US10661984B2
Disclosed are embodiments that relate to apparatus for compacting materials. The apparatus comprising a mechanical linkage designed to be mounted within the interior of an existing waste receptacle, a compression surface operably connected to the mechanical linkage, and a motor operably connected to the mechanical linkage, wherein the motor is capable of extending and retracting the mechanical linkage, thereby lowering and raising the compression plate. Some embodiments will take advantage of integrated sensors and processors in order to capture and analyze large amounts of data related to the compactor operations. This data may lead to refinements and greater efficiency in the waste disposal processes.
US10661982B2
Systems and methods for remote monitoring of a container are disclosed. The system includes at least one data collector configured to collect data corresponding to a physical attribute of the container, a wireless transmitter in communication with the at least one data collector and configured to transmit the data corresponding to a physical attribute of the container to a location remote from the location of the container, a server in communication with the wireless transmitter to receive and process the data corresponding to a physical attribute of the container, and a physical attribute analysis engine in communication with the server to receive the data corresponding to a physical attribute of the container and calculate a current value for the physical attribute based upon the received data.
US10661980B2
A proppant discharge system has a container with an outlet formed at a bottom thereof and a gate slidably affixed at the outlet so as to be movable between a first position covering the outlet to second position opening the outlet, and a support structure having an actuator thereon. The container is removably positioned on the top surface of the support structure. The actuator is engageable with gate so as to move the gate from the first position to the second position. A conveyor underlies the container so as to receive proppant as discharged from the container through the outlet. The container is a ten foot ISO container.
US10661979B2
A method for production of a tubular body applying the following steps: Pressureless application of at least one first curable plastic layer made of reactive polyurethane materials with a core via a rotational molding process, Curing the at least one plastic layer, Winding at least one reinforcement layer onto the at least one first plastic layer, Pressureless application of at least one second curable plastic layer, wherein the reinforcement layer is embedded without holes between the two plastic layers, and Removal of the core after completion of the body. Because of this, the position of the reinforcement layer 7 can be individually established and it can be ensured that the reinforcement layer will not penetrate into the first plastic layer during winding after the curing of the first plastic layer.
US10661977B2
Blank (1) for assembling a device for packaging at least one windscreen wiper, said blank (1) being of elongate shape and comprising at least two adjacent longitudinal areas (2, 3) that can be articulated to one another via a longitudinal folding line (4), each longitudinal area (2, 3) being intended to form a longitudinal face of the packaging device, at least one of the longitudinal areas (2, 3) being further articulated at each of its longitudinal ends to an end area (21, 22; 31, 32), via a transverse folding line (5, 6; 7, 8), each end area (21, 22; 31, 32) being adapted to form a substantially transverse end face of the packaging device, said blank (1) being characterized in that it includes, at one of its longitudinal ends at least, longitudinal shock absorbing means (11) situated at the level of the longitudinal folding line (4) and spaced longitudinally and/or extending to a point spaced longitudinally from the transverse folding line or lines (5, 6; 7, 8) of the corresponding longitudinal end of the blank (1).
US10661965B1
My desiccator comprises a plurality of chambers in series communication with each other so a desiccating gas flows from one chamber into an adjacent chamber. A desiccating purge gas is introduced through an inlet into the desiccator's chambers at a predetermined flow rate, and a one-way bleed valve allows gas within the chambers to constantly flow from the desiccator while maintaining a positive pressure within the desiccator. A fan that constantly mixes and circulates the gas between the chambers as the desiccating purge gas is introduced into the desiccator, constantly diluting the gas within the chambers with a fresh supply of the desiccating gas. My method employs my desiccator to store items, wherein a dry, pressurized desiccating gas is introduced into the desiccator's chambers in a manner that constantly circulates the gas between the chambers as gas is slowly bled from the chambers, constantly diluting the gas within the chambers with a fresh supply of the desiccating gas. In my method the dew point of the desiccating gas is from −20 to −90 F. °, the pressure of the desiccating gas is from 30 to 120 psi, and the average flow rate of the desiccating gas into the desiccator is from 0.25 to 4.0 cubic feet per minute.
US10661964B2
A packaging for an ophthalmic lens containing a pharmaceutical agent.
US10661963B2
A woven laminated plastic bag having features that prevent leakage of contents out of the bag, or infestation of organisms into the contents of the bag is provided. In various aspects the bag can be fabricated from woven polypropylene and/or polyethylene layer which can be laminated with a film layer, can form a pinch bottom bag, and can have one or both sides include graphics and/or printing. The bag can also provide a top end and/or a bottom end either or both of which provide a discrete area which may contain discrete graphics and/or printing. The bag can also include a sealed closure that at least a portion of which can be easily peeled open with less force than the remainder of the sealed closure.
US10661955B2
An adhesive patch and method of use thereof for forming a plurality of stackable items into a vertically stacked load are described. The method may include delivering an aligned stack of items positioned on a pallet for eventual transportation while minimizing the misalignment of the stackable items.
US10661953B2
A receptacle holder (1)—consisting of a U-shaped base part (5) and a holder part (6) that closes the opening of the U-shaped base part, whereby the holder part (6) comprises a magnet, with a receptacle (2) with up to 50 ml fill level, consisting of a vial (3) and a closing part (4), wherein, a ferrous metal is arranged in the closing part (4) and the receptacle (2) is arrangeable on the first side (7) of the holder part (6) that faces towards the U-shaped base part.
US10661945B2
A sports bottle is described. The bottle includes a hollow body comprising a housing having a peripheral wall, a cylindrical drink holding chamber inside the peripheral wall; a plurality of mixing chamber in fluid communication with the drink holding chamber, each one of the mixing chambers being hemispherical chambers at opposed ends of the cylindrical drink holding chamber; and an outlet for dispensing drink from the drink holding chamber, the outlet being disposed on an outside of one of the mixing chambers and in fluid communication therewith. Also described is a sports bottle including a hollow body comprising a housing having a peripheral wall, a drink holding chamber inside the peripheral wall; an outlet for dispensing drink from the drink holding chamber, the outlet being disposed on an outside of the peripheral wall and in fluid communication with the drink holding chamber, a hold for storing solid nutrition supplements, the hold comprising a plurality of supplement chambers being separated from the drink holding chamber and disposed within the peripheral wall; and a supplement chamber selector to facilitate access through the peripheral wall to a selected one or more of the supplement chambers.
US10661943B2
A metallic container end closure is provided that generally comprises a primary pour opening and an extended or secondary score which is opened with a secondary tool to form a secondary pour opening. The fact that a secondary tool is required allows the secondary score to be shallower, and thus more secure than deeper scores that are openable by finger pressure alone. Once the secondary tool is used to fracture the secondary score, a secondary pour opening is produced adjacent to the primary pour opening to form a larger opening. A user may insert materials such as ice or oranges through the enlarged pour opening.
US10661939B2
Exemplary hot-fillable plastic containers are disclosed. In some embodiments, the containers may include a threaded neck portion, a body portion, and a base portion including a standing surface and a movable element. In some embodiments, the moveable element may be arranged to be recessed either substantially above, or substantially below, the standing surface in an initial pre-filling position.
US10661937B2
Disclosed is a container made of a plastic material, provided with a base including a standing ring forming a support flange and a diaphragm extending from the standing ring to a central portion, the diaphragm being capable of standing in an outwardly-inclined position. The diaphragm connects to the standing ring at an outer junction forming an outer articulation of the diaphragm. The diaphragm connects to the central portion at an inner junction forming an inner articulation of the diaphragm. The diaphragm is invertible with respect to the standing ring from the outwardly-inclined position to an inwardly-inclined position. In the outwardly-inclined position, the diaphragm has an outer curved portion and an inner curved portion of opposite curvatures.
US10661935B2
A labeling device for a syringe that includes a first labeling subsystem adapted to print a first label having machine readable information and a second labeling subsystem adapted to print a second label having human readable information is disclosed. The first labeling subsystem includes a label applicator adapted to automatically apply the first label to a portion of the syringe. The first labeling subsystem includes a syringe clamp assembly that securely holds the syringe while the label applicator automatically applies a first label to the syringe. The second labeling subsystem includes a removal device adapted to automatically remove a backing material from the second label.
US10661928B2
A lumber stacking and strapping system can provide a single-station solution for both lumber stacking and package strapping. In addition, the package strapping system may apply multiple straps simultaneously to the package. For example, a package stacking and strapping system can provide not only a mechanism for formulating a package of lumber one layer at a time, but also a mechanism for lowering a completed package directly into a compression and strapping station, such as using the lumber stacker package accumulation hoist. The stacking and strapping system can then simultaneously apply strapping around the package in multiple positions along the length of the package, with bottom battens and top corner protectors further supplied and strapped into place as desired. A method for stacking and strapping a package in a single location is also provided.
US10661926B2
An apparatus for thermally bonding together a cover film of an ophthalmic lens package and a base part of the package, including a carrier for supporting the base part with film arranged thereon; a bonding unit above the carrier having a mounting plate with a bonding stamp extending therefrom, the bonding stamp having a mounting portion fixedly attached to the mounting plate, a bonding head arranged beneath the mounting portion with a heatable bonding contour on a side of the bonding head facing the carrier, and an articulated connector arranged between and connecting the mounting portion and the bonding head; and an actuator for performing movement of the carrier and the bonding stamp towards and away from each other for thermally bonding the film with the base part by pressing the heated bonding contour against the film and subsequent separation of the bonding head from the cover film bonded to the base part, the articulated connector being a cardanic joint with two rotational axes.
US10661922B2
Method for forming a packaging (2) from a container (1) that has a body (5), a neck (8), and a bottom (6), the container (1) having a deformable zone (15) with an extended configuration in which the zone (15) projects toward the outside of the container (1), with a retracted configuration in which the zone (15) projects toward the inside of the container (1), with this method including the following operations: filling the container (1) with a hot product; closing in an airtight manner the thus filled container (1); measuring the temperature of the stoppered container (1); comparing the measured temperature to a preset threshold value; if the measured temperature is less than or equal to the threshold value, moving the deformable zone (15) back toward its retracted position.
US10661919B2
A docking simulator according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is a docking simulator capable of mimicking docking between two flight vehicles in a zero gravity environment, the docking simulator including: a passive module which is disposed at a preset position; and an active module which performs docking with the passive module by approaching the passive module while performing a translational motion. According to the present disclosure, the docking simulator capable of performing, on the ground, a logic verification test for rendezvous docking between the two flight vehicles in the space in the zero gravity environment is implemented, and as a result, it is possible to perform more various logic verification tests for rendezvous docking by mimicking the rendezvous docking by using actual objects.
US10661913B2
A hybrid ram air turbine assembly includes a turbine portion having a plurality of turbine blades connected to a turbine shaft via a hub. A pivot joint is connected to the turbine portion by a hydraulic pump and an electric generator. The hydraulic pump and the electric generator are in-line with each other, and the turbine shaft is connected to a generator input shaft via a first gear set.
US10661901B2
An economy class cabin with sleeping berths in a passenger aircraft, includes cabin floor, multi-tier sleeping berths, an air duct, an overhead bin, seats, a baggage storage place, a shoe storage place and multi-tier baggage racks. The multi-tier sleeping berths are disposed in parallel to longitudinal axis of the aircraft; a longitudinal partition board is disposed between two abreast sleeping berths; and two latitudinal partition boards are respectively disposed at two opposite ends of each of the sleeping berths and a private space is formed by the longitudinal partition board, two latitudinal partition boards, a bed cushion and a slidable curtain. The present invention has simple structure and reasonable utilization of compact space, enables all or some of passengers of the economy class to be in a lie-flat sleeping state in half of the time in intercontinental flight.
US10661900B2
An apparatus and kit for assembling a mobile platform and methods for making and using the same. When associated with a mobile platform, a power device can be installed outside a control device coupled with the mobile platform. The power device can be located outside a housing enclosing the mobile platform and exposed to an external operating environment of the mobile platform. Heat generated by the power device can be dissipated without installation of additional cooling equipment. The power device and the control device can thus have lower operating temperatures and longer lifetimes. The power device can be installed on a module associated with the mobile platform for further improving heat dissipation of the power device. The module optionally can function as a shock absorber for preventing damage to the power device in case the mobile platform is involved in a crash.
US10661898B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a body that supports one or more rotors, the one or more rotors each driven by a motor and configured to provide lift to the body. The UAV further includes a parts handler coupled to the body, the parts handler configured to grasp a payload, and rotate the payload with respect to an external structure to couple the payload to, or decouple the payload from, the external structure. The UAV includes a stabilizing mechanism extending from the body, the stabilizing mechanism configured to contact the external structure without transferring entire weight of the UAV to the external structure and prevent rotation of the body when the part-handler rotates the payload.
US10661897B2
An unmanned aircraft using a multi-axis thrust vectoring system in combination with a telescoping boom assembly to deposit or retrieve packages vertically or laterally from a safe distance to or from various locations including but not limited to lawns, patios, porches, balconies, and windows. Other embodiments are described.
US10661893B2
A lightweight flying vehicle includes a carrier body, at least two fan-tube propulsion devices, two steering devices and a flight wing. The fan-tube propulsion devices are respectively disposed at two opposite sides of the carrier body and have a sufficient propulsion force. The steering device is disposed on a moving line of the airflow discharged from the fan-tube propulsion devices and is configured to change a direction of the airflow discharged from the air discharge opening, so that the lightweight flying vehicle is in a high-speed flight mode. The flight wing can provide a lift power in the high-speed flight mode.
US10661885B2
A system for changing a shape a structural spar includes, in an exemplary embodiment, a plurality of adjoining structural strips axially aligned to form the structural spar. At least one of the structural strips is formed from a shape memory alloy. The system also includes a temperature control system to control a temperature of the at least one shape memory alloy strip. Heat applied to the at least one shape memory alloy strip causes the structural spar to twist or bend.
US10661880B2
One example of a fairing for a rotorcraft includes a core material, an inner housing on a side of the core material, an outer housing on another side of the core material opposite the inner housing, and a hinge. The hinge is configured to move the fairing between an open position and a closed position. In the open position, the inner housing is configured to receive a foot traffic load while the outer housing is configured to transfer the foot traffic load to a fuselage of the rotorcraft. In the closed position, the inner housing is configured to stow in a compartment of the rotorcraft while the outer housing is configured to provide an outer mold line of the rotorcraft in the closed position.
US10661879B2
An aircraft that includes a body that defines a cabin interior, a divider member that divides the cabin interior into a cargo hold and a passenger cabin, front and back rows of seats positioned in the passenger cabin, a forward door that is pivotable between a closed position and an open position, and an aft door that is pivotable between a closed position and an open position. Pivoting one of the forward door or the aft door from the closed to the open position causes the other of the forward door or the aft door to pivot from the closed position to the open position.
US10661873B2
A ship includes: a boil-off gas heat exchanger installed on a downstream of a storage tank and heat-exchanges a compressed boil-off gas (“a first fluid”) by a boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank as a refrigerant, to cool the boil-off gas; a compressor installed on a downstream of the boil-off gas heat exchanger and compresses a part of the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank; an extra compressor installed on a downstream of the boil-off gas heat exchanger and in parallel with the compressor and compresses the other part of the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank; a refrigerant heat exchanger which additionally cools the first fluid which is cooled by the boil-off gas heat exchanger; and a refrigerant decompressing device which expands a second fluid, which is sent to the refrigerant heat exchanger, and then sends the second fluid back to the refrigerant heat exchanger.
US10661871B2
A watercraft includes a transversely leftward moving switch and a transversely rightward moving switch attached to a steering wheel. A controller is configured or programmed to control a marine propulsion device so as to move a vessel body of the watercraft transversely leftward when the transversely leftward moving switch is operated. The controller is configured or programmed to control the marine propulsion device so as to move the vessel body transversely rightward when the transversely rightward moving switch is operated.
US10661868B2
A vessel propulsion apparatus includes a propulsive force generator including a duct and a propeller. The duct includes a stator. The propeller includes a rim that includes a rotor disposed at a position facing the stator, and a blade on an inner side in a radial direction of the rim. The vessel propulsion apparatus further includes a steering shaft that turnably supports the duct, a motor controller that rotationally drives an electric motor including the stator and the propeller in forward and reverse rotation directions, a turning mechanism that turns the duct in a full turning angle range including a range of ±180 degrees, and a turning angle range limiter that limits a turning angle range of the turning mechanism to a reduced turning angle range narrower than the full turning angle range, and when a predetermined limitation cancellation condition is met, cancels the limitation and allows turning in a turning angle range wider than the reduced turning angle range.
US10661866B1
A mounting system allows one or more accessories to be removably attached to a SCUBA demand regulator system. A clamp encircles a portion of an air hose subsystem, the clamp having a threaded screw extending therefrom. An accessory is threadably attached to this screw. An extender arm can be sandwiched between this attached accessory and the clamp such that the extender arm has a second threaded screw that threadably receives a second accessory thereonto. One accessory may be a buckle mount that has a mounting surface on one side and a threaded receiver that threadably attaches to one of the screws and is rotated thereonto via a lock down wheel rotatably disposed within the buckle mount. A buoyancy assist subsystem creates either neutral or positive buoyancy to the invention when accessories are mounted.
US10661859B2
A lever apparatus includes a lever operated by a user, a biasing member that is a source of an operation reaction force of the lever, and a linkage mechanism configured to link the lever and the biasing member. The linkage mechanism includes a lever-side rotating body pivoted according to pivoting of the lever, and a biasing member-side rotating body engaged with lever-side rotating body and installed closer to the biasing member than the lever-side rotating body. The linkage mechanism varies a ratio of a variation of a rotation angle of the biasing member-side rotating body to a variation of a rotation angle of the lever-side rotating body according to an operation amount of the lever.
US10661858B2
An electric-motor-assisted bicycle includes a vehicle-body frame and a drive unit including two couplers. The vehicle-body frame includes a bracket and a pair of chain stays. The drive unit is attached to the bracket. Each of the chain stays is attached to a position on the bracket rearward of a crank axle in the front/rear direction of the bicycle. One coupler is forward of the crank axle in the front/rear direction of the bicycle. The other coupler is rearward of the crank axle in the front/rear direction of the bicycle. At least one of a region of the bracket to which the chain stay is attached and a region of the bracket to which the other coupler is attached does not overlap a line segment connecting a shaft center of the axle of the rear wheel to a shaft center of the crank axle.
US10661857B2
A drive mode selection device for selecting a drive mode of an assistance device that assists a user by generating motive power using electric power from a battery, and that can be driven in a plurality of drive modes having different outputs, the drive mode selection device comprises a task information acquisition unit configured to acquire task information, which is information relating to a predetermined task to be executed by the assistance device; a remaining charge acquisition unit configured to acquire a remaining charge of the battery; a power estimation unit configured to estimate a power amount discrepancy on the basis of the task information and the remaining charge of the battery; and a mode selection unit configured to select the drive mode on the basis of the estimation result.
US10661843B1
The pickup truck with drop-down side panels is a truck with side walls and a tailgate that may be raised and lowered to transform the truck between a pickup truck and a flatbed truck. The drop down left side panel, drop down right side panel, and drop down tailgate each comprise one or more height adjusters. An individual height adjuster may comprise a track gear coupled to the panel to be moved, a motor coupled to the chassis of the truck, and a drive gear coupled to the shaft of the motor. The teeth of the track gear mesh with the teeth of the drive gear such that rotation of the motor in a first diction lowers the panel to a down position and rotation of the motor in a second direction lifts the panel to an up position.
US10661841B2
A side vehicle body reinforcing structure is provided to improve efficiency of load transferring and performance against a vehicle collision. The structure includes a center floor panel that forms a bottom surface of a vehicle body and a battery case coupled to a lower surface of the panel. A side sill is coupled with both sides of the panel in a width direction to be disposed at both sides of the battery case, and has a cross-section formed in a box shape and extends in a front and rear direction of a vehicle body. A seat cross member has a lower end coupled with the panel, and crosses the panel in a width direction to be coupled with the side sill. A pipe nut extends vertically to sequentially penetrate the battery case, the side sill, the panel, and the seat cross member and is fixed to the battery case.
US10661837B2
A system for attaching a door to the body of a vehicle includes an inner pillar stiffener, an outer pillar stiffener laterally outward from the inner pillar stiffener, and an outer panel laterally outward from the outer panel stiffener. The system has a standoff structure located between the outer pillar stiffener and the outer panel, a door hinge, hinge bolts for fastening the door hinge to the standoff structure, the hinge bolts received through holes in the outer panel, the holes in the standoff structure, the holes in the outer pillar stiffener, and plate nuts for securing the hinge bolts to the outer pillar stiffener. The standoff structure includes a cup-shaped body having a bottom portion, a sidewall portion, and an edge, a flange extending around the edge of the cup-shaped body, holes in the cup-shaped body, and weld collars extending inward from the holes to the outer pillar stiffener.
US10661834B2
A vehicle front structure includes side rails, rail tips, and a tension member. The side rails extend longitudinally in a front portion of the vehicle on left and right sides of a central longitudinal axis of the vehicle. The rail tips have a plurality of flat walls that define a hollow polygonal body disposed about a tip axis. The rail tips have proximal and distal ends. The proximal end is fixedly coupled to a forward terminal end of the side rail inboard of an outer quarter of a total vehicle width. The rail tip extends outboard and forward such that the distal end is disposed within the outer quarter. The flat walls have a forward wall thickness that is less than a rearward wall thickness. The tension member is fixedly coupled to the distal ends and spans laterally therebetween.
US10661831B2
A steering system is provided for an agricultural vehicle having steerable wheels of a first wheel set, first and second steerable wheels of a second wheel set, and a steering input device configured to receive a manual steering input for the wheels of the first wheel set. The steering system includes first and second hydraulic steering devices coupled to the first and second steerable wheels of the second wheel set; a valve assembly configured to hydraulically control the hydraulic steering devices to steer the wheels of the second wheel set; and a controller configured to determine steering commands and provide the steering commands to the valve assembly. In a rear stability mode, the valve assembly is configured to selectively dampen fluid flow between the first and second hydraulic steering devices.
US10661830B1
Methods, apparatus, and systems for detecting and compensating for yaw orientation error or misalignment of an IMU in a vehicle navigation system. Acceleration measurements available from the IMU can be used for fast, reliable, and compact estimation of alignment error whether or not the IMU and fixed-body frames share an origin or not. The detection can be included in a navigation solution for guidance and control systems of a vehicle without having to utilize other measurements such as GPS.
US10661808B2
The Dynamic Vehicle Separation System (DVSS) according to the present application allows properly equipped vehicles in traffic to maintain safe and optimal separation distances (i.e., following distances), which are automatically and continually calculated based on numerous criteria. Vehicles are equipped with Dynamic Vehicle Separation Controllers (DVSCs) that communicate with each other to maintain proper separation distances among the vehicles.
US10661801B2
A transmission controller gives an engagement instruction to a forward clutch so that the forward clutch is engaged when a rotation speed of the engine becomes a target engine rotation speed set on the basis at least of a vehicle speed and a speed ratio of a continuously variable transmission after the engine is started, if a cancellation request for a sailing-stop control is made during execution of the sailing-stop control, and the continuously variable transmission is downshifted before the forward clutch is engaged, if the target engine rotation speed when the cancellation request for the sailing-stop control is made is less than a first predetermined value.
US10661796B2
A lane deviation prevention control device for a vehicle includes a target steering torque calculator, a rate limit processor, and a rate limit value calculator. The target steering torque calculator calculates target steering torque to be applied to a steering system of an own vehicle in a lane deviation prevention control. The lane deviation prevention control includes preventing the own vehicle from deviating from a lane on which the own vehicle is traveling. The rate limit processor performs rate limit processing. The rate limit processing includes limiting a speed of change in the target steering torque to a rate limit value. The rate limit value calculator calculates the rate limit value in accordance with a deviation state of the own vehicle from the lane.
US10661795B1
A device can receive data related to a roadway. The data can include video data of the roadway. The device can determine a pixel area of objects shown in the video data. The device can determine that a vehicle and an individual are associated with the roadway at a same time. The device can determine a protective zone around the individual based on a first pixel area of the individual. The protective zone can be associated with detecting a potential collision between the vehicle and the individual. The device can determine a first location and movement of the vehicle relative to a second location and movement of the individual. The device can predict that a second pixel area of the vehicle is to intersect the protective zone of the individual. The device can detect the potential collision. The device can perform one or more actions.
US10661793B2
A vehicle control apparatus includes a collision time calculation section configured to calculate a time-to-collision; an activation region setting section configured to set an activation region to an area present ahead of and in the travelling direction of an own vehicle, the activation region having a predetermined width in a lateral direction that is orthogonal to a path of the own vehicle; a timing setting section configured to set timing activating a safety device; a determination region setting section configured to set a determination region to an area present diagonally ahead of and in the travelling direction of the own vehicle, the determination region having a predetermined width in the lateral direction; a timer section configured to measure a time for which a target stays in the determination region; a correction section configured to perform, in a case where the time measured by the timer section is long, a process for decreasing the width of the activation region and a process for decreasing activation timing; and an activation determination section configured to activate the safety device in a case where a position of the target is in the activation region and the time-to-collision falls below the activation timing.
US10661788B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle control device for a vehicle, comprising a number of first control devices which are independent of each other and are arranged in a first logical level and designed to calculate predetermined first vehicle control functions and to output first calculation results, a number of further control devices which are independent of each other, are arranged in a number which is superordinate from the first logical level and hierarchically arranged among each other and are designed to calculate further predetermined vehicle control functions and to output further calculation results. According to the invention, the further control devices are designed to use calculation results only of those control devices as input variables for the corresponding vehicle control functions which are arranged in logical levels hierarchically below the logical level of the respective control device.
US10661785B2
A vehicle chassis control system may include a target calculation module, brake control module, suspension control module, and tire pressure control module. The target calculation module calculates a target brake torque, a target vertical force, and a target tire pressure associated with the wheel of a vehicle. The brake control module adjusts brake torque applied to the wheel based on a comparison of the target brake torque and an estimated current brake torque. The suspension control module adjusts vertical force applied to the wheel based on a comparison of the target vertical force and an estimated current vertical force. The tire pressure control module adjusts tire pressure in the wheel based on a comparison of the target tire pressure and a measured tire pressure.
US10661782B2
An operation control system for a hybrid vehicle capable of causing the vehicle to travel in parallel mode in which front wheels of the vehicle are driven by an engine and a front motor, capable of fuel cut control to stop fuel supply to the engine during deceleration of the vehicle, and capable of regenerative braking using the front motor, wherein when the vehicle traveling in parallel mode is to be decelerated and SOC of a traction battery is lower than or equal to an electricity-generation determination lower limit value Sbu, Sbd, a hybrid control unit performs first charging promotion control to brake the vehicle by regenerative braking while causing the engine to continue operating by continuing fuel supply.
US10661774B2
A method is provided for increasing the operational safety of at least one thermally stressed functional part of at least one vehicle brake, in particular of a commercial vehicle and/or a trailer, and/or for reducing brake wear and/or drive power, wherein the method has the following steps: inputting a temperature signal of the at least one brake, which temperature signal represents at least one temperature of the brake and/or of a functional part of the brake detected by at least one sensor, and inputting a brake request signal and/or brake pressure signal for the at least one brake; determining a thermal error condition by using the temperature signal and the brake requirement signal and/or brake pressure signal; and providing an adapted brake requirement signal and/or adapted brake pressure signal using the determined thermal error condition in order to increase the operational safety of the at least one functional part of the at least one vehicle brake exposed to thermal stress, and/or to reduce the brake wear and/or the drive power.
US10661766B2
A braking system of a work machine includes a pressurized fluid supply, a base valve fluidly coupled to the supply, a proportional control valve fluidly coupled to the supply, and a fluid output configured to be fluidly coupled to a braking system of a trailer. A first fluid path is selectively fluidly coupling the supply to the fluid output via the base valve, and a second fluid path is selectively fluidly coupling the supply to the fluid output via the proportional control valve. The base valve includes a predefined fixed gain and the proportional control valve includes an adjustable ratio.
US10661765B2
A control device for a controllable brake booster of a braking system is configured to: establish a setpoint variable regarding a setpoint operation to be carried out with the aid of the controllable brake booster, under consideration of a provided specified variable regarding a setpoint pressure to be set in a partial volume of the braking system; establish a setpoint difference of the setpoint variable, under consideration of the specified variable and an actual variable regarding an actual pressure present in a subarea of the braking system, to establish a corrected setpoint variable taking the established setpoint difference into consideration; and output a control signal which corresponds to the established corrected setpoint variable to the controllable brake booster and/or to the power supply component of the controllable brake booster.
US10661763B2
An apparatus providing rotational power to the crank shaft actuating the lowering and raising of legs for supporting a load bearing vehicle. The apparatus includes a means for providing rotational force to the crank shaft comprising a battery powered motorized drill having a drive shaft having a plurality of rotational directions, and a motor housing. Also included is a crank shaft coupler adapted for removable attachment to the crank shaft, comprising an adaptor end having a non-round cross-section, and an attachment end defining a cavity snugly accepting the crank shaft and including a pair of apertures aligned with a transverse bore through the crank shaft through which a lock pin is inserted. Also included is a drive shaft coupler for coupling said drive shaft to said crank shaft coupler, comprising a shank end tightly accepted within the chuck of said drill, and a coupler end defining a cavity snugly accepting said adaptor end having a non-round cross-section; also a means for preventing rotation of said means for providing rotational force to the crank shaft comprising a bridge between said motor housing and the load bearing vehicle, said housing including at least one lateral handle having a distal end supporting a bridge arm for contacting the load bearing vehicle and preventing rotation of said drill.
US10661737B2
An energy storage apparatus includes: an energy storage device which is connected to a vehicle load and a vehicle power generator; a current interrupt device that causes the energy storage device and the vehicle load as well as the energy storage device and the vehicle power generator to be in a conduction state or in an interruption state; a voltage detection unit that detects voltage of the energy storage device; and a control unit. The control unit executes: a switching instruction process in which, when determining that the electric storage device will reach an overcharge state on the basis of the voltage, the control unit issues an interruption switching instruction to the current interrupt device; and an interruption maintaining process in which, when the number of times of the switching instruction process exceeds a predetermined value, the control unit issues an instruction to maintain the interruption state.
US10661730B2
A multi-core cable for vehicle includes two power wires, two signal wires, two electric wires, and a sheath. The two power wires have the same size and are made of the same material. The two signal wires have the same size and are made of the same material, and a pair of the two signal wires is twisted and is configured a twisted pair of signal wires. The two electric wires have the same size and are made of the same material, and a pair of the electric wires is twisted and is configured as a twisted pair of electric wires. The two power wires, the twisted pair of signal wires and the twisted pair of electric wires are stranded.
US10661728B2
A license plate support mechanism is equipped with an attachment portion to which a license plate can be attached, a fixation portion fixating the attachment portion to a vehicle body, and a switching mechanism. The switching mechanism couples the attachment portion to the fixation portion such that the attachment portion is capable of displacing relative to the fixation portion. The switching mechanism also enables the attachment portion to switch between a storage position, in which the attachment portion is stored on a left/right direction inward side of a left/right pair of rear wheel fenders, and a display position, in which the attachment portion is positioned on the left/right direction outward side of the left/right pair of rear wheel fenders.
US10661716B2
An electrically variable reflectance mirror reflective element includes front and rear glass substrates with an electrochromic medium disposed therebetween and bounded by a perimeter seal. A perimeter layer is disposed at a second surface of the front substrate proximate a perimeter edge of the front substrate. The perimeter layer conceals the perimeter seal from view by a driver of a vehicle. No part of the rear substrate extends beyond any part of the front substrate. At least a portion of the mirror reflector disposed at at least a portion of the third surface of the rear substrate extends from under the perimeter seal outward towards at least a portion of the perimeter edge of the rear substrate. The mirror reflector includes a stack of thin films that includes at least a first metal thin film and a second metal thin film.
US10661711B2
A warning output device includes a rear sensor unit and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to, when a shift position is an R range, based on information from the sensor unit indicating that a first obstacle is detected, output a warning for informing an occupant of the presence of the first obstacle, in a first state, output first predetermined warning display and first predetermined warning sound; and in a second state, output second predetermined warning display and second predetermined warning sound. The ECU is configured to, in the second state, output the second predetermined warning sound for a predetermined time, then stop the output of the second predetermined warning sound, and output the second predetermined warning display for a longer time than the second predetermined warning sound.
US10661707B2
Instead of binary brake lights on a car, the present disclosure provides methods and apparatus to provide an indicator of brake magnitude of the car. A pressure sensor, accelerometer, or other device capable of approximating the magnitude of a braking force is coupled to a control module, which itself is coupled to auxiliary lights mounted on the car. These auxiliary lights are capable of displaying a pulse, color, or a pattern correlated to the magnitude of the braking force. This gives drivers behind the car an indication of how quickly to respond to a braking car.
US10661705B2
An exterior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a turn signal unit having a housing, a light source and a lens disposed in front of the light source and attached at the housing. The turn signal unit includes an aperture element disposed between the light source and the lens, and includes a film disposed between the lens and the housing so as to be in front of the light source. With the exterior rearview mirror assembly disposed at a side of the vehicle, light emitted by the light source, when powered, passes through the film and through an aperture of the aperture element and through the lens in the forward direction of travel of the equipped vehicle. The film includes structured sections such that light emitted by the light source, when powered, passes through the structured sections of the film and forms an illuminated logo.
US10661698B2
The present invention is a multi-use dynamically reconfigurable vehicle, used for vehicle/ride sharing with integral yet reconfigurable for optimal passenger or courier service by reconfiguring the vehicle interior space and/or body shape specific to the vehicle service to create additional space respectively for the transport of passengers or cargo/boxes. The vehicle is particularly adept at reconfiguration with compatibility of an external automated process to load/unload its cargo while also enabling a high aerodynamic efficiency while in a driving mode.
US10661697B2
A cargo carrier for portable rumble strips is mountable to a hitch assembly for a vehicle. The cargo carrier includes a basket configured to receive and retain a portable rumble strip for storage and transport, and a mounting assembly that includes a pintle adapted to be received in a receiver of a hitch assembly mountable to a vehicle. The basket has a frame that includes frame elements that define a bottom wall, relatively long front and back walls, and relatively short side walls that connect the front wall and the back wall. The front, back, and side walls extend from respective sides of the bottom wall in a common direction. And the basket further includes a rotating element at the top of at least one of the side walls to facilitate drawing rumble strips lengthwise over the side wall into or out of the basket.
US10661696B2
A vehicle insert with refrigerated and non refrigerated sections for facilitating product distribution is described which uses a pair of frames defining a vertical member and one or more horizontal members. Several shelves with rollers are attached to the frames. The shelves define a sloped area wherein the lowest point on the shelves is located at a product retrieval point and wherein said insert is wheeled into a vehicle already loaded with product to be delivered.
US10661695B2
A pivot assembly is disclosed. The pivot assembly may include plates. The plates may be connected to cover plates associated with respective portions of a stringer that intersect the pivot assembly. The plates may be connected to a rib that interests the pivot assembly perpendicular to the respective portions of the stringer. The cover plates may be connected to the rib at a respective end of the cover plates. The pivot assembly may comprise a respective pivot bore in the plates. The pivot assembly may comprise respective doublers around the respective pivot bore. The respective doublers may include a first doubler located on an outside surface of a plate, of the plates, and a second doubler located on an inside surface of the plate. The pivot assembly may comprise gussets. The gussets may be connected to the second doubler, the plates, and a respective cover plate of the cover plates.
US10661690B2
A vehicle seat including: a seat pad capable of elastically supporting an occupant, the seat pad having a seating portion that allows the occupant to seat on a front surface thereof, and the seating portion is divided in a seat width direction into a first region, a second region, and a central region formed between the first and the second region, the first region and the second region being capable of being concave-deformed toward a back surface of the seat pad opposite to the front surface when pressed by the occupant in a seating state, and in a free state where the seating portion is not pressed, a central region part in the central region arranged between the first and the second region that are to be concave-deformed has a shape concaved toward the back surface of the seat pad as compared to the first and the second region.
US10661687B2
An adjustable child device includes a first seat portion, a second seat portion and a belt engaging element. The second seat portion is foldable relative to the first seat portion between an unfolded position and a folded position and at least partially received in the first seat portion when the second seat portion is located at the folded position. The second seat portion and the first seat portion are located on a horizontal plane to form a seat part when the second seat portion is located at the unfolded position. A positioning protrusion is formed on a lateral side of the seat part. The belt engaging element is installed on a lateral side of the seat part. A positioning recess is formed on the belt engaging element for engaging with the positioning protrusion. The adjustable child device can be folded when it is not in use, which saves storage space.
US10661684B2
An adjustment assembly or mechanism that permits adjustment of the height and angle of tilt of a vehicle seat includes front and rear latch gears with multiple cogs corresponding to discrete angular positions of the latch gears and consequently discrete heights of the front and rear of the adjustment assembly. The front latch gears pivot about a fixed pivot axis while the rear latch gears pivot about a sliding pivot axis to accommodate tilt angles for the seat. Torsion springs bias the four latch gears to a maximum rotation or pivot position in which the respective ends of the seat are at their highest vertical position. A spindle engages the cogs of the latch gears to hold the latch gears in a particular discrete angular position. Separate front and rear manual actuation levers at the front of the seat can be lifted to release a respective front and rear spindle from a particular cog and allow the driver to adjust the seat position. The independent front and rear adjustment mechanisms allow the driver to place the seat in a wide range of heights and tilt angles, including forward and rearward tilt angles.
US10661681B2
A system for automatic positioning of a railway overhead line comprising: a mechanical arm (12); a first hooking device (31) that can be fixed to the end of the mechanical arm (12); a mast (40) for positioning an overhead line; a second fixed hooking device (41), which is fixed to the mast (40) and can be fixed to the first hooking device (31); the mast (40) comprising at least one horizontal arm (52), set on which is a set of rollers (53), with roller head, for correct positioning of an overhead line.
US10661657B2
A PI/PID controller that generates a torque compensation value KPID through PI control or PID control, from a deviation between an allowable rotation speed and a rotation speed of a wheel; an adder that adds the torque compensation value to a torque command input value received from a higher-order controller, thereby obtaining a torque command output value; and a dead time compensator that has a control target model including a dead time and that applies a dead time compensation in generation of the torque compensation value by the Smith method. An input to the dead time compensator is an output of a P compensation or a PD compensation excluding an I compensation from a PI compensation or a PID compensation.
US10661644B1
A weatherseal assembly and associated method of forming same includes a generally U-shaped body including a base and first and second legs extending outwardly therefrom to form a glassrun cavity dimensioned to receive an associated window edge therein. First and second seal lips extend from the first and second legs, respectively, for engagement with opposed, first and second surfaces of the associated window. A first material is a stiffer, more rigid material than a second material that forms at least a portion of the second leg and the seal lips, such that at least a first portion of the first material forms the first leg extending outwardly from the base such that the first leg has a reduced thickness to provide a flush assembly of the weatherseal assembly, associated window and associated vehicle component.
US10661640B2
A resin back door for a vehicle includes a resin inner panel, a resin lower outer panel, a metal left reinforcing member, and a damper stay bracket. The metal left reinforcing member is disposed in a hollow space defined by the inner panel and the lower outer panel, and is fixed to the inner panel with an adhesive leaving a gap. The damper stay bracket is attached on an outer side of the inner panel in a vehicle width direction. In the resin back door for a vehicle, the damper stay bracket is fastened to the left reinforcing member across a collar having one end inserted into a hole provided in the inner panel.
US10661635B2
A vehicle air-conditioning unit includes an air-conditioning case and an inside/outside air switching door that is configured to change a ratio of a flow rate of an inside air to a flow rate of an outside air in an air introduced into the air-conditioning case. The vehicle air-conditioning unit includes a cooler that is disposed in the air-conditioning case, and a blower that is located downstream of the cooler and sends the air to a vehicle compartment. The air-conditioning case includes a drain pipe located downstream of the cooler, the drain pipe having a tube shape through which a condensed water generated on the cooler is drained out of the air-conditioning case. The cooler is located on an extended line of a centerline of the drain pipe such that a suction air drawn through the drain pipe into the air-conditioning case flows along the cooler.
US10661629B2
A method for controlling the temperature in a vehicle cabin, while the vehicle engine is turned off, includes the following steps: importing a State-of Charge information of a vehicle traction battery, an outside temperature, and inside temperature of the cabin into an electronic controller; calculating a normal electric power required for operating an HVAC system in a Normal mode; calculating a maximum operation time of the HVAC system in the Normal mode based on the State-of-Charge information; displaying the maximum operation time on a display; reading an operator input selecting one mode of at least the Normal mode and a first Eco mode of the HVAC system, wherein in the first Eco mode the HVAC system operates at a reduced electric power compared to the Normal mode; and operating the HVAC system in accordance with the operator input. A suitable HVAC system includes an appropriate user interface.
US10661623B2
A multi-modal vehicle includes a main fuselage body; one or more wings extending from the main fuselage body and having a shape configured to provide aerodynamic lift when the vehicle travels through the air and hydrodynamic lift when the vehicle travels through the water; and a buoyancy control engine situated within the vehicle and configured to control the buoyancy of the vehicle relative to surrounding water when the vehicle is submerged in water, thereby providing a buoyancy force to selectively propel the vehicle upwards and downwards, respectively, through the water.
US10661621B2
A fifth wheel hitch assembly is provided that includes a mounting bracket adapted to support a fifth wheel hitch plate and having a substantially vertical surface, a vehicle frame rail having a substantially horizontal portion and a substantially vertical portion; and a support bracket having a first portion secured to the substantially vertical portion of the vehicle frame rail and a second portion secured to the substantially vertical surface of the mounting bracket, and having a plurality of mounting positions spaced longitudinally along the support bracket from one another, wherein the mounting bracket is releasably secured to less than a total number of the mounting positions.
US10661615B2
Method for the configuration of a tyre pressure sensor (10) for a vehicle (100), comprising the following steps: production of a data communication connection (20) between a mobile radio device (30) and a tyre pressure sensor (10), selection of at least one specific sensor parameter (40) for the vehicle (100) via a mobile radio device (30), activation of the at least one selected sensor parameter (40) in the tyre pressure sensor (10).
US10661614B2
An apparatus for measuring the pressure of a two-wheeler tire comprises: an adapter component which comprises a joining mechanism to connect the apparatus to a valve of the two-wheeler tire; a valve opener to open the valve so that in a state connected to the valve pressurized air flows from the two-wheeler tire through the valve into the until the which can be connected to the adapter component; and a sensor component which can be connected to the adapter component. The sensor component comprises a pressure measurement device to measure the pressure in the apparatus and a transmitter to wirelessly transmit information corresponding to the measured pressure.
US10661602B2
A method and system for improving the strength, functionality and wear-resistance of a composite hybrid wheel is disclosed. Each spoke may define an airfoil shape and have a secondary wing-like extension attached thereto to generate airflow past the vehicle brakes during vehicle operation. Alternatively, the spokes may be shaped in cross-section as either an I-beam or an H-beam configuration. Customer-interchangeable wheel inserts formed from a reinforced polymerized material, such as a long carbon fiber reinforced composite, are strategically attached to one or more of the spokes. The inserts are used to enhance the aesthetic appeal of the wheel, increase its structural integrity and provide easy interchangeability in the event of damage. A faux bead composite lock ring also formed of a reinforced polymerized material such as a long carbon fiber reinforced composite can be attached to the wheel spokes to cover the composite rim flange.
US10661598B2
An article includes having a braided fiber having a first end and a second end, and a rod having a first end and a second end, whereby the first end of the rod is threaded and wherein the second end of the rod is disposed inside the first end of the braided fiber.
US10661590B2
A method is provided for printing on hollow bodies in which the hollow bodies are printed on in a decorator having a rotating segment wheel. Printing ink provided by multiple different plate cylinders and inking units are each collected on printing blankets arranged one after another on the circumference of the segment wheel. The plate cylinders and inking units involved in the printing are arranged and set in such a way that, when printing on the hollow body, an iris print is, or at least can be implemented.
US10661588B2
An image forming apparatus includes a carriage which is movably provided in a main scanning direction, a sub-carriage which is movably supported in a sub-scanning direction substantially orthogonal to the main scanning direction with respect to the carriage and performs recording on a recording medium from a held recording head, and a biasing member which is attached to a locking portion of the carriage and a locking portion of the sub-carriage and applies a force to the sub-carriage with respect to the carriage in three directions of the main scanning direction (first direction), the sub-scanning direction (second direction), and a vertical direction (third direction) substantially orthogonal to the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction.
US10661587B2
A method for creating a test pattern includes creating a reference ruled line set by ejecting ink from a nozzle formed in a first print tip among a plurality of print tips, and creating a measurement ruled line set by ejecting ink from a nozzle formed in a second print tip among the plurality of print tips. A ruled line in the reference ruled line set and a ruled line in the measurement ruled line set whose positions align in a secondary scan direction when no impact displacement is present in the secondary scan direction are designated as specified ruled lines. The test pattern is created such that spacings between the ruled lines within the reference ruled line set and spacings between the ruled lines within the measurement ruled line set increase on progression in the secondary scan direction away from the specified ruled lines.
US10661579B2
A printing apparatus comprises: a transport mechanism that transports a recording medium; a first line head group including a first line head in number of N that ejects first ink; a second line head group including a second line head in number of M that ejects second ink; and a controller, where M is a natural number larger than N. The line heads form images along lines extending in a width direction along a surface of the recording medium by ejecting ink droplets from a plurality of nozzles aligned in the width direction. In a first printing step, the controller makes each of the first line head in number of N perform printing process on every N-th line, while making each of the second line heads in number of M perform the printing process on every M-th line.
US10661578B2
A printing apparatus which includes a circulation route configured to supply ink stored in a storage unit to a print head via a supply passage and send back the ink collected from the print head to the storage unit via a collection passage and which performs printing on a print medium by ejecting the ink from the print head includes: a first detection unit which detects an ink concentration in the collection passage; an injection unit which injects a correcting liquid capable of correcting the ink concentration into a circulated ink flow downstream of a position where the first detection unit detects the concentration in the collection passage; and a control unit which obtains an injection amount of the correcting liquid based on the concentration detected by the first detection unit and controls the injection unit such that the correcting liquid is injected in the injection amount.
US10661567B2
Printheads and methods of fabricating printheads are disclosed. An example printhead includes a substrate and a printhead die disposed on a surface of the substrate, where a top surface of the printhead die projects a first distance from the surface of the substrate. The example printhead also includes a barrier at least partially surrounding the printhead die. A top surface of the barrier projects a second distance from the surface of the substrate, where the first distance is less than the second distance.
US10661561B2
An electrostatic deflection inkjet printer has a main printer body separated by a vapor barrier into an electrical region and a fluid region. Electrically operated valves are provided in the fluid region. Control circuitry for deciding when to operate the valves is provided in the electrical region. Valve drive circuitry, for generating drive currents for the valves, is provided in the fluid region and is in data communication with the control circuitry via wiring, which may be a serial bus, that passes through the vapor barrier. This reduces the number of electrical connections that need to pass through the vapor barrier. A circuit carrier for the valve drive circuitry may be mounted on a valve block for the valves, and an electrically insulating material may cover the circuit carrier. The electrically insulating material may extend partially or wholly around the valve block.
US10661544B2
An application method of applying a film F having a main portion 71, an extended portion 72 connected to a first end 71x of the main portion 71, and an extended portion 73 connected to a second end 71y opposing the first end 71x in the main portion 71 to a base material by an application device having an application mechanism, including the steps of: pressing the extended portion 72 using the application mechanism; applying the main portion 71 to the base material by moving the application mechanism that presses the extended portion 72 from the extended portion 72 to the extended portion 73 via the main portion 71; and stopping the application mechanism moved to the extended portion 73 and separating the application mechanism from the extended portion 73.
US10661540B2
The disclosure provides a multilayer blown film for stretch hood made from or containing a layer made from or containing a first polyolefin composition made from or containing from 20 wt % to 80 wt %, based upon the total weight of the first polyolefin composition, of Component A) and from 20 wt % to 80 wt %, based upon the total weight of the first polyolefin composition, of Component B); wherein Component A) is an ethylene copolymer and Component B) is a polyolefin composition made from or containing: (i) 5-35% by weight, based upon the total weight of Component B, of a propylene homopolymer or a propylene ethylene copolymer (ii) 20-50% by weight, based upon the total weight of Component B, of a copolymer of ethylene and a C3-C8 alpha-olefin; and (iii) 30-60% by weight, based upon the total weight of Component B, of a copolymer of ethylene and propylene.
US10661537B2
[Problem] To provide a biaxially drawn colored polyester film for laminating and forming metal sheet that: exhibits excellent formability such that even under severe processing or high-temperature heat treatments, the film is prevented from chipping or cracks during forming into a can etc.; and yields formed articles such as cans that have excellent concealability, appearance, and printability.[Solution] The invention is arrived at using a biaxially drawn colored polyester film for laminating and forming metal sheet. Said film comprising at least two layers of: a surface layer (layer A) mainly composed of a polyester having a melting point TmA of 230 to 260° C., layer A having a coloring pigment with an amount of 10 wt % or less, a polymer component with intrinsic viscosity of 0.46 or more, and a water contact angle of 70 to 120° on an outer surface; and a substrate layer (layer B) mainly composed of a polyester having a melting point TmB of 230 to 260° C. and a coloring pigment, layer B having a polymer component with intrinsic viscosity of 0.46 or more and the coloring pigment with an amount of more than 10 wt % and 50 wt % or less; wherein |TmB−TmA| is 4° C. or less.
US10661530B2
Methods and apparatus to couple a decorative layer to a panel via a high-bond adhesive layer are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a panel, a high-bond adhesive layer fixed to the panel, a liner fixed to the high-bond adhesive layer that is fixed to the panel, and a first decorative layer removably coupled to the liner that is fixed to the high-bond adhesive layer via a second adhesive layer. The high-bond adhesive layer is to impede at least one of gas or vapor from escaping the panel to deter the at least one of gas or vapor from exerting a pressure on the first decorative layer to deter a portion of the first decorative layer from separating from the panel.
US10661527B2
An insulating structure for an appliance includes an outer layer and an inner layer, wherein an insulating cavity is defined therebetween. A plurality of hollow nano-spheres are disposed within the insulating cavity, wherein each of the hollow nano-spheres includes a diameter in the range of from approximately 50 nanometers to approximately 1000 nanometers and has a wall that defines the internal space, and wherein the wall of each hollow nano-sphere has a thickness that is in a range of from approximately 0.5 nanometers to approximately 100 nanometers. A fill material is disposed in the insulating cavity and wherein the fill material is disposed in the space defined between the plurality of hollow nano-spheres, and wherein the fill material includes at least one of powdered silica, granulated silica, other silica material, aerogel and insulating gas.
US10661525B2
The present disclosure provides a curved film for a mobile phone. The curved film from top to bottom includes in sequence a curved glass layer, a thermoplastic urethane (TPU) layer, an explosion-proof film and an adhesive layer. The technical scheme provided by the present disclosure has benefits of shock proofing and low cost.
US10661522B2
A multilayer-type sheet processing apparatus includes processing units. Each of the processing units includes first guide members extending in an X-direction, first moving bodies arranged on the first guide members, second guide members supported to the first moving bodies and extending in a Y-direction, second moving bodies arranged on the second guide members, Y-drive mechanisms configured to drive the second moving bodies along the second guide members, work areas each arranged in a plane including the X- and Y-directions, and tools, which are arranged in the second moving bodies to be able to move close to and separate away from the work areas, and are each configured to form a processing line on a sheet arranged on a work area. The first moving body that is moved by the X-drive mechanism and the first moving bodies of the other units are coupled to each other.
US10661519B2
A bead core formation apparatus includes a rubber coating device that coats a circumferential surface of a steel wire with rubber, and two cooling rollers around which the rubber-coated wire, which is a steel wire coated with rubber, is wound. The second roller includes a first groove and a second groove around which the rubber-coated wire located at a downstream side of the first groove is wound. The diameter LB of a portion including the second groove is smaller than the diameter LC of a portion including the first groove.
US10661515B2
A casting mold (1) for the manufacture of ophthalmic lenses, in particular hard and soft contact lenses comprises a male mold half (2) having a generally convexly shaped male mold surface (20) and a female mold half having a generally concavely shaped female mold surface (30). Each of the male and female mold surfaces comprises a lens-forming surface (21, 31) which is encircled by a non lens-forming annular edge surface (22, 32). The lens-forming surface (21, 31) comprises a central optical zone (210, 310) and a non-optical peripheral zone (211, 311) surrounding the central optical zone. At least one of the male and female mold halves (2, 3) is provided with at least one permanent marking (10; 11; 12; 110, 111) which is arranged on a surface in the peripheral zone (211, 311) of the lens-forming surface (21, 31) and/or on the non lens-forming annular edge surface (22, 32).
US10661512B2
A system comprises a laser projector, an automated material placement head, and a laser inspection system. The laser projector is configured to project boundary projection line onto a part. The automated material placement head is configured to lay down a course of composite material. The laser inspection system is connected to the automated material placement head and configured to project a laser beam into a laser line parallel to the motion of the automated material placement head in laying the composite material.
US10661503B2
In a three-dimensional (3D) printing method example, build material granules are applied. Each of the build material granules includes a plurality of primary ceramic particles agglomerated together by a binder that is at least partially soluble in a primary solvent of a fusing agent. Pressure is applied to crush the build material granules. The fusing agent is selectively applied on at least a portion of the build material granules or the crushed build material granules to pattern the portion, and to introduce a latent binder to the portion. The application of the build material granules, the application of the pressure, and the selectively application of the fusing agent are repeated to create a green body. The latent binder is activated by heating the green body in order to produce a cured green body.
US10661502B2
An additive manufacturing system and method for forming a part of dissimilar materials. The additive manufacturing system may include a build platform, a recoater for dispensing build powder onto the build platform, an energy source, a foil feed assembly, and a controller for controlling actuation of these components. The method of forming the part may include the steps of depositing a layer of build powder onto the build platform surface, melting selected portions of the layer of build powder, applying a sheet of foil over the layer of build powder, melting selected portions of the sheet of foil onto the layer of build powder, removing the sheet of foil from the layer of build powder, and then lowering the build platform surface to prepare for deposition of a next layer of the build powder. These steps are then repeated one or more times, thereby forming the part.
US10661496B2
The present invention relates to surface modification of materials. In particular the invention relates to a process for surface modification of polymeric materials to make the surface non-stick in order to reduce the ability of materials to stick on it and thus provide an easy flow. The process comprises embossing the surface of an object with a pattern comprising micropillars having different shapes (circle, square, rectangular, polygonal prismatic) with an equivalent circular diameter, height and pitch in the range 10-200 microns; applying a layer of adhesive to get a coverage of 0.1 to 5 mg/cm on the embossed surface either by spray coating or dip coating; depositing 0.2 to 1.2 mg/cm of hydrophobic particles wherein the hydrophobic particles have a particle size in the range 0.1 to 10 microns.
US10661492B2
Extractor systems for extracting a flexible article of manufacture from a mold include an extraction roller, at least one track configured to support the extraction roller, and a trolley configured to carry the extraction roller from a first side of the mold toward a second, opposite side of the mold. Molding systems include a mold and an extractor system. Methods of extracting a flexible article of manufacture from a mold include separating a first platen and a second platen, positioning an extraction roller between the separated first and second platens, engaging the article of manufacture with a row of teeth positioned along the extraction roller, and rotating the extraction roller to wrap the article of manufacture about the extraction roller.
US10661487B2
A system for manufacturing a particulate-binder composite article including a mold defining a mold cavity, a first opening into the mold cavity, and a second opening into the mold cavity, a mass of a particulate material received in the mold cavity, a binder source in selective fluid communication with the mold cavity by way of the first opening, the binder source including a binder material, a first filter disposed across the first opening, the first filter being permeable to the binder material and substantially impermeable to the particulate material, and a second filter disposed across the second opening, the second filter being permeable to air and substantially impermeable to the particulate material.
US10661478B2
An apparatus, for producing a mixture of at least one gas and at least one liquid plastic component, includes a mixing device that is connected, via a first pipe, to an introducing device for the at least one gas and is connected, via a second pipe, to a conveying device for the at least one liquid plastic component. The introducing device and the conveying device are piston pumps that have pistons.
US10661477B2
To provide a method for forming an anchor hole and a diameter expansion device by which a centrifugal force can be appropriately adjusted when a cutting-blade portion is moved in a radial direction by the centrifugal force to grind a diameter expansion portion. In a method for forming an anchor hole for a post-installed anchor in which a diameter expansion drill bit is inserted and rotated in a prepared-hole portion bored in a concrete fixing body and a cutting-blade portion of the diameter expansion drill bit is moved in a radial direction by a centrifugal force to grind a part of the prepared-hole portion to form a diameter expansion portion, the minimum value of the centrifugal force applied to grind the diameter expansion portion is 0.75 N and preferably 1.1 N.
US10661476B2
Novel methods of fabricating porous structures (e.g., nanostructures) and resulting structures are disclosed. The novel methods use precision optics to cure a slurry made from one or more powders mixed with photopolymers. Pore size control preferably is achieved by controlling the powder size and powder loading in the slurry. As the disclosed methods are based on optics to control the thickness preferably without any mechanical movements, extreme tight thickness tolerance, as well as control of the profile structure, may be achieved. The novel disclosed methods are highly-cost effective with shorter manufacturing cycle time compared to conventional methods. Moreover, a supporting substrate may not be required as the resultant structure made by the novel fabrication techniques disclosed herein has enough strength to be free-standing.
US10661470B2
A driving tool for driving fasteners means into workpieces comprisinga main cylinder with a piston displaceable therein and a sealing element on the lower end with a first through hole through which a piston rod connected to the piston is guided in a sealing manner,a pressing cylinder that carries on the lower end an outlet tool with a driving channel into which a lower section of a driving tappet connected to the piston rod projects through an upper opening and that has a lower opening at the bottom for discharging fasteners,a magazine for fastening means that is attached to a side opening of the driving channel in order to supply fasteners to the driving channel,a first holding device that has a first holding element connected to the piston rod and a second holding element connected to the pressing cylinder that are designed so that the pressing cylinder can be displaced into an upper pressing cylinder position by displacing the piston into an upper piston position and the outlet tool can be placed onto a workpiece by displacing the piston downwards from the upper piston position,a first stop device that has a first stop element connected to the piston rod and a second stop element connected to the pressing cylinder that are designed to limit the downward displacement of the driving tappet in order to drive a fastening element out of the driving channel and into a workpiece to a determined penetration depth by the driving tappet.
US10661463B2
A resin pelletizer apparatus (100) is provided with: a die (6) that has a die surface (61) having a die hole (63) formed therein; a rotary blade (21) that cuts a resin extruded from the die hole (63) into a pellet shape in water when being rotated on the die surface (61) in the water; a sensor (150) that detects elastic waves generated by the rotary blade (21) during the rotation on the die surface (61); and a determination unit (121) that monitors the output value of the sensor (150) and determines that an abnormality has occurred when the output value of the sensor (150) is outside a predetermined range (R).
US10661462B2
A wrinkle or misaligned winding caused in a separator roll is inhibited. In a slitting apparatus (6), a conveying direction of a first separator (12a) is changed to a first take-up roller (70U) side by a direction changing roller (68), the first separator is conveyed via a take-up assisting roller (69) which is provided between the direction changing roller and a first touch roller (81U) so as to shorten a roller-to-roller distance to the first touch roller, and the first separator which is being wound is pressed onto a take-up surface by the first touch roller.
US10661456B2
A force detection apparatus includes a first member, a second member placed to be opposed to the first member, a sensor device placed between the first member and the second member and including a force detection element having at a piezoelectric element that outputs a signal according to an external force, and a pressurization bolt provided in an outer periphery of the sensor device in a plan view as seen from a direction in which the first member and the second member overlap and pressurizing the sensor device, wherein the first member has a groove which is between the sensor device and the pressurization bolt in the plan view.
US10661453B2
A robotic surgical system includes a robotic arm comprising a first segment having a first plurality of links and a first plurality of actuated joint modules providing the robotic arm with at least five degrees of freedom, and a second segment having a proximal end coupled to a distal end of the first segment, and comprising a second plurality of links and a second plurality of actuated joint modules providing the robotic arm with at least two degrees or freedom. The robotic surgical system further comprises an instrument driver coupled to the second segment and configured to hold a surgical instrument. The second arm segment is configured to move the surgical instrument within a generally spherical workspace, and the first arm segment is configured to move the location of the spherical workspace.
US10661444B2
An autonomous device for loading and unloading trucks comprises a mobile body, a robot arm and a body conveyor system to convey cartons during loading and unloading. A manipulator attaches to a moveable end of the robot arm and is maneuverable within the tight confines of the truck. The manipulator picks up a row of articles at a first location and places the row of articles down at a second location. The manipulator is reconfigurable to match to both locations.
US10661431B1
An adjustable mechanic creeper includes a base having an upper surface, a lower surface, and a plurality of casters coupled to the lower surface. A height adjustment brace is coupled to the upper surface of the base. A table includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a front end, a rear end, and sides. The table is coupled to the height adjustment brace. The height adjustment brace is configured to raise and lower the table relative to the base. A seat includes a main frame and at least one cushion coupled to the main frame. The seat is slidably coupled to the upper surface of the table by a track extending from the front end of the table to the rear end of the table.
US10661430B2
Novel tool tray systems and devices. In at least one exemplary embodiment of a tray of the present disclosure, the tray comprises an interior tray section configured to receive one or more items, the interior tray at least partially surrounded by at least one sidewall having a height, a first ramp portion in communication with the interior tray section, the first ramp portion defining a sloping surface that extends from the interior tray section to a top of the at least one sidewall, wherein the at least one tray is configured to be secured to an inner lip of an aerial bucket liner.
US10661423B2
The disclosure is based on a hand-held power tool having at least one switch device which comprises at least one switching element at least for activating a power supply of a drive unit, having at least one quick-change tool holder which is provided for holding an insertion tool which is different from an insertion tool with an SDS® shaft having a maximum transverse extent of 10 mm and/or having at least one accumulator interface. It is proposed that the at least one switching device comprises at least one locking unit which is provided for maintaining, at least essentially independently of an effect of an operator activation force, an active operating mode which can be activated by actuating the at least one switching element.
US10661419B2
To provide a stapler in which a staple leg of a nonmetal staple can be reliably bent with a small number of components and a simple configuration so as to reduce a cost. A stapler includes a penetration mechanism and a bending mechanism. Hole parts are provided in a pair of cutting blades of the penetration mechanism. The bending mechanism includes first and second bending members which protrude from the hole parts toward between the pair of cutting blades to bend a pair of staple legs, guide surfaces which guide the first and second bending members, and a slide member which drives the first and second bending members. The first and second bending members are provided between the guide surfaces and the slide member.
US10661407B2
A hand-held machine tool (1) for sanding or polishing a workpiece features a housing (2); a motor (4) for rotating a tool shaft (5) of the machine tool about its axis of rotation (6); and a backing pad (3) for releasable attachment of a sanding or polishing element thereto and eccentrically attachable to the tool shaft by an eccentric element (11) to allow the backing pad to perform a working movement. The machine tool implements different working movements of the backing pad attached thereto. The housing includes first magnetic elements (16) facing the backing pad. The backing pad attached to the eccentric element includes second magnetic elements (17) facing the housing. The machine tool implements a first working movement if a magnetic force is active between some first and second magnetic elements and a second working movement if no magnetic force is active between the first and second magnetic elements.
US10661406B2
An automated hand tool sharpening and cleaning system for sharpening the two opposed cutting edges of domestic, industrial, sport, or hobby hand tool like a knife blade is provided by the invention. The apparatus comprises a six-axis robotic arm, a pneumatic gripper, a vision sensor camera for profiling the blade edges, a robotic controller, and sequentially-arranged grinding, coarse sharpening, fine sharpening, and buffing rotating wheel assemblies used to grind, sharpen, and buff or polish the cutting edges of the knife blade. The blade cutting edges are profiled by the camera image that is processed by associated software to define the blade by multiple points defined along its edge, followed by a set of algorithms that are used to clean up any discrepancies in the profile data. The resulting corrected profile data is then translated into a set of machine control commands fed to the robotic arm and pneumatic gripper via the robot controller for manipulating the knife blade edges via the robotic arm with respect to each of the grinding, coarse sharpening, fine sharpening, and buffing/polishing wheels and an associated wash station for remove bits of metal and other residue resulting from the sharpened knife blade.
US10661392B2
The invention relates to a method for creating a detachment zone (2) in a solid (1) in order to detach a solid portion (12), especially a solid layer (12), from the solid (1), said solid portion (12) that is to be detached being thinner than the solid from which the solid portion (12) has been removed. The method according to the invention preferably comprises at least the steps of: providing a solid (1) which is to be processed and which is made of a chemical compound; providing a LASER light source; and subjecting the solid (1) to LASER radiation from the LASER light source so that the laser beams penetrate into the solid (1) via a surface (5) of the solid portion (12) that is to be cut off; the LASER radiation controlling the temperature of a predefined portion of the solid (1) inside the solid (1) in a defined manner such that a detachment zone (2) or a plurality of partial detachment zones (25, 27, 28, 29) is formed; characterized in that the temperature produced by the laser beams in a predefined portion of the solid (1) is so high that the material forming the predefined portion is subject to modifications (9) in the form of a predetermined conversion of material.
US10661386B2
An apparatus for cutting metal plates out of a metal strip includes a laser cutting apparatus that is movable back and forth in a transport direction of the metal strip, and a support device for supporting the metal strip to be cut. The support device includes a first support device having a first support strip and a second support device having a second support strip located opposite the first support strip, wherein the first and the second support strip are moved concurrently with the laser cutting apparatus such that a laser beam of the laser cutting apparatus is always oriented towards a gap formed between the first and the second support strip. A dust discharging device is arranged downstream of the support strips in a discharging direction directed away from the laser cutting apparatus. The support strip and/or the dust discharge shaft includes a ventilation device for ventilating the gap.
US10661382B2
The invention discloses a Selective Laser Melting forming device for multiple metal powder materials. Technical solutions adopted are as follows: a collector container, a build cylinder and a feed container are provided on a lower portion of a process chamber; leveling oil cylinders for the substrate are mounted in the build cylinder; a recoater bracket in the process chamber is slidably mounted on a slide rail; a recoater is fixed on a lower portion of the recoater bracket; a compaction roller is simultaneously mounted on the recoater bracket; a stress sensor is provided under the compaction roller; an electron microscope for collecting the porosity of the spread powder and the product and a melting pool monitoring Charge Coupled Device camera; a laser scanning system, a directional heating laser system and an alarm device are provided on a top portion of the process chamber.
US10661376B2
A portable plasma cutting apparatus for coping and cutting pre-bend tubular members includes a control unit, a control arm, a first step motor, a second step motor, a linear drive mechanism, a rotary drive mechanism, a plasma cutter, a tube placement deck, and a platform. The control arm is operatively coupled with the first step motor by the rotary drive mechanism to rotationally drive the control arm around a rotational axis. The control arm is operatively coupled with the second step motor by the linear drive mechanism to linearly drive the control arm along the rotational axis. A torch of the plasma cutter is terminally mounted to the control arm and positioned in between the control unit and the tube placement deck as the control arm rotationally and linearly moves about the control unit. The platform provides the sufficient height for the portable plasma cutting apparatus.
US10661375B2
The present invention is directed to a welding-type power source that includes a power source housing and an engine arranged in the power source housing to supply electrical power. An energy storage device is included that is in rechargeable association with the internal combustion engine and arranged to provide welding-type power for at least a given period.
US10661362B2
One aspect of the invention provides a cutting tool used for peripheral cutting operations, comprising: a plurality of peripheral cutting edges, and a plurality of flutes disposed between the peripheral cutting edges, wherein each of the flutes includes at least one surface, and at least one depression recessed into the at least one flute surface, wherein each of the depressions defines a depression interior configured to trap cooling liquid during operation of the cutting tool, and wherein at least one of the depressions is dimensioned and disposed to enhance heat dissipation at least one of the peripheral cutting edges.
US10661357B2
A drill structure comprises a shank part and a bit part. A web is formed on the front end of the bit part. Two sides of the web are tilted backward to form two cutting faces. At least one chip-discharge groove is formed on the surface of the bit part. Each cutting face includes a primary cutting face and a secondary cutting face. The thickness of the prismatic web edge of at least one primary cutting face is smaller than the outer-side width of the primary cutting face. An auxiliary cutting face is extended to the wall of the flute from the cutting edge of the primary cutting face and a portion of a blade back of the secondary cutting face of another cutting face. The present invention decreases the drilling resistance during drilling a hole and increases the service life of the drill bit.
US10661354B2
Holder for a rotary tool which holder is formed with a holder body comprising a rear drive end and a front connection end having a connection thread for the connection of the tool. The holder comprises a thrust collar having a flat contact surface facing a connection end of the holder. The holder comprises an axially movable operating means, a number of restraint elements placed in one or more spaces in the holder body which restraint elements in a first axial position of the operating means are prevented from radial movement in said spaces and which restraint elements in a second axial position of the operating means allow radial movement in said spaces. Each one of said spaces for the restraint elements is limited in the axial direction by a front limiting wall and a rear limiting wall, which two limiting walls are parts of the holder body.
US10661349B2
An automatic lathe includes a main spindle that rotates a workpiece about a shaft center, a cutting tool that processes the workpiece, a feeder that moves the cutting tool, an input receiver that receives inputs regarding an eccentric distance and a radius, and a controller that controls the movement by the feeder such as to set a virtual circle having a radius of the distance, to set an offset virtual circle having a center at a position where a center of the virtual circle is offset from the shaft center of the workpiece in the radial direction of the workpiece by the radius, and to move the cutting tool along an circumference of the offset virtual circle in relation to a rotation of the workpiece by the main spindle. A hole is processed, which has the radius at a position away from the shaft center by the distance.
US10661347B2
A nanoporous gold disk (NPGD) as a novel surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrate. NPGD has SERS enhancement factor similar to that of gold nanoshells, but allows, for example, at least three times more benzenethiol molecules to be attached to its surface due to large surface-to-volume ratio. The high capacity enables the rapid detection of attomole-level benzenethiol molecules with relatively high detector temperatures. Additionally, a fabrication process to make NPGD with controlled size and highly reproducible SERS activities.
US10661345B2
A composite member in which WC-based cemented carbide members are bonded to each other via a bonding layer formed by solid phase diffusion bonding of a bonding member made of a Ti foil. The bonding layer is constituted by first layers adjacent to the WC-based cemented carbide members and made of a TiC phase and a metal W phase in which an average area ratio of the TiC phase is 40 to 60%. The bonding layer also includes second layers adjacent to the first layers and made of a TiCo phase and a metal Ti phase in which an average area ratio of the TiCo phase is 50 to 95%, and a residual Ti layer.
US10661344B2
An Fe-based sintered alloy, essentially consists of, in percentage by mass, Mn: 0.5 to 2.0, Mo: 0.3 to 1.6, Cu: 0.4 to 1.5, C: 0.4 to 0.7 and the balance of Fe plus unavoidable impurities; and has a metallic structure made of 5 to 70% of martensite phase relative to a base material except pore and 25 to 90% of bainite phase relative to the base material except the pore.
US10661343B2
Disclosed is a multiple-feature compact direct-metal deposition additive manufacturing (AM) print head. The head configures off-axis, solid-state diode or diode-pumped lasers into an array to perform precision controlled, direct metal deposition printing through a single print nozzle. Dual-mode printing capability using metal wire and powder feedstock sources in the same print nozzle is provided with in-line control, precision wire feed driver/controller, adjustable shield gas diffuser, and nozzles tailored to wire feedstock diameter.
US10661330B2
A method for producing a flat spiral spring formed as an annular disk-shaped segment, wherein a strip-shaped material is supplied in a tangential alignment to the lateral surface of the drum such that a lateral wall which determines the thickness of the strip-shaped material rests against some sections of a contact surface on the lateral surface of the drum. The contact surface of the drum has a radius which substantially corresponds to an internal radius of the strip-shaped material, and at least one deflecting device is aligned at a distance to the drum such that the strip-shaped material is guided in a forced manner between the drum and the deflecting device, and the strip-shaped material is bent so as to follow the drum by means of the deflecting device.
US10661327B2
The invention relates to a rolling element bearing cage formed of one or more segments, each segment comprising: a supporting frame having a plurality of spaced apart openings each for accommodating a rolling element; and a reinforcing frame, inserted within the supporting frame, having a corresponding plurality of openings each for aligning with the openings of the supporting frame.
US10661321B2
An access device is provided for access to a fluid tank, especially a fluid tank of a ship. The access device includes a drill, a thread-forming unit, a hollow body with an external thread and a connection plate. The hollow body is provided with a valve.
US10661319B2
An assemblage of containers holding a porous medium is established in a landfill in fluid communication with a leachate drainage layer. A gas extraction well is drilled through the waste matter layers of the landfill into the assemblage. The assemblage augments gas flow throughout the landfill to the gas extraction well and drainage of leachate percolating through the landfill to the leachate drainage layer.
US10661318B2
A process for the solidification of liquid waste prior to disposal in a landfill, and an impermeable container in which the liquid waste is solidified.
US10661310B2
A ultrasonic oscillator unit including an ultrasonic oscillator array in which a plurality of oscillators are arranged in a circular-arc shape; an electrode part that is provided on at least one end surface of the plurality of oscillators perpendicular to a longitudinal direction thereof and that is electrically connected with the oscillators; a backing material layer that is disposed on a rear surface of the ultrasonic oscillator array; and a cable wiring part including a flexible printed wired board. The flexible printed wired board includes a cable connecting part that extends to a lower side of the backing material layer, is separated into a plurality of belt-like pieces, and has, in a comb shape, a plurality of strip-like electrode parts in which at least one electrode pad is linearly disposed in the longitudinal direction of each of the belt-like pieces.
US10661307B2
A method of applying a coating material to a vehicle that includes defining a plurality of application zones on the vehicle. The application zones include a low visibility zone, a medium visibility zone, and a high visibility zone. The method further includes applying the coating material to the application zones in a predetermined sequence such that a first portion of the coating material is applied to the low visibility zone, then a second portion is applied to the medium visibility zone, and then a third portion is applied to the high visibility zone. A first overlap region is defined between the low visibility zone and the high visibility zone and a second overlap region is defined between the medium visibility zone and the high visibility zone. The third portion of the coating material is applied before the coating material previously applied in the first and second overlap regions has set for a predefined duration.
US10661306B2
Method for treating a drop of liquid, including: placing a drop (D) of liquid on a support surface (S); applying a time-varying electric field to the drop (D), thus moving a contact line of the drop (D) hence suppressing contact line pinning; and evaporating at least part of the liquid from the drop (D) during the application of the alternating field.
US10661300B2
A method for painting a work piece of plastic material. The method includes applying a first coating of an electrically conductive material to the work piece and electrically grounding the first coating. The method also includes electrostatically charging a paint to render the paint conductive for statically attracting the conductive paint toward the grounded first coating of the work piece. The method also includes overlying a mask of a non-conductive material over at least a portion of the first coating of the work piece and electrically insulating the mask. The work piece is then sprayed with the conductive paint to apply a layer of paint on the first coating with the mask preventing the conductive paint from being applied on the portions of the first coating of the work piece that are covered by the mask.
US10661298B2
An applicator for delivering a glutinous substance comprises a first body portion, including an end-effector interface, extending from a base portion, a side cover to be removably coupled to the base portion, and a first cavity. A second body portion, having a second cavity intersecting the first cavity, extends from the base portion and is non-parallel to the first body portion. A tip portion, to be removably coupled to the second body portion, comprises a nozzle portion, a third cavity, communicatively coupled with the second cavity, an inner sleeve, having a splined outer surface, and an actuator interface, extending from the second body portion opposite the tip portion. The tip portion and the inner sleeve are interlocked when the inner sleeve is received inside the third cavity of the tip portion, such that the inner sleeve is prevented from rotating with respect to the tip portion.
US10661291B2
Dispenser with a reservoir for storing liquid, and a discharge opening through which the liquid can be dispensed. The dispenser includes a metering device for discharging a defined liquid quantity upon actuation of the dispenser. The metering device at the entry side is connected to the reservoir and at the exit side is connected to the discharge opening. The metering device includes a pre-metering chamber which via an infeed duct is connected to the reservoir, and a main metering chamber which via an intermediate duct is connected to the pre-metering chamber, and via a discharge duct is connected to the discharge opening. The pre-metering chamber and the main metering chamber each have one repositionable wall, the respective chamber volume being variable by repositioning the wall. The walls are operatively coupled such that a volumetric enlargement of the pre-metering chamber causes a volumetric reduction of the main metering chamber.
US10661288B2
The present invention discloses a single step process for the synthesis of furan derivative from carbohydrate comprises stirring the reaction mixture of carbohydrate in solvent in presence of catalyst at temperature in the range of 170 to 190° C. for the period in the range of 23 to 25 hrs to afford corresponding furan derivative.
US10661284B2
A showerhead combination includes a first showerhead that is non-handheld; a second showerhead that is handheld; and a control device that includes a switching mechanism and a magnetic control unit that is movably installed within the first showerhead to control when water flows out of the first showerhead. The second showerhead cooperates with the first showerhead so that, when the second showerhead is connected to the first showerhead, the connection drives the control device to cause water to flow out from the first showerhead, and, when the second showerhead is disconnected from the first showerhead, the control device causes the first showerhead to stop the water flow. A method for controlling water flow includes connecting the second showerhead to the first showerhead to cause water to flow from the first showerhead; and disconnecting the second showerhead from the first showerhead to cause water to stop water from flowing therefrom.
US10661283B1
A system can include a nebulizer having a tip and a spray chamber configured to be in fluid communication with the nebulizer. The tip of the nebulizer and/or an interior of the spray chamber can have a treated surface. The nebulizer and/or the spray chamber can be treated using a physical abrasion technique, chemically etched, and so forth. In some embodiments, treated surfaces of the nebulizer and the spray chamber can be proximate to one another. The spray chamber can include a drain ridge, which can project into an interior of the spray chamber, be depressed away from an interior of the spray chamber, and/or include a treated surface. The spray chamber can also include an output port having a treated surface. In some embodiments, the output port can include an additional port so that rinse liquid can flow through the spray chamber (e.g., continuously and/or intermittently).
US10661279B2
A laboratory pipette stand for use with single channel and multi-channel pipettes in a laboratory environment is disclosed. The laboratory stand includes a unitary structure having an angular longitudinal planar body and a supporting base portion. A first tier of a plurality of outwardly projecting pronged sections having a plurality of concave sections therebetween is formed at an upper portion of the unitary structure. A second tier of a plurality of outwardly projecting pronged sections having a plurality of concave sections therebetween is formed at a middle portion of the unitary structure. The first and second tiers are configured for holding a plurality of single channel and multi-channel laboratory pipettes thereto. At least one elongated opening is formed in the angular longitudinal planar body from the middle portion to a lower portion of the unitary structure such that the at least one elongated opening is configured for receiving a manifold of the multi-channel laboratory pipette therethrough.
US10661276B2
Devices and methods for handling liquids are provided. The devices and methods make use of centrifugal forces to drive liquid flow and facilitate one or more of the mixing, metering and sequencing of liquids, for example on a microfluidic device.
US10661269B2
Pipette tip couplers, pipette tips, coupler and tip combinations, and methods for coupling and decoupling a pipette tip to or from, respectively, a pipette tip coupler mounted on a pipette device. The pipette tip couplers include an elastomeric element, a discrete segment assembly, and a coupler stop shoulder surface. The pipette tips include a groove in a first cylindrical section, a second cylindrical section, a tip stop shoulder surface at the interface of the first and second cylindrical sections, a third cylindrical section, a sealing seat surface at the interface of the second and third cylindrical sections, and a fourth section adjacent to the third cylindrical section. When the pipette tip is mounted on the pipette tip coupler, the discrete segment assembly abuts the tip groove, the coupler stop shoulder surface abuts the tip stop shoulder surface, and the elastomeric element abuts the sealing seat surface.
US10661256B2
Oxidative dehydrogenation catalysts for converting lower paraffins to alkenes such as ethane to ethylene when prepared as an agglomeration, for example extruded with supports chosen from slurries of TiO2, ZrO2 Al2O3, AlO(OH) and mixtures thereof have a lower temperature at which 25% conversion is obtained.
US10661254B2
Disclosed is a composite catalyst, comprising carbon in a continuous phase and Raney alloy particles in a dispersed phase. The Raney alloy particles are dispersed evenly or unevenly in the carbon in a continuous phase, and the carbon in a continuous phase is obtained by carbonizing at least one carbonizable organic substance. The catalyst has good particle strength, high catalytic activity, and good selectivity.
US10661253B2
The present invention provides a process for in-situ preparation of metal oxide(s) comprising the step of precipitating a metal salt solution with Fehling's reagent B and glucose at a suitable temperature. The metal oxide(s) prepared according to the present invention can be used for diverse applications including their utility as catalyst(s) in one or more reactions. The present invention further provides a highly selective bi-functional hybrid catalyst for direct conversion of syn-gas to dimethyl ether (DME) and methods of preparation thereof. The one or more metal oxide(s) can be directly obtained from the metal precursors following the method(s) of the present invention instead of metal hydroxides as in conventional known methods, thereby eliminating the necessity of high temperature calcination step(s) and rigorous reduction procedure(s).
US10661248B2
A method for manufacturing a ferromagnetic-particle includes preparing a manufacturing apparatus including an induction heating coil; a radiofrequency power source electrically connected to the induction heating coil and configured to form an alternating field inside the induction heating coil; a pipe disposed to pass through the induction heating coil, in which at least a partial area of the pipe in an axial direction thereof is formed of a dielectric material and an area, which is nearer to one end of the pipe than the area formed of a dielectric material, is formed of a conductive material; and a pump configured to introduce, from the one end of the pipe, an alkaline reaction liquid in which metal ions of a ferromagnetic metal and hydroxide ions are dissolved; reacting the reaction liquid in the pipe, introduced by the pump, by forming an alternating field inside the induction heating coil; and generating the ferromagnetic-particle in the pipe based on the reaction of the reaction liquid in the pipe.
US10661245B2
A method of driving an element of an active matrix electro-wetting on dielectric (AM-EWOD) device comprise applying a first alternating voltage to a reference electrode of the AM-EWOD device; and either (i) applying to the element electrode a second alternating voltage that has the same frequency as the first alternating voltage and that is out of phase with the first alternating voltage or (ii) holding the element electrode in a high impedance state. The effect of applying the second alternating voltage to the element electrode is to put the element in an actuated state in which the element is configured to actuate any liquid droplet present in the element, while the effect of holding the element electrode in the high impedance state is to put the element in a non-actuated state.
US10661240B2
A particle disengagements device comprising a baffle plate, wherein the baffle plate comprises one or more guide baffles and one or more separation baffles, wherein the one or more guide baffles and the one or more separation baffles define one or more air flow paths and one or more solid flow paths and associated systems and methods.
US10661238B2
A continuous particle manufacturing apparatus comprises a particle drawing section configured to draw particles out of a processing container, a sorting section configured to sort the particles drawn by the particle drawing section into processed particles and unprocessed particles, a discharge section to which the processed particles sorted out by the sorting section are discharged, and a particle returning section configured to return, into the processing container, the unprocessed particles sorted out by the sorting section, the particle returning section being configured to blow the unprocessed particles toward an inner wall surface of the processing container together with an air stream.
US10661231B2
The present disclosure relates to semipermeable membranes which are suitable for blood purification, e.g. by hemodialysis, which have an increased ability to remove larger molecules while at the same time effectively retaining albumin. The membranes are characterized by a molecular retention onset (MWRO) of between 9.0 kD and 14.5 kD and a molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) of between 55 kD and 130 kD as determined by dextran sieving curves and can be prepared by industrially feasible processes excluding a treatment with salt before drying. The invention therefore also relates to a process for the production of the membranes and to their use in medical applications.
US10661230B2
The present disclosure relates to a dialyzer comprising a bundle of semipermeable hollow fiber membranes which is suitable for blood purification, wherein the dialyzer has an increased ability to remove larger molecules while at the same time it is able to effectively remove small uremic toxins and efficiently retain albumin and larger proteins. The invention also relates to using said dialyzer in hemodialysis.
US10661228B2
The present disclosure relates to processes for the production of capillary dialyzers. The processes involve contact-free thermoforming of bundles of hollow fiber membranes. The present disclosure also relates to an apparatus for contact-free thermoforming of bundles of hollow fiber membranes.
US10661217B2
The abatement apparatus includes a porous element at least partially defining a treatment chamber and through which treatment materials pass for introduction into the treatment chamber for treatment of an effluent gas stream; and an infra-red heating device operable to emit infra-red energy to heat the porous element which heats the treatment materials as they pass through the porous element into the treatment chamber. In this way, infra-red energy, rather than combustion, can be used to raise the temperature within the treatment chamber in order to treat the effluent gas stream. This allows the apparatus to be used in environments where no fuel gas exists or where the provision of fuel gas is considered undesirable. Also, heating the treatment materials as they pass through the porous sleeve, rather than simply using radiant heat to heat the treatment chamber enables significantly more energy to be imparted into the treatment materials.
US10661216B2
The invention relates to a wall-flow filter for cleaning exhaust gases from engines, with parallel exhaust gas inlet channels and exhaust gas outlet channels which are closed at alternate ends, said filter additionally comprising catalyst channels which are closed at both ends and contain a catalyst in solid form. The invention also relates to production methods and uses of the filter for cleaning exhaust gases, particularly from diesel engines.
US10661214B2
The present invention relates to a laundry treating apparatus having a washable filter provided on an air circulation conduit for drying laundry. Disclosed is the laundry treating apparatus that is capable of automatically or manually washing the filter. The laundry treating apparatus, according to the present invention, comprises: a cabinet (1); an outer tub (2) disposed within the cabinet (1); an inner tub (3) rotatably disposed within the outer tub (2); a circulation conduit (10) that serves as a guide to allow at least a part of air within the outer tub (2) to be discharged from the outer tub (2) and supplied back to the outer tub (2); a fan (17) disposed on the circulation conduit (10) to move air; a filter net (22) disposed on the circulation conduit (10) to filter foreign substances included in the moving air; a filter frame (24) that supports the filter net (22); and a nozzle (32) that sprays water to remove the foreign substances filtered by the filter net (22). At least a part of the filter frame (24) includes an extraction frame (24a) that is able to be extracted from the cabinet (1).
US10661212B2
The present invention relates to a ceramic filter arrangement comprising a ceramic filter and a support housed within the ceramic filter, wherein the support is in contact with inside walls of the ceramic filter.
US10661209B2
The present disclosure relates to filtration media packs, filter elements, and methods for manufacturing filtration media packs and filter elements. The present disclosure is directed to filtration media packs having alternating first media sheet and second media sheet secured together and forming a first flow face and a second flow face, wherein the first media sheet and the second media sheet provide a first separation or gap therebetween as a result of the presence of a first plurality of protrusions or bosses extending from at least one of the first media sheet or the second media sheet, and a second separation or gap therebetween as a result of a second plurality of protrusions or bosses extending from at least one of the first media sheet or the second media sheet, and the media pack being closed to passage of unfiltered fluid therethrough from the first flow face to the second flow face or from the second flow face to the first flow face without filtering passage through the first media sheet or the second media sheet.
US10661207B2
The present invention relates to a filtering assembly for filtering at least one fluid flowing in particular in a hydraulic motor or device, comprising: —a filter body which comprises a vessel and a cover which are configured to engage with one another in order to enable the filter body to close, —a tube, in particular a central tube, inside the filter body extending along a longitudinal axis (X), —a removable filter cartridge which is housed in the filter body and includes an upper end plate, a lower end plate and a filter medium which extends between the upper end plate and the lower end plate, the filter cartridge having a tubular opening for surrounding the tube, characterized in that the cover has a circular rib which is formed such as to project into an inner space of the filter body, and in that the upper end plate has a circular edge which is designed to sealingly engage radially and inwardly with said circular rib of the cover.
US10661200B2
An industrial oil degassing system and method to remove gas from an industrial machine oil. Described is an industrial oil degassing system, including a pressure tank under pressure to receive oil charged with gas, a separation tank with an atmospheric pressure to separate gas from the oil, and a seal oil tank with an atmospheric pressure to receive the degassed oil from the separation tank. Further described is a method for industrial degassing of oil with the steps of exerting a pressure to a pressure tank, supplying the oil to the pressure tank, supplying the oil from the pressure tank to a separation tank with atmospheric pressure, separating gas from the oil in the separation tank, and supplying the degassed oil to a seal oil tank with atmospheric pressure.
US10661197B1
A cold trap has multiple interior spaces formed within one unit such that a vacuum pump pulls only dry air and distillate substantially fully or fully condenses and drops out of the bottom of the device. Laminar flow through a side portal is converted into turbulent flow in a cooling region around a conical cold glass or other inert protrusion. The only other portal of the cooling region is a bottom portal such that though there is vacuum suction, vapors only exit through the bottom portal after condensing and falling through an outer section while dry air is pulled upwards to an upper vacuum portal.
US10661196B2
A process for separating or removing permanganate reducing compounds (PRC's) from a first mixture containing at least one PRC, methyl iodide, and water comprises the steps of: feeding the first mixture to a feed port of a distillation column, and distilling and separating the first mixture into an upper stream and a lower stream, wherein the distillation of the first mixture forms a second mixture at an upper position than the feed port, and the process further comprises the steps of: withdrawing the second mixture as the upper stream, and withdrawing the lower stream from a lower position than the feed port.
US10661195B2
Processes and systems suitable for purifying or otherwise treating liquids to remove contaminants therein, including but not limited to contaminated water, to permit reclaiming, recycling, and reuse of the liquids. Such a process and system entails the use of a cascading distillation system that evaporates a liquid from the feedstock and then condenses and collects a more purified form of the liquid. The cascading distillation system can be operated to selectively process the feedstock through any of a series of vessels at which different amounts and/or contaminants may be removed from the feedstock.
US10661194B2
A system and method for vacuum distillation and desalination contains integrated vacuum generation. Latent heat and a vacuum produced with steam condensation are used for distillation and desalination of liquid. The distillation and desalination system could comprise a spray evaporator and a condenser for receiving a feed stream for distillation or desalination. Produced are water flow condensate and concentrated liquid flow. A vacuum pump is actuated with condensation-induced dual-action piston-cylinder vacuum generation technology. The vacuum generator is configured to transfer latent heat from condensing steam vapor in its cylinder to the feed stream. Steam is also configured to transfer latent heat directly to the feed stream circulated through evaporators and condensers. A distillation and desalination method with active vacuuming and self-distillation in staggered multi-stage arrangement provides for efficient energy recovery. Use of multi-stage arrangement maximizes thermal energy usage for increased distillation capacity and applicability.
US10661189B2
A balloon holder and balloon holder base for holding a balloon having a tail, including a securing element having flexible biased opposing projections bounding an elongated channel opening, an elongate member insertable into an opening in the tail of the balloon such that a first portion of said elongate member abuts a tapered self-closing bladder, creating an overlapping elongate member and balloon tail section, and a support element configured to be in contact with and support the inflated balloon, wherein the balloon is secured to the elongate member by transversely passing the overlapping elongate member and balloon tail section through the elongated channel opening and held in place by the projections.
US10661186B2
A capsule ride system includes a capsule, where the capsule includes a drum, which may include a curved annular wall that may define a chamber. The capsule also includes a platform that may fit within the chamber and that supports a restraint for a passenger. The system further includes a drive system capable of driving rotation of the capsule about a central axis of the capsule and driving forward and/or rearward movement of the capsule along a track.
US10661177B2
Transmission data including at least data regarding luminances of a plurality of small areas obtained by dividing the entirety of an at least partial area of a captured image captured by an image capturing unit is acquired. Then, using the acquired transmission data, and based on a luminance of the entirety of the at least partial area of the captured image and the luminance of any of the plurality of small areas, a shape of an image capturing target and/or a position of the image capturing target relative to a data transmission device are determined, and based on the result of the determination, predetermined information processing is performed.
US10661166B2
Each of a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus includes a display, an operation portion, and a radio communication unit. The second apparatus transmits operation information accepted by the operation portion of the second apparatus to the first apparatus through the radio communication unit. The first apparatus performs application processing based on operation information accepted by the operation portion of the first apparatus and the operation information from the second apparatus, generates an application image including a result of execution of the application processing, shows the application image on the display of the first apparatus, and transmits the application image to the second apparatus through the radio communication unit of the first apparatus. The second apparatus shows the application image from the first apparatus on the display of the second apparatus.
US10661165B2
Mechanisms for enhancing multiplayer games are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: detecting presence of a display device on a communications network; causing joining instructions to connect to a multiplayer game session to be displayed on the display device, wherein the joining instructions include server information for handling communications relating to the multiplayer game session over the communications network; receiving, from user devices over other communications networks, a request to join the multiplayer game session in response to displaying the joining instructions on the display device, wherein each of the user devices has a user display device; connecting each of the user devices over one of the other communications network to the display device presenting the multiplayer game session; initiating the multiplayer game session; determining, for the multiplayer game session, a first portion of game information to be presented on the display device and a second portion of game information to be presented on the user display device; and causing the first portion of game information to be displayed on the display device and the second portion of game information to be displayed on the user displayed device based on the determination.
US10661163B2
Provided is an example system in which a vibrator continues to vibrate when a player character is in contact with a ground object in a virtual space. When the player character performs a jumping motion in the virtual space according to an operation performed by a player, the player character leaves the ground object. While the player character is performing a jumping motion, the vibration of the vibrator is temporarily stopped. When the player character drops on the ground object again, the vibration of the vibrator is resumed.
US10661155B2
An instant lottery ticket game structure and method includes a set of instant lottery tickets, wherein a plurality of these tickets are winning tickets having a predetermined first prize value, as well as a predetermined enhanced second prize value. A validation file stored in a central host computer includes an individual base record for the winning tickets containing ticket identification data and the first prize value. A prize enhancement code on the winning ticket provides an option for the player to opt for the enhanced second prize value at a risk of reducing the first prize value. A sub-record in the validation file is maintained separate from the base record and includes the prize enhancement code and the value of the enhanced second, which may be less than the first prize value. A logic gate in the base record links the sub-record with the base record upon entry of the prize enhancement code by or for the player. For the winning tickets, a single record is created in the validation file by combining the base record with the sub-record upon entry of the prize enhancement code, the single record including a final prize value of the winning ticket.
US10661153B2
A foot-deck-based vehicle includes a support structure having a longitudinal axis, a first foot-deck portion, and a second foot-deck portion. Each of the first foot-deck portion and the second foot-deck portion have a foot support surface. The foot support surfaces of the first and second foot-deck portions are positioned to support first and second feet of a rider respectively. The foot-deck-based vehicle further includes at least one wheel that is rotationally connected to the support structure for rotation about a lateral axis. The first and second foot-deck portions are movably connected at least indirectly to each other and are movable between a use position and a stowage position.
US10661149B2
A mixed-reality sport simulation system includes a projectile-tracking sub-system to generate projectile-tracking data when a projectile is launched by a user, a near-eye display to display mixed-reality virtual objects displayed over physical objects within a field of view of a user representing lines of sight of the user, and a controller. The controller may direct the near-eye display to display a mixed-reality environment including virtual objects within the field of view. The near-eye display may provide an unobstructed real-world view for view vectors below a selected pitch angle and at least a portion of the mixed-reality environment for view vectors above a selected pitch angle. The controller may receive projectile-tracking data in real-time from the projectile-tracking sub-system and may direct the near-eye display to display one or more virtual objects representing a trajectory of the projectile within the mixed-reality environment in real-time based on the projectile-tracking data.
US10661146B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of providing hazard information by an electronic device, comprising determining: determining a location of an electronic device in relation to hazards in a geographic region of interest, the location of the electronic device being determined by a location determining unit of the electronic device and the location of the hazards being determined from map data accessible to the electronic device; displaying, in a first display mode on a display of the electronic device, an indication of the hazards in the geographic region of interest in relation to a scale indicative of a distance from the location of the electronic device; and displaying, in response to a predetermined user input, in a second display mode on the display, an indication of one or more of the hazards in a portion of the geographic region of interest, each indication being associated with at least one item of distance information indicative of a distance of the hazard from the location of the electronic device.
US10661145B2
A sports swing training device is attachable to a sports striking-object, such as a golf club, tennis racket, or baseball bat, and uses multiple motion sensors, including accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers, in conjunction with one or more microprocessors and device displays, to measure and display various swing metrics and to project flight patterns resulting from each swing. Swing data are displayed in graphic and/or indicia format, on the device's displays and are wirelessly transmitted to the displays of one or more external devices, such as smart phones or tablet computers. The projected flight patterns reveal flaws in the swing so as to promote corrective adjustments by the athlete.
US10661137B1
A sports aide for training a player to throw or kick a ball, comprising a spinning ring positionable proximal to the player and sized for passage of a ball therethrough, wherein during use of the aide the player will throw or kick the ball and attempt to have the thrown or kicked ball pass through the spinning ring.
US10661136B2
A golf club head includes a head body, a face part located apart from the head body, and a plurality of connecting parts that extend between the head body and the face part. Each connecting part includes an inclination portion that extends while inclining with respect to a face perpendicular direction. The inclination portion may include a straight inclination portion that extends along a straight line. The inclination portion may include an arc inclination portion that extends along a circular arc. The inclination portion may include a first inclination portion and a second inclination portion that are inclined inversely to each other. The inclination portion can facilitate deformation of the connecting part at impact.
US10661133B2
In an example embodiment, a golf club shaft is disclosed that comprises: a grip portion and a central shaft. The central shaft comprises a plurality of holes capable of being removably filled by one or more weighted plugs. In various example embodiments, the weighted plugs may be any weight desirable to the golfer, and may be positioned at any location on the shaft where there is a hole to customize the weighting of the golf club. In such embodiments, the weighted plugs may be made of a high density material and may weigh above about 14 grams.
US10661130B2
In general, aspects of this invention relate to blade-type iron golf clubs or golf club heads. The blade-type golf club head may comprise a body forged of a metal material. The body may include a hosel, a top surface, a sole, a heel, a toe, a ball striking surface, and a rear surface opposite the ball striking surface. The rear surface may have an upper blade portion and a lower muscle portion with the upper blade portion separated from the lower muscle portion by a blade interface. An average height of the lower muscle portion from the ball striking centerline to the toe-side boundary line may be approximately twice an average height of the lower muscle portion from the heel-side boundary line to the ball striking centerline. The mass distribution of the lower muscle portion moves the center of gravity of the club head closer to the face center location.
US10661120B2
An exercise training device includes a base, a balance board, and a coil spring. The balance board includes a pair of foot pegs located at the distal ends of the balance board. The coil spring has a longitudinal axis and is vertically mounted between the base and the balance board. The coil spring deflects in response to forces applied laterally relative to the longitudinal axis of the coil spring such that a user can perform strength and balance exercises by controlling the position of the balance board. The exercise training device can include a handlebar mount configured to secure handlebars of a motorcycle or bicycle thereto and can be used to represent movement of the handlebars of a motorcycle or bicycle a user experiences while riding. Multiple forms of exercise can be performed with the present exercise training device.
US10661113B1
An aquatic exercise system includes a pool and an aquatic exercise apparatus positioned in the pool. The aquatic exercise apparatus includes a base and an aquatic exercise pole having a first substantially straight section, a second substantially straight section, and a curved transition section between the first substantially straight section and the second substantially straight section. The curved transition section includes a bend, and the aquatic exercise apparatus is positioned in the pool such that bend is above a surface of water in the pool.
US10661106B2
A housing for the retractable is made from a lightweight, non-structural material, such as, plastic. The housing includes an internal reinforcement configured to bear the forces in a fall, thereby allowing the housing to be made from lightweight, non-structural materials.
US10661102B2
A medical device includes: a base; a positioner coupled to the base; an accelerator coupled to the positioner, wherein the positioner is operable to rotate the accelerator relative to the base about at least two axes; and a power source coupled to the accelerator, the power source configured to provide microwave power for the accelerator, wherein a position of the power source relative to the base remains fixed during movement of the accelerator. A medical device includes: a base; a positioner coupled to the base; an accelerator coupled to the positioner; a power source configured to provide microwave power for the accelerator, wherein a position of the source relative to the base remains fixed during movement of the accelerator; and a waveguide for coupling the power source and the accelerator; wherein the waveguide has a first segment with a first cross section, the first cross section being a circular cross-section.
US10661094B2
Described are methods, devices, and systems for a novel, easy to use treatment for spasticity that does not involve medication. Methods and devices herein use low-frequency repetitive magnetic fields to enhance communication in the spinal nerve, thereby allowing improved relaxation, control, and coordination in a muscle.
US10661092B2
The disclosure pertains to mixtures of LaFeSiH magnetic nanoparticles having different Curie temperatures useful for improved inductive hyperthermia efficiency, injectable formulations containing the nanoparticles, and methods of raising the temperature of selected cells using the nanoparticles.
US10661090B2
An implantable medical device comprising a battery cell including: an anode; a cathode including fluorinated carbon particles; a separator between the anode and the cathode; and an electrolyte contacting the anode, the cathode, and the separator; wherein greater than 50 vol-% of the fluorinated carbon particles have a particle size within a range of 2 microns to 10 microns, and greater than 50% by number have an aspect ratio within a range of 1:1.2 to 1:8.
US10661089B2
The disclosure includes an electrochemical cell comprising a first cathode and a second cathodes are adjacent one another in a stacked arrangement to form a cathode stack in the electrochemical cell. The first cathode includes a first current collector and a first cathode form of active material covering the first current collector, and the second cathode includes a second current collector and a second cathode form of active material covering the second current collector. The second current collector is in electrical contact with the first current collector. The electrochemical cell further comprises an anode adjacent to the cathode stack, and a separator located between the cathode stack and the anode.
US10661082B2
One example discloses a noninvasive biological conditioning device, including: a first induction structure; a second induction structure; a barrier configured to block direct contact between the structures and a material; wherein the structures are configured to induce an electrical current in the material; and wherein the electrical current is configured to have a set of attributes for conditioning biological activity in the material.
US10661078B2
Apparatus and methods for treating back pain are provided, in which an implantable stimulator is configured to communicate with an external control system, the implantable stimulator providing a neuromuscular electrical stimulation therapy designed to cause muscle contraction to rehabilitate the muscle, restore neural drive and restore spinal stability; the implantable stimulator further including one or more of a number of additional therapeutic modalities, including a module that provides analgesic stimulation; a module that monitors muscle performance and adjusts the muscle stimulation regime; and/or a module that provides longer term pain relief by selectively and repeatedly ablating nerve fibers. In an alternative embodiment, a standalone implantable RF ablation system is described.
US10661071B2
The invention relates to a hose clamp for a blood treatment device, wherein the hose clamp has a housing (4) and an electromagnetically driven compression piece (1), with the electromagnetic drive of the compression piece (1) being configured such that the compression piece (1) is opened against a mechanical restoring force (A) in a state of the hose clamp with an applied current and is closed by the mechanical restoring force (A) in a currentless state of the hose clamp; wherein the hose clamp has, in addition to the electromechanical drive, a mechanical actuator (5) with which the compression piece (1) can be opened manually against the mechanical restoring force (A) in the currentless state of the hose clamp; and wherein the contact elements (6, 7) of the actuator (5) and of the compression piece (1) are configured such that they form a mechanical connection between the actuator (5) and the compression piece (1) after an opening of the compression piece (1) in the currentless state, said connection preventing another closing of the compression piece (1) in the currentless state of the hose clamp by the mechanical restoring force (A) and being released in the state of the hose clamp with an applied current.
US10661062B2
A composite flavored mouthguard comprising a mouthguard base including a first material; an elastomeric frame including a second material; and a liner including a third material, wherein at least one of the first material, the second material, or the third material includes a flavorant and at least one of the first material, the second material, or the third material independently includes a flavorant that provides sweetness.
US10661054B2
A Coude catheter insures proper drainage and reduces tissue damage by using an alignment indication section having an open passageway positioned on a proximal end of the catheter.
US10661053B2
A method of aspirating a vascular occlusion from a remote site is provided. The method includes the steps of advancing a first elongate tubular body through a vascular access site and into a body vessel, advancing a second tubular body distally to extend beyond the first elongate tubular body to reach the remote site, and aspirating thrombus from the site into the lumen by applying pulsatile vacuum to the first elongate tubular body. The second tubular body has a lumen and a length that is shorter than the first elongate tubular body. The pulsatile application of vacuum may cause the distal tip of the second tubular body to open and close like a jaw, which facilitates reshaping the thrombus or biting or nibbling the thrombus material into strands or pieces to facilitate proximal withdrawal under negative pressure through the lumen of the second tubular body.
US10661047B2
A light-irradiating apparatus which emits light for activating a body is provided. The light-irradiating apparatus includes a blue light source, a white light source, and a controller. The controller controls the white light source and the blue light source, and adjusts irradiation intensities of light emitted by the blue light source and the white light source. The controller causes the white light source to continuously maintain an on state and causes the blue light source to repeat an on state and an off state. The controller causes a sum of the irradiation intensity of the light which is emitted by the white light source and the irradiation intensity of the light which is emitted by the blue light source to be greater than or equal to a biological effect threshold at which light produces an effect of activating the body.
US10661042B2
An apparatus for supplying breathing air to a person includes a rebreathing system arranged in the air supply circuit, which removes CO2 at least in part present in the person's expiration air with a CO2 absorber, and treats the expiration air to supply treated air to the person again as inhalation air. The apparatus includes a condensate collection container (9) collecting water forming in the air supply circuit. The condensate collection container (9) is arranged at least in part below a reaction zone (17) of the CO2 absorber (1). At least one heat exchanger (10, 14) is provided in the CO2 absorber, via which heat from the air, which flows through the CO2 absorber and is heated as a result of the exothermic CO2 absorption reaction occurring in the reaction zone of the CO2 absorber, is dissipated.
US10661034B2
Insufflation systems including a plurality of flow rate sensors are disclosed. Each flow rate sensor is configured to measure flow across a different flow rate range, with the combined flow rate ranges of the sensors encompassing the entire flow rate capability of the insufflation system. A controller selects the most appropriate flow rate sensor based on the gas flow required to be delivered to the patient.
US10661033B2
A nozzle and a method of generating an inhalable aerosol from a liquid solution or liquid suspension and a gas by operating the nozzle. A column-like aerosol plume is generated having fluid particles within a particle free sheath of gas, the aerosol plume being generated from a compressed gas interacting within the aerosolizing space with a fluid ejected along the central axis, and generates a Venturi effect entraining gas that flows over the convex outer nozzle surface that together with the particle free sheath keeps the circumferential edge and the outer nozzle surface free of particle deposition. An aerosol exit orifice diameter is at least 1.3 times larger than the fluid exit orifice diameter; and a converging annular pressurized gas channel extending at an acute gas flow angle of 10-30° with respect to a central axis.
US10661031B2
An aerosol delivery system has a nebulizer and a humidifier providing a gas flow to the nebulizer. A controller varies humidity level of the gas flow to the nebulizer so that if the nebulizer is not operating it has about 100% humidity and it is operating the value is less to allow for the humidification effect of the nebulizer. The control may be achieved by dynamically varying proportions of flow through a dry branch and a humidification branch.
US10661024B2
A needle shield remover for removing a needle shield covering a needle on a syringe includes a body having a proximal portion and a distal portion. The distal portion is moveable between a contracted configuration and an expanded configuration in response to opposite movement of the proximal portion. The distal portion includes an internal opening for receiving and at least partially surrounding a needle shield therein. An anchor extends inwardly from the distal portion into engagement with the needle shield when the distal portion is in the contracted configuration to secure the body to the needle shield. A sleeve is in fixed axial arrangement with the proximal portion of the body. The axial engagement maintains the distal portion of the body in the contracted configuration such that force applied to the sleeve away from the body removes the needle shield and body from a syringe.
US10661022B2
A substance delivery device that includes a hypodermic needle with a tube for receiving and containing a volume of a substance. The substance delivery device includes a rod, a portion of which is of a size and shape to fit within the tube of the hypodermic needle. The rod can be displaced into and within the tube to contact and apply a force to a volume of substance contained within the tube to cause, at least in part, the volume of substance to be discharged out of the tube. The substance delivery device includes a rod displacement mechanism that applies a force to the rod to cause the rod to be displaced into and within the tube. The substance delivery device also includes a needle retraction mechanism that is configured to apply a force to the hypodermic needle to cause the hypodermic needle to retract from within a patient.
US10661013B2
The present disclosure relates to an information transmitter having an electronics circuit, said electronics circuit has a transmitter; an antenna operably connected to said transmitter. Memory storage elements are also included having unique identification data with at least one activation element capable of activating said electronics circuit to transmit said unique identification data to external receivers. The present disclosure also relates to a medicament delivery device utilizing the information transmitter.
US10661011B2
A safety syringe (100; 700; 1200) comprising: a barrel (104; 704; 1204) having an opening at an end thereof; a syringe plunger (108; 708; 1208) configured to move within the barrel such that an inward stroke of the syringe plunger causes a substance within the barrel to be expelled from the opening; and a sheath (112; 712; 1212) configured to cover at least partially the opening in the barrel after use of the syringe, wherein the sheath is coupled to the syringe plunger and is configured to decouple from the syringe plunger at a point on the inward stroke such that the sheath is moveable independently of the syringe plunger and further movement of the sheath after decoupling at least partially covers the opening in the barrel.
US10661009B2
A fluid control device includes an interface to a remote fluid monitoring sensor that detects fluid flow in a patient. In some embodiments, a processor within the fluid delivery device is programmed to adjust the delivery or withdrawal of fluids based on the fluid flow signals provided by the sensor. In some embodiments, the fluid control device can display and/or record fluid flow signals thereby acting as a hemodynamic monitor.
US10661006B2
An infusion set component of a fluid infusion device and/or a fluid infusion port component for delivery of fluid to a patient is compatible with a cooperating fluid channel module. The fluid channel module includes a body section having coupling features to mate with a base of the component. The fluid channel module also includes an interior fluid flow channel formed within the body section to receive fluid from the fluid infusion device and/or from a syringe or pen delivery device. The fluid channel module also includes a conduit having a first end in fluid communication with the interior fluid flow channel, and having a second end to deliver the fluid to the patient.
US10661003B2
The invention provides an apparatus of treating water to obtain small water cluster, which comprises one or more illumination devices and one or more holders holding metal particles. The invention also provides a method of preparing the small water cluster and the small water cluster prepared from the apparatus or the method.
US10660974B2
Dioxetane-based chemiluminescence probes, more specifically fluorophore-tethered dioxetane-based chemiluminescence probes and π* acceptor group-containing dioxetane based chemiluminescence probes can be included in compositions. The chemiluminescence probes are useful for both diagnostics and in vivo imaging.
US10660973B2
Provided herein are imaging agents, antidotes to the imaging agents and methods of using the same to image a thrombus or blood clot or thrombin including sites of thrombin accumulation and to diagnose and treat thrombosis. The imaging agents include an aptamer capable of binding the thrombus or thrombin in particular linked to a reporter moiety. The imaging agents may be used to label the thrombus or sites of thrombin accumulation. Antidotes capable of binding to the aptamer in the imaging agent are also provided. The antidotes may further be linked to a quencher capable of quenching the reporter moiety.
US10660962B2
The present embodiments may relate to topically delivered compounded medications for the treatment of scar tissue, skin disorders, and/or other ailments. In one aspect, a transdermal cream or gel may provide for the effective administration of multiple medications simultaneously. Preferably, a silicone-based gel may be provided as a base composition and may have a non-zero percentage of silicone or silicone variant. The silicone-based gel may comprise cyclopentasiloxane, polysilicone-11, dimethicone, and C30-45 alkyl cetearyl dimethicone crosspolymer, and include several active ingredients, such as glucocorticoids, antihistamines, and nerve depressants. The silicone-based gel may include a combination of fluticasone, loratadine, and gabapentin. The concentrations of fluticasone and loratadine may be relatively low, while that of gabapentin moderately high. The silicone-based gel may also have one or more local anesthetics, such as prilocaine and/or lidocaine. The silicone-based gel may include additional active ingredients, such as NSAIDs, anticonvulsants, antidepressants, muscle relaxants, and/or other active ingredients.
US10660949B2
A vaccine composition including a plant virus particle linked to an HER2 antigen is described. The vaccine composition can be used for methods of treating or preventing an HER2-expressing cancer in a subject by administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of the vaccine composition.
US10660945B2
A flowable hemostatic gel composition is provided for use at a site of a defect within a biological tissue. The flowable hemostatic gel composition includes a flowable gel solution that includes a biopolymer dissolved in a first solvent. The biopolymer is configured to cross-link with red blood cells at the site to facilitate clot formation at the site. The flowable hemostatic gel composition also includes at least one additional active agent.
US10660942B2
The invention features methods and compositions for assessing risk, particularly immediate risk, of thrombotic events in patients with suspected or known vascular disease, and more particularly to assessing risk of thrombotic events in patients with coronary artery disease, particularly acute myocardial infarction, stroke, unstable angina, stable angina, or restenosis. Risk of thrombosis can be assessed by analysis of platelet reactivity and/or velocity of thrombin or fibrin formation, and determining whether the patient has a score associated above a risk threshold value. In other embodiments, risk of thrombosis in a patient is evaluated in the context of a profile generated from values obtained from one or more assays that evaluate various factors associated with thrombosis and/or atherosclerosis.
US10660934B2
A peptide which has a neuroprotective action, a neuroprotective drug and neuropathic treatment containing the peptide, and a preventive or alleviative pharmaceutical composition. The peptide comprises proline-rich protein 4 having the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 or a partial sequence thereof, or a modified sequence thereof, which has a neuroprotective action.
US10660924B2
The present application relates to a method for obtaining and purifying saponins from plant extracts, through a series of salting and filtrations steps, to provide high purity saponin extracts on large scale.
US10660914B2
A pharmaceutical composition has a stuffy nose deblocking activity. The composition includes a hyperosmolar aqueous solution of a non-ionic osmolality adjusting agent, optionally in combination with an ionic osmolality adjusting agent, wherein the composition further includes iota-carrageenan and/or kappa-carrageenan as an active antiviral ingredient in an antivirally effective amount, with the proviso that the composition in its ready-for-use formulation contains no more than 0-1.5% w/v of the ionic osmolality adjusting agent. The composition is useful for deblocking a stuffy nose and for prophylactic or therapeutic intervention of a number of viral infections of the upper respiratory tract.
US10660909B2
What is described is a method for treating cancer in a patient in need of such treatment through the use of an antagonist to CXCR1 and/or CXCR2 receptors by administering a therapeutically effective amount of an antagonist of CXCR1 and/or CXCR2, or pharmaceutical compositions thereof, either alone as monotherapy, or in combination with at least one other anticancer therapy.
US10660908B2
The present invention relates to a topical spray composition comprising a biologically active vitamin D derivative or analogue and a corticosteroid, and its use in the treatment of dermal diseases and conditions.
US10660893B2
The present invention is directed to spirocyclic compounds which are inhibitors of tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH), particularly isoform 1 (TPH1), that are useful in the treatment of diseases or disorders associated with peripheral serotonin including, for example, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, pulmonary, inflammatory, metabolic, and low bone mass diseases, as well as serotonin syndrome, and cancer.
US10660881B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer, or stereoisomer thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds for treatment of joint damage or joint injury in a mammal, and for inducing differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into chondrocytes.
US10660877B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I) N-oxide, or salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, m, n, and p are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds as inhibitors of signaling through Toll-like receptor 7, or 8, or 9, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. These compounds are useful in treating inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
US10660875B1
Provided are compositions comprising unequal mixtures of (R)-amisulpride and (S)-amisulpride, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, where the amount of (R)-amisulpride is greater than the amount of (S)-amisulpride, compositions and medicaments comprising the same used for the treatment of various diseases and disorders, and methods of using same for the treatment of various diseases and disorders, including, but not limited to, dosage regimens. In addition, provided are various formulations thereof, including, but not limited to, formulations employing polymorphs of enantiomeric amisulpride.
US10660871B2
The instant disclosure features, among other things, compositions and methods for treating an autism spectrum disorder in a human. The compositions comprise an effective amount of: (1) an isothiocyanate (e.g., sulforaphane or a derivative thereof) or (2) a glucosinolate, and optionally, an enzyme, to thereby treat an autism spectrum disorder and/or reduce the severity of at least one symptom of the disorder. Methods for preparing such compositions are also featured.
US10660864B2
A composition and method for the use of Panax quinquefolius for the attenuation of Cannabis-induced dysphoria where dosage can be effectively administered in a gum base cold pressed into a tablet containing at least 300 mg of Panax quinquefolius and Maltitol, Sorbitol, Isomalt, Xylitol, natural & artificial flavors, vegetarian magnesium stearate, Sucralose and Silicon dioxide. A composition and method for the use of falcarinol for the attenuation of Cannabis-induced dysphoria and reverse cannabis tolerance where the dosage of at least 30 mg can be effectively administered for buccal absorption.
US10660858B2
Controlled release and taste masking compositions containing one or more active principles inglobated in a three-component matrix structure, i.e. a structure formed by successive amphiphilic, lipophilic or inert matrices and finally inglobated or dispersed in hydrophilic matrices. The use of a plurality of systems for the control of the dissolution of the active ingredient modulates the dissolution rate of the active ingredient in aqueous and/or biological fluids, thereby controlling the release kinetics in the gastrointestinal tract.
US10660846B2
A composition and method for lightening skin includes applying a skin care composition including cell culture extract of Earliella scabrosa. A method for culturing Earliella scabrosa including using an inducer, select carbohydrates and optimal processing condition produces increased skin lightening properties of the cell culture extract.
US10660842B2
The disclosure relates to a cosmetic composition for the temporary shaping of hair, containing a combination of an anionic acrylate polymer and an amphoteric polymer. The cosmetic composition provides an extremely good moisture resistance.
US10660839B2
The invention is directed to the use of at least one peptide of formula: X-(Xaa1)n-Pro*-(Xaa2)m-Y (I) With: —n=0, 1 or 2; —m=0 or 1 and if m=0 then n≠0 —Xaa1 is: —An hydrophobic aminoacid selected from Alanine (Ala, A), Valine (Val, V), Methionine (Met, M), Leucine (Leu, L), Isoleucine (Ile, I), Phenylalanine (Phe, F), Proline (Pro, P) and analogues and derivatives thereof; —A polar aminoacid selected from Serine (Ser, S), Threonine (Thr, T), Tyrosine (Tyr, Y), Asparagine (Asn, N), Glutamine (Gln, Q) and analogues and derivatives thereof; —or Glycine (Gly, G); When n=2 the two aminoacids Xaa1 can be the same or different; —Xaa2 is: —An hydrophobic aminoacid selected from Alanine (Ala, A), Valine (Val, V), Methionine (Met, M), Leucine (Leu, L), Isoleucine (Ile, I), Phenylalanine (Phe, F), Proline (Pro, P) and analogues and derivatives thereof; —A basic aminoacid selected from Arginine (Arg, R), Lysine (Lys, K) and Histidine (His, H) and analogues and derivatives thereof; —Glycine (Gly, G) or Serine (Ser, S); —At the N terminal end of the peptide, X is selected from H, —CO—R1 and —SO2—R1; —At the C terminal end of the peptide, Y is selected from OH, OR1, NH2, NHR1 or NR1R2, R1 and R2 being independently from each other, selected from an alkyle, aryle, aralkyle, alkylaryl, alkoxy and aryloxy group, that can be linear, branched, cyclic, poly-cyclic, non-saturated, hydroxylated, carbonylated, phosphorylated and/or sulphured, with the possibility to have in said group skeleton a O, S and/or N heteroatom; —Pro* corresponding to a Proline, an analogue or derivative thereof; Excluding the peptides where X═H and Y═OH, for a non therapeutical cosmetic pro-pigmenting treatment of skin. The invention also encompasses new tripeptides of formula (I) suitable for a non therapeutical cosmetic treatment of skin.
US10660837B2
The present invention relates to an oral composition and an oral plaque dispersion agent that can effectively disperse plaque firmly adhered to a tooth surface by being applied to the oral cavity.The oral composition comprises the following components (A), (B), and (C): (A) an olefin sulfonate having 14 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms; (B) a hydroxy alkane sulfonate having 14 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms; and (C) sorbitol, wherein the content of the component (A) is 3 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less based on the total content of the component (A) and the component (B).
US10660833B2
Shell-structured particles for sunscreen applications are provided herein. A method includes selecting one or more particles to serve as a core material in a sunscreen composition, wherein each of the one or more particles comprises a band gap within a predetermined range, and wherein said selecting is based on a desired absorption spectrum of the sunscreen composition; coating the one or more particles with at least one layer of zinc oxide.
US10660821B2
Provided is a compact lightweight transport box in which the internal temperature distribution is minimized and accurate temperature regulation can be performed. The transport box includes an insulating container, an internal heat conducting container mounted in the insulating container, and an insulating cover body with a cover internal side heat conducting plate exposed on an inner surface facing the opening part of the internal heat conducting container, in which, with the opening part of the insulating container closed by the insulating cover body, the cover internal side heat conducting plate is near an opening end of the internal heat conducting container.
US10660820B2
A unit has been designed to be applied within the area of physiotherapy and is applicable to both medical and athletic therapeutic programs to provide correction of functional states of the spine and the nervous system to eliminate nervous overloads, fatigue, and stress. Moreover, the unit corrects spinal disorders, paravertebral muscular disorders and can be used as a part of mobilizing procedures to act on biologically active body points, and as a part of therapeutic procedures to relieve the spine.
US10660818B1
A roller system is disclosed that includes a roller axle with a longitudinal axis that houses at least a portion of a latch assembly. The latch assembly includes a latch with an exposed portion that moves substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis. The system also has a roller assembly that removably fits around the roller axle and has a latch catch. The system has two configurations: (1) a locked configuration, where the exposed portion of the latch obstructs the latch catch from sliding, thereby locking the roller assembly onto the roller axle; and (2) an unlocked configuration, where the exposed portion of the latch is moved towards the longitudinal axis, thereby allowing the latch catch to slide past, separating the roller assembly from the roller axle.
US10660817B2
A spine mobilization apparatus capable of supporting a spine segment to allow posteroanterior or rotational mobilization of one or more vertebra of the spine.
US10660815B2
A clamping claw is disclosed. The clamping claw includes a base body with a support surface that rests on a slide rail and a clamp assembly. The clamp assembly includes a shaft mounted rotatably about a first rotational axis and a support element pivotably mounted about a second rotational axis. The clamping claw includes an activating member connected to the clamp assembly and configured to place the clamp assembly into a locked state in which the support surface and the support element both rest on the slide rail. The support element is moveable between a starting position and support position via the activating member. When the support element is in the support position, the clamp assembly is in the locked state. The clamping claw includes a locking mechanism to prevent movement of the activating member if the support element is in an intermediate position between the starting and support positions.
US10660810B1
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an apparatus and/or method involving respective sets of interleaved elongated pressure cells, which operate to inflate and deflate independently of one another. The pressure cells further provide shear relief by deflecting along a direction of movement along a width of/perpendicular to a length of the elongated pressure cells.
US10660808B2
This nursing bed has a fixed member forming a fixed bed surface of a bed portion on which a care receiver lies, a movable member which can be moved relative to the fixed member and forms a movable bed surface of the bed portion, and a movable member driving unit for driving the movable member. The fixed member has a plurality of slender parts each extending in the lateral direction or the longitudinal direction. The movable member has a mobile body which can be protruded upward relative to the fixed bed surface and also moved in at least one of the longitudinal direction and the lateral direction via an interval between the plurality of slender parts by the movable member driving unit. The posture of the care receiver lying on the bed can be changed into his/her optimal position without difficulty.
US10660803B2
An absorbent article which can be more readily adaptable to meet the needs of the individual wearer of the absorbent article. The absorbent article can have a topsheet layer, a backsheet layer, and an absorbent core between the topsheet layer and the backsheet layer. The backsheet layer can have a garment attachment mechanism located on a garment facing surface of the backsheet layer. The absorbent article can further have a protection layer situated over and engaged with the garment attachment mechanism. The protection layer can be capable of being at least partially dis-engaged from the garment attachment mechanism. The protection layer of the absorbent article can be utilized by the wearer to provide additional area of coverage as deemed suitable by the wearer of the absorbent article.
US10660789B2
The invention provides 1,4-dihydropyridine derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1 is optionally substituted C6-24aryl group or 5 to 6 membered heteroaryl group comprising 1 to 3 nitrogen atoms or other heteroatoms like oxygen and sulphur, and combinations thereof; R2 and R3 are independently hydrogen or C1-6alkyl group; R4 and R5 are independently hydrogen, C1-6alkyl group optionally substituted with amino, mono- or di(C1-6alkyl)amino, or with 5 to 24 membered optionally fused heterocyclic ring attached by nitrogen and optionally comprising additional 1 to 3 N, O, S heteroatoms and optionally substituted with C1-6alkyl group or C1-6 alkoxy group; R6 is C1-6alkyl, C3-7cycloalkyl, C3-7cycloalkylC1-6alkyl or arylC1-6alkyl group; and stereoisomers including enantiomers, diastereomers, racemic mixtures, mixture of enantiomers and combination thereof, as well as polymorphs, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, esters and prodrugs thereof for use in the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of a disorder mediated by heat shock proteins.
US10660778B2
Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided. More particularly, apparatuses and methods for enabling volume-occupying intragastric devices to pass through the digestive system are provided.
US10660777B2
An apparatus for treating obesity in a human or animal mammal patient. The apparatus comprising a first volume filling device segment and a second volume filling device segment. The first and second volume filling device segments are adapted to be assembled into an implantable volume filling device of a controlled size. Each one of the first and second volume filling device segment comprises at least one interconnecting structure. The interconnecting structure of the second volume filling device segment is adapted to be formed fitted, such that the first and second volume filling device segment can be assembled into the volume filling device. The assembled volume filling device is adapted to be at least substantially invaginated by a stomach wall portion of a patient, with the outer surface of the device resting against the stomach wall, such that the volume of the food cavity is reduced in size.
US10660769B2
Devices, systems, and methods configured to assess the severity of a blockage in a vessel and, in particular, a stenosis in a blood vessel, provide measurements of a vessel that allow assessment of the vessel and, in particular, any stenosis or lesion of the vessel, simulate diagnostic visualizations a first visualization device and a second visualization device. For example, the methods can include displaying, on a first visualization device, an image of the vessel with treatment diagnostic visualizations based on obtained pressure measurements and displaying, on a second visualization device, a portion of the image of the vessel with diagnostic visualizations based on the obtained pressure measurements, wherein the portion of the image of the vessel displayed on the second visualization device is a close up of a region of interest of the vessel.
US10660768B2
A suspension liner is provided for use as an interface between a residual limb and a prosthetic socket. The liner has an elongate, generally conical liner body formed from at least one material segment that is at least radially elastically extensible from a relaxed non-extended condition and including proximal and distal end areas, and a seal component connected to the liner body and having an exterior surface defining at least one exterior seal protruding from the exterior surface and extending radially outwardly from the seal component relative to a longitudinal axis of the liner body. The at least one interior seal is located along an interior surface of the seal component and defines at least one blade extending obliquely toward the liner body. A portion of the seal component carrying the interior seal extends freely and is movable relative to the liner body.
US10660765B2
An intervertebral implant includes a three-dimensional body and a securing plate. The three-dimensional body includes a front surface and a rear surface. The three-dimensional body further includes a plurality of boreholes for accommodating fixation elements. The intervertebral implant also includes a front plate disposed at the front surface of the three-dimensional body and has a plurality of boreholes. A securing plate can be fastened to the front plate.
US10660759B2
A set of surgical instruments for an artificial hip joint implant and, more specifically, a set of improved surgical instruments, can be used in direct anterior approach hip replacement surgery and are capable of minimizing damage, such as muscle damage, which may arise during surgery, by resolving problems that existing surgical instruments possess.
US10660758B2
An orthopedic implant has a removable handling cover coupled thereto which includes a thin-walled layer extending over a grasping portion of the outer surface. An outer container can sealingly house the orthopedic implant within a sterile environment and support the orthopedic implant in an orientation that presents the handling cover for grasping. A surgeon can manually grasp, handle and manipulate the implant into an implantation position, and remove the handling cover from the implant during implant surgery, and without the need to directly contact any surface of the orthopedic implant itself. Related methods of providing such an implant assembly and of reducing infection from contamination during implantation surgery are also disclosed.
US10660755B2
A torque-delivery tool includes a cable and a distal coupling element. A tissue anchor includes an anchor head, which includes a shaft having a proximal coupling element. The distal and proximal coupling elements are shaped so as to define corresponding interlocking surfaces. An outer tether-securing element of the anchor is shaped so as to define a lateral opening through which a tether is disposed, and at least partially radially surrounds the shaft and a spring. In an unlocked state, a distal spring depressor restrains the spring in an axially-compressed state. In a locked state, the distal and proximal coupling elements are not coupled with one another, the distal spring depressor does not restrain the spring in the axially-compressed state, and the spring is in an axially-expanded state, in which the spring inhibits the sliding of the tether through the lateral opening by pressing the tether against the outer tether-securing element.
US10660752B2
A delivery device for an implantable medical device includes an inner shaft extending in a longitudinal direction and an outer sheath adapted to surround at least a portion of the inner shaft, the outer sheath being slideable relative to the inner shaft in the longitudinal direction. A compartment defined between the inner shaft and the outer sheath is adapted to receive the medical device in an assembled condition. A retaining assembly positioned at one end of the compartment includes a first member rotatable with respect to the inner shaft, and a second member rotationally fixed with respect to the inner shaft. The medical device includes at least one retainer adapted to be received within at least one retainer slot of the first member. This arrangement enables the medical device to rotate within the compartment as the delivery device is advanced to an implantation site.
US10660744B2
This invention is related to a cartridge Injector System developed to be used for intraocular lens implantation, that enables the lens injection via a microsurgical incision in the eye and basically wraps the lens (L) by holding from the edges and provides the lens implantation with this method, also related with twisting body (7) keeping the lens in a closed environment.
US10660743B2
An intraocular lens has central lens body at least one haptic extending from the central lens body. The haptic has a lobular configuration. The lens body and the haptic having a folded configuration for implantation within the eye. The lens having a first deployed configuration wherein the lens body is positioned at a location substantially behind sealed anterior and posterior portions of the lens capsule with the at least one haptic positioned at a location substantially over top of the sealed anterior and posterior portions of the lens capsule. The lens having a second deployed configuration wherein the lens body is positioned at a location substantially in front of the sealed anterior and posterior portions of the lens capsule with the at least one haptic positioned at a location substantially over behind the sealed anterior and posterior portions of the lens capsule.
US10660742B2
An expandable breast implant eliminates the need for multiple procedures and injections and is also capable of self-administered or automatic expansion that is safe in any environment. The expandable breast implant design includes an upper matrix, a lower matrix, and a middle layer. The upper matrix comprises a plurality of cells containing a first reagent. The lower matrix comprises a plurality of wells containing a second reagent. The middle layer acts as a barrier between the upper matrix and the lower matrix. The middle layer may be activated and controlled to form openings. The first reagent from the cells in the upper matrix mixes with the second reagent from the wells in the lower matrix through the selected openings in the middle layer. The reagents react to form a gas that permeates through a hydrophobic membrane into an expandable shell to enlarge the breast implant.
US10660722B2
A surgical instrument includes an end effector, a shaft assembly, and a torque wrench integrally connected with the shaft assembly. The shaft assembly has an acoustic waveguide extending therethrough and the end effector projects distally from the shaft assembly. The acoustic waveguide has a proximal end portion configured to rotatably couple with an ultrasonic transducer assembly. The torque wrench is configured to transmit torque applied to the acoustic waveguide up to a predetermined torque. A portion of the torque wrench is configured to deflect upon receipt of torque greater than the predetermined torque. Accordingly, the portion of the torque wrench slips relative to the acoustic waveguide for limiting coupling of the acoustic waveguide to the ultrasonic transducer assembly to the predetermined torque.
US10660718B2
An endoscopic surgical assembly houses at least one force transmitting member that is connected to a surgical attachment supported on the endoscopic surgical assembly. The endoscopic surgical assembly includes an elongate shaft having a proximal end and a distal end configured for connection to a surgical attachment. At least one longitudinal cavity is formed in an outer surface of the elongate shaft and extends between the proximal and distal ends of the elongate shaft. The at least one longitudinal cavity is configured for disposal of the at least one force transmitting member therein such that the at least one force transmitting member is translatable relative to the elongate shaft.
US10660708B2
A method for implementing a dynamic three-dimensional lung map view for navigating a probe inside a patient's lungs includes loading a navigation plan into a navigation system, the navigation plan including a planned pathway shown in a 3D model generated from a plurality of CT images, inserting the probe into a patient's airways, registering a sensed location of the probe with the planned pathway, selecting a target in the navigation plan, presenting a view of the 3D model showing the planned pathway and indicating the sensed location of the probe, navigating the probe through the airways of the patient's lungs toward the target, iteratively adjusting the presented view of the 3D model showing the planned pathway based on the sensed location of the probe, and updating the presented view by removing at least a part of an object forming part of the 3D model.
US10660707B2
A method includes receiving a computerized tomography (CT) image comprising voxels of a body part of a subject, segmenting the image so as to identify a surface of a skin and a surface of a bone in the image, measuring respective minimum distances to the bone from a plurality of points on the surface of the skin, and rendering an image of the surface of the skin while visually coding the rendered image so as to indicate the respective minimum distances.
US10660702B2
Systems, devices, and methods for electroporation ablation therapy are disclosed, with the device including a set of splines coupled to a catheter for medical ablation therapy. Each spline of the set of splines may include a set of electrodes formed on that spline. The set of splines may be configured for translation to transition between a first configuration and a second configuration. The devices described herein may be used to form a lesion via focal ablation.
US10660700B2
An irrigated balloon catheter for use in an ostium of a pulmonary vein, includes a flex circuit electrode assembly adapted for circumferential contact with the ostium when the balloon is inflated. Adapted for both diagnostic and therapeutic applications and procedures, the balloon catheter may be used with a lasso catheter or focal catheter. The flex circuit electrode assembly includes a substrate, a contact electrode on an outer surface of the substrate, the contact electrode having a “fishbone” configuration with a longitudinally elongated portion and a plurality of transversal fingers, and a wiring electrode on an inner surface of the substrate, and conductive vias extending through the substrate electrically coupling the contact electrode and the writing electrodes. Microelectrodes with exclusion zones are strategically positioned relative to the electrodes. The electrodes may also be split into electrode portions.
US10660695B2
A system includes a medical device and a charging device. A sterile barrier may be interposed between the medical device and the charging device. The medical device includes an integral power source and an active element. The charging device is configured to charge the integral power source. The charging device may charge the integral power source through direct contact between features of the charging device and features the medical device. The charging device may alternatively charge the integral power source wirelessly, such as through inductive coupling. The medical device may include conductive prongs that are retained by the charging device. The charging device may physically couple with the medical device via magnets. The medical device and the charging device may be provided together in a sterile package as a kit. The kit may also include a reclamation bag to facilitate reclamation of electrical components.
US10660692B2
An apparatus includes a body, a shaft assembly, and an end effector. The end effector includes an ultrasonic blade and a clamp arm assembly. The ultrasonic blade is in acoustic communication with an acoustic waveguide of the shaft assembly. The clamp arm assembly is pivotable toward and away from the ultrasonic blade. The clamp arm assembly includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first and second electrodes are operable to cooperate to apply bipolar RF energy to tissue.
US10660688B2
A cryoprotective device includes a hollow cryoprotective probe having a distal tip, a removable obturator, and at least one integral temperature sensor monitoring temperature at least adjacent the distal tip. An injector is able to inject a cryoprotective substance (CPS) through the cryoprotective probe and out the distal tip when the obturator is removed. The CPS is of a material that prevents freezing of a substance at which it is injected when adjacent cryotherapy occurs. A processor monitors temperature of the at least one the temperature sensor and can indicate if a preset limit is exceeded.
US10660686B2
A deployment device for a tissue repair system includes a front delivery assembly that is detachable from a base assembly of the deployment device. The front delivery assembly includes at least one prosthesis and at least one driven assembly that actuates the at least one prosthesis. The base assembly includes a driving assembly that may engage the at least one driven assembly of the at least one prosthesis. The front delivery assembly can be rotated so that the position of a prosthesis in the front delivery assembly is moved in and out of alignment with the driving assembly. A kit of parts may be provided that includes a base assembly as well as two or more detachable front delivery assemblies.
US10660685B2
A device for mixing a bone material with a liquid is provided. The device comprises a chamber having a proximal end and a distal end, and the bone material disposed within the chamber, the bone material comprising a coherent mass of milled and lyophilized demineralized bone fibers; and a plunger having at least a portion slidably disposed within the proximal end of the chamber and configured to dispense the bone material mixed with liquid from the distal end of the chamber, when the plunger is in an extended position.
US10660684B2
The present invention relates to a surgical screw capable of self-locking and a fusion device using the same. The surgical screw includes: a screw body having a body thread formed on an outer circumferential surface thereof, and a body driving groove formed in an upper portion thereof; and a head part rotatably fixed with respect to the screw body so as to be moved in an axial direction of the screw body, wherein, when the head part rotates relative to the screw body, the head part is spaced apart from the screw body with a predetermined distance, thereby causing the threads of the head part and the screw body to become discontinuous, and thus the surgical screw is brought into a locked state. The surgical screw may also be included in a fusion device in a different form by coupling with a plate or a cage.
US10660683B2
A method is provided for sterile packaging of a Kirschner wire (K-wire) and cap for shipping and storage, such that the K-wire and cap may be removed from the sterile packaging and used during a surgery. The method comprises sterile packaging the K-wire into a first container, sterile packaging the cap into a second container, and then bundling the first and second containers into a third container. In some embodiments, the first container may be comprised of a sterile interior environment within a double tube container, and the second container may be comprised of peel pouch configured to be unsealed during the surgery. In some embodiments, the K-wire and the cap may be placed together onto a mounting card that is then sterile packaged into a peel pouch that may be unsealed during the surgery.
US10660680B2
A bone treating device has a bone plate and a bone screw. The bone plate has an opening which penetrates therethrough and has a female screw part having a plurality of thread grooves formed on an inner surface of the opening. The bone screw has a shaft part capable of penetrating the opening of the bone plate and a head part provided at a proximal end of the shaft part. The head part has on an outer surface thereof a male screw part having a plurality of screw threads threadedly engageable with the thread grooves of the female screw part formed on the inner surface of the opening. The bone screw has a threaded engagement start guiding portion formed by extending screw threads whose number is fewer by at least one than the number of screw threads formed in the male screw part to a threaded engagement start side.
US10660679B2
The present invention relates to a surgical screw capable of self-locking and a fusion device using the same. The screw includes: a screw body having a body main thread formed on an outer circumferential surface thereof, a body locking thread spaced apart from the body main thread with an offset portion interposed therebetween, and a body driving groove formed in the upper portion thereof; and a sleeve having a sleeve thread formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof to be screwed with the body locking thread, and a sleeve stopper spaced downwards from the sleeve thread so as to support the body locking thread. The surgical screw may also be included in a fusion device in a different form by coupling with a plate or a cage.
US10660676B2
Implants, devices, instruments, systems and methods for correcting bone deformities in the lower extremity are disclosed. Specifically, implants, devices, instruments, systems and methods used for hammertoe procedures are disclosed.
US10660674B2
A device for treatment of the spine comprising one or more vertebral attachments, in which the vertebral attachments contain one or more magnets that provide physiologic attractive or repulsive forces to affect the interaction between adjacent vertebrae. The vertebral attachments may also comprise one or more connecting components that affix the magnets to the vertebrae. In addition, there are methods for treatment of the spine comprising implantation of the device.
US10660673B2
Devices and methods useful in surgical processes that require structural attachment to bone such as spinal vertebrae. More specifically, an improved bone implant having a band there through for the purpose of correcting and/or preventing curvature of the spine.
US10660672B2
In embodiments of the invention, there is provided an external fixation system comprising a first plate and a second plate and connectors therebetween. Some or all of the connectors may be adjustable in length or angular position or both. Angular adjustment may comprise a fixed amount of friction and an adjustable amount of friction, and the permitted angular deflection can vary around the perimeter of the angular joint. An adjustable-length connector may comprise a tiltable nut that can either engage or not engage a threaded rod to provide both coarse adjustment and fine adjustment. Tactile or audible feedback may be provided.Other accessories may include: provisional alignment clamps to position parts of the patient's body; a K-wire alignment guide; a K-wire support post; a universal fixation bolt; a plurality of half-pins that can be used with a common support post or block; and a resilient retention device.
US10660669B2
A method includes coupling, at least temporarily, a support member adjacent to a target tissue. The support member is configured to support the target tissue and to define a path along which a cutting device can move. The method includes moving the cutting device along the path defined by the support member to cut and/or dilate the target tissue. In some embodiments, the method optionally includes disposing a cannula of a device within the cut defined in target tissue. The cannula is coupled to the target tissue such that a lumen defined by the cannula is in fluid communication with a volume defined at least in part by the target tissue.
US10660664B2
A vibration transmitting member for use with a clamp member. The vibration transmitting member provided with vibration from an ultrasonic transducer and including: a body having a distal portion with a surface and an opposite surface, the body further having a proximal portion; wherein: the body extending along a longitudinal axis extending from the proximal toward the distal portion, the surface opposes the clamp member and having a ridge extending along the longitudinal axis, the ridge extends toward the clamp member in a thickness direction more than other portions of the surface, the opposite surface opposes the surface and having a projection extending along the longitudinal axis, the projection protrudes more than other portions of the opposite surface in the thickness direction, and a maximum thickness of the distal portion is smaller than a maximum width of the distal portion in a width direction perpendicular to the thickness direction.
US10660661B2
A dual compression and distraction tool for surgical operations, the tool including a first arm having a first pivot axis, a second pivot axis, a first lever, and a first dual purpose jaw, a second arm having a third pivot axis, a fourth pivot axis, a second lever, and a second dual purpose jaw, wherein, in a first position, the first arm is pivotably connected to the second arm such that the first pivot axis is merged with the third pivot axis, to form an distraction tool, and wherein, in a second position, the first arm is pivotably connected to the second arm such that the second pivot axis is merged with the fourth pivot axis, to form a compression tool.
US10660648B2
A vascular occlusion device includes a braided filament mesh structure defining a longitudinal axis. The mesh structure has a relaxed configuration in which it has an axial array of radially-extending occlusion regions, each of which has a proximal side and a distal side meeting at a peripheral edge, the sides of each occlusion region forming a first angle relative to the longitudinal axis. Each occlusion region is axially separated from the adjacent occlusion region by a reduced-diameter connecting region. The mesh structure is radially compressible to a compressed state in which it is deployed intravascularly to a target site through a catheter. Upon deployment, the device radially expands to a constrained configuration in which the peripheral edges of the occlusion regions engage the vascular wall, and the sides of the occlusion regions form a second angle relative to the longitudinal axis that is smaller than the first angle.
US10660643B2
Devices, systems and/or methods for repairing soft tissue, such as, a lacerated tendon. A repair device includes a frame having a tubular structure with a longitudinal length and struts at least partially defining the tubular structure. The frame includes a first portion and a second portion with an intermediate portion therebetween, each extending along the longitudinal length. The intermediate portion is configured to substantially maintain a fixed position and is configured to be positioned over first and second ends of the lacerated tendon to substantially maintain the first end abutted against the second end. The first portion and the second portion of the frame are configured to be positioned over separate portions of the tendon and configured to move and elongate along a length of the respective first portion and second portion of the frame as the portions of the tendon elongate.
US10660635B2
A suturing device includes a clamshell body having a first side coupled to a second side by a hinge. The first side and the second side each have an end opposite the hinge. A spool is coupled to the clamshell body and rotatable relative to the clamshell body. A suture is wound around the spool. The ends of the first side and the second side may lock together to capture an end of the suture.
US10660633B2
A suture anchor made of a single length of wire that forms a suture retaining loop having two diverging legs, each having a pointed end. The transverse spacing of the diverging legs is greater than the diameter of the bone tunnel. The suture anchor may be spring loaded and set into the bone tunnel so that the distal points of each diverging leg are below the surface of a bone cortex, the sharp distal points of each diverging leg expand out laterally under pressure and penetrate the bone tunnel wall prohibiting removal of the suture anchor. The diverging legs further penetrate the bone tunnel wall in response to applied withdrawal forces.
US10660627B2
Multiple vascular wall penetrations are formed and sealed in a single blood vessel, typically a vein, for performing cardiac and other catheter-based procedures. Access sheaths are placed in two or more tissue tracts each having a vascular wall penetration at a distal end and into a lumen of the blood vessel. A catheter is advanced though each of the access sheaths to perform a therapeutic or diagnostic procedure. A vascular closure device is introduced through each access sheath, typically sequentially, and an occlusion element at a distal end of the device is deployed against an inner wall of the blood vessel in a manner so that the adjacent access sheath does not interfere or overlap with the deployed occlusion element. The vascular penetration at the distal end in that tissue tract may then be sealed prior to using another vascular closure device to seal a caudally adjacent vascular wall penetration.
US10660618B2
The present invention discloses a disposable negative-pressure anterior chamber Paracentesis syringe which belongs to the technical field of medical supplies. It comprises nine parts, including a needle cap, a Paracentesis syringe, a needle base, an internal needle, a protective cover of the internal needle, an airlock, a needle tube, a collection tube and a collection tube rack. The invention has the advantages that it fixes the Paracentesis syringe during puncture and limits the depth of the needle insertion, releases the aqueous humor slowly to prevent a sudden drop of the intraocular pressure, reduces the risk of the intraocular infection by separating the anterior chamber from outside and the collection tube can collect and store the aqueous humor directly.
US10660616B2
There are provided an acoustic wave image generating apparatus and a control method thereof for making an insertion needle clear. A first ultrasound image is generated using ultrasound echo signals obtained from a first plurality of ultrasound transducers. From the first ultrasound image, an evaluation value indicating the discontinuity of a needle is calculated for an image of an insertion needle. In a case where the calculated evaluation value is less than a threshold value, a second ultrasound image is generated using ultrasound echo signals obtained from a second plurality of ultrasound transducers whose number is larger than the first plurality. The first ultrasound image is displayed if the evaluation value is equal to or greater than the threshold value, and the second ultrasound image is displayed if the evaluation value is less than the threshold value.
US10660601B2
The present disclosure is related to systems and methods for monitoring a medical device. The medical device may include a tube configured to generate radiation rays and a detector configured to receive radiation rays emitted from the tube. The tube may include an anode target and a filament. The detector may include a plurality of detecting units. The method may include obtaining imaging data acquired by the detector via detecting radiation rays emitted from the tube. The method may also include determining a first feature parameter associated with the radiation rays based on the imaging data. The method may further include monitoring the medical device based on the first feature parameter associated with the radiation rays.
US10660600B2
A device for measuring image quality properties of an image acquisition device while the subject or object is being scanned contains an embedded grid pattern to measure spatial distortion along the length of the image acquisition table. The device also contains reference materials, which may run along the length of the device, for measuring fundamental imaging properties such as signal strength, noise, and resolution. Automated software can detect the device within an acquisition, measure its properties, and provide data and reports on the quality of the image acquisition.
US10660597B2
The present invention relates to a method for estimating perfusion indices (PI) in a mammal (200), e.g. a human. Data (DAT, DAT′) representative of a contrast agent concentration as a function of time of an injected contrast agent is obtained from a medical imaging system (100). Perfusion indices (PI) are found by applying a parametric model (PM) for capillary transit time distributions as a function of time, and a minorize-maximization (MM) type procedure, such as an expectation-maximization (EM) type procedure, with regularization. The minorize-maximization type procedure has an exact analytical expression for the variance of an observation error of the contrast agent (Cε) in a non-linear observation model for the contrast agent concentration used in the maximization step. Clinical tests performed for 7 patients show improved MTT mapping as compared to singular value decomposition (SVD), and reduced sensitivity to delay.
US10660590B2
An arrangement includes a tablet computer unit having a tablet computer and a first connection unit and a gantry of a medical imaging device having a casing and a second connection unit. In at least one embodiment, the casing has a recess, in which the tablet computer unit can be positively mounted. Further, the second connection unit is arranged in a region of the recess such that, via the first connection unit and the second connection unit, a connection can be formed, which counteracts removal of the tablet computer unit from the recess.
US10660587B2
Radiation therapy systems and their components, including secondary radiation shields. At least some versions of the disclosed systems combine a radiation delivery device, a primary radiation shielding device, and a secondary shielding layer into an integrated, modular unit. This is accomplished by using a small direct beam shield capable of blocking a primary beam from a radiation delivery device. In turn, a thinner shielding layer can be used to surround the radiation delivery device and primary shielding device, enabling a single modular unit to be delivered to an installation site. In some embodiments, a bed may be disposed within the secondary shielding layer. In some embodiments, the system is configured to provide up to 4-pi (4π) steradians of radiation coverage to the bed from the radiation delivery device.
US10660574B2
A flexible probe has an assembly in its distal end that includes a transmitter and a receiver that receives signals from the transmitter for sensing a position of the receiver relative to the transmitter. A pair of flat spring coils disposed between the transmitter and the receiver deform in response to pressure exerted on the distal tip when the distal tip engages a wall of a body cavity.
US10660573B2
A sensor guide wire for intravascular measurements of at least one physiological or other variable in a living body, comprising a proximal region, a distal sensor region, and a tip region, and at least one sensor element arranged in said sensor region and configured to measure the variable and to generate a sensor signal in response to the variable. The sensor guide wire further comprises a core wire, with a tip core wire portion, wherein at least part of the tip core wire portion comprises a shape memory material, and the composition of the shape memory material is such that the transformation temperature of the shape memory material is above the body temperature of the living body.
US10660567B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for mapping the location of a nerve. The apparatus includes at least one stimulation module, a stimulation detection module, a distance module, and a mapping module. The stimulation module stimulates a nerve with an electrical stimulation current from at least one stimulation electrode. A stimulation detection module detects a muscle reaction resulting from stimulation of the nerve by the at least one stimulation electrode. The distance module uses information from the at least one stimulation electrode and from the stimulation detection module to calculate a distance between the at least one stimulation electrode and the nerve. The mapping module maps a location on the nerve using at least two distances calculated by the distance module and position information of the at least one stimulation electrode for each of the at least two distances calculated.
US10660565B2
A physical area network described herein enables significantly improved health monitoring and treatment by utilizing internal (in-body) mechanisms and information and external mechanisms and information.
US10660564B2
A compliance monitoring system (40) for an intraoral appliance comprises a power source (460), a detector (410) for detecting when the intraoral appliance is positioned in the mouth for use, a recorder (430) configured to record measurement data, and a transponder (440) configured to communicate the measurement data. The monitoring system is adjustable based on a particular property of a patient or a group of patients.
US10660557B2
Systems and method are disclosed for determining a concentration of an analyte in a fluid (e.g., blood). The system can draw blood from a patient and deliver the blood to a sample cell. A particular component of the fluid (e.g., plasma) may be separated and/or positioned such that the concentration of the analyte is measured in the particular component of the fluid (e.g., plasma). The sample cell can include a sample container that has two window pieces. The system can have a fluid passage having a tip configured to mate with a multi-lumen catheter without leaking. The multi-lumen catheter can have proximal and distal ports. A fluid pressure system can be configured to periodically draw fluid from vasculature through a proximal intravascular opening and the proximal port while maintaining a low pressure and/or flow rate to thereby reduce risk of reversing the fluid flow in a vessel and drawing infusates upstream into another intravascular opening.
US10660555B2
A diagnostic Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) procedure is applied to measure values of impedance-related parameters for one or more sensing electrodes. The parameters may include real impedance, imaginary impedance, impedance magnitude, and/or phase angle. The measured values of the impedance-related parameters are then used in performing sensor diagnostics, calculating a highly-reliable fused sensor glucose value based on signals from a plurality of redundant sensing electrodes, calibrating sensors, detecting interferents within close proximity of one or more sensing electrodes, and testing surface area characteristics of electroplated electrodes. Advantageously, impedance-related parameters can be defined that are substantially glucose-independent over specific ranges of frequencies. An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) enables implementation of the EIS-based diagnostics, fusion algorithms, and other processes based on measurement of EIS-based parameters.
US10660548B2
The present disclosure aims to provide an evaluation apparatus and an evaluation method capable of evaluating a walking assistance apparatus by simulating an actual person's walking motion. An evaluation apparatus 1 includes a placement part 5 on which a sole part of a walking assistance apparatus 4 to be evaluated is placed; an actuator 3 configured to apply a load to the walking assistance apparatus 4 in a direction of the placement part 5 in a state in which the sole part faces the placement part 5; and an actuator 6 configured to change a relative positional relation between the placement part 5 and the sole part.
US10660545B2
A posture and breathing improvement device, system, and method. The system for improving posture and deep breathing may comprise: a sensor device; posture/breathing improvement software program, comprising one, both, or a combination of a posture improvement system interface and a breathing improvement system interface; and one or more user devices. The sensor device may be physically associated with a user and may communicate with the posture improvement software program. The sensor device may comprise: one or more sensors for monitoring positions and movements of the user. The system may calculate one or more optimum postural positions and breathing exercises for the user, based on data communicated by the sensor device and collected information about the user. The system may monitor a conformance of the user with the optimum postural positions and may display the conformance on the posture improvement system interface. The system may detect and notify the user of one or more non-conformances, such that a user is reminded to maintain at least one optimum postural position and periodically take deep breaths.
US10660544B2
A patient support apparatus includes detectors and a controller operable to automatically update a tare weight for use in determining a true patient weight. The detectors are configured to produce signals indicating a presence or absence of a corresponding removable component. The controller is configured to determine weights of each and every removable component on the patient support apparatus and store each weight in a memory. The controller is further configured to receive the signals produced by the detectors and detect any addition or removal of removable components of the patient support apparatus, update the tare weight, and determine a weight of a patient being supported on the patient support apparatus.
US10660537B2
A method and system provides for headgear usable for electrophysiological data collection and analysis and neurostimulation/neuromodulation or brain computer interface for clinical, peak performance, or neurogaming and neuromodulation applications. The headgear utilizes dry sensor technology as well as connection points for adjustable placement of the bi-directional sensors for the recoding of electrophysiology from the user and delivery of current to the sensors intended to improve or alter electrophysiology parameters. The headgear allows for recording electrophysiological data and biofeedback directly to the patient via the sensors, as well as provide low intensity current or electromagnetic field to the user. The headgear can further include auditory, visual components for immersive neurogaming. The headgear may further communication with local or network processing devices based on neurofeedback and biofeedback and immersive environment experience with balance and movement sensor data input.
US10660536B2
A wearable biometric measurement device includes a ring body having interior and exterior surfaces, an electrocardiogram component including first and second electrodes wherein a single lead electrocardiogram is formed upon contact with the first electrode and the second electrode, a pulse oximeter component including a light emitter and a photodetector wherein the photodetector receives one or more signals transmitted by the light emitter, and a communication component. A system for measuring and processing biometric data includes a wearable biometric measurement device, a monitor device, and a server. A method for measuring biometric data using a wearable biometric measurement device includes pre-processing biometric signals, feature extraction on the signals, and event prediction with respect to the signals.
US10660535B2
Devices, systems, and methods for recording action potential (AP) from a nerve are provided. A device can include a cuff or a microchannel to be used to record an AP from a nerve. A recording electrode can be included within a channel of the cuff or microchannel, and the recording electrode can be offset or off-center such that it is not located mid-channel within the recording cuff or microchannel.
US10660533B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to measure a PPG signal. In some embodiments, a method may include capturing a plurality of frames of a subject; tracking the position of a region of interest of the subject in each of the plurality of frames; creating a first time series signal, a second time series signal, and third time series signal corresponding with respective color channels of the plurality of frames; normalizing the first, second, and third time series signals, combining the normalized first time series signal, the normalized first time series signal, and the normalized first time series signal into a combined signal; creating a spectral signal from the combined signal; and extracting the PPG signal from the spectral signal.
US10660526B2
A remote sensing system includes an array of laser diodes configured to generate light. One or more scanners are configured to receive a portion of the light from the array of laser diodes and to direct the portion of the light from the array of laser diodes to an object. A detection system is configured to receive at least a portion of light reflected from the object and is configured to be synchronized to the at least a portion of the array of laser diodes comprising Bragg reflectors. The remote sensing system is configured to generate a two-dimensional or three-dimensional mapping using at least a portion of a time-of-flight measurement. The remote sensing system is adapted to be mounted on a vehicle and communicate with a cloud. The at least a portion of the two-dimensional or three-dimensional mapping is combined with global positioning system information.
US10660522B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a social network system for electronic delivery of information in personalized health care, may include capturing one or more data streams where each of the data streams relates to health care of a patient. The system may further include integrating the data streams to generate integrated diagnostic data and analyzing the integrated diagnostic data to generate analyzed diagnostic data. The system may further include curating the analyzed diagnostic data and generating an integrated report for presentation to a physician of the patient based on the curated analyzed diagnostic data.
US10660519B2
Systems and methods for eye tracking for motion corrected ophthalmic optical coherence tomography (OCT) are disclosed. According to an aspect, an imaging system includes an eye tracking device configured to determine movement of an eye. The imaging system also includes an OCT apparatus configured to generate OCT images of a retina of the eye. The OCT apparatus includes a scanner operable to be moved for relocating an OCT scan pivot at a pupil plane for image capture and during capture of the OCT images. The imaging system also includes a controller configured to control the scanner to relocate the OCT scan pivot at the pupil plane based on the determined movement of the eye.
US10660512B2
A plenoptic otoscope enables three-dimensional and/or spectral imaging of the inside of the ear to assist in improved diagnosis of inflammations and infections. The plenoptic otoscope includes a primary imaging system and a plenoptic sensor. The primary imaging system includes an otoscope objective and relay optics, which cooperate to form an image of an inside of an ear at an intermediate image plane. The plenoptic sensor includes a microimaging array positioned at the intermediate image plane and a sensor array positioned at a conjugate of the pupil plane. An optional filter module may be positioned at the pupil plane or one of its conjugates to facilitate three-dimensional and/or spectral imaging.
US10660510B2
Disclosed herein a liposuction cannula that comprises a tube with a front end at which there is provided at least one suction opening, and with a back end intended to be connected to a source of vacuum; in the tube there being defined at least one longitudinal flow conduit for the aspirated material; and an imaging apparatus capable of supplying first signals or data allowing the generation of a visual representation of the environment in close proximity to the front end of the tube of the cannula down to a first depth or distance, and second signals or data allowing the generation of a visual representation of the environment around the front end of the tube of the cannula down to a second depth or distance, greater than the said first depth or distance.
US10660507B2
An imaging module includes an electrical cable; a solid-state imaging element having an imaging unit orthogonal to an axis direction of a tip of the electrical cable; and a flexible wiring substrate in which the solid-state imaging element and the electrical cables are electrically connected together. The flexible wiring substrate includes an element mounting portion mounting the solid-state imaging element, and two rear pieces that are bent at both end portions of the element mounting portion and extend in a direction away from the element mounting portion. An internal space of the flexible wiring substrate surrounded by the element mounting portion and the two rear pieces is filled with adhesive resin in which a glass-transition temperature is 135° C. or less.
US10660506B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to apparatuses, devices, and methods for locks for endoscopic accessories. In one implementation, an adjustable lock for an endoscopic accessory includes a body slidably mounted upon a rail of the endoscopic accessory, and an arm extending about a portion of the body. The arm may be connected to the body and pivotable relative to the body between a closed position and an open position. In the closed position, teeth on an inner surface of the arm may engage a toothed rack on the rail such that the adjustable lock is secured to the rail. In the open position, the teeth on the inner surface of the arm may be clear of the toothed rack such that the lock may slide relative to the rail.
US10660502B2
Improved container for messy products which is made up of a framework (17) covered by a superposition (14) of membranes (15a to 15d), each of which is equipped with means of assembly by adhesion of at least part of at least one of the contact faces thereof to the contiguous membrane or membranes allowing said membranes to be separated by a peeling effect, said means of assembly consisting of a multitude of mechanical catching protuberances (16). The improvements made to this container relate on the one hand to the nature of the materials used for making the various components of this container and, on the other hand, to novel methods for obtaining some of said components.
US10660489B2
Apparatuses of a biodegradable magnetic toilet seat cover and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. In one embodiment, a biodegradable magnetic toilet seat cover includes a bottom layer configured to contact with a toilet seat, where the bottom layer is made to prevent elements on the toilet seat from permeating to a skin of a user, a top layer configured to contact with the user, where the top layer is made to provide a comfortable touch to the skin of the user, and a middle layer configured to hold the bottom layer and the top layer together, where the middle layer is further configured to hold the biodegradable magnetic toilet seat cover to the toilet seat magnetically. The biodegradable magnetic toilet seat cover may additionally or optionally include an anti-splashing flap formed with polyvinyl alcohol or viscose spunlace non-woven film, and where the anti-splashing flap is configured to prevent elements from the toilet to reach the user.
US10660480B1
The adjustable bathtub/shower seat includes a support and a backrest pivotally attached thereto, a base attached to the support, and a controller in communication with the support, the backrest, and the base. Advantageously, the base is selectively raised and lowered along a vertical path. Advantageously, the backrest is selectively pivoted about a horizontal fulcrum axis and along an arcuate path, wherein the horizontal fulcrum axis is registered orthogonal to the vertical path.
US10660475B2
A mechanical filter for a deep fryer having a fry pot. The mechanical filter comprises a filtering membrane support comprising a plurality of links pivotally connected to one another. The filtering membrane support has a longitudinal axis. The mechanical filter also comprises a filtering membrane engageable with the plurality of links and defining transversally extending particle retaining cavities therewith. The filtering membrane extends along the longitudinal axis of the filtering membrane support. A filtering membrane support is also provided.
US10660461B1
A comfort device comprising a plurality of elongate inserts is disclosed herein. The comfort device can include one or more compartments configured to store the plurality of elongate inserts. The plurality of elongate inserts can have a length and a cross-section, where the cross-section has a cross-sectional area and a plurality of dimensions. The length of the inserts can be at least eight inches and at least eight times a greatest dimension of the cross-sectional area. The comfort device can include one or more openings and fastening mechanism corresponding to the one or more openings. The plurality of elongate inserts can generate tensional force in response to a force applied to the comfort device, thus providing improved elasticity for the comfort device.
US10660445B2
A height adjustable chair armrest includes an armrest top portion and a supporting member coupled with a chair body. The supporting member includes an outer tube and an inner tube received in the outer tube. The inner tube includes a plurality of positioning holes. A resilient member is mounted in the inner tube and includes a body and a resilient plate slantingly branching from the body. A first peg is disposed on the body and is releasably engaged in one of the plurality of positioning holes. An actuation rod is insertable through the outer tube into an operational hole of the body to press against or release the resilient plate. A rib is disposed on an inner periphery of the inner tube and is spaced from a top end of the inner tube by a spacing. The resilient member is restrained at a side of the rib.
US10660444B2
A seat pad (10) of the present invention includes a placement surface (11). A lateral slit portion (15) which extends from an outer side of the seat pad (10) toward an inner side thereof is formed in a first lateral direction (B1) along the placement surface (11), and the lateral slit portion (15) is curved and thereby protrudes in a thickness direction (H) orthogonal to the placement surface (11).
US10660438B2
A leveling foot having a base section with a raised, hollow column. A spring is arranged in the hollow column. A moveable top piece engages the column, and is movable in the vertical direction against the force of the spring. The top piece is slightly larger than the column, such that side walls of the top piece overlap the sides of the column when the spring is compressed. The bottom edges of the side walls of the top piece are angled. A generally U-shaped wedge device is provided that may be pressed into engagement with the base section, whereby a leg of the U engages each side of the column. The top surfaces of the legs of the U-shaped device are angled in the form of wedges, the angles of the top surfaces of the legs corresponding to the angles of the side walls of the movable top piece, such that the side walls of the top piece will rest upon the angled top surfaces of the legs of the wedge device when the top piece is under load.
US10660428B2
A self-closing utility bag for holding small articles includes a pouch with an upper pouch portion, a lower pouch portion, a neck portion between the upper and lower pouch portions, a top opening that is maintained in a partially open orientation, and a self-closing mechanism. The self-closing mechanism includes a first resilient strip disposed parallel to a pouch top opening at a location either adjacent the neck portion in the upper pouch portion but spaced from the pouch top opening or at the neck portion, and a second resilient strip disposed opposite the first resilient strip where the first and second resilient strips maintain the pouch in a closed orientation but having a resilient spring action that allows intruding access to an inside of the lower portion while returning to the closed orientation when the intruding access is removed.
US10660422B2
The invention proposes a process for filling a unit container with a cosmetic product from a capsule containing a dose of said cosmetic product, where said capsule comprises a tube filled with said dose of cosmetic product, where said tube extends between a first end closed by a piston slidably mounted in a cylinder and a second end forming an initially closed outlet nozzle, and where said process comprises at least a preparatory step during which the outlet nozzle of the capsule is opened and at least one step of casting in which said cosmetic product is cast into the cosmetic product container.
US10660421B2
A consumer product includes a housing defining an internal volume. An engaging mechanism is coupled to or integral with the housing. A cartridge is configured to be inserted into the internal volume through a first end of the housing, and the engaging mechanism is configured to engage a second engaging mechanism on the cartridge. An elevation mechanism is positioned at least partially within the internal volume. An actuating device is coupled to the housing proximate to a second end of the housing. The elevation mechanism is configured to move in response to actuation of the actuating device.
US10660416B2
A piece of luggage (1) comprising a housing (2) and at least one pair of caster wheels (9), wherein each of the caster wheels (9) comprises a swivel axis (S) and at least one wheel (10) with a peripheral surface (11) rotating around a rotation axis (R) running perpendicular to the swivel axis (S). The diameter (D) of the at least one wheel (9) is as large as possible under the provision that in a rotational position parts of the peripheral surface (10) of the wheel (9) extend in a space between a center plane (C) extending centrally between a front wall (3) and a back wall (4) and a reference plane (P) extending parallel and at a distance (A) to the center plane (C), which distance (A) amounts up to 20% of the diameter (D) of the wheel (9).
US10660413B2
A jewelry setting including a structure having an outer circumference in a round shape and setting a first set of stones, a second set of stones and a third set of stones, the first set of stones being set within the structure using a combination of prongs and a first set of mounting apertures, the second set of stones being set within the structure using a combination of the prongs and a second set of mounting apertures, the third set of stones being set within the structure using a friction setting and a third set of mounting apertures, the first set of stones, the second set of stones and the third set of stones being arranged so that the first set of stones, the second set of stones and the third set of stones appear to be a continuous, uninterrupted surface thus creating an illusion of a large stone in the round shape.
US10660410B2
An impression device has a base having a recess and a conduit for fluidly coupling the recess to a vacuum source configured to temporarily apply a vacuum pressure to the recess. The device has a first plurality of particles positioned in the recess, the first plurality of particles sealed from an external environment and consisting essentially of a plurality of circular glass beads. The device has a flexible membrane coupled to the base adjacent to the first plurality of particles and holding the first plurality of particles in the base. The first plurality of particles has a first coefficient of friction between each other selected to allow the particles to move relative to each other in the absence of the vacuum pressure and to prevent the particles from moving relative to each other in the presence of the vacuum pressure.
US10660408B2
An article of footwear includes an upper having a body with a first side and a second side, and a closure system for the upper. The closure system includes a first anchoring cable loop fixed at the first side, a flap, a flap cable loop, and a lace. The flap is fixed to the second side and extends across the body to a free end at the first side. The flap has an aperture extending through the flap. A flap cable loop extends from the free end. The flap cable loop is configured to extend from the free end through the first anchoring cable loop, and from the first anchoring cable loop back to the flap and through the aperture in the flap from an inner side to an outer side of the flap. A lace extends through the looped end of the flap cable at the outer side.
US10660404B2
A fastening device includes a main part and a fastening member. The main part is composed of a base, a spool, a knob and an engaging unit. The fastening member disposed at the main part. The spool is disposed at the base. The knob disposed at the base includes a spiral track. The engaging unit coupled to the spool includes a guiding portion coupled to the spiral track. The guiding portion is limitedly moved along the spiral track by rotating the knob such that the engaging unit has a first position and a second position relative to the knob. The engaging unit prohibits the spool from rotating toward a releasing direction when the engaging unit is at the first position, and the engaging unit allows the spool to be rotated toward the releasing direction when the engaging unit is at the second position.
US10660397B1
An interchangeable heel member comprising a locking mechanism is provided. The locking mechanism comprises a pin member operated by a button. The interchangeable heel member is coupled to a shoe by means of the pin member. The shoe comprises a groove provided at a heel plate. The pin member is made to fit in the groove to hold the interchangeable heel member to the shoe. In order to remove the interchangeable heel member from the shoe, the button is pressed and the pin member is released from the groove. The interchangeable heel member is replaced with replacement heels that differ in height or diameter.
US10660391B2
A helmet comprises an impact-absorbing shell, a band secured to the shell, and a resilient member. The band is secured to the shell at two securing locations such that an intermediate portion of the band between the two securing locations is in spaced relation to the shell. The resilient member is operatively positioned between the securing location and the impact-absorbing shell to facilitate resilient movement of the band relative to the impact-absorbing shell. The band comprises a brow assembly positioned at a front of the impact-absorbing shell and including a brow belt. The brow belt comprises a belt opening, and the resilient member is positioned in the belt opening. A portion of the belt defining the belt opening can be positioned in a groove in the resilient member. A fastener inserted through a fastener opening in the resilient member to secure the resilient member to the impact-absorbing shell.
US10660382B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to devices, systems and methods for optimizing and masking compression in a biosensing garment. The biosensing garment has a first fabric portion configured to be disposed about a circumferential region of a user, the first fabric portion having an inner surface including electrode sensor assembly configured to be placed in contact with the skin of the user, the first fabric portion having a first compression rating; and a second fabric portion extending from the first fabric portion, the second fabric portion having a second compression rating less than the first compression rating.
US10660359B2
An oral product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-stable polymer matrix, cellulosic fibers embedded in the mouth-stable polymer matrix, and nicotine or a derivative thereof dispersed in the mouth-stable polymer matrix. The oral product is adapted to release the nicotine or derivative thereof from the body when the body is received within the oral cavity and exposed to saliva.
US10660357B2
A method for preparing an inhibited starch with improved warehouse storage stability is disclosed, wherein it comprises the steps of a) providing a slurry containing a native granular starch obtained from a starch containing raw material, b) adding at least one amino acid, or a combination of two or more of these, and at least one oxidant to the slurry with a view to inhibiting the granular starch, c) adding at least one organic acid or a bisulfite to the slurry with a view to eliminating residual reactant chemicals, off-tastes, and undesired smell, and d) adding at least one antioxidant to the slurry with a view to stabilizing the achieved inhibition of the starch during warehouse storage, as well as an inhibited starch with improved warehouse storage stability prepared with said method, use of said inhibited starch as an ingredient in a food product, and a food product containing said inhibited starch.
US10660354B2
Method for producing a cooked food product, the method comprising the steps of: selecting a raw material, comprising chick peas, grinding the raw material to obtain a flour, hydrating the flour with water to obtain a flour mixture, preparing an oil mixture comprising at least olive oil and water, mixing the flour mixture and the oil mixture to obtain a batter, cooling and storing the batter to obtain a gel, cutting the gel to obtain individual food elements, and cooking the food elements to obtain a cooked food product, wherein the method is characterised in that, prior to the step of mixing the flour mixture and oil mixture, the oil mixture is heated, wherein the flour mixture is heated by mixing the flour mixture and the oil mixture due to transfer of heat contained in the oil mixture.
US10660332B2
The present invention is directed to pesticidal mixtures comprising sabadilla alkaloids and a pyrethroid and methods of controlling pests including insects and mites by application of pesticidal mixtures comprising sabadilla alkaloids and a pyrethroid.
US10660324B2
A system is disclosed for keeping rats and similar pests away without trapping or killing them. It provides a long-life battery powered LED light system for deterring rats, mice and other nocturnal animals. Embodiments of the present invention are designed to operate continuously for at least one year between battery changes. Embodiments have been proven to deter rats from invading engine compartments of parked motor vehicles, vegetable gardens, attics, garages and outdoor patios. In preferred embodiments the wavelengths of the LEDs are chosen to correspond to the known wavelength sensitivity peaks of the eyes of rats, mice, and other rodents. This new technology transcends traps.
US10660323B1
A live bait well has a body member formed from closed cell foam neoprene and has a generally U-shaped clip that extends upwardly from an upper edge of the body member, proximate the back, wherein the clip is used to attach the device to the waistband of a user's pants. A liner is removably disposed within an interior space of the body member to help protect the interior of the body member. The body member is formed from two similar sections that are joined together at inwardly directed side edges of each section so as to form a stiffening rib that runs between the first side and the opposing second side along the closed bottom. The open top of the body member is closed using a magnetic closure system.
US10660322B1
A fishing reel designed to retain rotational functionality under load. The reel has a spool and spinner head assembly. A first pin arm is pivotally mounted to a plate portion of the spinner head assembly. A plate facing surface of the first pin arm has at least a portion that defines a planar surface from the first pivot end to the first pin arm for providing deflection resistance. A first pick-up pin selectively extends the first pin arm through a first pick-up pin orifice in a wall portion of the spinner head assembly. A first pick-up sleeve is rotationally mounted on the first pick-up pin for engaging fishing line when fishing line is wound onto said spool.
US10660321B2
A fishing line winder is disclosed. The line winder is combined with a line reel, so that a fishing line is sequentially reeled and unreeled. The line winder is a machine for preventing reverse winding and tangling, where a base of the fishing line winder is provided with a shaft, and a driving member drives the shaft to rotate, while a spindle is provided with a line spool, an abutment wheel and an unidirectional bearing; a resistance against the rotation of the abutment wheel is formed by means of a brake pad, thus preventing reverse winding and tangling when the fishing line is reeled onto and unreeled from the line reel.
US10660315B1
A catalytic reactor using catalyst-coated optical fiber technology that will allow the control of light and its emission mode to quantitatively optimize catalytic degradation of off-flavor compounds. This degradation can be greatly enhanced by increasing the surface area of the catalyst. Coating individual transparent optical fibers and aligning them in a canister configuration allows the treatment of large volumes of water in portable and scalable reactors.
US10660312B2
Embodiments of an anti-pull collar attachment are provided. In one embodiment, the anti-pull collar attachment includes a collar attachment interface having a collar guideway through which a segment of an animal collar is routed to removably mount the collar attachment to the animal collar. A first prodding feature is coupled to the collar attachment interface and, when the anti-pull collar attachment is removably mounted to the animal collar, is positioned beneath the segment of the animal collar. The prodding feature engages into an animal wearing the animal collar when a pull force is exerted on the collar. In certain implementations, the anti-pull collar attachment further includes a frame coupled to the collar attachment interface, as well as a movable platform slidable with respect to the frame along a prodding axis. The first prodding feature projects from the movable platform and moves in conjunction therewith along the prodding axis.
US10660311B2
A scent training wheel for training animals to detect and respond to target scents. The device includes a base, a rotatable carousel, and a spinner hub assembly that mechanically couples the carousel to the support base. The spinner hub assembly is configured to permit the carousel to rotate relative to the support base and to selectively lock the rotatable carousel in a selected position relative to base.
US10660308B2
Within a view field, a camera records image data representing a body portion of an animal. A reader unit registers identity data from a data carrier on the animal and a data processor associates the recorded image data with the registered identity data. A passageway only allows a single animal at the time within the camera's view field. The camera is arranged so that the view field covers an identification zone within the passageway. To reduce the risk that the reader unit interferes with other nearby equipment, the data processor detects the presence of any animal within the view field of the camera based on the recorded image data, and activates the reader unit only when an animal is detected within the identification zone.
US10660303B2
A multi-pet locking-head-and-locking-tail-push-rod pet crate comprises: a handle bridge, a handle channel molded inside the handle bridge for containing grooming tools, handle clasps respectively molded in the handle bridge for fastening poop bags thereto, a top panel, a bottom panel, a left panel, a right panel, a front panel, a rear panel, at least one divider, panel-locking hooks and clamps for hooking and clamping the panels together, a slanted tray for draining urine, urine-storing gutters and ridges molded around the tray for supporting pet paws and for keeping pets away from urine, top and bottom low-friction rails welded to the front panel, multi-position door-glider-locking recesses formed in the bottom low-friction rail for locking the auto-indexing multi-position door gliders and for adjusting horizontal or slanted and stationary or moving positions of the auto-indexing multi-position doors, first and second auto-indexing multi-position doors inserted between the top and bottom low-friction rails, first and second auto-indexing multi-position door gliders respectively cast to the first and second doors for horizontally or slantedly being locked in the multi-position door-glider-locking recesses to horizontally or slantedly lock said first and the second doors in multiple horizontal or slanted and stationary or moving positions, first and second push-rods respectively and movably attached to the first and second doors, first and second door-locking push-rod heads respectively cast to the first and second push-rods for locking the first and second doors together, and first and second multi-position door-locking push-rod tails respectively cast to the first and second push-rods for locking and aligning the first and second doors to the front panel and for adjusting multiple positions of the first and second doors.
US10660299B2
A waste storage container for a litter box for pets, that consists of a housing having a bottom surface and four side walls, creating an interior cavity therein, and a lip surrounding a top edge of the four side walls, the lip extending outward from the sidewalls and away from the cavity. There is a hook connected to one of the sidewalls, and being configured for attachment to a top edge of a litter box. A foot plate extends outward from the sidewall beneath the hook to keep the waste container in an upright position when the waste container is connected to a litter box with sloped walls. There is also a lid configured for attachment to the housing to cover the cavity.
US10660298B2
A side of an animal enclosure including a plurality of interconnected horizontal and vertical wires, where the plurality of horizontal wires includes a top wire and a bottom wire, and the plurality of vertical wires includes a first end wire and a second end wire. A plurality of hooked ends are formed at the ends of either the plurality of horizontal wires or the plurality of vertical wires. The top wire, the bottom wire, the first end wire, and the second end wire define an outer periphery of the first member, and the plurality of hooked ends extend beyond the outer periphery defined by the top wire, the bottom wire, the first end wire, and the second end wire. The top wire, bottom wire, first end wire and second end wire do not form a hooked end at any of their respective ends.
US10660291B2
A soybean cultivar designated 76071630 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 76071630, to the plants of soybean cultivar 76071630, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 76071630, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 76071630. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 76071630. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 76071630, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 76071630 with another soybean cultivar.
US10660289B1
A novel maize variety designated PH47B1 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH47B1 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH47B1 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH47B1 or a locus conversion of PH47B1 with another maize variety.
US10660283B2
A modularly constructed column element is proposed for the vertical cultivation of plants which are nourished by wetting the roots with an aqueous nutrient solution, the individual parts of said column element being able to be stacked in a space-saving manner and transported, assembled, disassembled and cleaned very easily.The modular structure of the column element includes a lid part, a base part and at least one wall ring between the lid part and the base part. The wall ring is composed of a plurality of ring segments, in which the planting openings are formed, in which plants can be positioned such that their roots grow into the interior of the column element. The lid part is arranged on the end side on the uppermost wall ring and the base part is arranged on the end side on the lowermost wall ring.
US10660280B2
Prior art technology has a problem in that when a plant is cultivated for a long period of time on a PVA film having its lower surface positioned in contact with a nutrient fluid, plant roots that have formed penetrate through the film. A plant cultivation system wherein the PVA film has an equilibrium degree of swelling in the range of from 125 to 250% as measured in water at 30° C. and has a loss tangent (tan δ) in the range of from 0.005 to 0.2 as measured in an equilibrium swollen state in water at 30° C., and a method for cultivating a plant by using this plant cultivation system. Plant cultivation can be performed for a long period of time while avoiding infection by bacteria and the like causative of plant diseases. Therefore, the present invention is useful in, e.g., agriculture and the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.
US10660276B1
A cover for plants includes, a frame which has a rectangular top tier of rods, a rectangular bottom tier of rods, four vertical supports which connect the top tier of rods to the bottom tier of rods, and four sides. The cover further includes a side cover which is shaped and dimensioned to cover the four sides of the frame, the side cover has four sides, a top, four top corners, and a bottom. The side cover includes four corner closures disposed at the four top corners. The side cover includes a side closure, and a skirt disposed at the bottom. A top cover is shaped and dimensioned to cover the top of the side cover and the top tier of rods. A crown frame is shaped and dimensioned to fit around the top cover.
US10660274B2
A threshing and separating system including a rotor cage, a first vane rail movably connected to the rotor cage, and a first vane portion with a first constrained end pivotably connected to the rotor cage and a first movable end linked to the first vane rail. The threshing and separating system further including a second vane rail movably connected to the rotor cage, and a second vane portion with a second constrained end pivotably connected to the rotor cage and a second movable end linked to the second vane rail, the second vane portion and the first vane portion together define a substantially continuous vane.
US10660270B2
A shaker device including at least one motorized member that is intended to transmit by contact a shaking force to objects to be shaken. The member includes a plurality of structural inserts that are covered by a wear jacket. Each of the structural inserts has respective left lobes and right lobes. The inserts are distributed in the jacket so as to form a respective discrete stack of left lobes and right lobes.
US10660264B2
A method and apparatus for cultivating vegetation at an arid location includes rooting immature vegetation in a mat combined with a super absorbent polymer (“SAP”) and, in embodiments, fertilizer, sand, and/or soil; placing the mat at the arid location; and covering the mat with a perforated, transparent or semi-transparent cover. Most or all of the apparatus can be biodegradable or removable, and the sand or soil can be similar to indigenous sand or soil. A water barrier can be placed below the mat. The cover can be placed on or suspended above the mat. SAP, seeds, and/or additional water barriers can be placed between mats in a stack. The opacity of the cover can be increased to emulate shade from natural vegetation. A water distribution system can be included for continued support of the vegetation, and can include a water reservoir and/or at least one solar still.
US10660255B2
A travel control apparatus for a work vehicle includes a display and circuitry. The display is to display a position of the work vehicle. The circuitry is configured to display in the display a guide index via which the work vehicle is manually guided to an automatic-travel permitted area in which the work vehicle is configured to automatically travel, and to determine whether or not the work vehicle is located in the automatic-travel permitted area.
US10660253B2
A counter-rotating twin shaft gardening system is provided herein. The gardening system includes a drive shaft operably coupled to first and second shafts for driving the first shaft in the first direction and the second shaft in the second direction. A first ground manipulation device is attached to the first shaft. A second ground manipulation device is attached to the second shaft. The first and second ground manipulation devices including a plurality of teeth and a plurality of long arms. The plurality arms extend further outward from a planar portion than the plurality of teeth. A release system is disposed within the drive shaft to reduce or reverse the rotation of the first and second shafts when debris is disposed between the first and second ground manipulation devices. The release system is formed from a first portion and a second portion of the drive shaft.
US10667451B2
A component mounter including a conveyance device configured to convey a board and hold the board at a specified position; a supply device configured to supply a component; and two mounting units each including a tool rotation device and a component handling tool. The component handling tool includes a base section and a protruding portion extending in a downward direction from the base section, a first end of the protruding portion attached to the base section at a tool attaching position, and a second end of the protruding portion positioned offset with respect to the tool attaching position in a direction perpendicular to the downward direction. The component mounter uses the component handing tools to simultaneously push a component at two push locations so as to insert the component onto the board.
US10667449B2
In a rotary head type component mounter, among a specified quantity of suction nozzles held by a rotary head, multiple suction nozzles are lowered simultaneously. When the rotary head is moved by a head moving mechanism to a nozzle exchange area and exchange of suction nozzles is performed, two station reference marks of the nozzle station are imaged by a mark imaging camera, image recognition is performed of the positions of the two station reference marks, and the position and angle of the nozzle station is calculated. Then, the position and angle of the rotary head is corrected to be aligned with the position and angle of the nozzle station, multiple of the suction nozzles held on the rotary head are lowered simultaneously by Z-axis driving mechanisms and simultaneously exchanged with multiple of the suction nozzles in the nozzle station.
US10667447B2
A component feeder for feeding components to a component feeding position using a component feeding tape including a carrier tape holding the components at equal intervals and a covering tape attached to the upper surface of the carrier tape. The component feeder includes a driving sprocket and a tape guide. The driving sprocket is configured to feed the component feeding tape to the component feeding portions. The tape guide includes a pressing surface to press an upper surface of the component feeding tape fed to the component feeding position. The tape guide includes a component exposing portion and an adjustment portion. The component exposing portion includes an inserting portion to be inserted between the carrier tape and the covering tape. The adjustment portion is configured to adjust a projection amount of the inserting portion from the pressing surface.
US10667445B2
There are provided a position recognition apparatus for printed circuit board (PCB), a position recognition and processing apparatus, and a printed circuit board manufacturing method. A position recognition apparatus for PCB configured to recognize a mounting position of an LED package on a PCB, the LED package being including a phosphor emitting fluorescence in operation, includes: an illuminating means configured to irradiate the PCB with light containing a blue component; an observation filter configured to selectively pass at least blue light of reflected light from the PCB and fluorescence from the phosphor and cut light in a wavelength region longer than a wavelength of the blue light; an imaging means configured to capture an image of the light passed by the observation filter; and an image processing means configured to calculate a position of the phosphor on the PCB, based on image data captured by the imaging means.
US10667442B2
An electronic device having a shield structure is disclosed. The shield structure includes a conductive heat diffusion plate that is provided in a position facing a mounting surface of an electronic circuit board on which electronic components, such as a CPU, are mounted, and diffuses heat generated from the CPU, etc.; and a conductive sponge-like member that is firmly fixed to at least either the mounting surface of the electronic circuit board or a surface of the conductive heat diffusion plate which faces the mounting surface of the electronic circuit board, and is provided to separate the CPU, etc. which generate electromagnetic wave noise from antennas.
US10667441B2
An electronic unit for a hand-held power tool, having a mounting frame having an accommodation space into which a circuit board carrying a plurality of electronic components is inserted and at least one heat sink for the heat dissipation of waste heat arising at the electronic components. A slot section with at least one insertion slot, oriented perpendicular to the printed circuit board, for mounting an electronic component along a direction of insertion is formed on the mounting frame. The at least one heat sink is associated with the slot section.
US10667440B2
Provided herein are a heat sink module of an inverter module to power an electric vehicle. The heats sink module can include a heat sink body having a plurality of mounting holes, a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The heats sink module can include a cooling channel that can be fluidly coupled with the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet. The heats sink module can include an insulator plate having a first surface and a second surface. The second surface of the insulator plate can couple with a joining surface of the heat sink body to seal the cooling channel. The heats sink module can include a heat sink lid disposed over the insulator plate. The heat sink lid can have a plurality of mounting feet to couple with the mounting holes of the heat sink body to secure the heat sink lid to the heat sink body.
US10667438B2
A method for determining whether to perform maintenance for an electronic device includes generating a baseline characterization of thermal performance for a heat-generating component of the electronic device at a baseline date. The method also includes generating an assessment characterization of the thermal performance at an assessment date after the baseline date. The method further includes generating a historical trend that includes the baseline characterization and the assessment characterization. Additionally, the method includes determining whether to perform maintenance for the heat-generating component based on the historical trend and a specified maintenance parameter.
US10667436B2
New heat removal systems and methods allow a combination of active and passive thermal processes for removing heat from and cooling air in environments. Systems and methods include a heat removal system including an adjustable thermal feed cold air intake system, a distribution system for cold and warm air including one or more hot aisles and one or more cold aisles, and a convection system to draw cool air through the building using a naturally-occurring convection processes to expel hot air. Misters, cooling elements, and/or freezer boxes may further cool the intake of air. A controller is programmed to efficiently manage and control the climate (e.g., temperature, humidity, air flow, pressure, air quality, etc.) within a building to minimize the use for energy for air distribution and cooling.
US10667432B2
In some examples, an electronic device includes an outer housing and a heat spreader inside an inner chamber defined by the outer housing. The heat spreader is structurally engaged to the outer housing to provide structural support for the outer housing, and the heat spreader is to spread heat along two different directions. Electronic components are in thermal contact with a surface of the heat spreader to transfer heat produced by the electronic components to the heat spreader.
US10667431B1
An example thermal interface device to attach to and cool a memory module. The device includes two sides sections that cover and contact the side faces of the memory module when installed. The device includes an outer layer that is a thermally conductive and resilient material, and an inner layer that is a thermally conductive and malleable metal. The inner layer may be nested within the outer layer, and the inner layer contacts the memory circuits of the memory module when installed. The outer layer includes spring fingers extending outward so as to contact and be compressed by a heat transfer device, such as a heat pipe, that is positioned on a side of the memory module. A thermally conductive path is thereby provided between the memory module and the heat transfer device via the thermal interface device.
US10667424B2
A server casing using a sliding apparatus for blade servers includes a chassis and the sliding apparatus. The chassis includes a blocking member. The sliding apparatus includes a first fastening plate, a second parallel fastening plate mounted to the first fastening plate, and a sliding plate configured to be slidably connected to the second fastening plate. The sliding plate is received between the first fastening plate and the second fastening plate and a locking member includes a first end and a second end. The first end is rotatably connected to the second fastening plate and includes a locking portion, the second end is connected to the sliding plate. The locking portion can move between a locking position, where the locking member is locked by the blocking member, and an unlocking position, where the locking member is unlocked by the blocking member.
US10667416B2
The present disclosure relates to a foldable device and a method for installing the same, and belongs to the field of electronic technology. The foldable device includes: a first housing, a second housing, a flexible display screen, a rotating shaft and a flexible covering layer, wherein the first housing and the second housing are connected by the rotating shaft, the flexible covering layer is respectively connected to the first housing and the second housing and surrounds the outer side of the rotating shaft, and the flexible display screen is respectively connected to the first housing and the second housing and is located on the inner sides of the first housing, the second housing, and the rotating shaft.
US10667415B2
A coupling mechanism for coupling an electronic device to an outer casing includes a plurality of hook-shaped brackets interposed between a front cover and a rear cover of the electronic device, where the plurality of hook-shaped brackets pass through an accommodation hole of the outer casing and are held to hook the outer casing while the front cover and the rear cover are coupled to each other; a plurality of main bracket-mounted portions defined in the front cover, where each of the plurality of hook-shaped brackets is mounted into each of the plurality of main bracket-mounted portions; and a plurality of auxiliary bracket-mounted portions disposed on the rear cover, where each of the plurality of auxiliary bracket-mounted portions is engaged with each of the plurality of hook-shaped brackets when the front cover and the rear cover are coupled to each other.
US10667414B2
A display panel mounting device is disclosed. The device includes a body with at least one handle having an activation mechanism, and a mounting element operatively connected to the body and having at least one magnet. The mounting element is attachable to a display panel with a metallic element based on the at least one magnet generating a magnetic force to engage with the metallic element and being detachable from the display panel based on the at least one magnet disengaging from the metallic element. The activation mechanism is configured to control generation of the magnetic force by the at least one magnet.
US10667411B2
A multi-panel display device includes: a first display device and a second display device each including a display panel, a back cover configured to cover a rear surface of the display panel, and a back cover housing configured to cover a rear surface of the back cover, a first cabinet on which the first and second display devices are supported and attached, and a fine adjustment device positioned on a rear surface of each of the first and second display devices exposed to a rear surface of the first cabinet, wherein the fine adjustment device is connected to the back cover of each of the first and second display devices and exposed to the outside through an adjustment device hole provided in the back cover housing, and positions of the back cover and the display panel are finely adjusted by the fine adjustment device.
US10667409B2
A contacting arrangement between an electrical component and a circuit carrier, the component being connected to a connection element formed as a part separate from the component, and the connection element being electroconductively contacted directly with the circuit carrier via at least one press-fit connection.
US10667406B2
A circuit board element includes a glass substrate, a first dielectric layer, and a first patterned metal layer. The glass substrate has an edge. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the glass substrate and has a central region and an edge region. The edge region is in contact with the edge of the glass substrate, and the thickness of the central region is greater than the thickness of the edge region. The first patterned metal layer is disposed on the glass substrate and in the central region of the first dielectric layer.
US10667402B2
An embedded circuit board includes a circuit board including a flexible base layer, a first conductive circuit layer, a second conductive circuit layer, two adhesive layers, and two copper plates. The first conductive circuit layer and the second conductive circuit layer are formed on corresponding opposite base layer surfaces of the base layer and electrically interconnected together. A photosensitive layer is located on one surface of the circuit board. A component is located within a mounting slot formed within the photosensitive layer. Each copper plate includes a flexible insulating film and forms a third conductive circuit layer. The flexible insulating film is adhered to a corresponding one of the circuit board or the photosensitive material layer by a corresponding one of the adhesive layers.
US10667399B1
A printed circuit board (PCB) carrier including a multi-layer structure including a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of insulating layers respectively spaced between the plurality of conductive layers, the multi-layer structure having a footprint corresponding to a large size component of the PCB, and a pocket formed in the multi-layer structure, the pocket configured to receive a discrete component of a size smaller than the large size component.
US10667398B1
The present invention relates to a single board computer system with an improved memory and layout. The unique layout of the printed circuit board of the present invention allows for different parts to be placed in a back-to-back configuration to minimize the dimensions of the printed circuit board. This includes a high-performance radiation-hardened reconfigurable FPGA, for processing computation-intensive space systems, disposed on both sides of the printed circuit board. Four dual double data rate synchronous dynamic random-access memories (DDR2 SDRAMs) disposed on both the top side and on the bottom side of the printed circuit board reduce an operating voltage of said printed circuit board. A layout stack-up of the printed circuit board includes twenty-two symmetrical layers including ten ground layers, four power layers, six signal layers, a top layer, and a bottom layer.
US10667395B2
According to one embodiment, an interposer substrate for switching wiring lines, includes a substrate body having through holes penetrating from a first main surface thereof to a second main surface, through-conductive portions provided respectively in the through holes, grouped into first groups and second groups different from the first groups, first wiring lines each provided on the first main surface and for a respective one of the first groups, second wiring lines each provided on the second main surface and for a respective one of the second groups, first terminals provided on the first main surface and connected respectively to the first wiring lines, and second terminals provided on the second main surface and connected respectively to the second wiring lines.
US10667392B2
The present invention offers a device requiring a reduced number of manufacturing processes and providing high electrical reliability, and a method for manufacturing the device. The method for manufacturing the device forms through holes in a substrate, fills the through holes with a conductive material through electroplating from a first surface side of the substrate, polishes the conductive material to form through wirings, and forms an element portion on the first surface side. Then, the method processes the substrate so that the positions of the end faces of the through wirings measured from the substrate surface on the first surface side are made smaller in depth than the positions of the end faces of the through wirings measured from the substrate surface on the second surface side.
US10667391B2
A printed wiring board includes a core substrate, a first build-up layer, and a second build-up layer. Each build-up layer includes a first insulating layer including reinforcing material, a second resin insulating layer not containing reinforcing material, a first via conductor through the first insulating layer, and a second via conductor through the second insulating layer such that the top diameter of the first via conductor is substantially equal to the top diameter of the second via conductor and that the bottom diameter of the first via conductor is smaller than the bottom diameter of the second via conductor. The conductor layer on the first insulating layer includes a metal foil, a seed layer and an electrolytic plating film. The conductor layer on the second insulating-layer includes a seed layer and an electrolytic plating film and has thickness substantially equal to thickness of the conductor layer on the first insulating-layer.
US10667389B2
Tamper-respondent assemblies and methods of fabrication are provided which include a multilayer circuit board, a tamper-detection sensor, and a vent structure. The tamper-detection sensor is embedded within the multilayer circuit board, and defines, at least in part, a secure volume associated with the multilayer circuit board. The vent structure is incorporated into the multilayer circuit board, and includes at least one vent channel. The vent channel(s) is in fluid communication with a space within the secure volume to facilitate venting the space of the secure volume. The space within the secure volume may accommodate, for instance, one or more electronic components to be protected, and the at least one vent channel may, for instance, allow air pressure within the space of the secure volume to equalize with air pressure external to the tamper-respondent assembly.
US10667385B2
Embodiments of the invention may relate to a circuit board (CB). The circuit board may include a first CB layer that includes a first anti-pad having a first area, a second CB layer that includes a second anti-pad having the first area and being located substantially beneath the first anti-pad, a first via within the first anti-pad and the second anti-pad, and a first CB trace in the second CB layer. The first CB trace may be coupled to the first via to form a first transition point within a first signal propagation path. The first area may be determined, at least in part, by a depth within the CB of the second CB layer.
US10667382B2
Disclosed is an electromagnetic shielding structure of a solid state driver (SSD), and particularly an electromagnetic shielding structure of an SSD, in which an electromagnetic shielding structure of a closed shield can type is achieved based on an electromagnetic shielding structure that employs an electromagnetic shielding coating layer electrically connected to a ground via hole formed in a printed circuit board (PCB) and a lower electromagnetic shielding layer formed inside the PCB and electrically connected to the electromagnetic shielding coating layer through the ground via hole, thereby improving electromagnetic shielding performance.
US10667381B2
A high frequency module includes a plurality of components on an upper surface of a multilayer wiring substrate, a sealing resin layer on the upper surface of the multilayer wiring substrate, a shield wall surrounding one of the components within the sealing resin layer, and a shield film on an upper surface of the sealing resin layer. The shield film covers a portion of the upper surface of the sealing resin layer that overlaps the one of the components but not the other components viewed from a direction perpendicular to the upper surface of the multilayer wiring substrate. An upper end of the shield wall is exposed from the upper surface of the sealing resin layer to be connected to the shield film, and a lower end thereof is exposed from a lower surface of the sealing resin layer to be connected to the multilayer wiring substrate.
US10667379B2
A substrate support for a substrate processing system includes a plurality of heating zones, a baseplate, a heating layer arranged on the baseplate, a ceramic layer arranged on the heating layer, and wiring provided through the baseplate, the heating layer, and into the ceramic layer in a first zone of the plurality of heating zones. An electrical connection is routed from the wiring in the first zone, across the ceramic layer to a second zone of the plurality of heating zones, and to a heating element in the heating layer in the second zone.
US10667378B1
An electronic assembly may include a chassis, and electronic modules mounted within the chassis. Each electronic module may include a printed circuit substrate, heat-generating electronic components mounted on the printed circuit substrate, and a heat sink body mounted to the printed circuit substrate and having a plurality of heat pipe receiving passageways extending between opposing side edges and overlying corresponding heat-generating components. A respective elongate, passive, heat pipe may extend within each heat pipe receiving passageway and be removably fastened to at least one end to the heat sink body for enhanced conductive heat transport.
US10667374B2
The invention relates to a controlled device (1, 1′), a system (25, 25′) comprising such controlled device (1, 1′) and a controller device (21), a method for setting up such controlled device (1, 1′) and a software product for a set up processor (3, 3′) of such controlled device (1, 1′). In order to allow the controlled device (1, 1′) to persistently stay within the framework of the system (25, 25′) over its power cycles while avoiding or at least reducing a need for a costly element like a NVRAM on the side of the controlled device (1, 1′). Rather than providing costly NVRAM in the controlled device (1, 1′), the controlled device (1,1′) is just provided with fixed information which allows the controlled device (1,1′) to receive or obtain the variable control data from the controller device (21) as an outside source.
US10667371B2
A tent includes a tent frame, an illumination source, and a control system. The illumination source and control system are disposed at the tent frame. The control system includes receiving, processing, driving module, voltage output, and timing modules. The receiving module receives wirelessly a signal from an electronic device and sends the signal to the processing module to process the signal. Depending on the type of the signal, the processing module sends a command to the driving, voltage output, or timing module. In response to the command, the driving, voltage output, or timing module turns on/off the illumination source, adjusts its brightness, or turns on/off the illumination source at a specific time point and for a specific time period.
US10667368B2
A timing circuit (24), in particular a real time clock circuit, in a lighting device (10) that is periodically (17) powered from a main power supply (15) in accordance with a power supply cycle having a power-on time and a power-off time, is automatically synchronized in case the power condition of an auxiliary power supply (23) is insufficient to assume correct operation of the timing circuit (24). At each power-on of the power supply cycle, a power condition of the auxiliary power supply (23) is monitored. If the determined power condition exceeds a set power threshold, it is assumed that the momentary timing value of the timing circuit (24) is correct and this value is stored in a non-volatile memory (29), If the determined power condition gives rise to assuming malfunctioning of the timing circuit (24), for example due to absence of power for a longer time, the timing circuit (24) is synchronised to the stored timing value.
US10667366B2
Lighting systems and associated controls that can provide active control of lighting device settings, such as on/off, color, intensity, focal length, beam location, beam size and beam shape. In some examples, lighting systems may include eye tracking technology and sensor feedback for one or more lighting device settings and may be configured with depth perception and cavity or incision recognition capability through image or video processing.
US10667360B2
Systems and methods for compensating, controlling, mixing and saturating/desaturating colors produced by or emitted from LED artificial light sources through use of multiple channel, LED controllers to control the proportion of constituent colors each to the other, to control the intensity level of the total light output of the mixed, desaturated light during and after color mixing and/or saturation/desaturation by simultaneously increasing and decreasing power to the constituent color LEDs at the same rate, and once a desired color has been produced, changing the intensity/brightness and/or degree of saturation of the produced color without changing the hue of the produced color.
US10667359B2
Lighting system control based on lighting playlist(s) is disclosed. In one example implementation, a method includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices, data indicative of a user request for a selected lighting playlist from a plurality of lighting playlists. The user request can be implemented via a user interaction a user interface. In response to the request, the method can include obtaining, by the one or more computing devices, data associated with the selected lighting playlist from one or more memory devices. The method can include communicating, by the one or more computing devices, the data associated with the selected lighting playlist for control of a lighting system in accordance with the lighting playlist.
US10667353B2
The invention relates to a lighting system of alternate current light-emitting diodes (AC-LEDs). The system includes a first, a second and a third AC-LED modules, each two of them being electrically connected in parallel to one another and further electrically connected to a first, a second or a third phase voltage input terminal. The respective AC-LED modules include a first and a second LED modules. The system is further provided with rectifier circuits and multi-stage driver modules. The invention involves driving the AC-LED modules to emit light in an alternate manner using a three-phase AC power source, thereby reducing the flicker index, and further driving the first and the second LED modules to light up in different alternating orders, thereby rendering the light emission of the AC-LED lighting system substantially constant in terms of power and brightness.
US10667350B2
A temperature-dependent current generator includes a first transistor connected between first and second nodes and providing a first voltage potential at the second node that decreases first order linearly when ambient temperature increases. The generator further includes an operational amplifier having first and second input terminals and an output terminal. The first input terminal is coupled to a second voltage potential that is first order independent of the ambient temperature. The second input terminal is coupled to a third node. The generator further includes a second transistor with gate, source, and drain terminals. The gate terminal is coupled to the output terminal of the operational amplifier. One of the source and drain terminals is coupled to the third node. The generator further includes a resistor coupled between the second and the third nodes. A resistance value of the resistor is first order independent of the ambient temperature.
US10667349B2
The invention discloses an Alternating Current (AC) dimming and emergency power supply method. When there is commercial power, a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) pulse module controls a relay to switch off dimming AC output by a dual-operational amplification module and an AC signal sent by a central processor module, and at this moment, AC of the commercial power supplies power to a Light-Emitting Diode (LED) illumination module through an LED driving module and simultaneously charges a storage battery through a voltage stabilization charging module; and when there is no commercial power input, the central processor module outputs and transmits a positive power signal to the relay through the dual-operational amplification module, and the relay connects the dimming AC output by the dual-operational amplification module with the AC signal sent by the central processor module, and transmits the positive power signal to the AC.
US10667347B2
This patent specification relates to a wall switch that comprises a docking station and a user-removable wall-switch head unit. In some embodiments, the docking station is configured to receive the user-removable wall-switch head unit, and configured to be permanently connected to a wall and coupled to high-power voltage wires. In some embodiments, the user-removable wall-switch head unit is configured to be user-insertable into said docking station and user-removable therefrom such that the user is not exposed to high-voltage connections when inserting or removing. In some embodiments, the wall switch controller further comprises inputs and outputs and circuitry for switchably controlling household line current power to a household electrical fixture. In some embodiments, the wall switch controller further comprises an occupancy sensor, a temperature sensor, or a processor.
US10667346B2
A method for configuring a lighting system including one or more sensors for controlling one or more lighting units for providing illumination of an area. The method allows a target area to be determined for a particular sensing function, and then determines suitable sensor locations based on a mapping derived from an image of the area in question. The target area can be determined based on recognition of relevant objects such as doors and window for example. The sensor location or locations may be selected from existing sensor locations which may be integrated with a luminaire, or new sensor locations may be proposed.
US10667342B2
A configurable light source driver device includes circuitry that detects the presence of a resistor when connected to a terminal of the device and automatically configures the device to operate as a differential driver circuit with low EMI emission and a level of circuit stability that is selected on the basis of parasitic impedance conditions of the differential driver circuit. When the terminal is left unconnected, the configurable light source driver device automatically configures itself to operate as a single ended driver circuit with low power consumption and a different level of circuit stability that is selected on the basis of parasitic impedance conditions of the single ended driver circuit. Furthermore, the configurable light source driver device can include a pulse width adjustment circuit for modifying certain operating characteristics of each of the differential driver circuit and the single ended driver circuit.
US10667340B2
A system and method for annealing a target substrate such as a semiconductor using industrial microwave heating and parallel plate reaction. Using a uniform microwave field, with the target substrate located between parallel plates controls application of eddy currents to the target substrate. The system may include a uniform microwave field generator, support elements, two plates held in parallel to each other, and a turntable device configured to rotate the two plates and the target substrate within the uniform microwave field. The rotating of the plates and target substrate in the uniform microwave field creates a periodic change in polarity of the microwaves applied to the target substrate. The eddy currents in the uniform microwave field react by flowing perpendicular to the plates, and not parallel to the surface as in traditional microwave reactions of metals. This redirection of the eddy currents provides even heating of the target substrate.
US10667339B1
An apparatus for exposing an object to radio-frequency energy includes a conveyor, an radio-frequency generator, and a control system configured to automatically perform an operation. During the operation, the control system is configured to control the radio-frequency generator to apply radio-frequency energy to the object for a predetermined amount of time. Further, the conveyor rotates the objects as the object is conveyed through the radio-frequency energy.
US10667330B2
An aerodynamic measurement probe comprises a part to be sited in the region of the skin of an aircraft and means for heating the part. The heating means comprise a thermodynamic loop comprising a closed circuit in which a heat-transfer fluid circulates, the closed circuit comprising an evaporator and a zone in which the heat-transfer fluid can be condensed in the appendage in order to heat it. Outside the evaporator, the circuit in which the fluid circulates is formed by a tubular duct of open cross section.
US10667313B2
A watch comprises a communication circuitry configured to enable short-range communication between the watch and the portable electronic device, and a processing system including a processor. The processing system is configured to establish a pairing with the portable electronic device through a short-range pairing mechanism, determine whether the pairing with the portable electronic device is broken based on information received from the portable electronic device, and in response to the determination that the pairing with the portable electronic device is broken, transmit information indicating the breakage of the pairing to the server directly or via the portable electronic device.
US10667308B2
Methods, computer-readable media, and devices for instantiating a service provider application on a customer premises-based device are disclosed. For example, a processing system of a telecommunication service provider network having at least one processor may establish a first tunnel between the processing system and a virtual machine monitor of a customer premises-based device and send a first instruction to the virtual machine monitor via the first tunnel to instantiate a first service provider application on the customer premises-based device. The processing system may further establish a second tunnel between the processing system and the first service provider application and send a second instruction to the first service provider application via the second tunnel to configure the first service provider application to operate in a service function chain.
US10667300B2
[Object] To provide a communication apparatus and a communication method which are capable of suppressing a decrease in communication efficiency in UL communication of a random access scheme.[Solution] Provided is a communication apparatus, including a communication unit configured to transmit a trigger frame including sub area information in which a sub area is specified from a resource area including wireless communication resources selectable as uplink resources and receive a response frame to the trigger frame. Provided is a communication apparatus, including a communication unit configured to receive a trigger frame including sub area information in which a sub area is specified from a resource area including wireless communication resources selectable as uplink resources and transmit a response frame to the trigger frame.
US10667296B2
A method of transmitting, by a terminal of a wireless communication system, a message on a communication channel shared with other terminals. Before sending the message, the terminal listens on the communication channel until the terminal detects an absence of activity on the communication channel for an inactivity time ΔTin. When no activity is detected on the communication channel for the inactivity time ΔTin, the terminal waits for a waiting time ΔTat and then transmits the message on the communication channel. The waiting time ΔTat is identical for all of the terminals of the wireless communication system.
US10667292B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication method for power saving and a wireless communication terminal using the same, and more particularly, to a wireless communication method for efficiently operating data transmission/reception of each terminal in a high-density environment and a wireless communication terminal using the same.To this end, provided are a base wireless communication terminal, including: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to control an operation of the base wireless communication terminal, wherein the processor is configured to: transmit a traffic indicator map (TIM) including identifier information of at least one station which is to receive downlink data, transmit a trigger frame triggering a PS-Poll transmission of the at least one station indicated by the TIM, receive at least one PS-Poll transmitted in response to the trigger frame, and transmit downlink data to a station that transmitted the PS-Poll and a wireless communication method using the same.
US10667291B2
The present disclosure discloses an uplink retransmitted data sending method, apparatus, and system, and relates to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving data transmitted on a same contention resource by different user equipments (UEs) that are in a same contention resource group; demodulating, based on a demodulation reference signal DMRS sequence carried in the data, the data sent by the UEs; and when demodulation of data sent by at least two UEs fails, scheduling, by using an uplink grant (UL-grant), the UEs whose data fails to be demodulated, to retransmit the data on a designated non-contention resource. This resolves a prior-art technical problem that uplink data retransmission fails, and improves uplink data retransmission efficiency.
US10667290B2
A method in a network node (115) comprises determining (404), for one or more wireless devices (110), whether one or more or a short transmission time interval (TTI) and a reduced processing time are supported by the one or more wireless devices. The method comprises assigning (405) the one or more wireless devices to one of at least two available scheduling pools (215, 220) based on the determination of whether one or more of the short TTI and the reduced processing time are supported.
US10667280B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to allocating at least one wireless channel to an access point by a central entity [104]. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising: detecting at least two access points [for e.g. 102A, 102B] from a plurality of access points operating within at least one available wireless spectrum; prioritizing the at least two access points [for e.g. 102A, 102B] based on one of the increasing order and the decreasing order of a count of the one or more neighbouring access points; forming at least one group from the plurality of wireless channels and sequentially allocating at least one of the at least one unallocated wireless channel to each of the at least two access points [for e.g. 102A, 102B].
US10667274B2
Disclosed herein is a method and system for dynamic channel allocation among plurality of Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs) in Long-Range Land-to-Sea (LRLS) wireless network. The method comprises configuring plurality of channels, having non-overlapping frequencies, to plurality of BTSs, and obtaining channel quality parameters related to each channel. Subsequently, an Aggregate Weighted Signal-to-Interference Noise Ratio (AWSINR) metrics and a throughput value for each of plurality of BTSs is determined based on the channel quality parameters. Finally, an optimal channel is identified among plurality of channels for allocating to each of plurality of BTSs based on the AWSINR metrics or the throughput value. In an embodiment, the present disclosure helps in eliminating interference in the LRLS wireless network, thereby optimizing network throughput and enhancing Quality of Experience to end users.
US10667273B2
A method of selecting a frequency block includes determining a first value representing a lowest noise level of a radio channel at a first or second node, calculating a first metric representing a ratio between a first desired signal strength and the first value, determining a second value representing a lowest noise level of a radio channel at the first or second nodes, calculating a second metric representing a ratio between a second desired signal strength and the second value, selecting, on the basis of at least the first and second metrics and amongst a set of frequency blocks including at least the first and second frequency blocks, a frequency block for transmission of a message between the first and second nodes, indicating a sub-band of the selected frequency block, and causing transmission of the message on the indicated sub-band.
US10667270B2
According to some embodiments, a method in a wireless network element of transmitting a transport block comprises determining a modulation coding scheme for a transmission of the transport block; determining a category type of a wireless device that will transmit or receive the transport block; determining, using the category type of the wireless device, an encoding soft buffer size (NIR) for the transport block; adjusting, using the modulation coding scheme, the encoding soft buffer size (NIR) by a factor (KH); encoding the transport block according to the determined modulation coding scheme and the adjusted encoding soft buffer size; and transmitting the transport block. In particular embodiments, the determined modulation coding scheme is 256 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (256QAM) and the factor (KH) is 4/3.
US10667269B2
[Object] To enable radio resources to be used more efficiently in non-orthogonal multiple access.[Solution] There is provided a device including: a grouping unit configured to perform grouping of a plurality of terminal devices that support non-orthogonal multiple access on the basis of a size of transmission data of each of the plurality of terminal devices; and an allocation unit configured to allocate the same radio resources to each of groups obtained as a result of the grouping.
US10667268B2
An apparatus and method for selecting the best beam in a wireless communication system are provided. An operation of a Base Station (BS) includes repeatedly transmitting reference signals beamformed with a first width, receiving a feedback signal indicating at least one preferred-beam having the first width from at least one terminal, determining a direction range within which reference signals beamformed with a second width are to be transmitted and a transmission pattern, based on the at least one preferred-beam having the first width, repeatedly transmitting the reference signals beamformed with the second width within the determined direction range according to the transmission pattern, and receiving a feedback signal indicating at least one preferred-beam having the second width from the at least one terminal.
US10667263B2
Disclosed are a wireless communication base station device and a division number determination method that improve the frequency diversity effect while maintaining channel estimation accuracy regardless of the number of divisions in the frequency domain of a transmission signal from a wireless communication terminal device. A determination unit determines the number of divisions in the frequency domain of a transmission signal from a wireless communication terminal device. Here, the determination unit increases the number of divisions in the frequency domain of the transmission signal from the wireless communication terminal device as the number of pilot blocks included in the transmission signal increases. In addition, a scheduling unit schedules allocation to the frequency resources of the divided transmission signal according to the number of divisions determined by the determination unit.
US10667259B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for a channel reservation signal that may be transmitted upon gaining contention-based access to a channel in a shared radio frequency spectrum. The channel reservation signal may include a channel reservation preamble and a channel reservation payload. The channel reservation payload may be formatted with other control channel information transmitted by the transmitter, such as downlink control information (DCI), and aligned with a transmission boundary of the other control channel information. When deployed on a shared medium, a downlink control channel may carry an extra trigger field that may schedule a receiving UE to transmit its own channel reservation signal within an uplink transmission burst.
US10667258B2
A method for operating a plurality of different wireless networks operating at least in part in overlapping frequency bands includes monitoring, by a first wireless transmitter, activity in the overlapping frequency bands. The first wireless transmitter determines whether a channel in the overlapping frequency bands is idle for a predefined time period. Based on the channel being idle for the predefined time period, it is determined that the first wireless transmitter has a transmission opportunity on the channel. The first wireless transmitter measures an amount of time until a next frame boundary on the channel and, based on the amount of time until the next frame boundary being below a threshold, reserves the channel for a fixed duration of time. Based on the amount of time until the next frame boundary being above the threshold, the first wireless transmitter skips the transmission opportunity on the channel.
US10667251B2
Disclosed is a base station in which the frequency usage efficiency can be improved when the communication bandwidths are asymmetric in the uplink line and the downlink line. A base station can communicate by using a plurality of downlink unit bands and a smaller number of uplink unit bands. A control unit allocates uplink resource allocation information and downlink resource allocation information to a PDCCH which is arranged in each of the plurality of downlink unit bands, and allocates a response signal to the uplink line data to a PHICH which is arranged in the same number of downlink unit bands from the plurality of downlink unit bands as there are uplink unit bands. A transmit RF unit transmits the resource allocation information or the response signal.
US10667241B2
A user equipment prepares a signalling report in response to receiving a control element for activation/deactivation of component carriers to be used by the user equipment for communication in a cellular communications network system, and transmits the signalling report.
US10667237B2
A method of determining a distance between mobile wireless devices can include determining a format and bandwidth supported by an initiating Station (STA) and a responding Station (STA) and exchanging one or more sets of Null Data Packet (NDP) frames between the initiating Station (STA) and the responding Station (STA) using the determined format and bandwidth. The distance between the initiating Station (STA) and the responding Station (STA) can then be determined based on timing measurements of the one or more sets of Null Data Packet (NDP) frames exchanged between the initiating Station (STA) and the responding Station (STA).
US10667234B2
A method for data transmission in which data is emitted and/or received by a communication device in a first radio network formed according to a first standard in a first operating mode and data is emitted and/or received in a second radio network formed according to a second standard in a second operating mode. The communication device detects whether it is inside or outside a receiving region of the first radio network. The communication device is operated in the first operating mode if it is inside the receiving region of the first radio network, and the communication device is operated in the second operating mode if it is outside the receiving region of the first radio network. The second standard is an IEEE 802.11p standard and the first standard is a standard of the IEEE 802.11 regulation that is different from the IEEE 802.11p standard. The communication device takes part in an ad-hoc communication in the second operating mode.
US10667225B2
A device and method for vehicle-to-vehicle communication. The method includes: a source device sends a request message to a base station, the request message being used for requesting the base station to allocating a resource; a node device that is synchronous with the source device sends synchronous information to at least one target device, so that the at least one target device establishes time synchronization with the source device according to the synchronous information, wherein the node device is a road-side device or an in-car device capable of communicating; the source device informs the at least one target device of a resource allocated by the base station; and the source device sends service information to the at least one target device by utilizing the resource.
US10667222B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for the user equipment (UE) to select a power management mode from a plurality of power management modes supported by the UE based on decoding of a portion of the downlink subframe. For example, when the UE receives a subframe from a base station, the UE may decode a control channel region of the subframe to determine whether the subframe includes a channel grant allocated to the UE. If no channel grant is included in the subframe, the UE may select a power management mode for the UE from the plurality of power management modes supported by the UE that maximizes the UE's sleep opportunities while balancing the deficient performance costs.
US10667216B2
The present invention herein provides apparatus and method, allowing a user to acquire a target location wherever the target is with a target mobile locator. The target mobile locator includes a RF receiver, a transmitter, a GPS locator and a circuit. After receiving “wake-up” signal from the user, GPS locator and/or transmitter can be activated and the target location is sent back to the user. Prior to receiving the wakeup signal, at least one of the GPS locator and the transmitter are either energy reduced state or off state such that the consumption of the energy is minimized in the locator. Therefore, the locator is active for long periods of time. Optionally, a battery can be recharged using, for example, a solar cell under the sun.
US10667215B2
A wireless receiving device includes a wake-up receiver, a main receiver and a calibration circuit. The wake-up receiver operates in a monitoring mode or a sleep mode. When operating in the monitoring mode, the wake-up receiver monitors whether a request signal is transmitted by a communication device and issues a wake-up signal after receiving the request signal. The main receiver operates in a sleep mode or a transmission mode. When operating in the sleep mode, the main receiver is woken up and enters the transmission mode to transmit and receive data to and from the communication device when receiving the wake-up signal. The calibration circuit is coupled to the wake-up receiver and the main receiver and configured to receive a calibration signal from the main receiver and calibrate a reception frequency of the wake-up receiver in the background in response to the calibration signal.
US10667213B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) or Cellular Internet of Things (CIoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. An operating method of a terminal located within a predetermined area in a wireless environment comprises transmitting, to a base station connected to a network, registration information for registering with the network, wherein the registration information includes information for indicating that the predetermined area is included in a coverage area of the base station, and communicating with the base station based on the registration information.
US10667209B2
This disclosure relates to a terminal device, a network device, a method of cell selection, and a wireless communications system. In the method of cell selection, a terminal device sends cell information of at least one cell in a first wireless communications system to a second network device in a second wireless communications system, so that the second network device can select a target cell in the first wireless communications system, and the terminal device accesses the target cell selected by the second network device, and accesses a core network in the first wireless communications system by using a first network device to which the target cell belongs. The terminal device provides the cell information, and the second network device selects the target cell. This implements cell selection in the future evolved first wireless communications system.
US10667207B2
In embodiments of access point assisted roaming, a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, tablet computer, or other portable device is implemented for wireless connection with access points, such as Wi-Fi access points. An access point controller can receive a request for a neighbor report from the mobile device, and also obtain a travel direction of the mobile device. The access point controller is implemented to determine access points that are each configured for a wireless connection with a communication system of the mobile device, where a wireless connection with an access point is based in part on a detected signal strength of an access point. The access point controller can then generate the neighbor report that lists one or more of the access points in order of connection likelihood and based on the travel direction of the mobile device.
US10667200B2
A user access method and user equipment (UE). A second device communicates with a first device at a predetermined moment in order to access the first device, where the predetermined moment is determined according to a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle of the first device. In this process, the predetermined moment is determined according to the DRX cycle of the first device, and the second device communicates with the first device at the predetermined moment in order to access the first device such that the second device accesses the first device.
US10667196B2
A wireless communication unit transmits and receives signals to and from a base station and measures the received quality of downlink signals. A position information acquisition unit acquires position information on a mobile station. A measurement information management unit acquires the position information, received quality information, and received quality information that is measurement result of received quality of uplink signals from the mobile station, and stores measurement information which is received quality information on signals transmitted and received between the mobile station and the base station. A communication connection control unit acquires the position information from the position information acquisition unit, and performs a handover when a position of the mobile station is a handover position so as to switch base stations to be connected.
US10667195B2
A method for supporting wireless roaming among coverage areas of a plurality of access points may comprise detecting, by a first access point of the plurality of access points, signal strength of signals from a client device that is wirelessly connected to the first access point; comparing the signal strength with a threshold, and if the signal strength is less than the threshold, disconnecting, by the first access point, the client device from the first access point; transmitting, by the first access point, a signal indicating the disconnection of the client device to an access controller; updating, by the access controller, connection status information to indicate the disconnection of the client device from the first access point; transmitting, by the access controller, the connection status information of the client device to the plurality of access points; and connecting the client device with a second access point of the plurality of access points.
US10667191B2
A node of a radio access network (RAN) receives, from a WLAN Termination (WT), an Extended Service Set Identifier (ESSID) and/or a Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID) for one or more WLAN access points controlled by the WT. The node maintains a mapping between the ESSIDs and/or the BSSIDs and corresponding WLAN access points of the WT. Responsive to receiving a measurement report from a UE, the measurement report indicating an ESSID and/or a BSSID, the node associates the UE with a WLAN access point, based on said mapping. An interface may be established between the node and the WT.
US10667180B2
Embodiments herein relate to methods and devices for handling access priority of a wireless device in a wireless network. In particular, embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a wireless network access node for managing/handling access priority associated with a wireless device, which wireless device is requesting access to the wireless network is provided. The method comprises receiving from a mobility management node a message comprising Quality of Service, QoS, information associated with the wireless device; determining access priority related information associated with the wireless device based on the received QoS information; and transmitting the access priority related information associated with the wireless device to the wireless device. Further, embodiments herein relate to corresponding methods for handling access priority associated with a wireless device performed in a wireless device, and in a wireless network, respectively.
US10667178B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless broadband communication method, device, and system. The method provided in an embodiment of the present invention includes: establishing, by a macro base station, a Radio Resource Control RRC connection with a user equipment UE; receiving, by a small cell, a configuration message sent, through a wired or wireless interface, by the macro base station; and establishing, by the small cell, a user plane connection between the small cell and the UE based on the RRC connection and the configuration message, and establishing a data bearer with the UE on the user plane connection.
US10667171B2
The present disclosure mainly relates to improvements for the buffer status reporting and the logical channel prioritization procedures performed in the UE, in scenarios where the UE is in dual connectivity and the PDCP layer of the UE is shared in the uplink for MeNB and SeNB. According to the present disclosure, a ratio is introduced according to which the buffer values for the PDCP are split in the UE between the SeNB and the MeNB according to said ratio.
US10667170B2
A base station (BS) for handling buffer status reporting comprises a storage device and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The storage device stores, and the processing circuit is configured to execute instructions of: configuring a radio bearer (RB) and configuring a first logical channel (LC) and a second LC associated to the RB, to a communication device; configuring the communication device to report separate buffer statuses for the first LC and the second LC associated to the RB; receiving a first buffer status comprising a volume of data associated to the first LC and a second buffer status comprising a volume of data associated to the second LC, from the communication device; transmitting a first UL grant to the communication device according to the first buffer status; and transmitting a second UL grant to the communication device according to the second buffer status.
US10667167B2
A communication control apparatus includes: a processor configured to: fix a number of sets of data to be inserted into one packet by a communication apparatus according to a wireless quality with the communication apparatus; and notify the communication apparatus of the number of sets fixed at the fixing.
US10667156B2
A base station (200) according to an embodiment performs radio communication with a radio terminal (100). The base station transmits a reference signal to the radio terminal with a specific polarized wave, receives, from the radio terminal, polarized wave adjustment information generated by using the reference signal, adjusts a polarized wave based on the specific polarized wave by using the polarized wave adjustment information, and transmits an information signal to the radio terminal with the adjusted polarized wave.
US10667150B2
A self organizing network within a software defined networking environment is provided to allow for fast updating of radio access network parameters which enables optimization algorithms to converge on optimized configurations very quickly. The self organizing network is enabled by providing a self organizing network manager plug-in within a software defined networking environment that interfaces with a radio access network plug-in via a service abstraction layer to quickly obtain base station device parameters, iteratively adjust the base station device parameters to obtain optimized radio access network configurations to mitigate outages, reduce power consumption, manage load, or provide other benefits.
US10667149B2
A control apparatus for wireless communication system includes: a communication unit to obtain, from a base station, information indicating reception quality, at a terminal device, of a signal transmitted on a directional beam from the base station; and a processing unit to determine whether to remove a spot on the basis of the information obtained by the communication unit, the spot being an area irradiated with a directional beam from the base station. If the processing unit determines that the spot is to be removed, the communication unit sends an instruction to remove the spot to the base station or to a master base station of the base station.
US10667147B2
A sensing recognition method and device based on wireless communication signals are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of obtaining channel state information from a received wireless communication signal; extracting a channel state feature value from the channel state information; and outputting a sensing result mapped with the channel state feature value according to the channel state feature value. The disclosed method and device can improve the accuracy of sensing recognition and achieve better recognition effect.
US10667146B2
A radio terminal (1) receives from a base station (2) a first value (601) of a first radio resource configuration information element. The first value (601) is associated with normal coverage or with a first coverage enhancement level. The radio terminal (1) derives a second value (604) of the first radio resource configuration information element by converting (603) the first value (601) using a value of a conversion factor (602). The second value (604) is associated with a second coverage enhancement level. It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to reduction of data size necessary for the base station to notify the radio terminal of a plurality of radio resource configurations for a plurality of coverage enhancement levels.
US10667145B2
There is provided an apparatus comprising a location receiver to receive a signal indicative of a location of the location receiver. A movement mechanism rotates the location receiver about an axis and provides an angle of the location receiver about the axis from a known point. Calculation circuitry produces an output value indicative of an absolute bearing of the known point about the axis, based on a plurality of given angles of the location receiver about the axis from the known point, and a plurality of associated locations of the location receiver indicated by the signal received when the location receiver is at each of the given angles.
US10667143B2
Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques and apparatus that may help improve greatly reduce the implementation complexity of the ground station, and ground base-station user capacity by utilizing a subband beamformer for processing uplink signals received from aircraft at ground base stations, in an air-to-ground (ATG) system. The techniques presented herein may allow for dynamic subband allocation to different airborne devices with multi-user beamforming and subband combining.
US10667134B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for credential management. Aspects include obtaining a first biometric information by a first processing device, wherein the first processing device has stored one or more credentials. Then, responsive to obtaining the first biometric information, the method determines whether the first biometric information is valid. The method then creates, via the first processing device, an ad-hoc network based upon the determination that the first biometric information is valid. The method, then receives a second biometric information from a second processing device through the ad-hoc network. And, then the method analyzes the second biometric information to determine whether the second biometric information is valid.
US10667125B1
Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving, from a mobile device, a request to register with a mobility network, the mobile device including a partially-activated subscriber identification module (SIM); determining that the partially-activated SIM qualifies for on-device activation; in response to determining that the partially-activated SIM qualifies for on-device activation, providing a short message service (SMS) message to the mobile device through the mobility network, the SMS message including a uniform resource locator (URL); in response to activation of the URL, providing, to the mobile device, access to an activation portal web page associated with the URL, wherein SIM data and device data are automatically provided to the activation portal web page; and receiving, from the mobile device, activation data, and in response, activating the SIM and provisioning the mobile device within the mobility network.
US10667121B2
In an example, a mobile network apparatus is configured to operations support systems, OSS, including at least one processor, and at least one memory storing program instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to: request, by a coordination function of the OSS, information relating to an uncoordinated function or an instance of an uncoordinated function, wherein the uncoordinated function or the instance of the uncoordinated function is related to the coordination function; receive, by the coordination function, a response including the information; based on the response, control, by the coordination function, the uncoordinated function or the instance of the uncoordinated function. In other examples, a method and a computer program product have been discussed along with the features of the mobile network apparatus.
US10667119B2
The invention relates to an improved transmission protocol for uplink data packet transmission. A transmission counter of the transmission protocol counts the number of transmissions the user terminal has performed for a data packet. The user terminal participates in sidelink discovery operation with other user terminals based on sidelink discovery gaps. The user terminal cannot transmit and/or receive signals under control of the transmission protocol when participating in sidelink discovery operation during the sidelink discovery gaps. A processor of the user terminal determines whether a retransmission of a data packet, which is triggered by the transmission protocol, was not performed because the transmission protocol operation collided with one of the sidelink discovery gaps. In case of collision, the processor operates the transmission counter such that the colliding retransmission of the data packet does not result in an increment of the transmission counter of the transmission protocol for the data packet.
US10667108B2
A user sets a format of an advertise packet to be transmitted from a plurality of formats using a setting screen displayed on a printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus transmits an advertise packet according to the setting made via the setting screen.
US10667090B2
Techniques are discussed herein for enabling an external client to request periodic or triggered location of a user equipment (UE) according to trigger criteria that are not visible to entities within a wireless network, using a codeword in a periodic and triggered location request that is sent to the UE. The codeword may be meaningful to the UE, but not to the wireless network, and may indicate particular types of triggered and/or periodic events to be detected and reported by the UE. A location report sent by the UE to the wireless network may contain a second codeword, indicating a type of triggered or periodic event detected by the UE, which may be conveyed by the wireless network to the external client without interpretation. Codewords may enable more flexibility for periodic and triggered location without impacting wireless networks.
US10667085B2
An information processing apparatus communicates receives wirelessly and directly, from a device, advertising packets of a plurality of different formats that comply with a predetermined communication standard and are transmitted from the device, and estimates a proximity level between the device having transmitted the advertising packets and the information processing apparatus by sampling the radio field intensities of the advertising packets of the plurality of different formats. The advertising packets include a first advertising packet of a first format and a second advertising packet of a second format, wherein a number of sampling of the radio field intensities of the first advertising packet is less than that of the radio field intensities of the second advertising packet per unit of time. A sampled radio field intensity of the first advertising packet influences the estimate more than a sampled radio field intensity of the second advertising packet.
US10667081B2
A computer system tracks geographical locations traversed by a user to provide location based services. One or more geographical locations traversed by a user are tracked via a portable location device. Geo-fencing areas corresponding to the one or more geographical areas are determined. One or more geo-fencing area profile scores are generated for the user based on attributes of the traversal of the geo-fencing areas. Re-location of the user to a new geographic location is detected via the portable location device. Location-based services are provided for the new geographic location based on at least one geo-fencing area profile score of the user. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for tracking geographical locations traversed by a user to provide location based services in substantially the same manner described above.
US10667076B2
In a perspective of a service provider within a MaaS vehicle, a service provider mobile device may determine a distance and approaching direction of the service requestor mobile device. The service provider mobile device may determine the distance and the approaching direction through GPS coordinates using a unified gateway or through a more direct communication. The MaaS vehicle via the service provider mobile device may provide information regarding the distance and the approaching direction of the service requestor mobile device. This information may be in the form of audio and/or visual cues.
US10667075B2
A game headset receives a plurality of channels of game and/or chat audio during game play, monitors the plurality of channels, and detect one or more sounds on the channels during the monitoring. The game headset determines characteristics of the detected one or more sound and outputs one or more signals for generating a visual representation of the detected one or more sounds based on the determined characteristics. The game headset output the signals to a game console that provides the game play. The game console displays the visual representation during the game play based on the communicated visualization information. The one or more signals is a video stream of an in-game visualization. The game headset outputs the one or more signals to a second screen communication device that generates the visual representation during the game play based on the signals.
US10667073B1
A method is provided for directing a user to a point of interest using sounds played on a wearable audio output device. A user's direction of gaze is determined using data from at least one sensor in the audio output device. First and second locations are determined of the user and the point of interest respectively, and a distance is determined between the first and second locations. A relative angle between the direction of gaze and the direction of the point of interest is determined based on the determined first and second locations. A sample sound is altered using at least one sonification technique to convey information relating to the determined distance and the relative angle. The altered sample sound is rendered and output for playing by the audio output device.
US10667066B2
A hearing device contains an electronic frame for holding electronic components. The hearing device has first and second resilient contacts. The resilient contacts are fastened to the electronic frame, and the resilient contacts reversibly electrically contact an electronic component using contact surfaces of a double-pole battery. The hearing device contains a rechargeable battery module that contains a rechargeable battery and an electronic convertor. The rechargeable battery module is connected in an articulated manner to the electronic frame so as to be able to move and contains connecting contacts that correspond to the resilient contacts. A kit is provided for the hearing device and the kit has a battery compartment door for reversibly holding the double-pole battery. The battery compartment door is connected to pivot on the electronic frame such that as the battery compartment door is pivoted into a closed position the contact surfaces of the double-pole battery are contacted.
US10667060B2
The present invention provides a sound generation device and a preparation method of a metal plastic part. The sound generation device comprises a metal plastic part. The metal plastic part comprises a plastic part and a metal insert that is combined with the plastic part. An oxidation film that is obtained through metal nanocrystallization and a nanopore that is formed in a surface of the oxidation film and has a pore diameter of 20-1,000 nm are arranged on a surface of the metal insert. The nanopore is filled with a resin composition from which the plastic part is made. As the nanopore is filled with the resin composition from which the plastic part is made, the metal insert and the plastic part are in close fit with each other, which greatly enhances the gluing capability of the metal insert and prevents the metal insert and the plastic part which are formed through injection molding from being separated. A length of a portion embedded into the plastic part of the metal insert is greatly reduced, such that transfer of ultrasonic energy is smooth. The metal plastic part is effectively prevented from ultrasonic unmelting. Thus, the waterproofness and the sealing property of the metal plastic part are improved. Accordingly, the performance of the sound generation device is improved.
US10667055B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to separated audio analysis and processing. A system for processing an audio signal is disclosed. The system includes an audio analysis module configured to analyze an input audio signal to determine a processing parameter for the input audio signal, the input audio signal being represented in time domain. The system also includes an audio processing module configured to process the input audio signal in parallel with the audio analysis module. The audio processing module includes a time domain filter configured to filter the input audio signal to obtain an output audio signal in the time domain, and a filter controller configured to control a filter coefficient of the time domain filter based on the processing parameter determined by the audio analysis module. Corresponding method and computer program product of processing an audio signal are also disclosed.
US10667054B2
In some examples, an acoustic headset for providing hearing protection, includes: a first auditory cup; a second auditory cup; at least one of a stirrup or headband interconnecting the first and second auditory cups; at least one speaker integrated within at least one of the first auditory cup or the second auditory cup; a microphone that receives sound, wherein the microphone is coupled to the acoustic headset; and wherein at least one of the first and second auditory cups comprises a digital component for transmission and receipt of digital wireless audio communications, and wherein at least one of the first and second auditory cups comprises an analog component for transmission and receipt of analog wireless audio communications.
US10667051B2
Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatus for limiting the excursion of a transducer. The method comprises receiving a transducer signal; and limiting the transducer signal or a signal derived therefrom to generate a limited transducer signal for input into the transducer such that an electrical response caused by the limited transducer signal in an electrical model of the transducer would be less than a threshold electrical response, wherein the threshold electrical response has been determined by: inputting a stimulus input signal into the electrical model of the transducer, wherein the stimulus input signal is designed to cause the transducer to reach a maximum excursion; and determining the threshold electrical response as a maximum of the electrical response caused by the stimulus input signal in the electrical model of the transducer.
US10667047B2
This disclosure relates to a headphone device, a terminal device, an information transmitting method, a program, and a headphone system capable of reducing a process burden of parameter control in a noise canceling process of the headphone device.In the terminal device capable of communicating with the headphone device, a parameter appropriate for the noise canceling process is determined based on analysis of noise from outside and position information and indication information to indicate a processing parameter related to the noise canceling process in the headphone device is generated. This is transmitted to the headphone device side. In the headphone device, a processing parameter of the noise canceling process is set according to the indication information. According to this, a process to determine an optimal parameter of the noise canceling process on the headphone device side is not required.
US10667042B2
Universal mechanical isolator that effectively decouples a vibration sensitive device such as a microphone from a support to thereby isolate the vibration sensitive device from mechanical vibrations.
US10667036B2
Disclosed are a lattice type speaker and a lattice array speaker system having the same. A lattice type speaker according to the present invention comprises: a tweeter horn which has a quadrangular part forming an upper periphery thereof and four woofer frames provided at or inside a cut-off edge part of the quadrangular part, so that the tweeter horn is implemented as a lattice horn having a horn-shaped entire body configuration and a cross shape when viewed from above; a tweeter driving unit which is provided on a lower side of the tweeter horn and reproduces a high-pitched sound through the tweeter horn; four woofer horns provided inside the four woofer frames, respectively; and a woofer driving unit which is provided on a lower side of the four woofer horns and reproduces a low-pitched sound through the four woofer horns.
US10667031B2
A wearable device configured to be modeled as both a part of the source and a part of the load in an electro-acoustical source-and-load model of a system where a sound source is coupled to the ear canal. Such a wearable device may be used to determine the acoustic energy density at a point of measurement in or near the ear of a user.
US10667030B2
Various implementations include an eartip for an earphone earpiece. The eartip can be configured to reliably fit a plurality of ear shapes. The eartip can have a body and a sealing structure defined by a set of dimensions that are configured to seal the ear canal of one or more users. In certain implementations, a notch in the body permits flexion of the body during coupling or decoupling of the body from the mount and provides sufficient hoop stress around the mount to retain the eartip on the mount during use of the earphone earpiece.
US10667017B2
A method includes receiving, by a processor, metrics relating to a plurality of program channels. The plurality of program channels are distributed via at least one multicast stream. The method also includes modifying, by the processor, the at least one multicast stream. The modifying is based at least on the received metrics, and the modifying changes which programs are distributed via the at least one multicast stream. The method also includes transmitting at least one program channel via the modified at least one multicast stream.
US10667013B2
An information processing method, a terminal and a server are disclosed. The method includes that: a terminal acquires a first input operation, acquires first input information and first comment information based on the first input operation, and sends the first input information and the first comment information to a server, the first input information includes first data; and if determining that a condition is met, the terminal outputs second comment information sent by the server, the second comment information is the first comment information displayed in a specific display manner.
US10666994B2
A device, system and method are provided that may allot and manage bandwidth, such as bandwidth associated with broadcast and narrowcast distribution models, in a content distribution network. The device, system and method may include qualification of content or channels for distribution as broadcast content or narrowcast content. In some embodiments, the qualification may be with regard to selection orthogonality.
US10666992B2
An encoding engine encodes a video sequence to provide optimal quality for a given bitrate. The encoding engine cuts the video sequence into a collection of shot sequences. Each shot sequence includes video frames captured from a particular capture point. The encoding engine resamples each shot sequence across a range of different resolutions, encodes each resampled sequence with a range of quality parameters, and then upsamples each encoded sequence to the original resolution of the video sequence. For each upsampled sequence, the encoding engine computes a quality metric and generates a data point that includes the quality metric and the resample resolution. The encoding engine collects all such data points and then computes the convex hull of the resultant data set. Based on all convex hulls across all shot sequences, the encoding engine determines an optimal collection of shot sequences for a range of bitrates.
US10666979B2
An image processing device and an image processing method for generating a celestial sphere image are provided such that the pixels near the poles of the sphere are kept from increasing in density when the image is mapped to the sphere surface. An encoder encodes, with respect to an omnidirectional image generated by equidistant cylindrical projection to include a top image, a middle image, and a bottom image in a vertical direction, the middle image into an encoded stream at a high resolution, and the top image and the bottom image into encoded streams at a resolution lower than the high resolution in systems including image display systems.
US10666969B2
The present invention relates to a technique for encoding and decoding video data, and more particularly, to a method for performing inter-prediction in an effective manner. The present invention combines an inter-prediction method using an AMVP mode and an inter-prediction method using a merge mode so as to propose a method for using the same candidate. The method for encoding video data proposed by the present invention comprises the following steps: receiving mode information on an inter-prediction method of a current block; determining, on the basis of the received mode information, whether the interprediction method to be applied to the current block is an AMVP mode or a merge mode; and selecting a candidate to derive motion information of the current block, wherein the candidate is selected in a left region, top region and corner region of the current block and in the same position block as the current block, and the AMVP mode and the merge mode are applied on the basis of the selected candidate.
US10666964B2
A video predictive encoding device includes an input module to receive pictures forming a video sequence, and an encoding module to encode the pictures by either intra prediction or inter prediction to generate compressed picture data, and to packetize the compressed image data along with packet header information. The packet header information includes a picture type. The encoding module determines the picture type so as to uniquely indicate whether encoded picture data is used for reference in decoding of another picture.
US10666958B2
A method for decoding an image according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving and parsing a parameter set including indication information which indicates the presence of withheld information to be used in the future; receiving and parsing a slide header including the withheld information, when the indication information indicates the presence of the withheld information; and decoding the image according to semantics and a value corresponding to the withheld information. As a result, provided are a method and an apparatus for describing an additional extension information indication in a bitstream supporting a hierarchical image.
US10666955B2
The present disclosure relates to a still image generating apparatus that generates still image data from moving image data that generates a moving image, and includes a recorder and a control unit. The recorder is configured to record the still image data. When a specific frame image is selected from a plurality of frame images included in the moving image, the control unit sets a specific frame image group including the specific frame image and other frame images having a reference relationship with the specific frame image. The control unit generates the still image data corresponding to each of the plurality of frame images included in the specific frame image group by decoding the moving image data. The control unit causes the recorder to record the generated still image data. The control unit generates frame image data that generates at least one of the plurality of frame images included in the specific frame image group based on the still image data recorded by the recorder.
US10666944B2
Provided are an image encoding method, an image decoding method and an image processing system including image encoding/decoding apparatus. The image encoding method includes steps of: acquiring a first image and a plurality of second images; updating features of each second image of the plurality of second images to obtain corresponding update features; superposing the first image with the update features of each second image of the plurality of second images to generate superposed images; generating a plurality of prediction images according to the superposed images; determining difference features between each second image of the plurality of second images and a corresponding prediction image; outputting the superposed images and the difference features; wherein the updating and/or predicting adopts a convolutional neural network.
US10666936B2
According to an embodiment, a video encoding method includes: determining whether it is possible to include an intra merge candidate in a merge candidate list; when it is possible to include the intra merge candidate in the merge candidate list, determining a merge candidate list including at least one of the intra merge candidate and an intra merge candidate of a current block; generating prediction samples of the current block by using a prediction candidate selected from the determined merge candidate list; and reconstructing the current block by using residual samples between the current blocks and the prediction samples of the current block.
US10666931B2
An autostereoscopic display includes a plurality of projectors and a screen. Each of the projectors is configured to provide a corresponding lamp image unit. Each of the lamp image units includes array of lamp images actuated in time sequence and projecting to different directions. The screen has an image plane and includes a first micro-lens array and a second micro-lens array. The first micro-lens array is configured to guide the lamp image units to the image plane such that the lamp image units are connected end to end and arranged in a ring on the image plane as a lamp image set. The second micro-lens array is located corresponding to the first micro-lens array and configured to magnify the projection angles of the lamp image units in the lamp image set and project the lamp image set to an observing surface.
US10666930B2
Disclosed is a full parallax multi-focus three-dimensional (3D) display including: a parallax image provider configured to form two-dimensionally arranged parallax images spatially divided to provide at least two parallax images; and a parallax image convergence unit configured to converge the two-dimensionally arranged parallax images provided by the parallax image provider around a pupil of an eyeball.
US10666926B1
Multiview calibration is essential for accurate three-dimensional computation. However, multiview calibration can not be accurate enough because of the tolerances required in some of the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters that are associated with the calibration process, along with fundamental imperfections that are associated with the manufacturing and assembly process itself. As a result, residual error in calibration is left over, with no known methods to mitigate such errors. Residual error mitigation is presented in this work to address the shortcomings that are associated with calibration of multiview camera systems. Residual error mitigation may be performed inline with a given calibration approach, or may be presented as a secondary processing step that is more application specific. Residual error mitigation aims at modifying the original parameters that have been estimated during an initial calibration process. These new, modified parameters are then used for triangulation and depth estimation of scene information. This approach also resolves parameter tolerances that are either too cumbersome to measure, or otherwise impossible to measure for practical stereo and multiview camera production and calibration applications.
US10666924B2
A virtual viewpoint image generation system generates a virtual viewpoint image based on a plurality of captured images obtained by capturing an image capturing target region from a plurality of different directions, and position information relating to a virtual viewpoint position. The system comprises: a plurality of image capturing apparatuses; a daisy-chain-type topology network; an obtainment unit configured to obtain the position information relating to the virtual viewpoint position; and a generation unit configured to generate the virtual viewpoint image based on the position information and the data based on each captured image of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses obtained via the daisy-chain-type topology network.
US10666916B1
Modulated circular polarization viewing systems and methods that cause temporal modulation of color, brightness, or both, of objects treated with materials having differential polarization reflectance.
US10666903B1
Techniques are described by which multiple, independently encoded video streams may be combined into a single decodable video stream. These techniques take advantage of existing features of commonly used video codecs that support the independent encoding of different regions of an image frame (e.g., H.264 slices or HEVC tiles). Instead of including different parts of the same image, each region corresponds to the encoded image data of the frames of one of the independent video streams.
US10666901B1
A system in a vehicle comprises one or more sensors configured to obtain occupant information indicating a stress level of an occupant of the vehicle. The system also includes a wireless transceiver in communication with a mobile device including a camera configured to monitor the occupant, and a controller in communication with the one or more sensors and the wireless transceiver, wherein the controller is configured to determine a stress-level of the occupant utilizing at least the occupant information, initiate a video conference session on the mobile device between the occupant and one or more contacts of the occupant in response to the determination of the stress level of the occupant exceeding a threshold, and output on a vehicle display the video conference between the occupant and the one or more contacts.
US10666899B2
A visitor computer device and user interface for a computer-implemented video visitation system of a correctional facility includes a processor, a display and an input element for use by a non-incarcerated visitor at a remote location from the correctional facility. The visitor computer device is configured, via a visitor interface presented on the visitor computer device, to accept a selection from a uniquely identified and confirmed authorized non-incarcerated visitor to initiate a visitation session with a uniquely identified one of the incarcerated inmates in the correctional facility. A visitation services computer system is configured to receive the accepted selection, transmit an invitation to a visitation session to the uniquely identified one of the incarcerated inmates in the correctional facility via an inmate computing device in the correctional facility without requiring endpoint control to schedule or initiate the visitation session by administrative personnel of the correctional facility, and establish an interconnection between the visitor computer device and the inmate computer device to commence an electronic visitation session.
US10666894B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a computerized method for reporting events from a television that supports transmission and playback of digital content in accordance with an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standard. The method comprises downloading a triggered declarative object (TDO), which includes a reporting script, for storage within a digital receiver of the television. Thereafter, information associated with one or more detected events that occur during playback of the digital content is recorded and subsequently, upon execution of the reporting script, is output over a communication path separate from a communication path of the received digital content.
US10666891B2
An apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: one or more memories, and circuitry which, in operation; decodes a video stream to generate a first video signal with a first luminance range; acquires characteristic data indicating the luminance range of the first video signal; converts the characteristic data into control information according to a predetermined transmission protocol; and outputs the control information in accordance with the predetermined transmission protocol.
US10666890B2
A video signal processing apparatus (202) for transmitting a video signal when the apparatus (202) is powered on. The video signal is one of a first video signal (CLK1, DATA1) and a second video signal (CLK2, DATA2). The first video signal comprises a first video clock (CLK1) and first video data (DATA1), and the second video signal comprises a second video clock (CLK2) and second video data (DATA2). The apparatus (202) is arranged to detect at an input of the apparatus (202) a presence or an absence of the first video signal, transmit the first video signal to an output of the apparatus (202) when the first video signal is detected, and transmit the second video signal to the output of the apparatus (202) when the first video signal is not detected, the second video signal being already stored in a memory (204) of the apparatus (202).
US10666877B2
Methods and systems for synopsizing videos of an incident from multiple moving video cameras. One system includes an electronic processor configured to receive a first video from a first moving video camera, receive a second video from a second moving video camera, determine a first motion characteristic of the first video, and determine a second motion characteristic of the second video. The electronic processor is further configured to generate a comparison between the first motion characteristic and the second motion characteristic, modify the second video based on the comparison such that the second motion characteristic aligns with the first motion characteristic, and generate, after modifying the second video, a combined video including at least a portion of both the first video and the second video.
US10666870B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to generate a first video signal for a first display apparatus, a correction unit configured to generate, when the first video signal is displayed on a second display apparatus operative to represent a brightness range narrower than a brightness range representable by the first display apparatus, correction information for correcting brightness of the video, and a recording unit configured to associate the correction information generated by the correction unit with the first video signal and hold the associated information.
US10666860B2
An image processor includes a first converter to convert input images into images in a different coordinate system from that of the input images according to first conversion data based on a projection model, a position detector to detect a connecting position of the images converted by the converter, a corrector to correct the first conversion data on the basis of a result of the detection by the position detector, and a data generator to generate second conversion data for image synthesis from the conversion data corrected by the corrector on the basis of coordinate conversion, the second conversion data defining the conversion of the input images.
US10666859B2
A self-photographing control method, a self-photographing control device and an electronic device are provided. The self-photographing control method includes the steps of acquiring a first original image, selecting a human eye from the first original image as a main eye for controlling photographing, acquiring an action of the main eye, and triggering a photographing operation if the action of the main eye meets a set condition.
US10666856B1
Systems and methods for providing augmented reality feedback from a camera system are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method includes providing a display at least partially overlaying a second field of view of a user, and a camera system having the first field of view different than the second field of view; mapping a first region of the first field of view to a second region of the second field of view; and augmenting the second field of view via the display by highlighting the second region over the second field of view.
US10666842B2
A camera body includes a DCL terminal, a DLC terminal, and a LCLK terminal, that perform communication with a lens apparatus by a first voltage, or a second voltage that differs from the first voltage. The camera body also includes a DLC2 terminal that is only used when communication using the DCL terminal, DLC terminal, and LCLK terminal is performed by the first voltage. The DLC2 terminal is disposed adjacent to the LCLK terminal.
US10666839B2
A method, system, and computer program product to correct for optical distortion in media captured by a camera in a liquid environment. The method includes detecting immersion of an image capturing device in a liquid environment. The method further includes determining a most recent location of the image capturing device and accessing a geographical database to determine a specific liquid environment that is associated with the most recent location. The method further includes automatically retrieving a corrected camera refractive index corresponding to the specific liquid environment. The method further includes intercepting live image data of a current scene that is captured by at least one camera sensor of the image capturing device and applying the corrected camera refractive index to the live image data to correct for an optical distortion in the live image data. The method further includes providing the corrected live image data to an output device.
US10666827B1
Note sheets, having opposite free and adhesive edges, removably attached to documents are individuated and scanned. A document-edge bearing device shifts away from a document to allow the document's edge nearest its note sheet's free edge to droop under its own weight and open a free-edge-document gap. A scanning control unit situates into the gap a note-wedging guide component of a pivotal scanning device carried on a note-targeting platform, and having a note-sheet scanner and rollers for moving a removable note sheet across the scanner, both to peel the note sheet off its document, and to scan the note sheet. In a note-sheet presence/position detecting mechanism, document-edge pressing sliders wrinkle a document, and a control-linked sensor detects a shading-difference-originating gap between the free edge of any removable note sheet, and the document to which it is attached, to determine physical presence and document-relative position of the note sheet.
US10666814B2
A maintenance system includes a plurality of apparatuses and a maintenance server. Each apparatus: transmits log data indicating a state of the apparatus to the maintenance server; receives a prediction model from the maintenance server, the prediction model predicting the occurrence of an abnormal state of the plurality of apparatuses; determines whether the abnormal state of the apparatus occurs based on the prediction model to generate a determination result; and transmits the determination result indicating the occurrence of the abnormal state of the apparatus to the maintenance server. The maintenance server: generates the prediction model based on the log data received from each of the plurality of apparatuses; and issues an instruction of a maintenance work for one or more of the plurality of apparatuses that transmit the determination result.
US10666810B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for a collaboration conferencing system to track a total number of concurrently utilized ports across any number of conferencing bridges of the network for a particular customer and one or more billing actions may occur based on this tracking. This may result in an alternate billing option for the customer's use of the system. Further, a telecommunications network administrator may provide access to the collaboration conferencing system based on a total number of concurrently utilized ports rather than on a per conference or per minute basis. With the information of the number of purchased ports by the customer, the administrator may more accurately predict an available capacity for the collaboration conferencing system needed to support all of the users of the system and the potential collaboration conferences.
US10666800B1
Embodiments of the present invention pertain to reducing or eliminating speech recognition error when background noise is detected at a caller's location. For example, when background noise is detected at the caller's location, the caller may be prompted to use dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF).
US10666797B2
The present disclosure provides a system and a method for voice prompt of a third-party call. The system includes a contact identification module, a hands-free control module and a voice broadcast module. The contact identification module is for identifying whether a third-party incoming call number exists in an address book of a communication device. The hands-free control module is for extracting a current call status when a third-party call dials in to help judge whether the current call is in hands-free mode. The voice broadcast module is for voice broadcasting information of the incoming call according to the identification result of the contact identification module when the current call is in hands-free mode. The present system could broadcast the information of the third-party incoming call without breaking off the current call so that prevents missing important content of the current call as well as an important incoming call.
US10666796B2
The present invention relates to a method and a network device for setting up a voice call. The invention further relates to computer programs and computer program products comprising computer readable medium having the computer programs stored thereon. In a first aspect of the invention a method of setting up a voice call between a first party and a second party is provided. The method comprises acquiring information pertaining to at least one detected state of at least one of the first and the second party, determining whether the acquired information pertaining to the at least one detected state of the at least one of the first and the second party satisfies at least one criterion of a scheduling policy for setting up the voice call; and if so causing the voice call to be set up between the first party and the second party.
US10666791B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for evaluating the quality of a communication session. One of the methods includes identifying, by a communication system, a communication session between one or more users of the communication system, wherein, during the communication session, session data is routed between a first communications device of a first user of the communication system and one or more other communications devices along a communication path; obtaining, from each of a plurality of communication nodes along the communication path, quality data relating to a quality of the communication session at the communication node; generating, using the quality data, a model input to a quality score machine learning model; and providing the model input as input to the quality score machine learning model to generate the estimated quality score for at least the portion of the communication session.
US10666789B2
A control method for sensors of a mobile terminal is provided, which includes: a to-be-enabled sensor in the sensors of the mobile terminal is determined according to a sensor enabling instruction; when determining that a sensor power-on event of the mobile terminal is triggered, a power-on delay of a target sensor of the mobile terminal is acquired, wherein the target sensor at least includes the to-be-enabled sensor and, when there is one target sensor, the power-on delay of the target sensor is shorter than a maximum power-on delay of the sensors of the mobile terminal; in response to determining that the power-on delay corresponding to the target sensor is reached at a present moment, state resetting is executed on the target sensor; and when the state resetting is completed, the to-be-enabled sensor is enabled to become an enabled sensor, and acquired data of the enabled sensor is reported.
US10666788B2
A device and method for locking in button context based on a source contact of an electronic communication is provided. An electronic communication is received, via a communication interface, from a source contact. A controller detects that a button, of one or more buttons external to the device, has been activated, each of the one or more buttons mapped to activation of respective functions. The controller identifies a respective function mapped to the button. When the button is activated within a threshold time period after receiving the electronic communication, the controller performs the respective function using the source contact from which the electronic communication was received. When the button is activated after the threshold time period, the controller performs the respective function independent of the source contact.
US10666785B2
Methods and apparatuses for communications between a wearable device, a headset that can be attached to and detached from the wearable device, and a communications device. The wearable device detects when a user detaches the headset and establishes a Bluetooth connection between the headset and the wearable device or between the headset and another communications device.
US10666776B1
The invention provides a method, device, storage medium and terminal device for controlling device operation, the method including: receiving a control signal sent by the control device, where the data structure of the control signal comprises a preamble, a header and a data packet in sequence, the preamble comprises an operating frequency, and the data packet comprises a control command; reading information from the control signal according to an arrangement timing of the control signal; when the preamble is read, adjusting an operating frequency of the receiving device according to the operating frequency included the preamble; when the header is read, the data packet is sampled according to a set sampling duration; and the sampled control command is executed according to the adjusted operating frequency. With the present invention, the control quality of the control signal is improved.
