US10159641B2
A ferment extract of a bacterial strain of the Bacillus pumilus species, a method of treatment and/or care of the skin and/or muscles, and cosmetic and/or dermopharmaceutical compositions containing the ferment extract. In particular, the ferment extract is used for muscular endurance, wound healing and skin firmness.
US10159639B2
The present invention relates to a composition for treating keratin fibers, comprising at least an aqueous dispersion of hybrid hydrophobic film-forming acrylic polymer particles and at least one amino silicone and also to a process for treating keratin fibers using such a composition.
US10159637B2
An improved hair and scalp treatment composition comprising a hair care product wherein the improvement comprises reducing the comedogenicity thereof by excluding therefrom comedogenic elements having a Fulton scale grade greater than 2.
US10159635B2
The present invention provides cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions and therapies capable of reducing skin pigmentation and valuable in treating and managing disorders of skin pigmentation. The invention uses safe and well tolerated non-digestible oligosaccharides as the active agents providing numerous advantages over the harsh chemicals of previously available compositions.
US10159634B2
A method for inhibiting hair growth in mammals using compositions containing FP receptor antagonists (e.g., prostaglandin F analogs that are block activation of the FP receptor). The compositions can be applied topically to the skin and/or hair. The compositions can arrest hirsutism or hypertrichosis, reverse hirsutism and hypertrichosis, and further prevent hair growth. These compositions can also be used to protect hair from chemical or radiation-induced alopecia or hair loss. These compositions can also be used to inhibit pigmentation of the hair or skin.
US10159633B2
The purpose of the present invention to solve the problem is to provide a hair cleansing composition that can provide the feeling in use and a stable appearance.The hair cleansing composition comprises: 14 to 35% by mass of a sugar and/or a sugar alcohol; 5 to 20% by mass of an anionic surfactant, 50% or more of the anionic surfactant being an N-acyl-N-methyl taurate and/or an N-acyl-glutamate; 5 to 20% by mass of an alkamidopropyl betaine and/or an alkyl betaine; 0.05 to 1% by mass of a cationic polymer; and 0.01 to 1.5% by mass of an inorganic salt; wherein the hair cleansing composition has a viscosity of 800 to 20000 mPa·s.
US10159627B2
The possibility that a child inadvertently unlocks a child-resistant vial by triggering the latch with his teeth is avoided by preventing access to the latch from under the cap. This is achieved by covering all sides of the latch with the exception of the front face thereof intended to be used to trigger the latch while the cap is lifted. Improvement of the humidity barrier in such a vial is achieved by closing the vial container with a cap including a recess that defines inner and outer peripheral walls in the cap. The inner and outer walls together define an annular gap that is configured to complementary receive the peripheral flange of the container. Both the edge of the inner wall of the cap and the inner peripheral wall of the container are provided with sealing rings that are axially distanced when the cap closes the vial container.
US10159626B2
The present invention provides a lid cover (1) of a medicine container (2) for preventing a medicine, which is air-tightly stored in a medicine container (2) that has a lid portion (22) that can be pierced with a needle (33), from leaking to an outside space when the medicine is suctioned using a syringe (3) having the needle (33), the lid cover (1) including a peripheral wall portion (10) that can be mounted to the lid portion (22) so as to surround a piercing face of the lid portion (22) that is pierced with the needle (33) and a ceiling face portion (50) that is continuous with an upper portion of the peripheral wall portion (10), and can be pierced with the needle (33), wherein the peripheral wall portion (10) and the ceiling face portion (50) are made of an elastic material, and are configured to air-tightly store the piercing face such that the piercing face is not exposed to the outside space in a state where the peripheral wall portion (10) is mounted to the lid portion (22), while also forming a closed space between the piercing face and the ceiling face portion (50), and the ceiling face portion (50) has a central portion (51) that opposes the piercing face, and is pierced with the needle, and an outer periphery portion (52) that is formed in the periphery of the central portion (51), and is thinner than the central portion (51).
US10159625B2
A package including a container and a cover sheet, the container having a first section and a second section connected at a breakable joint, the first section includes a well, and the cover sheet is adhered to at least a portion of the first section and at least a portion of the second section and the cover sheet covers the well. Either the first section or the second section is adapted to pivot to assist in breaking the breakable joint in order to separate the first section and the second section, and allow removal of the cover sheet.
US10159624B2
A method and a control panel are described for facilitating the control of a bathing unit system so that the bathing unit system is caused to transition between operating in accordance with a first operational mode to operating in accordance with a second operational mode. A control signal is generated in response to a unitary user input event performed by a user at a control panel of the bathing unit system, the control signal conveying an ambiance activation command associated with a specific ambience setting, the generation of the control signal comprising selecting the specific ambience setting from a set of ambience settings stored in a memory device. The control signal is then transmitted from the control panel to the controller over a communication link where it is processed to cause the bathing unit system to transition from being in the rest mode to operating in accordance with the specific ambience setting. The method and a control panel may allow simplifying the control of the bathing unit system in order to achieve a desired total effect by allowing a user to cause the bathing unit to operate in accordance with an ambience setting by way of a unitary user input event performed at the control panel.
US10159622B2
A vibrator including a curved housing adapted to the female anatomy, the housing has a front section; a rear section; an interior section and a fastening section. The interior section has a power source, a control unit, a memory unit for saving data, a communication unit for data communication with an external device and an electric motor for generation of a vibration. The rear section is configured to transmit vibrations generated by the electric motor to the body. Fasteners are included for fastening the vibrator to an article of clothing by a clamping mechanism. The fasteners are removably attached to the fastening section of the housing and are flush with the front section.
US10159614B2
Patient-support systems and apparatuses for supporting patients, including for example hospital beds.
US10159612B2
Hygienic product comprising an odor control material having a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction and a thickness direction, the odor control material including a first carrier material wherein a plurality of odor control particles are bonded to at least one surface of the first carrier material by a binder substance wherein the first carrier material in an unexpanded condition has a plurality of transversal slits, and that the first carrier material in an expanded condition in the longitudinal direction has a plurality of openings, and that the first carrier material is fixed in the expanded condition in the hygienic product whereby the odor control material is in the form of a reticulated structure.
US10159609B2
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. 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, wherein the absorbent insert includes a removal device configured to assist a user in separating the removable portion of the absorbent insert from the chassis absorbent unit.
US10159606B2
A compression kit including an inner layer, comprising a foam material, and an outer layer, comprising a separate elastic compression bandage is disclosed. An article comprising foam with two major surfaces, one of which has been coated with a hydrophilic agent to be applied against the skin is disclosed. A method of manufacturing the foam article with the skin-facing hydrophilic surface is disclosed. A method of applying the compression kit to a patient's leg or other body part is disclosed.
US10159604B2
A system, method, and apparatus are disclosed for dressing a wound. The apparatus comprises a liquid and gas permeable transmission layer, an absorbent layer for absorbing wound exudate, the absorbent layer overlying the transmission layer, a gas impermeable cover layer overlying the absorbent layer and comprising a first orifice, wherein the cover layer is moisture vapor permeable.
US10159599B2
A method is provided for treating a meibomian gland of an eyelid of a patient. In a particular embodiment, an obstruction in a meibomian gland and the orifice thereof can be alleviated; in another, a substance can be injected thereinto; in yet another, the gland can be aspirated. The method includes the step of inserting an elongated probe into a meibomian gland via an orifice thereinto. In some embodiments the probe can have a longitudinal lumen therethrough, with at least one distal hole through the probe wall in fluid communication with the lumen. The lumen can be used in concert with a source of suction for removing debris from the meibomian gland, and/or with a source of a fluid and pumping means, for injecting a substance into the meibomian gland.
US10159594B2
Foley catheter bag support sleeves for receiving and securing a catheter bag that can be secured to the inside of a user's clothes, including flexible support sleeves preferably made with fabric that are equipped with a lining on at least one side to avoid irritation to the user's skin. In some examples, the catheter bag support sleeve is secured using hook or loop material (such as Velcro®) that mates with corresponding material that is attached to the interior of a garment worn by the user, such as a pair of pants. In other examples, the catheter bag support sleeve can be secured to the user's garment using any removable attachment means. In some further examples, the support sleeve includes ends that can be opened or secured shut to provide alternative or additional securing of an enclosed catheter bag.
US10159593B2
A medical bandaging product that includes a flexible medical material including an elongate fabric, a reactive system, and microspheres. In certain aspects, a component of the reactive system is homogeneously impregnated into or coated throughout the flexible medical material without being encapsulated in the microspheres such that the reactive system remains stable and non-activated in the absence of an activating agent, and hardens upon activation by exposure to the activating agent to form a rigid, self-supporting structure. In this aspect, the microspheres are homogeneously impregnated into or coated throughout the flexible medical material, the microspheres encapsulate an activating agent and are configured to release the activating agent to form the rigid, self-supporting structure.
US10159583B2
A bone fusion device for insertion between bones that are to be fused together, such as, for example, the vertebrae of a spinal column. The bone fusion device comprises at least one extendable tab and one or more tab extension assemblies. Each tab extension assembly is able to be adjusted in order to individually control the extension or contraction of a side of the tab thereby enabling adjustment of the height and/or angle of the tab with respect to the body of the bone fusion device. Each tab extension assembly is able to be individually adjusted such that the side controlled by each assembly is raised or lowered until the desired tab angle is achieved. The tab is advantageously positioned and angled to correspond to the vertebrae to help brace the device until the bone has fused.
US10159581B2
An expandable prosthetic implant for engagement between vertebrae includes a first member having a first end, a second end, a plurality of extensions and and a hollow interior portion extending from the first end to the second end, wherein the plurality of extensions extend from the first end to the second end. A second member includes a first end, a second end, a hollow interior portion extending from the first end to the second end, and a plurality of extensions extending from the second end to the first end. The plurality extensions of the first member are configured to coaxially interdigitate with the second member, and the plurality of extensions of the second member are configured to coaxially interdigitate with the first member. The first member of the implant is moveable relative to the second member along a longitudinal axis.
US10159568B2
A delivery system for transcatheter implantation of a heart valve prosthesis. The delivery system includes an outer sheath component defining a lumen therethrough, an elongate tube having at least two flat wires longitudinally extending from a distal end thereof, and self-expanding first and second frames disposed in series within a distal portion of the outer sheath component and held in a compressed delivery configuration therein. The elongate tube and the at least two flat wires are slidably disposed within the lumen of the outer sheath component. In the compressed delivery configuration the at least two flat wires longitudinally extend along exterior portions of the first and second frames and are woven through adjacent ends of the first and second frames to releasably couple them to each other. Proximal retraction of the at least two flat wires from the first and second frames releases at least the first frame from the delivery system.
US10159549B1
A bandage for protecting a wound site in the extremity of an animal such as a dog or pet, has a body in the form of an inverted cup with a transverse wall and one or more access openings therein, a lip on the cup to fit against the animal's fur around the wound site, and a cover piece to enable selective covering of the access opening. The cup has a roughened exterior surface texture that is extremely irritating to the animal's tongue or lip, wherein the animal is discouraged from continuous licking and/or chewing on the body, and thereby inadvertently dislodging it from the wound site.
US10159546B2
According to the invention, a method and system are provided for scanning, and for facilitating scanning of, an intraoral cavity. The target parts of the intraoral cavity that it is desired to have scanned are identified, and the spatial s relationships between a scanning device and the target parts of the intraoral cavity suitable for enabling said target parts to be scanned by said scanning device, are also identified or otherwise determined. These relationships are then displayed, and the displayed relationships are used as a guide for scanning the intraoral cavity.
US10159545B2
Embodiments include a scanbody that includes a base that fits in an anti-rotation geometry of a dental implant, and a body that is set to be scanner. The body includes a lateral surface with geometrical elements that allow the identification of information regarding a position, direction and rotation of the scanbody. The body lateral surface does not include any flat portion and includes a first opposing trunconical element, base-to-base, a secondary trunconic element and concave surfaces disposed at the side, including a hole (5) that receives a fixing screw.
US10159538B2
Devices and methods for treating rhinitis are described where the devices are configured to ablate a single nerve branch or multiple nerve branches of the posterior nasal nerves located within the nasal cavity. A surgical probe may be inserted into the sub-mucosal space of a lateral nasal wall and advanced towards a posterior nasal nerve associated with a middle nasal turbinate or an inferior nasal turbinate into a position proximate to the posterior nasal nerve where neuroablation of the posterior nasal nerve may be performed with the surgical probe. The probe device may utilize a visible light beacon that provides trans-illumination of the sub-mucosal tissue or an expandable structure disposed in the vicinity of the distal end of the probe shaft to enable the surgeon to visualize the sub-mucosal position of the distal end of the surgical probe from inside the nasal cavity using, e.g., an endoscope.
US10159503B2
A separable surgical guide instrument is configured to be inserted minimally invasively into a patient's soft tissue, and includes a guide body and a guide aperture that extends through the guide body. The guide body has a distal end that includes a first distal end portion and a second distal end portion that are arranged such that at least one of the first and second distal end portions is movable with respect to the other of the first and second distal end portions between 1) a closed position whereby the first and second distal end portions are concurrently insertable into a bone fixation aperture of a bone plate, and 2) an open position whereby the first distal end portion is spaced from the second distal end portion a sufficient distance such that the first and second distal end portions are not concurrently insertable into the bone fixation aperture.
US10159501B2
A guided punch is disclosed. The guided punch generally comprises a strike cap comprising a strike surface, a punch comprising a distal cutting edge, and a guide rod. The strike cap defines a first cavity therein. The punch defines a second cavity therein in communication with the first cavity. The guide rod is located within the first and second cavities and extends a predetermined distance beyond the distal cutting edge of the punch. The strike cap and the punch are moveable relative to the guide rod.
US10159495B1
A drill bit comprises a shank extending along an axis and an interface comprising at least one outermost drive portion spaced at a first interface distance from the axis. The drill bit further comprises a resilient arm extending from a proximal end of the shank. The resilient arm comprises an outer arm surface facing away from the axis and a retention surface facing toward a distal end of the shank. The retention surface may be radially aligned about the axis with respect to the outermost drive portion. The resilient arm is movable between: a first position where the outer arm surface is spaced from the axis at a first arm distance greater than the first interface distance, and a second position where the outer arm surface is spaced from the axis at a second arm distance less than or equal to the first interface distance.
US10159494B1
Method and apparatus for performing an anterior distal femoral resection. A distal femoral resection is formed and used as a surface from which to base an anterior distal femoral resection cutting guide apparatus. The cutting guide apparatus may include a position block and an attached cutting guide. The position block is placed against the anterior distal femoral resection, and the orientation of the anterior cutting guide is set, at least in part, based on the anterior distal femoral resection.
US10159492B2
An endoscopic surgical clip applier is provided, wherein a distal end of the surgical clip applier is introduced to a target surgical site through a cannula having a fixed diameter lumen. The surgical clip applier comprises an endoscopic portion supported by and extending from a handle assembly, and a pair of jaws supported at a distal end of an outer tube, wherein the pair of jaws are movable between a fully open condition and approximated conditions. When the pair of jaws are in the fully open condition the pair of jaws extend radially beyond an outer diameter of the outer tube to a dimension greater than the fixed diameter of the lumen of the cannula; and when the pair of jaws are in at least one approximated condition the pair of jaws have a transverse dimension permitting passage through the lumen of the cannula.
US10159488B2
A vascular device having a plurality of struts having a distal portion and a proximal portion. The distal portion of the struts are retained in a converged position. The struts diverge radially outwardly. A plurality of vessel penetrating members extend from the proximal portion of the struts for engaging the internal wall of the vessel, wherein release of the retention of the distal portions of the struts causes the distal portions to move outwardly away from the longitudinal axis and the proximal portions of the struts to move inwardly toward the longitudinal axis such that the vessel engaging members pull the internal wall of the vessel radially inwardly.
US10159486B2
An attachment system for selectively attaching to an interior surface of a hollow member, which includes an expanding device selectively enlargeable from a first size position to an enlarged second size position, a friction enhancement disposed about the expanding device that is engageable with the interior surface of the hollow member when the expanding device is in the enlarged position, and a fenestrated decoupling system extending between at least a portion of the friction enhancement of the expanding device and the interior surface of the hollow member. The fenestrated decoupling system generally prevents contact of the friction enhancement with the interior surface of the hollow member when the expanding device is in the first size position and permits contact of the friction enhancement with the interior surface of the hollow member when the expanding device is in the enlarged position.
US10159475B2
The present disclosure relates to a surgical device, such as a surgical implant, which may be used in several types of procedures. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to implants for use in an anterior, posterior, posterior lateral or direct lateral approach to the disc space. The surgical device may be manipulated in various manners to accommodate delivery through a minimally invasive portal in one configuration and adjusted to a second configuration once placed in the intervertebral space. A delivery system for placing the surgical device in a body is also disclosed.
US10159466B2
Sparse tracking is used in acoustic radiation force impulse imaging. The tracking is performed sparsely. The displacements are measured only one or a few times for each receive line. While this may result in insufficient information to determine the displacement phase shift and/or maximum displacement over time, the resulting displacement samples for different receive lines as a function of time may be used together to estimate the velocity, such as with a Radon transform. The estimation may be less susceptible to noise from the scarcity of displacement samples by using compressive sensing.
US10159462B2
A method is provided for creating a volume graphic via a catheter for introduction into a vessel which has an ultrasound unit, which is embodied to transmit ultrasound, to measure an echo of the transmitted ultrasound, and to create image data for a two-dimensional cross-section of the vessel on the basis of the measured echo. The method involves creating image data of a cross-section with the ultrasound unit at a plurality of different positions on a movement track of the catheter, and, in addition to the image data, creating position data for the current position of the ultrasound unit with a localization device. The method further involves creating the volume graphic from the image data of all cross-sections in which the cross-sections are arranged relative to one another in accordance with the position data.
US10159450B2
An X-ray computed tomography (CT) apparatus according to an embodiment includes a photon-counting detector, correction circuitry, and reconstruction circuitry. The photon-counting detector includes a plurality of X-ray detection elements detecting X-ray photons applied from an X-ray tube. The correction circuitry corrects detection signals detected by the photon-counting detector for the respective X-ray detection elements, based on a centroid of an X-ray spectrum detected by the photon-counting detector. The reconstruction circuitry reconstructs a CT image based on the corrected detection signals.
US10159444B2
The disclosure provides a method and system for detecting an anaerobic threshold heart rate. After first physiological data, second physiological data and third physiological data are obtained while a user is exercising, an interval of the third physiological data corresponding to an estimated range of first physiological data and a turning point of a curve fitting the third physiological data within the interval are obtained, to determine the anaerobic threshold heart rate of a user.
US10159443B2
An apparatus and a method for determining vital sign information from a subject are disclosed. The proposed apparatus comprises a detection unit for detecting radiation received from the subject in a field of view, a first determining unit for determining a first time dependent signal from the radiation received from the subject, an evaluation unit for deriving at least one parameter from the first time dependent signal, a selection unit for selecting an area in the field of view on the basis of the detected radiation and the at least one parameter, a second determining unit for determining a second time dependent signal from the radiation received from the selected area, and an analysis unit for analyzing the second time dependent signal and for determining the vital sign information on the basis of the analysis of the second time dependent signal.
US10159441B2
A method for determining blood pressure is disclosed. The method comprises determining a plurality of heart sounds using a microphone of a handheld device and determining a pulse wave using a camera of the handheld device. The method includes determining an ejection time (ET), a vascular transit time (VTT), and a heart rate from any of the plurality of heart sounds and the pulse wave. The method includes performing regression analysis on received user-specific data, the ET, the VTT, and the heart rate to determine the blood pressure.
US10159437B2
A surgical gown (100) includes a body-covering portion (101) and, optionally, sleeves (102,103). A surgery procedure verification card (120) can be attached to the surgical gown (100). The surgery procedure verification card (120), which can be configured to be selectively detachable from the surgical gown (100), is configured to facilitate a start of a surgical procedure after completion of a predetermined procedure. The surgical gown (100) can be color coded to indicate a barrier level or the presence of the surgery procedure verification card (120). The surgical gown (100) can be included in a surgical pack (400). The surgical pack (400) can include one or more surgical procedure gowns (401,402) that are not color-coded, as well as a surgical drape (440). Methods of using and manufacturing the surgical gown (100) are also described.
US10159434B1
Methods and systems disclosed herein may be operable to detect a presence or absence of an analyte in human tissue. An example method includes operating one or more light sources to illuminate a plurality of optodes with excitation light. Each optode is embedded in tissue at a respective location. The excitation light causes the optodes to emit emission light and the optodes are sensitive to at least one analyte such that the emission light emitted by the optodes is indicative of a presence or absence of at least one analyte in the tissue. An optical filter arrangement includes for each optode in the plurality of optodes a corresponding set of one or more optical filters. The method includes obtaining detector information from a detector arrangement optically coupled to the optical filter arrangement, and detecting the at least one analyte based on the detector information.
US10159433B2
Method and system for providing analyte sensor alignment and retention mechanism for improved connectivity with a transmitter unit for electrical connection, and further including transmitter unit contact pins with metal components to improve electrical conductivity with the analyte sensor in an analyte monitoring and management system is provided.
US10159432B1
Techniques and methods for evaluating an instance of a pre-defined task being performed by a user with a handheld tool. In an embodiment, measurement information is stored to a log based on sensor data generated during motion of the handheld tool. Based on a definition of a task and the logged measurement information, a determination is made as to whether the sensed motion corresponds to a performance of at least some action of the defined task. In another embodiment, the definition of the task includes or otherwise corresponds to criteria information. The performance of the task is evaluated based on the criteria information to detect bradykinesia or some other unintentional muscle performance of the user.
US10159431B2
The DPT INSTRUCTOR provides unprecedented exercise instruction guidance by applying unparalleled precision and pinpoint accuracy that comes from combining professional exercise instructor expertise, physics and computer electronics. Considering the marketability of renowned professional/celebrity instructors who have their own unique style, technique, format and dedicated customers. The DPT INSTRUCTOR provides exclusive programming and formulation to guide and exact the expert training regiment of any fitness instructors individual form, execution, posture, expertise and technique. Regardless to the desired classification of an individual's type of training, age class, choice of workout machine/device, free weights, calisthenics, aerobics or physical constraints there are expert training instructors for all particular needs available for the DPT INSTRUCTOR programming systems by way of providing their very own unique and personalized execution/posture technique, “inso guaranteeing a convenience, guidance and interactive accessibility that was formerly unknown, unavailable and unattainable to the mainstream/professional exercise instruction guidance device marketing field”.
US10159425B2
A device for use in bariatric surgery includes a flexible hollow tube extending from a proximal end to a distal end and defines a channel therebetween. A series of openings is defined in a distal portion of the tube allowing for fixation of tissue using suction. A flexible member has an initial position disposed alongside the tube and is deployable to a subsequent position in which the flexible member engages a greater curvature of a stomach. The flexible member is configured to be deployable to automatically assume a shape of a greater curvature of a stomach. The flexible member includes a bulging region and a tapering region when deployed. The flexible member is releasably attached to the distal end of the tube.
US10159421B2
Methods and apparatus perform periodic breathing detection, such as Cheyne-Stokes respiration detection. The detection may be performed by one or more processors, such as by analysis of data from one or more sensors. In some cases, the detection may be based on an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal, such as from ECG electrodes and/or an accelerometer signal, such as from an accelerometer. An occurrence of periodic breathing may be detected based on features derived from the signal(s). For example, detection may be based on deriving a respiration signal from the sensed signal(s) and/or analysis of RR interval times or relative QRS amplitude values, which may be evaluated on a segment-by-segment basis. The detection may provide monitoring and reporting of the occurrence of periodic breathing by a monitoring device and/or provide a basis for controlling changes to a provided respiratory treatment or therapy, such as by a respiratory pressure therapy device.
US10159419B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a stimulation device includes a probe attached to a first support. The probe includes at least one grating coupler for coupling light into the probe. The device further includes at least one optical source for providing an optical stimulation signal mounted on a second support, and at least one means for detachably attaching the first support to the second support. The position of the at least one optical source is aligned with the position of the at least one grating coupler to allow light emitted from the at least one optical source to be received by the at least one grating coupler.
US10159417B2
There are provided an apparatus and a method for measuring pulse waves. The pulse wave measuring apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive pulse wave signals sensed at at least two points of an object; an analog signal processor configured to amplify a voltage difference between two pulse wave signals from among the received pulse wave signals and integrate the amplified voltage difference; and a digital signal processor configured to analog to digital convert a value of the integrated amplified voltage difference and obtain, from the converted value, a pulse transit time between the two points corresponding to the two pulse wave signals.
US10159416B2
A biological information measuring apparatus and a biological information measuring method are provided. The biological information measuring apparatus includes a pulsation information detecting unit configured to detect heartbeat information relating to a heartbeat of a subject, a blood pressure waveform measuring unit configured to measure a blood pressure waveform of the subject in an invasive manner, and a calculating unit configured to detect a cardiac cycle from the heartbeat information and to calculate, based on a detection of a maximal blood pressure value of the blood pressure waveform in the cardiac cycle, at least one of a systolic pressure of the subject, an end-diastolic pressure of the subject, an augmentation pressure of an IABP (intra-aortic balloon pumping), a systolic pressure assisted by the IABP and an end-diastolic pressure assisted by the IABP.
US10159411B2
A system that detects an irregular physiological response while being exposed to sensitive data includes: a head-mounted display (HMD), an inward-facing head-mounted thermal camera (CAM), and a computer. The HMD exposes sensitive data to the user who wears the HMD. The CAM takes thermal measurements of a region of interest (THROI) on the user's face while the user is exposed to the sensitive data. And the computer detects, based on certain THROI taken while the user was exposed to certain sensitive data, whether the user experienced the irregular physiological response while being exposed to the certain sensitive data.
US10159401B2
An assist device includes: a connecting section communicatively connected to the channel; a holding section attached to an outer side of either the insertion section of the endoscope or an operation section connected to the insertion section; and a flexible section forming an insertion path through which the treatment instrument is inserted, and including an expansion-and-contraction section including a more deformable structure than any other parts in an entire length between one end and another end of the flexible section. The flexible section is connected to the connecting section at the one end and connected to the holding section at the another end.
US10159389B2
A sheet product dispenser is provided. The sheet product dispenser includes a roll of sheet product, a dispensing arrangement, and a method of sensing the separation of a dispensed sheet product. A sensor is provided for detecting the movement of a movable member, such as a tear bar or paper guide. The sensor generates a signal in response to the movement of the movable member. A controller de-energizes a roller in said dispensing arrangement in response to said signal.
US10159387B2
The ozone cleaning device contains an electrically conductive member and a reinforced casing member. The casing member is injection-molded and houses the conductive member inside in an airtight manner. The reinforcement of the casing member, and the tight integration between the casing member and the conductive member jointly achieve enhanced structural strength to prevent the ozone cleaning device from being broken. When the ozone cleaning device is held close to a user and an electrical power is delivered to the conductive member, the conductive member is then conducting to the user and the air in between is influenced by the electrical power to produce ozone for cleaning. The present invention therefore achieves enhanced structural strength, usage safety, and prolonged operational life.
US10159384B2
A method for automated dispensing of a fluid. The method includes providing a light pulse to a location proximate a dispensing outlet from which said fluid will be dispensed, sensing a light received from that location, where the sensed light includes at least one of an ambient light or a reflection of said light pulse, generating a signal corresponding to the sensed light, generating a transistor-transistor logic (TTL) signal if the reflection of the light pulse is determined and pumping a fluid to the dispenser outlet in response to said TTL signal.
US10159380B2
A method and system can include: providing a grill body; mounting a cross-flame burner within the grill body, the cross-flame burner including an arched extension, a longitudinal portion, and a gas conduit, the arched extension extending laterally from the longitudinal section, the cross-flame burner including burner ports within the arched extension for providing a flame from a fuel and air mixture from the gas conduit; and affixing a Venturi body to the gas conduit.
US10159376B2
The invention relates to a head assembly for a beverage preparation device for preparing a nutritional composition upon interaction of ingredients provided in a capsule with liquid supplied to the capsule, the assembly comprising capsule opening means (10) which are adapted to interact with an injection face of the capsule, the opening means comprising a liquid injection means (1) for injection of liquid into the capsule and a gas injection means (2) for injecting of gas into the capsule, activation means (20) designed for interacting with the opening means and for moving the liquid injection means and the gas injection means with respect to the injection face of the capsule. The head assembly also comprises a drive unit (70) for driving the activation means (20) and the activation means comprises a driving gear (20b) adapted to be driven in rotational movement by the drive unit (70) for sequentially moving the liquid injection means (1) and gas injection means (2).
US10159375B2
A method is provided for the production of beverages by means of a capsule comprising a side wall (5), an entry surface (6) for the entrance of water under pressure into the capsule (1), the side wall (5) and the entry surface (6) forming the containment volume (V) for containing the infusion or soluble product (P), and the entry surface (6) comprising one or more reduced thickness areas (3), wherein the method comprises the following steps: pushing the entry surface (6) of the capsule (1) using pushing means (S) and injecting a flux of water under pressure so as to open the one or more reduced thickness areas (3) of the entry surface (6) so as to allow the water under pressure to enter the capsule (1).
US10159360B2
A stacked can merchandiser includes a floor component. The floor component has a glide surface allowing movement of merchandise, a plurality of engagement tabs disposed on the sides of the floor component, and a plurality of interfit spaces disposed on the sides of the floor component. The plurality of engagement tabs has a thickness equal to a thickness of the track component, and at least one engagement tab includes a snap lock feature disposed thereon. At least one of the interfit spaces includes a snap lock feature. The stacked can merchandiser further includes a divider extending upwardly from the track component. At least one finger element is disposed at a front edge of the divider and extends laterally therefrom. At least one pusher element is coupled to the divider and configured to travel along a length of the divider.
US10159357B2
A lightweight child carrier that can be mounted upon the front or the back of a wearer's torso with little or no need to adjust the carriers harness. The carrier includes a main panel having generally a rectangular shape. The bottom edge of the main panel is joined to the top edge of a padded waist band and the bottom edge of a head restraining panel is joined to the top edge of the main panel. Shoulder straps are connected to the main panel and are cojoined by a chest strap that is slidably mounted upon each shoulder strap. Adjustable restraining straps are connected to the chest strap and to the head restraining panel. An auxiliary waist belt is provided that considerably expands the length of the waist band to allow the carrier to be worn by a woman during pregnancy.
US10159356B1
A three pivot point foldable frame has first and second lower front hubs, first and second upper front hubs, a lower rear hub, and an upper rear hub. Six support members interconnect the hubs. First and second support members pivotally engage each other at a first pivot. Third and fifth support members pivotally engage each other at a second pivot. Fourth and sixth support members pivotally engage each other at a third pivot. A child seat or bedding having a receptacle formed therein is engaged to the upper hubs. The frame folds out to an operating position and in to a compact position.
US10159355B2
A sofa (10) includes a sofa base (13) and an addition (14) coupled to the sofa base. The sofa base has a seating area (18) between two end armrests (19) which includes spacing for back cushions (20), seat cushions (21), and an empty seating space (22). The addition has an L-shaped addition base (24) and a U-shaped addition cushion (25). The addition base has an inside corner (28) configured to nest the front corner of the sofa base. The U-shaped addition cushion is positioned upon the L-shaped addition base and a portion of the base seating area which could be occupied by a seat seating space. Thus, the addition cushion completely covers the addition base and the empty seating space or portion of the seating area directly adjacent the armrest which is surrounded by the addition cushion on three sides.
US10159339B1
A shelving system includes brackets attached to support posts to hold the shelves above a horizontal support surface, such as a ground or floor. The support posts have a plurality of spaced apart projecting pins extending from opposite sidewalls thereof. The brackets each have a flange that defines holes to receive respective ones of the projecting pins. Each bracket is further secured to a support post with a C-shaped locking clip having first and second arms with hook-shaped fingers that hook around respective pins on opposite sidewalls of the support post. One of the arms of the C-shaped locking clip holds the bracket flange against the inner sidewall of the support post and the hook-shaped finger of such arm mates with one of the pins received in one of the holes of the bracket.
US10159330B2
An apparatus is provided including an ammunition magazine, a container fixedly connected to the ammunition magazine, a modular insert configured to fixedly fit within the container, in one embodiment having an opening therein sized to receive an electrical device, and attachment hardware configured to attach the container to a belt worn by a user.
US10159327B2
Described is a multipurpose overnight bag which includes a storage body and a sleeping bag coupled thereto, and which includes one or more shoulder straps connectable to the storage body to enable the multipurpose overnight bag to be carried by a user when it is configured in a “travel mode.” The multipurpose overnight bag is configured such that when put into the travel mode the sleeping hag wraps completely around and cushions the storage body, thereby protecting the contents of the storage body and providing a plush and comfortable carrying experience for a user carrying it via the one or more shoulder straps.
US10159322B2
A luggage cover includes: a front panel, a rear panel, a top panel, a bottom panel, a first side panel, a second side panel, and a carrying element affixed to a top portion of the rear panel, wherein: the bottom panel includes a first panel coupled to an edge portion of the front panel and a second panel coupled to an edge portion of the rear panel; the first panel includes a first fastening element that can be coupled to a second fastening element of the second panel such that the bottom panel can be in a closed configuration or in an open configuration based on whether or not the first fastening element and the second fastening element are coupled; and the luggage cover is configured to receive the luggage container in the open configuration and is formed from pliable material to permit folding.
US10159319B2
A case construction selectively encases and displays an electronic device, and includes a device-retention mechanism and multi-section jacket. The device-retention mechanism removably retains the electronic device and includes an anterior device-retaining section and a posterior jacket-opposing section. The multi-section jacket includes a mechanism-backing section, a spine section, and a mechanism-covering section. The mechanism-backing section is dimensioned to cover the posterior jacket-opposing section and the mechanism-covering section is dimensioned to cover the anterior device-retaining section. The spine section pivotally connects the mechanism-covering section to the mechanism-backing section for enabling the user to selectively cover/uncover the device-retention mechanism. The mechanism-backing section and mechanism-covering section each include at least one foldable portion. The foldable portions are cooperatively foldable at the spine section for enabling the user to form a select case support footprint. The select case support footprint enables the user to selectively support the case in a select case orientation.
US10159315B1
The illuminated walking cane comprises a shank, a finial, a plurality of LEDs, one or more batteries, and an on/off control. The walking stick may provide support to a user while walking or hiking. The plurality of LEDs covering the shank may provide illumination and increase visibility after dusk and at night. The plurality of LEDs are powered by the one or more batteries and are turned on or off using the on/off control which may be located on the finial at the top of the shank. The illuminated walking cane may further comprise a blinker circuit and a blinker control. The blinker circuit may interrupt the electrical circuit powering the plurality of LEDs in a repeating pattern, thus causing the plurality of LEDs to blink. Multiple blink patterns may be selected by activating the blinker control on the finial.
US10159313B2
Embodiments related to a touch fastener and its methods of manufacture and use are disclosed. In one embodiment, the touch fastener may include a substrate with a first portion and a second portion displaceable relative to the first portion. A first fastening element may be formed in the first portion. When the first portion is displaced relative to the second portion, a force and/or moment generated by the displacement may cause the first fastening element to be deployed.
US10159312B2
There is provided a cap, which is one part of a button fastener. The cap comprises a bottom and a circumferential side rising from an edge of the bottom. The cap is composed of an inner layer made of aluminum or aluminum alloy as a first material and an outer layer made of copper or copper alloy as a second material. The first and second layer are laminated on each other continuously across the bottom and the circumferential side. A Vickers hardness of the second material may be harder than a Vickers hardness of the first material. A tensile strength of the first material may be less than 260 N/mm2, and a tensile strength of the second material may be equal to or higher than 260 N/mm2.
US10159301B2
Disclosed is a shoe system which comprises a shoe, at least one clip, and at least one detachable upper. The shoe has a midsole portion having a sidewall surface extending around the shoe, and at least one elongated channel defined in and extending along at least a portion of the sidewall surface. The elongated channel is configured for receiving the clip in a locking fashion. The clip has a locking portion for locking within the channel. The clip connects with the detachable upper via a connection portion.
US10159300B2
According to the present invention, a convertible footwear apparatus can be worn as a shoe or converted to a boot by attaching or removing an upper section from the shoe. The apparatus is configured to allow someone wearing the shoe component to attach or remove the upper section with a single continuous operation and without having to remove the shoe component from the wearer's foot. In one embodiment of the invention, the apparatus comprises a zipper. In another embodiment of the invention, the shoe component includes a heel.
US10159298B2
An article of footwear may have an upper and a sole structure secured to the upper. The upper includes an illuminable panel and a plurality of strands positioned to extend adjacent and parallel to the illuminable panel. The illuminable panel has a surface with a covered area and an exposed area. The covered area includes a substantially opaque covering, and the exposed area is at least partially visible from the exterior of the footwear. The strands are located to correspond with the exposed area of the illuminable panel. Light from the exposed area of the illuminable panel may enhance, highlight, or otherwise increase the visibility of the strands or areas of the upper that include the strands.
US10159290B2
Outerwear, such as thermally insulated jackets and pants are disclosed. The outerwear may include insulative panels that are positioned, oriented, sized, and shaped according to a body mapping. The body mapping may indicate areas where insulative material should be reduced to improve the mobility of a wearer of the outerwear.
US10159281B2
The present disclosure claims an electronic cigarette, a cigarette rod, a cigarette cartridge, and a recognition method of a cigarette cartridge, wherein the electronic cigarette includes: the cigarette rod and the cigarette cartridge. The cigarette rod includes: a battery and a controller, and the cigarette cartridge includes: an atomizer and a recognition information provider component connected with the atomizer, wherein the atomizer is connected with the controller via the recognition information provider component, wherein the recognition information provider component is configured to send recognition information to the controller, and the controller is configured to judge whether the cigarette rod and the cigarette cartridge are matched, and if so, allow the atomizer to work normally. Otherwise, the controller executes alarming or prohibits the atomizer from working normally. The present disclosure solves the technical problem of ineffective use of an electronic cigarette due to improper use of the electronic cigarette.
US10159270B2
The invention relates to a machine for making and dispensing liquid or semi-liquid food products, having: at least one tank for containing the product to be processed and dispensed and having a discharge orifice for the product to be dispensed; at least one dispensing tap having: an external conduit having an inlet orifice which is connected, in use, to the discharge orifice of the containment tank, a product release orifice and a product recirculation orifice, a tubular duct having formed in it a first internal cavity which is provided with at least one radial opening.
US10159269B2
A composition containing a Lactobacillus pentosus TUA4337L strain (accession number: NITE BP-1479), characterized in that the strain has proliferation ability in the small intestines and/or the large intestine, and preferably the small intestines, after having survived in the intestinal tract. Since the composition of the present invention contains lactic acid bacteria having proliferation ability in the intestinal tract, when ingested in the body, the lactic acid bacteria survive to the intestinal tract and proliferate, whereby the fat absorption can be blocked, and the weight gains can be blocked, so that the composition can be suitably used for the purposes of dieting effects.
US10159260B2
An improved cleaning device comprises linked rollers that roll over a cleaning surface to remove debris from shrimp or other product. The cleaning device comprises a trough with a cleaning surface, an oscillating shaft within the trough and rollers biased into contact with the cleaning surface. At least some of the rollers are connected through a coupling device, which connects the rollers to the oscillating shaft via a roller connector.
US10159259B2
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for arranging a bird having a body and two legs in a position for being suspended from a shackle. The method comprises the following sequence of steps: I) placing the body of the bird on a support surface with the breast side facing the support surface, II) inserting at least one spreading member between the legs of the bird, so that the breast side of at least one leg comes to rest on a contact surface of the spreading member, and III) forcing the legs away from each other using the spreading mechanism, so that the distance between the hock joints becomes bigger than the distance between the hip joints.
US10159256B2
The disclosure describes a composition for use in treating wounds in trees, plants and vines. In addition, the disclosure provides a method of making the compositions and their use in treating fungal infections of pruning wounds.
US10159254B2
The present invention relates, inter alia, to a method of improving the tolerance of a plant, which has been genetically engineered to over express a p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD), to a HPPD inhibiting herbicide, said method comprising applying to said plant a water-soluble iron-containing compound. The present invention further relates to a method of selectively controlling weeds at a locus, the locus comprising weeds and crop plants, the crop plants having been genetically engineered to overexpress a HPPD which confers tolerance to a HPPD-inhibiting herbicide, the method comprising application to the locus of (i) a weed controlling amount of a HPPD-inhibiting herbicide and (ii) a water-soluble iron-containing compound. The present invention further relates to herbicidal compositions comprising a HPPD-inhibiting herbicide and a water-soluble iron-containing compound.
US10159247B2
The present invention generally relates to herbicidal compositions comprising a herbicide, an etheramine alkoxylate surfactant, an alkylamine alkoxylate surfactant having a high degree of alkoxylation and compatibilizer comprising, in some embodiments, an alkylamine alkoxylate surfactant having a low degree of alkoxylation or an alkylpolyglucoside surfactant. The herbicidal compositions are herbicidally efficacious and cause low eye irritation and low crop injury.
US10159242B2
A motorized tree stand includes a frame assembly for attachment to a tree. The frame assembly includes a rear wall that includes a vertical drive track and at least one vertical gliding rail spaced laterally therefrom. A seat assembly is operatively coupled to the rear wall of the frame assembly and provides a seat on which a user can sit. A first drive assembly is coupled to the seat assembly and includes a ball screw drive mechanism to controllably move the seat assembly in a vertical direction along the frame assembly. A second drive assembly can be coupled to a swivel plate for controllably moving the swivel plate resulting in swiveling of the seat assembly relative to the frame assembly. A controller and a power source are also provided.
US10159241B2
An animal trap having a housing including an open end, the open end having a bottom wall plate, both side wall plates and both side lateral guides; and a door slidably and movably mounted to the housing through the both side lateral guides for swinging upward and downward between an open position and a closed portion, whereby an animal that enters the housing through the door is automatically trapped.
US10159239B2
In certain embodiments, a packaged terminal device for killing pests in an affected area includes a housing configured to be positioned at least partially within an affected area, a fan positioned within the housing, and one or more heating elements positioned within the housing. The fan is operable to draw a flow of air from the affected area into the housing. The one or more heating elements are operable to generate heated air by transferring heat to the flow of air. The packaged terminal device further includes a control unit operable to control the operation of the one or more heating elements in order to cause the packaged terminal device to operate in either a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode, the operation of the one or more heating elements is controlled such that sufficient heated air is generated to heat at least a portion of the affected area to a temperature less than or equal to a first predefined temperature. In the second mode, the operation of the one or more heating elements is controlled such that sufficient heated air is generated to heat at least a portion of the affected area to a temperature greater than or equal to a second predefined temperature, the second predefined temperature being greater than the first predefined temperature.
US10159232B2
Described is an apparatus and system for detecting fishing related events and providing notifications to a fisher regarding those events. When a fishing related event, such as a fish on line event occurs, it results in a fishing rod flexing or moving in particular directions. The described implementations include sensors located on or in the fishing rod that provide position data that is utilized to monitor a movement of the fishing rod and determine a type of fishing related event that has occurred.
US10159223B2
A windrower machine having a pair of forward rotating augers mounted in parallel with one another in overlapping relationship with one another to work in conjunction with a blade and a backstop to form windrows to disrupt and reduce caked material to particulate in windrows as said machine is moved forwardly through a work area.
US10159221B1
An automated and motorized animal conditioning device that can be configured to tilt or pivot relative to a foundation or base. A shaft can be integrated into the animal conditioning device and configured to rotate via a serviceable motor, gears, and chain mechanism. Further, as the shaft rotates, arms emanating from a supporting structure of the conditioning device can continuously change angles relative to the ground. Further, a tether, cable, or other such object can be attached to an arm so that an animal connected to it is encouraged to move as the arm rotates. Here, the continuous changing of the arm's angle allows an animal either tethered to, or moving in between panels, to move more naturally without being confined to a strictly defined path.
US10159219B2
An animal training apparatus includes at least two vibration motors configured to generate the vibration stimulation and deliver the vibration stimulation to the animal, and a microprocessor comprising control logic programmed to control the at least two vibration motors to deliver the vibration stimulation to the animal when a preset condition is satisfied, wherein at least one of the vibration motors generates vibration stimulation with variable intensity, and the microprocessor controls the vibration motors to make a sum of vibration stimulation generated by the vibration motors equal a desired intensity of vibration stimulation that is determined based on the preset control logic or the satisfied condition. The animal training apparatus and system can substantially correct the animal's behavior using vibration stimulation varying in an adequate range as a main stimulation means by using the plurality of vibration motors, without using electrical stimulation.
US10159212B1
Eight new sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) cultivars designated ‘Rutgers Thunderstruck-DMR’, ‘Rutgers Passion-DMR’, Rutgers Obsession-DMR’, ‘Rutgers Devotion-DMR’, ‘26_24_33’, ‘50_03_05’, ‘50_03_34’, and ‘42_21_02’ are provided, as are parts of the plants, extracts and biomasses from the variety, and uses thereof, for example as a food or in a food product. These plants have basil downy mildew resistance/tolerance.
US10159199B1
A mushroom compost leveling apparatus includes a panel with a bottom edge where the panel is vertically suspended in a mushroom compost receptacle leaving a gap between the bottom edge and the floor of the receptacle. The panel reciprocates from side to side as mushroom compost is conveyed under the panel. Optionally, the panel includes vanes extending outwardly from a first face surface, and a rake outwardly and downwardly extending from the panel at or near the bottom edge. Optionally, a pair of wheels are mounted for rotation either to the first face of the panel or to a rail of a frame to be isolated from the panel, and the wheels each include paddles that push compost toward the side edges of the mushroom compost receptacle as the wheels are rotated. Optionally, the leveling apparatus is removably attached to sleeves depending over sidewalls of the compost receptacle, and a roller assembly is removably attached to such sleeves downstream of the leveling apparatus.
US10159197B2
The tree surgery method includes a decayed-tissue removing step of removing a decayed tissue of a cavity and exposing a solid woody tissue; an internal treating step of performing sterilization and insecticidal treatment on the woody tissue and drying the woody tissue; a protective layer forming step of coating the woody tissue with a protective agent to form a protective layer; a cambium exposing step of cutting out an edge of the cavity and exposing a cambium; a cavity filling step of filling the cavity on which the protective layer is formed with a urethane foam, and an artificial-tree-bark forming step of filling and coating an upper surface of the urethane foam with a tree bark material including a mixture of cork powder and silicone sealant to form an artificial tree bark. The tree bark material includes a mixture of colored silicone sealants allowing a color similar to real trees.
US10159190B2
A sled assembly for the transport of a one or more round bales across a ground surface being soft. Said sled configured to slide on top of said ground surface. Said hitch assembly having said lowered configuration and said raised configuration. Said hitch assembly configured to selectively attach to said vehicle and to enable said sled assembly to be dragged behind said vehicle. Said sled comprising said side rail assemblies and said cross beams. Said hitch assembly fixed to a first end of said sled. Said sled assembly further comprising a one or more wheel assemblies.
US10159182B2
A lateral tilt control system for an agricultural harvester may include first and second tilt cylinders coupled between a support structure and an implement of the harvester. The first tilt cylinder may include a first cap-side chamber and a first rod-side chamber and the second tilt cylinder may include a second cap-side chamber and a second rod-side chamber. The system may also include a first fluid line providing a flow path between the first cap-side chamber and the second rod-side chamber and a second fluid line providing a flow path between the first rod-side chamber and the second cap-side chamber. Additionally, the system may include a pressure relief valve coupled between the first and second fluid lines to allow fluid to be transferred between the first and second fluid lines when a fluid pressure within either fluid line exceeds a relief pressure setting.
US10159180B2
A method of mowing multiple areas includes training a robotic mower to mow at least two areas separated by a space, including moving the robotic mower about the areas while storing data indicative of location of boundaries of each area relative to boundary markers, training the robotic mower to move across the space separating the areas, and initiating a mowing operation. Training the robotic mower to move across the space separating the areas includes moving the robotic mower to a traversal launch point of a first of the areas and moving the robotic mower to a traversal landing point of a second of the areas. The mowing operation causes the robotic mower to move to the traversal launch point, move from the traversal launch point across the space to the traversal landing point, and then mow the second of the areas.
US10159179B2
A root crop harvester apparatus includes a transverse frame, supported to move above ground in a harvesting direction and oriented generally perpendicular to the harvesting direction. A plurality of pairs of generally upright, spaced apart puller wheels are connected to the transverse frame in a trailing orientation, having a substantially common rotational axis, and configured to contact the ground, each pair having a pinch point therebetween. The transverse frame is pivotal about an axis that is substantially aligned with the substantially common rotational axis, whereby rotation of the transverse frame collectively rotates all of the pairs of puller wheels about the common rotational axis and thereby adjusts a location of all of the pinch points with respect to the harvesting direction.
US10159176B2
A seed meter comprising a seed handler comprising a cylinder comprising a plurality of seed chambers. The seed handler rotates the cylinder to sequentially position each seed chamber in a ‘loading’ position wherein each seed chamber receives a sets of seeds, a ‘planting’ position wherein seeds from each seed set are parsed, and an ‘evacuation’ position wherein any seeds remaining in each chamber are evacuated from each chamber. The seed meter additionally comprises a seed separator comprising a seed disc. The seed disc rotates, parses seed from each seed chamber, and transports the seeds to the exit chute. Importantly, the seed meter is structured and operable to substantially simultaneously, receive the sets of seed in the respective chamber positioned in the ‘loading’ position, parse the seeds from the respective chamber positioned in the ‘planting’ position, and evacuate the remaining seed from the respective chamber positioned in the ‘evacuation’ position.
US10159172B2
An apparatus for retaining soil aerating tines during soil aerating operations comprising a tine holding assembly having a plurality of holes therein, wherein each hole is adapted to hold a soil aerating tine therein, wherein the holes are arranged in a plurality of rows of holes, wherein a plurality of spaces separate adjacent rows of holes, wherein the holes of at least one row of holes are positioned between the holes of at least one other row of holes. The apparatus can have at least one space that is at least twice as wide as at least one other space. The apparatus can further comprise a plurality of tine holding members, wherein each tine holding member comprises at least one row of holes of the plurality of rows of holes. Tines can be inserted into the holes to form a zigzag pattern.
US10165719B2
An electronic component mounting system includes: a printing apparatus; an electronic component mounting apparatus; and a mounting information storage unit which stores mounting information. The mounting information includes execution mode information in which one of a first mounting mode and a second mounting mode is set for each of electronic components. In the first mounting mode, the electronic component is placed at a mounting position corrected on the basis of a recognition result of a first recognition mark formed on a board. In the second mounting mode, the electronic component is placed at a mounting position corrected on the basis of a recognition result of a second recognition mark formed by paste printed on the board. The electronic components are mounted on the board according to mounting modes set for the respective electronic components by referring to the mounting information.
US10165713B2
Conventional shielding materials are based on single material either toxic lead or barium based compounds and any matrix made therefrom contains only single phased barium based compounds, thereby posing limited radiation shielding capacity. Since brine sludge, an industrial toxic waste product, generated in chloralkali industry contains multiple compounds; there is a need to provide a process which enables the preparation of multi-phase based radiation shielding materials. In view of the above, the present invention provides advanced non-toxic radiation shielding materials utilizing tailored brine sludge and a process that enables conversion of toxic elements like chromium, zinc, copper and vanadium present in brine sludge into non-toxic shielding phases, thereby enabling to convert a toxic waste material into highly value added advanced radiation shielding materials possessing homogeneous radiation shielding matrix.
US10165705B2
Partitioned cooling for electronic devices and systems. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a casing; one or more components, including one or more components that include an active thermal element; a partition to separate area within the casing into a first cooling zone and a second cooling zone, wherein the first cooling zone provides cooling for the one or more components that include an active thermal element; and a first fan located in the first cooling zone, the first fan to produce airflow for cooling in the first cooling zone and a second fan located in the second cooling zone to produce airflow for the cooling in the second cooling zone.
US10165702B2
Technology is provided for an open chassis for use with server modules. The open chassis includes an end frame having opposed upper corner portions and opposed lower corner portions. A pair of lower beams, each having a proximal end portion, are connected to a respective lower corner portion of the end frame. A pair of upper beams, each having a proximal end portion, are connected to a respective upper corner portion of the end frame. First and second columns extend between distal end portions of the lower beams and the upper beams. A cross-member extends between the distal end portions of the lower beams. Each beam includes an outward facing surface and an inward facing surface, and at least one of the beams includes a relief formed in its corresponding inward facing surface.
US10165700B1
An assembly including a host device and an add-on module, in which the host device and the add-on module include features to provide a rugged electro-mechanical interface or connection between the host device and the add-on module. The host device includes a body that has an open or non-enclosed docking bay on a side, and the module is placed into the docking bay such that a top side of its body mates with the inner surfaces and features of the docking bay. The interface is rugged so that the assembly is useful in the field, and the interface provides a secure attachment that can withstand dropping. A hook is provided on the top side of the body of the module, and the hook feature's shape, when combined with the location of fasteners on the module body that mate with threaded holes in the docking bay, is designed to withstand dropping.
US10165698B2
An anode terminal is provided for use high voltage applications that also serves as a shield, and which reduces the overall size of the anode terminal and an enclosure containing the anode terminal. The anode terminal includes a toroid and the maximum radius of curvature that is required to provide an optimal field enhancement reduction is reserved for the section of the toroid that is closest to ground, including the walls of the enclosure. The toroid of the anode terminal has variable radii of curvature along its outer surface and is asymmetrical.
US10165690B2
In a conventional soldering method, an FPC-side electrode pad and a package-side electrode pad are closely joined together with a solder layer, and the soldered state after a joining process has not been easily confirmed visually. The present invention provides a solder joint structure including a side face electrode which is formed on each of the side faces of the end parts of an FPC board and a package or PCB board that are to be soldered, extending vertically relative to the faces constituting each of electrode pads on the boards, and which introduces solder. On the side face electrodes of the board end parts, a part of solder that is formed continuously from the solder joint portion is visible and the state of the solder joint between the electrode pads on the two boards can be confirmed. The efficiency of solder joint tests can be improved.
US10165689B1
A process for thermoforming a circuit onto a three-dimensional part comprises applying electrically conductive lines on a substrate to form a flexible circuit. The flexible circuit is heated to a temperature sufficient to thermoform the substrate into a shape that conforms to said three-dimensional part and attached to the three-dimensional part.
US10165688B2
A flexible electronic device including a first flexible substrate, an electronic component, and a control device is provided. The electronic component includes a conductive layer. The control device includes at least one integrated circuit and a circuit layer set. The circuit layer set includes a plurality of circuit layers and at least one first dielectric layer, and at least a portion of the first dielectric layer is interposed between two adjacent circuit layers. The integrated circuit is electrically connected to the electronic component through the circuit layer set and the conductive layer. At least a portion of the conductive layer and at least a portion of one circuit layer are integrally formed, and the conductive layer and the circuit layer are both disposed on the first flexible substrate. A fabricating method of a flexible electronic device is also provided.
US10165687B2
A power tube connection structure includes a substrate, a printed circuit board, and a power tube, where a through groove allowing the power tube to pass through is cut into the printed circuit board, a mounting groove is cut into the upper surface of the substrate at a location corresponding to the through groove, one end of the power tube extends through the through groove, and is welded onto a bottom face of the mounting groove, the end of the power tube that extends into the mounting groove abuts onto a side wall of the mounting groove close to an output end of the power amplifier, and a solder flux escape channel is made into the side wall of the mounting groove close to the output end of the power amplifier.
US10165686B2
An electrical component having a first package part of a first plastic compound. The first package part has a first trench-shaped formation. A first semiconductor body with an integrated circuit is disposed in the first trench-shaped formation. At least two traces, which run on an outer side of the first package part, are provided on a surface of the first trench-shaped formation, wherein the at least two traces are connected to the integrated circuit. The first trench-shaped formation is filled at least partially with a filling material of a second plastic compound to cover the first semiconductor body.
US10165679B2
The present invention provides methods for fabricating graphene workpieces. The present invention also provides for products produced by the methods of the present invention and for apparatuses used to perform the methods of the present invention.
US10165672B2
A shielding clip and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a circuit board, an electronic element, a shielding cover and the shielding clip. The shielding clip comprises a bottom plate parallel to the circuit board. The bottom plate has a first side region and a second side region. The first side region has a first pin extending into the circuit board and a first buckle plate extending away from the circuit board to buckle the shielding cover. The second side region has a second pin extending into the circuit board and a second buckle plate extending away from the circuit board to buckle the shielding cover.
US10165671B2
A paddle card construction disclosed for use in connecting electronic devices together. The paddle card takes the form of a circuit board that has a plurality of conductive contact pads arranged thereon in pairs. The contact pads of each pair are spaced apart from each other to provide a pair of points to which cable wire free ends may be terminated, such as by soldering. The spacing of the pads apart from each other in effect reduces to amount of capacitance in the cable wire termination area on the circuit board, thereby reducing the impedance and insertion loss in that area at high frequencies. The contact pads of each pair may be further interconnected together by a thin, conductive trace that extends lengthwise between the contact pads.
US10165663B2
An x-ray system for simultaneously or concurrently measuring currents of multiple emitters is provided. The x-ray system includes a high voltage direct current (DC) supply configured to supply tube current to the multiple emitters and plural emitter circuits. Each of these circuits includes each comprising an alternating current (AC) voltage supply, at least one of the multiple emitters operatively coupled to the AC voltage supply and the high voltage DC supply, and a circuit coupling the AC voltage supply and the high voltage DC voltage supply to the at least one of the multiple filaments. At least one of the emitter circuits has a current measurement device between the high voltage DC supply and the emitter.
US10165659B2
An LED lighting control device is provided that is capable of being wirelessly and remotely controlled without the need for an Internet connection. The LED lighting control device is configured to be operated in a manual mode of operations and in remote mode of operations. In the remote mode of operations, the LED lighting control device is remotely and wirelessly controlled by a user operating a Bluetooth-enable device that wireless communicates with the LED lighting control device to cause the LED lighting control device to control operations of outdoor LED lighting that is electrically coupled to the LED lighting control device.
US10165654B2
A method of generating a representation of a structure includes providing an ad hoc mesh network having at least two nodes associated with the structure, obtaining time of flight data for each node in the network, and using the time of flight data to generate the representation of the structure. A method of generating a three-dimensional representation of a structure includes providing an ad hoc mesh network having at least three nodes associated with the structure, wherein at least one node is a mobile node that moves around the structure, obtaining time of flight data for each pair of nodes in the network, and using the time of flight data to generate the three-dimensional representation of the structure.
US10165649B2
An LED device comprises a substrate and a stack of layers defining an LED component and including an electroluminescent layer. A capacitive structure is formed on top of the stack of layers. The area of the defined capacitor encodes information concerning the electrical characteristics of the LED component.
US10165648B2
An optoelectronic circuit includes at least one first and second light emitting diodes; a switch arrangement connected between the first and second diodes and configured to switch over the first and second diodes between series and parallel circuits depending on a predefined ambient parameter; and a current matching circuit for matching the currents through the first and second diodes in case of parallel connection. The current matching circuit includes a current mirror circuit, including first and second current mirror transistors connected via its collector terminal to the first/second diodes, respectively. The arrangement includes a diode/a switch for connecting the first diode in series with the second diode and is configured to form the series circuit including the first and second diodes while bypassing the current matching circuit so that, in case of series connection, the first transistor is switched in a high-resistance fashion and the second transistor is short-circuited.
US10165647B2
Lighting fixtures are provided. In one example implementation, a lighting fixture can include a housing, one or more drivers, and means for securing the one or more drivers to the housing to decrease thermal resistance between one or more of the drivers and the housing. The lighting fixture can also include an LED system comprising a light engine having a plurality of LED devices. The plurality of LED devices can be arranged on an LED board of the light engine such that a first portion of the LED board has a first density of LED devices and a second portion of the LED board has a second density of LED devices. The first density can be different than the second density.
US10165645B2
An LED lighting module comprises a plurality of serially-connected LED strings, which include N LED strings from a first LED string to an Nth LED string, and each LED string has a specific driven voltage. The control method comprises steps of: (a) receiving an AC voltage signal and converting the AC input signal into a first AC signal; (b) receiving the first AC signal and converting the first AC signal into a first DC signal; and (c) if the first DC signal exceeds the sum of the driven voltages from the first LED string to an nth LED string, driving the serially-connected LED strings from the first LED string to the nth LED string sequentially, wherein n is smaller than or equal to N, so as to adjust the correlated color temperature of the light emitted by the LED lighting module.
US10165628B2
An inductive welding device includes a circuit for the inductive heating of a metal that is embedded in a non-magnetic bed. A transformer induces eddy currents in the metal as a function of an exciter current and an exciter voltage and forms a load impedance together with the metal to be heated. Temperature monitoring is provided for the metal to be heated. The load impedance is operated in the region of the resonant frequency of the load impedance. The exciter current and exciter voltage and their phase shift relative to each other are measured and logged when the metal is heated. A temperature progression which is proportional to the phase shift is calculated from the exciter current, exciter voltage, and phase shift.
US10165623B2
It is provided a splitter device comprising: a first trunk cable interface for connecting with a first aggregation node via a first trunk cable; a first radio head interface for connecting to a first remote radio head via a first distribution cable; a second radio head interface for connecting to a second remote radio head via a second distribution cable; a signal combiner and splitter connected to the first radio head interface and the second radio head interface; and a radio signal refresh unit provided between the first trunk cable interface and the signal combiner and splitter. The radio head interfaces comprise respective gain control units and uplink signal amplifiers, wherein a gain of the uplink signal amplifiers is adjusted based on a signal from the respective gain control unit.
US10165621B2
A method for directional mobile ad-hoc communication may include transmitting a join message from a first node to a second node, receiving an accept message from the second node including a TDMA frame slot reassignment correlating to an available TDMA frame slot in a TDMA frame associated with the second node, reassigning a TDMA frame slot for the first node in the TDMA frame associated with the first node according to the frame slot reassignment, and assigning a TDMA frame slot for the second node in the TDMA frame of the first node. It may also comprise executing a discovery protocol to configure a directional mobile ad-hoc communication network between a first node and as second node, transmitting a bandwidth reservation request message from the first node to the second node, receiving a bandwidth reservation response message from the second node, and enabling a relay node.
US10165616B2
According to some embodiments, a method in a wireless device of reconfiguring radio resources comprises: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message; obtaining a maximum retransmission threshold value and an indication of a backup reconfiguration time; sending a control information message; determining the wireless device has not received a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgment (ACK) in response to the control information message; determining a number of control information message transmissions is less than the maximum retransmission threshold value; sending another control information message; determining the wireless device has not received a HARQ ACK in response to the control information message; and performing radio resource reconfiguration at the backup reconfiguration time. The method may further comprise obtaining a time threshold value and determining a current time is not within the time threshold value of the backup reconfiguration time before sending a control information message.
US10165600B2
The present invention is designed to adequately allocate power to PRACHs in dual connectivity. A user terminal communicates by using a first cell group (CG) and a second CG, and has a power control section that controls UL transmission power for the first CG and the second CG, and a transmission section that transmits at least a physical random access channel (PRACH), and, when the transmission section retransmits the PRACH in a primary cell of the first CG, the power control section applies control so that power is preferentially allocated to the retransmission of the PRACH over transmission in the second CG.
US10165590B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting device-to-device (D2D) related control information in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a transmission period of the D2D related control information from a D2D synchronization reference UE, transmits a scheduling assignment for transmission of the D2D related control information, and transmits the D2D related control information periodically based on the received transmission period.
US10165589B2
An example method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving performance metric information from a plurality of small cell radios, wherein the performance metric information includes, at least in part, a number of user equipment that are to be scheduled on a first type and a second type of subframes for each small cell radio; determining resource allocation parameters for the plurality of small cell radios; exchanging interference information between two or more small cell radios of the plurality of small cell radios that includes an indication of whether a particular small cell radio is interfering with or is interfered by another small cell radio of the two or more small cell radios; and scheduling downlink resource transmissions on the first type and the second type of subframes for user equipment served by the two or more small cell radios.
US10165586B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and device for determining RRU. The method includes: a BBU obtains interference strength information of a terminal, where the interference strength information includes a downlink mode of the terminal. The method further includes: if demodulation is performed by using a dedicated reference signal (DRS) in the downlink mode, the BBU performs resource scheduling on the terminal by using a second RRU, where the second RRU is selected by the BBU from multiple first RRUs that serve the terminal; or if demodulation is performed without using a DRS in the downlink mode, the BBU performs resource scheduling on the terminal by using a third RRU, where the third RRU is determined by the BBU according to any one of an uplink signal strength value of the terminal, a downlink quality value of the terminal, or an uplink quality value of the terminal.
US10165584B2
Disclosed are a wireless communication method, and an access point and a station which perform the wireless communication method. A wireless communication method performed by an access point according to an embodiment may include performing channel sounding on a plurality of subchannels, identifying subchannels selected by stations among the subchannels, scheduling communications between the AP and the stations based on the selected subchannels, and transmitting a data frame to the stations through the subchannels based on a scheduling result.
US10165578B1
Minimizing interference in a heterogeneous wireless network includes determining a group of potentially interfering access nodes from among the plurality of neighboring access nodes, based on reference signals transmitted from each of the plurality of neighboring access nodes, and communicating additional signal information between each access node within the group of potentially interfering access nodes. The additional signal information is associated with signals transmitted from said each access node within the group. Each access node within the group performs interference minimization based on the additional signal information, thereby enabling full-duplex operation.
US10165575B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems of User Equipment (UE) centric access network selection. For example, a cellular node may include a transmitter to transmit to a User Equipment (UE) a cellular communication message over a cellular communication medium, the message including a value of a predefined parameter, which is based on a cellular network load of a cellular network controlled by the cellular node.
US10165572B2
A method and apparatus for canceling a triggered proximity-based services (ProSe) buffer status report (BSR) in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) triggers at least one ProSe BSR, and cancels all triggered ProSe BSR if a specific condition is met. The specific condition may be that a device-to-device (D2D) scheduling assignment for a D2D scheduling period can accommodate all pending data available for D2D transmission or that the ProSe BSR is included in a media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) to be transmitted to a network.
US10165570B2
There is provided mechanisms for adaptive beamforming. A method is performed by a first network device. The method comprises acquiring beamforming information indicating spatial directions in which an identification signal is to be transmitted. The method comprises transmitting the identification signal in a transmission pattern using directional beams in the spatial directions towards second network devices. The identification signal is transmitted such that the identification signal occupies a larger portion of communications resources when transmitted in spatial directions with high second network device presence than in spatial directions with low second network device presence.
US10165565B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to next generation (e.g., fifth generation or 5G) cells that support legacy radio access technologies by sharing a carrier between 5G and legacy transmissions. To facilitate coexistence between legacy and 5G transmissions, a configurable slot structure may be utilized for 5G transmissions. The configurable slot structure may be configured to have an effective duration that prevents transmission thereof during at least a portion of a control region of a legacy subframe. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US10165548B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a short-distance wireless communication unit; a wireless communication unit that provides wireless communication for multiple different connection types; an acquisition unit that acquires connection type information relating to a connection type that is provided by an external apparatus, from the external apparatus through the short-distance wireless communication unit; a determination unit that determines a recommendation connection type that is used for the communication between the external apparatus and the wireless communication unit, based on connection type information on the external apparatus, and connection type information relating to a connection type that is provided by the wireless communication unit; and a notification unit that notifies a user of the recommendation connection type.
US10165547B2
State change notification device, wearable communication device and state change notification method
An embodiment of the present invention not only protects user's privacy but also reliably notifies a user of a change in state of an external communication device. A state change notification device (1) includes: an information receiving section (11) that receives state change information in a case where a change in state occurs in a device (100, 200, 300, or 400) in which an external communication device (500) or the state change notification device (1) is provided; and an expansion control section (12) that controls inflation of a balloon (24) provided in a wristwatch-type communication device (100) so that an inner pressure of the balloon (24) will be a user-perceivable pressure.
US10165546B2
Techniques are provided for protecting the privacy of user equipment during paging operations in a communication system. In one example, a method includes determining at a mobility management element of a communication system that a paging operation is to be initiated for given user equipment. The method further includes restricting the paging operation between the mobility management element and the given user equipment to use of a temporary identifier for the given user equipment. By not using a permanent identifier of the given user equipment during paging operations, the given user equipment is effectively non-trackable by malicious base stations and active/passive listeners.
US10165542B2
A method of determining a location of a mobile device based on a first location estimation performed using a first location system, the method comprising: obtaining an initial estimate of the mobile device's location based on a second location estimation that is coarser than the first location estimation; using the initial estimate to select a subset of the reference nodes of the first network that are within a defined vicinity of the mobile device's location; and from amongst a database of respective assistance data for each of the wireless reference nodes stored on a server of the first location system, selectively providing the respective assistance data for each of said subset of wireless reference nodes to a localization module on the mobile device, for the localization module of the mobile device to calculate a finer estimate of the mobile device's location.
US10165541B2
Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for enhancing positioning, which may include E911 positioning, via measurement batching, such as for use in or with mobile communication devices, for example.
US10165530B2
A method is proposed for verification of time data from a time signal modulated on a continuous carrier signal with steps to receive a first time signal with a first reference time, to receive a second time signal with a second reference time, which follows the first reference time in time, for calculation of the target time interval lying between the reference times from the time data contained in the received time signal, to determine a time interval and determine a reference time interval, using counting of periods of the continuous carrier signal within the time interval, for comparison of the target time interval with the reference time interval and to send an error signal, if the deviation determined by the comparison surpasses a stipulated tolerance value.
US10165528B2
An electronic device in a wireless communication system, and a wireless communication method. The electronic device at a user equipment side, performs a device-to-device (D2D) communication with a target user equipment, and the electronic device includes: processing circuitry configured to acquire information on a first power parameter from a base station device, the first power parameter indicates a D2D nominal power for the electronic device to perform D2D communication, the D2D nominal power different from a cellular nominal power for the electronic device to perform a cellular communication with the base station device; and determine, irrelevant to a path loss between the electronic device and the target user equipment, based on the first power parameter, a D2D transmission power for performing the D2D communication between the electronic device and the target user equipment.
US10165518B2
Disclosed in the present application is a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) from a terminal to a base station in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises a step of establishing a first subframe set and a second subframe set through an upper layer; a step of receiving, from the base station, a triggering indicator of the sounding reference signal; and a step of transmitting the sounding reference signal from a specific subframe to the base station, according to the triggering indicator, wherein each of the first subframe set and the second subframe set is associated with a power control process for transmitting an uplink data channel, and wherein the transmission power of the sounding reference signal is determined according to the bit size and/or the field value of the triggering indicator.
US10165509B2
Provided are a network server and a network access system. The network access method includes the follows. The network server includes a first receiving unit, a broadcasting unit, a second receiving unit, and a transmitting unit. The first receiving unit is configured to receive a network ID acquisition request from a first mobile communication terminal sent through a wireless local area network. The broadcasting unit is configured to broadcast the network ID acquisition request in the local area network. The second receiving unit is configured to receive a public land mobile network (PLMN) network ID of a local operator from a second mobile communication terminal. The transmitting unit is configured to unicast the PLMN network ID of the local operator to the first mobile communication terminal, or broadcast the PLMN network ID of the operator within the local area network.
US10165500B2
A network search method is provided. The network search method includes: keeping a terminal residing in a second network when the terminal is disconnected from a first network or has not registered to the first network; and performing a search operation for the first network by the terminal, when a serving cell and/or an adjacent cell corresponding to the terminal in the second network change. A network search device and a terminal are also provided. By utilizing the network search method, the network search device and the terminal, according to location change of the terminal, not only the network search frequency or search times for the first network can be reduced, to avoid a blind network search which may result in wasting power consumption of the terminal, but also the terminal can be connected to a specific network as soon as possible, and user experience is improved.
US10165492B2
A method of multi-connectivity handling in a communication system is disclosed. The method may be performed in a first network node and comprises: generating a data protocol packet destined to a communication device, and including in the data protocol packet at least one identifier identifying data protocol processing context and the first network node. Methods in a second network node and in a communication device are also disclosed, as are first and second network nodes, communication device, computer programs and computer program products.
US10165488B2
There is disclosed a method of processing a transaction request. The transaction request is associated with a computer transaction which has to be executed in a succeed-or-fail-as-a-whole manner. The method is executable in a distributed processing system having a plurality of nodes. Each of executing nodes is associated with a pre-defined type of the computer transaction and is directly addressable by a controlling node. In response to receiving by the controlling node, from a client device, a transaction request, the controlling node determines, based on the pre-defined type of the computer transaction, a specific node of a set of executing nodes responsible for the pre-defined type of the computer transaction and sends the transaction request directly to the determined specific node for execution thereof. While the determined specific node executed the transaction requests, it blocks receiving of additional transaction requests until the transaction request is executed.
US10165484B2
A method (500) of indicating a process to be implemented in support of a mobility transfer operation and a method (600) of responding to a mobility transfer operation being initiated. A session initiation protocol (SIP) request (120, 124, 128, 220, 226, 228) can be generated. The SIP request can indicate a mobility transfer type that corresponds to the mobility transfer operation. The SIP request can be sent from a first device (102, 106) participating in the mobility transfer operation to at least a second device (106, 102) participating in the mobility transfer operation.
US10165481B2
A serving eNodeB and a method thereof are provided. The serving eNodeB includes a receiver configured to receive, from a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), a first measurement report including a physical layer cell identity (PCI) of a target closed subscriber group (CSG) cell detected by the WTRU, a transmitter configured to, in response to the received first measurement report, to transmit a message to the WTRU indicating that the WTRU is to read system information (SI) of the target CSG cell, and a processor. The receiver is further configured to, in response to a transmission of the message, receive a second measurement report for the target CSG cell including information read from the SI, and the processor is configured to, in response to receipt of the second measurement report, add the target CSG cell to a cell list and initiate a handover of the WTRU to the target CSG cell.
US10165478B2
A method and system for switching a radio access technology (RAT) between wireless communication systems connected to each other while implementing different RATs with a multi-mode WTRU are disclosed. A plurality of wireless communication systems are deployed with overlapping coverage areas wherein each system implements different RATs and are connected to each other such that a service that is provided by one system may be provided through the other system. Each wireless communication system transmits an indication of the existence of an inter-working wireless communication system in a coverage area of each system. The WTRU receives the indication and information regarding the inter-working wireless communication system. The WTRU then initiates a handoff to the inter-working wireless communication system using the received information, whereby the WTRU continues to receive the same services that the WTRU receives from the currently connected wireless communication system through the inter-working wireless communication system.
US10165463B2
Methods and apparatus for congestion mitigation in telecommunications networks. In an exemplary apparatus, a network node (314, 500; 302, 400) in a telecommunications network is provided, the node comprising: a receiver (504; 404) configured to receive congestion data identifying a congested area (A-H) and one or more user equipments, UE, (a-j; 312) affected by the congested area; an alternative network determiner (516; 420) configured to determine one or more switchable UEs, amongst the identified UEs, that may be offloaded to an alternative access network (1-3); and a network switcher (518; 422) configured to control a transmitter (502; 402) to transmit an instruction for one or more of the switchable UEs to switch to an alternative access network.
US10165462B2
A base station transmits to a wireless device at least one first message comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells. The plurality of cells is grouped into a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) groups comprising a primary PUCCH group comprising a primary cell with a primary PUCCH received by the base station and a secondary PUCCH group. The secondary PUCCH group comprising a PUCCH secondary cell with a secondary PUCCH received by the base station and one or more other secondary cells. The base station detects a radio link issue with the PUCCH secondary cell. The base station transmits at least one media access control (MAC) command configured to deactivate at least one of the one or more other secondary cells in the secondary PUCCH group in response to the radio link issue with the PUCCH secondary cell.
US10165454B2
A radio communication system, a radio station, a network operation management apparatus, and a network optimization method are provided that can optimize a performance of the entire system even when network optimization is performed individually. In the radio communication system including multiple radio stations (10, 20, 30) and network operation management apparatuses managing the radio stations, network optimization is autonomously performed. A first radio station (10) notifies first optimization information regarding network optimization in a cell (10a) of the first radio station to at least one of another second radio station (20/30) that is different from the first radio station and a network apparatus that manages the second radio station (101).
US10165445B2
Systems and methods for transmitting AT commands indicating whether Evolved Packet System (EPS) Session Management (ESM) information should be transmitted securely are disclosed herein. A Terminal Equipment (TE) may transmit an AT command to a Mobile Termination (MT). The AT command may indicate whether protocol configuration options (PCO) should be ciphered and/or whether an access point name (APN) is provided. In some embodiments, the AT command may be a dedicated command and may only include a
US10165440B2
A method and apparatus provides for user authentication. In an example, the method and apparatus includes receiving a selected signal strength for smart card emulation authentication. The method and apparatus also includes receiving a signal from a portable wireless device radio transceiver. The method also includes measuring the signal strength of the signal. The method and apparatus also includes, if the signal is at or above the selected signal strength, transmitting one or more signals to the portable radio device radio transceiver requesting user authentication, and if the signal is not at or above a selected signal strength, refusing a request to authenticate by the portable radio device radio transceiver. The method and apparatus also includes receiving one or more authentication response signals from the portable radio device in response to the request for user authentication, the one or more response signals including at least authentication information unique to a user.
US10165439B1
A passive wireless electronics detection system is disclosed having one or more radio antenna assemblies able to receive digital data from a wireless electronic device located within a predetermined range, and storage associated with the radio antenna assemblies for storing at least some of the digital data received. The storage is through connection to the internet, or can be local to the antenna assemblies. The digital data includes wireless device meta-data such as the device name, MAC address, BSSID, previous Wi-Fi networks connected to, etc. A device listing is complied through frequency of detection or user input, and an alert may be triggered when an unexpected device is detected, which can then be sent to one or more digital devices.
US10165429B1
This disclosure relates to facilitating vehicle incident communications. In one use case, a mobile device may detect a vehicular accident and determine one or more contacts to notify about the vehicular accident. An occupant of the vehicle may be prompted, via a user interface of the mobile device, to confirm or cancel a proposed communication to the contact(s). Upon confirmation of the proposed confirmation, the communication to the contact(s) may be transmitted.
US10165422B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure related to methods and systems of determining the position of a device. The method comprises gathering at least one of device signal data and device sensor data, the device signal data including at least one wireless communication signal data, the device sensor data including at least one of magnetometer data, accelerometer data and gyroscope data, estimating a plurality of potential trajectories describing a movement of the device as a sequence of positions based on the at least one of the device signal data and the device sensor data, a calibrated fingerprint map, and by determining, from the device sensor data, a device direction of travel angle subject to at least one of a device sensor drift and a device sensor bias correction factors, wherein the fingerprint map comprises a plurality of fingerprint locations having at least one of associated device signal data values and device sensor data values synchronized for differing data gathering intervals, and determining the position of the device based on a data fusion of the estimated plurality of potential trajectories, the data fusion producing at least a best estimate current trajectory from the estimated plurality of potential trajectories.
US10165421B2
A method of identifying contact between terminals, and a computer program and an application for executing the method are disclosed. The method for identifying contact between terminals according to this invention includes the server receiving from a first terminal a first state information data of a first terminal based on information about an external magnetic force of the first terminal generated by a first terminal; receiving, by the server, second state information data of the second terminal based on the information about the external magnetic force of the second terminal generated in the second terminal from the second terminal; determining whether a difference between a time when the first state information data is generated and a time when the second state information data is generated is within a preset time; and the step of transmitting a message to at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal according to the determination by the server.
US10165420B2
A communications method includes: acquiring at least one second user according to location information of a current terminal and a specified application identifier, the second user being a user whose geographical location is in a preset range of the current terminal; determining, when receiving a first selection instruction with respect to any user among the at least one second user, the second user corresponding to the first selection instruction as a target user, and acquiring a communication message to be sent, the communication message carrying a first user identifier of a user that has logged in to a specified application on the current terminal, a target user identifier, and second message content; sending the communication message to a specified application server when receiving a sending instruction. The specified application server sends the first user identifier and the second message content to the target user according to the target user identifier.
US10165418B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting a sidelink buffer status reporting in a D2D communication system, the method comprising: transmitting information related to a first destination information list including at least one groupcast destination ID and a second destination information list including at least one unicast destination ID; assigning values of destination index to groupcast destinations IDs in listing order in the first destination information list and remaining values of the destination index after setting to the groupcast destinations IDs to unicast destinations IDs in listing order in the second destination information list, sequentially; generating and transmitting a SL BSR MAC CE including at least one destination index field identifying at least one destination, when SL BSR is triggered.
US10165414B2
A location sharing system and related processes across computer networks are provided that efficiently utilize resources by adjusting location determination techniques at client devices. A rule-based architecture including user-based heuristics facilitates location determination that is accurate while optimizing resource consumption. Current interest in or other behavior associated with a target user or requesting user can be used in selecting a location determination protocol at the client device. An accurate portrayal of a user's location can be provided efficiently by correlating interest to utilize more accurate but larger resource-intensive components when interest is higher and to utilize less accurate but lower resource-intensive components when interest is lower.
US10165413B1
A communication system comprises a mobile reporting device and a server. The mobile reporting device comprises a signal receiver configured to receive data usable to determine the location of the reporting device; a communication module configured to transmit data to and receive data from a server, the data including location data from the location determiner; a display including a user interface. The server comprises a database with a location module configured to store a default room location for a plurality of personnel; a server communication module configured to transmit data to and receive data from the reporting device; an information module configured to provide information on the personnel; a controller configured to determine, based on the location data, which personnel default locations are within a predetermined distance of the reporting device, to control the server communication module to transmit to the reporting device information from the information module regarding the personnel associated with the default locations within the predetermined distance for display on the user interface.
US10165411B2
An approach is disclosed that receives, from a number of mobile devices, time data with the timing data is based on an elapsed time from a timing signal and line-of-sight events directed to the mobile devices. A location of each of the mobile devices is determined based on the respective timing data received from each of the mobile devices. A portion of an overall image to display at each of the mobile devices is determined based on the identified location of the mobile devices, and the overall image is displayed by transmitting the determined portion to each of the plurality of mobile devices.
US10165409B2
A system and method for determining the location of nodes within a network. Beamforming coefficients associated with signals transmitted from a first node to a second node are determined and, based on the beamforming coefficients, direction is determined between the first and second nodes. Distance is determined as a function of direction and the location of the second node is determined as a function of distance and direction.
US10165404B2
A method includes obtaining a first speed and a first location of a portable electronic device that are at a first time point, determining, according to the first speed and a time difference between a second time point and the first time point, a geo-fencing centering on a second location, where the geo-fencing is a virtual fence including points whose distances to the second location are equal to a reference distance, the reference distance is not greater than a product obtained by multiplying the first speed by the time difference, and the second time point and the second location are preset, and triggering a preset operation when the first location is outside the geo-fencing.
US10165390B2
According to one system, the system includes a chassis defining an enclosure and containing one or more slots. The system further includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader module comprising at least one processor and one or more RFID readers located within the enclosure, wherein the one or more RFID readers are configured to read data stored in RFID tags associated with one or more unpowered network taps. The RFID reader module is configured to receive, from a first RFID reader associated with a first slot of the chassis, information regarding a first unpowered network tap in the first slot, to determine, using a known location of the first RFID reader, a slot identifier associated with the first unpowered network tap, wherein the slot identifier indicates that the first unpowered network tap is in the first slot, and to provide the information and the slot identifier to a management system.
US10165389B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are provided to determine routing associated with a short message. A SMS-SC may send a first routing request to a home subscriber server (HSS). The first routing request may be associated with the short message. The SMS-SC may receive a first routing reply. The first routing reply may include one of an indication that the short message is associated with a service capability server (SCS) or a first control plane routing associated with the short message. The SMS-SC may send the short message to an SCS serving node. The first routing reply may include the indication that the short message is associated with a service capability server (SCS). The SMS-SC may send a second routing request to a SCS subscription database. The SMS-SC may receive a second routing reply from the SCS subscription database, which may indicate a second control plane routing for the short message.
US10165386B2
A method including, identifying at least one object of interest (OOI), determining a plurality of microphones capturing sound from the at least one OOI, determining, for each of the plurality of microphones, a volume around the at least one OOI, determining a spatial audio volume based on associating each of the plurality of microphones to the volume around the at least one OOI, and generating a spatial audio scene based on the spatial audio volume for free-listening-point audio around the at least one OOI.
US10165385B2
A system for generating calibrated multi-channel non-coherent signals. The system comprises a plurality of synthesizers for generating a corresponding plurality of signals, and a plurality of filters for band-pass filtering the plurality of generated signals. Each filter filters the signal generated by one of the plurality of synthesizers, by performing the band-pass filtering in a dedicated frequency band. The system comprises a plurality of loudspeakers for playing the plurality of filtered signals respectively filtered by the plurality of filters. The system comprises a channel configurator for configuring at least one of the filters for performing the band-pass filtering according to a calibrated amplitude spectrum of the signal. The calibrated amplitude spectrum is determined based on a reference amplitude spectrum of the signal and at least one of the following parameters: a target global signal amplitude, a directionality of the signal when played by the corresponding loudspeaker, and a frequency response of the synthesizer.
US10165381B2
Disclosed is an audio signal processing device for rendering an input audio signal. The audio signal processing device includes a receiving unit configured to receive the input audio signal, a processor configured to generate an output audio signal by binaural rendering the input audio signal, and an output unit configured to output the output audio signal generated by the processor. The processor obtains a first transfer function based on a position of a virtual sound source corresponding to the input audio signal with respect to a listener, generates at least one flat response having a constant magnitude in a frequency domain, generates a second transfer function based on the first transfer function and the at least one flat response, and generates the output audio signal by binaural rendering the input audio signal based on the generated second transfer function.
US10165380B2
An information processing apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold a plurality of head related transfer functions for outputting directional sound in a plurality of directions, a setting unit configured to set a direction in which a first head related transfer function and a second head related transfer function are switched, based on characteristics of the first head related transfer function and the second head related transfer function, and a switching unit configured to switch a head related transfer function used to output the directional sound between the first head related transfer function and the second head related transfer function in the set direction.
US10165374B2
A method including obtaining data based on a current and/or anticipated future state of a hearing prosthesis and adjusting a set gain margin of the hearing prosthesis based on the current or anticipated future state of the hearing prosthesis.
US10165366B1
Embodiments described herein related a moldable mounting wireless speaker system which provides a secure wireless communication link between a set of wireless speakers and a selected host mobile device once a pairing code is established. The system includes a set of wireless speakers, Bluetooth module, processor, and infrared transceiver module enclosed within a hermetically sealed housing and located at each end of a flexible and moldable mounting strip comprised of a plurality of spherical connectors. The system is configured to receive both infrared and radio frequency inputs and convert to a digital signal to initially authenticate the pairing code by attempting to match the pairing code from the host mobile device with a plurality of stored pairing codes within the memory. Once authenticated, a light emitting diode will be illuminated and visible through a translucent portion of the housing to indicate that the secure communication link is established. The user may then secure and bend the system to a variety of objects using the securing grips located around each of the spherical connectors.
US10165365B2
Disclosed are a sound sharing apparatus and a sound sharing method. The sound sharing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes at least one processor configured to implement: a modifier configured to change a default audio render driver of a local machine from a first audio render driver to a second audio render driver; a capturer configured to capture audio data transmitted to the second audio render driver; and a mixer configured to mix the captured audio data: i) with first voice data to output first mixed data, wherein the first voice data is received from a remote machine connected to the local machine through a network, or ii) with second voice data to output second mixed data, wherein the second voice data is received input through a microphone of the local machine.
US10165357B2
Audio mix information is received from a plurality of users. Mix rules are determined from the audio mix information from the plurality of users, wherein the mix rules include a first mix rule associated with a first audio item. The first mix rule relates to an overlap of the first audio item with another audio item. The first mix rule is made available to one or more clients. After making the first mix rule available, an indication, from a respective client device, that the first audio item is to be mixed with a second audio item at the respective client device in accordance with the first mix rule is received. In response to the indication, a specification of the first mix rule is transmitted to the respective client device to be applied by the respective client device to generate a transition between the first audio item and the second item.
US10165351B2
A headphone is provided. The headphone includes a housing, a first speaker and a second speaker. The housing includes a sound output side, a first layer structure, a first output path, a first trench, a first recess, and a second recess. The first speaker is disposed in the first recess, wherein the first speaker includes a first speaker orientation, and the first speaker orientation corresponds to the first output path. The second speaker is disposed in the second recess. The first output path includes the first trench, which is located at the first layer structure, that extends around the first speaker, and is connected to the sound output side.
US10165334B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for adapting, when multiple users are consuming a media asset on a primary device, the size of subtitles presented on the primary device upon determining that a user located closer to the primary device (i.e., first user) than a user farthest from the primary device (i.e., second user) is discontent with the size of the subtitles. The media guidance application may determine that there is a secondary device, associated with and in the vicinity of the second user, that is suitable for displaying subtitles. The media guidance application may, upon determining that the second user is currently not using the secondary device, present subtitles for the second user on the secondary device. The media guidance application may then adjust the size of the subtitles presented with the media asset on the primary device to a size more suited for the first user.
US10165328B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling Internet users to schedule recordings of electronic programming content. One method includes displaying on a web page, over the Internet, a user interface element associated with an advertisement for electronic programming content; wherein selection of the user interface element, by a user of a web browsing device, initiates a recording device of the user, separate from the web browsing device, to schedule a recording of the electronic programming content. Another method for enabling Internet users to request television content includes displaying on a web page, over the Internet, a user interface element associated with an advertisement for television content; wherein a user's selection of the user interface element initiates a request for the advertised television content from a carrier that provides television service to the user.
US10165327B2
Disclosed are a video studio creating method and a service device. The method includes: receiving a live video application-based live video request instruction sent by a client, in which the live video request instruction includes user information; acquiring live channel information associated with the user information; acquiring a live channel configuration parameter set corresponding to the live channel information, and creating a video studio according to the live channel configuration parameter set; and outputting an interactive interface of the video studio to the client.
US10165320B2
A communication medium with fewer limitations on the directivity or available communication range, such as an IP network, is used to perform a remote control operation.Since two-way communication can be carried out between a remote controller and a device to be operated, it is possible to provide more reliable communication by means of a delivery confirmation, to handle a GUI-based complex command scheme, and to provide large-volume data transmission, such as moving-image streaming, using relatively broad bands. A television receiver to be operated by the remote controller distributes moving-image data, such as a child view, to an IP remote controller through an IP network so that the data can be viewed on the IP remote controller.
US10165318B1
Disclosed herein are systems and method for curating and distributing digital content; including: digital video, music, pictures, etc. For example, presented herein are systems and methods for providing a digital content program, including a plurality of continuously provided digital assets streamed over a digital content platform. Example embodiments include: (a) curating a plurality of assets; (b) selecting a subset of assets from the plurality of assets, based on similarity metrics between assets; and (c) ordering the subset of assets into a digital content program.
US10165314B2
In a process synchronization control system for performing a synchronization process of synchronizing a process among redundant channels, each of the channels includes an input unit; an output unit; a processing unit; a process execution timer which is used for executing a process in the channels; and a waiting time measurement timer which measures a waiting time in the synchronization process, in which the processing unit executes: a synchronization signal output process of outputting the synchronization signal to other channels at the start of the synchronization process; a synchronization signal input process of waiting for the synchronization signal input from the other channels until a predetermined waiting time by the waiting time measurement timer elapses; and a timer synchronization process of synchronizing the process execution timer if the synchronization signal of the other channels is input after the elapse of the waiting time.
US10165313B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for testing set-top boxes. A method includes: receiving an application for testing in a set-top box environment; identifying a set-top box for testing the application; executing the application on the set-top box, including commanding the set-top box to display a plurality of interfaces and initiating commands to transition the set-top box from a first presentation state to a second presentation state; capturing video output associated with the first presentation state; capturing video output associated with the set-top box after the transition to the second presentation state; monitoring and recording network traffic output by the set-top box; and providing an output associated with the monitoring and the captured video output to enable correlation between commands executed as part of the application execution, on screen output and network traffic of the set-top box.
US10165307B2
Architecture that enables the identification of entities such as people and content in live broadcasts (e.g., streaming content (e.g., video) of live events) and non-live presentations (e.g., movies), in realtime, using recognition processes. This can be accomplished by extracting live data related to a live event. With respect to people entities, filtering can be performed to identify the named (people) entities from the extracted live data, and trending topics discovered as relate to the named entities, as associated with the live event. Multiple images of the named entities that capture the named entities under different conditions are captured for the named entities. The images are then processed to extract and learn facial features (train one or more models), and facial recognition is then performed on faces in the video using the trained model(s).
US10165305B2
An encoding method includes: encoding transform coefficients of a transform coefficient block according to a predetermined scan order, and encoding a set number of transform coefficients in each group until a last group of the transform coefficient block is encoded; storing an obtained map of non-zero transform coefficients, absolute values of transform coefficients, and positive and negative signs of non-zero transform coefficients; when the last group is being encoded, encoding the stored map of non-zero transform coefficients and the map of non-zero transform coefficients encoded in the last group into a bit stream; and encoding the stored absolute values of transform coefficients and positive and negative signs of non-zero transform coefficients and the absolute values of transform coefficients and positive and negative signs of non-zero transform coefficients encoded in the last group into the bit stream.
US10165302B2
Innovations in signaling of reference picture list (“RPL”) modification information. For example, a video encoder evaluates a condition that depends at least in part on a variable indicating a number of total reference pictures. Depending on the results of the evaluation, the encoder signals in a bitstream a flag that indicates whether an RPL is modified according to syntax elements explicitly signaled in the bitstream. A video decoder evaluates the condition and, depending on results of the evaluation, parses from a bitstream a flag that indicates whether an RPL is modified according to syntax elements explicitly signaled in the bitstream. The condition can be evaluated as part of processing for an RPL modification structure that includes the flag, or as part of processing for a slice header. The encoder and decoder can also evaluate other conditions that affect syntax elements for list entries of the RPL modification information.
US10165300B2
Methods and devices for video coding using inter prediction and three-dimensional transform. A sequence of pictures in the video is partitioned into coding cuboids. A predicted cuboid is generated for one of the coding cuboids using interprediction, including at least one motion vector and at least one reference picture index. The difference between the coding cuboid and the predicted cuboid results in a cuboid of residuals, which is then spectrally transformed using a three-dimensional transform to create a cuboid of transform domain coefficients, which are then entropy encoded. The decoding process generates the same predicted cuboid and reconstructs the cuboid of pixels using the predicted cuboid and a cuboid of reconstructed residuals.
US10165288B2
The precision of up-sampling operations in a layered coding system is preserved when operating on video data with high bit-depth. In response to bit-depth requirements of the video coding or decoding system, scaling and rounding parameters are determined for a separable up-scaling filter. Input data are first filtered across a first spatial direction using a first rounding parameter to generate first up-sampled data. First intermediate data are generated by scaling the first up-sampled data using a first shift parameter. The intermediate data are then filtered across a second spatial direction using a second rounding parameter to generate second up-sampled data. Second intermediate data are generated by scaling the second up-sampled data using a second shift parameter. Final up-sampled data may be generated by clipping the second intermediate data.
US10165287B2
An image coding apparatus includes a block dividing unit configured to divide an input image into a plurality of blocks, a prediction unit configured to perform prediction based on coded pixels to generate prediction errors, a transformation unit configured to perform orthogonal transform to the prediction errors to generate transform coefficients, a quantization matrix generation unit configured to generate quantization matrices that are used to quantize the transform coefficients, a quantization matrix coding unit configured to calculate difference values by scanning the quantization matrices and to code the difference values, a quantization unit configured to generate quantization coefficients by quantizing the generated transform coefficients using the quantization matrices, and a coefficient coding unit configured to code the quantization coefficients, wherein the quantization matrix coding unit is configured to scan coefficients of the quantization matrices in a unidirectional manner to calculate the difference value.
US10165286B2
A system and method for transmission of a video stream are provided. The system may include: an encoder adapted to generate a video stream comprising a plurality of encoded frames, encoded according to at least one encoding parameter; a comparator in communication with the encoder, the comparator adapted to compare encoded frames of the plurality of encoded frames with input frames to determine a fitness metric reflective of visual quality of the encoded frames; and a controller in communication with the comparator, the controller adapted to adjust the at least one encoding parameter based on the fitness metric.
US10165283B1
Combining intra-frame and inter-frame prediction is described. A first combined prediction block for a first block is formed by combining weighted pixel values of a first inter prediction block and a first intra prediction block. A second combined prediction block is formed by combining pixel values of a second intra prediction block and a second inter prediction block. The first intra prediction block and the second intra prediction block have pixel dimensions corresponding to the first block. The pixel values of the second inter prediction block have pixel locations corresponding to a first partitioned area formed by an oblique line extending across the first block, and the pixel values of the second intra prediction block used in forming the second combined prediction block have pixel locations corresponding to a second partitioned area formed by the oblique line. One of the combined prediction blocks is selected to encode the first block.
US10165282B2
An image decoding method includes: receiving information on a set of reference pictures for configuring a set of reference pictures of a current picture, wherein the information on the set of reference pictures includes MSB that may calculate the MSB of POC of a long-term reference picture relative to the current picture, and flag information that represents whether there is MSB; and eliciting the set of reference pictures by using received MSB when the flag information is 1, and performing marking on the reference picture, wherein the flag information may be 1 when a temporal sub-layer identifier is 0, and there is at least one POC value for which a remainder obtained by dividing by a maximum value MaxPicOrderCntLsb is the same as LSB of the POC of the long-term reference picture, in a set of POCs of a previous picture including POC values related to the previous picture.
US10165278B2
An image compression device includes a basic unit setting unit configured to set a basic unit of compression by using each of a plurality of color elements forming colors of pixels of image data independently or combining the plurality of color elements arbitrarily and a compression process unit configured to compress a value of the set basic unit according to an encoding process base on a predetermined rule. A complex process is not executed differently from a video codec or a still image codec according to the related art and the compression is performed by a simple process for encoding values of basic units set for the plurality of color elements forming the colors of the individual pixels, on the basis of the predetermined rule. As a result, a process load of the extension can be reduced as compared with the related art.
US10165264B1
A floating calibration target for an image sensor can include a plurality of hexagonally shaped floatation devices that each emit light at one or more predetermined wavelengths. The floating calibration target can also include a seine net circumscribing the plurality of hexagonally shaped floatation devices. The seine net draws the plurality of hexagonally shaped floatation devices toward each other to form a substantially contiguous surface for the floating calibration target.
US10165257B2
A system for robust disparity estimation in the presence of significant intensity variations for camera arrays is described herein. The system comprises a camera array, a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store imaging data. The processor is coupled to the memory and the camera array. When executing instructions, the processor is to obtain a plurality of images and generate a sequence of color matched images, wherein the sequence includes each pair of images in the plurality of images. The processor is also to calculate a plurality of disparity points based on the sequence of color matched images.
US10165253B2
The device and method are intended for reconstructing in 3-Dimensions comprehensive representations of the head and torso of subject (S) with a portable stereophotogrammetry device which can operate at, at least, two predefined positions (A3, A4).The device is composed of a camera body (1), a double optics (2) and a measuring distance system (34) enabling the repositioning of subject (S) at position (A3) or (A4). The user can operate a switch (5) to select one of these at least two pre-defined positions.The method is further to process the stereo-pairs of the subject to reconstruct 3-Dimensional surfaces (400), match them (500) and then stitch them (600) in a comprehensive representation of the subject. By selecting a distance corresponding to a field of view of respectively approximately A4 dimension the device and method is enabling reconstructing the face and of approximately A3 dimension is enabling reconstructing the torso of subject (S).
US10165251B2
Stereoscopic video data and corresponding depth map data for stereoscopic and auto-stereoscopic displays are coded using a coded base layer and one or more coded enhancement layers. Given a 3D input picture and corresponding input depth map data, a side-by-side and a top-and-bottom picture are generated based on the input picture. Using an encoder, the side-by-side picture is coded to generate a coded base layer Using the encoder and a texture reference processing unit (RPU), the top-and-bottom picture is encoded to generate a first enhancement layer, wherein the first enhancement layer is coded based on the base layer stream, and using the encoder and a depth-map RPU, depth data for the side-by-side picture are encoded to generate a second enhancement layer, wherein the second enhancement layer is coded based on to the base layer. Alternative single, dual, and multi-layer depth map delivery systems are also presented.
US10165249B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a method for producing a stereo film is provided, wherein a first image that is supplied (10) by a first camera rig having at least two cameras is followed (50) by a second image from a second camera rig, wherein furthermore a disparity table for definition of the displacement of a defined image point in a first sub-frame supplied by a first camera of the first camera rig relative to an image point similar thereto in a second sub-frame supplied by a second camera of the first camera rig is determined (20, 30) in order to obtain information about the depth of the first image composed of the first sub-frame and the second sub-frame, wherein the depth information of the disparity table of the first image of the first camera rig is used (60) for processing of the second image of the second camera rig. The invention also relates to controlling (means) or regulating means for a plurality of 3D cameras configured to carry out said method.
US10165242B2
Provided is an image-capturing device including: a visible light signal generating unit that extracts a visible light signal from a pixel signal from an image-capturing element; a light source color estimating unit that estimates a color temperature of a light source from the visible light signal; a white-balance adjusting unit that performs white balance correction on the visible light signal according to an estimation result; a non-visible light signal generating unit that extracts a non-visible light signal from the signals from the image-capturing element; and an image composing unit that combines and outputs the visible light signal on which the white balance correction was performed and the non-visible light signal.
US10165237B2
A head-up display far projecting visual information onto a screen includes: a projector, comprising a light source and a light modulation device for generating the visual information. The projector further includes a global radiator for cooling the projector. The projector is arranged adjacent to a kinematic device. The global radiator includes at least partially a material having a thermal conductivity greater than 100 W/(mK).
US10165236B2
A heat exchange device includes an inner member through which a first liquid circulates, and a pair of outer members through which a second liquid circulates, the inner member is provided with an inner housing through which the first liquid circulates, and a pair of first plate-like members attached to the inner housing so as to be opposed to each other, each of the pair of outer members is provided with an outer housing through which the second liquid circulates, and a second plate-like member attached to the outer housing, and the pair of outer members are disposed on both sides of the inner member so that one of the pair of first plate-like members is opposed to one of the second plate-like members of the pair of outer members, and the other of the pair of first plate-like members is opposed to the other of the second plate-like members.
US10165235B2
The invention provides a digital micromirror device control apparatus and a projection display system. The digital micromirror device control apparatus includes a video decoding circuit configured to decode received video data, thereby obtaining component data signals of a plurality of colors; a digital micromirror device driving circuit including a first sub-driving circuit and a second sub-driving circuit. An input end of the first sub-driving circuit is connected to the video decoding circuit, an output end of the first sub-driving circuit is connected to the first digital micromirror device, an input end of the second sub-driving circuit is connected to the video decoding circuit, and an output end of the second sub-driving circuit is connected to a second digital micromirror device. The first sub-driving circuit and the second sub-driving circuit are configured to process component data signals of at least three of the plurality of colors.
US10165233B2
The present invention discloses an information processing method, an electronic device and a computer storage medium. The method is applied to a mobile electronic device, the electronic device is provided with an image collection unit, the image collection unit can carry out image collection, and the method includes: acquiring a first instruction, wherein the first instruction is used for indicating to carry out image collection based on target tracking; responding to the first instruction, and acquiring position information between a target object and the electronic device; acquiring a first parameter according to the position information, and controlling a movement state of the electronic device according to the first parameter, so that the electronic device tracks the target object, wherein the first parameter is a parameter used for controlling the movement state of the electronic device; and acquiring a second parameter according to the position information, and controlling an image collection posture of the image collection unit according to the second parameter, so that the image collection unit can acquire an image satisfying a first condition in a process when the electronic device tracks the target object.
US10165228B2
A sensor event assessor trainer and integrator is disclosed. In one embodiment, a sensor event assessor assesses any event detected by at least two sensors and provides assessment information about the event. A different event detection system provides an input regarding an event. A collaborator combines the assessment information with the different event detection system input to generate a user recognizable output for presenting the integrated event information.
US10165227B2
The bit-rate of surveillance video streams can be adapted by varying the number of enhancement layers/streams that are transmitted to a local monitoring center and/or data storage center. Enhancement layers that are not transmitted to the local data/monitoring center may be sent to a remote storage location, thereby allowing users to reproduce a high quality version of the surveillance video by retrieving those enhancement layers from the remote storage location. The base and enhancement layers may be obtained by encoding the surveillance video in accordance with a scalable video coding format, such as the H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced video coding (AVC) codec.
US10165193B2
An image pickup device includes: an image pickup element; a board including an opening through which light entering the image pickup element passes; a shutter opening and closing the opening; an actuator driving the shutter, and including: a rotor; a stator; and first and second coils wound around the stator and not electrically connected to each other; and a drive circuit including plural terminal portions to which the first and second coils are individually connected.
US10165192B2
A method is provided that includes setting an exposure time of an image sensor of a customer terminal so that, in an image obtained by capturing the subject, a bright line corresponding to each of a plurality of exposure lines appears according to a change in luminance of the subject. The method also includes obtaining a bright line image including a plurality of bright lines, by capturing the subject and obtaining identification information of the subject, by demodulating data specified by a pattern of the plurality of bright lines included in the obtained bright line image. The method further includes sending the identification information to a server, obtaining a menu listing a product of the store from the server, displaying the menu on a display of the terminal, and sending product information of the product that is selected by the customer and payment information of the customer to the server.
US10165190B2
An imaging apparatus includes a movable unit in which a display unit is rotatable by a hinge part in an opening and closing direction with respect to a device body. A magnet is disposed in the vicinity of the hinge part and an opening and closing sensor detects the opening and closing of the movable unit by detecting a magnetic field of the magnet. A magnetizing direction of the magnet is a direction perpendicular to an opening and closing axis of the movable unit, the opening and closing sensor detects the magnetic field in a direction perpendicular to the opening and closing axis, and a control unit obtains a detection signal of the opening and closing sensor and controls a display state of the display unit.
US10165188B2
In an optical apparatus, when a magnification varying lens is located at a first zoom position, a display unit displays information indicative of an object distance acquired based on the electronic cam data, the first zoom position, and a position of a focusing device detected while the magnification varying lens is being located at the first zoom position. In a period for the position of the magnification varying lens to change from the first zoom position to a second zoom position, the display unit displays the information indicative of the object distance acquired based on the electronic cam data, a zoom position detected by the zoom position detector, and the position of the focusing device at the detected zoom position, which has been calculated based on the electronic cam data and the position of the focusing device corresponding to the first zoom position.
US10165170B2
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise a method and apparatus for autofocus. In various embodiments, the methods and apparatus may decrease a settling time of a lens by increasing the target position gradually, varying the gain of a PID controller, and adding a kick pulse to a position signal.
US10165159B2
The present disclosure is directed to a video-enabled communication system that can include a camera to acquire an image of an object of interest (such as a local participant) during a video communication session and a control unit, coupled with the camera. The control unit causes movement of the camera from a first spatial location to a second spatial location relative to a selected point of reference to enable the camera to capture different images for display, by a remote display device, to a remote participant to the video communication session.
US10165157B2
A system and method generates a broadcast image. The method includes receiving a first image captured by a first camera having a first configuration incorporating a first center of projection. The method includes determining a first mapping from a first image plane of the first camera onto a sphere. The method includes determining a second mapping from the sphere to a second image plane of a second virtual camera having a second configuration incorporating the first center of projection of the first configuration. The method includes generating a second image based upon the first image and a concatenation of the first and second mappings.
US10165154B2
In some examples, a print cartridge includes a memory device comprising coefficients derived from a compression of a difference table including a plurality of difference nodes in which each difference node represents a value that is a difference of a value of a node of a color table and a value of a corresponding node of a reference table, the coefficients useable to produce a reconstructed difference table, and residue information representing a difference of the color table and the reconstructed difference table.
US10165143B2
An information processing apparatus is capable of quick launch, in which information of memory is held and the apparatus is launched using the information, and includes an RTC that keeps the time and generates an interrupt at a set time. The apparatus detects whether or not there is an instruction to turn a power supply on or off, and if an instruction to turn the power off is detected, determines whether or not the quick launch is active. If it is determined that the quick launch is active, the apparatus sets an interrupt generated by the RTC inactive.
US10165136B2
A control device includes a setting unit, an accumulation unit, a registration unit, and a selecting unit. The setting unit sets image data expressing an image including a first layer corresponding to a foreground-operating application and a second layer located in front of the first layer in a viewing direction. The accumulation unit accumulates information related to a screen corresponding to the second layer requested for display from an application and for which the display is not completed. The registration unit registers, for each application, a rule to be applied when selecting any of screens corresponding to the accumulated information. The selecting unit selects a screen corresponding to the second layer in accordance with the rule of the foreground-operating application among the registered rules if display of the screen corresponding to the second layer is requested from an application and that commands the setting unit to set selected-screen-containing image data.
US10165130B2
Provided is a computer-implemented system and method for monitoring printer-related data on USB cables. A USB-compatible device comprising a field programmable gate array and a microprocessor is placed in-line between a non-networked computer and a printer and monitors the line for print-related data. Once detected, the print-related data is transmitted via a radio frequency to a base station. The base station subsequently compiles the print-related data and relays the data to a printer reporting system.
US10165127B2
Systems and methods for charging in networks where radio resources are shared between Machine Type Communication (MTC) traffic and legacy traffic. A base station of a wireless access network determines a scheduling of radio resources on the air interface between MTC traffic and legacy traffic, and provides signaling to an MTC device and a legacy device indicating the scheduling of the radio resources. The base station collects resource sharing information regarding the sharing of the radio resources between the MTC traffic and the legacy traffic, and transmits a message to a network element of a core network that includes the resource sharing information. The network element may then forward the resource sharing information to a charging system so that the sharing of the radio resources is taken into account when charging the MTC device and/or the legacy device for usage of the air interface.
US10165117B2
A device can receive a call from a calling party device to a called party device, and can determine caller information based on the call from the calling party device. The device can determine that the caller information satisfies a criterion, and can modify the caller information to create modified caller information, the caller information being modified based on the caller information satisfying the criterion. The device can compare the modified caller information to a data structure that includes information associated with multiple call handling decisions. The device can identify a call handling decision, of the multiple call handling decisions, based on comparing the modified caller information to the data structure that includes the plurality of call handling decisions, and can cause the call handling decision to be implemented.
US10165112B2
An application instantiated on a computing device of a professional receives a selection of a client by a professional to place a call to the client by way of an identifier of the client, and upon receiving the selection of the client, presents to the professional a number of options for an identifier of the professional to be provided with the placed call to the client. The application receives from the professional a selection of one of the options for the identifier of the professional, places the call from the professional to the client, and in doing so provides the selected identifier of the professional with the placed call. The selected and provided identifier of the professional represents a favored location at which the professional or an associate thereof may be reached. The client may ascertain the provided identifier of the professional from the placed call and employ same to place a future call toward the professional or the associate thereof.
US10165106B2
A first aspect of the invention relates to an apparatus for mobile application, including a frequency spectrum generator for generating a frequency spectrum of radio waves at a current position of the apparatus and a classifier for classifying the frequency spectrum such that the frequency spectrum is assigned to one of at least two classes. A second aspect of the invention relates to a frequency spectrum generator with a tunable local oscillator, with a downmixer for downmixing a received antenna signal with the local oscillator signal for obtaining a downmixed signal, with a filter for filtering out a mirror-frequency portion in the downmixed signal, with a signal level detector for detecting a signal level of the downmixed signal at an intermediate frequency and with a control for sequentially controlling the local oscillator and the signal level detector to sample a frequency spectrum of the antenna signal.
US10165104B2
Provided is a mobile terminal including: a wireless communication unit that receives an event associated with an application; an output unit that outputs alerting information on the event; a display unit to which an alerting image that receives a first touch for activating the application is output; and a controller that, when the alerting image receives a second touch, controls the output unit in such a manner that an alerting mode for reception of the event associated with the application is changed.
US10165103B2
A message sending system, the system including: a member terminal of a member; a main server connected to the member terminal through a wired or wireless network; and an emergency contact terminal having a predetermined relationship with the member terminal, information of the emergency contact terminal is registered in the main server, wherein the member terminal is configured to upload, to the main server, a list of mourners comprising a list of persons to be invited as mourners and a message to be delivered to each of the mourners, and wherein the main server is configured to: determine, through the member terminal and the emergency contact terminal, the time of death of the member having the member terminal, and in response to determining the time of death of the member, send a notice of the member's death to mourner terminals registered in the list of mourners.
US10165096B2
A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a body; a body hole formed in the body, the body hole communicating an inside and an outside of the body; and a waterproof unit positioned and movable in the body hole, the waterproof unit including: a rod extended in a communicating direction of the body hole; a stopper connected to an end of the rod, a portion of the stopper having a inclined shape with respect to a longitudinal direction of the rod; and a packing ring surrounding the rod, the packing ring sealing the body hole.
US10165095B2
An electronic device in an industrial control system may be connected as a network device, such as via EtherNet/IP. The device may be configured to provide an “unconnected” message notification (or “active report”) when the device detects an enumerated condition, such as an error or deviation. An unconnected message may be a message sent between two or more applications (which may be of the same or different devices) without pre-established communication channel bindings. An unconnected message may include routing path information for routing the message to the host computer, application path information for associating the applications, and data payload information related to at least one of a state of the electronic device and the enumerated condition.
US10165084B2
A method for real-time widespread distribution of software updates of vehicle components comprising flash memory is provided. The method comprises: providing a client server for originating said software updates; providing an arbitration server operable to communicate with the client server; providing a distributed network comprising a plurality of communication servers, each of said communication servers operable to communicate with apparatus in a plurality of corresponding vehicles; operating each apparatus to communicate via a wireless network with one of the plurality of communication servers to receive and deploy software updates to electronic control units (ECUs) within its corresponding vehicle; operating each apparatus to generate status updates and to communicate the status updates to one communication server via the wireless network; and operating each communication server to generate a data stream comprising the data messages from the plurality of corresponding vehicles, and sending the data stream to the arbitration server.
US10165071B2
This document describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for monitoring the performance of activities executed at a computing device. In some implementations, a computing device receives a user input to invoke performance of an activity by the computing device. Multiple portions of computer code associated with the activity can be identified. For each portion of computer code, (i) the respective portion of computer code can be executed, and (ii) data can be recorded about the executing of the respective portion of computer code that indicates a time duration of the executing of the respective portion of computer code. A total time to completion of the activity can be provided based at least in part on aggregating the recorded data about the executing of the multiple portions of computer code.
US10165061B2
A first device for displaying an object related to content reproduced by a second device is provided. The first device including a sensor which senses an exit of the first device from a service zone of the second device during reproduction of the content by the second device; a communication device which requests a management server for an object related to the content, the object including link information for receiving information about the content reproduced by the second device at a point of time when the sensor senses the exit, and for receiving the object related to the content from the management server; and a controller which controls a display to display the received object related to the content on a predetermined screen of the first device.
US10165048B2
Provided are a data replica storage method, a terminal apparatus, and a server apparatus, which help to improve the reliability of a distributed data storage system without a central node and reduce an amount of migrated data when the number of nodes of the system changes. The method comprises: for each data replica to be stored, selecting child nodes level by level from a pre-selected intermediate node until a leaf node according to a tree-structured a distributed data storage system without a central node, and determining the leaf node as a target storage position of the data replica, selection of a child node comprising: combining an identification of data to be stored and an identification of a child node into a host image, obtaining a mapping value related to the child node using a preset mapping mode, selecting a sub-node of a central node according to the mapping value, and resetting a mapping relationship before each time when the child node is selected; and storing all data replicas to be stored at the target storage positions of the data replicas.
US10165044B2
A cloud computing system includes a network interface for interfacing with a wide area network. At least one wireless transceiver engages in bidirectional communication with a plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices within a corresponding plurality of vehicles in at least one vehicle aggregation location. A network control device receives requests for at least one cloud computing service via the wide area network and facilitates the at least one cloud computing service via the bidirectional communication with the plurality of vehicle cloud processing devices.
US10165040B2
Disclosed herein is a technique for managing storage space in a user device by efficiently downloading files from a cloud-based storage system and evicting files from the user device. According to some embodiments, files are continuously downloaded in a download mode until a particular threshold is satisfied. When the threshold is satisfied, the files can be downloaded in an on-demand mode as needed by the user, where the user device operates in the on-demand mode until a sufficient amount of storage space is freed by evicting files from the user device. Thereafter, the user device can switch back to the download mode.
US10165039B1
A system is disclosed that generates page profiles for network pages based on aggregated usage data. The page profile for a given page may, for example, include information regarding specific page generation tasks (e.g., resource requests) that are frequently executed by browsers when the page is loaded. The page profiles may be used by browsers or an intermediary system to preemptively perform selected page generation tasks, thereby reducing perceived page load times.
US10165038B2
This disclosure provides for a client-server paradigm where a server identifies a layout for a requested webpage from one or more header parameter values obtained from the initial request for the webpage from a client. The server obtains local and remote measures from the one or more header parameter values. The server then evaluates the local and remote measures, where the local measures are evaluated locally and the remote measures require further communications with other systems, databases, and/or architectures to be evaluated. Once the local measures are evaluated, the server engages in predictive communications by requesting those layouts which satisfy the evaluated local measures. When the remote measures have been evaluated, the server then selects the layout configuration that satisfies both the local and remote measures. This selected layout, along with the resources associated with the requested webpage, are then communicated to the client.
US10165036B1
In some implementations, a client device receives a network resource from a network resource provider. During rendering or other processing of the network resource on the client device, the network resource may cause the client device to send a request for a remote process to be executed by a network computing provider. For example, the network resource may include information to establish communication between the client device and the network computing provider for the client device to send a remote processing request. In response to the remote processing request, the network computing provider may obtain and execute remote process information related to the remote process. For example, the remote process information may be provided by the network resource provider and may include executable instructions to be executed by the network computing provider, and may further include data to be used during execution of the remote process.
US10165034B2
An apparatus, system, and method for maintaining a programming lineup of adaptive-bitrate content streaming is provided. The apparatus includes a timeline module configured to maintain a programming lineup of media content available over a network. The media content may comprise a plurality of streamlets. The apparatus also includes at least one data module configured to maintain multi-bitrate streamlet information. The system includes the apparatus and a client module configured to acquire content based upon the programming lineup provided by the timeline module. The method includes maintaining a programming lineup of media content available over a network, and maintaining multi-bitrate streamlet information.
US10165033B2
Systems, methods and devices are described to deliver media programs to remotely-located media players via a network. A media server receives a request for the media program from the remotely-located media player via the network and determines whether the requested media program has been previously encoded. If so, the previously-encoded media program is delivered to the remotely-located media player. If the requested media program has not been previously encoded, the requested media program is live encoded to thereby create a media stream encoding the requested media program in response to the request received from the remotely-located media player.
US10165031B2
Methods and systems for calculating local latency variations in an incremental manner, including the steps of updating a first local latency variation of a first streaming session at a first output port of a first switch; identifying a relationship that the first streaming session is passing through a second output port of a second switch after passing through the first output port; wherein a second streaming session is passing through the second output port; and updating a second local latency variation of the second streaming session at the second output port, based on the relationship. Wherein the updated second local latency variation is calculated based on the updated first local latency variation.
US10165027B2
An apparatus and a method for operating a server providing a streaming service are provided. The method includes collecting statistical information regarding media generated by a plurality of users who reproduce the media, determining at least one preferred section of the media based on the statistical information, and transmitting media data regarding the preferred section of the media to User Equipment (UE) reproducing the media regardless of a currently reproduced point.
US10165026B2
Intelligent generation and distribution of an encoded content transport stream according to metadata
There is provided a method and system for generating and distributing an encoded content transport stream. The method comprises obtaining metadata and at least one unique identifier that identifies content elements, generating a recipient specific list using the metadata and at least one of the unique identifiers, creating a content transport stream using the recipient specific list including the metadata and the identified content elements, encoding the content transport stream to generate the encoded content transport stream, and distributing the encoded content transport stream through at least one network path. The metadata may include destination points and priority information of the encoded content transport stream, which may take the form of sections of television programming or block of commercial advertisements.
US10165022B1
A method to manage screen sharing includes receiving a screen sharing request of a shareable interface displayed on a first computing device of a first end user, conducting, in response to the session sharing request, an inventory of secured assets in the shareable interface, and generating a shared interface from the shareable interface. Generating the shared interface includes obtaining a first secured asset in the inventory of the secured assets, modifying the first secured asset based on a first end user permission defined for the first secured asset to generate a modified secured asset, and adding the modified secured asset to the shared interface. The method further includes transmitting the shared interface to a second computing device of a second end user.
US10165017B2
A method and device for controlling peripheral devices via a social networking platform includes a method and device for registering a peripheral device on a social networking platform, which includes: at a user device having one or more processors and memory: executing a social networking client application of the social networking platform on the user device; through the social networking client application, receiving an input identifying a peripheral device; and in response to receiving the input identifying the peripheral device: sending a request to establish a social networking identity for the peripheral device; and upon successful establishment of the social networking identity for the peripheral device, presenting the peripheral device as a social network contact of the user account in a user interface of the social networking client application.
US10165015B2
A system and method for communicating with a client application that can include establishing a client signaling communication channel with a first client application; receiving a communication request from the first client application through the client signaling communication channel, wherein the communication request contains at least an authentication token and a specified communication destination; verifying the authentication token; if the authentication token is verified, at the system bridge, establishing a signaling communication channel with the communication destination and a second media communication channel with the specified communication destination; at the system bridge, establishing a first media communication channel with the client application; and merging the first media communication channel with the second media communication channel.
US10165013B2
A method involves acts of receiving a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) request, initiating by a computing device having a processor, a SIP session as a result of receiving the SIP request, executing, by the processor, a state chart implemented in the SIP server, communicating events by the computing device to the state chart, as the events occur in the SIP session, and changing states in the SIP session by the computing device, as the states are defined in the state chart, to completion of the SIP session.
US10165009B2
A connection policy for a communications network has a local connection policy indicating which paths between a given one of the nodes (computer A, router A, host 898) and others of the nodes (computers B, C, filters B1, B2, C1, C2, hosts 890, 892) are allowable paths, by a symbolic expression of ranges endpoint addresses and other local connection policies in respect of other nodes. It is implemented in a distributed manner by determining, for the given node, which of the allowable paths, are dual authorized as allowable by the other local connection policy relating to the other node at the other end of that path, by Boolean operations on the symbolic expressions. For a given message for a given path between two of the nodes having their own local connection policies, both of these nodes determine whether the given path is currently dual authorized. This can provide reassurance that changes in versions of the connection policy won't transiently open a risk of undetected unwanted communication.
US10165003B2
A method for identifying an imposter account in a social network includes a monitoring engine to monitor user accounts of a social network, an identifying engine to identify attributes associated with each of the user accounts of the social network, a matching engine to match the attributes associated with each of the user accounts of the social network, a determining engine to determine when one of the user accounts is an imposter account associated with identity theft of a victim account, a calculating engine to calculate a threshold, and an executing engine to execute an action against the identity theft of the victim account by the imposter account.
US10164998B2
Systems and methods for identifying and remediating malware-compromised mobile devices are disclosed. A computer-implemented method includes accessing, by a computing device, malware risk data; determining, by the computing device, a mobile device is at risk from malware based on the malware risk data; identifying, by the computing device, a set of connections of a user of the mobile device, wherein each connection in the set of connections is associated with a user computer device; identifying, by the computing device, at least one user computer device from the set of connections at risk from the malware; and outputting, by the computer device, a malware notification for the mobile device at risk and at least one user computer device at risk.
US10164992B2
Systems and arrangements for performing a textual analysis to identify incidents likely to cause a significant business impact are provided. Historical data related to previously occurring incidents may be analyzed to determine a magnitude of impact of the incident. The magnitude may be compared to a predetermined threshold and, if above the threshold, the incident may be flagged as having a significant business impact. If the magnitude is below the threshold, the incident may be flagged as not having a significant business impact. The incidents in each group may then be analyzed to identify keywords, combinations, and/or sequences having a strong correlation to incidents having a significant business impact and incidents not having a significant business impact, which may form inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data from newly received incidents may be compared to the inclusion and exclusion criteria to determine whether the incident is likely to have a significant business impact.
US10164989B2
The present disclosure is related to a computer-implemented method and system for distinguishing human-driven Domain Name System (DNS) queries from Machine-to-Machine (M2M) DNS queries. The method includes receiving a DNS query, which includes a domain name, generating a probability score for the domain name based on one or more predetermined rules, and categorizing the DNS query as a human-driven DNS query or a M2M DNS query based on the probability score.
US10164986B2
A realized topology system management (RTSM) database, comprising a database, a number of stored realized topologies, and in which the realized topologies within the DBMS are searchable. A method of generating and tracking a realized topology, comprising deriving a realized topology from an instantiated topology, storing the realized topology in a realized topology system management (RTSM) database, and storing a data file representing an association of the realized topology with data describing attributes of a number of nodes on the realized topology and relationships between the nodes.
US10164973B1
Techniques provided herein relate to electronic authentication on public systems. A backend system receives at least one electronic data action request from a publicly available client system that is shared amongst a plurality of users. At least a portion of the primary authentication information is received from a secondary device separate from the publicly available client system. The electronic data action request is authenticated by determining if the primary authentication information matches expected primary authentication information that is expected to complete the electronic data action request. Performance of the electronic data action request is facilitated when the primary authentication information matches the expected primary authentication information.
US10164971B2
Techniques are disclosed for enabling a user to validate the authenticity of a computing system (e.g., an access management system) such as one which controls access to one or more resources. A user can determine the authenticity of an access management system before the user provides credential information to the access management system. A user can be presented at a client system with an interface to request authentication of an access management system. The access management system may provide the user at the client system with temporary access information to submit back to the access management system. The access management system may provide recent personal information to the user at the client system to verify the access management system. Upon verification of the personal information, the access management system may prompt the user for credential information to establish a session.
US10164967B2
There is provided a terminal device including a mobile communication unit configured to perform mobile communication of a mobile communication network, an acquisition unit configured to acquire state information indicating a state of each of one or more wireless networks for wireless communication that is different from the mobile communication, a selection unit configured to select one wireless network among the one or more wireless networks based on the state information, and a providing unit configured to provide information regarding the one selected wireless network to another terminal device that performs the wireless communication.
US10164965B2
Respective cryptographic shares of password data, dependent on a user password, are provided at n authentication servers. A number t1≤n of the password data shares determine if the user password matches a password attempt. Respective cryptographic shares of secret data, enabling determination of a username for each verifier server, are provided at n authentication servers. A number t2≤t1 of the shares reconstruct the secret data. For a password attempt, the user computer communicates with at least t1 authentication servers to determine if the user password matches the password attempt and, if so, the user computer receives at least t2 secret data shares from respective authentication servers. The user computer uses the secret data to generate, with T≤t1 of said t1 servers, a cryptographic token for authenticating the user computer to a selected verifier server, secret from said at least T servers, under said username.
US10164953B2
A security module has an assigned unique electronic identifier. The security module has a communication interface, a non-volatile memory, and a processing unit coupled to the communication interface and the non-volatile memory. One or more unassigned secure domains are formed in the non-volatile memory, and each of the unassigned secure domains has an assigned unique application identifier (AID). Each of the unassigned secure domains is accessible via a respective first security value, and using the respective first security value, each of the unassigned secure domains can be assigned to a service provider before or after the security module is deployed.
US10164952B2
Methods and systems for providing secure recording of revisions made to electronic documents, using secure methods to validate the recorded changes, are disclosed. An electronic device making a change to an electronic document can transmit the change to the network. An audit log chain is residing on the network and shared among all the nodes on the network. A node on the network can verify a change of document made by other nodes and add a new block to the chain using one-way hashes, making the chain resistant to tampering. If an invalid block is detected, the system can send an auditing alert to the network. The audit log can be strongly resistant to tampering, providing reliable evidence for use in audit compliance, investigations, and business or court record keeping.
US10164949B2
Method and device of encrypting communication between a server and a peripheral device are disclosed. The method includes: a server receiving a session request from a control device, the session request including a predetermined device ID of a peripheral device associated with the control device; generating a first session key for encrypting and decrypting future communication between the peripheral device and the server; identifying a pre-stored encryption key corresponding to the predetermined device ID from a database, wherein the pre-stored encryption key is also pre-stored in the peripheral device; encrypting the first session key using the pre-stored encryption key; sending the encrypted first session key to the peripheral device via the control device; and encrypting communication to the peripheral device in a respective communication session using the first session key.
US10164947B2
An embodiment of the invention includes a processing system to provide protected digital content, the processing system comprising a processor and control logic which, when used by the processor, results in the processing system performing operations comprising determining first and second receivers, which are coupled to the processing system, are within a predetermined acceptable proximity to the processing system. The processing system is upstream to the first receiver and the first receiver is upstream to the second receiver. Other embodiments are provided herein.
US10164937B2
Methods for processing a raw Internet Protocol (IP) packet and corresponding devices are provided. A method is applied on a Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) side, and the method includes that after it is acquired that a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) goes on line, a public network IP address and a public network identifier range are allocated to the CPE; and after a downlink raw IP packet is received, the packet is forwarded to a corresponding CPE according to a destination IP address of the packet and a route of a public network identifier, another method is applied on a CPE side, and the includes that: a public network IP address and a public network identifier range allocated by a BNG are received; after an uplink raw IP packet transmitted by a user is received, a source IP address in the packet is replaced with the public network IP address, a value of an identifier field in the packet is replaced with a value in the public network identifier range allocated by the BNG, and then the uplink raw IP packet is transmitted to the BNG. The present invention remedies the defect that an existing Network Address Translation (NAT) technology does not support forwarding of a raw IP packet.
US10164935B2
An individual multimedia contents broadcasting equipment is disclosed, which includes an individual broadcast process unit which provides a private IP through a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) to a receiving terminal, which requests a connection, and makes a connection of the receiving terminal through a radio network, and transmits a broadcast content to the connected receiving terminal; and a radio communication unit which forms a radio network and communicates data with the connected receiving terminal through the radio network.
US10164922B2
A method of secure electronic message conveyance. The method can include, via a processor, receiving a request to forward an electronic message originally received by a first user to at least a second user. The method also can include, based on content contained in the electronic message, selecting from a plurality of approval entities at least one approval entity that is to determine whether the electronic message is approved to be forwarded to the at least a second user, and receiving from the selected approval entity an indication that indicates whether the electronic message is approved to be forwarded to the second user. The method further can include, responsive to the selected approval entity approving the forwarding of the electronic message to the second user, automatically forwarding the electronic message to the second user.
US10164916B2
A packet communication apparatus is configured to relay packets transmitted and received between information processing apparatuses. The packet communication apparatus includes: a network interface connectable to a network; a CPU to be a destination of at least one of a plurality of packets to be received through the network interface; a first buffer configured to hold the packets destined to the CPU in order to output the packets to the CPU; a second buffer having a plurality of planes and configured to hold copies of the packets destined to the CPU held in the first buffer in one of the plurality of planes; and a reception history controller configured to store a copy of a packet to a specified plane of the second buffer or to save copies of packets held in the second buffer to another storage area based on usage of the first buffer.
US10164914B2
A Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Software-Defined Network (SDN) communicates across network boundaries with other NFV SDNs to support a data communication service. An NFV orchestrator transfers forwarding graphs for service, NFV, and SDN Network-to-Network Interfaces (NNIs) to an SDN controller. The SDN controller converts the forwarding graphs into forwarding instructions and transfers the forwarding instructions for the service, NFV, and SDN NNIs to an NFV SDN switching system. The NFV orchestrator uses the NFV NNI to transfer its forwarding graphs over the NFV SDN switching system across the network boundary to another NFV orchestrator. The SDN controller uses the SDN NNI to transfer its forwarding instructions over the NFV SDN switching system across the network boundary to another SDN controller. The NFV SDN switching system uses the service NNI to transfer user data across the network boundary to another NFV SDN switching system.
US10164907B2
A method is implemented by a networking device that is functioning as a computing node. The method resolves sub-trees of a loosely specified multicast distribution tree (MDT). The method utilizes global identifiers for sub-trees to enable differentiation of traffic of different sub-trees at shared replication nodes. The method is implemented at each of the nodes of the network that are part of the MDT.
US10164906B1
In some examples, a switching system includes a plurality of fabric endpoints and a multi-stage switching fabric. A fabric endpoint of the system is configured to receive, via the switch fabric, a plurality of cell streams, wherein each cell of a cell stream of the plurality of cell stream is associated with a sequence number that defines a correct ordering of cells of the cell stream; assign subsequences of each cell stream of the plurality of cell streams to respective reorder engines of the fabric endpoint; concurrently reorder the assigned respective subsequences to produce respective ordered subsequences for the subsequences, wherein the ordered subsequences are ordered according to the correct ordering of the corresponding cell stream; interleave the respective ordered subsequences for each cell stream to produce reordered cell streams each having correctly ordered cells; and process each reordered cell stream according to the corresponding correct ordering of cells.
US10164904B2
A bandwidth sharing system is provided that has worker nodes with executor threads for copying data from source nodes to destination nodes based on assigned copy jobs. To execute its assigned copy job, a worker thread of a worker node registers its copy job with the source node. The source node allocates a portion of its bandwidth to the copy job. The source node sends the data of the copy job to the worker thread, and the worker thread forwards the data to the destination node. Upon completion of the copy job, the worker thread deregisters the copy job. The deregistration allows the source node to reallocate the portion of its bandwidth that was allocated to the copy job to another copy job.
US10164898B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for a cloud system. The method includes: dynamically selecting, based on available infrastructure resources and at least one resource request, a scheduling strategy from a set of candidate scheduling strategies; and applying the selected scheduling strategy to schedule the infrastructure resources to serve the at least one resource request. Through embodiments of the present disclosure, when a single resource request or a batch of resource requests arrive, the most appropriate scheduling strategy is dynamically selected to generate an optimal allocation scheme for the request(s), thereby achieving cost-effective operations with the service level requirement of the resource request(s) satisfied.
US10164897B1
A method for removing computing assets from service in a provider network includes receiving, from a requestor, identification for selected ones of the computing assets requested to be removed from service. Each of the computing assets is a computing device or a slot of a computing device. A pool in which each of the computing assets requested to be removed from service is located is identified. For each identified pool: which of the computing assets requested to be removed from service is approved for removal from service is determined based on a number of resource instances available for allocation to users after the computing devices are removed from service exceeding a predetermined number of resource instances. The requestor is notified as to which of the computing assets is approved for removal from service.
US10164889B1
A method for flow control may include obtaining a number of added receive buffers based on adding receive buffers to a shared receive queue, obtaining initiators each including a protocol data unit (PDU) window size, obtaining a number of active initiators based on determining whether each of the initiators is associated with an active network session, calculating a credit using the number of added receive buffers and the number of active initiators, determining that an initiator is associated with an active network session, and adjusting the PDU window size of the initiator using the credit.
US10164869B1
Methods and systems are provided for facilitating routing of data to a DNS server for a user device based on the IP version capability of the user device. During a session set up for the user device in a wireless communications network, a first DNS server is allocated to the user device. The gateway identifies an IP version with which the user device is capable of communicating. If the user device is capable of communicating in the wireless communications network using IPv6 only, it is determined, by the gateway, that data associated with the user device is to be rerouted to a second DNS server. If the user device is not capable of communicating in the wireless communications network using IPv6 only, data associated with the user device continues to be routed through the first DNS server in the current session.
US10164858B2
Apparatus and methods for monitoring a wireless local area network (WLAN) to identify inoperative or degraded devices and restore network connectivity to end users. In one embodiment, the network includes one or more access points (APs) in data communication with a cable modem, which in turn communicates with managed network entities via a backhaul connection. Each AP is configured to provide connectivity to client devices, as well as monitor the operation of other network components including the cable modem, via logic indigenous to the AP, and invoke corrective action when failures or degraded performance is detected. In one variant, the logic operative to run on the AP includes both diagnostic and self-healing functionality, so as to enable at least partial automated diagnosis, localization, and recovery from faults, thereby obviating costly troubleshooting by the network operator or service personnel.
US10164856B2
Provided are techniques for the orderly shutdown of a node within a cluster in the event of asymmetric topology maps, comprising receiving, at a first node, a plurality of heartbeats, each heartbeat corresponding to a particular, corresponding other node in the cluster and comprising information on a topological map corresponding to each particular other node's view of the cluster generating, by the first node, a topological map of the cluster based upon the information comprising the heartbeats; comparing the topological map of the cluster and the topological maps corresponding to each node; in response to a determination that the topological maps of the duster and each node are not in agreement, determining the connectivity of the first node with respect to the cluster and in respond to a determination that the first node has the lowest connectivity within the cluster, shutting down the first node.
US10164850B2
A communication analytics engine that executes in conjunction with a data collection platform may provide a unified and scalable solution for call data aggregation and processing. A data collection platform may establish a communication connection with a wireless carrier network. The data collection platform may collect call data of multiple user devices via the communication connection, in which the multiple user devices may use the wireless carrier network to initiate and receive calls to one or more additional devices. The data collection platform may convert the call data into a format that is readable by the communication analytics engine. The communication analytics engine may analyze the call data to generate analytic results that includes one or more key performance indicators (KPIs).
US10164849B2
Techniques to detect foreground processes are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a client data reception component operative to receive a series of active process lists from a plurality of client devices via the networking interface controller on the server device; a graph construction component operative to construct a plurality of active process graphs based on the active process lists, wherein each client device is associated with a single active process graph, wherein each node in each of the plurality of active process graphs corresponds to an active process on an associated client device, wherein each pair of connected nodes in each graph corresponds to a concurrence of an associated pair of active processes on an associated client device; and a graph analysis component operative to determine foreground processes based on the constructed active process graphs. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10164848B1
Techniques for providing a testing feature for computer programs may be provided. In some examples, seed input information and a network service identifier may be received from a user. A programmatic interface schema associated with the network service identifier may be parsed for metadata. In some examples, the metadata may include parameter information associated with the programmatic interface schema. Input information for a network service associated with the network service identifier may be determined based at least in part on the metadata and the seed input information. The seed input information may include a plurality of input permutations for an interface element of the programmatic interface schema. In some examples, the interface element utilizing the input information may be invoked to generate result information. The result information may indicate functionality of the interface element of the network service with an input permutation of the plurality of input permutations.
US10164847B2
Transfer of desired monitoring data is enabled while restraining a data storage capacity and transfer capacity. A base system senses an alert and generates an index for specifying collection target data that is data present within a predetermined collection target time including an alert occurrence time point, records the collection target data in association with the index, into a time-series data table, and stores alert identification information in association with the index, into an index specifying table. A center system receives the alert identification information and transmits a data request for requesting the collection target data, to the base system. The base system, upon receipt of the data request, acquires the index associated with the designated alert identification information by searching the index specifying table, acquires the collection target data specified by the index from the time-series data table, and transmits the acquired data to the center system.
US10164845B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method provides a service on a network. The method includes the following steps: (a) requesting, on a router, executable instructions from a remote server, the executable instructions specifying how the router is to operate to provide a service requested for a user of the network; (b) receiving the instructions; (c) initializing, on the router, a thread to execute the received instructions; (d) determining that a configuration of the router has changed; and (e) when the configuration of the router is determined to have changed, executing, on the initialized thread, the instructions to apply the service in accordance with the change in the router's configuration.
US10164842B2
Techniques for providing visualization and analysis of performance data are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a system for providing visualization and analysis of performance data. The system may comprise one or more processors communicatively coupled to a mobile communications network. The one or more processors may be configured to provide a user interface at a mobile device for a user to view network performance data associated with the mobile communications network. The one or more processors may further be configured provide one or more user-selectable options to a user at a mobile device to view the network performance data. The one or more processors may also be configured to dynamically filter the network performance data based on the one or more user-selectable options. The one or more processors may further be configured to provide a visualization to be displayed at the mobile device based on the dynamically filtered network performance data, where the visualization presents one or more views that identify potential problems associated with the mobile communications network to allow the user to improve customer experience assurance.
US10164837B2
Embodiments generally relate to a method and device of determining a location of a server in a data center by establishing a relationship between a rack unit where each server of the data center is located and a port of a switch and determining the rack unit where the server is located based on a port of a switch connected to the server and the established relationship, and determining a location of the rack unit where the server is located based on relative positions of the switch connected to the server and a plurality of reference points.
US10164833B2
In the described embodiments, a device configuration file is used to set configuration settings on a computing device during a configuration operation (e.g., an initial configuration or a re-configuration of the computing device). The device configuration file is retrieved from a location where the device configuration file is hosted using a reference to the location from a bootstrap configuration. The bootstrap configuration is provided by a bootstrap configuration server and is retrieved by the computing device from the bootstrap configuration server during the configuration operation.
US10164828B2
A system, method and program product for managing profiles for devices in a network. A computer system is disclosed having a configuration management system for managing configuration profiles for a set of devices within a network, and includes: a boundary definition system that employs a computerized process for defining a plurality of geospatial boundaries; a device manager that employs a computerized process for interfacing with remote agents associated with respective devices to recognize when a device has migrated into a new geospatial boundary; and a profile management system that employs a computerized process for uploading an updated configuration profile to the remote agent in response to the device being migrated to the new geospatial boundary.
US10164825B2
Systems and methods relating to 6-port and/or greater than 8-port Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) configurations are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a radio access node in a cellular communications network comprises configuring a plurality of CSI-RS ports for a wireless device, where the plurality of CSI-RS ports is six CSI-RS ports, ten CSI-RS ports, twelve CSI-RS ports, fourteen CSI-RS ports, or sixteen CSI-RS ports, depending on the embodiment. The method further comprises transmitting CSI-RS on at least a subset of the plurality of CSI-RS ports configured for the wireless device. In this manner, support for, e.g., an increased number of antenna ports and/or support for two-dimensional (2D) antenna arrays is provided.
US10164822B2
Failover controllers help maintain user-perceived continuous connectivity for users of a geographically dispersed flat network when part of that network becomes unavailable, even though flat network packets are not WAN-routable. One such controller has local and remote flat network ports, at least one WAN port, and failover capability to WAN(s) utilizing encapsulation when the flat network is partially or fully unavailable. The failover procedure uses a packet origin table built automatically from incoming packets and from double-tunneled ARP requests. A monitor indicates whether the flat network is fully available (up) or not fully available (down). Controller software updates the packet origin table, and directs packets between ports depending on flatnet status, the packet origin table's content, and any packet handling enhancements such as load balancing, affinity enforcement, quality of service maintenance, packet traffic shaping, packet policy application, firewall operation, reverse firewall operation, encryption/decryption, and/or compression/decompression.
US10164819B2
In a system for conveying web content to a plurality of user terminals, web traffic events are correlated to a web page session. A method of operating the system includes inspecting web traffic involved in conveying the web content toward the user terminals for extracting web traffic events, associating the extracted web traffic events to one of said user terminals and to one of a plurality of event types, and building a statistic for values indicating times between two consecutive web traffic events that are associated to the same user terminal. The method further includes calculating from the statistic a deviation for a pair of event types, and correlating the web traffic events to a web page session based on the deviation.
US10164817B2
According to one embodiment, A data buffer is described. The data buffer comprises a first input/output circuit configured to receive and provide a first signal encoded according to a first communications protocol, a second input/output circuit configured to receive and provide a second signal encoded according to a second communications protocol, and a conversion circuit coupled to the first and second input/output circuits and configured to convert the first signal to the second signal and to convert the second signal to the first signal.
US10164814B1
Disclosed is a method and system for offset decoding of resource elements in a resource block to compensate for propagation delay in uplink coordinated multipoint service. A determination may be made that the initial data symbol of a time-ordered sequence of N data symbols transmitted by a user equipment device (UE) to a base station (BS) will be received at an arrival time beyond an initial one of N equally-spaced tolerance windows for simultaneous decoding of data symbols received from UEs. If it is determined that the arrival time will be within a subsequent one of the N equally-spaced tolerance windows, then the BS may receive and decode those of the N data symbols with respective arrival times in one of the subsequent tolerance windows. Otherwise, the BS may refrain from decoding any of the N data symbols. The decode data symbols may be merged with those from another BS.
US10164813B2
A transmission apparatus includes a data-block generating unit that generates and outputs a data block including fixed sequence symbols whose signal values are formed of a fixed sequence and data symbols, a pilot-block generating unit that generates and outputs a pilot block including the fixed sequence symbols and pilot symbols that are fixed symbols known on a reception side, and an output control unit to which the data block and the pilot block are inputted, which controls whether the data block or the pilot block is outputted.
US10164811B2
A method of determining reserved tones for reduction of a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) includes: selecting carrier indices for the reserved tones and generating a kernel signal based on the selected carrier indices; calculating a comparison reference average value of the kernel signal, selecting one of the calculated comparison reference average value and a prestored comparison reference average value, and preliminarily determining carrier indices of the reserved tones based on the selection; re-arranging an order of the preliminarily determined carrier indices; calculating a comparison reference average value of a kernel signal generated, whenever each of the re-arranged carrier indices is changed to another carrier index, to generate a plurality of comparison reference average values, and finally determining carrier indices of the reserved tones which generates a kernel signal having the smallest comparison reference average value among the comparison reference average values as the indices of the reserved tones.
US10164808B2
A test instrument measures performance of a transponder without direct access to a line interface of the transponder. The test instrument learns parameters of internal signal conversion processes of the transponder and measures performance of the transponder based on the learned parameters.
US10164799B2
The present disclosure relates to a remote radio unit (RRU), which is connected to a baseband unit (BBU) and an antenna, comprising: a service transmit channel configured to transmit a first correction signal through the antenna, and a standing wave detecting circuit associated with the service transmit channel, wherein: a working frequency of the standing wave detecting circuit is consistent with the service transmit channel, and the standing wave detecting circuit is capable of detecting a standing wave ratio of the service transmit channel and is configured to receive a correction signal looped back by the antenna, and send the correction signal looped back by the antenna to the BBU, wherein the correction signal looped back by the antenna comprises a portion of the first correction signal reflected by the antenna and is used for a calculation of a correction coefficient of the service transmit channel.
US10164791B2
An electrical connector includes: an upper and lower terminal modules each including plural terminals; a metallic plate secured between the upper and lower modules; a metallic bracket accommodating the secured metallic plate and upper and lower terminal modules; and an insulative body insert-molding the metallic bracket with the secured metallic plate and upper and lower terminal modules to form a tongue exposing the terminals of each of the upper and lower terminal modules. The metallic bracket contacts the metallic plate and borders the tongue.
US10164790B2
The invention relates to a method for implementing an industry internet field broadband bus, and in the method according to the invention, a bus controller and respective bus terminals transmit data in their respective time slices to thereby ensure timely and temporally determinist data transmission. Thus the embodiments of the invention implement a high-performance, highly reliable, and highly real-time method for implementing an industry internet field broadband bus. Moreover a transmission medium of the two-wire data transmission network can be a twisted pair or a shielded twisted pair so that the method according to the embodiment of the invention can be applicable to a traditional industry control facility using a bus, and thus can be highly universally applicable.
US10164786B2
The invention relates to an industry internet field broadband bus architecture system based on the two-wire data transmission network widely used in the traditional industry control system, so that the system can provide high-performance Ethernet communication without modifying original wiring and topologies, thus providing a high-performance, highly reliable, highly real-time, and highly secured solution to switching an industry control system field layer network from a traditional field bus to an industry Ethernet bus.
US10164784B2
A communication terminal and a method of transmitting data. The communication terminal and the method includes transmitting, at a prescribed timing, first information from the communication terminal to a management system that manages communication between the communication terminal and a counterpart communication terminal, and transmitting from the communication terminal to the management system second information to be sent from the management system to the counterpart communication terminal connected to the management system through a network, when the management system does not receive the first information transmitted from the communication terminal for a prescribed length of time. The second information includes status information of each of a plurality of communication applications that operate in the communication terminal.
US10164783B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for maintaining, between a plurality of participating computing devices, a collaboration session that includes a group instant messaging session within an object, wherein the plurality of participating computing devices includes a host computing device and one or more non-host computing devices in the group instant messaging session. A first sub-object of a plurality of sub-objects is generated within the object, wherein the first sub-object is rendered on the host computing device and the one or more non-host computing devices. Permission is assigned to the host computing device to edit content in the first sub-object, wherein the content in the first sub-object is rendered on the host computing device and the one or more non-host computing devices, and wherein the non-host computing devices are precluded from editing the content in the first sub-object.
US10164779B2
The present invention relates to a system for issuing a public certificate on the basis of a block chain, and a method for issuing a public certificate on the basis of a block chain by using same, the system comprising: a user terminal (100); a server (200) for requesting the issuance of a public certificate on the basis of a block chain; a server (300) for managing the public certificate on the basis of the block chain; and servers (400) having the block chain.
US10164778B2
One embodiment described herein provides a system and method for secure attestation. During operation, a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) of a trusted platform receives a request for an attestation key from an application module configured to run an application on the trusted platform. The request comprises a first nonce generated by the application module. The TPM computes an attestation public/private key pair based on the first nonce and a second nonce, which is generated by the TPM, computes TPM identity information based on a unique identifier of the TPM and attestation key, and transmits a public key of the attestation public/private key pair and the TPM identity information to the application module, thereby enabling the application module to verify the public key of the attestation public/private key pair based on the TPM identity information.
US10164777B2
A method, system and computer program product for privacy control. A unique identifier for each data element of a group of data elements (e.g., driver's license contains a group of data elements, such as name, driver's license number) is created. These identifiers may be stored along with documentation (e.g., label) of the associated data elements in a manifest file. Alternatively, the identifiers may be stored in a file outside of the manifest file. In this manner, by utilizing a data element identifier which corresponds to a random number, security of privacy information is improved as one would only be able to obtain such sensitive information by obtaining such an identifier. Furthermore, the user only needs to send the requested data elements, as opposed to all the data elements of the group of data elements, to the challenger. In this manner, the user is preserving the security of other privacy information.
US10164772B2
The disclosed hash and message padding functions are based on the permutation composition problem. To compute a hash of a message using permutation composition based hashing, the message is split into equal size blocks. For each block, a permutation composition value is computed. The block permutation composition values are then combined through composition to generate an overall permutation composition value. The hash of the message is then based on the overall permutation composition value. To pad a message using permutation composition based padding, the message is split into equal size blocks. For each block, a permutation composition value is computed and the permutation composition value is added to the block. The padded blocks are then recombined to generate the padded message.
US10164771B2
The present disclosure discloses an encryption method and an encryption apparatus. The encryption method comprises: generating an AES initial key by using an SAES encryption algorithm, and expanding the AES initial key to obtain an AES encryption key; and encrypting information to be encrypted by using the AES encryption key according to an AES encryption algorithm to generate encrypted data. As such, the AES encryption key is encrypted by introducing the SAES algorithm, which increases the difficulty in cracking the AES encryption key. An attacker may crack the AES by firstly cracking the AES encryption key, which increases the overall difficulty in cracking the AES encrypted data. Further, the SAES encryption algorithm and the AES encryption algorithm are implemented by means of an ASIC integrated in an encryption chip.
US10164769B2
A flexible aes instruction set for a general purpose processor is provided. The instruction set includes instructions to perform a “one round” pass for aes encryption or decryption and also includes instructions to perform key generation. An immediate may be used to indicate round number and key size for key generation for 128/192/256 bit keys. The flexible aes instruction set enables full use of pipelining capabilities because it does not require tracking of implicit registers.
US10164759B1
Provided are systems and methods for implementing a reliable precision time architecture in a network device. In various implementations, a first port of the network device can be configured to synchronize to a first network time from the network. A second port can be configure to receive the first network time from the first port, and further provide the first network time to the network. A third port of the network device can further be configured to synchronize to a second network time from the network. A fourth port can be configured to receive the second network time from the third port, and provide the second network time to the network. The network device can further be configured to use the first network time as a current time.
US10164757B2
Communication apparatus comprises a first transceiver unit (205A) and a signal processing device (106) configured to receive a signal from the first transceiver unit and to produce a signal for transmission by the first transceiver unit. A cable (201A) connects the first transceiver unit to the signal processing device. The first transceiver unit comprises a housing; a first pair of transducers (204T, 204R) located at, or adjacent, a first end of the housing, and a second set of transducers (206T, 206R) located at, or adjacent, an opposite end of the housing.
US10164755B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for transmission point indication in a coordinated multipoint (CoMP) system. A user equipment (UE) may receive common reference signal (CRS) parameters associated with individual base stations of a CoMP measurement set. The UE may also receive a transmission point index corresponding to a first base station of the CoMP measurement set that is scheduled for communications with the UE. A mapping module of the UE may produce a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) mapping pattern based on the CRS parameters associated with the scheduled base station.
US10164741B2
[Problem]To prevent either of two packet data having the same content from being affected by noise[Solution]A packet data transmission device (not shown) transmits first packet data 1A, . . . and second packet data 1B, . . . having the same content intermittently with an idle time I therebetween. When the length of the first and second packet data 1A, . . . , 1B, . . . is denoted by LP, the length of the idle time I is denoted by LI, the duration of low-frequency noise N is denoted by LN, the time with no low-frequency noise from the occurrence of one low-frequency noise N to the occurrence of the next low-frequency noise N is denoted by LC, the following expressions (1), (2) are satisfied. Consequently, either the first packet data or the second packet data is transmitted to a receiver without being affected by noise. LI>LN (1) 2×LP+LI
US10164726B2
A method comprising: receiving, by a first network packet scheduler, from each other network packet scheduler of a plurality of network packet schedulers, a virtual packet for each traffic class of a plurality of traffic classes defining relative transmission priority of network packets; receiving, by the first network packet scheduler, a network packet of a first traffic class of the plurality of traffic classes; transmitting, by the first network packet scheduler, each virtual packet into a virtual connection of a plurality of virtual connections created for each traffic class; scheduling, by the first network packet scheduler, a network packet or a virtual packet as a next packet in a buffer for transmission; determining, by the first network packet scheduler, that the next packet in the buffer is a virtual packet; and discarding, by the first network packet scheduler, the virtual packet, responsive to the determination that the next packet in the buffer is a virtual packet.
US10164721B2
A calibration system for calibrating a radio frequency, RF, device comprising a plurality of signal paths, each signal path comprising at least an amplifier and an antenna element, comprises a measurement system for driving the signal paths with a predetermined test signal and measuring an output of the signal paths in response to the test signal, a determination module for determining a first signal path, of which the antenna element provides the lowest output of all antenna elements, and a correction factor calculator for calculating based on output of the first signal path a correction factor for the further signal paths such that with the applied correction factor the output of all signal paths is equal within a predetermined acceptance interval.
US10164720B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for reciprocity calibration between base stations, which relate to the communications field, and can improve precision of reciprocity calibration between base stations. The method includes: obtaining, by each base station by means of calculation, a precoding vector corresponding to a selected subcarrier of the base station; sending, by all the base stations to UE by using the selected subcarriers of the base stations, downlink user-dedicated reference signals that are mutually orthogonal between cells corresponding to the base stations; obtaining, by each base station, an inter-base station calibration compensation coefficient of the selected subcarrier of the base station; and adjusting, by each base station, a self-calibration matrix of the selected subcarrier according to the inter-base station calibration compensation coefficient of the selected subcarrier of the base station.
US10164714B2
Embodiments may provide a way of communicating via an electromagnetic radiator, or light source, that can be amplitude modulated such as light emitting diode (LED) lighting and receivers or detectors that can determine data from light received from the amplitude modulated electromagnetic radiator. Some embodiments may provide a waveform in the form of chips at a chipping clock frequency that switch a light source between on and off states to communicate via light sources that can be amplitude modulated such as LED lighting. Some embodiments may provide a method of transmitting the waveform via modulated LED lighting. Some embodiments are intended for indoor navigation via photogrammetry (i.e., image processing) using self-identifying LED light anchors. In many embodiments, the data signal may be communicated via the light source at amplitude modulating frequencies such that the resulting flicker is not perceivable to the human eye.
US10164706B2
An optics module sends, to a host module, a pin signal indicating that an optics module is plugged into the host module, wherein the optics module is configured to operate at at least a first data rate and a second data rate. The optics module receives, from the host module, an indication of a host data rate. The optics module determines whether there is clock and data recovery loss of lock between the first data rate and a host data rate. If it is determined that there is clock and data recovery loss of lock between the first data rate and the host data rate, the optics module initializes at the second data rate if the second data rate matches the host data rate.
US10164703B2
Disclosed is an architecture for observing a plurality of objects arranged in geographically separate locations, including: a processing center connected to a global computer network, and at least one airliner. The at least one airlines includes: a cabin system including a local network, a first external communication module, a second external communication module, and an intermediate communication module connected to the first external communication module by the local network and to the second external communication module by the local network, the intermediate communication module communicating digital data including observation data between the second external communication module and the first external communication module via the local network.
US10164698B2
A multiple antenna system (MAS) with multiuser (MU) transmissions (“MU-MAS”) exploiting inter-cell multiplexing gain via spatial processing to increase capacity in wireless communications networks.
US10164693B2
Technology for reducing buffer overflow at a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Serving Gateway (S-GW) is described. A buffer overflow message may be received, at an evolved node B (eNB) from the S-GW, indicating potential overflow of downlink information at an S-GW buffer. The downlink information may be stored at the S-GW buffer until a plurality of user equipments (UEs) awake from a low power mode during a discontinuous reception (DRX) sleep cycle. One or more UEs may be selected from the plurality of UEs according to predefined criteria, wherein the one or more UEs are in a connected mode. The DRX configurations of the one or more UEs may be modified in order to reduce the downlink information that is stored at the S-GW buffer, thereby reducing the potential for overflow at the S-GW buffer.
US10164682B2
Certain aspects and aspects of the present invention are directed to a distributed antenna system having a downlink communication path, an uplink communication path, and a non-duplexer isolator sub-system. The downlink communication path can communicatively couple a transmit antenna to a base station. The uplink communication path can communicatively couple a receive antenna to the base station. In one aspect, the non-duplexer isolator sub-system can be electronically configured for isolating uplink signals traversing the uplink communication path from downlink signals. In another aspect, a non-duplexer isolator sub-system can be configurable in one or more mechanical steps selecting a frequency response. In another aspect, a non-duplexer isolator sub-system can include an active mitigation sub-system.
US10164676B2
An electronic device cover for use as a carrying case is described. The device can be a personal cell phone. The cover can be worn as an arm band or wristband carrying case. For example, the cell phone case/cover can have attached double bands connected from the edge of the cover flap to the bottom of the case. The flap can attach to the case through a small band attached at the top and the bottom of the cover flap.
US10164673B2
Disclosed is a DC offset cancellation (DCOC) method, comprising: after a receiver is electrified, acquiring a digital signal of an offset voltage at a circuit output port in the receiver, obtaining a digital control signal for controlling a DCOC output stage from the digital signal, and outputting, by the DCOC output stage, a current to a corresponding circuit of the receiver according to the digital control signal. Also disclosed is a DC offset cancellation device.
US10164672B2
Disclosed is a User Equipment device configured to select a suitable acknowledgement timing configuration in a time division duplex-frequency division duplex (TDD-FDD) carrier aggregation (CA) enabled wireless network, comprising establishing, by a user equipment (UE), a connection to a primary serving cell (PCell) and a secondary serving cell (SCell) of a base station, the PCell having a first TDD or first FDD configuration, the SCell having a second FDD or second TDD configuration, receiving, by the UE, downlink data through the PCell and SCell, categorizing a type of downlink data subframe in use by the SCell, selecting, by the UE, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing configuration based on the type of downlink data subframe for use by the SCell, and transmitting acknowledgement information associated with the downlink data according to the selected hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing configuration on PCell. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10164668B2
A mobile phone device, a radio frequency transceiver circuit and an impedance adjusting device. The present invention discloses a mobile phone device. The mobile phone device comprises a baseband processor, an antenna, a duplexer and a radio frequency transceiver circuit. The antenna is used to receive and send radio frequency signals. The duplexer is electrically connected to the antenna. The radio frequency transceiver circuit is connected to the baseband processor and the duplexer, respectively. The radio frequency transceiver circuit comprises a first power amplifier and an impedance adjusting device. The first power amplifier has a first output impedance. The impedance adjusting device is electrically connected between the first power amplifier and the duplexer, and comprises at least one switch, wherein the baseband processor is connected to and control the at least one switch of the impedance adjusting device to adjust an impedance value of the impedance adjusting device, such that a first load impedance of the first power amplifier and the first output impedance match one another.
US10164661B2
The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, which are capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 7/15, 9/15, 11/15, or 13/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of the LDPC code that has undergone the group-wise interleave is restored to an original sequence. For example, the present technology can be applied to a technique of performing data transmission using an LDPC code.
US10164659B2
Concepts and schemes pertaining to quasi-cyclic-low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) coding are described. A processor of an apparatus may generate a QC-LDPC code having a plurality of codebooks embedded therein. The processor may select a codebook from the plurality of codebooks. The processor may also encode data using the selected codebook. Alternatively or additionally, the processor may generate the QC-LDPC code including at least one quasi-row orthogonal layer. Alternatively or additionally, the processor may generate the QC-LDPC code including a base matrix a portion of which forming a kernel matrix that corresponds to a code rate of at least a threshold value.
US10164658B2
A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 16200 and a code rate of 3/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 256-symbol mapping.
US10164651B2
An A/D converter includes a capacitor DAC, a resistor DAC, a first capacitive element, and a comparator. The capacitor DAC is configured to convert high-order M bits, where M and N are integers equal to or greater than 2, and the resistor DAC is configured to convert low-order N bits. The first capacitive element is provided between the capacitor DAC and the resistor DAC, and the comparator is configured to compare an input signal voltage with a voltage output from the capacitor DAC. The resistor DAC generates and outputs a voltage by adding or subtracting a wait based on redundant bits in addition to N-bit resolution.
US10164636B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a level converter circuit with a resistor and a current adjustment circuit. The resistor is connected between an input and an output of the level converter circuit. The current adjustment circuit is configured to influence a current through the resistor such that an output voltage of the level converter circuit does not exceed a maximum allowable value.
US10164635B2
Described herein are apparatus, system, and method for improving output signal voltage swing of a voltage mode transmitter (Tx) driver. The Tx driver may use a single power supply which is the same as the power supply of the core processor. The apparatus comprises: a voltage mode driver coupled to an output node; a switching current source, coupled to the output node, to increase voltage swing of a signal on the output node, wherein the signal is driven by the voltage mode driver; and a bias generator to bias the switching current source.
US10164626B2
A semiconductor device including a semiconductor switch circuit and a drive circuit. The semiconductor switch circuit includes a semiconductor switch and a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature in a periphery of the semiconductor switch. The drive circuit includes an overheating protection unit configured to, upon determining that the detected temperature of the semiconductor switch reaches an overheating protection temperature, perform overheating protection of the semiconductor switch and issue an overheating protection alarm signal. The drive circuit also includes an advance warning control unit configured to set a threshold temperature that is lower than the overheating protection temperature, and upon determining that the detected temperature reaches the threshold temperature, to output an advance warning signal before the overheating protection becomes operational. The overheating protection alarm signal and the advance warning signal are outputted from a same terminal of the drive circuit and are of different signal levels.
US10164616B2
A level shift circuit is provided, which includes a boost circuit and a voltage converting circuit. The boost circuit is coupled to a first high voltage terminal to receive an input voltage signal. The boost circuit includes at least one low threshold voltage element and is configured to boost the input voltage signal. The voltage converting circuit is coupled to a second high-voltage terminal and includes a low-pass filter circuit, a high-pass filter circuit, an upper switch element and a lower switch element. The upper switch element and the lower switch element are electrically cascaded between the second high-voltage terminal and a low voltage terminal. The low-pass filter circuit and the high-pass filter are electrically connected between the control terminal of the upper switch element and the control terminal of the lower switch element. The upper switch element and the lower switch element are standard threshold voltage elements.
US10164614B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a circuit comprising a tank circuit. The tank circuit may include an inductor having a pair of terminals, a first pair of transistors, and a first pair of capacitors. Each transistor may be coupled between a respective terminal of the inductor and a reference voltage along a source-to-drain path of the transistor. Each capacitor may be provided in a signal path between an inductor terminal coupled to a respective first transistor in the first pair and a gate of a second transistor in the first pair.
US10164612B2
The storage circuit includes first and second logic circuits, first and second transistors whose channel formation regions include an oxide semiconductor, and a capacitor. The first and second transistors are connected to each other in series, and the capacitor is connected to a connection node of the first and second transistors. The first transistor functions as a switch that controls connection between an output terminal of the first logic circuit and the capacitor. The second transistor functions as a switch that controls connection between the capacitor and an input terminal of the second logic circuit. Clock signals whose phases are inverted from each other are input to gates of the first and second transistors. Since the storage circuit has a small number of transistors and a small number of transistors controlled by the clock signals, the storage circuit is a low-power circuit.
US10164607B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are generally directed to an integrated circuit device. The integrated circuit device generally includes a capacitive element, a first switch having a first terminal coupled to a first terminal of a capacitive element, and a second switch coupled between the first terminal and a second terminal of the capacitive element in the integrated circuit device.
US10164597B2
Switchable and/or tunable filters, methods of manufacture and design structures are disclosed herein. The method of forming the filters includes forming at least one piezoelectric filter structure comprising a plurality of electrodes formed to be in contact with at least one piezoelectric substrate. The method further includes forming a micro-electro-mechanical structure (MEMS) comprising a MEMS beam in which, upon actuation, the MEMS beam will turn on the at least one piezoelectric filter structure by interleaving electrodes in contact with the piezoelectric substrate or sandwiching the at least one piezoelectric substrate between the electrodes.
US10164589B2
A power amplifier circuit includes: a first differential amplifier that amplifies a first signal split from the input signal and outputs a second signal; a second differential amplifier that amplifies a third signal split from the input signal and outputs a fourth signal; a first transformer including a first input-side winding to which the second signal is input and a first output-side winding; a second transformer including a second input-side winding to which the fourth signal is input and a second output-side winding; a first phase conversion element that is connected in parallel with the first output-side winding and outputs a fifth signal; and a second phase conversion element that is connected in parallel with the second output-side winding and outputs a sixth signal. The first and second output-side windings are connected in series and output a signal obtained by adding voltages of the fifth and sixth signals together.
US10164578B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a frequency selective low noise amplifier (LNA) circuit, which includes a transconductive LNA(s). In one aspect, filter circuitry is provided in a degeneration path of a transconductive LNA(s) to pass in-band frequencies and reject out-of-band frequencies by generating low impedance and high impedance at the in-band frequencies and the out-of-band frequencies, respectively. However, having the filter circuitry in the degeneration path may cause instability in the transconductive LNA. As such, a feedback path is coupled between an input node of the transconductive LNA(s) and the degeneration path to provide a feedback to improve stability of the transconductive LNA(s). In addition, the feedback can help improve impedance match in the frequency selective LNA circuit. As a result, the transconductive LNA(s) is able to achieve improved noise figure (NF) (e.g., below 1.5 dB), return loss, linearity, and stability, without compromising LNA gain.
US10164572B2
An oscillator module used with a plurality of power sources includes an oscillator unit, a clock monitor unit (CMU), a software module and a digital calibration circuit. The oscillator unit generates a clock signal. The CMU is coupled to the oscillator unit, determines whether an amplitude of the clock signal exceeds a predetermined threshold, and outputs an alarm signal if the amplitude of the clock signal is lower than the predetermined threshold. The software module is coupled to the CMU, and receives the alarm signal to output a calibration signal. The digital calibration circuit is coupled to the oscillator and the software module, and outputs a control signal in response to the clock signal and the calibration signal, adjusting the plurality of power sources to modify the clock signal.
US10164570B2
A circuit includes a coupling structure and a first inductive device. The coupling structure includes two or more conductive loops and a set of conductive paths electrically connecting the two or more conductive loops. The first inductive device is magnetically coupled with a first conductive loop of the two or more conductive loops.
US10164564B2
The present disclosure provides a system for controlling a wound rotor synchronous motor including: a current/voltage determiner configured to determine optimum rotor current using a map from real-time motor operating information and to determine and output a rotor voltage according to the determined optimum rotor current, and a temperature estimator configured to calculate and output a rotor coil temperature from the rotor voltage and the optimum rotor current output from the current/voltage determiner using a rotor coil temperature estimation equation set from a correlation equation between the rotor voltage and the rotor coil temperature for each rotor current.
US10164560B2
A method for creating a switch reluctance motor memory sensor model. A switch reluctance motor memory sensor circuit model is formed by two current transmitters AD844, an operational amplifier AD826, a memristor, a capacitor, and three resistors. The method for creating a switch reluctance motor memory sensor model enables physical phenomena in a simulation system to be similar to an actual switch reluctance motor system, and is beneficial for direct mathematical simulation of a switch reluctance motor system. The method is simple, can improve static and dynamic performance of a system, and achieves real-time simulation and real-time control of the switch reluctance motor system.
US10164559B1
An electric power system includes a polyphase electric machine, battery pack, power inverter module, analog input sensor, and diagnostic controller executing a method. The sensor measures an electrical parameter that differs from a true value of the parameter by an initial offset value. The controller collects sample sets of the parameter, compares the initial offset of each sample to an outlier threshold in a first diagnostic loop, and transmits a bit flag indicative of an outlier sample to a slower second diagnostic loop when the initial offset of a sample exceeds the outlier threshold. The second control loop calculates a rolling average of the initial offsets of the sample sets, discards the set containing the outlier sample in response to the bit flag, and executes a control action when the average exceeds a threshold that is lower than the outlier threshold.
US10164556B2
A control apparatus for eliminating a magnetizing error of a rotor in a DC motor and a method thereof. The rotor in the DC motor is provided with 2N magnetic pole positions disposed therein for phase switching, where N is a positive integer no less than 1. The control apparatus includes a phase detector, at least one counter, a PWM signal generator, control circuit and a full-bridge driving circuit. The phase detector detects changes of states of the magnetic pole positions of the rotor to generate a periodic phase-switching signal. The counter counts a count value associated with each of the magnetic pole positions, respectively. The PWM signal generator periodically outputs 2N PWM signals and adjusts each of the PWM signals issued in a next cycle, respectively, according to the count value associated with each of the magnetic pole positions received in a current cycle.
US10164554B2
Disclosed is a motor. The motor is electrically connected to a control module. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a first stator module and a second stator module. The first stator module is configured beside the second stator module. A mechanical phase converting line is defined as a center position between the first stator module and the second stator module. The rotor is configured around the stator. The first phase detector is configured at one side of the mechanical phase converting line, and the first phase detector and the first stator module are configured at the same side of the mechanical phase converting line.
US10164548B2
A power rectifier rectifies alternating electric current by using a controller in the power rectifier to control a first delay circuit in the power rectifier to turn on a high side switch in the power rectifier, wherein the high side switch provides a path for power from an input voltage line of the power rectifier to an output voltage line of the power rectifier. The controller controls a second delay circuit in the power rectifier to maintain the high side switch in an on state to change a switching state of the high side switch based on detection, by a current inversion detector, of a current inversion associated with the input and output voltage lines of the power rectifier.
US10164544B2
An Input-Series-Output-Parallel (ISOP)-type partial power converter circuit comprises: an isolated, unregulated DC-to-DC converter configured to generate a first output voltage at a first output voltage node; and a regulated DC-to-DC converter coupled with the unregulated DC-to-DC converter and configured to generate a second output voltage at a second output voltage node, the regulated DC-to-DC converter comprising a resonant forward-flyback converter configuration; wherein the first output voltage node is coupled in parallel with the second output voltage node.
US10164531B2
The disclosure describes an adaptive technique for generating minimum dead time in a DC-DC switching power converter, while ensuring no short circuit losses occur, resulting in efficiency improvement of the switching converter. In addition, this adaptive scheme makes sure that even the ambient conditions of the switching converter give the best decision at the ON/OFF timings of the switches. Body diode conduction feedback is detected, with reduced process sensitivity, and an algorithm is disclosed that finds the minimum dead time for a given load current, temperature, and process conditions.
US10164527B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, methods, and systems for presenting boosted power regulation to a load. These aspects include a power-switching circuit that selectively passes current in response to a boost-converter control circuit. A current-control circuit selectively powers the load in response to the power-switching circuit passing current.
US10164526B2
A signal generation circuit, a voltage conversion device, and a computer program are provided wherein the minimum increment of a value to be set for a generating portion, can be made substantially smaller than an actual increment with a relatively small processing load. A CPU specifies a set value Y (closest to a target value X) and a second closest set value Z in every N periods of a first signal, determines N set values for the first signal by combining Y and Z based on the result of comparison between the values of Y and Z and the value of X, sets one set value for a generating portion for each period of the first signal, calculates a value for setting off-time of the second signal in a first period in N periods as an additional value, and sets the calculated value for the generating portion.
US10164510B1
A low resistance generator includes a series of stator plates and rotors. Stator plates include the coils wrapped around coil spools. The stator plates and coil spools are made from non-conductive and non-ferromagnetic material. The coils are exposed to the surrounding air and cooled convectively by airflow caused by a rotation of the rotors in the gaps. Rotors house magnets and are disposed within gaps between the stator plates. The rotors are also made of non-conductive and non-ferromagnetic materials. The magnets may be disposed on the rotors to form columns. Two columns of magnets are joined together to form one or more closed magnetic loops, each column being joined by a gauss bridge disposed at first and second end rotors.
US10164494B2
The invention relates to an electric machine comprising a stator (1) and a rotor (2) movable relative to said stator. Said stator comprises two multi-stranded, concentrated windings (A1, B1, C1, A2, B2, C2) which are placed in respective slots of the stator (1). While the first winding (A1, B1, C1) comprises six coils, the second winding (A2, B2, C2) is designed to have twelve coils. The number of turns (Nw1) of the coils of the first winding is different from the number of turns (Nw2) of the coils of the second winding.
US10164483B2
A tunable resonant inductive coil system includes an electrical circuit having an alternating current (AC) voltage source, a barium strontium titanate (BST) variable capacitor coupled in series with a first terminal of the AC voltage source, a coil coupled in series with the BST variable capacitor, and a return line coupling the coil with a second terminal of the AC voltage source and/or a ground. The electrical circuit forms an LC circuit (resonant circuit). The electrical circuit adjusts between two configurations. In the first configuration the resonant circuit has a first resonant frequency configured for wireless power transfer and in the second configuration it has a second resonant frequency configured for near field communication (NFC). An entire length of the coil is used for both resonant frequencies. Adjusting between the first and second configurations includes varying a capacitance of the BST variable capacitor in response to receiving a control signal.
US10164481B2
A current shunt monitor (CSM) circuit for monitoring the current through a sense resistor. An analog circuit provides an analog output signal proportional to the voltage across the sense resistor. A power supply includes a fixed voltage power supply at a first voltage supply level and a floating power supply. The floating power supply operates at a second voltage supply level referenced from the voltage level on a voltage input and a floating ground. The voltage input varies from a voltage level above the first voltage supply level to a voltage level below the first voltage supply level, and the floating power supply provides power to the analog circuit at least when the voltage level of the voltage input is above the first voltage supply level. A crossover circuit switches power from the floating power to the fixed voltage power supply at the first voltage supply level upon detecting the voltage level on the voltage input proximate in value to the first voltage supply level.
US10164473B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and method for charging a device. The current disclosure also presents a cradle which can be used as an interface for communicating with external computing systems and power charging systems. In one embodiment, the cradle is used to down convert a high powered signal from a power charging system for use to charge a device such as a wearable. In another embodiment, the cradle is used to communicate with and external computing system for device upgrades and maintenance.
US10164461B2
The present disclosure discloses a wireless charging device, system, and method based on a back cover mobile power supply. The wireless charging system includes a wireless charger, a back cover mobile power supply, and an intelligent terminal. The intelligent terminal is provided with a main battery and a wireless charging device. A built-in induction coil is powered and generates an electromagnetic field when a wireless charger is powered on. The back cover mobile power supply inducts the electromagnetic field and generates a current to the wireless charging device. The intelligent terminal and the back cover mobile power supply are controlled to enter a charging state, and a charging current is transmitted to the main battery of the intelligent terminal and the back cover mobile power supply, respectively, so as to perform charging, when the current is detected by the wireless charging device.
US10164460B2
A wireless charging device, a wireless charging case and a wireless charging method thereof are provided. The wireless charging device includes a wireless signal transmitter, a controller and a temperature sensor. The wireless signal transmitter is configured to transmit an electromagnetic signal. The controller is coupled to the wireless signal transmitter. The temperature sensor is coupled to the controller. The temperature sensor is configured to detect an ambient temperature to obtain a temperature sensing value. The controller controls the wireless signal transmitter to adjust a frequency or a transmitting position of the electromagnetic signal according to the changing state of the temperature sensing value.
US10164451B2
A shopping cart that generates power, and comprising a shopping cart body; a set of wheels that each rotates about an axle coupled to the shopping cart body; a power generator that generates a source of power from a rotational force of the wheels when a user moves the shopping cart; a voltage regulator that controls the source of power output from the power generator; and an outlet for outputting the controlled power to an electronic device.
US10164449B2
A mobile terminal charger relates to the field of mobile terminals such as cell phone and data card with battery charging. The mobile terminal charger comprises: a thermistor and a charger output protection circuit, wherein the thermistor mounted on a head of a connector accesses a charger circuit via a charger direct current (DC) cable, constitutes a charger loop resistor with the resistor in the charger; and the charger output protection circuit cuts off or reduces the output power of the charger when the resistance of the charger loop resistor is less than the overcurrent protection threshold value.
US10164448B2
When a plurality of storage batteries is used by connecting them in parallel, since the progress of degradation differs among the storage batteries, a power conversion system includes a degradation information acquisition device for acquiring the degradation information of the storage batteries, a temperature information acquisition device for detecting the temperature information of the storage batteries, and a control device for controlling the storage battery power converter based on the degradation information of the storage batteries by the degradation information acquisition device and the temperature information of the storage batteries by the temperature information acquisition device so that the degradation states of the plurality of the storage batteries can be matched.
US10164435B2
A reactive power compensator includes a plurality of phase clusters each including plurality of cells and a controller configured to control the plurality of phase clusters. The controller performs control to generate an offset signal through phasor transformation based on respective voltage values and current values of the plurality of phase clusters and to compensate for energy errors between the plurality of phase clusters based on the generated offset signal.
US10164431B2
Outages associated with an electrical energy distribution system are managed, identified and/or predicted. In an implementation, a system provides for generating network topology data, indicative of a topology for an electrical energy distribution system associated with a power outage, based on connectivity data for devices in the electrical energy distribution system. The system also provides for determining, based on the network topology data, a first set of devices from the devices that are de-energized and determining a second set of devices from the devices that are not included in the first set of devices. Furthermore, the system provides for updating, based on report data associated with the second set of devices, the network topology data. Then, the system provides for identifying, based on the updated network topology data, a device from the second set of devices that satisfies a criterion associated with the power outage.
US10164427B2
Method, modules and a system formed by connecting the modules for controlling payloads are disclosed. An activation signal is propagated in the system from a module to the modules connected to it. Upon receiving an activation signal, the module (after a pre-set or random delay) activates a payload associated with it, and transmits the activation signal (after another pre-set or random delay) to one or more modules connected to it. The system is initiated by a master module including a user activated switch producing the activation signal. The activation signal can be propagated in the system in one direction from the master to the last module, or carried bi-directionally allowing two way propagation, using a module which revert the direction of the activation signal propagation direction. A module may be individually powered by an internal power source such as a battery, or connected to external power source such as AC power. The system may use remote powering wherein few or all of the modules are powered from the same power source connected to the system in a single point. The power may be carried over dedicated wires or concurrently with the conductors carrying the activation signal. The payload may be a visual or an audible signaling device, and can be integrated within a module or external to it. The payload may be powered by a module or using a dedicated power source, and can involve randomness associated with its activation such as the delay, payload control or payload activation.
US10164424B2
An overvoltage protector uses a low-power shunt regulator to provide precise overvoltage protection at low voltages. The shunt regulator communicates with the current limiter to the input voltage allowing precise current measurement while protecting the shunt regulator from excessive power consumption.
US10164413B2
A cable stripper having a displaceable blade carriage, which is normally biased toward a cable support to automatically accommodate differently dimensioned jacketed cables in a desired position. The blade carriage supports a blade assembly configured so that the blade can be displaced among multiple positions, corresponding to respective axial, radial and a plurality of spiral cuts, while the cable is engaged in the desired position.
US10164412B1
An apparatus includes a housing, at least one first gas-insulated circuit interrupter in the housing and at least one second gas-insulated circuit interrupter disposed in the housing above the at least one first gas-insulated circuit interrupter. The at least one first gas-insulated circuit interrupter and the at least one second gas-insulated circuit interrupter may be housed in respective ones of a first gas containment compartment and a second gas containment compartment vertically arranged in the housing. At least one first bus may be coupled to the at least one first gas-insulated circuit interrupter and at least one second bus may be coupled to the at least one second gas-insulated circuit interrupter. The buses may be disposed between the first and second gas-insulated circuit interrupters.
US10164408B2
A light emitting element according to the present disclosure includes: a GaN substrate; a first strain correction layer disposed above the GaN substrate and including InxGa1-xN of a first conductivity type where x is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 1; a first low refractive index layer disposed above the first strain correction layer, including In1-a-bGaaAlbN of the first conductivity type, and having relationships of (a/0.98)+(b/0.8)≥1, (a/1.02)+(b/0.85)≤1, and (a/1.03)+(b/0.68)≥1; a first clad layer disposed above the first low refractive index layer, including AlzGa1-zN of the first conductivity type where z is greater than or equal to 0.03 and less than or equal to 0.06, and having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of the first low refractive index layer; and an active layer disposed above the first clad layer.
US10164406B2
A tunable laser device comprises a multi-section distributed feedback (DFB) laser having a first Bragg section including a waveguide and a Bragg grating, a second Bragg section comprising a waveguide and a Bragg grating, and a phase section being longitudinally located between the first Bragg section and the second Bragg section. The phase section is made of a passive material, and each Bragg section has a first longitudinal end joining the phase section and a second longitudinal end opposed to the phase section. The Bragg grating of at least one Bragg section has a grating coupling coefficient which decreases from the first longitudinal end to the second longitudinal end of the at least one Bragg section.
US10164405B2
A wavelength locker integrated with a silicon photonics transmission system comprising a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate and an input via a power tap coupler to receive a fraction of a transmission signal with one or more frequencies from a primary output path of the silicon photonics transmission system. The wavelength locker further includes a splitter configured to split the input to a first signal in a first path and a second signal in a second path and a first delay-line-interferometer (DLI) coupled to the second path to receive the second signal and configured to generate an interference spectrum and output at least two sub-spectrums tunable to keep quadrature points of the sub-spectrums at respective one or more target frequencies. The wavelength locker is configured to generate an error signal fed back to the silicon photonics transmission system for locking the one or more frequencies at the one or more target frequencies.
US10164398B2
Laser signal intensity is resonantly enhanced within a laser cavity to be greater than a pump intensity. This enables the suppression of excited-state absorption and is applicable to terbium-doped fiber lasers, lambda-type materials, or other materials used in lasers. In other embodiments, ESA is suppressed by de-populating the higher excited state using a resonant cavity.
US10164397B2
A laser oscillation device includes: a refrigerant container; at least one cartridge which is attached to the refrigerant container and which includes a laser gain medium and an incidence path section for guiding laser seed light to the laser gain medium; at least one nozzle for spraying a refrigerant to the laser gain medium, the at least one nozzle being disposed inside the refrigerant container, and a vacuum heat insulating container housing the refrigerant container inside and forming a vacuum insulation layer on an outer peripheral side of the refrigerant container. The cartridge is disposed so as to be insertable and removable with respect to the refrigerant container along a longitudinal direction of the laser gain medium.
US10164389B2
An assembly for breaking out a trunk cable includes: a base having a generally flat surface adapted for mounting to a mounting surface; a shell having a front wall, two side walls extending from opposite sides of the front wall, and two opposed end walls, the side walls of the shell mounted to the base to form a cavity; a plurality of connectors mounted to each of the side walls; a trunk cable routed into the cavity through one of the end walls, the trunk cable comprising a plurality of power conductors; and at least one bus bar mounted to the shell within the cavity, at least one of the power conductors and at least one of the connectors in electrical connection with the bus bar.
US10164388B2
A busway assembly includes first and second busway sections and a joint assembly connecting the first and second sections. Each busway section includes a housing including first and second opposing side portions. Each busway section includes a first insulator held in the first side portion and a second insulator held in the second side portion. The first and second insulators each hold one or more bus bar conductors. The joint assembly includes first and second connected joint housings and plurality of joint conductors held in the first and second housings. A first exposed portion of each joint conductor extends out of the first housing and is electrically connected with one of the bus bar conductors of the first busway section. A second exposed portion of each joint conductor extends out of the second housing and is electrically connected with one of the bus bar conductors of the second busway section.
US10164387B2
An electrical device having a bus side and a load side is provided. The electrical device includes a plurality of conductive line terminals disposed on the bus side of said electrical device, and a plurality of electrical connectors. Each electrical connector of the plurality of electrical connectors includes a first end coupled to a respective line terminal of the plurality of line terminals, a second end distal from the first end, and a connector clip disposed at the second end. Each connector clip is configured to engage a bus bar to electrically couple the electrical device to the bus bar, and includes a first contact segment and a second contact segment spaced apart from the first contact segment. The first and second contact segments are configured to deflect towards one another from a relaxed position to a depressed position when inserted into a connector channel defined by the bus bar.
US10164383B2
Disclosed is a fast plug connector for use with copper wire, including an integrally-formed plastic-molded connector housing. The housing includes at least two terminal receiving slots juxtaposed inside the housing. The terminal receiving slots is embedded with engaging terminals having barbed pieces mounted at both tail ends thereof and twisted elastic sheets mounted at both head ends thereof. The upper end located at the left side and the right side of the head of the connector housing is mounted with fastening clamps, and a lower end located at the left side and the right side of the head of the connector housing is mounted with fastening holes that are respectively corresponding to the fastening clamps. The invention provides an electric connection using fast plug electrical connector that can be readily adapted for copper wires.
US10164378B2
To address the issue of radio frequency interference with high-speed connectors, a communication port connector for use in a computing device is provided. The communication port connector may include a shell that defines a void that is configured to receive an electrical plug. Port-side electrical contacts in the shell may be configured to make electrical connections with plug-side electrical contacts. One or more double leaf spring fingers may be formed in a side of the shell, with each double leaf spring finger including a first spring finger coupled to a second spring finger. The first spring finger may be configured to contact the electrical plug, and the second spring finger may be configured to contact a chassis of the computing device, thereby creating a ground path to ground the electrical plug to the primary ground plane of the device when it is inserted into the communication port connector.
US10164374B1
A twist-lock connector that includes a printed circuit board component with one or more flexible portions is disclosed. The flexible portions may be formed within an interior portion of the printed circuit board by routing or otherwise removing a portion of the printed circuit board to create one or a plurality of side for each flexible portion. One or more electrical contacts may be positioned on each flexible portion and arranged to be electrically coupled with male electrical contacts that are part of a corresponding twist-lock plug, thereby deflecting the flexible portions. When deflected, the flexible portions exert an opposing, biasing force in the direction of the male electrical contacts to maintain contact there between. One or more of a mounting base and a support base may be clamped to either or both sides of the printed circuit board to provide further stability for the flexible portions.
US10164368B1
An adapter including an accommodating element, a driving element having a driving unit, and multiple electrical connectors is provided. The accommodating element has a first space and multiple second spaces. The driving element is sleeved to the accommodating element along an actuating axis. The driving unit has a first electrical connecting portion. In a storage state, the driving unit is stored in the first space, and the electrical connectors are stored in the second space. In an operating state, the first electrical connecting portion of the driving unit is coupled to one of these electrical connecters. Then, the driving unit can enter the second space where the electrical connector stays originally, and at least part of the electrical connector is pushed out of the accommodating element. A using method of the adapter is provided.
US10164362B2
A plug connector includes a metallic enclosure with a heat sink member exposed on an exterior surface to enclose a printed circuit board; a set of electronic components assembled upon the printed circuit board; a thermal pad sandwiched between the set of electronic components and the metallic enclosure to dissipate heat from the electronic component to the metallic enclosure and eventually to the air via the heat sink member; wherein a center of said heat sink member is essentially aligned with a center of said set of electronic components or a center of the thermal pad for efficient dissipation of heat.
US10164360B2
In a connector, fitting a socket housing and a header housing to each other brings a socket-side signal terminal and a header-side signal terminal into contact with each other, and brings a socket-side power supply terminal and a header-side power supply terminal into contact with each other. The socket-side signal terminal and the socket-side power supply terminal are disposed along a long side direction of the socket housing. In the long side direction of the socket housing, the socket-side signal terminal is smaller than the socket-side power supply terminal in width.
US10164355B2
This motor drive device includes a first motor driving unit, a first terminal block 11 attached to the first motor driving unit, a second motor driving unit, a second terminal block attached to the motor driving unit, a first short bar whose one end portion is attached to the first terminal block so that the first short bar can be rotated around a first axis line, and a second short bar whose one end portion is attached to the first terminal block so that the second short bar can be rotated around a second axis line, the other end sides thereof can be placed at a connection position so that the other end sides can be connected to the second terminal block, and at a retract position which is distant from the second terminal block by rotation of the first and the second short bars.
US10164345B2
There is presented an antenna arrangement with P polarization directions. The antenna arrangement comprises M transmission (Tx) ports and N reception (Rx) ports, where M≠N. The antenna arrangement comprises an antenna panel divided into S subpanels, where S=max (M, N)/P. The subpanels are, for each polarization direction, operatively connected to separate radio chains for the N Rx ports if N>M or for the M Tx ports if M>N.
US10164344B2
A waveguide device includes a first electrically conductive member having a first electrically conductive surface; a second electrically conductive member having a second electrically conductive surface which opposes the first electrically conductive surface; and a ridge-shaped waveguide member on the second electrically conductive member. The second electrically conductive member has a throughhole which splits the waveguide member into first and second ridges. The first and second ridges each have an electrically conductive end face, the end faces opposing each other via the throughhole. The opposing end faces and the throughhole together define a hollow waveguide. The hollow waveguide is connected to a first waveguide extending between the waveguide face of the first ridge and the first electrically conductive surface, and to a second waveguide extending between the waveguide face of the second ridge and the first electrically conductive surface.
US10164326B2
A frequency-selective composite structure includes a laminate panel, and a frequency-selective filter including a plurality of frequency-selective surface elements coupled to an exterior surface of the laminate panel and arranged in a frequency-selective surface pattern, wherein each one of the frequency-selective surface elements includes a nanomaterial composite.
US10164320B1
A transmitter assembly for transmitting data from a utility meter to a remote location for disposition in a subsurface utility enclosure is described. The assembly includes a printed circuit board, including a transmitter portion receiving the data from the utility meter and configured to generate a meter data message for transmission to the remote location, an antenna portion including a board mounted antenna receiving the generated meter data message and using the boarding mounted antenna to propagate the generated meter data message to a remote location, and a seal mount portion configured to receive a seal affixed to the printed circuit board. The transmitter assembly further includes a housing configured to receive the printed circuit board, a seal affixed to the printed circuit board at the seal mount portion, wherein the seal interacts with the housing to form a transmitter housing portion and an antenna housing portion, and a flowable material introduced to the housing, said flowable material filling the transmitter housing portion, wherein the seal prevents the flowable material from entering the antenna portion.
US10164318B2
An apparatus is provided. In the apparatus, there is an antenna package and an integrated circuit (IC). A circuit trace assembly is secured to the IC. A coupler (with an antenna assembly and a high impedance surface (HIS)) is secured to the circuit trace assembly. An antenna assembly has a window region, a conductive region that substantially surrounds the window region, a circular patch antenna that is in communication with the IC, and an elliptical patch antenna that is located within the window region, that is extends over at least a portion of the circular patch antenna, and that is in communication with the circular patch antenna. The HIS substantially surrounds the antenna assembly.
US10164313B2
A signal coupling device associating a first frequency band signal and a second, different frequency band, signal in a common waveguide and distributing the signals to two separate waveguides. The device comprises first and second circular waveguides. The second waveguide is coaxially arranged inside a cylindrical interior of the first waveguide. The first waveguide comprises inwardly projecting inner circumference projections in a region occupied only by the first waveguide. The projections activate higher modes from a fundamental mode. The first and second waveguides and the projections cause the superposition of the fundamental and higher modes to produce a wave front having field components in the first frequency band only in a cylindrical ring region between the second waveguide outer circumference and the first waveguide inner circumference, and having field components in the second frequency band only in a cylindrical interior of the second waveguide.
US10164303B2
A battery thermal management system includes an inner housing containing a plurality of battery cells, and an outer housing enclosing the inner housing. A fluid channel is defined between an exterior surface of the inner housing and an interior surface of outer housing. The thermal management system also includes a fluid circulator in fluid flow communication with the fluid channel to selectively circulate one of a first thermal fluid and a second thermal fluid through the fluid channel.
US10164292B2
Described herein are additives for use in electrolytes that provide a number of desirable characteristics when implemented within batteries, such as high capacity retention during battery cycling at high temperatures. In some embodiments, a high temperature electrolyte includes a base electrolyte and one or more polymer additives, which impart these desirable performance characteristics.
US10164284B2
Provided are compositions having the formula MnTi(L1)(L2)(L3) wherein L1 is a catecholate, and L2 and L3 are each independently selected from catecholates, ascorbate, citrate, glycolates, a polyol, gluconate, glycinate, hydroxyalkanoates, acetate, formate, benzoates, malate, maleate, phthalates, sarcosinate, salicylate, oxalate, a urea, polyamine, aminophenolates, acetylacetone or lactate; each M is independently Na, Li, or K; n is 0 or an integer from 1-6. Also provided are energy storage systems.
US10164280B2
A filtering device features a carrier medium and activated carbon stratum as adsorbent and having a sealing closing over or sealing longitudinal and width sides of the activated carbon stratum all-around a periphery of the activated carbon stratum.
US10164279B2
A device for decreasing hydrogen concentration of a fuel cell system is installed in an exhaust system for discharging exhaust gas which includes hydrogen and air and is discharged from fuel cells to the atmosphere through an exhaust line. The device includes a catalyst diluter having catalysts for diluting the hydrogen in an exhaust gas by generating a catalytic reaction and connected to the exhaust line. An air diluter is disposed outside the catalyst diluter and guides external air to a gas exit side of the catalyst diluter.
US10164272B2
A pinhole determination method for a fuel cell includes steps of blocking air supply to a fuel cell stack by a controller; measuring a cell voltage value of each of unit fuel cells of the fuel cell stack; and determining whether or not a pinhole is present by comparing the cell voltage value with an average cell voltage value.
US10164266B2
A separator to be used in a fuel cell includes a gas flow path including a plurality of gas flow path grooves that allow reactive gas to flow; a gas discharge hole used for discharging the reactive gas from the gas flow path; and an outlet flow path part positioned between the gas discharge hole and the gas flow path and used for flowing the reactive gas discharged from the gas flow path into the gas discharge hole. The plurality of gas flow path grooves includes a coupling flow path part coupled to the outlet flow path part. The coupling flow path part includes tilted gas flow path grooves tilted from a direction of gravitational force. A groove width of the tilted gas flow path groove in the coupling flow path part is set such that a force of a wall surface of the tilted gas flow path groove to retain water by means of a surface tension of the water is larger than a force applied to the water by the gravitational force.
US10164258B2
A fused-ring quinone-substituted polynorbornene has recurring units of formula (1) and/or (2) below. In formulas (1) and (2), A1 is independently a substituent of formula (3) or (4) below, n is an integer from 1 to 6, and A2 is a substituent of formula (5) or (6) below. In formulas (3) to (6), each X is independently a single bond or a divalent group, and Ar1 and Ar2 are each independently an aromatic hydrocarbon ring or an oxygen atom or sulfur atom-containing aromatic heterocycle that forms together with two carbon atoms on a benzoquinone skeleton. This polymer has charge-storing properties and, when used as an electrode active material, is capable of providing a high-performance battery possessing high capacity, high rate characteristics and high cycle characteristics.
US10164251B2
A negative active material includes a silicon-based alloy, wherein the silicon-based alloy includes silicon (Si); a first metal (M1) selected from titanium (Ti), vanadium (V), chromium (Cr), iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), gallium (Ga), and germanium (Ge), and at least one additional element (A), which is included in the silicon-based alloy and on a surface of silicon-based alloy, selected from carbon (C), boron (B), sodium (Na), nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), sulfur (S), and chlorine (Cl), and the silicon-based alloy has an internal porosity of about 35% or less. A lithium battery including the negative active material may have improved lifespan characteristics.
US10164249B2
The present invention provides a positive active material for use in a secondary lithium battery, a method for preparing the positive active material and a secondary lithium battery containing the positive active material. The positive active material includes a core of lithium transition metal oxide represented by Formula LixMyN1-yO2-αAβ and a coating layer of lithium transition metal silicate represented by Formula x′Li2O.y′N′Oa.SiO2-λBζwhich in-situ formed on the core, wherein 0.8≤x≤1.3, 0.6≤y≤1.0, 0.01≤x′≤2.1, 0.2≤y′≤1.5, 0.1≤a≤3.0, 0≤α≤0.2, 0≤β≤0.4, 0≤λ≤0.5, 0≤ζ≤0.5. The positive active material according to the present invention has high capacity, desirable cycling performance and safety performance, as well as desirable thermal stability.
US10164248B2
A negative electrode active material includes a core particle comprising silicon; and at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of: Ge, Sn, Ni, Mo, W, Ag, Pd, Cu, Bi, Fe, Co, Mn, Cr, V, Ga, B, Sb, In, Te, Cd, Rh, Ru, Nb, Ta, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Pb and P. The negative electrode active material has an elemental composition that varies continuously from a center of the core particle to a surface of the core particle. A negative electrode, a battery, an electric vehicle, an electric storage apparatus, an electronic apparatus and a power storage system each include the negative electrode active material.
US10164245B2
Methods for making a negative electrode material for use in an electrochemical cell, like a lithium ion battery, are provided. The electroactive material includes a functionalized surface having a grafted reactive group (e.g., an amino group, a carboxyl group, an anhydride group, and the like). The electrically conductive material includes a functionalized surface having a grafted reactive group (e.g., an amino group, a carboxyl group, and the like). The functionalized electroactive material and the functionalized electrically conductive material is admixed and reacted with at least one binder precursor having a reactive group (e.g., an amino group, an anhydride group, and the like). A porous solid electrode material is thus formed. Negative electrodes are also provided, which provide significant performance benefits and reduce the issues associated with capacity fade, diminished electrochemical cell performance, cracking, and short lifespan associated with conventional silicon anode materials.
US10164243B2
An energy storage device having high capacity per weight or volume and a positive electrode active material for the energy storage device are manufactured. A surface of a main material included in the positive electrode active material for the energy storage device is coated with two-dimensional carbon. The main material included in the positive electrode active material is coated with a highly conductive material which has a structure expanding two-dimensionally and whose thickness is ignorable, whereby the amount of carbon coating can be reduced and an energy storage device having capacity close to theoretical capacity can be obtained even when a conduction auxiliary agent is not used or the amount of the conduction auxiliary agent is extremely small. Accordingly, the amount of carbon coating in a positive electrode and the volume of the conduction auxiliary agent can be reduced; consequently, the volume of the positive electrode can be reduced.
US10164241B2
An electrode material for a lithium-ion rechargeable battery of the present invention is an electrode material for a lithium-ion rechargeable battery formed by coating a surface of an electrode active material represented by General Formula LiFexMn1-x-yMyPO4 (here, M represents at least one element selected from Mg, Ca, Co, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, and rare earth elements, 0.05≤x≤1.0, 0≤y≤0.14) with a carbonaceous film, in which an angle of repose is in a range of 35° or more and 50° or less.
US10164237B2
An air battery includes: a cell frame of an insulating material having a bottomed frame shape in which an electrolytic solution and an anode are stored; a cathode that is disposed opposite the anode across the electrolytic solution stored in the cell frame; and a current collecting member that is electrically connected to the anode, wherein the anode and the current collecting member are electrically connected to each other via a plurality of electrically conducting members that penetrate a bottom of the cell frame.
US10164236B2
There is provided a battery pack with improved stability. The battery pack includes a plurality of bare cells including electrode units and arranged in a direction, a holder case configured to accommodate the plurality of bare cells, and a connection tab including a body unit electrically connected to the plurality of bare cells, a slit unit positioned in each of the electrode units of the plurality of bare cells, and at least one welding unit positioned to be adjacent to the slit unit and welded to the electrode unit of the bare cell. The slit unit includes first and second slits separated from each other by a certain distance, first and second bridges respectively provided between ends of the first and second slits, and a welding slit that crosses one point of each of the first and second slits. In the battery pack, one of the first and second bridges is formed to be stepped so that it is possible to rapidly and easily block flow of a current when over-charge or over-discharge occurs. Therefore, stability of the battery pack may improve.
US10164229B2
An energy storage apparatus includes: one or more energy storage devices; an outer covering arranged outside the one or more energy storage devices; a partition member arranged on a side of any one of the one or more energy storage devices; and a supporter which supports the partition member at a predetermined position. The supporter is formed of a heat resistant member.
US10164226B2
A system for coupling with a terminal end of a battery is used for the mitigation of battery leakage and includes a conductive disc and an absorption ring in combination that fits to an end of the battery. The conductive disc has a center section that is electrically coupled with the battery and a peripheral section that surrounds the center section. The absorption ring is secured to a surface of the conductive disc and extends around the peripheral section to surround the disc center section. The absorption ring includes an absorbent material that absorbs any liquid escaping from the battery. An adhesive material is positioned proximate to the absorption ring and secures the system to an end of the battery.
US10164225B2
A rechargeable battery system, a battery pack, methods of manufacturing the same, and an electric vehicle are disclosed herein. The battery pack includes an upper tray, a first busbar attached to the upper tray, a lower tray, a second busbar attached to the lower tray, and a plurality of battery cells arranged in the upper and lower trays. The rigidity of the combination of the upper tray and the first busbar is provided predominantly by the first busbar.
US10164223B2
A case system for lead batteries is provided. The case system has an essentially six sided cuboid shape with two pairs of parallel sidewalls perpendicular to each other. Each pair of sidewalls defines two opposite surfaces of the essentially cuboid shape and further defines an interior volume inside the case system. The case system includes a further pair of parallel sidewalls, each of them perpendicular to the sidewalls above and each with a surface area larger than that of any one of the surface areas of the above sidewalls. One of the sidewalls is arranged as a separate cover wall for sealing the case system. At least one division plane is further included in the case system. The division plane divides the interior volume, such as to form a plurality of compartments, each for storing an electrical cell. All division planes are perpendicular to the cover wall. Further, an electrical cell, a lead battery and a lead battery layout including the above are shown.
US10164219B2
To improve the yield in a peeling process and improve the yield in a manufacturing process of a flexible light-emitting device or the like, a peeling method includes a first step of forming a peeling layer over a first substrate, a second step of forming a layer to be peeled including a first layer in contact with the peeling layer over the peeling layer, a third step of curing a bonding layer in an overlapping manner with the peeling layer and the layer to be peeled, a fourth step of removing part of the first layer overlapping with the peeled layer and the bonding layer to form a peeling starting point, and a fifth step of separating the peeling layer and the layer to be peeled. The peeling starting point is preferably formed by laser light irradiation.
US10164217B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The array substrate comprises a base substrate (1), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device and a thin-film transistor (TFT) structure, the OLED device disposed on one side of the base substrate (1); the TFT structure disposed on the other side of the base substrate (1); a through hole formed on the base substrate and provided with a conductive bridge (2); and the OLED device connected with the TFT structure through the conductive bridge (2). The array substrate can avoid electrical interference of the TFT structure on the OLED device, and hence accurate drive for the OLED device can be achieved; as the OLED device can be directly formed on a surface of the base substrate, surface treatment of a pixel electrode is saved with respect to conventional OLED display device, and hence manufacturing process can be accelerated and manufacturing cost can be reduced; and as both an anode and a cathode of the OLED device are made from transparent materials, double-sided light emission can be achieved in the array substrate, and hence double-sided display can be achieved in the array substrate.
US10164211B2
According to the present disclosure, an organic light emitting material and a metal may be entirely deposited on a substrate without using an open mask to form an organic light emitting device, thereby facilitating application to a roll fabrication apparatus. A side surface of an organic light emitting layer may be exposed to the outside, but a step structure may be formed on an outer portion of the substrate, and the organic light emitting layer is disconnected between an outer region and a lighting region by the step of the step structure, thereby preventing moisture that penetrates into the organic light emitting layer in the outer region from being propagated to the organic light emitting layer in the lighting region.
US10164210B2
A functional film has a support which has a value of retardation of equal to or less than 50 nm; a protective inorganic film which is formed on the support; one or more combinations, each of which is composed of an organic film as an underlayer and an inorganic film, formed on the protective inorganic film; and a sealant layer which adheres onto the inorganic film as an uppermost layer by an adhesive layer, has a value of retardation of equal to or less than 300 nm, and has a glass transition temperature lower than that of the support.
US10164207B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method for preparing an organic light-emitting device, comprising the steps of: 1) forming a spacer pattern on a first electrode formed on a substrate; 2) forming an organic material layer and a second electrode; 3) exposing the first electrode by forming an encapsulation thin film and then etching at least one portion of the encapsulation thin film; and 4) forming an auxiliary electrode which is electrically connected to the first electrode exposed in the step 3). The organic light-emitting device according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention may solve problems of a voltage drop due to resistance of a transparent electrode in a longitudinal direction and of resultant brightness non-uniformity of the diode.
US10164204B2
The present invention provides an OLED display device, comprising a substrate, an OLED layer located on the substrate, and a quantum dot package layer covering the OLED layer, and the quantum dot package layer comprises quantum dot material; the blue light or the white light emitted by the OLED layer excites the quantum dot material of the quantum dot package layer to emit light to achieve the color display of the high color gamut while not adding additional structures, and the product competitiveness is high.
US10164198B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein in Formula 1, R11 to R20, L11, m11, and n11 are the same as described in the specification.
US10164197B2
An organic electroluminescent device having improved emission efficiency includes an anode, an emission layer, an anode-side hole transport layer between the anode and the emission layer and mainly including an electron accepting material, a middle hole transport material layer between the anode-side hole transport layer and the emission layer and including a middle hole transport material, and an emission layer-side hole transport layer between the middle hole transport material layer and the emission layer, adjacent to the emission layer and including an emission layer-side hole transport material represented by the following Formula 1.
US10164196B2
Provided is an aniline derivative represented by formula (1). (In formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group having 6-20 carbon atoms, a heteroaryl group, or a group represented by formula (2), and R2-R55 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, an aldehyde group, a hydroxy group, a thiol group, a carboxylic acid group, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, etc.)
US10164194B2
The present invention discloses a compound is represented by the following formula (I), the organic EL device employing the compound as fluorescent host material, phosphorescent host material, can display good performance like as lower driving voltage and power consumption, increasing efficiency and half-life time. The same definition as described in the present invention.
US10164186B2
Memory devices having memory cells comprising variable resistance material include an electrode comprising a single nanowire. Various methods may be used to form such memory devices, and such methods may comprise establishing contact between one end of a single nanowire and a volume of variable resistance material in a memory cell. Electronic systems include such memory devices.
US10164180B2
According to one embodiment, a variable resistance element includes first and second conductive layers and a first layer. The first conductive layer includes at least one of silver, copper, zinc, titanium, vanadium, chrome, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, tellurium, or bismuth. The second conductive layer includes at least one of platinum, gold, iridium, tungsten, palladium, rhodium, titanium nitride, or silicon. The first layer includes oxygen and silicon and is provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The first layer includes a plurality of holes. The holes are smaller than a thickness of the first layer along a first direction. The first direction is from the second conductive layer toward the first conductive layer. The first layer does not include carbon, or a composition ratio of carbon included in the first layer to silicon included in the first layer is less than 0.1.
US10164171B2
The disclosed technology includes an electronic device. The electronic device includes a semiconductor memory, and the semiconductor memory includes a variable resistance element that exhibits different resistance states for storing different data and is structured to include a planar shape including two curved potions of different curvatures.
US10164168B2
Methods of forming memory cells, magnetic memory cell structures, and arrays of magnetic memory cell structures are disclosed. Embodiments of the methods include patterning a precursor structure to form a stepped structure including at least an upper discrete feature section and a lower feature section with a broader width, length, or both than the upper discrete feature section. The method uses patterning acts directed along a first axis, e.g., an x-axis, and then along a second axis, e.g., a y-axis, that is perpendicular to or about perpendicular to the first axis. The patterning acts may therefore allow for more uniformity between a plurality of formed, neighboring cell core structures, even at dimensions below about thirty nanometers. Magnetic memory structures and memory cell arrays are also disclosed.
US10164163B2
A method for manufacturing an optical-semiconductor device, including forming a plurality of first and second electrically conductive members that are disposed separately from each other on a support substrate; providing a base member formed from a light blocking resin between the first and second electrically conductive members; mounting an optical-semiconductor element on the first and/or second electrically conductive member; covering the optical-semiconductor element by a sealing member formed from a translucent resin; and obtaining individual optical-semiconductor devices after removing the support substrate.
US10164162B2
A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element; and a light reflective member adapted to reflect light emitted from the light emitting element, the light reflective member comprising a base metal made of a crystallized metal, an amorphous layer located over the base metal and made of an amorphous metal, and an Ag-containing layer located over the amorphous layer.
US10164158B2
A method and apparatus for coating a plurality of semiconductor devices that is particularly adapted to coating LEDs with a coating material containing conversion particles. One method according to the invention comprises providing a mold with a formation cavity. A plurality of semiconductor devices are mounted within the mold formation cavity and a curable coating material is injected or otherwise introduced into the mold to fill the mold formation cavity and at least partially cover the semiconductor devices. The coating material is cured so that the semiconductor devices are at least partially embedded in the cured coating material. The cured coating material with the embedded semiconductor devices is removed from the formation cavity. The semiconductor devices are separated so that each is at least partially covered by a layer of the cured coating material. One embodiment of an apparatus according to the invention for coating a plurality of semiconductor devices comprises a mold housing having a formation cavity arranged to hold semiconductor devices. The formation cavity is also arranged so that a curable coating material can be injected into and fills the formation cavity to at least partially covering the semiconductor devices.
US10164154B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor light emitting device with a simple structure and capable of improving light extraction efficiency. The semiconductor light emitting device 1 includes a substrate 2, a metal layer 3 on the substrate 2, a light-transmitting conductive layer 4 on the metal layer 3, an insulation layer 30 on the light-transmitting conductive layer 4, and a III-V semiconductor structure 5 on the insulation layer 30. The III-V semiconductor structure 5 includes a light emitting layer 8, a p-type semiconductor layer 9, and an n-type semiconductor layer 10. A refractive index n1 of a p-type GaP contact layer 11 of the p-type semiconductor layer 9, a refractive index n2 of the insulation layer 30, and a refractive index n3 of the light-transmitting conductive layer 4 satisfy the relation: n1>n2
US10164147B2
A light emitting heterostructure including one or more fine structure regions is provided. The light emitting heterostructure can include a plurality of barriers alternating with a plurality of quantum wells. One or more of the barriers and/or quantum wells includes a fine structure region. The fine structure region includes a plurality of subscale features arranged in at least one of: a growth or a lateral direction.
US10164141B2
A semiconductor device includes a carrier wafer, a device layer, a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer. The device layer is disposed on the carrier wafer. The first semiconductor layer is disposed on the device layer, and has a first side face and a second side face opposite to the first side face, in which the first side face is adjacent to the device layer. The second semiconductor layer is disposed on the first semiconductor layer, and has a third side face and a fourth side face opposite to the third side face, in which the fourth side face of the second semiconductor layer is adjacent to the second side face of the first semiconductor layer, and the second semiconductor layer is implanted and annealed.
US10164132B2
Composite operating station and method of drilling and fixing for the continuous production of conductive backsheets with an integrated encapsulating and dielectric layer, for photovoltaic panels of the back-contact type. The composite operating station is automated and integrates a plurality of working processes carried out simultaneously in a cyclic sequence. In particular, it is based on a multifunction cylindrical roller which by rotating lays out the film of integrated encapsulating and dielectric material, heats it and presses it on the conductive layer of the supporting backsheet for the purpose of the fixing in a correct position, the roller being provided with openings to enable drilling from outside with a laser device and also to enable the forced suction from inside of the fumes and of the residues by means of an exhaust fan.
US10164119B2
A method of fabricating a vertical field effect transistor comprising that includes forming openings through a spacer material to provide fin structure openings to a first semiconductor material, and forming an inner spacer liner on sidewalls of the fin structure openings. A channel semiconductor material is epitaxially formed on a surface of the first semiconductor material filling at least a portion of the fin structure openings. The spacer material is recessed with an etch that is selective to the inner spacer liner to form a first spacer. The inner spacer liner is removed selectively to the channel semiconductor material. A gate structure on the channel semiconductor material, and a second semiconductor material is formed in contact with the channel semiconductor material.
US10164115B2
An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: a non-planar fin having first, second, and third portions each having major and minor axes and each being monolithic with each other; wherein (a) the major axes of the first, second, and third portions are parallel with each other, (b) the major axes of the first and second portions are non-collinear with each other, (c) each of the first, second, and third portions include a node of a transistor selected from the group comprising source, drain, and channel, (e) the first, second, and third portions comprise at least one finFET. Other embodiments are described herein.
US10164114B2
An embodiment is a method including recessing a gate electrode over a semiconductor fin on a substrate to form a first recess from a top surface of a dielectric layer, forming a first mask in the first recess over the recessed gate electrode, recessing a first conductive contact over a source/drain region of the semiconductor fin to form a second recess from the top surface of the dielectric layer, and forming a second mask in the second recess over the recessed first conductive contact.
US10164113B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, at least two gate spacers, and a gate stack. The substrate has at least one semiconductor fin. The gate spacers are disposed on the substrate. At least one of the gate spacers has a sidewall facing to another of the gate spacers. The gate stack is disposed between the gate spacers. The gate stack includes a high-κ dielectric layer and a gate electrode. The high-κ dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate and covers at least a portion of the semiconductor fin while leaving the sidewall of said at least one gate spacer uncovered. The gate electrode is disposed on the high-κ dielectric layer.
US10164110B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of semiconductor fins formed on an upper surface thereof. An epitaxial material is formed on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate and on an outer surface of the semiconductor fins. The epitaxial material includes an epi upper surface having a lower region that contacts the semiconductor fins and an upper region formed above the lower region. The upper region extends parallel with an upper surface of the semiconductor fins.
US10164109B2
A fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device structure and method for forming the FinFET device structure are provided. The FinFET structure includes a substrate, and the substrate includes a core region and an I/O region. The FinFET structure includes a first etched fin structure formed in the core region, and a second etched fin structure formed in the I/O region. The FinFET structure further includes a plurality of gate stack structures formed over the first etched fin structure and the second etched fin structure, and a width of the first etched fin structure is smaller than a width of the second etched fin structure.
US10164101B1
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to transistors with improved channel mobility and methods of manufacture. A structure includes: a curved beam structure formed from at least one stressed material; a cavity below the curved beam structure; and at least one semiconductor device on a top portion or a bottom portion of the curved beam structure whose carrier mobility is increased or decreased by a curvature of the curved beam structure.
US10164100B2
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate and a gate structure over the substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a source/drain structure near the gate structure. The source/drain structure has an inner portion and an outer portion surrounding an entirety of the inner portion. The inner portion has a greater average dopant concentration than that of the outer portion.
US10164097B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, at least one first isolation structure, at least two second isolation structures, and a plurality of epitaxy structures. The substrate has a plurality of semiconductor fins therein. The first isolation structure is disposed between the semiconductor fins. The semiconductor fins are disposed between the second isolation structures, and the second isolation structures extend into the substrate further than the first isolation structure. The epitaxy structures are respectively disposed on the semiconductor fins. The epitaxy structures are separated from each other, and at least one of the epitaxy structures has a substantially round profile.
US10164094B2
A semiconductor device includes a memory circuit and a logic circuit. The memory circuit includes a word line, a bit line, a common line and a memory transistor having a gate coupled to the word line, a drain coupled to the bit line and a source coupled to the common line. The logic circuit includes a field effect transistor (FET) having a gate, a drain and a source. The memory transistor has a gate electrode layer formed on a gate dielectric layer, and the gate dielectric layer includes a first insulating layer and a first ferroelectric (FE) material layer. The FET has a gate electrode layer formed on a gate dielectric layer, and the gate dielectric layer includes a second insulating layer and a second FE material layer.
US10164090B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor layer provided with a gate trench, a first conductivity type source region formed to be exposed on a surface side of the semiconductor layer, a second conductivity type channel region formed on a side of the source region closer to a back surface of the semiconductor layer to be in contact with the source region, a first conductivity type drain region formed on a side of the channel region closer to the back surface of the semiconductor layer to be in contact with the channel region, a gate insulating film formed on an inner surface of the gate trench, and a gate electrode embedded inside the gate insulating film in the gate trench, while the channel region includes a channel portion formed along the side surface of the gate trench so that a channel is formed in operation and a projection projecting from an end portion of the channel portion closer to the back surface of the semiconductor layer toward the back surface.
US10164085B2
A method comprises forming a buried layer over a substrate, forming an epitaxial layer over the buried layer, forming a first trench and a second trench in the buried layer and the epitaxial layer, wherein a width of the second trench is greater than a width of the first trench, depositing a dielectric layer in the first trench and the second trench, wherein the dielectric layer partially fills the second trench, removing the dielectric layer in the second trench and forming a first gate region in the first trench and a second gate region in the second trench.
US10164076B2
A method for forming a tunneling field-effect transistor (TFET) is disclosed. The method includes etching a semiconductor substrate to form a semiconductor protrusion that protrudes out from a top surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a drain region in lower portion of the semiconductor protrusion, and patterning a gate stack layer to form a gate stack. The gate stack has a gating surface that directly contacts and wraps around a middle portion of the semiconductor protrusion. The method further includes forming a source region in an upper portion of the semiconductor protrusion and forming a source contact over the source region, the source contact have a first width that is larger than a width of the source region.
US10164072B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, at least one active semiconductor fin, at least one first dummy semiconductor fin, and at least one second dummy semiconductor fin. The active semiconductor fin is disposed on the substrate. The first dummy semiconductor fin is disposed on the substrate. The second dummy semiconductor fin is disposed on the substrate and between the active semiconductor fin and the first dummy semiconductor fin. A top surface of the first dummy semiconductor fin and a top surface of the second dummy semiconductor fin are curved in different directions.
US10164051B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first fin and a second fin on a substrate, forming a first metal-gate line over a first and a second gate regions, applying a first line-cut to separate the first metal-gate line into a first sub-metal gate line and a second sub-metal gate line and forming a second metal-gate line over the first sub-metal gate line and the second sub-metal gate line, applying a second line-cut to separate the second metal-gate line into a third sub-metal gate line and a fourth sub-metal gate line such that a gap is formed between the third sub-metal gate line and the fourth sub-metal gate line and forming an isolation region within the gap.
US10164044B2
Some embodiments disclose a gate stack having a gate (e.g., polysilicon (poly) material) horizontally between shallow trench isolations (STIs), a tungsten silicide (WSix) material over the gate and the STIs, and a tungsten silicon nitride (WSiN) material on a top surface of the WSix material. Some embodiments disclose a gate stack having a gate between STIs, a first WSix material over the gate and the STIs, a WSiN interlayer material on a top surface of the first WSix material, and a second WSix material on a top surface of the WSiN interlayer material. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10164043B2
A semiconductor diode is provided. The semiconductor diode includes a monocrystalline silicon semiconductor body including a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type extending to a first surface of the semiconductor body and having a first maximum doping concentration, and a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type forming a pn-junction with the first semiconductor region. The semiconductor diode further includes a polycrystalline silicon semiconductor region of the first conductivity type having a second maximum doping concentration which is higher than the first maximum doping concentration and adjoining the first semiconductor region on the first surface, a first metallization arranged on the polycrystalline silicon semiconductor region and in electric contact with the polycrystalline semiconductor region, and an edge-termination structure arranged next to the first semiconductor region. Further, a method for producing a semiconductor diode is provided.
US10164042B2
A semiconductor device includes a field effect transistor (FET). The FET includes a first channel, a first source and a first drain; a second channel, a second source and a second drain; and a gate structure disposed over the first and second channels. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode layer. The first source includes a first crystal semiconductor layer and the second source includes a second crystal semiconductor layer. The first source and the second source are connected by an alloy layer made of one or more Group IV element and one or more transition metal elements. The first crystal semiconductor layer is not in direct contact with the second crystal semiconductor layer.
US10164031B2
A fin structure for a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device is provided. The device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor material disposed on the substrate, a shallow trench isolation (STI) region disposed over the substrate and formed on opposing sides of the first semiconductor material, and a second semiconductor material forming a first fin and a second fin disposed on the STI region, the first fin spaced apart from the second fin by a width of the first semiconductor material. The fin structure may be used to generate the FinFET device by forming a gate layer formed over the first fin, a top surface of the first semiconductor material disposed between the first and second fins, and the second fin.
US10164028B2
Provided are a thin film transistor, a manufacturing method therefor, an oxide back plate and a display apparatus. The thin film transistor comprises: an oxide active layer (4) and source and drain electrodes (6a, 6b) connected to the oxide active layer (4), wherein the source and drain electrodes (6a, 6b) comprise a main portion (M) and a connective portion (C), the main portion (M) being isolated from the active layer (4), and being electrically connected to the active layer (4) via the connective portion (C), and an electrical resistivity of the connective portion (C) is greater than that of the main portion (M). In the thin film transistor provided above, since the main portions of the source and drain electrodes are not in contact with the oxide active layer, a metal with a relatively high electrical conductivity can be used as the source and drain electrodes, without having a relatively great impact on the electrical performance of the oxide active layer.
US10164027B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a symmetric tunnel field effect transistor and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a gate structure including a source region and a drain region both of which comprise a doped VO2 region.
US10164026B2
A switching device has a substrate and a power semiconductor component, comprising a connection device and a pressure device wherein the substrate has tracks electrically insulated from one another. The power semiconductor component is on one of the tracks with a first main surface and is conductively connected thereto. The device is embodied as a film composite having a conductive film and an insulating film that forms a first and a second main surface. The switching device is connected internally in a circuit-conforming manner by the connection device and a contact area of the connection device is connected to a first contact area of one of the tracks in a force-locking and electrically conductive manner. There is a pressure body projecting to the substrate and pressing onto a first section of the second main surface of the film composite.
US10164024B2
Various heterostructures and methods of forming heterostructures are disclosed. A method includes removing portions of a substrate to form a temporary fin protruding above the substrate, forming a dielectric material over the substrate and over the temporary fin, removing the temporary fin to form a trench in the dielectric material, the trench exposing a portion of a first crystalline material of the substrate, forming a template material at least partially in the trench, the template material being a second crystalline material that is lattice mismatched to the first crystalline material, forming a barrier material over the template material, the barrier material being a third crystalline material, forming a device material over the barrier material, the device material being a fourth crystalline material, forming a gate stack over the device material, and forming a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region in the device material.
US10164014B2
A semiconductor device includes a monocrystalline substrate configured to form a channel region between two recesses in the substrate. A gate conductor is formed on a passivation layer over the channel region. Dielectric pads are formed in a bottom of the recesses and configured to prevent leakage to the substrate. Source and drain regions are formed in the recesses on the dielectric pads from a deposited non-crystalline n-type material with the source and drain regions making contact with the channel region.
US10164012B2
A semiconductor device includes first channel layers disposed over a substrate, a first source/drain region disposed over the substrate, a gate dielectric layer disposed on and wrapping each of the first channel layers, a gate electrode layer disposed on the gate dielectric layer and wrapping each of the first channel layers, and a liner semiconductor layer disposed between the first channel layers and the first source/drain region.
US10164004B2
Disclosed herein is a device that includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first insulating layer over a surface of the semiconductor substrate; first and second contact plugs each including side and upper surfaces, the side surfaces of the first and second contact plugs being surrounded by the first insulating film, the upper surfaces of the first and second contact plugs being substantially on the same plane with an upper surface of the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer over the first insulating layer; a first conductive layer including a bottom portion on the first contact plug and a side portion surrounded by the second insulating layer; a third insulating layer over the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer on the second contact plug, apart of a side surface of the second conductive layer being surrounded by both the second and third insulating layers.
US10163994B2
The invention provides an OLED panel manufacturing method and OLED panel. The method comprises: forming first (21) and second (22) pixel electrodes inside each pixel unit (2); depositing an insulation film by an atomic layer deposition method, and patternizing to form a pixel electrode isolation insulation layer (3); the pixel electrode isolation insulation layer having a longitudinal portion (31) filling between the first (21) and second (22) pixel electrodes, and a latitudinal portion (32) having both ends covering respectively a part of the first pixel electrode (21) closer to the second pixel electrode (22) and a part of the second pixel electrode (22) closer to the first pixel electrode (21); forming a pixel isolation layer (4), and printing LOED elements (5); the invention can increase OLED panel resolution without changing printing accuracy so that the first (21) and second (22) pixel electrodes are completely insulated.
US10163983B1
A resistance-switchable material containing: an insulating support; and a complementary resistance switchable filler dispersed in the insulating support, wherein the complementary resistance switchable filler has a core-shell structure containing: a wire-type conductive core containing a conductive material; and an insulating shell formed on the surface of the core and containing an insulating material. Because a first resistive layer, a conductive layer and a second resistive layer are formed as one layer and bipolar conductive filaments are formed on the substantially different resistive layers, the memory can exhibit complementary resistive switching characteristics. In addition, the complementary resistance switchable memory of the present disclosure can be prepared through a simplified process at low cost by introducing a simple process of coating a paste in which a complementary resistance switchable filler and a supporting material are mixed.
US10163981B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit having an interconnect wire contacting an upper electrode of the RRAM (resistive random access memory) device, and a method of formation. In some embodiments, the integrated circuit comprises an RRAM device having a dielectric data storage layer disposed between a lower electrode and an upper electrode. An interconnect wire contacts an upper surface of the upper electrode, and an interconnect via is arranged onto the interconnect wire. The interconnect via is set back from one or more outermost sidewalls of the interconnect wire. The interconnect wire has a relatively large size that provides for a good electrical connection between the interconnect wire and the upper electrode, thereby increasing a process window of the RRAM device.
US10163977B1
Systems, devices, and methods related to or that employ chalcogenide memory components and compositions are described. A memory device, such as a selector device, may be made of a chalcogenide material composition. A chalcogenide material may have a composition that includes one or more elements from the boron group, such as boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, or thallium. A selector device, for instance, may have a composition of selenium, arsenic, and at least one of boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, or thallium. The selector device may also be composed of germanium or silicon, or both. The relative amount of boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, or thallium may affect a threshold voltage of a memory component, and the relative amount may be selected accordingly. A memory component may, for instance have a composition that includes selenium, arsenic, and some combination of germanium, silicon, and at least one of boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, or thallium.
US10163976B2
A method of manufacturing an MRAM device includes sequentially forming a first insulating interlayer and an etch-stop layer on a substrate. A lower electrode is formed through the etch-stop layer and the first insulating interlayer. An MTJ structure layer and an upper electrode are sequentially formed on the lower electrode and the etch-stop layer. The MTJ structure layer is patterned by a physical etching process using the upper electrode as an etching mask to form an MTJ structure at least partially contacting the lower electrode. The first insulating interlayer is protected by the etch-stop layer so not to be etched by the physical etching process.
US10163973B2
A method for forming an FSI image sensor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a pixel region in a substrate and forming a dielectric layer over the substrate. The method includes forming a trench through the dielectric layer, and the trench includes a top portion and a bottom portion, and the trench is directly above the pixel region. The method includes forming a protection layer in the bottom portion of the trench and enlarging a top width of the top portion of the trench, and the trench has a wide top portion and a narrow bottom portion. The wide top portion has top sidewall surfaces, the narrow bottom portion has bottom sidewall surfaces, and the top sidewall surfaces taper gradually toward the bottom sidewall surfaces. The method includes filling a transparent dielectric layer in the trench to form a light pipe.
US10163971B2
An image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each of at least part of the plurality of pixels comprises: a plurality of photoelectric conversion parts; a microlens; and a plurality of interlayer lenses formed between the plurality of photoelectric conversion parts and the microlens and integrally formed to correspond to the plurality of photoelectric conversion parts. The plurality of interlayer lenses cause light incident on the plurality of interlayer lenses to enter the corresponding plurality of photoelectric conversion parts.
US10163965B1
A photodiode (PD) of a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor includes a top PD of a second type disposed in a first-type layer; and a bottom PD of the second type disposed in the first-type layer and below the top PD, the bottom PD including at least one sub-photodiode (sub-PD) of the second type connected to the top PD and at least one sub-well of the first type surrounded by the at least one sub-PD.
US10163957B2
Monolithic pixel detectors, systems and methods for the detection and imaging of radiation in the form of energetic particles which may have a mass or be massless (such as X-ray photons) comprise a Si wafer with a CMOS processed readout communicating via implants for charge collection with an absorber forming a monolithic unit with the Si wafer to collect and process the electrical signals generated by radiation incident on the absorber. The pixel detectors, systems and methods are used in various medical, industrial and scientific types of applications.
US10163952B2
A method for forming a backside illuminated (BSI) image sensor device structure is provided. The BSI image sensor includes a first substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a plurality of pixel regions formed at the top surface of the first substrate. The BSI image sensor also includes a grid structure through the first substrate and between two adjacent pixel regions. The grid structure extends continuously through the first substrate in a vertical direction and has a top surface and a bottom surface, the top surface of the grid structure protrudes above the bottom surface of the first substrate, and the bottom surface is leveled with the top surface of the first substrate.
US10163941B1
A display apparatus is provided that includes a substrate having a display area and a peripheral area located outside the display area. A first part of an edge of the display area has a round shape and the peripheral area includes a pad area. The display apparatus further includes a first wiring extending in a direction toward the first part from the pad area, and having a first discontinuous point at which the first wiring is physically discontinuous; and a first bridge wiring allowing the first wiring to be electrically continuous at the first discontinuous point.
US10163934B2
A fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) semiconductor structure includes: a first PFET, a second PFET, and a third PFET each having a different threshold voltage and each being over an n-well that is biased to a first voltage; and a first NFET, a second NFET, and a third NFET each having a different threshold voltage and each being over a p-type substrate that is biased to a second voltage. The second voltage is different than the first voltage.
US10163931B2
A non-volatile semiconductor storage device has a plurality of memory strings to each of which a plurality of electrically rewritable memory cells are connected in series. Each of the memory strings includes first semiconductor layers each having a pair of columnar portions extending in a vertical direction with respect to a substrate and a coupling portion formed to couple the lower ends of the pair of columnar portions; a charge storage layer formed to surround the side surfaces of the columnar portions; and first conductive layers formed to surround the side surfaces of the columnar portions and the charge storage layer. The first conductive layers function as gate electrodes of the memory cells.
US10163908B2
An array of recessed access gate lines includes active area regions having dielectric trench isolation material there-between. The trench isolation material comprises dielectric projections extending into opposing ends of individual active area regions under an elevationally outermost surface of material of the active area regions. The active area material is elevationally over the dielectric projections. Recessed access gate lines individually extend transversally across the active area regions and extend between the ends of immediately end-to-end adjacent active area regions within the dielectric trench isolation material. Other arrays are disclosed, as are methods.
US10163902B2
A semiconductor device includes multiple first fins oriented lengthwise along a first direction and multiple first gate structures oriented lengthwise along a second direction generally perpendicular to the first direction. Each of the first fins includes an end that is narrower than a main body of the respective first fin. The first gate structures are disposed over channel regions of the main body of the first fins to form multiple first FinFETs. The end of the first fins and the channel regions of the first fins sandwich some of source/drain regions of the first fins. The semiconductor device further includes a first contact disposed over and in electrical contact with the ends of the first fins.
US10163900B2
Structures for the integration of a vertical field-effect transistor and a saddle fin-type field-effect transistor into an integrated circuit, as well as methods of integrating a vertical field-effect transistor and a saddle fin-type field-effect transistor into an integrated circuit. A trench isolation is formed in a substrate that defines a first device region and a second device region. A first semiconductor fin is formed that projects from the first device region and a second semiconductor fin is formed that projects from the second device region. A vertical field-effect transistor is formed using the first semiconductor fin, and a saddle fin-type field-effect transistor is formed using the second semiconductor fin. A top surface of the trench isolation in the second device region adjacent to the second semiconductor fin is recessed relative to the top surface of the trench isolation in the first device region adjacent to the first semiconductor fin.
US10163896B2
An integrated circuit can include a MOM capacitor formed simultaneously with other devices, such as finFETs. A dielectric layer formed on a substrate has a first semiconductor fin therein and a second semiconductor fin therein. Respective top portions of the fins are removed to form respective recesses in the dielectric layer. First and second electrodes are formed in the recesses. The first and second electrodes and the interjacent dielectric layer form a MOM capacitor.
US10163890B2
A semiconductor device provided herein includes: a semiconductor substrate; an upper main electrode located above the semiconductor substrate; a sense anode electrode located above the semiconductor substrate; a first resistance layer located above the semiconductor substrate, having resistivity higher than resistivities of the upper main electrode and the sense anode electrode, and connecting the upper main electrode and the sense anode electrode; and a lower main electrode located below the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a switching element and a sense diode. The switching element is connected between the upper main electrode and the lower main electrode. The sense diode includes a p-type first anode region connected to the sense anode electrode and an n-type first cathode region connected to the lower main electrode.
US10163889B2
A phase shifter includes a signal input, a signal output, an ESD protection circuit, first and second signal paths between the signal input and the signal output. The ESD protection circuit includes first and second two port devices, each two port device being switchable between a high impedance state and a low impedance state. The first signal path includes the first two port device of the ESD protection circuit and a first delay line configured to provide a first phase shift to a signal transmitted from the signal input to the signal output via the first signal path. The second signal path includes the second two port device of the ESD protection circuit and a second delay line configured to provide a second phase shift, different from the first phase shift, to the signal transmitted from the signal input to the signal output via the second signal path.
US10163876B2
A method of manufacturing a structure includes: providing a substrate; forming an adhesive layer over the substrate; forming an interconnect layer comprising a metal line and a metal via over the adhesive layer; forming a plurality of conductive pads over the interconnect layer; forming conductive pillars over the interconnect layer; disposing a first semiconductor die over the conductive pads, the first semiconductor die being spaced apart from the conductive pillars; bonding a second semiconductor die with the conductive pillars; and removing the substrate and the adhesive layer to expose a conductive portion of the interconnect layer.
US10163875B2
A method for forming a chip package structure is provided. The method includes forming a chip on an adhesive layer. The chip has a front surface and a back surface opposite to the front surface. The back surface is in direct contact with the adhesive layer. A first maximum length of the adhesive layer is less than a second maximum length of the chip. The method includes forming a molding compound layer surrounding the chip and the adhesive layer. A first bottom surface of the adhesive layer is substantially coplanar with a second bottom surface of the molding compound layer. The method includes forming a redistribution structure over the chip and the molding compound layer.
US10163874B2
A packaged semiconductor structure includes an interconnect layer and a first microelectronic device on a first major surface of the interconnect layer. The structure also includes a substrate having a cavity, wherein the cavity is defined by a vertical portion and a horizontal portion, wherein the vertical portion surrounds the first device, the horizontal portion is over the first device, and the first device is between the horizontal portion and the first major surface of the interconnect layer such that the first device is in the cavity. The structure further includes a second microelectronic device attached to the horizontal portion of the substrate, and encapsulant on the interconnect layer and surrounding the first device, the substrate, and the second device, such that the substrate is embedded in the encapsulant.
US10163870B2
Disclosed herein is a light emitting device package and a light emitting device package module. The light emitting device package includes: a base including a cavity; a first light emitting device disposed in the cavity, the first light emitting device including a first light emitting element configured to produce light having a first peak wavelength and a first fluorescent layer covering a top and side surfaces of the first light emitting element; and a second light emitting device disposed in the cavity, the second light emitting device including a second light emitting element configured to produce light having a second peak wavelength and a second fluorescent layer covering a top and side surfaces of the second light emitting element, wherein the first fluorescent layer is configured to convert the light having the first peak wavelength of the first light emitting element to light having a third peak wavelength, and the second fluorescent layer is configured to convert the light having the second peak wavelength of the second light emitting element to light having a fourth peak wavelength.
US10163858B1
Semiconductor packages and manufacturing methods thereof are provided. One of the semiconductor packages includes a first chip, a second chip and a molding compound. The first chip has at least one first via and a protection layer thereon, and the at least one first via is formed in the protection layer. The second chip has at least one second via thereon. The molding layer encapsulates the first and second chips. The at least one second via is disposed in and contact with the molding layer, and top surfaces of the protection layer, the at least one first via and the at least one second via are substantially coplanar with a top surface of the molding layer.
US10163856B2
A semiconductor device, and a method of forming the device, are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first die having a first plurality of contact pads and a second die having a second plurality of contact pads. A substrate is bonded to a first contact pad of the first plurality of contact pads and a first contact pad of the second plurality of contact pads in a face-to-face orientation with the first die and the second die. A first through via extends through the substrate. Molding material is interposed between the first die, the second die and the substrate, the molding material extending along sidewalls of the first die, the second die, and the substrate. A second through via is positioned over a second contact pad of the first plurality of contact pads, the second through via extending through the molding material.
US10163850B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor chip, an electrode pad made of a metal material containing aluminum and formed on a top surface of the semiconductor chip, an electrode lead disposed at a periphery of the semiconductor chip, a bonding wire having a linearly-extending main body portion and having a pad bond portion and a lead bond portion formed at respective ends of the main body portion and respectively bonded to the electrode pad and the electrode lead, and a resin package sealing the semiconductor chip, the electrode lead, and the bonding wire, the bonding wire is made of copper, and the entire electrode pad and the entire pad bond portion are integrally covered by a water-impermeable film.
US10163849B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure, including receiving a first substrate including a plurality of conductive bumps disposed over the first substrate; receiving a second substrate; disposing an adhesive over the first substrate; removing a portion of the adhesive to expose at least one of the plurality of conductive bumps; and bonding the first substrate with the second substrate.
US10163846B2
Embodiments of mechanisms for forming a package structure are provided. The package structure includes a semiconductor die and a substrate. The package structure includes a pillar bump and an elongated solder bump bonded to the semiconductor die and the substrate. A height of the elongated solder bump is substantially equal to a height of the pillar bump. The elongated solder bump has a first width, at a first horizontal plane passing through an upper end of a sidewall surface of the elongated solder bump, and a second width, at a second horizontal plane passing through a midpoint of the sidewall surface. A ratio of the second width to the first width is in a range from about 0.5 to about 1.1.
US10163844B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate including a plurality of conductive traces and a recess filled with a conductive material electrically coupled to at least one of the plurality of conductive traces. The semiconductor structure also includes semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip includes a plurality of conductive pads correspondingly electrically connected with the plurality of conductive traces through a plurality of conductive bumps. A height of each of the plurality of conductive bumps is determined by a minimum distance between the plurality of conductive pads and the corresponding conductive traces thereof.
US10163839B2
The embodiments described above provide enlarged overlapping surface areas of bonding structures between a package and a bonding substrate. By using elongated bonding structures on either the package and/or the bonding substrate and by orienting such bonding structures, the bonding structures are designed to withstand bonding stress caused by thermal cycling to reduce cold joints.
US10163837B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit device includes forming a bump structure on a substrate, wherein the bump structure has a top surface and a sidewall surface, and the substrate has a surface region exposed by the bump structure. The method further includes depositing a non-metal protection layer on the top surface and the sidewall surface of the bump structure and the surface region of the substrate. The method further includes removing the non-metal protection layer from the top surface of the bump structure, wherein a remaining portion of the non-metal protection layer forms an L-shaped protection structure, and a top surface of the remaining portion of the non-metal protection layer is farther from the substrate than a top surface of the bump structure.
US10163834B2
A chip package structure includes a chip, an encapsulant, a dielectric layer and a patterned circuit layer. The chip includes an active surface and a plurality of pads disposed on the active surface. The encapsulant encapsulates the chip and exposes active surface, wherein the encapsulant includes a concave surface and a back surface opposite to the concave surface, the concave surface exposes the active surface and is dented toward the back surface. The dielectric layer covers the concave surface and the active surface and includes a plurality of openings exposing the pads, wherein the opening includes a slanted side surface and the angle between the slanted side surface and the active surface is an acute angle. The patterned circuit layer is disposed on the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the pads through the openings.
US10163830B2
Apparatuses and methods for providing thermal pathways from a substrate to a thermal bonding pad. The thermal pathways may be metal extensions of the thermal bonding pad that are disposed in channels formed in a backside passivation layer underneath the thermal bonding pad, and may be in direct contact with an underlying substrate. The thermal pathways may provide improved thermal dissipation from the substrate.
US10163824B2
An integrated fan-out package including an insulating encapsulation, a radio frequency integrated circuit (RF-IC), an antenna, a ground conductor, and a redistribution circuit structure is provided. The integrated circuit includes a plurality of conductive terminals. The RF-IC, the antenna, and the ground conductor are embedded in the insulating encapsulation. The ground conductor is between the RF-IC and the antenna. The redistribution circuit structure is disposed on the insulating encapsulation, and the redistribution circuit structure is electrically connected to the conductive terminals, the antenna, and the ground conductor. A method of fabricating the integrated fan-out package is also provided.
US10163817B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a conductive structure over the substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes first metal oxide fibers over the conductive structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a dielectric layer over the substrate and covering the conductive structure and the first metal oxide fibers. The dielectric layer fills gaps between the first metal oxide fibers.
US10163815B2
A semiconductor wafer contains a plurality of semiconductor die separated by a saw street. A contact pad is formed over an active surface of the semiconductor die. A protective pattern is formed over the active surface of the semiconductor die between the contact pad and saw street of the semiconductor die. The protective pattern includes a segmented metal layer or plurality of parallel segmented metal layers. An insulating layer is formed over the active surface, contact pad, and protective pattern. A portion of the insulating layer is removed to expose the contact pad. The protective pattern reduces erosion of the insulating layer between the contact pad and saw street of the semiconductor die. The protective pattern can be angled at corners of the semiconductor die or follow a contour of the contact pad. The protective pattern can be formed at corners of the semiconductor die.
US10163814B2
Disclosed are devices and methods related to a conductive paint layer configured to provide radio-frequency (RF) shielding for a packaged semiconductor module. Such a module can include a packaging substrate, one or more RF components mounted on the packaging substrate, a ground plane disposed within the packaging substrate, and a plurality of RF-shielding wirebonds disposed on the packaging substrate and electrically connected to the ground plane. The module can further include an overmold structure formed over the packaging substrate and dimensioned to substantially encapsulate the RF component(s) and the RF-shielding wirebonds. The overmold structure can define an upper surface that exposes upper portions of the RF-shielding wirebonds. The module can further include a conductive paint layer having silver flakes disposed on the upper surface of the overmold structure so that the conductive paint layer, the RF-shielding wirebonds, and the ground plane form an RF-shield for the RF component(s).
US10163809B2
In some embodiments, an integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate. An active area is disposed in the semiconductor substrate. A first guard ring is disposed in the semiconductor substrate and entirely surrounds the active area. The first guard ring has a first conductivity type. A via penetrates through the semiconductor substrate and is spaced apart from the active area such that the via is disposed outside of the first guard ring. A second guard ring is disposed in the semiconductor substrate and entirely surrounds the via and the first guard ring. The second guard ring has the first conductivity type and is disjoint from the first guard ring.
US10163804B2
A method in which microelectronic devices are attached to a substrate surface, wherein spaces interpose neighboring ones of the microelectronic devices. Each microelectronic device has an outermost surface that is substantially parallel to the substrate surface. The substrate is closed in a transfer molding cavity of a transfer molding apparatus such that an internal surface of the transfer molding cavity contacts a substantial portion of each of the outermost surfaces of the microelectronic devices. A molding compound is subsequently injected into the transfer molding cavity, including into the spaces between ones of the plurality of microelectronic devices.
US10163802B2
A method of forming a package and a package are provided. The method includes placing a main die and a dummy die side by side on a carrier substrate. The method also includes forming a molding material along sidewalls of the main die and the dummy die. The method also includes forming a redistribution layer comprising a plurality of vias and conductive lines over the main die and the dummy die, where the plurality of vias and the conductive lines are electrically connected to connectors of the main die. The method also includes removing the carrier substrate.
US10163799B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including a first silicon layer having a through silicon via (TSV), a III-V structure over the first silicon layer, electrically coupling to the TSV, and a redistribution layer (RDL) under the first silicon layer, electrically coupling to the TSV. The present disclosure also provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a III-V-on-Si structure, comprising a III-V device over a silicon layer, forming a through silicon via (TSV) in the silicon layer, electrically coupling to the III-V device, and forming a redistribution layer (RDL) over a side of the silicon layer opposite to the III-V device.
US10163796B2
A method includes forming a dielectric layer and forming a metallic conductor at least partially in the dielectric layer. Formation of the metallic conductor at least partially in the dielectric layer includes performing a planarization process. The method further includes treating respective surface areas of the dielectric layer and the metallic conductor, after the planarization process, to modify the respective surface areas of the dielectric layer and the metallic conductor. In one example, the surface treatment is a neutral atom beam treatment.
US10163794B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip having a back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) metal interconnect structure with capping layers that provide for improved reliability. In some embodiments, the integrated chip has a dielectric layer disposed over a semiconductor substrate, and one or more metal layer structures disposed within the dielectric layer. A first capping layer is located over the dielectric layer at positions between the one or more metal layer structures, so that the first capping layer is located along an interface having the one or more metal layer structures interspersed between the first capping layer. A second capping layer is located over the one or more metal layer structures. An etch stop layer is arranged over the first capping layer and the second capping layer and laterally surrounds the second capping layer.
US10163789B2
Provided is a semiconductor device that includes: an integrated circuit (IC) chip including a terminal array that is a matrix of terminals arranged in at least seven rows and at least seven columns, the terminals including a reference terminal to which a reference voltage is applied; a capacitor electrically connected to the reference terminal; and a substrate including one main surface as a mounting surface on which the IC chip and the capacitor are mounted. The IC chip is an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip or a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chip. The reference terminal is disposed at a position within three rows or three columns from an outer edge of the terminal array.
US10163780B2
A package includes a device die, and an encapsulating material encapsulating the device die therein. The encapsulating material has a top surface coplanar with a top surface of the device die. A coil extends from the top surface to a bottom surface of the encapsulating material, and the device die is in the region encircled by the coil. At least one dielectric layer is formed over the encapsulating material and the coil. A plurality of redistribution lines is in the at least one dielectric layer. The coil is electrically coupled to the device die through the plurality of redistribution lines.
US10163775B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device suitable for miniaturization. The present electronic device includes: a substrate (1), having a main surface (111) and a back surface (112) facing opposite sides with each other in a thickness direction, wherein the substrate comprises a semiconductor material; an electronic component (8), which is disposed over the substrate (1); and a conductive layer (3), which is electrically connected with the electronic component (8); wherein a recess for disposing the component (14) and a through recess (17) are formed in the substrate, in which recess for disposing the component (14) is recessed from the main surface (111), and the through recess (17) penetrates from the recess for disposing the component (14) to the back surface (112); the electronic component (8) is disposed over the recess for disposing the component (14); a metal-filled portion (4) is formed in the through recess (17), wherein the metal-filled portion blocks at least the bottom of the through recess (17) and is filled with a metal material; and the conductive layer (3) is formed at least from the through recess (17) to the back surface (112).
US10163771B2
In a particular aspect, a device includes a substrate including at least one through-substrate via. A metal structure is disposed on a surface of the substrate. The device further includes a semiconductor layer bonded to the substrate. The semiconductor layer includes at least one complimentary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistor and a metal disposed within a second via. The metal is in direct contact with the metal structure.
US10163770B2
A device comprises a semiconductor structure in a molding compound layer, a first polymer layer on the molding compound layer, a second polymer layer on the first polymer layer, a first interconnect structure having a first via portion in the first polymer layer and a first metal line portion in the second polymer layer, a third polymer layer on the second polymer layer, a fourth polymer layer on the third polymer layer and a second interconnect structure having a second via portion in the third polymer layer and a second metal line portion in the fourth polymer layer, wherein the second via portion is vertically aligned with the first via portion.
US10163766B2
A leadless package with wettable flanks is formed by providing a substrate and plating a metal layer onto the substrate to form a contact on the substrate extending across a saw street. An encapsulant is deposited over the contact. The substrate is removed to expose the contact and encapsulant. The encapsulant and contact are singulated. In some embodiments, the substrate includes a ridge, and the contact is formed over the ridge.
US10163757B2
A component can include a substrate having an opening extending between first and second surfaces thereof, and an electrically conductive via having first and second portions. The first portion can include a first layer structure extending within the opening and at least partially along an inner wall of the opening, and a first principal conductor extending within the opening and at least partially overlying the first layer structure. The first portion can be exposed at the first surface and can have a lower surface located between the first and second surfaces. The second portion can include a second layer structure extending within the opening and at least partially along the lower surface of the first portion, and a second principal conductor extending within the opening and at least partially overlying the second layer structure. The second portion can be exposed at the second surface.
US10163751B2
A package structure includes a first package layer, a second package layer, and a chip layer positioned between the first package layer and the second package layer. The first package layer includes an electrical signal structure electrically isolated from a first thermal conduction structure. The chip layer includes an integrated circuit (IC) chip electrically connected to the electrical signal structure, a molding material, and a through-via positioned in the molding material. The first thermal conduction structure, the through-via, and the second thermal conduction structure are configured as a low thermal resistance path from the IC chip to a surface of the second package layer opposite the chip layer.
US10163750B2
A package structure and method of manufacturing is provided, whereby heat dissipating features are provided for heat dissipation. Heat dissipating features include conductive vias formed in a die stack, thermal chips, and thermal metal bulk, which can be bonded to a wafer level device. Hybrid bonding including chip to chip, chip to wafer, and wafer to wafer provides thermal conductivity without having to traverse a bonding material, such as a eutectic material. Plasma dicing the package structure can provide a smooth sidewall profile for interfacing with a thermal interface material.
US10163746B2
A semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof includes a chip member installed on an upper surface, a lower surface, or both of a substrate. The semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof also include a mold part stacked embedding the chip member, a connection member disposed at a center portion of the mold part, and a solder part formed on a portion of the connection member.
US10163745B2
A method includes forming a polymer layer covering a metal via in a wafer, grooving the wafer to form a trench, wherein the trench extends from a top surface of the polymer layer into the wafer, and performing a die-saw on the wafer to separate the wafer into a plurality of device dies. A kerf passes through the trench. One of the device dies is placed over a carrier. An encapsulating material is dispensed over and around the device die. The method further includes pressing and curing the encapsulating material. After the encapsulating material is cured, a sidewall of the polymer layer is tilted. A planarization is performed on the encapsulating material until the polymer layer and the metal via are exposed. A redistribution line is formed over and electrically coupled to the metal via.
US10163739B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a substrate having a rectangular shape; a first region configured to extend on the substrate in a length direction of the substrate, and to include a plurality of electrode pads arranged above the substrate through a multilayer interconnection; and a second region configured to extend in the length direction, and to include an imaging element, an optical filter, and an insulating film. The second region extends on the substrate on which the imaging element is arranged. The optical filter is arranged above the substrate and faces the imaging element through the insulating film. The second region extends in parallel to the first region to be apart from the first region by a given distance. The plurality of electrode pads are arranged to be apart from each other by a given space, equal to or smaller than the given distance, in the length direction.
