US10160765B2
Described herein are certain crystalline forms of Compound 3, as well as pharmaceutical compositions employing the crystalline forms. Also provided are particles (e.g., nanoparticles) comprising such crystalline forms or pharmaceutical compositions. In certain examples, the particles are mucus penetrating particles (MPPs). The present invention further relates to methods of treating or preventing diseases using crystalline forms or pharmaceutical compositions.
US10160764B2
The invention provides compounds of Formula (I): as further described herein, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods to use the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for treatment of certain viral disorders, including influenza.
US10160759B2
Provided are a hydroxyethyl sulfonate of a cyclin-dependent protein kinase inhibitor, a crystalline form thereof and a preparation method therefor. Specifically, 6-acetyl-8-cyclopentyl-5-methyl-2-((5-(piperidin-4-yl)pyridin-2-yl)amino)pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidin-7(8H)-one hydroxyethyl sulfonate (compound of formula (I)), a crystal form I thereof and a preparation method therefor are provided. Crystal form I of the compound of formula (I) has good chemical and crystalline stability, low toxicity, and low residual crystallization solvent. The compound of formula (I) and crystal form I thereof can be used in improved clinical therapy.
US10160754B2
2-homopiperazine-1-yl-4H-1,3-bensothiazine-4-one derivatives of formula (I) are provided. They are useful in the treatment of bacterial infections, in particular tuberculosis, buruli ulcer and leprosy. A process for the preparation of 2-(homo)piperazine 1,3-benzothiazine-4-one hydrochlorides is also provided.
US10160753B2
The present invention provides indazole compounds of formula (I), which are therapeutically useful as kinase inhibitors, particularly IRAK4 inhibitors, wherein Z1, Z2, R1, R2, R3, ‘m’ and ‘n’ have the meanings given in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or stereoisomers thereof that are useful in the treatment and prevention of diseases or disorders, in particular their use in diseases or disorders mediated by kinase enzyme, particularly IRAK4 enzyme. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one of the compounds of the compound of formula (I) together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, diluent or excipient.
US10160752B2
Disclosed is a compound of formula (I). or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions including the compound of formula (I) and methods of using the compound of formula (I).
US10160750B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): or stereoisomers, tautomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein all the variables are as defined herein. These compounds are selective factor XIa inhibitors or dual inhibitors of FXIa and plasma kallikrein. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of treating thromboembolic and/or inflammatory disorders using the same.
US10160747B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula I(b): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a solvate, a tautomer, an isomer or a deuterated analog thereof, wherein Ring A, Ring HD, J, each T, R3, R4, R5, each R7, and m are as described in any of the embodiments described in this disclosure; compositions thereof; and uses thereof.
US10160746B2
The present invention relates to the 1H-indazole-3-carboxamide compounds as glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta (GSK-3β) inhibitors and to their use in the treatment of GSK-3β-related disorders such as, for example, (i) insulin-resistance disorders; (ii) neurodegenerative diseases; (iii) mood disorders; (iv) schizophrenic disorders; (v) cancerous disorders; (vi) inflammation, (vii) substance abuse disorders; (viii) epilepsies; and (ix) neuropathic pain.
US10160734B2
A compound having a maximum absorption in a wavelength range of 350 nm to 550 nm that functions as a dichroic dye is provided. In particular, a compound represented by formula (1) is provided. In the compound of formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or the like; R2 represents an acyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or the like; R3 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; and Y represents a group of formula (Y1). In the formula (Y1), * represents a bonding site with N, or a group of formula (Y2). In the formula (Y2), * represents a bonding site with N; P1 and P2 each independently represent —S— or the like; and Q1 and Q2 each independently represent ═N— or the like.
US10160730B2
Compounds of formula (I) are of use in the modulation of Kv3.1, Kv.3.2 and Kv3.3 channels and have utility in the treatment or prevention of related disorders.
US10160723B2
The present invention is related to the preparation and pharmaceutical use of substituted 3-haloallylamine derivatives as SSAO/VAP-1 inhibitors having the structure of Formula I, as defined in the specification: The invention also relates to methods of using compounds of Formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or derivatives thereof, for the treatment of a variety of indications, e.g., inflammatory diseases, ocular diseases, fibrotic diseases, diabetes-induced diseases and cancer.
US10160722B2
A compound represented by formula (3): (wherein R1 represents a C1-C6 perfluoroalkyl group, R2 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group, and m represents an integer of 0 to 3) or a salt thereof, which is useful as a production intermediate of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, can be produced by reacting an alkali metal salt or zinc salt of a C1-C6 perfluoroalkanesulfinic acid with 2-aminophenol optionally substituted by 1 to 3 C1-C6 alkyl groups or a salt thereof in the presence of an oxidizing agent.
US10160718B2
A method of making antidegradant compounds is disclosed, in which a p-phenylenediamine is reacted with an alpha-hydroxy carbonyl compound to thereby obtain an enediamine, which is reduced to thereby obtain a mixture comprising the antidegradant compound.
US10160710B2
A synthesis method of 3,4-hexanedione comprises a step of 4-hydroxy-3-hexanonen oxidation, and in the step of 4-hydroxy-3-hexanonen oxidation, water is used as a catalyst, acetic acid is used as a cocatalyst, and ozone is used as an oxidizing agent to carry out an oxidation reaction on 4-hydroxy-3-hexanonen, and after the reaction, distillation under reduced pressure is carried out to obtain the 3,4-hexanedione. According to the synthesis method of 3,4-hexanedione in the invention, in the process of 4-hydroxy-3-hexanone oxidation, the 4-hydroxy-3-hexanone is placed in the water, the ozone is used for oxidation on the 4-hydroxy-3-hexanone, and the acetic acid is used as the cocatalyst, so that the entire oxidation reaction process is mild in conditions and simple to operate, no sewage is produced when the final product (3,4-hexanedione) is obtained, and the yield is greatly increased.
US10160706B2
A method for purifying raw methanol containing sulfur compounds, wherein the method comprises the step of washing raw methanol with a non-polar organic solvent.
US10160705B2
Compounds and compositions are provided that inhibit histone deacylase activity and which expand renal progenitor cell populations and improve kidney function in a damaged kidney. Methods of use of the compounds and compositions are provided.
US10160703B2
The invention provides an improved process to manufacture 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane (HCFC-244bb) by reacting 2-chloro-3,3,3,-trifluoropropene (HCFO-1233xf) with hydrogen fluoride, in a liquid phase reaction in the presence of hydrogen chloride and a liquid phase fluorination catalyst. The hydrogen chloride is added into the reaction from an external source at a pressure of about 100 psig or more. The HCFC-244bb is an intermediate in the production of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene-1 (HFO-1234yf).
US10160697B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for converting methane in a feed stream to acetylene. A hydrocarbon stream is introduced into a supersonic reactor and pyrolyzed to convert at least a portion of the methane to acetylene. The reactor effluent stream may be treated to convert acetylene to another hydrocarbon process.
US10160692B2
The invention relates to a micronized composition. In particular the invention relates to a micronized composition, a coated fertilizer, a coated seed, a method of producing a micronized composition and a method of covering a granule. The micronized composition includes at least one type of water-soluble micronutrient, a clay binder and a dehydrating agent, the at least one water-soluble micronutrient, clay binder and dehydrating agent being micronized.
US10160687B2
Lithium silicate glass ceramics and glasses containing specific oxides of tetravalent elements are described which crystallize at low temperatures and are suitable in particular as dental materials.
US10160682B2
A method for inhibiting silica scale formation in an aqueous system by adding a hydrophobically-modified alkylene oxide urethane copolymer anti-scalant to the water used in the aqueous system.
US10160679B2
Wastewater is treated though primary treatment of the water by way of a micro-sieve to produce a primary effluent and primary sludge. There is secondary treatment of the primary effluent by way of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) or an integrated fixed film activated sludge (IFAS) reactor to produce a secondary effluent and a waste activated sludge. The micro-sieve may have openings of 250 microns or less, for example about 150 microns. In a process, a gas transfer membrane is immersed in water. Pressurized air flows into the gas transfer membrane. An exhaust gas is withdrawn from the gas transfer membrane and used to produce bubbles from an aerator immersed in the water.
US10160668B2
The present invention seeks to decompose and remove various types of organic materials contained in oilfield water by one operation. To this end, this method for treating oilfield water is provided with: a step for obtaining primary treated water containing organic material by removing the solid content and oil content from oilfield water; and a step for decomposing the organic material by exposing the primary treated water to discharge plasma, wherein the discharge plasma is generated by a nanosecond pulse power source for outputting a pulse having a pulse width of 10 ns or less.
US10160664B2
A system and method for backwashing a sand filter in a wastewater treatment system. In one aspect, the invention can be a system for backwashing a sand filter comprising: a sand filter configured to remove solids from an untreated wastewater; a container storing chlorine fluidly coupled to the sand filter by a chlorine supply manifold; a flow control mechanism positioned on the chlorine supply manifold between the container and the sand filter, the flow control mechanism alterable between a first position whereby chlorine cannot flow from the container to the sand filter and a second position whereby chlorine flows from the container to the sand filter, the flow control mechanism being biased into the first position; and a processor operably coupled to the flow control mechanism and configured to automatically actuate the flow control mechanism into the second position upon detecting that the sand filter is being backwashed.
US10160661B2
A portable water-filtering and storage dispenser is provided with twin orifices at top and bottom, the top orifice for dispensing water to a user for consumption, the bottom orifice for receiving water for filtration and storage. Water received via the bottom orifice is filtered by a dome filter and keyway insert. Both orifices are sealable with detachable caps for threadably mating with the body of the dispenser.
US10160655B2
In various embodiments, novel methods of fabricating and/or packaging aerogels are provided.
US10160647B2
A compact lightweight air filtration system is disclosed. The air filtration system includes a hydrophobic particulate/coalescing filter and a cleanable ozone converter housed in a housing with an inlet and an outlet. Air flowing from the inlet to the outlet passes through the particulate/coalescing filter element and then the cleanable ozone converter to remove particulates, aerosols, liquids, and ozone.
US10160646B2
Provided is a waste heat recovery apparatus including a first heat exchanger, a reformer and a reformer feed pre-heater sequentially disposed on or in the waste gas exhaust pipe from the upstream to the downstream thereof, wherein the waste gas temperature at the upstream of the waste gas exhaust pipe is higher than that at the downstream. In an embodiment, the reformer can be a hydrogen-generation reformer, and the generated hydrogen is introduced into the burning equipment for use. In such manner, the waste heat can be effectively utilized, and the carbon deposition issue inside the burning equipment can be fixed. A waste heat recovery method is also provided.
US10160631B2
A method and dispensing apparatus for dispensing one or more liquids from a liquid storage container operably connected to the dispensing apparatus. The one or more liquids may include cold water, cold carbonated water, hot water and/or ambient temperature water. The dispensing apparatus preferably is a self-contained dispensing apparatus, i.e., a dispensing apparatus having its own source of liquid. The dispensing apparatus further preferably includes a housing storing a first cooled liquid reservoir and a second cooled liquid reservoir. The first cooled liquid reservoir preferably stores cold water and the second cooled liquid reservoir preferably stores cold carbonated water. A thermal link preferably connects the first cooled liquid reservoir and the second cooled liquid reservoir to cause thermal energy to be transferred between the first cooled liquid reservoir and the second cooled liquid reservoir.
US10160629B2
An electric personnel lift device that includes a base assembly having a frame and two columns that are laterally spaced apart and mounted to the frame is disclosed. Each of the two columns has a lift cylinder device mounted in the respective column and extending upward. The electric personnel lift device further includes a height adjustable platform assembly having an operator platform and two laterally spaced apart handrail assemblies connected to the operator platform. The height adjustable platform assembly is connected to an upper end of a movable portion of each lift cylinder device and is slidably coupled to the columns, wherein the height adjustable platform assembly is movable between at least a lowered position and a raised position.
US10160617B2
A bag opener is presented as an accessory component for bag roll dispensers, which allows bags to be dispensed to the user in a partially opened state. The opener may be extruded, molded or machined depending on the design of the dispenser, and is suitable for multiple-ply bags (such as “star sealed” bags) that are dispensed from a continuous roll.)
US10160613B2
A sheet feeder, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a sheet loader on which a sheet is loaded, a sheet feeding body to feed the sheet from the sheet loader, and a sheet separator disposed to contact the sheet feeding body. The sheet is fed at a first average sheet feeding speed at which the sheet feeding body is in contact with the sheet separator without holding the sheet with the sheet separator. The sheet is fed at a second average sheet feeding speed at which the sheet feeding body is holding the sheet with the sheet separator. The first average sheet feeding speed is set smaller than the second average sheet feeding speed.
US10160607B2
A motorized drive roller conveyor includes an upstream zone and a downstream zone, with each zone having a drive roller, an idler roller that is driven by the drive roller, and a sensor. The upstream zone and the downstream zone are controlled by a card, which measures a gap between a first item on the conveyor and a second item on the conveyor by beginning a counter when a trailing edge of the first item passes the sensor of the upstream zone and stopping the counter when a leading edge of the second item passes the sensor of the upstream zone to generate a counter value. If the first item is stopped in the downstream zone, the card of the upstream zone causes the drive roller of the upstream zone to advance the second item into the downstream zone for a distance derived from the counter value before stopping the transportation of the second item.
US10160599B2
The invention relates to a chute for articles, in particular packages and/or consignments, having a chute base for the article to slide down, having at least one storage installation, preferably assigned to the lower end of the chute, for the articles that have slid down along the chute base, wherein the storage installation is configured to be adjustable, in particular pivotable, from an upper receiving position for receiving the articles sliding down the chute into a lower discharging position for discharging the received articles, and back again.
US10160592B2
A two-liquid discharge container including a container body produced from synthetic resin, a partition wall member which vertically partitions the interior of the container body into a plurality of storage parts, and a valve which is provided with discharge passages that cause the respective storage parts to communicate with the outside, and which seals the container body, wherein contents are filled into the respective storage parts, at least one of the contents is a liquefied gas, and a liquefied gas lies between an undiluted solution filled into the lower storage part and a partition wall part.
US10160590B2
Exemplary embodiments of dispensers and refill units are disclosed herein. An exemplary refill unit for a soap, sanitizer or lotion includes a non-collapsing container. The non-collapsing container includes a neck. An annular projection is located at least partially on the neck. A one-way valve is located proximate the annular projection. The one-way valve allows air to flow into the non-collapsing container once the vacuum pressure in the container reaches the cracking pressure of the one-way valve and the one-way valve prevents liquid from flowing out of the annular projection. In addition, a pump for pumping the contents of the container out of the container is also included.
US10160589B2
Disclosed are a biosensor strip dispensing apparatus and a strip cartridge used by being coupled thereto. The present invention enables opening of a dispensing hole and dispensing of a strip to be performed simultaneously by an open plate and a dispensing plate which move by being interlocked with each other, and thus the present invention can form a biosensor strip dispensing apparatus which enables a strip to be easily dispensed when using the strip, has a great strip protection effect due to sealing of the inner part of a body, and has a compact size. In addition, the present invention enables a strip to be upwardly pressed by an up-and-down elastic unit, while adjusting the elastic force upwardly applied by a friction elastic unit so that the amount of change in a frictional force applied between the uppermost strip and a protrusion is reduced, and thus, the present invention can form a strip cartridge by which a strip is easily dispensed.
US10160573B2
Described herein are packaging systems having a receptacle and one or a plurality of expandable members that are configured to move from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration. In some variations the expandable member includes one or a plurality of folded pieces of material (e.g., tissue paper or fabric (e.g., tulle)), which are attached to the receptacle. In the expanded configuration, the expandable member(s) obscure an object (e.g., a gift) placed within the receptacle without closing the receptacle.
US10160569B2
Disclosed are containers that can nest with one another at different heights between the containers based on a relative orientation in which the containers are brought into nesting engagement. Support features (e.g., arranged about an interior of a receiving container and/or about an exterior of a received container) may interact with one another differently based on the particular orientation (e.g., rotational alignment) in which the containers are brought together, which can cause the containers to be supported at different heights relative to one another.
US10160567B2
A blank used for making a rapidly erected and collapsible container is disclosed. The container is movable between a flat configuration and a box configuration. The blank comprises a primary panel and a secondary panel, which are hingedly coupled to each other. The primary panel is hingedly coupled to a terminal portion. The terminal portion is hingedly coupled to a terminal flap. The secondary panel is hingedly coupled to a secondary flap. The secondary flap is configured to fold towards the secondary panel. The terminal portion is configured to fold towards the primary panel. The terminal flap is configured to connect to the secondary flap. Embodiments foster a blank used for making a container that rapidly, easily, and conveniently transitions from a flat configuration to being ready for use in a box configuration. Moreover, the container provides speed and efficiency without compromising cost effectiveness and structural integrity.
US10160562B2
A spout holding device for holding a spout part having a communication hole, includes an elastic part capable of elastically deforming in a direction orthogonal to a first direction when compressive force or tensile force is applied to the elastic part in the first direction, wherein the elastic part applies elastic force to the spout part in three or more different directions orthogonal to the first direction to hold the spout part.
US10160555B2
Some embodiments of the invention include a boom deployment system. The boom deployment system, for example, may include a housing, a spool, a first boom, and a second boom. The spool may be disposed within the housing and configured to rotate around an axis that is fixed relative to the housing. The first boom and/or the second boom may have a cylindrical shape in a deployed configuration, a flattened shape in a stowed configuration, and a slit that extends along the longitudinal length of the boom in the deployed configuration. The first boom and/or the second boom may be stowed in the stowed configuration flattened and wrapped around the spool. The first boom and/or the second boom may transition from the stowed configuration to the deployed configuration as the spool rotates around the axis.
US10160546B2
An air cycle machine comprises rotating components that include a fan, a compressor, and a first turbine. The air cycle machine also includes a cooling airflow path that receives cooling air from a cooling air source, directs the cooling air to an air-cooled bearing for at least one of the rotating components, and discharges the cooling air. The airflow path is isolated from an inlet of the compressor by a seal member, and the airflow path is configured to maintain pressure at the seal member above a pressure at the compressor inlet.
US10160530B1
An exhaust nozzle's rotating support assembly includes a first assembly having a first ring, a shaft coaxial with the first ring, and first spokes rigidly coupling the shaft to the first ring. The rotating support assembly also includes a second assembly having a second ring, a hub coaxial with the second ring, and second spokes rigidly coupling the hub to the second ring. The hub is mounted on the shaft for rotation with respect to the shaft. Bearings are disposed between the shaft and the hub. The first assembly is rigidly coupled to an exhaust exit port of an exhaust manifold, and the second assembly is rigidly coupled to an exhaust entry port of the exhaust nozzle.
US10160527B2
Diving goggles having a detachable camera bracket includes a frame, a pair of lenses, and a mask. The lenses and the mask are mounted to the frame. The camera bracket is detachably mounted on the frame. A lower end of the camera bracket is secured to the frame by means of clipping and hooking, and an upper end of the camera bracket is provided with a retaining seat for mounting a camera. The camera bracket connects the camera with the frame stably. During diving, the diver can take a picture for the underwater scenery conveniently, enhancing the diving entertainment.
US10160523B2
The present invention provides an apparatus, method and system for utilizing commercial cargo containers. The present invention utilizes containers made autonomous by coupling a container with a detachable propulsion system, having a motor and navigation and steering controls, permitting the rapid, controlled, efficient and safe delivery of cargo containers individually by water. Ballast units, deployment systems and control via remote units are also disclosed. The containers, utilizing their inherent buoyancy, can move autonomously according to a preplanned or remote controlled route to a specific location.
US10160520B2
A buoyant structure contains a hull. The hull has a main deck, a lower inwardly-tapering frustoconical side section that extends from the main deck, a lower generally rounded section extending from the lower inwardly-tapering frustoconical side section, a generally rounded keel, a fin-shaped appendage secured to a lower and an outer portion of an exterior of the keel, and an offloading device slidably connected to an outside surface of the hull configured for rotating around an outer circumference of the hull.
US10160519B2
A buoyant structure has a hull having a main deck. The hull further contains a lower inwardly-tapering frustoconical side section that extends from the main deck, a lower generally rounded section extending from the lower inwardly-tapering frustoconical side section, a generally rounded keel, and a fin-shaped appendage secured to a lower and an outer portion of the exterior of the hull proximate the generally rounded keel, the fin shaped appendage having a shape selected from the group consisting of: a triangular shape, a hump shape and a pair of connected triangular projections shape.
US10160513B2
A novel cycle device including a transmission assembly (or assemblies) that significantly reduces torque interference with steering operations is provided. Such an assembly is provided in one or more of a modular, fixed or movable configuration according reduced complexity of implementation, improved efficiency of operation, and useful assembly modularity for manufacture and repair. Such a device may further include an improved means for selecting between direct and overdrive functions of a fixed transmission assembly. Additionally, a removable front transmission assembly comprising a steering fork with handlebars is also encompassed herein.
US10160512B2
A bicycle may include a front triangle and a rear suspension system that couples the front triangle to a rear wheel and is dampened by at least one shock absorber. The rear suspension system includes a six-bar linkage having two ternary links separated from each other by one or more binary links, such that the two ternary links do not share a common joint. One of the ternary links may comprise a chain stay. In some examples, the other ternary link may comprise the front triangle. In some examples, the other ternary link may comprise a rocker arm coupling a seat stay link to the shock absorber.
US10160510B1
A combination triathlon aero handlebar and stem assembly or handlebar assembly is described that permits the adjustment of the height and tilt of the elbow platform and the associated left and right tubular hand extensions relative to a main body thereof.
US10160508B2
Disclosed is a single-wheeled balance vehicle. The single-wheeled balance vehicle includes: a wheel provided on a wheel frame, a motor transmission mechanism fixed in the wheel frame and arranged to drive the vehicle according to acquired manned mode information; a wheel cover arranged to partially cover the wheel; a skeleton arranged to reinforce mechanical strength of the wheel cover; and footboards arranged to be stepped on by both feet of a driver in driving. The wheel cover partially covers the wheel and in embodiments may be in a surface contact, so that the contact area is larger, contact stress is more dispersive, a strain is relatively small, the deformation of the wheel cover can be reduced, the possibility that a tire or a hub motor is rubbed or locked due to deformation of the wheel cover in the related art can be avoided, and safety performance can be improved.
US10160506B2
To suppress intake noise and secure a quiet ride on a straddle type vehicle wherein a box-shaped structure includes an air cleaner box connected to an engine. In addition, exhaust air from the radiator disposed in the vicinity of the box-shaped structure is prevented from hitting a leg portion of a rider. A main frame is provided as a separate body from a head box so as to support a power unit and a front two-wheeled suspension device. The head box is supported on the main frame due to the fact that an air cleaner box is fixed on the main frame through a fixing member. A guide portion is formed on the air cleaner box so as to guide the exhaust wind from a radiator to the lower direction.
US10160504B2
The invention concerns a lubricating system for a fifth-wheel traction coupling of a towing vehicle, comprising a coupling plate, the upper side of which has at least one grease discharge aperture which is connected to a lubricating device via a supply line fixed to the coupling plate. The invention addresses the problem of developing a lubricating system for towing vehicles which permits automatic lubrication irrespective of whether a central lubricating system is provided. The invention solves the problem using a lubricating system in which the lubricating device is associated with the fifth-wheel traction coupling and is arranged directly on the fifth-wheel traction coupling or in the vicinity of the fifth-wheel traction coupling.
US10160499B2
A rocker assembly includes a rocker reinforcement panel attached to a side inner panel to define a cavity and an elongated bar disposed within the cavity. The elongated bar is formed of a polymer resin that includes reinforcement strands of continuous fiber roving that are embedded in the polymer resin and extend along a full length of the bar. The elongated bar has a constant cross-section perpendicular to the length of the bar that may define at least one elongated opening. A method of making a rocker assembly includes pultruding a polymer resin and a continuous fiber roving to form a reinforced elongated bar that is assembled into a cavity defined between the rocker reinforcement panel and the side inner panel.
US10160489B2
The invention relates to a steering device for an articulated tracked vehicle comprising a front and a rear vehicle unit, wherein said steering device comprises a substantially vertical steering link about whose axis said front and rear vehicle units are pivotable. The vertical steering link is arranged substantially centrally of the front vehicle unit, and the steering device comprises a steering bearing configuration comprising an outer bearing ring arranged to be attached to a centre bean of said front vehicle unit, and an inner bearing ring rotatbly arranged relative to said outer bearing ring via a bearing about the axis of the steering link.
US10160488B2
A steering system for a vehicle includes at least two wheels configured to be steered independently of each another. A steering setpoint generator is configured to steer the at least two wheels according to a steering program. An operating element is configured to rotate the vehicle during travel about a center of rotation which moves with a principal movement vector. The steering program is configured so that a direction of the principal movement vector of the center of rotation can be changed with the steering setpoint generator.
US10160480B2
A pulley assembly including a drive pulley, a driven pulley, a flexible belt configured to connect the drive pulley to the driven pulley, an idler including a bearing and an idler pulley, the idler pulley engaged with the belt, the idler rotating about a first longitudinal axis, and an axial trap within the pulley assembly configured to restrict longitudinal movement of the idler along the first longitudinal axis.
US10160477B2
An electric power steering column assembly includes a steering shaft and a travel stop assembly. The steering shaft has a first end that is configured to attach to a steering wheel. The steering shaft has a second end that extends through a steering actuator. The travel stop assembly engages the second end of the steering shaft. The travel stop assembly is configured to inhibit rotation of the steering shaft.
US10160474B2
A telescopic latch apparatus of a steering column for a vehicle is provided, wherein supporting force against a collision load is more constantly maintained while the steering column collapses, by structurally increasing the supporting force during the initial period of the collapse, in respect to a telescopic structure of the steering column, and thus increasing the amount of collision load (collapse load) initially absorbed by the steering column, and reducing a difference between the supporting force during the initial period of the collapse and the supporting force during the middle and late periods of the collapse after the initial period of the collapse at the time of a vehicle collision.
US10160468B1
A dolly comprising a front segment and a rear segment, each with wheels at both ends thereof, wherein the wheels are movable between lowered and lifted settings, at least two connecting members between the front segment and the rear segment, and at least one towing ring on the front segment.
US10160459B2
A roadway lane direction is identified based on vehicle sensor data of a traffic sign, a direction of a parked vehicle, and a marking on a surface of the roadway lane. A trajectory of a vehicle is determined to differ from the roadway lane direction, and a vehicle component is then actuated.
US10160454B2
The invention relates to a sensor arrangement (3) for detecting a state of a road (11), with a sensor device (9) which is designed to detect an impact of water (12) on a wheel arch lining (13) of a motor vehicle (1) while the motor vehicle (1) is travelling on the road (11), and with a control device (7) for detecting the state of the road (11) on the basis of the impact of the water (12) detected by means of the sensor device (9), wherein the sensor device (9) has a first and a second ultrasound sensor (4, 5) which are designed in each case to receive an ultrasound signal and which are furthermore designed in each case to detect the impact of the water (12) on the wheel arch lining (13), wherein the first and the second ultrasound sensor (4, 5) are arranged apart from one another on or in the wheel arch lining (13).
US10160453B1
A method for changing a gear driving configuration of a discrete gear transmission (DGT) in a powertrain including an engine operatively connected to a continuously variable transmission (CVT). The DGT has a DGT input shaft operatively connected to a CVT driven pulley, a plurality of gears having a plurality of gear driving configurations and a DGT output shaft selectively operatively connected to the DGT input shaft based on the gear driving configuration. Responsive to a gear shift request, a target driven pulley speed is determined for synchronizing the DGT input shaft with the DGT output shaft for the desired gear driving configuration. The engine is controlled to change an engine speed to the target engine speed corresponding to the determined target driven pulley speed. Responsive to the DGT input shaft being synchronized with the DGT output shaft, the current gear driving configuration is changed to the desired gear driving configuration.
US10160451B2
A driver can intuitively and conveniently perform an operation for instructing passing to a vehicle. In a driving support device 10, an image output unit 14a outputs, to a display unit 31, an image containing an own vehicle object representing an own vehicle and an another vehicle object representing another vehicle in front of the own vehicle object. An operation signal input unit 14b receives an operation of a user for changing the positional relationship between the own vehicle object and the another vehicle object in the image displayed on the display unit 31. A command output unit 14c outputs, to an automatic driving control unit 20, a command for instructing the own vehicle to pass the another vehicle when the positional relationship between the own vehicle object and the another vehicle object is changed such that the own vehicle object is positioned in front of the another vehicle object.
US10160450B2
A travel control device for a vehicle includes a forward information acquirer, a following travel controller, and a preceding-vehicle start detector. The forward information acquirer acquires information ahead of the vehicle. The following travel controller causes the vehicle to travel following a preceding vehicle when capturing the preceding vehicle travelling immediately ahead of the vehicle. The preceding-vehicle start detector detects a start of the preceding vehicle. The following travel controller includes a turning following controller that controls a stop and a start of the vehicle when the vehicle follows the preceding vehicle and enters an intersection to turn toward an opposite lane. The turning following controller includes an oncoming vehicle approach estimator and a stop controller. The oncoming vehicle approach estimator obtains an acceleration after the preceding vehicle starts. The stop controller stops and holds the vehicle at a waiting position of the intersection without causing the vehicle to follow the preceding vehicle.
US10160444B2
A vehicle includes an electric power storage device, an electric motor, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control charging and discharging of the electric power storage device such that a state of charge becomes a target state of charge, to determine whether or not a degree of deterioration of the electric power storage device due to unevenness in salt concentration is equal to or larger than a predetermined degree, when the degree of deterioration is equal to or larger than the predetermined degree and the state of charge is equal to or less than a predetermined requested state of charge, to set the target state of charge such that the target state of charge increases monotonically, and to set an increase amount or an increase rate of the monotonic increase to be larger as the degree of deterioration is larger.
US10160439B2
A control system for a working machine that includes a power consumer (14) includes a prime mover (12), an energy storage unit (24) for storing energy, an auxiliary power unit (20) for generating power or consuming power, the auxiliary power unit (20) having a first connection (20a) coupled to the prime mover (12) and a second connection couplable to the energy storage unit (24). A controller (18) operatively coupled to the prime mover (12) and operatively couplable to the power consumer (14) is configured to estimate a required power of the power consumer (14), and to command the prime mover (14) to operate at an optimal operating point that produces the estimated required power. Based on a relationship between power output capability of the prime mover and power consumption of the power consumer, the controller (18) is configured to at least one of command that excess power capacity from the prime mover be provided to the auxiliary power unit for storage in the energy storage unit, or command that energy stored in the energy storage unit be provided to the auxiliary power unit to drive the power consumer.
US10160435B2
The invention discloses a hovercraft using single ducted fan with vectoring propulsion, including a hull and a single ducted fan arranged on the hull, wherein the single ducted fan comprises barrel shaped shell and oar-blade component arranged in chamber of the shell, a first air outlet is disposed on one side of shell towards the tail end of the hull, diversion rudders enabling to block the first air outlet are disposed on the shell, two first air guide all connected with chamber of the shell is disposed on both sides of the shell, a second air outlet towards external of the single ducted fan is disposed on the first air guide, and the second air outlet and the first air outlet are arranged in reverse or with an included angle greater than 0 degree.
US10160433B2
Example hydraulic brake apparatus and related methods are described herein. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a parking brake valve having an inlet fluidly coupled to a pump and an outlet fluidly coupled to a brake. The parking brake valve is operable between an open state and a closed state to allow or block fluid through the parking brake valve. To lock the fluid in the brake in a parking brake mode, the parking brake valve is moved to the closed state by pumping fluid into the inlet.
US10160432B2
A method for actuating an electric vacuum pump of a brake booster including indirectly ascertaining a negative pressure in the brake booster. Depending on the indirectly ascertained negative pressure, and on a pumping capacity of the vacuum pump, ascertaining at least one activation parameter for the vacuum pump. Activating the vacuum pump in accordance with the activation parameter, when the indirectly ascertained negative pressure drops below a predefined minimum value.
US10160431B2
A method of controlling the deceleration of a vehicle to account for an increase in friction in the vehicle brake system as the vehicle decelerates. The method comprises receiving a signal indicative of a value of the speed of the vehicle and a signal indicative of a value of a brake pressure in the vehicle brake system. The method further comprises comparing the vehicle speed value and the brake pressure value to respective thresholds. The method still further comprises increasing the drive torque applied to one or more wheels of the vehicle when the vehicle speed value falls below the threshold to which it was compared and the brake pressure value exceeds the threshold to which it was compared, such that the increased drive torque acts against the braking of the vehicle as the vehicle is decelerated to a stop.
US10160425B2
A solution to reduce the ratcheting sound that occurs at the start of braking when an operation pedal is operated by foot. Because a mounting seat as a flat part and base plate are provided between a ratchet member and support axial center S of an operation pedal, there is a possibility that the ratchet member's vibration will propagate to the adjacent mounting seat and base plate, amplifying the ratchet sound. However, the adjacent mounting seat and base plate are provided with beads, having cross-sections that bend convexly in a direction substantially orthogonal to the vibration waveform of the ratchet sound produced by a pole coming into contact with serrations when the mounting seat and base plate maintain a flat plate shape; i.e., in a circumferential direction about support axial center S. Therefore, rigidity against the vibration is increased, propagation of vibration is minimized, and ratchet sound is effectively reduced.
US10160416B2
An airbag having a front side (10) and a rear side (20) connected thereto, which airbag is made of an airbag material, which encloses a volume that is filled with a deployment gas when a gas generator or a pressurized gas source is activated, and having at least one limiting strap (30), which is connected to the front side (10) at a first fastening point (31), and to the rear side (20) at a second fastening point (32. At least one of the fastening points (31, 32) has a fastening seam (51, 51′, 52, 52′) having mutually opposing sections for fastening the limiting strap (30) to the airbag material, and wherein at least one load relief slot (60) at the fastening point (31, 32) between the sections of the fastening seam (51, 51′, 52, 52′).
US10160407B2
A vehicle-body bottom portion comprises a noise-insulation inferior part and a noise-insulation superior part provided adjacently to a periphery of the noise-insulation inferior part. Between the vehicle-body bottom portion and a floor carpet are provided a sound-absorbing member which is arranged between the noise-insulation inferior part and the floor carpet, a cross member which connects the noise-insulation superior part and the floor carpet and seals a gap between the vehicle-body bottom portion and the floor carpet, and a noise insulation space which is adjacent to the sound-absorbing member and the cross member and enclosed by the sound-absorbing member and the cross member.
US10160400B2
The invention relates to a laser scanning device for mounting on the roof rack of a vehicle, comprising a base support, which is configured as an “X”, can be mounted on a roof rack and on which a laser scanning module that spans the fork of the “X” can be fixed.
US10160396B2
A vehicle tailgate includes an internal panel, upper panel, lower panel, pair of side panels, and pair of tie-down brackets. The internal panel extends from the upper panel to the lower panel and between the pair of side panels. The side panels are rotatably secured to a cargo bed proximate to the lower panel. The pair of tie-down brackets is secured to an exterior of the internal panel between the upper and lower panels. The tie-down brackets define C-channels that extend in a direction that is substantially parallel with the side panels.
US10160395B2
A vehicle-attached lifting device and tool support is provided. The device comprises a dual-rail frame supported in an upright configuration by the vehicle tow hitch, wherein an internal subassembly support frame is positioned between the rails for the purposes of supporting different lifting and tool support subassemblies. Along the sides of the upright frame is a pair of ground support members that extend downward towards the ground to support the frame during operation, preventing the load from compressing the vehicle suspension or damaging the same. A winch controls the vertical positioning of the support frame within the dual-rail frame, which controls the position of a lifting or tool support subassembly. Many subassemblies are contemplated for use with the present invention for the purposes of assisting a user without requiring manual input therefrom. The device can also adjust with relation to the vehicle using different trailer hitch attachments.
US10160394B2
A coupling assembly for connecting a rooftop cargo carrying system to a vehicle may include a coupler body including a crossbar clamp configured to be coupled to a crossbar. The crossbar may have a long axis oriented transverse to a direction of vehicle travel. The coupling assembly may include a base portion configured to abut a roof of the vehicle and a clip retention and adjustment assembly. The clip retention and adjustment assembly may include (a) a carriage pivotally mounted to the coupler body and configured to rotate around a rotation axis oriented parallel to the direction of vehicle travel, the carriage having a slot for receiving a clip along a translation axis perpendicular to the rotation axis, (b) a catch configured to releasably engage an aperture in the clip, (c) a first actuator configured to rotate the carriage around the rotation axis, and (d) a second actuator configured to move the catch and the clip relative to the coupler body along the translation axis.
US10160393B2
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle article carrier apparatus for securing articles above an outer body surface of a vehicle. The apparatus may make use of a pair of low profile support rails fixedly secured generally parallel to one another on the outer body surface. A pair of cross bars may be configured to be coupled to the support rails in a stowed orientation extending parallel to the support rails, so as to be generally not visible from a side of the vehicle, and an operative orientation extending perpendicularly between the support rails and elevationally above the support rails for supporting articles thereon.
US10160392B2
A seating assembly includes a base. A cushion assembly is rotatably coupled with the base proximate a forward portion of the cushion assembly. A first removable peripheral bin is disposed on a side wall of the base. A second removable peripheral bin is disposed on a rear wall of the base. A power and data assembly includes a power relay and a data relay configured for use with mobile devices. The power and data assembly is disposed proximate a rear of the first removable peripheral bin and a side of the second removable peripheral bin.
US10160389B2
A cargo screen assembly for opening or closing an upper portion of a cargo space defined between a rear seat and a back door of a vehicle, the cargo screen assembly may include a cargo screen rail mounting groove formed horizontally in a rear surface of the rear seat of the vehicle, a plurality of side trims protruding rearward from respective opposite end portions of the rear surface of the rear seat, and a plurality of cargo screen rails configured to be inserted into the respective side trims or the cargo screen rail mounting groove.
US10160386B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide an adjustable storage panel apparatus for a vehicle (e.g., bus) that includes an upper panel assembly; a lower panel assembly, wherein an upper edge of the lower panel assembly pivotably engages a bottom edge of the upper panel assembly; opposing horizontal tracks comprising a front end and a back end, the horizontal tracks configured to be disposed on each of opposing side walls of the vehicle, wherein the lower panel assembly slideably engages each of the opposing horizontal tracks; and opposing vertical tracks comprising an upper end and a lower end, the vertical tracks configured to be disposed on each of opposing side walls of the vehicle along a vertical plane. The upper panel assembly slideably engages each of the opposing vertical tracks such that the upper and lower panel assemblies are positioned along the vertical plane in an extended position and the lower panel assembly is capable of being slid along a length of the horizontal track such that the lower panel assembly remains substantially parallel to the vertical plane and the upper panel assembly becomes oriented at an angle relative to both the vertical plane along the opposing vertical tracks and the lower panel assembly.
US10160378B2
A control system of a self-driving vehicle (SDV) can dynamically determine a set of autonomous driving actions to be performed by the SDV, and generate a set of intention outputs using a light output system of the SDV based on the set of autonomous driving actions, where the set of intention outputs indicating the set of autonomous driving actions prior to the SDV executing the set of autonomous driving actions. The control system can then execute the set of autonomous driving actions using acceleration, braking, and steering systems of the SDV. While executing the set of autonomous driving actions, the control system can generate a corresponding set of reactive outputs using the light output system to indicate the set of autonomous driving actions being executed, where the corresponding set of reactive outputs replacing the set of intention outputs.
US10160369B2
A trailer having a trailer ramp system that includes a trailer ramp coupled with the trailer and an actuator pivotally coupled to the trailer on a first end of the actuator and pivotally coupled to the trailer ramp on a second end of the actuator. The actuator is located below the trailer and is aligned with a central axis of the trailer ramp and a central axis of the trailer. The actuator is movable linearly to rotate the trailer ramp between an open position and a closed position.
US10160362B2
A support system is attachable to a seatback of a seat, via a pair of strut holders attached to the seatback. A headrest is attachable to the headrest via the strut holders. The support system operatively supports an accessory, relative to the seatback, via an attachment assembly. The attachment assembly includes a base member and a cover mount. The base member includes a base mount and a support flange. Portions of the base mount are operatively disposed between the support surface and each strut holder. The flange is configured to support the accessory, relative to the seatback. The cover mount is disposed in overlapping relationship with, and secured to, the base mount, such that each strut holder is sandwiched between the base mount and the cover mount, such that each strut holder is retained therebetween and the support system is operatively supported relative to the seatback.
US10160361B2
A head restraint assembly includes a base portion mountable to a vehicle seat. Also included is a frame plate disposed within a cover. Further included is a vertical power actuation mechanism operatively coupled to the frame plate for vertical adjustment of the frame plate. Yet further included is a fore-aft power actuation mechanism operatively coupled to the frame plate for fore-aft adjustment of the frame plate.
US10160354B2
A vehicle air-conditioning seat comprising a blower and a heater therein, wherein at least one of a temperature adjustment region whose temperature is configured to be adjusted by the blower and a temperature adjustment region whose temperature is configured to be adjusted by the heater is divided into a plurality of regions, wherein the vehicle air-conditioning seat has a cool mode where temperature adjustment is performed only by the blower, a heat mode where the temperature adjustment is performed only by the heater, and a mixed mode where the temperature adjustment is performed by both of the blower and the heater, and wherein, in the mixed mode, the temperature adjustment is performed for each divided region by varying at least one of a blowing amount by the blower and a heating amount by the heater for each divided region.
US10160351B2
A vehicle seat sliding apparatus includes a lower rail, an upper rail, a slide-lock mechanism that pivots the lock member to a slide-lock position and holds the upper rail in a slide-lock state, and a slide-lock cancellation unit moved by operation of an operation member in a longitudinal direction of the upper rail to cancel an action of the slide-lock mechanism. The slide-lock cancellation unit includes a drive unit and an inclined surface arranged in the drive unit. The drive unit is supported by the upper rail so as to be slidable in the longitudinal direction of the upper rail. Operation of the operation member slides the drive unit. The inclined surface pivots the lock member to a slide-lock cancellation position when sliding.
US10160343B2
A method for managing a battery located in a motor vehicle includes cooling the battery when a data item indicative of the temperature of the battery exceeds a first threshold, stopping the cooling of the battery when the data item indicative of the temperature of the battery drops below a second threshold, notably lower than the first threshold, and adjusting at least one of the first and second thresholds.
US10160333B2
A backup power system for a railroad power unit includes an emergency backup generator that enables continuous operation of both traction motors and accessories on the power unit when a main generator and/or an accessory power unit (APU) become inoperable. The backup generator can provide power to accessories on the railcar when the APU becomes inoperable and when power provided by the APU is diverted to the traction motors due to the main generator becoming inoperable.
US10160329B2
The invention provides an alternative electrical charging system for a vehicle which is at least partially powered by electricity. The system employs a wind driven generator which produces electricity in response to air motion. When the generator is operating, electricity is communicated the battery of the vehicle. Operation of the generator involves a controller that monitors the electrical status of the battery and selectively activates a fan or opens a ducting system communicating with the generator. The controller also, in some embodiments, monitors the motion and the attitude of the vehicle.
US10160319B2
A vehicle display processing apparatus includes: a first determination portion that determines whether a vehicle is at a stop; a first display processing portion that displays on a first display device, an operation screen image, the first display device being provided between a driver seat and a front passenger seat; a second display processing portion that displays a screen image relating to the operation screen image, which is displayed on the first display device, on a second display device provided to a driver seat side; and a second determination portion that determines whether a running speed of the vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined speed. The second display device is provided by a head-up display. When the running speed of the vehicle is lower than the predetermined speed, the second display processing portion does not display the screen image on the second display device.
US10160313B1
A PVC/NBR rubber composition includes (A) 100 PHR polyblend (33-45 ACN) PVC/NBR, (B) 20-50 PHR conductive carbon black, (C) 1-100 PHR carbon black, (B) being more electrically conductive than (C), and (D) 5-30 PHR synthetic amorphous silica, wherein the rubber composition has electrical resistivity of less than 1×106Ω measured according to SAE J2260.
US10160312B2
A movement permitting section is provided at a nozzle guide 22 at an interior of an inlet pipe 14. When a stopper 24 receives pushing force toward a fuel tank side from a refueling nozzle 18, the movement permitting section deforms so as to permit movement of the stopper 24 toward a radial direction outer side of the nozzle guide 22 or toward a fuel tank side.
US10160308B2
A structure of a brake-cooling duct, which is disposed at one side of an intercooler tank to cool a brake disc using air may include the brake-cooling duct has an air movement channel and a through-hole formed in a side surface thereof to expose the channel to an outside, wherein the brake-cooling duct is disposed close to one side of the intercooler tank so that an external surface of the intercooler tank is exposed to the channel via the through-hole, allowing the air introduced into the channel to be brought into contact with the external surface of the intercooler tank, and thereafter be discharged rearward thereof.
US10160303B2
A control system for an active powertrain mount includes a control signal which is based on the input velocity of the chassis at the active powertrain mount. The control signal may be proportional to the input velocity or to the mount velocity, which is the difference between the input velocity of the chassis at the active powertrain mount and the output velocity of the powertrain component at the active powertrain mount. The input velocity of the chassis at the active powertrain mount may be determined by a controller based on the CG heave and the roll and pitch velocities of the chassis. The output velocity of the powertrain component at the active powertrain mount is determined by the controller by integrating an acceleration signal from a component accelerometer disposed on the powertrain component proximate to the active powertrain mount. Corresponding methods for controlling an active powertrain mount are also provided.
US10160302B2
A vehicle includes a chassis, and a drivetrain supported by the chassis. The drivetrain includes a prime mover and a transmission mechanically linked to the prime mover. At least one dynamically adjustable engine mount connects the drivetrain to the chassis. The at least one dynamically adjustable engine mount includes a selectively adjustable parameter. One or more sensors is associated with the vehicle. The one or more sensors is operable to detect one or more vehicle parameters. A control system is operatively connected to the at least one dynamically adjustable engine mount and the one or more sensors. The control system is operable to alter the selectively adjustable parameter of the at least one dynamically adjustable mount to substantially isolate the chassis from lateral shudder of the drivetrain in response to the one or more vehicle parameters.
US10160296B2
An object is to provide a sash coupling structure and a method for sash coupling that ensures omission of the process. The sash coupling structure is made such that on a door frame constituted of a column and an upper sash, a coupling cross-sectional surface of the column and a coupling cross-sectional surface of the upper sash are butted together. The column is constituted of a channel member and an inner member. The channel member and the inner member include adhering portions coupled one another along a longitudinal direction. The inner member is plated. A non-adhering portion, which faces a non-not-yet-adhering portion of the inner member, is formed on the channel member at a butted coupling portion.
US10160290B2
An air conditioning system for conditioning air of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle. The air conditioning system operable in a cooling mode, a heat pump mode, and a reheating mode, the system includes an enclosure with a first flow channel and a second flow channel conducting air, and a refrigerant circulation system with a heat exchanger operable as an evaporator independent of the operating mode and a heat exchanger operable as a condenser independent of the operating mode. Both heat exchangers are located inside the enclosure. The refrigerant circulation system also includes a heat exchanger outside of the enclosure and inside the refrigerant path, an expansion element upstream from the evaporator in the flow direction of the refrigerant, and a bypass parallel to the refrigerant path to channel the refrigerant around the heat exchanger as needed.
US10160283B2
A relative velocity between a sprung mass and an unsprung mass of a vehicle is calculated by differentiating a stroke amount of an electromagnetic damper with respect to time. The relative velocity is compared with a predetermined value that is set in advance, and a determination is made whether or not the relative velocity is the predetermined value or higher. In a case where the relative velocity is lower than the predetermined value (relative velocity
US10160280B2
A control method includes calculating a roll angle and a roll angular velocity of a vehicle, setting damping forces applied to front and rear wheel dampers to execute first and second modes according to signs of the roll angle and roll angular velocity, and controlling the front and rear wheel dampers in consideration of the damping forces. Upon determination that the signs of the roll angle and the roll angular velocity are different, in the first mode, damping force greater than front wheel reference force and damping force smaller than rear wheel reference force are set to be applied to the front wheel dampers and the rear wheel dampers, respectively, and in the second mode, damping force smaller than the front wheel reference force and damping force greater than the rear wheel reference force are set to be applied to the front wheel dampers and the rear wheel dampers, respectively.
US10160279B2
A hydraulic actuator assembly is configured to receive a pressurized fluid from a pump. The hydraulic actuator assembly includes a housing and a piston arranged concentrically with respect to a longitudinal axis, wherein the housing is configured to receive a first portion of the pressurized fluid to displace the piston relative to the housing. The hydraulic actuator assembly also includes a sleeve arranged concentrically with respect to the housing and to the piston, and configured to restrain the piston relative to the housing and receive a second portion of the pressurized fluid from the pump to selectively release the piston. A vehicle including a suspension corner connecting the vehicle's road wheel to the vehicle's body, the fluid pump, and the subject hydraulic actuator assembly to change the vehicle's ride height at the suspension corner is also disclosed. The vehicle may also include a controller configured to control the actuator assembly.
US10160277B2
A vehicle height adjustment system includes: a vehicle height adjustment actuator provided for each wheel of a vehicle; a pressure medium intake and exhaust device configured to supply and exhaust a pressure medium to and from the vehicle height adjustment actuator; and a vehicle height adjustment unit including a computer, the vehicle height adjustment unit configured to: adjust a vehicle height by controlling the pressure medium intake and exhaust device, the vehicle height being a distance between the wheel and a vehicle body; adjust the vehicle height when a get-in estimation condition is satisfied; and limit a number of times the vehicle height is adjusted within a set period to a number of times smaller than a set number of times.
US10160268B2
A central tire pressure monitoring system interfaces with a tire inflation system to check the pressure in all of the tires of a trailer of a heavy-duty vehicle at a single interface location on the trailer, without the need to provide power to the trailer. The tire inflation system includes a source of pressurized air, at least one tire, a pneumatic conduit extending between and fluidly connecting the source of pressurized air to the tire, and a controller fluidly connected to the conduit. The monitoring system includes a monitoring valve fluidly connected to the conduit between the controller and the tire. The monitoring valve includes a port, and a test tool selectively fluidly connects to the monitoring valve port to enable air flow from the tire to the test tool. An indicator fluidly connects to the test tool and provides a reading of a pneumatic pressure in the tire.
US10160267B2
A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion provided with a shoulder main groove and a crown main groove to form a middle land portion therebetween. The middle land portion is provided with a first middle lug groove including a first groove wall and a second groove wall, wherein the first groove wall includes a protrusion protruding toward the second groove wall on the side of the shoulder main groove. The protrusion includes a front wall located so as to form a sipe portion between the front wall and the second groove wall, a top wall, a first lateral wall located axially outward of the front wall and a second lateral wall located axially inward of the front wall. The front wall is configured to a triangular shape.
US10160265B2
A tire includes a circumferential tread constructed of a base material. The circumferential tread has a plurality of bars, each of the plurality of bars having a top surface and a plurality of side surfaces. The circumferential tread further has a plurality of valleys disposed between the plurality of bars. A reinforcement layer covers at least some of the plurality of valleys and an outer layer covers at least a portion of the reinforcement layer.
US10160263B2
The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire having a non-spliced film innerliner comprised of a plurality of film layers where said film layers are of varied film moduli physical properties.
US10160258B2
A heat transfer label assembly comprises a carrier, a release layer overlying a first side of the carrier, and a primer overlying the release layer such that the release layer is disposed between the carrier and the primer. The primer may comprise at least one polyacrylic acid polymer.
US10160253B2
A single-detent binder for a file folder has a housing, one pair of baseplates, ring shaped components, a control component, a pull rod, rotary locking pieces and an intermediate junction component. The control component, intermediate junction component, pull rod and rotary locking pieces are connected in series. When the control component rotates, the rotary locking pieces are triggered to rotate in the trough of the first baseplate based on the mechanical principle of connecting rod, thus performing the locking/unlocking function. When the binder is closed, the baffle plates on the second baseplate hinder the rotary locking pieces from rotation, thus generating a clamping force. After the baffle plates and rotary locking pieces work jointly to close the binder, the ring shaped components generate a scrambling force, thus enhancing the locking effect and preventing the single-detent binder from opening unexpectedly.
US10160250B2
Binding element (1) for a bundle of leaves (9), whereby the binding element (1) comprises a spine (2) for enclosing an edge of the bundle (9) and two plastic cover sheets (3,4) fastened to the spine (2), characterized in that a first of the cover sheets (3) is transparent and the second of the cover sheets (4) is translucent but not transparent.
US10160243B2
A digital printing press including a printing cylinder configured to transport a sheet, a driving device (41) configured to drive the printing cylinder, an encoder (44) configured to detect the phase of the printing cylinder, and first to fourth inkjet nozzle heads (23-26). The digital printing press further includes a floating detector (22) and configured to detect an abnormality of the sheet, and a control device (28) configured to control an operation of the driving device (41). The control device (28) stops the driving device (41) when the floating detector (22) detects a floating portion. The control device (28) operates the driving device (41) based on the phase of the printing cylinder when the floating detector (22) detects the floating portion and when the driving device (41) stops after floating detection and moving the floating portion detected by the floating detector (22) to a predetermined confirmation position.
US10160242B2
A liquid ejection head includes: a first head unit; a second head unit disposed adjacent to the first head unit in a first direction and located on a first side of the first head unit in a second direction; and a heat uniforming unit shared by the first head unit and the second head unit. Each of the first head unit and the second head unit includes: a unit body including an actuator; and a first driver integrated circuit disposed on the first side of the unit body in the second direction. The heat uniforming unit includes a first heat uniforming member disposed on the first side of the first head unit and the second head unit in the second direction. The first heat uniforming member includes a first protrusion located next to the second head unit in the first direction and protruding toward the first head unit.
US10160240B2
An inkjet recording device is described in which maintenance is performed by a maintenance unit upon a recording head. The maintenance unit is located on a base unit. The base unit includes a wall portion supporting a plurality of gear shafts protruding in a width direction from the wall portion.
US10160236B2
A sheet conveyor is provided for transporting a sheet. The sheet conveyor includes a supplying conveyor, a receiving conveyor and a sheet guidance unit. The receiving conveyor includes a support surface arranged for supporting the sheet on a contact side of the sheet and an attraction unit arranged for attracting the sheet to the support surface. The supplying conveyor includes a transport belt being arranged for advancing the sheet in a transport direction along a transport path towards the support surface of the receiving conveyor; the sheet having two side edge portions relative to the transport path. The sheet guidance unit is arranged at a downstream end of the transport path for guiding the sheet towards the receiving conveyor, wherein said sheet guidance unit includes a lifting element arranged for lifting both side edge portions of the sheet away from the support surface while a middle portion of the sheet in between both side edge portions is guided towards the support surface.
US10160235B2
To provide a printing device such as an inkjet device capable of transporting a recording medium at satisfactory precision with a simple configuration. The inkjet device includes a feed amount correcting section that corrects a feed amount of a recording medium, and a control section that controls the feed amount correcting section. The feed amount correcting unit includes a moving section that moves with a movement of the recording medium in a transporting direction and a displacement sensor section that detects a displacement amount of the moving section, and the control section controls the feed amount of the recording medium based on a difference between a feed amount acquired at a time of printing and a set feed amount set in advance.
US10160232B1
A media transport system for conveying sheets of media along a process path extending from a media-uptake zone and thereafter through a print zone. The system includes a transport belt for holding the sheets of media generally flat via vacuum for ink jet printing. The media transport system includes a seamed vacuum transport belt, and a platen supporting the belt. The belt comprises a partially-conductive coating having a surface resistivity of from about 101 to about 106 ohms per square on a polymeric substrate. The partially-conductive coating comprises a polyester and a conductive component such as carbon black, and optionally includes a plasticizer and a leveling agent. The polymeric substrate is either a thermoplastic or a thermoset material.
US10160227B2
In an example implementation, a method of dual and single drop weight printing includes operating a printing system in a hybrid drop weight print mode to enable ejecting black ink from high drop weight nozzles and low drop weight nozzles, and ejecting color ink from high drop weight nozzles but not from low drop weight nozzles.
US10160226B2
A liquid discharging head includes: a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles from which liquid is discharged; a channel member including a plurality of individual liquid chambers that lead to the plurality of nozzles, respectively, and including a plurality of circulation channels that lead to the plurality of individual liquid chambers, respectively; and a common liquid chamber member for forming a common liquid chamber that supplies liquid to the plurality of individual liquid chambers and for forming a circulation common liquid chamber that leads to the plurality of circulation channels.
US10160220B2
A liquid storage unit includes at least one liquid storage part that stores liquid to be supplied to a liquid ejection part ejecting the liquid and includes an injection port to which the liquid is injectable, a first opening/closing body that is openable so as to cover the injection port when the first opening/closing body is closed, and a locking part that locks the first opening/closing body and keeps the closed state of the first opening/closing body. The first opening/closing body includes a first insertion hole through which a locking member locking the closed first opening/closing body is insertable. The locking part is provided at a position facing the first insertion hole in an area covered by the closed first opening/closing body, and includes a second insertion hole through which the locking member is insertable.
US10160214B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head including a substrate where a plurality of hollow portions are formed, a flexible plane that delimits a part of the hollow portion, and a piezoelectric element provided corresponding to the hollow portion, an inspection mechanism that inspects ejection of liquid from a nozzle based on an electromotive force of the piezoelectric element, and a signal generation circuit that generates a first drive signal and a second drive signal. The second drive signal maintains a state, where a second vibration portion including the second piezoelectric element and the flexible plane corresponding to the second piezoelectric element is deformed, during a detection period in which the inspection mechanism performs inspection based on vibration caused when a first vibration portion including the first piezoelectric element and the flexible plane corresponding to the first piezoelectric element is driven.
US10160212B2
An ink distribution assembly for distributing different inks from respective ink sources to a plurality of print chips which together define an inkjet printhead. The assembly includes: a longitudinal distribution molding having an ink duct for each of the different inks extending longitudinally therealong; an ink inlet port corresponding to each ink duct, each ink inlet port being in fluid communication with a respective ink source for delivering ink from each ink source to a respective one of the ink ducts; and a laminated ink distribution stack in fluid communication with the distribution molding for distributing ink from the ducts to the print chips.
US10160207B2
The invention is directed at a print head for printing a suspension fluid. The print head comprises a nozzle having one or more nozzle outlets for allowing the suspension fluid to be ejected from the nozzle, a flow path including a supply channel for supplying the suspension fluid to the one or more nozzle outlets, and a supply pump for establishing a flow within the flow path. The nozzle further comprises an actuator for imparting pressure fluctuations on the suspension fluid at the one or more nozzle outlets for generating a stream of droplets therefrom. The flow path further comprises a shear section for locally increasing the shear rate at least at a location in the flow path upstream of the one or more nozzle outlets. The flow path further includes a return channel for allowing excess fluid not ejected from the nozzle to flow away from the one or more nozzle outlets. The shear section is configured to locally increase the shear rate to be larger than a shear rate obtained near at least one of the one or more nozzle outlets. The invention is further directed at a printing apparatus, a method of printing, and a method of manufacturing a print head.
US10160198B2
A printer includes a page wide array of printing elements extending in a first orientation and co-located with a media path extending in a second orientation generally perpendicular to the first orientation. The printer is selectively operable according to a calibration involving current calibration values for a first subset of the page wide array of printing elements and a substitute calibration value for at least one non-first subset printing element of the page wide array immediately adjacent to at least one of the first subset printing elements.
US10160192B2
A maintenance method for a three-dimensional printer includes operating a platform to move along a first track past a first position where the first track is coupled to a second track, and along the second track in a process direction to a position opposite an ejector head positioned opposite the second track. The method operates the platform to (1) perform an operation on the ejector head positioned opposite the second track, (2) move the platform along the second track to a second position that is past the ejector head in the process direction, and (3) operates a switch to selectively couple the second track to the first track at the second position. The method also operates the platform to move past the second position to enable the platform to return to the first track.
US10160189B2
A panel assembly that includes a core having first and second opposing major surfaces, a first laminate skin secured to the first major surface of the core, a second laminate skin secured to the second major surface of the core, and at least a first layer of polyimide aerogel incorporated into one of the first laminate skin or the second laminate skin.
US10160182B2
Provided are a transfer film which includes a temporary support, a first curable transparent resin layer, and a second transparent resin layer disposed in direct contact with the first curable transparent resin layer in this order, satisfies Expression 1 and Expression 2A: n1
US10160179B2
A method of reinforcing a composite material part comprising a stack of fiber layers and at least one hole with an axis. The hole crosses the layers and opens out at the level of a first face and a second face of the part. The method comprises at least one stage in the making of at least one notch in at least one layer of the part proximate to the hole or which opens out in the hole.
US10160176B2
An apparatus configured to dispense a plurality of connected inflatable structures is provided. The apparatus may include a motor which is configured to advance a dispensing device to thereby advance the connected inflatable structures. A sensor is configured to detect a pulling force applied to the dispensing device and configured to output a signal corresponding to the pulling force. A controller is configured to receive the signal and output a control signal to direct the motor to advance the dispensing device in response to the signal to thereby dispense the connected inflatable structures. A related system includes the apparatus in addition to an inflation device configured to inflate the connected inflatable structures and an accumulation bin configured to store the connected inflatable structures. A related method is also provided.
US10160175B2
There is provided a press machine which can apply a large compression force to a mold as well as impart smooth vibration only in a rectilinear advancing direction to the mold, and thereby can improve the press-formability. A main slide and a sub-slide constitute a slide and at the same time a cylinder-piston mechanism. During press-forming, a compression force is transmitted to the sub-slide (an upper mold) through hydraulic pressure applied interlockingly with driving of the main slide, and the sub-slide is vibrated with the hydraulic pressure being periodically changed. Favorable press-forming can be performed even under relatively difficult press-forming conditions, by controlling the vibration such that a vibration frequency of the sub-slide (the upper mold) becomes 9 Hz or higher but 33.3 Hz or lower and a vibration amplitude of the sub-slide becomes 0.05 mm or larger but 0.5 mm or smaller.
US10160171B2
A method of making a wind turbine blade in a blade mould is described. The wind turbine blade comprises a plurality of elongate reinforcing structures each comprising a stack of strips of fibre-reinforced polymeric material, and the method comprises: stacking strips of fibre-reinforced polymeric material to form a plurality of stacks (40), each defining a longitudinal axis; aligning the stacks relative to one another in an alignment zone outside the blade mould; supporting the stacks to maintain their relative alignment; transferring the plurality of stacks into the blade mould simultaneously while maintaining the relative alignment of stacks as the stacks are transferred; and integrating the stacks with other blade materials forming the blade in the blade mould. An apparatus for use in the method is also described.
US10160170B2
A method and apparatus for fabricating a short length carbon fiber preform with a through thickness reinforcement is disclosed herein. The starting media for fabricating a net shape (e.g., annular disc) may meet specific requirements including a sufficient fiber volume and a binding mechanism compatible with the needle-punching process.
US10160163B2
A machine and process for a heating system for a composite patch comprising a light beam and a controller. The controller is configured to command the light beam to heat the resin in the composite patch to a desired level for curing while avoiding overheating a fiber in the composite patch.
US10160161B2
An apparatus and processes for protecting an ultrasonic welding horn (504) during welding of polymeric composites, use a thin separator, or membrane (502) configured to transfer high-frequency acoustic vibrations while keeping the horn (504) isolated from molten workpiece material. Systems and methods for welding polymeric composites, use a conductive mechanical intermediary, reducing cycle time, compensating for any surface unevenness, and improving weld accuracy and connection strength.
US10160149B2
In an injection molding system a cooling manifold system includes a first manifold disposed adjacent to a second manifold. Supply valves are arranged to selectively pass a coolant from the first manifold respectively to each of a plurality of mold cooling circuits and a plurality of return valves are arranged to selectively pass the coolant from the plurality of mold cooling circuits to the second manifold when one or more of a plurality of return valves is in an open position. Valve pairs associated with a common mold cooling circuit are mechanically linked so that operation of a supply valve and return valve can be concurrently performed from one side of the manifold system without interference from a plurality of hoses attached to the supply and return valves.
US10160147B2
A method and apparatus are for coating a field joint of a pipeline. The method includes positioning a mold tool around the field joint to define a mold cavity, positioning an insert to lie within the mold cavity, and injecting plastics material into the mold cavity to embed the insert in the plastics material. The apparatus has a mold tool positionable around the field joint to define a mold cavity, and an insert positionable within the mold cavity to be embedded in plastics material injected into the mold cavity. Use of an insert in this way reduces the volume of the molten thermoplastics material required to coat the field joint, thereby increasing the interface area of the melt relative to its volume, to the benefit of cooling time.
US10160144B2
A plasticizing process in which a molten resin that has been plasticized and dissolved in a foaming gas is sent to the front end side of a heating cylinder (20) by means of a screw (21) that rotates in a heating cylinder (20), and the screw (21) retreats according as the molten resin accumulates in the front end side of the heating cylinder (20); a transfer process in which the screw (21) is advanced with rotating and transfers the molten resin accumulated in the front end side of the heating cylinder (20) from a plasticizing unit (2) to an injection unit (3), and an injection process in which the molten resin is injected from the injection unit (3) are conducted and repeated to produce a foamable injection molded product.
US10160136B2
A system and method for automated bending of wood strips. The system includes an preprogrammed automated robot arm that is fitted with a gripper for grasping and manipulating the wood board around a hot mandrel in order to bend the wood into intricate bent shapes. The wood strips are first soaked in water so that they pliable to bend around the mandrel. The heated mandrel plasticizes the lignin to allow the fibers to reorient in the wet wood strips thus fixing or locking the wood in the bent shape. The grippers are preferably pneumatic grippers formed from two plates that move towards each other to grasp or clamp onto the wood strip. A friction plate urges the wood strips against the heated mandrel to provide consistent and constant contact between the wood strip and the surface of the hated mandrel.
US10160135B2
A machine tool separating device has at least one cutting line. The cutting line has a changing cutting edge angle geometry along one cutting direction of the cutting line.
US10160133B2
A mandoline slicer includes a slicing blade between a runout ramp and a platen defining an adjustable slicing ramp. A set of cubing blades is selectively movable between extended and retracted positions, extendable through slots formed in the runout ramp. A pusher is configured for 90 degree rotational movement to allow perpendicular cutting by the cubing blades before slicing by a main blade.
US10160128B2
Apparatus for use with a trimmer to produce a plurality of books having different trim sizes are described. In a described example, a trimmer for use with a bindery system includes a cutting surface and a first movable backstop adjacent the cutting surface to be engaged by a first book. Additionally, the trimmer includes a second movable backstop adjacent the cutting surface and spaced from the first movable backstop. The second movable backstop is to be engaged by a second book. Further, the trimmer includes a cutter movable relative to the cutting surface to cut a face of the first book to form a book having a first size and to cut a face of the second book to form a book having a second size different than the first size.
US10160111B2
A machine tool that can be guided manually has an outer housing that extends along a longitudinal axis and has a hand grip region. An electrical drive unit and a tool unit are accommodated in the outer housing and are mechanically uncoupled relative to the outer housing. The outer housing has a center of mass that, with respect to the length of the outer housing, is arranged along the longitudinal axis in a section that extends toward the rear from the geometric center of the outer housing.
US10160109B2
The invention relates to a driving device, comprising a hand-held housing having an energy transmission element accommodated therein for transmitting energy to a fastening element to be driven in, an exchangeable propellant charge and a combustion chamber arranged between the propellant charge and the energy transmission element, said combustion chamber extending about a central axis, wherein the combustion chamber is subdivided by means of a dividing member having a number of interruptions into a first subchamber adjoining the propellant charge and at least one second subchamber adjoining the energy transmission element, wherein an ejection region, enclosing a central axis, for the propellant charge is provided in the first subchamber, said ejection region extending between the propellant charge and a central region of the dividing member, wherein the ejection region is bounded at the central region of the dividing member by a closed surface of the dividing member.
US10160107B2
A firing apparatus for a floor nailing gun includes a hollow shell, a driving device and a front end cover. The driving device and the front end cover are respectively disposed at rear and front end portions of the hollow shell. A piston barrel and a tapping seat are disposed inside the shell. The piston barrel has a first end portion and a second end portion that is smaller than the first end portion, where the second end portion of the piston barrel extends from a front end portion of the shell to the inside of the shell and is connected to the driving device, and the first end portion is connected to the tapping seat. The front end cover is provided with a through hole, such that a front end of the tapping seat passes through the through hole to protrude from the front end cover.
US10160104B2
A ratchet wrench includes a body having a head and a shank interconnected to the head. The head includes a driving hole extending along a first axis and receiving a driving device. The shank includes a transmission hole receiving a transmission shaft. An axis fixing device is mounted in a transmission groove between the driving hole and the transmission hole and includes an axial hole extending through the axis fixing device along a second axis that extends perpendicularly to and intersects with the first axis. A gear coupled to the driving device is received in the axial hole and is rotatable about the second axis. A driving end of the transmission shaft extends into the axial hole and is connected to the gear.
US10160100B2
The present invention is a method and apparatus for forming wire loops using wire looping pliers. In one embodiment of the invention, the pair of wire pliers having a cylindrical jaw and a recessed jaw for accepting the cylindrical jaw allows the user of the tool to make symmetrical wire loops on a consistent basis. Additionally, the width of the recessed jaw can be set such that the user can use the recessed jaw to measure the distance from a particular point where the neck of the wire loop should be broken. The recessed surface of the recessed jaw and the cylindrical jaw mate together in such a manner as to provide uniform pressure around a significant portion of the loop so as to prevent marring of the surface of the wire.
US10160092B2
Polishing pads having a polishing surface with continuous protrusions having tapered sidewalls are described. Methods of fabricating polishing pads having a polishing surface with continuous protrusions having tapered sidewalls are also described.
US10160091B2
An apparatus for performing chemical mechanical polish on a wafer includes a polishing head that includes a retaining ring. The polishing head is configured to hold the wafer in the retaining ring. The retaining ring includes a first ring having a first hardness, and a second ring encircled by the first ring, wherein the second ring has a second hardness smaller than the first hardness.
US10160083B2
A method for manufacturing a cubic boron nitride cutting tool including a base metal and sintered cubic boron nitride compact at a corner portion of the base metal, capable of improving the accuracy of the center height and reducing the angle of inclination or width of a negative rake face; and the cubic boron nitride cutting tool. The method includes grinding the compact by pressing it against an end face of a grindstone of a grinder to form flank and rake faces on the compact while the base metal of the cutting tool is held by a chuck of the grinder, so that the compact is substantially ground. The rake face is formed to be recessed from a top face of the base metal or only a portion of the compact that protrudes from a base-metal rake face is ground while the tool is continuously held by the chuck.
US10160082B2
A system and method for mapping the cutting of a plurality of features in a three dimensional workpiece with a plurality of cutting tools controlled by a plurality of cutting tool machines according to process information is disclosed. The method comprises receiving the process information describing cutting parameters the plurality of features from the plurality of cutting tool machines, parsing the process information to extract the cutting parameters, transforming each feature location in the workpiece from a three dimensional space to a two dimensional space, initiating a call to retrieve cutting tool tracking information from each cutting machine for each of the plurality of cutting tools while cutting the plurality of features in the three dimensional workpiece and providing cutting status associated with each feature at the coordinate transformed location of each feature for presentation in the two dimensional space.
US10160080B2
A power tool includes a moving implement, implement arrest mechanism, light emitters, photodetector, and controller. The controller activates a first emitter to direct light with a wavelength between 800 nm and 1100 nm on an object and identifies a first reflectance level of the object from a reflectance signal from the photodetector. The controller activates a second emitter to direct light with a wavelength between 1350 nm and 1800 nm on the object and identifies a second reflectance level of the object from the photodetector. The controller activates the implement arrest mechanism to prevent contact between the object and the moving implement if a ratio corresponding to the first identified reflectance level and the second identified reflectance level exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10160076B2
An edge stabilizer for a composite structure includes an elongate edge support segment, defining a geometric shape of an edge of the composite structure, and a connector, configured to attach the edge support segment to the edge of the composite structure. The edge support segment comprises first and second halves configured to attach together around the edge, each half including a shoulder, opposing mating relationship of the shoulders defining a slot for receiving the edge. The edge stabilizer can be part of a system for stabilizing an edge of a composite barrel section. The system can also include a moveable cart, the barrel section being supportable upon the cart.
US10160074B2
In a method for joining a functional element with a metal sheet, with the functional element having an attachment part for attachment of a structure to the metal sheet, a cold forming process employed for the metal sheet is also used to mark the metal sheet with a sink mark by which a joining position of the metal sheet with the functional element is indicated. After the functional element is joined with the metal sheet at the joining position, the joining position is checked with respect to a position of the functional element inside of the sink mark.
US10160070B2
A method is provided for assembling an aircraft structure assembly composed of a plurality of sections without use of any shimming, locating fixtures or final-hole-size drill jigs. The method includes supporting a first and second frame sections on respective adjustable supports, and positioning an interconnecting frame section therebetween. The method includes aligning first pre-drilled mating holes in the interconnecting frame section, and installing fasteners through the aligned, first pre-drilled mating holes. The method includes aligning second pre-drilled mating holes in structural mating sections, and installing fasteners through the aligned, second pre-drilled mating holes. The method includes positioning the structural mating sections relative to the first and second frame sections and the interconnecting frame section. The structural mating sections are assembled inwardly from the first and second frame sections that form an outer perimeter structure of the aircraft structure assembly.
US10160067B2
A welding system using a purge plug for data acquisition. In one example, a purge plug includes purge plug component having a sealing structure. The sealing structure is configured to abut a surface of a hollow device and to form a seal between the sealing structure and the hollow device. The purge plug also includes a sensor at least partly disposed in the purge plug component, the sealing structure, or some combination thereof. The purge plug component is configured to be disposed on a workpiece having the hollow device to purge an undesired gas from the workpiece.
US10160066B2
The present disclosure relates a bonding system formed by a process that provides a first substrate and a second substrate. A flux coating is applied to the first contact surface, and a solder-adhesive mixture comprising an adhesive and a plurality of solder elements in at least a portion of the adhesive is applied to the first contact surface. The second substrate is positioned adjacent the solder-adhesive mixture much that a second contact surface of the second surface is opposite the first contact surface, and heat is applied to the solder-adhesive mixture by way of at least one of the first and second contact surfaces. The solder-adhesive mixture is heated to a temperature that is intended to at least partially melt or at least partially vaporize the flux coating upon contact to promote a bonding condition between the solder-adhesive mixture and the first substrate.
US10160064B2
A purpose of the present invention is to provide a flux having an improved cleaning property by suppressing a carbonization of a flux residue. A flux contains an organic acid, a thixotropic agent, rosin and a solvent wherein a fatty acid monoalkylol amide having 14-20 carbon atoms is contained as the thixotropic agent. The fatty acid monoethanol amide is added in an amount of 3-10% by weight as the thixotropic agent. In addition, a dicarboxylic acid having 10 or less carbon atoms is added in an amount of 4-10% by weight as the organic acid. Moreover, the solvent is added in an amount of 30-60% by weight.
US10160062B2
A braze preform is provided that includes a filler metal and a luminescent material that covers at least a portion of the filler metal and that can luminesce when exposed to a black light. The luminescent material may include a luminescent ink and a solvent that are mixed together before being applied to filler metal. Presence of the braze preform may be determined using automated equipment by detecting luminescence of the braze preform with a sensor. A decision may be made on whether to advance a parts assembly for brazing based on the determination of presence or absence of the braze preform on such parts assembly.
US10160053B1
One embodiment of a robust process for the repair of a solder bridge defect in a Surface Mount Technology micro-electronic circuit assembly with fine pitch components. The defective solder joint is heated by various means and a cold gas jet blast is applied to the defective solder joint. An effect is created whereby the solder inducing the defect is conveyed away by the impact of the cold gas jet blast. The advantages of this embodiment include scalability for pin spacing and elimination of heat induced latent defects. The process is applicable to any pin spacing, but is of particular usefulness with pin spacing of 0.025 inch or finer. Other embodiments are described and shown.
US10160051B2
Disclosed is a ferrule type wheel deburring device, which includes a machine frame, cylinders, motors, clamp units, a brush, guide posts, guide sleeves, etc. According to the ferrule type wheel deburring device, when in use, the size of a lower brush can be automatically adjusted according to the diameter of a wheel, and burrs of all places of a front surface of the wheel can be effectively removed; and meanwhile, the ferrule type wheel deburring device has the characteristics of advanced technology, high degree of automation, high universality and safe and stable performance.
US10160048B2
A power tool includes a motor housing having a motor configured to rotate an output shaft about a drive axis and a gear housing defining a gear compartment. A pinion gear is supported by the gear housing that is coupled to the output shaft for rotation about the drive axis. A bevel gear is supported by the gear housing for rotation about a bevel axis and includes a geared portion that is meshingly engaged with the pinion gear. A crank pin extends from the same side of the bevel gear as the geared portion at a position offset from the bevel axis. An articulating housing is pivotably supported by the gear housing for pivotal movement about the bevel axis. A plunger member is supported by the articulating housing for reciprocating movement along a reciprocating axis. The plunger member includes a yoke end portion coupled to the crank pin.
US10160046B2
A multi-flute ball end mill of the present invention includes: a shank portion configured to rotate about a rotational axis; a cutting edge portion; three or more ball edges formed on the cutting edge portion; gashes formed between the ball edges; peripheral cutting edges continuous with end portions of the ball edges on the shank portion side; and flutes formed between the peripheral cutting edges continuously with the gashes. The degree of curvature of the ball edges is 35% to 55%. Each of the gashes includes four faces of a rake face of each of the ball edges, a gash wall face, a first gash face, and a second gash face. The second gash face is formed such that the closer the second gash face is to the rotation center point, the more inwardly the second gash face enters a second face of each of the ball edges.
US10160044B2
A blocking device of tool-holders on lathes, especially for the rapid and precise blocking of tool-holders on CNC (Computer Numerical Control), single spindle or multi-spindle lathes as well as on transfer machines, milling centres of any kind and, in general, on machine tools which perform machining by chip removal, is paired with a tool-holder, motorized or non-motorized, connected to the existing support on said lathes and comprises an anchoring pawl provided with a female truncated-cone shaped recess. Said pawl is moved vertically with respect to the longitudinal axis of said tool-holder by mechanical or hydraulic means driven to engage said female, truncated-cone shaped recess with an inclined, male truncated-cone appendage made on said tool-holder.
US10160041B2
A device for selectively moving a first or second tool relative to a workpiece on a lathe, the device including a first and a second tool providing system, each of the tool providing systems including a guide rail having a length direction, a slide slidably mounted on the guide rail, the slide being shiftable from a waiting position to a work position, a tool retainer on the slide, a block fixed relative to the guide rail, a first lever pivotably mounted to the block, a second lever having a first end pivotably mounted to the block and a second end pivotably mounted to the slide, and a linear actuator having a rod pivotably connected to the first lever, the rod extending in a direction not parallel to the length direction of the guide rail and being shiftable from a first position to a second position.
US10160038B1
A machine control system for a multi-spindle machine includes a controller (42, 86). The controller is operative to reduce the risk of potentially damaging machining chip formation by controlled disengagement of a low speed clutch (18) of a transmission (14) which drives spindles (36) which rotate work pieces. Automatically selectively varying timing and duration of periods of disengagement of the low speed clutch breaks the continuity of chips to reduce the risk of developing damaging conditions as a result thereof.
US10160020B2
A method for manufacturing a rotationally symmetrical shaped article, which has a cylindrical, concentric hub axially closed on one side, in a shaping process is performed such that at least one pressure roll is in contact with a rotating, closed, planar circular blank sheet and presses the material of the blank radially from the outside inward against a projecting part that runs upright on the circular blank such that the thickness of the circular blank decreases and the hub including a blind hole is formed.
US10160019B2
The invention relates to a machine and method for the semi-continuous cold-bending of sections (3) with low ductility, of the type including a horizontal mount (1) and an interchangeable tool (4) against which the section (3) is bent. The machine includes a gantry support (10). The tool (4) is located in a zone delimited by the mount (1), vertical supports (5) for the tool (4), and a compression plate (7) actuated by vertical pressure cylinders. The tool (4) is positioned facing an actuation plane defined by a double set of hydraulic positioning (23) and push (20) cylinders. The bent sections (3) can be used for tents, skylights, facades, solar shading louvres, or three-rail frames for truck tarps, guaranteeing a uniform bend in all bent sections, without the section becoming pinned in the machine during bending.
US10160016B1
A cleaning system can be used on an intermediate bulk container. The cleaning system includes a chemical tank, filled with a chemical liquid. A first chemical pump and a second chemical pump, are mechanically coupled to the chemical tank and configured to pump the contents of the chemical tank. A dispensing valve is mechanically coupled to the first chemical pump and the second chemical pump and configured to dispense the chemical liquid. A water tank, is filled with water. A first water pump and a second water pump are mechanically coupled to the water tank and configured to dispense the water. A topside washing assembly is attached to the chemical tank and mechanically coupled to the first chemical pump and the second chemical pump. The topside washing assembly disperses water from the water tank in order to clean the chemical tank.
US10160014B2
According to one embodiment, a chuck cleaner includes a support, an adhesive layer, and a support substrate. The support includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion provided between the first portion and the second portion. The support substrate is provided between the support and the adhesive layer. The support substrate includes a first region fixed to the first portion, a second region fixed to the second portion, a third region provided between the first region and the second region and having variable distance from the third portion, a fourth region provided between the first region and the third region and separated from the support, and a fifth region provided between the second region and the third region and separated from the support.
US10160012B2
A cup intermediate portion and a cup lower portion surround a substrate. The cup intermediate portion is arranged above an upper surface of the cup lower portion. A sidewall surrounds the cup intermediate portion and the cup lower portion. A spacing between the upper surface of the cup lower portion and a lower surface of the cup intermediate portion gradually decreases outward from an outer peripheral portion of the substrate while a clearance is formed between the lower surface of the cup intermediate portion and the upper surface of the cup lower portion in respective outer peripheral portions of the cup intermediate portion and the cup lower portion. An inner peripheral surface of the sidewall is spaced apart from the clearance outside the clearance and surrounds the clearance.
US10160007B1
Disclosed is an aluminum alloy hub surface treatment process. The specific process flow comprises: providing an aluminum alloy hub blank, sanding, polishing, pre-treating, spraying electroplating silver paint, flash-drying, spraying celluloid paint, curing and discharging. The process not only has the mirror effect of electroplated products, but also has many advantages of simplicity, low cost, no heavy metal pollution and the like.
US10160003B2
The purpose is to provide a discharge system that can reduce an adhered amount of fluid to a coupler on a discharging device side to be smaller than an adhered amount of the fluid to a coupler on a refilling device side during a refilling operation of the fluid to the discharging device. A discharge system includes a discharging device capable of discharging the fluid and a refilling device capable of refilling the discharging device with the fluid. A refill-side coupler provided to the refilling device side and a discharge-side coupler provided to the discharging device side is fitted and connected to refill the discharging device side with the fluid from the refilling device side.
US10159996B2
A system for dispensing a plurality of chemicals includes a respective storage tank for each chemical. A respective metering, rotary positive displacement pump is in hydraulic communication at an inlet thereof with an outlet of each tank. An outlet of each pump is connected to a respective discharge hose. At least one heater is in thermal contact with each discharge hose. At least one temperature sensor is provided for measuring a temperature of each chemical in each respective discharge hose. A pressure sensor is provided for measuring pressure at an inlet end and at an outlet end of each discharge hose. A processor is in signal communication with each temperature sensor, each pressure sensor, a metering signal output of each pump and in control communication with each heater. The processor is programmed to operate each heater to maintain a temperature of each chemical such that a selected difference between pressure is measured between the inlet end and the discharge end of each discharge hose when each respective chemical is moved therethrough.
US10159992B2
A spray head includes a spray head base body (2) and a nozzle plate (3). The spray head base body (2) includes at least one liquid channel (4) for providing a liquid flow towards the nozzle plate (3). A drip-stop element (10) is located between the spray head base body (2) and the nozzle plate (3). The drip-stop element (10) includes at least one opening (11) being fluidly coupled with liquid channel (4) for providing a fluid flow into a space (6) between the drip-stop element (10) and the nozzle plate (3). At least a top portion (12) of the drip-stop element (10) is movably mounted within a spray head chamber (5) in order to perform a stroke movement. The top portion (12) is preloaded such that the top portion (12) rests against the nozzle plate (3) without applying any external forces to the top portion (12) and the top portion (12) is lifted off the nozzle plate (3) responsive to a liquid flow being provided through the liquid channel (4) into the space (6) between the top portion (12) and the nozzle plate (3).
US10159984B2
A method for making recesses in the surface of a roller for a rolling press. A thermal treatment is applied to a cylindrical roller surface by heating the surface in a region of the desired recesses until the material properties of the roller surface change permanently, i.e., even after cooling, with respect to the hardness of the roller material. The thermally treated regions produce a softer material in those regions than in the surrounding surface of the roller. By virture of a first start-up of the rolling press with abrasive material to be comminuted, the desired profiling is formed spontaneously due to a wearing down of the soft regions to form the desired recesses. The thermal treatment represent a particularly simple and cost-effective method for profiling rolling rollers, and in particular, rolling rollers which have already become worn, which that thereby be readily refurbished.
US10159981B2
A plastic body including a generally cylindrical upper portion having an open end configured for engagement with an automated pipettor. The plastic body further includes a plurality of longitudinally oriented ribs disposed on an inner surface of the open end of the upper portion and a plurality of concave recesses disposed on an outer surface of the upper portion. Each of the recesses is disposed directly opposite an associated one of the ribs, and each of the recesses extends along at least part of the length of the associated rib.
US10159979B2
A high volume microfluidic system for producing emulsions includes a fluid distribution network to produce uniformly sized emulsions and encapsulates.
US10159970B2
The invention relates to long chain alcohol, to processes for catalytically producing long chain alcohol from carbon monoxide and molecular hydrogen, to equipment useful in such processes, and to the use of long chain alcohol, e.g., for producing fuel, lubricating oil, detergent, and plasticizer. The catalyst is mesoporous and comprises iron and copper.
US10159968B1
A method of producing propylene and ethylene from a butene-containing hydrocarbon stream by cracking olefin compounds in the butene-containing hydrocarbon stream in the presence of a core-shell ZSM catalyst, wherein the core-shell ZSM catalyst comprises a ZSM-5 core and a silica shell disposed thereon. Various embodiments of the method of producing propylene and ethylene, and the method of making the core-shell ZSM catalyst are also provided.
US10159961B2
A supported silver catalyst and use thereof in a process for producing an alkylene oxide, such as ethylene oxide, by the direct oxidation of an alkylene with oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas, wherein the catalyst provides improved stability and improved resilience to reactor upsets and timely recovery to substantially pre-upset levels of catalyst activity and/or efficiency. In some embodiments, the catalyst also exhibits improved activity. A catalyst capable of producing ethylene oxide at a selectivity of at least 87 percent while achieving a work rate of at least 184 kg/h/m3 at a temperature of no greater than 235° C. when operated in a process where the inlet feed to a reactor containing the catalyst comprises ethylene, oxygen, and carbon dioxide, wherein the concentration of carbon dioxide in the inlet feed is greater than or equal to 2 mole percent.
US10159960B2
A catalytic converter includes a catalyst. The catalyst includes a non-modified metal oxide support and platinum group metal (PGM) complexes atomically dispersed on the non-modified metal oxide support. The PGM complexes include a PGM species selected from the group consisting of an atom of a platinum group metal, a cluster including from 2 atoms to less than 10 atoms of the platinum group metal, and combinations thereof. An alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal is bonded to the PGM species. The alkali or alkaline earth metal is part of a structure including oxygen atoms and hydrogen atoms.
US10159957B2
The invention relates to devices, systems, and methods for recharging zirconium phosphate in a reusable zirconium phosphate sorbent module. The devices, systems, and methods provide for customization of the zirconium phosphate effluent pH based on the needs of the user and system. The devices systems and methods also provide for calculation of the volumes of recharge solution needed for fully recharging the zirconium phosphate modules.
US10159956B2
A water absorbing material which can reduce burden on the environment in disposal and can be manufactured at low cost, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The water absorbing material contains paper obtained by separating polyvinyl chloride from vinyl chloride wallpaper as a raw material.
US10159954B2
A method of loading material within a microchannel device, the method comprising: (a) loading particulates into a plurality of microchannels; and, (b) ultrasonically packing the particulates into the plurality of microchannels using a portable, compact ultrasonic densification unit.
US10159951B2
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for mixing and atomizing a hydrocarbon stream using a diluent/dispersion stream. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises: an inner conduit and an outer conduit concentric to each other to define an annular space, said outer conduit having an inlet for receiving the hydrocarbon stream and an outlet for dispensing a mixture comprising the hydrocarbon and the dispersion/diluent streams; a diluent/dispersion steam distributor being in connection with the inner conduit and defining a central orifice and a first set of orifices, said first set of orifices adapted to direct a first portion of the dispersion/diluent stream into the annular space and said central orifice adapted to direct a second portion of the diluent/dispersion stream into the inner conduit; at least one contraction member and expansion member, said contraction member located downstream of the first set of orifices and said expansion member located downstream said expansion member; the inner conduit located downstream of said expansion member comprises a second set of orifices, said second set of orifices disposed on a periphery of the inner conduit and adapted to dispense a second portion of the dispersion/diluent stream into the annular space.
US10159950B2
A catalytic reactor comprises a particle separator which extracts particles from the fluid flow stream above the reactor internals by means which makes the fluid flow stream perform a radial outwards and upwards S-curve flow path, which enables the particles to be extracted and settle in a collection section with low flow activity and turbulence.
US10159944B2
Disclosed herein is an aerosol generating and mixing system operating at a high temperature and a high pressure which includes an aerosol generating device; and an aerosol mixing device, wherein the aerosol generating device includes a pre-mixing tank and a mixing tank, and the mixing tank and the pre-mixing tank include a wing configured to rotate about a central shaft of the tank so as to agitate an inside aerosol, and an agitating motor configured to rotate the wing, and a filling nozzle of the mixing tank and the pre-mixing tank is configured to inject any of an aerosol aqueous solution and an aerosol particle.
US10159941B2
A membrane sensor for detecting fouling, the membrane sensor comprising a first chamber having an inlet and an outlet; a second chamber having an outlet; only one membrane, the membrane being disposed between the first chamber and the second chamber for allowing fluid to permeate the membrane from the first chamber to the second chamber; a first pressure transducer configured for obtaining a first pressure upstream of the membrane; a second pressure transducer configured for obtaining a second pressure downstream of the membrane; and a resistance regulator configured for adjusting the second pressure.
US10159929B1
Ammonia-adding apparatus and methods for ammonia-based desulfurization use multi-stage control, calculate a theoretical amount of ammonia based on gas amounts provided by an inlet continuous emission monitoring system (CEMS) and an outlet CEMS of the ammonia-based desulfurization device or associated gas amounts, a SO2 concentration provided by the inlet CEMS, and a predetermined SO2 concentration of the outlet CEMS. The apparatus and methods calculate a corrected theoretical amount of ammonia using half of the ratio of the actual amount of added ammonia to the actual amount of removed sulfur dioxide as a correction coefficient for the theoretical amount of ammonia; add an ammonia absorbent equivalent to the corrected theoretical amount of ammonia to the ammonia-based desulfurization device through an ammonia metering means and an ammonia control valve, and automatically control the actual ammonia flow rate based on the actual SO2 concentration and a change trend provided by the outlet CEMS.
US10159927B2
High-purity gas purifiers for purification of corrosive gases, such as halogen gases or halide gases, and noncorrosive gases, such as hydrogen and inert gases, methods of making and methods of using the gas purifiers, are described. The gas purifier includes a housing made of nickel or stainless steel. Within the housing, the gas purifier includes a purifier resin, including a modifier coated onto a substrate. The gas purifier further includes porous nickel membranes located at the inlets and outlets of the device. The inlets and outlets are capable of fluid communication with external fixtures.
US10159925B2
An air filter and a method of air filtration using the said air filter are described. The air filter may comprise a filter media layer adapted to capture and filter one or more impurities from air. The air filter may further comprise one or more acoustic wave generating means attached at one or more sides of the filter media layer. The one or more acoustic wave generating means may generate acoustic waves to be propagated into the filter media layer. The propagation of the acoustic waves into the filter media layer may facilitate the filter media layer to enhance the filtration efficiency of the air filter. The air filter may further comprise a pre-programmed chip to control the frequency of the acoustic waves generated. Further, air filter may comprise a battery adapted to supply power to the one or more acoustic wave generating means and the pre-programmed chip.
US10159924B2
The present application provides a pulse filtration system for use with a compressor of a gas turbine engine. The pulse filtration system may include a pulse filter, a compressed air system in communication with the pulse filter, and a hydrophobic filter bag surrounding the pulse filter in whole or in part.
US10159922B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for removing a contaminated material, the apparatus comprising: a housing having a first duct and a second duct; a plurality of partition walls slantly installed at the inside wall of the housing to form a zigzag air current; and a adsorbent discharging unit installed inside the housing to discharge an adsorbent to the zigzag air current.
US10159918B2
A filter comprising a filter housing, a removable housing cover closing the housing during operation, a liquid inlet, a filtered liquid outlet, an exchangeable filter cartridge separating a raw side of the filter from a clean side, and a filter bypass valve comprising a valve seat and a valve body movably guided relative to the valve seat and biased in a closed direction. The valve seat is fixed in or on the housing cover, the valve body and a spring pre-loading the valve body in the closed direction are guided in or on the housing cover and are fixed to the cover. The filter cartridge has a spring support, such that when the cartridge is installed in the filter and the housing cover is attached to the housing, the end of the spring facing away from the valve body is supported and pre-stressed via the spring support.
US10159908B2
An apparatus for extracting an oil from plant material includes an extraction chamber for plant material. The plant material is exposed to a heated gas stream with a temperature sufficient to volatilize on oil from the plant material. The gas stream is rapidly cooled to liquefy the oil into entrained droplets. The oil is collected with a collection solvent.
US10159891B2
A system for pre-fabricating a plurality of synthetic turf strips at an indoor facility. The indoor facility is separate from an installation facility for assembling the plurality of strips into a synthetic field. The system includes a plurality of strips for creating the synthetic field and equipment at the indoor facility for prefabricating the plurality of strips. The indoor facility is capable of storing the equipment performing the prefabrication. A floor at the indoor facility is provided, the floor including dimensions that correspond to locations on a field at the installation facility. The dimensions correspond to markings on an underside of each of the plurality of strips.
US10159890B2
A heel unit for a touring ski-binding, comprising, a heel member, wherein the heel member comprises a reception bowl for receiving the heel part of a ski boot and a biasing device for biasing the heel unit against a ski boot, and wherein the heel unit is switchable between a starting position for receiving or releasing the ski boot and a snap-in position for holding the ski boot, wherein the heel unit comprises a blocking means by means of which the heel unit can be blocked in the starting position, wherein the blocking means is switchable between a blocking position and a non-blocking position.
US10159881B2
Rotatable and hinged goal posts are operably rotatable so that the goal post may rotated to a first position with the uprights being disposed toward a playing field such as for use when playing football, and to second position where the uprights being disposed away from the playing field such as for use when playing soccer. In addition, the rotatable and hinged goal posts are operably pivotable from a raised orientation and a lowered orientation, and vice versa.
US10159870B2
A resistance exercise system having, in certain embodiments, a DC power supply system, a DC motor connected to the DC power supply system, a drive section connected to a drive element, a resistance delivery element connected to the drive element, and an extractable exercise resistance delivery section, a predetermined variable resistance section intermediate the DC power supply system and DC motor, an electrical condition sensor, and a variable resistance section control in communication with the electrical condition sensor and the predetermined variable resistance section. In some embodiments, the resistance exercise system includes a computing facility providing the ability to configure the exercise system to provide predetermined static or variable exercise resistance during exercise, and for example, during a positive or negative exercise stroke. Some embodiments allow users to create and, if desired, display varying and complex resistance exercise routines with or without use of resistance weights.
US10159860B2
An article transport facility is provided in which, when a fire breaks out on a floor below, smoke etc. can be prevented from entering floors above through an opening. An opening, which a raised and lowered member can move through in a vertical direction, is formed in an intermediate floor portion located between the floor above and the floor below. A fire door for opening and closing the opening is provided. A gas ejection device having an ejecting portion for ejecting gas is provided at a lower position than the fire door. The ejecting portion ejects gas horizontally toward an area directly below a gap formed at an edge of the fire door when the opening is closed by the fire door.
US10159856B1
A device for replacing an air filter of an air filtration mask in which the air filter has an inlet side adapted to be exposed to the environment and an outlet side adapted for connection to the air filtration mask. The device includes a housing having an airflow passageway with an outlet on one side of the housing and an inlet on a different outer portion of the housing. A connector detachably connects the housing to the filter so that the one side of the housing overlies at least a portion of the inlet side of the filter. An airflow mechanism, such as an impeller or source of compressed air, then creates an airflow through the airflow passageway from the housing inlet and to the housing outlet.
US10159851B2
The present invention proposes a method for automatically training a dose prediction model based on existing clinical knowledge that is accumulated from multiple sources without collaborators establishing communication links between each other. According to embodiments of the claimed subject matter, clinics can collaborate in creating a dose prediction model by submitting their treatment plans into a remote computer system (such as a cloud-based system) which aggregates information from various collaborators and produces a model that captures clinical information from all submitted treatment plans, and can be used to predict dose distributions (and other dose parameters) in subsequent treatment plans.
US10159845B2
The invention is directed to a method of bonding a hermetically sealed electronics package to an electrode or a flexible circuit and the resulting electronics package that is suitable for implantation in living tissue, for a retinal or cortical electrode array to enable restoration of sight to certain non-sighted individuals. The hermetically sealed electronics package is directly bonded to the flex circuit or electrode by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, effectively forming a plated rivet-shaped connection, which bonds the flex circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation in living tissue.
US10159840B2
An active implantable medical device for neurostimulation therapy is disclosed. The device produces stimulation pulse sequences generated continuously in succession during activity periods separated by intermediate inactivity periods during which no stimulation is issued. An input signal, provided by a physiological sensor, representative of cardiac activity and/or of the patient's hemodynamic status is received by circuitry. The circuitry further provides for dynamic control of the neurostimulation therapy, wherein the length of activity periods is modulated based on the current value level of the control parameter compared to a threshold. The duration of the next period of inactivity is calculated by the circuitry at the end of each activity period to maintain a constant duty cycle ratio between periods of activity and periods of inactivity.
US10159838B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide stimulation systems and components for selective stimulation and/or neuromodulation of one or more dorsal root ganglia through implantation of an electrode on, in or around a dorsal root ganglia. Some other embodiments of the present invention provide methods for selective neurostimulation of one or more dorsal root ganglia as well as techniques for applying neurostimulation to the spinal cord. Still other embodiments of the present invention provide stimulation systems and components for selective stimulation and/or neuromodulation of one or more dorsal root ganglia through implantation of an electrode on, in or around a dorsal root ganglia in combination with a pharmacological agent.
US10159836B2
Example apparatus and methods plan and control neuro-modulation of a distributed multi-region network in a brain. A location for a deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrode that participates in activating a combination of white matter pathways associated with the network is selected. The location is selected based on a pre-implantation image of the brain and a probabilistic activation model of the network. An initial stimulation parameter for DBS to be applied through the DBS electrode is selected based on a post-implantation image of the brain and the probabilistic activation model of the network. A modified stimulation parameter for DBS being applied through the DBS electrode is selected based on the initial stimulation parameter, a local field potential measured in the distributed multi-region network in response to DBS applied using the initial stimulation parameter, the probabilistic activation model of the distributed multi-region network, and the post-implantation image of the brain.
US10159818B2
A safety needle system operable with a medical device includes: a housing with a needle mount having a needle; and a sheath telescopically engaged with the housing and surrounding the needle such that the sheath operates in a retracted position, in which the sheath exposes the needle, and an extended position, in which the sheath surrounds the needle. The sheath is coupleable to the medical device such that removal of the needle from the medical device draws the sheath over the needle, transitioning the sheath from the retracted position to the extended position. In one embodiment, the system includes a slider engaged with the sheath and/or housing and including a restraint that engages and disengages the sheath to respectively reinforce and weaken the coupling of the sheath and medical device. In another embodiment, the sheath includes a longitudinal track that slidingly engages a setting of the housing between sheath positions.
US10159816B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for at least one of preventing, reducing, and treating a level of or change in at least one of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide, C-terminal fragment-β (β-CTF), β-secretase (BACE1), γ-secretase, neuroinflammation, and/or dementia (e.g., Alzheimer's disease or age-related decline) in a subject by inducing synchronized gamma oscillations in the brain of the subject using, for example, a stimulus-emitting device to emit a stimulus (e.g., light, sound, and/or haptic) at a frequency (e.g., about 40 Hz) that synchronously activates in vivo a specific cell type (e.g., fast-spiking-parvalbumin (FS-PV) immunoreactive interneurons) and/or brain region (e.g., a sensory cortex and/or hippocampus) of the subject.
US10159809B2
A gas conditioning unit for a surgical gas delivery device is disclosed, which includes a filter housing having an insufflation gas flow path for delivering insufflation gas to a body cavity and for facilitating pressure measurements from the body cavity, a pressurized gas flow path for delivering pressurized gas from a pump in the surgical gas delivery device to an internal nozzle in the filter housing that accelerates the pressurized gas and thereby generates a continuous pressure barrier that inhibits egress of insufflation gas from the body cavity, a vacuum return flow path for returning depressurized gas spent by the internal nozzle back to the pump under vacuum, an air entrainment flow path for drawing air into the body cavity to maintain a given pressure therein, and a smoke evacuation flow path for conveying smoke from the body cavity.
US10159801B2
Assembly for a drug delivery device and drug delivery device An assembly for a drug delivery device (1) is described comprising an activation member (6A) adapted and arranged to be axially moved in a delivery direction for triggering a dose delivery operation of the assembly, a first interaction member (17) and a second interaction member (18) which are adapted and arranged to mechanically cooperate with one another during a dose delivery operation of the assembly and to be rotated with respect to one another during the dose delivery operation, wherein the assembly is configured such that movement of the activation member (6A) in the delivery direction brings the interaction members (17, 18) into mechanical contact for generating a friction between the interaction members (17, 18), wherein an amount of friction controls a relative rotational speed of the interaction members (17, 18) during a dose delivery operation. Furthermore, a drug delivery device comprising the assembly is described.
US10159796B2
A syringe assembly including a syringe barrel having a first end, a second end, and a sidewall extending therebetween defining a chamber is disclosed. The syringe assembly includes a stopper disposed within the chamber of the syringe barrel and a plunger rod having an inner member engaged with the stopper and an outer member adapted for telescopic movement with respect to the inner member. The plunger rod is transitionable from a collapsed position, in which a portion of the inner member is nested within the outer member, to an extended position, in which the same portion of the inner member extends outside the outer member. The syringe assembly also includes a stop member configured for cooperation with a portion of the syringe barrel, upon relative movement of the outer member with respect to the inner member, to limit the outward travel of the plunger rod from the syringe barrel.
US10159792B2
The present disclosure refers to drug administering devices that may include a casing front portion in which a cavity is formed and which includes front connecting means, a drug container received in the cavity, a casing rear portion comprising a piston rod which is displaceable into the cavity, and rear connecting means for releasably connecting to the front connecting means, wherein said casing front portion comprises at least two members which, in locking engagement with each other, delimit a front portion of the cavity and a rear portion having a cross section which is narrower than that of the front portion and too narrow for the drug container to pass.
US10159789B2
An infusion pump includes: a housing, a pump actuator supported by the housing, electronics configured to control the pump actuator, a pain controlled analgesic (“PCA”) input device, a cord having a remote end connected to the PCA input device and a local end connected to the housing, a remote integrated circuit; and a local integrated circuit in communication with the electronics and the remote integrated circuit so as to provide operational information concerning the PCA input device to the electronics.
US10159781B2
A method for implanting a cardiac support device (CSD) on a patient's heart. An amount of contrast agent sufficient to cause structures on the heart to be visible upon fluoroscopic or other imaging is introduced into the pericardial space surrounding the heart. The heart and contrast agent are imaged to provide a visual indication of the location of the structures of the heart. The CSD is placed on the heart using the visual indications provided by the imaging.
US10159780B2
This system for in-body-cavity liquid perfusion of a circulating type which circulates a liquid such as an isotonic solution perfused within the body cavity, suppresses an excessive increase in internal pressure that would lead to breakage of a hollow fiber membrane module. A drain valve is connected to a drain port of the hollow fiber membrane module. A pressure sensor measures the internal pressure of the hollow fiber membrane module. A control unit opens the drain valve on the basis of the internal pressure of the hollow fiber membrane module measured by the pressure sensor, draining foreign matter from the hollow fiber membrane.
US10159770B2
New and useful systems, methods, and apparatuses for automatically identifying alternative cell chemistries of batteries that power portable electric devices and adjusting the characteristics of such devices in response to the identification of such cells in a reduced-pressure therapy environment are set forth in the appended claims.
US10159769B2
Methods of making medical devices are described. A method of making a medical device for delivering a bioactive includes preparing a suitable solution comprising the bioactive; placing a vessel containing the solution over a substrate comprising a biocompatible foam and defining open cells; initiating flow of the solution from the vessel and toward the substrate such that the solution exits the vessel and contacts the substrate; and maintaining flow of the solution for an amount of time sufficient to achieve a desired volume of the solution within the substrate. Medical devices made by the methods are also described.
US10159768B2
Methods and apparatus for a biodegradable multi-layer device suitable for medical applications are provided, wherein the device is formed from multiple film-layers configured to have different characteristics from one another such as different release profiles for therapeutic agents, adhesive properties, stiffness properties, and solubility properties. The film-layers may include a solid fibrinogen component. A device having multiple film-layers may take a non-adherent form during delivery to a target location within or on tissue, and thereafter may be exposed to moisture to take an adherent form on the tissue. The device may include a number of additives, including materials to improve the mechanical properties of the device, or one or more therapeutic or contrast agents.
US10159764B2
A sheet structure formed from an extracellular matrix (ECM) composition that includes acellular ECM derived from small intestine submucosa (SIS) tissue, gentamicin and vancomycin. The sheet structure is configured to modulate inflammation of damaged biological tissue and induce cell and tissue proliferation, bioremodeling of the damaged biological tissue, and regeneration of new tissue and tissue structures with site-specific structural and functional properties, when the tissue structure is delivered to the damaged biological tissue.
US10159758B2
Provided is a nanophosphor having a core/double shell structure, the nanophosphor including a upconversion core including a Yb3+, Ho3+, and Ce3+− co-doped fluoride-based nanophosphor represented by Formula 1; a first shell surrounding at least a portion of the upconversion core, and comprising a Nd3+ and Yb3+ co-doped fluoride-based crystalline composition represented by Formula 2; and a second shell surrounding at least a portion of the first shell, and having paramagnetic properties represented by Formula 3.
US10159753B2
The present invention relates to vectors containing liver-specific regulatory sequences and codon-optimized factor IX or factor VIII genes, methods employing these vectors and uses of these vectors. Expression cassettes and vectors containing these liver-specific regulatory elements and codon-optimized factor IX or factor VIII genes are also disclosed. The present invention is particularly useful for applications using gene therapy, in particular for the treatment of hemophilia A and B.
US10159747B2
The disclosure describes prodrugs and derivatives of prostaglandins, carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, kinase inhibitors, beta-adrenergic receptor antagonists and other drugs, as well as controlled delivery formulations containing such prodrugs and derivatives, for the treatment of ocular disorders.
US10159746B2
This disclosure provides methods for formulating compositions comprising one or more peptide proteasome inhibitors and a cyclodextrin, particularly a substituted cyclodextrin. As well as cyclodextrin complexation methods of formulating a peptide proteasome inhibitor (e.g., a compound of formula (1)-(5) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof) with one or more cyclodextrins. Such methods substantially increase the solubility and stability of these proteasome inhibitors and facilitate both their manufacture and administration. For example, homogenous solutions of a compound of formula (5) (carfilzomib) can be obtained at a pharmaceutically useful pH (e.g., about 3.5) and at higher concentrations (e.g., about 5 mg/mL) than could be obtained without one or more cyclodextrins and the processes of complexation between the compound and one or more cyclodextrins provided herein.
US10159732B2
The invention provides aqueous pharmaceutical adalimumab compositions suitable for long-term storage of adalimumab, methods of manufacture of these compositions, methods of administration, and kits containing same.
US10159730B2
Disclosed is a vaccine comprising fiber (2) protein of Fowl Adeno-virus C (FAdV-C) or an immunogenic fragment thereof for use in preventing hepatitis-hydropericardium Syndrome (HHS) in birds, preferably in poultry, especially in broilers.
US10159727B2
Described herein are compositions and methods for treating cancer through the combination of tumor antigen-pulsed dendritic cells and Dengue Virus. The combination of the two forms of therapeutic intervention provides enhanced tumor cell reduction compared to either alone. The cancer targeted by compositions and methods described herein may be a solid cancer or blood cancer.
US10159719B2
The present invention is directed to compounds, methods for stabilizing thrombin activity with a thrombin binding oligonucleotide and to stabilized thrombin. The thrombin binding oligonucleotide is capable of inhibiting thrombin activity whereby the inhibition can be reversed with an antisense oligonucleotide.
US10159714B2
The use of GLP-1 receptor agonists, such as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) or exenatide, for the treatment of cancer is described. The GLP-1 receptor agonists are typically delivered using an implanted osmotic delivery device that provides for continuous delivery of the GLP-1 receptor agonist for at least one month. Additional beneficial agents, such as anticancer agents, can also be administered.
US10159692B2
One aspect of the invention provides polymer conjugated MetAP2 inhibitors. While not being bound by any particular theory, it is believed that coupling the MetAP2 inhibitory core via the linkers described herein provides compounds with superior efficacy to the parent small molecules and superior pharmacokinetic profiles. In one aspect of the invention, the polymer conjugated MetAP2 inhibitors are useful in methods of treating disease, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a polymer conjugated MetAP2 inhibitor.
US10159687B2
The disclosure relates to prodrugs of vitamin K2, in particular prodrugs of MK-7 in which the diketone is converted to a monosubstituted or disubstituted ester type derivative. These compounds are shown to give MK-7 in plasma. The disclosure also relates to methods of treating conditions using prodrugs of vitamin K2.
US10159671B2
Described herein is a composition comprising: (a) a first population of particles of a first aripiprazole prodrug; and (b) a second population of particles of a second aripiprazole prodrug, different to the first aripiprazole prodrug. At least one of the first and second prodrug populations has a volume based particle size (Dv50) of less than about 1000 nm. Also described herein are methods of treatment using the aforementioned composition, and methods of making the aforementioned composition.
US10159662B2
The present invention relates to an azetidine derivative for use as a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, a drug composition comprising same, a preparation method therefor, and a use thereof in the treatment of JAK-related diseases comprising, for example, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, and cancers.
US10159656B2
The invention provides compositions including epinephrine fine particles, including epinephrine nanoparticles or nanocrystals and epinephrine microparticles or microcrystals, and methods for therapeutic use of the compositions for the treatment of conditions responsive to epinephrine such as a cardiac event or an allergic reaction, particularly anaphylaxis. The epinephrine fine particles can be incorporated into orally-disintegrating and fast-disintegrating tablet pharmaceutical formulations and can significantly increase the sublingual bioavailability of epinephrine, and thereby reduce the epinephrine dose required.
US10159651B2
A method for manufacturing a therapeutic agent delivery system includes forming a first mixture with a plurality of microparticles, the microparticles containing a therapeutic agent and having a coating around the therapeutic agent, the coating including chitosan. The method also includes forming a second mixture from ingredients including the first mixture, chitosan, a hydration promoter, a microparticle adhesion inhibitor, and a microparticle aggregation inhibitor, freezing the second mixture in a bath containing an aqueous alcoholic solution at a temperature above the freezing temperature of the aqueous alcoholic solution and at most −40° C., to form a frozen layer precursor, and drying the frozen layer precursor to form a porous polymeric matrix with microparticles embedded within the matrix.
US10159632B2
A cosmetic composition, including compounds of formula (I) in which R and R′ independently of one another denote hydrogen, hydroxyl, a linear or branched OC1-C4-alkyl group, or optionally R and R′ form together a methylenedioxy group resulting in a 3,4-methylendioxyphenyl residue and R″ denotes a linear or branched C1-C9 alkyl group or A, in which A denotes with X, Y and Z being independently of one another hydrogen, hydroxyl, an linear or branched C1-C4-alkyl group, or a linear or branched OC1-C4-alkyl group.
US10159631B2
Methods and compositions for stimulating the growth of hair are disclosed wherein said compositions include a cyclopentane heptanoic acid, 2-cycloalkyl or arylalkyl compound represented by the formula I wherein the dashed bonds represent a single or double bond which can be in the cis or trans configuration, A, B, Z, X, R1 and R2 are as defined in the specification. Such compositions are used in treating the skin or scalp of a human or non-human animal. Bimatoprost is preferred for this treatment.
US10159629B2
A teether includes a body, and a teething member. When the teether is frozen, the teething member is positioned within the teether providing rigidity to the teether. The teething member is moveable within the body as the frozen material within the body melts. The teether may include a cylindrical body, a nipple, and a cap with the teething member providing rigidity to the nipple. The teether may also be formed from a flexible membrane with at least one acute edge. An insulative storage container for the teether has an internal structure sized to hold multiple teethers.
US10159611B2
A multiple use absorbent article includes a chassis absorbent unit having a chassis topsheet, a chassis backsheet, and a chassis absorbent core sandwiched between the chassis topsheet and the chassis backsheet. The article also includes an absorbent insert bonded to the chassis absorbent unit, a removable portion of the absorbent insert configured to be selectively removable from the chassis absorbent unit, wherein the absorbent insert includes an insert topsheet, an insert backsheet, and an insert absorbent core sandwiched between the insert topsheet and the insert backsheet. The absorbent insert further includes a line of weakness that provides for separation of the absorbent insert into a removable portion configured to be removed from the chassis absorbent unit, and a resident portion that remains bonded to the chassis absorbent unit.
US10159607B2
An incontinence detection system monitors an area for moisture events and wirelessly transmits moisture-related information to one or more notification devices. The system has a pad that includes a substrate and one or more sensors supported by the substrate. The sensor(s) emit wireless signals indicative of the moisture-related information. A sensor event communication system forwards the sensor signals to another device, such as a notification device. Portions of the system are included in a patient support apparatus, such as a bed.
US10159605B2
A dressing, comprising an inner layer and an outer layer; wherein the inner layer and the outer layer are aligned with trimming at one side of edge. The inner layer comprises hydrogel and meltblown nonwoven, and the outer layer comprises polyurethane film and pressure sensitive adhesive film. The dressing increases watertight closure. It could be applied in circular wound covering.
US10159601B2
A method and delivery system are disclosed for creating an aqueous flow pathway in the trabecular meshwork, juxtacanalicular trabecular meshwork and Schlemm's canal of an eye for reducing elevated intraocular pressure. Pulsed laser radiation is delivered from the distal end of a fiber-optic probe sufficient to cause photoablation of selected portions of the trabecular meshwork, the juxtacanalicular trabecular meshwork and an inner wall of Schlemm's canal in the target site. The fiber-optic probe may be advanced so as to create an aperture in the inner wall of Schlemm's canal in which fluid from the anterior chamber of the eye flows. The method and delivery system may further be used on any tissue types in the body.
US10159598B2
A full body convective blanket has a head portion, a body portion and a foot portion. The head and foot portions each taper in a decreasing manner from a corresponding opposite side of the body portion to the head and foot ends, respectively, so that the blanket has a rectangular shaped body portion and head and foot portions that are shaped in the form of isosceles trapezoids. Two elongate openings are provided longitudinally along the body portion sandwiching a non-inflatable area. An opening is provided at the head portion of the blanket.
US10159596B2
A method for promoting contraception by placing a contraceptive device within a uterus without blocking fallopian tubes may involve advancing a distal end of a delivery device through a cervix, advancing the contraceptive device comprising an elongate shape memory member out of the distal end of the delivery device and into the uterus, and limiting inferior migration of the contraceptive device within the uterus. Inferior migration may be limited by allowing the contraceptive device to assume a shape, when subjected to pressure that tends to cause a downward migration of the device within the uterus, in which an expandable middle portion of the device is expanded to contact the inner wall of the uterus and thus limit the downward migration of the device.
US10159584B2
An insertion instrument for expandable spinal implants includes an elongate member, a shuttle, and a worm gear. The elongate member includes a handle portion of a proximal end and an end effector on a distal end, wherein the end effector is configured to be releasably engaged to an expandable spinal implant. The shuttle is slidably disposed within a cavity defined within the end effector and includes a wedged shaped distal end configured to engage an expandable spinal implant. The worm gear is rotatably disposed within the cavity defined in the end effector and is in mechanical communication with the shuttle, such that rotation of the worm gear effectuates movement of the shuttle. Distal movement of the shuttle effectuates articulation of an expandable spinal implant. A method of performing surgery is also disclosed.
US10159571B2
An assembly and method for treating heart valve malfunction including mitral regurgitation wherein an elongated chord is movably disposed within an introductory sheath and an anchor is secured to a distal end thereof. The sheath and the chord are introduced into the heart chamber and penetrate and pass through the anterior mitral valve leaflet and preferably through the mitral valve orifice. The sheath and the chord are then extended transversely across the heart chamber and the distal end of the chord is anchored to an opposing portion of the heart wall. The sheath is withdrawn back along the length of the anchored chord through the anterior mitral valve leaflet and the proximal end of the chord is secured to the valve leaflet. The chord is secured under sufficient tension to maintain an intended positioning of the valve leaflet to overcome mitral regurgitation.
US10159566B2
A method and system provide an ophthalmic lens including a lens body having a chamber therein, a reservoir module coupled with the lens body and an optical fluid. At least part of the lens body is flexible. The reservoir module includes a reservoir and a heat sensitive portion bordering the reservoir. The reservoir has a reservoir volume and is fluidically connected with the chamber. The heat sensitive portion has a shape responsive to a temperature of at least forty five degrees Celsius such that the reservoir volume changes in response to at least part of the heat sensitive portion reaching the temperature. The optical fluid resides in the chamber and the reservoir. A change in the reservoir volume flows a portion of the optical fluid between the reservoir and the chamber such that the flexible portion of the lens body undergoes a shape change corresponding to a base power change.
US10159565B2
An intraocular lens, and a system and method of customizing at least one characteristic for an intraocular lens, in accordance with a regression that indicates the postoperative spherical aberration at the iris plane of a patient aphakic eye, in order to obtain a desired postoperative condition. The lens, system and method of customizing at least one characteristic of an intraocular lens may include measuring at least one biometric parameter of an eye at a desired light level, determining a desired postoperative condition of the eye, obtaining a corneal spherical aberration and an anterior chamber depth of the eye, and empirically calculating a spherical aberration at an iris or pupil plane of the eye, based on a regression formula comprising at least the corneal spherical aberration and the anterior chamber depth, and cross products thereof.
US10159564B2
A two-part accommodating intraocular lens (IOL) device for implantation in a capsular bag of a patient's eye. The IOL device includes a primary lens assembly and a power changing lens. The primary lens assembly includes a fixed lens and a peripherally disposed centration member. The centration member has a circumferential distal edge and a first coupling surface adjacent the circumferential distal edge. The power changing lens has an enclosed, fluid- or gel-filled lens cavity and haptic system disposed peripherally of the lens cavity. The haptic system has a peripheral engaging edge configured to contact the capsular bag and a second coupling surface. The first and second coupling surfaces are in sliding contact with one another to permit movement of the power changing lens relative to the primary lens assembly and also to maintain a spaced relationship between the fixed lens and the lens cavity during radial compression of the power changing lens.
US10159559B2
A stent-graft, including a generally tubular vascular graft of biocompatible material, and a plurality of bio-resorbable discrete annular members spaced apart along a longitudinal axis of the vascular graft and attached thereto.
US10159557B2
A hybrid modular endovascular graft wherein a main graft is sized to span at least a portion of a target vessel lesion in a large percentage of patients. Graft extensions may be secured to the main graft to extend the main graft and provide a sealing function for some applications.
US10159556B2
A method of implanting a vessel filter by a femoral approach comprising the steps of providing a sheath with a pusher and the vessel filter positioned therein and providing a sheath centering structure movable within the sheath. The centering structure has a distal portion expandable from a collapsed position within the sheath to an expanded position outside the sheath. The steps further include inserting the sheath into the vessel, moving the centering structure with respect to the sheath to enable the centering structure to move from the collapsed position to the expanded position to move a distal tip of the sheath away from a vessel wall and to a more centered position, and subsequently exposing the vessel filter from the sheath to enable the filter to move from a collapsed position to an expanded position. An implantation system is also provided.
US10159547B2
Apparatus for three-dimensionally measuring a row of teeth, having, on a shaft, an autonomously movable measuring head including a central measuring member and at least two lateral measuring members movably interconnected and defining a variable measurement space. The head, placed on a row of teeth, is guided therealong using guiding elements. Measuring units in the measuring members measure structures in the measurement space. Measurements are taken from multiple solid angle positions of the measuring units, the positions being preset in the measuring members, being adjusted by moving the measuring members, being taken by having mirrors move, in a controlled manner, the beam path generated by the measuring units, or being aligned by changing the angular position of the head relative to the shaft in an automatically controlled manner.
US10159541B2
An orthodontic system includes an orthodontic bracket that has a base configured to be attached to a surface of a tooth. The bracket includes a rotatable module having a first member and a second member, the rotatable module being rotatably coupled to the base, the first and second members being spaced apart to define an archwire slot configured to receive an archwire. The base includes a miniature gear system to drive the rotatable module relative to the base.
US10159537B2
The present invention provides a human tissue radiation protector with auxiliary method of radiotherapy, wherein said human tissue radiation protector comprises an interconnected expander, a syringe and a marker set onto the expander; said marker is made of radiopaque materials, which could assist the expander in positioning; as well as multiple radiation dosage detector capable of measurement the radiation dosage at different positions of the expander; said method allows to place the expander of the human tissue radiation protector between the tumor and nearby human tissues or organs so as to separate them, and assist the expander in positioning via the marker and measurement the radiation dosage via the radiation dosage detector.
US10159535B2
A medical robotic system that includes a robotically controlled surgical instrument. The system includes a constraint controller that constrains the movement of the instrument based on a predetermined parameter. The parameter may be a surgical space, wherein the instrument cannot be moved into, or alternatively cannot be moved out of, the space. The surgically constrained spaced may be defined through a telestrator screen that allows a surgeon to point and click the boundaries of the space.
US10159534B2
The robotic device for positioning a surgical instrument relative to the body of a patient includes a first robotic arm with a device for rigidly connecting to at least one surgical instrument, a device for anatomical realignment of the first arm by realigning an image that is of an area of the anatomy of the patient, and a device for compensating the movements of the first arm on the basis of detected movements. One version of the device includes at least one second robotic arm having sensors for detecting inner movements of the anatomical area, and a device for controlling the positioning of the first arm relative to sensed inner movements and to the outer movements induced in the second arm.
US10159533B2
A robotic surgical system comprises a horizontal platform to support a patient, a rail positioned about the horizontal platform, a carriage operatively coupled to and configured to translate along the rail, and a robotic arm operatively coupled to the carriage and translated about the patient by the rail. The robotic arm is configured to operate on the patient in a variety of positions provided by the translating carriage. The rail provides a rounded path for the carriage, such as a U-shaped path. The U-shaped path may comprise a first leg and a second leg, the first leg longer than the second leg. Furthermore, the system may comprise a plurality of carriages operatively coupled to the rail and a plurality of robotic arms. Also, the system may further comprise a central base which the horizontal platform can articulate relative to, such as by translating horizontally or vertically, rotating, or titling.
US10159530B2
Devices and methods for performing a surgical step or surgical procedure with visual guidance using an optical head mounted display are disclosed.
US10159529B2
Embodiments include a system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system configured to receive patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's heart, and create a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of the patient's heart based on the patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may be further configured to create a physics-based model relating to a blood flow characteristic of the patient's heart and determine a fractional flow reserve within the patient's heart based on the three-dimensional model and the physics-based model.
US10159528B2
A method and apparatus that utilizes a force-time integral for real time estimation of steam pop in catheter-based ablation systems. The apparatus measures the force exerted by a contact ablation probe on a target tissue and an energization parameter delivered to the ablation probe. The exerted force and energization parameter can be utilized to provide an estimation of the probability of steam pop. In one embodiment, the force and energization metrics can be used as feedback to establish a desired contact force and energization level combination to prevent steam popping.
US10159526B2
A cannula assembly for radiofrequency ablation of tissue. A cannula body includes a cannula distal section including electrically conductive material. A cannula bend is between proximal and distal sections, and a lumen extends between the proximal and distal ends. A side opening is within an outer side of the cannula body and opening into the lumen. A body is dimensioned to be inserted and seated within the lumen of the cannula. The body includes a body bend such that, depending on a rotational orientation of the body relative to the cannula body, a body distal section is seated within the lumen of the cannula distal section or extends out of the side opening. An electrically insulating sleeve may be disposed over the cannula body. Complimentary indicia on a cannula hub and a body hub provide an indication of the rotational orientation of the body relative to the cannula body.
US10159523B2
The present disclosure provides a plasma catheter including a tubular member; a conductive cylindrical member; a first electrode; and a second electrode. The tubular member defines a longitudinal lumen therethrough and has a proximal portion and a distal portion. The conductive cylindrical member is disposed at the distal portion of the tubular member. The first electrode is embedded in a first side of the tubular member and coupled to the conductive cylindrical member. The second electrode is embedded in a second side of the tubular member diametrically opposed to the first side. The second electrode is offset from the tubular member and aligned with a center axis defined by the conductive cylindrical member.
US10159519B2
A polyaxial bone anchoring device includes a receiving part having a longitudinal axis, a channel for receiving a rod, and an accommodation space for pivotably holding a head of a bone anchoring element, and a pressure member configured to be positioned in the receiving part and to exert pressure onto the head to lock the head in the receiving part. The pressure member includes a pressure exerting surface and a deformable portion having a free end, wherein the deformable portion is configured to assume at least a first configuration and a second configuration. The polyaxial bone anchoring device further includes a locking member configured to be inserted into the channel and to exert a force onto the deformable portion. When the head and the pressure member and the locking member are in the receiving part, the free end of the deformable portion is supported in the receiving part, and the locking member is movable in the channel along the longitudinal direction in such a manner that the locking member first contacts the deformable portion and exerts a force onto the deformable portion to bring the deformable portion from the first configuration into the second configuration thereby locking the head. Thereafter the locking member comes into contact with the rod and locks the rod.
US10159509B2
A method and dissecting device are disclosed for treating a stenotic vessel. The method including inserting a directional guide member of a dissecting device into a subintimal space of a blood vessel, the dissecting device including the directional guide member and a cutting member located proximally to a distal end of the directional guide member; and cutting a stenotic region within the blood vessel with the cutting member while advancing the distal end of the directional guide member through the subintimal space.
US10159506B2
Various exemplary methods and devices for actuating surgical instruments are provided. In general, a surgical device can include one or more actuation shafts configured to facilitate actuation of the device. In an exemplary embodiment, the device can include four actuation shafts, two actuation shafts to facilitate articulation of the device, one actuation shaft to facilitate opening and closing of jaws at a distal end of the device, and one actuation shaft to facilitate moving a cutting element of the device. In an exemplary embodiment, each of the one or more actuation shafts can include a distal elongate member and a proximal elongate member having a proximal end attached to a distal end of the distal elongate member. The proximal elongate member can be rigid, and the distal elongate member can be flexible.
US10159500B2
An oscillating surgical rasp for use in the surgical preparation of a glenoid of a patient prior to implantation of an augmented glenoid prosthesis comprises an attachment head and a cutting head secured to the attachment head. The attachment head has a body that extends along a longitudinal axis from a first end configured to be secured in a chuck of an oscillating tool to a second end secured to the cutting head. The first end of the body of the attachment head defines an axis of oscillation that extends orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the oscillating surgical rasp. Surgical methods for the use of such oscillating rasps are also disclosed.
US10159496B2
A bone saw and a method for using the bone saw. The bone saw includes a saw blade comprising a distal end, a proximal end, and a distal tip comprising a cutting edge. The flexible saw blade is rectangular in shape over at least a portion thereof. The bone saw further includes a saw handle base insert a saw shaft tip assembly comprising an opening through which the flexible saw blade is advanced. The saw shaft tip assembly may comprise a saw shaft tip comprising a channel comprising a distal end and a proximal end and a saw channel insert disposed within the channel of the saw shaft tip to form a lumen between the saw shift tip and the saw channel insert. The bone saw may further comprise a saw blade advancement mechanism coupled to the flexible saw blade for moving the flexible saw blade in discrete amounts.
US10159482B2
An end effector for a surgical instrument is disclosed. The end effector comprises a frame and a first jaw. The first jaw comprises a cartridge body, a plurality of fastener cavities, a longitudinal row of fastener drivers, a longitudinal row of first fasteners, and a longitudinal row of second fasteners. Each first fastener defines a first unfired height and each second fastener defines a second unfired height. The end effector further comprises a second jaw extending fixedly from the frame. The second jaw comprises an anvil configured to deform the first fasteners to a first fired height and the second fasteners to a second fired height. The end effector further comprises a firing member including a first portion configured to engage the first jaw and a second portion configured to engage the second jaw.
US10159478B2
A system for implanting an anchor into bone, the system comprising a curved cannulated guide for percutaneous insertion, having a proximal end and a distal end; a flexible drill insertable through the curved guide from the proximal end to the distal end, the flexible drill having a shaft having a flexible portion; and a flexible inserter for inserting a suture anchor into a bore at the anatomical site formed by the flexible drill, the flexible inserter having a shaft having a flexible portion, wherein the flexible portions of both the flexible drill and flexible inserter include a series of discrete, interlocking segments.
US10159477B2
The present disclosure relates to an anchor assembly. The anchor assembly includes an anchor defining a cavity and an opening to the cavity and an insertion member configured for arrangement within the anchor cavity. The insertion member may include a body having a proximal end portion and a flat distal end portion. A method of tissue repair and other anchor assemblies are also disclosed.
US10159473B2
A surgical device includes a first cable portion that engages a first component such that a first friction exists between the first cable portion and the first component. The surgical device includes a second cable portion having a first end operatively coupled to a first end of the first cable portion. The second cable portion engages a second component such that a second friction exists between the second cable portion and the second component, such that the second friction is greater than the first friction.
US10159472B2
A method for collapsing a target vein in a patient. The method comprises providing an intravascular irritation element having a plurality of mechanical irritating objects, inserting the intravascular irritation element into a venous lumen of a target vein, and irritating the target vein by moving the plurality of mechanical irritating objects in contact with the inner surface thereof, thereby triggering a collapse of the target vein.
US10159464B2
Ultrasonic imaging apparatus or techniques can include obtaining at least an approximation of samples of reflected ultrasonic energy and constructing a representation of an imaging plane within the tissue region. Such apparatus or techniques can include separately determining, for respective focusing locations respective first sums of at least approximated complex samples of reflected ultrasonic energy obtained via respective first lines of transducers, and separately determining, for the specified focusing location, a second sum of at least some the respective first sums of at least approximated complex samples of reflected ultrasonic energy, the second sum corresponding to a second line of transducers in the ultrasonic transducer array. The separately determining the first or second sums of at least approximated complex samples can include phase-rotating at least some of the complex samples. The second line of transducers can be orthogonal to respective first lines in the transducer plane.
US10159459B2
A sound localization system includes a multi-mic sound collector and a computing device. The multi-mic sound collector includes a carrier and a plurality of sound receivers removably attached to the sound receivers. The computing device includes a data communicator, a synchronizer, and a processor. The data communicator receives preprocessed audio data from the multi-mic sound collector. The synchronizer synchronizes the preprocessed audio data. The processor analyzes the synchronized audio data to identify and localize a target audio feature. A sound localization method of the sound localization system is also provided. The present invention facilitates monitoring of the functioning or physiological signs of a monitored subject and allows early detection and diagnosis of abnormalities or diseases.
US10159457B2
An X-ray diagnostic apparatus comprises: an X-ray detector including a first detector and a second detector capable of simultaneously detecting X-rays irradiated from an X-ray tube; and processing circuitry configured to correct, by using information of a second image that is based on an output from the second detector, a first image that is based on an output from the first detector.
US10159455B2
An X-ray diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes an X-ray tube, judging circuitry, and grid controlling circuitry. The X-ray tube is configured to radiate X-rays. The judging circuitry is configured to judge whether a voltage should be applied to a grid of the X-ray tube or not, in accordance with a radiation condition. The grid controlling circuitry is configured to apply the voltage to the grid, if the judging circuitry has determined that the voltage should be applied.
US10159451B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a 2D position-sensitive detector assembly comprising at least three substantially planar detector portions arranged in overlapping relationship as viewed normal to a plane of the detector portions, each detector portion comprising an array of substantially parallel, linear detector elements, the detector elements of respective detector portions being mutually non-parallel, the detector elements each being configured to generate one or more electrical signals in response to interaction of a particle of radiation therewith.
US10159448B2
An X-ray CT apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry collects pieces of image data in a plurality of time phases that contain at least a part of a coronary artery of a heart. The processing circuitry acquires image indexes regarding the pieces of image data. The processing circuitry extracts a set of image data from combinations of pieces of image data having a larger time interval than a predetermined time interval, of the pieces of image data, based on the image indexes in the respective pieces of image data. The processing circuitry performs fluid analysis regarding the coronary artery based on the extracted set of image data to obtain a fluid parameter regarding the coronary artery.
US10159445B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an improved transformation method whereby the peripheral pulse waveform is filtered to separate different phases which make up the waveform. The separate phases are transformed before being re-combined to provide an estimated intra-arterial transfer function. For example, in one embodiment the peripheral pulse waveform is filtered by a first high pass filter, and a copy of the peripheral pulse waveform filtered by a second high pass filter, having a different cut-off frequency. The two filtered waveforms may then be further processed, for example by being added back to original wave-form, and are then multiplexed together in a time division manner to provide a final waveform. For example, the part of the first filtered waveform corresponding to the systolic phase may be combined with the part of the second filtered waveform corresponding to the diastolic phase to produce the final waveform, and the respective filter cut-off frequencies may be chosen to extract characteristics of the respective phases of the heart.
US10159439B2
Devices and methods are described for a hand-held hydration monitor including a micro-impulse radar component; a data storage component including stored information associated with reference reflected pulses correlated with reference hydration states; a user interface; and a computing component including a processor and circuitry, the circuitry including micro-impulse radar control circuitry configured to actuated the micro-impulse radar component, distance-finding circuitry configured to determine a distance between the hand-held hydration monitor and a target location on a subject, and hydration determination circuitry configured to receive information associated with one or more reflected pulses from a target tissue associated with the target location on the subject and to compare the information associated with the one or more reflected pulses from the target tissue with the stored information associated with the reference reflected pulses correlated with the reference hydration states to determine a relative hydration state of the target tissue.
US10159438B2
A wearable device is described. The wearable device comprises: a device body configured to be secured in contact with a subject; a first sensor borne by the device body that is activatable to measure a heart rate of the subject; and control logic configured to activate the first sensor during a monitoring period during which the subject is determined to be in a sleep period.
US10159435B1
The present invention discloses a mm-wave radar sensor to be deployed as emotion sensor, being inherently small size, and being able to be produced in low cost manner. The key system relevant components are utilization of mm-wave integrated radar, specific planar high-gain antenna radiation patterns, and analyzing the vital signs of objects by the same apparatus. The objects are human beings with vital signs vibrations, and animals with vital sign vibrations, where the system calculates and detects the frequency of vital sign rates: heartbeats and respiration frequencies. The values of vital signs rates as well as the changes of vital sign rates are used together with objects vital signs profile to calculate the emotion value. Emotion value may be additionally enhanced by specific movement pattern events added additionally in the emotion status evaluation. Emotion value can be information about object mood or simple alert of the excitements or calmness, as well as information of the increased or decreased excitement. Preferably, the proposed apparatus is using 60 GHz ISM Band integrated radar front, working in Doppler mode. Physical size of proposed apparatus in range: 4×2×1 cm or smaller.
US10159430B1
A personal cloud structure for a portable computing device such as a tablet personal computer (PC), mobile phones, portable media players, or the like. The personal cloud structure may be fitted with memory, a network connection, two-way wireless charging, external memory slots, external connections and other components to create a portable personal cloud. The personal cloud structure may be a wearable device capable of detecting when the wearer has fallen and sending out an emergency signal.
US10159429B2
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the detection of the body position, especially while sleeping. More particularly, the invention relates to how the main body positions during sleep can be derived from the distribution of the reflection of a projected IR light from a subject's body under a blanket. Additionally, the breathing signals can be analyzed to determine the body posture.
US10159428B1
An apparatus, system and process for measuring, tracking, and analyzing unintentional muscle movements associated with upper body freezing of a user while using a handheld tool are described. The method may include receiving signals from a motion sensor of a handheld tool, the signals indicating motions of the handheld tool when used by a user during an activity. The method may also include analyzing the motions of the handheld tool. The method may also include detecting motions of the handheld tool having one or more predetermined characteristics. Furthermore, the method can include determining that the user experienced an upper extremity freezing while using the handheld tool during the activity based on the detected one or more predetermined characteristics.
US10159427B2
A feedback device determines when a person has placed enough weight upon his/her foot to safely take the next step, and then communicate that information to the person via a haptic device on the person's ankle or an audio, visual and/or vibration feedback display on an application on the person's smart phone. Three or more sensors in an insole between the person's foot and shoe determine the force of the person's leg. The force data is sent to a microprocessor where the force data is processed and compared with a baseline. If the processed data exceeds the baseline, the microprocessor will activate the haptic device on the person's ankle to vibrate and/or transmit the processed data through a wireless communications device to an application on a smart phone to activate an audio, visual and/or vibration feedback display on the application. The person will then safely take the next step.
US10159404B2
An endoscope apparatus includes: a light source that emits white light or narrow-band light; an image sensor having pixels; a color filter including a filter unit having a plurality of filters in which the number of filters for passing green wavelength band light and the number of filters for passing blue wavelength band light satisfy predetermined conditions; a first gain adjustment unit that adjusts a gain of an electric signal generated by the image sensor; a demosaicing processing unit that generates an image signal of a color component passing through a filter based on the electric signal whose gain has been adjusted by the first gain adjustment unit; a color conversion processing unit that performs color separation on an image signal when the light source unit emits the white light; and a second gain adjustment unit that adjusts a gain of each image signal subjected to the color conversion processing.
US10159403B2
A capsule endoscope system includes: a capsule endoscope having a first imaging module configured to direct an imaging direction in a first direction, image a first imaging range, and output first image data, a second imaging module configured to direct an imaging direction in a second direction different from the first direction, image a second imaging range that does not overlap the first imaging range, and output second image data, and a first wireless communication interface configured to transmit the first image data and the second image data; and a reception apparatus having a second wireless communication interface configured to receive the first image data and the second image data. The capsule endoscope or the reception apparatus has a moving direction detecting section, a moving speed detecting section, a speed determining section, and an imaging instruction section.
US10159402B2
An optical access apparatus for receiving an endoscope to permit visualization during passage through tissue includes an access member dimensioned for insertion through body tissue. The access member defines a longitudinal axis and has a longitudinal opening for receiving an endoscope. The access member has a closed penetrating end adapted to pass through tissue. The closed penetrating end is transparent to permit visualization of tissue with the endoscope. The optical access apparatus further includes a locking collet coaxially mounted relative to the longitudinal axis of the access member and a manual member mounted adjacent the locking collet and operatively engageable therewith. The locking collet has internal surfaces defining an internal passage to permit passage of the surgical instrument. The manual member is adapted for rotational movement about the longitudinal axis to reduce an internal dimension of the internal passage of the locking collet to cause the internal surfaces of the locking collet to securely engage the surgical instrument.
US10159399B2
There is provided a dust suction apparatus comprising: a base; a side frame wherein the base and frame defines a dust suction space; a dust suction panel disposed in the dust suction space; and a dust-collection device air-communicated with the dust suction panel, wherein the dust suction panel includes a plurality of dust suction panel modules, wherein the dust suction panel modules are mounted in the dust suction space in a modular fashion to allow the plurality of dust suction panel modules to be removed individually.
US10159398B2
A dishwasher rack for a dish washing appliance. The dishwasher rack may be positionable between a stowed position and a deployed position. A motor may drive the dishwasher rack. The motor may be coupled to the dishwasher rack by a rack and pinion, a worm screw, and/or the like. The dishwasher rack may be in a manual configuration and/or automatic configuration.
US10159391B2
A surface cleaning apparatus has a main body having a main body actuator operable between an open position and a closed position. An assembly removably mounted to the main body has an air treatment member having an openable door and an assembly door lock, the assembly door lock comprising an actuation portion operable between an open position and a closed position and lock portion operable between an engaged position in which the door is secured in a closed position and a disengaged position in which the door is openable. When the assembly is mounted to the main body, the main body actuator is operatively connected to the actuation portion of the assembly door lock whereby when the main body actuator is moved from the closed position to the open position, the actuation portion is moved.
US10159381B2
A charcoal grill includes a vessel configured to hold and burn charcoal for cooking food. The charcoal grill may include a receptacle moveable between a first position in which the receptacle is positioned for collecting ashes from charcoal burned in the vessel and a second position in which the receptacle is separated from the vessel for disposal of the collected ashes. Additionally, or alternatively, the vessel may define a passage extending from an exterior side of the vessel to an interior side of the vessel for permitting a starter device to be inserted into the passage for igniting charcoal within the vessel. Additionally, or alternatively, the charcoal grill may include a vent system including at least one vent opening extending through a portion of the vessel, a vent cover movable with respect to the vent opening between a closed position and an open position, and at least one calibration associated with the vent cover between the closed position and the open position.
US10159373B2
A reception box includes: a casing; a first door that is provided in the casing, and is opened and closed by a sender; a second door that is provided in the casing, and is opened and closed by a receiver; and a loading platform that is provided inside the casing with at least the first door in a closed state. The loading platform includes a first bed portion on the first door side, a second bed portion on the opposite side of the first bed portion, and a rotation shaft provided between the first bed portion and the second bed portion. The first bed portion moves up and the second bed portion moves down when a parcel is placed on the loading platform. The first door is locked when the first door is closed with the parcel placed on the loading platform.
US10159372B2
A work platform has a top member with a surface sized to receive a user's feet thereon while standing and a bottom member coupled to the top member. The bottom member has a width and length generally equal to the width and length of the top member. The bottom member has a curved surface generally at the longitudinal center of the work platform defined at least partially by a radius of curvature of between about 100 mm and about 850 mm. The curved surface induces instability under a user standing on the top member to thereby facilitate active muscle engagement in the user's legs while standing on the work platform.
US10159347B2
A chair back height adjustment mechanism comprises a guide having an abutment surface at a lateral side of the guide which extends along an adjustment direction. The chair back height adjustment mechanism comprises an adjusting device supported on the guide so as to be displaceable along the adjustment direction. The adjusting device comprises a carrier, a coupling member which is moveably supported on the carrier, and a bias mechanism. The coupling member has a contact face shaped to abut on the abutment surface of the guide and a slanted face. The bias mechanism is operative to apply a force onto the slanted face to urge the contact face of the coupling member against the abutment surface of the guide.
US10159345B2
A display supporting apparatus includes a supporting unit having first and second support frames, and a resilient mechanism having a guide member, a slide member removably and slidably engageable with the guide member, and a resilient member. The supporting unit is operable between folded and unfolded states, in which the first and second support frames are moved toward and away from each other, respectively. The resilient member is compressed between the first and second support frames when the supporting unit is in the folded state.
US10159344B2
A pull-out drawer guide having a cabinet rail for attaching to a furniture cabinet, a drawer rail for attaching to a drawer, a roller carriage having rollers, which, during relative movement of the rails, roll on a guide face of the respective rail. The pull-out guide includes on the cabinet rail, an automatic retraction mechanism which, by means of a catch element, catches the drawer rail in a closure movement and moves it to a closed position relative to the cabinet rail. The cabinet rail has a stop element, and the drawer rail has an abutment element, wherein, at a catch position of the cabinet rail, a distance between the stop and abutment elements is smaller than a maximum length of movement of a coupling element of a force accumulator of the automatic retraction mechanism, the distance being parallel to a direction of movement of the drawer rail.
US10159337B2
In the specification and drawings an accessory cart is described and shown with a base, a housing element that is connected to the base and extends upward from the base, and a platform, which is connected to the housing element with the height of the platform being automatically adjustable.
US10159336B2
An electrically-lifted computer desk and office desk thereof, wherein the computer desk comprises a bottom plate, a driving mechanism, an intermediate support member, a first side-support member, a second side-support member and a face plate, wherein the driving mechanism is fixedly disposed on the bottom plate; the face plate is fixedly disposed on the first side-support member and the second side-support member; and the driving mechanism drives the face plate to rise or fold via the intermediate support member, the first side-support member and the second side-support member.
US10159321B1
A ball cap storage apparatus including a caged upper frame and a caged lower frame. The caged upper frame further includes an obround first support member, a plurality of dome-shaped second support members, a dome-shaped third support member, and a bill-shaped fourth member. The caged lower frame has an obround first support portion and a bill-shaped second support portion attached to and extended outward from a bottom section of the obround first support portion. The bill-shaped second support portion is hingedly attached to the bill-shaped fourth member. At least one locking clip is rotatably attached to at least one of the obround first support member and the bill-shaped fourth member. The at least one locking clip is selectively engageable with at least one of the obround first support portion and the bill-shaped second support portion.
US10159318B2
A rolling luggage bag includes a cover coupled to a base, the base including a first side opposite a second side and a bottom face extending there between, a first wheel and a second wheel coupled to the base, the first and second wheels configured to rotate about an axis of rotation and separated by a first distance along the axis of rotation, at least a portion of each of the first and second wheels projecting from the first side and from the bottom face, and a third wheel and a fourth wheel coupled to the bottom face, the third and fourth wheels configured to independently swivel about a respective swivel axis and separated by a second distance extending between the swivel axes. When the rolling luggage is in an upright position, the first, second, third, and fourth wheels all contact a surface the luggage bag stands on.
US10159316B2
An intelligent shading charging system, includes a housing having a rechargeable battery installed therein, a lower support assembly connected to the housing and an upper support assembly, the upper support assembly including one or more arm support assemblies. The intelligent shading charging system further includes a hinging assembly connecting a lower support assembly to an upper support assembly to allow an upper support assembly to rotate with respect to the lower support assembly, one or more arms connected to the one or more are support assemblies, a shading fabric; and one or more solar cell arrays mounted on or integrated within the shading fabric.
US10159311B2
An embroidered vamp process includes the following steps: (1) designing a vamp manufacture drawing by a computer; (2) according to the design drawing of step (1), cutting different pieces of cloth into base fabric of the vamp and a splice component of the vamp respectively by a laser; (3) typesetting the splice component cut in step (2) on the base fabric, then embroidering the splice component on the base fabric according to an embroidery thread pattern of the drawing by an embroidery machine; (4) cutting out the redundant base fabric of the vamp along the edge the splice component by, once again, the laser, forming the vamp of the finished product shoe model. An embroidered vamp comprises a vamp body, said vamp body comprising the base fabric and the splice component, said splice component being embroidered on the surface of base fabric by embroidery thread.
US10159310B2
An article of footwear comprises a sole structure, and an upper. The upper includes a front section and a rear section, both secured to the sole structure. The front section is fixed to the sole structure at least partially forward of the rear section and includes a medial portion and a lateral portion that together define a foot-receiving cavity over the sole structure, and a foot entry opening of the foot-receiving cavity. A zipper is secured to the medial portion and to the lateral portion. The zipper includes a slider movable between a zipped position and an unzipped position forward of the zipped position. An anchor is secured to one of the front section or the sole structure forward of the zipped position of the slider, and a cord is engaged with the zipper and with the rear section of the upper, and routed through the anchor.
US10159305B2
An article of footwear may include a sole structure and an upper secured to the sole structure and configured to receive a foot. The sole structure may comprise a lasting board and sole plate construction. One of the lasting board and sole plate may have an opening along the center such that there is little to no overlap, or lamination, between the lasting board and the sole plate along the center of the article of footwear. Such a construction may eliminate weight while maintaining the support provided by the layers of the sole. Additionally, such a construction may enhance flexibility. In some embodiments, the article of footwear may include an insole. In some embodiments, the sole structure of the article of footwear may consist of an insole, a lasting board, and a sole plate.
US10159288B2
A cartomizer for an electronic smoking article, an electronic smoking article capable of providing a smoking experience without combusting tobacco, and a method of achieving a smoking experience without combusting tobacco are disclosed. The cartomizer can include an annular fluid reservoir having an air flow channel therein; a liquid material within the fluid reservoir; and a heater, which surrounds the fluid reservoir and is operable to heat the fluid reservoir to a temperature sufficient to at least initially volatilize the liquid material contained within the fluid reservoir to form a saturated vapor within the air flow channel.
US10159277B2
A smoking article is provided, including a combustible heat source having opposed front and rear faces; an aerosol-forming substrate downstream of the rear face of the heat source; a first heat-conducting element including one or more radially inner layers of heat-conductive material overlying a rear portion of the combustible heat source; and a second heat-conducting element including one or more radially outer layers of heat-conductive material overlying at least a portion of the aerosol-forming substrate, such that the one or more radially outer layers of heat-conductive material do not overlie the one or more radially inner layers of heat-conductive material.
US10159271B2
A method of cooking a snack food, the method comprising the steps of: a. providing a bed comprising a plurality of particles; b. heating and moving the particles in the bed to form a mobile cooking medium in the form of a heated, mobile bed of particles; c. providing a plurality of snack food precursor elements in the cooking medium thereby to cook the snack food precursor elements to form a plurality of cooked snack food pieces, wherein the heated, mobile particles transfer heat into the snack food precursor elements by thermal conduction; and d. separating the plurality of snack food pieces and the cooking medium.
US10159267B2
An electromechanical nixtamalization system consisting of a rotary reactor, which turns on a horizontal axis and has a single-piece inner steel container without internal blades. It has resistors, a ceramic fiber layer, and a detachable stainless steel plate, and is fed by the maize grains introduced into an upper receiving hopper, and a cooling vat with a lid; and an interior and intermediate surface, as well as a cooling chamber located between the interior and intermediate walls, coated in a high-pressure polyurethane lining.
US10159266B2
An edible pet chew comprises a member of Artificial Bully Stick formed from a composition material with pizzle ingredient imitating existing traditional bully stick products, serving as an alternative to traditional bully stick. The imitation may include the structure, and/or appearance, and/or size, and/or color, and/or texture, and/or flavor, and/or durability, and/or palatability of traditional bully stick. Preferably it is an extruded stick processed by an extruder.
US10159264B2
Animal feeds and feed components are provided which comprise tunicate material. The tunicate material may be whole tunicate, e.g. washed and/or dried, or a tunicate extract. Preferred tunicate extracts include protein- and/or lipid-enhanced extracts. Also provided are uses of tunicates and tunicate extracts as, or in, animal feeds and methods for feeding animals, e.g. fish, comprising administering feeds containing tunicate material.
US10159263B2
An apparatus and method for making frozen food products from a fruit puree, i.e. a flowable banana meat or a flowable blend of fruit meat and other edible ingredients. A composition that includes peeled bananas and at least one antioxidant may be mixed in a mixing device at ambient temperature and under less than one atmosphere of pressure, forming the puree. The temperature of the puree is reduced to a semi-frozen state by passing the puree through a heat exchanger. The semi-frozen puree is then formed into food products with a pre-determined volume, shape, and weight by a molding or extrusion process. Sticks, if desired, may be inserted, and the shaped puree is then frozen to solidified cores. The solidified cores may be coated with chocolate and treated with other edible toppings and then packaged.
US10159257B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a biologically pure culture of a fungicidal Paenibacillus sp. strain comprising a variant fusaricidin synthetase lacking a functional adenylation domain in the third module. The present invention also provides a composition comprising a biologically pure culture of a fungicidal Paenibacillus sp. strain or a cell-free extract thereof comprising at least one Paeniserine and at least one Paeniprolixin. Also provided are isolated compounds and methods of treating a plant to control a plant disease with the disclosed compositions and compounds.
US10159253B2
The present invention teaches a green non-toxic biocidal application technology that helps a person find, evaluate and produce the perfect pathogenic solution for safely exterminating unwanted, pathogenic and deadly organisms while contributing positively to regenerative and sustainable future ecosystems. This method enables the identification, selection and production of biocidal bioavailable pure silver particles and ions that are indefinitely clear, non-toxic, safe, ultra-small size=0.04-0.99 nanometers antimicrobial solutions for pure liquid or atomized implementation that are customized for completely annihilating specific targeted unwanted, pathogenic, deadly and/or disease-causing organisms. These custom formulated solutions can: (a) completely and safely annihilate many unwanted and/or pathogenic organisms that are contributing to dangerous and deadly pandemic conditions throughout the world, including: Gram Negative and Gram Positive Pathogenic Bacteria, and Gram Indeterminant Bacteria; (b) continually prevent or inhibit unwanted microbial and pathogenic growths; (c) save and/or keep things from decaying, decomposition, deterioration, spoiling, purification or fermentation; (d) safely resist or retard natural destructive processes; and, (e) be used as medical devices to significantly retard the carious destructive processes of nature with custom anti-microbial properties. There are nine (9) Restrictive Aspects that are integral, inter-dependent, inter-related and inseparable embodiments of this method and invention. The First Aspect is the primary restrictive embodiment requirement is a low-voltage colloidal silver generator. The Second Aspect stipulates that the silver nanoparticles must be suspended in a solution of super-distilled, less than 2 ppm, aqueous pure water medium. The Third Aspect, considered the most important of all, is the size that yields the best results usually ranges from 0.04 nm to 0.99 nm. The Fourth Aspect, second in importance, is the total ideal number of bioavailable single individual mini-silver particles and ion parts per million of individual single unattached bioavailable pure nano-sized silver particles. The Fifth Aspect constitutes of maintaining a consistently high biocidal ideal kill ratio that results in a lethal cold high-level annihilation agent that kills greater than ninety percent. The Sixth Aspect is an ideal death curve of the specific targeted organisms. The Seventh Aspect comprises the absolutely crystal clarity of the solutions which also includes conducting field studies. The Eighth Aspect is the capability of the biocidal solutions for selective genocide which are harmless to friendly probiotics. The Ninth Aspect means that the biocidal applicational does not produce any toxic waste, and contributes positively to a regenerative and sustainable future.
US10159251B2
The present invention is directed to pesticidal mixtures comprising sabadilla alkaloids and azadirachtin and methods of controlling pests including insects and mites by application of pesticidal mixtures comprising sabadilla alkaloids and azadirachtin.
US10159244B2
The present invention relates to a novel method for the preparation of a pooled or mixed population of cryopreserved cells (e.g. hepatocytes). In particular, the invention entails the rapid thaw of cells (e.g. hepatocytes), donated from a single individual, which are mixed to create a heterogeneous population and then cryopreserved. The invention also concerns preparations of multi-cryopreserved cells to increase viability prior to immediate use. The process entails reducing exposure to chemical and physical stresses to increase the resultant number of viable cells.
US10159240B2
A benthic barrier in which a polygonal shaped mat having straight sides is mounted on a similarly polygonal frame, but in which the frame sides bow out slightly between corners, causing the mat to stretch slightly and become taut. The frame comprises a plurality of straight leg members and a number of corner members as required by said polygonal shape. The corner members encompass interior angles which are from about 1 to about 5 degrees greater than the interior angle of the polygon defined by the straight sides of the mat. The frame member legs are rigid, but slightly flexible such that when assembled into the mat as an assembled frame, the straight legs are forced to bow out slightly between the corners, pulling the mat taut.
US10159235B2
A fishing reel which includes a covering or enclosure that can also be functionally used as a toy car when detached from the fishing rod. The fishing reel functions as traditional spincast fishing reel when attached to the fishing rod. The reel enclosure is formed in the shape of a toy vehicle and is detachable from the fishing rod. Once removed, the reel enclosure can be reassembled and used as a toy vehicle independent of the rod.
US10159233B2
A combination paddle and fishing rod device is disclosed. The device may incorporate a single ended paddle or double ended paddle. In any embodiment, the device allows a fishing reel to be mounted to the shaft of the paddle. The shaft forms a portion of the fishing rod supporting one or more eyelets for guiding fishing line from a fishing reel mounted to the shaft. In one embodiment, the eyelets are connected to the shaft and or an oar blade. In another embodiment, a short fishing rod section having one or more eyelets is connected to the shaft. The device is configured to permit fishing while a user propels a watercraft.
US10159222B2
An object of the invention is to provide a lead storage apparatus capable of selecting a lead unreeling range in which the lead can be unreeled and reeled by a user's operation. A lead storage apparatus 10 includes a reel 50, a rotational member 130 having an engaged section 132, an engaging member 70, and a switch member 140 that can restrict rotation of the rotational member 130 with rotation of the reel 50 in a normal direction by engaging an engaging section 74 with the engaged section 132, and switch the lead between a engageable state in which the engaged section 132 can engage with the engaging section 74 and an unengageable state in which the engaged section 132 cannot engage with the engaging section 74.
US10159211B2
A new dill variety designated ‘Teddy’ is described. ‘Teddy’ is a dill variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
US10159208B1
A novel maize variety designated PH42YG and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH42YG with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH42YG through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH42YG or a locus conversion of PH42YG with another maize variety.
US10159207B1
A novel maize variety designated PH41W6 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH41W6 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH41W6 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH41W6 or a locus conversion of PH41W6 with another maize variety.
US10159201B2
The present embodiments are directed to apparatus and methods for cutting an object. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a cutting device and an actuation device operatively coupled to the cutting device. A guide structure may be coupled at least partially between the cutting device and the actuation device. A supporting framework may provide a guiding path for linear advancement or retraction of the guide structure, and in turn linear advancement or retraction the cutting device, upon actuation of the actuation device.
US10159195B2
Provided are systems and methods for plant stress mitigation. The systems provided comprises three key components to perform a self-standardized algorithm for identifying/measuring significant stress conditions within a short time window (for example 1 to 3 days). After identification of a significant stress condition, plants under stress can be treated with a composition comprising an ethylene synthesis or perception inhibitor, for example 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP). Also provided are methods for identifying plant genes in response to stress using the system disclosed herein.
US10159193B2
A rectangular baler comprising a bale chamber delimited by a plurality of walls including a movable wall section, an actuator for exerting a pressure on the movable wall section, a plunger for compressing crop material in the bale chamber, and a density control system including: a position calculating module configured to calculate a new position for the movable wall section based on an input representative for bale density of compressed crop material in the bale chamber, and a position control module configured to control the actuator to position the movable wall section in the calculated position.
US10159189B2
A header for a combine harvester, the header including a frame mountable to a forward end of the combine harvester, at least one row unit mounted to the frame to receive and process stalks of corn, a stomping shoe mounted to the frame behind the row unit to flatten stalks of corn, and a stalk splitter mounted to frame behind the row unit to split stalks of corn. The face of the stomping shoe is provided with a plurality of structures to guide each stalk of corn along a predefined path on the face while the stalks of corn are flattened. The stalk splitter includes a disk blade biased against the ground for splitting stalks of corn after they are processed by row units of the corn header.
US10159177B2
An agricultural product application system for an agricultural vehicle includes a belt, a drive roll, and a flow control system, wherein the flow control system includes a gates and actuators, each gate controls a respective flow of the agricultural product to a respective output of the agricultural product application system based at least in part on a position of the gate relative to the belt, and each actuator is coupled to at least one respective gate to control the position of the at least one respective gate relative to the belt. The agricultural product application system also includes a controller that instructs each actuator to control the position of the at least one respective gate relative to the belt based at least in part on a speed of the agricultural vehicle, a turning radius of the agricultural vehicle, a prescription map, a field map, or a combination thereof.
US10159175B1
A floating row cleaner assembly comprising a tool arm row cleaner mount, a row cleaner frame mounting plate, a row cleaner frame pivotally attached to the tool arm row cleaner mount and the row cleaner frame mounting plate. The periphery of the u-shaped row cleaner frame is composed of a combination of angled and curved portions to reduce the length and width of the frame to allow row cleaners to be used in combination with a coulter, or other tillage tool, and planter row unit spacing below 30 inches, while allowing necessary clearance between the row cleaner(s) and the coulter for terrain responsive operation.
US10159173B2
A castor wheel support for a towed agricultural implement having a frame positioned parallel to the soil over which the implement is towed. Parallel links interconnect the castor support with the frame. The castor support has a spindle with a longitudinal axis A for supporting a castor mounting structure for pivoting movement. The castor mounting structure supports an axle hub assembly and a wheel. The axis A of the spindle is angled forward 3 degrees to minimize wobbling.
US10165718B2
Provided are a component replenishment support method, and a component replenishment support system of a component mounting line that are capable of preventing a decrease in facility operation rate due to component shortage, in which a component shortage time of each part feeder is predicted, a component replenishment work is started from the present time in a case where the component shortage time is earlier than the virtual work end time, a work end time of the work target selection feeders in sequence of early time by using the part feeder within the warning consideration start time as a target is predicted, and a worker is warned of the component replenishment to the selection feeder of which the work end time is within the warning start time, in a case where the selection feeder of which the component shortage time is earlier than the work end time is not present.
US10165714B2
A noise current absorber including a pair of housing parts capable of housing each of the pair of magnetic bodies, wherein the pair of magnetic bodies forms an overall cylindrical shape or a ring shape when abutted against each other; an engaging portion and an engaged portion capable of maintaining a closed state of the pair of housing parts; and a wall molded integrally with at least a first housing part of the pair of housing parts, adjacent to an abutting surface of at least the first housing part against a second housing part of the pair of housing parts, the wall protruding to a side where the second housing part abuts.
US10165711B2
An electrical device comprising electrical components, the electrical components of the electrical device being arranged in at least two separate compartments (1, 2) having walls, wherein the at least two compartments are substantially closed and arranged at a distance from each other and the walls of the at least two compartments are arranged to form walls of a cooling channel (7) between the compartments (1, 2).
US10165710B1
A data center can include at least one computing room, and at least one rack system disposed in the computing room. The rack system includes a plurality of racks each having a rack housing and a plurality of computing devices mounted to the rack housing. The data center can further include a cooling system that includes a modular air distribution duct configured to direct cold air to different ones of the racks.
US10165704B2
An external power feeding apparatus is portable and mountable in a vehicle, incorporating a power supply unit, and capable of supplying power to outside. A pair of frameworks is arranged on both sides of the power supply unit to face each other at a predetermined interval and formed into a substantially rectangular frame shape. A first connecting member connects first sides of the pair of frameworks and is formed into a substantial U shape. A second connecting member connects second sides of the pair of frameworks, which are provided to intersect one end sides of the first sides and is formed into a substantial U shape. A third connecting member connects third sides of the pair of frameworks, which are provided to intersect other end sides of the first sides and is formed into a substantial U shape.
US10165701B2
In a converter circuit of an electric power conversion device, an adjustment portion divides a voltage of a battery input to a semiconductor module, by a first capacity element and a second capacity element that are connected in series to each other. Then, a middle point between the first capacity element and the second capacity element is connected to a cooler to fix a potential thereof. The electric power conversion device can ensure that a waveform of a surge voltage that is generated on a creepage surface between a lead frame terminal and the cooler has a negative voltage range (a range where an offset voltage is applied).
US10165693B2
The present invention relates to an attachment device for micro devices, comprising a main body and an attachment member seat in connection with the main body. The main body provides a receiving space to accommodate a functional module element. The attachment member seat provides a cavity to accommodate at least one attachment member to attach the attachment device to an article. A wearable micro device comprising the functional module element and the attachment device is also disclosed.
US10165684B2
A fluid control apparatus is provided which makes it possible to effortlessly perform cable connection even when a plurality of the fluid control apparatuses are disposed adjacent to each other. The fluid control apparatus includes fluid control units to control a flow rate or pressure of a fluid, an electric circuit board to send and receive a signal to and from the fluid control units, a casing to accommodate therein the fluid control units and the electric circuit board, and an apparatus-side connector interposed between the electric circuit board and a cable electrically connected thereto. The fluid control apparatus further includes a connector board configured to mount thereon the apparatus-side connector. The connector board is secured to the electric circuit board with at least a part of the connector board in surface contact with the electric circuit board, or overlapping the electric circuit board with a clearance therebetween.
US10165678B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel which displays an image with light and a backlight unit which provides the light to the display panel. The backlight unit includes a first light source, a second light source and a circuit board. The circuit board includes in a top plan view, a first edge lengthwise extending parallel to a first direction and a second edge lengthwise extending parallel to a second direction crossing the first direction, and a sidewall portion extending from the bottom portion. In a third direction crossing the first and second directions, the sidewall portion includes first and second sidewall portions respectively extending from the first and second edges, and on which the first and second light sources are mounted.
US10165675B2
An ultra-wideband assembly is provided. The assembly includes a non-conductive tapered core having a conductive wire wound on an outer surface of the non-conductive tapered core, a low-frequency inductor coupled to the non-conductive tapered core via the distal end of the conductive wire and configured to allow mounting of the non-conductive tapered core at an angle with respect to the circuit board. The low frequency inductor is being disposed on a dielectric board configured to be coupled to the circuit board. The assembly includes an ultra-wideband capacitor coupled to the non-conductive tapered core via the proximate end of the conductive wire, the ultra-wideband capacitor being also coupled to the transmission line on the dielectric board.
US10165674B1
A circuit board includes a dielectric layer, a conductive layer disposed on a surface of the dielectric layer, and an electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structure disposed in the dielectric layer. The electromagnetic bandgap structure includes a via and a signal suppression board. Two opposite ends of the via are respectively connected to the electrically conductive layer and the signal suppression board respectively. The signal suppression board has at least one hollow pattern.
US10165673B2
A wiring board of an electronic device includes: a board terminal connected to a semiconductor device (semiconductor component); a wire formed in a first wiring layer and electrically connected to the board terminal; a conductor pattern formed in a second wiring layer and electrically connected to the wire via a via wire; and another conductor pattern formed in a third wiring layer and supplied with a first fixed potential. The conductor pattern and the another conductor pattern face each other with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, and an area of a region where the conductor pattern and the another conductor pattern face each other is larger than an area of the wire.
US10165670B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a first electrically conductive contact member and a second electrically conductive contact member. Both contact members have non-planar interface surfaces. The second interface surface is complimentary to the first interface surface. Magnetic field concentrators are spaced apart to concentrate a magnetic field in a zone. The magnetic field is associated with electric current carried by the electrical connector assembly. A flexible circuit carrier has openings to receive the magnetic field concentrators. The flexible circuit carrier comprises a flexible dielectric layer and a conductive traces. A magnetic field sensor is mounted on the flexible circuit carrier in the zone.
US10165655B2
A system of control of interconnected signal emitters comprises controller modules, microcontrollers, electronic drivers and signal emitters. The connection input of each electronic driver is connected to the output of another electronic driver or to the output of a microcontroller, and the single output of each electronic driver is connected to the single connection input of another electronic driver or to the output of a microcontroller; each electronic driver being part of a driver chain between controller modules. Described developments comprise the use of Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs), LED strips, sensors (e.g. ambient light, distance, motion, proximity, imaging, audio, temperature, pressure, etc), wired and/or wireless communication interfaces, power supply configurations and different topological arrangements (e.g. 2D, 3D, unidirectional or bidirectional arrangements, root or bridge vertices, interactive mesh, k-cyclic graphs, etc). Associated method steps (e.g. protocols, clock synchronization, broadcast, vote, update, latency, bitstream structure, etc) are described.
US10165653B2
A rear lamp (RL) provided on a rear part of a vehicle (CAR1), wherein the rear lamp (RL) includes, in addition to a normal lamp, a sub-tail lamp (STL) configured to be lit on at least when a following vehicle is self-driving and to be detectable by the following vehicle when lit on. Since the following vehicle detects the sub-tail lamp (STL) lit in addition to the normal lamp, it is possible to detect the sub-tail lamp (STL) more accurately and more reliably than in detection of the normal lamp, and to detect the preceding vehicle (CAR1) in a highly accurate and quick manner.
US10165651B2
In an LED illumination system including a power supply device having a function of adjusting an amount of a supply current and an LED illumination device connected to the power supply device, the LED illumination device includes: an LED circuit; a bypass circuit; and a distribution circuit that distributes a current supplied from the power supply device at a predetermined fixed ratio regardless of a current value and supplies one part thereof to the LED circuit and the other part thereof to the bypass circuit.
US10165644B2
Devices and methods for facilitating the operations and usage of electronic candle devices are disclosed. In one exemplary aspect, an imitation candle device is disclosed. The imitation candle device comprises a body; a flame element protruding from top of the body; one or more light sources positioned to illuminate the flame element to produce an appearance of a true fire flame; a plurality of touch sensitive segments positioned on, or embedded in, a peripheral section of the body, wherein each of the plurality of touch sensitive segments is operable to produce an electrical signal in response to sensing a touch; and an electronic control circuitry operable to receive the electrical signal produced in response to sensing the touch by one or more of the plurality of touch sensitive segments and to control at least an output of the one or more light sources based on the electrical signal.
US10165642B2
A signal source generates a drive signal according to a dimming level. A discharge part includes a series circuit having a Zener diode and a rectifier element connected in series. The series circuit enables passage of a reverse current of the Zener diode. In the discharge part, the series circuit is electrically connected between a control terminal and the signal source to enable the reverse current of the Zener diode to flow from the control terminal to the signal source.
US10165638B1
A controller structure is applied to electrically conduct at least one LED light string and contains: a control box, a high voltage circuit unit, and a lid. The control box includes an opening, a hollow accommodation portion, two pins, and a first fitting portion. The high voltage circuit unit is accommodated in the hollow accommodated portion and includes an input segment and an output segment, a positive-electrode contact and a negative-electrode contact of the input segment are electrically connected with the two pins, a positive-electrode contact and a negative-electrode contact of the output segment are electrically connected with at least two power wires, and the high voltage circuit unit further includes a control unit. The lid covers the opening and includes a socket and a connection portion which is electrically connected with the output segment of the high voltage circuit unit via the at least two power wires.
US10165633B2
Disclosed herein is a light emitting element driving circuit including: a capacitive element; a current limiting section limiting a charging current for the capacitive element; a first constant current source stabilizing a discharging current supplied from the capacitive element to a light emitting element; and a switch controlling ON and OFF in supplying the discharging current to the light emitting element. The capacitive element is charged with electricity from the power source circuit in the preceding stage through the current limiting section. Also, the electric charges in the capacitive element are discharged in the form of a given discharging current for the discharging time period, and the light emitting element emits light in accordance with the given discharging current. In this case, the charging current for the capacitive element is limited by the current limiting section in such a way that the current value thereof becomes small.
US10165631B2
A device suppresses flicker and improves compatibility of a lamp including at least one solid state light source, the lamp being operably connected to a control circuit, such as a dimmer circuit. The device includes a connector enabling connection of the solid state light source to a lamp socket configured to receive an incandescent light source, and an adapter circuit connected in parallel with the at least one solid state light source when the solid state light source is connected to the socket via the connector. The adapter circuit provides a resistive path for current to pass through the lamp, during all or part of the AC mains cycle.
US10165630B2
A radio frequency antenna for radiating electromagnetic energy into a reservoir filled with a target material, the antenna being operatively connected to a feed transmission line. The antenna includes a waveguide, at least one slot formed in the outer waveguide layer, and a sleeve portion enclosing at least a portion of the waveguide. The sleeve portion comprises at least first and second dielectric layers where the permittivity of the second dielectric layer is higher than the permittivity of the first dielectric layer and the first dielectric layer is positioned in closer proximity to the waveguide than the second dielectric layer. When the antenna is inserted into the reservoir, the input impedance of the antenna remains matched to the feed transmission line for a wide range of target materials.
US10165629B2
The induction coil unit for heating a component which is rotationally symmetrical relative to an axis, includes a plurality of coils arranged about the axis of the tool holder, with pole elements, which are movable radially with respect to the axis, of which pole elements each one consists of includes a stack of pole rods that can be moved relative to one another. A yoke ring connects the pole elements, which, when the coils are excited by alternating current in the tool holder, produce a magnetic flux running in the peripheral direction to inductively heat the tool holder. The pole rods of each pole element can be moved jointly by means of pinion rollers, wherein, however, slide couplings or the like are provided in the drive force transmission path between the individual pole rods so that the pole elements can adapt to different contours of the tool holder.
US10165608B2
An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include subscribing to a key distribution service by a plurality of Wi-Fi access points belonging to a same mobility domain; receiving a request from a user equipment to connect to a first Wi-Fi access point of the plurality of Wi-Fi access points belonging to the same mobility domain; determining one or more second Wi-Fi access points of the plurality of Wi-Fi access points belonging to the same mobility domain that neighbor the first Wi-Fi access points; and distributing keying parameters to each of the one or more second Wi-Fi access points. The keying parameters can be associated with 802.11r pairwise master key (PMK) keying parameters.
US10165605B2
Aspects described herein relate to receiving communications in contention-based radio access technologies (RAT). Communication resources can be activated for monitoring one or more channels related to a contention-based RAT based at least in part on a discontinuous receive (DRX) cycle. The one or more channels related to the contention-based RAT can be monitored in one or more time periods following activating the communication resources to determine whether communications are received from an access network node. An on-duration timer during which the communication resources remain active to receive the communications in the contention-based RAT can be initialized based at least in part on determining that the communications are received from the access network node. The communication resources can be deactivated following expiration of the on-duration timer.
US10165598B2
In some examples, a method can include transmitting, with an Access Point (AP), Request to Send (RTS) frames to a wireless client over a wireless medium; determining, with the AP, whether the medium is reserved by failed RTS frames for the client; and transmitting, with the AP, a frame to clear the medium when it is determined that the medium is reserved by failed RTS frames for the client.
US10165588B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve methods and systems for mapping network service paths between endpoint devices of a network. An aggregate network traffic database is used to store network traffic data retrieved from network devices of a network. A network service mapper then queries the database using endpoint device identifiers corresponding to endpoint devices to determine which network devices interacted with the endpoint devices during provisioning of previous network service instances. The set of network devices is then compared and analyzed to determine one or more network service paths between a pair of endpoint devices. In certain implementations, network architecture rules and/or network device configuration data is also analyzed to determine an order of the network devices along the one or more network service paths.
US10165582B2
Methods and apparatus of a NodeB or a user equipment (UE) in communication with each other are provided. The NodeB transmits and the UE receives via a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). Control Channel Elements (CCEs) corresponding to a PDCCH candidate are obtained based on nCI, where nCI is a carrier index.
US10165581B2
A machine type communication (MTC) scheduling method, a base station, and a user equipment (UE). An embodiment of a method in the embodiments of the present disclosure includes sending, by a base station, first downlink control information (DCI) to the UE in an air-interface idle mode in a cell, where the first DCI includes a first resource indicator corresponding to a first identifier of target UE, and the first identifier identifies, during resource scheduling, the target UE in the air-interface idle mode that is scheduled by the base station, and sending, by the base station, a first data packet to the target UE according to the first resource indicator.
US10165580B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for prohibiting from triggering scheduling request in a D2D communication system, the method comprising: configuring that the UE belongs to one or more ProSe groups; receiving, from a network, a Scheduling Request (SR) prohibit indication indicating at least one of the one or more ProSe groups; triggering a sidelink BSR for a first ProSe group of the one or more ProSe groups when a sidelink BSR trigger condition is met; and triggering a SR if the SR prohibit indication doesn't indicate the first ProSe group.
US10165577B2
For methods, system, and apparatuses for dynamic response management a network device may receive an application service identifier and assign a radio resource to a first device based on the application service identifier. There may be a partitioning of content into a plurality of segments. There also may be an assignment of a quality of service level to a segment of the plurality segments and an adjustment of the quality of service level based on sensors of a device and other inputs.
US10165574B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A transmitting device may identify resource blocks (RBs) used to transmit data in a data transmission. The transmitting device may determine a frequency width of a data channel in a frequency domain that is used to transmit the data based at least in part on the identified RBs. The transmitting device may dynamically determine an allocation of RBs used to transmit control information in a control channel. The allocation of RBs may be based on the frequency width of the data channel and may cause a frequency width of the control channel to match the frequency width of the data channel in the frequency domain. The transmitting device may transmit the control information in the control channel to indicate a location of the data channel.
US10165571B2
There is provided an app management software 16 for cooperating with a bandwidth control system 2 for dynamically changing a communication bandwidth of the mobile information terminal 3 for each type of application 3a which is installed on the mobile information terminal. This software comprises: a module 22 for causing the mobile information terminal 3 to detect a type of application 3a which communicates from the mobile information terminal 3; a module 24 for causing the mobile information terminal 3 to obtain mobile information terminal identification information for uniquely identifying the mobile information terminal on a communication network; a module 26 for causing the mobile information terminal 3 to send the type of application as well as information for identifying the mobile information terminal to the bandwidth control system; and a display section 28 for causing the mobile information terminal 3 to receive a communication status for each application from the bandwidth control system and displaying the communication status on a display of the mobile information terminal.
US10165564B2
A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions stored in the memory are executable to configure a slot-long shortened transmission time interval (S-TTI) in a serving cell, the slot-long S-TTI being used for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception in the serving cell. The instructions are also executable to determine PDSCH Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) transmission timing for the serving cell, the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing being determined based on a downlink (DL) association set pre-defined for the slot-long S-TTI. The instructions are further executable to send PDSCH HARQ-ACK information using the slot-long S-TTI, based on the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing.
US10165563B2
A base station includes a scheduler which allocates a first radio resource and a second radio resource while the first radio resource is used to transmit a control channel signal from a wireless terminal, and the second radio resource is used to transmit from the wireless terminal a first reference signal corresponding to the control channel signal even when the wireless terminal does not transmit the control channel signal by using the first radio resource.
US10165553B2
A communication device for handling communication operations in a licensed frequency band and an unlicensed frequency band comprises a storage unit for storing instructions and a processing means coupled to the storage unit. The instructions comprise performing a first communication operation on a first carrier in a first unlicensed frequency band; receiving a message from a network for indicating the communication device to perform a second communication operation with the network on a second carrier in the first unlicensed frequency band; and switching the first communication operation from the first carrier in the first unlicensed frequency band to a third carrier in a second unlicensed frequency band. The processing means is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage unit.
US10165551B2
A device may signal a resource allocation scheme in a high efficiency wireless local area network (WLAN) preamble. In one example, a high efficiency (HE) WLAN signaling field is used to signal a resource allocation pattern to multiple devices. The HE WLAN signaling field includes a common user field that is decodable by the multiple devices and includes a resource allocation field. The resource allocation indicates resource unit distributions to the multiple devices and indicates which resource units in a multi-user PPDU correspond to multi-user MIMO transmissions and which resource units correspond to OFDMA single-user transmissions. The HE WLAN signaling field also includes dedicated user fields that are assigned to certain devices. The order of the dedicated user fields corresponds to the allocated resource units. The HE WLAN signaling field is transmitted with a WLAN preamble to the multiple devices.
US10165540B2
A wireless access point that serves one or more wireless client devices in a wireless network determines that at least one particular client device that is associated to the wireless access point should not be associated to the wireless access point. The wireless access point transmits frames so that they are received at the particular client device with reduced strength so as to provoke the particular client device to transition from the wireless access point.
US10165534B2
A method at a first device for synchronising a first clock of the first device to a second clock of a second device, includes receiving a first message comprising an identifier from the second device; generating a first timestamp in dependence on the time at which the first message is received at the first device according to the first clock; receiving a second message from the second device comprising the identifier and a second timestamp, the second timestamp having been generated in dependence on the time at which the second device transmitted the first message to the first device; and adjusting the first clock in dependence on a time difference between a time indicated by the first timestamp and a time indicated by the second timestamp.
US10165532B2
A mobile communication system includes a plurality of radio base stations (410) communicating with an UE (10). Each of the plurality of radio base stations (410) comprises an interface (415) that notifies another radio base station (410) of synchronization information through a backhaul network, the synchronization information designating a synchronization state between the radio base station (410) and the UE (10).
US10165522B2
An electronic device includes communication circuitry configured to communicably couple the electronic device to one or more other electronic devices in a wireless network associated with a structure. A processor of the electronic device is operatively coupled to a memory. The processor is configured to determine a status associated with one or more occupants of the structure. The processor is configured to control wireless transmission power output of the electronic device or the one or more other electronic devices based on the status associated with one or more occupants of the structure.
US10165520B2
Disclosed by the embodiments of the present document are a mobile communication terminal including a signal output module, a main antenna module, a diversity antenna module, an acquisition module, a control module and a radio-frequency switching module, and a signal transmission method. The acquisition module is used to acquire transmitting power P1 of a transmitted signal when the signal output module generates the transmitted signal to transmit through the main antenna module, and acquire transmission capabilities of the main antenna module and the diversity antenna module when P1 is greater than a first preset value. The control module outputs a corresponding control signal to the radio-frequency switching module according to the transmission capabilities of the main antenna module and the diversity antenna module; and the radio-frequency switching module controls the output module to be connected with the main antenna module or the diversity antenna module according to the control signal.
US10165516B2
Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to selectively enable relatively higher data throughput and higher power WiFi bidirectional wireless protocol capability during times of system wireless activity, and to selectively disable the WiFi bidirectional wireless protocol and enable relatively lower data throughput and lower power wireless protocol capability during the absence of such system wireless activity. The systems and methods may be implemented to enable bi-directional wireless communication and/or external activation of a wireless device both during times of wireless device activity and during times in which wireless device activity is absent and/or a wireless device is inactive and not transmitting.
US10165511B2
A method is provided, which may be performed in a communication device for establishing a discontinuous reception mode configuration. The method comprises determining at least one characteristics of signaling from a network node, and adapting, based on the at least one characteristics, at least one parameter of a currently used discontinuous reception mode configuration. A related communication device, computer program and computer program products are also provided.
US10165505B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, machine type communication (MTC), machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, and technology for internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method includes determining whether a scan period of a first connectivity scheme is changeable based on a service discovered during the scan period of the first connectivity scheme, if the scan period of the first connectivity is changeable, detecting a state of a second connectivity scheme, and changing the scan period of the first connectivity scheme based on the detected state of the second connectivity scheme.
US10165502B2
A method may include obtaining a plurality of information subsets from a plurality of provider devices. The plurality of information subsets may be obtained via a receiver network, and the plurality of information subsets may be provided to the plurality of provider devices via a network other than the receiver network. The method may include determining that the plurality of information subsets are included in an information set. The method may include processing the plurality of information subsets to assemble the information set. The method may include determining a result of processing the plurality of information subsets. The method may include providing, by the device, information based on the result of processing the plurality of information subsets.
US10165501B2
A method for execution by a mobile station (MS) in a mobile communications network, the method comprising: receiving a first MS identifier from the network during a ranging operation involving the MS; using the first MS identifier to extract the contents of at least one message received from the network during said ranging operation; using a second MS identifier, different from the first MS identifier, to extract the contents of at least one message received from the network after said ranging operation is complete. Also, a method for execution by the base station, comprising: outputting a first message destined for the MS, the first message including a first identifier for use by the MS during a ranging operation; determining that said ranging operation is complete; outputting a second message destined for the MS, the second message including a second identifier for use by the MS in subsequent communication with the network.
US10165495B1
Techniques for connectivity using a geographic phone number are described. According to various implementations, techniques described herein enable various policies pertaining to the use of telephone numbers at different locations to be enforced. For instance, techniques described herein enable a client device that is outside of a permitted geographic area for a geographic phone number to use a non-geographic phone number to connect a call, while the call can be routed using the geographic phone number.
US10165493B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for enabling very high throughput (VHT) communications. A wireless transmit and receive unit (WTRU) may receive, from an access point (AP), a management frame comprising VHT capabilities information. The VHT capabilities information may comprise an indication of support for reception via non-contiguous channels. The WTRU may transmit, on a condition that reception via non-contiguous channels is supported, at least one data packet, to the AP, via multiple non-contiguous channels. The multiple non-contiguous channels may be used simultaneously.
US10165490B1
As the variety and number of wireless client devices have increased, often there may be multiple client devices in close proximity of each other. In addition to the connectivity to the wireless wide area network (WWAN), the client devices may have a short range link to directly connect with each other. Two or more client devices in a given area may be camped on the same or neighboring cells of the same WWAN, and the client devices may be performing measurements on the same set or subset of cells. A method and apparatus are disclosed such that a client device may perform serving and neighbor cells measurements and relay the measurements information to other client devices over the short range link. This may enable other client devices to avoid having to perform measurements directly on the WWAN cells which may reduce their power consumption.
US10165482B2
A mobile communication system includes a CSG cell which is accessible by a CSG member, a hybrid cell which is the CSG cell where a non-CSG member is also allowed access at the same time, and a mobile terminal which is subscribed as the CSG member and connected to the CSG cell or the hybrid cell as the CSG member. Even in a case in which a subscription time period has expired, the mobile communication system enables the mobile terminal to continue the connection. When the subscription time period for the CSG member expires, in case of the mobile terminal's connection to the CSG cell, the CSG cell initiates a handover, in case of the mobile terminal's connection to the hybrid cell, the hybrid cell changes treatment for the mobile terminal from treating the mobile terminal as the CSG member to treating the mobile terminal as the non-CSG member.
US10165475B2
Technology for transcoding avoidance during a single radio voice call continuity (SRVCC) procedure is disclosed. In an example, a mobile switching center (MSC) can include circuitry configured to: receive from a mobility management entity (MME) in a SRVCC packet switch (PS) to circuit switched (CS) request message, selected CODEC information for a selected CODEC used for a user equipment (UE) in an internet protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) over long term evolution (LTE) system; and communicate the selected CODEC information to a target MSC to enable the target MSC to identify the selected CODEC for the UE to allow the selected CODEC to be used in the CS domain.
US10165472B2
Techniques described herein may enable a wireless cellular network to transfer a call from a packet-switched (PS) portion of the wireless cellular network to a circuit-switched (CS) portion of the wireless cellular network, in a manner that ensures that the CS network receiving the call can actually support the call. For instance, before the wireless cellular network selects RAT for the CS network for transferring a call, the wireless cellular network may identify a call type for the call (e.g., simple voice call, video call, etc.), identify a RAT for the CS network that can support the call type, and proceed to transfer the call to the CS portion of the wireless cellular network that can support the call type, thus ensuring that the call is not dropped as a result of the transfer.
US10165467B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling a mesh network node to switch from a base station role to a user equipment role relative to a second mesh network node, and vice versa. By switching roles in this manner, the mesh network node may be able to benefit from increased uplink or downlink speed in the new role. This role reversal technique is particularly useful when using wireless protocols such as LTE that are asymmetric and allow differing throughput on uplink and downlink connections. Methods for determining whether to perform role reversal are disclosed, and methods for using role reversal in mesh networks comprising greater than two nodes are also disclosed.
US10165466B2
A system with distributed proxy for reducing traffic in a wireless network satisfies data requests made by a mobile application. The system includes a mobile device having a local proxy for intercepting a data request made by the mobile application. The local proxy simulates application server responses for the mobile application on the mobile device for data requests where responses are available in the local cache. A proxy server is coupled to the mobile device and an application server to which the data request is made. The proxy server is able to communicate with the local proxy. The local proxy forwards the data request to the proxy server for transmission to the application server for a response to the data request. The proxy server queries the application server for any changes to the data request that the mobile application has previously made and notifies the local proxy of such changes.
US10165464B2
In embodiments, one or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, i.e., direct communication between the mobile stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. Embodiments of the disclosure relate to NAN datapath scheduling and NAN pre-datapath operation setup and scheduling. The NAN datapath embodiments described herein provide a mechanism through which devices can communicate and provide services. In particular, embodiments described herein provide a mechanism for NAN datapaths to support various levels of quality of service (QoS). Aspects of the datapath development include datapath scheduling, including datapath setup and scheduling attributes, as well as pre-datapath operation triggering and scheduling. Scheduling may include determination of a type of datapath, including paging and synchronized datapaths. NAN data cluster base schedules may be scheduled as equal-sets or subsets of datapath schedules. The datapath model may be implemented for unicast and multicast communication between wireless stations.
US10165458B2
A technique is provided to control transmitting, by a mobile station (MS) that uses carrier aggregation, a message including an interoperability test (IOT) indication for one or more uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration combinations of time-division-duplex (TDD) radio frames for use by a primary cell and a secondary cell. In one example implementation, an IOT indication may be provided for one or more (or each) uplink-downlink configuration combinations (e.g., one IOT indication per UL-DL configuration combination). In another example implementation, an IOT indication may be provided for one or more sets of uplink-downlink configuration combinations, where each set may include a plurality of UL-DL configuration combinations.
US10165444B2
A data transmission method includes requesting, by a plurality of transceivers, an authentication to a main controller, transmitting an authentication acceptance signal and separate decoding keys from the main controller to the transceivers, transmitting an encoded data bundle from the main controller to the transceivers and extracting, by each of the transceivers, some of data in the at least one encoded data bundle using the decoding key.
US10165436B2
Devices and methods use an Extended Permanent Account Number Identification (EPID) of a mesh network (e.g., ZigBee) to include in the EPID a network information, a network channel information (e.g., 802.15.4 channel), and/or other data. The devices and methods allows a node to use the EPID to identify a desired network to join and join the network on the predetermined channel for that network.
US10165433B2
A user terminal according to the present embodiment comprises: a controller configured to control so that a discovery signal is repeatedly transmitted by using an HARQ scheme. The discovery signal includes a demodulation reference signal. The controller unchangingly maintains a signal sequence of the demodulation reference signal, for each transmission of the discovery signal.
US10165432B2
A method at a user equipment for obtaining emergency codes using a non-Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network, the method including sending a request message to a network node, the request message containing an indication; and receiving, at the user equipment, a response message, the response message including at least one mobile country code (MCC), and the response message indicating an emergency number, type or category information, wherein the emergency number, type or category information is associated with the at least one MCC, and wherein the at least one MCC indicates a portion of a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) code to which the emergency number, type or category information applies.
US10165428B2
In some implementations, a method for managing warning notifications includes identifying a trigger event. A status of a setting in User Equipment (UE) to indicate at least one of enablement or disablement of warning notifications in a wireless system is determined. In response to at least the trigger event, the status of the setting for warning notifications is automatically presented through the UE.
US10165426B1
An electronic device may be provided with wireless communications circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include millimeter wave transceiver circuitry and a phased antenna array. The phased antenna array may transmit and receive millimeter wave signals. Beam steering circuitry may be coupled to the phased antenna array and may be adjusted to steer the millimeter wave signals in a particular direction. The control circuitry may track the location of an external device using sensor data. The control circuitry may control a mechanical positioner to mechanically adjust an orientation of the phased antenna array and/or may control the beam steering circuitry to steer the millimeter wave signals towards the location of the external device. In this way, a line of sight millimeter wave communications link may be maintained between the phased antenna array and the external device even if the external device moves over time.
US10165424B2
An automotive near field communication (NFC) application that includes a process which is implemented as a mobile software application and uses near field communication tags to store and retrieve automotive vehicle information is disclosed. The process does not need a user to access the VIN and then manually enter or scan the VIN. In this process the VIN is written to an NFC tag using an NFC enabled mobile device and placed on the vehicle. A user can bump, touch, or place the NFC enabled mobile device on the NFC tag to retrieve the VIN. The application is configured to generate a vehicle value or vehicle report based, in part, on vehicle information received from the NFC tag.
US10165423B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and more specifically to search space configuration in systems utilizing devices with limited communications resources, such as machine type communication (MTC) devices and enhanced MTC (eMTC) devices. An example method generally includes receiving a physical random access channel (PRACH) signal from a first user equipment (UE) on a first narrowband region within a wider system bandwidth and transmitting, in response to the PRACH signal, a random access response (RAR) signal in a first search space in a second narrowband region in at least a first subframe.
US10165403B2
System and methods for running a location-based information campaign (campaign) select one or more first geo-blocks to form a first geo-fence from a plurality of geo-blocks each corresponding to a geographical region having at least one border defined by a real-world object and overlapping substantially with a targeted region associated with the location-based information campaign, and process information requests with respect to the first geo-fence. Each of the one or more first geo-blocks is associated with a respective performance score above a first threshold. The system and methods further monitor a pacing status associated with the campaign, and in response to a pacing goal associated with the campaign not being met, define a second geo-fence for the campaign, the second geo-fence including the one or more first geo-blocks and one or more second geo-blocks each associated with a respective performance score above a second threshold that is below the first threshold.
US10165399B2
Methods, program products, and systems for baseband location monitoring and related functions are disclosed. A mobile device can monitor its own current location using its baseband subsystem and decide whether to selectively activate its application subsystem based on whether particular conditions are satisfied by the current location. The mobile device can also correlate location and cellular signal information using its baseband subsystem and provide the correlated location and cellular signal information to a server. The server can receive the correlated location and cellular signal information from the baseband subsystems of a large number of widely distributed mobile devices and generate respective profiles of cellular network base stations that transmitted the cellular signals to the mobile devices. The profiles of the cellular network base stations can be used by the server in fulfilling subsequent positioning requests from mobile devices that do not currently have the baseband location monitoring enabled.
US10165396B2
Provided are apparatus and method for activating a wireless communication function automatically for geo-fence, a system comprising the same, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer program recorded thereon for providing a content by activating the wireless communication function while entering a geo-fence which is a predetermined virtual area for providing the content based on a current location of a user. Thus, it is possible to greatly improve efficiency of a content providing service using a geo-fence by automatically activating a wireless communication function of user equipment according to whether a user enters the geo-fence to receive store information through communication with a beacon or a WIFI AP provided in the store positioned at the geo-fence and transmitting the corresponding store information to a geo-fence service providing device providing a content related with the store to receive the content corresponding to the store information.
US10165395B2
Methods and apparatuses for supporting location and emergency calls for an over-the-top (OTT) service provider are disclosed. A UE may send a request for an emergency call to an OTT service provider and may include in the request mobile network operator (MNO) data for a serving MNO for the UE. The OTT service provider may forward the emergency call request to an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The IMS may determine routing information for the emergency call and either return the routing information to the OTT service provider to enable the OTT service provider to route the emergency call to a public safety answering point (PSAP) or may route the emergency call itself to the PSAP. The call request routed by the IMS or by the OTT service provider may include a reference identifier that may enable the PSAP to obtain a location for the UE from the IMS.
US10165394B2
Concepts and technologies are described herein for improving location accuracy for proximity services. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, an expression application server can receive an expression message generated by a Third Generation Partnership Project (“3GPP”) proximity service (“ProSe”)-enabled application executing on a mobile device. The expression message includes an expression code and a location tag. The expression application server can analyze the expression message to determine whether increased granularity is desired for use in determining an expression match to the expression code. In response to determining that the increased granularity is desired, the expression application server can request additional location information from a location platform. The expression application server can receive the additional location information from the location platform. The expression application server also can enhance the expression match with the additional location information to provide the increased granularity to the mobile device.
US10165393B2
A system for monitoring resource utilization and optimization includes an entity system having a network communication interface and a memory device storing a resource monitoring and utilization application and a resource application. A processing device is operatively coupled to the memory device, wherein the processing device is configured to execute computer-readable program code to: determine based on the utilization of a resource application and/or a physical transaction related to the resource application to initiate the resource monitoring and utilization application; initiate the resource monitoring and utilization application to transmit information about the resource application to a user device.
US10165391B2
The described embodiments augment an activity performed in a first application at a source electronic device using a controller at a companion electronic device. The source electronic device receives controller information describing a controller that the activity performed in the first application accepts controller data from, determines a controller identifier for the controller information, and broadcasts a controller advertisement comprising the controller identifier. Upon receiving the controller advertisement, the companion electronic device determines whether a second application that can provide the controller data is available at the companion electronic device. If the second application is available, the companion electronic device establishes a cooperative-activity communication channel with the source electronic device. The companion electronic device uses the cooperative-activity communication channel to provide controller data to the source electronic device. The source electronic device provides the controller data to the first application to cause a corresponding action to be performed.
US10165388B1
Methods and systems are provided for visualizing spatial audio using determined properties for time segments of the spatial audio. Such properties include the position sound is coming from, intensity of the sound, focus of the sound, and color of the sound at a time segment of the spatial audio. These properties can be determined by analyzing the time segment of the spatial audio. Upon determining these properties, the properties are used in rendering a visualization of the sound with attributes based on the properties of the sound(s) at the time segment of the spatial audio.
US10165387B2
Embodiments are described for an adaptive audio system that processes audio data comprising a number of independent monophonic audio streams. One or more of the streams has associated with it metadata that specifies whether the stream is a channel-based or object-based stream. Channel-based streams have rendering information encoded by means of channel name; and the object-based streams have location information encoded through location expressions encoded in the associated metadata. A codec packages the independent audio streams into a single serial bitstream that contains all of the audio data. This configuration allows for the sound to be rendered according to an allocentric frame of reference, in which the rendering location of a sound is based on the characteristics of the playback environment (e.g., room size, shape, etc.) to correspond to the mixer's intent. The object position metadata contains the appropriate allocentric frame of reference information required to play the sound correctly using the available speaker positions in a room that is set up to play the adaptive audio content.
US10165384B2
When compressing an HOA data frame representation, a gain control (15, 151) is applied for each channel signal before it is perceptually encoded (16). The gain values are transferred in a differential manner as side information. However, for starting decoding of such streamed compressed HOA data frame representation absolute gain values are required, which should be coded with a minimum number of bits. For determining such lowest integer number (βe) of bits the HOA data frame representation (C(k)) is rendered in spatial domain to virtual loudspeaker signals lying on a unit sphere, followed by normalisation of the HOA data frame representation (C(k)). Then the lowest integer number of bits is set to βe=┌log2(┌log2(√{square root over (KMAX)}·O)┐+1)┐.
US10165377B2
A hearing device is disclosed. The hearing device comprises a chassis and a printed circuit board attached to the chassis. The chassis comprises a number of attachment members configured to restrict the motion of the printed circuit board in one or more directions. The attachment members are integrated parts of the chassis.
US10165372B2
A sound enrichment system for provision of tinnitus relief to a user, the sound enrichment system includes: a signal generator for provision of a carrier signal; at least one signal modulator including a first signal modulator for modulation of the carrier signal to a modulated signal; an output transducer for conversion of the modulated signal to an acoustic signal for presentation to the user; and a memory configured to store at least one feature including a first feature; wherein the at least one signal modulator is configured to modulate the carrier signal according to the at least one feature such that the acoustic signal converted from the modulated signal resembles a natural sound signal for the user.
US10165367B2
The nested speaker system includes a speaker unit selectively mounted inside a mounting nest. The mounting nest can be installed in various items such as coolers, bags, appliances, and furniture. The speaker unit can be interchangeably seated into various mounting nests. The speaker unit is provided with a mounting rib around opposite ends of a housing, and the mounting nest includes a corresponding mounting groove for the respective mounting rib along an interior periphery to securely seat the speaker unit when assembled. The speaker unit utilizes wireless transmissions from media players to stream audio files. Auxiliary inputs can be provided to facilitate playback of audio from other sources.
US10165364B2
A linear resonant actuator controller for a mobile device having a linear resonant actuator is described. The linear resonant actuator controller comprises a controller output configured to be coupled to a linear resonant actuator; an audio processor having an audio processor input and an audio processor output coupled to the controller output. The audio processor is configured to receive an audio signal comprising speech, to process the audio signal by attenuating the audio signal frequency components at the resonant frequency of the linear resonant actuator with respect to at least some other audio signal frequency components, and to output the processed audio signal on the audio processor output.
US10165363B2
An active noise equalization (ANE) system may be run on the existing audio/infotainment system as a software library. The ANE system may share components (e.g., microphones and sensors) with other audio applications. Some ANEs include a complex-domain formulation of a multiple-frequency multiple-channel ANE that requires less memory and processing requirements. The complex-domain system replaces the multiplication of multiple real gains with multiple real signals with a single complex multiplication operation.
US10165354B1
A sound system for a vehicle including an engine and an audio device for an internal space of a cabin as sound sources disposed at given positions of the vehicle is provided. The audio device is switchable between a first mode in which an audio sound including both an audible sound and an inaudible sound for a human is reproduced in the cabin and a second mode in which an audio sound including the audible sound but not including the inaudible sound is reproduced in the cabin. The sound system includes a traveling state detector configured to detect a traveling state of the vehicle, and a switch controlling module executable by a processor configured to reproduce the audio sound in the first mode under a condition that a given traveling state is detected by the traveling state detector.
US10165347B2
Embodiments of the invention include methods, apparatus, systems and means for determining a type of microphone button of a headset plugged into a device jack are described. In some embodiments, a type of microphone button or headset is determined from a plurality of button or headset types based on whether or not a headset plug is detected in a headset jack of a device and whether or not a signal received at a first contact of the headset jack includes an overcurrent or an undercurrent. In some embodiments, the behavior of the device may be controlled based on the type of microphone button or headset determined. For example, a predetermined circuit, a predetermined algorithm, or a predetermined process may be selected to signal process the audio signal of the microphone, based on the type of microphone button or headset. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10165345B2
Presented here is an apparatus and method to increase a listener's enjoyment of sound by combining in-ear headphones with either over-ear headphones or on-ear headphones. One embodiment is headphones that include an ear-cup with an ear-bud protruding toward the listener's ear-canal. The ear-cup substantially surrounds the listener's ear and delivers sub sonic and low-frequency vibrations to the listener's skin stimulating a vibrotactile response. The ear-bud is disposed within the listener's ear canal and delivers a full range of audible frequencies. Additionally, the headphones, along with the ear-cup in the ear-bud, provide both passive and active noise cancellation.
US10165342B2
A microphone assembly and a method for manufacturing a microphone assembly are disclosed. In an embodiment, the microphone assembly includes a MEMS dual backplate microphone configured to provide a differential output signal, an ASIC including a differential amplifier configured to receive the differential output signal and a control element configured to adjust at least one of a setting of the MEMS dual backplate microphone and a setting of the ASIC.
US10165321B2
A method for providing a user of a target device with placeshifted content. The method includes detecting, utilizing the target device, a matrix code associated with an audio/visual program. Data encoded in the matrix code includes program identifying information and elapsed time information with respect to the program. The method further includes generating, utilizing the target device, a request for the program based at least in part on the encoded data. The method also includes transmitting, utilizing the target device, the program request across a network.
US10165315B2
Described herein are apparatuses, systems and methods for predicting audience measurements of a television program. A method comprises inputting a target program for acquisition into a prediction model, wherein the prediction model is based on a plurality of television acquisition performance predictors, and generating a recommendation as to whether the target program should be acquired based on the prediction model and the plurality of television acquisition performance predictors.
US10165291B2
A video decoder configured to decode an encoded video bitstream comprises a first parsing unit and a second parsing unit, each configured to independently parse the encoded video bitstream to derive parsing state information therefrom on which subsequent parsing of the encoded video bitstream at least partially depends and to identify macroblock information for decoding. The encoded video bitstream comprises frame header information defining a sequence of frames and each frame is composed of macroblocks represented by macroblock information. A control unit of the video encoder allocates each frame of macroblock information to one of the two parsing units to parse. The two parsing units are both configured to parse frame header information to thereby each derive parsing state information for the encoded video bitstream, and the two parsing unit are each configured to parse macroblock information allocated to them, skipping macroblock information allocated to the other parsing unit.
US10165285B2
Video coding tree sub-block splitting. A parser and treeblock splitter is implemented for adaptive partitioning of treeblocks (TBs) into various respective sub-treeblocks (STBs). Such adaptation may be tailored for effectuating parallel processing in accordance with video decoding. Different respective decoding engines may each individually and respectively also perform further partitioning of the STBs into sub-STBs as well. Such adaptation of respective STB size and/or sub-STB size may be made based on local and/or remote consideration(s). For example, adaptation may be made based upon communication link and/or channel conditions, a remote characteristic (e.g., associated with a source device and/or destination device), a local characteristic (e.g., associated with operations and/or processing performed locally within a given device), and/or any other type of consideration. Different respective portions of a video signal may be processed using different respective sized STBs/sub-STBs (and different respective engines may also employ different respective sized STBs/sub-STBs).
US10165281B2
There is disclosed a method and system for objective video quality assessment. The objective video quality assessment approach automatically predicts human visual quality assessment behaviors in evaluating videos that contain artifacts generated during video acquisition, storage, reproduction, compression, transmission, processing, and/or display. The present method and system computes a five-dimensional quality map of a video being assessed, where the map indicates the local quality variations of the video in a five-dimensional space, which includes two spatial dimensions, one scale dimension, one time dimension, and one distortion type dimension. The present method and system may use one or a combination of device and viewing condition parameters in the generation of the quality map, and in the combination of the quality map into a scalar or vector-values measure that indicates quality aspects of the test videos.
US10165276B2
A method and apparatus for frame coding in adaptive raster scan order. The method includes encoding at least one of image or video utilizing input frames and at least one of a data related to the input frame to produce bitstream with raster scan order information and displacement information for producing compressed video bitstream, at decoding time, decoding at least one of the encoded bitstream with raster scan order information and displacement information for producing compressed video bitstream.
US10165274B2
An encoder for encoding a video stream or an image is described herein. The encoder receives an input video stream and outputs an encoded video stream that can be decoded at a decoder to recover, at least approximately, an instance of the input video stream. The encoder encodes a video stream by first identifying scene boundaries and encoding frames between scene boundaries using a set of parameters. For at least two different scene sequences, different sets of parameters are used, providing adaptive, scene-based encoding.
US10165267B2
Systems, devices and methods are described including determining an inter-view coding mode for at least a portion of an image frame, specifying a corresponding value of an inter-view coding mode indicator, and providing the mode indicator in a bitstream that includes an encoded motion vector associated with the image frame portion. A first value of the mode indicator corresponds to a first inter-view coding mode where the encoded motion vector includes components in multiple dimensions. A second value of the mode indicator corresponds to a second inter-view coding mode where the encoded motion vector components include components in only one dimension.
US10165263B2
A method for estimating an optics point spread function (518) of a lens assembly (20) includes (i) providing a test chart (14); (ii) providing a capturing system (22); (iii) capturing a test chart image (316) of the test chart (14) with the capturing system (22) using the lens assembly (20) to focus light onto the capturing system (22); (iv) selecting an image area (490) from the test chart image (316); (v) dividing the image area (490) into a plurality of area blocks (494); and (vii) estimating an area point spread function (518) of the image area (490) using a PSF cost function that sums the fidelity terms of at least two of the area blocks (494).
US10165262B2
An image processing device (10) comprises the following: an image acquisition unit (1) for acquiring an image in which markers for calibration are captured; an edge detection unit (2) for detecting the edges of the markers in the image; a polygon generating unit (3) for estimating a plurality of straight lines on the basis of the edges and generating a virtual polygon region that is surrounded by the plurality of straight lines, the generation being carried out in the image in a region thereof including regions other than those where markers are installed; and a camera parameter calculation unit (4) for calculating camera parameters on the basis of the characteristic amount, with respect to the image, of the virtual polygon region and the characteristic amount, with respect to real space, of the virtual polygon region.
US10165261B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first visual information associated with at least a portion of a 360-degree perspective; determining that the first visual information is not sufficient to render a complete 360-degree perspective on a display device associated with the first user; retrieving second visual information; and sending information configured to render a unified 360-degree perspective on the display device, wherein: a first portion of the unified 360-degree perspective is based on the first visual information, and a second portion of the unified 360-degree perspective is based on the second visual information.
US10165260B2
Light from an array of laser light sources are spread to cover the modulating face of a DMD or other modulator. The spread may be performed, for example, by a varying curvature array of lenslets, each laser light directed at one of the lenslets. Light from neighboring and/or nearby light sources overlap at a modulator. The lasers are energized at different energy/brightness levels causing the light illuminating the modulator to itself be modulated (locally dimmed). The modulator then further modulates the locally dimmed lights to produce a desired image. A projector according to the invention may utilize, for example, a single modulator sequentially illuminated or separate primary color modulators simultaneously illuminated.
US10165254B2
A method for obtaining light field data of a scene from a sequence of images of the scene, each image being captured at a different viewpoint using a non-light-field image capture device is described. The method includes obtaining a reference image of the scene at a reference viewpoint, an interest area of the scene being included in the reference image and a reference position (x0,y0) being associated with the interest area in a reference local coordinate system of the capture device. For a current image of the scene at a current viewpoint, the method identifies the interest area of the scene in the current image, determines, in the reference local coordinate system, a current position (xc,yc) of the interest area identified in the current image, compares the current position with the reference position and provides a capture guidance indicator adapted to guide in relative positioning of the capture device towards the interest area, as a function of results of the comparison between the current position and the reference position.
US10165246B2
A method is described for processing sensor data of a stereo sensor system for stereoscopic sensing of an environment of the stereo sensor system. A disparity map is constituted based on the sensor data, wherein a change in disparity between two disparity points of the disparity map that are constituted with a spacing from one another is identified, at least one of the two disparity points being classified to correspond to an object as a function of the change in disparity. Also described is a corresponding apparatus, to a corresponding object recognition system, and to a corresponding computer program.
US10165243B2
An image processing unit (31) according to a preferred aspect of the invention includes an image acquisition unit (41) that acquires a first image signal indicating a first flash emission image which is captured by a main imaging operation while flash light is emitted and a second image signal indicating a second flash emission image which is obtained by capturing the same scene as that of the first flash emission image with an exposure time different from an exposure time of the first flash emission image, using a reference imaging operation, while the flash light is emitted, a ratio calculation unit (43) that calculates a ratio of the first image signal to the second image signal in each region, and a determination unit (45) that determines a main object region and a background region on the basis of a threshold value.
US10165240B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for controlling a laser projector to operate. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of operating parameters of the laser projector in operation; comparing each of obtained operating parameters with a preset parameter, and judging whether the laser projector fails, wherein the preset parameters are parameters of the laser projector which is operating normally; and determining failure information of the laser projector according to a result of a comparison if it is judged that the failure occurs.
US10165238B2
A projector system including a projector unit and a control device. The projector unit includes: a projector; a change mechanism that changes a projection direction; a plurality of optical systems having different optical properties; and a switch mechanism that selects one of the optical systems. The control device includes: a change unit that controls the change mechanism; and a switch unit that causes the switch mechanism to place one of the optical systems to be used for the projector in conjunction with the changing of the projection direction of the projector which is caused by the change unit.
US10165234B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for vehicle scratch detection and monitoring. An example vehicle includes insulated wires located below an exterior surface, a communication device, a camera to capture an image of an area around the exterior surface, and a scratch detector. The scratch detector in the example vehicle detects a scratch on the exterior surface when at least one of the insulated wires is engaged and sends, via the communication device, a signal to activate the camera in response to the scratch detector detecting the scratch.
US10165231B2
Embodiments described herein provide approaches for visualizing navigation information for a connected autonomous vehicle. Specifically, navigation communications (e.g., communications that are used in the decision making process of autonomous vehicles) from a plurality of vehicles within a particular area are received by a server. The server analyzes all of the navigation communications to determine which of the navigation communications is relevant to a particular connected autonomous vehicle. These relevant navigation communications are used by the server to generate contextual information about the other vehicles in the area. This contextual information is applied to a video display of the area.
US10165225B2
A video endpoint and related methods are disclosed. A video endpoint includes a control circuit configured to provide a user interface configured to enable a user to communicate with another user of another video endpoint with text during video communications with the other user. The user interface is also configured to enable the user to select from text strings stored in a database. A method of operating the video endpoint includes transmitting data corresponding to a selected one of the text strings stored in the database to the other video endpoint during the video communications responsive to the user selecting the selected one of the text strings. A method of transforming a computing device into a video endpoint includes storing computer-readable instructions directed to performing the functions of the control circuit on one or more servers, and transmitting the computer-readable instructions to the computing device.
US10165223B2
A pre-selectable video file playback system and method, and a computer program product are provided. Multiple first images are captured from multiple frame images in a first time interval, and two chronological first images thereafter are compared sequentially. A next first image is selected if the next first image is substantially different from a previous first image, and the next first image is not selected if the next first image is substantially the same as the previous first image. By displaying the selected first images, the number of images that users watch may be reduced.
US10165221B2
Provided is a wearable camera including a capture that captures a subject; a recorder that records a video of the captured subject; a storage that stores a predetermined sound beforehand; a microphone that collects sounds; and a controller that starts record of the video of the subject captured by the capture in a case where the sounds collected by the microphone and the sound stored in the storage are collated with each other, and the collected sounds and the stored sound match with each other.
US10165219B2
A positioner is provided for positioning a major optical sensing unit and an auxiliary optical sensing unit on a first screen. The positioner includes a body, and a first mounting hole and a first auxiliary mounting hole are formed on the body, and the first mounting hole and the first auxiliary mounting hole are aligned on a horizontal line, and the first mounting hole has a first pointing direction, the first auxiliary mounting hole has a first auxiliary pointing direction, and the first pointing direction is symmetrical to the first auxiliary pointing direction relative to a vertical line.
US10165208B2
Among other things, techniques and systems are provided for identifying when a pixel of an image sensor is in an idle period. A flag is utilized to differentiate when the pixel is in an idle period and when the pixel is in an integration period. When the flag indicates that the pixel is in an idle period, a blooming operation is performed on the pixel to reduce an amount of electrical charge that has accumulated at the pixel or to mitigate electrical charge from accumulating at the pixel. In this way, the blooming operation reduces a probability that the photosensitive sensor becomes saturated during an idle period of the pixel, and thus reduces the likelihood of electrical charge from a pixel that is not intended contribute to an image from spilling over and potentially contaminating a pixel that is intended to contribute to the image.
US10165203B2
A per-pixel performance improvement is described for combined image sensor arrays that measure infrared and visible light. One embodiment is a method that includes forming an array of photodetectors on a silicon substrate, treating a subset of the photodetectors to improve sensitivity to infrared light, and finishing the photodetector array to form an image sensor.
US10165199B2
An image capturing apparatus and an image capturing method are provided. The image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit configured to capture an image; and a controller connected to the image capturing unit, wherein the controller is configured to obtain a background image with depth information, position a three-dimensional (3D) virtual image representing a target object in the background image based on the depth information, and control the image capturing unit to capture the target object based on a difference between the target object viewed from the image capturing apparatus and the 3D virtual image in the background image.
US10165198B2
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for video tone mapping. The method includes processing video data into a first video component and a second video component and applying tone mapping to the first video component. The method further includes scaling the second video component. The method further includes generating a tone mapped video by combining the tone-mapped first video component with the scaled second video component.
US10165195B2
The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for widening dynamic range within an image in a light deficient environment.
US10165184B2
An image stabilization device includes a movable portion including an image pickup lens and a VCM driving portion configured to drive the movable portion relative to a fixed portion, the image stabilization device including: a position detection element arranged on the movable portion; and paired position detection magnets arranged at positions facing the position detection element and arranged on the fixed portion; wherein the paired position detection magnets are a first magnet and a second magnet arranged so that different magnetic poles face a surface of the position detection element; the first magnet and the second magnet are arranged in order along a direction away from an optical axis of a light flux incident on the image pickup lens; and magnitudes of densities of magnetic fluxes reaching the surface of the position detection element from the first magnet and the second magnet, respectively, are mutually different.
US10165183B2
Described herein are methods and devices that employ a plurality of image sensors to capture a target image of a scene. As described, positioning at least one reflective or refractive surface near the plurality of image sensors enables the sensors to capture together an image of wider field of view and longer focal length than any sensor could capture individually by using the reflective or refractive surface to guide a portion of the image scene to each sensor. The different portions of the scene captured by the sensors may overlap, and may be aligned and cropped to generate the target image.
US10165182B1
Panoramic imaging systems and devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a disclosed panoramic camera assembly of a panoramic imaging system includes a first camera module including a first wide-angle-lens camera positioned to cover one half of a full spherical space and a second camera module including a second wide-angle-lens camera positioned to cover the other half of the full spherical space. Moreover, the optical axis of the first camera and the optical axis of the second camera are separated by a predetermined distance in a lateral direction perpendicular to the optical axes. Furthermore, the first camera module and the second camera module are positioned to have a predetermined amount of overlap in the vertical direction so that a height of the panoramic camera assembly is significantly smaller than a dimension of the first camera module plus a dimension of the second camera module in the vertical direction.
US10165180B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises: identifying a deployment context for execution within one or more distributed camera devices in a distributed camera system, the deployment context including video recognition requirements relative to available capacity in the one or more distributed camera devices; determining an optimized executable recognition resource for the deployment context from available executable recognition resources; and sending, to the one or more distributed camera devices, an instruction for deployment and execution of the optimized executable recognition resource for optimized recognition according to the deployment context.
US10165178B2
An image management server including a receiver configured to receive an image file. The image file includes image data, copyright information, and tag information including route information for transmitting the image data. The image file is transmitted by an external device in accordance with the route information. The image management server further includes a processor configured to add digital watermark information to the image data to make the image file in a state in which the copyright information is protected or waived, and a transmitter configured to transmit the image file to an image display server in the state in which the copyright information in the image file is protected or waived.
US10165175B2
An electronic device includes a control unit and an acceptance unit to accept an operation to move a selected location on a screen in which items are positioned. When moving a particular item not located in a first direction at an end of selectable locations, the particular item is moved in the first direction. Where the particular item is located in the first direction at the end of the selectable locations, the particular item is not moved. In response to selecting a selectable locations without moving any item, a selected location is moved to a location in the first direction from the location being currently selected. Where the location in the first direction being currently selected is at the end of the selectable locations, the selected location is moved, in a direction opposite the first direction, from the location being currently selected to a location at a selectable locations end.
US10165172B2
A camera system includes a remote camera, a beacon signal transmission apparatus that is disposed at a location corresponding to a preset point and transmits a beacon signal, and an electronic device that receives the beacon signal. One or both of the remote camera and the electronic device include a storage unit, a distance determination section, and a control command generation section. The storage unit stores information regarding the preset point. The distance determination section estimates a distance between the tag device and the beacon signal transmission apparatus, based on a reception intensity of the beacon signal. When the distance estimated by the distance determination section is less than a predetermined value, the control command generation section generates a control command that causes the remote camera to face the preset point, based on information stored in the storage unit.
US10165171B2
Systems and methods for automatically controlling audiovisual apparatuses. A portable camera and a docking module configured to wirelessly trigger the camera to activate/deactivate the buffering and storage of data captured by the camera.
US10165166B2
A camera module including a lens holder, a lens barrel, a first lens set, a second lens set, an image sensing component and a driver is provided. The lens barrel is disposed on the lens holder. The first lens set is disposed in the lens barrel. The second lens set is fixed in the lens holder. The first lens set and the second lens set include at least one lens respectively. The image sensing component is disposed in the lens holder. The driver is configured to drive the lens barrel to enable the first lens set to move along a direction parallel to an axis direction of the optical axis. The driver adjusts a position of the first lens set so as to form a gap between the first lens set and the second lens set and along the optical axis.
US10165155B2
An image processing unit receives at least a clock signal, a data enable signal, and an image signal, and outputs at least the clock signal, the data enable signal, and a processed image signal. The image processing unit includes an interface, an estimated vertical synchronizing signal generator, and an image signal processor. The interface receives the clock signal and the data enable signal, and outputs the clock signal and the data enable signal. The estimated vertical synchronizing signal generator generates an estimated vertical synchronizing signal based on the clock signal and the data enable signal. The image signal processor receives the image signal, generates the processed image signal by performing, on the image signal, predetermined processing that uses the estimated vertical synchronizing signal, and outputs the generated processed image signal.
US10165151B2
An information processing apparatus stores, as user information of a user capable of logging into the information processing apparatus, first user information of a user having particular authority and second user information of a user having no particular authority. The information processing apparatus displays a list of, from the stored user information, user information that includes the second user information and no first user information. Then, the information processing apparatus performs a login process enabling a user corresponding to user information selected from the list to log into the information processing apparatus.
US10165149B2
A system of automatically naming an electronic document may include a scanning device. The system may receive a physical document that is to be converted into an electronic document, perform optical character recognition on at least a portion of the physical document to identify one or more terms that are present in the physical document, and store the identified terms in the data store associated with the scanning device. The system may receive input from a user that includes one or more first characters and corresponds to a title of the electronic document. The system may identify one or more terms from the data store that correspond to the one or more first characters by querying the data store using the received input, and cause the identified terms to be displayed to the user via a display device of the scanning device as suggested document names for the electronic document.
US10165142B2
An image reading apparatus including: an original reading unit configured to scan at least one original placed on an original table and read an image of the original; an original size detection unit configured to detect a size of an original to be scanned before the scan; and a control unit configured to determine an area from which an image is to be read by the original reading unit by referring to the original size detected by the original size detection unit, wherein the control unit is capable of initiating a multi-crop process in which the original reading unit scans a plurality of originals placed on the original table in batch as a batch-scan and crops an image of each of the originals, and in case of the batch-scan, the control unit determines the maximum area readable by the original reading unit as a reading-area.
US10165140B2
A medium discharging device includes a discharging unit which discharges a medium; and a medium receiving tray which receives the medium discharged by the discharging unit, and is switched between an extended state and an accommodated state, in which the medium receiving tray is provided with a base tray, a main extendeding unit that is accommodated or extended, and at least one sub-extendeding unit that is accommodated or extended, and in which the base tray forms an accommodating space for accommodating at least the one sub-extendeding unit, and is provided with a first protrusion portion protruding toward the accommodating space.
US10165139B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, an operation unit, and a moving mechanism. The operation unit is mounted to the apparatus main body. The operation unit indicates a state of the apparatus main body and performs an input operation to the apparatus main body. The moving mechanism reciprocatably supports the operation unit between a reference position and a retracted position. The reference position overlaps a work area of the apparatus main body. The retracted position does not overlap the work area.
US10165137B2
In an image forming apparatus using a browser with limitation, contents input in an input form cannot be stored in the browser, and thus the contents displayed on a browser screen cannot be taken over between a plurality of pages.A browser portion of an image forming apparatus holds a parameter operated on and input into a child page in a memory region for browser assigned to a parent page and displays, on a browser screen, another child page after transition which takes over the parameter from the child page before the transition.
US10165129B2
The present invention determines whether the data traffic of the application is for private use or for business use and charges data communication charge to the appropriate user based on the traffic usage. The data communication terminal 100 runs an application, executes data communication to transmit tag information and the data traffic of the data communication to the charge management server 10 in response to the execution of the data communication. The charge management server 10 calculates the data communication charge corresponding to the data traffic received from the data communication terminal, and determines whether the data traffic is for private use or for business use based on the tag information received from the data communication terminal to calculate the data communication charge for each usage.
US10165126B2
One embodiment relates to a method for securing a transaction between a mobile terminal of a user and a server of a service provider through a platform capable of being connected to the mobile terminal via a mobile network of an operator, to the server of the service provider and to a transaction execution system.
US10165114B1
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to routing decisions implemented in response to VoIP telephone calls. According to a specific example, in response to the VoIP telephone calls, a first set of one or more documents are identified and executed to make routing decisions for the VoIP telephone calls. A second set of one or more documents are then identified based upon an association with the routing decisions. The second set of documents identify data to be retrieved from data sources. In response to the data, call control functionality is provided for the VoIP calls.
US10165107B2
An apparatus and method for a mobile terminal including a display unit to safely convey notifications or alerts to a user of the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal includes a display unit for safely conveying notifications or alerts to a user of the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal comprising, a cellular band transceiver for transmitting and receiving Radio Frequency (RF) signals in a cellular band, a controller for controlling operations of the mobile terminal, at least one sensor for one or more criteria, and a hazardous condition determining unit for determining a hazardous condition exists according to the sensed one or more criteria.
US10165105B1
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for automatic communication mode selection. The method may include detecting a communication by a user equipment. The method may also include determining one or more characteristics associated with the communication, wherein the one or more characteristics comprise user environmental data, public environmental data, or a combination thereof associated with the communication. Furthermore, the method may include selecting a mode for the communication that is different from an original mode of the detected communication based on the one or more characteristics.
US10165102B2
Embodiments are directed to controlling an electronically-controlled appliance using a software application and providing a user interface for controlling an electronically-controlled appliance. In one scenario, a computer system receives an indication from a remote computing system indicating that an electronically-controlled appliance is communicably connected to the remote computing system. The computer system provides a notification in the software application indicating that the electronically-controlled appliance is available to receive instructions, and receives a user input at the software application indicating that certain functions are to be performed by the electronically-controlled appliance. The computer system further generates instructions configured to control the electronically-controlled appliance based on the functions specified in the received user input, and sends the generated instructions to the electronically-controlled appliance to perform the specified functions. These functions are then interpreted and carried out on the electronically-controlled appliance via the hardware controller.
US10165099B2
A device for coupling a mobile communications unit with a motor vehicle may be placed between a driver seat and a passenger seat of the motor vehicle and includes a surface on which the mobile communications unit may be placed. An antenna is adapted to emit and/or receive a radio signal for the near field communication with the mobile communications unit.
US10165094B2
Embodiments described herein provides a system for detecting data received in a low power low rate (LPLR) data frame format. The system includes a receiver and control circuitry. The receiver is configured to receive a data frame comprising an LPLR preamble portion and an LPLR data portion following the LPLR preamble portion. The LPLR preamble portion and the LPLR data portion occupy a bandwidth that is less than an allowed bandwidth. The control circuitry is configured to determine a mode of the data frame based on whether the data frame has an additional portion, and detect a data field in the LPLR preamble portion from the data frame based on the mode of the data frame.
US10165086B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing system includes a client apparatus and three or more server apparatuses that each store data. The server apparatus includes a first storage, a receiver, a generator, a selector, a transmitter, and a changer. When the number of requests indicating identical changes among the requests of the data candidates is larger than a first threshold, the selector selects one of the requests indicating identical changes, and sets the state of the selected request to a second state. The transmitter transmits the data candidate including the selected request to one or more server apparatuses. When the number of requests in the second state among the requests of the data candidates is larger than a second threshold, the changer updates the history data and changes the data by using one of the data candidates including the requests in the second state.
US10165081B2
A method and system are provided for processing an interaction response of a request service provider. The method includes detecting the interaction response for a first interaction session using a first interaction channel between a request initiator and the request service provider, assigning an identifier to the interaction response, determining a task associated with the interaction response, and obtaining context data of a plurality of other interaction sessions. The plurality of other interaction sessions occurs proximal in time with the first interaction session. The context data is related to activity of the request initiator. The method also includes associating a subset of the context data with the interaction response. The subset of the context data is the context data of the plurality of other interaction sessions that are related to the task. The method also includes modifying the interaction response using the subset of the context data.
US10165069B2
A personalized content recommendation provisioning method and system are described, according to various implementations. In an implementation, a user profile is established for each of multiple users within an electronic data environment (e.g., the Internet). The user profile may include information collected via a registration of the user and information identifying content consumed by the user based at least in part on information collected by an associated tracking cookie. The user profile may be used to generate a personalized grade associated with each of multiple candidate content recommendations in a high-quality candidate content recommendation pool, determine a content recommendation scope associated with a user in view of a personalized grade associated with each of the plurality of candidate content recommendations, and display the content recommendation scope to the user.
US10165060B2
A communication device may have a set of web cookies designated for a specific location. When the communication device enters the specific location, the set of web cookies, which are designated for the specific location, may be used to customize a web page displayed at the communication device. When the communication device exits the specific location, the set of web cookies, which are designated for the specific location, may be inactivated. Different sets of web cookies may be designated for different locations. For example, a set of web cookies may be designated for home and another set of web cookies may be designated for work. The communication device may activate an appropriate set of web cookies based on the location of the communication device.
US10165057B2
A proxy application starts a Web browser (UA) in response to a Local Intent process request. The proxy application converts the Local Intent process request into a Web Intent process request, and sends the converted request to the Web browser. The Web browser provides, to a user, a list of Web Intents registered in the UA corresponding to the Web Intent process request, in order to select a providing function of a Web application using data designated in the Local Intent process request.
US10165050B2
A system for diffracted data retrieval (DDR) comprises a plurality of storage locations. The system for DDR also comprises a client device configured to: transmit a request to retrieve the data object, wherein the data object comprises a plurality of segments stored across the plurality of storage locations; receive a sequencing key in response to the request to retrieve the data object; and retrieve the plurality of segments of the data object from the plurality of storage locations based at least in part on an order indicated by the sequencing key. The system of DDR further comprises an initiation server configured to: receive the request from the client device to retrieve the data object; generate the sequencing key in response to the request; transmit the sequencing key to the client device; and monitor a progress of the retrieval of the data object by the client device.
US10165045B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: receive, from each of a plurality of data centers located in a plurality of positions, load information pertaining to a load of each data center; calculate an estimated load value for each of the plurality of data centers based on the received load information; determine a data center to execute a requested process based on the estimated load value and a time zone of the position where each of the plurality of data centers is located; and control the determined data center to execute the requested process.
US10165037B2
A computer implemented method, a computer system, and computer code stored on tangible, non-transient media, for determining bandwidth of a page load for a specific feature associated with the page. Network traffic associated with requests of a loading of a page to be displayed on a device is monitored. Requests of the loaded page are assigned to an associated function of the page. At least one request chain associated with the associated function is created and a respective time for loading of each of the at least one request chains is determined. An aggregate of the respective times for loading is used to determine a bandwidth metric associated with the feature.
US10165029B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for provide a digital media caching environment are provided herein. In one example, a method of operating a content node to provide a digital media caching environment is provided. The method includes receiving a request transferred by an end user device for digital media content. Responsive to the request, the method includes retrieving at least a header portion and a content subset of the digital media content from an origin server and transmuxing the content subset of the digital media content from an origin format into a stream format suitable for streaming to the end user device, and streaming the content subset in the stream format for delivery to the end user device.
US10165021B2
In a communications system, after parties form a voice telephone connection, the parties respective communications devices automatically create or leverage machine readable features or content of the telephone connection to identify the parties to each other or to a rendezvous server, and thereafter the communications devices and/or the rendezvous server automatically establishes a data link between the parties.
US10165018B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying a plurality of participants in a multi-user collaboration session connected via at least one common computing device. It may be determined that a first client device in the collaboration session is more active with a second client device in the collaboration session than with a third client device in the collaboration session. A failure may be detected of the at least one common computing device connecting the multi-user collaboration session. The multi-user collaboration session may be converted to a point to point connection between the first client device and the second client device based upon, at least in part, determining that the first client device in the collaboration session is more active with the second client device in the collaboration session than with the third client device in the collaboration session.
US10165011B2
Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments, perform privacy assessments and monitor new versions of computer code for updated features and conditions that relate to compliance with privacy standards. The systems and methods may obtain a copy of computer code (e.g., a software application or code associated with a website) that collects and/or uses personal data, and then automatically analyze the computer code to identify one or more privacy-related attributes that may impact compliance with applicable privacy standards. The system may be adapted to monitor one or more locations (e.g., an online software application marketplace, and/or a specified website) to determine whether the application or website has changed. The system may, after analyzing the computer code, display the privacy-related attributes, collect information regarding the attributes, and automatically notify one or more designated individuals (e.g., privacy office representatives) regarding the attributes and information collected.
US10165008B2
Enforcing a policy is described. Event data generated in response to a device authenticating to a node on a first network is received. A request for a resource that is external to the first network is received from the device. A mapping between an IP address of the device and a user identity is determined, at least in part by using at least a portion of the received event data. A policy is applied to the device based at least in part on the user identity.
US10165006B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing simulated phishing attacks using social engineering indicators. One or more failure indicators can be configured in a phishing email template, and each failure indicator can be assigned a description about that failure indicator through use of a markup tag. The phishing email template containing the markup tags corresponding to the failure indicators can be stored and can be used to generate a simulated phishing email in which the one or more markup tags are removed.
US10165000B1
Systems and methods for malware attack prevention are provided. The malware attack prevention system features a heuristic module, an analysis environment and an interception module. The heuristic module is configured to (i) receive incoming data from a particular source over a first communication path and (ii) analyze the incoming data to determine whether the incoming data is suspicious, where the suspicious incoming data represents a prescribed likelihood that the incoming data is associated with a malware attack. The analysis environment is configured to analyze the suspicious incoming data to identify whether the suspicious incoming data is associated with a malware attack. Lastly, the interception module is configured to redirect a subsequent flow of data from the particular source to the malware attack prevention system in response to determining, by at least the heuristic module, that the incoming data is suspicious.
US10164999B1
Various embodiments of the present invention generally relate to identity authentication and/or recognition. Some embodiments provide a method for determining when a user may engage in a restricted activity, including engaging in an initial contact with a user via a medium for exchange, receiving a request to engage in an activity, determining an activity trust threshold required for the activity, determining an initial identity trust score for the user, and comparing the initial identity trust score with the activity trust threshold. Based on the comparison, the user is either allowed to engage in the activity, rejected from engaging in the activity, or additional identifying information is collected.
US10164990B2
A test tool includes a connection engine, a transformation engine, a validation engine, and a messaging engine. The connection engine connects to a first non-relational database, a second non-relational database, and a server. The transformation engine receives first and second messages from the first and second non-relational databases and transforms the second message into a JavaScript Object Notation message. The validation engine compares the first message with a server log stored on the server to determine whether information in the first message matches information in the server log and compares the JavaScript Object Notation message with the server log to determine whether information in the second message matches information in the server log. The messaging engine communicates a message indicating that information in the first message and the second message match information in the server log.
US10164988B2
A system and method of external link processing is disclosed. The system includes an interface configured to receive a user request to access an encoded external link in networked content. The encoded external link comprises a domain name of an external link server and an encoded portion which is an encoded result of an original external link encoded with an encoding function, wherein the original external link is an address to an external destination. One or more processors determine a safety level of the encoded external link using a criterion. In the event that the determined safety level of the encoded external link is determined unsafe, a warning message is generated indicating that the original external link is unsafe and the user is prevented from directly navigating to the original external link.
US10164985B2
Devices, systems, and methods of password recovery and password reset, as well as resetting or recovering other types of user-authentication factor. A system monitors and tracks user-interactions that are performed by a user of an electronic device or a computerized service. The system defines a user-specific task or challenge, in which the user is requested to enter a phrase or perform a task. A user-specific feature is extracted from the manner in which the user performs the task. Subsequently, that user-specific feature is utilized instead of a security question, in order to verify the identity of the user and to allow the user to perform password reset or to perform a reset of another user-authentication factor; by presenting to the user the same task or a similar task, and monitoring the manner in which the user performs the fresh task.
US10164981B2
A method and system for controlling online user account using a mobile device. The method includes receiving an option to lock an online account of a user from a service provider. The computer-implemented method also includes locking the online user account by using a mobile device. Further, the computer-implemented method includes initiating a user action at a later point of time. Furthermore, the computer-implemented method includes receiving an alert to unlock the online user account in order to perform the user action and obtaining an unlock password from the service provider. Moreover, the computer-implemented method includes unlocking the online user account with the unlock password by using the mobile device and performing the user action subsequent to the unlocking, thereby controlling the online user account using the mobile device. The system includes a computing device, a web browser, a service provider and a mobile device.
US10164980B1
A method for sharing data from within a secure network perimeter includes providing a sharing folder associated with a first user for transferring data therefrom to destinations outside the secure perimeter. Data stored within the sharing folder is stored in a secured fashion. Semi-trusted applications are provided an ability to retrieve the secured data in a unsecured fashion for sharing of same. The semi-trusted applications are other than able to retrieve and share secured data from at least a folder other than the sharing folder in unsecured form.
US10164976B2
Disclosed is a method of substituting for authentication of subscriber terminals of a mobile communication network for a third party site in a radio mobile communication system, the method including: obtaining traffic information for each subscriber terminal from the mobile communication network to which the subscriber terminals connect; receiving an authentication request for a first subscriber terminal from the third party site that has received a service request of the first subscriber terminal from the mobile communication network; and authenticating, if an IP address of the first subscriber terminal is one of IP addresses of the subscriber terminals contained in the traffic information, the first subscriber terminal using traffic information of the first subscriber terminal, and providing an authentication result to the third party site.
US10164975B1
Systems and methods for authentication via camera are provided. In example embodiments, an authentication server transmits, to a mobile device, an identity verification image. The authentication server receives, from a computing device, a scanned image, wherein the computing device is different from the mobile device. The authentication server determines whether the scanned image includes data from the identity verification image. The authentication server transits, to a web server accessed by the computing device, an indication that a user's identity has been verified upon determining that the scanned image includes the data from the identity verification image.
US10164968B2
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for operating a server computer, a user computer and a system to authenticate a user. At a server computer a symbol arrangement and a series of authentication instructions comprising human intelligible text and computer-executable code are generated, the computer-executable code is executed in order to obtain a non-ambiguous instruction series result and the symbol arrangement and the human intelligible text representing the series of instructions are transmitted to a user computer. At the user computer, the symbol arrangement and the human intelligible text are displayed, a user input is received and the user input is transmitted to the user computer. At the server computer, the received user input is compared with the instruction series result and the user is authenticated if the received user input corresponds to the instruction series result.
US10164960B2
A method for customizing a controlled smartphone involves downloading a source code and relevant development tool for Android 5.1, compiling a ROM package to produce a version of ROM having the master APP, flashing the smartphone with the ROM, creating states of “Deactivated” and “Activated” for the smartphone's various functions, and whitelisting the master APP for APP installation authentication, incoming/outgoing number authentication, and short text message authentication, thereby achieving control over adolescents' web surfing times and hours, visited websites, used application programs and received messages.
US10164957B1
In one implementation, a processing system receives a request from a user to output a representation for a credential at a client device, the credential being associated with the user. In response to receiving the request from the user to output the representation for the credential, the processing system accesses data identifying one or more conditions associated with the credential. The processing system then determines that at least one of the one or more conditions associated with the credential is not satisfied. And then, in response to determining that the at least one of the one or more conditions associated with the credential is not satisfied, the processing system denies the request from the user to output the representation for the credential at the client device.
US10164940B2
One or more processors are configured to associate a first local IP address with a computer while the computer is connected to a first network access node thereby providing the computer with access to a network. The first local IP address is one of a plurality of local IP addresses used on the network. The one or more processors monitor transmissions received from the first network access node to determine when the computer requests an Internet transaction. When the computer requests an Internet transaction, a first one of the globally unique IP addresses is associated with the first local IP address thereby allowing the computer to conduct the Internet transaction. The first globally unique IP address is disassociated from the first local IP address after termination of the Internet transaction and is then available for association with any of the local IP addresses used on the network.
US10164934B1
Methods and systems are provided for allocating a Domain Name System server to a user device based on the Internet Protocol version capability of the user device. During a session set up for the user device in a wireless communications network, an IP version that the user device is capable of communicating with in the wireless communications network is determined. If the user device is capable of communicating in the wireless communications network using IP IPv4 and IPv6, a first Domain Name System (DNS) server is allocated to the user device for use in a current session. If the user device is capable of communicating in the wireless communications network using IPv6 only, a second DNS server is allocated to the user device for use in a current session, where the first DNS server is different than the second DNS server.
US10164930B2
A method and device for controlling peripheral devices via a social networking platform includes receiving a servicer registration request from the support service provider, the servicer registration request specifying a type of peripheral devices to be serviced; establishing a public social network identity for the support service provider; receiving an owner registration request for a first peripheral device; upon a determination that the first peripheral device is of the type of peripheral devices, establishing a social network relationship between the support service provider and the first user; and providing respective communication messages targeting the first peripheral device and respective communication messages originated from the first peripheral device as respective instant messages in a conversation interface of a chat session between the first user and the support service provider.
US10164920B2
A method and system for exchanging email attachments is disclosed. An attachment can be sent to one or more recipients using a file hosting service. In this way, instead of including the attachment with the email, the attachment is sent and stored on a file server. The attachment can later be retrieved by the email's recipients using a link that is included in the email. The link can be embedded in the email's header or body. In one case, the attachment is automatically retrieved from the file server using the link. In another case, a recipient can manually retrieve the attachment from the file server using the link. A link can be associated with an expiration date such that when a link expires, the link can no longer be used to retrieve the attachment.
US10164915B2
Provided is a mobile station which communicates with abase station using a radio channel, the mobile station comprising: a switching unit configured to switch from a packet reception period, during which packet reception can be executed, to a packet reception halt period, during which packet reception is halted; a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the base station, a result of receiving a packet sent from the base station, as a reception result notification signal; a packet reception determination unit configured to determine a packet reception fault; and a reception period determination unit configured to extend the packet reception period if the packet reception fault is determined by the packet reception determination unit.
US10164913B2
An apparatus is disclosed that performs network address translation and/or port translation between networks.
