests create a job-specific breakpoint in the server code using a library application programming interface (API) that allows the job-specific breakpoint in the server code being enabled or disabled based on a job identifier. The library API controls the job-specific breakpoint in the server code via a plurality of readymade functions that execute, in a desired sequence, various synchronous and asynchronous program paths associated with the multiple client requests. By using the library API, the method and system are capable of establishing a new server connection with the server and retrieving the job identifier from the server associated with the established new server connection, pausing execution of a client job based on enabling the job-specific breakpoint, and resuming execution of the client job based on disabling the job-specific breakpoint.
US10579500B2
This disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for debugging a program including a SQL statement. The method comprises indicating one or more first positions of source code of the program. Each of the one or more first positions corresponds to a fragment of the SQL statement at which a breakpoint can be set. The method further comprises receiving an input of setting breakpoint at one of the one or more first positions. The method further comprises presenting an execution context generated in response to execution of the program reaching a breakpoint set based on the input.
US10579495B2
Systems and methods for utilizing cooperation facilitators to achieve joint message and network state cooperation in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes: a plurality of transmitters; a receiver that has access to at least partial network state information and that includes a decoder configured to decode signals received via a multiple terminal channel from the plurality of transmitters using the at least partial network state information; and a cooperation facilitator. In addition, at least some of the plurality of transmitters are configured to transmit message information to the cooperation facilitator and the cooperation facilitator is configured to generate cooperation parameters based upon the message information and the manner in which state information is utilized by the receiver to decode signals received via the multiple terminal channel. In addition, the cooperation facilitator is configured to transmit cooperation parameters to the plurality of transmitters that select codewords based at least in part upon the received cooperation parameters.
US10579494B2
A method for monitoring resources in a computing system having system information includes transforming, via representation learning, variable-size information into fixed-size information, and creating a machine learning neural network model and training it the machine learning model to predict future resource usage of an application. The method further includes providing the prediction of further resources usage of the application as an input to an action component, wherein the action component is one of an anomaly detector or a reinforcement learner that drives a scheduler. The method additionally includes performing, by the action component, at least one of scheduling resources within the computing system or detecting a resources usage anomaly.
US10579486B2
Provided is an integrated platform that has an active server, a standby server and a storage device. The storage device has a plurality of storage ports, and a WWN is assigned to each of the plurality of storage ports. An LUID is assigned to each of a plurality of logical volumes provided by the storage device. The active and standby servers are connected, respectively, to storage ports in a one-to-one relationship. The active server has boot search information that associates the WWN of a storage port at a connection destination; the LUN of a boot logical volume, which is a logical volume accessed during booting; and the LUID of the boot logical volume with one another. When a failover is executed, the boot search information of the active server is copied to the standby server.
US10579481B1
Restoring data from a storage device to a cloud service includes initializing each of a plurality of flags for each of portions of the data when the data is initially recalled from the cloud service to the storage device, the flags indicating whether a corresponding portion of the data has been modified while being stored on the storage device, modifying a particular one of the flags in response to a corresponding one of the portions being modified, transferring only portions of the data having corresponding flags that have been modified to migrate, and merging the portions of the data with remaining data at the cloud service. Data that is recalled from the cloud service to the storage device may be maintained on the cloud service. The portions of data that are transferred from the storage device to the cloud service may overwrite data maintained at the cloud service.
US10579479B2
Techniques for managing data stored in a hierarchical storage management (HSM) system are provided. A first controller receives a request to migrate a data item to a first storage tier managed by the first controller, wherein the data item is not associated with an object ID and a HSM status value indicates that the data item is resident on a second storage tier. The first controller generates an initial object ID, creates a new record for the data item in a data structure, sets an object ID field and a parent ID field of the record to the initial object ID. The first controller stores the data item on the first storage tier and sends an acknowledgement identifying the initial object ID as an object ID of the data item to a second controller that manages the second storage tier. The second controller updates the HSM status value.
US10579478B2
Techniques herein make and use a pluggable database archive file (AF). In an embodiment, a source database server of a source container database (SCD) inserts contents into an AF from a source pluggable database (SPD). The contents include data files from the SPD, a listing of the data files, rollback scripts, and a list of patches applied to the SPD. A target database server (TDS) of a target container database (TCD) creates a target pluggable database (TPD) based on the AF. If a patch on the list of patches does not exist in the TCD, the TDS executes the rollback scripts to adjust the TPD. In an embodiment, the TDS receives a request to access a block of a particular data file. The TDS detects, based on the listing of the data files, a position of the block within the AF. The TDS retrieves the block based on the position.
US10579475B2
A method comprises receiving a set of write fan out requests for a plurality of sets of encoded data slices and metadata regarding storage parameters for the plurality of sets of encoded data slices. The method continues by identifying an encoded data slice of the plurality of sets of encoded data slices based on a desired manipulation of the encoded data slice. The method continues by determining whether the metadata provides a restriction regarding the desired manipulation of the encoded data slice. When the metadata does not provide the restriction regarding the desired manipulation of the encoded data slice, the method continues by determining whether execute the desired manipulation of the encoded data slice based on a storage operational condition. The method continues by executing the desired manipulation of the encoded data slice when the storage unit determines to execute the desired manipulation of the encoded data slice.
US10579466B2
Systems and methods are provided for agentless error management by an agentless system. The agentless system can include a management processor and a memory that stores agentless management firmware. Execution of the firmware causes to obtain first graphic data corresponding to actual output graphics that are displayed via a display device. An error is detected in the actual output graphics. The error can indicate one or more differences between the actual output graphics and intended output graphics. The detected error can be addressed, such that it is remedied or attempted to be remedied by eliminating the differences and/or extraneous graphical content from the displayed data or actual output graphics.
US10579460B2
An error diagnosing method performed by an apparatus for diagnosing an error of operating equipment in a smart farm includes: receiving a control message which triggers an error diagnosis; analyzing data collected from a smart farm on the basis of a preset error diagnostic rule when the control message is received; outputting a result of determining whether an error of the operating equipment installed in the smart farm occurs according to an analysis result; and providing the error determination result to a user through a user interface. It is possible to stably operate and efficiently manage a smart farm.
US10579458B2
A device includes a connector configured to be coupled to a storage device. The device also includes a controller coupled to the connector and powered via the connector. The controller is configured to receive log data from the storage device while powered via the connector. The controller is also configured to transmit the log data via a wireless interface to a remote device.
US10579447B2
A method for synchronous ingestion of input content may include determining, from an ingestion request, applicable ingestion pipeline components and an order by which the ingestion pipeline components are to be applied to input content; applying the ingestion pipeline components to the input content in the order determined from the ingestion request; updating a metadata file as the input content is processed by the ingestion pipeline components; and returning processed content, the metadata file, or both to a client device. The method may further include determining whether the ingestion request specifies a computing facility such as an indexer or a database downstream from the ingestion pipeline. If so, a processing result may be communicated to the computing facility for further processing. A server system may implement synchronous ingestion, asynchronous ingestion, or both.
US10579445B2
A method for dynamically routing of events to destinations based on mapping metadata is described. The method includes detecting, by a capture service of an application server, an event associated with values for one or more attributes that describe the event; mapping, by a metadata service of the application server, the event to a set of destinations based on the mapping metadata received by the application server at runtime, the values of the one or more attributes of the event, and permissions associated with a tenant; and storing, by a buffer of the application server, the event and the set of destinations.
US10579442B2
In the field of computing, many scenarios involve the execution of an application within a virtual environment of a device (e.g., web applications executing within a web browser). Interactions between applications and device components are often enabled through hardware abstractions or component application programming interfaces (API), but such interactions may provide more limited and/or inconsistent access to component capabilities for virtually executing applications than for native applications. Instead, the device may provide hardware interaction as a service to the virtual environment utilizing a callback model, wherein applications within the virtual environment initiate component request specifying a callback, and the device initiates the component requests with the components and invokes associated callbacks upon completion of a component request. This model may enable the applications to interact with the full capability set of the components, and may reduce blocked execution of the application within the virtual application in furtherance of application performance.
US10579436B2
Methods and systems for data relocation in global storage cloud environments are provided. A method includes locating a data server near a travel location of a user based on one or more travel plans of the user. The method further includes transferring data of the user from a home data server near a home location of the user to the data server near the travel location.
US10579434B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for query-based interest in a simulation are presented. Entities may be simulated on workers, and each entity may comprise one or more components. A simulation system may run bridges on one or more machines, and the bridges may be configured to facilitate data communications between the workers and one or more entity databases. Each worker may be assigned to a different bridge. The system may modify one or more entities to include an interest component, and the interest component may indicate a query subscription to the one or more entity databases, which may affect the communication between bridges and workers. The interest component may also or alternatively indicate a frequency for receiving, from the one or more entity databases, updates for the query subscription.
US10579423B2
Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for scheduling tasks to be completed by resources. A method can include identifying features of the task, the features including a time-dependent feature and a time-independent feature, the time-dependent feature indicating a time the task is more likely to be successfully completed by the resource, converting the features to feature values based on a predefined mapping of features to feature values in a first memory device, determining, by a gradient boost tree model and based on a first current time and the feature values, a likelihood the resource will successfully complete the task, and scheduling the task to be performed by the resource based on the determined likelihood.
US10579422B2
A method and apparatus for managing backlogged tasks are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, upon receiving a task pertaining to a requestor group, a number of outstanding tasks associated with the requestor group is determined and the task is submitted for processing if the number of outstanding tasks is within an allowable range. If the number of outstanding tasks is outside of the allowable range, take one or more actions may be taken, which may include rejecting the request.
US10579414B2
Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for misprediction-triggered local history-based branch prediction are described. In one embodiments, an apparatus includes a current pattern table and a local pattern table. The current pattern table has a plurality of entries, each entry in which to store a plurality of pattern lengths of a current pattern of one of a plurality of branch instructions. The local pattern table is to provide a first branch prediction based on the current pattern.
US10579411B2
Systems herein allow a user to load a virtual work environment on a terminal, such workstation, based on authentication mechanisms built into a user device, such as a cell phone. The user device authenticate with a management server using an SAML token. The management server can track which virtual machines and configurations make up the user's work environment, and can send that information to the user device for loading the virtual machines. When the user wishes to load the virtual machines at a terminal, the user device can send the SAML token to the terminal for use in authenticating with the management server. The management server can then provide the configurations for the virtual machines that the user selects to load at the terminal.
US10579401B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing, to a group of users, a virtual assistant with customized avatar sentimental and behavioral characteristics to accommodate different sentiments among the group of users. When the media guidance application is configured to serve a group of users, who may exhibit different moods or sentiments, the media guidance application may configure the virtual assistant to accommodate the different sentiments of the group of users. For example, the media guidance application may determine sentimental and behavioral characteristics to configure the virtual assistant based on a context of the split sentiments of the group of users, a particular sentiment that has a higher priority, and/or the like.
US10579400B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for a path-sensitive contextual help system. In some embodiments, user actions are obtained from a user session of a user. A concrete user action trace is captured using the obtained user actions, wherein the concrete user action trace is a subset of user actions from the user session. An abstract user action trace is generated using the concrete user action trace. A help action corresponding to the abstract user action trace is identified and, in some embodiments, is presented to the user.
US10579387B2
Technical solutions are described for executing one or more out-of-order (OoO) instructions by a processing unit. The execution includes detecting, by a load-store unit (LSU), a load-hit-store (LHS) in an out-of-order execution of the instructions, the detecting based only on effective addresses. The detecting includes determining an effective address associated with an operand of a load instruction. The detecting further includes determining whether a store instruction entry using said effective address to store a data value is present in a store reorder queue, and indicating that an LHS has been detected based at least in part on determining that store instruction entry using said effective address is present in the store reorder queue. In response to detecting the LHS, a store forwarding is performed that includes forwarding data from the store instruction to the load instruction.
US10579365B2
An apparatus and method of automatically installing an application in different terminals by storing terminal information of a user and allowing the user to install an application when the user installs an application in at least two terminals, and in which an installation process may be automatically conducted is provided. Information related to an application installed in a first terminal is received from the first terminal; and a second terminal is requested to install another application corresponding to the application, in the second terminal, by using the received information related to the application.
US10579364B2
A new snapshot of a storage volume is created by instructing computing nodes to suppress write requests. Once pending write requests from the computing nodes are completed, storage nodes create a new snapshot for the storage volume by allocating a new segment to the new snapshot and finalizes and performs garbage collection with respect to segments allocated to the previous snapshot. Subsequent write requests to the storage volume are then performed on the segments allocated to the new snapshot. An orchestration layer implements a multi-role application that is provisioned with virtualized storage and computation resources. A snapshot of the application may be created and used to rollback or clone the application. Clones snapshots of storage volumes may be gradually populated with data from prior snapshots to reduce loading on a primary snapshot. Upgrades for bundled applications may be defined and executed for containers and roles of the bundled application.
US10579357B2
Cognitive expected program code installation result assessment by a method that includes collecting environment information about a cloud computing environment and collecting description information about program code for potential installation. The method maintains a hierarchical model for determining whether the program code is expected to install properly on the computer system, and uses the hierarchical model for such determining, including performing an analysis that proceeds through level(s) of the model based on the description information and arrives at an indication as to whether the program code is expected to install properly. The method performs processing based on determining whether the program code is expected to install properly, for instance by generating and providing a recommendation to a user regarding installation of the program code.
US10579351B2
A method of increasing a speed of operation of a computer via a metadata-based business rule interpreter. The method includes receiving, at a processor, user input defining a business rule. The method also includes translating, by the processor, the user input into a domain-specific language entirely consisting of metadata objects, wherein a translated syntax is formed, the translated syntax being an abstract syntax tree structure consisting of only the metadata objects. The method also includes executing, by the processor, an abstract syntax tree interpreter and taking as input into the abstract syntax tree interpreter the translated syntax. A compiler operation to generate computer code for implementing the business rule is avoided. Executing the abstract syntax tree interpreter produces a result in a browser without using executable code to achieve the result.
US10579347B2
A method for self re-encoding an interpreted application includes parsing a string of characters in a comment section of the interpreted application file. Responsive to determining that at least one character of the string of characters is not readable by the target platform, the processor re-encodes the interpreted application file using the string of characters in the comment section. The re-encoding includes parsing a first character in the string of characters. The processor then, optionally, outputs a warning message indicative that a non-native encoding exists in the interpreted application file. The processor parses a second character sequential to the first character. The second character is a first element in a second string of characters indicative of a re-encoding scheme for re-encoding the interpreted application. The processor then outputs a re-encoded application file that is executable by the processor of the target platform.
US10579334B2
A system for block floating point computation in a neural network receives a plurality of floating point numbers. An exponent value for an exponent portion of each floating point number of the plurality of floating point numbers is identified and mantissa portions of the floating point numbers are grouped. A shared exponent value of the grouped mantissa portions is selected according to the identified exponent values and then removed from the grouped mantissa portions to define multi-tiered shared exponent block floating point numbers. One or more dot product operations are performed on the grouped mantissa portions of the multi-tiered shared exponent block floating point numbers to obtain individual results. The individual results are shifted to generate a final dot product value, which is used to implement the neural network. The shared exponent block floating point computations reduce processing time with less reduction in system accuracy.
US10579327B2
In a speech recognition device according to one embodiment, a microphone detects sound and generates an audio signal corresponding to the sound, an adjustment processor adjusts a threshold to be a value less than a first volume level of first input audio signal generated by the microphone, and registers the adjusted threshold, a recognition processor reads the registered threshold, compares the registered threshold with a second input audio signal, discards the second input audio signal when a second volume level of the second input audio signal is less than the registered threshold, and performs a recognition process as the audio signal of a user to be recognized when the second volume level of the second input audio signal is greater than or equal to the registered threshold.
US10579325B2
A music service application that can be run on a wireless mobile device enables audio data to be progressively downloaded from a remote server and also enables locally stored data to be played efficiently. Audio content that is relevant to a user is identified and downloaded to the user's mobile device, in some cases with minimal or no effort by the user. Continuous play features ensure that the user can experience an uninterrupted music experience, both in online and offline modes. Social features such as playlists and preferences of other users are leveraged, to provide users with popular music that is relevant to their interests.
US10579323B2
A display device includes a display, a viewer identification unit, and a personal information display controller. The display displays content. The viewer identification unit identifies a viewer who is viewing the content. The personal information display controller causes, in a case where the degree of interest of the viewer in the content has reached a predetermined value or more, the content and pre-registered personal information of the viewer to be displayed on the display.
US10579316B2
An image processing apparatus that performs rendering processing for forming an image by a scan line method, including: a span processing unit configured to generate span data corresponding to a span demarcated by a contour of an object existing on a scan line; an elimination unit configured to perform elimination processing of an object unnecessary for drawing in the span for the generated span data; and a generation unit configured to generate a bitmap image in units of pages by using pixel data necessary for drawing of each span based on the span data after the elimination processing, wherein the generation unit generates, in a case where a part of a specific image object within a page is eliminated by the elimination processing, the pixel data necessary for drawing of each span is generated by acquiring the pixel data corresponding to the part from a FIFO memory and then discarding the acquired pixel data corresponding to the part in accordance with instructions to read and discard the part included in the span data after the elimination processing.
US10579308B2
A hardware system for data conversion, comprising: a space searching circuit, for searching space characters in a data stream of original data after receiving an instruction sent by a server to read and write data; a length detecting circuit, for detecting a length of data in the data stream of original data according to two adjacent space characters; a parallel encoding circuit, for converting the original data according to the data format in the instruction according to the length and the data stream of original data and outputting the converted data. The hardware system for data conversion is embedded in a storage device. The entire data conversion process could not only improve the efficiency of data conversion, but also does not occupy the resources of the CPU and DRAM of the server or the MCU of the SSD controller.
US10579304B2
Provided is a storage apparatus including a plurality of storage devices which store data, a controller which executes data input/output processing to the storage devices, and a processor which transmits/receives information with the controller, wherein the controller manages a plurality of different tag numbers by separating the tag numbers into a plurality of groups, and upon receiving a first command from the processor, assigns a tag number belonging to one group among the plurality of groups to the first command, and transfers the first command to a designated storage device, and, upon subsequently receiving an instruction for a chip reset from the processor, executes a chip reset, and, upon subsequently receiving a second command from the processor, assigns a tag number belonging to a group which is different from the group used before the chip reset to the second command, and transfers the second command to a designated storage device.
US10579302B2
A semiconductor device includes a first substrate on which an interface unit connectable to a host device is provided, a first memory module on the first substrate, and a first controller on the first substrate. The first controller includes a control unit that controls the first memory module, and a switching unit that switches an operation mode in response to a command from the host device. A first connecting portion is provided on the first substrate and is electrically connected to the first memory module and the first controller. The first controller can directly access a second memory module through the first connecting portion. Thus, for example the first controller can read data stored in the second memory module depending on operation mode.
US10579300B2
Information handling system non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) that stores operating system variables is managed to prevent a memory full condition by erasing selected portions of the NVRAM during operating system state transitions. If a first bank of NVRAM reaches a memory full condition threshold, active variables are copied to a second back of NVRAM and at least a portion of the first bank of NVRAM is erased during an operating system state transition from an on state to a reduced power and/or off state.
US10579299B2
A method of erasing a cloud host in a cloud-computing environment includes: receiving a cloud host secure erasing request; generating an erase instruction according to the request; and sending the erase instruction to a secure erasing server, such that the secure erasing server calls a secure erasing daemon process on the corresponding host machine according to the erase instruction, and erases the cloud host to be erased on the host machine via the secure erasing daemon process.
US10579298B2
A computer-implemented method includes identifying a source data object of a distributed computing environment. The distributed computing environment includes two or more storage nodes. The source data object exists as two or more slices. At least one of the slices is replicated on at least two storage nodes. The computer-implemented method further includes associating the source data object with a tape. The tape is written by a tape drive controlled from the distributed computing environment. The computer-implemented method further includes copying the source data object to the tape by, for each source slice of the two or more slices, in sequence: selecting a source node of the two or more storage nodes whereon the source slice is replicated, mounting the tape drive to the source node, appending the source slice to the tape, and unmounting the tape drive.
US10579294B2
According to one embodiment there is provided a method for managing a location of an object in a storage system having hierarchical storage with a plurality of storage layers. The method includes transmitting a get-list request for viewing contents of a designated directory on the hierarchical storage. The method also includes receiving a response to the get-list request, the response including a list of objects in the designated directory and listing each storage layer corresponding to the objects. The list is output, and a select request to select a different storage layer for one of the objects is received. The select request is transmitted to the storage system for invoking migration of the selected object to the different storage layer. A second response is received from the storage system indicating the selected object is stored in the different storage layer, and an updated list is output.
US10579285B2
Provided is a method for correcting untrusted data and avoiding logical device swapping for at least one logical subsystem of at least one computer system. A processor may monitor a primary storage for one or more errors that indicate untrusted data on the primary storage. An error indicating that a data set on the primary storage is an untrusted data set may be identified. In response to the error being identified, a corresponding uncompromised version of the data set may be read from a secondary storage. The corresponding uncompromised version of the data set may be written over the untrusted data set on the primary storage.
US10579282B1
In one embodiment, a method includes replicating a production volume on a plurality of replica volume portions. Each replica volume portion is stored on a respective storage array with a respective journal. The replicating includes distributing data from a write command to a production volume across the replica volume portions using a coding scheme. A subset of replica volume portions, less than a total number of replica volume portions, includes data for a full replica volume of the production volume.
US10579280B2
A memory system, comprising: a first plurality of memory ranks each having multiple memory cells; a second plurality of local controllers each coupled between one or more of the first plurality of memory ranks and a memory controller, the memory controller being configured to provide to a target local controller of the second plurality of local controllers, out of a first plurality of chip select (CS) signals, a target access CS signal enabling target access to a target memory rank of the first plurality of memory ranks coupled to the target local controller, and provide to the second plurality of local controllers, later than the target access CS signal, a command and address (CA) signal for addressing and accessing the multiple memory cells of the target memory rank; and wherein the target local controller is configured to generate, in response to receiving the target access CS signal, a target CA on-die termination (ODT) instruction switching on target CA ODT at its CA input at least for a period when the CA signal is being received from the memory controller.
US10579279B2
A data storage device includes a first multi-chip set which includes a first volatile memory, a first non-volatile memory, and a first core configured to control the first volatile memory and the first non-volatile memory, a second multi-chip set which includes a second volatile memory, a second non-volatile memory, and a second core configured to control the second volatile memory and the second non-volatile memory. A controller is connected to the first multi-chip set and the second multi-chip set and configured to swap a first logical address of a first storage region of the first non-volatile memory with a second logical address of a second storage region of the second non-volatile memory.
US10579275B2
This storage system comprises a block interface, a block control unit, a file control unit, and shared memory. The file control unit and block control unit are coupled via a first memory-through path structured to pass through a first area of the shared memory, and via a second memory-through path structured to pass through a second area of the shared memory. The block control unit has a protocol control unit and a virtual driver; exchanges control information for the file control unit with the file control unit via the first memory-through path; uses the virtual driver to convert an I/O request passed from the file control unit via the second memory-through path and processes the result with a protocol processing unit; and bypasses the virtual driver and uses the protocol processing unit to process a block I/O request transferred from the block interface via a physical path.
US10579273B2
A method for maintaining I/O statistics in a tiered storage environment includes maintaining, by a tiered storage layer within a storage system, I/O statistics for data storage elements or areas within the storage system. The tiered storage layer migrates data between storage tiers in accordance with the I/O statistics. A data services layer, that operates independently from the tiered storage layer, alters (e.g., compresses, decompresses) selected data within the storage system and generates a message to the tiered storage layer describing the alteration. The message identifies the selected data, how the selected data before the alteration maps to the selected data after the alteration, and an operator (e.g., percentage) to be applied to I/O statistics associated with the selected data as a result of the alteration The tiered storage layer receives this message and modifies its internal I/O statistics accordingly. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10579272B2
A node is provided. The node includes a receiver configured to receive data from an application. The data includes at least one of an expected workload on a dataset by the application and at least one expected characteristic of the dataset. The node includes a processor. The node includes a memory containing instructions, executable by the processor, that cause the processor to: compare the received data to a multiple storage backend configurations, select a storage backend configuration from the multiple storage backend configurations based on the comparison, cause creation of the dataset in a first storage backend having the selected storage backend configuration, determine performance data associated with at least one of performance of the first storage backend and actual workload on the dataset by the application, and modify at least one storage parameter of the first storage backend based on the determined performance data.
US10579270B2
A computer program product, according to one embodiment, includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se. Moreover, the program instructions are readable and/or executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method which includes: maintaining a first open logical erase block for user writes, and a second open logical erase block for relocate writes. A first data stream having the user writes is received, and transferred to the first open logical erase block. A second data stream having the relocate writes is also received, and transferred to the second open logical erase block. Furthermore, a third data stream is received, and is mixed with the first, second, and/or another data stream in response to determining that an open logical erase block is not available for assignment to the third data stream.
US10579247B2
Systems and methods for motion-based scrolling of contents view on a display with a screen view that is smaller than the contents view are described. During an augmented tilt control mode, scrolling follows changes in a primary tilt direction aligned with the scrolling direction, while a secondary tilt along a direction perpendicular to the scrolling direction is used to modify at least one scrolling control parameter. The scrolling control may follow a Proportional Scroll mode, where the primary tilt directly controls the screen view position over the contents view, or follow a Dynamic Scroll mode, where the primary tilt controls the scrolling speed. In some implementations, the scroll mode is determined automatically based on the magnification of the contents view. A predefined gestured in the secondary tilt may temporarily override the scroll mode selection. In some implementations with multi-directional scrolling, the current scrolling direction may be temporarily captured during the augmented tilt control mode so that tilt gestures along the direction perpendicular to the captured scrolling direction may be used to modify at least one control parameters.
US10579246B2
An information device having a touch-sensitive panel for displaying an operating screen having a scrolled display region is provided. The information device includes sets of data classified into at least three groups arranged in accordance with a predetermined order; a list display control portion for displaying, in the scrolled display region, a data list in which the sets of data classified into any one of the groups are listed; a scroll control portion for, when the data list is displayed, scrolling through the data list in accordance with touch operation of touching a position in the scrolled display region; and a support display control portion for displaying, in accordance with the touch operation, as pop-up, icons in a manner to appear in the predetermined order on the operating screen along one direction. The icons function as indicators corresponding to groups that are a part of the three groups.
US10579241B2
Techniques for optimizing window move actions for a remoted application are provided, where the remoted application has an application window running within a remote desktop of a server system, and where the application window is made accessible to a user of a client system in the form of a client-side application window displayed in a client desktop of the client system. In one embodiment, the client system can receive from the server system a notification that the application window has begun moving in the remote desktop, and can determine that the user is currently entering one or more input commands for moving the client-side application window in the client desktop. The client system can further send a command to the server system for stopping the movement of the application window in the remote desktop, such that the application window is fixed in a stationary position. The client system can then allow the user to continue moving the client-side application window in the client desktop, while the application window remains in the stationary position in the remote desktop.
US10579235B2
A method for presenting content items includes receiving, by a user device, a request for a media content item hosted by a content sharing platform, and providing, by the user device, a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a first GUI portion having a first media player to play the requested media content item, and a second GUI portion having a second media player to play an additional media content item associated with a particular portion of the requested media content item. The method further includes in response to the first media player beginning to play the particular portion of the requested media content item, causing the second media player to play the additional media content item.
US10579231B1
A method of managing a drilling anomaly includes providing a computing device comprising a graphical user interface (“GUI”) that is configured to display a plurality of screens in response to detection of the drilling anomaly; displaying a first screen that includes a menu listing proposed actions to address the detected drilling anomaly and an estimated success rate associated with each of the proposed actions; wherein each of the proposed actions is selectable by a user via the GUI; receiving, by the computing device and via the GUI, a first selection command associated with a first proposed action from the menu; displaying a second screen that includes a first illustration depicting execution of the first proposed action that was selected by the user via the first selection command; and receiving, by the computing device and via the GUI, a command to execute one of the proposed actions.
US10579219B2
An application may be hosted for utilization by a remote computing platform. User interface (UI) elements of a UI generated by the hosted application may be identified. Proxy UI elements may be generated. Each of the proxy UI elements may correspond to one or more of the identified UI elements. A transcript of an audio sample may be processed. The audio sample may comprise an utterance of a user of the remote computing platform. The transcript of the audio sample may comprise at least one word corresponding to one or more of the proxy UI elements. A functionality of the hosted application may be invoked. The invoked functionality may correspond to one or more of the UI elements corresponding to the one or more of the proxy UI elements.
US10579218B2
An application producing method regarding a first and second application, the method includes receiving an application generation request related to a second application, the second application being subordinate to a first application, generating the second application and computer readable instructions related to a switch interface for selecting at least one of the first and second applications, the switch interface computer readable instructions related to the switch interface, which when executed by at least one application executing apparatus, causes the application executing apparatus to display the switch interface on at least one of the first and second applications, and when the switch interface is in a first state, the first application is controlled based on a first user input received by the at least one application executing apparatus, and when the switch interface is in a second state, the second application is controlled based on the first user input.
US10579215B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for providing content via multiple display devices. Primary content is rendered on a first computing device. A second computing device is associated with the first computing device. The first computing device determines a current state in the primary content. A directive to render supplemental content is sent to the second computing device. The supplemental content is related to the current state of the primary content. The supplemental content is rendered on the second computing device.
US10579211B2
A display apparatus and method. A display apparatus including a display control unit configured to display a moving image on a first region of a display screen; and a thumbnail generation unit configured to generate a plurality of thumbnail images based on a plurality of still images related to the moving image, wherein the display control unit is configured to display the plurality of thumbnail images on a second region of the display screen.
US10579206B2
A display apparatus, including a display configured to display an image, at least one sensor configured to generate sensing data relating to a position of a user with respect to the display apparatus, a memory configured to store background image data relating to a background image of a background area behind the display, and a processor configured to generate a content screen based on the background image data and the sensing data and control the display to display generated content screen, wherein the content screen includes at least one graphic object disposed on the background image, and wherein at least one from among the background image and the at least one graphic object are changed in response to a change of the sensing data.
US10579199B2
According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a substrate; a detection electrode disposed on a plane parallel to a surface of the substrate and including conductive thin wires and electrical coupling portions disposed where the conductive thin wires intersect with each other or are bent, and are coupled with each other, the conductive thin wires being arranged in a mesh-like form; a coupling wire that couples the conductive thin wires with a detecting unit at an end portion of the detection electrode; and a protective layer that is made of an insulation material and that covers the detection electrode and the coupling wire. An area density of the conductive thin wires per unit area is smaller in an end region ranging from an electrical coupling portion closest to the coupling wire to the coupling wire than in a region of the entire detection electrode.
US10579194B2
An electronic device capable of processing a user input without direct contact is disclosed. The electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a plurality of contact electrodes having one end thereof contacted with a user's body respectively to be electrically connected to the user's body, at least one body contact interface electrically connected to the plurality of contact electrodes through the user's body and having a predetermined impedance value, and a signal processing unit connected to other end of the plurality of contact electrodes respectively to form a circuit through the plurality of contact electrodes, the at least one body contact interface, and the user's body, and determining a user input corresponding to an impedance characteristic of the circuit.
US10579180B2
A security apparatus having a force-based touch interface includes: a touch input including a touch plate for a touch input and a force sensor spaced apart at a predetermined distance by a connection member in a direction perpendicular to a touch surface of the touch plate and measuring a pressing force applied to the touch plate at a plurality of measurement points; and a processor configured to recognize directions of a shear force using magnitudes of the pressing force measured by the force sensor, to compare the recognized directions of the shear force with directions of a shear force of a previously registered security code, and to determine whether to disable security according to a comparison result.
US10579174B2
A touch sensor includes a touch sensing column, a touch sensing row, and connectors. The touch sensing column has a plurality of first touch sensing electrodes extending in one direction. The touch sensing row has a plurality of second sensing electrodes extending in a direction intersecting the touch sensing column. The connectors connect adjacent first touch sensing electrodes or adjacent second touch sensing electrodes. Here, at least some of the first touch sensing electrodes or the second touch sensing electrodes include a first region connected to the connectors and having a first line resistance, and a second region adjacent the first region and having a second line resistance. The first line resistance is different from the second line resistance.
US10579163B2
Systems and methods use a mobile device to position an annotation of displayed content on a shared display coupled with a host device. Sensor data, such as gyroscope and accelerometer data, from the mobile device may be transmitted to the host device and used to generate the annotation. The sensor data may be preprocessed to smooth and fit the data to a parametric curve or shape prior to or after display on the shared display. The user of the mobile device may interact with the mobile device to further start and stop the annotation, as well as denote to animate the annotation.
US10579159B2
An information handling system integrated keyboard selectively retracts and extends keys based upon detected conditions, such as housing configuration, housing motion and end user indications. Extension and retraction shuttle plates motivated by actuator wires moves a sliding plate to extended and retracted positions that define the key positions. Nickel titanium alloy actuator wires shorten upon application of current to pull the shuttle plates to the extended or retracted positions that are maintained by a lock. Limit switches remove current at detection of a desired shuttle plate position. One or more controllers manage actuator wire operation based upon detected conditions and actuator wire temperature and electrical characteristics.
US10579156B2
The technology disclosed relates to automatically (e.g., programmatically) initializing predictive information for tracking a complex control object (e.g., hand, hand and tool combination, robot end effector) based upon information about characteristics of the object determined from sets of collected observed information. Automated initialization techniques obviate the need for special and often bizarre start-up rituals (place your hands on the screen at the places indicated during a full moon, and so forth) required by conventional techniques. In implementations, systems can refine initial predictive information to reflect an observed condition based on comparison of the observed with an analysis of sets of collected observed information.
US10579151B2
A controller for finger gesture recognition, including a griping body, a manipulating component and a sensing component, is provided. The griping body includes a head portion and a griping portion which is opposite to the head portion and includes a plurality of finger contact areas. The manipulating component is disposed on the head portion, and the sensing component includes a plurality of finger sensors which are disposed in the finger contact areas, respectively. A method for recognizing finger gesture is also provided, including steps of: receiving a signal of finger movement from the controller, wherein the signal of finger movement is generated by at least one of the finger sensors sensing that at least one of user's fingers contacts or approaches the controller; determining a finger gesture constituted by the fingers according to the signal of finger movement; and generating a signal of finger gesture corresponding to the finger gesture.
US10579145B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for simulating touch in a virtual environment is disclosed. In one example embodiment, a system includes one or more circuits configured to receive an indicator of a sensed touch in a virtual environment and to determine, based on the indicator, an area of the sensed touch. The one or more circuits are further configured to generate a simulated touch by applying a ld to one or more touch simulators, the field actuating the one or more touch simulators by linearly displacing an element of the one or more touch simulators.
US10579143B2
The present application provides a haptic feedback generation method and apparatus, and relates to the field of haptic feedback. The method comprises: in response to that a user body touches an object, sending a second mechanical wave that is used to form a haptic signal at a touch position with a first mechanical wave generated by the user body. A source for forming the haptic signal can be at the touch position, to cause that an effective haptic feedback to a user can be formed with little energy consumption, and poor experience of the user caused by vibration of an entire object is avoided.
US10579133B2
A control module for a human-machine dialogue system, the system including a plurality of human-machine dialogue members, each human-machine dialogue member including a functional element that includes at least one electrical contact and/or a signalling indicator. The control module is configured to operate in a write mode to attribute a state to each signalling indicator of each human-machine dialogue member and in a read mode to read a state of the electrical contact of each human-machine dialogue member.
US10579126B2
An electronic device (20) has a clock path (24) for propagating a clock signal and a clock propagating element (26) on the clock path. An analogue element (30) coupled to the clock path (24) varies, in dependence on an analogue level of a first signal (32), a switching delay for the clock propagating element (26) to trigger a transition of the clock signal. The first signal is a digitally sampled signal. This provides a mechanism for providing a fast reduction in clock frequency even if the first signal is a metastable signal, which is useful for avoiding errors causes by voltage drops.
US10579122B2
A detection can be made that a device is in a power charging state. Responsive to detecting that the device is in the power charging state, a current device use context associated with the power charging state can be determined. A user interface that corresponds to the current device use context associated with the power charging state can be selected. While the device is in the power charging state, the selected user interface can be presented.
US10579121B2
Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for avoiding cache lookup for cold cache. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to collect user information for a user of a data processing device, generate a user profile for the user of the data processing device from the user information, and set a power profile a processor in the data processing device using the user profile. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US10579117B2
A method and an information handling system comprising a processor executing instructions of a basic input/output system (BIOS) module operatively connected to a network interface device standard absorption rate (SAR) antenna power control register via a bus interface and the processor executing code instructions for a power management command for altering a power level of a transmission by an operably connected transmitting antenna according to SAR requirements in response to detection at a sensor indicating a change to transmission power levels is required, where the bus interface is secured by implementing a challenge/response cryptographic system between the BIOS module and the network interface device before allowing the read/write command to access the standard absorption rate control register.
US10579113B2
A portable information handling system transfers thermal energy associated with operation of processing components in a main housing portion through a graphite torsion spring formed from a graphite sheet by cutting arms to extend out of opposing corners of a central portion and rolling the central portion about a central axis. The graphite torsion spring passes thermal energy between the housing portions with the spring releasing tension as the housing portions rotate from a closed to an open position and the central axis disposed about a hinge pin that couples the housing portions to each other.
US10579112B2
A portable information handling system transfers thermal energy associated with operation of processing components between rotationally coupled housing portions through a thermal spreader disposed between the housing portions, such as a sheet having one or more layers of graphite. A tensioning assembly engages the thermal sheet to manage excess material associated with varying rotational orientations of the housing portions.
US10579106B2
Embodiments of this disclosure pertain to a strengthened glass article including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface defining a thickness (t) of about less than about 1.1 mm, a compressive stress layer extending from the first surface to a depth of compression (DOC) of about 0.1·t or greater, such that when the glass article fracture, it breaks into a plurality of fragments having an aspect ratio of about 5 or less. In some embodiments, the glass article exhibits an equibiaxial flexural strength of about 20 kgf or greater, after being abraded with 90-grit SiC particles at a pressure of 25 psi for 5 seconds. Devices incorporating the glass articles described herein and methods for making the same are also disclosed.
US10579102B2
A display device includes: a device body; a first display screen; and a second display screen, wherein the device body includes a first region for receiving the first display screen and a second region for receiving the second display screen, and the first display screen and the second display screen collectively cover a surface of the device body, and wherein the second region is provided with at least one functional module, and the second display screen is movable relative to the device body to expose or cover the at least one functional module.
US10579089B2
A modular non-linear spring system capable of simulating traditional brake pedal feel when incorporated into a hydraulic and/or electro-hydraulic vehicle braking system. The system can include a first spacer having a top surface and a bottom surface and an optional second spacer having a top surface and a bottom surface. In one arrangement, a first mechanical spring is in abutting engagement with the top surface of said first spacer, a second mechanical spring is in abutting engagement with the bottom surface of said first spacer and the top surface of said second spacer, and an optional third mechanical spring is in abutting engagement with the bottom surface of said second spacer. The springs are arranged to be progressively compressed using a brake pedal of the braking system.
US10579086B2
In an example embodiment, a circuit is provided that includes a current source with a calibrated trim circuit whose output current varies with transconductance of the current source, and tracks a current mismatch between the current source and another current source under varying bias currents and temperatures. The trim circuit may include at least one calibration digital to analog converter (CAL DAC), which may be driven by a bias circuit generating current proportional to the transconductance of the current source. In an example embodiment, the trim circuit may include at least two CAL DACs, whose output current may vary with bias current only, and with bias current and temperature. A method to calibrate the CAL DACs includes varying calibration settings of the CAL DACs under different bias currents until the output current of the trim circuit substantially accurately tracks the current mismatch under disparate bias currents and temperatures.
US10579085B2
A power distribution unit and a fault detecting method applied in the power distribution unit are disclosed herein. The power distribution unit includes an input terminal, an insulation fault detection circuit and a processing circuit. The input terminal is electrically coupled to a positive power line and a negative power line, and configured to receive a high voltage direct current (HVDC) voltage. The insulation fault detection circuit is configured to detect an insulation resistance value between a ground terminal and the positive power line or the negative power line. The processing circuit is configured to output a warning signal according to the insulation resistance value.
US10579084B2
A voltage regulator apparatus includes operational amplifier, first resistor, second resistor, driving transistor, amplifier circuit, and output circuit. The operational amplifier has first input terminal coupled to reference voltage, second input terminal, and output terminal. The first resistor has first terminal coupled to second input terminal. The second resistor is coupled between first resistor and ground level. The driving transistor has control terminal coupled to output terminal of operational amplifier and first terminal coupled to second terminal of first resistor. The amplifier circuit is coupled to output terminal of operational amplifier and configured to sense output voltage of voltage regulator apparatus to amplify the sensed voltage with specific gain to regulate a transistor of output circuit. The transistor has control terminal controlled by amplifier circuit. The output voltage is generated at first terminal of the transistor.
US10579080B2
A system for an aircraft includes a first fluid circuit extending from a first end to a second end, and a network comprising a plurality of networked heater assemblies disposed along the first fluid circuit between the first end and the second end. Each of the networked heater assemblies includes at least one temperature sensor, a heater element, and a local controller. The at least one temperature sensor is in communication with the first fluid circuit for periodically measuring a temperature in the first fluid circuit and generating a corresponding local temperature signal. The heater assembly selectively applies heat to the first fluid circuit based on the local temperature signal or another temperature signal on the network. The local controller receives the local temperature signal or another networked temperature signal and operates the heater assembly in response thereto to maintain the local temperature signal above a predetermined threshold.
US10579077B2
Systems and methods for improving energy efficiency in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system using a control device and a controllable component are provided. A climate control system for a facility includes a heating/venting/air-conditioning (HVAC) system, at least one controllable component configured to adjust environmental conditions automatically to minimize energy usage, a control panel, and a control device, wherein the control device displays data from the climate control system and includes a user interface through which a user can control the climate control system.
US10579076B2
A unit (10) for the regulation or control of a fluid pressure, having at least one housing section (13, 14) and a switching film (22) connected to the at least one housing section (13, 14) for switching at pressure differentials relative to an ambient pressure acting on the switching film (22), and for the regulation, release or blocking of a flow of the fluid between an inlet (28) and a discharge (30) for the fluid. The switching film (22) is made out of a polymer material having fluorine and carbon, in particular a thermoplastic having fluorine and carbon. In this arrangement, a hole cross-section (40) of the at least one housing section (13, 14) is closed off by the switching film (22).
US10579074B2
Various embodiments of a propeller-enclosed airlifting air tube apparatus are disclosed. The propeller-enclosed airlifting air tube apparatus contains a unique multi air-tube structure that functions as a plurality of air outtakes to produce stable lift force with one or more propellers enclosed in the apparatus. By encapsulating the propellers within the outer shells, the airlifting air tube apparatus is able to reduce potential bodily harm and property damage risks during a flight operation in a densely-populated environment or in another environment involving tight spaces. Preferably, the airlifting air tube apparatus encapsulates one or more pairs of contra-rotating propellers inside a drone casing to enhance operational safety while minimizing the overall footprint of the apparatus. Furthermore, the airlifting air tube apparatus incorporates a novel flight control steering unit configured to change directions and altitudes of the apparatus by dynamically adjusting airflow to each outtake air tube.
US10579073B2
A ride control system includes a central controller configured to synchronize movements of separate groups of ride vehicles along a path. Each of the separate groups of ride vehicles includes multiple individual ride vehicles unconnected to one another and forming a virtual train. Each virtual train is assigned one or more schedules having multiple expected positions along the path and multiple expected timestamps. Each of the expected timestamps of the multiple expected timestamps are associated with respective expected positions of the multiple expected positions. The ride control system also includes multiple vehicle controllers. Each vehicle controller of the multiple vehicle controllers is communicatively coupled to a respective individual ride vehicle of the multiple individual ride vehicles. Each vehicle controller is configured to control a speed of the respective individual ride vehicle along the path based at least on the one or more schedules.
US10579064B2
An electrical charging station for charging an autonomous robot having a battery. The charging station includes a first charging member configured to receive a second charging member on the autonomous robot when the autonomous robot is docked with the charging station. There is a communications device configured to receive from the autonomous robot an identifier indicative of a type of battery on the autonomous robot. There is a power supply, electrically connected to the first charging member, configured to charge the autonomous robot according to a charging profile. The charging profile is selected based at least in part on the identifier received from the autonomous robot.
US10579054B2
Systems and methods for recovering an autonomous vehicle in a fleet of vehicles are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes detecting an existence of an adverse condition associated with an autonomous vehicle in the fleet. The method includes determining in response to detecting the adverse condition, a recovery plan for the first autonomous vehicle based at least in part on one or more attributes associated with the adverse condition, the recovery plan including one or more actions to recover the first autonomous vehicle at a remote location. The method includes initiating the recovery plan to recover the first autonomous vehicle at the remote location.
US10579052B2
A method operates the machinery of a plant having various machines. The method includes providing software-readable information relative to working areas each relating to at least an operation of one of the machines. At least part of the machines are operated by MES or MOM software reading the information so as to avoid operations with overlapping working areas being performed at a same time.
US10579045B2
A manual robot control by which a reference point of the robot is moved continually in space or positioned on an adjacent snap point depending on the control input.
US10579044B2
A non-transitory computer readable information recording medium stores an evaluation program for operating first and second motor control units, for evaluating operation characteristics related to a control device including a first motor control unit configured to control a first motor driving a first axis, and a second motor control unit configured to control a second motor driving a second axis. The evaluation program operates the first and second motor control units so that a shape of a movement path of a control target moved by the first and second axes includes at least a cornered shape in which both rotation directions of the first and second motors do not invert, and an arc shape in which one of the first and second motors rotates in one direction, and a rotation direction of the other of the first and second motors inverts.
US10579041B2
Implementations described herein generally relate method for detecting excursions in time-series traces received from sensors of manufacturing tools. A server extracts one or more time series traces and metrology data collected from one or more sensors associated with one or more manufacturing tools configured to produce a silicon substrate. The server identifies one or more candidate excursions of the one or more time series traces by comparing the one or more time series traces to one or more traces associated with a working reference sensor. The server verifies that a candidate excursion of the one or more candidate excursions is a true excursion based on correlating the one or more time series traces to the metrology data. The server instructs a manufacturing system to take corrective action to remove the selected true excursion.
US10579033B2
A method includes holding multiple primitives of a communication protocol, which is used for managing a controller that controls one or more field devices in an industrial control network. Multiple scenarios are defined, each corresponding to one or more respective sequences of primitives exchanged with the controller over the industrial control network for achieving a respective user-level operation. Multiple parsing rules for deriving the sequences of primitives from the respective scenarios are further defined. A sequence of primitives that were exchanged with the controller over the industrial control network is intercepted. An attempt to reconstruct from the intercepted sequence of primitives, using the parsing rules, one or more scenarios that each corresponds to the intercepted sequence of primitives is carried out, and, in response to succeeding in reconstructing one or more scenarios, extracting user-level information from the reconstructed scenarios.
US10579031B2
A controller allows easy synchronization between a plurality of control programs executed in parallel to control a plurality of motors. The control programs are executed cyclically in parallel in predetermined execution cycles. Timing data for synchronizing the execution timing of the control programs is transmitted and received between the control programs. After control program 1 is executed, an axis variable to be referred to by the control program 2 is copied from an execution area of the memory for the control program 1 into a buffer area for the control program 2.
US10579022B2
A bracelet or strap for a watch case including a first arm inside which is housed a first printed circuit portion and a second arm, where the first arm is extended by a median part arranged to be situated underneath the watch case and which includes a second printed circuit portion connected to the first printed circuit portion by electrical connection, where the first printed circuit portion carries at least one electrical energy source and a microcontroller for powering and controlling a pressure sensor, where the median part is covered by an insert arranged to act as a seat for the watch case, where a housing, inside which the pressure sensor is arranged, is provided in the insert and communicates with the exterior to allow the pressure sensor to be placed in contact with a surrounding medium, and the pressure sensor is mounted on the second printed circuit portion with the insertion of a sealing gasket between the housing and the second printed circuit portion.
US10579018B2
A wristwatch with a gear train for rotatably advancing in cyclic steps a minute-units disk, a switching device for advancing a minute-tens disk and an hour ring which is advanced during one revolution of the minute-tens disk. The movement comprises a first and a second transmission chain connected to a release mechanism; the first transmission chain controls the second such that the second transmission chain transmits every minute a rotational movement force to a minute-units wheel. The release mechanism comprises a control disk, two release levers, each having a first and a second lever arm, and a release wheel. After each minute, a first lever arm falls from the control disk edge into a recess of the control disk and a second lever arm releases the release wheel, such that the second transmission chain rotates freely, allowing the minute-units disk to rotate one digit further.
US10579004B2
A binding unit includes a first pressing part that presses a recording material bundle to bind the recording material bundle, a second pressing part that faces the first pressing part, and a pushout part that pushes out the second pressing part toward the first pressing part by acting on the second pressing part using an upper shaft lever and by varying a distance from a start portion serving as a start point of pushout movement to the upper shaft lever. The start portion is formed integrally with a member at which the first pressing part is formed.
US10579000B2
A fixing member comes in contact with a recording material, and the fixing member includes: an inner layer; an outer layer; and a graphite layer provided between the inner layer and the outer layer, wherein the graphite layer is bonded to at least any one of the inner layer and the outer layer, and a surface of the graphite layer to be bonded to the at least any one of the layers is ozone-treated.
US10578996B2
An intermediate transfer unit includes an intermediate transfer belt, a plurality of transfer rollers, a housing, and a filter unit. The intermediate transfer belt is mounted around a drive roller and a driven roller and capable of traveling in an endless path around the rollers. The housing holds the intermediate transfer belt and the transfer rollers. The filter unit includes: a suction portion; an exhaust portion; and a rectangular chassis provided internally with an upstream filter and a downstream filter both capable of collecting powder particles. The filter unit is disposed inside of the intermediate transfer belt so that a direction of length of the chassis is oriented parallel to a direction of width of the intermediate transfer belt perpendicular to a direction of travel of the intermediate transfer belt, and the filter unit is fixed to the housing.
US10578995B2
An image forming apparatus can adjust a liquid amount of a carrier liquid layer formed on an intermediary transfer belt depending on an image forming mode.In a case of a full-color mode, a controller sets an operation mode of a liquid amount adjusting device at a “removal mode” . In a case of a monochromatic mode, the controller sets the operation mode at a “supply mode”. In the removal mode, a carrier liquid in the carrier liquid tank is not carried on a feeding roller, so that the carrier liquid is removed from the belt by the feeding roller. In the supply mode, the carrier liquid drawn up from the carrier liquid tank by a supplying roller is supplied to the belt via the feeding roller
US10578992B2
An image forming apparatus, including: an image signal generating portion configured to generate an image signal based on image data; a light source configured to emit a light beam based on the image signal; and a deflection device configured to deflect the light beam in a main scanning direction, wherein the image signal generating portion includes: a mode setting portion configured to set a plurality of modes including a mode in which a value of a pixel of the image data is not converted and a mode in which the value of the pixel in one or more lines is converted, to a plurality of areas into which a scanning area is divided in the main scanning direction, respectively; and a pixel value conversion portion configured to convert the value of the pixel in each mode in accordance with a position of the pixel in the main scanning direction.
US10578990B2
A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a colorant, wherein (1) an average circularity of the toner is at least 0.960, (2) an onset temperature Tε (° C.) of a storage elastic modulus E′ of the toner, as determined by a powder dynamic viscoelastic measurement, is from 50° C. to 70° C., and (3) in a differential curve obtained by differentiation, by load, of a load-displacement curve provided by measurement of the strength of the toner by a nanoindentation procedure, with the horizontal axis being load (mN) and the vertical axis being displacement (μm), the load X that provides the maximum value in the differential curve in the load region from 0.20 mN to 2.30 mN is from 1.00 mN to 1.50 mN.
US10578985B2
An imprint apparatus comprises: a dispensing unit that dispenses a liquid to a substrate; a first measurement unit that measures a time from when a signal for causing the liquid to be dispensed is outputted to the dispensing unit until when the dispensed liquid passes through a predetermined position; a second measurement unit that measures a position of the liquid on the substrate that is dispensed by the dispensing unit; and a control unit that controls the measurement by the first measurement unit and the second measurement unit, wherein the control unit performs measurement by the second measurement unit based on a measurement result by the first measurement unit.
US10578980B2
A method, system and program for determining a position of a feature referenced to a substrate. The method includes measuring a position of the feature, receiving an intended placement of the feature and determining an estimate of a placement error based on knowledge of a relative position of a first reference feature referenced to a first layer on a substrate with respect to a second reference feature referenced to a second layer on a substrate. The updated position may be used to position the layer of the substrate having the feature, or another layer of the substrate, or another layer of another substrate.
US10578978B2
A method is provided to easily determine the parameters of a second process for manufacturing from the parameters of a first process. Metrics representative of the differences between the two processes are computed from a number of values of the parameters, which can be measured for the two processes on a calibration layout, or which can be determined from pre-existing values for layouts or reference data for the two processes by an interpolation/extrapolation procedure. The number of metrics is selected so that their combination gives a precise representation of the differences between the two processes in all areas of a design. Advantageously, the metrics are calculated as a product of convolution of the target design and a compound of a kernel function and a deformation function. A reference physical model of the reference process is determined. A sizing correction to be applied to the edges of the design produced by the reference process is calculated. It is then converted, totally or partially, into a dose correction.
US10578972B2
An EUV collector serves for use in an EUV projection exposure apparatus. The collector guides EUV used light emitted by a plasma source region. An overall impingement surface of the collector is impinged upon by radiation emitted by the plasma source region. A used light portion of the overall impingement surface guides the EUV used light. An extraneous light portion of the overall impingement surface is impinged upon by extraneous light radiation, the wavelength of which differs from that of the used light. The used light portion and the extraneous light portion are not congruent. This EUV collector has increased efficiency can involve reduced production costs.
US10578967B2
The present application relates to a negative type photosensitive resin composition including a compound of Chemical Formula 1, an alkali soluble resin binder, a polyfunctional monomer, a colorant, a photoinitiator, and a solvent, and a display apparatus including a black bank formed by using the same.
US10578962B2
Provided is a self-supporting film that has an anti-reflection function independently, so that the self-supporting film exhibits excellent optical characteristics as a result. A self-supporting film has a rugged-structure layer having periodic rugged shapes formed on a surface thereof, with these periodic rugged shapes being formed on at least one surface. The average thickness of the self-supporting film ranges from 0.2 μm to 20.0 μm. The rugged-structure layer has a yield strain of 1% or greater and a tensile elongation of 10% or greater.
US10578960B2
A mask blank with resist film, including a substrate having a thin film; and a negative resist film formed on a main surface of the thin film, wherein in the resist film, a photoacid generator-rich region in which concentration of a photoacid generator is high compared to other region of the resist film, is formed at a portion where the resist film is in contact with the thin film.
US10578959B2
A support apparatus for a lithographic apparatus has an object holder and an extraction body radially outward of the object holder. The object holder is configured to support an object. The extraction body includes an extraction opening configured to extract fluid from a top surface of the support apparatus. The extraction body is spaced from the object holder such that the extraction body is substantially decoupled from the object holder. The extraction body includes a projection configured such that it surrounds the object holder and such that, in use, a layer of immersion liquid is retained on the projection and in contact with an object supported on the object holder.
US10578954B2
A projector is configured to project an image to one side with respect to an installation surface. The projector includes: a housing that is configured to be fixed to the installation surface, a projection section that is built in the housing and configured to project image light from one end of the housing, an adjustment mechanism that is configured to adjust a posture of the projection section with respect to the installation surface, a drive section that is configured to drive the adjustment mechanism, and an operation detecting section configured to detect an input operation corresponding to the adjustment mechanism.
US10578952B2
An image capturing device includes a camera unit and a casing enclosing the camera unit. The camera unit includes an optical lens and an image sensing module. The casing includes a first housing body, a second housing body attachable to the first housing body, a front enclosure, and a back enclosure. The first housing body, the second housing body, the front enclosure, and the back enclosure jointly enclose a receiving space. A first ventilating window is disposed on the first housing body or the second housing body, and a second ventilation window is disposed on the back enclosure. The first ventilating window and the second ventilation window are configured to provide ventilation to the receiving space.
US10578950B2
Photographic lighting devices, systems, and methods having a plurality of electrical energy storage/discharge (EESD) elements and/or one or more light sources in a single photographic lighting device to perform one or more photographic lighting effects. EESD elements and one or more light sources can be configured to have multiple separate light emissions occur in a single image acquisition window. The multiple light emissions are separated in an image acquisition window by a time period that is about shutter speed exposure time/(N−1), where N is the number of light emissions. In one such example, two light emissions are separated by a time period that is about shutter speed exposure time/(N−1).
US10578946B2
A polarization grating for diffractive light deflection, having at least one liquid crystal layer on a substrate, wherein the liquid crystal molecules having a periodic change in orientation. The invention further relates to a light deflection device and a method for deflecting light. A polarization grating for an oblique incidence angle of the light is specified, in particular having high diffraction efficiency for the +1st order for a specifiable or variable incidence angle in a wide range of incidence angles. A polarization grating has at least one additional orientation change of the liquid crystal molecules such a way such that light of a specified polarization has a controllable angle of incidence and experiences a specifiable phase retardation upon passing through the liquid crystal layer.
US10578924B2
Various layer separation states are generated by the combination of a polyamide acid ester and a polyamide acid and a long residual image characteristic cannot be further improved merely by combining them. A liquid crystal display device comprises a substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and an orientation film placed between the substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The orientation film comprises a polyimide precursor having two or more components. In the polyimide precursor, an octanol-water partition coefficient is defined as log P and the difference in log P (Δ log P) between the two components having most distant log Ps is set so as to fall within a prescribed range.
US10578922B2
This invention reduces or prevents a phenomenon where a screen close to a light source becomes yellowed. A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight. The backlight includes a light guide plate 10 and white LEDs 21 arrayed in a first direction on a plane of incidence 11 of the light guide plate 10. The white LEDs 21 each includes, in the first direction on a light-emitting surface, a central area occupied by a blue spectrum more densely than at adjacent sides of the central area. Incident plane protrusions 111, each extending in a thickness direction of the light guide plate 10, are formed on a section corresponding to the area having the dense blue spectrum of each LED 21, at the plane of incidence 11 of the light guide plate 10.
US10578906B2
The present disclosure provides a display control method for a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes an array substrate and an opposite substrate, wherein the array substrate is provided with data lines, scan lines and pixel units arranged in an array, the opposite substrate includes a black matrix, and the method includes: inputting an alternating current signal to the black matrix so as to form an alternating electric field between the black matrix and the array substrate, so that impurity ions between the array substrate and the opposite substrate are in a motion state under an action of the alternating electric field, rather than being adsorbed on the array substrate and the opposite substrate.
US10578898B2
In a display device using a substrate having flexibility, a drop in reliability due to defects such as cracks in the case where a substrate is made to curve is controlled. A display device is provided including a first substrate having flexibility, the first substrate including a curved part, an organic film covering a first surface of the first substrate and a second surface opposing the first surface in the curved part; and a pixel part and a drive circuit part arranged on the first surface.
US10578897B2
A flexible display panel includes a flexible substrate including a first region including a display region and having a curved display surface, and a plurality of non-display regions that is located outside the display region and including a second region located outside the first region and folded in a direction different from a display direction of the first region, and an encapsulation member for encapsulating the display region along the curved display surface.
US10578888B2
A technology concerning a pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision. In each of the pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision, when an inner horizontal direction of each of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward the nose of a user who wears the spectacle lenses, and an outer horizontal direction of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward an ear of the user, a portion for viewing an object at finite distance is provided in each of the pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision and a shape of a base in prism is formed in the position such that a line of sight of a user viewing an object through the portion is directed to a direction that is different from a direction from the object.
US10578885B2
A polarization coupling device includes a polarization combining element. The polarization combining element includes a polarization rotating unit that rotates a polarization direction of a first polarized wave incident on the polarization combining element, and a polarization combining unit that combines the first polarized wave with the polarization direction rotated by the polarization rotating unit and a second polarized wave incident on the polarization combining element with each other, and the polarization rotating unit and the polarization combining unit are integrated with each other. Due to this configuration, the polarization coupling device has an effect where downscaling of the device can be advanced.
US10578881B2
An illumination optical unit serves for illuminating objects to be examined by a metrology system. The illumination optical unit has an optical pupil shaping assembly for generating a defined distribution of illumination angles of illumination light over an object field in which an object to be examined can be arranged. An optical field shaping assembly for generating a defined intensity distribution of the illumination light over the object field is disposed downstream of the pupil shaping assembly in the beam path of the illumination light. The field shaping assembly has at least one optical field shaping element arranged in the region of a pupil plane of the illumination optical unit. This results in an illumination optical unit which ensures an illumination which can be set in a defined manner with regard to an intensity distribution and an illumination angle distribution over the entire object field.
US10578875B1
The disclosed head-mounted display system may include (1) a display for displaying computer-generated imagery, (2) a lens, (3) a peripheral wall extending from a back end to a front end, with the back end coupled to the lens and the front end coupled to the display such that the lens, the peripheral wall, and the display together define an enclosure, and (4) a speaker housed by the enclosure. Various other systems and methods of assembling the same are also disclosed.
US10578870B2
An exit pupil expander (EPE) has entrance and exit pupils, a back surface adjacent to the entrance pupil, and an opposed front surface. In one embodiment the EPE is geometrically configured such that light defining a center wavelength that enters at the entrance pupil perpendicular to the back surface experiences angularly varying total internal reflection between the front and back surfaces such that the light exiting the optical channel perpendicular to the exit pupil is at a wavelength shifted from the center wavelength. In another embodiment a first distance at the entrance pupil between the front and back surfaces is different from a second distance at the exit pupil between the front and back surfaces. The EPE may be deployed in a head-wearable imaging device (e.g., virtual or augmented reality) where the entrance pupil in-couples light from a micro display and the exit pupil out-couples light from the EPE.
US10578867B2
A head-up display device for displaying a virtual image superimposed over a field of view to a viewer is provided. The head-up display device includes a picture generating unit having an illumination source, such as a laser, to generate a real image following a first light beam. A windshield of a vehicle engages the first light beam, either at an inclined angle or perpendicular, to reflect the first light beam away from the viewer as reflected images. A combiner disposed on the windshield including a holographic optical element steers the first light beam toward the viewer as a third light beam to present the virtual image within the field of view of the viewer. Mirrors may direct and magnify first light beam onto the combiner. A method for displaying a virtual image superimposed over a field of view to a viewer using a head-up display device is also provided.
US10578866B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a polarization separation element which transmits first polarized light, and reflects second polarized light, a first optical modulation unit which displays a first image by using transmitted light, a second optical modulation unit which displays a second image by using reflected light, and a projector which projects the first image onto a first projection area of a projection plane, and projects the second image onto a second projection area different from the first projection area of the projection plane.
US10578860B2
A deformable mirror with variable curvature including: a plate having a reflective face and opposite hidden face and whose shape has a center (C) and radiuses (r), and at least one actuator intended to exert a force on the hidden face in order to deform the plate. The plate comprises a plurality of primary and secondary portions. The secondary portions being interposed between the primary portions, each of the primary portions extending locally substantially along and on either side of a respective radius (r′) among said radiuses (r), and having a stiffness different from the adjacent secondary portions. The deformable mirror is intended to the introduction or the correction of an optical aberration in a light beam.
US10578857B2
A portable microscope apparatus operated with an image capture device includes a sample carrying module, a lens module, a first polarizer and a second polarizer. The sample carrying module includes a transparent carrier and a sample adhesive element including a substrate and a glue layer. The substrate has a concave portion and an extending portion. The concave portion is adjacently connected to the extending portion to form a first surface. The glue layer is at least partially disposed on the first surface and in an integrated form with the substrate. The lens module is detachably connected to the image capture device, and disposed between the sample carrying module and the image capture device. The first polarizer is disposed on an optical path on one side of the sample carrying module. The second polarizer is disposed on the optical path on the other side of the sample carrying module.
US10578854B2
[Object] To provide an optical connector and an optical connector set which are excellent in environment resistance and suitable for the use in medical instruments, an image pickup unit and an image pickup system that use the optical connector, and an optical transmission module. [Solving Means] An optical connector according to the present technology includes a lens support, a fiber ferrule, a lens, and a lens retainer. The lens support includes a through-hole. An optical fiber is connected to the fiber ferrule. The fiber ferrule is press-fitted in the through-hole. The lens is inserted into the through-hole. The lens retainer is press-fitted in the lens support and sandwiches the lens between the lens retainer and the fiber ferrule.
US10578849B2
A scanning microscope includes a light source for generating a light beam having a wavelength, λ, and beam-forming optics configured for receiving the light beam and generating a quasi-Bessel excitation beam that is directed into a sample. The quasi-Bessel beam has a lateral FWHM and an axial FWHM that is greater than ten times the lateral FWHM, and the beam-forming optics include an excitation objective having an axis oriented in a first direction. The microscope includes beam scanning optics configured for scanning the quasi-Bessel beam in one or more directions that are substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and a detector configured for detecting signal light received from positions within the sample that are illuminated by the quasi-Bessel beam. The signal light is generated in response to an interaction of the excitation beam with the sample, and the signal light is imaged, at least in part, by the excitation objective, onto the detector.
US10578848B2
There is provided a measurement apparatus including a control unit configured to control an on/off state of illumination that does not contribute to acquisition of measurement data on the basis of an acquisition time period of the measurement data.
US10578840B2
A camera module, which is mounted on an inside of a front windshield of a vehicle and to image an external environment of the vehicle, includes a lens unit and an imager to image the external environment by forming an optical image, which is from the external environment through the lens unit.
US10578813B2
An optical fiber connector assembly comprising an MPO connector and a push-pull tab. The connector may have an outer housing and an inner housing extending beyond a rear end of the outer housing, the outer housing having a first protrusion and the inner housing having a second protrusion positioned at a distance from the first protrusion. The push-pull tab may comprise a main body and an extender coupled to the main body, the main body having a plurality of walls forming a passageway configured to receive the connector, the plurality of walls including a first wall having a window sized according to the distance between the first and second protrusions and configured to receive the first and second protrusions. In another embodiment, the push-pull tab may comprise a first piece and a second piece configured to couple to each other to form a passageway for receiving the connector.
US10578811B2
Methods of forming a ferrule are disclosed where the ferrule includes an inner member and an outer member. An optical fiber is secured in an axial bore of the inner member, and then offset of a core of the optical fiber from a geometric center of the inner member is determined. The outer member is then formed over the inner member to “correct” for this offset so that the core of the optical fiber ends up closer to the geometric center of the resulting ferrule. Related ferrules and cable assemblies including the same are also disclosed.
US10578804B2
An apparatus (2) can comprise an optical slab (4) comprising a rigid substrate of substantially transmissive material. The apparatus (2) can also comprise a WDM multiplexer (6) to receive and combine a plurality of optical signals (14, 16 and 20) at different wavelengths to form a combined optical signal (24) in the optical slab (4) having an aggregate power. The apparatus can further comprise a broadcaster (28) to distribute the combined optical signal (24) from the optical slab (4) to each of a plurality of different optical receivers (30, 32 and 34) with a fraction of the aggregate power of the combined optical signal (24).
US10578799B2
Disclosed herein are designs, structures and techniques for advanced packaging of multi-function photonic integrated circuits that allow such high-performance multi-function photonic integrated circuits to be co-packaged with a high-performance multi-function ASIC thereby significantly reducing strenuous interconnect challenges and lowering costs, power and size of the overall devices.
US10578797B2
A hollow core optical fiber guide is provided that comprises a body for reflecting light comprising a first end, a second end, a longitudinal dimension extending between the first end and the second end, an inner sidewall, an outer sidewall, and a transverse dimension extending radially between the inner sidewall and the outer sidewall, wherein the body comprises a plurality of optically dielectric material and each of the plurality of dielectric material having a different refractive index; and a light guiding core region disposed within the body.
US10578793B2
Color-scanning grating-based backlighting includes a color scanning protocol to provide different colors of light in different regions of a plate light guide with an intervening dark region. A color-scanning grating-based backlight includes the plate light guide and a diffraction grating configured to diffractively couple out a portion of a guided light beam as a coupled-out light beam directed away from a plate light guide surface at a predetermined principal angular direction. The backlight further includes a multicolor light source configured to provide the different colors of light to the plate light guide as the guided light beam according to the color scanning protocol. Provided light of a first color in a first region is separated from provided light of a second color in a second region one or both by the intervening dark region and by a light-confining wall of the plate light guide.
US10578787B2
A hologram generating apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a hologram signal generating unit configured to, based on light projected on at least some points corresponding to an object, generate a hologram signal corresponding to the at least some points on at least one two-dimensional plane, a processor configured to calculate a sparsity corresponding to the two-dimensional plane based on the hologram signal, and to calculate a fringe pattern based on at least some of the hologram signal, and a pattern writing unit configured to record the fringe pattern on a computer-generated holography (CGH) plane, wherein the processor is further configured to repeatedly calculate a fringe pattern until a number of dominant signals of the calculated fringe pattern coincides with a predetermined threshold value determined based on the sparsity.
US10578771B2
A set of characteristics of a period is extracted from a forecast that is applicable to the period and a geographical area. From a repository, a set of historical data is selected corresponding to a historical period, the set of historical data including a historical forecast related to the geographical area, and an actual measurement of wind at a location in the geographical area, the set of historical data having a subset of the set of characteristics. From the set of historical data, a function is computed to represent a discrepancy between the historical forecast and the actual measurement over the historical period. A bias value is computed from the function. By applying the bias to a value in the forecast, an adjusted forecast is produced of winds at a wind turbine located at a location in the geographical area.
US10578770B2
An improved inflow performance model that provides the performance of oil wells having any slant angle within the entire azimuth of 0-90 degrees, in saturated and under saturated reservoirs. A generalized model is formulated by normalizing the coefficients of inflow performance relationship (IPR) model by performing a linear regression analysis. The generalized model is further modified to account for skin factor and is also integrated with a straight line IPR to be suitable for determining the performance of under saturated oil wells. For the case of flowing bottom-hole pressures above bubble point pressure, the straight line IPR model is used to determine the flow rate of the oil well, whereas for the case of having bottom-hole pressure below the bubble point pressure, the generalized IPR model is used to determine the flow rate performance of the well.
US10578768B2
A method, system and computer program product for integrating plural modalities of information to obtain values for a specified attribute of a given system. In one embodiment, data of a first modality, conveying a first source of data of a first type of the system is acquired; a simulator is configured with settings of physical sensors; and data of a second modality from the system, conveying a second source of data of a second type of the system is acquired. The data of the second modality is converted to data of the first type, while configuring a virtual set of sensors to enable acquisition of the converted data of the second modality; and an adjoints equipped simulator is configured with settings of the virtual sensors, to mimic collection of data of the first type, while configured to measure data of the second type.
US10578767B2
A method of simulating a hydrocarbon reservoir is disclosed. A process-based model is generated that mimics a depositional process of the reservoir. The process-based model is analyzed to extract statistics of geometries of a body that forms part of the reservoir, and depositional rules of the body. An object-based modeling method is applied to construct multiple unconditional geologic models of the body using the statistics and the depositional rules. Training images are constructed using the multiple unconditional geologic models. Well data and gross thickness data are assigned into a simulation grid. A single multiple-point geostatistical simulation is performed using the training images. A three-dimensional (3D) reservoir model is constructed using results of the multiple-point geostatistical simulation.
US10578758B2
A method, including: obtaining a scale-depth or scale-time phase image of a continuous wavelet transform of an input signal, the scale-depth or scale-time phase image including oval-shaped circular patterns observed on the mirrored phase image; and extracting, with a computer, hierarchical multiscale intervals from the scale-depth or scale-time phase image, wherein the hierarchical multiscale intervals correspond to the oval-shaped circular patterns observed on the mirrored scale-depth or scale-time phase image of the continuous wavelet transform of the input signal. Another method includes: characterizing, with a computer, curve shapes of intervals of a signal using beta distribution; and visualizing and analyzing, with the computer, shape parameters of the curve shapes on a shape-parameter crossplot.
US10578754B2
In an apparatus for multi-pole acoustic logging while drilling, a N-cycle sinusoidal wave signal is generated by utilizing a signal processor, and amplified into a high-voltage sinusoidal excitation signal by utilizing a power amplifier, and output to a transmitting transducer. The signal processor simultaneously generates an enable signal. The enable signal includes a transient discharge enable signal. The power amplifier is connected with a transient discharge circuit. After the signal processor generates N cycles of a sinusoidal wave, the transient discharge enable signal enables the transient discharge circuit to discharge to release an energy storage current of a power transformer so as to eliminate a high-voltage ringing effect and improve an excitation efficiency of the transducer.
US10578752B2
The present specification describes an improved multi-energy radiation detector. In one embodiment, the signal generated by the detection medium is converted to digital form directly at the point of signal collection. This avoids the need for power intensive high bandwidth amplifiers and analog-to-digital converters, as it integrates the sensing device and signal processing onto the same silicon substrate to reduce the number of components in the system. In one embodiment, a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) is coupled directly to a threshold detector to achieve an intrinsically low power and low noise detector.
US10578748B2
The basic concept of satellite-free time transfer using time reversal (T3R) has been invented and successfully demonstrated over long distance (about 4,000 km) with an accuracy of approximately 200 ns rms. The current invention describes new methods to drastically improve performance up to <10 ns rms—better than the current differential GPS, without satellites. The new method employs the Vernier concept utilizing the unique p-independence property of T3R irrespective of carrier frequencies. Also, a histogram method to automatically filter out extraneous data and allow high accuracy and a new method to extend the timing range of T3R beyond the pulse repetition period by removing ambiguity are proposed. A systematic way to obviate the signal blockage caused by transmit/receive window mismatch, is also proposed. Issues and solutions associated with the ionosphere are proposed, including 24-7 operation in adverse ionospheric conditions, such as the constantly changing ionosphere, multiple hops, static asymmetry, and jamming and spoofing.
US10578739B2
An optoelectronic module operable to acquire distance data and spectral data includes an array of demodulation pixels and an array of spectral filters. The demodulation pixels can possess an intrinsic wavelength-dependent sensitivity, wherein the intrinsic wavelength-dependent sensitivity can be offset by an intensity balancing micro-lens array in some cases. In some cases, the intrinsic wavelength-dependent sensitivity can be offset by a combined filter array, while in other cases the intrinsic wavelength-dependent sensitivity can be offset by an intensity balancing filter array. Still in other cases, the demodulation pixels can be operable in such as to offset the intrinsic wavelength-dependent sensitivity.
US10578735B2
Methods and devices use information from the original SAR images to provide measurements that can be applied to corresponding change detection products. This produces reliable registration and alignment for the change products even when the imaging geometry is significantly changed. A method of processing synthetic aperture radar, SAR, image data comprising a plurality of frames of SAR image data for each of a plurality of image geometries; for each image geometry, applying change detection to the frames of SAR image data corresponding to that image geometry to produce a corresponding plurality of change products; selecting a plurality of said acquired frames as reference frames, one in respect of each image geometry; applying a multilook SAR process to the reference frames to produce a multilook SAR product, the multilook SAR process comprising at least one processing stage comprising measuring a property of the data contained in the reference frames and applying a transformation to the data governed by the measured property; and applying a multilook change process to the change products, the multilook change process comprising applying the same transformation as in the multilook SAR process, to the change products, to produce a multilook change product.
US10578731B2
The invention relates to a method for evaluating the distance (d) between an identifier (20) fitted with a first wireless communication module (24) and a vehicle (10) fitted with a second wireless communication module (14), including the following steps: establishing a wireless connection (L) between the first wireless communication module (24) and the second wireless communication module (14); estimating said distance (d) on the basis of a propagation time of the electromagnetic signals involved in the wireless connection established (L); when the identifier (20) comes within the range of a signal (S) transmitted by the vehicle (10), evaluating said distance (d) by means of a measurement, by the identifier (20), of the strength of said transmitted signal (S). An associated electronic unit and identifier are also described.
US10578730B2
A positioning determination method using an improved RFID location tag is described the tag including an RFID controller; memory; a power management module; and an accelerometer. The position determination method including the steps of periodically polling the RFID tags for information; receiving information from a plurality of reference RFID tags at a known location; receiving information from the non reference RFID tags, the information including the tag id and sensor data; calculating for each non reference and referenced RFID tag a received signal strength indication; and calculating an initial position for each non reference RFID tag based on the received signal strength indications and the positions of the reference RFID tags.
US10578725B2
The invention presents methods and instrumentation for measurement or imaging of a region of an object with waves of a general nature, for example electromagnetic (EM) and elastic (EL) waves, where the material parameters for wave propagation and scattering in the object depend on the wave field strength. The invention specially addresses suppression of 3rd order multiple scattering noise, referred to as pulse reverberation noise, and also suppression of linear scattering components to enhanced signal components from nonlinear scattering. The pulse reverberation noise is divided into three classes where the invention specially addresses Class I and Class II 3rd order multiple scattering that are generated from the same three scatterers, but in opposite sequence.
US10578717B2
An eye safety assembly for a vehicle based laser beam generating system is provided. The assembly includes at least one panel of dimmable glass that is positioned within a path of at least one laser beam generated from the laser generating system and a controller configured to control a dimming of the at least one panel of dimmable glass based at least in part on information received from vehicle systems.
US10578715B2
The invention relates to a method and system for testing and evaluating a response of an automotive radar system for a specific automotive safety scenario, wherein the method and system generates a simulated reflected radar signature corresponding to at least one virtual target in a specific virtual scenario. The simulated radar signature is generated from one or more of: a pre-recorded real reflected radar signature from at least one real target in a specific real scenario, or an analytical representation of a radar target signature from at least one virtual target in a specific virtual scenario.
US10578711B2
A radar apparatus transmits a radar wave, with a control parameter being set to a desired value, and acquires an initial transmission level from outside the radar apparatus, the initial transmission level being a result of measurement of a transmission level of the radar wave. At the same time, the radar apparatus receives a delayed wave of the radar wave from outside the radar apparatus, and acquires an initial reception level which is a result of measurement of a reception level of the delayed wave. The radar apparatus then sets a target reception level according to a preset target transmission level, and the initial transmission level and the initial reception level acquired. The radar apparatus then repeats update of the control parameter and measurement of the reception level until the reception level coincides with the target reception level.
US10578710B2
A diagnostic method is provided for a vision sensor of a vehicle. The diagnostic method includes the steps of: determining a first position and a direction of movement of the vehicle; selecting a stationary landmark suitable for being detected by the vision sensor from a landmark database, wherein the landmark is located in front of the vehicle in the direction of movement of the vehicle, wherein a distance from the first position of the vehicle to the landmark is greater than the target range of the vision sensor; detecting the landmark via the vision sensor and, in response to a successful detection of the landmark by the vision sensor; determining a second position of the vehicle; determining an actual range of the vision sensor as the distance between the second position of the vehicle and the landmark.
US10578702B2
An imaging phantom having a housing and a dynamic perfusion assembly positioned within the housing. The dynamic perfusion assembly permits the flow of at least one contrast agent into a non-contrast solution at a desired rate. The dynamic perfusion assembly includes a first chamber that receives at least one contrast agent and a second chamber that receives a non-contrast solution. The second chamber receives the at least one contrast agent from the first chamber at the desired rate.
US10578701B2
An MRI system includes processing circuitry configured to generate two or more RF pulses to form a spin echo, wherein each RF pulse corresponds to selecting at least two slice locations. Additionally, the MRI system encodes magnetic resonance (MR) magnetization to form echo signal data for each RF pulse, applies a set of time-shifts to a slice-selection gradient for each selected slice location, generates a pattern of slice-position-dependent moments on the echo signal data based on the set of time-shifts to the slice-selection gradient, receives image data corresponding to the echo signal data, and reconstructs the image data to form a plurality of images, wherein each of the plurality of images corresponds to one of the selected slice locations.
US10578688B2
Provided is a method and an apparatus for filtering a magnetic field induced in a coil of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The method includes: applying an electromagnetic signal to an object, wherein the applying is performed by a transmit coil; while the electromagnetic signal is applied, emitting light toward a receive-only coil that obtains a magnetic resonance signal that is generated in the object due to the applied electromagnetic signal; and when the receive-only coil receives the emitted light, filtering a magnetic field induced in the receive-only coil due to the applied electromagnetic signal.
US10578685B2
A radio frequency coil (34), for use in a medical modality including at least a magnetic resonance examination system (10), comprises: a right hollow cylinder-shaped patient bore lining (36), an inner carrier member (40) that is fixedly attached to an outwardly directed surface of the patient bore lining (36), a radio frequency antenna (42), fixedly attached to an antenna carrier member (44) made from a composite material, which in turn is fixedly attached to an outwardly directed surface of the inner carrier member (40), at least one outer carrier spacer member (48), arranged on at least one out of the at least one radio frequency antenna (42) or an outwardly directed surface of the antenna carrier member (44), and providing a free end-to-end space (50) in a direction parallel to the center axis (38) of the patient bore lining (36), a right hollow cylinder-shaped outer carrier member (52) with a center axis (54), which in an operational state is arranged in parallel to the center axis (38) of the patient bore lining (36), and is in mechanical contact with outwardly directed surfaces of the outer carrier spacer members (48), and a shell member (58) that is in mechanical contact with an outwardly directed surface of the outer carrier member (52); and a medical modality including at least a magnetic resonance examination system (10) with such radio frequency coil (34).
US10578678B1
A vehicle includes an electric power converter, a power source, a detection circuit, at least one processor, and at least one memory. The electric power converter filters voltage ripple generated by the electric power converter. The detection circuit determines an unfiltered measurement of the power source and a filtered measurement of the power source and generates a differential signal by comparing the unfiltered measurement and the filtered measurement. Said memory stores instructions executable by said processor. The instructions causes said processor to determine a state of health of the power source based at least in part on the differential signal.
US10578676B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for vehicle monitoring of mobile device state-of-charge. An example vehicle includes a communication node, a charging station, and a controller. The controller is to receive, via the communication node, a state-of-charge (SOC) of a mobile device and determine a predicted SOC at a destination based on the SOC, a rate-of-change of the SOC, and a travel time to the destination. The controller also is to emit, responsive to the predicted SOC being less than a threshold, an instruction to couple the mobile device to the charging station.
US10578673B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a touchless testing platform employed to, for example, create automated testing scripts, sequence test cases, and implement defect solutions. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a log file and testing results generated from a code base for an application; processing the log file through a pattern-mining algorithm to determine a usage pattern of code modules within the code base; clustering defects from the testing results based on a respective functionality of the application reported within each of the defects; generating testing prioritizations for test cases for the application by assigning weightages to the test cases based on the clusters of defects and the usage pattern of the code modules within the code base; sequencing a set of the test cases based on the test prioritizations; and transmitting the sequence to a test execution engine.
US10578671B2
To provide a semiconductor device capable of easily testing a built-in self-test control circuit itself, the semiconductor device has: a test pattern generator; an output response analyzer configured to compare an expected value to a test result of a circuit; a plurality of test control circuits each configured to control the test pattern generator and the output response analyzer; and a circuit under test. The semiconductor device has: a first test mode in which a first test control circuit controls the test pattern generator and the output response analyzer to cause the test pattern, to thereby perform a test; and a second test mode in which the test control circuit other than the first test control circuit controls the test pattern generator and the output response analyzer to cause the test pattern, to thereby perform a test.
US10578662B2
A grounding detection apparatus, a control method thereof and a pool system are provided. The grounding detection apparatus includes a detection circuit, which includes a live line connection terminal, a neutral line connection terminal, a grounding terminal, a first impedance circuit, a sampling resistance, a differential amplifying circuit and a comparison unit; a first terminal of the first impedance circuit is connected with the live line connection terminal; a second terminal of the first impedance circuit is connected with a first terminal of the sampling resistance and a first input terminal of the differential amplifying circuit; the sampling resistance is configured to convert a sampling current to a sampling voltage; the differential amplifying circuit is configured to amplify the sampling voltage to form an amplified sampling voltage; and the comparison unit is configured to compare a threshold voltage and the amplified sampling voltage and output a comparison result.
US10578658B2
A system for measuring electrical consumption includes an assembly with electronic display subassemblies located on a housing. Each electronic display subassembly has an electronic display layer and an illumination device. The electronic components, including a video player, for operating the assembly are in electronic communication with the electronic display subassemblies. A simulated electric meter is in electrical connection with a utility electric supply and the electronic components. The simulated electric meter includes a processor, an electronic storage device, a current sensor, and a timing device.
US10578648B2
A probe card assembly for nondestructive integrated circuit testing is disclosed. The probe card assembly includes an outer gimbal bearing with a tapered bearing surface being mounted on a top surface of a printed circuit board. The probe card assembly further includes an inner gimbal bearing with a spherical bearing surface which contacts the tapered bearing surface of the outer gimbal bearing at a single point of contact about a circumference thereof. The probe card assembly further includes a spring plate mounted to the outer gimbal bearing, providing a downward force to a substrate.
US10578647B2
Embodiments may include systems and methods for manufacturing a probe for wafer sorting or die testing. A probe for wafer sorting or die testing may include a probe body and a probe tip. The probe body may include a probe core and a probe plating layer around the probe core. The probe core may include a first material, and the probe plating layer may include a second material. The probe tip may be next to the probe core of the probe body and may include the first material. In addition, the probe tip may have an end surface that is smaller than a surface of the probe core, and larger than a single point. A probe-manufacturing device may include a forging unit, a clipping unit, and an actuation mechanism to control the forging unit and the clipping unit. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10578642B2
A device for testing an inertial sensor for a vehicle, which includes at least two attachment points, having at least one first oscillation body to which the inertial sensor is fastenable/is fastened, and having at least one first excitation module assigned to the first oscillation body for accelerating the first oscillation body in at least one direction. At least one second oscillation body is spaced apart from the first oscillation body, to which at least one second excitation module is assigned for accelerating the second oscillation body, and that the inertial sensor is fastenable/is fastened with a first attachment point to the first oscillation body and with a second attachment point to the second oscillation body.
US10578628B2
The present invention relates to a method for acquiring information on a cause of prolongation of coagulation time. The present invention also relates to a device, a system and a computer program for analyzing blood coagulation.
US10578619B2
The present invention relates to methods and kits for identifying effector regulatory T cells. In particular the present invention relates to use of CD15s as a biomarker for eTreg cells. The present invention also relates to a method for identifying effector Treg cells (eTreg) in a fluid sample comprising the steps of i) detecting the cell surface expression of CD4, CD25, CD127 and CD15s markers on the cell population contained in the fluid sample and ii) concluding that the cells expressing CD4, CD25, CD127 at low levels and CD15s are the effector Treg cells. The present invention also relates to a method for identifying effector Treg cells (eTreg) in a tissue sample comprising the steps of i) detecting the cell expression of CD4, CD25, Foxp3 and CD15s markers and ii) concluding that the cells expressing CD4, CD25, Foxp3 and CD15s are the effector Treg cells.
US10578617B2
There is provided a diagnostic reagent for use in the detection of M. bovis or M. tuberculosis infection in an animal, comprising a peptide which has an epitope from Mycobacterium bovis hypothetic protein Mb3645c (SEQ ID NO: 1) or an epitope from a polypeptide having at least 76% identity with SEQ ID NO: 1.
US10578612B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of immunological-based diagnostic assays. Particularly, a method is contemplated herein for measuring cell-mediated immune response reactivity. The present disclosure further provides a method to reduce incidence of non-specific immune response reactivity in a cell-mediated immune response-based assay, comprising contacting a sample with a basic peptide structure capable of binding to lipopolysaccharides, such as polymyxin B or a sushi peptide.
US10578605B2
An apparatus for measuring blood clotting time includes a blood clot detection instrument and a cuvette for use with the blood clot detection instrument. The cuvette includes a blood sample receptor-inlet; a channel arrangement including at least one test channel for performing a blood clotting time measurement, a sampling channel having at least one surface portion that is hydrophilic, communicating with the blood sample receptor-inlet and the at least one test channel, and a waste channel having at least one surface portion that is hydrophilic, communicating with the sampling channel; and a vent opening communicating with the sampling channel. The sampling channel, the vent opening and the waste channel, coact to automatically draw a requisite volume of a blood sample deposited at the blood receptor-inlet, into the sampling channel. More specifically, air compressed within the blood clot detection instrument, the at least one test channel of the cuvette, and the section of the sampling channel extending beyond the vent opening of the cuvette, coacts with the waste channel to cause a leading edge of the blood sample drawn into the sampling channel from the blood receptor-inlet, to pull back within the sampling channel and uncover an optical sensor in of the blood clot detection instrument. The uncovering of the optical sensor activates a pump module of the blood clot detection instrument, which draws the requisite volume of the blood sample into the at least one test channel.
US10578596B2
A quick, non-destructive and inexpensive test is disclosed to determine whether a portion of a structure made of 5XXX Aluminum alloy is sensitized. Unlike the current sensitization tests, this test can be performed by non-skilled personnel without complicated procedures and equipment. Since the test is non-destructive, it does not require the removal material from the structure. This feature makes the test particularly attractive for in situ applications such as for use on existing structures like ships. The test requires the application of an indicating chemical to the surface of the material being tested. The indicating chemical has a pre-determined pH which may be either acidic or alkaline. The indicating chemical also contains an pH indicator of pre-determined value. After a short period of time has elapsed, the percentage of pH color change observed from the indicating chemical can be used to determine whether the sample is sensitized or not. It is also possible to obtain at least an approximation of the Degree of Sensitization of the structure using the test.
US10578591B2
A gas chromatograph for preventing leakage of carrier gas and secondary accident such as explosion is provided. A flow rate restricting valve having valve mechanism which mechanically restricts flow rate of carrier gas is disposed at the upstream side of sample inlet portion 1 of the carrier gas flow path 11 and apart from the flow rate control valve 6 which controls the flow rate of the carrier gas, which is inlet into sample inlet portion and analytical column according to signal from control unit 8. The excessive flow rate that is larger than the predetermined resulted from the leakage of carrier gas is mechanically restricted to a pre-set flow rate by using the flow rate restricting valve. The leakage of carrier gas e.g., helium and the secondary accident due to leakage of carrier gas e.g., hydrogen, are prevented.
US10578589B2
Disclosed is a system and method of determining the test surface profile and compensating the gain amplitude when using time reversal focal laws in ultrasound non-destructive testing. Computer simulations are used to compute the diffraction field at time of incidence of the transmitted parallel wave front on the test surface. Knowledge of the surface profile and the diffraction field allows determination of coverage at the test surface and improved accuracy of flaw sizing.
US10578588B2
A photoacoustic apparatus comprising a processing unit configured to obtain first image data corresponding to a first wavelength, obtain second image data corresponding to a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, perform normalization processing on at least one of the first image data and the second image data so as to decrease a difference in an image characteristic between the first image data and the second image data, and obtain position shift information associated with irradiation timing of the light having the first and second wavelengths on the basis of the first and second image data at least one of which is subjected to the normalization processing.
US10578579B2
The monitoring probe (1) comprises: a FR-4 substrate (2) with two faces; two copper tracks (3) arranged on one of the faces of the substrate (2), with an electrical contact terminal (7) on the outside of the probe (1); a conductive region (6) with reference electrode functions, with an electrical contact terminal (8) on the outside of the probe (1), occupying the entire other face of the substrate (2); a passivating material layer (5) partially covering the copper tracks (3) and leaving two free zones (12, 13) of said tracks (3) uncovered, one of said free zones (12) corresponding to the electrical contact terminal (7) of the two copper tracks (3); and two ISE sensor elements (4) that are sensitive to at least one of the parameters of interest to be monitored in the ground, and arranged in the other of the free zones (13) of the two copper tracks (3).
US10578577B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a solid-state zinc sensor. A non-limiting example of the sensor includes a semiconductor substrate. The sensor can also include an assembly surface on the semiconductor substrate. The sensor can also include a zinc detection monolayer chemically bound to the assembly surface. The sensor can also include a power supply electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate.
US10578570B2
A test system and method for thermoelectric module. The test system includes an electrical performance test unit, a heat flux detection unit, and a processor. The electrical performance test unit connects with the thermoelectric module under power generation state to test output power of the thermoelectric module and working current and internal resistance under this output power. The heat flux detection unit includes a heat flux sensor installed at a cold-end of the thermoelectric module to detect the heat flux. The processor electrically connects with the electrical performance test unit and the heat flux detection unit to calculate the thermoelectric conversion efficiency η of thermoelectric module. By using the technical scheme of the invention, the detection of the thermoelectric conversion efficiency of the thermoelectric module is accomplished.
US10578568B2
Methods to identify and quantify the emulsion properties in oil and gas producing wells at downhole condition or pipelines using NMR and to provide potential treatment options. The longitudinal (T1), transverse (T2) relaxation times and diffusion coefficient of a fluid are changed by the presence of a second dispersed fluid phase in the form of bubbles or droplets. Properties may be determined by comparing the measured T1 and T2 spectra and diffusion coefficient at downhole conditions with the bulk responses of the constituent fluids.
US10578563B2
A grating based differential phase contrast imaging (DPCI) apparatus and acquisition technique whereby the system generates horizontal moiré fringes on a detector of the DPCI system by tilting at least one of the G1 and G2 gratings, and capturing images of an object including moving the object in a direction perpendicular to the lines of the moiré fringes.
US10578553B2
These measurement devices are each provided with: irradiation unit that irradiate a fluid with light; a light-receiving unit that receives light scattered by the fluid; an acquiring unit that acquires fluid information which indicates the flow rate or the flow velocity of the fluid; and a control unit that controls the irradiation unit on the basis of the fluid information.
US10578552B2
A scattering tomography method includes: radiating waves to an object from transmitting antenna elements arranged on a curved surface; receiving scattered waves by receiving antenna elements arranged on the curved surface; and reconstructing an image relating to the information on the interior of the object from scattered wave data representing the scattered waves received by the receiving antenna elements, and in the reconstructing, a function ϕ for reconstructing the image relating to the information on the interior of the object is set in advance, an equation which a fundamental scattered function satisfies is constructed, a visualization function ρ that is obtained by solving the equation is derived from the scattered wave data, and the image relating to the information on the interior of the object is reconstructed using the visualization function.
US10578549B2
The present invention relates to a method for quantification of the amount of lactide in a lactide-based polymeric matrix by means of Infra Red Spectroscopy measurement. According to the invention the quantification is based on measurements performed on absorptions in the near Infra Red region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The invented method allows a rapid, easy and cheap quantification of lactide in a polymeric matrix, especially in PLA.
US10578541B2
The current invention concerns a flow cytometric system and method for observing, analyzing and/or separating objects in a liquid sample, comprising a digital holographic microscope (DHM) and at least one fluidic system, whereby the DHM comprises illumination means, an interferometric system and digital recording means, whereby the fluidic system is capable of guiding said objects through an illumination beam of the illumination means of said DHM, whereby the fluidic system comprises a mechanism for inducing a liquid sample stream through the fluidic system, whereby preferably the fluidic system comprises a stream size controlling device for controlling the transverse dimensions of a liquid sample stream inside said fluidic system, preferably said stream size controlling device is capable of lining up the objects one-by-one or multiple objects at a time in said liquid sample stream.
US10578534B2
A method used to predict a strength of an ultrasonic weld-joint of a wire-cable comprising the steps of providing a wire-cable, determining a combined-weight, removing a contaminant, determining a weight, determining a percentage by weight of the contaminant, and determining whether the percentage by weight of contaminant is less than a threshold. Determining the percentage by weight of the contaminant removed from the wire-cable is based on a formula [(Mb−Ma)/Mb]*100, where Mb is the combined-weight of the wire-cable and the contaminant and Ma is the weight of the wire-cable. The threshold of the percentage by weight of the contaminant correlates to the strength of the ultrasonic weld-joint.
US10578526B2
A method for providing in situ chemical transformation and ionization of a portion (e.g., inorganic oxidizer) of a sample via an analyte detection system is disclosed herein. The method includes introducing a gas into an ionization source of the analyte detection system via an inlet. The method further includes generating ions within the ionization source and directing the gas and generated ions through and out of the ionization source and to the sample. The sample is located proximal to the ionization source in an ambient environment. The ions chemically react with the sample and desorb and ionize an analyte from the sample, the analyte being generated from the inorganic oxidizer, the desorbed analyte having a lower melting point and/or better desorption kinetics than the inorganic oxidizer. The method further includes receiving the desorbed analyte via an analyzer of the analyte detection system.
US10578520B2
The present invention relates to a preprocessing apparatus and a preprocessing method for measuring and analyzing air pollution, and provides the preprocessing apparatus and the preprocessing method, in which there is included a cyclone main body, a block made of aluminum or copper and provided at an outer circumferential edge of the cyclone main body, and a cooling means surrounding the block, such that contaminated gas introduced into the cyclone main body is cooled within a predetermined range, and as a result, it is possible to remove moisture contained in combustion gas by crystallizing the moisture, and to separate particulate matters from the combustion gas based on a cyclone principle.
US10578518B2
A control unit (6) estimates an output value of a PM sensor (S2) located at a downstream side of a DPF used as a reference filter, and detects whether the estimated output value exceeds a predetermined value (S3). When the estimated output value exceeds the predetermined value (YES in S3), the control unit detects an output value of the PM sensor (S4), and a heater heats the PM sensor (S5). The control unit detects an output value of the PM sensor (S6) after the PM sensor is heated, and calculates a change ratio of the output values of the PM sensor before and after heating (S7). The control unit estimates an average particle size of PM based on the calculated change ratio (S8), and detects whether the DPF has failed based on a comparison result of a corrected output value of the PM sensor with a threshold value.
US10578516B2
One or more embodiments are directed to optical test instruments, such as fiber optic inspection scopes and optical power meters, for testing optical communication links, such as fiber optic connectors. The optical test instruments include a single test port that is able to operate in two modes of operation. In a first mode of operation, the optical test instrument is configured to provide an image of the endface of a fiber optic connector under test. In a second mode of operation, the optical test instrument is configured to measure power or power loss in an optical fiber under test. In that regard, the fiber optic connector only has to be coupled to a single port of an optical test instrument for a visual inspection of an endface of a fiber optic connector and a power test of the optical fiber under test.
US10578507B2
A pressure measuring method, applied to a pressure measuring apparatus, comprising: measuring a first pressure sensing value of the pressure measuring apparatus, which corresponds to a first pressure in a test mode; measuring a second pressure sensing value of the pressure measuring apparatus, which corresponds to a second pressure in the test mode; generating a first corresponding function according to the first pressure, the second pressure, the first pressure sensing value and the second pressure sensing value; sensing a third pressure sensing value via the pressure measuring apparatus in a normal mode; and generating a third pressure according to the third pressure sensing value via the first corresponding function; wherein the pressure measuring apparatus operates at a first scan frequency. By this way, the pressure sensing value can be calibrated, to solve the issue that the pressure sensing values are affected by scan frequencies.
US10578505B2
A process for manufacturing a MEMS pressure sensor having a micromechanical structure envisages: providing a wafer having a substrate of semiconductor material and a top surface; forming a buried cavity entirely contained within the substrate and separated from the top surface by a membrane suspended above the buried cavity; forming a fluidic-communication access for fluidic communication of the membrane with an external environment, set at a pressure the value of which has to be determined; forming, suspended above the membrane, a plate made of polysilicon, separated from the membrane by an empty space; and forming electrical-contact elements for electrical connection of the membrane and of the plate, which are designed to form the plates of a sensing capacitor, the value of capacitance of which is indicative of the value of pressure to be detected. A corresponding MEMS pressure sensor having the micromechanical structure is moreover described.
US10578504B1
Certain improvements in thin film sensors are disclosed, with particular emphasis on aircraft applications. In certain embodiments, dielectric isolation washers have been provided between the pressure sensor and the interior surface of the exterior metal housing of the sensor assembly. In this manner, high voltage inputs from a lightning strike or other source that reach the sensor housing are not transmitted to the sensor. In one embodiment, the dielectric washers, insulators, and potting compounds isolate the metal thin film pressure sensor from all adjacent metal components in the assembly with non-conducting insulating materials like Torlon, zirconia and nylon. Besides their high dielectric strength, these materials exhibit excellent compressive strength and outstanding resistance to wear, creep and chemicals. Certain minimum thickness for these components are described. The present thin film pressure sensor embodiments can attain a dielectric rating of 1500 VAC.
US10578491B2
In a colorimetry device and a colorimetry method of the present invention, reference chart definition information including at least reference chart identification information about a reference color chart and patch position definition information indicating a position of each of plurality of patches in the reference color chart is stored, and whether the obtained color chart is matched with the reference color chart is determined based on the reference chart identification information. When the obtained color chart is determined to be matched with the reference color chart, a position of a colorimetry unit with respect to the color chart is relatively moved to the position of each of the plurality of patches in the color chart based on the reference chart definition information, and the colorimetry unit measures the color of each of the plurality of patches.
US10578490B2
A spectrometer is provided. The spectrometer may include an image sensor including a pixel array; and a photonics layer disposed on the pixel array and including a plurality of resonators and a plurality of couplers evanescently coupled to the plurality of resonators.
US10578480B2
A multi-probe system for real-time measurement of a fluid level in a pipe with steady-state and turbulent flow conditions is presented. The multi-probe system includes a plurality of multiplexed transducers attached in a non-destructive fashion to walls of the pipe. Multiplexing of the transducers activate and deactivate the transducers in sequence to generate independent pairs of transmit and receive wave signals through the pipe. Each transmit and receive signal pair can be used to independently establish a time-of-flight from the transducer and back to the transducer as reflected by a surface of the fluid. The transducers can be arranged as longitudinal and/or circumferential arrays on the walls of the pipe. An algorithm that determines the time-of-flight eliminates received signals having an energy level lower than or equal to a predefined minimum energy level and eliminates any time-of-flight that is shorter than a minimum threshold time.
US10578477B2
A sensor for detecting the level of a medium contained in a container, in particular a tank, comprises: an array of capacitive elements designed to be associated to the container (1), in particular so as to extend according to an axis of detection (X) of the level of the medium (L), the array of capacitive elements comprising a plurality of electrodes (J1-Jn), in particular on a face of an electrically insulating substrate (20) having a generally elongated shape, the electrodes (J1-Jn) being spaced apart from one another, in particular along the detection axis (X), and being preferably substantially coplanar with one another; at least one insulation layer (16) for insulating electrically the electrodes (J1-Jn) with respect to the inside of the container (1); and a controller (24) having a plurality of inputs. Each capacitive element comprises a set of electrodes connected together in common, in particular in parallel, each set of electrodes being connected to a respective input of the plurality of inputs. The controller (24) is pre-arranged for discriminating a value of capacitance associated to each electrode (J1-Jn) in order to deduce the level of the medium present container.
US10578473B2
A cargo body includes a floor configured to support a cargo load and a roof positioned above the floor. The roof includes a roof panel having a composite construction including a first skin, a second skin, and a core positioned between the first and second skins. The cargo body includes first and second lateral sidewalls, each having an upper rail extending along an upper edge thereof. An edge portion of the roof panel is joined to one of the first and second upper rails.
US10578457B2
An onboard robust and stable vision-inertial navigation system that makes an unmanned vehicle autonomous in its navigation capabilities in the absence of external navigation aids like a global positioning system (GPS). The system is robust to the sensor noise properties of the onboard vision and inertial sensors, as well as errors in initial estimates of the position and orientation of the vehicle. The system enables any unmanned vehicle to autonomously navigate an unfamiliar or unknown environment. The system is also stable and robust to uncertainties in the measurement noise and dynamics of the unmanned vehicle, and does not exhibit any instability when sensors are changed or when sensor noise properties change over time.
US10578456B2
Methods and apparatuses for safety enhanced computer-assisted driving. In embodiments, an apparatus for computer-assisted driving may include a neural network to determine a classification for behavior of a driver of a vehicle having the apparatus, based at least in part on data about the vehicle collected in real time, and a current level of stress or drowsiness of the driver determined in real time; and a safety action engine coupled to the neural network to determine a safety related action, based at least in part on the determined driver behavior classification and data related to current traffic or road condition of a route the vehicles is currently traveling on. The safety related action may be performed by an infotainment system or a navigation system of the vehicle to assist the driver in driving the vehicle in a safer manner.
US10578455B2
A device for providing electric-moving-body information is provided with a calculation unit for calculating, upon receiving a departure point and state of charge (SOC) of an electric vehicle, a plurality of reachable points capable of being reached if an electric vehicle departs from a destination after reaching the destination from the departure point and a display data generation unit for generating display data for displaying a reachable range display screen that makes it possible to visually recognize the plurality of reachable points. Information that is more useful for determining actions that can be taken after arriving at a destination is provided to an electric-moving-body user.
US10578449B2
An example waypoint navigator method includes identifying a local waypoint using image recognition on an image of the local waypoint displayed on a mobile device. The example method also includes overlaying on the image of the local waypoint, a visual direction to the remote waypoint based on identifying the local waypoint, the visual direction based on context. The example method also includes updating the visual direction based on changes in the context.
US10578446B2
A route search apparatus configured to search a route from a set place of departure to a set destination comprises network data that includes nodes and links representing a road network, an average cost value indicating an average of travel time of each of the links, and a variance value indicating a degree of variance of the travel time, and a route searcher configured to determine the route from the place of departure to the destination as a recommended route, based on the average cost value, the variance value and a weight coefficient of the variance value.
US10578445B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for building an itinerary-planning model and planning a traveling itinerary, wherein the method for building the itinerary-planning model comprises: obtaining a travel route with a known travel demand; training a deep learning model by regarding the travel demand, a set of candidate scenic spots determined by using the travel demand and the travel route corresponding to the travel demand as training samples, to obtain the itinerary-planning model; the itinerary-planning model is configured to use the travel demand to obtain a corresponding travel route. The method of planning a travelling itinerary comprises: obtaining the user's travel demand; according to the user's travel demand, obtaining a set of candidate scenic spots corresponding to the travel demand; inputting the user's travel demand and the set of candidate scenic spots into an itinerary-planning model, to obtain a travel route obtained by the itinerary-planning model.
US10578442B2
Disclosed is a feature for a vehicle that enables taking precautionary actions in response to conditions on the road network around or ahead of the vehicle. A database that represents the road network is used to determine locations where a potentially hazardous condition exists. Then, precautionary action data is added to the database to indicate a location at which a precautionary action is to be taken relating to the hazardous condition. A precautionary action system installed in a vehicle uses this database, or a database derived therefrom, in combination with a positioning system to determine when the vehicle is at a location that corresponds to the location of a precautionary action. When the vehicle is at such a location, a precautionary action is taken by a vehicle system as the vehicle is approaching the location where the potentially hazardous condition exists.
US10578438B2
Various embodiments may provide an optical gyroscope. The optical gyroscope may include a ring resonator, an input source configured to generate or provide a first light beam and a second light beam to the ring resonator, and a switching pathway having an input end and an output end coupled to the ring resonator, and may include a plurality of switches. The optical gyroscope may include a control circuit configured to control the plurality of switches to allow the first light beam to propagate from the input end to the output end along the switching pathway during a first time interval, and allow the second light beam to propagate from the input end to the output end along the switching pathway during a second time interval. The optical gyroscope may additionally include a detector loop configured to receive the first light beam and the second light beam from the ring resonator.
US10578434B2
A method for taking partially overlapping images of a ground surface from a camera arranged in an aircraft or a spacecraft, the method including: while the aircraft or the spacecraft is moving, acquiring images at different instants in time, separated by time intervals; detecting, during the moving, position information representative of a position and orientation information representative of an orientation of the aircraft of the spacecraft; using the position information, the orientation information, and the camera's viewing angle to determine maximal values of time intervals for which images with a predetermined amount of spatial overlap can be obtained; and adjusting the intervals towards the maximal values so as to minimize the number of the acquired images while maintaining the predetermined amount of spatial overlap.
US10578430B2
To carry out evaluation of a road surface property easily and in a short period of time without being costly. Measurement data of a road surface measured for a predetermined road width along a path of a road to be measured is acquired; a unit area having a preset length dimension along the path in the road width is set along the path; a model plane in the unit area is set based on the measurement data at each point in the unit area; point group data is generated from a spaced amount of the model plane and each point in the unit area, visualize and display the spaced amount in the path, and display a result of evaluation obtained through statistical processing with the path shown on a map.
US10578425B2
Embodiments include a system for test fitting fabric, comprising a flat structure comprising a test surface defined by four sidewalls and an interface configured to attach the fabric to the test surface. The four sidewalls include a first sidewall and a second sidewall substantially perpendicular to the first sidewall. The test surface comprises a first adjustable dimension substantially parallel to the second sidewall and a second adjustable dimension substantially parallel to the first sidewall. The system also includes a user interface configured to receive one or more inputs for adjusting the first adjustable dimension and the second adjustable dimension; a first mechanism configured to, in response to the one or more inputs, automatically move the first sidewall to adjust the first adjustable dimension; and a second mechanism configured to, in response to the one or more inputs, automatically move the second sidewall to adjust the second adjustable dimension.
US10578393B2
Described is a spitball gun that is operable for collecting, wetting, and projecting paper ammunitions. The spitball gun includes a paper advancing chamber having an opening for receiving paper ammunition and an advancing mechanism for advancing paper through the paper advancing chamber to a loading chamber. A water tank is also connected with the loading chamber. An indexing lever is used to cause paper to be pulled through the paper advancing mechanism while water is released onto the paper from the water tank. A firing pin handle with a connected paper cutter is used to cut the paper and load the paper into the loading chamber. Finally, air from an attached air tank is used to expel a wetted paper wad from the loading chamber and through the barrel of the spitball gun.
US10578391B2
A protective cover for a firearm having a front muzzle portion; a rear slide portion substantially parallel to and spaced apart from the front muzzle portion; an elongate body portion extending between and secured to the front muzzle portion and the rear slide portion; a trigger guard cover portion that extends from the body portion to cover at least a portion of a trigger guard of said firearm to be disposed within the protective cover; and a longitudinally extending cover opening in the body portion through which at least a portion of said firearm extends to be disposed within the protective cover, wherein said cover opening extends between said trigger guard cover portion and said rear slide portion.
US10578375B2
A fin and a heat exchanger having the fin, wherein the fin includes a sheet body. The sheet body includes a plurality of cooling sheet units arranged along a longitudinal direction of the sheet body. Each cooling sheet unit includes a windward zone, a main heat exchange zone and a leeward zone arranged along a transverse direction of the sheet body. The windward zones of adjacent cooling sheet units are connected to each other. A flat tube groove extends between the leeward zone and the main heat exchange zone of one of the adjacent cooling sheet units and the leeward zone and the main heat exchange zone of the other of the adjacent cooling sheet units. Each cooling sheet unit is provided with a plurality of protrusions spaced apart from each other.
US10578369B1
A thermal management system includes a slurry generator, an injector pump coupled to the slurry generator, a heat exchanger reactor coupled to the injector pump, wherein the heat exchanger reactor is adapted to subject a thermally expendable heat absorption material to a temperature above 60° C. and a pressure below 3 kPa, and wherein the expendable heat absorption material endothermically decomposes into a gaseous by-product. A vapor cycle system is coupled to the heat exchanger reactor and is operatively connected to a thermal load. A thermal energy storage system may be coupled to the vapor cycle system and the thermal load. The thermal energy storage system may isolate the heat exchanger reactor from thermal load transients of the thermal load.
US10578368B2
A two-phase fluid heat transfer structure includes: at least one evaporator having an evaporation chamber, which containing a first working medium; at least one evaporator tube body having a first end and a second end, which communicating with the at least one evaporator to form a loop of the first working medium, the at least one evaporator tube body further having a condensation section between the first and second ends; at least one heat sink; at least one heat sink tube body having a heat absorption section, which containing a second working medium, the at least one heat sink tube body being connected to the at least one heat sink; and at least one heat exchanger having a first face and a second face for the condensation section of the evaporator tube body and the heat absorption section of the heat sink tube body to attach to.
US10578362B2
A thermal insulation structure is disposed at an exterior of a chamber of a heating device. The thermal insulation structure includes a heat conduction layer, a heat storage layer and a reflection layer. The heat conduction layer is adapted to conduct heat from the chamber to the heat storage layer. The heat storage layer is adapted to store heat. The reflection layer is adapted to reflect radiation heat back to the chamber, whereby a temperature of the chamber could be kept at a constant so as to reduce heat dissipation of the chamber.
US10578357B2
An annular divided wall column for the cryogenic rectification of air or constituents of air is provided. The annular divided wall column includes a first annular column wall and a second annular column wall disposed within the first annular column wall to define an annulus column region and an interior core column region. The present annular divided wall column further includes structured packing elements disposed within at least the annulus column region as well as a ring-shaped cantilevered collector; and a ring-shaped distributor disposed in the annulus column region above or below the plurality of structured packing elements. The thermal expansion and contraction of the second annular column wall in a radial direction and in an axial direction is independent of the thermal expansion and contraction of the first annular column wall in the radial and axial directions.
US10578356B2
An annular divided wall column for the cryogenic rectification of air or constituents of air is provided. The annular divided wall column includes a first annular column wall and a second annular column wall disposed within the first annular column wall to define an annulus column region and an interior core column region. The present annular divided wall column further includes structured packing elements disposed within at least the annulus column region as well as a ring-shaped cantilevered collector; and a ring-shaped distributor disposed in the annulus column region above or below the plurality of structured packing elements. The thermal expansion and contraction of the second annular column wall in a radial direction and in an axial direction is independent of the thermal expansion and contraction of the first annular column wall in the radial and axial directions.
US10578351B1
A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet which defines a fresh food storage chamber and a frozen food storage chamber. The refrigerator appliance also includes a drawer slidably mounted within one of the fresh food storage chamber and the frozen food storage chamber. The drawer includes a drawer body defining an interior of the drawer and a door attached to the drawer body via a hinge such that the door is rotatable relative to the drawer body between a closed position where the door encloses the interior of the drawer and an open position to provide access to the interior of the drawer. The hinge includes a damper assembly configured to dampen rotation of the door from the closed position to the open position.
US10578347B2
An ice dispensing assembly is provided that can be mounted within an appliance, such as a refrigerator appliance. The ice dispensing assembly includes an ice dispenser crusher mechanism having features that facilitate dispensing and crushing of ice. The construction of dispenser crusher mechanism provides a horizontal axis motor coupling with a vertical axis agitator and crusher for dispensing and crushing ice.
US10578345B2
A heat transfer system comprises a first fluid storage tank fluidly connectable to a first fluid circuit for heat exchange between the first fluid circuit and a first fluid in the fluid storage tank, a first heat exchanger positioned for heat exchange with the first fluid, and a second heat exchanger fluidly connected to the first heat exchanger via a refrigerant circuit for heat exchange with the first heat exchanger. The refrigerant circuit includes a refrigerant compressor module and an expansion valve for circulating a refrigerant therethrough for heat exchange between the first and second heat exchangers. A hydronic system is also described.
US10578342B1
This invention aims to dramatically reduce the use of electricity in refrigeration equipment by reusing the energy, otherwise rejected, in conventional refrigeration units. This enhancement compression refrigeration cycle would revolutionize the refrigeration industry and would be conducive to a lesser carbon footprint impact on global warming. It consists of 3-fluid Loops that would maximize the use of the heat from conditioned or refrigerated room that gets expelled into the environment by conventional refrigeration units, thereby channeling this energy to improve the efficiency of refrigeration/air conditioning machinery by utilizing expelled energy that would otherwise be wasted.
US10578338B2
A cordless liquid heating device (1000) is provided and includes an implement part (100) and a base part (200). The implement part (100) includes a liquid heating container and a temperature measuring device (110); the base part (200) is configured to supply electric energy to the implement part (100) through a cordless electric connector, the cordless electric connector achieves an electric connection when the implement part (100) is placed on the base part (200); the base part (200) includes an electronic control device configured to control an electric heater and a signal electric connection configured to transmit a temperature measured by the temperature measuring device (110) to the electronic control device in the base part (200); the signal electric connection and the cordless electric connector are separate components. The cordless liquid heating device (1000) facilitates maintenance thereof.
US10578335B2
An air duct transporting air between an interior location within a building and an air management system exterior to the building where the duct includes a metal duct wall with a layer of rigid insulation material surrounding at least the exterior part of the metal duct wall and carrying an outer foil layer. A covering material surrounds the rigid insulation, the covering material comprising a self-adhesive polyester layer bonded to the exterior surface of the rigid insulation.
US10578334B2
An air-conditioning duct comprises a regulating membrane attached to a peripheral wall of the duct and a shifting element. The membrane has a first end that is attached to the shifting element and faces an inlet for supplying air. An area of the membrane comprising said first end is adapted for being selectively shifted to a first or second portion of the peripheral wall. The shifting element is for shifting the first end of the membrane to the first or second portion of the peripheral wall. The membrane has a second end, which faces away from the inlet of the duct, secured inside the duct to ensure that shifting of the area of the first end of the membrane to the second portion of the peripheral wall prevents the air flow from passing through that portion of the duct situated downstream of the attached second end of the membrane.
US10578332B2
An HVAC system includes an evaporator coil and a metering device fluidly coupled to the evaporator coil. The HVAC system also includes a variable-speed circulation fan and a condenser coil fluidly coupled to the metering device. The HVAC system also includes a variable-speed compressor fluidly coupled to the condenser coil and the evaporator coil and a controller operatively coupled to the variable-speed compressor and the variable-speed circulation fan. The controller is configured to measure a speed of the variable-speed compressor, calculate a normal cooling Cubic Feet per Minute (CFM), measure a speed of the variable-speed circulation fan, and determine if the speed of the variable-speed circulation fan exceeds the normal cooling CFM. If the speed of the variable-speed circulation fan exceeds the normal cooling CFM, the HVAC controller adjusts a speed of at least one of the variable-speed compressor and the variable-speed circulation fan.
US10578327B2
A testing platform tests an electrical and mechanical system such as an HVAC unit according to an algorithm that reduces the total testing time of the components of the system, while ensuring the safety of the system during system-wide testing. The platform uses constraints that are checked both before and during the testing to ensure that HVAC operating conditions are acceptable for starting and maintaining component tests. Preferably, the platform uses finite-state machines for each device to organize the component tests, allowing for monitoring of constraints and starting, pausing, and stopping component tests. Preferably, total test execution time is reduced by running component tests in parallel, running component tests based on loads of the components, or combinations of both.
US10578323B2
A dehumidifier assembly includes an extraction chamber coupled in flow communication with a sample air inlet, a sample air outlet, and a sample drip opening. The extraction chamber is configured to receive a sample air flow therethrough at substantially atmospheric pressure from the sample air inlet to the sample air outlet. The dehumidifier assembly also includes a conduit positioned within the extraction chamber. The conduit is coupled in flow communication with an environmental air inlet and an environmental air outlet, and is sealed with respect to the extraction chamber. The dehumidifier assembly further includes a circulator coupled to the environmental air outlet. The circulator is operable to create a negative pressure in the conduit, such that an environmental air flow is drawn through the environmental air inlet into the conduit. The conduit is configured to facilitate heat transfer from the sample air flow to the environmental air flow.
US10578319B2
An air conditioner includes a main body, a blower fan disposed in the main body, a discharge panel including a main outlet configured to discharge air discharged from the blower fan and a plurality of fine outlets provided near the main outlet, an opening and closing member configured to move in forward and backward directions and open and close the main outlet, and a lighting apparatus disposed on a back surface of the opening and closing member and configured to emit light to a back side thereof. Since an area illuminated by the lighting apparatus is changed according to a position of the opening and closing member, a user intuitively identifies an operational state of the air conditioner.
US10578314B2
The present disclosure relates to a cooking fume separation device and a fume exhaust device. The fume exhaust device includes the cooking fume separation. The cooking separation device includes a first bracket, a second bracket, a plurality of first separation plates and a plurality of second separation plates. The plurality of first separation plates are fixedly connected to the first bracket, the plurality of second separation plates are fixedly connected to the second bracket, the plurality of first separation plates and the plurality of second separation plates are staggered and spaced apart in an up-down direction, the first separation plate and the second separation plate partially cover each other to form a plurality of separation passages, and the first bracket and the second bracket are movably connected so as to adjust a size of each separation passage.
US10578312B2
A cooking appliance having a ventilation system is provided herein. The cooking appliance may include a cabinet, a primary air passage, a fan, and a ventilation sensor. The cabinet may include a top panel and a bottom panel. The cabinet may extend along a vertical direction between the top panel and the bottom panel. The primary air passage may be defined between the top panel and the bottom panel. The primary air passage may extend along a transverse direction between a primary inlet and an exhaust port. The fan may be positioned in fluid communication with the primary air passage downstream from the primary inlet and upstream from the exhaust port. The ventilation sensor may be positioned within the cabinet upstream from the fan and in fluid communication therewith.
US10578309B2
A cooktop appliance includes a gas burner. A primary control valve is coupled to the gas burner. The primary control valve is manually adjustable to regulate a flow of gaseous fuel to the gas burner. A secondary control valve is connected in series between the primary control valve and the gas burner. A controller is in communication with the secondary control valve. The controller is configured to receive a temperature measurement from a temperature sensor and to adjust the secondary control valve in response to the temperature measurement from the temperature sensor.
US10578305B2
A burner assembly with a combustion chamber, a plurality of mixing ducts leading into the combustion chamber, where combustion air and introduced fuel are mixed. The mixing ducts are formed by mixing tubes extending axially through an annular space between a tubular outer wall, a tubular inner wall arranged radially at a distance from the outer wall, a ring-shaped end plate arranged upstream and a ring-shaped end plate arranged downstream. The end plates have through-openings, which accommodate and/or extend the mixing tubes, and the end plates have, both radially inside and outside, a circumferential edge extending in the direction of the annular space, with axial bores in the edge of the ring-shaped end plate arranged downstream. The axial bores extend from the annual space into the end plate, and at least one opening is for removing cooling air, the opening branching from the axial bore.
US10578304B2
An apparatus and a method for achieving progressive reduction of flue gas is disclosed. Accordingly, an aspect of the present invention is to provide an apparatus comprising of an orifice chamber having an inlet pipe for receiving the flue gas, a flow region defined downstream of an exit of the inlet pipe and having at least a first section and a second section, and an outlet pipe to disperse a pressure reduced flue gas. The first section defined downstream of the inlet pipe has a flow developer means and at least one auxiliary orifice plate. The second section defined downstream of the first section has a plurality of orifice plates spaced apart along a flow length of the second section.
US10578302B2
Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of apparatus and methods for arresting flame at a gas burner. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus for use in burning a gas fuel generally includes a flame arrester device having a screen portion configured for placement between a gas orifice and a burner. The flame arrester device is configured to allow gas emitted from the gas orifice to pass through the screen portion to enter the burner. The flame arrester device is further configured to arrest a flame from the burner before the flame reaches the gas orifice.
US10578301B2
A combustion system includes a perforated flame holder, an oxidant source, and an adjustable fuel nozzle. The oxidant source outputs oxidant. The adjustable fuel nozzle outputs fuel onto the perforated flame holder. The perforated flame holder supports a combustion reaction of the fuel and oxidant within the perforated flame holder. The position of the adjustable nozzle relative to the perforated flame holder can be adjusted to achieve selected characteristics of the combustion reaction within the perforated flame holder.
US10578299B2
A burner system includes at least one radiant heating tube (22) and a first regenerator (48) disposed at a first end (24) of the tube. A second regenerator (50) is disposed at a second end (26) of the radiant heating tube (22). The first regenerator (48) and the second regenerator (50) are connected to a valve system (54) having first and second operating states for alternately supplying the radiant heating tube (22) with combustion air via one regenerator (48, 50) and for discharging exhaust gases via the other regenerator (48, 50). At least one inner tube (34) is disposed inside and extending along the radiant heating tube (22) at least in sections. The inner tube (34) is connected to a fuel supply line (76) and has outlet openings (46) provided along the longitudinal extension of the inner tube (34).
US10578298B2
A mat including at least one lighting element, for use in a range of applications including during vehicle maintenance or when camping. The mat typically providing comfort and lighting to a user. The mat also optionally including a range of surface structures to assist with, for example, liquid capture or drainage, and/or dropped item collection.
US10578296B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to providing lighting in an underwater transducer mounted to a boat. The transducer assembly includes a housing. The housing includes a transducer. The housing includes one or more lighting devices. The housing also includes an element integrated with an outer edge of the housing in a waterproof configuration. The element allows light from the one or more lighting devices to emanate outward from the outer edge of the housing.
US10578295B2
A light fixture includes an enclosure having a top side and an opposing underside, and a luminaire module. The luminaire module includes a panel, a plurality of LEDs, a first reflector, and a second reflector. The panel extends along the opposing underside of the enclosure. The plurality of LEDs are coupled to the panel and arranged in at least one row. The at least one row has a first lateral side and a second lateral side. The first reflector is coupled to the panel and disposed along the first lateral side of the plurality of LEDs. The second reflector are coupled to the panel and disposed along the second lateral side of the plurality of LEDs. The panel is releasably attached to the enclosure such that replacement of the panel simultaneously replaces the plurality of LEDs, the first reflector, and the second reflector.
US10578292B1
A tactical flashlight provides an improved tactical advantage useful in life-threatening situations by being configured so that it will operate in a disorientingly bright mode while pressure is applied to its finger activated electronic switch but then automatically switch to a strobe mode when pressure is released from the electronic switch.
US10578291B1
A lighting module includes an LED light source and a power source coupled to the LED light source. The LED light source is powered by the power source. The power source includes an auxiliary output connection that is terminated at a standardized connector. The power source provides power to an auxiliary device via the standardized connector.
US10578285B2
A portable working light apparatus has a station bracket, a first light module and a second light module. The station bracket comprising handle bar, a middle bar and a bottom base. The first light module and the second light module are placed at two sides of the bracket station. The first light module and the second light module are rotatable with respect to a surface ground and with respect to the bracket station with a first joint rotator and a second joint rotator. The first light module and the second light module may also be detached from the bracket station.
US10578273B2
An embodiment relates to a light apparatus comprising: a first body having an inner peripheral side and an outer peripheral side; a diffusion member disposed on the first body; a cover disposed on the first body so as to cover the diffusion member; a second body disposed between the diffusion member and the cover and comprising a lower side and a lateral side which covers the lower side; and a light source member comprising a first circuit board, which is disposed on the lower side of the second body, a second circuit board, which covers the lateral side of the second body, at least one first light source which is mounted on the first circuit board so as to face the diffusion member, and at least one second light source which is mounted on the second circuit board so as to face the inner lateral side of the cover.
US10578269B2
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle indicator lighting assembly or other lighting device for providing dual-color outputs in a lit state and an unlit state, respectively. Specifically, a color of a lighting device may be controlled such that an unlit state may communicate a desired color corresponding to a surface of a component of the lighting device. For instance, the lighting device can include a light guide having one or more decoupling regions and a bezel having one or more effecting facets arranged relative to the light guide. The light guide may be optically-coupled to a light source. The one or more effecting facets may be designed such that, when the lighting device is not illuminated by the light source, a color of a surface of the one or more effecting facets is displayed to an observer in a trailing vehicle by reflection of ambient light from an environment external to the vehicle.
US10578268B2
A smart headlight includes a headlight mount, a main light source, a lens and a light-shielding structure. The main light source is disposed on the headlight mount. The lens is connected to the headlight mount and corresponds in position to the main light source. The light shielding structure is disposed on the headlight mount and arranged between the main light source and the lens. The light shielding structure includes a first light-shielding plate and a second light-shielding plate. The first light-shielding plate is configured to reciprocally move between an upright position and a reclined position, such that a top portion of the second light-shielding plate can be covered by or exposed from the first light-shielding plate.
US10578248B2
Sealed and thermally insulating tank comprising a sealed membrane and a thermally insulating barrier with insulating blocks comprising cover panels, the sealed membrane being made up of a corrugated metal membrane comprising a series of parallel corrugations and flat portions between the corrugations and resting on the cover panels, wherein an insulating block is twice the pitch of the corrugations, meaning that a series of corrugations comprises a pair of corrugations situated in line with one insulating block, and wherein the flat portions of the sealed membrane are arranged in line with an internal zone of the cover panels, the sealed membrane being fixed to the thermally insulating barrier by fixing the flat portions of the sealed membrane to the insulating blocks in the internal zone of the cover panels.
US10578245B2
A mounting system for mounting a display device to a surface, the mounting system adjustable in multiple degrees of freedom to selectively position and orientate the attached device relative to the mounting surface and/or other collocated display devices. According to various embodiments, a surface bracket is configured to attach to a mounting surface and an arm assembly operatively couples the surface bracket with a mount carriage. A mount bracket is movably coupled to the mount carriage and is selectively movable in a plane substantially parallel to the surface. A plurality of device bracket assemblies are coupled to the mount bracket. Each of the device bracket assemblies is selectively movable to translate, pivot and tilt the attached device.
US10578244B2
A device having means for inhibiting a holding means from collapsing, wherein said inhibiting means is configured to fit between two legs of said sign holding means; means for supporting said inhibiting means, wherein each of said supporting means is disposed at each proximate end portion of said inhibiting means; means for securing said inhibiting means to said leg of said sign holding means; means for compressing said securing means; means for locking; and means for accepting said locking means to lock said inhibiting means in place.
US10578241B2
A closure device for securing an electronic device on a holding device is provide. The closure device includes a first closure part having a first attaching part, a second closure part having a second attaching part and which can be attached to the first closure part in a closing direction, wherein at least one thread is arranged on one of the attaching parts and at least one engaging element is arranged on the other of the attaching parts for running onto the at least one thread when attaching the closure parts to one another, and a magnetic device that acts in a magnetically attracting manner between the first closure part and the second closure part during the attaching process.
US10578240B2
An expandable pipe for restoring a damaged pipe is provided. The expandable pipe includes a liner formed of thermoplastic polyurethane, and grout material applied to the exterior surface of the liner. The exterior surface includes a plurality of flared tips and grooves, and each groove is located between adjacent flared tips. The grout material is disposed on the flared tips and in the grooves of the liner. The method used to restore the damaged pipe includes clamping the liner with the grout material on a puller-sealer fixture having a U-shaped cross-section to prevent debris from entering the interior of the liner, and pulling the puller-sealer fixture and liner through the damaged pipe. The grout material expands in volume upon exposure to moisture, ultra violet radiation, heat, and/or ultrasonics, and fills cracks or other imperfections and voids along the interior surface of the conduit, caused by corrosion, erosion, or other circumstances.
US10578238B2
A plug system for sealing a tube having two axially positioned plugs, each of which includes a tubular housing having a deformable wall that surrounds a threaded inner bore and an insert member having a threaded post corresponding to the inner bore, a ramped surface positioned to deform the deformable wall outwardly when the threaded post is advanced into the first inner bore, and a first driving recess having a that is positioned oppositely from the first threaded post. The first plug may be installed in place using a driving recess in the rear of the plug to form a first seal in the tube. The second plug may then be interlocked with the driving recess of the first plug and installed in place to form a second seal in the tube.
US10578233B2
A pipe pulling device guides extruded plastic conduit tubing through a building structure. The device has a fastener body including a main shaft supporting a resilient expansion sleeve thereon that can be inserted into an open end of the tubing. A nut is threaded onto the main shaft for axially compressing the expansion sleeve between the nut and a fastener head at the inner end of the main shaft to radially expand the sleeve within the tubing and frictionally grip the fastener body relative to the tubing. The nut is tapered outwardly and supports an elongate, rigid tip body extending longitudinally outward from the tubing to guide insertion of the tubing through cavities in the building structure. Various accessories can be secured to the nut or the tip body to assist insertion of the pipe pulling device through different building structures.
US10578232B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a pipe hanger system. In one embodiment, among others, the pipe hanger system comprises a socket, a support rod, and a strap. A first end of the support rod 106 can be positioned in an inner cavity of the socket. The first end of the support rod 106 can comprise a ball. A second end of the support rod can be attached to a support structure. The strap can be used to secure a pipe to the pipe hanger system.
US10578226B2
A multi-port valve having a longitudinal axis and a solenoid coil wound about a bobbin. Coaxially aligned with the longitudinal axis is an armature, at least partially disposed within the bobbin. The armature is coupled to a valve member that forms a sealing relationship with at least one valve orifice. A two-piece can having a first can component and a second component that cooperate to define an interior region. The solenoid coil, bobbin, pole piece, and at least part of the armature are disposed in the interior region of the two-piece can. The second can component is adjustably threaded to the first can component such that a longitudinal dimension of the interior region of the two-piece can may be adjusted to vary the size of a gap between the pole piece and the armature.
US10578223B2
A valve for pressurized gas or chemical agent. The valve comprises: a body with: an inlet, an outlet, and a passage which connects the inlet with the outlet and which includes a seat]. The valve further comprises a sliding piston able to engage with the seat in order to close the passage and a telescopic extension sliding against the passage in order to guide the piston in the passage at least between the open position and the closed position. The pressure difference between opposite faces of the piston pulls away the piston and the telescopic extension from the seat in order to open the passage, the passage remaining closed under pressure equilibrium. Additionally, a fire extinguishing system.
US10578222B2
A multi-button waterway switching mechanism includes a fixed portion provided with a waterway switching unit and a driving mechanism. The waterway switching unit includes two valve cores that can move relative to the fixed portion, and the driving mechanism is provided with three buttons spaced side by side and parallel to the sliding direction of the fixed portion, the three buttons are divided into two first button and a second button, the two first button respectively drivingly connected to the two valve cores, the driving mechanism further comprises a transmission member, the second button drivingly connects the transmission member, and the transmission member drivingly connected to the two valve cores.
US10578220B2
Precision in proportional operation of pinch valves along an application-specific path of opening and/or of closing is provided in proportionally controlled pinch valves, systems and methods. Included is the advantageous feature that pinch valves and pinch valve controlling systems and methods can be enhanced by carefully controlling not only two primary operational positions—either fully open or fully closed—but also in-between positions as are required for an application of a user of the pinch valve. The effect on the fluid flowing through tubing that is engaged by the pinch valve head between fully open and fully closed is considered, determined and used to achieve pinch valve operation that is linear in flow change and/or linear in pressure change along the closing path and/or opening path through the tubing. The pinch valves can include a normally closed port that opens when the system experiences a shut-down condition.
US10578219B1
A bite valve (100) comprises an outer barrel (105) of low-friction, soft but durable, laterally-compressible material and a rigid axially moveable inner stem (110). Closing the valve urges the distal face of a stem-mounted gasket (115) distally against the sharpened tubular proximal end of a barrel-embedded flanged rigid sleeve (120) through which fluid passes. The stem is continually urged distally by captive compression spring (140) which pushes proximally against sleeve (120) and distally against a cap (135) mounted on the stem's distal end. When a user bites the barrel's indented exterior bite zone (150), two opposing sides of a conical surface (155) inside the barrel contact and slidably urge the stem proximally, pulling the gasket away from the sleeve end, thereby opening the valve. After drinking, a user releases their bite, allowing the spring to again move the stem distally, pushing the gasket back into a (default) sealing condition pressed against the sleeve's sharpened proximal end.
US10578217B2
The invention relates to a device for reducing the flushing stream from a sanitary flush box, in particular a toilet flush box, which contains a drain valve, a drain connection, and a valve seat formed on the drain connection, freeing an outlet opening delimited by the drain connection, said device comprising a throttle, which defines at least one free flow cross section. To provide a device, by means of which the flushing stream from a sanitary flush box can be adjusted, the invention proposes that the throttle, viewed in the flushing stream flow direction, is arranged behind the valve seat on or in the drain connection of the drain valve or in a connection piece receiving the drain connection, the throttle comprising at least two throttle elements, one of which can be rotated relative to the other, the size of the free flow cross section can be changed.
US10578213B2
A steering assembly for a vehicle includes a steering gear including a steering gear housing enclosing a steering rack, the steering rack coupled to a tie rod at a joint, at least one boot assembly configured to enclose the joint between the steering rack and the tie rod. The at least one boot assembly includes a first boot proximate to the joint and a second boot disposed outward of the first boot. The first and second boots define a void therebetween.
US10578210B2
A gear change control system includes: a shift operation member configured to receive a shift range operation; a clutch configured to transmit a torque of an input shaft to an output shaft; a clutch actuator configured to control engagement of the clutch by using a working fluid; a manual valve configured to switch a supply destination of the working fluid to the clutch actuator in accordance with a decided shift range; a shift actuator configured to move the manual valve on the basis of a shift range changing operation of the shift operation member; and an oil pressure control actuator configured to reduce an oil pressure of the working fluid to a target oil pressure after the shift range changing operation received by the shift operation member is started and before the shift actuator moves the manual valve toward a shift range changing destination.
US10578208B2
A method of avoiding gear tooth interference in a planetary gear system includes designing and building a planetary gear system having a selected base pitch and tooth length for planet gears, breaking a rim of one of the planet gears, and verifying whether tooth tip interference occurs during operation of the planetary gear system.
US10578207B2
One aspect of a cooling system includes a gas source connected to a component to be cooled. The gas source continuously supplies compressed gas to the component in response to an input. The cooling system also includes a controller connected to the gas source, the controller to provide the input to the gas source to continuously supply the compressed gas to the component.
US10578202B2
A synchronous drive sprocket includes a generally annular body and a central axis extending through the generally annular body. The central axis defines circumferential, axial, and radial directions. The generally annular body has a peripheral edge and a plurality of recesses extending radially inward from the peripheral edge. The plurality of recesses define a plurality of circumferentially spaced teeth configured to receive mating teeth of a synchronous drive belt. Each tooth has an upper bearing surface and a notch extending radially inward from the peripheral edge of the tooth. Each notch is axially positioned such that the plurality of notches align with each other to collectively define a groove within the plurality of teeth. The groove extends circumferentially around at least a majority of the generally annular body and having a substantially continuous profile.
US10578196B2
A driving device including a drive shaft and a first engaging member. The drive shaft rotates around a first axis. The first engaging member is disposed on the first axis to rotate integrally with the drive shaft. The power transmission mechanism includes a second engaging member, a propeller shaft, a piston, and a reduction gear. The second engaging member is disposed on the first axis engageable with/disengageable from the first engaging member. The propeller shaft is rotatable integrally with the second engaging member around the first axis. The piston reciprocates the second engaging member between a first position and a second position along a direction of the first axis. The reduction gear is joined to the other end side of the propeller shaft to decelerate the rotation of the propeller shaft. The reduction gear causes an output shaft joined to an object to rotate around a second axis.
US10578193B2
A transmission is connectable to an input member and includes an output transfer gear, first and second transmission input shaft members, first, second, and third countershaft members, first and second sleeve shafts, a plurality of co-planar gear sets, and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. The torque transmitting devices include a plurality of gears, synchronizer assemblies and a dual clutch assembly. The transmission is operable to provide at least one reverse speed ratio and a plurality of forward speed ratios between the input member and the output member.
US10578191B2
Advanced components that are useful in providing a compact overall cable termination for a multi-stranded cable and in providing for the control and inspection of the individual components of a multi-stranded cable. Multiple individual cable strands are provided with a termination on their free end. These terminations are connected to a collector. An advanced collar is provided that assists in the transition of the strands as they leave the collector and transition to the structure found in the free portion of the cable.
US10578185B2
A shock absorber includes a cylinder in which a working fluid is sealed, a piston rod movable into and out of the cylinder, the piston rod extending from the cylinder, a piston disposed inside the cylinder, the piston being configured to partition a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber, and a choke portion formed by penetration of a seamless choke passage, the seamless choke passage being configured to allow the first fluid chamber to communicate with the second fluid chamber.
US10578181B2
A flexible spring member and bead guard assembly. A gas spring assembly including a flexible spring member with a mounting bead and a bead guard disposed along the mounting bead. A method of manufacturing a gas spring assembly includes providing bead guard, and securing the bead guard along a flexible spring member.
US10578176B2
A method of cooling an aircraft brake including a brake pack and a reservoir in the form of a removable cartridge containing a coolant. The method includes vaporizing the coolant using heat energy from the brake pack.
US10578174B1
A wedge clutch includes a first race rotatable about an axis and having first tapered surfaces annularly arranged about the axis, and a second race rotatable about the axis and concentric with the first race, the second race having a circumferential groove. A plurality of wedge segments are annularly arranged about the axis, each wedge segment having a second tapered surface contacting one of the first tapered surfaces. A plurality of pawls extend radially through at least a portion of either the first race or the second race. Each pawl is circumferentially aligned with a respective gap between two adjacent wedge segments. An actuating ring is configured to move axially along the axis. Axial movement of the actuating ring engages the pawls to force each pawl radially into the respective gap to separate the two adjacent wedge segments.
US10578173B2
A switchable wedge clutch includes an inner race, and an outer race that has an inner surface defining a plurality of tapered regions. A plurality of wedge plate are disposed between the inner and outer races, and are moveable circumferentially about the inner race. Each wedge plate segment has a tapered outer surface configured to engage and slide relative to the tapered regions of the outer race. An actuating ring has a plurality of axially-extending tapered fingers configured to fit between two of the wedge plate segments. The wedge plate segments are wedged between the tapered regions and the inner race to lock the inner and outer race together. Axial movement of the actuating ring forces the wedge plate segments circumferentially against biasing forces of springs to unwedge the wedge plate segments from between the outer race and the inner race and unlock the wedge clutch.
US10578171B2
A valve system (44) for reducing morning sickness effects in a viscous clutch (20) having a reservoir (38) with a bore (46-1) includes a valve element (44-1), a counterweight portion (44-2), a pivot (44-3), and a biasing member (44-4). The pivot is located in between the valve element and the counterweight portion, and the valve element and the counterweight portion are configured to commonly move about the pivot between open and closed positions. The biasing member is configured to bias the valve element to cover the bore in the closed position by default. The counterweight portion is configured to counteract the biasing member under centrifugal loading such that the valve element at least partially uncovers the bore in the open position.
US10578170B2
A viscous clutch (20; 20′) includes a rotor (26), a housing (24) that at least partially surrounds the rotor, a center shaft (22) rotationally fixed to the housing, a mounting disk (30) rotationally fixed to the rotor, a working chamber (38) defined between the rotor and the housing, a reservoir (36) for holding a supply of shear fluid, an electromagnet (34), a valve assembly (32) to selectively control flow of the shear fluid between the reservoir and the working chamber, and a flux guide (54) operatively positioned between the electromagnet and the armature. At least a portion of the mounting disk extends outside the housing. The valve assembly including an armature (32-3) that is selectively movable in response to magnetic flux generated by the electromagnet, and the magnetic flux is transmitted between the armature and the electromagnet along a flux circuit. The flux guide extends through the mounting disk.
US10578156B2
An electronic magnetic bearing fault-tolerant drive module includes a first plurality of switching elements and a second plurality of switching elements. At least one winding is interposed between the first plurality of switching elements and the second plurality of switching elements. The first and second switching elements are configured to selectively operate in a first mode and a second mode to generate an electromagnetic field. The electronic magnetic bearing fault-tolerant drive module is configured to detect one or more electrical faults including an open-circuit fault of at least one of the first and second switching elements.
US10578155B2
A supporting device includes a first supporting frame having a first supporting means including a first and a second supporting part, and a second supporting frame having a second supporting means including a third and a fourth supporting part. A supporting passage is defined by the first and the second supporting part. The first and the second supporting means are to support each other. A rail member is to be connected to one of the first and the second supporting frame. The first and the second supporting part are to support the third and the fourth supporting part, respectively. The first supporting frame further includes a first side wall connected to the first and the second supporting part. The first supporting part has a first portion extended from a first end of the first side wall to form a first angle therebetween. The first angle is a non-right angle.
US10578154B2
A supporting device for a rail member includes a first supporting frame and a second supporting frame. The first supporting frame has a first supporting means including a first supporting part and a second supporting part. A supporting passage is defined by the first supporting part and the second supporting part The second supporting frame has a second supporting means including a third supporting part and a fourth supporting part. The first supporting means and the second supporting means are configured to support each other. A rail member is configured to be connected to one of the first supporting frame and the second supporting frame. The first supporting part is configured to support the third supporting part, and the second supporting part is configured to support the fourth supporting part. The first supporting frame and the second supporting frame cooperatively define an enclosed space.
US10578152B2
The movable joint assembly includes a housing which extends along an axis and has an outer surface and an open interior. A ball stud is partially disposed in the open interior and projects out of the housing. A flexible and elastic boot is sealed against the outer surface of the housing and against the ball stud. A metal insert is at least partially embedded within the boot adjacent an end of the boot for resisting pull out of the boot from the housing. The boot includes a lip which is at least partially spaced axially from the insert and extends radially inwardly and is in an interference fit engagement with the outer surface of the housing for establishing a fluid tight seal of the housing and for maintaining the fluid tight seal in response to injection of a lubricant into the open interior of the housing.
US10578147B2
A thread connection is provided between a filter cartridge and its base, as well as to a filter cartridge comprising such a thread. The thread has a reversed load flank.
US10578144B2
An Internet of Thing (IoT) device includes a head portion; an elongated stress sensor coupled to the head portion, the stress sensor coupled to a surface; a processor coupled to the stress sensor; and a wireless transceiver coupled to the processor.
US10578142B2
Among other things, a piece of furniture is formed from three separate precut pieces of flat cardboard. A first one of the pieces has a bottom edge to rest on a floor with the first piece rising vertically from the bottom edge and has at least one slot at an upper edge of the first piece. A second one of the pieces has a bottom edge to rest on the floor with the second piece rising from the bottom edge and having at least one slot at an upper edge of the second piece. A third one of the pieces has a crease across the piece and at least two slots along at least one edge that is parallel to the fold. The piece of furniture is formed by mating the one slot in the first piece with one of the slots of the third piece, folding the third piece of cardboard at the crease, and mating the one slot in the second piece with another one of the slots of the third piece, with the third piece folded along the crease.
US10578140B2
Magnetic fasteners, magnetic joints, and methods for making and using the magnetic fasteners and joints, and articles utilizing the magnetic fasteners and magnetic joints are provided. The magnetic fasteners and joints may be used in furniture, cabinetry, and the like, and enable facile and consistent assembly of furniture and cabinetry.
US10578136B2
A hydraulic fluid tank arrangement for a working machine is provided, the arrangement including a hydraulic fluid tank; an inlet portion for receiving hydraulic fluid into the hydraulic fluid tank; and an oil filter arranged in fluid communication with the inlet portion; wherein the hydraulic fluid tank arrangement further includes a gas removal device arranged in fluid communication with the oil filter downstream the inlet portion and upstream the oil filter for removing gas from the hydraulic fluid before the hydraulic fluid reaches the oil filter. A method for removing gas from hydraulic fluid contained in a hydraulic fluid tank arrangement is also provided.
US10578133B2
This clutch actuator includes a hydraulic pressure generating mechanism (51) configured to operate a clutch (26) to provide a connected state or a disconnected state, a motor (52) configured to generate a rotary driving force for driving the hydraulic pressure generating mechanism (51) to a driving shaft (52a), a transmission mechanism (54) configured to transmit the rotary driving force generated in the driving shaft (52a) of the motor (52) to a driven member (54b) parallel to the driving shaft (52a) in an axial direction and disposed coaxially with a cylinder main body (51a), and a conversion mechanism (55) configured to convert the rotary driving force transmitted to the driven member (54b) into a reciprocal driving force of a piston (51b) in a stroke direction, wherein the hydraulic pressure generating mechanism (51), the motor (52), the transmission mechanism (54) and the conversion mechanism (55) are integrated as a unit.
US10578130B2
A reservoir includes first and second chambers, and a piston having first and second ends disposed in the first and second chambers, respectively. The first and second ends isolate a first area from a second area within the first and second chambers. The first area of the first chamber is in fluid communication with a high pressure fluid source and the second area of the first chamber is in fluid communication with a low pressure fluid source. An orifice is formed in the first end and is configured to allow fluid communication between the upper and lower areas of the first chamber. A pumping system and an aircraft are also disclosed.
US10578116B2
A rotational body 1 includes a rotational shaft 2, an impeller 3, and a nut 6. The impeller includes a hub portion 4 having a peripheral surface 4s inclined to the axial direction of the rotational shaft and having an insert hole 4h in which the rotational shaft is inserted, and a blade portion 5. At least one of the rotational shaft or the insert hole of the hub portion has an interference fit portion 10 for fit between the rotational shaft and the impeller, where the outside diameter of the rotational shaft is larger than the inside diameter of the insert hole of the hub portion. The interference fit portion is formed in a region which does not include the largest outside diameter portion 4B where the hub portion has a largest outside diameter, with the rotational shaft and the impeller mating with each other.
US10578108B2
The present invention relates to an electric compressor. The electric compressor according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a rear housing in which a discharging chamber to which a coolant is discharged is formed; an oil separator disposed in the discharging chamber, having a coolant introduction hole through which the coolant is introduced formed therein and disposed to be eccentric to one side of the rear housing; a partitioning wall partitioning an inner region of the discharging chamber into different regions and having communication portions formed at different positions; and a resonance chamber in which introduction and diffusion of the coolant passing through the communication portions are simultaneously performed.
US10578104B2
Rotary compressor arrangement (100) comprising a body (40) centered at a shaft axis (X) and a cylindrical piston (10) eccentrically arranged with respect to the body (40) such that a chamber is created between them, the arrangement (100) further comprising a satellite element (50) arranged at an offset axis (Y) and orbiting around the shaft axis (X) such that the orbiting of the satellite element (50) entrains in rotation around the shaft axis (X) the cylindrical piston (10) over the body (40), the relative distance between the axis (X, Y) being such that a contact between the body (40) and the cylindrical piston (10) within the chamber is ensured during rotation of the cylindrical piston (10).
US10578102B2
An embodiment provides a vane pump device. In the vane pump device, vane grooves of a rotor include columnar grooves which accommodate oil, and support the vanes. An inner-plate low pressure side recess portion and an inner-plate high pressure supply region are provided along a rotation direction of the rotor. The inner-plate low pressure side recess portion supplies oil to the columnar grooves at a first pressure, and the inner-plate high pressure supply region supplies oil at a second pressure higher than the first pressure. A size from an inner-plate low pressure side recess portion downstream end to an inner-plate high pressure side through-hole upstream end in the rotation direction is different from that from an inner-plate high pressure side recess portion downstream end to an inner-plate low pressure side recess portion upstream end in the rotation direction.
US10578095B2
A peristaltic pump system has a pump tube and a pump rotor engaging the pump tube. The pump rotor is drivable to rotate to move a pump fluid through the pump tube from a pump inlet to a pump outlet. A motor drives the pump rotor to rotate. The motor includes a motor tube and a motor rotor to be driven to rotate by a motor fluid moving through the motor tube from a motor inlet to a motor outlet. A urine treatment system and method are also disclosed.
US10578092B2
A pump cassette comprising an outer flexible membrane covering flowpaths, valve chambers and pump chambers of the cassette is designed to be actuated by a control gasket on a base unit arranged to move designated valve and pump portions of the cassette membrane. The performance of a cassette valve may improved by optimizing the configuration of the valve control region of the control gasket overlying the cassette valve. This may improve both fluid flow through the valve and reduce the amount of vibratory noise associated with opening the valve. The gasket valve control or actuation region is at least partially bounded by a vacuum channel facing the outside of the gasket so that a constant vacuum can be applied between the gasket valve control or actuation region and the adjacent portion of the cassette membrane. An improved version of the vacuum channel comprises a flexible inner wall (contiguous with the valve control region) so that the inner wall flexes or partially collapses away from the cassette valve seat, while still maintaining patency of the vacuum channel during the application of negative pressure on the gasket valve actuation region to open the cassette valve.
US10578091B2
Fluid flow adapter for a cylinder of a reciprocating compressor, the cylinder having a side wall provided with a valve seat, the fluid flow adapter comprising a filler element having an internal surface facing an internal volume of the cylinder and an external surface facing the valve, the filler element having at least a channel connecting the internal surface to the external surface, wherein the internal surface is flush with the side wall of the cylinder, the channel being configured to allow the passage of fluid between the internal volume of the cylinder and the valve.
US10578088B2
Natural frequencies of a front side support spring and a rear side support spring of a reciprocating compressor are formed to be different such that a natural frequency of one support spring is lower than an operating frequency and a natural frequency of the other support spring is higher than the operating frequency. Both support springs may resonate in mutually opposite directions to form an antiphase, and thus, compressor vibrations may be effectively reduced without reducing a stiffness of both support springs.
US10578086B2
A connector (24) and method of connecting a compressor assembly (10) that increases the pressure of a fluid are described. The compressor assembly (10) includes cylinders (12a,b), crank shaft housings (18a,b), and a motor housing (22). The connector (24) is disposed between the cylinders (12a,b) and the crank shaft housing (18a,b) and configured to engage the cylinders (12a,b) such that vibration during operation of the compressor assembly is reduced through the placement of the connector (24) corresponding to a center of gravity of the compressor assembly (10). The connector may also be used by the compressor assembly as a heat sink, inlet, mount, filter, and/or to provide other functions that improve the operation of compressor assembly.
US10578073B2
An igniter, such as a corona igniter for an internal combustion engine, and a method of manufacturing the igniter, are provided. The igniter includes an insulator with enlarged upper and lower end regions extending axially beyond opposite ends of a constrained, reduced diameter region of a shell through passage. The enlarged lower end region of the insulator is disposed axially outwardly of a lower end of the shell. The insulator is hermetically sealed to the shell and is permanently fixed against being removed axially outwardly from the shell. The method can include conforming the shell to the contour of the insulator by plastically deforming the shell, or casting the shell about the insulator. Alternatively, separate pieces of metal can be disposed around the insulator to form the shell which is conformed to the insulator.
US10578070B2
Methods and systems are provided for starting a vehicle engine. In one example, an engine starter system for starting the vehicle engine may comprise a ring gear coupled to an engine crankshaft, and a pinion gear coupled to a starter motor, the pinion gear having rotatable rocker elements for engaging the ring gear. In this way, the pinion gear may be engaged with the ring gear to transmit torque from the starter motor to the engine crankshaft to quickly start the engine.
US10578069B2
In an information providing method and device for a vehicle, an engine of the vehicle is stopped automatically when a predetermined permission condition is satisfied in a state in which the vehicle is stopped by a brake operation executed by a driver. The driver is notified of support information for satisfying the permission condition when the permission condition is not satisfied in the state in which the vehicle is stopped by the brake operation. A vehicle stop keeping control generates a braking force capable of maintaining a vehicle stopped state even when the brake operation decreases. The notification of the support information is stopped when it is determined that the brake operation has been released and a notification continuation time has elapsed since the brake operation was released during a state in which the support information is being notified and the vehicle stop keeping control is in operation.
US10578068B2
An idling stop control apparatus of an embodiment includes: an idling stop condition satisfaction determination section that determines whether an idling stop condition, which is a predetermined condition for stopping idling of an engine of a vehicle, is satisfied; an idling stop prohibition determination section that determines that, if the idling stop condition is satisfied, an idling stop prohibition condition is satisfied due to occurrence of one or more specific idling stop prohibition factors due to which idling stop is prohibited from being performed; and a number of times of prohibition counter that counts a number of times of prohibition, which is a number of times that the idling stop prohibition determination section has determined that the idling stop prohibition condition has been satisfied.
US10578064B2
A relief valve device includes: a valve housing that includes a communication passage, which communicates between a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber, and a relief chamber, which is configured to communicate with the second pressure chamber; a partition wall that is formed in an inside of the valve housing and partitions between the communication passage and the relief chamber; a first valve member that is configured to block and enable flow of fluid between the first pressure chamber and the communication passage; a first urging member that urges the first valve member; a second valve member that is configured to block and enable flow of the fluid between the second pressure chamber and the relief chamber; and a second urging member that urges the second valve member.
US10578056B2
A nozzle (1) for a space vehicle engine (M), the nozzle comprising a stationary portion (2) and a movable portion (3), the nozzle (1) including a pneumatic deployment system (4) comprising: a deployment actuator (5) for deploying the movable portion (3) of the nozzle (1); a high unlocking actuator (6); a low unlocking actuator (7); and an ejector (41); the deployment system (4) including a feed system (8) configured so as to, sequentially: move the deployment actuator (5) from its support position towards its deployment position; move the high and low unlocking actuators (6, 7) into their high and low unlocking positions; and actuate the ejector so as to eject the deployment system (4) from the nozzle (1).
US10578053B2
A method of managing a gas turbine engine variable area fan nozzle includes the steps of operating a variable area fan nozzle according to a first operating schedule. An icing condition input is evaluated to determine the likelihood of ice presence. The first operating schedule is altered to provide a variable area fan nozzle position if ice is likely present or actually present to provide an icing operating schedule different than the first operating schedule. The first operating schedule corresponds to the flaps at least partially open at air speeds below a first airspeed. The altering step includes closing the flaps below the first airspeed as part of the icing operating schedule. The variable area fan nozzle position is adjusted according to the icing operating schedule. A fan is arranged in a fan nacelle that includes a flap configured to be movable between first and second positions. An actuator is operatively coupled to the flap.
US10578042B2
A system for automatically starting and stopping engine(s) of a vessel based on the position of a handle. Movement of the handle out of neutral initiates the automatic starting of the engine(s) by an ECM. Movement of the handle into neutral initiates the automatic stopping of the engine(s), which may also require certain other prerequisite conditions. An ECM is in electrical communication with the engine(s), transmission, battery, initializer, starter, and various sensors providing information on the position of the handle and other conditions including engine speed, temperature, transmission speed, vessel speed and battery voltage. The ECM includes memory and processor(s), and is configured to receive information from the various sensors and operative components of the vessel and determine when to initiate automatic start and stop of the engine(s) based on thereon.
US10578033B2
A control unit for an internal combustion engine is configured for allowing smooth operation of the internal combustion engine by increasing an intake amount while maintaining an opening timing of an intake valve constant, at the time of low-rotation, high-load state. A valve opening/closing timing control apparatus includes a phase adjustment mechanism configured to vary a relative rotational phase between a driving side rotary body rotatable in synchronism with a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine and a driven side rotary body rotatable together with an intake cam shaft. After an opening timing of the intake valve, the relative rotational phase is displaced in the advancing direction.
US10578028B2
A gas turbine engine is provided having a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section. The compressor section includes one or more compressors and the turbine section includes one or more turbines. The one or more compressors and the one or more turbines are each rotatable about a longitudinal centerline of the gas turbine engine. Additionally, a bleed air flowpath is provided extending between an inlet in airflow communication with the compressor section and an outlet. An auxiliary turbine is positioned in airflow communication with the bleed air flowpath for extracting energy from a flow of bleed air through the bleed air flowpath.
US10578025B2
A system and method for starting an aircraft turbine engine includes a primary starting subsystem and a secondary starting subsystem. The primary starting subsystem is coupled to a shaft of the aircraft turbine engine and has a dedicated power source. The secondary starting subsystem is also coupled to the shaft of the aircraft turbine engine and has a shared power source. A controller controls the operation of the primary starting subsystem and the secondary starting subsystem while starting the aircraft turbine engine. The primary starting subsystem may be an Auxiliary Power Unit coupled to an Air Turbine Starter. The secondary starting subsystem may be a Starter Generator coupled to a battery also used to power the Emergency Hydraulic System. The primary starting subsystem is always operated at full power during starting while the secondary starting subsystem is preferably operated in a sequence of different power levels.
US10578023B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods, systems and program products for controlling a water bath heater for a fuel gas. Methods according to the present disclosure can include: calculating at least one calculable condition of the fuel gas based on a set of conditions of the fuel gas entering the water bath heater and a type of control valve located downstream of the water bath heater; calculating a target temperature differential for the fuel gas based a set of conditions of the fuel gas entering the water bath heater and the at least one calculable condition; and adjusting an operating parameter of the water bath heater to adjust a temperature of the fuel gas leaving the water bath heater by the target temperature differential.
US10578022B2
A transfer tube assembly includes an outer tube defining a first flow path and an inner tube positioned within the first flow path. The inner tube defines a second flow path in fluid isolation from the first flow path. A connecting segment is downstream from the inner tube and the outer tube. The connecting segment has a first bore in fluid communication with the first flow path and a second bore in fluid communication with the second flow path.
US10578018B2
A turbofan engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a fan having a plurality of blades, and a transmission is configured to drive the fan. The fan blades have a peak tip radius RT. The fan blades have an inboard leading edge radius RH at an inboard boundary of the flowpath. A ratio of RH to RT is less than about 0.40.
US10578016B2
Disclosed is a flutter damper, including an acoustic liner configured for peak acoustical energy absorption at a frequency range that is greater than a frequency range associated with fan flutter, a chamber, and a piezoelectric element disposed within a first surface of the chamber, and the chamber being configured for peak acoustical energy absorption at a frequency range that is associated with one or more fan flutter modes, and wherein the piezoelectric element is operatively connected to an electronic engine control.
US10578006B2
A method for controlling a coolant pump for an engine includes delivering a coolant via a coolant pump impeller into a delivery duct to a pump outlet, and adjusting the delivery based on a position of an adjustable control slide which controls a throughflow cross-section of an annular gap between the coolant pump impeller outlet and the delivery duct. A first pressure chamber on a side of the control slide is filled with a pressurized coolant to decrease the throughflow cross-section and the coolant volume flow delivered to the pump outlet, or a second pressure space arranged on an opposite side is filled with the pressurized coolant to increase the throughflow cross-section and the coolant volume flow delivered to the pump outlet. The control slide is moved into a defined position when the engine is switched off dependent on a coolant temperature and remains in that position until a restart.
US10578005B2
An apparatus includes two pumps and a circuit-changing valve connected to two cooling circuits, with the valve being controlled by a pressure differential created by the pumps. This simplifies controls, reduces components of the pumping system, and also provides a backup pump for each system. The valve's spool is controlled so that when the first pump is started before the second pump (or it generates a higher fluid pressure), the valve causes the two pumps to be connected in a serial arrangement with fluid being pumped through the first circuit and then through the second circuit. But when the second pump is started before the first pump, the valve causes the two pumps to be connected in a parallel arrangement so that the first pump moves fluid only through the first circuit, and the second pump moves fluid only through the second circuit. The valve includes an anti-dithering device.
US10578003B2
A bottom cover includes a plate portion including an inner-peripheral-edge portion defining an inlet, and a cooling duct including an upper wall and a pair of right and left sidewalls. The upper wall includes an upper-wall front portion inclined upward in the vehicle-height direction at a predetermined inclination angle, an upper-wall rear portion inclined upward in the vehicle-height direction at an inclination angle larger than the predetermined inclination angle of the upper-wall front portion, and the first upper-wall bent portion located at a boundary between the upper-wall front portion and the upper-wall rear portion. The rear ends of the right and left sidewalls, the rear end of the inner-peripheral-edge portion, and the rear end of the upper wall define an outlet.
US10577988B2
Disclosed is an actuator including a cylinder volume having a first portion, and an actuator piston disc displaceable in the cylinder between inactive and active positions, an inlet channel between a pressure fluid inlet and the first portion of the cylinder volume, a first inlet valve body in the inlet channel, an outlet channel between the first portion of the cylinder volume and a pressure fluid outlet, and an outlet valve body in the outlet channel. The slave piston is displaceable in a bore between inactive and active positions. The first inlet valve body includes a seat valve body having an inactive position closing the inlet channel, the slave piston, in moving from inactive to active positions, rams the first inlet valve body, displacing it to an active position at which the inlet channel is open, the outlet valve body being connected to and jointly displaceable with the slave piston.
US10577967B2
This disclosure provides assemblies for providing a bumper between an exhaust frame and a bearing housing in a gas turbine. The bumper or bumpers have an attachment surface for attaching to the exhaust frame and a bearing contact surface that engages the bearing housing during a blade out event.
US10577966B2
According to exemplary embodiments, a rotor off-take assembly is provided by positioning an angled hole or aperture in a stator assembly. This angled hole provides improved pressure recovery and utilizes higher dynamic pressure to drive the bleed air flow into the off-take cavity.
US10577960B2
A turbine shroud adapted for use in a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of metallic carrier segments and a plurality of blade track segments mounted to corresponding metallic carrier segments. Cooling air is directed onto the blade track segments to cool the blade track segments when exposed to high temperatures in a gas turbine engine.
US10577959B2
The seal arrangement for a mid turbine frame of a gas turbine, especially an aircraft gas turbine, includes a tubular fluid duct, especially an oil duct, which extends along an axial direction, a bearing sleeve surrounding the fluid duct radially outside and in the peripheral direction, and at least one seal ring arranged between fluid duct and bearing sleeve in the radial direction, this ring being arranged around the fluid duct. The seal ring is taken up at least partly in a groove provided in the bearing sleeve.
US10577958B2
A variable turbine geometry (VTG) turbocharger is disclosed. The VTG turbocharger may comprise a turbine section, a bearing section, and an actuation pivot shaft (APS) having a bearing side in the bearing section and a pressure side in the turbine section. The VTG turbocharger may further comprise a bushing surrounding the APS and extending from a first end at the pressure side to a second end at the bearing side. In addition, the VTG turbocharger may further comprise a face seal assembly including a cup spring and a composite ring seal circumscribing the APS at the pressure side, with the cup spring forming a face seal with the first end of the bushing. The face seal assembly may further include a spring circumscribing the APS at the bearing side and engaging the second end of the bushing.
US10577956B2
An annular array of turning vanes 200 is provided in a duct 100 of a gas turbine engine 10. The annular array of turning vanes 200 comprises aerodynamic vanes 220 and strut-vanes 240. The strut-vanes 240 have greater chord length and extend further axially downstream than the aerodynamic vanes 220. The leading edge of the strut-vanes 240 is upstream of the trailing edge of the aerodynamic vanes 220. The strut-vanes provide flow turning. The space to chord ratio of the aerodynamic vanes that are closest to the suction surface of a strut-vane is higher than the space to chord ratio of aerodynamic vanes that are closest to a pressure surface of the strut-vane. The arrangement allows the duct 100 to be axially short.
US10577952B2
A propeller blade assembly comprises a propeller blade having a blade root for attaching the propeller blade to a hub. The blade root has a radially outer surface. The assembly further comprises a collar mounted to the blade root. The collar comprises at least two collar segments assembled around the radially outer surface of the blade root. Each collar segment has a radially inner surface, an opposed radially outward surface and first and second circumferential end lugs. The lugs receive fasteners for coupling the collar segments together to form the collar. The collar segments are formed from a flexible plastics material and the radially inner surface of each collar segments engages the radially outer surface of the blade root only over a limited circumferential extent of the collar segment.
US10577943B2
An apparatus and method for improving the heat transfer coefficient for an engine component for a turbine engine such as an airfoil. The airfoil can include an outer wall defining an interior. A cooling passage can be formed in the interior defining a flow direction. An insert can be provided in the cooling passage to occupy a volume of the cooling passage to maintain a threshold Mach number for an airflow passing through the cooling passage to improve the heat transfer coefficient.
US10577940B2
A rotor blade for a turbomachine includes an airfoil having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a root, and a tip. The airfoil defines a chord extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and a span extending from the root to the tip. A first particle-filled damper is positioned within the airfoil between fifty percent of the chord and one hundred percent of the chord.
US10577930B2
An apparatus that includes a housing, a flowline extending within the housing, and a member retained within the housing and substantially comprising thermally conductive material. The flowline is retained in a substantially cylindrical surface of the member. A heat-generating electrical component is mounted to the member.
US10577918B2
A system and method for providing information regarding the tortuosity of a wellbore path is provided. The method includes receiving data from a plurality of survey stations of a wellbore survey. The method further includes determining a plurality of tortuosity parameter values for the wellbore path within a corresponding plurality of analysis windows, wherein each analysis window has at least one tortuosity parameter value.
US10577916B2
A method includes coupling a strain gauge to a tubular member, and positioning the tubular member in the wellbore such that the tubular member is placed under bending stress by a curvature or deviation in the wellbore. The method also includes measuring bend on the tubular member with the strain gauge in at least one plane and determining one or more of the magnitude or orientation of the curvature of the wellbore based on an output of the strain gauge.
US10577909B2
Fracturing operations that include fluid diversion cycles may include real-time, continuous-flow pressure diagnostics to analyze and design the fluid diversion cycles of fracturing operations. The real-time, continuous-flow pressure diagnostics are injection rate step cycles that may include open low injection rate step cycles, propped low injection rate step cycles, diverted low injection rate cycles, and high injection rate cycles.
US10577907B2
One aspect includes a method for use with a steam assisted gravity drainage well. The method includes generating an analytical framework for the well at least in part by modeling one or more observable variables as a function at least of one or more control variables; and modeling one or more output variables as a function at least of at least one of the one or more control variables; and at least one of the one or more observable variables. The method further includes utilizing the analytical framework to determine an optimal configuration for the well, the optimal configuration including a set of one or more values for the one or more control variables which produce one or more desired values for the one or more output variables; and configuring the well to operate with the determined optimal configuration.
US10577902B2
A plunger for a gas producing well having a production tubing string has a plunger body with a pad receiving profile defined by first and second pad retainers. A plurality of pads is engaged between the first and second pad retainers, which permit limited radial movement of the pads sufficient to contact an inner surface of the production tubing string. A sheet of resilient material, acting as a spring member, is positioned within the pad receiving profile and between the plurality of pads and the plunger body. The spring member defines an annular chamber between the spring member and the plunger body in fluid communication with the downhole end of the plunger body and provides an outward force to the pads. In use, the openings and pressure chamber allow for a pressure differential across the pads.
US10577897B2
A sand control sleeve includes a body; a port extending through the body; and a filtration material disposed relative the port and configured to attain a first condition where relatively less of the port is occupied. A second condition where relatively more of the port is occupied by the material. A method for producing fluid.
US10577887B2
A downhole tool for use in a subterranean well having a casing therein. The downhole tool has a mandrel, a wedge, a slip bank and a pre-set mechanism. The wedge is disposed about the mandrel and in sliding relationship with the mandrel such that the wedge can slide between an unset position and a set position. The slip bank is associated with the wedge such that, when the slip wedge is in the unset position, the slip bank is in a radially inward position and does not engage the casing, and when the slip wedge is in the set position, the slip bank is in a radially outward position and engages the casing. The pre-set mechanism has a first detent ring located between the first wedge and the mandrel and positioned at least partially in a groove in the mandrel. The detent ring prevents the wedge from moving from the unset position to the set position until a load on the mandrel exceeds a predetermined force.
US10577886B2
A plug (10) for blocking off mining exploration drill holes. The plug (10) comprises an elongate body (12) of solid impervious material, and an engineered surface (14) is provided on an external circumference of the elongate body (12). The engineered surface (14) comprises an annular anchoring groove (16) having a ramp (18) extending from a maximum diameter to a minimum diameter of the engineered surface (14) in a braking direction, in which it is intended to prevent movement of the plug (10) in the drill hole. The plug (10) also comprises an O-ring (20) received in the anchoring groove (16) and having a thickness whereby it protrudes slightly above the maximum diameter of the engineered surface (14) and engages with a wall (22) of the drill hole. In use, when the plug (10) is moved in the braking direction in the drill hole, the O-ring (20) rolls up the ramp (18) and wedges between the engineered surface (14) and the wall (22) of the drill hole to provide a braking action for the plug (10) against the wall (22) of the drill hole.
US10577885B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for a configurable blowout preventer (BOP) system for use in oil and gas operations. According to an embodiment, a BOP system can include two or more modular BOP ram cavity sets, each of the BOP ram cavity sets having at least one BOP ram cavity; one or more frame levels, each of the frame levels separating each of the BOP ram cavity sets and coupling each of the BOP ram cavity sets together; and a plurality of hydraulic piping fluidly connected to each of the BOP ram cavity sets, the plurality of hydraulic piping configured to drive operation of the BOP ram cavity sets.
US10577877B2
A flow monitoring device for monitoring mud flow in a return line of a bore hole drilling operation, including a mounting bracket mounted to the return line with a viewing port for access to an interior of the return line. A light source illuminates, through the viewing port, a portion of the mud flow in an observation zone within the return line. A camera creates a plurality of images of the mud flow in the observation zone. A controller is configured to analyze the plurality images to: determine a level of the mud flow in the return line and the presence of at least one irregularity, track a movement of the irregularity across the plurality of images to determine a rate of movement of the irregularity, and calculate a flow rate of the mud flow through the return line based on the movement rate and the determined level.
US10577864B2
A method of drilling a borehole from a surface location with a drill string, and a system for implementing the method are provided. The method includes a rotary mode that involves rotating the drill string at a rotary mode rotation rate in order to drill the borehole for a rotary interval, an orientation mode that involves rotating the drill string at an orientation mode rotation rate and transitioning the rotation of the drill string from the orientation mode rotation rate to a surface stop orientation, and maintaining the drill string at a surface fixed orientation in order to drill the borehole in a directional mode for a directional interval. The surface stop orientation is selected based upon a predicted relationship between the surface stop orientation and a toolface stop orientation.
US10577863B2
An article comprising: (i) a tray having one or more through holes extending from a work surface of the tray to an opposing surface of the tray through a thickness of the tray; and (ii) one or more lines routed through the one or more through holes to support the opposing surface of the tray, each of the one or more lines connected to a locking mechanism, wherein the one or more locking mechanisms are adapted to secure the article to an object in a suspended state, the suspended state having the tray hanging by the one or more lines.
US10577856B2
Method and Apparatus for fabricating a spacer frame for use in an insulating glass unit. One of a multiple number of possible spacer frame materials is chosen for the spacer frame. An elongated strip of the material is moved to a notching station where notches are formed at corner locations. The character of the notches is adjusted based on the selection of the metal strip material and more particularly to achieve bending of the material in an repeatable, straightforward manner. Downstream from the notching station the metal strip is bent into a channel shaped elongated frame member having side walls. Further downstream a leading strip of channel shaped material is severed or separated from succeeding material still passing through the notching and bending station.
US10577855B2
A glazing frame assembly comprises glazing frame base profile that has cross section which comprises elongated spinal element, glass support element and glazing bar connection unit. The glazing bar connection unit comprises snap support arm, lean support jag and top end. The glazing frame also comprises glazing bar profile that has a cross section which comprises bar spinal element and snap hook element. The top end element protrudes away from the spinal element beyond the lean support jag by at least the thickness of the bar spinal element.
US10577850B2
Methods, systems, and products monitor environmental conditions in an enclosed environment, such as a garage or storage shed. If a dangerous environmental condition is determined, such as elevated carbon monoxide, an entry door may be opened. If further remedial measures are required, ignition of an internal combustion engine may be prohibited.
US10577847B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a closing device (1), wherein with the aid of an electric motor (4) controlled by a control unit (7), a closing element (2) can be moved against a stop edge in a closing direction, the method comprising the following steps: detecting a pinching force on an object or on a body part between the closing element and the stop edge by integrating a measurement variable, wherein the pinching force is represented by a corresponding integrator value; signalling that a maximum permissible pinching force has been reached as a function of the integrator value; temporarily storing the integrator value after the electric motor has been stopped (4); and, when a resumption of an operation of the electric motor (4) in the closing direction is requested, starting the integration of the measurement variable beginning with the temporarily stored integrator value as a starting value.
US10577845B2
A closure device for closing an access opening in a motor-vehicle body. An inner chamber is accessible via the access opening and the access opening can be closed by a cap element. The cap element is connected to a guide device, which is arranged in the inner chamber and via which the cap element can be adjusted between a closed position and an open position. The guide device is configured such that the cap element executes a pushing movement and a lifting movement as it moves between the closed position and the open position. The cap element, in the open position, is arranged in the inner chamber.
US10577830B2
An identification module is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The identification module may have a key receiving assembly configured to receive only a shank of an existing key. The identification module may also have a tip guide, configured to receive a tip of the shank of the existing key. The tip guide may have a slot that exposes a tip end of the shank. The identification module may also have an imaging assembly configured to capture an image of the tip end through the slot.
US10577829B2
A strainer for straining a length of material, the strainer including a tensioning device configured to tension a length of material between the strainer and an object, characterised in that the strainer includes a conductive component configured to contact the length of the material when held by the tensioning device, and wherein the conductive component includes an attachment portion for an external conductive link to the strainer. This invention also relates to a security system and its method of preparation using the strainer as described herein.
US10577828B2
A post mount (1), adapted to be installed in a substrate and releasably receive a post therein, including: a body (2); and an insert (3), adapted to cooperate with the body; wherein, in use, the body is adapted to be driven into the substrate, and, thereafter, the insert is adapted to be at least partially deformed, to thereby anchor the post mount to the substrate.
US10577826B2
An outdoor lattice system comprises at least two posts and a plurality of modular lattice systems configured to be disposed between and supported by the at least two posts. The posts have an elongate body comprising multiple support openings arranged along the elongate body. Each of the modular lattice sections comprise a body, a first edge and a second edge, each edge being a longitudinal edge of the body, the second edge opposite to the first edge, each of the first edge and the second edge comprising a support element extending outwardly therefrom. The support element is configured to couple mechanically with a support opening from the plurality of support openings of the first post, and the at least one support element on the second edge of the first modular lattice section configured to couple mechanically with a support opening from the plurality of support openings of the second post.
US10577825B1
Structural components of a barrier, including posts, rails and pickets, are formed from a conductive substrate that is encased in a corrosion-resistant nonconductive coating. These structural components are assembled by aligning fastener openings in a pair of components, and joining the paired components with a conductive bolt. The shank of the bolt has an enlarged section of peripheral longitudinal ridges that forms an interference fit within each of the aligned fastener openings. Forming this interference fit abrades away the nonconductive coating within the openings, and allows the shank to form a conductive link between the joined structural components.
US10577819B2
A method and apparatus for constructing a tower, where the apparatus may include a structure including a foundation including a plurality of hydraulic cylinders; a truss tower located on the foundation and configured to support a tower built on the foundation; and a controller configured to control extension and retraction of the hydraulic cylinders.
US10577814B2
According to one embodiment a horizontal formwork system is provided that includes a pair of parallel longitudinal beams on which a safety means is coupled for protecting against falling. The safety means includes a safety structure that is located below the formwork panels. The safety structure at least partially covers a gap existing immediately after a last assembled formwork panel and displacement means for moving the safety structure in a longitudinal direction along a length of the longitudinal beams. The displacement means is configured to be operated on by an operator allow to move the safety structure to cover the gap immediately after the last assembled formwork panel. A safety method for installing formwork panels is also provide that may include the steps of assembling at least one guide to the corresponding longitudinal beam and coupling a safety structure having at least one guided element to the longitudinal beams through a guide, and sliding the safety structure along the guide to cover the gap.
US10577805B2
The present invention relates to a method for applying a wallpaper material onto a surface comprising the steps of providing a liquid suspension comprising cellulosic fibers wherein at least part of said cellulosic fibers comprises microfibrillated cellulose and wherein said liquid suspension has a dry content of at least 10% by weight, applying at least one layer of said liquid suspension onto the surface, drying said liquid suspension layer after it has been applied onto the surface, and thereby forming a dry fiber web layer, wherein said fiber web layer forms said wallpaper material.
US10577804B1
A foot traction panel assembly includes a panel body having an exposed top surface, opposing longitudinal sides, and opposing lateral ends. The panel body defines a plurality of narrow slots extending between the opposing sides and opposing ends. A plurality of removable spiked inserts are adapted for being custom arranged adjacent selected slots of the panel body. Each of the spiked inserts has an elongated base and a series of spaced apart rigid spikes attached to the base. The spikes are configured to extend vertically above the top surface of the panel body.
US10577799B2
A roof system and related methods for installing the roof system. The roof system includes a roof diaphragm including a nail board and an insulating panel connected to the nail board, wherein the insulating panel is adapted to be positioned between the nail board and a roof frame so that the insulating panel engages the roof frame. In several exemplary embodiments, the nail board comprises one or both of: oriented strand board (OSB) and plywood. In several exemplary embodiments, the insulating panel comprises one or both of: a closed-cell rigid polyisocyanurate (polyiso) foam core and a polystyrene foam core. In several exemplary embodiments, the roof system further includes a plurality of nail board fasteners connecting the roof diaphragm to the roof frame, the nail board fasteners each extending through the nail board, through the insulating panel, and into the roof frame to a depth.
US10577796B1
A shearwall assembly includes a first concrete and a second concrete column and a protrusion extending from a connection end of the respective concrete columns. Each protrusion has two side surfaces and a center surface. A pair of horizontal slab panels are positioned between the respective connecting ends of the first and second concrete columns and abutting the two side surfaces of the respective protrusions. A horizontal reinforcement extends from the center surface of the respective protrusions and between the respective trusses. Concrete is poured at a volume formed between the pair of horizontal slab panels and the first and second concrete columns.
US10577791B2
There is provided a soundproof structure having two or more soundproof units. Each soundproof unit has a frame having an opening portion and a sound absorbing member attached to the opening portion of the frame. Two adjacent soundproof units are disposed such that at least parts of the sound absorbing members face each other. The sound absorbing members at least parts of which face each other are spaced apart from each other. An average distance between the sound absorbing members at least parts of which face each other is less than 20 mm. Therefore, it is possible to provide a soundproof structure and a soundproof system that can soundproof low frequency side sound with a simple configuration, is small and lightweight, and can easily change its frequency characteristics.
US10577788B1
A living space is disclosed including one or more reconfigurable rooms. A room may be made reconfigurable by including a first wall that is configured to expand and retract along its length, and to move in a first direction orthogonally to its length. The room may also be configurable by including a second wall configured to expand and retract along its length, and to move in a second direction orthogonally to its length. The reconfigurable room may further include movable furniture placed in different positions, depending on a configuration of the room.
US10577785B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of an external hair strainer. The external hair strainer can have a number of components. For example, the external hair strainer can include a rim positioned on a first plane. The external hair strainer can also include a button positioned on a second plane parallel to the first plane. In some instances, the external hair strainer can include a suction cup protruding from the button in the direction of the rim. Moreover, the external hair strainer can have a plurality of spokes connecting an inner diameter of the rim to an outer diameter of the button, each of the plurality of spokes comprising a bend.
US10577780B2
Provided is a multifunctional pullout faucet. The pullout faucet comprises a pullout head, a faucet body, and a pullout hose assembly. The pullout head is provided with a purified-water outlet path and a mixed-water outlet path inside for outputting the purified water and for outputting the mixed water, respectively. The faucet body includes a housing, a valve, a mixed-water outlet tube, a purified-water inlet tube, a purified-water outlet tube, a cold-water inlet tube, a hot-water inlet tube, a purified-water switch and a mixed-water switch; wherein the valve is arranged within the housing, and the housing is connected to the pullout head. The pullout hose assembly is arranged within the housing for introducing the water flow. A purified-water switch is provided for the output of the purified water, and a mixed-water switch is provided for the output of the mixed water.
US10577769B2
A system for shoring a trench, which is dug for receiving a pipeline and includes spaced apart sidewalls, includes at least two supporting units that are spaced apart from one another in the longitudinal direction of the trench and configured for absorbing transverse forces from the sidewalls. Disposed between the two supporting units is a plurality of shoring units, each configured for supporting the sidewalls of the trench. Together with the supporting units, the shoring units are configured to form a barrier-free lowering space within which the pipe can be lowered into the trench from outside the trench to the floor of the trench. A method for laying a pipe using the shoring system is also disclosed.
US10577754B2
Described herein is a modular skate system that includes at least one modular skate component comprising a major surface, a core comprising a body formed from a first material, an outer layer formed from a second material, the outer layer surrounding at least a portion of the core, wherein the first material is different from the second material, and wherein the major surface comprises the outer layer.
US10577746B2
Dyeing method includes a first step of obtaining a dyeing base body by adhering a base body with a sublimable dye and a sublimable dye carrier, a second step of placing the dyeing base body obtained in the first step to face a resin body and heating the dyeing base body so that the sublimable dye and the sublimable dye carrier which have been adhered on the dyeing base body are sublimated and deposited on the resin body, and a third step of heating the resin body having been deposited with the sublimable dye and the sublimable dye carrier to be fixed with the sublimable dye and the sublimable dye carrier.
US10577741B2
A washing and drying system is disclosed. The system includes a washing machine that has a washing function. The system further includes a dryer that has a drying function. The dryer includes a drying unit that is configured to increase a temperature within a drying chamber that is configured to receive clothing. The dryer further includes a controller that is configured to set a capacity of the drying unit according to an operation termination time of the washing machine based on operation of the washing machine, and operate the drying unit according to the set capacity.
US10577732B1
Conductive yarns in a knitted fabric may include insulating cores covered with metal layers that form signal paths. Open circuits may be formed in the yarns by removing metal from the insulating cores at selected locations within the yarns. The fabric may be formed from rows of interlocked loops of the yarn. The open circuits may be located on the loops so that each loop with an open circuit has a first segment of the metal layer that is separated from a second segment of the layer by a portion of the loop from which the metal layer has been removed. Each electrical component may have terminals that span a respective one of the open circuits and that are shorted respectively to the metal of the first and second segments.
US10577729B2
Disclosed herein is spun yarn and a method of preparing the same. The spun yarn includes carbon staple fibers including about 97 wt % or more of carbon, and thermoplastic resin fibers. The spun yarn includes carbon staple fibers prepared from scrap generated during manufacture of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic products, and can have good mechanical properties and conductivity.
US10577717B2
A feed assembly supplies polysilicon to a growth chamber for growing a crystal ingot from a melt. An example system includes a housing having support rails for receiving one of a granular tray and a chunk tray and a feed material reservoir positioned above the support rails to selectively feed one of either the granular tray or the chunk tray. A valve mechanism and pulse vibrator are also disclosed.
US10577716B2
Disclosed herein is a multilayer nanocrystal structure comprising a nanocrystal alloy core comprising two or more nanocrystals and including an alloy interlayer formed at an interface between the two or more nanocrystals, and one or more layers of nanocrystal shells formed sequentially on the surface of the nanocrystal alloy core, wherein the nanocrystal shells each have different band gaps. The multilayer nanocrystal structure can be applied to various electronic devices owing to its advantages of high luminescence efficiency, superior optical stability, and superior chemical stability.
US10577712B2
Electroplating apparatus agitates electrolyte to provide high velocity fluid flows at the surface of a wafer. The apparatus includes a paddle which provides uniform high mass transfer over the entire wafer, even with a relatively large gap between the paddle and the wafer. Consequently, the processor may have an electric field shield positioned between the paddle and the wafer for effective shielding at the edges of the wafer. The influence of the paddle on the electric field across the wafer is reduced as the paddle is spaced relatively farther from the wafer.
US10577709B2
Process for deposition of a dense thin film comprising at least one material Px on a substrate, in which: (a) a colloidal suspension is procured containing nanoparticles of at least one material Px, (b) said substrate is immersed in said colloidal suspension, jointly with a counter electrode, (c) an electrical voltage is applied between said substrate and said counter electrode so as to obtain the electrophoretic deposition of a compact film comprising nanoparticles of said at least one material Px on said substrate, (d) said compact film is dried, (e) said film is mechanically consolidated, (f) thermal consolidation is carried out at a temperature TR that does not exceed 0.7 times (and preferably does not exceed 0.5 times) the melting or decomposition temperature (expressed in ° C.) of the material Px that melts at the lowest temperature, preferably at a temperature of between 160° C. and 600° C., and even more preferably at a temperature of between 160° C. and 400° C., knowing that steps (e) and (f) can be carried out simultaneously, or can be inverted.
US10577700B2
The present invention relates to a water splitting cell having at least one electrode comprising a porous membrane, wherein gas produced at the electrode diffuses out of the cell via the porous membrane, separating the gas from the reaction at the electrode without bubble formation.
US10577687B2
A sputtering target, which has a composition comprising: one or more elements selected from Cu, Sn, Sb, Mg, In, and Ti in a range of 0.1 atomic % or more and 15.0 atomic % or less in total; S in a range of 0.5 atomic ppm or more and 200 atomic ppm or less; and a Ag balance including inevitable impurities, is provided.
US10577685B2
A composition, method for depositing the composition on a downhole component, and a downhole tool. The composition includes about 0.25 wt % to about 1.25 wt % of carbon, about 1.0 wt % to about 3.5 wt % of manganese, about 0.1 wt % to about 1.4 wt % of silicon, about 1.0 wt % to about 3.0 wt % of nickel, about 0.0 to about 2.0 wt % of molybdenum, about 0.7 wt % to about 2.5 wt % of aluminum, about 1.0 wt % to about 2.7 wt % of vanadium, about 1.5 wt % to about 3.0 wt % of titanium, about 0.0 wt % to about 6.0 wt % of niobium, about 3.5 wt % to about 5.5 wt % of boron, about 0.0 wt % to about 10.0 wt % tungsten, and a balance of iron.
US10577671B2
There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a hot-rolled steel product, such as a hot-rolled steel strip or plate product, wherein the microstructure of the steel product is martensitic, having Brinell hardness of at least 450 HBW. The method comprises the following steps in given sequence: a step of providing a steel slab containing, in terms of weight percentages, C: 0.25-0.45%, Si: 0.01-1.5%, Mn: 0.4-3.0%, Ni: 0.5-4.0%, Al: 0.01-1.2%, Cr: less than 2.0%, Mo: less than 1.0%, Cu: less than 1.5%, V: less than 0.5%, Nb: less than 0.2%, Ti: less than 0.2%, B: less than 0.01%, Ca: less than 0.01%, the balance being iron, residual contents and unavoidable impurities; a heating step of heating the steel slab to a temperature Theat in the range 950-1350° C.; a temperature equalizing step; a hot-rolling step in a temperature range of Ar3 to 1300° C. to obtain a hot-rolled steel material; and a step of direct quenching the hot-rolled steel material from the hot-rolling heat to a temperature of less than Ms. The prior austenite grain structure of the obtained steel product is elongated in the rolling direction so that the aspect ratio is greater than or equal to 1.2.
US10577669B2
Gene-modified, lymphoid-tissue-homing dendritic cells that comprise a 1-alpha-hydroxylase gene and a retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene, where the 1-alpha-hydroxylase gene is expressed to produce functional 1-alpha-hydroxylase enzyme and the retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene is expressed to produce functional retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene enzyme. A method for treating one or more than one inflammation-related condition or disease, the method comprising administering gene-modified, lymphoid-tissue-homing dendritic cells that comprise a 1-alpha-hydroxylase gene and a retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene, where the 1-alpha-hydroxylase gene is expressed to produce functional 1-alpha-hydroxylase enzyme and the retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene is expressed to produce functional retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene enzyme.
US10577666B2
Molecular markers associated with soybean reproductive stage, methods of their use, and compositions having one or more marker loci are provided. Methods comprise detecting at least one marker locus, detecting a haplotype, and/or detecting a marker profile. Methods may further comprise crossing a selected soybean plant with a second soybean plant. Isolated polynucleotides, primers, probes, kits, systems, etc., are also provided.
US10577665B2
Provided herein are aptamers, aptamer probes and biosensor systems that detect C. difficile glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH). Also provided are methods of detecting C. difficile GDH using the aptamers, probes and biosensors and methods of determining whether a subject has a C. difficile infection.
US10577663B2
The present invention relates to a method of predicting resistance to a viral infection in a subject, the method comprising determining in the subject the variant present at one or more amino acid position in a cadherin protein, and/or the alleles present at one or more DNA polymorphism in the gene for cadherin, and predicting whether or not the subject is resistant to viral infection based on the determination of the variant and/or the alleles.
US10577661B2
The present invention relates to methods, kits and systems for the prognosis of the disease outcome of breast cancer, said method comprising:(a) determining in a tumor sample from said patient the RNA expression levels of at least 2 of the following 9 genes: UBE2C, BIRC5, RACGAP1, DHCR7, STC2, AZGP1, RBBP8, IL6ST, and MGP(b) mathematically combining expression level values for the genes of the said set which values were determined in the tumor sample to yield a combined score, wherein said combined score is indicative of a prognosis of said patient; and kits and systems for performing said method.
US10577659B2
The present invention relates to methods for diagnosing unstable atherosclerotic plaque, determining the probability of suffering from stroke, selecting a therapy for a subject suffering from carotid artery disease and predicting the progression of atherosclerotic disease.
US10577658B2
The invention is a novel MECP2E1 splice variant and its corresponding polypeptide. The invention also includes methods of using these nucleic acid sequences and proteins in medical diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders or development disorders.
US10577656B2
Gene expression profiling is a powerful tool that has varied utility. It enables classification of multiple myeloma into subtypes and identifying genes directly involved in disease pathogensis and clinical manifestation. The present invention used gene expression profiling in large uniformly treated population of patients with myeloma to identify genes associated with poor prognosis. It also demonstrated that over-expression of CKS1B gene, mainly due to gene amplification that was determined by Fluorescent in-situ hybridization to impart a poor prognosis in multiple myleoma. It is further contemplated that therapeutic strategies that directly target CKS1B or related pathways may represent novel, and more specific means of treating high risk myeloma and may prevent its secondary evolution.
US10577652B2
This invention provides methods for attaching a nucleic acid to a solid surface and for sequencing nucleic acid by detecting the identity of each nucleotide analogue after the nucleotide analogue is incorporated into a growing strand of DNA in a polymerase reaction. The invention also provides nucleotide analogues which comprise unique labels attached to the nucleotide analogue through a cleavable linker, and a cleavable chemical group to cap the —OH group at the 3′-position of the deoxyribose.
US10577649B2
A method for amplifying a target nucleic acid including providing a system having a crRNA or a derivative thereof, and a Cas protein or a variant thereof. The crRNA or the derivative thereof contains a target-specific nucleotide region substantially complementary to a region of the target nucleic acid, and contacting the target nucleic acid with the system to form a complex.
US10577647B2
Methods and compositions for nucleic acid amplification, detection, and genotyping techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, a nucleic acid molecule having a target-specific primer sequence; an anti-tag sequence 5′ of the target-specific primer sequence; a tag sequence 5′ of the anti-tag sequence; and a blocker between the anti-tag sequence and the tag sequence is disclosed. Compositions containing such a nucleic acid molecule and methods of using such a nucleic acid molecule are also disclosed.
US10577644B2
A method for fragmenting a genome is provided. In certain embodiments, the method comprises: (a) combining a genomic sample containing genomic DNA with a plurality of Cas9-gRNA complexes, wherein the Cas9-gRNA complexes comprise a Cas9 protein and a set of at least 10 Cas9-associated guide RNAs that are complementary to different, pre-defined, sites in a genome, to produce a reaction mixture; and (b) incubating the reaction mixture to produce at least 5 fragments of the genomic DNA. Also provided is a composition comprising at least 100 Cas9-associated guide RNAs that are each complementary to a different, pre-defined, site in a genome. Kits for performing the method are also provided. In addition, other methods, compositions and kits for manipulating nucleic acids are also provided.
US10577643B2
Presented herein are methods and compositions for enhancing specific enrichment of target sequences in a nucleic acid library. Off-target hybridization probes may be used to reduce binding and/or capture of off-target regions of a nucleic acid library in a targeted sequencing workflow. The off-target hybridization probes may be specific for locations known to generate off-target sequencing reads for a particular set of hybridization probes.
US10577640B2
The disclosure provides methods for detecting the concurrent presence of at least two targets within a biological sample. The method includes contacting said biological sample with a first binding agent, said first binding agent operably linked to a first sortase molecule, wherein said first binding agent specifically binds to a first target; contacting said biological sample with a second binding agent, said second binding agent operably linked to a first sortase recognition sequence peptide, wherein said second binding agent specifically binds to a second target; adding a sortase substrate under conditions where a first sortase-mediated ligation of the sortase substrate to the first sortase recognition sequence will produce a ligation product, and detecting the ligation product wherein detection of said ligation product indicates the concurrent presence of the first target and the second target in the biological sample. Also disclosed are kits comprising reagents for performing the methods as claimed.
US10577639B2
The subject invention provides novel devices and methods for the detection and quantification of neutrophil elastase activity in biological samples.
US10577630B2
The invention provides for delivery, engineering and optimization of systems, methods, and compositions for manipulation of sequences and/or activities of target sequences. Provided are delivery systems and tissues or organ which are targeted as sites for delivery. Also provided are vectors and vector systems some of which encode one or more components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells to ensure enhanced specificity for target recognition and avoidance of toxicity and to edit or modify a target site in a genomic locus of interest to alter or improve the status of a disease or a condition.
US10577627B2
The present invention relates to viral vectors and methods of their production and use.
US10577618B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel class of EPSPS enzymes, and nucleic acids useful in encoding the same.
US10577611B2
The present invention relates to polynucleotide sequences which enable a polynucleotide control sequence, such as a promoter, to direct expression in a wide range of industrially relevant species, both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. When the polynucleotide sequences of the invention are applied in combination with selection marker genes it is possible to perform selectable cloning in a laboratory host and use the same construct in the final host.
US10577608B2
Provided herein are methods of treating a cancer in an individual. A microRNA-199a oligonucleotide or mimic that increases the expression of microRNA-199a in the cancer cell is administered to the individual. Also provided is a method of inhibiting proliferation of a cancer cell and treating a cell associated with a cancer. The cell is contacted with the microRNA-199a oligonucleotide or mimic.
US10577607B2
Provided herein are methods, compounds, and compositions for reducing expression of DYRKIB in an animal. Such methods, compounds, and compositions are useful to treat, prevent, delay, or ameliorate a metabolic disease or disorder in an individual in need.
US10577598B2
Disclosed are methods for identifying desired members from a display libraries, including bacteriophage display libraries. Display library members can be amplified in the presence of a target compound so that cycles of selection can be rapidly completed.
US10577596B2
A device comprising a support part is disclosed. The support part is configured to receive a tip holder, a liquid waste container and a multiwell plate. The multiwell plate comprises at least one row of vessels which comprise a closed bottom and an open top. A method of removing liquid waste during magnetic separation using such a device is also disclosed.
US10577593B2
The invention provides novel compositions with polymerase activity and methods of using the compositions.
US10577591B2
This document relates to methods and materials for virotherapy. For example, this document provides methods and materials for treating cancer using a recombinant mumps virus as an oncolytic agent.
US10577588B2
The present invention relates to, among others, an in vitro method of modifying a cell graft containing immune cells comprising the steps of incubating a cell graft containing immune cells with an anti CD4 antibody wherein said incubating is carried out for from 1 minute to 7 days, b) removing unbound antibody from said graft; as well as to corresponding modified grafts and uses. The invention further relates to the modification of antibodies reactive to the CD4 human leukocyte antigen to provide anti-CD4 antibodies that have a reduced number of potential T-cell epitopes but retain the ability to bind to CD4, such as to an anti human CD4-antibody comprising a heavy chain immunoglobulin variable domain (VH) and a light chain immunoglobulin variable domain (VL), wherein at least one T cell epitope located outside the CDRs of said immunoglobulin variable domains is removed from said immunoglobulin variable domains. Preferably, the specificity and mode of action of the anti-CD4 antibodies are not affected by the modification(s).
US10577587B2
An ex-vivo culturing method of osteoblasts for implantation, comprising a culturing of adult live osteoblasts as an ex-vivo procedure. The ex-vivo culture, which leads to the formation of the active substance, further comprises the steps of isolation of osteo-progenitor cells, differentiation of osteo-progenitor cells in to osteoblasts, expansion culture, cell culture harvest and wash followed by filling and packaging. This method is instrumental in accelerating the process of bone formation.
US10577586B2
The invention provides methods of modulating follicular regulatory T (TFR) cell-mediated immune responses, follicular helper T (TFH) cell-mediated immune responses or both, and the use of those methods in the treatment of diseases or conditions mediated by TFR or TFH cells. The invention also provides novel methods for identifying TFR and TFH cells in a population of cells. The invention also provides compositions comprising TFR cells that have enhanced suppressive activity as compared wild type TFR cells. The invention also provides compositions comprising T follicular regulatory (TFR) cells isolated from the peripheral blood of a subject wherein the composition is enriched for TFR cells. Methods of making and using the compositions of the invention to modulate an immune response are also provided.
US10577578B2
Described in this application is a method for producing Plasmodium sporozoites in a cell-free, mosquito-free in vitro culture-system. Compositions and methods resulting from applying the methods of the present invention are described.
US10577574B2
The invention relates to a system of fluidic valves and pumps and associated fluidic channels integratable into a bio-object microfluidics module. The module includes input and output buses; upstream and downstream interconnection bus control valves (CVs) coupled to the input and output buses, respectively. It may include arterial, venous, wash and waste bus lines, each connecting between the upstream and downstream interconnection bus CVs. It may also include an input CV connecting to the arterial bus line, upstream interconnection bus CV, bio-object and inlets, and an output CV connecting to the bio-object, input CV, downstream interconnection bus CV and outlets; and a pump connecting between the input CV and bio-object. The system of fluidic valves and pumps can be arranged to provide MicroFormulator functionality enabling precise mixtures of drugs, chemicals, or biochemicals to be delivered in a time-dependent fashion to biological entities housed in individual wells or chambers.
US10577571B2
The invention discloses cleaning compositions which employ a synergistic combination of a ester solvent, preferably a fatty acid methyl ester in combination with one or more linear alkyl amines. The alkyl amines act as to remove and suspend organic oils which have been burnt or adhered to a surface with heat and may even be used alone as a soil removal agent. The cleaning compositions have particular use in cleaning of distillation towers associated with biofuel, and vegetable oil refining, but also find use in cleaning ovens, food cooking surfaces and even dry cleaning.
US10577568B2
Peptide aldehydes containing a ureido group are effective as stabilizers for protease in a detergent composition, and as stabilizers for a second enzyme in a liquid composition with a protease.
US10577558B2
The invention relates to a method of combined cell digestion and extraction of oil-containing seeds having an oil content of >30% by mass, wherein production of a slurry from the oilseeds and ethanol is followed by a combination cell digestion with a subsequent ethanolic extraction, wherein the smaller portion of the oil of the oilseed and the alcohol-soluble constituents present therein are dissolved in the ethanol in accordance with the dissolution capacity of the ethanol for the oil and the alcohol-soluble constituents, a greater portion of the oil is displaced from the seed cells by the ethanol, forming a free oil phase in the ethanol. The free oil phase is removed and, according to the invention, has semi-raffinate quality, reducing the complexity of refining as an advantage of the method of the invention.
US10577555B2
A metal-containing detergent, suitable for use as a lubricant additive, in the form of a concentrate in oil in which a basic metal-containing material is maintained in dispersion or solution in the oil by a gemini surfactant system comprising, or being derivable or derived from, a double bond-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 8 to 30 carbon atoms, the double bond or bonds of which being functionalized to carry polar groups across or on the double bond or bonds and the carboxylic acid group or groups thereof being functionalized to become an amide or ester group carrying at least one alkyl group having 4 to 20 carbon atoms.
US10577553B2
Provided are water-based fuel additive compositions that, when combusted with a fuel containing vanadium in a gas turbine, inhibit vanadium hot corrosion in the gas turbine. The water-based fuel additive compositions include at least one rare earth element compound or alkaline earth element compound that retards vanadium corrosion resulting from combustion of vanadium rich fuel.
US10577551B2
Low sulphur marine fuel compositions are provided. Embodiments comprise 10 to 50 wt % of a residual hydrocarbon component, with the remaining 50 to 90 wt % selected from a non-hydroprocessed hydrocarbon component, a hydroprocessed hydrocarbon component, and a combination thereof. Embodiments of the marine fuel composition can have a sulphur content of about 0.1 wt % or less.
US10577550B2
The invention includes a downdraft gasifier having a rotatable auger/grate extending through its reduction zone. The auger at times moves biofuel through the gasifier and at times supports it in the gasifier. A frusto-conical biomass grate funnels biomass onto the auger and is perforate for permitting the passage of gases while retaining the biomass. A guide tube surrounds the auger below the frusto-conical biomass grate. The invention also includes mixing gas or solid particulate fuel in a conduit segment that houses a mixing chamber. Fuel is fed through a fuel inlet port into the mixing chamber. High velocity combustion air from a blower is forced into the mixing chamber through a restricted orifice that generates a suction pressure for drawing gas or solid particulate fuel into the mixing chamber. A combustion chamber supply conduit delivers fuel from the mixing chamber into a burner.
US10577548B2
An enhanced diluent (EDIL) composition used to prepare a transportable dense crude oil composition is disclosed. An EDIL composition contains a usually used dense crude hydrocarbon diluent (DIL) plus an additive (ADD) composition that permits the amount of EDIL used in the resulting diluted transportable dense crude (EDIL:DC) to be lessened by about 20 to about 60 percent, while maintaining the viscosity and other properties of the usually used DC:DIL composition. A contemplated ADD composition is a mixture of three components, a solvent mixture, a diol and a surfactant. A contemplated EDIL composition contains about 1 to about 20 percent by weight of the ADD composition. Admixture of EDIL with a dense crude at about 80 to about 40 percent by volume of the amount of DIL usually used provides an easily transportable enhanced dense crude composition. A method of preparing a transportable dense crude composition is also disclosed.
US10577545B2
A process and catalyst is disclosed for converting heavy hydrocarbon feed into lighter hydrocarbon products using multifunctional catalysts. Multifunctional catalysts enable use of less expensive metal by substituting expensive metals for less expensive metals with no loss or superior performance in slurry hydrocracking. Less available and expensive ISM can be replaced effectively.
US10577543B2
A method for recovering hydrocarbons from oil shale and other carbonaceous materials has the steps of preparing a biomedium of microorganisms, water, and nutrients; providing shale laden with oil; treating oil shale with the biomedium; mechanically agitating the treated oil shale and biomedium approximately twelve hours to form a liquid suspension; and separating the components of the liquid suspension to yield a hydrocarbon mixture.
US10577539B2
A process for deoxygenating a pyrolysis oil stream comprises purposely limiting complete deoxygenation of the pyrolysis oil stream having a high oxygenate concentration to provide a hydrotreated pyrolysis oil stream that is sufficiently reduced in oxygenate content to mix with oil. By not fully deoxygenating the pyrolysis oil stream, the deoxygenation reaction can be run with little risk of undesirable polymerization reactions plugging the reactor.
US10577536B2
A method of treating in a subterranean formation including combining an aqueous base fluid, an oil based fluid, a hydrophobic proppant, and a non-hydrophobic proppant to form an immiscible fluid system; and introducing the immiscible fluid system into the subterranean formation. A method of treating includes combining an aqueous base fluid, an oil based fluid, a hydrophobic proppant, and a non-hydrophobic proppant to form an immiscible fluid system; introducing the immiscible fluid system into a fracture in the formation; allowing the immiscible fluid system to separate into at least two separate phases, wherein the oil based fluid and hydrophobic proppant to form proppant aggregates and the aqueous based fluid to act as a spacer fluid surrounding at least a portion of the proppant aggregates; and removing the spacer fluid from the fracture during flowback stage or well production to form proppant-free channels between proppant aggregates.
US10577522B2
Flexible films comprise an adhesive layer and a fibrous supporting layer and the thermosetting adhesive materials which are non-tacky to the touch are storage stable at room temperature and can be cured at elevated temperature with a short cure time and can be cured to produce a tough flexible adhesive layer including bonding to oily surfaces, the materials are particularly useful in bonding together dissimilar substrates where they can reduce the formation of galvanic corrosion.
US10577519B2
A ski including a base layer made from permeable material, wherein the base layer is treated with a composition comprising at least one chemical component to confer hydrophobicity with a water contact angle of greater than 120° to the base layer and a carrier fluid for the chemical component, the composition permeating the material of the base layer and modified the material to be hydrophobic throughout its volume.
US10577515B1
A dielectric ink composition includes at least one (meth)acrylate compound selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylate monomers, (meth)acrylate oligomers and combinations thereof; a sensitizing photoinitiator; an amine synergist photoinitiator; and a phosphine oxide photoinitiator. A device including a dielectric layer formed by printing the dielectric ink composition described herein is also disclosed.
US10577513B2
A printing ink composition for laminate contains a pigment, a binder resin, a polyfunctional isocyanate compound as curing agent, and an organic solvent, wherein the binder resin is a polyurethane resin and a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer; at least one of the polyurethane resin and vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer has a reactive group that can react with the isocyanate group in the polyfunctional isocyanate compound; the ratio of the solid content of the polyurethane resin and that of the vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer is in a range of 9/1 to 1/9 (polyurethane resin/vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer); and the ratio of the sum of the solid contents of the polyurethane resin and vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer and the solid content of the curing agent is in a range of 1:0.2 to 0.9 ((polyurethane resin+copolymer):curing agent).
US10577512B2
Solventborne alkyd paint composition containing a universal colorant of organic pigment or inorganic pigment, a solventborne alkyd base paint and a fatty acid amidoamine, where the fatty acid amidoamine is the condensation product of a fatty acid or their corresponding ester or fatty oil and a polyamine, the polyamine is an aliphatic polyamine having an amine functionality of at least 2, and the polyamine contains at least one primary amine group and at least one tertiary amine group.
US10577510B2
An electrocoating composition is provided herein. The electrocoating composition includes an aqueous carrier. The electrocoating composition further includes a film forming binder. The film forming binder includes an epoxy-amine adduct and a blocked polyisocyanate crosslinking agent. The electrocoating composition further includes an anti-crater agent selected from the group of a polyester resin dispersion, a polyacrylate resin dispersion, and a combination thereof. The electrocoating composition further includes a supplemental anti-crater agent including a polyether modified polysiloxane.
US10577506B2
Provided are a BZ glaze enamel painting material composition and a painting method. The composition is a painting material composition composed of natural mineral pigment powder, synthetic resin, and vinyl acetate-acrylate added with a color glaze, a white toning glaze, and a colorless toning glaze at different percentages. The painting method that uses the composition includes the steps of preparing painting canvas, forming bottom, and making picture. In the step of making picture, a suitable amount of BZ glaze enamel painting material composition is prepared according to the size of the painting canvas and, and after being sufficiently stirred, added with temperature-resistant minerals and water according to predetermined weight ratios to respectively form red glaze, yellow glaze, blue glaze, green glaze, purple glaze, orange glaze, and cyan glaze, followed by mixing to product a BZ painting artwork exhibiting, in the entirety thereof, an irregular pattern.
US10577498B2
Provided is a polybutylene terephthalate resin composition which has further improved fluidity (melt fluidity) while maintaining mechanical characteristics. The polybutylene terephthalate resin composition contains 0.05-5 parts by mass of a glycerin fatty acid ester having a hydroxyl value of 200-400, and 0.05-5 parts by mass of a polyvalent alcohol fatty acid ester having a hydroxyl value of 100 or less, with respect to 100 parts by mass of a polybutylene terephthalate resin. The glycerin fatty acid ester preferably contains glycerin and/or a dehydration condensation product thereof, and a fatty acid having 12 or more carbon atoms.
US10577497B2
A resin composition comprises 100 parts by weight of epoxy resin; 2 to 50 parts by weight of carboxyl-containing butadiene acrylonitrile resin; 1 to 40 parts by weight of phosphazene; and 1 to 8 parts by weight of acrylic triblock copolymer. The resin composition may be made into various articles, such as prepregs, laminates, printed circuit boards or rigid-flex boards, and meets one, more or all of the following properties: high yield rate in solder pad fall-off test at high temperature, low dust weight loss, low stickiness, high thermal resistance, high peel strength to copper foil, and high bonding strength to polyimide layer.
US10577483B2
Provided is a clarifying agent composition which is capable of yielding a molded article having excellent transparency whose initial coloration is suppressed. The clarifying agent composition is characterized by comprising 1.0 to 10 parts by mass of a colorant with respect to 100 parts by mass of a clarifying agent represented by the following Formula (1): (wherein, R1 to R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 9 carbon atoms; R5 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; n represents 1 or 2; and M represents an alkali metal when n is 1, or Al(OH) when n is 2).
US10577472B2
Pre-impregnated composite material (prepreg) that can be cured/molded to form aerospace composite parts that are designed to tolerate hot and wet conditions. The prepreg includes fibers and an uncured resin. The uncured resin includes an epoxy component that is a combination of a trifunctional epoxy resin, a tetra functional epoxy resin and a solid epoxy resin. The resin includes polyethersulfone and a thermoplastic particle component. The uncured resin also includes a curing agent.
US10577463B2
The invention relates to a compound comprising at least two —(NH—C═O)— groups and at least two —(C═O)—C≡C—R1 groups, wherein R1 represents hydrogen or a group having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms; a curable composition comprising a first unit comprising at least two —(NH—C═O)— groups, a second unit comprising at least two —(C═O)—C≡C—R1 groups, and a catalyst; and the use of the composition as an adhesive, coating, casting composition or as sealant.
US10577462B2
The present invention relates to a production method of polyalkylene carbonate particles capable of precipitating and separating resin particles from a polyalkylene carbonate suspension obtained through polymerization of an epoxide and carbon dioxide. According to the present invention, the production method is capable of obtaining a polyalkylene carbonate resin having excellent workability with a high yield and a low energy cost while reducing a scale of a facility, a processing time, and a wastewater amount, as compared to conventional methods such as a flash separation method.
US10577461B2
Provided are a novel polyorganosiloxane capable of preparing copolycarbonate with improved weather resistance and flowability while maintaining the intrinsic physical properties of polycarbonate resin, and a copolycarbonate prepared by using the same.
US10577459B2
The present invention relates to a novel ester monomer susceptible to ring opening polymerization where the monomer comprise a functional group that may be transformed into thiols or S—S groups which allows further functionalization. The present invention also relates to polymers and co-polymers derived from said monomer.
US10577457B2
A terminal modified polybutylene terephthalate resin has a weight average molecular weight Mw of 10,000 to 100,000, a melting point of 210° C. to 235° C., and a melt viscosity μ at 250° C. of not more than 10 Pa·s, and includes 90 to 300 mol/ton of a compound having a (poly)oxyalkylene structure, the compound being terminally bound in the resin, wherein the weight average molecular weight Mw represents a relative weight average molecular weight with respect to the molecular weight of a standard poly(methyl methacrylate) as determined by gel permeation chromatography using hexafluoroisopropanol (supplemented with 0.005 N sodium trifluoroacetate) as a mobile phase.
US10577452B2
The present application relates to a curable composition and a use thereof. The present application can provide a curable composition having excellent physical properties such as adhesive durability as well as maintaining transparency even in a high-temperature and high-humidity environment. Such a curable composition can be usefully used for direct bonding between a filler and an optical member of a display device.
US10577444B2
A process for preparing a vinyl acetate rich polymer for formulating surfactant containing compositions comprising at least one anionic surfactant and having yield stress properties without a significant increase in viscosity, low turbidity, and the ability to suspend insoluble materials in the form of particulates and/or droplets that require suspension or stabilization is disclosed.
US10577435B2
The invention relates to a gas phase polymerisation process for the production of ethylene polymers in the presence of a catalyst composition based on a chromium compound, a titanium compound and a silica support material. The silica support material has a surface area (SA) between 685 m2/g and 800 m2/g, a pore volume (PV) between 1.65 and 1.85 cm3/g and an average particle size in the range between 25 and 35 micrometres. The catalyst composition is injected by a dry catalyst feeder into the polymerization reactor.
US10577426B2
The present disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to human glucocorticoid-induced TNFR family related receptor (GITR) and compositions comprising such antibodies. In a specific aspect, the antibodies specifically bind to human GITR and modulate GITR activity, e.g., enhance, activate or induce GITR activity, utilizing such antibodies. The present disclosure also provides methods for treating disorders, such as cancer and infectious diseases, by administering an antibody that specifically binds to human GITR and modulates GITR activity e.g., enhances, activates or induces GITR activity.
US10577418B2
The present application is directed to an invention based on the discovery that the BLCA-38 antibody is actually an antibody population comprising two distinct monoclonal antibodies. The claims define an isolated antibody population comprising first antibodies and/or antigen binding fragments thereof defined by specific heavy chain and light chain variable regions and wherein the antibody population does not contain second antibodies defined by specific light chain variable regions. The claims also define hybridoma cells, cultures capable of producing such antibody populations, compositions comprising such antibody populations, nucleic acid molecules encoding such antibodies, vectors, host cells thereof, and processes for production of the antibody populations of the invention.
US10577416B2
The present invention relates to methods for the treatment of disorders mediated by MICA-expressing cells using antibodies, antibody fragments, and derivatives thereof that specifically bind MICA. The invention also relates to antibodies; cells producing such antibodies; methods of making such antibodies; fragments, variants, and derivatives of the antibodies; and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same.
US10577415B2
IgG bispecific antibodies are provided that bind human Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide (CGRP) and human Interleukin-23 (IL-23) and are characterized as having high affinity and strong simultaneous neutralizing properties to both human CGRP and human IL-23. The bispecific antibodies of the invention are useful for treating various autoimmune diseases including Inflammatory Bowel Disease, such as Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), and other autoimmune diseases such as psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and atopic dermatitis (AtD). The bispecific antibodies of the invention are useful for treating pain associated with the aforementioned diseases.
US10577408B2
The present invention is directed to transduced T cells expressing at least 100,000 molecules of human somatostatin receptor 2 (SSTR2), which improves PET/CT imaging sensitivity. The present invention is also directed to transduced T cells expressing SSTR2 and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR). In one embodiment, the CAR is specific to human ICAM-1 and the CAR comprises a binding domain that is scFv of anti-human ICAM-1, or an I domain of the αL subunit of human lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1. In another embodiment, the CAR is specific to human CD19, and the CAR comprises a binding domain that is scFv of anti-human CD19. The present invention is further directed to using the above transduced T cells for monitoring T cell distribution in a patient by PET/CT imaging and/or treating cancer.
US10577393B2
A porous hollow fiber membrane is provided for the treatment of a protein-containing liquid, which can effectively separate and remove a substance such as a small diameter virus, and which can allow effective permeation of a useful substance to be recovered such as protein in high concentration. The porous hollow fiber membrane has an asymmetric structure having a dense layer in an outer layer only and contains a hydrophobic polymer and a first hydrophilic polymer, the surface and the porous part of the hollow fiber membrane are coated with a second hydrophilic polymer, the hydrophobic polymer is a polysulfone-type polymer, the first hydrophilic polymer is a copolymer of vinylpyrrolidone with vinyl acetate, and the second hydrophilic polymer is a polysaccharide or a polysaccharide derivative. The porous hollow fiber membrane is obtained by co-dissolving the hydrophobic polymer and the first hydrophilic polymer and then the second hydrophilic polymer is coated.
US10577380B2
The present invention provides compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US10577379B1
The present disclosure relates salts of fenofibric acid with berberine or its analogues, their crystalline forms, their preparation methods, and their uses, wherein the salts comprise fenofibric acid as anion and berberine or its analogues as cation. The disclosed salts of fenofibric acid with berberine or its analogues are free of unnecessary cation or anion, such as choline cation in a fenofibric acid salt with choline and chloride ion in a chloride salt of berberine or its analogs, and thus free of side effects caused by such cation or anion, including instability caused by choline and digesting system irritation caused by high acidity caused by the chloride salt of berberine analogs.
US10577377B2
The present invention provides substituted cyclopenta and cyclopentyl pyrimidine bicyclic compounds of Formula III, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, and hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, such as for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.
US10577374B2
The present invention provides compounds useful as inhibitors of Btk, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US10577373B2
The present invention provides compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same for the inhibition of TYK2, and the treatment of TYK2-mediated disorders.
US10577362B2
This application discloses compounds according to generic Formula I: wherein all variables are defined as described herein which exhibit strong inhibition effects on various cancer cell lines. The compounds disclosed herein are useful for the treatment of proliferative diseases, including neoplastic diseases such as cancer and non-neoplastic disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds of Formula I and at least one carrier, diluent or excipient and optionally one or more additional therapeutically active agents, including anticancer agents. This application also discloses methods for treating a proliferative disease, including neoplastic diseases such as cancer and non-neoplastic disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis.
US10577359B2
The present invention provides (i) processes for preparing a 2′-deoxy-2′-fluoro-2′-methyl-D-ribonolactone derivatives, (ii) conversion of intermediate lactones to nucleosides with potent anti-HCV activity, and their analogues, and (iii) methods to prepare the anti-HCV nucleosides containing the 2′-deoxy-2′-fluoro-2′-C-methyl-ß-D-ribofuranosyl nucleosides from a preformed, preferably naturally-occurring, nucleoside.
US10577346B2
It is provided herein a benzobicycloalkane derivative, and a preparation method and use thereof. In particular, it is provided herein a compound of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, stereoisomer or solvate thereof, a preparation method, and a use thereof in preparation of drugs for treating pain.
US10577344B2
The described invention provides small molecule anti-cancer compounds that selectively target and inhibit measurable biological activity of truncated APC proteins, an immortalized Human Colonic Epithelial Cell (HCEC) model, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one of the small molecule anti-cancer compounds and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US10577342B2
The invention relates to compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices.
