US10243057B2
Representative embodiments provide an InAlN/GaN MISHFET having a predetermined breakdown voltage, calibrated to a permittivity-thickness parameter and selectable before or during transistor fabrication, which can be greater than 700 V for a normally-off InAlN/GaN MISHFET. Representative embodiments include a first dielectric layer coupled to a gate and to an InAlN barrier layer, a second dielectric layer, and an optional third dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer comprises a first dielectric material having a first predetermined thickness and a first relative permittivity. The second dielectric layer comprises a second dielectric material having a second predetermined thickness and a second relative permittivity, with the second relative permittivity greater than or equal to twenty (20), such as HfO2, HfAlOx, HfSiOx, SrTiO2 (STO), HfTiO2, HfYOx, Er2O3, Y2O3, TiO2, ErTiOx, ErxTi1-xOy; AlTiOx, SrTiO3, tantalum oxide, zirconium oxide, barium strontium titanate, barium strontium oxide, strontium oxide, and combinations thereof.
US10243056B2
A semiconductor device includes a field insulating film including a first region and a second region on a substrate, a recess in the first region of the field insulating film, a gate electrode on the second region of the field insulating film, and a gate spacer along a sidewall of the gate electrode and a sidewall of the recess.
US10243051B2
Disclosed is a transistor device and a method for producing a transistor device. The transistor device includes: a source region, a drift region, and a body region arranged between the source region and the drift region; a gate electrode adjacent the body region and dielectrically insulated from the body region by a gate dielectric; and a field electrode adjacent the drift region and dielectrically insulated from the drift region by a field electrode dielectric. The field electrode includes at least two layers of different electrically conductive materials.
US10243049B2
A nitride semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer including a nitride semiconductor, a second semiconductor layer contacting the first semiconductor layer and including a nitride semiconductor, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode provided on an opposite side, a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer. The gate electrode has a protrusion portion inside the semiconductor layer. A distance between the first gate electrode and the protrusion portion of the second gate electrode is shorter than a distance between the source electrode and the second insulating layer, and shorter than a distance between the drain electrode and the second insulating layer.
US10243048B2
A microelectronic device having an n-type buried layer (NBL) is formed by forming a thin screen layer on the top surface of the substrate. Antimony is implanted through the screen layer exposed by an implant mask into the substrate; the implant mask blocks antimony from the substrate outside the NBL area. The implant mask is removed, leaving the screen layer, which has the same thickness over the NBL area and the area outside the NBL, on the surface. Silicon dioxide is formed during an anneal/drive process, both in the NBL area and outside the NBL area. Slightly more silicon dioxide is formed in the NBL area, consuming more silicon there and so forming a shallow silicon recess. An epitaxial layer is grown on the top surface of the substrate. A structure for the microelectronic device is also disclosed.
US10243047B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to active and passive radio frequency (RF) components with deep trench isolation structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a bulk high resistivity wafer with a deep trench isolation structure having a depth deeper than a maximum depletion depth at worst case voltage bias difference between devices which are formed on the bulk high resistivity wafer.
US10243039B2
A super junction (SJ) device may include one or more charge balance (CB) layers. Each CB layer may include an epitaxial (epi) layer having a first conductivity type and a plurality of charge balance (CB) regions having a second conductivity type. Additionally, the SJ device may include a connection region having the second conductivity type that extends from a region disposed in a top surface of a device layer of the SJ device to one or more of the CB regions. The connection region may enable carriers to flow directly from the region to the one or more CB regions, which may decrease switching losses of the SJ device.
US10243036B2
A semiconductor structure including a substrate, a first dielectric layer, a first conductive layer, a positioning part, two spacers, and a second conductive layer is provided. The substrate has a first trench. The first dielectric layer is disposed on a surface of the first trench. The first conductive layer is filled in the first trench and located on the first dielectric layer. The positioning part is disposed on the substrate and has a first opening. The first opening exposes the first trench. The spacers are disposed on two sidewalls of the first opening and expose the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer is filled in the first opening and electrically connected to the first conductive layer. The semiconductor structure can prevent the generation of leakage current while maintaining a high breakdown voltage.
US10243034B2
Integrated circuit structures including a pillar resistor disposed over a surface of a substrate, and fabrication techniques to form such a resistor in conjunction with fabrication of a transistor over the substrate. Following embodiments herein, a small resistor footprint may be achieved by orienting the resistive length orthogonally to the substrate surface. In embodiments, the vertical resistor pillar is disposed over a first end of a conductive trace, a first resistor contact is further disposed on the pillar, and a second resistor contact is disposed over a second end of a conductive trace to render the resistor footprint substantially independent of the resistance value. Formation of a resistor pillar may be integrated with a replacement gate transistor process by concurrently forming the resistor pillar and sacrificial gate out of a same material, such as polysilicon. Pillar resistor contacts may also be concurrently formed with one or more transistor contacts.
US10243028B2
An organic EL element includes: a substrate that is light-transmissive; a pair of electrode layers (first electrode layer and second electrode layer) disposed above the substrate, at least one of the pair of electrode layers being light-transmissive; and a planar light-emitting layer disposed between the first electrode layer and second electrode layer. The first electrode layer is disposed in a first region in a plan view. The organic EL element further includes a buffer layer disposed, in a plan view, in a second region adjacent the first region. The buffer layer is for reducing a difference in an optical characteristic between the first region and the second region with respect to a predetermined light.
US10243021B1
According to one embodiment, a method includes forming a bottom electrode layer above a substrate in a film thickness direction, forming a source layer above the bottom electrode layer in the film thickness direction, forming an impact ionization channel (i-channel) layer above the source layer in the film thickness direction, forming a drain layer above the i-channel layer in the film thickness direction, forming an upper electrode layer above the drain layer in the film thickness direction to form a stack that includes the bottom electrode layer, the source layer, the i-channel layer, the drain layer, and the upper electrode layer, and forming a gate layer positioned on sides of the i-channel layer along a plane perpendicular to the film thickness direction in an element width direction. The gate layer is formed in a position closer to the drain layer than the source layer.
US10243010B2
A semiconductor film 21 is provided so as to overlap with a light-shielding film 11 when viewed in a plan view. A second insulating film 30 has a contact hole CH1 that reaches a source electrode 22 and a drain electrode 23. A gate electrode 41 is provided on the second insulating film 30 so as to overlap with the semiconductor film 21 when viewed in a plan view, and at the same time, so as to overlap with none of the source electrode 22 and the drain electrode 23 when viewed in a plan view. A third insulating film 50 is provided on the second insulating film 30 so as to cover the gate electrode 41, and at the same time, so as to be in contact with the source electrode 22 and the drain electrode 23 through the contact hole CH1.
US10243007B2
An array substrate, a display panel and display device including the array substrate, and a method of manufacturing the array substrate are provided. The array substrate includes a display area, a plurality of first transistors disposed in the display area, a non-display area disposed at a periphery of the display area and a plurality of second transistors disposed in the non-display area, wherein compared to the plurality of first transistors, an active layer of each second transistor has a smaller thickness.
US10243006B2
As a display device has higher definition, the number of pixels is increased and thus, the number of gate lines and signal lines is increased. When the number of gate lines and signal lines is increased, it is difficult to mount IC chips including driver circuits for driving the gate lines and the signal lines by bonding or the like, whereby manufacturing cost is increased. A pixel portion and a driver circuit for driving the pixel portion are provided on the same substrate, and at least part of the driver circuit comprises a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor sandwiched between gate electrodes. A channel protective layer is provided between the oxide semiconductor and a gate electrode provided over the oxide semiconductor. The pixel portion and the driver circuit are provided on the same substrate, which leads to reduction of manufacturing cost.
US10242998B2
A plurality of semiconductor layers have longitudinally a first direction, have a peripheral area surrounded by the plurality of control gate electrodes, and are arranged in a plurality of rows within the laminated body. A controller controls a voltage applied to the control gate electrodes and bit lines. The controller, during a writing operation, applies a first voltage to a first bit line connected to the semiconductor layer positioned in a first row closer to the insulation separating layer, and applies a second voltage larger than the first voltage to a second bit line connected to the semiconductor layer positioned in a second row positioned further from the insulation separating layer with respect to the first row, among the plurality of rows.
US10242995B2
Some embodiments include a string of charge storage devices formed along a vertical channel of semiconductor material; a gate region of a drain select gate (SGD) transistor, the gate region at least partially surrounding the vertical channel; a dielectric barrier formed in the gate region; a first isolation layer formed above the gate region and the dielectric barrier; a drain region of the SGD transistor formed above the vertical channel; and a second isolation layer formed above the first isolation layer and the drain region, wherein the second isolation layer includes a conductive contact in electrical contact with the drain region of the SGD transistor. Additional apparatus and methods are disclosed.
US10242988B2
An integrated circuit (IC) system includes a substrate, a first doped well of a first polarity in the substrate, a first electrode in contact with the doped well, a buried oxide (BOX) in contact with the doped well in the substrate, a first IC device including a second electrode formed on the BOX, and fuse control circuitry coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode. The fuse control circuitry is configured to cause voltages to be applied to the first and second electrodes to change a resistance level of the BOX in the vicinity of the second electrode.
US10242981B2
A method is presented for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming a plurality of vertical fins over a semiconductor layer formed over a substrate, depositing an oxide over the plurality of fins, and applying a cutting mask over a portion of the plurality of fins. The method further includes removing the oxide from the exposed portion of the plurality of fins, depositing a replacement gate stack, and etching portions of the replacement gate stack to remove exposed fins, the exposed fins forming recesses within the semiconductor layer. The method further includes depositing a spacer over the exposed fins and the recesses formed by the removed fins. A portion of the plurality of fins are cut during etching of the replacement gate stack and a portion of the oxide is removed before deposition of the replacement gate stack.
US10242978B1
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor ESD protection device. The semiconductor ESD protection device includes a substrate including a first conductivity type, a gate formed on the substrate, a source region and a drain region formed in the substrate, and a body region formed in the substrate. The substrate and the body region include a first conductivity type. The source region and the drain region include a second conductivity type. And the first conductivity type and the second conductivity type are complementary to each other. The body region is electrically connected to the gate.
US10242962B1
An integrated circuit device wafer includes a silicon wafer substrate and a back side metallization structure. The back side metallization structure includes a first adhesion layer on the back side of the substrate, a first metal later over the first adhesion layer, a second metal layer over the first metal layer, and a second adhesion layer over the second metal layer. The first includes at least one of: silicon nitride and silicon dioxide. The first metal layer includes titanium. The second metal layer includes nickel. The second adhesion layer includes at least one of: silver, gold, and tin.
US10242960B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) power transistor package. It further relates to a mobile telecommunications base station comprising such an RF power transistor package, and to an integrated passive die suitable for use in an RF power amplifier package. In example embodiments, an in-package impedance network is used that is connected to an output of the RF power transistor arranged inside the package. This network comprises a first inductive element having a first and second terminal, the first terminal being electrically connected to the output of the RF transistor, a resonance unit electrically connected to the second terminal of the first inductive element, and a second capacitive element electrically connected in between the resonance unit and ground, where the first capacitive element is arranged in series with the second capacitive element.
US10242957B2
Ground shielding is achieved by a conductor shield having conductive surfaces that immediately surround individual chips within a multichip module or device, such as a multichip module or device with flip-chip (FC) bumps. Intra-module shielding between individual chips within the multichip module or device is achieved by electromagnetic or radio-signal (RF) isolation provided by the surfaces of the conductor shield immediately surrounding each of the chips. The conductor shield is directly connected to one or more grounded conductor portions of a substrate or interposer to ensure reliable grounding.
US10242956B1
A semiconductor device is disclosed that may include a first semiconductor die comprising a copper pillar, a second semiconductor die comprising a copper pillar, and a conductive bump connecting the copper pillar of the first semiconductor die to the copper pillar of the second semiconductor die. The first semiconductor die may comprise a metal dam formed between the copper pillar and a bond pad on the first semiconductor die. The conductive bump may have a melting point lower than melting points of the copper pillar of the first semiconductor die and the copper pillar of the second semiconductor die. The first semiconductor die may be coupled to a substrate with a conductive wire coupled to the bond pad and to the substrate. The first semiconductor die may comprise a redistribution layer formed beneath the copper pillar on the first semiconductor die.
US10242952B2
Methods of forming a registration mark may include forming a plurality of mandrels over a hard mask over a semiconductor layer, each mandrel including a spacer adjacent thereto. At least one mandrel is selected and a mask is formed over the at least one selected mandrel. The plurality of mandrels are removed leaving the spacers, the mask preventing removal of the at least one selected mandrel. The mask is removed. A first etching patterns the sub-lithographic structures and the registration mark into the hard mask using the spacers as a pattern and the at least one selected mandrel and adjacent spacer for the registration mark. A second etching forms the sub-lithographic structures in the semiconductor layer using the patterned hard mask and to form the registration mark in the semiconductor layer using the at least one selected mandrel and the patterned hard mask.
US10242942B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and configurations for designing and assembling a die capable of being adapted to a number of different packaging configurations. In one embodiment an integrated circuit (IC) die may include a semiconductor substrate. The die may also include an electrically insulative material disposed on the semiconductor substrate; a plurality of electrical routing features disposed in the electrically insulative material to route electrical signals through the electrically insulative material; and a plurality of metal features disposed in a surface of the electrically insulative material. In embodiments, the plurality of metal features may be electrically coupled with the plurality of electrical routing features. In addition, the plurality of metal features may have an input/output (I/O) density designed to enable the die to be integrated with a plurality of different package configurations. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10242938B2
The disclosure is directed to a circuit on a substrate, such as a leadframe package, that includes shunt to measure current. The shunt is an arched conductor positioned to bridge over a die mounted on the package with voltage measurement terminals of the die electrically connected to the shunt. The techniques of this disclosure determine the shunt material, shunt size and shape to accurately control the value of the resistance of the shunt. The arrangement of the die and the shunt may include advantages of maintaining a small package size and allow accurate temperature compensation. The shunt may be long enough to have a measurable resistance that may be used to determine the current through the shunt. In some examples, the arrangement of the die and the shunt may provide additional structural support to the circuit.
US10242937B2
To increase a current that can be supplied to an electronic element mounted on an upper surface of a semiconductor package. An electronic device includes a semiconductor chip, a package that accommodates the semiconductor chip, a plurality of terminals that is electrically bonded with the semiconductor chip and is exposed on a first surface of the package, and at least one copper post that penetrates from the first surface of the package to a second surface opposite to the first surface, and that has a cross sectional area in the direction of the first surface, which is larger than the area of the plurality of terminals on the first surface.
US10242936B2
A disclosed semiconductor device includes a buffer layer formed of a compound semiconductor on a substrate, a first semiconductor layer formed of a compound semiconductor on the buffer layer, a second semiconductor layer formed of a compound semiconductor on the first semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode formed on the second semiconductor layer, and a heat dissipation part formed below the gate electrode. In the semiconductor device, all or part of the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer is present between the gate electrode and the heat dissipation part, the heat dissipation part includes a heat dissipation layer and a first intermediate layer formed between the heat dissipation layer and both of the buffer layer and first semiconductor layer, and the heat dissipation layer is formed of a material containing carbon.
US10242926B2
A wafer level chip scale package (WLCSP) structure and a manufacturing method are disclosed. The WLCSP structure comprises a semiconductor die and a stack. The stack comprises a protective tape and a molding compound. A portion of a first interface surface between the molding compound and the protective tape is curved. The manufacturing method comprises the steps of forming a semiconductor structure; attaching the semiconductor structure on a dummy wafer; performing a first dicing process using a first cutting tool; depositing a molding compound; removing the dummy wafer; performing a second dicing process with a second cutting tool. A first aperture of the first cutting tool is larger than a second aperture of the second cutting tool. The portion of the first interface surface being curved reduces the possibility of generation of cracks in the WLCSP structure.
US10242917B2
Semiconductor devices may include a plurality of active fins each extending in a first direction on a substrate, a gate structure extending on the active fins in a second direction, and a first source/drain layer on first active fins of the active fins adjacent the gate structure. At least one of two opposing sidewalls of a cross-section of the first source/drain layer taken along the second direction may include a curved portion having a slope with respect to an upper surface of the substrate. The slope may decrease from a bottom toward a top thereof.
US10242915B2
A method for transferring at least one thin film from a first substrate to a second substrate is provided, the thin film having a first side and an opposing second side and the second side of the thin film being arranged on a first side of the first substrate, at least part of the first substrate being subsequently removed and the second substrate being brought into contact, via its first side, with the second side of the thin film, wherein a liquid is supplied to the contact surface and then at least some of the liquid is removed by rotating the thin film and the second substrate.
US10242903B2
In a carrier system, a chuck unit is used to hold a placed wafer from above, and vertical-motion pins use suction to hold the wafer from below. Then, the chuck unit and the vertical-motion pins are subsequently lowered until a bottom surface of the wafer comes into contact with a wafer table. During the lowering, the holding force exerted by the chuck unit and the arrangement of chuck members are optimally adjusted such that, as a result of the restraint of the wafer by the chuck unit and the vertical-motion pins, localized surplus-restraint is imparted to the wafer, and warping does not occur.
US10242895B2
A self-contained metrology wafer carrier systems and methods of measuring one or more characteristics of semiconductor wafers are provided. A wafer carrier system includes, for instance, a housing configured for transport within the automated material handling system, the housing having a support configured to support a semiconductor wafer in the housing, and a metrology system disposed within the housing, the metrology system operable to measure at least one characteristic of the wafer, the metrology system comprising a sensing unit and a computing unit operably connected to the sensing unit. Also provided are methods of measuring one or more characteristics of a semiconductor wafer within the wafer carrier systems of the present disclosure.
US10242887B2
A semiconductor device includes a carrier and a plurality of semiconductor die disposed over the carrier. An encapsulant is deposited over the semiconductor die. A composite layer is formed over the encapsulant to form a panel. The carrier is removed. A conductive layer is formed over the panel. An insulating layer is formed over the conductive layer. The carrier includes a glass layer, a second composite layer formed over the glass layer, and an interface layer formed over the glass layer. The composite layer and encapsulant are selected to tune a coefficient of thermal expansion of the panel. The panel includes panel blocks comprising an opening separating the panel blocks. The encapsulant or insulating material is deposited in the opening. A plurality of support members are disposed around the panel blocks. An interconnect structure is formed over the conductive layer.
US10242882B2
Methods are provided to implement a cyclic etch process to remove oxide layers for semiconductor device fabrication. For example, a method comprises performing a cyclic etch process to incrementally etch an oxide layer, wherein the cyclic etch process comprises sequentially performing at least two instances of an etch cycle. The etch cycle comprises performing an etch process to partially etch a portion of the oxide layer using an etch chemistry and environment which is configured to etch down the oxide layer at an etch rate of about 25 angstroms/minute or less, and performing a thermal treatment to remove by-products of the etch process. The cyclic etch process can be implemented as part of a replacement metal gate process to remove a dummy gate oxide layer of a dummy gate structure as part of, e.g., a FinFET semiconductor fabrication process flow.
US10242880B2
Disclosed are a method of wet etching and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. The wet etching method includes providing a wafer in a process bath and an etchant is accommodated, supplying the process bath with a primary etchant to control a concentration of a specific material in the etchant, supplying the process bath with a first additive to increase the concentration of the specific material in the etchant, and supplying the process bath with a second additive to suppress a defect caused by an increase in the concentration of the specific material in the etchant. The etchant includes at least one, of the primary etchant, the first additive, and the second additive. The first additive and the second additive are separately supplied to the process bath.
US10242867B2
A method of fabricating a FinFET device includes forming contact openings for source/drain contacts prior to performing a replacement metal gate (RMG) module. Etch selective metals are used to form source/drain contacts and gate contacts optionally within active device regions using a block and recess technique.
US10242859B2
An ion trap device is disclosed with a method of manufacturing thereof including a substrate, first and second RF electrode rails, first and second DC electrodes on either upper or lower side of substrate, and a laser penetration passage connected to ion trapping zone from outer side of the first or second side of substrate. The substrate includes ion trapping zone in space defined by first and second sides of substrate separated by a distance with reference to width direction of ion trap device. The first and second RF electrode rails are arranged in parallel longitudinally of ion trap device. The first RF electrode is arranged on upper side of first side, the second DC electrode is arranged on lower side of first side, the first DC electrode is arranged on upper side of second side, and the second RF electrode rail is arranged on lower side of second side.
US10242857B2
A miniature electrode apparatus is disclosed for trapping charged particles, the apparatus includes, along a longitudinal direction, a first end cap electrode, a central electrode having an aperture, and a second end cap electrode. The aperture is elongated in the lateral plane and extends through the central electrode along the longitudinal direction and the central electrode surrounds the aperture in a lateral plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction to define a transverse cavity for trapping charged particles. Electric fields can be applied in a y-direction of the lateral plane across one or more planes perpendicular to the longitudinal axis to translocate and/or manipulate ion trajectories.
US10242845B2
A substrate is positioned on a substrate support structure within a plasma processing volume of an inductively coupled plasma processing chamber. A first radiofrequency signal is supplied from a first radiofrequency signal generator to a coil disposed outside of the plasma processing volume to generate a plasma in exposure to the substrate. A second radiofrequency signal is supplied from a second radiofrequency signal generator to an electrode within the substrate support structure. The first and second radiofrequency signal generators are controlled independent of each other. The second radiofrequency signal has a frequency greater than or equal to about 27 megaHertz. The second radiofrequency signal generates supplemental plasma density at a level of the substrate within the plasma processing volume while generating a bias voltage of less than about 200 volts at the level of the substrate.
US10242844B2
A plasma processing chamber includes a substrate support for receiving and holding a substrate. A window in the plasma processing chamber is oriented over the substrate support. A plurality of transformer coupled plasma coils is disposed over the window. The TCP coils are disposed radially equidistant from one another. Each TCP coil is connected to a power circuitry at one end and the opposite end is electrically grounded. The power circuitry includes an RF source and a phase-shift modulator. The RF source is used to apply RF power to the TCP coils at a generator frequency to generate RF electric field. The phase-shift modulator coupled to the RF source is configured to apply a modulation frequency that is phase-shifted to allow the RF electric field applied to each of the TCP coils to transition in a rotating pattern.
US10242840B2
A method of producing an implantation ion energy filter, suitable for processing a power semiconductor device. In one example, the method includes creating a preform having a first structure; providing an energy filter body material; and structuring the energy filter body material by using the preform, thereby establishing an energy filter body having a second structure.
US10242827B2
An electrically controlled switching device includes a support, a first contact coupled to the support, a second contact coupled to the support, an SMA element operably connected with the second contact, a sensor positioned on or adjacent to the SMA element, and a controller in communication with the sensor. The SMA element is configured to transform between a first shape and a different second shape responsive to an electrical pulse heating the SMA element to a transformation temperature. The sensor is configured to detect a detected temperature of the SMA element. The controller is configured to control the electrical pulse heating the SMA element. The controller receives signals from the sensor indicative of the detected temperature of the SMA element.
US10242819B1
A key structure includes a supporting plate, a triggering switch, a keycap and a soft element. The triggering switch is located over the supporting plate. The keycap is located over the triggering switch. When an external force is received by the keycap, the triggering switch is pushed by the keycap. The soft element is disposed on an inner surface of the keycap. When the soft element is contacted with the triggering switch, the soft element is subjected to deformation. When the soft element is contacted with the triggering switch, a portion of the triggering switch is inserted into the deformed soft element to limit a sliding action of the triggering switch. Consequently, the mechanical key switch provides enhanced tactile feel.
US10242818B2
A key structure includes a switch circuit board, a triggering assembly, a keycap and an elastic element. The triggering assembly is disposed over the switch circuit board. The elastic element is arranged between the keycap and the triggering assembly. As the keycap is moved, the triggering assembly is pushed by the elastic element. The elastic element includes a concave part. The concave part is located at a top end of the elastic element and contacted with the keycap. When the elastic element is pushed by the keycap, the concave part is subjected to deformation, so that a movable distance of the keycap toward the switch circuit board is increased. By using the key structure, the tactile feel of depressing the keycap is enhanced.
US10242810B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide a keycap that includes a plurality of front plane elements, where each front plane element includes a top electrode, a conductive region under each of the plurality of front plane elements, where each conductive region includes a bottom electrode and a top electrode coupling area, where each top electrode coupling area is electrically coupled to a common top electrode node, an electrical path between each top electrode and each corresponding top electrode coupling area such that each top electrode is connected to the common top electrode node, and a dielectric between each top electrode and each bottom electrode.
US10242800B2
In an embodiment, a multilayer ceramic capacitor 10 has a capacitor body comprising a capacitive part 11a constituted by multiple internal electrode layers 11a1 that are stacked with dielectric layers 11a2 in between, as well as dielectric cover parts 11b that respectively cover both sides of the capacitive part 11a in the stacking direction. Also, the dielectric layers 11a2 of the capacitive part 11a, and the dielectric cover parts 11b, contain elemental manganese, and the elemental manganese is distributed in such a way that its quantity gradually decreases in the depth direction from the exterior faces of the dielectric cover parts 11b toward the center of the dielectric layers 11a2 of the capacitive part 11a.
US10242788B2
The invention relates to anisotropic, reflective, magnetic flakes. In a liquid carrier and under influence of an external magnetic field, the flakes attract to one another side-by-side and form ribbons which provide higher reflectivity to a coating and may be used as a security feature for authentication of an object.
US10242787B2
A solenoid device includes two electromagnetic coils, two stationary cores, two plungers and a yoke that surrounds the two electromagnetic coils. When a first electromagnetic coil is energized, magnetic flux flows through a first magnetic circuit that includes the first stationary core. When the two electromagnetic coils are energized, magnetic flux of the first electromagnetic coil flows through the first magnetic circuit, and magnetic flux of the second electromagnetic coil flows through a second magnetic circuit that includes a second stationary core. When energization of the first electromagnetic coil is stopped while maintaining energization of the second electromagnetic coil, the magnetic flux of the second electromagnetic coil continues to flow through the second magnetic circuit and a third magnetic circuit that includes the two stationary cores. A magnetism limiting portion is disposed in a portion of the second magnetic circuit that does not overlap the third magnetic circuit.
US10242775B2
A variable resistor with a light emitting element includes a circuit board, a housing and a slide assembly. The circuit board extending in a longitudinal direction has a circuit arrangement surface to arrange thereon a resistive circuit and a power circuit. The housing fixed to the circuit board so as to form a slide space has a sliding slot extending in the longitudinal direction. The slide assembly further includes a slidable member, a fader set, a light emitting element, a resistive circuit brush and two light-emitting element brushes. The fader set fixed at the slidable member penetrates the sliding slot. The light emitting element in an accommodating groove of the slidable member projects a light beam toward the fader set. The resistive circuit brush electrically connects the resistive circuit. The two light-emitting element brushes electrically bridge the power circuit and the light emitting element.
US10242773B2
The invention relates to a separating device for an overvoltage protection element, wherein the separating device is to be arranged between the overvoltage protection element and a thermal disconnector, wherein the separating device has a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer, wherein a conductive layer is arranged between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, wherein the first insulating layer has a first cutout for a contact with the disconnector, and wherein the second insulating layer has a second cutout for a contact with the overvoltage protection element, wherein the cutouts provide a possibility for contacting the conductive layer and the conductive layer provides a thermal bridge between the overvoltage protection element and the thermal disconnector, with the insulating layers making both a thermal and an electrical insulation available, so that heat of the overvoltage protection element can be conducted in a focused manner to the thermal disconnector.
US10242770B2
A method for producing a long length high temperature superconductor wire, includes providing a substrate, having a surface with a length of at least 50 meters and a width. The surface supports a biaxially textured high temperature superconducting layer and the biaxially textured high temperature superconducting layer has a length and a width corresponding to the length and width of the surface of the substrate. The method includes irradiating the biaxially textured high temperature superconductor layer with an ion beam impinging uniformly along the length and across the width of the biaxially textured high temperature superconductor layer to produce a uniform distribution of pinning microstructures in the biaxially textured high temperature superconductor layer.
US10242763B2
A joined body 20 includes a first member 22 having a thermal expansion coefficient of 8 ppm/K or less, a second member 24 having a thermal expansion coefficient of 12 ppm/K or more, and a joining portion 30 composed of an electrically conductive oxide containing 50% by mass or more of a spinel-type ferrite phase, the joining portion 30 joining the first member and the second member. The electrically conductive oxide preferably contains Fe and element A (where element A represents one or more selected from the group consisting of Mg, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn). The molar ratio of element A to Fe, i.e., A/Fe, is 0.5 or less.
US10242761B2
A method for preparing alpha sources of polonium. A sample of polonium is provided in a solution. A controlled amount of sulfide and a controlled amount of a metal capable of forming an insoluble sulfide salt in the solution are introduced into the solution, in order to co-precipitate polonium from the solution. The precipitates are filtered out.
US10242758B2
A method is provided for operating a nuclear reactor. The method includes operating the nuclear reactor for at least one plutonium equilibrium cycle during which the core contains plutonium-equilibrium nuclear fuel assemblies; subsequently, operating the reactor for transition cycles, at least some of the plutonium-equilibrium nuclear fuel assemblies being progressively replaced with transition nuclear fuel assemblies and then with uranium-equilibrium nuclear fuel assemblies; and then operating the nuclear reactor for at least one uranium equilibrium cycle.
US10242752B2
A method for screening bad columns applicable to a data storage medium is disclosed. The method for screening bad columns includes steps of: reading out written data of at least one of the data pages of at least one of the data blocks; comparing the written data with predetermined data to obtain a number of error bits in each of the columns in each of the segments in the at least one of the data pages, and accordingly calculating a total number of error bits in each of the segments; determining a segment having a largest total number of error bits from the segments, and determining and recording a column having a largest number of error bits from the segment having the largest total number of error bits as a bad column. A data storage device saving a bad column summary table is also disclosed.
US10242750B2
Techniques are presented for testing the high-speed data path between the IO pads and the read/write buffer of a memory circuit without the use of an external test device. In an on-chip process, a data test pattern is transferred at a high data rate between the read/write register and a source for the test pattern, such as register for this purpose or the read/write buffer of another plane. The test data after the high-speed transfer is then checked against its expected, uncorrupted value, such as by transferring it back at a lower speed for comparison or by transferring the test data a second time, but at a lower rate, and comparing the high transfer rate copy with the lower transfer rate copy at the receiving end of the transfers.
US10242741B1
The present invention discloses a low voltage difference-operated EEPROM and an operating method thereof wherein at least one transistor structure is formed in a semiconductor substrate and each includes a first electric-conduction gate. An ion implantation is performed by masking partial regions to prevent the existence of the conventional lightly doped drain (LDD) structure. An undoped region is formed in the semiconductor substrate under the two sides of the first electric-conductive gate, to increase the intensity of electric field between the gate and the substrate or between the gate and the transistor, whereby to reduce the voltage differences required for writing and erasing. The present invention also discloses an operating method for the low voltage difference-operated EEPROM. The present invention applies to the EEPROM with a single gate transistor structure.
US10242737B1
An array of resistance cells has a number M of rows and a number N of columns of resistance cells. Each cell comprises a transistor having a threshold, representing a weight factor Wnm of the cell, and a resistive element in series with the transistor. Each cell has a cell resistance having a first value when the transistor is on and a second value when the transistor is off. A set of source lines is coupled to the resistance cells in respective columns. A set of bit lines is coupled to the resistance cells in respective rows, signals on the bit lines representing inputs x(m) to the respective rows. A set of word lines is coupled to gates of the transistors in the resistance cells in respective columns. Current sensed at a particular source line represents a sum of products of the inputs x(m) by respective weight factors Wnm.
US10242726B1
Some embodiments include an assembly having active material structures arranged in an array having rows and columns. Each of the active material structures has a first side which includes a bit contact region, and has a second side which includes a cell contact region. Each of the bit contact regions is coupled with a first redistribution pad. Each of the cell contact regions is coupled with a second redistribution pad. The first redistribution pads are coupled with bitlines, and the second redistribution pads are coupled with programmable devices. Some embodiments include methods of forming memory arrays.
US10242716B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory disposed on a surface of the substrate, and a controller disposed on a surface of the controller. The substrate has a slit on an edge on which interface connection terminals are formed, a ground pattern, first and second wiring patterns that are electrically connected to the ground pattern and extend in a direction in which the slit extends, and a through hole that is formed between the first and second wiring patterns and is large enough along a dimension between the first and second wiring patterns to span substantially all of the spacing between the first and second wiring patterns.
US10242706B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk, and a spindle motor configured to rotate the disk. A first driving voltage is applied across a first and second windings of the spindle motor connected in series while measuring a first mutual inductance voltage across a third winding, wherein the first driving voltage comprises a first amplitude and a first polarity. A second driving voltage is applied across the first and second winding connected in series while measuring a second mutual inductance voltage across the third winding, wherein the second driving voltage comprises the first amplitude and a second polarity opposite the first polarity. The first measured mutual inductance voltage and the second measured mutual inductance voltage are combined to generate a first mutual inductance signal, and an angular position of the spindle motor is estimated based on the first mutual inductance signal.
US10242705B2
A disc cassette includes a curved portion configured to hold multiple discs. A platform portion abuts the curved portion. A movable bale is configured to maintain discs securely in the disc cassette except when rotated off the discs.
US10242704B2
A plurality of commands is received from a host to perform at least one of reading data and writing data on a magnetic storage media of a Data Storage Device (DSD). The plurality of commands is clustered for performance based at least in part on a timing control of a fly-height heater of the DSD that is configured to adjust a flying height of a head of the DSD while the head is flying over the magnetic storage media. A cluster of commands is performed including the plurality of commands by controlling the head to perform at least one of reading and writing data on the magnetic storage media for the cluster of commands.
US10242696B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an integrated circuit for implementing at least a portion of an audio device may include an audio output configured to reproduce audio information by generating an audio output signal for communication to at least one transducer of the audio device, a microphone input configured to receive an input signal indicative of ambient sound external to the audio device and a processor configured to implement an impulsive noise detector. The impulsive noise detector may include a sudden onset detector for predicting an occurrence of a signal burst event of the input signal and an impulsive detector for determining whether the signal burst event comprises a speech event or a noise event.
US10242694B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for synchronizing algorithmic state data with audio trace signals. In a particular embodiment, a method provides processing digital audio data linearly in the time domain using a digital audio processing algorithm. The method further provides determining the digital algorithmic state data comprising an output state of the digital audio processing algorithm at each of a plurality of time instances during the processing of the digital audio data. Also, the method provides aligning the digital algorithmic state data in the time domain with a trace of the digital audio data.
US10242690B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a system and method for speech enhancement using the coherent to diffuse sound ratio. Embodiments may include receiving an audio signal at one or more microphones and controlling one or more adaptive filters of a beamformer using a coherent to diffuse ratio (“CDR”).
US10242688B2
An apparatus for processing an audio signal having associated therewith a pitch lag information and a gain information, includes a domain converter for converting a first domain representation of the audio signal into a second domain representation of the audio signal; and a harmonic post-filter for filtering the second domain representation of the audio signal, wherein the post-filter is based on a transfer function including a numerator and a denominator, wherein the numerator includes a gain value indicated by the gain information, and wherein the denominator includes an integer part of a pitch lag indicated by the pitch lag information and a multi-tap filter depending on a fractional part of the pitch lag.
US10242683B2
The invention relates to a method for mixing a plurality of audio streams coded according to a frequency sub-band coding, comprising the steps for decoding (E201) a part of the coded streams over at least a first frequency sub-band, for summing (E202) the streams thus decoded so as to form at least a first mixed stream. The method is such that it comprises the steps for detection (E203), over at least a second frequency sub-band different from the at least first sub-band, of the presence of a predetermined frequency band in the plurality of coded audio streams and for summing (E205) the decoded audio streams (E204) for which the presence of the predetermined frequency band has been detected, over said at least a second sub-band, so as to form at least a second mixed stream.The invention also relates to a mixing device implementing the method described and may be integrated into a conference bridge, a communications terminal or a communications gateway.
US10242678B2
A friend addition method, device and medium are provided. The method includes: when a voiceprint-based friend addition request is received, target voice information is acquired; user information of a user to be added is determined according to the target voice information; and the user to be added is added as a friend according to the user information.
US10242669B1
A method and process for using subsequent analysis of an audio recording to improve the punctuation of a transcribed audio file that has been processed by a transcription (speech to text) service or process. Features are disclosed for assessing audio data and transcription information to enhance the punctuation or capitalization of the words detected therein. The timing information received from a service transcribing the audio may be compared with audio analysis of the original audio data to identify words likely to be associated with punctuation or capitalization. The features generate a transcript with improved semantic and syntactic accuracy over the transcript received from the transcription service.
US10242663B2
Voice command recognition with dialect translation is disclosed. User voice input can be translated to a standard voice pattern using a dialect translation unit. A control command can then be generated based on the translated user voice input. In certain embodiments, the voice command recognition system with dialect translation can be implemented in a driving apparatus. In those embodiments, various control commands to control the driving apparatus can be generated by a user with a dialect input. The generated voice control commands for the driving apparatus can include starting the driving apparatus, turning on/off A/C unit, controlling the A/C unit, turning on/off entertainment system, controlling the entertainment system, turning on/off certain safety features, turning on/off certain driving features, adjusting seat, adjusting steering wheel, taking a picture of surroundings and/or any other control commands that can control various functions of the driving apparatus.
US10242658B2
A system for self-organized acoustic signal cancellation over a network is disclosed. The system may transmit an acoustic sounding signal to an interfering device so that a channel measurement may be performed for a channel between the interfering device and an interferee device. The system may receive the channel measurement for the channel from the interfering device and also receive a digitized version of an audio interference signal associated with the interfering device. Based on the channel measurement and the digital version of the interference signal, the system may calculate a cancellation signal prior to the arrival of the original over-the-air audio interference signal that corresponds to the digital version of audio interference signal. The system may then apply the cancellation signal to an audio signal associated with the interferee device to remove the interference signal from the audio signal.
US10242651B2
According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes a display unit configured to display an image; a character information acquisition unit configured to acquire character information which is associated with the image that is displayed on the display unit; a size acquisition unit configured to acquire a size of the image that is displayed on the display unit; and a display controller configured to determine a display mode of the character information acquired by the character information acquisition unit, in accordance with the size of the image which was acquired by the size acquisition unit, and to display characters and the image on the display unit.
US10242641B2
A data processing apparatus has a first compressor, a second compressor, a first output interface, and a second output interface. The first compressor generates first compressed display data by performing compression upon display data of a first partial region of a frame according to a first compression order. The second compressor generates second compressed display data by performing compression upon display data of a second partial region of the frame according to a second compression order. There is a boundary between the first partial region and the second partial region. In a horizontal direction, the first compression order on one side of the first boundary is opposite to the second compression order on another side of the first boundary. The first and second output interfaces output the first and second compressed display data via a first display port and a second display port of a display interface, respectively.
US10242629B2
An object is to provide a liquid crystal display device which can recognize image display even when the liquid crystal display device is used in a dim environment. In one pixel, a pixel electrode including both of a region where incident light through a liquid crystal layer is reflected and a transmissive region is provided, and image display can be performed in both modes: the reflective mode where external light is used as an illumination light source; and the transmissive mode where the backlight is used as an illumination light source. When there is external light with insufficient brightness, that is, in a dim environment, the backlight emits weak light and an image is displayed in the reflective mode, whereby image display can be performed.
US10242618B2
An organic light emitting diode (OELD) driver for driving at least one OELD having a transition time. The OLED driver has a power supply coupled to a bias pulse controller and an injection pulse controller. The bias pulse controller is configured to generate a bias pulse output based on the OLED transition time. The injection pulse controller is configured to generate an injection pulse output. A combiner is coupled to the bias pulse output and the injection pulse output. The combiner is configured to generate a combined output to drive the OLED. A system controller may be coupled to at least one of the power supply, bias pulse controller and injection pulse controller to adjust the voltage/current delivered to the OLED to adjust a light level output of the OLED. The OLED driver may include a switch that changes a dwell time of the bias pulse controller output.
US10242609B2
The present disclosure discloses a barrier type naked-eye 3D display screen and a display device. The barrier type naked-eye 3D display screen comprises an OLED screen and a liquid crystal screen, a light emergent surface of the OLED screen facing a light incident surface of the liquid crystal screen, wherein the liquid crystal screen comprises a color film substrate having no color resist; the OLED screen comprises a color OLED array serving as a luminous layer thereof, and a drive array connected to and driving the luminous layer so that the OLED screen can produce alternately dark and bright color fringes, which can form a first color image and a second color image having a parallax via the liquid crystal screen, to form a 3D image.
US10242608B2
A vehicle display control apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes a display control portion that controls a head-up display device displaying an image by superimposing the image on a view visible to a driver of the vehicle through a windshield of the vehicle, and a condition determination portion that determines whether a condition under which the vehicle should slow down is satisfied. The display control portion causes, based on a determination of the condition determination portion that the condition is satisfied, the head-up display device to display an object that does not actually exist on a road under circumstances where the condition is satisfied, as an illusion image that produces an optical illusion appearing that a road surface viewed from the driver flows faster than an actual speed in an opposite direction to a travel direction by superimposing the illusion image on the view.
US10242599B1
An adjustable mounting bracket for mounting a skull of an animal onto a wall. The mounting bracket is adjustable so that the angle of the skull can be changed, so that the skull can be rotated from side to side, and so that the stinger that secures the skull to the mounting bracket can be lifted off of the base of the mounting bracket without removing the base from the wall. Each side of the stinger has a pointed stabilizer for engaging the skull to hold it firmly to the stinger. The base can be made in a variety of shapes and designs. One design has a base with an opening therein that forms a picture frame. Adjustment of the mounting bracket does not require any tools. The stinger is removable from the base to facilitate marketing, packaging and distribution and to make it easier to attach a skull.
US10242591B2
A system and method for assessing cardiovascular fitness of a subject. A local monitoring device is coupled to the subject for acquiring input data related to the subject. A remote monitoring system is communicatively coupled to the local monitoring device over a network for receiving the input data. The remote monitoring system includes a non-transitory memory having stored thereon an algorithm to be applied to the input data. A processor having access to the memory and algorithm is configured to calculate heart rate complexity (HRC) data based on the input data, compare the HRC data to at least one predetermined threshold value, and process the HRC data in relation to the at least one predetermined threshold value to generate a cardiovascular fitness level of the subject. A display is coupled to the remote monitoring system and configured to display a report related to the cardiovascular fitness level of the subject.
US10242590B2
A wearable training device for gait rehabilitation and a method using the same are provided. The training device includes a power supply unit, a light emitting unit, a support member and a trigger unit. The power supply unit and the light emitting unit are coupled with each other and disposed on the support member attached on a user's lower limb. The trigger unit is contacted a sole of foot of the lower limb on which the support member is attached, and coupled to the light emitting unit. When the sole of foot is landed, the trigger unit is triggered to activate the light emitting unit to project a visible light on the ground where a front stepping point of user's opposite lower limb is located, to form a stepping prompt point with visible prompt effect on the ground. Therefore, the user can be guided to step.
US10242586B2
An information providing method of a server, including: acquiring at least one of content information corresponding to content displayed on a display apparatus and user information of a user of the display apparatus; extracting at least one question related to the content from a question-answer database based on the at least one of the content information and the user information; and transmitting the extracted at least one question to the display apparatus, wherein the question-answer database is generated based on a question-answer template.
US10242584B1
The present disclosure relates generally to altering the cognitive load in an individual to affect the information and task processing of that individual. Specifically introducing movement in the peripheral visual field of the individual reduces the cognitive load, thereby allowing the user to be more efficient at the primary task or information processing. Included is a system comprising a support that is shaped to be positioned in front of a user and in the field of vision of the user. A first display screen is attached to the support and positioned in the right eye peripheral vision, while a second display screen is attached to the support and positioned in the left eye peripheral vision. A computer readable memory medium is accessible by a processor and to instruct the first display screen and the second display screen to display a repetitive, non-biological movement on the screens.
US10242583B2
An audio demonstration kit encourages understanding of audio concepts by enabling children to construct and study speaker performance. In a particular example, the audio demonstration kit includes a paper speaker and instructions. The paper speaker includes a backplate, a suspension, and a diaphragm cut from a single sheet of paper. The demonstration kit may feature an amplifier that is configurable to accommodate various hardware additions as a child is ready for more progressively challenging construction. For example, the amplifier of an example allows single and dual mode operation, as well as drives a rotary motor and is coordinated with a strobe light. The amplifier of an example is synchronized with the strobe light and a moveable platform to create the impression of that jiggling figures attached to the table are dancing. Interfaces with smart phone, recording, and other technologies further enhances and encourages the learning experience.
US10242578B2
Systems and methods for determining a flight path of an aircraft are provided. In one embodiment, a method can include identifying one or more parameter(s) associated with a moving target. The method can include determining a moving circular flight path associated with the moving target based at least in part on the parameter(s) associated with the moving target. The method can include identifying one or more condition(s) associated with at least one of the aircraft and the moving circular flight path. The method can include determining a flight path of the aircraft from a location of the aircraft to the moving circular flight path based at least in part on the parameter(s) associated with the moving target and the condition(s) associated with at least one of the aircraft and the moving circular flight path.
US10242576B2
The obstacle detection device comprises: a first camera installed on a moving vehicle used for photographing a frontward or rearward view of the vehicle; a second camera installed on the vehicle used for photographing a sideward view of the vehicle; a parking space detection unit for detecting a parking space on the basis of an image obtained by photographing by the first camera; a memory unit for storing a real-space area of the parking space; a motion acquisition unit for acquiring information about behaviors of the vehicle; an obstacle calculation unit for calculating information about an obstacle present in the vicinity of the parking space on the basis of multiple images obtained by photographing by the second camera at different points in time; and a processing area setting unit for controlling, the calculation by the obstacle calculation unit.
US10242571B1
A method involves accelerating the electronic determination of high quality solutions to routing problems by utilizing determined optimized time windows for precomputing optimal path matrices to reduce computer resource usage. The use of traffic windows defined based on changes in rates of change of speeds for traffic on road segments allows for more rapid determination of a set of one or more high quality solutions as compared to requiring on-demand, in-process determination of a shortest path for a particular time during comparison of paths or routes performed as part of a process for determining high quality solutions to the routing problem.
US10242562B2
Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a control system that includes a receiving structure to receive a plurality of modular devices, with one or more of the plurality of modular devices being coupled into respective locations on the receiving structure and with each of the one or more of the plurality of modular devices configured to transmit a short-range communication in response to receiving a respective stimulus by the each of the one or more of the plurality of modular devices. The control system further includes a communication module to communicate with the one or more of the plurality of modular devices coupled to the receiving structure, and a controller configured to perform a respective operation in response to receiving a short-range message from a respective one of the one or more of the plurality of modular devices.
US10242552B1
A vehicle having a horn and a light includes an alarm system secured to a ceiling of the vehicle. The alarm system includes a housing secured to the ceiling; a computer carried within the housing and in data communication with a thermal imaging sensor configured to determine if a party is left behind after the driver leaves the vehicle; a transceiver operably associated with the computer; and a mobile device operably associated with the transceiver. The method to notify a driver and/or third party if a party is left behind in a vehicle includes determining if the party is left behind via the thermal imaging sensor; and wirelessly notifying driver that the party has been left behind.
US10242551B2
Systems and methods for providing remote notifications upon the detection of certain conditions. In one embodiment, a device comprising a housing, a power unit, a liquid sensor, and a communications unit detects the presence of a liquid and initiates an alert notification that is transmitted to a remote device.
US10242542B2
The present invention relates to an alarm pane arrangement having: at least one first pane which is composed of tempered glass, having an outside surface and an inside surface, at least one transparent, electrically conductive coating which is arranged on the inside surface of the first pane, a sensor unit with a capacitive sensor which is capacitively coupled to the transparent, electrically conductive coating, where the sensor unit outputs an alarm signal in the event of deviations in a measurement signal of the capacitive sensor from a comparison value, where the capacitive sensor contains i) precisely one measuring electrode or ii) a measuring electrode and a reference ground electrode or iii) a measuring electrode, a reference ground electrode and at least one compensation electrode, and where the measuring electrode is DC-isolated from the transparent, electrically conductive coating.
US10242536B2
A gaming system provides a game to one or more players and includes a ball lottery machine. The ball lottery machine includes a frame, a lottery ball field, an image projection unit, and a control unit. The lottery ball field has a rotating field. The rotating field includes a plurality of ball pockets spaced on the rotating field. The ball pockets are configured to receive a lottery ball. The rotating field is rotatably coupled to the frame. The image projection unit is coupled to the frame and is configured to project a rotating image into an upper surface of the rotating field. The control unit is configured to establish a rate of rotation associated with the rotating field and to responsively control a rate of rotation of the rotating image using the image projection unit.
US10242535B2
A gaming tournament and tournament system allow multiple players to play a plurality of individual games, such as at gaming machines of the system. Each player plays individual games until they have achieved a predesignated number of game losses. Each player is assigned a tournament score, such as comprising an aggregate of points which are awarded for each winning game outcome. The individual games may comprise poker games which include a replacement card feature and a dynamic point award configuration.
US10242529B2
An object matching interleaved wagering electronic gaming machine is disclosed. The object matching interleaved electronic gaming machine includes a wager controller operatively connected to an application controller. The wager controller is constructed to receive a request to execute a wager, determine a plurality of results for the wager using a random number generator, and communicate the results for the wager to the application controller. The application controller is operatively connected to an interactive controller and the wager controller. The application controller is constructed to communicate a request to the wager controller to execute the wager, receive the results for the wager from the wager controller, associate the results for the wager with a plurality of graphical display objects, and generate data for the graphical display objects. The interactive controller is operatively connected to the application controller. The interactive controller is constructed to receive the data for the graphical display objects from the application controller, provide to a user an interactive game including the graphical display objects, receive a user's interaction with the graphical display objects, determine that the user has successfully accessed the graphical display objects, and reveal the wager result associated with the graphical display objects.
US10242528B2
An electromechanical gaming machine constructed to operate an anti-sandbagging system in a hybrid game having an entertainment game and a gambling game. One embodiment includes an entertainment controller, a game world controller, a real world controller and an anti-sandbagging module. The entertainment controller generates an entertainment game; the real world controller, determines a wager outcome, and the game world controller instructs the real world controller to execute the wager, and the anti-sandbagging module that receives player performance information, establishes a base skill level; establishes a skill change parameter; and update the base skill level if the difference between the player skill level and the base skill falls within the skill change parameter.
US10242520B2
The object is to avoid degradation of magnetic detection precision arising due to magnetization of transport rollers used for transporting a paper sheet. A paper sheet magnetic detection apparatus that detects a magnetic material in the paper sheet by using a magnetic sensor includes a transport path that transports paper sheets one by one; at least one magnet that is used in the detection of the magnetic material by the magnetic sensor; and a plurality of transport rollers that are arranged near the magnetic sensor and that transport the paper sheet in the transport path. Outer peripheral surfaces of the plurality of transport rollers that face the transport path are made of a non-magnetic material.
US10242518B2
A security system and method including a transmitter broadcasting an inaudible signal. The security system further includes one or more sensors configured to detect the inaudible signal. The security system further includes a processing system in communication with the one or more sensors. The processing system tracks the inaudible signal of the transmitter throughout a location in response to detecting the inaudible signal.
US10242516B2
A car sharing system includes: an IC card carried by a user and including an identification ID of the user; an in-vehicle apparatus that is mounted on a vehicle, and includes a card reading portion reading the IC card and a switch control portion performing an on-off control of a vehicle power source switch that allows traveling of a vehicle; and a management apparatus that is disposed in a reservation management center, wirelessly communicates with the in-vehicle apparatus, manages an operation status of the vehicle, and further manages reservation information. The in-vehicle apparatus reads the IC card by the card reading portion and, based on authentication of an the identification ID by collation between the identification ID, which is read, and the reservation information, executes a check-in process of the vehicle and turns on the vehicle power source switch.
US10242508B2
A maintenance system is provided for an environmental conditioning element of an environmental control system of a vehicle. The maintenance system includes a data acquisition module configured to determine an ambient temperature, an altitude of the vehicle, and a measured ECS compressor temperature; a fouling module coupled to receive the ambient temperature, the altitude, and the measured ECS compressor temperature from the data acquisition module and configured to generate a fouling condition of the environmental conditioning element based on at least the ambient temperature, the altitude, and the measured ECS compressor temperature; and a reporting module coupled to receive the fouling condition from the fouling module and configured to generate a report for a user that includes the fouling condition.
US10242506B2
The present invention discloses a method for visualizing 4D data by integrating received data, at a server system. The method may include a step of extracting data for extracting layer information representing a relation between items, status information representing state or event of each of the items, and connection information enabling each of the items to be related to internal/external system from received at least one raw data, a step of generating contents for generating an object from the extracted information as and integrally implementing the generated object in a visualization space, and a step of visualization control for visualizing and controlling the generated contents, wherein each of the object and the visualization space may be integrally implemented to 4D data with location information and time information.
US10242492B2
A shadow information storing method and apparatus is disclosed. The shadow information storing apparatus determines a shadow area through rendering a three-dimensional (3D) model based on light radiated from a reference virtual light source, determines a shadow feature value of a vertex of the 3D model based on a distance between a location of the vertex of the 3D model and the shadow area, and stores the determined shadow feature value.
US10242490B2
The invention relates to a displaying system for displaying digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) data. First and second DBT volume images of the left breast of a woman and first and second DBT volume images of the right breast of the woman are provided by an image providing unit. Moreover, for each DBT volume image a two-dimensional navigation image is provided by a navigation image providing unit, wherein a user is allowed to indicate a location in the navigation image by using a user interface, whereafter a CAD marker associated with the location is determined in a DBT volume image of a breast and a corresponding CAD marker, if present, is determined in another DBT volume image of the breast. Slices of these DBT volume images, which are associated with the CAD markers, are presented on a display.
US10242486B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to render augmented reality and virtual reality (VR/AR) environment information. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to selectively suppress and enhance VR/AR renderings of n-dimensional environments. The systems, apparatuses and methods may deepen a user's VR/AR experience by focusing on particular feedback information, while suppressing other feedback information from the environment.
US10242481B2
In general, techniques are described for visibility-based state updates in graphical processing units (GPUs). A device that renders image data comprising a memory configured to store state data and a GPU may implement the techniques. The GPU may be configured to perform a multi-pass rendering process to render an image from the image data. The GPU determines visibility information for a plurality of objects defined by the image data during a first pass of the multi-pass rendering process. The visibility information indicates whether each of the plurality of objects will be visible in the image rendered from the image data during a second pass of the multi-pass rendering process. The GPU then retrieves the state data from the memory for use by the second pass of the multi-pass rendering process in rendering the plurality of objects of the image data based on the visibility information.
US10242474B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to mechanisms and processes relating to artificially rendering images using viewpoint interpolation and extrapolation. According to particular embodiments, a method includes applying a transform to estimate a path outside the trajectory between a first frame and a second frame, where the first frame includes a first image captured from a first location and the second frame includes a second image captured from a second location. The process also includes generating an artificially rendered image corresponding to a third location positioned on the path. The artificially rendered image is generated by interpolating a transformation from the first location to the third location and from the third location to the second location, gathering image information from the first frame and the second frame by transferring first image information from the first frame to the third frame and second image information from the second frame to the third frame, and combining the first image information and the second image information.
US10242467B2
An optical tomography apparatus has a measurement unit that divides light output from a light source into measurement light and reference light, that repeatedly scans a subject with the measurement light, and that causes a detector to detect interference between reflected light of the measurement light and the reference light, and a processor. The processor performs an acquisition process of are temporally sequentially acquiring tomographic images at the same transverse position in the subject based on a signal output from the detector. The processor performs a video image generation process of generating a synthetic image on a real time basis by synthesizing a new tomographic image frequently and one or more past images, and causing a monitor to display a real time video image formed from the synthetic image.
US10242464B1
An automated process provides diffusion coloring of vector graphics using color points, which appear to the user as color handles. A computing device programmatically receives input from a user establishing a plurality of color handles within a source geometry specified by a set of curves. The computing device defines a mesh with a plurality of vertices distributed throughout the source geometry. A resultant color at each vertex of the plurality of vertices is determined and a diffused pixel color is programmatically set for each pixel within the source geometry by interpolating between the resultant colors at the plurality of vertices.
US10242459B2
With regard to an inspection region for inspecting abnormality of a holding state of the substrate in an image of the substrate holding unit, (1) an upper end surface of the substrate being normally held by the substrate holding unit is confirmed, (2) based on a position of the upper end surface of the substrate that has been confirmed, a position of the inspection region in a vertical direction is determined, and (3) for a candidate of the inspection region of which the position in the vertical direction has been determined, density thereof at a rotation start time of the substrate holding unit is obtained, a horizontal position of the inspection region is determined based on a difference image integrated value, which is an integrated value of a difference absolute value with density of the same region in an initial state of the substrate holding unit.
US10242454B2
An electronic device includes a time of flight (ToF) camera and one or more processors. The ToF camera captures raw depth images. The processors determine a depth frame and an amplitude frame from the raw depth images. The depth frame comprises an array of pixels, each pixel having a depth value. The amplitude frame comprises an array of pixels, each pixel having an amplitude energy value. The processors determine a first energy threshold value based on the amplitude energy values of the array of pixels of the amplitude frame and determine, for the depth value of a first pixel of the depth frame, a confidence value representing a corresponding validity of a depth represented by the depth value, based on a comparison of the amplitude energy value of a corresponding first pixel of the amplitude frame to the first energy threshold value.
US10242439B1
Methods and systems for analyzing and processing digital data comprising a plurality of infra-red (IR) video images acquired by a pulse thermography system are used to compute video data from the raw and smoothed video data acquired for the performance of non-destructive evaluation. New video data types computed may include but are not limited to contrast evolution data such as normalized contrast, converted contrast and normalized temperature contrast. Additionally, video data types computed comprise surface temperature, surface temperature rise and temperature simple contrast.
US10242435B2
An apparatus for HDR image processing is provided. The apparatus determines an imaging sensitivity value. The apparatus then compares subsets of imaging information with the determined imaging sensitivity value and applies a gamma correction to each subset of imaging information using a gamma low contrast curve or a gamma high contrast curve based on the comparison to obtain the gamma corrected subset of imaging information.
US10242432B2
The present invention discloses a video denoising system based on noise correlation, said system comprises a unit for estimating correlation of noises of adjacent pixels, which receives input of the inter-frame difference and motion probability, and estimates correlation of noises of adjacent pixels according to correlation of inter-frame differences between adjacent pixels in a still region, and outputs a noise correlation coefficient; a maximum filtering weight adjusting unit, which adaptively adjusts the maximum weight for temporal filtering according to the noise correlation coefficient and outputs the maximum weight for temporal filtering; the maximum weight for temporal filtering can control the range of fluctuation of the temporal filtering weight and the difference between the denoising effects for different pixels. The system of the present invention can solve the problem of “speckle” noise occurred when the video noises have adjacent correlation in the conventional temporal denoising system for videos.
US10242428B2
The present disclosure is related to a method for driving a transparent display device. The method includes extracting a corneal reflection image, generating a flat target image, generating a background image, and displaying the background image on a transparent display panel. The corneal reflection image includes a target image formed by projecting, on a cornea of a user, a display area of the transparent display panel divided into the display area which displays a display image and transmits light reflected from a background and a non-display area adjacent to the display area. The flat target image is generated by correcting the target image distorted by a curved shape of the cornea. The background image is formed by removing the display image from the flat target image.
US10242423B2
One embodiment provides an accelerator module comprising a memory stack including multiple memory dies; a graphics processing unit (GPU) coupled with the memory stack via one or more memory controllers, the GPU including a plurality of multiprocessors having a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture, the multiprocessors to execute at least one single instruction; the at least one single instruction to cause at least a portion of the GPU to perform a floating-point operation on input having differing precisions; and the floating-point operation is a two-dimensional matrix multiply and accumulate operation.
US10242419B2
In one embodiment a graphics processing system comprises a graphics processor having execution logic and shared memory and a shader compiler unit to compile a shader program for execution by the execution logic of the graphic processor, wherein the shader is to optimize the shader program during the compile, wherein to optimize the shader program includes to convert a divergent block of parallel instructions into a divergent block and a non-divergent block of instructions.
US10242418B2
Power gating a portion of a graphics processor may be used to improve performance or to achieve a power budget. A processor granularity, such as a slice or subslice, may be gated.
US10242416B2
Methods for administering preventative healthcare measures to a patient population are disclosed. A patient population eligible to receive certain healthcare benefits is defined and thereafter multiple sources of healthcare data are compiled and analyzed to create health profiles for each individual. An objective set of criteria for providing preventative care is provided to eligible members within the patient population and appropriate healthcare is administered to the degree necessary to make sure a sufficient percentage of the population receives adequate healthcare treatment consistent with the recognized, objective healthcare standards. Patients remaining non-compliant are sought for further administration of healthcare until requisite compliance standards are met.
US10242414B2
Methods and systems are described for providing cost effective leak detection in a fluid network. Step testing procedures are represented by decision trees and associated expected costs are calculated. Selection of step testing procedures is optimized for low expected cost. The total expected cost rate for a network configuration may be calculated from the rate of leak occurrence and the optimal expected costs associated therewith. Network configuration changes may be recommended by optimizing for total expected cost rate for a fluid network.
US10242405B2
Systems and methods are provided for processing mass quote messages and generating market data. A mass quote message is received and individual orders are parsed and processed. Individual market data messages are stored in a market data message buffer. After all orders are processed, the contents of the market data message buffer is distributed as a single market data message.
US10242394B2
A system, method and computer program product offers vending machine merchandise located within a vending machine network by performing the following process: a host server receiving from a first user, located at a merchandise vending machine, a request to retrieve an item; in response to receiving the request, the host server locating the item; the host server communicating the request to a second user belonging to a friendship network of the first user and notifying the second user that the item is located at a merchandise vending machine; upon receiving from the second user an acceptance to the request, the host server notifying the first user that the acceptance of the request was received; and in accordance with terms and conditions of the second user acceptance of the offer, the host server transmitting a temporary code to the first user for retrieving the item.
US10242385B2
An online system using attributes of users to select content for presentation to the users predicts one or more attributes of users whose attributes are unavailable to the online system. For a user with one or more attributes unavailable to the online system, the online system applies a model to attributes of additional users to predict one or more attributes of the user. Attributes of the additional user use in the prediction may include demographic information and interactions with content by the additional users. The online system may determine an accuracy of the model by using the model to predict attributes for users whose attributes are known to the online system and comparing the predicted attributes to the known attributes. If the model's accuracy is less than a threshold value, the online system discontinues using the model to predict attributes of users.
US10242382B1
Systems and methods for redeeming a reward held by an individual are described. A method for redeeming a reward includes determining threshold criteria for provision of a targeted reward redemption offer, identifying at least one individual based upon the threshold criteria, determining the targeted reward redemption offer, and providing the targeted reward redemption offer to the identified individual. A response to the provided targeted reward redemption offer may be received, and an account of the identified individual may be adjusted in accordance with the targeted reward redemption offer and the received response.
US10242374B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to the generation and presentation of merchant insights to a brick-and-mortar merchant. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to detecting and identifying users visiting a merchant's retail location, determining product preferences of the identified users that relate to the merchant, and providing merchant insights to the merchant based on the determined product preferences.
US10242370B2
Provided are examples of apparatus and methods which relate to enforcing compliance with one or more administrative requirements relating to using computing resources. In an example, one or more objects being used on one or more cloud computing platforms are identified with a computing device. Data describing the one or more objects is received. One or more rules restricting the use of the one or more objects is received. One or more violations of the one or more rules are searched for by comparing the received data to the rules. In response to identifying one or more violations, a response to the one or more violations is executed.
US10242369B2
A method and associated system for establishing an agricultural pedigree for at least one agricultural product with integrated farm equipment comprises the steps of: a) Providing an open communication network accessible information storage device adapted to receive input of data relating to at least one of the agricultural product's production, harvesting, distribution, processing and consumption, from at least one and preferably from multiple sources; b) Inputting one or more contemporaneous inputs into the information storage device over time throughout at least the production of the agricultural product, wherein the inputting includes automated contemporaneous uploading of inputs from farm equipment engaged in the production of the agricultural product; c) Storing and said data; and d) Providing access to at least a portion of said data via the open communication network. The method may further include predicting at least one sustainability measurement of the agricultural product utilizing said data.
US10242365B2
A domain-specific hardwired symbolic eCommerce machine is described that processes information via the hardwired mapping of symbols from one or more domains onto other such domains, computing and communicating with improved security and reduced power consumption because it has no CPU, no Random Access Memory (RAM), no instruction registers, no Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), no operating system (OS) and no applications programming. The machine provides web services by recognizing legal requests such as HTTP POST request and responding with an HTML web page. In some embodiments, the machine has no unconstrained RAM into which malware may insert itself and needs no anti-virus software.
US10242364B2
A user can be authenticated to a mobile computing device using an authentication process that recognizes the user and verifies that an actual human being is attempting to be authenticated, in order to minimize the ability of another person to spoof the authentication process. A model of a user can be generated and stored in the cloud, enabling that model to be synchronized across various devices. A user accessing one of these devices can have infrared image information captured, which can be used with a facial recognition process, to recognize the user, and with a human verification process, to verify that the facial information corresponds to a human user. Various approaches such as visual analysis and thermal imaging can be used to verify that the human user being recognized is interactive with the device.
US10242362B2
Systems and methods permit secure and convenient provisional account creation for use in conducting payment transactions. The provisional account does not include sensitive data, thereby mitigating risk to a consumer's financial account if the provisional account were compromised. In one embodiment, a computing device associated with a financial service provider receives customer and customer device information. The provider computing device performs a verification analysis and a fingerprint analysis to authenticate the customer's identity and the customer device authenticity. The provider device also receives an access request message seeking authorization for an identity management service (“IdM”) to interface with the provider device. The provider device generates an access decision message indicating an approval or disapproval of an authorization request. If the authorization request is approved, the IdM generates a provisional account and transmits the account number and other information to the provider device and the customer device.
US10242360B2
A data protection system for online data is described that can be used to obfuscate sensitive data to relieve security compliance requirements for one or more entities involved in processing, storing, and/or communicating the sensitive data to complete an online purchase transaction. The data protection system can receive online purchase data from a client application, and then remove the sensitive information of the online purchase data to sanitize the online purchase data. The data protection system can also maintain the sensitive information, and communicate the sanitized online purchase data to an eCommerce server that then communicates with a payment service provider for payment authorization of the online purchase, where the sanitized online purchase data relieves security compliance requirements at the eCommerce server.
US10242357B1
In some examples, disclosed methods and systems may configure using a proxy payment object a payment object reader to accept one or more payment objects. The method includes receiving, as an input from a merchant and in a specific manner, at least one object into a payment object reader communicatively coupled to a point-of-sale (POS) terminal. A portion of read-data is compared to a proxy payment object syntax. In response to obtaining a match between the read-data and the proxy payment object syntax with the read-data, the received object is determined to be a proxy payment object. A configuration component then generates a set of configuration instructions which when executed on the payment object reader and/or the POS terminal configures the payment object reader to accept one or more payment objects towards a payment transaction.
US10242351B1
Methods, systems, and computer program products for a digital wallet for a group of people. A group of customers may gather for an event, e.g., a party, in which each person in the group may purchase goods or services on behalf of the group from a merchant. A customer device executing a digital wallet application program acts like a wallet for the entire group. The customer device creates group tab. The customer device associates images of each person in the group to the group tab, and submits information on the group, including the images, to a merchant device operated by the merchant. The merchant device opens the group tab for managing purchases related to the group. At the end of the event, upon receiving an input to close the tab, the customer device can receive a single bill including a total amount, and divide the total amount among people in the group.
US10242345B2
Described herein are methods and systems for interview question or prompt recommendation and analysis to improve the quality and efficacy of subsequent evaluation campaigns by combining data sets are described herein. In one method, processing logic selects a first prompt from a first data set of a first candidate evaluation campaign and a second prompt from a second data set of a second candidate evaluation campaign. The processing logic determines whether a degree of similarity between the first prompt and the second prompt exceeds a threshold and combines data from the first data set with data from the second data set to create a combined data set associated with the first prompt and with the second prompt based on the determination.
US10242344B1
Managing information for a project includes identifying content items corresponding to the project, identifying project participants that access the content items, sharing at least some of the content items with at least some of the project participants, prioritizing the project participants based, at least in part, on contribution by the project participants to the content items, and displaying, on a wearable device of a master user, the project participants according to priority levels thereof. The wearable device may be a smart watch. The project participants may be displayed in a plurality of groups of the project participants according to prioritizing levels. The prioritizing levels may take into account development milestones, production milestones, contract closures, external demos, customer meetings, and/or project phase completion schedules. The master user may use a gesture to remove at least one of the groups and to expand remaining groups displayed on the wearable device.
US10242341B2
Systems, methods and products are described that provide taskbar grouping by user task. One aspect includes identifying a plurality of applications open on a computing device; identifying one or more objects open in said plurality of applications; determining one or more objective measures of said one or more objects belonging to a particular task; and automatically grouping objects sharing one or more objective measures of belonging to a particular task together in a common taskbar icon of a display.
US10242337B2
Example embodiments of the present invention may provide a method of dispensing a product having a verified identity to be labeled and packaged without requiring additional validation and verification. According to an example embodiment, a dispensing system may include a display, a workstation, a user interface, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive an indication that the workstation is clear of any products, such as products associated with a previous dispensing operation. The controller may: receive provide for presentation on the display of an identification of a batch of a first product type to be retrieved in response to the indication that the workstation is clear; receive an identification of a batch of products of a first product type that is received at the workstation; and identify a queue of orders for the first product type as maintained in a memory.
US10242332B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods include an intraocular lens (IOL) cart that may assist with inventory management and may help users identify an IOL for use in a particular surgical application. The IOL cart may include sensors and indicators that provide information to a user and may update IOL inventory automatically whenever the IOL cart is accessed by a user.
US10242330B2
The subject matter discloses a method for detection and analysis of first contact resolution failures comprising: obtaining a first plurality of digital representations, each digital representation of the first plurality is associated with a contact center interaction; determining a pair of digital representations that represent a pair of contact center interactions determined from the first plurality of digital representations according to metadata associated with the pair of contact center interactions; determining topics of each interaction of the determined pair of contact center interactions represented by the pair of digital representations; classifying the pair of contact center interactions as first contact resolution failure or first contact resolution interactions pair.
US10242329B2
A technique includes providing a cost model to predict a total cost for supporting a computer-based product system. The cost model predicts preventive, reactive and deferred components of the total cost. The technique includes determining features of the support and computer-based product system based at least in part on the cost model.
US10242321B2
Repeat-Until-Success (RUS) circuits are compiled in a Clifford+T basis by selecting a suitable cyclotomic integer approximation of a target rotation so that the rotation is approximated within a predetermined precision. The cyclotomic integer approximation is randomly modified until a modified value can be expanded into a single-qubit unitary matrix by solving one or more norm equations. The matrix is then expanded into a two-qubit unitary matrix of special form, which is then decomposed into an optimal two-qubit Clifford+T circuit. A two-qubit RUS circuit using a primary qubit and an ancillary qubit is then obtained based on the latter decomposition. An alternate embodiment is disclosed that keeps the total T-depth of the derived circuit small using at most 3 additional ancilla qubits. Arbitrary unitary matrices defined over the cyclotomic field of 8th roots of unity are implemented with RUS circuits.
US10242307B2
The present invention discloses a security device constructed from a material having a skin depth that is greater than about 10 times the normal skin depth for radio frequency identification device functioning in one of UHF, HF and LF frequencies. The security device of the present invention provides a more durable and robust security device that can be used in facilitating brand identification and awareness. In one embodiment the antenna material of the present invention may illustrate a wide variety of visual information.
US10242296B2
The present invention provides a method and device for realizing Chinese character input based on uncertainty information, wherein the method comprises: receiving input information from a user; extracting at least two types of uncertainty information of Chinese characters to be input, from the input information; and, determining the matched Chinese characters according to the at least two types of uncertainty information and outputting the matched Chinese character(s). The device comprises a receiving module, an extracting module and a matching module. The method and device as provided by the present invention allow a user who has incomplete memory of pronunciation or glyph information of Chinese characters to be input to realize correct input of the Chinese characters by defining a certain range for candidate characters corresponding to the Chinese characters to be input, in combination with at least two types of the extracted uncertainty information of the Chinese characters to be input.
US10242293B2
Provided are a method and program for computing a bone age using a deep neural network. The method for computing a bone age using a deep neural network, including: receiving an analysis target image that is a specific medical image to compute the bone age; and analyzing the analysis target image by at least one computer using the deep neural network to compute the bone age. According to the present disclosure, since the bone age is computed by accumulating medical images of a specific race (particularly, Korean) and analyzing the same, it is possible to compute an accurate bone age that conforms to race.
US10242287B2
An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect at least one identical object or at least one object of an identical type from images captured by a plurality of imaging apparatuses, a selection unit configured to select at least one object from among at least one detected object based on color information of each object, and a determination unit configured to determine color correction information related to a plurality of the imaging apparatuses based on color information of at least one selected object. The image processing apparatus enables restricting the degradation of the color matching accuracy.
US10242278B2
A device and a corresponding method for skin detection to enable a reliable, accurate and fast detection are disclosed. The proposed device comprises an illumination unit configured to project a predetermined illumination pattern onto a scene, an imaging unit configured to acquire an image of the scene, and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the acquired image by analyzing the imaged illumination pattern as reproduced in the image and to detect skin areas within the image and distinguish them from non-skin areas within the image based on said analysis.
US10242277B1
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for validating an electronic publication and determining a source of identified errors in a rendering of the electronic publication. The rendering may be captured as a rendered image and rendered data may be extracted from the rendering. The rendered data may be compared to actual input data to the renderer used to generate the rendered image. If errors are visible in the rendering, a source of the errors may be identified based on the comparison between the extracted rendered data to the actual input data. If errors are not visible in the rendering, the rendering may be validated.
US10242276B2
Systems and associated methodology are presented for Arabic handwriting synthesis including accessing character shape images of an alphabet, determining a connection point location between two or more character shapes based on a calculated right edge position and a calculated left edge position of the character shape images, extracting character features that describe language attributes and width attributes of characters of the character shape images, the language attributes including character Kashida attributes, and generating images of cursive text based on the character Kashida attribues and the width attribues.
US10242274B1
Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for determining vehicle operator risk. More particularly, apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for determining degrees of vehicle operator risk. A degree of vehicle operator risk may be based on digital image data.
US10242271B2
A facility use measuring device includes a processor and a memory storing instructions. The processor is configured to set a plurality of staying areas for determining the presence or absence of stay of users on images, to generate stay information relating to the presence or absence of stay of the users for each of the staying areas based on a change situation, to compare pieces of stay information for every at least two staying areas and determine a group configuration regarding the users who respectively stay in the staying areas based on similarity of the pieces of stay information, to generate use information relating a use situation of a facility according to the group configuration, based on the pieces of stay information for each of the staying areas and a determination result of the group configuration, and to generate display information displaying the use information and output the display information.
US10242270B2
Methods and apparatus to determine a blob people count in images are disclosed. An example method includes forming blobs based on whitened pixels of detected face rectangles in pairs of frames of a plurality of image frame captured over a period of time. The method further calculates locations of the centers of the blobs in each frame of the first one of the pairs of frames. The method further eliminates blobs in a first frame of the first one of the pairs of frames having locations within one or more blobs in the second frame of the first one of the pairs of frames. The method further adds the number of remaining blobs from the first frame to the number of blobs in the second frame of the first one of the pairs of frames to form a blob people count.
US10242250B2
A picture ranking method and a terminal comprises acquiring pictures stored in a terminal, detecting whether the pictures are first-type pictures, where a first-type picture refers to a picture including a human face, and when the pictures are first-type pictures, ranking the pictures according to a social relation model, or when the pictures are not first-type pictures, ranking the pictures according to a preset rule.
US10242249B2
A method and an apparatus for extracting a facial feature and a method and an apparatus for recognizing a face are provided, in which the apparatus for extracting a facial feature may extract facial landmarks from a current input image, sample a skin region and a facial component region based on the extracted facial landmarks, generate a probabilistic model associated with the sampled skin region and the facial component region, extract the facial component region from a face region included in the input image using the generated probabilistic model, and extract facial feature information from the extracted facial component region.
US10242247B2
A fingerprint unlocking method is provided. The method includes the follows. Fingerprint information is acquired. A target group number of a group of fingerprint templates that is most similar to the fingerprint information is determined from among preset fingerprint matching data; where the preset fingerprint matching data comprises N groups of fingerprint templates, each group of fingerprint templates correspond to one finger and have one unique identification group number, and N is an integer greater than 1. Match the fingerprint information with fingerprint templates corresponding to the target group number. A terminal is unlocked when a target matching value between a fingerprint template corresponding to the target group number and the fingerprint information is determined, where the target matching value is greater than a first preset threshold. A terminal is also provided.
US10242241B1
A mobile communications device including a transceiver, a motion input or other optical device, and a system for supporting single or multi-player gameplay is described. A method of playing a game is provided including transmitting and receiving information between one or more devices through a mobile communications system with use of one or more tethered and/or wireless links; and playing a game on the mobile communications device. Further one or more players either creating or receiving one or more motions, thereby communicating through the device, receiving and/or transmitting some or all of the game data and may also receive/transmit one or more motion results and having the ability to send and/or receive one or more motion instructions to/from another one or more devices.
US10242231B2
The present invention provides a method, and associated computer system and computer program product, for masking selected vulnerable data portions of a data set transmitted over a network by parsing the vulnerable data, generating masked values for the vulnerable data, updating the data set to include the masked values, then sending the updated data set to a third party for analysis.
US10242229B2
A method (100, 400) for managing access to a database is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a database query, (110), executing the query on the database to obtain a result, (120), generating a noise value, (130), perturbing the result with the generated noise value, (140), and outputting the perturbed result, (150). The noise value is generated from a bimodal probability distribution having a minimum probability at zero noise. Also disclosed is an access management processing element, (200, 300, 600) for a database.
US10242226B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for capturing a screen on a mobile device, the method including: receiving, at the mobile device, a screen-capturing request for a current interface, where the current interface includes first data, and the first data includes personal information; and generating, according to screen-capturing request, a screen capture image for the current interface, where the first data in the current interface is replaced in the screen capture image with second data which is predefined. These embodiments avoid the need to manually mask an image by starting a dedicated image editing tool to anonymize a screen capture image, thereby significantly lowering the relatively high technical threshold of anonymization processing, reducing the error rate, and improving the modification quality of anonymization. Moreover, the replacement is directly made to the image while the screen is captured without interfering with normal use of reading.
US10242225B2
Messages exchanged among users of a relationship management and work collaboration system are organized within user-defined, secure communication channels organized according to user-defined hierarchies that represent the users' personal relationships with one another. Security of the communications channels is maintained using individual, dynamic keys, each of the keys being uniquely associated with a respective one of the channels, and being generated according to combinations of individual passwords established by each respective channel's participants. In-bound messages in the form of e-mails are received and associated with respective ones of the channels according to e-mail aliases associated with the inbound messages. Out-bound e-mails may be sent to channel participants according to e-mail addresses associated with the participants and channel preferences established by the system users. In some instances, messages are posted or not posted to those of the channels under the control of respective moderators and channel participants.
US10242221B1
Systems and methods are provided executing jobs immediately upon receipt of a notification. The systems and methods may include receiving, at a cloud compute service, a notification that a sensitive file comprising sensitive data has been received at a file receipt location, the sensitive file being sent by a client device; generating, by the cloud compute service, a container instance in response to the notification; retrieving, by the container instance, the sensitive file from the file receipt location; generating, by the container instance, a stripped file by stripping the sensitive data from the sensitive file based on a configuration file; transmitting, by the container instance, the stripped file to a storage location; deleting the sensitive file and associated file pointers from the file receipt location; and terminating the container instance, wherein terminating the container instance comprises deleting files comprising sensitive data and associated file pointers.
US10242215B2
A user of a content management system can store one or more content items at the user's account with the system. In some instances, the system can generate and present a preview of a content item of interest (e.g., a content item selected by the user). In addition to the preview of the content item, the system can generate and present a web address or other machine-readable code referring to (or otherwise associated with) the preview of the content item. Various embodiments of the present disclosure can enableh the web address or other machine-readable code to be sharable and to provide access to the content item (or a copy thereof). For example, the user who is previewing the content item can share the web address of the preview with one or more other users. The one or more users can then access the content item via the web address.
US10242211B2
The invention discloses a method and a device for information security management, and a storage medium, in the field of information security technologies. The method comprises: detecting an information input operation of a terminal; obtaining key information corresponding to a triggering operation of a first key, when the triggering operation of the first key is detected; determining whether the obtained key information matches preset key information, and if so, outputting information related to private information stored in a private information database, which corresponds to the preset key information, wherein, the preset key information includes an access password for the private information database and second key information. In the invention, a user needs not access a private space to check private information; instead, the user only needs to input the preset key information to query the information related to the private information. Therefore, the security of the private information is improved.
US10242210B2
The invention concerns a method for managing content on a secure element connected to an equipment, this content being managed on the secure element from a distant administrative platform. According to the invention, the method consists in: establishing, at the level of the administrative platform a secure channel between the equipment and the administrative platform, thanks to session keys generated by the secure element and transmitted to the equipment; transmitting to the administrative platform a request to manage content of the secure element; and verifying at the level of the administrative platform that this request originates from the same secure element that has generated the session keys and, if positive, authorizing the management and, if negative, forbid this management.
US10242207B2
For preventing unwanted information disclosure in a current electronic communication from a sender to a receiver of the current electronic communication, a risk score is assigned for the current electronic communication by a computer system applying an access control model based on historical electronic communications. The model generates the risk score responsive to identities of the sender and receiver and responsive to access control level and hierarchal position of at least one of the sender and receiver. The computer system blocks transmission of the current electronic communication from the sender to the receiver responsive to whether the risk score for the sender and receiver exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10242204B2
A method for masking content to be displayed on the electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving, by a processor in the electronic device, the content to be displayed on the electronic device, determining, by the processor, that at least one portion of the content is objectionable content based on a semantic signature of a content filter, and masking, by the processor, the at least one portion of the content displayed on the electronic device based on the detection.
US10242198B2
A secure boot computer system is provided. The system comprises a logic block comprising one or more processing units that executes instructions, the logic block being configured to request boot instructions over a first interface, according to a first communication protocol, on power-up or reset of the logic block. A controller component is configured to communicate with the logic block over the first interface according to the first communication protocol, the controller being further configured to implement a communications link to a second computer system and to receive the boot instructions from the second computer system. The logic block is preconfigured to communicate with the controller over the first interface according to the first communication protocol in a manner that cannot be altered by instructions executed by the logic block. The controller is configured to prevent the completion of any write requests from the logic block. The system further comprising a control connection between the logic block and the controller. The controller is further configured to use the control connection to power-up or reset the logic block to place the logic block in a predetermined active state resulting from executing the boot instructions, such that software operating on the logic block prior to power-up or reset of the logic block cannot affect the predetermined active state. A corresponding method and second computer system are also provided.
US10242197B2
A data processing system (DPS) provides protection for firmware. The DPS comprises (a) a host module comprising a management engine and (b) a security module in communication with the host module. The security module comprises a security coprocessor and a secret identifier for the security module. The DPS also comprises at least one machine-accessible medium comprising host firmware and security firmware. The host firmware, when executed by the management engine, enables to management engine to determine whether the security module is in communication with the host module, based on the secret identifier for the security module. The security firmware, when executed by the security coprocessor, enables the security coprocessor (a) to verify integrity of the host firmware and (b) to prevent the host module from booting with the host firmware in response to a determination that the host firmware has lost integrity. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10242196B2
A computer system is securely booted by executing a boot firmware to locate a boot loader and verify the boot loader using a first key that is associated with the boot firmware. Upon verifying the boot loader, computer system executes the boot loader to verify a system software kernel and a secure boot verifier using a second key that is associated with the boot loader. The secure boot verifier is then executed to verify the remaining executable software modules to be loaded during boot using a third key that is associated with the secure boot verifier and a fourth key that is associated with a user of the computer system.
US10242193B1
Methods for cyber physical systems device classification are provided. A method can include receiving system and function calls and parameters and a device performance index from an unknown CPS device and a device performance index of similar class of CPS devices, calculating an autocorrelation value between different realizations of the system and function calls and parameters of the known CPS device, determining whether the autocorrelation value is greater than a threshold amount, and storing the system and function calls and parameters and the device performance characteristics of the known CPS device in the database. A method can also include calculating a correlation between system and function calls and parameters of an unknown CPS device and known CPS devices classes included in the database, as well as determining whether the maximum correlation is also greater than a threshold amount.
US10242184B2
A system and method is provided for implementing platform security on a consumer electronic device having an open development platform. The device is of the type which includes an abstraction layer operable between device hardware and application software. A secured software agent is provided for embedding within the abstraction layer forming the operating system. The secured software agent is configured to limit access to the abstraction layer by either blocking loadable kernel modules from loading, blocking writing to the system call table or blocking requests to attach debug utilities to certified applications or kernel components.
US10242174B2
Secure information flow may include a service receiving a request for data from a caller. The service may respond to the request with the requested data via a secure flow container. The secure flow container may then send the information to the caller component. Before the secure flow container receives or sends the information, a monitoring environment may permit the secure flow container to receive or send the information, respectively.
US10242142B2
A virtual fabrication environment for semiconductor device structures that includes the use of virtual metrology measurement data to optimize a virtual fabrication sequence is described. Further, calibration of the virtual fabrication environment is performed by comparing virtual metrology data generated from a virtual fabrication run with a subset of measurements performed in a physical fabrication environment. Additionally, virtual experiments conducted in the virtual fabrication environment of the present invention generate multiple device structure models using ranges of process and design parameter variations for an integrated process flow and design space of interest.
US10242140B2
Generating a layout of an integrated circuit chip area from a description of an integrated circuit (IC). The description includes a register-transfer-level (RTL) design. The RTL design is partitioned in large blocks for synthesis of large block synthesis (LBS) blocks. The description of the IC further includes a floorplan for the IC, wherein each LBS block to be synthesized is assigned to a respective rectilinear shape in the floorplan and the rectilinear shapes do not overlap each other.
US10242138B2
Method of automatic synthesis of circuits comprising the generation of a network of regular processes reading or writing data in channels, according to which a single producer process is authorized to write in a channel and a single consumer process is authorized to read in a channel; and a synchronization unit associated with said channel authorizes or disables the implementation of a new iteration of said producer process, respectively consumer process, as a function of a comparison of a position of execution determined as a function of the value of a new iteration collected from the producer process, respectively consumer process, and of a position of execution determined as a function of a last iteration value collected from the consumer process, respectively producer process.
US10242135B2
A selection of a source testbench is received from a user. The source testbench includes a description of one or more source parameters, a description of one or more source measurements, and a plurality of source entries, each of the source entries including a value for each of the one or more source parameters and each of the one or more source measurements. Furthermore, a selection of a destination testbench is received. The destination testbench includes a description of one or more destination parameters and a plurality of destination entries including a value for each of the one or more destination parameters. One or more source entries are matched with a destination entry. One or more source measurements of the matched one or more source entries are aggregated based on an aggregation function, and the aggregated source measurements are mapped to the matched source entry.
US10242134B2
A method and system for simulation of deformation of a thin-shelled member are disclosed herein. The method includes: receiving at one or more computer systems, information identifying a computer-generated object. The computer-generated object can be a thin-shelled member. The method includes: receiving information identifying a discretization of the computer-generated object, which discretization can be a plurality of nodes; receiving information identifying a set of material properties for the computer-generated object; pre-filtering nodes from the discretization based on predicted collisions; generating a preconditioner via a preconditioning algorithm; and iteratively solving for nodes at a plurality of time points via a conjugate gradient method.
US10242127B2
A method for making a surgical guide for bone harvesting identifying in a three-dimensional image of a bone one or more sensitive anatomic structures and a volume of bone suitable for being removed. The volume is delimited by a portion of an outer surface of the bone defining a perimeter and by a mantle extending from the perimeter inside of the bone. The method also includes designing the surgical guide which includes defining a guide surface including a work area delimited by guide walls. The method also includes angling at least one of the guide walls so that the guide wall includes a face that constitutes a geometrical extension of a portion of the mantle when the guide is rested on the outer surface of the bone such that the face includes at least one segment forming a predetermined angle with respect to the guide surface.
US10242122B2
Systems and methods are provided for retiring an application and any associated data, hardware assets, and software assets. A workflow management system creates and tracks the life cycle of a project for application retirement, data retirement, purge, or performance archiving. The workflow management system evaluates the cost of the project, the availability of resources for the project, and captures information about the application and associated assets. Upon deciding to initiate the project based on the evaluations, the workflow management system captures and tracks implementation of project requirements. The workflow management system further manages retirement of hardware and software assets by cancelling, repurposing, decommissioning, or bypassing the assets.
US10242113B2
A method, system and computer program product for improving the discoverability of messages on a social network. The creation of a proposed message that requests a response from a target audience is detected. The social network is then searched to identify search terms and posts related to the proposed message. Upon identifying the search terms, the search terms are ranked in order of usage among the identified posts. A list of identified search terms in order of rank is then presented to the user to modify the proposed message. The proposed message is modified using a search term selected by the user from the list of search terms. The modified message is then posted on the social network. In this manner, the message created by the user has been modified to improve the discoverability of the message on the social network and to increase responses from an appropriate target audience.
US10242111B2
A method for filtering out nodes associated with hierarchical data structures is provided. The method may include generating node controllers on the hierarchical data structures. The method may include determining whether user actions are received on a first node controller, a second node controller, and a third node controller associated with the generated plurality of node controllers. The method may include filtering node levels associated with hierarchical data structures, and presenting the hierarchical data structures without the filtered out node levels. The method may include filtering out sibling nodes associated with the hierarchical data structures, and presenting the hierarchical data structures without the filtered out sibling nodes. The may further include reverse-collapsing first node levels and filtering out second node levels based on the reverse-collapsed first node levels, and presenting the hierarchical data structures without the filtered out second node levels.
US10242104B2
A method of aggregating personal information available from public sources over a network. The method includes the steps of receiving at a computer server, data associated with a person, the data being publicly available over a network, and including at least a first name and a last name; using a processor to compare the received data to a plurality of data profiles stored in a database of one or more memory devices, each profile corresponding to a previously-profiled person and containing data associated with the previously-profiled person; determining whether the received data sufficiently matches data associated with the previously-profiled person of the data profile; and merging the received data with the data associated with the previously-profiled person.
US10242103B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for the discovery of facets. A search query over sets of data (e.g., a set of documents) leads to search results. The search results are organized by facets. Responsive to receiving new queries, facets are dynamically extracted from the search results. Furthermore, user profiles are dynamically updated. The order of presentation of facets, as displayed in a graphical user interface, can be modified based on the extracted facets.
US10242097B2
A content selection system and method for identifying and organizing moods in content using objectively measured scores for rhythm, texture and pitch (RTP) and clustered into six mood classifications based on an objective analysis of the measured scores. Digitized representations of the content may also be identified and organized based on the content's frequency data, three-dimensional shapes derived from the digitized representations, and colors derived from the frequency data. Each piece of content may be identified by at least a mood shape, but may also be identified by a mood color and/or a mood based on the clustered RTP scores and/or the digitized representation. Users of the selection system may be able to view the moods identified in the different manners, or combinations of two or three mood identifying manners and select and organize content based on the identified moods.
US10242081B2
A multi-dimensional dataset of discrete data, such as online analytical processing based multi-dimensional data, is received. The number of dimensions in the multi-dimensional dataset of discrete data is then identified. One or more levels of three-dimensional cubes of discrete data are then created equal to the number of dimensions in the multi-dimensional dataset divided by three rounded to the lowest positive integer. The discrete data of the one or more levels of three-dimensional cubes is encoded. A color palette is then associated with the encoded discrete data. As a result, a user is able to quantify and understand the effects to data in a multi-dimensional dataset from changes made in the system (e.g., adding/deleting/modifying business rules) in a more efficient and accurate manner.
US10242077B2
A method and system are provided for the transfer and/or aggregation of data and, in particular, integrating data used in managing a professional services practice. The invention preferably transfers and/or aggregates data relating to the identity of clients and matters for whom professional services are being rendered with data relating to the work which data may be maintained in inconsistent, proprietary formats, comprising one or more of the following types of information: accounting; budgeting; docketing; time and billing: work product; word processing; records; project management; and/or other information relating to the professional services. The system of the present invention preferably comprises data storage and data processing means adapted to use the data in substantially portable and/or application-independent format, and/or and transfer or aggregate data between common, and/or proprietary data formats.
US10242064B2
A controller analyzes a tuple in an operator graph. The controller determines that the tuple includes one or more selected characteristics. These characteristics signify preferred data. The controller determines operations of the operator graph which can be suppressed. The controller suppresses the one or more operations. The controller suppresses those operations in response to the tuple including one or more of the selected characteristics.
US10242040B2
Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for parsing and compiling data system queries.
US10242034B1
Images are intelligently selected to create image narratives. Instead of a user having to manually search and locate images to view, the images to associate with a particular image narrative are programmatically determined. Many different types of image narratives may be created. For example, one image narrative may show images that include both a first user and a second user over some period of time. Another image narrative may show images that relate to an activity that a first user enjoys or an event that included the user (e.g., a graduation). The tags and metadata associated with the images of the user are analyzed to determine the tags that are important to the user. For example, the importance might be determined based on the frequency of the tags within the images. After creation, the user may select one of the image narratives to view the associated images.
US10242030B2
A terminal device stores therein an application program provided by a second provider and including an image search program. An image search system provided by a first provider stores therein image data and identification information identifying the image search program; registers, in association with the identification information, setting information indicating whether a storage area to be searched is a first storage area exclusive to the second provider or a second storage area not exclusive to the second provider; stores the image data specified as a search target by the second provider in the first or second storage area; receives a search request for the image data transmitted from the terminal device; determines, when the search request includes the identification information, a storage area to be searched among the first and second storage areas; and determines, when not, the second storage area to be the storage area to be searched.
US10242021B2
Embodiments for storing data deduplication metadata in a grid of processors. Each of a plurality of slices of deduplication metadata is assigned to be stored by a corresponding processor in a grid of processors. Each slice of the plurality of slices includes at least one of a slice of a similarity index and groups of digests corresponding to those of a plurality of representative values in the slice of the similarity index. A hashing method is use to map between a plurality of input representative values and the plurality of slices of deduplication metadata.
US10242015B1
Techniques to manage the use of hash functions are disclosed. In various embodiments, a hash function epoch metadata is stored to associate a hash function with an epoch, the epoch defining a subset of data stored by a distributed file system. The distributed file system is configured to use the hash function epoch metadata to manage storage of data comprising the subset of data stored by the distributed file system.
US10242014B2
A filesystem includes a pool of data blocks and a pool of index blocks. Non-overlapping subpools of data blocks, including a first subpool of data blocks and a second subpool of data blocks, are identified within the pool of data blocks. Likewise, non-overlapping subpools of index blocks, including a first subpool of index blocks and a second subpool of index blocks, are identified within the pool of index blocks. A first file group is mounted within a global namespace on a first mount point on the filesystem. A second file group is also mounted within the global namespace on a second mount point on the filesystem. The first subpool of data blocks and the first subpool of index blocks are allocated to the first mounted file group, and the second subpool of data blocks and the second subpool of index blocks are allocated to the second mounted file group.
US10242013B2
A method, computer program product and/or system saves an original logical block in a file system and generates a first heatmap reflecting access operations on the original logical block. After taking of a file system snapshot, and receiving information that the original logical block is going to be revised, a second heatmap is generated, reflecting predicted access operations on the revised logical block. The second heatmap is based, at least in part, on the first heatmap. Selecting a physical storage location for the revised logical block is based on the second heatmap.
US10242010B2
A method, framework, and computer program product are provided in order to migrate data files associated with a source enterprise application to a target enterprise application. A migration utility framework including processing circuitry may be configured to: generate a migration map to map a plurality of data files from a source enterprise application to a target enterprise application; validate the migration map, where the processing circuitry to validate the migration map includes processing circuitry to determine if target enterprise application requirements are met for both file types of the plurality of data files and metadata of the plurality of data files; generate a hash value of a validated map in response to validating the map, where the hash value represents only the validated map; and migrate the plurality of data files from the source enterprise application to the target enterprise application according to the validated map.
US10242006B2
A system for identifying and/or recommending relevant media content is provided. The system includes a relevancy component, a classification component and a notification component. The relevancy component determines a topic or an event related to media content and associates the media content with a group of media content based on the topic or the event. The classification component assigns a classifier value to the media content based on data associated with the media content and the group of media content. The notification component generates a notification message associated with the media content for a user based on the classifier value and a temporal-based relevancy value generated as a function of user context.
US10242005B2
Voice-based input is used to operate a media device and/or to search for media content. Voice input is received by a media device via one or more audio input devices and is translated into a textual representation of the voice input. The textual representation of the voice input is used to search one or more cache mappings between input commands and one or more associated device actions and/or media content queries. One or more natural language processing techniques may be applied to the translated text and the resulting text may be transmitted as a query to a media search service. A media search service returns results comprising one or more content item listings and the results may be presented on a display to a user.
US10242003B2
A method and system for searching documents. The method can include: identifying a first set of messages of a messaging platform referencing a document; identifying message text of the first set of messages; associating the message text with the document in a storage repository; receiving, by a computer processor, a search request including a search term provided by a client; calculating, by the computer processor, a relevance score for the document based at least on the search term and the message text; and providing, to the client and based on the relevance score, a reference to the document in response to the search request.
US10242002B2
Embodiments provide a system and method for semantic distance calculation. The method can involve receiving a plurality of documents having a set of subjects extracted through the use of latent dirichlet allocation; for each document in the plurality of documents, generating a classification list comprising a ranking of the one or more subjects based on the relevance of each subject to the document; for each classification list, calculating the semantic distance between each subject present on the classification list; aggregating the plurality of classification lists; and creating a distance matrix containing the relative semantic distances between each member of the set of subjects.
US10241999B2
A method, system and computer program product for adjusting text in a message to sustain the recipient's interest in the message. Upon identifying the recipients to receive a message, information, including interests and/or personality traits, regarding the identified recipients is retrieved. Upon obtaining the recipient's interests and/or personality traits, a linguistic engine is utilized to generate words and phrases (e.g., speed, parking, license, toll) associated with the recipient's interest and/or personality trait (e.g., interest in cars). The words and ordering of the words in the message are then changed to include words and phrases associated with the interest and/or personality trait of the recipient. In this manner, the author is able to compose a message that sustains the recipient's interest in the message by modifying the message to include language directed to the recipient's interests (e.g., traveling, collecting baseball cards) and/or personality traits (e.g., hates loud music).
US10241997B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computing numeric representations of words. One of the methods includes obtaining a set of training data, wherein the set of training data comprises sequences of words; training a classifier and an embedding function on the set of training data, wherein training the embedding function comprises obtained trained values of the embedding function parameters; processing each word in the vocabulary using the embedding function in accordance with the trained values of the embedding function parameters to generate a respective numerical representation of each word in the vocabulary in the high-dimensional space; and associating each word in the vocabulary with the respective numeric representation of the word in the high-dimensional space.
US10241987B2
A method, computer program and system for performing a find and replace editing operation of a text starting from a couple of initial find and replace expressions provided by the user, applying each rule defining admissible inflected forms of the initial find and replace expressions, to the initial find and replace expressions to identify all the derived couples of find and replace expressions. The find expression and the replace expression of the derived couples correspond to inflected forms of the initial find and replace expressions. Then, for each match in the text of the find expression of the derived couples, proposing to the user the derived couples for replacement in the text.
US10241986B2
A tag management system can implement a combined synchronous and asynchronous tag-loading scheme. In an embodiment of this scheme, a synchronous tag may be included at the top of or near the top of a content page. This synchronous tag can hide one or more page elements that are to be modified by a subsequent asynchronous personalization tag. Subsequently, the asynchronous personalization tag can update the page element and then cause the page element to be displayed. As a result, flicker between the old and new page elements can be reduced or avoided.
US10241980B2
The functionality of a browser application is enhanced using a browser plug-in, which enables the browser application to access portions of a file system not otherwise accessible to the browser application. The enhanced functionality provided by the browser plug-in is used in one example by an image uploading web application. The browser application may also start a task in the background, such as a task for uploading several images, and then monitor the progress of the task even when the browser application navigates away from the page that initiated the task. The browser application may use a local web server running on the client device to perform tasks, including the rendering of images and monitoring progress of long running tasks.
US10241972B2
Techniques facilitating matrix multiplication on a systolic array are provided. A computer-implemented method can comprise populating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, respective first registers of one or more processing elements of a systolic array structure with respective input data bits of a first data matrix. The one or more processing elements can comprise a first processing element that comprises a first input data bit of the first data matrix and a first activation bit of a second data matrix. The method can also include determining, by the system, at the first processing element, a first partial sum of a third data matrix. Further, the method can include streaming, by the system, the first partial sum of the third data matrix from the first processing element.
US10241968B2
A method and system for simulating patient-specific cardiac electrophysiology including the effect of the electrical conduction system of the heart is disclosed. A patient-specific anatomical heart model is generated from cardiac image data of a patient. The electrical conduction system of the heart of the patient is modeled by determining electrical diffusivity values of cardiac tissue based on a distance of the cardiac tissue from the endocardium. A distance field from the endocardium surface is calculated with sub-grid accuracy using a nested-level set approach. Cardiac electrophysiology for the patient is simulated using a cardiac electrophysiology model with the electrical diffusivity values determined to model the Purkinje network of the patient.
US10241967B2
The present invention is a golf ball which comprises dimples having a cross-sectional shape defined by the superposition of a weighted profile and one or more additional profiles, and a method of making such dimples. The dimples preferably have a circular boundary and maintain an axis coincident with the center of the circular boundary.
US10241965B1
Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for computer data distribution architecture connecting an update propagation graph through multiple remote query processors.
US10241963B2
Embodiments relate to hash-based synchronization of geospatial vector features. Initially, a list of spatial data layers in a source spatial datastore is obtained. For each of the spatial data layers, a source layer hash is determined for a source data layer of the spatial data layers, a destination data layer is identified in a destination spatial datastore that is related to the source data layer, where the destination data layer is associated with a destination layer hash, and in response to determining that the source layer hash and the destination layer hash do not match, source features from the source data layer are selectively synchronized to the destination data layer.
US10241958B2
A system includes operational circuit blocks associated with configurable counter circuits. A configurable counter circuit is configured to control event signal when counting expires and includes a mode input configured to receive a setting of a programmable control event asynchronous mode and a programmable control event synchronous mode. Depending on the programmed mode and whether a control event has occurred in a previous synchronization period, the configurable counter circuit processes an associated operation responsive to issuance of a synchronization instruction or to issuance of a subsequent control event.
US10241950B2
A method, non-transitory machine readable medium, and system are provided for modifying a device-specific module (DSM) corresponding to a storage device. In some embodiments, the method includes registering a first device-specific module (DSM) with a Multipath I/O (MPIO) module. The MPIO module provides one or more interfaces of the first DSM that redirect to one or more interfaces of a second DSM. The second DSM is modified to a modified second DSM. The MPIO module accesses the one or more interfaces of the first DSM and the accesses are redirected, by the one or more interfaces of the first DSM, to one or more interfaces of the modified second DSM.
US10241948B2
An example embodiment includes an idle state detection circuit. The idle state detection circuit includes a bias current loop, a rectifying circuit loop, a voltage translating loop, and a filter circuit. The bias current loop provides a rectifying diode a forward current such that the rectifying diode detects an alternating current (AC) signal received from a transmitter via one or more transmission nodes. The rectifying circuit loop stores differential peak to peak amplitude information representative of a peak to peak amplitude of the AC signal in a first capacitor that is electrically coupled to a cathode side of the rectifying diode. The voltage translating loop converts the differential peak to peak amplitude information stored at the first capacitor to a single-end voltage signal across a first resistor that is electrically coupled to the cathode side of the rectifying diode. The filter circuit filters an AC component of the single-end voltage signal.
US10241927B2
A linked-list-based method for application caching management is disclosed, the method including: when receiving application cached data, creating a node in a linked list for the cached data and obtaining a memory size of the cached data; obtaining a maximum memory size and a currently occupied memory size of the linked list; adding the memory size of the received cached data to the currently occupied memory size of the linked list to obtain a first memory size; and adding the node to the linked list if the first memory size is smaller than or equal to the maximum memory size. A linked-list-based device for application caching management is also provided.
US10241924B2
A marking capability is used to provide an indication of whether a block of memory is being used by a guest control program to back an address translation structure. The marking capability includes setting an indicator in one or more locations associated with the block of memory. In a further aspect, the marking capability includes a purging capability that limits the purging of translation look-aside buffers and other such structures based on the marking.
US10241922B2
Provided is a processor including a plurality of devices. The processor includes a source processing device configured to identify data to request from another device, and a destination processing device configured to, in response to a request for the identified data from the source processing device using credit-based flow control, transmit the identified data to the source processing device using the credit-based flow control. The source processing device includes a credit buffer used for the credit-based flow control, the credit buffer being allocable to include a cache region configured to cache the transmitted identified data received by the source processing device.
US10241921B2
Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for avoiding cache lookup for cold cache. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to receive, in a read/modify/write (RMW) pipeline, a cache access request from a requestor, wherein the cache request comprises a cache set identifier associated with requested data in the cache set, determine whether the cache set associated with the cache set identifier is in an inaccessible invalid state, and in response to a determination that the cache set is in an inaccessible state or an invalid state, to terminate the cache access request. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US10241917B2
A method for identifying, in a system including two or more computing devices that are able to communicate with each other, with each computing device having with a cache and connected to a corresponding memory, a computing device accessing one of the memories, includes monitoring memory access to any of the memories; monitoring cache coherency commands between computing devices; and identifying the computing device accessing one of the memories by using information related to the memory access and cache coherency commands.
US10241916B2
Provided are an apparatus, system, and method for sparse superline removal. In response to occupancy of a replacement tracker (RT) exceeding an RT eviction watermark, an eviction process is triggered for evicting a superline from a sectored cache storing at least one superline. An eviction candidate is selected from superlines that have: 1) a sector usage below or equal to a superline low watermark and 2) an RT timestamp that is greater than a superline age watermark.
US10241910B2
An enhanced dynamic address translation facility product is created such that, in one embodiment, a virtual address to be translated and an initial origin address of a translation table of the hierarchy of translation tables are obtained. Dynamic address translation of the virtual address proceeds. In response to a translation interruption having occurred during dynamic address translation, bits are stored in a translation exception qualifier (TXQ) field to indicate that the exception was either a host DAT exception having occurred while running a host program or a host DAT exception having occurred while running a guest program. The TXQ is further capable of indicating that the exception was associated with a host virtual address derived from a guest page frame real address or a guest segment frame absolute address. The TXQ is further capable of indicating that a larger or smaller host frame size is preferred to back a guest frame.
US10241909B2
A write frequency of a non-volatile memory is determined at a fine granularity while suppressing consumption of the volatile memory. When it is determined that a copy of specified data from a specified physical storage area to another physical storage area is to be executed, a controller reads the specified data and specified write frequency information, selects a write destination physical storage area group from a plurality of physical storage area groups based on the specified write frequency information and classification information, selects a write destination physical storage area from the write destination physical storage area group, changes the specified write frequency information, writes the specified data to the write destination physical storage area, writes the changed specified write frequency information to the non-volatile memory, and updates translation information based on the write destination physical storage area group and the write destination physical storage area.
US10241907B2
A system includes reception of an instruction to create a data block associated with a portion of a database table in a non-volatile memory system, creation, in response to the instruction to create the data block, of a file associated with the data block in the non-volatile memory system, where a filename of the file comprises an indication that the data block is a temporary block, creation of an entry in a data block map table indicating that the data block is a temporary block, reception of an instruction to commit the data block, and, in response to the instruction to commit the data block, flush data associated with the data block to the file in the non-volatile memory system, rename the file to remove the indication that the data block is a temporary block, and update the entry in the data block map to indicate that the data block is a committed block.
US10241892B2
Embodiments include methods, systems, and computer program products for using static analysis to issue complaints. Aspects include generating, using a processing unit, a first complaint during static analysis of program code, wherein the first complaint corresponds to a program error. Aspects also include generating, using the processing unit, a second complaint when the first complaint is not encountered during subsequent static analysis of the program code. Aspects further include outputting, using the processing unit, the second complaint to a non-transitory computer readable medium.
US10241891B2
Identification and dynamic ranking of performance issues. For an instance of a performance anti-pattern, identifying and recording information relating to a resultant performance issue, quantifying the magnitude of the performance issue, and dynamically ranking the performance issue against other performance issues.
US10241886B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for application performance perception metering. In an embodiment of the invention, an application performance perception metering method includes initially monitoring resource performance in a computing device during utilization of a computer program through the computing device. Thereafter, the monitored resource performance is compared with historical resource performance during past utilization of the computer program through the computing device. Finally, a prompt can be displayed in the computing device responsive to a determination that the monitored resource performance is deficient relative to the historical resource performance. However, a prompt also can be displayed in the computing device indicating that the computer program is performing poorly based upon a determination that the monitored resource consumption is comparable to the historical resource consumption.
US10241881B2
A combination of one or more monitoring devices and a central processor at a hosted service gathers data from a customer site, identifies energy system events of interest, and analyzes the energy system event of interest to determine and recommend or implement vendor services designed to increase energy savings and/or energy system reliability.
US10241872B2
There is provided a distributed object storage system that includes several performance optimizations with respect to efficiently storing data objects when coping with a desired concurrent failure tolerance of concurrent failures of storage elements which is greater than two and with respect to optimizing encoding/decoding overhead and the number of input and output operations at the level of the storage elements.
US10241868B2
A control method implemented using a server and a server control device. When a server starts abnormally due to an exception of a master central processing unit (CPU), a platform controller hub (PCH) connected to the master CPU, or a Flash that is connected to the PCH connected to the master CPU, the master CPU is reconfigured. It is implemented that, when a startup exception occurs on a server that supports hard partitioning, it can be still ensured that the server normally starts and runs, thereby improving reliability and stability of the server. Therefore, Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) of the entire server is improved. In addition, a problem that a system fails to run due to an exception of a Flash is solved, and an original dual Basic Input/Output Systems (BIOS) design manner may no longer be used, thereby reducing Flash chip costs of the server.
US10241863B2
A processing system associated with a dispersed storage network is configured to detect a plurality of encoded data slices to be rebuilt, wherein the plurality of encoded data slices are associated with the DST execution unit; identify a plurality of slice names associated with the plurality of encoded data slices; obtain a slice name to slice memory device mapping for the DST execution unit; determine a schedule of rebuilding the plurality of encoded data slices, based on the mapping; and facilitate rebuilding the plurality of encoded data slices in accordance with the schedule of rebuilding.
US10241854B2
A method of implementations includes receiving, by a processing device executing a unified storage manager (USM), notification of an event from a storage entity of a storage service managed by the USM, referencing a rule set maintained by the USM with information corresponding to the event, identifying, in view of the referencing, a rule from the rule set, executing a handler function and an action from the identified rule, the handler function to cause the event to be resolved by the storage service, determining a cascading rule from the action, executing the cascading rule to cause the event to be resolved at other storage entities associated with the storage entity corresponding to the event, and notifying, according to the action, a user of the event.
US10241850B2
The invention also provides a heating apparatus including a holder capable of holding at least one part, an electric current generator and a flux concentrator electrically connected to the electric current generator, the flux concentrator being made of a non-magneto-dielectric material and having a coil with at least one turn forming an inductor to generate an alternating magnetic field that is driven by the alternating electric field, the alternating magnetic field resonating at a frequency of at least 1 MHz in response to the alternating electric current.
US10241839B2
A method for generating a virtual device resource (VDR) accessible by an application includes providing a request for discovery of information by one or more applications; converting the provided request into one or more requests for one or more BigData repositories, wherein the converted one or more requests are supported by the one or more BigData repositories and fit the provided request; transmitting the converted one or more requests to the one or more BigData repositories; executing the transmitted one or more requests resulting in one or more descriptions of virtual device resources; selecting one or more virtual device resources (VDR) based on the one or more descriptions; and generating the selected, one or more virtual device resources (VDR).
US10241834B2
An application workload is scheduled for execution by each of one or more processing cores operating in a first mode. Performance metrics for the each of the one or more processing cores and a memory component are monitored, wherein the memory component stores data necessary for the one or more processing cores to carry out instructions to complete the scheduled workload. If performance metrics are greater than a specified threshold, a number of the one or more processing cores handling the scheduled workload is reduced. If the performance metrics are not greater than the specified threshold, whether each of the processing cores of the processor is currently handling a scheduled workload is determined. If each of the processing cores of the processor is currently handling the scheduled workload, the processor is configured to operate in a second mode.
US10241833B2
A method for increasing throughputs of multiple services processed by multiple threads on conditions that the multiple services include at least a first, a second, and a third services and the multiple threads include at least a first and a second thread including steps of: (a) if the first service being processed by the first thread calls the second service, supporting the second thread to process the second service; and (b) while the second service is being processed, supporting the first thread to process the third service; and (c) if the processing of the second service is completed, supporting (i) the first thread or (ii) one or more other threads except the first thread to resume a processing of an unprocessed part of the first service, by using a result value acquired by the processing of the second service.
US10241830B2
A data processing apparatus and a data processing method are provided. The apparatus includes M protocol stacks and at least one distribution service module, and the M protocol stacks separately run on different logic cores of a processor and are configured to independently perform protocol processing on a data packet to be processed. The distribution service module receives an input data packet from a network interface and sends the data packet to one of the M protocol stacks for protocol processing, and receives data packets processed by the M protocol stacks and sends the data packets outwards through the network interface. The present disclosure implements a function of parallel protocol processing by multiple processes in user space of an operating system in a multi-core environment by using a parallel processing feature of a multi-core system, thereby reducing resource consumption caused by data packet copying.
US10241829B2
The present invention resolves the problems of OS jitter and cache pollution, as well as the loss of versatility and increases in development cost. An information processing apparatus includes a control core on which an operating system is installed, and at least one calculation core which is controlled by the control core and performs a predetermined calculation process. The control core includes calculation core control unit for instructing the calculation core in halting, to start the calculation process to be performed by calculation core. The calculation core includes calculation processing control unit for controlling the calculation core so as to start the calculation process in response to an instruction, provided by the calculation core control unit, about starting the calculation process, and exception detection unit for detecting a preset exception process occurring during execution of the calculation process and halting the calculation process in which the exception process has occurred.
US10241824B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide techniques for or managing devices for a virtual machine. A method is provided that includes associating, by a processing device of a cloud management system, a device with a virtual machine. The device is associated, by a memory data structure, with an identifier tag including a character string. The virtual machine is notified of the identifier tag associated with the device. An application to be executed by the virtual machine is associated, using the identifier tag, with the device.
US10241820B2
Some embodiments provide a method for identifying a realization status of one or more logical entities of a logical network. In some embodiments the method is implemented by a controller that controls network data communications in a logical network. The method receives a request for realization status of a set of logical entities at a particular point of time that is associated with a particular value of a realization number. The method determines whether configuration data up to the particular point of time for each logical entity in the set has been processed and distributed to a set of local controllers that operates on a set of host machines. The method returns a realization reply that includes a successful realization message when the configuration data up to the particular point in time for each logical entity in the set has been processed and distributed to the set of local controllers.
US10241818B2
Disclosed herein is an in-memory virtual desktop system, which stores a virtual desktop image in main memory in order to prevent a load from being concentrated on a disk, and operates a virtual desktop using the virtual desktop image. The disclosed system includes an in-memory virtual desktop system, including hardware including main memory for storing virtual desktop images, and a hypervisor for virtualizing resources of the hardware and providing virtualized resources to a virtual desktop.
US10241815B2
A data handling system includes a managing resource that manages one or more managed resources. The managed resource inherits tags of its managing resource(s). A user of the data handling system may apply tags to a managing resource via a management console. The tags may be applied via a user interface and utilized to organize the managed and managing resources. The tags may be typeless in that the user may assign any type of meaning to any tag. Tags assigned to the managing resource are applied or inherited to the resources it manages. The pattern of inheritance repeats through ‘n’ generations as managed resources, themselves, can be managing resources.
US10241814B2
Systems and methods for live migration are provided. A hypervisor receives a request to migrate a virtual machine from a source host machine to a destination host machine, and maps memory of the virtual machine on the source host machine to a storage device accessible by the source host machine and by the destination host machine.
US10241813B2
A system and method for patching an application running in a computing system, the method comprising: in response to that there is a need to patch a first content and the first content has been in the memory, distinguishing between a new content and an old content, the new content being the patched first content, the old content being the first content that has been in the memory; and in response to that the new content is loaded to the memory, mapping to the new content a new process that needs to apply the first content, wherein the new process comprises a process that is started after loading the new content to the memory. An apparatus for patching an application is further disclosed. With the apparatus provided, it is possible to perform dynamic patching to a virtual machine or a physical machine without stopping a running process.
US10241809B2
A context-sensitive help system for obtaining insights from a target environment in an unobtrusive manner. The context-sensitive help system detects a search or opening of a help document containing a plurality of placeholders and product/component names by a user; crawls documents in the knowledgebase and extracts product and/or component names and corresponding configuration parameters or placeholders; stores the product and/or component names and placeholders in the placeholder dictionary along with links and an index to documents in the knowledgebase. The system extracts insights from the target environment in an unobtrusive manner; and replaces placeholders in the help document with values from the target environment based on the insights from the target environment; and then displays the help document to the user.
US10241808B2
In one example of the disclosure, a graphic user interface is provided and a plurality of factors to be considered by a user in evaluating a test application are caused to be displayed via the interface. The test application to test a software program. User-assigned ratings for test application evaluation factors are received via the interface. The test application evaluation factors include a documentation test quality factor, a product-general test quality factor, a product-specific test quality factor, and a defect seventy factor. An overall test effectiveness rating for the test application is determined based upon the ratings.
US10241807B2
Provided is a vehicle control device with which it is possible to reduce the time required to rewrite a control program. In the vehicle control device according to the present invention, after an updated version of the control program has been stored in a second storage unit, a first storage unit is initialized in advance before the instruction to update the control program has been executed.
US10241806B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for adjusting user interfaces based on entity location. Embodiments of the invention provide applications (or an operating system) with entity distance/proximity data. Applications can then scale content appropriately based on the proximity data. An operating system contains a distance/proximity driver framework for distance/proximity aware hardware sensors (IR, Radar, capacitive, camera, other). The proximity framework performs distance/proximity/number of viewers calculations from sensor data to formulate proximity data. From the proximity data, an application can determine how to scale user interface data.
US10241805B2
Embodiments described herein include methods and systems for remotely managing appliances, including enabling communication between a user of the appliance and third party systems. The third party systems can include any entity that has a relationship with the user of the appliance, such as a payment infrastructure handling incremental payments for the appliance, and managing access to the appliance accordingly. In some embodiments, the appliance being controlled is a mobile phone that also includes third party operating system software. Various methods for preventing alteration or replacement of the third party operating system are also described.
US10241801B2
An apparatus includes a register file and a binary translator to create a plurality of strands and a plurality of iteration windows, where each iteration window of the plurality of iteration windows is allocated a set of continuous registers of the register file. The apparatus further includes a buffer to store strand documentation for a strand from the plurality of strands, where the strand documentation for the strand is to include an indication of a current register base for the strand. The apparatus further includes an execution circuit to execute an instruction to update the current register base for the strand in the strand documentation for the strand based on a fixed step value and an iteration window size.
US10241798B2
An issue control unit is configured to control the rate at which an instruction issue unit issues instructions to an execution pipeline in order to avoid spikes in power drawn by that execution pipeline. The issue control unit maintains a history buffer that reflects, for N previous cycles, the number of instructions issued during each of those N cycles. If the total number of instructions issued during the N previous cycles exceeds a threshold value, then the issue control unit throttles the instruction issue unit from issuing instructions during a subsequent cycle. In addition, the issue control unit increases the threshold value in proportion to the number of previously issued instructions and based on a variety of configurable parameters. Accordingly, the issue control unit maintains granular control over the rate with which the instruction issue unit “ramps up” to a maximum instruction issue rate.
US10241787B2
Embodiments of an invention for control transfer overrides are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes an instruction unit to receive a control transfer instruction. The instruction unit includes a transfer override register to provide an alternative target for the control transfer instruction.
US10241786B2
Techniques are provided for performing automated operations to determine maturity of a specified project. Information is received regarding each of a plurality of artifacts associated with the project, such as project documentation, source code repositories, and a tracked issue database for the project. A data sufficiency level associated with each provided artifact is determined, and each artifact is provided to one or more of multiple analysis engines. The analysis engines are executed to produce one or more weighted feature vectors for each of the artifacts associated with the specified project, and input to a prediction engine in order to provide a maturity rating for the project based on the weighted feature vectors.
US10241783B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for processing configuration data sets. A computing device can retrieve configuration data set(s) from data storage. A configuration data set can include key-value pairs related to configuring a software application, where a key-value pair can include a key name and an associated value. The computing device can merge the configuration data set(s) into a merged configuration data set by at least: determining whether multiple key-value pairs of the configuration data set(s) are in conflict; after determining that multiple key-value pairs of the configuration data set(s) are in conflict, determining a representative key-value pair to represent the multiple key-value pairs; and adding the representative key-value pair to the merged configuration data set. The computing device can provide the merged configuration data set to the software application.
US10241782B2
A method and associated system. A patching schedule is generated by scheduling, in W sequential time windows, P patches applicable to virtual machines in L redundancy groups. Each redundancy group includes virtual machines and independently belongs to a respective software application x of X software applications, wherein P≥1, L≥1, Rm≥1, and X≥1. The L redundancy groups collectively comprise at least 2 virtual machines. The scheduling determines xwmk for T tuples (w, m, k) defined by (w=1, . . . , W) and (m=1, . . . , L) and (k=1, . . . , Rm), by maximizing an objective function subject to constraints. Determining xwmk includes setting xwmk=1 if virtual machine k in redundancy group m is to be patched in time window w or setting xwmk=0 otherwise.
US10241777B2
A method and a system are provided to manage analytics assets associated with at least one computer accessible to an organization using operating system (OS) containers. The method comprising receiving a request to process of a task on the user computing device. The method further select a set of analytics assets from a first category, based on at least one of a role of the user in the organization and a historical usage of the one or more analytics assets or a second category that corresponds to the user and are included in the container image associated with the user. The method further update the container image of the user, based on at least the selection of the set of analytics assets from the first category. The method further render the selected set of analytics assets through the updated container image on the user computing device of the user.
US10241765B2
An apparatus, method, system, and program product are disclosed for reducing software runtime. One method includes determining a result produced in response to executing code. The method also includes storing the result. The method includes receiving a request to execute the code. The method also includes, without executing the code, providing the result in response to receiving the request to execute the code.
US10241764B2
System and method for compiling a program, including determining one or more program structures containing one or more variables at the entry and exit of each program structure, wherein each variable specifies a value transfer operation of one or more source variables to a destination variable between outside the program structure and inside the program structure. A subset of the destination variables may be determined for which assigning the destination variable to a memory resource of a corresponding source variable does not disrupt the functionality of the program. Implementation of the value transfer operations may be executable to map each of the determined subset of destination variables to a respective memory resource. The mapping may be dynamically changed, thereby transferring the value from the first source variable to the destination variable without copying the value between the memory resources.
US10241758B2
Disclosed is a novel framework by which the sources of data objects and/or formatting functions can be easily requested and managed. More specifically, the invention provides a system for and method of serving multiple data objects and/or formatting functions to a subscribing client via a single request. The system comprises a catalog with entries referencing components used to generate data objects and formatting functions, each of which has a unique identifier; and an engine for receiving requests from the subscribing client, wherein each request includes one or more catalog identifiers. This engine, for each identifier in each received request, executes any prerequisite components, sets the appropriate parameters, and executes the component referenced by said component identifier to obtain the requested data object or formatting function. Having executed each said component, said engine protects the namespaces of the returned functions and variables and aggregates said data objects and/or formatting functions into a script library, and returns said script library to said subscribing client.
US10241755B2
An electronic device comprising: a memory; a display; and at least one processor configured to: control the display to display a lock screen including information provided by an exercise assisting application; detect an input performed while the lock screen is active; and generate a first audio signal indicating a value of an exercise parameter, in response to the input.
US10241749B1
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for dynamically changing sound settings of a device. A method includes detecting, by a processor, that one or more sound settings of an information handling device are changed. The method includes determining, in response to the one or more sound settings being changed, values for the one or more sound settings and one or more context characteristics associated with the one or more sound settings. The method includes changing, dynamically at a future time, the one or more sound settings to values corresponding to the determined values for the one or more sound settings in response to determining that the one or more context characteristics at the future time are similar to the one or more context characteristics at the time that the one or more sound settings were changed.
US10241746B2
A boat includes a dash positioned proximate a windshield at a first non-zero angle. A speaker is mounted under a top surface of the dash at a second non-zero angle. The speaker is positioned to direct sound emanating from the speaker through an opening in the dash and the windshield is configured to reflect the sound emanating from the speaker as reflected sound in an aft direction. The boat may also include an enclosure having a reflective surface positioned within a cavity formed between the deck and hull of the boat. A speaker, mounted within the enclosure, and the reflective surface are configured to reflect sound emanating from the speaker off of the reflective surface and through an opening of the enclosure.
US10241733B2
An example disclosed method includes providing power transmissions from a power storage unit to a power converter of a printing device, the power converter to supply an available amount of power to a print mechanism, the print mechanism having separately controllable print elements; determining a required amount of power for an upcoming print operation that involves energizing the print elements, the print elements including a first group of the print elements and a second group of the print elements; when the required amount of power is less than or equal to the available amount of power, performing the print operation by simultaneously energizing the print elements; and when the required amount of power is greater than the available amount of power, performing the print operation by alternately energizing the first group of the print elements at first times and the second group of the print elements at second times.
US10241731B2
An information processing apparatus has a printer driver and a device service associated with the printer driver as an output port of a print job generated by the printer driver. The printer driver receives data in accordance with a print instruction from an application operating on the information processing apparatus, generates a print job based on the received data, and outputs the print job to the output port. The print job is sent to the device service by an operating system using internal loopback. The device service connects to a print apparatus via a port that is different from the output port of the information processing apparatus, receives the print job from the printer driver, transmits a first control command for obtaining status information to the print apparatus, obtains the status information of the apparatus, and accepts print data received through a receiving port.
US10241730B2
Additional information can be appropriately added to an area in a template. The web application execution unit of a printer displays a print layout on a control device in a format enabling adding additional information to areas formed in the printing area of a print medium based on a first template, and when additional information is added to one area, changes to a format reflecting the additional information applied to the one area, and displays the print layout.
US10241721B2
There is provided an image processing device include an image processing section including a pipeline in which a plurality of processing modules is connected in series, each processing modules being configured to perform a predetermined process on input data, and the image processing section performing pipeline processing by the processing modules sequentially performing the process. Each of the processing modules includes a data buffer configured to temporarily store the data in unit of processing, and a control section configured to determine whether or not to store the data in the data buffer on the basis of a state of a data flow in the pipeline processing and a state of the data stored in the data buffer, and to select a path within the processing module by which the data is transferred on the basis of a determination result, and to control an operation of the data buffer.
US10241720B2
The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for providing content to a particular recipient device of a plurality of recipient devices. Copies of one or more content elements of the content are generated and one or more of the copies are modified to obtain modified copies of the content elements. The content elements, including the one or more modified copies of the content elements, are stored in a storage. Selection information is transmitted to the particular recipient device in response to a request for providing the content. The selection information prescribes to the recipient device the modified copy to be retrieved by the recipient device for substantially each content element for which a modified copy is available.
US10241713B2
Mechanisms for snapshot management are provided. A request that requests that a first storage entity of type volume entity be generated is sent to an external storage service via an external interface. An entity chain associated with a virtual machine is generated. A first entry contains a first identifier (ID) that identifies the first storage entity, an entity type ID that identifies the first storage entity as a volume entity, and an active storage entity indicator. A first snapshot command is received. A request is sent to the external storage service via the external interface that requests that a second storage entity of type snapshot-volume entity be generated. A second entry is added to the entity chain that contains a second ID that identifies the second storage entity, an entity type ID that identifies the second storage entity as a snapshot-volume entity, and a reference to the first entry.
US10241709B2
An elastic filesystem for temporary data provides storage space for virtual machines (VMs) in a distributed computing system. The filesystem redirects accesses to virtual disks in VMs to a common pool file. The system provides performance and storage efficiency at least on par with local, direct attached virtual disks, while providing a single pool of shared storage that is provisioned and managed independently of the VMs. The system provides storage isolation between VMs storing temporary data in that shared pool. Also, storage space for temporary data may be allocated on demand and reclaimed when no longer needed, thereby supporting a wide variety of temporary space requirements for different Hadoop jobs.
US10241702B1
A sequential delay mechanism is provided for a memory subsystem of a host system. A first independent SAVE region of NVDIMMs of the memory subsystem is configured to start a memory SAVE immediately upon receiving a SAVE signal from the host system, and other independent SAVE regions of the NVDIMMs are configured to implement the delay mechanism. A memory SAVE to the NVDIMMs is activated immediately in the first independent SAVE region when the SAVE signal is received, and the other independent SAVE regions sequentially delay their activation of the memory SAVE.
US10241701B2
A solid state memory system includes: an interface circuit; a device processor, coupled to the interface circuit, configured to receive a dynamic power limit command through the interface circuit and update a metadata log based on the dynamic power limit command; a non-volatile memory array coupled to the interface circuit; and a power manager unit, coupled between the device processor and the non-volatile memory array, configured to alter an operating configuration of the non-volatile memory array to meet the requirement of the dynamic power limit command.
US10241696B1
The present disclosure relates to protecting computer systems from installation of rogue shared libraries when executable files are launched. An example method generally includes detecting that a downloaded file has been written to an insecure location on the computing device. A computing device determines that the downloaded file includes at least a first executable component and, upon determining that the downloaded file includes executable components, generates a copy of the executable component in a protected repository on the computing device. The computing device overwrites the contents of the executable component with at least instructions to launch the copy of the downloaded file from the protected repository.
US10241695B2
Systems and methods for rebuilding encoded data slices in a dispersed storage network (DSN). In an embodiment, a data segment is dispersed storage error encoded using first dispersal parameters and differing second dispersal parameters to produce a first set of encoded data slices and a second sets of encoded data slices for storage in the DSN. A storage error is identified involving an encoded data slice of the first set of encoded data slices. When a first decode threshold number associated with the first dispersal parameters is greater than a second decode threshold number associated with the second dispersal parameters, a second decode threshold number of encoded data slices of the second set of encoded data slices is retrieved. The retrieved slices are decoded to recover the data segment, which is then re-encoded using the first dispersal parameters to generate a rebuilt encoded data slice corresponding to the storage error.
US10241693B2
A system for dynamically utilizing data storage comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to determine whether a data storage criterion is satisfied; and, in the event that the data storage criterion is satisfied: determine a new archiving threshold based on a target data storage usage level; and set the archiving threshold. The memory is coupled to the processor and is configured to provide the processor with instructions.
US10241692B2
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed storage network (DSN), a memory that stores operational instructions, and a processing module operably coupled to the interface and memory such that the processing module, when operable within the computing device based on the operational instructions, is configured to perform various operations. For example, the computing device monitors storage unit (SU)-based write transfer rates and SU-based write failure rates associated with each of the SUs for a write request of encoded data slices (EDSs) to the SUs within the DSN. The computing device generates and maintains a SU write performance distribution based on monitoring of the SU-based write transfer rates and the SU-based write failure rates and adaptively adjusts a trimmed write threshold number of EDSs and/or a target width of EDSs for write requests of sets of EDSs to the SUs within the DSN.
US10241689B1
Techniques for treating surfaces of a multi-platter disk as independent units are described herein. Each surface of a plurality of surfaces of a multi-platter disk is identified and a set of storage layout data describing the storage format of the surface is received. A logical address is calculated based on the surface layout data and at least a portion of the storage layout data is stored on the surface. The logical address of the surface is then provided for use by other services.
US10241684B2
A method and apparatus are provided. The method includes configuring a plurality of long short term memory (LSTM) networks, wherein each of the plurality of LSTM networks is at a different network layer, configuring a plurality of memory cells in a spatial domain of the plurality of LSTM networks, configuring the plurality of memory cells in a temporal domain of the plurality of LSTM networks, controlling an output of each of the plurality of LSTM networks based on highway connections to outputs from at least one previous layer and at least one previous time of the plurality of LSTM networks, and controlling the plurality of memory cells based on highway connections to memory cells from the at least one previous time.
US10241683B2
A data processing system includes a backup nonvolatile memory (NVM), a random access memory (RAM), and a controller. The RAM includes a plurality of partitions, each partition having a different corresponding backup frequency. The controller is configured to back up the contents of each partition of the RAM to the backup NVM in accordance with the corresponding backup frequency.
US10241682B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for dynamic caching module selection for optimized data deduplication. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for dynamic caching module selection for optimized data deduplication is provided. The method includes receiving a request to retrieve data and classifying the request. The method also includes identifying from amongst multiple different caching modules each with a different configuration a particular caching module associated with the classification of the request. Finally, the method includes deduplicating the data in the identified caching module.
US10241680B2
Methods for estimating cost savings in a storage system using an external host system. One method includes accessing over a communication network data from a unit of storage of a data storage system, wherein each of the blocks of data is uncompressed. A plurality of blocks is parsed from the data. A plurality of fingerprints is generated from the blocks using a hash algorithm. A deduplication ratio is estimated for the plurality of blocks stored in the unit of storage using a hyperloglog algorithm and a first plurality of buckets compartmentalizing the plurality of blocks, wherein the first plurality of buckets is defined by precision bits of the plurality of fingerprints. An effective compression ratio is estimated for the plurality of blocks stored in the unit of storage using the hyperloglog algorithm and a second plurality of buckets compartmentalizing the plurality of blocks, wherein the second plurality of buckets is defined by ranges of compression ratios.
US10241678B2
The present invention provides a data storage device that includes a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory has a plurality of TLC blocks, wherein each of the TLC blocks includes a plurality of pages. When the data storage device resumes operation after a power-off event, the controller stops writing data into a first TLC block which was undergoing a write operation that had not finished at the time the power-off event occurred, and the controller writes valid data of the first TLC block into a second TLC block after every interval of a first predetermined number of write commands is finished.
US10241674B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for performing workflow-aware NUMA (non-uniform memory access) optimizations. “Execution contexts” such as virtual machines or Docker containers are managed within a computer system that includes multiple NUMA nodes, each including a processor socket and memory local to that socket. NUMA optimization techniques are performed whereby execution contexts and/or data for such contexts are migrated between NUMA nodes. Migration may occur for various reasons, including for load balancing, to achieve fairness, or to increase the amount of data that is stored in memory local to a particular execution context. When it is known that an execution context will soon stop executing in a particular computer system, optimizations may provide little or no benefit. In such situations, the computer system performs modified NUMA optimizations, in which certain optimizations that would normally be performed are instead not performed.
US10241672B2
In some embodiments, a device performs character recognition based on spatial and temporal components of touch input detected on a touch-sensitive surface. In some embodiments, a device provides feedback about handwritten input and its recognition by the device. In some embodiments, a device presents a user interface for changing previously-inputted characters.
US10241660B2
A display control apparatus performs, when an image is switched to another image while remaining enlarged, display not giving an uncomfortable feeling to a user, and performs control, when a first image enlarged and displayed on a display unit is switched into a second image, to zoom and display, out of a display magnification of the second image based on magnification information used in the first image before the switching and stored, and of a fit magnification for making the second image have a size falling within a display area in the display unit to match the display area, the second image at a magnification that is the fit magnification or more when the display magnification based on the magnification information is smaller, and the second image at the display magnification based on the magnification information when the display magnification based on the magnification information is larger.
US10241657B2
An extensibility model is used to provide active and interactive functionality in communication items, but the embodiments are not so limited. A computer system of an embodiment includes components configured to identify one or more activation triggers that operate to activate gadget code using an isolated code execution environment as part of injecting content into an email communication. A method of one embodiment provides an extensibility framework for using defined gadget triggers and associated gadget functionality as part of automatically injecting content inline with a mail message.
US10241652B2
A method for searching and displaying child objects of a parent object based on a drag event. The child objects are associated with the parent object. A computer displays a parent object, in response to that a user selects the parent object. The computer further receives from the user a drag event on the parent object. The computer further search child objects, based on a direction of a dragging movement in the drag event, wherein a search rule is predetermined for the direction of the dragging movement. The computer further displays the child objects, wherein how many of the child objects are displayed is based on a distance of the dragging movement in the drag event.
US10241631B2
A touch panel for a display may include a touch sensor with a plurality of electrode traces. A first portion of the plurality of electrode traces may form sensing lines configured to receive touch input. The touch sensor includes an edge dummy area between an edge of the touch sensor and an electrode trace of a remaining portion of the plurality of electrode traces. The edge dummy area may be located outside of the sensing lines. The touch panel may further include an antenna with a radiation structure and a ground structure. The radiation structure may be located within a routing traces area outside of the touch sensor. The ground structure may be located within the edge dummy area. The ground structure may include an electrode trace of the plurality of electrode traces located within the edge dummy area of the touch sensor.
US10241628B2
A touch panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The touch panel includes a first touch electrode, a second touch electrode and a one-piece insulating element. The second touch electrode includes an electrode section disposed in a same layer as the first touch electrode and a connecting section under the electrode section. The electrode section includes a first electrode section and a second electrode section, which are electrically connected by the connecting section, and the connecting section is spaced apart from the first touch electrode. The insulating element includes a first insulating section between the connecting section and the first touch electrode and a second insulating section between the first electrode section and the first touch electrode and also between the second electrode section and the first touch electrode. The insulating sections can be obtained by performing a patterning process, so that the manufacturing method of the touch panel is simplified.
US10241620B2
In an embodiment, a touch surface, such as a GUI is graphically divided into two or more input regions, and based on this division, input event paths from a single sensor can be integrated within an operating system to provide application developers with the ability to easily and effectively filter there-between. The graphical division allows an application developer to specify which elements of a given GUI take one path, versus another. In an embodiment, low-latency and high-latency event paths are provided; an algorithm takes into consideration input regions and, based on those regions, handles the low- and high-latency input event paths in a computer system, directing the appropriate inputs through the appropriate processing, and directing the output to the appropriate process or queue without creating constraints on the low-latency event processing due to the presence of higher-latency event paths for a given sensor.
US10241618B2
A touchscreen display system that has a touchscreen display having an active area and an user-input area, a touchscreen controller and an auxiliary controller. The active area and the user-input area are connected to the touchscreen controller and to the auxiliary controller, where a part of the active area has at least one test area allocated for test operations. Instructions are provided to assert the test areas to states of validated touches, a response signal is provided relating to the coordinates corresponding to the validated touches, and the signal is compared with the initial instruction.
US10241610B2
An array substrate and a driving method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes a plurality of areas. Each area at least includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel, and each subpixel includes a corresponding display unit; the first subpixel includes a photosensitive identification unit, the photosensitive identification unit is connected with a read signal line and is configured to acquire and store position information of a touch position and transmit the acquired position information to the read signal line; and the second subpixel includes a capacitive detection unit, the capacitive detection unit is connected with the read signal line and is configured to acquire information of a touch object and transmit the acquired information of the touch object to the read signal line. The display device has a function of touch object identification (e.g., palm print identification) and has a simple structure.
US10241598B2
A method, apparatus, computer program and user interface wherein the method comprises: displaying an item at a location on a touch sensitive display; detecting actuation of an area of the touch sensitive display wherein the actuated area comprises at least a portion of the location in which the item is displayed; and in response to the detecting, enabling a function to be performed wherein if a first area is actuated a first function, dependent on the item, is enabled and if a second area is actuated a second, different function, independent of the item, is enabled.
US10241594B2
A mouse with an adjustable sensing module is revealed. The mouse includes a mouse body with a round opening on a bottom surface thereof, a rotatable outer ring set on the round opening of the mouse body, a rotatable inner ring mounted in the outer ring, and a disk having a sensing module and vertically moveable in the inner ring. The disk is driven to move vertically relative to the inner ring for adjusting height of the sensing module relative to the working surface when the inner ring is rotated an angle clockwise or counterclockwise relative to the outer ring. The angle of the sensing module relative to a computer screen is adjusted when the outer ring is rotated an angle relative to the round opening of the mouse body and the inner ring together with the disk is rotated the angle along with the outer ring.
US10241588B1
A method and system may be used to provide a user interface allowing a user to identify electronic devices by placing bounding boxes on a video of scene. The bounding boxes may identify one or more electronic devices. Coordinates of the bounding boxes may be stored to allow determining when a user is gesturing towards one of the bounding boxes. The coordinates of the bounding boxes may be updated by a computer vision process that determines whether one or more electronic devices have been moved. When it is detected that a user is gesturing towards a bounding box, an electronic device associated with the bounding box may be controlled.
US10241570B2
A pointing support device detects user's gaze position on a screen, sets the gaze position as an initial position of a pointer, displays a path starting from the initial position on the screen on the basis of path definition information, which defines the path to move the pointer and a movement pattern of the path and moves the pointer along the path.
US10241566B2
Sensory feedback (“chaperoning”) systems and methods for guiding users in virtual/augmented reality environments such as walk-around virtual reality environments are described. Exemplary implementations assist with preventing collisions with objects in the physical operating space in which the user acts, among other potential functions and/or uses.
US10241561B2
The hash function used by the processors on a multi-processor chip to distribute accesses to the various last-level caches via the links is changed according to which last-level caches (and/or links) that are active (e.g., ‘on’) and which are in a lower power consumption mode (e.g., ‘off’.) A first hash function is used to distribute accesses to all of the last-level caches and all of the links when all of the last-level caches are ‘on.’ A second hash function is used to distribute accesses to the appropriate subset of the last-level caches and corresponding subset of links when some of the last-level caches are ‘off.’ Data can be sent to only the active last-level caches via active links. By shutting off links connected to caches and components that are in a lower power consumption mode, the power consumption of the chip is reduced.
US10241558B2
An electronic apparatus operates in a normal mode and a power-saving mode. A smaller amount of electricity is consumed in the power-saving mode than in the normal mode. The electronic apparatus includes a control section and a connection interface to which a reader that reads information from an external storage medium is connectable. When the electronic apparatus transits from the normal mode to the power-saving mode, if the reader is connected to the connection interface, the control section transits to a first power-saving mode in which both the connection interface and the reader are operable, or if the reader is not connected to the connection interface, the control section transits to a second power-saving mode in which a lower amount of electricity is consumed than in the first power-saving mode.
US10241557B2
A processor includes a mechanism for disabling a memory array of a branch prediction unit. The processor may include a next fetch prediction unit that may include a number of entries. Each entry may correspond to a next instruction fetch group and may store an indication of whether or not the corresponding the next fetch group includes a conditional branch instruction. In response to an indication that the next fetch group does not include a conditional branch instruction, the fetch prediction unit may be configured to disable, in a next instruction execution cycle, the memory array of the branch prediction unit.
US10241554B2
A system may implement a method for analyzing group level power supply unit efficiency based on information about power supply units (PSUs) that supply power to servers in a server group, and loads in the system. A group level PSU efficiency analyzer may collect PSU related information from respective management controllers on the servers, including PSU capacity, type, or vendor, efficiency tables, load information, or the current efficiency of each PSU (compared to the peak efficiency for the PSU). The analyzer may calculate the group level PSU efficiency by averaging the PSU efficiencies of the member PSUs or by calculating an average of the PSU efficiencies that is weighted based on load. The analyzer may identify changes to the system configuration (e.g., swapping the PSUs that power some servers) that would increase or maximize the group level PSU efficiency using, for example, a graph search or tree search.
US10241552B2
A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory a controller that controls the nonvolatile memory, and a backup power supply. In response to a detection that power from an external source to the memory system is interrupted, at which time power to the memory system starts to be supplied from the backup power supply, the controller transmits a first command to the nonvolatile memory to change a parameter for a write operation and then transmits a second command to the nonvolatile memory to carry out a write operation, such that the nonvolatile memory carries out the write operation using the changed parameter.
US10241548B2
The description relates to hinged devices, such as hinged computing devices. One example can include a first portion and a second portion. The example can also include a pair of self-spacing hinge assemblies rotatably securing hinge ends of the first and second portions and camming the first and second hinge ends apart from one another at non-parallel orientations of the first and second portions sufficient to prevent contact of the first and second hinge ends at the non-parallel orientations while allowing the first and second hinge ends to contact one another at other orientations.
US10241545B1
A distortion calibration system generates a distortion map for a head-mounted display (HMD). The system includes a camera that takes pictures of a test pattern displayed by the HMD. The images are taken at different camera positions and/or states of the HMD. The system determines a distortion map using the captured images, and uploads it to the HMD as part of, e.g., an optical model. The HMD comprises an electronic display, an eye tracking unit, an optics block, and a module. The module estimates distortion values based on eye tracking information from the eye tracking unit, an optical model, and a state of the HMD (e.g., a distance between the optics block and the electronic display). The module determines an adjusted state of the HMD using the estimated distortion values, the eye tracking information, and the optical model, and adjusts the state of the HMD to the adjusted state.
US10241542B2
A flexible display device is provided. The flexible display device includes: a display; a sensor configured to detect at least one rolling characteristic in response to the display being rolled; and a controller configured to perform a first function of the flexible display device based on the detected at least one rolling characteristic.
US10241532B2
The present disclosure relates to a partition method and a partition device for a power system and belongs to a field of an evaluation and control of a power system. The method includes steps of: obtaining a quasi-steady sensitivity matrix according to generators participating in automatic voltage control and load buses in the power system; obtaining a power system model according to the quasi-steady sensitivity matrix and the load buses; determining principal component vectors and principal component singular values according to the power system model; determining a principal component vector dominated by each generator according to the principal component vectors and the principal component singular values; and partitioning the generators dominating a same principal component vector to a partition, and partitioning the load buses according to a partition result for the generators.
US10241529B2
An example environment control system for a venue includes a controllable device arranged to perform at least one of heating, cooling or ventilation of the venue so as to affect the environment of the venue; a plurality of input devices disposed throughout the venue, each input device operable by a user to input environment feedback; and an environment controller arranged to control the at least one controllable device based on the environment feedback.
US10241528B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing a thermostat-based demand response event. In one aspect, a method includes accessing, for sites, historical readings of HVAC activity, indoor temperature, and outdoor temperature and building a model for each of the sites using the historical readings of HVAC activity, indoor temperature, and outdoor temperature. The method also includes using a simulation engine to achieve a target load shed and load reduction shape for a thermostat-based demand response event, and performing the thermostat-based demand response event based on results of the simulation engine.
US10241525B2
A thermostatic valve is provided according to the present application. In the thermostatic valve, a relief ring movable upward and downward is provided in a cavity of a valve body. Under normal conditions, the relief ring abuts against a step on an inner wall of the cavity or another fixing portion via an elastic element, and the cavity is further provided therein with a first passage which can be opened or closed by upward or downward moving of the relief ring. In the case that the fluid pressure in the thermostatic valve is excessively large, the fluid can push the relief ring to compress the elastic element, thus the first passage in the relief ring is opened, and the first flow passage and the third flow passage may simultaneously allow circulation of the fluid, thereby may prevent damage caused by an excessively large fluid pressure in the thermostatic valve.
US10241524B2
A method and apparatus for a pump control system. One or more embodiments of the invention include a pump controller that can perform a self-calibrating procedure, can provide precise motor speed control, can provide a limp mode before shutting down the motor when system parameters are exceeded and/or fault conditions occur, can detect fault conditions, and can store fault conditions for later retrieval.
US10241506B2
A passenger transportation complex parent-subsidiary mobile carrier includes a parent carrier and at least one subsidiary carrier. The parent carrier has a parent carrying section. The subsidiary carrier has a subsidiary carrying section. The parent carrier includes a first connection section and the subsidiary carrier includes a second connection section releasably mated and connected with the first connection section. At least a part of the parent carrying section and at least a part of the subsidiary carrying section are mated and connected with each other and positioned on the same plane so that the parent carrier and the subsidiary carrier are connected to together form the complex carrier as an integrated assembly to move together or separate from each other to respectively move.
US10241498B1
Described herein is customized outerwear created through additive manufacturing to provide for a plurality of materials, patterns and shapes that are customized for a particular user. The outerwear is designed through the use of a three-dimensional (“3D”) model of a body part, such as an additively-manufactured shoe for a foot. The 3D model is analyzed to provide detailed information on the anatomical features of the body part, which aids in the selection of specific materials, patterns of materials and shapes that are integrated into the design of the customized outerwear. The design is then loaded into an additive manufacturing machine, such as a 3D printer, for inexpensive and rapid manufacturing.
US10241486B2
A passenger conveyance system includes a processing module in communication with one or more sensors to receive the depth map data, and one or more security sensors to receive the security data, the processing module uses the depth map data and the security data to calculate passenger data that is operable to recognize a particular passenger. An elevator controller to receive the passenger data from the processing module, wherein the elevator controller controls an elevator dispatch control function in response to the particular passenger.
US10241485B2
A smart electronic device management system is a device that is utilized to manage and control electronic devices. The device includes a housing structure that may be mounted to a surface such as a wall. A video capture device provides a live video feed of the surrounding areas while at least one environmental sensor allows monitoring of conditions in the surrounding areas. A wireless communication module allows the device to be associated with an external computing device. Various electronic devices may be connected to the device through a plurality of electrical outlets on the housing structure. A control unit allows the device to monitor and manage electronic devices that are wirelessly connected to the device or connected through the plurality of electrical outlets. The control unit is configured to calculate a sprinkler schedule using data retrieved through the wireless communication module.
US10241481B2
Methods and apparatus for controlling multiple valves as a single valve based on a coordinated control signal are disclosed. In some examples, an apparatus includes a valve controller to be operatively coupled to a first valve and a second valve. In some examples, the second valve is to be operatively positioned in series with the first valve. In some examples, the valve controller is to control a position of the first valve and a position of the second valve based on a coordinated control signal to be received by the valve controller.
US10241478B2
Methods and systems for determining states of environments and modifying the environments according to the states are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes a robot device determining for an environment a state comprising a plurality of state attributes for the environment. The method further includes receiving a request for the state and, in response to receiving the request, modifying the environment to comprise at least some of state attributes. The robot device may determine the state by receiving indications of at least some of the state attributes from some or all of a user, a server, another robot device, and another device. The attributes may be user attributes for a particular user, or may be event attributes for a particular type of event. The request may take the form of a request from a user, a calendar event, or a user arrival.
US10241477B2
A method is provided for controlling a first switch terminal or equivalent of a building occupied by one or more building occupants. The first switch terminal includes a plurality of switch terminal parameters and a plurality of wiring terminals. The plurality of wiring terminals is coupled to a plurality of wiring elements without a specific coupling configuration of a wiring element to a wiring terminal. A first computer system is coupled to the first switch terminal or equivalent of the building at a first location of the building. A first plurality of sensors is coupled to the first switch terminal or equivalent and the first computer system. At least a portion of the sensors are configured to provide signal data to the first computer system. The first computer system produces a command or data output that relates to at least one of: a command output for a local control system, a command output for a different system, a data output for a different system, a command output for a non-local device or a data output that is a non-local device, each of an output including learned data from that is based on a machine intelligence from previous data collected about patterns of a building occupant and used to provide an adaptive control system for the building.
US10241475B2
Timepiece regulating mechanism including an energy storage means delivering an output torque (CS), via a train (3), to a wheel set (4) forming a magnetic escapement mechanism (10) with a resonator wheel set (5) subjected to the torque from a return means (6) and cooperating therewith, either directly or via a magnetic stop member (7), this magnetic escapement mechanism (10) being arranged to operate when the wheel set (4) receives a torque higher than or equal to a maintenance torque (CE), and the train (3) includes a torque regulating means (30) arranged to deliver to the wheel set (4) a constant torque comprised between 1.0 and 2.0 times the maintenance torque (CE), the torque regulating means (30) including a fusee (8) of continuously variable cross-section, from which unwinds a chain (9), wound by a drum (21), directly or indirectly driven by the energy storage means (2).
US10241457B1
A toner coverage sensing system is provided for sensing toner particles printed onto a surface of a process element using an electrophotographic printing system. The printed toner particles include porous color toner particles. An infrared radiation source directs infrared radiation onto the printed toner particles on the surface of the process element A diffused radiation detector senses infrared radiation scattered from the printed toner particles, wherein the diffused radiation detector is oriented such that that the sensed infrared radiation does not include specular reflections from the surface of the process element. A data processing system determines a sensed toner coverage for the porous color toner particles on the surface of the process element responsive to the sensed scattered infrared radiation.
US10241446B2
The present invention relates to an intermediate transfer member and an image forming apparatus. The intermediate transfer member is an intermediate transfer member having a resin-made base material layer and a surface layer; the surface layer is a cured substance of a composition containing a radically polymerizable vinylic compound and a metal oxide fine particle; and the vinylic compound has a structural unit represented by the following formula (1): wherein each R1 independently denotes a C2-8 alkylene group; each R2 independently denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and m denotes a positive number, and n denotes a positive number of 10 or more.
US10241445B2
An image forming apparatus operable in a mode of forming an image using only a part of image forming stations. In the mode, a developing device contacts an image bearing member in a part of the image forming stations, and the developing device is spaced from the image bearing member in the rest of the image forming stations. The contact pressure between the image bearing member and a transferring device is made smaller in the rest than in the part. The image forming operation in the mode is executed while the image bearing members of the part and the rest are rotated. A controller is configured such that when the operation in the mode is continuously executed for a time period longer than a predetermined period, the contact pressure in the rest is made larger than the above-mentioned smaller contact pressure.
US10241444B2
A developing device includes a hardware processor that performs control in which a developer circulation state is switched between a first state and a second state depending on states of the developer in the first and the second regions. The first state is a state in which a developer circulation path is formed in each of the first and the second regions, and the second state is a state in which a single developer circulation path is formed all through the first and the second regions.
US10241437B2
An exposure device irradiates a light beam to the photoconductor drum and thereby forms an electrostatic latent image on a photoconductor drum. A developing roller causes toner to adhere to the electrostatic latent image and thereby develops a toner image. A development bias power supply circuit applies a development bias to the developing roller. A direct current detection circuit detects a direct current that flows between the development bias power supply circuit and the developing roller. A control circuit (a) causes the exposure device to form an electrostatic latent image of an adjustment patch for toner density adjustment, (b) measures a value of the direct current at a timing when the developing roller causes the toner to adhere to the electrostatic latent image of the adjustment patch, and (c) performs the toner density adjustment on the basis of the measured value of the direct current.
US10241432B2
An electrostatically charged image developing toner includes a particulate toner matrix containing an external additive on the surface of the particulate toner matrix. The external additive includes silica particles A and silica particles B. The silica particles A have a number average primary-particle diameter in the range of 40 to 100 nm and an average circularity in the range of 0.50 to 0.90, and are surface-modified with silicone oil. The silica particles B have a number average primary-particle diameter of 25 nm or more and smaller than the number average primary-particle diameter of the silica particles A, and are surface-modified with alkylalkoxysilane having a specific structure or silazane.
US10241428B2
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer is a single layer. The photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and a binder resin. The photosensitive layer has a scratch resistance depth of no greater than 0.50 μm.
US10241427B2
A polycarbonate copolymer includes a repeating unit A represented by a formula (1) below, chain ends of the PC copolymer being terminated by a monovalent aromatic group or a monovalent fluorine-containing aliphatic group. In the above formula (1), R1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 2 carbon atoms; an average repeating number n is in a range from 6 to 40 and L is an integer of 1 to 4; and when an aromatic ring is substituted by two or more of R1 (L≥2), the two or more of R1 are the same or different from each other.
US10241422B2
A lithography apparatus includes: a projection system configured to project a desired image onto a substrate; an active module that generates a time-varying heat load; a temperature conditioning system configured to maintain a component of the lithography apparatus at a predetermined target temperature; and a heat buffer including a phase change material in thermal contact with the active module, the phase change material having a phase change temperature such that the phase change material is caused to undergo a phase change by the time-varying heat load, and wherein the phase change material is stationary relative to the projection system during critical operations of the lithography apparatus.
US10241416B2
An illumination system for illuminating a mask in a scanning microlithographic projection exposure apparatus has an objective with an object plane, at least one pupil surface and an image plane in which a mask can be arranged. A beam deflection array of reflective or transparent beam deflection elements is provided, where each beam deflection element is adapted to deflect an impinging light ray by a deflection angle that is variable in response to a control signal. The beam deflection elements are arranged in or in close proximity to the object plane of the objective.
US10241403B2
A negative photosensitive composition including an epoxy group-containing resin; and a cationic polymerization initiator containing one or more types of the following cationic polymerization initiators: a compound represented by formula (b0-1) and a compound represented by formula (b0-2), and a cationic polymerization initiator which generates an acid having a pKa of −3 or more. In the formulae, Rb01 to Rb04 are each independently a fluorine atom or an aryl group which may have a substituent, Rb05 is a fluorine atom or a fluorinated alkyl group which may have a substituent, a plurality of Rb05's may be the same as or different from each other, q is an integer of 1 or more, and Qq+'s are each independently a q-valent organic cation.
US10241397B2
According to one embodiment, an imprint apparatus including multiple types of imprint units and a conveyor to convey a substrate is provided. Each of the imprint units includes a suction mechanism configured to hold the substrate with multiple suction portions on a substrate holder, and a template having an imprint surface on which a concavo-convex pattern is formed on one face of a template substrate and having a recessed region in the other face, the recessed region corresponding to the imprint surface. The imprint units have different depths of the recessed regions in the templates and different arrangements of the suction portions in the suction mechanisms depending on the types.
US10241395B2
A pattern correction amount calculating apparatus includes: an accepting unit that accepts pattern information; a micro side group acquiring unit that acquires a micro side group, which is a group of continuous sides forming a contour of a pattern figure indicated by the pattern information, and is a group of micro sides that are each small enough to satisfy a predetermined condition; a virtual side acquiring unit that acquires a virtual side, which is a side that approximates micro sides contained in the micro side group; a virtual side correction amount calculating unit that calculates a virtual side correction amount, which is a correction amount for the virtual side; and a micro side correction amount calculating unit that calculates micro side correction amounts, which are correction amounts respectively for the micro sides contained in the micro side group corresponding to the virtual side, using the virtual side correction amount.
US10241393B2
There is provided a pellicle wherein each edge area where the inner wall of the pellicle frame meets the upper end face or the lower end face, respectively, of the pellicle frame consists not only of the conventional single chamfer face but also of additional attempt(s) to make the edge area virtually rounded, such as additional chamfering(s) or rounding, whereby the edge area is devoid of cracking and scars.
US10241392B2
A glass substrate for a mask blank includes two main surfaces facing each other and surfaces to be chamfered. The surfaces to be chamfered are provided peripherally around the two main surfaces. A flatness of one of the main surfaces is 100 nm or less. On the surface to be chamfered from which substrate corner parts are excluded, each of the substrate corner part being portions where a distance from an outer end of a two-dimensional projection profile of the one of the main surfaces and the surface to be chamfered is within 10 mm, a waviness measured in a range of 2 mm at an arbitrary part in a direction parallel to one side closest to the surface to be chamfered in the two-dimensional projection profile is 50 nm or less.
US10241386B2
A kit for creating a flat folding projection device is provided and includes a lens and a sheet defining at least a first, second, third and fourth panels, each panel separated from the other panels by at least one fold. A hole is positioned in the first panel, the hole defining an edge. A cut is positioned in the first panel adjacent to the hole such that the first panel on either side of the cut can be separated to create a space configured to receive and hold the lens therein. Further includes is one of: a light source, a translucent sheet or a light source and a translucent sheet. An envelope contains the foregoing such that a thickness of the envelope is less than ½ inches.
US10241385B2
According to an embodiment, a display device includes a reflecting member and a display. The reflecting member has a reflecting surface and has an optical property that reflected light of parallel light incident on the reflecting surface is focused a focal point. The reflecting member is fixed to a couch top on which a user lies down. The display has a display surface for displaying an image. The display is fixed to the couch top so that the display surface is positioned between the focal point and the reflecting surface to face the reflecting surface.
US10241372B2
A liquid crystal display device comprising a TFT substrate having pixels each including a common electrode formed on an organic passivation film, an interlayer insulating film formed so as to cover the common electrode, a pixel electrode having a slit and formed on the interlayer insulating film, a through-hole formed in the organic passivation film and the interlayer insulating film, and a source electrode electrically conducted to the pixel electrode via the through-hole. A taper angle at a depth of D/2 of the through-hole is equal to or more than 50 degrees. The pixel electrode covers part of a side wall of the through-hole but does not cover the remaining part of the side wall of the through-hole. This configuration facilitates the alignment film material to flow into the through-hole, thereby solving a thickness unevenness of the alignment film in vicinity of the through-hole.
US10241369B2
An object of the present invention is to realize a display device having a layered wiring structure, that is capable of detecting leakage without fail by using a simple testing circuit.Source bus lines (SL) are wired such that, in the layered region, two source bus lines (SL) adjacent in a vertical direction are a combination of a source bus line (SL) of an odd-numbered column and a source bus line (SL) of an even-numbered column, and two source bus lines (SL) adjacent in a horizontal direction are a combination of a source bus line (SL) of an odd-numbered column and a source bus line (SL) of an even-numbered column. Potentials of different magnitudes are supplied respectively to source bus lines (SL) of odd-numbered columns and source bus lines (SL) of even-numbered columns via testing lines.
US10241365B2
The invention relates to a backlighting device (14), particularly for head-up display. Said device includes: at least one light-emitting diode (16), emitting light beams; an optical system (20) for shaping light beams; and a light diffuser (22), receiving the shaped light beams and said diffuser also comprises a heat sink (18) formed of at least two parts including a base plate (50) and at least one strip (52) that is attached onto said base plate. The strip comprises at least one fold (90) for forming at least one cooling fin (80) and at least one area (60) intended for thermal contact with said base plate (50).
US10241354B1
Techniques regard electro-optic modulators are provided. For example, one or embodiments described herein can regard an apparatus that can comprise a first lateral region, a second lateral region, and a central region located on a semiconductor substrate. The first lateral region can be adjacent to a first side of the central region and can have a first conductivity type. The second lateral region can be adjacent to a second side of the central region and can have a second conductivity type. Also, the first side can be opposite to the second side. Further, the central region can comprise a diode junction adjacent to an intrinsic region. The intrinsic region can separate the first lateral region and the second lateral region.
US10241352B2
A phase controller for controlling the phase of a light signal in a surface waveguide and a method for its fabrication are disclosed. The phase controller controls the phase of the light signal by inducing stress in the waveguide structure, thereby controlling the refractive indices of at least some of its constituent layers. The phase controller includes a phase-control element formed on topographic features of the top cladding of the waveguide, where these features (1) provide a shape to the phase-control element that matches the shape of the mode field of the light signal and (2) give rise to stress-concentration points that focus and direct induced stress into specific regions of the waveguide structure, thereby providing highly efficient phase control. As a result, the phase controller can operate at a lower voltage, lower power, and/or over a shorter interaction length than integrated-optic phase controllers of the prior art.
US10241348B2
An actuator and a camera module including the same are provided. The actuator driving apparatus includes a detector configured to apply a reference signal to a driving coil of an actuator and detect a coil current flowing in the driving coil, a calculator configured to determine a position of a lens carrier based on the coil current, and a driver configured to drive the actuator based on the position of the lens carrier and a position control signal.
US10241338B2
In various embodiments, a wavelength beam combining laser system includes a fast-axis collimation lens that is rotated with respect to a plurality of emitters in order to converge the emitted beams onto a dispersive element and/or reduce the size of the multi-wavelength output beam of the system.
US10241327B2
The invention concerns an optical system (10) comprising: a spatial light modulator (13) comprising an array of controllable elements adapted for generating a modulated light beam (17) by diffracting an incident light beam (12), the modulated light beam (17) comprising a modulated part and an unmodulated “zero order” part, the modulated part carrying an image to be projected into a replay volume (18), a control unit for applying a control signal to the controllable elements so as to control the modulated light beam (17) generated by the controllable elements, a perturbing optical element (30) for introducing optical aberrations in the incident light beam (12) and/or the modulated light beam (17) so as to spread the unmodulated “zero order” part of the modulated light beam in the replay volume (18), the perturbing optical element (30) generating distortions in the image to be projected, wherein the control signal comprises an image signal component carrying data representative of the image to be projected and a correction signal component representative of a correction pattern for correcting the distortions generated by the perturbing optical element (30) in the image to be projected.
US10241309B2
A lighting unit (10) configured to illuminate a surface (32) having a proximal portion (34) and a distal portion (36) in relation to the lighting unit. The lighting unit includes a light source (12) configured to emit a light beam (28), and an optic (40) positioned between the light source and the surface to modify the emitted light beam to have a largely uniform vertical illumination distribution along the surface. The input surface (39) of the optic faces the light source and has a convex lens portion (41) that directs a portion of the emitted light beam at the distal portion of the surface, and a concave lens portion (43) that directs a portion of the emitted light beam at the proximal portion of the surface.
US10241307B2
An image forming lens system includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a third lens unit. The first lens unit includes in order from the object side, a front-side lens unit having a positive refractive power and a rear-side lens unit. The second lens unit moves at a time of focusing. The third lens unit has a positive lens element. The rear-side lens unit includes a negative lens element and a positive lens element. The front-side lens unit has an aspherical surface having a positive refractive power on an axis, or the rear-side lens unit has an aspherical surface having a negative refractive power on an axis. The lens element closest to the object side in the first lens unit is fixed in position. Following Conditional Expression (9) is satisfied: 0.06≤|fG2/f|≤0.195 (9).
US10241300B2
A lens module may include a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having refractive power, a third lens having positive refractive power, a fourth lens having refractive power, a fifth lens having refractive power, a sixth lens having refractive power, and a seventh lens having negative refractive power. An inflection point may be formed on an image-side surface of the sixth lens. A turning point may be formed on an image-side surface of the seventh lens. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens and the seventh lens are disposed in a sequential order from the first lens to the seventh lens.
US10241289B2
Anchoring an input cable (190) at an input port (123, 223) of an enclosure (110) includes inserting the input cable (190) through an anchor member (151, 251) so that a cable jacket (191) terminates within the anchor member (151, 251) and at least one optical fiber (195) extends outwardly from the anchor member (151, 251). The anchor member (151, 251) is secured to the cable jacket (191) using the sheath (175). A cover (162, 260) is mounted to the anchor member (151, 251) to form a pass-through assembly (150, 250) defining an enclosed region. Material is injected into the enclosed region to fix strength members (197) and/or optical fibers (195) of the input cable (190) to the pass-through assembly (150, 250). The ruggedized pass-through assembly (150, 250) is disposed at a base (120, 220) of the enclosure (110).
US10241287B2
A fiber optic splice enclosure includes a basket. The basket includes an outer shell, the outer shell including an outer sidewall defining at least a portion of a periphery of the basket. The basket further includes an insert disposed within the outer shell, the insert including a first sidewall and a second sidewall spaced apart from each other along a transverse axis and each extending along a longitudinal axis to define an inner channel therebetween. The first sidewall and the second sidewall are each further spaced apart from the outer sidewall along the longitudinal axis to define a first outer channel and a second outer channel. The fiber optic splice enclosure further includes a splice tray assembly including at least one splice tray, the splice tray assembly disposed within the inner channel.
US10241286B2
An optical transmitter and an optical module including the optical transmitter are provided. The optical transmitter may include a support substrate, a temperature control module disposed on the support substrate, a sub-mount disposed on the temperature control module, a prism disposed on the temperature control module and having a sloped surface, a light receiving element disposed on the temperature control module, a light emitting element disposed on the sub-mount, and a thermistor disposed on the sub-mount. The light receiving element may be disposed separately from the sub-mount in a first direction, and the prism may be disposed between the light receiving element and the sub-mount. Some first light emitted from the light emitting element may be reflected by the sloped surface of the prism, and some of the first light may pass through the prism and be received by the light receiving element.
US10241283B1
The present invention relates to a signal transmission cable with HDMI connectors, and the signal transmission cable uses an optical fiber inside the cable to transmit optical signal. A first HDMI connector comprises a transmission terminal group for transmitting electric signal, and first and second electro-optic conversion modules and a first optical transmission fiber module which all are configured to transmit electric signal, convert electric signal into optical signal, and transmit optical signal to the cable. A second HDMI connector is connected to other end of the cable and comprises a second optical transmission fiber module, first and second photo-electric conversion modules which all are configured to receive the optical signal from the cable, and convert optical signal into electric signal, and a signal terminal group transmitting electric signal. Therefore, the signal transmission cable can provide function of converting and transmitting optical signal and electric signal in bi-direction.
US10241278B2
A connector sub-assembly comprising: (a) an insert housing defining two or more insert ferrule openings and at least two insert alignment pin openings, and having a mating surface; (b) a retainer attached to the insert and defining two or more retainer ferrule openings and at least two retainer alignment pin openings; (c) at least two alignment pins, each of the alignment pins disposed in one the insert alignment pin openings and in one of the retainer alignment pin openings, thereby aligning the insert ferrule openings and the retainer ferrule openings, the at least two alignment pins extending from the mating surface; and (d) only one fastener securing the insert and the retainer.
US10241275B2
An expanded beam ferrule includes a first ferrule halve having first reflective surfaces and a second ferrule halve having second reflective surfaces, which together retain optical fibers. The pair of reflective surfaces output collimated light parallel to the mid-plane of the ferrule. An external sleeve aligns the external surface of two similar ferrules, with corresponding second reflective surfaces of the ferrules facing each other. Output light from an optical fiber held in one ferrule is bent twice by the pair of reflective surfaces, with beam divergence after the first bent, and collimation after the second bent. The collimated light is transmitted to the facing second reflective surface in a facing second ferrule aligned by the sleeve, which is subject to optical reshaping in reverse to that undertaken in the first ferrule, so as to converge and focus light to input to the optical fiber held in the other ferrule.
US10241273B2
A polarization rotator and an optical signal processing method are disclosed. A first transceiving waveguide includes a first end and a second end; a polarization rotation region waveguide includes a first waveguide and a second waveguide, where the first waveguide is located above the second waveguide, the first waveguide is connected to the second end of the first transceiving waveguide, the first waveguide and the second waveguide are non-linear profile waveguides; a mode conversion region waveguide includes a third waveguide and a fourth waveguide, where the third waveguide is connected to the second waveguide, the fourth waveguide is on a same horizontal plane as the third waveguide and the second waveguide, the third waveguide and the fourth waveguide are non-linear profile waveguides; and the second transceiving waveguide includes a third end and a fourth end, where the third end of the second transceiving waveguide is connected to the fourth waveguide.
US10241272B2
An optical fiber is inserted into an inside portion of a hollow tube of an insert and guides light emitted from a light source. A base end section includes an optical fiber insertion part used for inserting the optical fiber. An optical fiber fixing member fixes the optical fiber at a position spaced from a distal end of the optical fiber. The optical fiber insertion part has a first portion into which the optical fiber fixing member is inserted. The first portion has at least three protrusions protruding toward the center at positions spaced from each other in a circumferential direction. A size of the optical fiber fixing member in a direction perpendicular to an insertion direction into the first portion is larger than that of an inside portion of the first portion, and the optical fiber fixing member is harder than the first portion.
US10241268B2
Aspects of the present application provide an optical device comprising a suspended optical component over a cavity, such as an undercut region in a substrate. The cavity is filled with a filler material. In some embodiments, the optical device and a method may be provided to fill the cavity with the filler material using a reservoir and a channel in the substrate connecting the reservoir to the cavity to be filled.
US10241267B2
A semiconductor optical integrated device includes: a substrate; at least a lower cladding layer, a waveguide core layer, and an upper cladding layer sequentially layered on the substrate, a buried hetero structure waveguide portions each having a waveguide structure in which a semiconductor cladding material is embedded near each of both sides of the waveguide core layer; and a ridge waveguide portion having a waveguide structure in which a semiconductor layer including at least the upper cladding layer protrudes in a mesa shape. Further, a thickness of the upper cladding layer in each of the buried hetero structure waveguide portions is greater than a thickness of the upper cladding layer in the ridge waveguide portion.
US10241264B2
A semiconductor device package includes a substrate and an optical device. The optical device includes a first portion extending into the substrate and not extending beyond a first surface of the substrate. The optical device further includes a second portion extending along the first surface of the substrate.
US10241257B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel; a light guide plate disposed behind the display panel; a printed circuit board; a heat radiator disposed on the printed circuit board and configured to radiate heat; and a plurality of light source packages disposed on the printed circuit board and configured to supply light to the light guide plate, each light source package of the plurality of light source packages including: a light source configured to generate the light; a light converter configured to convert properties of the light generated by the light source, and a package housing in which the light source is installed, the package housing being disposed on the printed circuit board and in contact with the light converter to transfer heat from the light converter to the heat radiator.
US10241256B2
Disclosed herein are glass light guide plates comprising a first surface, an opposing second surface, and a thickness extending therebetween; and a side edge comprising a plurality of arch-shaped recesses. Display devices comprising such light guides are also disclosed herein as well as methods for producing such light guides.
US10241255B2
The present disclosure discloses a backlight module and a liquid crystal display, the backlight module comprises: a light guide plate, a first light source and a second light source; wherein said light guide plate comprises a light emitting surface and a bottom surface as well as a side surface; said light emitting surface and said bottom surface define thickness of said light guide plate, said light guide plate at least comprises a first portion which is relatively thicker and a second portion which is relatively thin; said first light source is provided opposite the side of said light guide plate, said second light source is provided opposite said bottom surface or said light emitting surface of said light guide plate second portion. Through the above way, the present disclosure can achieve the split-screen display of the display device, simultaneously reducing the power consumption of the display device.
US10241254B2
Vehicle light comprising a container body that houses at least one light source, a lenticular body, a light guide, the light source, so as to receive the light beam and transmit it to a light outlet wall. The light guide comprises a body that defines the propagation direction of the light beam inside the body by total internal reflection. The body has a first groove, comprising a plurality of first holes, defining cylindrical or spherical optics that produce a scattering of said light rays (Ri) towards the light outlet wall so as to emit a light beam with opalescent effect. The first holes are adjacent to each other without interruption and are blind with respect to a thickness of the body of the light guide, penetrating from a first face of the body for a first depth less than said thickness.
US10241240B1
A lens assembly according to an embodiment includes a holder including a first sidewall having a first opening and a second sidewall having a second opening, a liquid lens unit including at least a portion disposed in the first opening and the second opening, and an adhesive member coupling the holder and the liquid lens unit, wherein the second opening faces the first opening in a direction perpendicular to an optical-axis of the liquid lens unit.
US10241239B2
An element substrate is formed as a lens array substrate on which a plurality of lenses are formed. In a method of manufacturing the lens array substrate, first recess sections are formed on one surface of the substrate, and then a plurality of lens surfaces, which include concave surfaces, are formed at the bottoms of the first recess sections 195. Subsequently, after a light-transmitting lens layer is formed to fill the inside of the first recess sections, flattening is performed while the lens layer is removed. Here, the surface of the lens layer on a side opposite to the substrate is a planar surface which is contiguous to an outside area that is positioned on the outer side of the first recess sections on the one surface of the substrate.
US10241227B2
An apparatus and method for a property ahead of a drill bit in a borehole penetrating a formation. The apparatus may include at least one receiver toroid disposed on a carrier and a transmitter toroid configured to induce an electromagnetic signal in the formation and disposed between the drill bit and the at least one receiver toroid. The apparatus may include at least one processor configured to estimate the property using a signal produced by the at least one receiver. The method may include estimating the property using the signal produced by the at least one receiver toroid. The method may also include one or more of: (i) generating a conductivity curve based on signals from at least one receiver toroid, (ii) validating signals from one receiver toroid based on a conductivity curve of another receiver toroid, and (iii) filtering a receiver toroid signal using lateral resistivity information.
US10241216B2
A radiation image detection panel includes: a scintillator layer formed of columnar crystals; an optical coupling layer; and a planar light receiving element, wherein a material constituting the optical coupling layer has a storage elastic modulus of 1×107 Pa or more at 0 to 40° C.
US10241215B2
A calibration scheme measures roll, pitch, and yaw and other speeds and accelerations during a series of vehicle maneuvers. Based on the measurements, the calibration scheme calculates inertial sensor misalignments. The calibration scheme also calculates offsets of the inertial sensors and GPS antennas from a vehicle control point. The calibration scheme can also estimate other calibration parameters, such as minimum vehicle radii and nearest orthogonal orientation. Automated sensor calibration reduces the amount of operator input used when calibrating sensor parameters. Automatic sensor calibration also allows the operator to install an electronic control unit (ECU) in any convenient orientation (roll, pitch and yaw), removing the need for the ECU to be installed in a restrictive orthogonal configuration. The calibration scheme may remove dependencies on a heading filter and steering interfaces by calculating sensor parameters based on raw sensor measurements taken during the vehicle maneuvers.
US10241212B2
A method for receiving and processing satellite navigation signals includes receiving the navigation signals; converting the navigation signals into digital signals; providing a clock signal to all channels that process the digital signals; generating frequency division signals; selecting a channel frequency division signal from the frequency division signals based on which ADC is used to convert the satellite navigation signals into digital signals; connecting the channel to the ADC; generating code frequency signal and base carrier frequency signal using a net accumulation signal; processing the digital signal in the channel to produce digital quadrature signal components of the digital signal based on the code frequency signal and the base carrier frequency signal; using a tick signal that represents 2N×clock signal as a temporary time scale for control of the channels for determining digital signal phase differences between the channels; and outputting coordinates based on the quadrature components.
US10241211B2
A method, GNSS simulator, and non-transitory computer readable medium for providing a simulated global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal. The method includes receiving, by a GNSS simulator, a precision timing signal and one or more items of ephemeris data from a GNSS receiver based on a decoded GNSS signal received by the GNSS receiver. The precision timing signal and the one or more items of GNSS ephemeris data are received in a digital format over a communication network. A simulated GNSS signal is generated, by the GNSS simulator, based on the received precision timing signal and one or more items of ephemeris data. The simulated GNSS signal is transmitted, by the GNSS simulator, over a coverage area. A GNSS system for providing a simulated GNSS signal is also disclosed.
US10241189B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises at least one receiver configured to receive a grid corresponding to an area, at least one processor configured to assign at least one access point in the area to at least one node in the grid, and the at least one processor configured to select a predetermined number of access points assigned to the at least one node for inclusion in a partial radio map.
US10241183B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a calculation unit, a collecting unit, and an execution unit. The calculation unit calculates, based on a pulse sequence used in data collection by fast spin echo method, a phase shift amount on at least one echo component included in each of a plurality of echo signals. The correcting unit corrects, based on the calculated phase shift amount, phases of refocusing pulses applied in the pulse sequence such that phases match at least one of between spin echo components, between stimulated echo components, and between a spin echo component and a stimulated echo component. The execution unit executes the pulse sequence in which the refocusing pulses of the corrected phases are applied.
US10241180B2
Described here are systems and methods for producing an image that depicts blood flow stasis using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Doppler echocardiography, or other medical instruments for measuring flow velocities in a human body. A time series of three-dimensional (3D) image volumes is provided, where this time series of 3D image volumes contains flow velocity information at voxel locations in a 3D volume in a subject. One or more regions-of-interest are then segmented from the 3D image volumes. For each voxel in the regions-of-interest, velocity magnitudes are calculated. Using the velocity magnitudes, a flow stasis volume is produced by computing a relative stasis value for each voxel location in the corresponding region-of-interest. This flow stasis volume can be provided as a 3D flow stasis image, or a flow stasis map can be produced by projecting the flow stasis volume onto a two-dimensional (2D) plane.
US10241179B2
An MRI method and an MRI system that simultaneously detect blood and/or CSF velocity or flow in plural slices or slabs preferably as not spatially adjacent. Two or more sets of interleaved slices or slabs can be assembled to cover the desired volume and derive higher quality MRI signals and images without a need for a contrast agent, even where the volume is too large for effective flow imaging with known techniques without contrast agent.
US10241176B2
Systems and methods for reconstructing magnetic resonance (MR) tissue parameter maps of a subject from magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) data acquired using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The method includes providing MRF data acquired from a subject using an MRI system and performing an iterative, maximum-likelihood reconstruction of the MRF data to create MR tissue parameter maps of the subject.
US10241174B2
Apparatus, methods, and other embodiments associated with NMR fingerprinting are described. One example NMR apparatus includes an NMR logic configured to repetitively and variably sample a (k, t, E) space associated with an object to acquire a set of NMR signals. Members of the set of NMR signals are associated with different points in the (k, t, E) space. Sampling is performed with t and/or E varying in a non-constant way. The varying parameters may include flip angle, echo time, RF amplitude, and other parameters. The NMR apparatus may also include a signal logic configured to produce an NMR signal evolution from the NMR signals, a matching logic configured to compare a signal evolution to a known, simulated or predicted signal evolution, and a characterization logic configured to characterize a resonant species in the object as a result of the signal evolution comparisons.
US10241162B2
A nuclear magnetic resonance-magic angle spinning (NMR-MAS) turbine assembly has a MAS rotor with turbine cap having a stopper region and a turbine region. The stopper region allows feeding into a rotor tube and has at least one sealing section for resting against an inner wall of the rotor tube. The turbine region has a collar section for resting against a face side of the rotor tube and a turbine section that forms the turbine blades, which protrude axially from the collar section without extending radially further than the collar section. The arrangement of the rotor allows for very high rotation frequencies that, correspondingly, reduce line broadening in NMR measurements.
US10241158B2
A system for determining an orientation of a nitrogen vacancy (NV) diamond material is disclosed. The system includes the NV diamond material having a plurality of NV centers, a magnetic field generator that generates a magnetic field, a radio frequency (RF) excitation source that provides RF excitation, an optical excitation source that provides optical excitation, an optical detector that receives an optical signal emitted by the NV diamond material, and a controller. The controller controls the magnetic field generator to generate a control magnetic field and controls the magnetic field generator to successively generate calibration magnetic fields. The controller successively receives light detection signals from the optical detector, stores measurement values based on the successively received light detection signals, and calculates an orientation of the NV diamond material based on the stored measurement values.
US10241156B2
A method and system for re-using the electrical energy of an electronic component under test. The method and system includes combining a first direct current voltage output of an electronic component under test with a second direct current voltage of a device. The combined first direct current voltage and second direct current voltage are regulated to create a power. The power functions a system application. At least one metric of the electronic component under test is monitored.
US10241149B2
A massively parallel wafer-level reliability system to test a reliability of wafers includes: a test platform; stations disposed on the test platform, wherein an individual test station receives a wafer and includes: a chuck disposed on the test platform; a probe including contactors that electrically contact the wafer; and a temperature controller to control a temperature of the wafer; a control platform disposed among the test stations; and a system controller to independently control the test stations and that is in electrical communication with the temperature controller, wherein the reliability of the wafers is tested in parallel by the test stations.
US10241142B2
Systems and methods presented herein are generally directed to the location and/or identification of a circuit within a circuital system. In one embodiment, a transmitter is configured for inducing signals upon a plurality of circuit lines (e.g., power lines, communication lines, lighting circuits, etc.) with each circuit line having a unique signal to identify it from other circuit lines. Each signal may be induced upon an individual circuit line by means of a inductive coupling clip coupled about the circuit line. The transmitter may be used at a distribution point of the circuit lines, such as circuit breaker box. A receiver can then receive a signal from a distal point on the circuit line to acquire the unique signal induced thereon and identify determine which inductive coupling clip is coupled thereto. For example, the signal may be decoded to display a number of the circuit line being tested.
US10241137B2
First and second magnetic detection units are disposed at positions where an S/N ratio, which is a ratio between the strength of a magnetic field generated by a current to be measured flowing through a current path and the strength of an external magnetic field, is the same. A processing unit determines a normal operation state in a case where the detection signal of the first magnetic detection unit and the detection signal of the second magnetic detection unit approximately match each other. The processing unit determines that either one of the first and second magnetic detection units has failed in a case where the detection signals do not match each other.
US10241113B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods for predicting responsiveness of a subject to treatment with lenalidomide (LEN) by assaying a sample from the subject for surface expression of CD28 on T-cells. Also provided is a method of treating a subject for cancer that involves assaying a sample from the subject for surface expression of CD28 on T-cells and then treating them with LEN if they do not have reduced CD28 surface expression on the T-cells. Also provided is a method for promoting responsiveness of a subject to LEN by administering to the subject a composition that promotes expression of CD28 on the surface of T-cells.
US10241107B2
A portable electronic device comprises a chemical sensor that is sensitive to a concentration of a chemical analyte and at least two auxiliary sensors that are sensitive to parameters that are different from the concentration of the chemical analyte. The portable electronic device comprises a control device that receives signals from the chemical sensor and from the auxiliary sensors at a plurality of points in time distributed over a measurement period and correlates the time dependencies of these signals to obtain a corrected reading of the first chemical sensor. The portable electronic device may be employed for breath analysis.
US10241096B2
A non-methane total hydrocarbons analysis apparatus and method are introduced. The analysis apparatus includes a six-pass valve, quantification ring, first stored gas pipe, second stored gas pipe, multi-pass valve, molecular sieve filling pipe, first air source, and detector. The six-pass valve and the multi-pass valve are configured to have a load status bit. A gas under test passes through the molecular sieve to remove non-methane total hydrocarbons such that the treated gas functions as a background gas for filling the first stored gas pipe and the second stored gas pipe. The six-pass valve and the multi-pass valve are configured to have an entered sample status bit such that zero-grade compressed air drives the gas inside the second stored gas pipe, quantification ring, and first stored gas pipe to enter the detector. The background gas inside the second stored gas pipe and the second stored gas pipe provides a baseline.
US10241094B2
A micro heater includes a substrate formed of an anodized film and a heater electrode formed on the substrate and provided with a heat generation wiring line. The heat generation wiring line is formed in a laminated state. Also disclosed are a micro sensor and a micro sensor manufacturing method.
US10241093B2
The present invention provides markers and methods for determining whether a subject, particularly a human subject, has or is at risk of developing, a disease such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, NAFLD (Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease) or NASH (Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis) (e.g., within the ensuing year, two years, and/or three years). The present application also relates to the use of such markers and methods for monitoring the status of such diseases in a subject or the effects of therapeutic agents on subjects with such diseases.
US10241092B2
A gas chromatograph includes a column module for independently adjusting the temperature of a separation column. The column module is held by an oven with the separation column being horizontal. The column module includes the separation column for separating a sample gas into components, a column accommodating member accommodating inside the separation column while surrounding the separation column by a heat insulating member, and including a gap between the separation column and the heat insulating member for air to flow along the separation column, and a heater, provided inside the column accommodating member, for heating the separation column by being in direct or indirect contact with the separation column. The column accommodating member includes an air inlet port for introducing external air into the gap between the separation column and the heat insulating member, and an air outlet port for exhausting air in the gap.
US10241082B2
There are provided an analyte sensor and an analyte sensing method which provide measurements in a wide phase range, a reduction in size, and lowering of current consumption. That is, in an analyte sensor and an analyte sensing method, a detection element (110) which outputs a detection signal in accordance with a change in mass in a detection portion (111) and a reference element (120) which outputs a reference signal in accordance with a change in mass in a reference portion (121) are provided, a phase change value is determined from the detection signal and the reference signal by heterodyne system, and an amount of detection of a target is calculated.
US10241075B2
A method for nucleic acid sequencing includes receiving a plurality of signals indicative of a parameter measured for a plurality of defined spaces, at least some of the defined spaces including one or more sample nucleic acids, the signals being responsive to a plurality of nucleotide flows introducing nucleotides to the defined spaces; determining, for at least some of the defined spaces, whether the defined space includes a sample nucleic acid; processing, for at least some of the defined spaces determined to include a sample nucleic acid, the received signals to improve a quality of the received signals; and predicting a plurality of nucleotide sequences corresponding to respective sample nucleic acids for the defined spaces based on the processed signals and the nucleotide flows.
US10241073B2
A wireless near-field gas sensor system includes a wireless communications tag and a printed gas sensor. The wireless communications tag includes an integrated circuit and a wireless antenna. The printed gas sensor includes a sensor housing having one or more gas access regions, an electrolyte cavity positioned within the sensor housing, an electrolyte housed within the electrolyte cavity, and one or more electrodes positioned within the electrolyte cavity in electrochemical engagement with the electrolyte, and a resistor communicatively coupled to the one or more electrodes and the wireless communications tag.
US10241069B2
A biological sample measuring device in which a deposited biological sample is introduced into a capillary, a biological sample measuring sensor in which a reagent and the biological sample provided is mounted, and the biological sample is measured. The biological sample measuring device comprises a mounting portion, a voltage application section, and a detection component. The biological sample measuring sensor is mounted to the mounting portion. The voltage application section applies a measurement voltage to a plurality of electrodes disposed along the capillary. The detection component eliminates the effect of seepage of the biological sample by pass-around at the end of the capillary, or the effect whereby the plasma component seeps into the reagent, and detects the degree to which the biological sample is introduced into the capillary, based on the output result for the voltage applied by the voltage application section to the electrodes.
US10241062B2
The purpose of the present invention is to eliminate the effort in placement and extraction of samples in observations using transmitted charged particles. A charged particle beam device (601) is characterized by having: a charged particle optical lens tube that irradiates a sample (6) with a primary charged particle beam; a sample stage on which a light emitting member (500) that emits light because of charged particles that have come by transmission internally in the sample (6) or scattering therefrom or a sample platform (600) having the light emitting member (500) is attachably and detachably disposed; and a detector (503) that detects the light emitted by the light emitting member.
US10241058B2
Quality control of a periodic structure is performed using the damping rate of acoustic waves generated in the periodic structure. In this technique, an excitation light beam illuminates the first layer in the periodic structure to excite an acoustic wave. Possible irregularities in the periodic structure can scatter the acoustic wave, thereby increasing the damping rate of the acoustic wave. A sequence of probe light beams illuminates the periodic structure to measure the acoustic wave as a function of time to generated a temporal signal representing the damping rate of the acoustic signal. The acquired damping rate is employed to evaluate the quality of the periodic structure.
US10241053B2
A bacterial detection platform integrating the sensitive SERS technique and the advanced mapping technique. Bacterial cells on the SERS substrate are detected using the mapping technique. The identification is based on the fingerprint of the bacterial SERS spectra. The quantification of the cells is based on the mapping technique. For different applications, silver or gold nanoparticles can be integrated onto a filter membrane for concentration and detection of bacterial cells in water or silver dendrites can be used as the SERS substrate. The SERS substrates are also modified with capturers and fixed in a vessel to concentrate cells from complex liquid matrices.
US10241047B2
The invention relates to a method for analysing a sample comprising at least a first and a second scale inhibitor, which scale inhibitors are synthetic organic compounds comprising at least one ionised group. The method comprises optionally diluting and/or purifying the sample, and allowing the sample interact with a reagent comprising lanthanide(III) ion. The sample is excited at a first excitation wavelength and a sample signal deriving from the lanthanide(III) ion is detected at a signal wavelength by using time-resolved luminescence measurement. The total concentration of the first and the second scale inhibitor is determined by using the detected sample signal, and the concentration of the first scale inhibitor in the sample is determined. The concentration of the second scale inhibitor is determined mathematically by using the obtained results for the total concentration and for the first scale inhibitor concentration.
US10241046B2
Scanner, method of scanning and system for scanning that allows detecting decay time characteristics of light emitted by a luminescent marking on an item which is transported, even at high speed, on a distribution/production line. The detection zone of the scanner's light sensor has a shape elongated along a path of the moving item, and the responsivity of the light sensor, within the wavelength range of the emitted luminescence light, is uniform over the detection zone. The drive current, or drive voltage, powering the excitation light source is adapted to deliver the intensity of the excitation light to the marking so that its light sensor can reliably measure the corresponding luminescence light response, and thus accurately determine a corresponding decay time value.
US10241042B2
A wearable device, a charger, and a method for estimating absorbance of the wearable device are provided. The wearable device includes a spectroscope configured to emit a first light to a reference material of a charger, measure an intensity of the first light reflected from the reference material, emit a second light to a skin of a user, and measure an intensity of the second light reflected from the skin of the user; and a processor configured to determine absorbance of the skin of the user based on the intensity of the first light and the intensity of the second light.
US10241040B2
The invention relates to a method for characterizing a target product, including the steps of: (a) forming a bank of spectral data comprising samples; (b) having measured characteristics and spectra; (c) performing a spectral analysis of the target product and comparing the spectrum obtained with the spectral data in the data bank; (d) identifying the “near neighbor” points of the target product; and (e) performing a topological calculation of the characteristic of the target product as a function of the corresponding characteristics of the near neighbor points, based on a weighting linked to the inverse of the distance between the target product and the near neighbor points.
US10241039B2
An analyser 10 for identifying or verifying or otherwise characterising a liquid based drug sample 16 comprising: an electromagnetic radiation source 11 for emitting electromagnetic radiation 14a in at least one beam at a sample 16, the electromagnetic radiation comprising at least two different wavelengths, a sample detector 17 that detects affected electromagnetic radiation resulting from the emitted electromagnetic radiation affected by the sample, and a processor 18 for identifying or verifying the sample from the detected affected electromagnetic radiation, wherein each wavelength or at least two of the wavelengths is between substantially 1300 nm and 2000 nm, and each wavelength or at least two of the wavelengths is in the vicinity of the wavelength(s) of (or within a region spanning) a spectral characteristic in the liquid spectrum between substantially 1300 nm and 2000 nm.
US10241033B2
A spectroscopic sensor that applies lights in a wavelength band containing plural wavelengths to an object and spectroscopically separates reflected lights or transmitted lights from the object using plural light band-pass filters that transmit the respective specific wavelengths and plural photosensor parts to which corresponding transmitted lights are input based on output results of independent photosensors. The spectroscopic sensor may be integrated in a semiconductor device or module by integration using a semiconductor process and downsizing may be realized.
US10241019B2
Some examples of a variable diameter viscometer for evaluating well fluids can be implemented to perform a method. A well fluid including solid well particles is received in a gap formed between a first portion and a second portion of the viscometer. A width of the gap is adjustable during operation of the viscometer. Rheological properties of the fluid are evaluated by applying a shear to the well fluid in the gap by moving the first portion and the second portion relative to each other, and adjusting the width of the gap between the first portion and the second portion based, at least in part, on a size distribution of the solid well particles in the well fluid.
US10241017B2
A sample gripping and heating assembly includes an assembly housing and first and second heating grips coupled with the assembly housing. The first and second heating grips each include a gripping surface, and the gripping surfaces of the first and second heating grips are opposed to each other. Each of the first and second heating grips further includes a heating element adjacent to the gripping surface. Optionally, the sample gripping and heating assembly is included in a heating system including a probe heater having a probe heating element for heating of a probe. The heating system is included with a testing assembly having a stage coupled with the sample gripping and heating assembly, and a transducer assembly coupled with the probe heater.
US10241012B2
A method for separating plasma in a minute amount of a blood sample diluted with a blood dilution buffer is provided. When a blood dilution buffer is added to a minute amount of blood (about 20 to 100 μL) so as to assay the biological blood components in the resulting diluted plasma, it is necessary to separately store and transfer the diluted blood cell component and the diluted plasma component. The present inventors found that it is possible to separate diluted plasma from diluted blood cells using a polymer gelling agent for plasma separation by means of putting a polymer gel for plasma separation in the container with a blood dilution buffer. In such case, diluted blood cells are transferred to the lower portion of the polymer gelling agent and dilute plasma is transferred to the upper portion of the same. Assay of the biological blood components using a minute amount of blood can be utilized for early detection of health status, diseases, and presymptomatic states. The method is advantageous in that it is not limited in terms of time or location for blood collection.
US10241007B2
A system and method for the calculation of a fuel lacquer index using environmental monitoring is disclosed. The system and method may comprise: capturing a fuel temperature data; determining a fuel quality rating; calculating a volumetric fuel flow; calculating a fuel filter differential pressure; and calculating a fuel lacquer index. The fuel lacquer index may be calculated as a percentage value based upon the fuel temperature data, the fuel quality rating, the volumetric fuel flow, and the fuel filter differential pressure.
US10241003B2
The invention relates to a method of measuring time delays with respect to differential mode delay of a multi-mode fiber or a few-mode fiber for at least two different wavelengths. The time delays for each wavelength are measured before the single mode fiber is translated to a next radial offset.
US10240999B2
A method and apparatus for estimating a wave velocity of negative pressure wave in a fluid transportation pipeline. The method including: receiving a plurality of pressure signals from a plurality of sensors; determining time differences produced by the negative pressure wave reaching the adjacent sensors based on the received pressure signals; determining a wave source sensor segment where a wave source of the negative pressure wave is located; and estimating the wave velocities of the negative pressure wave in a non-wave source sensor segment and the wave source sensor segment.
US10240997B2
An assembly to detect fluid leaks is provided herein. For example, the assembly includes a plug, a gasket, and a sensor member. The plug is connected to a first electronic module. The gasket surrounds the plug to provide a fluid-tight seal around the plug. The sensor member is connected to the gasket to detect fluid loss that exceeds a predetermined amount.
US10240995B2
A system includes one or more processors, and data storage configured to store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform functions. In one example, the functions include receiving logs of data, wherein respective data in the received logs of data are collected by one or more sensors of a device over one or more locations and over a time period. In the present example, the functions also include determining location estimates of the device by performing a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) optimization of the location estimates using barometer data and GPS elevational data available in the logs of data, wherein the location estimates indicate elevational locations of the device over the time period.
US10240986B2
A system includes a thermographic temperature sensor that may measure a temperature of a fluid. The thermographic temperature sensor includes a probe, an optical source coupled to the probe, and a detector coupled to the probe. The system also includes a housing of the probe; and a light pipe of the probe disposed within the housing and including a thermographic phosphor that may phosphoresce in response to absorbing light from the optical source. The phosphorescence by the thermographic phosphor is representative of a temperature of the fluid within a flow path of the fluid, and the detector may detect the phosphorescence by the thermographic phosphor.
US10240981B2
A system comprising a light source configured to illuminate a sample under measurement. The system includes a detector configured to receive reflected light from the sample, and the detector generates a signal representing the reflected light. A spatially variable filter (SVF) is positioned in the optical path. The SVF is configured to have spectral properties that vary as a function of illuminated position on the SVF.
US10240975B2
An apparatus comprises a light source configured to generate light, and a modulator coupled to the light source and configured to modulate the light above a predetermined frequency. A slider is configured for heat-assisted magnetic recording and to receive the modulated light. A resistive sensor is integral to the slider and subject to heating by absorption of electromagnetic radiation and conduction of heat. Measuring circuitry is coupled to the resistive sensor and configured to measure a response of the resistive sensor due to absorbed electromagnetic radiation and not from the heat conduction. The measuring circuitry may further be configured to determine output optical power of the light source using the measured resistive sensor response.
US10240972B2
A system and method for measuring the vibrations of a test object, such as a machine shaft or other rotating equipment. The system includes a probe sensor fitting having an ultrasonic speaker and an ultrasonic microphone. The probe sensor fitting includes a temperature and relative humidity sensor. The system further includes a probe analyzer circuit with a microcomputer that generates vibration analysis data and probe health diagnostics.
US10240971B2
A vibration visualizer comprising an optical member including a fixed section to be fixed to a measurement object; and a movable section movably supported by the fixed section such that a first positional relationship between the fixed section and the movable section is changed by application of an acceleration to the fixed section in a predetermined direction. The optical member changes a reflection intensity of light or electromagnetic wave reflected in a retroreflection direction according to a change of the first positional relationship. The first positional relationship in a stationary state where the acceleration is not applied to the fixed section and the first positional relationship is maintained constant, is different from the first positional relationship most suitable for retroreflection.
US10240964B1
Method and apparatus are disclosed for fuel fill volume estimation for a vehicle. An example vehicle includes a fuel tank float, a dashboard display, and an engine control module. The engine control module divides a fuel tank into zones. When the vehicle is not in motion and a position of the fuel tank float changes by a threshold amount, engine control module measures an initial fuel level. When the position of the fuel tank float does not change for a threshold period of time, the engine control module measures a final fuel level. Additionally, the engine control module calculates an amount of fuel added to the fuel tank based on the zones associated with the initial fuel level and a final fuel level and display the amount on the dashboard display.
US10240961B2
An electronic water meter capable of implementing precision metering. The electronic water meter comprises a machine frame, multiple counter units, and multiple shielding plates. The counter units comprise numerical character wheels, magnets, magnetic angular displacement sensors, and digital circuits. The magnetic angular displacement sensors are electrically connected to the digital circuits, sense components of magnetic fields at respective positions thereof on the basis of angular position changes of magnetic field vectors of the counter units, and transmit a corresponding electric signal to the digital circuits. The digital circuits perform a calculation processing on the basis of the electrical signal outputted by the magnetic angular displacement sensors and output a digital signal corresponding to the angular positions of the numerical character wheels. The shielding plates are arranged on two sides of the counter units and are used for isolation among the multiple counter units and between the multiple counter units and the external. The electronic water meter has the advantages of a compact size, easy installation, high metering precision, and powerful anti-interference capability.
US10240954B2
A dial plate being nonopaque is in a disc shape. A slit member has slits each extending through the slit member in a thickness direction. A light source is located on an opposite side of the slit member from the dial plate. The light source is configured to emit light through the slits of the slit member toward the dial plate to project images on the dial plate.
US10240947B2
A waveguide structure to allow device to determine its orientation are disclosed. The waveguide may be formed of a dielectric core and a cladding. The dielectric core may be formed of a solid dielectric material that conducts radio waves at millimeter wave frequencies and above. The cladding may encapsulate the core, and may include at least two conductive portions. Each conductive portion may be disposed around less than the entire core. The conductive portions allow electrical signals to flow between two devices to determine an orientation of the waveguide.
US10240943B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are therefore provided for providing a navigation user interface. The apparatus may be caused to: receive an indication of an origin and a destination; provide for presentation of a representation of the origin, a representation of the destination, and a representation of the route there between, where the representation of the route may include a bar extending in a circular shape between the representation of the origin and the representation of the destination, and defining a map display region within the circular shape. The apparatus may also be configured to provide for presentation of a present location indicator on the representation of the route and provide for presentation of a map within the map display region. The map within the map display region may correspond to at least one of a current location or a user selected location along the route.
US10240938B1
A vehicle management system can send a first pick-up location to a remote computing device of a prospective rider. A location tracking system is configured to monitor a location of the rider as the rider walks to rendezvous with the vehicle. The vehicle management system can later determine, based on the location of the rider as the rider walks to rendezvous with the vehicle, that the vehicle could rendezvous with the rider sooner by using a second pick-up location. The vehicle management system can prompt the vehicle navigation system to cease directing the vehicle toward the first pick-up location and instead direct the vehicle toward the second pick-up location. The vehicle management system can prompt the remote computing device to cease directing the rider toward the first pick-up location and instead direct the rider toward the second pick-up location.
US10240932B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to localizing mobile devices. In one example, a first location method associated with a first accuracy value may be used to estimate a location of the mobile device. A confidence circle indicative of a level of confidence in the estimation of the location is calculated. The confidence circle may be displayed on a mobile device. When other location methods become available, the size of the displayed confidence circle may be expanded based on information from an accelerometer of the client device or the accuracy of the other available location methods. This may be especially useful when the mobile device is transitioning between areas which are associated with different location methods that may be more or less accurate.
US10240913B2
The invention makes it possible to measure an object with a three dimensional shape that is made of various materials with a high degree of precision and at high-speed, without requiring a vast amount advance of preparation. A measuring unit detects internal scattering light measuring areas in a captured image, and obtains profiles of internal scattering light components in the areas. An estimating unit estimates the internal scattering light components in three-dimensional coordinate measuring areas based on the profiles of the internal scattering light components in the internal scattering light measuring areas. A reducing unit reduces the internal scattering light components in the three-dimensional coordinate measuring areas to generate a direct-reflected light component image. Then, a calculating unit calculates three-dimensional coordinates on measuring lines based on the direct-reflected light component image.
US10240906B2
A heavy metal penetrator with a high tungsten content incorporating a central part or core formed of an alloy comprising from 85% to 97% in mass of tungsten associated with additional metals and which is enclosed by a peripheral sheath made of a more ductile tungsten alloy than that of the core. The sheath of the penetrator is made of an alloy comprising 30% to 72% in mass of tungsten, the core comprising nodules of tungsten bound in a matrix of a gamma phase γC associating tungsten with additional metals, the two gamma phases being continuously joined to one another with no transition zone.
US10240903B2
A lead collection system and method for reducing the incidence of equipment failures, equipment breakages, and/or safety hazards is provided. The lead collection system may include one or more augers that carry lead to a lead containment barrel. The auger(s) may be equipped with a specialized shear coupling designed such that the shear coupling breaks and stops auger movement before the auger may break. The auger(s) may also be equipped with one or more rotational sensors to detect actual shaft speed and compare it to the inputted speed, and cause a system error if a difference is detected. A lead containment barrel may also be provided, with an ultrasonic sensor for detecting lead fill in the barrel.
US10240900B2
Systems and methods that can be used in lightweight vehicles, such as lightweight small Armed Aerial Scout (AAS) vehicles, and can provide small, lightweight weapons capable of “Fire and Forget” type performance to defeat the next generation “Swarm Weapon Systems”, such as, groups of high speed attack boats armed with anti ship weapons, are disclosed.
US10240892B2
In one embodiment the invention is a hand guard, comprising: a generally hollow cylindrical body having a rail securing top surface; a top Picatinny rail securable to the rail securing top surface. The top rail is in slidable engagement with the rail securing top surface such that the top Picatinny rail is removable from the top surface. The generally hollow cylindrical body is populated with vent holes. In another embodiment an upper receiver is provided, the upper receiver includes a front face located at a front end of the upper receiver, the upper receiver having a Picatinny rail atop thereof, the Picatinny rail having a last rail located at a front end of the Picatinny rail, the last rail is aligned with the front face. In another embodiment the hand guard has a fixed Picatinny rail atop thereof. At least one plug is optionally provided for fitting into vent holes.
US10240887B1
An inline thumb push release adapted to pull a bowstring of an archery bow by a user gripping the inline thumb push release and release the bow string to shoot an arrow by movement of a thumb of user. The inline thumb push release having a grip adapted to fit a hand of a user; a bowstring catch attached to the grip, the bowstring catch including a catch tip adapted to hold on to the bowstring during pulling by the user; and a thumb rest attached to the grip and connected to the bowstring catch such that the user gripping the grip and pulling back on the grip to pull back the bowstring being held by the catch tip can release the bowstring from the catch tip by pushing the thumb rest with the thumb while continuing to grip the grip in a pulling motion.
US10240877B2
A fill in a rectilinear evaporative cooling tower includes a grid, grid support, module radial support, module column and module girts. The grid is to support a plurality of splash bars. The grid support is configured to provide support for the grid. The module support is configured to provide support for the grid support. The module column is configured to provide support for the module support. The module girts is configured to rest on a fill support frame of the rectilinear evaporative cooling tower and configured to provide support for the module columns.
US10240869B2
The present invention relates to a pressing arrangement for treatment of articles by hot pressing and in particular to a pressing arrangement for hot isostatic pressing of containers holding substances. The method comprises: placing containers including the substance in a load compartment in the furnace and loading a pressure medium into the pressure vessel and substantially all pressure medium flowing out from the furnace chamber (18) passes at least one substance capturing module, which may include the walls of the guiding passage, at least one condensation element (35) in the guiding passage, filters (41, 43) arranged in the guiding passage, before making contact with the pressure vessel including the top and bottom closures (8, 9).
US10240864B2
A drying device is provided and includes: plural light emitting units that are disposed with intervals along a transport direction in which a transported body containing liquid is transported and that cause the liquid to be evaporated by irradiating the transported body with light; and a vent mechanism in which a supply unit and a discharge unit are alternately disposed in spaces on an upstream side and a downstream side of the entirety of the plural light emitting units in the transport direction and spaces between the light emitting units along the transport direction. The supply unit supplies air toward the transported body along the irradiating direction of the light, and the discharge unit discharges air in an opposite direction to the irradiating direction from the transported body side.
US10240857B2
A refrigerator of the present invention may have a drawer which is provided in a storage compartment formed on a cabinet and which accommodates stored goods, the drawer being movably supported by a drawer guide disposed in the storage compartment. In the storage compartment, a frame which is supported to be movable in the front/back directions by a frame guide may be provided, and a door opening and closing the storage compartment may be connected with the frame by a link. The frame may have a base part which is disposed on the lower side of the drawer and is connected with the link, and the frame may comprise a side plate which extends from the base part and reaches a height corresponding to the drawer. The side plate may comprise a vertical part which is vertical with respect to the base part. A cross section formed by horizontally cutting the vertical part may be formed so as to be elongated along the moving direction of the drawer. The vertical part may be connected with the drawer so as to enable the drawer to move integrally with the frame.
US10240845B2
An system and method for cooling of electronic equipment, for example a computer system, in a subsurface environment including a containment vessel in at least partial contact with subsurface liquid or solid material. The containment vessel may be disposed in a variety of subsurface environments, including boreholes, man-made excavations, subterranean caves, as well as ponds, lakes, reservoirs, oceans, or other bodies of water. The containment vessel may be installed with a subsurface configuration allowing for human access for maintenance and modification. Cooling is achieved by one or more fluids circulating inside and/or outside the containment vessel, with a variety of configurations of electronic devices disposed within the containment vessel. The circulating fluid(s) may be cooled in place by thermal conduction or by active transfer of the fluid(s) out of the containment vessel to an external heat exchange mechanism, then back into the containment vessel.
US10240830B2
An expansion valve (1) for a vapor compression system, the valve (1) comprising a first valve part (5) having an outlet orifice (7) and a piston (8) movable inside the outlet orifice (7) in response to a differential pressure across the expansion valve (1), controlling a fluid flow through the valve (1). The piston (8) comprises a stop element (9) at an outlet end (8b) of the piston (8) and mechanical forcing means (10) to force the piston (8) towards a position in which the stop element (9) is brought into abutment with a valve seat (12) of the first valve part (5). A differential pressure below a predefined threshold value causes the stop element (9) of the piston (8) to abut the valve seat (12) of the first valve part (5), preventing fluid flow through the first valve part (5), via the forward fluid passage.
US10240827B2
A liquid chiller system utilizing a refrigerant capable of possessing a liquid state and a gas/vapor state, the refrigerant being cycled through a closed loop assembly of a compressor, an eccentric condenser and an eccentric evaporator. The eccentric compressor has a lower integrated reservoir and the eccentric evaporator has an upper dedicated reservoir such that separate, dedicated separator or receiver vessels are not required. The eccentric condenser is positioned above the eccentric evaporator such that liquid refrigerant flows by gravity from the eccentric condenser to the eccentric evaporator.
US10240823B2
An air conditioning system that includes desiccant compartments for holding a desiccant; a heat exchanger, a blower and a vessel. The heat exchanger can be filled with a heat transfer medium, while the blower blows ambient air by the heat exchanger such that the blown air is cooled and the heat exchanger is warmed such that thermal energy increases and is transferred from the air to the heat transfer medium causing the heat transfer medium to turn into vapor. The vapor is then diffused to one of the desiccant compartments such that the vapor is adsorbed onto the desiccant creating a mixture. Then an energy source is applied to the mixture such that the vapor and desiccant are separated. The separated vapor is transported to the vessel where it is condensed and then sent back to the heat exchanger, such that the system is able to be continuously operating.
US10240811B2
An air-conditioning apparatus, for treating air in enclosed environments, endowed with a constructive arrangement capable of absorbing vibrations of its inner components. The air-conditioning apparatus includes at least a cabinet, arranged to accommodate internal components of the apparatus, endowed with at least an outer face. The apparatus includes at least an absorber capable of absorbing vibrations from internal components of the apparatus. The absorber is disposed tangentially to at least an outer face of the cabinet.
US10240802B2
An HVAC controller may wirelessly communicate with a mobile wireless device that provides a user interface for interacting with the HVAC controller. In some cases, the communication module wirelessly receives a sensed parameter from a remote wireless sensor in a living space of the building and receives a wired input from a return air sensor. A controller may be operatively coupled to the communication module and may control the HVAC system based at least in part on the sensed parameter from the remote wireless sensor when the sensed parameter from the remote wireless sensor is available and, in some cases, control the HVAC system based at least in part on the return air parameter when the sensed parameter from the remote wireless sensor is not available.
US10240789B2
A heating assembly can include a locking valve with a reset switch which can include certain pressure sensitive features. These features can be configured to change from a first position to a second position based on a pressure of a fuel. The valve can be used with either a first fuel or a second fuel different from the first. The valve can become locked or be held in either the first or the second position. For example, a set fuel pressure can cause the valve to move to a closed position and the valve can become locked or held in that position. If the pressure decreases, the valve can remain in the locked position. Actuation of the reset switch can allow the valve to move to a new position, such as an open position. The locking valve can be linked to additional valves to lock them in position as well.
US10240788B2
A combustion system includes an electrically actuated flame location control mechanism.
US10240787B2
An integrated damper control system is used with a gas fired appliance including a gas burner, a flue and a damper for selectively opening the flue. The damper control system comprises an appliance control including a programmed processor for controlling the gas burner and a communication interface device. A damper control comprises a programmed processor for controlling the damper and a communication interface device for communication with the appliance control communication interface device. The damper control programmed processor is programmed to selectively open or close the damper responsive to status of a damper request register and to control status of a lockout register to indicate status of the damper. The appliance control programmed processor is programmed to control status of the damper request register responsive to a call for operation of the gas burner and to operate the gas burner only if the lockout register is set to unlock.
US10240776B2
The present disclosure generally relates to the introduction of a liquid biomass in heating systems such as commercial boilers in order to reduce dependence on petroleum-based heating fuel oils as a source of combustion fuel. More specifically, the present disclosure is directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses utilizing a liquid thermally produced from biomass into commercial and industrial boiler or thermal systems such as boilers, furnaces, and kilns, and methods for generating renewable identification numbers (RINs), alternative energy credits (AECs) and renewable energy credits (RECs).
US10240768B1
A light fixture panning apparatus including a base, a light fixture rotatably coupled to the base such that the light fixture rotates about an axis relative to the base, and a bearing that facilitates rotation of the light fixture relative to the base about the axis. The bearing includes a raceway and a rolling element that rolls along the raceway as the light fixture rotates about the axis relative to the base. The raceway is curved such that the raceway extends around at least a portion of the axis.
US10240736B2
An apparatus, system, and method for lighting effects, including simulating a flame. A three dimensional carrier includes an array of a plurality of light sources distributed on it. A control circuit coordinates on/off of the light sources in a manner to simulate a jumping flame. In one embodiment, the three dimensional carrier and LEDs are encapsulated in an at least partially light transmissive cover. This light modular engine includes a control circuit and an interface to electrical power. The system can include the light engine in a light fixture such as an architectural fixture. The methodology can include a sequence of on/off and brightness variations for the array of light sources.
US10240733B2
A solar decorative light having decorative flowers and a light string; the light string includes a transparent wire and multiple LED light beads; the transparent wire connects the LED light beads in series; the transparent wire twines the decorative flowers, with each of the LED light beads being positioned on a surface of a respective decorative flower.
US10240718B2
Apparatus and methods for containing leakage of a grease gun. In certain embodiments, a cover includes a body which has an open end, a closed end, and a sidewall extending between the open end and the closed end. The sidewall has an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface which encompasses an inner space for receiving a leaking lubricant.
US10240712B2
A socket for a vehicle assembly is disclosed. The socket comprises a mounting structure comprising a plurality of side portions forming a first frame and a ball receiving structure formed by a second frame. The second frame is disposed within a perimeter of the first frame and comprises a plurality of support beams interconnected with the side portions of the first frame. The socket further comprises a ball mount interface comprising a contoured recess formed in each of the beams. The ball mount interface is configured to receive an exterior surface of a ball to form a ball and socket assembly.
US10240706B2
A venting system includes a vent for expelling gases that accumulate between a metal pipe and a plastic liner disposed within the metal pipe. The vent includes a base portion that is configured to be disposed between the plastic liner and a wall of the metal pipe. The base portion has at least one channel extending along the base portion to a central region of the base portion. The vent includes an exhaust portion that protrudes from the central region of the base portion and is adapted to extend through the wall of the metal pipe. The exhaust portion has a central passage that interconnects with the at least one channel of the base portion, such that the vent is configured to vent gases from an interface area between the plastic liner and the wall of the metal pipe to an exterior atmosphere outside the metal pipe.
US10240702B2
A sealing member, whose unique manner of movement provides an improvement to a quick-connect valve assembly, for fluid control. A coupling force, required to couple the quick-connect valve assembly containing the improvements, is substantially reduced, resulting in an improvement to a typical quick-connect valve assembly (prior-art). The quick-connect valve assembly is comprised of at least a male coupler, a female coupler and a sealing member. During the resultant coupling of the quick-connect assembly, the sealing member, is firstly moved, in a rotational manner and then secondly, if desired, in a more typical translational manner. Multiple options for implementation of these improvements are available utilizing typical quick-connect valve components. The implementation options include; individual component replacement, upgrading of prior-art components or introduction of new components. All implementation options provide the improvement of a substantially reduced coupling force.
US10240697B2
The present invention provides a multi-layer hose comprising a cover layer, comprising a first polymer, an enhancement layer comprising woven filaments, and an inner lining, comprising a second polymer, wherein the first polymer and the second polymer are dissimilar. The first polymer is preferably a polymer with good wear resistance properties, e.g., thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), TPU/PVC, or PVC, or PVC/NBR. The second polymer is preferably a polymer with good chemical resistance properties, e.g., ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber. The present invention also provides a method of manufacturing said multi-layer hose.
US10240694B2
A co-molded sealing ring for use in an electrical fitting has an uncompressed state and a compressed state and includes a first segment formed from thermoplastic elastomer and a second segment co-molded to the first segment, formed from a medium-density polyethylene material. A space formed between the first segment and an inner surface of an electrical fitting connector body when the ring is in the uncompressed state, is at least partially filled by a portion of the first segment when the ring is in the compressed state; the second segment having an end surface positioned away from the first segment, the end surface dimensioned for contact by a gland ring so as to urge the sealing ring into the compressed state so that the first segment forms a seal between the inner surface of the connector body and an outer surface of a conduit positioned within the connector body.
US10240693B2
A method of building a fluids processing facility includes arranging a first level of modules, each module having a longitudinal axis and each containing at least one first pipe in a substantially adjacent and parallel orientation. A pipe rack module is arranged on a second higher level, such that a longitudinal axis of the pipe rack module is oriented in a direction that is substantially normal to the longitudinal axes of the first level of modules. The pipe rack module includes at least one second pipe. The at least one first pipe of each of the first level of modules is connected with each other via the at least one second pipe disposed in the pipe rack module to form a processing facility. Also disclosed is a pipe rack module which connects several piping modules in a fluids processing facility to each other.
US10240692B2
A fastening-type pipe supporting apparatus capable of supporting a curved pipe against loads acting on a curved portion of the pipe via clamps having curved surfaces and being easily attached to and detached from the curved portion of the pipe. The fastening-type pipe supporting apparatus includes: a first clamp having a semicircular cross-sectional shape and a curved surface with a curvature to surround the curved portion of a pipe; a second clamp having a semicircular cross-sectional shape and a curved surface with a curvature to surround the curved portion of the pipe, the second clamp being coupled to the first clamp; a connection bolt coupling the first clamp with the second clamp; and a washer placed around the connection bolt.
US10240687B2
Methods and apparatus of testing a solenoid valve of an emergency valve via a positioner are disclosed. An example method includes conducting a solenoid valve test by initiating a pulse duration and a monitoring duration for the solenoid valve test. Conducting the solenoid valve test further includes instructing a solenoid valve to transition from a first state to a second state during the pulse duration. The solenoid valve is in fluid communication with an actuator to enable the actuator to actuate an emergency valve. Conducting the solenoid valve test further includes determining a functionality of the solenoid valve by measuring, via a valve positioner, a maximum pressure change of a pressure chamber of the actuator during the monitoring duration. The example method includes, upon determining the solenoid valve is in a functioning state, conducting a partial stroke test of the emergency valve via the valve positioner.
US10240686B2
Methods and apparatus for conducting in-service testing of a pneumatic signal amplifier are disclosed. In response to a test initiation signal, a processor of a valve controller operatively coupled to the pneumatic signal amplifier supplies a pressurized control fluid to an inlet of the pneumatic c signal amplifier. The processor determines a first pressure value corresponding to an inlet pressure of the pressurized control fluid at the inlet of the pneumatic signal amplifier, and further determines a second pressure value corresponding to an outlet pressure of the pressurized control fluid at an outlet of the pneumatic signal amplifier. The processor determines a ratio value between the first and second pressure values and determines whether the ratio value satisfies a threshold. In response to determining that the ratio value satisfies the threshold, the processor generates a notification indicating that the pneumatic signal amplifier is functional.
US10240683B2
A solenoid proportional valve includes a valve body (12) defining an inlet (14) and an outlet (16) for a fluid flow through the valve body, and an armature (22) that is moveable along a longitudinal axis from a first closed position to a second open position to control the flow of fluid through the valve. The valve further includes a flux can (32) and a solenoid coil (30) positioned within the flux can. When the solenoid coil is energized, a magnetic field causes the armature to move away from the first position against the valve body, thereby opening the valve. The valve further includes a flux washer (28) that acts as a spring pivot for a spring (26) having an outer edge that is secured by the flux washer. When the solenoid coil is energized, the magnetic field causes the armature to move away from the first position against the spring force of the spring, thereby opening the valve.
US10240681B1
A pressure relief valve includes a valve housing having an inlet end with an inlet opening having a valve seat surface surrounding the inlet opening. The valve housing defines an outlet end with a plurality of outlet holes and a valve chamber disposed between the valve seat and the outlet end. One of the plurality of outlet holes has a smaller cross section than the other outlet holes. The valve chamber includes a plurality of radially protruding grooves extending radially beyond a base diameter. One of the plurality of radially protruding grooves has a groove cross section that is smaller than a groove cross section of the remaining grooves, which along with the smaller outlet hole cause a lateral pressure imbalance on the valve member so that the valve member tends to remain in contact with a side of the valve seat while permitting relief flow.
US10240677B2
A gasket for sealing a compartment between rotating and fixed members. The gasket has a first ring; a second ring radially more external than the first ring; a first annular elastomeric element carried by the first ring and defining at least a first annular sealing lip cooperating with the second ring to counter the passage of external contaminants inside the compartment; a second annular elastomeric element carried by the second ring and defining at least a second annular sealing lip cooperating with the first ring to counter the passage of lubricant to the outside; a third ring coupled to the second ring and extending from this latter towards the axis of the gasket; and at least a third annular sealing lip, overhangingly projecting from the first elastomeric element and cooperating with the third ring to counter the passage of external contaminants from the outside towards the first sealing lip.
US10240673B2
A SBW-ECU includes: a P unreleasable region determination portion configured to determine whether a road surface slope Sr at a vehicle position and an output voltage Volr of an auxiliary battery fall within a predetermined parking lock unreleasable region or not; and a P release request rejection portion configured to reject a P release request in a case where P release request rejection conditions to are all satisfied, including a fact that the P unreleasable region determination portion determines that the road surface slope Sr at the vehicle position and the output voltage Volr of the auxiliary battery fall within the parking lock unreleasable region (the P release request rejection condition (c) is satisfied).
US10240668B2
A transmission assembly for a drive train of a vehicle for connecting a drive motor to a traction drive of the vehicle, includes a main shift transmission with multiple transmission-ratio stages, wherein multiple shift states of the main shift transmission can be connected by a shifting, as required, by means of shift points of one or more transmission-ratio stages, and a planetary gear, wherein the main shift transmission and the planetary gear are drivingly connected or can be connected as required to each other by means of two connection shafts.
US10240662B2
A power transmission gearbox having at least one driving gear with spur teeth presenting a large radius. The gearbox includes at least one mechanical outlet drive system suitable for driving an accessory, the mechanical outlet drive system having a gear with face teeth referred to as an “accessory pinion”, the accessory pinion presenting a “small” radius (R2) lying orthogonally between each face tooth and its axis of rotation, the small radius (R2) being smaller than the large radius (R1).
US10240660B2
A flywheel device includes structures allowing the flywheel system to be assembled offsite, transported safely, and installed with relatively few steps. The flywheel includes a rotor and a housing enclosing the rotor, where the housing includes a bottom plate, a top plate and side walls. The bottom plate and the top plate each includes a hole aligned with the center axis of the rotor. The flywheel also includes multiple bearing housings substantially covering the holes of the bottom plate and the top plate that are aligned to the center axis of the rotor. The flywheel also includes posts that physically contact the primary rotational mass of the rotor to prevent motion of the rotor during transport of the flywheel system. Some or all of these posts may be repositioned or removed during installation so that the rotor can spin freely.
US10240655B2
A method and apparatus for a vehicle shock absorber comprising a main damper cylinder, a first reservoir and a second reservoir. One embodiment includes a first operational mode where both reservoirs are in fluid communication with the cylinder. In a second operational mode, only one reservoir communicates with the cylinder during fluid evacuation from the cylinder. In each mode, rebound from either or both reservoirs may travel through a single, user-adjustable metering device.
US10240653B2
An air intake device includes: an air intake valve provided so as to change intake air by rotation of a rotation shaft; an actuator which is a driving source for rotating and driving the rotation shaft of the air intake valve; a first link member rotatable by a predetermined operation angle about the rotation shaft; a second link member rotatably connected to the first link member; a connection member which connects the first link member and the second link member so as to be rotatable to each other; and a biasing member whose one side end is engaged to the first link member and whose other side end is engaged to the second link member or the connection member to bias the first link member and the second link member or the connection member so that rattling between the first link member and the second link member is suppressed.
US10240650B2
A parking brake reduced in size and simplified is installed on a rod-protruding side of a cylinder of a caliper braking device. A second piston is provided within the second cylinder that is coaxially coupled with the cylinder and movable coaxially relative to the rod. A one-way clutch is provided to switch ON/OFF due to a releasing/pressing by the second piston with respect to a switch disposed facing a cylinder side surface of the second piston. A parking operation auxiliary spring is provided on the side of the cylinder within a second cylinder, and a manual release piston is provided in a space of the second cylinder. A parking release lever pushes a manual release rod at the tip end of the manual release piston, pushing the second piston in the direction of retraction of the rod, at the same time as the manual release rod pushes into the rod.
US10240646B2
A hydraulic control system (21) for a dual wet clutch (1)has two clutches (4, 5). The hydraulic control system (21) includes a housing (41) having an internal tube (42) extending axially around the axis X and configuring an internal space intended for passage of the two input shafts (2, 3) of a gearbox, and first and second annular chambers (43, 44) concentric around the axis X and disposed radially around the internal tube (42). The hydraulic control system (21) further includes first and second annular pistons (45, 46), which are respectively mounted axially slidingly inside the first and second annular chambers (43, 44). Each of the first and second annular pistons (45, 46) carrying a rotating stop (49, 50). The internal tube (42) has at least one flow conduit (55) for a cooling fluid, intended to direct the cooling fluid to the clutches (4, 5).
US10240625B2
An assembly unit has an assembly part with an assembly side and an opposite outer side. A through opening extends from the outer side to the assembly side. A screw has a head that juts radially over the through opening on the outer side and a shank which reaches through the through opening with radial clearance. The screw has a threaded portion and a non-threaded portion disposed between the threaded portion and the head. A holder fixes the screw captively in the through opening. The holder is held axially movably in the through opening and axially movably on the non-threaded shank portion of the screw. The holder has a disk-shaped flange with a flange opening reached through by the non-threaded shank of the screw.
US10240624B2
An assembly and method for minimizing an overlap of a composite member riveted to another member includes a first member having a first overlap area and a second member having a second overlap area. The overlap areas of the first and second members are in direct contact, thereby forming an overlapped region. The overlapped region may be thicker than the sum of the individual members. The second member includes an end defining a projection in the overlapped region. The rivet is disposed through the first member and at least partially through the second member in the projection, thereby interlocking the second member to the first member. The projections include a curved symmetrical body defining an apex. The rivet extends through the body such that a line extending from the center axis of the rivet is perpendicular to a tangent extending through the apex of the projection.
US10240622B1
A fluidic device controls fluid flow in a channel conduit from a fluid entrance to a fluid exit. In some embodiments, the fluidic device comprises the channel conduit, a flexible element, a cross member, and a gate. The channel conduit is bounded by an inner surface that includes a protrusion. The flexible element is coupled to the inner surface of the channel conduit on a different side of the inner surface as the protrusion. The cross member has a first end that is coupled to a deformable surface that is part of the inner surface of the channel conduit and a second end that is coupled to the flexible element. The gate is configured to deform the deformable surface in accordance with a fluid pressure at the gate. An amount of deformation imparted by the gate controls a position of the flexible element via the cross member.
US10240611B2
A suction diffuser or arrangement is provided featuring a main suction diffuser body and a flow conditioning arrangement. The main suction diffuser body is configured with an inlet to receive an incoming fluid flow, an interior cavity to receive the incoming fluid from the inlet, and an outlet to receive the incoming fluid from the interior cavity and provide an outgoing fluid. The flow conditioning arrangement is configured in relation to the inlet and also comprises a flow conditioning portion having at least one inwardly contoured surface, configured to extend into the interior cavity, diffuse the incoming fluid passing from the inlet into the interior cavity, and provide a flow conditioning that produces a uniform flow of the outgoing fluid by directing the incoming fluid towards the outlet, based at least partly on a contoured design corresponding to the at least one inwardly contoured surface.
US10240603B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed to isolate operation vibration of a compressor to reduce operational sound. A compressor may include an external shell, and one or more isolators that separate a compression mechanism of a compressor from the external shell. The isolator can help isolate the vibration of the compression mechanism from the external shell. The isolator can also support a weight of the compression mechanism. The external shell can also include one or more internal seals. The internal seals can help separate a low-pressure side (e.g., a suction side) and a high-pressure side (e.g., a discharge side) of the compression mechanism. The compressor may also include a pressure balancing mechanism configured to help reduce a pressure difference between, for example, two ends of the compression mechanism, so as to reduce/eliminate the compression mechanism from physical shift in position due to the pressure difference.
US10240601B2
A scroll compressor has a sealed container inside which a working fluid is sealed; a frame fixed inside the sealed container; a fixed scroll provided with a fixed-side spiral body formed in a spiral shape on a fixed-side base plate fixed inside the sealed container; and a revolving scroll in which a revolving-side spiral body meshing with the fixed-side spiral body is provided on a revolving-side base plate. The frame includes a first welded point at which the frame is fixed by welding to the sealed container, and a revolving-scroll-receiving surface supports a bottom surface of the revolving-side base plate opposite to a surface thereof on which the revolving-side spiral body is provided. A frame outer peripheral groove provided in an outer periphery of the frame faces an inner periphery of the sealed container between the revolving-scroll-receiving surface and the first welded point.
US10240598B2
A valve assembly includes a valve body having a first port and a second port, the first port forms a fluid pathway from a first surface of the valve body to a second surface of the valve body, and the second port forms a fluid pathway from the second surface of the valve body to a third surface of the valve body. The valve assembly also includes a first plate having a first blocking member, the first blocking member configured to block the first port at the first surface of the valve body when the first plate is in a first closed position. The valve assembly also includes a second plate having a second blocking member, the second blocking member configured to block the second port at the second surface of the valve body when the second plate is in a second closed position.
US10240596B2
The pump unit (10) has a particularly simple design, which includes just two housing parts (14, 15) and also four valve closure members (37) and pump pistons (25, 29). The valve closure members (37) are preferably identical to one another and are trapped in a pocket between both housing parts (14, 15). The housing parts (14, 15) are preferably permanently interconnected by an ultrasonic weld seam. The valve closure members are formed by disc-like or plate-like plastic parts, which are resilient per se and which may optionally have a central pin (42) as an assembly and orientation aid. As desired, the valve closure members bear against their respective valve seat (43) with or without bias and form valves which open and close particularly reliably, are responsive to the slowest flow velocities and can be easily sterilized.
US10240594B2
A seal assembly includes a packing nut and a pressure ring configured to be coupled to the packing nut. An inner surface of the pressure ring defines a first circumferential groove that is configured to receive a first seal. The first seal is configured to be inserted into the first circumferential groove before the packing nut is coupled to the pressure ring such that the first seal is inserted into the first circumferential groove without being substantially flexed.
US10240593B2
Controlling the operation of a jockey pump in a fire pump system including a jockey pump controller which includes an electronic circuit board configured to receive a signal indicating a pressure value, and compares the pressure value to a threshold for initiating operation of the jockey pump. The jockey pump controller may further include memory configured to store event statistics indicating information regarding past operation of the jockey pump.
US10240590B2
A fluid flow meter comprising a fluid pump to displace fluid with pumping strokes of one or more pumping stroke types wherein each of the one or more stroke types displaces a known volume of fluid, a sensor functionally associated with a fluid reservoir and adapted to generate a signal indicative of a fluid pumping condition within the fluid reservoir, which fluid reservoir is integral or functionally associated with the pump, and circuitry to trigger one or a sequence of strokes of the pump in response to a signal from the sensor.
US10240587B2
A hydrostatic axial piston machine includes a pot-like housing, a connection plate that closes the pot-like housing, a rotatably mounted cylinder drum, and pistons arranged in cylinder chambers of the cylinder drum. The cylinder chambers are each alternately connected via a cylinder chamber opening to a low-pressure control opening and a high-pressure control opening of a resting control part. The control part has two switching regions located between the low-pressure and high pressure control openings. A piston reverses its movement direction in a dead center within the two switching regions. In the switching region, the cylinder chambers are connected via a connecting line to a fluid volume arranged in the housing. The fluid volume extends between the connection plate and the housing such that it is sealed to an interior by the connection plate and the housing.
US10240585B2
An equivalent variable pitch differential control method and apparatus. The method includes: acquire a first control parameter and a second control parameter respectively by means of a static energy deviation PI control method; acquire an equivalent differential third control parameter using a dynamic energy deviation; and by taking a wind wheel measurement rotating speed and a wind wheel reference rotating speed as inputs, a proportion integration differentiation controller controls a wind generating set according to the first control parameter, the second control parameter, and the third control parameter, thereby making a wind wheel rotating speed follow the wind wheel reference rotating speed. A wind generating set is controlled in real time by combining first and second control parameters and an equivalent differential third control parameter to serve as parameter values of the proportion integration differentiation controller.
US10240582B2
The invention provides a wind turbine having a system for positioning the rotor in an azimuthal reference position Azref and for maintaining it therein for a predetermined period of time, the wind turbine being arranged in test mode. Said rotor positioning system comprises a first controller (31) configured to generate a generator speed reference Ωref from the difference between the rotor azimuthal reference position Azref and the rotor azimuthal measured position Azmeas and a second controller (35) configured to generate a generator torque reference Tref from the difference between said generator speed reference Ωref and the generator speed measured Ωmeas.
US10240579B2
A virtual aerodynamic component for a wind turbine including at least one rotor blade connected to a hub. The at least one rotor blade defines an inner portion and a profiled outer portion. The virtual aerodynamic component includes one or more air-blowing units configured to provide a flow of air substantially opposed to an incoming wind. The flow of air defines the virtual aerodynamic component in front of the inner portion of the at least one rotor blade and provides for redirection of the incoming wind toward the profiled outer portion of the at least one rotor blade in an operational state and allows the incoming wind to flow toward the inner portion of the at least one rotor blade in a non-operational state. Further described is a wind turbine including the above-described virtual aerodynamic component and method for aerodynamic performance enhancement of an existing wind turbine.
US10240568B2
A manually actuated feed pump is provided with a primer bulb to be manually actuated by an operator. The primer bulb has a pump chamber. A travel-controlled valve connects the pump chamber to a fuel line. The travel-controlled valve has a valve member that is moved by an actuation travel of the primer bulb into an open position that opens the travel-controlled valve. A first spring is operatively connected to the valve member and to the primer bulb. The primer bulb acts through the first spring on the valve member.
US10240561B2
A gas turbine engine includes an aerodynamic track fairing adjacent to a convergent-divergent nozzle, the aerodynamic track fairing including a localized curvature along an outside edge. The aerodynamic track fairing is configured to offset a circumferential pressure gradient otherwise introduced in part by a transition between the convergent-divergent nozzle with the aerodynamic track fairing.
US10240560B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a system that includes a boot configured to attach to a chevron of an aircraft nacelle, and an attachment mechanism configured to attach the boot and the chevron. In some embodiments, a boot includes a first surface and a second surface, where the surfaces are attached by inwardly tapering sidewalls that form an opening that is configured to surround a chevron of an aircraft nacelle. In some embodiments, a repair of a chevron on an exhaust nozzle of an aircraft engine includes placing a chevron-shaped boot with a pocket over at least a portion of a chevron structure on an exhaust nozzle of an aircraft engine, the pocket having a shape that generally conforms to an external surface of the chevron, covering the portion of the chevron structure with the boot, and fastening the boot to the chevron through at least one of bonding or mechanical fastening.
US10240558B2
A piston for a two-stroke engine operating with advanced scavenging has a piston base and a piston skirt. The piston has a piston pocket which has a smallest distance (e) from a top side of the piston base. The piston has a section plane perpendicularly to the longitudinal center axis of the piston, the distance of which section plane from the top side of the piston base is greater than the smallest distance (e). A middle plane of the piston intersects the piston skirt at a location. In the circumferential direction between the pocket and this location, a thickened area is arranged in the section plane, the greatest wall thickness of which area is at least 1.1 times the wall thickness at the location. The piston has an edge at a recess at which the piston skirt has a reduced height. A chamfer is arranged on the radially outer side of the piston.
US10240555B2
Technology is provided for a fluid conduit assembly for connecting orthogonally oriented connections. The assembly includes a first tube arcuately extending from a first proximal end portion to a first distal end portion. The first proximal end portion includes a first fitting connectable to a first fluid connection. A second tube arcuately extends from a second proximal end portion to a second distal end portion. The second proximal end portion includes a second fitting connectable to a second fluid connection that is orthogonally oriented with respect to the first fluid connection. A coupling connects the first distal end portion and the second distal end portion. The first rigid tube is rotatably positionable with respect to the first fluid connection whereby a first distal axis and a second distal axis are substantially coaxially aligned when the first fitting and second fitting are connected to the first and second fluid connections, respectively.
US10240552B2
A battery-less fuel injection system, provided with an injector for injecting fuel supplied to an engine, a fuel pump for supplying fuel to the injector, and an ECU for controlling the injector, wherein a fuel pressure sensor for detecting the fuel pressure given to the injector is provided, and the ECU controls the fuel injection in the process of starting the engine, so that execution of fuel injection is suspended when the fuel pressure detected by the fuel pressure sensor is a set pressure or less, until it is confirmed that the detected fuel pressure has exceeded the set pressure.
US10240548B2
An electronic control unit suitable for a motorcycle provides diagnostic support, tachometer drive and warning lamp drive all multiplexed onto one pin and driven by a single driver circuit. In a diagnostics mode, the pin is connected to diagnostic equipment. When a diagnostic test has been completed, a tachometer drive signal is output on the pin, the drive signal having a duty cycle set high enough to illuminate the warning lamp if a fault condition is detected by on-board sensors. By combining multiple functions onto a single pin with a single driver circuit, the cost of implementing an engine control unit may be reduced compared with existing arrangements which require separate pins and drivers for each function.
US10240544B2
The disclosure includes a system that includes a real-time engine model module and an adaptive control module. The real-time engine model module is configured to determine an engine parameter estimate signal based on at least one feedback signal indicative of an operating parameter of an engine. The adaptive control module is configured to receive a power request signal and receive, from the real real-time engine model module, the engine parameter estimate signal. The adaptive control module is further configured to determine a power demand signal based on the power request signal and the engine parameter estimate signal, wherein the adaptive control module is configured to determine the power demand signal based on the power request signal using a set of control laws. The adaptive control module is further configured to output the power demand signal to control at least one component of the engine.
US10240543B2
An integrated ignition and electronic auto-choke module for an internal combustion engine and an internal combustion engine including the same. In one aspect, the module includes a housing that is configured to be mounted to an engine block of an internal combustion engine. The housing may contain at least a portion of a first temperature sensor that measures a first temperature indicative of an engine temperature. The housing may also contain a controller and at least a portion of an ignition circuit. The controller may be coupled to the first temperature sensor and configured to determine a starting position of a choke valve based on the first temperature and operate an actuator to move the choke valve into the starting position accordingly.
US10240538B2
A multi-cylinder engine includes a plurality of cylinders that are fired at uneven intervals. A controller is configured or programmed to overlap a time period that a plunger increases a pressure in a pressurizing chamber and a time period that an electromagnetic valve remains opened in at least the longest one of the intervals at which the firing is conducted in the plurality of cylinders.
US10240536B2
A gas turbine engine is disclosed including a bifurcation fairing located in a bypass duct of the gas turbine engine and traversing the radial extent of the bypass duct. The bifurcation fairing has a delivery conduit inlet leading to a delivery conduit extending inside the bifurcation fairing, the delivery conduit being arranged in use for delivery of bypass air to one or more components of the gas turbine engine. A diverter conduit has a diverter conduit inlet from the delivery conduit upstream of the delivery conduit reaching the one or more components of the gas turbine engine. The diverter conduit has an outlet to a location other than the one or more components of the gas turbine engine.
US10240535B2
A gas turbine and a gas turbine silencer are provided. A silencer panel has a structure that can be divided into an upstream silencer panel and a downstream silencer panel in an airflow direction, a stepped part is defined in an opening-side portion of the downstream silencer panel, and the upstream silencer panel and the downstream silencer panel are linked by the stepped part fitting into an opening in the upstream silencer panel.
US10240530B2
Container for a system for storing and restoring heat, comprising a double wall formed from concrete
The invention relates to a container (200) for a heat storage and restitution system, comprising a vessel in which a gas is circulating in order to be cooled or heated. The vessel is limited by a first jacket formed from concrete (203) surrounded by a thermally insulating layer (206), which is itself surrounded by a steel shell (204). The vessel comprises at least two modules (210), each comprising a double wall formed from concrete and a perforated base (205) limiting at least two volumes (217 and 216) which are each capable of containing a fixed bed of particles of a material for storage and restitution of heat (207). The modules are disposed one above the other in a centered manner such that the double wall formed from concrete forms the first jacket formed from concrete (203) and a second jacket formed from concrete (215).
US10240527B2
An exhaust-gas turbocharger (1) with a bearing housing (2), a bearing cartridge (8) inserted into the bearing housing (2), a shaft (7) which is mounted in the bearing cartridge (8) and which extends in an axial direction, a bearing housing cover (9) which is connected to the bearing housing (2), a turbine wheel (5) which is arranged on the shaft (7), and a compressor wheel (6) which is arranged on the shaft (7), wherein the bearing housing cover (9) is connected directly to the bearing cartridge (8) in order to secure the bearing cartridge (8) in the axial direction and against rotation.
US10240523B2
The heat pump includes a terminal block box housing a terminal block for supplying an electric power to at least one electrical device. The terminal block box is supported and made rotatable in a horizontal direction by a hinge. The terminal block box is located between a portion of side plates of a package and electromagnetic valves located on the side of the portion of the side plates. As a result, maintain of electrical devices can easily be performed.
US10240514B2
A water-cooled intercooler system using an air conditioning system, may include a water-cooled intercooler for cooling intake air compressed in a turbocharger by cooling water, a water pump for supplying the cooling water to the water-cooled intercooler, and a radiator of the water-cooled intercooler for cooling the cooling water by traveling wind or fan wind, wherein the intercooler system may include a bypass line allowing a condenser of the air conditioning system and a compressor of the air conditioning system to fluidly communicate with each other and passing through the interior of a surge tank of the radiator of the water-cooled intercooler.
US10240511B2
An engine assembly and method of distributing coolant in an engine assembly. A cylinder block includes one or more pairs of cylinder block openings disposed therein. Each pair of cylinder block openings include two cylinder block openings, each configured to house a piston. A cylinder head in fluid communication with the one or more pairs of cylinder block openings. A coolant manifold includes coolant flow passages, each in fluid communication with a coolant flow inlet disposed in the cylinder block between the two cylinder block openings in each pair of cylinder block openings. Fluid from each coolant flow inlet diverges into two coolant flow passages, each extending about a peripheral portion of a respective cylinder block opening. Each coolant flow passage extends from the peripheral portion of the respective cylinder block opening into one or more outlets from the engine block and into the cylinder head.
US10240506B2
Methods, systems, and vehicles are provided for estimating nitrogen oxide values for vehicles. In accordance with one embodiment, a system includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store one or more kinetic models pertaining to a propulsion system for a vehicle. The processor is configured to at least facilitate obtaining a nitrogen value pertaining to a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) unit of the propulsion system, obtaining an initial nitrogen oxide measurement via a nitrogen oxide sensor of the propulsion system, using the nitrogen value as an input for the one or more kinetic models pertaining to the propulsion system, generating a kinetic model output from the one or more kinetic models, and estimating an updated value for the initial nitrogen oxide measurement based on the kinetic model output.
US10240503B2
A pump for delivering a fluid includes: a pump housing having an inlet and an outlet, and having an inner circumferential face; a drive shaft; an eccentric inside the pump housing, the eccentric being eccentrically movable relative to the pump housing; a deformable element arranged in a pump gap between the inner circumferential face and an outer surface of the eccentric, the deformable element and the inner circumferential face defining a delivery channel. The deformable element is forced against the pump housing by the outer surface of the eccentric along at least a portion of the delivery channel such to form a sliding sealing of the delivery channel that can be slid along the delivery channel from the inlet to the outlet to deliver fluid by movement of the eccentric. A reinforcing ring has a coefficient of thermal expansion smaller than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the pump housing.
US10240501B2
A two-stage venturi cooler comprises a first tubular conduit having a longitudinal axis, the first elongate tubular conduit having an exhaust gas inlet at one end, a mixed gas outlet at an opposing end, and a cooling gas inlet, wherein structures inside the first stage define a venturi that forms a column of mixed gas, wherein the column of mixed gas comprises a ring of exhaust gas surrounding a core of cooling gas; and a second tubular conduit that is coaxial with the first tubular conduit, wherein the second tubular conduit has a mixed gas inlet at one end and a mixed gas outlet at an opposing end, and wherein the mixed gas inlet is to receive the column of mixed gas and to surround the column of mixed gas with an entrained column of ambient air.
US10240489B2
A variable valve mechanism of an internal combustion engine includes a camshaft having a general shaft part and a cam part arranged next to each other in an axial direction, an input arm that swings when pressed by the cam part, an output arm that is swingably mounted and that drives a valve when swinging, and a switch device that switches the variable valve mechanism between a coupled state where the input arm and the output arm are coupled to swing together and an uncoupled state. The output arm has a great height so that clearance between the output arm and the general shaft part is 3 mm or less when the variable valve mechanism is in the coupled state and the valve is closed. If the output arm bounces in the uncoupled state, the output arm comes into contact with the general shaft part through the clearance.
US10240488B2
An exhaust gas system for a motor vehicle may include an exhaust gas aftertreatment device communicating fluidically with an exhaust gas evaporation device. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device and the exhaust gas evaporation device may be arranged in one or more housings. A connecting line may be provided to fluidically connect the exhaust gas aftertreatment device to the exhaust gas evaporation device. The connecting line may include a fluid inlet connected to the exhaust gas aftertreatment device and a fluid outlet connected to the exhaust gas evaporation device. An evaporation bypass line may branch off from the connection line at a branching-off point. A valve apparatus may be arranged in at least the connecting line and may be adjustable between a first position to fluidly connect the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet, and a second position to fluidly connect the fluid inlet to the evaporator bypass line.
US10240487B2
A method to start up and manage a combined cycle thermal plant for energy production comprising the execution according to a set sequence of a plurality of functional groups.
US10240478B2
A turbine 28 for an exhaust-gas turbocharger, having a turbine housing 2, a drum 11 arranged in the turbine housing 2 and rotatable about an axis of rotation 12, a turbine wheel 5 arranged rotatably in the drum 11, at least one volute 16, 17 formed in the turbine housing 2, at least one aperture 14, formed in the drum 11, for conducting a gas flow from the at least one volute 16, 17 to the turbine wheel 5, an inlet cross-sectional area Av of the volute 16, 17 being variable by changing an angle of rotation v of the drum 11 relative to the turbine housing 2, and the drum being mounted in the turbine housing 2 by way of bearing elements 19.
US10240476B2
A gas turbine engine includes a turbine having a plurality of vanes, a plurality of blades, a turbine shroud arranged around the vanes and blades, and a turbine case arranged around the turbine shroud. The turbine shroud is sized to block combustion products from passing over the blades without pushing the blades to rotate. The turbine shroud includes a runner arranged around the blades and a carrier arranged around the runner.
US10240471B2
An axial flow compressor is disclosed with a plurality of rotors. Each rotor includes a disk having an outer rim. Each outer rim is coupled to a radially outwardly extending rotor blade. The case is coupled to a plurality of radially inwardly extending stator vanes, i.e. cantilever-type stator vanes. Each stator vane is disposed between two rotor blades and extends towards one of the outer rims and terminates at a tip disposed in close proximity to one of the outer rims. At least one of the outer rims includes a serrated outer surface that faces the tip of a stator vane which results in a vortex flow causing air that would normally leak through the clearance between the stator vane and the outer rim to engage the stator vane to a greater degree thereby increasing the efficiency of the compressor.
US10240467B2
A stator assembly includes a case including an arcuate wall having an aperture with circumferentially spaced first lateral surfaces. A stator vane has an outer platform with a notch. An anti-rotation lug has a base that is received in the notch and a boss extends from the base. The boss is received in the aperture. The boss has second lateral surfaces that engage the first lateral surfaces in an interference fit relationship.
US10240466B2
A fiber preform for a hollow turbine engine vane, the preform including a main fiber structure obtained by three-dimensional weaving and including at least one main part, wherein the main part extends from a first link strip, includes a first main longitudinal portion forming a pressure side wall of an airfoil, an U-turn bend portion forming a leading edge or a trailing edge of the airfoil, a second main longitudinal portion facing the first main longitudinal portion and forming a suction side wall of the airfoil, and terminating at a second link strip. The first and second link strips are secured to each other and form a link portion of the main fiber structure. The main longitudinal portions are spaced apart so as to form a gap between the main longitudinal portions forming a hollow in the airfoil.
