US10664273B2
An apparatus and method for processing efficient multicast operation. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a plurality of cores to execute instructions; a shared circuitry region to be shared by the plurality of cores; first cache management circuitry associated with the shared circuitry region to receive delayed prefetch messages from the cores, each delayed prefetch message comprising an address or portion thereof usable to identify a cache line; and a delayed prefetch manager comprising a plurality of entries, each entry associated with at least one of the delayed prefetch messages, the delayed prefetch manager to update one or more of the entries or generate a new entry in accordance with receipt of each new delayed prefetch message, wherein upon receiving a notification that a first cache line is being modified by a first core, the delayed prefetch manager is to transmit delayed prefetch response messages to one or more cores identified in a first entry associated with the first cache line.
US10664272B2
In embodiments, apparatuses, methods and storage media (transitory and non-transitory) are described that are associated with receiving a call from an application at a shared library, accessing a first resource based at least in part on the first call, and storing a prefetch entry in a prefetch engine based at least in part on an address of a second resource in preparation to service a second call to the shared library that requires traversal of a plurality of stages at the shared library. A prefetch request may be performed based at least in part on the second call, and the second resource may be accessed based at least in part on a result of the prefetch request. In embodiments, the shared library may be a Message Passing Interface (MPI) library. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10664271B2
Examples disclosed herein include a dot product engine, which includes a resistive memory array to receive an input vector, perform a dot product operation on the input vector and a stored vector stored in the memory array, and output an analog signal representing a result of the dot product operation. The dot product engine includes a stored negation indicator to indicate whether elements of the stored vector have been negated, and a digital circuit to generate a digital dot product result value based on the analog signal and the stored negation indicator.
US10664254B2
Systems, methods, and software can be used to analyzing binary software components utilizing multiple instruction sets. In some aspects, one computer-implemented method includes identifying a program section in a binary software component; performing a first disassembly process according to a first instruction set on the program section to produce a first disassembly result; performing a second disassembly process according to a second instruction set different from the first instruction set on the program section to produce a second disassembly result; comparing the first disassembly result to the second disassembly result; and determining a utilized instruction set associated with the program section based at least in part on comparing the first disassembly result to the second disassembly result, wherein the utilized instruction set is either the first instruction set or the second instruction set.
US10664249B2
The generation of reversible circuits from high-level code is desirable in a variety of application domains, including low-power electronics and quantum computing. However, little effort has been spent on verifying the correctness of the results, an issue of particular importance in quantum computing where such circuits are run on all inputs simultaneously. Disclosed herein are example reversible circuit compilers as well as tools and techniques for verifying the compilers. Example compilers disclosed herein compile a high-level language into combinational reversible circuits having a reduced number of ancillary bits (ancilla bits) and further having provably clean temporary values.
US10664243B2
A method begins by generating application system state transitions from inputted requirements and parameters. For a current implementation of generating application code, the method continues by entering a loop. The loop begins by generating a current intermediate result based on a previous implementation and in accordance with current application code development factors. The loop continues by generating at least one test case based on the one or more of the application system state transitions. The loop continues by testing the current intermediate result in accordance with the at least one test case. When the testing is unfavorable, the loop continues by modifying one or more of: the one or more of the plurality of application system state transitions, the one or more of the parameters, and the one or more implementation tools. The loop then continues by repeating the loop using the modified current application code development factors.
US10664233B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for creating mechanical computing mechanisms and Turing-complete systems which include combinatorial logic and sequential logic, and which are energy-efficient.
US10664229B2
A method, apparatus, and electronic device for voice navigation are disclosed. A voice input mechanism 310 may receive a verbal input from a user to a voice user interface program invisible to the user. A processor 104 may identify in a graphical user interface (GUI) a set of GUI items. The processor 104 may convert the set of GUI items to a set of voice searchable indices 400. The processor 104 may correlate a matching GUI item of the set of GUI items to a phonemic representation of the verbal input.
US10664224B2
An example implementation may involve a control device displaying a prompt to initiate a calibration sequence that involves calibration of a playback device for a given environment in which the playback device is located. The example implementation may also involve the control device displaying (i) a prompt to prepare a playback device for calibration within a given environment, (ii) a prompt to prepare the given environment for calibration of the playback device, and/or (iii) a prompt to prepare the control device for calibration of the playback device. The example implementation may also involve a control device displaying a selectable control, that, when selected, initiates calibration of the playback device. The example implementation may further involve a control device initiating calibration of the playback device.
US10664222B2
One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for providing media presentations to users of a media presentation system. A media presentation generally includes a plurality of media segments provided by multiple users of the media presentation system. In one or more embodiments, a user of the media presentation system may share a media presentation with a co-user. The media presentation system can enable the co-user, if authorized by the user, to contribute (e.g., add a media segment) to a media presentation shared with the co-user.
US10664217B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for presenting content on a plurality of devices. The techniques including determining a first configuration for displaying first content on a plurality of devices, where the first configuration is based on a collective viewing size, an aspect ratio, a resolution shift, an internal border area, and a tactile quality gradient. The techniques including displaying, on a first device of the plurality of devices, a first device identifier, an orientation indicator, and an adjacent device identifier.
US10664209B2
An image forming apparatus includes the following. A forming operating unit performs image forming based on image data. A data obtaining unit obtains the image data as a target of the image forming. An instruction obtaining unit obtains an operation instruction to instruct the forming operating unit to perform the image forming. An authentication receiver receives a predetermined authentication operation regarding approval of reception of the operation instruction. A hardware processor performs the image forming when a limit setting regarding a limit of reception of the operation instruction is set on the image data as the target of the image forming according to the obtained operation instruction and it is determined that the authentication receiver received the authentication operation. The instruction obtaining unit obtains a setting changing instruction to change the limit setting. The hardware processor changes the limit setting based on the obtained setting changing instruction.
US10664204B2
A printing apparatus includes a memory that stores time information having a periodicity and print setting information as a printing execution history, a reception unit that receives print data, and a printer that prints the print data according to the print setting information corresponding to the time information in a case of reception of the received print data or in a case where, if a case of printing execution is designated with respect to the received print data, time in the case of execution corresponds to the time information.
US10664201B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for considering input/output workload and space usage at a plurality of logical devices to select one of the logical devices to use to store an object. A determination is made of a logical device to store the object based on workload scores for each of the logical devices indicating a level of read and write access of objects in the logical device and space usage of the logical devices. The object is written to the determined logical device.
US10664194B2
A memory device includes a processing device configured to iteratively determine a set of read results based on reading a subset of memory cells according to a set of read levels determine an update direction based on the set of read results, wherein the update direction corresponds to one of the set of read levels; determine whether a change condition is met; generate an updated read level for the set of read levels based on applying an adjustment step to one of the read levels in the set of read levels along the update direction, wherein the adjustment step is: a first step size in response to the change condition not being met, and a second step size in response to the change condition being met.
US10664191B2
Systems and methods for providing input/output (I/O) determinism. An I/O instruction and at least one service level indicator are received, wherein the at least one service level indicator includes a required time for executing the I/O instruction. It is determined whether the I/O instruction can be executed on the storage within the required time. When it is not determined that the I/O instruction can be executed on the storage within the required time, a notification is sent.
US10664181B2
Protecting in-memory configuration state registers. A request to access an in-memory configuration state register, such as a read or write request, is obtained. The in-memory configuration state register is mapped to memory. Error correction code of the memory is used to protect the access to the in-memory configuration state register.
US10664179B2
An integrated circuit includes protected container access control logic to perform a set of access control checks and to determine whether to allow a device protected container module (DPCM) and an input and/or output (I/O) device to communicate securely through one of direct memory access (DMA) and memory-mapped input/output (MMIO). The DPCM and the I/O device are allowed to communicate securely if it is determined that at least the DPCM and the I/O device are mapped to one another, an access address associated with the communication resolves into a protected container memory, and a page of the protected container memory into which the access address resolves allows for the aforementioned one of DMA and MMIO. In some cases, a Security Attributes of Initiator (SAI) or security identifier may be used to obtain a DPCM identifier or attest that access is from a DPCM mapped to the I/O device. In some cases, a determination may be made that a type of access is compatible with one or more allowed access types for the page as represented in a protected container page metadata structure.
US10664172B1
A data storage device includes a first system-on-a-chip (SOC) associated with a first read transducer that accesses one or more magnetic disks of the data storage drive. The first SOC has a first read channel operable to receive data from the first read transducer. A second SOC is associated with a second read transducer that accesses the one or more magnetic disks of the data storage drive independently of the first read transducer. The second SOC has a second read channel operable to receive second data from the second read transducer. The first and second SOCs are coupled via a data bus that facilitates communicating the first and second data to a host via a first host interface.
US10664166B2
Systems, apparatus, and computer-implemented methods are provided for the hybridization of cache memory utilizing both magnetic and solid-state memory media. A solid-state cache controller apparatus can be coupled to a host computing system to maximize efficiency of the system in a manner that is transparent to the high-level applications using the system. The apparatus includes an associative memory component and a solid-state cache control component. Solid-state memory is configured to store data blocks of host read operations. If a host-read operation is requested, the controller communicates with a solid-state cache memory controller to determine whether a tag array data structure indicates a cached copy of the requested data block is available in solid-state memory.
US10664162B2
A method and system for managing multiple displays, including receiving a first indication to allow movement of an object between a first display and a second display, allowing movement of the object between the first display and the second display in view of the first indication, receiving a second indication to prevent movement of the object between the first display to the second display, and preventing movement of the object between the first display and the second display in view of the second indication.
US10664156B2
Systems and methods for implementing a touch user interface using at least one at least one edge detection algorithm to produce edge data that is in turn provided to at least one curve-fitting algorithm to produce curve parameter data. The curve parameter data in turn provided to at least one calculation algorithm to produce interpreted data, wherein the interpreted data comprises user interface information responsive to the human touch made by the user to the touch surface. In various implementations the touch sensor can include a capacitive matrix, pressure sensor array, LED array, arrays of on-off contact sensors, or a video camera. The resulting arrangement can be configured to detect touch gestures comprising changes in finger pitch angles and roll angles.
US10664145B2
This application discloses various unlocking control methods and apparatuses, and various electronic devices. An unlocking control method disclosed herein comprises: in response to an orientation of a to-be-unlocked first control plane of an electronic device as a reference orientation, acquiring second unlocking input information through a second control plane of the electronic device, and an orientation of the second control plane and the orientation of the first control plane being different; according to the second unlocking input information, unlocking the first control plane. This application improves privacy and security of the unlocking control.
US10664143B2
Interactive content may be presented to a user that is manipulating a peripheral. One or more state parameters that are related to the position of the peripheral may be determined. The peripheral may be identified from a plurality of possible peripherals. The interactive content may be adjusted based at least in part on the one or more position parameters and/or the identification of the peripheral. Haptic feedback to be provided to the user may be determined based at least in part on the one or more position parameters and/or the identification of the peripheral.
US10664142B2
Systems and methods are provided for entering data into a data entry system. The data entry system includes a user-control device coupled to a display configured to display data field entry locations. The system includes a receiving module for receiving input data. The system includes a parsing module connected to the receiving module for parsing the input data and identifying constituent data elements in the input data. The system also includes a contextual tagging module connected to the parsing module and configured to determine associations between the constituent data elements and the multiple data field entry locations. The system also includes a processor configured to preview the constituent data element on the display when a data field entry location associated with the constituent data element is selected and enter the preview into the data field entry location when the preview is confirmed using the user-control device.
US10664138B2
Computing devices, computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions, methods, and systems for discovering, organizing, and presenting supplemental content are disclosed. A discovery system may be used to discover an item, such as a supplemental content presentation application, which, when launched may present supplemental content to a user while the user is consuming primary content. The supplemental content presentation application may also present a timeline that users may interact with to view different portions of the supplemental content. The timeline may also be modified by adding markers along the timeline so that when a marker is selected, a particular piece of supplemental content is presented.
US10664136B2
A method of selecting items in a graphical user interface displayed on a screen. A selection of at least one item in the graphical user interface is detected, the at least one item being located in a bounded region of the graphical user interface, the bounded region having an abutting region. In the abutting region, a selection deadband representing a distance from a boundary between the bounded region and the abutting region is set, the selection deadband having a thickness determined according to proximity of another boundary of the abutting region. Selection of an item located in the abutting region is disabled until a selector is traversed past the selection deadband and into the abutting region.
US10664133B1
A method for autolinking hierarchies is provided. The method includes receiving an initial hierarchy and a final hierarchy. The method includes determining a set of links from the initial and final hierarchies. The method includes, for each link from the set of links, identifying an unlinked child node from the initial hierarchy of a particular link. The method includes determining a match between the unlinked child node to a second unlinked child node from the final hierarchy of the particular link. The method includes generating a link between the unlinked child node to the second unlinked child node. The method includes providing a new set of links based on the generated link and the set of links. The method includes generating a transition hierarchy based on the new set of links, and the initial and final hierarchies. The method includes generating an animation based on the transition hierarchy.
US10664132B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed that, in some aspects, provide for a cost-reduced touch sensitive user interface including a static printed display. The methods and systems may include providing illumination to guide a user through interaction with a touch sensitive user interface. The methods and systems may include a configurable printed display. Further aspects are disclosed providing use of a cost-reduced touch user interface in a beverage dispensing apparatus.
US10664117B1
A touch panel includes a base layer having a shaded area and a visible area; a first sensing layer having first capacitive sensing columns (FCSCs) and first electromagnetic antenna columns (FEACs), which are insulated; a first auxiliary conductive layer having a circuit pattern substantially identical to the first sensing layer, and the circuit pattern correspondingly electrically connecting to the first sensing layer; a second sensing layer having second capacitive sensing columns (SCSCs) and second electromagnetic antenna columns (SEACs), which are insulated; a second auxiliary conductive layer having a circuit pattern substantially identical to the second sensing layer, and the circuit pattern correspondingly connect to the second sensing layer; and an insulative layer between the first and second sensing layer. The FCSCs are orthogonal to the SCSCs to constitute a diamond-lattice-shaped capacitive sensing unit array, and the FEACs are orthogonal to the SEACs to constitute a diamond-lattice-shaped electromagnetic antenna array.
US10664107B2
A touch input device comprises a body having a plurality of hole portions; and a signal transfer unit formed in the body, wherein the signal transfer unit is provided to pass on the body between the hole portions adjacent thereto to recognize a user's touch signal.
US10664104B2
An image recognition device, an image recognition method, and an image recognition unit which can achieve touch recognition with high accuracy. An image recognition device includes an image processing unit which carries out touch recognition, based on an image acquired by an image capturing device, the image capturing device being arranged in a second orthant or a third orthant, and based on a distance between a missing part generated on an image display surface due to light from a detection image display device being blocked by an object when the object is situated between the detection image display device and the image display surface, and the detection image situated on an epipolar line decided based on a positional relation between the image capturing device and the detection image display device and passing through the missing part, and displayed on the object.
US10664103B2
A curved display apparatus providing an air touch input function including: a curved display including a concavely curved monitor to display a three-dimensional image; a three-dimensional filter unit having the same radius of curvature as the curved monitor and disposed in front of the curved monitor; a position input unit disposed in front of the three-dimensional filter unit and configured to detect a three-dimensional position according to a user's non-touch motion in a predetermined sensing region; and an image control unit configured to control a three-dimensional image displayed on the curved monitor by transmitting position information sensed through position input unit to the curved display, wherein air touch input through a user's non-touch motion is performed in a concave region of the curved display.
US10664099B2
An assistive device and method to provide non-visual assistance to a user to perceive the surrounding world, comprises a haptic feedback interface that includes a plurality of haptic elements. The assistive device generates a first touch-discernible output layout on the haptic feedback interface using the plurality of haptic elements. The first touch-discernible output layout corresponds to a first reproduction of a 3D real-world area within a first proximity range of the assistive device. The first touch-discernible output layout includes at least a first set of haptic indicators to discern movement of a first set of moving objects within the first proximity range. The first touch-discernible output layout is updated to a second touch-discernible output layout based on a change of the first proximity range to a second proximity range. A rate-of-change of movement of one or more of haptic indicators is controlled on the haptic feedback interface.
US10664096B2
A detection apparatus includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes provided on the substrate, a first selection circuit provided on the substrate, the first selection circuit including a plurality of first input terminals that receive a first control signal supplied from an outside and a plurality of first output terminals that output a first selection signal based on the first control signal, and a second selection circuit provided on the substrate, the second selection circuit including a plurality of second input terminals that receive a second control signal supplied from the outside and a plurality of second output terminals that output a second selection signal based on the second control signal.
US10664093B2
A coordinate input device including a coordinate sensor and a wireless communication circuit that wirelessly transmits coordinate data, etc. to an external electronic device is realized without affecting coordinate detection by the coordinate sensor and without impeding downsizing of the coordinate input device. A shield sheet (1C) is provided to cover the whole of a surface (back surface) of a sensor (1B) opposite to a sensor input surface (front surface) facing an electronic pen. A controller (200) that controls transmission of the coordinate data detected by the sensor (1B) to the external electronic device is disposed facing the sensor (1B) with the shield sheet (1C) disposed between the sensor and the controller, and a transmission antenna connected with the controller (200) is arranged outside a region covered with the shield sheet (1C).
US10664088B2
A method for controlling a touch screen is provided. The method includes detecting a touch input by an external object through the touch screen; monitoring the touch input; changing a touch report rate from a first frequency to a second frequency; and reporting information of the touch input to a processor at the touch report rate while the touch input is maintained.
US10664085B2
A display device with a touch detection function includes a touch detection electrode, first and second electrodes, a touch detection controller, and a force detection controller. The force detection controller performs interpolation processing on reference values to calculate an interpolation value when a reference force is applied to a position in an input surface at which a force has been applied by an object and calculates a force detection value based on a ratio of a detection value detected based on capacitance between first and second electrodes to the interpolation value. The position at which the force is applied is specified based on a position detected by the touch detection controller as a position of contact with the input surface by the object. The reference values are detected based on the capacitance between the first and second electrodes when the reference force is applied to reference positions.
US10664079B2
A touch panel, a method for manufacturing the same and a touch display panel are disclosed. The touch panel includes a touch region and a peripheral region, the touch region includes a touch structure disposed on a base substrate; the peripheral region includes a plurality of piezoelectric power generating components disposed on the base substrate, the piezoelectric power generating components are configured for providing energy at least to the touch structure; and each of the piezoelectric power generating component includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a power generating layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the power generating layer is of a piezoelectric material.
US10664078B2
A triggering method and a wireless handheld device, the touchscreen triggering method including detecting an input combination that is of a click frequency and/or click intensity and is received when a touchscreen is in a locked state and when it is detected that the input combination that is of the click frequency and/or the click intensity and is received when the touchscreen is in the locked state matches a pre-stored input combination of a click frequency and/or click intensity, wherein the pre-stored input combination of the click frequency and/or the click intensity is corresponding to an operation, executing the operation corresponding to the matched pre-stored input combination of the click frequency and/or the click intensity.
US10664075B2
A method of controlling a watch-type mobile terminal including a bezel, the method includes executing a contact application stored in a memory; outputting a contact list on a display unit when the contact application is executed; sensing a touch input signal on the display unit, wherein the touch input signal is a drag touch input on the display unit in a first direction; scrolling the contact list to search for a specific contact regardless of the drag touch input's speed; sensing a rotation input on the bezel, wherein the rotation input is an input for rotating the bezel with a speed in a second direction, further the first direction is different from the second direction; and controlling a scroll pop-up for searching for the specific contact to be output on the contact list of the contact application if the speed of the rotation input is faster than a first predetermined speed.
US10664069B1
An input device, such as a hand-held stylus, can be used to receive inputs and track motion of a user in three-dimensional space, for example during a drawings session. The tip sensor can detect contact with an object by receiving a force toward a body of the stylus. Inputs from the user can be applied to a tip sensor of the stylus via an adapter. The inputs provided via the adapter can be different from inputs applied by contact with an object. Accordingly, the stylus can interpret the user inputs to initiate, terminate, or modify characteristics of the drawing session.
US10664065B2
A touch sensing apparatus includes at least one conductive sensing element and a reading device. The conductive sensing element includes a substrate and a conductive sensing layer. The conductive sensing layer is disposed on at least one surface of the substrate. The conductive sensing layer includes a plurality of conductive sensing units and a plurality of transparent conductive wires. An orientation distribution of the conductive sensing units is by a coordinate encoding method to constitute a coding pattern. The coding pattern includes coordinate information. The reading device is actuated on the conductive sensing layer, senses and decodes the coding pattern to analyze the coordinate information. The touch sensing apparatus can perform a digital writing and recording without power supply.
US10664064B2
The present invention brings the easiness in the input of non-vocabulary phrase and sentence by applying the disambiguation input method used as a predictive input method for words in English-speaking countries to non-vocabulary phrases and sentences including not only characters but also ‘space’ and symbols.
US10664061B2
This document describes techniques using, and devices embodying, wide-field radar-based gesture recognition. These techniques and devices can enable a great breadth of gestures and uses for those gestures, such as gestures to use, control, and interact with computing and non-computing devices, from software applications to refrigerators.
US10664052B2
The embodiments herein provide a method for operating an electronic device. The method includes detecting a gesture performed in the electronic device. Further, the method includes identifying an item which is indicated by the gesture. Further, the method includes identifying at least one quantitative parameter associated with the item. Further, the method includes determining a degree based on the at least one quantitative parameter. Further, the method includes generating a feedback with the degree in response to the gesture.
US10664051B2
A graphics presentation apparatus including a display unit, an eye-tracking module, and a data output module. The eye-tracking module registers image data representing at least one eye of a user of the apparatus. Furthermore, the eye-tracking module determines, based on the registered image data, an orientation of the at least one eye relative to the display unit. Finally, in response thereto, the eye-tracking module generates a control signal controlling the data output module to produce visual content with such orientation on the display unit that a misalignment between the orientation of said at least one part and the orientation of the at least one eye of the user is minimized.
US10664047B2
Systems and methods for the display of visually aligned content are disclosed. In embodiments, method comprises: determining a relative angular orientation of a display of a mobile device based on real-time sensor data from one or more sensors; determining a facial direction of a user relative to the mobile device using real-time image data from one or more cameras of the mobile device; determining that the facial direction of the user does not align with the relative angular orientation of the display; dynamically determining a configuration of an adjustable display area for displaying the content to the user based on the relative angular orientation of the display and the user's facial direction; and initiating the display of the content on the adjustable display area, wherein at least a portion of the adjustable display area comprises a virtual display created by one or more projectors of the mobile device.
US10664037B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes: a first interface and a second interface, each interface being connected with outside of the electronic device to supply power to a connection destination or receive power from a connection destination; a storage configured to store therein first identification information; a transmitter configured to transmit first information containing the first identification information to a first device when the first interface serves as a source to supply power, the first device being the connection destination of the first interface; a receiver configured to receive second information containing second identification information of a second device from the second device when the second interface serves as a sink to receive power, the second device being the connection destination of the second interface; and a controller configured to stop reception of power via the second interface when the second information contains the first identification information.
US10664036B2
A method in an electronic device includes detecting, with one or more processors of the electronic device operating with an attachment having a predefined functionality, whether a function of the predefined functionality is operational on the electronic device. When the function is operational on the electronic device, the one or more processors can cause the following: an auxiliary energy storage device carried by the attachment to deliver power to the electronic device; a power management control circuit carried by the electronic device to power the one or more processors with the power delivered from the auxiliary energy storage device; and the power management control circuit to preclude charging of a primary energy storage device carried by the electronic device with the power delivered from the auxiliary energy storage device.
US10664034B2
Examples herein disclose receiving a communication indicating a number of loads supported by multiple nodes and determining an amount of power available at a backup power source. Based on the determination of the amount of power, the examples disclose delivering power to the multiple nodes from the backup power source.
US10664033B2
In a power supply circuit in which a power supply sequence is variable, a malfunction of a device to which power is supplied caused by a wrong power-on order is prevented. In a power supply circuit according to the present invention, an operation state of a previous voltage regulator is detected, and based on a detection result, an order of activation or stop of respective voltage regulators is controlled.
US10664027B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to methods, systems and apparatus for dynamic temperature aware functional safety. The disclosed embodiments provide adaptive techniques to track extended dynamic temperature range of a System-on-Chip (SOC) and automatically tune critical IP components of the SOC so that system can operate reliably even at high temperatures. The disclosed embodiments relax the overdesign of the SOC components by reusing existing components such as a ring oscillator to determine temperature at different regions of the SOC. In one embodiment, the disclosed principles use a Calibrated Ring Oscillator (CRO) temperature sensors. The CRO-based temperature sensors provide fast temperature measurement suitable for detecting dynamic temperature ranges and temperature rate of change. The CROs are existing on the SOC and do not require addition of additional sensors.
US10664025B2
An information processing device includes a rail member that is attached to a drive unit, a drive case into which the drive unit having the rail member attached thereto is inserted, and a bar member that includes a locking portion. An opening is formed in the rail member, an opening is formed at a position in the drive case corresponding to the opening of the rail member, and the locking portion of the bar member is inserted into the opening of the rail member and the opening of the drive case in a state in which the drive unit is inserted into a predetermined position of the drive case.
US10664016B2
An apparatus for the electronic display of information, where the apparatus is a substrate incorporating a digital recording medium attached to or embedded within the substrate. The substrate further includes a flexible-substrate display located on an exposed surface of the substrate, where the display is a medium capable of selectively displaying one of at least two possible colors at each pixel location thereon in order to produce a substrate medium that may be modified in accordance with a user's selection.
US10664013B2
A flexible display module and an electronic apparatus comprising the flexible display module are disclosed. The flexible display module comprises a first supporter, a second supporter, a third supporter, a connector, and a flexible screen. The first supporter, the connector, the second supporter, and the third supporter are connected rotatably with one another in sequence. The first supporter, the second supporter, and the third supporter are used for supporting the flexible screen together. According to the present disclosure, not only large size display can be provided, but also part of contents can be displayed after the flexible screen is completely folded. The flexible screen can be completely folded after inward folding once and outward folding once. In this manner, part of the flexible screen can be hidden inside the display device, and the other part of the flexible screen can be exposed outside the display device. The flexible screen has a good portability and a long lifetime.
US10664011B2
A VR system, a wearable apparatus and a method for controlling a VR apparatus are disclosed. The wearable apparatus comprises a communication circuit, a processor, and a touch screen which are connected to one another successively; the communication circuit establishes a connection to the processor, and is configured to acquire control request information; the processor displays a control interface on the touch screen based on the control request information, generates control information based on touch actions performed on the control interface, and further sends the control information to the VR apparatus to control the VR apparatus via the control information. In this way, the present application may improve the user experience.
US10664007B2
Techniques for bonding structural features together in an enclosure of an electronic device are disclosed. A structural feature may be ultrasonically soldered to the enclosure to provide structural support and form a magnetic circuit within the device. Also, ultrasonic welding can bond various features to an interior region of the enclosure without leaving a mark or trace to an exterior region of the enclosure in a location corresponding to the various features. Further, one or more features can be actuated against the enclosure to bond the one or more features by friction welding. In addition, a rotational friction welding machine can rotate a feature having a relatively small diameter at relatively high speeds against the enclosure to drive the feature into the enclosure and frictionally weld the feature with the enclosure. Also, the friction welding does not leave any an appearance of cosmetic deformation on the exterior region.
US10664004B2
An actuating element for actuating an instrument for performing minimally invasive interventions comprises a first handle half-shell and a second handle half-shell movable relative to each other and connected with each other at one end by a biasing mechanism; a tube arranged substantially centrally between the handle half-shells; a linkage mechanism arranged between the handle half-shells and the tube in order to transmit an actuating movement of the handle half-shells; a locking mechanism with a latching rocker arranged on the first handle half-shell and a locking rocker arranged on the second handle half-shell, wherein the two rockers enter into locking connection with each other through an opening provided therefor in the tube when the handle half-shells are moved together, and wherein the rockers are mounted around a pivot axis such that a swiveling or pivoting movement of the rockers lies within a plane defined by the handle half-shells.
US10663999B2
A method for demand response dispatch having validation, estimation, and editing (VEE) rules for performing VEE on interval-based energy consumption streams, includes providing tagged energy consumption data sets having groups of contiguous interval values that correspond to correct data; for the each of the tagged energy consumption data sets, creating anomalies having different durations using only the groups; generating estimates for the anomalies by employing estimation techniques; selecting a corresponding one of the estimation techniques for subsequent employment; receiving post VEE readings and forecasted outside temperatures and estimating future cumulative energy consumption of facilities, and predicting a reception time for a demand response program event when the cumulative energy consumption exceeds a specified threshold; and preparing actions to control each of the facilities to optimally shed energy specified in a dispatch order, and optimally shedding the energy upon reception of the dispatch order at the reception time.
US10663996B2
There is provided a constant current circuit having a current characteristic satisfactory in a high voltage circuit while being low in manufacturing cost. The constant current circuit includes a high breakdown-voltage depletion type NMOS transistor and a low breakdown-voltage depletion type NMOS transistor connected in series between a first terminal and a second terminal. The low breakdown-voltage depletion type NMOS transistor includes a first depletion type NMOS transistor and a second depletion type NMOS transistor connected in series. The high breakdown-voltage depletion type NMOS transistor has a gate connected to a connecting point of the first depletion type NMOS transistor and the second depletion type NMOS transistor.
US10663989B2
A micro channel device processing apparatus includes a heating/cooling chamber configured to receive at least a sub-portion of a micro channel device and a fluid control system that controls a flow of a heating/cooling fluid in the chamber. A method includes controlling a temperature of a sample carried by a micro channel device installed in a micro channel device processing apparatus via a heating/cooling chamber of the processing apparatus. A micro channel device processing apparatus includes a heating/cooling chamber configured to receive a micro channel device carrying a sample and means for controlling a temperature of the sample in the chamber.
US10663981B2
A flow control valve includes a membrane which has at least one opening for the flow of a fluid and an annular body which has a flow contact surface and at least one flow opening. The flow opening is in flow connection with the at least one opening in the membrane. The membrane is constructed to be bendable in a direction towards the flow contact surface.
US10663974B2
Provided are an object recognition device, an autonomous driving system including the same, and an object recognition method using the object recognition device. The object recognition device includes an object frame information generation unit, a frame analysis unit, an object priority calculator, a frame complexity calculator, and a mode control unit. The object frame information generation unit generates object frame information based on a mode control signal. The frame analysis unit generates object tracking information based on object frame information. The object priority calculator generates based on object tracking information. The frame complexity calculator generates a frame complexity based on object tracking information. The mode control unit generates a mode control signal for adjusting an object recognition range and a calculation amount of the object frame information generation unit based on the priority information, the frame complexity, and the resource occupation state.
US10663970B2
A vehicle control device includes: a communication unit; a sensing unit configured to sense information associated with a vehicle; an output unit including at least one of a display unit or an audio output unit; at least one processor; and a computer-readable medium coupled to the at least one processor having stored thereon instructions which causes the at least one processor to perform operations including: receiving, through the communication unit, first information associated with charging stations from a first external device and second information associated with a driver of the vehicle from a second external device different from the first external device; receiving, through the sensing unit, third information associated with the vehicle; generating fourth information associated with charging of the vehicle based on at least one of the first information, the second information, or third information; and outputting, through the communication unit or the output unit, the fourth information.
US10663969B1
Example systems and methods are disclosed for determining vehicle pose data for an autonomous vehicle. The vehicle computer system may receive pose data from multiple pose measurement systems of the autonomous vehicle. Each pose measurement system may include one or more corresponding sensors of the autonomous vehicle. The vehicle computer system may determine a pose data quality for the received pose data for each pose measurement system. The vehicle computer system may set the vehicle pose data to the pose data of the pose measurement system with the highest pose data quality. The vehicle computer system may control the autonomous vehicle based on the vehicle pose data.
US10663966B2
A system for controlling a motion of a vehicle includes a memory to store a set of analytical functions corresponding to a set of patterns of elementary paths. Each pattern represents a continuous path and each analytical function is determined for a corresponding pattern to provide an analytical solution for input states of the vehicle defining a continuous path connecting the input states by a sequential compositions of the elementary paths following the corresponding pattern. The system includes a path planner to select from the memory, in response to receiving an initial state and a target state of the vehicle, an analytical function corresponding to a minimum cost of the continuous curvature path connecting the initial state with the target state and to analytically determine parameters of the continuous curvature path using the selected analytical function and a controller to control the motion of the vehicle according to the parameters of the continuous curvature path.
US10663964B2
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include features and functionality that reduce size, weight, and power (SWaP) specifications for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) by combining flight control functionality with mission processing functionality within common hardware. By implementing flight control and mission processing functionality using common hardware, systems and methods described herein decrease costs associated with developing, producing, servicing, and operating UAVs. Moreover, the systems and methods described herein include features that reduce the SWaP for the UAV while providing further redundancies that maintain reliability of the UAV.
US10663962B2
To provide a maintenance computer and a maintenance program of a plant monitoring and control system in which engineers other than the program designer can check and change program source code part relevant to each of the input point information and the output point information. The maintenance computer performs code extracting processing that extracts source code part of program of an integration computer relevant to each of input point information inputted into controller from integration computer and output point information outputted to integration computer from controller.
US10663961B2
Systems, methods, non-transitory computer readable media can be configured to accessing a target sensor log corresponding to a first machine; accessing one or more prior sensor logs corresponding to the first machine and one or more prior sensor logs corresponding to a plurality of second machines which are of the same type as the first machine; accessing a plurality of computer readable logs corresponding to the first machine and the second machines, the computer readable logs for each second machine comprising a maintenance log comprising a plurality of maintenance task objects, each maintenance task object comprising a time and a maintenance task type; determining a set of statistical metrics characterising a difference between the target sensor log and each prior sensor log; selecting a sub-set of the prior sensor logs in dependence upon the statistical metrics; analysing the maintenance logs to correlate each prior sensor log included in the subset to one or more correlated maintenance tasks; selecting a priority maintenance task based on the sub-set of prior sensor logs, t and the correlated maintenance tasks; and outputting the priority maintenance task.
US10663959B2
The smart HVAC manifold system for servicing air conditioning systems is designed to dynamically manage the data acquisition process and to measure and calculate the performance indicators and output as the load conditions and or equipment operation change taking into account variables in the installation that can impact performance. Both visually and by a very specific data set the performance of the equipment and the installation can quickly be assessed and specific problems identified along with suggestions of typical faults or problems that may need addressed by the technician.The smart HVAC manifold system provides a means of quickly and electronically handling the manual data acquisition process which would include component and or system model and serial numbers, equipment location (GPS tagging), customer name, environmental conditions that effect performance and performance measurement (weather data and elevation), and supports photo, voice and text documentation. These features streamline data acquisition, allow remote support, and minimizing transcription errors and preventing data-gaming when servicing equipment, commissioning or retro commissioning the system.
US10663952B2
A method for transmitting control commands in a computer system, which includes components at least in the form of nodes, actuators and communication systems, wherein the control commands are communicated over the communication systems from the nodes to the actuators, and wherein one or more of the components may fail to operate according their specification. For consistently accepting control commands at the actuators, the nodes and their control commands are assigned priorities, wherein a node and its control commands have the same priority, wherein at least two priorities are used, wherein a high priority node produces high priority control commands and a low priority node produces low priority control commands, and wherein a high priority node is configured to communicate its control commands over at least two communication systems to the actuators and a low priority node is configured to communicate its low priority control commands over at least one communication system to the actuators. An actuator accepts the high priority control commands from the high priority node as long as it receives said high priority control commands on any one of the communication systems, and in this first case, it discards the low priority control commands, and stops to accept said high priority control commands in case said actuator does not receive said high priority control commands from any of the communication systems for a configurable duration, and in the second case, the actuator starts to accept low priority control commands.
US10663945B2
A numerical control device includes: a tool-side displacement measurement unit; a workpiece-side displacement measurement unit; a drive signal measurement unit; a relative displacement calculation unit between the tool and the workpiece; a relative displacement prediction unit calculating a relative displacement predicted value from the drive signal, from a prediction model representing a relationship between the drive signal and the relative displacement; a model parameter operation unit generating prediction model parameters constituting the prediction model, from the drive signal, the relative displacement, and the predicted value; and a command value correction unit outputting a post-correction position command obtained by correcting a position command to the drive unit using the prediction model parameters. The model parameter operation unit changes the prediction model parameters to reduce a difference between the relative displacement and the predicted value.
US10663934B2
A program for light commercial building system (LCBS) solutions. Solutions and other systems may incorporate lightweight alerting service, auto-adjustment of gateway poll rates based on the needs of various consuming applications, detecting loss of space comfort control in a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system, HVAC capacity loss alerting using relative degree days and accumulated stage run time with operational equivalency checks, and HVAC alerting for loss of heat or cool capacity using delta temperature and dependent system properties. Also, incorporated may be triggering s subset of analytics by automatically inferring HVAC equipment details from controller configuration details, ensuring reliability of analytics by retaining logical continuity of HVAC equipment operational data even when controllers and other parts of the system are replaced, and an LCBS gateway with workflow and mechanisms to associate to a contractor account.
US10663933B2
A system for managing a distribution network, the system including a network hydraulic model and an automated meter infrastructure (AMI) providing AMI data from consumption meters. The system includes subnetworks within the distribution network, nodes interconnecting the subnetworks, and boundary devices connected to the nodes. Each boundary device includes a flow meter and a pressure sensor that sense a flow and a pressure of the distribution network at the nodes at a given time step. A subnetwork hydraulic model is generated for each subnetwork from the network hydraulic model. A processing module determines a first comparison for the given time interval between the AMI data from the consumption meters within a given subnetwork, the flow and the pressure at the nodes bordering the given subnetwork, and the subnetwork hydraulic model for the given subnetwork. The distribution network is managed based at least in part on the first comparison.
US10663930B2
A central processing unit for control of an aircraft system provided on board an aircraft, a control network for control of the aircraft system, an aircraft comprising such a control network, a corresponding method for control of the aircraft system and a computer program for carrying out the method. The central processing unit is connectable to at least two remote data concentrators over a network connection for control of a system component of an aircraft system. The central processing unit is configured to select one of the at least two remote data concentrators for control of the system component and to instruct the selected remote data concentrator to control the system component.
US10663926B2
An electronic timepiece for enabling the user to easily change daylight saving time implementation rules includes a memory, a location information setting device, a time display, a daylight saving time switch, and a controller. The memory is configured to store location information, time zones, and daylight saving time rules. The location information setting device is configured to set location information. The time display is configured to display time based on the time zone and daylight saving time rule corresponding to the location information set by the location information setting device. The daylight saving time switch is configured to turn a daylight saving time mode on (implemented) and off (not implemented). The controller is configured to correct daylight saving time rules based on the timing when the daylight saving time switch was operated to change the daylight saving time mode on or off.
US10663924B2
A display device and a method for realizing holographic display by the same are disclosed. The first lens array includes a plurality of first lenses arranged in an array, and the first lenses correspond to a plurality of viewing areas disposed on the light emitting path respectively; the array of slits includes a plurality of slits which are arranged in an array and disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the first lenses; the spatial light modulator loads a holographic image; the eye-tracking device tracks the location of human eye; and after determining a viewing area according to the location of human eye, the controller controls the deflecting member to emit light emitted from the spatial light modulator to the slit corresponding to the first lens which corresponds to the viewing area, and controls a deflection angle of the first lens.
US10663923B2
System and methods for efficiently generating a high quality patterned-phase-only hologram that can be displayed on a single device. A digital image of a holographed subject is measured as a distribution of the intensity of pixels in the image, or as an intensity image, and uniformly partitioned into a plurality of non-overlapping image blocks. A phase mask is applied to each pixel in each image block and assigned a value in the range of [0,2π). The pixels are modulated with a phase value corresponding to the value applied by the phase mask, creating a modified intensity image. A complex hologram is generated from the modified intensity image. The complex hologram is generated utilizing a fast hologram generation process and then converted into a patterned-phase-only hologram. A short sequence of the patterned-phase holograms can be displayed to enhance the visual quality of the displayed holographic images.
US10663921B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, a duct and a water vapor moving portion through which water vapor generated in the fixing portion moves. The water vapor moving portion is cooled by air blowing in the duct.
US10663919B2
In an image forming apparatus, if a path for transferring heat generated by a drive integrated circuit to a frame (a heat dissipation plate) of an apparatus main body has a point that divides the path, foreign matter such as dirt and dust can be caught at the point, so that heat dissipation efficiency can decrease due to presence of such foreign matter. Therefore, a configuration is provided in which a drive integrated circuit and a frame (a heat dissipation plate) provided in a cover are connected by a heat transfer member, so that a heat transfer path from the drive integrated circuit to the frame has no point that divides the path.
US10663912B2
A moving apparatus includes: an exposure unit that forms a latent image by exposure; a support unit that supports the exposure unit so that the exposure unit is displaceable, a guide groove guiding a movement of the support unit to move the exposure unit between an exposure position and a retracted position; a first link unit that includes a first shaft portion, and a second shaft portion that swings about the first shaft portion to transmit force used to move the exposure unit; a second link unit that connects the support unit and the second shaft portion of the first link unit; and a coupling shaft that connects the support unit and the second link unit and is guided by the guide groove.
US10663904B2
An image forming apparatus includes a trailing edge regulation guide configured to regulate a trailing edge position of a sheet stored in a sheet storage unit, a detection unit configured to detect a position of the trailing edge regulation guide, an input unit configured to input a sheet size to be set for the sheet storage unit, and a control unit. In the sheet storage unit, an attachment is attachable to the trailing edge regulation guide. The control unit controls display a warning screen in a case where a length in a feeding direction in the sheet size input by the input unit is longer than a predetermined length, whereas the control unit does not to display the warning screen according to the position of the trailing edge regulation guide in a case where the length in the feeding direction is shorter than the predetermined length.
US10663901B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixer including fixing rotation body and pressing rotation body with a fixing nip therebetween, and heats and presses a fed sheet through the fixing nip to fix a toner image on the sheet to the sheet; and a hardware processor making a velocity difference between respective surface velocities of the fixing rotation body and the sheet passing through the fixing nip during a high-gloss mode operation to adjust a gloss of the toner image on the sheet. The hardware processor performs a control so that an absolute value of a velocity difference between respective surface velocities of the fixing rotation body and the pressing rotation body in press-contact when the sheet does not pass through the fixing nip is less than one between respective surface velocities of the fixing rotation body and the sheet when the sheet passes through the fixing nip during the high-gloss mode operation.
US10663896B2
A fixing device to fix a toner image on a recording paper while transporting the recording paper bearing the toner image through a nip portion includes a first rotator, a second rotator, a heating unit, a temperature measuring element, a control unit, and a voltage applying unit. The second rotator forms the nip portion together with the first rotator. The heating unit heats the first rotator. The temperature measuring element measures temperature of the first rotator or the heating unit. The control unit controls power supplied to the heating unit in accordance with the temperature measured by the temperature measuring element. The voltage applying unit applies voltage to the second rotator. The second rotator includes a conductive layer having an attribute of changing resistance depending on temperature. The fixing device measures temperature of the second rotator by measuring the resistance of the conductive layer of the second rotator.
US10663894B2
A fixing device includes a fixing belt and a pressure rotator that presses against a nip formation pad via the fixing belt to form a fixing nip between the pressure rotator and the fixing belt. A first holder holds a first lateral end of the fixing belt in an axial direction thereof. A second holder holds a second lateral end of the fixing belt in the axial direction thereof. The second holder, together with the first holder, defines a holder interval provided between the first holder and the second holder in the axial direction of the fixing belt. A lubricant supplying sheet impregnated with a lubricant is sandwiched between the nip formation pad and the fixing belt at the fixing nip. The lubricant supplying sheet has a sheet span in the axial direction of the fixing belt. The sheet span is within the holder interval.
US10663880B2
A charging device includes a housing, a corona wire stretched in the housing, and a positioning member supporting the corona wire and determining a distance between the corona wire and a photoconductor, the positioning member being provided at an end of the housing. The positioning member has a vertex extending in a direction intersecting a corona-wire-stretching direction in which the corona wire is stretched. An elastic member is provided in a gap between the positioning member and the corona wire supported at the vertex, the gap spreading in the corona-wire-stretching direction.
US10663879B2
In an image forming apparatus, a charging process of a photosensitive member is performed by forming a combined surface potential Vd(U+L) by superimposing, on a first charge potential Vd(U) formed on a surface of the photosensitive member by a first corona charger, a second charge potential Vd(L) provided by a second corona charger. The apparatus includes a controller for executing an adjusting operation in which a superimposition start voltage Vg(L)A, which is the second voltage Vg(L) at which formation of the combined surface potential Vd(U+L) is started, is acquired by changing the second voltage Vg(L) applied to a grid electrode of the second corona charger in a state that the first charge potential Vd(U) is formed on the surface of the photosensitive member and in which setting of the second voltage Vg(L) during the charging process is adjusted on the basis of the superimposition start voltage Vg(L).
US10663874B2
An alignment system (100) and method for positioning and/or keeping a first object (1) at a controlled distanced (D1) with respect to a second object (2). An object stage (11) is configured to hold a surface (1a) of the first object (1) at a distance (D1) over a surface (2a) of the second object (2). A sensor device (31) comprising a probe tip (31a) is connected at a predetermined probe level distance (Dp) relative to the surface (1a) of the first object (1). The probe tip (31a) is configured to perform an atomic force measurement (AFM) of a force (F1) exerted via the probe tip (31a) on a surface (2a) of the second object (2). A controller (80) is configured to control an object stage actuator (21) as a function of the probe level distance (Dp) and the measured force (F1) to maintain the controlled distanced (D1).
US10663873B2
A mirror arrangement, in particular for a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, includes at least one mirror element bearing a mirror surface provided for reflecting electromagnetic radiation, at least one carrier element including a head section, which is provided for receiving at least one mirror element, and also a seat section. The arrangement further includes a mount arrangement, for receiving the at least one carrier element. At least one insertion opening is in the mount arrangement. The seat section of the carrier element plunges into the insertion opening. In addition, the arrangement includes a channel device for guiding a heat transfer medium is formed in the mount arrangement in the region surrounding the seat section. A method for dissipating heat is provided.
US10663869B2
An imprinting system and method. An illumination system for imprinting, during a first period of time, that illuminates a first portion of boundary region that surrounds a pattern region with a thickening dosage of light that is within a first dose range, such that the fluid in the first portion of the boundary region does not solidify but does increase a viscosity of the fluid. The illumination system, during a second period of time, illuminates the pattern region with a curing dosage of light that is within a second dose range higher than the first dose range. Prior to illumination, the imprinting includes dispensing droplets and holding a template with a template chuck such that the template contact the droplets and the droplets merge and form a fluid front that spreads through the pattern region and towards the boundary region.
US10663866B2
An optical source for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography tool includes a light-generation system including a light-generation module; an optical amplifier including a gain medium associated with a gain band, the gain medium configured to amplify light having a wavelength in the gain band; and a wavelength-based optical filter system on a beam path between the light-generation module and the optical amplifier, the wavelength-based optical filter system including at least one optical element configured to allow light having a wavelength in a first set of wavelengths to propagate on the beam path and to remove light having a wavelength in a second set of wavelengths from the beam path, the first set of wavelengths and the second set of wavelengths including different wavelengths in the gain band of the optical amplifier.
US10663864B2
The pattern forming method includes forming an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film using an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive composition, forming an upper layer film on the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film using a composition for forming an upper layer film, exposing the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film having the upper layer film formed thereon, and developing the exposed actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film using a developer, in which the composition for forming an upper layer film includes a solvent and a crosslinking agent; and in which the content of a solvent having a hydroxyl group is 80% by mass or less with respect to all the solvents included in the composition for forming an upper layer film. The method for manufacturing an electronic device includes the pattern forming method. The laminate has an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film, and an upper layer film including a crosslinking agent.
US10663858B2
An imprint apparatus that forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate-side pattern region of a substrate by using a mold. The imprint apparatus includes a light irradiation unit configured to irradiate the imprint material with light having a first wavelength for curing, and a heating unit configured to heat a partial region of the substrate, the partial region corresponding to the substrate-side pattern region, by irradiating the substrate with light that has passed through the mold and has a second wavelength different from the light having the first wavelength. The heating unit is configured to heat the partial region to deform the substrate-side pattern region by forming an uneven temperature distribution on the substrate-side pattern region by irradiation of the light having the second wavelength with an uneven illumination distribution.
US10663849B2
A polarization beam splitter includes: a first prism; a second prism; a polarization beam split portion in contact with the second prism; a substrate provided between the polarization beam split portion and the first prism; a first adhesive portion provided between the first prism and the substrate; and a second adhesive portion provided between the polarization beam split portion and the substrate.
US10663845B2
Disclosed are a color wheel device and a projector, wherein the color wheel device comprises: a color wheel chamber used for accommodating a color wheel module and provided with an air inlet and an air outlet; a heat exchanger having a heat-exchange core, the heat-exchange core being provided with a first channel for air in the color wheel chamber passing, the air outlet of the color wheel chamber being communicated with a heat-exchange inlet of the first channel, and a heat-exchange outlet of the first channel being communicated with the air inlet of the color wheel chamber to form a closed circulating air duct, wherein the first channel has multiple layers spaced apart from one another, and the space between two adjacent layers of the first channel forms a second channel for outside air passing; and an air propulsion device used for accelerating air flow.
US10663843B2
The invention provides a projector which is characterized by including a housing, a control module and a sensor. The housing is provided with a mounting structure and at least one air flowing hole. The mounting structure is located inside the housing, and the air flowing hole communicates with external environment and an interior of the housing. The control module is disposed inside the housing. The sensor is arranged on the mounting structure and aligns to the air flowing hole. The sensor is electrically connected with the control module, and the sensor receives a remote control optical signal from the external environment to generate an electrical signal and the sensor transmits the electrical signal to the control module. In this way, the manufacturing process of the projector is simplified and the manufacturing cost is reduced.
US10663840B2
A projection-type display device, provided with: a reflection-type image display element (DP), in which illumination light is reflected at an image display surface so as to be converted to image light and emitted; a prism unit (PU1) that bends a light path of the illumination light and transmits image light; and a projection lens system (PO) that projects the image light transmitted through the prism unit onto a screen. The prism unit (PU1) has an air gap (AG) that is disposed obliquely with respect to the main light rays of the image light emitted from the center of the image display surface. At least one lens (DL) in the projection lens system (PO) is eccentric in relation to the optical axis of the projection lens system (PO) so that comatic aberration produced when the image light is transmitted through the air gap (AG) will be canceled out.
US10663832B1
A window is provided. The window includes an electrochromic device having variable transmissivity and a region of the electrochromic device arranged with an indicator that is configured to indicate one of levels of the transmissivity or changes of the transmissivity of the electrochromic device.
US10663829B2
A blue light-blocking structure and manufacturing method thereof, a display device and an operation method thereof are provided. The blue light-blocking structure includes a first transparent dielectric layer, a second transparent dielectric layer and an electro-refractive index adjusting layer. The second transparent dielectric layer is provided on a side of the first transparent dielectric layer. The electro-refractive index adjusting layer is provided between the first transparent dielectric layer and the second transparent dielectric layer. The electro-refractive index adjusting layer is configured to change the refractive index to the blue light transmitted through the electro-refractive index adjusting layer under the action of an electrical field applied between a first side of the electro-refractive index adjusting layer near the first transparent dielectric layer and a second side near the second transparent dielectric layer.
US10663827B2
An object is to provide: a transparent screen having high transparency in which a hot spot caused by transmitted light can be reduced; and an image display system in which visibility of a screen is excellent and a hot spot is reduced by using the transparent screen. The object is achieved by the transparent screen including: a dot array in which dots obtained by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase are two-dimensionally arranged; and a layer that is obtained by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase.
US10663822B2
The method for manufacturing a display panel includes: forming a thin film transistor (TFT), a first signal line, a second signal line, a third signal line, and a first insulation layer on a substrate, in which the first signal line is coupled to one of the gate and the source of the TFT, the second signal line is coupled to the other of the gate and the source, and the third signal line is electrically connected to the first signal line through a via of the first insulation layer; forming a second insulation layer on the TFT, the first signal line, the second signal line, the third signal line, and the first insulation layer; and forming a first transparent conductive layer on the second insulation layer with an electrode covering at least part of the third signal line.
US10663809B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal (LC) dropping and distributing method for a display panel. The LC dropping and distributing method includes forming a first LC region, the first LC region being an equilateral polygon symmetric about its center and having a first symmetric axis and a second symmetric axis perpendicular to each other; and forming two second LC regions, the two second LC regions being located at two sides of the first LC region respectively and being symmetric about the first symmetric axis, and the two second LC regions being both disposed to be spaced apart from the first LC region, each of the two second LC regions including a plurality of LC sub-regions arranged at intervals.
US10663804B2
A liquid crystal display device includes, in the given order: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules; and a second substrate; wherein the first substrate includes a first electrode, a second electrode positioned closer to the liquid crystal layer than the first electrode is, and an insulating film between the first electrode and the second electrode, the second electrode has an opening having a shape including an elliptical portion and/or a circular portion, in a no-voltage-applied state, where no voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, the liquid crystal molecules are aligned parallel to the first substrate, and in a plan view, the major axis of the elliptical portion is parallel or perpendicular to the alignment azimuth of the liquid crystal molecules in the no-voltage-applied state.
US10663803B2
A liquid crystal display device includes first, second, third, and fourth pixel electrodes, each including a stem portion and a branch portion to define a plurality of domains, a common electrode opposing each of the first, second, third, and fourth pixel electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer between each of the common electrodes and a corresponding one of the first through fourth pixel electrodes, wherein an overall planar area of the stem portion and the branch portion of the fourth pixel electrode is smaller than an overall planar area of the stem portion and the branch portion of each of the first through third pixel electrodes.
US10663796B2
A backlight module, a controlling method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a light guide plate and at least one digital micro-mirror device located on a side of the light guide plate away from a light exiting surface. The at least one digital micro-mirror device includes a plurality of micro-mirrors, and a reflective surface of each of the plurality of micro-mirrors faces the light guide plate. A local brightness of the backlight module is adjusted by controlling the micro-mirrors in the digital micro-mirror device.
US10663789B2
The disclosure discloses a lens substrate, a liquid crystal lens, and a liquid crystal glasses, where first annular electrodes and second annular electrodes of the lens substrate are arranged concentric with each other, and orthographic projections of the first annular electrodes onto a base substrate and orthographic projections of the second annular electrodes onto the base substrate are arranged alternately; where first wirings are electrically connected with the second annular electrodes through first via holes, and at least a first annular electrode adjacent to a part of the first via holes includes a place-giving pattern in an area corresponding to the part of the first via holes, and a smallest spacing between the place-giving pattern and its corresponding first via hole is no less than a preset distance.
US10663785B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a conductive housing; a display fitted into and fixed to the housing; one or more display support members disposed between the display and the housing where the one or more display support members include a display support member provided with a bonding region on part of a surface of the display support member that is in contact with the housing and is fixed to the housing via a bonding member in the bonding region; and a flexible circuit board including a grounding pattern where the flexible circuit board is disposed such that the grounding pattern is in contact with the housing at a non-bonding region on the surface of the display support member and part of the flexible circuit board that includes the grounding pattern is held between the display support member and the housing.
US10663782B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate includes: a substrate; a display region formed on the substrate; a flexible printed circuit disposed on the substrate and located at one side of the display region; a control chip disposed between the display region and the flexible printed circuit, and two sides of the flexible printed circuit going beyond two corresponding sides of the control chip, respectively; a first reinforcement member disposed at a first side of the control chip, and the first side being adjacent to one side of the control chip that faces the display region; a second reinforcement member disposed at a second side of the control chip opposite to the first side; and a third reinforcement member covering the control chip, the first reinforcement member and the second reinforcement member.
US10663774B2
An embodiment includes an optical transmission module, an optical transceiver, and an optical communication system including the same, the optical transmission module comprising: a light emitting diode; and an optical modulator for modulating first light emitted from the light emitting diode, wherein the light emitting diode and the optical modulator include GaN, and the optical modulator transmits the first light therethrough when a voltage is applied.
US10663764B2
A method for manufacturing a spectacle lens includes the steps of providing an integral main lens. The integral main lens has a front surface and a back surface and is at least one selected from a group consisting of a spherical power lens, an astigmatic power lens, and a lens having a main curvature of the front surface in a first meridian and a main curvature of the back surface in the first meridian which are different so as to provide for a spherical power different from zero; and applying at least one additional lens element to at least a part of the front surface and/or at least a part of the back surface, wherein the at least one additional lens element includes at least one layer having a multitude of layer elements, in particular printed layer elements. Further, the invention is directed to a corresponding spectacle lens.
US10663763B2
The present invention is a multifocal intraocular lens including an optical body, a first support loop and a second support loop, wherein, the optical body is composed of a substrate layer and a coating layer; the substrate layer, the first support loop and the second support loop have a one-piece structure and are formed integrally with the same material; the coating layer is cemented on the substrate layer by means of injection-compression molding; the substrate layer and the coating layer are made of different materials. The optical body of the present invention is a multifocal optical zone with a double-cemented structure. The optical zone includes a plurality of binary surfaces and an aspheric surface, effectively correcting chromatic aberration of the secondary spectrum, improving image quality, expanding the range of additional optical power, and achieving a full range of vision.
US10663762B2
An ophthalmic device is described that includes a frame and an optically active component comprising a bistable dielectric electroactive polymer. The bistable dielectric electroactive polymer changes shape when exposed to a sufficiently strong electric field and does not completely revert to its former shape when the electric field is deactivated. The refractive properties of the ophthalmic devices described herein are adjusted by exposing the devices to electric fields.
US10663748B2
A system and method for using a laser, including using a coherent light source to generate a beam having a dominant wavelength wl; and providing along the beam's light path, at least one optical element having a surface upon which the beam impinges, whose roughness is between D and ½ wl−D where D is double the tolerance of the laser's dominant wavelength.
US10663745B2
Light emitting systems and optical systems including a light emitting system and a lens system are described. The light emitting system includes a pixelated light source having a plurality of discrete spaced apart pixels, and includes a plurality of light redirecting elements, each light redirecting element corresponding to a different pixel in the plurality of pixels. The light redirecting elements may be adapted to alter one or both of a central ray direction and a divergence angle of light received from the corresponding pixel. A lens system disposed to receive light from the light emitting system may include a reflective polarizer and a partial reflector.
US10663732B2
Systems, devices, and methods for beam combining are described. A monolithic beam combiner includes a solid volume of optically transparent material having a planar input surface, an output surface, a planar reflector physically coupled to the solid volume, and at least a first planar dichroic reflector within the solid volume. Multiple light sources input light into the solid volume through the planar input surface such that each light beam from a respective source is initially incident on one of the planar reflector and the at least a first planar dichroic reflector. The light is reflected by and transmitted through the reflectors and an aggregate beam is created. Because the reflectors are within an optically transparent material the beam combiner can be made more compact than a conventional beam combiner. This monolithic beam combiner is particularly well suited for use laser projectors and in wearable heads-up displays that employ laser projectors.
US10663720B2
An optical lens of the present disclosure assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, an optical filter and a sensor. The optical lens also has an axis. The first lens element, the fourth lens element and the sixth lens element have negative power. The second lens element, the third lens element and the fifth lens element have positive power.
US10663716B2
An optical apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a rotatable reflecting member including a first reflecting surface and a second reflecting surface, an optical system configured to sequentially reflect, by a plurality of reflecting surfaces included therein, light reflected by the first reflecting surface and cause the light to be incident on the second reflecting surface, and an adjusting device configured to change a rotation angle of the reflecting member to adjust an optical path of light that is reflected by the second reflecting surface and exits the second reflecting surface.
US10663710B2
The present invention relates to digital pathology, and relates in particular to a digital pathology scanner illumination unit. In order to provide digital pathology scanning with improved illumination, a digital pathology scanner illumination unit (10) is provided that comprises a light source (12), a light mixing chamber (14), and a light diffuser (16). The light source comprises a plurality of light elements (18) that are arranged longitudinally along a linear extension direction. The mixing chamber comprises a transparent volume (22) providing a mixing distance (DM) between the plurality of the light elements and the light diffuser such that light with a uniform intensity is provided at a downstream edge (26) of the mixing chamber; and the mixing chamber is arranged, in terms of light propagation, between the plurality of the light elements and the light diffuser. Further, the light diffuser comprises a diffusing material such that the light is transformed into light that has uniformity at different angles, in particular low angles.
US10663706B2
A zoom optical system includes a first lens group, a position of which with respect to an imaging plane is adjustable, and including first and second lenses. The zoom optical system also includes a second lens group of which a position with respect to the imaging plane is adjustable and includes third to fifth lenses. The zoom optical system further includes a third lens group including a sixth lens. An object-side surface of the first lens is convex.
US10663702B2
A zoom lens system includes: a primary image forming lens group that forms light from an object side into an intermediate image and a relay lens group that forms light from the intermediate image into a final image. The primary image forming lens group includes, in order from the object side, a first fixed lens group G1 with negative refractive power, a stop St, and a second fixed lens group G2 with positive refractive power, and the relay lens group includes, in order from the object side, a third fixed lens group G3 with negative refractive power, a first moving lens group G4 with positive refractive power, and a second moving lens group G5 with positive refractive power.
US10663693B2
An imaging optical lens assembly includes seven lens elements, the seventh lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, and a seventh lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and having a critical point in an off-axis region thereof. The image-side surface and an object-side surface of the seventh lens element are both aspheric.
US10663691B2
The present disclosure describes imaging techniques and devices having improved autofocus capabilities. The imaging techniques can include actively illuminating a scene and determining distances over the entire scene and so that a respective distance to each object or point in the scene can be determined. Thus, distances to all objects in a scene (within a particular range) at any given instant can be stored. A preview of the image can be displayed so as to allow a user to select a region of the scene of interest. In response to the user's selection, the imager's optical assembly can be adjusted automatically, for example, to a position that corresponds to optimal image capture of objects at the particular distance of the selected region of the scene.
US10663687B1
A fiber optic pigtail assembly that includes a plurality of optical fibers and at least one optical connector. The optical fibers each have a first end opposite a second end. The plurality of optical fibers are ribbonized together from the first end of each of the plurality of optical fibers partway toward the second end of each of the plurality of optical fibers and form a ribbonized end portion. The at least one optical connector is connected to the second end of each of the plurality of optical fibers. A loose portion of the plurality of optical fibers is positioned between the at least one optical connector and the ribbonized end portion.
US10663686B2
A device is disclosed for managing at least one flexible cable including a rigid portion. In at least one embodiment the device includes a first axial end and a second axial end distanced from one another along an axis of the device; at least a first winding surface at the first axial end and at least a second winding surface at the second axial for receiving at least first coil and a second coil of the flexible cable, the first and second winding surfaces being transversal with respect to the axis; and a constraint in the form of a clip or a cylindrical surface for supporting the rigid portion of the flexible cable between the first and the second axial end.
US10663683B2
An optical communication cable bundle is provided. The cable bundle includes a bundle jacket having an inner surface defining a bundle passage and an outer surface defining an exterior surface of the cable bundle, and a plurality of optical fiber subunits located within the bundle passage and surrounded by the bundle jacket, each optical fiber subunit having a subunit jacket defining a subunit passage and a plurality of optical fibers located with the subunit passage. A thickness of the bundle jacket is less than a thickness of each of the subunit jackets and the bundle jacket is extruded tight around the subunit jackets to couple the subunits and the bundle jacket.
US10663676B2
Connector assemblies are described herein. For example, a connector assembly including: a housing configured to accept a first ferrule and a second ferrule. The connector assembly may also have a latch component that is removably connected to the housing, wherein the latch component is configured to rotate around the housing. The latch component may have a first locking element configured to engage a second locking element to prevent rotation of the latch component in at least one of a first polarity position to a second polarity position. The connector may further more include a push-pull tab removably connected to the housing and configured to move vertically along the housing when a biasing force is applied in at least one of a forward direction and a rearward direction. Accordingly, the push-pull tab can compress the latch component when moving vertically along the housing.
US10663675B2
A method of tuning a fiber optic connector includes: assembling the fiber optic connector to a partially assembled state; tuning the fiber optic connector in the partially assembled state; assembling the fiber optic connector to an assembled state; and tuning the fiber optic connector in the assembled state.
US10663674B1
A coupling device includes a socket defining a through groove and a connecting seat connected to a rear end of the socket. The connecting seat has a casing portion defining a plugging space therein, a base wall portion disposed in the casing portion and defining a through hole in spatial communication with the through groove and the plugging space, two first connecting portions respectively disposed at two lateral sides of the through hole and extending forwardly from the base wall portion to the through groove, and two second connecting portions respectively disposed at the lateral sides and extending rearwardly from the base wall portion to the plugging space. The socket and the connecting seat are formed as one piece.
US10663667B2
A system and method for creating a random anti-reflective surface structure on an optical fiber including a holder configured to hold the optical fiber comprising a groove and a fiber connector, an adhesive material to hold the optical fiber in the holder and fill any gap between the optical fiber and the holder, a glass to cover the adhesive material and the optical fiber, and a reactive ion etch device. The reactive ion etch device comprises a plasma and is configured to expose an end face of the optical fiber to the plasma. The plasma is configured to etch a random anti-reflective surface structure on the end face of the optical fiber.
US10663657B2
Disclosed embodiments include an energy waveguide system having an array of waveguides and an energy inhibiting element configured to substantially fill a waveguide element aperture and selectively propagate energy along some energy propagation paths through the array of waveguides. In an embodiment, such an energy waveguide system may define energy propagation paths through the array of waveguides in accordance to a 4D plenoptic system. In an embodiment, energy propagating through the energy waveguide system may comprise energy propagation for stimulation of any sensory receptor response including visual, auditory, somatosensory systems, and the waveguides may be incorporated into a holographic display or an aggregated bidirectional seamless energy surface capable of both receiving and emitting two dimensional, light field or holographic energy through waveguiding or other 4D plenoptic functions prescribing energy convergence within a viewing volume.
US10663647B2
A backlight unit includes a light guide plate; a wavelength conversion member disposed on a surface of the light guide plate; and a housing which houses the wavelength conversion member and is fused to the light guide plate.
US10663643B2
In a display device (1), a light guide plate (2) includes a first emission structure region including a plurality of first emission structures (6 and 8) in which an incident direction for maximizing an amount of light emitted in a predetermined direction is a direction of a first light source (4), a second emission structure region including a plurality of second emission structures (9 and 10) in which the incident direction for maximizing the amount of light emitted in the predetermined direction is a direction of a second light source adjacent to the first light source, and a third emission structure region including a plurality of third emission structures (11 to 13) in which the incident direction for maximizing the amount of light emitted in the predetermined direction is a direction between the first light source and the second light source, and the third emission structure region is disposed between the first emission structure region and the second emission structure region.
US10663634B2
In a neutral density filter, a base is formed from plastic, and a light absorbing film having a plurality of layers is disposed on at least one surface of the base. The light absorbing film includes a first layer from the base side that is a SiO2 layer or an Al2O3 layer. The light absorbing film includes one or more NiOx layers formed from NiOx (x is not less than 0 and not greater than 1). At least one of the NiOx layers is disposed between a base-side adjacent layer adjacent to the at least one of the NiOx layers on the base side, and an opposite-side adjacent layer which is formed from a material different from the base-side adjacent layer and which is adjacent to the at least one of the NiOx layers on the opposite side.
US10663628B1
A cloaking device includes an object-side, an image-side, a cloaked region between the object-side and the image-side, and a reference optical axis extending from the object-side to the image-side. A plurality of object-side Fresnel mirrors, a plurality of image-side Fresnel mirrors and a planar reflection boundary positioned between the plurality of object-side Fresnel mirrors and the plurality of image-side Fresnel mirrors are included. Each of the Fresnel mirrors comprises an outward facing reflection surface. Light from an object positioned on the object-side of the cloaking device and obscured by the cloaked region is redirected around the cloaked region by the plurality of object-side Fresnel mirrors, the planar reflection boundary and the plurality of image-side Fresnel mirrors to form an image of the object on the image-side of the cloaking device such that the light from the object appears to pass through the cloaked region.
US10663625B2
A spectacle lens exhibiting excellent weather resistance and a method for manufacturing the same. In the spectacle lens and the method for manufacturing the same, the spectacle lens includes a lens substrate having a refractive index of from 1.58 to 1.74 and a hard coat layer that is obtained by curing a mixture containing silica particles and a silane compound and has a refractive index of from 1.49 to 1.51.
US10663622B2
A plastic polarized lens including a polarized film containing thermoplastic polyester, a coat layer containing a urethane-based resin comprised of a structural unit derived from polybutadiene having a hydroxyl group on the terminal and a structural unit derived from diphenylmethane diisocyanate, which is formed over at least one surface of the polarized film and a substrate layer containing a defined thiourethane-based resin, which is formed over at least the coat layer. A method of producing a plastic polarized lens, a urethane-based resin-coated polarized film and a method of producing a urethane-based resin-coated polarized film are also provided.
US10663604B2
An image pickup panel (1) includes: photodetection sections (10) each including a photodetector (11-1) and a receiver (11-2) which are integrally molded and having solder bumps (12) formed thereon, the photodetector converting received light into a current signal, the receiver converting the current signal into a voltage signal; and a wiring layer (20) including a wiring pattern installed therein and allowing the photodetection sections to be mounted thereon for respective pixels by the solder bumps, the wiring pattern being connected to the photodetection sections.
US10663595B2
To generate an image that captures a 360-degree horizontal view around a vehicle in a lidar system, four or more lidar sensors may be placed at the four corners of the vehicle. Each lidar sensor is phased 90 degrees apart and synchronously scans a respective 90-degree field of regard. The 90 degree fields of regard from each of the four or more lidar sensors may combine to scan a complete 360-degree field of regard around the vehicle.
US10663590B2
A device and method for merging lidar data is provided. Point cloud data is combined, via a lidar imaging controller, into a common point cloud data set, each set of point cloud data representing respective angular lidar scans of a region as at least two lidar devices are moved relative to the region of a shelf. The respective angular lidar scans from each lidar device occur at a non-zero and non-perpendicular angle to a movement direction. Common point cloud data set points are binned into a plane perpendicular to the movement direction of a mobile automation apparatus and extending from a virtual lidar position. The lidar imaging controller combines points among multiple planes.
US10663587B1
A LIDAR system and method for determining a distance and a velocity of a target. The LIDAR system can include a laser modulated by a laser modulator, an optical combiner, an optical splitter, a photoreceiver, and a control circuit. The optical splitter can optically split the modulated laser beam into a first laser beam and a second laser beam and direct the first laser beam at the target such that the first laser beam is reflected by the target to the optical combiner. The optical combiner can optically combine the first laser beam and the second laser beam. The output an I-output and a Q-output according to the optically combined first laser beam and second laser beam. The control circuit can determine a nominal beat frequency, which corresponds to the distance of the target, and a frequency shift, which corresponds to the velocity of the target, accordingly.
US10663580B2
A highly accurate object identification is performed. A first feature quantity related to a relative distance and a relative speed to an object, the direction and the reflection intensity of the object, which are extracted by a first feature quantity extraction block, is made identical in time series in a data storage processing block; a second feature quantity is extracted in a second feature quantity extraction block; and a category of the object is determined by an object determination block on the basis of an attribution degree to the distribution of the second feature quantity related to a predetermined category calculated by an attribution degree calculation block.
US10663578B2
Provided is a target detecting apparatus including: a frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) radar that obtains a first beat signal; a linear frequency intensity modulation (LFIM) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) that transmits a second transmission signal obtained by modulating intensity of a continuous wave laser based on an FMCW signal and obtains a second beat signal based on a microwave signal into which a second reception signal reflected from a target is converted and the FMCW signal; and a controller that receives the first beat signal and the second beat signal and obtains information regarding the target based on the first beat signal and the second beat signal.
US10663575B2
An off-road dump truck includes a vehicle body, a peripheral recognition device, and an obstacle discrimination device. The peripheral recognition device detects obstacle candidates in front of the vehicle body. The obstacle discrimination device classifies the obstacle candidates, which were detected by the peripheral recognition device, into obstacles and non-obstacles and outputs, as obstacles, the obstacle candidates classified as obstacles. The obstacle discrimination device includes a travel state determination section, a distance filter section, and a reflection intensity filter section. The travel state determination section determines whether each obstacle candidate is a moving object or a stationary object. The distance filter section compares a distance, where the stationary object was first detected, with a distance threshold. The reflection intensity filter section calculates statistical information based on reflection intensity information on the obstacle candidate, and based on a comparison result of the statistical information with a threshold, classifies the obstacle candidate.
US10663570B2
The invention relates to determination of a location of a device of a user. In a methods, information of signal strength of one or more wireless signals and information of signal strength distribution of wireless signals is obtained by a device. The information of signal strength and the information of signal strength distribution are used to determine at least one likelihood whether the device is inside an area. In the method radio maps representing signal strength distribution in the building may be used.
US10663564B2
A lidar system includes a lighting module configured to (i) select a wavelength from among a plurality of wavelength values, for a particular time period, and (ii) emit light at the selected wavelength. The lighting module emits light at different wavelengths during at least two adjacent periods of time. The lidar system further includes a scanner configured to direct the pulse of light to illuminate a respective region within a field of regard of the lidar system and a receiver module configured to (i) receive a light signal and (ii) determine whether the received light signal includes the light emitted by the lighting module and scattered by a remote target, based at least in part on the wavelength selected by the lighting module.
US10663555B2
A communication device includes a first communication unit configured to perform communication using a first scheme; a second communication unit configured to perform communication using a second scheme; a first acquirer configured to acquire, through communication using the second scheme, first information that indicates an area that allows communication using the first scheme in a first area for communication using the first scheme; a second acquirer configured to acquire second information that indicates an area that allows communication using the first scheme in an acoustic communication area; a comparator configured to compare the first information with the second information to determine whether a current position is within the area indicated by the first information; and a setupper configured to, when the current position is within the area, perform a process for establishing a communication line in accordance with the first scheme using setup information.
US10663548B2
A method for contrast agent enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a target sample, comprising generating a magnetic field shift in a polarizing magnetic field during a relaxation portion of an MRI pulse sequence and thereafter acquiring an MR image.
US10663547B2
In a method and apparatus for determining measurement protocol parameters of a magnetic resonance (MR) image, a first MR image exhibiting first contrast properties, is read into a computer and at least one first contrast ratio is determined in the computer from the first contrast properties. The computer then determines the measurement protocol parameters dependent on the at least one first contrast ratio, in order to generate a second MR image exhibiting second contrast properties such that the second contrast properties approximate, as closely as possible, to the first contrast properties. The measurement protocol parameters are presented as an output from the computer.
US10663546B2
In a method and magnetic resonance apparatus for recording diagnostic measurement data of a heart of an examination object, the magnetic resonance apparatus is operated by a control sequence wherein an RF pulse excites nuclear spins with a flip angle of at least 60°, the diagnostic measurement data are recorded in a coordinate system independent of the heart, and the basic magnetic field produced by the magnetic resonance apparatus is smaller than 1.0 tesla.
US10663539B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus installed in a shield room comprises a gantry, a table, and at least one unit. The gantry includes a static magnetic field magnet, a gradient magnetic field coil, and an RF coil. The subject is to be placed on the table. The at least one unit relates to control of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and is configured to include at least one opening on a upper surface on for maintenance and inspection.
US10663536B2
A magnetoresistive sensor wafer layout scheme used for a laser writing system and laser scanning method are disclosed. The layout scheme comprises a magnetoresistive multilayer film including an antiferromagnetic pinning layer arranged into a rectangular array of sensor dice on the wafer surface. Pinning layers of magnetoresistive sensing units are magnetically oriented and directionally aligned by the laser writing system. Sensing units are electrically connected into bridge arms electrically connected into a magnetoresistive sensor. Magnetoresistive sensing units in the dice are arranged into at least two spatially-isolated magnetoresistive orientation groups. In the magnetoresistive orientation groups, pinning layers of the sensing units have an angle of magnetic orientation of 0-360 degrees. Angles of magnetic orientation of two adjacent magnetoresistive orientation groups are different. Each orientation group is adjacent to an orientation group with the same angle of magnetic orientation in at least one adjacent die.
US10663532B2
An example method of testing a shielded cable couples an excitation signal to the shielded cable at an end of a shielded cable, determines one or more resonant frequencies of the shielded cable based on a response of the shielded cable to the excitation signal, and determines that a shielding of the shielded cable has degraded based on a change in the one or more resonant frequencies. A system for testing a shielded cable is also disclosed.
US10663531B2
An apparatus detects a short of a class-D amplifier. A pulse detector detects an output PWM pulse exceeds a predetermined width and a controller differentiates whether the pulse width exceeding is caused by a short or by a large digital input signal occurring during normal operation based on an expected level of the digital input signal to a level of the digital input signal when the pulse width exceeds the predetermined width. The expected level is dynamically obtained in response to one or more previous PWM pulses exceeding the predetermined width during the normal operation and may be selected based on an amount the pulse exceeds the predetermined width. A lookup table of predetermined levels, selected based on impedance of a load, provides the expected level if the expected level has not yet been dynamically obtained when the pulse width exceeds.
US10663527B2
A voltage detector includes a cylindrical hollow body housing including an open end and a tool end. An internal circuit assembly includes a voltage sensing loop, a flashlight, and a microprocessor. The internal circuit assembly is disposed inside the cylindrical hollow body housing. The voltage sensing loop is configured to detect voltage without contacting a detected voltage, and the microprocessor is configured to control power to the flashlight via a flashlight power button independently from power to the voltage sensing loop via a voltage detector button.
US10663522B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for estimating a State of Health (SOH) of a battery, and an apparatus and method for generating an SOH estimation model. The apparatus for estimating an SOH of a battery includes a processor configured to divide sensed data of the battery into one or more regions; and estimate the SOH of the battery by applying different SOH estimation models to the one or more divided regions.
US10663520B2
A method and apparatus for outputting a supplementary content in a WFD is disclosed. A method for outputting a supplementary content in a WFD may comprise the steps of: after a WFD source is connected to a WFD, transmitting, by the WFD source, an RTSP-based RTSP parameter request message to a WFD sink in order to perform a capability negotiation procedure with the WFD sink; transmitting, by the WFD source, an RTSP parameter response message to the WFD sink in response to the RTSP parameter request message; and after the capability negotiation procedure is performed, transmitting, by the WFD source, a transmission stream, obtained by overlapping and multiplexing a video stream including video data having first resolution and a supplementary stream including supplementary data having second resolution, to the WFD sink, wherein a WFD discovery response frame may include second resolution-related information for determining the second resolution and an RTSP parameter response frame may include the second resolution-related information.
US10663510B2
An insulation detecting method for the electric machine is provided. The leakage current leakage and the leakage resistance are detected and determined by the output potential waveform resulted from the inversion operation of the first switch and the second switch of the driver. Besides, the signal is amplified through the software or the amplification circuit coupled between the electric machine and the driver to detect the leakage resistance approximately to 5MΩ.
US10663501B2
A backup battery charging system for a building management system is disclosed. Components of the charging system include an analog power converter, a voltage feedback loop and a current feedback loop. The feedback loops each include at least one digital resistor. The system panel, in turn, includes at least one microcontroller that controls the building management system and also controls the charging system. The charging system is “software defined,” in that the microcontroller controls the charging system by updating the digital resistors in the feedback loops to control the analog power converter. In one example, the building management system is a fire alarm system controlled by a fire control panel as the system panel.
US10663499B2
Provided is a power detection circuit for tracking a maximum power point of a solar cell. The power detection circuit includes: an average voltage extracting unit which extracts an average voltage VPV,LPF from an external voltage VPV input from an external energy source; a ripple voltage extracting unit which extracts a ripple voltage including current information of the external voltage VPV from the external voltage VPV; a voltage-time converter which generates a ramp voltage VRAMP changing at a predetermined rate and converts the average voltage VPV,LPF and the ripple voltage into corresponding time information Δt1 and Δt2 based on the ramp voltage VRAMP; a time-digital converter which converts the time information Δt2 for the ripple voltage into a digital code t2 [n:0]; and a time multiplier which multiplies the digital code t2 [n:0] and the time information Δt1 for the average voltage VPV,LPF to output a specific voltage value.
US10663494B2
An optical voltage sensor assembly includes an input fiber-optic collimator positioned and configured to collimate input light beam from a light source. A crystal material is positioned to receive the input light beam from the light source and configured to exhibit the Pockels effect when an electric field is applied through the crystal material. An output fiber-optic collimator is positioned to receive an output light beam from the crystal material and configured to focus the output light beam from the crystal onto a detector. Methods of using the optical voltage sensor assembly are also disclosed.
US10663483B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for automatically controlling and stabilizing aspects of a scanning probe microscope (SPM), such as an atomic force microscope (AFM), using Peak Force Tapping (PFT) Mode. In an embodiment, a controller automatically controls periodic motion of a probe relative to a sample in response to a substantially instantaneous force determined and automatically controls a gain in a feedback loop. A gain control circuit automatically tunes a gain based on separation distances between a probe and a sample to facilitate stability. Accordingly, instability onset is quickly and accurately determined during scanning, thereby eliminating the need of expert user tuning of gains during operation.
US10663479B2
In some examples, a method determines an open/close status of a pivotable barrier on a moveable platform based on selective use of a plurality of different filters for filtering measurement data from a sensor device.
US10663477B2
An automated system and method for storing/retrieving vessel holders is presented. A first storage compartment comprises first storage sections. A first translating mechanism vertically translates one storage section to a loading level for loading holders into the first storage compartment and translates one storage section to a handing-in level for handing in holders to/from an analyzer. A second storage compartment comprises second storage sections. A second translating mechanism vertically translates one second storage sections to a handing-out level and translates one storage section to an unloading level for unloading holders from the second storage compartment. A first transport mechanism comprises a first conveyor for transporting holders from a first storage section at the handing-in level to a handing-over station. A second transport mechanism comprises a second conveyor for transporting holders from the handing-over station to a second storage section at the handing-out level. A controller operates the mechanisms.
US10663474B2
An antibody and/or binding fragment thereof, wherein the antibody and/or binding fragment thereof comprises a light chain variable region and a heavy chain variable region, the light chain variable region comprising complementarity determining region (CDR) CDR-L3 and the heavy chain variable region comprising CDR-H1, CDR-H2 and CDR-H3, with the amino acid sequences of said CDRs comprising one or more of the sequences set forth below: CDR-L3; selected from any one of SEQ ID NOs: 123, 126-130, 142, 148 or 149; CDR-H1: SEQ ID NOs: 121 or 124; CDR-H2; SEQ ID NOs: 122 or 125; and/or CDR-H3: selected from any one of SEQ ID NOs: 196-226.
US10663463B2
A system and method for the detection and quantification of biomolecules by measuring a piezoelectric signal is described. The system comprises a plurality of elongate zinc oxide nanowires mounted generally parallel to each another on a semi conductive silicon substrate. The free ends of the nanowires are provided with biomolecules that are capable of associating with complementary biomolecules within a biological or water sample. Following incubation of the system in a sample, the association of molecules of interest with the immobilised biomolecules on the system results in the displacement of the zinc oxide nanowires. The displacement of the nanowires produces a piezoelectric voltage signal that is useful in diagnosing a pathogenic infection or the contamination of a sample.
US10663461B2
A method of screening a plurality of fluid samples for the presence of species capable of specifically binding to a binding partner immobilized on a sensing surface of a sensor is disclosed. The method comprises contacting each sample with the sensing surface and a reference surface, and subjecting the sensing surface responses obtained for all samples to a computational process which comprises fitting al responses to a model equation for the relationship between a response at the sensing surface and the corresponding response at the reference surface. In an iterative process residuals above a pre-determined threshold value are removed, the model equation is adjusted, and all remaining samples are refitted to the adjusted model equation until the model equation at least substantially converges. Residuals above the predetermined threshold value are considered as species specifically binding to the binding partner. The method may be computer-implemented, and a computer program product therefore comprises instructions for causing a computer to perform the computational process.
US10663455B2
This invention provides transcription regulatory control sequences, the activity of which function as biomarkers for a variety of biological responses. This invention also provides expression constructs in which a biomarker transcription regulatory sequence is operably linked with a sequence for a reporter. Cells that comprise these expression constructs can be used in assays to identify conditions that modulate activity of the biological response.
US10663454B2
A handheld air sampler device for enrichment of airborne substances and/or particles, in particular microorganisms, includes: an inlet configured for air intake into a flow channel; an outlet configured for fluidic ally connecting the flow channel to an external vacuum device; a permeable backing element arranged in the flow channel, the backing element being configured to receive and support a filter element; and a sealing element configured for sealing a filter element received on the backing element such that, when a negative pressure is applied to the outlet, air entering the inlet forms an airstream passing the filter element and airborne substances and/or particles, in particular microorganisms, are enriched in the filter element. An air sampling arrangement includes a handheld air sampler device of this type.
US10663447B2
Various methods and systems are provided for monitoring and control of soil conditions. In one example, among others, a method includes obtaining aqueous samples from suction probes within a soil substrate and analyzing the aqueous samples to determine a chemical composition of the soil substrate. Amounts of an additive may be determined to adjust the chemical composition of the soil substrate. In another example, a method includes installing a suction probe within a soil substrate; drawing a vacuum to induce hydraulic conduction of aqueous solutions from the soil substrate; extracting an aqueous sample; and analyzing the aqueous sample to determine a chemical composition of the soil substrate. In another example, a method includes obtaining a composition of a fertilizer solution (FS) supplied to a soil substrate and a chemical composition within the soil substrate; determining nutrient utilization, and providing an amount of additive to produce a subsequent FS for supply.
US10663442B2
A method for CO2 detection includes obtaining a gas sample; exposing a CO2 sensor to the gas sample, where the sensor includes a reversible and selective pH-sensitive nanocomposite sensor element for CO2 detection, and a hydrophobic surface; compensating for humidity and temperature; coupling at least one light source to receive signals from the CO2 sensor and respond to color changes in the sensor by transducing the color change into a light intensity change; measuring flow; and receiving signals from the at least one light source by at least one photodiode which responds to light intensity changes by transducing the light intensity changes into electronic signals representing varying degrees of light intensity.
US10663441B2
A series of optical spectral sensors for gas and vapor measurements using a combination of solid-state light sources (LED or Broadband) and multi-element detectors, housed within an integrated package that includes the interfacing optics and acquisition and processing electronics. The sensor is designed to be produced at a low cost and capable of being fabricated for mass production. Spectral selectivity is provided by a custom detector eliminating the need for expensive spectral selection components. The multi-component gas monitor system of the present invention has no moving parts and the gas sample flows through a measurement chamber where it interacts with a light beam created from the light source, such as a MEMS broad band IR source or a matrix of LEDs. A custom detector(s) is/are configured with multi-wavelength detection to detect and measure the light beam as it passes through the sample within the measurement chamber.
US10663432B2
A gas sensor includes: at least one resonator; a vibrator provided on the at least one resonator; at least one converter that converts sound waves outputted from the at least one resonator to an electric signal; and a detection unit that detects a specific gas on the basis of the electric signal attained by conversion by the at least one converter, wherein the vibrator includes at least either one of: a plurality of vibrating bodies that have respectively differing frequency characteristics during vibration, that vibrate a gas inside the at least one resonator, and that output sound waves by resonance of the at least one resonator; and a heater that heats a gas inside the at least one resonator, and that outputs sound waves by resonance of the at least one resonator.
US10663428B2
A system for analyzing a sample includes a source; a mobility separator configured to separate ions based on a mobility in a gas; a plurality of ion channels; and a mass analyzer. The mobility separator includes a two-dimensional grid of electrodes spanning a passage between first and second walls. The first and second walls include an inlet aperture and a plurality of exit apertures, respectively. The two-dimensional grid of electrodes configured to generate an electric field within the passage. The plurality of ion channels arranged adjacent to the plurality of exit apertures. Movement of ions between the inlet aperture and the plurality of exit apertures are governed by the electric field and a gas flow through the passage between to the first and second walls such that the ions are sorted and directed to different channels based on their respective mobility.
US10663416B2
The present invention is directed to a pattern measuring method and the like for deriving a roughness evaluation value from which measurement noise having a frequency component is removed. The pattern measuring method includes generating a plurality of integration signals having the different number of integration from the signals of the plurality of frames; acquiring edge position information of the pattern along an edge from the plurality of respective integration signals having the different number of integration; obtaining a difference between the edge position information and reference position information; obtaining a spectral component of a specific spatial frequency of the edge or a standard deviation based upon the difference; performing regression analysis in which a value relating to the number of integration is set as an explanatory variable, and a value relating to the spectral component or the standard deviation is set as a target variable; and outputting a value obtained by the regression analysis as a roughness index value of the pattern or a noise index value included in the signals.
US10663411B2
A system and method are disclosed for interrogating a liquid in a container. In one embodiment, a method is provided to interrogate and identify a liquid in a medical container.
US10663410B2
A method for determining a permittivity of a substance layer is provided. The method comprises the steps of depositing a layer of a certain thickness of the substance on a substrate comprising at least one substrate parameter of electromagnetic relevance in order to form a sample arrangement, obtaining at least one measurement parameter of electromagnetic relevance with respect to the surface of the sample arrangement with the aid of an electromagnetic excitation signal generated by a measurement equipment, and determining the permittivity of the substance layer on the basis of the at least one measurement parameter of electromagnetic relevance.
US10663406B2
A straw inspection apparatus for inspecting whether or not a straw sheet is defective comprises: a main body for guiding the transfer of a straw sheet; a driving unit for transferring the straw sheet; a first inspection module for inspecting whether or not foreign materials are present in the straw sheet moving in the main body; a second inspection module for inspecting the exterior of the straw sheet; a controller for determining whether or not the straw sheet is defective based on the inspection results of the first inspection module and the second inspection module; and a cutting unit for separating the straw sheet which is determined to be defective.
US10663404B1
The present invention relates to a highly portable, highly flexible standard of distance chemical detector such as can be used, for example, for standoff detection of explosives. Aspects of the invention include techniques for portability compactness and ways to diminish influence of fluorescence on Raman spectroscopy. Additional features can include a compact imaging spectrometer, a wirelessly connected smart device for user interface, and an auto-focus/range finder.
US10663401B2
A method may include scanning a surface of a composite workpiece with multiple electromagnetic pulses, each of the multiple electromagnetic pulses being associated with a respective location on the surface of the composite workpiece. The method may further include, for each respective location on the surface of the composite workpiece, receiving a response to one of the multiple electromagnetic pulses at a multi-mode fiber, the response including multiple wavelength components, time shifting the multiple wavelength components with respect to each other by passing the response through the multi-mode fiber to produce a wavelength-binned pulse, sampling the wavelength-binned pulse at time intervals corresponding to the multiple wavelength components to determine a set of wavelength intensity levels corresponding to the multiple wavelength components, and identifying a type or condition of material at the respective location on the surface of the composite workpiece based on the set of wavelength intensity levels.
US10663399B2
An optical analysis apparatus, that irradiates a liquid sample with light and analyzes the sample, includes a measurement unit that measures the sample, a light source portion that emits light with which the sample is irradiated, and a light receiving portion that receives the light transmitted through the sample. The measurement unit includes a housing provided with an opening portion for flowing in and out of the sample, an accommodation region connected to the opening portion and provided inside the housing, a movable portion provided inside the accommodation region to be movable inside the accommodation region, an irradiation portion which receives the light emitted from the light source portion and in which an inside of the accommodation region is irradiated with the light, and a light collection portion which collects the light transmitted through the sample inside the accommodation region and outputs the light to the light receiving portion.
US10663394B1
An optical device includes a carrier, a light source, a die, a light guiding structure and a reflecting structure. The carrier has a surface. The light source is disposed on the surface and configured to emit a light beam. The die is disposed on the surface and configured to sense the light beam. The light guiding structure is disposed on the surface and configured to guide the light beam. The light guiding structure includes a light receiving surface facing the light source and a light exit surface. The reflecting structure is disposed over the die. The reflecting structure includes a light reflecting surface facing the light exit surface of the light guide structure and is configured to reflect the light beam exiting from the light exit surface to the die. The light reflecting surface and the light exit surface are separated from each other and define a vent hole.
US10663392B2
In some embodiments, a collection system of a semiconductor metrology tool includes a chuck to support a target from which an optical beam is reflected and an aperture mask to provide an adjustable aperture for the reflected optical beam. The aperture mask includes a plurality of opaque plates with adjustable positions. The collection system also includes a spectrometer to receive the reflected optical beam. The aperture mask is situated between the chuck and the spectrometer along the optical axis.
US10663391B2
Circular dichroism can be accurately measured even when a phase modulation element with a distortion component is used.A circular dichroism measuring method using a circular dichroism measuring device 2 includes a step of measuring Ip(t) (S101: phase amount change acquisition step), a step of measuring Is(t) (S102: sample data acquisition step), a step of converting Ip(t) to δ(t) (S103: phase amount change acquisition step), a step of converting Is(t) to Is(δ) (S104: analysis step/Is(δ) calculation step), and a step of performing curve fitting to calculate matrix elements S00, S02, and S03 (S105: analysis step/matrix element calculation step).
US10663386B2
A method of controlling a vibration of a vibratory element based on a phase error is provided. The method includes vibrating the vibratory element with a drive signal, receiving a vibration signal from the vibratory element, measuring a phase difference between the drive signal and the vibration signal, determining a phase error between a target phase difference and the measured phase difference, and calculating one or more vibration control terms with the determined phase error.
US10663382B2
A testing apparatus for applying a test load to a specimen, comprises a cradle and a test bed supported on the cradle. The test bed has a chamber which receives a specimen and is hermetically sealed with the specimen received inside. There is a vacuum source in communication with the chamber. The vacuum source provides vacuum pressure to the chamber, thereby applying a uniform load to the specimen.
US10663379B2
A multi-layer plasma separation card comprising (a) a first layer including a sample receiving member comprising (i) a top planar surface for applying or receiving a blood sample, said sample receiving portion being adapted to permit contact of said blood sample with a separating member; and (ii) a bottom planar surface being adapted to contact said separating member, (b) a second layer including at least three separating members, each separating member being adapted to permit the passage of plasma to an absorptive member and comprising (i) a top planar surface for receiving said blood sample; and (ii) a bottom planar shield-shaped surface being adapted to contact said absorptive member, and (c) a third layer including at least two absorptive members for absorbing plasma from the bottom planar surface of each corresponding separating member and a backing member arranged in a manner to support said absorptive members, each absorptive member comprising a removable absorptive element having a top planar surface being adapted to contact said bottom planar surface of the separating member, said absorptive element is detachable fixed to the third layer.
US10663373B2
A misfire detecting device for an engine is provided, which includes a processor configured to execute a cylinder operation controlling module to switch an engine operation mode from an all-cylinder operation to a reduced-cylinder operation in which operation of one or some of cylinders are suspended, when an execution condition of the reduced-cylinder operation is satisfied, a misfire detecting module to detect a possibility of misfire occurrence based on an angular speed variation of the engine, and a centrifugal damping part configured to reduce vibration caused by the engine. When a possible misfire state is detected by the misfire detecting module during the reduced-cylinder operation, the cylinder operation controlling module executes an operating-cylinder increase control in which the number of operating cylinders is increased. When the possible misfire state is continuously detected after the operating-cylinder increase control, the misfire detecting module detects the engine misfire.
US10663360B2
Multilayer tactile sensor with a first layer that comprises a first electrode, a second layer that comprises a second electrode and an intermediate layer of pressure-sensitive material that is disposed between the first and second layers and that spaces apart the first electrode from the second electrode. The sensor further comprises a fastening means for fixing the first and second electrodes relative to each other. At least the first electrode is made of electrically conductive yarn and extends along a defined longitudinal direction. The fastening means comprises at least a first seam that extends in the longitudinal direction and that comprises at least one thread that is fed repeatedly multiple times through the pressure-sensitive material in order to fix the first electrode in a defined position.
US10663358B2
A method of sensing a pressure applied to a surface comprises monitoring an electrical signal generated by redistribution of mobile ions in a piezoionic layer under the surface. An externally applied local pressure at a portion of the layer induces redistribution of mobile ions in the piezoionic layer. It is determined that the surface is pressured based on detection of the electrical signal. A piezoionic sensor includes a sensing surface; a piezoionic layer disposed under the sensing surface such that an externally applied local pressure on a portion of the sensing surface causes detectable redistribution of mobile ions in the piezoionic layer; and electrodes in contact with the layer, configured to monitor electrical signal generated by the redistribution of mobile ions in the piezoionic layer.
US10663357B2
A low power consumption multi-contact micro electro-mechanical strain/displacement sensor and miniature autonomous self-contained systems for recording of stress and usage history with direct output suitable for fatigue and load spectrum analysis are provided. In aerospace applications the system can assist in prediction of fatigue of a component subject to mechanical stresses as well as in harmonizing maintenance and overhauls intervals. In alternative applications, i.e. civil structures, general machinery, marine and submarine vessels, etc., the system can autonomously record strain history, strain spectrum or maximum values of the strain over a prolonged period of time using an internal power supply or a power supply combined with an energy harvesting device. The sensor is based on MEMS technology and incorporates a micro array of flexible micro or nano-size cantilevers. The system can have extremely low power consumption while maintaining precision and temperature/humidify independence.
US10663351B2
A three-dimensional interferometer for measuring a light field produced by an object, comprising a first interferometer arm, a second interferometer arm, a beam splitter arranged between an object point of the object and the first interferometer arm and the second interferometer arm, and is set up to split a beam coming from the object point at the beam splitter into the first beam and the second beam, a detection plane or a detection surface which is arranged downstream of the first interferometer arm and the second interferometer arm and is set up in such a manner that the first beam and the second beam are made to interfere in an interference region on said plane or surface, and an overlapping device which is arranged between the detection plane and the first interferometer arm and the second interferometer arm.
US10663347B2
An optical measurement apparatus includes: a moving mirror that changes an optical path length of one of two beams generated by splitting light subject to measurement; a drive mechanism that causes the moving mirror to reciprocate a predetermined distance in linear motion; a measured light receiver that detects intensity of light generated by superimposing the two beams; and a computation processor that sets a plurality of measurement ranges within the predetermined distance and calculates a measurement value based on a change in the light intensity detected by the measured light receiver for each of the measurement ranges.
US10663330B2
An electropotential detection electrode includes a main body portion including a liquid-contact portion exposed into a measurement tube and formed by covering a base material with a conductor and a terminal portion electrically connected to the conductor. The main body portion includes a small diameter portion having a cylindrical shape and a large diameter portion having a disc shape extending outward from the small diameter portion in a radial direction. The terminal portion includes an electrically conductive body having a cylindrical body that accommodates the large diameter portion fitted therein and a shaft portion extending from the electrically conductive body in a direction opposite from the main body portion. The large diameter portion is provided on an outer peripheral portion thereof with an annular recessed portion that defines an annular groove between the large diameter portion and the cylindrical body.
US10663312B2
A vehicle may include a detector configured to collect a biological signal of a driver and driving information of the vehicle; a communication device configured to communicate with an external server; a storage configured to store situation information and emotion tagged data received through the communication device and the biological signal of the driver; and a controller configured to acquire information about current emotion of the driver based on the biological signal of the driver, acquire information about inclination of the driver based on the driving information of the vehicle, extract emotion information corresponding to a current situation of the driver and the inclination of the driver from the emotion tagged data, compare the extracted emotion information with the current emotion information of the driver, and extract a primary situation factor having an influence on the emotion of the driver based on the comparison result.
US10663310B2
A system for managing a geo-fence of a vehicle may include a terminal equipped in the vehicle, the terminal configured to determine whether a current position of the vehicle or an input destination is located outside of a previously established geo-fence stored in the terminal, the geo-fence defining an area in which traveling of the vehicle is approved, to generate an alarm indicating that the vehicle has left the geo-fence when the vehicle leaves the geo-fence, to request approval for designating a destination outside of the geo-fence as an exceptional destination, and when the designation of the destination is approved, to prevent the generation of the alarm when the vehicle leaves the geo-fence while traveling to the destination.
US10663300B2
This invention proposes a new method and software to generate a path with good quality for aerial video shooting in large scale scenes. Using a coarse 2.5D model of a scene, this path generation method consists of several steps: first the user is expected to specify a set of landmarks and designate a superset of key-views for each landmark; our system then automatically generates and evaluates a variety of local camera moves for observing each landmark, which are smooth and collision-free; then automatically determines the optimal order in which the landmarks should be visited, chaining the local camera moves into a single continuous trajectory. Thus, users are able to focus on specifying the visual content that should be captured by the aerial video, rather than on the difficult lower level aspects of designing and specifying the precise drone and camera motions.
US10663298B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for characterizing motion of a platform. Motion sensor data from a portable device having a sensor assembly may be obtained. The portable device may be within the platform and tethered or untethered, and the mobility of the portable device may be constrained or unconstrained within the platform. Following a determination the platform is moving, motion dynamics of the portable device that are independent from motion dynamics of the platform may be identified and motion sensor data corresponding to motion of the platform and motion sensor data corresponding to the identified independent motion of the portable device may be separated from the obtained motion sensor data. Accordingly, motion sensor data corresponding to motion of the platform that is independent of motion of the portable device may be output. This may be used to derive operator analytics for assessing performance.
US10663293B2
This marker comprises: a plurality of convex surfaces (121) that are formed of a translucent material and that are disposed at least along an X direction; and a plurality of to-be-detected parts which are disposed at front/rear positions with respect to the plurality of convex surfaces (121) and which are projected onto the plurality of convex surfaces (121) as optically detectable images. The plurality of to-be-detected parts are disposed so as to be positioned on the same virtual plane which is perpendicular to a Z direction of the marker. The virtual plane is positioned between a focal point (F) on an image plane (B) of the convex surface (121) in the Z direction and a high point (F) of the image plane.
US10663292B2
An inspection system for measuring an object is provided. The inspection system includes an entryway sized to receive the object. At least two non-contact coordinate measurement devices are positioned with a field of view being at least partially within or adjacent to the entryway, each of the at least two non-contact coordinate measurement devices being operable to measure 3D coordinates for a plurality of points on the object as one of the object or the entryway move from a first position to a final position. A pose measurement device is operable to determine the six-degree of freedom (6DOF) pose of the object. One or more processors are provided that register the 3D coordinates for the plurality of points from each of the at least two non-contact coordinate measurement devices based at least in part on the 6DOF pose of the object.
US10663287B2
A polishing apparatus capable of accurately measuring a film thickness by regulating a quantity of light illuminating a wafer is disclosed. The polishing apparatus includes: a light source; an illuminating fiber having distal ends arranged at different locations in the polishing table; and a light-receiving fiber having distal ends arranged at the different locations in the polishing table. The illuminating fiber includes a first illuminating fiber and a second illuminating fiber. A first dimmer is attached to the first illuminating fiber and the second illuminating fiber, and a second dimmer is attached to at least one of the first illuminating fiber and the second illuminating fiber.
US10663277B2
An indium phosphide substrate, a method of inspecting thereof and a method of producing thereof are provided, by which an epitaxial film grown on the substrate is rendered excellently uniform, thereby allowing improvement in PL characteristics and electrical characteristics of an epitaxial wafer formed using this epitaxial film. The indium phosphide substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface, a surface roughness Ra1 at a center position on the first main surface, and surface roughnesses Ra2, Ra3, Ra4, and Ra5 at four positions arranged equidistantly along an outer edge of the first main surface and located at a distance of 5 mm inwardly from the outer edge. An average value m1 of the surface roughnesses Ra1, Ra2, Ra3, Ra4, and Ra5 is 0.5 nm or less, and a standard deviation σ1 of the surface roughnesses Ra1, Ra2, Ra3, Ra4, and Ra5 is 0.2 nm or less.
US10663276B2
Provided are self-retractable centering assemblies and methods of using these assemblies for alignment of parts having determinant assembly alignment holes. An assembly includes a center pin having a threaded portion threadably engaging a drive component. The assembly also includes a puller bushing rotatably coupled to the drive component. The center pin protrudes through the puller bushing and can slide with respect to the puller bushing when the drive component is rotated relative to the center pin. The sliding distance is controlled by a limiter disposed within the cavity of the puller bushing. During operation, a portion of the center pin extends from the puller bushing and is inserted into alignment holes of parts being aligned. The drive component is rotated relative to the center pin resulting in the center pin being pulled out of the alignment holes while the puller bushing is being pressed against the parts.
US10663274B2
An articulated arm coordinate measuring machine includes a first end that clamps to a first extension element of a first measurement probe.
US10663272B1
The present invention is directed to a novel, low-toxicity and environmentally-friendly violet smoke generating composition. The composition comprises a mixture of at least one red dye and at least one blue dye, a coolant, an oxidizer, a binder, and a non-sulfur particulate fuel that is also a burn-control agent having two different particle size distributions. Preferably the fuel comprises a mixture of granulated sucrose and sucrose 10×.
US10663264B1
A ballistic protection system according to an example of the present disclosure includes a sleeve having first and second layers defining a cavity therebetween, with an opening providing access to the cavity. A ballistic protection layer is disposed in the cavity, and is removable through the opening. A holder is operable to mount the sleeve to an article. The second layer is disposed between the holder and the ballistic protection layer.
US10663249B1
A crossbow includes a barrel, a cocking device, a bow device, a link device and a cartridge. The retention member is moved by the operation of the string of the bow device. The cocking device detachably holds the string. By repeatedly operating the link device and pulling the trigger, the cocking device is moved back and forth repeatedly, and the retention member moves back and forth to control the restriction member to pivot so that the bullets continuously drop to the groove and located in front of the retention member. Therefore, the crossbow can shoot the bullets continuously. The bullets are allowed to be fed into the cartridge one time of feeding.
US10663243B2
A pivot pin is for engagement and/or disengagement from its position as a pivot axle and/or connector, for example, in a lower receiver of a firearm. The mostly cylindrical main body of the pivot pin includes a longitudinal detent track featuring at least one recessed dimple and an aperture extending radially through the track for transfer of a detent spring and detent pin through the main body into the detent chamber of the lower receiver. A capping device may then encapsulate/control the position of the detent pin relative to the detent chamber, and relative to the aperture and track of the pivot pin, and/or help reduce the migration of water and or debris into the detent track and/or the firearm.
US10663238B2
A plant or refinery may include equipment such as reactors, heaters, heat exchangers, regenerators, separators, or the like. Types of heat exchangers include shell and tube, plate, plate and shell, plate fin, air cooled, wetted-surface air cooled, or the like. Operating methods may impact deterioration in equipment condition, prolong equipment life, extend production operating time, or provide other benefits. Mechanical or digital sensors may be used for monitoring equipment, and sensor data may be programmatically analyzed to identify developing problems. For example, sensors may be used in conjunction with one or more system components to detect and correct maldistribution, cross-leakage, strain, pre-leakage, thermal stresses, fouling, vibration, problems in liquid lifting, conditions that can affect air-cooled exchangers, conditions that can affect a wetted-surface air-cooled heat exchanger, or the like. An operating condition or mode may be adjusted to prolong equipment life or avoid equipment failure.
US10663233B2
An energy store includes a housing having a storage medium with latent heat during a phase transfer, which is provided during operation for solidifying into a solid phase and for melting into a liquid phase, including a first storage region which is provided at least periodically for the solid phase and in which an extractor heat exchanger is arranged for extracting heat, wherein the first storage region has a vertical axis, including a second storage region provided for the liquid phase, when the solid phase is present in the first storage region, wherein at least sections of the second storage region are provided as a casing around the first storage region, wherein at least one portion of a regeneration device is arranged in the second storage region for supplying heat. Same has a first and a second passage device for introducing and discharging for the liquid phase, wherein the first and/or the second passage device has a passage section with passage openings for the liquid phase, which is arranged with at least regions of the longitudinal extension thereof arranged about the vertical axis.
US10663231B2
A manufacturing method of a heat conducting device includes following steps: providing a first plate, which includes a plate body and at least a heat conducting element, wherein the plate body has at least an inserting end disposed corresponding to the heat conducting element and defining a tube, and the heat conducting element is mounted at the tube; providing a second plate, which has a first opening end; disposing a first wick structure on an internal wall of the heat conducting element and a bottom surface of the plate body; disposing a second wick structure on an internal wall of the second plate; and connecting the plate body to the first opening end so as to connect the first plate and the second plate to form a chamber. Accordingly, the heat conducting device has a higher heat conducting efficiency.
US10663212B2
A refrigeration system includes a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant, a condenser configured to condense the compressed refrigerant introduced from the compressor, a main flow passage configured to deliver the refrigerant compressed in the compressor to the condenser, a heat storage tank configured to partially store the heat of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor, an auxiliary flow passage configured to deliver the refrigerant compressed in the compressor to the heat storage tank, an expansion valve configured to expand the refrigerant condensed in the condenser, and an evaporation-side composite heat exchanger configured to evaporate the expanded refrigerant.
US10663199B2
An HVAC system includes an evaporator. A compressor is fluidly coupled to the evaporator via a suction line. A condenser is fluidly coupled to the compressor via a discharge line. The condenser includes a first pass and a second pass. A common manifold fluidly couples the first pass and the second pass. A charge compensator is fluidly coupled to the common manifold above a maximum liquid level of the common manifold.
US10663193B2
An instant water heater. The instant water heater includes a housing having a transparent reservoir configured to store liquid water. The reservoir includes an inlet and an outlet in fluid communication with a building's existing water supply lines. A plurality of infrared lights are disposed around a perimeter of the reservoir. A plurality of reflectors disposed around each infrared light are configured to direct the emitted light energy to the reservoir, in order to heat the water therein. A control circuit is operably connected to the infrared lights, and is configured to receive input commands and selectively activate the plurality of infrared lights in order to heat water within the reservoir. Other parameters such as a flow rate and water pressure can be monitored and controlled wirelessly or on an included display screen. The device can be utilized to quickly and efficiently heat water to a desired temperature.
US10663182B2
An apparatus comprises an air inlet configured to receive an inlet airflow. The inlet airflow comprises a process airflow and a bypass airflow. An evaporator unit receives a flow of refrigerant and is cools the process airflow by facilitating heat transfer from the process airflow to the flow of refrigerant. A condenser unit receives the flow of refrigerant and (1) reheats the process airflow by facilitating heat transfer from the flow of refrigerant to the process airflow, and (2) heats the bypass airflow by facilitating heat transfer from the flow of refrigerant to the bypass airflow. The process airflow is discharged via a process airflow outlet and the bypass airflow is discharged via a bypass airflow outlet.
US10663170B2
A flow conditioner in a combustor of a gas turbine comprises a body and a flow conditioning portion configured to be placed in an air path providing air flow to a combustion chamber, the flow conditioning portion including a plurality of holes tuned to a damping frequency to dampen a pressure fluctuation caused by combustion dynamics from the combustion chamber.
US10663162B2
A method for optimizing a fluid utilization facility. The method includes monitoring an operating state of a fluid utilization device and an operating state of a drain trap in a fluid utilization facility based on detection information obtained by detectors installed in various places in the fluid utilization facility. A running state of the fluid utilization facility is optimized based on a monitoring result.
US10663155B2
An ornamental light display system; the ornamental light display system includes at least one light device configured to provide periodic illumination simulating that of an insect utilizing bioluminescence (i.e., firefly). The light device(s) can be attached to branches within shrubbery, tree trunks, lower branches of trees, and other such areas in order to mimic how fireflies behave. The ornamental light display system is useful for providing ornamental lighting for decorating areas such that they appear to have fireflies.
US10663151B2
A luminaire comprises a light fixture that includes a housing. The housing includes a light emitting diode (LED) light source and a back wall that has a first surface shape. The luminaire further comprises a mounting system that includes a tie rod that has a first end that includes a plurality of teeth. The mounting system also includes a mounting plate rotatably coupled to the tie rod. The mounting plate is coupled to the back wall of the housing. The mounting plate has a second surface shape, where the first surface shape and the second surface shape are substantially the same.
US10663150B1
A hands-free forearm flashlight for hands-free illumination includes a base having a distal end, a proximal end, a dorsal side, a ventral side, a lateral side, and a medial side. A strap extends from the lateral side to the medial side. A hinge is coupled to the proximal end of the base and to a bottom side of a light panel, allowing the light panel to swingably move between a closed position touching the base and an alternate open position perpendicular to the base. A plurality of lights is coupled to the light panel and comprises a front light matrix coupled to a bottom side and a rear light matrix coupled to a top side. A power switch is coupled to the base to separately activate and alternatively deactivate each of the front light matrix and the rear light matrix.
US10663149B2
Described is a clamp that is useful for attaching a decorative item (for example, a Christmas light string) to surfaces such as roofs, shingles, drop ceilings, and other objects. The clamp comprises at one end, a clamp portion having a top part and a bottom part held together by a fastener, cooperating together to fasten the clamp portion to a fixed object, and at an opposite end, a hook portion having a hook for securing to a decorative item. Pressure is applied to a top and bottom part of the clamp portion to open the clamp portion. The hook portion comprises an opening that is opened by applying pressure to an end of the hook so as to allow a portion of the decorative item to be inserted into the hook, and hooks to the decorative item in the manner of which the hook is closed 360 degrees.
US10663147B2
An automated luminaire and method are presented. The luminaire includes a light source, an ellipsoidal reflector, an optical device, and a controller. The ellipsoidal reflector produces an emitted light beam and moves along an optical axis. The optical device receives the emitted light beam and produces either a modified light beam or an unmodified light beam. The controller determines whether the optical device is producing the modified or unmodified light beam. If the optical device is producing the modified light beam, the controller automatically moves the ellipsoidal reflector to a selected position to reduce an effect on the optical device of a hotspot in the emitted light beam. The controller may move the ellipsoidal reflector to a selected position relative to the light source in response to determining that the optical device is producing the modified light beam.
US10663132B2
Provided is a vehicle lamp which enables work for connecting an organic EL panel and a power feeding section to be omitted. A vehicle lamp 10 includes: a lamp unit 20; a mounting section 70 to which the lamp unit 20 is detachably mounted; and first fixing means (a first fixing section) which fixes the lamp unit 20 detachably mounted to the mounting section 70, and the mounting section 70, wherein the lamp unit 20 includes: an organic EL panel 40 including a front surface 40a with a light-emitting surface 40a1, and a rear surface 40b on an opposite side to the front surface 40a; a first electrode 54 electrically connected to the organic EL panel 40; and a first bracket 30 which holds the organic EL panel 40 and the first electrode 54, and the mounting section 70 includes a second electrode 82 to which the first electrode 54 of the lamp unit 20 fixed by the first fixing means (first fixing section) is to be electrically connected.
US10663130B2
A lighting arrangement can include a light emitter portion and a battery backup portion. The light emitter portion can have a plurality of light emitting diodes and circuitry including a rectifier for driving the light emitting diodes. The battery backup portion can be in electronic communication with the rectifier of the light emitter portion and have a battery portion and a converter portion with a DC-AC inverter and a microcontroller unit configured to route AC power to the rectifier from either a primary AC source or the battery portion. The light emitter portion can be configured to be mounted to at least one of a wall and a ceiling during use. The battery backup portion can be positioned within the trim, with the plurality of light emitting diodes in the array string.
US10663124B1
A portable light stand assembly includes a pair of tripods and a pair of stands that is each slidably coupled to a respective one of the tripods. Each of the stands is removably attachable to one another when the tripods are positioned on a support surface. A plurality of lighting panels is each pivotally coupled to a respective one of the stands. Each of the lighting panels emits light for illuminating an area when the lighting panels are turned on. A pair of lighting disks is each pivotally coupled to a respective one of the stands. Each of the lighting disks emits light for illuminating the area when the lighting disks are turned on. Moreover, each of the lighting disks is positioned above the lighting panels on the respective stand.
US10663120B2
A light source module includes: a light source having an upper surface comprising a light emission surface; and a light-guide member comprising a lens portion having a central axis. The lens portion includes: a concave incidence surface facing the light emission surface of the light source; a reflection surface disposed outside the incidence surface, the reflection surface being configurd to reflect part of light entering through the incidence surface, and being inclined at an angle of 45 degrees or more from a direction perpendicular to the central axis; and exit surface. The incidence surface includes: a first incidence area having four-fold symmetry about the central axis and having a curved concave shape in a cross section containing the central axis; and a second incidence area having a curved convex shape in a cross section rotated 45 degrees from the first incidence area and containing the central axis.
US10663117B2
A multifunctional LED bulb includes a lamp base, a light-transmitting bulb shell, a driving power supply, electric lead wires, a stem, at least one LED light source and a support column, wherein the tail of the light-transmitting bulb shell is fixedly connected with the lamp base; the driving power supply is located in the lamp base, and the LED light sources and the support column are wrapped in an inner cavity of the light-transmitting bulb shell; the light-transmitting bulb shell is sealed by the lower portion of the stem which is of a hollow structure, an exhaust pipe is arranged in the stem, and a hole is formed in the joint of the upper end of the exhaust pipe and the stem. The multifunctional LED bulb looks like ordinary incandescent bulbs, and is environmentally friendly, good in heat dissipation and light-emitting effect.
US10663115B2
A method for loading liquefied nitrogen (LIN) into a cryogenic storage tank initially containing liquid natural gas (LNG) and a vapor space above the LNG. First and second nitrogen gas streams are provided. The first nitrogen stream has a lower temperature than the second nitrogen gas stream. While the LNG is offloaded from the storage tank, the first nitrogen gas stream is injected into the vapor space. The storage tank is then purged by injecting the second nitrogen gas stream into the storage tank to thereby reduce a natural gas content of the vapor space to less than 5 mol %. After purging the storage tank, the storage tank is loaded with LIN.
US10663101B2
A method is shown for installing a heat tube on a section of pre-insulated piping. A metal carrier pipe is covered with a first layer of foam insulation. Next, a routing device is used to cut a longitudinal slot along the length of the pipe so that the pipe exterior surface is exposed from the insulation. A heat tube is then installed within the longitudinal slot, whereby the heat tube contacts the exterior surface of the metal carrier pipe. A second layer of foam insulation is then sprayed onto the exterior of the metal carrier pipe, covering the previously formed longitudinal slot and installed heat tube. A polyolefin coating is then applied over the insulation to form a protective outer jacket for the insulated pipe.
US10663094B2
A fitting to interconnect water pipes or to connect pipes with valves or mountings. The connector housing has an O-ring seat, constituting two walls of a groove for an O-ring. The fitting comprises a clamping sleeve, having a first end provided with a flange, which forms a third wall of the O-ring seat groove. The flange is retained against the coupling housing by a nut screwed by hand onto outer threads on the coupling housing. The clamping sleeve is adapted to be clamped against a pipe which is inserted into the clamping sleeve, and the O-ring seals against the outer surface of the pipe.
US10663092B2
Provided is a multilayer tube that has a layer containing an aliphatic polyamide (such as Polyamide 11 or Polyamide 12), a layer containing a Polyamide 6 composition or Polyamide 6/66/12 composition, a layer containing a saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, and a layer containing a semi-aromatic polyamide composition that contains a semi-aromatic polyamide having a specific structure, and further has a fluorine-containing polymer in which a functional group having reactivity with an amino group is introduced into the molecular chain thereof.
US10663090B2
A device is useful for passing pipes or cables through an opening in a building. Said device has a sleeve-like housing that has an axial passage channel that is open at its opposite ends; bristles that are mounted on the walls of the passage channel in such a way that they are opposite each other and that are extended inwards in such a way that they mesh with one another in order to close the passage channel; and flexible strips of material that are mounted in the passage channel and that are coated with an intumescent material.
US10663087B2
A hanging cable mount includes a first body portion, a second body portion, and a fastener. The first body portion has a first channel defined in a first surface and a second channel having a different shape defined in a second surface. The second body portion has a third channel defined in a third surface and a fourth channel having a different shape defined in a fourth surface, each channel coinciding with the first channel and the third channel, respectively, to jointly clamp a cable. The fastener is configured to removably couple the first body portion to the second body portion.
US10663085B2
A subsea pipeline system may include a subsea pipeline station configured to establish fluid communication between a first pipeline and a second pipeline. The first pipeline may have a first diameter, and the second pipeline may have a second diameter different from the first diameter. Additionally, the subsea pipeline station may be configured to removably couple to one or more pig launching assemblies having different configurations.
US10663079B2
An electro-pneumatic valve assembly includes a valve having a valve housing and a poppet and a solenoid valve having an actuator housing and a valve body. The valve housing has a wall that defines a valve inlet that is arranged to receive a fluid flow from a pressurized container and defines a valve outlet and a first port. The poppet is disposed within the valve housing and is movable between a first position and a second position. The actuator housing defines an opening. The valve body has a first wall that defines an inlet that is fluidly connected to the first port and a second wall that defines an outlet that is fluidly connected to the second port.
US10663078B2
A solenoid comprises first and second coils connected to an electrical power supply circuit. In a first mode of operation the power supply circuit is arranged to provide a current flowing in opposite directions through the respective first and second coils, e.g. to produce a self-heating effect. In a second mode of operation the power supply circuit is arranged to provide a current flowing in the same direction through the respective first and second coils, e.g. to generate a magnetic force. In some embodiments, the power supply circuit includes a bridge rectifier or full wave rectifier connected to a bi-directional current driver.
US10663071B2
A valve assembly for use in a fracturing pump including a valve member movable into and out of engagement with a valve seat body. The valve seat body includes an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface forming a fluid bore extending between a first end and a second end of the valve seat body. The body further includes a seating surface extending radially from the inner surface and facing the valve member, the seating surface having a recessed area. An insert is disposed in the recessed area forming at least a portion of the inner surface and at least portion of the seating surface. The valve seat body first end has a diameter different from a diameter valve seat body second. The difference between diameters allows the valve seat body outer surface to be supported by the fluid passageway.
US10663064B2
A brush seal assembly includes a brush seal, a brush support portion, and an assembly support portion. The brush seal, which has a multitude of bristles forming an angle with respect to a radial direction of a rotating body rotated inside a casing, is disposed around an outer circumferential surface of the rotating body and is oriented with respect to the body's rotating direction. The brush support portion supports the brush seal by extending toward the rotating body while contacting a low-pressure side of the brush seal. The assembly support portion supports the brush seal and the brush support portion and to receive respectively a base end of the brush seal and an axial protrusion of the brush support portion. The brush support portion contacts the brush seal along a predetermined length, which is greater than that of a line following a bristle of the brush seal.
US10663062B2
The present invention discloses a high-precision rear-axle reduction gearbox for a scooter, comprising a box body, wherein an inner chamber is formed within the box body, and an opening for communicating the inner chamber with the outside is formed on the box body; a cover for sealing the opening is fitted at the opening of the box body; output shaft hole for allowing an output shaft to pass therethrough and an input shaft hole for allowing an input shaft to pass therethrough are formed on the box body; a driving motor is provided outside the box body; a differential component is provided within the inner chamber of the box body; a driving motor output shaft of the driving motor is linked to an input shaft, and the input shaft is linked to an output shaft via the differential component; and, the opening is relatively located on a radial outer side of the output shaft, and the opening is deviated from the output shaft holes and the input shaft hole.
US10663051B2
An electric differential with a torque vectoring function. The electric differential includes: a main drive mechanism; a bevel gear differential; a TV control drive mechanism used for outputting control power; a first single-row planetary gear train, of which a first sun gear is coaxially and fixedly connected with a first half shaft and a first planet carrier is connected with a control output end; a second single-row planetary gear train, of which a second planet carrier is fixed to a drive axle housing, a second gear ring is fixedly connected with a first gear ring and a second sun gear is supported on the first half shaft through a bearing.
US10663042B2
An external circulation ball screw consisting of a screw shaft, a screw nut, a cover, two reflow members and multiple rolling members is disclosed. The screw nut defines a mounting groove on the outer perimeter and two return holes in the mounting groove. A first half-return channel on a first step in the mounting groove of the screw nut and a second half-return channel in a second step inside the cover constitute a return channel. Alternatively, a third step can be formed in the cover, or the screw nut can be configured to provide a mounting groove and a third step with return holes in the mounting groove. Thus, same size of reflow members can be used with different lengths of return channels.
US10663033B2
A balance weight having one or more journals with a reduced mass portion disposed between a pair of journal portions that define circumferentially extending bearing surfaces. The reduced mass portion has a body, which defines a circumferentially extending bearing surface that is concentric with the bearing surfaces on the journal portions, and at least one stiffening structure that is configured to resist flexing of the journal portions relative to one another due to the transmission of bending loads through the balance shaft.
US10663030B2
A hybrid vehicle includes: an engine; a transmission; a power transmission path provided between the engine and the transmission; dampers provided in the power transmission path; and a motor, provided between the dampers, the motor including a rotor, a mass body, an elastic member, and a hysteresis mechanism, the elastic member, and a hysteresis mechanism being arranged in parallel between the rotor and the mass body. Further, the hysteresis mechanism applies a frictional force in a direction opposite to a vibration direction of the mass body to the mass body when the mass body vibrates.
US10663022B2
A brake drum including a shell portion that has a friction face which is arranged with rotational symmetry with respect to an axis of rotation, and an attachment portion which has a mounting section, wherein the shell portion and the attachment portion are made of different materials and are connected to one another.
US10663020B2
Torque generating devices, systems, and/or related methods are disclosed. In one aspect, a torque generating device (100) may include a housing (102), at least one top and one bottom pole (108), at least one side pole (110), at least two rotors (116) for rotating within the housing, a shaft (104) supported by bearings (111), at least a first stator (120) disposed between portions of the at least two rotors (116), magnetically responsive (MR) material disposed within the housing (102) and at least partially surrounding the first stator (120) and the at least two rotors (116), and a coil (112) for generating a magnetic field, wherein an amount of torque generated by the torque generating device (100) increases in proportion to an amount of electrical current supplied to the coil (112). In another aspect, a method of generating torque may include providing a torque generating device (100) and rotating the at least two rotors (116).
US10663019B2
The present invention relates to an unpowered braking device using centrifugal force. The present invention may comprise: a housing; a brake drum installed inside the housing; a plurality of braking links rotatably installed on a rotating shaft of the housing and connected such that both ends thereof can expand and contract by means of centrifugal force; brake rollers provided on both ends of the braking links, respectively, such that, when the braking links expand, the brake rollers are forced against the inner walls of the brake drums and thereby generate braking force/torque; and an elastic member for providing elastic force such that both ends of the braking links, which have expanded, can contract.
US10663014B2
Provided is a hydraulic clutch device capable of securing sufficient performance (oil filtration performance) of a filter for cleaning oil while avoiding an increase in size of the device. The hydraulic clutch device includes an oil pump, a pressure regulating valve which pressure-regulates oil discharged by the oil pump, and a hydraulic clutch engaged by the oil pressure-regulated by the pressure regulating valve, wherein the pressure regulating valve is disposed on a downstream side in an oil flow direction of the hydraulic clutch, and a filter is disposed between a piston chamber of the hydraulic clutch and the pressure regulating valve. The filter is attached to be accommodated in an accommodating portion formed by recessing an inner surface of the piston chamber from the inside of the piston chamber.
US10663012B2
A clutch device includes a first and a second input side as well as a first and a second output side. The input sides and the output sides can be rotated about a common axis of rotation. The clutch device furthermore includes a first clutch between the first input side and the first output side and a second clutch between the first input side and the second output side. A third clutch may be provided between the first input side and the second input side. A first hydraulic actuating device is associated with the first clutch, a second hydraulic actuating device is associated with the second clutch, and a third hydraulic actuating device is associated with the third clutch. A radial flange, which receives an axial actuating force of one of the actuating devices, includes a radially extending feed for hydraulic fluid to one of the actuating devices.
US10663009B2
A self-contained switchable wedge plate clutch, consisting of: a housing arranged to receive rotational torque; and a clutch assembly. The clutch assembly includes: an outer race non-rotatably connected to the housing; an output hub; a plurality of circumferentially aligned wedge plate segments, enclosed by the housing, radially disposed about the output hub; and an activation assembly at least a portion of which is enclosed by the housing. The activation assembly is arranged to displace the plurality of circumferentially aligned wedge plate segments to switch the self-contained switchable wedge plate clutch between: a locked mode for the sell-contained switchable wedge plate clutch, in which the housing and the output hub are non-rotatably connected; and an unlocked mode for the self-contained switchable wedge plate clutch, in which the housing and the output hub are rotatable with respect to each other.
US10663000B2
An improved bushing restricts exhaust at a lube transfer port and exhaust ports equalizing bushing lube PSI with lube supply PSI. A hole or pair of holes in the bushing with an area equal to that of the lube supply holes in a center support regulates an intermediate pressure to the bushings of 50% of the supply pressure on its own, regardless of the balance piston. When the balance piston is filled, the added resistance at the transfer orifices will begin to equalize bushing lube PSI with lube supply PSI. When the balance piston exhaust ports are also restricted, as with an increased height of the bushing and installation site, equalization is insured and bushing lube PSI becomes that of the supply PSI.
US10662999B2
This mobile-object-holding tool is mounted in place of a track body on a mobile object which moves along the track body, wherein the mobile object includes at least a pair of rolling element load rolling grooves through which a plurality of rolling elements roll and the mobile-object-holding tool includes a pair of holding parts which face the pair of rolling element load rolling grooves and hold the plurality of rolling elements, a biasing linking part which links the pair of holding parts together and biases the pair of holding parts away from each other, and a deformation regulating part which regulates a mounted contraction amount by which the biasing linking part is capable of contracting after being mounted on the mobile object to a predetermined value or less.
US10662998B2
A deep groove ball bearing assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes an inner bearing ring defining an inner race, an outer bearing ring defining an outer race, and a plurality of rolling elements supported on the inner race and the outer race. A shaft is supported on a radially inner surface of the inner bearing ring, and a housing is supported on a radially outer surface of the outer bearing ring. A sleeve is arranged between the radially outer surface of the outer bearing ring and a radially inner surface of the housing, and the sleeve includes a plurality of through openings.
US10662997B2
Provided is a roller assembly for a storage device. The roller assembly includes a shaft member, a rolling member, a cover member, and ball members. In particular, the ball members are configured to perform a rolling operation while being maintained in the state of being seated at specific locations by a seating groove formed in the shaft member and guide grooves formed in the rolling member and the cover member, and the rolling member and the cover member are configured to be coupled to each other by a fitting method and are then completely coupled to each other through laser bonding. The roller assembly is additionally characterized in that the damage of the ball members is prevented from occurring during the above laser bonding.
US10662995B2
The present disclosure provides a washer having a generally circular shape and is used for supporting a screw head. The shank of the screw penetrates the central hole of the washer. When viewed from a planar perspective, the outer edges of the washer have a sinusoidal shape with depressions and elevations.
US10662983B2
An electromagnet for a hydraulic system, such as an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle. The electromagnet may include an armature chamber filled with hydraulic medium, which may be fluidically connected to hydraulic lines of the hydraulic system, and may have an armature mounted therein. The armature may have an adjustable stroke and may include a shut-off body. The armature may divide the armature chamber into an opening-side chamber facing the flow opening, and an inner chamber facing away from it. During a stroke movement of the armature, an oil exchange may occur, during which a displacement volume of the hydraulic medium overflows from the opening-side chamber into the inner chamber. The electromagnet may further include a hydraulic medium reservoir, which may store a hydraulic medium having a higher degree of purity than the hydraulic medium in the hydraulic lines and which may be fluidically connected to the opening-side chamber.
US10662981B2
On inner wall surfaces of a head cover and a rod cover of a fluid pressure cylinder, respective pluralities of first and second spigot pins are installed to project out from the inner wall surfaces. The first and second spigot pins are disposed on circumferences of a predetermined diameter that internally contact or inscribe the cylinder tube. Further, when the cylinder tube is assembled with respect to the head cover and the rod cover, by the flange members of the first and second spigot pins inscribing the inner circumferential surface thereof, the cylinder tube is positioned and assembled coaxially with respect to the centers of the head cover and the rod cover.
US10662974B2
The invention relates to a guide vane intended to be mounted in a turbine engine between an inner shroud (17) and an outer shroud (16), comprising a longitudinal straightening body (41) for an air flow extending between a first end (42) intended to be positioned at the inner shroud (17) and a second end (44) intended to be positioned at the outer shroud (16), the longitudinal straightening body having an aerodynamic profile defined by a leading edge (41a) and a trailing edge (41b) in the flow direction of the air flow, and by a camber line (41c) extending from the leading edge (41a) to the trailing edge (41b). It further comprises a first attachment heel (43) and a second attachment heel (45) positioned in the continuation of the longitudinal body (41) at the first end (42) and the second end (44) respectively, the first (43) and second (45) attachment heels being planar elements arranged parallel with respect to one another, each attachment heel (43; 45) being arranged at a distance from the leading edge (41a) and from the trailing edge (41b).
US10662971B2
A fluid displacement device including a center shaft and a plurality of vanes. Each of the plurality of vanes has an inner edge, an outer edge, and a spiraling edge disposed between the inner edge and the outer edge. The spiraling edge of each of the plurality of vanes follows a Fibonacci spiral based on circular arcs traced through a Fibonacci tiling comprising squares having side lengths that are a multiple of at least five successive Fibonacci numbers.
US10662968B2
A method of manufacturing a centrifugal fan is provided that includes cutting a metal sheet to form a positive pressure surface forming member and a negative pressure surface forming member, respectively, forming a positive pressure surface and a negative pressure surface; pressing the positive pressure surface forming member and the negative pressure surface forming member to form a first curved surface forming the positive pressure surface and a second curved surface forming the negative pressure surface; trimming the positive pressure surface forming member provided with the fast curved surface and the negative pressure surface forming member provided with the second curved surface to form a shroud bonding surface and a main plate bonding surface; bending the shroud bonding surface and the main plate bonding surface; bonding the positive pressure surface forming member and the negative pressure surface forming member to each other; and bonding the shroud bonding surface and a shroud to each other and bonding the main plate bonding surface and a main plate to each other in a bonded state of the positive pressure surface forming member and the negative pressure surface forming member.
US10662961B2
A pump is provided which includes a rotating element, and a volute housing having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. In operational state, the rotating element rotates, drawing fluid through the fluid inlet of the volute housing and expelling the fluid at a higher pressure through the fluid outlet. Further, the pump includes a bypass mechanism integrated, at least in part, within the volute housing and exposing in nonoperational state of the pump, a bypass path through, at least in part, the volute housing that allows the fluid to pass from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet of the pump.
US10662954B2
Apparatus, including a pump system controller, features a signal processor or processing module configured at least to: receive signaling containing information about pump differential pressure, flow rate and corresponding power data at motor maximum speed published by pump manufacturers, as well as instant motor power and speed, for a system of pumps arranged in a multiple pump configuration; and determine corresponding signaling containing information about instant pump differential pressure and flow rate for the system of pumps arranged in the multiple pump configuration using a combined affinity equation and numerical interpolation algorithm, based upon the signaling received.
US10662952B2
A low profile pump motor lead protector with a head guard and a trailing guard, the head guard including a front section with a front end and a rear section with a rear end, the trailing guard having a pin end for insertion in a head guard socket, the lead protector for protecting a motor lead of a pump and motor assembly of a downhole production string for surfacing fluid from a reservoir such as a subterranean oil well.
US10662946B2
This electric compressor includes a compressor which rotates to compress a fluid, a motor which rotatably drives the compressor, and a control unit which controls current supply to the motor using first and second components. An allowable current for first and second components exposed to the same temperature is set to be smaller in the second component than in the first component. The second component is disposed at a place in which cooling capability is greater than that of the first component so that allowable power of the second component at rated use is greater than allowable power of the first component. This electric compressor includes a temperature sensor which detects the temperature of the first component and a calculation unit which outputs an alarm signal when the detected temperature and a current flowing in the first component satisfy a predetermined condition.
US10662936B2
A compressor includes a compression mechanism configured to suck and compress a refrigerant from a suction space to discharge the refrigerant to a discharge space by a driving force transmitted thereto. The compressor includes an oil storage chamber provided in the discharge space to collect oil separated from the refrigerant discharged from the compression mechanism, an oil recovery passage configured to guide the oil in the oil storage chamber to the suction space, and a decompression mechanism provided in the oil recovery passage to reduce a pressure of the oil passing through the oil recovery passage by an orifice hole having an inner diameter smaller than the oil recovery passage. The decompression mechanism is configured such that, when a pressure in the oil storage chamber is increased, the inner diameter of the orifice hole is reduced.
US10662931B2
A diaphragm cell for damping pressure pulsations in a low-pressure region of a piston pump has two axially deformable diaphragms that are connected along their radial peripheries and enclose a gas space. The diaphragms each have a central region that extends over no less than 50% of the cross-sectional surface area of the diaphragms. The diaphragms are of undulating shape in the central region, which is curved axially outwards in its radially inner region and in its radially outer region. The diaphragms further include an axially inwardly curved annular region that is arranged between and immediately adjacent to the radially inner region and the radially outer region. An axially-measured amplitude of the wave shape has a predetermined range related to the cross-sectional surface area of the diaphragms when the pressure difference is zero. The pressure difference is a pressure in the gas space minus a pressure outside the gas space.
US10662930B2
A Hall-effect thruster (10), configured to be arranged inside or outside a spacecraft.The thruster has a concentrator (36) for collecting particles (P).The shape of the concentrator is defined by a continuous contour (C1) wrapped around the thrust axis and is such that on a major portion of the contour, each section of the concentrator perpendicular to the contour has a parabolic shape and has a focus (F1) belonging to the contour (C1).In addition, the magnetic circuit (50) is arranged so as to generate the magnetic field (B) in the vicinity of the contour (C1).
US10662924B2
The invention relates to a control apparatus and method for controlling the rotor blades of a wind turbine, and in particular to controlling the rotor blades during an extreme wind event. An extended mode of operation of the wind turbine rotor beyond the cut-out wind speed is provided. In the extended mode of operation, the pitch of the wind turbine blades is actively controlled so that the rotor and the generator idle at a designated rotational speed. The rotational speed may be relatively high, say 15 to 20% of the nominal speed, compared with minimal speeds experienced by purely feathered wind turbine blades, and may be further controlled as a function of the incident wind speed. Output power control in the extended mode may be zero but is preferably a low, but non-zero value. The output power so produced may then be used as an auxiliary power source for controlling the wind turbine in situations where the utility grid fails.
US10662901B2
A vortex pump including: a housing including a suction channel, a discharge channel, and a housing space communicating with the suction channel and the discharge channel; and an impeller housed in the housing space and configured to rotate about a rotation axis, where the housing includes an inner channel along an outer circumference of the impeller in the housing space, and a channel cross-sectional area of the inner channel is larger than a channel cross-sectional area of the suction channel and is larger than a channel cross-sectional area of the discharge channel over an entire length of the inner channel.
US10662898B2
A thruster has an additively-manufactured housing that includes an integrally-formed nozzle with a burst disk in it. The housing is part of a casing that surrounds and encloses a propellant that is burned to produce pressurized gases that burst the burst disk and produce thrust. The thruster may be placed in a receptacle that defines a recess for receiving the thruster. The receptacle also may be additively manufactured. The thruster and the recess both may be cylindrical, with the housing being closely fit with the cylindrical walls of the receptacle. This may allow some of the structural loads on the housing, such as loads produced by the combustion of the propellant, to be transferred to the adjoining walls of the receptacle. This enables the housing to have less structural strength than if it were to have to contain the pressure from the propellant all on its own.
US10662894B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling the temperature of a waste heat recovery system associated with a combustion engine, the waste heat recovery system comprising a working fluid circuit; at least one evaporator; an expander; a condenser and a pump arranged to pump the working fluid through the circuit, wherein the at least one evaporator is arranged for heat exchange between the working fluid and a heat source associated with the combustion engine, wherein the condenser of the waste heat recovery system is connected to a cooling system. The method comprises the steps of: determining if a combustion engine associated with the waste heat recovery system is about to be shut down; and controlling the temperature in the waste heat recovery system based on whether the combustion engine is about to be shut down or not.
US10662890B2
A method for operating an internal combustion engine is provided in which fuel is withdrawn from a high-pressure accumulator and injected into a combustion chamber of at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine, the method including the steps of detecting under conditions of angular synchronism a pressure of the fuel in the high-pressure accumulator during a first injection into the at least one cylinder and during a later, second injection into the at least one cylinder; ascertaining a gradient of the detected pressure; ascertaining a frequency-transformed spectrum of the detected pressure and a frequency-transformed spectrum of the ascertained gradient; correcting the frequency-transformed spectrum of the detected pressure by the frequency-transformed spectrum of the ascertained gradient; and ascertaining a cylinder-individual injection quantity of fuel, which was injected into the at least one cylinder, from the corrected frequency-transformed spectrum of the detected pressure.
US10662886B2
A control device of a fuel injection device improves stabilization in an opening operation of a valve element and stabilizes an injection amount. The control device includes a valve element to open a fuel passage by being separated from a valve seat, a movable iron core to perform an opening/closing operation of the valve element, and a fixed iron core to attract the movable iron core when a current flows to a coil. The control device includes a control unit which performs an intermediate energization in which the coil is energized again to attract the movable iron core to the fixed iron core and then the energizing to the coil is blocked and the movable iron core is displaced in a direction away from the fixed core. The control unit controls whether the intermediate energization is performed according to an injection interval of the fuel injection device.
US10662879B2
The epicyclic gear stage has a carrier body receiving the planet gears via corresponding planet bearings, a first bearing plane where a first axial end of the planet bearings are received by the carrier body, a second bearing plane where a second axial end of the planet bearings are received by the carrier body, a torque transfer body made integral to the carrier body externally to the sun gear, at a balanced torque transfer plane located between the first bearing plane and the second bearing plane, and extending away therefrom to a shaft coupler, for transferring torque between the carrier body and a shaft, and an oil network extending within the carrier, the oil network having an inlet in the torque transfer body, extending within the torque transfer body and into the carrier body, and extending within the carrier body and into the planet bearings.
US10662878B2
An accessory system for a gas turbine engine having a driveshaft with an axis of rotation is provided. The accessory system includes a towershaft coupled to the driveshaft and driven by the driveshaft along a towershaft axis of rotation. The accessory system also includes a shaft including a first shaft bevel gear coupled to a towershaft bevel gear. The shaft is rotatable by the towershaft along a shaft axis of rotation. The shaft axis of rotation is transverse to the towershaft axis of rotation. The accessory system includes a first accessory drive shaft having a first accessory bevel gear driven by the shaft. The accessory system also includes a second accessory drive shaft having a second accessory bevel gear driven by the shaft. A first accessory axis of rotation and a second accessory axis of rotation are substantially transverse to the shaft axis of rotation.
US10662875B2
A propulsion unit, notably for an aircraft, including a turbomachine; a propeller that can be selectively coupled to the turbomachine; a rotary electrical machine able to drive at least the turbomachine, and selective coupling of the rotary electric machine to the propeller and/or the turbomachine that is able to couple only the propeller to the rotary electrical machine during a defined stage of operation of the propulsion unit and that is able to couple or not couple the rotary electric machine to a gas generator and/or a free turbine of the turbomachine.
US10662869B2
An exhaust gas guide section for an exhaust gas turbocharger includes an actuator (1) with a wastegate (9) for opening and closing a bypass channel (31) of the exhaust gas guide section (1), wherein the bypass channel (31) is provided in the exhaust gas guide section (1) that can be flowed through to bypass a turbine wheel of the exhaust gas guide section (1) which is rotatably arranged in the exhaust gas guide section (1) in a wheel chamber of the exhaust gas guide section (1), and wherein the bypass channel (31) has a second flow cross section (33).
US10662847B2
An apparatus and method for controlling engine start/stop operations based at least in part on considerations relating to the thermal management of an exhaust gas after-treatment system. A control system may monitor and/or predict conditions and/or properties of the after-treatment system, including conditions related to the thermal management of a selective catalytic reduction system and the properties of an exhaust gas stream that has been released from an internal combustion engine and into the after-treatment system. Such conditions may be evaluated in determining whether the thermal management of the after-treatment system is at, or will be in, a condition that may accommodate a start/stop operation of the internal combustion engine with minimal, if any, adverse impact on the thermal management of the after-treatment system. Such an evaluation may, in at least certain situations, provide at least a consideration as to whether to de-activate or activate start/stop operations.
US10662846B2
A method at an exhaust gas cleaning system for an engine (235) in which a reducing agent is added to a passage (290) for exhaust gases from the engine (235) for cleaning the exhaust gases. The exhaust gas cleaning system includes arrangements (270) that require a certain temperature level (Tmax) in order to achieve catalytic exhaust gas cleaning. The method is to distribute and store (s430) a limited amount of reducing agent at temperature level (Tmax); and to use (s440) during a cold start of the exhaust gas cleaning system, the distributed and stored reducing agent to achieve the catalytic exhaust gas cleaning. Also a computer program product (200; 210) to implement the method. Also an arrangement for an exhaust gas cleaning system for an engine (235), and a motor vehicle (100) equipped with the arrangement.
US10662834B2
A filter for filtering liquids has a housing with an inlet for liquid to be filtered and an outlet for filtered liquid. A coaxial filter element with a filter medium having an interior is arranged in the housing such that the filter element separates the inlet from the outlet. A central tube is fastened to the housing and the filter element is arranged coaxially on the central tube. An inner support body is arranged in the interior of the filter medium in a radial direction of the filter element between a radial inner circumferential side of the filter medium and the central tube. The inner support body has support webs distributed in an axial direction and in a circumferential direction of the inner support body. The support webs support the filter medium at least radially on the central tube.
US10662830B2
Disclosed is a method and system for intermittently operating poppet valves in an internal combustion engine when desired by the selective locking or unlocking of one or more cam lobes with the camshaft. One or more cam lobes, with a small radial clearance, ride on a camshaft such that an engagement mechanism may be activated as desired to lock the cam lobe to the camshaft, thereby activating the respective poppet valve. The cam lobe is prevented from moving axially to ensure correct alignment with a follower. A suitable holding device may be used to ensure the non-activated cam lobes are restrained at a suitable orientation relative to the cam follower.
US10662827B2
A center bolt oil control valve including a valve housing, a piston within the valve housing, and a calibration cap having at least a pressure check valve and filter. The calibration cap is located within the valve housing and is extending out an end of the valve housing. A supply pressure port may be placed in the valve housing, wherein the supply pressure port supplies a hydraulic fluid to ports in the valve housing depending on a position of the piston. The valve housing includes a threaded portion and is fastened to a cam nose with the threaded portion, wherein a supply pressure port of the cam nose is adjacent the threaded portion. This valve provides improved design flexibility, especially for axial constrained applications.
US10662826B2
A method of operating an internal combustion engine that includes a valvetrain having a rocker arm assembly including a rocker arm on which a latch pin is mounted. An actuator for the latch pin, including an electromagnet, is mounted separately from the rocker arm. Rocker arm position information is obtained by gathering and analyzing data relating to a current or voltage in an electrical circuit that is operative to power the electromagnet. The rocker arm position information is used to perform a diagnostic.
US10662825B2
A method of operating an internal combustion engine of a type that has a combustion chamber, a moveable valve having a seat formed in the combustion chamber, a camshaft on which a cam is mounted, and a rocker arm assembly having a rocker arm and a cam follower configured to engage the cam as the camshaft rotates. The method includes obtaining rocker arm position data, using the rocker arm position data to obtain camshaft position information, and using the camshaft position information in an engine management operation.
US10662821B2
A power recovery system for recovering power from a working fluid, comprising a heat exchanger that is configured to receive a first stream of the working fluid, one or more expansion stages for expanding the working fluid to recover power from the working fluid, wherein one or more of the expansion stages is in fluid communication with the heat exchanger, wherein the heat exchanger is configured to transfer heat between the first stream of the working fluid and another stream of the working fluid that is received from one or more of the expansion stages.
US10662817B2
A steam turbine according to an embodiment includes an outer casing, an inner casing, a turbine rotor, and a pair of inner casing regulating portions. The pair of inner casing regulating portions regulates movement of the inner casing in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the turbine rotor. The pair of inner casing regulating portions is disposed beneath the inner casing at positions different from each other in the axial direction and is supported by a regulating supporting portion extending upward from a bottom portion of the outer casing.
US10662814B2
A shroud for a turbomachine stator includes a first portion and a second portion configured to sandwich around at least a portion of a stator vane assembly, a first pin hole defined in the first portion at an angle relative to an axial direction of the turbomachine, and a second pin hole defined in the second portion at the angle of the first portion, wherein the first pin hole is aligned and in communication with the second pin hole to accommodate a pin configured to be seated in the first and second pin holes.
US10662811B2
A fluid damping structure is provided that includes a damper ring. The damper ring includes an annular body a plurality of fluid check valves, and at least one fluid stop. The annular body extends circumferentially around an axial centerline, and is defined by a first end surface, a second end surface, an outer radial surface, and an inner radial surface. The outer radial surface and the inner radial surface extend axially from the first end surface toward the second end surface. The body includes one or more check valve passages. Each check valve passage extends axially from an open end disposed at the first end surface inwardly toward the second end surface, and is disposed between the inner radial surface and the outer radial surface. An inlet aperture extends between each check valve passage and the outer radial surface, and an outlet aperture extends between each check valve passage and the inner radial surface. Each fluid check valve is disposed in a check valve passage. The at least one fluid stop is configured to prevent fluid exit from the open end of each check valve passage.
US10662808B2
An apparatus for cleaning an inner surface of a slot includes a first block segment that has an outer perimeter that conforms to and fits inside the inner surface of the slot. A first cleaning pad is connected to the first block segment and extends beyond at least a portion of the outer perimeter of the first block segment.
US10662797B2
A multi-plane annular brush seal includes a front plate, a back plate, and a plurality of bristles. Each of the plurality of bristles has a first lengthwise portion extending from the base end, a second lengthwise portion, and a third lengthwise portion. The front plate and back plate are configured to maintain the bristle first lengthwise portions substantially parallel to a first plane, the second lengthwise portion of the bristles through a transition region, and the bristle third lengthwise portions substantially parallel to a second plane. The first plane is skewed from the second plane by an obtuse angle. At least some of the bristle second lengthwise portions are maintained in contact with the front plate through the transition region and at least some of the bristle second lengthwise portions are maintained in contact with the back plate through the transition region.
US10662795B2
The invention concerns a rotary assembly for a turbomachine, comprising a disk of which the outer periphery is formed from an alternation of cavities and teeth (12), and blades extending radially from the disk and of which the roots (16) are engaged axially and held radially in the cavities of the disk. According to the invention, the teeth of the disk and the blade roots comprise, at the upstream and/or downstream axial ends of same, axial shoulders (74, 76) disposed circumferentially end-to-end in alternation and together forming a cylindrical surface (78) facing radially towards the inside of the disk.
US10662782B2
An airfoil includes an airfoil section that defines an airfoil profile. The airfoil section includes first and second airfoil pieces. The first airfoil piece defines a portion of the airfoil profile and has a first slot. The second airfoil piece defines a different portion of the airfoil profile and has a second slot. The first slot and the second slot together form a seal slot, and a seal is disposed in the seal slot.
US10662778B2
A turbine airfoil (10) includes an impingement structure (26A, 26B) comprising a hollow elongated main body (28) positioned in an interior portion (11) of an airfoil body (12). The main body (28) extends lengthwise along a radial direction and defines coolant cavity (64) therewithin that receives a cooling fluid (60). The main body (28) is spaced from a pressure side wall (16) and a suction side wall (18) of the airfoil body (12) and may be spaced from an airfoil tip (52), to define respective passages (72, 74, 77) therebetween. A plurality of impingement openings (25) are formed through the main body (28) that connect the coolant cavity (64) with one or more of the respective passages (72, 74, 77). The impingement openings (25) direct the cooling fluid (60) flowing in the coolant cavity (64) to impinge on the pressure and/or suction side walls (16, 18) and/or the airfoil tip (52).
US10662777B2
A structure for cooling turbine blades, and a turbine and gas turbine including the same, enhance efficiency in cooling turbine blades by improving the structures of a turbine disk and a retainer for securing a turbine blade. The structure includes a turbine blade connected to a turbine blade root; a turbine disk including a slot for receiving the turbine blade root, a cooling passage through which cooling air flows to the turbine blade root, and a branch passage communicating at one end with the cooling passage; and a retainer fixed to the turbine disk on each of opposite sides of the turbine blade to prevent separation of the turbine blade from the turbine disk, the fixed retainer having a chamber communicating with the other end of the branch passage so that the cooling air of the cooling passage is introduced into the chamber through the branch passage.
US10662768B2
Methods of determining a spatial distribution of an injected tracer material within a subterranean formation are disclosed, including flowing the tracer material, which includes a tracer electrical capacitance that differs from a formation electrical capacitance of a region of the subterranean formation, into the region of the subterranean formation via a wellbore. Subsequent to the flowing, the methods also include providing an input electromagnetic signal to the region of the subterranean formation. Responsive to the providing, the methods further include receiving an output electromagnetic signal from the subterranean formation. The methods further include determining the spatial distribution of the tracer material within the subterranean formation based, at least in part, on the output electromagnetic signal.
US10662754B2
Apparatus for directional drilling allows an uphole section of drill string to be rotated while maintaining a desired orientation of a bent section of the drill string. In some embodiments, clutches above and below the bent section are selectively operated to rotate the bent section to a desired orientation. Reducing transmissions may reduce the rotation rate of the bent section.
US10662745B2
Perforation devices including gas supply structures and methods of utilizing the same. The perforation devices include a magazine, a barrel, an action, and the gas supply structure. The magazine is configured to contain a plurality of cartridges. The barrel extends between a breech, which is configured to receive a selected cartridge of the plurality of cartridges that includes a selected projectile, and a muzzle, which is configured, upon firing of the selected cartridge, to permit the selected projectile to exit the barrel at a muzzle velocity and with a muzzle trajectory. The action is configured to transfer the selected cartridge from the magazine to the breech of the barrel and to fire the selected cartridge. The gas supply structure is configured to provide a gas stream to the barrel and includes a surface gas source and a gas supply conduit extending between the surface gas source and the barrel.
US10662742B2
A method for predicting hydrocarbon recovery in a subterranean formation may include generating pre-heating data associated with fracturing in a sample from the subterranean formation, determining a first fractal pattern based upon the pre-heating data, and heating the sample with RF power to cause additional fracturing in the sample. The method may include generating post-heating data associated with additional fracturing in the sample after heating with RF power, determining a second fractal pattern based upon the post-heating data, detecting change between the first fractal pattern and the second fractal pattern, and predicting hydrocarbon recovery from the subterranean formation based upon the detected change.
US10662740B2
A valve apparatus that includes a first containment area having a fluid disposed therein at a first fluid pressure and a second containment area disposed below the first containment area having a fluid disposed therein at a selective fluid pressure where the selective fluid pressure can be increased and decreased, the second containment area in fluid communication with the first containment area. The valve apparatus also includes a valve disposed between the fluid in the second containment area at the selective fluid pressure and the fluid in the first containment area at the first fluid pressure. The valve apparatus includes a third containment area disposed below the second containment area having a fluid disposed therein at a third fluid pressure wherein the third fluid pressure is higher than the first fluid pressure, the second containment area in fluid communication with the third containment area. Furthermore, the valve apparatus includes a second valve disposed between the fluid in the third containment area at the third fluid pressure and the fluid in the second containment area at the selective fluid pressure. A method for passing an object through the valve apparatus from a low pressure area to a high pressure system.
US10662737B2
A fluid injection valve comprising: a valve body including a first end having a first opening, a second end having a second opening, an outer surface and an inner surface defining a fluid pathway extending between the first end and the second end; a seat arranged along the fluid pathway; a restriction device selectively abutting the seat; a biasing member arranged in the fluid pathway abutting the restriction device; urging the restriction device against the seat; a biasing element having a biasing force urging the biasing member against the restriction device; and a magnet functionally connected to the biasing element, the magnet selectively forcing the biasing member axially outwardly of the restriction device against the biasing force.
US10662733B2
Apparatus and method for filling and sealing a chamber with fluid at a predetermined pressure in a well bore. In a downhole assembly (10) comprising a tubular body (14) having a cylindrical throughbore (18) and a chamber (16) to be filled on an outer surface (26) of the body, a fill mechanism is provided to control fluid flow between the throughbore and the chamber. The fill mechanism includes a sliding seal (72) arrangement at the outer surface which is operated by the fluid flow in the throughbore to allow fluid flow into the chamber and then seal the chamber. Embodiments are described where the chamber is between a morphable sleeve (64) and the outer surface of the tubular, filling of the chamber morphs the sleeve and sealing the chamber at a predetermined fluid pressure secures the tubular within a borehole, creates an annular seal across an annulus or centralizes the tubing within a wellbore.
US10662730B2
A blowout preventer is disclosed that includes a housing defining a central passage. The central passage is configured to receive a tubular string therethrough. In addition, the blowout preventer includes a packing element disposed in the central passage. The packing element includes an elastomeric member, and a rigid insert mounted to the elastomeric member. The insert includes an extendable tip assembly configured to extend a movable member away from the rigid insert.
US10662728B2
Systems and methods for moving a tubular string within a subterranean well include a collar tool assembly that has a tubular body. The tubular body has an inner bore that is in fluid communication with an inner bore of the tubular string. An outer cavity is located radially outward of the inner bore. An injection port assembly extends from the outer cavity to an outer diameter surface of the tubular body and can move between an injection port closed position and an injection port open position. A hydraulic system can force a treatment fluid of the outer cavity out of the tubular body when the injection port is in the injection port open position. An injection port programmable logic controller is in signal communication with the hydraulic system and can command the injection port assembly to move between the injection port closed position and the injection port open position.
US10662725B1
A tubular handling apparatus is provided comprising: a base; a lift carriage supported by the base; and a lift arm, pivotably connected to the base for raising and lowering the lift carriage. The apparatus further comprises a floating pivot mechanism coupling the lift arm to the lift carriage and having a position that is adjustable for collinear and independent axial movement along a longitudinal axis of the lift carriage and along a longitudinal axis of the lift arm. The lift arm and lift carriage each comprise a respective adjustment mechanism to actuate the collinear axial movement of the floating pivot mechanism position.
US10662721B2
An apparatus for electrically connecting two downhole components configured to be disposed in a borehole. The apparatus includes two complementing tool connectors which each have a corresponding electrical connector. The tool connectors may mate using a bayonet and slot connection. The slot may be L-shaped or l-shaped. The slot may be configured for straight or rotational engagement of the tool connectors. The electrical connectors may mate using concentric contacts that share the same axis. The electrical connectors are configured to rotate without stressing the contacts during assembly, disassembly, and drilling operations. The electrical connectors may support two or more contacts.
US10662719B2
A lifting mast assembly includes telescoping load bearing arms pivotably coupled to a support base and configured to pivot in unison. Each telescoping arm includes a first arm section and an aligned second arm section. The first arm sections are configured to telescope in unison with one another. Likewise, the second arm sections are configured to telescope in unison with one another. Each first arm section may telescope independently of the second arm section with which it is coaxially aligned. A first support member is coupled to each of the first arm sections, and a second support member is coupled to each of the second arm sections. Different loads can be supported on the first and second support members simultaneously.
US10662717B2
A telescopic mast includes at least one first structure including a fixing portion adapted to be fixed to a drill floor. At least one second structure is mobile relative to the first structure, to obtain a telescopic mast. A moving system is adapted to extend and retract a longitudinal extension of the telescopic mast, by moving the second structure. The moving system includes at least one first actuator device, adapted to be fixed to the first structure or to the drill floor at its first end. The second structure is fixed at a first end of at least one second actuator device. At least one supply chamber is adapted to supply at least the first actuator device and at least the second actuator. At least one first actuator device and the at least one second actuator device are aligned along a single direction and operate with opposite directions.
US10662712B2
A motorized release device for a downhole device includes one or more dogs disposed within a guide of the downhole device. The one or more dogs may move radially within the guide relative to a central axis of the motorized release device, such that the one or more dogs may move between an engaged position and a disengaged position. The motorized release device also includes a cam that is rotatable about the central axis, such that the cam may move between a locked position and an unlocked position. The cam may block the one or more dogs from moving to the disengaged position while the cam is in the locked position. The motorized release device may also include an electronics board. The electronics board may attach to a motor that rotates the cam between the locked position and the unlocked position.
US10662701B1
An apparatus for bracing a fence gate during installation of the fence gate. The apparatus includes at least one support member and a brace bar. The at least one support member is mounted to the fence gate. The brace bar has a first end, a second end and a brace portion extending therebetween. A first portion of the brace bar is connectable to the fence gate and a second portion of the brace bar is adjustably connectable to the at least one support member.
US10662699B2
A rain shield is provided for exterior architectural windows which prevents rain water from intruding into a dwelling. The rain shield may include a generally rectangular-planar shield member. The device may also include first and second lower fixed pivots disposed on a lower portion of opposing sides of the shield member. The first and second fixed pivots may be oppositely directed from each other and cooperate to pivot the device between stowed and deployed configurations. The rain shield may also include first and second lateral supports disposed on either side of the shield member.
US10662698B1
A system, device and method of framing an opening, such as a window, in a clad façade 12 structure to align the window units 22 to be positioned adjustably so that the exterior sight lines align the windows without custom fabrication of the clad façade. This allows irregular variations in the original building structure to be eliminated by a perfectly aligned façade. A frame 20 has wide flanges 40 to allow the defined inner box frame area 34 to be positioned and then the frame can be shimmed to that position. Sections of frame 20 are joined by an angled member 54 with flat portion which are received in slots 56 in frame sections at their edges.
US10662693B2
A pinch detection switch includes a pressure sensing structure including at least one linear pressure sensing member with multiple conductor wires spaced apart from each other in an inner side of a tubular elastic body, and a tubular cover member to be attached to an end on a forward side in a moving direction of a movable body, and which is formed with a hollow portion which receives the pressure sensing structure. The pressure sensing structure includes a coating member which covers the at least one linear pressure sensing member, and which faces an inner surface of the hollow portion at both its ends in a width direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the movable body and an extending direction of the cover member. A position in the width direction of the at least one linear pressure sensing member in the hollow portion is defined by the coating member.
US10662684B1
Electronic door stop devices and an electronic door stop remote broadcast device are disclosed. The electronic door stop devices include a sound-activated remote release electronic door stop that automatically detects a particular sound and closes a propped open door and a silent broadcast signal-activated electronic door stop that provides automatic closing of propped open doors, by both silent broadcast signal and particular sound detection. The electronic door stop remote broadcast device broadcasts a wireless data signal to multiple silent broadcast signal-activated electronic door stops to automatically and concurrently close any doors propped open by the silent broadcast signal-activated electronic door stops. The sound-activated remote release electronic door stop is activated by an emergency alarm sound that a receiver of the sound-activated remote release electronic door stop can distinguish from other sounds and release the door automatically to achieve closure for fire integrity and intruder prevention.
US10662679B2
An invertible, boat outboard motor lock that places an impenetrable enclosure around the pivotable arms of a pair of cap screws that are used to frictionally affix a boat motor to the transom of a boat. When in place and locked, access to remove the boat motor from the boat is blocked. The pivotable arms are placed into either end of a trough formed in a unitary block and the assembly is placed into a concave cover housing. The housing may be installed in either of two orientations, 180 degrees apart. A lock cylinder is passed through the housing and block preventing their separation.
US10662675B2
A modular electronic deadbolt includes a bolt module having a first housing defining a first longitudinal axis, a motor disposed in the first housing, and a deadbolt configured to be linearly moveable in relation to the first housing along the first longitudinal axis by the motor. The modular electronic deadbolt also includes a battery module configured to be operatively coupled to the bolt module. The battery module includes a second housing configured to receive a power source, and a face plate coupled to the second housing. The faceplate defines a second longitudinal axis and includes an extension that extends along the second longitudinal axis. The extension is configured to removably couple the bolt module to the battery module such that the first longitudinal axis is substantially orthogonal to the second longitudinal axis.
US10662672B2
Locking devices that may be used with product display hooks, cabinets, and drawers are provided. A locking device according to one implementation comprising a housing and a shell. The housing includes an outer wall that defines an interior. The housing further includes a channel extending at least partially through the interior of the housing. The shell includes a projection. The shell is at least partially disposed within the interior of the housing and is moveable in a longitudinal direction within the interior of the housing. In an unlocked position, the projection is biased away from the first channel. In a locked position, the projection is maintained in the first channel.
US10662667B2
The folding shelter structure device includes posts supporting at the upper portion thereof a deformable frame having movable side members. Each side member has at least one pair of scissor-hinge arms connected to the posts via pivot points. At least one arm of a pair of arms of a side member is provided to be longitudinally adjustable via a mechanism for elongating and shortening the length thereof.
US10662665B2
A lift assembly includes a lever arm mounting portion connected to a spring mounting portion, a lever arm, a spa cover engaging portion, and a pneumatic spring. A pneumatic spring proximal end portion has a pivoting connection to the spring mounting portion. A pneumatic spring distal end portion has a pivoting connection to the lever arm. The pneumatic spring exerts an extensive force upon the lever arm both when the lever arm is in the cover closed position and when the lever arm is in the cover open position. The extensive force urges the lever arm towards the cover open position when the lever arm is in the cover closed position, and the extensive force urging the lever arm towards the cover closed position when the lever arm is in the cover open position.
US10662661B2
Methods are provided for repairing an existing structure to cover at least a portion of the existing structure with a repair structure. Such methods comprise mounting one or more standoff retainers to the existing structure; coupling one or more standoffs to the standoff retainers such that the standoffs extend away from the existing structure; coupling one or more cladding panels to the standoffs such that the panels are spaced apart from the structure to provide a space therebetween; and introducing a curable material to the space between the panels and the existing structure, the panels acting as at least a portion of a formwork for containing the curable material until the curable material cures to provide a repair structure cladded, at least in part, by the panels. Corresponding apparatus for effecting such methods are also provided.
US10662655B2
A wall tile adapted to be molded from materials, including PVC composition material, and comprising: a planar top panel, which comprises an urethane stain shield, a second planar panel which comprises a first Polyvinyl chloride composition, a third planar panel which comprises a composite material having 3D printing on it, a Fourth planar panel which comprises a webbed fiberglass composition, a fifth planar panel which comprises a magnetic substrate, a sixth planar panel which comprises a second Polyvinyl chloride composition, and a seventh panel which comprises a self-adhesive composition.
US10662654B2
A folding staircase for use in a door opening having a threshold. The folding staircase has a pair of stringers that have an upper end and a lower end that is adapted for contacting a ground surface. The stringers are spanned by at least one tread. A hinge is connected to a floor near the door opening and a threshold plate pivotally connected thereto is movable between a use position and a stowed position. The staircase may be provided with a lifting mechanism that biases the staircase and threshold plate toward their stowed positions. The lifting device provides a variable force that provides more rotational force when the staircase would require a user to bear more of its weight and less force when less of the weight of the staircase would be borne by a user.
US10662644B2
Described herein is a firestop for construction assemblies comprising a penetration wherein a packing material and a non-porous adhesive article are used to fill and seal the opening.
US10662639B2
A method for erecting a wall panel without wasting valuable floor area for wall panel bracing and erecting the wall panel from within the boundary of the land parcel on which the wall panel is being erected is disclosed. A support structure that is configured to both maintain a prestressed concrete wall panel in a generally vertical position and to provide storage space can be anchored to a floor slab. The wall panel can be lifted from within the land parcel and positioned between the support structure and the boundary of the land parcel. The wall panel can then be anchored to the support structure.
US10662638B2
The invention relates to an assembly for incorporating into a solidified construction element, to a construction element comprising such an assembly, and to a method for producing said construction element. According to the invention, the assembly comprises an electronic system (1), said system (1) comprising a chip. It is characterised in that it also comprises a support part (2) provided with a positioning element (3) for said system (1) on one (4) of the so-called system-receiving faces thereof, and on the face (5) opposing said receiving face (4), a distinctive sign for locating the electronic system, which is visible from outside the construction element.
US10662636B2
A drain grate assembly includes a webbing and a reinforcement structure. The webbing includes webbing sections defining openings. A load rating of the drain grate is based on respective areas of the webbing sections and the openings. The reinforcement structure is secured to an underside of the webbing.
US10662624B2
A work vehicle includes: a work implement having a bucket; a main body to which the work implement is attached, and having a cab; a display device provided in the cab and configured to overlay and thus display work assistance information on an actual view of a work site; a bucket teeth position calculator configured to calculate a position of teeth of the bucket of the work implement in an available display area of the display device; and a following process unit configured to display the work assistance information to follow movement of the bucket of the work implement in the available display area of the display device only at a position above the position of the teeth of the bucket of the work implement as calculated by the bucket teeth position calculator.
US10662619B2
A hydraulic apparatus for a hydraulic work vehicle capable of supplying pressure oil to any of a bucket cylinder, an arm cylinder, a boom cylinder, a swing cylinder, a blade cylinder, a turning hydraulic motor, a left traveling hydraulic motor, a right traveling hydraulic motor, and a PTO hydraulic motor by a first hydraulic pump, a second hydraulic pump, or a third hydraulic pump. The pressure oil can be branched off from a discharge oil passage of the third hydraulic pump and supplied through an external pipe to a downstream side of a load check valve disposed on an oil passage communicating with a pump port of a PTO control valve for switching supply of pressure oil from the second hydraulic pump to an external hydraulic work machine.
US10662617B2
To reduce increase of the temperature of a control device of a supercharger and increase the lifetime of the control device of the supercharger, a work machine includes a variable geometry supercharger having changeable supercharge pressure and a working device. The work machine includes a variable displacement work hydraulic pump configured to be driven by an engine and supply pressure oil to an actuator configured to drive the working device; a supercharger control device configured to control the supercharger; a temperature detection device configured to detect the temperature of the supercharger control device; and a main control device configured to restrict, in case the temperature of the supercharger control device is higher than a first temperature, a maximum absorbing torque of the work hydraulic pump as compared to case the temperature of the supercharger control device is lower than the first temperature.
US10662596B2
A deflator deployable on the ground adjacent a tire may include a base member, a body member having a first end attached to the base member and having a handle portion spaced upward from the base member when the bottom surface of the base member is placed on the ground, and two arms. Each arm may a first end pivotally attached to the base member and a second end extending away from the first end. Each arm may have a puncturing member located adjacent the second end. A release mechanism may be located on the body member adjacent to the handle portion and may be movable from a hold position to a release position.
US10662592B1
A screed assembly for use with a paving machine. The screed assembly can comprise: a screed plate; a holder configured to be removably connected to the screed plate and configured to be positioned thereon, wherein when connected thereto the screed plate and the holder form a channel having an opening at one end thereof; and a heater assembly having a heating element configured to be received in the channel and to be aligned by the holder when so received relative to an axis of symmetry of the screed plate.
US10662590B1
A control system for controlling operation of an edge forming tool associated with a compactor. The control system includes a position sensor for outputting a current position of the edge forming tool relative to a frame of the compactor. The control system further includes a controller disposed in communication with the position sensor. The controller is configured to receive the current position of the edge forming tool from the position sensor. Further, the controller is configured to move the edge forming tool from its current position to a desired position based, at least in part, on the received current position of the edge forming tool.
US10662585B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for producing ultrafine fibrous cellulose, which is capable of efficiently obtaining ultrafine fibrous cellulose having phosphoric acid groups with a high yield. The present invention relates to a method for producing fibrous cellulose having a fiber width of 1000 nm or less, comprising: a (A) of introducing phosphoric acid groups into cellulose fibers to form crosslinked structures via the phosphoric acid groups, thereby obtaining crosslinked phosphorylated cellulose fibers, a (B) of breaking some or all of the crosslinked structures to obtain crosslink-broken phosphorylated cellulose fibers, and a (C) of performing a mechanical treatment on the crosslink-broken phosphorylated cellulose fibers to obtain fibrous cellulose having a fiber width of 1000 nm or less, wherein, in the (A), crosslinked structures in an amount of 0.05 mmol/g or more and 2.0 mmol/g or less are formed, and the (B) is a step of performing the hydrolysis of the crosslinked structures in an aqueous solvent with pH 3 or more.
US10662580B1
A method for dyeing a modacrylic/cellulosic fabric includes the steps of providing a fabric comprising modacrylic fibers and cellulosic fibers. An aqueous vat dye composition comprising water and a vat dye is applied to the fabric to provide a vat dyed modacrylic/cellulosic fabric. The vat dyed modacrylic/cellulosic fabric is dried. The vat dyed modacrylic/cellulosic fabric is then contacted with a reducing agent. The vat dyed modacrylic/cellulosic fabric is then steamed to promote dye penetration into the fibers. The vat dyed modacrylic/cellulosic fabric is then washed in a first wash step with a wash composition comprising water to remove excess vat dye and reducing agent. The vat dyed modacrylic/cellulosic fabric is contacted with an oxidation oxidizing agent. The vat dyed modacrylic/cellulosic fabric is washed in a second wash step to remove excess oxidation agent.
US10662577B2
The present disclosure describes a steam iron having a housing, a handle, a soleplate, a water reservoir comprising a water inlet port, a fill door comprising a plug sized to seal the water inlet port, and a blocking member configured to prevent the plug from sealing the water inlet port during shipment of the steam iron. Methods for preparing a steam iron for shipment are also provided.
US10662573B2
A vented heat pump dryer, comprising: an outer drum, an air-intake drying air duct and an air-exhaust drying air duct for allowing communicating the outer drum with outside respectively. The dryer is also provided with a heat pump system. A condenser of the heat pump system is arranged in the air-intake drying air duct, and an evaporator is arranged in the air-exhaust drying air duct. The air-exhaust drying air duct comprises at least two branches capable of being controlled to open and close. Each branch is provided with a corresponding evaporator. At different drying stage, the dryer makes exhaust air stream flow through different branches independently or at the same time, so that can adjust the working states of the heat pump reasonably and increase the drying efficiency of the dryer.
US10662562B2
A needling installation includes a rotary support on which a fiber texture is wound to form a fiber preform, the rotary support being mounted on a frame that is movable along a second axis Y perpendicular to the first axis X; a stripper including one plate including perforations; a needling module having a needle board carrying needles; a contact force application system connected to the stripper; a contact force sensor for providing information representative of the contact force with which the outside face of the plate of the stripper makes contact against the fiber preform, and a controller to control the contact force application system to apply a force to the plate of the stripper that is predetermined as a function of information provided by each contact force sensor and as a function of a target value for a predetermined contact force.
US10662556B2
A carbon fiber bundle, wherein an average single-fiber fineness is from 1.0 to 2.4 dtex and a roundness is from 0.7 to 0.9 in a shape of a cross-section perpendicular to a fiber axis of a single fiber; the roundness being determined with equation (1): roundness=4πS/L2, where S is a cross-sectional area of the single fiber and L is a circumferential length of the single fiber, and S and L are obtained by observing, under an SEM, the cross-section of the single fiber perpendicular to the fiber axis of the single fiber and analyzing the obtained image.
US10662552B1
The invention provides a method for producing fibers, the method having the steps of producing electrospun fiber; and directing the fiber to a plurality of targets, whereby only one of the targets is grounded at any one time. Also provided is a system for producing anisotropic fibers having a reservoir of electrospun fiber constituent' wherein an egress point of the reservoir is electrically charged; a plurality of electrodes opposed to the egress point, wherein only one of the electrodes is grounded at any one time while the remaining electrodes are at an initial floating voltage state; and a target substrate disposed between the egress point and the plurality of electrodes.
US10662547B2
The present invention relates to a silicon-based molten composition for forming a SiC single crystal by a solution method, the composition containing silicon, carbon, and a metal satisfying 0.70≤Csisol≤1.510 with respect to a solubility parameter (Csisol) defined by the following Equation (1): Csisol=A−B+μ1−μ2 Equation (1) wherein, A is first energy (A) of a first evaluation lattice containing silicon atoms, carbon atoms, and metal atoms, in a silicon crystal lattice containing the metal and the carbon; B is second energy (B) of a second evaluation lattice containing silicon atoms and metal atoms, in a silicon crystal lattice containing the metal; μ1 is −5.422 as a constant value, and μ2 is −9.097 as a constant value.
US10662543B2
A method for manufacturing an aperture plate includes depositing a releasable seed layer above a substrate, applying a first patterned photolithography mask above the releasable seed layer, the first patterned photolithography mask having a negative pattern to a desired aperture pattern, electroplating a first material above the exposed portions of the releasable seed layer and defined by the first mask, applying a second photolithography mask above the first material, the second photolithography mask having a negative pattern to a first cavity, electroplating a second material above the exposed portions of the first material and defined by the second mask, removing both masks, and etching the releasable seed layer to release the first material and the second material. The first and second material form an aperture plate for use in aerosolizing a liquid. Other aperture plates and methods of producing aperture plates are described.
US10662540B2
There is provided an electrolyte for the electrodeposition of chromium comprising: (A) water; (B) at least one chromium salt; and (C) at least one complexing agent, wherein the molar ratio of components B:C is in the range of 1:1 to 1:50. There is also provided a method for electrodepositing chromium metal onto a conductive substrate.
US10662535B1
A process to detect damage to a bonded composite repair of metal equipment. The process includes the steps of monitoring electrical resistance in a direct current impressed current cathodic protection circuit having a power supply and an anode in electrical communication with metal equipment having a bonded composite repair thereto. Deterioration of the bonded composite repair is detected based on a change in the electrical resistance of the circuit.
US10662529B2
Techniques are disclosed for methods and apparatuses for reducing particle contamination formation in a high temperature processing chamber with a cooled gas feed block. The cooled gas feed has a body. The body has a main center portion having a top surface and a bottom surface. The body also has a flange extending outward from the bottom surface of the main center portion. A gas channel is disposed through the body. The gas channel has an inlet formed in the top surface of the main center portion and an outlet formed in the bottom surface of the main center portion. The body also has a center coolant channel. The center coolant channel has a first portion having an inlet formed in the top surface of the main center portion, and a second portion coupled to the first portion, the second portion having an outlet formed a sidewall of the flange.
US10662514B2
Provided herein are anodized quality AA6xxx series aluminum alloy sheets and methods for making anodized quality AA6xxx series aluminum alloy sheets. Also described herein are products prepared from the anodized quality AA6xxx series aluminum alloy sheets. Such products include consumer electronic products, consumer electronic product parts, architectural sheet products, architectural sheet product parts, and automobile body parts.
US10662511B2
A nitride semiconductor light-emitting device comprises a substrate; a first conductivity type semiconductor layer formed on the substrate; a high-resistance semiconductor layer formed on the first conductivity type semiconductor layer; an active layer formed on the high-resistance semiconductor layer and having multiple quantum wells; and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer formed on the active layer. A first v-pit structure is formed between the high-resistance semiconductor layer and the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, and a second v-pit structure is formed between the active layer and the second conductivity type semiconductor layer. The second v-pit structure is formed such that a lowest part of the second conductivity type semiconductor layer contacts a lowest quantum well of the multiple quantum wells of the active layer through the second v-pit structure.
US10662505B2
Described herein are compositions and methods for preferentially separating mercury from a metal product where both are present in an ore leachate. The separation is accomplished by adding a precipitating agent and a coagulant to an ore leachate followed by separating a mercury-laden precipitate therefrom to collect the treated leachate. The treated leachate includes about 0 to 50% by weight of the mercury and about 90% to 100% by weight of the metal product present in the ore leachate. In embodiments, the method further includes adding a flocculant to the ore leachate prior to the separating of the mercury-laden precipitate.
US10662501B2
The disclosure provides a method of producing a platinum colloid comprising reducing platinum ions by the use of a platinum ion solution, water, a nonionic surfactant, a pH adjusting agent, and a reducing agent, wherein the platinum ion solution contains platinum at a concentration of 20 w/v %, the nonionic surfactant is polysorbate 80, the pH adjusting agent is an alkaline metal salt, the reducing agent is a lower alcohol, the volume of the water is from 600 to 660 times that of the platinum ion solution, the volume of the nonionic surfactant is from 0.20 to 0.30 times that of the platinum ion solution, the volume of the pH adjusting agent as a 5 w/v % aqueous solution is from 10 to 30 times that of the platinum ion solution, and the volume of the reducing agent is from 27 to 37 times that of the platinum ion solution, as well as the platinum colloid produced by the method.
US10662491B2
A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a steel sheet having a surface on which grooves, in which an extending direction crosses a rolling direction and a depth direction is parallel to a sheet thickness direction, are formed, and wherein a molten solidified substance ranging in parallel to the groove exists on both sides of the groove on the surface of the steel sheet, and a height becoming a maximum frequency in a height distribution of height data in which the surface of the steel sheet in a specific area including the groove is measured at regular intervals is set as a virtual plane, and a value of V2/V1 is more than 0.10 and less than 0.80, wherein V1 is a space volume of recess parts recessed from the virtual plane and V2 is a volume of projection parts projected from the virtual plane.
US10662489B2
An elongated pelt board for accommodating an animal pelt. The pelt board defines a blunt end and an opposite pointed end and a longitudinal direction. The pelt board further defines a first radial direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and a second radial direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and the first radial direction, said pelt board comprising a first part at said blunt end and an opposite second part at said pointed end. The first part comprises a first wall element and a second wall element. The first and second wall elements are of identical configuration. The first wall element and said second wall element define a contracted state and an expanded state.
US10662481B2
The present invention relates to a method of testing whether a patient suffering from multiple myeloma will respond or not to a combination treatment consisting of at least one histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) with at least one DNA methyltransferase inhibitors (DNMTi) comprising: i) determining the expression level (ELi) of several genes G1-Gn selected from table A in a biological sample obtained from said patient ii) comparing the expression level (ELi) determined at step i) with a predetermined reference level (ELRi) iii) calculating the HADMS score trough the following formula (I) wherein βi represent the regression β coefficient reference value for the gene Gi and Ci=1 if the expression of the gene Gi (ELi) is higher than the predetermined reference level (ELRi) or Ci=−1 if the expression of the gene (ELi) is lower than or equal to the predetermined reference level (ELRi) iv) comparing the score HADMS determined at step iii) with a predetermined reference value HADMSR v) and concluding that the patient will respond to the combination treatment when the HADMS score is higher than the predetermined reference value HADMSR or concluding that the patient will not respond to the combination treatment when the HADMS score is lower than the predetermined reference value HADMSR. H A D M S = ∑ i = 1 n β i × Ci ( I )
US10662475B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment of a subject having a psychiatric disease or disorder based upon the subject's genotype and/or the number of risk alleles carried by the subject, which risk alleles have been found by the present inventors to predispose a subject to antipsychotic medication induced weight gain (AIWG). The methods of the invention also provide for different treatments, or different treatment regimens, for the subject depending on the subject's risk of AIWG. Related compositions, in the form of kits, systems, and computer-readable media are also provided.
US10662471B2
This disclosure provides systems and methods for molecular identification and polymer (e.g., nucleic acid) sequencing using nanopores. The polymer may be passed through or in proximity to the nanopore and various subunits of the polymer may affect the current flowing through the nanopore. The various subunits may be identified by measuring the current at a plurality of voltages applied across the nanopore and/or membrane. In some cases, the polymerization of tagged nucleotides presents tag molecules to the nanopore that can be identified by measuring the current at a plurality of voltages applied across the nanopore and/or membrane. Also provided herein are systems and methods for sequencing both the sense and anti-sense strand of a double stranded nucleic acid molecule with a nanopore and methods for using ribonucleic acid (RNA) speed bump molecules to slow the passage of a nucleic acid molecule through or in proximity to a nanopore.
US10662460B2
A method of enumerating gas-producing coliform bacteria present in a cultured dairy product is provided. The method can comprise forming a mixture that comprises a predefined quantity of the dairy product and a predefined volume of a diluent; inoculating a thin film culture device with the mixture to form a hydrogel comprising a nutrient medium for growing coliform bacteria, an effective concentration of lactose, and an effective concentration of MOPS; incubating the inoculated thin film culture device under conditions that facilitate growth of a coliform bacterium; and identifying and counting a gas-producing colony present in the inoculated culture device.
US10662456B2
The present invention relates to recombinant filamentous fungal host cells producing cellulolytic enzyme compositions and methods of producing and using the compositions.
US10662443B2
A method for producing alkane and a recombinant microorganism with good alkane productivity in a reaction system for synthesizing alkane by alkane synthase activity are provided. Alkane productivity is significantly improved in a system for synthesizing alkane by alkane synthase in the presence of ferredoxin. Specifically, the method for producing alkane according to the present invention comprises synthesizing alkane by alkane synthase in the presence of ferredoxin.
US10662441B2
[Problem] To provide a novel and effective method for treating cancer, method for preventing cancer, and method for suppressing metastasis by targeting cancer stem cells, the methods being capable of labeling and damaging cancer stem cells; and to provide a method for damaging and a method for identifying cancer stem cells. [Solution] The present invention provides a viral vector having a promoter that is specifically expressed in cancer stem cells and that can be used for treatment and diagnosis.Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for treating cancer, a method for preventing cancer, and a method for suppressing metastasis using this viral vector, and further provides a method for damaging and a method for identifying cancer stem cells. Furthermore, the present invention provides a labeling agent and a toxic agent for cancer stem cells containing the vector as the active ingredient, and further provides a diagnostic drug, a therapeutic drug, and a metastasis suppressant for cancer.
US10662431B2
Certain disclosed oligomers induce exon skipping during processing of myostatin pre-mRNA. The oligomers may be in a vector or encoded by the vector. The vector is used for inducing exon skipping during processing of myostatin pre-mRNA. A therapeutically effective amount of the oligomer may be administered to a subject patient such that exon skipping during processing of myostatin pre-mRNA is induced. The administration to a subject may be used in order to increase or maintain muscle mass, or slowing degeneration of muscle mass in the subject. The administration to a subject may ameliorate muscle wasting conditions, such as muscular dystrophy. Examples of such muscular dystrophies which may be so treated include Becker's muscular dystrophy, congenital muscular dystrophy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, distal muscular dystrophy, Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, myotonic muscular dystrophy, and oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy.
US10662425B2
The present application provides materials and methods for treating a patient with autosomal dominant RP, both ex vivo and in vivo; materials and methods for editing a RHO gene in a human cell; and materials and methods for editing a P23H mutation in a RHO gene in a human cell. In addition, the present application provides one or more gRNAs or sgRNAs for editing a RHO gene; one or more gRNAs or sgRNAs for editing a P23H mutation in a RHO gene; and a therapeutic comprising at least one or more gRNAs or sgRNAs for editing a P23H mutation in a RHO gene. The present application provides a therapeutic for treating a patient with autosomal dominant RP. The present application provides a kit for treating a patient with autosomal dominant RP. In addition, the present application provides a self-inactivating CRISPR-Cas system.
US10662418B2
Provided herein are recombinant microorganisms having two or more copies of a nucleic acid sequence encoding xylose isomerase, wherein the nucleic acid encoding the xylose isomerase is an exogenous nucleic acid. Optionally, the recombinant microorganisms include at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding a xylulose kinase and/or at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding a xylose transporter. The provided recombinant microorganisms are capable of growing on xylose as a carbon source.
US10662417B2
The present invention relates to pectate lyase variants exhibiting alterations relative to a parent enzyme exhibiting pectate lyase activity; to a method of producing such enzymes; and to methods for using such enzymes in the textile, detergent and cellulose fiber processing industries. Compared to the parent enzyme, the pectate lyase variants of the present invention exhibit improved stability in detergents.
US10662415B2
The present disclosure describes the engineering of microbial cells for fermentative production of (6E)-8-hydroxygeraniol and provides novel engineered microbial cells and cultures, as well as related (6E)-8-hydroxygeraniol production method.
US10662403B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for attaching, detecting and retrieving a single cell on a manipulation medium comprising the steps of: attaching the single cell onto the manipulation medium by applying a carrier liquid; partially drying out the carrier liquid; detecting a property of the single cell by rotating the manipulation medium and scanning a light beam over the manipulation medium; loosening the single cell from the manipulation medium without damaging the single cell by manipulating the single cell with an instrument; and retrieving the single cell from the manipulation medium by aspirating the single cell into a tube, wherein the carrier liquid is dried out to a degree corresponding to that the single cell does not move during the rotation of the manipulation medium and that the single cell can be loosened by the instrument without damaging the single cell. The disclosure further relates to an apparatus for detection and manipulation of one or more object(s).
US10662399B2
The present disclosure relates to amylases which have an amino acid sequence that, over its entire length, shares at least about 70% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, and to the production and use thereof. The amylases have a good cleaning performance.
US10662396B2
Antimicrobial or non-antimicrobial compositions, sanitizing compositions and other compositions combining use of a propoxylated EO/PO block copolymer surfactant and/or propoxylated polymer in combination with at least one additional anionic and/or nonionic surfactant to provide concentrated compositions having a desired viscoelasticity at an active level of at least 18% are disclosed. Non-antimicrobial applications combining use of a propoxylated surfactant and/or propoxylated polymer in combination with at least one additional anionic and/or nonionic surfactant to provide compositions having a desired viscoelasticity are also disclosed. Methods of using concentrated and use compositions having desired foaming enhancement and stabilization are also disclosed.
US10662382B1
A process for conducting an exothermic reaction in a vertical tubular reactor comprising; providing a reactor with two or more reaction zones each containing multiple tubes attached to common tube sheets at top and bottom, each zone separated by segmented baffles in the top head and the bottom head.
US10662379B2
Shown is a compound represented by formula (1). For example, R1 is alkyl having 1 to 15 carbons; MES is a mesogen group having at least one ring; Sp1 is a single bond or alkylene having 1 to 10 carbons; M1 is methyl; and R2, M2 and M3 are hydrogen.
US10662373B2
Embodiments of the subject invention relate to high efficiency plastic scintillators that emit intense light when exposed to ionizing radiation. Specific embodiments of the subject invention pertain to material compositions for providing high-intensity, scintillation light output in the presence of ions, which can be used for making scintillators more sensitive to the presence of ionizing radiation.
US10662367B2
A wellbore cement composition that includes a cross-linked polyamide. The polyamide is formed by reacting a di-functional amine with an aromatic tri-functional carboxylic acid. The wellbore cement composition is created by blending cement and water with the polyamide and then allowed to cure. Increases in compressive strength, Young's Modulus, and Poisson's Ratio of the cement were realized by adding the polyamide to the cement composition.
US10662363B2
Embodiments are directed to a lubricant package for water based drilling fluids. The lubricant package includes water, a polyethylene glycol, and a lubricating agent. The lubricating agent includes triethanolamine, or a C12-C14 alcohol ethoxylate, or a combination of triethanolamine and C12-C14 alcohol ethoxylate. The weight ratio of the polyethylene glycol to the lubricating agent in the lubricant package is from 1:2 to 2:1. Embodiments are also directed to a water-based drilling fluid composition including an aqueous base fluid, one or more additives, and the lubricant package for water based drilling fluids.
US10662355B2
The present invention is an adhesive composition that is characterized by including (A) a polymer comprising a structural unit having a hydroxy group in a side chain, (B) a compound having two or more isocyanate groups, (C) a bismuth carboxylate, and (D) a tertiary amine having a pKa of 6 or more. The polymer (A) may include further a structural unit having a urethane bond and a polymerizable unsaturated bond in a side chain.
US10662349B2
The present invention discloses a method of enabling the easy separation of labels, including wrap around labels and sleeve labels, particularly shrink sleeve labels, from containers during recycling through the use of a specially formulated coating to be applied in the seam area. The coatings ensure proper bonding, and shrink properties, of the labels, and have been designed to help de-bonding of the seam in a hot caustic wash step, or a solvent wash step. The method does not rely on floatation separation and therefore may be applied to any container/label material combination regardless of their specific gravity differences.
US10662347B2
Methods for preparing copolymeric emulsions from at least one water soluble monomer and at least one water insoluble monomer are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, one or more surfactants and stabilizers may be used. In some embodiments, the monomers used in the process include, by total monomer weight, at least 50% water soluble monomers and at least 10% water insoluble monomers. Copolymer emulsions formed from the reaction product of at least one water soluble monomer and at least one water insoluble monomer are also disclosed along with articles coated with such emulsions and coating formulations made from such emulsions as well as methods for the manufacture and coating of such articles.
US10662328B2
A polymer composition includes components selected from: (i) at least one a poly(aryl ether ketone) (PAEK), (ii) a poly(ether sulfone) (PES), (iii) a reactive poly(ether sulfone) (rPES), (iv) a reactive poly(aryl ether ketone) (rPAEK), (v) an acid component, and (vi) at least one alkali metal carbonate. Preferably, the polymer composition is free or substantially free of solvent. A method includes melt mixing the components of the polymer composition.
US10662327B2
The invention provides a polymer composition comprising from 50 wt % to 99.9 wt % polymer, from 0.1 wt % to 10 wt % nanocellulose as a first nucleating agent, and from 0.01 wt % to 5 wt % of a second nucleating agent. In some embodiments, the polymer is polylactide, the first nucleating agent is lignin-containing nanocellulose, and the second nucleating agent is a sulfur-containing, oxygenated aromatic molecule. The oxygenated aromatic molecule may be an aromatic sulfonic acid or salt, such as dimethyl 5-sulfoisophthalate. In other embodiments, the sulfur-containing, oxygenated aromatic molecule is lignosulfonic acid. Other variations provide a polymer composition comprising polymer, lignin-containing nanocellulose as a dispersing agent, and additives selected from nucleating agents, compatibilizers, plasticizers, fillers, antioxidants, colorants, or flame retardants. Other variations provide a polymer nucleating agent comprising lignin-containing nanocellulose and a sulfur-containing, oxygenated aromatic molecule. This may be a nucleating agent for polylactide, polycaprolactone, polyhydroxybutyrate, polyethylene, or polypropylene, for example.
US10662312B2
Disclosed herein is a flame retardant composition comprising 20 to 80 weight percent of a polycarbonate; 1 to 20 weight percent of a halogenated phenoxyphosphazene flame retardant, where all weight percents are based on a total weight of the flame retardant composition. Disclosed herein too is a method comprising blending a 20 to 80 weight percent of a polycarbonate; and 1 to 20 weight percent of a halogenated phenoxyphosphazene flame retardant to produce a flame retardant composition, where all weight percents are based on a total weight of the flame retardant composition.
US10662307B2
The present invention pertains to a fluoropolymer film comprising at least one fluoropolymer hybrid organic/inorganic composite [polymer (FH)], to a process for the manufacture of said fluoropolymer film and to uses of said fluoropolymer film in various applications, in particular in electrochemical applications.
US10662303B2
Provided is a stretched film stretched stretchable to a high draw ratio a method for manufacturing the stretched film, and, a polyamide resin composition used for manufacturing the stretched film. The stretched film containing 0.5 to 15 parts by weight of a compound represented by Formula (1) per 100 parts by weight of a polyamide resin, wherein the polyamide resin is composed of a structural unit derived from diamine and a structural unit derived from dicarboxylic acid; 50% by mole or more of the structural unit derived from diamine is derived from xylylenediamine, and 50% by mole or more of the structural unit derived from dicarboxylic acid is derived from a straight-chain aliphatic am-dicarboxylic acid having 4 to 20 carbon atoms: wherein R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R2 represents an alkyl group having 2 to 12 carbon atoms, and n represents an integer of 1 to 3.
US10662301B2
A method for producing a lignocellulose plastic composite material, in particular a simpler and more cost-effective option for producing lignocellulose plastic composite materials. Thermoplastic particles and a mixture of water and lignocellulose-containing particles are supplied to a refiner, and the lignocellulose-containing particles are reduced to fibers in the refiner. The thermoplastic particles are supplied to the refiner in a melted or fused state, or are melted or fused in the refiner, so that the melted or fused thermoplastic particles and the lignocellulose-containing particles that are reduced to fibers form material composite particles in the refiner.
US10662292B2
Spherical polysilsesquioxane particles are prepared by reacting trialkoxysilanes of formula, (I) RSi(OR1)3 (I), where R represents a C1-16 hydrocarbon radical whose carbon chain may be interrupted by nonadjacent —O— groups, R1 represents a C1-4 alkyl radical, with acidified water having a pH≤6 with stirring to produce a hydrolysate, in a second step mixing the hydrolysate with a solution of NaOH and/or KOH, and in a third step storing the mixture is stored for at least 8 h before isolating polysilsesquioxane particles thus formed.
US10662290B2
This invention relates to a polyamide-imide precursor, a polyamide-imide obtained by imidizing the same, a polyamide-imide film, and an image display device including the film. The polyamide-imide precursor includes, in a molecular structure thereof, a first block, obtained by copolymerizing monomers including dianhydride and diamine, and a second block, obtained by copolymerizing monomers including an aromatic dicarbonyl compound and aromatic diamine. The dianhydride includes biphenyltetracarboxylic acid dianhydride (BPDA) and 2-bis(3,4-dicarboxyphenyl)hexafluoropropane dianhydride (6FDA), and the diamine includes bistrifluoromethylbenzidine (TFDB).
US10662284B2
A method for preparing blends of at least two polymer components is described herein. The disclosed method generally involves controlling relative molecular weights and ratios of the two or more polymer components by selecting a first initiator, a second initiator, and a monomer, and subjecting the reactants to conditions suitable to polymerize the monomer based at least in part on the first and second initiators in connection with obtaining the polymeric blend. The second initiator is advantageously selected based on one or more characteristics associated therewith, based on a characteristic of the first initiator. A polymeric blend produced according to such a method is also provided herein.
US10662283B2
Provided are integrated processes for the conversion of ethylene oxide to polypropiolactone. Systems for the production of polypropiolactone are also provided.
US10662262B2
Borate activated catalyst systems and methods for making the same for gas phase or slurry phase olefin polymerization are provided. The catalyst system can include a first catalyst comprising a borate activated mono cyclopentadienyl metallocene compound and a second catalyst comprising a supported bis cyclopentadienyl metallocene complex. A supported bis cyclopentadienyl metallocene complex can be prepared to provide a preformed, supported catalyst, wherein the supported bis cyclopentadienyl metallocene complex comprises bis(1,3-methylbutyl cyclopentadienyl) zirconium dichloride. The preformed, supported catalyst can be mixed with mineral oil or hydrocarbon solvent to form a slurry. The slurry can be mixed with a borate activated mono cyclopentadienyl metallocene compound to form the borate activated catalyst system.
US10662256B2
The present invention relates to transgenic mammals that express canine-based immunoglobulins, including transgenic rodents that express canine-based immunoglobulins for the development of canine therapeutic antibodies.
US10662254B2
The instant disclosure provides antibody fragments (e.g., Fab and F(ab′)2) having reduced or no reactivity towards pre-existing anti-hinge antibodies (AHA) and compositions comprising such antibody fragments, as well as methods of making and using such antibody fragments and compositions.
US10662253B2
The invention relates to antibodies against human CD39 and use thereof for inhibiting T regulatory cells (Treg) activity. More particularly CD39 antibodies may be used for the treatment or prevention of cancers and infectious diseases.
US10662252B2
The present invention concerns compositions and methods of use of bispecific antibodies comprising at least one binding site for Trop-2 (EGP-1) and at least one binding site for CD3. The bispecific antibodies are of use for inducing an immune response against a Trop-2 expressing tumor, such as carcinoma of the esophagus, pancreas, lung, stomach, colon, rectum, urinary bladder, breast, ovary, uterus, kidney or prostate. The methods may comprising administering the bispecific antibody alone, or with one or more therapeutic agents such as antibody-drug conjugates, interferons (preferably interferon-α), and/or checkpoint inhibitor antibodies. The bispecific antibody is capable of targeting effector T cells, NK cells, monocytes or neutrophils to induce leukocyte-mediated cytotoxicity of Trop-2+ cancer cells. The cytotoxic immune response is enhanced by co-administration of interferon, checkpoint inhibitor antibody and/or ADC.
US10662240B2
A synergistic composition, kit and method for inhibition and/or neutralization of IL-21 mediated activation of human cells including (i) a first agent being an antibody or antibody fragment thereof directed to a first epitope of IL-21, and (ii) a second agent being an antibody or antibody fragment thereof directed to a second epitope of IL-21 is disclosed. The inhibition and/or neutralization of IL-21 mediated activation of human cells is for use in the prophylaxis and/or treatment of disease of immune-related conditions including inflammatory disease, autoimmunity and lymphomas.
US10662236B2
Disclosed is a fusion polypeptide for inhibiting neovascularization, including a peptide specifically binding to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptors, and a hydrophilic elastin-based polypeptide (hydrophilic EBP) linked to the peptide.
US10662234B2
The present invention features methods for treating or ameliorating tissue damage using intravenous administration of compositions that include stromal cell derived factor-1 (SDF-1) peptides or mutant SDF-1 peptides that have been mutated to make them resistant to protease digestion, but which retain chemoattractant activity. Systemic delivery, and specifically intravenous (“IV”) delivery, of SDF-1 and protease resistant SDF-1 mutants is very effective for the treatment of tissue damage.
US10662231B2
The present disclosure pertains to methods of producing recombinant peptides that contain between 10 and 200 amino acid residues using novel carrier proteins derived from superfolder green fluorescent protein and its mutants.
US10662222B2
A peptide comprising a sequence for opening a tight junction of an epithelial surface and optionally a cell penetrating sequence; and related compositions, optionally comprising further pharmaceutical agents; and related methods.
US10662221B2
There is provided herein compounds of formula I, wherein R1 is H or linear or branched C1-C6 lower alkyl; R2 is H, linear or branched C1-C6 lower alkyl, or a proteinogenic amino acid side chain; R3 is H, linear or branched C1-C6 lower alkyl, or a proteinogenic amino acid side chain; R4 is —OH or —O—R5 wherein R5 is linear or branched C1-C6 lower alkyl; and each R6 is independently H or —CH3; or a pharmaceutically acceptable prodrug, salt, or ester thereof. Compositions containing said compounds, and uses thereof, are also provided.
US10662219B2
Compounds of formula I are disclosed. The compounds are useful for promoting skeletal muscle hypertrophy or treating skeletal muscle atrophy.
US10662206B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing various silane derivatives by subjecting various furan derivatives to hydrosilylation in the presence of a borane catalyst. The method for preparing silane derivatives according to the present invention is a very efficient method for converting, into high value-added silane derivatives, various furan derivatives derived from biomass.
US10662203B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds of formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as described herein, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salt, enantiomer or diastereomer thereof, and compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds.
US10662200B2
The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (Ia) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that modulate the activity of the beta-3 adrenergic receptor. Compounds of the present invention and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are directed to methods useful in the treatment of a beta-3 adrenergic receptor-mediated disorder, such as, heart failure; cardiac performance in heart failure; mortality, reinfarction, and/or hospitalization in connection with heart failure; acute heart failure; acute decompensated heart failure; congestive heart failure; severe congestive heart failure; organ damage associated with heart failure (e.g., kidney damage or failure, heart valve problems, heart rhythm problems, and/or liver damage); heart failure due to left ventricular dysfunction; heart failure with normal ejection fraction; cardiovascular mortality following myocardial infarction; cardiovascular mortality in patients with left ventricular failure or left ventricular dysfunction; left ventricular failure; left ventricular dysfunction; class II heart failure using the New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification system; class III heart failure using the New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification system; class IV heart failure using the New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification system; LVEF<40% by radionuclide ventriculography; LVEF≤35% by echocardiography or ventricular contrast angiography; and conditions related thereto.
US10662198B2
The present disclosure relates to polymorphic forms of the compound methyl (3R,6S)-6-amino-sulfonylamino-1-(thiazol-2-yl)-3-(2,3,4-trifluorophenyl)-3,5,6,7-tetrahydropyrrolo[1,2-c]pyrimidin-4-formate (compound 1). The present disclosure further relates to a pharmaceutical composition and pharmaceutical use and a preparation method of the polymorphic forms of compound 1.
US10662192B2
The present invention relates to modulators of ATP-Binding Cassette (“ABC”) transporters or fragments thereof, including Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator, compositions thereof, and methods therewith. The present invention also relates to methods of treating ABC transporter mediated diseases using such modulators.
US10662186B2
The present invention discloses a nitrogen-containing fused heterocyclic compound, as well as a preparation method, intermediate, composition and application thereof. The nitrogen-containing fused heterocyclic compound of the present invention as represented by formula (I), as well as the pharmaceutically acceptable salt, enantiomer, diastereomer, tautomer, solvate, metabolite or drug precursor thereof, exhibit a high selectivity and a high inhibitory activity with respect to CDK4 and CDK6 at a molecular level, an excellent inhibitory activity with respect to breast cancer cells at a cellular level, and significant inhibition of tumor cell proliferation associated with cyclin-dependent kinase activity at an animal level. The invention also exhibits a good stability with respect to human or mouse liver microsomes without significant inhibition of metabolic enzymes, good in vivo absorption in mice and rats, a high bioavailability and good druggability.
US10662184B2
This invention is directed to methods of preparing benzenesulfonamide compounds, as stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers thereof or mixtures thereof; or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or prodrugs thereof, for the treatment of diseases or conditions associated with voltage-gated sodium channels, such as epilepsy.
US10662182B2
Compounds of the formula (I): wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as pesticides, and especially fungicides.
US10662177B2
The present invention relates to small molecule 4-(piperazin-1-yl)quinazolin-2-amino compounds with formula (I) useful for inhibiting signalling by certain toll-like receptors (TLRs), especially TLR9. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are members of the larger family of evolutionarily conserved pattern recognition receptors which are critical first line of defense for self-nonself discrimination by the host immune response. Aberrant TLR9 activation is implicated in autoreactive inflammation in different autoimmune diseases. The invention depicts compounds with formula (I), composition and methods can be used in a number of clinical applications, including as pharmaceutical agents and methods for treating conditions involving unwanted immune activity due to TLR9 activation.
US10662176B2
The present invention relates to a method of treatment for chronic pain, opioid dependence, alcohol use disorder or autism using a class of pyrimidinone compounds, an adenylyl cyclase 1 (AC1) inhibitor. The invention described herein also pertains to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating diseases in mammals using those compounds disclosed herein.
US10662175B2
Compounds, methods of use, and processes for making inhibitors of complement Factor D are provided comprising Formula I, I″ and I′″ or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or composition thereof. The inhibitors described herein target Factor D and inhibit or regulate the complement cascade. The inhibitors of Factor D described herein reduces the excessive activation of complement.
US10662172B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): or a stereoisomer, tautomer, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein all the variables are as defined herein. These compounds are selective LPA receptor inhibitors.
US10662167B2
The invention relates to a method for producing 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in a continuous process, which leads to the obtainment of an HMF fraction, a carbohydrate/acid fraction, a fructose fraction, and a levulinic-acid and formic-acid fraction and advantageously makes it possible, because of the purity of the obtained fractions, to return the fructose fraction obtained by means of the method directly to the production process and to use the other fractions in further-processing processes without the need for complex, additional purification steps.
US10662166B2
Provided herein are convenient and efficient processes for preparing (2E,6Z)-2,6-nonadienal and (2E)-6,7-epoxy-2-nonenal with a reduced number of steps.For instance, provided herein is a process for preparing (2E,6Z)-2,6-nonadienal, including at least steps of subjecting a (6,6-dialkoxy-4-hexenylidene)triarylphosphorane compound of the general formula:Ar3P═CH(CH2)2CH═CHCH(OR1)(OR2) to a Witting reaction with propanal to form a 1,1-dialkoxy-(6Z)-2,6-nonadiene compound of the general formula (6); and subjecting the 1,1-dialkoxy-(6Z)-2,6-nonadiene compound to hydrolysis to form (2E,6Z)-2,6-nonadienal. Also provided is a process for preparing (2E)-cis-6,7-epoxy-2-nonenal of the formula (8), comprising a step of subjecting (2E,6Z)-2,6-nonadienal thus obtained to epoxidation to form (2E)-cis-6,7-epoxy-2-nonenal.
US10662163B2
The present invention provides crystalline forms of compound of formula (Ia) and processes of making the crystalline forms. Also provided are compositions comprising the crystalline forms and methods of use of the crystalline forms
US10662161B2
The various examples presented herein are directed to compounds of the Formula: wherein R1-R5 are defined herein, and uses of such compounds to, among other things, inhibit an immune response in a subject.
US10662139B2
Provided herein are methods of producing acrylic acid from bPL. Such methods involve the use of a heterogeneous catalyst, such as a zeolite at vapor phase conditions. The method may use a fixed bed, moving bed or fluidized contacting zone as the reactor configurations.
US10662137B2
A method for preparing high-purity cannabidiol is characterized in that: the leaves of cannabis and top portions of the plant which account for about one-fifth of the whole plant are used as extraction sites; a technology of combined macroporous adsorption resin chromatography and polyamide chromatography is used for purification; and a mixed solvent system is used for crystallization purification so as to ensure that the yield is improved to the maximum extent under the premise of obtaining a high-purity product. The product obtained from this method contains high-purity CBD; the method has a high yield and is a simple process, and thus easy to industrialize.
US10662129B2
Methods for producing propylene by the dehydrogenation of propane are provided. Methods can include introducing a first gas mixture including propane to a dehydrogenation catalyst at a temperature of at least about 570° C., introducing a second gas mixture including steam and air to the dehydrogenation catalyst at a temperature of at least about 550° C., and allowing the second gas mixture to subsist therewith for at least about one hour. Methods can further include introducing a third gas mixture including hydrogen to the dehydrogenation catalyst at a temperature of at least about 500° C.
US10662124B2
Fertilizer composition containing oxidized glutathione and fertilizer element for foliar application
A fertilizer composition for application to leaves of a plant includes oxidized glutathione and one or more fertilizer components. A method for cultivating a plant includes applying oxidized glutathione and one or more fertilizer components to leaves of the plant. A fertilizer kit for application to leaves of a plant includes oxidized glutathione and a composition comprising one or more fertilizer components, wherein the glutathione and the composition in the fertilizer kit are separate from each other.
US10662117B2
A method of fabricating a part out of ceramic matrix composite material, the method including infiltrating a fiber preform with a molten composition including a majority by weight of silicon, the fiber preform including silicon carbide fibers, silicon carbide powder being present in the pores of said preform, a mean size of silicon carbide crystallites in the powder being less than the mean size of the silicon carbide crystallites in the fibers, a ceramic matrix being formed in the pores of the fiber preform during the infiltration so as to obtain the part made of composite material.
US10662114B2
An ultra-light, pourable, self-drying cementitious product with improved density control and ultra-low water demand is provided. Compositions and methods for making the products are provided as well, including compositions and methods with ultra-low water demand.
US10662112B2
Disclosed is a method and system for blending a foam modifier with foaming agent online, e.g., as may be particularly useful for gypsum or cement slurries. The foam modifier comprises a fatty alcohol that is added to a gypsum or cement slurry that includes foaming agent, such as an alkyl sulfate surfactant. The fatty alcohol can be a C6-C16 fatty alcohol in some embodiments. The use of such a foam modifier can be used, for example, to stabilize the foam, reduce waste of foaming agent, improve void size control in the final product, and improve the gypsum board manufacturing process.
US10662108B2
A composition comprising a Lewis base containing depolymerization liquid and methods of using the Lewis base depolymerization liquid to depolymerize the polymer component of fiber reinforced polymers to form free fibers.
US10662097B2
The invention discloses an apparatus for sewage deep denitrification with high pollutant carrying capacity and low energy consumption and a method for running the same, characterized in that: the apparatus mainly includes a settling tank, an electrodialysis device, a pH adjusting tank, a first chemical storage tank, a biofilter, a second chemical storage tank, a redox potential measuring device, a backwash pump, and a clean water tank, wherein the biofilter is provided with a gas collecting device, an uniform water distributor, a first filter bed, a second filter bed, a third filter bed, and a fourth filter bed sequentially from up to down, a second dosing port is arranged underneath the second filter bed, and the second chemical storage tank is communicated to the second dosing port respectively through a first flow path and a second flow path.
US10662080B2
A passive filter cell having a basin with a floor and two or more vertical or upright sidewalls forming chute or container having first or left sidewall, second or right sidewall, and third or back sidewall, and fourth or front downwardly curved sidewall, an inlet positioned proximate a top of the fourth or front sidewall and an outlet positioned proximate the top of the third or back sidewall, wherein the floor is configured angled from the fourth or front sidewall to the third or back sidewall, discharge pipe positioned proximate junction between the floor and the third or back sidewall, and lip configured to extend from the top of the third or back sidewall into an interior of the basin.
US10662079B1
A water purification device utilizing ultraviolet lights and a nebulizer is provided. The device includes a tube that receives bacteria laden water at an intake end. The tube includes one or more baffles for causing turbulent flow of the water, and one or more ultrasonic nebulizers for converting the water stream into a mist. The device further includes one or more sources of germicidal ultraviolet light which may be located either inside or outside of the tube.
US10662069B2
A new family of crystalline microporous metallophosphates designated AlPO-90 has been synthesized. These metallophosphates are represented by the empirical formula R+rMm2+EPxSiyOz where R is an organoammonium cation, M is a framework metal alkaline earth or transition metal of valence +2, and E is a trivalent framework element such as aluminum or gallium. The AlPO-90 compositions are characterized by a new unique ABC-6 net structure, and have catalytic properties suitable for carrying out various hydrocarbon conversion processes, as well as characteristics suitable for the efficient adsorption of water vapor in a variety of applications, such as adsorption heat pumps.
US10662064B2
A method for preparing high specific surface area activated carbon through rapid activation, comprises the following steps: 1) selecting biomass raw material with a particle size of 0.3-0.9 mm; immersing the biomass raw material in a chemical reagent for 3-6 hours; and drying the biomass raw material in a constant-temperature drying oven of 100° C.-150° C. after immersing is ended; 2) stirring or crushing the dried material to form granular material after drying is completed; and 3) adopting a fluidized bed or a spouted bed as an activation reactor; increasing the temperature of the activation reactor to 700-800° C.; introducing fluidized gas; placing quartz sand; placing the granular material obtained in step 2); activating for 1-10 min; immediately discharging the material after activation is ended; and washing the material with water until the material is neutral to obtain activated carbon with a specific surface area of 1267-1359 m2/g.
US10662045B2
An augmentation module is described for an automated guided vehicle (AGV) deployed in a facility and including a control module for controlling a drive mechanism based on navigational data received from a navigation sensor. The module includes a inter-module communications interface connected to the control module; a memory; and a processor connected to the communications interface and the memory. The processor is configured to: obtain an operational command; generate control data to execute the operational command; convert the control data to simulated sensor data; and send the simulated sensor data to the control module.
US10662038B2
A machine for manufacturing cables includes a winch that includes a tube, which includes at least a pulley, a reducer and an input shaft to the reducer in its interior. A system for attaching the reducer includes two concentric bearings. An outer bearing is attached to the reducer and the tube, and an inner bearing is attached to the pulley and outer bearing, such that the pulley is supported by the inner bearing and by bearings of the input shaft of the reducer.
US10662034B2
The invention relates to a climbing system (1) for a crane. The system comprises a climbing apparatus (2) for inserting a mast section (3) or for removing a mast section (3) from a tower structure (4) of a crane, and a control unit (5) for controlling the climbing apparatus (2). The system is furthermore characterized in that the system comprises a first sensor (51) for monitoring a state of a connection means of the climbing apparatus (2) and/or the tower structure (4), wherein the first sensor (51) is connected to the control unit (5). A climbing process of a crane can thus be simplified and the safety of the climbing process can be increased.
US10662032B2
The present invention provides improved elevator door hatches. The elevator door hatches drop open into the elevator cab and slide at a desirable angle just underneath the elevator cab ceiling, without extending too far or too low into the interior cab space. The elevator door hatches are able to accommodate light fixtures and cabling installed into the elevator door hatches without disconnecting when the door hatches are slid underneath the elevator cab ceiling in the open position. The door hatch also allows for the drop ceiling to be mounted closer to the canopy, which increases the usable height of the elevator cab.
US10662011B2
A media transport system, includes a transport path, a drive gear at one end of the transport path, a driven gear at an opposite end of the transport path, an endless loop transmission element engaged with the drive gear and the driven gear, a media clamp secured to the endless loop transmission element, and a one-way clutch coupled with the driven gear. The endless loop transmission element is to rotate in one direction to move the media clamp and transport media from the one end of the transport path toward the opposite end of the transport path, and the one-way clutch is to allow rotation of the driven gear in the one direction and resist rotation of the driven gear in an opposite direction.
US10662010B2
A sheet feeding device includes a sheet stacking unit to stack a plurality of sheets, a feeding unit to feed sheets stacked on the sheet stacking unit, a separation unit, and a moving unit provided with at least a first moving member and a second moving member. The separation unit contacts the sheets fed by the feeding unit and separates a sheet from the sheets. The moving unit contacts the first and the second moving members to move a sheet contacting the first and the second moving members to an upstream side in a feeding direction. A leading edge of the sheet is positioned between the separation unit and the feeding unit. When pressed by the sheet, the first and the second moving members are configured to thrust-move independently of each other.
US10662002B2
A suspended tire manipulator for use by an operator in lifting a tire having a mounting aperture includes a first handle attached to a first proximal arm. The first proximal arm is connected to a first distal arm at an obtuse angle. The manipulator includes a rotary balancer pivotally mounted to the first distal arm. The rotary balancer provides a pivoting torque to the first distal arm in response to operator movements raising and lowering the manipulator via manual force applied at the handle. A vertical support has a lower end and an upper end. The lower end connects to the rotary balancer. The manipulator includes a pair of gripper shoes. The pair of gripper shoes are slidably mounted on a rail and move in opposite inboard and outboard directions on the rail.
US10661994B2
A transfer conveyor for food process lines is equipped with hardware to enable pivoting in place and other hardware to enable and reversible expansion and contraction of the transfer conveyor, or at least the upper, food-product carrying run of the endless conveyor belt therefor.
US10661993B2
Method and systems for accumulation are described. In one embodiment, a dispensing station includes a receiving opening, a dispensing opening and a storage area. The dispensing station receives and dispenses a container. A transportable storage system includes multiple partitions disposed on a carrier portion to define multiple carriage sections. The carriage sections are electronically identifiable and selectively hold or eject the container. A bin apparatus for receiving the container includes a movable portion to selectively hold and release the container. A control unit for commanding the bin apparatus to dispense the container to a desired carriage section of the transportable storage system is provided. Additional methods and systems are disclosed.
US10661975B2
Containers that comprise a housing that comprises a box and a lid that is hingedly attached to the box. The lid comprises a front wall that has an inner surface, an outer surface and a bottom edge. The container also comprises an inner package disposed at least partially within the housing and at least partially defining an interior volume for housing consumer goods. The container also comprises a resealable label configured to open and close the inner package when the lid of the housing is opened and closed, wherein the resealable lable is positioned adjacent the inner surface of the front wall of the lid. The container also comprises an insert comprising a line of weakness and a communication portion, wherein the insert is coupled to the resealable label to maintain connection of the insert with the container until the line of weakness is broken.
US10661973B1
A case for securing an aerosol canister, including a body, including, a lateral wall having a top edge and a bottom edge, and a bottom wall connected to the lateral wall proximate the bottom edge, and an attachment means engageable with the bottom wall.
US10661972B2
In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a granule dispenser comprising a container for holding granulated components, a cap coupled to a bottom of said container, and a stopper. The stopper may be spring loaded against the ridge of said cap. An interface between the stopper and the cap comprises a plurality of protrusions and a plurality of sawtooth forms, wherein the protrusions mate to a base portion between the sawtooth forms in a first position to form a seal between the cap and the stopper, and wherein, when the stopper is rotated, the protrusions engage a sloped portion of the sawtooth forms to create a plurality of openings between the cap and the stopper.
US10661961B2
A flexible package and methods of making the same are disclosed. The package is formed of a flexible sheet material and includes plural panels connected together to form an internal compartment holding a flowable granular or particulate material. The package includes a transverse seal line which includes a permanently sealed section and a releasably securable sealed section. The releasably securable sealed section is configured to be peeled open to form a spout for the package. The package also includes a re-closable connector located adjacent the releasably securable section to close the spout after it has been opened. The package also includes a handle for lifting and carrying the package and for facilitating pouring the contents of the package out of the spout.
US10661959B2
Disclosed is an assembly that comprises a user mobility device and a display package. The user mobility device comprises a handle region covered by a handle cover. The display package provided with a hanging panel having a hang tab region that extends past the handle region of the user mobility device and having a hanging aperture and a boundary that defines an open region proximal to handle region of the user mobility device to permit manual grasping of the handle region without the necessity to remove the user mobility device from the display package.
US10661954B2
The invention relates to a security cover designed to surround a container, the cover comprising a sleeve (1) and a security strip (2) secured to an inside face of said sleeve and including at least one zone of weakness, the security strip being shaped so that when in service it surrounds the container below a finish of the container and in the immediate proximity of said finish, the security strip thus creating a compression zone compressing the container. The invention also relates to a container covered with such a cover.
US10661952B2
An easy-opening end closure that may also be reclosed, suitable for joining to a container. A cover panel is bonded around its perimeter to an end panel with a rotatable lever interposed between them. To open the closure, a user applies force to the rotating lever to move it axially around an attachment point and thereby progressively debonding a substantial portion of the bond perimeter. The closure incorporates means for equilibrating pressure in the internal headspace of the container with the outside ambient for improved pouring.
US10661951B1
A paint can pouring assembly for reducing spillage from a paint can includes a paint can that contains a fluid paint. The paint can has an opening therein and a disk is removably coupled to the paint can for closing the opening. The disk has a vent aperture extending therethrough to ventilate air from the paint can when the disk is positioned on the paint can. A spout is removably coupled to the disk for dispensing a selected amount of the fluid paint from the paint can when the disk is positioned on the paint can. Moreover, the spout inhibits the fluid paint from spilling out of the paint can to protect the environment from spilled fluid paint.
US10661949B2
Container assemblies including an insulated cap for sealing the mouth of the container, the insulated cap including an outer shell, an insulation block defining a plurality of elongate voids disposed at least partially within the outer shell, a securing element configured to secure the cap to the container, and a sealing member configured to form a seal between the insulated cap and the container when the insulated cap is secured to the container by the securing element.
US10661946B2
Systems, methods, and devices to improve pouring large or unwieldy containers are disclosed. A band couples about or proximal to a rim of a container. In some embodiments, bands are sized and dimensioned to rigidly fit containers with specific shapes and dimensions, though universal or nearly universal bands that flexibly conform to the shape of any container are further contemplated. The band secures a spout portion to a pouring edge of the container. The spout portion includes a shelf extending from the pouring edge and bounded by two side walls having splash guards. The side walls and splash guards serve to funnel food stuffs or liquids towards a receptacle when the container is tipped toward the pouring edge. The spout region further includes an overflow shelf to prevent food stuffs or liquids from spilling out of the container by accident or during rapid pouring. A handle can be further attached to the band to aid a user in lifting and pouring the container.
US10661944B2
A pallet includes an upper deck including an upper support surface having a plurality of elongated recesses formed therein. A plurality of feet are below the upper deck. A plurality of runners connect lower portions of the plurality of feet. The plurality of runners are configured to be receivable in the plurality of elongated recesses formed in the upper surface of the upper deck of an identical pallet.
US10661942B2
A corrugated insert for supporting products within a shipping container is disclosed, which includes a plurality of rectangular panels foldably connected to one another along longitudinally extending edges thereof in such a manner so as to form an accordion configuration that includes an upper panel, a lower panel and a plurality of medial panels, each medial panel having a set of longitudinally spaced apart apertures formed therein, wherein the apertures on each medial panel are aligned with the apertures formed in an adjacent medial panel when the medial panels are in the accordion configuration for receiving supporting the products within the shipping container.
US10661938B2
Embodiments of the invention include a poly-ketonic cosmetic package for fluid dispenser systems.
US10661934B2
There is described a unit (1, 1′, 1″) for forming/advancing at least one pack (3) or at least one portion of a pack (3), comprising a frame (11, 12a, 12b), a selectively activatable/deactivatable source of power (42) and at least one carriage (14a, 14b) operationally coupled with source of power (42), movable along a path (13a, 13b) comprising at least one vertical portion (18a, 18b, 19a, 19b), and adapted to convey said at least one pack (3) or said at least one portion of a pack (3); unit (1, 1′, 1″) comprises stopping means (45) fitted to frame (12a, 12b) and which can be operated: to leave carriage (14a, 14b) free to advance along vertical portion (18a, 18b; 19a, 19b), when source of power (42) is activated, and to stop carriage (14a, 14b) along vertical portion (18a, 18b; 19a, 19b), when source of power is, in use, deactivated.
US10661931B2
An automatic system is described, for orienting longitudinal flappers (FL) and transverse flappers (FT) of boxes (S), comprising: a first station for orienting the longitudinal flappers (FL) of the box (S), equipped with first handling means; a third station for orienting the transverse flappers (FT), equipped with third handling means and with a second longitudinal side abutment guide; a second station for transferring the box (S) from the first station to the third station, equipped with first longitudinal side abutment guides; and a transport plane adapted to move the box (S) from the first station to the third station through the second station.
US10661930B2
A device, system, and method for loading empty and formed six-pack bottle carriers into a larger case (i.e. a multi-pack) is provided. The packaging device includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The six-pack carriers are formed by unfolding them in the upper portion. Various components are associated with the upper portion of the packaging device. The case receives a plurality of six-pack carriers therein. The larger cases is formed by unfolding them in the lower portion of the packaging device. Various components are associated with the lower portion of the packaging device. The upper portion and lower portion operate simultaneously to efficiently produce a case have empty six-pack carriers placed therein for later filling with bottles at a downstream destination. The system includes the machine, the cases, the six-pack carriers, and the bottles, operating collectively.
US10661923B2
The applicator assembly delivers a cosmetic, health, or hygiene chemical composition in an active state to the user for a disposable single use. The applicator assembly includes a wrapper, and an insert. The insert holds the chemical composition, and the insert is made of a foam composition compatible with the chemical composition. The system and method for manufacturing the assembly is a web conversion process for the chemical composition and foam composition of the assembly. The system and method for manufacturing the assembly includes a first roll, wrapper material, a second roll, foam material, a foam cutter, a dispenser, a flatbed hot seal packager, a sheet cutter, and an outfeed conveyor.
US10661920B2
The system can include a hardware processor in communication with the computer-readable storage. The instructions, when executed by the hardware processor, are configured to cause the system to receive a plurality of photographs of space objects within a time domain. Each of the plurality of photographs can correspond to a latitude domain, a longitude domain, and a timestamp within the time domain. The system can also receive image data derived from the plurality of photographs. The system can also receive a user selection of a latitude range within the latitude domain, a longitude range within the longitude domain, and a time range within the time domain.
US10661915B2
An engine exhaust-stack plug for sealing an exhaust stack of an aircraft engine is provided. The exhaust-stack plug includes a desiccant and a flexible plug adapted to slide into an outlet of an engine exhaust-stack. The flexible plug includes a front panel that is substantially impermeable to water vapor and is accessible from the outlet of the engine exhaust-stack. An outer wall, which is also substantially impermeable to water vapor, is sealed with the front panel and shaped to fit snuggly within the outlet of the engine exhaust stack. A backside is coupled with the outer wall, opposite the front panel, for facing internal to the engine exhaust stack. The front panel, the outer wall, and the backside form an enclosure adapted to contain the desiccant. The backside is substantially air permeable such that the desiccant reduces humidity and prevents condensation inside the aircraft engine.
US10661907B2
A system for providing compressed air to pneumatic loads in a vehicle such as an aircraft, the system includes a gas turbine engine having; a) an engine compressor with an air inlet coupled to an interior of a cabin of the vehicle; and b) a load compressor coupled to the gas turbine engine having a compressed air outlet coupled to one or more pneumatic loads of the vehicle. One or more electrically driven cabin air compressors (CAC) have compressed air outlets coupled to the one or more pneumatic loads.
US10661902B1
An artificial intelligence system for estimating excess non-sapient payload capacity on mixed-payload aeronautic excursions includes at least a server that produces a corpus of aeronautic excursion data, from data that may be received via one or more data feeds. The at least a server is designed and configured to receive at least an aeronautic excursion parameter regarding a future mixed-payload aeronautic excursion. The at least a server is designed and configured to output an excess non-sapient payload storage estimation based on the at least an aeronautic excursion parameter. The system includes a capacity estimation artificial intelligence module operating on the at least a server, the capacity estimation artificial intelligence module designed and configured to generate the excess non-sapient payload storage estimation as a function of the corpus of aeronautic excursion data and the at least an aeronautic excursion parameter.
US10661891B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is provided, which includes a main body; a plurality of frames each extending from the main body; and a plurality of thrust generating devices respectively mounted on the plurality of frames, each of the thrust generating devices including a propeller. The propeller includes a hub that provides a rotation axis of the propeller, and rotates according to an operation of the thrust generating device, and a pair of blades, each of which is pivotably mounted on the hub, and generates a thrust or lift while rotating around the rotation axis as the hub is rotated. The blades are pivotably interlocked with each other such that the blades are aligned to a folded position in which the blades are parallel with each other on the hub in a first arrangement or aligned to an expanded position in a diametric direction of a rotating region of the propeller in a second arrangement.
US10661890B2
A blade of a rotor for a rotary-wing aircraft is equipped with an outer covering extending along the span of the blade. This outer covering is provided with an extrados skin and with an intrados skin defining a cavity. The blade also includes a structure that extends into the cavity and connects the blade to a hub of the rotor. The cavity is filled with a filling material that includes at least one partition parallel to a chord of the blade and at least two independent blocks of filling material filling the cavity, thereby allowing the reduction of the torsional rigidity along the span of the blade.
US10661883B2
An example method for manufacturing a multicellular structure for acoustic damping is described that includes applying a porogen material to a solid support, inserting a multicellular frame into the solid support and through the porogen material so as to fill cells of the multicellular frame with the porogen material, fusing the porogen material, removing the multicellular frame from the solid support, and the multicellular frame contains a suspended fused porogen network attached to walls of the cells of the multicellular frame. The method also includes applying a solution to the suspended fused porogen network in the cells of the multicellular frame to percolate the suspended fused porogen network, curing the solution, and removing the suspended fused porogen network from the multicellular frame resulting in porous septum membranes of the cured solution in cells of the multicellular frame.
US10661878B1
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launch system includes a launch container including a housing defining an internal chamber. A UAV includes a main body defining an inflatable envelope. The UAV is configured to be contained within the internal chamber. The main body is in a deflated state when the UAV is contained within the internal chamber. A reactant is configured to react with water to produce a lifting gas. The inflatable envelope is configured to be inflated by the lifting gas in response to the reactant reacting with the water to deploy the UAV from the launch container.
US10661877B2
A method for charging an auxiliary voltage source that provides power for at least one additional component, the additional component being in addition to an electric drive that is powered by a main voltage, is described. The method includes electrically connecting a protection and/or control circuit to the main voltage source via a DC-to-DC converter configured for power supply, and to the auxiliary voltage source via a reverse blocking valve. The method further includes electrically connecting the main voltage source to the auxiliary voltage source via a charging device. The method still further includes charging the auxiliary voltage source via the main voltage source.
US10661863B1
An apparatus comprising a board such as a surfboard or body board is disclosed. The board comprises a top deck and a bottom. The board comprises a forward end and a rear end. The distance between the forward end and the rear end defines a length of the board. The board further comprises rails provided at side of the board, which defines a width of the board. The rails are provided in a step-like structure to reduce thickness of the rails coming in contact with wave water wall. The board further comprises a cut-section provided at bottom along longitudinal axis of the board to reduce resistance against surface of the water when in motion. The board further comprises a set of fins provided at bottom near the rear end. Further, the board comprises at least one stringer at its center to strengthen the board, reduce deformation, and add stiffness to the board.
US10661855B2
A bicycle comprises a main frame defining a spring mount, a pivot mount, and a reinforcing strut substantially directly connecting the spring mount to the pivot mount. The reinforcing strut is asymmetrically positioned on one side of the central plane. A rear frame is movable relative to the main frame, a pivot link couples the main frame to the rear frame, and a spring assembly couples a portion of the pivot link to the main frame. The pivot link comprises a left link member, a right link member, and a link bridge connecting the left link member to the right link member. Preferably, the link bridge is positioned rearward of a seat tube on the main frame. The rear frame comprises a seatstay bridge connecting a left and right seatstays. The main frame can support a crank assembly having a chainring offset from the central plane on the same side as the reinforcing strut.
US10661853B2
A personal mobility vehicle or scooter includes a least one swivel caster wheel supported at the rear of the scooter. The scooter has a body that includes a deck and a handlebar assembly. The scooter includes at least one front wheel with the deck extending between the at least one front wheel and the at least one swivel wheel. The scooter can also include an angled rear portion supporting a rear swivel caster wheel such that the pivot axis of the swivel wheel is inclined with respect to the top surface of the deck. Embodiments of the scooter also include a swivel braking assembly configured to apply a braking force to the at least one swivel wheel.
US10661824B2
A steering system with a reduced number of parts is provided. A driven pulley has a radially outer portion, a radially inner portion, and a connection portion that connects the radially outer portion and the radially inner portion to each other. The radially inner portion is provided with a plurality of slits at equal intervals in the circumferential direction. A plurality of retention portions are provided at portions of the radially inner portion between the slits. Lug portions are provided on the inner surface of the distal ends of the retention portions. A groove is provided in the outer peripheral surface of a ball screw nut. The lug portions of the retention portions are fitted with the groove of the ball screw nut.
US10661820B2
A steering system for a motor vehicle includes a steering column and a device for adjusting the steering column. The device includes a bearing block, a first guide mechanism, and a second guide mechanism. A housing of the steering column is adjustably mounted in the bearing block. The first guide mechanism is configured to adjust a height of the steering column in the bearing block. The second guide mechanism is configured to adjust an inclination of the housing, and includes at least one first guide plate and at least one second guide plate that are each movably connected to the housing of the steering column and to the bearing block so as to be axially movable with an adjustment of the inclination of the housing.
US10661810B2
An apparatus, system, and method for controlling functions of a vehicular alarm. The method includes receiving one or more signals including location information, determining a location of the vehicle using the location information, setting one or more functions based on the location information, determining whether an alarm function is activated, and activating the one or more functions according to the setting upon determining that an alarm has been activated. The method may further include using GPS data or signals transmitted from one or more base stations (e.g., from cellular telephone base stations, computer networks, proprietary transmitters, etc.) to determine the position of the apparatus (e.g., installed in the vehicle). The apparatus may also inform a user of regulations relating to an area dependent upon its location.
US10661805B2
Disclosed are a vehicle control unit (VCU) and an operation method thereof that calculate a speed variation of a vehicle based on input information, predict an average speed of the vehicle based on the calculated speed variation, generate a first speed profile based on the predicted average speed, and generate a second speed profile by applying speed noise information to the first speed profile.
US10661797B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for limiting a speed of a vehicle. A speed control device, operably coupled with a vehicle management system, can be configured to limit an engine speed based at least upon: an identified speed of the vehicle; a pre-determined speed limit for a location of the vehicle, identified in real-time; and a pre-determined speed threshold for the vehicle. A networking component, communicatively coupled with the speed control device, can be configured to communicate wirelessly with a remote computing device to provide the speed threshold information from the remote computing device to the speed control device, and to provide vehicle-related information to the remote computing device. Additionally, the remote computing device can comprise an application that allows a user to provide the speed threshold information and receive the vehicle-related information.
US10661791B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a vehicle may include a plurality of sensors configured to detect an object and to output a plurality of detection signals having a steering torque related to a result of detection; a braking device driver configured to drive a driving device of the vehicle; and a controller configured to select a single detection signal among the plurality of detection signals based on a predetermined priority, and configured to output an integrated control signal controlling the braking device driver based on the determined steering torque of the detection signal.
US10661789B2
A driving supporter includes an environment obtainer and a support controller configured to control a supporting device to perform driving support such that an own vehicle travels along a target traveling line. The environment obtainer includes a relative-positional-relationship obtainer configured to obtain a relative positional relationship between the own vehicle and an object detected based on object information obtained by an object-information obtainer. The support controller includes an offset-target-traveling-line setter configured to set, when the relative positional relationship is a specific relationship in which it is estimated that a steering operation in a direction in which the own vehicle avoids the object is to be performed, the target traveling line to an offset position that is shifted in a direction identical to a direction of a steering operation from the target traveling line located when the relative positional relationship is not the specific relationship.
US10661787B2
An arrangement for controlling a park area access system comprises a button (34) and a first control circuit (30) connected to the button (34) and suited to trigger the operation of the park area access system upon actuation of the button (34). The arrangement also comprises a receiver circuit (46); a controllable switch (44) connected in parallel to the button (34); and a second control circuit (42) suited to toggle the controllable switch (44) when the receiver circuit (46) receives a wireless instruction. A process for controlling a park area access system using such an arrangement is also described.
US10661786B2
An autonomous parking assist apparatus and a method for assisting parking using the apparatus are provided. The autonomous parking assist apparatus includes an environment information detector that detects surrounding environment information of a vehicle and a processor that senses a change in a parking environment using the environment information detector after the vehicle is parked. Additionally, the processor determines whether a realignment of the vehicle is required and performs the realignment of the vehicle based on the determined result.
US10661784B2
Systems and methods for operating a driveline of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, the systems and methods determine a driveline disconnect boost time during vehicle operating conditions when it may be less noticeable. The driveline disconnect boost time may then be used to close a driveline disconnect clutch in a way that may reduce torque disturbances through the driveline.
US10661773B2
A braking apparatus of a vehicle may include: a first master cylinder configured to create hydraulic pressure as a brake pedal is pressed; a second master cylinder configured to create braking pressure through a piston which is pressed by the hydraulic pressure created by the first master cylinder and a nut moved by rotation of a motor; and a control unit, configured to: calculate a required displacement position of the nut based on a pedal stroke of the brake pedal, and update the required displacement position based on a displacement position of the nut at a dead stroke end point where the pedal stroke moves away from a dead stroke section of the first master cylinder.
US10661771B2
Disclosed herein are an electronic parking brake system for a vehicle and a method of driving the system, which are capable of stopping the vehicle when the operation of a vehicle service brake is impossible during the travel of the vehicle. The electronic parking brake system for the vehicle includes a controller that stores a control value of a parking brake for decelerating the vehicle to a target deceleration and outputs a braking command including the control value of the parking brake, and an electronic parking brake that generates a clamping force based on a braking command inputted from the controller.
US10661761B2
A foreign matter removal device of the present invention is a foreign matter removal device that removes foreign matters adhering to a lens (101) included in an in-vehicle camera (100), including a camera bracket (91) that attaches the in-vehicle camera (100) to a rear bumper panel (200b) of a vehicle in a state in which the lens (101) is exposed toward the outside of the rear bumper panel (200b) of the vehicle, a high-pressure air generation unit disposed inside the rear bumper panel (200b) and configured to generate high-pressure air, and a nozzle unit provided with a nozzle (22) that injects the high-pressure air toward the lens (101), wherein a through-hole (92) is formed in the camera bracket (91), and the high-pressure air generated by the high-pressure air generation unit passes from the inside to the outside of the rear bumper panel (200b) through the through-hole (92), and is injected from the nozzle (22) toward the lens (101).
US10661757B2
A system for automatically deploying a windshield wiper blade to a deployed position includes one or more processors, an actuator coupled to the windshield wiper blade and communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, one or more optical sensors communicatively coupled to the one or more processors that output an optical signal, and one or more memory modules communicatively coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more memory modules store logic that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to receive the optical signal output by the one or more optical sensors, detect whether an accumulation of a substance has formed on the vehicle based on the optical signal output by the one or more optical sensors, and deploy, with the actuator, the windshield wiper blade to the deployed position in response to detecting the accumulation of the substance.
US10661749B2
The present invention relates to a restraint system for use in a vehicle with a seat belt system, including a plurality of straps that can be adjusted to conform to the changing dimensions in a wearer and to fit a variety of wearers. The restraint system includes multiple security members that facilitate attaching different kinds of seat belts to different locations on the restraint system. Thus, the restraint system can be used to secure its wearer to a variety of different seat belt systems in a variety of different vehicles.
US10661745B2
A head protection airbag device includes: an airbag formed so as to cover a window of a vehicle; and a case for storing a folded body of the airbag. The airbag has an engaging hole through which an engaging protrusion passes. The case includes the engaging protrusion. A portion constituting a peripheral edge of the engaging hole has recessed sections recessed from an upper edge of the airbag in front of and behind the engaging hole so as to have a tab-shaped portion. In a state in which the airbag is flatly developed, an upper edge of the tab-shaped portion that has the engaging hole is disposed nearly on a same line as an upper edge of a general section of the airbag which is adjacent to the tab-shaped portion.
US10661733B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an interaction method, an interaction apparatus and a vehicle-mounted device. The interaction method comprises: determining a holding position of at least one first hand and a holding pressure of at least one second hand on a steering wheel of a vehicle; and at least according to the holding position of the at least one first hand and the holding pressure of the at least one second hand, determining a target relative position. The embodiments of the present invention provide an interaction solution.
US10661727B2
Vehicle mounted exterior displays and digital license plates able to operate over a wide temperature range are disclosed. In one embodiment, heat relevant display parameters can be modified as critical low temperatures are approached. If decreasing temperature is determined to be likely to interfere with display switching operation, legally required information is displayed and potentially interfering content is eliminated.
US10661720B2
An attachable holder has a holder portion with attachment openings in a base portion and a cover. The cover fits over the holder portion and is frictionally held in place. Attachment means such as cable ties or hook and loop straps is used to secure the attachable holder to a handle on a tool such as a weed trimmer, lawn mower etc. to hold safety glasses, ear protection, cell phones, etc. In one embodiment, the cover has retainer sockets or retainer slots in each end that releasably fit within retainer balls or retainer ridges found on the upper surface of the holder portion. In one embodiment, flexible clips and attachment wedges are used to secure the attachable holder to the handle. In another embodiment the cover is connected to the holder portion by an integrally formed hinge that allows the cover to close and open.
US10661703B2
A motorcycle light includes a lighting device, having a headlight contained within a housing; a rod configured to engage with a headlight connection of a motorcycle; and one or more wires to engage with an electrical system of the motorcycle; a motor engaged with the housing and to provide rotational movement of the housing relative to the rod; and one or more sensors in electrical communication with the motor and to detect when the motorcycle is at a leaning position, the one or more sensors to provide a command to the motor to rotate the housing to a desired angle for improved visibility.
US10661688B2
A thermally conductive padding 20 for transferring heat comprising a layer of cellular foam padding 10 having a plurality of spaced apart openings 22 formed therein. A thermal tunneling pad 24 is seated in each of the openings for creating a thermal path through the thermally conductive padding wherein the thermal tunneling pad includes a cellular foam block 12 encased in strip of thermally conductive graphite ribbon 26.
US10661685B2
Disclosed herein is a pumping apparatus for a vehicle seat, which includes an input member rotated by torque input from a handle lever, a clutch unit configured to transmit the input torque to a link mechanism of a seat cushion, a brake unit configured to cut off the torque input in reverse from the link mechanism, a housing accommodating the clutch unit therein, and a fixing member coupled to a rear end of the housing, wherein the input member includes a first input member disposed in front of the housing, and a second input member connected to the first input member and accommodated in the housing, and the clutch unit includes a torque transmission member arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the second input member, and an annular control member having a clutch friction surface formed on an inner peripheral surface thereof.
US10661683B2
A seat adjustment mechanism of a seat for facilitating entry and exit of a person into/out of an interior of a motor vehicle, wherein a backrest part is forcibly coupled to a seat part via a rocker arm such that an adjusting movement of the backrest part is transmitted to the seat part. The backrest part and the seat part of the seat are moved from a starting position to an intermediate position by a first predetermined horizontal length by means of a sliding device which is connected to an upper rail of a seat rail, wherein the backrest part is rigidly connected to a backrest release unit of the backrest part via a coupling element, which is pivotable about a first coupling element pivot axis with respect to the sliding device.
US10661678B2
A non-transitory machine readable medium having machine executable instructions can include a charge control application. The charge control application can determine, in response to detecting that an electric vehicle (EV) is electrically coupled to a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) interface, a degradation threshold state of charge (SoC) for a battery of the EV. The charge control application can also command the V2G interface to discharge the battery of the EV to a lower threshold SoC that is below the degradation threshold SoC. The charge control application can further command the V2G interface to charge the battery of the EV to an upper threshold SoC that is above the degradation threshold SoC at a return threshold time, wherein the return threshold time is a calculated amount of time prior to an expected return time of an operator of the EV.
US10661675B2
The disclosure provides an Internet-based intelligent mobile charging system and method. The system includes a rescue vehicle APP, a charging rescue vehicle, a rescued vehicle APP and a rescue platform. The rescue vehicle APP includes a first user module, a first order module, a monitoring module and a first communication module; the charging rescue vehicle includes a controller, a global position system (GPS) device, a direct-current charger, an alternative-current charger and a metering module; the rescued vehicle APP includes a second user module, a second order module, a payment module and a second communication module; the rescue platform includes an access module, an order execution module, a vehicle screening module, a rescue vehicle monitoring module, a bill management module and a user certification module.
US10661671B2
Disclosed herein is a charging apparatus for an electric vehicle. The charging apparatus includes a motor generating a power for vehicle driving. An inverter supplies a power to the motor. An alternating current (AC) power input stage receives an AC input power from among a single-phase AC power and a multi-phase AC power. A power factor corrector includes full bridge circuits receiving the AC input power through the AC power input stage. A link capacitor is charged through a combination of the power factor corrector, the motor, and the inverter. A switch network has a first switch connecting one of an AC power input line and a neutral line of the AC power input stage to the power factor corrector and a second switch selectively connecting the AC power input stage to the power factor corrector or the link capacitor. A controller operates the power factor corrector and the switch network based on a received AC input power condition.
US10661660B2
A vehicle charging system includes a power transmitter including at least one voltage converter configured to allow a vehicle charging mode to be changed by a plurality of switches and a magnetic field generator configured to generate a magnetic field corresponding to a voltage converted by the voltage converter; and a power receiver including a current inductor configured to allow an electrical signal to be induced by the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generator, a rectifier configured to rectify the induced electrical signal and a battery configured to be charged by the electrical signal rectified by the rectifier.
US10661639B2
A sun visor for automobiles that makes operation smooth and minimizes a reaction force, the sun visor includes a sun visor body including a supporter receiver (Rs) having both side walls, a top surface and a bottom surface; a shaft horizontally disposed in the supporter receiver through one side wall; and a supporter received in the supporter receiver (Rs) of the sun visor body, and rotatably supported by shaft support holes, to which the shaft is inserted, while horizontal movement of the supporter is limited, in which upper and lower portions of front and rear surfaces of the supporter are provided with upper support curved surfaces and lower support curved surfaces in a longitudinal direction which are opposite to each other.
US10661637B2
An apparatus for improving vehicle internal air may include an air conditioner including an intake door for controlling introduction of external air into a vehicle; an electric dust collection filter to collect fine dust contained in air; and a control device to control operation of the electric dust collection filter and the intake door, based on information about a concentration of fine dust inside the vehicle, a concentration of fine dust outside the vehicle, and a vehicle speed.
US10661633B2
The present invention relates to a heating device. In order to allow heating essentially without any latency period and with low costs, the heating device comprises: at least one container (12) having an inlet opening (14) and an outlet opening (16) and comprising an adsorbent agent (18) being provided between said inlet opening (14) and outlet opening (16) and being capable of adsorbing an adsorbate thereby releasing adsorption energy; and a gas conveying device (21) for conveying an adsorbate comprising gas through the interior of the container (12); wherein a gas conduit (22) is provided being connected to the outlet opening (16) of the container (12) for guiding the gas heated by adsorption energy inside the container (12) to a location to be heated with elevated temperature. The present invention further relates to a heating method.
US10661628B2
An apparatus for connecting a stabilizer bar to a vehicle includes a support for attaching to the vehicle. The support defines a space for receiving a bushing through which the stabilizer bar can extend. The support includes tabs to which a heat shield can be attached. The heat shield is spaced apart from the bushing to define a gap between the heat shield and the bushing to protect the bushing from heat emitted from the vehicle exhaust system or engine.
US10661625B2
In an autonomous traveling unit, a toggle mechanism including a plurality of sliders is provided. In the plurality of sliders, cam followers are provided, respectively. Meanwhile, in a workpiece loading unit, a clamped portion is provided. As a result of the cam followers, which are displaced so as to separate away from each other, entering intersection portions of the clamped portion, the workpiece loading unit is restrained by the autonomous traveling unit.
US10661622B2
A storage arrangement for at least one line from a tractor truck to a trailer including at least one of an electrical line, a first pneumatic line and a second pneumatic line includes a housing member configured to be secured to the truck external to a cab of the truck, a first receiver connected to the housing and configured to couple to a select one of the electrical line, the first pneumatic line and the second pneumatic line, and an air pump positioned within the housing and pneumatically coupled to a pneumatically-driven assembly of the trailer.
US10661617B2
A protruding portion is provided on a molded resin portion of a tire mount sensor, and the longitudinal direction of the protruding portion is aligned with the longitudinal direction of an antenna. Further, the longitudinal direction of the antenna is set at a predetermined angle with respect to the acceleration detection direction of the G sensor. For example, with a predetermined angle of 0°, the longitudinal direction of the antenna may be matched with the acceleration detection direction of the G sensor.
US10661600B2
Disclosed is a vehicle support device comprising a polygonal surface which may be affixed to a front edge of an at least one circumferential plate (110) or to a midline of an at least one circumferential plate (110). The polygonal surface (105) may be a pentagon polygon having five sides, a hexagon polygon having six sides, an octagon polygon having eight sides, or any polygonal shape. The polygonal front surface may have an at least one asymmetrical side. The polygonal front surface (105) may have a plurality of lug bolt supports (120), which may have five lug bolt supports (120), seven lug bolt supports (120), eight lug bolt supports (120), or twelve lug bolt supports (120). The vehicle support device may have an axle support centerline (125), a vehicle support device centerline (130), and an non-zero centerline offset (135) between the axle support centerline (125) and the vehicle support centerline (130) to provide for offset alignment of the vehicle support device in a vehicle wheel well.The vehicle support device may be used to support any wheeled automobile, trailer or tractor, to provide levelness and stability of the vehicle, prevent UV and time or gravity-caused degradation of the tires, and extend the life of the tires, and on other vehicles with modification. For most automobiles, trailers, and tractors, the vehicle support device may replace one or more of the tires and wheels on an axle to securely and solidly support the vehicle on ground or a on concrete pad.
US10661591B2
An inkjet recording method includes: applying an active ray curable inkjet ink onto a coating layer disposed on a substrate by an inkjet method to form an ink layer, and subsequently irradiating the ink layer with an active ray to cure the ink layer, wherein the substrate has an outermost layer formed by at least one selected from polyethylene terephthalate, nylon, and aluminum, the coating layer is disposed on the outermost layer of the substrate and satisfies a condition that a chlorine/carbon ratio (Cl/C) by surface element analysis using electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) is 0.025≤(Cl/C)≤0.43, and the active ray curable inkjet ink contains at least a photopolymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, a pigment, and a gelling agent.
US10661586B2
An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink tank forming an ink chamber and including an injection inlet, a cover, a cover sensor, a recording head, a monitor, and a controller. The cover is movable between a covering position and an exposing position. The cover sensor is positioned to output a signal depending on the position of the cover. The controller controls operation of the recording head, the monitor. The controller receives either a first positional signal or a second positional signal of the cover sensor, and based on receipt of the first positional signal after receipt of the second positional signal from the cover sensor, performs a decision process deciding whether an operation regarding ink injection into the ink chamber is completed.
US10661585B1
An image forming apparatus includes a pair of support frames, an opening and closing door and a positioning structure. The support doors are arranged oppositely at both sides of an opening. The opening and closing door is supported by one of the pair of support frames via a turning shaft and turns around the turning shaft between a closing position and an opening position. The positioning structure positions the opening and closing door to the pair of support frames by engaging a convex part or a concave part provided in the pair of support frames with a concave part or a convex part provided in the opening and closing door in a state where the opening and closing door is turned to the closing position.
US10661584B2
A simple configuration enables easily changing the open or closed state of multiple suction holes while assuring suction. A shutter drum rotates centered on an axis of rotation extending on a transverse axis, and a suction fan that produces negative pressure inside the shutter drum. When one suction hole on the transverse axis is a first suction hole, and another suction hole adjacent on the transverse axis to the first suction hole is a second suction hole, a first communication path including a suction chamber and through-hole communicates with the first suction hole, and a second communication path including a suction chamber and through-hole communicates with the second suction hole. The shutter drum functions as a shutter that, by rotating, selectively changes the open or closed state of the first and second communication paths.
US10661583B2
A printing apparatus, including a conveyor, a liquid ejection head with nozzles, a contact part to contact a surface of a recording medium and a controller, is provided. The controller executes printing processes including a first printing process with a first conveying action and a second printing process with a second conveying action. The controller obtains a length of a non-printing region in the recording medium, and in the second printing process, designates a nozzle within a contact range, in which the recording medium is maintained contacted by the contact part upon completion of the conveying action in a final printing process, to be a second nozzle, which is activated to print a most downstream part of the image. The longer the length of the non-printing region is, the closer nozzle closer to an upstream end of conveyance among the plurality of nozzles is designated to be the second nozzle.
